- 2 days ago
This week on The Cameron Journal Newshour, we're talking about a variety of stories around the government shut down, the rise of populism from both sides and the latest on Jack Smith and his prosecutions of Trump during the Biden administration. We also talk about the problem with today's Democratic party with two clips from Chris Cuomo and Stephen Miller (yes that Stephen Miller) about the radicalization of the party and the take-over of the far-left, especially after the Momdani win in NYC. What's the moral of the story here? People want a functional society.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00:00Satsang with Mooji
00:02:00If you wondered why there was not a newsletter last Saturday, it's because I was moving platforms.
00:02:05Um, so I've been really unhappy with WordPress's newsletter product for a while, and the data's
00:02:13not good.
00:02:14It doesn't seem to keep track of what I sent out.
00:02:16It's just not there yet, somehow.
00:02:18And so I decided to pack up the newsletter and move it over to my Substack, CameronJournal.Substack.com.
00:02:26Um, so if you want the newsletter delivered to your inbox every Saturday, um, feel free
00:02:34to subscribe to CameronJournal.com, CameronJournal.Substack.com, or if you go to CameronJournal.com slash
00:02:41newsletter and sign up there, that's okay too.
00:02:44I'll move you over.
00:02:45Um, I'll rehab the page and make changes and all this type of thing, but if you subscribe,
00:02:51that's there, that's okay too.
00:02:53Um, but yeah, so we didn't have a newsletter last Saturday, didn't have a, uh, um, a week
00:03:00ago from Saturday, didn't have a news hour last week.
00:03:03This Saturday we did have a really great newsletter that was very long, kind of made up for not
00:03:07doing one for a week, and then we also had, um, we're also having the news hour right now.
00:03:13So, uh, we're catching up on, on everything and all that's happened, and, um, I maybe should
00:03:19have done an election live stream for the, I only do midterms and presidential.
00:03:24I don't do off-off-year elections, but in the newsletter I talked a little bit about the
00:03:28off-off-year elections, and we'll get into that in a minute.
00:03:31Um, don't forget to follow me on social media.
00:03:33I post lots of threads, helpful info, breaking down the news narratives for you.
00:03:37Um, this is the show where if you're frustrated by news narratives, if you're frustrated by,
00:03:43um, no one ever seems to be telling the truth, or everyone seems to be lying, or none of it
00:03:48makes any sense, or all this type of thing, that's okay.
00:03:51That's what I'm here for.
00:03:52The confusion keeps me in business, so, that's, that's fantastic.
00:03:58Um, speaking of business, if you want to support my journalism and this show, and all that
00:04:02I do, please head over to CameronJournal.com slash subscribe, and become a Cameron Journal
00:04:07Plus subscriber.
00:04:08Um, that will get you exclusive content and events and Discord hangouts that I do on my
00:04:14private Discord for Cameron Journal Plus subscribers.
00:04:17Um, you can also, um, you can also, uh, I also do take tips, um, at coffee.com, so, link in
00:04:27bio, um, if you're watching on YouTube or Twitch, head over to my links, it's all there.
00:04:32It's also at CameronJournal.com.
00:04:33Um, and if you're a newsletter person and you're not ready to subscribe to a monthly thing,
00:04:37I get you, I get it, I got you.
00:04:39Coffee link is in the newsletter, too.
00:04:41Um, so, the thank you to everyone who, um, is clicking on the link and donating and all
00:04:47this type of thing, I really appreciate it, I really appreciate you.
00:04:52Let's dive into things, and we're gonna start with shutdowns and elections.
00:04:56I don't really have a story to read about this, necessarily, although I suppose I could find
00:05:00one quickly.
00:05:01Um, but we kind of know the facts.
00:05:04We'll start with the election, we'll get up to the shutdown.
00:05:06So, Tuesday last, we had off-off-year elections.
00:05:09Now, in some places in the country, they put state offices in elections where they're not
00:05:15electing Congress people and not electing the president, so the people will pay attention
00:05:19to them more.
00:05:20Virginia is one such state.
00:05:23Now, historically speaking, whoever is elected governor of Virginia in the year after a presidential
00:05:30election, whichever party candidate wins, that usually indicates where the next,
00:05:36presidential election will go to.
00:05:38And this pattern has held up for a very, very long time.
00:05:42Good news for Democrats.
00:05:44Uh, Abigail Spanberger became the first woman to be governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
00:05:48beating out, uh, Winsome Sears, who had been lieutenant governor under, uh, Youngkin.
00:05:55And, uh, and that was a historical win.
00:05:57I think that was her second run at that office.
00:05:59Um, and so that is a, was a significant win.
00:06:03And if the historical pattern remains true, it's great news for Democrats in 2028.
00:06:08Um, the other big one was, uh, election New Jersey.
00:06:14The, uh, the, the main story with the, with the Tuesday election is Democrats won everywhere.
00:06:18State houses, special elections, um, Prop 50 in California, which, um, would allow the
00:06:26state to do mid-decade redistricting without the redistricting commission to basically draw
00:06:31Republicans out of California because Republicans are drawing Democrats out of Texas.
00:06:35Um, did go through with 60% of the vote.
00:06:41Um, on the night of President Trump tried to say there was something wrong with the vote
00:06:44in California, all this type of thing that there was, you know, if a Carolyn Levitt literally
00:06:49got on and was kind of like, well, there's fraud in California.
00:06:53That's just a fact.
00:06:54It's California.
00:06:55There's been no evidence of that.
00:06:58It's the 2020 playbook.
00:07:00If you say there's a problem long enough, people will stop believing in elections, at least
00:07:03the ones that you don't win.
00:07:06Um, so that is, um, that is 110% a whole, a whole fun, a whole fun, fun thing, thing that
00:07:15they're trying to do.
00:07:16Although I noticed that that narrative died quite quickly.
00:07:19So the election was on Tuesday.
00:07:21That narrative didn't last more than about 24 hours.
00:07:24Although I'm sure that there will be other things and whatnot as time, as time goes on.
00:07:32Um, hang on one moment.
00:07:34I'm going to.
00:07:56Okay.
00:07:56There we go.
00:07:57Um, um, there, but I'm sure there'll be more issues with the Prop 15 California, especially
00:08:04as that goes through and that happens and all this type of thing.
