Oct. 19, 2021 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Thanks for watching. | ||
| But that's not true. | ||
| We now know that there is a large portion of the Chicago Police Department that is not vaccinated and that are threatening to take leave or just defy the COVID mandate. | ||
| Mayor Lori Lightfoot has now said that the Chicago Police FOP president, that's the union, is attempting to induce an insurrection. | ||
| I love their choice of words. | ||
| We know why they're using that word. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they want to rule by decree. | ||
| Meanwhile, in Portland, Antifa has caused half a million dollars in damage and smashed everything up. | ||
| San Francisco is crime-ridden, and Walgreens is shutting down more stores. | ||
| And Joe Biden is flouting the rules and choosing not to wear a mask in D.C., where they have a mask mandate. | ||
| So please, tell me about your induced insurrections again. | ||
| Well, we'll get into all this stuff. | ||
| We have an awesome guest tonight. | ||
| Sean Spicer is hanging out. | ||
| How's it going, man? | ||
| It's awesome. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| This is quite an honor. | ||
| Well, thanks for coming. | ||
| I feel the same way. | ||
| Well, it's nice to get outside of the city. | ||
| So, I'm assuming everyone knows who you are, but who are you, for those that might not know? | ||
| I was a regular guy that worked in politics for a long time, and then Donald Trump announced I was going to be the White House Press Secretary, and my life changed forever. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| And then the last few years have been quite different. | ||
| I did a season on Dancing with the Stars and showed that anyone who has no rhythm and no artistic ability can actually get a bunch of votes. | ||
| I saw people on media get so mad about you. | ||
| Oh, they hated it. | ||
| That's what made it half the fun! | ||
| How dare you humanize people! | ||
| Well, first of all, I hate that phrase. | ||
| People were like, you're humanizing them. | ||
| I'm like, I'm a human. | ||
| You may not like me. | ||
| But this idea of talking about humanizing people, Right. | ||
| It's sort of it's it's something that came into being during the Trump administration | ||
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| Where there was like this assumption that we were aliens and that we needed to be humanized after we left like there | ||
| was some kind Of process by which we went into a machine and came out the | ||
| other end. Yeah dancing helped make everyone realize that's a guy | ||
| That's a person Well, and he's actually not, you know, nuts that the way that the CNN and the Washington Post wanted you to believe. | ||
| Well, I think it'll be interesting because, you know, one of the stories you have when I mentioned Joe Biden flouting the rules, it's Jen Psaki defending the breaking of the rules. | ||
| And so it'll be definitely be interesting to talk to you about, you know, her role in the media's role. | ||
| So we'll get in all that stuff. | ||
| We also got Luke. | ||
| Hey, at least the costumes were great. | ||
| I thought that was definitely something. | ||
| But hey guys, my name is Luke Godowsky of WeAreChange.org. | ||
| And I still remember the first time that I came back on this show recently, one of the first things that I said is that you can't comply your way out of tyranny. | ||
| And then I was like, damn, that can make a really good t-shirt. | ||
| So I made it. | ||
| This is the T-shirt. | ||
| It finally came in the mail and you could get yours exclusively on thebestpoliticalshirts.com. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| I'm looking forward to this very interesting conversation. | ||
| Me too, man. | ||
| I'm glad you're here, Sean. | ||
| I've been trying to get in the head of Saki for a while. | ||
| So don't go there. | ||
| Ian, stay out. | ||
| Help me, man. | ||
| You don't want to be there. | ||
| I want to humanize her as well, because I think that job might make people seem oddly robotic. | ||
| Because like you said, you're just kind of a mouthpiece. | ||
| You're not really saying your mind. | ||
| You're just doing a thing. | ||
| Well, you're there to speak on behalf of somebody who's not able to do it themselves for a variety of reasons. | ||
| And, you know, the issue that I have isn't necessarily with Jen, although there's some things that she's said or done that I've taken issue with, but it's a complicit press corps that sits there every day and nods their head and says, thank you, Jen. | ||
| I will now write this and push it out to everybody. | ||
| There's no pushback. | ||
| There's no attempt to talk about the hypocrisy, the double standards that go on in there. | ||
| Or just drill further down in some of the policies. | ||
| They take what she says as gospel and they go from there. | ||
| And I think that's actually bad for democracy. | ||
| For all the talk about the Washington Post saying democracy dies in darkness when Trump came in, the reality is democracy dies when you're not able to question things, when you're not able to question authority. | ||
| Talk back, dissent, all of those things are part of the fabric of our country, and yet the further and further we go, the less and less we allow dissenting voices, people to question authority, to not even question authority in a bad sense, but just ask, I don't get it, explain this, or that seems to be a double standard. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Not permitted. | ||
| We'll dive into all this stuff. | ||
| Yeah, I'm stoked to have Sean tonight, especially with everything Jen Psaki is talking about. | ||
| And it was occurring to me earlier today how much science is like democracy in that you have to be able to question what is going on. | ||
| Otherwise, it's not fully functional. | ||
| This is why freedom of speech is so valuable. | ||
| So super stoked to talk to someone who is actually a spokesman for a president. | ||
| I want to point out real quick as well the photo behind Lydia of Joe Biden that Jessica, who she does the art here at Timcast, made. | ||
| And it's amazingly creepy. | ||
| Ian was like, I don't want that photo. | ||
| I don't want Biden behind me, you guys. | ||
| I want the beautiful landscape. | ||
| So I got Jessica's other amazing piece of art. | ||
| And also this was sent to me in the mail. | ||
| I just opened up on the Cast Castle vlog. | ||
| I don't know if it's gone live yet. | ||
| This is a piece of sacred geometry. | ||
| We got a lot of very interesting mail. | ||
| You guys will see. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Let's talk news. | ||
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| But now let's get into that news. | ||
| We got the story from RealClearPolitics. | ||
| Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, FOP president, is attempting to induce an insurrection by opposing vaccine mandate. | ||
| I just love that line. | ||
| She said, we believe that the Fraternal Order of Police Leadership is trying to foment an illegal work stoppage or strike, she said. | ||
| We are not having that. The contract is clear. The police unions are not authorized to strike. | ||
| What we've seen from the Fraternal Order of Police Leadership is a lot of misinformation, | ||
| and frankly, flat out lies, in order to induce an insurrection. | ||
| And we're not having that. The law is on our side. We feel very confident about it. Urging | ||
| members of the department to ignore the chain of command? Let me be clear. | ||
| John Catanzaro has destroyed his police career, destroyed it. | ||
| He is not fit, and he is never going to go back in any kind of active position. | ||
| I don't want him to lend, to lead these young officers astray, and have them destroy their careers like he has destroyed his. | ||
| I just love the idea of an executive issuing an order by decree, and then when someone says, I object, that's an insurrection! | ||
| Well, that's what we get. | ||
| Did you guys see in Seattle, the cops have started flying the Gadsden flags? | ||
| Yeah, I saw that. | ||
| It's become a thing now. | ||
| And the Southwest Airlines as well, posting a lot of photos of the Gatson flags inside of the airplanes there. | ||
| But this is nothing new from Lori Lightfoot. | ||
| I mean, I am seeing a lot of comments talk about Betelgeuse in the comments section. | ||
| Just for clarification, I think it's important to bring up some of these facts. | ||
| But this is the same mayor that we have to understand Just a couple months ago during the middle of the whole | ||
| covid crisis when she was telling everyone to stay home. | ||
| We need to lock down. | ||
| We need to punish people. | ||
| She was walking the streets being like go home right now. | ||
| She also went out there and defied her own decrees and went and got a haircut and then told everyone. | ||
| Well, I need a haircut. | ||
| I'm out in the public eye and it's important for me to flaunt these rules that I made up that you have to obey. | ||
| As at least for you know, what I think just just real quick. | ||
| I think the funny thing is they wanted to defund the cops. | ||
| So all these guys are saying hey, we're not going to come to work. | ||
| This is this should be the easiest solution. | ||
| She should be in favor of this great. | ||
| Yeah, we wanted to defund you anyway, but it's funny once they say we're not coming to work now. | ||
| It's you guys are an insurrection. | ||
| You can't have it both ways. | ||
| Either you defund them, and you don't want them to show up, and you don't like them. | ||
| But suddenly now it's, I care about them, and I can't believe they're not showing up for work. | ||
| This is why I refer to the establishment, it's mostly the Democrats in the media, as the cult. | ||
| Because it doesn't matter what their position was. | ||
| It just matters what the whim is today. | ||
| Before it was like, the police are bad, okay everybody, I agree with whatever you've said for whatever reason, defund the police. | ||
| Now all of a sudden the cops are like, we're gonna walk. | ||
| And they're like, no, no, you can't leave, that's an insurrection. | ||
| There's no real principle behind what they do. | ||
| No. | ||
| It's just fall in line behind the establishment, behind those in charge. | ||
| But to elaborate on the Lori Lightfoot thing that Luke mentioned, Lori Lightfoot literally just posted this yesterday at 5.24pm. | ||
| It's an image of her violating Chicago's mask mandates. | ||
| So, you know, you ask, who's doing the insurrection? | ||
| The people who are breaking the laws of this country, violating the Constitution, trying to rule by decree, not even following their own rules? | ||
| I don't think it's the cops. | ||
| Well, the president himself and Joe Biden were out to dinner this weekend in Georgetown, a very expensive restaurant, and they get filmed with that. | ||
| They wonder why people Don't take them seriously. | ||
