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Cameron Caskey
Here to learn when you're saying leftists are supporting the fornication of children. People on the right don't do this. Right. It's the leftists.
Fabian Garcia
People on any side could do whatever they want.
Cameron Caskey
So why.
Fabian Garcia
So why would I ever say that people on the right would never do something like this?
Cameron Caskey
Why are you calling out the left specifically?
Fabian Garcia
Because they're the ones who are pushing for this and mass.
Cameron Caskey
How so hold you by talking protest when you go to protest.
Host
Okay, guys, first political debate on the show. Let's see how this goes. We got Cameron, who just came on, and Fabian, who's been on the show. So let's do this thing, guys.
Fabian Garcia
Let's do it.
Host
Let's start off with Elon Musk and Doge. You're in support of Doge, right?
Fabian Garcia
I love Doge and I love Papa Elon.
Host
Oh, and you're the opposite?
Cameron Caskey
Well, Elon's famously not the best papa of all the bastard children that he sired. He doesn't seem to give them very much attention. So I guess you could call him Papa Elon because he does have so many, like, sperm, concubine babies. But I'm not a big fan of Elon Musk. I think that what he's done with the government is something that we're going to be seeing the consequences of for a very long time.
Fabian Garcia
What did he do with the government that he said is going to be consequential?
Cameron Caskey
So there's this, the Department of Government Efficiency, which we all kind of started calling Doge, which is so annoying because that was. That was why he did it. He did it so we could call it Doge because of the fucking meme. And then everybody went with it. And I'm like. But the Department of Government Efficiency came in and started dismantling programs that I think a lot of people didn't understand were part of the agenda. Right. I don't think when people were talking about that type of thing, they knew that cancer research that had been going on for 15 years was going to be getting cut. I think they didn't know that veteran benefits were going to go in and.
Fabian Garcia
Wait paused or cut, because they put a pause on a lot of things to reevaluate things. Cutting is a different thing.
Cameron Caskey
So what do you think that reevaluation process looks like?
Fabian Garcia
So I'm all for Doge number one. Let me just put that out there. I love what he's doing. I think that only he could have done it because he has such a. I mean, he's. He's everywhere.
Cameron Caskey
Right.
Fabian Garcia
He owns the biggest platform in the world, arguably in X. He has the most reach out of any individual probably in the history of humanity. So anyone else going in there was probably going to get just destroyed by the left. But Elon, you can't destroy him because he just doesn't care. So I think he was a perfect person to be. To do that. And I mean, what, we're paying $10 million for circumcisions in Mozambique? Like, what in the hell are we doing? Like, I mean, if you're okay with the USAID spending $42 billion of taxpayer money and we have no idea, we can't vote on it. We didn't elect these people into office. They're just spending our money willy nilly. I mean, then, I mean, I know the left likes to spend a lot of money. Like, I don't know where you stand politically, but I'm not cool with that.
Cameron Caskey
So you're not cool with USAID programs?
Fabian Garcia
Most of them, no. Absolutely.
Cameron Caskey
What's the USAID program that you like?
Fabian Garcia
I don't, I don't think I like any of them, to be honest. Now. Eh.
Cameron Caskey
I mean, you're cool with the HIV thing.
Fabian Garcia
So are you saying that we should pay for the whole world to have HIV prevention? Because that's really weird.
Cameron Caskey
So I think.
Fabian Garcia
Is that America first? I don't know where you are politically, but I would say that's not America first whatsoever.
Cameron Caskey
I think it's definitely America first because when you are providing resources around the world, you're building, building soft power and you're building relationships with countries where you're going to be needing those sort of allyships. So when, what kind of ally ships?
Fabian Garcia
Hold on a second. You're telling, you're telling me that giving $10 million for HIV AIDS to Africa is going to give us an ally in Africa?
Cameron Caskey
Yes. Correct.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, and then how, how has Africa been going with all these allyships that we've been creating and all of the humanitarian aid we've been giving for 50 years?
Cameron Caskey
I'll tell you exactly how they've been going.
Fabian Garcia
How's Sudan doing right now?
Cameron Caskey
I'll tell you exactly how it's been going. A lot of Africa has been turning to China and, and China has been gaining a lot of power.
Fabian Garcia
So even though we've been doing all these things, they're still turning in China is what you're saying. We're spending all these dollars and they're still going there. Clearly something's not working.
Cameron Caskey
Well, China's been so successful because of the partnerships with other countries that Donald Trump has been eroding. A lot of you talk about the.
Fabian Garcia
Belt and Road Initiative, because that's their initiative that they're doing.
Cameron Caskey
That is certainly one of the most evil things in modern history. Correct.
Fabian Garcia
So you're against the Belt and Road Initiative?
Cameron Caskey
Yes, correct. Very much so.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, well, me too. So that's good. Yeah, that was easy.
Cameron Caskey
But listen, when you're using these types of USAID program. Listen, I don't think the moral argument works when you're talking to DOGE stuff, because there's nothing moral about going in and cutting veteran benefits and pausing cancer research, which I don't think that that's how treatments work. I don't think.
Fabian Garcia
How's it been working out so far, how we cured cancer in the last 30 years? I mean, it's the same argument with the Africa thing. We're pouring money into it. Have we cured cancer? I mean, are we any better or are there more cancers now than there were in the last 30 years? Do we not have turbo cancers in all of our youth right now, spouting up out of nowhere? So clearly something's not working.
Cameron Caskey
So reevaluating that the studies weren't done.
Fabian Garcia
What studies weren't done?
Cameron Caskey
The cancer research that's being cut by the doge.
Fabian Garcia
What I'm saying is we've had cancer research for what, 50 years minimum, something like that, and we haven't solved it. So what's. What are they doing with the cancer stuff? Where's that money going?
Cameron Caskey
They're researching it.
Fabian Garcia
I mean, apparently not very well. It's been decades and we still have a cure for cancer.
Cameron Caskey
Well, if you have any recommendations, I'm sure their inbox is open. But that's why we have these types of programs. And beyond that, it's so much more. I mean, the type of stuff DOG is doing with disaster response. Right. I mean, there are states right now that are having natural disasters that are struggling to get in touch with fema.
Fabian Garcia
Oh, you mean like under Biden when he didn't shoot for Asheville, North Carolina.
Cameron Caskey
See, everybody likes to talk about that, and they don't realize that it was a Trump policy that led to that happening.
Fabian Garcia
Also, it was Trump's fault.
Cameron Caskey
Yes.
Fabian Garcia
That FEMA was inadequate.
Cameron Caskey
So when Trump passes policies that during his first trade.
Fabian Garcia
Sorry, do you mean Trump in his first term, pass a policy that affected Joe Biden's administration in fema, I'll do you better.
Cameron Caskey
He actually passed multiple.
Fabian Garcia
Okay.
Cameron Caskey
And when an administration passes something that inhibits government services from being able to help people. It turns out that those services aren't able to help people. And there's this thing that happens where the Democrats are so easy to blame for everything. And I would know this because I blame the Democrats for, like, almost everything. But very often when there is a crisis, that MAGA world either blames it on the libs or says there's nothing that could have been done in the first place. And it comes to a point where you're like, at what point is Trump to be held accountable for anything? Has he. Has he done anything wrong?
Fabian Garcia
Like, I mean, you're asking me specifically, or just the general population? As a general question, I'd love to hear your take. Oh, I think everyone does bad things all the time. What's about some things? Something they do, Some things they do bad, some things do good. You have to take the entire totality. We're 100 days or so into his presidency. People are like, oh, my gosh, the world is collapsing. It's like, dude, it's been three months. Relax. So let's see where it goes.
Cameron Caskey
The European Union turning to China for investment and partnerships, and that, is that a positive?
Fabian Garcia
To me, that's a capitalistic thing. If you think your company can be best served by going with someone who's going to give you better terms, why can't you do that? Are we to help? Are we to hold them hostage and say, you can't work with China or use what capitalists do and offer a better deal, a better program, a better product and say, look, come back to us. And that's exactly what Trump did in his Middle east trip, where he raised over a trillion dollars in investments from.
Cameron Caskey
Companies quite recently, threatened even more tariffs as the. That the better deal.
Fabian Garcia
I love tariffs. That's how we were funded between before, what, 1914 or whatever it was. We were exclusively funded by tariffs. And then we introduced the income tax and the Federal Reserve. And then what happened to tariffs? We still have them. Here's the thing. Joe Biden kept 95% of Trump's tariffs. A lot of people don't even know this. He kept 95% of it. He actually increased certain tariffs. Just like the ev. He doubled the EV tariff on China. So it's not like Trump just came out and put a bunch of tariffs. We have the massive trade deficit that we have to lower, and how we're going to lower either we increase taxes or increase tariffs. I'm all for increasing tariffs over taxes. I don't think we should have any tax whatsoever. So that's, that's where I stand on that issue.
Cameron Caskey
Are you familiar with the big beautiful bill that just passed?
Fabian Garcia
I am somewhat.
Cameron Caskey
So it was, so it was the largest wealth by many metrics. The largest wealth transfer from the board to the.
Fabian Garcia
This is always the same line. Every single administration, it's a wealth transfer. So you know, it was a wealth transfer. That's because Covid, you know what was created more in Covid? More billionaires were created during COVID than like, I don't even know any, any, any time before that. So you're talking about wealth transfer, you're focusing on government. But look at what's happening in the. Just in a regular private markets, whenever we have a shutdown of society, all of a sudden all these billionaires are created. Why? Because they get government, government contracts to fulfill something the government can't do because it's inadequate. You make a shit ton of money and then you buy influence in politics. And that's why politics is so fucked up, Right? Totally.
