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All right everybody, well, welcome back to the channel. I wanted to do some content that hopefully will be helpful to many different kinds of people and it all got inspired by this post that I saw from Lauren.
She goes by L on X. I don't follow too many women on X. Very, very few. I mean, if I had to guess, it's definitely under 10, maybe 5. I have no idea. And if it's more than that, then that's more recently.
I've been a little bit more freely following people lately. But in any case, I find her content very funny and very helpful. She does a lot of like internet archive digs and stuff like that. Very good stuff.
Very good stuff. Anyway, she posted this video from TikTok two weeks ago after the election. Most of us were posting a lot of the unhinged kind of freak outs and stuff like that. But this one I thought was interesting.
And what she says here is, don't give up on these youngins just yet. They're smart, they're curious, and a little bit of kindness will go a long way. And of course, she is right.
You know what I mean?
Despite her deficiencies being a woman on the internet, she is right. Kindness does go a long way. And so because of that, I felt like it would be good to maybe do a series of videos to explain really what's going on here.
But let's start.
Let's.
Deficiencies.
It's all said in love, obviously.
Obviously.
But let's watch the video, and then we're going to go into the first part of hopefully the series.
So I turned on Fox News just to see what's going on over there, right? And the main thing they were saying was that Kamala lost this election because Democrats were not willing to listen to what the mass majority of Americans wanted.
And that might be true, because I genuinely thought that most of the world was for not the world most of America was for Kamala. I really thought that. Not being facetious in any way, I genuinely was riding that blue wave and felt like we were really unified in that.
Obviously I was aware of the MAGA presence, but I didn't quite realize just how massive.
It was.
So the point of this video is just to open the floor to any of you that support Trump that want to maybe articulate to me what it is about him and his campaign that feels like the right decision for America.
Like I'm genuinely willing to listen, I'm not going to argue with any of you, I just want to give an opportunity for some of you to express what you see as the reality. Because it's becoming abundantly clear to me that the reality that I'm seeing is not the same as a lot of you.
So yeah, I just want to hear what you guys have to say. What is it about him? What is it about the campaign? What do you feel like he's going to do to push our country forward? And yeah, I don't know, I just want to know.
I'm genuinely confused and I want to know.
All right. She says she's genuinely confused and she's genuinely asking. And I mean, call me naive, I believe her.
I believe her.
She seems genuine and I'm sure she feels like she really has no idea what could anybody possibly see in his campaign and in him. And so I felt like we're going to start with a very, you know, just a mild topic.
We're going to start with immigration.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely. Well, yeah, I think we're just going to start off with a big one. I think this is, I was just joking. This is not a mild topic, obviously. But this is a big one and I think that it really does help to start with a big one to really show the different, you know, views that we have on reality as it is.
So just before we begin, let me just give you some of my bona fides here. So I am a second time Trump voter. I did not vote for Trump the first time. If I went back in time, of course, I feel like I would have voted for Trump the first time, but I voted for him twice.
And I'm not one of these guys that's voting for Trump, you know, kind of holding their nose like, ah, Trump's not that great. You know, I'm unfortunately voting for him. Like, no, I wanted to vote for him.
That's not to say he's perfect, obviously, when I'm in my mind, when I come up with a perfect candidate, I don't come up with Trump. But I wasn't hesitating, not at all. So very glad Trump supporter here.
Also a few other bona fides, you know, Puerto Rican, 100 Puerto Rican. I've got a family, you know, I've got a wife, I've got four sons. I live in New Hampshire. I mean, maybe that's enough for you.
I don't know. But those are my bona fides. Right. And immigration was a big issue, at least for me. And I think that the plan to execute lots of deportations is something that I want and something that's a very, very good thing.
Because here's the problem, right? You can't just have it's not sustainable for a nation to continue to exist and to thrive when you have a people that is so wildly divergent on so many things. And it's not even just humongous big things that I'm talking about here, like different views of the economy or things like that.
But it's even the small things like the shared traditions, the shared kind of mythology that we that we all kind of agree with. Right. Like these things are big deals. They work themselves out in small ways to start, but they matter a lot.
There's a lot of cohesion as a nation that is lost when, you know, you've got one group that remembers reading about Paul Bunyan as a kid and then another group that, you know, I don't know, read about Quetzalcoatlus or who, I don't know, I'm just I'm just making stuff up.
Right. You know, just have different kind of foundational mythologies. Right. And then, of course, there's bigger things, too, like religion. Right. Obviously, this is a big one. You know, it's very difficult to have a thriving community when you've got, you know, people that are, you know, you know, Christians, they believe, you know, Christian things.
And of course, then you've got Muslims and Hindus and things like that. And they all have a seat at the table. They all have sort of like they're all kind of jockeying for position and stuff like that.
