We Can't Beat China

Añadido: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]There's this idea that conflict between us and China is inevitable. Not only is it not inevitable, but it will be the end of the world, which some people want. Some people want that cuz they look at the post-World War system that goes that can't work. We owe too much money. We owe $40 41 trillion dollars that goes up every year.

[00:00:20]We're not going to be able to get out of this. We're going to head towards hyperinflation.

[00:00:24]Um so we need a large war.

[00:00:29]And people are people are basically saying that the inevitable reality is that we will be in a conflict with China. We will not survive it. We probably won't win, by the way. And if we win, what does that even look like?

[00:00:44]So we have to deal with them. We have to deal with China much more than Russia.

[00:00:49]Yes, we have to deal with Russia cuz they have 150 nuclear warheads, something, whatever, 180, doesn't matter.

[00:00:56]China we but Russia has an economy roughly the size of Brazil.

[00:01:01]China is deeply enmeshed with the US economy.

[00:01:06]We have to deal with them.

[00:01:08]And we can't go to war. We can't.

[00:01:10]And we have to tread very carefully.

[00:01:14]That's why we have every CEO in America in China right now.

[00:01:20]We need China This whole idea that we're against China or anti-China is itself a lie.

[00:01:26]That I mean the Steve Bannons and people would talk about how how dangerous the CCP is and they might be right. There's no [ __ ] option. We have no option. We have no option. There is no option to start telling China what to do.

[00:01:40]That's not going to work. We can't beat Iran.

[00:01:43]We can't beat Iran. Okay? I'm in a British podcast studio and I feel like no one everyone here just comes in and like talks very quietly, I imagine. And I got only knows about what.

[00:01:55]But um I've I've no idea what even it's probably like a mom like mommy and me stuff like a you know, they talk about like healthy yogurt for the kids or something.

[00:02:05]Um, but it's it's just so funny. I imagine no one there's very few people that are screaming about China. But, there we don't have an option. There is no option.

[00:02:17]That's why every American CEO is was in China and still might be. I don't know when this comes out, but like this is very clear that there's no option. We're not telling China to [ __ ] off.

[00:02:30]We're done with that. Let me help everybody. We're done with that. We're not the high school bully anymore. We're not. We're the weird kid who may have a gun.

[00:02:40]>> [laughter] >> We are not the high school bully anymore. We're the weird kid that may have a gun and is not hot, but is not terribly ugly.

[00:02:52]Like you might [ __ ] them. That's who we are.

[00:02:55]We're the weird kid that knows how to get drugs, who may have a gun, and you could see yourself [ __ ] We're not the bully, we're not the jock, we're not the quarterback. The set The American quarterback century is over. This is not Top Gun, we are not Tom Cruise. You need to wake the [ __ ] up. There's a new Chinese kid in school, and he's kind of American looking, he's kind of ripped, but he's also Chinese, and he's hot, and people want to [ __ ] him. They want to [ __ ] him cuz he's kind of got a nice [ __ ] and people want it. They want to get down, and they want to slurp him.

[00:03:28]They don't want to slurp us anymore. You know why? Because we've hung out behind the Dairy Queen too long doing drugs with our friends. We look a little older, we have wrinkles in our face.

[00:03:39]We're the college kid who keeps going to the high school parties. We're a pedophile, and we may have a gun. This country is a pedophile that may have a gun who knows how to get drugs.

[00:03:51]And you have to deal with that person, and but there's a new kid on the block, and yes, he put a bunch of Muslims in a concentration camp, but no one gives a [ __ ] because he's got that beautiful clear light complexion, and he knows all the answers in math class, and he's who everybody wants to hang out with right now.

[00:04:09]Have you ever seen an American like a half American half Asian in like a varsity jacket? It's beautiful. It's actually beautiful.

[00:04:16]That's who we are right now. We are the weird kid who may or may not have a weapon, whose parents leave him home alone so he can have the parties at his house. We are not running the show. We are not the golden god of We're We're just not. Come to reality, okay?

[00:04:35]We need to come to reality right now.

[00:04:37]We're not going to We're not going to give the middle finger to China. We need to work with China. I will take money from China tonight.

[00:04:44]I will take money from China tonight. If China contacts me with money, I will take it, and I will not pay my costume designer who's a criminal, but I will take money from China tonight, for sure.

[00:04:54]The New York Times tried to give me money to say nice things about them, and I said no. So, I But I will take money from China, an institution I respect. Um and But it We We We do have to come to real There's this swagger that needs to be It's got to go now because it's going to get us killed.

[00:05:14]The swagger that we have is going to get us killed.

[00:05:18]Okay?

[00:05:19]We can barely make a movie anymore.

[00:05:22]We can barely make anything that anybody wants to watch.

[00:05:26]The music is fine. It's fine. When I grew up, you had great pride in the things that we made, and yes, a lot of them were cultural. Whatever. We can barely even do that anymore. Our entertainment industry is a joke. It's becoming a joke, okay? So, we can barely do any of that.

[00:05:48]And outside of a few cities, our infrastructure is crumbling. I'm not a doom and gloomer. I think there's a way back, but there's not a way back to us running the whole [ __ ] world. So, let's get realistic here. Let's get realistic. Stop the swagger. Okay?

[00:06:05]And start to honestly assess what can if the Iran war honestly assess what can and cannot happen. If the Iran war didn't wake you up and doesn't show you the limits of American power, you're insane.

[00:06:22]Truly.

[00:06:24]If the Iran war did not show you the limits of American power in this century, you are crazy.

[00:06:32]This is not the Pax Romana for us here.

[00:06:35]This is not We are a kid that used to be really cool that had the best parties, but was in a car accident and killed someone, but didn't go to jail and now they're back in school and they have a scar on their face.

[00:06:55]And they're still kind of cool, but you can tell something changed about them the summer they were in that car accident and they killed that family. We are not the starting quarterback. The cheerleaders do not have their perky tits out at homecoming for us anymore, okay? We are having sex with a fat Mexican goth girl in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant and we're happy.

[00:07:20]We're happy for it, okay? We're using hand sanitizer as a lube and even though it stings, we're trying to not get AIDS.

[00:07:28]Do you understand?

[00:07:30]We are not in the prime of our life anymore.

[00:07:34]Okay? Our girlfriend doesn't know she's pregnant and as soon as she finds out, she begins to wildly punch her own stomach. We are not there anymore, folks.