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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Bret Weinstein is Concerned About the Migrant Crisis' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-13. Transcript available.

You're already seeing a lot of people in the black community that have turned
towards Trump because they're seeing what's going on with this immigration
and how it's affecting them and the fact that these people that are coming in
that are illegal immigrants are getting so much aid that they're not getting.
And they're like this is fucking crazy. This is our community and you're having
these people come in, you're giving them food and money and shelter and you won't
do it for us and we've been here forever and we're Americans. This is crazy and
then there's a lot of people that like even Michael Rappaport because of the
way things are going in the world is saying that he fucking hates Trump. He
talks wild shit about Trump. Even he's saying that that first of all that that's
not off the table and that now that's the only solution. Well I don't think we're
there yet but I but I don't think on the basis of the time he would have his
temperament or his ability to build a team. You know Trump is kind of a one-man
show and his team-building ability I don't think is enough to solve the
problem either but the punchline of that is if Kennedy can't do it for
whatever reason if politics gets in the way we still have to get whatever that
cabal is out of power immediately. This could not be more of an emergency. We've
seen through COVID how dangerous these people are, how little they care about
our
well-being and we have to rally around whatever it
is that addresses this problem and you know as much as I'm not a believer that
Trump on his own can do the job I would far prefer him to another standard bearer
of that cabal. The cabal is too dangerous and I say this as you know I'm a
lifelong Democrat all right this is my party that I'm telling you cannot be
trusted with governance but that's where we are.
The border crisis. So you went and saw the migration you saw the groups of
people that are making their way up through.
Yeah I was invited actually my son and I went to Panama, Panama where I have
some
history. I did my bat work on Barrow, Colorado Island in Gatun Lake, the Panama
Canal. So Panama is a place I'm familiar with but Michael Yon invited us down
to go
look at the migration in the Darien province of Panama which is the province
bordering
Colombia. As you probably know there's a gap in the Pan American Highway about
60 miles that were never built in this highway that otherwise stretches from
Prudhoe Bay Alaska to the southern tip of South America and what's there is a
tremendously significant and very difficult jungle in the Darien Gap. So there's
a national park there
and ordinarily people do not cross the Darien Gap. It is a famously difficult
obstacle.
And what we see there is that the international community
is encouraging a massive migration of people from South America into Central
America and that almost
all of those people are ending up crossing our southern border and entering the
U.S.
the ones who are questioned are claiming political asylum which is not accurate.
So we talked to many,
many migrants and the universal story amongst the migrants who would talk to us
is that they were
fleeing bad economic conditions in the direction of what looks like greater
opportunity. They've been
told by the international community that they should come across the Darien Gap
where
many of them are not surviving the trek. It's extremely dangerous. And they're
migrating north.
Now, the really troubling thing, though, is that that migration is familiar in
one way. It looks a
little bit like the migrations of Central Americans that migrated north when we
were kids.
But there is another migration. There is a migration of Chinese immigrants that
looks different,
feels different, and is being housed in a totally separate way in Darien for
reasons that are not in
any way obvious. Now, I don't know exactly what to make of that. I have
hypotheses. There are no more than that.
But the Chinese migration is not forthcoming about why it is migrating. It is
composed mostly of young,
military-aged men. There are some women present, but it's not 50-50 by far. And
the international community
has arranged separate encampments. The Chinese are, in many cases, traveling a
separate way across the
Darien Gap. They're skipping some of the worst parts of it, traveling by boat.
And as I think I mentioned,
they are, when asked where they're from, where they're going, why they're going,
they are uninterested in
talking. There's a hostility to it that I found shocking. Because for one thing,
if you imagined
folks from almost anywhere in the world were heading to the US because they
didn't like the way things
were in China, they feared their government, they thought that there was
economic opportunity,
they would be curious about Americans. These are soon to be their countrymen.
