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Tonight on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we're talking about Gen Z men moving away from Trump but not happy with the democrats either (and why that is an opportunity. Then we talk about the Pentagon press corps situation. After that we dash through the latest on US and China Trade and close out with why we never did get out of the 2008 financial crisis and have been through a long depression (which I said way back in 2016 and again in 2023).
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00:01:30Hello, everyone.
00:01:35My name is Cameron Cowan.
00:01:37This is the Cameron Journal News Hour.
00:01:39So excited to be with you tonight.
00:01:43Um, that's me feeling excitement because I'm dead tired.
00:01:46Um, I had a very restful weekend, but honestly, today I kind of gave up.
00:01:54My skin is not in a good place.
00:01:57I didn't even put makeup on because as you can see, I've got all kinds of issues happening.
00:02:04And as much as I would love to cover it all up so that no one sees anything, um, I also
00:02:12know that sometimes the best thing you can do for your skin is just let it breathe without
00:02:19a ton of makeup and all this type of thing.
00:02:21So I will be working on that later, which will be fun.
00:02:25Um, and trying to just get pores unclogged and things moving and everything.
00:02:32I did my big, on Sundays I do a big spa evening where I do my skin and my hair and blah, blah,
00:02:39blah, blah.
00:02:39And I did all that last night and I was hoping it would heal a lot of things.
00:02:42And instead it just brought everything out.
00:02:45So, um, that was, that was, that was fun.
00:02:50Um, but we have a lovely trio of stories this evening.
00:02:53Um, there's been a lot of talk about, um, about Trump trying to run for vice president
00:03:01and then someone stepping down in 2028, which has been, um, which has been, uh, interesting
00:03:11because of a remark he said on a plane and, uh, and that, that's caused a lot of, a lot
00:03:21of hubbub.
00:03:21But honestly, there's some more interesting things, um, going on actually, surprisingly enough,
00:03:29um, that I think are, are also, also incredibly, incredibly valuable.
00:03:35Um, we're probably going to talk about it on The Living Joke as well, so I don't want
00:03:39to mack on my other show too much.
00:03:41But Russia did test a fancy new missile, um, that, uh, we'll get to this evening as well.
00:03:49We're also going to talk about Trump's Asia, um, Asia trip and what that all, all means
00:03:58there's even a little bit of video we're going to watch with all that.
00:04:01Um, we're also going to talk about the new plan rumor to deploy National Guard Response
00:04:07Force.
00:04:08Um, I talked about all the federal government seizing elections on the newsletter on Saturday.
00:04:14So, speaking of the newsletter, if you haven't signed up, please go to cameronjournal.com
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00:04:41Um, it's a lot of fun and it gives you some great headlines and little updates from me and
00:04:47I just want to get to know y'all better and the newsletter is the best way to do that on
00:04:50a mass, um, a mass scale.
00:04:54So, that's really good.
00:04:55That's a lot of fun.
00:04:56Um, but I did cover that on the newsletter, so we might get into that a little bit.
00:05:00Um, I also want to talk about, um, Stephen Miller threatening to arrest governors, state
00:05:06officials, and local officials who stop ICE from doing their jobs.
00:05:11Um, which is, I think it's one of those things that on the surface sounds like a good idea,
00:05:19but, uh, um, is not, uh, necessarily the best idea, um, for a variety, for a variety of,
00:05:33of reasons.
00:05:34But tonight's leading story is, is an interesting one, and that is, um, kind of all the people
00:05:42that are, that are turning away from, from MAGA, um, kind of starting with, uh, you know,
00:05:53starting with, you know, the podcast bros.
00:05:57So, we've talked about the fact, we had ran the clip last week with Joe Rogan, where he
00:06:02was talking about, uh, he was talking about how, you know, the, the mass deportations
00:06:09and all this type of thing seemed really extreme, and no one anticipated that, or thought that
00:06:15was going to be a thing, but then now it's a thing, and it's just kind of like, well, you
00:06:21know, sort of thing.
00:06:21So, well, we have a new report from, uh, Atrioc.
00:06:34Let me switch the screen here.
00:06:38So, we have a new report.
00:06:40Oh, I'm still set for the living joke.
00:06:42Let me, whoop, there we go.
00:06:44Um, so, I found this tweet, and I saved it away.
00:06:50Um, Gen Z emails are turning away from Donald Trump, but are not aligning with, with the
00:06:54Democratic Party either, expressing frustration with both sides per Atrioc.
00:07:02So, I will admit, I didn't go crazy to find what the hell Atrioc was, but it's some sort
00:07:09of source.
00:07:10However, I don't necessarily want to get into this for the sake of whatever polling they
00:07:16did that probably comprised 200 people, all this type of thing.
00:07:22I think it's, it's an interesting, I talk about the Democratic Party brand, and I talk with
00:07:31a lot of friends and whatnot, um, and even the guys on The Living, The Living Joke, um,
00:07:42where I talk about, you know, the, the, the Democratic Party and the, in fact, I was going
00:07:46to have this conversation today, the, the Democratic Party brand is extremely toxic, and that is
00:07:51for several reasons.
00:07:53But the most, the biggest one is that the Democratic Party over the last decade has been very focused
00:08:03on de-centering men.
00:08:06It has been very focused on centering minorities and women to the detriment of men, but particularly
00:08:11white men.
00:08:12And the Democratic Party, for better or for worse, has gotten, as part of its brand and part
00:08:18of its story has been linked to some of the most absolutely crazy people on the far extreme
00:08:25left, in a way that the GOP never gets linked to the far right in the same way.
00:08:30And so it's not surprising, I mean, given what's going on and given what's happening, it's not
00:08:36surprising that some Gen Z dudes may be turning away from Trump and MAGA and all this type of
00:08:42thing.
00:08:42I mean, let's look around.
00:08:43It's been nine months, what do they have to show for their votes last year?
00:08:47Not much.
00:08:4958% of last year's graduating class can't find a job.
00:08:54And that loops back around to some stuff about 2008 and America's last generation.
00:08:59We'll come back to that.
00:09:00But it is not a surprise there.
00:09:03And I understand why they're not necessarily fleeing to the Democratic Party either, because
00:09:07that's already problematic.
00:09:09And one of the things that I think we didn't think about in the Democratic Party and didn't
00:09:13think about in the progressive movement over the last 10 years is in all the messaging
00:09:19and in all the crazy things that were said, crazy things that were posted, you know, the
00:09:24end of rape culture, the Me Too movement, all this type of thing, is what type of messaging
00:09:29young people with very little experience and no context were hearing when those things were
00:09:36said.
00:09:38And what a lot of young men heard was, you are the problem.
00:09:46You're an oppressor, oppressive to other people.
00:09:50Your voice is not important because you're a man and you're white and or both of those
00:09:56things.
00:09:57Because they also heard that, you know, they, you know, were kind of responsible for all
00:10:05of these things.
00:10:06Now, I'm not saying that white people do not benefit from a culture in a system of whiteness.
00:10:10They certainly do.
00:10:12And it's everywhere.
00:10:13You know, it's so common we don't even notice it.
00:10:16It's like air.
00:10:17However, I think the message to young people with, without the context and everything was
00:10:26that, you know, you're the problem, you're the issue, all this type of thing.
