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June 22, 2023 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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SHIFTY SCHIFF CENSURED, Hunter's Sweetheart Deal, Plus Latest on Missing Submarine - Live With Rep Eli Crane | TRIGGERED Ep.44
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Good evening, guys, and welcome to another major episode of Triggered.
Thank you for tuning in. So we're changing things up a little bit, guys.
It's hard to change the thumbnail once it's up, so...
Anna Paulina Luna will be filling in for Congressman Eli Crane.
He called. Something came up last minute.
Don't need to get into the details, but we'll have him on sometime soon.
But this one actually works out perfectly because Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Friend of the show, has been on before, America First all the way, is going to call in and she's going to give us all the latest details on the censure of Adam Bull Schiff, or some of you may know him as Adam Full of Schiff, or Shifty Schiff.
In reality, he's just the biggest piece of shit in Congress.
His name just happens to rhyme with it, but really, honestly, he doesn't deserve the buffering there.
She'll be with us in just moments, and then we'll get to all the top news.
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And with that... Joining us now, Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna.
Anna, how are you doing?
I'm good. Thank you so much for having me back on.
And I do have big shoes to fill because Eli's a badass up in Congress.
Yeah, no, he's done a great job.
And I was sort of following him just, you know, through some of the stuff that I do before he ever ran for Congress when he was just doing the stuff over at Bottle Breacher and, you know, a good guy.
Something came up, you know, we'll leave that to them.
I know he'll be back on shortly.
But, you know, it actually works out perfectly because you did something that...
Very few congresspeople have ever done.
And more importantly, you didn't just follow the norms of, you know, freshman congresswoman supposed to sit in the corner and shut up and listen to the old bureaucrats who do jack shit.
You took an issue that I think every American, if you objectively look at what Adam Schiff did...
And you took him and got him censured.
Talk all about it. Because, I mean, how did the effort get started?
Tell us what the process is like.
I think it's only happened like 25 times in the history of Congress.
That's 435 people.
Just on the House side, I guess, almost 535 if you add in the Senate.
You know, over a few hundred years, I mean, he joins a group of pretty, let's call it, shifty characters.
Yeah, you know, just to kind of follow up on what you were saying there, you know, last week he was gloating that the initial attempt didn't work, right?
And we know that there was a fine in there.
It was roughly half the cost of what it cost the American taxpayers for the Russia hoax investigation.
And I was like, you know, I'm not letting this guy get off the hook.
So I had like a busted foot.
I'm wheeling up to him in the hall as I'm leaving.
And I said, hey, I'm going to see you back next week.
And I don't think that they believed me.
So they thought they got away with it.
And then as soon as Monday morning came, I came, I filed, and we brought it to the floor.
So there's something called a privilege resolution.
And what it is, is it's the ability of any one member of Congress, whether you're in the minority or the majority, to bring forward a vote if it meets a certain level of criteria.
And really how this came up, and I don't even think I've told anyone this story, but I was actually at home a few weeks back and I was thinking about everything that had happened because the Durham report had just dropped.
I got to page nine of the Durham report and I was like, this is some egregious shit here.
Like you have the FBI covering for the Clintons, illegals.
I mean, it was just disgusting.
I'm on oversight and I'm thinking, okay, what mechanisms do I have?
What tools do I have at my disposal to where we can actually bring accountability back?
Because just like everyone else is frustrated with Congress saying one thing and doing the other, I also am frustrated, especially when we have, you know, hearings on oversight.
We have these bureaucrats, the Biden administration not responding to our subpoenas.
I mean, just complete lack of respect.
So I was actually looking up, you know, Congress used to have a jail.
And so I was reading about it on the history of that.
Yeah, they had an area where they would hold people if they were in contempt.
And so I was just kind of reading up on the history of that and just kind of what punitive actions Congress could take.
And I came across a website and it was talking about the historical precedence of censuring.
And so I started reading through it.
And if you bring dishonor to the House of Representatives, if you're caught doing something unethical, if you're abusing your position of power, those are all reasons that you could file a privilege motion and then bring forward the censure vote.
And then also it's specified that Congress, amongst our colleagues, reserved the ability to, if in any capacity we find that there should be a fine paid, that that's decided amongst ourselves.
It's not constitutional.
It's not personally making someone liable, but we can also do that.
And so ultimately, I came back in the following week when I flew back up from Florida and I told my team, I said, we're going to censure Adam Schiff.
And they kind of looked at me like, what?
What? And so we worked with the parliamentarian, we figured out the process, and we brought the vote to the floor.
And the 20 initially that weren't comfortable with the fine, I talked to over the weekend and they came on board.
And from the looks of it, just yesterday alone, I mean, it was a unanimous vote amongst the Republican conference to censure him.
And then you, of course, saw the meltdown, didn't you?
Oh, I saw the meltdown.
I think we have a clip of it later with everything that got thrown in.
We're doing the show sort of in reverse.
I'll do news of the day afterwards.
I'm actually going to do even an Ask Me Anything.
I'll look at some of the questions from the people in the live chat.
So if you have good stuff, I'm going to have my team just try to pick out the best ones because sometimes it starts scrolling.
It's hard to actually pick them up.
But yeah, I think we're going to hit that later.
But the meltdown was epic.
I mean, I get some of the constitutional arguments on the Republican side about the fine.
But when you think about... It wasn't just that Adam Schiff lied to the American people and cost them $60 million in a witch hunt.
It's the opportunity cost of the time that was wasted on Russia, Russia, Russia, beyond just the investigation and the direct cost.
I mean, think of the time that could have been spent in Congress trying to better American lives, trying to fix our educational system, trying to fix our healthcare system, trying to fix so many of the broken systems in our country, but because it was against Donald Trump and it was the shiny object and everyone was on it, I mean, It wasn't just $60 million.
It was probably billions of dollars when you think about the total cost.
$60 is the cost of the investigation and XYZ, whatever that may have been.
You know, talk a little bit about that because, you know, we do this often where we'll We'll sort of blow something that makes total sense over the technicalities.
I don't think the Democrats would have ever given you that benefit of the doubt.
They would have just passed it, fight it out later on.
But the reality is, I mean, he did a lot of damage to those systems.
I mean, I was a...
Personal recipient of the ire, because I did 50 hours of congressional testimony, millions of dollars in legal fees, defending bullshit.
But you still have to deal with it.
The problem with BS is you still have to deal with it.
And yet, you get censured, but there's no actual accountability for these things.
He'd probably do it 100 times over again if he could, because that's how flawed the system is right now.
100%. And so we also did make sure that we sent him for a full investigation with ethics.
So that's going along with the centers.
He will be fully investigated.
And I do hope, exactly like you said, they looked into that.
So remember, Adam Schiff was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, meaning
that he had privy access to information that not even members of my Congress, members as
myself who's on the congressional oversight have access to.
He said that he saw documentation and then proceeded to not just fundraise off of it,
but use it to elevate his personal position.
And then also too, it was used to spy on Carter Page, violated his civil liberties.