Cameron Caskey
Back. So back to what I was saying in the new big, big beautiful bill. You've got the wealthiest people in the country gaining quite a bit of money and you've got the poorest people.
Fabian Garcia
What do you mean by that?
Cameron Caskey
Let's take a look.
Fabian Garcia
Sure. Because in Trump's first, his talk, his tgc, aca, whatever, the Trump tax cuts, he actually increased. Black families saw an increase of $5,000 a year under the Trump tax cuts. That's. There's never been such an increase in wealth in black families other than when Trump passed it in 2017. So the big beautiful bill just finalized that and extended it.
Cameron Caskey
So in this bill we will be permanently.
Fabian Garcia
Hold on a second, hold on a second. Do you nothing about that. He literally increased black families wealth from its taxes in 2017 by $5,000 per family. They have never seen anything that has elevated their income so much other than that specific thing. And no one talks about that.
Cameron Caskey
So what this bill will do is permanently extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts which benefit households in the top 1% more than twice as much as those.
Fabian Garcia
What are you reading? What are you reading? What's the source?
Cameron Caskey
What I'm reading? Well, what's the source News. It'll also increase the pass through tax deduction for businesses from 20 to 23.
Fabian Garcia
And that's a bad thing?
Cameron Caskey
Preserve that. Yes, preserve the carried.
Fabian Garcia
So companies paying taxes are less taxes is a bad thing.
Cameron Caskey
Sorry, increase the pass through tax deduction.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, tax deduction. Tax deduction.
Cameron Caskey
23.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah. So you're raising a tax deduction, so you're paying overall less taxes as a.
Cameron Caskey
Business, thus transferring the wealth even further. Moving on, how are you transferring wealth if you're paying.
Fabian Garcia
No, no, no. If you're paying less money as a company and taxes, how is that transferring wealth to someone else? Your, your company is paying less taxes, so you have more money to create.
Cameron Caskey
Stuff with because this is the money that goes into the government services that is able to.
Fabian Garcia
That is running so efficiently. Right. That we're spending $42 billion here, 10 billion there. So we should just give more money to the government because they're working so well. Look, I have a solution. If you want to pay more taxes, you know that every single person can write a check to the IRS on their own. You don't have to advocate for more taxes. If you have a bunch of money, just give some away. Be altruistic.
Cameron Caskey
So how do you feel about this one? This will preserve the carried interest loophole, which allows private equity and hedge fund managers to pay lower tax rates than most workers. Trump has repeatedly promised to close this loophole.
Fabian Garcia
Well, you're talking about workers like W2 employees or what kind of work are you talking about? There's a very specific. A 1099 employee, someone who creates things compared to someone who just works for a company.
Cameron Caskey
So you think the private equity and hedge fund managers should be paying lower?
Fabian Garcia
I think no one should pay any taxes. So anything that's incrementally towards that goal, I am for. I think a tax is a, is, is, is a secret. It steals our money from us, including inflation, obviously, which is a hidden tax. So, no, I don't want any taxes. What whatsoever allow the government to run like it was initially supposed to be, very limited, very small and efficiently. So look, I have a easy, easy, easy way to fix the entire problem. Instead of the government making all these tax loopholes and tax rules making it so complicated so we don't know how much they're getting, where it's going. Why don't we do this? The government says, look, we're going to not charge any taxes, and at the end of the year, we're going to tell you how much money we need to print in order to fulfill our duties or responsibilities as a government. That way every single American will see, wow, you really need $3 trillion this year. That's how much you. That's how much you need. Instead of saying, well, we got 2 trillion from taxes here and tariffs here. Because when you muddle it, the average American can't understand if it's working efficiently. If they did it this way, everyone would know here's how much the government needs to print to fuck us over and to put money in their pockets. That would be a much simpler way to do it.
Cameron Caskey
Okay, well, in a world where I understand what that means, no taxes.
Fabian Garcia
Government needs money. They print money at the end of the year and tell the American people how much they're gonna print. It doesn't get simpler than that.
Cameron Caskey
Yeah, okay, that sounds like a great plan. Again, can you explain it a little further because I'm simple minded.
Fabian Garcia
That's fine. That's literally it.
Cameron Caskey
That's it.
Fabian Garcia
No taxes. Government spends money, right? They have a budget and things like that. At the end of the year, they tell the Americans, hey, here's how much money we need to print because we didn't charge any taxes, so we're not taking any money. But here's how much money we need to print in order to run the government for the next year or for the next quarter.
Cameron Caskey
So.
Fabian Garcia
And every American would see exactly how much the government spending.
Cameron Caskey
So when Trump proposes a trillion dollar Pentagon budget, you think that that shouldn't be paid?
Fabian Garcia
You mean the DOD or the Pentagon specifically?
Cameron Caskey
I don't care, regardless.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, well this, it's, it's a DoD budget. It's not specifically a Pentagon bucket.
Cameron Caskey
Okay, so do you think that our tax money should be going to, that.
Fabian Garcia
I think we need to defend. Yeah, absolutely. You have to have an army you have to defend. Now, do I think a lot of that goes to the military industrial complex? Yes. Do I think it should be Limited? Yes, 100%. But in the world where you have China and you have all these things going on, what are you going to do? Right, you have technology that the Chinese are advancing way faster than us, as far as we know, obviously. I know they have programs that we don't even know about, but when you have fifth generation technology being held by Chinese now and working on sixth generation technology, you have to do something that R and D is incredibly expensive. Just one of those helmets in the F35 costs something like $300,000 because it's specifically made for each individual pilot according to their specific measurements.
Cameron Caskey
So you're going to tax money going to that.
Fabian Garcia
I'm, I'm, I'm okay with the DoD having a budget. I think they spend too much. Yes, but it's something that's necessary. More necessary than something like giving 10 million to Ghana or wherever it was for circumcision.
Cameron Caskey
Listen, I Think that it is extremely important for global health to be us to be investing in global health. I think that if we were more invested in global health, we would probably be seeing a lot less epidemics that kill a lot of people. And that is stuff that I'm totally cool with my tax dollars going to I. When I have to pay my tax.
Fabian Garcia
Epidemics that kill more people. Like, what epidemics do we have recently?
Cameron Caskey
What epidemics do we have that US Aid works to prevent? A lot of them. That's what USAID is for.
Fabian Garcia
Like, which one, though?
Cameron Caskey
Hiv.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, that's new. Do we not have medicines you can take? You could take a pill every single day.
Cameron Caskey
We do. Other people don't.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, so. And we can't ship it to other countries. Like, private companies can't sell to other countries, and they can't use their. Their, their money to buy these medicines. You have to rely on us.
Cameron Caskey
We should.
Fabian Garcia
Africa can't be like, yo, 40% of our people have HIV. There's a little pill. You take it every day. You can have sex. You won't get hiv. You.
Cameron Caskey
If we could provide those services for people, we absolutely should.
Fabian Garcia
Meaning we as Americans pay for everyone else's health all around the world, except.
Cameron Caskey
For ourselves, where they can't afford it. Yeah, I don't mind. That doesn't bother me.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, so who's gonna pay for it?
Cameron Caskey
The American taxpayer.
Fabian Garcia
Okay. And are they pulled. Sorry, Are they pulled about this? Do they give their consent to have their money spent? Right. Because typically you vote in a.
Cameron Caskey
Well, you know that a lot. A lot of these USAID programs that the DOGE is molesting are, like, very often bipartisan. As a matter of fact, they almost unilaterally receive bipartisan support.
Fabian Garcia
And just because they're bipartisan, they're good. No, if something's bipartisan, most of the time, it's even more egregious than one side taking it. Because we have a unit party in Washington, as you probably know, that's influenced by money and politics and special interests that codify these things into laws which benefits that company. So, yes, if it's bipartisan, I don't care. It's not like, oh, my gosh, do you agree? So it's a great thing. No, that's when I'm even more scrupulous. I'm like, why does everyone agree on this one thing? Who's making money off?
Cameron Caskey
So what does a conservative senator have to gain from the United States offering services to people who are dealing with epidemics in Africa? A Conservative is there for it?
Fabian Garcia
Maybe money, I don't know.
Cameron Caskey
So you think that's. Politicians who were supporting USAID were getting paid by some sort of interest group?
Fabian Garcia
Every politician is getting paid by some sort of interest group.
Cameron Caskey
Okay, what interest group is paying people to support US Aid?
Fabian Garcia
You're telling me a hypothetical that. You're not even naming a specific senator. You're just saying a Republican senator. So I can't respond to hypotheticals and give you specific numbers. I don't. I have no idea.
Cameron Caskey
But if I gave, if I gave you the right Republican senator, you'd be able to tell me which interest group wanted them to.
Fabian Garcia
No, I don't have that kind of knowledge in my head. I don't have. I wish I did. I'd be like, what is genre?
Cameron Caskey
What genre of interest group? Like, what type of interest group is paying off Republicans to support usaid?
Fabian Garcia
Again, I have no idea the answer to that question. It's so specific.
Cameron Caskey
Well, it sounds like you're telling a fairy tale.
