Clearly, Biden was clearly being clear when he clearly said a thing (10-23-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me get to some messages. This is from DG, I guess, or maybe Leland. I don't know. When Kamala Harris says, doing the work, doing the work is what people use when the results are not good. That's true. I hate that. I hate that phrase. And by the way, it does have a meaning in the neo-Marxist circles. It's all about the work, doing the work. You know, the progress towards perfection.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_01]: The utopia, right? The constant tearing down of all the things that don't work in order to tease out the perfected thing. And then you only are left with this one perfected thing. And then you build up the society around that thing. And then you tear all of the rest of it down at some other point, keeping two perfected things or whatever.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_01]: It's just. But at the heart of all of that is this fatal conceit, this hubris.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: That, you know, what the perfected thing is. And in.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the Hegelian view, it's it's government.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And we know that's not perfect. So let me see.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Seth wants to know, Pete, do you think in 50 years there will be an asterisk beside Joe Biden's name as being president, similar to Jose Canseco's home run record due to steroid juicing?

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I could see that.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they put an asterisk next to his name to indicate that he was on performance enhancing drugs.

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_01]: That's possible.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_01]: That is possible.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Mark says regarding the golden days of media, the only reason people think that there was a golden era of media is because it was yellow.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_01]: See what he did there? See yellow journalism.

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I get it right.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I look, I've talked about this many, many times over the years.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_01]: About media, about journalism and bias.

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, a long time ago, newspapers were mouthpieces for whatever the powerful interest in the town or the state or the country was.

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_01]: For the love of me, you still have a newspaper called the Arkansas Democrat.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Why did they choose that as the name of their newspaper?

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Lo, those many, many, many decades ago.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Why did they do that?

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Because it was for Democrats.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_01]: That was the point.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01]: OK.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_01]: John says Biden has spoken in Philadelphia previously.

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Harris has as well, possibly even twice now.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Let them continue to do so.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_01]: When I was in art school in Philadelphia, I witnessed school busloads of what appeared to be homeless people being brought to polling places.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Philadelphia will never vote other than Democrat until major changes occur.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_01]: At least with them preaching to the choir, there's no hope of them influencing anyone.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_01]: So this is this comes up when people ask, why?

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Why am I hearing all of these political ads for Kamala Harris?

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: The answer is, I don't know.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Not really sure.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_01]: We have to take political ads.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_01]: We are an FCC licensed enterprise here.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_01]: And I am OK taking money from the Kamala Harris campaign or its affiliated super PACs.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I am fine with taking money from leftist organizations to advertise those spots because I believe it's not money well spent.

[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't believe that they're convincing people with those ads.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And it lets you hear what ads they're running all over the place.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, they are still fundraising.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Which is kind of amazing at this point.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: They've got so much money.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_01]: You think about the amount of money and you could thank Barack Obama for this, by the way, because up until Barack Obama and his campaign against John McCain, all of the presidential candidates took the federal campaign dollars.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, John McCain took out a loan during his primary in order to stay afloat.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_01]: He had no money left.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And so he took out a loan against what would be the federal dollars that he was going to get if he became the nominee.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And then Obama had said that if I'm the nominee, I'm going to take the federal money, which this was a program put in place after Watergate, which was supposed to eliminate all the corruption and to, you know, protect the democracy.

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And McCain did as well.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And then Obama flipped.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: He changed his mind.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: He saw his opportunity and he took it.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And he did not take the federal money, becoming the first candidate in the post-Watergate era not to do so.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And he proceeded to raise roughly a billion dollars.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_01]: That's how he was able to afford to buy what they call in the biz a roadblock set of advertising.

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_01]: He bought a half hour on like every TV station.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're young and you weren't paying attention.

[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_01]: During the 2008 campaign, you might not know this.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: But there was a day right before the election where literally everything on TV at the same time for a half hour was a bio of Barack Obama.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: That's how much money he had.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And John McCain had like $17.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Because and he couldn't get out of it because he had taken the loan and that was the collateral.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And he couldn't.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a maverick.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a maverick.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And so he refused to try to break his word on that.

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he could because he had the loan tied up with it or whatever.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And so ever since Obama did that.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: The gloves are off and all the money is.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody takes the federal matches or the federal funds anymore.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm OK with them blowing a whole bunch of money.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't understand why they're still advertising.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I suspect it might be because they I mean, not advertising, but fundraising rather.