00:08:07Anyway, um, the big narrative coming out of the election that honestly, it was kind of
00:08:14the first good news Democrats had for a long time.
00:08:17Um, especially coming out of the 2024 election.
00:08:20A lot of people were, well, I mean, disheartened.
00:08:23I mean, as I've said since the election, this is a retreat and surrender of the left in this
00:08:29country.
00:08:29We're going to be moving into a more conservative phase.
00:08:31I was talking to a friend of mine and he said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:08:36He's like, you know, he's like the question though, you know, is it 1980 sort of thing?
00:08:41And I'm kind of like, well, yeah, there's an argument for that, um, you know, sort of
00:08:48thing.
00:08:49Although people kind of forget Democrats controlled Congress through the eighties and Reagan had
00:08:52to work with them, um, sort of thing.
00:08:55But, um, there, um, you know, as we're going into this conservative phase.
00:09:00And so obviously over the last year since the election, um, and in the, you know, 10 months
00:09:09since the Trump administration got into office, the Democrats have been, if you're a Democrat
00:09:14or a liberal living person in this country, it's felt like you've been under constant 24
00:09:18seven nonstop attack, you know, all the time sort of thing.
00:09:24Um, it is, you know, maybe at moments felt like there just wasn't, you know, anything,
00:09:33anything for you, any good news, you know, half of project 2025 has been gone through.
00:09:40In fact, maybe we'll check the project 2025 tracker here in a minute.
00:09:43Um, you know, all of these things have happened and it just seems like we've been on, you know,
00:09:50on the retreat, which we have been.
00:09:51Um, now there's this kind of sliver of hope, um, in these different places.
00:09:59Um, one state that elected a lot of Democrats was Mississippi, um, which just goes to show
00:10:05that a lot of these places that people have kind of written off as being Republican-y
00:10:08and all this type of thing, that's not a good thing to do.
00:10:11And the Democratic Party should invest in those states a lot more.
00:10:14But it was interesting how, you know, and so obviously people, you know, were talking about
00:10:19Blue Wave and all this type of thing.
00:10:20However, the celebration was a bit tempered because then today, Monday, a week out from
00:10:27the election, um, it was announced last night that a handful of Democrats, including, um,
00:10:33Hassan and Shaheen from New Hampshire, Fetteman from Pennsylvania, decided to, uh, cross over
00:10:39and vote for the Republican continuing resolution to reopen the government.
00:10:43There was a cloture vote today, which is a vote to agree we're going to vote, and then, um,
00:10:49there'll be a vote in the Senate later this week, a vote in the House, and a resolution
00:10:53for President Trump probably by Thursday, Friday, that will reopen the government, pay federal
00:10:58workers, get the, um, air traffic controllers back going, uh, get SNAP benefits paying out,
00:11:05all this type of thing.
00:11:07Over the course of this shutdown, which I've actually written about very little, um, two
00:11:12times in the newsletter, that's it, um, over the course of this shutdown, there has been
00:11:18a lot of vitriol about the SNAP program.
00:11:21Now let's look at this narratively.
00:11:23Um, the narrative about welfare programs since the Reagan years has been, welfare just supports
00:11:31lazy people who don't work.
00:11:33Well, that falls apart with SNAP 51% of SNAP beneficiaries work, which, the other half of
00:11:39that I've also argued is the problem, it becomes a subsidy for corporations who don't pay enough
00:11:44wages.
00:11:45A lot of fun has been made of people who receive SNAP benefits, there's been lots of comical
00:11:51videos of people being like, just get a job, sort of thing, not realizing half of SNAP people
00:11:57have jobs.
00:11:59Um, the other are children and elderly, one of whom is too old to work, the other is
00:12:02oftentimes legally prohibited from having a job, and if they did have a job, probably
00:12:06wouldn't pay enough to feed themselves.
00:12:07So, you know, this kind of all falls apart.
00:12:11Most people also don't know that according to the Congressional Budget Office, the EBT SNAP
00:12:16food stamp program is the most efficient program with the least amount of fraud of all the
00:12:24federal government.
00:12:25SNAP can pass an audit, can't say that for the Pentagon.
00:12:29So, narratively, what does this all mean?
00:12:33You had sort of two political narratives going.
00:12:36One was Chuck Schumer saying the president is using food to try to, you know, blackmail
00:12:42the Democratic Party into accepting, uh, reductions in Affordable Care Act, premium subsidies raising
00:12:50health care for 25 million Americans, health care costs for 25 million Americans.
00:12:55And you had the other side saying, you know, Democrats are trying, are, you know, are forcing
00:12:59us with this laundry list of, you know, things and demands, um, to continue subsidizing people
00:13:06who don't need subsidy, and health care is bad anyway, and the ACA is broken, and it costs
00:13:11too much money, and this is how we're trying to kill it sort of thing, and that's been the
00:13:15narrative.
00:13:15And caught in the crossfire is every federal worker, air traffic controllers, SNAP beneficiaries,
00:13:20all this sort of thing.
00:13:25And the reality of the situation is that today, it worked.
00:13:36Um, the ACA subsidies are going away, health care premiums will skyrocket for 25 million
00:13:42Americans.
00:13:43A lot of people will be thrown off their insurance because they can't afford it.
00:13:47Uh, SNAP beneficiaries will get their food stamps, thank God.
00:13:52Um, the, the cost of the program is infinitesimally small compared to the social harm of having children
00:13:58starving in the street. Um, it's an excellent thing to, uh, it's an excellent thing to pay
00:14:05for. And like I said, it is the most efficient government program with the least amount of
00:14:09fraud. Unfortunately, this is also woven through the hot issues of the day. So in the middle
00:14:16of this off-off year election, where we have gerrymandering in California, we, because of gerrymandering
00:14:22in Texas, we have a government shutdown, SNAP benefits, which also is intersected with
00:14:27immigration. We have all of these issues sort of weaving together in this tangled web like
00:14:34snakes in a pit. We were just watching Indiana Jones the other weekend. All, like snakes in
00:14:40the pit just all roiling around. And two things come to mind.
