Justin Gardner
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3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Mar
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And one of the things he came across with this great line that always stuck with me, he says, the American Republic will thrive until its people realize that they can be bribed with their own money. right?
And so I think that's part of the problem is that we have such this turnstile of people that are paid by their own money and give more to feel good about themselves, but also just to make life easier. It's a difficult prospect left and right that they're going to have to deal with. And unfortunately,
And one of the things I do study on the blog and everything else is the deep economic recession we have in, because this is to blame for COVID too. A lot of people don't talk about this because of the stimulus under President Trump. And then the stimulus times three under President Biden that increased everyone's incomes over those periods by about 20%, okay?
And that created this false demand and supply side where demand shot up because people had all this extra money to spend. And so retailers, car dealerships, You remember how hard it was to find a new car? Remember all those boats that were stuck off the shore at LA port because they couldn't get them because everyone was working stuff from China?
Well, we're on the backend whiplash of that because the government spigot has turned off. All of our incomes went back to 2019 levels. All these retailers have warehouses full of stuff they can't get rid of. And so now you see this economic downturn. The government is projecting that gasoline impact, the gasoline consumption next year will be at 2019 levels.
We're going backwards because people don't have money to spend because of the retail issue that's happening, which leads to job. And it's globally. China is in a big hurting problem. All of this because of COVID decisions. That's a terrible, terrible consequence. The whiplash from COVID finance policies.
It was. And look, there are some bright sides. We have kind of a really interesting moment developing, right? One of the big economic downturns we had was the turn of the century. And then you had the internet take off to kind of help us ramp through up and down. One of the big downturns we had was 2007, 2008. And we had the iPhone revolution. So there are great opportunities to latch onto there.
With the economic downturn that we're facing right now, we have the AI revolution. And this is something that I do professionally.
And it's so interesting to help companies and help them understand how they can make use of AI efficiency to help them out where they're going like, my entire business is in shambles because I bet big on a big fake economy that was boosted up by fake money coming to people's pockets. And now I don't have it. So I'm actually going out.
And one of the other things I'm doing is I'm having fun with AI too. We just launched a new website called called Newsy.com, N-E-W-Z-Y.com. And it's a parody website. And it's all built by AI. All the articles there are written by AI. All the videos that we produce are AI videos. And we have fun. So we had one the other day that went viral where
We told liberals who were really upset about the election results that we can find a way to cryogenically freeze you, and it'll cost you this much, and we'll give you a discount in case J.D. Vance wins the next year after you.
So these are things that I think people are going to have to take shelter in some really warm, good fun, because the next few months, the next few years are going to be difficult. I hope the Trump the Trump presidency, the Trump campaign are ready for this because I don't think they realize how dire the financial situation is.
I think that's right. I think as Tucker Carlson notes, a lot of people in these big blue towns stay up late at night just biting their teeth and really upset that someone in deep red Utah or Iowa isn't giving some trans youth the time of day, right? And isn't defending that right and going to the hilt and everything else there.
Whereas the rest of us are just like, look, I don't have time to think about you. I don't think about you at all, as they say in Mad Men, right? And so those are things that I think we need to come to grips with is that there's an immaturity because that's kind of a middle school type of thing, right? You worry and you have this external sort of visage that everyone is thinking about you.
And if only they would think better about you and your friends and everything else there, everything would be fine. Therefore, the government must force them to think on those things. And in reality, you know, it's like, look, there's just no time for that. Time to live your life.
Yeah, look, a lot of people are completely flustered still as to why President Trump has been so successful. And I think I can sort of vary a phrase from the good book, which is that authenticity covereth a multitude of sins. And I say in this term that President Trump is the same person in front of the mic as he is one on one. Right.
Like he wouldn't say anything behind doors that he wouldn't say to your face and kind or otherwise. Right. And that authenticity is so hard to find. I've been in politics most of my career. I've met many politicians. I've worked for presidential campaigns and almost to a person. the candidates that you talk to one-on-one have a very different rapport than when they get in front of a pulpit, right?
And I think one of the things that President Trump has found is that if you're authentic about what you are, you get a lot of leeway. You get a lot of leeway on the issues because there are some things that President Trump does where I pull my hair out. But at the same time, I appreciate that he's just straight open and honest about what he's doing and what he's thinking at that moment.
And I just have that expectation that I think a lot of people do. That authenticity is something that the Democrats are trying to find. Because they're trying to manufacture it, right? They're going on these Call Me Daddy podcasts and these other things. And you realize...
you know, that very casual conversation like we're having, like Joe Rogan has, they just, they can't emulate it because they can't drop their facade and tell you what they really think because if they do, you would vote them out of office, period.
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