Take a look behind the curtain with a real whistle blower, an American patriot. Prepare to embrace the uncomfortable truth because this program has no time for comforting lies. Here is civil liberties enthusiast, Second Amendment defender, and recovering FBI agent Kyle Seraphin. Well, hello my friends and welcome to the Kyle Seraphin show. Today is Tuesday. It's the 1st of October 2024. We made it to whatever this time is and here we go.
As of last night, the International Longshoremen's Union has decided to kick off a strike across the entire East Coast and down through the Gulf Coast. We are going to have some supply chain issues and shortages. That's going to be really interesting. Let's talk a little bit about price gouging, scarcity. I want to talk about my ex-girlfriend. The FBI decided to settle with the most incompetent and incapable human beings that have been hired on to be federal
agents. I think it's indicative of where we're going. This concept I want to continue that we talked about yesterday, the planned helplessness, the learned helplessness that our federal government has pushed on us. And it turns out we're only helpless because we've chosen to listen to them. Think about how many of you would solve a problem 1st and call authorities second, and how many would call authorities first and wait and hope that someone else solved your
problem. I'm not going to play you this video, but I saw a video of a mom calling the Police Department on a 5 year old and it wasn't any five year old, it was her five year old. Because we've outsourced a lot of the things that we should have taken in on ourselves. The burdens that we should be bearing, we've given to other people and we expect them to be responsible for it. It's probably our fault as a nation, not individually.
There's plenty of us that are doing things the right way, but there's an awful lot of people that are willing to shirk personal responsibility. When I was in the Air Force, we had a term, it was called a scurver. I don't even know where they came up with this, but a Skurver was somebody that saw work details and found themselves hiding in the bathroom or they found they were really
inventive. Actually, the Skurvers, they would creep out into the barracks and they would find an abandoned room and they would all hang out there and, I don't know, play Pokémon cards, whatever the heck 17 and 18 and 19 year old enlisted kids do when they don't want to do work. And then there were some of us that just showed up because
that's what our job was. And we just did whatever was asked of us. If it was details for the day, if it was scrubbing the barracks, it was everybody picking up their dorm room and moving one room to the right for no particular reason other than to screw with us, then that's what we did. And some of those guys were hiding. And a lot of Americans have that
ethos. A lot of young people do, but certainly a lot of other people, even in my age bracket, they don't want to go and just do the hard work of rolling up your sleeves and put some calluses on your hands and doing things. As my buddy Steve Friend says, America is an action verb, and a lot of people have forgotten that. We've tried to outsource it. We've hoped that schools would raise our children. We hope that police departments
would discipline our children. We hope that fire departments would save our children when they made the stupid mistakes that they did. So some of this has got to be on us. And now I think we're going to start entering pretty soon. A a very interesting an interesting era of accountability coming home to roost. It's robably going to hurt. Let's be real. Oi have this little little re for you. This is the a scene from The Dark Knight. This is what's been echoing in
my head. I'm going to share it with you. Then we'll thank some sponsors. We're going to dig into FBI longshore. We'll talk about a little bit of the current events. I'm not even going to touch the VP debate because I'll just let it happen. I'm not going to pregame what that looks like, but we'll we may even do a live stream for that. I'll I'll let you guys know at the end of the show.
You guys let me know in the comments if you want us to live stream that and I'll see if I can get Steve friend on or something. This is what's feeling. This is what it sounds like resounding in my head as I woke up this morning. And here we go. And here we go. And that's how it's going to look. I think before we get started, I'm going to say thanks to my buddies at Catholic Vote. They're the ones that keep this program going.
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All right, let's get into some interesting stuff. I got this yesterday. Nothing makes me feel a little bit less assured about what we're dealing with. Then news. This is coming from PBS, but a number of different outlets reported it. Several of you tagged me on social media about this.
FBI is going to pay $22 million to women who alleged sexual discrimination at the training Academy, the one that I attended at Quantico. And that fire that you're seeing burning there is some documents that I found, just a bunch of unclassified garbage from some handbooks and I burned a bunch of papers for my wife. I actually burned every single paycheck I think my wife ever received as an adult like her, her paycheck stubs. My wife is like a pack rat for
paperwork. And we burned it all last night in the fire pit, which you can see kind of a little bit of a taste of on the screen right now. The fire pit that one of our listeners, Mr. Roush, made and sent to me. And I use it all the time, mostly to destroy things that I don't need and a little bit to burn marshmallows for my kids. This story, it concerns me and it concerns me more than it probably concerns you.
It probably pisses you off to know that the FBI is giving $22 million to women who are making this allegation. It concerns me because I know that they were not discriminated against. This is coming from the AP, but again, reported by the the PBS folks and then the Washington
wire service has put this out. The FBI agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training, routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments about their breast size, false allegations of infidelity, the need to take contraceptives to control their moods.
The payout to 34 women dismissed from the training Academy in Quantico, Virginia, still subject to approval by a federal judge, would rank among the biggest lawsuit settlements in the history of the Bureau. Dave Schaefer or Shaffer, who's the woman? The women's lawyer said these problems are pervasive within the FBI, and the attitudes that created them were learned at the Academy. This case will make an important major change in these attitudes.
A lawsuit was filed in 2019, and it contended that female recruits were subjected to hostile work environments in which they were judged more harshly than their male peers and, quote, excessively targeted for corrections and dismissal in tactical situations for perceived lack of judgment and what they refer to as subjective suitability criteria. I would like to debunk this right now. I don't know who the federal judge is, but maybe they would.
Let me speak on behalf of the American people who don't need to be spending $22 million on these women. The FBI is paying out these women because that's what they do to protected classes, despite the fact that they have absolutely no business in the business. These women had no business being FBI agents.
And I know that because I knew a couple of them personally, as did Gerardo Boyle. And so in 2016 and 2018, when these women were going through, they were the worst possible recruits to carry a badge in the gun in this entire country. The ones that were failing the suitable, the suitability and the tactical, the judgments, they got so many chances. I can't even fathom it. The math has already been done.
It's been done by the military. What they did is they took men and women enlisted and they put them against a battery of tests. My buddy was in this test. My buddy's a special operator. He lives in lives in North Carolina. He's since left, but he's still a contractor working for the DoD. And The thing is, they compared all these folks and there are obvious striations. There are special operators when it comes to physical capabilities and tactical judgement.
Then there are the people that are males that are enlisted, and then there are women. And there are almost no overlaps in those bands of performance. And they did everything from swimming to running to rocking to climbing to pulling body weight to being exhausted and trying to make decision making, like all of this stuff is all done. It's all been decided. And there's a reason is that the people that self select to do things that are hard physically
overwhelmingly favor males. And if you're getting women in these jobs and they did, that means that they had to pass over a male applicant who was superior. Maybe not on paper, but the odds that I even got in there was pretty obviously silly. Most people couldn't figure it out based on my background. I also didn't tell them what my background was. I'm telling you that one of the women who was in this lawsuit, who's been mentioned in this program before, her name was Elena Para.
