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[email protected] and now here's your host, Leister. So much anger, so much frustration, so much disdain. It's interesting. I'm fascinated as a person who in school seemed to favor political science. Of all the subjects, you know, I was killing it in Spanish, but generally other than Spanish, political science was one of those that I was intrigued and followed. And I've been following what was going on with the election. And I'm fascinated more not of the result, but the outrage that followed said result. It didn't surprise me, but I'm fascinated the level of it. It simply exposed things that I've said.
[00:01:02] But I also decided to dig a little bit deeper. And I'm not going to make this a politics episode. I'm just prefacing how I'm feeling fresh off it. So if you're living under a rock somewhere, Donald Trump is President elect number 47 scheduled to take office, assuming he doesn't get assassinated, because they seem to keep attempting this. But that's on deck. He swept so far Senate and the House and of course, the presidency in a blowout.
[00:01:32] I was then looking into some notes people were talking about with Joe Biden, and the message was interesting. Allegedly the feeling from the Biden camp is one of betrayal. Many on the Democrat side feel that Joe Biden took too long to withdraw from the race. And that's allegedly the reason that there was such a blowout loss, because, quote, the people didn't have enough time to get to know Kamala Harris. Of course, those people sound like idiots because Kamala Harris is the current vice president, has been for the past four years. There was plenty of time to get to know Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris campaigned against Joe Biden, got schooled by Tulsi Gabbard, and then quit before she even tried. The people knew what they were up against. With this election, you really had three choices. You either support Kamala Harris, you support Donald Trump, or you didn't support either one of them. That's what it boiled down to. When RFK backed out, it gave people less of that choice because most would have gone, I think, for rfk, had he not backed out of the race. I don't think he would have won. But he could have been a disruptive force. He still was a disruptive force because his name was not removed from every ballot.
[00:02:51] Then the question was around so many less people turned out on the Democrat side than did for Joe Biden. And it seemed to me that people are having a hard time wrapping their head around why there was such a lower turnout for this versus the last. To the point people claimed that there was some sort of sketchy business coming from Trump. And it's almost like people can't wrap their head around the simple fact that people simp did not like Kamala Harris. It didn't matter about the racist misogynist Barack Obama telling black men that allegedly they're afraid of a woman in leadership positions. It didn't matter about whoever it was Kamala had up there twerking on stage. I didn't see it. I was heard, I heard about it. It didn't matter about Kamala. And I said, even in an episode, it didn't matter about the focus on climate change and abortion. This ultimately boiled down to the simple fact that Donald Trump spoke the right messaging to the right people for the right reasons. The other side seems to not have been able to wrap their head around how simple that was. He resonated with the people that he needed to. There was a silent majority sitting out there on the sidelines waiting for the right person to say the right things to resonate to them. Since Biden had not done it, Kamala had not done it. Social media is largely to blame for what we saw then in the result. Because social media, when Donald Trump was campaigning to get reelected and lost razor thin, he was being suppressed on social media. He could not campaign to the same equivalent that Joe Biden could. That's a form of suppression. Right. And interference with the election. Nobody talked about it, but that's what it was. They literally muted the sitting president. And so he could not effectively campaign. He goes off, he builds true social. He then all these other platforms. Alex Jones is as extreme as you say he is, and he is the Joe Rogans and the Megyn Kelly's. All these other independent media platforms then had their own controversies. Megan Kelly, she went, she got beat down. Alex Jones was getting attacked like crazy. Joe Rogan was getting attacked like crazy. All the independent media sources were getting attacked. Donald Trump had no outlet for communication. It wasn't until Elon Musk purchased X from Jack Nazi Dorsey, turned it into an open platform. All of a sudden, all the rest of them have to follow suit. And we learned that the government was colluding with social media platforms to suppress voices that they actively were doing this. Platforms like rumble, platforms like Bitchute, platforms like even Odyssey as terrible as it is largely head by rumble, Trump's true social, then these other independent platforms spin up and you have other independent content creators. I'll even include myself, though I am a small bit player compared to the rest of them. Multitude of voices that are simply giving contrarian views to what the mainstream was telling you