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Is China Really Better than America?

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0:00 Have you guys heard of the Huajiang Naledi Canyon Bridge in Guizhou, China? >> Naledi again? >> Thank you. It's the world's highest bridge. >> Oh, is it the one where it looks like it's just like wires and ████ and it's like it looks scary about to fall off, that one? >> Close, but no. Um highest bridge in the world, 625 m above a river beneath it. But this is the coolest part about it. They made a man-made waterfall connected to it. >> A man-made waterfall? Like how did they make that? Like Can you translate, Bart? I don't understand that ████ What the freak?

0:50 What? What the ████ That's crazy. Look at that Chinese slip and slide. >> I cannot >> like people are looking at the bridge, I'm looking at the waterfall and it just goes into the waterfall how like it's like 600, I don't know, meters or kilometers tall or whatever and all this how much water comes through it and and like where the water comes from. >> So when they showed that footage earlier of like the little stream, are they showing like how they feed the water into the bridge? >> I think so. >> Cuz it's basically a shower. >> But he has like yeah, he's speaking hell of ████ fast. So I got to like listen to it again.

1:40 >> Oh wait, so you actually understood? >> Yeah, yeah. >> He's Chinese. >> I Chinese. >> ████ >> I Chinese. >> No, I know, but you understood that? >> Like but he's speaking hell of fast with that >> I was going to say it was cuz because he's hell of fast, you know what I mean? >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> Also, Bart could totally be bullshitting us right now, we wouldn't know. >> I think so, huh? >> Hey, but what's is it just aesthetics? Like so they just want this constant water flow? >> Yeah, I just think it's aesthetics, yeah. >> Like if I was like um he's saying that um this water comes out of the bridge artificial bridge or whatever. That's That's what's happening in the clip. >> Well, it doesn't look like a waterfall to me. It looks like a mister. Like it's like sprinkling like showering in the >> Well, if it's that huge of a bridge, that's a ████ ton of water that they're still dropping out there. >> Well, it's obviously cuz it's above this river, so it's probably pretty easy to >> I hope that it's natural though and

2:30 they're not just pumping water and dumping it for no reason. >> No, I'm sure it's being funneled like it like the dam. Like the water's coming directly from it, so it's just being brought back. But I mean this is kind of a good kind of thing where that's so unique that that's like a tourism thing. If it had just attracts a certain percentage more people to your city, that's going to like be huge for for all of the economy. >> How come we don't do this kind of ████ anymore? >> Innovate? >> Yeah, cool ████ >> Cuz China is doing some next level ████ that I feel like the golden age of America people used to travel here to go. Did you know in America the Golden Gate Bridge? No way, that thing's massive, right? >> like Luxor. Like Luxor looks sick. >> In the '90s, yeah, yeah. >> Yeah, we don't do ████ like that anymore. >> Ah, well, the Hard Rock Hotel is going to be tight. It's going to be tight. >> The Hard Rock is the only one. It's the

3:20 only one. But even that, it's just a guitar shaped building. Like this is crazy ████ >> No, but it's got the guitar light. >> I can't wait. It's going to be awesome. I'm not complaining. >> For the strings, that's going to be tight. >> That is true. >> But yeah, no, this the scale of this is different though because over here we're going to run into too many lawsuits to try to get to that. >> And then too much corruption. >> Over there, they might have bodies just like falling and dying during building and they just get replaced. >> Yeah, they probably don't even care. >> Also, over here if we make another bridge, people are just going to use it to protest in it. It's like we just It's just better not make any more bridges. >> Yeah, they're going to cut all the copper out. >> Cuz they I think they have corruption, but they don't since the government is also like the company that's building it and doing it, like they're >> Good luck. >> They're like, you can't cheat from me. I'm going to cheat my I can't cheat myself, right? Whereas here, there's like too many hands in the basket, so a

4:11 lot of people could pull ████ out. That project is going to be like 3 trillion, where like in China maybe they could get it done for a billion. Cuz I think that's >> A billion RMB. >> Yeah, Like we have all these failed rail projects, failed like city projects, road projects, cuz like I I think there's a lot of um >> Or you know like those uh home those homeless housing units in LA they're trying to build? >> Construction scams. >> And then it's like they the the cost was 770k per unit, and I'm like, isn't that just a house? Like, what the ████ >> And it didn't even get finished. >> Yeah, didn't get finished. >> And dude, they simply just can't clean up Skid Row. Like Like how are you going to be able to do anything if you can't just clean up Skid Row? >> Yeah, we want a waterfall ████ bridge. Clean up Skid Row. >> You remember how long it took to ████ complete What was it? The 6th Street or

