June 12, 2025 • 34 mins
As rioters continue to rampage through LA, assaulting law enforcement while they wave the flag of a foreign country, it’s long past time for a national reckoning on immigration, both legal and illegal. Leftists love to claim these third world immigrants strengthen America because "diversity is our strength." We’ll discuss why diversity is actually a weakness, and how much the Left’s insistence to the contrary has harmed our nation. Also, Republicans continue to slip away from the principles of free markets. Senator Josh Hawley, who now apparently wants to double the minimum wage, is just the latest example. I’ll explain how stupid that idea is and why the minimum wage should be zero. We’ll talk about all of it on today’s can’t-miss episode of The Conservative Rebel.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Today on The Conservative Rebel, as rioters
and arsonists continue torampage through Los Angeles,
assaulting law enforcement whilethey wave the flag of a foreign
country, it's long past time fora national reckoning on
immigration, both legal andillegal.
Leftists love to claimthird-world immigrants benefit
America because diversity is ourstrength.
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We'll discuss why diversity isactually our weakness and how
much the left's insistence tothe contrary has harmed our
nation.
Also, Republicans continue toslip away from the principles of
free markets.
Senator Josh Hawley, who nowapparently wants to double the
minimum wage, is just the latestexample.
I'll explain how stupid his ideais and why the minimum wage
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should be abolished.
We'll talk about all of it ontoday's can't-miss episode of
The Conservative Rebel.
There are many stupid slogansthe left likes to throw around,
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but if I had to create a listand rank them in terms of their
stupidity, which might actuallybe kind of fun, I would
definitely put the claim thatdiversity is our strength near
the top of the list.
Even though so-calledconservatives, though they might
protest DEI policies andanti-white discrimination to
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some extent, never challengethat fundamental premise.
They never challenge the ideathat diversity is a strength.
In fact, many of them agree withit, whether they admit it to
themselves and others or not.
They just don't like racialdiscrimination, and rightly so,
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so they oppose so-calleddiversity, equity, and inclusion
because they understand all toowell that those are just code
words for anti-white racism.
But today, we are going tochallenge that premise, because
it's a stupid premise, and I'msick of hearing people say
stupid things, and I know I'mnot the only one.
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Diversity is not our strength,it is one of our most fearful
weaknesses.
Unity, and not diversity, is thestrength of any nation.
The less unified you are, theweaker you will be, and the more
unified you are, the strongeryou will be.
This is logic that mostthree-year-olds could easily
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understand, but a lot of liberaladults seem to have a hard time
comprehending.
If you doubt that this is true,just look at the riots raging in
LA.
Why are foreign nationalsrampaging through the streets of
LA, torching vehicles andassaulting law enforcement while
they torch our nation's flag,curse our president's name, and
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proudly wave the banner of ahostile nation as they do it?
What is the reason for that?
You can hardly look at that andsay, you know what would fix
that problem?
More diversity.
If we had more diversity, thatwould go away.
No, that's precisely theproblem.
Disunity and diversity, which isanother way of saying disunity,
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is the problem.
Instead of being a unitedcountry with a unified culture
and common values, we havebecome a heterogeneous blob of
conflicting cultures andidentities and loyalties.
The main problem America has isnot simply that so many of the
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immigrants in this country arehere illegally, though that is
definitely a problem and a veryserious one.
The real issue is much largerthan that.
It's that they have nothing incommon with us, by and large.
Mass immigration has fracturedand disunited our country,
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probably irreparably.
We are too divided, which isanother way of saying too
diverse, because we have letmillions of people from the
third world flood into ourcountry, both legally and
illegally.
So tensions and riots like thisbecome inevitable.
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Now, there are dumb people outthere who will listen to this
and immediately think what I amsaying is racist.
But notice this, I said nothingabout race, and I'm not going
to.
I did not say other racialgroups are inferior or that I
dislike them, and I don't thinkthey are inferior, and I don't
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dislike them.
So I don't want any dumb peoplein my comments calling me a
racist for giving you the basicfacts I am going to give you on
this show, because they've beenconditioned from childhood to
react that way whenever theyhear anyone dare to question
orthodoxies like the one we'requestioning today.
The fact that diversity is aweakness and not a strength is a
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basic fact that everyone,everywhere, instinctively
understood for all of humanhistory until now.
There has never been a nation inthe history of the world that
has become strong because itbecame more diverse and
disunited.
There has certainly never been anation so stupid and senseless
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that it bragged to the worldabout how its people had nothing
in common with each other as ifit was some great strength until
just a few minutes ago in thescope of human history when
western liberals decided toreject what had been common
sense for all of humanitybecause it conflicted with their
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radical globalist andmulticultural and
anti-nationalist ideology.
The strength of a nation hasalways been what its people have
in common with each other.
Shared religion and culture andhistory and traditions, that is
what makes a nation.
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And not only that, it has alwaysbeen understood that that
without those things, you can'treally have a nation at all.
The word nation comes from theLatin word natio, which means
birth or to be born.
That means a shared history anda shared ancestry, which in turn
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means shared cultural andreligious traditions.
This is what makes a nation anation.
You need to have those things.
And if you look at earlyAmerican history, it is
precisely because we did oncehave those things that the
Founding Fathers believedAmerica could be successful as
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an independent country.
In fact, one of the argumentsthat sold the states on the
issue of ratifying theConstitution way back in the
late 1780s and 1790s was that amore unified republic would be
successful because the Americanpeople had all of these things
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in common.