00:10:29And then on top of that, we have this, you know, dating and sex culture that is, oh, you
00:10:34know, don't talk to girls, don't be a creep, don't be this, don't be that.
00:10:38Not understanding that that didn't mean don't talk to women at all, you know, sort of thing.
00:10:44Um, and it just meant, you know, do it a different way than it had been in the past, but they
00:10:50didn't know what the past was.
00:10:54And they, and a lot of young people, they're, they're doing their first time.
00:10:58They're maybe just trying to talk to a girl they're interested in the first time.
00:11:01They're just, you know, um, they're just, you know, trying some things out and they're
00:11:08going to make mistakes and you're going to make mistakes.
00:11:10I made mistakes.
00:11:11Every dude I know made mistakes.
00:11:13You know, you get the fumbles, all this type of thing for Gen Z men, not only has that
00:11:18come with the shame of social media, that those of us who did all that before social
00:11:22media never had, but then there's also the possibility of legal and career implications
00:11:27that have been extremely damaging.
00:11:29And so it, it definitely, let's put it this way.
00:11:33The democratic party didn't do itself any favors with young men.
00:11:36And, and I was in the mix of this conversation.
00:11:38I was writing for the Goodman project.
00:11:40I actually, I found the Paul Elam interview that's not on YouTube.
00:11:45I found the audio file for it.
00:11:46I will, I will edit that this, um, this week and get it up.
00:11:50Um, and, uh, and all this, um, you know, all of this, all of the stuff that was happening,
00:11:58I was in this whole conversation.
00:12:00And I don't think any of us realized at the time that that whole, that whole thing, that
00:12:06whole progressive movement from, you know, 2008 to 2022.
00:12:12For young people whose childhoods and early high school and even, even college experiences
00:12:19were happening and all that made the democratic party seem a bunch of shrill, full of shrill
00:12:26women, loser simps, male feminists who turned out to be abusive.
00:12:31Um, and we were just absolutely appalling.
00:12:33The brand is toxic and the democratic party has never done anything to stop that, mitigate
00:12:38that or distance itself from it either.
00:12:41In many cases, it's ran headlong into it.
00:12:45And that, I have this video saved on TikTok.
00:12:48We should watch at some point where he says that the problem with the democratic party is
00:12:51not brand.
00:12:52Stop calling branding people to fix the brand of the democratic party.
00:12:55The problem is more fundamental than that.
00:12:59And, and that's kind of where I kind of disagree.
00:13:02I think the democratic party has excellent policies and an excellent view and vision for the country.
00:13:07Here's the problem.
00:13:08It never gets articulated.
00:13:10The Biden administration messaging was so poor.
00:13:13It never gets articulated until it comes around to an election time.
00:13:17And most importantly, I think it is, the policies are right.
00:13:26It's the online conversation and narrative that's wrong.
00:13:29And the DNC has never done anything to fix that, to attack that or counter that.
00:13:34But the, the, the online view of the democratic party is that they're losers and just, they,
00:13:42they lose, they're miserable.
00:13:44If you want to be, if you're a dude and you're a Democrat, you are just some kind of lousy
00:13:48loser.
00:13:49And even look at like what happened to Henry Sisson.
00:13:52He's a young man of age talking to other women who are of age and everyone was losing
00:13:57their hair because a young man was hitting on women.
00:14:00The sky is blue.
00:14:03The earth is brown.
00:14:05Like, you know, if you've met a 22 year old, not gay male, um, then he's going to be talking
00:14:12and hitting on girls.
00:14:13Everyone was of age.
00:14:16So, you know, what, what exactly is the problem?
00:14:20But that's the problem in today's democratic party is a young, a young, healthy man expressing
00:14:26himself in a young, healthy man kind of way gets pilloried for nothing.
00:14:33So what am I trying to say here?
00:14:38It's this, this is an opportunity.
00:14:41The democratic party is probably not going to seize it, although I could tell them how
00:14:46they could do it.
00:14:47They're not going to seize it, but this is an opportunity.
00:14:52If this is true and it's probably not quite the panacea this tweet is saying it is, but
00:14:59this could be a great opportunity to recapture men for the democratic party by showing them
00:15:09what the future could be that isn't make Trump and his cronies rich, that doesn't keep Trump
00:15:16in power forever, that lets them have agency and actively seize control of society and make
00:15:23it much better for themselves, for their family, and give them hope for the future.
00:15:30Everything Kamala Harris said about hope and joy and the future is right exactly where we need to be.
00:15:37That's what these men need right now.
00:15:39But they need it coming from the right people.
00:15:42They need it coming with the right message and they need it to be real.
00:15:46And it needs to be a message that everyone in the party says over and over on repeat.
00:15:53all the time, forever.
00:15:56That's how you message in today's media environment.
00:15:59It's not just enough to have a press conference or put out a video.
00:16:02No, you need every single podcaster, person, progressive video, everybody needs to be squawking
00:16:09the same tune so it becomes monolithic.
00:16:13That's how you have to message in a balkanized media environment.
00:16:18And this is an opportunity to do that and do it well.
00:16:22Do I think the party is going to seize the moment?
00:16:24Probably not, but this is certainly an opportunity to do so.
00:16:27I love some of the comments here.
00:16:30It says here,
00:16:31Our politicians are in bed with corporations and lobbyists, AIPAC and Indian groups.
00:16:36The U.S. job market is terrible.
00:16:38No wonder they can't get jobs when the Trump admin is ignoring them and gaslighting about
00:16:42how great the economy is.
00:16:43Trump deserves to lose midterms.
00:16:44No one voted for him to put all the rest of the world first.
00:16:49Young Americans voted for American first, which means American jobs should go to Americans.
00:16:53Meanwhile, Trump is still allowing foreigners to replace American workers and allowing millions
00:16:57of jobs to be offshored to India.
00:16:58That's why young voters are mad.
00:16:59Promises not kept.
00:17:04And it says,
00:17:06If this is happening, it's because the anti-Semite Tucker Carlson-Kandace Owens wing,
00:17:11combined with the stupid trolling that Trump's admin does on social media,
00:17:14my Gen Z son has strong conservative values and will generally vote right,
00:17:17but he's been pretty disgusted with the juvenile behavior of the administration.
00:17:20Twitch streamer Atriok is a source for claims about Gen Z males political shifts away from Trump.
00:17:26Highlight, oh, that's just a bot saying who Atriok is.
00:17:30So it's a Twitch streamer.
00:17:34It's, yeah, it goes on and on.
00:17:42Gen Z males are not Zio cucks.
00:17:44Don't like being racially replaced in their own homeland in a poor left-wing politics culture.
00:17:47Who knew?
00:17:47So, um, I wouldn't, uh, I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that, um,
00:17:56I wouldn't necessarily say that young men are rejecting all of the,
00:18:00all of the left-wing culture and all this type of thing.
00:18:02You'd be surprised how many, when you kind of dig under the surface,
00:18:08how many young people do have progressive social values and progressive views.
00:18:12I think what a lot of young men do not want is they don't want to feel like they're demonized for their race,
00:18:20for their gender, or wanting to have a wife, have a girlfriend, have relationships with women,
00:18:26all this type of thing.
