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The Syrian regime must be stripped of all its chemical weapons, and that would make our entire region a lot safer. The world needs to ensure that radical regimes don't have weapons of mass destruction, because as we've learned once again in Syria, if rogue regimes have weapons of mass destruction, they will use them.
Candace
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The anti-Semitic decision of the international court in The Hague is a modern Dreyfus trial, and it will end the same way. 130 years ago, the French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason by a biased French court. In response to these false accusations, the great French writer Emile Zola wrote his monumental essay, Jacuzzi.
Candace
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He accused the French court of anti-Semitic lies against an innocent officer who was later exonerated of all guilt. Now an international court in The Hague, also headed by a French judge, is repeating this outrageous offense.
Candace
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It is falsely accusing me, the democratically elected prime minister of the state of Israel, and Israel's former defense minister, Yoav Galant, of deliberately targeting civilians. This when we do everything in our power to avoid civilian casualties. We issue millions of text messages, phone calls, leaflets to the citizens of Gaza to get them out of harm's way.
Candace
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while the Hamas terrorists do everything in their power to keep them in harm's way.
Candace
The American Trucking Industry Runs on Exploitation — Here’s The Proof | Candace Ep 196
Und ähnlich wie der letzte Story, wird dieser anfangen, sehenswürdig zu beginnen. Und am Ende wirst du dein ganzes Verständnis von Amerika, der Supermarkt und jedem Produkt, das du kaufst, wiederentdecken. Denn es scheint, dass unsere amerikanische Art von Leben nicht nur auf brutalen Slavenarbeit in weit entfernten Orten wie Thailand oder Indien abhängig ist.
Candace
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And they wind up where we left off, with Desiree Woods saying, quote, this is not far from sharecropping. It's debt bondage. It's sharecropping where instead of the field, they are tenants on wheels. Und hör mal, ich weiß nicht, was die Lösung ist. Ich weiß nicht, was ich davon machen soll. Aber zumindest jetzt habe ich ein bisschen mehr Kompassion für Trucker auf der Straße.
Candace
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Und jetzt, dass ich weiß, was sie durchgehen, finde ich mich, ihnen mehr Raum zu geben, um ihren Job auf der Straße zu machen. Und einfach ein bisschen mehr Patient, wenn ich hinter einem 18-Wheeler warte, in der Passungslinie. Diese sind die Männer und Frauen, die die Welt funktionieren. Und sie haben ein ziemlich scharfes Gehen von Dingen.
Candace
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And speaking of sharecropping, next we'll talk about plantations that operate today as prison labor camps, eerily similar to their slave master roots. But first, I want to take a minute to tell you about ground news. Let's be honest. Untertitelung aufgrund der Audioqualität nicht möglich. Das ist das, was die meisten Plattformen nicht zeigen.
Candace
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Das Tool, das ich am meisten benutze, ist der Blindspot-Feed. It reveals which stories are being covered heavily by one side and buried by the other. You want to know what's being hidden? That's where you look. Ground News is fully independent, supported by subscribers, and it doesn't play by the legacy media's rules. That's why I partnered with them.
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If you're tired of media gatekeepers deciding what you see and what you don't, take back control. Go to groundnews.com slash Candace or scan the QR code on screen. You'll get 40% off the unlimited access vantage plan, which is what I use. That's G-R-O-U-N-D-N-E-W-S dot com slash Candace. Don't let anyone decide what you get to see. Take back control of your news feed today.
Candace
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Und nächstens möchte ich dir über die Wellness-Familie erzählen. Hast du je gewusst, warum dein Gehirn feucht fühlt, auch wenn du dienst und exercizierst? Es könnte kein Burnout sein, es könnten Parasiten sein. Grundsätzliche Forschung von Dr. Alan MacDonald hat eine direkte Verbindung zwischen chronischen Parasiten-Infektionen und neurologischen Krankheiten wie Multiple Sklerosis.
Candace
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Parasiten verursachen Inflammation, Nervenverlust und langfristige kognitive Verlust. Vielen Dank für's Zuschauen. Vielen Dank. So, now that we've talked about sharecropping on wheels, let's talk about the slaves that still work the plantations to this day. A lot of people don't know that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, didn't actually abolish slavery.
Candace
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More and more Americans are slipping deeper into what can only be called indentured servitude and bordering on outright slavery as well. And truckers are a vast and underappreciated lot. So, first of all, understand that everything, Everything in your life comes to you on a truck.
Candace
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It just put one very simple condition on the practice. In the very first line it says, quote, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. And so we get the prison industrial complex.
Candace
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And although many people have contributed to this modern slavery and the racial bias of its selection process, Perhaps no one has contributed more to it than this man, Joseph R. Biden. In 1986, Joe Biden authored and championed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which, among other things, imposed extremely harsh penalties on crack cocaine use versus powdered cocaine.
Candace
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The penalties for crack cocaine were 100 times stricter than for regular powdered cocaine. So the minimum sentencing was five years for five grams of crack. Or five years for 500 grams of powdered cocaine. You might notice in the snippet from the New York Times here that it says this was an amendment to the 1984 minimum sentencing bill. Joe Biden championed that bill too.
Candace
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In fact, all throughout the 70s and 80s, Joe Biden was at the front of the charge to expand the power of the prison system. And he authored numerous acts to expand prison populations that were written in ways that clearly skewed towards black Americans. I probably don't need to remind you that it was our own CIA that was flooding poor black neighborhoods with crack cocaine at the time.
Candace
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And so, from 1973, when these laws started passing and prisons started expanding until 2009, when this trend peaked, the imprisonment rate in America increased sevenfold. We went from just a couple hundred thousand people in prison to over 1.5 million. Except by some data sets, it's over 2 million and has been since 2005, depending on who you trust.
Candace
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When you look up official Department of Justice fact sheets, though, they conveniently show the data going back just to 2009, when prison populations had peaked. So it looks in this graph like prison populations are decreasing. What a convenient way to present it. You see, they just show this last little decrease at the end there highlighted in pink. Pay no attention to Joe Biden's legacy.
Candace
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The Sentencing Project reports that one in five black men born in the year 2001 is likely to be imprisoned at some point in their lifetime. Black Americans account for nearly seven out of ten people in American prisons.
Candace
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Biden actually went out of his way as a Democrat senator to reach across the aisle and ally with segregationist Republican senators to pass these bills throughout the late 70s, the 80s and the 90s.
Candace
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In 2013, Biden boasted on the Senate floor that, quote, every major crime bill since 1976 that's come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill has had the name of the Democratic senator from the state of Delaware, Joe Biden. And so now, for every 100,000 black adults in America, 1,196 are in prison. The rate for white people is 229.
Candace
The American Trucking Industry Runs on Exploitation — Here’s The Proof | Candace Ep 196
From the big appliances of our lives to the smallest bite of food, every single staple, butter knife, copper wire or ceramic mug comes via a truck. If you build it yourself, the parts you use for building arrived on a truck. If you grow it, the seeds, organic fertilizer and bailing wire for your compost bin arrived that way too. Trucking as an industry is gargantuan.
Candace
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You know this is a liberal publication too, because they say Latinx, a term that no Latino person has ever used. Literally their entire language is gendered, but whole sidetrack. Also worth noting that almost half of federal prison inmates are there because of drug charges. A fact they have the war on drugs and Joe Bidens crime bills to thank for.
Candace
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Only 21% are in prison for weapons related charges and just 7.3% for violent crimes. Now, this problem is incredibly complex and multifaceted. And all too often, people don't want to account for all of these different factors that are contributing. The justice system has been designed to target and more severely punish black people.
Candace
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Also, black culture has been infested by music, celebrity and gang culture that glamorizes criminality. Poverty and schools in predominantly black parts of America make it all too easy to slip through the cracks. And none of these truths should serve as any excuse. More than one thing can be true at once.
Candace
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Just because you're black doesn't mean you're bound for a life of criminality with no way out. But if you're born into a class and culture where criminality is the norm and even seen as cool and high status and you see it all around you, well, it's a vicious cycle. And regardless of the color of your skin, once you're in, the 13th Amendment's abolishment of slavery is out the window.
Candace
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And you join a vast, hidden workforce that enriches all of America's most beloved megacorporations. From Frosted Flakes Cereal and Ballpark Hot Dogs to Gold Medal Flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland Rice, prison labor products are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods.
Candace
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We even export some of these products to countries that we have previously blocked imports from in protest of those other countries' poor labor practices, which to me is peak American hypocrisy. Some prisoners work on the exact same plantation soil where slaves harvested cotton, tobacco and sugar cane more than 150 years ago. And slaves are still picking cotton today.
Candace
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Willy Ingram, der in diesem Exposé von der Associated Press vertreten wurde, hat alles von Kaffee bis Okra gekauft während seines 51-jährigen Abstands im Louisiana State Penitentiary, bekannt als Angola, welches direkt auf dem Topf eines alten Plantations gebaut ist. Quote, Quote, Quote, They can earn between 2 cents and 40 cents an hour.
Candace
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And across the country, work is done for most of our biggest brands, whether it's manufacturing products specifically for that company or producing raw ingredients that are then sold into the supply chain. This is just a small list that the AP was able to directly observe in their investigations. And they do it because it's incredibly profitable.
Candace
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These workers don't have benefits or protections or typical safety standards. They hardly get paid and so can produce goods for much cheaper than a normal worker. And then these products and goods are sold on the open market where they compete on price with regular farmers and manufacturers, further pushing on family farms to cut prices.
Candace
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Prisoners also often work in industries with severe labor shortages. And so they wind up doing some of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs in America for basically no pay. Alltogether, the modern slave labor industry brought in more than $2 billion in 2021. And that's just the prison labor, not to mention work release and other programs.
Candace
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In America, 10.7 billion tons of freight are moved per year. That breaks down to 54 million tons a day or 350 pounds of freight per man, woman and child moving around this country every single day. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Tracking is the most common form of employment in the majority of American states, with more than 12.6 million commercial drivers circulating our highways.
Candace
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Curtis Davis, who spent more than 25 years in a penitentiary, said, And next, we're going to talk about how they're trying to bring slavery to the middle class. To you. But first, let's take a break. Real quick, guys, I want to tell you about American financing. We're all feeling it. Inflation is eating away at everything. Gas, groceries, home repairs.
Candace
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And if you're a homeowner, you've probably thought, should I call American financing to refinance and pay off this credit card debt? But then you second guess yourself because of that low mortgage rate you currently have. Listen. Das ist nicht zu sparen, wenn du in der Kreditkarte 25% oder mehr investierst. Das ist die Mathematik, die niemand zu befassen möchte. Aber es kostet dich Tausende.
Candace
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Also hier ist die Wahrheit. Wenn du nur Minimum-Payments machst, dann wird diese Kreditkarte dir für Jahre folgen. Das ist, warum Leute die amerikanische Finanzierung nennen. Weil sie Kunden ein Average von 800 Dollar pro Monat sparen, indem sie ihre Einkommen nutzen, um endlich aus der Kreditkarte frei zu brechen. Das ist 800-795-1210. Oder besuche AmericanFinancing.net slash Owens.