00:14:49One, Americans pay a lot of taxes for comparatively little payoff. We actually are taxed as much as
00:14:59the Europeans when you count local to federal, and we do not have the social safety net. So most
00:15:06people look at it and say, I don't want to pay tax, you know, just let me keep my money sort of
00:15:11thing. And you have a lot of people being like, you know, why should I work so people can, you know,
00:15:17can eat who aren't working? It's like, well, do you really want a mother with three children
00:15:24trying to sell her children on the road because she can't feed them? Because that used to happen
00:15:28more often than you think. Do you, you know, we already have a problem with children showing up to
00:15:33school hungry and all this sort of thing. And of course, everyone's been talking about every
00:15:38person they know that was a scammer or didn't deserve it or was selling their card or whatever
00:15:44have you, you know, blah, blah, blah, all of this focus has been here for so long. And then the other
00:15:50thing is how all of this has become a proxy for all of these other issues. And so now we have this
00:15:59situation where, and I even saw this kind of as it was coming across the wires last night that the
00:16:06government was going to reopen, is you have, you know, people, some Democrats feeling betrayed because
00:16:12they wanted Schumer and company in the Senate to hold the line. You know, they finally got some
00:16:17leverage. They were able to do something and then finally hold the line and they haven't. They've
00:16:23basically folded and caved. And which some people said, oh, I guess that's our reward for electing
00:16:29them all over the country sort of thing. But then you also have this sort of fracturous
00:16:38idea around taxation, what these programs mean, why do we need them, why do we have them? And I think
00:16:47this is a situation where people have forgotten how uncivilized things used to be.
00:16:58People have forgotten how bad things used to be. Um, probably because they never lived in a world
00:17:08where these programs didn't exist. And this is the type of thing where when it does its job very well,
00:17:13you never know it's there. And that, um, that makes talking about these programs in a competent
00:17:26way very difficult. It also makes it very hard in the context of this political moment where we're
00:17:32talking about immigration in a way that we never talked about before. We're talking about, you know,
00:17:36welfare programs, which involves immigration in ways that we never have before. We're all treading over
00:17:41all this new ground. So anything that happens gets blended through this lens. And
00:17:49I think the thing that disappoints me the most is in all of these things that are said and whatnot is
00:18:02how, I don't want to say selfish, but maybe that's the only word, how selfish everyone is, is being.
00:18:13And I think part of that's out of survival. We're in very tough economic times. Inflation is high.
00:18:18Money is scarce for a lot of people. Um, you know, we have layoffs happening. The job market is not good.
00:18:27People can't find jobs, you know, but somehow more immigrants are coming in on visas because there's
00:18:32no Americans to fill these jobs, you know, sort of thing. And, and that kind of enters into it as
00:18:37well. And there's American ideas about independence and self-sufficiency. And what does it mean to live
00:18:44in a society? And what is society's responsibility to its citizens? What is the government's responsibility?
00:18:48What should we be doing for each other? And obviously, if you're liberal, you think that's a lot of
00:18:53things. If you're not, it's a lot of other things. And that even gets into things like, you know,
00:18:59Zoran Mamdani and his election as mayor of New York and his idea of having city owned grocery
00:19:06stores and the city buying apartments and, you know, having free buses and all this sort of thing.
00:19:11And, you know, him being a democratic socialist and companies saying they're going to leave New
00:19:16York and a million people saying they're going to leave New York and, and all of these,
00:19:19all of these things. But then also in the midst of all of this, you have Marjorie Taylor Greene
00:19:25asking when her party's going to deliver for the American people. And two weeks ago, when I did
00:19:29this show, I did a whole segment where I'm kind of like, why am I really agreeing with Marjorie Taylor
00:19:32Greene? Yes, yes. So now, as I was telling someone, what we're really seeing now is we're getting
00:19:40populism from both sides, you know, in terms of things aren't good. We want to be able to live and
00:19:49get ahead and make stuff happen. And we just aren't, we're just not there. And so now people
00:20:01are looking to their government to solve these issues. But the reality is that in order to solve
00:20:07them, you need a lot of money, which involves taxes, which is not going to make your donors very happy.
00:20:15And it, it involves really changing the calculus of society that we've had for the last 45 years with
00:20:23neoliberalism of no, we can't just have a country where everything is low tax and trade is free and
00:20:30open and all this sort of thing. And people are willing to come and go because the market will fix
00:20:35it all as people get paid more and they'll make their own decisions. And, you know, and it's kind of
00:20:41funny in 45 years, we've gone from get government off your back to people being like, we'd like some
00:20:45government on our backs, please, sort of thing, because people just can't live anymore. And I have
00:20:54a tweet about recessions and economics, and we'll circle back to that subject. But I think narratively
00:21:01speaking, it's interesting that we have populism coming from both sides, but we have negative reactions
00:21:05to populism, we have this government shutdown thing over healthcare subsidies, and Democrats
00:21:11folding on it. And so what does all this, all this mix up mean? It means we're in a very unique,
00:21:19and I would say very precious political moment where big change becomes possible, where being able to
00:21:34have an effect and a meaningful change on society, on our relationship with government, our relationship
00:21:45society finally becomes possible, because enough people are really demanding it. Now, obviously,
00:21:53we're still a ways away because the government just hiked the healthcare premiums of 25 million people,
00:21:58and Chuck Schumer and, you know, Democrats went along with it. And that's going to leave, you know,
00:22:05Democrats feeling a bit burned. But I think it's very interesting that we're kind of seeing
00:22:09these narratives, even immigration, in America first, really is about putting Americans at the
00:22:16fore and doing better for citizens and not just people in general. So now we're getting to this place
00:22:22where maybe, maybe, we can have a competent discussion about what our society can be.
00:22:32And we might be able to have a competent discussion about what government can do, and what government
00:22:45could do for us. And that is a very interesting political place. Unfortunately, like I said, we're not
00:22:59necessarily ready, maybe for that conversation, as much as we would like to be, given present
00:23:05circumstances. But I guarantee you this, all of these things, SNAP, healthcare, housing, affordability,
00:23:17this is all going to figure into 2026. Now, if you're the Democrats, this is great news.
00:23:22But, as we're going to see in a video from Chris Cuomo, the how to get there, and how much
00:23:29to listen to the far left, where most of these ideas originate from, could be up for some debate.
00:23:37So with that in mind, let's go to that Chris Cuomo video, actually. And let's listen, we'll talk.