because the mainstream consistently told you, just like with Hillary Clinton with the polls, that Donald Trump had no chance. There's all these cases and he's convicted here and it's the first conviction and how can you do this? And the stormy, stormy, stormy and everything seemed. And they're trying to drain his money because they knew that with the amount of money he had, he could fight. He was only one that could. He's the only one with the amount of money to fight what was happening. When the independent platforms start taking Tucker Carlson's another one, he gets attacked, spins up his own platform largely supported by Elon Musk. Now, Donald Trump has these outlets to communicate and he did the brilliant thing, which is to go to these podcast platforms, to go to these independent media sources to talk to regular people and listen to the voices out there. Most importantly, he did not focus on climate and he didn't focus on abortion. He basically said he's all about climate and trying to do something about it, but he's not about the extreme response of leap into EVs and everything else. We need to have all sorts of energy. He said that he doesn't mind having hybrid vehicles, he doesn't mind having solar, but we also need to have oil in the mix and then have an equal. Like he's always said, I'm not trying to ban it, but we can't keep focusing like we're doing. It's too extreme. We're not ready for it. With abortion, he simply said it should be up to the states. States should make the decision. People should then move to the state that supports it. There's nothing wrong with these values. They're conservative in what they're doing. But historically, when I say historically, I'm referring to Obama era. There was a rush towards the extreme because of impatience. There's a certain subset that was impatient with the lack of progress. Greta Thunberg even said when she was screaming like a child that it's just not going fast enough. We can go faster. Why aren't we going faster?
[00:07:44] That's appeal to fear fallacy, by the way. Donald Trump's always taken a conservative approach to those things, but he takes an aggressive approach to the border and immigration being out of control. First when the campaign was happening, it was, it's not out of control. It's managed. We put Kamala's the border czar. Then when the crime spike, when the Venezuelan situation goes up, when the fentanyl crisis goes up, all of a sudden is, oh, we better do something about the border.
[00:08:08] Then the media said, oh, Biden never called to the border czar, despite multiple sound bites, where that's exactly what he said. The mainstream media was protecting Biden slash Harris for years, insulating them from the criticism that would later show up at the elections. That response is directly correlated to what people were finally seeing. Once you started deprioritizing the mainstream media, once you start deprioritizing social media and you start emphasizing independent media, independent media, grassroots though it was, is no longer grassroots. You have these people who created a brand and they put the voice out there. And then once all the suppression and the muting and the filtering and everything else that was happening with the major search engine started to go away, now this information is out there for people to make a choice. There was an active push to suppress and censor information. Multiple celebrities called it. They didn't want people to have what they thought were violent posts. We're talking things where somebody would say, no, somebody should be, not be forced to take this vaccine arm or whatever, and they consider that a form of violence or a form of harm. It's not. It's somebody stating their opinion. It was always, your opinion's wrong because I'm afraid of it. Which is never the way that America as a unified nation was supposed to perform should be that everybody can live their lives.
[00:09:36] Liberty was not the case. Donald Trump essentially campaigned on a pushback to that, the freedom. He even talked about something so simple that I was tussling with the idea that they put these suppressors in every modern faucet. If you buy a new faucet, basically there's a suppressor that limits the flow, the pressure of the water for your internal sink. However, they don't have the same thing on your hose bib outside. So you can waste all the water you want watering your lawn, even though you don't need max pressure for your lawn. But when you do need greater pressure in order to wash your dishes, you can't, because some bureaucrat decided it's a good idea from a, quote, conservation perspective, which doesn't really conserve. Instead, they add all sorts of chemicals in the water, which actually harms you. That's why I don't drink tap water by the way RFK had campaigned on this chronic illness, things that harm us, things that are in our food, things that are in our water, things that are damaging to us biologically, that nobody has talked about. No candidate has ever spoken about it. You got to understand that this time around, largely emboldened by independent media, Donald Trump campaigned on the right things for the right reasons, to the right people at the right time. He focused in the right direction and completely opposed the direction where it was catering to a minority group.