Candace
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So, the poorest and most rock bottom are being farmed out as prison labor on literal plantations. People on the verge of falling through the cracks or just crawling out of them are preyed on by the trucking industry among many other exploitive fields. Average Americans are locked into dead-end jobs that used to be enough to buy a house, a car and send your kids to college on.
Candace
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Now those same jobs have Americans on food stamps and taking out debt for just basic purchases. So how do you break free of this rat race? How do you chase the American dream out of the rat race and change your fortune? You start a business, right? Wrong. Because, oh boy, is the franchise industry up to the same games. And listen. We are about to skim the surface of an incredibly complex dig.
Candace
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And I've done my best to keep it from getting too dry and keep it interesting the way that I try to do. Because it's not always the flashiest, most Twitter viral news stories that is going to be the most important to actually know about. Many of the most important things happening in our world are bound up in complex legal filings and drawn out across years and years of frankly boring processes.
Candace
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And this one, it matters. It matters in so many more ways than I'm going to be able to fit into this segment. But this is a start. Denn, siehst du, wenn du der Art von guter Bürger bist, mit gutem Kredit und einigen Steuern und Einkommen, die du für die Löhne, die du für ein Unternehmen eröffnen musst, anbieten könntest, bist du ein noch wertvoller Cash Cow, der gemilkt wird.
Candace
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Und die Franchising-Industrie, die für Jahrhunderte die wichtigste Möglichkeit war, für normale Menschen zu werden, Geschäftsführer zu werden und den amerikanischen Traum zu erreichen, hat einen Weg gefunden, jeden Pfennig, den dieser Traum wert ist, zu extrahieren. Viele Leute denken an ihre Wertschätzung, wie viel sie in der Bank haben. Wie viel Geld haben Sie eigentlich?
Candace
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Aber wirklich, Sie sind so wertvoller als das. Auch in einer strikt finanziellen Weise. Das ist, weil wir Kredit haben. Sie haben Kredit. Und es ist wichtig, bevor wir in diese Rüttel gehen, um Kredit ein bisschen zu entpacken. Weil Kredit nicht nur eine Plastikkarte ist, die Sie in Ihrem Wallet behalten. Credit is your future. It's a promise to pay it back later.
Candace
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And it's a promise to exchange your future time and your future work for something right now. And give yourself some credit. You can probably be worth so much more down the line than you are worth today.
Candace
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And that precise monetary fact is what private equity and megacorporations have learned to prey on in the franchising industry, which has started a whole predatory practice of contracting people into new businesses, milking them for all the credit they can take out of the bank, and then leaving them with the bill to pay for the rest of their lives.
Candace
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It all starts with a discovery process and a contract. Untertitelung aufgrund der Audioqualität nicht möglich. They're looking for someone to open a new franchise location in your town and the business is basically turnkey. It's ready to go.
Candace
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You hardly even need to spend any time working on it because their proven business model is actually so dialed in that you just open up shop, hire some workers and the business runs itself. Pure passive income. You just work a few hours a week on the side. You can even keep your day job if you want.
Candace
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It sounds too good to be true, but you decide to schedule a meeting with them just to hear them out. Maybe this is actually your family's lucky break. When you sit down with them, they show you all kinds of materials and data. It's actually true. These franchises are opening up all over the country, lightning fast, and they're profitable almost right away.
Candace
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The Burger Place comes with crazy celebrity endorsements, and the martial arts studio runs totally hands-off. It's awesome. They have all the equipment you're going to need. It's already sorted out. All the branding, the advertising, it's all sorted out. All you need to do is secure the financing to open up shop and your life will change forever. You think it over with your family.
Candace
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It's a pretty big risk, but you know that you're hardworking and you've always dreamed of more. The document you took home with you is extensive. It's several hundred pages long and it details everything about how to open and run the store as well as all the legal stuff.
Candace
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And I mean, really, it's actually mostly all legal stuff, but it also has all the data about how many other successful businesses that franchise has opened across the country lately. So, you decide to do it. In your next meeting, you sign on the line and you officially join the brand family. Next, you're off to the bank to secure a loan in order to open up your new business.
Candace
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And I'm sure that you see where this is going. Sometimes this process does work great. If you're working with an honest company, this really can be the path to a new life. But all too often, that document that you're holding is actually filled with deception, half-truth and outright fraud.
Candace
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The Federal Trade Commission sued a franchise called Burgerim, the burger joint that I described just a moment ago in our intro, for fraud. They were selling their franchisees a pipe dream that had nothing to back it up, even though they had information in that document, causing these people to take out huge amounts of debt, only to have nothing actually materialize.
Candace
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The Franchise Times reported that they sold at least 1,550 franchises and collected at least $57.7 million in just initial franchise fees from 2015 to 2019. But they had only opened 130 out of 1,550 locations by 2018.
Candace
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That is almost 5% of adults in America working in trucking. Without trucking, life in America ceases. They are like our nation's circulatory system, bringing everything that is needed, where it is needed, when it is needed. And the industry ebbs and flows with minute shifts in our economy or our taste for the holiday season.
Candace
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To make it even worse, they were advertising to veterans and then extracting all of their credit, all their future time and earning potential, only to leave these veterans broke and destitute on empty promises. Berger was pitching this as a business in just the way that I described earlier, a business in a box.
Candace
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And the company was targeting veterans with discount programs to lure them into the business. It sounds kind of insane and even unbelievable, but actually it's a lot more common of an occurrence than you might realize.
Candace
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In 2023, Lena Kahn, die Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, which is the government body that oversees all this stuff, she posted a request for comment from franchisees so business owners could share their concerns and grievances about the industry at large. Her inbox was flooded with comments from franchise owners who had experienced these same predatory practices and lost everything.
Candace
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She later published a document summarizing the findings of her investigation and it had paragraphs like this in it. Quote, Quote, Quote, Dickies will tell franchisees the cost will be $400,000 and it will cost sometimes double that, but you don't know until you are already heavily invested.
Candace
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Then the owner would default on their SBA loan and the next buyer comes in and pays half, but then they will default until the restaurant is sold for about 10% of the original cost to build. Noten Sie, wie sie sagten, dass der Verkäufer auf seinen SBA-Lohn abwarten wird. Wir werden zurückkommen zu dem, weil private Rechnung herausgefunden hat, wie die Regierung diesen Fraud zurückzutragen.
Candace
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Und jetzt, wenn diese Franchisee verkauft und bezahlbar sind, weil das Geschäft, das sie versprochen haben, alles ein Lüge war, der Regierung eigentlich die schlechten Löhne zahlt und die private Rechnung-Firma wächst rich.
Candace
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Some of these private equity firms are actually setting up webs of shell companies and doing what's called the Texas Two-Step to hide their assets in tax shelter LLCs while bankrupting out of their failed business before anyone they stole from has a chance to sue for damages. We'll get back to that in a minute because it's super messed up.
Candace
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But anyways, in Lina Khan's report, she listed the top 12 complaints along with what franchises were most frequently mentioned in that type of complaint. And Michael Browning Jr. finally got that sweet, sweet recognition that he always craved.
Candace
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His company, Unleashed Brands, was top of the industry in misrepresentation and deception, actual and threatened retaliation, Tiffany's story is just one of many, franchise disclosure document issues, which is a nice way to say fraud, and private equity takeovers. But,
Candace
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It's worth noting that almost all of these top complaints from business owners are all separate elements of the same fraudulent scheme where you lie to get people to buy into your franchise. Then you trap them in predatory contracts that change over time to be more exploitative. If they speak out, you retaliate against them with lawfare. You can take their businesses, bankrupt them in court.
Candace
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And yet, it's also one of the most dangerous jobs, right up there with deep-sea fishermen and timber cutters. Trucking has the highest numbers of deaths per year of any job.
Candace
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Or just charge them the $200,000 fee that they owe you when you fire them. Because you recently amended the contract they signed years ago to add this little tidbit in. They tried to speak out against it, but obviously, a contract is a contract, right? Like, I really cannot convey how insane this stuff is. It sounds impossible. It sounds like someone would stop it.
Candace
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Like, there would be any amount of justice. Like, you can't just pretend to have a business and sell millions of dollars of fake franchise burger joints and then launder the money out into a chain of LLCs and say, whoopsies, money's gone. Quote, Quote, Franchisees were forced to use a construction management company named Foxfield that was stealing money.
Candace
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Foxfield Company set up a shell corporation for a bogus procurement company that franchisees were required to use. Foxfields owner, Chuck Piazza, put his wife in charge of the procurement company. The sole purpose was to create an additional markup on items. Markups were in excess of 80% on some items and stole tens of thousands of dollars from each franchisee. Quote, Quote,
Candace
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In The Secret Life of Groceries, Lore writes, The trucker is constantly on edge, recalculating braking distance based on the load, expecting and then reacting to major equipment failure, tensing up at the slightest precipitation in a manner that simply has no analog in the modern car. Runaway-Ramps are meaningful lifelines.
Candace
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It is traumatizing to be told, they are trying to bankrupt anyone with your family name, all while they continue to siphon money from our accounts. Unleashed brands are monsters and the franchise industry should be disgusted by the example they set. The stories about Unleashed brands piled up and got pretty specific.
Candace
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Ein Franchisee hat sogar gesagt, dass Steven Polozola, der Leiter für Unleashed Brands, zu ihnen gesagt hat, Quote, wir werden dich in die Verabschiedung schlagen, genau wie wir es mit Premier Martial Arts und The Little Gym machen. Es ist schrecklich, zu sehen, wie Leute getötet werden, nachdem wir unsere Lebenserhöhungen für das Start-up-Business gebraucht haben.
Candace
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Und sie benutzen ihre Lebenserhöhungen, als auch ihre Lebenskredit. Immer und immer wieder. So viele Franchisee haben die gleiche Geschichte. Sie werden im Prozess des Kaufens in die Firma geflüchtet. Und nicht nur kleine Lügen, overt Fraude, fehlende-level Lügen. Many of which are blatantly provable in the very documents themselves if any regulator cared to investigate.
Candace
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Then, as soon as you sign on the line, they own you and little by little the fees are added on, the kickbacks pile up and the fraud and extortion slowly bury you into bankruptcy. If you try to get out, they can sue you. or charge you tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in exit fees, which are often written in from the start or added on to your contract.
Candace
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But even more appalling, private equity has latched on to a new strategy. They tell franchisees to use special SBA and ROBS loans. A ROBS-Loan, short for Rollover as Business Startup, although in this case the abbreviation ROBS conveys way more clearly what they're actually doing, they are a way for you to pledge your retirement account as collateral to fund your business.
Candace
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And so now, the private equity firm not only gets these people trapped in contractual servitude and milks them for all the credit they can acquire, but it also... gets all their liquid assets, but then it also gets their retirement account on an empty promise that you're gonna have a brand new business. Just trust us. Sign on the line.
Candace
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If that wasn't bad enough, they make sure that whenever possible, their victims are using SBA loans, which are special loans for starting small businesses, which are backed by the government. I presume that the initial idea here was to encourage banks to lend to people that are starting small businesses so it could spur the economy.
