1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom should be in hot water right now for 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: his clearly racist comments about African Americans having low IQ. 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: But let's be honest, the media is not talking about 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: this and it should be receiving far more attention than 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: it is, because if this story involved a Republican governor 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: instead of Gavin Newsom, it would have a twenty four 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: hour media firestorm all over it and more than likely 8 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: that Republican governor would have had to resign. Now reports 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: indicate that Governor Newsom is facing backlash, but not from 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: the media, after telling a black mayor, I'm like you, 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: before referencing low IQ in the conversation. Now, let's be 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: very clear, invoking IQ at a conversation involving an African 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: American elected official, a mayor, especially in a way that 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: can be interpreted as linking race and intelligence, is not 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: just careless, It's not just politically explosive, be condemned outright. 16 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: Is straight up racism now, because intelligence is not determined 17 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: by race, period, is what the media should have also 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: said in this report, but they're not talking about it. 19 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,919 Speaker 1: So when language like that's used, even loosely, even jokingly, 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: or even defensively, it should matter, and it should matter 21 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: to all American voters. The bigger issue here is, yes, 22 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: the double standard. This is the part that makes me 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: angry because if a Republican governor use this language or 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: even hinted at racial stereotypes involving intelligence based on the 25 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: color of your skin, what would have happened. 26 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 2: I know exactly what would have happened. 27 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: Number One, we would have had wall to wall cable 28 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: news coverage demanding more than just an apology, but then 29 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: demanding that other Republicans call for that governor to resign. 30 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: We have none of that right now on TV. Editorial 31 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: boards would have also jumped in demanding accountability, saying that 32 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: voters deserve more from their governor than this, And then 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: there would have been the national political outrage from nationally 34 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: elected figures or centers or congressmen far away from wherever 35 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: the outrage actually happened. In this situation, it actually did 36 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: happen in California. There would be zero tolerance as well 37 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: as zero hesitation to condemn a Republican if. 38 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 2: They did this. 39 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: But because it's the high profile Democratic front runner or 40 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: at least number two in line for the White House 41 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: on the Democratic Party, then Apparently they're all willing to 42 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: cover for the racist words of Gavin Newsom. There's also 43 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 1: the lies of this story, which are even more incredible. 44 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: When Newsom is talking to a black audience, he says, 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: I'm dumb too, yeah, just like you. But when Newsom 46 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: was talking to a white audience, I want you to 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: listen carefully to what he had to say to that audience. 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: You've written a hell of a book. And I don't 49 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: say that lightly. 50 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 3: I went through it in a quick hour and a half, 51 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 3: almost two hours, and trust me, I don't read very fast, 52 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 3: but it reads at an unbelievable pace. It's so well written, 53 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 3: and of course it's so familiar because I fell a 54 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 3: little bit adjacent so much of the subject matter. But 55 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 3: it's eighteen chapters. It's an impressive piece of work, two 56 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty three or so pages. 57 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: Two So let's be clear what you just heard. Gavin 58 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: Newsom talking to white authors about a white book and 59 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: a white audience. He basically says, you know, I read 60 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: three hundred pages of your book in like two hours. Now, 61 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: he's either a liar, or a race paider, or a 62 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: racist or all three of those things. Because when Gavin 63 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,119 Speaker 1: Newsom goes and talks to a black crowd in Georgia. 64 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: This is what he says instead. 65 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: I'm not you know, I'm not trying to impress you. 66 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 4: I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you, 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 4: I'm no better than you. 68 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: You know. 69 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 4: I'm a nine to sixty SAT guy, and you know, 70 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 4: and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying 71 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 4: to act all there if you got nine forty, but 72 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 4: literally a nine sixty SAT guy. 73 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 3: I cannot you you've never seen me read a speech. 