5:01 7th Street bridge in LA? >> Oh, yeah. >> And then the the copper kept getting taken out by everybody. >> Right away, so they never put it back in. >> The tweakers took the copper? >> Yeah. >> So crazy, right? A tweak Just one tweaker is ████ up a billion dollar project. >> It's supposed to be all nice. >> We can't have nice ████ dude. I think that was a 4th Street bridge, but yeah. >> Remember when tweakers were taking catalytic converters, and then the the libtards here were saying or in LA were saying it it's ████ up that Honda is allowing these catalytic converters to be removed, like it's on them. It's like, what the hell? >> Dude, they got to be trolling, man. >> Like they were blaming Kia and Hyundai for making it so easy to steal their cars, but it's like they don't live in a high theft society, so like why they're just not equipped to be like we have to ████ guard everything. Like, I don't know. It's just crazy. I I

5:53 am I am kind of what do you call it? Like Why yeah, like when you said why can't we have nice things, right? I don't want China to win. >> Yeah. >> And when I see ████ like this, I'm like man, I know America's awesome and I ████ love it here, but I'm like why can't we ████ compete? That's what I'm saying. And I think there's a lot of gaslighters, too. Like, "What are you talking about? We are the best country in the world." I'm like, "You haven't traveled. You haven't traveled and the first thing you'll notice is when you go to an airport in these third world countries, you go, what the ████ is this level of luxury and I'm getting it on pennies? Like like this this level of like high living safety and you're paying pennies for it?" >> The Singapore airport is the most beautiful airport I've ever seen in my life. >> And I'm like, "Why can't we do that?" Like what what's This used to be the place where people would be like, "Oh, in the 19 ████ 50s or whatever,

6:44 people come to America." They're like, "All right, let me figure out how to do this for my country." And then they go back to their country and then they plan and try to build it. >> You know what's crazy? I was watching this documentary on like sushi. Did you know the fish that we get is because Japan doesn't want it? >> Yeah, we get ████ quality. >> So, our high If you go to our sushi restaurant here that's Michelin star, he's still only getting a fish that Japan's like, "That's not That's not what is it called? Appropriate appropriate for human consumption." That's crazy. >> Well, they control like the the the tuna or like the seafood market. It goes there first. They get the best picks. And then we buy it from there, yeah. >> Dude, my buddy is the the chef at Americana. Shout out, Steve. And he was uh showing me that you know how like you see all these viral videos of people taking fish out of like Costco

7:35 packages and it's got like little wormies in it and ████ >> Yeah, he was saying that um all that s███'s such ████ when it comes to restaurants because they have so so many codes about He showed me this He like went in the back and pulled up this document and showed me like how you have to flash freeze everything and he has to it all gets checked and double-checked. So like if you flash freeze it, those things die. >> And some of those people they plant parasites in there for like the wow factor. >> So but that's like a whole thing in social media right now. Everyone's afraid of eating fish because of that. >> I'm eating the ████ out of fish. >> I don't give a ████ I'm eating that ████ >> Do you think one of the reasons why we can't have nice things too is because we lost like manufacturing capabilities? Cuz that's what I've been kind of pondering because the other day I went to the um the who the the wood Boulder City and then I I looked at this little museum and I was like, "Dude, this is

8:27 during that time when like America was poor as ████ So we had a lot of cheap labor and everyone was desperate to work. Great Depression, right? But then they had this energy of like, "I want to build, right?" So then they built New York bigger. They ████ built this bridge. They built this dam. And then everyone was like, "Let's build the road system." Because that's when we created all of the interstates. So there was all this tax money flowing and then like people were like getting paid. They had stable jobs. But then I think like that energy of like, "I'm so broke. I need to work." Like that was that's China right now. Like they just got out of that. "I'm so broke. I need to ████ work. I'll build anything, right?" And then I think we're just in a different stage of like we lost the ability to work with our hands. >> Yeah, we're in like the we have it good.

