From France's Riots to U.S. Borders: The Immigration Bonds Fueling Global Chaos
Dave Conley and Jerremy draw stark parallels between unrest in France and the UK and America's brewing storms, from immigration strains to economic woes and civil war risks. They debate government curbs on addictive substances, the push for productive economies over extractive ones, and Trump's volatile take on international conflicts. Crises in Ukraine, Gaza, and Somalia spotlight U.S. intervention flaws and life's sanctity, plus Mexico's cartel battles and the new $15,000 visa bond hurdle. The hosts stress open dialogue and tease future dives into gun control and the Second Amendment.
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Dave spots echoes of French and UK unrest in America's pressures,
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:from immigration to economic strains.
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:Jerremy sees us as a teenage
nation figuring itself out.
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:But their take on civil war risks
sharpens the edge—if divisions deepen,
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:what holds the country together?
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:Dave: We have restrictions
on stuff now, right?
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:You know, age restrictions, like
yeah, you can smoke yourself to death,
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:you can drink yourself to death,
there's some restrictions in there.
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:There's no real penalties on
these, these companies though.
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:So in a sense it's like, look, if
you're driving people into oblivion
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:you don't kick off the successful ones.
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:You ensure that people who are have
a clear sickness can't get at this,
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:Jerremy: yeah,
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:Dave: or that they get straight
into the programs to be like,
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:oh man, this is not good.
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:Jerremy: yeah, I agree with you.
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:Dave: Alright.
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:Jerremy: with you.
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:Ultimately it is if the government really
cared about this population, fun fact.
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:What a way to kick off a sentence
if they actually even gave a damn,
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:Dave: Yeah.
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:Jerremy: figure out ways to protect the
populace from addictive substances that
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:the majority of the time no positive
long-term effect to someone's life.
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:Dave: There's a concept I really
like that I'm hearing more of is that
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:there's extractive parts of our economy.
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:There are productive parts of our
economy, for example, and I happy that
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:this is gonna piss some people off
finance Wall Street, that's extractive.
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:We're not creating anything.
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:It's just money circulating around.
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:A lot of, of, uh, Silicon Valley.
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:You know, it's about, advertising and
sucking people into the algorithms.
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:It's not building anything.
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:So there's and there's people
who, who are building companies
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:like a Tesla that is additive.
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:It's not subtractive.
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:So there's a real divide between
things that are a net pull
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:versus a net push for humanity.
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:And I think we need to start looking
at the things that we do personally,
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:the things that we do in our economy
and what we pay attention to.
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:As, these are the areas where government,
where politicians, where people, where
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:society wants to put more energy because
these are positive and this world of
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:extractive, which is a huge focus.
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:We need to, we just need to, to like let
them do, you know, like you do you boo.
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:And we're gonna, we're gonna go over here
and look at the positive, the net benefits
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:and those kind of things, is that.
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:What do you think of that?
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:That's been my moral focus of light.
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:I don't know, like we are in that
sort of finance Wall Street world,
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:but you get what I'm saying?
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:Jerremy: Absolutely, and
I subscribe to it fully.
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:My brother.
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:Dave: Yeah.
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:Jerremy: Yeah, I agree with you.
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:Dave: Alright.
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:International interesting stuff.
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:I think we could spend a lot
of time talking about Ukraine.
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:I think we could talk a
lot about Gaza Israel.
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:I'm gonna say right now, this
administration has completely
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:disappointed me on this.
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:I firmly believe that if it was a Biden
Harris or a Harris Walsh administration,
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:that it wasn't going to get better
either in Ukraine or Gaza in Israel.
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:And at least the rhetoric and the
talk around what candidate Trump was
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:saying seemed much more positive.
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:And I was like, man, it feels like we're
on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
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:Like it goes back to that
moral thing of like, people
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:are dying let's do less dying.
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:And yet it's.
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:Same, same, even worse like the
chain's off, the chain's off on
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:Israel and Gaza, like it's, it
is getting demonstrably worse.
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:Same thing with Ukraine.
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:Like that's not going in a good direction.
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:I went back and looked at one of
the briefs I did for you I think
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:two years ago at this point.
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:And I'm like, Ukraine
doesn't make any sense.
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:Like the math doesn't work.
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:Ukraine can't do this.
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:They don't have enough people
like, you know, like you can
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:pour in as much as you want.
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:Like, Russia is just gonna grind
them down and the only thing that
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:they can do is negotiate now 'cause
it's not gonna get any better.
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:Or they have to pull in nato.
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:Well, it looks like they're actually
trying to pull in NATO now, and that
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:means like pulling in the United States,
and I don't think that's gonna happen.
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:So I'm disappointed in
this administration.
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:None of this seems to be
going in the right direction.
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:It doesn't even seem like they're doing
much more, if not worse than Biden.
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:I don't know.
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:Do you have any other take on this?
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:Do you have what's positive, if anything?
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:Jerremy: I'm gonna have to agree
with you, essentially with what
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:you said on like, killing bad.
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:Let's figure out a way to stop
doing that as much as possible.
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:And I will say that I do believe,
and again, I think everyone
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:knows I'm not a huge Trump fan.
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:I do believe that Trump
doesn't generally like wars.
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:He wants to pull out as much as possible.
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:He doesn't like violence.
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:He's not a war mongering president
again, that's just my opinion.
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:However, to your point, he is handling
it pretty awfully, pretty awfully.
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:And would the other
administration do better?
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:No.
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:I think it's like that portion
of the world and that entire
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:crisis, that is awful, by the way.
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:Hundreds of thousands of people
are dying and being affected daily.
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:It is deplorable, but it's
been that way for a long time.
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:Dave: Hey, get this I don't
think anybody knows this one or
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:very few people know this one.
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:It shows up in my anti-war sort
of libertarian crowd that I
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:love to listen to is Somalia.
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:Somalia is our longest war.
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:We've been in there a quarter of a
century bombing the crap out of Somalia.
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:Under the Trump administration, we
have increased our presence there.
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:We've increased our bombings.
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:We bomb them every single week,
and we don't talk about it at all.
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:We keep on killing people
there and killing people there
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:and killing people there.
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:And I can't find any news on it.
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:Oh my God.
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:It goes back to that sanctity of life.
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:It's oh, if we're killing people
in the name of the United States,
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:we're not making any friends.
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:Exactly.
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:And again, that's unfortunate.
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:Like I don't want that to be happening.
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:Dave: yeah.
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:Jerremy: the other unfortunate part is
been happening for a very long time.
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:And it's not even Somalia, just really
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:Dave: Everywhere.
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:Jerremy: the.
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:Breadbasket, the core of where the
civilization allegedly started, like
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:that Middle East, middle earth area
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:Dave: of middle Earth.
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:Jerremy: has been in such
tumultuous, awful, argumentative,
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:fighting over religion and
boundaries and borders for so long.
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:have no idea what would,
could or might solve that.
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:why if you're a religious person,
you probably play, pray to
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:whatever religious deity that you
really believe is gonna fix it.
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:And that's the only thing that
you're gonna be able to do.
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:And we don't have to
turn an entire blind eye.
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:But for me personally, I do think
that it's gonna be one of those
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:situations where it's listen.
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:Why do we have to figure
out their problem?
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:That's the one thing I'm unaware of
is listen, I'm not picking any side.
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:I'm gonna pick this side, the
country, us that we live in.
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:I don't want to solve their issue
or we're gonna let them solve it.
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:Why, like, why are we always
up in everyone else's business?
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:They're gonna be fighting all the time.
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:They've been doing it
for thousands of years.
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:Dave: Let 'em figure it out.
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:That's gonna be called isolationism and
I'm gonna say the globalism has not worked
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:out, so we've gotta try something else.
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:Jerremy: Correct.
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:Dave: There's um, there's a number
of international things that sort
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:of fall under the category of.
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:Immigration pressures, economic
pressures nationalism, and I mean
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:nationalism as like the lowercase
good thing of like, Hey, this is
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:my country and I'm proud of it.
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:France, like they've dissolved their
parliament, which basically means
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:the government doesn't do anything.
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:And they're gonna have to have elections.
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:Again, that comes from economic pressures.
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:They have a lot of money that
goes to social, uh, things
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:that, that's immigration.
