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Chapter 1: What are the key events from President's Day weekend?
Well, folks, it was a very busy President's Day weekend. In the news, we're going to get to all of it. Ongoing negotiations over Ukraine between the United States and Russia in Saudi Arabia. President Trump at the Daytona 500. J.D. Vance giving off some pretty strong, aggressive vibes in Germany. Lots of stuff happening.
We begin today with the latest on this insane situation up in Toronto where a Delta plane landed and then flipped over onto its roof. Here's a video that is just breaking as of this morning.
We just landed. Our plane crashed.
You can see this plane is completely on its roof.
Breaking news from Pearson Airport. Apparently everybody's alive. Delta Airlines CRJ900 has crashed. As you can see, the plane ended up upside down and the wings were sheared off. 80 people were on board the flight. No one was killed. Good evening. The crash occurred around 2.30 this afternoon. According to Peel paramedics, 15 people were injured, two of them critically.
One child was also transported to SickKids Hospital.
Okay, so we do actually have some video of the moment of impact. This looks like pilot error. I mean, there really is no other way to read this. This is an insane crash landing. Basically, the plane comes down so hard that it rips off part of the landing gear and flips the plane completely over. One of the wings comes off the plane.
So it is not as though it flipped around in the air or anything like that. This is not an FAA issue. This is not a coordination issue between various planes. This is a pilot who's going to have some splaining to do. Here is the video. That is not good. Miracle that nobody was killed in this. Again, there are 15 people who have been injured.
Now, this has not stopped anybody on the left or in the media from immediately blaming the Trump administration for a plane crash that happened in Canada. which maybe this is the start of our invasion of Canada, actually. This is the inciting event.
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Chapter 2: How did a Delta plane crash in Toronto?
And as I've said before, Bill Burr has completely lost the thread. Absolutely lost the thread. So Bill Burr has decided as a very rich individual who makes money by saying funny things sometimes. And again, this is coming from somebody who really enjoyed, for example, his Red Rock special. I think that he's done some really funny stuff in the past.
And then he decided that he was going to go not just woke, but the wokest of the woke on everything from race to economics. So... On his Monday morning podcast, he decided that he was going to sound off about billionaires again. Now, again, this is not his first rodeo on this particular topic. We talked about this a few weeks ago.
He suggested that Luigi Mangione, who is the shooter of Brian Thompson, who is the head of UnitedHealthcare, he's the CEO over there, the murderer of that guy on the street, Bill Burr had suggested that he basically had it coming because he ran a health insurance company. Well, now Bill Burr has expanded his critique out to all billionaires. Apparently, according to Bill Burr,
Simply earning a lot of money in the United States or anywhere else means that you should be murdered. This means that Bill Burr is both a moral and an economic idiot. This is not actually how economics works. The way that you become a billionaire in a free market capitalist system is by generating new goods, products, and services at a price enough affordable that people want to get it.
That is it. That is how you make a lot of money. Back in the old days of feudalism, the way that you made a lot of money is by robbing poor people and taking all their stuff. And you had to do that to a lot of poor people because they didn't have a lot of stuff. And it turns out the people in those days who were rich actually weren't all that rich by modern standards.
They didn't have any modern conveniences. There was no innovation or anything like that. Okay, but billionaires of today, generally speaking, are billionaires because they created something that's awesome for everybody. But Bill Burr obviously doesn't understand economics.
He doesn't understand morality either, because his suggestion is that if you, apparently, if you are worth $999 million, you're good to go. If you make a billion dollars, you should be murdered on the streets, according to Bill Burr.
The amount of people that are struggling out there because of these billionaires, and they got us all arguing liberal and conservative. We got to stop doing that. If you work a full week at a job, you should be able to pay your rent. You shouldn't have to go out and get another job and still be struggling. It's bad for the country. These billionaires. They need to be put down.
You know, like rabid dogs.
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Chapter 3: Is the Trump administration responsible for air traffic issues?
They know that they can't achieve their goals without taking Taiwan. But if they take Taiwan, they're on the precipice of achieving those goals.
So Senator Cotton, let's talk about Taiwan because obviously that's a hot-button issue. They have projected power certainly across the Taiwan Strait, which is incredibly narrow.
The big issue with Taiwan, not just in terms of the fact that it's a democratic country that essentially constitutes its own polity, but also TSMC, which is the world's leading manufacturer of superconductors, sophisticated superconductors, microchips – is located there. If that were to be taken by China, it would be a serious danger to the world economy.
How seriously should we take what China is attempting to do with Taiwan? What is their goal? Are you more worried about an invasion or a blockade?
Both would be very worrisome. Any kind of conflict over Taiwan would be devastating, Ben. It would probably lead to an immediate global depression that would wipe out the life savings of many Americans in the stock market, lead to mass unemployment, shortages on the shelves of American stores.
And part of that reason, as you say, is that Taiwan is the source of more than 60% of all global semiconductor manufacturing, more than 90% of advanced semiconductor manufacturing. It's also that you could expect a complete breakdown of economic ties between China and the United States and the West.
Unfortunately, we've allowed those ties to grow very deep and therefore we're very dependent on China. So even if there were a conflict that were inconclusive, that reached a stalemate, you would still see, again, an almost immediate global depression that would be devastating for Americans.
That's why the only way to prevail in a conflict with Taiwan is to prevent it from happening in the first place, to be strong and confident in the defense of a democratic partner and make it clear to communist China, as we have for a long time, that we will not tolerate any unilateral attempts to invade and annex Taiwan to the mainland.
Senator Cotton, one of the things that you say in the book is that China could actually win. And I know there's been a lot of skepticism. I'm one of the skeptics of China's sort of generalized ability to project power. I look at their demographics. Their demographics are upside down. I look at their economy. It's incredibly debt-laden.
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Chapter 4: Why did Bill Burr criticize billionaires?
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