Candace
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But what it has become is a way for private equity to extort the system and steal from our tax dollars to the tune of Lord knows how much each year. Because an SBA loan, if you go bankrupt and can't pay it back, as so many of these aspiring franchisees cannot... It's backed up, up to 85% by the federal government.
Candace
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And so what winds up happening is based on these false promises and often fraudulent documents, predatory private equity groups can convince regular people to take out massive loans that they would never qualify for if they weren't joining an apparently reputable franchise. And when it turns out that the business model isn't what they were told, they're bankrupted.
Candace
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Shifting into the wrong lane, merging onto any and every off-ramp, a momentary lack of caution, or just for half a second, treating your truck like a regular car, will lead to death. Lynn Riles, the trucker that he's profiling, says, quote, In a car, your blind spot might be a few feet. Mine is 53 feet.
Candace
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Their franchise is closed down, private equity walks away rich, and the taxpayer dollar covers the bill to the bank. In this way, private equity is using average Americans as willing suckers, as go-betweens, who get tricked into extracting every ounce of cash, savings and future credit that their whole life represents.
Candace
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And private equity can run this whole scheme, never having taken on any risk at all. Except risk of going to prison if any regulator or law enforcement agency would ever wake up and do their jobs, which so far has not exactly happened. And so... The show goes on. Vielen Dank für's Zuschauen.
Candace
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Sie hat jetzt seit sieben Jahren gegen die Firma verurteilt und sie legt alles auf dieser Webseite in Detail aus, mit Erklärungen und Beweise und es ist alles ein echter Krimi-Rabbit-Hole, wenn du es schauen willst. I Heart Mac & Cheese ist besonders schwarz, weil die Verkäufer im Prozess sind, was die Texas Two-Step genannt wird.
Candace
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Where you open a new legal entity, in this case called Pilar Coffee Bar, and then you transfer all of your assets to it, but none of your debt or liabilities.
Candace
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And when you're bankrupted because, oh, I don't know, you're running an entirely fraudulent business model that was designed to defraud your franchisees, then there's nothing in the bank account when they finally make it through a decade-long legal battle to seek some form of compensation, because you've transferred it away. You get away with the fraud and you walk away rich.
Candace
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They get taken for all their cash, life savings and land with a lifetime of debt to boot. It sounds unbelievable, even impossible. But as we've learned over the last couple of weeks, the system is designed to protect the big boys and to exploit all of us.
Candace
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At virtually any franchise owned by private equity, you can expect some version of this playbook, because franchising is supposed to be a long game, a business built over decades and generations like McDonald's originally was.
Candace
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But private equity lives on annual growth and two-year cycles, extracting as much cash as possible as quickly as possible, with little or no thought of the damage or consequences left in its wake. And so now, we've covered three different versions of the same story, essentially, in three different class segments of society. It's happening to the middle class. It's happening to those at the bottom.
Candace
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Lohr lebte in der Kabine mit Lynn Riles für eine Woche und er beschreibt einen einzigen Lohn, nur einen alten, üblichen Trip von irgendwo zu irgendwo, aber indizierend für die Form von Lynns Leben. Und am Ende des Trips kommen sie in einen Aldi-Distributionszentrum.
Candace
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And it's happening to anyone who falls through the cracks into prison. But I'm sure there are thousands of you out there that work in other fields that have other similar stories to this, because various versions of these stories are becoming more and more common every year.
Candace
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This is the natural progression of the system that they've built up around us, where the ultra-wealthy write the rules, and the ultra-wealthy have a secret court system that works for them, and the ultra-wealthy control the politics through donations and powerful leverage.
Candace
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And with every new advancement in technology and AI, with every new economic emergency and corporate bailout, every new war and omnibus spending bill, we are all being marched deeper and deeper into indentured servitude. The two primary levers of power that control the world are money and the law.
Candace
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We are all trapped under an ever increasing inflationary vice, while our tax dollars pay for their kickbacks, their bailouts and their wars. And if any of us slip through the cracks or into their secret courts, they've got a prison labor system ready to catch you at the bottom and put you to work.
Candace
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This is their vision of the future, where you will be a good little worker bee slaving away in the lower caste of society while they sit mint juleps in their McMansions. Where there is one tier of justice for the rich and another tier of justice for us. Where they write the rules and we are the ones bound by them.
Candace
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And the whole system relies on us staying distracted, on us not knowing how the law works or how arbitration works. These stories are too complex, too boring for us to pay attention to when the TV is filled with flashy pop stars and big booty hoes. Just go to the movies, turn off your brain and enjoy some good old-fashioned entertainment. Nothing to see here. But not you guys.
Candace
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Y'all are something special. I want to commend you on getting through another incredibly complex episode. I do my best to make these digs meaningful and entertaining, even when it's a subject that is inherently so complex and boring that most people will probably never learn about it. So, thanks for sticking through to the end of that dig.
Candace
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I hope you learned something or will at least think differently the next time you see a semi-truck on the road. Because I know that personally, I can never look at trucking the same way again since I learned all this crazy s***. Und für mich ist das das Wichtigste am Lernen.
Candace
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Dieser Trip war Dairy, startete in Charlotte, North Carolina und war 1.050 Meilen, stoppte an drei verschiedenen Distributionszentren. Für diese Reise wurde Lynn mit 1.231 Dollar bezahlt, oder 1,16 Dollar pro Meile, was ziemlich gut für einen gebrocherten Lohn ist, scheint sich. Außerdem wurde sie mit 368,50 Dollar für Feuer bezahlt, was den Feuer nicht betrifft.
Candace
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Nicht nur wachsen wir klüger, sondern hoffentlich auch kompassionierter für andere Menschen, indem wir zumindest eine kurze Distanz in ihren Schuhen gehen. Also, letztlich, lassen wir die Woche mit einigen euren Kommentaren aus. Und ich möchte nur sagen, Das war's für heute. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Kimberly says, we better start adding Ian to the prayers for his safety.
Candace
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And maybe state that he is not suicidal at the end of each episode. I'm going to be okay, guys. I'm safe. And I am, of course, not suicidal. Very happy, lovely life. But I appreciate you. Please do keep me in your prayers. SW said, Ian needs to start a history channel. I do feel like I'm just doing, like learning more and more history. Because all the history that we were taught is lies.
Candace
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I think it's fun. Norm de Plume said, my husband did four deployments in Afghanistan. He was a military intelligence officer and he spent the entire deployment protecting poppy fields. If you have not yet seen the dig that we just did into the opium trade, poppies, the US government's involvement in drug trafficking, that was spicy. I'm very proud of that video.
Candace
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Very proud of the team for how it came out. Definitely go check it out if you haven't seen it yet. Nakia Clark said, Candice, we miss you, but Ian has been nothing short of fantastic. Aw. You two should do a regular podcast together from time to time. Enjoy your maternity leave. Candice is enjoying her maternity leave. She's around. She's doing great. Baby Roman's doing great. I do love coming on.
Candace
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Pop-Quiz. Was war das Jahr, in dem die USA die Slaverie verabschiedeten? Du hättest 1865 beantwortet. Aber bist du sicher über das? Denn heute sprechen wir über die moderne Maske der Slaverie in Amerika und die verdächtige Verwaltung, die sich in mehr und mehr unserer größten Industrien befindet und mehr und mehr von uns entfaltet, während die Reichen einfach immer reicher werden.
Candace
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I'm going to love when I come back and do podcasts in the future. But unfortunately, I was talking to Candice and I do have to travel more this year. I got a lot of plans, but I'll definitely always come back and come check in because you guys are the best. Candice is the best and the team is the best. So,
Candace
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Emily Hag sagt, trinkt ihr Wasser, liebt eure Familie und macht etwas Gutes für jemanden, ist die beste Sign-Off-Line. Es ist einfach so, ich meine, wir brauchen einfach ein bisschen mehr Positivität in diesem Welt. Wir müssen uns manchmal erinnern, es leicht zu halten, es glücklich zu halten. Und ich denke, da ist ein guter Ort, um es zu beenden, ein guter Ort, um es zu beenden.
Candace
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Also, danke, dass ihr das ganze Video mit uns gesehen habt. Danke, dass ihr es liebt, bevor ihr aussteht. Danke, dass ihr zu Candice abonniert und den Link in der Beschreibung folgt, um auf meinem Kanal auf YouTube, Ian Carroll Show, und zu abonnieren. And be sure, of course, to drink your water, do something healthy for yourself and tell someone you love them tonight. And we'll see you next week.
Candace
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Aber alle gesagt, für zwei oder drei Tage Arbeit, das klingt nicht so schlecht, oder? Wie Laura es sagt, das ist die Lüge. Aber hier ist der Hook. Die Deduktionen. Right off the top, Cargill, who she drives for, takes 28% of her gross pay and 10% of her fuel pay for the privilege of driving in their fleet. Then the $300 weekly fee for leasing her truck.
Candace
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She still owes last week's truck payment too, because it was a slow week, so it was double this week. Then she has to pay the guys who unload her truck as well. There's also a mandatory cleaning fee out of pocket, maybe a couple hundred more bucks. Dann gibt es die Fixkosten, die jedes Monat und Jahr durchgeführt werden.
Candace
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Lynn zahlt Taxen pro Meile, pro Staat und muss einen Accountant bezahlen, um die Komplexität all dieser Dinge zu beantworten. Nicht eine Wahl für sie, weil Cargill sie benötigt. Sie benötigen auch, dass sie einen Arbeiter behalten, um Billen-Disputen zu beantworten. Dann ist die Sicherung auch mandatorisch mit ihrer verabschiedeten Sicherung.
Candace
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Dann die Sicherung auf ihrem Truck, den sie nicht kauft, was Laura zeigt. Wenn du 12.000 Meilen im Monat in einem großen Rack fährst, ist es ein ganz anderes Ding als für ein normales Auto.
Candace
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Dann muss sie in einen Escrow-Account bezahlen, den sie als Sicherheit nennt, welchen sie wiederum kontraktuell verpflichtet, zu füllen, obwohl es von der Trucking-Familie gehalten wird, in dem Fall, dass sie ever auf ihr Lease-to-Own-Agreement quittet.
Candace
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Und letztlich gibt es viele andere kleine Fee, wie Essen, Telefon, GPS und andere elektronische Geräte, die sie von ihrem Carrier benötigt, um sie zu nutzen, etc. And then there's risks outside of her control, like the week before this book was written, when a newbie trucker accidentally backed into her and then sped off to avoid liability. It's just one example.
Candace
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Lynn was left with the insurance claim for the damage and no one on the other end of it. There's a saying in trucking, the open road is unpredictable in almost every way except one. The longer you're on it, the more certain something costly will happen. A hit and run might be rare, but it's just one risk among thousands. Trailer brakes failing, tires blowing, reefer lines freezing.
Candace
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Collectively, these risks become inevitable. And in the case of this hit and run, the damage was minor. And so her deductible didn't even cover it. And she had to pay out of pocket. Lynn said, quote, If I need a repair done and I actually have the money, I just pay for it. But that is never the case. Instead, I got to get approval. Then I got to get a loan.
