The World Doesn't Want to Come to America Anymore - The St. Louis Podcast: Episode #149

10-year-old boys are searching bone smashing on TikTok. Teenagers are injecting steroids to fix their jawlines. A meth-addicted 20-year-old with millions of followers was calling it "empowering young men" until YouTube finally banned him.

Meanwhile America is hosting the biggest sporting event in human history and the hotels are empty. 85% of Kansas City bookings are below projections. The world just doesn't want to come here anymore.
Eric is fired up this week and doesn't hold back on any of it: looks maxing, absent dads, the World Cup disaster, gerrymandering, and why $100k doesn't mean what it used to.

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SPEAKER_00 0:06

Welcome back to another episode of the St. Louis Podcast. As always, thank you for tuning in. Please like, review, subscribe, share with a friend. We appreciate your support. Wow, do we have a lot to talk about? Wow, has the feedback uh from some of the most recent episodes been astounding online? My God, the boomers take everything personal. You guys think we're all victims because we're young and we're complaining and we're advocating for ourselves. Statistically, you had it easier, okay? I went over it. Go back and listen to the podcast from a couple of weeks ago. You had it easier. Not everyone. But if you're taking the average person now, and the average person then, the average person in the past, substantially better life, easier life. Able to afford more, the dollar went further. You didn't have to worry about being canceled. Hey, your job? Shit was great. Maybe the internet's the problem. Fuck this podcast. We're done. End it. Last last episode. You're right. Not everyone deserves a mic. But you know what? That's why we're here, right? All right, anyways, now I'm just ranting. Um, check out the St. Louis podcast on specifically Facebook. If you're a young person, I need you guys to get behind me. We need to start dueling, dueling these boomers on Facebook, because goddamn, do they have nothing but time? They got nothing but time. They're sitting in their houses that they're paid for, that they're not apparently going to owe any property taxes on here shortly, uh, which is just another thing of young people um supporting those that are older, even though the boomer generation is the richest generation of all time. But they don't, they shouldn't pay property tax. Sure. We also talked about that in a couple weeks ago episode as well. You're like, Eric, wow, are you mad today? Are you upset? I'm heated. I'm feeling zesty. These people online got me worked up. All right. Because no, uh everyone's a fucking drone. I just said this a couple weeks ago. Everyone's a drone, everyone is an NPC, and no one can think can think for themselves. In NPC, just for you NPCs that are listening, an NPC is a non-player character. And if you need to know what that is, I guess you don't know what it is. Insider joke, gamer kid. It's only like five people that understand that joke. And if you do, you'll get a kick out of it.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

You're just a gamer kid.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

Um that was an interesting. That was an interesting anyways. Oh man. People calling us gamer kids. You're just a gamer kid. As they pick up the sticks when they're 60 years old and they're like, what does the left and right stick do? All right, anyways. Let's talk about it. I got, you know, I got a couple things I want to talk about this week. Number one is looks maxing. Let's talk about it. Let's call these, let's call out these young men for being fucking losers and doofuses and morons and losers, mainly losers. Um, obviously, the big guy right now is clavicular. Um, if you look up to this guy, you are an idiot, you are a drone, you are an NPC, or you are young and impressionable. Um, which means you're probably not watching this podcast because you'd be like, why the hell am I listening to this idiot? With that said, and I am an idiot. With that said, uh, let's talk about looks maxing. Let's talk about the young people here for a second. All these boomers are gonna be like, what's looks maxing?