74 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 4: Because I cannot read a speech, maybe the wrong business 75 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 4: to be. 76 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: I'm like you to a black audience. I'm a nine 77 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: to sixty SAT guy. 78 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 2: I can't read. So which one is it? Is it? 79 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: Are you the guy that can read a three hundred 80 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: page book in a couple hours? Are you the guy 81 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: that's stupid just like you? Of course, only referencing black 82 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: people in the audience. This is why it matters. We 83 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: live in a political culture where leaders are constantly telling 84 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: the country that language matters. Right, Gavin Newsom's one of those. 85 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: We're told that rhetoric matters. How do we know that? 86 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has said it. Gavin Newsom has also said 87 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: that tone matters and the implication of the words you 88 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: use matter. Well, they're right, it does. So if that 89 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: standard applies to everyone else, why does it apply to 90 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom as well? Historically, by the way, linking race 91 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: and IQ has been part of a deeply offensive and 92 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: discredit argument. Yes, history makes comments like this, and we 93 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: expose them, especially sensitive and especially inappropriate comments to remind 94 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: Americans of what racism actually is. And any elected official, 95 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: whether it's Republican or Democrat, they should know better, especially 96 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. And to be clear, this is 97 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: not cancel culture that I'm advocating for. This is an 98 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: elected official looking at a black audience saying I'm like you, 99 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: I can't read, I'm dumb, I'm a nine sixty sat guy. 100 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom. Why is he not being held accountable? 101 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: Because he is seen as being the guy that could 102 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: be the Democrat's next president. He's trying to present himself 103 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: as polished, media savvy, forwardlooking Democrat for the future. And 104 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: that's why this story should be so damaging, Because if 105 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: you've got a rich white guy telling black people he's 106 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: stupid like them, shouldn't that disqualify him from being the 107 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: president of the United States of America. Now, Democrats are 108 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: falling all over themselves to protect Gavin Newsom, And the 109 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: key simple question I have is this, when is there 110 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: going to be accountability when someone on the left says 111 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: something as racist as this? When is there going to 112 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: be a clear explanation from Gavin Newsom about what he 113 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: actually meant? Is there going to be a clear apology 114 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: from Gavin Neussom to the black community for implying that 115 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: they're dumb or that they can only get a nine 116 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: to sixty on their sat Is there going to be 117 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: a clear acknowledgement that the phrasing was at least at 118 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: the bare minimum inappropriate. And the sad part is, especially 119 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: minority voters deserve clarity on this issue. So where is 120 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: the media? Why aren't they doing their job? The bottom 121 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: line on this is well pretty simple. If it's a Democrat, 122 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: the media will protect them at all costs. There is 123 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: no consistency. Are we going to be able to hold 124 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: public officials accountable for racially charged rhetoric? Then if we're 125 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: going to do that, we got to hold them all accountable, 126 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: including the front runner. 127 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 2: Of the Democratic Party. 128 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: I believe that no party should get a pass when 129 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: you say something like this, No governor should get a 130 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: pass if you say something like this, and certainly no 131 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: future presidential hopeful should get a pass if saying something 132 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: this racist on stage in front of a black audience America. 133 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: I want to believe he has moved beyond the ugly 134 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: history of tying intellect to the color of someone's skin. 135 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 2: That kind of thinking has no. 136 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: Place in this country and certainly no place in modern 137 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: politics for anyone. And if leaders want to lecture the 138 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: country about sensitivity and standards, they better live by those 139 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: same standard themselves. That's not partisan, that's just straight up principle. 