| Don't take them seriously, but it's over and over again, and what is Jen Psaki? | ||
| I mean, these guys just go, every time they get caught, it's, come on, seriously? | ||
| Don't, you know, that's not a big deal. | ||
| Gavin Newsom at French Laundry, all of these politicians, one after another on the Democratic side, get caught not obeying the mandates and the restrictions that they send for everybody else. | ||
| D.C.' 's mayor, Eleanor Hornibs Norton, same thing, goes to a wedding. | ||
| But it's everybody else should follow this and then they wonder why people don't believe and trust in them anymore. | ||
| It's because of this. | ||
| And I just kind of want to add to this point because when we look at Chicago, I think it's fair to argue that it's already a mess. | ||
| More young people die in Chicago from gang shootings than COVID. | ||
| And we have to understand that the Chicago Police Chief Union, the president of the police union in Chicago, is standing up and saying that almost 3,000 officers are going to defy a lot of these mandates. | ||
| One-third of the entire Chicago Police Department. | ||
| If that happens, I think it's fair to say there's going to be far greater implications in Chicago than we could even expect. | ||
| People are going to die. | ||
| When you think about it, you've got cops, healthcare workers, teachers, airline pilots, the list goes on and on of all these professions that are saying, if you force me to do something against my will, military members. | ||
| At what point is that tipping point where society then really deals with the consequences of this? | ||
| Right? | ||
| And you think about all these professions that we need who are pushing back. | ||
| I don't think it's about the vaccines. | ||
| I think it's about purging institutions of authority. | ||
| So the cops that are putting up the Gadsden flags, defying the orders and quitting, are the ones who clearly have an issue with mandated medical procedures. | ||
| But the cops who remain are going to be like, whatever. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| I don't think this has to do with getting a vaccine or not at the core of it. | ||
| This has to do with government telling you to do something. | ||
| And I think this has been bungled from the beginning. | ||
| Every day that Dr. Fauci's out there is a day that creates further tension and further confusion. | ||
| At the end of the day, if you like Dr. Fauci, you've got vaccinated like five months ago. | ||
| There's nobody out there right now that's saying, oh, wait a second, Dr. Fauci's on the air. | ||
| Let me listen to what he has to say to Rachel Maddow. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| It's a good point you said there. | ||
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Rachel, if you haven't been vaccinated, do it now. | |
| Get four jabs and two masks. | ||
| No one is waiting. | ||
| For Fauci at this point. | ||
| You bought in a long time ago. | ||
| All they're doing now, and this weekend, Fauci goes on the Sunday shows and when he gets asked about criticism of himself, he says, if you criticize me, you're like a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| The same guy, by the way, just so we're clear, one of the quotes that he gave out this weekend is that it's probably likely that J&J should have been a second dose, right? | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| Two words that don't normally go with science. | ||
| Probably and should. | ||
| It's either yes or no. | ||
| It's either the data shows or not. | ||
| But Fauci's out there going, probably should have been two. | ||
| That doesn't invoke confidence in the system when the head guy is saying, yeah, Maybe I don't know yeah now how to you how to didn't just | ||
| ... | ||
| call people conspiracy theorist that didn't like him ... | ||
| they said that these people are denying reality and he ... | ||
| said quote sometimes the truth becomes inconvenient for ... | ||
| some people so they react against me that's just is what ... | ||
| it is I mean that's a delusional kind of thinking ... | ||
| we're talking about megalomania here with with ... | ||
| someone who loves to see his own face on national ... | ||
| television and and this is a sycophantic individual ... | ||
| that should never be taken seriously in my opinion. | ||
| I think it's a let me see if I can try and find this. | ||
| Oh Oh, yeah, where he's in his study with his picture of himself. | ||
| And the candle. | ||
| He has a candle of himself. | ||
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Are you serious? | |
| Yes. | ||
| In his back. | ||
| I might do something like that. | ||
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That sounds exciting. | |
| Do you want Ian running National Health Policy? | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| We got to get a nice sketch of Tim behind him. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| A candle of Tim looking at him. | ||
| So here's the photo. | ||
| Oh, snap. | ||
| It's from the documentary. | ||
| Dr. Fauci in his workplace, his office, with a portrait of himself. | ||
| But I would do it as a joke. | ||
| That's a little extreme. | ||
| To be fair, we do have a big Timcast on the wall, but someone sent us that. | ||
| But it's not just that. | ||
| He has pillows. | ||
| He has candles of himself. | ||
| He literally has to go on the mainstream media that loves and adores him. | ||
| He never goes on the media that questions He never goes on the media that dares to ask him a legitimate, hard question. | ||
| He never dares to go after opposition voices. | ||
| And if he was really caring about people's health, he would address the hard questions. | ||
| We literally, at one point on my show on Newsmax, had a Fauci watch. | ||
| And we asked him for something like 70-something days, and we finally gave up because it got silly. | ||
| But at the end of the day, he hasn't gone on anything alternative. | ||
| If the theory, which the data does not actually support, is that I think Sanjay Gupta is a good example of why he won't. | ||
| that are the big hesitant folks about this, then why wouldn't you go to where they are | ||
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Right. | |
| and have a conversation and say, okay, I'll take some questions. | ||
| But that's a, the data doesn't suggest that number one. | ||
| Number two is because he doesn't want pushback. | ||
| Anytime someone questions anything, he gets so red. | ||
| Watch Rand Paul question him the next time. | ||
| I think, I think Sanjay Gupta is a good example of why he won't. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because Joe Rogan didn't let that slide. | ||
| Biden wouldn't either. | ||
| He hid in his basement during the election cycle last time. | ||
| He just didn't want to get caught with his pants down. | ||
| The truth is not the friends of these people, right? | ||
| So to bring it back to Chicago, we also have, I think, the NYPD, the fire department in New York, CPD. | ||
| We've got nurses, doctors. | ||
| I'm not going to say that it's the majority. | ||
| I think in Chicago, it's a substantial amount. | ||
| I think they said something like 59% of cops are vaccinated. | ||
| So you've got 41% that aren't, which means that's seriously bad for a city like Chicago, which has very serious gun problems. | ||
| But there's a large portion. | ||
| There was, I think in New York, it was between 11 and 6% of the police were like outright refusing. | ||
| That may seem like a small percentage, but in a city that big, that could mean crippling an entire neighborhood or borough or the highways. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| So you have these people outright defying these mandates. | ||
| I kind of feel like... I don't want to be pessimistic, but I don't know if it will be enough. | ||
| I feel like a lot of these cops are using this to negotiate their contracts. | ||
| Ultimately, it's not going to be enough to actually put a dent in this. | ||
| And then, not to be pessimistic, but what, in two, three years we have a social credit system? | ||
| The problem is you can't replace the cops, right? | ||
| So if 6% of the cops call it, just 5, 5 for arguments, say we're walking off the job because of this vaccine mandate, that's a cheer point. | ||
| In a place like New York or Chicago, a big city, that's several neighborhoods that suddenly don't have police covering them. | ||
| There's not a crop behind them, especially in the whole defund the police movement, of officers that are waiting to take these jobs. | ||
| We have demonized police officers to such a degree that they're having a tough time recruiting these individuals. | ||
| So you lose that percentage, and to your point about Chicago, crime goes back up. | ||
| I mean, just a few months ago, I mean, who wanted to be a cop? | ||
| No one! | ||
| Especially with the demonization, especially with everything that happened with Black Lives Matter. | ||
| And I think a lot of these mandates don't have to do anything about health. | ||
| I think a lot of them are loyalty tests. | ||
| And that's why a lot of officers who are not going along with the programming, not going along with the conditioning, not going along with the agenda, they're being purged. | ||
| And we're seeing a lot of videos. | ||
| I played a couple videos today on my channel specifically of police officers resigning, calling in as they're still in uniform in their police car. | ||
| There's a bunch of those videos going around as well. | ||
| One of them saying some very choice words for the governor of Washington that are pretty It must be a cold day in hell when you convince Luke Rutkowski to actually stand up for the cops. | ||
| No, I'm not. | ||
| Who said I'm standing up for the cops? | ||
| I'm just calling a spade a spade here and talking about the facts here that no one wants to be a police officer. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| Like even saying that is still like telling the truth about what's going on with these officers. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not here to pick sides. | ||
| I'm here to call out the bullcrap. | ||
| There's a lot of bullcrap, but we gotta be honest with the situation that we're dealing with. | ||
| You don't have to be political to say something like, these cops are being demonized and they're coming after them in unjust ways. | ||
| That doesn't mean I'm a fan of every single cop or every department. | ||
| It's just, the reality is... | ||
| Like I just said, I'm not convinced the cops are gonna stick this one out. | ||
| I think they'll negotiate their contracts, get some special privileges, and then probably be like, okay, fine, whatever. | ||
| But I do think a lot of the cops will quit, because I think this is a hard line a lot of people just can't cross physically. | ||
| I thought about this, like, if someone came to you and said, you have to undergo this, and you're just like, dude, I can't cross that line. | ||
| I will not be forced to do these things. | ||
| I'm surprised actually that with all that it takes right now, I mean, I'm not in any way advocating this, but I'm just saying that it's funny that like people walk in all the time and say, you know, are you, are you vaccinated or not? | ||
| The people who aren't actually are taking a stand because if you wanted to just fake it, you can't, right? | ||
| I mean, let's fake it in a world like that we live in today. | ||
| It's not hard to fake something documentation wise or otherwise, but yet the people who are doing this truly, I think, believe it and are saying, I'm willing to go down. | ||
| I think it's a private medical decision and if people want to talk to their doctors about what makes for them, it's none of my business. | ||
| Can I just, not to get off on a tangent, but what other medical thing could you possibly imagine somebody walking into a group of friends or a work environment and saying, Hey, did you get the, uh, such and such? | ||
| Or are you taking this pill? | ||
| Or did you have this procedure? | ||
| There is no other thing that could possibly happen. | ||
| There's actually a great meme where someone said that they immediately went to their boss and said, if you are taking responsibility for COVID, I demand to know the status of every employee's medical history, including when they've had the flu, if they're pregnant, if they have HIV, because certainly we should take those into consideration in the workplace if you're concerned about this. | ||
| The idea basically being, as soon as the employer says, we recognize our liability in this, COVID, And these are not popular policies. | ||
| People don't want to ask permission and be granted special paperwork by the same entity that runs the DMV to go to their supermarket or their local restaurant. | ||
| This is a whole level of absurdity and insanity. | ||
| People are protesting in droves including people in Dallas. | ||
| There was an airport employee protest there today in Texas. | ||
| There was massive protests in Italy where police officers used tear gas, water canyons on dock workers, on union workers, on protesters standing against the insane policies being implemented in Italy where they are pushing the agenda further, faster, and quicker than almost anywhere else in the world right now. | ||
| And these clashes are not just creating protests and fights between police officers which are still obeying the laws, sorry, obeying the decrees by every exact extent that they are, but this is also having a huge effect on our economy, on our supply chains, on global trade, and these effects are absolutely monstrous and they're going to be very huge to deal with. | ||
| One interesting thing that I just, we had a poll the other day from the Trafalgar group that we played on the show That was really interesting. | ||
| If you listen to the mainstream media, I think you get the takeaway that Luke had, which is that there's this widespread belief that everyone had, but a plurality of Democrats, 47-43, so not just a barely, almost a majority, actually don't support people losing their jobs if they don't get the vaccine. | ||
| But if you listen to the news, you would think that this is widely spread, especially among the left, and it's not. | ||
| That's why I call him a cult. | ||
| Because Matthew Iglesias has a great tweet. | ||
| He said, Twitter is people who are 95% further left than the average voter arguing with people who are 75% further left than the average voter that they're too far, right? | ||
| You have my favorite metric, because I feel like it's the easiest to understand for anyone who's paying attention, is that Democrats, 54%, according to Civics, believe the economy is good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| 70% of moderates say fairly bad or very bad. | ||
| 88% of Republicans say fairly bad or very bad. | ||
| And the reality is, it's very bad. | ||
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Correct. | |
| Objectively. | ||
| But let's do this. | ||
| Let's take a look at a city that is under the rule of policies like this. | ||
| We have this story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| San Francisco Mayor London Breed claims Walgreens is only shutting five stores to cut costs. | ||
| But Pharmacy Chain says it spends nearly 50 times as much on security as stores in that city compared to anywhere else. | ||
| Alright, let's slow down. | ||
| San Francisco has such crime because, I mean, people are just going into Walgreens, shuffling stuff into bags. | ||
| One guy's on a bike, he's running off a garbage bag full of stuff. | ||
| And so, Walgreens says, we're gonna shut down several stores. | ||
| It's happened with other stores. | ||
| Target reduced hours. | ||
| This is partly due to the fact that the city basically said anything $900 or under won't be prosecuted. | ||
| So people are like, free run, I guess. | ||
| Here's the best part. | ||
| London Breed is claiming Walgreens is only shutting five stores to cut costs. | ||
| Why would Walgreens need to cut costs? | ||
| It's a grocery store and pharmacy in a major urban center of tens of millions of people in the entirety of the Bay Area. | ||
| What is happening in San Francisco where they're like, we can't afford this anymore? | ||
| cost of security apparently. | ||
| No, it's not even security. | ||
| They've done it such that there's these videos where the security guard has to stand there | ||
| and watch them loot the place because the police won't back them up. | ||
| So at some point, to your point, if it's $900, I don't know what costs more than $500 in | ||
| Walgreens. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So basically what they're saying is you can loot the entire thing and not face any consequences. | ||
| At some point, it's not worth it. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Can you name a product in Walgreens that's more than $900? | ||
| Well, it's probably if they walk out with more than $900 worth of stuff. | ||
| But what happens is they come in with 10 of their friends and they all walk out with $800 worth of stuff. | ||
| Bingo. | ||
| There's videos of them walking up to the makeup rack with bags and just shuffling them on. | ||
| And then there's that one famous video where the guy's on a bike in the store just grabbing stuff and the security guard's just filming. | ||
| They can't do anything. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's what they voted for. | ||
| If they want it, they have it. | ||
| Good for them. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| But also, Walgreens played by a different set of rules, especially during the lockdowns. | ||
| Walgreens was allowed to be open, so they made bank as small mom-and-pop businesses got obliterated and destroyed by policies that prevented them from operating their businesses and another reason why a lot of | ||
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| businesses and shut all of them down while all the big ... | ||
| multinational corporations were able to stay open so ... | ||
| Walgreens saying that the need to save cost is bullcrap they ... | ||
| got way more than enough money they got way more than enough ... | ||
| play within the federal government that allowed them ... | ||
| to stay open during lockdown is not Walgreens saying it ... | ||
| they're being accused by the mayor of San Francisco of ... | ||
| mayor of San Francisco of cutting costs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Walgreens is like, they're looting our stores to the point we can't keep them open. | ||
| And then this is impacting people on many levels as well, because a lot of people can't even get their prescriptions filled as well. | ||
| So, I mean, just a few years ago, I remember being in San Francisco and it was like a war zone out there. | ||
| So, I mean, this is what people want. | ||
| This is what they voted for. | ||
| Good on you. | ||
| Enjoy it. | ||
| Have fun. | ||
| When we had Will Chamberlain and I think it was Will and Charlie Kirk, right? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| I basically had a similar approach. | ||
| I was like, well, if people vote for this, then let them have it. | ||
| And their response was, that's a very libertarian answer, as it said to me. | ||
| They said, you know, they were conservatives and they feel the law should be enforced equally | ||
| for all people. | ||
| The libertarians are the ones who are like, well, if you vote for it, that's what you | ||
| get. | ||
| I thought that was a really, really great point. | ||
| We can't tolerate lawlessness in a city even if people are, they're not voting for the crime, they're voting for policies that enable it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So the crime still needs to be stopped. | ||
| Well the problem too though is, let's face it, if you voted, let's say you vote, you actually do vote because you want lawlessness. | ||
| But I don't. | ||
| Should I have to bear the consequences of someone's vote? | ||
| And that's the problem, is that San Francisco, until it's 100%, you're basically screwing everybody else who wants to live there in peace and not have their stuff taken, get punched in the face. | ||
| That's the new normal. | ||
| That's what usually happens. | ||
| This is a great purge. | ||
| I mean, think about it. | ||
| With the Vax mandates, you've got cops who refuse to enforce or abide by are quitting. | ||
| So law enforcement across the board, first responders, military saying no to this stuff, officers resigning, those who can. | ||
| And then you have in cities, what's going to happen? | ||
| Maybe you're a moderate, maybe you're even a Democrat, and you hear they're doing vax mandates. | ||
| And like you said, the polls show that most Democrats don't even agree with it. | ||
| They're going to leave. | ||
| They're going to move to Texas. | ||
| They're going to move to Colorado. | ||
| They're going to leave these heavily blue areas, making them even more heavily blue. | ||
| I was going to say, this is the exact same problem you see with the police force. | ||
| When the good officers leave because they're like, I will not enforce something unconstitutional, you're left with police who will do anything. | ||
| It's exactly the same in cities. | ||
| If you force people who are moderate and even remotely conservative out of your city, you're just going to end up with seriously spiraling crime. | ||
| It sounds great for them, doesn't it? | ||
| That's what they want, I guess. | ||
| I'm imagining Bill de Blasio is like, how do we get rid of conservatives and moderates? | ||
| I know, do things that are unconstitutional and egregiously bad and the Democrats just accept it, I guess? | ||
| They're gonna watch CNN, we're good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Stupid policy, it doesn't equate as liberalism to me. | ||
| I don't know what these people are, if it's just like endemically idiotic and addictive because they see one mayor do it in another city on the internet, they're like, I'm gonna try it now in my city. | ||