[00:10:56] Everything that Kamala campaigned on focused on a minority group or set of minority groups. Every single thing from flyers sent out talking about what she would do with black men, talking about climate, talking about abortion. These are things that segment to minority groups. She never spoke or even favored or preferred or did anything beneficial to the majority that's out there that really care about what's in their pocket or more appropriately, what's not in their pocket. The ability to get a job, the ability to keep a job. Seeing that businesses are shut down left and right, seeing homeless out there on the streets, seeing their tax bill go sky high, seeing the price of solar and the ripoffs of solar energy, seeing that buying a car effectively requires a loan now, when at some point it didn't. They're seeing the real world, things that affect everybody, things everybody's suffering under, being largely ignored by the current administration. People finally said, you know what? My needs are not being met. This is what I care about. I don't care about those minor issues. I care about what affects everybody. That's why. That's why it was such a blowout, because he spoke the right things. It's not about the man this time. It wasn't before, but certainly not now. It's not about the man. Nobody can refute that the economy was in a terrible state. Still is. Nobody can refute that the war is disheartening, especially when you consider US soldiers are impacted by it. US Soldiers have been killed over the past four years. You understand? These are things that should never be allowed to happen. They're. They're unexpected. The drug crisis, the fentanyl crisis. Remember, Prince died because of that nonsense. You. These are things that are unheard of, that just seem to be blatantly ignored simply so that we can have this minority group over here cheer and run a flag up the pole.
[00:12:49] He had to bring it back center. He had to bring it back to. These are the fundamentals that we need to focus on. And that's what he ran on. And that's why it was such a Blowout win.
[00:12:59] But I was intrigued. Then the flip messaging came out that Joe Biden, apparently this is what I was told. Apparently Joe Biden in private was not told prior to this to step down. So when he's continuing, prior to Kamala stepping in, he's going because nobody told him to step aside. Obama didn't tell him to step aside. Pelosi didn't tell him to step aside. Nobody told him to step aside. People expected him to do it on his own.
[00:13:27] And allegedly he's been telling people it would have been nice if my friend Obama had just put me up on game and told me, look, it's time to step aside. And.
[00:13:37] But nobody, he didn't say anything. Nobody said anything. When Kamala lost, then allegedly Kamala reached out to both Obamas and here's nothing back. Now there's messaging that says perhaps Nancy Pelosi's up at the top pulling the strings to try to keep power. When it failed, she crumbles because she did everything she could to try to keep power and secretly she just wanted Joe Biden to step aside on his own. When the whole thing started and Trump announced he was going to run again, she even said that she hopes that we get some younger people in. Let's start a fresh new. And then Biden said he's gonna run again cuz he felt like he could still do it. Nancy Pelosi went quiet. This messaging that I'm hearing, if it were true that allegedly Obama essentially left him out to dry and didn't set him up for success, then after the fact comes out, does that message about black men and that's all he did. He didn't do any repeated things like he did for Biden when Biden was running. And remember Biden as his vice president, when Obama was ready to step down, he selected Hillary Clinton to succeed him, not Joe Biden. The messaging at the time was allegedly Obama had no confidence in Biden's ability to lead. There was a lot of smoke behind this. And we have to ask the question that was it, that Biden was it. He was pushing to be the one, but nobody else was in support of it. If that's true, how is it that he won? Because he didn't really campaign that hard. He didn't try that hard when he was campaigning the first time, yet for some reason he was able to get the W, which made no sense. And then for the when Trump leaves office, he's trying to get back in, he tries to run again on his way on his first term. And in his first term, and then he loses. Biden didn't campaign there either. Biden didn't have try, but yet he's able to get an office. And then we hear that there's people underneath Joe Biden that apparently did not have his back and didn't really support him and possibly set him up for failure.
[00:15:33] This, folks, is why I said what I said, which is vote with your brain, not with your heart. Because the policies are all you can bank on. You can't bank on loyalty. You can't bank on the truth. You can't bank on what materially are they trying to do to win, earn and retain you as a voter. They're banking on this assumption. Well, if you always vote us, you should always vote us and keep on doing it. Just because without them having to earn it, they don't feel like they should have to earn it each and every time. Why and why are you okay with that? I wouldn't be okay with it. I wasn't okay with it. I've repeatedly said, no, you got to earn it. And if I don't see that you're focusing on what I care about, I will not vote for you. That's just the way it is. There are also people that are talking online, women largely, who openly said, yep, all about, yeah, Kamala, Kamala, woman. And then in secret, they go, vote for Donald Trump. And then they say, yeah, I'm talking to my lady friends and I'm not admitting that I voted for Trump because they'll just go off nuts. They'll just go crazy because there's hysterics, Trump derangement syndrome. They'll go crazy. That's the world we're in. That's sad, though, that you can't own up to. If you felt, look, I'm just not feeling this. You can't own that. You can't feel proud in that. I'm going to say for anybody listening to me, you should feel proud for whatever it is that you do support for why you support it. On my stance, I've always said consistently, repeatedly, you can go back episodes repeatedly said, vote with your brain, not with your heart. And I don't care about the person. It doesn't matter if I like them. It's about the policies. And for me, the economy is number one on the list because the economy hurts all of us. It doesn't matter. Red, white, black, brown, yellow, green. The economy hurts all of us. And if we don't fix it, we aren't going to be able to Fix anything else that people might want to do. The economy is so bad now. I was just doing shopping. This is where I veer away from politics. I was just doing shopping for solar panels because I wanted to electrify my home. I have two gas appliances. I wanted to get rid of them, go all electric simply for A, the simplicity, B, so I don't have bombs in my back in my basement.
