Trump is promoting the digital ID and Biometrics to deal with the immigration problem. Do not let the Republicans trick you into a control grid. Don't get tricked into "Cancel the Fed" and then end up with the BIS and the IMF. Don't get tricked into Biometrics and a digital ID to deal with the immigration problem that the federal government created and can absolutely address without all the things because they're just tricking you into a control grid. --Catherine Austin Fitts
"They have to replace [Biden]. They have no choice, they have to..."
"Trump is promoting the digital ID and biometrics to deal with the immigration problem—do not let the Republicans trick you into a control grid."
00:58. And I'm going to be the bad guy now, you know, Trump is promoting the digital ID and Biometrics to deal with the immigration problem. Do not let the Republicans trick you into a control grid. Don't get tricked into "Cancel the Fed" and then end up with the BIS and the IMF. Don't get tricked into Biometrics and a digital ID to deal with the immigration problem that the federal government created and can absolutely address without all the things because they're just tricking you into a control grid. I hate to say it . . . if you look at who Trump put into the cabinet, you know, he put into the Cabinet a lot of people who were basically part of the Syndicate that's trying to build the control grid. So before you get enthusiastic about the Republicans, you got to hold their feet to the fire that they better, they better reverse the control grid. Demand that they reverse the control grid. Demand it.
The danger to Europe does not come from Russia. The main threat to Europeans is in a critical and increasingly total dependence on the United States. In military, political, technological, ideological, and information spheres, Europe is pushed more and more on the sidelines of the global economic development, is immersed in the chaos of immigration and other acute problems, deprived of international subjectivity and cultural identity. Sometimes it seems that the ruling European politicians and representatives of the Euro bureaucracy are more afraid to fall out of favor with Washington instead of losing the trust of their own people, own citizens.
Putin obviously would say this, but that doesn't mean he's wrong: it's painfully obvious to anyone paying attention, and I think Europeans are slowly realizing it (finally).
De Gaulle said it best: "The truth is that the Americans will end up being hated by everyone. Even by… https://t.co/n4JJmZPWVU
Putin obviously would say this, but that doesn't mean he's wrong: it's painfully obvious to anyone paying attention, and I think Europeans are slowly realizing it (finally).
De Gaulle said it best: "The truth is that the Americans will end up being hated by everyone. Even by their most unconditional allies. All the dirty tricks imagined by the Americans are contradicted by events." (quoted by his confident Alain Peyrefitte in "C’était De Gaulle")
François Mitterrand also said it: "France does not know it, but we are at war with America. Yes, a permanent war, a vital war, an economic war. Yes, the Americans are very tough, they are voracious, and they want undivided power over the world. It is an unknown war, a permanent war, seemingly without deaths and yet a war to the death..." (quoted by Georges Marc Benamou in "Le dernier Mitterrand")
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has done a great job. Studies suggest this cost is upwards of $400 billion, but their cost estimate is $150 billion. The lion's share of that cost is borne by state and local governments. State and local governments can't borrow or print money like the federal government, so they have to balance their budgets by either absorbing this cost through raising taxes or they have to cut services to their citizens.
This $150 billion, when you look at the 22 million people that are estimated to be in this country illegally, comes out to about $9,000 tax dollars per illegal immigrant. Roughly $9,000 per illegal immigrant that taxpayers are fronting. That's more than we spend per Medicaid beneficiary. That's more than we spend on the most vulnerable American citizen for their health care. That's more than we spend for our heroes and our veterans in the way of military retirement benefits.
Donald Trump Knew Their Plan, He Was Right. He Tried To Warn Us
“130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our nation by providing free taxpayer funded health care to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care for… pic.twitter.com/vw69mNWwI4
130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our nation by providing free taxpayer funded health care to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care for anyone in the world who unlawfully crosses our borders. These proposals would raid the Medicare benefits of our seniors and that our seniors depend on, while acting as a powerful lure for illegal immigration. That is what is happening in California and in other states. Their systems are totally out of control, costing taxpayers vast and unaffordable amounts of money. If forcing American taxpayers to provide unlimited free healthcare to illegal aliens sounds fair to you, then stand with the radical left. But if you believe that we should defend American patients and American seniors, then stand with me and pass legislation to prohibit free government healthcare for illegal aliens.
