China Declares War On The U.S.

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[00:01:19] back once again. Today, we're going to talk about China. that's actually you wouldn't know this, but that can be a little controversial.

[00:01:29] Yeah.

[00:01:30] China doesn't like to be talked about, but you would think that as many episodes and as many downloads as we get from China,

[00:01:41] you would think they would really appreciate it. I mean, they had to be a shout out to all these guys.

[00:01:47] Right.

[00:01:48] It's standard too, which is weird.

[00:01:50] It seems like the number never changes and it's all downloaded in Beijing, not like around

[00:01:56] China.

[00:01:57] So President Xi doesn't like when we talk about China, but I got to say, you know, we can,

[00:02:07] we can definitely, you know, share the love. And so I'm happy to dig into it. All right.

[00:02:14] So, bottom line, the China's kind of been waging war against the United States. And what's weird is we didn't really seem to notice.

[00:02:27] And that's kind of, I don't know if that's like, ha ha to China, or if it's more like,

[00:02:34] man, we're really dumb and we're getting played. It kind of goes both ways.

[00:02:42] Now, one of these things that obviously puts China on the forefront and has people,

[00:02:47] you know, looking into this right now is this massive immigration of, what is it they say,

[00:02:54] Chinese military aged men. You know, there is a massive immigration happening that, you know, with these guys.

[00:03:06] So basically since 2018, there's been over 133,000 nationals crossing the border from China that we know about 30,000 since October this year.

[00:03:21] So like those numbers are bumping up, you know, it's more increased.

[00:03:25] this year. So like those numbers are bumping up, you know, it's more increased. Um, they said in San Diego, we're getting more Chinese immigrants coming over the border than we

[00:03:31] are Mexican immigrants. So that that's significant because it's actually a long walk from China

[00:03:38] to the US Mexico border. You know, it's not something. Yeah. It's a walk, you know. So, it's not something

[00:03:45] you just do on a whim. You got to like plan that out. You got to like pack some extra

[00:03:48] snicker bars. Maybe like at least your get home bag, you know, with the three day. Yeah.

[00:03:54] Three days, some water. Right. You know. So, it's some effort. It'lls to keep your blood

[00:03:59] sugar up. I mean, the big question that everybody's dying to know and and with a provocative title like China declares war on the US

[00:04:07] Provocative that's provocative, right? Why are these people coming? That's what everybody's dying to know

[00:04:14] Why why would you want to leave China? Why would you glory as glorious place?

[00:04:18] I could tell you a couple of reasons. I was looking into it

[00:04:22] one of the main reasons that people are leaving

[00:04:25] China is that apparently the Communist Party is not a big fan of Christianity. Okay, you're

[00:04:32] a Christian. So it might be a bunch of Christians that are coming over the board. Life sucks.

[00:04:36] Well, I mean, you're you should get the fuck out of China if you're a Christian. That's

[00:04:40] number one thing.

[00:04:41] Turns out you don't like Muslims much either. Well, no, no

[00:04:45] That's about point. It's pretty much any religion. They might actually be in some kind of prison camp

[00:04:52] Right, they might not be leaving is yeah, no in China. You have to actually have a

[00:04:58] You have to register not just register your church

[00:05:01] But if you go to a church you have to register that you're somebody that goes to church.

[00:05:05] And occasionally they'll fuck with you

[00:05:07] if you have that registration,

[00:05:09] but they'll also like go into churches

[00:05:11] and demand everybody's to see everybody's cards.

[00:05:14] Yeah.

[00:05:15] So you have to have the card,

[00:05:17] but having the card kind of puts you

[00:05:18] on a fucking list of, you know, lower class people.

[00:05:24] Oh, some people are like,

[00:05:27] saw a lot of them were democracy advocates

[00:05:32] that basically had to fucking leave.

[00:05:33] Like you can't advocate for democracy, that's not okay.

[00:05:37] So you'd better get the fuck out of there.

[00:05:38] You're gonna be in prison.

[00:05:42] A lot of people are motivated by an economic downturn and disillusionment with Xi Jinping's

[00:05:47] increasingly coercive rule.

[00:05:49] So since 2019, 1.1 million people have left China.

[00:05:55] So that includes like over COVID and everything.

[00:05:58] People are, a lot of people are just getting the fuck out of there.

[00:06:01] Where are they going?

[00:06:02] Most of them are going to the United States.

[00:06:09] And then rich people. Rich people are getting the fuck out of China.

[00:06:20] Crackdowns on financiers and roiling political climate. Many Chinese rich people are looking to move their money and themselves out of the country.

[00:06:27] So, you know, that old phrase like communism only works as long as there's rich people to steal from? Yes.

[00:06:28] It seems like they're still stealing from rich people.

[00:06:30] So if you're rich and you want to get the fuck out of there,

[00:06:34] things are not going to be good for you.

[00:06:37] The whole social credit score probably doesn't work out.

[00:06:40] Could like you and me,

[00:06:41] we're probably like would be in the

[00:06:43] upstanding citizen list. But I mean, other people, you know, you

[00:06:47] riffraff out there. Yeah, they're riffraff that listen to the

[00:06:50] show. You'd be in all kinds of trouble. Walk around with

[00:06:53] unshaved faces and smell like you've been working all day. Gross.

[00:07:00] Yeah, I got into trouble with the wife. I shared some kind of,

[00:07:04] you know, video or Facebook or something that like, you know,

[00:07:08] one of these reels or whatever.

[00:07:09] And it was about the guy goes in to get a haircut and he's like, yeah, I want a haircut

[00:07:14] that, you know, or she's like, what do you want?

