Conservative Political Action Conference happened this weekend and Donald Trump apparently is the leader in the CPAC straw polls taking 62 percent of the straw poll vote with DeSantis polling just 20 percent. Now, a lot of folks are arguing that while CPAC was selling Donald Trump shirts and hats, but no to Santa's hats. although DeSantis hasn't announced his candidacy yet, there are a lot of people saying CPAC was really just a mega rally. Now, whether or not that's true, does it really matter what's worth talking about or some of the things that Donald Trump said so we can talk and add some opinion to some of those items first.

Donald Trump Really hit on this idea that it seems like you'll get lynched for doing a great job and that we don't have free speech today and that I am your retribution really? Donald Trump opened this idea up that hey, look, if you want somebody, whether you like me or not, if you want somebody who tells it to you like it is, vote for Donald Trump That's the argument he's making today and that free speech is critically important and I think everybody. I don't think there's really anyone who disagrees that free speech is very important and this is of course, what politicians do right talking about basically about things that as many people as possible can agree with. Super super normal. This idea, though, that Donald Trump will be the retribution of America is one that's essentially suggesting hey, you know what if you're pissed off about the economy, if you're pissed off about the way things are under the Biden Administration If you're pissed off about immigration, if you're pissed off at all, vote for Donald Trump.

That is the argument that Donald Trump is making and he goes into some specifics as to what he believes he'll do. This one got particular Applause He's changed from the idea that we're going to quote unquote, drain the swamp to now what Donald Trump is going to do is totally obliterate the Deep State. Now the Deep state in obliterating the Deep state is this idea that people who are super wealthy, uh, or people associated with, let's say, the world Economic Forum the military industrial complex, the lobbying industry. Basically, anybody who tries to control the narrative runs the media, runs covid narratives.

those sort of deep State individuals will be totally obliterated by Donald Trump And he says that he wants to do so without destroying Social Security including not raising the age for Social Security or cutting Medicaid. These are arguments he's made now. Joe Biden has made the argument as well that we're not going to see any kind of cuts to Social Security. That is something that Joe Biden had made very clear during the State of the Union because it hasn't been particularly popular.

Uh, an idea of an idea on either side about any kind of limits or restrictions to Social Security Medicare Medicaid. Uh, Then he talks about the largest deportation coming. that countries are basically emptying out their prisons and mental insane asylum individuals. Those words he used and dumping them into the United States That is the argument Donald Trump is making.

and he's suggesting we're going to have the largest deportation under a new Donald Trump Administration Ever a vaguely deportation. Now this is an argument that has been very popular for Donald Trump Build the wall, Build it bigger finish building the wall. It's an argument that he reiterates here as well. But one of the things that I like to mention about immigration is personally: I Think we have an immigration shortage and an entitlement excess.

So in other words, with too many people using our social services and not paying into the system, whether that's people going to the hospital and not actually paying their bills, you literally have hospitals as reported by The Wall Street Journal on the border of the United States who are potentially going to go bankrupt because too many people go to the emergency room to seek treatment and they're undocumented and they never pay because they have no money and they have no insurance. So you're bankrupting our services, our social services because of the illegal immigration that is occurring and in my opinion, one of the ways to solve this. And it's one that I ran for governor under in California which is a state that desperately needs to help. Uh, if there's a state that has more mental problems per politician, it's probably California And that's because of the lack of money that California invests into mental health, education and housing and homelessness care and immigration care.

California is a complete failure. They'd rather send stimulus checks to people making five hundred thousand dollars, but we don't have to talk about that. I I Tried to run for governor, came in second place of retalk recall candidates when I Kicking my words out it's too early in the morning on a Sunday here 6 35 a.m on recording this but anywho, Donald Trump talks about the largest deportation coming. I Think one of the things that might be popular to talk about would be the idea that if people can come to America in a streamlined way and support themselves, get a job, uh, work for a company and support themselves without using any social services and actually contribute to our GDP our taxes in our economy then I Think it should be a lot easier for people to come to America I Think it should be a lot harder for people who rely on our social services to come to America but a lot easier for people who don't and actually contribute and pay taxes to come to.