00:18:28I think they don't want to feel like they're somehow a loser.
00:18:31I think the Democratic Party needs to be a party of, of winners again.
00:18:36It needs to be a party that is, you know, creating hope for the future and putting in policies that get hope for the future.
00:18:44We have a lot of headwinds coming our way, and we need to put in policies that serve people, not just the wealthy.
00:18:53Incidentally, that's a big part of the Democratic Party brand.
00:18:56Does it get messaged properly?
00:18:57No, because it mostly comes from Bernie.
00:18:59AOC might help, but that's the type of thing that we have to get the whole party squawking on.
00:19:04Does this mean more economic populism?
00:19:06Absolutely.
00:19:07Does this mean fewer minority issues in identity politics?
00:19:10Absolutely.
00:19:11What have I said?
00:19:12In 2026, all the minorities are getting thrown overboard in the Democratic Party.
00:19:16Why?
00:19:17Because they've got to get back to the center, and they've got to get white people voting Democrat again.
00:19:20So all the minorities are overboard.
00:19:23Brown is out.
00:19:23White is in.
00:19:25You know, that's what 2026 and 2028 is going to look like for the Democratic Party,
00:19:29and this is an opportunity to start that turnaround.
00:19:32If you can get that turnaround going in time for the midterms,
00:19:35you can really screw over Trump by getting Democrats in districts where they thought they gerrymandered them out
00:19:42and all this type of thing.
00:19:44But you've got to change the messaging, and you've got to stop.
00:19:46That you cannot get the median voter back on fringe issues.
00:19:53So you can't make a trans issue the center of what you're being known for.
00:19:58You've got to message in a different way, and you've got to message it all the time,
00:20:02constantly, non-stop, all the time.
00:20:07And the problem is that no one really knows what to think about the Democratic Party,
00:20:12so all they hear is what the right wing gives them.
00:20:14And the right wing framing of the Democratic Party, this has been going on for decades,
00:20:17but the right wing framing of the Democratic Party makes it easy to pick out a clip here,
00:20:27someone saying there, a movement there, and say,
00:20:29oh look, all the Democrats are here wanting this sort of thing.
00:20:33And that's where this has come from.
00:20:35That's why the brand is toxic.
00:20:37Now, the Democratic Party doesn't necessarily help itself in a lot of ways,
00:20:40and a lot of things that are done and said, like what they did with David Hogg,
00:20:44it's certainly not helpful, but the unfortunate reality is that if you do not define yourself in
00:20:50the marketplace, it will be defined for you.
00:20:52The Democratic Party has not defined itself in the marketplace.
00:20:55It has always been defined by someone else, by something else.
00:21:00If you want to make this real and get this turnaround going,
00:21:05you have to be known for something.
00:21:06You have to stand for something.
00:21:07Trump, as problematic as it is, he stands for something.
00:21:10That's why Make America Great Again is the perfect political slogan.
00:21:14It means whatever it needs to mean to whoever is hearing it.
00:21:17It is the perfect political slogan.
00:21:20And it is, he has defined himself on a narrow set of issues.
00:21:28He has defined himself on a wide variety of different things that can all fall into a few umbrellas.
00:21:37So people can immediately know how they feel about him.
00:21:40That's what the Democratic Party has to do.
00:21:42But that means that the progressive left is going to have to be quiet about their pet niche issue
00:21:47that does not matter to anyone in Iowa.
00:21:51And that, the Democratic Party has gotten into all these small 90-10 things that get us absolutely nowhere.
00:22:00Now, I think, in time, a lot of that stuff can come along.
00:22:05You can bring a lot of those things along.
00:22:07But right now, today, you have to keep it large and big tent.
00:22:12Anyway, enough on that.
00:22:15Enough on this possibility.
00:22:17It's an interesting idea.
00:22:20Turning, speaking of immigration issues, we now have, from one of the most racist accounts on Twitter,
00:22:28we have the clip from Stephen Miller.
00:22:31Before I read the tweet, let's just listen to the video, shall we?
00:22:35Let's.
00:22:36Let's talk about your willingness and under what federal authority do you arrest a sitting governor.
00:22:42I understand the supremacy clause.
00:22:43I understand interference with a federal officer.
00:22:46Tell me how it works that he would make himself susceptible to being arrested.
00:22:52Well, the answer I'm about to give doesn't only apply to Governor Pritzker.
00:22:56It applies to any state official, any local official, anybody who's operating in an official capacity
00:23:04who conspires or engages in activity that unlawfully impedes federal law enforcement conducting their duties.
00:23:12So if you engage in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws
00:23:17or to unlawfully order your own police officers or your own officials to try to interfere with ICE officers
00:23:26or even to arrest ICE officers, you're engaged in criminal activity.
00:23:31Different kinds of crimes would apply.
00:23:33There is obstruction of justice.
00:23:34There is harboring illegal aliens.
00:23:37There is impeding the enforcement of our immigration laws.
00:23:40Then as you get up the scale of behavior, you obviously get into seditious conspiracy charges
00:23:45depending on the conduct and many other offenses.
00:23:48So, again, it depends on the action.
00:23:49It depends on the conduct.
00:23:51It depends on what is taking place.
00:23:53But what we need to reassure, a couple points.
00:23:56To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.
00:24:00And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony.
00:24:08You have immunity to perform your duties.
00:24:10And no one, no city official, no state official, no illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist
00:24:18can prevent you from fulfilling your legal obligations and duties.
00:24:22And the Department of Justice has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction,
00:24:28into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers,
00:24:32then they will face justice.
00:24:34Well, it says here that Stephen Miller says that the Trump administration will arrest
00:24:44governor, state officials, and local officials, and anyone else operating in an official capacity
00:24:48who impedes federal law enforcement from doing their jobs.
00:24:53And then it quotes him.
00:24:54It says, and the DOJ has made clear that if officials cross that line into obstruction,
00:24:57into criminal conspiracy against the United States or against ICE officers,
00:25:01then they will face justice.
00:25:04And, um, the, uh, the, uh, first post is indicative of how half the country feels on this issue.
00:25:16Um, so many guilty Democrats to arrest where to start.
00:25:21Um, and, uh, it says here, this is simply not true.
00:25:26It sounds good, but all of you recognize the gaslighting, correct?
00:25:29No.
00:25:30I hope by now when we hear people like Stephen Miller or Cash or Taylor Pam Bondi or Tom
00:25:34Homan talk about dropping the hammer of justice, everyone's reaction is to laugh.
00:25:37And if not, what's wrong with you?
00:25:38Maybe a little bit more fact-checking, a little bit less posting FAPO memes.
00:25:42Um, so it's, um, the, uh...
00:25:50Let's talk about your willingness and unruh.
00:25:53You know, is that there's a lot of, a lot of states, especially blue states,
00:25:56that are resisting the current ICE immigration raids and overreach and, quite frankly, authoritarian moves.
00:26:04And states are trying to decide how they're going to put, uh, put a stop to it or severely curtail it.
00:26:10And the, the message on this is quite clear.
00:26:14Um, we're coming to your city.
00:26:16We're going to arrest whoever we want.