And in addition to that, was used so that the FBI could basically surveillance and undermine
a duly elected president, also known as President Donald Trump.
So the whole point is that this man absolutely abused his position of power and authority.
He lied to the American people, which people will say, well, Congress is actually protected under free speech and debate clause for lying, even though it doesn't make it right.
But then also, too, he was guilty of fraud, waste and abuse with those taxpayer dollars going towards this frivolous investigation.
Well, yeah, I mean, free speech is one thing, but, like, I think of it from my perspective, like, you know, I did those 50 hours, millions in legal fees, you know, for treason.
What he wanted to, I mean, he was on TV saying, I committed treason, a crime punishable by death.
Like, I take that seriously as a patriot.
Like, is there anything that I can do?
I mean, can I get him to pay my legal fees?
All the stuff that we wasted having to defend his baseless lies.
I mean, he was on the floor of Congress yesterday talking about me and, oh, I took a phone call.
Like, guess what?
He took a phone call from Ukrainian pranksters.
Like, he mobilized a team to go to Ukraine to get the information to get Trump based on literally Ukrainian shock jocks.
So, you know, he can criticize me on the floor of the House.
He was the leader of the Intelligence Committee.
Like, I was a 35-year-old real estate developer.
I'd been in politics for all of about two weeks.
And yet, you know, he can be out there, oh, Donald Trump Jr.
did this. He did that.
And, like, he should actually be the one person that maybe...
Would know better, but clearly that doesn't matter.
Well, there is still the chance, whether or not it happens, that ethics decides that he should be expelled from Congress for his actions.
And we did send him for the full investigation.
So, regardless of what he's saying on television, Don, I saw him last night.
Multiple times after the vote and at one point we were in the rotunda and MSNBC was next to me.
I was doing a hit with Fox News and he was standing within 10 feet of me and just he looks at the floor you could tell he's bumming because if you really think about it you know we're not we're not immortal and at the end of the day people in history will realize Adam Schiff you know representative of a 30th congressional district has been censured for lying and I mean, God, what a terrible, terrible thing to have on your record.
But like you said, are you able to personally fight what happened?
And it is egregious what happened to your family, but I couldn't help but notice that yesterday, even when we were debating, we had Nancy Pelosi down there, Eric Swalwell.
Remember, Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy.
Yeah, minor detail.
I remember that guy when I was doing my testimony.
He was in the room. I think it was the room with Schiff.
And I'm looking at these two clowns.
I'm like, these people have access to the highest intelligence in the land.
And as an American, it was just disappointing.
Because A, you realize they're...
There's no patriotic bones in their body.
They could care less. These people are the communists.
But I remember getting out of that in the House Intelligence Committee.
My own lawyers couldn't have telephones in the room.
I couldn't have a telephone in the room.
I'm there locked in.
You've, I'm sure, been in those rooms before, and I'm locked in this place.
We couldn't do this. Your access totally shut off from the world.
And I get out. It's like 7.30 at night after a long day.
And I'd notice, like, we started early.
And, you know, at 11 o'clock, at the first bathroom break, I'm looking at Twitter.
It's like, oh my god, they were leaking during the bathroom breaks.
Like, you know, so we were held to a certain standard by our lawyer and, like, Schiff is there just literally lying To, you know, MSDNC or CNN, you know, one of the big gotcha moments of that, you know, 17, 18 Russia, Russia, Russia cycle was, you know, some dude, I guess, just spammed like a bunch of Trump organization emails and like actually happened to get my email.
And it was with the WikiLeaks data dump.
The problem is it was something like this.
The actual email came in on like, let's call it, you know, July 14th.
But when Adam Schiff leaked it, he took out the one in 14.
So the actual data dump happened on like the 10th, right?
So it looked like I had got the stuff on the 4th, six days before the entire world saw it, rather than four days after the entire world saw it.
So this guy was like some, you know, nobody.
Hey, have you seen this?
Like, how could you miss it? It was like the biggest story of the week.
But they made it seem like I had some sort of privileged information and literally by eliminating the numbers and nothing happens to them, you know?
So I'd be happy to testify in that panel about all of the lies that I went through under the committee that he was overseeing if it helps with ethics because, again, if there's one person that doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt based on his actions, it's certainly Adam Schiff.
Well, I definitely think that that may be something if they decide to bring in and actually ask for statements from witnesses.
Because what he did was completely wrong.
It was criminal. If this was in the civilian world without being associated with government, the guy would probably be in jail and he'd absolutely be a total con artist.
But what was great to see is the level of meltdown that these people went to on the floor.
They were chanting, shame, shame, shame.
At one point... Nancy Pelosi got gaveled out by the interim speaker, and this is the former Speaker of the House, and then she was out of time, and she's talking about how miserable we look, and yet I was the one that had the last word, and I was like, look, I don't really care what the gentlewoman from California has to say.
This is about integrity, and you guys are so fixated and focused on Donald Trump, and this is about Adam Schiff, so I 100% own my vote.
We'll be voting to censor him, but It was deserved.
And I think at the end of the day, people were like, oh, well, you know, does this help his Senate race?
Look, if you were going to vote for Adam Schiff, you're going to still vote for Adam Schiff regardless, right?
That's when you're more of a compromise.
But at the end of the day, this is about restoring faith, I think, with the American people that we will actually hold people accountable.
And frankly, sitting through an ethics investigation is not fun.
And so I hope he enjoys his time there.
Yeah, as do I. Like I said, I think, you know, what would have happened to me if I lied before his committee as many times as he lied about me?
Like, I'd be in jail right now.
You know, and by the way, and rightfully so.
But I'd be in jail and, you know, he runs for Senate and will run fundraising off of this.
You know, it's good to see it happen.
I hope it gets to him the way it should.
So, hey, anyone who should be censured next?
Who else is on the hit list?
Well, I can't tip my hat just yet, but what I can say is, you know, censuring privilege motions and then also to something called the Holman Rule is something that we have as an accountability mechanism.
So, As you know, there's been many of these Biden appointees, whether it's the director of the FBI, whether it's the head of Space Force that's talking about pushing a pro, just crazy, hyper-sexualized agenda on troops when we're supposed to be focused on mission readiness.
Whatever it is, we can use this tool to actually defund federally appointed positions and effectively remove their salary, thus removing the person in that position.
So that is something that we are going to be utilizing as we near this appropriations fight here coming in the summertime.
And so I might be pregnant, but I'm not broken.
Well, now listen, like I said, I love that you got it done.
You know, again, as a freshman, seven months pregnant.
You know, I take a little extra personal joy in it that I think I was an early Anna Paulina Luna adapter.
I think, you know, two endorsement cycles ago and everything like that.
So I think I was one of the first to be like, this one's going to be a winner and this is exactly what we need.
So it's nice when you get it right every once in a while.
Well, all I can say is that you have an eye for talent, so keep doing what you're doing, because I know J.D. Vance is doing great in Senate, and I know that you, as a whole, you know, a lot of people try to say that they're the Trump conservative candidate.
