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White people didn't invent slavery. Here's the uncomfortable truth. https://t.co/jbddmQEfzz
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- "White people didn't invent slavery. In fact, they were the first to end it."
- "Slavery is evil, but it's an ancient human evil practiced by everyone to everyone."
- "Trans Saharan slave trade."
- "Barbary slave trade."
- "Europeans did take slavery to another scale when they came to Africa."
- "Which major power stopped slavery first? The British, in large part because of pro human Christian values."
- "White people aren't better than anyone else, but they're also not worse."
- "That lie makes us ignore history and fuels racial hatred."
- "The only way out of this is to stop making morality about the color of people."
- "Because in our capacity for good and evil, we are all equals."
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Speaker 0: White people didn't invent slavery. In fact, they were the first to end it. Yet somehow, saying this is controversial. Watch what happens when someone says it out loud.
Speaker 1: The reason there is no slavery in the world today I mean, there's a lot of slavery in the world today, but in the parts of the world where there's no slavery, is because the British Empire ended it. That's why there is no slavery. That is So Well The fact that you are uneducated about history doesn't mean it's funny. So let me educate you now. Let me educate you now.
Let me educate you now. I know that the woke narrative and the anti western narrative on slavery well, you're not practicing free speech very well, are you? Let's let's You're not practicing free speech very well, are you? The moment I say something you don't like, you're not practicing free speech very well, are you, sir?
Speaker 0: Thank you. Let's be clear. Slavery is evil, but it's an ancient human evil practiced by everyone to everyone. Four years ago, I went to Ghana. I stood in a slave dungeon, where people who looked like me sold people who looked like me to white people.
But long before Europeans began the Transatlantic slave trade, there was a Trans Saharan slave trade. For over a thousand years, brown Arab slavers sold millions of black Africans across the Sahara. Then came the Barbary slave trade. In North Africa, Arab and African raiders captured and sold over a million white Christian Europeans. China, Korea, Japan, India, every one of them practiced slavery.
Europeans did take slavery to another scale when they came to Africa. But it's not because they were more evil, it's because they had the technology to commit evil on an industrial scale. So which major power stopped slavery first? The British, in large part because of pro human Christian values. The same values America was founded on.
The same values that drove white Americans to fight other white Americans to free black Americans in the civil war. Values missing in places like Libya, where today, you can buy a human being for $400. White people aren't better than anyone else, but they're also not worse. Yet, some black people are taught to hate white people, and many white people are taught to hate themselves. We keep pretending evil has a color, as if less melanin means less morality.
That lie makes us ignore history and fuels racial hatred. Right now, much of that hatred is aimed at white people. But why should black or brown people care? Because hatred is a hot coal that we hold in our hand, waiting to throw at another. It burns them, but it burns us too.
It turns every problem into white supremacy while defending black degeneracy. And when the pendulum swings back, white people react with hostility, and then they defend white degeneracy. The only way out of this is to stop making morality about the color of people. Because in our capacity for good and evil, we are all equals. If you're tired of lies about history, subscribe to my Substack.
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@thatsKAIZEN - Kaizen D. Asiedu
More thoughts on why we need to talk about these topics https://t.co/FRtbtGhl64
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"I saw Constantine speaking at that conference, I think it was in Qatar or somewhere, about the history of slavery." "And, you know, he's speaking in Qatar there and I know nothing about the Qatari education system," "but certainly in America, bad ideas are on the rise." "We have a rise of Marxism and people pushing for systems that have failed, not just failed a little bit, like failed catastrophically throughout the twentieth century." "We have people with racial grievances believing in essentially race essentialism and that the color of your skin determines your morality." "And I think a lot of this is just tied to the lack of quality education, the lack of critical thinking, and, a lot of young people just being very confused and being indoctrinated instead of educated."
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Speaker 0: Hey, everyone. Now you might be wondering why did I post this video? Well, the original inspiration was about a week and a half ago. I saw Constantine speaking at that conference, I think it was in Qatar or somewhere, about the history of slavery. And when I saw the response from the crowd, I was troubled if not surprised.
And, you know, he's speaking in Qatar there and I know nothing about the Qatari education system, but certainly in America, bad ideas are on the rise. Like, we have a rise of Marxism and people pushing for systems that have failed, not just failed a little bit, like failed catastrophically throughout the twentieth century. We have people with racial grievances believing in essentially race essentialism and that the color of your skin determines your morality. And I think a lot of this is just tied to the lack of quality education, the lack of critical thinking, and, a lot of young people just being very confused and being indoctrinated instead of educated. And I find it troubling.
I think a lot of it is mitigable, but it's important that we just say the truth about certain things. And as much as the media is biased and we realize that, I don't think people realize how much the history is biased. I mean, did you learn about the Trans Saharan slave trade in school? Did you learn about the Barbary slave trade in school? Now look, every educational system needs to make choices about what we prioritize teaching our citizenry about.
So I'm not saying it's like some big conspiracy, but increasingly, I feel like, especially when I observe the actions of a lot of Gen z and I interact with Gen Z, it's just very clear that people are getting educated more by social media than they are in schools. And it's important to push back against this trend of very selective narratives about history that serves social agendas because that's what's going on. Now I posted a few studies in the replies that no, they're not peer reviewed studies. I don't know how accurate they are. I don't know how accurate the percentages they represent.