[00:07:16] And he's like something that says that I got up at four in the morning, drove an hour

[00:07:20] and a half to a job that I hate and and you know, cradled the sack of my

[00:07:27] boss's balls for you know, whatever and the guy behind him sitting there and is like,

[00:07:34] yep, right here. Same one. And I'm like, yes, he seems about right. And I was like, yeah, that's it.

[00:07:41] And she's like, why would you share that? That's so horrible. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's it. And she's like, why would you share that? That's so horrible.

[00:07:45] And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's it.

[00:07:47] But what can I tell you, right?

[00:07:49] I got into trouble.

[00:07:50] I had to take it down.

[00:07:51] And she's like, it makes us look bad.

[00:07:53] And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:07:57] I don't know what to tell you.

[00:07:58] Why would she even marry you if she was concerned about that?

[00:08:01] Exactly.

[00:08:02] That's what I'm saying.

[00:08:03] Do you even know me at all is's what I'm saying. Do you even know me at all?

[00:08:05] It is really what I'm saying.

[00:08:08] But anyway, so sorry, I got distracted.

[00:08:11] So basically, China has some negatives

[00:08:14] as far as wanting to live there,

[00:08:16] at least from the perspective of a greedy selfish American.

[00:08:21] Right.

[00:08:21] That's what we could interpret.

[00:08:24] Now, America actually, I know the news, the

[00:08:30] doom and gloom you hear on survival podcasts, including here and everything, might paint

[00:08:36] America in a negative light. But I got to say, we have some pretty kick-ass freedoms in America. Right. We do live pretty well.

[00:08:46] I mean, you know, they shoot,

[00:08:48] it used to be that, you know, they'd say,

[00:08:51] well, even poor people have, you know,

[00:08:53] color TVs and air conditioning.

[00:08:55] Dude, we're way past that.

[00:08:56] Right.

[00:08:57] Like poor people in America,

[00:08:58] you're like cell phones, high speed internet.

[00:09:02] White screens.

[00:09:03] You're a color TV that's a, you know, that's a bit age.

[00:09:07] Everybody got a car, everybody got enough to eat.

[00:09:10] You know, I mean, I say everybody, there are a couple of people that don't

[00:09:13] take care of their kids and that's fucked up.

[00:09:15] But that's not America.

[00:09:16] If you have principles and you're working and you won't sign up for government

[00:09:19] programs and you just, it can actually be pretty crappy and hard.

[00:09:24] And I know it. We were, there was a little sarcasm in that.

[00:09:28] But I gotta say, you could live a pretty good life

[00:09:31] without doing a lot of work.

[00:09:32] It is possible people are doing it in the United States.

[00:09:36] And I'm just saying, like, you know,

[00:09:38] you might not have a Maserati in the driveway,

[00:09:42] but you might have a car that works. Yeah, you might not be eating

[00:09:46] be eating steak and lobster, but but you're also not just eating rice every day. You could at least

[00:09:52] have like, what are those honey smacks or whatever the one would take them. Those things are pretty

[00:09:58] awesome. Yeah, you could definitely, you could definitely have that. Um, Yeah, we're exactly, we're so terrible that everybody,

[00:10:06] you know, somehow wants to come here.

[00:10:08] So, all right, so that's a possibility.

[00:10:11] Now, I would pose posture, if you will,

[00:10:15] that the people might be immigrating for other reasons.

[00:10:21] That's a possibility.

[00:10:22] Slightly more nefarious.

[00:10:33] China has, they basically have two approaches to war and neither one of them actually line up

[00:10:37] Exactly with the UN standard of how you should approach where war

[00:10:42] China has something called unrestricted warfare and

[00:10:45] Basically that means it if I hate you and want wanna kill you, I'm not playing any games.

[00:10:48] That means like poisoning food, no problem.

[00:10:51] I could do that.

[00:10:51] That's a problem.

[00:10:52] You know, just, you know, whatever.

[00:10:55] However I can find a way to destroy you,

[00:10:57] I'm gonna do it, cause that's my goal.

[00:11:00] And you know, it's one of those things,

[00:11:02] if you're gonna do something, you may as well do it well.

[00:11:05] Give it your 100%.

[00:11:07] And that's kind of China's attitude.

[00:11:09] The US, like I sure know when we did the whole Afghan war thing

[00:11:14] and the Iraqi war, we were kind of like,

[00:11:17] eh, let's do a war, but we don't really want to hurt anybody.

[00:11:22] And you know, kind of like we're telling Israel to do right now. Right. You know, what you need to do is

[00:11:27] protect yourself, but don't hurt people. And yeah, that's kind of the

[00:11:32] approach. China doesn't go for that shit. China is like all in. They're like,

[00:11:38] oh, intellectual property, whatever. Yeah, grown ass man. So one of the

[00:11:44] things that they're actually doing where they are bringing across the border,

[00:11:49] it's kind of a couple of things here.

[00:11:52] So they have another thing besides unrestricted warfare.

[00:11:56] Work with me here is disintegration warfare.

[00:12:00] All right. OK.

[00:12:01] That's basically fighting you without sending in a military

[00:12:06] Mm-hmm. Um

[00:12:07] Basically letting you destroy yourself think about it like that, you know little what we'll throw in the Japanese

[00:12:13] They're a little Harry. Carrie kind of things that the Japanese. I don't know how that works, but anyway, whatever

[00:12:21] So disintegration warfare if you guys remember there was something called the opium wars and those of you who are young, you don't really remember this, but us old's, we remember.

[00:12:33] So the British thought, Hey, let's get everybody in China hooked on opium. They won't be a threat at all. They won't do shit. Well, it turns out out and this was not America. This was the British.

[00:12:45] Yeah. Fuck those British people anyway. The British people were like, you all need to

[00:12:50] be doing opium because it's the bee's knees. All the cool kids are doing all the cool kids.

[00:12:57] Think heroin. So believe it or not, at the height of the opium was 25% of the Chinese population was hooked on opium.