140 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: This is exactly why I think the President of the 141 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: United States of America, Donald Trump, should probably mention this 142 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: also in the State of the Union tonight. I gotta 143 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: say one of the best lines of one of the 144 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: four Democratic responses was like the spamburger one, She's like, 145 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: is the president really working for you? The answer is yes, 146 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: he actually is working for you. And that's what his 147 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: two hour speech was about. A good friend of mine 148 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: is gonna join me now to break down what. 149 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 2: He thought about the speech. 150 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: He's also got a book right now that you've got 151 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: to go grab, Manufacturing Delusion. Left uses brainwashing and doctor 152 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: nation and propaganda against you. Buck Sexton, dear friend of mine. 153 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: He's also the host of the Clay and Buck Show. 154 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: His new book out now. Grab it wherever you get 155 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: your books or on Amazon dot com. Manufacturing Delusion Again. 156 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: Congrats on the book. By the way, timing is perfect. 157 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: You got Democrats that are actually screaming at the president 158 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: in the State of the Union wearing buttons that say 159 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: f ICE. But it's not the abbreviation. It's full capital FUC. 160 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 1: You know what ice, Rashida Telee putting that on her 161 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: beautiful white blouse, dressed thing in magic she was wearing 162 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: with her big red lipstick. They're keeping a classing the 163 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. Buck, I gotta say, I actually think this 164 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: speech by President Trump may have been the best speech 165 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: I've ever seen him give. 166 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 2: And it was long, but I didn't notice how long 167 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: it was. 168 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 5: It was the best State of the Union speech I've 169 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 5: ever seen that I can remember, and I've you know, 170 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 5: the good thing about Twitter is that there is something 171 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 5: of a record of this. I've never said that before, 172 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 5: So this is the first time I've ever said I'm 173 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 5: actually someone who's a little salty about State of the 174 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 5: Union speeches. I'll genuinely say things like, you know, they're 175 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 5: too long. I wish they were just written. That speech 176 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:25,479 Speaker 5: was an incredible dynamo performance from President Trump start to finish. 177 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 5: I watched the entire thing. I hate staying up late. 178 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 5: As you know, I live in Miami, but my Heavens, 179 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 5: I do not like to party. 180 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 2: I like to be in my I saw this for 181 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 2: a while. 182 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: If guys that don't know Buck, Buck is basically a 183 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: forty a young forty year old man stuck in an 184 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: eighty year old body, like, can we just can you 185 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: agree to that statement? Like you get cranky after seven o'clock? 186 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 5: Right, there's no question about this. Clay knows this very 187 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,439 Speaker 5: well too. We always go to events and people like 188 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 5: Clay and Buck, will you guys come out for drinks 189 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 5: or something after as I'm like, well, Clay will. So 190 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 5: he's our representative. He's our captain of fun, and I'm 191 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 5: our captain of get your leap and and you know, 192 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 5: wake up when you feel like it. So here's what 193 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 5: I would also say, though there were a couple of 194 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 5: moments tonight from from the State of the Union, rather 195 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 5: a couple of moments that I thought particularly stuck out. Obviously, 196 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 5: people are going to say when he said that we 197 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 5: stand for American citizens over illegal aliens, that was and 198 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 5: Democrats didn't stand of course, and that was clear, and 199 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 5: you know, I just think that that's something that hammer's home. 200 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 5: The key difference in the parties right now is that 201 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,719 Speaker 5: the Democrat Party will advance the interests of foreigners over 202 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 5: the interests of actual Americans as long as it advances 203 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 5: their power something else. There were some amazing moments of 204 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 5: of of just sort of patriotic pageantry. The USA team 205 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 5: hockey team that was just awesome and so much fun 206 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 5: to see those guys, and and then the the Metal 207 00:11:54,880 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 5: of Honor presentations, and particularly memorable was Chief Warrant Officer Slover, 208 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 5: who was part of that Duro ray. That was amazing. 209 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: But you can see that he was also by the way, 210 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: and still in a lot of pain. Is that chopper pilot. 