But I imagine if I were to walk out in the street and interview a thousand people, a significant percentage of them would not know perhaps even even one of the facts that I cited in that video, let alone all of them. And unfortunately, we have this combination of intellectual hubris, lack of critical thinking skills, and I say that without judgment because you have to actually be taught critical thinking skills. Like I only learned that logic is a formal discipline dating back to Aristotle when I studied philosophy at Harvard. You shouldn't have to study philosophy at Harvard to understand that A) critical thinking skills are even a thing and B) that there's actually a formal discipline and that you can learn it. So, yeah, the combination of hubris, a lack of curiosity, a lack of critical thinking skills is causing people to sort of just retreat to whatever emotional opinion they've been given by their peer group or their their racial group.
And I even hate the idea of racial groups, but, you know, that's where we're at. And, yeah, it's shutting people down from even considering alternative perspectives. And even as I put out this video, the video that you guys just saw, you know, I have people asking me like, what's the point? The point is truth. That's the point.
When I see a gap in truth and I'm interested and I feel equipped to speak about it, I speak about it. Because what I see is I see a lot of racial animosity between black and white people in particular, but all across the spectrum, and it's killing us and it's making life a lot less enjoyable, a lot less fun, and it's causing us all to focus on immutable characteristics that just don't matter that much and the choices of our forefathers rather than the choices that we can make today. So that's why I made the video, and I hope that you got something useful out of it. And, I hope that it reaches the people that it needs to.
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Trump's team promoted the release of the Epstein files but mishandled it. Trump then blamed Democrats and insulted his supporters for the fallout. In response, Elon Musk pointed out a pattern of denial and counterclaims, suggesting it won't be effective this time.
@thatsKAIZEN - Kaizen D. Asiedu
Trump indicated he’d release the Epstein files. Trump’s team hyped the release. Trump’s team fumbled the release. Yet Trump is blaming the Democrats and insulting his supporters for the consequences of his actions.
@Polymarket - Polymarket
JUST IN: Trump attacks those demanding the release of the Epstein files, calls them "weaklings" — claims the Epstein files are a hoax. https://t.co/wWpaHpLsld
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
@thatsKAIZEN The old: 1. Admit nothing 2. Deny everything 3. Make counterclaims But it won’t work this time
@thatsKAIZEN - Kaizen D. Asiedu
Zohran Mamdani is campaigning on a platform with race-based policy. This is racial discrimination. Racial discrimination against white people is also discrimination. You don’t end discrimination by changing who you discriminate against. You end it by not discriminating. https://t.co/yGGQvNh2KR
@thatsKAIZEN - Kaizen D. Asiedu
What a waste of time by our President. Rather than making this about Elon, he should simply make clear: 1. The conditions under which this bill will reduce the deficit. 2. How he will create those conditions. He was elected to lead, not fight with citizens.
@thatsKAIZEN - Kaizen D. Asiedu
DOGE just confirmed what many suspected - there’s a tremendous amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in our government. Including voter fraud, using illegal immigrants, under Biden. https://t.co/7dRAypSX1j
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Doge's revelations allegedly expose significant waste, fraud, and abuse within the US government. Antonio Gracias claims the Biden administration's policies link illegal immigration, voter fraud, and Social Security. He alleges a surge in Social Security numbers being issued to non-citizens, facilitated by administrative offenses at the border and a system that defaults to "max inclusion" for benefits.
Concerns are raised about non-citizens registering and voting, potentially impacting elections. The Heritage Foundation estimates a net fiscal deficit of $14-15,000 per unlawful immigrant household annually.
Doge's findings also highlight government waste, including the NIH's 700 disparate IT systems and a billion-dollar 10-question survey. There are twice as many active government credit cards as employees, and archaic systems hinder efficiency. $4.7 trillion in government spending is reportedly untraceable due to optional rationale fields.
Elon Musk claims that cutting waste, fraud, and abuse could improve government benefits. He alleges Social Security fraud is preventing legitimate recipients from receiving benefits. Doge aims to cut a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse and improve government services. The speaker emphasizes the need for technological solutions and accountability to address the national debt crisis.
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Speaker 0: The last few days of revelation from Doge have given us extremely specific details that confirm what many of us have suspected for a while now. The US government is full of waste, fraud, and abuse. So first, let's talk about the fraud. Today, Antonio Gracias, a self made billionaire and friend of Elon Musk, walked us through exactly how under the Biden administration, illegal immigration, voter fraud, and Social Security are linked. I want you to watch this.
Speaker 1: We started at the top of the system mapping the whole system of Social Security to understand where all the fraud was, and there's a lot of great people there that showed us really a lot of waste. And so that came with a big list of stuff they're working on. You've heard some of already. But this is what jumped out at us. When we saw these numbers, we're like, what is this?
In '21, you see 270,000 people goes all the way to 2,100,000 in '24. These are noncitizens that are getting Social Security numbers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This this is a mind blowing chart.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Just this this literally blew us away. Like, we went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident. This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you're illegal, there's a couple ways to come in. You come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them you're afraid.
You'll get they'll give you an asylum asylum case. Get an interview, then you get in. That's one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border. Literally, this happened.
I talked to border patrol myself. Elon was there too. I went to Laredo, and I went to Brownsville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to a board patrol officer, and you tell them you wanna come in.