I don't care what anyone says.
I've run through two really nasty primaries, and if you are America first, that's what people want.
They don't want this Old school establishment, you know, out of touch politician.
And so it does matter if you have the support of you or your dad.
And so when you see that endorsement come through, if you guys are considering getting into politics, I mean, those are the candidates that you want to go for because they've been vetted.
And that's the person that typically will actually stand by and do what they say they were going to do on the campaign trail.
And you're seeing that really play out with a lot of the endorsed candidates up here in Washington now from President Trump.
Listen, I think you guys are getting it done, and I love a lot of that freshman class right now.
How would you assess the progress right now of the House GOP so far?
What are the other major wins, and where would you want to see some improvement?
Where are you getting held up by, again, that establishment class that perhaps doesn't quite want to let go of where...
America is, which I think you're 100% right.
America is now all about America first, not, well, you know, tell them what they want to hear at a cocktail party and then do whatever the establishment, you know, military-industrial complex wants you to do.
How would you say you're doing?
Where would you want to change things?
You know, who are the people holding you back?
I would say that probably the biggest win right now that we have is understanding issues affecting...
I'd say probably the issues affecting everyone culturally, that it's not just politics and then culture separate, but that we have to get involved in some of these social issues because as we're seeing with this pro-radical trans movement that seems to be targeting children now, it's pretty egregious what they're doing.
It feels like child innocence has been...
Absolutely the target of some of these people for nefarious reasons.
And I'm not saying that trans people are predators.
What I'm saying is that it's wrong to involve a child and then remove a child's innocence to hypersexualize them.
Yeah, I've seen so much of that.
And it's always like, well, you know, we're not doing this, but it's like, well, here you're doing this.
It's like, well, if we are doing it, that's not bad.
It's like, you know, there's always, like, you're literally catching it.
Yeah, we're not groomers.
It's like, okay, well, then... There's no kids at your hyper-sexualized, insane, naked drag show.
Oh, well, then we're packing up our bags and leaving.
I'm like, wait, I thought it wasn't about the kids.
If it's not about the kids, why wouldn't the show go on to adults?
Like, if you're not groomers, you know, and then it's like, you know, you see the stuff, you know, well, if the parents don't let a three-year-old mutilate their body and go through it, we're going to remove the children from the house.
Based on what? Like, a doctor, you know, or a teacher convincing a three-year-old or, you know, the most impressionable minds in the world.
I mean, as a soon-to-be mother, this must be terrifying.
You know, we can't be with our kids 24-7.
You certainly can't in Congress. I know I can as a business guy, and I have five young kids.
I see this stuff, and it's like...
Oh my god, like, why is there this never-ending desire to desperately need to talk graphic sexual details with our children?
And then when you call them out on it, well, that's not what we're doing.
It's like, but here's an example. Well, it's not, but it's okay because.
It never ends.
It never ends. You saw the LA Dodgers this weekend.
You see Target. I'm like, you really need...
You know, satanic, trans, you know, four-year-old outfits?
Like, really?
You really need to do that?
It's pretty... It doesn't scare me.
It pisses me off. So, like, in the state of Washington, parents are losing their rights.
If you don't go with a transition for a minor, for a child, they can come in, the state can come in and take away your child.
Same with California. They're trying to push the same legislation.
So, obviously, parental rights, you're...
A parent is always going to be better informed on how to deal with their child than the federal government, hands down.
And so that's something that we're fighting for.
But I think that the messaging from the GOP has gotten better on that front.
I'd like to see some improvement in regards to, you know, the Hispanic average, because right now the Democrats, they pander all the time, right?
Pander, pander, pander. So probably that.
And then also, too, I mean, look, I'm conservative before I'm Republican.
So fiscal responsibility is That's something that we have to do.
If we just continue down this path, I've talked to many other members who've been up here for 15, 20 years that I do respect.
And they're like, look, Ana, if we don't stop this spending, I've been here.
I've seen how it works with the debt ceiling.
They say that we'll deal with it next time, and then it just comes back around.
So, look, Dan, I don't want to do this forever.
I don't plan on doing this forever.
But at least while I'm here, I'm going to make it count.
And so that's kind of why you're seeing me with my...
I'm not cavalier. I'm not irresponsible with it, but I just...
If the worst thing that can happen is I do the right thing, I sleep well at night, and I don't get re-elected only to spend time in Florida with my family, I think I'll be okay.
Yeah, well, listen, I hope, you know, it may not be a forever job, but I sure as hell hope you stay there for a while because, you know, again, you're getting things done.
And no, but that's the thing. You know, you mentioned what's going on in Washington State, and, you know, you saw the, I guess, Wisconsin voting.
Like, you can't, you know, you can't discriminate against hiring someone who Who is literally a pedophile.
Like, you know, like, that's now a protected class, you know, or as the Democrats would call it, minor attracted persons or youth attracted persons.
Maps or yaps.
I mean, I feel like we're being punked.
So that's when sort of that old school, well, you know, we're live and let live, you know, Republican kind of, I want to get invited to the D.C. Christmas parties hosted by the Washington Post, so...
We must allow for these degenerates to take over and make every rule imaginable.
I hope more people like you either stay or that your success within Congress brings other people that have the guts to do these things into the race.
Because I actually think we're winning the culture war right now, but when you look at what we're up against, whether it's big tech, mainstream media, they have trillion dollar empires Functioning as their marketing department.
People are getting it, but it's hard to get to everyone to get through the constant messaging, the congressional races that they're spending 10 to 1 on, owning all of the TV, having big tech censoring your content going out or my content going out, but artificially boosting some lunatic leftist and really changing and manipulating the truth so that people aren't getting a real example of where both sides are.
Yeah, no, you're absolutely correct.
I was just talking to Representative Matt Gaetz And I was talking about actually getting involved in helping candidates get elected and getting through the election cycles.
Just because, as you stated earlier, when you're a newbie, especially in politics, some people spend their entire lives angling and positioning and learning how to be in office.
And it makes it a heck of a lot easier if you've been in Washington and if you have family that's been in politics.
And so when you're coming at it from an outsider, there's so much that you're just not aware of.
You don't see kind of the angling, the strategy behind it.
And really, it's, you know, you're swimming with sharks up here.
And so I think that there are great candidates, but it's like, if you don't know that stuff,
there's no how-to manual on how to run for office.
So I think that like Representative Gates gets involved in primaries,
I'm gonna be doing the same thing.
I love that.
And ultimately, yeah, getting more people elected, because it can't just be one person.
You know, we need more people elected to do the right thing.
But, you know, I'm hoping that what happened yesterday, Yeah.
Yeah. I love that.
Thanks so much for what you're doing.
Again, I want to help you get funded, because I recognize even finding those people, the problem you run into is the Mitch McConnells of the world.
They have hundreds of millions of dollars.
They choose their rhino candidate, and it's hard to break through that, even in the primaries.
