*BONUS EPISODE: Episode 89. A Discussion In Politics With Stephen Marks
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honest criticisms in saying that it just could have been so much.
And did you see the ad at all?
Yeah, I watched it through.
So you know what I'm talking about.
I'll go over it real quick.
It opens up showing the rioting of these Arabs rioting at her convention.
She says not one word.
They're burning the Israeli flag, burning the American flag.
Why didn't she say anything?
Same reason she said nothing for a whole year when Americans on American soil were chanting death to America, death to Israel, and while Jewish kids in college campuses are getting beat up.
Why'd she say nothing?
Because those rioters, those bad people, she needs their votes.
That's a big part of today's debate of today's Democratic Party.
And that's also, now that we know for a fact.
My opinion, this was stupid of her.
She has Michigan pretty locked up if she had picked Shapiro and she would have got Pennsylvania.
But she had so much flack from the far left who hates Israel and that party that he's pro-Israel and he's Jewish.
I know she's not anti-Semitic because she's married to a Jew and has Jewish stepkids, but that was a bad mistake on her part not to pick Shapiro.
But I understand it.
He's too centrist.
She's too liberal.
The party's too liberal.
They had to pick somebody everybody got along with.
So she had to do that.
There's nothing wrong with that.
But the problem with the Trump people is they're not allowed to use the footage in my...
Can you possibly play with the first commercial on the air there?
Yeah, I have it ready to go.
Okay, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
And just let people know out there, whoever's listening, if you like this ad, it's sunshineonearth.com.
Very simple.
There's no minimum or maximum of what you can contribute.
It's a super PAC, because super PACs don't have any limits.
And it'll help get us on the air as often as possible in the swing states, if you believe in what you see in this ad.
What this ad does is it takes the good Kamala Harris that you saw in that debate who looked like a reasonable person and it just shreds her and shows everything she said was bullshit.
You'll see a different side of her than you saw in this ad.
You'll see the opposite side of her that you saw in the debate.
So that's why it's important for any swing voter to see this ad.
Okay, before we get it, we need to just take a step back here and do an intro before we do this.
Okay. Hey, welcome to the show, everybody.
This is the Paranautica Podcast.
I'm your host, Coop, and with me, as always, is the co-host, Cricket.
What's up, Cricket?
Hey, how's it going?
How you doing?
Everything going good?
Doing awesome.
Just got a great new game, actually.
It's nice to see some decent games come out for a change.
Astro Bot is awesome.
Astro Bot.
Loving it.
It's Sony's answer to Mario.
Like a platformer where you play this robot that gets all these crazy abilities and stuff.
It's fun as hell.
Awesome game.
Well, that's cool.
Aside from all that, we have with us today Stephen Marks.
Alright, Stephen Marks is a well-known, well-known man.
He's a Republican.
He's been responsible for the most successful hard-hitting Super PAC ads that actually helped defeat Al Gore.
John Kerry and many more.
And it could have helped defeat Barack Obama had the banks not crashed shortly before that 2008 election.
Am I right?
Am I right?
That's key.
Also, Stephen Marks is also the author of a highly acclaimed book, Confessions of a Political Hitman.
And he has appeared on over 100 TV and radio programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Combs, Waters World, Anderson Cooper 360.
Brian and the Judge, PBS, and many others.
His previous, his prior super PACs, just like this one we're actually going to play here in a little bit, brought up highly damaging issues against the Democratic nominees that were, well, they're not brought up by any other campaigns or super PACs.
So, Stephen Marks, welcome to the show.
And I know we had a lot of technical difficulties before we started this, but welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Can you hear me okay?
Yeah, we can hear you as good as we can, man.
These technical difficulties are horrible.
Alright, then I'll talk even louder.
That's okay.
Just yell at us, please.
Alright, alright.
Be spirited, yes.
Before we actually play this ad, do you just want to get into what the ad is and your position on things?
Well, you know, I'm one of those...
I'm one of those few people in America, most voters are very isolationist, you know, the last 20, 30 years.
They don't care about foreign affairs.
They just care about what's going on here.
I'm the other way around because what's going on in America, whatever our problems are with inflation, immigration, whatever, they're fairly minor compared to things that we've had to go through with the Cold War, World War II, with really bad economies under Jimmy Carter, for instance, with 18%.
Unemployment and inflation and interest rates.
So it's a pretty, to me, because I care about the world, there's one country, only one, that really is a threat to world peace.
Because the Soviets and the Chinese and America and Israel, England, France, Germany, none of those countries are going to ever use a nuclear weapon.
But if Iran, and they have nuclear capacity, but they don't have the capacity to put it on a warhead yet, if they have that capacity...
They will love to blow up the world, or as much of it as they can, so they can go see Allah and have 77 virgins the next night.
We're dealing with religious fanatics.
That's why there's so much more...
Whereas Russia, China, none of those people are going to do anything, really.
Or Israel, they also have nuclear weapons.
They're not going to use them.
And the problem is that people are not isolationists.
They don't want to get involved.
But the problem is, if we don't do something about Iran now...
And they're the ones that are funding all these proxy groups, you know, like Hezbollah, Hamas, etc., that are doing these terrorist acts.
If we don't get rid, if we don't do something, whoever the next president is, to just either take out Iran, you know, it's doable because we took out Saddam Hussein under Bush 1 in Kuwait.
It took about two weeks of air fire because we have smart bombs.
And then when we got to the ground war in one day, it was over.
And they had the fourth largest army in the world at the time.
We could easily take out Iran.
And you could form the same coalition.
All the NATO countries, the really good Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Emirates, Jordan, Egypt.
This time we can end Israel because they're friends with Israel.
And just take them out.
And you know, there are friendly Iranians or good Iranians in that country that would love to become a part of...
This all goes back to Jimmy Carter.
You guys probably are too young.
The hostage crisis in 1980 is what caused what's happening right now.
When he threw the Shah under the bus, the Shah of Iran, we got an Ayatollah there, and we still have an Ayatollah there, and they are the only threat to the world right now.
And the problem is, you've got the Democratic Party for the first time in my lifetime, or since ever, They're totally anti-Israel, and a lot of them are anti-Semitic.
Not Kamala Harris.
She's married to a Jewish man and has Jewish stepkids.
But she has to pander to these, in Michigan especially, where all those Arabs are that hate Israel, hate Jews, like I said, marching on American soil, saying death to Israel, death to America, doing it right at her convention.
She says nothing because she needs their votes.
So the point of this super PAC ad is to show the other side of Kamala Harris.
She made a great speech.
She claimed that Israel was her friend.
She actually criticized for the first time ever Hamas as being bad people.
But you know what?
The point is, you can't say Israel has a right to defend themselves and Hamas is bad.
And then in the next breath, and you notice the convention people, they clapped a little bit.
But in the next breath, but all those dead people in Gaza...
They have a right to live too.
Well, you can't have it both ways.
How can Israel defend themselves if they don't try to get Hamas?
You're going to have collateral damage.
And innocent people are going to die just like they did in Hiroshima.
70,000 of them.
But if we hadn't done that, we would have lost 5 to 10 million people if that went to a ground war in Japan in World War II.
So you have to look at the bigger picture.
So how can Israel defend themselves and not take out Hamas?
She's clearly siding with Hamas.
When Netanyahu came and spoke to the Senate, she snubbed him.
She's vice president.
She's president of the Senate.
She's supposed to be there.
She snubbed him.
She met him the next day, basically told him to go fuck himself, and said, I will not stand silent on Palestinian suffering.
Well, you know what?
At that time...
She was totally silent on Israeli suffering to that terrorist attack, which killed 1,200 Israelis.
That's the equivalent of 10 9-11s in America, considering their population is so small.
And also, she said nothing about the suffering of all those hostages, women that were gang-raped, said nothing.
But she's defending the victims in Gaza.
And then...
Only just recently, during the debate, did she finally come out and say that Hamas are evil people and they're bad.
But at the same time, she's saying Israel has to have a ceasefire.
Well, if Israel has a ceasefire and they're not letting out hostages, which is what happened the last three times Israel had a ceasefire, what can be accomplished?
Only one thing.
Hamas wins.
Terrorism continues.
So, we have two hard choices.
They're really both bad.
Either we take out Iran, or ten years from now, or five years from now, they're going to have a nuclear weapon, and the whole Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, the Emirates, Israel, they'll all be demolished.
Now, Israel has nuclear weapons.
They can fight back, but it'll become World War III.
The rest of the world's going to have to get involved.
So this super PAC ad shows.
Well, besides that, the only way we can have peace is if we elect Donald Trump, with all his faults, he will not let any of this crap, it wouldn't have happened under his presidency.
There's no way Hamas would have, or Iran would have had the money, first of all, because, if you remember, there was a sanction money taken out of Iran, and Obama gave the money back to them, Trump took it away, and then Biden gave it back.
I think it was $20 billion, something like that, or $200 billion, I don't remember.
But that money, I'm sure, a lot of, some of it went to fund Hamas' attack against Israel.
That's clearly blood on the hands of Obama and President Obama and Biden for giving that sanction money back.
But Trump, if you remember, in between, he took the sanction money away.
He put the sanctions back on.
So anyway, had he been president in the last four years, there would have been no attack on Israel.
There would have been no war between the Ukraine and...
Russia, because Donald Trump is very close friends with both Putin and Zelensky, it just wouldn't have happened.
Also, the reason that war started with Putin going crazy was because three days earlier, or a week earlier, whatever it was, the Taliban just marched to Afghanistan without firing a single bullet.
This is a country for 20 years, we've spent hundreds of billions, well, I don't know how many, tens of billions of dollars, lost thousands of lives between Americans and innocent Afghanis.
Taliban just walks through there without firing a single bullet, takes over that country.
Biden does absolutely nothing.
In fact, a few days later, he said he didn't remember any of it, which I believe that.
Just a few days later or a week later, Putin invades Afghanistan.
I mean, the Ukraine.
You tell me that would have happened if Trump was president?
No way.
So anyway, that's another issue.
But the super PAC ad shows, which you're going to see.
That something terrible is happening in America today for the first time.
And we've seen it all year, all over the campuses, all over the rioting, all over the country.
There's this rampant anti-Semitism and anti-Israel and, by connection, anti-America.
Because the bad guys who hate America, they hate Israel.
If they hate Israel, they hate America.
They know that we're together.
So it's been going on for a whole year.
All these riots and people actually getting killed.
The Democrats, because they need their votes, because the state of Michigan, the Arab votes in Dearborn and Detroit, and some of the black people that hate Jews over there too, they need those people's votes.
They need to win Michigan.
She can't win the election without winning Michigan.
So she's basically sucking up, not necessarily sucking up to them, but she's letting them get away with this stuff, because she needs Michigan.
And the whole point is, she said nothing about any of these...
And instead, she blames it all on Netanyahu.
She said, I'm not going to, again, I'm repeating myself, she said, I'm not going to stand still and say nothing about Palestinian suffering, but Israeli suffering and all those hostages, including American hostages,
she does nothing, she doesn't care, and the commercial points out, which you're going to show, this goes way beyond Her hatred of Netanyahu in Israel today.
She has a long history of sucking up to anti-Semites.
And we're going to show quotes from the first person she called, the very first person when Biden dropped out.
She needed to get support of the black groups, the women groups, the Democratic base.
First person she called to get the black support was the most notorious.
And out in the open, anti-Semite in the whole country, the Reverend Al Sharpton.
And I show in this ad, which the Trump campaign can't use it because I own the videos of Sharpton, the things he said, because when he was telling kids to kill cops at Keene University in New Jersey, one of the professors there took footage of this and gave it to me because he didn't want his name on it.
He was afraid to feed for his life.
showing Sharpton telling kids to kill cops, kill the crackers, meaning white people, calling America's founding fathers the scum of Europe.