They have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under $13.25, or they can make an administrative offense, like a parking ticket, basically. They were told to do that, make an administrative offense on the last administration. And you go walk across the border, they do what's called a release of your own recognizance, and they give you an NTA, a notice to appear, which to appear to judge. The wait times on judges are like average six years.
Look at Guroc, you'll see it on immigration judges. There's only 700 of them. This is 5,500,000 people. Okay? So what happens then?
Once you're in the country and you've got asylum through one of these pathways, we map the whole thing out, you can apply for a work document. You file a seven six five. It's the work form. You get this form called the seven six six. That's the authorization.
And then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number. No interview. No ID.
Speaker 2: This is worth, like, just reiterating. It it it's not that it's not people sometimes think that under the Biden administration that that he was simply asleep at the switch. He wasn't asleep. They weren't asleep at the switch. It it it was a massive large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of The United States and disenfranchise the the American people and make it a permanent, deep blue, one party state from which there would be no escape.
Speaker 1: Look. If I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true.
The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people and minimum collection. That's what's happening. We found 1,300,000 of them already on Medicaid as an example. We've gone through On every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5,500,000 people, in those benefit programs. And then what was really, really disturbing us was why.
We're asking ourselves why. And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records, and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.
Speaker 2: And who did vote?
Speaker 1: And and we found some by sampling that actually did vote, and we have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Okay. So what does this mean? Let's break down exactly what we were just told. Step one. So you notice that spike on the chart that Antonio had up?
That shows that the Biden administration allowed people to enter the country illegally in increased numbers prior to the twenty twenty four election. Whether it was by design or incompetence is a question, but what is not a question is that there were increased numbers of people entering the country illegally prior to that election. Step two, the administration gave many of those illegal immigrants a light slap on the wrist instead of a misdemeanor or a felony. And, effectively, they got to stay here for years without consequence. And the way this works is that those illegal immigrants, rather than being turned away, which would be the ideal thing, or getting charged with a felony, they essentially just got an administrative offense, which is like a parking ticket, and they would just have to show up at a court hearing that might not happen for a long time, maybe even years, because the court system is so overwhelmed.
It takes years for the case to be heard. And in the meantime, that illegal immigrant gets to just stay in the country. Step three, them a Social Security number so that they can get Medicaid and other benefits using taxpayer money. And here, the rejoinder is often, oh, well, they don't get full benefits, and they pay taxes. Yeah.
Illegal immigrants do pay some taxes. That's a fair point. But it's not as much as they receive in benefits. The Heritage Foundation estimated that the average unlawful immigrant household receives about $25,000 in government benefits and services while only paying about $10,000 in taxes. So that's an annual fiscal deficit of around 14 to $15,000 per household.
So now that these people are in the country, step four, remove voter ID requirements at a state level so that citizenship can't be verified. I live in California. I experienced this directly. In fact, funny story, on election day, I literally tried to show my ID and had it refused. I was like, let let's see.
Maybe this is just like an Internet thing. Like, you know, surely, I can't I literally cannot not show my ID. Nope. That's exactly what happened. I tried to show my ID and had it refused.
And on top of that, we've seen explicit moves to allow noncitizens to vote. In 2021, the New York City Council allowed approximately 800,000 noncitizens, specifically lawful permanent residents, but noncitizens to vote in municipal elections like mayor and city council. They passed a bill that would allow this provided that they had resided in the city for at least thirty days. Now the law never took effect because it was challenged immediately, and it was finally struck down on March twentieth of this year, twenty twenty five. But it shows the Democrats' willingness to extend voting rights to noncitizens.
Imagine if he had been in power. Do you think they might have extended that right even further? It's worth contemplating. And then there's the issue of, well, did some noncitizens and, in fact, illegal immigrants vote in the twenty twenty four election? Because according to Antonio, they found outright evidence of illegal immigrants actually voting in that election.
He found a significant portion of his Social Security numbers that were given to illegal immigrants also were registered in the voter rolls. A step five is illegal immigrants now vote on a smaller scale in states where voter ID isn't required. And how would voter fraud work? Because, look, I think a lot of time people are saying, it's ridiculous. There weren't millions of illegal immigrants voting.
You don't need millions. You don't need a massive amount of voter fraud to swing an election. In the twenty twenty election, two key swing states, Arizona and Georgia, were won by roughly 22,000 votes respectively. That is a tiny amount considering the tens of millions of votes that are cast. So if that had happened at sufficient scale in a few key swing states, step six would have been you just win the election.
And with that power that you have over the executive branch and maybe over the legislative branch, you give citizenship to illegal immigrants so that they can vote on a larger scale. And that's what the Biden administration tried to do in 2021 with The US citizenship act. That act would have given illegal immigrants an eight year path to citizenship. So you allow illegal immigrants into the country. You let them stay here longer than they should because you give them a court date that is gonna be years in the future because the judicial system is overrun.
You give them benefits. They stay here. You give them citizenship. Guess who they're gonna be loyal to? The same people who let them in.
Step eight is now presidential elections are just like California elections, just different shades of blue. And as someone who lives in California and just had to evacuate his home due to the LA fires, I see what happens when your state goes so deep blue that even when disasters happen, you still get to hold on to power. If that sounds conspiratorial to you, so be it. Maybe it's just gross incompetence and a bunch of disconnected events. But here's the thing.