You know, you could have the greatest America First candidate, but some guy's getting $25 million for a primary for Mitch McConnell so that he can get his chosen candidate that will, you know, bow to him, who will do nothing America First.
You know, it's not easy.
So it's not just even finding those candidates and helping them run.
It's also helping them get funded and preventing all of that wasted primary dollars to help someone who has no
business Representing anyone in the movement, you know getting from
Washington. So we'll talk more about that offline. I know you guys
Have to run but let's talk about that one because I want to help you with that one too
Because it's good. It's such a big part of what we have to do
And again what you gates, you know A small group of people are doing in Congress is really
changing the game and you're giving hope to that America first movement that they do have
Representation that they are getting things done that their voices have been heard
So, Anna, I really want to thank you for all of that.
Thanks for what you're doing. Good luck with the baby.
I'm sure we'll talk before then, but, you know, they can come early.
Don't say that to us.
Be careful.
You're getting into that zone.
Ask me how I know.
I have five. So if you need any pro tips, I have done it all.
I've done it all. So if you need anything, let me know.
Thank you so much. We'll talk again soon.
We'll talk to you soon.
Bye. Guys, what we're going to do now, I'm going to get into the news.
So again, a little bit reverse order.
And then, I'm just going to look at some of your questions.
I know I do the locals ask me anything, but what I may do is just do it here.
So we're thrown for a little bit of a loop, but...
What's nice is we can do whatever we want.
So if it's good, we go longer.
If it's not, ask your questions.
If you have good ones, I'll answer them.
If you're going to be a troll, I won't.
So don't bother wasting your time.
It's not worth the headache, but we'll have some fun with it.
So let's get into the news, because a lot has happened since Monday's episode.
Like we discussed with the congresswoman, On Tuesday, Hunter Biden was charged with federal crimes.
But if you were expecting actual charges for years of foreign corruption, or actually facing consequences for selling out America, for tax evasion, for gun crimes, you'd be sorely disappointed.
Though I bet if you're watching this show at this point, you wouldn't be at all surprised.
The charges against Hunter Biden and his plea deal are a sweetheart deal to sweep the corruption under the rug and justifies the DOJ's witch hunt against my father.
My father actually called that.
He said, hey, they're going to do a little something on a hunter so they can see.
See? Both sides are being punished.
But we all know that's bullshit.
Okay? Hunter Biden is going to face no time in prison.
He will plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for not paying taxes and enter into a diversion program for felony gun possession.
Okay? You think I'd get that break, folks?
You guys think they'd do the same for me if I just, ah, you know, forgot to pay a few million in taxes.
Just minor details like that, you know?
If I... Had felony gun charges.
Disposed of a gun at a high school.
While on drugs.
You think? You think that'd be a problem for Don Jr.?
I do. This sort of deal is unheard of.
If the DOJ had tried the cases and a court had convicted Hunter Biden, the maximum he would face is a year for each crime and 10 years for the firearm charge.
Instead, he gets zero prison time.
Doesn't even seem like there's actual penalties.
Does he even pay back the back taxes?
How does this work?
Would anyone get that treatment if their last name wasn't Biden or if they weren't part of the Democrat elite?
Of course not, folks.
There's a set of rules for you, for me, for everyone, and then there's a set of rules for the Democrat elite.
For example, Wesley Snipes, the famous actor, Blade, amongst others, committed a similar tax crime.
He was sentenced to three years in prison.
He could have paid it back.
Why didn't he get that deal?
Rapper Kodak Black committed the same gun crime, lying on a purchase form.
He was sentenced to 46 months.
Here's his lawyer, Brad Cohen, explaining just how unusual the Hunter Biden deal is.
We heard the same from Kash Patel last week, who tried cases in some of these courts.
Check it out. For the exact same crime, the exact same thing that Hunter Biden is not even pleading to.
He's actually getting a diversion program, which you almost never see diversion programs in federal court.
I mean, it is less than 1% of people that plea that actually get a diversion program.
I've only seen it once in my 26 years, and it was on a case that was so horrible it actually should have been dismissed.
That's how bad the case was.
But in order to save face, they gave a diversion program.
It has never, ever happened on a gun charge.
And I would challenge the individual who gave him that offer to see how many times they've offered diversion programs on gun charges.
Huh. Interesting.
So this is clearly an unusual sweetheart deal.
We're shocked, folks, right?
We're shocked. The crackhead who take billions from China, because they obviously do a lot of diverse investments, they give a lot of crackheads a billion dollars.
Just like there's a lot of oil companies that have people who know nothing about oil and gas and don't speak the language where they conduct business, don't know anything, and don't show up.
Make six-figure monthly salaries, right?
That happens a lot.
And don't take it from me that this deal buries any investigation into Hunter Biden's corruption.
His own lawyer says just that.
Check it out. My understanding is that we're done.
The statement from the prosecutor's office, from Weiss' office, said the investigation is ongoing.
This is the statement announcing that criminal charges have been filed.
It's obviously not the statement about the plea agreement.
Are you led to believe that that investigation is ongoing, will be dropped once this plea deal is made official?
I'm not led to believe anything.
That's Mr. Weiss' statement.
I think there's going to be a court proceeding.
I think there are going to be agreements that are going to come out about the court proceeding.
And I think everyone will see what happens once that occurs.
Would you make a deal, though, if you thought there were more charges coming?
Would I make a deal? Yeah.
No, I wouldn't. That says a lot.
And guys, right after this deal gets announced, we found out that Hunter Biden Seemingly, essentially solicited a bribe for Joe Biden.
A text released today by the House Ways and Means Committee shows that in 2017, okay, six years ago, of course, you know, no one cares.
No one looks into it. I'm sure the FBI knew.
We've had the laptop. Everyone had it.
No one cares. Hunter Biden texted a Chinese businessman.
And I quote, I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.
Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand.
And now means tonight.
I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
Close quote. Hey guys, if that was me talking to my big guy, again, what do you think would happen?
You heard what Adam Shifty Shifter, you'll hear about it shortly, what he said about me on the floor of Congress yesterday.
You heard about this stuff for the last seven years.
That seems a lot more egregious, a lot more explicit.
I thought Joe Biden had nothing to do with these things.
That's literally as explicit as it gets.
And nothing's gonna happen because that's the state we live in right now.
At least not under Joe Biden's DOJ. We've seen that.
The House Ways and Means Committee also revealed that a federal prosecutor said...
There is no way, and I quote, a search warrant for evidence would get approved for the guesthouse of Joe Biden.
Oh, wait, wait.
So raiding Mar-a-Lago with the FBI's hostage rescue team for files under lock and key guarded by the United States Secret Service is a serious problem.
But anything dealing with Joe Biden is off-limits?
Are we serious here? Of course we are.
And we all know no one would get the same treatment.
This is the DOJ spitting in your face.
They're challenging you to do anything about it.
They want you to be weak.
They want you to be helpless.
And this is exactly why we need a second Trump administration.
We need a real special prosecutor.
Actually charge the Bidens for their crimes.
We'll continue to cover all of this as it develops.