[00:17:48] So I'm shopping around for solar panels, and unfortunately, I'm getting quotes somewhere in the neighborhood of $40,000. Ish. I could probably get down to $20,000, but I'm not. To me, 20,000 is too much. I'm thinking 10,000 bucks all told, for all the equipment installed. Fresh out, they're talking $40,000. The vast majority of that money is actually labor. Now, I understand you're having to get on a roof. My roof does pitch a little bit steep. I got it. I'm sorry. I can't justify $30,000 of profit if it's that it's significant just for you to install solar panels. So I figured, okay, what if I do solar panels on the ground? I have a pretty extensive backyard. I'd rather not lose it, but I'm willing to lose part of it to get solar panels. Most of them don't offer solar panels out here. Okay, so it's all a scam is what you're saying. You won't do it in a place that makes sense to where you can minimize that labor cost. Okay, I'm not going to do it. But what's the impact of doing that? You have to then take out a loan. Taking out a loan benefits only the bank. I said it before. Credit's a scam. It benefits the bank. Audi and I believe it's Minnesota.
[00:18:59] They were saying that, you know, there's. There's no disclosure of the fact that they can charge whatever extra fee above and beyond the cost of the solar. And in some cases it's significant. Like somebody said there was a $40,000 cash price for the panels, but they did the loan because they got pitched a great monthly raid and they didn't. Turned out it was $70,000 all told. The seller, the installer, said it's so that we can get the lowest rate. How does that work? The rate is any loan. The rate is based on how much money they expect to be able to make from you. So they're willing to lower rates. This goes to a car. This goes to anything. They're willing to offer you lower rates. If it's a higher Price for whatever it is. I remember when I was shopping for a new car versus a used car. So you're talking 90s new car versus used. I went in wanting a used car. I did not want a new car. I felt it was too overpriced and didn't make any sense. They would not sell me a used car. And what they directly said was, it's from the ratio. We're not gonna be able to make it make sense from a financing perspective. The ratio has got to make sense in terms of the value of the car versus the loan that we would issue. So if it's used, we're not gonna be able to make it make sense at your level. At the time, I didn't have any credit. Okay, well, they'll happily sell me a brand new car. Which in this case, that was a big. That was the biggest in terms of car buying mistake I'd ever made was getting that freaking Mustang. It was a Mustang at the time. $19,000. You go to this, any car dealership right now and try to shop out a Mustang and see what you come back with on the price. This one was $19,000. That's how you know it's all a rip off. But they'll happily finance that one. And apparently I was pre approved from the bank and I didn't know why because I didn't ask for it, but they pre approved. And then I gave him a check for the down payment of $1,000 and then drove off with the car that I couldn't stand. That was a nightmare of a car. Terrible car. Was it? Nice looking, but a terrible car fundamentally.