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:A lot of that social stuff also goes to
immigration and you have to submit your
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:budget to the EU in order to have it
approved, and it keeps on getting denied.
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:And so the government is sort
of stalled on what to do, and
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:there's a lot of, of French people
are like, Hey, this is my right.
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:Like having these, these social programs,
this is what it means to be French,
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:versus the reality of being able to
pay for it versus immigration causing
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:some pressures on housing, which we've
talked about in other aspects, like they,
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:they're running into some political stuff.
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:The other one is.
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:UK had this huge protest
and it was all about British
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:wanting to be British people.
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:They had, riots last year, and, uh,
it was painted as anti-immigration.
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:And I think it it's wiser to, to
step back a little bit about that and
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:stop labeling it and being like, Hey.
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:Same, same.
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:There's a lot of overreach and people
aren't able to protest, like people being
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:locked up for memes and mean tweets.
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:And when you keep boxing people in
and not addressing their issues,
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:they are gonna blame immigrants for
things rather than being like, Hey, if
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:everybody had a job, it's the abundance.
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:If everybody had a job, everybody had
a home, everybody able to do their
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:thing, they wouldn't be blaming anybody.
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:They'd be like, Hey, come on in.
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:So it's, it's, it's, and it's like,
Hey, we want to be proud to be British.
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:And we see all this change
and being told basically, if
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:you're British, then you're bad.
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:So like, both of these things have a,
have a, both a, they have a, a pride,
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:a French pride, a UK Pride or British
Pride, they have an economic component
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:to it, and it's causing some stress.
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:Um.
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:I think we see that in
the United States too.
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:Are they showing us our future or
are we showing them their future?
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:Jerremy: I think they're showing us ours.
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:My present belief is that America is
a teenager, in the scheme of countries
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:we are, let's call it 16, 17 years old.
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:Who am I?
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:What do I believe in?
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:What do I love?
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:Am I gay?
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:Am I straight?
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:Do I like women?
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:Do I like men?
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:I don't know.
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:Who knows what's going on?
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:I don't know who I'm, like
you're figuring your stuff out.
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:You're figuring out things that
probably other countries are like,
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:bro, what are you talking about?
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:Been there, done that long time ago.
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:Got that under control, and you start
getting nuances and other things
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:that are going to absolutely create,
big stirs, I think just to generally
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:answer your question, I think that's
the future of where we're going
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:The scarier part is with the
size of the United States.
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:Dave: Right.
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:Jerremy: That's probably
one of our disadvantages.
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:And when I say disadvantages, it's a
disadvantage in the sense of you have a
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:lot of bifurcation you do in any other,
any country, from language to dialect,
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:to to belief, especially in the UK and
England, shoot England anywhere, right?
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:Australia, England, India,
China, every country.
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:But in the US it's one of the few
current countries that I believe
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:with the right spark would not
take a lot to create a civil war.
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:And there's a couple movies
on it that I have watched.
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:One of them was the one with
Julia Roberts recently that Obama
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:was an executive producer on
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:Dave: Yeah, that was grim.
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:Jerremy: Grim.
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:And at the end I was like, shit
yeah, that's probably accurate.
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:That feels unfortunately, really realistic
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:Dave: Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Jerremy: So to your point think, that's
probably our biggest downfall is you
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:start poking the bear and disseminating
information media-wise different
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:parts of the country differently in
getting us fighting with each other.
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:America could never be
taken down from the outside.
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:We're too strong, too
powerful to everything.
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:But from the inside,
that's how we would fall.
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:Dave: Man, I'm, huh?
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:Maybe it's my optimism on this.
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:I hear you.
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:And I like, I could totally get on this.
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:I also think that UK and France
don't necessarily do the best
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:job of integrating people.
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:We're a big country, and we've
done this for a long time.
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:We may be teenagers, but we're also
the oldest government on the planet.
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:Like no government can touch us.
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:We are the oldest government
and we are the oldest democracy
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:and we keep on keeping on even
with things like civil wars.
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:And there's a certain aspect
of federalism where, you know,
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:states, have a lot of power.
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:They have a lot of capabilities and I
think people generally have very positive
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:feelings about their fellow Americans.
