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Back to episode — Episode 2608 CWSA 09/25/24

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tting close to it. And you have to say that energy is your economy. Everything else has to happen too but energy equals economy. Wall equals immigration. Energy is economy. Energy if you have enough you have a chance of paying down your national debt. Trump says that directly. He says we have trillions of dollars in the ground you know enough to pay off the national debt. Now you don't pay off the…

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ike there's just more. So here's my stereotype and again it doesn't apply to all the people in the stereotype but Asian Americans just seem to run their lives smartly. Can we all accept that? If you show me just randomly, just throw a dart, well not a dart you don't want to hurt anybody but just randomly pick an Asian American you know and say all right what's your plan for success and what are you doing? Well I'm not doing any drugs, I'm staying out of jail and I've got a plan to be an optometrist and my grades are good. And I look at that and go oh well that's pretty sensible and it's not dangerous. You're staying out of danger and you're pursuing success. If you show me a bunch of people who want to stay out of trouble I'll show you a bunch of people who are not going to admit that they vote for Trump. Am I right? Staying out of trouble includes not saying something so provocative that your career or your family life were impacted for no benefit. Right because remember what I'm saying about the Asian American community again a stereotype doesn't apply, does not apply to all people who are in it, is that as a group they seem insanely well strategized. And it's sort of a bad strategy to be a Trump supporter if you know somebody will not hire you because of it, if you know somebody won't date you because of it, if you know it's going to be a fight at work. Why do it? So does it surprise you that a highly educated, and when I say risk averse some in some context that sounds bad because you know like an entrepreneur wants to take some risk but in your everyday life you should be risk averse. Yeah you should not be thinking I think I could get away with that crime. No no. In your everyday life you should be risk averse except for embarrassment you know. But the Trump stuff would be more than embarrassment. It'd be you don't get the job. You literally don't get hired. I mean that's a big price for just having an opinion. So it makes sense to me that Asian Americans are with the mainstream opinion at least when they're polled and that they would have been influenced in college like most people are to be more left leaning.

But according to the account on X called George, because somebody named George runs this account now he is Black which if it matters to you in the context of the story, but he's a great follow so if you I've said that before so just look for George that's just the name of the account. And for somehow he has just great scoops and he gets them early and they all seem to be true so a good follow on X. But he says he points to a video in which Sage Steele, who you should know is also Black and but she's more she's more of a Trump person I think she's pro Trump I think that's true right? Sage Steele has she endorsed him or is she just not endorsing Harris? I can't remember. Sometimes just being not endorsing anybody feels the same as endorsing Trump so I don't know how far she's gone so I don't want to characterize her opinion there because I don't know. But here's the story. She said that Black people are coming up to her, maybe they just recognize her and they come up to her, and they say they're terrified of the future if Harris gets elected. Why would Black Americans be terrified of the future with Harris? Well what would make you terrified? And she said you know a bunch of Black people are coming up and saying that and I don't know what is it because of immigration? I feel like the vibe I've been getting is that Black America thinks that if so much money had not been spent on migrants it would be available to spend on Black Americans for everything from reparations to better schools and all that. Do you think that's true?

I would love there to be a true narrative in which more people would prefer Trump. I'm not so sure it's true that that money is liquid and fungible and you could just use it for something else if you don't use it for migrants. Because remember the money we're spending on migrants we literally don't have. We're not

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spending money we have we're spending money we don't have. And we always could have spent that you know more of the money we don't have by borrowing it. We could have always spent that in Black America but apparently we had figured out whatever level worked and we were at that level. I don't believe it's true that the more money you give to the migrant community the less is available for Black Ame…

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