[00:21:00] So the solar panel business, I see $40,000, I'm not going to do loans. I refuse to do loans. It's all a scam. I'm thinking, okay, do the parts and then the labor. Should not be that crazy high, but it is crazy high is what it is. Garage. I'd like to replace the garage that I've got simply because it's got some issues and I couldn't get it fully insured. In order to replace the garage, I had two quotes. First guy, he's like $30,000, that's not going to work. Then I found another place and they're willing to sell me the garage, but I need to have the concrete laid myself. So I have to lay a new foundation. I couldn't find a contractor willing to do that. They would do the whole Monty, but they won't do just the concrete foundation. So I can order this garage and have somebody you know, just set it up and install it. So everything's a scam is that everybody's trying to make as much money as they can. The plumbing I was talking about, I was getting quotes all over the place. And then I finally settled on these guys and it's, you know, just shy 7,000 bucks to get the vast majority of it done. Still not fully done, but it's good enough to where I can use it. Unlike before the landscaping, I just had a guy come back with a quote of $20,000 to level the lawn. I know for sure it's not worth $20,000. We're just talking, hauling away some dirt, and we're not doing that. All I'm saying is that the economy affects everybody. It doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter your background, it doesn't matter where you live, doesn't matter how long you've been on this earth. The economy affects all of us. And until it is fixed, everything else is going to be harder to solve. It doesn't matter how much we might want to do it. Everything else is going to be more difficult to solve until the economy is set right. Which is why Donald Trump focused in that direction, because he knew that would resonate with the vast majority of Americans out there. Because Kamala didn't say anything about solving the economy. Instead, she said, we did all this other stuff. And even now as they're playing the blame game, they talked about the, you know, the stem stimmies and the, you know, the tax credits and child tax credits and all these stove pipe pittances that they're doing without a real grasp on the big strategic plan to fix the economy and the price at the, at the pump, the price at the grocery store, the price you pay for having kids, everything, all of it, none of it. They spoke to. It's not about a fifteen dollar minimum wage. Holistically, there's no game plan coming from any side. Except for what Trump talked about. He might not do anything at all. My point is that he at least talked about the things people wanted to hear. Certainly I wanted to hear it. Having gone through the cycle, I'm doing, seeing how much of a scam it really is out there. It's expensive. It's crazy expensive. I'm, I to, I am adamant. I want to just get this thing paid off just because I can take the money and go somewhere else, because I know it's terrible here. At the same time, it's fine. It's a roof over my head, it's decent Of a house. It's nice house. I got decent, decent neighbors, the whole nine. But it's not what I want. It's not where I want to be. It's where I had to be because of, you know, business, logistics things. But it's not where I want to be. The reason that it's so terrible out here is because it's a bad economy and has been a decaying economy. This area used to be thriving. I did the history checks. It used to be thriving. It used to be blue collar through and through, balls to bones. Used to be amazing malls and stores and all sorts of amazing stuff. And then all that went into the sharp decline and the business started moving away. A lot of the people, bad people moved in, good people moved away, some people passed away. But it's like there's so much potential in the area that's not realized. And I accepted being here is a start point to what can happen next. I needed to buy some time. I had to get away from the old rental situation because that was a scam. I had to get into my own stuff, start building equity, which I've done and I think I've done really well. My net worth is skyrocketing now. Then I had to say, all right, if I really wanted to live somewhere else, where would that be? And try to find the place that's got the best blend of what I want. I can tell you for sure I will never be anywhere on the west coast ever again. That's never happening. I will probably never be west of the Rockies ever again.
[00:25:25] I have not given. I have not given New Mexico enough time to know for sure. But as it stands in my mind, not going to be on west of the Rockies. So I'm willing. My point is, I'm willing to let things happen and give it a chance and see if it's a better world. And I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt because of how bad it was for the last four years. It was terrible. I think I told the story. And if you're new, welcome. By the way, I think I told the story. There was a point I was almost homeless. There was that point. Physically, I'm not what I used to be. I don't have the prime. I don't have anywhere near the energy. I don't have anywhere near the status, physical status and stature that I used to have. So I already knew I've got to do something different than what I had done. And things happened and they went my way. And I'm still Actively working on other stuff to get to a point of being ahead of the game. I don't want to be at par. I want to be ahead of the game. I'm not quite ahead of the game yet. I want to be there. Ahead of the game largely means I don't have to even look. First of all, I don't want to keep stuff in the bank, but I don't even want to have to look at any financial account and just know that I own stuff. It's mine, right? I don't have to worry about somebody taking it. Unless I'm deficient to, like, taxes or something. Fine. But I can also invest in other things. I can have multiple properties. I can. I can have more businesses and more business opportunities and more business ventures and more employees and thrive and then give back. Because although the area I'm in sucks, there's an opportunity to inject because it's possible they simply have turned away people like myself that come from more industrious spaces. I come in and perhaps I can inspire people to do more than what they have done and make a positive impact. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. I would love to speak at some school and help understand what is going on in the school system today. Is it really as bad where they're saying kids are just flipping on their cell phones and they're not paying attention in classes?