00:23:52You're killing your party. You're killing your party. And look, I hope it works out for you. I hope
00:23:59you guys splinter off and become, you know, whatever you really are, because you're not a
00:24:04capitalist, and you're not a Democrat. And, you know, you can say, well, what do you know? I was
00:24:09raised by a real one. I was raised by a real one. Go ahead and criticize Mario Cuomo. What's going to
00:24:16be your biggest insult? That he spawned me and Andrew? Is that going to be the best you have?
00:24:22Because you ain't shit compared to him. Not in terms of intelligence, not in terms of success,
00:24:28not in terms of pedigree, not in terms of philosophy, not in terms of mission, not in
00:24:32terms of eloquence, not in terms of charisma, not in terms of anything. Certainly not electability.
00:24:38You are killing your party because you are not a real one, because you're doing what's
00:24:46good for you in a vacuum with your little social media following you no different than
00:24:51a pod bro. And you're killing your party. And Democrats better wake the fuck up and realize
00:24:57that you're better than this. Be with the 80, not the 20. Okay?
00:25:10Bearing in mind the context of this post is, you know, you're not capitalists and you're
00:25:15sure as hell not Democrats. Let me drop the hammer. I was raised by real Democrat Mario
00:25:19Cuomo. You're not a shit compared to him. Even Cuomo's had enough of the quote-unquote
00:25:23far-left takeover. And that, you know, and obviously there's a whole bunch of debate in
00:25:33the replies about, you know, how liberal Chris Cuomo is or is or is not, and far-left people
00:25:43being like, yeah, yeah, well, you know, the left is still the problem. And bearing in mind
00:25:53this all goes along with, you know, the election of Mom Donnie and what that means when America's
00:25:58largest city in the center of the world financially decides, yeah, we want some democratic socialism.
00:26:03We want a city that functions not just for the wealthy, so the city is a playground for
00:26:08the wealthy, but for, you know, working people. And you end up, you know, it kind of shows
00:26:16that, you know, every election, same promises, different rats, welcome to New York City, liberal
00:26:21dreams, real world, real world prices. And it shows all the past, you know, mayors with
00:26:29Vision Zero and Close Rikers and End the Tale of Two Cities and End the City of Yes and, you
00:26:37know, and it turns out, you know, free wasn't, you know, free sort of thing. And, you know,
00:26:43all of a sudden, you know, it's not so easy, as they, you know, would say. So I think, you
00:26:54know, the main kind of point of all of this, and this gets, again, all of this stuff, the
00:27:01government shut down and immigration and all this type of thing all comes together to
00:27:05people want a society that works. And let's face it, any party that can deliver a working
00:27:17functional society for working people will be in power for generations. And you want to know how
00:27:22I know? Because FDR did that in the 30s with the New Deal, and Democrats held power off and on
00:27:28in the White House, but they held power in Congress for the next 70 years. Republicans
00:27:33couldn't, Republicans in the 50s were begging for thread. You know, even their guy in the
00:27:39White House was pretty liberal. You know, he's kind of like, yeah, we should have a national
00:27:42highway system. It'll cost a fortune. Start plowing, you know, sort of thing. You know, I
00:27:49mean, that's a very different, it's a very different paradigm. And any party that can deliver
00:27:56that is going to do very, very well. I think the funny part is Trump, much like Obama before
00:28:02him, promised a lot of that functional society and hasn't gotten there. But it's very obvious
00:28:08with the election of, like, Zoran Mamdani and other Democrats elsewhere, that people are
00:28:13not going to wait around forever. People want to be able to afford a place to live, afford
00:28:20to save money, be able to afford a car, all this type of thing. And, I mean, let's face
00:28:25that tariffs are not helping. And it's not delivering many jobs, you know, because we
00:28:29still have layoffs and all this sort of thing. You know, there's, you know, and even
00:28:34with, even if you go to our, you know, farther right, you know, more racist friends, part
00:28:40of the reason they're targeting immigrants and immigration is so they can feel like they
00:28:43have a quote-unquote functional society. Everybody knows, I don't care who you are
00:28:48politically, everybody knows that what we're doing right now, what we have been
00:28:52doing isn't working. It doesn't work anymore. Can't afford anything. Everything's so expensive.
00:29:02Wages aren't growing. This isn't working. It's time for something else. Now, this is a great
00:29:11opportunity. It's also very dangerous. I'll tell you why. It's dangerous because history shows that
00:29:20in these moments, someone with the wrong agenda can come along and things can get very
00:29:25dangerous. It's also an opportunity to do something great for everyday people, you know.
00:29:35And it's not just, oh, this minority, this disabled person, whatever have you. To do for
00:29:40every working person, for students, for everyone everywhere. To actually have a country that feels
00:29:47like it has our back, rather than one that keeps kicking us in the jaw. That's what people
00:29:52are looking for. And whether who you're, you know, attacking or not, just like in this video
00:29:57with, you know, with Chris Cuomo attacking the radical left, the point is there are people
00:30:04in our society for whom the present system is working very well. They tend to be the wealthy
00:30:08and corporate donors to major political parties because they've paid for the privilege to get
00:30:12their agenda through. For everybody else, which is literally almost everybody else,
00:30:19this is not working. And here's another thing history will tell you. If people can't find a
00:30:26way to get what they want, they'll take it. And that usually involves guns, blood, and a lot
00:30:34of dead bodies. So we're going to change topics, but I'll leave you with this. I say let's avoid
00:30:44Civil War 2.0. Just a thought. And rather than devolving into gray market, black market, you
00:30:54know, sort of sad, depressing economic circumstances that disadvantage everybody, let's make that great
00:31:02society. Let's start turning the dials. Does that mean the wealthy and corporations will pay more?
00:31:08You bet. You bet. But as I always joke, people talk about the 50s and 60s, but do you know what
00:31:15enabled that? Two things. Government, well, three things. Government regulations, government price
00:31:20controls, and high taxes. Top end tax rates were 95% in the 1950s. That's what enabled that. Keeps
00:31:28money moving through the economy. It prizes economic activity, actual production over
00:31:35financialization. That was what changed in the 80s, is we decided money from nothing was better than
00:31:41money from something. And as this economy has changed, it still leaves a trail of people behind.
00:31:49And now with AI, it's financialization on steroids. Now you can get money for nothing with as few inputs
00:31:55as possible. Because AI is replacing labor, all this type of thing. So now all of a sudden you've
00:32:01got a system that can make money without too many humans being involved. A frightening prospect.