Fabian Garcia
No, it's actually, you're the one saying it. You're saying that congressmen that do this, that do this for a certain reason. I'm saying it's probably money. That's the biggest issue in politics.
Cameron Caskey
Money from where?
Fabian Garcia
Get the money from special interest groups.
Cameron Caskey
Interested in what?
Fabian Garcia
In whatever they want to be interested in.
Cameron Caskey
In preventing HIV in Africa.
Fabian Garcia
That's exactly what. Special, interesting.
Cameron Caskey
HIV in Africa. Industrial.
Fabian Garcia
It could be whatever. It's a special interest. There's. There's people who are lobbying people to make, you know, sodomizing kids legal. Right. Do you have these crazy leftist groups that are special, interesting leftists?
Cameron Caskey
You know that libertarians are the ones who are the most supportive of child marriage.
Fabian Garcia
Was that like a poll or something like that? They pulled the returns and they're like, what were you talking about? You're making these grand statements without any foundation. I can't even respond to that. But you think it's like me saying all trolls.
Cameron Caskey
You're the one who started saying it's the leftist, so I would love to hear what you're pulling from there.
Fabian Garcia
What's the leftist?
Cameron Caskey
The.
Fabian Garcia
No, what I said was that everyone has special interests. The left is trying to codify these, these, these terrible acts into law. And, and they are a special interest.
Cameron Caskey
What terrible acts?
Fabian Garcia
I mean, look at the left. What are they doing? They're trying to break up the nuclear family. They're trying to make victims.
Cameron Caskey
What are they trying to codify?
Fabian Garcia
I'm telling you right now, the government misinformation board under Joe Biden almost passed until the outlash from people who are pissed off. You understand that he was literally going to say the government can decide what is true and not. I mean, think about that. That was under Joe Biden and I don't know if you know about this. It's called the government disinformation board and it was supposed to be they were going to dictate what is disinformation and misinformation and what is true. And that came from the left. So that's just one example of.
Cameron Caskey
No, but you were talking about. You're saying something about like fornicating children that the leftists were supporting. I would love to hear you.
Host
You did say a leftist extremist group.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah. Leftists are trying to abolish the minimum age of consent. They're trying to abolish the fact, you know, there's leftists that saying that you can marry animals. Did you know that? Because when you go to postmodernism, there is no objective reality other than what exists in your head. So whatever stupid bullshit you invent in your head, you can say, this is my lived experience and if you don't agree with me, then I'm a victim and you're doing microaggressions and then you're. You're an oppressor. That's the entire ball game. So that's all it is.
Cameron Caskey
But we, we can't. We don't know exactly how leftists are going for the fornicating children thing. That's just a. That's just.
Fabian Garcia
Dude, have you not been to like, protests and stuff? Do you not. So let me tell you what I do.
Cameron Caskey
Run protests.
Fabian Garcia
Great. I go to protests all the time. Sometimes as undercover, sometimes as just. Just trolling them, sometimes debating them. And the stuff that these people are pushing for that I see all the time are some of the most despicable things that you can think about. And they are pushing for it. Not everyone, but there are. Because a left is so fractured. You have so much. I mean, it's postmodern. So you can make up whatever reality in your head and start pushing for that reality to become a alternate version of our reality. This is what that is, you know, Hegelian dialectical materialism. That's exactly what it is. So you have all these people pushing for all this crazy stuff. So. Yes. And I don't know if you've been there, but you should talk to some leftists because they're fucking crazy, man.
Cameron Caskey
Oh, don't I know it. Yeah, but when you're talking about things like leftists supporting and advocating for, and frankly, even working to make the fornication of children legal, you're speaking about it in the context of. This is something that is happening systematically. Not this systematically.
Fabian Garcia
I said there's sections in the left because the left is so fragmented. No one believes anything. The same thing. Right. Intersectionality. Everyone has their own oppression in their own life. Right. So it's not systematically. I'm saying there's people on the left who are advocating for egregious things, not just specifically. That was just one random thing. I talked about a whole host of things. And they're trying to get into mainstream media and move the Overton window so we can talk about this stuff.
Cameron Caskey
So when you say leftists, you're not talking about the larger progressive movement, you're talking about some people that you saw at a protest. Because if I went to, like.
Fabian Garcia
Actually, I'm not.
Cameron Caskey
So what is the. What is the progressive establishment doing to support child fornication?
Fabian Garcia
Well, you're. You're progressive, right? I mean, you supported Bernie Sanders in 2020.
Cameron Caskey
Yeah.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, so would you consider yourself a pro? Like a progressive?
Cameron Caskey
I'm more progressive.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, so then you should know. Tell me, tell me, what's your side doing? What are they pushing for?
Cameron Caskey
Well, I.
Fabian Garcia
Because I talk to people and I just told you. And you're asking what they're doing.
Cameron Caskey
Progressive establishment itself.
Fabian Garcia
The progressive establishment. I mean, I don't think there's much of an established right now. Correct, Correct. You guys are going through a massive.
Cameron Caskey
Civil war when you're talking. Very true. And it is kind of a huge pain in the ass to watch. But when you're talking about. You're making this statement, I really want to make sure we can get. I have the best understanding here. I'm here to learn. When you're saying leftists are supporting the fornication of children, People on the right don't do this. Right. It's the leftists.
Fabian Garcia
People on the inside could do whatever they want.
Cameron Caskey
So why. So why would I say that?
Fabian Garcia
People on the right would never do something like.
Cameron Caskey
Well, why are you calling out the left specifically?
Fabian Garcia
Because they're the ones who are pushing for this en masse.
Cameron Caskey
How so? I told you, by talking.
Fabian Garcia
They have protest.
Cameron Caskey
When you go to a protest, people. When you go to a protest to troll. You hear some people say some crazy stuff. Same way that I've heard.
Fabian Garcia
It's not just that I hear it. You see, I don't know if you've Read. You might be in an echo chamber on social media. That's probably why you don't see it.
Cameron Caskey
But like, I follow more right wing people on social media than I follow left wing people. Mostly because I think it's funny. What are you saying?
Fabian Garcia
Leftists said there's no genders. Right. Gender is a social construct. Imagine us talking about that 10 years ago. I'd be like, dude, that's crazy. They're not going to do that. Oh, guess what? They did it. They're advocating for removing the age of consent from 18 down to whatever. Because in your head you can be a five year old if you want to be a five year old.
Cameron Caskey
Where are they advocating for that and who is trying to pass that bill?
Fabian Garcia
No, I didn't say it's the bill they're trying to pass.
Cameron Caskey
So it's.
Fabian Garcia
Some people said they're trying to get it. Earlier I mentioned that. What you do is you start talking about what I would say are filthy things, you get it into the mainstream and you try to normalize it, and you move the Overton window, which is the things that are acceptable to be spoken about in a society at any given time in history, you move the Overton window to the left. And that's exactly what's been happening. That's exactly why your side got destroyed in the election. And if you don't fix it, you're not gonna win for the least, let's say 16 years or so.
Cameron Caskey
So the people at the protest, who I'm at, who are telling me that the mass shooting at my high school didn't happen, the one that I was hiding from under a desk for several hours, would it be fair of me to characterize that as something that the right is doing?
Fabian Garcia
Of course. But you think the right's not doing stupid shit too? Of course they are. And I fight against them too, because I live in an objective reality, not in a collectivist mindset, not in a transgressive mindset, not in a whatever they live in. Both left and the right are basically the same people. They advocate for giving state control. They're statistically. They advocate for giving all the control to an authority in power or authoritarian idea, and they force everyone else to not be individuals anymore. Fuck meritocracy. We're all going to be this kind of identity. And if you're not, well, you know, you're shit out of luck.
Cameron Caskey
So you're not for the centralized power.
Fabian Garcia
No.
Cameron Caskey
So when Trump is giving government contracts to Elon Musk while he's slashing Regulatory power.
Fabian Garcia
It's just Trump that gave Elon contracts from the government. I'm pretty sure NASA did. NASA did it. Like back when Elon started SpaceX.
Cameron Caskey
That wasn't my question. My question is when Donald Trump is cutting regulations and giving regulations.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, I'm for that.
Cameron Caskey
Great. And giving those types of programs to Elon specifically. That's a type of centralized.
Fabian Garcia
Wait. Those types of programs to Elon specifically? What types of programs are you talking about?
Cameron Caskey
Elon has benefited in SpaceX from the Trump administration and under Obama and under Biden.
Fabian Garcia
Under Biden and under Obama did not have contracts under them as well.
Cameron Caskey
Well, they weren't ripping shit up in order to give it to Elon.
Fabian Garcia
You know that we're. The only way that Americans can get to space is on Elon's rocket. Otherwise they have to pay Russia. You know that we used to pay $11 million for the Soyuz rocket to get a space. A trip to the space station. Once we decommissioned a space shuttle in 2011. You know what the Russians did? Oh, you can't get up there. Oh, now it's 80 million. We're paying $80 million to the Russians per ride to the Soyuz or to the space station. Until Elon created the Dragon capsule. So is he getting government contracts? Absolutely. Do we have any other option to get to space? Absolutely not. Even NASA can't do it. NASA try to launch. Even Boeing try to launch. Launch their. Their capsule. What did it do?
Cameron Caskey
We got Boeing.
Fabian Garcia
It got stuck.