Candace
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Then they charge extra fees for the loan. And then I have to use their garage to get it fixed. Plus, the whole time she's doing that, she's grounded with no income. And so a tiny accident can easily become a slippery slope into complete financial ruin. Lynn schätzt, dass sie letztes Jahr 200.000 Dollar gekostet hat und dass sie weniger als 17.000 Euro nach Hause genommen hat.
Candace
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Und sie ist ein 14-jähriger Veteranen-Driver, der ihre Industrie ins und aus kennt, in ihrem Truck lebt und drei Wochen lang auf der Straße bleibt. Sie arbeitet mehr als 70 Stunden pro Woche in einer ständigen Vigilanz, schläft in vier- oder fünf-Hör-Bürsten und wacht auf für 3.30 Uhr Jobs.
Candace
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Sie hat ihre Mutter für zwei Jahre nicht gesehen, weil sie nicht die Zeit aufhatte und nicht viele Sachen bekam, die sich mit ihrer Mutter befinden. Und Lore zeigt, dass diese 17.000-Dollar-Figur ein Niveau ist, das wahrscheinlich von Frieden geflogen ist. In der Woche, in der er mit ihr arbeitet, erhält Lynn einen täglichen Betrag für nur 100 Dollar, was sie die Woche vorher erhielt.
Candace
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Und die Woche vor dem. Quote, It's in my contract, Lynn says. No matter how many expenses I have, I always have the right to a check for $100. So that is what I usually get. I've gotten pretty good at knowing how to stretch it. That is nothing.
Candace
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Lore estimates that in the week he spent with her, she netted something closer to negative 150 after factoring in her cell phone bill, unanticipated repair and just the food she has to eat. One night, he overhears her on the phone asking for a cash advance from her future $100 paycheck so she can afford to eat dinner that night.
Candace
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Willkommen zurück zu Candace. In The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lorde hat einen Profil auf einem Trucker, den er für eine Woche mitgefahren hat, während er versucht hat, über die Schiffen und Logistik zu lernen, die in unsere Groceries gehen. Und es ist schockierend.
Candace
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The next morning, Lynn turns to him and says, I think I can get back in the black, maybe another three or four weeks of this. And it is completely unclear to him what she means, because she's losing money. Another three or four weeks like this, and she will be even deeper in debt, further beholden to Cargill.
Candace
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Quote, or I could just run into a ladder on the interstate that tears my brake lines, she says, to complete what they are both thinking. Lynn, like most truckers, is homeless, sleeping exclusively in the cab of a truck, which she does not own and almost certainly never will. And she'll almost certainly lose it when she can no longer make her payments. Her Credit is shot. Her health is destroyed.
Candace
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She can't eat most food because she lost all her teeth and her new dentures are not properly fitted, so it hurts to chew. Her obsession with Pepsi for calories shifts in Benjamins awareness into just absolute sadness when he learns this. Und all that, despite the fact that she's extremely good at her job, hypervigilant on the road and extremely hardworking.
Candace
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A team player who never once in Benjamins presence complained about any task or hardship or even her whole lot in life. These things, he points out, are not unrelated. Das ist Lynn Riles, ein sehr erfahrener Trucker mit mehr als einer Dekade auf der Straße, der immer noch arbeitet, um ihren Truck zu bezahlen, der mehr wie ihre Gefängnis ist als ihre Form von Arbeit.
Candace
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Aber jetzt, dass du ein bisschen Texture hast, was das Leben hinter dem Rad ist, wird die echte Dunkelheit in der Truckindustrie apparent, wenn du auszoomst. If you hadn't picked up on it yet, debt is the weapon used to shackle drivers to these trucks and to their contracts and hope is the lure that keeps them on the line.
Candace
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Trucking recruiters frequently recruit from homeless shelters, soup kitchens, recovery wards and prison work release programs. Truckers also frequently come from minimum wage retail or construction or from serving in the military overseas. Recruiters promise guaranteed jobs, big pay, no experience required. You'll get a free one-way bus ticket, free hotel and food during your orientation.
Candace
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But then, on the fourth day or so, you're given a contract to sign. And then, you're officially a student driver. And you suddenly have all the student debt to prove it. Dann haben sie eine neue enttäuschende Offerung. Nachdem du dein Kontrakt für Schule und Geld eingestellt hast, natürlich. Du könntest ein Bewohner-Operator sein, nicht nur ein Mitarbeiter.
Candace
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Du kannst deinen eigenen Truck haben und den Meister deines eigenen Destinats sein. Du musst nicht einen einzigen Cent vorhanden zahlen. So bekommen sie dich. Sie fordern dich, einen literalen Truckload von Geld zu nehmen, der aus deinen zukünftigen Paychecks und Interessen genommen wird, bis du es bezahlst, was fast niemand jemals macht.
Candace
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Instead, you get thrown into an impossible industry, where you work insane hours under high pressure and serious risk of death, all just to earn your minimum, which you quickly learn is $100 a week, assuming you don't spend it on food. If at any point you realize that this isn't your cup of tea, no problem. Because then you realize that that contract you signed, yeah, none of this was free.
Candace
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It was all on debt. And now, if you want to walk away, that debt is coming with you. Turnover in the trucking industry is insane. Over the last decade, industry turnover has ranged from 95 to 112%. It's hard to graph what that actually even means. Turnover at a competitive law firm is 17%. Turnover at Starbucks is around 65%.
Candace
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100% turnover in the trucking industry means that every single member of any given fleet either quit or was fired and successfully replaced that year. But trucking is not a declining industry. It's not shrinking. It's growing aggressively all while this is happening.
Candace
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Because as with every other industry, just like in the private equity playbook, trucking has figured out how to not just make humans replaceable, but how to actually profit off of their replacement. First, they recruit dishonestly, convincing people to take out lines of credit for the opportunity.
Candace
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And then, they pay them the lowest possible wages, or training wages, while simultaneously unlocking a critical new superpower. They can force you to drive in pairs. And when you're driving in pairs, you are not bound by law to take the same number of breaks to stop to sleep like a solo driver would be. Suddenly, trips can be completed in far less time and drivers work for far lower pay.
Candace
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Und letzte Zeit, habe ich eine Geschichte aus diesem Buch gelesen, und es hat viel zu lesen, um den Charakter von Thun Lin, der ein Slave-Laborer in der Schrimp-Industrie in Thailand, zu akzeptieren. Diese Zeit, mache ich nicht so viel direkte Lesung, sondern mische zusammen Quotationen und Summary, um zu zeigen, wie absolut verrückt und verdammt die Welt von Long-Haul-Trucking ist.
Candace
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Lynn, who we met at the beginning of this episode, she was making a little over a dollar per mile, which is still left or broke and destitute at the end of a 70-hour work week on the road nonstop. Studenten-Drivers sind oft mit 12 Cent pro Meile bezahlt. Du könntest fast 10 Studenten-Drivers für den Preis von Lynn's starvation wages hirten.
Candace
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Auch wenn man in Teams fährt, sind das vier oder fünf Mal so viele Trucks auf der Straße. Student-Drivers are the cash cow that the modern trucking industry lives off of. Trucker Desiree Wood said in the book, "...there is so much money in students. They work so cheap, 12 to 13 cents a mile. It pays for the entire system.
Candace
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And a lot of these trainers have been driving less than six months themselves." She goes on to say, "...this is not far from sharecropping. It's debt bondage. It's sharecropping where instead of the field, they are tenants on wheels." So, that's one side of the story, a side most Americans don't know about.
Candace
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But now I want to take it to a conversation Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro had about six years ago to voice another side of the story so we can really grasp the whole complexity of this issue.
Candace
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I used to hold the same view. And in some ways I still do. Because already driverless semi-trucks are on the highways of America. And it's only a matter of years before this industry, one of the largest sectors of employment in America, is largely replaced by robots and AI. But Tucker uses a phrase that I want to highlight. He said, decent people living happy lives.
Candace
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And if that were still true, I would completely agree. And that used to be true. But as progress has marched on, prices have ground down and margins have slimmed, more and more of this massive industry is preying on these largely high school educated people that are, for lack of a better phrase, extremely vulnerable to exploitation.
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We're in the midst of a war for our very existence, a war on seven fronts. At all times, but especially in such an existential war, there must be full trust between the Prime Minister and the head of the Shin Bet. But unfortunately, the situation is the opposite. I do not have such trust. I have ongoing mistrust in the head of the Shin Bet, which has increased over time.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
We have no interest in confronting Syria. We will determine Israel's policy towards Syria according to the emerging reality on the ground. I remind you that for decades, Syria was an active enemy state to Israel. It attacked us again and again. It allowed others to attack us from its territory. It allowed Iran to arm Hezbollah through its territory.
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Hundreds, possibly thousands, feared dead in Mayotte cyclone
However, I would like to both clarify and warn we are committed to preventing the rearming of Hezbollah as well.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
What is wrong with giving people a choice? Now, we've been talking, including over lunch, about some countries, I won't go into them right now, that are saying, you know, if Gazans want to leave, we want to take them in. And I think this is This is the right thing to do. It's going to take years to rebuild Gaza. In the meantime, people can have an option. The president has a vision.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
We're seeing this enormous epidemic of measles this year because it's initiated in a community that was unvaccinated. And it's a community that has had a lot of misinformation about the risks of vaccinations as this continues to grow. And when you get behind on these kinds of outbreaks with measles because it's so infectious, it really takes you a while to catch up.
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Unfortunately, we have an anti-vaccine secretary as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. who not only has not been very supportive of vaccines, has actually been someone who has been a person who has spread misinformation and disinformation around vaccines.
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But even worse, he's also advocated for alternative prevention therapies, such as promoting vitamin A, which we know does not work to prevent measles. And that's been a real challenge here.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
We will act with determination to bring Shiri home, along with all of our captives, both the living and the fallen, and ensure that Hamas pays the full price for this cruel and evil violation of the agreement.
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Israel accuses Hamas of 'evil' violation of ceasefire
The cruelty of the Hamas monsters knows no bounds. Not only did they abduct the father, Yarden Bibas, the young mother, Shiri, and their two small infants, in an unimaginably cynical manner, they didn't return Shiri to her small children and instead placed the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin.
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Our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn the map. But I believe that working closely with President Trump, we can redraw it even further and for the better.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So we're trying to bring it back into line, bringing it back into line into what is common in Israel. all parliamentary democracies and in the United States, doesn't mean taking the pendulum from one side and bringing it to the other side. We want checks and balances, not unrivaled power. Just as we said, we want an independent judiciary, but not an all-powerful judiciary.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
That balance does not mean bringing it back into line doesn't mean that you can have the Parliament, our Knesset override any decision that the Supreme Court does. So I pretty much early on said after the judicial reform was introduced, get rid of the idea of a sweeping override clause that would have with 61 votes, that's majority of one, you can just nullify any Supreme Court decision.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So let's move it back into the center. So that's gone. And most of the criticism on the judicial reform was based on an unlimited override clause, which I've said is simply not going to happen. People are discussing something that already for six months does not exist. The second point that we received criticism on was the the structure of how do you choose Supreme Court judges?