I just hope we have more Republicans like Anna Paulina Luna in there actually fighting.
Not just kowtowing to the DOJ. Not just saying, okay, we'll let it go.
If you give us some BS or invite us to the cool person party, we need fighters.
But we also have breaking news, guys.
In another sort of story, it's been flooding the airwaves.
The whole thing seems a little bit nuts to me.
But we have breaking news surrounding the missing Titanic submarine.
I guess it's the Titan going down to the Titanic.
We just learned this afternoon from Ocean Gate that the submarine travel company that set all of this up, that the passengers...
Are unfortunately dead.
We pray for them, for their families.
The Coast Guard also found wreckage from the missing submarine.
It's a very sad and tragic ending, too.
A story that still leaves some key questions unanswered.
For me, this one, it almost makes no sense.
Like, the whole thing's just odd, right?
And I'm not trying to get conspiratorial, and I put some Twitter stuff out, and people, oh, you can't believe you're doing it?
Yeah, because the conspiracy theorists have been so wrong.
But, for example, we're learning...
That this sub was very sketchily built.
Here's a CBS report from last year on the very sub in question.
Check it out. I was a little nervous.
An experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma, or death.
Where do I sign?
Oh-ho! Take your shoes off.
That's customary. Okay. Wow!
Inside, the sub has about as much room as a minivan.
So this is not your grandfather's submersible.
We only have one button.
That's it. It should be like an elevator.
You know, it shouldn't take a lot of skill.
The Titan is the only five-person sub in the world that can reach titanic depths, 2.4 miles below the sea.
It's also the only one with a toilet.
Sort of. And yet, I couldn't help noticing how many pieces of this sub seemed improvised.
We can use these off-the-shelf components.
I got these from Camper World.
We run the whole thing with this game controller.
Come on! It seems like this submersible has some elements of MacGyver-y jerry-rig-ness.
I mean, you're putting construction Yeah, I guess the one thing the CBS reporter left out was supposedly the submarine went missing for five hours before this.
Seems like an important thing that maybe they should have included.
He casually mentioned that information on Twitter this week.
Now, for the privilege of going on this rinky-dink submarine, you have to pay $250,000.
Now, one of the passengers was a billionaire, a man named Hamish Harding.
So, of course, the socialists have gloated about his death.
They're sick.
They are sick, sick people, folks.
Over at the Leftist New Republic, they want you to know that Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGaze, has donated a couple of thousand dollars to Republicans in the past.
I mean, huge—the subtext is clear, folks.
He's a Republican, so it's fine that he dies.
It's just another example of the left rushing to politicize a tragedy, even when it's a story as terrifying and sad as this.
But unfortunately, it's not surprising at all.
I mean, again, there is some stuff in there that is crazy.
I watched some of this stuff.
You see, you know, it's controlled by like a gamer's remote control with Wi-Fi.
You know, single button on and off.
Doesn't seem to have any real communications.
I... I wonder if there's more because none of it makes any sense to me.
But it is a terrible tragedy and we want to wish our deepest consolation to those affected to the family and we pray for those missing.
So maybe there'll be a miracle but it's not looking good right now.
In other news, as we learned and as we talked about with Anna Paulina Luna, Adam Schiff was finally censured by the House of Representatives.
Schiff is just the eighth congressman to be censured by Congress in the past hundred years.
Schiff was censured for his non-stop lies about Russia collusion when he served as the House Intelligence Chairman.
Schiff went on TV non-stop claiming there was evidence he had seen it himself.
Of Russia collusion. I had committed treason and so many others.
He tried to ruin people's lives.
He tried to bankrupt them.
And he knew there was no evidence at all.
For all the talk of protecting democracy, Schiff's lies undermined a democratically elected president.
And that was the point of the lies.
There was no other point.
He wanted to end Trump's presidency.
He wanted to make it impossible for him to function.
He wanted to hurt him personally, his family, and everything.
A 2018 poll found that the majority of Democrats believed Russia tampered with vote counts in order to help President Donald Trump win the 2016 election.
They believed that lie because of Adam Schiff.
However, Schiff has apparently yet to learn his lesson.
Here he is yesterday during the John Durham hearing claiming that I colluded with Russia.
Also revealed that Don Jr.
was informed that a Russian official was offering the Trump campaign, quote, very high level and sensitive information, unquote, that would be incriminating if Hillary Clinton was part of, quote, Russia and its government support of Mr.
Trump. Are you aware of that?
Sure. People get phone calls all the time from individuals who claim to have information like that.
Really, the son of a presidential candidate gets calls all the time from a foreign government offering dirt on their opponent?
Is that what you're saying? I don't think this is unique in your experience.
So you have other instances of the Russian government offering dirt on a presidential candidate to the presidential candidate's son?
Is that what you're saying? Would you repeat the question?
You said that it's not uncommon...
To get offers of help from a hostile foreign government in a presidential campaign directed at the president's son.
Do you really stand by that, Mr.
Durham? I'm saying that people make phone calls making claims all the time that you may have experienced.
Are you really trying to diminish the significance of what happened here and the secret meeting
that the president's son set up in Trump Tower to receive that incriminating information?
Are you trying to diminish the significance of that, Mr.
Turner?
I'm not trying to diminish it at all, but I think the more complete story is that they
met and it was at Roos and they didn't talk about Mrs.
Clinton.
Yeah, minor details.
And it also wasn't set up by a Russian government.
It was set up by someone who had represented a big real estate developer that I'd actually looked at deals with in the past.
That's how business works, right?
You talk with people.
You maintain relationships.
Unlike Adam Schiff, who got a call from people saying that they had in Ukraine information to get Donald Trump.
Well, it turns out they were shock jocks.
The difference is, I was very new to politics.
I didn't think that even though it was paid for by the Hillary Clinton scam that this was even a big deal.
Adam Schiff, as the head of the Intelligence Committee, should have known better, or should have been smart enough to figure out that it was different.
I mean, he was the head of the Intelligence Committee, but he wasn't.
But Schiff still thinks that he's a truth teller in all this.
Check this out. He's still holding on to Russia, Russia, Russia, despite the Mueller report coming out and saying there wasn't any, despite the Durham report, despite there's not been a shred of evidence to say anything other than Adam Schiff continuing and perpetuating his lies.
Check it out yourself. I thank you.
You honor me with your enmity.
You flatter me with this falsehood.
You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth-tellers, and I stand proudly before you.
Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful.
And yet this false and defamatory resolution comes at a considerable cost to the country and to the...
Well, yeah, as Three Finger Whiskey says, you really can't fix stupid.
He's right. He'll continue because it doesn't matter.
Media doesn't care. Big tech doesn't care.
Hey, if he's doing the Democrats bidding, you can lie to the American people for years.
You can undermine the duly elected president of the United States.
Imagine Donald Trump did that to Barack Obama.
Imagine he did that to Joe Biden coming in.
Imagine any Republican did that to any Democrat.
Yeah, there'd be a lot more than censuring going on.