[00:13:07] Well, so I feel like that China may have remembered this transgression

[00:13:15] because it turns out we have a problem in the United States from a drug

[00:13:20] called fentanyl. Yeah.

[00:13:22] And it's killing people all over the place.

[00:13:25] Michael Jackson, I mean, come on.

[00:13:28] You know, come on.

[00:13:29] You know what I'm saying?

[00:13:30] All right.

[00:13:31] If you can kill the king of pop, then.

[00:13:34] I'm more concerned about Tom Petty.

[00:13:38] I mean, Tom Petty Prince, couple of guys out there.

[00:13:42] Prince, I mean, you know. Prince hit me a little harder than Michael Jackson.

[00:13:47] I gotta say.

[00:13:49] Prince is the man.

[00:13:50] Prince is just freaking genius.

[00:13:52] But as it stands, so it turns out that all almost all of the key ingredients

[00:14:02] that make up fentanyl are coming from China, like almost all of them.

[00:14:06] And you're like, well, yeah, they make stuff.

[00:14:08] They don't track it, whatever.

[00:14:09] That has nothing to do with them trying to kill us.

[00:14:12] Well, let me get dig a little deeper into that.

[00:14:16] It turns out that they all go to one port controlled by the Chinese that is in Mexico,

[00:14:23] all the fentanyl.

[00:14:23] port controlled by the Chinese that is in Mexico, all the fentanyl. Then there's a town that, and this is from Homeland

[00:14:30] Security documents that is 90% sorry, that the town has 2000

[00:14:41] Chinese nationals. And it turns out they have all the fentanyl go in there,

[00:14:49] 2000 Chinese nationals, and there's a bunch of pill presses where they make pills that actually

[00:14:56] look like OxyCotin and look like Adderall and all the things that, you know,

[00:15:05] like college kids like to take, you know,

[00:15:07] the best and the brightest, that kind of thing.

[00:15:10] And they get compressed and made and put together.

[00:15:14] And then mysteriously, they're selling it basically at cost

[00:15:19] to the cartels to bring over the US border.

[00:15:25] And that's a little concerning.

[00:15:26] And it's weird how, and this is why, you know, I have the title that says,

[00:15:32] China declares war on US.

[00:15:34] I gotta say, if you have 2000 people working hard to deliberately bring

[00:15:41] drugs that are destroying America intentionally

[00:15:48] Across the border that's kind of some shady

[00:15:54] Intentional stuff. Yeah, um and it turns out it's actually being a problem Like you probably have never seen this in a news story, but fentanyl is killing a lot of people

[00:16:00] Mm-hmm. So that's part two, right?

[00:16:03] So that that leads to this whole disintegration warfare thing.

[00:16:07] Right.

[00:16:08] Then I would say, if you want to talk about destroying a culture, you guys probably don't know, but people

[00:16:15] spend a few minutes a day staring at TikTok. You probably didn't realize this.

[00:16:20] Yep. I heard about this.

[00:16:23] That that's China. And you're like, well, yeah,

[00:16:26] but they just gave us something awesome that we want. It's funny. Congress is actually

[00:16:31] right now keep proposing bills to, they say if TikTok doesn't separate from the Communist

[00:16:38] Party because they own 1% and but they basically have a seat on the board. But if they don't separate from

[00:16:46] China, that we're going to ban them in the United States. And basically what they're

[00:16:51] saying is we'll ban them in the app stores. But it turns out India, they already did this

[00:16:58] in 2020. And it's something like 200 million people still have the app on the phone and

[00:17:03] are using it. So I'm not sure the ban will actually work.

[00:17:07] And I will say Congress is talking about TikTok so bad we need to ban it.

[00:17:13] But at the same time, the President Biden's campaign is using TikTok to run ads

[00:17:22] and do everything.

[00:17:24] Right.

[00:17:24] Because, you know, it's an evil tool.

[00:17:26] But I got to say if I was running for president and I was working to ban TikTok,

[00:17:30] I would still have a campaign going on TikTok. Because where the hell are all the people?

[00:17:35] You'd be an idiot not to. Yeah. So in his defense's fair that we use it, and we're like, it's so evil. Yeah. But hang on.

[00:17:45] I would say.

[00:17:46] Let's say this video I just saw, which I did earlier,

[00:17:49] right?

[00:17:50] Yeah.

[00:17:50] If you have that app on your phone,

[00:17:52] it definitely has access to all your contacts.

[00:17:56] It definitely has access to everybody you know

[00:17:58] and all their phone numbers.

[00:17:59] It's the worst.

[00:18:00] Like, everyone, and people are like, dude,

[00:18:02] I saw that video you did.

[00:18:04] And I'm like, I don't even know you.

[00:18:06] And they're like, yeah, because but you're in just proximity.

[00:18:10] And you're in proximity with people at work or, you know, maybe you both go to the same barber on Tuesdays.

[00:18:18] Right.

[00:18:19] And yeah, no, they're it's sharing your, your business.

[00:18:23] It's, it's bad.

[00:18:25] No, they're it's sharing your your business. It's it's bad. Oh, no, I

[00:18:33] Was on a tech talk and I put it on my phone like a dumbass I should not have but uh, it basically it basically

[00:18:35] Brought up as a recommendation

[00:18:38] Everybody that's in my contact list that has it

[00:18:41] Tick-tock cam. Oh, well that's recommended friend Well, even people that I'm not friends with on Facebook or whatever, I go to work and they're like,

[00:18:47] like I don't even know their full name.

[00:18:49] And they're like, dude, I saw that video on TikTok

[00:18:52] and keep showing it to me.

[00:18:53] Yeah.

[00:18:54] Yeah, I wonder why.