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
How do you choose them? And the critics of the reform are saying that the idea that elected officials should choose Supreme Court judges is the end of democracy. If that's the case, the United States is not a democracy, neither is France, and neither are just, I don't know, just about every democracy on the planet.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So there is a view here that you can't have the sorted hands of elected officials involved in the choosing of judges. And in the Israeli system, the judicial activism went so far that effectively the sitting judges have an effective veto on choosing judges, which means that this is a self-selecting court that just perpetrates itself. And we want to correct that.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Again, we want to correct it in a balanced way. And that's basically what we're trying to do. So I think there's a lot of misinformation about that. We're trying to bring Israeli democracy to where it was in its first 50 years. And it was a stellar democracy. It still is. Israel is a democracy, will remain a democracy, a vibrant democracy.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And believe me, the fact that people are arguing and demonstrating in the streets and protesting is the best proof of that.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Because Israel is a free market economy. I had something to do with that. I introduced dozens and dozens of free market reforms that made Israel move from $17,000 per capita income to within a very short time to $54,000. That's nominal GDP per capita, according to the IMF. And we've overtaken in that Japan, France, Britain, Germany. How did that happen?
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Because we unleashed the genius that we have and the initiative and the entrepreneurship that is latent in our population. And to do that, we had to create free markets, so we created that. So Israel has one of the most vibrant free market economies in the world. And the second thing we have is a permanent investment in conceptual products because we have a permanent investment
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
in the military, in our security services, creating basically knowledge workers who then become knowledge entrepreneurs. And so we create this structure, and that's not gonna go away. There's been a decline in investments in high-tech globally. I think that's driven by many factors, but the most important one is the interest rate. which I think it'll fluctuate up and down.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
But Israel will remain a very attractive country because it produces so many, so many knowledge workers in a knowledge-based economy. And it's changing so rapidly. The world is changing. You're looking for the places that have innovation. The future belongs to those who innovate. Israel is the...
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
uh preeminent innovation nation it has few competitors and that would say all right where do you have this close cross-disciplinary uh fermentation of various skills and areas i would say it's in israel and i'll tell you why we used to be just telecoms because people went out of the military intelligence, RNSA, but that's been now broad-based.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So you find it in medicine, you find it in biology, you find it in agritech, you find it everywhere. Everything is becoming technologized. And in Israel, everybody is dealing in everything. And that's a potent reservoir of talent that the world is not going to pass up and, in fact, is coming to us. We just had NVIDIA coming here, and they decided to build a supercomputer in Israel. I wonder why.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
We've had Intel coming here and deciding now to invest $25 billion just now in a new plant in Israel. I wonder why. I don't wonder why. They know why. Because the talent is here and the freedom is here. And it will remain so.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, first of all, I have a high regard for the people I talk to, okay? And I understand that they understand things I don't understand, and I don't pretend to understand everything, but I do understand one thing. I understand that AI is developing at a geometric rate, and mostly in political life and in life in general, people don't have an intuitive grasp of...
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You understand things basically in linear increments. And the idea that you're coming up a ski slope is very foreign to people. So they don't understand it and they're naturally also sort of taken aback by it. Because what do you do? Okay? So I think there's several conclusions from my conversations with them and from my other observations. that I've been talking about for many years.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I'm talking about the need to do this. Well, the first thing is this, there is no possibility of not entering AI with full force. Secondly, there is a need for regulation. Third, it's not clear there'll be global regulation. Fourth, it's not clear where it ends up. I certainly cannot say that. Now, you might say, does it come to control us? Okay, that's the question. Does it come to control us?
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I don't know the answer to that. I think that as... as one observation that I had from these conversations is if it does come to control us, that's probably the only chance of having universal regulation because I don't see anyone deciding to avoid the race and cooperate unless you have that threat.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
It doesn't mean you can't regulate AI within countries even without that understanding, but it does mean that there's a limit to regulation because every country will want to make sure that it doesn't give up competitive advantage if there is no universal regulation. I think that right now, just as 10 years ago, I read a novel.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I don't read novels, but I was forced to read one by a scientific advisor. I read history. I read about economics. I read about technology. I just don't read novels. On this, I followed Churchill. He said, fact is better than fiction. Well, this fiction would become fact. It was a book. It was a novel about science. a Chinese-American future cyber war.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And I read the book in one sitting, called in a team of experts, and I said, all right, let's turn Israel into one of the world's five cyber powers, and let's do it very quickly. And we did, actually. We did exactly that. I think AI is bigger than that and related to that. Because it'll affect, well, cyber affects everything, but AI will affect it even more fundamentally.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And the joining of the two could be very powerful. So I think in Israel, we have to do it anyway for security reasons, and we're doing it. But I think, what about our databases that are already very robust on the medical records of 98% of our population? Why don't we stick a genetic database on that?
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Why don't we do other things that could bring magical, what are seemingly magical cures and drugs and medical instruments for that? That's one possibility. We have it in, as I said, in every single field. The conclusion is this. We have to move on AI. We are moving on AI just as we moved on cyber. And I think Israel will be one of the leading countries one of the leading AI powers in the world.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
The questions I don't have an answer to is, where does it go? How much does it eat, chew up on jobs? There's an assumption that I'm not sure is true, that all previous, the two big previous revolutions in the human condition, namely the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution, definitely produced more jobs than they consumed, okay? That is not obvious to me at all.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I mean, I could see new jobs creating, and yes, I have that comforting statement, but it's not quite true because I think on balance, they'll probably consume more jobs, many more jobs than they'll create. At least in the short term. And we don't know about the long term.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I don't know about the long term, but I used to have the comfort, being a free market guy, I always said, you know, we're going to produce more jobs than, you know, by, I don't know, limiting certain government jobs. We're actually putting out in the market, we'll create more jobs, which obviously happened. We had one telecom company, a government company.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
When I said we're going to create competition, they said, you're going to run us out. We're not going to have more workers. Yeah, they had 13,000 workers. They went down to seven, but we created another 40,000 in the other companies. So that was a comforting thought. I always knew that was true.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Not only that, I also knew that wealth would spread by opening up the markets completely opposite to the economy. socialist and semi-socialist creed that they had here. They said, you're going to make the rich richer and the poor, poor, no, and made everyone richer.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And actually, the people who entered the job market because of the reforms we did actually became a lot richer on the lower ladders of the socioeconomic measure. But here's the point. I don't know. I don't know that we will not have what Elon Musk calls the end of scarcity. So you'll have the end of scarcity. You'll have enormous productivity. Very few people are producing enormous added value.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You're gonna have to tax that to pass it to the others. You're gonna have to do that. That's a political question. I'm not sure how we answer that. What if you tax and somebody else doesn't tax, you're gonna get everybody to go there. That's an issue, an international issue that we constantly have to deal with. And the second question you have is,
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Suppose you solve that problem and you deliver money, okay, to those who are not involved in the AI economy. What do they do? The first question you ask somebody whom you just met after the polite exchanges is, what do you do? Well, people define themselves by their profession. And it's gonna be difficult if you don't have a profession.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And, you know, people will spend more time self-searching, more time in the arts, more time in leisure. I understand that. If I have to bet, it will annihilate many more jobs than it will create. And it will force a structural change in our economics, in our economic models, and in our politics.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Write that down and we'll check it. It's on record. And you know, we don't say we'll check it after our lifetime. No, we'll see it in a few years. We'll see it in a few years.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
It's exactly the exponential growth which we understand.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
uh is before us but we don't really it's very hard to project forward to really understand that's right exactly right so you know i'm so i deal with what i can and where i can affect something i tend not to worry about things i don't control uh because at a certain point you know there's no point i mean you have to decide what you're spending your time on so i think
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
In practical terms, I think we'll make Israel a formidable AI power. We understand the limitation of scale, computing power, and other things. But I think within those limits, I think we can... make here this miracle that we did in many other things. You know, we do more with less.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I don't care if it's water, the production of water, or the production of energy, or the production of knowledge, or the production of cyber capabilities, defense, and other. We just do more with less. And I think in AI, we're going to do a lot more with a relatively small but highly gifted population. Very gifted.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Oh, yeah.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, I refuse to answer that. I will say this. Such a politician you are. Yeah, of course. Here I'm a politician. I'm openly telling you, then I'm dodging the question, okay? But I'll say this. You know, I actually... I spent five years in our special forces in the military, and we barely spent a minute on martial arts. I actually learned Taekwondo later when I came to... It wasn't even at MIT.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
At MIT, I think I did karate, but when I came to the UN, I had a martial arts expert, and he taught me Taekwondo, which was kind of interesting. Now, the question you really have to ask is, why did we learn martial arts in this special elite unit? And the answer is, there's no point. If you saw Indiana Jones, you know, there's no point. You just, you know, pull the trigger. That's simple.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Opponents all the time. All the time? Yeah, that's part of life. But not of each. Part of life is... Not yet. I'm not sure about that. Are you announcing invites? No, no, no. Part of life is competition. The only time competition ends is death. But political life, economic life... cultural life is engaged continuously in creativity and competition.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
The problem I have with that, as I mentioned earlier, just before we began the podcast, is that at a certain point, you want to put barriers to monopoly. And if you're a really able competitor, you're going to create a monopoly. That's what Peter Thiel says is a natural course of things. It's what I learned basically in the Boston Consulting Group.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
If you're a very able competitor, you'll create scale advantages that give you the ability to lock out your competition. And as a prime minister, I want to assure that there is competition in the market, so you have to limit competition. limit this competitive power at a certain point. And that becomes increasingly hard in a world where everything is intermixed.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Where do you define market segments? Where do you define monopoly? How do you do that? That is very, that actually conceptually I find very challenging. Because of all the dozens of political, of economic reforms that I've made, the most difficult part is the conceptual part.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Once you've ironed it out, you say, here's what I want to do, here's the right thing to do, then you have a practical problem of overcoming union resistance, political resistance, press calumny, opponents from this or that corner. That's a practical matter. But if you have it conceptually defined, You can move ahead to reform economies or reform education or reform transportation. Fine.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And the question of the growing power of large companies, big tech companies to monopolize the markets because they're better at it. They provide a service. They provide it at lower cost, at rapidly declining cost. Where do you stop? Where do you stop in a monopoly power is a crucial question because it also becomes now a political question.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
If you amass enormous amount of economic power, which is information power, You know, that also monopolizes the political process, which creates, these are real questions that are not obvious. I don't have an obvious answer. Because as I said, as a 19th century Democrat, these are questions of the 21st century, which people should begin to think, do you have a solution to that?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You know where to draw the line? It's not breaking up AT&T.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So you're saying basically the regulatory instrument is the market? in large part, in most part. That's the hope. Maybe I'm a dreamer. That's been in many ways my policy up to now, okay? That the best regulator is the market. The best regulator in economic activity is the market. And the best regulator in political matters is the political market. That's called elections. That's what regulates.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You have a lousy government, and people make lousy decisions. Well, you don't need the wise men raised above the masses to decide what is good and what is bad. Let the masses decide. Let them vote every four years or whatever, and they throw you up. By the way, it happened to me. There's life after political death. It was actually political.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I was reelected five or six times, and this is my sixth term. So, you know, I believe in that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that in economic matters, in the geometric growth of tech companies, that you'll always have the little guy, the nimble mammal that will come out and slay the dinosaurs or overcome the dinosaurs. which is essentially what you said.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You wouldn't count out the little guy.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Not at all. Because I think that, again, the thing that drives me is not is nothing but the mission that I took to assure the survival and thriving of the state, the Jewish state. That is its economic prosperity, but its security and its ability to achieve peace with our neighbors. And I'm committed to it. I think there are many things that have been done.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