211 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: I mean you could see him standing, and I mean 212 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: and you could see as they were trying to help 213 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: him down, like those were life threatening injuries that that day, 214 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: and for him to go through all that and to 215 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: stand there that proud for that long was incredible to. 216 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 5: See, right, and you know, for a rotary wing aircraft 217 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 5: pilot in that situation, to maintain its steady, complete the 218 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 5: mission to everything. He had the lives of everybody else 219 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 5: on board in his hands while his legs were essentially 220 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 5: bleeding out right. I mean, I know he survived, but 221 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 5: those could have been fatal wounds if he hadn't gotten 222 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 5: rapid attention on them. So it was. It's an incredible 223 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 5: act of bravery. But something I want to focus on, 224 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 5: which goes to my book, Manufacturing Delusion, which is and 225 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 5: this is sort of the primary review that I'm seeing, 226 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 5: a really good book with a lot of research. People 227 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 5: will learn things. It took me eighteen months to write it. 228 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 5: It took the CIA five months to clear it. I 229 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 5: have stories from my time in the CIA that I've 230 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 5: never talked about publicly before as part of my journey 231 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 5: into essentially the making of political madness. I mean, that's 232 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 5: the theory, or that's that's the thesis of the book 233 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 5: is how is political madness made? How does the left 234 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 5: do this? And I go back one hundred years to 235 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 5: have Havelov to the Soviets to the Chinese and then 236 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 5: bring it up to the present day. And when Trump 237 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 5: looked at the Democrats ben and said, you're all crazy. 238 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 5: They are. I mean, they act like lunatics in that room, 239 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 5: but beyond that, they're policies, whether it's climate change or 240 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 5: transgenderism or open borders or BLM, are rooted in mandatory 241 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 5: lies and mandatory madness, which is why Manufacturing Delusions the 242 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 5: book is so important and why anyone who buys it 243 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 5: is going to be like, I love this, I'm so 244 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 5: glad I'm reading it because you go learn about the hit. 245 00:13:58,360 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 5: You know, a lot of people know they share these 246 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 5: arts with you and me like, yeah, telling you know 247 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 5: a twelve year old girl that they're really a boy 248 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 5: is clearly nuts. There are reasons why they do this, 249 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 5: and they are rooted in totalitarian mind control tactics, and 250 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 5: people need to understand what those are, you know. 251 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: One of the things that I also thought was very 252 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: interesting about the speech was the fact that the President 253 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: was just so honest about where the Democrats are right now. 254 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: You mentioned a couple of those, but I go back 255 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: to one point where he was saying, in this country, 256 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: he asked members of Congress stand that they believe the 257 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: government should protect Americans instead of illegals. The Democrats remain seated, 258 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: like if you want to know who side they're on, 259 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: it's not the American people. And in time after time 260 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: you kind of just called them out, like you're not 261 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: going to stand for that. You're not going to stand 262 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: for that, You're not going to stand for that. Democrats 263 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: are reviews, by the way, to stand for the mother 264 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: of Irena who was brutally murdered by a career criminal 265 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: in Charlotte, North Carolina. That is how heartless the Democrats 266 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: are as a party, no matter what the President does, 267 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 1: even on something like that, we have a mother that's 268 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: crying the present, telling your story, honoring them, they wouldn't 269 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: stand for her. 270 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 5: Yes, well, the extreme partisanship of the Democrat Party, and 271 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 5: when I say extreme partisanship, we expect that on certain issues. 272 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 5: We don't think that the Democrats are going to cheer 273 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 5: for Trump's tax cuts, and honestly, it would be weird 274 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 5: if they did, because the prosperity of the private sector 275 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 5: and increasing wages and well for Americans. They don't like that. 276 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 5: They like financial duress, they like Marxism, they like class warfare. 