Trump to Give Out $1,000 a Month to Americans? w/Duncan Trussell | Joe Rogan

Did you see what Trump tweeted? No. He tweeted and deleted. It's fucking hilarious. He said checks are coming to everyone in America except the people who used hashtag not my president. I wouldn't want to offend you with a check from someone that's not your president. Something to do with that effect. See if you can find that. Holy shit. And then it wrote hashtag MAGA afterwards. I mean he just dunked on them. The president dunks on people. Yeah. I want to know who the tweet the leader is. Well someone in his department was probably like Mr. Trump that's not a good idea. They have a siren that goes off. You got to delete that. Yeah man. I know the president can delete tweets. How much is he going to send? I think they wanted to give like a thousand dollars a month or something like that to Americans. Is that the idea Jeremy? I've heard lots of things. I don't know. Up to two thousand. I don't know. Bernie's saying they should give two thousand a month. Yeah. You got to be two thousand. If you give everybody two thousand dollars a month it's a good thing. But everyone's going to go hey you could have done this the whole time. That's right. What do you. Wait a minute. If you just raise taxes can you just give people money? Can you just give people more money? And if. I'm not saying we should do this. But imagine if that was a solution to all this. If you just give people more money everything just sort of levels out. Relaxes. Crime drops. Everything drops. Drug abuse drops. Well I mean they've got to know that when people don't have work they don't have money with no money they can't support their family. That's when the riots start. Yes. That's when they catch on fire. They know that. So it's like a bribe to try to keep people from rioting until whatever the fuck this thing is passing. Or you could look at it that way or it's giving people a different environment to exist in one that doesn't leave them hostile. So instead of looking at it like a bribe look at it like you know what I see what a lot of your problem is. You're not asking for affluence. You could barely get by. But if it was easy to get by if you could just get by and then you could pursue other things. Would that be better for society? And that was like what Andrew Yang was suggesting if this whole automation revolution took place and everything started getting automated and no one had a job anymore. There might be something to that. There might be something to that now even. The question is like what are you happy your taxes get used for? It's almost like you should be able to vote on that. The one thing that we don't get real direction on right like in terms of what the country actually wants. But if we could all just individually vote on things like that. Where's my taxes go? I want my taxes to go 100% to education. I want to make that cut and you guys got to figure out what to do with the rest of the money. My money I wanted to go towards education. But then nobody or the people who would be paying for war and prisons and shit would just be like BDSM people. Well how about the salaries? How about the salaries of politicians? How about the money that they make during the tours and all that kind of shit? Private jets. All that shit. It's crazy. Yeah it's fucking crazy. Also like the loose connection between the state and corporations and the way it's just all kind of merging together right now. And also you know it appears to be kind of the apocalypse at the moment. Well if it's not the apocalypse I don't think it's the apocalypse. I think it's just a dangerous dangerous illness. But it's definitely a dress rehearsal. It's a dress rehearsal for fucking people are going to become preppers. It is going to be amazing for the toilet paper industry. They're going to experience a banner year. If you got toilet paper stock you're riding high right now. Do you remember the I don't know if you if you had this experience but like I can remember sitting at my computer and pressing the button on Amazon where I wanted to buy something and it's like this isn't available right now. In that moment of like it's my button that brings me things. It didn't like suddenly just realized like oh my fucking God. How completely weak have I become that I got accustomed to pressing this button and people would bring groceries to my house. And now they don't. Now it's like stopped. Not only that I'm so accustomed to like well you know I'll just go to the grocery store and pick up some food. It's always been there. It's not there. Dude I had an Instacart delivery today you know because we wanted to get stock up on food. Oh $200 worth of food. Guess what I got. Strawberries hummus and I think we got like I don't know some like eggs. That's it. Out of the whole order everything else was sold out. All the beef gone all the chicken gone. Nothing's there. It's like the shelves are empty so it's like okay send everybody two thousand dollars a month but what are they going to buy if there's like no food on the shelves. I think that was a temporary freak out where people stockpiled stuff and I think as long as food keeps getting delivered on a normal schedule I think that'll normal out. I hope so. I do. I think that'll normal out. But it just shows you there's so many things in our society that are amazing like grocery stores like cell phones like we can call each other all this too. But those things are so fragile. They're so vulnerable like if an emergency happens and everyone wants to call at once the cell phone system can't handle it. It's not like you have a phone and you can call anytime you want and I have a phone I can call anytime I want and everyone in the world has a phone they can call anytime they want. No if everybody does that the system is not set up to handle that. If everybody does that like ahhhh. Like that's why if there's an earthquake or tsunami or anything everyone's fucked. It's so hard to make phone calls. It's not going to get through. Yeah well dude I just heard on NPR that so many people were requesting unemployment that it's crashed systems in several states. That's because this is a real problem. One of my friends was saying he's like you know a lot of people are running out of money tomorrow. They're bartenders anyone in the service industry all the people who work at the comedy store. Yeah it's not like I mean how many of them had a lot of money like stored up none of them. What happens now when there's no food on the shelves. We got to help them. I've been a text message thread with Whitney Cummings and Nick Swartz and then Crystal Leah and we're talking about that very thing right now like how to do it and how to set up a fund. It needs to be done for sure. You know people that can help should help. This is not a normal time. This is not a time where people are lazy. This is a time where the whole world got fucked real quick. Yeah. We're ready for it and we're going to have to come together.