| I think that they're responding to what Tim was talking about on the Twitter example, that these guys think that somehow that that vocal minority on Twitter is a majority, and it's not. | ||
| And that's the problem, is that they think that they are, by giving in to them, that they are doing the popular thing, But they're just giving into a very, very loud minority. | ||
| You know, I'll be interested to see what happens next year in the midterms because we had this state seat in Iowa flip Republican. | ||
| There is some speculation for a lot of reasons the Republicans are going to sweep in the House and maybe even the Senate. | ||
| But I don't know, man. | ||
| I'll believe it when I see it. | ||
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Well, I'll tell you what. | |
| I'll take it one step further. | ||
| I think that if Republicans just literally sat under a table and breathed for the next, whatever, 13 months, they will win. | ||
| They need six seats. | ||
| They're going to get two in Texas because of the two new districts. | ||
| They'll get one in Florida. | ||
| And there's a handful of others that are easily flippable because of redistricting. | ||
| What I'm more interested in is, on January 7th, 8th, or whatever the day that that new Congress turns in, are the Republicans, especially in the House, going to put forward an agenda that is reflective of what the people and the grassroots really have asked for? | ||
| No. | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| But that's my point. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's that this is what worries me, is that finally there's an opportunity. | ||
| Never have the lines been so clear. | ||
| This between watching the difference between Trump and Biden and watching the difference between these mayors that we're all talking about now. | ||
| If you don't get it now, you're never going to get it, right? | ||
| And so if Republicans in the House don't look at this opportunity and say, we got it, Then they've blown it big time. | ||
| Primaries. | ||
| I think people got to make sure they're paying attention to the Republican primaries and making sure establishment do-nothing Republicans don't win. | ||
| I thought Mike Gravel was pushing this thing called the National Initiative that it would have given the American people a fourth branch of government. | ||
| It would have given us the opportunity to write laws and pass them into the Senate. | ||
| I think that's a good idea because these Congress people get in there and they get desensitized and disassociated from what regular people want. | ||
| And why would we not have the ability to It's hard to say. | ||
| I do think, like you mentioned, you know, the Republicans, they're historically due to win. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Because of the unpopularity of Biden. | ||
| process. A lot of states have a referendum process that functions that way. | ||
| California. | ||
| Switzerland has it as well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's hard to say. I do think, like you mentioned, you know, the Republicans, they're historically | ||
| due to win. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Because of the unpopularity of Biden. And then we look at the historical trends. But | ||
| I'm just not convinced because like you said, if you don't get it now, you're never going | ||
| to get it. There are a lot of people who are never going to get it. Now, there's a lot | ||
| of reasons to think that things might might flip. | ||
| Interestingly, in the last election, Republicans overperformed. It was it was to the polls. It | ||
| was crazy. Like Miami going red. Yeah. South Texas. These are all these areas. | ||
| I I want to believe first, I want to believe that Republicans will take back the House. | ||
| And I would love to believe, but I can't, that they would actually impeach Joe Biden for like all the Ukraine stuff. | ||
| And I mean, the dude's got literally everything. | ||
| Yeah, not the emails that have come out, him meeting with Hunter Biden's partners, sharing bank accounts. | ||
| You know what the problem is, is that every time The only time they've ever done anything effective is after 1994 when there was a contract with America and they said, we're going to do this. | ||
| And for 100 days they did it. | ||
| And then after it was like, where do we go? | ||
| But if they don't get it now, then I think that they're going to lose trust for a really, really long time. | ||
| I don't know how you get it back because enough of this stuff has happened. | ||
| And I think that what I've started to do is, as I bring people on the show, I'll say, are you committed to doing something if you get back the majority? | ||
| Because they need to be held accountable. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And that's the problem right now, is that they're going to get a pass. | ||
| And I think that we need to start, what does that agenda look like? | ||
| You know what the problem is? | ||
| If someone, I'll start with this. | ||
| Republicans, when polled, have a negative view of the Republican Party. | ||
| Democrats, when polled, have a positive view of the Democratic Party. | ||
| Democrats watch CNN, and they believe everything they're told. | ||
| They watch Rachel Maddow. | ||
| It is insane the amount of lies pumped out through those networks all day every day, and people just believe it, even when it contradicts itself. | ||
| Bill Maher, I think a good example, Bill Maher even. | ||
| Because he's been doing well as a, you know, calling out the insanity. | ||
| But he was wrong on the Covington kids, a week after it happened. | ||
| Because when you just follow the cult media, they have no interest in informing you. | ||
| Now the problem here is people are just going to blindly follow mainstream media. | ||
| Republicans won't. | ||
| So if I go to someone on the right and ask them a legitimate question, and they're honest about it, they will get destroyed in the media because they'll be twisted and skewed. | ||
| And then you can get someone, you know, in the Biden administration to literally break their own rules, like, you know, Biden, for instance, and they ignore it completely. | ||
| So I've been talking, you know, I talk to regular people all the time. | ||
| I mean, just like, you know, going out, going to the hardware store, people who don't know who I am and just see how things are going. | ||
| And a lot of them are just like, I have no idea what's happening. | ||
| But they know Trump was bad. | ||
| That's all they know. | ||
| Because they hear this stuff, you know, from secondhand. | ||
| But I told someone today, Tim, that imagine sitting in your house and turning on the television and someone says it's raining. | ||
| And to your point, you trust it because, well, the weatherman or person is on television saying it's raining. | ||
| But then walking outside and being like, wait a second, there's moisture coming down and I'm getting wet. | ||
| That's what's happening right now in America. | ||
| You turn on the morning shows or CNN or what have you and you are told certain things. | ||
| And you go, well, I'm supposed to believe them because why would they lie or mislead us? | ||
| And yet they're not accurate. | ||
| You look at what's happening right now with our economy, with Afghanistan, with all the stuff that this administration tells us, and yet the mainstream media's complicity in promoting the agenda and the policies of this administration is so corrupt and it's so undermining to the professional journalism that it is literally like sitting inside your house and having someone tell you it's raining on a sunny—I mean, it's sunny on a rainy day. | ||
| Have you ever, I posted this photo on Instagram, I can't pull it up unless I log in, but it shows, I think it's like CBS and Fox News during Gordon Sondland's testimony, and they're two TVs side by side in a gym. | ||
| Oh yeah, I remember that. | ||
| On one it says, Sondland confirms quid pro quo. | ||
| On Fox News it says, Sondland confirms no quid pro quo. | ||
| Amazing how this happens. | ||
| But the funny thing is, I wrote a post saying, Fox is actually correct. | ||
| Gordon Sondland said, Trump told me there is no quid pro quo, but in his opinion, he kind of felt like there was one. | ||
| Opinion is not confirmation, when the exact quote from the president was, don't. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But they'll frame it the way they want. | ||
| I want to pull up this story because I think it's a good opportunity to talk about Jen Psaki. | ||
| We have this from The Independent. | ||
| Psaki defends Biden's against claims they broke mask mandate on dinner date. | ||
| Psaki battles conservative reporter over president's mask usage. | ||
| There's so much here I love. | ||
| Conservative reporter? | ||
| That's Peter Doocy, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay, did Peter Doocy come up and say that he was pro-life and had a question? | ||
| Did he say, uh, Jen, I'm pro-life and I want small government and lower taxes. | ||
| Now my question is, why is he a conservative reporter? | ||
| Not to mention, you would never frame any of those folks on NBC or the New York Times. | ||
| as liberal reporters, not even the MSNBC one, but also, who cares? | ||
| He asked her a simple question about their policies. | ||
| Why does his background have anything to do with it? | ||
| I mean, but again, because this goes back to what we were just talking about. | ||
| Because if you demean the reporter who's asking it, then there's less likely that you'll believe | ||
| the answer or the predicate of, you know, so it's how do we muddy this? | ||
| Right-wing is bad. | ||
| Conservative, bad. | ||
| Now, the funny thing is, as the saying goes, liberals think conservatives are evil, conservatives think liberals are misguided, right? | ||
| I think people who are moderate, libertarian, you know what? | ||
| I think it's easier just to name the cult. | ||
| The Democratic establishment and their voters are in a cult. | ||
| Because everyone else, they disagree with each other on a lot of things. | ||
| Luke's fairly libertarian or very freedom-oriented, but there are conservatives who disagree, but they agree on the truth and the facts to a great deal. | ||
| But there are a lot of people who blindly follow behind Jen Psaki. | ||
| I think it's interesting for two reasons. | ||
| Well, three. | ||
| First is pointing out saying a conservative reporter I find kind of funny. | ||
| But then you've got Joe Biden violating his own mask rule. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Jen Psaki defending breaking his own rule. | ||
| And not a single reporter actually questioning outside of Doocy who was then ignored or smeared. | ||
| Where are the journalists? | ||
| Now, I think it's interesting because you had this job. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| When you had this job, you were not given any free passes. | ||
| In fact, I think it was kind of brutal, right? | ||