A few big things that I can still do, but it doesn't only depend on my sense of mission. It depends on the market, as we say. It depends really on the will of the Israeli voters. And the Israeli voters have decided to vote for me again and again, even though I wield no power in the press, no power in many quarters here, and so on. Nothing.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I mean, I am probably, I'm going to be very soon the longest serving president prime minister in the last half century in the Western democracies. But that's not because I amass great political power in any of the institutions. I remember I had a conversation with Silvio Berlusconi, who recently died, and he said to me about, I don't know, 15 years ago, something like that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
He said, so, Bibi, how many... how many of Israel's television stations do you have? And I said, none. He said, do you have none? I have two. Do you have? I said, none. I have two. He said, no, no, but what you mean? You don't have any that you control. I said, not only do I have none that I control, they're all against me. So he says, so how do you win elections?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And, you know, with both hands tied behind your back. And I said, the hard way. That's why, you know, I have the largest party, but I don't have many more seats that I would have if I had a sympathetic voice in the media. And Israel is, until recently, was dominated completely by... one side of the political spectrum that often vilified me.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Not me, because they viewed me as representing basically the conservative voices in Israel that are majority. So the idea that I'm an omnipotent, authoritarian dictator is ridiculous. I would say I'm not merely a champion of of democracy and democratization, I believe ultimately the decision is with the voters.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And the voters, even though they've had, they have constant, constant press attacks, they have chosen to put me back in. So I don't believe in this thing of amassing the corrupting power. If you don't have elections, if you don't have, if you control the means of influencing the voters, I understand what you're saying. But in my case, it's the exact opposite.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I have to constantly go in elections, constantly with a disadvantage that the major media outlets are very violently sometimes against me. But it's fine. And I keep on winning. So I don't know what you're talking about. I would say the concentration of power lies elsewhere, not here.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, you should ask a different question. What's happened to these cases? These cases have basically are collapsing. And before our eyes, there was recently an event in which the judges, the three judges in my case, called in the prosecution and said, you know, your flagship case Bribery charges, so-called bribery charges, it's gone. It doesn't exist.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Before a single defense witness was called, and it sort of tells you that this thing is evaporating. It's quite astounding. Even that, I have to say, was covered even by the mainstream press in Israel because it's such an earthquake. You know, a lot of these charges are not a lot. These charges will prove to be nothing. I always said, listen, I stand before the legal process.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I don't claim that I'm exempt from it in any way. On the contrary, I think the truth will come out and it's coming out. And we see that not only that, but with other things. So I think it's kind of instructive that no politician has been more vilified. None has been put to such, what is it, about a quarter of a billion shekels were used to scrutinize politics.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Me scouring my bank account, sending people to the Philippines and to Mexico and to Europe and to America and looking at everybody using spyware, the most advanced spyware on the planet against my associates, blackmailing witnesses, telling them, you know, think about your family, think about your wife, you know, you better tell us what you want. All that is coming out in the trial.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So I would say that most people now are not asking, are no longer asking, including my opponents, sort of trickling in as the stuff comes out. People are not saying, what did Netanyahu do? Because he apparently did nothing. What was done to him is something that people ask. What was done to our democracy?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
What was done in the attempt to put down somebody who keeps winning elections despite the handicaps that I described? Maybe we can nail him by framing him. And the one thing I can say about this court trial is that... Things are coming out, and that's very good. Just objective things are coming out, changing the picture.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So I would say the attempt to brand me as corrupt is falling on its face, but the thing that is being uncovered in the trial, such as the use of spyware,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
on a politician, a politician's surroundings, to try to shake them down in investigations, put them in flea-ridden cells for 21 days, invite their 84-year-old mother to investigations without cause, bringing in their mistresses in the corridor, shaking them down. That's what people are asking. That corruption is what they want corrected.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, I think the reason you have the persistence of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which goes back about a century, is the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize a Jewish state, a nation state for the Jewish people in any boundary. That's why they opposed the establishment of the state of Israel before we had a state, and that's why they've opposed it after we had a state.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
They opposed it when we didn't have Judea and Samaria, the West Bank in our heads, and Gaza, and they opposed it after we have it. It doesn't make a difference. It's basically their persistent refusal to recognize a Jewish state in any boundaries, and I think their tragedy is that they've been
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
commandeered for a century by leadership that refused to compromise with the idea of Zionism, namely that the Jews deserve a state in this part of the world. The territorial dispute is something else. You have a territorial dispute if you say, okay, you're living on this side, we're living on that side, let's decide where the border is, and so That's not what the argument is.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
The Palestinian society, which is itself fragmented, but all the factions agree there shouldn't be a Jewish state anywhere, okay? They just disagree between Hamas that says, oh, well, you should have it, you know, we should get rid of it with terror, and the others who say, no, we should also use political means to dissolve it. So that is the problem.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So even as part of a two-state solution, they're still against the idea? Well, they don't want a state next to Israel. They want a state instead of Israel. And they say, if we get a state, we'll use it as a springboard to destroy the smaller Israeli state, which is what happened when Israel unilaterally walked out of Gaza and effectively established a Hamas state there.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
They didn't say, oh, good, now we have our own territory, our own state. Israel is no longer there. Let's build peace. Let's build economic projects. Let's enfranchise our people. No, they turned it basically into a terror bastion from which they fired 10,000 rockets into Israel.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
When Israel left Lebanon, you know, because we had terrorist attacks from there, then we had Lebanon taken over by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy Israel. And therefore, every time we just walked out, what we got was not peace. We didn't give, you know—
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
territory for peace we got territory for terror that's what we had and that's what would happen as long as the the reigning ideology says we don't want israel in any border so the the idea of uh two states assumes that you'd have on the other side a state that wants to live in peace and not one that will be overtaken by iran and its proxies in two seconds and become a base to destroy israel and therefore i think that most israelis today if you ask them uh
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
They're, you know, they'd say it's not going to work in that concept. So what do you do? What do you do with the Palestinians? Okay. They're still there. And I don't, unlike them, I don't want to throw them out. They're going to be living here and we're going to be living here in an area which is, by the way, just so understand, the area, the entire area of Palestine,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
so-called West Bank and Israel, is the width of the Washington Beltway, more or less. Just a little more, not much more. You can't really divide it up. You can't say, well, you're going to fly in. Who controls the airspace? Well, it takes you about two and a half minutes to cross it with a regular 747, okay? With a fighter plane, it takes you a minute and a half.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
How are you going to divide the airspace? Well, you're not going to divide it. Israel is going to control that airspace and the electromagnetic space and so on. So security has to be in the hands of Israel. My view of how you solve this problem is a simple principle.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
The Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves and none of the powers to threaten Israel, which basically means that the responsibility for overall security remains with Israel. And from a practical point of view, we've seen that every time that Israel leaves a territory and takes its security forces out of an area, it immediately is overtaken by Hamas or Hezbollah
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
or jihadists who basically are committed to the destruction of Israel and also bring misery to the Palestinians or Arab subjects. So I think that that principle is less than perfect sovereignty. because you're taking a certain amount of power, sovereign powers, especially security, away. But I think it's the only practical solution. So people say, ah, but it's not a perfect state.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I say, okay, call it what you will. Call it, you know, I don't know, limited sovereignty, call it autonomy plus, call it whatever you want to call it. But that's the reality. And right now, if you ask Israelis across the political spectrum, except the very hard left, most Israelis agree with that. They don't really debate it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So a two-state solution where Israel controls the security of the entire region. We don't call it quite that. I mean, there are different names, but the idea is, yes, Israel controls security in the region. It's the entire area. It's this tiny area between the Jordan River and the sea. I mean, it's like you can walk it in not one afternoon. If you're really fit, you can do it in a day.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Less than a day, I did.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Yeah, I can understand what they're saying, and they don't understand why they're wrong. First, most Israelis who live in Judea-Samaria live in urban blocks, and that accounts for about 90% of the population. And everybody recognizes that those urban blocks are going to be part of Israel in any future arrangement.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So they're really arguing about something that has already been decided and agreed upon, really, by Americans, even by Arabs, many Arabs. They don't think that Israel is going to dismantle these blocks. And you look outside the window here. And within about a kilometer, a mile from here, is you have Jerusalem. Half of Jerusalem grew naturally beyond the old 1967 border.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So you're not going to dismantle half of Jerusalem. That's not going to happen. And most people don't expect that. Then you have the other 10% scattered in tiny, you know, small communities. And people say, well, you're going to have to take them out. Why? Why? Remember that in pre-1967 Israel, we have over a million and a half Arabs here.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
We don't say, oh, Israel has to be ethnically cleansed from Arabs in order to have, from its Arab citizens, in order to have peace. Of course not. Jews can live among Arabs, and Arabs can live among Jews. And what is being advanced by those people who say that we can't live in our ancestral homeland, in these disputed areas? Nobody says that this is Palestinian areas.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And nobody says that these are Israeli Arabs. We claim them. They claim them. We've only been attached to this land for, oh, 3,500 years. But, you know, but it's a dispute. I agree. But I don't agree that we should throw out the Arabs. And I don't think that they should throw out the Jews.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And if somebody said to you, the only way we're going to have peace with Israel is to have an ethnically cleansed Palestinian entity, you know, that's outrageous. If you said the only way... You shouldn't have Jews living in, I don't know, in the suburbs of London or New York and so on. I don't think that will play too well.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
The world is actually advancing a solution that says that Jews cannot live among Arabs and Arabs cannot live among Jews. I don't think that's the right way to do it. And I think there's a solution out there.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
But I don't think we're going to get to it, which is less than perfect sovereignty, which involves Israeli security maintained for the entire territory by Israel, which involves not rooting out anybody, not kicking out, uprooting Arabs or Palestinians. They're going to live in enclaves in sovereign Israel, and we're going to live probably in enclaves there.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Probably through transportational continuity as opposed to territorial continuity. That is, you know, for example, you can have tunnels and overpasses and so on that connect the various communities. And we're doing that right now. We're doing that right now, and it actually works. I think there is a solution to this.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
It's not the perfect world that people think of, because that model, I think, doesn't apply here. If it applies elsewhere, it's a question. I don't think so. But I think there's one other thing, and that's the main thing that I've been involved in. People said, if you don't solve the Palestinian problem, You're not going to get to the Arab world. You're not going to have peace with the Arab world.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Remember, the Palestinians are about 2% of the Arab world. And the other, you know, the other 98%, you're not going to make peace with them. And that's our goal. And for a long time, people accepted that. After the initial peace treaties with Egypt, with Prime Minister Begin of the Likud and President Sadat of Egypt, and then with Jordan, between Prime Minister Rabin and King Hussein.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
