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Speaker 2: got so much to talk about tonight. TikTok is making
Speaker 2: offers who can't refuse America Maze Canada and offer is
Speaker 2: definitely refusing. And Trump and China are fighting so hard
Speaker 2: they should just make out already. So let's get right
Speaker 2: into the latest developments in trade wars. My favorite word,
Speaker 2: my favorite word caraffs. It's been two weeks since Liberation
Speaker 2: Day and we're in a full blown trade war with China,
Speaker 2: with Terra's now at one hundred and fourty five percent,
Speaker 2: which means the trade war is officially moved from shoer
Speaker 2: to grower. And some people are concerned about this trade
Speaker 2: war because they like want the economy to be like
Speaker 2: good or something. But you know what, Trump is not
Speaker 2: stressing about it.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, the White House Press Secretary reading a statement, she
Speaker 3: said President Trump dictated.
Speaker 2: China needs to make a deal with us. We don't
Speaker 2: have to make a deal with them.
Speaker 3: There's no difference between China and any other country, except
Speaker 3: they are much larger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's kind of a big difference.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 2: It's like saying, why should I be scared to fight
Speaker 2: the rock. He's just like any other person, except much larger. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the scary pot. But I guess Trump's people must
Speaker 2: be confident that they can push China around, because they're
Speaker 2: not just throwing around tariffs. They're throwing some shade.
Speaker 1: President JD. Vance is caught in a firestorm of his
Speaker 1: own making. Calling the Chinese peasants.
Speaker 2: Make it a little bit more crystal clear.
Speaker 4: We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things
Speaker 4: this Chinese peasants manufacturer.
Speaker 2: That is not a recipe for economic prosperity. Oh shit,
Speaker 2: he's really calling Chinese people peasants. Nobody likes to be
Speaker 2: called a peasant, even legit peasants. I like, actually, I
Speaker 2: consider myself more of an agricultural entrepreneur. But yeah, Jdvans
Speaker 2: called the Chinese peasants a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 2: now that the news finally got to the villages by
Speaker 2: Donkey Kot, they are pissed.
Speaker 1: Tonight. We were seeing China and trading insults with the
Speaker 1: Vice President JD. Vance and the latest knock against President
Speaker 1: Trump's trade war. I mean, bab.
Speaker 2: That went so hot? Oh no, weave the drake in
Speaker 2: this beef? Are we the certified peasants? At the same time, though,
Speaker 2: saying your five thousand year old civilization doesn't intimidate Americans
Speaker 2: because half the people here don't even think the earth
Speaker 2: is that old. Also, let's just be real, Okay, there's
Speaker 2: no way Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have
Speaker 2: medical debt? Then think so? Checkmate China. But it's not
Speaker 2: just Chinese officials. Well mad, China has extremely online losers,
Speaker 2: just like all peasants, and they're mad too.
Speaker 5: On China's tightly controlled Internet, government censors are allowing Vance's
Speaker 5: interview to go viral, amplifying the outrage, igniting anger and sarcasm. Look,
Speaker 5: this is their true face, arrogant and rude as always.
Speaker 2: We may be.
Speaker 5: Peasants, but we have the world's best high speed rail,
Speaker 5: the most powerful logistics, and leading AI and drone technologies.
Speaker 2: Aren't such peasants quite impressive?
Speaker 5: One hashtag about the Chinese peasants remark shot to the
Speaker 5: top of China's Twitter like platform.
Speaker 2: Waboat? Wait is that is that Michael Costa? How did
Speaker 2: the third whitest host of the Daily Show go viral
Speaker 2: in China before the Asian wie? That's dough, that's that's
Speaker 2: that's that's the same triangle and everything. Wait is China
Speaker 2: watching this? Oh? Okay, well, hey, thanks for watching this? Hi? Uh?
Speaker 2: Don't then? What was sung seing wall? Since I saw
Speaker 2: the wh what since it's our paramon? The tinman took
Speaker 2: a slipping. I was just talking tough to China. But
Speaker 2: woods are not China's only weapon in this trade war.
Speaker 2: They're also using, you know, trade.
Speaker 6: China's retaliation now includes suspending exports of rare earth minerals
Speaker 6: and magnets to the United States. Those materials are essential
Speaker 6: to a number of American industries, including carmakers, aerospace manufacturers,
Speaker 6: and semiconductor producers.
Speaker 4: China produces ninety percent of the world's rare earth minerals.
Speaker 2: Okay, so rare earth metals are critical. Well, maybe we
Speaker 2: should have thought that before we launched a trade war
Speaker 2: against the country that had them all. I mean, where
Speaker 2: we're going to get oh, gattolinium now, huh, we're gonna
Speaker 2: buy Congolese gattolinium. That shit's mid Well what else are
Speaker 2: they hitting us with?