America That's my opinion. It's not something we heard from Donald Trump We just heard about Mass deportation and something that he wants to focus on. He says we won't give unlimited money to fight Foreign Wars that are endless Wars stupid Wars here Donald Trump is talking about Ukraine and some of these arguments are really being made globally. in fact.

Uh, we went through an entire topic on the channel talking about how really the war between Russia and Ukraine is becoming regionalized is becoming uh, something that the world doesn't see as a World War III threat, but rather as a problem between Ukraine and Russia and that ultimately will need some kind of negotiated solution rather than endless money from the United States and In Fairness. Uh, Donald Trump's not wrong that a lot of money from the United States is going to support Ukraine. In fact, if we hop on over and we look at this particular chart, from the Council on Foreign Relations, you can see that Usaid to Ukraine far exceeds that from the other top 20 donors far exceeds We're over 70 billion dollars in Aid. The EU in total is setting somewhere around 30 billion dollars.

Of course, you could then add in individually Germany uh, the United Kingdom, Canada Poland and such, but it doesn't even hold a candle. The amount of money that the United States is throwing to Ukraine without the ability to actually track where our weapons are going that we're sending to the United uh or to Ukraine rather Donald Trump Uh, uh. did strike Applause uh for that argument about giving unlimited money to fight Foreign Wars Uh, He says, why is NATO not putting up dollar for dollar? What the United States is? It's not wrong. Again, the United States is putting up substantially more money.

Now of course, the argument is made that the United States is the largest economy in the world and maybe there's some form of therefore responsibility for the United States to maybe contribute a larger share. but boy oh boy, the US is already doing that an order of magnitude larger than other countries. Uh, Donald Trump goes on to make arguments like there are killings happening in Manhattan like nobody's ever seen before. This is probably not true.

Uh Manhattan's at somewhere around its lowest murder rate since 2019, but that's not to say that the argument of being tough on crime is not popular. I Do think it's important to be tough on crime. For example, Walmart is pulling out completely of Portland because it's essentially become Lawless in the eyes of Walmart so much property crime that is just not profitable to operate Walmarts in Portland because the policies in Portland do not actually respond in a proper manner to prevent crime. It's the same kind of thing that you see in San Francisco or or in in countries along the west coast and it's a big problem, so it's not wrong about striking that sentiment.

Donald Trump talks about how we lost 85 billion dollars of the greatest military equipment in the world. Talking about how much of that is is really going to uh uh Ukraine Uh, He talks about windmills and how windmills are terrible for green energy. On one hand, he's he's not wrong in that windmills are a lot. uh, more expensive than things like natural gas, solar, or geothermal energy.

They are less expensive than nuclear, hydroelectric, and biomass, so they are still a little pricey so he's not wrong on that. But I think the argument that windmills kill birds is a little silly. Birds are notoriously really stupid in that 900. Well let me put it this way, every year windmills kill about 328 000 birds and I feel bad for those birds.

But if 328 000 birds get killed by windmills then we should also talk about how many birds get killed flying into buildings I Kid you not, they need like a better Vision system or like lidar or something attached to their heads because they're so stupid. 988 million Birds die every year from flying into buildings buildings. Yes, windmills kill 328 000 Birds But 988 million Birds die from flying into buildings so well. Well yes, maybe wind is not what wind is is useful in some degrees and it can become cheaper over time.

and I'm not a fan of saying don't invest in wind energy by no means I'm a big fan of eventually going green I'm a big fan of actually finding the most green energy that we could potentially find. In fact, there are arguments that there are 47 terawatts of heat right below us. Now when I say right below us? I mean like six miles below us. So we need to come up with new Drilling Technologies like millimeter wave drilling technology or plasma drilling technology as well as more advancements coming to well construction to be able to drill.

uh, six miles down? That's very difficult. but if you can get and tap the super critical steam potential that we have six miles below us, which Super critical steam is about 700 degrees Fahrenheit about 10 times as strong as the geothermal energy that we use today. Super Super hot steam. You get power the entire world solely with geothermal energy by 2035.

you literally have three times the energy potential six miles below us then we use worldwide today. So geothermal like you want to start looking to maybe potentially like geothermal kind of stocks. and Investments I mean hashtag not personal advice Financial advice. but let's just say we're going to be doing some geothermal fundamental analysis in the course member live streams.