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:There's this great comedian
Bridget Acy who says, ah, we're
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:too fat to have a civil war.
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:I'm like, yeah I think I agree with that.
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:Jerremy: That's funny.
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:Dave: Nobody makes money on a
civil war, except for gun runners.
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:I don't know.
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:I don't think there's
actual pressures there.
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:Like there can be definitely
political violence.
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:We had a lot in the seventies and sixties.
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:And I don't know, I don't
see it being big and bubbly.
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:I don't know.
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:We'll think about it.
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:I'll think about it,
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:Dave: I'm optimistic.
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:Jerremy: I'm glad.
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:No I am too.
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:I'm too I'm just saying I think that's
where, that's where our biggest challenge
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:will lay as a country is avoiding that.
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:Dave: On the Mexico side, I thought
this was sort of interesting.
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:Mexican government said, Hey us,
if you wanna run, if you wanna run
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:your agents into Mexico, come on in.
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:I can't even imagine any
country really doing this, but
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:they're like, sure, no problem.
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:Shine bomb was like, come on in
a US agent, if you wanna do raids
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:across our border, Hey, come on now.
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:Ah, maybe they have to, before I got
on sort of the early religion kick
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:right before it, I was listening to
about the history of drug cartels.
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:Um, you know, all through Central
and South America and particularly
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:Mexico, and we don't talk about
how the Mexican government is
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:completely intertwined with this.
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:Like we, we stop at.
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:Cartel, bad cartel run
by this cartel leader.
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:And that is very naive.
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:This is, uh, government is all through
this from the national to the local level.
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:Like it is, it is completely ingrained.
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:So I don't know if.
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:Mexico is saying, come across the
border, it feels like window dressing.
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:And I don't think that's
gonna stop anything.
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:Like I, I firmly believe
that we have to make,
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:making money on drugs not worth it.
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:Meaning,
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:Jerremy: Yes.
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:Dave: meaning like, uh.
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:If you get, if you sell drugs in
the United States and we are the
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:biggest consumers of drugs, like,
I don't know if we can stop that.
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:But you get money for that.
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:How do you get that into the bank?
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:How do you get that into
the international space?
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:How do you use that money?
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:And if a drug cartel or a government
has all of this drug money, I
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:think that it should be worthless.
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:They shouldn't be able to spend it.
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:That it, that you turn
it into worthless money.
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:I'm not exactly sure how to do that,
but it's like, okay, then they don't
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:get to spend this money that they got.
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:And I think that it happens
at the financial arena.
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:It means tough things.
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:It means sanctioning and getting at
big American companies uh, group,
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:which certainly has shenanigans.
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:I dunno, that's a long-winded
way of saying, Hey, Mexico's
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:doing some funny stuff and
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:Hey, come on over.
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:So they're saying Chase,
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:Dave: come right chase, chase these, Dr.
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:It's it feels like window dressing to me.
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:I don't know.
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:Is it gonna do anything?
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:Yeah.
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:Jerremy: It'd be cool if it
does, but I don't think it will.
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:You would have to, again, that's
the unfortunate part, right?
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:I love that your thought is like,
Hey, just get rid of the money
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:and then the drugs will go away.
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:Dave: No we're not gonna
get rid of the drugs.
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:We are, we're always gonna have the drugs,
but make it worthless, make it worthless
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:to the people who are producing it.
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:Jerremy: Yeah, that'd be amazing.
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:And that'd be great.
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:To your point, that'd be a fun discussion.
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:Dave: Yeah.
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:Jerremy: how to do that.
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:Initially you have to make cash illegal.
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:Dave: That's tough.
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:Jerremy: Yeah, it's gonna be tough to do.
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:Dave: Yeah,
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:Jerremy: You
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:Dave: I just know that the war on
drugs, we are not Chick Munk again.
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:How?
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:However, I don't know what we did.
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:It's
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:Dave: What happened?
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:Jerremy: limit.
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:Dave: How does that sound?
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:Jerremy: go.
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:We're back.
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:Dave: Yeah.
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:Okay.
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:So that's Mexico.
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:We also blew up a boat.
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:That seems like a bad idea.
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:We're just blowing up boats now.
