Trump Ends Israel-Gaza War But Not Everyone is Happy About It

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Louder with Crowder – "Trump Ends Israel-Gaza War But Not Everyone is Happy About It"

Date: October 13, 2025
Host: Steven Crowder
Guests/Regulars: Gerald Morgan, Captain Morgan, Stephen, China Expert (Scott Besson), others

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into major geopolitical developments, especially the end of the Israel-Gaza war brokered by President Trump. Crowder and co-hosts explore reactions to the peace deal, ongoing debates in U.S. academia, and flare-ups with China, all through their trademark irreverent and politically incorrect lens. The show also tackles hot-button issues such as university reforms, international student quotas, and U.S.-China economic tensions, while delivering comedic sketches and satirical impressions.

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Main Topics & Key Discussion Points

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1. Columbus Day & Cultural Debates

[03:39–13:44]

• Crowder opens with jokes around Columbus Day, observing its politically charged rebranding as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
• He sharply criticizes those who idealize Native American societies and asserts the positive impacts of Columbus’ arrival.
• Quote:

  “Without Columbus, none of you would be here, okay? ... He set in motion the founding of this country.”
  —Steven Crowder [05:38]

Memorable Discussion:

• References to Aztec practices, warring tribes, the lack of wheel use in pre-Columbian America, and a tongue-in-cheek celebration of western “victory.”
• Pokes at changes to sports team names and Native American representation.
• Banter about a missionary teaching Native Americans to hunt and fish now, to mock romanticization of the past.

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2. MIT Rejects Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence”

[14:10–24:46]

• Background: Trump offers federal funding to elite schools contingent on freezing tuition, capping foreign students, enforcing gender definitions, and banning conservative discrimination.
• MIT is the first to decline; Thomas Massie, libertarian-leaning congressman, sides with MIT, voicing concern over federal overreach.
• Quote:

  “The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical schools [is] to let feds tell them how to run it.”
  – Thomas Massie, quoted by Steven Crowder [15:06]

Crowder’s Take:

• Accuses Massie of prioritizing foreigners over Americans, and failing to “see past himself.”
• Argues elite universities have become unaccountable, swell endowments, ignore American students, foster leftism, and waste public money.
• Calls libertarian arguments for non-intervention “dead,” given government’s existing role in education.
• Quote:

  “Libertarianism is dead ... you’re going to need to use the mechanism [of government] ... to undo it.”
  —Steven Crowder [23:13]

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3. Israel-Gaza Peace Deal Brokered by Trump

[25:26–39:59]

• Event: Trump brokers a comprehensive Israel-Gaza ceasefire. All hostages are returned; the region enters a fragile peace.
• In-episode News Clip:

  “For the first time in two years, there are no living hostages in the hands of Hamas. This cease fire ... is holding for now.”
  —News Reporter [27:04]

Reactions & Critiques:

• Crowder finds it illogical that some on both the far left and “anti-war” libertarians are not celebrating, despite the cessation of violence.
• Mocks online figures (e.g., Mark Lamont Hill, Dave Smith) for griping about the deal, rather than celebrating ended hostilities.
• Quote:

  “Who the f celebrates at the end of a genocide? Do you mean, like, always? For example, celebrating the end of World War II. Yeah.”
  —Steven Crowder [30:27]

• Explains, on a human level, why Israelis would go “scorched earth” to recover family members held hostage.
• Highlights Democratic grumbling, particularly Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claim that Trump “built on the Biden administration’s plan” despite lack of progress under Biden/Obama.

Contrast of Administrations:

• Trump’s “Abraham Accords” v. Obama’s Iran nuclear deal (which Crowder blames for funding Hamas).
• Under Trump: several peace deals, avoidance of endless conflict.
• Quote:

  “You can say a lot of things about Donald Trump ... he’s the most anti-needless death president ever.”
  —Steven Crowder [38:52]

• Clarification: All women/children hostages were released earlier, addressing misinformation online about current male-only releases [39:49].

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4. U.S.-China Tensions and Rare Earths Crisis

[40:48–56:57]

China’s Economic Aggression:

• China announces strict export controls on rare earths, potentially harming global tech/manufacturing.
• “China Expert” (Scott Besson) suggests timing was meant to dwarf Trump’s Middle East win or distract from China’s poor economy.
• Crowder lampoons U.S. dependence and past administrations’ failure to confront China.
• Quote:

  “China controls 70% of all rare earth mining, 90% of all rare earth processing, 93% of magnet manufacturing ... needed for semiconductors.”
  —Steven Crowder [48:30]

Trump’s Response:

• Announces new 100% tariff on Chinese goods if China doesn’t relent.
• Delivers a signature, verbose Truth Social post, summarized live.
• Satirical Trump-Xi “negotiation” sketch: conflates trade demands with ordering food takeout [46:54–48:14].

Western Countermoves:

• The Netherlands forcefully nationalizes Chinese chipmaker Nexperia; Australia and the U.S. discuss new mineral deals.
• Discussion on leveraging U.S. tech controls against Chinese supply chains.
• Advocates barring Chinese ownership of U.S. land and limiting Chinese student visas.

Broader Implications:

• The panel cautions that serious global conflict is most likely to spring from misplay with China, not just the Middle East.
• Points out China's internal vulnerabilities (youth unemployment, property crisis).
• Stresses the importance of not being complacent and taking China’s threat seriously.
• Quote:

  “We have to make it staying worse for them ... I think China will feel it worse ... I think their government will have to capitulate to their people.”
  —Steven Crowder [56:39]

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Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• On Columbus Day/Indigenous Debate:
  “Happy Columbus Day ... Let me just give you a few key facts so you can understand why you’re better off having had Columbus land here.”
  —Steven Crowder [05:15]
• On MIT & Higher Ed:
  “We need to stop these universities being run like, like public company, like publicly traded companies where it’s constantly trying to expand.”
  —Steven Crowder [18:45]
• On Campus Politics:
  “Isn’t it one of the most America first, pro America things to do, to make sure ... our institutions aren’t just liberal citizens, cesspools churning out people that would absolutely take Thomas Massie out politically ...?”
  —Captain Morgan [22:11]
• On Israel-Gaza Hostage Recovery:
  “If your wife, if your daughter, your son was being held hostage ... would you stop at anything to get them back? The answer is nothing.”
  —Steven Crowder [32:36]
• On China:
  “The American industry as a whole is far too reliant on China, and China knows that.”
  —Steven Crowder [41:36]
• On U.S. Leverage:
  “Anything that uses any type of US tech as it relates to chips would require a license ... that would be crippling [for China].”
  —Steven Crowder [50:21]
• On U.S. Resilience vs. China:
  “You have the choice. You don’t have any choice in China, you are robbed of choice.”
  —Steven Crowder [58:19]

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Memorable Moments

• Comedy and Satire:
  • Recurrent parodies (Trump, Xi Jinping) bring levity amidst geopolitical talk [46:54–48:14].
  • Skits lampoon activist protests (“naked hippies”), university policies, and corporate kowtowing to China.
  • Banter about Gerald’s “admonished” tombstone [40:21], lampooning show traditions.
• Biting Political Commentary:
  • Persistent attacks on “woke” university policies, progressive government, and what Crowder frames as libertarian naivety.
  • Sharply critical of legacy media and mainstream political establishment handling of Israel, Gaza, China, and higher ed.

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Columbus Day & Historical Revisionism: [03:39–13:44]
• MIT and Higher Ed Policy: [14:10–24:46]
• Israel-Gaza Peace Deal/Trump & Reactions: [25:26–39:59]
• China Rare Earths Crisis & U.S. Response: [40:48–56:57]
• Closing U.S.-China Reflections: [56:57–end]

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Final Thoughts

Steven Crowder and crew tackle headlines with a mix of bombast, humor, and blunt right-wing commentary. They champion Trump-era foreign policy, deride progressive shifts in academia and cultural touchstones, and sound alarms over China’s growing leverage. Through satire and unsparing dialogue, the episode seeks to energize its base against what Crowder sees as anti-American trends in politics, education, and global power dynamics.