00:26:18We're going to clear out as many people, not even immigrants, people as we do or do not want to.
00:26:24And the local officials cannot do anything otherwise they're committing federal crimes.
00:26:29This message is, I think, to do two things.
00:26:33One, to reassure MAGA voters who wanted this.
00:26:36And two, to scare the living daylights out of, um, out of blue state governors.
00:26:42Now, as some people point out in the comments section, um, Stephen Miller is an advisor.
00:26:47He has no authority to do anything.
00:26:48Um, and, uh, and I, I think this is also, um, this is also, I think, supposed to pacify protesters,
00:26:56convince people that there's no point in protesting.
00:26:59There's no point in trying to stop this.
00:27:01It's to calm down the hubbub.
00:27:02Because here's the problem with the current immigration situation.
00:27:05It's getting too loud.
00:27:07People are noticing it too much.
00:27:09There's too many people protesting about it.
00:27:11It, it's going too far.
00:27:13And again, what did I say at the top of the show?
00:27:14He's already losing Theo Vaughn and Rogan and the whole podcast bro crew.
00:27:19They're trying to say, no, no, this is going to happen.
00:27:24And the federal government is going to come in.
00:27:26And we're going to enforce federal law no matter what.
00:27:31And notice that Stephen Miller is never appearing on other channels with this.
00:27:36He's only appearing on Fox News saying this stuff.
00:27:40And this stuff usually gets reposted by accounts like this, that, you know, these ready, these
00:27:45people are ready to put on an SS uniform and start goose stepping in the street.
00:27:49I mean, he has a Punisher flag PFP.
00:27:52Come on.
00:27:53This is sad.
00:27:55That's sad.
00:27:56Also, the Punisher was anti-cop, but whatever.
00:28:01Like, that was his whole, his whole thing, you know.
00:28:05And that also kind of gets into that whole idea, kind of looping back to the story before,
00:28:09that a lot of people feel like the Democratic Party pushed too far and too fast on too many things trying to remake society in a new image.
00:28:22And people just were not ready to go there yet or felt like it had gone too much, too far.
00:28:31And that has emboldened people like Stephen Miller, who in another time and place would be marginalized into, one, having a job at the White House,
00:28:41and, two, squawking about arresting state officials on national television.
00:28:44Lincoln didn't do that during the Civil War, and we were shooting at each other.
00:28:53This could get very dangerous very quickly.
00:28:55Very, very quickly.
00:28:59And that should be concerning to all of us.
00:29:05I mean, you know, arresting a sitting governor would certainly be interesting.
00:29:17Not quite sure how they're going to do that, but would certainly be interesting.
00:29:22I'm not quite sure how they plan on pulling that off, but I'm about to answer my own question here, I think, with the next story.
00:29:31Oh, yes, here we are.
00:29:32Um, so, the new, uh, and I talked about this in the newsletter on, uh, on Saturday.
00:29:40A memo circulating on social media.
00:29:42Oh, God, stop.
00:29:43It details the establishment of a National Guard response force that's going to be trained in crowd...
00:29:48This is the problem with X.
00:29:50Things only kind of work sometimes.
00:29:52Um, it loops back into this next story, which is, um, the rumors of a memo circulating about a National Guard response force that's going to be trained in crowd control and civil unrest, and will be deployed in all 50 states by April of 2026.
00:30:12By the way, there's very little federal authority for that, just, you know, we haven't had federal troops in states since Reconstruction, um, in an occupational capacity.
00:30:25This is definitely going in that, in that direction.
00:30:29The federal government, usually for its authority, not its authority, but its ability to execute actions, relies heavily on state and local officials and state and local police departments for logistics, all this type of thing.
00:30:44Um, if states start pulling back from that for whatever reason, then it gets a lot more difficult to, um, to, to do, to do things.
00:30:54Um, and it becomes a lot more, I'm a lot more tenuous to act on, on those things.
00:31:02Trump is right now without the consented governors calling up the National Guard in order to do this, and it seems like that's where this is going as well.
00:31:09But let's watch the clip now.
00:31:11Um, sir, a memo circulating on social media, uh, details the establishment of a National Guard response force that's going to be trained in crowd control and civil unrest, and deployed in all 50 states by April of 2026.
00:31:26Uh, can you verify the authenticity of that memo, and do you have any more information on the operations?
00:31:32Uh, I'm not going to answer particulars on something that may be in the planning process, but we definitely do have multiple layers of National Guard response forces.
00:31:40Whether it's in each state, whether it's regionally, whether, whether it's Title X, active duty, whether it's, uh, Washington, D.C.
00:31:48We've got a lot of different ways that constitutionally and legally we can employ Title X and Title 32 forces, and we will do so when necessary.
00:31:56Question for Secretary Hegseth.
00:31:58It's, uh, and the idea that this person is cackling about is that, you know, when things get weird because of the election or whatever have you, then the federal government will step in and stop those evil blue states and those evil Democrats from doing all the evil things that we always know that they're evilly doing in their lair of evil.
00:32:18Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. It's like, and this, this reminds me when I first got introduced to QAnon.
00:32:31It was from someone who was working for me at the time at another publication, and, and he, he sent me to one of the websites where all a lot of this stuff was.
00:32:42And I was looking through the list of politicians and, and, and whatnot, uh, that they said were, you know, evil, awful, pedophiles, all this type of thing.
00:32:53And I scrolled through this list, and he and I got back together at one point, and I said, did you know something about the list of politicians?
00:33:01And he said, uh, he's like, no, what'd you notice? I'm like, they're all Democrats.
00:33:06Every single one. There's not one Republican on your QAnon list.
00:33:12You really think that somehow, uh, a crime and conspiracy this deep somehow respects political lines and boundaries?
00:33:23Especially with some Republicans that have been there for decades, like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, and, hell, we've already had some Republicans prosecuted for, you know,
00:33:32or had to settle out of court for, you know, different crimes and all this type of thing.
00:33:37Like, what, you know, you really think that, uh, that this, um, this follows party lines?
00:33:44And he's like, well, uh, you know, I guess, like, yeah, I mean, it's all, like, their fault.
00:33:52Like, they're the deep state, right?
00:33:53And I'm like, no, this is, this is divisible, political, schlocky crap.
00:33:57And notice, you'll notice we haven't heard one word about QAnon in, like, years.
00:34:01Not one word.
00:34:02That whole thing came and went without, you know, anyone, without anyone really saying anything.
00:34:09You never hear about those people anymore.
00:34:10It's all off social media.
00:34:11It's all, it's all gone.
00:34:14Um, I kind of want to know what that is.
00:34:18Um, it's all gone, you know, it's all gone away.
00:34:22And that, I think, is, uh, is quite, quite interesting.
00:34:26Don't you think?
00:34:27I've always thought so.
00:34:29Um, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:34:32That's, um, oh, that's because the government shut down.
00:34:36I, ha, ha, speaking of the shutdown, actually, let's go back to this.
00:34:41Speaking of the shutdown, um, I didn't really, I have not really covered the shutdown.
00:34:49And I wrote something in the newsletter on Saturday where I kind of finally covered the shutdown and explained what was going on, what was, um, uh, what was happening and why all this was, you know, here and how we got into this place and what the issue was about Affordable Care Act subsidies, Obamacare subsidies, and, and all, and all this sort of thing.