They would tend to be
interested in talking. And even if they, for some reason, because they had
lived under a totalitarian
regime, felt that they couldn't talk, they wouldn't be broadcasting hostility,
they would be ambivalent
or something. And that is not the impression that they leave when interacting
with them. So I found that
utterly alarming. And I came to wonder if the migration of people coming up
from South America, many of
whom, by the way, are not South American, are people coming from the Middle
East, we met Afghans or people
from Iran, Yemen, all over the world, they land in Ecuador, which has no visa
requirement. And then they
migrate through Colombia into Central America and straight up to the US. But in
any case, that massive
migration seems to provide a cloak for this other migration from China, which
is nothing if not
mysterious.
Trevor Burrus:
Why are they letting it happen? Why do you think the government is allowing the
border to be so porous?
Trevor Burrus: And why are they resisting when Texas tries to do something
about it?
David Myers:
Well, I always worry when we're trying to understand
what's happening and the information is not being shared with us. You have to
ask yourself the question
of how many things, how many separate things are in play, right? Before I went
to Panama,
I thought there was a migration of people. Now I think there are two. One of
them is clearly a
migration and the other one could well be an invasion. So if I know that there
are two things,
then I can put them in two categories and I can ask myself the question, why is
this being allowed and
why is that being allowed? The consensus, maybe consensus is too strong, but
the belief amongst
many who have been on the story of the migration for years now, is that this is
a ploy to create
voters, democratic voters. And I don't think that's impossible. I think that's
probably playing
a role. I don't know how realistic it is. I don't know whether or not it is
clear that migrants necessarily
carry the likelihood of voting blue that the blue team imagines. But anyway, I
think that that's a
plausible explanation in part, but I don't think it really covers it. There are
other hypotheses that are
darker. There is talk about the possibility of trading citizenship for military
service. I think that's
a very frightening prospect, but I didn't invent the idea. It has been
discussed. And the problem is that
to the extent that we saw things like the vaccine mandate drive out the skeptics
from the military,
this process would also bring in a lot of people into military service who
would have more reason to
follow immoral orders than a citizen soldier who had been American their whole
life. In other words,
if the power structure is granting you citizenship, which you want in exchange
for your obedience,
then what is it that would cause you to say no? So if you wanted a force that
was capable of
acting on behalf of tyranny against Americans, then a force that doesn't have a
deep history with
the rights of being an American, that doesn't have a longstanding allegiance to
people within the
country. That force would be potentially more compliant. And that worries me.
That should worry you. I really didn't consider that until you just said that.
But my thought about this idea of the military turning on the citizens was
always, but the military is
citizens. And many of them are deeply patriotic and unlikely to do something
like that. But if they did
swap out immigrants and they did do that, holy shit, then you have a real coup.
This is what spooks me is that in thinking about the various scenarios five
years ago, even three years
ago, I would have said, I fear that somebody is going to issue immoral orders
to the military, but I'm
convinced that the military will divide over them, that there are those who
will carry out immoral orders
and there are others who won't. And at the same time, there's a senator, I
think from Massachusetts,
that introduced a bill to ban what they call paramilitary training, which is
just training with
firearms to get better at them. So the idea is you have a right to keep and
bear arms, but you can't be
good at them because you can't practice. So if you imagine in my naive state a
few years ago,
the idea was, well, you have a very well-armed populace, you have a military
that's likely to be
divided about immoral orders. I don't like the sound of that, but I don't think
that it's a slam dunk
that the tyrants win because the part of the military that's not going to
follow immoral orders and the
citizenry that will fight to defend the republic, that's a pretty powerful
force. But then you have
vaccine mandates, which force out most of the people who are independent-minded
from the military.
And then you have the idea that migrants might be granted citizenship in
exchange for military service.
And has that been introduced anywhere? Is this just a complete hypothesis?
No, it's not. It's not a hypothesis. Actually, maybe Jamie, you could look it
up. I don't want to
slander anybody, but yes, I believe it has been raised by at least one senator.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Jesus Christ. Is that the paramilitary thing?
