June 2, 2025 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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But that being said, you know, there are people in this industry that do like swords, particularly we all know James Lindsay was very, very much a big fan.
And you asked James if he ever wanted to pull swords with you, that you were more than welcome to get in the battle with him, right?
Literally before we took this picture of the swords, someone said, you know, if only James Lindsay was here with us, we've seen he's very good at holding a sword and fighting and everything, as we've seen from his social media posts.
So it's too bad that he wasn't there to be a part of that photo op.
Yeah, but jokes aside, we were joined by Mary Morgan, who some of the people memed it reminded you that when our founding fathers landed on the islands here, this is who they encountered, right, for the first time.
That's who they encountered.
Now, you have to be chronically online to understand that.
Well, as we talk about this, I mean, obviously, you know, I've been on Tim Pool maybe eight times.
I don't know if that's accurate, but you know, just quite a bit.
I'm not new to this industry.
It's not like I just showed up yesterday.
But, you know, you're the new hot commodity on the street.
You're the one that everybody wants to interact with.
Everybody wants on the show.
And you got on the show fairly quickly.
It was like a couple months ago.
You just went on to a Jubilee episode and suddenly now you're on Tim Pool.
It's kind of a big accomplishment for you as well, which I think is like kind of cool.
So obviously, there were some very heated moments in the show.
Today, we're going to be going over the fun moments.
We're going to be going over the heated moments.
We're going to be talking about like what probably could have gone differently.
Maybe being respectful to Tim, you know, and also to the people he criticizes on what he could have done better.
And it seems like at the end of this, I'm not even going to bring up, you know, all the altercations.
What it seemed like is that everybody was pissed at us for our performance except for the people who watched Timcast, who seemed to be like pretty much in our favor.
I think we win, but it looks like everyone we talked about was mad at us in some direction.
So let's jump back in that clip we started with earlier.
So we ended up getting into a conversation with Tim about H-1B visas because everybody knows that Vivek famously fumbled his line where he talked about, you know, that we need Indians, you know, we need.
I mean, as long as you can just be a slave for the rest of your life and just rent everything and never own a single thing because even your car is leased and you can't even buy a new car anymore.
You can't even buy a home.
So you're just going to be renting forever and you can't even pay for all your college at once.
You'll just have to repay your loans for the rest of your life.
So basically, you're just a slave to debt and usury, which benefits a certain class of people that's not us.
They also, you know, trash companies love the pollution they add.
You know what I mean?
It's a big business.
And who doesn't like them?
Toilet paper companies?
They don't use it.
Deodorant companies, never tried it.
And maybe soap companies either.
Anything with hygiene.
But jokes aside, you know, we started talking with Tim because Tim was making an argument that, you know, we were living in a day and age where essentially the reason why people are behind today is because they are not working hard enough.
And I think, Sarah, you brought this up pretty indiscriminately.
That's really not the case.
In fact, that's not true at all.
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I was, yeah, I was honestly a little bit shocked by that take because obviously Tim is a really smart guy.
And it's kind of like also, if you are trying to appeal to Republicans or to the MAGA movement, I feel like everyone kind of knows at this point that we're kind of pro-American workers.
And like, if you're truly MAGA, that's, you know, that's what you're going to do.
So, well, I think I've known Tim for like about a decade now.
So, you know, when it comes across that sometimes he just sort of like takes these positions, I never know if he's just being arbitrarily divisive to keep people interested or if he really just believes this stuff.
Because I don't like, I don't like to believe that he actually thinks this way, you know?
If you don't hire them and start forcing them into this system, we will never recover.
You don't, when you break your leg, you don't go, I'm not going to walk because my legs are broken.
We have the worst legs.
Someone should carry me.
No, you go to physical therapy and start struggling to walk and you get a cane and you get a cast or you get a wheelchair and then you start to rebuild your strength so you can walk again.
We have a crummy generation.
That's a fact.
Gen Z and millennials are largely entitled and lazy.
But if we don't force them into the and start doing that physical therapy, that labor therapy to get them back into the mentality of meritocracy, we just collapse.
It was like, it's weird that people always assume that the standards of Americans, or, you know, as we'd call them, heritage Americans, people that look like you and me, right?
Like people that look like us, if people catch my drift, that we would have standards in a country that we built.
You know, you and I just got back from Tim's, you know, flying into DC.
And, you know, when we were driving, it's like, we got a nice car.
We're in a nice part of town.
We're in a decent hotel.