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I suspect that they're still trying to generate a lot of money in the run up to the to the election, even though like all the campaign, all the ads have been you know, they've been cut.

[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Not to say they can't do like a rapid response thing, but they've reserved the time and that sort of stuff.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: So in the last two weeks, why are they still fundraising?

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I suspect it's for the lawsuits.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they're going to be suing in every state.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_01]: That they lose.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And this is both parties.

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to, you know, if it's close enough, especially there, they're going to sue to get ballots thrown out or counted, whatever they need.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So I suspect that's what's going on.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: As for this ad that's running now on BT.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, I checked around.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_01]: These ads are all over conservative news talk stations.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just us.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_01]: They're all over the place.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So, again, I don't think it's a I don't think it's a winning strategy.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's going to actually convince any Trump voters or conservatives or Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris at this point.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I think, again, people who hate Trump already hate him.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01]: But the latest ad is talking about the tariffs that Trump wants to impose.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And this gets into, you know, international trade and economic policy and that sort of stuff.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_01]: But they're just obviously shorthanding it so this way you are afraid that Donald Trump is going to raise prices on everything, kind of like the Biden-Harris administration has done with inflation.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_01]: But he's going to do it with tariffs.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, but his philosophy is that the Chinese are not competing fairly.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's not actually fair trade or free trade.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Free trade is that, you know, you don't have any of these tariffs against one another, but you're operating from the same playbook.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_01]: But the Chinese do not do that.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: They violate international trade rules all the time.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And so his point is we are going to onshore or reshore these companies because if you put tariffs on the production facilities in China, the manufacturing facilities in China, it's no longer cheaper to make it over there and then transport it all the way, you know, halfway around the globe to America.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And so the companies, rather than spending the money over there, they're going to they're going to invest here.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And that means you're going to have jobs here.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to have more jobs.

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_01]: That's going to create more jobs.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You create more jobs.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: You end up with people having the ability to move jobs.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: That means the employers have to raise wages to recruit the best talent.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And so the rising tide quote lifts all boats.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, free traders disagree with this.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Free traders say tariffs will increase the cost of goods to everyone.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what Kamala Harris is talking about.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I would point out Trump's tariffs on China that he put in place when he was president.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Biden and Harris did not take them off.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So if you believe that tariffs raise the price of goods here, then the question should be, why didn't they get rid of the tariffs on China when they took office?

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[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_01]: So last night, I played the clip earlier where Joe Biden said about Donald Trump, we got to lock him up.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he said politically.

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_01]: As if that, good save there, Mr. President.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Just good save.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we now have the White House on cleanup on Isle Dementia.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_01]: And, well, here is what Karine Jean-Pierre said the president clearly meant.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Clearly.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Let me be clear.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Let her be clear.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_01]: The president was clear.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody was clear.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Just in case you weren't clear, you're about to get some clarity.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Here we are.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_01]: What did the president mean when he said last night about Donald Trump, we got to lock him up?

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So, look, and the president spoke about this very clearly as well in his statement.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said he meant lock him out politically.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Politically.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Lock him out.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Lock him out.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we have to do.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_00]: That was the part of his quote that he said last night while he was in New Hampshire.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Look, let's not forget, this is a president that has never shied away from being very clear and laying down what is at stake in this election.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be really mindful in not speaking about 2024 election.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't engage in electioneering.

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just two weeks away.

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But this is just speaking to what the president said last night.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: He made clear.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: He made very clear yesterday that he was referring to defeating Donald Trump.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That is what he was talking about.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_00]: He said politically, politically lock him out.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_00]: That is what he was referring to.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he was saying.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, so when you heard lock him up, you didn't hear lock him up.

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_01]: You heard politically lock him out.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: See?

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: They sound very similar.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Politically lock him out.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Lock him up.

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_01]: You probably couldn't even tell the difference when I just said those two statements back to back.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, Pete, why are you repeating yourself?

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, my name is Pete.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like almost the whole word of repeat.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_01]: So that makes sense.

