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The United States of America, now under this current fascist regime, is the most insecure superpower on the planet. So the fragile ego of our dementia ridden president extends to American policy. Now, this is so insane, Pumps. I'm sure you probably read it, but we have got to discuss how asinine, idiotic, and insecure this new policy proposal is. Pop this up. The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country, according to a notice published by the Federal Register. I think we have the Olympics coming up. I think we have the world coming cup coming up. This to me is like, if I was going to North Korea, I would expect something like this. But this is just so insane and draconian and bizarre and insecure, and it reeks of, like, little dick energy and being codependent, toxic, and nosy. What's your take, Pumps?
Co-host (Pumps) (1:47)
Well, I think that these people have such thin skin and they're the your feelings crowd, but they get their feelings hurt over everything. And what it boils down to is they don't want anybody in the United States that doesn't fluff kanks. They want everybody to be like, oh, he has big hands. He's probably great in bed. He doesn't have a nubbin. His hair looks good. His makeup looks good. They do not want criticism. And in my mind, the reason they don't want criticism is because they know how deplorable they are. They know how badly they're fucking everything up.
Host (2:27)
And I think it could even go deeper than this, than that surface level. And I believe everything you just say to be true. But I also think behind this regime, you have a bunch of technocrats, you know, tech bros that want to be autocrats. And their number one thing they want to do is have information on everybody as you dig deeper into this reporting. They also want the names of your family members and other personal, personal details about your life. And so is this an effort by these Palantir Peter Thiels to Get information about Europeans because mainly these are requests for people that are. A visa is not required. So you have like UK, France, Japan, etc. Is this a desire for them to make a note? And they already have all of our stuff via Doge to start mining information about pro democracy Europeans. So they have this massive Gestapo list of who is for freedom. And we all know that the technocrats are not for it. So I think, I think there's a superficial reason for it and then I think there's a kind of darker, nefarious reason for it. But also this pumps. I mean, you and I grew up in a Republican state and if we've heard it once, we've heard it a million times. Fiscal conservative, I vote my pocketbook. I care very much about being fiscal, all of these things. And so these MAGA policies and this just doesn't get enough coverage. They always wreck the economy. Here is a graph Pumps that came out before this federal registry suggestion. So here's the number of Europeans traveling to the US has cratered under Trump. And for those of you that are listening, not watching, it shows 2024 and then it shows a complete face plant from 2025. And this is before this announcement that I read at the beginning of this episode. And so imagine how much lower all of this is going to be. And what's interesting about a lot of this stuff is number one part of Trump's business. And I use this word very begrudgingly, Empire is, is hospitality. And, and this is a huge, like, if you think of Las Vegas and you think of the tourist industry, hotels, resorts, restaurants, events, et cetera, this has such a long term damaging effect. Because if I had, if I, if you and I were going to go to France and they said, okay, we need your social media for five years, I go, you know what, fuck it, there's a lot of other places to go in the world. I'm not going, I'm not giving that country. That's psychotic.