The founding father, John Jay,said this in the second
Federalist paper.
Quote, that should never besplit into a number of unsocial,
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jealous, and aliensovereignties.
Essentially, John Jay was sayingthat the reason we can succeed
as a nation is because we're allEnglish-speaking Christians with
a Christian European heritage.
We all have the same values andbelieve basically the same
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things about religion and Wehave a shared culture and a
shared history.
Therefore, it will be easy forus to unite and to stay united.
That's the argument he wasmaking.
But nowadays, are any of thosethings true?
Ask yourself, do we have ashared history and a shared
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ancestry?
We don't.
In fact, what little history wedo have in common, we're taught
to hate and to be ashamed of.
Do we have a shared language?
No, we don't.
Almost 15% of the people livingwithin our borders primarily
speak Spanish.
Some of them only speak Spanish.
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And the number is actuallyprobably a lot more than that,
given all the illegal aliens inthe country, who obviously don't
get counted for a lot of thatstuff.
Do we have a shared religion?
No.
Not only do we have over 200Christian denominations in the
United States, nearly a third ofthe people in the United States
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are atheists, agnostics, or someother type of unreligious
secularist, and almost 10% areBuddhists, Muslims, Hindus,
Jews, or some other foreignreligion.
Do we have shared principles?
Definitely not.
Half the country thinks babymurder is great, and a
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significant number even deny themost basic principles of
biological reality.
We really cannot agree onanything.
Do we have a shared culture?
Certainly not.
Shared manners and customs?
No.
We used to be able to check offevery item on Jean Jay's list,
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but now we can't check off asingle box.
America is living through adevastating identity crisis
where no one has a clue whatAmerica even is, or what an
American is, or what Americanvalues are.
The question we needed to ask afew years ago was, what is a
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woman?
The question we need to ask nowis, what is an American?
How and why did this happen?
How has America gone from aunified nation into precisely
the thing John Jay said couldnever happen?
Unsocial, jealous, and aliensovereignties.
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How do we have nothing in commonwith each other anymore?
The answer is simple.
Over the past few decades, andespecially the past few years,
America's leaders have allowedvirtually unlimited numbers of
foreigners, both legal andillegal, to pour into this
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country with no requirement atall that they even attempt to
assimilate into our culture oradopt our customs.
In fact, these people come fromvastly different cultures with
vastly religions and languagesand beliefs.
They oftentimes have absolutelynothing in common with us and
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are usually only coming tobenefit off of the greatness of
our economy.
This has been the scam that hasbeen sold to the American
people, and anyone whoquestioned any of it has been
smeared as a racist and axenophobe who hates immigrants.
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In short, America's leadershave, for the past few decades,
been hell-bent on doingeverything in their power to
destroy America's culture andidentity and replace the
population with foreigners.
This was a bipartisan scheme.
Republicans were always talkingabout how great immigration was,
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and some of them still do, untilTrump came along.
Ronald Reagan infamously grantedamnesty to millions of illegal
aliens who were trespassing inour country, and his successors
didn't really take anymeaningful steps to stop the
waves of Mexicans and otherSouth and Central Americans who
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poured into our countrythereafter.
But that is not the only thingthat destroyed America's
identity.
The process began when leftistprogressive intellectuals came
up with the absurd idea thatAmerica should have no identity
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or heritage of its own.
Instead, it can only be definedas a melting pot or a nation of
immigrants or some other termlike that.
Whereas it's very, very easy todefine what English means or
what German means or what Indianor Japanese means, being an
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American, we're supposed tobelieve, can mean anything.
You could mean someone who isdescended from people who were
on the Mayflower, who's beenhere for 15 or 20 generations,
or however long it's been.
Or you could mean the Somalianmigrant who arrived here last
Tuesday.
They are both equally Americansby this theory.
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And this is what the publicschool system taught kids.
This is what both politicalparties regurgitated whenever
they were talking aboutimmigration.
So this is what Americans cameto believe.
So not only were they convincedthat it was great and wonderful
to let all these people come inand completely dis...
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destroy our identity anddisunify this country.
They were told that it isun-American to want America to
have an identity of its own.
It is un-American to advocatefor America to continue to
exist.
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We were told that America shouldhave no culture of its own.
Instead, it should be a blend ofcultures from all across the
world.
It should have no language ofits own.
It should be a blend oflanguages across the world.
It should have no religion ofits own.
It should be a blend ofreligions across the world.
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It should have nothing of itsown.
Nothing to claim as part of itsidentity.
Its entire definition should bea nation of immigrants.
American means anyone who iswithin the borders of the United
States.
Doesn't matter when they camehere.
Doesn't matter their legalstatus.
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Doesn't matter any of that.
And once Americans wereconvinced to adopt this
self-destructive mentality...
All that they had to do was openup the floodgates and let all
these people come in.
And it was not until, really,Trump ran that people began to
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realize what was happening.
Unchecked immigration, bothlegal and illegal, has
transformed the United Statesfrom a cohesive, unified nation
with a shared identity,religion, culture, history, and
value system into a fractured,post-national empire whose
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subjects have incompatiblereligions and cultures and no
shared identity at all.
This fact is not a triumph thatwe should celebrate.
It is a tragedy that we shouldmourn.
Because a nation withoutidentity or culture or values or
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religion or history or anythingelse that makes a nation a
nation is not really a nation atall.
It cannot survive and doesn'tdeserve to.