00:35:12And, um, I think it is, uh, it is an interesting, it is an interesting situation, especially, um, if there's not an unfreeze of the funding.
00:35:27Um, on Friday, food stamps are not going out, um, this Friday, you know, to people on the first of the month when they would ordinarily get their food stamp benefits.
00:35:36Today, X has been absolutely filled with people talking about, oh my god, 40 million Americans are on food stamps, that's one in eight people, why am I working for people who can't feed themselves, and all this type of thing.
00:35:50And it's, um, yeah, so that the USDA has chosen not to, um, has chosen not to, uh, use those emergency funds to release, um, to release the funding to make food stamps, um, possible.
00:36:13In fact, and I just forgot, I have a story about that, that's out of order, from Aaron Parnas, um, who I've recently, I guess, discovered, one could say.
00:36:29Um, although I've known who he was, um, and it says here that, um, the Trump administration, and this is, again, why the Democrats have bad messaging.
00:36:40The Trump administration violated the Hatch Act when the USDA used its official government website to post partisan attacks blaming Senate Democrats for a potential SNAP funding lapse,
00:36:49accusing them of supporting health care for illegal aliens instead of reopening the government.
00:36:54This is what the website currently looks like.
00:36:56Notice, Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
00:37:04Bottom line, the well has run dry.
00:37:06At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 1st.
00:37:08We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats.
00:37:11They can continue to hold out for health care for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.
00:37:23What they really mean is that they want to get rid of the Affordable Care Act subsidies and a whole bunch of things the government does not want to have to pay for,
00:37:30and they're basically trying to hold people's food hostage to get Senate Democrats to break.
00:37:35And I was writing a little bit about this on the newsletter, which is why you need to subscribe.
00:37:42CameronJournal.com slash newsletter was writing about this, and I think, politically speaking,
00:37:49this has been very wise about the Affordable Care Act subsidies.
00:37:52However, 40 million people not getting food benefits, that will turn into absolute civil chaos almost immediately.
00:38:06The pandemic will seem like a picnic.
00:38:12And it's Monday.
00:38:15This can be our reality this weekend.
00:38:19Oh, and did I mention Halloween falls on a Friday this year?
00:38:24So, yeah.
00:38:26Halloween falls on a Friday, and then November 1st, you have 40 million Americans who will not have access to food.
00:38:38This will backfire on the Democratic Party in ways I can't even begin to contemplate.
00:38:44It also would give President Trump a reason to declare martial law and suspend all rights and basically, you know,
00:38:57start his own version of a military tribunal government.
00:39:00Right now, negotiations are not even occurring.
00:39:07The only thing Trump wants to hear from Democrats is,
00:39:11we're going to vote for your bill, and we're going to do all the cuts that you want.
00:39:15He's waiting for the Democratic Party to roll over,
00:39:18and I would dare say letting SNAP go out on November 1st is definitely,
00:39:23probably not going to go well for them politically.
00:39:28They're between a rock and a hard spot.
00:39:34This has been a valiant stand on their part.
00:39:37Everyone's been waiting on them to do something.
00:39:39They've done something.
00:39:40Unfortunately, it's probably the wrong place in the wrong time.
00:39:46However, I will say as a sort of sidebar,
00:39:49this sort of Trump violated the Hatch Act.
00:39:52That is not the damn headline.
00:39:59We've, half the messaging about Trump from the Democratic Party always has been,
00:40:03oh, this norm, oh, this law, oh, this violation,
00:40:06and they're not saying those things aren't important.
00:40:08They are.
00:40:09That is not the headline.
00:40:12The headline is holding food hostage for his own political ends.
00:40:21Not a violation of a law nobody's heard of,
00:40:24and nobody cares about using government websites for partisan attacks.
00:40:29No, no, no, no.
00:40:32The messaging, you could flip this whole thing around on his head.
00:40:37Trump wants to cut off your food stamps by not negotiating with Democrats over healthcare.
00:40:41They're doing it.
00:40:43Look at how this is framed.
00:40:45Listen to how this is framed.
00:40:48And then I'll give you the reverse version.
00:40:50Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program,
00:40:54also known as SNAP.
00:40:56Bottom line, the well has run dry.
00:40:59At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 1st.
00:41:01We're approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats.
00:41:03They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and general mutilations procedures,
00:41:07or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us
00:41:10can receive critical nutrition assistance.
00:41:12Let's do the reverse of that.
00:41:14Here's what Democrats should be saying.
00:41:16President Trump is continuing to not fund SNAP
00:41:20by causing your healthcare prices to increase exponentially
00:41:24by not allowing us to continue subsidies for healthcare that keeps costs affordable for Americans.
00:41:31He is instead choosing mothers, babies, and others to starve
00:41:35in order to cut back on subsidies so that you pay more for healthcare.
00:41:41That's what the message should be.
00:41:42And every Democrat should be on every podcast, every television show,
00:41:47got every street corner saying that over and over and over and over again
00:41:54and saying, we would be more than happy to come to the table,
00:41:58but you're not screwing a working Americans over on their healthcare to do it.
00:42:01And you're not going to starve people either.
00:42:04You're not going to screw...
00:42:05And I would use the language, like, you talk about America first,
00:42:09but you want our healthcare premiums to go up.
00:42:11You talk about America first, but you want people starving in the street.
00:42:13You talk about America first, but you're not doing anything on trade
00:42:17that's not hurting American farmers.
00:42:18You want all these things for this country,
00:42:20but everything you do tells us you don't actually want that
00:42:23because you're enriching yourself and your friends and your donors.
00:42:29That's the message.
00:42:30Stop talking about the damn Hatch Act.
00:42:33Nobody gives a shit.
00:42:34They give a shit about themselves.
00:42:37They give a shit about their country and what's happening in their communities.
00:42:39And that has to be the message over and over and over and over again
00:42:45on every channel, every social media app,
00:42:48every single elected Democrat,
00:42:50from governors to dog catchers,
00:42:54need to be repeating that over and over and over and over again.
00:42:59It's Trump, get your hands off my healthcare.
00:43:02Trump, get your hands off my snap.
00:43:04It's Trump, get your hands off this stuff.
00:43:06What they post to a website does not matter.
00:43:08The fact that they violated the Hatch Act does not matter.
00:43:11What matters is getting people directionally on your side
00:43:15and putting the blame.
00:43:16That's how politics is supposed to work.
00:43:19Is it, you know, necessarily so good, so great, all this type of thing?
00:43:23No, that's politics.
00:43:26It's a dirty, nasty business.
00:43:28That's why a lot of people didn't used to want to do it and still don't.
00:43:31It's a dirty, nasty business with a lot of mudslinging going on.
00:43:34Trump is perfect at doing it and the Democrats have had a decade to figure it out
00:43:38and they still can't do it.
00:43:41And every time opportunities come along for them to do stuff
00:43:44and they fall flat on their face every single time.
00:43:48Every single time.
00:43:51It's stupid.
00:43:53Anyway.
00:43:54Let's get into China and manufacturing and trade.
00:44:00Speaking of trade, because we have a couple stories on this.