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Transcript

[Steven Crowder]

I'm kidding. It's Columbus Day. Welcome to the lineup. Live on Rumble from 9am Eastern to 7pm Eastern. You do not need to change that digital dial. I don't know why we call it dial anymore. But each show rolls in the next. It's all free today. Gonna be. Look, a lot is going on internationally, and, you know, I tend to get bored because I think that America is the only country that matters. But the peace deal going on in the Middle east, hey, who would have seen this coming? That under the second Trump administration, we would have more peace deals brokered. The funny thing is that some people are mad about this, some people are upset about it. I don't fully understand, but we'll get into why. You know, we try and steel, man our opposition, so on, from the men in little hats to just little men. China, they're deciding that they want to screw around. And I think they're going to find out, but economically. Which will hopefully keep us from world war. World War iii. But some people have been saying World War Four. I guess we skipped three. Let me ask you, are you concerned about China? And is that the potential global conflict? We've been talking about this for a while. That's what we need to be ready for should it come to that. Is that the one you're most concerned with? Also, Thomas Massie wants to have men, biological men and women's sports. I don't know. I know. I thought he was, like, the most conservative, but apparently he really wants guys to beat up women. We'll talk about that and more on with the show.

[Gerald Morgan]

Now, don't make me come back here. So come back here. You know what it is, Josh?

[Donald Trump]

Where's my money?

[Steven Crowder]

American Financing restructured that loan. You supposed to be handing me my money.

[Stephen]

Here.

[Steven Crowder]

Here's my jar. 20%.

[Gerald Morgan]

Oh, you got the jar.

[Steven Crowder]

That's right.

[Gerald Morgan]

Get the out of here, Steven.

[Stephen]

Oh. Oh.

[Steven Crowder]

What you doing, Stephen?

[Stephen]

Huh?

[Gerald Morgan]

What you gonna do, huh? You gonna shoot me in front of everybody?

[Stephen]

Huh?

[Gerald Morgan]

Come on.

[Captain Morgan]

What are doing in here?

[Steven Crowder]

Was the American Gangster parody for American Financing?

[Captain Morgan]

No, no, they're never gonna go for that, man. Not gonna happen.

[Gerald Morgan]

Oh, you know what?

[Steven Crowder]

He's right.

[Gerald Morgan]

We need to make it more ethnically accurate.

[Steven Crowder]

Ethnic.

[Stephen]

We could.

[Steven Crowder]

We could go more ethnic.

[Captain Morgan]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Steven Crowder]

Just shut it down.

[Captain Morgan]

We're not doing it, guys.

[Steven Crowder]

Ooh, I got some shoe polish in my office.

[Gerald Morgan]

Nice.

[Steven Crowder]

Is it kiwi? It's Kiwi, yeah. It's a neutral two. Good stuff. It's tasteful.

[Gerald Morgan]

It won't be you know, I get shiny.

[Steven Crowder]

It won't be over the top. 20%.

[Captain Morgan]

Gerald, is that thing loaded?

[Stephen]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. Look, really?

[Stephen]

Huh?

[Steven Crowder]

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[Stephen]

All right.

[Steven Crowder]

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[Stephen]

That's right.

[Steven Crowder]

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[Stephen]

That's what.

[Steven Crowder]

Welcome. That's the sound of Monday. Welcome. I know we have a lot of new viewers in from the. The black and white there and the gray issues. The continuation is Thursday. I know, I know that. There are a bunch of new viewers probably sitting back, going this year, right?

[Captain Morgan]

Something like that.

[Steven Crowder]

Something like that. I get it. Roughly. It's an ethnic day. We're just gonna get right into it. Captain Morgan, CEO, how are you?

[Captain Morgan]

I'm good. How are you?

[Steven Crowder]

Good. I'm good. And then Saturday, October 18th, Big Laugh Comedy Club in Fort Worth, Texas. And check all of his dates [e-mail] Josh Fierstein.

[Gerald Morgan]

Hey, what's up? Got a cowboy show on Saturday. Oh, it's all cowboy themed.

[Steven Crowder]

Very nice. I don't know what that is.

[Gerald Morgan]

No, I made it up.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, okay. This is why I was very confused. I tell you what I'm not confused about is that it is Columbus Day where at one point people try to say Indigenous Peoples Day. And have you noticed that the shift, like, I will tell you this, having talked about this for a very long. Well, well over a decade and caught a lot of crap, including from conservatives. It was a sacred cow. Now the tides have changed. People go, yeah, yeah. Native Americans weren't all that great.

[Captain Morgan]

No.

[Steven Crowder]

Like, Columbus wasn't perfect. But the indigenous, all the human sacrifice, all the, like, you know what? All the scalping, take the win. Yeah. So happy Columbus Day. Here is a clip of Donald Trump, remember last year announcing that Indigenous People's.

[Donald Trump]

Day is out and Columbus Day is in. Rejoice, guineas.

[Antony Blinken]

In other words, we're calling it Columbus Day.

[Stephen]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

Press.

[Antony Blinken]

That broke out in applause. I've never seen that happen. The press actually broke out in applause. Good. Columbus Day. We're back. Columbus Day. We're back. Italians.

[Donald Trump]

Monica Bellucci. Very full figured.

[Gerald Morgan]

We're back Italians, which is the new catchphrase for Jersey Mike's.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, it is. So, look, a few fast facts for you. Without Columbus, none of you would be here, okay? Not only to forge new trade routes, I mean, he spread Christianity to this continent and of course, set in motion the founding of this country. So I know that the left loves to romanticize Indian tribes. Let me just give you a few key facts so you can understand why you're better off having had Columbus land here. Key fact one, the Aztec tribe alone. And I know we're just talking about all of America, okay. Because this was before we kind of separated everything and had NAFTA. Aztecs alone sacrificed least 20,000 people annually. Some anthropologists actually believe that human meat was an important regular component of the Aztec diet, which you can clearly see in their early invention of the food pyramid. Well, see, that just seems like it's science. Yeah, it just seems like people. Another key fact, because you think, hey, we came here, we did all these horrible things, and no side is perfect. Check all the references. Indian tribes, engines. They were warring with each other constantly. When people say, give the land back to who do you give it back to the Iroquois or to the Huron? Do you give it back to the Sioux or do you give it back to the Kiwa? Do you give it back to the Apache or the Comanche? The Aztecs or. I can never say that the Tlaxcala point is, either way, someone's getting scalped and put in a crockpot for dinner. They didn't have instant pots. Key fact number three. Here's the thing. It was kind of jarring when the New World came here because tribes specifically like the Comanche, they were known for one thing, brutality. I know you're saying they were known for riding horses. No, they didn't ride horses until we came here. I know you're saying, like, ah, they were known for peaceful. No, no, they were known for their sheer brutality. Corn, Comanche. They captured women, they raped them. They killed them, by the way, they also killed the infants, the toddlers. The older children were enslaved and they were forced into the tribe. And in many cases, some were just used as sex slaves. I saw bone, tomahawk. You can let me know if you saw the finale of that film. It sticks with you forever. And in case you want to sort of dive into this a bit more, you can really go back to one of my videos from 2015 where we debunked some of these myths. They didn't use the wheel. No.

[Captain Morgan]

Really?

[Steven Crowder]

1400 AD, no wheel. I say, good man. Why don't you just roll it? You know, roll it.

[Stephen]

Roll.

[Steven Crowder]

This is back in my backyard when I had to play all the parts. Yeah, good job. Yeah. And people were really offended with it, but they couldn't argue the points. They didn't use the Wheel guys. The Romans had aqueducts. Like, think about that. You would think that the one native tribe would just, like, stumble across the concept of rollers accidentally. Like, walk on some pebbles and like, oh. Oh, nantuck. My foot almost felt weightless. What was this?

[Captain Morgan]

Like?

[Steven Crowder]

You'd think that they'd learn just dragging something really heavy across sand, and then maybe across, like, some wet grass. They develop this concept of friction. The God of the wet grass makes it happen. Shut up.

[Gerald Morgan]

One guy falls down a hill, like.

[Stephen]

Oh, make stuff do that.

[Gerald Morgan]

Hey, make it roll.

[Steven Crowder]

How did he go so fast? In spite of tearing all his muscle fibers? Oh, he turned into a ball. It's the Great armadillo. God, no, no, it's the form. Let's eat him.

[Captain Morgan]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

He's already dead. He's a demon. So thank God that people came here.

