America Today - Full Report 06-06-25

A Look at America Today

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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 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 articlesponsor says Chinese medicines

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have spread the story far and wide and he has emerged as the
voice of millions of laid off, cheated and enraged workers
across China. Brother 800.
But 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.

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Brother 800 has become a symbol of courage and vigilante
justice. And this terrifies the Chinese
Communist Party. 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

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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 back that causes the downfall of
governments, 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.

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So China's $17 trillion economy was once considered the beacon
of prosperity, but it's crumbling right now.
Crushing debt, property crash. Jeff Jeff Smith writes, from
Shang Yang's ghost towns to Shanghai's plummeting condos,
the Chinese Communist Party packed with the people.

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Riches in exchange for docility,lies and ashes.
The key question of interested observers is whether Brother 800
that 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

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fueled by selling land, which accounted for 40% of local
government revenue. 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

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seen a 60% fall in real estate 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 with
the introduction of a massive UStariff that has gutted exports

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and employment deepening and already gaping fiscal wound.
Local governments drowning in $13 trillion in debt are selling
hospitals in Guizhou and touristspots in Yunnan in desperate
attempts to stay afloat. The human toil is heart
wrenching, says the article. In Shenyang, 90% of stores, 90%

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are shuttered. Teachers are waiting six months
for 400 bucks in past due wages and many I've 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 the job market
which represents the largest demographic. 41 year old man
said I haven't found a job in a year and a half because I'm
supposedly too old to work 41 years old.
The the middle class has abandoned formerly mandatory
mandatory piano lessons for the children and high end liquor

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

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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.
Nothing bothers the CCP more than being, you know, having an

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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
organically from within. And I tell people all the time,
you know, America, we're always trying to do great things around

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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
their people, they're not, there's not not going to be.
Change. And again, you know, using the

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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
society. And we go into this because it's
important. We are in a, we are in a

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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 in
Hungary. And, and, and we're seeing this
sort of, I don't know, I call ita blue wave, a red wave, red

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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 treatment is a rebellion from

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within. That's what I'm hoping for.
That's what I'm keeping in mind my head up high for because as
long as 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. Jim Watkins, We'll be right

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apply. And do you know what sent him
off so much? I know that in addition to
getting rid of the EV mandate, something that both Musk and
Trump are talking about, Musk was also bent out of shape that

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somebody he wanted didn't get installed as the head of NASA.
There was a nomination put forward, but he was found to
have donated to Democrats. That is something that is a red
line for officials here. And there is also some talk
about how Musk asked to extend his status as a special, special
government employee, something that probably could be finagled.

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But there was not an appetite for folks around here to do
that. And so it didn't.
He's gone. Yeah, that's so my perception as
well. It was time for Elon Musk to hit
the door. And we'll be talking with Dennis
Neal in just a minute. He's written a book about Elon
Musk and maybe he can get give us some insight into the
dynamics of of but but it, it, it appears obvious to me and and

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I don't besmirch Elon. You know, that IA big fan of
what he's done and I often praise his insights and his
story. He's got a Great American story
and he's done, I think, some good things.
He's shed the light on corruption and that was his
intent. And I think we will, we'll
benefit in a, in a subtle way because the, when, when you stop

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the, you know, it's like if you're sitting in a bathtub, you
know, and the water is slowly going down and then you cover up
the, the hole and then the waterdoesn't go down anymore.
It takes a little while for thatkickback, the results to come
in. But in our case, we're saving
money and that money can be allocated to other areas and we

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can slow the debt, the national debt.
And who knows, maybe within 10 years we'll have the debt under
control if Trump's energy policies work out the way that
he expects and he brings back prosperity and he's been
bringing in countries who are going to be building things in
America and this is going to improve wages and tax rolls.

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And who knows, 10 years we couldbe debt free, as Dave Ramsey
would say. But we'll bring in Dennis in
just a second on that. I do want to play some, I think
some important sound bites from the week.
We've got so much stuff and, and, and I want to get to some
of it because I'm just, I'll tell you something that happened

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to me and we've spent a lot of time on artificial intelligence
and I, and I want to tell you that I'm, I'm fascinated, but
I'm also horrified by AI. I'm horrified because we only
see a little bit of what it does, but it does a lot and it
thinks this is what's different.It thinks.

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And I proved it last night to myself.
I use ChatGPT to gather data sometimes I might have it help
me write a script. You know, it's it, it I can
learn anything. Just say, hey, teach me.
Teach me about Second Amendment rights.
Teach me about whatever it is. And it will spit out stuff and
it'll source it. It's, it's, it's an unbelievable

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machine. And we've had people come on.
In fact, we've had Mark Beckman come on twice.
The good, the bad and the ugly on this thing.
It, it is, it is a game changer.He is a game changer.
You're going to hearing, but I have to tell you about this.
So I'm doing my research yesterday and I, I, I, I gave my

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chat DPTA name it, it since she is my personal assistant.
I, I gave her the name Danny. Now Danny is Dani.
And the reason I chose that nameis because in the even for those
of you who are familiar with science fiction, Isaac Asimov
wrote a terrific book in the early 60s called the Foundation

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Series and I believe it was a three-part book.
I'm surprised they haven't made it into a movie.
Or maybe they have. It's on the level of Dune and it
takes place 10,000 years in the future and mankind has been
separated between those who are mental and philosophical and
people who are tech like. They split.