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So I thought it was worth talking about that. I I'm really personally I'm tired of hearing about the bird argument. Let me put it that way and again, my goal is not to be like super like a Trump apologist and pro-trump here. And it's not to be super anti-trump it's just supposed to be some dude on the internet with a jacket that's way too big.

uh, giving you insights and opinions on what's actually going on in the world using as much data as I could get my hands on. Uh, so another thing that's worth noting is Donald Trump makes this argument that no one has gotten anything from China other than Donald Trump I Think he forgets the fact that we collect about eight to fourteen billion dollars a year in import tariffs from China. But then again, he's trying to reiterate his tough on China argument which is not necessarily a horrible idea, especially given the Uh data leaks that we regularly have to China Uh, including the theft of some of the most advanced chip making Technologies from companies like Asml, the Uh Dutch Advanced chip manufacturer to basically circumvent U.S sanctions against China and U.S export limitations for advanced chips, but that was probably going to happen anyway in the long run. Uh, Anywho, so uh, personally, I think that for the Donald Trump CPAC event, it wouldn't be surprised if the polling from CPAC was highly Trump skewed given that DeSantis wasn't there, right? Uh and uh.

and and DeSantis hasn't declared he's running for president yet although that's widely expected. Uh, it did look like in some CPAC polling that the Democratic Contender that's really expected it from uh from CPAC estimates is a Gavin Newsom being number one. Uh, number one after Joe Biden Look at that. Damn, who do you think the Democratic nominee for president will be in 2024? Joe Biden 39, Kevin Newsome 21, Michelle Obama 14, Kamala Harris Six percent I Thought that was really interesting.

This idea that uh, you've actually got Michelle, Obama and and Kamala up there. Uh, then you also have let's see here this: these were the results here. Who would you most like to be see be the Republican candidate for vice president I Thought this was interesting. You got Ron DeSantis actually coming in at second and uh, he came in at 14 Kerry Lake beat him by six percentage points.

She was the Uh obviously one of the Uh she was the Republican nominee for Uh Arizona governor. She's been suing like crazy about the election and the rigged election. blah blah blah blah whatever. Nikki Haley Presidential campaign Governor South Carolina Nikki Haley 10 percent got Mike Pompeo and some others over here as potential VP candidates.

So CPAC very interesting. I Think we're going to see a lot more rhetoric from Trump I think where Trump could really, uh, like if if I was going to give and not not that I'm in the position too. But if I was going to argue where Trump has his strongest potential for Unity it's the economy. That's probably where he's going to have the most strength now.

Even though we could say that a lot of inflation impetus came from the Uh during the Trump Administration due to bipartisan support for coveted measures. obviously, looking back, we printed way too much money. Biden did continue those and potentially made them worse, right? The first thing he did was the the leftover two thousand dollar stimulus check which was the extra 1400 bucks, the extension of the child tax credit uh, part of his policies, the student debt for Uh deferment for as long as it's been going on, right have all contributed to more inflation. Gavin Newsom Sending stimulus checks in October of 2022 all contributed to inflation.

So you know economic blood is really on both hands. but I think it makes it easy for Donald Trump to uh, let people sort of compare the economy then to now. it's sort of a very simplistic, uh and unnuanced argument that's probably one of his strongest. But I will say a lot of people are pretty surprised by the CPAC poll because people generally have been thinking that DeSantis would cream Donald Trump that might be the wrong way to think about it.

although there could be a lot more Trump support at CPAC again for the reasons that I've already mentioned, Uh is very interesting. yeah to see uh to to see this information and I think the 2024 election cycle is going to be fascinating so I'll be covering it so make sure to subscribe.