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