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Now, I'm gonna make a statement, all right?

Real simple, the American commercial aviation system

as horrible it as it is, is actually a modern marvel.

Imagine this, you can get two and from nearly any two cities

of decent size, you can go to any of the five continents

that are out there, well, you can actually go anyone,

at a relatively affordable price and with exceptional safety.

Okay, that's the good news.

Now, let's go to the bad news

and unfortunately the reality that's happening today.

The system is near collapse.

Look at the long security lines.

Two to three hours at New York airports,

three in Atlanta, two in Houston, Chicago,

I think was four or five hours,

checkpoint staff by TSA, it's,

which is part of Homeland Security.

TSA, DHS has not been paying TSA workers since Valentine's Day.

And ironically enough, the issue,

it's all because of ICE,

as far as the Democrats are concerned,

but ICE agents are being paid.

TSA workers are not.

And then on the other side,

the administration is saying no,

not until the Save America Act is passed.

So those are the politics.

So at LaGuardia in New York,

all flights were paused this is the yesterday afternoon,

or a couple days ago in Air Canada,

jet collided with a fire truck on the runway,

a thousand flights that arrive at LaGuardia every day

and hundreds were canceled.

And that puts pressure on other airports

that may not be prepared to handle any redirects.

As crowded as those airports are

and how often have you been on a plane,

we are sitting on the tarmac

and the pilot says,

we're waiting for the gate to open up.

How often has that happened?

A lot in my life.

And so you have a redirect

because let's say a airport is closed

because of one of these disasters.

And all of a sudden,

you're waiting a whole long time

for a gate to open up.

And we're talking about ground stops that happen,

what the wing of the spirit airlines was clipped

by last spring.

And that was, I think, by an effect, a FedEx plane.

And look at the close encounters of the worst kind.

When you talk about, we're hearing,

I'm thinking, you know what,

there has to be more crashes.

There are too many close encounters.

There are too many near crashes,

not to have disasters and we're getting disasters.

So here is something I want to tell you.

When I say it's collapsing,

I am not kidding.

The federal government has been trying

to run air traffic control on the cheap,

I mean the cheap for decades,

staffing shortages and badly outdated equipment.

When I say badly outdated equipment,

they still use floppy disks at air traffic control.

I didn't know you could even buy a floppy disk anymore.

Transportation, Secretary Sean Duffy

panned the infrastructure and say,

oh, not only floppy disks, they still use copper wires.

It's not effective.

It doesn't work.

And there have been congressional sessions,

presidential administrations.

And that goes back dozens of years,

failed to fix the problem.

And here's one that I absolutely love.

Okay, the 737 MAX airplanes that crashed two of them

because of that MCAT system.

What ends up happening is the,

as you know, the FAA has regulatory power

and licenses aircraft.

Whenever there's a new plane up and running,

the plane has to be licensed.

Also maintenance has to be reported to the FAA.

Well, they have something very, very clever.

And it is called regulatory capture,

which means the FAA goes to Boeing

and says, there is an issue here.

There is a new issue and we have to analyze it.

We have to inspect.

And Boeing says, don't bother.

We've inspected it.

And we know it's safe.

Therefore, you should certify.

I mean, how crazy is that?

That's like a defendant getting convicted

and the judge says, you decide on,

this is to the attorney, you decide as to the guilt even

of your client.

I mean, it's that bad.

That's regulatory capture.

Because they don't have enough,

they don't have enough employees in the FAA,

the pilot, and today it's,

what was it at the tower where the airplane just crashed

at LaGuardia.

There were two air traffic controllers

where there should have been four,

and it was overnight, it was late.

And the FAA came back, where the TSA came back

and said, that's normal for us.

Normal for us to have half the people.

Disaster.

So we've gone from the marvel of the world

when all of this started,

when air traffic control came into being

and control towers and safety to one of the worst.

And it is a shame.

It really is.

Okay, now a couple of cases with internet service providers

that have come down.

One of them is the Supreme Court.

So this one is done.

And it's a major loss for the nation's music industry

because the court ruled yesterday

that a major internet service provider

is not liable for copyright infringement

because it failed to kick out known copyright violators

off its networks.