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:I don't know
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:Jerremy: The cartel boat off of the
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:Dave: Venezuela.
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:It's we're just blowing up boats.
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:I'm like, that just seems
like a dumb idea to me.
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:Jerremy: The really dumb idea is
like, how did we know for sure?
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:Number one there was boat and then
there was a lot of individuals that
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:were like, what about due process?
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:And valid point, right?
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:Dave: Fair.
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:Do we want to use multimillion dollar?
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:Machinery and blowing stuff
outta the water when we could
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:just, pull up a tugboat to the
side of it and be like, Hey,
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:Jerremy: You're arrested.
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:Dave: right.
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:And back to Sanctity of life,
like we just ended the lives of
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:a bunch of people and they might
have had nothing to do with this.
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:I'm like, ugh.
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:And we don't know who was on the boat.
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:We don't know what they did.
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:Yeah, that's JD Vance actually
posted something that's now a
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:meme pretty quickly on Twitter.
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:He more or less was like, good.
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:Dave: Oh God.
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:Jerremy: someone says yeah,
but what about due process?
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:So what about like this?
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:That's called, and I apologize for
not knowing the word right now, but
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:someone said, it's called X, Y, Z.
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:Dave: Yeah.
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:Jerremy: did is called X, Y, Z, and jds I
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:Dave: Yeah.
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:Jerremy: shit what it's called.
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:Dave: Oh God.
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:Jerremy: And now it's
this big, it's this big
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:Dave: Oh,
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:Jerremy: of I don't give a shit what
it's called, the vice president,
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:Dave: president?
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:Jerremy: saying yeah whatever.
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:Dave: What?
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:Whatevs.
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:Oh, I go, oh
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:Jerremy: boat.
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:So now it doesn't exist anymore.
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:Dave: yeah.
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:Dave: I wanted to relate
something actually personal
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:that it's on immigration.
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:It was fascinating.
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:I was talking to my woman who's Turkish
and she was talking to friends that
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:husband is American, wife is Turkish,
also American, and they're having
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:relatives visit in the United States.
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:I'm like, fantastic.
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:Well for, Turkish citizens, you
need a visa, you need a B one visa
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:either for business or for tourism.
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:And so a calls, you know, tells me
that the visa costs $15,000 per person.
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:I'm like, what?
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:Yeah, $15,000.
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:I'm like, US dollars.
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:What, and she said, yeah.
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:I looked it up and indeed a month ago,
three weeks ago the State Department
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:put in a requirement on countries.
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:They're piloting this, and they
started with Zambia and Namibia.
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:For countries that had high stay
overs, meaning that they, you
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:overrun your visa, you get a visa
for three months and you stay.
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:And so Zambia and Namibia, they
were over 10% and for one of
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:them, again, I looked it up.
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:They had 300 people overstay, and so
the State Department is like, yeah,
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:if you are from this poor African
country, in order to come over here
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:and do business or if you want to come
over and visit, you have to put up
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:$15,000 bond and you have to wire that
money to the State Department and then
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:when you leave, if you leave on time.
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:Then we will send you your money back.
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:And I'm like, whoa, that's wild.
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:And that it's for some reason
hitting this Turkish family, even
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:though Turkish, you know, Turkey
is a, you know, modern country.
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:I can't imagine that
they're having overstays.
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:It's, it was a weird one.
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:And that's not even been
publicized by the State Department.
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:It's only those two African countries.
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:This is what's coming.
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:And this is, this is part of the,
the immigration changes that are
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:happening, which are, very onerous.
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:Like this could happen to any country
that the administration doesn't like it.
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:Suddenly, if you need a visa to come into
the United States, it costs you 15 grand.
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:That's a lot of money for anybody.
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:You know, unless you are in
rarefied air in a modern country.
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:Holy smokes, and you have to hand
that over to the government and
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:then get it back weeks later.
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:I'm like, oh my God.
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:There's so many things about
this that I think is nuts.
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:Jerremy: Yes,
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:Dave: It's welcome to America.
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:The door is closed unless you
have a giant pile of cash.
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:Jerremy: Yep.
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:And that circles right back to kinda
like the whole immigration piece, right?
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