[00:18:55] Right, all the people on TikTok,

[00:18:57] my videos that have like five views and mysteriously,

[00:19:00] it keeps showing it to the guy who sits,

[00:19:03] you know, right across from me.

[00:19:04] Right. Nah, dude, it's, so it's sucking your life. And mysteriously it keeps showing it to the guy who sits right across from me.

[00:19:05] Right.

[00:19:06] No, dude.

[00:19:07] So it's stuck in your life, but it's more about information and access.

[00:19:14] I don't think, I mean, we're definitely, you're not as productive if you have TikTok.

[00:19:20] I do think that and I hate to say it, as you could be.

[00:19:24] I'm not saying as other people, I'm saying,

[00:19:26] you're limiting yourself.

[00:19:28] Maybe you're limiting yourself with,

[00:19:30] and obviously Facebook Reels is the same thing,

[00:19:33] YouTube Shorts, there's no difference

[00:19:35] in hurting your productivity.

[00:19:37] But I think really the bigger goal is,

[00:19:41] it does have stuff they're putting in your phone

[00:19:44] and you don't know, and it's just we don't know.

[00:19:47] We don't know what we're giving them access to.

[00:19:50] I just know our CIA has done some little shady things

[00:19:55] with getting into people's phones and software

[00:19:59] and then they bring it into their work and their stuff

[00:20:03] and they do things.

[00:20:04] And China wouldn't put it past anything to steal secrets.

[00:20:10] If you happen to work in a place

[00:20:12] that maybe has something that China wants,

[00:20:13] which turns out they want everything

[00:20:16] because they don't develop shit on their own.

[00:20:18] Turns out communism doesn't create the best and the brightest.

[00:20:21] They're just really good at pulling shit.

[00:20:24] Yeah, yes.

[00:20:25] So it's really difficult for slaves

[00:20:27] to come up with like fresh new ideas on how to do stuff.

[00:20:32] Just not as inside.

[00:20:33] And if you enslave the entire population,

[00:20:36] then yeah, you have exactly, that's exactly it.

[00:20:40] You can't get inspiration when you're living

[00:20:42] under somebody's fucking boot, you know?

[00:20:44] Yeah, whatever. That's all. All right, so then it turns out, You can't get inspiration when you're living under somebody's fucking boot. You know

[00:20:47] Whatever um

[00:20:51] All right, so then it turns out so we have some other stuff

[00:20:57] What's weird now this one kind of threw me I couldn't figure out the the deep by

[00:21:02] The sinister stuff now we talked about the fentanyl and the drugs the deterioration

[00:21:04] there are

[00:21:07] 270 suspected Chinese illegal marijuana

[00:21:12] grow operations in Maine. That are in Maine, really?

[00:21:13] That are in the class here.

[00:21:14] And now are they lacing it with fentanyl

[00:21:17] or are they, I don't know what they're doing.

[00:21:19] Maybe they just all want to get high.

[00:21:21] Maybe they're just, yeah, maybe just,

[00:21:22] they just left the grateful dad and Pink Floyd

[00:21:24] and want to fucking rock out, they're just yeah maybe just they just left the grateful dead and Pink Floyd and want to fucking rock

[00:21:25] out man. It's bad. Um next thing we have Chinese hacking. Uh

[00:21:33] there's been 14 instances of Chinese nationals trying to gain

[00:21:39] entrance into Pearl Harbor since 2018. I don't even know what

[00:21:44] happens at Pearl Harbor like we got a bunch of 2018. I don't even know what happens at Pearl Harbor.

[00:21:45] Like we got a bunch of boats.

[00:21:46] I don't know.

[00:21:47] Yeah, they got some boats.

[00:21:48] I guess that's where really you're kind of home ported

[00:21:51] if you're guarding Taiwan kind of thing.

[00:21:54] I don't know.

[00:21:54] We have guys in Japan, I guess.

[00:21:56] They're really coming out of there.

[00:21:58] I don't know.

[00:21:59] So that's a thing.

[00:22:00] And those are things we know about.

[00:22:03] Since 2018, there's been 100 incidents of attacks on our, on US military bases.

[00:22:15] I don't mean attacks like they attacked it.

[00:22:18] I mean, people tried to gain entry where there wasn't, you know, they weren't authorized or allowed to be there. There was actually just a big

[00:22:28] story. Trudeau up in Canada was covering up how their biological

[00:22:36] warfare labs had been infiltrated by the Chinese. And

[00:22:41] turns out they gained access to all kinds of stuff. They're

[00:22:44] keyboards, they went in and were given a tour inside the facility.

[00:22:48] People who are members of the Chinese whatever army, whatever they call it,

[00:22:55] was the People's Liberation Army PLO.

[00:22:58] Yeah, whatever the hell it is.

[00:22:59] Yeah, they always have like great names for like the Republic of China,

[00:23:04] the People's Republic of China. The People's Republic of China.

[00:23:06] They're ain't shit about China.

[00:23:07] That's Republic.

[00:23:08] Now, they got a dictator and you don't fucking vote.

[00:23:11] They're.

[00:23:13] Exactly.

[00:23:15] There are also some positives that maybe they're negatives.

[00:23:21] It depends how you look at it.

[00:23:22] Coming from the whole Chinese invasion, right?

[00:23:27] Do you guys know about the Glock switch?

[00:23:30] the Glock switch is

[00:23:33] Just at the back of the slide

[00:23:35] You can kind of replace there's a little cover there typically and it basically bumps it out

[00:23:41] But it basically makes it a push button that'll make your clock full auto

[00:23:46] And i'm just saying now turns out we have this big problem of criminals, you know going in with the whole full auto

[00:23:56] Full auto handguns and shooting up places and killing each other and chicago and california

[00:24:01] It's all kind of crazy turns out these things are being like mass produced.