277 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 5: So of course they're not going to say we love 278 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 5: Trump's tax cuts. But there are some things like a 279 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 5: gold medal for the US men's soccer team I mean 280 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 5: saw a hockey team rather or the conferring of a 281 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 5: medal of honor, or something like as you mentioned, I 282 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 5: mean the murder of this beautiful young woman killed so 283 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 5: heinously that you would think go beyond These are things 284 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 5: that should go beyond politics, And for Democrats, they did 285 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 5: not in some of these key moments that I think 286 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 5: will come back to haunt them at some level in 287 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 5: the midterms. I mean, I don't ever like to overstate 288 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 5: this stuff. A million things will happen between now and then. 289 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 5: But there are people who saw, and there are people, 290 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 5: I think who are becoming more clear on what these 291 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 5: primary divisions are that are deep ideological and really ethical 292 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 5: and moral and patriotic divides within the party. And you 293 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 5: mentioned the moment of standing or not standing for illegals 294 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 5: versus Americans. You know, I in Manufacturing Delusion, wrote a 295 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 5: chapter on propaganda as part of mind control and the 296 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 5: manipulation of language and the changing of words, specifically around 297 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 5: the issue of immigration. You know, from illegal alien to 298 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 5: illegal immigrant to undocumented to you know, non citizen in 299 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 5: person to migrant again into all this stuff. But really 300 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 5: it's erasing the difference between an American and everybody else. 301 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 5: And so if you can erase that in our language, 302 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 5: you start to erase that distinction in the minds of well, 303 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 5: not just Americans, but the whole world. And it's a 304 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 5: way of dissolving our sovereignty in real time. I mean, 305 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 5: it's deeply subversive what they do. And that's why in 306 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 5: one of the latter chapters of Manufacturing Delusion available now 307 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 5: and I hope everyone goes and gets a copy because 308 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 5: it is a bestseller and I want it to be 309 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 5: a massive bestseller. They'll see that this manipulation of language 310 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 5: goes to something much more insidious than just oh, democrats 311 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 5: like to have their way on TV, or Democrats are 312 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 5: hissy about language. They're trying to shape understanding, they're trying 313 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 5: to shape belief, They're trying to control minds with this stuff. 314 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And I think that's 315 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: where you look at this speech and part of what 316 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: the President think was trying to lay out was and 317 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: go back to the simple issue if it's the economy stupid, right, 318 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 1: It's such an important point to make. The President was 319 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: trying to make that clear the American people, Hey, we 320 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 1: are way better off now than we were when the 321 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: last guys were in charge. 322 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:16,719 Speaker 2: Never ever, ever forget that. 323 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: And he was also some of the things he's enacted 324 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: are just now becoming a reality that people are seeing. 325 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: No tax on tips has just been enacted, No tax 326 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: on overtime has just been enacted. I mean, we're not 327 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: even talking about a quarter of the year of people 328 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: experiencing what that does and how it can change their 329 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: life and keeping more of their own hard earned dollars. 330 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: Like I feel like the President actually did a really 331 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: good job of selling and reminding people of where we 332 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: were and where we are now. 333 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 5: Of course, and it's been an amazing first year. All 334 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 5: the key indicators and numbers on the economy speak to that. 335 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 5: And so it's a fun place for Trump and for 336 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 5: his cabinet and the administration to be And I mean, 337 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,239 Speaker 5: it's a joyful place one year in to look at 338 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 5: all the accomplishments. But I also think, of course, there's 339 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 5: a setting of expectations, which is that now this has 340 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 5: to continue on into year two, and we can't think 341 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 5: of this as a two year presidency, as in, we 342 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 5: can't allow the midterms to just slip away. And then 343 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 5: all of a sudden you have the styming of the 344 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 5: Trump agenda, and you have these crazy people, which is 345 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,479 Speaker 5: what Trump called them, and I think in many cases, 346 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,439 Speaker 5: maybe most cases, of the Democrats assembled there, that is true. 347 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 5: You have these crazy people who, because they are so 348 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 5: personally invested in this, almost like they've been made to 349 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 5: be crazy, like their delusions have been manufactured. Manufacturing Delusion 350 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 5: is a fantastic book that will explain to you how 351 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 5: this happens. You notice, by the way, then when you're 352 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 5: selling a book, you have to absolutely be you have 353 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 5: to be rerelentous. You cannot give, you cannot relent. But no, really, 354 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 5: the Democrat Party, i think, has gone into a place 355 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 5: where it is incapable of moderation or reform, and so 356 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 5: people just need to be prepared for the empire to 357 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 5: strike back and the maniacs, you know, the inmates, to 358 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 5: be running the asylum again if they win these midterms. 