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the big beautiful bill got approved in
the Senate. So, this is what we know is
officially in this version of the bill,
but one thing's for certain, it adds 5
trillion to the debt limit. Um, no tax
on tips, that's something that can't uh
Trump campaigned on. No tax on overtime.
Should we pause for a second? No tax on
tips and especially no tax on overtime
is dope. Yes, I would have liked it if
it didn't cut Medicaid and SNAP to pay
for it, but yes, it is dope. This is my
Now, when you say that it cut SNAP and
Medicaid, doesn't it just put
requirements like you have to work 80
hours a month or something like that to
they increase the amount? So, people
already have to work the qualify
benefits. They just increase the amount
of hours to 80 to 80. I do 80 by
Thursday. Yeah. Huh. But you're also not
65 and on your 30th decade of uh working
and on disability and work.
You're picking like a really fringe
person. If you've got disability, it's a
different story. But I'm saying, and I
think they even have called out if you
are able-bodied,
then fill in blank. Yeah. Able-bodied
people, like if you're a 30 a
30-year-old who is you're 65. I want to
protect the 65 year olds. My mom is 66,
my dad's 80some, but still like that
isn't fair for them to then have to have
to work more. Also, when you say it's
not fair for them, what do you mean?
that their fundamental requirement that
they agreed to before like it's almost
like you're entering into a contract and
then that contract is now changing.
Yeah. I mean listen, be careful what you
vote for. If you vote for something that
you know will bankrupt the country and
there is no way to continue to pay for
that, you are in a weakened position. I
will just tell everybody right now,
guess what you're voting for? You are
voting for having the rug pulled out
from under you when you get older if you
don't die violently. Like that that's
what you're voting for. raising the debt
ceiling by$5 trillion dollars is saying
I don't care that we are going to
bankrupt this country which will be
violent which I think people lose sight
of at some point it's a beautiful
deleveraging you're taking some of the
things that I rail against all the time
and you're saying yeah some of the
wealth has to be redistributed I got it
you're going to have to print some money
yep I understand but you also have to do
some austerity measures there is just a
hard reality to be faced about where we
are at as a country money has physics
and while I get it, I don't love it
either. And look, my mom, for reasons
having to do with meaning and purpose,
my mom, because of me, who clearly did
not need to work, kept working well into
her 70s. So, it's like to some extent
work ethic is just a thing. Finding
meaning and purpose in your job and
culturally not convincing everybody that
work is for suckers. We just we got to
get people back on track from a cultural
perspective about hard work is amazing.
and finding something that you can do
well into your 70s toi continue to
contribute to society is going to become
critically important. And so from where
I'm sitting, just looking at the math,
expecting people to be able to retire in
their 60s just isn't going to keep being
a thing. It's just not. I don't want to
bamboozle somebody. So, if they thought
they were going to be able to retire at
65, like, okay, let's try to figure out
a way where we're pushing it back for
people that aren't like right at the
finish line. But even if we got to push
it for people right at the finish line,
we got to do what we got to do. This is
a math equation and they're already
doing that. For example, like social
security is a is a sliding scale. So, my
mom specifically, I know if she would
have retired at 65, she would have got
like $1,000 a month. If you retire at
67, it goes up to like 1,700 a month.
And then if you retire at 70, it goes up
to like 2,300 a month. So they're
already incentivizing you to stay in the
workforce longer. Whether it comes down
to social security, I already know that
that's a scam and it's not available for
my generation. So I'm not that's not my
hill to die on. There's two ways to make
money, right? To pay for things. You can
cut stuff or you can uh increase uh
spending. Those are the those are the
two ways to like make something happen.
And I think in this specific bill, yes,
no tax on overtime is dope and yes, no
tax on tips is dope. Comma. However, in
order to pay for that, instead of saying
we're going to cut the bloated place
that fails an audit for 10 years, that
hasn't once the Pentagon has never came
out and said, "My bad, guys. This is
where all the money goes." We're going
to give them more money and this place
over here where people are actually
getting benefits. Again, the old, the
sick, the disabled. We're going to make
it a little bit harder for you to get
Yeah. Okay. Let me make a pitch. I don't
know this is why Trump is doing this,
but certainly you could map his
behaviors to this and it would make
complete sense. Trump is looking at the
future and he realizes we are going the
likelihood that we end up in a kinetic
war with China is way too high. And if
you're not prepared for a kinetic war
with China, you dramatically increase
the likelihood that it happens. Us
building something like an Iron Dome
becomes increasingly important as more
and more countries have the ability to
launch things at you from distance.
We're going to need EMP technology to
make sure that drone swarms can't come
over here and decimate things. you need
to be able to protect yourself. Now, if
this kind of spending were going on when
we were still mired in Iraq or in
Afghanistan, then I would have a much
bigger beef with it. But while I
definitely am nearly violently opposed
to anything that increases the budget,
spending on the military at this exact
moment, yeah, I get that. Now, being
able to pass an audit, that seems
critically important to me. But America
has already said, uh, we want no
accountability. We are we are opposed,
literally violently opposed. We will
burn things to the ground if you try to
hold government responsible, which is
insane. And everyone who has that vibe
should be quite literally ashamed of
themselves. That's so crazy. That's so
crazy. I cannot believe that people
create a mental model that allows them
to justify not like they want an
aggressive IRS like all up in
everybody's business and they don't want
a similar function for the US
government. That's
and then next beef maybe you can help me
rationalize this. We're roughly adding
billion dollars to support B border
enforcement. Um that's in new ICE
agents. has to complete the border wall
and that's to hire new actual like
agents. He has reduced border crossings
from let's call it open to 99% closed,
right? Why do we need hundred billion
dollars if we already have it 0%? I'm
guessing this is for him to go out and
get the people that are already here and
get them out. That's my assumption. Now,
if there's been talk, I just I have
literally heard nothing about what they
plan to do with the money that they're
increasing for border security. The next
10 years of America's life is going to
be defined by two things. Debt and
values. You are going to be in a war for
a a cultural war. That is the right
language over what does it mean to be an
American? What are the values that we're
going to say we don't tolerate here?
What are going to be the things that we
allow? And so step number one is you
you've got to block off that. And then
you've got to figure out what you're
going to do with the people that are
here, especially given the economic
crisis that we're in. If you have people
that are in the country illegally and
they are drawing off of your services,
which they are, you've you've got to
have a plan for that. And so, just like
if you were running a household and you
were having a hard time putting your
kids through school and making ends meet
and every now and then you were asking
your kids to skip a meal and then in the
basement you realize that you've got six
neighbor kids. At some point you got to
be like, "Uh, what are we doing here?"
neighbor kids need to be taken care by
their parents. Many Americans are going
to have a stroke over that kind of
thinking. That is where we are. We are
not able to feed our kids at every meal.
At some point, you do go the family is
the right unit of analysis. And in this
analogy, uh the country is the family.
And you got to be like, "Hey, I hope all
these people do well, but we just can't
take care of everybody.