In this episode of AMERICAPLUS, host Cole McCormick shares his thoughts on the overwhelming volume of documents released and the potential for AI to uncover hidden truths. He also discusses the emotional and familial trauma experienced by RFK Jr. and how it might influence his current role in public health. The episode takes a deep dive into the emotional intelligence within Trump's cabinet, highlighting Howard Lutnick, who shares his harrowing experience of losing 658 employees during 9/11 and his journey of rebuilding and supporting the affected families.
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The emotional intelligence in Trump's cabinet is off the charts.
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What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, McCormick. Get to another week. Another episode. What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here. It's Sunday, March 23, '8 '40 '6 in the PR. What's up, people? My people.
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Dude, I'm happy to be here. We are chilling in the old AZ, y'all. What's up? I'm in Arizona. Hanging out in Phoenix in the in the valley, in the Queens Of Creek. I I should probably shouldn't have doxed myself, but I'm chilling out here in the middle of the desert. And, it's my birthday this week. I'm turning 28, which is pretty cool. It's a pretty surreal birthday to have because my dad died seven months ago, and so I'm just moving through life like that, y'all. So this is where I'm at. I'm still creating. I'm doing my damn best to to get through life and, you know, just going through the bullshit.
What I wanna focus on this week is a few different things. Okay? So this week was huge. This week was, like, this week was monumental in terms of, like, news and, like, just, like, what happened. Okay? So first of all and it's all connected. Right? JFK, nine eleven. There's, like, things that I'm connecting here today. The JFK files dropped, which is insane. The who who really thought that JFK files would actually be released? Like, who really thought that? I remember when Trump signed the paper to do it, and it was like, yeah. Like, we're gonna do it. I was like, is he really gonna do it? Is he really gonna do it?
I don't know, but he actually did. And so they're currently releasing 80,000 documents, dude, and no one's read them. No one's read them at all. The it's just too much. I think this was what the cabal planned. We're gonna hold the documents for sixty years, and then we're gonna just dump everything on them so that they can't even read it, dude. I'm waiting for the AI. I'm waiting for someone to just upload all of it to Grok or Claude or whatever fucking AI you wanna use. I'm waiting for the AI analysis. Right now, all the AIs are still saying, are still given the official narrative that there was a lone shooter, but I don't buy that. I don't think anyone buys that.
This is, it's an ongoing story. Okay? So we're still waiting. It's like the documents are out, but we're still waiting. Like, how can that be a thing? Which low key blows my mind. I thought we were gonna, like, no. Did anyone think there was gonna be, like, a paper that just said they shot him? Or, like, this person shot him? Like, did anyone really think that? I low key thought that I I don't know. I thought there would be a document that you that was just, like, like an an official timeline. You know? Like, I thought there would be something like that of so and so had the gun, and this person was in this position, and we were over here. And but, you know, it it's a lot of just convoluted data, that the truth is.
And so hopefully, we get through it. I have all the hope in the world. I'm thankful that RFK Junior has access to these files now. If he didn't already, I would hope that he had it prior. I would hope that he had access prior to to the release. So right now this week, but regardless, if RFK Jr just has access to these files, like, I'm just happy for him because that's that is some real family trauma that he's going through, dude. Like, that's something really serious that people don't really people don't really talk about, like, all that much. Like, how much family drama, trauma with a t, there is within that family. And for him to be, like, one of the youngest kids and to lose his uncle and his father, that's something to it's just really serious, dude. And I wanna focus on, like, that sort of aspect. I'm curious if the trauma that RFK Jr experienced, is influencing his position right now.
Clearly, RFK Jr is in charge of the HHS. He wants America to be healthy again, And, I'm I firmly I, like, wholeheartedly believe him with that message. And that that is something to be continued to be, like, discovered and stuff like that. You know? Up until this point, you know, he's been he he's proven himself right that he does believe that. And there's this other thing. I wanna sort of focus on Trump's cabinet. There's a good amount of people in Trump's cabinet that, have experienced a lot of life. Okay? And this week, there's a podcast out that I wanna focus on called All In. Does anyone watch the All In podcast? They put out two really good interviews this past week, and, that's what I wanna I wanna focus on one of them.
The two interviews were with the secretary of the treasure, Bassett or Bassett, whatever his last name is, who I guess happens to be, like, the first openly gay man to be serving in a cabinet. First of all, like, that's pretty cool. That's incredible that Trump is, like, the first guy to do that. And so he's in charge of the money. And then the other interview that that they did, was with the secretary of commerce named Howard Lutnick. And Lutnick is the guy that we're gonna focus on mostly this week, because I just thought it was it was just a really powerful thing. And when it comes to experiencing trauma in one's life and choosing to move forward and choosing to be of service, in any aspect for your family, for another person's family, for the country at large, these are really I like, there's a deeper message when it comes to the people who are inhabiting the White House right now that I don't think a lot of other people are really focusing on. So you're getting this take fresh.
Let me cross over here to what I wanna focus on. So I got some clips here. I I I wanna play a few different clips, of the of this Lutnick interview. This first one, so first of all, who who is Howard Lutnick? He's this guy on the right hand side. He's a billionaire. He's known Trump for, like, thirty plus years. So I'm even longer, like, forty years. He's known Trump since he was 30 years old, and he has a lot of stories of, all of them hanging out in New York and chasing girls and going to parties and all this stuff. So, like, he's lived this, like, fun life, being a rich guy.
And, it all leads up to what he experienced with his company, his his financing firm. Maybe they traded stocks. I'm not a % sure on that, but he Lutnick had a company. He currently runs this company, called Candor Fitzgerald. And, they've been in New York this entire time. And in the year 02/2001, Lutnick's company was on the Top 5 Floors of the World Trade Center. And so I wanna share a clip of what his experience was on nine eleven.
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But so let's go through it. So I'm friends with him. Right? But I'm building my business, a young guy building my business, and then 09:11 happens. Yeah. K? So I'm friends with the guy. I'm just friends with the guy, but then 09:11 happens. Kind, sweet, calls me all the time. Just good human being. Nice, warm, caring, good human being. Right? But then I'm knocked out. So what do I do next? I try to rebuild my company, take care of the families of nine eleven. You know, I had I lost 658 people who worked for me, and, and we had a policy.
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We wanna Pause right there. I I I need to pause right there. He lost 658
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people, dude. I lost 658
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people to work for me. And Dude, what the
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Can you can we just focus on that number real quick? I'm 28 years old. I'm turning 28 on Tuesday. I was four years old on 09/11. He was a man. This man was a man, and he lost one oh, like okay. So first of all, like, 3,000 people died on 09/11. A fifth of that, a fifth of the deaths of 09/11 was this man's employees. Now for his whole company at large, he had over 900 employees. 70% of this man's company was murdered. That's fucking insane, dude. I did not know this until this week. When I heard this podcast, when I watched it, my jaw dropped the floor. Like, that is an insane
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can you please comprehend that number? Take care of the families of nine eleven. You know, I had I lost 658 people who worked for me, and, and we had a policy. We wanna work with people that we like. So when we had an opening, we didn't use headhunters. We would say to everybody at the firm, does anybody know anybody who do this job? No. And so, you know, young lady works for me, says, you know, my best friend is an HR person. They have to have capacity. Yep. But once they have capacity, imagine we hire that person. Yeah. Now what happens is it's it's not one big happy family. Yep. But people really, really care about the company, and that's our company that's on the Top 5 Floors of the World Trade Center Mhmm. On 911 when the plane hits it. Kills everybody at the office. My brother Gary, he dies at thirty six. My best friend Doug, he dies at 39.