Her name is Elena Para. She was the least suitable human being to be an FBI agent at 4 foot 11 and probably like 130 a 140 lbs. She was soft. She was weak. She was unable to complete tasks. Her English skills were mediocre. Her writing was terrible. She wasn't able to drive. She couldn't hold on to a firearm. She pulled her gun when it was inappropriate. She didn't pull her gun when it needed to be pulled. She couldn't shoot. She couldn't fight. She couldn't hold on to the
weapon. Like this is the people that they dismissed and they're paying them out the tune of about $650,000 per plaintiff. And I'm sure there's a huge chunk of it that goes over to the lawyer that's doing this. So at the end of the day, mostly who is getting paid is probably the attorney. And these things can go anywhere from 25 to 60% to the attorneys for fees and for their part of it, if they run these on a contingency. And I'm certain that these women didn't have the money to run
this lawsuit. This was an opportunistic lawyer in in the Virginia area, but the false claims of infidelity, I think at least 50%, but it was I think it was actually higher, but I'm going to claim that the majority of the women in my Quantico class committed adultery. That meant that they either slept with married men or they were in fact married and slept with men that were there.
I, I despised the fact that we had to do Coed training with people that were not suitable to be there and morally unsuitable. They were compromised from the beginning. You notice I'm just leaving this up on the screen, this burning FBI symbol that I burned the other day. It's unbelievable. And I, and I've said it before, but let's do it again. The DEI version of this, I had two black males that were in my class.
We had a larger class of like 200, but my class subsection, which was section alpha had 40 or we had 50. I guess we had 50 total. And I think that included the analyst. So maybe like 38 to 40 agent trainees. 2 black males were on my, on my, my class. My little section 1's name was Deshawn. The other's name was Rafael. I'm not going to get their last
names. And Deshawn came from Detroit and he was a former unarmed security guard for the Detroit Zoo. He's now a supervisor in the counterterrorism department at headquarters. He's been in the FBI for seven and change years. That would have been seven years in June, just like me.
And then we had Raphael. He was a former SWAT team guy, a prior infantryman, a Marine, a stud, like absolute stud, physical stud, but like also like very, very smooth under pressure, made great decisions, the kind of guy you want on your team. He doesn't work for the FBI anymore. He left because it was garbage. And that tells you who's still remaining in these jobs. That does that mean that there's capable people there?
Of course. But a lot of people, especially of my ilk, looked at it. And if they got an assignment that was illegal, immoral or unconstitutional, they don't work there anymore. They left voluntarily. And the Bureau has been getting rid of a lot of these folks as well, people that know what was wrong. I found out when I got to the Washington field office that apparently I made women cry, but I also apparently made men cry. And you guys have seen the kind of person I don't like pick
people out. I just don't. I don't. If I don't know you, I don't care. You've probably seen it on social media. I just don't care. People would come to me crying and ask me, do I belong here? It's like, I don't know. I don't know you and I don't want to know you because apparently you're sleeping around on your husband. Even the people that I thought were pretty decent, I found out might have gotten pregnant with somebody else's baby at the Academy.
The amount of like screwing around, literally screwing at the FBI Academy was insane. And I remember this joke that Jim Comedy told at our graduation about how we were just like the, the TV show Quantico. We all walk around in our, our bathrobes and our, our towels and, you know, it's very exciting. It's like a sexy sorority thing. And I, I laughed about it 'cause I was like, he's saying that like it's a joke.
And there were people sneaking around and staying in their bedrooms and, and like banging on the side and getting hotel rooms the whole time. There's a, a relatively famous, what do you call it, the commentator? Her name is Asha Ragnapapa. And if you guys follow me on social media, you've probably seen this, but I'm blocked from her. She has a million followers, ish. And she was on CNN and MSNBC and she teaches at some prestigious university. I can't remember. It's harder.
Yale doesn't really matter. She was an attorney. She was well known. Like, people reached out to me immediately when I got into kind of like an online disagreement with her. And they were like, Oh, yeah, yeah, she was banging some other woman's husband at the Academy. Everyone knew it. They would check out together at the same time in the in the log book and leave for the weekends to go hang out. And then I guess she had some kids with that guy because the guy left his wife, married her
and then left her. Go figure, folks. It turns out these values, which I just kind of opened up with self-reliance, one of those personal accountability. You're responsible for your actions. And if your actions are lousy, it turns out they often come back in a boomerang and hit you right in, right in the face. And Asha's another one of those. It's pretty incredible. Like the least capable tactical operators in in the country are out there getting paid out at 650,000.
Meanwhile, took my buddy Marcus Allen, what, 28 months to get his back pay for just doing his flipping job. Which was to say, even open source media like the New York Times was reporting that the January 6th information was not being accurately conveyed to FBI employees by some of the liars that worked in the Bureau. And who are those liars? It turns out overwhelmingly they were females and feminine men. Peter Struck comes to mind. Somebody that I would beat with
no hands. I would just fight it with my face. Like I'd head butt that guy unconscious, right? You've seen these people. They're not, they're not exuding A masculine ethos. And that's what needs to happen in law enforcement. There's no way around it. That's what that job is. Ask, tell, make is the way those things are supposed to work.
Now, people that have historically been kind of held up to a standard of like, really tough are people who work on the docks, if you think about it, aren't they? And those people are now striking across the country. We have a dock worker strike from Maine to Texas. The International Longshoremen's Association has decided to go on strike as of midnight last night or midnight this morning, I guess, and that's very interesting. I want to give you some context on it.
I want to talk a little bit about why they're on strike. A lot of people probably are not going to dig into this, but it is interesting. It's an interesting moment where a historical job of importance, like serious relevance to America's success, has met America's future head on and is attempting to drag itself. They're fighting something that cannot be beaten. It's like fighting gravity. They're fighting technological progress in a field that it probably should have already been there.
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This is an ongoing issue for America, and until we right this wrong, we're going to be dealing with an executive branch that basically has the legislative powers of Congress. The APA, the Administrative Procedures Act, is the codified legal way from 1946 that the United States government failed
itself. It failed the way the Constitution was designed, which is that the the Congress, the legislative branch, is supposed to write law and the executive is supposed to enforce it. What happened in 1946 is they said that's too complicated. Let's centralized power, by the way, right in the shadow of FDR, the only American president who had multiple terms beyond Washington and and died in office, essentially A dictator for life, the one that Joe Biden
wanted to model himself after. OK, in 1946, we got Truman, and he signed into law this bill that allowed the Congress to make broad sweeping mandates. You're in charge of all navigable waterways. Now you go to find what that looks like because we're too lazy to write it out in the bill. Legislation is supposed to be slow and hard, and it's supposed to be ineffective, which is why you're supposed to have local control. That's what the federalist system was looking like.
The big problems like a border, national security. OK, trade relations, those things were supposed to be handled, weights and measures, Interstate commerce, that was the government's job. But you have to narrowly define these things. And Congress decided that was too hard, so they don't do it. And they shirked that responsibility. Just like the people I worked with in the barracks that wanted to hide. They gave it over to somebody else who was willing to do the
work. And it turns out the executive branch was more than happy to take on that, and they did. 1946, We talked about it previously with the Chevron overturn. That was a basically a steroidal shot to that in 1984 that allowed the federal government to have the default correct position. At least we've reversed that. So we've rolled back this thing to 1946, but we are still seeing the executive doing the work of Congress. And that's why you can't have
certain things. That's why some things cannot be made in this country, even though we could probably do it better and we would actually be willing to pay the premium. It's our government that is forcing us into a place of helplessness. We learn helplessness and then you can go all the way back to that. They shouldn't have had that authority or power either. And a lot of this stuff comes down to the fact that they can do income taxes and they have a Federal Reserve System.
And that's 1913, folks. We are 110 years deep into an absolutely, completely different, a radically new version of what America is versus what it was designed to be. And if you don't grasp that, then you might think that the world is falling, that the end is near, that. And here we. OK, you might think that here we go is how it feels right now, but when you have a perspective that this is 110 year slide into learned helplessness, then you will realize this is just one
more step. And the reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to prepare. I want you to prepare so you are not repairing your mind that you are not having to struggle accepting this. I'm, I'm, I am hopeful that we see a Donald Trump step into the White House in January of 2025. And I absolutely have 0 faith in that hope. Like, I just don't think it's
happening. I don't see any evidence that these people, they could have fought this, by the way, they could have stopped that strike immediately. There's an act that the president could have invoked prior to because they didn't want this chaos. But I don't think that the Democrat Party is worried. I don't think those in the political left are even close to handing over power. There's nothing that indicates it in their behavior. There are mechanisms to be able
to stop a strike like this. They can order the workers back to work, and we're going to cover that too. All right, we've done enough of that. Let's let's jump into the actual story. Dock workers, ports main to Texas going on strike. The standoff risk, new shortages, maybe, maybe because this is not unpredictable, OK, we all actually got a chance to to figure out where our capabilities lie, what sort of things we should be stocking up on.
And if you haven't been doing that since 2020, you are the one who is mistaken. It is your fault. I will. I will assign you your responsibility that you should have. You need to be responsible for your own safety, your own security. There are all kinds of things. Act of God happens, sure, but basic necessity should have been something that you looked around when they started rationing eggs at the Costco during the middle of the COVID lockdowns which
were totally artificial. Where this country basically pretended like it was an 80 year old man with Co morbidities. When we started acting like old people who are scared of death instead of young people that were a nation that was capable and robust. You should have seen that and take a note because you got all of the dry runs. You rarely get a dry run in life again. Get to do it again and we did so hopefully you are prepared I talk about that here I hope you have food.
I hope you have water stored up. If you guys are looking for a good stackable water system Walmart sells it it's inexpensive it's like 10 bucks for a three gallon bin getaway to tote water getaway to filter water getaway to store it anyway. All these things are coming your way, by the way. They're made in America, so you don't have to worry about that place losing access to those particular logistical slot supply chains. They should just be shipping on trucks.
All right, so they're saying dock workers from ports from Maine to Texas, again, walking pickets early on Tuesday. That was today a strike over wages and automation. I want you to focus in on this. It's about money and it's about keeping a job that probably doesn't need to be there. It's certainly not in the way that it is right now. It's going to reignite inflation and cost shortages. This is the AP and they are stocking fear and concern. They're trying to get people revved up.
By the way, it's very interesting to see the left-leaning sources are going to all line up with this is going to cause all this chaos. All of that I think is meant to move people to think a certain way, OK. They're trying to move people along the line. The contract between the ports and the 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association expired at midnight and even though progress was reported in talks on Monday, the
workers did go on strike. The strike effects 36 ports and it's the first by the union since 1977. Workers began picketing in Philadelphia shortly after midnight. No work without a fair contract is what they are chanting. ILA stands for job protection. Automation hurts families. I'm going to have some unpopular
takes with some of you today. 100% you don't have to agree with me. What I want you to do is think I want you to be able to get behind whatever your position is. If you tend to to to roll with workers on this, I want you to be smart about it. I'm going to talk about price gouging and you're probably not going to like where we land, but if you're a free market person, then the market should dictate the wage in some ways. And unions, The only reason why I ever would have stood behind a
union at any time. Here's another thing, 35 fax from fax.net. The only reason that I would have stood behind a union striking was over actual fundamental safety. Like when people were getting like dropped into the via mixing VAT and then they became part of the sausages. Like I got a big problem with that and so should you. Like that's really dangerous stuff, especially if they are like the lowest and the most
abused. But when it comes down to your fighting over a $5.00 an hour wage and you want $5 per year raises every single year for the next 6 years to take you up to $69.00 an hour as the lowest paid person in your union. It's $143,000 a year without overtime for essentially you're moving boxes. The thing that's most amazing, and I'm going to cover some of these things and like I said, they may not be popular with you.
They say ILA members make a base salary of $81,000 per year, but many of them can pull in $200,000 annually with large amounts of overtime. This is where it gets really, really shady because the reporting on this is not very good. And I'm going to share something that I I believe to be true and I'm happy to be fact checked on it if you guys find otherwise. But I worked with the ILA as one of my clients. It was my first job in San Francisco. The Longshoremen's union always
had money. This would have been in 2006. They had money. They had more money than other people did at the time in a tech area, which seems strange. And what I understood was the way that they work, their union is not what you might think. It's all about having a union card to be able to bid on work on particular gig jobs. And then once they had those jobs, they could do something
that I've never heard of before. So here is what I believe is accurate and based on the numbers that I can read, the dollar amounts, this seems to be true. Now if you happen to have personal experience and you know for a fact that this is wrong, please comments, I will correct myself. But this was shared to me by people who worked with the union, who sold to the union, who were, you know, in and around the offices of the union in San Francisco, which is a pretty major port.
The way it worked was the cards were basically nepotistic placeholders that got handed down through family names and there were only a set number of them. This is kind of interesting. It's cartel type behavior. It reminded me a lot of the National Association of Realtors, and some of you are Realtors that listen to this program and I know that you don't like when I say this stuff, but I have almost no use for Realtors. There are a fraction of them that know a lot about the market
and add a huge amount of value. Most of them are looking for money when essentially they're just some kind of like administrative person that's handling boilerplate paperwork.
If I find my own house and the only thing that happens is you're allowed to let me in because the cartel of your friends have the keys locked down and the MLS, you're not very valuable to me. You're not providing a lot of value and you certainly haven't earned 3% of the value of my home, which is why I negotiate flat rates with these things, these unions which are going back all the way. Like the, there's the, the, if you saw the thumbnail here, let
me throw it on the screen. So the thumbnail is showing a worker strike from 1934 and they were striking for wages and working conditions that were fair. They were manually physically unloading dock equipment and, and, and cartoons and pallets. These guys were breaking their backs doing hard, hard work. Now, I'm not saying it's not difficult work, but they're using automation, they're using forklifts, they're using cranes, right?
We have every single, every single company is going to RFID and geotrac of their own, their own equipment. So they know when it's going to get there and on what ships. And it's been standardized through compartmentalization and containerization, which is a thing that has happened. These people are fighting for more wages in what is now the an easier and easier job physically. And so that card is your lifeline to the income.
And the way it was explained to me was once you have that union card, you can bid on a job, but that doesn't mean you physically have to be the person that does the job. It just means that you agreed to work on that job for the wage that is agreed to on that that day. And so I've got a little little thing here because it doesn't make sense that someone could make $81,000 a year as a base salary. And then also people are making 100 and 5200 and $300,000 a year doing that job until you
understand this. So here are the the average long short salaries by state. The most expensive is in Hawaii. And it turns out that's on purpose. It's $19.73 an hour on average. Nevada 1942, Massachusetts 1920. It goes down a number until you get to Connecticut, which is about $15.60 an hour. So between 15 and $19.15 and $20.00 an hour are the numbers that are showing up. That's coming from Zip Recruiter, so take that for what it's worth. But that is for a different kind
of person. That's not for a card carrying union member of the ILA. That's for what's called casual workers. And casual workers are day laborers. They're gig workers. They show up on an individual day, they're showing up to do day's work, but that wage that is being negotiated is actually being paid to an ILA employee or an ILA union member, as I was. It was described to me. They bid it out, but they don't
have to do the work. They can actually collect the net of the paycheck because as long as the job gets done, it could be done by someone from a day laboring organization. And those people, casuals, are all aspiring union members, but there's a limited number of people that can get the union card. So what they do is they work for slave rates or much lower rates than the guys who are actually union members. And the union members can employ one or two of those people and get the job done.
They can have multiple jobs bid sometimes in the same day, or they can do seven days in a row. They can bid on overtime because the overtime is based on the union member card that is actually holding that gig, and then they can sub it out. This is the way that it was described to me and I have no reason to believe otherwise because I can't see how you can take a $15 or a $19.00 an hour wage and turn that into $300,000 a year. It doesn't exist.
So these guys are basically looking to up their wage from whatever it is in the 30s per hour. Again, only for card carrying members. Those those lower dollars, some of these people are working for closer to minimum wage to do the gig so that they can get in, so they can actually get into that union and then be in that sweet spot and they can hand that card down to their kid.
People told me that they passed their cards down, their union cards down in their wills to their child who may have no experience and no training and no ability to do this work. The other thing is they're fighting against you, against automation, and when you fight against automation, you're going to lose. It's inevitable.
It's like gravity. There's no chance that they can get ahead of this because what we're talking about are compartmented, containerized shipping units that come from one place with an RFIDA radio frequency ID. You can drive by and find out all of the parcels that are on a ship. They're also geolocated. They've got GPS tags, multiple GPS tags most of the times. And you can't tell me that there's not an automated system to make a crane go pick up the right one.
That's verified by RFID, that is Geo tag and located. It's also visually identified through AI, can be picked up, Can we moved on to the thing it needs to go, whether it be a train or a truck and the single shortest movement from ship to shipyard to the next, you know, mechanism of transportation, the next mode. That should not be the most
expensive worker. It shouldn't be the loading and old and loading of these things should be one of the cheapest things to do. But it's right now the most expensive and it seems like a complete racket. When fast food workers tell you that they want $20.00 an hour to take orders for hamburgers that cost $2.00, what happens is McDonald's puts in a kiosk and they find out right away that nobody really cares who takes the order for the burger. They just care about the burger and the price.
And this will be the same exact thing because Americans do not care who loads and unloads the damn ship. What they care about is that the ship is loaded and unloaded and if it's done by a robot, so be it. And you know what, The funny thing about robots and automation and AI systems and mechanized cranes that are going to load up truckers, you can't really fake that right now. You can't automate truck driving. I have a lot of respect for people that drive a truck.
Some of them are really decent people. They actually have the capacity to be the most learned people in this society. Learned. Yes, that's a that's a Homer sensing thing. I can't, I can't unsay it. They have the capacity to listen to books and lectures, to get essentially college level exposure to knowledge on any given day of anything that they're interested in. And they do it all day long. And they keep their eyes on the road and they move a thing.
And we have an incredible system that moves things from ports into the interior of the United States. Those people have a long and hard draw and they're not going to be replaced anytime soon because mechanized vehicles are a liability at this point, but they will eventually too.
But when it comes to unloading a ship, do you want the person that goes out and ties one on at night that gets into a fight with his old lady and has to stay home sick kids going to complain about the $5.00 an hour and wants a $30.00 an hour raise over the next six years? Probably like close to doubling the salary. Do you want that person?
Or do you want a machine that just doesn't ever sleep and doesn't ever really make mistakes and has multiple systems of redundancy and works as long as there's power and cannot scale the speed of their work? I'm going to tell you about the scaling speed because the longshoreman's union had he actually discussed this. But let me just play this little video. This, this went, I don't know if it went viral. If it just went, it popped up into my feed.
This is a lady saying shame on you to the workers for doing what they're doing. And then another longshoreman's wife. She seems like a real sweetheart yelling at Americans that you better respect the longshore union. She's got face piercings for those of you who are just listening.
She swears a lot. So, you know, trigger warning on that or for you, those of you who are listening, it's just you're not going to get sympathy from Americans right now, a lot of whom are suffering and struggling, especially for a group that is basically fighting the future and they're fighting a losing battle, inevitable losing battle. All right, here's this this longshoreman's wife. Shame on you longshoreman and doc work.
Shame on you lady for buying into the bullshit media that these multibillion dollar companies are putting out trying to turn the American public against the longshoreman. You are the fucking problem. A contract is redone between the ILA and the companies every six years. The last contract the companies agreed not to automate and guess what? They did it the fuck anyway. The companies broke their contract.
The longshoremen could have done this strike months ago when they found out about the illegal automation, but they decided not to. They decided to uphold their end of the contract. They decided to be the bigger people and you're sitting here screaming shame on them. They're the ones that have kept your country running for fucking decades. All the shit you get in your grocery store because our country refuses to fucking make it themselves. The longshoremen are the ones
that. OK, this goes on and on and she just like berates people, but she's got a hook in her lip of some kind. She's got a piercing in her nose. She seems like she's a real sweetheart to be around. I'm sure that the guy who works the docks that goes home to her is having a great time. She's she's pissed and she just said they could have done this strike earlier. That's true.
The reason they didn't is because they wanted to punch it closer to the holiday season and closer closer to the election so that they could actually cause a real disruption that would give them stronger leverage. It's not bad when it comes to tactics, but don't act like they're the winner in this. And by the way, the automation, what you're saying is that they were resisting something that would make things cheaper, more efficient and faster. So screw you.
Did you see people in Michigan upset about this? Of course, of course they were. But what happens? You retrain and you retool. Like every industry that has ever had a disruptive change, and it's necessary. This is why America has always been able to trudge forward. Some of the free market continues to work and that market force says if someone can do it better, faster and cheaper than those people will be triumphant.
The fact that your workers in certain areas, the non right to work states, the ones that are labor and union friendly and I say labor with a capital L like big labor, the sort of commies that fall on the left. The government is already doing the job of Labor unions, folks. That's the thing. It's been doing it for a long time. Safe working conditions, OSHA, all of the requirements for floors on on on safety and and for the the the floors on on wages. That's what the government has
taken over. There is no need for for unions anymore. If you want to get together individually on a small company and you want to pressure them because of a unique skill set that you have that they would have to help you, then you're negotiating from a market
position. But if you're doing it based on trying to leverage a billion dollar, multi billion dollar companies against multi $1,000,000 labor unions and they make good money and they pay really good money to lobbyists and those who are going to move their policy. My father-in-law spent my my wife's, my wife's stepdad was a was a union representative. He, he worked on behalf of them in the, in the lobbyist realm, made really good money for a very, very short amounts of time.
He's knowledgeable. He, he earned his space as someone who can actually command that fee. But they had the money to pay him just like they had the money to buy $1000 chairs from me when I was selling high end office ergonomics because they were like, well, our backs are really important. So we're going to do that. And yes, I used to sell shares that retailed at $1000. If you bought a bunch of them, you get them for, you know, closer to half that the government gets them for half.
But still, 506 hundred dollar office chair is nothing to, to sneeze at. And these people bought them like there was no big deal. They're like, Oh yeah, we'll outfit our workforce $3000, whatever it was to go and put
that stuff out there. So here's the thing, the lefty journalists, people who are getting fired because they suck, by the way, people who are getting removed because you're, you're hearing all over the place that journalists are getting fired at all these different publications. Washington Post says disruption looms in East Course East Coast ports as the longshoremen prepare to strike.
The walk out would be a blow to the economy and it would leave the White House under pressure to order dock workers back to their jobs. And you say, well, how would that work? How could they order them back? This is the thing that's being talked about. You'll hear it reference in the next video I'm playing. This was the President Bush was the last person who used it in
2002 in a wartime footing. As we were starting the war on terrorism, President President Bush invoked what was called the Taft Hartley Act and made the them go back to work. This is a law that was signed in this is part of the deal. Like This is why there's so much government involved in this thing. It doesn't really make sense.
But you're hearing the left wing media basically crying about the plight of these poor workers, even though these guys basically timed it specifically to be effective, set it up in a way so that they could actually, you know, cripple American, the American economy and, and screw up some of the, the, the supply chain as we move into the holiday season.
You guys know that that Black Friday, which happens in Thanksgiving, historically the name, the reason it's called Black Friday, This may not be something that everybody knows. Black Friday was defined as that because retailers essentially operated historically in the red.
In other words, they didn't make a penny of profit until Black Friday. And as they entered the holiday season, because the margins are so slim in most retail stores, and particularly like grocery stores and and big box retailers and stuff, they actually didn't make money until Black Friday. That's when they crossed from the red into the black. If you know that, then you understand that basically the first eleven months of the year are without profit.
They're just supporting the efforts and the profit is all made between Black Friday and the end of the year as people come to the holiday season. And, and of course, dock workers would know that too, because the logistic chain is very well tied in to the retail end of it when you know that like they have Black Friday in the middle of July now. And like, things changed historically, but that's what that day meant. That's why it was like that.
And there are still some stores that operate on those principles where they don't actually make profit during the year. All right? And the only way they do is by increasing efficiencies. And things like automation are a big part of that. So if you're fighting against that, you're actually fighting against the survival of your entity because someone's going to do it better.
Look at all the brick and mortar stores that got put out by Amazon. Does that mean that we have to be excited about Amazon because it's an evil corporation? They're actually pretty evil. They've done some really awful things to people that have showed up on the show and talked about it. But at the end of the day, they're getting you a product faster and better, more efficiently. So they win. That is America, folks, whether you like it or not.
That's the reason why Walmart was the demon in the 90s because they were putting all the mom and pops out why they had a better supply chain. They had better logistics. They were able to get you better products for cheaper or stand in products that you were willing to pay less for. And they still do. All right. So there's that. In any case, it's funny to see the lefties kind of like coalesce around this thing. This is some of the stuff that I was most interested in.
This is a story written by the Los Angeles Times and it's not current. It was written in 2015. And you guys, this is this is just how it goes. Actually, this is 2017. More than 4400 ships bring in nearly $400 billion worth of goods to the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach every year. Again, this is outdated information. Most blue Cocker blue collar workers along the chain have seen their wages slashed with the quick rise of global global trade.
But longshoremen are the only ones who move goods the shortest distance between ship and shore, have shrewdly protected that pay, and it Trump's many white collar jobs and many white collar managers. About half of the union jobs on the West Coast, the longshoremen make more than $100,000 a year, and some of them make much more. More than half of the foreman and managers earn more than $200,000 a year. Again, these are older numbers. These things have increased.
A few of the bosses make more than $300,000 a year, and they all get healthcare. Longshoremen pay dwarfs that of many other transit employees, such as trucking, railroad and airline workers at a massive warehouse complex in the Inland Empire. This is going to be like Riverside, CA, just an hour's drive from the ports. Goods at the largest nation's retailers are shuttled around by temporary employees making as little as 10 or $11.00 an hour.
They have no job security and they have no benefits. So you have people making 102 hundred $300,000 and then people working in the same logistical supply chain making 10 or 11. Why do they have the unique cloud? It came into a recent relief with a partial shutdown of 29 West Coast ports. The crisis passed with a contract deal a week ago. But it'll take three months to clear the backlog of cargo. So this is what they're banking on, by the way, is backing up ships.
It's already started because the ships are always running. This is why they're going to go to automation because the the automation never has to sleep. Many of the businesses and the workers in the supply chain that lost money because the port gridlock will not recover and they will not have those jobs. Union spokesman Craig Merrilees said that the shipping companies pay figures failed to account for the more than 8000 or
so-called. Here it is 8000 so-called casual workers, part timers who don't receive benefits and often work for years to become registered union members. This is where that cartel, that protection racket is coming in. They protect the job, but they don't necessarily protect the skill set and they're not actually necessarily providing a benefit. The data recently released by the Pacific Maritime Association reflects 90% of the registered worker. Registered union members has
more than 12,000 members. That association has declined. And what they're seeing is that casual pay and lower tiered unions also are started. They're bringing in lower tiered members, like part time members of the union. Nobody wants to talk about the other workers. I don't think it's very responsible. They're obviously kind of like this is. So that's coming from the trade side of it. That's coming from the shipping side of it.
They're talking about that. Look, the longshoremen are going to talk about how they want to make things good. But imagine if you were like working in a union and then like they were people that actually did the real work of it and you were stepping on them for like slave labor and you were fine with it because you had to pay your dues at some point in time too. For those of you who are saying
$100,000 isn't that much money. We're talking about the West Coast. We're talking about about 6 or 8 years ago. So I made a lot less than that. And I lived in Washington. DCI made $65,000 a year and I was able to afford a home in 2016 and 2017 outside of Washington, DC, which is very expensive in in one of the five most expensive counties in the country. So it's doable. Like it's good money regardless
of what people think. The majority of longshoremen, shoremen about half 4900 more than $100,000 a year in 2013. This number is is talking about according to shipping company data 1400 of them. This is all just West Coast information. Made more than 150 in in 2013 and more than half of the 600 Foreman's and The Walking bosses took home more than $200,000 a year. At the top end, 85 members of that particular union brought in
over 250,000. So they're paid at higher rates for overtime, blah blah blah blah, special skills, so on and so on. Working night shifts, shift differentials and so on. These are normal things we're talking about kind of a lot of money though. This guy that they interviewed has got his name. He started working on the the docks in 1978 following his father and his grandfather and his great grandfather. He's proud of the wages he earned and the collective
bargaining that they've done. This is what he says. He put 2-3 kids through college. He never even finished high school. OK, this is a kind of an American dream until you realize it's kind of an American extortion. Said he never made $100,000 a year before 2013 and he made 117,000. He declined to say how much he made in 2017 during this story. This is very interesting to me as these people were working this this situation as they were making it.
Here's another one. This one came from 2023. This is a what is this saying? Who is this organization that did this one? This is from Freight Waves. Freight Waves is something I went to to go see. This is actually an industry publication. West Coast dock workers are making more than $200,000 a year and still demanding a pay hike. Union fight to raise the raise. The pay is now affecting shipping operations. This is from Wednesday, June the 7th of 2023.
OK, so over a year ago. And so it's just talking about the money. Again, these are all like pretty highly paid. Full time registered longshore workers are in an average of $197,000 in 2022, not including benefits. Add the benefits in, that's a quarter of $1,000,000 a year. Full time is defined as working 2000 hours or more per year, or an average of 38.4 hours per week. That's how you qualify. I'm sure these guys work more in order to get that.
Clerks working full time average 220,000 and foreman and walking bosses average $306,291.00 a year. Over $306,000 a year for the foreman and The Walking bosses. You guys get it. There's a lot of money here. It's a small group and they're protecting it. The PMA, which is the Pacific Maritime Association, again, we're talking West Coast, not East Coast. ILA is dealing with the East Coast in this thing. OK. They paid $100,000 per ILW, International Longshoremen Workers Union.
That's the group that I worked with, registrant in benefits, so another 100 grand per person in benefits. We're talking about like 300,000 to $400,000 a year in, in total compensation. That's about twice what I was making with the FBI as a federal agent with a college degree, years of military experience, multiple years of, of relevant experience and, and specialized skill as a medic and so on and
so forth. And getting a top secret clearance, just so, you know, not taking anything away from them. Good for them, I guess, unless it's not competitive in the marketplace. And here's why it's not. And here's why this is not going to be the thing that that is being hyped. I think the hype that is going on right now by the left, which is really what's going on, it doesn't align with what's
happening in the market. We will see some shortages, no doubt about it, and you should be prepared. But the longshoremen strike is not going to hinder holiday retail sales the way that people think, or at least the way that the union thinks, because they've been preparing for this for months and they have been basically upping their inventory stocks. There's a few things that can't do it. Foods can't do it. Some manufacturing can't stock it up.
Food and beverages are going to be the ones that are going to be the most likely to get hit. So anything that's if you have specialty goods from coming over, you know, overseas, we probably won't catch fruits and things like that that will spoil in in ports. They won't send them. But it just says here, this is this is again, freight waves. This is the a central global supply chain publication. Retailers have been forward stocking expecting this.
Now, will it take care of the whole season? I don't know. But it wouldn't be the same as if they hadn't been preparing. This is a guy named Ron Lehman. He's the Newark, NJ chair of a law firm that handles work for transportation, logistics and supply chain management practices. All right. They knew that these people would walk off the job at some point. So they've been buying it up and they've been setting things up and warehousing it. It's much better to pay warehousing fees.
And then what happens? The scarcity principle means that your value, the good that you actually invested in earlier is going to be worth more. If you can't get more of it, you can actually charge more knowing that there's this worker strike the the companies domestically will actually make money on this. They'll be able to offset some of their losses. So it will not have the impact
that they think. Meanwhile, because they're one-dimensional thinkers, I think here's the head of the ILA on the West, on the East Coast talking about this, saying that they are going to basically deliberately do a crap job in order to make their bargaining position stronger. I get it. But you're fighting gravity here, man. So listen to this guy.
You tell me if this guy lends sympathy to the position of these poor international longshore workers who on the East Coast are probably making similar wages to the West Coast, and that's 102 hundred 300,000, maybe, maybe twice that in total compensation. You tell me if you feel sympathetic about this guy. By the way, he's wearing a big gold chain like a gangster. I think that's kind of interesting. Too, Let me explain something to
you. These people today don't know what a shrike is. When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port or lockdown, you know what's going to happen. I'll tell you, First week, be all over the news. Every nine, boom, boom. Second week, guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off the ships. They get laid off. Third week, malls start closing down. They can't get the goods from China. They can't sell clothes. They can't do this.
Everything in the United States comes on a ship. They go out of business. Construction workers get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in, the lumber's not coming in. They lose their job. Everybody's hating the longshoreman now because now they realize how important our jobs are. Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting a Taft Harley on you. Go ahead there finally means I have to go back to work for 90 days after cooling you off
period. Do you think when I go back for 90 days, those men are going to go to work on that pier? It's going to cost the money, the companies money to pay their salaries. Well, they go went from 30 moves an hour maybe to 8. They're going to be like this. Who's going to win here? In the long run, you're better off sitting down and let's get a contract and let's move on with this world. And in today's world, I'll cripple you. I will cripple you. And you have no idea what that means.
Nobody does. Yeah, that's how you get sympathy. You say I'm gonna cripple you, I'm gonna choke you out. I'm gonna make it happen. That guy's name is Harold J Daggett. He's the union president out there. That was his negotiation position. And he was wearing a polo shirt with a, with the the logo, right. Dropping a big chain out there. I don't know. That didn't move any sympathetic movement for me. You just said you're going to come in and do your job poorly in order to show people how
important you are. They're going to replace you with robots, bro. That's what's going to happen. It's just a question of when. And now you've done is that you've shown that you're willing to to essentially pull all the stops out on your end. Fine. Some companies got this ready to roll out, no doubt about it. It does sound mafioso, doesn't it? It sounds like there was a time when labor unions actually had a place in America. The government does that job now
and they're over. So these people are, you know, they think they haven't. That's an artificial and an inaccurate position of strength that they're trying to argue from. And again, yeah, they'll come in and they'll Taft hardly you and you'll and they'll move you again. Here's it again. Here's the the name if you guys are looking for it. There it is. Bush said it at the time. I threw this quote up there. I thought it was interesting.
He said the dispute between management and labor cannot be allowed to further harm the economy and force thousands of working Americans from their jobs. Here's the thing. What they're going to do is they're going to basically just move. You never are going to, like, voluntarily accept a position where you are weaker. And so businesses are going to do the thing they're going to do. They're going to adapt. The lady was crying about them doing automation. Automation makes the job of the
dock workers are easier. Yeah. There's not going to be as many people in that industry. Welcome to reality. There are jobs that don't exist anymore. How many people spend their time repairing wooden barrels? How many people are Coopers in the current economy? It turns out we don't use barrels anymore. So you don't get to be a Cooper. You have to learn a new skill. There's not a ton of people that are shoeing horses. There are a lot of people that
are changing tires. So as the economy moves and as technology moves, so do the needs and the demands of the of the workforce and the population. Welcome to business one O 1. This is real simple stuff. Time has passed you by my friend, so enjoy your last hurrah. That's sort of what it looks like. And then lastly, I saw a little piece here. This is talking from the New York Times talking about the counter offers and what it's all about. And again, it's about trying to
grab a certain amount of money. What's interesting is you'll see these politicians are stuck in a bad place because Democrats who have the power in places like New York and some of these big, these port cities, Philadelphia and so on, Like they got to be sympathetic to the union. They can't be mean to the union, but the union doesn't make any bit of damn sense that it actually works against the other constituents.
They're going to drive up prices on the people that are working class poor with this strike when they actually are probably like, I would say like a middle to upper middle class blue collar workers. It's a very interesting dynamic when you see the wealthy working class crushing down on the working poor and the people that are Democrats that have tried to side with both. They've gone with big labor and they've tried to act like they're the party of the poor.
There's a reason why they haven't endorsed Kamala Harris and the reason is the same as the Teamsters. These folks do not like people who make good money tend to want to vote Republican and people that have hope in America and have values tend to want to vote Republican. Doesn't mean the Republicans represent them well, but man, it's going to be an interesting showdown. And all of this makes me say, here we go.
And the fact that they've let this happen and they haven't already done that, that Hartley Taft move or that Taft Hartley. What it tells me is, is that they're not as scared of losing right now. They're just they're just not. I want to talk about personal responsibility just a little bit more. This is something I found the other day. Let me do this. People always want to shove stuff off. I want to play a video for you just to take a breather.
This is a video of Kamala Harris and some other Democrats. And a lot of the the sort of narrative that has been pushed this, this learned helplessness is a thing. I almost played it yesterday, but I'm play it today. Learned helplessness in the black community. It's on purpose. They've pushed it on everybody. But think about the narrative and then listen to this man debunk it because the narrative is, is that people have been so mean to black Americans in this country.
It's not my experience with black people that I know, Like my friends that are black do not have a horrible experience in America. There may have been some people that were racist, no doubt about it. Like there's some shitty people everywhere, but they didn't have this experience where they got shoved into some opportunity that they couldn't have. In fact, usually they get better opportunities. Listen, this man talk about
housing because it's so telling. Some policies just fail and some negotiating points are not going to be successful. Families were excluded from buying homes. We have been crammed into ghettos. They put us in the hood. They put us in the hood. When white folks took us out of slavery, they put us in the hood. Who? Put us in the hood, You put us in the ghetto together. Put us in the ghetto. They put us in the ghetto and
put us at the bottom. The history of Black families being excluded from homeownership. I have a book back here where it shows very beautiful houses built by black and in black neighborhoods in 1910. This book was written by Booker T Washington in 1912, and he's documenting black neighborhoods and black suburban communities springing up all across the South where these folks crammed and ghettos. Can we be real for one moment
here? To the extent that an adult human being is crammed into this place or the other, it's because they chose to do that. In 1940 there were more blacks living in rural and suburban communities than in urban cities
and government housing projects. To to the extent that you did have blacks migrating to these urban areas, it was due in part to marketing that was being circulated by communist propagandists and newspapers like the Pittsburgh Courier or the Daily Worker that were promising union jobs and higher wages in the North. Many of the blacks would go on to admit that instead of finding jobs, all they found were bread lines. Louisiana, the only thing you have to say yes or no stuff back there.
I'd rather say yes and those and live comfortable than to live in the slums and you can say yes and no. The point here is that if it is true that a person is crammed into a slum, it is only after they have personally made the decision to fall for the socialist programs that are being pushed by politicians and activists. You cannot expect luxury when you subordinate yourself to a
government project. Let that be a lesson to you when you listen to all the grandiose promises that Kamala Harris is making. So there you go. All of you who join us in the chat over on X and on YouTube and and also of course our our chat on Rumble. I appreciate you guys being on there. Look, this is don't take agency from yourself. Never take agency from yourself. Agency is the ability to make your own decisions that God-given free will in this
country. We are founded on some principles and all of them are based on God-given rights, your ability to dictate your own future. But at the same time, you also have to take the responsibility for the things that happen. More and more we've tried to outsource this stuff. We've tried to send it along and allow somebody else to take care of us. And that is the position of a subject. And then you better accept whatever rule and tyranny you get. If you want to be a citizen.
It costs something. It means that you are willing to do things. And sometimes those things don't work out. There's a last story that I want to cover because it has to do with what's going on with the flooding. And when I saw this, I was like, I really hope this guy keeps flying. This is a story that I'm just ripping right off the pages of social media. And I apologize because I, I don't have the ability to check it.
This is just what's happening in the world right now in North Carolina. This guy says he's a helicopter pilot, that he's doing operations and that he was instructed to stop operating his helicopter. He was the only helicopter working privately owned, non governmental within 40 miles. This is what we need to be doing, folks. We need to be helping each other, helping our neighbors. When you have resources, you do help might be disobeying A governmental authority.
What you're seeing on the right is an assistant Fire Chief that came to this guy when he landed his helicopter because he's doing rescue missions out of his own pocket. And the and the Fire Chief, assistant Fire Chief said you are not authorized to do that. I have no idea what authority he thinks he's operating under. But if you accept the government's authority, then you accept the tyranny that's going
to fall on top of you. Now, somebody decided to go look this guy up. So this was also in there. Apparently his name is Chris Melton. If you want to give him a phone call, his number is 828-625-9333. He's a public employer employee working for the town of Lake Lure. So there you go, He's a. Public employee. He's paid. For by tax dollars, but it most importantly and maybe more importantly. I suppose is that this guy? Decided that he had to go in.
He had a woman that was in critical need. He picked her up and he didn't have enough fuel to be able to take him and his copilot back. So he dropped the copilot off with the woman's husband, flew backed and dropped this woman off. And then they said you can't go back and get the husband and you can't go get the copilot after you refuel. And he said, screw you, I don't leave a man behind, which is the right attitude. Again, this might cost this man something good for him.
Apparently, his name is Jordan Seidholm SEIDHOM. This looks like a Facebook post for me, but I'm not an expert. At the end of the day, if you want to be an American, it means that you must take some responsibilities. That means helping your neighbors and it means doing the right thing. Even when the right thing, it's not that convenient for you financially and potentially facing some litigious nature. I want people to be to stop being scared of their government and and of of laws.
The other day my wife and I had a had a car battery died and it was really screwy because it didn't seem like it made any sense. It died and then I jumped it and then it started fine for like 2 days later and then it died again. I bought the battery but we didn't replace it because it required like pulling out an intake and some other stuff. Long and short of it is we're sitting in the parking lot and there's a kid that was there and he's like, Oh yeah, I would jump your car.
But I'm working for the for the grocery store. And the grocery store told me that I can't jump your car because then the grocery store, while I'm on duty might be liable for anything that happens. People man the hell up. That's not a reasonable. Thing these corporations need to. Stop being so scared. And start acting like a real neighbor. Now, the other thing that you guys are going to disagree with me on is price gouging, because price gouging is actually how markets work.
When things become more scarce, they become more valuable and then you have to pay more for them. And it tells people exactly what you're willing to pay. Watch this. People are outraged. This guy named Jeremy Kaufman, the guy who told the FBI the other day to go F off. You remember him, the libertarian in in New Hampshire. He's pissing people off left and right with this video. Gas gouging prices in the middle
of this this situation. At the end of the day, if there's no gas and there's no more left and it's whatever's in your tank that you're selling and he wants to sell it for 10 bucks a gallon and there are people who are willing to pay it, then it's worth 10 bucks a gallon. And if they're willing to pay 20 bucks a gallon, it's worth 20
bucks a gallon. Let me give you some some reasons why I think that he's actually correct in that these people who are making this video are outraged, but I want to show it to you. I know one more. Time. How much? A gallon? That's all I want to hear. What's that way? Mine is taking a video. How much is it a gallon? You worker he's taking a video how much is it a gallon? That's all we want to know you're filling gas, right? How much a gallon?
10 dollars $10 a gallon. OK, video me OK he said video me good man. That's how you do it. It's $10 a gallon because people. Are willing to pay $10 a gallon and fill up their tanks. Do you know what happens at $10 a gallon? Every fuel truck and every fuel tanker is driving there to sell at that $10 a gallon price. At $3 a gallon, they'll let you run out because they can get that anywhere and they're not
driving into hardship. But for three extra dollars they're going to go ahead and do ahead. They're going to do what they need to do. They're going to get a fuel tanker in there to fill up that guy's tank. And people will have fuel and they'll have the fuel that they need and that they can afford. And hopefully people are have Christian charity and will help
their neighbors afford that. But you can't get mad at the guy for following the market prices if you're a free market person, if you're a conservative and that's what you think things are worth more when there are less of them. Just my take on it for all of you that are trying to diagnose my car problems guys, I've I've fixed motorcycles like every weekend when I lived in Los Angeles because it was the only thing I could do to keep my vehicle running.
I've replaced alternators in like 6 different vehicles. I understand how the electrical charging system works. That's not what's going on. It's just was a battery that died. Calm down. I appreciate that you guys are concerned about it. Let me give you guys something that's hopeful and screwy. It's the first warning we had. I had this video since we went
through the COVID crisis. This guy actually looks like my friend Christian, who's a stud FBI agent, one of the good people out there who's been out there doing cool things. He looks just like him. He's got the long hair. He looks like a tactical Jesus. This song is important though. I got 2 palate cleansers for you today because we need it because we're about to get into it, whatever it looks like.
So here we go, palate cleanser #1 this song might be the most America. Let's get shit going. I know I've sworn at least twice this this episode and it's just because it's time for today. Enjoy this little cleanse and then I'll give you another one. It's my my 2 back-to-back proofs that Creedence Clearwater Revival might be the most America band. Not American, by the way. America as an action verb. All right, enjoy this. Warning a cough has been detected.
For your safety and the safety of others, authorities have been dispatched and will be arriving at your location shortly. You will be taken to the nearest quarantine facility where you will be tested and monitored. Please remain at your location. Unauthorized movement is strongly progressed. We're all in this today. You see it, you remember. We were all looking at like COVID tyranny as being. Universal, by the way. Underneath there, that was from
2021, maybe something like that. I think that's how long I've had that video. And what does it say? It's 2025. The future is 2025. You can be pissed. Here's the thing. I saw somebody said that they said all conservatives turn into communist the minute that there's a there's an emergency. Don't be a person that turns into communist. As I said, I'm challenging your thought process. You think about it, make sure that it, that it arrives. Businesses can still operate for businesses.
Neighbors can still operate as neighbors. If somebody wants to charge $10 a gallon and it lures more gas in, then you need to help your neighbors out. That's what you're, that's what you believe. But don't be mad at a business person for recognizing that the market has changed. OK, again, the most American song is that Creedence song. Here's a little taste. This is something one of my buddies sent me. It's pretty funny. It's about American spies and
being able to spot them. And this is how you spot them. If you're missing the visual on this, the end is really worth watching. So come check out gentlemen, I have some bad news 1 of. US is a spy. What, An American spy? American. Not me. It's probably Jane. Could it be me? Gentlemen, relax. There's no need to point fingers. It's very easy to spot on. That's true. I heard only Americans lean on things. So it's got to be Alex. You. You like Taylor Swift? You're the American buddy.
Like Taylor Swift. Relax. Relax. And no, that's not the easiest way to spot an American. This is. Call him what? No. No. This. Why can you? Ain't stupid. American. You know, why is he swinging? Maybe a stupid American, but Americans do know some things. Yeah. Like what? Well, like you should have never played that song. If you couldn't see it because you're listening, what?
He opened the door. And he showed a bunch of what I, what I assume are, are infantrymen coming off the back of like a of a Hilo and a bunch of dudes that are parachuting in on that, some kind of a, some sort of airborne infill. Yeah, there's still some really cool stuff about this country. So don't give up on it, folks. It still happens locally. Your neighbors are still your neighbors. Those people still have the skills they have.
Go connect with them. Now. You got about, you got about 3 or 4 weeks. Go out there and say hello. Make sure they know who you are. Make sure they know you're not their enemy. Make sure they know that they have the same values as you, and if they don't, they have some same values because they live next to you, which means that you made the same choices in housing and location. They're still driving cars.
They still speak English, most of them, and they're still in a place where they're going to be able to connect and realize that you're not the enemy and maybe maybe our government is all right, tuck in. I think it's going to get real weird. We'll try to we'll see if you guys want put it in the comments below and we'll do a live stream of the of the vice presidential debate with some commentary. I'll see if I can get Steve friend on board.
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