The illegal immigration is not just about election fraud, for that is baked into the system and doesn't require any outside help. The threat outlined in the video and below reminds me if the threat posed to America back in 2011, the operation referred to as Green Helmets, where the U.N. cites climate change as the cause of supply chain disruptions and food shortages and their justification fir intervention. But let's hear what Ferguson has to say about the Black Watch Regiment.
FERGUSON, This isn't just refugees coming in. These aren't people fleeing from some kind of a war zone. These are predominantly men aged between 25 and 35, young fighting age man as my old boss Nigel Farage once referred to them, and I think he's right John. What do you think is going on here mate?
OLOONEY. So I can tell you that these are U.N. soldiers and they will be deployed by the W.H.O. when they announce the next pandemic lockdown. They've been trained by British soldiers. They've been trained by the Black Watch Regiment. [Black Watch is a devoted regiment of the Crown; I doubt very much they are a threat to British rule.] They were trained in Antalya, Turkey [this doesn't make much sense given that Turkey is an ally of Britain] and in the east of Ukraine. They are predominantly down to sergeant ranks. They're then shipped to France. They all signed [Britain's] Official Secrets Act [1911, 1920, 1989], then they are ferried over. If you were fleeing war and tyranny, I don't know about you, but I would certainly take my wife and children with me. They're my most precious, the most pride my prized asset. You know, they're everything to me. If you're going to war, you go to war with the lads. They're going to be deployed. They will be deployed.
FERGUSON. The Black Watch are a very famous yellow regiment. Are they actually going along with this?
OLOONEY. They've got no choice. I kind of said, you know, "Why are you doing it?" and he said "Soldiers follow orders." What you're going to see is the following. We'll have a minister somewhere in cabinets, suddenly come up with a great idea on how we're going to get these guys to contribute to help us. And they're going to put them in uniforms. A couple of people have told me that these uniforms are burgundy. Others have told me that they're U.N. blue. I really don't know. I guess we'll see when they deploy them. They are going to be deployed. Because otherwise if they announce another lockdown, what would everyone say? They'd say bullocks and go about their business, wouldn't they? They're going to need armed young men in uniform to try and enforce it. Why do they import young men from the East? Because traditionally if you want to kill and tyrannize white people, you put black soldiers in because there's a cultural dissociation [suddenly culture matters to these people, meaning the MI6?], and that's their method. That's the way these globalists are going to do it.
Next, we have Ferguson underscoring this strategy with a fine detail about the plausibility of an invasion evoking our over-200-year-old birth and origin of the American Revolution, whereas a minute ago he had no clue what the migrants were ir what they're about. Now, he's providing historical evidence and precedent for its likelihood? This couldn't be an MI6 staged conversation from across the pond to scare Americans? Yeah, so UNLIKE the British.
FERGUSON. In America, when it was a colony of the United Kingdom of Britain, there was a revolution against British colonial rule. And a lot of people don't realize but it was only 3% of those people in America that overthrew the British forces and basically got rid of them. 3% of the population, John.
OLOONEY. I look forward to it. I'm ready, I'm ready. I can't wait because I know it's going to be the beginning of the end for them. I do foresee victory. I see that at a very great cost. But we will see it. And people, I think the world will become closer than ever when we do see victory. It's going to come on the back of a load of blood, and, unfortunately, it has to. Once people of all colors come together and recognize their common enemy, we'll walk over these people in 10 minutes.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
the Open Society is what we've been taking for granted basically in the post-WWII era. --James Lindsay
Episode #2119, March 14, 2024, with James Lindsay. 3-hour interview.
8:05 London's in trouble. The UK's in trouble.
9:30 When you have a crisis at that scale, what are your options for fixing it? And I think that's part of the Cloward-Priven strategy? How do you end up fixing a problem that's at that scale? They're doing the same thing with the Trans-ition stuff. If you end up with a million kids, you've got a million kids that really are on the medical system, what do you do with a million kids, their parents, and then their aunts and uncles? The whole system has to start bending around a reality that was manufactured, and you can get some major changes.
10:15 Who are those people?
LINDSAY, 10:24 Well, the Biden Administration had to have conversations. They petitioned the Supreme Court to stop Texas from enforcing its border.