Speaker 6: China has reportedly told Chinese airlines to stop buying parts
Speaker 6: from American companies, and It's says it will no longer
Speaker 6: accept deliveries of Boeing jets.
Speaker 2: Come on, you're not going to accept our Boeing jets? Well,
Speaker 2: good luck finding another plane with self crashing technology? Is
Speaker 2: there anything else.
Speaker 7: China could strike that in other ways, like urging Chinese
Speaker 7: students to study elsewhere, telling travel agents to steer tour
Speaker 7: groups away from US cities.
Speaker 2: Oh no, If Chinese students stop coming to the US,
Speaker 2: who are Americans going to lose their spots to Indians? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that will work. Yeah, actually actually yes, But look, Americans
Speaker 2: have to stay strong. Okay, I don't want to hear
Speaker 2: any whining. Oh no, China's not buying all made in
Speaker 2: America products. Well, suck it up, patriots. Certain industries are
Speaker 2: just going to have to suffer. And that's how it is,
Speaker 2: because this is war.
Speaker 8: China announce their restricting imports of Hollywood movies to their country.
Speaker 2: Okay, that this war has gone too far. Some of
Speaker 2: our finest, most likable Chinese Malaysian actors have built a
Speaker 2: career in Asian theme movies that depend on the Chinese market.
Speaker 2: All right, it's called it's called crazy rich Asians, not crazy,
Speaker 2: just getting buy Asians. And don't forget this affects you
Speaker 2: to China. If you ban American movies, how will you
Speaker 2: ever find out the ending to all these remakes of
Speaker 2: movies from decades ago. But as drastic as some of
Speaker 2: these trade policies are, they are nothing compared to the
Speaker 2: awesome power of Chinese propaganda. And luckily for China, we
Speaker 2: all have a Chinese propaganda app on our phones.
Speaker 3: They're the videos seen by millions of Americans TikTokers claiming
Speaker 3: to work at Chinese factories that make high end products
Speaker 3: and offering to sell them directly to Americans for much,
Speaker 3: much cheaper.
Speaker 6: Products like Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuittan.
Speaker 2: Do you like this bag?
Speaker 1: Are this tda put on a.
Speaker 2: Queues on the Oh yes up? Yeah, good news, honey,
Speaker 2: I am getting you that Gucci bag for your birthday.
Speaker 2: But uh, forget about the designer products, because these tiktoks
Speaker 2: aren't just offering cheap Chanel bags. They're offering cheap everything.
Speaker 7: Do you want buy laundry pots?
Speaker 2: Do you want a laundry capsule? Do you want a
Speaker 2: laundry bits? One part cost only five cents?
Speaker 5: Just the ship custom percentage kettles to us probably do dollars.
Speaker 9: Do you need a house?
Speaker 1: We can build it for you in just forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Place another and we will deliver it to a country.
Speaker 2: Good news, honey, I am getting you that prefabricated house
Speaker 2: for Memorial Day. For more on the trade warll we
Speaker 2: go live to the White House with Troy Water. Okay, uh, Troy.
Speaker 9: That's a lot of designer clothing and I got it
Speaker 9: all for eight dollars.
Speaker 2: Thank you, trade war? Okay, Troy, Please don't thank the
Speaker 2: trade war right. If tensions keep building, it could be
Speaker 2: economically devastating.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know.
Speaker 9: But the longer this trade war goes, the more incredible
Speaker 9: deals I'm finding on TikTok. So personally, I think tensions
Speaker 9: could get like five to ten percent higher. Even a
Speaker 9: dumb peasant country like China could understand that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Troy, No, Troy, that's exactly how I talk. Could
Speaker 2: escalate the trade war, Okay, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 9: Look, look, this is like four hundred tie pods and
Speaker 9: it was fifteen cents.
Speaker 2: I had to break a dollar.
Speaker 9: I have a lot of luxury clothes to wash, and
Speaker 9: these are extra nights, so I'm gonna wash them on
Speaker 9: extra hot with my towels.
Speaker 2: No, no, this could cause a global recession.
Speaker 9: Then we'll buy our way out of it. For the
Speaker 9: first time in our lives. We can get our mez
Speaker 9: scarves in bulk, like all those dumb people in China, Troy,
Speaker 9: those aren't real o mesca if you believe Ronnie.
Speaker 2: Okay, but if everyone can afford to get them, are
Speaker 2: they even really luxury goods anymore?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Socrates, okay, just wait until Christmas. You'll change your
Speaker 9: tune once we're stuffing our stockings with Gucci.