She knew this.
Everybody in Washington knows this.
And what did she do when she visited his convention recently?
She went, Rev, I love you.
And you're gonna see this on there.
You can't make up footage.
And she can't respond to it.
She knew this guy was dirty and anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-America.
And she went...
I love you because I need your black voters, the people that you represent, I need their votes.
So you're going to see the exact opposite of the slick, likable Kamala Harris that you saw on TV in that debate.
She was great.
But you see, that's not the real Kamala Harris.
You're going to see in this ad the real Kamala Harris, and if you believe in it, with all Donald Trump's faults.
None of this stuff would have been going on had he been president and there'd be peace around the world, if that matters to anybody out there.
And there wouldn't be any of this hatred of Israel and Jews in America that's spreading.
It's all coming from the left.
It's not coming from, you know, a couple of dozen Proud Boys.
They don't kill anybody.
Al Sharpton was responsible for people dying.
He not only called Adolf Hitler a great man, No, I...
during a riot that Sharpton incited, he was killed.
And yet the Democrats suck up to this guy because they need his votes.
It's mind-boggling.
Al Sharpton is one of the worst, and I've never understood, ever since I was a kid, seeing this guy on TV.
It's like, why is this guy held with such esteem?
Like, this dude is a horrible...
I'll tell you why.
Well, hold on, because he was an FBI informant throughout the 80s and 90s.
Yeah, but I'm going to tell you why.
Because when MSNBC was about to go bankrupt, I don't know, 10, 20 years ago, he put the deal together.
That they merged with somebody to keep afloat.
And they gave him his own TV show.
Anyway, that's why he's...
And when he goes on TV, he just seems like a regular, reasonable, black, civil rights guy.
They don't know the other side to him that you're going to see in this ad.
The real Al Sharpton that Kamala Harris says, I love you.
People need to see this.
And the question I ask at the end of the ad, it's very important.
What deal did she make with him to get his support?
What role will he play?
In a Kamala Harris administration.
Can you imagine him being UN ambassador or being secretary?
Who knows what she promised him?
We don't know.
But at least you have to think about it before you make your vote.
So please, if you don't mind playing the ad, I'd appreciate it.
And I'll just say one last time, if any of you folks out there agree with it's in the ad and the swing voters in the swing states need to see this ad, anything you can contribute, even if it's a dollar or whatever, there's no limits on it.
Because it's a Super PAC ad.
You're allowed to contribute as much as you want.
Just go to sunshineonearth.com.
The reason the Super PAC is named that is our other ad talks about how under President Trump, we had no war.
We had peace.
So it's called sunshineonearth.com.
That's where you go if you want to make a contribution.
And I guess, like I said, I'd just appreciate it if you just show the folks the ad.
Absolutely. Before we get into that ad, Craig, is there anything you'd like to add to that?
Any response?
Rebuttal? I've heard many people speak passionately on the pro-Palestinian cause and I would just like to say that all of those protesters are none of those people.
They are current thing worshippers.
They're going after what they're told to.
They'll riot for the climate tomorrow if the news tells them to.
They're just going after this because it's what they're latching on to.
It's the exact same people that were burning buildings over injustice.
They just protest whatever is necessary.
And honestly, whether you're sympathetic to any cause, it's almost gross to have them sitting with you.
It sucks.
But that's irrelevant because it's causing other people who really do hate Jews and do hate Israel to become violent and to become part of the Democratic Party.
And you're right.
Most of those protesters are...
See, ironically, they're providing cover for Nazis.
They are.
You hating the real annihilationist Nazis.
I hear the rhetoric and it creeps me out.
Now, as for Al Sharpton, his...
The rhetoric that I heard in that video you're about to play, it doesn't sound any different for me from that rant that I heard that college professor make.
And the thing that really bothers me is that that just happened and it's considered non-controversial now and it should be really messed up what she said.
Honestly, if you haven't heard that rant, well, you're going to hear him say it.
Well, she was effectively talking.
She was effectively just talking about how just white people as a whole were just inherently evil.
Oh, okay.
And she went off on how she wanted – and she actually had a point where she said, I don't want to say that we should just wipe them all out or anything.
But I can't say that.
I mean, I can't say that.
I'm thinking you just freaking did say that.
And not only – Yeah, you say it without saying it.
No blowback.
It's so messed up.
Not only that, it gets worse.
The Democratic Party, not just Al Sharpton.
Who has, by the way, spoken in front of Democratic presidential conventions.
You know who else spoke in front of Democratic presidential conventions?
Louis Farrakhan.
You know who was the mentor of President Obama?
Jeremiah Wright.
The Democratic Party has a long history of embracing anti-Semites and anti-Americans and the lowest scum garbage because they need their votes.
Do you understand?
This is a cynical...
The most powerful man in Congress, Democrat.
Chuck Schumer's a Jew.
He doesn't criticize...
And he demands Netanyahu's resignation, as did Pelosi, as did Kamala Harris.
But they don't ask for the resignation of the Hamas leaders to be replaced with peaceful Palestinians like the Palestinian Authority, for instance.
They only ask for the resignation of Netanyahu.
He's the bad guy.
So anyway...
I mean, they would if their bosses told them to.
Yeah. But they won't.
They won't.
That's right.
That's what the whole Democratic Party has become now.
And I don't want to make any illusions here because I stand firmly on my beliefs that I'm anti-war.
I'm anti-death penalty.
I'm anti those sorts of things.
I believe all wars have been orchestrated, very planned out by certain groups of people to put people here, place people there.
This is what we're going to do.
It's going to take a long time to do it, but this is what's going to happen.
And the weapons manufacturers are going to fund both sides.
I think all of that is orchestrated far more advanced than most people care to believe.
And I think this World War III, which is going to happen, it's just part of this ongoing process with, well, what's going on between Israel and Hamas and these other groups that are...
Just fully funded by the United States.
I don't want to make any illusions here because, I mean, Stephen, you and I, I'm on your side.
We're friends here.
But we're going to have disagreements, obviously.
That's just the way this works.
Boy, yeah.
I'm an anti-war hippie, too.
I'm not going to want war at any point.
I like to focus more on the points of agreement.
Absolutely. And you're bringing to the show today a different perspective because normally we just get a lot of kind of homo-siloing in a way.
Yes, we have to listen to counter-narratives because we cannot simply assume we are correct on everything.
If we do that, we're no better than the people we criticize.
100%. And I normally don't...
I wouldn't promote any political party or anything like that to this extent that I'm doing at the show today, but I'm just, this is a knowing how Trump is knowing how Kamala, the Kamala, Kamala, Kamala, the Kamala Harris
administration slash Biden is like it,
I'm going to let this one go and have this time.
See, I'm just essentially letting it slide because the oligarchy is so prominent as of this point.
But I still maintain my constant ethos of distrust all politics and all politicians.
It's more a matter of I see a far greater threat there at this point.
Then I trust anybody, honestly.
Yeah, that was interesting.
Sorry, I'm not an inherently trusting person as a whole, and I probably never will be.
Right, right.
And I mean, we just watch politics play out, and it's...
I get...
Yeah, that's what I...
I wanted Trump to offer more solutions.
I wanted to hear more things.
I mean, I wanted Kamal to offer more solutions.
I just knew she wasn't gonna.
No. But I was hoping he was.
No. Oh, you guys both know...
There was another shooting on Trump today, right?
No, I didn't know that.
Oh, yeah.
So he was golfing at Mar-a-Lago, I believe, or somewhere over there.
I think it was Mar-a-Lago.
And apparently there was a man perched in some bushes and the Secret Service saw the rifle poking out of the bushes and they confronted the man.
Shots were fired by Secret Service.
Apparently no shots were shot at Trump is what the news is saying.
The police found two backpacks and body armor of ceramics, apparently something like that.
It was hanging on a fence in the bushes.
Was he killed?
The man was not killed.
He got away.
He ran away from the Secret Service.
He got away, jumped in a car, and was driving away, and they had pulled him over.
I don't know how.
They did that.
The wording, it sounded like they had a T-bone or whatever, pit maneuver or something.
There is a picture of him standing outside of the car with his hands up and his shirt up too.
So they did catch him.
He is alive as we speak.
We don't know how long he will be alive.
Well, that's good because that first killing was kind of weird where the Secret Service let that building...
Stay vacant.
And they knew this guy was up there.
They had complaints within a half hour before the shooting.
People screaming at them, he's got a gun, he's got a gun.
And they see him with the gun and don't shoot him until after he takes the shot.
And it was very reminiscent for me because you're too young to remember when Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy and two days later he shot.
In other words, dead men tell no tales.
So that was weird.
So I'm glad.
That this guy, at least, he's alive.
If there is something going on, he'll talk.
That's what I'm saying.
He's alive right now.
He might actually talk.
Yeah, I was reading the spin on it already.
They're already trying to downplay it as, oh, it's just an exchange of gunfire.
So it's funny that you point out.
It was like, well, yeah, it was an exchange of gunfire because they caught him.
Because they're like, well, that wasn't an assassination attempt.
And I'm like, nah, somebody was just taking a nap in the bushes with a rifle, man.
Yeah. I know when I take naps in the bushes of golf courses, Trump might be on.
I feel a lot safer with my God.
Like, my God, that excuse.
At least this appears to be, you know, not some kind of, you know, they caught the guy and they did, whereas the other one was just weird.
Yeah, the other one is way too internal.
100% internal.
But this one, well, first of all, how did he know this?
How did he know that Trump was going to be at this golf course at this time, at this spot?
How did he know that?
So there's talk that there's a mole in there telling this dude where to be at what time.
Probably not because Trump is very transparent and open about it.
He goes to the same golf place at the same time every day.
That probably...
But it's not like the first one where there had to have at least been one person within the Secret Service or local police or somebody.
Whereas this one...
Dozens. If this guy lives and he's not murdered like two days later, like Lee Harvey Oswald, if there is anything conspiratorial, he will talk.
Which is why they had to kill Oswald and shoot as well as...
Yeah, they're going to be another Jack Ruby type situation.
The other thing is, I'm pretty surprised that the Secret Service quote-unquote failed so miserably and couldn't even spot an entire human being with an assault rifle get up onto a freaking rooftop,
perch himself, and be there for X amount of time.
But they see a...
What they said is they saw just a rifle coming out of the bushes, just the end of it.
So they were able to have eagle-eye vision on this one.
But the one at Butler...
Did you see the shooting of Reagan?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Eight Secret Service guys.
One guy scratching his balls.
One guy's looking up at the sky.
One guy's flirting with a girl.
Can you imagine how bad a shot you have to be?
Point-blank range.
Like maybe 15-50 away.
That guy took eight shots at Reagan and then hit him once.
The one that hit him ricocheted off a car door.
When I was seven years old, I could shoot.
And he hit Brady three times and he hit two cops.
But there was really no conspiracy.
This guy really was crazy.
But the point is...
He's also related to the Bushes.
I'm not going to get into that.
But twice Gerald Ford within a month...
We would love to.
Because it's so ridiculous.
We would love to.
We're just going to disagree on that.
It's not his style.
But anyway, Gerald Ford twice within a month was shot at...
In California, once by a Charles Manson person, squeaky from, and once by Sarah Jane Moore, who was a teacher, who said, assassination is a legitimate form of regime change.
So Secret Service has been out to lunch, and the Kennedy assassination is the worst, you know, where they always screw up, and a lot of times it's incompetence.
But it does make you wonder if there's something inside going on.
You just don't know.
Here's an interesting factoid about Kennedy.
I never knew there was a prior attempt.
Yeah. Tell us about that.
That wasn't actually the first.
Yeah, supposedly like a week or two beforehand, there was another big lapse in Secret Service security, but the shooter was unsuccessful, so then they just failed until it worked.
I don't know if I've heard about that.
And not only that.
I heard some talk of it.
I haven't looked it up or anything, but supposedly there was another lapse in security of some kind.
It just didn't end up in an assassination attempt.
Right, but that was very minor to what happened in Dallas.
But it demonstrated that in a way they were trying to already make attempts to, quote, fail.
As in, oops, we're screwing up.
It's like at some point, you know, one mistake's a problem and a mistake, two mistakes to screw up, three is enemy action.
I did know on December 11th, 1960, JFK was, well, a guy named Richard Paul Pavlik, a 73-year-old retired postal worker, attempted to kill JFK.
Well, that's not the one you're talking about?
Well, I was just thinking, the one I was hearing about was just a more minor, effectively failure of Secret Service to protect, more or less.
But it didn't result in an assassination attempt, because I'm guessing probably whoever was in place or whatever failed to get it off.
The ones against President Ford were even worse, because Squeaky Fromm got the gun right to his head, and it misfired.
And Sarah Jane Moore also got the gun like an inch away.
And, you know, her arm was hit not by a Secret Service man, but by just some, you know, an onlooker, a good Samaritan.
So both of those, Ford almost was killed twice because the Secret Service guys were scratching their balls and...
Who knows what else they were doing?
Probably watching, reading, wrestling comic books or something like that.
And you know, outside of the Reagan shooting, how many average normies know those other stories?
Right. Yeah.
Were there any attempts on Obama's life like that?
That's a good question.
I don't think so.
I wonder why.
Well, if you're going to say it's only Republicans they shoot at, that's...
That's kind of what I'm saying.
Wait, hold on.
Hold on.
There were several threats and plots against Obama.
Just no full-on attempts.
Yeah, nothing like the Trump stuff.
So 2008, North Carolina Waffle House, an accountant named Jerry Blanchard was indicted for threatening to kill Obama during a breakfast at a Waffle House.
And in 2013, there were ricin-laced letters sent to Obama.
And the suspect was actually later released.
And had nothing to do with the case?
Okay. So, nobody really knows who sent that?
Was that during that whole period where there was a bunch of fake anthrax attacks?
Was there potentially more of stuff after that?
I remember those anthrax.
Yeah, the post-9-11.
Yeah, in like 2013, 2013.
Yeah, like the fear ramping up period.
Could have been.
Could have been part of it.
Because I was just thinking that would have been during the whole rise of it.
He wasn't really a big known quantity up until he wanted to become president.
I don't know how many people had heard of him overall.
That's true.
Let's play this Super Pack ad.
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Are you stapling stuff?
Cricket. Better.
Here we go with the Super Pack ad.
It's about three minutes.
Why did Kamala Harris say nothing during a convention speech regarding the rioters outside burning American and Israeli flags?
For the same reason she said nothing all year during those other riots, Americans on American soil chanting, death to America, death to Israel, and assaulting Jewish college students?
She said nothing about those rioters because she needs their votes.
They are an important part of the Democratic Party's new base.
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First, she said it was wrong to describe terrorism in the Middle East as radical Islamic terrorism.
To object when they use that term, radical Islamic terrorism.
She doesn't consider killing innocent people to be radical or to be terrorism?
Then she snubbed Israeli President Netanyahu's speech before Congress, along with half of the Democrats in Congress, while not one Republican snubbed him.
The next day she did briefly meet with him, but then trashed him, saying she would not remain silent to Palestinian suffering.
But at that time she did remain silent to the Israeli suffering from the terrorist attack from Hamas, plus the gang raping of all those female hostages.
Instead, she demanded that Netanyahu order an immediate ceasefire, but did not demand that Hamas release all those hostages, including the six hostages subsequently killed, including one American, causing Kamala to finally criticize Hamas during the recent debate.
Too little too late.
Whose side are Kamala Harris and the Democrats on?
But it gets worse.
After Biden dropped out, one of the first phone calls Kamala Harris made to get the support of black leaders was to America's most openly vicious anti-Semite, the Reverend Al Sharpton.
Sharpton not only called Adolf Hitler a great man, but demanded the removal of a Jewish-owned store in Harlem, leading his followers to burn that store down, killing eight innocent people.
Sharpton said, if the Jews want to get it on...
Tell them to pin back their yarmulkes and come to my house.
Knowing all this, what did Kamala Harris have to say to Sharpton when she addressed his convention?
Rev, I love you.
She loves the man who also urged college kids to kill cops, or off the pigs, as he so elegantly put it.
Who also called America's founding fathers the scum of Europe.
Who also called for the killing of white people or offing the crackers.
Key question, what role might Sharpton have been promised by Kamala Harris in the Harris administration in return for his support?
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the party that embraces those who hate Jews, hate Israel, and hate America.
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I just want to add that that ad does have a visual to it, and I thank you for playing the audio part.
The folks get the gist of it.
If you go to sunshineonearth.com, you can actually see the visual part of the ads as well with those clips of Sharpton and Kamala Harris.
Sunshineonearth.com.
Right. And there's a second ad talking about how the world was a safe place under President Trump.
And because of Biden's weakness, it's now all these wars going on.
So that's why the Cuba Party is called Sunshine on Earth, because there was no wars.
There was Sunshine on Earth when President Trump was president.
But it would be good to see that, just to see when you heard the clips, you're just hearing them.
But when you see Kamala Harris smiling, Like a 10-year-old girl saying, I love you, Rev. When you see Sharpton saying those things to college kids, they kill cops.
And you get to see me just speaking, babbling incoherently as well.
It'll make the case a little better.
So if you have the time, just go to sunshineearth.com.
You'll see the ad visually as well.
And I want to thank Coop for showing that.
Yeah, no problem.
And I just want to give a little update on the Trump thing.
So... A gunman apparently opened fire with an AK-47 while Trump was playing golf in West Palm Beach on Sunday just after 1pm.
The Republican nominee was rushed to safety as Secret Service agents opened fire on the suspect who had a GoPro camera and two backpacks along with his rifle.
The would-be assassin has been named as Ryan Wesley Ruth and is now in custody.
That's R-O-U-T-H, Ralph or Ruth.
And from AP News, appears to be an attempted assassination at his golf club just nine weeks after the first attempt.
U.S. Secret Service opened fire at the man hiding in shrubbery about 400 to 500 yards away on the course.
And the dude, Ryan Wesley, did jump in his SUV and fled the scene, but was later caught.
So, that's the most updates we have so far.
Going by all three names.
Guess they're treating it as a real attempt.
I was just going to say, what's interesting about it is the guy's got three names.
All these guys, like Lee Harvey Oswald, Gary Chapman, and they're all, they all had three, and who was the guy that shot Martin Luther King?
He had three, oh, James Earl Ray.
Yeah. All these guys end up with three names.
It's kind of interesting.
Yeah. Swiss Share could never be the same.
Yeah, apparently this guy, Ruth.
Not enough names.
Right. Ralph was convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
Apparently it's a bomb.
What it would be.
He was in a three-hour standoff with police in that incident.
He had a gun and barricaded himself inside a roofing business.
So, wow.
I wonder what he'll say when they ask him why he did it.
Very interesting.
Why'd you do it?
I was on 4chan.
I was radicalized by a 4chan post.
Dude, I watched...
Oh, man.
I watched a...
I don't know if you've seen this, Cricket.
It's a documentary on Netflix called...
Hold on.
Hold on.
My girlfriend texted it to me.
I told her to text the name to me.
Oh, my God.
Not Social Dilemma.
That's a different one.
Anti-Social Network.
Have you seen that?
Anti-Social Network.
Yes. No, I don't think I've heard of it.
When I watched it, I said, Cricket needs to watch this.
The Tale of Anonymous Posts?
Is it about 4chan?
Yeah. Yep.
Yeah. So I thought you might be into it.
4chan has dropped some pretty crazy revelations over the years because of it's an anonymous nature.
It's like the old Wild West internet used to be all over.
Yeah, well, to get into, like, who cute...
Alright, so I had a big, big problem with that.
Alright, so they basically go on there and say that Anonymous, you know, a bunch of 4chaners created Anonymous, and then they said that they were the ones behind Q, and yeah, they say a lot of stuff, dude, that I'm like, what?
That sounds like something an intel agency put out there.
Yeah. Totally, dude.
And gee, it's got a Netflix special.
I wonder how well it's prominently placed in their analytics and or...
And the recommendations to get the numbers they want of people to see that.
Exactly. We all know Netflix is a huge CAA op.
Yeah, and them going after 4chan is a huge thing because they hate anonymity so much.
Steven, I wanted to ask you this.
Oh crap, where did that go?
Oh yeah, here it is.
So Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being investigated for chopping that head off of a whale.
Well, let me tell you something about that guy that nobody's talking about.
Yes, please do.
No, you have to say it like, you ever watch Al Bennett Costello?
Yes, a couple episodes.
Do you remember when he goes, may we?
And he goes, please do.
But anyway, what were we just talking about just now?
RFK Jr.
Yeah, let me tell you something.
He picks this billionaire...
To be the vice presidential nominee, which made sense.
His campaign didn't have that much dough, and they needed to get on the ballot in all 50 states to be a serious third-party candidate.
Turns out, they're only on in four or five states.
All that money went into...
And it's going to come out in their next FEC report.
All those consultants, it went into their pockets.
He never...
And whether any of it went through RFK Jr.'s pocket, I have no idea.
But somebody made money.
The same thing happened with the no-labels party.
This would have been a good year for a third-party candidate when you have two candidates that are not well-liked.
Same exact thing happened.
They raised a couple hundred million dollars, and then all of a sudden they collapsed.
Because when they asked Liz Cheney and Manchin and Nikki Haley...
Would you be interested?
They were all interested until they found out I'm only on the ballot.
Oh, but by the way, our party's only on the ballot in three states.
And they raised a lot of money, enough to get on the ballot.
And I guarantee you, and again, it'll be in the FEC report as consulting fees.
The scumbags who were running that thing, that whole thing was a scam from the beginning to just pocket the dough.
Oh, dude, you usually are.
It's all fucking legally in the United States, and nobody cares, except for me and maybe Bernie Sanders.
Nobody cares.
Man, it sounds like the plan all along was to drop out and endorse, but first he wanted to make a bunch of money.
No, but that's not helping him.
Nobody takes this guy seriously.
He's a drunk.
And let me tell you, I grew up in New York.
My first interest in politics, my first love in politics was Bobby Kennedy.
And this guy, I understand why the rest of his family wants nothing to do with him.
And you ever hear him talk?
He talks like this!
Doesn't he have some sort of disease or something?
I don't know what his issue is.
I don't know, but he's not...
Causes him to talk like that?
No, I think he's just drunk, probably, but I don't know.
I don't want to get screwed for slander.
Totally. You know, a third party candidate, if you're a third party candidate, you have to have an issue like Ross Perot had good issues with campaign finance reform.
What did he talk about?
He talked about either radical stuff on the left with the climate change or radical stuff on the right with, you know, I don't know what it was, but something like the election being rigged.
I don't remember what it was.
But the guy didn't talk about any normal issues to get people in the middle.
If you're a third-party candidate, that's what you have to do.
And I don't know how serious he was.
I don't know if he's pocketing money.
I really don't know.
But the whole thing is ridiculous.
Or as we say in Brooklyn, it's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
Here's a question.
Why do we have, whenever we have the candidates talking, say, at a debate, They don't really ever say anything useful or informative, but then when they do a podcast with someone or do an off-script type of discussion, they say a lot of really good things.
Why is that?
That's because the debates, the national ones, they're very scripted, they're very rehearsed, and they're so afraid of maybe making a mistake.
You know what I mean?
Whereas you go on a Howard Stern show, and he's very good at just getting people to open up.
I don't know if you saw his interview with Tom Brady, but he gets people to say things that they wouldn't normally say.
Guys like that, they know that very few people are listening nationwide, and nobody really cares unless they say something really stupid.
Donald Trump was on Howard Stern over 100 times, and they were friendly.
But to Stern's credit, when he first ran against Hillary, he didn't take sides, and he stayed neutral.
And we have no idea who he even voted for.
But, yeah, it doesn't make sense, because even if you say something stupid on a small show, it's going to get out if it's really, really bad.
But, as you know, even Trump said some crazy stuff.
You know, you're talking off the cuff, and you let your guard down a little bit when you're just talking to a local podcast person or a local radio.
But those big debates on TV, they have to be really, really careful.
And you know what?
They still screw up half the time.
I remember Jimmy Carter saying, Barbara Walters said, what's the most serious problem facing America today?
This is when he got crushed by Reagan.
And he goes, well, Barbara, you know, I asked my daughter Amy.
You know, his only campaign strategy was he knew he couldn't win.
He had to scare Americans into believing Ronald Reagan was going to blow up the world.
When, in fact, we all know what happened.
He rid the world with Gorbachev of 80% of the world's nuclear weapons.
That's beside the point.
Well, my daughter Amy.
I asked her that same question.
Now she's six years old.
I asked that question today.
I asked that question today.
What's the biggest problem facing America, Amy?
And she said she thought nuclear proliferation was most...
The next day, the press just crushed him.
There was cartoons of Amy Carter, six years old, being the Secretary of Defense.
But I mean, sometimes people really screw up and say stupid things in debates.
General Ford said that the communists were not...
An influence over Poland.
I mean, sometimes they just make really...
And Al Gore, my God.
That cost him the election.
And he was just so nasty, cutting off the...
Kind of like what Trump...
Almost like what Trump did last year, where he had to stop it.
Cutting off...
He kept cutting off Bush.
He kept cutting off the moderator.
And the moderator kept having to stop him.
Mr. Vice President, he acted like a 10-year-old.
And sometimes...
These debates do kill candidates when they have a really bad debate.
And President Trump's debate four years ago, remember, that race was pretty close.
But when he acted a little aggressive and Chris Myers couldn't handle him and had to shut it down, he lost four or five points.
So he was just being himself.
He wasn't saying anything crazy or anything, but he just got a little obnoxious.
You know, he just lost.
You know, he likes to talk.
He's from Queens.
I'm from Brooklyn.
I get it.
We just talk like that.
He didn't mean anything by it.
But those debates can kill candidates.
Oh yeah.
We live in this weird ecosystem now where because of meme culture, some of the stuff that you say that you think will be the most damaging winds up making you unintentionally popular.
It's so crazy to me that of all things, Hassan Piker...
Probably ended up pushing Trump's popularity more than anything else with his friggin' They're Eating the Cats, They're Eating the Dogs remix.
Like, so many millions of people heard that, and then he deleted it, and everybody laughed at him, like, nope, we got it saved.
Fuck off.
It was beautiful.
Do you know when Bill Clinton's popularity went up the most?
When he played trumpet.
No. When he said he didn't inhale.
No. This is really true.
50-year-old man getting some action from a 19-year-old intern on your knees.
The men thought it was cool, and the woman thought, wow, he must be pretty good.
I mean, it actually helped his popularity.
Yeah, he played a saxophone, not a trumpet, my bad.
On a senior hall, I think.
He was good on a senior hall, that's true.
Yeah. Yeah, but it's interesting that during that whole scandal, which did hurt him politically, obviously, the regular people thought it was kind of cool, you know?
And the way I look at it, try to imagine you're governor of Arkansas for 10 or 12 years.
You have kind of an open marriage where, you know, you agree.
You know, they were partners and helped each other politically and they had a good relationship, but it wasn't a romantic marriage, like a normal marriage.
You do what you want, I do what I want, as long as we don't humiliate each other.
And try to imagine, put yourself in Bill Clinton's position.
You're very isolated.
you've lived only in Arkansas your whole life.
For 12 years, you're the governor.
And as I said in "The Godfather," you're banging them 10 at a time, hundreds of women, several Miss Arkansas's
including Sally Perdue, who was the only woman he was in love with.
And you're used to getting as many women as you want.
The next thing you know, you're President of the United States, you've got 27 Secret Service guys up your ass, and you're dry for six and a half years?
maybe he had sex with Hillary once every seven months or so.
Ew. Gross.
Now, what do you mean?
Okay, so what are you going to do in that situation?
Do they schedule it?
And postpone.
And, you know, you're a 50-year-old guy, very sexual, and, you know, have a good libido, and you haven't had any action in six and a half years.
Next thing you know, this, like, 19-year-old girl is on her knees with those moose breasts and those lips.
You going to say no to that?
Moose breasts, man.
The moose knuckle.
Just hanging out there.
And the funniest thing about it was she found out he was working on Christmas Eve.
And she, you know, so instead of 15 or 20 Secret Service guys, there was only one because he only came in for an hour.
She found out what time he was coming in.
So instead of wearing her usual frumpy intern's outfit, she's wearing this thing with the tits hanging out.
And she orders a pizza, goes to the Oval Office and tells the Secret Service guy, Mr. Secret Service fan, the president ordered a pizza, which was a lie.
She ordered it.
Can I please give it to him in there?
That would really be a thrill.
So he felt sorry for it.
Yeah, go ahead and give it to him.
Try to imagine.
You're Bill Clinton.
You've never seen this girl in your life.
You haven't had any action in six and a half years.
And this girl's on her knees?
You're going to say no to that?
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
I mean, what was her defense?
She didn't swallow?
No, she admitted...
Oh, you mean when she finally came?
Her defense was only because she and her mother were about to get...
Thrown in jail for lying in front of a federal grand jury.
You're not allowed to do that.
So she had to cut a deal to stay out of jail, and she showed the dress.
Now, I'm going to say something people will find offensive.
That's why people tune into the show.
This is what they like.
Okay. I think it's romantic if that situation happens, and she's saving that part of him because she has feelings.
She was in love with him, and she didn't wash it out.
And because it was a special thing.
You know, when Clinton would visit European countries, he had feelings for her too.
Not the same, not in love, but he did feel things that I can assure you.
He never bought poetry books by Walt Whitman and underlined parts of it that says, this reminds me of you, like he did to Monica.
He never sent a book like that to Hillary.
So he cared about her too.
They had, you know, whatever it was that they had.
And that was romantic.
Business relationship?
No. Strictly business.
The funniest part was when Bill Clinton finally came out and told the truth.
He goes, what started as a friendship became inappropriate.
Friendship? She walks in the door.
She's on her knees without even what's your name or hello or good morning.
Anyway, but that's a romantic thing to me that she kept that part of him.
But you know what?
If it wasn't for that...
He would have gotten completely away with it.
That was the physical evidence that nobody knew existed.
And he lied because Clinton lied to his staff, his parents, the public, everybody, even me.
I would have ended up believing him if there was no physical evidence because she did have a history of she fooled around some college professors who were married.
But I'll say this about Monica to her defense.
It's really important.
After it was all over, First of all, all she asked for during that whole thing was a job in New York making $40,000.
That's what got the whole thing rolling.
And she got a job with Revlon, which of course they didn't hire her after the scandal.
She could have asked for $20 million.
Same thing with Stormy Daniels.
But anyway, she was not greedy.
And then after the whole scandal...
She was offered so much money to pose in Playboy Penthouse.
She never did that.
She never wrote a book.
She never took advantage.
The way all these are, like Paula Jones and Anita Hill.
No, Anita Hill actually stayed pretty quiet.
But some of these other, you know, bimbos, she was at least decent about the whole thing.
And nobody even knows.
I'm pretty sure she's married, living somewhere, but she's been out of the public eye.
She never did it for attention or made any profit from it.
So this was at least a decent person.
Who had feelings for him.
And he had some, at least, affection for her.
And, you know, when she was, you know, sometimes when you have oral sex, when a lot of it comes out, you miss some of it sometimes.
You know, the girl misses some of it.
So it went on his dress.
He didn't know.
I thought they used it for the trial or whatever.
They did.
Evidence. That was the only evidence they had.
They had to use it.
And she was stuck in the- She should have fucking swallowed.
Damn you.
Look, it happens.
Damn you, Monica.
It happens.
Therefore, that's the more romantic- No, no.
It happens.
It happens.
And he didn't realize that she didn't swallow all of it or missed some of it.
And it was just a little bit, you know?
But that's enough.
DNA is DNA.
You can't get around that.
And she kept it as a romantic, sweet thing.
And that's what happened.
Because she kept that.
That was the physical evidence that did him in.
And, you know, it just happened.
And the tragedy here is that Clinton, like President Nixon, they were both good presidents, and they went out, you know, one was kicked out of office, and one had to leave under a cloud over the stupidest thing.
It's never the act, it's always the cover-up, you understand?
Nobody cared.
If Richard Nixon came out and said, you know what, a couple of schmucks that work for my campaign...
They broke into the Watergate.
They're complete idiots.
The bug they put in didn't even work.
They got nothing out of it.
They're going to jail for a few months and club fed.
I'm really sorry.
It won't happen again.
That's a two-day news story.
Nixon goes on to finish his term and goes down as a good president.
Had Bill Clinton come out and said, you know what?
Today, I did something stupid.
I misspoke before the grand jury.
I said I didn't know Monica Lewinsky.
Yeah, we had an inappropriate relationship.
I'm really sorry.
Everybody knew he was a bad boy with the ladies.
Two-day news story.
He would have finished out his term.
He already had a deal with Bob Dolan Gingrich to bring the Social Security age up to 66 and a half.
And he would have gone down as a fine president.
And they fuck up over the stupid...
It's not the act.
It's always the cover-up.
The opposite.
I'll give you the opposite.
John Kennedy, Bay of Pigs, and Ronald Reagan with the Ron Contra.
John Kennedy was only president for a few months.
He came out the next day and he said, you know what?
I really fucked up.
I didn't go to those guys' air cover.
It was a terrible mistake.
The CIA and I weren't really in sync.
And I'm really, really sorry.
And you know what?
John Kennedy, because he was an honest man, his ratings went up when Ronald Reagan went before the public and said, you know what?
I didn't think I was trading arms for hostages.
We both had to show goodwill because we've got to get rid of the Ayatollah after he's dead.
We want to have good people there.
So to trust each other, we said to them, what do you want?
They needed arms.
They're having a war with Iraq.
And then they said, what do you want?
And Reagan was sentimental because James Buckley, his EAA agent, had been tortured to death.
He was a spy.
He wanted those hostages out.
So they made this thing to show good faith.
He didn't see it as arms for hostages trading.
But after it happened, he realized, he got in front of the American public and said, you know what?
You know I've never lied to you.
I really didn't look at it as trading arms for hostages, but that was the result.
And I fucked up and I'm really sorry.
And both those men, their popularity went way up because they, you know, when you show real contrition and real remorse, people are very forgiving.
But Clinton going on TV and saying he's sorry about what happened with Monica for five minutes and attacking Ken Starr for the next half hour, that didn't fly.
The press crushed him.
And then he came back and he gave a real me a culpable speech.
But it's never the act.
It's the cover-up that gets these guys in trouble.
And it's mind-boggling.
Something so stupid, and these were both very decent men, Clinton and Nixon.
They were both good presidents overall.
I wouldn't say either were decent men, but yeah, continue.
This guy never took an illegal nickel in his life.
Before he became president, the most he ever made...
You don't think he helped run cocaine through Amina, Arkansas throughout his...
No, I don't.
I really don't.
You don't think so?
No. I don't think it's his style.
You don't think it's his style?
That guy was crazy.
He was a cokehead.
Okay, I don't know where you heard that his brother Roger was.
Me personally.
There's no evidence.
There's been books written about it, man.
Yeah, there's been books written about a lot of conspiracy.
There's so much evidence.
You can ask Barry Seal whether it's true or not.
It's called circumstantial evidence.
And none of it.
He got sad.
Shot himself in the back of the head twice.
Yeah, Barry Seal got really depressed and shot himself in the back of the head twice.
With a shotgun.
With a single shot shotgun.
But I think Clinton was a decent man.
After he got a DUI that for some reason had him lose his firearms rights.
Who's that?
Barry Seal.
Oh, yeah.
It was right before he got depressed.
So then he killed himself with that gun he wasn't allowed to own.
I'm not disputing that, but there is absolutely no evidence that Bill Clinton had anything to do with it.
His brother Roger was dirty.
Everybody knows that.
It's the same thing with Biden.
I'll say it.
His son's as dirty as he can get, but Joe Biden never took an illegal nickel from any of those countries.
It's just not his style.
It's just not.
Now, his son, Hunter, is a piece of garbage and scum of the earth.
But, you know, there's always a black sheep in all these guys' family.
You remember Donald Nixon, the president's brother?
He ended up in jail.
George Bush's son, Neil, with the SNL scandal?
He ended up not going to jail.
But it was pretty bad.
And then Billy Carter taking a half a million dollars from Gaddafi.
Do you remember that?
And Jimmy goes, I love Billy!
And there's always some black sheep in the family.
So don't hold it against Clinton because his brother was a drug addict.
I don't hold anything against Bill for his brother.
I hold everything against Bill for everything Bill did.
I mean, I don't know, man.
I don't know.
What did he do that you can prove?
I mean, Bill Clinton did see the initial rise of drone warfare.
We always talk a little about Obama, but those devices were not created during Obama's era.
No, that's true, but you think...
We've been using those things since we first sent them out.
In general, any president is just involved in all of our dirty dealings.
They can't get away from that.
Alright, I'll challenge you on that.
What did Ronald Reagan do that was dirty?
Let's see.
Iran-Contra.
What did Reagan do that was dirty?
Well, I know he's been implicated in a lot of sex assault scandal things.
He was definitely accused of that.
Please, I don't want to hear accusations on nonsense.
What was he actually found guilty?
What do you know that he really did that was corrupt?
Ronald Reagan.
Iran-Contra.
There you go.
Okay, no, no, that was bad judgment, which he admitted to.
It wasn't corrupt.
It wasn't corrupt.
It was stupidity.
He really was trying to get relations with moderate Iranians.
He didn't know the Ayatollah was going to live to be 125.
So there were moderates there that wanted to have a good relationship with us after the Ayatollah croaked.
And he thought it was a good idea to try to get on their good side.
So they made a deal.
Where it was trading arms for hostages.
It was not corrupt.
It was stupid.
And he did come out and admit it.
He never did anything corrupt as president anyway.
Yeah, we know.
The war against drugs was just a disaster.
Yeah, I was about to say, if he did anything furthering the war on drugs, I'm automatically going to fault him for that, because that is a disgusting program of oppression.
Right, but did he do it out of...
Out of corruption in any way.
No one involved in the war on drugs has ever done anything involved in it except out of corruption because it was born of corruption.
It was created to jail hippies who wanted to protest the Vietnam War.
So anyone wanting to continue it.
And now that you mention it, he actually presided over the war on drugs during the crack epidemic.
So yeah, that's pretty direct corruption.
That means anybody that was anywhere, that doesn't prove anything.
Anybody that was anywhere where something bad went on, like you talked about Bush knowing the Hinkley family.
That's true.
You knew the Hinkley family.
There's no evidence he had anything to do with it.
And if you know anything about George Bush, one, unlike W, who did some shady stuff.
Mandatory minimum sentencing was a part of the war on drugs, which was supported by Reagan.
That's right.
It put a lot of people in prison for things other than crack over time.
Yeah, for dime bags.
Well, so did Bill Clinton with three strikes, you're out, and truth and sentencing.
He was very tough.
For sure.
They're all bad.
Yeah, see, I already consider him scum.
But Reagan spent like $4 trillion.
I don't really fault Reagan as bad.
No, exactly.
There is a scale, a rate system.
They're not as bad as this one, but they're all baseline bad.
You don't get to a position of power, especially a president, if you don't have your hands dirty.
You don't get there being a saint.
And nobody ever apologized for the war.
They're still pretending that was a good thing.
It was stupid.
And it was wrong, but it wasn't dirty.
He was not doing it for corrupt reasons.
And not every president is corrupt going into office.
Who's your least favorite president?
My least favorite president of my lifetime was also completely clean.
And that was Jimmy Carter.
But he was the worst president.
I'll admit that.
But he was an honest, decent man.
What did he do that's corrupt in his life?
What did FDR do that was clean?
Corrupt in his life.
Oh, come on.
Okay, I can't.
Introduced every socialist and communist idea into the general zeitgeist.
80 years later, he's literally destroyed the entire country.
FDR began the concept of we can just keep giving people social programs.
So Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, that's all corrupt.
And my father went to college on the GI Bill because he served in World War II.
Before Roosevelt, there was no middle class in America.
Those programs that you disparage because you don't think the government should spend any money on anything, they helped create a middle class in America.
But even if you're right that those programs were wrong, which I don't agree with, there's nothing corrupt about it.
He believed in it.
He believed that it was best for America to do something for poor people or for people whatever.
He believes in it.
He wasn't making any money off of it.
Cricket, did you say Medicare and Medicaid were corrupt?
No, he's saying he's bringing up all these issues that FDR did in the New Deal that he thinks it's all bad.
He literally started the concept of socializing expenses.
Part of it was Medicare and Medicaid.
Right. Let me just interject on that part because Medicaid and Medicare, yes, they're beneficial programs.
Yes. There's still proto-Marxist programs, though, that are all stemming from collectivism.
What it leads to is full-on socialism.
Yes. Because when you have so many people relying on a government program, which those programs basically want more people to rely on.
Then you believe in social Darwinism and survival of the fittest.
If you're poor, just fuck you.
You're in the street with nothing.
No, I don't believe that at all, man.
I am a poor person.
I believe people shouldn't be stuck being poor forever, no matter how hard they work, which is actually where we're pretty much at.
Exactly. What I'm saying is, in terms of those programs that were just mentioned...
They're great.
They help a lot of people.
They are sort of necessary.
But what it leads to, they weren't just like, we need to help the poor.
And that's it.
They were like, we need to help the poor.
And this is what we're going to do with this consequence.
And this is going to help us in the end with more money.
And it's going to bring on socialism.
You're right, but here's the flaw in your argument.
FDRs, those programs were good.
They got fucked up under LBJ 20 years later.
When he put all the welfare in and all the other things that were really bad.
But the ones brought in by Roosevelt, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, GI Bill, all the things he did.
It's true it led to an entitlement and mentality across America and some very bad policies on the LBJ with the welfare state.
But don't blame that on Franklin Roosevelt.
I guess I should say this too.
I don't really blame the presidents themselves.
For doing a lot of these things.
Because they're handled.
They have a lot of constituents and companies really telling them what they need to start doing.
You have Nike coming in or whoever.
Not even Nike, but like APAC or something.
And it's like, this is what you're going to say.
This is where you're going to head.
Get on live television, make a statement, and say these things.
There were never going to be anything but corrupt.
What happens to government over time?
It was going to be the inevitable result.
And the thing is, is all of these ideas came from Marxist notions of collectivism, which means even if the president didn't intend them, that is the intended result of the people who fed him these ideas.
So yes, they worked out good at the start, but they were never going to work out good because they were being run by the government.
And the government is inevitably a corruptive force.
And the larger it gets, and the more it gets involved, that's just how it ends up.
That's why people want small government, because the less involvement, the less damage they can do.
Well, under Ronald Reagan, and believe it, you know who had the smallest government in our lifetime?
The lowest budget?
The only president in our lifetime to have a surplus?
Do you know who he was?
To have a surplus?
Smallest government.
Since I was born in 1957.
Smallest government.
The only one to have a surplus.
Do you know who he was?
Probably Reagan.
No. Reagan had a deficit because of the military buildup and the tax cuts.
There was one president in our lifetime that actually had a surplus.
Clinton? Yep.
Yeah, I remember.
I remember because it was news.
His budget was so lean.
It was ridiculous.
It's because he was making so much money on the coke.
Oh, come on!
You're changing the subject.
It's okay.
You're never going to convince us to trust government officials.
I know, I know.
That won't be a bridge I'll ever afford.
Well, wait a second.
But it's okay.
I'll take these into consideration regardless.
Okay, but you're saying you're talking about all the wasted government spending programs.
Welfare reform?
That was Bill Clinton.
Two years on welfare and you're out.
And he put the strong arm on big business to hire these people in low-paying jobs.
And it was a great thing that Bill Clinton did.
And he did exactly what you believe in.
Less government and less welfare and less handouts and less entitlements.
And the economy boomed under Bill Clinton because of that.
Because all those people that were on welfare ended up getting to work.
He was the only president in our lifetime.
I'm sorry.
I think we did have...
Surpluses under Ike and Kennedy.
But at least from Lyndon Johnson forward, Bill Clinton was the only one.
And guess what happened after him?
W comes in with no child left behind.
Destroyed everything.
That was left.
It's public record.
Look at George W. Bush's federal budget compared to Bill Clinton.
You'd be shocked.
See, it just kind of demonstrates that anything good you try to do gets undone.
Try to fix the welfare system.
Because the whole reason the welfare system ends up crushing people is because of the inflationary problem, making it so you constantly need to make more while giving you a certain floor that you need to be on, which effectively means until you make a certain threshold of money,
you're all at the same level of suck.
Which then ends up driving up consumer prices because all of the businesses want to maximize their profits based off of that extremely large demographic that suddenly appeared.
Suddenly you've got millions of people who all share the same income level, effectively.
And so it ends up driving everyone's expenses up.
So even though the people...
Effectively, the way it works out due to that is that the people that could afford things now feel like the people that couldn't afford things but didn't have the welfare before.
Well, I think it's a lot simpler than that.
When you have a law that says you get pregnant, if you get married, you get nothing, but you don't get married, you get a handout.
That was what caused the problem.
All these unwed moms had...
Babies. And the more babies they got, the more money they got.
And as long as they didn't get married, money kept rolling in.
So you were encouraging women to actually get pregnant and not work and not get married.
And rely on the system.
Exactly. And the first person that spoke out about it before Reagan, believe it or not, was in 78, was Jack Kemp when he was a congressman in Buffalo.
And then Reagan talked about it, but he had a Democratic Congress, so he couldn't get anything passed.
And ironically, Clinton did it with the Republican Congress, if you remember.
But he still did it.
It's true he wouldn't have gotten it done with the Democratic Congress, but he still did it.
Do you think Al Gore or Barack Obama would have done it?
No. Bill Clinton, if you take away the abortion issue, he was a very conservative president when it came to anything economics or foreign affairs.
Can you imagine Bill Clinton in today's Democratic Party even existing?
He would be considered extreme on abortion, actually, let alone the other issues.
No, but in today's Democratic Party, the guy who gave welfare reform and the guy that built so many jails and gave three strikes here out and truth in sentencing, which means you do 85% of your time.
In New York City, if you committed murder and got 25 to life, you did three years before Bill Clinton.
Him in today's Democratic Party, can you imagine Ronald Reagan in today's Republican Party?
He gave 8 million, I think it was a 7 million illegal immigrants amnesty.
And he appointed two judges to the Supreme Court, even though he was the first pro-life president.
He appointed two judges, O'Connor and Kennedy, that upheld Roe v.
Wade. He wouldn't be allowed in today's Republican Party.
And Bill Clinton would not be allowed in today's Democratic Party.
They were both fairly moderate when you look at it by today's standards.
But people, if you remember Reagan, they considered him a crazy conservative, but he wasn't.
And Bill Clinton was no liberal, obviously.
And in my opinion, for whatever it's worth, in our lifetime, well, I shouldn't say this.
I'll just leave my thought to myself.
But anyway.
I just see it all as the war party.
That's why, effectively, they just pick the policies.
That they end up choosing.
It's almost like what side they pick at the start is really more about getting a starting template.
Because in the end, they just pick and choose what the hell they actually want to bother following.
Because realistically, that is totally true.
That Bill Clinton actually started Work Fair to Welfare.
See, the libertarian view isn't that social programs are terrible at everything.
It's that the social programs incentivize people to be stuck.
So they don't necessarily want people to be broke.
They want people to actually make more money by working.
Well, here, let me just say this really quick so I don't leave the listeners waiting for answers.
So President Clinton...
Increased the national debt by almost $1.4 trillion, almost a 32% increase from the $4.4 trillion debt at the end of President H. W. Bush's last budget.
And then you go up to George W. Bush, and President Bush added $5.85 trillion to the national debt, a 101% increase from the $5.8 trillion at the end of Clinton's last budget.
was that libertarians would only favor social welfare with strict immigration.
They effectively said you had to choose one and could not have both.
I know there's always the proto-hardcore libertarian types who want as little involvement as possible, but they're really the extreme outliers, and honestly, they share more views with the anarchists than anyone else.
But the actual main gut of it, the people who are worried about things like CBDCs, that seems to be more their thrust, is that you can have one or the other, but you just can't have unlimited everything.
You can't have all the good things all the time.
And you believe guns shouldn't be registered at all?
No. Holy shit.
Wait, what?
Cricket, you don't think guns should be registered?
No, the libertarians have that view that there should be no gun registration.
And not only that, no drug should be illegal.
Heroin should be allowed to sever you.
Yes. You agree with that?
Heroin, I could understand a certain degree of age limitations and whatnot.
But no, I would not want drugs to be overall illegal because the incarceration has created far more harm than the drugs have.
The whole reason fentanyl is such a problem right now is because we made it illegal.
Well, that and now they're just flooding the streets with it and they're putting it in things where it shouldn't be so people aren't expecting to get a fentanyl type high and then they, well, they overdose.
Me personally, I'm pro-gun.
Absolutely 100% pro-gun.
And registration, I mean, guns should not...
They're legal for a reason, right?
Because they're registered.
They have a serial number.
See, that's not necessarily the registration that I would disagree with.
The problem is that anytime you actually go to purchase one, you've got to fill out a bunch of paperwork.
And they've demonstrated over and over again that despite their lies, they save that stuff.
And that's what I'm talking about when I say guns registered.
If you're saying no serial numbers at all, anyone can produce one.
That's, again, the proto-anarchist, heavily libertarian angle.
I'm not necessarily in that camp all the way.
I don't necessarily want everyone to be able to produce weapons without any restrictions.
See, I more pursue the...
I guess the...
It's not really even libertarian.
It's more spiritualist aspect of I want any laws that are created to follow a doctrine of demonstrable harm, where if you're going to put someone through the violence of incarcerating them and pointing guns at them and threatening them and harming them and taking away them from their family and all of that,
you need to demonstrate some Demonstrable level of harm from that item because so many of our problems come from the fact that so many of our laws are just laws that are punishments.
They're punishments because punishments should be made.
And why should they be made?
Because X is bad.
But why is X bad?
Who does it hurt?
Oh, who the hell knows?
Punish them.
They're bad people.
And that's why I've always been very anti-war on drugs because ultimately that's the notion.
It's not the notion that some drugs are harmful.
It's the notion that all drugs that are not sanctioned by the government are bad, so the people that use them are bad.
And you can't simply argue about any particular drug being bad in and of itself.
You also have to demonstrate what you're replacing it with.
Because when you, for example, took away weed, which is still illegal on a federal level, And an awful lot of people have to smoke it.
You're effectively telling people that all of those depressants are really the same.
It's illegal.
The government doesn't like it.
Therefore, weed is the same as heroin.
Weed is the same as every other downer.
Weed is codeine.
Weed is downers.
Weed is every single depressant drug because once you treat it that way, that is the way society starts to view it.
That's the way we act and that's the way we do it.
And so as we softened up and people started realizing that weed wasn't so bad, people started thinking, well, maybe not everything else is so bad.
And that's the trick is some other drugs are extremely harmful if abused.
And we need to be cautious on those.
So again, doctrine of demonstrable harm.
Demonstrate the harm produced versus the harm caused by incarceration.
I think there's a middle ground on there that maybe you're not seeing.
I think they changed the marijuana thing federally, didn't they?
They lowered it so it's not...
It's still Schedule 1. No medical value.
No scientific value.
I think they finally made some exception where they could do research on it.
I don't know.
Maybe they pushed it to Schedule 2. I think Trump was also of that thinking, too.
Oh, that's what you're talking about.
The commutation of the federal weed sentences, which...
By that point, it wasn't a lot of people, but, you know, it sure would have been nice back when they were incarcerating tons of people in the 70s and 80s and 90s.
No, remember he let all those prisoners out of jail that were in there for drug possession.
And all those cases are always fed cases and never at the state level.
Yeah. For me, where I stand on the drugs is, I kind of follow along Cricket's line here, is like, well, anything, I kind of disagree with him about, you know, any drug is dangerous if abused.
That's what I believe.
It doesn't matter what it is.
It could be marijuana.
If you abuse it, it could potentially be dangerous.
I don't argue any drug is safe.
I just argue that when you put the law at the same level for different drugs, that people's external view of it, when they're looking at it from the outside, I experience this with the whole anti-drug thing,
that people start seeing them as the same until they do something.
No, I don't think...
I don't think you should be able to go to a gas station and have a choice of what heroin or methamphetamine you want or anything like that.
And you don't agree that the more people that are on drugs, the more crime you're going to have.
Just petty crimes, I admit.
But you're not going to have more crimes on the street?
I think if people were actually allowed to consume drugs, roughly the same number of people would actually use them.
There might be some people that use drugs they didn't otherwise, but honestly, I don't think that would really happen terribly often either.
People are mostly going to use what they prefer regardless of the laws, honestly.
It's more a matter of, are you willing to put people in jail, and is it worth it to drag people out of their family, and is that equation a greater societal good than the potential harm?
Because, see, I'm not going to count, because automatically people using a drug that's illegal are going to be...
Committing a crime and therefore they're going to be more exposed to the crime because instead of going to the store like you're talking about they're going to a drug dealer so then they're going to somebody who's already committing crimes well maybe they might be committing other crimes so the trouble is is that our prohibition is actually making the crime problem worse because now we're getting people who would be going to a dispensary for example to get weed But before that,
they had to go to a drug dealer, and maybe that drug dealer also had heroin, and maybe he also sold other stuff, and maybe some of his stuff isn't entirely pure, so maybe you're getting stuff you don't know about.
Because once you enter into the black market, well, then all those regulations are off, because none of those people give a crap about any of that stuff.
You're already committing a crime.
Right, but you know what the problem with that is?
In, I think, 40 or something, 40 or 45 states, medicinal marijuana is legal.
But here's the problem.
Any drug addict, you know, or bad person, if you just, like, go to, if you call a number, they ask you a couple of questions, and they basically approve it for, and you have a headache or you have an ingrown toenail, okay, we'll give you pot.
So a lot of people are getting it where it's not really medicinal.
Because anybody, pretty much, it's so loose, you've got these Timothy Leary-type doctors prescribing it to anybody that has an ingrown toenail.
What's better?
Prescribing opiates?
Prescribing hydrocodones?
Oxycontins? Is that better than marijuana?
Of course.
Those people slowly drinking themselves to death?
Of course not.
And you're right about that.
Because that is the alternative.
More people get killed from DUIs than, I'll admit that, than from smoking pot.
Well, because the other option is just don't use drugs, and obviously people aren't going to take that option.
I'm drinking drugs right now.
I'm drinking this really cold coffee, and it's gross.
See, that's another example of the societal view of drugs.
You're consuming a potentially fatal stimulant that is on par with cocaine, but because our society accepts it, that's okay.
True. That's so fucked up.
Damn you!
Damn you!
And that's just because, well, and honestly, the real reason why coffee is legal and very unregulated, because frankly, again, as I point out, demonstrable harm, its prohibition would make people freak out.
I mean, look back at how the murder rate got cut in half by alcohol being legalized.
It's like...
When we take these things away from people, it gets even worse because then they have to find nasty alternatives.
I don't hear a whole lot of stories of people dying of spice anymore now that it's easy to fake a medicinal condition to get a medicinal card.
I don't see people dying of K2 and spice and all those random synthetic weeds that were actually killing people a few years ago.
And see, the other thing I always want to point out, because I've seen this firsthand and it makes me sad, The skilled trades are full of alcoholism.
And it is because weed is still illegal on a federal level in Schedule 3, which means it's still illegal to use for the Department of Transportation, which means any job that involves traveling on a federal highway for any kind of government or anything work.
It's going to involve you needing to pass a DOT urinalysis, which will require you to be clean of marijuana.
And most of those are regular tests, so those people can't just clean themselves out and pass it once.
They have to stay clean.
And I see example after example in all of these skilled trades, because this isn't just DOT.
Before weed was legalized, this was all over the place, where people were just drinking themselves into utter oblivion.
And it hurt me inside watching them.
And I'd be like, well, why don't you just try weed?
Try something else that's not going to freaking kill you.
And they'd say it straight up.
I can't lose my job.
I can't give up my career to find a less harmful substance to use.
And so what do we tell those people?
Oh, just quit.
Just quit drinking.
Just go cold turkey.
Or start smoking cigarettes.
Yeah, just do that.
Or you just get forced into a treatment.
Or you get forced into some kind of treatment.
Well, because when they go admit they have a problem, they go force them into treatment.
Now you're basically a criminal because you have a quote-unquote problem with substance.
Yeah. And see, I used to work on a construction site.
And every last one of his construction workers was a pothead, and they would smoke pretty regularly when they weren't working.
And it didn't really slow them down or anything.
But then him, he was the foreman, which meant he had certifications he had to maintain so he couldn't smoke.
So he was an alcoholic, and he had to literally put away a six-pack over the course of a day just not to get the shakes.
It's horrible.
And I'm talking a six-pack, that is his working alcohol blood level.
Not like, you know, I feel buzzed or I feel pleasant.
That's literally, I'm not in physical pain feeling like I could die.
So that's what made me so passionate about this.
That's what made me very absolutist on this, is because every time I see prohibition, I see it gets pushed hard, and then I see the people that turn to more harmful things simply because they're socially acceptable and kill themselves with it,
because it's totally okay to die if you do it in a societally acceptable way.
Yeah, yeah.
So let's get off of this discussion.
Al Sharpton, okay, so he was found guilty of some cocaine back in the 1970s, and we were getting into him when we started this episode.
Where is Sharpton now?
Why is he back in the news cycle?
Why is his face everywhere again?
Because he has good PR people, and because the Democratic Party needs him to get out the votes in New York and some other big cities.
And this election is going to be won or lost on the margins, as you know.
And every single black voter that they can register, and every single female voter that's pro-choice on abortion, that they can register.
And they're doing a pretty good job, the Democrats.
They're way ahead of the Republicans on the mail-in.
The Republicans had four years to figure it out after the last one.
And they still don't do it.
Whereas Democrats have been very organized on getting people registered from their constituents, you know, from their major special interest groups.
So because Sharpton does have a fairly big following nationwide, especially in New York, but more nationwide, and even in these 10 swing states inside the election, every one of those states has a lot of black folks.
You know, and just go through the list.
You have North Carolina, Ohio.
I'm trying to think the states are going to decide the election.
My mind's going black.
Of course, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Then you have Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia.
And New Hampshire.
Except for New Hampshire, every one of those states has a pretty sizable black population.
Sharpton doesn't control every black vote, but he's a symbolic figure to a lot of black folks who are well-meaning and don't know about his past.
If you're not from New York, you don't know about all this crap that he did.
Because like you said on TV, he comes off as a pretty reasonable guy.
And he's funny and he's charming.
And he says funny things.
And the Democrats need him to get as many black voters out as possible.
And the same way they need...
You know, feminist leaders to get the women votes out.
And Kamala Harris is going to get a lot of young college-age girls who are voting for the first time.
You know, you don't see them in the polls because polls poll what they call likely voters, which means you voted two or three of the last elections.
These are new female voters because of Roe v.
Wade being overturned.
A lot of those young, and that's why there was no Republican wave, why the polls were a little off in the last election, because a lot of those women were voting for the first time, so they weren't polled.
In this election, if the Democrats do a really good job, and I think they are, at getting those young women from college age and a little older who were voting for the first time, if they can get them motivated, you know, abortion was never an issue for presidential elections.
It was for state.
And, you know, for governor it was, and for state legislature and Congress, but never for president.
And president people vote, always voted, you know, in foreign affairs and the economy.
And abortion was kind of, no matter how you felt, you know, Ronald Reagan was the first pro-life president, but nobody voted against him because of abortion.
Whereas now, it's an emotional issue because of the Dobbs decision.
Girls, young women in colleges who have never voted before that are now getting jacked up by the Democrats, motivating them to get up to the vote.
The same way black folks before Jesse Jackson ran for president, they didn't vote.
They didn't believe in our system.
They thought it was rigged against them.
They gerrymandered congressional districts, so there were hardly any Democratic members of Congress or state legislatures today.
There's thousands of elected black officials on all different levels.
And we had a black president.
We may have a second black president.
It's all because Jesse Jackson, in those two races where he ran, he came in second place on the Democratic side in 84 and 88. He got black folks to really believe in this country and get involved and get motivated.
And they are.
And Sharpton, unfortunately, because Jesse Jackson, you know, is kind of retired.
Very decent man.
Shropden, unfortunately, is one of these guys that's still out there that the Democrats need to get the vote out.
And they'll take help from wherever they can.
Unlike Republicans, they would never invite David Duke or the Proud Boys to speak at one of their presidential conventions in polite company.
That would be something else.
Democrats have no shame.
And you know what?
They know the Republicans are too stupid.
They've been too inept for the last 30 years to say anything bad.
About Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, any of those lunatics.
And like I said, Sharpton and Farrakhan have spoken before presidential conventions of Democrats.
Can you imagine?
Yeah. And President Obama getting elected when his mentor and his spiritual advisor was a guy that said all those things?
I'm not even going to repeat what he said.
But the Republicans have been pathetic.
About scared of being called racist or whatever the reason is.
I'm hoping that's why this ad, I'm hoping it reaches swing voters.
And, you know, Trump was starting to do well with black voters, if you remember, especially male black voters.
But then when Kamala became the nominee, that all went down the tubes.
And a lot of those swing states, like I said, even if the population is only 7% or 8% black, That counts a lot, especially a state like Georgia, for instance.
You know, the Democrats won Georgia for the first time in like, what, 50 years in the last election?
They got two senators.
Remember, they went to runoff, Herschel Walker and the other guy, the Jewish guy.
First time, and Trump lost Georgia.
And that was the first time a Republican lost Georgia, you know, in many, many years, you know, a long, long time.
And Texas, I don't know if you remember this, Trump only won by like five points.
See, even Texas could become a purple state because you have a lot of black folks and young liberal folks who are moving into the suburbs.
Like in Georgia, it happened, it was the suburbs of Atlanta.
In North Carolina, it became a purple state because of the suburbs of Charlotte.
You know, regular middle class and upper middle class black folks moving into those states.
It's helped the Democrats tremendously making those states that were pure red states are now purple states.
So you, I mean, we all watched the last debate.
And who do you think won?
I guess.
Quote, unquote, won.
We know who won.
I'm not going to answer that.
Right. Okay, so I just, I see all over social media and the news.
When I watch and I turn on the TV, I rarely watch news, but sometimes I just have to tune in and see what's going on.
Everyone's like, oh my god, Trump had the worst debate ever.
Kamala Harris nailed it.
It's like, what?
How is that even possible?
She lied like 131 times.
Doesn't matter.
Here's why she quote-unquote won.
It's all about expectations.
She had never been on that kind of stage before nationally.
And a lot of...
She'd been in the shadows of Biden, who wouldn't give her really any power or do anything.
And this is the first time people had a very low expectation.
She was either giggling or acting like an airhead.
This is the first time.
So people had very low expectations of her, where they had high expectations of President Trump because he'd been through these debates so many times.
And she came out.
She was just really confident.
And she said nothing of any importance, but a lot of debating, it's not so much the points you make, she did something, she looked presidential, or at least looked better than people thought she would look.
So again, it was expectations, and she did better than expected.
And I don't know if they're going to have another debate, probably not, but if she stays ahead...
In the polls, which I hope she won't, which is why we put up the superbag ad.
But if she's ahead by five points or more, she's not going to debate them.
You only debate if you're worried that the race might be close.
But if it goes back downwards, two or three points, she might agree to another debate.
I think she's confident now.
And Trump did look, you know, he was off.
Just like, he wasn't as off as Biden was, but he was not as his usual confident self.
Why do you think that is?
You'd think you'd be on top of it.
You know, a couple of things.
Well, I'll say one thing.
When you get shot at and almost get killed, it does have a psychological effect on you.
You're not going to just be your normal, clear-thinking self.
If you ask any person that's been in the service, we'll tell you that.
That afterwards, even if you survive, But he clearly wasn't prepared by the people advising him.
She would say, just like I said before, when she opened up her opening statement, I'm going to be the president of the small business, and he's the president of billionaires.
I fully expected President Trump to say, you're full of shit.
I was the president.
When I got rid of all the regulation on small businesses, that's why the economy boomed in my term.
He never said that.
I don't know why.
But he didn't say...
And he was just kind of...
But, you know, in fairness to the President Trump and Kamala Harris, sometimes you have good days and you have bad days when you're in that kind of situation.
You remember...
I don't know if you remember the first Reagan debate against Mondale.
Mondale kicked his ass.
And people thought Reagan was getting old.
And then a second debate, the moderator said, President Reagan, you know, people, for that, for those days, he was running for re-election, he was 75. That's the equivalent of being like 90-something today.
He was in great shape.
You know, to get shot like that at his age and survive and be waving at the, he was in, you know, Ronald Reagan thought was fun on vacations.
He and Nancy would go back to the ranch.
He thought chopping wood for it.
Four hours and riding a horse.
And in the White House, he had, you know, barbells.
And they were both very healthy.
And nobody in American history, I don't think, has ever lived 15 years with Alzheimer's.
It's because it doesn't affect you mentally.
I mean, physically, it's mentally.
So he always was in great shape.
But what was I even talking about?
You see, I talk so much, I forget.
And my attention span is so low.
Oh, I just asked why you thought Trump, why Trump would have been off his game.
Right. So Reagan had a bad debate, the first debate against Monday, but the second one, he was so sharp.
When they asked him, President Reagan, you know, you're getting a little older.
Do you think your age might be, do you think age, you know, your age might be affecting you?
And he put on this thing where he looked angry at the questioner.
I think it was Barbara Walters.
I'm not sure.
And he goes, that's a terribly unfair question to ask.
And you thought he was maybe going to say something stupid.
And he says, I would never, under circumstances, make age an issue.
I would never take advantage of my opponent's youth and inexperience.
And even Mondo was laughing.
And you know what?
After that line, the whole age issue on Reagan was gone.
Because they saw him.
He was quick on his feet.
He was funny.
He came up with a good one-liner.
And he was in great shape for his age.
But he had a bad debate.
If you remember, President Obama had a terrible debate, the first one against Romney, but then he kicked his ass in the next two.
It happens.
I heard from a little birdie that the people who set up the stage put some of those lights just directly pointing at Trump's eyes to make him uncomfortable.
Where did you hear that?
From Fox News?
I can't.
I don't know where.
I can't remember where I saw that.
On Twitter somewhere, probably.
I was joking there, nothing against Fox, but you heard it from clearly a far right wing source.
And as, what's his name used to say, Ted Williams, he'd get attacked by the media and he'd always say, consider the source.
Before you believe any of that kind of stuff, you know, conspiracy stuff, you got to look at the source.
If it's coming from a legitimate source, then there is something to it.
But you can't just believe anything.
Anybody can put anything on the internet.
Of course not.
But the thing is, even AI, people have been using AI to kind of do an analysis on that debate.
And all these AIs are saying, yes, there seems to have been a lot of gang up against...
Trump with the two moderators and Kamala.
I mean, that part's undeniable.
That was despicable.
They're not supposed to be fact-checkers.
They're supposed to be moderators.
And the level of bias was so clear.
You could hear the audience get angry about it.
That's what I'm saying.
That's not a conspiracy.
It might have thrown him off a little bit because in the other debates, every other one, the CNN one, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash were very, you know...
professional. And all the other debates Trump's been in, they never went after him like those two.
That was like disgusting.
Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
So that's not a conspiracy.
So when I was reading about they put lights
I mean, if you look at the framing of the camera in that debate, someone pointed out, from a power dynamic standpoint,
That to make someone look more impressive, you frame it upwards as if they're greater than you, more powerful, and that Kamala's was actually slightly below her and pointed upwards, and that Trump's was pointed down on him to make him look smaller and less imposing,
which is a deliberate camera trick that you do when you're dealing with people that are of different stature to make them look the same.
Well, I don't dispute that at all, but what's the source?
Well, in this case, that would be my eyes.
I mean, I look back at it and went, oh yeah, the camera is pointed that way.
In my case, the story I said about the lights, I watched the footage because whoever posted this had a close-up of Trump's eyes, his face, and he's just doing this weird squinting-looking thing, but it's like, doesn't he always do that?
He just looks like he's up on stage trying to think.
He's thinking.
That's all I thought about it.
Yeah, it was kind of notable that when they showed in the picture, it's pointed down at him and it's pointed up at her.
It's very subtle things that you don't actually recognize that can actually prejudice your thoughts towards people.
It happens a lot, actually.
It's a pretty frequent approach because...
Yeah, you got a point.
If it was any other network, I would disagree.
But with NBC, I think you got a point.
Yeah, it's like Tom Cruise.
They have to put him in like six-inch stilettos.
Yeah, but considering they were openly being, you know, I mean, everybody saw it.
Like you said, it wasn't like they were trying to even hide the bias.
Yeah, I would normally dismiss the whole camera angle thing being anything but an attempt to make them look about the same height on the frame were it not for all the other weird biases.
You know, when Ford debated Carter, it was a big deal because they hadn't had a debate.
The only presidential debate since television was Kennedy-Nixon.
And then 64, 68, and 72, there were no...
So in'76, when Carter and Ford debated, that was a big deal.
Nobody thought that it'd be a debate again.
Of course, we've had them regularly since then.
But the big fight they had was Carter was 5'5" or something like that, and Ford was like 6'4" or something like that.
So they had to compromise.
The whole foot?
Yeah, almost.
So Carter was allowed to stand on like a fruit.
They just stacked up some books.
They stacked up some textbooks.
They came to a compromise.
Not to make him look tiny.
The guy just knelt down a little bit.
Just buckle your knees a little bit.
Yeah. I remember I saw him once in person and I was shocked that he was shorter than me.
I was only like 18 years old or something when you were 17. And I was kind of surprised.
He was like maybe 5'5", 5'6", something like that.
I remember seeing Carter when he campaigned and I was shocked that I was, and I'm short, he was even shorter than me.
So that's a good trivia question, by the way.
The only president since Eisenhower that was under six feet tall was Jimmy Carter.
We've had tall presidents.
Just kind of interesting, just kind of thing.
Truman was the last, unless Kamala wins, but Truman was the last short guy before him, before Carter.
Every other president was at least six feet tall.
Six feet tall, that's pretty tall, especially for back then.
Yeah, pretty average now.
Kamala's been leading the past four or five days in all the polls.
But you know why it doesn't matter?
That's the popular vote.
You have to worry about those 10 swing states.
They're all very close still.
I mean, she's up moderately in some of them, but it all comes out to, in the end, what they call GOTV, get out the vote.
Who's going to get out the vote better?
Hillary Clinton.
In the last election, the Democrats did a better job, especially because of early voting.
They got the older people to vote early.
Republicans didn't.
I can't believe they had four years to fix it, and they didn't.
What do you think about Biden putting on a MAGA hat?
I didn't see him do that.
Was it a joke?
Oh, he didn't?
Oh, man, he was at this rally just a few days ago.
Is it a joke or he didn't know what he was doing?
He knew what he was doing.
So I don't know where it was, like a VA thing or some veterans.
I don't know what it was.
He even intentionally put it on again, as if to emphasize, yes, I'm doing this on purpose.
For what reason?
A lot of people are pointing to it as being a reference to Trump snidely referencing, by the way, he hates her.
He hates her.
He secretly hates her.
He won't go out and say it, but he hates her.
He actually said that during the debate.
He pointed out that he don't like her.
That is a pretty nasty snub.
That's just short of flat-out endorsing Trump.
I think some people say that he's going to come out and endorse Trump.
Well, we know that Jill Biden did very much dislike Kamala because Kamala called Biden a racist during that primary over the busing issue.
Yeah. But Biden never had any ill will towards her.
That's pretty funny.
Yeah. Pretty funny.
It's pretty pathetic, right?
Yeah, dude.
Did you see Jill Biden after that debate, that terrible debate, when she was jumping up and down?
You did great!
You answered every question, Joe!
And then she goes to the Waffle House.
Did you see that one?
No. They walked into a Waffle House in Atlanta, and it's mostly black folks, because they figured they'd get a friendly crowd.
Nobody shook anybody.
I mean, they shook his hand.
You got to be respectful to the president, but they weren't, like, wild.
You know what I mean?
Like, they are for Kamala now.
Oh, I think I did see that.
It was super quiet, and he just walks in the door, and everyone's just like, huh.
But it was Jill doing that thing.
She was crazy.
But you know what?
She's his wife, and I'm sure they have a great marriage, and I'm happy for that.
Such a great marriage, I'm sure.
It's just got to be hard.
I think they do.
So what's your projection, then?
What do you think is going to happen from now until November?
I can honestly say I really have no idea.
What's your best guess?
You know what?
As we say in Brooklyn, it's to unpredict.
All right.
What's yours, Cricket?
What do you think is going to happen from now?
Hold on, hold on.
From now until, let's see, how many days?
How many days until election?
50 days exactly.
What do you think is going to happen in the next 50 days?
I've got a feeling the whole Springfield thing is going to flare up.
Hopefully not so much that we can still talk about the election by then.
Springfield thing.
What do you mean?
The whole Springfield immigrant issue.
Eating cats and dogs?
That keeps getting flared up.
I don't even know if that out of the argument is actually true, but I know they've been putting up signs arguing that are telling, in Crayol, telling Haitians to report hate crimes to the FBI, which sounds an awful lot like...
Setting the people against the newcomers kind of directly and trying to provoke them.
Well, you know what I think?
I think you've got to be a dick to predict this race.
It really is that unpredictable.
To a point.
But if you're predicting meddling, I mean, I can't predict that's what will happen.
You really don't know.
But I feel like it's a pretty safe prediction to say some kind of meddling or fuckery is going to go down between here and then.
There's not going to be any, it's not going to be a completely smooth sailing in the next two months.
I mean, I'd like to believe that.
It's definitely one of the most interesting races, just with the sheer, just crazy stuff that happened.
And people will remember it, I guess.
And you just hope whoever the next president is, they do a better job than we think they will.
That they end up being good presidents.
Do you really think that Kamala Harris could do a good job?
Although, I'm strongly supporting President Trump because I care very much about foreign affairs.
We had peace in the world.
And Trump, by making friends with Putin and Zelensky and China and North Korea, the world was a very safe place.
That's the other ad.
People that go to SunshineOnEarth.com can see it.
It's about how the world is a peaceful place under President Trump because bad people, he made them kind of friendly.
It's like Nixon going to China to end the Vietnam War, that kind of idea.
And we had none of this crap until Biden took office.
So to me, nuclear war, it really is, as Jimmy Carter said, nuclear proliferation.
It really is, to me.
The biggest problem facing not just America, but the whole world.
So I hope people will see whatever President Trump's faults are, if you really look at a chance of having a nuclear war or a chance of something really bad happening, it's going to happen in the Middle East if it's bad.
It's going to happen if Iran continues to be allowed to, you know, do whatever they want.
And like I said, President Obama and then Biden.
Gave them back their sanction money after Trump took it away.
And we wouldn't have had the terrorist attack against Israel.
And we wouldn't have had the war between the Ukraine.
And Trump kind of flubbed that answer.
He could have explained that a little better.
He said that.
They kept asking, do you not support money to Ukraine?
Trying to make it like he didn't care.
And he just kept saying, and he was right, that if he was president, he wasn't against them giving money.
Now, he's saying we wouldn't have had to give the money had he been president because there'd be no war.
He made a good point, but he didn't really articulate it as well as he could have, unfortunately.
And that's the point we try to bring up in our other SunshineEarth.com ad, how if you believe in peace, you have to vote for Trump.
So that'll be my last closing statement.
I mean, the other side is definitely the war oligarchy.
These people have been in charge for three and a half years.
They're supposedly running things right now.
I mean, how many people honestly believe they are running things right now?
Yeah, Trump did make that really good point.
It's like, well, you had three and a half years to do all these things you're saying you will do.
Why haven't you done them?
Why not?
So it's like, are they even running things now?
And if they...
You could do it now.
Why don't they do it?
And if they can't do it now, then they're not running things.
That's effectively the conclusion you have to reach.
Listen, seriously, both you guys, Cricket and Coop, thanks for having me on.
It's always fun.
We always have a good time.
Boom, boom, bang.
And we were able to respectfully have differences of opinion, and it's great what you two guys are doing.
Really. Absolutely, and I appreciate it.
I appreciate you coming on to talk.
And yeah, we're always going to have...
I can't have people on here that I agree with 100% of the time.
That's just not how I roll.
I want to have discussions and arguments.
Beneficial arguments.
Not like, fuck you!
Your point sucks!
You don't know what you're talking about!
That's not how I roll.
Thanks for doing that.
It's so polarized now, we really need guys like you out there.
Seriously. It's too polarized.
It's frightening how polarized it is.
People have to disagree, but at least see the other sides, even if they disagree with it.
See that there's some matter.
I mean, if a damn backer wanted to come on here and plead Kamala's case and tell me why, I would honestly be all for that.
I would love to hear it.
If someone actually wants to come on here and argue their case, I'm going to do the same treatment.
I'm not going to suddenly become pro-war because Kamala wants it or pro-gun confiscation because she wants it, but I will gladly discuss it and listen to your side.
I'll tell you what I'll do, Cricket.
I'm going to go out and make some posts right now after the show and look for a Kamala supporter that could die hard Kamala supporter.
I mean, I have very little confidence in this working because in my experience, that side almost never wants to come on to anything but really friendly circumstances.
So it probably won't happen.
But I mean, there are some members of that group that might open up to us.
Look for somebody that's plugging a book or a record album, you know, a CD.
There you go.
I'm serious.
That's the best way.
Yeah, I'm going to find someone.
Find someone who's willing.
Get Taylor Swift, you know.
Oh, jeez.
I would love to have her on just to tell her how much her music sucks.
Hey, Ms. Swift, how do you feel about her trumpeting, you know?
I'd be such a troll.
I would ruin it.
You know, you never know.
She's a publicity hog, as you know.
For real, yeah.
I can't watch a football game in peace anymore.
She might come on to you.
You don't know.
You never know.
They might just have her up in a stand and all of a sudden, next thing you know, it's her and one of her friends doing satanic signs.
Oh, damn.
No, but she's one...
If she thinks she can sell a few CDs, she'll come on your show.
She's gonna...
Yeah, I think she...
She's lost a lot of money, hasn't she?
Yeah. I don't know.
Her endorsement, I guess, cost her.
Because she did something?
Yeah, well, she endorsed Kamala.
And I guess it cost her a lot of money from, like, boys.
It cost her a lot of fans, obviously.
If you think about it, who are her constituents?
They're mostly in red states because she was a country person first, remember?
They're mostly in the South.
I would guess they're mostly in the South and the Midwest.
I thought the best comment is that somebody who's exclusive genre of music is, I got tricked by somebody else's sweet talk, is telling us who we should listen to.
100%
100%. Okay, well I'll say this.
Until just a few years ago when she hit a writer's block and she's got to do this Disney stuff, she was a very good songwriter at one time.
Okay, Shake It Off was a banger, I'll admit it.
Have I been wearing these glasses?
And the Nightcore version of it was badass.
Yeah, I've been wearing those.
Are you serious?
Oh my god.
You're fine though, this isn't a video recording.
How does that song go, Cricket?
I'll pretend I don't know the other lyrics.
Like, I stay up too late.
Yeah, I'll pretend that's all I know too and not sing the rest of it for you.
Right, and I have some ideas if you want to do...
A musical show?
I have some ideas for you.
Oh yeah, I was going to ask you that.
We'll talk about that off air here.
So I'm going to go ahead and stop this.
So ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for tuning in.
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Yep. And follow us on Facebook if you want.
And with us is Stephen Marks.
And where can they find you, Stephen?
Me, personally?
If you want people to find you, where can they find you?
Anybody that has any questions regarding the Super Pack, if you email me, it's Stephen with a P-H, middleical Q, StephenQMarks at gmail.com.
If you do email me, I will call you back.
If you want to talk or discuss the ad, if you have any questions or doubts about what we're doing, I'd be happy to talk to you.
I will actually call you back if you email us at stephenq, as in cucumbers, M-A-R-K-S, stephenqmarks at gmail.com.
Thank you.
And your website is?
Sunshine on Earth.
Thank you again.
No matter what your political persuasion is, at least listen to what we have to say and have an open mind.
Sunshineonearth.com.
It's very simple.
If you want peace in the world, then we all do.
SunshineOnEarth.com And I appreciate both you guys.
It's been great.
Really enjoyed it.
Thanks, Steve.
Thanks for coming on, bud.
And it's always an open door, so you can always come on anytime you want.
Okay. Alright.
With that said, thank you all for tuning in.
Take care of yourselves and take care of one another.
Marijuana just changed to Schedule 3 this year.
I was wrong.
I looked it up while we were talking, and yes, they changed it, but only a few months ago.
Okay, so that's what I thought.
Always distrust the government anyways.
Just want to let you know, take care and take care of each other.
That was John Lennon.
John Lennon?
Nice. I am just, I'm, what do you call it, channeling John Lennon.
That's a good sentiment.
That's awesome.
Alright everyone, take care of yourselves, take care of one another.