It is doomed to eternal divisionand disunity and strife until
the inevitable day comes when itcollapses entirely and that is
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the day that the elites havebeen working for for a very long
time because the day thatAmerica dies the day that the
nations of Europe die is the daythat the globalist order begins
once you destroy the concept ofnationhood you have nothing You
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have nothing left but to unifythe entire world under a
one-world government.
You no longer become a citizenof your country.
You become a citizen of theworld.
You become divorced fromprotecting the interests of your
family and your community andyour country first.
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That is also why they have beenattacking the family.
They want to destroy allstructure in people's lives.
They want to atomize theindividual, divorce him from his
family, divorce him from hischurch, divorce him from his
nation, divorce him from allmeaning and structure and
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authority until you create a seaof miserable, stupid,
meaningless people who will beeasy to enslave.
Divide and conquer.
Break everything down.
Destroy civilization.
Destroy the family.
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Destroy Christianity.
Destroy nationhood.
And that is when these schemingglobalists can finally claim
power.
So it's time that we end thisstupid charade of diversity
being our strength andcelebrating our differences and
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celebrating the things that tearus apart and divide us and
finally try to begin to reclaimour heritage and to reclaim our
national identity.
This is a fundamental issue andYou cannot exaggerate how
important this is.
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This is one of the mostconsequential issues in the
world, and we have to get thisright or Western civilization
will die and the entire worldwill turn into the third world.
This is what the battle overimmigration and deportations
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comes down to.
This is the difference betweenDonald Trump and Americans of
Sense and between the foreignbarbarians who are burning down
Los Angeles.
These are the two conflictingvisions.
A vision of national sovereigntyand preserving civilization and
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keeping maintaining the thingsthat instill meaning and
happiness into our lives, and abattle between people who want
to atomize individuals andremake the world into their
image, to destroy all structureand all authority and all
morality and all meaning andusher in a post-national
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globalist dystopia.
That's what this comes down to.
If America wants to continue tosurvive as a nation, it needs to
reclaim its identity and itsunity.
It needs to stop all this talkabout diversity and division
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being great, and it needs tofocus on restoring our shared
values and the things we have incommon, because it just dies if
we don't.
Alright, time for a change ofpace.
Now that we've gotten throughthe bad news part of the show,
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we can move on to some more badnews.
It's always nice to have morethan one thing to be angry
about.
More than one thing to evaporatethe joy and happiness from your
day.
So here's another bonus bad newsstory.
I hope you enjoy it.
You know, I really do hate tokeep tearing Republicans to
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shreds like I had to last weekover the big beautiful bill.
Or, hate is a strong word.
Let's just say I enjoy tearingRepublicans to shreds slightly
less than I enjoy tearingDemocrats to shreds, because I'm
a right-winger myself, in factmuch further to the right than
most people.
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But, Republicans won't stopdoing stupid things if they just
agree Republican Senator JoshHawley of Missouri has a new
proposal seemingly designed withthe explicit purpose of annoying
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me.
And that proposal is to almostdouble the minimum wage to$15 an
hour, which I oppose because Ibelieve that people should not
earn a living wage and shouldhave to beg on the city streets
in rags for food.
because I am a capitalist, sothat's what I think.
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CBS reports,"...Missouri GOPSenator Josh Hawley plans to
introduce legislation Tuesday toraise the federal minimum wage
to$15 per hour, a position thataligns one of the most
conservative lawmakers onCapitol Hill with some of the
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most liberal members ofCongress." The legislation,
called the Higher Wages forAmerican Workers Act, would
raise the federal standardstarting in 2026 and would also
call for an increase insubsequent years.
Josh Hawley said in a statement,For decades, working Americans
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have seen their wages flatline.
One major culprit of this is thefailure of the federal minimum
wage to keep up with theeconomic reality facing
hardworking Americans every day.
This bipartisan legislationwould ensure that workers across
America benefit from higherwages.
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I hate this, and I hate it alot, and you might be wondering
why.
You might think, who would beopposed to higher wages for
American workers?
It's right there in the name ofthe bill.
That must be what the bill does.
Are you against higher wages forAmerican workers?
Of course not, but, um...
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The minimum wage, which is justlike tariffs, which we talked
about a few weeks ago, soundsgreat, but it doesn't live up to
how it sounds.
The minimum wage is like thosehome-baked, sugar-free,
gluten-free muffins that thehealth freak in your life likes
to bake.
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On the surface, they look great,they smell great, your stomach
is grumbling, you're hungry, soyou can't resist trying it.
But to your horror, when youbite into one of the muffins,
it's parched and dry andlifeless.
Sometimes it even has spinachsmuggled into the middle of it.
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Suddenly, in one horriblemoment, you realize you are not
eating a muffin.
You're eating a lie.
In a similar way, all this talkof higher wages and
affordability for hardworkingAmericans and fairness makes
raising the minimum wage soundlike a great thing.
But like that fake muffin, it'sall a lie.
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To understand why, we need toclear a few things up, starting
with the term minimum wage,which is deceptive propaganda
designed to muddy the waters ofthe situation to stop you from
thinking rationally about it.
People say the minimum wage inAmerica is$7.25 an hour
federally and more than that incertain states, but while we do
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have a so-called minimum wagelaw that forces employers to pay
at least$7.20 an hour to theiremployees, that's not the real
minimum you can be paid.
The real minimum wage is alwayszero.
In a sense, a minimum wage doesnot exist and cannot exist
because no one owes you oranyone else a job, and no one is
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legally obligated to give you ajob if you're looking for one.
And even if you have a job, youcan always be fired from it.
You can always end up in asituation where you're making no
money at all.
If the government did have thegodlike power to suddenly make
every person in the countrywealthier, obviously that would
be a great thing.
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I'd still probably get up...
on the podcast and condemn itjust to be a contrarian, but
objectively it would be a greatthing, just like it would be a
great thing if the governmentwould pass a law ending all
poverty and crime and war andsorrow and unhappiness, or
erasing miscellaneous evils likeCrocs and gluten-free muffins
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and nose piercings and poodlesand hip-hop music from the face
of the earth.
But the government does not havegodlike power like that.
And even if it did, it would useit against us and not for us.
It's stupid and useless to sithere focusing on what we wish
the government could do and whatproblems we wish the government
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could solve.
Just like it's useless andstupid if you lost your job to
sit on the porch doing nothingbecause you wish some magical
genie would appear and showeryou in$10 million cash.
Our focus should be what thegovernment actually can do, and
out of the things it can do,what it should do.
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The second thing we have tounderstand, again, we talked
about this on the episode wherewe discussed tariffs, is the
zero-sum fallacy.
which Thomas Sowell talks aboutin Basic Economics, which you
should read.
The zero-sum fallacy is thebelief that in a free and
voluntary economic transaction,there's a winner and there's a
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loser.
Obviously, there are winners andlosers in unfree transactions,
like taxes, where the governmentforces you to pay them half of
everything you earn and destroysyour life and locks you in a
cage if you refuse.
But in the case of an employerand an employee, unlike a
taxpayer in the government, thetransaction is free and
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voluntary.
No one is forcing you to baggroceries.
Why are you doing it then?
Because you value the moneyyou're making more than the
amount of labor you're giving upfor it.
In turn, the store that hiredyou values the labor you're
giving them more than the moneyit's giving you.
If either of you decided that itwasn't worth it to you anymore,
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then what you were giving up wasmore valuable than what you were
getting in return.
You could stop it in a second.
Quit.
Fire the guy.
Those are the options that thevarious parties have.
But you don't really think that.
You do not really think thatit's not worth it, which is why
every morning you brush yourteeth, get dressed, and show up
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to work, and why every so oftenthe company you're working for
gets out a pen and writes you acheck.
You don't like working and thecompany that you work for
doesn't like paying you, butboth of you are benefiting and
none of you are losing.
But when the government thrustsitself into the middle of a free
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and voluntary transaction, itruins everything.
It cannot make the working classsuddenly wealthier with
so-called minimum wage laws.
All it can do is make thetransactions unfree.
It cannot raise the minimum wagefrom zero dollars, as I already
explained.
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So what do these laws really dothen?
They outlaw jobs.
They ban all jobs that pay undera certain amount.
That is exactly what so-calledminimum wage laws do.
We should not be surprised whenminimum wage laws increase
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unemployment, because that's theonly thing they could possibly
do.
Their very purpose is to destroyjobs that pay under X arbitrary
hourly wage that the governmentrandomly decided was necessary.
A national minimum wage of$15 anhour is a national ban on all
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jobs that are worth less than$15an hour, which includes a lot of
side jobs that college kids orteenagers might do over the
summer that simply are not worth$15 an hour.
This is probably the first timeyou have ever heard a broke
teenager explain to you why theminimum wage should be
abolished, but this is what Ithink because it is so obvious
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to me.
You might say, oh no, thegovernment's not outlawing jobs,
that's not what it's doing, allit's doing is making the company
pay the people more.
Okay then, genius, by thatlogic, if we want to end all
poverty instantly, and raise thestandard of living instantly,
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and make everyone rich and happyand content, we could just raise
the minimum wage to one milliondollars per hour, as a lot of
people have pointed out, Andthen all of that would be gone.
Instantly, you would completelyovercome poverty and everyone
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would have mansions and TeslaCybertrucks and indoor pools and
hot tubs and all of that type ofthing.
Instantly, you'd do that.
But, of course, the reason youdon't say that is because you
know that it would be impossibleto pay$1 million per hour.
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Companies do not have that kindof money.
Instead, all jobs everywherewould disappear.
No one would be paid anythingbecause there simply is not a
job on the planet that is worth$1 million an hour.
and companies don't have thatkind of money.
So, if you raise the minimumwage to$15 an hour, you do the
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exact same thing, just to alesser extent.
Companies that are now forced topay$15 an hour will immediately
begin looking for costs to cut.
That means people to fire, jobsto replace with AI, and to
automate and to replace withmachines.
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They'll start cutting cornersother places.
They'll raise prices tocompensate for the prices that
of labor that's gone up.
Just look at what happened inCalifornia with their$20 an hour
fast food minimum wage law.
Now fast food is a whole lotmore expensive in California
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suddenly.
Wonder why that happened.
Because they increased the priceof labor with their minimum wage
jobs.
So all you are doing and all youcan do with a minimum wage job
is kill jobs, kill employment,increase unemployment, extend
Accelerate automation and thereplace of human workers with
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AI, increase prices and reducequality.
Do any of those things soundgood to you?
No, they are terrible.
Every single thing on the listis terrible.
And this is a thing thatconservatives used to
understand.
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But suddenly, everyone isrejecting free market economics
and is suddenly falling for allthe socialist fallacies that
have destroyed our lives andresulted in an oppressive
government that sucks the lifeout of the economy by taking
half of everything we earn intaxes.
And yet, Josh Hawley is startingto talk like Bernie Sanders
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because he thinks it will makehim popular with his
constituents.
In reality, all it will do isharm them and harm the rest of
the country as well.
Thanks for listening to today'sepisode of The Conservative
Rebel.
Please like, subscribe, comment,and leave a review.
I'll talk to you next week.
Today on The Conservative Rebel, as rioters
and arsonists continue torampage through Los Angeles,
assaulting law enforcement whilethey wave the flag of a foreign
country, it's long past time fora national reckoning on
immigration, both legal andillegal.
Leftists love to claimthird-world immigrants benefit
America because diversity is ourstrength.
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We'll discuss why diversity isactually our weakness and how
much the left's insistence tothe contrary has harmed our
nation.
Also, Republicans continue toslip away from the principles of
free markets.
Senator Josh Hawley, who nowapparently wants to double the
minimum wage, is just the latestexample.
I'll explain how stupid his ideais and why the minimum wage
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should be abolished.
We'll talk about all of it ontoday's can't-miss episode of
The Conservative Rebel.
There are many stupid slogansthe left likes to throw around,
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but if I had to create a listand rank them in terms of their
stupidity, which might actuallybe kind of fun, I would
definitely put the claim thatdiversity is our strength near
the top of the list.
Even though so-calledconservatives, though they might
protest DEI policies andanti-white discrimination to
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some extent, never challengethat fundamental premise.
They never challenge the ideathat diversity is a strength.
In fact, many of them agree withit, whether they admit it to
themselves and others or not.
They just don't like racialdiscrimination, and rightly so,
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so they oppose so-calleddiversity, equity, and inclusion
because they understand all toowell that those are just code
words for anti-white racism.
But today, we are going tochallenge that premise, because
it's a stupid premise, and I'msick of hearing people say
stupid things, and I know I'mnot the only one.
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Diversity is not our strength,it is one of our most fearful
weaknesses.
Unity, and not diversity, is thestrength of any nation.
The less unified you are, theweaker you will be, and the more
unified you are, the strongeryou will be.
This is logic that mostthree-year-olds could easily
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understand, but a lot of liberaladults seem to have a hard time
comprehending.
If you doubt that this is true,just look at the riots raging in
LA.
Why are foreign nationalsrampaging through the streets of
LA, torching vehicles andassaulting law enforcement while
they torch our nation's flag,curse our president's name, and
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proudly wave the banner of ahostile nation as they do it?
What is the reason for that?
You can hardly look at that andsay, you know what would fix
that problem?
More diversity.
If we had more diversity, thatwould go away.
No, that's precisely theproblem.
Disunity and diversity, which isanother way of saying disunity,
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is the problem.
Instead of being a unitedcountry with a unified culture
and common values, we havebecome a heterogeneous blob of
conflicting cultures andidentities and loyalties.
The main problem America has isnot simply that so many of the
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immigrants in this country arehere illegally, though that is
definitely a problem and a veryserious one.
The real issue is much largerthan that.
It's that they have nothing incommon with us, by and large.
Mass immigration has fracturedand disunited our country,
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probably irreparably.
We are too divided, which isanother way of saying too
diverse, because we have letmillions of people from the
third world flood into ourcountry, both legally and
illegally.
So tensions and riots like thisbecome inevitable.
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Now, there are dumb people outthere who will listen to this
and immediately think what I amsaying is racist.
But notice this, I said nothingabout race, and I'm not going
to.
I did not say other racialgroups are inferior or that I
dislike them, and I don't thinkthey are inferior, and I don't
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dislike them.
So I don't want any dumb peoplein my comments calling me a
racist for giving you the basicfacts I am going to give you on
this show, because they've beenconditioned from childhood to
react that way whenever theyhear anyone dare to question
orthodoxies like the one we'requestioning today.
The fact that diversity is aweakness and not a strength is a
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basic fact that everyone,everywhere, instinctively
understood for all of humanhistory until now.
There has never been a nation inthe history of the world that
has become strong because itbecame more diverse and
disunited.
There has certainly never been anation so stupid and senseless
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that it bragged to the worldabout how its people had nothing
in common with each other as ifit was some great strength until
just a few minutes ago in thescope of human history when
western liberals decided toreject what had been common
sense for all of humanitybecause it conflicted with their
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radical globalist andmulticultural and
anti-nationalist ideology.
The strength of a nation hasalways been what its people have
in common with each other.
Shared religion and culture andhistory and traditions, that is
what makes a nation.
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And not only that, it has alwaysbeen understood that that
without those things, you can'treally have a nation at all.
The word nation comes from theLatin word natio, which means
birth or to be born.
That means a shared history anda shared ancestry, which in turn
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means shared cultural andreligious traditions.
This is what makes a nation anation.
You need to have those things.
And if you look at earlyAmerican history, it is
precisely because we did oncehave those things that the
Founding Fathers believedAmerica could be successful as
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an independent country.
In fact, one of the argumentsthat sold the states on the
issue of ratifying theConstitution way back in the
late 1780s and 1790s was that amore unified republic would be
successful because the Americanpeople had all of these things
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in common.
The founding father, John Jay,said this in the second
Federalist paper.
Quote, that should never besplit into a number of unsocial,
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jealous, and aliensovereignties.
Essentially, John Jay was sayingthat the reason we can succeed
as a nation is because we're allEnglish-speaking Christians with
a Christian European heritage.