Cameron Caskey
Boeing did it. It would have exploded and it would have killed the whistleblower. I don't think I'm supposed to say that.
Fabian Garcia
No. Boeing is Boeing's internal.
Host
We can all agree on that one. They're notorious for.
Fabian Garcia
That's for damn sure. Yeah, that. That we agree on. That's for sure.
Cameron Caskey
Yeah. Boeing, if you're listening to this, I was kidding.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, Boeing, I own your stock, so chill.
Host
You own their stock?
Fabian Garcia
No, but I gotta say that.
Cameron Caskey
And you and you should all buy Boeing stock. Every. All three of us collectively endorse the purchase of Boeing stock. And if there's anything else you could do to support. Just write a nice letter.
Host
Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to Boeing. You guys should sponsor the podcast. You guys ready to move on from that?
Fabian Garcia
Yeah.
Host
Deportations. You're for them. I'm assuming you're against them, right?
Cameron Caskey
I'm against them without due process. I'm not against deportations as a concept.
Host
So Trump offering to pay for their flight is not sufficient enough for you?
Cameron Caskey
Well, that sounds like a waste of government Money. That sounds like the type of. If Biden was doing that, I feel like there would be an outrage on the right. If Biden was spending.
Fabian Garcia
If Biden was deporting, there'd be an outrage. I would have voted for Biden if Trump wasn't running against him.
Cameron Caskey
So many people Obama deported.
Fabian Garcia
Obama did deport a lot of people, more than Trump. And the left doesn't talk about that.
Cameron Caskey
The left doesn't talk about that because it does not conveniently serve the narrative that we all want to drive. And yet Biden and Trump were. And if you look at the Harris campaign's platform, if you can call it a campaign. If you look at the Harris effort. No, that's. That's a big word.
Fabian Garcia
Dumpster fire.
Cameron Caskey
If you look at Harris 2024. The Harris. The Harris brat summer.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah.
Cameron Caskey
If you look at their policy on immigration, one of the things that I noticed while I was looking at the Harris campaign was that the Harris. We're just gonna say campaign because it's easier. The Harris campaign's policy on immigration was not extremely different or actually noticeably very different from Trump's at all. I mean, Trump has obviously gone way further than what he said he was gonna do. And this in El Salvador, I don't.
Fabian Garcia
Think he's gone as far as he said he was gonna go.
Cameron Caskey
Well, he doesn't have the money. From a policy standpoint. Absolutely. Excuse me. Absolutely. From a rhetoric standpoint, it's different because the. That he was saying he was gonna do that, I think a lot of people shrugged off as just inflammatory. He's doing. You know, he is very much being the. They're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs. Donald Trump, which I heard somehow the. Eating the cats and dogs stopped.
Fabian Garcia
But why is it. Hold on. It had nothing to do with the debate, but why is that so out of the realm of possibility? Dude, I've eaten dog in Vietnam. Like, people eat dogs all over the world, especially in poor places. So why. They're like, oh, they're not, dude. The guy in Haiti, the leader of Haiti's barbecue, he literally is eating body parts on camera.
Cameron Caskey
He's still in power.
Fabian Garcia
I think so. I think the Clinton kept him there.
Cameron Caskey
Yeah, the Clintons kept barbecue in power. I don't think probably. I don't think that timeline aligns, because from what I understand, barbecue was.
Fabian Garcia
Don't. The Clintons still run Haiti doesn't like their daughter. She said on this massive board. And they're taking all the minerals from Haiti, and they have all the contracts for stuff like that, it's insane.
Cameron Caskey
I can't say that I'm aware of what boards Chelsea sits on. I can say I don't think Chelsea Clinton was putting barbecue in power.
Fabian Garcia
I don't think she was either.
Cameron Caskey
I think that Haiti being a complete failed state and there was some effort, I don't really remember what it was with the UN to send Kenyan troops. And I believe what happened was they sent Kenyan troops funded by the UN into Haiti to try and gained some sort of control over these gangs.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah.
Cameron Caskey
And they just got completely ripped. And the Haiti Haitian police is obviously just, if not an extension of the gangs, completely incapable of dealing with them. And that's the type of situation where I don't know what the fuck anyone's supposed to do. Because when we get involved in Haiti famously it always goes to shit. But the way that these gangs have consolidated their power, the way they control the airport, um, it's crazy. And the craziest thing, and this is completely off topic, is that next door in the Dominican Republic they're fucking vibing, chilling, crushing, chillin. It is so odd. And a big part of it, I learned this on a YouTube video, so it might not be true, was the deforestation from when the French had colonized Haiti. They made it so the sediment in the ground wasn't strong enough. And therefore when the hurricanes come in, Dominican Republic has this forest cover that's able to keep them a lot safer, whereas these landslides, the ground is falling apart. And of course France just kept Haiti colonized financially and like they do with Africa, like they do with Africa in the coup belt. Have you heard about the coup belt?
Host
I haven't.
Cameron Caskey
There's a section of Africa right now where there has been a. There has been a series of coups, fighting off the French and. And yeah, Ibrahim Treor, that I don't know.
Fabian Garcia
Okay. So he's basically a 34 year old guy in Africa from Burkina Faso and he did the exact same thing. He's like, we're cast off all the western colonizers. And guess who cozies up to him now? Putin. So he's like, great, I got one.
Cameron Caskey
Well, well the Wagner group is like all over Africa right now.
Fabian Garcia
They're destroyed. Well, they're destroyed in the Ukraine. They killed the main guy.
Cameron Caskey
I do remember seeing that from what I've heard and what I've read about the Sudanese civil war, which is kind of hard to really tell because we have such a limited access to information about that. This is a Joe Rogan ass Conversation. What I've heard about the Sudanese civil war is that there are Wagner troops and Ukrainian troops on the ground there fighting a proxy war. It seems as though Russia loves their proxy wars in Africa. And it's like, historically, all these other countries trying to maintain some sort of dominance over these. These governments doesn't go very well, but everyone's like, nope, run it back. We're going back.
Fabian Garcia
As long as you're getting all the minerals out of the land, you. Why would you want it stable? I mean, you want.
Cameron Caskey
I'm pretty sure my iPhone comes from there, right?
Host
Yeah, probably.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, exactly.
Cameron Caskey
A lot. Probably.
Fabian Garcia
You were talking about the Kamala campaign before we went off on this.
Cameron Caskey
Oh, yeah, I was going to say on immigration, like, she was huge on cracking down on the border, and it was like a very big thing. And by the way, there was a bill that. I hate to use the B word, but was that bipartisan support that the Democrats, the Republicans, were both completely behind? Chuck Schumer said, put it on my desk, I'll sign it. That was heavily cracking down on the border. And then Trump made a bunch of phone calls.
Fabian Garcia
Wait, wait, wait. You mean the one that said that after a certain amount of people every day, I think it was like 5,000 people or whatever it is, than Trump, than Biden can. Could make the decision to shut down the border. You know that that doesn't solve the issue whatsoever because all it does, it keeps incentivizing people to come to the border. And after there's a certain number of people that cross, they say, okay, guys, we're closed for today. Come tomorrow, every single day. I mean, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Cameron Caskey
And it's so surprising to me that so many of the MAGA conservatives were behind it. Do you think that?
Fabian Garcia
Were they? I don't know. I haven't spoken to a lot of people specifically about that bill.
Cameron Caskey
Yeah, it had. It had full support. And again, I don't want to throw around the B word too often, but, like, everybody was behind it until phone calls and he said, kill it so he could pass it.
Fabian Garcia
What's the problem at the border? Like, what's the main problem at the border.
Cameron Caskey
I'm at the border. Is that we don't have the resources to help the amount of people are coming in.
Fabian Garcia
No, the problem with the border is people were incentivized to come to the border in the first place. If you incentivize something, people are going to do it. That bill didn't address the main issue, which is making People not want to come to the border. They had all these little other provisions of like, okay, we can shut it down if we think it's too much for the day. We can do a little, you know, little this, a little that. But it didn't deincentivize people from coming to the border. You could still come. You still get a free flight anywhere you want in the country. You still get a free phone. You get a card, you get money. The UN tells you basically how to get in from the Darien Gap and go all the way up. It wasn't addressing the problem. It was a terrible bill.
Cameron Caskey
So the people who are drowning in the river trying to cross through, they were. They were incentivized. They were. They were told, pull up. You're going to be traversing extremely deadly terrain where you might very well get murdered by gang members and everything. And then. And then come over here and we'll take care of you.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, because people will do every. Anything for a better life. It's not just right now. It's across time. Some people traverse deserts because you have to stay alive. And if we have the best country, of course we want to come here. And if you're saying, hey, you know what? Yeah, it's going to be dangerous, but you come here, we'll give you a credit card, we'll give you a phone, we'll give you a flight anywhere, and we'll pay for all your housing at our expense. Why would you not? I mean, I would. If I was. If I was, I'd be jumping that border as fast as I damn could. But you have to deincentivize that action. And that bill did nothing to do that. And that's the problem with it.
Cameron Caskey
Where was the housing?
Fabian Garcia
You don't know about us paying, like, tens of billions of dollars for illegal housing.
Cameron Caskey
I'm familiar with the hotels being rented out and shit, but is that what you're talking about?
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, housing for the illegal immigrants in the form of hotels in the form of whatever they can fit them in. And. And who gets those contracts? Who gets those government contracts?
Cameron Caskey
Yeah, I don't mind that, to tell you the truth.