00:32:07If we don't do something about this now, we risk putting society into an extremely dangerous place.
00:32:16I recommend we do something now. But that's just me. What do I know?
00:32:22All right. What else have we got? Um, oh, let's talk about this story while we're on economics.
00:32:31Then we'll get to Jack Smith and Tulsi Gabbard's latest canard.
00:32:35Um, it says, we're looking at employment data. It says here, long-term unemployed, it sounds clinical,
00:32:43but it means six months without a paycheck, or one in four jobless Americans are there now.
00:32:47Every time we've hit this level, a recession followed. Does Washington still think the answer
00:32:51is more OPT and H-1B visa renewals and loopholes? Again, this is one of the reasons why immigrants
00:32:58are being targeted, is because of these numbers right here. And so it's looking at the overall
00:33:03employment rate and then share of long-term unemployed, 27 weeks or longer, six months.
00:33:07And we see here from August 2005 to 2006, leading into the great financial crisis, overall unemployment
00:33:16goes down during this time. But share of long-term employed ticks steadily upward, except for this
00:33:27weird anomaly in January, which is probably a seasonal adjusted thing. Um, ticks steadily.
00:33:33Upward. And even, you know, going into the financial crisis, we're still far beyond that. But look
00:33:41at overall unemployment rate. It's way down. Why? Because after six months, they stop counting
00:33:45these people, because that's when you roll off unemployment benefits. People don't know that.
00:33:49But the overall unemployment rate is actually a very poor indicator of how the job market is doing,
00:33:54because they don't count a bunch of people. If you look at the, um, I think it's the F6 number,
00:33:59or T6, it actually counts everybody. And we usually have around, it's actually right now about 12%.
00:34:05So this is the, this is the sad, the sad situation. And, you know, it seems foolhardy to let in more
00:34:14economic migrants and more visas when we have long-term unemployed at 25.7%.
00:34:21And so, um, we look at, uh, oh, and someone did, huh, did this great graph. Unemployment level
00:34:28foreign born January 2007 equals 100. Unemployment native born January 2007 is the start of this
00:34:36graph. And so it shows, you know, you have the big dip for the pandemic, of course. And then you have
00:34:42native born unemployment, you know, rising back up out of the pandemic. But then you see this huge spike,
00:34:49and it was already quite much larger, you know, there's this gap here. And now it's just absolutely
00:34:55huge, you know. Um, and I, I love this picture because it says, AI isn't taking your jobs. And,
00:35:03you know, kind of without comment sort of thing. Um, it's, and this person points out,
00:35:09in case you're wondering, kids, we're at great depression levels of unemployment. True. Um,
00:35:13and this, and it's kind of funny because as we talk about having a functional society and having
00:35:18a place where you can get a job, buy a house, get ahead, all this type of thing, all of a sudden,
00:35:23you know, everyone's looking around at me kind of like, hey, I can't get those things. I can't have
00:35:27those things. I work hard. I'm willing to shot, you know, I'm willing to show up, all this type of
00:35:31thing. And the reality, and I talk about this in my book, America's Lost Generation, is you're now
00:35:37competing with the whole globe for labor. Here's the problem. American labor is the most expensive in the
00:35:42world, which means it can literally be undercut by anyone. Literally. Just don't be an American,
00:35:48and you'll automatically be cheaper, and you can get paid half of an American's wage and feel like
00:35:54you're doing very, very well. The $60,000 job can now be paid an immigrant for $30,000. The $100,000
00:35:59job can be paid an immigrant at $50,000. Where does that extra money go? Into the pockets of shareholders.
00:36:04Simple as. And I've always said you will never, ever, ever solve immigration until you get
00:36:11corporate America off the teat of cheap labor. It's that simple. If you want to slow down
00:36:16immigration, you've got to get corporate America off cheap labor. It's that simple.
00:36:22And once you do that, then things can change. But as long as they require cheap labor, they
00:36:28will do whatever they have to do to get a hold of it, including offshoring, which is
00:36:32now the latest new thing. Send it to Mexico. Send it to India. Anything to keep labor costs
00:36:37down. And especially with AI, you now have two things pressuring labor costs. One is global
00:36:43competition, and the other one is AI. Because now they're looking at the headcount and looking
00:36:48at different job positions and say, can AI do it? If no, can we offshore it? If no, then
00:36:54it gets to stay. If yes, one of those two things will be an option. Where does this leave
00:36:59the everyday working American? Bereft. Unfortunately. And this is why people are, the calls to stop
00:37:08this are louder and louder. And I feel sorry that immigrants are becoming targeted in all
00:37:14of this, but the reality is people look at all of these new people, all of these new neighbors,
00:37:20all of this immigration, and at this point they're saying, yeah, you're taking my job.
00:37:25And one would argue they're not entirely incorrect about that. Now, I want to kind of tick over
00:37:35onto Stephen Miller and the, you know, Trump administration, all this sort of thing, because
00:37:42I found this post rather interesting. So this is one of those Twitter accounts that is always
00:37:48posting some emergency alarmist sort of thing, because you interact with it, of course. And this,
00:37:54this clip from Stephen Miller is rather, is rather interesting. So we'll, we'll, we'll back it
00:38:00up and watch. The Democrat Party has become dangerously, violently radicalized. And you're
00:38:06right, Sean. I get death threats every day. My wife gets death threats every day. We've obviously
00:38:11had to deal with pretty extensive doxing campaigns. But the truth is, Sean, that people across the
00:38:17country, across the government, across law enforcement, who are fighting for safety, security,
00:38:23and prosperity, are dealing with radical left communist threats and attacks all day long.
00:38:29And President Trump, of course, came within inches, sorry, centimeters, of being assassinated.
00:38:38A millimeter. One millimeter.
00:38:39On, during the middle of his rally on live television by a wicked, evil assassin, and then
00:38:46only weeks later, a second assassin, if not for a Secret Service agent spotting the burial of that gun,
00:38:52would have taken President Trump's life, saved by the, by the hand of God himself.