Extreme incompetence is indistinguishable from genuine malevolence. And even if you dispute that all of this was planned intentionally, what can't be disputed is that all of this was happening simultaneously. So intentional or not, it is an attack vector that needs to be closed. And anyone who exploited that attack vector at any scale needs to go to prison because it's treason. That's the biggest fraud bombshell.
But I mentioned fraud, waste, and abuse. So now let's talk about the waste and the abuse. Because Thursday, Elon and the Doge team did an interview, and they detailed some of the most insane findings from Doge's efforts so far. Here's a compilation of some of the wildest findings. The NIH has nearly 700 different IT systems.
Most of them don't talk to each other.
Speaker 3: There's 700 different IT systems today at NIH.
Speaker 4: Seven hundred different IT systems.
Speaker 3: IT software systems.
Speaker 2: They don't connect.
Speaker 3: They can't speak to
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 4: They say they don't talk to one.
Speaker 3: They have 27 different CIOs. And so when you think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect the data.
Speaker 4: Time out. Time out. You said 27 different chief information officers?
Speaker 3: Correct. Correct.
Speaker 2: Most of them are nontechnical.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot there.
Speaker 2: So what
Speaker 3: saying? There's a lot of opportunity. It will make science better, not worse.
Speaker 2: And when I say that our job is tech support, I really mean it. Yeah. We have to fix the computers. If the computers can't talk to each other, you can't get research done. If the computers can't go stay online, people won't receive their social security.
So what we have here are a bunch of failing computer systems that are preventing people from receiving their benefits, that are preventing people from preventing research from happening, that are, extremely vulnerable to fraud, and we're fixing it.
Speaker 0: Our government spent a billion dollars implementing a 10 question survey.
Speaker 2: Literally, 10 question survey that you could do with SurveyMonkey cost about $10,000, was, the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that. For just the survey? A billion dollars for a for a simple online survey. Do you like the national park? And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey.
So the survey would just go to nothing.
Speaker 0: There are twice as many active credit cards than there are government employees. There's over 5,000,000 government employees and twice as many credit cards. And the process for retiring government employees literally involves processing files in an underground mine. Like, that's how archaic our systems are. And that means that even if you're genuinely trying to lay off many government employees quickly so that you can improve government efficiency, you can only do that at a rate of about 10,000 employees a month due to, I kid you not, limitations on how slow the elevator is that goes up and down into this mine.
Crazy. This is on top of earlier findings like finding out that $4,700,000,000,000 of government spending over the last several years that the treasury department has issued is untraceable. We don't even know how that money was spent or why it was spent. Because the field where government's employees are supposed to mark how that money was spent was optional instead of being mandatory. Many of you have either worked in corporate life or maybe you're you still work in the corporate world.
I used to be in the corporate world. There was no situation where I was allowed to spend the company's money without it having explicitly detailed rationale in a modern digital system where I could be held accountable. So just think about this from first principles. If the government doesn't have accountability because, first of all, even the president can't fire the majority of government's employees. They have a ton of civil service protections that protects their jobs.
Having a government job is one of the most secure jobs you can have in the world, which is great for the employees, but for the people who are paying those employees who, functionally, we are the boss, not only do we not have transparency, we don't have levers of accountability. Because even if things and funds are mismanaged, what can we actually do about it? I mean, the elected representatives are barely accountable to us. What about the unelected public servants? So do I think that majority of government's employees are corrupt?
Absolutely not. There's definitely some bad apples, but I think a lot of them are just caught in a system that is not accountable. It's not incentivized to be effective. It's not incentivized to be efficient, and it's just not serving the American people. So it's basically like a company that has been running a multitrillion dollar debt for years, but the company can never shut down.
There's never any accountability. It's madness. So what's a high level takeaway here? Right now, we will focus on the government fraud, waste, and abuse. The thesis is that there's enough of that for Doge to be able to reduce government spending by a trillion dollars.
Democrats are complaining that this means removing tons of benefits and services that Americans rely on, but it is obvious that there's tremendous amounts of waste in the government. And in fact, as a result, Elon has made the opposite claim, that we can cut a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse and actually make government benefits and services better. For example, I want you to see what he just said about Social Security fraud stopping people from currently receiving their Social Security benefits. Check this out.
Speaker 2: And and they they steal people's Social Security is what happens. Is they they call in, they say, they claim to be a retiree, then they they and they convince the post the social security person on the phone to change the where the where the money is flowing. It it actually goes to some fraudster. This is happening all day every day. And and then and then somebody doesn't receive their Social Security.
It's because of of all the the fraud loopholes in the Social Security system.
Speaker 4: How do you reassure people that what you all are doing is not gonna affect their benefits?
Speaker 2: No. In fact, what what we're doing will help their benefits. Legitimate people, as a result of the work of Doge, will receive more social security, not less. Wanna emphasize that. As a result of the work of Doge, legitimate recipients of social security will receive more money, not less money.
Speaker 4: Alright. I wanna
Speaker 2: emphasize that point and and and and let the record show that I said this, and the it will be proven out to be true.