Fabian Garcia
You don't mind us spending money housing tens of millions of illegal immigrants?
Cameron Caskey
I am much happier with people housed than I am with them. Unhoused Americans or illegals. I am happier with any human being who is somewhere on the street being somewhere. There is a.
Fabian Garcia
But would you prioritize American citizens or illegals first?
Cameron Caskey
I would prioritize whoever is available. Like, I think housing should Be built for everyone.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, but who would you prioritize first? American citizens or illegals? Because we've been prioritizing illegals. And if you're okay with that, then just say it. That's completely fine. I am not. I think the fact that we have hundreds of thousands of people homeless in California, yet we're bringing in more illegal immigrants and then housing them with our taxpayer money instead of actually fixing a problem where Americans don't have housing themselves, and then you're taking tens of millions of people into houses, so increasing the market rent for people because there's less of it. I mean, that. In no world does that make any sense to me.
Cameron Caskey
I think that immigrants are a very important part of our economy.
Fabian Garcia
And they are, I agree, legal immigrants.
Cameron Caskey
Yeah, Well, I think illegal immigrants are an extremely important part of our economy. I think that without illegal immigrants, a lot of different parts of this country that work will not be working as well.
Fabian Garcia
So Americans can't, like, Americans can't work or what?
Cameron Caskey
Americans don't work the jobs.
Fabian Garcia
Why?
Cameron Caskey
Because they don't want to.
Fabian Garcia
That's. That's a very blanket statement. There's a lot of Americans who aren't even in the workforce anymore because they can't find a job that pays wages. Now, if we're going to raise tariffs on stuff and then incentivize companies to actually bring manufacturing back here and pay American wages, why would I not want that? Why would I not want the country to be stronger?
Cameron Caskey
Well, there's a lot of stuff that we don't even know how to make. Like Trump's talking about getting iPhones made here, and iPhones use chips that we don't have the technology or capacity to make.
Fabian Garcia
Not yet. Those are made in Taiwan, which is an ally for now until China tries to take it over. That's why they're moving manufacturing here. The one thing I do like that Biden did, I don't know if it's gonna work out, but the chips act now. I don't know if anything's been done. I don't think broken ground. But IBM, you know, put a bunch of money behind it. It's something that had to be done. So that I do agree. I do like that Biden did it. I don't know how he's doing it. So I may not agree with that. But in theory, we need to move manufacturing back. Do you think China is going to let us keep Taiwan?
Cameron Caskey
Well, if Trump is trying to move iPhone manufacturing here, especially since he was threatening to tariff, specifically Apple, which I don't think you can actually. I know for a fact that you can't tariff specific companies. That is not how tariffs work. Not that Trump seems to know how tariffs work, but if he's going to be putting this large tariff on Apple, which is kind of a huge part of how a lot of people in this country live their lives, to bring manufacturing here, to make stuff that we don't know how to make, that doesn't seem like good businessman stuff, that seems like sloppy, emotionally charged.
Fabian Garcia
So we should let China continue to manufacture these parts with slave labor. Meanwhile, they are the largest contributor to climate change in the entire world, accounting for 32% of all emissions. China, and it's done with no freedom, it's done with slave labor, and it's done with repressive laws and no freedom of speech. So if it's between allowing China to make all this stuff and then we pay, we make all this money in America, we send it to China, and then China gets to use that money, come back, buy influence, buy houses, buy companies, farmland too. Farmland. Like, what are we doing? We're getting cheap stuff made by slaves. We're giving the money to that country. The Communist Party is then coming, buying assets and influence in America. Meanwhile, it's the largest emitter of climate change. In no world does that make any sense to me. And that's why I'm so for tariffs.
Cameron Caskey
I love that you are putting the worker before the consumer, because I am always in support of putting the worker before the consumer. And the consumer would never be able to buy an Apple product again. Unless, of course, they invest in Bitcoin, which officially endorsed by the digital social.
Host
Yeah, shout out to Bitcoin.
Cameron Caskey
But you know, the. So if we start doing these iPhones, which, again, putting a tariff on one specific company is not how tariffs work. It's the same thing as when Trump was tariffing movies made in other countries. And it's like Trump came out as the President United States and said that he was going to tariff movies made in other countries.
Fabian Garcia
I remember we said that.
Cameron Caskey
Yeah, you can't tariff services. You can tariff goods.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, but you're not addressing the.
Cameron Caskey
No, no, no, no.
Fabian Garcia
You're pointing out small things.
Cameron Caskey
Totally. But, you know, it is worth noting that there's a lot of emotional sloppiness to it. And that's what I think motivated this I'm going to tariff Apple thing, which is just another one of those things where you could tell how unserious Trump is and you could tell how poorly planned all this is. And you could tell that he's not running this ship by people before he.
Fabian Garcia
But again, sorry, because. Because you're pointing out things that he said and say, this is what he meant. This is why it's not good. I just pointed out to the fact that China is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions and use a slave labor. They have no freedoms. And you just bypassed all that. And you're talking about Trump like, dude, that's a massive issue. That's huge.
Cameron Caskey
I agree. I think that the way that China treats their workers is absolutely devastating. I also think that it's why the consumer is able to buy these products at the price that they are. So I agree that the American consumer should be paying way more for their iPhones because we should be using labor practices that are safe, which I don't believe libertarianism is very in support of, by the way. But I do think it's worth noting that it is, in fact, the average American who is going to be paying for that. And it's not as though bringing all these jobs here is going to make the country some sort of bastion of technological development.
Fabian Garcia
It's not. How is moving more jobs here not going to make us better?
Cameron Caskey
Well, I mean, we've been doing AI here and China came out and fucked all of our AI to death by introducing one that's faster, cheaper, and more efficient. Like bringing jobs here to make chips that we don't know how to make for. IPhones that are going to cost $7,000 is not going to.
Fabian Garcia
Hold on a second. Chip. Chips are used in many different things. You have the microchips and you have the slightly larger ones that Taiwan makes. There's like this logistic chain of like 40 countries or 28 countries, including Germany, that makes all of the photo. Whatever the photovoltaic. I can't say the word, but you have this massive logistic chain that creates these chips. Why can't we make them here? What is it about? Because that's exactly what the chip tax is addressing, and that's what Donald Trump's addressing.
Cameron Caskey
I know.
Fabian Garcia
There's no barrier to making the chips here. It's just the fact that it was cheaper over there. And now they're like, okay, guys, we got to make them here.
Cameron Caskey
Now, the barrier is that we don't know how to make them.
Fabian Garcia
We actually do know how to make them. It's just the fact that we don't have the capacity to make them because we don't have the factories built yet. But they're getting built.
Cameron Caskey
And do you think that the labor practices there are going to. What do you think are appropriate labor practices for a factory like that?
Fabian Garcia
In America?
Cameron Caskey
Yeah, or anywhere.
Fabian Garcia
What do you mean?
Cameron Caskey
Well, okay, let's say. So we're building chips factories. We're making $7,000 iPhones. And.
Fabian Garcia
Well, you're assuming a lot there, but.
Cameron Caskey
Okay, help me. Help me figure out what I'm missing.
Fabian Garcia
Oh, I am. No way.
Cameron Caskey
Sorry. We're building $6,000 iPhones, and you are in charge of the labor protections for the workers because we need to make sure they're not being China slaves. Right?
Fabian Garcia
You mean like every other company does already in America?
Cameron Caskey
How so?
Fabian Garcia
But we have, like, laws and stuff like that, right? We have osha. We have things that protect workers.
Cameron Caskey
And you're supportive of labor laws?
Fabian Garcia
I think people should have the right to work and be comfortable in work and not be exploited. So that's just a general statement. If you're asking me specifically what part of OSHA I agree with. I can't get into those specifics, but yes, I agree that workers should have. What do you think they shouldn't?
Cameron Caskey
No, I think they should.
Fabian Garcia
I just.
Cameron Caskey
The libertarian stuff, I get confused because it's very.
Fabian Garcia
No, I'm not libertarian. I don't know if you thought I was.
Cameron Caskey
Oh, I totally thought you were.
Fabian Garcia
No, not at all. I'm a libertarian.
Cameron Caskey
Oh, good. Because libertarians are confusing, especially in terms of.
Host
What would you label yourself?
Fabian Garcia
I would. So I was. I was a classic Democrat. Classic liberal Democrat. By the way, I saw that you liked Andrew Yang in 2020. I was Yang Gang, too. I love the way that he talked about things in different ways, such as, why are we face. Why are we estimating the. The prosperity. The prosperity of our country? To stop GDP numbers, we should include health. We should include all these other things, like mental health. Like, that makes so much sense, stuff like that. These new ideas that people just don't want to try. Try them. And that's why I love that Trump's doing it. He's like, look, clearly something's not working. We got to try something. And here's the crazy part. So we just started the Trump presidency, right? In three years, let's say that everything he does makes America incredibly stronger, and everyone's a lot happier, everyone's healthier. With RFK doing all these things, what is the left going to fight about?
Cameron Caskey
What is RFK going to do to make us healthier?
Fabian Garcia
Well, he just removed Covid off the vaccine schedules for healthy, healthy kids and pregnant women.
Cameron Caskey
Right, right, right. And that's going to make people healthier.
Fabian Garcia
By not getting the. Well, I. I don't want to say the word because I don't want to get you shadow banned.