[00:24:05] Now, what's weird is I keep reading articles that they're smuggling them in,

[00:24:10] but it seems like such a simple device that you could just set up like a 3D

[00:24:15] printer or whatever and make just make that shit at home.

[00:24:18] Like, yeah, like I, I mean, I understand.

[00:24:22] Like I wouldn't think you'd have to smuggle them in.

[00:24:24] I feel like you could set up a shop. Like you'd have to smuggle them in I feel like you could

[00:24:25] Set up a shop like you'd have to set up a little tooling shop

[00:24:28] They're pieces that have to be metal and things like that, but I feel like you could do that

[00:24:35] Yeah, I feel like you know I

[00:24:38] Feel like there's a lot of talk about like banning certain types of weapons in the United States. But you know what,

[00:24:45] the secrets out. They're not hard to make. You can make one in your basement with, you know,

[00:24:50] with a drill press and a couple of basic tools. It's not, firearms aren't like the most complicated

[00:24:58] thing in the world, you know what I mean? You could build one out of a piece of pipe in a block

[00:25:03] of wood if you're, you know, into it, get a rubber band and a nail and you can fire that thing

[00:25:08] whenever you want, but whatever, who am I? Yeah, no, exactly. But that's, I mean, it's,

[00:25:16] there is so much going on and so much opportunity for bad. To me, it's funny, you know not to get two side tracked, but full auto is just kind of a waste

[00:25:26] I mean, it's fun like even like I have those

[00:25:30] But like I'm very switches

[00:25:32] the binary switches which right basically you pull the trigger on your gun and it shoots and you let go of the trigger and it

[00:25:40] Shoots so you can be twice as fast and if you're pretty quick with the trigger it you can be twice as fast. And if you're pretty quick with the trigger,

[00:25:45] you can be pretty quick. I have an AR set up for 22 and that's pretty much the only

[00:25:50] one that I'll use that with because I'm like, I'm not burning through that much ammo.

[00:25:54] Right.

[00:25:55] Like she gets an expensive.

[00:25:56] I'm just like, oh, 50 cents, 50 cents. Stop, stop. You know, every fire, you know, and

[00:26:03] so I guess with the binary trigger, it a dollar a dollar and I'm like whoa whoa

[00:26:08] Put that gun down, you know, so it's fun for a minute

[00:26:11] And it's fun to make loud noises and make things go bang. I mean, right, right. I have issues, right?

[00:26:17] You know, we have we have concerns, but you know that that's something you guys might want to consider

[00:26:24] I would also say that But you know that that's something you guys might want to consider

[00:26:27] I would also say that

[00:26:30] You know they They seem to be

[00:26:32] Deliberately, you know, we've all right another thing here that the head of the FBI

[00:26:38] Says that we currently have more red flags

[00:26:43] Than we did before September 11th, right now, coming

[00:26:48] from China.

[00:26:49] Right.

[00:26:50] And not, you know, we had more red flags of possible terror threats before.

[00:26:55] Now we have more red flags of possible terror threats and threats against our country than

[00:27:00] we did now from China.

[00:27:02] Right.

[00:27:03] Right.

[00:27:04] A lot of them are infrastructure. Yeah, infrastructure.

[00:27:05] Yeah, don't take stuff, right?

[00:27:07] Right, so yeah, power companies, oil refineries,

[00:27:13] you know, all sorts of that sort of,

[00:27:15] all sorts of that type of stuff is things

[00:27:18] that are being targeted by hackers.

[00:27:20] And the fact of the matter is,

[00:27:23] a lot of our infrastructure runs online, you know, where it can be accessed.

[00:27:28] And when's the last time the guy you know changed his password on the computer that he uses, you know, three times a week, he doesn't give a fuck.

[00:27:35] You know what I mean? It's user one, two, three, four or something. You know what I mean? It ain't that hard.

[00:27:40] I don't want to give out any secrets, but I do know that 20 years ago when I was in the military, 80% of US government

[00:27:49] passwords were the word password. Yeah, I'm saying try password, try admin.

[00:27:56] Now you're gonna get in there and ain't that difficult, you know?

[00:27:59] We have some top secret ones where I work. So what I will say is,

[00:28:09] we don't update our passwords. My job is all finished, we should,

[00:28:11] but I will say that we have 40 different passwords

[00:28:15] that I have to carry a sheet that's a mile long to-

[00:28:18] Just so you can access-

[00:28:19] You didn't try this one.

[00:28:20] And I'm like, why?

[00:28:22] Yeah, don't let anyone see that sheet.

[00:28:25] Don't make a copy of that.

[00:28:27] What?

[00:28:28] And pass it out at the border.

[00:28:30] Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:28:33] Yeah.

[00:28:34] No, but I mean, it is something of,

[00:28:36] I mean, it is something to worry about.

[00:28:39] Let's talk about COVID.

[00:28:41] Do you remember the panic,

[00:28:42] the first couple of, first week or so, right?

[00:28:45] Empty grocery stores were emptied.

[00:28:47] Everybody's running around.

[00:28:48] Everybody's, you know, off the streets, trying to, trying to stay at home, but

[00:28:52] they don't have enough to eat and they got to go and everything's a panic.

[00:28:55] Everything was, everybody was freaking the fuck out.

[00:28:58] They, they were positive it was going to kill them.

[00:29:00] COVID-19 was lethal and you were going to die if you get it and you better keep

[00:29:06] your ass inside and away from everybody else. Can you imagine what would have happened that

[00:29:11] week if people's power and internet went out? It would have been chaos.

[00:29:17] Kevin, don't even joke about something serious like that. But that's a thing. We just had AT&T, you know, just had

[00:29:26] that big shutdown. Does anybody remember anything about Facebook going down for 20 minutes last

[00:29:33] week? Yeah, it was a crisis. I can't log in. No, no. And they were like, oh, and dude, that was worldwide, but it wasn't just Facebook.