Bottom line is if it knows that there is a violation

of copyright, then if it keeps on that copyright infringer,

the platform isn't liable.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion,

it was a unanimous verdict.

How's that for unusual?

Now we start with the music companies,

holding the right to everybody and everything,

every recognizable singer and songwriter,

Dylan and Bruce Springsteed and Beyonce

and Eric Clapton, I mean, all of them.

And the court wrote under our precedence,

a company is not liable as a copyright infringer

for merely providing a service to the general public.

Even with knowledge, it'll be used by some

to infringe copyrights, that's what Thomas wrote.

Now in a jury trial, and this went up to the Supreme Court,

the jury initially awarded Sony Music

and other record companies a billion dollar verdict

against Cox communication for infringement

of more than 10,000 copyrighted works.

The appeals court nicks out awards.

They know thank you.

Now it did say that Cox could be held indirectly liable

to contributing to infringement on a massive scale,

not liable per se, but indirectly liable.

And here's the argument that Cox brought up

and a boy who's this resonated with the court.

Cox warned of cataclysmic consequences

for internet users if Sony got its way.

Just one example, institutional customers

like universities and hospitals could be entirely cut off

from the internet.

If it turns out that a student from that facility

was caught infringing and therefore the companies must

kick off that university.

Whoa, well the court said,

no, you could tell that oral arguments

that that position resonated with everybody on the court.

Sony, Universal Music, the other majors

representing 80% of the industry sued in 2018.

So this has been going on for eight years.

And a jury in Virginia found that Cox was liable

for both vicarious infringement,

meaning it benefited financially from it

and contributory infringement

that it contributed to the infringement.

So one is we're not doing anything, but we're benefiting.

The other one is yeah, we're actively engaged.

And here is what the appeals court said

when it upheld the contributory infringement decision.

The music industry had flooded Cox

with infringement notices like crazy from 2013 to 2014.

They took one year.

The company terminated exactly 32 customers

for a copyright infringement.

32, that's it, out of all 100 millions of downloads.

And at the same time for the same period

it terminated hundreds of thousands of subscribers

for non-payment.

So the bottom line is, well, you might get nailed

for a copyright infringement.

I get asked that question all the time

on handle on the law.

Can I sue the platform?

Can I sue YouTube?

No, you can't because they are not responsible.

Now last year a unanimous court rule

that the American gun manufacturers

could not be held responsible for the cartel violence

on the Southwest border,

even if their guns are often involved in those other crimes

because manufacturers are not liable for what you do.

Also X Twitter in 2023 could not be held liable

for aiding and abetting terror attacks

because it has hosted tweets on its platform

that were created by ISIS.

And so the bottom line is,

these platforms are not liable.

And if you can imagine they are liable

for everything that bad actors do on the internet,

it changes everything.

I mean, we're not gonna be able to use the internet

because some crazy ass out the ISIS follower

or something to radicalize uses YouTube,

therefore, Subwadu is killed by that follower

who can immediately sue the provider

and get billions of dollars.

Not gonna work.

Okay, now there is a New York Times article,

Animal Street Journal article that I looked at.

And it talks about how I can be rich in America

and still be miserable.

That's the concept.

We start with the American economy.

It is truly the envy of the world.

However, Americans themselves are not happy about the economy

and we've been unhappy for a very long time.

Now, is that true?

Were the envy the world were rich,

but at the same time weren't happy about being rich

because we don't perceive ourselves as rich.

How is it possible to be rational

when those things happen?

We have pessimism for a long time

and we've had extraordinary economic growth.

Now, let me give you a couple of interesting facts

that you may not know of, okay?

Over the last quarter century, GDP gross domestic product

which is the entire economy of the country.

That GDP growth in the US has far outpaced growth

in Europe and Japan and two of our primary competitors

outside of India and China.

To such an extent and here is one that is actually staggering

that many of Europe's most powerful nations

have economies only as prosperous as those of our poorest states,

British and French living standards

as measured by disposable income

are more comparable to that of Mississippi

which is our poorest state.