9:18 >> it good. >> Yeah. Everyday Sunday chilling. >> If you even think about like most middle-class people right now, their their grandparents or someone was a blue-collar worker, right? And then they pushed their kids to go work at the office. Like a lot of people just lost this ability. And then we outsource all of our manufacturing. >> Was that the UFC or no? >> Yeah. >> This is our pride and joy. >> Yeah, this is what we built recently. >> That is for the UFC? That looks kind of corny. >> It looks whack, right? And Trump is saying that it's so beautiful, it's almost like the Eiffel Tower, and maybe it'll stay there. >> Shut the ████ up. Are you s- But that's just like a temporary setup with like just >> Yeah. It looks like it's for a Garth Brooks concert or some ████ or George Strait. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, that's ████ funny. That that is something that if like maybe we stop spending so much

10:08 money on all this other innovation and infrastructure and stuff, and we're like, let's take all our money and put it in entertainment, and then America just did that. We're like, let's just make sure we got sick athletes. >> But we are at the forefront of that. >> Yeah, the the athlete game. >> But I mean like aside from Wall Street and financing and maybe Silicon Valley, right? Like we don't have like tangible industry. Like we don't like maybe oil, but we don't have like we used to manufacture stuff. Like we had a steel industry. >> Right now right now I'd say with both specifically Nvidia and Tesla, and just being the forefront of like the AI race, I feel like we're finally kind of like maybe at the front of something again, and space exploration. >> now. >> For now, yeah. For now. >> It's a race. >> But there still needs to be a industrial

10:58 capability, meaning like we're not actually ready to build for a large-scale war. Like China's like pumping out like 10 ████ warships a year, and then like it takes us like hella long to produce one. >> But we just spent so many so much of our ammo in Iraq Iran that it's going to take till 2029 to resupply it. Cuz that like you said, it just takes that long. >> Cuz our our process just for everything, and then we outsource a lot of it, too. So we actually need China to like make so much ████ for us, like our clothes, like everything. So I'm like that's what I'm thinking about is like the everyday products that we need. Everything in Walmart, everything is made in China or South America, right? So I'm like if every anything is homegrown, like it's so expensive. So I'm like there has

11:50 to be that balance. >> Dude, this ████ was made in China? >> Yeah. All American baseball Dodgers, right? >> You know what I mean? 100% made in China and like it's better quality than a lot of things. >> And it wasn't that long ago that we had that. That's what the whole garment district, all those things were. Like we had all that here. >> And plus, you know what's crazy? China's quality was yes s█████ back in the days, but that same price probably is now a better quality, too. You know what I'm saying? But the thing about, you know, when you said that China's making all these ships, they're busting out 100,000 of ships or whatever what not. Dude, that's going to suck ass because China's boat is going to be like destroyed immediately if they're ever to engage us in a war. The reason The reason why we, you know, we take forever is cuz every ████ piece is

12:40 ████ detailed down to the T. Like the game squad, all of China's ████ is just weak as ████ It takes like one or two RPGs to blow it up compared to the US vehicles. It takes like five. >> But didn't Iran just use China's ████ and took our helicopter down? >> Yeah, but it's a helicopter. If you hit anything with a rotor, it's going to go down. >> One of our destroyers kind of retreated because we spent like a ████ like multiple billions on building this one destroyer, and then they were like boasting about it, right? But like um they took it out to Iran and then they had to pull it away because rumor is it got attacked. >> That sounds right. >> But but the the official story is there was a fire and a malfunction and they

13:30 had to pull out. But, they're like this whole facade of like the invincible American is like >> It's BS. It's what it is. It's total BS. >> It Basically, [clears throat] it's getting a hit. Like the drones actually working, like certain things are being like there's vulnerabilities. So, like yeah, it's a difficult kind of hard conversation of like we have Cold War tactics, but we're not ready for modern warfare in a lot of ways. >> Do you hear that, Subi? >> Oh, no, absolutely. And Russia and Ukraine is literally showing it. It's like we we're we're studying it already, anyways. >> What do you think about all the drone warfare? >> Oh, it's ████ terrifying, bro. Everyone and everything will get smoked by drones. You see how ████ crazy these guys fly the drones now? They can go under trees, between cracks, and little things like that, bro.

14:21 >> Do you guys have weapons to to fight drone ████ or >> Absolutely. >> What is it usually? >> There's just a lot. There's like EMP gun, you know, drone guns, there's like shotguns or what but not. There's so much more to it, but we're learning how to just run away avoid it much as possible if we have boots on the ground. That's all I know in my end, you know.

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