Speaker 2: Aren't you jewish? Not at these prices, this is still
Speaker 2: a huge risk, all right. Is it really worth a
Speaker 2: market crash just to get a washing machine for twenty bucks?
Speaker 9: A whole washing machine for twenty dollars? Okay, let me
Speaker 9: speak to.
Speaker 10: China Jongo to Siangba need the chang chun oiba Uncle
Speaker 10: Sam's penis ya kwa damn.
Speaker 2: I fucking nailed that, Troy. I speak Chinese. I have
Speaker 2: no idea. What the you just said?
Speaker 9: All right, do you need to be to explain Uncle
Speaker 9: Sam to you or a Penis say, you know what.
Speaker 2: Get out of here, Troy. Troy wata everybody when we
Speaker 2: come back, not to cos stuff. This is our new estate,
Speaker 2: so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump might be in the middle of a trade war,
Speaker 2: but we shouldn't forget his other wars. Michael Cossa checked
Speaker 2: in on them just to find out what's going on.
Speaker 4: For decades, Canadians have been wasting away in a country
Speaker 4: known best of the world as America's hat.
Speaker 1: But that's all about to change.
Speaker 3: Canada was meant to be the fifty first date, just
Speaker 3: an artificial line that was drawn in the sand beside.
Speaker 4: In the ice, but not Everyone's so sure a boot
Speaker 4: that meet Stephen Shane Bart, American political refugee.
Speaker 11: Night that Trump was elected in twenty seve sixteen, I
Speaker 11: started looking into becoming a Canadian citizen and I moved
Speaker 11: here in twenty twenty full time. Gave up my apartment
Speaker 11: in Brooklyn, moved to Toronto.
Speaker 4: A lot of people said they were going to move
Speaker 4: to Canada when Trump won, and.
Speaker 11: It's bullshit, you actually did it, So I wrote I
Speaker 11: actually did it Becoming Canadian because of Trump.
Speaker 4: Is that the book where you admit that you killed
Speaker 4: OJ's wife?
Speaker 1: No, No, it's not.
Speaker 12: I didn't know Hm exactly what Oj said in Just
Speaker 12: like a White Bronco chase cut short. Steven's worried his
Speaker 12: escape from America might have been a feudal gesture.
Speaker 4: Just look at history.
Speaker 11: Austria was the first country that Hitler took over when
Speaker 11: he was expanding, and it was very similar to Germany
Speaker 11: the way Canada is similar to the US. And they
Speaker 11: just kind of absorbed it and that was the beginning
Speaker 11: of Hitler's expansion.
Speaker 4: If you think Trump's Hitler, then why would you move
Speaker 4: to America's neighbor. It's like, well, I'm going to ride
Speaker 4: this whole Hitler thing out over there in Poland.
Speaker 11: I'm not saying at all that Trump is Hitler.
Speaker 5: He's not.
Speaker 11: But if Trump is ten percent as bad as Hitler,
Speaker 11: that's bad enough.
Speaker 4: Well, Stephen Trump didn't want to invade Canada until you
Speaker 4: moved up here. So are you flatter in a way?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, you fled America, but America's coming and you can't
Speaker 4: stop a bulldozer. We're gonna take Canada. That'll be a
Speaker 4: fifty first state. Then we'll go to Greenland. I think
Speaker 4: we should get Hawaii. That's nice over there.
Speaker 2: That'd be sweet to have Hawaii. U huh, what are
Speaker 2: you gonna do?
Speaker 4: Keep running away from it?
Speaker 11: There's no where to come.
Speaker 4: Well, of course Steven hates this idea, but I bet
Speaker 4: every day Canucks couldn't wait to trade in their free
Speaker 4: healthcare to join Team USA. How excited are you to
Speaker 4: be the fifty first state of the United States?
Speaker 2: Not that fired up about it?
Speaker 1: And you need a stronger language than that.
Speaker 2: We have guns.
Speaker 4: Can you look in that camera and tell Donald Trump
Speaker 4: how you feel about becoming the fifty first state of
Speaker 4: the United States.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're you're throwing a lot of words around,
Speaker 2: but I think that's yeah, we know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: It's not going to anywhere. That's the meanings you can get. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe they just didn't know what they were missing. This
Speaker 2: is a bottle of our syrup. That's not maple syrup.
Speaker 4: I don't know. There used to be a black woman
Speaker 4: on them, but that kind of became a whole thing.
Speaker 2: We love our country, we really do.
Speaker 4: Don't you want to dominate the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Olympics.
Speaker 1: I'm on the Summer Olympics, the one that people care about.
Speaker 2: This is what the new flag would be. I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I'm thought the Maple.
Speaker 1: Leap was going to be with the stars.
Speaker 2: But I should have had this thing made in China.