Speaker 0: There's more than just waste in the government. There's outright fraud. Many people have been victims of identity fraud and have someone who's stolen their Social Security number and identity getting checks that they should be getting. So if we can solve a lot of these problems, we get a better government, not just a smaller one. And don't you guys want a smaller, better government?
And on another note, you know, it's very easy to focus on the federal layoffs. And my heart goes out to any federal government employee who has lost their job. Because on a human level, it doesn't matter what all the abstract conceptual reasons are. Losing your job is a scary thing. It's very scary.
Now I'll note that less than one percent of the people who were laid off did not receive some sort of severance. Many of those packages were eight months severance, which is actually really generous in the corporate world. So these people are not just having the table flipped over and told, okay. Good luck. But it's still a traumatic experience to lose your job, and I totally get why some people are just emotionally distraught over it.
But at the end of the day, the point of the government is not to provide people jobs. The point of the government, among other things, is to create an overall ecosystem where everyone has jobs and their needs met, but not be bigger so that we have more people in government. Like, that's not how we're supposed to be doing this thing. So, yeah, that's what the efficiency effort requires. Like, yes, we do need to be laying people off.
If a hundred people are doing a job that one can do, or if we have 700 different IT systems when we could replace them with five. And on a final note here, you know, before Elon entered the picture, it seemed like everyone agreed that there's a ton of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government. And it reminds me, just like before Trump ran for president the first time, everyone agreed that politicians were corrupt and there's a swamp that needed to be drained. But somewhere along the line, people became so fixated on the people who are solving the problem that they seem to miss the enormity of the problems those people are solving. And another thing that's being revealed here is how much of this problem isn't simply a matter of slashing budgets.
A lot of it is about outdated software and complicated money trails. So what does that actually mean? A lot of this is actually technological, technical, and coding problems, and that's why Doge is so revolutionary. We've had five major efforts to create government efficiency since 02/2001. In fact, there's a great clip from 2011 of Obama announcing a Doge like effort to bring government efficiency headed by your buddy Joe Biden.
So it's no wonder it wasn't so successful. Right? And none of those efforts, none of those five efforts have produced more than $25,000,000,000 of savings. So for all the things that people complain about Doge for, having a bunch of self made billionaires involved and young genius coders involved, those things that they're critiquing are actually Doge's strength. The bureaucrats have not been able to solve this problem for the last twenty five years.
Many of these problems can be solved with just better systems. It's not about cutting some money here and cutting some money there. You need to rearchitect these entire systems. So if Elon, the most successful technologist in the world, surrounded by a bunch of other geniuses who have made billions of dollars by delivering billions of dollars of value and solutions to humanity's problems, like one of the cofounders of Airbnb. He's involved.
If these people can't solve this problem, who can? Joe Biden? AOC? Bernie Sanders? Who who's gonna solve this problem?
Do you trust any of these politicians to solve this problem? So you don't have to like Elon. You don't like to have his approach. You don't like to like the fact that a bunch of 20 year old coders are in the Social Security Administration databases. But if they don't solve the problem, I don't see who else can.
So I hope that detractors of Doge and Elon see this, because a lot of the fears that they have about his influence are vague and general, and they're risks that are worth keeping in mind. It's important to have guardrails around anyone, and I understand the concerns, but a lot of these are vague general concerns that fall away when you realize just how wasteful our government is and know the specifics of how they're wasting our money. And you can do your part to help people who are in fear and talking about vague things like oligarchy and fascism just to focus on specifics and ask them, hey. Are any of these things that Doge has uncovered things that you want your money going toward? Any of these things.
Okay. So you have general fears about the people. Do you have any specific concerns about the specific problems that they've uncovered? And better yet, do you have an alternative? Do you have a different point person you can point to in the world and say, yeah.
They'd be better equipped to solve these problems than Doge. If you don't have a better solution, then stop focusing on the people and start focusing on the bigger problem because we have approaching $37,000,000,000,000 of debt, a consistent $2,000,000,000,000 deficit. We basically have a national credit card that we are running up the balance on, and our interest payments are now over a trillion dollars a year. If we don't get to figure this out, we're gonna be talking about more than layoffs. In fact, we're gonna be talking about more than a recession.
We're gonna be talking about a second great depression. So if we don't have great solutions to that, it's time to stop complaining. So if you're watching this, the best thing that you can do as a citizen is share this info with people who don't know. In a vacuum of information, fear is what thrives.
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Can you believe the crazy tariffs Canada imposed on the U.S.? We're talking 250% for milk, 291% for butter, 208% for whey, and 241% for cheese. It's wild! Also, if you liked this video, check out my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/@thatskaizen.
@thatsKAIZEN - Kaizen D. Asiedu
Would you believe these insane tariffs that the U.S. is bullying Canada with? 250% for milk? 291% for butter? 208% for whey? 241% for CHEESE? Oh wait - those are actually tariffs that Canada imposed on the U.S. last year. https://t.co/JANcZErSjw
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Check out these insane tariffs that Canada imposed on the US last year: 250% for milk, 291% for butter, and over 200% for whey and cheese. Meanwhile, we charged them far less for the same goods.
Since Trump announced tariffs, everyone suddenly became an economics expert. I don't know how tariffs will affect the economy, and neither does anyone else. But I do know tariffs led Apple to build a new factory and hire 20,000 Americans. Honda is building Civics here instead of Mexico. Taiwan Semiconductor is investing $100 billion to build five chip factories in the US. Tariffs pressure China, Mexico, and Canada to stop the flow of fentanyl.