11:09 The United Nations is pushing this [mass immigration] too. the UN sees itself as a global entity, 193 states, blah, blah, "17 Sustainable Development Goals to transform our world," but Soros and his Open Society have pushed a lot of this stuff too. Soros' mentor was Karl Popper who, in 1945, wrote a book called, Open Society and Its Enemies. And so the Open Society is what we've been taking for granted basically in the post-WWII era. And that's what we want. It's a free society. It's a high-trust society. People can do what they want. They don't have to worry about whether they're going to get car-jacked all the time or whatever else. Soros is like, well, you can have that in the nation or where there's kind of one open society,
58:30. The equity coordinator in one of these cities. We know who's causing these crime problems. It's the DAs. We know who ran the DAs. We know who paid the money to run them it was the Open Society Foundation.. They called them Soros DA's. 2004 interview with the LA Times, Soros said that he thinks he's a god.
The Biden jobs miracle keeps grinding away with a "Stellar March jobs report logging nearly 300,000 new jobs" that blew away even the most meth-pumped analyst on Wall Street and it makes the third month in a row of improbably tremendous job beats."
Just one problem: it was all part-time jobs.
Full-time jobs actually fell by 6,000, continuing a trend over the past year where full-time workers have collapsed by almost a million and a half, replaced by nearly 2 million part-time workers. Put them together, and presto, job growth!
Sadly what real jobs are left apparently did not even go to native-born Americans. In fact, they lost precisely 651,000 jobs last month, bringing the 3-month tally to nearly 1.5 million jobs lost by the native-born in 3 months. In fact, there's been literally zero job growth for native-born workers since 2018, of which, according to the Center for Immigration Statistics, roughly half actually went to the 9 million illegals. To give a sense of the scale, over 1 in 3 U.S.-born men with a high school degree are not working. Things are fine of course for those with a bachelor's degree. 90% of them have a job, and no doubt cheap nannies and lawn care. Keep in mind this is all best case because I've mentioned in a recent video the epic statistical divergence between official payroll numbers, sampled from companies, and the household numbers which actually asked people if they have a job. The gap between the two currently stands at a daunting 9 million phantom jobs; maybe they exist, maybe they don't. The BLS just extrapolates, they don't actually work here. Now, I mentioned in recent videos that the most amazing thing about the grim jobs picture is that this is happening even with 2 trillion dollar deficits that should, in theory at least, be buying some jobs. After all, spend that much money, and somebody gets paid; in other words, we can only imagine what's under the hood once you peel off the trillions pouring out of Washington. Given both the border and Washington's checkbook are wide open, expect more millions of migrants to boost the jobs numbers while holding down wage gains for natives who do still have a job. Just a few weeks ago Jerome Powell actually bragged about this on 60 Minutes crediting the open border for holding down blue-collar wages which he likes because it does the inflation dirty work for him, of course, at the expense of those blue-collar workers or former workers buying groceries on layaway while Paul Krugman lectures them about the Bidenomics miracle. Do not expect much relief at least until the election, and even then it will be trench warfare against a Uniparty that is addicted to government spending, the regulatory Jihad on small business, and the cheap imported labor that keeps jobs and wages under control.
The EU should "do its best to undermine" the "homogeneity" of its member states, the UN's special representative for migration has said.
Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural.
He also suggested the UK government's immigration policy had no basis in international law.
He was being quizzed by the Lords EU Home Affairs sub-committee which is investigating global migration.
Mr Sutherland, who is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former chairman of oil giant BP, heads the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which brings together representatives of 160 nations to share policy ideas.
He told the House of Lords committee that migration was a "crucial dynamic for economic growth" in some EU nations "however difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states".
"crucial dynamic for economic growth"? For whom? The Irish worker? The British worker? Spanish worker, or, how about the American worker? Has mass migration improved their lot?
Japan is set to import 800,000 low-skill workers, allegedly to solve a labor shortage despite over 10 million working-age Japanese who are not working because wages are too low.