Speaker 4: Canadians of all ages, races, and species seemed united in
Speaker 4: their rage. It's a good thing Christine isn't here and
Speaker 4: this trade war is getting messier than a plate of
Speaker 4: poutine at a Saline Dion concert. Thousands of Canadian hockey
Speaker 4: fans booing our national anthem.
Speaker 8: Flicker stores have removed American distilled alcohol from their shelves.
Speaker 7: Pools show ninety percent of Canadians do not want to
Speaker 7: be part of the United States.
Speaker 4: But what about the other ten percent? The silent majority,
Speaker 4: the most elite and until lectual Canadians take a different view.
Speaker 7: I'm just trying to make Canada great, So let's make
Speaker 7: it the fifty first steam.
Speaker 1: Finally, a normal person, you got to make a stand.
Speaker 7: If you believe in what you believe, and I believe
Speaker 7: and I want to become an American, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4: I mean just think about the possibilities. You could be
Speaker 4: sentenced to the death penalty. You can drive over a
Speaker 4: bridge not knowing if it's going to collapse. Cheese coming
Speaker 4: out of a spray can.
Speaker 7: I've never tried spray can cheese, right, but I'm looking
Speaker 7: forward to it.
Speaker 12: And after living under Canada's jack boot, Josh is.
Speaker 7: Eager to speak his mind first moment right for the
Speaker 7: space freedom of speech.
Speaker 4: And the thing about the First Amendment is that that
Speaker 4: thing is ironclad. Yeah, I mean unless you're a protester
Speaker 4: or a legal firm, or a member of the media,
Speaker 4: or a Democrat or a Green card holder.
Speaker 2: But other than that, huh, it's good.
Speaker 4: And in case you couldn't tell by the way he looks,
Speaker 4: there's another amendment that Josh is way more excited at boot.
Speaker 1: So Canada doesn't have a second Amendment.
Speaker 7: We do have certain guns, but not the ones that
Speaker 7: we do in America. The AR fifteen. We can't have
Speaker 7: any guns that have over I think it's five rounds.
Speaker 1: Five rounds.
Speaker 4: That means that you can't even have a mass shooting.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, you can't even mash shoot out a deer, right.
Speaker 4: That's why American hunters are so good because they can
Speaker 4: pop off two hundred rounds in five seconds.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hit something this well.
Speaker 4: Beccan Shaman was almost passing for an American. But there
Speaker 4: was just something that was off about them.
Speaker 2: Get it, get it, let's go.
Speaker 4: Like the Canadian dollar, it's closed, but just not quite there.
Speaker 4: What is this monopoly money? In fact, there was something
Speaker 4: off about this whole country.
Speaker 11: The differences are subtle but really significant. Like when I
Speaker 11: go get pizza, they asked me, you know what kind
Speaker 11: of sauce I want on the pizza? If I want
Speaker 11: like sweet and sour sauce or Chipotle sauce.
Speaker 1: Wait, what the did you just say?
Speaker 11: They give it here and they say what kind of
Speaker 11: sauce do you want on it? And I said, what
Speaker 11: do you mean? I'm from New York.
Speaker 12: We don't do that, these bastards sweet and sour sauce
Speaker 12: on pizza.
Speaker 1: Not even Little Caesars would do.
Speaker 4: A thing like that. Anyone know what they put on
Speaker 4: pizza in Greenland?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael, Let me come back. Senator Tammy dunk
Speaker 2: Wolf will be joining me on the shows Don't Go Away,
Speaker 2: Welcome back to a dairy show. My guests tonight is
Speaker 2: an Iraq war hero and Purple Hot recipient who currently
Speaker 2: represents Illinois the US Senate. Please welcome Senator Tammy duck Wolf.
Speaker 1: Listen, come ont.
Speaker 2: Say they're having fun. Yeah, well, man, if you share
Speaker 2: for Illinois New York, that's tough. Yeah, Senator, you're a
Speaker 2: war hero, you served in Iraq, you sacrificed so much
Speaker 2: for your country. But you're also a Democrat. Why do
Speaker 2: you hate America?
Speaker 8: I actually love America so much. You know, maybe we
Speaker 8: have too much liberty and freedom.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Seeks to me what this administration thinks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like you were a war veteran and then you
Speaker 2: decided to go to Congress. Yeah, I mean what was
Speaker 2: hot that? The War of Congress.
Speaker 8: I mean they gave me body armor and bullets when
Speaker 8: I went to war. So I think Congress is harder.
Speaker 2: But you're in it.
Speaker 1: I'm in it.
Speaker 2: You're in it right now.
Speaker 1: I'm in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I used to fly nicians in Iraq. I did helicopter.