Tariffs are one tactic in an economic strategy. Are we willing to tolerate short-term disruption for long-term gain? Macroeconomics are complicated and take time to play out. Are you listening to people who want the President to fail, even if it hurts America?
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Speaker 0: Would you believe these insane terrorists that The US is bullying Canada with? 250% for milk? 291% for butter? 208% for whey? 241% for cheese?
How could we do this to our neighbor? Oh, wait. Those are actually tariffs that Canada imposed on The US last year. Whereas for the same goods, we imposed the following tariffs. 10% for cheese, 10% for butter, 5% for milk, 0% for whey.
It's interesting that since Trump announced tariffs, everyone became an econ PhD who's confident that they know exactly what tariffs will do to the economy. But while you've seen Trump fighting for tariffs, you haven't seen that before, no one was fighting for us at all on the global scale. Now how are tariffs going to affect the whole economy over the next year? I don't know, and no one else does either. But I do know that tariffs got Apple to build a new factory and hire 20,000 more Americans.
I do know that the word is that Honda is building 210,000 of their next Honda Civics here in America instead of Mexico and giving Americans jobs. I do know that Taiwan Semiconductor announced that they're going to invest $100,000,000,000 to build up five new chip factories in The US, creating yet more jobs. I do know that tariffs are being used to pressure China, Mexico, and to a lesser extent, Canada to stop the flow of fentanyl over our border and killing seventy thousand Americans a year. Now here's the thing with tariffs. They are one tactic in an economic strategy, and there are all sorts of ways that that tactic can get used.
Sometimes they get deployed for short term, sometimes long term, sometimes they're actually used, And sometimes the threats of them gets used. Sometimes they're used to threaten Russia to end the war. Sometimes they're used to generate revenue from other countries so we don't need to tax our citizens so much. Sometimes they're used so that we support farmers here rather than farmers abroad. Sometimes they're used to make companies make weapons that we rely on here rather than China, which is our rival.
Sometimes they drive prices up, but wages up too. Is this all making your head spin? Yeah. Me too. Because there's a lot to consider.
Macroeconomics are complicated, and it takes time to play out. Rather than focusing on every move on the chessboard, we need to all zoom out and ask ourselves, do I think my president wants America to win? Am I listening to people who want my president to fail so that they are proven right, even if that means America goes wrong? Am I willing to tolerate short term disruption for long term gain? Look, no one should have blind faith in any leader.
But blind negativity just hurts everyone, you included. And remember, if you can't make a strong argument for the opposition against your side, then you're not seeking the truth. You're choosing your tribe.
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If you’re worried about Trump ending the Department of Education, ask yourself - what has that department even been doing? https://t.co/XoxMuE5i0i
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People are panicking about Trump's plan to kill the Department of Education. The DOE aims to boost student achievement and ensure equal access, but despite trillions spent, our global competitiveness has declined in reading and math. While the DOE has had some positive effects on the black white achievement gap, the gains have been modest relative to the money spent and time passed.
If the DOE disappears, the Department of Justice would handle civil rights, the Treasury would handle funds, and states would determine education strategy, potentially redistributing funds to families via school choice. While risks exist, like some states deprioritizing equality, local voting can influence this. Free lunch programs, special education, and student loans aren't disappearing, they will be handled by other departments. Dismantling the DOE is a step in the right direction, but a clear vision for improving education is still needed.
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Speaker 0: Trump's plan to kill the Department of Education has people panicking. But maybe it's time we ask, what does the DOE even do? The DOE's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access for all students. But we spent trillions of dollars on the DOE, and we've become less competitive. Twenty five years ago, we ranked tenth in reading.
Now we're thirteenth. In math, we've crashed from eighteenth to twenty sixth, lagging behind Estonia. In science, we've had a tiny bump from fourteenth to twelfth. We're stagnating at best. At worst, we're on a decline, while the amount that we invest is on an incline.
In 1980, the DOE cost $53,600,000,000 in today's terms. Now it costs us $79,000,000,000 in discretionary budget. That's worse than a bad investment. It's waste, And it has global implications. Less competitive schools make America less competitive in tech, which makes us less competitive economically and militarily, which makes us more dependent on importing talent rather than developing homegrown talent.
Now you can make another argument for the DOE, that it ensures equal opportunities in education. And the DOE has seen some positive effects there. The black white achievement gap for high school students narrowed by about point five seven standard deviation for reading and 0.4 for math since about 1980 when their DOE was founded. In normal terms, that's about a moderate impact. But for science, it hasn't narrowed at all.
So it's not nothing, but it's not enough. Not after forty five years and trillions of dollars of investment. Now some are understandably worried that we'll lose even those modest gains by dismantling the DOE, and some of them are worried about inequality. Well, if a DOE disappears, here's what will happen. The Department of Justice would handle civil rights.
The Treasury would handle disbursement of funds, and the states would determine education strategy. The logic here is that California has different needs than Texas, and state officials are better positioned to create equal, excellent education than federal government. And that could mean redistributing tens of billions of dollars away from the feds back to the families through school choice vouchers that allow us to make more empowered education choices. Now there is risk. Some states may ditch equality as a priority altogether.