[Captain Morgan]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

And we did a little bit better.

[Captain Morgan]

We won. Get over it day.

[Steven Crowder]

Yep, that's it.

[Captain Morgan]

I'm serious. I'm sorry. It's just done.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, that's it. Speaking of winning over the weekend, you know, look, they made their voices.

[Gerald Morgan]

This is Gerald's Thanksgiving speech. Before they all say what they're thankful for.

[Captain Morgan]

Yes, it is. I'm thankful that we beat you.

[Steven Crowder]

Move on. Yes. Dear God, thank you for the conquering of the Comanche. I will say the Comanche, though, were really cool. They could actually hang upside down under a horse's neck and shoot up to 20 arrows per minute.

[Captain Morgan]

What?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, they would do it so that they could disguise themselves and people basically couldn't hit them. Use the. The horse as cover. They were unbelievable warriors because that's all they did was kill.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

All they did was harm other people and take their stuff.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, we had better tech.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, yeah. Boom boom sticks.

[Gerald Morgan]

We had guns.

[Captain Morgan]

That's what I'm saying. We were better.

[Steven Crowder]

We had guns and they really like firewater and they're not able to process it.

[Gerald Morgan]

So we had guns in the flu.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

The rest took care of itself. So, speaking of sick, poorly. The brain is sick. There's been a bug going around, but these people are sick in the head. The anti ice protesters. Antifa. All those people in Portland, Oregon. They showed this weekend that they were serious about their cause and their method of protest.

[Gerald Morgan]

Oh, God. Grandma, go home.

[Steven Crowder]

Those listening on audio. Yes. It's a bunch of naked hippies. Hipsters.

[Gerald Morgan]

I love, I love, I love, I love. Penis out. Helmet on.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Freak.

[Gerald Morgan]

I watched this uncensored. You didn't have to censor that guy.

[Steven Crowder]

Look at this guy. No, I'm with you, it was a. I was like 6:3 and had a nubbin.

[Gerald Morgan]

I would not be prideful.

[Steven Crowder]

I know that. Yes. And that to those of you who are wondering, hey, why is it hard to take these people seriously? That was in fact a naked man on a unicycle with a Darth Vader helmet playing bagpipe.

[Gerald Morgan]

That's the most Portland thing I've seen all month.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. The political statement is, hey, world, I suck. Listen, I have a little bit of.

[Captain Morgan]

Respect that he was able to pull all that off. It's like, what?

[Steven Crowder]

That is a hipster who's like, this is gonna be different. I mean, I did it. I did it before. It was cool. This is gonna catch on. I'll be able to say I wore the Darth Vader helmet on the unicycle playing guy pipes before everyone else did it.

[Gerald Morgan]

I love that he's wearing like boxer briefs or some kind of tight shorts because that would be too much.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

The dick out would have been too much.

[Steven Crowder]

Too much.

[Gerald Morgan]

He's like, I already got a lot going on.

[Steven Crowder]

Spectivator.

[Gerald Morgan]

I got bag pipes. No one needs to see my pipe.

[Steven Crowder]

And by the way, Gerald, where were you this weekend?

[Captain Morgan]

I was at home doing a project and took the family to the park.

[Steven Crowder]

You sure about that?

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, no, absolutely.

[Steven Crowder]

What? You sure you feel really kind?

[Captain Morgan]

Yes.

[Steven Crowder]

Toolman Tim, if you please. Uhuh. Yep.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

By the way, it's also odd that he wore his golf shirt and just no pants. That's not a nude protest. That's just a sexual offense.

[Captain Morgan]

That's not a golf shirt.

[Gerald Morgan]

He actually works at Dick's Sporting Goods.

[Steven Crowder]

Is that what it is?

[Gerald Morgan]

It's a work polo.

[Captain Morgan]

The blur is definitely needed on that one.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, yeah, we'll go with that. Yeah. By the way, hope everyone in Gerald's neighborhood likes signing some new forms.

[Gerald Morgan]

Well, we saw his Halloween costume early, I think.

[Antony Blinken]

Yeah.

[Captain Morgan]

Oh yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, everybody's scared. Oh, I guess. You were saying? There's a Columbus Day merch sale. We rarely do skip, but you can get free 14.92% [e-mail] all day today. That's fantastic.

[Captain Morgan]

I love it.

[Steven Crowder]

No promo code needed. It's just do it now.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, go there.

[Steven Crowder]

Support the Native Americans.

[Gerald Morgan]

Gerald, you're ruthless, dude.

[Stephen]

I am.

[Steven Crowder]

Because I'm just so fed up. I just don't care. I knew someone who was a missionary. You know what his missions work was? No joke. He would go to Native American reservations and teach them how to fish.

[Captain Morgan]

What?

[Steven Crowder]

Just does. Yes. He would teach Them how to hunt and fish. Be like, I know you say you live off the land. Let me teach you how to do it. Oh, you got any Windex back there?

[Stephen]

No.

[Captain Morgan]

These people, I have no sympathy. I'm done.

[Steven Crowder]

I just don't have anything in common with them.

[Captain Morgan]

I mean, I'll pray for them.

[Steven Crowder]

I hope they get saved. I'm not like that.

[Captain Morgan]

I'm just like. I'm just done caring about this.

[Steven Crowder]

You took away the Redskins.

[Captain Morgan]

You took away the Indians.

[Steven Crowder]

Like, screw you, they took away thousands.

[Gerald Morgan]

Of dollars at an Oklahoma casino.

[Steven Crowder]

True. All right, Gerald, remember there's a tribal land. When we were in Michigan, I went to the convenience store and was telling him. He said, oh, let me show you my pride and joy. And he had a picture of pride and joy, the cleaners in his wallet. I was like, do you drink those? He's like, yeah.

[Captain Morgan]

After I huff them.

[Steven Crowder]

So onto someone else who bothers me and really probably shouldn't bother me as much as he does. Well, but it really does. You guys can let me know there's a point in being consistent with your principles, and I understand that. And then being anti pragmatic as really for the purpose of clicks and grandstanding. So Thomas Massie is at odds with President Trump again. Let me explain to you why MIT was the first school to reject President Trump's sort of his latest. His policy with higher education, and it's called the Compact for Academic Excellence. I'll explain it to you, but here's a clip.

[News Reporter]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become the first school to reject President Trump's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. In a letter to federal officials, MIT's president, Sally Kornbluth said she cannot support the proposal because it includes provisions the school does not agree with.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay, Sally, so let me explain to you the policy. It promised nine top schools that they would get priority federal funding if they agreed. Some simple things. Check the references. If you don't think that these are reasonable. Okay, you can let me know. Comment below. Things like freeze tuition of American students for five years. That would seem like something that everyone on the left has been on board with. Commit to strict definitions of gender. And that matters for shared, for, you know, private spaces, bathrooms, shared spaces, and of course, sports. That would matter, right? If they would prohibit the punishment of conservative ideas. Typically, we've seen that on campus. And if they would cap the number of international students. Yes, and we'll get to those numbers in a second. But Thomas Massie, of course, took issue with this because he always does. And he posted this on X. He said the surest way to screw up the world's best, best technical schools to let feds tell them how to run it. Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus. A lot of things are wrong in the USA, but MIT's not one of them. To be the best science and technical school in the world, you have to accept the smartest people in the world. Ah, that's his problem is he wants more foreigners. Wants more foreigners. He believes that Americans are kind of dumb. Oh, he clarified, not all of them are born in the United States. Oh, enough of them are. How about that? Enough of them are. Maybe not every single brilliant person is born in the United States. By the way, I would also put our top minds up against the top minds of India because they haven't figured out how to make India not look like India. So there are enough born in the United States and they're being dark prioritized. So let me give you some examples. By the way, the reason that this might be relevant to mit, and you would think that Thomas Massie, the whole no true Scotsman, he's the most conservative. Maybe he would have a bigger problem or be drawing more attention to the leftist progressive woke policies of mit. For example, men being allowed in women's bathrooms in women's dorms. They disinvited scientists from speaking because they. One scientist I remember opposed affirmative action. They forced a Catholic chaplain to resign from for stating that George Floyd did not live a virtuous life. And by the way, they replaced the chaplain with Decarlos Brown Jr. So there's that Toolman.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, you know, Photoshops and stuff. You know, I mean, distracted.