Speaker 1: I was a black Hawk helicopter pilot.
Speaker 8: Loved it, that's.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And he decided to run for Congress and you won.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 8: I was I was pissed off. That we were not
Speaker 8: taking care of our veterans, so I decided to run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and so how are we treating our veterans?
Speaker 8: Well, we were doing really well until Trump decided to
Speaker 8: fire six thousand of them from their federal jobs in the.
Speaker 2: Last three months. Yeah, and why do you do that?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, I guess this is a guy who
Speaker 8: hugs the flags as he loves America, but then fires
Speaker 8: six thousand veterans.
Speaker 1: I don't think he cares about us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So what like, what was the what was the
Speaker 2: would he give any reasonable fire?
Speaker 1: There was no reason.
Speaker 8: It's part of their cuts across federal government. Veterans after
Speaker 8: they serve in the military tend to want to serve
Speaker 8: the country, continue to and civil service. So thirty of
Speaker 8: the federal workforce are veterans. And so this president has
Speaker 8: fired more veterans than any other veterans than any other
Speaker 8: president in modern history.
Speaker 1: Okay, six thousand encounting.
Speaker 2: How is that? How is that? Okay, we get it
Speaker 2: all right. They don't like it. Well, and that's specifically
Speaker 2: was it doge or was it something else?
Speaker 1: It was dog?
Speaker 8: Just across the board cuts. When you fired this many
Speaker 8: federal employees you're going to lose that many veterans. But
Speaker 8: dog has also come out and they've announced they want
Speaker 8: to cut eighty thousand personnel just from the Department of
Speaker 8: Veterans Affairs.
Speaker 1: That's their next target.
Speaker 2: But okay, and that I don't know. Are these people
Speaker 2: they can lose or is it? Is it gonna run?
Speaker 2: Is it running fine? Now? What's the situation in the
Speaker 2: Veterans of Fairs?
Speaker 1: It was getting better.
Speaker 8: We passed the Packed Act, which was bipartisan, which basically
Speaker 8: signed up a million more veterans who were exposed to
Speaker 8: cancer causing toxic smoke from burn pits. They're finally getting
Speaker 8: the care that they need. And now we have those
Speaker 8: folks on board, and now they're going to fire all
Speaker 8: the people who take care.
Speaker 1: Of those folks.
Speaker 2: Okay, and so I'm pissed. Okay, can anyone stop this?
Speaker 8: So well, we can try to stop them. We are
Speaker 8: fighting them every step of the way. In my case,
Speaker 8: I've been able to get some veterans their jobs back.
Speaker 8: They fired veterans from the Veterans Crisis Hotline. These are
Speaker 8: people who answered the phone when a veteran is contemplating suicide.
Speaker 8: They pick up the phone and ni get an answer
Speaker 8: within eight seconds, so at least they used to. And
Speaker 8: so some of the folks who work in that hot
Speaker 8: line were fired and they reached out to me and
Speaker 8: we were able to get them their jobs back.
Speaker 1: So we are fighting.
Speaker 2: Back, so.
Speaker 1: Like one at a time, one at a time.
Speaker 2: So there's jobs, there's jobs all lost, but then there's
Speaker 2: overall just like veteran healthcare right, they've.
Speaker 8: Had to cancel operations. The spouses, the family members of
Speaker 8: disabled veterans are not getting support through their hotline appointments
Speaker 8: and are being canceled or now they're having to wait
Speaker 8: even longer. We would just turn in the corner. We
Speaker 8: were actually reducing the number of homeless veterans. We were
Speaker 8: just adding more veterans getting more beat But remember this
Speaker 8: is a president who says people who are wounded to
Speaker 8: die for this country in uniform are all losers and suckers.
Speaker 8: He doesn't care about us.
Speaker 2: Okay, So just to put it out there, this is
Speaker 2: also a guy who arguably a lot of veterans would
Speaker 2: also vote for at the time. So how do you
Speaker 2: reconcile that? I mean, well, I think.
Speaker 8: What they bought was this rhetoric from him that he
Speaker 8: was going to you know, he wants going to make
Speaker 8: America great, strong and powerful, and yet all he's done
Speaker 8: has made us weaker, sicker, and less secure.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, so I mean, I guess the relevant
Speaker 2: question is do you think it's changing the opinion of
Speaker 2: the people who voted for him?
Speaker 1: Oh? Definitely.
Speaker 8: Have you seen what's been happening at these Republican town
Speaker 8: halls where people across the country is showing up in
Speaker 8: tom haws and saying, what are you doing to have veterans?
Speaker 8: I'm a veteran, Why did you cut my benefits? I
Speaker 8: had a veteran reach out to me from Tennessee because
Speaker 8: he was declared dead and didn't get his didn't get
Speaker 8: his regular checks.