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_01]: My goodness.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what everybody's complaining about here.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, also, Harris, yeah, talking about in her big speech on the National Mall about how Trump's a fascist and the next Hitler.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And guys, I almost feel like they're trying to create a permission structure for another attempt on Trump.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I kind of get that.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I am not a conspiracy theorist.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_01]: You know this.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_01]: But it kind of feels like you guys are, like, kind of giving a wink and a nod to some stuff.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but Pete, Donald Trump said lock her up.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Indeed he did.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why Hillary Clinton remains in prison to this day.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's a fair point.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Touche.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a message from Mike.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Mike in ye olde inbox.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a Pete mail.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And Mike says regarding Trump and the tariff topic.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_01]: We must ask ourselves why manufacturing left the United States beginning in the 70s and continues to this day.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_01]: It was because the cost of labor.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_01]: That is correct.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_01]: It was because the cost of labor.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Making something with overseas workers earning $2 an hour compared to domestic labor requiring $20 an hour resulted in cheaper products for consumers, as well as bigger profits for the companies.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_01]: If the jobs come back to America through tariffs or by any other means, the cost of the products will go up.

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Think of all the cheap things made in China today, like the microwave oven, for example.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_01]: You can buy a microwave oven for $100 because of cheap labor.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_01]: But if the cost of labor goes up, so will the cost of that microwave.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_01]: The good part of tariffs is more American jobs.

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_01]: The bad part is Americans will pay more.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump sometimes says that the mere threat of tariffs may influence behavior of foreign governments.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And that may be true until they discern that the tactic is a ruse.

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_01]: So there's a couple things.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think it's a I think it is a tactic.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how you structure, you know, the tariffs.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_01]: If you go that route, we'd have to see like what all they entail if they're targeting certain things, because everybody knows that China is not playing fair in international trade.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody knows this, but nobody is willing to do anything about it because they're so afraid of precisely that thing that Mike talks about is that.

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, well, then, you know, we'll shut our market to you or we'll raise prices and then you won't be able to afford all of your luxury items or I guess non luxury items because they are from China.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_01]: But I kid the commies.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I kid.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_01]: But if you think about it, it is really bizarre.

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: The idea at the time was, you know, to open China up and then our free market would influence the commies to be more free marketing.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And it seems like it went the opposite direction.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it feels like we adopted a lot of their authoritarian tendencies.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not really happy about that.

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: But that being said, you know, China has because I look at my heart.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I am a free trader.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I prefer that.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And just like when I was growing up, I remember my best friend, they lived across the street and his father worked at the Chevrolet dealership.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_01]: He was a mechanic.

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And he was talking with my dad one day.

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_01]: We're out back.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm a kid and I'm listening to them talk.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't understand what the point of the conversation was.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_01]: But I'll never forget that Randy was his name.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_01]: He says he's he's commenting on how all of the parts that they are now getting to repair the vehicles.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_01]: He kept saying they're all Hacho and Mexico is what he kept calling it.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Hacho and Mexico, which is that's not the correct pronunciation.

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why that's why I remember I was like Hacho in Mexico.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_01]: What does that even mean?

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_01]: And I later learned it means made in Mexico.

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And he was this was so this would have been the 80s.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 80s, 1980s.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And he was complaining about how all the parts were being made in Mexico.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Are they all made in Mexico now?

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure some are.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: But now where's all you know, because then remember a lot of stuff started going over to what?

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Sri Lanka.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I saw I remember that being a thing for a while.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Vietnam was still is right.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_01]: So you're you're seeing more of this stuff.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And the idea is that eventually those those countries standards of living go up.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And this is going to be a problem for China is that.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: As they have I mean, they're already having problems with it because more and more people in China now.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: You'd be shocked to learn they actually.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Typically, they would like to have a higher standard of living and they would like a car.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people think, oh, they just love riding those bicycles.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: No, they don't.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: They live in a communist country.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, they don't.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody likes riding the bicycles all over the place.

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: If you've got a car, you'd much rather drive a car to go see the family.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_01]: That's, you know, four hours away.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's create a problem because you have this rising level of wealth and they have traffic jams.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I did this story a couple of years ago.

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_01]: They have traffic jams in China that last days, days like people keep food and supplies and sleeping bags and stuff in their cars.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_01]: So when they're driving out through the, you know, the countryside or something and they get in and traffic stops, they don't know if that road is going to be open for days.

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the longest traffic jam, it was something like a couple of weeks in China.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: It's in like the Guinness Book of World Records or something.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: So.

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be a problem for them.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes, yes.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Unless World War Three breaks out.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, if they but they're going to have this this rising level of wealth.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_01]: And so people are going to want more of the stuff.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And then that's going to put upward pressure on wages.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: The problem is it's a communist country.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: They enslave the Uyghurs.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And so now you're in this position where you're trying to have, quote, free trade with a company or with a country that.