For a quarter of a century, we didn't have any more peace treaties because people said, you got to go through the Palestinians. And the Palestinians, they don't want a solution of the kind that I described or any kind except the one that involved the dissolution of the state of Israel. So we could wait another half century.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And I said, no, I mean, I don't think that we should accept the premise that we have to wait for the Palestinians because we'll have to wait forever. So I decided to do it differently. I decided to go directly to the Arab capitals and to make the historic Abraham Accords and essentially reversing the equation, not a peace process that goes inside out, but outside in.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And we went directly to these countries and forged these breakthrough peace accords with the United Arab Emirates, with Bahrain, with Morocco, and with Sudan. And we're now trying to expand that in a quantum leap.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You know, I'm a student of history, and I read a lot of history, and I read that in the Versailles discussions after World War I, President Woodrow Wilson said, I believe... in open covenants openly arrived at. I have my correction. I believed in open covenants secretly arrived at. So we're not going to advance a Saudi-Israeli peace by having it publicly discussed.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And in any case, it's a decision of the Saudis if they want to do it. But there's obviously a mutual interest. So here's my view. If we try to wait for the 2% in order to get to the 98%, we're going to fail, and we have failed. If we go to the 98%, we have a much greater chance of persuading the 2%. You know why?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Because the 2%, the Palestinian hope to vanquish the state of Israel and not make peace with it, is based, among other things, on the assumption that eventually the 98%, the rest of the Arab world, will kick in, and destroy the Jewish state, help them dissolve or destroy the Jewish state. When that hope is taken away, then you begin to have a turn to the realistic solutions of coexistence.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
By the way, they'll require compromise on the Israeli side too. And I'm perfectly cognizant of that and willing to do that, but I think a realistic compromise will be struck much more readily when the conflict between Israel and the Arab states, the Arab world is effectively solved. And I think we're on that path.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
It was a conceptual change, just like, you know, I've been involved in a few, I told you the conceptual battle is always the most difficult one. And, you know, I had to fight this battle to convert a semi-socialist state into a a free market capitalist state. And I have to say that most people today recognize the power of competition and the benefits of free markets.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So we also had to fight this battle that said you have to go through the Palestinian strait S-T-R-A-I-T, to get to the other places. There's no way to avoid this. You have to go through this impassable pass. And I think that now people are recognizing that we'll go around it and probably circle back. And that, I think, actually gives hope not only to have an Arab-Israeli peace,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
but circling back in Israeli-Palestinian peace. And obviously this is not something that you find in the sound bites and so on, but in the popular discussion of the press, but that idea is permeating. And I think it's the right idea, because I think it's the only one that will work.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I think it's one of the, the savage horrors of history and one of the great tragedies that is occurring. Uh, And let me say in advance that if I have any opportunity to use my contacts to help bring about an end to this tragedy, I'll do so. I know both leaders, but I don't just jump in and assume. There will be a desire at a certain point because the conditions have changed.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
created the possibility of helping stop this carnage, then I'll do it. And that's why I choose my words carefully, because I think that may be the best thing that I could do. Look, I think what you see in Ukraine is what happens if you have territorial designs on a territory by a country that has nuclear weapons. And that, to me, you see the change in the equation.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Now, I think that people are loathe to use nuclear weapons, and I'm not sure that I would think that the Russian side would use them with happy abandon. I don't think that's the question. But you see how the whole configuration changes when that happens. So you have to be very careful on how you resolve this conflict so it doesn't Well, it doesn't go off the rails, so to speak.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
By the way, the corollary is here. We don't want Iran, which is an aggressive force with just aggressive ideology of dominating first the Muslim world and then eliminating Israel and then becoming a global force, having nuclear weapons. It's totally different when they don't have it than when they do have it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And that's why one of my main goals has been to prevent Iran from having the means of mass destruction, which will be used atomic bombs, which they openly say will be used against us. And you can understand that. How to bring about an end to Ukraine? I have my ideas. I don't think it's worthwhile discussing them now because they might...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I think it's a combination of that, but I think it's the question of interest and whether you have to get both sides to a point where they think that that conversation will lead to something useful. I don't think they're there right now.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Yeah, I don't think they're in a position to enter a room right now, realistically. I mean, you can posit that it would be good if that could happen, but entering the room is sometimes more complicated than what happens in the room. And there's a lot of pre-negotiation on the negotiation. Then you negotiate endlessly on the negotiation. They're not even there.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
It took a lot of work for you to get to Handshake in the past. It's an interesting question. How did the piece, the Abraham Accords, how did that begin? I mean, we had decades, 70 years or 65 years where these people would not meet openly or even secretly with an Israeli leader.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Yeah, we had the Mossad making contacts with them all the time and so on, but how do we break the ice to the top level of leadership? Well, we broke the ice because I took a very strong stance against Iran. And the Gulf states understood that Iran is a formidable danger to them. So we had a common interest.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And the second thing is that because of the economic reforms that we had produced in Israel, Israel became a technological powerhouse. And that could help their nations, not only in terms of anything, just bettering the life of their peoples.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And the combination of the desire to have some kind of protection against Iran or some kind of cooperation against Iran and civilian economic cooperation came to a head when I gave a speech in the American Congress. which I didn't do lightheartedly.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I had to decide to challenge a sitting American president on the so-called Iranian deal, which I thought would pave Iran's path with gold to be an effective nuclear power. That's what would happen. So I went there. And in the course of giving that speech before the joint session of Congress,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Our delegation received calls from Gulf states who said, we can't believe what your prime minister is doing. He's challenging, you know, the president of the United States. Well, I had no choice. I mean, because I thought my country's own existence was imperiled.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And remember, we always understand through changing administrations that America, under no matter what leadership, is always the irreplaceable and indispensable ally of Israel and will always remain We can have arguments, as we have, but in the family, as we say, in the mishpoche, you know, it's the family. But nevertheless, I was forced to take a stand. That produced cause problems.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
from Gulf states that ultimately led to clandestine meetings that ultimately flowered into the Abraham Accords, then, and I think we're at a point where the idea of ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, not the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Arab-Israeli conflict can happen. I'm not sure it will. It depends on quite a few things, but it could happen.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And if it happens, it might open up the ending of the Israeli-Islamic conflict. Remember, the Arab world is a small part. It's an important part, but there are large Islamic populations and could bring about an end to an historic enmity between Islam and Judaism. It could be a great thing. So I'm looking at this larger thing.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You know, you can be hobbled by saying, well, you know, you've had this, you know... this hiccup in Gaza or this or that thing happening in the Palestinians. It's important for us because we want security. But I think the larger question is, can we break out into a much wider peace and ultimately come back and make the peace between Israel and the Palestinians rather than waiting to solve that
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
and never getting to paint on the larger canvas. I want to paint on the larger canvas and come back to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
My father was a great historian. And well, he taught me several things. He said that the first condition for a living organism is to identify danger in time. Because if you don't, you could be devoured, you could be destroyed very quickly. And that's the nature of human conflict. In fact, for the Jewish people, we didn't.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
We lost the capacity to identify danger in time, and we were almost devoured and destroyed by the Nazi threat. So when I see somebody parroting the Nazi goal of destroying the Jewish state, I try to mobilize the country and the world in time, because I think Iran is a global threat, not only a threat to Israel. That's the first thing.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
The second thing is I once asked him before I got elected, I said, well, what do you think is the most important quality for a prime minister of Israel? And he came back with a question, what do you think? And I said, well, you have to have vision and you have to have the flexibility of navigating and working towards that vision, be flexible, but understand where you're heading and
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And he said, well, you need that for anything. You need it for, you know, if you're a university president or if you're a leader of a corporation or anything. Anybody would have to have that. I said, all right, so what do you need for it to be the leader of Israel? He said... He came back to me with a word that stunned me. He said, education.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You need a broad and deep education or you'll be at the mercy of your clerks or the press or whatever. You have to be able to do that. As I spend time in government, being re-elected by the people of Israel, I recognize more and more how right it was. You need to constantly ask yourself, where's the direction we want to take the country? How do we achieve that goal, but also understand that
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
New disciplines are being added. You have to learn all the time. You have to learn all the time. You have to add to your intellectual capital all the time. Kissinger said that, he wrote that once you enter public life, you begin to draw on your intellectual capital and it'll be depleted very quickly if you stay a long time. I disagree with that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I think you have to constantly, constantly increase your understanding of things as they change because my father was right. You need to broaden and deepen your education as you go along. You can't just sit back and say, well, I studied some things in university or in college or in Boston or at MIT, and that's enough. I've done it. No. Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, I've read him, but I'll tell you what I think is bigger than Dostoevsky. Oh, no. Who's that? Not who's that, but what's that. Dan Rather came to see me with his grandson a few years ago. And he asked me, the grandson asked me, he was a student in Ivy League College, And he said, he's 18 years old, and he wants to study to enter politics.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And he said, what's the most important thing that I have to study to enter a political life? And I said, you have three things you have to study, okay? History, history, and history. That's the fundamental discipline for political life. But then you have to study other things. Study economics, study politics, and so on. And study the military.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I had an advantage because I spent some years there, so I learned a lot of that. But I had to acquire the other disciplines, and you never acquire enough. So... Read, read, read. And by the way, if I have to choose, I read history, history, and history. Good works of history, not lousy books.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Aren't you? Yes. Who's not? I mean, if you're a being with conscience, I mean, one of the unhappy things about the human brain is that it can contemplate its own demise. And so we all make our compromises with this. But I think the question is what lives on? What lives on beyond us? And I think that you have to define how much of posterity do you want to influence?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I cannot influence the course of humanity. We all are specks, you know, little specks. So that's not the issue. But in my case, I've devoted my life to a very defined purpose, and that is to assure the future and security and I would say permanence, but that is obviously a limited thing, of the Jewish state and the Jewish people. And I don't think one can exist without the other.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So I've devoted my life to that, and I hope that in my time on this earth and in my years in office, I'd have contributed to that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Thank you, and I hope you come back to Israel many times. Remember, it's the innovation nation. It's a robust democracy. Don't believe all the stuff that you're being told. It'll remain that. It can't be any other way. And I'll tell you the other thing. It's the best ally of the United States.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And its importance is growing by the day because our capacities in the information world are growing by the day. We need a coalition of the like-minded smarts. This is a smart nation, and we share the basic values of freedom and liberty with the United States. So the coalition of the smarts means Israel is the sixth eye, and America has no better ally.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I disagree with the premise of your question. I think I have enjoyed a very broad support around the world. There are certain corners in which we have this animosity that you describe, and it sort of permeates in some of the newspapers and news organs and so on in the United States, but it certainly doesn't reflect the broad support that I have. an interview on an Iranian channel.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
16 million viewers. I gave another one. I just did a little video a few years ago. 25 million viewers from Iran. Certainly no hate there, I have to tell you. Not from the regime, okay? And when I go around the world, and I've been around the world, people... want to hear what we have to say. What I have to say is a leader of Israel whom they respect increasingly as a rising power in the world.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
So I disagree with that. And the most important thing that goes against what you said is the respect that we receive from the Arab world and the fact that we've made four historic peace agreements with Arab countries and they made it with me they didn't make it with anyone else and I respect them and they respect me and probably more to come so I think the premise is wrong that's all well
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, I think they don't know very much. I think they're guided by a lot of ignorance. They don't know about Israel. They don't know that Israel is a stellar democracy, that it happens to be one of the most advanced societies on the planet, that what Israel develops helps humanity in every field, in medicine, in agriculture, in the environment, in telecoms.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Talk about AI in a minute, but changing the world for the better and spreading this among six continents. We've sent rescue teams more than any other country in the world, and we're one-tenth of one percent of the world's population. But when there's an earthquake or a devastation in Haiti or in the Philippines, Israel is there.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
When there's an earthquake, a devastating earthquake in Turkey, Turkey, Israel was there. When there's something in Nepal, Israel is there, and it's a second country. It's the second country after, in one case, India, or after, in another case, the United States, Israel is there. Tiny Israel is a benefactor to all of humanity.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, what I've learned is that you have to nip bad things in the bud. You have to... There's a Latin term that says, stop bad things when they're small. And the deliberate hatred, the... incitement of hatred against one community, demonization, delegitimization that goes with it is a very dangerous thing. And that happened in the case of the Jews.