Speaker 2: What he did, he.
Speaker 1: Didn't reach out to me through reach are born. He
Speaker 1: actually reached out to me.
Speaker 2: But okay, But again the question is, okay, so we
Speaker 2: all have obviously, you know what kind of preaching to
Speaker 2: the acquire here. Obviously the people who didn't like who
Speaker 2: didn't want to vote for his president, still we maintained
Speaker 2: that we shouldn't have vote for this guy. The question
Speaker 2: is what about the veterans specifically, because you're more in
Speaker 2: touch with that community. When do you feel that there
Speaker 2: is a change in sentiment that was previously overwhelmingly in
Speaker 2: his favor. Do you think it's changing a bit or
Speaker 2: is it still very much? No, he's doing the right thing.
Speaker 2: We don't see a problem. The issues are exaggerated.
Speaker 8: I mean, is that I think it's changing. I think
Speaker 8: there's two things that are happening. One, the fact that
Speaker 8: he is basically kissing Vladimir Putin's uh you can see it,
Speaker 8: you know, means that these are people who spent their
Speaker 8: entire military careers getting ready to oppose Russia and now
Speaker 8: they see the commander in chief basically doing whatever Putin
Speaker 8: wants him to do. So that is changing the sentiment.
Speaker 8: The other thing that's happening is all of this rhetoric
Speaker 8: against women serving, against LGBTQ veterans serving. You people forget
Speaker 8: that there's been a generational change within the military.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 8: Gen xers are now the old people. Millennials are now
Speaker 8: the upper management and they've only ever.
Speaker 2: Served well, happy to be here, and they're not the
Speaker 2: field people. I'm gen X Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 8: So so millennial millennials are now the majors, colonels. They're
Speaker 8: not they're now colonels, right, they're.
Speaker 1: Not sergeants majors, you know, they're now higher ranking.
Speaker 2: And so you say this, but then it's like, but
Speaker 2: they think they he kind of said what he was
Speaker 2: going to do before he ran. He was p hegsef
Speaker 2: before he got a pointed against. You know, women in
Speaker 2: military they still want. So my question is is anything
Speaker 2: that's happened changing the sentiment.
Speaker 1: It is because I think a lot of.
Speaker 8: Them didn't believe that that was what was going to happen,
Speaker 8: and they saw the reality of the fact that the
Speaker 8: military cannot do its job without women in service. The
Speaker 8: military cannot truly do its job without diversity in the
Speaker 8: in the force where people can speak different languages around
Speaker 8: the world, you want soldis who and speak to Wahili.
Speaker 8: Without forces in Africa, you want, you know, soldiers that
Speaker 8: can speak all the different languages. And so the millennials
Speaker 8: have only ever been in the military where there was
Speaker 8: equal service with women.
Speaker 2: And you're seen white people can't speak so human.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, but you want native speakers, right, you
Speaker 8: want you want more diversity. You want that that you know,
Speaker 8: diversity inclusion is a good thing.
Speaker 1: You want people who have those backgrounds.
Speaker 8: You want somebody like me who speaks Taian and Indonesian
Speaker 8: to be able to go in and and and speak
Speaker 8: those local languages. And we also have people in charge
Speaker 8: of the military now, the millennial generation who have only
Speaker 8: ever served equally without don't ask, don't tell, so they
Speaker 8: know the line behind.
Speaker 1: LGBTQ people are not good for the military.
Speaker 8: Well, no, they know that we've always served equally and
Speaker 8: we can't go to war without each other.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean that's that deserves an applause. That's a
Speaker 2: nice sentiment. I hope you're right, because we cover the
Speaker 2: news every day here and I just feel like nothing
Speaker 2: changes moves the needle either way. I do a lot
Speaker 2: of jiu jitsu. All the jiu jitsu guys are like
Speaker 2: like a lot of veteran veteran people, So I'm not
Speaker 2: connected at community at all. Let me just say the
Speaker 2: ones I have met are very mega, so I don't
Speaker 2: know how a lot of them.
Speaker 8: Are remarked, but they're seeing the reality behind the betrayal,
Speaker 8: and they're seeing what's happening to veterans with the cuts
Speaker 8: at the VA. They're also seeing what is happening with
Speaker 8: Trump bound down to put. Just watch those town halls.
Speaker 8: A lot of them revolve around people standing up and saying,
Speaker 8: what are you doing for our national security?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 2: And on the on the subject of DEI. So another
Speaker 2: thing you've recently had to you on the front lines
Speaker 2: of hiring because they had to. You were in the
Speaker 2: Senate when people had to get confirmed and show you
Speaker 2: pot of the committees had to have hearings on who
Speaker 2: to confirm. And so I guess you're kind of on
Speaker 2: the front lines of this, Like, I don't know what
Speaker 2: you want to call this a backlash against DEI towards meritocracy,
Speaker 2: and you were you had to basically appoint approve the
Speaker 2: secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I voted against him.