As in the US, voters are massively opposed. But, also as in the US, big business is pushing mass… https://t.co/GTrqY30gHb
After years of putting their own people first, the government of Japan is now embracing mass immigration. A few days ago, Bloomberg reported that the number of foreign workers in Japan hit a record 2 million, up a quarter million in just two years. That's in a country a third the size of the US so multiply everything by 3. The workers are overwhelmingly blue collar, working assembly lines at factories. That's half a million construction; retail at 600,000; and services and caregivers at 400,000. Already some towns in Japan are a fifth foreign blue collar, which is new in Japan. The Japanese government aims to rapidly accelerate this bringing in another $300,000 Blue Collar immigrants every year through 2040. One pilot program aims at 800,000 starting immediately. Incidentally, this is massively opposed by Japanese voters. Bloomberg sites a 2018 survey that found just 23% of Japanese want more immigration with voters worrying it could lead to rising crime and jeopardize security and harmony. Indeed just a few months ago, the Japanese government announced that crime had risen for the first time in 20 years, something Japanese might need to get used to.
So if voters oppose it, who is pushing mass immigration? As in the US, it's driven by companies who employ unskilled migrants who would like to pay peanuts and leave the social consequences to others. What Japan's voters do want is for their government to address the flood of Japanese fleeing to other countries because domestic jobs don't pay enough.
I've mentioned in recent videos how immigrants don't actually solve labor shortages because they bring their own labor shortage with them. They go to the dentist, they go to restaurants, they need plumbers; otherwise, America could just annex Canada and have 40 million left over workers. What mass immigrants do solve is shortages in specific industries, such as low skilled fruit pickers in the US, or taxi drivers in Japan. The twist, of course, is that there are plenty of underemployed low-skilled natives in both America and Japan. So fully 1 in 8 Japanese in their 20s and 30s are not working: it's about 5 million untapped workers. For those in their 50s it's 1 in 4, so that's another five million on top of that. As for Japanese who do have a job, one article last year profiled the typical experience for young Japanese trapped in low skill and low pay jobs 7-Eleven, for example, pays $5.71 an hour in Japan. As the article puts it, those working poor "are happy to just stay afloat while they rent until death." So forget starting a family or even saving up for retirement; they are living hand to mouth. Why are those jobs so low paid? Because there is not actually a shortage. And importing 2 million low-skilled foreigners, actually 7 million by 2040, will make them even lower wage.
The mass immigration industrial complex sadly has reached one of the last holdouts. As in Europe and America, voters do not want it but special interests write big political checks in Tokyo as much as in Washington. The media will tar any opposition as xenophobia, while the young keep losing hope looking with envy on the childhood they themselves enjoyed but are now unable to provide.
Virginia Bill To Allow Illegal Immigrants To Become Police Officers & Arrest American Citizens
This bill allows “illegal aliens granted DACA to become police officers”
The Black Vote knows it won’t stop there:
“I want to know who was responsible for this piece of trash legislation that was gonna tell the migrants at the border, get ready to arrest Americans in the country legally.”
“It passed the house. It passed the senate. It made it on to the governor's desk. What the **** is going on here?
You couldn't tell us. You couldn't get the word out. So I guess we was going to just have a legal just show up in police uniform, and Americans was just supposed to take it. We are supposed to comply?”
More about the bill from
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM:
“While Senator McPike and Chief Newsham appear sympathetic to DACA recipients, they seem perfectly comfortable creating a situation in which illegal aliens can enforce U.S. law—and in doing so, can arrest and take into custody U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. Furthermore, neither has fully explained how DACA beneficiaries can serve as police officers when federal law generally bars illegal aliens from possessing firearms.
Representative John Macco (R-Ledgeview) wrote in support of his bill saying, “Simply, it is common-sense legislation that would allow local law enforcement agencies to hire diverse and qualified candidates.
Ironically, the legislators pushing these bills talk about how these illegal aliens are “qualified” to become law enforcement officers. But, as mentioned above, illegal aliens are generally barred from possessing firearms. Moreover, to carry out their duties, officers must take an oath of office, which requires them to enforce the law and protect the constitutional rights of all in their community. DACA recipients cannot, in good faith, take this oath because they continuously reside in the United States in violation of the law. And, even if the illegal aliens who benefited from DACA were otherwise law-abiding, their illegal status could impede their efforts to enforce the law.