And we have fundamentally different worldviews, like, you know, things that I say are up, you know, a Jew might say is down. And if we can't agree on what's up and what's down, what's, you know, moral and what's immoral, it's very difficult to to to live in a society like that.
And so, you know, you can see it in big things like that. But with small things, it's it matters, too. And so when it comes to especially a legal immigration, but also legal immigration, any nation that wants to thrive has to be very particular and very careful about who they allow to come to the United States and live here permanently, because whoever they allow to do that is going to have an impact on the future of the country.
And to be honest with you, I like that. I like America to be American. I like it. And I think, you know, the foundation of our of our nation was was good in many ways. And the idea of how we govern ourselves and how we live our our style of life is a very good thing.
And I would like to for that to continue. And it's impossible for that to continue if you're importing people that have a completely different way of life, a completely different view of what's acceptable or allowable or polite or impolite and stuff like that.
It's very it's not that it's just it's difficult. It's impossible to thrive, having all kinds of competing conceptions of what we should be doing. And I think, you know, one of the things that you notice if you travel abroad, which which I have is obviously, you know, you don't know the language and stuff like that, but you start to you start to learn really quickly that it's not just the language that's so different.
It's not just the food. It's not just that. There's just there's a fundamental difference in the priorities of people from other countries. And it's and it's very uncomfortable. It's very weird. It doesn't seem right to you.
And I'll give you one example, although I have tons of examples like this, but I've spent some time in Africa before and Africa in some ways is a is a is a beautiful place. In other ways, it's a very ugly place.
But but also it's very clear that it's not America. And, you know, one of the most frustrating things about Africa is, you know, we would have we would set up, you know, a tour or something like we would set up some kind of a visit.
Right. And we'd we'd get a car that was going to bring us from our guest house to wherever we were going. Right. And the car would never be there on time. It would just never be there on time. And even if it was whoever we were meeting at the place would not be there on time.
It was just a completely like there was no punctuality whatsoever. It was very, very frustrating because I was like, I thought we were supposed to be here. I leave at 12. I got down to that, you know, to where the car is supposed to be at eleven fifty and I end up waiting an hour for the car to show up.
It's very frustrating. And you start to realize that this is just how it's done there. You know what I mean? Twelve doesn't really mean twelve. Twelve means like midday ish around midday. You know, who knows the the the exactness of what you know, what we're used to in the United States.
Right. You expect the schedule to work essentially like clockwork. And when it doesn't, there's something that something's happened. It's like something something caused it to not work. If somebody misses a phone call or a meeting or a ride or something like that, you're like, well, what happened?
Right. Was there traffic? Did you hurt yourself? Did you lose track of time? But but in Africa, it's not like that. It's just expected. It's just part of what it's not impolite to do that. And I've even I've seen this work out, you know, in the United States where people start to get all uppity when when I saw somebody post this, man, I wish I could remember who this was.
He was trying to tell white people in America. He is an American, allegedly trying to tell white people that when when their black friends invite them to their house for a party or for dinner or something like that, you cannot show up on time.
And he was saying, if you do show up on time, you're racially insensitive. You're being rude because that's not how we do it. Like if you show up on time or if you or God forbid, a little early, that's offensive.
That's not how we do things. And it's like, well, I mean, you can see how this causes friction. Right. And that's a small thing. Again, this is a small thing. But when you take those small things and you just keep adding friction on friction, small things, eventually they blow up.
Right. And so this is the thing, like you've got to have an agreed upon set of how we live in order to have a successful long term nation. And so the illegal immigrants that are here, I believe they have to go back.
They should go back. And the thing is, I have no delusions that that's going to be painless. I have no delusions that there's not going to be an emotional toll that that will take and maybe even an economic toll.
This is the thing, like I think a lot of people don't understand this, that Trump voters, many of us went into supporting his plan for deporting illegal immigrants, understanding that there would be an economic toll and there would be a emotional toll that would have to be paid.
You can't. It's not it's not it's not free to deport people. And we think that it's worth it. We think that it's worth it. We think the country is on the wrong track. And we think one of the reasons why is because of essentially unfettered immigration and even legal immigration is part of this.
Like, you know, I'm for very limited legal immigration, but I'm not for, you know, making huge strides in getting more legal immigrants here, legal immigrants. I'm not for that. I think the United States needs to figure itself out as a nation.
And the United States is not just any nation. It's not like Japan. It's not like Ethiopia. We have excuse me, got something in my mouth here. I don't know. I don't know how that happened. We've got a lot of different ethnicities and different groups and things like that here.
And that's just how it is. And it doesn't make sense to shake your fist at the sky and wish it was different. That's just how it is. But this country was founded as an Anglo-Protestant nation. And I believe that's a good thing.