Boy, that's a discrepancy.

Now, we hear about a shrinking middle class

but it really isn't shrinking.

It's shrinking because the ranks of the rich

and the upper middle class are growing astronomically.

So there are a couple of economists

who did an analysis of the economy,

Scott Winship and Stephen Rose

and they found that the core middle class,

that's households with incomes,

well, let's just 250% under 500% of the poverty rate.

I wanna not get into that.

The core middle class shrank from 35% in 1979 to 30%.

Now, that may not look like a huge figure

but that's a 13% decline.

And it's not because Americans are getting poorer.

We're not, it's that the rich are getting richer.

Much richer.

The percentage of Americans who were poor

or near poor plunged from 30% to 18% at the same period.

So those people that were poor or near poor,

that number basically went down 50%.

The percentage of lower class or lower middle class families,

that shrank as well.

The percentage of lower middle class families

went from 24% to 15%.

And then during the same period,

the share of upper middle class and rich,

and that exploded.

In 1979, 10% of families were upper middle class.

By 2024, that percentage had tripled.

In other words, they had come from the bottom tier

or the lower tier.

And the percentage of the rich,

and I'll describe what the percentages are here.

Went from 0.3% to 3.7, a 10-fold increase.

So to give you an idea of those income levels

from poor, near poor, all the way to rich,

there are five classes for a family of $3, $40,000,

$67,000, $133,400,000.

And so the result of this is huge.

A immense number of Americans live lives

that look extraordinarily prosperous

compared with all previous generations,

yet we complain about, for example, housing affordability.

Okay, that's true.

However, look at the houses we live in.

Far larger and more luxurious than Americans in generations past.

Look at how we live.

Central air, big screen TVs, home computers, multiple cars.

That's no longer for the rich.

That's the middle class, upper middle class,

middle class, lower middle class.

Even poor people have televisions and can have a car.

So here's another interesting part of this report.

The economic optimism and pessimism flip,

depending on who's in office.

When a Republican is the president,

Republicans are more optimistic.

When Democrats are in the White House,

it's exactly the opposite.

And if you have a closely divided country,

which we have now, you'll never have broad-based optimism at all.

Hey, it's just the way we look.

And so here's some examples of why the rich are incredibly rich

and middle class perceive themselves as not doing as well.

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal

about the cost of youth sports.

For example, the average family's annual spending on baseball

went from $1,100, went to $1,100 from $660 from 2019 to 2024.

And why?

Well, look at the nature of youth sports.

When we were kids and played baseball, we owned a bat, a glove.

We had a few balls.

We signed up for Little League.

We joined teams, local teams.

And now travel sports have taken over.

Travel sports are expensive.

Coaches, professional coaches are out there.

Teenagers on travel teams are rolling into weekend tournaments,

wearing thousands of dollars of apparel, equipment, swag.

And it is just a different way of living.

How about going to an NFL game, right?

Now you can be middle class, legitimately,

and earn your $150,000 or $120,000 a year.

How about going to an NFL game or a major league baseball game?

It went up 300% from 1991 to 2003.

Inflation didn't go up 300%.

So the average NFL ticket now costs more than $300.

The cheapest is $169.

That's the problem.

So we look at people who are rich.

And rich people are spending a ton of money on stuff that,

you know, we didn't spend before.

And so here is the bottom line.

Oh, I want to end it with this.

Airplane flight.

There used to be business class and there used to be,

basically, if you'd traveled domestically,

there was coach and there was business class.

And whenever I could upgrade,

because I go through credit cards, all my business,

I use credit cards, so I have a zillion miles.

I can upgrade.

I would sit in business class and people going to the back

of the plane and I would take my thumb,

point backwards and say, hey, I'm in business class.

How about you just to make people feel better?

Now, you've got like 18 different classes.

You don't know.

There's business class.

They're seating together.

There's pre-boarding.

There is, I mean, you just don't know.

So the joys of telling people, hey, you're poor.

And I'm not because I'm sitting in business

for the first class.

They've taken that away from me, bastards.

Taken it away.

The horror.

Okay, we're done.

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