00:44:02Let's go.
00:44:03We have a clip.
00:44:04You just look at the way that the Trump administration has conducted its trade negotiations with China.
00:44:09It was premised on the notion that China's economy was so weak
00:44:11that you hit them with tariffs and they will immediately capitulate.
00:44:14And that was a ridiculous idea.
00:44:15And it's taken them a couple of rounds to figure out,
00:44:18oh, maybe that wasn't quite so right and we have to take this more seriously.
00:44:20If you look at the trend of U.S. manufacturing employment as a share of total employment,
00:44:25it is a straight line from 1946 to today that looks like this.
00:44:29You cannot find the Cold War.
00:44:30You cannot find the rise of Japan.
00:44:32You cannot find NAFTA.
00:44:33You cannot find China.
00:44:34You cannot find anything.
00:44:35What you find, basically, I think, is the march of technological progress.
00:44:39And so all of these stories about China did this or China did that,
00:44:42yeah, there was some impact.
00:44:44But mainly what the United States failed to do is we failed to change our systems of redistribution,
00:44:50of helping people out.
00:44:52We failed in the social contract domestically.
00:44:53A lot of the things in the U.S. political context that are blamed on the rise of China
00:44:59are predominantly exercises in scapegoating.
00:45:02A lot of this notion that we will not have an auto industry in five years because of BYD,
00:45:06you know, let's get a grip, folks.
00:45:08We could end up there, but if we end up there, it's because we will have made a bunch of really
00:45:13bad policy decisions that got us there, not because this competitive threat exists.
00:45:19The reason I saved this clip is because, narratively speaking, it's so interesting about the decline
00:45:33in manufacturing, the increase of technology, the automation, how things are competing in the world,
00:45:41how, you know, I think China's been a lot more resilient than anyone, especially the Trump administration,
00:45:47certainly anticipated.
00:45:49And I thought it was interesting to look at this.
00:45:55And you brought up a lot of great points about you can't find the Cold War or the rest of Japan
00:45:59or China or NAPT or anything like that. It was just a kind of a straight, steady decline.
00:46:04If you look at a graph with services, it goes the other direction exponentially.
00:46:10And so I thought it was an interesting idea that, you know, the way and approach in our thinking about China
00:46:17has been very difficult.
00:46:18I think the problem with this is it seemed like we woke up one day and everything was made in China.
00:46:24Everything made in China, made in China, made in China, made in China.
00:46:27And now it seems to have gotten even more crazy and more sophisticated.
00:46:31And China's policy has been to become the world's workshop and to become the place where stuff gets made.
00:46:39And now they're getting into very sophisticated stuff.
00:46:42They've had expertise in engineering and all this, so they're getting into very sophisticated stuff now.
00:46:47And so we're now looking at, you know, how do we, you know, how do we compete with this?
00:46:52And the problem is American labor is very expensive.
00:46:57So it doesn't make sense to manufacture a lot of stuff here.
00:47:03The places where we have had growth and where we have had excelled are in services technology,
00:47:08those head intellectual jobs.
00:47:10The problem is there's not, we don't have job, we don't have comparable jobs for people
00:47:19who can't go into that.
00:47:23If you can't go into tech or something intellectual that requires education,
00:47:28your next best options are trade, which still requires some training,
00:47:31or relatively low-paying, low-value service jobs.
00:47:35That's the problem, is in the past, someone could bang a hammer on a Ford
00:47:40and get paid well to do it and do very well for themselves.
00:47:43You can't do that working fast food.
00:47:46You can't do that working in restaurants.
00:47:47You can't do that in, you know, personal services, aid, health care, whatever have you.
00:47:52The problem is the jobs we're creating for a few that have the right education pay fabulously well.
00:47:59For everyone else, it's a slog and a struggle.
00:48:01I think China is easy to blame because it's a foreign power, it's exotic,
00:48:06and it seems like now everything's made in China, sort of thing.
00:48:11And don't count out the de-industrialization thing.
00:48:14Watching factories and smelters and mines and things close up and companies go under
00:48:19and good, decent-paying jobs go away has absolutely gutted the heart of this country.
00:48:24And the new jobs and new technology and new opportunities have been concentrated in a dozen superstar cities.
00:48:32I've been writing about this for years and years.
00:48:35And I thought this was interesting because he's kind of saying,
00:48:38let's not blame China, let's blame our policy decisions
00:48:41and that we haven't shifted around our social safety net to compensate for these economic changes.
00:48:47And that is entirely correct, and I would very much support making some changes on that.
00:48:51And I think his outlook is, China's not going to take it all,
00:48:57and if we change our policies, that doesn't have to be the outcome here.
00:49:01There is something exciting that can and should happen,
00:49:05but we can't just blame China for everything.
00:49:08Now, bearing that in mind, I found this bit of propaganda.
00:49:13But, again, this is the News Narrative Show, News Narratives.
00:49:19So, this whole big long post is about Trump's trip to China and signing a new deal at AIPAC.
00:49:31And it says here, because Trump's been on progress.
00:49:36So, it says here that Trump threatened to destroy $300 billion in Chinese exports with 100% tariffs.
00:49:44Beijing responded by threatening to choke the global technology supply chain.
00:49:47Then something impossible happened.
00:49:48The 72-hour checkmate.
00:49:50October 24th, Malaysia Science Mineral Pact.
00:49:53October 25th, Thailand Science Processing Deal.
00:49:55October 26th, Framework Announce China Blinks.
00:49:58Hidden in the fine print, 13 billion Australian rare earth processing.
00:50:02Cambodia Extraction Rights, Japan's 2010 Playbook, which cut Chinese dependency 30%,
00:50:06now deployed across $350 billion in American AI infrastructure.
00:50:10The number that ends globalization.
00:50:13U.S. trying to trade in 2018, $758 billion.
00:50:16In 2024, $578 billion.
00:50:18That $100 billion didn't vanish.
00:50:21It relocated to nations that bend the knee.
00:50:23ACN trade up 20%.
00:50:24Chinese rare earth market share dropping for the first time in 30 years.
00:50:30American supply chains rerouting in real time, while Beijing realizes the trap.
00:50:35Here's what they're not telling you.
00:50:36This isn't trade negotiations, it's tribute collection.
00:50:39Trump just converted the world's largest consumer market from a trade partner into a weapon.
00:50:43Every nation now faces a choice.
00:50:45Access to American markets or access to Chinese supply chains.
00:50:48Not both, ever again.
00:50:50The $20 billion soybean freeze, first since 2018, isn't retaliation, it's a demonstration.
00:50:56Demonstration.
00:50:56China can inflict pain.
00:50:57America can inflict extinction.
00:51:00And it goes on and shows that what happens next November 1st, she meets Trump at APEC.
00:51:05The deal is already done.
00:51:06Rare earth access for tariff relief.
00:51:08America boots on Asian rare earth facilities.
00:51:10China gets a safe face.
00:51:11America gets the future.
00:51:13Taiwan, AI dominance, technological independence, and the end of competitive multipolarity, all
00:51:17bundled into a trade framework the media will call a truce.
00:51:20The truth?
00:51:21Globalization didn't collapse.
00:51:23It was conquered.