And I like that. I'm comfortable with that. It's an Anglo-Protestant nation. Now, does that mean that everyone that lives here is Anglo? No, that does not mean that. Obviously, I'm not. But I live like an Anglo-Protestant.
That's my lifestyle. That's how I live. I live in New Hampshire, as I said. I grew up, for the most part, in Connecticut. Right. And so if you could see my upbringing as a child and also how I, you know, kind of conduct my household now, it would basically it would look like any person from New England, basically.
And obviously, New England, it's New England and Anglo culture, basically here. That's how my household looks. If you could be a fly on the wall of my house for a week, you would see that I basically have the same lifestyle as pretty much any white person in New Hampshire does.
It's as simple as that. Now, there will be some differences. See, this is the thing. This is what's so beautiful about this. It doesn't mean I have to stop being Puerto Rican, right? There were some things about my childhood that were, you know, Puerto Rican.
They were a little bit different. And there are even some things now about my life that are Puerto Rican. I'm not ashamed of being Puerto Rican. I'm happy that I'm Puerto Rican. I enjoy being Puerto Rican.
But my lifestyle is pretty Anglo. It's as simple as that. I'm from New England. I'm a New Englander. Everything that I do is shaped by the fact that I grew up and I continue to live in New England. And that's a good thing.
That's a good thing. And that's something that my father was intentional about. You know, when I was born and my brother was born, he named us Adam and Matthew. He didn't name us Adan or Mateo. He could have easily done that.
In fact, they would use those names for us sometimes, especially my mother. You know, she still uses Adan and Mateo sometimes, sometimes.
But it's very clear.
My name is Adam and my brother's name is Matthew. And we have a very certain lifestyle. And again, we're both we both like being Puerto Rican. You know, one time we were in Florida together. This is just recently, a few years ago.
You know, all our kids were there hanging out by the pool. And, you know, my brother puts on some Jibaro music, which is basically like Puerto Rican hillbilly music.
And so you probably wouldn't do that if you're a white person.
We did that and we enjoyed it. It was fun. We had some Puerto Rican dishes and stuff like that that we would make. But it's just but but in general, we live an Anglo lifestyle. You know, Christmas at my house looks just like probably Christmas at almost any New Englander's house would look.
That's that's just how it is, how I was raised. It's what I am. And I like it. I'm OK with it. Now there's going to be some differences, too. Like if I go to my mother's house, we're going to have the turkey on Thanksgiving, which will also probably make some pork.
She'll probably also make some rice and beans. She might make some pasteles if she's feeling like she wants to put the work in.
And I like that. I actually really do like that. But we respect the traditions, too. We're we're Americans, right? We're from New England. We have the turkey. We have the mashed potatoes. We have the cranberry sauce.
We have those things as well. And so this is the thing like like I like the I like being American. I like being from New England. I like being a New Englander. I like my Puerto Rican ness as well. But if I if I if if that was like the fundamental thing that was important to me, I'd move to Puerto Rico.
You know, it's possible I could easily do that. I could easily move to Puerto Rico and probably have a good life. But that's not my lifestyle. That's not who I am. Fundamentally, when you think about, you know, how what I'm comfortable with, I wouldn't be comfortable living in Puerto Rico, most likely.
I mean, I'd have a good life. I'm not saying it would be bad there.
But but I go to Puerto Rico like all New Englanders go to Puerto Rico. I go for vacation and I might do some things that may be a typical vacation.
Or wouldn't do.
But in general, when I go there, I go there to hang out at the beach. And to visit El Junque, you know what I mean? That's what I like to do. Immigration is OK. It's good as long as it's monitored and it's not it doesn't go too crazy and stuff like that, but it's good.
Assuming the immigrant is willing to assimilate to how the country is, what the people do there, how they live, what to expect. It will never work and does not work if there is no expectation for assimilation.
In fact, a lot of times there's a there's like a a rejection of assimilation. And it's almost like you have to assimilate to me. I'm coming to your country. I'm gracing your country with my presence. And now you have to accommodate my lifestyle.
That doesn't work. And that is a recipe for chaos. That is a recipe for animosity. That is a recipe for violence. It is friction all the way down. It is friction like there's no even there's there's not even an expectation in our country that you learn the language like that's basic.
That's very basic. That's as basic as it gets. Learn the language. And there's there's no expectation of that. You can't have a society where you don't even have to learn the language in order to live here.
And the thing is, we would see this, too. And again, I'm not saying that, you know, you've traveled the world and that if you haven't, that that's somehow bad. But if you have traveled the world, you instantly know this.