| The journalists were just always just coming at you with very pointed, very hard, or even mis-framed questions. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I mentioned to you guys before we started, there was a profile on Jen and a reporter from the New York Times called me and they said, well, what do you think? | ||
| And I said, look, the reality is I walked into the lion's den every day and she walks into a bunch of kittens. | ||
| And everyone thought that was ridiculous. | ||
| How could I say it? | ||
| But the reality is, I mean, just look at the video. | ||
| When I walked in, you had Acosta jumping up and down like a hyena. | ||
| And all these people are like, ah! | ||
| But when she walks in, it's like a bunch of well-trained third graders. | ||
| They sit there with their hands on their lap and politely raise their hand. | ||
| And then you have a guy like Doocy who literally just asks a simple question. | ||
| And they go, well, that's the right wing guy. | ||
| Was Doocy there when you were? | ||
| No. | ||
| He wasn't? | ||
| No. | ||
| He was at Fox, but John Roberts primarily was there. | ||
| Kevin Cork was there from Fox. | ||
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Are there a lot of the same reporters that were there when you were there? | |
| But there was one other woman who worked and she's now left Fox. | ||
| But are there a lot of the same reporters that were there when you were? | ||
| No, not there's some, but generally a lot of them switch over. | ||
| It's a tough beat. | ||
| So I think a lot of times when there's a switch of administration, the folks who are, say, covering Biden on the campaign trail will kind of tap in, if you will, to cover the White House because they know the candidate or it's their turn. | ||
| And I think, frankly, there's a lot of burnout after you've been living, especially covering Donald Trump, where you have to be up early and stay up late just to stay up with the guy. | ||
| Is it like five days a week? | ||
| Oh, no, it's a seven a week. | ||
| Yeah, 24-7. | ||
| You can be off some days, but it's like... You would do like seven days in a row of speaking every day? | ||
| Oh, I was, so the way I worked for my tenure was on Sundays I would try not to go into the office, but I was still, you know, either on my computer or on an iPhone or what have you all day long. | ||
| But Saturdays I was in and, you know, every weekday. | ||
| I don't, I don't want to blame Jen Psaki. | ||
| There was a big, you know, when she came in and the circle back stuff and the memes, I think they're funny. | ||
| Circle back, I'll circle back. | ||
| Come on, do your job. | ||
| But I'm not gonna blame a person who's hired to be a spokesperson. | ||
| I mean, we get it. | ||
| When the Deepwater Horizon thing happens in the Gulf of Mexico, do we expect BP to come out and be like, we're irresponsible and we caused a major oil spill, it's our fault? | ||
| I didn't mean to expect isn't the right word. | ||
| Look, a prosecutor that walks out and says, look, I know my boss just said this, but they're nuts. | ||
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You've got about 8 seconds before they're like, can we take your badge and get out. | |
| That's just not how it works. | ||
| You're like a lawyer, and I hate to use the analogy but it's easy to make, that you don't get up there, you make the best case for the person you represent. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Plain and simple. | ||
| You're not there to interpret for them. | ||
| I would say sales rep is a better kind of description from my own personal opinion. | ||
| You're selling policies that, again, you can't really answer for. | ||
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Right, exactly. | |
| I think that's probably more apt. | ||
| You don't go, you know, to be honest with you, after about three weeks, the product sucks. | ||
| But these are sales people, and people need to understand, like, the word of the government is not gospel, it's sales. | ||
| It's trying to convince you of a certain idea. | ||
| This is why, like I said, when Psyche came in and conservatives were coming at her, I'm like, I don't care. | ||
| You know what I really care about is the journalists who have decided to lay down their swords. | ||
| They're no longer adversarial. | ||
| And you can argue, but they ask her tough questions. | ||
| No, they don't ask her questions. | ||
| She says, I'll circle back and we never hear anything. | ||
| She's not being challenged on that. | ||
| The only one who is doing anything is Doocy. | ||
| And his questions typically are fairly good, normal questions. | ||
| And they're respectful. | ||
| But the media attacks him! | ||
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But by the way, just so we're clear, just so we're clear. | |
| She chooses not to call on anybody else. | ||
| That's the token, right? | ||
| So Peter becomes the one person that she calls on. | ||
| There's 30 other people. | ||
| We have a White House correspondent, too, actually, that's switching in and out from Newsmax in there. | ||
| They don't get questions. | ||
| Neither do anyone else that's right-leaning. | ||
| She calls on all the mainstream guys and then throws the obligatory token question to Peter so that she can say that she sent one over. | ||
| But nobody else in that briefing room gets one. | ||
| I took questions from literally every single person in there. | ||
| Not only that, But when I started, I actually did this. | ||
| I killed the tradition of starting with the AP and working through the mainstream media | ||
| backwards. | ||
| I started in the back of the room and moved forward. | ||
| Because to me, that was, that was very symbolic of what Trump was all about. | ||
| And so I've thought, all right, how better to show this than not by calling on them. | ||
| Didn't you guys do that Skype thing? | ||
| We did. | ||
| So I brought in reporters that couldn't make it to the brief room. | ||
| But part of the reason was to allow issues that weren't coming up. | ||
| It's all these guys are groupthink. | ||
| So if CNN asked a question, then the Washington Post would say, you know, following up on | ||
| that. | ||
| Well, what I wanted to know what was going on in Cleveland, in Providence, Rhode Island, | ||
| and, you know, Seattle, so that you could hear an issue that was affecting real people | ||
| in their communities about some federal land policy or a school, you know, an education | ||
| policy issue. | ||
| But all that I ever got was Russia, Russia, Russia. | ||
| So I figured, you know what, I have a feeling that people out in America don't necessarily | ||
| all care about this. | ||
| I don't, you know, whether it's you or Saki, I see a White House press secretary. | ||
| Like we were saying, they're there to sell the policy, they're there to speak, to not interpret I guess, but you know, to present the case. | ||
| But you gotta remember the other thing is, Jen was at CNN prior to coming here. | ||
| These are her colleagues. | ||
| They're her buddies. | ||
| Do you think they're gonna attack her? | ||
| She's going back there, just so we're all clear. | ||
| Well, let's be fair. | ||
| They could have pulled a homeless guy off the street, put him in there, and as a Democratic spokesperson, they'd be like— Right, fair enough. | ||
| But my point is— But let's be honest. | ||
| I mean, I agree with you. | ||
| Literally, you could put anyone up there every day, and it won't significantly change. | ||
| I love Biden's fake question. | ||
| Like, you know, remember when that journalist came up to ask a question, but they asked something different? | ||
| And he was like, I thought you were going to ask about, uh, whatever. | ||
| But Pelosi, think about this. | ||
| We showed this in our show today. | ||
| Pelosi stood in front of the press and was asked last week about the Build Back Better plan and she said, you folks need to do a better job of selling it. | ||
| I was like, oh my god, you said the quiet part out loud! | ||
| You literally chided them for not doing your job, but that's what they think. | ||
| That's what the left thinks, is that the press is a tool to get at our message. | ||
| I mean, how else did Biden get elected? | ||
| Biden literally hid in the basement while the media did the pitching, the campaigning for him. | ||
| It's like Weekend at Bernie's, man. | ||
| Shameless plug, I have two chapters in my new book that just talk about what the press doesn't do. | ||
| This radical nation. | ||
| Radical nation. | ||
| But I have two chapters in here that talk about the complicit nature of the press. | ||
| And it's the thing that people have to understand is when you look at the examples of how Biden conducts himself and how the press doesn't do their job, then you get it. | ||
| How deep do you go in the rabbit hole of who owns the companies that run the media? | ||
| It's a great question. In this book, that's not, I touch on that in my last book, but I'm not | ||
| selling that. What's that one called? Leading America. But because I think that's a good point. | ||
| But I, but here, the point was to look at the Biden administration and recognize the fact | ||
| that they weren't getting the, and we talk about this from the, you talk about the mask mandate | ||
| now, him going to this Georgetown restaurant. | ||
| That's how he started. | ||
| Remember the fact that this was one of the first questions that she got asked by Ducey when he went to the Lincoln Memorial. | ||
| He doesn't wear a mask and she comes back and is like, well, come on. | ||
| Same, same answer, by the way. | ||
| No big deal. | ||
| Before the show, I'm like, oh, Sean, you have a book. | ||
| What's it called? | ||
| Radical Nation. | ||
| Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's dangerous plan for America. | ||
| And I was like, just hold it up during every segment because it's going to be applicable. | ||
| But it is. | ||
| Is it even their plan? | ||
| Is someone deciding all this stuff behind the scenes? | ||
| Well, look, the one thing that I'll tell you is Biden during the campaign said, I'm going to be the most progressive president ever. | ||
| And I frankly think that most people dismissed him on the right and the left. | ||
| He does understand this. | ||
| He's going to have one term and he wants a legacy that says, I did more for the left than anybody else. | ||
| I want to be remembered for the guy who named the first black female vice president, the first openly gay department head, which is what he says, even though Rick Grinnell did serve under Trump, but he wants to nuance it to say, department, but all of these things that he wants to do are | ||
| to cement his legacy as the latest version of FDR. A bunch of virtue signals. The only issue | ||
| is he's just, you know, not there. | ||
| He's not. | ||
| He's like a 13%. | ||
| I have a different understanding of it, to be honest with you. | ||
| I think he's a shallow man. | ||