00:38:56We are dealing with a party that is so extreme, that considers its opponents to be its mortal
00:39:05enemies, that dehumanizes its opposition, that justifies violent attacks against federal law
00:39:11enforcement, assaults against ICE and Border Patrol, that sides over and over again with criminal aliens
00:39:19violence. And those MS-13 gang bangers, look at how they, look at how they venerated and worshipped
00:39:25and praised the MS-13 child smuggler that they dubbed the Maryland dad, somebody who beat his wife and
00:39:35smuggled children and was a member of a terrorist organization and they held him up as their hero.
00:39:41This is a dangerous party. This is a dangerous movement. And what you're seeing in New York City
00:39:46with Momdami, that is the future. A party that believes in no bail, a party that believes in no jail,
00:39:53a party that believes in no borders, but here's one group they do want to put in jail.
00:39:57And I, and it's funny because the comment section is a mix of things, but when we talk about putting
00:40:13political opponents in jail, I, I would submit to him the 2016 Trump campaign with Lock Her Up.
00:40:19Like, there's a reason we got to this moment in the political country. And I'm not saying Stephen
00:40:26Miller is all right or all wrong, although I disagree with him on some of his facts.
00:40:30Um, but there, we got, we got here in a very specific set of circumstances.
00:40:36And we didn't arrive here necessarily by accident either. The reality is when you have someone in
00:40:46political life who's willing to say anything that feels good, anything that draws a crowd,
00:40:53anything that draws a headline, anything that keeps the billion dollars of free media coverage
00:40:58that he got in 2016 going, thank you mainstream media, you enter very dangerous territory because
00:41:06you erode belief in elections. You enter very dangerous territory because you give permission
00:41:14for things that were hitherto taboo and unspeakable. And I'm not saying that there are not far left
00:41:22types who, you know, cheer on violent, political violence against Republicans, because that's true.
00:41:29And we need to look further than the Charlie Kirk scandal to see how that happens. And as everyone
00:41:33knows, I condemn that behavior in the strongest sense, despite the many disagreements I have with
00:41:40Charlie Kirk. He doesn't deserve to be, he never deserved to be shot or killed for. That's not
00:41:44what this country is about. And I did a whole hour of this show just on him. And, uh, and I, I, but I
00:41:54would, I would say, you know, that old phrase, you know, every, every accusation is a confession.
00:42:01There is a lot of that rhetoric who started with the right first. And unfortunately, what it does
00:42:09is it creates a society where that becomes permissible. And when that becomes permissible,
00:42:15a lot of people who hitherto would have been, felt uncomfortable to say that when it kept their
00:42:21mouth shut, believed that, um, that, you know, they might have that private thought and never
00:42:31speak it out loud because of fear of what people would say, all this type of thing, all of a sudden
00:42:34the court comes off. And this is true of racism. This is true of political violence. This is true
00:42:40of a great many things. And we've now gotten to this place where this type of thing is regularly
00:42:50aired on television. And when you start saying that your political opponents are a dangerous
00:42:58party and a dangerous movement, what you start to do is give permission for people to do really
00:43:07terrible things. Now, my Republican colleagues and my conservative friends would say, oh, but Cameron
00:43:12is not what the left has been up to. Yes. And that's the problem. And I can go back into this
00:43:19to that. We can start talking about Greenpeace in the seventies and how they stopped underwater
00:43:22nuclear testing. Okay. I can talk about globally how this has occurred. I have a degree in insurgency
00:43:29and counterinsurgency. I can, that's a whole rabbit hole. Perhaps I should do an hour on that
00:43:34at some point. The only way to stop from getting to this place politically is by never, ever allowing
00:43:44that in public dialogue. Cause it always leads to a very dangerous place. I will never countenance
00:43:51anyone who thinks all Republicans should be killed. I will never countenance anyone who says all Democrats
00:43:57should be killed. What I am very worried about is that we are now in a place where there's no,
00:44:07there's no respect on the behalf of Stephen Miller that people would dare to disagree, that they would
00:44:12protest against ICE, they would protest on behalf of immigrants, all this sort of thing. And that,
00:44:17you know, if you're not with us, you're against us sort of thing. And we have an interesting history
00:44:23with that. No one ever talks about the conscientious objectives during World War II, because it was
00:44:28considered gauche at the time to not want to participate in the war, even though people have
00:44:32forgotten World War II was actually quite unpopular. And nobody really wanted to be involved in yet
00:44:37another European conflict. And the propaganda and the history of that war is entirely covered up.
00:44:51But the reality is we were in a place in this country where we locked up the Japanese until
00:44:54the Supreme Court said no. We put the fire hose of water to conscientious objectors. We have
00:45:00completely erased them from the history books because they didn't agree with the party line.
00:45:06And the idea that someone can't protest against something, they might not agree with you,
00:45:12and that that somehow makes them dangerous is absolutely crazy. And this goes both ways, by the
00:45:17way. The fact that many people on the Democratic Party on the far left think it's crazy to not agree
00:45:22with them is also dumb. This is the thing about Republicans, small r, Republican democracy,
00:45:29is that you have to come to consensus. You have to have debate. You have to work with people that
00:45:37you disagree with. And I realize in this day and time, especially given what I just said about the
00:45:41shutdown and healthcare costs and all this type of thing, the stakes seem very high. And it seems like
00:45:47Schumer and company have rolled us on over and taken us for it. It also, you know, it seems like,
00:45:56you know, yeah, we've got to, you know, stop Republicans, stop authoritarianism, stop fascism,
00:46:01you know, this, that, and the other thing. Here's the problem.
00:46:09Getting ever more extreme, not in policy, but in action, ironically, makes the problem worse,
00:46:18it's not better. Because you then turn in to the ghouls that keep Stephen Miller going.
00:46:25Now, the reality is Stephen Miller will find any reason to criticize Democrat. And he will find
00:46:30any reason to criticize any, you know, any liberal person for anything. And his rhetoric kind of,
00:46:35you know, shows that sort of thing. But one of my frustrations with the far left is that they do
00:46:40an excellent job of doing the GOP's job for them. They come up with the most terrible slogans that are
00:46:45great protest slogans, but terrible policy, defund the police. They also have a bad habit of creating
00:46:52the imagery and the ad assets that do the Republicans' job for them. And so on their
00:46:59march forward of progress and all this type of thing, they have no mind of how this might be
00:47:04read politically. How in this day and age, if the average person is randomly scrolling on their phone
00:47:10and they see a video of someone doing something crazy, that's going to be their whole impression of
00:47:14the movement. There's no sense of messaging. That was something people don't get about the
00:47:17civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was very, very careful to control the messaging,
00:47:23how it looked, how it appeared. They made it respectable. That's how they got changed through.
