Rex Jones and Tim Tompkins dissect New York’s mayoral race, where Andrew Cuomo trails Zorhan Mamdani by 18 points amid COVID-19 fallout, while Mamdani’s shifting alliances and mafia ties spark debate. They critique U.S. Venezuela interventionism as Monroe Doctrine overreach, mocking Trump’s posturing and questioning military leverage against China-backed oil infrastructure. Santos’ commuted sentence highlights partisan sentencing bias, contrasting with Blumenthal’s unpunished Vietnam veteran lie, exposing systemic favoritism. Ultimately, the episode reveals how power protects its own—whether in politics or justice—while undermining outsiders. [Automatically generated summary]
We'll probably go live for another like one and a half, two hours here, guys.
We got a couple like pretty big, interesting stories to cover tonight.
We got the New York City mayoral candidacy, election, race, whatever.
It's just, it's a bunch of BS, but Tim knows all about it because he's from that area and he grew up there.
We got the Zorhan Mamdani thing that we're going to talk about, of course, with that.
We've also got George Santos getting his sentence commuted.
We'll cover what happened to him and the whole breakdown there and why it really is an important thing to happen for that guy and the other people that need to get pardoned as well.
And we've also got Trump being warlike, Venezuela, the Fafo thing.
We're going to cover all that tonight.
So thank you for being with us and we really appreciate it.
So for people to understand why the New York City mayoral, like the running for this is important is because New York City has like a population of like eight to nine million people, guys.
Like that's more than a lot of countries, and also the GDP of New York City itself is like if you were to put it as his own country, it would be like higher than a lot of other countries as well.
So, they have a system where the mayor kind of runs as like the mini governor.
Like, think about like the president being the governor of New York, and then think about like the mayor being the governor.
I know it sounds confusing, but that's what it looks like on the high end.
So, everyone kind of tunes in, but I think the more important reason why is because you've got the two, you know, drastically different people.
You've got like the incumbent, which is Cuomo.
You know, he, we all know he did some weird stuff and got kicked out of his position as New York governor during COVID.
I was caught up in that mess in New York City while he was governor.
I was not, uh, well, he wasn't governor of New York City, but governor of the state.
I didn't enjoy being underneath his governorship during that last year of COVID.
Glad they kind of got him out of there.
He was killing grandma, so you know, he's also a rapist as well.
What he said in the debate was he was like, no, technically, you know, because that's what they did.
They asked him, they said, you know, how do you distance yourself from this, you know, thing that you were involved in?
And he's basically like, well, the cases were dropped against me and nothing was ever confirmed was essentially kind of like what his play was for that.
Uh, the last time I was there was a couple of years ago.
I haven't been there, but during that time period, they just have way more police presence and like guys with like giant M4s in their hands than they used to.
Like, grand, like, when I got cops with like rifles, rifles.
And it's weird because you've got like rich people and you've got really poor people all in the same like cart.
Like it's just like the most like loony tunes situation where you just like put a mosh potch of like people where you've got like the you know tech finance guy that's like got millions of dollars and he's like riding next to on the subway like to avoid traffic, but he's like, there's a screaming homeless being like so that's why you do it.
The touristy areas that everybody's talking about, like when people go to Times Square and those types of areas, those are the ones that I've seen go downhill.
I think the parts that are good is like you still talk about like Soho and certain parts are like Brooklyn.
Yeah, well, because Brooklyn's getting gentrified.
Oh, dude, that's a that that is that is a good debate.
I mean, they're handing out needles and uh you know snack packs for them to be like shooting themselves up and they dope fiend lean in New York or they are they do I think I see more of that in California right that's what I'm referring to Yes, but I try dope.
Yeah, but I will say there's still a certain level of craziness that happens in New York City, and you got to be built tough to live there, right?
W gentrification, dude.
You know, I don't like to preach that gentrification is a good thing because, yes, you're pushing out impoverished, but like a net net, it is a net positive in my aspect of like just being able to like clean up an area to where like you don't have just trash all over the place and it's walkable for the average person.
But I really, it sucks for the people that can't afford to continue to live in a place that they've lived for like 15, 20 years because the taxes keep going up.
All we've done is give more weapons to people, to Ukraine, to you, to Israel.
That's all we've been doing.
And, you know, both the Democrats and the Republicans, the establishment, they support Israel and they support Ukraine.
And that's what they're going to do.
But if they're able to on the Democratic Party, if they're able to have fringe figures that have huge popular appeal and huge name value, like a lot of people know who Zorhan Mamdani is, a lot of based on hate, right?
But a lot of people know who he is.
If they're able to signal to those younger people who are really anti-war or independent-minded, that hey, you know, we're open to this kind of thinking or these kinds of ideas, they can get a lot of party value as a whole out of single political figures like Zoron.
Even though, as the mayor of New York, you could say he's very important to New York and he's like a mini governor, like you say, but he's not necessarily like he doesn't have a lot of influence on national policy.
