5-5-25 - 9am - Trump The Dealmaker President

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
My favorite F word is firetruck because it starts with
F and ends in uc K. My mother loves to
tell the story. So on the street that I grew
up on until I was in a i think a
freshman high schools and I think my dad built this house,

(00:21):
there was a firehouse. I'm just guessing five blocks away
fire station. And so whenever the because this is what
you know, they had found the siren and then the
doors would fly open and the trucks would you know,
drive out, and whenever they would do that, my mom
loves to tell a story that I would run out

(00:43):
in the front yard and yell, mommy, mommy, fire fire. Yes,
she thinks it's hilarious. I think it's pathetic because Mom
didn't try to correct me, and in so far as
she tells the story because it's hilarious. So I'm finally

(01:11):
getting clarification from somebody on the text line. It's taken
a while, but we finally got there. So I want
to go back to what it is now. I gotta
find the stupid. So this this started with the text
about Article one, Section nine acting as a veto, oh

(01:36):
let me just see me do control fine? Veto Oh
is Scuba of eight zero three zero Michael Michael. Article
one says Congress has veto power over immigration. It does
not authorize Congress to force the state to accept immigrants.
As I pointed out somewhat in depth, I don't have
a clue what you're talking about, because I go to

(01:57):
the paragraph about immagration and that's pretty clear. So then
I get this kind of nasty gram again from eight
zero three zero. Michael read the paragraph on air, not
an interpretation, and I'm like what. Then he writes again,
Article one, section nine, paragraph one. Oh, that's what you're

(02:23):
talking about. Now, Now your question makes sense. It's just that, well,
you happen to be wrong. And I'm not trying to
be a jerk here. I'm just you're just wrong. So
let me pull up Article one, section nine two. I

(02:44):
mean article nine, I mean Article one. Section nine. Paragraph
one reads as follows. In a sotality, the migration or
importation of such persons as any of the states now existing,
meaning seventeen eighty nine shall think proper to admit. So

(03:08):
the migrational importation of such persons as any of the
states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not
be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand,
eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may
be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for
each person. That has nothing to do with immigration, nothing whatsoever.

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It refers to the slave trade, and it allowed Congress
to regulate, but not ban the importation of enslaved people
before eighteen oh eight. And in addition to that, it
permitted a tax of up to ten dollars per person

(03:57):
on such imports. They compromise between the slave states and
those anti slave states and delaying federal authority to abolish
the slave trade until eighteen oh eight, when in fact
Congress did ban the slave trade. The slave trade I

(04:19):
got to be particular here the slave trade. So that
has nothing to do with immigration whatsoever, unless you want
to argue that somehow slave trade is part of immigration.
But that's a separate part dealt with later in Section nine.
So we got that squared away. The Germany's domestic intelligence

(04:40):
service has designated the has designated a political party, the
Alternative for Germany, the a FD Party, as an extremist organization.
They announced this. I think Friday must have been Friday
here Saturday. Is this important because designating it as an

(05:03):
extremist organization permits the use of enhanced spying so they
can monitor this political party and monitor its leaders. The
Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which is Germany's
domestic splay agency, compiled a more than one thousand page
report to justify the classification. Now I don't know. I

(05:24):
haven't read it innocently. I've skimmed through it. I haven't
read the entire thing. But if you've got to take
a thousand pages to justify your spine on a domestic
political organization, perhaps thou death protest too much. They claim
that the AfD promotes an ethnocentric view of the population

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and that that view discriminates against certain groups, particularly those
that have immigrant backgrounds, particularly all of those foreigners invading Germany.
According to Nancy Faser, Germany's left this interior minister that
perspective of well, she claims that it conflicts with a

(06:05):
constitutional decree. So this is why I say that I
love little Marco as Secretary of State, because on behalf
of the Trump administration, Secretary of State Rubio has condemned
that move as tyrannical, saying and I quote, Germany just
gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition.