00:51:23Okay, so that's not...
00:51:26Some of this stuff is true.
00:51:29A lot of this is propaganda.
00:51:32Let's remember that.
00:51:37Narratively speaking, it's interesting.
00:51:39Um, I think it's, uh, I think the, this top comment, I think, summarizes the actual situation
00:51:50very well.
00:51:51America didn't end globalization, it privatized it.
00:51:55The empire model is now subscription-based.
00:51:57Pay with loyalty or lose access.
00:51:59The question isn't who wins, but who escapes the system first.
00:52:04And that is, um, that is an, an, an, an interesting, an interesting idea, and this person says
00:52:17the thing I thought as well.
00:52:19This post is propaganda dressed up as analysis.
00:52:21Nothing in these trade packs conquered globalization or made American empire.
00:52:24What actually happened is 47 forced short-term deals with weak nations desperate for U.S.
00:52:29access while ignoring the long-term costs.
00:52:31Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia didn't replace China.
00:52:33They signed vague memorandums so 47 could claim a win before APEC.
00:52:36True.
00:52:37Um, there's still no, I mean, building the facilities and all this type of thing is, will
00:52:44take years.
00:52:45Um, China still controls the majority of air with processing, magnet production, and export
00:52:49capacity.
00:52:49Nothing changed overnight.
00:52:51The 72-hour checkmate is fiction meant to turn a photo op into a geopolitical myth.
00:52:54If anything, this shows how easily staged numbers and dramatic language can manipulate
00:52:58the public.
00:52:59America didn't outsource China.
00:53:01It has overpaid for headlines.
00:53:02The empire here isn't new.
00:53:03Same corporate machine using tariffs and fear to control markets while pretending it's a
00:53:08strategy.
00:53:09And that's 110% the situation.
00:53:12China is well-positioned.
00:53:14I mean, let's just step back from this for a moment.
00:53:17China is extremely well-positioned.
00:53:20They have very critical manufacturing on very critical things that everybody needs.
00:53:25EVs, EVs, smartphones, everything.
00:53:28They've got it, and they can afford to lose money at it because they're essentially a planned
00:53:32economy in a way that market-based economies can't.
00:53:35They can afford to lose money on it.
00:53:36They can afford to build the fanciest, nicest facilities in godforsaken nowhere and build all
00:53:42the roads, all the infrastructure, all the stuff to get there because they don't necessarily
00:53:47have to turn it into money right this moment, if that makes sense.
00:53:52And so this is all, you know, happening.
00:53:57And Trump is trying to diversify the supply chains, I think, as a way to get China to come
00:54:07to the table.
00:54:08I think the problem is the gamble is too big because the reality is nothing that he's doing
00:54:15now will be in place till the end of this decade.
00:54:18And that even goes along with the whole reintroduction of industrialization into this country.
00:54:23You talk about, oh, we're going to, you know, build this and American jobs, yeah, in five
00:54:27years, in ten years, you know, and terrible inflation in the meantime as we spend all that
00:54:34money doing all that, by the way, deindustrialization was somewhat deflationary because it reduced
00:54:44demand.
00:54:45Anyway, this is all future set, but the people saying, yeah, this is all going to be for
00:54:53headlines, yeah, it's overpaid for headlines.
00:54:56Um, it's, uh, it is interesting to kind of go through some of the other, you know, kind
00:55:05of things here, um, that supply chains are running with their feet, China plus one turned
00:55:11into China plus many, Vietnam, India, Mexico, and ACM pulled record FDI while U.S. tariffs
00:55:16and tech bans stayed, globalization didn't collapse, it rerouted through members-only corridors.
00:55:20I think this, I will say the thing about this is probably true, is that in this multi-polarity
00:55:25environment, you're going to end up with basically three, maybe four trading networks.
00:55:33There's going to be the China network, there's going to be the American network, and there's
00:55:39going to be the EU network, and the EU will be the smallest of the three.
00:55:44The other one that might break out is Middle East, MENA, and Africa, which may end up falling
00:55:50under the Chinese sphere.
00:55:52But you're, you're going to end up with, you know, when you're, when you're a country
00:55:56and you're in a system, you're stuck in that system.
00:55:58If you're with the American system, you're stuck in the American system.
00:56:01If you're in the Chinese system, you're in the Chinese system.
00:56:04There's not necessarily going to be a lot of crossover.
00:56:08Like, there'll be crossover between America and the EU, but not America and China, not China
00:56:12and the EU, maybe.
00:56:14It'll be basically closed gardens.
00:56:16That, they're right about.
00:56:18That is the future of global trade.
00:56:20Rather than just being able to do business wherever, however, with anybody at any time,
00:56:25move capital, all this type of thing, it's going to be closed systems.
00:56:29Which is actually kind of funny, because in my fiction, one of my fantasy novels, that's
00:56:32actually how the world works.
00:56:33Funny.
00:56:34And I wrote that ten years ago.
00:56:36So, fun times.
00:56:37Anyway, we're getting to the top of the hour.
00:56:39We have some new stories to cover, so let's move on from global trade.
00:56:44This week, this video's not relevant.
00:56:47This week, the Pentagon announced a new press corps of 60 journalists who had agreed to follow
00:56:51a new media policy and will be welcomed into the link cover of the U.S. military.
00:56:57Says here, from ABC News.
00:56:59Several conservative news outlets said Wednesday that they had agreed to a new press policy
00:57:03rejected by virtually all legacy media organizations and will take their place in the Pentagon
00:57:07to cover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the U.S. military.
00:57:10The new Pentagon press corps will include the Gateway Pundit, the National Pulse, Human Events
00:57:14podcaster Tim Poole, the Just the News website founded by journalist John Solomon, Frontlines
00:57:19by Turning Point USA, and Lindell TV run by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
00:57:24The Pentagon's announcement came less than a week after dozens of reporters from outlets
00:57:27like the New York Times, the Associated Press, CNN, and the Washington Post turned in
00:57:31their access badges rather than agreed to a policy that journalists say will restrict
00:57:35them to covering news approved by Hegseth.
00:57:36Hegseth spokesman Sean Parnell announced the next generation of the Pentagon press corps
00:57:41with more than 60 journalists who had agreed to the new policy.
00:57:44He said 26 journalists who had previously been part of the press corps were among the
00:57:47signees.
00:57:47The department wouldn't say who any of them were, but several outlets reposted his message
00:57:51on X saying they had signed on.
00:57:54There isn't even unanimity among organizations that appeal to conservative consumers.
00:57:58Fox News Channel, by far the most popular news source for fans of President Donald Trump,
00:58:02was among the walkouts, as was Newsmax.
00:58:03In a post on X, Parnell denounced the, quote, self-righteous media who chose to self-deport
00:58:09from the Pentagon.
00:58:11Quote, Americans have largely abandoned digesting their news through lens of activists who masquerade,
00:58:16as journalists in the mainstream media Parnell wrote, quote, we look forward to beginning
00:58:20a fresh relationship with members of the new Pentagon press corps, unquote.
00:58:23The journalists who left the Pentagon haven't stopped working covering the U.S. military.
00:58:27Many have been reporting aggressively, for example, on stories about strikes against boats in
00:58:30Central America, allegedly part of the drug trade.