| I think special interests are using him to push through some of the most absurd, ridiculous, most craziest policies that they would never have the balls to do if there was a real candidate behind that presidency. | ||
| That's my opinion. | ||
| Look, two Fridays ago, at a press conference, he said this. | ||
| If we pass my 1.2 and 3.5 pieces of legislation, we will transform the structure and nature of our economy. | ||
| He knows what he's doing. | ||
| But first of all, who wanted him to do that? | ||
| Nobody! | ||
| If he knows what he's doing, he's tanking the economy on purpose, especially with his vaccine mandates, especially with his restrictions on trade, especially with the effects that he has had on global trade in general. | ||
| So I think if he knows what he's doing, he's assuredly making sure that the United States gets destroyed from the inside, especially with the Afghanistan policy, especially with all the policies that he has proposed never help out the average American. | ||
| Let me ask you a question. | ||
| Look at Afghanistan objectively, no matter who you are, whether you've served a day in your life or not, and say to yourself, did anybody honestly think that that was a good idea of saying, hey, let's get these guys out first and then worry about everybody else? | ||
| I mean, the entire thing, it literally took a sixth grader to go, ah! | ||
| Bad idea. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Keep your Air Force base. | ||
| The idea of, look at this weekend, what we need to do is tell people to work 24-7 at the ports. | ||
| Really? | ||
| No one's working to begin with and you think the answer is to tell them to work more? | ||
| Meanwhile, there's still crazy carbon emissions, especially passed by California, that prevent many of these ships, many of these trucks from even operating in the state of California. | ||
| So there's many layers to this that we don't even understand yet. | ||
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And there's still a truck driver shortage. | |
| So being like, we're opening the ports 24-7 does literally nothing. | ||
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Correct. | |
| And you have to be vaccinated to make sure that you work now. | ||
| But look, here's the thing. | ||
| You told people not to work. | ||
| So they didn't make things. | ||
| Then they couldn't ship them. | ||
| Then they couldn't unload them. | ||
| Then they couldn't stock the shelves with them. | ||
| And now you go, you know what the answer is? | ||
| Just turn it on 24-7. | ||
| Work more. | ||
| Again, you had Marty Walsh, the Secretary of Labor, get asked last Sunday night what the problem was. | ||
| He said, I don't know. | ||
| If you don't know what the problem is, then you shouldn't be the Secretary of Labor. | ||
| You have Pete Buttigieg literally on Sunday calling it a success. | ||
| A success! | ||
| Let me pull up the story we got from TimCast.com. | ||
| Transportation Secretary Buttigieg says supply chain disruptions could continue into 2022. | ||
| So we just found out that apparently he was on a two-month leave. | ||
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No one knew. | |
| While the crisis is happening, we're wondering, like, how did this happen? | ||
| Well, the guy who's supposed to be running that isn't here, for one thing. | ||
| But actually, before the show, you brought up a really good point about this. | ||
| So I have a chapter in the book called Biden, Inc., and it talks about all the people that got confirmed and didn't that we don't know about. | ||
| And when I say that is frankly, I don't think Republicans did their job | ||
| during the confirmation process. | ||
| But check this out, Pete Buttigieg is 38 years old. | ||
| He was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana that has a hundred thousand people. | ||
| And do you know how many buses they have? | ||
| 66. | ||
| Million? | ||
| 66 million? | ||
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No, no, 66 buses. | |
| There's 66 buses in a city of, okay. | ||
| And that's who he chose to lead the airways, the railways, the seaports. | ||
| All of these things are being run by a guy that's 38 years old that oversaw 66 buses. | ||
| Let's be real. | ||
| Buttigieg dropped out through his support behind Biden and then he gave him a kickback. | ||
| But here's the kicker. | ||
| So when Biden, when he was confirmed, Right. | ||
| And I talk about this in the book, that the first thing Biden says is, I'm excited to have the most qualified guy. | ||
| No, he says, I'm excited to have the first openly gay cabinet member to lead a department. | ||
| And they said that because Grinnell had been DNI, but that's not the point. | ||
| The point is when Grinnell got hired, By Trump, it was because he was qualified, because he had the experience. | ||
| When Buttigieg got hired, it was because he checked a box, not because he was qualified. | ||
| I feel like, you know, I see Buttigieg, and they make that announcement, he's at the first gay department, and I'm like, wow, that's really cool. | ||
| Congratulations to Buttigieg on his family and his love and his children. | ||
| So what experience and work do you have? | ||
| Look, the social stuff aside, we can be like, that's nice. | ||
| I mean, that's why I think Biden doesn't care about his legacy. | ||
| He has a guy that's arguing with Tucker Carlson about male breastfeeding right now. | ||
| That's the argument happening right now. | ||
| Because to him, it's more important to say, I checked a box. | ||
| Who did I appoint? | ||
| Not what did I get done? | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| Real quick, Kamala Harris, she got zero delegates, right? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So he chooses her. | ||
| She's the least popular person. | ||
| Right, but what did he say? | ||
| Not that I want the best qualified VP that can step in and be president. | ||
| I want to have the first woman and I'm going to choose someone of color. | ||
| So he immediately says it's not about qualifications. | ||
| The other person that I really delve into, and there's a lot of them, but one of my favorites is Dennis McDonough. | ||
| He's the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, never served in the military, didn't work with veterans groups, and doesn't have anything to do with health care, right? | ||
| The only other person in the history of the United States that hasn't been a veteran that was secretary was David Shulkin, who had served in Obama. | ||
| Trump kept him. | ||
| He's a doctor. | ||
| He worked in the VA. | ||
| He understands health care, specifically veterans health care, right? | ||
| VA health care systems, how it's delivered, etc. | ||
| Denis McDonough had no experience except he had been Obama's chief of staff. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| But those are the kind of people that we're putting in place, and we wonder why we are where we are. | ||
| This is a point that I have made, because we are looking at a social justice, checking the box for demographics administration. | ||
| You're seeing it play out. | ||
| This is what's happening. | ||
| And to Luke's point, though, that this is their metric. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| If you're on the left, it's not, what did you get done? | ||
| It's how many boxes did you check? | ||
| How many firsts? | ||
| How many things did you, can we say that you did? | ||
| So that, you know, it's, it's how much critical race theory did you inject into the system? | ||
| How many of these, you know, uh, welfare programs did you start? | ||
| But it's all about being able to, to lay a marker down for the progressive left going forward. | ||
| It's a cult. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's what happens when you let an authority run the show all the time. | ||
| I think that's why this decentralized United States is so important and why the private sector is such a big part of our lifestyle, because you can't let some central organization pick all the pieces and parts every time, because eventually you're going to get some idiot that comes in. | ||
| But one of the points that I touch on in the book is this. | ||
| You have to understand what I call the why. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's a chapter in here about D.C. | ||
| and people have to understand this because this is so fundamental to what the Democrats believe. | ||
| The District of Columbia was created by our framers, a 10 square mile district. | ||
| They took a part from Virginia and a part from Maryland and created D.C. | ||
| When they no longer needed the part from Virginia, they gave it back. | ||
| I live in that part right now in Virginia that used to be the part of the district. | ||
| Well, now Democrats go around, they say, we want the people in D.C. | ||
| to have voting rights. | ||
| Oh, that sounds so American. | ||
| Everybody should be able to vote. | ||
| Great. | ||
| But my answer is, well, then give back the part in D.C. | ||
| to Maryland that's no longer being used because, gosh, we did that to Virginia. | ||
| We took it from Maryland. | ||
| Give back what's no longer needed. | ||
| It's already a state. | ||
| Problem solved. | ||
| But what do Democrats want to do? | ||
| They want to create a state among these few hundred thousand people. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because D.C. | ||
| votes 95-5 Democrat, meaning that you will have two more Democratic senators in perpetuity. | ||
| They like to talk about how, oh, these red states like Wyoming. | ||
| Delaware. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| You want to make— Delaware is microscopic. | ||
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Right. | |
| But the point is, is that the Democrats have an overarching goal, which is to maintain political power as long as they can so that they have a vehicle to push these policies through. | ||
| And once you understand that, that these people and these policies are all there for that same collective reason, then you get it. | ||
| And this is like the Great Reset using the American Democratic Party. | ||
| Sure, but they all get it. | ||
| The more people that are addicted to government, the more that they enact policies that ensure that they never are out. | ||
| You mentioned, you know, Biden basically hires these people with no experience. | ||
| Like I said, you know, Buttigieg is probably just, here's your kickback. | ||
| Thanks for throwing your weight behind us. | ||
| But I kind of feel like, you know, Donald Trump had some people who should not have been there under the assumption they'd experience. | ||
| I think he thought John Bolton was going to give him good advice, and that was a mistake. | ||
| I think he thought Millie was going to give him good advice, and that was a mistake. | ||
| So I wonder if Trump would have been better off with a bunch of randoms that didn't have experience in the long run. | ||
| Well, to some degree, we kind of started that way. | ||