Some states might make worse decisions than the feds would. But the good news is that it's something that you as a voter can influence more directly by getting more active in local voting. But zooming out here, people are sensationalizing and fear mongering around the dismantling of the DOE. So to clear some things up, free and reduced lunch isn't going anywhere. That's handled by the Department of Agriculture.
Special education support isn't disappearing. It's going to health and human services. Student loans aren't disappearing. That's going to the Department of Treasury. But fearmongers are saying things like this is the harbinger of project twenty twenty five and Trump's secret plan to dumb down the entire populace.
But we've been doing that without Trump's help. We're spending 50% more on the Department of Education than we used to while doing worse internationally. We're getting only small to medium improvements in closing the racial achievement gap, and it's even widened since COVID. It's been half a century, and we've only gotten modest improvements to the racial achievement gap at absolute best. So something drastic needs to change.
Now I would like to see Trump's team present a clear vision for making education great again. Because although you can argue that the federal government has done a bad job at improving education, I don't think that just passing this to the states is enough to close the global competitiveness gap. But at least this is a step in the right direction, and hopefully, this should help you form a nuanced perspective rather than listening to doomsayers who are saying that Trump is trying to make America dumber, or that this is the end of equality.
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I watched the entire talk between Trump and Zelenskyy, and it’s clear that Zelenskyy was emotional and often interrupted Trump. He called Putin names and seemed frustrated at times. Trump started by complimenting Zelenskyy, but as the conversation progressed, tensions rose. Zelenskyy contradicted Trump and painted Putin negatively, claiming he would never accept a ceasefire. At one point, Trump went on the offensive, addressing Zelenskyy's attitude. It's important to understand the context rather than view it as an ambush.
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Think Trump was aggressive to Zelenskyy for no reason? Watch the whole talk. Timestamps below. Zelenskyy was emotional. Interrupted Trump. Called Putin names. Raised his eyebrows. All before Trump checked him. And he called Vance a bitch. He wasn’t ready for peace. 2:00 Trump compliments Zelenskyy 4:00 Zelenskyy calls Putin a terrorist 12:00 Trump cracks joke with Zelensky 13:56 Zelenskyy interrupts Trump 17:20 Zelenskyy throws his hands up in seeming frustration 19:00 reporter asks Zelenskyy why he’s not wearing a suit 19:22 Trump commits to sending arms to Ukraine 19:41 Zelensky raises eyebrows and rolls eyes at Trump’s statement 22:55 Trump takes the edge off of the suit question by joking with Zelensky that he likes his outfit 23:49 Zelensky contradicts Trump and keeps painting Putin in a negative light 24:19 Zelensky says Putin will never accept ceasefire and pushes for American security guarantee 25:55 Zelensky says Putin hates Ukrainians 27:00 Zelensky says Putin should pay all reconstruction costs 29:19 Zelensky shakes head as Trump speaks 32:22 Zelensky says Putin wants to annex Poland 32:30 Zelensky says Putin will attack America 33:00 Zelensky interrupts Trump 39:19 This is when Trump went on the offensive by calling out Zelenskyy hatred for Putin and started to escalate 39:14 Vance says Zelensky has been disrespectful, and conversation continues to escalate 42:40 Apparently calls Vance “suka”, meaning bitch, under his breath. You don't have to like how Trump handled this, but don’t buy into the story that he ambushed Zelensky.
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**Speaker 0:** It's an honor to have President Zelenskyy of Ukraine here. We've had a long and productive relationship, including navigating a negotiation that benefited both our countries and the world. We're committed to working together, especially in rare earth initiatives. I've also had positive discussions with President Putin and we're striving to end the war in Ukraine. The loss of life on both sides is tragic, and we want to redirect resources to rebuilding. My administration is actively engaging with Russia, unlike the previous one. If I were president earlier, this war wouldn't have happened. We've provided significant equipment to Ukraine, and their soldiers have shown incredible bravery. We aim to finalize a deal soon and look forward to signing an agreement.
**Speaker 1:** Thank you for the invitation. I hope this document is a step towards real security guarantees for Ukraine. Continued American support is crucial. I want to discuss security guarantees, drone production, and air defense. We're ready to share our drone licenses and need air defense licenses in return to protect our nation. The support from Europe is welcome, but the United States' strength is vital. We also need help bringing back the 20,000 Ukrainian children stolen and relocated to Russia. I also wanted to show some images of Ukrainian prisoners and how they have been tortured.
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Speaker 0: Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to have president Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and we've been working very hard, very close. So we've actually known each other for a long time. We've been dealing with each other for a long time and very well. We had little negotiation spat, but that worked out great, I think, for for both countries.
I think for the world, actually, beyond both countries. And we have something that is is a very fair deal. And we look forward to getting in and digging digging digging and working and getting some of the rare earth. But it means we're gonna be inside and it's it's a big commitment from The United States and we appreciate working with you very much. And, we will continue to do that.
We have had some very good discussions with Russia. I spoke with president Putin, and we're gonna try and bring this to a close. It's something that you want and that he wants. We have to negotiate a deal, but we've started the confines of a deal, and I think something can happen. The big thing is the number of soldiers mostly at this point, but soldiers being killed.