Host
I'll bleep it.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, but. Yeah. Do you think that we should be getting more vaccines to make us healthier?
Cameron Caskey
I think. I think we should be getting whatever the doctors recommend.
Fabian Garcia
Who tells the doctors to recommend stuff?
Cameron Caskey
Here's the thing.
Fabian Garcia
No, no, no, no. Who tells the doctors what to recommend? The pharmaceutical companies and the pharmaceutical reps.
Cameron Caskey
Well, what about the surgeon general who RFK just appointed who doesn't have a medical degree?
Fabian Garcia
Kaylee Means.
Cameron Caskey
Is she the one who says she talks to trees?
Fabian Garcia
I don't know if she said that.
Cameron Caskey
But she's the Woo Woo Wiccan.
Fabian Garcia
I don't know. We can't talk to trees.
Cameron Caskey
The one who dropped out of.
Fabian Garcia
I mean, I talked to myself all the time.
Cameron Caskey
The one who dropped out of medical school because she said it was too stressful. Which, by the way. Real. Real as. I would do the same thing. But she's RFK's pick.
Fabian Garcia
Okay.
Cameron Caskey
How is the medical school dropout gonna make us healthier?
Fabian Garcia
Well, I just said one of the things. I just think I just said one of the things that we did to try to make people healthier. Number one. I mean, like, are you not okay with making America healthy again? I just want to gauge. I don't know where you stand on that. Are you okay with artificial food dyes and, you know, corn oil and all our foods and sugar in all our foods?
Cameron Caskey
I think that it is very important for us to monitor these things. I personally believe that this should be free enough of a country where the companies that are making this shit should be allowed to do what they want. As long as there are regulators, free.
Fabian Garcia
Market capitalists, then you're a free market progressive capitalist.
Cameron Caskey
I am totally for free markets when they are regulated. Because there is a way to have free markets that are regulated, which is.
Fabian Garcia
What we have now. We have a massive regulation. Yeah, sure.
Cameron Caskey
But I think that what rfk, who is one of the most unqualified people in the history, United States government, says.
Fabian Garcia
In the history, like, even more than.
Cameron Caskey
Kamala Vice President Kamala Harris has experienced, Junior is a Nepo baby who, like, has cried and sounded like he's choking on sand for the past several years.
Fabian Garcia
That's crazy. I've never met anyone who hates RFK for trying to make America healthy. That's wild to me.
Cameron Caskey
He's not.
Fabian Garcia
That's crazy.
Cameron Caskey
He's read More medical misinformation than I think anybody in his position in history, really. Junior is one of the most dangerous people in the United States of America right now.
Fabian Garcia
Flip that right there. I don't, like. I don't know what world you're living in, but I don't know if you know, but we're not too healthy.
Cameron Caskey
Right now he's making an autism registry, trying to get to the bottom of what causes autism, because there have been more people reported to have autism in recent years. Now, what some people might say, yeah.
Fabian Garcia
And so, in fact, it was 1 in 10,000, like the 70s. Now it's 1 in 36. And in California, it's 1 in 32 kids have autism now. What's changed since that time? The vaccine schedule went from like, 20 to over a hundred vaccines.
Cameron Caskey
The ability to diagnose it is why more people are being so.
Fabian Garcia
You think people were dumb, like, 20 years ago and didn't know that this existed and didn't catch it? I think, like, no one knew what autism was.
Cameron Caskey
I know several people right now who are almost definitely autistic that just haven't been diagnosed. Like, in the 70s, they were not diagnosing autism the same way that they were not diagnosing.
Fabian Garcia
Yes, they were, actually. In fact, a bunch of states did really deep dives. I think Minnesota was one of them, if I'm. If I'm not mistaken, into autism. Many states did this, and that's where they got the 1 in 10,000 number. Now it's 1 in 32, 1 in 36. So what's changed?
Cameron Caskey
More people are getting diagnosed because more.
Fabian Garcia
People have it, maybe. Well, because you think millions of people had. And, like, I mean, I don't know how old you are, but I never saw someone with autism when I was a kid. Never. I never ran into autistic person one time in my life.
Cameron Caskey
And now I'm willing to bet you actually ran into a lot of autistic people that you just didn't know were autistic. Because I think you're characterizing something that's a spectrum, a very vast spectrum where people behave extremely differently from one another. I know people.
Fabian Garcia
You know autistic people when you see one. Especially when.
Cameron Caskey
That is the most absurd shit I've ever heard in my fucking life.
Fabian Garcia
If you see an autistic person, you don't know they're autistic.
Cameron Caskey
My little brother, I see and I say, oh, yeah, Holden's autistic. I know several other people, but you just said diagnosed with autistic but you.
Fabian Garcia
Just said you can't do that.
Cameron Caskey
I said that you cannot identify the people on a vast spectrum.
Fabian Garcia
I know maybe the ones that aren't like slightly, but you know, autistic person when you see one.
Cameron Caskey
So. So you think that this 1 in however many 30 something numbers, 1 in.
Fabian Garcia
36 or 132 in California, type of.
Cameron Caskey
I mean, it's so crazy talking about autism like this because. Because it's such a wide spectrum and there's so many people who have it that aren't diagnosed. So I, I truly don't even know how to.
Fabian Garcia
Dude, it's terrible. Like, wouldn't you want to get rid of that? And if vaccines could be the main.
Cameron Caskey
Vaccines do not cause autism. Every reputable doctor in the entire world has it on very good authority.
Fabian Garcia
That's a big claim. Every doctor in the world.
Cameron Caskey
I said every reputable doctor.
Fabian Garcia
What does that mean? Red Rubble? To who? By who? Who defines that?
Cameron Caskey
Peer reviewed studies by people in the medical field.
Fabian Garcia
We do not talk to trees.
Cameron Caskey
Like Robert F. Kennedy Jr's person. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Who goes for little swims in like toxic lakes. Did you see that?
Fabian Garcia
That's crazy. So you think that, okay, does bad food cause autism or is it just. Is it like the universe that, you know, if you believe that the universe came out of nothing, it just happened. Like it just randomly happened. There is a genetic mutation in the universe.
Cameron Caskey
Just randomly happened? I believe so, yeah.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, so I mean, we don't have to get into philosophical thing, but how does something come from nothing?
Cameron Caskey
How does something come from nothing? From what I understand, the big bang.
Fabian Garcia
Something came from nothing. Correct. So how does that happen?
Cameron Caskey
Are you asking where autism comes from?
Fabian Garcia
No, you said. I'm just asking a question. How does something come from nothing? So if autism, what, came out of nowhere, it just like appeared?
Cameron Caskey
No, I'm saying it was there the whole time. Less people were getting diagnosed with it in the same.
Fabian Garcia
At the same level that we have now?
Cameron Caskey
Well, I'm not a scientist, but no.
Fabian Garcia
But do you think it was the same level?
Cameron Caskey
I do not think any increase that exists in any way, shape or form is in any way, shape or form tied to vaccines, food, dyes, anything like that.
Fabian Garcia
So no environmental impacts or is done to the body by diet, food, air quality, what you put in your body, vaccines, none of that is contributing.
Cameron Caskey
I totally think that like microplastics are going to. Why are. Why I'm going to die of cancer when I'm 56. That's very different than saying like vaccines cause Autism.
Fabian Garcia
So it's just plastic that causes bad things to happen. Not vaccines, not diet.
Cameron Caskey
There's asbestos, there's heavy metals. I mean, that sounds bad. I can't speak to heavy metals. But look, I think that regulating the amount of toxic things that go into food is great. I think that that ought to be done. So this is crazy, using that as a Trojan horse to suggest that vaccines cause autism.
Fabian Garcia
I can't get over it. You're okay with pumping 100 vaccines into a kid by the time they're three years old, and you think that's making them better?
Cameron Caskey
I am.
Fabian Garcia
You think the human body is that stupid, that it can't, like, survive like we've done for however long we've been here?
Cameron Caskey
I'll tell you this. I know one reason I don't have polio right now, and that is vaccines. Would you like polio?
Fabian Garcia
That vaccine was actually had human trials in it, and it ran the entire gamut of the way they should do things, unlike the COVID vaccine, which they got an expedited approval because we needed it ASAP.
Cameron Caskey
Okay, so the COVID vaccine happened in 2012. By the way, the Donald Trump was enthusiastically pushing. I don't know if you remember that.
Fabian Garcia
Operation, because we thought everyone was going to die, because they did a really good job at convincing everyone that it was the only way out of the disaster. Just like climate change. They played.
Cameron Caskey
I'm sorry, they played Donald Trump for a fool. They got. Donald Trump probably towered Operation Warp Speed.
Fabian Garcia
If everyone around him, including Fauci, is telling him this is what's going to happen.
Cameron Caskey
You think Donald Trump is listening to Fauci?
Fabian Garcia
I think he was listening to everyone. And when everything was happening, I think he did get duped by a few people. And that's why I'm so glad that this second term he's cleaning house. He's not. He's not dealing with that crap anymore. So, yes. What do you think a president's not. Not. He's not told a million things every single day? Of course he is.
Cameron Caskey
What do you think makes somebody in Trump's house worth getting out of there? Like, if Trump's cleaning house because he was surrounded by all these negative influences in his first administration, what. What is the. What qualifies someone as somebody who ought to be purged?
Fabian Garcia
Oh, I don't know. That's him. I don't know what he does for that.