[00:29:48] They said all kinds of companies, Verizon had stuff.

[00:29:52] Could that, and they were like, oh, yeah, it was just a glitch.

[00:29:55] But Instagram.

[00:29:56] Yeah.

[00:29:57] Everything.

[00:29:58] It was all like tons of stuff and it was all seem to be communication stuff.

[00:30:07] Right. And I know you're like, well, you know, Facebook isn't a communication thing. Isn't it? Where do you get information? When you

[00:30:13] panic and something's going on, hey, hey, the power's out. Let me go on Facebook and see if

[00:30:20] anyone else is having trouble. See if nobody turns on the radio,

[00:30:26] TV's not working, TV's not working,

[00:30:28] you're watching the news, where else are you gonna go?

[00:30:30] Yeah, so that's one of the key things

[00:30:35] that people do is they check their information

[00:30:40] on their local sources that they use.

[00:30:43] Dude, everything was shut down.

[00:30:45] It was like 20 minutes and it wasn't a big deal,

[00:30:48] but could that be a test?

[00:30:50] Could that be a, hey, could we do it?

[00:30:52] We really never got any word of why it shut down.

[00:30:54] I'm sure they know.

[00:30:55] No, they didn't tell us.

[00:30:56] It wasn't just a blip on the radar.

[00:30:59] And that's my point.

[00:31:01] We're just, and I gotta say,

[00:31:03] China really is not happy with us. And

[00:31:07] you know, one of the secrets that people don't realize is when the people aren't happy, the

[00:31:12] best trick that a government has up its sleeve is to say, hey, you know, we're not really

[00:31:18] the problem. It's those people over there. Yep. That's right. You know, if you were trying to use it's the Americans. It's the Americans. And

[00:31:28] you know, hey, maybe the reason the Chinese people are

[00:31:32] having such a hard time. It's not cuz communism sucks. It's

[00:31:37] cuz America's so damn evil. Mm hmm. Yep. Yep. I think now

[00:31:43] you're

[00:31:46] seeing it. You're picking up

[00:31:48] what I'm putting down. Yeah.

[00:31:52] No, I feel like, uh, you know,

[00:31:55] a lot of us have in America have

[00:31:58] a very easy life, at least if we

[00:32:00] want it, want it to be easy, you

[00:32:01] know, not everybody goes to the

[00:32:03] jam. It's like the bathroom. Yeah, Some people are insane like me and just fucking always in rage,

[00:32:07] no matter what's happening, you know, whatever.

[00:32:10] But, you know, it's very easy to just, you know,

[00:32:15] watch Netflix and chill.

[00:32:17] Oh, beer is cheap.

[00:32:19] Cheetos are cheap.

[00:32:20] Reacher, I was watching that.

[00:32:22] What's that?

[00:32:22] Uh-huh.

[00:32:23] You know, that was entertaining. You know, it

[00:32:26] happens. You're just like, uh

[00:32:28] yeah. Yeah. Now, the upside is

[00:32:30] the real trick and this is a

[00:32:32] secret of the pros I'll let you

[00:32:34] guys in on and luckily no one

[00:32:36] from my job will ever see this

[00:32:38] but if you can find

[00:32:40] a way to watch Netflix and

[00:32:42] chill while you're at work

[00:32:44] getting paid double time.

[00:32:46] That might be the trick.

[00:32:49] What's cool is I can be really productive when I'm home because I'm like,

[00:32:55] oh, I've already seen everything on, you know, on Netflix.

[00:32:58] I've been through it all and there's nothing left to watch.

[00:33:02] I mean, that's why I have to be a constant YouTube junkie.

[00:33:05] Cause I'm like, all right, well, I've already gone through

[00:33:07] all the movies and the TV.

[00:33:08] I've never seen every goddamn thing that's been made.

[00:33:11] People are putting out there

[00:33:12] cause there's nothing left.

[00:33:15] That's the trick.

[00:33:16] That's the secret of the pros right there

[00:33:18] is to find a job where they pay you to sit there and...

[00:33:21] You know, I've noticed as I've gotten older

[00:33:23] and moved through through moved up in

[00:33:26] the world yeah I've noticed that the lower you get paid the shittier your job is it's like work

[00:33:33] right dude if you're making if you're making $10 an hour I'm gonna say seven but I guess that's not

[00:33:39] a number you're working your ass off and you're not taking five minutes to to take a look you know

[00:33:43] take a minute and look at anything, you know what I mean?

[00:33:47] But once you start moving up towards like manager level, then you just sit in your office

[00:33:51] and watch YouTube all day, you know?

[00:33:56] Get maybe five minutes out of an hour out of work for me, you know?

[00:34:00] Yep.

[00:34:01] No, exactly.

[00:34:02] I mean, really, you know, I don't even understand why we don't have the survival and basic badass podcast on Netflix. Like, I feel like people can be binge watching this. Yeah. Yeah. Something we need to bring out. I'm just saying, I mean, I'm looking for options here. You know, I'm the victim. That's right. We gotta take this this up. I'll give a Netflix call and see if we can get this work out.

[00:34:27] See if you can crack that nut.

[00:34:28] You know?

[00:34:29] Yeah.

[00:34:30] All right.

[00:34:31] What else you got here as far as China goes?

[00:34:34] We didn't talk about the blimp yet.

[00:34:35] We didn't talk about the balloon.

[00:34:37] And that was the thing.

[00:34:38] It took like some like kid or something.

[00:34:41] Somebody was like, hey, Montana was like, what's that thing out there? Look, I videotaped it. It

[00:34:48] looks like a spy balloon. And it turns out it was like

[00:34:53] connecting to US internet providers and transmitting it

[00:34:57] one charting its location, but also transmitting back to China.