Yeah, he's like, he's like one of those guys who still try to run, even though New York City will probably never vote in a Republican in their lifetime.
The occupation is a reference to international law and the violation of it, which Mr. Cuomo has no regard for since he signed up to be Benjamin Netanyahu's legal defense team during the course of this genocide.
You know, it took Andrew Cuomo being beaten by a Muslim candidate in the Democratic primary for him to set foot in a mosque.
He had more than 10 years and he couldn't name a single mosque at the last debate we had that he visited.
You know, I agree with Police Commissioner Titian that we do not need the National Guard here in New York City.
We do not need them for the purpose of safety because if it was safety that President Trump was so concerned about, he would send them to the eight out of 10 states.
What I don't have an experience, I make up for an integrity, and what you don't have, an integrity you could never make up for an experience we want to now talk about.
Well, I mean, you got a turd, a turd and a turd, and the shiniest turd is going to win.
I think that's Mamdani.
I think you could park an aircraft on Andrew Cuomo's nose, for starters, I mean, that guy is just deeply unlikable, and everyone in the city, you know, the only people that are going to vote for him are the old establishment kind of liberal boomers, but I mean, that's a lot of people in New York.
I I think if he didn't have the scandal, I think he would have been fine.
I think he could have won this one.
Um, but the thing is, is the problem I have with uh, Momdani is that he's trying to appeal to like the poor person in the city and I get where he's, where he's angling.
He's like i'm i'm for the average person, because New York City should not be the city for just millionaires.
But the problem is, is all of these promises that he's making, he has no way to actually back up the claims.
You can't just invent money in order to pay for these programs.
You got to get it from somewhere, and normally that comes from the taxpayers to begin with right, and then, at the same time, raising the taxes on the rich doesn't work.
And the reason why I say that is because just look at what happened in in uh, California.
Right, you've got, they're doing crazy stuff like taxes on mansions and they're adding higher taxes to the uh, to these millionaires and billionaires that live in California, and then you see this mass exodus where they're moving to Texas and Florida to escape all the taxes, to where it just doesn't even financially make sense, because they're trying to ex basically incentivize just continuing to tax the rich.
That system doesn't work.
You just drive the people out, and those are where most of the taxes come from in order to fund these public systems, and that's the part that these people don't talk about.
Just look at at California as a case scenario to see what not to do, because California used to be a fantastic place to live and rich people love to live there.
But even then, I think after this debate, we'll watch more videos, but it was pretty clear that, you know, Momdani won this one and it helped him solidify his race at this point.
Like the problem with something like him going in is like he has like this socialist, I dare say communist perspective when it comes to these things about just taking from the socialist.
Yeah, he calls himself a socialist, but again, that's just to appeal to a certain base.
You got to still he's going to be the same as everyone else, but he's going to have different, more extremist rhetoric that's going to signal to people.
You can, to a certain extent, try to push that through the system.
And it's not just something black and white.
They have to vote on this, right?
But the problem with rent stabilization is you try to stabilize the rents.
One, it hurts the landlords to begin with, right?
Because the thing is, people don't understand being a landlord, and I'm a landlord myself.
You don't just want to raise the, besides the little like money grab that people were trying to do during COVID, which like rents jumping up 15% was like ridiculous.
But in general, you've got to be able to keep up with inflation because the costs of everything and maintenance and those types of things are getting more expensive as the property values rise.
It's all intertwined.
So you need to be able to raise the rents proportionally to what the market is giving, right?
If you want to share a room, normally there's like a four-bedroom apartment, goes for probably around like $8K, and then you're still spending two grand for like a room like this, which is like 10 by 12 and sometimes even smaller than that.
And there have been numerous investigations where they've gone through it and they said we followed federal guidance, but yes, people died during COVID.
And my heart breaks for everyone that does that in this state right there and across this nation.
But just to say, Mr. Just to fact check that there is a criminal investigation reportedly underway at the DOJ about your testimony to Congress about your nursing home record.
What they did was they basically controlled these local, uh, these local news stations, and then you had CNN as like the main hub for information.
And like, I used to trust CNN, you know, and you saw that count and you were like, death, death clock just going up, and it's like hundreds of thousands of people.
And you're like, oh no, grandma's going to die.
I got to mask up.
Yeah, it's just, it's that.
And then they also forced the system throughout the colleges to where they give these colleges like basically a playbook of what you need to give to students and tell them what they need to do to protect themselves.
Like the CDC of like New York City basically releases all of this information that's supposed to trickle down to the school and the students.
And they didn't give you really much of a choice because your other option was to what try to do something from at home, but you really couldn't because not, I'm an engineer.
My schooling happens in person.
I have to physically touch things mechanically in order to do that.
And then you also like, do you see the videos that came out where like all these rich people and like the politicians that are telling people don't get within six feet?
They're all having fucking the last supper all gathered around a table with their like caviar and just drinking with no mask and having fun.
Like, dude, it's a total scam.
It was a total psyop.
That's how I feel about the entire thing.
Once I started seeing those videos come out, like where they're literally just partying, like, and we're in our house, just everyone's like depressed because they can't see their friends.
I'm like, all right, something's got to change here.
And this is honestly, this event and Cuomo is what made me move from being more Democratic to just being in the center now.
And now I'm like a little bit more center right because Biden did that.
In a dream scenario, we know it's not possible, but the Mets are playing game seven of the World Series on the same night as the Knicks are playing game seven of the NBA Championship, and you can only go to one.
Like, you literally just have one choice, but then you just see the politician and him come out and he's like, I can't, I can't really anger the Knicks or the Mets too much.
So I might as well, dude, you damn well know you're not game seven and you're at the Knicks game.
You're not leaving halfway through that freaking game to go to a Mets game seven.
That's like the face that Jerry's like, yeah, it's like a little happy face.
I mean, look, I guess that works on like art hoes with tattoos.
I guess they're like, yeah, this is our guy.
He's going to fight for us.
And, you know, here's the thing.
He claims to have all these identities, like immigrant, Muslim, you know, like real New Yorker type of guy.
But he's been working very hard, just like a traditional politician would, to gain the favor of all these different groups in New York, like the LGBT, like the Jewish people, everyone.
I got a couple clips to show here in a second.
In fact, let's go ahead and show this one now because it's such a good clip.
We've got a good one right here for you guys.
You're going to like seeing this.
Check this out.
Check this out, guys.
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We recently met and we found out that he's Jewish.
It was Jewish.
His granddaughter was Jewish.
So, Mr. Mayor, we might find out very soon that you have to.
And really, this is the only way to war against the Republicans now because the Republicans do kind of have a mandate to lead, but ultimately they are rich.
And that's what they're trying to galvanize is the fact that like the anti-white establishment and that's where they're trying to get the Latinos and the black people and like a lot of these liberal places that are like, we're all for diversity.
And it's like creating more of the divide because you see like Trump getting rid of DEI.
and all these other things, then they can lean more heavily on the narrative.
It was, it was a word for this kind of like multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religious coalition they were trying to build.
And I'm blanking on it now.
I'll remember it later.
I'll bring it up later.
But like, this is straight up Democrat Party handbook, but they kind of failed and stuttered on it because they governed really like the establishment Republicans, like the Unit Party when they got into office.
So now to represent themselves as different and real, they have to go full socialist.
You know, I did a turning point event yesterday with Alex Stein.
I won't talk too much about it.
It was very fun and everything.
It was very great.
And we had a great time.
We did a Q ⁇ A with people.
Super fun.
A lot of great people show up to those events and a lot of great people in Turning Point.
But like the young 20-year-old guys wearing the suits and the attitude they have and they didn't like me there, ladies and gentlemen, because I defended Sandy Hook, even though I never said the word.
But I got a little hate.
Oh, I was vaping.
He vaped in the classroom.
He vaped.
Teeter, teacher.
I did it to kind of just be like big pimp.
And they're mad because they can't vape at the front of the classroom.
I vaped in the front of the classroom, ladies and gentlemen.
That's why, look, you're watching Gray Air, the reaction is Tim Tompkins.
We're being real here.
I like to have fun.
I had a little bit of fun yesterday.
They didn't want me to have fun, ladies and gentlemen.
But that being said, great event.
Alex Stein, phenomenal guy.
I'm really appreciative of him letting me come and do that.
And, you know, I saw Owen Schroer there too.
We had a great time.
We took a lot of questions from people.
But the young people, you know, they have this attitude and they asked about Mamdonny and they're like, why is he so popular?
And it's very clear why he's so popular.
He's kind of ethnically ambiguous.
He's kind of this social chameleon figure.
He fits in everywhere.
And if you go to the Republicans, they all look the same.
There's no sense of like, you'll have pockets here and there, like where you have like a couple of black people.
You may have like an Indian or two, but like, there's no like, and maybe a couple Hispanics, but it's, it's mostly that white male, white female type of demographic.
Not that there's like anything wrong with it.
I think the thing is, is like, because there's no chance of there being a third party that ever wins, you really just have to pick one or the other.
That's actually the worst part of the system because for me to go into the system and be like, oh, I want to run for politics one day, I have to drink the Kool-Aid and say that everything that the Republicans are doing is fantastic.
Like, I mean, Alex Stein, like he, he told a little joke.
He started singing a song about how much he loved Israel because someone in the audience, they're like, their question was, how do I get my $7,000 check?
That's what he asked Alex Stein.
And Alex Steiner was like, I love Israel.
This is how you're doing it.
I love him so much.
I love Benjamin Netanyahu.
He's the greatest.
Never done anything wrong.
And like the young Republicans were like, yes, yes, he's never done anything wrong.
Yes, here, here.
I'm not joking.
Like, seriously.
I was like, yo, that's pretty crazy.
But like the signaling you have to do to represent, even at like the lowest echelon of being in that kind of like infrastructure of being a part of a political group, you have to signal from the very beginning that yes, you will tow the party line, right?
He was on a taxi on the Lower East Side and they had set up a fake cab driver that picked him up.
He got in.
The driver locked the door and another man hiding in the seat in front of him opened fire and he made it hit him multiple times in the admin abdomen and it was ordered by John Gotti Jr.
But I don't trust the numbers in terms of like the percentages and stuff.
Here's the thing: they the way that they pull is like kind of they say they get a good you know distribution of different types of people, but a lot of it, they're also paid and incentivized to like skew.
So like you'll go look at like the pollers that lean more right and they'll always like shift the numbers a little bit more in favor of the guy who's more conservative.
And then if you look on like the other side, they'll shift it a little bit more in terms of like the person who's like blue.
Like it's very hard to find the person that's like right down the middle.
And the polls are almost always wrong every election for most of the things as far as percentage-wise.
And he figured out how to pass through South America, which is like the big mystery.
No one can figure out how to do that.
He did not technically make the entire trip because he got killed in the Philippines by wild natives, but some of his crew did, and there were like 13 of them left, and the ship was rotted down to the waterline.
He's gonna also be like, Well, I have New York City's back because he said if Momdani wins, he's like, I'm gonna make life a living hell for him, just being mayor.
It's some something on the lines of that is what is what Trump said.
Yeah, because he knows what he's gonna do to a bunch of like, dude, Trump's got a bunch of his friends and buddies.
You don't think they're gonna call him and be like, Hey, they're messing with our assets and our investments here in New York City because Trump's got a lot of assets there, right?
Ultimately, these big population centers where you got a ton of people as society gets worse and as things decline further and there's more financial insecurity and just general craziness and mental illness.
I think like even living in downtown Austin, which you like, you really see it as idyllic, Tim.
Like, you think it's incredible.
Like, I still like, I look at it as like, there's just too many people, right?
Yeah, see, but did you, didn't you grow up a little bit like with your grandfather having a bunch of land and like being away from Dripping Springs for a large period of time.
Yeah, I mean, look, I like it as to where you're a little bit of distance away from your neighbors because that way you have more control on what comes into your place, right?
That's why, like, all these social media influencers move to LA to like get some notoriety.
But I like being in the city and being around because I like stuff going on.
I like to be able to go just like do an activity.
And I also like being able to have like my, you know, things that I like to buy not 20 minutes away where I got to go super far to go pick up something.
The bottom line is this: Andrew Cuomo needs something very big to change at this particular point, unless, of course, he becomes Teddy Roosevelt overnight.
Because if something doesn't change over the final two and a half weeks of this campaign, this race is pretty much over.
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What is the historical kind of precedent for a comeback like this?
So I went back through the history books, Kate Paul.
When you know I love going through my spreadsheets more than anything else, I love my girlfriend.
I love my spreadsheets.
I love cream soda.
What happens if we look at the historical spreadsheets?
Look at this.
Momdani leads by 18 points right now.
Look at the largest polling average miss since 1989.
You know what it was?
It was 11 points.
You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know 11 points is less than 18 points.
So if Andrew Cuomo is going to come back and win, either something like Curtis Liwa has to drop out of the race or you need a polling miss that is nearly twice as large as the largest miss on record.
So you're going to probably need something historically unprecedented for Andrew Cuomo to win this race if the polling average holds through election day.
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There are lots of reasons why anyone picks one candidate over another, but what is some of what you're seeing?
So like all the media infrastructure, all the financial infrastructure, all these like old institutions, they're all located in New York.
And that's why this race really matters to people is because the people in the power structure, they're all deeply invested in it because they all live there.
Yeah, at the end of the day, also like what I don't think the mayor does a lot when it comes to media and not to side, not to circumvent, but I think the federal has more impact on the news and like these companies.
You know, it's interesting not to sidetrack from this, but there was a vote or basically the federal government was trying to like come out with something that basically said that, and this is far left, but the news agencies can't, they're trying to like basically pass something where the news agencies can't have like government informants basically come on and give them like inside scoops on certain things or like have walk me through this real quick.
So you know how like you'll have like X CIA or you'll have like people who are like been in some type of government or military.
They're informants essentially where they give you like these news rooms like breaking news about certain things national security certain things like it's like enough that you cut it without getting in trouble.
So they're trying to yeah exactly they're stop that from happening okay where essentially any of that and it's only like approved stuff from the government and even Fox and we can pull this up in a little bit.
And, you know, they're making a mess of all these operations because now they never really had to worry about the access of how much people are knowing about the inner workings of the government and things that like, you know, maybe we shouldn't be telling people because they're going to rebel.
And this is the metal-level argument for all this stuff, folks.
Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump again.
All we've seen is rapid expansion of government power and they pass new laws.
They're able to do things.
And then the other group gets in.
They use that new authority that they've gained to push their own agenda.
And then the other people get mad.
They get in power and they do it on their own end.
Ultimately, every election cycle, the government, specifically the executive branch and the federal government, they get more and more power to do things like this.
And that was the most disappointing part about this entire thing is like, I voted for Trump thinking that like, okay, we're going to come back to a normal situation.
We're going to have somebody who's not really into the whole politics and punditry and like, you know, the ticky-tacky stuff.
Like he's just going to just try to stop the wars, bring jobs back to America.
We have been involved in overseas wars since for the past 30, 40, 50 years.
That's a little water bottle.
We've been involved in these overseas conflicts forever.
Right.
And usually we do them truly, you know, thousands and thousands of miles away from home, particularly in the Middle East and over now in Ukraine, Eastern Europe.
We've always been heavily involved over there.
Bosnia, other things like that, you name it.
Now we're getting involved in our own hemisphere per the Monroe Doctrine.
And Trump's basically using the Monroe Doctrine to be like, okay, I have total impunity to do whatever I want over here.
By the way, these movements are not actually constitutional or illegal by any means.
We're doing things that are outside, but no one's willing to push back because it would probably take them forever to even prosecute the executive branch for something like this.
Well, I mean, so we keep on hitting these boats, right?
We keep on hitting these boats and we claim that there's drugs on them or whatnot.
But in reality, you got like a tiny little boat and it's going from Venezuela to Trinidad, which is like, you know, like eight square, like eight people.
But the whole thing is, look, the president has authority to use these tier one operators, these Navy SEALs, these Green Berets, these Delta Force, and he can essentially use them as like a secret weapon, basically.
And their role, I mean, Tim Kennedy's talked about this.
The Green Berets are trained basically to get weapons in a giant bag of cash and go take over a country.
And I would think I thought it was more than that, but 30 million isn't a whole lot.
But if you think in the grand scheme of things, even if you have, let's say, a million people that are like militia, essentially, this isn't something the U.S. could ever win if we actually tried to put boots on the ground.
And even more than that, it would be something, I mean, every single one of these South American countries, they were ruled by Spain, basically, not every single one of them, most of them.
And they rebelled against the foreign rulers, kind of like we did in America.
And like they've used America as a scapegoat for like the 20th and 21st century, really, for all their problems.
They go, look at the evil empire up there.
Look at what they've done to us, bad trade deals, you know, you name it.
It's in our interest, you know, to have our independence.
And they have that kind of spirit of independence similar that we do because we also rebelled against colonial rule, right?
In America, we were the first to do it.
But at the end of the day, you look at these places that kind of have a similar background to us.
If we were to go into Venezuela, and if all this was to kick off, every single one of the neighboring countries, except for, you know, Argentina, which is run by Malay, like is like a puppet of us, basically.
Every single one of those countries would go to bat for Venezuela.
And ultimately, they just joined BRICS even harder, right?
It's crazy because we used to be very close with Venezuela.
But you know why we were friends and best buddies with these people?
The oil, guys, the resources.
So at the end of the day, this was the only reason why, because we were shipping, we used to export a ton of oil from Venezuela back in the day, back in the 90s, I believe.
And essentially, before, you know, these private companies in the United States were in bed with the government, essentially pumping this oil out.
And basically, we were getting cheap oil shipped over to the United States across the Gulf of Mexico.
And then at some point, it switched as like the regime changes and it became less of that.
and they became less of control over venezuela and i think honestly he's making this about the cartels but i i'm gonna go on a limb and say this is more about the resources in my oh because china's in the oil than anybody yeah Yes.
And China's in there too, doing things.
They're actually building floating oil rigs for these Venezuelan people.
And like this is why Trump is a perfect avatar of like uniparty foreign policy is because this is what America's always done forever.
And, you know, it's this twisted idea of American exceptionalism.
We talk about this all the time on Gray Area.
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It's this twisted idea of American exceptionalism, not being, not meaning like inventing and building things at home or working in a cooperative way and being the best at doing that.
It's being the best at running and stealing other people's stuff.
And like that way, we really became the new British Empire.
So you just think about that and you think about what could have been all the great successes we could have had, all the great victories partnering and working with these other countries like Russia, like Venezuela, like maybe even China.
Right, because he's promised to end wars in certain places.
He promised to bring uh, an end to like certain things on immigration, like I mean, he did stifle the amount of immigration coming in and sent a lot of people back home.
Some controversial stuff with that.
But overall, I would say you know he, he did what he said and now he's trying to take a tough stance by saying i'm putting Americans first by doing this, because i'm trying to protect people from the fentanyl and the cocaine, and you should really appreciate what i'm doing.
Here's the thing, if you're trying to win the Nobel Peace Prize, this isn't the way to do it, isn't it so sick?
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It's like I, I stopped seven wars, I did it all in like record military shipments and now you're sending 10 of the NAVY over there.
Um, a C17, which is like a strategic aircraft, that is nineteen thousand dollars per hour.
Um, the refueling tankers, that is eighteen thousand.
And what i'm looking at here is the subtotal for, you know, all the aircraft flights from, like a single package, that is eight hundred and ninety three thousand dollars for, for a one-way trip or whatever we're trying to do with this, flying around in circles doing the loop, the loop, and you know it's just also 30.
Yeah, then I really don't know what the play is here, because I really thought it was the resources and if you're gonna say no in this circumstance, I don't know what you're doing.
And like, here's the thing guys, it's hard being in the right wing space, because a lot of these people that you see on twitter and some of them have like based opinions in some regards, but a lot of people support this.
I mean, my dad supports this.
I don't support it.
I think it's crazy to support it, but we got the enemies and over here, we just got to beat them up and bully them and it's just like well, I mean why I don't want to defend Maduro, because he really is.
Yeah, no, I've heard Venezuelans, they hate this guy.
They have starvation problems in Venezuela.
It's a bad state.
That being said, have we ever made anywhere better that we've gone?
I mean, ultimately, like, if we end up running your country, like, if you're like Javier Malay, who loves the U.S., like, we make you sell your water rights, your national water rights to Israel.
Like, if you want to see how the corporate media works with the government, like this is like all the language that he uses, like the powerful expression of U.S. military.
And like, look, my dad has a completely separate opinion on this.
I hate seeing this.
This is not how we're supposed to act.
And ultimately, when America goes through abroad, a fall of our infrastructure, a fall of our military, when these other nations rebel against us, when Russia and China, when they start winning, there will be no sympathy from us when they do war crimes on us because we're doing war crimes on people all of the time.
And there was just like, let's just say, China, like let's say we weren't as powerful as we were today.
China comes over and just starts fucking bombing little fishing ships off the, off the coast of the Mexic, off the coast of like Florida or something like that.
We would be screaming to the mountaintops, like, right.
You know, another direct parallel to all this is Cuban missile crisis, right?
I mean, we didn't like it when the Russians tried to put nuclear weapons over in over in Cuba, but then we go over to Ukraine and we're putting long-range missiles in Ukraine that can hit Russia.
And then we go, oh, like it's okay for us to do it, but it's not okay for you to do it.
Because the thing is, is when you're born in a particular demographic, if you were born in a particular area where people have been taught a specific set of ideology and rule set, that is their truth, right?
Because if you think about it, let's say the United States, it's some other religion than Christianity, and we preach some other religion.
That becomes the religion that everybody establishes their morals on.
So from our perspective, when we go out there and we're doing the missionary work, they're like, okay, well, this is something that we believe in and this is our truth.
And at the end of the day, we're going to hold our breath and say and die and basically die by the sword of this concept because we think, oh, because we were raised this way, this is the truth.
And we've painted this picture of ourselves as this is what America represents.
America isn't about freedom, liberties, constitutional rights for people, human rights for people.
And that's really like our greatest card to play is we invented the concept of a bill of rights of inalienable rights given to us by God.
That's not our narrative.
Our narrative is football, gun, missile weapon, military.
We're military guys.
And ultimately, if that's all we've got, if we don't have any freedom or liberty or any good soft power to export, and if all we've got is this disgusting little remnant of hard power and we just exercise and we go, look, we have nukes.
We have this big military budget.
We have all these weapons.
Ultimately, the reason why America is powerful is not because of the weapon systems or the missiles or even the nukes.
It was because after World War II, it was agreed that our dollar would be used everywhere as the world financial system.
And they're like, look, you're not going to give us back this money.
We don't care.
You're going to put these tariffs on us, these sanctions on us.
We don't care.
We've passed 18 sanctions packages against Russia.
We're trying to pass the 19th right now.
It hasn't changed things for them.
Their GDP is at 4.5%.
So still kicking.
Our ability to use the soft power of weaponizing the financial system, it's already dead and gone.
All we have left is the military.
And you see Jesse Waters coming in his pants about, you know, the ghost ship and the special forces.
And oh, we got those small attack helicopters.
They go into the quick insertion operations.
What do you know about the military, bitch?
You know less than me.
Like, this is a guy that sits in New York and tweets and gets off on maybe getting like a thumbs up from President Trump, who watches the program every now and then.
He doesn't know anything, but he signals to millions of the boomers, millions of the boomers that pay and vote and are a part of this power structure as the underclass to it, as the people that feed it, their resources and media availability.
He feeds them the narrative they want to hear.
And this is ultimately why we're in the situation that we're in today.
It's because of these people gassing up the boomers.
Isn't it insane that we went from Biden not saying anything basically to Trump literally yapping every day nonstop?
Look, the back and forth for the nation of we just go from like one bull to another poll and every time the government gets bigger, this is not sustainable.
This is not sustainable.
This is not sustainable.
And this is the key thing to remember, guys.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter who you vote for because the government gets bigger every time.
And by the way, another thing that I just really had a realization about that people should really understand.
America is not great because of our government system.
It is great because of the businesses, the services we have created, the intelligent people that we import from overseas from like China, India.
You know, we're taking the most intelligent people overseas and people are coming in like Elon Musk, creating these amazing technology that the rest of the world needs.
And we're like doing fantastic things.
Last time I checked, the trillion-dollar budget from the government has not solved any of the problems that has made America great.
Here's the thing.
Even if we didn't have a billion dollars to a trillion dollars to play with, no one's going to invade America.
We're not defending anymore.
We have 600, 700 bases across the world that are not solving any particular problem.
People want to be in America because we've created this culture.
We've created media.
We've created a bunch of celebrities and people that people enjoy.
Because when you're in China and you're in India and your parents are telling you you got to do homework for 15 hours and then they watch a movie seeing all the fun that people are having at these clubs and these bars and the American dream and the humos.
And so rather than incentivizing people with the carrot and the good things and just being able to like posture in a way that like you can just cooperate, we just bring out that massive stick and just play whack-a-mole to anybody who stands out of line.
And Chase is one of the, he came in as a new guy two years ago, and he basically runs a lot of these things in the background.
He's, he's partly like he runs the show and he's like an anchor himself, but like he actually does a lot of things in the background by creating like, you know, the technology, new ideas, the AI content.
The Alex Jones store, that was something that he came up with.
And he's done a lot of stuff with Big League and they've done a lot of things with them.
So, I mean, he's kept InfoWars float, afloat, and moving in the right direction.
I could see that because Dole is an American one that goes around.
I've heard rumors that the reason why the Palisades burned was because the oil reserve was underground.
Well, I guess we'll see.
I've been looking Ron.
I actually, they arrested somebody who they did that was the one that started it.
Apparently, with the story with that, not to get away from the main point, the Palisades started because this guy had been watching a bunch of content on burning.
A lot of these protein manufacturers, especially ones in China, I mean, you're talking about giant industrial vats and they're mixing all kinds of things in there.
Ultimately, with quality control, here's the problem: the bigger your batch size and the more raw material you have to mix or extract, the more error rate there is.
And honestly, the more contaminants you can get.
That's why it's better to work with smaller manufacturers like we do.
I can't tell you guys who these people are, but they said after that event where he fell up the stairs and it was like all over the news, they had them go and replace the stairs and the carpet, they're like, oh, the carpet must be bad.
Like obviously, like there's something wrong.
You know, there's no way he could do this.
Like it was just a big delusion to just basically say like, no, dude, the guy, he's lost his marbles, but they spent the money of like tens of thousands of dollars to replace the carpet when clearly it wasn't the American for you.
And so they had to spend all that time doing an inspection, sending guys out there to inspect the stairs and make sure that, oh, there's something wrong with the stairs and not the guy.
George Santos was a Republican congressman, kind of part of that new riot, kind of like Matt Gates type of figure, but he gets popped on campaign finance violation.
Let's go ahead and look at what they got him on.
All right.
Ex-Congressman George Santos Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Former Congressman George Anthony Santos was sentenced today by the United States District Judge Johanna Siebert at the federal courthouse in Central Ellipse to 87 months in prison for committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
As part of the sentence, Santos is ordered to pay restitution to his victims in the amount of like 300 and 205,000 forfeiture.
He pleaded guilty in 2004.
Today, George Santos was finally held accountable for the mountain of lies, theft, and fraud he perpetrated for the defendant.
It was Judgment Day and for his many victims, including campaign donors, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It was justice to Mr. Santos and other dishonest individuals of that ilk who lie, steal identities, and commit frauds.
So the purpose of the scheme was to ensure that Santos and his campaign qualified for a program administered by the National Political Party Committee to provide financial and logistical support to Santos's campaign.
To qualify for the program, Santos had to demonstrate, among other things, that his congressional campaign had raised at least $250,000 from third-party contributors.
Okay, so yeah, he just lied about how many donations he got.
Trump commutes George Santos's seven-year fraud sentence for immediate release.
President Donald Trump commuted the seven-year prison sentence of former U.S. Representative George Santos on Friday, arguing his immediate release after he served only months for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft convictions.
Trump justified the action of True Social Post as correcting a politically motivated prosecution, highlighting Santos's Republican loyalty while contrasting it with unpunished Democratic actions.
The commutation for the 10th of the 10th for a GOP congressman in Trump's administration drew praise from the Republican allies like Representatives MTG and Lauren Bobert and condemnation from Democrats, including Adam Kingsinger and Dom Baer as partisan favoritism.
But yeah, the power to just essentially wipe away a criminal conviction is wild.
And this is why I make the argument about civil court being worse than criminal court is because per the Alex Jones precedent, they can just declare you guilty or liable.
A judge can do it with really like no due process.
And then you got a billion dollars over your head.
You can't do anything about that.
But if you get sentenced to seven years in prison, the president can just write something down, then you're out.
And, you know, it's pretty crazy.
Yeah, they're literally allowing or just standing by and allowing AJ to be crushed, but they'll drop everything to free George Santos.
I mean, yeah, like I, it's got a lot to do with the presidential power, but also this is the point I made at the TP USA event yesterday.
The issue with our case, let's just assume like Alex is the worst person ever.
My dad is the worst person ever.
And that, you know, he's a big meanie and he has to pay.
All right.
Let's just assume that.
I don't grant that, by the way, but let's just assume that that's the case.
The FBI and DOJ receive money and they paid money to the law firms that sued him.
Right.
And that renders the whole case invalid.
But we don't hear anything about the 40 million that the Democrat law firm got to write off as pro bono work suing us.
We don't get to hear anything about the 1.8 million that they got.
It doesn't matter because it's civil court.
And ultimately, hey, you don't go to jail.
It's not that big a deal.
I would argue it is a big deal.
And, you know, I've been doing more research on the case and my argument for our case always hinged on the Eighth Amendment, like excessive fine, right?
But where I learned about the Eighth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment doesn't apply to a civil judgment.
So we've had a lot of people asking us about the indictments, the Comey indictments, the Brennan and Clapper stuff that may or may not happen.
And now that John Bolton stuff, John Bolton has pled not guilty to charges of mishandling classified information.
John Bolton is a guy, I forget who, Sheldon Adelson, Mirion Adelson's dead husband.
He's the person that pushed to have John Bolton in the first administration.
John Bolton is like a notorious war hawk.
He's super anti-peace, pro-war.
He was in Trump's first administration and he was one of the big bad picks that people didn't want.
And he was one of the people that quote unquote, Trump didn't know what he was doing.
And he got a bunch of people to just like work against him without his knowledge.
This is that guy.
And now he's been, I guess he's been arrested.
It says he's surrendered to federal authorities and expects to appear in court.
John Bolton, former national security advisor to President Donald Trump, pled not guilty in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland on October 17th after he was indicted on charges of mishandling classified documentation.
Bolton surrendered to authorities and turned himself in Friday morning at the Maryland courthouse, where he later pleaded not guilty before a federal judge.
Bolton, who has become an outspoken Trump adversary, of course, after being fired, after being fired from the first administration, is the latest of the president's perceived enemies charged by the Justice Department following the indictments of FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General's Letitia James.
In an 18-count indictment, Bolton is accused of sharing diary-like entries with two family members in 2018, 2019, detailing his activities as a national security advisor that included classified information.
Bolton, in a statement, denied the charges and said that he is Trump's latest target and weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those who he deems to be his enemies.
These charges are not just about his focus on me or my diary entries, but his intensive effort to intimidate his opponents, he said.
Information allegedly included covert actions planned by U.S. government intelligence confirming a foreign adversary was responsible for an attack and sources and collection methods used to obtain statements of a foreign adversary according to the indictments, like torture, probably or something like that.
Yeah, but he, dude, okay, are we not gonna forget that, like, and at Mar-a-Lago, this guy had like boxes stacked high of like nuclear codes and like I don't think that's true, not nuclear codes, but classified information when they got raided.
Like, I know the law fair happened, Biden went after here's the thing: all right, the president has ultimate authority, and it's not an authority as to where like he's got to sign something or do something, he can just declare something declassified, and then it's he did that after the fact when he proved that this is the argument.
But here's the thing: I think this is something that other presidents have probably done, they have all probably done something illegal.
Like you've jaywalked before, right?
Yeah, we've all talked about documents here, but I'm saying in general, I think the documents did exist.
I think that they probably did have a certain amount of unclassified information that should not have been just out in the bathroom or wherever it was located.
I think he's guilty of it, but I don't think that he's the only president to have done that.
This is true, but like imagine somebody goes into Mar-a-Lago and goes into that closet because it's probably not guarded and they start reading the information.
I bet you the freaking maid could have just been looking up something if they decided to.
And that room probably wasn't locked at a certain point.
It was just willy-nilly around.
I'm just saying like there's responsibilities that everybody has and everyone has.
I think this, I think the argument is that Bolton is working against the president or working against the administration in his capacity of doing these things.
So that is, it wasn't just, I maybe I misunderstood it.
I thought he was saying in this um that he was just giving information to like his family members and explaining situations about things that were classified.
Imagine calling fringe activists, guys, and ignorant retard.
He's referring to the assistant or deputy AG Todd Blanche.
Yeah, I mean, like, look, here's the thing, and this is what we talk about ultimately, you know, about like Jesse Waters and the Fox News people.
Even though we have more viewership than these people do, they're still more important, quote unquote, because that's what the power structure and the boomers understand to be important.
So, oh, like, who cares about the viewer count?
These are the people like in the studio in New York.
And to answer you, Chuck, yes, we are going to be doing more guests.
Rex is like still, you know, there's like a social credit that you got to get sometimes where he's now getting back into the mainstream of everything, but he's in communication with a lot of people.