They're losing thousands of soldiers. So on both sides, we're losing a lot of soldiers, and we wanna see it stop. And we wanna see the money get put to different kinds of use like rebuilding, the rebuilding. And we're gonna be working very hard, but we've had a lot of very good conversations. I will say until we came along, the Biden administration didn't speak to Russia whatsoever.
They didn't speak to anybody. They just allowed this to continue. And, I will say that, I'll say in front of you, you've heard me say it a thousand times, if I were president, this war would have never happened. We would have had a deal negotiated for you without having to go through what you've gone through. But you, your soldiers have been unbelievably brave.
We've given them great equipment, but they've somebody has to use the equipment. They've been unbelievably brave, and we give them great credit. This was supposed to be over very quickly, and, here we are three years later. So I give tremendous credit to your generals and your soldiers and yourself in the sense that it's been very hard fighting, very tough fighting. They're great fighters.
And you have to be very proud of them from that standpoint. But now we wanna get it over with. It's enough, right, if we wanna get it over with. So it's an honor to have you here. Thank you very much for coming.
We're gonna sign the agreement at the conference in the East Room in a little while, right after lunch. And we'll be having lunch together. We're also discussing some other things, and we appreciate everybody being here. It's somewhat of an exciting moment, but the really exciting moment is when we get when they stop the shooting and we end up with a deal. And I think we're fairly close to getting that and an honor to have you.
And please, would you like to say something?
Speaker 1: No. Thank you so much, mister president. Thank you for invitation. And really, hope that this, document first document will be first step to real security guarantees for Ukraine, our people, our children. I really count on it.
And, of course, we count that America will not stop support. Really, for us, it's very important to support and to continue it. I want to discuss it with details further during our conversation and, of course, the infrastructure or security guarantees. Because for today, I understand what Europe is ready to do, and, of course, I want to discuss with you what United States will be ready to do. And I really count on your strong position to stop Putin, and and you said that enough with the war.
I think that is very important, Ben, to say these words to Putin at the very beginning at the very beginning of war because he is a killer and terrorist. But I hope that together we can stop him. But for us, it's very important to, you know, to save our country, our values, our freedom, and democracy. And, of course, no compromises with the killer about our territories, but it will be later. And of course, what I wanted you know, we spoke about it by phone with you about the drones production.
We have very good drones production. I think the best one in the world for today because of the war. Yes. And, of course, we need very much, the air defense. You have the best air defense in the world.
And really, you helped us under attacks of Russians. And I want to speak how we can exchange the licenses. We're open to share the licenses of all our drones with you, of course, with The United States, and we need licenses for quick production of air defense. Even after the war, we need our nation to be calm that we are secured. So that's why we need this air shield.
And, of course, about this, I want to speak about the contingents. I think that France and UK already spoke to you, and we know that Europe is ready. But without United States, they will not be ready to be as strong as we need. And then the last point, last not least, about exchange, about our people and children. And you know that this crazy Russian that they stolen 20,000 of children, Ukrainian children, they changed their names.
They changed their, you know, their families, relatives, and now they're in Russia. We want to bring them back. And, really, it's a big big dream task and goal for me and and our warriors. We by the way, mister Brewer, we brought we exchanged we yes. We released more than 4,000 warriors from Russian prison, but there are thousands more in the prison.
I wanted to share with you some some images how how it's I've just just can can I can I now?
Speaker 0: Yeah. Please.
Speaker 1: Alright. Please. Some minute. One minute. One minute.
Adjust you to understand what the in what circumstances, in what situation they are, and what the attitude of Russia to our prisons. That guys, just you before before and after. Mhmm. And you see before and after, just you to understand. Now, thousands of such guys, ladies and men, they are and that so they don't eat, they beat them and they, you know, do a lot of eat a lot of, you know, bad things.
So out out of, even during the war, there are rules. Everybody knows there are rules during the war. These guys, they don't have any rules. You see that? Fifty, sixty kilograms of them.
And a lot of such things. And I didn't want to show you what the changes with images of children because I will share, just share with you. I mean, it's looking tragic.
Speaker 0: Yep, that's tough stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I wanted very much to to give you and you you see Yeah. This is pastor, by the way. They're stolen pastors because it's not Russian church. They're stolen pastors and move pastors to the prison.
We at the end of last year, we we brought three pastors and we we could exchange them. And this is pastors.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I mean this, I wanted to show you and this. So, thank you very much.
Speaker 0: We wanna get that entered. Right? Yeah.
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This senator is saying RFK Jr. disputes “settled science”. The term “settled science” is incoherent. Science is a process, not a conclusion. Science is an inquiry, not an institution. Science isn’t dogmatic, it’s curious. “The Science” should always be up for review. https://t.co/ZsaA1iPp0v
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The committee is currently distracted from discussing meaningful improvements to Americans' health care. Instead, it is revisiting established science on vaccines and the role of the federal government in providing affordable health care. There is a clear stance among Democrats on the finance committee regarding lowering costs and enhancing care, but the same clarity cannot be applied to the nominee present.
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Speaker 0: Instead of debating meaningful ways to improve Americans' health care, now the committee is being forced to relitigate settled science about vaccines and whether or not the federal government should help Americans get affordable health care. I know where Democrats on this finance committee stand when it comes to an agenda to lower costs and improve care. I must say, I cannot say the same about the nominee sitting in front of me.