[00:35:02] They were like, I don't think it's a threat. And the thing was they were like,

[00:35:06] oh, it's randomly drifting, but it turned out it wasn't.

[00:35:09] It wasn't actually raining.

[00:35:11] It was randomly drifting over every base in the country,

[00:35:18] but that's fine.

[00:35:18] That's fine.

[00:35:20] That's just how the damn Gulfstream works, man.

[00:35:25] Yeah. No, that the damn, uh, uh, Gulfstream works, man. Yeah.

[00:35:26] No, that's magic, right?

[00:35:29] Take a shot every time Kevin gives, gives, uh, shitty advice.

[00:35:34] Well, the ship faced in about five minutes watching this, listening to this

[00:35:38] shit.

[00:35:38] Uh, actually I heard the rumor is every time Kevin, uh, lights a

[00:35:42] cigarette.

[00:35:43] Yeah.

[00:35:44] There's a rumor about a

[00:35:45] drinking game like that, but

[00:35:46] also, you know, you'll be fucked

[00:35:48] up pretty quick.

[00:35:51] Kevin.

[00:35:52] Or every time Chuck takes a sip

[00:35:53] of coffee.

[00:35:55] You have to take a shot.

[00:35:57] Yeah, you're done.

[00:35:59] That's my buddy's like, I watch

[00:36:01] the show and you must have an

[00:36:03] endless cup of coffee because I'll watch it and he's like, I watched the show and you must have an endless cup of coffee because I'll watch it yet.

[00:36:06] And he's like, you just keep going.

[00:36:09] And I was like, well, what really happens is about 10 minutes in that coffee is cold.

[00:36:14] And so I start to sip it and I'm like, oh, it's like disappointment every time.

[00:36:22] And I just keep, you know, I need it. So I keep, you know, well, I need it.

[00:36:25] So I keep, you know, going back, but you get out.

[00:36:30] I don't know.

[00:36:31] So bottom line, it turns out China kind of a real threat.

[00:36:35] I honestly believe China is our biggest threat right now.

[00:36:39] China or the US government.

[00:36:41] I'm not sure.

[00:36:42] Oh, dude, we didn't even talk about the biggest thing. I have one more. Let me just hang in with me for a couple more minutes,

[00:36:49] guys. The Chinese debt trap. This is because I was thinking, oh, China's our biggest threat.

[00:36:58] But then I was like, you know, the US is our biggest threat, our own government, because

[00:37:02] they're doing the same tactics as the Chinese and

[00:37:06] and

[00:37:07] One we'll talk about the pharmaceutical industry and kind of the alternative

[00:37:12] We're doing the same crap that China's doing with fentanyl just with prescription drugs and yeah, and we allow there

[00:37:20] But that's a whole other show that one. I'm gonna hold off on but let's talk about the Chinese debt trap

[00:37:26] Check this out. I have this awesome quote that I almost didn't get to give you China says that

[00:37:32] They don't do aid and charity

[00:37:35] They do business

[00:37:37] And I gotta say I want to be able to say that about my country, right?

[00:37:42] You know, I mean, I know it's cool to be nice and care about people and do

[00:37:47] different things.

[00:37:48] I get that, like that's cool.

[00:37:50] But let's do business.

[00:37:53] Let's make some money.

[00:37:54] So what China's doing though?

[00:37:56] And I got to say, I feel like they're doing it to the U S, but well, indirectly,

[00:38:02] but they're definitely doing it in Africa.

[00:38:04] And what they're doing is they go to these countries that are impoverished,

[00:38:09] impoverished, and they say, hey, look,

[00:38:13] you know what we're going to do?

[00:38:14] We're going to give you super low interest loans.

[00:38:18] And, you know, even though it doesn't look like you could pay us back,

[00:38:22] we're going to give you like a billion dollars and you know,

[00:38:27] because you guys really need to upgrade your infrastructure.

[00:38:29] Right.

[00:38:30] And they're like, oh, that'd be all.

[00:38:32] Yeah.

[00:38:32] I could use a billion dollars at a low interest rate.

[00:38:34] Let's do that.

[00:38:35] Bridges, schools, all that shit's important, right?

[00:38:38] Right.

[00:38:38] Gotta get this country up to snuff.

[00:38:41] And now they've actually done this in, it's kind of a high number.

[00:38:44] It's been $340 billion they've actually done this in it's kind of a high number. It's been

[00:38:46] $340 billion they've given to Africa in 35 countries. They've led to Africa. Yeah, I

[00:38:53] Said living that was cuz I'm an American and that's what I think I'm like, oh giving giving

[00:38:59] Giving you no no America would be like, oh problem. Here's three hundred forty billion go whatever

[00:39:05] Yeah, and you send out that much at least every fucking country with no strings attached all the time right right?

[00:39:12] It wasn't I could talk about Egypt, but anyway, so

[00:39:15] They gave them three hundred forty billion now then they're like oh, you know what it's awkward because you don't seem to be able to pay us back and

[00:39:24] Since you're not able to pay us back.

[00:39:29] And since you're not able to pay us back, don't worry. Don't worry. We're not going to roll in troops. We're not going to be crazy.

[00:39:32] But you know that awesome city you have over there?

[00:39:37] Why don't you just sell all that land to us?

[00:39:39] Like we'll still let you use it. You guys can all live there.

[00:39:43] Right.

[00:39:43] But like we could just own it and you could pay a rent. How about that?

[00:39:48] Countries are like, oh, oh, that's a good idea. Let's do that. And then China owns like your key infrastructure, right?