State legislators pushing proposals to allow illegal aliens to become police officers are not only undermining the rule of law but also threatening public safety. The public must be confident that the officers sworn to protect them and uphold the law are upstanding citizens in the community. FAIR is working with state legislators to make sure these bills do not advance and to protect the integrity of law enforcement agencies across the country as we deal with the worst border crisis in history”
Here We Go Washington State Inching Closer To Justifying Illegal Immigrants Voting In Our Elections By Qualifying Them For Professional Level Jobs
Washington residents without permanent legal immigration status will soon be able to get commercial/ professional licenses
“The state can no longer deny a commercial or professional license due to the person's Illegal status in the US”
“This state wants to give commercial and professional business licenses to people that are here who have already broken the law to be here.”
“This bill will open doors for careers in teaching, health care, accounting and many other professions to those who are ready to join the Washington workforce” FOR ILLEGALS
Two of my employees, one British and one German, were denied entry to the United States because they might not leave! . . . Unless they vote DEMOCRAT, anyone worthwhile from Europe or Asia need not apply. -- Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Your comment on how you had the mandate from Hong Kong to negotiate with Australia, and the PM would not allow them in because they would vote conservative, has highlighted this entire agenda from the Democrats. They are destroying our country. Will Biden grant them voting rights to suppress those of us who work for a living?
ANSWER:It is far worse than that. Most states can’t even restrict voting. Illegal aliens are included in the census. That means the Electoral College votes are allocated by the census, and seats in the House of Representatives are also based on the census. If all Americans left California and they are all illegals, they still get the largest vote as illegals. If we look at the 2020 census, Texashas gained two more votes in Congress and the Electoral College for the next decade. Colorado,Florida, Montana, North Carolina,andOregoneach gained one seat, based on the 2020 census. The seven states that lost one vote each wereCalifornia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. That is because real Americans are fleeing the Blue States.
Illegal aliens are flooding the United States to alter the census and the Electoral College to ensure that the Democrats will always win.
This is getting so outrageous, you just can’t make up this shit anymore. A judge in Washington, DC, the land of Marxists, actually threw out a challengeagainst allowing noncitizens to votein the election. These Democrats are determined to win, and they do not care about the law or the people. Why can’t Canadians, Europeans, Russians, Chinese, and everyone else vote in the 2024 election if there isNOrequirement to be a citizen?
This is outright treason against the American people. They are even starting to replace American workers, reducing the cost of labor. Unions are actually being undermined by this agenda, and they have not really WOKEN UP. That is why blacks and Latinas are leaning toward Trump. They see this as undermining their own advancements.
Any American who now votes for a Democrat is voting against their own future and that of their family. This is just out of control.
Biden has been shipping illegals around the country to strategic places to overthrow Republican states. This is not simply an invasion; it is an attempted coup to overthrow the United States, including its Constitution. The Biden Administration attacks any state that tries to enforce voter ID to prove you are an American. The audacity of the Attorney General to claim requiring voter ID is not necessary so they can carry out this treason against real Americans. So much damage is being carried out that there will never be any reconciliation. They expect to rule by sheer tyranny.
Even the NY Times has reported that the majority believe we are doomed. I am NOT being partisan here. This is why the computer is projecting that there WILL BE NO UNITED STATES post-2032. The Democrats are hell-bent on pushing Marxism despite the fact that it has ALWAYS failed, and this entire illegal immigration is their way to take over the country. they do not care about the people – we are the dirt beneath their feet – not the air beneath their wings.
We will have no choice but to separate blue vs. red states. There is simply no other alternative. Civilization ONLY survives when everyone benefits. The Democrats do not care that their ideas are anti-religious, anti-culture, and anti-democratic. They MUST impose their agenda regardless of the cost. The rich have become anyone with a job.
This is why there is a growing sense of doom. But this is also engulfing Europe. Those who are supposed to represent us only represent themselves and the agenda. They are told how to vote without ever knowing what the real agenda will be,
The Founding Fathers understood tyranny, but, unfortunately, the FAKE NEWSof Cicero so enchanted them that they wrongly assumed that a Republic was the best form of government when it was the most corrupt, just as we see today. Even that theme has been used in movies likeStar Wars, where the republic is fighting against the empire. Throughout history, this will end in the only way it ever has – the “republic” will collapse.