00:58:33By not being in the Pentagon, quote, reporters will have to work harder.
00:58:35There's no question about it, said Barbara Starr, a longtime Pentagon reporter retired
00:58:39from CNN.
00:58:41Quote, but the real price is paid by the American people and the American military families,
00:58:45unquote, Starr said.
00:58:46Military families who've lost their sons and daughters serving.
00:58:49They want to know everything, and they want to know it fast, unquote.
00:58:52Starr wondered about eggs, Seth.
00:58:53Quote, what is he so afraid of, unquote.
00:58:55New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a biting piece about the defense secretary
00:58:58over the weekend titled, Frady Cat at the Pentagon.
00:59:02But Hegs says boss President Trump has expressed support for the new media policy, and Hegs says
00:59:06aggressive moves mirror some of those made by the administration.
00:59:08The president has sued outlets like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal for
00:59:12their coverage of him.
00:59:15And it goes on to wrap up.
00:59:16And, uh, Lindell.
00:59:20Um, I didn't even know Mike Lindell had his own media shop.
00:59:26Needs better branding, I would say.
00:59:28Um, but I thought that was an interesting kind of conclusion to the Pentagon press corps
00:59:32story.
00:59:33Um, if you're looking for another sign of authoritarianism for the consideration of the
00:59:37Midnight Society.
00:59:40Um, so this one is, is fun.
00:59:43What's the story here?
00:59:45Uh, um, oops.
00:59:47No, I needed that.
00:59:55Nope, but not that one either.
00:59:56I needed this one.
00:59:59There we go.
01:00:01Um, as kind of a closer, we're not going to get to the Brevestnik and Nuclear Missile,
01:00:08so come listen to me and the guys talk about that on The Living Joke on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
01:00:11Eastern, um, and of course you can watch it anytime on any podcast network, but, um, this
01:00:17one, we'll close with this, and it says here that, uh, the original tweet says, in the year
01:00:232000, people didn't wish it were 1980.
01:00:25One way of looking at the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath is, we had another Great Depression, but by various monetary and fiscal means we spread it over three or four times its length.
01:00:46This made it more tolerable, but it also meant whole generations would never escape it.
01:00:50And then add tech monopolies and monopsonies and AI.
01:00:54When you don't rip the Band-Aid, you don't recover.
01:00:57However, I wrote an article in 2016 called The Long Depression, where I argued that we had been in a Great Depression and it just didn't seem like it because of the way jobs were, the way housing was, how unaffordable everything had become, all the suffering that was going on.
01:01:19And I wrote a follow-up about Millennials, specifically, called The Long Depression 2.
01:01:25And it's actually in the Millennials Collection.
01:01:30It's right here, and I'm going to quote from it because it is surprisingly prescient.
01:01:36The Long Depression Part 2, which I wrote in 2023.
01:01:39Years ago, I wrote an article called The Long Depression, where I argued that instead of a bounce back from the 2008 crisis, we had never really recovered.
01:01:49If you say something like this on Twitter, 20 people will come with charts and personal anecdotes as to why that's not the case.
01:01:55Unemployment's at historic lows, wages have started to grow coming out of the pandemic, and median income is at the highest point in American history.
01:02:01Much of the increase in wages has come at the bottom of the market, which gets into how people actually feel about the economy.
01:02:06As in so many things, data only tells part of the story.
01:02:09The numbers can tell us that things are going along just fine, but why aren't people feeling this new wealth?
01:02:14Even before the pandemic, when the economy was more healthy, in data terms, people were still feeling that the economy just wasn't paying off for the average person.
01:02:22This is the great mystery of our time.
01:02:24It seems like the economy is doing well by the numbers, but when you poll people or read sentiment online, everyone seems to be grousing about the present economy.
01:02:32And then I go into everything why this is, but most importantly, I get into the taxes situation and how we get out.
01:02:43We're left with one question.
01:02:45How do we get out of this long depression?
01:02:47The pathway is not an easy one.
01:02:49It's not every day we can destroy the world's entire industrial capacity and then rebuild it with favorable demographics.
01:02:53Where does that leave us now?
01:02:55Rebuilding domestic industry is certainly a beginning of solving the problem, and that is underway in a big way.
01:03:00Rebuilding supply chains from extraction through the entire value-added chain to final product can employ people and keep money moving through the economy.
01:03:06These are all good things.
01:03:07However, there are structural things that can be changed to improve things for everyday people, too.
01:03:12We can get back to building large-scale housing projects to help people at the bottom of the income ladder and open up free market properties for others.
01:03:18This will have an effect of lowering the cost of housing and making it possible for people to buy.
01:03:23We can raise the minimum wage and keep the wage gains above inflation, as they do in Australia and Denmark.
01:03:27Transportation and walkable cities are popular right now, and we can invest in transit projects and provide other options for people other than owning a car.
01:03:34Investments in education will pay long-term dividends as well.
01:03:37The government could also return to setting prices on things like trucking, airline tickets, taxi fares, and other essential items.
01:03:43Agricultural subsidies could stabilize food prices, and increased resources into local food cooperatives could also create a cheaper and more resilient food structure.
01:03:50Repealing the Trump and Bush-era tax cuts will help pay for this, as well as raising taxes on those with incomes over $400,000 a year.
01:03:59Cutting defense spending as vital, as well as increasing taxes on capital gains and investments.
01:04:04Ultimately, we need to end the 50-year experiment with neoliberal economics and return to a time when we, as a society, make decisions about how our country works.
01:04:13That's a good one.
01:04:15Go look at me.
01:04:16Like, that's...
01:04:17Every once in a while, I write something good.
01:04:19Anyway, this...
01:04:21I just laughed at this tweet, and then we're gonna go.
01:04:24I laughed at this, because I'm like, yeah, I've been saying this for years.
01:04:28Like, it is one way of looking at it, and very little has changed, and a lot of people got left behind.
01:04:35And if you want to find out about getting left behind, you should go read my new book, America's Lost Generation.
01:04:43It's out now on Amazon, and it's also at my website, CameronJournal.com, which you just saw.
01:04:49So, feel free to go take that on.
01:04:54So, anyway, it's been a long evening.
01:04:57So, let's get out of here.
01:04:58My name is Cameron Cowan.
01:04:59This is the Cameron Journal News Hour.
01:05:02I almost said podcast, News Hour.
01:05:04And I thank you so much for watching.
01:05:07You can catch me on Twitter, LinkedIn, at Cameron Cowan, on TikTok, at Cameron Journal, on Instagram, at Cameron Cowan.
01:05:14I love you for watching.
01:05:15Thank you so much.
01:05:16Join me on Wednesday with Will and Connor for The Living Joke.
01:05:20We will be talking about the Russian missile thing and a whole bunch of other fun stuff.
01:05:24And the interview for today, Monday, is with Stephanie Hunter-Jones, and it is about your sex life.
01:05:30So, if you're 18+, it is a restricted episode.
01:05:33If you're 18+, go listen to that.
01:05:36And I will see you next time on the Cameron Journal News Hour next Monday at 7.
01:05:39All right?
01:05:39Talk soon.
01:05:40Bye-bye now.
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