But again, hopefully the Ethics Committee catches up to Adam Schiff and gives him what he deserves.
The Russia lies from Democrats do more than just smear me and my family.
They've done more than just cost us tens of millions of dollars.
They've also transformed the Democrats into a party obsessed with war and obsessed with Russia.
Seemingly all based on these lies.
We've seen over $100 billion in aid for Ukraine right now.
And we're learning now they're going to get another $6.2 billion.
Why? Because the Pentagon claims they actually over-counted the aid to Ukraine by $6.2 billion due to an accounting error.
Yeah, yeah, just a small, normal, little $6.2 billion error, folks.
And because of this apparent error, Ukraine and the soon-to-be multi-billionaire oligarchs, which perhaps, I'm sure some have been created already, but I'm sure there'll be more, Ukraine now gets another $6.2 billion in aid.
Just so we understand, that's two completions of the wall at our southern border to help Ukraine.
This is never going to end, folks.
The death, the destruction of both Ukraine, of the people actually fighting the war, not the bureaucrats.
Russians, everyone.
The death and carnage is going to continue as long as we keep that spigot open helping.
It's never going to end.
There's no incentive for it because the people in power are going to make billions themselves.
This is a story as old as time and we've seen it.
It's just another conspiracy theory that will be proven right in a matter of weeks.
Based on the stuff that I've read, the assets of Vladimir Zelensky, an actor in Ukraine, which I imagine is not quite the same as an actor in Hollywood, a lot of those assets seem to already exist.
But again, who knows if that reporting is accurate.
But would anyone even be remotely surprised at this point?
Democrats and rhinos used to complain nonstop about like a billion dollars for a wall.
I mean, to finish it.
But it's a casual thing now for Ukraine.
Here's another couple billion.
6.2 billion because of an accounting error.
From the same Pentagon that lost like 220 billion a couple months ago.
I wonder where all that went.
You guys want to bet that it went to the Ukraine?
I think so. Now imagine, for example, you missed a couple thousand dollars.
On your IRS tax filings.
Yeah, yeah, I don't think you'd get the Hunter Biden treatment.
You'd be in jail.
You'd be penalized.
But the Pentagon, yeah, that's a $6.2 billion between oligarch friends.
We don't even know where the aid we're giving to Ukraine is going.
The military is not following the law which mandates that they follow the military aid to its end recipient.
Watch Matt Gaetz talk about just this right now.
This amendment would require the Secretary of Defense to certify that end-use monitoring laws and regulations are being followed before any drawdown to send military equipment to Ukraine.
This committee will recall when the Inspector General was before us they could not testify that end-use monitoring was followed.
Matter of fact, In DOD IG report 2384, it says, quote, DOD personnel did not have the required accountability of the thousands of defense items that they received and transferred in Poland.
Specifically, we observed DOD personnel did not fully implement their standard operating procedures to account for defense items and could not confirm the quantities of defense items received against the quantity of items shipped for three of five shipments we observed.
So just in the sentinel Guys, here's an idea.
The Democrats who so desperately wanted 86, 87,000 IRS agents, why don't we assign half of them to Zelensky in Ukraine?
And you know what? Maybe we assign the other half to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
They wanted to do this to investigate billionaires, according to the Democrats.
There's a few hundred billionaires in America.
I don't think they needed 87,000 armed IRS agents to investigate them, but if we put them on Ukraine and we put them on Joe and Hunter, maybe we'd actually figure out where your And my hard-earned tax dollars are going.
Because right now, it doesn't seem like anyone knows.
But that's not going to stop them from sending the next $6.2 billion in another day or two when they run out or Zelensky needs another or needs another mansion or whatever it may be.
That's not being Russian apologists.
It's being America first because there's enough problems in this country that we need to take care of that we're refusing to even look at...
We're refusing to even acknowledge.
We certainly won't fund it.
But, you know, hey, when you're the Democrats, I guess America last, it's still okay because you'll get enough votes magically anyhow.
But enough of the serious stuff, folks.
It's time to get some off-the-beat headlines, and I want to get your reaction to some of this.
Maybe we'll look at it in the comments.
So I want to hear what you have to say about this Mark Zuckerberg-Elon Musk cage match.
Did you see this? Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg apparently have agreed to fight a cage match.
No date or location set in.
Yet, however, they actually appear to be serious about it.
I don't know. That could be interesting.
Elon maybe is in trouble.
Mark Zuckerberg has been training Brazilian jiu-jitsu for the last 18 months.
Maybe that's good, but who knows what Elon's been doing.
I think it's certainly going to be interesting.
I want to know what you guys think.
Money... Okay, so Napkinator, 79.
His money is on Elon. Elon will hurt Lizard Boy.
Never will happen.
Just theater. There's a solid chance of that.
Uh... High End Fool.
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Depends if Zuckerberg brings a spare battery pack.
Based Elon wins easily.
It'll be hilarious.
My money's on Elon.
Elon will wipe the floor with that pedo.
I didn't say that.
I'm just reading a comment.
Soros is the boss.
Proof Zuck is a lizard if he beats Elon.
Well, listen, a lot of it depends on, you know, if...
I've seen just the media reports that, you know, I guess Zuckerberg has been training, has actually fought a couple of, you know, jiu-jitsu fights.
I'm sure he's got incredible people training him.
And, you know...
What I know about fighting is that people who actually have fought tend to do a lot better than people who think they're good at fighting, but haven't actually done it.
That's pretty clear. So a little training goes a long way.
I don't know what a cage match is.
Is that just pure jiu-jitsu rules, or is that...
Full contact? Is it MMA rules?
Boxing? Let's see what happens.
If it's pure jiu-jitsu, obviously you get huge advantage to someone who's doing jiu-jitsu.
If it's full fighting, I guess it depends on how good you are on your feet.
Could really be interesting.
Zuckerberg's going out well. Listen, it seems like...
I don't know that I've seen a single person think that Zuck is going to win.
So that could be interesting.
But again, I don't know anything about Elon's training, if he's done any of that.
So let's see what happens.
But no matter what, it's going to be a ratings hit.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Zuckerberg, I've seen him fight, you know, whether it's local or regional matches or something like that.
He's actually, you know, fought, and I think he won a match.
But he's been training, and, you know, obviously training and all of that matters.
Zuck is 5'8", Elon's taller.
That was James XR. Yeah, but honestly, man, like...
The size doesn't matter that much if you're not training.
If you don't have that, meaning not just training cardio and lifting and being strong.
If you don't know how to fight, the size doesn't matter.
I remember, speaking of Dana White, original UFC, I think I was at UFC 2.
The first one they had in Atlantic City.
I remember sitting there with my brother and like...
Tank Abbott, from the old days, literally put his dentures on the seat next to me to be like, hold that place for his girlfriend.
It was old school.
And they fought around Robin.
So if you fought and won, you fought again that night until there was one guy left.
There weren't weight classes.
It was a whole different world.
And so, you know...
You need fight experience.