359 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 5: So the stakes are very high. 360 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: Mind, Yes, so maybe a good friend of mine, Buck Sex, 361 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 1: and the author of the Manufacturing delusion, how the left 362 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: uses brainwashing and doctrination and propaganda against you. I want 363 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: to end on a final subject of foreign policy. You 364 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: talk about this in your book and being in the 365 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: CIA back in the day. I think it's really interesting 366 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: to see what's happening across the border, the southern border 367 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: in Mexico. 368 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 5: Right now. 369 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: You have two top people now that have been killed, 370 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: not just one, but another one after that, The top lieutendant, 371 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: the finance guy, all things money of this cartel was 372 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: also taken out. We've been told there's a question about 373 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 1: what other cartels be targeted. There's four major ones in Mexico. 374 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: Only one of the four has been targeted by the 375 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 1: government so far in a major way. 376 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 2: Who will? Will there be an next? 377 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: And then you've got what's happening in Cuba, Venezuela and 378 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: also in Iran. 379 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: I get your take on all that real quick before 380 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 2: I let you go. 381 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, the death of the really the targeted killing 382 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 5: of El menshow taken out by the Mexican military, And 383 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 5: my understanding is a bit like the bin Laden situation. 384 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 5: You know, this was a military strike. This was much 385 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 5: less like a traditional law enforcement operation than you'd see 386 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 5: in other contexts, but this is most meaningful because it's 387 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 5: the beginning perhaps of an expanded true war on drugs 388 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 5: across the border in Mexico. Look, we have a Secretary 389 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 5: of War, Pete Hegseth, who is overseeing strikes effectively drone 390 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 5: strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean. I mean this 391 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 5: is warlike stuff. I mean, these are military moves, kinetics 392 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 5: that are being taken. And if we expand that into Mexico, 393 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 5: we go after the head of the snake when it 394 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 5: comes to the fentanyl poisoning of so many tens of 395 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 5: thousands of Americans every year. Now, the other side of this, though, 396 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 5: is that those cartels in Mexico have a lot of 397 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 5: these ciicarios. They're assassin you know, hitmen, gunmen. They have 398 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 5: a lot of money to throw around, and it's going 399 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 5: to get very messy. I think if we try to 400 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 5: go in and go in heavy, but that may be 401 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 5: a price that the administration is willing to pay, certainly 402 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 5: using special operations and more technological and tactical moves against 403 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 5: important cartel targets. So because what we have been doing 404 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 5: obviously hasn't worked. So that's this idea that we're going 405 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,719 Speaker 5: to have you know, like free needle clinics like they 406 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 5: have in San Francisco or these things, or decriminalization or something. No, 407 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 5: people are going to die in large numbers, and the 408 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 5: cartels are making too much money from this and it 409 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 5: needs to be stopped, and Trump's willing to stop it. 410 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 5: So I think that they are going to By the way, 411 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 5: they're effectively taking something that you mentioned. My time the CIA, 412 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 5: I was in the counter terrorism center there. They're taking 413 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 5: what we've learned fighting al Qaeda and fighting these dispersed 414 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 5: terror cells of the Jiehattist variety, particularly in the Least, but 415 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 5: everywhere from the Philippines to South Asia to all over 416 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 5: the place to East Africa and West Africa. They're taking 417 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 5: that model, I think, and going to apply those tactics, techniques, 418 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,719 Speaker 5: and procedures to how we go after the cartels in Mexico. 419 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 5: And if they do that, you're going to have a 420 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 5: lot more elementho like funerals going on for the narcos there. 421 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: It is grab it, buck Sexton, always a pleasure manufacturing delusion. 