00:47:30There's no discipline like that on the left. The Republican Party is always lockstep in line
00:47:36on messaging. Here on the Democratic Party, it is a complete mess. And this leads to making it very
00:47:43easy for Republicans to say Democrats are crazy. And that's what this clip is about. So in all the
00:47:50stuff that we've talked about today, we've gotten to a place now where this type of rhetoric is
00:47:54entirely acceptable and cheered on. And that's a very dangerous place as a country. Speaking of
00:48:02danger in the country, we're on a new jacksmith right now. Let's check into Tulsi Gabbard for a minute.
00:48:09So Tulsi Gabbard has been on the bandwagon that the Obama administration tried to overthrow the
00:48:17government and that they did everything they could to keep Trump out, which is really not true at all.
00:48:27But that's what she has, that's been her latest, her latest bally, ballywig. So we're going to listen
00:48:33to her latest statement, and then we'll talk. We look at where we are now over the last several
00:48:40weeks. We've declassified and released documents that exposed how President Obama and leaders in
00:48:45the intelligence community knowingly manufactured a false intelligence document after the 2016
00:48:52election was done, after the American people said, no, we want Donald Trump to go and be our
00:48:57commander in chief, not Hillary Clinton. And this manufactured document alleged that Russia
00:49:02aspired to help President Trump win the election with the aim of undermining his presidency and
00:49:10usurping the will and the voices of the American people who sent Trump to the White House.
00:49:18We look at where we are now over the last several weeks.
00:49:21So it is quite obvious that having gone through the documents and on this show and all this
00:49:31type of thing, it is quite obvious that her task is to do her level best to undo the Russia
00:49:44narrative, the Russia hoax, and to undo, and to also reinforce that not just the 2020 election
00:49:53was stolen, but that the 2016 election was almost stolen. And here's what's kind of funny about
00:49:58all this, is if the Democrats are so good at rigging elections and depriving people of political
00:50:06office, they're horrifically inconsistent about it. So we tried to get rid of you in 2016 and
00:50:12that didn't work. So now we're going to get rid of you in 2020, we're going to read the election,
00:50:15but then not rig it for 24? Or rig the 2022 midterms? I mean, are they just lazy? Or is it more
00:50:30likely that that's not really what's going on here? We went through the documents and showed how
00:50:35they asked for a new intelligence assessment because the reality is a lot of Trump people were
00:50:41connected, had some uncomfortable ties to Russia, often through Ukraine. Ask Roger Stone and Paul
00:50:47Manafort about all that. We now know because of Cambridge Analytica that the FSB was actively
00:50:54using social media to manipulate people for the Trump campaign in 2016. Now, there is no proof that
00:51:01the Trump campaign ever actually knew it was happening, or there was no coordination. But what we do know
00:51:07is that the main social media person from the 2016 Trump campaign was working with Facebook
00:51:13and through Cambridge Analytica. And not only was Facebook supplying an outsized amount of
00:51:18movement to help with the Trump campaign, but Facebook knew what Russia was up to and did nothing
00:51:22to stop it. That's part of the reason why there are so many regulations on how you can share news on
00:51:27Facebook now. Ask me how I know, because I'm an account that shares news on Facebook. Now, I've gone through
00:51:31all the verification, ID, journalist. I'm in the monetization program. Like, I've been through the
00:51:36hoops. It's a lot. All of that's there because of 2016. There were congressional hearings about this.
00:51:44We now live in a world where foreign powers can use our own, have direct access to media channels
00:51:50that can change election outcomes. That's the world that we live in. In 2016, we did not understand
00:51:56that. Cambridge Analytica hadn't come out yet. And so, when you look at, you know, it's 2025. It's been
00:52:04nine years. And here we are, still talking about this. I'm very pleased that some of the comments,
00:52:16you know, some of the top comments, all this type of thing, and even AI is not on board with it and all
00:52:25this type of thing. It's, you know, very, very helpful that there's all that, you know, sort of,
00:52:32you know, pushback sort of thing. But the fact that she's kind of out here flogging this is very
00:52:37interesting. And they did that one document dump, but then didn't do any others. So, you know, it's
00:52:45kind of like, okay, if you've got more receipts, maybe release those and maybe there'll be something.
00:52:50But the point is, there isn't really anything. They're trying to clean up a narrative. And that's
00:52:55why I always say, say it with me now, news is a narrative. That's why they call it a story.
00:53:02That's, you know, all part and parcel of this. And that is quite concerning. All right. Speaking of
00:53:12Russia, Russia, Russia, let's go over to the Jack Smith story. So, I read this, this was in the
00:53:19Sunday Times. Um, I think, um, it says here, Jack Smith, Trump's target shifts from defense to
00:53:26counterattack. The former special counsel told people in his orbit, he welcomes the opportunity
00:53:30to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings in the
00:53:352024 election. It says here, President Trump's unrelenting fast track drive to humiliate,
00:53:39investigate, and prosecute the people he hates has gained momentum in part because his targets have
00:53:43not been in a position to inflict serious retributive pain on him. Jack Smith is different. Mr.
00:53:49Smith, a special counsel who twice indicted Mr. Trump, appears unintimidated by the president's
00:53:53demand that Republican lawmakers investigate him and that the Justice Department put him in prison
00:53:57for as yet unproved and unspecified crimes. Quite the opposite. In fact, Mr. Smith, who spent more
00:54:02than two years aggressively collecting evidence to prove Mr. Trump mishandled classified documents
00:54:06and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appears eager to publicly challenge a
00:54:10foundational pillar of MAGA canon, that the president was a sinned upon innocent who did nothing to
00:54:15deserve scrutiny, much less to prosecutions. Mr. Smith has told people in his orbit that he welcomes
00:54:20the opportunity to present the public case against Mr. Trump, denied to him by the Supreme Court
00:54:24decision asserting a broad presidential immunity from prosecution and adverse rulings from a Trump
00:54:28appointed judge in the federal bench in Florida. Whether Mr. Smith gets the chance to confront his
00:54:32accusers on the biggest official stage available to him, a public House or Senate hearing, remains very
00:54:37much an open question. Some Republicans have privately expressed concern that Mr. Trump's quest for
00:54:42vengeance could backfire by giving credible anti-corruption investigator an open mic.