| I mean, you think about it, Trump, look, if you go back looking through every other candidate in history, they were either a politician, a general, they had a group of people around them, especially in modern times. | ||
| If you're a governor or senator, you've got advisors and consultants and donors that can fill spots. | ||
| Trump was a businessman. | ||
| He wasn't a politician. | ||
| So he comes into office, he's like, hey, I'm going to grab that guy, that guy, that guy. | ||
| Some of them fit well, some of them didn't. But he had to go through that churn initially because | ||
| he didn't have a whole group of people that were part of his donors. But there were some people | ||
| that— Joe Biden has the entirety of the establishment behind him. This is the best | ||
| he could do. Right. But the difference is that he has the people. | ||
| He's putting them in the wrong places. | ||
| So it's not that Buttigieg is a dumb guy or couldn't do something in the administration. | ||
| It's that they put him in a place that he's not qualified. | ||
| Denis McDonough is not a bad guy. | ||
| He's a smart guy from everything I know, but he shouldn't be leading the Department of Veterans Affairs. | ||
| He could have been OMB or something. | ||
| He's got government experience. | ||
| Office of Management and Budget. | ||
| I mean, he was Obama's chief of staff. | ||
| He gets government. | ||
| He's not a dumb guy. | ||
| But the point isn't that they're not smart, it's that they're not qualified for the jobs they're in. | ||
| This is why I think, you know, Joe Biden's in charge. | ||
| You know, some people want to play it out like he's secretly not running the show, Kamala's... No, I think you've got a bunch of sycophants who are sitting around being like, sure thing, Joe, unqualified people. | ||
| And no one wants to challenge him. | ||
| The dude's out of his mind. | ||
| He probably mutters and spurts out gibberish. | ||
| We hear him say it on TV when he mutters off. | ||
| My favorite was when he was saying something and then he went, uh, whatever. | ||
| Just like, stop dead in his tracks. | ||
| And look, with all due respect, he's an old guy. | ||
| He's losing it. | ||
| But I genuinely believe he's sitting in these cabinet meetings and he's like, uh, Kamala, can you, uh, the border, uh, uh, uh, I'm going to go to bed. | ||
| And then she's like, I don't know what I'm doing. | ||
| What am I doing? | ||
| And then the media is like, where's Kamala Harris? | ||
| And she's like, I don't know what I'm doing. | ||
| I would disagree, especially when we look at what's been happening, because when you see the policies and who they directly affect, they affect middle America, people in the lower class that are absolutely being obliterated. | ||
| The billionaire class, they're getting richer than they ever have been in recorded human history. | ||
| There's a chart going around right now. | ||
| I mean, you can always ask, you know, who benefits? | ||
| I always ask that question. | ||
| But is that just because no one's on duty and so the looters are looting? | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| I think the looters are looting more than they ever have because of the policies that they're implementing that directly benefit them. | ||
| There's a new chart going around right now that says in the United States the top 1% now holds more money and more wealth than all of the middle class combined. | ||
| So when we were seeing such a huge transfer of wealth, when we were seeing the American people just thrown down the toilet, being mandated, being restricted, being regulated, being taxed more than ever, who do these policies directly benefit? | ||
| A lot of the multinational corporate billionaires that of course have financed him. | ||
| And I think he's too delusional. | ||
| I don't think he's there. | ||
| I think they're the ones saying, do this for us because we got you in there. | ||
| And he's like, yes, sir, whatever you want. | ||
| Here's this deal. | ||
| Here's this package. | ||
| Here's this contract. | ||
| Here's this new regulation. | ||
| Here's this new tax, which will make you win, which will give you money and screw everyone else over. | ||
| So I pulled up this chart from Business Insider and you can see that for the first time it appears, well not for the first time, but at least in the span of this chart, that the top 1% now surpassed the middle 60%. | ||
| I don't know if I agree on necessarily what Joe Biden is doing, but I will say that the establishment elites as a whole definitely want to create a class system where the poor working class never move up. | ||
| A limited upward mobility. | ||
| Basically just have ultra elites who are wealthy, will always be wealthy. | ||
| If you're rich and you're born rich, stay rich. | ||
| Why risk it? | ||
| Now for me, that's not a policy about someone caring about his legacy. | ||
| That's a policy of a sinking ship. | ||
| The ship's going down and we're going down with it very fast. | ||
| Look at the way China has been establishing their policies, their foreign policy, their domestic trading systems, their belt and road initiatives. | ||
| It's completely, 100%, 80 degrees different than what we're doing here in the United States. | ||
| Let's go back to the initial story, actually. | ||
| Aside from Buttigieg being unqualified, he's telling us right now the supply chain disruptions could continue into 2022. | ||
| So what does this mean for us as consumers? | ||
| What does it mean for the middle class, the working class, for people who want to put a Thanksgiving turkey on their table? | ||
| It's going to cost more. | ||
| If you can even get it. | ||
| But that's the point. | ||
| So look, let's just break it down. | ||
| If you can get it, it's probably going to cost more. | ||
| But secondly, when you're adding in additional labor costs, i.e. | ||
| say, okay, we're going to have to have workers work 24 hours. | ||
| Well, they're not working now, so what does that mean? | ||
| You're going to have to pay them more to show up just for the first eight hours. | ||
| Then to get them to work the other two shifts, you're going to have to pay even more. | ||
| You have to get more truckers. | ||
| So everything is going to, if you can get it, cost more money. | ||
| I don't understand how that's supposed to help the middle class. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's meant to destroy the middle class. | ||
| This is a deliberate attack on them and anyone else who is daring to even look up and see the exact situation that's happening right in front of them. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, I'm saying his name wrong. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| But he said that today the supply chain chaos is being exacerbated. | ||
| This crisis is happening because people are not getting vaccinated. | ||
| He says as soon as people get vaccinated all the supply ... chain problems will go away that that's lunacy that's insane ... thinking exactly and this is this is this is not just a ... cold to this is desperate people trying to hang on to any ... kind of fear-mongering that they think will work to convince ... the American people to lay down to give up their rights. | ||
| The global supply chain problems are big. | ||
| They're exacerbated by government, and they're only going to be made that much worse. | ||
| Even CNBC is admitting it. | ||
| They wrote an article today that was titled, Supply Chain Chaos Is Already Hitting Global Growth And It's About To Get Worse. | ||
| If you remember, you were talking about this. | ||
| I was talking about this. | ||
| For months on end saying, hey, there's going to be some major problems in the U.S. | ||
| economy. | ||
| I said this as soon as COVID happened. | ||
| I was like, this is going to be a larger economic wave that's going to hit this country that there's no going back from. | ||
| The wealth is being redistributed in ways that we have never seen before. | ||
| It's the 1%. | ||
| It's not even just the 1%. | ||
| It's beyond even 1%, especially when we go into the money printers, especially when we go into the billionaires that are enriching themselves more than they ever have been in the history of the world. | ||
| And I don't think this has anything to do about legacy. | ||
| I think this is deliberate. | ||
| I think there's a lot of agendas here, and I think there's a lot of things going that we don't even realize. | ||
| So this is what Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday, quote, demand is up because income is up. | ||
| Well, let's table that for a second. | ||
| Because the president has successfully guided this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying recession. | ||
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| What? | ||
| Are they judging? | ||
| Do they understand? | ||
| First they judge Afghanistan as success, now they're judging the economy. | ||
| I don't know if they understand what that word means. | ||
| You know what's amazing is that, you know you mentioned with like Jen Psaki or even when you were in the White House as the press secretary, like you're there to basically speak on behalf of someone who can't speak for themselves and if you're like, well the guy's a moron, you'll get fired in two seconds. | ||
| At a certain point, maybe people need to be a little bit more candid. | ||
| Like, you know, Buttigieg or Biden or Kamala. | ||
| Anybody could just be like, we get it. | ||
| We're going to try our best. | ||
| Instead, it's like, this is good news. | ||
| Inflation is great. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Like, I just, I took my son to see the Lego movie whenever it came out. | ||
| And I just remember everything being like, everything is okay. | ||
| This is like, they don't think that we see this. | ||
| When you go to the store and things cost more, or you go to fill up your car and it costs more, or you don't see something on a shelf, you don't go, Yes! | ||
| This is so great! | ||
| What was the Bloomberg article? | ||
| We need more inflation and we need it now. | ||
| I think that was the Washington Post. | ||
| Was it Washington Post? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And again, who does inflation impact the most? | ||
| The poorest people. | ||
| The middle class people. | ||
| But the thing that's funny about the supply chain argument is, again, I got a D in economics, just to get this out on the table. | ||
| So this is not my forte. | ||
| But here's what I will tell you. | ||
| When you tell people not to work and you pay them not to work, They don't work, and therefore you don't get a product. | ||
| And when you don't get a product, you can't ship the product. | ||
| And when you don't ship the product, you can't drive the product somewhere, and there's no one to drive it. | ||
| They created this problem. | ||
| They created it, and now they're trying to say, OK, it's no big deal. | ||
| The idea that they're out there saying, hey, this is going to continue into next year is not something that we should say, OK, good to know. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| I'll mark my calendar. | ||