[00:27:38] Or is it possible that they just have not had the right people come and speak? I don't know. Do we no longer have dare. Do we no longer have role models and mentors? Are those opportunities that I can, you know, partake in? I don't know. These are all things that the economy, a solid economy, enables us to do. A weak economy, those are things that get cut, they get pulled out. They are no longer part of what we do. And if they're not part of what we do, we're not benefiting the next generation. If we're not benefiting the next generation, shame on all of us. That's how I feel about it. And so that's a motivating factor in what I at least saw of people who went out and voted and they said, I'm going to vote with my brain. It's all about the economy and getting us back financially on track as a country. Focusing, yes, truly on America first. Because if you don't, like Jay Z said, I can't help the poor if I'm one of them. So if we don't get ourselves situated, we can't help other people in confidence if we're just tossing other people at the detriment men of our own. I'm sorry. Shame on us. And shame on us for allowing the homeless to further degrade and decay while we enrich other countries. Shame on us for that. Shame on us for not willing, being willing to go out and do the right thing for our own people and making that such a negative thing. Why is it a negative thing to help our own people? It's not. We should want to help our own people. We should want to save our own people. There's a myth that people here are perfectly fine. They're not perfectly fine. You think they're perfectly fine because they've got Internet access. No, that's not the, that's not the measure. I'm sorry. There are still people out there, and I wish they would be louder than they are, who want to have the white picket fence and have a house and a family and pets and kids and the whole nine, but also be able to survive on a single income. There are people out there that don't want to have to spend. I just did a quote for frickin healthcare and geez, it's still a nightmare in terms of the month. This is Obamacare I'm speaking of because I'm a business owner and it's ripoff. It's absolute ripoff. There are people out there that would have to spend more than I would for health care, just basic health care. And the reason they don't is because how frequently do you use it? Not hardly at all. But you're paying for all the other people who need it on a more frequent basis. It's being saddled upon you. That's what Social Security is, a giant pyramid scheme. That's what the healthcare system is. You're paying for other people draining the system. And I'm not even just talking about illegals. I'm talking in general. There are people who need that aid. But our system has never been built to balance it, to make it fair. If you are not a drain on a system, you should not be contributing the vast majority of share to that system. Think about auto insurance. Same thing. You go to an area where there happens to be a significantly high ratio of car accidents and they'll nail you for the car insurance instead of doing what they should do, which is say you have not had accidents in 10, 15 years or 20 years, we're not going to nail you, you know, 200 bucks a month or whatever it is, we'll charge you 50 bucks a month if you get into any kind of accident, we're going to skyrocket it, we're going to double it, we're going to keep doubling it every single time. Because now you've become that risk. We're not going to penalize you for the inactions or actions or sins of other people. But that's the way it works. I simply feel that everything is jacked up. And it's jacked up because it's been allowed to fester and decay and get to this point where everybody is put at worse off than what they were. You don't understand how it's a stacked effect, do you?
[00:31:18] If your auto insurance goes up? Remember, states require you to hold auto insurance. So the auto insurance price goes up, but you're mandated to hold it. It's essentially a tax. Right.
[00:31:30] Auto home insurance, right. Renters insurance. You're required to have it. You must certainly must have renters insurance. You're required to have this insurance because something could happen to your property. That and property that you don't own. So that's another charge that you're mandated have. Essentially it's a tax. If you mortgage a house and you don't do 20%, they're going to force you to do an escrow situation. The escrow can overcharge because they're trying to build up a nest egg. It's essentially a tax. Let's be honest here. You got the price of food, you got the price of all the utilities that you have to have. People don't understand. You have to have Internet access, but Internet access is only as good as the electricity that you have in your home. So that's two utilities. You've got to have that you're paying for. You gotta have water, sewer, trash. You gotta pay for all these utilities. That has a stacked effect on you. The price of food, the price of clothes, the price of all the different consumables that you require. You add all that up together. It is not accurate or fair or even logical to say that people are not struggling. Of course they're struggling because things are being settled upon you and they just seem to increase, don't they? I just talked about buying a car. Because the price of buying a car is so sky high, many people are forced to take out a loan. You take out a loan, what's happening? You're charged interest on that car. They're nailing. That's essentially a tax because you're required to do it to get the car. Because the car's price is so high, because we're not in an era where you can just buy a car for 10,000 bucks, which some people might actually have in their savings to save on that overhead and then your car depreciates so you're actually in the red. So what do people do? They mortgage their homes or they do a cash out refi. What does that do? You're adding interest on top of it, which is saddling you a tax. Property taxes saddling you with tax. It's on and on and on. Don't get me started on just regular healthcare.