I had just turned 40 that summer. Mhmm. I had a party. 65 couples. It's my my fortieth birthday. Fortieth birthday. Yeah. Right? 27 people in my party get killed. Jesus. These are my friends. These are my friends. So I'm driven to take care of the families of the people who who die, and I commit 25% of all of our profits, but the company is destroyed. So we go from making a million a day. I was a rich guy. Right? What's the definition of a rich guy? No personal debt, no corporate debt. Ken Fitzgerald, no debt. So how do you survive nine eleven? If you don't owe anybody any money Right. The only money you're losing is is your money. Is your money. So we survive, and we take care of our friends' families.
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That's insane, dude. That's truly insane. And just to think about that, man. Like, just to think about what that situation involves. You know, I just relate to the guy because I was able to I almost said, I was able to experience the death of my father. Like, able to? Like, I did experience. Like, what do you mean able to, Cole? Like, I experienced that. You know? I've experienced a really close death, and he experienced the death of his brother and best friend and 70% of his company. That's really intense. That's really intense. And he chose to move forward. He chose to do the right thing, and he chose to help all the families that were impacted, within his company.
He made sure to pay for, everyone's expenses for about a year, which is you know, that's just that that that's incredibly charitable. You know? Can you imagine doing that? Can I would like to assume that everyone might do that? Like, I wanna assume that I would do that as well, but this guy actually did it. Like, he really did that. Like, if you really had billions of dollars, would you help out everyone that you knew if they needed it? You know, that's that that's a really powerful thing, and that goes against this narrative of, like, billionaires are bad and evil and capitalistic, vampires and just like the whatever narrative is out there that any, like, person leaning towards the left wants to say, if any person wants to hate on Elon or hate on Trump or any billionaire for that matter, like, it's, it's just bullshit is what it is because you really these people really put their money where their mouth is and just sustain so much trauma, dude.
And that's just it it's super serious, dude. Like, can you imagine doing that? So throughout the podcast, he he chooses to move forward. He chooses to rebuild his company, and, he's still friends with Donald Trump. And, now we're gonna go into, like, more, like, like, the government stuff and, like, the the presidency stuff. You know? But I just wanted to share that. I just thought that was incredibly powerful, the magnitude of nine eleven. You know? Like, if you're an American, if you're alive during nine eleven, you know, we that is a collective trauma, psychologically and emotionally that we all hold.
But for him, for there is a man who is serving in the cabinet who probably, like, most likely suffered the most. Like, can we just say that right now? Like, there's a man serving serving the country right now who has most likely lost some of the most precious people in his life and suffered the most loss during nine eleven. You know? And I'm not trying to compare, you know, any other situation. I'm not trying to compare that loss to some soldier or to some anything else. You know? I'm just saying, like, by the pure numbers. Like, has this soldier lost 700 people? Has this soldier lost? You know? Like, you you you know what I mean? Like, that's a huge number.
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Okay?
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So he moves forward. He rebuilds. He's still friends with Trump. And now we're getting into how him and Trump sort of relate to each other and how they communicate and how problems are being solved, within the government right now. And what I think is interesting is how Trump approaches, solving problems, and this next clip is gonna is gonna show it.
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The way president Trump works, he makes decisions by orchestra. He likes lots of views and opinions. Mhmm. He likes them. And anybody who says, oh, the last person who sees him gets him, that's because they don't know him at all. Mhmm. Right. Right? The answer is it's an orchestra. Right? And I would say, okay. I'm the first violin. You know, at the time, I would say I was, you know, I would describe myself as second violin. Yep. Right? So this is an orchestra. So the president's not gonna make a decision with me and him alone. Yeah. By an orchestra. That's really cool.
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I think that's really wise. That's really smart, you know, for Trump to go through 09/11 as well, to be a New Yorker, and to be able to to because he was involved as well with with the rebuilding of Manhattan and everything like that. I think Trump has learned to do to solve problems through an orchestra. I really like that analogy. There's always this discussion of, like, we want a leader to listen to all perspectives, and then and, like, and then make the the correct decision. But this idea of an orchestra to hear, like, it's all music. All the ideas are music. And maybe I'm sort of romanticizing this a little bit, but just to ponder on this thought.
The people around you, their ideas are music. And maybe you're not vibing with that music as much, but it's still valuable to listen to. And if that is true about Donald Trump, and if that is true about how the problems in America are being solved, then that's awesome. Then I support that. You know? And I've been supporting that. To have people around Donald Trump who have experienced some type of trauma, some type of adversity, who have overcome, incredible obstacles, and then to have their perspective, have have their like like, every moment in your life leads up to where you are right now.
To have that truth be inside of the White House with the people who are handling the most difficult problems with economy and immigration and health and diabetes and and prosperity and making sure that all Americans are getting more money in their wallets and to make sure that there's better jobs available. Like, these are important topics. And to have people who have sustained family trauma and professional trauma, I think this is really good for America. I think that's really good. Because if Lutnick was able to protect and to help all the families who lost somebody in 09/11, If he was able to help 700 families, then why would his heart not be in a place to help, you know, all the millions of families within America?
That's just really what I think, dude. That's really what I think. I I really believe that he cares. And then I was like, all these clips are sort of, like, disconnected. Right? But they're, like, connected to my head. The next thing I wanna focus on is, so we gotta talk about Elon a little bit. Right? So they go into Elon. They go into Doge. And, like, what is Elon really doing? Like, people have been criticizing Elon Musk. The Democrats and the people on the left, we got fucking we got people drawn swastikas, but they're not yay swastikas. They're not Yeezy swastikas. They're they're fucking Democratic swastikas, and they're drawing them on Teslas. They're drawing them on cyber trucks. They're causing a ruckus. It's, it's even more chaotic than Antifa back in Portland during 2020. Like, it's it's super chaotic. It seems a bit paid for. It seems like there's just a lot of manipulation, mind control happening.
I'm not talking about conspiratorial. Like, people can you're able to control a person's mind through fear. You're able to control them through the media that they're watching. If you're on TikTok and you're getting emotional, you need to disconnect. And if you're getting upset at that truth, then you need to disconnect even more. Get offline. Go outside. You know? It it's a practice to shrink your amygdala. That's like a that's a fucking gland in your mind that controls fear. You need to shrink your amygdala and and and then live your life.
These people who are these democratic swastika people are they have enlarged and inflamed amygdalas, and this is just no good. And they're freaking out about Elon and Doge, and Elon, stopping all the all the fraud and waste and abuse that's going on in the country, which is just objectively true. Like, there's five there's, like, 5,900,000 people who work for the government, and we're gonna assume that none of them are shady people. We're gonna assume that every transaction in the government is just, just fine and dandy. That's sort of what the Democrat narrative is.
And, the people with Trump and it's not even Democrat, Republican. It's it's people with with Trump. What they're saying is, you know, like, there's definitely fraud happening. There's definitely abuse happening in the government. But then they're getting upset at Elon, and, like, Elon has too much power. These billionaires have too much power. We need to stop them. We need to destroy their companies. And so with that, like, how is how is any of this legal? How can Elon be running Tesla? How can Elon be running SpaceX and regular x and his son x?
How can he be doing all this and be Doge? And this brings up a really interesting term that that Lutnick brings up, which I never heard before, but I think it's brilliant. Thing is,
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Right? That's what it says. This is me. And we stand, and we map out the plan. I tell them what a gratis vendor is. Yeah. Because I designed because I was not gonna go into the government. I was doing transition. What is a gratis vendor? A gratis vendor is, is a an approved vendor for The United States Of America that gives product to the government, doesn't sell it. Okay. So, therefore, I don't have to go through the whole process of becoming a proper vendor because you're giving it to us. And then if you give it to article two, which is the president's stuff, then the president can accept it.
Right? Because it's give. Sorry. How what's an example of this? Like, just to make I write some software. You write some software. I write some software for the commerce department to do a better job of x y z. Mhmm. You just give it to me. And then I do QA on it, and I could take it. If you sell it to me for $1, we go into government help. Right. The whole rigmarole. Right? But if you give it to me, right, and then I set up you know? So I said I'm calling it Doge,
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and I registered the name Doge. You said that. Of course. And you were you familiar with Dogecoin and Of course. It's it's Elon. I'm sorry. You're So what happens is it
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Of course. It's Elon. I'm not sure why don't we do that. Of course. It's e I love that. Like
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Stirred the name Doge. You said that. Of course. And you were you familiar with Dogecoin and Of course. It's it's Elon. I'm gonna tell you. Of course.
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I'm familiar with Dogecoin. Who's that? We're all holding Doge. Like, that's, I thought that was funny I thought that was a funny part. When it comes to that so Elon has his own trauma. Right? Elon, he's a he, his father has been documented with psychological warfare, just talking shit down to Elon. You know, Elon didn't have the best dad growing up. Elon went through a lot. Elon has a history of building a lot of different things even though people wanna claim that. People wanna, like, say that he didn't build Tesla. He didn't invent Tesla. But can anyone do do what Elon did with Tesla? Like, it's not about if he invented it or not. It's about what he did with it. You know what I mean?
Like, it's not about inventing a home. It's about how you live in the home. And so, Elon is in this position where, I guess, he's a gratis vendor. Gradis is Italian for free. He's a free vendor for the president, and he's already come out and said that he's tech support, which I think is interesting. But now I understand it. He's he's legally a free vendor, and the reason why he has access to all the computers and all the departments is because he's a free vendor, and he's updating all the software. He's, he's creating new software for the government to function on for free. And then maybe that's gonna be another company that he can sell to Brazil and freaking Russia or whatever, you know, whatever country wants to buy this new software for the government.
That's really interesting. And it makes me respect Elon even more. And maybe that's a hot take. Maybe that maybe a lot of people don't agree with me on that. I know a lot of people online don't really vibe with Elon, because of, you know, everyone has their own reason. But I am of the opinion that and and this is coming from, like, these interviews and just, like, my general perspective. I firmly believe that Trump and the people around Trump, like his cabinet specifically, they are literally aligned with the light. Like, think Star Wars, think spiritual, think God, think think Jesus and and the devil, think good and evil, think Lord of the Rings.
Trump and his cabinet are literally aligned with the light. And I don't want this to turn into, like, some, like, worshiping thing. Like, I don't wanna be like, I'm not trying to worship anyone. You know? I think it's clear that these are good people. And the reason why I'm willing to trust these people is because they have lived lives that have proven their character. That's it. There's no other way to really describe it, dude. Like, if you have gone through so much, if you've lived the life of RFK Jr, if you lose your father, if you lose your uncle to the government, the the government agencies and that this is, like, the general thing. Like, government agencies were involved with the murder of his father and his uncle.
Okay? Like, that's that's already understood for sure. And for RFK Jr to live his life, to love the environment, to battle a a heroin addiction, to come forward through that, to find God, and to come out the other end as a lawyer and as an, as an environmentalist and to be so early on mercury in the vaccines and to listen to mothers and to look at what's wrong in America, to look at the diabetes, to look at how unhealthy Americans are, and to actually have a heart to seek out healing for the country, to want to be in a leadership position to help heal.
That is light. That is God. That is real life, dude. That's what we need. Years ago, I don't know when it happened, but there was a line in the sand that was drawn. It might have been 2016. It might have been 2020. I don't know. I don't really know when it was. It might have been 02/2008. You know, pick your election. It happened on an election year. A line in the sand was drawn, and people are actively choosing good within their heart and lives, and people are actively choosing selfishness and evil within their lives. You know? This is the core story of Star Wars. This is what George Lucas's Star Wars was getting at. This is the dark side and the light side of the force, dude.
Like, people wanna say Trump is a villain. Like, yeah, he's a villain to the dark side. He's taken the dark side down, dude. Like, his whole team, his whole shebang is going after the dark side. And RFK Jr is an example of coming out the other end, choosing selfishness, and actually seeing that within himself and and and changing that changing himself. And Lutnick seems to be another example of that within his own path. To lose 70% of your company, like, to to able one fifth of the deaths of nine eleven was his employees. Like, is that not a serious thing To go through that, to lose your brother, to lose your friend, and to have the heart to move forward and to not shut down the company and to do as much as you can for the company and to not sell out and to still focus on love?
Like, giving money. If you have the money to give and you're giving that to everyone that you can, that's straight up love. You know? Like, that is love. And so these people seem to be moving forward with love, and that's just incredible. It's incredible. And it's this type of energy, this type of, like, I would call it emotional intelligence. I would call it, you know, like, the the like, you know, vibe coding? This is like vibe governing. This is like people are just, like, looking at the vibe of America, and they're just saying, like, we gotta change this, man. We like and I can do something about it. Like, that's what that's what's happening. That's what Elon did. That's what Lutnick did. That's what RFK did. That's what Trump did. Like, I can help change this. I can help heal this. I think that's the real message that's going on right now.
And with that, Trump just took over both political parties. Trump took over the entire political system like a fucking badass that he is, dude. People talk about how, you know, like, some people on the left, some people on the news wanna say, like, Trump is encouraging The Handmaid's Tale or something. Like, it's some bullshit narrative. It's some, like, silly ass thing. Like, he wants to like, he he's gonna help the Christians take over everything, which is objectively false. Like, there's no way Trump's gonna let some religious, fanatics just take control over his entire legacy. Like, that's insane.
And what I have to share, my last clip to share is this author, and, I believe she she's a journalist, Bettea. She's on Twitter. She's a she's a she calls herself a leftist MAGA or MAGA leftist. She's Jewish, so come at me if you hate Jews. I think this is a valuable voice to share, and she she shares what Trump is actually representing to people, through this through this line, like, this line in the sand, people choosing sides, people figuring out what side they're
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on, she breaks it down. The real reason that the Democrats are floundering right now is because president Trump won by convincing millions of people like me who were Democrats our whole life that he is the inheritor of the values that we hold very dear. So for most of the twentieth century, the Democrats represented the working class. Their whole agenda was built around the idea that if you work hard, you should have access to the American dream. And the Republicans were the party of big business, country clubs, trickle down economics, foreign interventions. Right? The Democrats were anti war. And remember when the Democrats were they believed abortion should be safe, legal, and rare? They were social moderates.
That was the winning formula for the American working class, socially moderate, against war, anti war, and economically populist. Remember, it was the Democrats who believed that we should control the border to protect working class wages. This was their view for most of the twentieth century. And what happened was they abandoned all of those values and the entire working class to cater to the over credentialed college elites with their far left views and then the dependent poor. And they abandoned labor. And what president Trump did was he inherited a party from Reagan that was socially conservative, believed in foreign interventions, and was believed in big business trickle down economics, free trade, and he said, we're not doing any of that. The entire working and middle class of this country, 70% of Americans, have no party. We, the GOP, are gonna be their party. He said we're gonna be antiwar. We're gonna be protectionist on the economy. We're gonna not do free trade anymore. We're gonna protect the labor of the American worker, and we're gonna be socially moderate. Do do you see anyone I mean, right now we're
[00:32:00] Unknown:
That's, that's real, dude. That's real. I think that's real life. She broke it down really well, and I respect her for for, like, coming out on that other side, you know, to be a leftist MAGA. That's insane. Did Trump take over the Democratic values? That's an interesting thing to think about. He's definitely moderate on abortion. He's definitely he definitely like, he he's getting rid of taxes. He he's getting rid of income taxes for people who's making under $150,000 a year, which, by the way, that's 85% of American citizens.
So he's taking away income tax for 85% of the citizens. He's taking away tax on tips. He's making sure that the people around him are informed and love people. He wants to make sure that there's a situation where jobs are, continuing to, to be strengthened and to be available within America. I don't know why what's what's so bad about this guy? Like, what's so bad? Like, when I voted for Trump, it was like it was a mix of, like, an f u, and he's, like, a good guy. Like, I just didn't believe the media. And now it's the truth of Trump being aligned with the light is just getting so much more stronger.
And I just think it's so much more real, dude. So I don't know. I'm not sure if you agree with me on that. I'm not sure if you care about what I have to say about that, but, you know, this is my opinion. That that that that this is what I really have to say about it. And I think, this is, this is important to talk about. You know? And it's not about, you know, my grandparents' politics. It's not about believing in what your grandparents thought. It's not about believing what your parents thought. It's about using your own perspective. It's about using your own mind. You know? It's about using your like, use your eyes to look at objective reality.
Use your heart to feel the truth. This is what you need to do, and you need to move forward. You need to handle with what is right in front of you within your own life, and you need to do your best to handle what is in front of you with love and a good perspective. That's the only way that you can do that. And and the leaders of our country represent that. Me losing my dad. You know, I'm able to I don't know why I'm able to, but I I have this perspective that I can strengthen myself from the death of my father. And that's not to belittle the moment. You know? I believe that I can find I can I can discover the best version of myself even after this tragic moment in my life?
I believe that I can make myself great again. I believe I can make myself whole again. I don't know what that looks like, you know, but I have this, like, spiritual instinct within me that is telling me to keep going and to keep moving forward and to just keep waking up, keep brushing my teeth, and keep doing push ups, and keep just keep going outside and and to just not stop because there's there's more to see. There's more to experience, and you I have the opportunity to thrive. You have the opportunity to thrive. If you think that you are stuck, I wanna encourage you to not be stuck, to continue to just push through that wall. If you're if you're walking and you're and you hit a wall and it looks like there's no way out, just keep pushing against the wall.
Just keep pushing against the wall. Like, it's gonna break one day. Like, something's gonna give if you keep thinking that you can do it. If you keep thinking that you will be okay and you can do more things, if you keep thinking about what else you can do, how you can change something, like you know what I mean? Like, if you can continue to believe in yourself, you can achieve anything. And what I see on these podcasts and what I see going on in the political sphere when it comes to the systems of America, that there are people who have been through trauma, who have had heartbreak, who have been through the most tragic and horrific scenarios that nobody wants to be in, and they got through it.
They continue to move through it. You know? I don't know if RFK Junior is healed from the death of his father and uncle. I really don't know how Howard Lutnick, I don't I'm not sure if Howard Lutnick is healed from losing his brother and best friend and all of his employees. I don't know if, you know like, Trump lost his brother to alcoholism. You know, that's a big deal too. Like, I wonder if Trump thinks about his big brother. You know? Or maybe maybe we don't wanna is that too human? Is that too human for you? You know, Trump lost his brother to alcoholism. That's a real truth. Who did you lose someone to?
And how does that inform your life? This is this is what we're dealing with within humanity, within Earth. You know? This is we're in a moment on Earth where we have to continue to find peace. We have to choose to seek peace within our hearts and to make a loving choice for ourselves and for the people around us. And it's it's not easy. It's not easy. You know? You gotta do your best to be creative, whether that's a simple drawing, whether that's producing something. You need to be creative. You need to engage with people. You need to be outside. You need to exercise.
You need to breathe. You need to hug someone. You need to love the people around you. You need to just try to love your managers. Like, here's something that I'm struggling with. I'm I'm struggling to, like, love and respect my managers. Like, I'm I'm I'm humanizing Trump, and it's easy for me to humanize Trump. But it's not easy for me to humanize my managers at work, you know, because I you know, just it's fucking work. And and, you know, maybe that's why I haven't, been able to move on, you know, because I've been looking for a new job in my life. But, like, somehow, I'm just like, I'm still stuck at this place.
And it's like, why? You know? And this past week, I sorta, like, had an experience where it's like, you know, maybe I need to, like, change how I think about these people. Maybe once I change my view on the people around me and how I engage with the people around me, maybe my life will start, like, giving me what I what I wanted. Does anyone relate to that? So I'm working on that myself, guys. I'm working on that myself. I hope it works out. I believe it will. You know? But, you know, that's all the value I got y'all. I wanna move into the value. Let's go into the value for value section right now. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I come on this feed, and I do my best to bring forward a conversation that I think is valuable for the world and valuable for America.
America Plus is all about, you know, talking about America's hopeful future through spiritual optimism and contrarian innovation. And I think I embody that with these weird ideas. You know? Let's all care about let's care about Trump's big brother who died. You know? That's a that that's very contrarian, I think. But with that, there's three main ways that that you can support me, time, talent, treasure. If you're watching the livestream right now, thank you so much. We got 40 people on the livestream. Shout out to all of you, dude. Shout out to all of you right now. I love you. Thank you for hanging out with me today.
Thank you for sharing your time with me today. If you could retweet me, please retweet me if you think that this is, if you think this is a good conversation. And if you wanna support that, that would be really great. And, talent, if you wanna help me out, if you got any, like, clips or books or quotes or anything that you wanna share with me, you know, any talent that you wanna share within this project, please do so, if you feel compelled. And the last thing is, treasure. Treasure is money, of course. I have a PayPal. You can, send me some PayPal if you want, but you can also support me in the fountain.fm
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app. Go to valueforvalue.info for more info, then download the fountain.fm app. It's the best way to support the show. So fountain.fm,
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this is a podcast app that lets you send small bits of Bitcoin to podcasters and people. And I I and these things are called boostograms. I'm gonna be reading the boostograms, here from last week, from the last episode. I got a couple here. Boostograms are really cool. Fountain's really cool. There's a whole suite of podcasting apps that let you send Bitcoin to each other. So just go to, podcastapps.com or just download fountain. The first boost to gram I got is coming in from at Pies. What up, Pies? He's a regular listener. He says, he he sends in 100 Satoshis, and he says, let's fucking go, dude. Value for value. Feeling the positive energy, bro. Yes, sir. Boosting is loving. It's basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Thank you, Pies. That was from last week, number one fifty two. Talk about, the Bitcoin reserve. And then, this next one isn't a boostagram, but it is, one guy was streaming in sats. This guy named Based Potato.
Thank you, Based Potato, for sending in some sats, dude.
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And now as the French say, it is time for a boost. Oh, a boost.
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So that's value for value, guys. That's all the boostograms. But if you wanna add anything to that, if you wanna do anything, with that, if you think, if you think I'm worthy of money excuse me. If you think I'm worthy of money, then please do so. Then plea please send me some sats. Send me some cash moola. But if you don't, it's okay. I really don't care. It's just a thing that I just a thing thing that I like. What I usually do for value and to wrap things up right now is I play a song. There's a whole, like, value for values,
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situation going on where, here. Let me hang on. Let me go back to here. I gotta share my screen.
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When it comes to value for value music, you can go to there's certain websites. One website is called Wave Lake. Another website is called LM Beats. There's this whole value for value music universe that's being developed, and this is all independent music. I'm able to, link up this song to my podcast, because this song also has a Bitcoin wallet attached to it. And so when I play this song in the modern podcast apps, you're able to send them Satoshis when this song is being played. And I always give the artist, a 90% split of your Satoshi donation.
So that's that's another example of value for value. And, the song I wanna play this week to wrap it up is from a band called Shy Kids, and the song is called Backward in Love. Enjoy.
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We both know that I Fall back and forth, back in love with you. Hope I can fall back
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That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free.
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What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, McCormick. Get to another week. Another episode. What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here. It's Sunday, March 23, '8 '40 '6 in the PR. What's up, people? My people.
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Dude, I'm happy to be here. We are chilling in the old AZ, y'all. What's up? I'm in Arizona. Hanging out in Phoenix in the in the valley, in the Queens Of Creek. I I should probably shouldn't have doxed myself, but I'm chilling out here in the middle of the desert. And, it's my birthday this week. I'm turning 28, which is pretty cool. It's a pretty surreal birthday to have because my dad died seven months ago, and so I'm just moving through life like that, y'all. So this is where I'm at. I'm still creating. I'm doing my damn best to to get through life and, you know, just going through the bullshit.
What I wanna focus on this week is a few different things. Okay? So this week was huge. This week was, like, this week was monumental in terms of, like, news and, like, just, like, what happened. Okay? So first of all and it's all connected. Right? JFK, nine eleven. There's, like, things that I'm connecting here today. The JFK files dropped, which is insane. The who who really thought that JFK files would actually be released? Like, who really thought that? I remember when Trump signed the paper to do it, and it was like, yeah. Like, we're gonna do it. I was like, is he really gonna do it? Is he really gonna do it?
I don't know, but he actually did. And so they're currently releasing 80,000 documents, dude, and no one's read them. No one's read them at all. The it's just too much. I think this was what the cabal planned. We're gonna hold the documents for sixty years, and then we're gonna just dump everything on them so that they can't even read it, dude. I'm waiting for the AI. I'm waiting for someone to just upload all of it to Grok or Claude or whatever fucking AI you wanna use. I'm waiting for the AI analysis. Right now, all the AIs are still saying, are still given the official narrative that there was a lone shooter, but I don't buy that. I don't think anyone buys that.
This is, it's an ongoing story. Okay? So we're still waiting. It's like the documents are out, but we're still waiting. Like, how can that be a thing? Which low key blows my mind. I thought we were gonna, like, no. Did anyone think there was gonna be, like, a paper that just said they shot him? Or, like, this person shot him? Like, did anyone really think that? I low key thought that I I don't know. I thought there would be a document that you that was just, like, like an an official timeline. You know? Like, I thought there would be something like that of so and so had the gun, and this person was in this position, and we were over here. And but, you know, it it's a lot of just convoluted data, that the truth is.
And so hopefully, we get through it. I have all the hope in the world. I'm thankful that RFK Junior has access to these files now. If he didn't already, I would hope that he had it prior. I would hope that he had access prior to to the release. So right now this week, but regardless, if RFK Jr just has access to these files, like, I'm just happy for him because that's that is some real family trauma that he's going through, dude. Like, that's something really serious that people don't really people don't really talk about, like, all that much. Like, how much family drama, trauma with a t, there is within that family. And for him to be, like, one of the youngest kids and to lose his uncle and his father, that's something to it's just really serious, dude. And I wanna focus on, like, that sort of aspect. I'm curious if the trauma that RFK Jr experienced, is influencing his position right now.
Clearly, RFK Jr is in charge of the HHS. He wants America to be healthy again, And, I'm I firmly I, like, wholeheartedly believe him with that message. And that that is something to be continued to be, like, discovered and stuff like that. You know? Up until this point, you know, he's been he he's proven himself right that he does believe that. And there's this other thing. I wanna sort of focus on Trump's cabinet. There's a good amount of people in Trump's cabinet that, have experienced a lot of life. Okay? And this week, there's a podcast out that I wanna focus on called All In. Does anyone watch the All In podcast? They put out two really good interviews this past week, and, that's what I wanna I wanna focus on one of them.
The two interviews were with the secretary of the treasure, Bassett or Bassett, whatever his last name is, who I guess happens to be, like, the first openly gay man to be serving in a cabinet. First of all, like, that's pretty cool. That's incredible that Trump is, like, the first guy to do that. And so he's in charge of the money. And then the other interview that that they did, was with the secretary of commerce named Howard Lutnick. And Lutnick is the guy that we're gonna focus on mostly this week, because I just thought it was it was just a really powerful thing. And when it comes to experiencing trauma in one's life and choosing to move forward and choosing to be of service, in any aspect for your family, for another person's family, for the country at large, these are really I like, there's a deeper message when it comes to the people who are inhabiting the White House right now that I don't think a lot of other people are really focusing on. So you're getting this take fresh.
Let me cross over here to what I wanna focus on. So I got some clips here. I I I wanna play a few different clips, of the of this Lutnick interview. This first one, so first of all, who who is Howard Lutnick? He's this guy on the right hand side. He's a billionaire. He's known Trump for, like, thirty plus years. So I'm even longer, like, forty years. He's known Trump since he was 30 years old, and he has a lot of stories of, all of them hanging out in New York and chasing girls and going to parties and all this stuff. So, like, he's lived this, like, fun life, being a rich guy.
And, it all leads up to what he experienced with his company, his his financing firm. Maybe they traded stocks. I'm not a % sure on that, but he Lutnick had a company. He currently runs this company, called Candor Fitzgerald. And, they've been in New York this entire time. And in the year 02/2001, Lutnick's company was on the Top 5 Floors of the World Trade Center. And so I wanna share a clip of what his experience was on nine eleven.
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But so let's go through it. So I'm friends with him. Right? But I'm building my business, a young guy building my business, and then 09:11 happens. Yeah. K? So I'm friends with the guy. I'm just friends with the guy, but then 09:11 happens. Kind, sweet, calls me all the time. Just good human being. Nice, warm, caring, good human being. Right? But then I'm knocked out. So what do I do next? I try to rebuild my company, take care of the families of nine eleven. You know, I had I lost 658 people who worked for me, and, and we had a policy.
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We wanna Pause right there. I I I need to pause right there. He lost 658
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people, dude. I lost 658
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people to work for me. And Dude, what the
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Can you can we just focus on that number real quick? I'm 28 years old. I'm turning 28 on Tuesday. I was four years old on 09/11. He was a man. This man was a man, and he lost one oh, like okay. So first of all, like, 3,000 people died on 09/11. A fifth of that, a fifth of the deaths of 09/11 was this man's employees. Now for his whole company at large, he had over 900 employees. 70% of this man's company was murdered. That's fucking insane, dude. I did not know this until this week. When I heard this podcast, when I watched it, my jaw dropped the floor. Like, that is an insane
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can you please comprehend that number? Take care of the families of nine eleven. You know, I had I lost 658 people who worked for me, and, and we had a policy. We wanna work with people that we like. So when we had an opening, we didn't use headhunters. We would say to everybody at the firm, does anybody know anybody who do this job? No. And so, you know, young lady works for me, says, you know, my best friend is an HR person. They have to have capacity. Yep. But once they have capacity, imagine we hire that person. Yeah. Now what happens is it's it's not one big happy family. Yep. But people really, really care about the company, and that's our company that's on the Top 5 Floors of the World Trade Center Mhmm. On 911 when the plane hits it. Kills everybody at the office. My brother Gary, he dies at thirty six. My best friend Doug, he dies at 39.
I had just turned 40 that summer. Mhmm. I had a party. 65 couples. It's my my fortieth birthday. Fortieth birthday. Yeah. Right? 27 people in my party get killed. Jesus. These are my friends. These are my friends. So I'm driven to take care of the families of the people who who die, and I commit 25% of all of our profits, but the company is destroyed. So we go from making a million a day. I was a rich guy. Right? What's the definition of a rich guy? No personal debt, no corporate debt. Ken Fitzgerald, no debt. So how do you survive nine eleven? If you don't owe anybody any money Right. The only money you're losing is is your money. Is your money. So we survive, and we take care of our friends' families.
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That's insane, dude. That's truly insane. And just to think about that, man. Like, just to think about what that situation involves. You know, I just relate to the guy because I was able to I almost said, I was able to experience the death of my father. Like, able to? Like, I did experience. Like, what do you mean able to, Cole? Like, I experienced that. You know? I've experienced a really close death, and he experienced the death of his brother and best friend and 70% of his company. That's really intense. That's really intense. And he chose to move forward. He chose to do the right thing, and he chose to help all the families that were impacted, within his company.
He made sure to pay for, everyone's expenses for about a year, which is you know, that's just that that that's incredibly charitable. You know? Can you imagine doing that? Can I would like to assume that everyone might do that? Like, I wanna assume that I would do that as well, but this guy actually did it. Like, he really did that. Like, if you really had billions of dollars, would you help out everyone that you knew if they needed it? You know, that's that that's a really powerful thing, and that goes against this narrative of, like, billionaires are bad and evil and capitalistic, vampires and just like the whatever narrative is out there that any, like, person leaning towards the left wants to say, if any person wants to hate on Elon or hate on Trump or any billionaire for that matter, like, it's, it's just bullshit is what it is because you really these people really put their money where their mouth is and just sustain so much trauma, dude.
And that's just it it's super serious, dude. Like, can you imagine doing that? So throughout the podcast, he he chooses to move forward. He chooses to rebuild his company, and, he's still friends with Donald Trump. And, now we're gonna go into, like, more, like, like, the government stuff and, like, the the presidency stuff. You know? But I just wanted to share that. I just thought that was incredibly powerful, the magnitude of nine eleven. You know? Like, if you're an American, if you're alive during nine eleven, you know, we that is a collective trauma, psychologically and emotionally that we all hold.
But for him, for there is a man who is serving in the cabinet who probably, like, most likely suffered the most. Like, can we just say that right now? Like, there's a man serving serving the country right now who has most likely lost some of the most precious people in his life and suffered the most loss during nine eleven. You know? And I'm not trying to compare, you know, any other situation. I'm not trying to compare that loss to some soldier or to some anything else. You know? I'm just saying, like, by the pure numbers. Like, has this soldier lost 700 people? Has this soldier lost? You know? Like, you you you know what I mean? Like, that's a huge number.
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Okay?
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So he moves forward. He rebuilds. He's still friends with Trump. And now we're getting into how him and Trump sort of relate to each other and how they communicate and how problems are being solved, within the government right now. And what I think is interesting is how Trump approaches, solving problems, and this next clip is gonna is gonna show it.
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The way president Trump works, he makes decisions by orchestra. He likes lots of views and opinions. Mhmm. He likes them. And anybody who says, oh, the last person who sees him gets him, that's because they don't know him at all. Mhmm. Right. Right? The answer is it's an orchestra. Right? And I would say, okay. I'm the first violin. You know, at the time, I would say I was, you know, I would describe myself as second violin. Yep. Right? So this is an orchestra. So the president's not gonna make a decision with me and him alone. Yeah. By an orchestra. That's really cool.
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I think that's really wise. That's really smart, you know, for Trump to go through 09/11 as well, to be a New Yorker, and to be able to to because he was involved as well with with the rebuilding of Manhattan and everything like that. I think Trump has learned to do to solve problems through an orchestra. I really like that analogy. There's always this discussion of, like, we want a leader to listen to all perspectives, and then and, like, and then make the the correct decision. But this idea of an orchestra to hear, like, it's all music. All the ideas are music. And maybe I'm sort of romanticizing this a little bit, but just to ponder on this thought.
The people around you, their ideas are music. And maybe you're not vibing with that music as much, but it's still valuable to listen to. And if that is true about Donald Trump, and if that is true about how the problems in America are being solved, then that's awesome. Then I support that. You know? And I've been supporting that. To have people around Donald Trump who have experienced some type of trauma, some type of adversity, who have overcome, incredible obstacles, and then to have their perspective, have have their like like, every moment in your life leads up to where you are right now.
To have that truth be inside of the White House with the people who are handling the most difficult problems with economy and immigration and health and diabetes and and prosperity and making sure that all Americans are getting more money in their wallets and to make sure that there's better jobs available. Like, these are important topics. And to have people who have sustained family trauma and professional trauma, I think this is really good for America. I think that's really good. Because if Lutnick was able to protect and to help all the families who lost somebody in 09/11, If he was able to help 700 families, then why would his heart not be in a place to help, you know, all the millions of families within America?
That's just really what I think, dude. That's really what I think. I I really believe that he cares. And then I was like, all these clips are sort of, like, disconnected. Right? But they're, like, connected to my head. The next thing I wanna focus on is, so we gotta talk about Elon a little bit. Right? So they go into Elon. They go into Doge. And, like, what is Elon really doing? Like, people have been criticizing Elon Musk. The Democrats and the people on the left, we got fucking we got people drawn swastikas, but they're not yay swastikas. They're not Yeezy swastikas. They're they're fucking Democratic swastikas, and they're drawing them on Teslas. They're drawing them on cyber trucks. They're causing a ruckus. It's, it's even more chaotic than Antifa back in Portland during 2020. Like, it's it's super chaotic. It seems a bit paid for. It seems like there's just a lot of manipulation, mind control happening.
I'm not talking about conspiratorial. Like, people can you're able to control a person's mind through fear. You're able to control them through the media that they're watching. If you're on TikTok and you're getting emotional, you need to disconnect. And if you're getting upset at that truth, then you need to disconnect even more. Get offline. Go outside. You know? It it's a practice to shrink your amygdala. That's like a that's a fucking gland in your mind that controls fear. You need to shrink your amygdala and and and then live your life.
These people who are these democratic swastika people are they have enlarged and inflamed amygdalas, and this is just no good. And they're freaking out about Elon and Doge, and Elon, stopping all the all the fraud and waste and abuse that's going on in the country, which is just objectively true. Like, there's five there's, like, 5,900,000 people who work for the government, and we're gonna assume that none of them are shady people. We're gonna assume that every transaction in the government is just, just fine and dandy. That's sort of what the Democrat narrative is.
And, the people with Trump and it's not even Democrat, Republican. It's it's people with with Trump. What they're saying is, you know, like, there's definitely fraud happening. There's definitely abuse happening in the government. But then they're getting upset at Elon, and, like, Elon has too much power. These billionaires have too much power. We need to stop them. We need to destroy their companies. And so with that, like, how is how is any of this legal? How can Elon be running Tesla? How can Elon be running SpaceX and regular x and his son x?
How can he be doing all this and be Doge? And this brings up a really interesting term that that Lutnick brings up, which I never heard before, but I think it's brilliant. Thing is,
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Right? That's what it says. This is me. And we stand, and we map out the plan. I tell them what a gratis vendor is. Yeah. Because I designed because I was not gonna go into the government. I was doing transition. What is a gratis vendor? A gratis vendor is, is a an approved vendor for The United States Of America that gives product to the government, doesn't sell it. Okay. So, therefore, I don't have to go through the whole process of becoming a proper vendor because you're giving it to us. And then if you give it to article two, which is the president's stuff, then the president can accept it.
Right? Because it's give. Sorry. How what's an example of this? Like, just to make I write some software. You write some software. I write some software for the commerce department to do a better job of x y z. Mhmm. You just give it to me. And then I do QA on it, and I could take it. If you sell it to me for $1, we go into government help. Right. The whole rigmarole. Right? But if you give it to me, right, and then I set up you know? So I said I'm calling it Doge,
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and I registered the name Doge. You said that. Of course. And you were you familiar with Dogecoin and Of course. It's it's Elon. I'm sorry. You're So what happens is it
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Of course. It's Elon. I'm not sure why don't we do that. Of course. It's e I love that. Like
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Stirred the name Doge. You said that. Of course. And you were you familiar with Dogecoin and Of course. It's it's Elon. I'm gonna tell you. Of course.
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I'm familiar with Dogecoin. Who's that? We're all holding Doge. Like, that's, I thought that was funny I thought that was a funny part. When it comes to that so Elon has his own trauma. Right? Elon, he's a he, his father has been documented with psychological warfare, just talking shit down to Elon. You know, Elon didn't have the best dad growing up. Elon went through a lot. Elon has a history of building a lot of different things even though people wanna claim that. People wanna, like, say that he didn't build Tesla. He didn't invent Tesla. But can anyone do do what Elon did with Tesla? Like, it's not about if he invented it or not. It's about what he did with it. You know what I mean?
Like, it's not about inventing a home. It's about how you live in the home. And so, Elon is in this position where, I guess, he's a gratis vendor. Gradis is Italian for free. He's a free vendor for the president, and he's already come out and said that he's tech support, which I think is interesting. But now I understand it. He's he's legally a free vendor, and the reason why he has access to all the computers and all the departments is because he's a free vendor, and he's updating all the software. He's, he's creating new software for the government to function on for free. And then maybe that's gonna be another company that he can sell to Brazil and freaking Russia or whatever, you know, whatever country wants to buy this new software for the government.
That's really interesting. And it makes me respect Elon even more. And maybe that's a hot take. Maybe that maybe a lot of people don't agree with me on that. I know a lot of people online don't really vibe with Elon, because of, you know, everyone has their own reason. But I am of the opinion that and and this is coming from, like, these interviews and just, like, my general perspective. I firmly believe that Trump and the people around Trump, like his cabinet specifically, they are literally aligned with the light. Like, think Star Wars, think spiritual, think God, think think Jesus and and the devil, think good and evil, think Lord of the Rings.
Trump and his cabinet are literally aligned with the light. And I don't want this to turn into, like, some, like, worshiping thing. Like, I don't wanna be like, I'm not trying to worship anyone. You know? I think it's clear that these are good people. And the reason why I'm willing to trust these people is because they have lived lives that have proven their character. That's it. There's no other way to really describe it, dude. Like, if you have gone through so much, if you've lived the life of RFK Jr, if you lose your father, if you lose your uncle to the government, the the government agencies and that this is, like, the general thing. Like, government agencies were involved with the murder of his father and his uncle.
Okay? Like, that's that's already understood for sure. And for RFK Jr to live his life, to love the environment, to battle a a heroin addiction, to come forward through that, to find God, and to come out the other end as a lawyer and as an, as an environmentalist and to be so early on mercury in the vaccines and to listen to mothers and to look at what's wrong in America, to look at the diabetes, to look at how unhealthy Americans are, and to actually have a heart to seek out healing for the country, to want to be in a leadership position to help heal.
That is light. That is God. That is real life, dude. That's what we need. Years ago, I don't know when it happened, but there was a line in the sand that was drawn. It might have been 2016. It might have been 2020. I don't know. I don't really know when it was. It might have been 02/2008. You know, pick your election. It happened on an election year. A line in the sand was drawn, and people are actively choosing good within their heart and lives, and people are actively choosing selfishness and evil within their lives. You know? This is the core story of Star Wars. This is what George Lucas's Star Wars was getting at. This is the dark side and the light side of the force, dude.
Like, people wanna say Trump is a villain. Like, yeah, he's a villain to the dark side. He's taken the dark side down, dude. Like, his whole team, his whole shebang is going after the dark side. And RFK Jr is an example of coming out the other end, choosing selfishness, and actually seeing that within himself and and and changing that changing himself. And Lutnick seems to be another example of that within his own path. To lose 70% of your company, like, to to able one fifth of the deaths of nine eleven was his employees. Like, is that not a serious thing To go through that, to lose your brother, to lose your friend, and to have the heart to move forward and to not shut down the company and to do as much as you can for the company and to not sell out and to still focus on love?
Like, giving money. If you have the money to give and you're giving that to everyone that you can, that's straight up love. You know? Like, that is love. And so these people seem to be moving forward with love, and that's just incredible. It's incredible. And it's this type of energy, this type of, like, I would call it emotional intelligence. I would call it, you know, like, the the like, you know, vibe coding? This is like vibe governing. This is like people are just, like, looking at the vibe of America, and they're just saying, like, we gotta change this, man. We like and I can do something about it. Like, that's what that's what's happening. That's what Elon did. That's what Lutnick did. That's what RFK did. That's what Trump did. Like, I can help change this. I can help heal this. I think that's the real message that's going on right now.
And with that, Trump just took over both political parties. Trump took over the entire political system like a fucking badass that he is, dude. People talk about how, you know, like, some people on the left, some people on the news wanna say, like, Trump is encouraging The Handmaid's Tale or something. Like, it's some bullshit narrative. It's some, like, silly ass thing. Like, he wants to like, he he's gonna help the Christians take over everything, which is objectively false. Like, there's no way Trump's gonna let some religious, fanatics just take control over his entire legacy. Like, that's insane.
And what I have to share, my last clip to share is this author, and, I believe she she's a journalist, Bettea. She's on Twitter. She's a she's a she calls herself a leftist MAGA or MAGA leftist. She's Jewish, so come at me if you hate Jews. I think this is a valuable voice to share, and she she shares what Trump is actually representing to people, through this through this line, like, this line in the sand, people choosing sides, people figuring out what side they're
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on, she breaks it down. The real reason that the Democrats are floundering right now is because president Trump won by convincing millions of people like me who were Democrats our whole life that he is the inheritor of the values that we hold very dear. So for most of the twentieth century, the Democrats represented the working class. Their whole agenda was built around the idea that if you work hard, you should have access to the American dream. And the Republicans were the party of big business, country clubs, trickle down economics, foreign interventions. Right? The Democrats were anti war. And remember when the Democrats were they believed abortion should be safe, legal, and rare? They were social moderates.
That was the winning formula for the American working class, socially moderate, against war, anti war, and economically populist. Remember, it was the Democrats who believed that we should control the border to protect working class wages. This was their view for most of the twentieth century. And what happened was they abandoned all of those values and the entire working class to cater to the over credentialed college elites with their far left views and then the dependent poor. And they abandoned labor. And what president Trump did was he inherited a party from Reagan that was socially conservative, believed in foreign interventions, and was believed in big business trickle down economics, free trade, and he said, we're not doing any of that. The entire working and middle class of this country, 70% of Americans, have no party. We, the GOP, are gonna be their party. He said we're gonna be antiwar. We're gonna be protectionist on the economy. We're gonna not do free trade anymore. We're gonna protect the labor of the American worker, and we're gonna be socially moderate. Do do you see anyone I mean, right now we're
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That's, that's real, dude. That's real. I think that's real life. She broke it down really well, and I respect her for for, like, coming out on that other side, you know, to be a leftist MAGA. That's insane. Did Trump take over the Democratic values? That's an interesting thing to think about. He's definitely moderate on abortion. He's definitely he definitely like, he he's getting rid of taxes. He he's getting rid of income taxes for people who's making under $150,000 a year, which, by the way, that's 85% of American citizens.
So he's taking away income tax for 85% of the citizens. He's taking away tax on tips. He's making sure that the people around him are informed and love people. He wants to make sure that there's a situation where jobs are, continuing to, to be strengthened and to be available within America. I don't know why what's what's so bad about this guy? Like, what's so bad? Like, when I voted for Trump, it was like it was a mix of, like, an f u, and he's, like, a good guy. Like, I just didn't believe the media. And now it's the truth of Trump being aligned with the light is just getting so much more stronger.
And I just think it's so much more real, dude. So I don't know. I'm not sure if you agree with me on that. I'm not sure if you care about what I have to say about that, but, you know, this is my opinion. That that that that this is what I really have to say about it. And I think, this is, this is important to talk about. You know? And it's not about, you know, my grandparents' politics. It's not about believing in what your grandparents thought. It's not about believing what your parents thought. It's about using your own perspective. It's about using your own mind. You know? It's about using your like, use your eyes to look at objective reality.
Use your heart to feel the truth. This is what you need to do, and you need to move forward. You need to handle with what is right in front of you within your own life, and you need to do your best to handle what is in front of you with love and a good perspective. That's the only way that you can do that. And and the leaders of our country represent that. Me losing my dad. You know, I'm able to I don't know why I'm able to, but I I have this perspective that I can strengthen myself from the death of my father. And that's not to belittle the moment. You know? I believe that I can find I can I can discover the best version of myself even after this tragic moment in my life?
I believe that I can make myself great again. I believe I can make myself whole again. I don't know what that looks like, you know, but I have this, like, spiritual instinct within me that is telling me to keep going and to keep moving forward and to just keep waking up, keep brushing my teeth, and keep doing push ups, and keep just keep going outside and and to just not stop because there's there's more to see. There's more to experience, and you I have the opportunity to thrive. You have the opportunity to thrive. If you think that you are stuck, I wanna encourage you to not be stuck, to continue to just push through that wall. If you're if you're walking and you're and you hit a wall and it looks like there's no way out, just keep pushing against the wall.
Just keep pushing against the wall. Like, it's gonna break one day. Like, something's gonna give if you keep thinking that you can do it. If you keep thinking that you will be okay and you can do more things, if you keep thinking about what else you can do, how you can change something, like you know what I mean? Like, if you can continue to believe in yourself, you can achieve anything. And what I see on these podcasts and what I see going on in the political sphere when it comes to the systems of America, that there are people who have been through trauma, who have had heartbreak, who have been through the most tragic and horrific scenarios that nobody wants to be in, and they got through it.
They continue to move through it. You know? I don't know if RFK Junior is healed from the death of his father and uncle. I really don't know how Howard Lutnick, I don't I'm not sure if Howard Lutnick is healed from losing his brother and best friend and all of his employees. I don't know if, you know like, Trump lost his brother to alcoholism. You know, that's a big deal too. Like, I wonder if Trump thinks about his big brother. You know? Or maybe maybe we don't wanna is that too human? Is that too human for you? You know, Trump lost his brother to alcoholism. That's a real truth. Who did you lose someone to?
And how does that inform your life? This is this is what we're dealing with within humanity, within Earth. You know? This is we're in a moment on Earth where we have to continue to find peace. We have to choose to seek peace within our hearts and to make a loving choice for ourselves and for the people around us. And it's it's not easy. It's not easy. You know? You gotta do your best to be creative, whether that's a simple drawing, whether that's producing something. You need to be creative. You need to engage with people. You need to be outside. You need to exercise.
You need to breathe. You need to hug someone. You need to love the people around you. You need to just try to love your managers. Like, here's something that I'm struggling with. I'm I'm struggling to, like, love and respect my managers. Like, I'm I'm I'm humanizing Trump, and it's easy for me to humanize Trump. But it's not easy for me to humanize my managers at work, you know, because I you know, just it's fucking work. And and, you know, maybe that's why I haven't, been able to move on, you know, because I've been looking for a new job in my life. But, like, somehow, I'm just like, I'm still stuck at this place.
And it's like, why? You know? And this past week, I sorta, like, had an experience where it's like, you know, maybe I need to, like, change how I think about these people. Maybe once I change my view on the people around me and how I engage with the people around me, maybe my life will start, like, giving me what I what I wanted. Does anyone relate to that? So I'm working on that myself, guys. I'm working on that myself. I hope it works out. I believe it will. You know? But, you know, that's all the value I got y'all. I wanna move into the value. Let's go into the value for value section right now. America Plus is a value for value show. What that means is I come on this feed, and I do my best to bring forward a conversation that I think is valuable for the world and valuable for America.
America Plus is all about, you know, talking about America's hopeful future through spiritual optimism and contrarian innovation. And I think I embody that with these weird ideas. You know? Let's all care about let's care about Trump's big brother who died. You know? That's a that that's very contrarian, I think. But with that, there's three main ways that that you can support me, time, talent, treasure. If you're watching the livestream right now, thank you so much. We got 40 people on the livestream. Shout out to all of you, dude. Shout out to all of you right now. I love you. Thank you for hanging out with me today.
Thank you for sharing your time with me today. If you could retweet me, please retweet me if you think that this is, if you think this is a good conversation. And if you wanna support that, that would be really great. And, talent, if you wanna help me out, if you got any, like, clips or books or quotes or anything that you wanna share with me, you know, any talent that you wanna share within this project, please do so, if you feel compelled. And the last thing is, treasure. Treasure is money, of course. I have a PayPal. You can, send me some PayPal if you want, but you can also support me in the fountain.fm
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app. Go to valueforvalue.info for more info, then download the fountain.fm app. It's the best way to support the show. So fountain.fm,
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this is a podcast app that lets you send small bits of Bitcoin to podcasters and people. And I I and these things are called boostograms. I'm gonna be reading the boostograms, here from last week, from the last episode. I got a couple here. Boostograms are really cool. Fountain's really cool. There's a whole suite of podcasting apps that let you send Bitcoin to each other. So just go to, podcastapps.com or just download fountain. The first boost to gram I got is coming in from at Pies. What up, Pies? He's a regular listener. He says, he he sends in 100 Satoshis, and he says, let's fucking go, dude. Value for value. Feeling the positive energy, bro. Yes, sir. Boosting is loving. It's basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Thank you, Pies. That was from last week, number one fifty two. Talk about, the Bitcoin reserve. And then, this next one isn't a boostagram, but it is, one guy was streaming in sats. This guy named Based Potato.
Thank you, Based Potato, for sending in some sats, dude.
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And now as the French say, it is time for a boost. Oh, a boost.
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So that's value for value, guys. That's all the boostograms. But if you wanna add anything to that, if you wanna do anything, with that, if you think, if you think I'm worthy of money excuse me. If you think I'm worthy of money, then please do so. Then plea please send me some sats. Send me some cash moola. But if you don't, it's okay. I really don't care. It's just a thing that I just a thing thing that I like. What I usually do for value and to wrap things up right now is I play a song. There's a whole, like, value for values,
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situation going on where, here. Let me hang on. Let me go back to here. I gotta share my screen.
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When it comes to value for value music, you can go to there's certain websites. One website is called Wave Lake. Another website is called LM Beats. There's this whole value for value music universe that's being developed, and this is all independent music. I'm able to, link up this song to my podcast, because this song also has a Bitcoin wallet attached to it. And so when I play this song in the modern podcast apps, you're able to send them Satoshis when this song is being played. And I always give the artist, a 90% split of your Satoshi donation.
So that's that's another example of value for value. And, the song I wanna play this week to wrap it up is from a band called Shy Kids, and the song is called Backward in Love. Enjoy.
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We both know that I Fall back and forth, back in love with you. Hope I can fall back
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That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free.
Introduction and Personal Reflections
JFK Files and RFK Jr.'s Family Trauma
Trump's Cabinet and Emotional Intelligence
Howard Lutnick's 9/11 Experience
Trump's Decision-Making Style
Elon Musk and the Concept of Gratis Vendor
RFK Jr.'s Journey and the Light vs. Dark Narrative
Trump's Political Transformation
Personal Growth and Overcoming Challenges