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Is communist.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And you can't really do that.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And we never could.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: The idea was, remember, they set up the free enterprise or the free market zones or whatever they called them.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And so they could siphon money out in these zones, redistribute the money because that is what commies do.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: They redistribute the money throughout the whole country while keeping all the rest of everybody locked down under communism.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_01]: So.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this it has not been.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think this program has been a success.

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, what does.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_01]: What do changes look like?

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_01]: What might possible tariff or policy changes look like?

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll have to wait and see.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's assuming that you can get this stuff done through a Republican Congress, which I don't know if they're.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Trump would be successful in doing that either.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Mark says with all of the robots that soon will be taking jobs.

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_01]: We want all the jobs we can get in this country and making the robots.

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's one of the things also that people never consider.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people in a lot of field, even experts, the ones that say, oh, we're all going to starve to death by, you know, 2010.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And that didn't happen.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: But they never take into account.

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Ingenuity, American ingenuity and efficiencies that we keep getting more efficient at doing things.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And when you and this is the big thing that Elon Musk is promoting.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That's why he's on board with Trump is because it's the it's the clamping down by GovCo on human ingenuity.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And this is why a lot of countries around the world, especially, dare I say it, but yes, in the Middle East, they keep half their population women.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Out of economic opportunities.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And so you're just robbing your own civilization of half of the brains and half of the work ethic.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And like they're just they're just locked out.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And so, yeah, like the American spirit is just the human spirit.

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_01]: If unleashed, it will it will provide.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I believe that.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think this experiment we call America has proven that.

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_01]: But I think there are a lot of people that don't want to see what that looks like or they want to try to control what that might be.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Regarding the trade issue, which is not anything I actually prepped to talk about today.

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_01]: But Tim says regarding free trade, I remember when.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I think he means to say NAFTA was passed the final vote being cast by Robin Hayes, Republican from North Carolina, when he flipped his vote at the behest of George W. Bush.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_01]: He cried.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember he he was crying when he flipped his vote.

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Two years later, there were 14000 fewer jobs in North Carolina, mostly in the textile and furniture industry.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So how did that work out?

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, that's when I decided that I was not a Republican anymore.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So because there is.

[00:23:15] Right.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there's a thing in economics called comparative advantage.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And the theory is that you should do the thing that you do well and you should focus on continuing to do that thing.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And that a society that does all this, all the things doesn't do them all well.

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Because some other country that does one of those things better than you will have the comparative advantage.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_01]: They'll be better at it when compared to you.

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_01]: And so they will then eat your lunch.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And so that's the comparative advantage argument.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And so if now that being said, you can do protectionist things like tariffs.

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_01]: The founder, some of the founders talked about this and they talked about it in terms of protecting what they called infant industries.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_01]: So when you're just getting off the ground, there's a new industry.

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_01]: You want to protect it from competition while it's, you know, figuring stuff out.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Then tariffs would make sense to prevent it from being gobbled up by some foreign entity.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I mean, this is.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, this is a whole area of study in, you know, university.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So I did have another message on this or two other messages.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: One on the tariff issue.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Gary says that Trump did a podcast with Patrick Bet David and they talked a lot about tariffs and how they are useful.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_01]: David started labor and stated that labor is cheaper in Mexico now than China.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_01]: China was trying to get was trying to build giant car plants in Mexico to then sell into America.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump said if he gets back in, he's going to put a 100 percent tariff on any Chinese vehicles made in Mexico.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_01]: So they stopped building the auto plants.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01]: We have no idea how much intellectual property China has actually stolen and what that has cost America.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I know many small businesses fight Amazon because they rip off their products with knockoffs.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_01]: So this is the other thing is that if you are going to engage in free trade and then it's got to be fair.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_01]: And you've got to be playing by the rules.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_01]: You don't get to steal people's products and their intellectual property and sell it as your own and undercut the market.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_01]: In order to force the one that you stole the idea from out of business.

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So that that's that's how you can use tariffs in order to get people to play fair and square.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Last message here from Mike.

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, Pete, I would like to ask Madam Vice President why she didn't stand up for Joe Biden to keep him on the ticket if he was so competent.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_01]: That is a great question.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a fantastic question, Mike.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_01]: When you ask her, when did you know that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline?

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And if she's like, oh, no, he's fine.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, then why didn't you stand up for him?

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_01]: If he can still do the job and he's been so successful and he's polling it like the same numbers you are.

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.

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