(06:31):
That's not democracy, its tyranny in disguise. What is truly
extremist is not the popular AfD, which took second place
in the recent election. That rather the establishment's deadly open
border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course,

(06:53):
he said, pretty ballsy, I think it's great now. The
AfD leaders have criticized the extremist designation as obviously a
politically motivated attack. Now kind of interestingly, the classification not
only impacts the public image of the party, which is

(07:15):
currently leading in the polls, but as Rubio warns, it
also allows for deeper surveillance and scrutiny of its members,
which could potentially culminate in legislative actions that would be
aimed at limiting or even outright banning the party's political
activities altogether. When I talk about that curtain of tyranny

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that kind of seems to be descending upon Europe, it
really is frightening. Now. I'm currently watching I Forget the Producers,
but Netflix currently has a multi part documentary on Churchill,

(08:04):
focused primarily on World War two. I shouldn't say primary, yes,
primarily on World War two, although it does kind of
delve into his childhood and his early political career and
some of his failures which he obviously learned from. But

(08:24):
when I saw this story yesterday, it once again reminded
me of how susceptible Germany seems to be to this
kind of tyranny, because the German lawmakers, they've already tried
to introduce motions to ban the AfD in the German legislature,

(08:45):
but a full band requires in order from what they
call their constitutional court, kind of like their Supreme Court.
This is another example of how immigrants you think about, Well,
think about Elizabeth Warren claiming that Trump and the Republicans

(09:08):
are disappearing individuals. No, we're actually just trying to enforce
immigration laws. What we're doing with immigration is we're actually
trying to protect the sovereignty of the country. What we're
doing with our immigration laws and trying to stop well,
which we pretty much have stopped the flow of illegal immigration.
Now we just you know, we've stopped the we turn
the water off. Now we got to start emptying the bathtub. Now.

(09:30):
I will be critical to Trump administration in this regard,
I understand I understand fully why they're doing it the
way they're doing it, because if we were to do,
say an Eisenhower Operation wet Back like he did in
nineteen fifty four and just start this massive deportation of
illegal aliens, there probably would be an uprising from the

(09:53):
left and the media. When you think about the media today,
they would, oh, fine, the very worst examples, because in
any sort of mass deportation, you're going to make mistakes
or you're going to they're gonna be able to find
the poorest of families where a little girl's got I

(10:16):
don't know, she's got she got cancer, she's got you know,
some sort of disease, and here we are deporting them
back to some crap ole third world country, and they
would you know that I can see it to be
a multi series about you know, we'll have you know,
be sure and twin end tomorrow when we follow the

(10:37):
trails of little you know, Monica Garcia should be an
interesting name as Monica makes her way back to Peru
and Tom Homan and Christine Noman and Donald Trump don't
care about her cancer, and then you know that would
be picked up by the ap and it'd be all
over the newspapers, and then the local news channels will

(10:59):
pick it up, and pretty soon everybody a little loyal about
the little girl Garcia and how bad you a little girl,
Monica Martinez and how badly she's being treated, and then
it'd be then there would start to be aild to backlash,
and then pretty soon Congress would get involved because oh no,
we're we're really concerned about it. Oh maybe we shouldn't
be doing this, and it would just completely fall apart.
So I understand exactly why Trump's doing it the way

(11:21):
he's doing it. How can you possibly defend someone who
is a child abuser, a spousal abuser, a member of
MS thirteen, or has felony convictions for murder either here
or foreign. I mean, how can you possibly defend that? Well,
the cabal's obviously trying to do that, but most Americans

(11:41):
are going, yeah, that's what I voted for, Yeah that's
what I want. Sucks to be you, but you're out
of here. Well, let's start with those, and let's get
the cut the country accustomed to that kind of movement,
and then we can start moving further down the chain
to the from the worst of the worst to well

(12:02):
there these are the less worst of the worst, and
then the slightly less worser, and then the worse set
the worst less, and finally get to just where now
we're just trying to get everybody out of the country
this year illegally. Now, I think that's smart for two reasons. One,
it acclimates us. Can't believe it is the word acclimates

(12:22):
so much today. It acclimates us to the idea of
supporting people who are in the country illegally. And it's
done on a rational basis, And it's obviously going to
take time. And I think it will help in the
midterm elections. And if it helps in the midterm elections,
it may result in, say sometime after twenty twenty six,

(12:43):
but before twenty twenty eight, of actually getting some sort
of and I because I don't have any better word
to use or a better phrase, it will actually get
us some sort of comprehensive immigration reform where we recognize that, oh, yeah,
we actually can seal the border. We've done that. Maybe

(13:05):
we ought to give the president a little more power.
Maybe we all to start focusing on the ports. Maybe
we all to start focusing on the northern border. Maybe
we ought to start focusing on let's figure out a
way now to get all of these other people out
and then maybe, just maybe there is some political compromise
about people. You know. I I forget, I forget where

(13:29):
I was watching this yesterday, but there was. They were
somebody on the cabal was interviewing some woman. I hear it.
Whish I can remember where it was, but they they
were talking about the idea, not the idea, but the
plan to share tax information with DHS and how awful

(13:51):
that was. Maybe it was sixty minutes or something, but
they were talking about how bad it was. And someone
made the claim and I haven't verified the claim, but
they made the claim that illegal aliens in this country
pay ninety billion dollars in federal income tax. Now, maybe
they do, maybe they don't, but that would be an

(14:12):
argument for Okay, well, if we have someone here, I'm
just made I'm just telling you what the argument is
going to be that if we have someone here, they've
been working for let's say twenty years. Let's take to
the maximum example, they've been working here for twenty plus years,
and maybe both mom and dad work and they've raised
three kids, and now one of the kids is actually working.