SPEAKER_01 4:03

I've never heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

All right. So uh looks maxing goes hand in hand with like the red pill, right? Uh masculinity crisis. It's an incel-born ideology that has escaped the forums and gone mainstream. This is like 4chan level shit right here. And it's pushing boys as young as 10 towards steroids, bone surgery, and bone smashing. Listen, guys, we can't be doing the shit that women are doing. We can't be doing plastic surgery, we can't be doing bone smashing and bone surgery. We can't be getting those height surgeries. You see that guy on Instagram that like increased his height by a foot and now he walks like a dumbass. But at least he's taller. Listen, guys, we cannot care so much about how we look. If you want to do that, you go to the gym and you watch your diet, okay? Other than that, I mean, groom, fucking maybe put some blow, you use some face wash once again, you know, take a shower. But looks maxing, this is crazy. So, you know, the big thing behind this is like it's it, it's it's like uh what's that movie? Fuck. Um Patrick Bateman. Uh, he tries to look as good as possible. Come on. Psycho. Psycho. This reminds me a lot of psycho, where his like whole identity is around the fact of how other people perceive him, all the way down to the business card and the raised lettering. Oh, look at Paul Allen's card. Paul Allen. That movie is it's crazy, but it's it's it's it's it's amazing. Um, so there are 300,000 daily TikTok searches in February of this year for bone smashing. Now, I'm not the guy that thinks everyone needs a therapist like most women are, but I'd say about half these dudes that are searching bone smashing are looking it up because it's hilarious, and the other half are actually serious about it. The half that are serious about it, um, maybe they just need a dad figure in their life or something to be like, what the hell is wrong with you? This isn't how this isn't how men should act. Am I turning red pill? What's going on here? Um, there are 1.9 million searches by March of 2026 before the TikTok ban in April. So obviously you could see from 300,000 to 1.9 million. Uh 10 years old or the youngest age boys are being pulled into appearance optimization content. Holy shit. Appearance optimization. We're cooked. We're so cooked as a society. Uh, 40 plus years, uh, old Dr. Gene Berstein has practiced child uh psychiatry, and he says he's never seen anything like it. Obviously, looks maxing is the practice of maximizing your physical appearance, but it's not just hitting the gym. It's a subculture with its own vocabulary, hierarchy, and ideology rooted in the incel community. At its core is the belief that physical appearance is the primary determinant of a man's worth, romantic success, and social standing. I think this rule is more applicable to females than for males, but you know, whatever. The community ranks men on a scale from zero subhuman to eight giga chat based on mathematical facial metrics such as draw line strength, symmetry, eye angle, and chin width. That's why I have a beard so you guys can't make fun of me. You'll never see it. GigaChat is Johnny Bravo. Yes. And if you don't know what Johnny Bravo is, you're probably too young or you're too damn old. Uh that's uh Cartoon Network for you people. Also, Angry Beavers on around that time, cat dog, Powderpuff Girls, which I was never really watched. But it was on, it was it was fun. Daxter's Lab. Cartoon Network had some heaters. What do kids watch nowadays? Mr. Beast? Ugh. Courage the cowardly dog. You know, that show was actually like there was the one episode I remember that like gave people nightmares. I forgot what episode it was, but it's a very specific episode. The spiders, I think, is the one. Um, so soft maxing. Now, if you're listen, listen, guys. Whoever came up with these terms, I can only make so many jokes about. We got soft maxing and hard maxing. Now, soft maxing obviously applies to skincare, grooming, and mewing. Now, mewing, if you don't know, is pressing your tongue to your palate to shape your jaw. In quotation, Marx also said it doesn't work. So, but I mean you could try. Uh, hard maxing, uh, steroid use, uh, blue chew. Just kidding. Uh testosterone inject injections, elective jaw surgery, extreme restrictive dieting. And then, of course, we got bone smashing, which is literally hitting your own face and jaw with tools to alter bone structure. Boys are doing this. Uh, the movement's most prominent figure is clavicular. This guy is a fucking moron and has literally, I hate he has zero game, dude. The dude is weird. He is weird. He doesn't know how to talk to people. He seems like a nice enough guy, but this dude is just weird as hell. Um, and by any measure of account, should not be uh a guy that anyone looks up to, um, besides to look at how not to act. Uh, he built a massive audience promoting bone smashing, steroid use, and what he called sexual market value optimization. God damn it! If we can't optimize for sexual market value and for appearances, then what can we do? Uh last month, Peters was hospitalized in Miami after passing out during a live stream