Cameron Caskey
So Trump, just because he has this great judgment, has been able to figure out what went wrong in the first administration and rooted out yeah, right.
Fabian Garcia
Like, if you do something once, you make mistakes, you do it again, you make less mistakes. That's just life. That's like video games. Play video games, you lose.
Cameron Caskey
Was a drunk texting Yemen war bomb plans in the signal chat? Was that a mistake?
Fabian Garcia
Probably.
Cameron Caskey
Okay, when he did it again, was that a mistake?
Fabian Garcia
After. After he knew that it was a telegram group that people from the media were in, you're saying he did it.
Cameron Caskey
After he knew that Hegseth leaked Yemen war plans twice?
Fabian Garcia
Okay, well, it wasn't war plans. He said, we're gonna, like, bomb the shit out of him or something like that. He wasn't saying, hey, like, this is exactly what squander we're gonna use, but.
Cameron Caskey
We shouldn't clean house from Hegseth. He's good.
Fabian Garcia
That decision Trump has to make on himself. I mean, you're writing in a chat. You don't. You don't. You like. You think that he knew that people from the media were in that chat? You think he knew that? And it was like, fuck it. Let me just write all this shit anyway. Like, what are you talking about?
Cameron Caskey
So that. So. So just to be clear, you're Donald Trump. You're like, hegseth stays.
Fabian Garcia
It's. It's his cabinet. He does.
Cameron Caskey
What about Cash Patel, the FBI director who showed up to the budgetary hearing without a budget? That sounds like a mistake, right?
Fabian Garcia
I love Cash Patel, man. That's. That's papa number two.
Cameron Caskey
So? Well, so he's using government resources to travel to UFC fights and to go see his country singer girlfriend in Tennessee. Do you think that should be doged out of existence, or do you think he's cool?
Fabian Garcia
If he's using taxpayer money. Do you have proof of this?
Cameron Caskey
He's using the FBI plane to fly to the ufc. To fly to UFC games. Not just that. Also NHL.
Fabian Garcia
So he landed in the FBI plane when he went to ufc. You're saying this for a fact, like you've seen NHL. Okay, but.
Cameron Caskey
Well, let's go through.
Fabian Garcia
That's the thing. That's the thing. You make these claims, but you're just like, oh, I don't know.
Cameron Caskey
I know. That's why I'm gonna look it up.
Fabian Garcia
That's. That's. You know, that's. That's why I like, actually just talking about what I know. Because if I start talking about stuff, I don't know, we could fact check it.
Cameron Caskey
He has used it. He has used it for visiting his girlfriend, attending hockey games.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, but again, you can't just read.
Cameron Caskey
Something Random, like I. CBS News random to you?
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, it's pretty random. CBS News, all news is random to me. Okay, well then including, I mean, on all sides.
Cameron Caskey
So I shouldn't even go further into the things I'm reading on CBS News about.
Fabian Garcia
Are there pictures? Is it corroborated? I mean, what are we talking about?
Cameron Caskey
Pictures of him in the plane? Do you want pictures of him at the ufc?
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, I don't know what that article is.
Cameron Caskey
Well, I mean, CBS is kind of regarded pretty widely as a reputable organization.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, depends who you're talking to.
Cameron Caskey
Okay, well, when you're talking, just like.
Fabian Garcia
When you say reputable doctors all say that vaccine don't cause autism.
Cameron Caskey
Matter of fact, like almost every single one of them. And I don't know a reputable doctor who's ever said there's any link between vaccines and autism.
Fabian Garcia
How many doctors have you talked to around the world? You said every doctor, Every reputable doctor around the world says it doesn't do it. That's a massive claim.
Cameron Caskey
I do this thing that the Make America Healthy Again movement doesn't seem to enjoy, which is read. And the peer reviewed studies that I've seen suggest that there's absolutely no.
Fabian Garcia
You said every single reputable doctor around the world worldwide. Like, that's a massive claim. I know, because they're talking about who gives, who gives that reputability. And you're saying you've looked at all these things. Now if you said a lot of doctors. I've read that, I can agree with what you're telling me. Every reputable worldwide.
Cameron Caskey
Every single.
Fabian Garcia
Like that's like saying 99% of dentists approve this toothpaste. Like, come on, you can't say broad claims like that and just be like, everyone around the world does it. So it's right. There has to be a reason why. Why autism is. Has gotten to the level. There has to be a reason why turbo cancers are sprouting up everywhere, especially in young kids. There has to be a reason. It's not random with cancers.
Cameron Caskey
Oh my God, you've got again, but you said environmental.
Fabian Garcia
You said environmental factors don't cause autism. Food doesn't cause autism. You said that your health, whatever you're putting into your body, your vaccine. So what causes cancer then? Increased cancer.
Cameron Caskey
So are we talking about cancer? Autism Right now you want to talk about cancer?
Fabian Garcia
Both because you said that it doesn't cause autism. So does it cause cancer?
Cameron Caskey
Well, one of the things that causes cancer is a lot of the environmental stuff.
Fabian Garcia
But you just said, I Just asked you and you said it doesn't cause autism.
Cameron Caskey
I'm saying food coloring doesn't cause autism. I'm saying that the ability to diagnose more people with autism is why more people are getting diagnosed with autism.
Fabian Garcia
So does food, bad food cause cancer?
Cameron Caskey
I can only imagine that microplastics in food cause cancer. I can only imagine that, like toxic runoff, that Trump's administration obviously does everything they can to make sure it goes out there as much as possible. I think those things cause cancer. Totally.
Fabian Garcia
So not the food you put in your body?
Cameron Caskey
Not the food that I put in my. Well, the food I put in my body is filled with plastic. I'm pretty sure I'm going to die of cancer because of that.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, so remove plastic out of the equation. The food, besides the plastic, the food you put in your body, could it.
Cameron Caskey
Cause cancers with lead and preservatives? I could see that.
Fabian Garcia
Okay. But not autism?
Cameron Caskey
No.
Fabian Garcia
Why?
Cameron Caskey
Because when doctors study and review these things, they clearly outline the fact that autism is something.
Fabian Garcia
So doctors have said that food causes bad food, causes cancer, but that bad food does not cause autism. That's what you're saying? That's a claim.
Cameron Caskey
That is the boldest assertion I could possibly.
Fabian Garcia
You just literally said that.
Cameron Caskey
Underline.
Fabian Garcia
You can. You can. You literally just said that.
Cameron Caskey
Said what?
Fabian Garcia
That bad food can cause cancer.
Cameron Caskey
Well, autism and cancer. I don't. Listen, I'm not a medical science genius like RFK Jr. Or his dropout pick for Surgeon General, but autism and cancer are actually famously different things.
Fabian Garcia
Okay, I understand that. That's why I'm asking you. If you're saying food can cause cancer, but food can't cause autism. I simply asked you why. Why can one cause one thing but not the other if one is a deviation from the norm?
Cameron Caskey
Because they are different things. Okay, so you're saying that, like, autism is not cancer. Autism is cancer. Extremely different things.
Fabian Garcia
But you're saying that in biology, food can alter one way of living life and then cause something, but food cannot alter another thing and make it something else.
Cameron Caskey
Not autism.
Fabian Garcia
Well, that's a bold claim, man. I don't know how you explain.
Cameron Caskey
That's actually one of the most normal claims people make. It just happens to be that in this administration, because Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Dropped out and endorsed Donald Trump.
Fabian Garcia
That's why we have more autism.
Cameron Caskey
No, that is why it is being considered with any sort of legitimacy in the government that this absolutely insane autism shit that, by the way, gets a lot of people who are neurodivergent in harm's way. They are making an autism registry list where they are using private information, including information.
Fabian Garcia
Dude, that's what medical companies do. They use your information. That's exactly what they do when you ask.
Cameron Caskey
So when the United States government does it, it's cool. When RFK Jr is using private Medicaid information to make an autism.
Fabian Garcia
I haven't heard this, so I can't, I can't validate it. I don't know if you're telling the truth or what you're basing it off. I haven't heard that he's doing that. I've never, never not seen anything about that. So until I see some proof, I don't know, I can't really explain. I can't really respond to that.
Cameron Caskey
Well, let's find some proof.
Host
We gotta wrap this up in a minute or two. So you guys want to end on this or you want to end on closing comments?
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, we could do like closing comments.
Host
Okay. Yeah, do like.
Cameron Caskey
We didn't, we did not cover what I wanted to talk about.
Fabian Garcia
I don't know why we talked about vaccines.
Host
I only asked for two topics the whole time.
Cameron Caskey
According to npr, which could be fake news.
Fabian Garcia
We went all over.
Host
Once you said rfk, I saw his eyes light up.
Cameron Caskey
According to npr, which could also very well be considered fake news, depending on how much crack you smoke, the National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid to create a, quote, real world data platform to determine the cause of autism. That's cool.
Fabian Garcia
So what, what do you make of that?
Cameron Caskey
I think that they are using information that is a huge violation of people's individual liberty to try and find the cause for something if it's personalized, if.
Fabian Garcia
It has identified information, or if it's just stripped of all the metadata and just facts.
Cameron Caskey
I don't know what RFK Jr considers to be a fact.
Fabian Garcia
Well, you're talking about that the NIH goes and they get all these studies from pharmaceutical companies. Now if there's personalized data in there that identifies you, like metadata and stuff like that. Yeah, absolutely. That's a violation of privacy if it's stripped of all.