And seeing some of that training that these guys are doing today, that they've developed such great systems, it'll be interesting.
But literally no one thinks that Elon is going to lose.
Like, not one.
That probably tells us a lot, less so about anyone's knowledge about fights, but just the general dislike of, I guess, you know, probably censorship and stuff like that that's happened over at Meta.
Because it seems like this one's personal for everyone, and I get that because I promise you, no one has lost more followers of anyone watching this right now due to bullshit or, you know, fake fact checks or, like, the technicalities, innuendo bullshit that they do.
So, uh...
Let's, uh...
Let's see. Yeah, UFC back then was not the MMA of today.
That's 100% true.
It was totally different.
A lot of those guys were pretty badass, but yes, it's a different game.
Back then, they picked up guys that were just good collegiate wrestlers and be like, hey, someone's hurt.
Can you go fight?
Someone may have never even thrown a punch, and they got in that...
They got in that ring and some of them did really well and went on to learn MMA and learn ground and pound and other aspects of the fight game and did pretty well.
I think that probably wouldn't work out as well today where people have sort of literally mastered all aspects of the mixed part of MMA. Todd's Secretarian.
Let's hope it's an untucked fight.
Todd Secretarian. Let's hope it's an untucked fight.
I think that's a veiled reference to Target or one of those companies coming up with their own line of tuck-it underwear so you can hide your junk.
This is the world we're living in, folks.
Do you believe I'm even talking about this shit?
But it's, like, real. Like, every day I think we're being punked, uh, and yet it's, uh, it never ends.
Um... No holds barred...
Listen, I'd love to see that.
I imagine that won't be the case, but if it was, that'd be pretty badass.
Um... Yeah, untucked fight, lol.
I mean, do you believe we're actually talking about this shit?
Like, two grown men? But, like, it's real, and, like, this stuff's actually happening, and they're trying to do this thing to our children, because, like...
This is the shit they're thinking.
Our kids can't read or write anymore.
Basic math is like, why the hell would you need to learn that?
According to the left, it seems.
But making sure that you can tuck so that in a bikini, no one confuses you for what you are biologically is...
Can't make it up, guys.
I mean, we...
Yeah, the end of Republic has to be, like, this has to be it.
Like, I mean, you know, you talk about, you know, the fall of Rome, you talk about how empires last, and it's always, like, 200 years.
It's like, eh, we're coming up on that edge, and history has to be repeating itself with this bullshit, because, like, I have a hard time believing half the stuff that is very serious news every day is actually even news.
Um... Gives tuck and roll a holo meaning.
I love that one.
Zombie salt Disney.
Yes. Good fight analogy these days.
I imagine the original guys fighting in the UFC. I've got to get some of the UFC guys on here.
I'll get Colby Covington to come up.
Or maybe we'll have Jorge.
Interesting. I'm buddies with two guys that do not exactly like each other.
Royce Gracie's a friend.
Would you guys want some of those guys on the show?
Because I think we've got to break up some of the...
Especially in the summer when it's slower and it's not as political.
Would you guys want that? Just comment if you'd actually want that.
Because, again, politics and the insanity of what's going on today.
And some of those guys can talk about it anyway.
I'd love to hear those guys' concepts on that.
But, yes? Okay.
Yeah, Masvidal rules. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Okay. I'll get on that and we'll definitely make that happen.
Colby was up here at my house a couple weeks ago.
I think he came up for Kim's birthday party just when we had some people over for that.
So let's make that happen.
Does John Jr. watch Redacted?
You should be a guest on Redacted.
I don't think I've seen that one.
We'll hear Jorge go off on Joe.
Listen, Jorge is an awesome dude.
I got to meet him actually during the 20 cycle.
I was following him.
I obviously loved his fighting style.
I saw him fight at MSG. And I guess that was Diaz when he won that one pretty handily.
And he's got an incredible story.
I mean, that one almost becomes political because he came on the campaign trail with me around Florida in 20 and, you know, talking like the story about like his dad literally came from Cuba on a raft and like it's really mind-blowing.
And like this guy is a guy that understands Where we're headed, what they escaped from, really appreciates it.
I mean, his story is really, really good, and he does a good job telling it.
It's an amazing story, so we'll have to have him on here as well.
Natey, Fbaby, Dunn Jr., sexy.
Yes, thank you. True.
Fact check, true. Others may fact check that otherwise, but I appreciate it.
Yeah, Jorge's a great friend.
Awesome fighter. Just retired.
I always had his fight in Miami when he did that.
Guy's just an absolute awesome dude.
Just heart.
Awesome guy. Bring on Dana White.
Yeah, I'll have to do that with Dana sometime.
I'm sure he'd do that. Some of those...
Some people, it's easy to do the call-in.
A guy like Dana, you want to just go in person, so maybe even next time I'm in Vegas, I'll just bring some gear and do it that way.
Because some of the guys like that, you want to hear that story.
I mean, he's got some great DJT stories that I've heard.
And maybe we've got to pull those down on here.
Let the winner of the fight fight Chris Pawlowski from Rumble.
Yeah. Well, hey, we may have to get it going.
Chris moved down to Florida.
Maybe we got to get him rolling and start.
Don Jr. doesn't need a fight, Hunter.
He might catch something. Also fact-check true.
I mean, you know, not going to lie, you know, definitely would want some of the testing done beforehand.
Calling Greta Thunberg a climate expert is like calling Whoopi Goldberg a health and fitness expert.
True. Hunter needs jail.
Fair. Have Bongino on?
Yeah, Dan's great. I mean, you know, Dan's actually, like, I think I was the second verified, like, user on Rumble after Dan.
He was there early. He was a friend.
He was like, hey, would you— Dan actually introduced me to Chris Pawlowski, which started, you know, me ultimately coming on Rumble.
I went on Rumble.
You know, Dan had Chris down.
They were talking. Chris was like, hey, man, would you do this?
And I was like, yeah, I saw—this was like 18, I guess.
I think it was about then.
It was like when all the cancellation stuff started happening and all the nonsense was going on and all of a sudden I was just like, hey, listen, these other guys, other platforms are censoring the hell out of me.
They're cutting off fake fact checks, just crushing my reach.
You know, they're like, I was the original guy being like, ah, they're censoring.
They're like, how do you know that? I was like, well, because I was averaging like 7,000 retweets yesterday, and today I'm getting four.
They're like, well, 4,000 to 7, maybe it's just like, no, no, no, four, like single digit.
And so Chris was like, hey, we don't do that here.
And so I was like, definitely got to get on there.
So I've been doing the short stuff that I just do.
I had a camera for social on there for years.
It's been a great platform.
That's why I'm here and not elsewhere.
Why build up a following in some of these other places?
YouTube. I'll build up a following, I'll say something they don't like, and I'll be off permanently the next day.
It's not worth the effort.
It's not easy to do this stuff.
It's not easy to build up a following, an audience.
That's never easy. I don't want to do it with something where it can just go away because someone disagrees with you or they want to hurt you politically or they want to take away your platform because you end up being right about everything anyway.