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Now three members of that household are paying federal and
state income taxes condition to all the other taxes that
we pay. Well, there might be some compromise that says, okay,
well we'll grant them some sort of path the citizenship. Well,
I would argue, and I'm just totally thinking out loud,
that if we got the the in higher scale of

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illegal aliens in this country narrowed down from and let's
just say twenty million, maybe more, maybe less, but we
narrow it down from twenty million to say one million,
and those one million had been here for a decade
or longer. They're gainfully employed, whether they should have been

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legally or not, but they are, and they are indeed
filing income tax returns and have for the for the
decade or longer they've been here, and we can show
that they're paying, you know, as a totality, you know,
ninety billion dollars in federal income taxes, then I would
say a lot of Americans might think, okay, well, let's
let's grant them some amnesty, or let's grant them, you know,

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upon some other prerequisites that you might able to get
gain citizenship. But that means we've eliminated ninety nine point
nine percent of all the other illegal We've sealed the border,
we now have enough immigration judges. We've tightened down the
student visas, we've tightened down the H one B visus.

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We've tightened down in other words, we've accomplished everything else
except for this narrow group of people. But maybe there
is some agreement that Republicans and Democrats could agree on
and going forward, we've solved the problem. We've grandfathered in
very few people, tax paying, productive people who yes, violated

(16:35):
the law, but we've imposed a few additional prerequisites on
them to get that status, and we've gotten rid of
the others. We've turned the water flowing into the bathtub off.
We've emptied the bathtub except for that. You know how
whenever you emptied at the shower, there's still just a
little bit of water takes the drain. Now, that's what
we're left with in Germany. The bathtub is overflowing. In Germany,

(17:02):
they still the water roll And what are they doing.
They're going after the political party that's trying to stop them.
So they're kind of doing the same thing here, which
is why I think Trump's being smart about the way
he's approaching.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Hey, brownie, I was in a certified non lawyer municipal
court judge in the state of Missouri back in the
nineteen eighties. Where do I sign up to be a
administrative judge.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
For these hearings?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
For these eli?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
See, I'll do it for two weeks for thousand dollars
a day plus travel expense having a day.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
No, no, no, no, no, listen no, there's no stinking
travel expenses involved. Maybe a per diem for lunch. Peop
will give you a per deem for lunch. But let's
say there's twenty million, So twenty million hearings, and you know,
a family, a family can't do a whole hearing. It's
got to be every individual, So whatever the number is.
So they're everywhere, They're everywhere. Now, I don't know what

(18:06):
little town of Missouri you were a municipal judge, but
that's where you sit. And there's surely a holiday and
express there's something there, or you know, we'll just get
the church, you know, fellowship hall, and you can do
it in the church fellowship hall. But then would it
be a Protestant church, a Catholic church, would it be

(18:28):
a synagogue, a musque And we got to be careful now,
so maybe we'll do it at city hall. We'll do
it in the city hall council chambers. That's where we'll
do it. Particularly if you're a sanction if you're a
sanctuary city, that's particularly where we'll do it. But there's
no travel expenses, so you don't get to you know,
you just have to do that. Maybe a per diem

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and then I think a thousand dollars a day is
pretty reasonable because you're hearing might take Oh, I don't know,
you know, damn lawyers will want to talk forever, so
you know that'll that'll be awful. I mean, I can't
imagine that. I don't know if any lawyers that would
just want to talk forever just right, just ramble on
and on and on. I mean, I can't imagine any
lawyer would ever do that. And that's impossible. But let's

(19:11):
just say there just happened to be one somewhere that
would do that. Well, you're going to sit there and
listen to them, and you can you know, and then
there'll be objections, you know, and I would just say this,
just keep a little scorecard, maybe an Excel spreadsheet, and
just randomly either sustain or overrule the objections, no rhyme
or reason to it, like no legal basis at all,

(19:33):
just sustained like to sustains and one objection, and then
do two more objections and then do for sustains, and
just you know, for the thousand dollars, you gotta be
there for at least half a day, you know, because
you don't want to do too many in a day
because then you're one thousand dollars per day. Fee is
going to be reduced, and they might well they might

(19:56):
like you and keep you on, send you somewhere else,
and then you could get trouble. They send you to
Saint Louis, and you do them in Saint Louis, although
there will have to have security for you. So you
have to have security because well Saint Louis. And what
if you deny them privileges and you order them started

(20:19):
to say export it. What if you order them export it? Okay,
and maybe some would well, we're going to export you.
It'scept you to a tariff. I don't know, have tariffs
involved too. So the Trump administration is man this I

(20:40):
thought we were busy in the Bush administration. Holy Cow.
They're now working to try to facilitate a peace agreement
between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, aiming for
they want a formal signing at the White House in
sixty days or less. Now with that, now, Trump Man,

(21:03):
I think, I think he's just decided he's going to
be the deal maker president because the this agreement is
expected to be accompanied by a bilateral mineral agreement, because
they want to bring substantial investments from Western firms, probably
mostly US firms to that region. Now why because that

(21:26):
region is the the men I may do this tomorrow.
I've read a couple of stories about the mineral agreement.
The security agreement between US and Ukraine is a nothing burger.
I've just got I've got to confirm whether it really
is or not, because most, if not all, of the

(21:51):
rare earth minerals that Ukraine has is supposedly within Russian
occupied territory. So I've just got to stay any more
about them. But in the DRC and Rwanda, there is
a boatload of rare earth minerals. Some Massade Bulus, who's

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Trump senior advisor for Africa, confirmed the development and said
when we sign the peace agreement, the minerals deal with
the DRC will be signed on that day, and then
a similar package but of a different size, will be
signed on the day with on that day with Rwanda. Now,
the North Kivu Province in the DRC has a lot

(22:38):
of unrest going on because of activities from the M
twenty three. Once with all that, you've got MS thirteen
and here you got the M twenty three's are believed
to be backed by Rwanda, although Rwanda denies any involvement,
but both nations are expected to actually anticipate, i say

(22:58):
better to present drafts of the proposed piece of cord.
That's as a prelude to a meeting in DC scheduled
for mid month, like maybe in the next week or so,
where Marco Rubio will then meet with their foreign ministers.
And what the deal does is it seeks these large
scale investments in the mining sector, particularly in the Congo,

(23:22):
which has these extensive resources but doesn't have the infrastructure
that they need, Wherewanda, on the other hand, is recognized
for its mid to downstream mining capabilities, so strategically speaking,
greater Western involvement in that region would do what China
is being attacked on all sides. It would diminish the

(23:46):
long standing Chinese influence. The Wall Street Journal had a
story over the weekend about just how bad is the
Chinese economy? If I I probably won't have time today,
but maybe I'll give you some of the stats, because
China has just stopped as let's say, as employment of

(24:08):
twenty four to thirty four year olds as that began
to the trend line was already downward, but then say
in late twenty twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, when
it really began to drop off even more dramatically, guess
what China did. They just stopped reporting any data whatsoever.

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The same for new housing starts. The same for mortgage
for closures or mortgages that were behind by you know,
three months or more for an investment. They tracked for
an investment until they didn't. So China is getting more
and more desperate, and they're turning to places like the

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Congo and the dr in Rwanda because they got as
long as they got that influence, they're able to or
at least shi Jingping is able to remain in power
because hey, look, we still have influence over here, and
we still get these minerals. Well, Trump is strategically attacking
them with the tariffs at the same time that he's

(25:16):
deal making between the DRC and Rwanda. And if that
deal really does get done, is everybody seems to think
that it will be. And why wouldn't we believe him?
Scott Bessen told us that the deal was going to
get done in Ukraine, and then Zelenski comes out and says,
we're not going to sign it, and Trump comes out

(25:36):
and says, yeah, they'll eventually sign it, and they did,
so I have no reason to doubt this. So the
investment agreements that we're talking about in the DRC and
Rwanda would be conditional on both of those countries addressing
very specific security concerns, including the withdrawal of the Robandan

(25:56):
troops from the Congolese territory and this station of support
for the M twenty three group. Additionally, the DRC must
address Rwanda's apprehensions concerning militias like the Democratic Forces for
the Liberation of Rwanda of them stopping all of their activities.
So ahead of the intended White House ceremony, a committee