and later claimed to be swearing off drugs. Besides, of course, fucking steroids, boy. His YouTube channels were permanently terminated in April for repeated violations. He had described his content as free courses to help empower young men. All right, Andrew Tate. Um, a 20 year now, of course, this guy's also addicted to meth, in case you didn't know. He goes, meth, dude, Adderall. He goes, fuck Adderall. You ever heard of meth? That shit's sick. He uses his appetite suppressor. This guy is crazy. And this is like what the internet is turning people into. I don't think any time in like high school or middle school, when I was back in the day, would anyone that I know have looked up to a mental fucking patient like this guy? Um, a 20-year-old meth addict who live streamed himself, smashing his own face, had millions of subs. And his defense was that he was empowering young men. That tells you everything about where you are. YouTube didn't pull him for the bone smashing, they pulled him for repeated violations. What violation? He was literally on camera doing methamphetamine. That's that's how normalized this became. Um why are there so many boys looking up to this guy? They have to not have a dad, dude. I mean, and that brings me up to my next point. Yo, dads, where the fuck y'all at, dude? Parents are doing an awful job right now. Awful job. I just got done talking to a teacher. Um, and it was actually multiple teachers. And the consensus was now, especially in like elementary and middle school, uh, the large majority of students are reading grade levels behind uh where they should be. There's only a small percentage of people um that are at or over um you know that bandwidth in terms of reading, obviously above their grade level. Um and you know, you can blame school all you want on reading, but let's be honest. That's only some of the blame. If you don't read with your kids as a parent, you are a bad parent. Math, science, reading, lowest it's been since the 90s. There you go. There we go. Yeah, I think COVID had some to do with it. That really I mean, you just killed two plus years of learning for all those students. And not only learning, but developing, talking to other kids. Who cares? We already talked about that in the past. That's in the past, right? Um, a time analysis frame the sharpie looks maxing is not just a social media trend. It's what happens when young men lose access to other sources of meaning. Community, purpose, belonging are all left alone with their reflections and an algorithm that feeds them content, ranking their faces. Face mash. Uh, the pandemic accelerated it. Boys stuck at home on screen, found in these forums something that looked like community. We need to get dudes off the internet, man. Jesus. You need to go out and play. Go get a bike, go go uh go play some football, get a trampoline. I mean, would you rather your kid break a leg on your trampoline in your backyard and be bone smashing when they're 12? Uh all the dads and moms out there. It's probably too late now, but go on your kids' TikTok. See if they have any searches for bone max or bone, whatever the hell, looks maxing, bone smashing. Um, this trend is not a symptom of social media alone. The social media made it visible. It is a symptom of what happens to young men when other sources of value, meaning, and belonging become inaccessible. Mental health consequences include body dysmorphic disorder, usually begins before 18, associated with significant suicide risk, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and steroid-induced hormonal damage in still developing adolescence. So, right now we got boys physically injuring themselves, steroid use of teenagers causing permanent hormonal damage, ER visits from extreme dieting, bone smashing related facial injuries. A generation of young men with clinically significant body dysmorphia. This is short term, spike in male eating disorders, a category doctors are not trained to diagnose. This because usually men like to eat. Yum yum. Jaw surgery demand in teenagers overwhelming cosmetic surgeons. The philosophy that your worth is your face, that women are obstacles to unlock, is doing cultural work on boys before they're old enough to interrogate it. This is radicalization pipeline with good lighting. Fine. Looks macking is different because of its ideological foundation, right? It's it's literally it's just fucking with these kids' head. It's it's teaching them something that's fundamentally wrong. Um, you know, we know, or let's just say me personally from experience, in you know, being alive on this planet for almost 33 years now, which isn't that long of a time, but I think it's longer than uh these kids listening to fucking Cvicular. Um yes, of course, you want to be a fit guy. Um, you want to eat healthy, you want to work out. Um, but that is only half the battle, right? Also, as a man, you want to provide. You want to have a job. You want to have a purpose. What is your purpose looks maxing? Is your purpose just to try and find a woman that only likes you based on your fucked up chin and your jawline structure? Or do you actually want someone that enjoys you for you?