Speaker 8: These the least qualified secretary defense in our nation's history,
Speaker 8: the least qualified.
Speaker 2: Just give him a chance, give him a chance. This
Speaker 2: is the least What do you don't like about this guy?
Speaker 8: Well, let's see, the largest budget he ever was in
Speaker 8: charge of was something like thirteen million dollars and he
Speaker 8: screwed that up so badly they had to bring in
Speaker 8: forensic accountants to figure out what he did wrong. And
Speaker 8: now he's in charge of an eight hundred and twenty
Speaker 8: five billion dollar budget. You're talking about a guy who
Speaker 8: used signal chat to plan, you know, a strike right,
Speaker 8: a military strike right, exactly.
Speaker 2: Exactly, So who.
Speaker 8: Basically put in an unsecured channel thirty minutes after the
Speaker 8: drones hit F eighteens will be on target, basically telling
Speaker 8: the bad guys this is where those F eighteens are
Speaker 8: going to be and exactly what time he put those
Speaker 8: pilot's lives in danger. He does not deserve to be
Speaker 8: the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2: But you've never planned an outing with group chat before
Speaker 2: tried some build.
Speaker 8: I never planned an outing for the military involving weapons
Speaker 8: of war.
Speaker 2: So how would you say to the people who are
Speaker 2: like who think that the DEI thing in the military
Speaker 2: is inappropriate cand of use DEI categor reason in the military.
Speaker 1: For how what I say is that's not true? It
Speaker 1: never was.
Speaker 8: This is a fake argument on their side because it
Speaker 8: was never done. Remember that this president fired a Secretary
Speaker 8: of Defense who was a pilot, highly decorated, forty years
Speaker 8: of experience, commanded major units, and replaced him with a
Speaker 8: guy who is a platoon leader, who had never run
Speaker 8: a budget larger than ten million dollars, and who couldn't
Speaker 8: even mention parts of the world. You know where the
Speaker 8: US has huge troop presents who didn't understand where the
Speaker 8: nations of Asian were for crying out loud, and this
Speaker 8: is the guy that's going to be in charge of
Speaker 8: our nuclear submarines, that transition that those sea lanes.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10: Okay?
Speaker 2: So he got confirmed though.
Speaker 1: He got confirmed party line.
Speaker 2: Vote, party line vote, and I guess a couple.
Speaker 8: Of people, a couple of people crossed the party line,
Speaker 8: but not enough.
Speaker 2: Okay. So that brings me the next question. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're actually on the front lines of Congress. You have
Speaker 2: to talk to Republican congressman all the time, like, what
Speaker 2: is it in Congress? Are people are your colleagues Republican colleagues.
Speaker 2: Are they seeing the same reality behind closed doors and
Speaker 2: telling you like, hey, listen, I know this is crazy,
Speaker 2: but whatever or are they are? Are they drinking? Are
Speaker 2: they true believers? Drinking a kool aid? What's happening in that?
Speaker 8: I think the Republicans who are willing to stand up
Speaker 8: to him were the ones from the first time. They're
Speaker 8: not back right, and so the ones that are there
Speaker 8: are becoming invertebrates. They've lost their backbones and they're hiding
Speaker 8: in their shells.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is where they are, like.
Speaker 1: They just roll over for this president.
Speaker 2: They you know, they say I always are they true believers?
Speaker 2: Are they?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 8: I mean no, they're they're they're worried about their own
Speaker 8: re election. And at a certain point you need to say,
Speaker 8: you know what, come at me, go ahead in primary me.
Speaker 8: My country is more important than this job.
Speaker 2: Right And unfortunately most of my recubitent colleges don't think
Speaker 2: that are.
Speaker 1: Not acting in that role.
Speaker 2: Sure, so, I mean, you know, again, you have been
Speaker 2: You've always kind of I think you've kind of like
Speaker 2: with integy integrity. You've stood by a world yours too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how do you The Democrats like have lost a lot
Speaker 2: in the last They don't control any branch of government,
Speaker 2: they don't control popular vote, they don't have any cultural momentum.
Speaker 2: So clearly they were doing something wrong. Like what is
Speaker 2: what should they be doing? Like what what message isn't
Speaker 2: getting through here?
Speaker 8: You know, I think the message that's not getting through here?