Like, it would make no sense for me to move to Ethiopia, let's say, and expect them to accommodate how I live, how my lifestyle is, like what I want to do. It would make no sense for me to do that. Like if I'm going to Ethiopia and I'm choosing to live there, which I don't even know if they'd let me, but if they did, it's hard to live in some of these countries.
They make it very difficult for foreigners to come and live there. But if I did, it would be insane. It would be asinine for me to be to expect people to accommodate how I operate as an American. This is not America.
That's what they would say. This is not America. I don't know what you're expecting. This is not America. And so that's the thing, like like the immigration thing, it has nothing to do in most cases with not appreciating other people from other cultures.
Right. In fact, that's one of the reasons why you like traveling. You go to Japan, you go to Ethiopia, you go to El Salvador, you go. You know, these are places that I haven't been in Japan. But Egypt, you go to these places and it's it's it's cool because it's so different.
It's cool because they've got their own lifestyle. They got their own thing going on. That's why you visit. It's it makes it interesting. It makes it fun. You could talk to someone who's got totally different experiences, totally different mindset than you.
And you could still communicate on some level. You go and you visit there. Right. That's what makes it interesting. I like that. I like that. And and and Americans have that, too. At least, you know, we used to and we still do to some degree.
But we should protect that. We should protect what it is to be an American. That's something that's not like every every culture changes over time. Like I'm not saying that no one is afraid of change.
But it's like. If it changes, it's got to happen in a in a in a organic, but like kind of slow type of a way. It can't just be mass immigration that that will not lead to anything good. So it's not about, you know, hating other cultures or hating other ethnicities.
It's about wanting to protect being an American, what it is to be an American. I happen to really enjoy being an American every time I go abroad. I come back and I'm glad I'm home and it feels like home.
And, you know, I didn't used to think of America like that, like a nation.
Like and this is partially because of how I was educated, but partially because of just ignorance. But, you know, a decade ago, you know, 20 years ago, if you would have asked me what my nationality was, I probably would have told you Puerto Rican.
I didn't think of America as a nation, but it but it is one. And I remember one of the first times I really recognized that and felt that for the first time was I think it was a trip to Africa, Ethiopia, I think, and I got back and the customs agent that I talked to, you know, to do the declarations and stuff.
He, you know, he took my passport, whatever, and then he was done and he said, hey, welcome home just like that. And that that little comment made me realize like, yeah, this might I'm an American, my nationality is American, that's what it says on the passport.
I'm home. This is my home. Ethiopia was fun to visit El Salvador, fun to visit Egypt, fun to visit. Those places aren't my home. This is my home. And it's totally OK to want to protect that. And in fact, I think there's a duty I think Americans have to protect that.
In any case, I don't know if that is everything that could be said. Well, obviously it's not everything that could be said. I don't know if that's everything I wanted to say, but you know, I don't hate, you know, other Latinos, I don't hate Mexicans.
In fact, I actually personally really like Mexicans. But I think a lot of people are confused about this, like it's not about being afraid of other cultures, but it is about wanting to protect the uniqueness of what being an American is, what America is, what is America, what makes an American.
It doesn't it's not enough to say, well, you know, you agree with freedom and the Constitution that now you're an American. Like it's really not that's not really that doesn't really get to the meat of what being an American is.
There's so much that goes into it. It's hard to really document all of it. But it is a real thing. There's a real thing called an American. And I think that that's worth protecting. That's worth wanting to figure out and maintain because we've been confused for the last five, four or five decades.
We've had this experiment with with tons of immigration and it has not gone well for America. America is on the wrong track. America is not doing great, in my opinion, since then. So that's it. That's it.
A lot of Democrats are very confused as to why Trump got such a large percentage of the male Hispanic vote. And I don't think it's because we're self-hating Hispanics. You know what I mean? That's that's the easy thing to think.
You know, that's what it's very easy to think of. They're self-hating Hispanics. We don't want to be Hispanic. I I'm glad I'm a Puerto Rican. I wouldn't have written the story any other way. I don't hate other Puerto Ricans.
I don't hate Mexicans. I don't hate El Salvadorians or Guatemalans. It's just stupid to say that. What I do think is that that allowing the country to be morphed in such an artificial kind of a way. And I do think it's a it's a Democrat ploy to essentially import voters.
That's what I do. I do think that I do think that. But even if that wasn't a thing to try to artificially change what America is and what makes America good and what makes it our home is very dangerous, dangerous game to play.
It's not something that you want to do. There it is. Simple as that. Simple as that. Very simple, right? All right. So that's the first one. We're going to go into some more because, again, I don't think that these are really like super complex things to understand.
I see the world in a very different way than than other people do. People that voted for Kamala Harris and there's good reasons for it has nothing to do with hatred or fear or, you know, any of that stuff.
It just doesn't. Anyway, hope you found this video helpful. God bless.