[00:33:18] All I'm saying is that this is an opportunity to focus on the one thing that has been ignored for four and a half years now, which is the economic well being of American citizens first. Let's get that healthy. If it can be pulled off, see where we're at and then take the next step and do it in a conservative fashion and stop promoting fear on people about things that are unproven. Because I think if we take the time to look at it objectively and say this is our opportunity to simply look and get our economy in order and look at the bigger picture of what we're trying to do as a country, which is if we're in a strong position, it enables us to do more for our partners and for our allies. But if we're not in a strong position, we're just simply bleeding ourselves dry and that's not helping anybody else. Why don't we try something different and be open to the fact that it is something different. It's a different approach, it's a different strategy. But there are so many people out there that are so narrow focused on one issue that they really care about. And truly I am. Economy is my number one focus. But it's not the only thing. I just understand it's got to be done first before we do anything else. It's a priority, not sole focus. Some people are just all about one issue. Christina Applegate, the actress, she literally went to tears because allegedly her daughter is disabled. And she's still fixated on this one segment where Donald Trump did something in front of a crowd where it seemed like he was ridiculing a disabled person. That was like, how long ago was that thing? And she still fixates on that one. And that's all she cares about. She doesn't care about the fact that she's washed up as an actress, that she can't get work, that she can't get money to support her family effectively. She doesn't care about any of this stuff. All she cares about is the person. And this action, which was misinterpreted by the way. The point is how you interpret it is how you interpreted it. But that's one aspect of thousands of things. And that's what you care about. You don't care about your financial situation, which is poor right now. You don't care about the school situation, which is jacked up. You don't care about women getting hurt in sports because men are up there hitting them with volleyballs or soccer balls or whatever. You don't care about the homeless in the streets. You don't care about all these other issues. You don't care about any of that stuff. All you care about is this one segment where he did a thing that was misinterpreted by you as something else and it bothered you that you can't do anything about it. It's like there's nothing I can do to get people to understand why that one narrow focus vision is the wrong unhealthy. Like setting aside Trump. It's not about him. It's unhealthy to be so fixated on that one thing for decades. And you can't let that go when we have bigger issues in the world that affect everybody else, including you.
[00:36:15] That's why I don't. As I've told people that I've worked with, I am focused on the job that I've been given. The job that I've been given is xyz. I. I focus on the quality of that work. I'm not here to make you feel better coming to the job. And I'm not your friend. And we're not going out drinking. I. Cause I don't drink. Even if I did, I don't wanna spend time with you. The point is, I'm not here to be your friend. I'm not here to have fun. I'm not here to be laughing when they talk about football. I don't care. I mute it. Cause I don't care. I'm here to do a job. I'm here to get the work done. That's why my quality is a hundred times more than yours. And then they get offended when I call that out. Guess what? I'm telling the truth. The fact that you're bothered is because you know I'm embarrassing you. Sorry. Perhaps if everybody else had that mentality of quality, focus and going out there and doing the best job for the customer and you all cared about the customer like I do, we actually would have less work amongst all of us. But I have the lion's share of the work that I've taken on myself because the rest of your slackers. I come from a different era and I understand that. But my point is I am the kind with my limited platform that will always encourage people to focus on the big picture, what we're doing. Everything matters. You can have a priority, but everything matters. And ideally, you're focusing on the things that affect everybody, not just what affects you. Not with just one issue type thing only, but you have a priority. And the priority is that these things should affect everybody that we really care about and less about the individual. If they're fun or if they're funny or if they're cute. Who cares? You might. I don't.