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#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
What started with the Jews soon spread to all of humanity. So what we've learned is that's what we should, we should never, and I never, sit aside and say, oh, they're just threatening to destroy us. They won't do it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
If somebody threatens to eliminate you, as Iran is doing today, and as Hitler did then, and people discounted it, well, if somebody threatens to annihilate us, take them seriously and act to prevent it early on. Don't let them have the means to do so, because that may be too late.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
I don't distinguish between the two. You can't say, well, I'm okay with Jews, but I just don't think there should be a Jewish state. It's like saying, I'm not anti-American. I just don't think there should be an America. That's basically what people are saying vis-a-vis anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
When you say anti-Zionism, you're saying the Jewish people don't have a right to have a state of their own. And that is a denial of a basic principle that I think completely unmasks what is involved here. Today, anti-Semitism is anti-Zionism. Those who oppose the Jewish people oppose the Jewish state.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
Well, that's ridiculous. The mere fact that you have so many demonstrations and protests, some dictatorship, huh? Yeah. There's a lot of democracy here, more rambunctious and more robust than just anywhere on the planet.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
No, I think that's complete hogwash because I think there's very few people who are demonstrating against this. Quite a few, quite many don't have an idea what is being discussed. They're basically being sloganized. You can sloganize, you know something about, not mass media right now, but the social network. You can basically feed deliberately with big data and big money.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
You can just feed slogans and get into people's minds. I'm sure you don't think I exaggerate because you can tell me more about that. And you can create mass mobilization based on these absurd slogans. So here's where I come from and what we're doing, what we're trying to do, and what we've changed in what we're trying to do. I'm a 19th century Democrat in my, small d, yes, in my views.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
That is, I view, I ask the question, what is democracy, okay? So democracy is the will of the majority and the protection of the rights of, they call it the rights of the minority, but I say the rights of the individual, okay? So how do you balance the two? How do you avoid mobocracy? And how do you avoid dictatorship, the opposite side?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
The way you avoid it is something that was built essentially by British philosophers and French philosophers, but was encapsulated by the founding fathers of the United States. you create a balance between the three branches of government, okay? The legislative, the executive, and the judiciary. And this balance is what assures the balance between majority rights and individual rights.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#389 – Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace
And you have to balance all of them, okay? That balance was established maintained in Israel in its first 50 years and was gradually overtaken and basically broken by the most activist judicial court on the planet. That's what happened here. And gradually over the last two, three decades, the court arrogated for itself the powers of the parliament and the executive.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
So for those who missed yesterday's show, President Trump made two bombshell announcements during his Tuesday press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu. First, that Gaza's entire population, around 2 million people, should be permanently relocated to other countries in the Middle East.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
Second, and even more stunning, Trump said the United States ought to, quote, take over the Gaza Strip, creating what he called the Riviera of the Middle East. Now, it's not clear whether that land would become U.S. soil or or remain in the hands of the Israelis. We're still waiting for full details.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
On Wednesday, the White House walked back those remarks slightly, saying the removal of Palestinians could be temporary and that it does not mean American boots on the ground in Gaza. But they did reiterate that the region is unlivable at the moment and must be cleared for reconstruction to take place safely. Here's Trump Press Secretary Caroline Levin.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
Well, overseas leaders across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East denounced the idea, saying Palestinians must be allowed to retain control of Gaza. Everyone from Britain, China, Russia, Australia, and Spain essentially said the idea was insane and that they would continue to support what they call a two-state solution.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
Elsewhere, Middle Eastern leaders outright refused the idea of resettling any Palestinians from Gaza within their own borders. And Hamas issued a statement calling the plan, quote, ridiculous, absurd, and racist, claiming that it would further ignite tensions in the region. Stateside, Democrats immediately decried the plan as an affront to what they called Palestinian sovereignty.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
Michigan Rep Rashida Tlaib, for example, said Trump was, quote, openly calling for ethnic cleansing. For his part, though, Prime Minister Netanyahu seemed open to the idea. Your willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas will help us achieve all these goals. Another voice in support is David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel. Here's what he told Morning Wire about the plan.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
Friedman says that while Egypt and Jordan both expressed opposition to taking in Palestinians, they don't have much leverage on the issue. The big question that we don't yet have an answer to is how serious President Trump actually is about taking over Gaza.
Morning Wire
DOGE Probes the Fed & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Fallout | 2.6.25
There are some within the GOP who believe that he's throwing out the idea as more of a bargaining chip than anything to try and encourage Hamas to take a more favorable deal with Israel as those negotiations continue.
Morning Wire
Willis Disqualified & Israel Strikes Houthis | Afternoon Update | 12.19.24
We will continue to act against anyone, anyone in the Middle East that threatens the state of Israel, and we will defend the people of Israel.
Morning Wire
Willis Disqualified & Israel Strikes Houthis | Afternoon Update | 12.19.24
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Morning Wire
Wall Street’s Rollercoaster Ride & Trump’s Title IX Task Force | Afternoon Update | 4.7.25
We will eliminate the trade deficit. The two also spoke about regional security, including concerns over Turkey's growing role in Syria and future plans for Gaza.
Morning Wire
DOGE Authority Suit & Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions | Afternoon Update | 2.17.25
We agree that the Ayatollahs must not have nuclear weapons. And we also agree that Iran's aggression in the region has to be rolled back. Over the last 16 months, Israel has dealt a mighty blow to Iran's terror axis. Under the strong leadership of President Trump and with your unflinching support, I have no doubt that we can and will finish the job.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2175 - REBOUND or FALSE SPRING? Has The Market Hit Bottom?
I can tell you that I said to the president a very simple thing. We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it's the right thing to do. And we're going to also eliminate trade barriers, a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily. And I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2100 - SYRIA FALLS
This is a historic day for the Middle East. The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus offers great opportunity, but also is fraught with significant dangers. This collapse is is a direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad's main supporters. It set off a chain reaction of all those who want to free themselves from this tyranny and its suppression.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2100 - SYRIA FALLS
But it also means we have to take action against possible threats. One of them is the collapse of the separation of forces agreement from 1974 between Israel and Syria. This agreement held for 50 years. Last night it collapsed. The Syrian army abandoned its positions.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2100 - SYRIA FALLS
We gave the Israeli army the order to take over these positions to ensure that no hostile force embeds itself right next to the border of Israel. This is a temporary defensive position until a suitable arrangement is found. Equally, we send a hand of peace to all those beyond our border in Syria, to the Druze,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2100 - SYRIA FALLS
to the Kurds, to the Christians, and to the Muslims who want to live in peace with Israel. We're going to follow events very carefully. If we can establish neighborly relations and a peaceful relations with the new forces emerging in Syria, that's our desire. But if we do not, we'll do whatever it takes to defend the state of Israel and the border of Israel.
The Dan Bongino Show
Finally! Radical Open-Borders Judge Smacked Down By Supreme Court | Episode 17
We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it's the right thing to do. and we're going to also eliminate trade barriers, a variety of trade barriers that have been put up unnecessarily. And I think Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same. I recognize the position of the United States.
The Dan Bongino Show
Finally! Radical Open-Borders Judge Smacked Down By Supreme Court | Episode 17
It says, you know, we're allowing other countries to put tariffs on us, but we don't put tariffs on them. And, you know, I'm a free trade champion, and free trade has to be fair trade. And I think that's basically I had the opportunity to speak to Secretary Lepnick yesterday. We talked about how we could affect this quickly, and I hope to bring a solution very quickly.
The Dan Bongino Show
Finally! Radical Open-Borders Judge Smacked Down By Supreme Court | Episode 17
We're not talking about intentions. We're not talking about just words. We're talking about results, and those results are going to Thank you very much.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump Wins at Supreme Court, Tariffs Market Madness, Truth About RFK and Measles: AM Update 4/8
Israel can serve as a model. for many countries who ought to do the same. You know, I'm a free trade champion, and free trade has to be fair trade. And I think that's basically the position that you have put forward, Mr. President. We are going to eliminate the tariffs, and rapidly.
Up First from NPR
Gaza Food Distribution Chaos, New COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines, Children Of ISIS
Very hard for Hamas to steal it, especially because we guard these positions. Well, we tried the first one. We're going to put many today. There was some loss of control momentarily. Happily, we brought it back under control. We're going to put many more of these.
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South Korea Martial Law, Transgender Rights Case, French Government Collapse
I have also been calling it a coup or a self-coup, and I don't think there's really any other way to see it. With the declaration of martial law, we got that decree that basically outlawed democracy.
Up First from NPR
South Korea Martial Law, Transgender Rights Case, French Government Collapse
We got that decree that basically outlawed democracy. He failed, and now he faces impeachment.
Up First from NPR
Paris Emergency Summit, Marco Rubio in the Middle East, Trump's First Month
We talked about how do we complete the change in the Middle East.
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Paris Emergency Summit, Marco Rubio in the Middle East, Trump's First Month
But the possibilities that loom today before us have never been before us before, have never been available to us as they are now. And we intend to pursue them to the full.
Up First from NPR
USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
I'm leaving for a very important meeting with President Trump in Washington.
Up First from NPR
USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
Our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn the map. But I believe that working closely with President Trump, we can redraw it even further and for the better.
Up First from NPR
USAID Programs Halted, Netanyahu in Washington, Rubio Visits Panama, Cannabis Safety
Also in this podcast. Our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn the map. But I believe that working closely with President Trump, we can redraw it even further and for the better.
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