We all have the same values andbelieve basically the same
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things about religion and Wehave a shared culture and a
shared history.
Therefore, it will be easy forus to unite and to stay united.
That's the argument he wasmaking.
But nowadays, are any of thosethings true?
Ask yourself, do we have ashared history and a shared
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ancestry?
We don't.
In fact, what little history wedo have in common, we're taught
to hate and to be ashamed of.
Do we have a shared language?
No, we don't.
Almost 15% of the people livingwithin our borders primarily
speak Spanish.
Some of them only speak Spanish.
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And the number is actuallyprobably a lot more than that,
given all the illegal aliens inthe country, who obviously don't
get counted for a lot of thatstuff.
Do we have a shared religion?
No.
Not only do we have over 200Christian denominations in the
United States, nearly a third ofthe people in the United States
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are atheists, agnostics, or someother type of unreligious
secularist, and almost 10% areBuddhists, Muslims, Hindus,
Jews, or some other foreignreligion.
Do we have shared principles?
Definitely not.
Half the country thinks babymurder is great, and a
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significant number even deny themost basic principles of
biological reality.
We really cannot agree onanything.
Do we have a shared culture?
Certainly not.
Shared manners and customs?
No.
We used to be able to check offevery item on Jean Jay's list,
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but now we can't check off asingle box.
America is living through adevastating identity crisis
where no one has a clue whatAmerica even is, or what an
American is, or what Americanvalues are.
The question we needed to ask afew years ago was, what is a
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woman?
The question we need to ask nowis, what is an American?
How and why did this happen?
How has America gone from aunified nation into precisely
the thing John Jay said couldnever happen?
Unsocial, jealous, and aliensovereignties.
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How do we have nothing in commonwith each other anymore?
The answer is simple.
Over the past few decades, andespecially the past few years,
America's leaders have allowedvirtually unlimited numbers of
foreigners, both legal andillegal, to pour into this
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country with no requirement atall that they even attempt to
assimilate into our culture oradopt our customs.
In fact, these people come fromvastly different cultures with
vastly religions and languagesand beliefs.
They oftentimes have absolutelynothing in common with us and
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are usually only coming tobenefit off of the greatness of
our economy.
This has been the scam that hasbeen sold to the American
people, and anyone whoquestioned any of it has been
smeared as a racist and axenophobe who hates immigrants.
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In short, America's leadershave, for the past few decades,
been hell-bent on doingeverything in their power to
destroy America's culture andidentity and replace the
population with foreigners.
This was a bipartisan scheme.
Republicans were always talkingabout how great immigration was,
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and some of them still do, untilTrump came along.
Ronald Reagan infamously grantedamnesty to millions of illegal
aliens who were trespassing inour country, and his successors
didn't really take anymeaningful steps to stop the
waves of Mexicans and otherSouth and Central Americans who
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poured into our countrythereafter.
But that is not the only thingthat destroyed America's
identity.
The process began when leftistprogressive intellectuals came
up with the absurd idea thatAmerica should have no identity
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or heritage of its own.
Instead, it can only be definedas a melting pot or a nation of
immigrants or some other termlike that.
Whereas it's very, very easy todefine what English means or
what German means or what Indianor Japanese means, being an
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American, we're supposed tobelieve, can mean anything.
You could mean someone who isdescended from people who were
on the Mayflower, who's beenhere for 15 or 20 generations,
or however long it's been.
Or you could mean the Somalianmigrant who arrived here last
Tuesday.
They are both equally Americansby this theory.
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And this is what the publicschool system taught kids.
This is what both politicalparties regurgitated whenever
they were talking aboutimmigration.
So this is what Americans cameto believe.
So not only were they convincedthat it was great and wonderful
to let all these people come inand completely dis...
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destroy our identity anddisunify this country.
They were told that it isun-American to want America to
have an identity of its own.
It is un-American to advocatefor America to continue to
exist.
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We were told that America shouldhave no culture of its own.
Instead, it should be a blend ofcultures from all across the
world.
It should have no language ofits own.
It should be a blend oflanguages across the world.
It should have no religion ofits own.
It should be a blend ofreligions across the world.
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It should have nothing of itsown.
Nothing to claim as part of itsidentity.
Its entire definition should bea nation of immigrants.
American means anyone who iswithin the borders of the United
States.
Doesn't matter when they camehere.
Doesn't matter their legalstatus.
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Doesn't matter any of that.
And once Americans wereconvinced to adopt this
self-destructive mentality...
All that they had to do was openup the floodgates and let all
these people come in.
And it was not until, really,Trump ran that people began to
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realize what was happening.
Unchecked immigration, bothlegal and illegal, has
transformed the United Statesfrom a cohesive, unified nation
with a shared identity,religion, culture, history, and
value system into a fractured,post-national empire whose
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subjects have incompatiblereligions and cultures and no
shared identity at all.
This fact is not a triumph thatwe should celebrate.
It is a tragedy that we shouldmourn.
Because a nation withoutidentity or culture or values or
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religion or history or anythingelse that makes a nation a
nation is not really a nation atall.
It cannot survive and doesn'tdeserve to.
It is doomed to eternal divisionand disunity and strife until
the inevitable day comes when itcollapses entirely and that is
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the day that the elites havebeen working for for a very long
time because the day thatAmerica dies the day that the
nations of Europe die is the daythat the globalist order begins
once you destroy the concept ofnationhood you have nothing You
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have nothing left but to unifythe entire world under a
one-world government.
You no longer become a citizenof your country.