Jim O'Shaughnessy: No, no, no, no. The other thing, the thing about granting
citizenship to
illegal immigrants in exchange for military service.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: So in any case, I did not,
it took a lot of thinking about different pieces of the puzzle to begin to
wonder about something like
this. But having wondered about it, it doesn't disappear from my mind as, "Oh,
that's just simply
crazy, actually." Given the number of things that don't add up, this begins to
explain them in a
reasonably parsimonious way. And it has me worried. But that is not inherently,
in fact, it is probably
not the same thing as what would explain the concentration of Chinese migrants.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Right. Jim O'Shaughnessy: Right? The Chinese migrants
presumably have left
China with the knowledge of their government. The bias of that group in favor
of males,
something we can talk about if you want to, but it has an obvious
interpretation. And that ought to
frighten us as well, right? So at the same- Jim O'Shaughnessy: How many are we
talking about?
Is there an estimate of how many military aged Chinese men have gotten into the
country?
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Now, I'm always hesitant at this point in the conversation,
because what I saw
is what one person looks at through their eyes. So I'm in no position to
estimate that. But I believe
we are talking about tens of thousands. Certainly, when we're talking about the
entire migration,
we are talking about millions. And the number that is flowing through Central
America, you know,
the flow-through rate in a given day is many thousands. So it's hard to know.
And I would want
somebody who was in a position to look at an estimate, not just a, you know, a
spot check.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: So if the tyrannical government is playing some long game of
chess,
these are the pieces that would be moving. Jim O'Shaughnessy: The closest I
could find on a number.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Chinese immigrants who entered the U.S. without
authorization. In 2023,
it's over 30,000. Look at how low it was in 2021. Jim O'Shaughnessy: Yep.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: And how high it is in 2023. Jim O'Shaughnessy: What's the
source on this?
Jim O'Shaughnessy: This says the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Oh, my God. And that's probably a low estimate. You know,
it's probably like VAERS. Jim O'Shaughnessy: When I was looking up the other
thing about the military,
I think you have to have a green card first. Jim O'Shaughnessy: Oh, then you
give them a green card.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: This also was talking about the numbers are down for the Air
Force, the Army.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Yeah, for everybody. They're actually asking people to
retire to come back.

Why Bret Weinstein is Concerned About the Migrant Crisis

You're already seeing a lot of people in the black community that have turned
towards Trump because they're seeing what's going on with this immigration
and how it's affecting them and the fact that these people that are coming in
that are illegal immigrants are getting so much aid that they're not getting.
And they're like this is fucking crazy. This is our community and you're having
these people come in, you're giving them food and money and shelter and you won't
do it for us and we've been here forever and we're Americans. This is crazy and
then there's a lot of people that like even Michael Rappaport because of the
way things are going in the world is saying that he fucking hates Trump. He
talks wild shit about Trump. Even he's saying that that first of all that that's
not off the table and that now that's the only solution. Well I don't think we're
there yet but I but I don't think on the basis of the time he would have his
temperament or his ability to build a team. You know Trump is kind of a one-man
show and his team-building ability I don't think is enough to solve the
problem either but the punchline of that is if Kennedy can't do it for
whatever reason if politics gets in the way we still have to get whatever that
cabal is out of power immediately. This could not be more of an emergency. We've
seen through COVID how dangerous these people are, how little they care about
our
well-being and we have to rally around whatever it
is that addresses this problem and you know as much as I'm not a believer that
Trump on his own can do the job I would far prefer him to another standard bearer
of that cabal. The cabal is too dangerous and I say this as you know I'm a
lifelong Democrat all right this is my party that I'm telling you cannot be
trusted with governance but that's where we are.
The border crisis. So you went and saw the migration you saw the groups of
people that are making their way up through.