Then we have companies firing Americans so they can hire illegal aliens on the cheap. This is getting completely out of control, and Americans have to wake up. Then again, the computer will be right, and there will be a time when separation is the only solution. Overone-third of the people in Alaskawant to separate from the United States. The same is rising in Florida and Texas, with other states joining rapidly.
Representative Anna Luna happens to be in my district. She has been putting up a good fight, but she is outnumbered.
JUST FOR THE RECORD
Two of my employees, one British and one German, were denied entry to the United States because they might not leave! It has cost me more than $100,000 so far to fight for my employees who they reject and have families overseas with no intention of staying here while Biden lets criminals come in and countries empty their prisons with tickets to America. I am sorry, but I have ZERO respect for what is happening from first-hand experience. Unless they vote DEMOCRAT, anyone worthwhile from Europe or Asia need not apply.
I am finishing an important book on this subject illustrating the TRUTHfrom contemporary accounts and even using the coinage to provide the real version of why Caesar was compelled to Cross the Rubicon in the middle of aDEBT CRISIS, and the people cheered. The corrupt Senate fled Rome, and the people did not support them any more than we see today. Those who relied on Cicero and even Cato, who was the leader of the oligarchs, have so distorted history that it threatens our very existence.
Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, so despised Cicero and his fake news that he was beheaded and his hands cut off as retribution. As legend has it, Fulvia then wanted to pierce Cicero’s tongue and used her hairpin in her act of revenge against his lies. I suppose that was one way of dealing with the fake news promoters.
#Trump2024 is arguably even more popular than he was in 2016, despite a four-year term during which the establishment got everything it wanted – including the #Covid#lockdowns.
Why do his supporters still consider him a threat to the establishment?https://t.co/rW8Rp10HFV
Manufacturing jobs never ever made up more than 30% of all jobs. In fact, it was always lower than that, much lower and more into the 20%, 25%, 27% range except during WWII when they were just making bombs to blow up. Now this didn't make anybody richer; it temporarily made the people who were unemployed . . . they got money but that was all inflation and taxation. None of this was real. It was the same thing Hitler did. So apart from all the death camps and all the evil crap that Hitler did, he also sent everybody to work making bombs and stuff and then claimed he had solved unemployment. Manufacturing never made up that large of a percentage of the population. In other words, at its very peak, manufacturing jobs, 70% of the population was doing something else. So I think people have this idea that Trump is going to put on tariffs, and people are going to stop importing manufactured goods and like 80% of the population is going to work in manufacturing. No. It was never the case at the height of American manufacturing employment, and it wouldn't be the case any time no matter how many tariffs you put on. So it really is just completely a retarded idea. Be that as it may, he didn't even follow through on that. Okay? His advisors, a few of his loyal advisors, the people who really believed in him, were saying, "Don't back away," but all the other ones, whom people call RINOs, some even call Libertarians although that's kind of a laugh that anyone in Washington DC at all is a Libertarian other than Thomas Massie and Rand Paul, two of them, two people. His advisors tell him, "We're going to have a recession, you're going to lose the next election." So he backed off.
16:37 He made a deal in early 2020. It was signed, and manufacturing immediately rebounded by the way. So if you trace the IMS Manufacturing Index to see when it was in recession and when it came back, it locks in step completely with those tariffs and their removal. So he didn't do that. I keep wanting to think that his supporters are really antiwar. I actually think Trump is sincere about not fighting at least as many wars. And I always wondered is it just because he says that that his supporters go along with that when all they really care about is immigration and tariffs? Or is there a critical mass of people who are sick of this crap? If there is and if the antiwar part of his message is at all part of the reason why people want to reelect him, well, he didn't do that either. He promised in 2018 he would be out of Afghanistan with all the troops home by Christmas, and then he sent more troops, and then he never left. Then he made some deal, "Oh, we're going to get out, but you have to elect me again first." No. No, sorry, Donald. We've heard that too many times. The fact that it was Joe Biden that got the troops out of Afghanistan is just a travesty. As despicable a person as Joe Biden is and as warmonger as he's shown that he is and corrupt, and everything else, to allow him to be the one to end the Afghanistan War is just inexcusable to me.