[Steven Crowder]

It doesn't punch as hard.

[Captain Morgan]

It's hard.

[Steven Crowder]

All right, well, we can get this back.

[Captain Morgan]

We can DEI hire for Tim.

[Steven Crowder]

We'll get this back. We'll get it back on track. Now let me explain to you too, the policy that deals with foreign students. Basically, the policy would cap undergraduate international students to 15%. The current percentage of MIT international undergrads are only 12%. The policy doesn't really deal specifically with graduate students. I would like it to, because the current MIT international grad student percentage is 40%.

[Captain Morgan]

That's insane.

[Steven Crowder]

Meaning 40% of students, grad students at MIT are not here from the United States. What are we doing?

[Captain Morgan]

Listen, I understand his point. It has some merit that you want to have some of the best minds in the world, but a very small percentage. Why Are we educating the rest of the world's children, using our institutions to do it, letting them send remittances back, or just flat out leave and go work somewhere else? Like, I get that there's some benefit to having the smartest minds come here, work here, stay here, become American. That's not happening, though.

[Gerald Morgan]

All the while using American funding. Using federal funding.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, that's what.

[Gerald Morgan]

That's the biggest problem of it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. There also something else. Like, we need to stop these universities being run like, like public company, like publicly traded companies where it's constantly trying to expand. Like, hey, maybe it's okay if your school shrinks a little bit. In other words, maybe we don't just always need to increase attendance, because what have we done to try and meet that ever? Well, I don't even want to say demanding ever required growth of these universities is tell everyone they have to go to school, and we have a bunch of people going to school who don't need to go to school. And so then you say, well, then let's. In international students, how about we make school like it used to be, Affordable and appropriate with degrees that are appropriate for those who will make good use of them and be happy with that. Also, when you look at the endowment these schools sit on, like, start spending some of that. How about that? How about you guys just. You don't need any more. How about you start doing more with less? You don't need as many students. You don't need to enroll a bunch of international students. You don't need a bunch of federal funding. Let's just start with that. How do we think we will get anything other than inflation when schools sit on massive. What's the endowment up to? Harvard?

[Captain Morgan]

I think it's in the $50 billion range.

[Steven Crowder]

Is that what it is? It's huge.

[Captain Morgan]

I'm not kidding. I think it's plus or minus 10, I'm pretty sure.

[Steven Crowder]

How do you expect anything other than massive inflation if these people sit on this. This treasure chest and then go, no, no, but we're gonna. We're gonna keep it for a rainy day and let's keep accepting federal funding like they're incentivized to make it unaffordable and then incentivized to close that gap with just international students. Anyone who will come in and become a slave to debt. Great. Go to school. They don't care. I will say this. My dad, to give you an example, I opened a bank account when I was young, and my dad wanted me to learn about money and this was. I'm trying to remember. It was some Canadian bank. I don't remember what it was. Was called. But the lady sits me down and goes, hey, do you. And are you thinking of opening a credit card? She was French Canadian and she was deaf. Yeah. And my dad goes. My dad goes, now do you see what just happened, son? She wants right away to get you into the debt market. She's like, no, no, we don't want to get him into debt. And my dad was like, what's the interest rate? She's like, yeah, 114%. Whatever it was.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

And when I was like, see, they just. They just tried to hook you on that. You're trying to be responsible. That's the same thing that we see with universities. He said, they don't care about you. They make money off of you owing money. You need to understand that that's their business. They don't care if you're not responsible with money yet. They don't care that you don't have a dad like me teaching you. It's the same thing with these schools. They just go get a degree. Do you think they care if you'll be able to pay it back? When you're talking about most of these, they end up being guaranteed anyway. Do you think they care? No, It's a numbers game. They want as many people in their school as possible. They don't care if their degrees are useless. They're incentivized to create more possible degrees, more possible areas of study, so that you just join up and give them your money for granted. They've created entire departments of study that don't actually have any employment opportunities, and they're filling them sometimes with international graduate students. Yeah, this whole thing is a scam. And they guilt you by trying to make you feel like, well, you know, if you don't. If you just want to be ignorant. It's 2025. It's 2025. You have all information that you could possibly need at your fingertips. You could run circles around your professor if you spent two years in a disciplined manner studying a given topic. I guarantee you, I really want to see this go away. Yeah.

[Captain Morgan]

And listen, for Thomas Massie, isn't it one of the most America first, pro America things to do to make sure that we have the best and brightest trained here, working here, and that our institutions aren't just liberal citizens, cesspools churning out people that would absolutely take Thomas Massie out politically if they could every single day of the week and increase the size of government and destroy the foundations of this country. Thomas Massie can't see past himself to see that this is actually a good idea. I understand his hesitation on government getting involved, but when it comes to institutions that have already showed their hand on what they're going to do, on the heels of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy saying, we need more H1BS and uncap this stuff, isn't it great that the administration is trying to say, well, hey, why don't we educate Americans to do these jobs that we need?

[Steven Crowder]

Because it would be fantastic. Thomas Massie, you are respectfully invited on the show. Yeah. What's the issue with this? Do you take issue with the ban on biological men in women's spaces and sports? Do you take issue with a cap on tuition for five years for Americans? Do you take issue with the idea of them facing consequences, meaning those in academia if they discriminate against certain political thought, namely conservatives? Or is it. You take issue with the idea that we should probably be prioritizing Americans over international students? Is that what you take issue with? I think you kind of answered the question saying that we don't have enough of the brightest here in the United States. But, Thomas Massie, if you're going to claim that you're more conservative, what is your issue? Because this is the reason that libertarianism is dead, saying, oh, government getting involved. It doesn't work anymore. Government is so involved in everything at this point that you are going to need to use the mechanism that has unfortunately been thrust into place to kind of undo it. We understand that now. We understand that simply legalizing all drugs and black tar heroin has negative consequences. We understand that, oh, we live in the real world where you could say, keep government out of it. But the reason we see record inflation with tuition is because government is in it in the form of grants and, and scholarships. So we want to use government to try and reset it. At this point, libertarians, their solution, when you end up with the powers of government, their solution is do nothing because it could then be used against you. Well, it already has and we know it will. So how about instead of we know it'll be used against us, do nothing? How about do something? How about do something? And you guys comment, Is libertarianism dead? I think so. I think it's dumb, all right. And stupid. And I don't mean stupid like some people say, like, yo, that's stupid. I mean, it's stupid. Stupid.

[Captain Morgan]

So where's the admonish for Tim, by the way, earlier?

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, he did mess that up, school man. I think you can.

[Captain Morgan]

Don't you dare split screen it.

[Steven Crowder]

I'll take a split screen. I'll take a split screen.

[Captain Morgan]

Thank you.

[Steven Crowder]

No, but meet Gerald and you split screen.

[Captain Morgan]

No, no, no.

[Gerald Morgan]

I don't think I could do Gerald.

[Stephen]

Let me try.

[Captain Morgan]

Good.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Captain Morgan]

I'm glad there's something.

[Steven Crowder]

There you go.

[China Expert]

Perfect.

[Steven Crowder]

There.

[Gerald Morgan]

You could do it.

[Steven Crowder]

He's back on the ball.

[Captain Morgan]

Look at that.

[Gerald Morgan]

I didn't know I could do that.

[Captain Morgan]

You can do it when you want to. Yeah, there's performance.

[Gerald Morgan]

I willed that one.

[Steven Crowder]

And by the way, before we move on, hey, the best way to Follow me, because I know a lot of you are saying, hey, when's the next black and white, the gray issues coming up? That's this Thursday. But the best way to stay in touch, download the Rumble app. Follow me there. Download the Rumble app. Follow me there. And I don't know, we're going wide on YouTube a little bit today.

[Gerald Morgan]

We goodnighted it.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay, we already did. We're just doing that because unfortunately the YouTube algorithm has been saying that we're dead. Just to let you guys know that we're here on Rumble. But download that, follow me, and you'll get notifications when we are live and pretty much only when we're live. Rumble owns this sort of live space. Right now they're just eating YouTube's lunch and I love to see it. Yeah. Let's move on to the Jews, though. So, geez, here's the thing. I understand and we've agreed this idea, AIPAC is a problem. I also agree that anyone who can't answer the question, are you America first or Israel America first, of course. It's an easy test and it should be an easy pass. It does bother me that you have people out there who can't just say it and have to answer in political.