(26:20):
comprised of reps from the US Cutter of France and
Togo that represents the African Union, are going to monitor
every country's adherence to these preliminary terms. And this comes
just days after that announcement last week when Trump confirmed
and that scottsent went on and confirmed the mineral deal
with Ukraine covering a bunch of resources there, such as

(26:42):
rare earth minerals, which is obviously part of a larger
peace process to end the conflict with Russia. So Trump
is busy making deals all over the world right now. Rubil,
I bet Rubil has been on the I don't know, hell,
he must come back for cabinet meetings so that you

(27:02):
can be on TV a little bit. And that's it.
He's working his buns off and I find it absolutely
fascinating and I hope he continues to do so. The
I forgot I was gonna say something about the Chinese,
but whatever that particular thought was went out. But in

(27:25):
another part about the Chinese, there's a shifting view in
this country toward Asian Americans, particularly of Chinese origin, and
part of that is because the increasing tensions between the
Chinese Communist Party and Trump over the imposition of those
one hundred and forty five percent tariffs. I would just

(27:47):
caution that while you may turn a side eye at
a foreign Chinese person in this country, I'm not talking
about American Chinese. I'm not talking about Asian Americans. I'm
talking about real citizens of China. I think we should

(28:11):
look a little side eye at them. But you got
to be careful you look side eyed at because I
don't think we can lump Taiwanese or Singaporeans, or Cambodians
or Laotians or anybody else with true Chinese Huns or
whatever from communist China with all the others. But according

(28:33):
to this survey, forty percent of respondents said they see
Asian Americans, which is way too broad for a polic question,
as being more loyal to their country of origin than
the United States, and twenty five percent said they're concerned
that Chinese Americans are a threat to national security. Stop it, no, no,

(28:57):
We're not going anywhere near the idea of in hernment camps.
So the pole bugs me because they lump Asian Americans
as one. Stop it. We're not going to go down
that path. I don't want us to go down that path.
On the other hand, if you know personally of a

(29:19):
Chinese from say Shanghai or Beijing or any other provinces,
and they're living in this country, whether they're here on
a visa or illegally. I don't care if you cast
aside eye at them, but stop the Asian American stuff.
That's absurd, Michael. Make it like a city council meeting

(29:39):
or the Supreme Court, and each side has five or
ten minutes to present their case and then the judge rules. Easypasy, Yeah,
but I want to do it for more than just
a day. If I'm going to charge one thousand bucks
a day, I want to do it for thirty days.
Just take my vacation time here for a month and

(30:00):
an extra thirty grand and do my civic duty. Do
you remember springtime? For Hitler? Deutschland is happy and gay. Well,
instead of celebrating the socialist dictator, you know, the genocidal maniac,
the current liberal Marxist equivalent celebrates another maniac accused of

(30:20):
murdering Brian Thompson for being a healthcare executive. The main
difference between the mel Brooks, you know, Satire was not
siding with Hitler when he made the producers. Instead, we
now get Luigi the Musical. Yes, San Francisco's leftist theater

(30:43):
types are performing a comedy that lionizes. Luigi Mangione is
a folk hero for not just murdering the United Healthcare CEO,
but shooting him in the back, not even have the
guts to walk around to his face shooting him. Tickets
are already sold out Luigi the Musical, which turns an act

(31:07):
of evil into a lighthearted quote story of love, murder,
and hash Browns. According to the website, yes, you can
find it at luigimusical dot info. Luigimusical dot info. Now

(31:27):
it sounds like they're joining prominent Democrats Senator Elizabeth Warren
in effectively endorsing the Murder Again website. Cold Blooded Murder
is rather complex, according to the musical's creators, who make
their criminal characters into victims of the systems We're supposed

(31:49):
to trust now, also calling the producers to mind or
mel Brooks. You know it is the new musical slam Frank.
Did Ann Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege? That question,
asked and debated by real people in a viral twenty
twenty two Twitter thread, is the inspiration behind something called

(32:11):
slam Frank. It's a musical satire imagines what happens when
a progressive community theater company decides that maybe now it's
not the time for us to center these privileged, straight
white European Jews and in never to make our world
a better place. This heroic fictional theater troop transforms and
Frank's true story into an intersectional, multi ethnic, gender queer,

(32:34):
be colonized, anti capitalist, hyper empowering Afro Latin hip hop musical,
because well, that's the age we live in now. I'm
going to take Dragon into San Francisco so we can
see Luigi the musical. Get front row seats. You know,

(32:54):
I'm only going if it makes Broadway. Oh man, if
it makes Broadway, we'll have to go. We'll have to go.
But san Francisco we can dodge needles and stuff.