00:54:46Deranged Jack Smith is a criminal, Mr. Trump said on social media on Wednesday after House
00:54:50Republicans released documents showing that the special counsel's office examined communications
00:54:54between Mr. Trump and 160 Republicans as part of the inquiry into his efforts to overturn the 2020
00:54:59election, which also includes the fake electors scandal. We continue. He proceeded to place Mr.
00:55:04Smith at the top of his prosecutorial hit list, along with the two top Biden appointees who picked Mr.
00:55:10Smith, a veteran war crimes prosecutor for the job, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and his top
00:55:15deputy Lisa O. Monaco. The president declared that they should all be, quote, investigated and put in
00:55:21prison, unquote, next to a photo of Mr. Smith. Until now, Mr. Trump, in the half-joking estimation of
00:55:26one longtime advisor, has been able to order up investigations of his political enemies like
00:55:30Uber's. But in the two low-key but self-assured appearances over the past six weeks, Mr. Smith has
00:55:35made it unmistakably clear that he will not only defend himself, but take a hammer to Mr. Trump's
00:55:39exaggerated or false claims about his work as special counsel. The idea that politics played
00:55:44a role in who worked on that case or who got chosen is ludicrous, Mr. Smith said during an
00:55:48early October interview with Andrew Weissman, another former prosecutor targeted by Mr.
00:55:52Trump at the University College London. Mr. Smith said he had, quote, tons of evidence, unquote,
00:55:57that Mr. Trump had willingly retained the classified documents at his residence in Mar-a-Lago
00:56:00and tried to, quote, obstruct the investigation, unquote. The president's Republican allies in
00:56:05Congress had begun taking the first steps to investigate Mr. Smith at the urging of the White House
00:56:09and far-right activists. Their efforts are animated by a belief that Mr. Smith, despite his
00:56:13claim to the contrary, went beyond the bounds of an impartial investigation to go after Republicans.
00:56:17In recent days, they've made public hundreds of previously unreleased documents showing Justice
00:56:21Department prosecutors before and after Mr. Smith's appointments subpoenaed records of Republican
00:56:25lawmakers in Trump allied groups. But the lawmakers are divided on precisely how to proceed.
00:56:30According to interviews with lawmakers and their aides, some have expressed concerns about giving
00:56:34Mr. Smith a public platform, unless the record's trawl uncovers something so damning it shatters
00:56:38his credibility. Nor do they see much political upside in rehashing an issue of a searing import to
00:56:44the president, but of little interest to voters in battleground districts at a time when approval of
00:56:48Mr. Trump's performance on the economy and immigration is sagging. Yet they're forging ahead
00:56:53at Mr. Trump's goading. On October 10th, the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee
00:56:57summoned Mr. Smith to testify behind closed doors about what Republicans on the panel called
00:57:01partisan and politically motivated prosecutions of Mr. Trump. Earlier this year, three former
00:57:05Justice Department prosecutors, J.P. Cooney, J. Bratt, and Thomas Wyndham, appeared for closed-door
00:57:10interviews that revealed little new information, according to Republicans on the panel.
00:57:14Mr. Smith, up next, has begun moving his own chess pieces. Through his lawyers, he demanded public
00:57:19hearings, along with asking the Justice Department to give him broad latitude to discuss evidence
00:57:23presented to grand juries. Neither request has thus far elicited a response.
00:57:27Name the time and place, Lanny Brewer, when a Mr. Smith lawyer said in a statement. Jack will be
00:57:31there. The House Committee, the Justice Department, and the FBI did not respond to requests for
00:57:36comment. Representative Jim Jordan, a higher Republican who leads the committee, is likely
00:57:40to issue a subpoena in the coming weeks rather than a cede to Mr. Smith's demands for public hearing,
00:57:44according to a person familiar with his thinking, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss
00:57:47internal deliberations.
00:57:49And then it goes on to some of the politics around it all.
00:57:55This is kind of one of those quiet stories that we won't probably hear a lot about in the
00:58:04mainstream, but I wanted to bring it up because the way it will break into the mainstream, if
00:58:10it does, is if there is a lot of something there and a public forum is given any portion
00:58:18of the way or stuff starts to come out. And the reality is when you start having these committee
00:58:24meetings and people start to get in the know, stuff's going to come out and one of two things
00:58:28is going to happen. Either it's going to explode out into the public and it's going to be a huge
00:58:31scandal, one of the many going on at any given moment these days, or, and I think this is more
00:58:38likely, kind of like Epstein, which we don't talk about anymore, it'll get buried. Cause
00:58:44there's some there there. We'll find out very shortly. So, all right. Um, that's the top
00:58:52of the hour. This was a fun story and not important. So we don't got to talk about it. Um, but, uh,
00:59:00I, I am going to, I'm going to break off. I just did a fantastic recording with one of the
00:59:04most important playwrights in China named Stan Lai. He was, uh, calling in from Taipei,
00:59:09Taiwan. We had an internet issue at one point, so I'm going to have to cut it together, but
00:59:13we spent an hour and a half talking about theater and music and art and movies and Chinese culture,
00:59:19and it was amazing and magical in, in every way. Um, but it also means I'm tired. My voice
00:59:26is gone. My voice is going. So we're going to stop it there. Um, thank you all so much for
00:59:31watching. My name is Cameron Cowan. This is the Cameron, uh, Journal News Hour. I'm here
00:59:36every Monday at seven. Um, don't forget to follow me on social media at Cameron Cowan
00:59:41on Twitter and Instagram at Cameron Journal on TikTok, LinkedIn. Um, and I will, uh, see
00:59:48you on Wednesday for The Living Joke with Will and Connor. We have a great show for you this
00:59:51week, and I will see you next Monday on the Cameron Journal News Hour. Um, there's no
00:59:55interview today cause I've not finished editing new podcast episodes. I just finished a couple
01:00:00this afternoon. So keep an eye out. There will be new interviews this week with all sorts
01:00:05of great people, all sorts of new authors. It's going to be exciting. Thank you all so
01:00:09much for watching. I'll see you next time. Bye bye now.
Recommended
1:01:13
|
Up next
1:00:48
1:10
49:52
1:13:04
33:18
Be the first to comment