[Captain Morgan]

Double five minutes later.

[Gerald Morgan]

I'll be honest, I don't even like a close second for anything else.

[Steven Crowder]

No, not even close second.

[Gerald Morgan]

America first. Israel close second.

[Steven Crowder]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Gerald Morgan]

Second place is first.

[Steven Crowder]

Loser. Israel is really only relevant to American policy as it serves the interests of American policy. And if it doesn't, they're on their own. And that is not how this relationship has been playing out. So I understand that. Okay. That being said, I also really, really, really hate terrorists. And I also really hate needless deaths on both sides here. So I would think that a day like today, after two years and another week, give or take two years and a week, I think the peace deal has been Agreed upon. And all living hostages were returned from Gaza to Israel. This is a big day. I would think we'd all be on board.

[News Reporter]

For the first time in two years, there are no living hostages in the hands of Hamas. This cease fire that has been brokered is holding for now. And today we've seen the release of 20 Israeli hostages who are still alive and being held in Gaza. Captured on October 7, returned to Israeli soil for the first time.

[Steven Crowder]

Like, this is one thing that I would think, especially because you have people, right, who really don't like the Jews. And so you think they're like, hey, that's great. You have people who really don't like terrorists. And you're like, oh, okay, that's great. And then you have people who really just don't like war. You'd be like, oh, okay, that's great. And you have people who don't like innocent people being killed. You're like, oh, okay, this would be great across the board. No. And we'll get to people who are upset about it. But today, President Trump spoke actually to Knesset and gave. Well, it's another classic see, if you know what I mean. Donald Trump is the greatest friend that.

[Donald Trump]

The state of Israel has ever had.

[Steven Crowder]

In the White House.

[Captain Morgan]

Give some fodder to some people.

[Antony Blinken]

Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change and change very much for the better. Like the USA right now. It will be the golden age of Israel and the golden age of the Middle East.

[Captain Morgan]

Please expel him immediately.

[Stephen]

Bye.

[Steven Crowder]

Goodbye.

[Gerald Morgan]

Who's that?

[Antony Blinken]

That was very efficient.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like terrorist David Mamet.

[Captain Morgan]

He's calling for a Palestinian state.

[Antony Blinken]

I mean, this as the greatest Secretary of state in the history of the United States. I believe that. And he and I, you know, we really fought it out. You remember, he was tough, he was nasty. Who the hell thought this was going to happen? Marco, right? And now I'm saying he's going to go down as the greatest.

[Steven Crowder]

He will.

[Antony Blinken]

Mr. President, why don't you give him a pardon?

[Steven Crowder]

That's not going to go over well with some people.

[Captain Morgan]

Oh, not at all.

[Steven Crowder]

I get it. Thank you very much.

[Antony Blinken]

God bless. God bless you. God bless the United States of America. And God bless the Middle East. Thank you, everybody.

[Captain Morgan]

Interesting.

[Stephen]

Good luck.

[Antony Blinken]

Thank you very much. Thank you.

[Steven Crowder]

Now, it's interesting that he said, God bless the Middle east. And you would think, oh, hey, are there a bunch of, you know, Jewish people who are angry? Not really, no. I really haven't seen them upset because.

[Captain Morgan]

He didn't Say God bless Israel.

[Steven Crowder]

He didn't say God bless Israel. He said God bless the Middle East. Okay, cool. So who's happy about this? Let's kind of give you the players here. Pretty much everyone in the Middle east, right? That seems pretty much almost everybody. Almost everybody. There are a few terrorists. We call them stragglers, but we don't really care about that now. Who's not happy? It's pretty much a list of people who've dodged debate here on this show. So Mark Lamont Hill is not happy. The right is working very hard to make Trump a hero for slowing down the genocide that he and his predecessor fueled. Whatever spot on Dave Smith said. Or maybe some aren't convinced it's over. Fine, okay. But hostages are going back. Like, it's a big thing, so at least that part is over. Also, who the f celebrates at the end of a genocide? What type of psychotic shit is this? Who the f celebrates at the end of a genocide? Do you mean like always? For example, celebrating the end of World War II. Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

Down the fashionable Champs Elysees and the Canadian Army Film Unit pictures the arrival of General de Gaulle.

[Stephen]

Hey, cut it out.

[Steven Crowder]

Don't celebrate the end of genocide.

[Captain Morgan]

Hey, you.

[Donald Trump]

It might not hold.

[Steven Crowder]

It's not over yet. We still have Japan to go. There might still be bad things in the world.

[Captain Morgan]

In Europe.

[Steven Crowder]

No wonder people went a bit crazy. That's fair. That's fair. And by the way, people saying, like, who celebrates this? Aren't these the same people? By the way, I agree. You talk about the Treaty of Versailles, really sort of browbeat Germany on the world stage and that you want to give someone an out so they can do so. If you believe that Israel is like the Nazis guilty of genocide. I'm not saying that I do. But if you believe that, why would you want to continue to shame them after there's a peace deal brokered? Wouldn't you want to put them on the path toward being less genocide?

[Stephen]

Y.

[Captain Morgan]

Dave Smith is the one that I cannot. I cannot comprehend. I have heard him go out and just, this is a genocide. The worst thing. I can't believe they're killing this many people. They're doing all this stuff in Gaza, and Israel's dragging into every war that they've ever had, and we're going to get in this, and then this happens. And Dave Smith's tweet could have been just like. Or post, hey, I don't know. Just like I felt. I hope this holds. Let's wait till Monday and see. But, man, if these hostages are released and this conflict is over, thank God that that happened.

[Steven Crowder]

Nothing even close to that, Dave.

[Captain Morgan]

Who celebrates? I don't know. Everybody who is held hostage, everybody in Israel who's tired of this and had hostages held against them, every Gazan citizen that formed that human caravan they said was biblical proportions. Going back home to start a new life and just about everybody else in the world. It's weird. Only the most loud vocal people on X aren't celebrating.

[Steven Crowder]

Well, I will say this, and you'll have people too who will say like, oh, there must have been a stand down order on October 7th and make. Fine. Look, it's a valid question to ask. I understand a country that is surrounded by security. Okay. What happened was something like, okay, yeah, I understand that people saying like, oh, the reaction like here if you look, it's not okay, fine. But let me ask you this. And I know nobody truly knows all the ins and outs of the war in the Middle East. It's a complex issue. It will never be a peaceful area. It never has, it never will. But again, if your wife, if your daughter, your son was being held hostage, let's say in a house across the street, they were kidnapped, they were being tortured, they're being held hostage and you knew they were there and you had the means to destroy the house, you had the means to. Would you stop at anything to get them back? What would cause you to stop? The answer is nothing. So as far as the Jewish people, and not all of them, but the Jewish people saying this keeps going until we get the hostages back, can you understand, regardless of the other, can you understand why those people aren't genocidal maniacs like Hitler, but they would be willing to go scorched earth on everyone until their mother, daughter, wife, husband, son were back? Because I tell you what, this doesn't make it right. I would kill dozens of people to get back one of my children. I think all of us would. I think all of us would.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

And most nations would do the same thing.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's not called genocide when another country just goes in and owns it and.

[Steven Crowder]

They have the ability to. And that. And we see now this was obviously a very integral part of these peace talks, which was never fully agreed upon before. The hostage thing was big. It's also an important moral victory for the country to prove that they can get people back. Then you have other people who are not happy. Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it's good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan The Biden administration developed after months of discussion with Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

[Captain Morgan]

Shut up.

[Steven Crowder]

I'm really glad that you guys had a whole lot of discussions to no avail. To be fair, Biden, unlike Blinken, was pretty clear himself about the plan.

[Antony Blinken]

Now it has to evolve our institutions and drive creative new partnerships. Let me be clear. Certain principles, our international system are sacrosanct.

[Steven Crowder]

The thing is.

[Captain Morgan]

What?

[Steven Crowder]

That's not. I know. That's real. Some people don't remember how bad it was.

[Gerald Morgan]

That was him being clear.