18:43 He bombed Syria twice. Now there's some murmurings that he bombed empty buildings, and if that's true, that's good, I'm glad. That was an intentional thing, "Look, I'm going to do this bombing to get all of these people off my back, but I'm not going to kill anybody." I hope that's the case. And when he refused to bomb Iran over them shooting down the drone, I give him full kudos for that too. In fact, he came out and said, "Listen, I'm not killing 150 Iranians over an unmanned drone. I'm just not going to do it." I don't think I've ever heard a president say in my lifetime anything that sensible. So that's good for him. But we got to remember that the whole Iran thing was his high-pressure campaign that he let John Bolton run. How'd he think that was going to turn out? He almost got us into a war while he was saying he didn't want one. He did that and he funded Ukraine. Now he tried to hold up the funding pending an investigation into his chief political opponent. Boy, that was a bad precedent to set, wasn't it, Donald? But I think he was always going to send it. And he still talks about Putin like a Neocon now. A lot of the foreign policy, the positive parts, have faded away during this campaign and I don't exactly know why that is. Now, he's still saying some
He's used to being a CEO where you hire someone, you can fire them at will, and you expect them to be loyal and their job and whole future career depends on the business they're working for and the person in charge of that business. 13:22 Of course, in government, none of that applies. In government, you have people who will stab you in the back, even if they're drawing a paycheck from you. And you have people who see their career advancement in their ability to cash in on their betrayal of you . . . Daniel McCarthy
Even if Trump wins the presidency, he'll only be in for 1 term. This makes the Vice President more important for this election.
3:27 Yeah, before I do that, I want to really emphasize what the stakes really are. Obviously, the fact that Donald Trump has already served one term as president means that he'll have at most one more term if he wins in November, which means that his vice president is really set up to become the Republican Party's nominee in 2028 and quite possibly president thereafter. Now, historically, really going back to the Reagan Administration, NeoConservatives have been extremely clever and have used the vice president's office as their power base within Republican administrations. And that's true of every single Republican administration from Reagan through to the first Donald Trump term. Think about it. With Ronald Reagan, you had as Vice President, George H. W. Bush. Now, Reagan was not a NeoCon. Reagan was somebody who believed in trying to shrink government. He wanted to emphasize cutting taxes. He wanted to emphasize freedom. And in foreign policy, even though a lot of people thought of him as being this apocalyptic, showdown with the Soviet Union UberHawk, he was, in fact, seeking genuine peace through strength. You saw that he didn't want to get us entangled in Middle East conflicts. He pulled us out of Lebanon, in fact, when American troops were murdered there by terrorists, 1983. He was very careful to negotiate with the Soviet Union he always made a very clear that the Soviet Union was morally evil but he didn't think they're going to war with the Soviet Union was going to be either the answer or necessary thing he thought instead that reaching through the humanity of the Russian people and even the humanity of Russian leaders was going to be sufficient to start to unwind the Cold War and bring us to a peaceful resolution of it.
5:00 George Bush, on the other hand, he was always from his days back in the CIA a very hawkish individual, and of course, once he becomes President after the Cold War, he embarks America on this new global mission which has become this debacle over the last 30 years. It's George H. W. Bush who gets us into . . . first we have this mini-war in Panama, 1989, then we later have this First Gulf War, which, in fact, becomes an endless war, open-ended. The First Gulf War doesn't end in 1991 with throwing Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait; instead, it becomes this protracted policing effort in the Middle East. We have troops in Saudia Arabia. We have a no-fly zone over Iraq, and basically the scene is set when the Iraq War, George H. W. Bush's son, George W. Bush, becomes president. Now people know that George H. W. Bush was a Vice President who was not on board with Reagan's agenda
5:57 Did not know that Vice President Quayle, under the presidency of George H. W. Bush, had as his Chief of Staff the little kingpin of NeoConservatism, William Kristol. So Bill Kristol goes on to found The Project for a New American Century, goes on to found the Weekly Standard, and today he's running The Bulwark. Bill Kristol was Chief of Staff to the Vice President when Dan Quayle was the VP. So that goes to show how smart these people are to invest in an office that most people consider to be worthless. There's a famous historical description of the vice presidency worth "a bucket of warm spit." And you could imagine that if you're a staffer, Chief of Staffer, for example to the vice president well that seems like less than nothing you have almost no direct policy influence but in fact you are right there in the executive branch having all kinds of indirect influence and really be able to influence things powerfully. Of course, when the second George Bush, George W. Bush, becomes president after the 2000 election, he has a long-time American Enterprise Institute-connected, former Secretary of Defense intellectual, Dick Cheney, who becomes a key player in the War on Terror as it was called at the time, and generally, the expansive foreign policy, the really aggressive nation-building and world-transforming revolutionary foreign policy that George W. Bush pursues. So, once again, the vice president's office with Dick Cheney becomes the hive and the nexus of NeoConservative power. Even the George W. Bush Administration, which was already quite neoconservative, you can see that even if you have a bad president you can have an even worse vice president.