[00:37:58] Because I don't have to. It doesn't do anything. It's a trap. It's what it is. It's smoke. It doesn't mean anything. None of it means anything. All it means something is your contribution to this world. That's what means something. You might say, well, my contribution is being a nice person. Cool, go ahead, do that. When you get taken advantage of, hopefully you reflect back on why. That's, in my opinion, a silly thing to focus on. Doesn't mean you don't welcome nice people or doesn't mean you try, don't try to be nice to people. But why would that be your sole guiding principle? Your guiding principle should be what do you contribute on this earth while you're on it? And you should do everything you can to make whatever difference that you can. Not just in your life, but in everybody's life. If you're working with a customer, if you're working with an invalid, if you're working with parents or grandparents, whatever, if you're working for other people or with other people, your primary focus should be what difference can I make now for those people to make their lives better, period. That's. That's what it is. And you can go to almost every religion known to man and there's going to be segments that talk about these things, segments that talk about how, how serving others works and how you are ultimately a servant. That's why I don't target anyone religion, because they all talk about the concept of some form of serving. You're serving others. That's what you should do. When you have a paradigm of people who don't serve others and they want to just serve themselves and all they care about is what they want, you know, they're the evil.
[00:39:37] You're not the evil for wanting to serve. They're the evil for not caring about those other people at all. I'm not suggesting that they're their only focus. I'm saying that you're here to serve. We all here to serve. Everybody's here to serve. You can't serve two masters, but you can have two focuses as you serve. One focus is on your fellow man, your fellow brethren.
[00:40:02] One's focus is on whatever deity you choose to serve.
[00:40:07] You have two choices. You could do both at the same one at certain times, another at different times. You balance it. But never forget, you're here to serve, not about you. It doesn't matter. You don't matter that life doesn't care about you. That's why life is finite for each one of us. Life is finite because it's giving us a chance to serve. And it's testing how you serve, and it's testing what you do when you do serve. And it's testing what your focus is going to be. And if your focus is yourself, that's the trap in it. It's up to you. I'm just one person with a limited platform, but I hope you think about what I'm saying, because I think, in my opinion, that was the revelation that many of the people that voted for Donald Trump had.
[00:40:52] At the end of the day, our government wasn't serving us. That's got to change. Let's get some people who serve us. They say they're going to do that. Let's put them to the test.
[00:41:01] In return, we have to serve those people who can't serve themselves in America, people who are hurting and struggling. We serve them by making sure we have people who are going to focus on them.
[00:41:14] It becomes a symbiotic relationship of serving. We serve each other, and in theory, if it's done right, we all grow stronger as a result. That's the test, isn't it? The people who blindly think that it's not going to work, they're beyond help. It doesn't mean that we don't. We stop serving them or we don't try to serve them because we understand those people have Stockholm syndrome. They need our help. We shouldn't be angry at them. They need our help. They're lost. They're lost lambs that they've strayed. They need help. They need help. They need to be guided back. And I'm not talking group thing. I'm talking back to a basic understanding that we are all here to serve. And it is the best thing that you can do to recognize your place in that serving. Your place is to serve others and serve those who need it and help them when they're lost.
[00:42:10] Find out how you do that. The easiest way to start is to simply recognize the difference between them and us.
[00:42:18] They'll blame everything else. They'll blame everything else.
[00:42:24] We understand.
[00:42:27] We had one period of time when it was like that. It didn't work. We want something different. It's simple, right? Simple math. We're open to something different. They're not. That's how you recognize that people who are at least open to it, flexible to it, okay, welcome them in, talk them through it, and understand they're not going to agree with everything, nor should they. They shouldn't like everything. But just be open. That's all we're asking. And then recognize their place as servants. And then who do they serve? They should be able to identify who it is that they serve and be okay serving if you're okay serving and they're okay serving. And everybody likes to serve.
[00:43:09] In theory, it's all theory. In theory, everything should work out. If it doesn't work out, we try something else. That's the spirit of this whole system. That's how it works. Impatience is your greatest enemy because it does what it forces you to make bad decisions. We made a bad decision before in 2020.
[00:43:29] Now we have a chance to set it right.
[00:43:32] Setting it right means you gotta set aside what you feel about any individual. It doesn't matter. It is. We have to try something different than what we did. It has to be somewhat aggressive in the change because we've gone so far away from fundamentals. We're no longer focused on helping people. We are more focused on ridiculing people. Because if you notice, the stuff that goes viral is stuff that makes fun of other people. So if I'm wrong, I challenge you to tell me why that is. And then think about what I've been saying this time, about our position and our place and this new situation we're in and how you can be a contributor to it versus a contradictor to its success.
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