[Stephen]

Clear.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, I know.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like you. You would think that even if someone, like, craps their pants and they have Alzheimer's, they would know. Like, when I say, let me be clear, all of a sudden they'll speak the king's English. Clear. We will leave no stone unturned. But even then, you'd be like, let me be clear. More nonsensical. I can't believe that this man.

[Gerald Morgan]

It was a fun four years, but.

[Steven Crowder]

I know you saying it's not AI, it's real. Check the references. Don't worry. He went on to clarify what he actually meant on Fox News.

[Antony Blinken]

And we brought Israelis and Palestinians together at a political level.

[Donald Trump]

And they.

[Steven Crowder]

And.

[Antony Blinken]

Akrai and.

[Steven Crowder]

Still not AI.

[Captain Morgan]

Is he praying?

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah, Praying that he gets these words out.

[Steven Crowder]

And then because wanted to run again. I love how Barack Obama kind of had to go away during the Biden, not talk so much during the Biden administration. But now he's back. He's really meddling where he shouldn't. And he went on X and posted up now, now, now. After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families, people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged, relieved that an end of the conflict is within sight, that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families, that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. He also went out to kind of take some credit for it because he said he was on the phone for a long time. And even Abby Phillips, a fellow black and liberal on cnn, was like, no.

[Obama]

Obama put out this post talking about the peace deal and the prospects of it. And Don Jr responded to it. I'll finish it for you. Thank you, Donald Trump. Honestly, it's not unfair to say if President Obama's going to write a whole post about a peace deal, maybe he should acknowledge the president.

[Antony Blinken]

Thank you very much.

[Steven Crowder]

Because if Barack Obama's exposed was accurate, it'd be like, now, now, now, now, now. I know when I was president, shit popped off across the world. Ukraine kind of started. Remember Crimea, what happened? And Jews didn't fare so well. And then Donald Trump came in, put a boot in their ass and it got, you know, it got cleaned up. Then my former protege brought it to dog shit. My protege. Now things are looking up. Like he could have just been honest because we can actually look at the records and remember we were told it was going to be. Yeah, look, peace deals versus days of conflict. We have this chart up. Under Obama there are pretty much no peace deals. Under Trump there were three major ones. You talk about the Abrahamic Abraham Accords, then Biden none. And at least two major peace deals with Trump. Now remember he had the Iran nuclear deal that allowed Tehran to finance Hamas. That was Barack Obama. That was his biggest claim to fame.

[Captain Morgan]

He loved it.

[Steven Crowder]

And then in Trump's first term we had the Abraham Accords which involved the uae, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco, helped Saudi Arabia. Israel began to normalize relations, killed Soleimani with zero consequences. The Iran foreign foreign minister, Remember Trump said that or sorry, he said that President Trump. The sanctions from President Trump cost the Iranian economy a trillion dollars. That was kind of a big deal. Then under BIDEN we had October 7th, a terror attack. 2022, he eased sanctions on Iranian over buyers which led to $60 billion in increased Iranian oil revenues. And then. Oh yeah, that's right, August 2023, $6 billion to Iran for five American prisoners. And of course Iran continued funding Hamas. And then just now in the second term we have the secured release of in May, the American hostage member Idan Alexander from Gaza. He just ended the Israel Iran war in record time and then just ended the Gaza war.

[Captain Morgan]

I'm sorry, World War 3, he ended the world war.

[Steven Crowder]

That's right. It was going to be a world war.

[Captain Morgan]

12 day world war three.

[Steven Crowder]

You can say a lot of things about Donald Trump. I think everyone would have to agree. He's the most anti needless death president ever. It would be pretty hard to argue against it. This guy just, he has an aversion to endless conflict. Yeah, he ends conflicts and he avoids starting them like Code Pink. Couldn't dream up a better president in their mind.

[Captain Morgan]

And this is the kind of president that people like Dave Smith and Scott Horton, all these guys need to be supporting because he's anti war unless it's absolutely necessary to defend or do something in the best interest of the United States. But he's not gonna go needlessly kill people. Let me put one rumor to rest though. I heard a lot of people saying this and I did some digging to find out. It was very easy. I thought this happened. But they were saying, doesn't it piss you off that only males were released and they just killed all the women? It's like, well, they had already released all the women and children that were alive previously. So that's why the only ones remaining were male. So there's. That's been floating around on X a little bit. So don't get kind of dragged.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's a good clarification thing.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it would be frustrating. And to me, I was like, yeah, that's odd. Wait, didn't they already release them? And so I searched and yes, they did. Yeah, obviously a lot of them.

[Steven Crowder]

Anyway, allegory. I said son or daughter?

[Captain Morgan]

Well, you did say daughter, but, you know, still.

[Steven Crowder]

All right, that's fair.

[Captain Morgan]

Admonish. I'll never get away from this.

[Steven Crowder]

He just wants to get admonishment information.

[Captain Morgan]

Someone else that's, you know what's going to happen. One of these days I'm going to die. Tim's probably going to live by like.

[Steven Crowder]

Five minutes and I'll throw a party.

[Captain Morgan]

No, you're going to put an admonished tombstone. Yeah, there we go.

[Steven Crowder]

Here lies.

[Gerald Morgan]

We're totally going to do that.

[Steven Crowder]

Here lies. Gerald admonished Morgan. May he be admonishing in heaven.

[Captain Morgan]

I'm going to get to heaven. And Jesus can be like, admonished.

[Steven Crowder]

Okay, now you're in. Peter, like goes that guy. Hit the button. Come on. I've been waiting 4,500 years for this ship. I don't know why. I was eating like a bear claw or something.

[Gerald Morgan]

What is that, a bear?

[Steven Crowder]

I don't know. No idea. I don't understand the wonders of heaven. So China, let's go on to China. Have we covered? Yeah, China, the Chinese. Look, we have been talking about this for a while. When people talk about the Middle east and people have been talking about Russia, Ukraine, like, the main concern is still China. This is still a huge country that is full fledged communist to this day. And they're aided and abetted by not only progressives in this country, but of course the Hollywood elite, those in media. There are so many people who have, I mean, I guess you should say, split interest between the United States and China who work in media and the entertainment. It's just, it's just a fact. You see the NBA, you see professional wrestling, John Cena apologizing.

[Stephen]

It's.

[Steven Crowder]

It's hilarious. But it's sad, it's scary. The American industry as a whole is Far too reliant on China, and China knows that. And they're flicking the jab out there Thursday.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

In what could be one of the most consequential moves of a foreign country in this administration, China issued some new, pretty radical export controls on rare earth elements and its related equipment.

[China Expert]

The Chinese are very big on symbolism, and I can tell you it was highly inappropriate for them to announce these export controls on the day that the peace deal was announced and overshadow that. It could have been for several reasons. One, that the Chinese economy. Economy is doing very poorly, and maybe they're trying to take focus off of that to China as opposed to the United States. The United States is pushing for peace in the world. China is financing war. China purchases of Russian oil is financing the Russian war machine. They purchase Iranian oil, and we have been calling them out on that. So maybe it was to distract that. And three, maybe it was a mistaken attempt to try to gain leverage before the two leaders meet in Korea in October. And I can tell you trying to get leverage in front of a meeting with Donald Trump is a bad idea.

[Steven Crowder]

Scott Besson is the most boring gay man alive. Yes.

[Captain Morgan]

But he punched Elon Musk in the face.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, yeah, he's super cool. He just, like. He likes two things. He likes to fight and he likes to. That's what he does.

[Stephen]

Oh, wow.

[Captain Morgan]

A man's man.

[Steven Crowder]

He's a man's man who, just man to man, happens to like other men.

[Gerald Morgan]

He's gay, but not a. Yeah, he's a man's man for men.

[Steven Crowder]

Every time I watch him, like, I have to be reminded, this guy, this guy, he. He has sex with men because I forget it for a second. Oh, yeah, they're like that. Why does yours sound like. Why does it sound like the bad guy? Enjoy. I don't know. I don't like to study the economy. Good range, washes the economy clean. He comes home and makes his lover. How you. CB radio. Candy cane.

[Captain Morgan]

Anyone out there?

[Steven Crowder]

No candy cane. Pink champagne is my favorite. All right, so the new rules from China.

[Captain Morgan]

Bad.