7:58. Well then finally we get Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is a complete repudiation of the Bush Legacy. He's a repudiation of George H. W. Bush and also a repudiation of George W. and, of course, he humiliates Jeb Bush in the 2016 primaries. Well, Donald Trump chooses as his vice president Mike Pence, and Mike Pence seems like a pretty typical Republican and not really any more neoconservative than the ordinary Republicans of the 2000s or 2010s. But Mike Pence's office among his staff furs there are people who actually play a very powerful role behind the scenes in sabotaging some of the better people some of the better non-interventionists and foreign policy realists for example who had a shot at getting nominations within the Donald Trump Administration. And, of course, people with in the vice presidents office are also in on the conversations about National Security staffing and other things, and therefore they're able to keep neoconservative resumes in the pipeline with the endorsement of the vice president's office, which is one of the reasons why Trump winds up being so outflanked within his own administration by people who do not agree with him on fundamental policies whether it's trade or immigration or specially foreign policy and War so all of that is a preamble to say that the stakes could not possibly be higher not only because Donald Trump's pick for vice president this time has a very good shot at becoming the Republican nominee in 2028 and becoming ultimately perhaps president but also because that person and his or her office in the next Trump Administration is going to be either a major source of neoconservative influence within the administration or for once we could have a dramatic change, where you actually have a vice president and a vice presidential staff that are loyal to the president and loyal to a non- Neoconservative agenda.
9:58. I raised an objection to you about Trump not being a good chooser of personnel. Is Trump better, worse, or the same person that he was in 2016?
10:50. Well it's not just about Trump, it's about the people around him. And Trump went into the White House in 2017 without having a network of political contacts that you need in order to fill White House offices. It's not that there weren't people out there, but there are always these filters in politics. Remember, the RNC by that point was actually quite close to Trump. You had Jared Kushner, Trump's own son-in-law, a number of people in very influential positions were able to tell Trump, "Okay, bring this person in." Trump had no idea who most of these folks were.
11:30. How do these people get into his Circle they don't just come out of the sky.
11:35. His son-in-law had been part of the family so that's a special Vector of influence when you're running for the Republican nomination As Trump was in 2016 try to not try to pull the rug out from under him which I thought they were going to do now the head of the Republican National Committee at that time to my surprise actually gave Trump a fair shot he didn't completely sabotage Trump as I expected in the primaries and then subsequently at the convention itself that earned a certain amount of respect from trump it was rather short-lived because Trump realized very soon that the RNC was actually quite a problematic Institution but at that time he thought well you know they've given me a shot and remember Trump is by nature very transactional and he's actually quite he could be loyal to people who are part of a coalition that is invested in him, so if he gets the impression that these people are supporting him he will actually be quite willing to give them a certain degree of support in return. The other thing about Trump, one of his advantages, but also his disadvantages, is that he's not ideological at all. He has pretty sound personal instincts. He has a pretty common-sense view of the world, but he doesn't really doesn't spend his days and nights thinking about who's a conservative or neoconservative, who's a paleoconservative or a fusionist. So he's quite naive, I think, about these inner workings of politics. He's used to being a CEO where you hire someone, you can fire them at will, and you expect them to be loyal and their job and whole future career depends on the business they're working for and the person in charge of that business.
13:22 Of course, in government, none of that applies. In government, you have people who will stab you in the back, even if they're drawing a paycheck from you. And you have people who see their career advancement in their ability to cash in on their betrayal of you, or their previous connection with you. They don't feel any sense that their prosperity or doom depends on their loyalty. So they have terrible incentives