You become a citizen of theworld.
You become divorced fromprotecting the interests of your
family and your community andyour country first.
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That is also why they have beenattacking the family.
They want to destroy allstructure in people's lives.
They want to atomize theindividual, divorce him from his
family, divorce him from hischurch, divorce him from his
nation, divorce him from allmeaning and structure and
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authority until you create a seaof miserable, stupid,
meaningless people who will beeasy to enslave.
Divide and conquer.
Break everything down.
Destroy civilization.
Destroy the family.
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Destroy Christianity.
Destroy nationhood.
And that is when these schemingglobalists can finally claim
power.
So it's time that we end thisstupid charade of diversity
being our strength andcelebrating our differences and
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celebrating the things that tearus apart and divide us and
finally try to begin to reclaimour heritage and to reclaim our
national identity.
This is a fundamental issue andYou cannot exaggerate how
important this is.
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This is one of the mostconsequential issues in the
world, and we have to get thisright or Western civilization
will die and the entire worldwill turn into the third world.
This is what the battle overimmigration and deportations
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comes down to.
This is the difference betweenDonald Trump and Americans of
Sense and between the foreignbarbarians who are burning down
Los Angeles.
These are the two conflictingvisions.
A vision of national sovereigntyand preserving civilization and
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keeping maintaining the thingsthat instill meaning and
happiness into our lives, and abattle between people who want
to atomize individuals andremake the world into their
image, to destroy all structureand all authority and all
morality and all meaning andusher in a post-national
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globalist dystopia.
That's what this comes down to.
If America wants to continue tosurvive as a nation, it needs to
reclaim its identity and itsunity.
It needs to stop all this talkabout diversity and division
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being great, and it needs tofocus on restoring our shared
values and the things we have incommon, because it just dies if
we don't.
Alright, time for a change ofpace.
Now that we've gotten throughthe bad news part of the show,
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we can move on to some more badnews.
It's always nice to have morethan one thing to be angry
about.
More than one thing to evaporatethe joy and happiness from your
day.
So here's another bonus bad newsstory.
I hope you enjoy it.
You know, I really do hate tokeep tearing Republicans to
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shreds like I had to last weekover the big beautiful bill.
Or, hate is a strong word.
Let's just say I enjoy tearingRepublicans to shreds slightly
less than I enjoy tearingDemocrats to shreds, because I'm
a right-winger myself, in factmuch further to the right than
most people.
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But, Republicans won't stopdoing stupid things if they just
agree Republican Senator JoshHawley of Missouri has a new
proposal seemingly designed withthe explicit purpose of annoying
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me.
And that proposal is to almostdouble the minimum wage to$15 an
hour, which I oppose because Ibelieve that people should not
earn a living wage and shouldhave to beg on the city streets
in rags for food.
because I am a capitalist, sothat's what I think.
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CBS reports,"...Missouri GOPSenator Josh Hawley plans to
introduce legislation Tuesday toraise the federal minimum wage
to$15 per hour, a position thataligns one of the most
conservative lawmakers onCapitol Hill with some of the
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most liberal members ofCongress." The legislation,
called the Higher Wages forAmerican Workers Act, would
raise the federal standardstarting in 2026 and would also
call for an increase insubsequent years.
Josh Hawley said in a statement,For decades, working Americans
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have seen their wages flatline.
One major culprit of this is thefailure of the federal minimum
wage to keep up with theeconomic reality facing
hardworking Americans every day.
This bipartisan legislationwould ensure that workers across
America benefit from higherwages.
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I hate this, and I hate it alot, and you might be wondering
why.
You might think, who would beopposed to higher wages for
American workers?
It's right there in the name ofthe bill.
That must be what the bill does.
Are you against higher wages forAmerican workers?
Of course not, but, um...
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The minimum wage, which is justlike tariffs, which we talked
about a few weeks ago, soundsgreat, but it doesn't live up to
how it sounds.
The minimum wage is like thosehome-baked, sugar-free,
gluten-free muffins that thehealth freak in your life likes
to bake.
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On the surface, they look great,they smell great, your stomach
is grumbling, you're hungry, soyou can't resist trying it.
But to your horror, when youbite into one of the muffins,
it's parched and dry andlifeless.
Sometimes it even has spinachsmuggled into the middle of it.
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Suddenly, in one horriblemoment, you realize you are not
eating a muffin.
You're eating a lie.
In a similar way, all this talkof higher wages and
affordability for hardworkingAmericans and fairness makes
raising the minimum wage soundlike a great thing.
But like that fake muffin, it'sall a lie.
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To understand why, we need toclear a few things up, starting
with the term minimum wage,which is deceptive propaganda
designed to muddy the waters ofthe situation to stop you from
thinking rationally about it.
People say the minimum wage inAmerica is$7.25 an hour
federally and more than that incertain states, but while we do
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have a so-called minimum wagelaw that forces employers to pay
at least$7.20 an hour to theiremployees, that's not the real
minimum you can be paid.
The real minimum wage is alwayszero.
In a sense, a minimum wage doesnot exist and cannot exist
because no one owes you oranyone else a job, and no one is
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legally obligated to give you ajob if you're looking for one.
And even if you have a job, youcan always be fired from it.
You can always end up in asituation where you're making no
money at all.
If the government did have thegodlike power to suddenly make
every person in the countrywealthier, obviously that would
be a great thing.