[Steven Crowder]

They added five new metals to the export list. The license is now. It's now going to be required for companies to export any products containing even 0.1% of rare earth from China or are made with any Chinese production tech that is. It's basically a way of completely locking it.

[Captain Morgan]

Well, basically, Germany would have to call China and get permission to export stuff to France if they used their Chinese tech to do it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes. And so President Trump immediately responded on truth, and it's important that you understand. He declared a new additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods. They already have those tariffs that we've talked about. This is an additional one that is punitive. He wrote. And I'll have to shorten it for you. He wrote a lot.

[Donald Trump]

It is absolutely unheard of in international trade and a moral disgrace in dealing with other nations based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented and it is unprecedented position and speaking only for the USA and not other nations who were similarly threatened. Starting November 1, or sooner, might be sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China. Ping pong balls in your court. The United States of America will impose a tariff of 100% on China over and above any tariff that they are currently paying.

[Steven Crowder]

He then yet another post.

[Captain Morgan]

He said I'm done. Yeah.

[Donald Trump]

I have always felt. Excuse me. That they've been lying in wait.

[Steven Crowder]

Look how long that post now, as.

[Donald Trump]

Usual, I have been proven right. I'm always proven right. I don't like to be proven right. But it happens so many times. So many. There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the world captive. But that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, isn't it? Looks that way. Wow. Don't worry about China. It will all be fine. Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. That's. We all have bad moments. She had a bad moment. Was a really bad moment. He doesn't want depression for his country and neither do I. The USA wants to help China, not hurt it. President DJ T.

[Gerald Morgan]

I like how he wrote all of that and then shortened his name.

[Antony Blinken]

Yeah.

[Donald Trump]

Look, I'm not retired. I don't have time to be writing my name on all the things.

[Gerald Morgan]

I like how Steven said he's gonna shorten those quotes and he made them.

[Steven Crowder]

Longer because I asked them to shorten it for. For me. I was like, you think he asked.

[Captain Morgan]

For unlimited characters on true social. 240 won't work for me.

[Donald Trump]

Also, Twitter needs to allow 1452 characters, frankly.

[Captain Morgan]

And don't show me the summary. Give me the whole post.

[Steven Crowder]

To his credit, President Trump did try to reason negotiate with Xi Jinping. One on one. We have an exclusive.

[Stephen]

Hello. Hello. Can I take.

[Donald Trump]

Excuse me. Excuse me. Look, I think you've taken enough. Just listen to me for a second. Can you do that? Can you listen?

[Stephen]

Oh, okay.

[Donald Trump]

Excuse me. Good. I need three things from you.

[Steven Crowder]

She.

[Stephen]

Okay. Three.

[Donald Trump]

Okay.

[Obama]

Go on.

[Donald Trump]

Excuse me.

[Steven Crowder]

Excuse me.

[Donald Trump]

You gotta back down, frankly on these restrictions. Okay. That's number one.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes.

[Stephen]

Number One, what else?

[Donald Trump]

Excuse me, number two, Very important. I'd like for you to be nicer to the United States.

[Stephen]

Okay, you want a number two with a wonton.

[Donald Trump]

Wonton?

[Stephen]

Yes. You want wonton with number two or no wonton?

[Donald Trump]

Frankly, look, I don't even know what that means.

[Stephen]

Wonton, it's like a dumpling, but it's a little different.

[Donald Trump]

And number three?

[Stephen]

Okay, number three.

[Donald Trump]

Excuse me? That's what I said, number three.

[Stephen]

Okay, two, number three, That's a one.

[Steven Crowder]

Number one.

[Stephen]

A one, number two, no wonton. And two, number three. Is this delivery or pickup?

[Donald Trump]

Dammit G, if you don't stop messing with me, I'm going to take a number two all over your country.

[Stephen]

Oh, okay, okay, two number two. One number one and two number three. You pick up in 15 minutes.

[Captain Morgan]

It's productive.

[Steven Crowder]

I love it. Sometimes you just sit there like where do we go with it? Let's go. Racist. Yeah, it's like she answers like he's a Chinese.

[Stephen]

It's another Wong number.

[Steven Crowder]

So let me give you an idea as to the scope of this problem, okay. As it relates to rare earths here, rare earth minerals, rare earth components. I don't want to misspeak. You can check the references. China controls 70% of all rare earth mining, 90% of all rare earth processing, 93% of magnet manufacturing, which is by the way needed for semiconductors for pretty much all of this is needed, it's necessary and you have rare earths just to give an idea, they're used in very important like F35 submarines, missiles, drones, radars, outside of just we're talking about with any type of consumer goods here, is on the flip side though, and we need to start thinking this way. The leverage that the United States has, and we haven't had an administration for the previous four years thinking about this or Barack Obama, they were more interested in capitulating. And that's why when people would say China is the next great superpower, that is by design, that is orchestrated, that is engineered by those in the West. And it's not really surprising, is it, to think of people who have praise, for example, Bernie Sanders, honeymoon in the ussr. Anita Dunn, who worked in the first Obama administration, praised Mao as inspiration, right? These people really don't hate communism all that much. And so they've wanted to help give China a leg up without the same kind of preconditions that we believe in as conservatives, where we're not going to actually help you at all unless you allow your people to be free. That's what we do to varying degrees. So the leverage that the United States has is, for example, chips. The US can require any chip with any type of US Technology that could be exported to have a license requirement attached to it. Right. Anything that's exported to China, anything that uses any type of US Tech as it relates to chips would require a license similar to what China does. And that would be crippling.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

If we do that, we already don't.

[Captain Morgan]

Let them have some of the best products out of Nvidia and places like that. So there's some of this already set.

[Steven Crowder]

But don't allow any other nations even using our stuff to trade with China unless there's some kind of a specific license and just make it astronomical. So if China wants to play this game, we can play this game. The difference is we will outlast them. Yeah, it would be. It would be destructive toward both sides. But you can't deal with a madman without any willingness to take risk.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

It's like dealing with a suicide bomber. Right. If they're. They think they're willing to destroy all of their stuff, but the truth is they can only do that for so long with a huge population in China until people maybe start to revolt. They can only destroy themselves for so long until. Well, they also have to be concerned about their own livelihood, about their lives. They have to be concerned about political positioning. So, yeah, this is kind of a game of chicken, and I think we're in a better position than there. We can also, by the way, leverage some of our allies. By the way, really badass move. Netherlands just took over the Chinese chip maker nextperia. It's like Chinese chip maker is in the Netherlands and they just. They just took it pretty much just like it's ours.

[Gerald Morgan]

Very Chinese of them to do.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, there's like, there's. It's ours now.

[Captain Morgan]

I love that.

[Steven Crowder]

And that's why it's really hard for China to argue with them. Like, we do do that. And we do that too. Yes. That's a. I think your microphone is being.

[Gerald Morgan]

Oh, whoops.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, you hit a button. Oops. We actually obtained.

[Captain Morgan]

Excuses.

[Gerald Morgan]

I was using chip from Netherlands.

[Steven Crowder]

So bad quality. No good traffic from Netherlands.

[Stephen]

I give.

[Steven Crowder]

What are you, Belgium? Who are you? Who are you? I know you have hookah smoke weed. What else? Get a new fan.

[Gerald Morgan]

All you white guy have big eye. You all look the same. He do Awful.

[Steven Crowder]

We actually. So they just took. Netherlands just said, nope, we're taking next period. It's ours now. And we obtained exclusive audio from how that Went down.

[Stephen]

Yes. Hello. She. Hello. So you know how Nuxperia was your company to make chips? It is a good chip company. Now Nuxperia is our company. What? We've decided to take nextperia and make it our own company.

[Donald Trump]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Stephen]

It's not for you. It is only for China. I understand. The decision has been made. Now I'm going to go eat my French fries with the mayonnaise. That's not even how you were supposed to eat a French fry.

[Gerald Morgan]

He's right. Salt and ketchup.

[Steven Crowder]

He's a little bit petulant. A little bit. He's not wrong. Also, Australia is discussing a $777 million joint mineral deal with the United States. So other people are discussing potential rare earth deals with the United States. And by the way, we would have the ability to. We just have sort of, I guess you could say outsource that. Like, yeah, okay. We'll let China do it as long as we can. And that's not a good thing. No. We also.