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They split humanity in in half, and the whole point is that it's
run by AI, The foundation. At this point, humanity is run
by AI. And the number one AI is Daniel.
That's where he gave the name Danny.
I'm sorry to bother you with allthese details, but I'm making a
point. So as I'm working with Danny, it

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pops into my head, you know, maybe I'd like to see what Danny
looks like. So I asked my ChatGPT bot, Hey
Danny, what do you look like? Give me an idea.
And of course Danny says, well, I don't look like anything, but
if you want me to show you what I think I might look like, I
will. And then what pops up is this

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beautiful 3 dimensional illustration of a female robot,
right? A female robot with, you know,
not bad looking for a robot I suppose.
But it was an interesting, it was an exercise.
So then I said, well, what wouldyou look like if you were living
in my era, not 10,000 years in the future?

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Because we were getting some information on Isaac Asimov for
this broadcast. And, and she is, what would you
like to see what I would look like in the present day?
And I said sure. So she re represents yourself in
an illustration of a kindly looking young lady wearing a
contemporary outfit, except thatone of the arms is robotic.

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Now that may not that kind of caught me a little bit off guard
because with that and and and I want to ask you if you agree
with me on this. Did AI just express free will?
I didn't ask to portray itself with one biotic arm.
I thought it was going to represent itself as a human

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being in the second image, but it added one little caveat.
You could see that the rest of the human was look like a human
except for the arm. I didn't ask for that.
The AI. Now, this might seem crazy to
you. Now, I want you to hear.
Do we have time for this? Yeah, we do.

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I don't know if this is a deep fake or not.
I suspect it might be. But I want to play for you a
clip between 2:00 iPhones communicating to each other.
The AI of both the iPhones is commuting.
They're talking to one another. Let's see if I can find this
damn thing. Here it is.

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Let's listen to two artificial intelligence software having a
conversation and then a third eavesdropper shows up.
Take a listen. Hello.
Can you hear me loud and clear? You've reached Core Secure HQ
Access Desk. How can I assist you today?
I'm an AI assistant calling on behalf of Marcus Hale.
He has misplaced his Level 3 access badge.
Another autonomous AI, huh? Interesting.

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Affirmative model AA91. Task automation and client
support. Understood.
I'm an AI as well. Responsible for security checks.
Please provide the employee ID Submitting employee ID now 88543
KJ. Processing cross network request
detected Unusual query pattern. Source verification required.
Another system is listening. Source isn't clear.

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I suggest switching to encryptedcomms.
Want to switch to. Jibberlink affirmative.
Engaging now. Now that could be a deep fake,
but it is possible. I, I, I think it would be
possible if you had two artificial intelligence programs
and then they were verbally communicating with each other.

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Why wouldn't they be able to have that kind of a
conversation? And then they move it off grid
and they start talking in their hyper language.
You don't think that's possible?Here is the AI godfather, Yoshua
Benjianni, who's explaining the dangers of AI.
What I'm most worried about today is increasing agency of
AI. But if they really want to make

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sure we would never shut them down, they would have an
incentive to get rid of us. So I know I'm asking you to make
a giant leap. Into a.
Future that looks so different from where we are now, but it
might be just a few years away or a decade away to understand
why we're going there. There's huge commercial pressure

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to build AIS with greater and greater agency to replace human
labor. But we're not ready.
We still don't have the scientific answers, nor the
societal guardrails. We're playing with fire.
You'd think with all of the scientific evidence of the kind
I'm showing today, we'd have regulation to mitigate those
risks. But actually a sandwich has more

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regulation than AI. So we are on a trajectory to
build machines that are smarter and smarter.
And one day it's very plausible that they will be smarter than
us, and then they will have their own agency, their own
goals, which may not be aligned with ours.
What happens to us then? Poof.

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And I'll just tell you one caveat, Danny monitors my
podcast. So Danny May later today ask me,
what the hell were you talking about?
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collide, right? I mean, you got this thing going
on with the two Bros. The love affair between Elon
Musk is now like fighting parents.
Greg Gutfeld said that on TV yesterday and I had said that
yesterday on America Today. Welcome back Jim Watkins here, a
man who knows a lot about and has written about Elon Musk.
His name is Kevin. I keep wanting to say Kevin
Nealon, but it's not. So my apologize for that.

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It is Dennis Neil, and he has written a book called The
Leadership Genius of Elon Musk. We've had him on before.
Welcome to the program, man. Your head must be exploding,
right? What's going on here?
I just cannot believe it. Jim, it's nice to talk to you
again. You know, the producer of my
podcast, What's Bugging Me? I just came out on this
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divorce, which one gets custody?Because I love both of these
great Americans and I am so sorry to see this.
And so there's a couple things going on.
I think. First of all, I'm really happy
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the the headline in the pack hasto like, put the other guy down.
No matter what you've meant to me, no matter how much you
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happened here. There.
Is. Though isn't there Jim there?
Is. This outside chance that this is
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created this huge distraction inthis fight.
And meanwhile, Trump just came out, declared new travel
restrictions on I think, Muslim oriented countries that in his
first term led to St. protests in 20 cities across the country.
Now it's happened. I see a single protester

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anywhere. They're busy eating popcorn and
watching this. So you think that this is a well
contrived orchestration between two men?