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I'd still probably get up...
on the podcast and condemn itjust to be a contrarian, but
objectively it would be a greatthing, just like it would be a
great thing if the governmentwould pass a law ending all
poverty and crime and war andsorrow and unhappiness, or
erasing miscellaneous evils likeCrocs and gluten-free muffins
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and nose piercings and poodlesand hip-hop music from the face
of the earth.
But the government does not havegodlike power like that.
And even if it did, it would useit against us and not for us.
It's stupid and useless to sithere focusing on what we wish
the government could do and whatproblems we wish the government
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could solve.
Just like it's useless andstupid if you lost your job to
sit on the porch doing nothingbecause you wish some magical
genie would appear and showeryou in$10 million cash.
Our focus should be what thegovernment actually can do, and
out of the things it can do,what it should do.
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The second thing we have tounderstand, again, we talked
about this on the episode wherewe discussed tariffs, is the
zero-sum fallacy.
which Thomas Sowell talks aboutin Basic Economics, which you
should read.
The zero-sum fallacy is thebelief that in a free and
voluntary economic transaction,there's a winner and there's a
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loser.
Obviously, there are winners andlosers in unfree transactions,
like taxes, where the governmentforces you to pay them half of
everything you earn and destroysyour life and locks you in a
cage if you refuse.
But in the case of an employerand an employee, unlike a
taxpayer in the government, thetransaction is free and
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voluntary.
No one is forcing you to baggroceries.
Why are you doing it then?
Because you value the moneyyou're making more than the
amount of labor you're giving upfor it.
In turn, the store that hiredyou values the labor you're
giving them more than the moneyit's giving you.
If either of you decided that itwasn't worth it to you anymore,
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then what you were giving up wasmore valuable than what you were
getting in return.
You could stop it in a second.
Quit.
Fire the guy.
Those are the options that thevarious parties have.
But you don't really think that.
You do not really think thatit's not worth it, which is why
every morning you brush yourteeth, get dressed, and show up
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to work, and why every so oftenthe company you're working for
gets out a pen and writes you acheck.
You don't like working and thecompany that you work for
doesn't like paying you, butboth of you are benefiting and
none of you are losing.
But when the government thrustsitself into the middle of a free
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and voluntary transaction, itruins everything.
It cannot make the working classsuddenly wealthier with
so-called minimum wage laws.
All it can do is make thetransactions unfree.
It cannot raise the minimum wagefrom zero dollars, as I already
explained.
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So what do these laws really dothen?
They outlaw jobs.
They ban all jobs that pay undera certain amount.
That is exactly what so-calledminimum wage laws do.
We should not be surprised whenminimum wage laws increase
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unemployment, because that's theonly thing they could possibly
do.
Their very purpose is to destroyjobs that pay under X arbitrary
hourly wage that the governmentrandomly decided was necessary.
A national minimum wage of$15 anhour is a national ban on all
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jobs that are worth less than$15an hour, which includes a lot of
side jobs that college kids orteenagers might do over the
summer that simply are not worth$15 an hour.
This is probably the first timeyou have ever heard a broke
teenager explain to you why theminimum wage should be
abolished, but this is what Ithink because it is so obvious
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to me.
You might say, oh no, thegovernment's not outlawing jobs,
that's not what it's doing, allit's doing is making the company
pay the people more.
Okay then, genius, by thatlogic, if we want to end all
poverty instantly, and raise thestandard of living instantly,
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and make everyone rich and happyand content, we could just raise
the minimum wage to one milliondollars per hour, as a lot of
people have pointed out, Andthen all of that would be gone.
Instantly, you would completelyovercome poverty and everyone
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would have mansions and TeslaCybertrucks and indoor pools and
hot tubs and all of that type ofthing.
Instantly, you'd do that.
But, of course, the reason youdon't say that is because you
know that it would be impossibleto pay$1 million per hour.
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Companies do not have that kindof money.
Instead, all jobs everywherewould disappear.
No one would be paid anythingbecause there simply is not a
job on the planet that is worth$1 million an hour.
and companies don't have thatkind of money.
So, if you raise the minimumwage to$15 an hour, you do the
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exact same thing, just to alesser extent.
Companies that are now forced topay$15 an hour will immediately
begin looking for costs to cut.
That means people to fire, jobsto replace with AI, and to
automate and to replace withmachines.
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They'll start cutting cornersother places.
They'll raise prices tocompensate for the prices that
of labor that's gone up.
Just look at what happened inCalifornia with their$20 an hour
fast food minimum wage law.
Now fast food is a whole lotmore expensive in California
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suddenly.
Wonder why that happened.
Because they increased the priceof labor with their minimum wage
jobs.
So all you are doing and all youcan do with a minimum wage job
is kill jobs, kill employment,increase unemployment, extend
Accelerate automation and thereplace of human workers with
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AI, increase prices and reducequality.
Do any of those things soundgood to you?
No, they are terrible.
Every single thing on the listis terrible.
And this is a thing thatconservatives used to
understand.
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But suddenly, everyone isrejecting free market economics
and is suddenly falling for allthe socialist fallacies that
have destroyed our lives andresulted in an oppressive
government that sucks the lifeout of the economy by taking
half of everything we earn intaxes.
And yet, Josh Hawley is startingto talk like Bernie Sanders
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because he thinks it will makehim popular with his
constituents.
In reality, all it will do isharm them and harm the rest of
the country as well.
Thanks for listening to today'sepisode of The Conservative
Rebel.
Please like, subscribe, comment,and leave a review.
I'll talk to you next week.
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