[Captain Morgan]

Stupid.

[Steven Crowder]

We also saw a supply chains during COVID picture with everything that really matters and could use some of these.

[Captain Morgan]

This was obvious. This was a part of the playbook. You should really be pissed off at previous administrations. And look, I don't know, I'll have to go back and look at what Trump did during his first administration when he was not batting down the fake Russia scandal that they perpetuated. But China has been doing this around the world for decades now. Like this project under Barack Obama and Biden should have been stopped or at least countered in some way so that they don't have the 70%, 90%, 92% around the world. It's like, guys, this was obvious what they were playing at.

[Gerald Morgan]

It's hard to compete with slave labor in African countries when you have morals.

[Captain Morgan]

No, no, no, no. It's just money. Their initiative was, we'll go in and build you this, this manufacturing stuff. You just give us rights to your rare earth materials in your country. We'll go in and spend money here. That's what they did with the Panama Canal. They're like, oh, we'll go spend money here. That's what they do. By owning ports in different places. They just go spend money. It was very obvious, by the way, trying to do.

[Steven Crowder]

Here's a question I have. Could the Netherlands, who've done pretty much nothing consequential ever, Ever. Yeah. In just taking over next period, just like it's ours now, could they have just given us the playbook for Chinese owned land here in the United States? I think so. Could we just do that?

[Captain Morgan]

That's a nice piece of property you got there.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, but I know you. You guys like this land and you paid for it. But it's ours now.

[Gerald Morgan]

It was ours before.

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, and it's still ours. Taking it back.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. So we're gonna take back the land.

[Captain Morgan]

Well, you had a lease. That's what it was. It wasn't. You didn't own it yet.

[Steven Crowder]

That's why you leased it. We're gonna keep your money and we're taking your land.

[Captain Morgan]

Yes.

[Gerald Morgan]

You're evicted.

[Steven Crowder]

What could China do what they're doing now, right? I mean, comment below. I mean, I get that I'm being simplistic and it's reductive, but we gotta do something, right? Why would we allow an enemy like this to purchase up land, let alone in important strategic locations across the United States?

[Captain Morgan]

Yeah, no more foreign students from China either. Bye. Sorry.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah.

[Captain Morgan]

Go somewhere else.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah. Why would we want to educate their next generation?

[Captain Morgan]

Zero.

[Steven Crowder]

Unless we bring them here and make them dumber and send them back. Ah, if it's, if it's a trick.

[Captain Morgan]

If we're trying to like, you know, convert them into double agents.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah, yeah, but they're not enrolling at asu.

[Steven Crowder]

No, they're not.

[Stephen]

Oh, wow.

[Steven Crowder]

Just like we shot fired. I'll tell you what, how about this? How about this?

[Captain Morgan]

I don't know.

[Steven Crowder]

We only allow them to enroll if they just like study the humanities, right? If they say gender, they study philosophy. Like, well, only left because then they'll go back and they'll be their problem. You know, they'll have a few drum circles.

[Captain Morgan]

It's true. We could screw them up from the inside.

[Steven Crowder]

Yes, exactly. And China is already pretty screwed up. Our economy will suffer, sure. But think of what that really means when you say the United States will suffer, right. If these costs go up. Means you might be paying quite a bit more for your tchotchkes that you get on Amazon, things like that. But it also means you'd probably be paying quite a bit more, you personally, for things like healthcare, probably because you're talking about a lot of equipment and machinery that uses some of these rare earths and technologies. You talking about your phone being more expensive, right? All your tech products. Okay, but you could still live. And I'm talking about worst case scenario here, China. I mean, most people there lived in total, complete abject poverty. And their property market, by the way, has been halved over the past four years. Their youth unemployment is 20% or more. Think about that for a second. They're playing with fire. And what I am always concerned with is you have been told by our own leaders that you. That we can't outlast China, that the discomfort you experience will be far worse, and that we'll cave before China. I don't think that's the case. I really don't. You guys can let me know and we'll take your chats a little bit later. I think China will feel it worse. I think their people will feel it worse, and I think their government will have to capitulate to their people at some point in time.

[Gerald Morgan]

Yeah. How long until, you know, the young Chinese fight back or step up and do something? 30% unemployment, 40%.

[Steven Crowder]

I don't know. I don't know if they have the backbone for it because they've been raised in a society that's basically imperialist, where it's just okay, submit to the government and. I don't know. That's one thing that's very unique about the United States. But I will tell you this. People told you that World War three was guaranteed starting in Iran. Some people actually started their World War three.

[Captain Morgan]

Like clocks. Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

Not countdown. Clock, clock, like World War III had started.

[Captain Morgan]

Right.

[Steven Crowder]

And instead now conflict with Iran and Israel was done. I mean, in record time.

[Stephen]

Yeah.

[Steven Crowder]

We didn't even count to three.

[Captain Morgan]

Like 10 minutes, something like that.

[Steven Crowder]

And now it's done between. At least for the time being. Israel, Hamas, World War III is a lot more likely to start with China or at least the wheels be put in motion. So if we understand that and we have our mind on that. Right. It's at least. It should always be kind of there in the foreground, then I think we should act accordingly and treat them like the genuine threat they are. Doesn't mean that America is first. I don't. It doesn't mean that America is perfect. I mean, to say it doesn't mean that we don't put America first in all of our domestic policy, but internationally, that's the one that we need to watch right now. We really do. This is a huge. I think it's. We're so insulated, people don't realize what a giant threat they are. And people will come back and go.

[Donald Trump]

Do you feel free in America?

[Steven Crowder]

You're a slave to your phone. I don't care. There are plenty of people who just go, homestead. Right. And they just can have a farm and do their own thing. You have the choice. You don't have any Choice. In China, you are robbed of choice. So, yes, we are more free than the Chinese. And if we want to maintain that way of letting know that the Chinese, very similarly, by the way, to Hamas and Iran, who want to do away with, you know, their devil is the Jews and the Christians in the Western nation. China wants to do away with the decadence of the West. The biggest evil enemy that is the United States. They've been very clear about that. And they now have economic levers that they want to pull. We have to make it staying worse for them. So I'm not saying World War Three, but if we find ourselves at World War iii, I think it's more likely to be centered around China and maybe some unholy alliance of China, Russia, Iran at some point in time than it would be just Israel and some, you know.

[Captain Morgan]

Right. But I think that also kind of leans into the argument that we need to make sure that we aren't dragged into. Into foreign conflicts unnecessarily and take our focus off of China, because China would love nothing more than for Iran to do something and, trust me, spread to go spend tons of treasure and more importantly, human lives to try to fight a battle. They're like, fantastic. That just weakens our enemy even more. That's been their plan the entire time. So, no, they're not taking this overt kind of offensive action, but they are playing a game, and they're playing it very well. And too many people knew and profited off of it. And listen, hopefully that comes out. We just scratch the surface on the NBA and stuff like that, because you saw it.

[Steven Crowder]

Yeah, right.

[Captain Morgan]

Don't get started on the fact that Apple is probably one of the biggest offenders in world history of building up an enemy of the nation that they happen to reside in the United States. Right. They built our enemy, essentially. They're not the only ones, but they're a big, big part of that. So. And we need to focus on them.

[Steven Crowder]

Oh, look at the time. By the way, we're gonna have to go here. If you are not a Rumble Premium member, you know, Mug Club is Rumble Premium. Rumble Premium is Mug Club. You can join up if you like. The change my minds black and white and the gray issues, you know, of course, The Daily Show, 100% more show, please. We're supported by viewers like you. We're not funded by a foreign caliphate. No nonprofit money. It's you. And if you want to see those.

[Captain Morgan]

No Jew money either.

[Steven Crowder]

No, no Jew money either. Hey, you've never seen me with a tiny hat. At the. At the Wall. So consider joining up. If not, hey, tune in tomorrow. It's a weekday show, 11am Eastern. And go watch Tim Pool. We're going to send you over to Tim Pool for free. We are going to play, though, on. We used to do this, like, on Mud Club, only because back when we were on YouTube, but truth is, we just. We could do it. Rumble doesn't care.

[Stephen]

No, no, no.

[Steven Crowder]

But it's just more fun. Yeah, we're gonna play Hate Symbol. Or not.

[Stephen]

Oh.