Brother 800

A Chinese man who demanded overdue backpay from a government-owned factory, set it ablaze in protest. The action went viral across Chinese social media, gaining popular support for the man known as “Brother 800.”

The Chinese economy is near collapse and could erupt in civil disobedience- something that frightens CCP leadership at a time when they face economic collapse.

Episode Transcript

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Great, Did. Is there another kind?
You see, the useful idiots that the Soviet Union that Lenin put
into America are now the useful idiots from the Chinese.
They're coming down in America like Pac-Man eating us up.
Alive. They're acting more as
propagandists. You know the Pac-Man game.
Think of a Pac-Man game, out of control, sucking away at the
foundation of America. If Russia pursues its

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aggression, it will face the massive consequences.
Because if they don't want you to believe something and they
can cast doubt, sometimes confusion can actually be the
goal. The goal?
The goal and as we've said all along.
Confusion can actually be the goal.
Welcome to another edition of America TODAY.
Jim Watkins here. We've got a busy, busy show.
Lots going on. We'll be talking to Dennis Neal
in a little while. He's kind of an expert on Elon

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Musk and he'll sort of unpack what's going on.
I know a lot of people are watching it.
It's interesting. Yeah, there's perspective
everywhere to be found, so we'llget Kevin Neil's perspective
coming up in a little bit. Also, we've got the what's
trending on social and there's awhole bunch of stuff for you.
It's going to be a jam packed hour, but I do want to bring

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your attention to something thatin an odd kind of way gives me a
little bit of solace. And it has to do with a report
that's coming out of China, southwestern China, a 20 and and
it's Catching Fire. This is something that is going
viral in China, despite their heavy surveillance and the CCPs

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crackdown on on netizens, what they call them.
So it's interesting to watch that this could possibly have
the potential to be something that proves very dire for the
Chinese Communist Party. And the and to me that that I
take a little bit of joy becausethe heavy-handed iron fisted

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government of China responsible for so many deaths, so much in
the last five years has been determined COVID-19, not having
to, you know, face any consequences for what had ended
up killing over 6 million people.
And they act like they did nothing wrong.
They're infiltrating our countrywith fentanyl, spying on us and

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just really being bad actors, you know, just bad actors here.
Here we are in the 21st century,and we got a group of gangster
thugs running the second largestcountry in the world.
And then frankly, I'm sick of them.
And it's it's unfortunate that we've become so entangled in the
Chinese Communist Party. But hey, you know, Wall Street

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wanted to make a quick buck anyway.
So the story is that a 27 year old worker was cheated out of
about $100 in pay and he worked at a factory and he burned the
damn place down. He says we're all going to die
anyway. So he set up a blaze, a factory
that burned for three days. And when the fire finally went

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out, quote Brother 800 was born a viral symbol of despair and
rage. And this comes from the Daily
Caller. The the Jeff King is the article
sponsor, says Chinese medicines have spread the story far and
wide. And he has emerged as the voice
of millions of laid off, cheatedand enraged workers across

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China. Brother 800, So I want you to
put that out there on TikTok, OK?
Just keep typing it. Find the story and spread it far
and wide because they're watching us.
And I want them to see that we know what's going on there.
Brother 800 has become a symbol of courage and vigilante
justice, and this terrifies the Chinese Communist Party.

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And we want them to be terrified.
We want them to get distracted with their own stuff so that
they'll get out of everybody else's business.
And frankly, in in this book that I read earlier this year,
which I'll see if I can nab the title, but it explains the rise
and fall of of nations throughout time.
What is it that is that final straw that breaks the camel's

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back that causes the downfall ofgovernments, whether it's Roman
Empire, the Western united, whatever it is, and this act,
this seems like this could be the the light that ignites the
fire. So China's $17 trillion economy
was once considered the beacon of prosperity, but it's

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crumbling right now, crushing debt, property crash.
Jeff Jeff Smith writes From Shenyang's ghost towns to
Shanghai's plummeting condos, the Chinese Communist Party
packed with the people, riches in exchange for docility, lies
and ashes. Key question of interested

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observers is whether Brother 800that match will ignite A
firestorm. And it's interesting because
it's on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
The collapse, Jeff writes, is rooted in systemic rot.
For decades, local governments fueled by selling land, which
accounted for 40% of local government revenue.