422 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: How the Left uses brainwashing and doctrination and propaganda against you. 423 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: Grab it wherever you get your books or on Amazon 424 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: right now as well. Always a pleasure, my friend, congrats 425 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: on a bestseller. We'll have you back again real soon. 426 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: The new mayor of New York, Mondani, has got a 427 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: socialist push for rent controls that are about to wreck 428 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: the New York City housing market, calling it rent controlled 429 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: two point zero. And the new political push that's brewing 430 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: in New York City is to force people out. The 431 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 1: center of it is the mayor and his unapologetic calls 432 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: for sweeping rent controls. Now, he's pitching this plan as 433 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: a moral crusade. He's framing it as justice, and he's 434 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: selling it as salvation for renters crush by what he 435 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 1: described as sky high housing costs that are un American. 436 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: Yet he's actually a socialist. So what is the solution, 437 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: he says. It's about making New York City more affordable 438 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: by forcing home owners or landlords or property owners to 439 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: fit the bill or subsidized other people's rent. Now, this 440 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 1: is a promise, the mayor said, He's going to pay 441 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: off on, freeze the rents, and save the people. There's 442 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: even that catchy slogan. Mundani's message is simple and politically powerful. Rent, 443 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:22,199 Speaker 1: he says, is too high landlords are greedy, developers are profiting, 444 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: and the government must step in and stop it all. 445 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: His proposal expands and titans rent controls across the entire city, 446 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: limiting how much landlords can increase rent, restricting market adjustments, 447 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: and increasing penalties for owners who violate what he describes 448 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,120 Speaker 1: as the new caps. Now, this is all being celebrated 449 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: by the radical left because they say it sounds compassionate 450 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: to voters, it sounds bold, it sounds like someone finally 451 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: doing something. But the economics don't respond to the those slogans 452 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: at all. So what happens when government caps prices? Economists 453 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: are worried and warning that we've seen this before, and 454 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: they say that many are actually left behind. Many hardworking 455 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: people don't get the money they need. And when you 456 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: have these strict rent controls distorting the housing market, it's 457 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: a disaster for the free market and many people that 458 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: own those homes. Now, if landlords can't raise rents to 459 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: match rising costs, then they cut maintenance. If developers can't 460 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: make projects penciled out, they stop building. And if investors 461 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: fear political risk, what do they do? They pull capital. 462 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: If supply shrinks while demand stays high, then the shortage 463 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: and the price war actually worsens on the people that 464 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 1: need to help the most. Now New York already has 465 00:26:55,440 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: a housing supply crisis. The city needs more housing, no less, 466 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: But these aggressive rent controls can well do the complete 467 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: opposite and can behead construction at the exact moment when 468 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: more units are desperately needed. Now New York has already 469 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: experimented with versions of this new policy literally for decades 470 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,399 Speaker 1: after the twenty nineteen rent law expansion, there was measurable 471 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: effect declining renovation of rent stabilized units, smaller landlords struggling 472 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: to refinance buildings, reduce investment in multifamily housing, and reports 473 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: of units being left vacant because upgrades no longer made 474 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: any financial sense at all, turning nice places into what 475 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: now is described as well slow lords. Reports of these 476 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: units being left vacant then cause crime to skyrocket, as 477 00:27:55,359 --> 00:28:00,640 Speaker 1: well as drugs to well infiltrate buildings, and when makers 478 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: tighten the screws further, those pressures actually intensified. Housing markets 479 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: are a fragile ecosystem. You can't squeeze one side without 480 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: consequences on the other, and the supply chain problem. Well, 481 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 1: that's what no one wants to talk about in the 482 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 1: Mayor's office. New York's road crisis isn't simply greedy landlords. 483 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: It's simple math. Demand is enormous, the land is scarce, 484 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: construction costs are in an all time high, and regulations 485 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: are complex, making it cost even more to build. Also, 486 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: approval timelines in New York City are some of the 487 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: slowest in the entire country. Now, if you freeze prices 488 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: but don't increase supply, you don't solve the problem at all. 489 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: You create a massive housing shortage. And then that doesn't 490 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: help the working families Mandania is claiming he's helping. It 491 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: actually pushes them into fewer available US unit's, longer waitless 492 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: and deteriorating housing stock, as well as deteriorating housing that 493 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: is of quality standards that he claims he wants. And 494 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: when private investment retreats, government is rarely fast enough or 495 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: efficient enough to fill the gap. But here's the political incentive. 