Yeah I was invited actually my son and I went to Panama, Panama where I have
some
history. I did my bat work on Barrow, Colorado Island in Gatun Lake, the Panama
Canal. So Panama is a place I'm familiar with but Michael Yon invited us down
to go
look at the migration in the Darien province of Panama which is the province
bordering
Colombia. As you probably know there's a gap in the Pan American Highway about
60 miles that were never built in this highway that otherwise stretches from
Prudhoe Bay Alaska to the southern tip of South America and what's there is a
tremendously significant and very difficult jungle in the Darien Gap. So there's
a national park there
and ordinarily people do not cross the Darien Gap. It is a famously difficult
obstacle.
And what we see there is that the international community
is encouraging a massive migration of people from South America into Central
America and that almost
all of those people are ending up crossing our southern border and entering the
U.S.
the ones who are questioned are claiming political asylum which is not accurate.
So we talked to many,
many migrants and the universal story amongst the migrants who would talk to us
is that they were
fleeing bad economic conditions in the direction of what looks like greater
opportunity. They've been
told by the international community that they should come across the Darien Gap
where
many of them are not surviving the trek. It's extremely dangerous. And they're
migrating north.
Now, the really troubling thing, though, is that that migration is familiar in
one way. It looks a
little bit like the migrations of Central Americans that migrated north when we
were kids.
But there is another migration. There is a migration of Chinese immigrants that
looks different,
feels different, and is being housed in a totally separate way in Darien for
reasons that are not in
any way obvious. Now, I don't know exactly what to make of that. I have
hypotheses. There are no more than that.
But the Chinese migration is not forthcoming about why it is migrating. It is
composed mostly of young,
military-aged men. There are some women present, but it's not 50-50 by far. And
the international community
has arranged separate encampments. The Chinese are, in many cases, traveling a
separate way across the
Darien Gap. They're skipping some of the worst parts of it, traveling by boat.
And as I think I mentioned,
they are, when asked where they're from, where they're going, why they're going,
they are uninterested in
talking. There's a hostility to it that I found shocking. Because for one thing,
if you imagined
folks from almost anywhere in the world were heading to the US because they
didn't like the way things
were in China, they feared their government, they thought that there was
economic opportunity,
they would be curious about Americans. These are soon to be their countrymen.
They would tend to be
interested in talking. And even if they, for some reason, because they had
lived under a totalitarian
regime, felt that they couldn't talk, they wouldn't be broadcasting hostility,
they would be ambivalent
or something. And that is not the impression that they leave when interacting
with them. So I found that
utterly alarming. And I came to wonder if the migration of people coming up
from South America, many of
whom, by the way, are not South American, are people coming from the Middle
East, we met Afghans or people
from Iran, Yemen, all over the world, they land in Ecuador, which has no visa
requirement. And then they
migrate through Colombia into Central America and straight up to the US. But in
any case, that massive
migration seems to provide a cloak for this other migration from China, which
is nothing if not
mysterious.
Trevor Burrus:
Why are they letting it happen? Why do you think the government is allowing the
border to be so porous?
Trevor Burrus: And why are they resisting when Texas tries to do something
about it?
David Myers:
Well, I always worry when we're trying to understand
what's happening and the information is not being shared with us. You have to
ask yourself the question
of how many things, how many separate things are in play, right? Before I went
to Panama,
I thought there was a migration of people. Now I think there are two. One of
them is clearly a
migration and the other one could well be an invasion. So if I know that there
are two things,
then I can put them in two categories and I can ask myself the question, why is
this being allowed and
why is that being allowed? The consensus, maybe consensus is too strong, but
the belief amongst
many who have been on the story of the migration for years now, is that this is
a ploy to create
voters, democratic voters. And I don't think that's impossible. I think that's
probably playing
a role. I don't know how realistic it is. I don't know whether or not it is
clear that migrants necessarily
carry the likelihood of voting blue that the blue team imagines. But anyway, I
think that that's a
plausible explanation in part, but I don't think it really covers it. There are
other hypotheses that are
darker. There is talk about the possibility of trading citizenship for military
service. I think that's
a very frightening prospect, but I didn't invent the idea. It has been
discussed. And the problem is that
to the extent that we saw things like the vaccine mandate drive out the skeptics
from the military,
this process would also bring in a lot of people into military service who
would have more reason to
follow immoral orders than a citizen soldier who had been American their whole
life. In other words,
if the power structure is granting you citizenship, which you want in exchange
for your obedience,
then what is it that would cause you to say no? So if you wanted a force that
was capable of
acting on behalf of tyranny against Americans, then a force that doesn't have a
deep history with
the rights of being an American, that doesn't have a longstanding allegiance to
people within the
country. That force would be potentially more compliant. And that worries me.