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The property bubble burst in 2021 when giant real estate
companies like Evergrand collapsed, along with property
values and tax revenues. Shanghai Shanghai, one of
China's wealthiest cities, has seen a 60% fall in real estate

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prices. That's disastrous for any
economy, but in China it's especially problematic because
60% of all Chinese wealth is tied up in real estate.
The popping of China's real estate bubble is devastating
enough, but if it coincides withthe introduction of a massive US
tariff that has gutted exports and employment, deepening an

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already gaping fiscal wound. Local governments drowning in
$13 trillion in debt are sellinghospitals in Guizhou and tourist
spots in Yunnan in desperate attempts to stay afloat.
The human toil is heart wrenching, says the article.
In Shangyang, 90% of stores, 90%are shuttered.

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Teachers are waiting six months for 400 bucks in past due wages
and many have now had to borrow just to survive.
The youth unemployment now for us in America, we're at 4.2%.
Announced today. The government said youth
unemployment hit 19% in 2022 andthat probably is not the right

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number if you know anything about the CCP and middle-aged
people are now locked out of thejob market which represents the
largest demographic. 41 year oldman said I haven't found a job
in a year and a half because I'msupposedly too old to work 41
years old. The the middle class has
abandoned formerly mandatory mandatory piano lessons for the

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children and high end liquor prices have tanked.
Over 500,000 small businesses closed in 2024.
So all this portends to a crumbling of the great Chinese
empire. And that, that to me is, is good
news because I, I care about thepeople of China.
I don't like their government. And we've had people on our

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program here from Shenyun who give us regular updates on
what's happening. But this is big news.
So spread the word, tell them that we support.
What is it again? Remember I told you Brother 800?
OK, Brother 8, we support in America.
We support the movement. A Brother 800.

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Nothing bothers the CCP more than being, you know, having an
unsettled populace. There's a lot of people there
now. They don't have guns like many
of us do, but they they can do things.
They can lie down. Remember a couple years ago,
there was a trend in China wherepeople would just stay in bed.
This is where change comes. This is how you change

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organically from within. And I tell people all the time,
you know, America, we're always trying to do great things around
the world. We're trying to improve
societies, giving them, you know, globs of money saying go
for it, go for it. We end up fueling corruption.
This is America's number one export is corruption in my
opinion. Because when we start just
giving money to causes and countries where they oppress

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their people, they're not, there's not not going to be
change. And again, you know, using the
the example of Gaza, nothing is going to change as long as the
people support Hamas. Hamas has to go bye bye.
The CCP has to go bye bye. And I've written about this in,
in my book Godless, how secularism is destroying

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society. And we go into this because it's
important. We are in a we are in a
interesting period of, of history and change is coming.
People in Poland decided that they love their country more
than they love the EU, so they voted for a right wing
candidate. Same is happening elsewhere,
Hungary and, and, and we're seeing this sort of, I don't

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know, I call it a blue wave, a red wave, red wave, I guess
would be appropriate. And, and it's a, it's a good
kind of change. And it also weakens the
dominance of the Chinese Communist Party, which to me
right now is a virus, a white blood cell of humanity.
It's cancerous. And, and perhaps the, the

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treatment is a rebellion from within.
That's what I'm hoping for. It's what I'm keeping in mind my
head up high for because as longas they're distracted with that,
they're not going to invade Taiwan.
We we can hope anyway. We've got a lot more to come.
Sound bites galore. And I think you're going to
laugh, you're going to cry and and you're going to enjoy it.
This is a snapshot of America today.

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Jim Watkins. We'll be right back.