496 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: Democrats want to force people out of New York City, 497 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: especially those with money. And that's what this is actually 498 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: all about. It's really just rent control, and it's rent 499 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: control for them to help the people that voted for 500 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: them the most, while hurting many others. The costs, however, 501 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: they unfold gradually, Fewer new projects are announced, capitals shifting 502 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: to other states. Property values eventually decline. When you guessed it, 503 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: crime skyrockets, and smaller landlords are forced to sell or 504 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: they default on what they already own. Infrastructure aging is 505 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: also a that's a problem without reinvestment, and when there's 506 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: no incentive to reinvest in the property, well then you 507 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: just get bad, old aging properties. And then eventually the 508 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: prices come down, but no one wants to live there anymore. 509 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: Those consequences don't show up in the campaign slogans of Mundani. 510 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: They show up five years later, after what they're doing 511 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: now becomes a reality, and then who gets hurt first? Ironically, 512 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: the exact people that rent control claims to protect often 513 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: fall to the unintended consequences. Renters struggling to find any 514 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: units to live in, new arrivals complete in an even 515 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: tighter market, and middle class families getting squeezed into uncontrolled 516 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: segments where prices can spike even faster. Buildings age faster 517 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 1: without those upgrades. And all of this has happened before, 518 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: So why is Mundani getting away with it this time. 519 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 2: It's pretty simple. When you offer someone a cheaper bill 520 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 2: than what they're expecting to pay, people forget what happened 521 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 2: in the past. New York's housing market isn't just about apartments. 522 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 2: It's also tied to property tax revenue, pension fund investments 523 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 2: for many of the government workers that are in unions, 524 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 2: construction jobs that start to disappear, banking exposure to multifamily 525 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 2: loans which then people don't want to give, and neighborhood 526 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 2: revitalization that just disappears. If investment confidence drops, the ripple 527 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 2: effects spread very quickly, which brings us to the housing 528 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 2: downturn that they say they don't want. It no longer 529 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 2: stays isolated, but it cascades across all of New York City. Now, 530 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 2: if only there was a warning that this is going 531 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 2: to happen, Well, the warning has happened before, literally in 532 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 2: New York City. And the big question now for so 533 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 2: many voters in New York and outside of New York 534 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 2: in fact, and the entire country, is this, we are 535 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 2: at a crossroads with ideas is do you fall to 536 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: the communist idea, which is everyone that is successful or 537 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 2: builds something or grows something is somehow evil and it 538 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 2: should be taken from them, or it should be regulated, 539 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 2: or their advancement should stop. Should everything you do have 540 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 2: government involvement? Now New York is at a crossroads. Do 541 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 2: they try to control prices more aggressively by killing the 542 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 2: market or do they focus on dramatically increasing supply. One 543 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 2: approach is about freedom, the other eliminates it. And as 544 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 2: this continues to move forward, the question that everyone should 545 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 2: be asking is do you really want the government to 546 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 2: be in charge in what you live, how you live, 547 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 2: what rent you pay? Or should we go back to 548 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,840 Speaker 2: the private sector and say the private sector gets aside 549 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 2: the price The people, by the way, are the private sector. 550 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 2: If I don't like the price of rent, I have options. 551 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 2: But when the government gets involved, does it really help 552 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 2: anything at all? Probably not based on what we know 553 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: in history. So here we are at the crossroads again 554 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 2: with a socialist idea. Unfortunately, there's a very good chance 555 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 2: it's going to become another disaster the Democrats. 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