[00:39:56] Right. And then let's go a little further and

[00:40:00] They're like, hey, you know, you don't want to give up that key stuff. Well, I'll tell you what

[00:40:06] What if you implemented some political ideas that we have? I mean, we're just throwing it out there

[00:40:13] What if you like, you know said hey, um, you need to do some kind of population control and every family is only allowed to have

[00:40:23] One girl, but let's do something like that. I

[00:40:26] don't know

[00:40:28] So just saying these could be some shady things that are going on right now

[00:40:35] Not necessarily I kind of made up in my head the the one girl policy

[00:40:41] But they are getting these countries to vote and do things and implement

[00:40:45] laws. You know, now you're like, well, who would do something this shady? It just sounds

[00:40:50] sinister and evil, like Dr. Evil, perhaps. Mm hmm. Well, yeah. Do you guys remember the

[00:40:57] 55 mile an hour speed limit? Yeah. Do you remember seatbelt laws? Do you remember the crap education that our kids are getting?

[00:41:06] These sound like very similar ideas where it's like, Hey, let me now.

[00:41:11] We're even more sinister because we're like, Hey, let's tax you and take all your

[00:41:16] money, but we'll give you your money back.

[00:41:20] If you do what I tell you.

[00:41:24] And I'm like, I'm seeing that the Chinese might have learned this play right from right from the master right over here

[00:41:31] Just say it yet. Now

[00:41:33] one of the reasons that that China is really

[00:41:37] pushing right now is

[00:41:41] The running it they're starting to run into issues

[00:41:43] They've had some major financial blows.

[00:41:46] COVID hit pretty fucking hard over there.

[00:41:49] You know, it really, I mean, they said that, you know,

[00:41:53] only like a hundred thousand people died from COVID

[00:41:55] and shit like that is all bullshit.

[00:41:58] That is all bullshit.

[00:41:59] China did terrible with that.

[00:42:01] Everybody's living right on top of each other

[00:42:03] to begin with over there. It's not like you can you know like in America you isolate the suburbs and you got you know

[00:42:09] An acre of yard to play and not even not in run in any anybody else

[00:42:14] It's they they got hit hard

[00:42:17] The other problem is that their population is declining fast real fast

[00:42:22] So in the next 20 years, they're gonna be fucked.

[00:42:26] Like literally fucked back to pre-World War II China

[00:42:31] and they're in fucking trouble.

[00:42:33] So they've gotta hit now.

[00:42:35] They've gotta do what they can do now.

[00:42:37] They gotta take Taiwan back now.

[00:42:39] They have a limited amount of time

[00:42:41] before they're gonna be at backwater

[00:42:43] if they don't make some serious plays. and that's kind of what's pushing it.

[00:42:49] There was that big initiative to have China beating the United States in production by

[00:42:56] what was it 2025?

[00:42:57] What was that?

[00:42:59] That is not gonna happen.

[00:43:01] That is not even close to happening.

[00:43:03] That is, they missed their mark

[00:43:05] and it's only going downhill now.

[00:43:07] What they do have is still a large population,

[00:43:11] a large amount of money,

[00:43:12] and a lot of money invested in military assets.

[00:43:15] So-

[00:43:16] And so you know what you can do with something like that?

[00:43:21] What?

[00:43:24] It made other countries.

[00:43:25] There you go.

[00:43:27] Maybe go find people with a lot of money and go take their stuff.

[00:43:31] You gotta take people's.

[00:43:33] Well, you mean the United States?

[00:43:35] Well, let's start with Taiwan.

[00:43:37] Yeah, because I mean, apparently the United States.

[00:43:41] Or maybe let's start with Hong Kong.

[00:43:43] Oh, they already did that one, right?

[00:43:46] Yeah, and then we'll do Taiwan then we'll move to Taiwan take their shit, you know, it seems like more and more that

[00:43:54] countries like

[00:43:55] the United States and Australia and countries that had an interest in keeping Taiwan Taiwan

[00:44:04] Free I have been kind of backing out on that I mean, I'm not interested in keeping Taiwan, Taiwan, um, free.

[00:44:08] I have been kind of backing out on that.

[00:44:10] They're like, I don't know, really going to help you out.

[00:44:14] You know, we'll, we'll tell China that it's bad that they invaded you.

[00:44:17] But I mean, we're not really going to do anything.

[00:44:20] Well, cause money's hard to come by.

[00:44:23] And if you just gave all your money to Ukraine and you know what I'm saying?

[00:44:26] You had a crisis going on at home and everybody was realizing that it turns out you probably

[00:44:32] can't live in the US on 2000 a month social security. Yeah, that ain't gonna happen anymore.

[00:44:39] Then you might have a problem at home where you can't really be worrying about Taiwan. I'm just saying you might

[00:44:46] be distracted with your own problems, especially if your infrastructure, your water and power and

[00:44:54] all that stuff was maybe, and maybe just maybe you made really bad choices on the whole electric car and solar thing. Yeah. I look at putting solar panels on my roof and they're like, yeah, you could get 20

[00:45:11] city.

[00:45:12] And I'm like, that sounds horrible.

[00:45:14] That doesn't sound like a deal.

[00:45:17] 23%.

[00:45:18] Oh, yeah, we took $40 off your electric bill.

[00:45:23] It only takes 20 years for those solar panels to pay you back

[00:45:26] They go bad after 18, but I mean, but you know, whatever whatever. I don't know. It's a bad world

[00:45:33] So anyway learn to live with less take care of your own business is what I would tell you

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[00:46:01] Kind of spread the love, share it on Facebook, share the videos, whatever.

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[00:46:07] You know, you have an episode that you think is great.

[00:46:10] Share it with some friends, you know?

[00:46:13] Anyway, with that, I would say stay safe and we will talk to you guys next week. music I'm not sure what I'm doing. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:46:46] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:46:48] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:46:50] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:46:52] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:46:54] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:46:56] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:46:58] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:47:00] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.

[00:47:02] I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing.