May 20, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| During yesterday's show, we did a segment about the Pennsylvania district attorney's | ||
| So, a big race coming out of Philadelphia, and there was some optimism. | ||
| It actually looked like the moderate Democrat could win. | ||
| Isn't it funny? | ||
| Us cheering for a moderate Democrat. | ||
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Why? | |
| Well, you're not going to get a Republican DA. | ||
| But there was a far-left, pro-Black Lives Matter district attorney who had been in. | ||
| Crime had been skyrocketing, violent crime, really horrifying stories out of Philly. | ||
| As most of you know, we used to do the show just outside of Philly in the Philly suburbs. | ||
| And one of the reasons we left was the, well, rising out-of-control crime, namely the riots, but there were a bunch of shootouts. | ||
| And I was just like, yo, I don't want to be in a city. | ||
| We want to get into the middle of nowhere and kind of just have more space, grow the company, do something. | ||
| So then, lo and behold, the story comes out. | ||
| It was a blowout. | ||
| The progressive won by 30 points. | ||
| That means, even with all of this skyrocketing crime, all of these riots, the tearing down of statues, and the people said, we're not going far left enough. | ||
| Let's go far left-er. | ||
| I'm not surprised. | ||
| A lot of people just don't pay attention. | ||
| So we'll talk about that. | ||
| But we do have some good news. | ||
| That individual who wrote the 1619 Project just had her tenure rescinded. | ||
| It was a proposal. | ||
| Apparently it was not picked up. | ||
| Journalists are outraged. | ||
| They're furious. | ||
| They believe that this woman is a hero. | ||
| Apparently, people started to realize the 1619 Project is fake news, and for this, no tenure. | ||
| So it's not all bad news. | ||
| We're going to talk about this, and we got one of the best people to talk about what's going on in Pennsylvania. | ||
| We have now Senate candidate for Pennsylvania, Sean Parnell. | ||
| Hello, Tim. | ||
| It is great to be back. | ||
| This is like my fourth time on the show. | ||
| And what I mean is most political candidates would probably be scared to come down and sit in a studio with you because as you say, you're a disaffected liberal and nobody wants to get ambushed with gotcha questions. | ||
| But first of all, you don't do that, right? | ||
| You're very, very fair. | ||
| And I think that's why people actually watch your show as much as they do. | ||
| Well, I really do think That there is a thirst for truth out there. | ||
| You said people don't pay attention. | ||
| I think part of the reason why they don't is people are sick of the divisiveness. | ||
| Most people feel like the news that they watch on TV is not accurate. | ||
| And by the way, like Republican, Democrat, left-leaning, right-leaning, I think people want the facts and they want to be able to make decisions on their own. | ||
| And so I think that's why people watch. | ||
| I think the big question for people who watch the show or the issue is more, are you paying attention to what's really going on? | ||
| There's a political establishment. | ||
| And on the Republican side, you have a very powerful anti-establishment force that's pushed its way in. | ||
| And that's made the neocons and the establishment Republicans run to the Democrats. | ||
| So this is why you could have a disaffected liberal who's like, yo, the media is lying about this, that, or otherwise, and then we end up getting along even if we disagree on policy. | ||
| You know, I'm not here to push an agenda or a narrative to help someone win. | ||
| I want to understand the truth and make sure that, you know, things work. | ||
| So that's why this show works, I think. | ||
| And I think that should be the goal of every journalist. | ||
| I mean, you know, one of the things that you learn, you know, and by the way, You know, but I'm not sure that your audience does, but I am not a career politician. | ||
| Being a politician was never part of my professional track or even running for political office. | ||
| But you learn pretty quickly when you run that the media on either side of the aisle, they definitely have a narrative and they're definitely pushing that narrative. | ||
| And sometimes the facts are pushed to the sidelines in pursuit of that. | ||
| And I don't like that. | ||
| Usually. | ||
| Sometimes you're not one of those people and you're a journalist. | ||
| You do this. | ||
| I mean, and there are some good journalists out there that I rely on and that are even some Democrats out there that I know these journalists are Democrats that write fair, right? | ||
| And to me, that's, you know, that's the benchmark. | ||
| Like, I don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican, just be fair. | ||
| It's a question of scruples. | ||
| Do people feel that feeling in your gut when they know they're doing something wrong? | ||
| And the problem is too many people in this country today don't. | ||
| So they're sitting there like, well, I know I'm lying, but who cares? | ||
| And that's what you get. | ||
| So we'll get into all this stuff, but also, I think you know a lot about what's going on with these DA races, that's like crime, the Black Lives Matter stuff, so we'll talk about that. | ||
| We got Ian, wearing glasses. | ||
| Ian Crosland over here in full Clark Kent get-up. | ||
| Happy to be here. | ||
| Yes, I'm in the corner as well, pushing buttons to make this show happen. | ||
| Happy to be here. | ||
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| But let's jump into that first big story. | ||
| I can't say I'm surprised The Daily Caller reports after a surge in violent crime, progressives win big in Pennsylvania's largest city. | ||
| I couldn't believe it, because you had this police-backed moderate Democrat guy, and the polls are like, it's fairly even. | ||
| It's like he's doing all right. | ||
| And I was like, this guy, in my opinion, I thought he was going to win. | ||
| Because you have all of this crime. | ||
| I remember what happened in South Philly. | ||
| Do you remember when the Christopher Columbus statue was attacked? | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| And then you had a bunch of these local dudes standing around and saying, back off. | ||
| The city came and took it down. | ||
| I had to believe that regular people were like, yo, what are you doing? | ||
| This makes me a bit pessimistic. | ||
| Because it wasn't just that the progressive, the far-left, pro-Black Lives Matter guy won. | ||
| It was a blowout. | ||
| It was 30-plus points. | ||
| So what's happening in this place? | ||
| Do these people really want more crime? | ||
| Do they like the crime that's happening in their state? | ||
| No, I mean, I think it's important to remember that it's a Democrat primary, right? | ||
| So whoever's in the Democrat primary in today's day and age, you know, the litmus test is, you know, if you're running for Senate, is like nuking the filibuster or packing the Supreme Court or tearing down fundamental institutions that have been a part of this country for the last 200 years. | ||
| So it's Yeah, far left-er. | ||
| Yeah, far left-er. | ||
| Far left-er. | ||
| Yeah, far left-er. | ||
| Well, Krasner, I mean, you're looking at the city of Philadelphia. | ||
| What's happened to that city under Krasner is sad, right? | ||
| I mean, I think you're seeing something like a 30 percent rise in crime, violent crime | ||
| in Philadelphia. | ||
| The people there are struggling. | ||
| I think when there's a rise in crime, you see, you know, the black communities are disproportionately affected by that. | ||
| So it's unfortunate to see him as the guy, right? | ||
| It's the ultra wealthy backing these people, too. | ||
| Like Krasner, I think, was backed by one of the Soros foundations or by wealthy individuals. | ||
| Yes, and I think late in the game. | ||
| I think an infusion of something like, you know, I don't know this for sure, but something like $3 million to help him get across the finish line. | ||
| And look, that is, and I'm not judging that, right? | ||
| Like, you have to raise money to win in politics, you know? | ||
| And the more effective a candidate is on a campaign at raising money, the more effective they can be at getting their message out. | ||
| Now, I liken it, everything that I use is like a military analogy, and I'm not advocating for any sort of violence, right? | ||
| But dollars in a campaign are like bullets in a gun, right? | ||
| When your platoon is out there in combat. | ||
| You run out of ammo, you can't respond to the enemy, you can't defend yourself. | ||
| The same is true in politics. | ||
| You run out of money, Look, in my case, the Democrats will come after you and they will bludgeon you with ads and if you have no money, you can't respond. | ||
| And so what happened in Philadelphia, this is a prime example of that and the profound impact that money can have in terms of advertising and moving the needle one way or the other. | ||
| It's like, reminds me of Fauci. | ||
| He says... Are you going to do the Fauci impression? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Fauci tells everyone to go on cruises. | ||
| He tells everybody not to wear masks. | ||
| And then he blames Donald Trump. | ||
| They blame Donald Trump. | ||
| It's like, Trump was just taking this guy's advice, but I'll pass the buck to Trump. | ||
| He should have fired the guy in the first place. | ||
| I bring him up because these voters are like, Fauci followers, right? | ||
| So here's what I mean. | ||
| When you see the CDC say, all right, y'all can take your masks off if you're vaccinated, and these people are literally saying, no, no, we shouldn't, we should keep them on, you can see that with your eyes. | ||
| That is a democratic base that doesn't care about what the guidelines are. | ||
| They just care about what signifies their tribe. | ||
| Like David Hogg said, he doesn't want to be seen as a conservative, so just wear the mask anyway. | ||
| What you can't see is the virtue signaling and the tribalism that's not tangible, which is elections like this. | ||
| The ads come out, they say ridiculous nonsense and out-of-context garbage, and people just go, whatever you say. | ||
| They would rather just align themselves tribally than care about anything principally that would help better their community. | ||
| So I would say that's why, you know, on, you know, what, in my any, any part of my campaign, right? | ||
| Like I go everywhere. | ||
| I'm just using myself as an example. | ||
| I go everywhere. | ||
| I talk to everyone. | ||
| I personally believe that leadership is about, yeah, of course, coalition, coalition building where people agree with you. | ||
| But it's also about going where people don't and building consensus. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And giving those folks a chance to get to know you with the understanding that, of course, as Americans, We're not going to agree on every issue, right? | ||
| But the leaders show up anyway to show people that they care. | ||
| And so when I campaign, when I go out there, I go everywhere with the Democrat, Independent, Republican. | ||
| I don't care if you believe in the greatness of America, if you believe in freedom, if you believe in the idea of Think for yourself. | ||
| you know, passing down a rich, vibrant country, a country that's rich with opportunity to | ||
| the next generation, then join us, join the movement. | ||
| And I think what we've been able to do, because we've been able to do that, and part of that | ||
| by the way is think for yourself, right? | ||
| Don't just lock into, you know, left-wing media or right-wing media. | ||
| Read, think for yourself. | ||
| Part of being a part of this movement that I think we're trying to create in Western Pennsylvania, and indeed, we probably have created it, of thousands of people in Western Pennsylvania, people from across the political spectrum is they want the truth, and they're going to seek it out themselves. | ||
| And then not only that, they're going to take action to make their communities better. | ||
| And in this case, you know, so what does that look like for a campaign? | ||
| It means like they're out there knocking doors, they're out there hosting events, they're out there making phone calls, right? | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| They're helping move the ball down the field, something that Democrats have done for years, | ||
| far better than Republicans, right, is organized, right? | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| They're better at it. | ||
| But so we're rivaling that in Pennsylvania. | ||
| And I think that you saw that reflected in these ballot questions. | ||
| So Krasner, yeah, what happened with Krasner, I think that progressive guy, he's the progressive | ||
| guy that won in Philadelphia. | ||
| It's a bad thing for Philadelphia that he won. | ||
| I think he's one of the worst DAs in Philadelphia history, but that's besides the point. | ||
| I think the real indicator in Pennsylvania statewide is we had two ballot questions on the ballot, right? | ||
| Which both ballot questions pertain to the governor's unilateral ability to extend emergency declarations in Pennsylvania. | ||
| You can do that in perpetuity. | ||
| And he's, I would argue that he's abused the process, right? | ||
| Like, of course, COVID was real. | ||
| We had to take it seriously. | ||
| And there were, early on, those emergency provisions were certainly appropriate, right? | ||
| But it's, you know, 15 days to slow the spread has turned into 15 months, right? | ||
| And so, so my point is, Tim, is that Republicans showed up in force and won. | ||
| But it was really what I see that as a referendum on Tom Wolf, who's a radical Democrat governor, We won those ballot initiatives by around 139,000 votes statewide. | ||
| That's significant, and it's indicative of the strength of the Republican Party in the state. | ||
| Didn't Wolf kill a bunch of old people? | ||
| So the state of Pennsylvania, and so to your point of how President Trump was blamed for his COVID response, first of all, Governor Cuomo right now is under the microscope. | ||
| The second highest nursing home deaths in the country happened in the state of Pennsylvania under Governor Tom Wolf. | ||
| No one's talking about it, but believe me, in the near future they will be with the governor's race coming up now. | ||
| But I think what was particularly disconcerting about nursing home policy is, of course, if you were paying attention to COVID early on, You saw how it was, I mean it first came to Seattle, right? | ||
| We saw it tear through nursing home facilities and how the elderly were particularly vulnerable when it comes to COVID, right? | ||
| We knew, we knew that. | ||
| And you had Secretary Levine, our Secretary of Health in Pennsylvania for the Wolf Administration, saw that coming and she took her own mother out of a nursing home facility While leaving other senior citizens in the state of Pennsylvania to languish and die. | ||
| I got real problems with that. | ||
| And so, you know, I don't think... Now Levine is with the Biden administration, right? | ||
| Now she's with the Biden administration. | ||
| And so, you know, I don't think we're talking enough about that. | ||
| There are a litany of things that we could have probably done better, that we definitely could have done better. | ||
| And by the way, it's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback. | ||
| This is, I am giving a little bit of grace here in that this is a hundred year, once in a hundred year pandemic. | ||
| We've never faced anything like this before. | ||
| We didn't really know what COVID was like early on, so precautions I thought were necessary early on. | ||
| But look, it only took about three to four months for us to realize You know, for us to learn a heck of a lot more about COVID, right? | ||
| And as you're dealing with the pandemic, your strategy has to evolve as the science evolves and as you learn more about the virus. | ||
| That didn't happen in Pennsylvania. | ||
| And elderly senior citizens and the citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I think they paid the price. | ||
| Yeah, I think we got the worst of every world with Fauci. | ||
| Because at first, he's like, don't wear your masks. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| I knew it was coming. | ||
| You can go on the cruises. | ||
| It's fine if you just watch it. | ||
| Can I just do the slow clap? | ||
| Am I allowed to clap? | ||
| It's beautiful. | ||
| Imagine if he came out right away and said, just wear masks in case. | ||
| Let's be on the safe side of these things. | ||
| Then we would have reduced the dramatic amount of death. | ||
| Imagine if it was like, you probably shouldn't go on cruises right now until we figure this thing out. | ||
| Very early on, he was like, it's fine. | ||
| And then, a month later, when it gets bad, then he's like, okay, now it might get bad. | ||
| Then, when we start, we see Texas and Florida. | ||
| And it's like, you know, people are asking, why is it Texas and Florida are doing so well? | ||
| No answer. | ||
| We don't really know. | ||
| The Today Show did a segment where they were like, we're not entirely sure. | ||
| Just ending the restrictions and for some reason COVID deaths are going down. | ||
| Perhaps it was because we learned that transmission indoors was worse, outdoors was safer, getting vitamin D and exercise was better for you, and people were put in the worst possible position. | ||
| Where was Fauci to be like, maybe we should change our minds on this? | ||
| He was too lax in the beginning and too harsh in the middle to the end. | ||
| So people have been following this guy playing Simon Says. | ||
| Don't wear any masks. | ||
| Wear your masks. | ||
| And I think, yeah, I agree. | ||
| don't double mask, double mask anyway. | ||
| If you get the vaccine, wear your mask anyway. | ||
| OK, I admit it. I was just saying that. | ||
| That's where we're at right now. | ||
| And I think I agree. | ||
| I think Fauci has been remarkably inconsistent | ||
| in his guidance. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And I think at the end of the day with a pandemic response now, here's my | ||
| thing. If you if you're a Again, I thought that the 15 days to slow the spread when we didn't know a lot about the virus was probably appropriate early on, but you've got to adjust fire pretty quickly, right? | ||
| But I think he's been inconsistent. | ||
| And truthfully, the science behind masking is dubious at best. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| The mask in today's day and age, even with when you're seeing the CDC changing their mask guidance, saying that, OK, now that people are vaccinated, you don't have to wear a mask. | ||
| You don't have to wear. | ||
| I mean, look, if you want to wear a mask, wear a mask. | ||
| I'm not going to judge you on that. | ||
| Like if you feel safer wearing a mask, go right ahead and do it. | ||
| But what the point that I'm building to is that is that it's incumbent upon all of us to assess the risk that is tolerable for us. | ||
| But what was the updated science that made the CDC change their minds? | ||
| Because I didn't see it. | ||
| That's exactly the point that I was building to, is that the CDC changed their guidance, right? | ||
| With really no justification in the empirical science. | ||
| We were given no reason why. | ||
| And it really was the CDC director, I think, on a cable news show saying, like, the science has evolved. | ||
| So what we saw with Fauci was that there was one interview where he was asked, should people wear two masks? | ||
| And he's like, well, it's just common sense if you wear two masks. | ||
| Then he gets asked again. | ||
| No, no, there's nothing saying to wear two masks. | ||
| Then he comes out again. | ||
| Yeah, everybody should wear two masks. | ||
| And all of a sudden, people just wear two masks. | ||
| It's like they're playing Simon Says with this guy. | ||
| He is one of the worst, most dangerous individuals in this country. | ||
| And you want to know something really freaky? | ||
| I saw this out of Dallas. | ||
| There's a video that somewhat purports to show Like, two guys in the army going into a 7-Eleven and, like, randomly giving a dude a vaccine. | ||
| And my question is, like, at what point did we go from, you can't speak positively about certain medications? | ||
| Like, when Trump was talking about hydroxychloroquine, YouTube was like, we'll ban you if you bring it up. | ||
| Don't even talk about it. | ||
| And now you've got people being like, outside of a 7-Eleven, just being like, without consulting your doctor, they're gonna give you a medication? | ||
| I'm like, no, come on, you can't do that, can you? | ||
| Like, you gotta, people gotta talk to their doctors before they get this stuff. | ||
| Not anymore. | ||
| Well, well, of course, of course. | ||
| I mean, I agree. | ||
| Well, it's it's look. | ||
| Yes, double standards. | ||
| And, you know, ultimately, Dr. Fauci, you know, I don't know. | ||
| I like I like to think that that he did his best. | ||
| But to me, I think he's I think I think that there were political intentions behind some of the decisions he was making. | ||
| I mean, I will tell you this. | ||
| Certainly the radical left weaponized the virus in a way that they thought would benefit them. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Oh, definitely. | ||
| And never let a good crisis go to waste. | ||
| And that is part of their playbook, right? | ||
| And so, I don't know. | ||
| I'm glad to see that we're coming out of this even though people are reluctant to take off the masks. | ||
| But again, if people want to wear masks, fine. | ||
| If you feel like you're high-risk, fine. | ||
| But it should be a precaution. | ||
| I just want to say, though, going back to this... | ||
| There's a positive note in this progressive winning that maybe we're not seeing. | ||
| Maybe we're looking too much at the surface level. | ||
| A 30-point blowout. | ||
| Could it be that many people have left the Democratic Party? | ||
| And the only people that remain are progressives? | ||
| So we're not seeing a landslide victory for the DA. | ||
| We're actually seeing the moderate Democrats having quit saying, I don't know, I'm Republican now. | ||
| I think it's a great point. | ||
| What I think you're seeing is this is where the Democrat base is right now. | ||
| It is largely out of touch with everyday Americans on either side of the aisle. | ||
| Specifically, the blue-collar people, building trade unions that they purport to represent. | ||
| You know, for a long time, by the way, police officers, especially in the state of Pennsylvania where there are unions, like when they're fraternal order of police, like in Western Pennsylvania, it's FOP1, FOP3. | ||
| Out in Philadelphia, I think it's FOP5. | ||
| 50-50 split of Democrat-Republicans? | ||
| Maybe even more Democrats than Republicans that are cops? | ||
| I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a police officer supporting Democrat cops. | ||
| To my point, moderate Democrats, I think there's not a home for them, really, in the Democrat party. | ||
| I mean, now listen, you know, I come from a family that grew up in Allegheny County. | ||
| Half of them are Allegheny County Democrats. | ||
| They're old school blue dog Democrats, pro-life, pro-gun Democrats. | ||
| A lot of those people feel like they don't have a home in the Democrat party today. | ||
| So we try to give them a home with us and we try to actually be that voice that the building trade unions I think I'm right, actually. | ||
| I pulled up the data, and I think I'm right. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
| The Democratic primary that just happened is Lawrence Krasner versus Carlos Vega. | ||
| Carlos Vega was backed by the police unions. | ||
| The polls showed it was really close. | ||
| The total votes for this primary was 129,865 votes. | ||
| Let's go back to the previous election. | ||
| The Democratic primary in 2017, the total votes was 155,246. | ||
| Now, it's possible that it was 155,000 because there were more people listed in the primary. | ||
| in 2017 the total votes was a hundred and fifty five thousand two hundred and | ||
| forty six now it's possible that it was a hundred fifty five thousand because | ||
| there were more people listed in the primary and so some people who normally | ||
| don't vote might show up for one of these individuals but I actually think | ||
| what we're seeing is around there's around twenty six thousand less votes | ||
| than there was last time I'm willing to bet a lot of people just said, I don't vote. | ||
| I don't vote Democrat anymore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So they weren't in the primary at all. | ||
| It's a midterm. | ||
| Well, it's an off cycle election. | ||
| So turnout is usually down. | ||
| Although I will say, if you look at the Republican turnout this year, I think there was something like, I don't know, I look over at my campaign manager who's over there, he's my partner in crime on all this stuff, but I think there was something like 855,000 Republicans it turned out. | ||
| And if you look back at 2009, which I think was another off-cycle election, I think turnout for the Republican Party back then was something like 500,000. | ||
| You're looking at the difference in turnout there, right? | ||
| Like, we're doing everything we can to organize and unite this party and bring people together and be the Big Ten party that I think the Republican Party is always intended to be, right? | ||
| Oh, what were you going to say? | ||
| No, I mean, we're the Big Ten party because I think we're the party of individual freedom, right? | ||
| Individual sovereignty. | ||
| How is it ever that there's somebody running on a post? | ||
| That to me is crazy. | ||
| In this day and age it is, but it is common in off-cycle elections, for sure. | ||
| So I'm looking at this general election for city controller. | ||
| Rebecca Rinhart. | ||
| Only candidate listed. | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| Where, in Philly? | ||
| Yeah, Philly general election for the Philadelphia city controller. | ||
| There's no, just one person. | ||
| Like, you literally could have walked in and been like, I guess I'll run, why not? | ||
| You could. | ||
| You may have actually won because people would just be like, I'll vote for the other person. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, yes. | ||
| Our elections are broken, man. | ||
| Well, I don't know that they're, I don't, there are issues, right? | ||
| Um, there, there, there's no question about that. | ||
| Although talking about election integrity in today's day and age. | ||
| I'm not even talking about integrity, I'm just talking about our culture. | ||
| The popularity contest. | ||
| Yeah, like, look at this guy. | ||
| George Soros can buy a bunch of commercials. | ||
| So, let me, let me go back to the, uh, the Krasner thing here. | ||
| How many votes in the Republican primary in Philly do you think there were? | ||
| There was 129,000 Democratic primary votes. | ||
| For the Republican primary, how many votes do you think there were? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Random guess. | ||
| Votes in Philadelphia in the Republican primary? | ||
| 129,000 people voted in the Democratic primary. | ||
| In Philadelphia? | ||
| In Philadelphia, how many people voted in the Republican primary? | ||
| Wait, so the Democratic primary, Democrats had 129,000 people's turnout? | ||
| Total votes, right. | ||
| On the Democrat side? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So I would say 30% of that number. | ||
| So probably 15,000, 20,000? | ||
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| So Republicans can't even go out and vote in these cities at all. | ||
| I think the reality is apathy. | ||
| No one's engaging this process. | ||
| And so you've got people like us, people who are watching this show, who are active and paying attention. | ||
| Mitch McConnell gives the Republican Party a horrible name because it should be the party of rock stars right now. | ||
| It's people just sitting there lazy, eyes half closed, ignoring the problems around them. | ||
| Mitch McConnell gives the Republican Party a horrible name because it should be the party of rock stars right now. | ||
| It needs a resurgence culturally where it's exciting and you think of youth and fun, which is what the Democrats | ||
| basically do with Obama and Clinton. | ||
| Well, here's what's funny. | ||
| The Democratic Party used to be the celebrities, the rock stars, but they've all become rather square. | ||
| And what I mean by that is, like, well within the box. | ||
| They don't draw outside the lines anymore. | ||
| No more punk rock. | ||
| To see these punk rock people support Amazon and, like, you know... Yeah, I totally agree. | ||
| I think conservatives, like the Republican Party that I'm a part of, like, we're the new punk rock. | ||
| We're the party of the American working class. | ||
| Well, you might be, but Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham aren't. | ||
| They're the opposite. | ||
| Well, I mean, look, they've been around for a long time, right? | ||
| I mean, and they have, they've got responsibility at the top as leadership and trying to bring people together in the Republican Party because we're an ideological diverse party. | ||
| It's very, it can be very, very hard to do that. | ||
| Like, and you're looking at the vote today on the January 6th commission, right? | ||
| Democrats Rarely, and I mean rarely, if ever, break ranks. | ||
| Their messaging is almost always the same. | ||
| They're like the Borg, if you've ever watched Star Trek, right? | ||
| Their messaging is on point, their organizing is on point, they rarely break ranks, and because of that, they're very effective. | ||
| Now, they've got the media to help them do that, right, as sort of the fly top cover for them, but Republicans Sometimes it can be like herding cats, because we are the party of ideological diversity. | ||
| We'll all believe different things. | ||
| You know, you're welcome in the Republican Party, as long as... I mean, to me, I think, you know, the base litmus test is, you got to be small government, more freedom kind of person, you know, but... Let me jump to the story from the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| House backs creation of commission on January 6th Capitol riot. | ||
| Former President Trump and GOP leaders urged Republicans to oppose the bill. | ||
| So we're going to have some kind of, what, 9-11 style commission on the Capitol riots. | ||
| And I'm sorry, man, the Republican Party, I understand it's better than the Democrats for a lot of reasons, but why didn't they ever do anything about Black Lives Matter and Antifa when they had the power to do it? | ||
| Well, we never really had the power to do it under President Trump. | ||
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| I guess they weren't paying attention. | ||
| Well, the first two years of the Trump administration, I would argue that the Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests that really rampaged across the country burned down federal courthouses. | ||
| They burned down a police precinct in, I think, Minnesota. | ||
| That was last year, though. | ||
| Republicans had lost the House at that point. | ||
| But that's what I mean. | ||
| I mean, I think that most of the violent protests that we saw happened after the Republicans had lost control of all three branches of government. | ||
| How many riots were there over the past four years from far leftists? | ||
| I don't know off the top of my head. | ||
| Probably thousands. | ||
| I would absolutely say thousands. | ||
| There's not a single one, not a single instance in 2017 and 2018 warranted to Republicans | ||
| any kind of action, but the Democrats get one and they are going nuclear for months, | ||
| a 9-11 style commission. | ||
| This is the problem. | ||
| The Democrats will stub their toe and blame the far right and scream at their lungs, and the Republicans go, okay, okay, okay. | ||
| And then you can literally get billions of dollars of damage, and the Republicans won't even send in National Guard to stop it. | ||
| Trump will be like, please, please, and the National Guard, and the Democrats in these cities are like, no, and he goes, okay. | ||
| Well, I mean, I think part of the reason for that is that the Democrat Party, I mean, they have the largest super PAC in the world. | ||
| I mean, they have, you know, a billion dollar corporate media, mainstream media that does nothing but fly cover for them and parrot their talking points. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| But why? | ||
| Why do Republican candidates care more about the opinions of The New York Times and their own constituents? | ||
| That so look it's it's a great question and it's part of what I think the Republican Party I mean look if you're a candidate right and you're going to go out there on the parapet be a Republican be a conservative in this day and age You have to know going in, Tim, that if the media, the main, not all the media, right? | ||
| I'm not trying to paint anybody with broad strokes here, but you got to know that the media is coming after you. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| And you're not doing your job. | ||
| You know that if they are coming after you, you're probably over the target, so to speak, to use military parlance, right? | ||
| That's how I look at things. | ||
| If they're attacking me, I know that I'm representing the people. | ||
| And to me, ultimately, that's what this job is about. | ||
| This job is about is about representing the people and being there for them, which is why I mean, look, I think 2020, like running a campaign in 2020 was an unbelievable experience for me because I didn't know anything about campaigning. | ||
| It was the first time I've ever done it. | ||
| So I learned a lot. | ||
| But one of the things that's just so important for Republicans moving forward is not being beholden to the big money. | ||
| We had 45,000 individual donors. | ||
| Because of that, we weren't really beholden to any sort of special interest, corporation, or even the Republican Party, even though I'm a Republican running on the ticket. | ||
| It gave me the freedom to represent the people in the best way that I saw fit. | ||
| And I think we did that to great effect. | ||
| And we're going to take it to the next level on the Senate race. | ||
| But yes, you as a Republican in this day and age, you know, you have to be willing to stand on the parapet and take shots from the from the media, because if you're advocating for what you believe and what the people that you represent believe, you're going to take they're coming after you. | ||
| I just got very little faith in anyone to actually be a leader in terms of standing up to the establishment, which is mostly Democrat, some Republicans. | ||
| There's a reason why people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, even after everything she posted and said, and then apologized for, and it's because she's feisty. | ||
| She's a fighter. | ||
| She fights. | ||
| She fights, like Donald Trump fought. | ||
| And so she raises, what, three point something million dollars in the first quarter, so they can criticize her and smear her all she wants, and she revels in it, and people see that, and they're like, finally someone is standing up. | ||
| But look at this. | ||
| Ted Cruz goes to Cancun or whatever, right? | ||
| So it's got the power outage, the freeze in Texas. | ||
| Ted Cruz flies to, he flew to Cancun, is that where he went? | ||
| Yeah, I think he just to take his family down there. | ||
| Regardless, the media freaks out and then he's flying right back overnight. | ||
| I'd have been like, you know what, now the media's freaking out, I'm gonna take a picture of myself with my feet up. | ||
| Sipping a martini, being like, is this what you want? | ||
| Don't play stupid games. | ||
| Now, he said he was just there to fly his family there and back. | ||
| Sure, whether you want to believe him or not, I think he was going on vacation, and honestly, I don't care. | ||
| You know what I do care about? | ||
| Well, I'll say this first. | ||
| Probably a bad move to be a representative of your community in a time of crisis and be like, eh, I'm gonna go to the beach. | ||
| Nah, like, you know, running for office, being in office, is more than just showing up in Congress and talking. | ||
| It's being a leader for your community and helping build that culture and lead by example. | ||
| But if you want to go on vacation, I'm not going to cry about it. | ||
| I'll tell you what really bothers me, that the media screamed and he was right back. | ||
| Oh no, no, oh geez, no, oh don't look at me. | ||
| I don't care what the New York Times has to say about these people. | ||
| I'm sick of the lies from the media. | ||
| I'm sick of the fact that For four years, the Republicans in the Senate didn't do much of anything with what was going on. | ||
| I remember from 2016, 17, 18, we knew censorship was a very serious problem, and the banning of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters was going to result in Republicans getting defeated. | ||
| Republicans can't even express their own opinions. | ||
| How could they expect to win at this point? | ||
| And they did nothing! | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Look, look. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| I'm not ranting at you. | ||
| You know where I'm going with this, right? | ||
| It's happening to me right now! | ||
| You know, look, if you you want to think you talk about big tech censorship. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| Section 230 is one thing. | ||
| I don't think I necessarily support that because it hurts people like you. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But the repeal of Section 230 or repealing Section 230 hurts. | ||
| It needs to be reformed. | ||
| It needs to be reformed for sure. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Something needs to be done about big tech or state level laws, which we're seeing. | ||
| Texas or Florida. | ||
| Yes, but look at what's happening to me. | ||
| I'm a Senate. | ||
| I'm a Senate candidate in the state of Pennsylvania in arguably the biggest Senate race in the country, right? | ||
| Senate control depends on the state of Pennsylvania, right? | ||
| And go to Google right now, right? | ||
| Just do it right now for your viewers. | ||
| Like search Sean Parnell Senate on Google and see if you can find my campaign website. | ||
| NBC News is the first link, then your Twitter account, Politico. | ||
| So I raise money on my campaign site. | ||
| The only way I raise digital money is on that campaign site. | ||
| Google has a monopoly on search engines, right? | ||
| So you go and go. | ||
| You got to be a forensic data analyst to find my website on Google. | ||
| Now, if you're watching the show, go to Yahoo or go to Bing or go to DuckDuckGo and punch in Sean Parnell's Senate and see what comes up. | ||
| Let's go to Bing. | ||
| Yeah, just see what comes up. | ||
| Bing. | ||
| Sean Parnell, Senate. | ||
| Just do a search, yeah. | ||
| Hey, there you go, it's the first one. | ||
| It's the number one, so here's the thing. | ||
| Wait, wait, hold on. | ||
| Sean Parnell, former governor of Alaska, is actually the card that pops up, but your website is the number one. | ||
| Yeah, so that's the point. | ||
| Look, candidates, we already talked about there's a direct correlation between your ability to raise money as a candidate and getting your message out. | ||
| The Republican Party, they don't give you money. | ||
| It's all about your ability to raise money. | ||
| You want to talk about big tech having their finger on the thumb or their finger on the scale, tipping the scale in one direction. | ||
| Now, Google any other candidate in the state of Pennsylvania. | ||
| Who would you be running against? | ||
| I mean, just Google a guy named John Fetterman, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. | ||
| How do you spell Fetterman? | ||
| Yeah, I got him. | ||
| Yeah, just Google him. | ||
| See if his website comes up on Google first thing. | ||
| First thing is his Twitter, and then governor.pa.gov, then JohnFetterman.com. | ||
| Okay, there you go. | ||
| So, if you're on Google, the primary mechanism that everybody in the country... And he's running for the Senate. | ||
| And he's running for the Senate. | ||
| So, my opponent right now, or a potential opponent right now... There's a primary, right? | ||
| There's a primary, right? | ||
| There's a Republican primary. | ||
| But my point is, they have a distinct advantage right now, and this is big tech. | ||
| I'm telling you, this is big tech. | ||
| Putting their thumb on the scale. | ||
| Helping one side over the other. | ||
| So yes, there needs to be reform. | ||
| And by the way, this hinders my ability to raise money and get my message out. | ||
| Hey, smash my win red link and contribute to my campaign because you can't find it on the website and I'm gonna need all the help I can get in the Senate race in Pennsylvania. | ||
| You do, but I think it might be too late. | ||
| So what year was it that Alex and Milo and everybody got banned? | ||
| Was it 2018? | ||
| Yeah, that was a couple years ago. | ||
| A couple years ago. | ||
| 17 or 18. | ||
| Paul Joseph Watson got his Instagram taken down and it was just like selfies in the sun or whatever. | ||
| Banned from Facebook. | ||
| Milo, Alex. | ||
| Now, people might not like them, but a lot of people do like them. | ||
| And they were some of Trump's biggest supporters. | ||
| And it was obvious. | ||
| Get rid of the largest communities where people gather to support Donald Trump and other populist politicians, and you will beat them. | ||
| And it happened. | ||
| It happened over and over and over and it kept happening. | ||
| And I talk about this because I made a segment something about Republicans are too stupid to deal with censorship to save their own careers. | ||
| And here we go. | ||
| Now they're not going to win. | ||
| They're going to win where it's deep red. | ||
| But, I mean, I will say, surprisingly, the polling was tremendously favorable to Republicans in the 2020 election, for sure. | ||
| But right now, with what we're seeing out of, you know, Pennsylvania, for instance, Philadelphia specifically, 30-point lead for the progressive? | ||
| All right, I don't think we're gonna see Republican, you know, huge turnout in the general, because it's just, it's a city. | ||
| Philadelphia is tough, but I will tell you, this is what I mean about going to certain places. | ||
| The first week of the campaign, I went into South Philly, I went to the Italian market, and I talked to business owners there. | ||
| Showing up matters. | ||
| It doesn't mean you're going to get a majority of the vote. | ||
| But you've got to show up for people, right? | ||
| And, you know, I've been on this show with you four times. | ||
| It's not like I'm a crazy right-wing bomb thrower. | ||
| Truthfully, I'm a consensus builder. | ||
| I consider myself a leader, right? | ||
| You know, when I was in Afghanistan, I led the most diverse platoon you could possibly imagine. | ||
| Rich next to poor, black next to white, Christians next to atheists, next to Muslims, Democrats next to Republicans, next to socialists, you know? | ||
| We figured out a way to make it work in one of the most hostile regions on the planet because we figured out a way to look past our many differences as Americans and unite under a common banner and fight for a common mission. | ||
| If I can do that in Afghanistan on a remote hilltop in one of the most hostile regions on the planet, we sure as heck can do it here in the country. | ||
| That's my message everywhere, yet you can't find me on Google. | ||
| And that's a problem. | ||
| It's a real problem. | ||
| Do you know when the Republican primary is going to be? | ||
| It for Senate. | ||
| Yeah, it's a year. | ||
| It's a year. | ||
| So that may if in case you're wondering, yes, that's a long time. | ||
| Yes, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. | ||
| But the problem is, is and I do think campaigns generally last way too long, but we've already got candidates in the race raising a ton of money, especially on the Democrat side. | ||
| And if we wait to get in, you could find yourself in a 10 million dollar hole and that's impossible to dig yourself out, you know, so. | ||
| I mean, I suppose there's some optimism in that the Democrats have a very, very slim control right now and they've gone back to sleep. | ||
| Ratings are in the gutter because Democrats don't pay attention anymore. | ||
| Look, 2022 is going to be... Look, we talked about the ballot questions. | ||
| That should give you a little inkling about where public sentiment is with regards to these lockdowns, for example, or control, which is really a core pillar of Democrats or radical Democrats. | ||
| And so I think 2022 is going to be a great year for Republicans, conservatives, leaders in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Pennsylvania is absolutely winnable. | ||
| Absolutely winnable. | ||
| I personally think we're going to win Pennsylvania. | ||
| So who are the senators right now for Pennsylvania? | ||
| uh... senator pat to me who is his seat being vacated right so he's a republican | ||
| and so there's an open seat right it's an open seats you would be campaigning against | ||
| an incumbent you get an open seats first time there's no conceit in pennsylvania | ||
| very long time yet senator bob casey who is a democrat | ||
| he's been there uh... for a couple of a bowl of a re-election or it's a it's | ||
| that out Just to me? | ||
| And so if this goes Democrat, it's 51. | ||
| It's so to me. Yes. Yes. So this is an open seat. Right. So a Republican is retiring. | ||
| And so, yes, biggest Senate race in the country. So this goes Democrat. | ||
| It's you lose control. You lose control of the Senate. It's already you have tiebreaker goes to the Democrats because | ||
| of Kamala Harris. | ||
| So we had the Senate seat in Pennsylvania is a must hold seat. | ||
| It's a must-hold seat. | ||
| It is because of Manchin. | ||
| Manchin is the West Virginia Democrat who's a Democrat, and the Democrats are outraged because they call him the gatekeeper, the keyholder. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| If you lose Pennsylvania and it goes Democrat, Manchin's out, it doesn't matter anymore. | ||
| Now he can side with the Republicans and the Democrats win. | ||
| You're 100% correct. | ||
| And I mean, Kristen Sienema, Senator Sienema right out of Arizona is sort of holding the line with Senator Manchin as well, right? | ||
| But without Pennsylvania, without Pennsylvania, the path to the majority is through Arizona, right? | ||
| Against against Senator Kelly, a Democrat. | ||
| Or in New Hampshire, right? | ||
| That's why my campaign motto is, win Pennsylvania, save America. | ||
| Because we are the true hedge against the radicalism of the new progressive left. | ||
| This is 2022. | ||
| This is 2022. | ||
| So it's also possible that Republicans take back the House, which even 538 right now is saying Republicans are likely going to win back the House. | ||
| I'm not entirely confident unless we start seeing some actual populists run and win many of these seats. | ||
| Because if we just get more establishment types like Cheney's or Kinzinger's, then it's meaningless. | ||
| Candidates matter. | ||
| Candidates matter a lot. | ||
| If you're out there and you're thinking of running for office, whether it's local, state, or federal, It's not just about your ability to articulate a message, OK? | ||
| It's about your ability to fundraise. | ||
| And it is not easy, right? | ||
| Fundraising means that you're like people think that me running a campaign, first of all, is like on stage with Trump, like at a rally in front of 50000 people. | ||
| And yeah, that happens. | ||
| And yeah, that was it was an unbelievable experience to be a part of that. | ||
| But that's one percent of it. | ||
| It's like a five hours a day on the phone calling people, cold calling | ||
| people. | ||
| Have you ever done sales calls? | ||
| Try cold calling people and just say, hey, you know, and then asking for like | ||
| twenty nine hundred bucks, see how often you get hung up, see how often people | ||
| tell you no, but you have to be relentless with it. | ||
| And what I see is that all too often candidates aren't willing to do that. | ||
| And but but you got to do it. | ||
| You know, one of the biggest challenges for Republicans is when you're dealing with a message of we're going to give | ||
| you free stuff versus be responsible for yourself and go work hard. | ||
| I think I know where people are going to lean towards. | ||
| I don't know about that Tim. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I know that I know that like and I'll tell you talking to business owners like one of the main issues that they're facing right now and whether it's in the restaurant industry in the manufacturing sector or whatever is that we're paying people more. | ||
| to stay home on unemployment than go to work. | ||
| That's a problem, right? | ||
| And people are choosing to do it. | ||
| Yeah, well, that's right. | ||
| I mean, well, look, if you're if you're if you're a mother of three, | ||
| you've got three little kids and you have an opportunity to stay home with your kids for a few weeks and spend time | ||
| with them. | ||
| You're going to take that. | ||
| And I'm not going to fault you. Right. | ||
| Well, the GOP tweeted, you said that they tweeted. | ||
| What did they say? | ||
| That, you know, more women are choosing to stay at home and be with their children than go to work. | ||
| And all of these, like, Twitter conservatives were like, what is wrong with you? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Look, I'm focused on winning the Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022. | ||
| I can't speak to any of that. | ||
| But, like, our job as leaders, I think, you know, and part of my core philosophy is, you know, It's my personal mission is to go to go to Washington when we win. | ||
| Do everything that I can to shrink the size and scope of the federal government, because I think that too much consolidated power in Washington, I believe that there's a direct correlation between that consolidated power and less freedom in our lives. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so we can shrink the size and scope of the federal government. | ||
| We can divert as much power back to the states as humanly possible, because ultimately the states are the experts of a state. | ||
| States are the they know what they need. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And so more freedom on our lives is a good thing. | ||
| And then when I'm done with that, I mean, I'm not a career politician. | ||
| You're not going to see me in Washington for 40 years, but you bet. | ||
| After a couple of terms, I'm going to get myself a farm in western Pennsylvania and probably never talk to anybody again. | ||
| But but but but I know I know you do. | ||
| But the point is that I think by and large it's our job to advocate for things like pro-growth policies, right? | ||
| like low taxes, letting people keep more of their own money, rolling back regulations to make sure that Pennsylvania | ||
| is a place where people can start a business and not feel like it's too onerous of a process, right? | ||
| Protecting the energy industry, understanding that there are a couple different pillars | ||
| underneath that issue, one of which is the economic issue, people paying more for gas right now | ||
| than they probably should, more to heat their homes. | ||
| That economic issue disproportionately affects the middle income to lower income families. | ||
| Like we don't want that, right? | ||
| We want those families to be lifted up and keep more of their money. | ||
| So to the extent that we can be energy independent, it's good for middle middle class, lower income people. | ||
| But there's also significant national security implications for it. | ||
| You look at what's happening now, right? | ||
| Joe Biden cancels the Keystone XL pipeline, puts 10,000 plus union workers out of work, hurts our energy independence all with the stroke of a pen, while approving and rolling back sanctions on Russia. | ||
| So Joe Biden is literally creating jobs in Russia, helping their energy independence, helping the Russian economy to allow them to export natural gas all around the world, all while they're on the border of Ukraine. | ||
| Imagine if President Trump did that. | ||
| They would be calling him a Russian asset. | ||
| Well, they already were, but you know. | ||
| Oh, of course, they already were. | ||
| But yes. | ||
| This proves it. | ||
| Yeah, this proves it. | ||
| But you see my point, right? | ||
| And so energy independence is something that's important. | ||
| It's a major pillar of the economy in Pennsylvania. | ||
| And health care is a big deal, right? | ||
| The GOP has not had a good answer on health care for a long time. | ||
| And I think, you know, part of my platform is having a good market based, innovative plan for health care. | ||
| Like we all talk about the Republican talking points of letting insurance companies compete across state lines, more flexibility, more choice means lower cost for the consumer and a more diverse Health care plan offering. | ||
| All of that's great. | ||
| And talking about association health care plans of the idea of small businesses being able to band together to have the same purchasing power as large corporations. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But what if we think outside the box for a second and take things a step further and say, why don't we let individuals of a similar age, sex, demographic with similar health care needs, individuals band together on app based technology It essentially becomes an insurance pool. | ||
| You have millions of people on there. | ||
| You got to call a platinum plan, gold plan, silver plan, whatever. | ||
| But people that like 25 year olds have similar health care needs. | ||
| Right now, it's not perfect. | ||
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| But you can invest money. | ||
| You pay a certain amount of money on a monthly fee for a health care app. | ||
| You become a member of that health care plan and you allow individuals now to have the same purchasing power as large corporations. | ||
| Republicans need to need to start thinking outside the box on having good Pragmatics policy solutions to make our lives better. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| But you go to a regular person and say, they want you to come up with some plan for banding together. | ||
| We're just going to give you free stuff. | ||
| Well, the problem is, is that, you know, first of all, it's not, it's not virtuous to take someone else's money, tax someone else and give their money to someone else. | ||
| There are a lot of people who don't care. | ||
| Well, just give me the free stuff. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| They will care because the problem is, is eventually you run out of other people's money. | ||
| And then the Democrats come out and blame the Republicans saying it's your fault for not raising the debt ceiling or whatever. | ||
| And so you look at what's going on with these police and they defund the police. | ||
| There's then no cops to deal with crime. | ||
| And they say, see, look, the cops aren't even doing anything anyway. | ||
| They use the problem they create to then advocate for more destruction of the system. | ||
| You can't just be like free health care. | ||
| Which is what they keep saying and regular people who don't know are like, I'll vote for that and they're like, okay | ||
| Now, how do we do it? Well, you can't so let's just fake it till you make it | ||
| So they're like print more money, I guess I think AOC actually said deficit spend. Oh, right just | ||
| Basically, you're just talking about stripping away the the value of the working class from their savings to fund | ||
| health care Yeah, it's distribution. Well, it's not you know, I mean | ||
| just health care If you're looking at like, so Joe Biden, I think in his first hundred days as president infused something like two and a half trillion dollars of cash into the economy. | ||
| And what you're seeing is not just a lackluster jobs report. | ||
| I think they expected, you know, close to a million jobs. | ||
| They got 250,000. | ||
| Absolutely horrible. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So there was that in addition to inflation just this month, 4.2 percent. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Now, inflation means the dollar has individuals have less purchasing power. | ||
| Their dollar is worth less. | ||
| It's basically inflation is a tax on everybody. | ||
| And again, it disproportionately affects middle to lower income people. | ||
| When you want to look at inflation, you see inflation reflected in the cost of our commodities, like try to go and buy lumber to build a deck on your house. | ||
| And you're going to spend probably five, six times as much on that wood. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So. | ||
| Inflation is not just on our doorstep. | ||
| It's here. | ||
| Joe Biden, for all he talks about, he's not going to tax people that make less than $400,000 a year. | ||
| First of all, I wouldn't believe that. | ||
| He's going to. | ||
| But inflation is a tax on the middle income. | ||
| It's a tax on middle income families. | ||
| Not being energy independent essentially is a tax on middle income, lower income families. | ||
| So the point that I'm building to here is that it's our job as leaders in the Republican Party to have policies and be able to specifically articulate those policies that advocate for pro-growth positions. | ||
| And they can't just be talking points. | ||
| You have to talk about why it's important to advocate for policies to make Pennsylvania prosperous, right? | ||
| Let's talk about policies that we don't want. | ||
| We have this story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Exclusive! | ||
| It's become an outdoor psychiatric ward. | ||
| How California's scenic Venice Beach has become a homeless hotspot with tent cities, violent crime, and rampant drug use pushing families and tourists out. | ||
| I'm not even sure I can show any of the photos because you might get in trouble on here. | ||
| But you can see that, for a lot of reasons, it's just be- Wow. | ||
| Wow, wow, wow, that's all I can say. | ||
| I was- I was in Venice only a few years ago. | ||
| I skate- skate right there all the time. | ||
| You got these before and after 2015 and 2021. | ||
| Yikes. | ||
| You swipe across... tent cities. | ||
| Something doesn't work in California. | ||
| Their policies are just a disaster. | ||
| And it's unfortunate because, you know, Northern California is very different from the big cities in California. | ||
| And when most people talk about California, they're not talking about the, you know, the farming territories and the counties in the east. | ||
| They're talking about L.A. | ||
| and San Francisco, maybe Sacramento, the Bay Area. | ||
| Even San Diego's got, I think they still have a Republican mayor. | ||
| But their policies don't work, whatever this is. | ||
| There's a recall now for Gavin Newsom. | ||
| What you see in places like California will be coming to many more places in this country if these policies expand. | ||
| So if Pennsylvania ends up going Democrat, they're just going to keep burning the place down. | ||
| It's going to become more and more like this. | ||
| I mean, you're right. | ||
| I mean, California has been under a uniparty rule, a Democrat rule, for how long now? | ||
| 30, 40, 50 years? | ||
| I mean, something insane. | ||
| Republican before, like, what, 90, 91 or 92? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so, yeah, I think that there there is a direct correlation between, you know, this new new progressive Democrat views and entrenched poverty in places like California and drug use and high crime. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And people keep voting for it. | ||
| I mean, in some places, in some places, you know, I think Pennsylvania is one of those places that, you know, in 2022, you know, Pennsylvania has a lot of independents that I think are going to have buyer's remorse that that perhaps believe Joe Biden was a moderate, not their fault. | ||
| The media portrayed him as a moderate. | ||
| and big tech censored stories that were negative about him. | ||
| And so you saw that poll of like, you know, how, what percentage of people | ||
| would have voted differently had they known the Hunter Biden? | ||
| I mean, that, that, that alone, like an average of what, 6, 6, 4, 6 or 7% of | ||
| people, yeah, would not have voted for Joe Biden and they know that story. | ||
| And, and like big tech totally censored it. | ||
| They censored one of the one of the oldest newspapers in the country. | ||
| So it's not like it was a newspaper that they censored. | ||
| So. | ||
| So, yeah, I think that that it but I think that there's going to be a lot of independence and I think there's even going to be some moderate Democrats saying, whoa, this is not what I bargained for. | ||
| And so, you know me, I'm an idealist when it comes to this country. | ||
| I think it can be saved with the right candidates, with the right message and the ability to articulate and willingness to go to the places where you need to build bridges, you know? | ||
| And that's what we're trying to do in Pennsylvania. | ||
| What's your history like politically? | ||
| What did you affiliate as in your 20s? | ||
| I've always been, I've always been conservative. | ||
| You know, I don't know, have you ever seen that movie Legends of the Fall? | ||
| No, only clips. | ||
| Everyone on the show is like, what, Parnell watched Legends of the Fall? | ||
| Yeah, I watched it once when I was younger. | ||
| But like, I have a lot of, I have a lot of libertarian, libertarian, you know, views. | ||
| I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't like the government. | ||
| I don't think that they run things efficiently. | ||
| And if you don't believe me, let me think of an example. | ||
| Like Cash for Clunkers. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| They come with an awesome program, right? | ||
| They ran out of cash in a month. | ||
| Remember the Obamacare website? | ||
| Remember when Obama gave all those guns to the cartels? | ||
| Oh, I remember. | ||
| They were just ass. | ||
| You know, you know, classic classical liberalism. | ||
| Right. | ||
| After the Vietnam War is really, I think, was when it was born, was all based on critical thinking and mistrust of the government. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And for classical liberalism is like what founded this country. | ||
| Well, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| But in the wake of in the wake of the Vietnam War, like if the government told you to eat white bread, you know, most liberals were like, no, I mean, we'd read just because the government told you. | ||
| But somewhere somewhere along the way, There's been a shift on the left from the sort of classical liberalism and tolerance and diverse set of ideals to believing everything the government says hook, line, and sinker with no critical thinking. | ||
| Just gotta not be a conservative. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| So even now when Fauci is like, you can take off your mask if you're vaccinated, they're like, no, no, because then people will think I'm a conservative. | ||
| Well, who cares what is it that their whole identity is built upon hating somebody? | ||
| That's it. | ||
| It's like, what are your politics? | ||
| I just hate that guy. | ||
| Is that it? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That's that's part of the reason why. | ||
| That's part of the reason why, you know, I think it's very important to be a happy warrior. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because, you know, if you're running a campaign, you know, one of the things you have to do is draw a contrast. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Give people a choice. | ||
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| And I think one of the ways I think the radical left today's day and age They're pretty unhappy. | ||
| They're unhappy. | ||
| And I feel like they're unhappy a lot. | ||
| I'll tell you this. | ||
| In the past year, two years, we have seen the biggest de-radicalization of the left that we've probably ever seen in this country. | ||
| I'm pretty impressed. | ||
| So a lot of people I knew from Occupy Wall Street, the Antifa far leftists, they're cheering for major pharmaceutical companies. | ||
| They're cheering for the FBI and the government. | ||
| And I'm like, I see their posts, and I'm not kidding, like Antifa types saying like, yay, FBI, you go get Giuliani, and I'm like, I'm glad to see that you've reformed your ways and you're pro-federal government. | ||
| And they're like, well, I mean, it's different now, because they're going after people I like, and I'm like, yeah, so you like the FBI, right? | ||
| Like, that's cool. | ||
| I remember when you thought they were bad and wanted to like, you know, you hated the government and were protesting all the time. | ||
| Now you're cheering for the government. | ||
| Now you're cheering for the massive multinational pharmaceutical companies. | ||
| So, hey, good for you. | ||
| I thought you were kind of off the deep end. | ||
| They don't seem to self-reflect. | ||
| Ten years ago, they were like, Monsanto, bad. | ||
| These big pharmaceutical companies are evil. | ||
| Now they're like, yay, which team are you on? | ||
| Um, you know, yeah, I think that's why the Republican Party, they've got a tremendous opportunity, right? | ||
| I just, I think that, you know, gosh, President Trump, he brought about a massive shift in the Republican Party, especially in Pennsylvania, right? | ||
| Where And in the span of four years, the Republican Party has become less the part. | ||
| I mean, in fact, probably not at all at this point, the party of large corporations to the party of the working man and woman like the shift is like unbelievable. | ||
| And so Democrats are the party. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And the college professors, and the Hollywood people, and the big tech people, yes. | ||
| earners in the country have been demanding for four years that the working class pay | ||
| off all of their debts. | ||
| And we're to the point now where Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders have entertained stripping | ||
| the value from the working class savings to pay off the debts of the highest income earners | ||
| in the country. | ||
| I want everyone to think about that for two seconds. | ||
| Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were in favor of stripping the savings, devaluing | ||
| the savings of the working class to pay off the highest income earners' debts. | ||
| That's absolutely correct. | ||
| That's college degrees. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| People with college degrees make substantially more than people without it, and those people are demanding the poor pay their bills for them. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I'm not all about that. | ||
| That's wrong. | ||
| That is wrong. | ||
| And you're 100% correct. | ||
| How have the conservatives moved? | ||
| They appear to be even lefter than many of the modern Democrats. | ||
| No joke. | ||
| You've got the Trump supporters. | ||
| Many are working class union guys who want their factories back. | ||
| And then you've got the university leftists with their degrees and their Hillary Clinton and their hedge funds and their super PACs. | ||
| And then you see the neocons, Lincoln Project people joining the Democrats. | ||
| How is it that Republicans are left of the establishment Democrats? | ||
| They're defending the workers' rights, not the Democrats. | ||
| The Democrats are stripping away their rights, stripping away their value, giving money to the bourgeoisie. | ||
| Look, I think the Republican Party has to embrace this new identity, this new working class identity. | ||
| These are our people. | ||
| These are the people that built this country, right? | ||
| And I think that we have to, I think that we've got to be there for them. | ||
| We can't shun them. | ||
| I mean, Jim Banks had a memo, if you've seen Jim Banks's memo, the working class memo, and basically it is, Congressman Banks is, I think he's great, but he's got a memo out there about the path forward for the Republican Party, and it's like a two-page plan of what the Republican Party needs to do to be successful. | ||
| It's awesome, and we should totally embrace it. | ||
| You should Google it right now and have a look at it, but it's something that we should definitely... Look, it's showing up for the people... Here's what you do. | ||
| You just write down what Ron DeSantis does. | ||
| And then just be like what he said. | ||
| He's coming to Pittsburgh tomorrow. | ||
| I'm gonna be with him tomorrow. | ||
| He's been doing a fantastic job. | ||
| He's far from perfect. | ||
| Look, he's balanced protecting people from a global pandemic with people's freedom, right? | ||
| And social media censorship. | ||
| Yeah, he's done a pretty darn good job. | ||
| You know, there are concerns about what people people question conservatives. | ||
| His stance on free speech issues like he may be opposed to the censorship, but it's aimed | ||
| mostly at affecting politicians. | ||
| And then there are some issues around people's right to free speech, I think, relating to | ||
| Israel that people are concerned about. | ||
| But I look at you know, I don't just see like one thing and say flush the baby out the bathwater. | ||
| I'm like, hey, Ron DeSantis is doing it pretty well. | ||
| Texas is doing pretty well, too. | ||
| Their social media bill, apparently, is much, much better. | ||
| And we need to see more red states start having this aggressive legislation to go after these companies and these things. | ||
| Because I'll tell you, Florida has this bill that's, that's, I believe, I believe Santa's may have already signed it or he's about to sign it, which gives protections to individuals, companies, news organizations, and politicians when it comes to censorship. | ||
| However, Facebook, as Ian points out, could be like, then we're cutting off Florida. | ||
| And if you have a Florida IP, you can't access the service anymore. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Then what happens in West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, they all start lining up with the exact same legislation. | ||
| Okay, then Facebook only exists in New York and California. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| No, they wouldn't want that. | ||
| that would destroy the company. So they would say, okay, fine, you win. We'll stop censoring | ||
| conservatives. You know, one of the biggest problems that I have with politics right now | ||
| is that I mentioned conservatives. Many Republicans seem to be more concerned about | ||
| the opinion of the New York times than their constituents. | ||
| Like they're more worried than your time. They'll say about them than their own | ||
| constituents. Yeah. You, you look at what the media says and they lie every single day. | ||
| They say, there is no bias against conservatives. | ||
| And I'm like, but you're the one, it was Gizmodo that broke the first story, one of the first, that Facebook was censoring conservative news outlets. | ||
| Now they changed their tune because they realized it's a good thing. | ||
| These journalists who first reported it were like, oh, look what I found. | ||
| Then they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| We like that they're censoring these ideas because then people can't have them. | ||
| If they don't share the ideas, they won't know. | ||
| So keep them ignorant. | ||
| Keep them in the dark. | ||
| Treat them like mushrooms. | ||
| You know, you feed them crap and you keep them in the dark. | ||
| So now you're going to start seeing a lot of states, hopefully, start picking this up. | ||
| I'm stoked when I look at the past 10 years and I see how many states have adopted constitutional carry. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| It's remarkable. | ||
| I didn't even realize that in the 80s, you couldn't even get a concealed carry permit in most states. | ||
| It was like May issue. | ||
| They'd tell you to screw off. | ||
| Now it's constitutional carry. | ||
| You walk in, you pass a background check, you walk out with a gun and you can be carrying it, concealing it, whatever. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| Protecting people's rights. | ||
| Let's see the same thing across the board at the state level. | ||
| The states need to start passing these laws. | ||
| Local is where it's at. | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| I would also say that I think it's very, the states that do the best have a great communication between their federal office holders, the governor, and the state legislatures, right? | ||
| So I think yes, yes, I think a governor can have an unbelievable power if he's got a legislature that's willing to work with him. | ||
| They can get a lot of things done and bring about profound positive change in people's lives. | ||
| I think you take that to the next level, where you've got a governor that's communicating seamlessly with, like, a senator or congressman or women, and everything is working like a smoothly oiled machine. | ||
| That's how you do it. | ||
| And that's really what we're trying to do in Pennsylvania with regards to uniting the Republican Party, both in Washington, D.C., as a candidate for Senate, as a liaison to the federal government, But also working hand in glove with those state representatives who are boots on the ground in their communities every day and making sure our messaging is on point, our organizing is on point, our fundraising is on point, and we're advocating for policies that are the best for all of Pennsylvania at every level, right? | ||
| I'm concerned that just the fragmentation of the U.S. | ||
| is getting too severe. | ||
| You know, when you look at these cities, they got rising crime, they have ongoing riots, and they just, for whatever reason, you get more far leftists in. | ||
| And then I can only imagine that in the red areas, people are separating each other, you know? | ||
| Like, how many people have moved to Texas recently? | ||
| Tons of personalities that are conservative are fleeing to Texas. | ||
| So Texas is going to become increasingly more red, the blue areas will become increasingly more blue, and then there's going to be no real overlap. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| I think there are some people that would say that there are leftists moving from California to Texas. | ||
| And that's why people are worried about Texas turning blue. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's this whole Texas turning blue movement. | ||
| So that's why people are leaving. | ||
| People are leaving states where they voted in Democrat Democrat leadership for 30 years and then going and essentially voting the same way in Texas. | ||
| And I don't think Texas is going to is going to turn blue, but people always talk about it. | ||
| I think now it won't because people who are fleeing to Texas are conservative or at least opposed to the Democrats. | ||
| They saw a huge rise in homeless in Austin recently. | ||
| I mean, it might just be everywhere in all these metropolitan cities. | ||
| Evictions are starting up, I think, in two months because the moratorium was ended. | ||
| In Texas? | ||
| Everywhere. | ||
| So we were on the verge of looking at like millions upon millions of evictions. | ||
| They said on 6th Street in Austin, it's just like tent city. | ||
| And in California, not just in Venice, in California, in L.A., there's just a tent city up and down, you know. | ||
| I heard something scary. | ||
| What streets? | ||
| There's a video rumor going around that the U.S. | ||
| government is threatening subsidies of farmers. | ||
| So there's a thing, I think it's called fallowing, where they're basically paid not to grow food. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so there's a concern right now that because of the shortages and everything's happening and how the tax subsidies work, that we're like eight months out from some serious food shortages. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised. | ||
| The idea that you can just stop an economy dead in its tracks and then snap your fingers and get it back going again? | ||
| Nah. | ||
| The workers are displaced. | ||
| What would be the end state for that? | ||
| How could that possibly be a good thing? | ||
| I haven't heard anything about that. | ||
| I'm not saying it's a good thing. | ||
| I'm not saying anybody wants to do it. | ||
| But why would the federal government want to do it? | ||
| The system by which we have subsidies for farmers has created a circumstance based on everything that's happened, which is contributing to the probability of more... So there's already food shortages. | ||
| I guess you're not seeing it in national news, but if you look at these local news outlets, they're talking about food shortages. | ||
| Now there's rumors that the supply chain disruption, the rising fuel costs have made everything substantially harder. | ||
| Workers are displaced because of the pandemic. | ||
| Many moved. | ||
| They're not going to go back to those jobs. | ||
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| People don't realize that the shortage we're seeing for like computer chips. | ||
| What do you think is going to happen with food? | ||
| Like, do you think that food is immune from the shortages we're experiencing in the economy? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| And no, in fact, it's the supply logistics chain is real, right? | ||
| And you look at the look, look at the cost of food and how much people are paying for certain things. | ||
| It's it's it is absolutely concerning. | ||
| And my fear, is that, you know, because I mean, we're seeing inflation | ||
| now, you know, I think I think that I think the federal government like they're not going to hard | ||
| default on on our on our debt, right? I do think they're going to print their way our debt | ||
| and deficit issues are the biggest, the greatest leadership challenge that my generation of | ||
| leaders are going to face, right? It's a big deal. We've got to figure out what to do | ||
| with our debt and deficit. But, you know, we're not going to hard default on our debt. | ||
| But I do think what the plan is, is a soft default, which is to purposefully inflate our currency so that the value of our debt is worth less. | ||
| And I think that's what you're seeing right now. | ||
| And I think that's what you're talking to right now. | ||
| And my fear is that we are on the brink of now. | ||
| I mean, we're on the brink of what could be a recession, I think, a year from now, you know, and and hopefully, | ||
| hopefully we can pull ourselves out of it. | ||
| But like, we really have to start advocating for growth economic policies like right away. | ||
| We really have to start. | ||
| I don't know what... I don't know how you fix this, man. | ||
| The train... It's a freight train on the tracks, and then they just stopped it. | ||
| And then all the carts flew up in the air from the inertia and just scattered all over. | ||
| And now they're like, alright, set the train up again, and you're like, bro, one cart, like, rolled down the mountain. | ||
| It's in the ocean. | ||
| I don't even know how to get that back up here. | ||
| So when they shut down the economy... | ||
| And this idea that you could just start it up again is ludicrous. | ||
| Let's say you've got 10 employees making $16 an hour at a restaurant. | ||
| Economy shuts down. | ||
| These people who are in their early 20s decide to move back home. | ||
| They go to the suburbs to stay with their parents. | ||
| Okay, start the economy back up. | ||
| Restaurant goes, we don't have any employees. | ||
| We have to rehire everybody to start. | ||
| We don't have any money. | ||
| Food all spoiled. | ||
| You can't just do it. | ||
| We just spent an entire week going all across the state talking to business owners from Erie down to South Philly and they've all had that problem. | ||
| It is not imaginary. | ||
| And nobody wants to work when you're getting paid more not to work? | ||
| Yeah, and you're right, like they're having issues both in shipping and logistics and food processing and finding truck drivers and the cost of fuel has made it more difficult on truck drivers to get from point A to point B. I mean, there are issues at every level. | ||
| I mean, again, I think it can be saved, but it's going to take leadership and focus and Clear communication, clear honest communication with the American people, which, you know, is not Joe Biden's strong suit. | ||
| So, you know, look, that's that's why it's so important. | ||
| That's why it's so important to win in 2022. | ||
| That's why the slogan is win Pennsylvania, save America. | ||
| I wanna bring up a story we have here, this is really cool. | ||
| So I saw this story over at Daily Mail. It's body cam captures moment cops | ||
| single-handedly lifts overturned car off Virginia mother thrown outside vehicle | ||
| after crash. And first of all I was like dude that is cool. | ||
| A cop to save a woman lifted the vehicle by himself. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
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| Now, I think it was upside down and he, like, was able to push it off and roll it or something. | ||
| But I was also thinking, like, you rarely see these stories go viral. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I was just sitting here thinking the same thing. | ||
| It's, you know, you got all of this anti-police rhetoric every single day, which is, of course, why you're seeing violent crime rise in a city like Philadelphia. | ||
| You talk about removing a cop's qualified immunity. | ||
| Give your viewers an example of what that means. | ||
| As a soldier on the battlefield, you've got protection in that regard, too. | ||
| So, in other words, if one of my soldiers gets injured, I run out and I try to render first aid. | ||
| Maybe they've got a sucking chest wound, and we save their life, put them on a helicopter, get them back to the States, and maybe they have an issue with their lungs. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, should that soldier be able to sue the federal government or the Department of Defense because he was wounded on the battlefield? | ||
| Right now, it's illegal. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| Because at the end of the day, you're in combat. | ||
| You're surrounded by death and destruction. | ||
| You're doing the best you can to save lives. | ||
| So the government is immune from... | ||
| The DOD or the Army in general. | ||
| So what does this mean for the cop? | ||
| Well, the cop, what it means for the cop is that, you know, if a cop is out there like just trying to do their job and they can be sued by, they can be sued by anybody for doing anything. | ||
| 800 times. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So it's like defunding, you're 100% right. | ||
| It's like defunding the police without actually Def right there. All right. It's all a ready to be. Yes | ||
| I think that that was a challenge because I'm not entirely sure | ||
| You know how you deal with it just not being able to sue maybe there should be a higher burden or something | ||
| Because when we had I think Chauvin they said he had you know | ||
| Like 19 complaints or something out of 18 years and I'm like actually sounds pretty good | ||
| You'd think a cop is like I'm writing a ticket. I'm gonna complain about you | ||
| It's like, everyone's gonna complain, nobody wants to get pulled over, nobody wants to get arrested. | ||
| The point, the point, what we're talking about though, is like, to your point, is like, all we hear is the negative. | ||
| But cops, they are out there every single day putting it all on the line, doing good things for people, and this story is just one example of it. | ||
| It's a cool story, let me show a little bit. | ||
| So this is a vehicle flipped over and the officer was able to lift it up to save the individual. | ||
| I mean, I'll just give you the bullet points here. | ||
| They say, Gloucester County Sheriff Deputy John Holt rescued the woman when she had been trapped under the sunroof of the car after it wrecked on May 7th. | ||
| Her young son is heard desperately crying out, Mommy, Mommy, before the deputy was able to rescue her. | ||
| The incredible video has since gone viral after being shared on Tuesday by the sheriff's office with more than 84,000 views on Facebook. | ||
| That's not viral. | ||
| 84,000 views. | ||
| Not viral. | ||
| You can go on Twitter and there's a video of some random dude farting. | ||
| It's got a million views. | ||
| Don't talk about viral. | ||
| They say he recently received a local and regional Top Cop award for saving a disabled young girl and a woman from a burning home last March. | ||
| But I still see this and I'm like, I've heard these stories about how people can muster up inhuman strength because humans are actually much stronger than we are on a daily basis. | ||
| There's, I don't know exactly how it works, but I read there's like a limiter that humans only exert around 20% of their actual muscular capacity. | ||
| How do you know this stuff? | ||
| I'm on Reddit and someone posted, like, did you know? | ||
| I don't know if it's true. | ||
| You've got to fact check me on this one. | ||
| But it's something like, there's a limit to how much strength we can use unless we get our adrenaline pumping and it's a live or die moment because your muscles start destroying themselves when you exert too much. | ||
| But you hear these stories about a mother and she's able to, like, Pull her daughter up like hanging from with one arm and lift them up and then pull herself up to save a child or like lift a vehicle. | ||
| These are cool stories. | ||
| And so I want to make sure like we're not always just just doing in the negativity, but there's some there's still some negativity here. | ||
| What happens on Facebook? | ||
| I saw a video go going viral today and it was like it was on Reddit. | ||
| And it was like, a cop kicks a man in the head, even though he's already subdued and is being arrested. | ||
| And it was true. | ||
| There's a video of a guy who's on the ground with his hands behind his back, the cop's cuffing him, and a cop runs up and just punts his head. | ||
| And I'm like, now why would that cop do that? | ||
| More importantly, I've seen this video a thousand times. | ||
| Because it gets recycled. | ||
| They put it up, it gets traffic, they put it up again. | ||
| This story, 84,000 views. | ||
| A cop lifted a vehicle to save a woman. | ||
| How many times is that going to get recycled? | ||
| It's not! | ||
| It only got 84,000 views. | ||
| I see this video on Reddit, it's got a million views. | ||
| In a week, it'll have a million views again. | ||
| In a month, it'll have a million views again because they keep sharing the same things over and over and over again. | ||
| The social media companies and search engines control what you see, and when you control the flow of information, you control what people think in certain regards. | ||
| And now people hate the police? | ||
| I mean, look, you look at the algorithms and what they've produced over the past 10 years, it sounds like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg purposefully want to destroy this country. | ||
| They have driven people insane. | ||
| There are people who literally believe the cops go around hunting black people. | ||
| They actually believe them. | ||
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| I know. | ||
| So PragerU, they send out Will Witt. | ||
| Will goes to like Venice Skate Park in California, you know, same skate park we were talking | ||
| about just a moment ago. | ||
| And he asks three young black men how many unarmed black men do they think had been killed | ||
| in the past year, and they're like, thousands. | ||
| It's like 19. | ||
| It's bad. | ||
| Like, 19 people. | ||
| But we're in a country of 320 million people. | ||
| What is it, 375 million police interactions. | ||
| 19 of which resulted in unarmed black men being shot and killed. | ||
| And of those, some of them are actually justified. | ||
| In, like, a guy was trying to run someone over, so he's not armed, but he's using a car. | ||
| Or they're about to attack someone, or they're about to, like, grab someone by the throat and they're beating them or pummeling them. | ||
| Or sometimes it was a wrongful, you know, shooting. | ||
| In some circumstances. | ||
| They're all bad. | ||
| We don't want people to die. | ||
| Of course not, right. | ||
| But because of social media, because they weaponize this stuff, everyone goes insane. | ||
| And don't get me wrong, it goes the other direction, too. | ||
| What you see on the left today is, I think social media has helped form the culture war into factions of people who blindly just believe whatever the media says, no matter what, and the people who, for the most part, distrust the media, with a decent portion who distrust no matter what the media says, they'll distrust them. | ||
| So you end up with people who believe the earth is flat, Well, people believe in God. | ||
| these weird conspiracy theories about lizard people because they go online and they can | ||
| find this stuff and they believe it. | ||
| And I hear some of the craziest stuff when I when I read when I read the news. | ||
| But do those people have any institutional power? | ||
| The people who think the earth is flat? | ||
| Are they in Congress? | ||
| No. | ||
| Well, people believe in God. | ||
| I mean, that's almost as ridiculous. | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| There's zero evidence ever. | ||
| I mean, you're going to ignite a whole other conversation. | ||
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It is. | |
| It's a big conversation. | ||
| But there's not zero evidence. | ||
| The issue is, if you don't talk about theism and like religious text and doctrine, I'm not talking about that. | ||
| So I'm talking about people, you could literally climb a tower and measure the shadows and calculate the circumference of the planet like that dude Eratosthenes did in 1 BC. | ||
| Because you can disprove the earth is flat, it's different than God. | ||
| You can prove the earth is round. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Believing in God and faith-based things and, you know, having philosophy is an entirely different discussion. | ||
| Lizard people? | ||
| I mean, it's faith-based, there's no evidence. | ||
| Lizard people is dramatically different from believing in God, dude. | ||
| But it's dramatically similar. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| Yeah, there's just no evidence. | ||
| I don't want to deviate and derail the conversation. | ||
| You're confusing philosophical and theological conversations with text and fairy tales. | ||
| Well, there's text about the flat Earth. | ||
| That's where it comes from. | ||
| Yeah, but there's no scientific... Yeah, it was before science was invented. | ||
| People go online and they watch insane videos about insane things and they believe it. | ||
| They go online and they read books about, you know, they see things about critical race theory, it's insane, and they believe it. | ||
| And it's bad. | ||
| Zealotry and fundamentalism, all of these things are problems. | ||
| They exist. | ||
| So the problem is, we need critical thinking. | ||
| Instead, we get critical theory. | ||
| And then people just blindly follow and march off cliffs like lemmings. | ||
| Well, and it's not just social media, right? | ||
| Like much of the sort of propaganda that is pushed on people on social media is also taught in schools. | ||
| And so we're teaching our kids from a very young age in our public schools, like critical race theory, for example, that, you know, teaches kids to Dislike each other or think about each other based on the color of their skin. | ||
| Or hate their country. | ||
| Or hate their country. | ||
| Or think that America is fundamentally evil or bad. | ||
| And this is a problem. | ||
| And not only is it happening in our schools, now it's happening in our military. | ||
| There are ideological purity tests for people in the military. | ||
| Teaching critical race theory in the military. | ||
| And I'm telling you, Look, I got out. | ||
| I was medically retired in 2010, so it wasn't that long ago. | ||
| I mean, we're talking like 11 years ago, I got out. | ||
| This stuff was nowhere to be found in the military because it ain't about you, right? | ||
| In the military, one of the things they teach you at basic is that It's okay. | ||
| All of this, like, you know, it ain't about you anymore. | ||
| So we're going to shave your head. | ||
| We're going to put you in a uniform. | ||
| We're only as fast. | ||
| This team is only as fast as its slowest person. | ||
| We're all going to make our bed the same way. | ||
| Our lockers are all going to be the same way because what they're doing there is creating, they're whittling down the individual identity and they're creating a collective, right? | ||
| And that, and look past our differences, work together to fit, but that, but that, that, that is sounds a bit like what the critical theorists do. | ||
| But see, the difference is that the focus in critical race theory is only on our differences. | ||
| That's a fundamental difference. | ||
| And in the military, that can get you killed. | ||
| Because the goal of critical theory is to destroy. | ||
| It's to deconstruct. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Look, I've known many of these people for a long time, and they have routinely expressed their desire is to destroy the system. | ||
| They just want to watch. | ||
| Some say, I just want to watch it burn. | ||
| Some say from the ashes of the old, we will build the new. | ||
| That's the idea. | ||
| So critical theory is their means to an end. | ||
| They think they will, they will deconstruct everything, make it impossible to have communications. | ||
| They will fracture any ability for a collective identity within the United States. | ||
| And after that it's rubble. | ||
| Then they'll come back with their, you know, whatever communism, socialism. | ||
| We were always taught growing up that the reason why America was such a wonderful player, part of the reason, was that we have people from all over the world that come here to live the American dream, be free, give a good life to their kids. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because America is a melting pot. | ||
| Do you remember that? | ||
| Were you ever taught that as a kid? | ||
| Of course, the great American melting pot. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| Well, America right now, it's a melting pot that's not melting. | ||
| And that's a problem. | ||
| Critical theory is trying to re-emulsify the differences. | ||
| Whereas we used to believe that you throw everybody in the melting pot and you get a nice fondue with a bunch of different flavors, they're actually trying to reverse entropy to get the pepper jack back out of the fondue. | ||
| Did you just compare America and the American people to fondue? | ||
| I've never had fondue. | ||
| It's good. | ||
| It's a melting pot. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| It's melted cheese. | ||
| Talk about derailing the conversation. | ||
| I'm sorry, but I don't know what fondue is. | ||
| Fondue is a melting pot. | ||
| My diet. | ||
| You get a little thing. | ||
| You throw cheddar and you throw in Swiss and pepper jack and whatever. | ||
| And then you turn it on and it melts all of the cheeses together. | ||
| And then you dip stuff in the cheese. | ||
| It sounds like something that you would really like. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| We have one on the counter right now. | ||
| Of course you do. | ||
| Or you can take like oil, some garlic, some vinegar, soy sauce, and then boil it and put the meat in it. | ||
| It blends everything. | ||
| It's just a pot for you. | ||
| This sounds a little adventurous to me. | ||
| Like, if I go to a restaurant, you give me dino chicken nuggets, some tater tots, I am good. | ||
| I eat like a two-year-old. | ||
| The Great American Melting Pot. | ||
| I don't know how we're here. | ||
| I don't know how we got here. | ||
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| The Great American Melting Pot, right? | ||
| You get some chihuahua cheese from Mexico, you get some American cheese from America, you get some good Dubliner from Ireland. | ||
| I think it's from Ireland. | ||
| And then you throw it all in a pot and it all melts together. | ||
| And we're like, this is some great cheese. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| I just mixed a bunch of stuff together. | ||
| I do it all the time. | ||
| I take like Colby Jack and Pepper Jack and Swiss and Havarti and I just blend it up and I make nachos. | ||
| And I'm like, isn't it amazing that you can get this great blend of cheeses? | ||
| You ever have four cheese pizza? | ||
| What, like DiGiorno? | ||
| Of course! | ||
| You go you're like I'll take the four cheese. Of course now imagine if you're hanging out with someone | ||
| They were like, can I take the ricotta out of this? | ||
| Ricotta out of this pizza and you're like, dude, it's all blended together | ||
| Yeah, I know but we should remove it Yeah, at some point like that's critical theory or I only | ||
| want to eat the I only want to eat that little bit Yeah, yeah. No, the rest is wasted after after you only | ||
| yeah mozzarella supremacy needs to end Our pizzas should have different cheeses. | ||
| So get the mozzarella out, you're like, but we melted it all together. | ||
| Well, in the future, let's actually put blocks so that your pizza is actually... I mean, what you're saying is accurate. | ||
| I mean, they're actually, like in certain colleges, they're having Graduation, I mean, this is like this is not progressive | ||
| This this is like to be a progressive in today's day and age is actually to be a regressive like they're going | ||
| backwards in time With this stuff, but they love using language. That's why | ||
| so I see on Twitter. They're like, oh, right Right a critical race theory is diversity and inclusion | ||
| There's a reason there's a reason why they say diversity inclusivity and equity | ||
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| These are the things they're calling for. | ||
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| These are the things they're they're calling for. They're literally saying | ||
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| do control. The left does an extraordinary job at controlling the | ||
| language. Right. And that's what that's what we're talking about now. Like | ||
| critical race theory is is inherently bad for the country. | ||
| As we mentioned, They literally create diversity, inclusivity, and equity positions. | ||
| Could you imagine someone hiring a special person in a company and they say, this is our dye manager. | ||
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| And it's like, it's a little weird. | ||
| Yeah, well hopefully they don't use the acronym or come up with something different or reshuffle the words. | ||
| But it's almost like they're laughing in our faces. | ||
| Why are companies hiring diversity officers? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| It doesn't mean anything! | ||
| It's basically, in communist China, companies have to have the communist party member. | ||
| In the United States, they're just getting these companies to create an ideological, dogmatic job that makes no sense other than to indoctrinate the employees. | ||
| What I'll say is that, you know, specifically in the context of the military, because I've been speaking out about this, but diversity is a good thing. | ||
| Like in my platoon, we were very diverse. | ||
| And because we were very diverse, we had a multitude of ideas that were brought to the table all the time. | ||
| But you have to take diversity I don't want to say it's meaningless, but you have to have unity beyond the diversity in order for it all to work, right? | ||
| Yeah, I think diversity is a result of empowering individuals with opportunity. | ||
| The diversity then comes from that. | ||
| You can't force. | ||
| I mean, if you force superficial diversity, you're going to end up with homogeneity. | ||
| homogeneity that's it yeah and that's what we're seeing that's why they call it critical race theory it's got a term that well it's critical critical theory so one of the other mistakes people make is they say critical race theory and they cut out the rest of it it's like no it's critical theory in general yeah there's this critical gender theory there's critical literature and i Of course! | ||
| Of course! | ||
| It's great! | ||
| literature theory. And I would say that true diversity is actually a huge strength because it brings people together. | ||
| You're capitalizing on the things that make them different. Yeah, | ||
| that bring those good strong components to your team. Of | ||
| course, for example, in your platoon that you're leading, you | ||
| need all these people with different strengths. Of course, actual diversity is pivotal. It's great. Exactly. Yeah. But | ||
| you're unified. Right. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're unified. | ||
| Yes, we're all different. | ||
| But that's part of what makes America great. | ||
| Yes, we're all different. | ||
| But we bring aspects of our culture that we love and we're proud of and we integrate into American society. | ||
| And then we share those blessings with other people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like that's what makes this country great. | ||
| That's why people risk their lives to come here from Cuba and shark infested waters. | ||
| They don't come here because they believe America is fundamentally evil. | ||
| They come here because they believe America is free and their kids can have a better life than them. | ||
| But the radical left does not believe that. | ||
| They're taking this country back in the wrong direction and we have to stop them. | ||
| We have to stop them. | ||
| This guy just won by 30 points in Philadelphia in a primary in a primary. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But where are the Democrats to be like, yo, this is bad. | ||
| No, they're going in that direction. | ||
| I think I think that most of the leadership and I can't speak for people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I would assume that most of the leadership in the Democrat Party knows that this ain't good. | ||
| It's not good for them. | ||
| They can't do anything about it. | ||
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| You were talking about how the left controls language. | ||
| And I was just looking up who owns Merriam-Webster. | ||
| It's owned, which is the dictionary, it's owned by Encyclopedia Britannica Incorporated, which is owned by Jacques Safra. | ||
| I don't know who he is, but he's a millionaire Brazilian investor from Geneva. | ||
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| Descendant of Syrian, Lebanese, Swiss, Jewish Safra banking family. | ||
| This guy's basically overseeing the definitions of the words. | ||
| Dictionary.com is woke. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, they're super woke. | ||
| So they have recursive definitions. | ||
| Which definition was it that became recursive? | ||
| Was it gender or something? | ||
| Yeah, something like that. | ||
| So they ended up... I can't remember what word it was, but dictionary.com created a definition of a word that included its own word in its definition, which becomes recursive. | ||
| So it just basically you can't define a word by itself, but they did anyway because it's wokeness. | ||
| It's meaningless. | ||
| Like we're offloading the responsibility of creating the definition of words to corporations and individuals that have political leanings that own the corporations. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| How do we create like a decentralized definition, a system of definitions? | ||
| There's Wiktionary. | ||
| But here's the problem, man. | ||
| The left is on the assault and the conservatives are sitting back with their feet up. | ||
| No, that's right. | ||
| Well, I mean, or or just conservatives in general are on the defensives. | ||
| And to your point, right, never going on one of the one of the number one things. | ||
| And this is reflected in polling, right, that that conservative or Republican voters want in a candidate is someone who's willing to fight and not back down. | ||
| It's one of the top issues. | ||
| And You know, that's what people have in me, that's for sure. | ||
| But I think it's also, again, you just can't back down. | ||
| You know what I, you know what I want? | ||
| I want a Republican candidate who is going to vow to create universal gun ownership. | ||
| Like, like, you know, open carry? | ||
| No, no, universal gun ownership, meaning... Oh, just mandate it, mandate it. | ||
| So you want the government to force people to have guns? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't like the government being involved in anything. | ||
| See, here's the issue. | ||
| The left comes out and says, and this is, you know, shout out to Michael Malice. | ||
| The left comes out and says, we want universal health here. | ||
| We want the government to ban private health insurance, take it all away from you, and | ||
| then run it themselves. | ||
| That's Bernie Sanders' plan. | ||
| The Republicans say, no, wait, don't. | ||
| The Democrats say, we want to take all your guns away. | ||
| The Republicans say, no, wait, don't. | ||
| Where's the Republican to say, I demand the government buy everyone a gun right now. | ||
| So how about not mandatory, but the government is obligated to give every citizen a gun. | ||
| At the age of 16, you'll go to the Department of Gun Services. | ||
| You'll fill out the basic knowledge test. | ||
| Wait, the Department of Gun Services? | ||
| So now we're growing the government? | ||
| Now there's a new branch? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So it's like a DMV called the DGS. | ||
| You go in, and if you want your free government-issued gun, it'd probably be crappy, mind you. | ||
| Yes, of course. | ||
| But you get a rifle and a handgun and a box of ammo for each. | ||
| You'll fill out a form, you know, basic questions, gun safety. | ||
| Then they'll take you to the range, you'll do your standard shooting test, and then they'll hand you your two weapons and say, have a nice day, sir. | ||
| The Republicans don't do things like that, and I get it. | ||
| They're like, we don't want more government to do these things. | ||
| Well, if the only thing the Republicans are ever going to do is say, no, wait, don't, then the Democrats will keep winning because the Democrats are offering things to people. | ||
| This is what I was saying. | ||
| You have to be able to articulate. | ||
| So when Republicans say, I want low taxes and a strong economy, but you have to be able to as a candidate to explain to people why that matters in their life. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know, like we want our economy to be strong. | ||
| We want there to be jobs. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Like we want when kids graduate from school. | ||
| There's a reason why there's a census population decrease in Pennsylvania. | ||
| We're losing a congressional district because people are moving away. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because we don't have the economic diversity to sustain The jobs that kids would want to get when they graduate from school. | ||
| We want that talent here, right? | ||
| I got an idea for the Republican Party. | ||
| Is it another gun department? | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| If you don't want to expand government, it's simple. | ||
| Will the Republicans repeal the NFA? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| The National Firearms Act. | ||
| So it bans a whole bunch of guns. | ||
| Assault rifles have been banned since going back to the 20s when the NFA was passed. | ||
| Selective fire rifles can't be owned by civilians. | ||
| Not that I think anybody tactically would want one, but it's very difficult to get. | ||
| You have to go through the— Like an automatic. | ||
| Yeah, so automatic suppressors or even short-barreled rifles or putting a stock on a pistol. | ||
| You can't do these things. | ||
| The Republicans often say, no, wait, don't, while the Democrats say, gimme, gimme, gimme. | ||
| And so, okay, if the Republicans don't want to increase the size of government, how about harsh decrease in size of government? | ||
| How about repealing federal gun laws? | ||
| Well, I mean, I would I would not start there. | ||
| I would start with the Department of Education. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I think we start there. | ||
| I would also then go to the IRS. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The tax code is longer than the Bible and there's not a single good word in it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So we need to simplify it. | ||
| Simplify the facts. | ||
| When I say that we need to shrink the size and scope of the federal government, this is what I mean, right? | ||
| Like, education should not be something that's handled at the federal level. | ||
| Education is local, right? | ||
| Every local community is different, and every local community is uniquely equipped to handle the education needs of their communities and their children, right? | ||
| So I would start at the Department of Education, then I'd move to the IRS, and I would just continue down the line. | ||
| Department of Education, I agree with. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You don't agree with the IRS? | ||
| Oh, no, I do. | ||
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| I'm saying starting with the Department of Education. | ||
| Oh, starting there. | ||
| Starting with gun laws is more bombastic. | ||
| It's more like meant to be like, ah, you know, we're going to do something. | ||
| You want something? | ||
| Yeah, you're doing what the left would do. | ||
| They just go big, bold, right in your face. | ||
| Right, right, no, net capacity, yes. | ||
| But I'm not, so they're restrictive. | ||
| The banning of private healthcare I think is insane. | ||
| If you want private healthcare, you can have it. | ||
| I think a lot of these companies are bad and they suck, but hey, it's your choice, right? | ||
| So that's why I've been like, eh, public option, how about that? | ||
| You want the government to do it, you can pay for that. | ||
| If you want the private company to do it, you pay for that. | ||
| Most of these companies, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, most countries do not abolish private health insurance. | ||
| Bernie Sanders is extremely radical on this. | ||
| So I'm like, OK, what's what's the what's one of the most radical things a Republican could do in terms of limiting government and giving back people their rights is repealing laws. | ||
| Just start repealing these ridiculous laws. | ||
| I mean, maybe you should. | ||
| I think you've got a platform, I think. | ||
| Oh, if I had a platform, it would be nuts. | ||
| And I don't think I think you have. | ||
| I think you have a you have a plot. | ||
| I'd be like, OK, first and foremost, we'd legal immediately. | ||
| No more schedule of any of that stuff. | ||
| And a full pardon and wait of just of just of no more schedule of any drugs or just weed weed. | ||
| However, in terms of the war on drugs in general, we've got to stop all that. | ||
| We've got to figure something else out. | ||
| It's not working. | ||
| So if the goal is to get people to not do drugs, we need to do something radically different. | ||
| Now, I would not immediately do a dramatic policy and just get rid of all the schedules, because you don't want to flip the boat over because you've got a problem with the boat. | ||
| You want to go through it and take notes of things and come up with a plan. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| You want to be deliberate. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| And a lot of what we see from the left is like, Overhaul the system now, and you're like, I'd rather not burn it down because we're upset with it. | ||
| We might have to take our time, and it might be boring, and it might suck, but let's chill a little bit. | ||
| But I'm very much opposed to the war on drugs. | ||
| I think the Constitution needs to be reaffirmed dramatically. | ||
| Like, the rights of the Constitution need to be... We need to sort through that. | ||
| Someone asked me a question today, like, if you win, what's the criteria you're going to look at when confirming judges, right? | ||
| If you're voting to confirm a justice on the Supreme Court. | ||
| And to me it's, well, for one, let's make sure that whoever that person is Exactly. | ||
| adheres to the Constitution and believes it as it's written. | ||
| That matters. | ||
| And in many ways, especially what you saw in the wake of the 2020 election, | ||
| even with unilateral changes to election law, unconstitutional changes to election law, | ||
| the question is, does the Constitution matter anymore or not? | ||
| It does to me. | ||
| And you know, and you're looking at it. | ||
| You know what I would consider doing? | ||
| And it wasn't just the DA's race. | ||
| It was judges, right? | ||
| You know, Republicans, Republicans got strong judge candidates in every level now, because I think we realize | ||
| the importance of how of, of, of, of electing good judges, | ||
| right? | ||
| We elect judges in Pennsylvania, which, which, uh, I got an idea. | ||
| You know what, you know what I would consider doing running for | ||
| office as a Republican with some very serious proposals to force | ||
| the Republican candidate to move. | ||
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So I'd be alive to move to the right, to move to the right, not | |
| necessarily to the right. | ||
| I just move in general in different areas. | ||
| So I don't, I don't know if, um, legal, total decriminalization of marijuana is a conservative position, but I think it | ||
| would force the Republican candidate to adopt a more modern | ||
| position, whatever it may be, or at least clarify and stick a stance | ||
| on it. | ||
| Gun rights, I think, Republicans would overwhelmingly just outright favor. | ||
| If I said, I want to repeal the overwhelming majority of federal gun laws, and I want to establish, like, strict rights for what it means to keep and bear arms, codified, you can, you know, like, legal concealed carry across the board, I guess you run into a problem with states' rights and that, but get rid of the federal laws at least. | ||
| And then what happens is, I just say like a whole bunch of things where I'm like, here's what needs to happen. | ||
| I think there's a case to be made for a federal carry law. | ||
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But the states have a right to control themselves. | |
| Of course, to control their own gun laws. | ||
| And then if they violate the rights, it doesn't make a difference. | ||
| I do support a constitutional carry provision. | ||
| I do think there's some wisdom in being able to carry across state lines and not be thrown in jail for it, I think. | ||
| Federally, you can. | ||
| They protect you, but the states don't care. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| So that's actually the limit on the federal government. | ||
| It's not all bad. | ||
| I just think it's problematic that, you know, the ATF can, like, shoot a lady and kill her kid and burn down a house with a bunch of kids in it, you know what I mean? | ||
| And then they celebrate this every year on Twitter. | ||
| Yeah, those people are kind of nuts. | ||
| So maybe the left... Where are they at? | ||
| They want to abolish the police? | ||
| Can we start with, like, I don't know, the ATF or something? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah, so local cops, OK, we'll deal with that. | ||
| But they want to abolish the DHS. | ||
| I'm like, OK, well, let's let's get the conversation going. | ||
| What if when you cross state borders, you got a text that showed you that sent you a link to all the laws that are different between this state and the state that you just came from? | ||
| Because people don't know the difference in the laws. | ||
| That's a big problem. | ||
| Man, we are solving the problems of the world, right? | ||
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That's right. | |
| If only people listened to us, you know? | ||
| If only people were watching this. | ||
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I know, right? | |
| How about we see what the people have to say in the Super Chats. | ||
| If you have not done so already, please help us out with a like by tapping that like button ever so gently. | ||
| Super Chats. | ||
| And it is greatly appreciated. | ||
| And share the show if you like it. | ||
| But also go to timcast.com and become a member. | ||
| We'll have a bonus segment coming up later tonight. | ||
| Let's read some Super Chats. | ||
| I'm sorry, good sir, with the first of which I can't read your name because YouTube has blocked it, but they said, hey, Tim and gang, thoughts on YouTubers running for office? | ||
| Many say they feel they're making more of a difference with what they do, but they have the support to get elected in a way others don't. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I wonder what the laws are with like, let's say I decided to run for office and actually won. | ||
| Like, would I be able to do this? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Yeah, no, I think you would. | ||
| I mean, Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz has a podcast. | ||
| Yeah, Michael Knowles. | ||
| I wonder how much time is consumed. | ||
| I mean this is more effective than fundraising. | ||
| Senator Cruz is a United States Senator and he still manages to do a podcast. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| I think you could still do it. | ||
| I know you work. | ||
| I know you're like. | ||
| Three hours a day. | ||
| I know you work. | ||
| I was recording with like five to eight hours of research. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I mean maybe. | ||
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| That'd be great. | ||
| I'd be like, I would probably not be allowed access to any kind of private information, because I just, I'm not going to lie to people. | ||
| You know, it's interesting. | ||
| You ever see or read Watchmen? | ||
| Oh, yeah, of course, of course. | ||
| Rorschach at the end, you know, Veith has basically tricked the people into ending the Cold War. | ||
| And Rorschach's opinion is, no, the people have a right to know what happened. | ||
| And I agree. | ||
| And then there's I wouldn't say I'm as morally absolutist as he is in that position. | ||
| He would rather let the world destroy itself. | ||
| What's the blue dude's name? | ||
| Dr. Manhattan. | ||
| Dr. Manhattan just blows him up. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| It's great writing. | ||
| So Rorschach, the character, says that the people deserve to know the truth because it was a false flag attack that unified, you know, the United States. | ||
| I think that people have a right to know. | ||
| I don't think, you know, you get like the New York Times saying, don't tell people about the gas shortage because they'll panic. | ||
| My attitude is that people have a right to know what's happening. | ||
| Well, that was sort of like Dr. Fauci early on in the pandemic saying, don't wear masks, right? | ||
| You don't need masks. | ||
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He was doing that. | |
| It's kind of like military command. | ||
| You can probably speak to this. | ||
| You don't want to panic the troops. | ||
| So they're on a need-to-know basis. | ||
| And as the commander-in-chief of the military, you're kind of in a similar position. | ||
| You don't want to alarm the populace if you don't need to. | ||
| I'm much more libertarian. | ||
| I think people have a right to know. | ||
| I mean, I'm libertarian in some ways as well, but not in this one. | ||
| I think that there are national security issues that aren't for public consumption. | ||
| There just are. | ||
| All right, let's read some more. | ||
| We got Lethal Blade says, Hey Tim, you should have on guns and gadgets if you want to talk gun laws and what is coming down the pipe. | ||
| And if you want to talk commie guns and having fun with guns, you should have on Brandon Herrera, AKA the AK guy. | ||
| He owns and operates an AK factory in the US. | ||
| Oh, cool. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| There you go. | ||
| Eric, uh, I'm sorry, Trashpanda says, Tim, 2018, you know, I think we can have some sensible gun control. | ||
| Tim, 2021, free AK-47s for everyone. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I think that's accurate. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Also, kudos for the name, Trashpanda. | ||
| Trashpanda. | ||
| Eric Aces, glad to see Sean Parnell back. | ||
| Please invite Madison Cawthorn on as well. | ||
| You know what the problem is with inviting politicians? | ||
| They always say the same thing. | ||
| They say, I'd love to come on the show. | ||
| Email this person and we'll get it sorted. | ||
| And then we email the person and they just never respond. | ||
| Wait a second. | ||
| Are you classifying me as a politician because I'm going to throw up in my mouth? | ||
| You're sitting here. | ||
| I'm saying when we when we hit up politicians, they're always like, yes, we want to come on the show. | ||
| And then they just they email this person. | ||
| Nothing happens. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're actually here. | ||
| You've been here a lot. | ||
| A lot. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| I'm not afraid of conversations. | ||
| You know, here's what I here's what I understand. | ||
| The left is if there's the left weaponizes anything they can get against you, right? | ||
| And if they have nothing, they make things up. | ||
| So you might as well just get out there. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Evil zombie hamster says check out 3D printed arms for chickens. | ||
| Chicken City could have chickens with Hulk arms running around. | ||
| Oh, Chicken City. | ||
| This is your thing now, right? | ||
| I see you post on Instagram about Chicken City. | ||
| Tell me. | ||
| We're going to put it. | ||
| We got the chicken coop outside. | ||
| I saw that. | ||
| It's got little houses in it. | ||
| And we're going to put cameras in it, and then we're going to create a 24-7 livestream of the Chicken City. | ||
| Chicken City reminds me of Tube City, like in the office where Michael Scott makes Tube City for gerbils. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
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| And so what I want to do, and I don't know how we'll do it, I want to create a system where every $50 that comes in in Super Chats, it causes a cricket dispenser to drop some crickets. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| And then the chickens run over. | ||
| This is why business is booming here at TimCast. | ||
| It's these innovative things. | ||
| Basically what you're doing is creating a reality TV show for Chicken City. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And they all have names. | ||
| It could be a video game. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| They all have names. | ||
| They all have names. | ||
| I thought I was the only one. | ||
| Here I was thinking I was creative. | ||
| You're pushing it. | ||
| They all have names. | ||
| They do, yes. | ||
| They all have names. | ||
| They do. | ||
| And we'll create shirts and then people will join teams. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So there's like Vanessa, there's Roberta, there's Sarah. | ||
| Oh, you name them? | ||
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| I named them all. | ||
| They all have names. | ||
| And so we're going to, we're going to, we're going to explain the names and like, and then there's going to be drama and it's going to be, you know, you'll see them fighting. | ||
| Vanessa has quite a character. | ||
| We're going to do like a bachelor thing because we're going to get a rooster and then it's going to be like, which one will the rooster choose? | ||
| All of them because it's a rooster. | ||
| That'll be good. | ||
| That'll be great. | ||
| We'll give them 3D printed arms. | ||
| You know what I want to do? | ||
| I was wondering if like, if, if, if, is it possible? | ||
| Is it, is it the muscle strength of the chicken causing it not to be able to fly? | ||
| And if there was a way we could do some kind of like carbon fiber mesh to expand their wings and give them- Like Falcon? | ||
| Yeah, give a chicken a little falcon suit like in the Avengers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's their weight. | ||
| Would it also come equipped with little drones? | ||
| That would be fun. | ||
| Maybe we need... And goggles. | ||
| I know we could do. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| What if we created a 3D printed harness and we attached enough balloons to it to reduce the weight of a chicken so that it can fly properly? | ||
| Oh, just heavy enough. | ||
| So it's flying. | ||
| Pokemon did that with Pikachu. | ||
| I know this because my son... I think the balloon thing would work. | ||
| You don't put enough on it to where it can just drift off and, you know, it's gone. | ||
| You just put enough on to where it's weighted down, but it can jump, like, way higher. | ||
| What do you think the chicken would do? | ||
| Freak out. | ||
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No, I think it would just float around and, like, go home. | |
| Maybe we start with only like one. | ||
| If I drive up to this place for a podcast and I see chickens floating around your house with balloons, I'm out of here. | ||
| They're going into space. | ||
| I'm out of here, man. | ||
| But I want to, we don't want to stress the chickens. | ||
| Like, I love your show, but that would be, that would be like some Silent Hill, some stuff, you know what I mean? | ||
| I did want to make 3D printed armor for them though, so that it can't be killed by predators. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Like a spike plate back armor. | ||
| I thought about electrical stimulation to stimulate the muscles so they can carry the weight. | ||
| But then I was thinking you can't be hard on the chicken. | ||
| You gotta be good to the chickens. | ||
| You guys have put a lot of thought into how to supercharge these chickens. | ||
| What you're basically doing is trying to give super soldier serum or something like that into a chicken Iron Man suit. | ||
| Yeah, like an Iron Man suit for the chickens. | ||
| I'm open. I was actually trying to figure out how to create a flight suit for the for bucko. He's a cat | ||
| He needs one. So the idea would be that when he jumps right they put their feet out and that would release | ||
| carbon fiber and mesh wings and The tail fin so that it would glide and then he wouldn't | ||
| build fly but he built a jump and glide and then land You know, that's like the apex predator | ||
| Could you imagine like, you're like a, you're like a shrew or something and you see a cat and you're like, I'll be all right. | ||
| I'll get up here. | ||
| And then the cat just glides across and like lands. | ||
| And you're like, what's happening? | ||
| Just terrorizing all the small woodland creatures. | ||
| Even more than he already does. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How would he retract his carbon fiber wings? | ||
| When his arms go down, they fold back in because it would be like on a string that pulls the gears. | ||
| You ever see those Boston Dynamic videos? | ||
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| They're like robot dogs and they're really super creepy and definitely scary. | ||
| What you're doing is like creating animal cyborgs. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| That's terrifying. | ||
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| That sounds great. | ||
| I think they'd be into it. | ||
| Wouldn't you be excited if you had a suit where when you jumped like Batman cape like glided you down? | ||
| If I had a bat, I mean, yeah, if I had a Batman suit it would be amazing. | ||
| So how do you think the Like a real Batman suit with a real utility belt. | ||
| Not something you buy at a Halloween store. | ||
| It has to actually work. | ||
| You know how Batman jumps off the building and his cape goes rigid and he glides? | ||
| Memory cloth. | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| How do you think the cat's going to feel when the bird is looking at him and then jumps over? | ||
| I don't know how the cat's going to feel because the cat can't speak English. | ||
| He's gonna be so excited! | ||
| I guarantee you that cat is gonna look terrified. | ||
| There's gonna be a pigeon or something, and it's gonna be up on like the deck, and Bucko's gonna walk up to it, and it's gonna jump over to the other deck, and then it's gonna be like, I'm alright, and it's just gonna fly across, and it's gonna be like, WHAT IS HAPPENING?! | ||
| The cat's flying! | ||
| It's like the German Blitzkrieg. | ||
| No one saw it coming. | ||
| Spanish Inquisition. | ||
| Those tanks were fast. | ||
| God, you guys, you guys, you know, you went from a standard podcast just four episodes ago to now creating cyborg chickens and cats. | ||
| I have no idea what's coming. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| I mean, I don't. | ||
| Chicken City is going to start up as people are going to watch a live stream of chickens. | ||
| And then what we're going to do is I'm trying to hire a composer to make me like beats. | ||
| And then eventually we'll create a channel. | ||
| We'll create a stream that's lo-fi hip hop beats to watch Chicken City to. | ||
| So now when people are like studying or whatever, there's like chickens. | ||
| Do you know what Chicken City reminds me of? | ||
| It reminds me, remember, remember when, when the left bought for that fake, the left, left media bought the fake story that President Trump did nothing but watch Gorilla TV? | ||
| Gorilla Channel. | ||
| I mean, I heard that and I thought like, Well, that would kind of be a good channel. | ||
| I think I would kind of watch that with just gorillas fighting. | ||
| It's like if they totally wrote a story as if it were real. | ||
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Do you remember that? | |
| No. | ||
| We got to read a couple more. | ||
| We got a little derailed there. | ||
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| Sorry. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Jordan says, happy 1 million Timcast IRL subscribers, Tim. | ||
| And we did just get the gold award. | ||
| It just came in the mail today. | ||
| We got to put it up. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Matthew Sage said, happily back and donate to Sean Parnell. | ||
| Any website, etc. | ||
| to help raise money. | ||
| I'm a state over, but we need level-headed and sane politicians all over. | ||
| That means, I mean, if every one of your subscribers gave a buck, that's a, I mean, that's a big deal. | ||
| Every subscriber. | ||
| I mean, well, not every subscriber watches every video. | ||
| So that's right. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| All of everyone never does anything. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, but it's still, it's still a profound impact, man. | ||
| It's still a big impact. | ||
| I think that's really smart. | ||
| I think it's really smart. | ||
| Remember that Jim Banks letter I told you about? | ||
| That's sort of like in this vein, but it just, yeah, I think that's a good idea. | ||
| Do you think we could have another contract with America that would allow populist candidates | ||
| to focus on certain topics and elections and goals when elected? | ||
| I would recommend getting with Jack Murphy and Billy Prempeh to develop it. | ||
| I think that's really smart. | ||
| I think I think it's really smart. | ||
| And this is remember that Jim Banks letter I told you about that sort of like in this | ||
| vein. | ||
| But it just yeah I think that's a good idea. | ||
| I think that's a really good idea. | ||
| All right, Juan Martinez says, Hi Tim, following your lead in making culture, please check my first children's book, Tickled by the Travel Bug on Kickstarter. | ||
| How cute! | ||
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| All right, let's see, where are we at? | ||
| Golan Dasthopp says, absolutely loved your podcast with Jocko. | ||
| Can't wait to read Outlaw Platoon. | ||
| Oh, thanks. | ||
| Can I tell a quick story about that? | ||
| So my podcast with Jocko. | ||
| Jocko's an awesome guy. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| So he invited me on a show. | ||
| I was super excited about it. | ||
| I get out there in San Diego and I'm like, oh God, I'm a little nervous. | ||
| I don't know what this is gonna be like. | ||
| And he walks into his podcast, I walk into Victory MMA, And it's an awesome place, all these little octagons. | ||
| And everybody, there's like 200 people there rolling around on the mat. | ||
| And I'm like, where's Jocko? | ||
| And Jocko walks in, and it's like he's in, it's like an episode of Cheers. | ||
| Like everyone's like, hey Jocko! | ||
| He's like pointing at people. | ||
| And we go into this little room, right? | ||
| It's a closet, right? | ||
| Yes! | ||
| And we did a five and a half hour marathon podcast where he had Outlaw Platoon. | ||
| He had Outlaw Platoon, just like went through the chapters. | ||
| And all we did, was have a five and a half hour conversation about combat leadership and servant leadership the whole time. | ||
| And I, I didn't, I thought it was going to be there for my, for my fiction books. | ||
| Like I didn't hit it, but it was all about outlaw platoon five and a half hours long. | ||
| And it, it was just, I it's, it was, it was, it was awesome. | ||
| It was awesome. | ||
| That's so cool. | ||
| He's the best. | ||
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| He's awesome. | ||
| JT Goldfish says, loved your book. | ||
| Sean gave me flashbacks from Afghanistan, but I will never vote for you unless you try to oust Romney in Utah. | ||
| So wait, you want me to be a carpetbagger and move to Utah? | ||
| Yeah, I guess so. | ||
| I guess so. | ||
| Mr. Behavior says, love how Sean said to Tim, quote, if you've ever seen Star Trek, as if | ||
| Tim doesn't reference Star Trek like every episode, lmao. | ||
| I was saying just for the audience. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And can we can we stop pretending that Star Trek is just a monologue? | ||
| There's Star Trek with Captain Kirk, there's Star Trek Next Generation, there's Deep Space Nine, so... And that's it. | ||
| And then after Deep Space Nine, it's over, there's no other Star Treks. | ||
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| Stars retract. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Dorsey Woods says Republicans have been little more than speed bumps while progressives are | ||
| four-wheel drive. | ||
| Every day more ground is lost with fortified elections. | ||
| I'm not convinced the battle can be won anymore. | ||
| Fortifying the home front in case. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| So these people that want to change all these things are getting a pass from the media, and the people that are like, yo, the system's not as busted as it seems are getting kind of steamrolled, it seems. | ||
| But just change for the sake of change is not the right way to go. | ||
| You gotta know what you're doing and have a plan that's sustainable. | ||
| You sure? | ||
| We shouldn't just burn it down because we're upset with some things? | ||
| I think we shouldn't. | ||