SPEAKER_01 17:34

You listening to what I'm saying, does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Tell me if I'm going crazy here. Um, yeah, there's a lot more uh to a person than just what they look like. Obviously, uh we want the person that we're with to look good. Um, but that is only, again, part of a person. There are plenty of people that are good looking and have awful personalities, um, and that are awful people. And obviously, just because they look good doesn't mean you should stay with them because they're looks maxing, right? If they're a piece of shit person. Um, so yeah. I mean, not much more to say there. Uh, beauty industry harms to girls are well documented. This is kind of where I see this going, is that you know, we've seen this for a long time when it comes to women, and now men are doing the same thing. Um, when a majority of men will say, if you ask them, yeah, I don't want my girl to get face surgery or uh Brazilian butt lift or any of these things. Most. Not all, of course. So that's what I think about looks maxing, alright? That is what I think about looks maxing. Uh what do we got next? Should we talk about NATO? Fuck NATO. That's what Trump's saying. Who leads NATO? Let's talk about the World Cup tourism disaster that I didn't even know was going on in KC. Did you hear about this? What even happened? We gotta talk about Kansas City here, guys. America is hosting the biggest sporting event in human history and somehow managed to make the world not want to show up. Kansas City, who's right next door to us, obviously uh to us in St. Louis, is the single most damaged host city in the country. 80% of U.S. World Cup host hotels reported bookings below projections. 80%. 85 to 90% of Kansas City hotels are below projections. Worst of any host city in the country. 650,000 visitors. Uh, KC still projects for the tournament. Now widely doubted. Uh 5 million tickets sold globally, but it hasn't translated into hotel bookings. Uh the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off June 11th. Kansas City is going to host it at Arrowhead Stadium. Hotels were supposed to be printing money right now. Instead, some KC properties are performing below a normal summer with no World Cup at all. FIFA itself committed massive hotel room blocks, then canceled 70 to 95% of them. Now, is this the people of just not wanting to come to the United States? Are these just people that don't want to travel to KC from in the United States? Uh, does the world hate us? Uh, do people not want to travel because it's expensive? Uh, airline tickets have essentially uh airline gas prices have 2x'd. Um, fuck, I should have talked about spirit today, uh, but I I didn't put that together. God damn it. Um Trump Trump is half to blame for Spirit. The other half is uh the the shareholders of Spirit Airlines. Um like less than 5% can go back to uh Biden and the Department of Transportation. You know why? JetBlue is about to fail here this year. They were already in debt with Spirit, whose Spirit should have merged was Frontier. Now that we no longer have Spirit Airlines, this is all I'm gonna say. I'll save it to next week. We wanted Spirit. Not because I wanted to fly on Spirit, but because Spirit Airlines, on all of the routes that I would take, say with Southwest or another one, they kept the prices lower. With Spirit out, prices, they no longer have the low carrier competition. So you know who gets fucked in the end? We do. Travelers, we have less competition, and jet blue only wanted to buy spirit because they were competitors on the same routes. But everyone, dude, I just what did I just say? I just texted someone right before I came on this. I said, I said, I'm tired of the bullshit. I said, I'm about to tell it like it is today. I feel like everyone is a drone NPC and can't think for themselves. I you know, I sold all my GameStop literally yesterday morning. Well, yesterday afternoon. No, not GameStop. GameStop has liquid cash. They're fine. No, they don't have $56 billion. I saw the interview with him. He's like, half stock, half cash. They're like, well, where are you gonna get the cash from? He's like, it's on the website. Um I, you know, I'm starting to think the DD hypothesis is bullshit. And if you if you pay attention to GameStop, and if you, you know, whatever. The different, yeah, but yes, I saw that and I was like, right when I saw that interview, I was like, I'm selling all of it. They don't have the 56 bill. They don't have the and eBay's in a bunch of debt. eBay's the one in a bunch of debt. And eBay, oh, like half of their board like quit. You see, they're all resigning, so I don't know, man. All right, back to Casey. International travelers, you know, the Iranians were all gonna fly in here. Just kidding. Uh, who stay longer and spend more than domestic fans are simply not coming? Why? Visa processing backlogs, concerns about immigration screenings at U.S. airports, a strong dollar making the U.S. expensive, um, only because we've essentially crashed everyone else's, and broader geopolitical anxiety about traveling to America. AKA, five letters. T-R-U-M-P, Trump. And of course, everyone else that's, you know, a part of his cabinet policies. Uh, we asked for and won the right to host the World Cup. We were supposed to show the world what America can do. And what signal have we sent? We might detain you at the airport. The global perception of the United States right now is so hostile that soccer fans who literally travel the world for this sport are deciding it's not worth the hassle to come here. That's not just an economic story, that's a branding catastrophe. I mean, we just had the German um chancellor call us out. Um, obviously, NATO is like disintegrating before our eyes. I I am amazed at how much can go wrong in a year or a year and two months, however long it's been, three months. I'm amazed. And of course, I talk about this on the podcast and about you know, uh, that regardless of what everyone says, do you see the stock market? The US is killing it. You are a fucking idiot. The top 1% own like 80% of the stocks, dude. It doesn't matter how well the stock market is doing. That does not matter to the average U.S. citizen. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

It doesn't matter. The U.S. has no empathy.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

For the most part, I feel like U.S. people are selfish. I don't know what happened to community in what's rightfully called the third place, right? Coffee shops, you know, restaurants, places to hang out in. That you talked, that you had a sense of community, that the other people around you actually cared. When we are self-isolating ourselves, all we do is sit at home, fucking get on Facebook and watch Jesse Waters on Fox 2, it breeds stupidity. Literally, we are making ourselves dumber. Uh obviously, Kansas City is uh Missouri's other major metro area. Uh when Casey loses, Missouri loses. Uh the multiplier effect on regional airlines, hospitality workers, small businesses, and the state's national reputation ripple outward. St. Louis was not a host city, which now looks uh looks all right.

unknown 26:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Uh but that's uh mostly, or excuse me, air demand data shows some bright spots. Kansas City International Airport is up 48% year over year in June bookings, but that's mostly domestic travelers. And domestic travelers spend less, stay shorter, and don't generate the kind of economic lift the industry was banking on. The stories about American soft power collapse in real time. The world doesn't just watch America. They used to want to come here, they used to want to be America. People used to look up to us. You go to a different country, you go outside the US, you'd be like, I'm from the US. Like, fuck yeah, man. That's sick. I wish I was in the U.S. Now you go around the world and people are like, where are you from? You say U.S. They're like, fuck you. They're like, you're fucking everything up. I'm like, it's not me. Listen to my podcast, I swear. It's just embarrassing, man. Do we not care about how like the world thinks about us? That's the whole like that's the whole US thing. That's like the US propaganda. We're the best. We're the world power. Come here for freedom. For civil rights. You can make it here in the US. You can make it.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Um, so this is a good. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Pete Pete Heggseth, Donald Trump, um uh Jared Kushner, um, Rubio. These guys are fucking morons. Jared Kushner's owned by Israel. Like, this is embarrassing, dude. No one can open up their eyes. Everyone's just like, what is Eric talking about, dude? He's just a liberal cuck. That's what they call me. I'm like, I voted for Trump. And you know what? I got lied to. No new wars. Gas price going down. Let's make things more affordable. We have wars, things are less affordable. Uh, we have mass surveillance with flock and polynomial and everything else. Our rights and our civil liberties are actively being stripped on a daily basis. And everyone that is a MAGA head is doing this and closing their eyes. I don't hear or see anything. Eric, you just soft, man. You don't get it. It's 40 chests, bro. Iran was about to launch a nuke. Really? I don't think they were, but they might now. Uh let's talk about, you know who's, you know, what's we've never talked about Israel having nukes. Why does Israel get nukes?

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Quiet pause.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

I'm waiting for like the FBI or Secret Service or someone to show up at my door. That'd be so sick. I would love that. They're like, Eric, you're on a list. I'll be like, what? They're like, for telling the truth. And I'm like, yeah, damn right, dude. But yeah, they've been gaslighting us about the destruction that Iran has had in the Middle East since this war has started. Um, and there's a reason that they shut down all the satellites. Because normally, um, you know, there's a ton of satellite companies that release images on like a daily, weekly basis. Um, Trump and Pete Hexeth told them, you're not updating this shit anymore. Why? Because they're lying about the destruction, obviously. Now, I'm not gonna say they're lying about the deaths of soldiers. They might be, but that one's harder. They're definitely lying about the casualties. They're definitely lying about the casualties, and they're definitely lying about how much destruction they have cost us. So not only have we spent billions, we've lost billions of dollars in destruction. We've cost um the world billions of dollars in destruction of oil and liquefied natural gas. Um, and of course, it's still closed. Even though the stock market went up yesterday on news that whatever, you know, there's going to be some sort of sitting down at the table together. I feel like this war at this point is just a shill to fuck with the stock market and be like, yo, we got a deal. Stock market pops, people make some money, and they're like, oh, never mind. Iran launched another drone at a ship. Iran obviously keeps shooting. Um, there's still like 20,000 plus seafares uh stranded, over 2,000 vessels. Um we now hit like 429 gas price in St. Louis, which is fucking insane. We were almost paying half of that just a year ago. It was like 249 just a year ago.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

It's worth it to pay more gas for the terrorists.

SPEAKER_00 32:21

It's short-term pain for long-term gain. Bro, the long-term short-term pain, you're gonna be dead. Trump's gonna be dead. And there's no sh it's short-term pain for long-term pain. It's pain pain. Pain squared. Trump says he doesn't even care if it has $200 a barrel. He's an idiot. Uh the Pentagon so far has spent $25 bil on the Iran more. And I believe that was from Monday's numbers. So probably add another bill or two into that. Uh, Project Freedom, spelled Project Free Dumb D U M B. Uh, Trump's attempt to escort commercial ships through the strait has largely failed, obviously. Only two U.S. flag merchant ships made it through. Major shipping companies, including Hepic Lloyd, have explicitly said transit remains impossible. The strait is 21 inches or 21 inches wide. The strait is 21 miles wide. Iran can reach every inch of it with screws, missiles, drones, mines, and fast attack boats. As of this morning, the UAE is under Iranian, under active Iranian missile and drone attack for the second consecutive day. UAE air defense systems are engaged as of this uh writing. Iran is essentially attacking a U.S. ally daily, and the U.S. is calling the ceasefire intact. The heaven, the ceasefire is intact. Bro, stand on your fucking loins, dude. You started this war and now you're pussying out. Of course. They thought that they were gonna just take this guy out and everything was gonna be fine. Correct. The war powers vote should go. A ceasefire, a ceasefire not counting to the overall timeline of what the fuck are we talking about? It's under act of war. That's like saying you're playing a baseball game and the seventh inning stretch doesn't count as part of the time. It's you're still there.

unknown 34:25

Overtime doesn't count.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Yeah, overtime doesn't count. Um, and of course, I think uh, you know, news as of this morning is the fact that Saudi Arabia turned around a bunch of U.S. uh fighters and stuff and essentially said, no, we're not um helping you guys. So, you know, we'll see. Um, it seems like also we're losing our power with our Middle Eastern allies. Yeah. And I you know, you know, I still really think at the end of the day that, you know, we look at Saudi Arabia and UAE and Israel as other countries. I still think they're U.S. proxies for the most part. They're proxies of the United States. Um, you can go back and look at like the Gulf Wars or you know, look at like the banana wars 100, you know, 20 years ago. Look up the um uh the Iran war in the 50s. It all goes back to oil. And this is what I was saying on Facebook today. Someone made a comment about it was like 80% of the, you know, talking about like an official, you know, making everyone join the military in the US. And they're like, well, 70 to 80 percent of the kids right now couldn't even join it because they don't meet the blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh yeah, let's get everyone to join the military so they can fight on behalf of the billionaires, pedophiles, and corporations of the United States. And this guy wrote back, he's like, Oh, military industrial complex, why don't you just go ahead and write it on the board three times and cry about it? And I'm like, dude, all these old boomers that like fought in like not even Vietnam, like a lot of them fought in like the 80s and shit. They it's almost like they get mad that they got bamboozled into signing up for a bullshit war. Then they're like, hey, all you morons have to do it too. That was my only comment. I'm like, why would why would we want to have everyone fine? You want to get them let's put you wanna put them through boot camp or something. I you know. I think the military, though, a lot of it is it gets people ingrained to only think one way. Yeah, of course not. That makes sense. No, Pete Heggs fired everyone because it really heard. That dude is a soft boy, dude. He is such him and Cash Patel, I mean, Pam Bondi. Um, what what who leads up the Department of Homeland Security? What was her name? She got canned. Christy Gnome. I mean, it sounds like just surround yourself with morons. Um, so obviously the the Middle East is going well. Um there was a Supreme Court ruling for some voting rights act. I don't really know much about this, so let's talk about it. Um, okay, so there is a 63 support court vote cutting the Voting Rights Act, which is Louisiana versus Calais. There's 192 state legislative seats currently held by black Democrats that could be redrawn under new ruling. Um, 61 years since the Voting Rights Act was passed, one hour after ruling dropped, Florida passed an aggressively gerrymandering map targeting four Democratic seats. Why the fuck is gerrymandering legal? I was just getting in an argument earlier this week, because like the Republican Party, the young rep young people for Republican Party in St. Louis or something posted something on Facebook about how Missouri needs to redraw its maps to make it completely conservative. And I'm like, what the fuck, dude? This is not the United States. You guys all just want it your way. You're fucking babies. The far right and the far left are the same people. You're both fucking snowflakes. And you both want to cancel people on the other side, and you both can't listen to anybody's input besides your own. They're completely trying to get rid of any uh democratic district.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

Yep. Um, listen.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

We almost need like this is almost where AI needs to come into hand. Claude, please give me uh district maps for every single state. Give me hopefully similar populations, or however that works. Um make it not racist, make it as evenly as possible. Make it so everyone has a fair say, blah, blah, blah. See what it's see what it turns out. What if it's like, oh, and then also give me your thoughts on the current setup? It's like, well, the current setup was obviously set up by racist white men. But it's not just Republicans that do this, obviously. Democrats do gerrymandering too. Okay. I've I talked about this on the podcast actually last year, when uh I think Texas and then I talked about Texas trying to do it, and then I talked about a Democratic state trying to do it as well. I don't remember. Some like that, some Northeastern state. But this does, god damn. Everyone just wants to be on a team, dude. If you say like all the things I saw online about Thomas Massey are like, fuck Thomas Massey, he doesn't stick with his team, dude. You don't, why do you if you only vote for your team, you're an idiot. If you go in every single, you know, year, two years, four years, and you just go, oh, they got an R or a D next to their name, and it's you are an idiot. Now I will say though, for this next election, I'm going a lot blue, baby. Sorry. And I'm like a could I, you know, I feel like a lot of my stances, at least when it comes to some sort of monetary. I just didn't want any new wars. I don't want money being spent. And I wouldn't even say that's like conservative anymore. It's it's really nothing. Each party wants to spend a bunch of money. No one cares about a balanced budget. I mean, neither party really reflects what I want. Um balanced budget, no new wars, taking care of our own, which is the people of the United States first. Um fixing Social Security that way people my age aren't fucked when they're older. It's gone. Um, or just cancel Social Security right now. Actually, I'll tell you what. You cancel Social Security right now. You can take uh anyone over 65 that's poor, fine. They don't have to pay property taxes. Fine. Let's give them that. Now, mathematically, that sounds like it'd be better in our favor. You know, maybe five years they don't have to pay property taxes, but guess what? For 35 years, we don't have to pay the fucking pyramid scheme. Or not even a pyramid scheme. A um uh, oh my god. What was Enron? Ponzi scheme. The money coming in is funding the money going out, right? Um, all the rich people now like 7.1. Dude, I didn't I had no idea that everyone gets social security no matter what. Even if like you have 10 10 10 million, 100 million in the bank. That is so dumb. You should not get social, you don't need it. They're like, my social security check is 2500 a month, and meanwhile, they're worth 100 million. Why the fuck do you getting that? Why are you getting that?

SPEAKER_01 42:56

I'm over it. I'm over this. I'm over old people.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

Boomers are the hardest, man. They just think people my age sit here and complain and do no hard work. Now, there are plenty of those people my age and younger, but I will tell you as well, there are plenty of people my age that work their fucking ass off and have literally nothing to show for it. Nothing to show for it. They don't have a house, they can't afford one. You know why? Because they're making 60 grand a year, and that doesn't get you anywhere. We've talked about this on that podcast on the podcast before too. Dollars simply don't get you as far. The $100,000 that was like preached to people my age is like, you make it to $100,000 a year, bro. Like that's good shit. Now it's like the hundred the $100,000 is like the now the $50,000 that it was back in middle, like five million thousand. Yeah. Yeah. Like the the hundred thousand the old hundred thousand is like the new two hundred thousand. It's crazy. And just saying that out loud, um, let's just look at what let's just see what's the percentage of people that make over 200k per year. Okay, so now households 16% of US households, three to five percent of earners. So there's there's just yeah, yeah. Um that's insane. That's crazy. So okay, so making two hundred thousand dollars a year means you are in three to five percent of earners, and that is the new a hundred thousand dollars. Uh sixteen percent of US households are making over 200k.

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Um I mean, Jesus, man. We're all broke.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

The U.S. is broke. Um, you know, we're gonna we're spending, I think, over a trillion of what we're bringing in this year. Uh so just add that, you know, kick the can down the road. That way when I'm 50, um, you know, we can live in fucking squalor.

unknown 45:26

By 239 trillion.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

Yep. Eventually, other companies are like our countries are gonna stop buying treasuries and shit. Yeah. So I, you know, I don't understand how other countries are gonna continue to buy treasuries and backing our debt. Um, we'll see. I'm not a I'm not sitting here and saying, listen, guys, I'm not a genius on any of the stuff I talk about, but the simple fact is 99% of you, and I'm even talking about the listeners, don't do anywhere near the amount of research or just looking shit up that they should about policies and actions and things going on right now that directly affect their lives. And if they do, they read a headline article and they, you know, it's clickbait and they have some sort of outrage moment and it's on to the next thing. No one cares about Epstein, now it's Iran war. Like everyone keeps talking about Epstein. Can we just, they're like, who have we been looking to take out for a while with the missile? They're like, well, Khomeini, I mean, dude, they all want to, oh, you're Lindsey Graham? Lindsey Graham? Dude, Lindsey Graham is a fucking traitor and should be thrown in jail. Him and Ted Cruz should be literally hung in a in a public square and executed. They literally love Israel more than they love the United States. It's so obvious that they are bought and paid for pieces of shit. But no one cares. Let's look up how much how much money has APAC given uh Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham. He's gotten over one million dollars. You know what's interesting is I was actually on track APAC earlier. I was looking up Wesley Bell, you know, from St. Louis. You know what was surprising? Wesley Bell. Now I should fact check this, but apparently 13 million. 13 million. Wesley Bell, you fucking piece of shit. You little slimy bastard. 13 million. Uh specifically for pro-Israel packs, over four million, independent expenditures over nine. For a US representative, what are they buying? Now, Eric Schmidt, he, I believe, has talked shit about Israel. He's gotten 40 grand from them. 40 grand. I guess they didn't pay him enough. But you know what's so embarrassing is these guys can get paid like 30 grand and spout that shit for years. That's all it costs them. You can buy these idiots for like 50 grand. It's fucking embarrassing. Our politicians are whores. They're just not well, some I was about to say they're just not giving up what's between their legs. And I was like, well, actually, some of them probably are. Yeah, some of them probably are. I was just talking last week. I was like, you know, why don't I do some in politics? And everyone tells me, why the fuck would you want anything to do with politics, Eric? And I go, that's a good point. They could probably take a lot from this podcast, clip it. Did you see what Eric said? And I'm like, where's your podcast, bro? You have none of your thoughts online. You know why? Because you're you have no thoughts yourself. Most of these politicians have no thoughts. They have no backbone. They don't stand for anything, they stand for whoever's putting money in their in their pocket. Which guess what doesn't benefit any of us listening to this podcast unless you are a large corporation uh paying these people. Or of course, unless you're the actual politician themselves. So, Wesley Bell, if you're listening, why the fuck did you get so much money from APAC? All right. You know what? That's all the time we have for today. It's getting hot in here. I'm getting uh you know what? Our sponsors today, Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Lindsay, support uh uh sponsors of the podcast, of course, APAC, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Blue Chew for all the old, all the old men. You know, young kids are taking it. We got like 18-year-olds popping Blue Chew, bro.

unknown 50:04

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 50:07

Yeah, that's right. You're taking all the steroids starting at 10 because you're watching clavicular. They get an 18.

SPEAKER_01 50:12

I can't get hard.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

All right. Next week, maybe we'll talk about that. Young men having impotency issues and spirit airlines. Because both are shaped like what? That's all the time we have for today. As always, thank you for tuning in. Please like, review, subscribe, leave a comment. We appreciate everyone's support. I'm an idiot, guys. I'm not saying I'm a genius. Um, I'm not sitting here saying you have to think like me, but I am saying that you should honestly listen to what I am saying. Um, make your own assumptions, make your own thoughts. Do some research. That's that's all I ask. Um, all right, bye bye.