Is that bad to have standards for your life?
Is it bad to work hard and to want to be rewarded for your labor?
Is it bad to drive around DC and look at the buildings and see what our ancestors, you know, designed and wanted for us and go, you know what?
They didn't design all this beauty and marble and stonework so that Indian people could take low-wage tech jobs.
They designed this for their posterity as they lay out in the founding documents.
And it's like kind of hard to listen to Americans and be like, yeah, no, America's a melting pot, a multicultural society.
And really, it's capitalism and jobs should go to whoever will take the least for the job.
And we should really put the power in the hands of corporations to pay people as little as possible.
And by the way, this is not like small businesses like Riff TV, where it's like, you know, you're not going to get paid a ton because, you know, we're mission driven.
This isn't a church where it's like, you know, you're ideologically, you know, underminded.
So, you know, you don't have a lot of natural income because you're not, you know, playing the system.
These are corporations that are, you know, making hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars that have told Americans, you know what?
We don't want to take our success and invest it back into the country.
We want to put it into the hands of a few individuals.
And then when you call it out, Tim called us communists and liberals because we wanted Americans' money to go back into America and not to go into people who don't even have residence here because we want our money to work for us and our companies to benefit us.
Yeah, I mean, he was kind of conflating this idea of laziness, you know, basically saying that if you want to be able to have a high-paying job and you feel like that's kind of your birthright, that makes you lazy, which I feel like it's kind of the opposite.
Having standards is not being lazy.
I think everyone should have a certain amount of entitlement.
I'm trying to remember what this book is called.
I can't remember what it was called, but I read this book a few years ago and it was basically studying and analyzing the most top 1%, top 0.1%, 0.01% people when it comes to success and money and everything, and examining their lifestyle and like what the key factors were that made them successful.
And the number one factor was literally entitlement.
It's literally feeling like you are kind of owed something because that kind of makes people ask for more.
And then when you ask for more, people give you more.
So there's nothing wrong with Americans being a little bit entitled because we should be.
That's that literally is our birthright.
Our founding fathers didn't, you know, build this nation.
People didn't sacrifice their lives so that we're going to be wage slaves and get replaced by foreigners.
They literally didn't.
It was because they wanted their great, great, great, great grandchildren to have a future.
And we should be able to feel like we are kind of owed that because that's what our ancestors actually died for.
I've been looking at you this entire time and been going, you're white?
Look at that.
I mean, so we were all pretty shocked here at the studio.
How did that feel paying money to find out you were Caucasian?
Because I got to say, it's shocking to the audience sitting here shocked right now because when we take one look at you, we're like, she's not Nigerian?
Yeah, I mean, a lot of people did think that I was part Mongolian or possibly Chinese or Japanese because of my positive canthel tilt in my high cheekbones, but I guess I'm not.
Speaking of this, though, now that you're Anglo, you know, this tweet went viral today.
You know, talk from Nick Ghorelli talking about how, you know, he says, like, you know, we need to bring these people in.
We're all just lazy, but we're actually in a boom of property value.
Exactly what I said on the show.
I said, actually, one of the main, actually, one of the main reasons why we're in a problematic cost of living crisis, one of the many reasons is because we have large corporate entities buying up single-family dwellings, which then increased the price of housing catastrophically.
You know, homes have gone up 30 to 60%, depending on the region, just during the 2020 thing.
And that being said, check this out.
So Nick Ghorelli posted, Florida investor bought for 550K in 2022, just sold it for $391K.
That is an 80%, 28% loss in three years.
Market is turning down fast.
Now, what's crazy about this is someone said, that doesn't sound right.
You know, who would, in their own mind, who would possibly invest or invest to that regard?
That's an extremely bad and terrible investment.
Now, I know you're not going to be shocked here, but it turns out this is right by where we are.
You know, look at that.
Boom.
It says right here, sold in 2025 for $391,000.
It was bought $550,000.
We said, what's interesting is that the investor, a Blackstone-owned entity, purchased it for $550K in April and then turned it around and tried to sell it two years later for $529 in April.
The house sat on the market for a year and they incrementally lowered the price until it finally sold.
This does not appear to be hurricane damage property as they already cut the price down to 431K before the hurricane hit, 22% lost.
After the hurricane hit, the price went down another 40K and it keeps going down.
So look, that's what I said.
I go, listen, it's these entities.
It's these actual booms of these corporations that come in and buy up the homes and then push the prices up.
Now, everyone's like, well, the prices are coming down.
The problem with this is, is that it pushes up the prices, not just for the homes they bought, but for the homes that the average citizens buy.
Now, an average individual like myself who buys a house like that for $550,000, the crash is so much higher too.
So then what happens is that you end up having a dilapidation and a quick deflation of the value.
So then, yeah, everyone's house prices went up, but during that two-year period, all the normal citizens who bought them, they can't buy or take the loss.
So they lose so much equity in their homes that do you think that the Blackstone entity cares about losing a few $100 million?
No, it's a tax write-off for them.
But can I afford $159,000 loss on property?
No, I'd be bankrupt.
So that's what I'm saying.
These entities have messed everything up.
And so, yeah, you can't just expect people to say, well, hey, you know, Bucko, you should have just learned that, you know, $159,000 loss.
You know, the 20, the bottom 20% of our population, you know, their wages didn't go up for 20 years.
They're dying seven years younger.
You know, when administrations, you know, the Biden administration is giving all this money to EVs and cars and wasting a lot of money on green stuff, which isn't going to work and all that.
Do you think people in rural cities, do you think people in inner cities thought they were getting anything?
Do you think that those people think that the American government is fair and competent and that this was in their best interest?
Their schools don't work.
They're not getting the skills they need.
And you heard that just now.
So we got to acknowledge, and I also call it blue tape because Republicans, you generally don't like red tape.
You understand the devastation of it.
But most Democrats, they love it.
They want more of it.
And they want to make it so confusing you can't even meet the rules.
So you get punished and fined afterwards.
And so, you know, we, if then you have in permitting, and you know, I call the government the Leviathan that's too weak, can't get stuff done, and too strong.
It imposes things on the American public that they're getting sick of, and they should be getting sick of it.
And acknowledge that.
Celebrate our virtues: freedom of speech, free religion, freedom of enterprise, equal opportunity, family, God, country.
But, you know, Cernovich put something up that I think is really important.
And he said this: check this out.
He's like, he doesn't give a SHIT, but this shows where the energy is.
You are going to get populism or Luigi.
These market-manipulating a-holes slowly are realizing this, but they are still scum and they're not our friends.
He was saying that, look, he knows the elites are starting to realize what's happened, but they don't actually care because they took advantage of the economy for so long.
So like, it's just like the World Economic Forum, but then they put Reagan in it to like appeal to, you know, Trump supporters or whatever.
And it's like, yeah, this is the problem with Ronald Reagan and what he wanted and everything.
It literally is this whole idea of, you know, we're being told it's about capitalism and free markets or whatever, but it's really just about corporations and CEOs just kind of like ruining all of our lives.
Well, one of the problems with this is like, yeah, that's what that is.
I just feel like the arguments against these people are just like so dumb.
And that's why, like, you know, by the way, there was an interesting clip that happened on the show.
This was posted by Tim Cass News.
I don't know if you saw this, but like the king of England made this very interesting post, particularly about the welcome to country or land acknowledgement, they call it.
This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation.
While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation in both words.
Yeah, there's like a little bit of this, like uh, you know, problem where King Charles was sort of seeding off the country, and he was saying that he sort of that America should take it and then start negotiating with these tribes.
I'm a little more base than that.
I don't think we should have any communication with the natives, and I don't think they have any authority.
Like, these are conquered people, and quite frankly, we're the nicest people in the world because we allowed them to live.
Like, most people just genocide these people.
I mean, look at what Israel's doing to Gaza today.
I mean, this is not like you saw Randy Fine, the Republican senator, saying that we have to destroy Gaza because we have to destroy their culture because some cultures shouldn't exist, right?
So, he said we have to destroy them entirely-the Christians, the Muslims, everybody.
So, there's a lot of people today that hold very extreme views in the United States government today.
That's one of our sitting congressmen, Senator Randy Fine, talking about that we have to genocide somebody.
And I think it's kind of sad that people think like that, but you know, more importantly, it's like, hey, you know, with what can't what happened with Canada, what's going on with the country?
I mean, when you're a king and you're talking about, hey, you know, we don't actually own this land, it belongs to you.
You are ceding control and territory, and it seems diabolically.
I mentioned on the show, it seems like it's intentional, and it's it undermines the sovereignty of England and also sovereignty of the world.
Like, the land doesn't belong to them unless they wage a war and fight back.
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All right, so um, kind of going to some other clips.
I don't know what the hell uh, yeah, I don't know why the sound is so weird on these clips, but it is what it is.
Uh, that being said, Tim Poole, um, by the way, uh, ended up attacking on his show uh, Nick Fuentes, which is really interesting.
Obviously, he's a very controversial figure, particularly online, uh, mostly for his views on ethnic minorities, like Jewish people.
And Tim Poole, you know, ended up going over this.
Now, Tim Poole's fully monetized.
He's got a very normal show.
Things are very, very normal there, but he has a beef with him.
I don't think Nick was very happy about this.
It doesn't look like he's been very happy about what Tim has been saying about him.
And he rightfully so, right?
I mean, Tim's been sort of slandering him, making him seem like he's kooky or somewhat, you know, schizophrenic or obsessed with Israel and not really addressing maybe why Nick is wrong.
And I always talk to the viewers of the show and I say, when someone's sort of telling you that you're a psychopath or putting titles or names onto you because they say you're wrong, but they're not really explaining how you are wrong in a way that makes sense.
They could say why you're wrong.
They're not explaining it in a way that makes sense.
They got to ask yourself, what's really happening?
i saw him say he said i said alex jones elijah shaffer and like i don't even know what the the disagreement is really between you guys but i mean like that's what i'm asking what what am i supposed to debate Well, I think he made claims that like they're Israel first, right?
My point is the people who think Israel is responsible for everything are – they – the first thing that comes to their mind in terms of the problems of this country is Israel.
They're Israel first.
Like me, I'm concerned about our southern border.
I'm concerned about fentanyl crossing the Canadian border.
I'm concerned about the cartels in Mexico.
And then there are people who literally talk about Israel all day.
And I'm like, bro, America has problems.
Israel is not the first on that list.
We can go over the things we don't like about Israel.
100% agreed.
But when you bypass literally our southern border, which is our first and foremost problem, 20 million illegal immigrants over the span of a couple of years flooding our labor market, flooding our hotels.
And you're like, yeah, but Israel, I'm like, bro, are you serious?
You are Israel first.
You care more about Israel than the fact that New York, that Joe Biden brought in, I think the actual number is like 10 million over four years.
Considered to be one of the largest mass migrations in human history.
No, I honestly, because I've talked to both of you guys pretty extensively about your views.
I think you misunderstand each other, but also I don't think that's true with him because I've never watched a full episode.
Sounds really bad.
I've never watched a full episode of this show or of his show.
I've never watched a full episode of my own show.
You don't end up watching your own stuff.
But I've seen enough clips to like where I see him talking about Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel and the military industrial complex being a huge issue in the ear of Trump.
And with you too, I don't think, I think you don't get enough credit for being open and honest where people won't even mention Israel or Zionist or APAC or any of these words.
You're not afraid to talk about them despite maybe it could cause problems for monetization.
So I think he has a real open opportunity to generate a lot of views and to say, if you're making these claims and he's saying that, you know, he's saying something, being able to sit down together and discuss this, I feel like this is what people are doing.
So, look, it looks like we'll make nobody happy, particularly on this topic, because, you know, the way that I look at it with the Groipers, with the whole side is like, they're very loyal to Nick.
You know, his followers are very loyal to him.
And Tim is very influential.
He's got a very big following.
He makes a lot of money.
And, you know, people really, really, the Groipers really feel like Nick has been very slandered, which is true.
He's been very slandered, very dragged, very, very censored.
And, you know, what I found is if you don't defend Nick enough or you don't say enough to defend him, they accuse you of being like capitulatory to the system or censorship.
When really to bring this stuff up on a show like on Tim's actually takes a lot of gall, takes a lot of balls.
And it's honestly when you're talking to Tim about these topics, you need to be respectful.
People don't know what it takes.
It's like going over your girlfriend's home for dinner with her parents.
Like, you know, maybe that's not the time to bring up your views on racial differences and IQ discrepancies between social orders.
Like, you know, you've been invited somewhere.
You're being treated to an experience.
They're paying for you to be there.
And you've got to be respectful.
But, you know, we did bring it up and we wanted to ask the question, you know, why won't you debate?
You're willing to talk about him online.
You're willing to slander him.
He's willing to debate you.
He's saying you're wrong.
And, you know, it's not our fight.
It's not your fight.
It's not my fight.
But I think it's with two men, two men are talking crud about each other and are willing to say that each other are wrong.
If they're not willing to sit down and discuss it, he says, what's the debate?
I think, let's call it discussion.
Like, I think that Tim owes Nick a discussion on this topic on air.
And I offered to host it on this channel because like, I know Nick is people are not happy with what I said on the show because they think I didn't say enough.
And I know that, you know, Tim's people think that I said too much and I was being too rude.
And I know that everybody's never going to be happy with me because I'm Elijah Schaefer and everyone thinks I freaking suck and that's fine.
But, you know, I am who I am.
You know, I'm a California conservative.
I think we got to get back to blood sports, the fun of information.
And I think may the best man win.
So no one's going to die.
No one's going to get hurt.
We're on the doll to the ideas and the arguments hurt you.
We're not calling for blood or for violence or for anything racist or anything, you know, anti-Semitic, anything like that.
It's just like, hey, you guys are having an argument about political ideology.
You have a large platform.
So does Nick.
Why won't you talk to him if you're willing to talk about him?
And I feel like that's a real question today is like, why can you not talk to someone face to face that you're willing to slander online?
It's a big problem on the internet.
And I don't feel comfortable, you know, being on a show calling someone Israel first and using that as a slander to like make it seem like they're unreasonable or they're disillusioned when you won't even talk to them face to face.
It kind of seems a little bit phony.
You know, I don't know if you agree with me, but it seems a little disingenuous.
And I do feel like this is a problem specifically with Nick.
Like so many different people are constantly trashing him.
You know, everyone from the Daily Wire, all of these mainstream right-wing influencers and commentators that have all these followers are constantly trashing him.
And then their excuses for why they won't debate him are just so ridiculous.
Either it's, you know, oh, he slighted me this one time.
He said something kind of rude or whatever.
But they're never actual real, or like, oh, his views are just so abhorrent.
It's like, okay, but you host like far left people who advocate for chopping off children's genitals and murdering babies in the womb.
And I actually think that's pretty bad.
You know what I mean?
Like, I feel like you probably actually agree with someone like Nick more than you agree with those people, but you're not willing to platform him.
And then they use the monetization excuse, but it's like, okay, well, you can go on his platform.
You can go on another platform.
The reality is they know that there is kind of this system in place in the right wing, which exists to just gatekeep anything further to the right because they know that if we actually challenge the mainstream right ideas, you know, the more, I guess you could say, dissident right views are going to get more support because a lot of them are true.
That's kind of the whole problem is they actually are true.
You know, I kind of don't like the fact that, you know, my entire life, I kind of sit somewhere, you know, in an olive branch between both the far right and the establishment, right?
It's sort of been my MO.
And a couple people called me a fence sitter for this position.
And, you know, quite frankly, F you for that.
Like, that's pretty, pretty stupid.
You need allies.
You need people in different positions.
You know, a lot of times, the biggest issue we have today is the majority of Americans see that a lot of these nationalist and pro Western values are what are making the country stronger, which are the most promising factors for our nation.
But they're not getting the mainstream platform.
They're still relegated to the far end depths of Instagram IG reels or coded TikToks using Gen Z censorship language, like unalive themselves, right?
And then when you get on the mainstream platforms, even myself, you're really pressured to just not say certain things, right?
There's a lot of control mechanisms, and it's hard for me to even, even for me to get onto these platforms today, right?
Like with my own views, you know, we got you and I got canceled at NYU.
There's, there's a large swath of people and institutions that don't want us to speak, right?
I mean, I'm not going to, you know, I'll just say this.
You know, I have a friend at CPAC Hungry, and he talked about how, you know, Dave Rubin wouldn't talk to anybody at CPAC Hungary who didn't hold pro-Israel views, you know, and would just like walk up and ignore them if they had said anything slightly against Israel or anything.
So you have this real gatekeeping, even in person, they just treat you like you don't exist.
And I don't think that a lot of people who work in this industry or who don't know really what it is.
It's like, you know, it's kind of like this.
Like you may work at a normal job.
You may hate your coworkers.
You may hate your boss.
Go tell your coworkers you hate them.
Go tell your boss you hate them.
You won't have a job tomorrow.
So it's not really that you're trying to cuck or capitulate.
You're trying to understand how to actually make this a viable career path while also being honest and real, but also realizing that people are very volatile and not realistic.
And you cannot, in many ways, you know, expect people, you know, to do something that's going to jeopardize getting the platform out.
And I'm still trying to figure out.
I know you're still trying to figure out here at Rift TV.
We're trying to understand how to get these ideas into the mainstream.
Like that's one of the main things we're doing.
It's like, how do we get these?
So we work a little bit on Tim.
We put these ideas out, but how do we push, you know, this idea that people that look like us, how do we get people that look like us to get back power in their own communities they built, right?
There's a lot about strengthening black communities, strengthening gay communities, but how do the Sarah stocks and the Elijah Schaefers of the world regain rudimentary power to influence their own countries, their cultures, you know, and their identities?
That's that's the hard question.
And that's what, that's what I think.
There's so many critics out there, but we're not going to stop working here because despite the criticisms, despite the onslaught of you're never far right enough for the far right.
You're never liberal enough for the establishment right.
You're never, you don't ever like please anyone.
And when you stop trying to please anyone, you start to find success.
This is my personal opinion.
And, you know, you have a lot of turning point people following the shadows of Charlie.
You got a lot of Groiper type people following the shadows of Nick.
You get a lot of like Tim type people trying to recreate Tim's show.
But then you got eventually you got to be yourself.
You just got to be your own Sarah.
You got to be your own person.
I respect Charlie.
I respect Tim.
I respect Nick.
You know, do I respect one more than the other?
Probably.
Is there things I don't respect about all of them?
Yeah.
But at the same time, you know, I can understand there are things about them, you know, like Charlie's ability to reach the masses and to appeal to the general Republican, Tim's business prowess to negotiate with big tech while still holding controversial figures on his show.
Nick's ability to be brutally honest, you know.
Yeah, these are all things that I really truly respect, but they all have weaknesses too, right?
It's like, you know, they have their own issues.
I'm not going to call them out here on air or any of them.
I just mean they're humans.
I have my own issues too.
But I wish we could get along more.
And I think that the problem is that everybody's trying to destroy us because they really don't want a bridge between it.
Everyone wants to be in their own island and they want to keep Nick over here and Charlie here and Tim here.
And it's like, we're kind of coming in the middle and just like, hey, we'll work with all of you.
And to be quite honest, look, we need the platforms.
You guys are right.
You and Tim are right.
I'll end with this.
Charlie and Tim are right.
You got to be have a broad appeal, but also you can't negate listening to people like Nick or some of these people.
They're very honest about what's going on in the country.
You've got to adopt some of those ideas or you're lying to your audience.
I mean, it's just hard to try to have a broad appeal and also be honest.
But I want to talk about one thing that I do kind of wish we maybe pushed back on Tim about a little bit was his claim that you know Nick and people like him are Israel first because they talk about Israeli influence in American politics.
And obviously that's not really just about Nick, but it's about like you know Candace or Ian Carroll or Jake Shields or all these people who are talking about you know foreign influence from Israel.
And I just feel like that's kind of a silly claim because the reason why these people talk about it so much is because we haven't been allowed to talk about it for so long.
So it's not that it's not even saying like that is like the most important number one thing.
It's like, well, this is what no one else is talking about.
So we need to fill the gap.
And additionally, it's like, yeah, that is a pretty big deal because American sovereignty is the most important thing because we need to be the ones running our own country.
Otherwise, like otherwise, like, what's going on?
Like, that is clearly the most important thing in our government.
In like policy-wise, everything is American sovereignty, which is why illegal immigration, like Tim mentioned, he's very concerned about is such a huge issue for Americans.
It's because it's like we're selling out our country.
That's why the H-1B issues was a big thing.
It's like we're selling out our countries.
People are running our countries.
People are benefiting our country who aren't us.
And they're taking control of it.
So it's like, if this isn't even our government, if it's run by some, you know, foreign lobby groups or whatever, it's like, what are we even doing?
You know, if we need to call that out first before we can fix the other issues.
So it makes sense.
That's why it's going to be so-called Israel first.
It's like, yeah, because you need to root out the problems before we can fix everything else.
Yeah, well, I don't think we should have pushed back more because I think the claim is stupid.
And like, I don't know, like, I don't think anyone that's, I don't think that anyone that watched thought that we didn't do a good job because I don't think the audience is dumb.
That's kind of one thing that I've always prided myself in is that I don't expect my audience to be retarded.
You know, I don't expect people to be stupid.
Like, I hear a stupid point.
I don't waste my time arguing about it for 30 minutes.
But I also think that, you know, every side needs to try a little harder to work with each other.
That's my only claim here.
People need to be a little more open-minded.
And, you know, maybe you don't need to be in a made outfit with a Palestinian flag attached to your butt and suck the spit off the floor of a black man's toes.
But, you know, I'm just going to say you can fight the machine without doing that.
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