Speaker 8: What Trump did was he spoke to a group of
Speaker 8: Americans who were disaffected, who really felt that this country
Speaker 8: was leaving them behind, and he made these promises, and
Speaker 8: a lot of people were watching the reality TV show,
Speaker 8: and I get from a lot of people it's like, oh,
Speaker 8: I voted from but I didn't think he was going
Speaker 8: to come after me. I didn't think he was going
Speaker 8: to deport my wife. I didn't think that he was
Speaker 8: going to cut funding to my kids public school.
Speaker 2: I think because he said specifically he was going to
Speaker 2: deport that guy's wife.
Speaker 8: Well, no, no, because he said he was going to
Speaker 8: do all of these things, right. He said he was
Speaker 8: going to cut the Department of Education. You know, people
Speaker 8: were saying, well, but we didn't think that he was
Speaker 8: going to go after my special needs kids funding, right.
Speaker 8: They just thought that it was all in act, sure,
Speaker 8: and it's not.
Speaker 1: And it's not.
Speaker 8: And now people are being fired, they're losing their jobs.
Speaker 8: They're seeing the reality of where we are there with
Speaker 8: the economy tanking, with us less safe than we were before,
Speaker 8: and they're realizing, oh, I made a mistake. This is
Speaker 8: why you're seeing people talk about I voted for him,
Speaker 8: but I wish I had. I made a mistake. And
Speaker 8: what democrats need to do is talk to all of
Speaker 8: those people and say, you know, Illinois, where I'm from,
Speaker 8: is one hundred and two counties. Only six are blue,
Speaker 8: ninety six are red. And I go into the red
Speaker 8: parts of my county and of my state, and I say, listen,
Speaker 8: it's about loving this country. It's about putting America first.
Speaker 8: It's not about a guy who hugs the flag and
Speaker 8: then shits on America by starting trade wars and cutting
Speaker 8: funding for veterans.
Speaker 1: That's not what this is about.
Speaker 8: This is about making sure that we support our farmers
Speaker 8: who grow.
Speaker 1: The food that we need.
Speaker 8: A country that can't feed itself, it's not a country
Speaker 8: that can defend itself. This is about making sure that
Speaker 8: our veterans have the services that they earned. This is
Speaker 8: about making sure our military has capable, competent leadership who
Speaker 8: knows better than to plan war plans on group chat,
Speaker 8: on security group chat. This is about putting America before yourself,
Speaker 8: and this president has never done that. And Democrats need
Speaker 8: to start talking to the heartland and talking to people
Speaker 8: and saying we are here to fight for you, and
Speaker 8: we're going to fight for you every step of the way.
Speaker 8: And that's why you're seeing folks like me getting out there,
Speaker 8: especially from the Midwest, talking about industrial America, about what
Speaker 8: we need to do to regrow our economy, and what
Speaker 8: we need to do to stand up to this president
Speaker 8: to make sure that we make those investments in this
Speaker 8: country and not in the oligarchy billionaires that he surrounded
Speaker 8: himself with, because that's all they care about themselves.
Speaker 2: Sure do you think that Do you think that message
Speaker 2: is coming.
Speaker 1: Across I think it is.
Speaker 8: You know, when I talk to the act sector, for example,
Speaker 8: they've seen body blows. At the body blows, they firmer
Speaker 8: stand it to vote for Trump. But when I go
Speaker 8: to talk to him, they're like, well, these terriffs are
Speaker 8: killing I'm not going to be able to hand my
Speaker 8: family form off from my generation to the next generation.
Speaker 8: I'm the seventh generation. There will not be an eighth generation.
Speaker 8: The terriffs are going to hurt me. John Deere is
Speaker 8: losing jobs because the steel coming from Canada is now
Speaker 8: going to be more expensive, and so they're seeing the difference.
Speaker 8: And we need to just continue to pull on those
Speaker 8: people together and let people do understand that the way
Speaker 8: that we make America great greater than she already is
Speaker 8: to come together and work together, not by dividing us,
Speaker 8: which is what this present is trying to do.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right, Senator. Thank you, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for coming to speak to me. Thank you for
Speaker 2: serving our country, thanks for something with integrity, and thanks
Speaker 2: for representing Asian people and Southeast Asian people in America.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Till me talk abouf everybody. Well,
Speaker 2: God take a quick break. We'll be right back after
Speaker 2: this thing.
Speaker 8: The thanks.
Speaker 2: That's what's over tonight now here. It is your moment
Speaker 2: of that we have.
Speaker 1: All heard in the five second rule.
Speaker 2: Right, let's put it to the test. Shall we now.
Speaker 1: To know what that is?
Speaker 8: Shoes walk around New York City?
Speaker 12: Show?
Speaker 1: Okay? Should we go ahead and call out and sick
Speaker 1: for him?
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