| Yeah, I think I think her concerns. | ||
| I mean, her concerns about the election are something that I encounter every day. | ||
| 50 percent of the people in the state of Pennsylvania have very little faith in it. | ||
| But what I can tell you is we know what they did in 2020. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And we have a plan. | ||
| We learned a lot of lessons. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And we're taking those lessons learned. | ||
| We're moving forward, integrating them into 2022. | ||
| And we're going to we're going to we've got a plan. | ||
| We've got a plan. | ||
| Brandon Tom says, Tim, your 1PM piece was spot on. | ||
| It doesn't matter how much or how little you know about the Middle East conflict. | ||
| It's conflict. | ||
| It's wrong to go around beating people based on immutable characteristics. | ||
| That's what matters. | ||
| So there's a video where... There's a couple videos. | ||
| A van or cars full of people with Palestinian flags yell out, like, who's Jewish? | ||
| And when some guys say they are, they get out and start beating the crap out of them. | ||
| I saw them. | ||
| I saw them. | ||
| It was horrible. | ||
| There's a video of people in vehicles waving Palestinian flags chasing an Orthodox Jew through the streets. | ||
| Horrible. | ||
| Yeah, it's insane. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| And I don't see the left coming out and being like, we must stop this. | ||
| No, they're just like Hamas is defending itself. | ||
| I'm like, they're firing the rockets. | ||
| They're the ones firing. | ||
| And they use schools, they use hospitals, and they use buildings that are co-located with the media because they know that American media will freak out if, God forbid, you know, one of those targets gets hit. | ||
| And either way, they win. | ||
| They get a propaganda victory, right? | ||
| If one of those buildings becomes collateral damage. | ||
| Or they're shielded because they know that they won't be attacked there. | ||
| I would just say to the viewers, imagine your city getting hit with Thousands of rockets. | ||
| I mean, I lived like that for 485 days. | ||
| My base in Afghanistan had got hit with over 4,000 indirect fire attacks. | ||
| There's nothing worse. | ||
| There's no more hellish way to live than wondering if a rocket is going to land on your head at any moment, whether you're asleep, or you're going to the bathroom, or you're eating. | ||
| It's a horrible way to live, and we're trained to deal with it. | ||
| There are young kids living in Israel right now of all walks of life that have to live like that. | ||
| Can you imagine how that lifestyle affects those little ones? | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| Kev says, Sean Parnell, I need that shirt. | ||
| Who makes it and where can I get one? | ||
| Don't say don't remember it as a label. | ||
| It's go to a website that's called Vero Cloth. | ||
| V-R-O? | ||
| Now I'm promoting another website. | ||
| It's like, I love these shirts. | ||
| I think they're in. | ||
| I'm trying to bring them in. | ||
| I'm making them in. | ||
| First Last says, Cop was trained by Rock Lee to open the eight gates. | ||
| And if you know what that means, then you are a friend of this show. | ||
| And now you're all confused. | ||
| Yeah, I'm very confused. | ||
| And here I thought I was a friend of the show. | ||
| Nope, nope. | ||
| Rock Lee is from Naruto. | ||
| Oh, is it this? | ||
| Wait, this is this anime show? | ||
| Naruto? | ||
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| My kid watches this and my oldest son watches this and he loves it. | ||
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| Is it like a thing? | ||
| Is it like good? | ||
| Is it good? | ||
| While it was running. | ||
| Is it appropriate for kids that are 12? | ||
| Okay, because I'm like Ethan. | ||
| You should be watching this podcast anyway. | ||
| It's about magic ninjas. | ||
| Okay, well now that sounds interesting. | ||
| It's actually cool writing in terms of politics. | ||
| You'd like it. | ||
| Magic ninjas, Andrew? | ||
| My campaign managers, mark that down. | ||
| Thumbs up. | ||
| We're going to watch it. | ||
| So the character, Rock Lee, can open his chakra gates to flood his body with more energy, but at the cost of causing damage to his body. | ||
| Yeah, that makes sense. | ||
| So the joke is that the cop opened the gates so he could lift the car off the woman. | ||
| Yeah, I see. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Joseph Soilo says, Charles Hoskinson just mentioned you in his AMA. | ||
| Would be an awesome guest to discuss crypto on your show. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| You reached out to him, I think. | ||
| I did. | ||
| If someone would let him know to hit me up, I will happily coordinate that. | ||
| I would love to do that. | ||
| So he's the guy who founded Cardano. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And so I have four cryptos. | ||
| I have Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge and Cardano. | ||
| And I gotta be honest, like, I can give you a reason why, but when you go on Gemini, it's like, those are the four that are, like, there. | ||
| They're just like, buy, buy, buy. | ||
| It's probably not a complicated thing. | ||
| It's just like, I don't know, I'm gonna buy whatever's there. | ||
| No, but he was the co-founder of Ethereum, I guess. | ||
| And Bitcoin and Ethereum are the only ones I'm, like, really confident in. | ||
| But then I look at Cardano, I'm like, this guy clearly knows what he's doing. | ||
| And he's got a different approach to it. | ||
| So I think once that launches up, it'll be pretty big. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| I don't think Dogecoin's going anywhere, to be honest. | ||
| But I'm going to keep my Dogecoin because it's funny. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Yeti Dude says, Where are the politicians that respect the Constitution and the law of the land and restore the freedom of the people of these United States? | ||
| You got one sitting right here. | ||
| And again, again, like you can't people like me can't win if the people don't help. | ||
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Right. | |
| And I mean, like you've got like you got to contribute to people's campaigns. | ||
| Otherwise, otherwise you get bludgeoned to death by big party politics. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I want to just give a shout out to IOHK.io, which is Cardano's website, or one of them. | ||
| IOHK.io. | ||
| It's just so cool. | ||
| You go there and you swipe around on it. | ||
| Oh, cool. | ||
| This is so neat. | ||
| If this has anything to do with how advanced... No one can see what you're doing. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| But go there when the podcast is over and check it out and mouse around and swipe around on it. | ||
| What does it do? | ||
| It's just this really amazing graphical layout. | ||
| And if this speaks to... It's like dropping paint in water. | ||
| Yeah, the creativity of the designers and the developers. | ||
| I wonder if this, you know, it just makes me have faith in the developers as a whole. | ||
| All right. | ||
| It's pretty. | ||
| I've loved this for years. | ||
| That's why Obama got elected. | ||
| He was a celebrity. | ||
| Flashy, colorful. | ||
| Beautiful. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| We just said YouTube just jumped on us. | ||
| Remote CFO says, In my honest opinion, YouTubers that claim they can make more of a difference on YouTube rather than office is just a cop out. | ||
| Tim, I love you, my Korean brother, but your country needs you. | ||
| Sean, PA is behind you. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| I don't know what I would do in office. | ||
| Sit around and complain. | ||
| Someone's attacking me on Twitter for not... | ||
| I didn't know what the content of the NFA... I know what this stuff is, but I didn't know where the hell you were at. | ||
| People are dumb. | ||
| People give me no grace. | ||
| Twitter's dumb. | ||
| Let's put it that way. | ||
| Daniel Bundrick says, anytime someone suggests a new law, they are saying, there should be a new sword. | ||
| And good, though the sword may be, they don't get to decide who will wield it. | ||
| We should choose our laws wisely and assume they will be wielded by the worst among us. | ||
| I mean, if you were to, like, take all the laws in the U.S. | ||
| and put them in a book, the book would probably be, like, what, 20 stories tall? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| People don't even know what's illegal and they're like, ignorance is no excuse. | ||
| Uh, actually it is. | ||
| It totally is. | ||
| That's the most, it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. | ||
| Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law. | ||
| Bro, I'm a law-abiding citizen. | ||
| If I knew I couldn't bake an apple pie on Sundays and put it on my windowsill, I wouldn't have done it. | ||
| But that's insane. | ||
| You know, in some places that's true, like, There's like some places where you can't bathe on Tuesdays. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And people don't know that those laws are still in the books. | ||
| And they expect that the judges will just do the right thing. | ||
| Well, what if they don't? | ||
| What if they don't do the right thing? | ||
| Get those laws out of there. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| You can't turn right on red in New York. | ||
| I didn't know. | ||
| I lived there. | ||
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Lived in LA. | |
| Lived in Chicago where you can turn right on red. | ||
| Can't turn right on red in New York. | ||
| And then you get pulled over and they'll give you a ticket and say, ignorance is no excuse. | ||
| There's a lot of things where you don't realize it's illegal. | ||
| For instance, what people don't realize about drones, you can buy at Best Buy. | ||
| You can go to Best Buy and be like, I'll take a drone, please. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And then you can fly it and then not even realize it's breaking the law. | ||
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It's like, I went to a toy store and I bought this. | |
| Well, they restrict that kind of stuff, but there are certain things you might not even realize. | ||
| Can you believe this? | ||
| You can't climb into the tiger pen at a zoo. | ||
| Who's supposed to know? | ||
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I'm kidding. | |
| Who came up with that one? | ||
| Don't do that. | ||
| No, but there are some things where it's like... So, for instance, in my... For me, I was driving back from Colorado Springs for Carson, and they had suspended my license without telling me because there was no way they could have and no way for me to know, and I got in trouble for it. | ||
| And I'm like, what is this? | ||
| I had no idea it even happened, and I'm coming home before I even got my mail, and they're like, so what? | ||
| Couldn't they have been like, okay, dude, don't drive again. | ||
| Here's your official warning. | ||
| Forget about it. | ||
| But you can't drive because your license is suspended. | ||
| I'd have been like, you got it, boss. | ||
| Instead, they're like, we're arresting you and we'll see you in court. | ||
| And I went to court. | ||
| They were like, so you confess. | ||
| And I was like, bro, just give me the notification. | ||
| The first thing that should happen is the driver, you should get pulled over by a cop. | ||
| You should be like, I'm giving you formal notice. | ||
| Your license has been suspended. | ||
| You have to exit your vehicle right now. | ||
| If you're caught driving again, it's on your record. | ||
| You will be arrested. | ||
| I'd be like, you got it. | ||
| But ignorance is no excuse. | ||
| Like, if someone, if a cop goes down the street and tickets a bunch of cars, and then some, like, random person comes up and then takes all the tickets off all the cars. | ||
| Yep, too bad. | ||
| That's illegal, but you won't know that you got a ticket. | ||
| How, what, that's so busted. | ||
| You'll get a ticket in the mail saying you failed to appear or contest until you have a final... That's so crazy. | ||
| Yeah, the system's got a bunch of problems, man. | ||
| I don't know, I don't know what you do with it. | ||
| We gotta, we gotta just keep working, I suppose. | ||
| All right, we'll do a couple more here. | ||
| We got Sam Devlin. | ||
| He says, I was accepted to Stockton U and NJ. | ||
| They're requiring VACs by 8-1. | ||
| Students only. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| Or I can't start my fall classes, even if all are online. | ||
| I refuse to bend the knee. | ||
| My mom is going to be pissed. | ||
| Need to find a new program. | ||
| Well, um, why go to college? | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Like what, what, what are you going to college for? | ||
| What, why go to college? | ||
| I would say if going to college is something you have your heart set on, if it's something like STEM, just so you know, vaccinations have always been required by all different kinds of schools for polio, MMR, and all that stuff. | ||
| Yeah, so it's not really new, and I'm not surprised by this as such. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Just my two cents. | ||
| That's a great point. | ||
| Yeah, I think college is dumb and a waste of time. | ||
| A conservatory kind of thing. | ||
| That was cool. | ||
| I certainly don't think it's, you know, I was raised, you know, in our generation, it's like, oh, you gotta go to school, you gotta go to school. | ||
| And I did. | ||
| I got my undergrad, I got my master's, don't do anything with it. | ||
| But I think in today's day and age, you know, It's hard, you know, it's hard to find a plumber. | ||
| It's hard to find carboners It's hard to find people that have actual trades and and those people when they get jobs like they're making 80 90 100 bucks an hour, you know And there are so many jobs available and so I think learning a trade moving forward a manufacturing trade is something that's just It's really important right now. | ||
| Was your experience as an undergrad and you said you got your master's too? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did that help you get into officer school? | ||
| No. | ||
| I went through after 9-11. | ||
| I was an elementary education major at Clarion University. | ||
| Wanted to teach second grade. | ||
| 9-11 happened. | ||
| Geez, a few days later I was down at the recruiter. | ||
| Joined the infantry. | ||
| Instead I wanted to join the infantry, go to airborne school, ranger school. | ||
| Transferred to Duquesne. | ||
| It's not COVID. | ||
| It's not COVID. | ||
| Believe it. | ||
| Transfer to Duquesne and join the ROTC program. | ||
| Drink that water. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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All right. | |
| Everybody's got some token. | ||
| We get tons of super chats where they're like, say this token, say this token, say this token. | ||
| So many tokens. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
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No. | |
| No financial advice here. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| What's a token? | ||
| So tokens are, they exist on other chains. | ||
| So like ERG20 tokens are really easy to make. | ||
| You can just like snap your fingers and make a bunch of tokens. | ||
| It's kind of like we should never read super chat token shout outs. | ||
| Right, I avoid them for the most part. | ||
| Because everyone's always just trying to- Does everyone have a token now? | ||
| It's so easy to make tokens. | ||
| You snap your fingers and you can do it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Oh. | ||
| Yep, like literally just. | ||
| So. | ||
| Why would someone... Why do people want to do... I could make Beanie Coin right now. | ||
| Pump and dump. | ||
| Beanie Coin. | ||
| It would operate on the Ethereum network. | ||
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Yes. | |
| I could just snap my fingers and make it. | ||
| It would probably take, what, like 10 minutes, you think? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I've never done it before. | ||
| 10 minutes? | ||
| And then I could make, like, okay, Beanie Coin has a million coins. | ||
| I keep 100,000 for myself. | ||
| And then I just disperse the coins, you know, by some metric or whatever. | ||
| And then... Or people can start proof of staking to generate coins or something. | ||
| And then once the coin is worth a penny, I have, you know, $1,000 or whatever. | ||
| So people will make a token with 450 million total capacity or something, and then it's money. | ||
| Or they'll buy like a million tokens and then super chat for 50 bucks, like, hey, this token, hope that it goes up 50% and they make half a million dollars. | ||
| Which is basically just like scamming people. | ||
| Holy smokes. | ||
| Yeah, it's very pump and dump. | ||
| It's very disturbing. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Powerful tech, but disturbing. | ||
| Well, there's no regulation, which is partly the good thing. | ||
| I mean, buyer beware, right? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Caveat emptor. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| That sounds Roman. | ||
| Caveat emptor? | ||
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It's Latin, for sure. | |
| Yeah, let the buyer beware. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| All right. | ||
| GG Player says, tried to go to his website, says the IP could not be reached on Chrome. | ||
| Is your website blocked on Chrome? | ||
| No. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Definitely use Brave and DuckDuckGo as your browser and search engine. | ||
| I mean, it's coming. | ||
| No. | ||
| Try it. | ||
| Is it working on Chrome? | ||
| Andrew's a Chrome guy. | ||
| All right, let me read this one. | ||
| Gavin McDougal says hedge funds are liquidating assets, including crypto, in anticipation of having to pay out on AMC, not because Elon talks crap. | ||
| Yeah, the big squeeze, everyone's excited, is claiming it's going to be a big hedge fund squeeze. | ||
| And Bill Gates is panicking, and there's a bunch of conspiracy theories. I don't know what's going to happen. | ||
| But we want to see it. | ||
| We'll see, man. | ||
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| Is there anything you want to shout out, Sean? | ||
| Shout out to me? | ||
| Oh, please go to my website, parnellforsenate.com. | ||
| If you have the means, contribute, join the movement. | ||
| We need your help. | ||
| Or follow me on Twitter at Sean Parnell USA. | ||
| This is really great, man. | ||
| Love having you here. | ||
| It was really entertaining. | ||
| I love being here, man. | ||
| I love being here. | ||
| Just joy. | ||
| You can follow me at iancrossland.net and at iancrossland on social media. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Sean gives me a lot of hope for kind of the GOP in general, so it's really nice to hear these more sane, reasonable approaches, and I'm really hoping that you're the guy who gets in and fights like heck to make good things happen. | ||
| Well, me too, because I love this country, and it's worth fighting for, and it's worth defending. | ||
| Yeah, 100%. | ||
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| Very important. | ||
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