That should worry you. I really didn't consider that until you just said that.
But my thought about this idea of the military turning on the citizens was
always, but the military is
citizens. And many of them are deeply patriotic and unlikely to do something
like that. But if they did
swap out immigrants and they did do that, holy shit, then you have a real coup.
This is what spooks me is that in thinking about the various scenarios five
years ago, even three years
ago, I would have said, I fear that somebody is going to issue immoral orders
to the military, but I'm
convinced that the military will divide over them, that there are those who
will carry out immoral orders
and there are others who won't. And at the same time, there's a senator, I
think from Massachusetts,
that introduced a bill to ban what they call paramilitary training, which is
just training with
firearms to get better at them. So the idea is you have a right to keep and
bear arms, but you can't be
good at them because you can't practice. So if you imagine in my naive state a
few years ago,
the idea was, well, you have a very well-armed populace, you have a military
that's likely to be
divided about immoral orders. I don't like the sound of that, but I don't think
that it's a slam dunk
that the tyrants win because the part of the military that's not going to
follow immoral orders and the
citizenry that will fight to defend the republic, that's a pretty powerful
force. But then you have
vaccine mandates, which force out most of the people who are independent-minded
from the military.
And then you have the idea that migrants might be granted citizenship in
exchange for military service.
And has that been introduced anywhere? Is this just a complete hypothesis?
No, it's not. It's not a hypothesis. Actually, maybe Jamie, you could look it
up. I don't want to
slander anybody, but yes, I believe it has been raised by at least one senator.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Jesus Christ. Is that the paramilitary thing?
Jim O'Shaughnessy: No, no, no, no. The other thing, the thing about granting
citizenship to
illegal immigrants in exchange for military service.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: So in any case, I did not,
it took a lot of thinking about different pieces of the puzzle to begin to
wonder about something like
this. But having wondered about it, it doesn't disappear from my mind as, "Oh,
that's just simply
crazy, actually." Given the number of things that don't add up, this begins to
explain them in a
reasonably parsimonious way. And it has me worried. But that is not inherently,
in fact, it is probably
not the same thing as what would explain the concentration of Chinese migrants.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Right. Jim O'Shaughnessy: Right? The Chinese migrants
presumably have left
China with the knowledge of their government. The bias of that group in favor
of males,
something we can talk about if you want to, but it has an obvious
interpretation. And that ought to
frighten us as well, right? So at the same- Jim O'Shaughnessy: How many are we
talking about?
Is there an estimate of how many military aged Chinese men have gotten into the
country?
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Now, I'm always hesitant at this point in the conversation,
because what I saw
is what one person looks at through their eyes. So I'm in no position to
estimate that. But I believe
we are talking about tens of thousands. Certainly, when we're talking about the
entire migration,
we are talking about millions. And the number that is flowing through Central
America, you know,
the flow-through rate in a given day is many thousands. So it's hard to know.
And I would want
somebody who was in a position to look at an estimate, not just a, you know, a
spot check.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: So if the tyrannical government is playing some long game of
chess,
these are the pieces that would be moving. Jim O'Shaughnessy: The closest I
could find on a number.
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Chinese immigrants who entered the U.S. without
au