Cameron Caskey
Going for Medicaid information is a violation of privacy.
Fabian Garcia
Well, you know, the Medicaid uses their information to come up with reports all the time.
Cameron Caskey
I don't think that it is something that people like RFK are touching.
Fabian Garcia
So the NIH could do it, but once RFK gets inserted into it now it's bad because we've been doing this For a very long time.
Cameron Caskey
I mean, I think you can say once RFK gets involved with it, it gets bad about quite literally anything, including Cheryl Hines interactions with Donald Trump. And I will agree with you, but no, I don't think that RFK should be able to create an autism registry. I think that that's exactly the types of stuff that the Nazis were doing. Well, again, we were creating registries.
Fabian Garcia
You haven't validated that that's actually happening. So I'm just going to assume that it's a hypothetical at this point. So I see proof because I can't respond to it.
Cameron Caskey
I don't know what you consider proof.
Fabian Garcia
I mean, you couldn't find anything. You just tried to fact check me and you didn't find anything.
Cameron Caskey
I was reading it from npr.
Fabian Garcia
Yeah, that RFK is doing a. You actually, what you said was very different than what you had said. What you, what you read is different than what you said.
Cameron Caskey
I'm so curious as to what the discrepancy was.
Fabian Garcia
What you read me didn't say that. He's creating a database of every individual who has autism. Anyway, I'm tired of talking about autism.
Host
Yeah, let's. Let's end off with closing comments and where people can find you guys. That was fun time. Start with you, Fabian.
Fabian Garcia
So I believe one of the biggest problems in the world right now is that identity politics has been taken over by the left and they've really propelled it to the top where everyone's either an oppressor or oppressed. And if you're born in the wrong skin, then you're actually a bad person. Like if you're born with white skin, you're a bad person. You can't escape that. So then they're able to get you into the wrath the rest of your life. I think that people need to just stop doing this leftist stuff, get over the postmodernist stuff, get over identity politics, critical race theory. Go back to a country that values meritocracy. It's just me and you talking. If you're a good person, I treat you like a good person. You're a bad person. I treat you like that. That's what I think the left is fundamentally failing at.
Cameron Caskey
So bad.
Fabian Garcia
And they don't know how to get out of the hole that they've dug. I don't see any moderate voices coming out of the left, or I wouldn't call the left, but more of the centrist classic liberal Democrats because they're overshadowed by the people screaming on TikTok for clicks and I think that's the fundamental problem that you guys are having right now. And if you don't fix it, I don't know how you're going to win. Especially if Trump's going to make America great in the next few years if he does that. I don't know how you win, but anyone can find me on Instagram. It's the Fabian Garcia. That's about it.
Cameron Caskey
My Instagram is at Cameron Caskey. I don't recommend you follow it, but you're welcome to if you'd like. And our podcast is FY Podcast, which I don't like that title, by the way. I think that one of the biggest problems in the United States right now is that narcissism is more popular than ever.
Fabian Garcia
I agree.
Cameron Caskey
Are obsessed with centering themselves and everything. Kindness has become the counterculture, and the most dominant thing in the culture is the putting the interests of yourself in front of the interests of supporting the people around you. And I think that that applies in a micro and macro level. I think that people have divested from seeing the opportunities to help others. And I think people are centering themselves in everything. And it is a damn shame. And if you're curious as to whether or not I'm right, go sit on a fucking airplane right now and see how many people are watching TikToks without their fucking headphones in. And you will realize that we have become the most narcissistic world I think it's ever been. And with that, I say, please go support Boeing on behalf of all three of us bars.
Host
See you guys.
Podcast Summary: Digital Social Hour
Episode: Elon Musk's Influence: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Cameron VS Fabian Debate DSH #1396
Release Date: June 7, 2025
Host: Sean Kelly
In this episode of Digital Social Hour, host Sean Kelly facilitates a spirited debate between guests Cameron Caskey and Fabian Garcia. The discussion delves into the multifaceted influence of Elon Musk, government policies, global health initiatives, immigration, economic strategies, and controversial topics like vaccines and autism. The conversation is marked by intense exchanges, highlighting differing perspectives on political and social issues.
Fabian Garcia expresses strong support for Elon Musk, highlighting Musk's unparalleled reach and influence, especially through platforms like X (formerly Twitter).
Fabian Garcia [00:35]: "I love Doge and I love Papa Elon."
Cameron Caskey criticizes Musk, particularly focusing on his approach to government involvement and societal impacts. He references the Department of Government Efficiency, sarcastically nicknamed "Doge," arguing that its policies have led to significant cuts in essential programs.
Cameron Caskey [01:06]: "He doesn't seem to give them very much attention... I think that what he's done with the government is something that we're going to be seeing the consequences of for a very long time."
Cameron argues against USAID programs, citing cuts to cancer research and veteran benefits as detrimental outcomes of "Doge" policies.
Cameron Caskey [04:04]: "But listen, what DOG is doing with disaster response... veteran benefits were going to go in and."
Fabian counters by defending the Department of Government Efficiency's decision to pause rather than cut programs outright, though he acknowledges the complexities involved.
Fabian Garcia [01:44]: "Wait paused or cut, because they put a pause on a lot of things to reevaluate things. Cutting is a different thing."
The conversation shifts to the implications of Musk's policies on government efficiency, with Cameron highlighting unintended consequences such as reduced funding for cancer research and veteran benefits.
Fabian questions the reevaluation process and emphasizes the distinction between pausing and cutting programs.
Fabian Garcia [01:44]: "We put a pause on a lot of things to reevaluate things."
Cameron criticizes the Belt and Road Initiative, labeling it as one of the most "evil things in modern history."
Cameron Caskey [03:38]: "That is certainly one of the most evil things in modern history. Correct."
Fabian supports increasing tariffs over taxes as a means to address the trade deficit and argues that tariffs can be a more effective tool for economic reform.
Fabian Garcia [06:55]: "I love tariffs. That's how we were funded between before, what, 1914 or whatever it was."
The debate touches on the recently passed "Big Beautiful Bill," with Cameron arguing that it predominantly benefits the wealthy by extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
Cameron Caskey [07:37]: "So in this bill we will be permanently... benefits households in the top 1% more than twice as much as those."
Fabian counters by highlighting positive impacts of past tax cuts, such as increased wealth in Black families, and criticizes the complexity of wealth transfer through government programs.
Fabian Garcia [08:53]: "He actually increased black families wealth from its taxes from Trump's 2017 by $5,000 per family. They have never seen anything that has elevated their income so much other than that specific thing."
Cameron critiques both Biden's and Trump's approaches to deportations, emphasizing concerns about government spending and resource allocation.
Cameron Caskey [25:29]: "That sounds like a waste of government Money."
Fabian discusses the inefficacies of policies that incentivize immigration without addressing underlying issues, such as the lack of resources to support incoming migrants.
Fabian Garcia [31:28]: "The problem with the border is people were incentivized to come to the border in the first place."
The guests debate the feasibility and implications of relocating manufacturing, particularly for high-tech products like iPhones, to the United States.
Cameron raises concerns about labor practices and the potential increase in product costs due to stricter regulations.
Cameron Caskey [35:14]: "We have so much. I mean, it's postmodern. We can make up whatever reality."
Fabian defends the move towards domestic manufacturing, citing national security and environmental concerns associated with foreign production, especially in China.
Fabian Garcia [37:13]: "China, and it's done with no freedom, it's done with slave labor, and it's done with repressive laws..."
A heated segment arises around the topic of vaccines and their alleged link to autism. Cameron vehemently denies any connection, citing peer-reviewed studies and reputable medical consensus.
Cameron Caskey [47:11]: "Vaccines do not cause autism. Every reputable doctor in the entire world has it on very good authority."
Fabian challenges Cameron's blanket statements, questioning the validity and sources of his claims, and emphasizing the complexity of diagnosing conditions like autism.
Fabian Garcia [47:18]: "We do not talk to trees. How does something come from nothing?"
The conversation further explores discrepancies in autism diagnosis rates and environmental factors influencing health, with both guests presenting conflicting viewpoints.
Cameron Caskey [54:07]: "So are we talking about cancer? Autism Right now you want to talk about cancer?"
Fabian critiques identity politics and the fragmentation within the left, advocating for a return to meritocracy and rejecting postmodernist and critical race theories.
Fabian Garcia [59:30]: "Identity politics has been taken over by the left and they've really propelled it to the top..."
Cameron emphasizes the rise of narcissism in society, the decline of collective kindness, and calls for more altruism and support for traditional institutions like Boeing.
Cameron Caskey [60:36]: "Kindness has become the counterculture, and the most dominant thing in the culture is the putting the interests of yourself in front of the interests of supporting the people around you."
The episode concludes with both guests sharing their social media handles and a mutual, albeit reluctant, endorsement of Boeing.
The episode of Digital Social Hour showcases a robust and often contentious exchange between Cameron Caskey and Fabian Garcia, moderated by Sean Kelly. The discussion traverses a wide array of topics, reflecting deep-seated political and ideological divides. Listeners are presented with contrasting viewpoints on the role of influential figures like Elon Musk, the efficacy of government programs, economic policies, and sensitive issues such as vaccines and autism. The dialogue underscores the complexity of modern socio-political discourse and the challenges in bridging divergent perspectives.
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