Let's see. Yeah, I was shadow banned probably like no one other.
Like, gone through some of that.
It's just, that was never-ending.
Elon will slaughter the soy boy?
I don't know. I mean, Zuckerberg seems like he's in good shape.
I'm not saying, like, whatever, but I don't know that I can say the same for Elon, but, you know, I'm sure Elon's a smart guy.
He'll figure out how to get in shape for it.
He's sort of the mad scientist.
You never know. Yeah.
Gracie would be cool. Old school.
Yeah, Roy's a super good guy.
We know each other. Actually, sort of through the shooting world and stuff like that, he's a big 2A advocate, all that stuff.
So we go back and forth a bunch on that, run into him always at SHOT Show and stuff like that.
He'd be cool. I mean, that was one of the original badasses.
I mean, he was the guy that was actually fighting and winning those round robin matches early.
So, yeah.
You can say what you want about new school versus old school, but that guy's a badass no matter what.
Shadowban should be the name of Zuck's finishing move.
It's true. He's executed it probably more than...
The Rock has executed the people's elbow.
So, yeah, I imagine that's happened a bunch.
Spoilers, not conspiracies.
100% right.
That's why I actually put out a tweet about the submarine thing.
And again, while it's a terrible tragedy, you can still be like, really?
You're a billionaire spending $250,000 to go on a sub controlled by a remote?
It just seems off, right?
It feels like it's a distraction or...
I don't know, man. It's just, it's very, very odd.
So I'm wondering if there's anything else that comes with that.
I'm not trying to be conspiratorial, but honestly, these days, like, everything that's been conspiratorial has proven to be right in time.
So let's see if something happens from that.
You go into BJJ class and get beat by everyone for a couple of months.
Yeah, no, like... In that, like, just a little bit of basic training, if someone's better than you, they're better than you.
Like, it's...
Fighting, like...
MMA style fighting.
You can get lucky, throw a punch that just lands perfectly, a kick, whatever it may be.
It's a lot harder in BJJ because it's not that lucky knockout.
You don't usually get someone better than you in that kind of hold.
It's... It's a lot more sort of, in my opinion, decisive based on that.
Like, you know, a black belt doesn't lose to brown belts.
Like, unless they're holding a brown belt back, you know, trying to get them to win that category for years and he probably should be a black belt.
It doesn't really happen that way.
So anyone who's trained in that generally is going to kick the shit out of someone who hasn't, in my opinion.
Thank you and Kimberly. Yeah, thank you.
It's our pleasure, guys. I think Kim's really enjoyed it.
I think her show is doing great, a little different format.
I think maybe I just got to have her on a little bit more often sometimes, especially in the summer.
Like I said, it feels, you can just see it across the board.
Just a little bit slower. So maybe we just do a little bit more just conversational stuff.
Maybe that works out better even for just the audio component of the podcast.
Like I said, go check it out on iTunes or Spotify.
Rumble will put it up there a couple days later.
But they have the whole library of the stuff I've done in the past.
So go check it out there. I'm sure it would drive those people crazy if we became a top podcast there as well.
But I've never really pushed it much until the last two weeks.
I didn't even know they were doing it then.
But other people were like, oh yeah, you're on there.
They were like, oh yeah, we do this.
So invite Kim.
Yeah, we'll do a Kim.
Kim was on the opening show and people actually liked the ball-breaking banter back and forth.
Obviously, she's got an awesome personality, as funny as hell.
One of the few people sort of Puts me in my place.
Sometimes I need that. So it's good and we'll have to do that.
Maybe what I'll do right now, I'll finish this up here.
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Oh, here's one. Do I like Truth Social?
Yeah, I really do, actually.
Truth Social's been great.
A lot of people, you know...
Our people are on there, so I like talking to them there as well.
I think Twitter's improved some of the stuff in terms of the shadow bans and stuff like that, but with a lot less followers, my engagement on Truth is just much higher.
So I imagine, even if they're for free speech, maybe they're not for all of free speech.
I'm not entirely bought into that.
I think when Elon came in and was doing the original deal, And they were like, oh my god!
Like, my engagement went through the roof.
It went crazy for, like, a couple of days.
And then the deal looked like it was going to fall through.
And it was like... Put the brakes on.
It was like, literally, they were there just burning the files.
Like, let's just get rid of all the, you know, the clamps on the algorithm.
And again, I don't... I'm not even faulting anyone, you know...
Meaning, I'm not faulting Elon, I guess, for that.
I... Maybe he, you know, wants some of that.
Maybe he doesn't. I don't know.
But I imagine in a company like that, even if you fire 50% of the people...
I imagine 50% of the people that work there are still leftist crazies.
And so, you know, there'll be other stuff in there.
If you're not reading every line of the code, you can get those kinds of things in there.
So yeah, it was loose for a week when it looked like he was taking over and they were burning the files.
Then it came back down.
It's better now than it was shortly after the original buy.
It was like, it was literally, the first few months of that were like...
Almost as bad as, like, Twitter 1.0.
Twitter 2.0 got that bad.
Definitely seems better now than it was then.
I don't know if it's perfect, but, you know, and again, that's just empirical, you know, looking at it, seeing what goes on, knowing what does well, seeing what does well elsewhere.
But it's certainly better than, you know, probably for me, a lot of the meta stuff that just gets...
Crushed and you get almost no growth.
I've got millions of people on Instagram and everyone's like, I love your Instagram page!
It's hilarious! And it's like no growth.
It's clearly done for a reason.
Let's see. But guys, thanks a lot.
I'll go over on Locals hopefully.
Some guys are there. Ask some of the questions there for the specific AMA. Some of these, I apologize.
I can't get through them all. Sometimes I can't even read the full question before it sort of scrolls through with the amount of people commenting.
But we definitely got something to have.
A couple of the...
Fighters on. We'll cycle those in in the next few weeks or whatever it may be.
We'll have some fun with it.
Also, guys, do you like this format where we do sort of the AMA here rather than just going over to locals?
Not everyone is on there.
I think they're working on maybe integrating it both so that I can actually see the specifics of the subscribers.
But I'll go over there and check it out.
But maybe we'll do more of this anyway here.
Yes. Awesome. Yes.
Thanks, Don. Yes. Thanks for the show.
It was good. Thank you. You're doing great.
All right. So that sounds good.
Maybe we'll do some more of that and maybe we'll just do some...
Would you ever want a show where literally there's no guest and we just do sort of like a show of maybe the AMA or the news of the week and I'll just take questions?
Yes. Yes, awesome.
It sounds like you'd want that.
We can do some of that. I want to make sure I'm giving those guys what they signed up for and everything like that.
You know, with as many people as they're chiming in, I probably won't be able to get a lot of the questions, whereas I can hit probably everyone there.
But we'll check it out, and maybe we'll do a little bit more of that.
So, appreciate it, guys.
You're the best. If you're over on Locals, go over there.
I'll go hit that for a little bit, and I will talk to you soon.
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