| It's, hey, this is your problem. | ||
| Fix it. | ||
| I can only conclude they want it to happen. | ||
| I mean, if you go back to what Fauci was saying about lockdowns, oh, you know, we're going to be wearing masks and locking down for the next year into 2022 or whatever. | ||
| And then you get the supply chain disruptions. | ||
| What does Joe Biden do? | ||
| Open the ports 24-7. | ||
| Hey, guy, what about the trucks, the trains? | ||
| What about the lack of workers? | ||
| Nothing, nothing, nothing. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| And again, they think we're stupid. | ||
| Well, wait, wait, wait. | ||
| I think, I think they know people on this show are at the very least average. | ||
| I'm not going to sit here and pretend like we're the smartest people in the world, but we're certainly not stupid. | ||
| We get a lot of things wrong. | ||
| It's normal, but there are a lot of people who are dumb and blindly follow the norm. | ||
| It's more that they're ignorant. | ||
| Not necessarily their intelligence. | ||
| They might be highly intelligent, but they don't know. | ||
| This goes back to what we touched on not too long ago. | ||
| When you have a media that is complicit and is like, okay, we'll get that out right away. | ||
| You guys need to be selling this. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And you wake up and you hear things about how, you know, it's not, it's actually the boogeyman's fault. | ||
| Also Bigfoot has something to do with this. | ||
| I mean, that's what we're being told. | ||
| Man, I look at the history of the U.S. | ||
| government and lying to the people about secret operations and the weapons of mass this and this and the Cuban that and like Kennedy tried to speak out against it and then I don't... I can't... I can understand classified information. | ||
| I can understand the government lying about certain military operations. | ||
| I can understand if they came out... Yeah, exactly. | ||
| Certain ones. | ||
| Certain ones. | ||
| But then you look at, say, like the Gulf of Tonkin. | ||
| But I mean, it is just... It's so blatant, what they're doing right now, how it's like you print $28 trillion and then tell us... | ||
| That everything's going to be fine? | ||
| That's what they did before the Great Depression. | ||
| They tried to tell everyone everything's going to be fine. | ||
| The other day, we're going up against a potential debt crisis, okay? | ||
| And one of the ideas they flowed out there is, what if we just make a coin and call it $3 trillion? | ||
| Yes, that was amazing. | ||
| I'm literally like, I didn't know we could do that! | ||
| Like, you just go, you know what we need to do? | ||
| Is make a coin in the amount of money we owe, and we'll just say that we don't owe any! | ||
| It's the Simpsons episode! | ||
| When they have the trillion dollar bill, and then Mr. Burns and Homer steal it. | ||
| A trillion dollars? | ||
| I can't believe it. | ||
| I'm not convinced we live in reality. | ||
| Maybe that's where they got the idea. | ||
| I think that's probably it. | ||
| You want to throw this out there. | ||
| I saw The Simpsons last night and one idea we should consider. | ||
| I'm imagining they're sitting there and they're like, what do we do? | ||
| And there's a guy watching Simpsons on his phone and he sees Mr. Burns and the trillion dollar bill and he goes, hey, hey. | ||
| Can we do that? | ||
| That's great. | ||
| We can do anything. | ||
| We're the government. | ||
| You see us, I don't know if everyone at home, we're at this big long table, right? | ||
| And I imagine something like the Treasury Department, and they're like, you on the back wall, do you have your hand up? | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| Every idea's on the table. | ||
| Sir, last night, I'm watching The Simpsons, and Bart and Homer come up with this idea. | ||
| And the guy's like, keep going, keep going. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| I like where you're going with this. | ||
| And he's like, that's literally what seems to be happening. | ||
| There has to be, like, you know, he raises his hand, and he's like, no ideas off the table. | ||
| And he says, well, you know, I was watching The Simpsons yesterday. | ||
| And then some snooty guy says, excuse me, what are you? | ||
| And then the judge goes, let him speak. | ||
| Yeah, let him speak. | ||
| He's on to something. | ||
| Finish your idea, son. | ||
| And it's like, what if we mint a trillion dollar coin? | ||
| And he's like, by Jove, it might work. | ||
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And they all start clapping. | |
| But we're going to need more. | ||
| Two trillion dollar coin. | ||
| And the guy, by the way, just to cap it off, the guy who said it was a stupid idea is already like, well, whose face will it go on? | ||
| I can't believe I remember seeing the media running that story like we could mint a trillion dollar coin it's and it's like oh my god we don't live in there's nothing's real it's just the government's like we have a trillion dollars debt solved is it that much crazier what's happening right now with the government just literally printing zeros and and it just Pressing it on a computer button? | ||
| Yeah, just on a computer, just sending out loans. | ||
| They're doing it anyway, they might as well make a coin celebrating it. | ||
| I know, it's true. | ||
| I mean, you think about the idea that we're spending, we spent, what, 5.4 trillion last year. | ||
| We're now talking about a 1.2 and then a 3.5 trillion. | ||
| And nobody, like, the idea is, well, you know what, all right, what if we get it down to 2.2 or something? | ||
| It's like, no, this is insane! | ||
| And we're negotiating with crazy people I hope people are paying attention, man. | ||
| Look, I'm not going to give anybody any financial advice, but, you know, we're trying to make sure that whatever it is we think we're going to need for the expansion of this company, like recording equipment or stuff, we're getting now. | ||
| I told this story months ago. | ||
| I'm on Amazon. | ||
| I'm like, we need a tablet for, you know, for like work, for signing forms. | ||
| people come here we have signed stuff and so I go on Amazon and I'm like | ||
| tablet I click it and it goes into my cart on Amazon I don't like using | ||
| Amazon I try to avoid it when I can but I digress I forgot about it I didn't buy | ||
| it the next day I open up Amazon it says alert price change in your cart it went | ||
| up like a couple hundred bucks because the economy is is in demand. I mean, we've got supply chain crunch, we've | ||
| got economic collapse in a variety of industries and areas. There's a shortage of basically | ||
| everything in chips. And then I saw the price went up and I was like, wow, I should have bought | ||
| that yesterday. This is the stuff that it's going to happen. People don't understand it. When the | ||
| ports are blocked. | ||
| But this gets back to what Luke was saying. Who do you think that affects? | ||
| You have done very well. | ||
| You can afford that. | ||
| For the guy or mom or dad who's out there whose kid needs it for going back to school or something, or they need it for their smoke, they can't absorb that cost. | ||
| Imagine this. | ||
| You're working, you're making 20 bucks an hour and you're like, I only got to work one more week to save up for that new, you know, whatever I need. | ||
| My guitar, you know, I'm going to write songs and I'm going to get out of this dead-end job. | ||
| And then you're like, I finally saved up a couple grand and you go back online and now it's three grand. | ||
| And you're like, but I saved up. | ||
| Or you get in a car accident and you can't afford insurance. | ||
| Or you get sick and you go to, you know, a hospital that's corrupted and will rob you blind for even basic medical procedures. | ||
| And you know what bothers me? | ||
| Is that I think the populace right and left can agree on all of those problems. | ||
| The problem is that I have with the leftists, not the establishment Democrats, is that they see that and go, I know! | ||
| Socialism! | ||
| More of the same government policies. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Give the government absolute authority over the economy and that'll solve the problem created by the government in the first place. | ||
| And I'm like, okay, I'm not here to say a private sector solution guarantees the proper outcome. | ||
| I'm saying... | ||
| If it's broken, don't make it bigger. | ||
| Or better off, make people buy private health insurance. | ||
| That's going to solve everything. | ||
| It's absolutely insane. | ||
| The problem I have is, you know, having worked at a homeless shelter and understanding, at least to a certain degree, the problem of homelessness, is that when I go down and I see a homeless person, and they're like, I would like to be homeless, and I'm like, Would you like not to be homeless? | ||
| No, I'm gonna stay here. | ||
| Would you come with us for a shower, clean clothes? | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| Get out of my face. | ||
| And that's what you experience a lot with homeless people. | ||
| But the left comes out and says, there are more empty homes than homeless. | ||
| The only reason the problem isn't solved is because evil rich people. | ||
| And I'm like, have you met a homeless person? | ||
| Have you ever done any work trying to help them actually go out and provide food and shelter opportunities? | ||
| I tell you this man, I have. | ||
| And many of these people just say, F you. | ||
| Not all of them. | ||
| There are some people who are homeless who are like, thank you so much for the help. | ||
| And that makes you feel great. | ||
| But the solution we often get from populist leftists is this very naive, hey, I know, if there's an empty house and a person without a house, we'll put him in the house. | ||
| And then you're like, hey, who will pay for the utilities? | ||
| Who will stop the house from falling down? | ||
| Who will repair the gutters? | ||
| Who's gonna do the regular lawn maintenance? | ||
| You can't just do this. | ||
| These things have to be built and maintained so we can recognize the same problems. | ||
| But how do we actually get people to stop screaming Nazi and actually want to work on solutions? | ||
| Look, I think this is the point that I was making earlier about the power. | ||
| They recognize that the more that they trap people in government That's how they exist, right? | ||
| The more people become free from government, that make their own way, that live their own lives, that aren't dependent on government, the less need you have for the left and for Democrats. | ||
| And that's the problem, is they fundamentally need you to basically be addicted to government to continue. | ||
| And that's the problem. | ||
| Well, it's also politicians passing the bill, whether it's Obama, whether it's Bush, whether it's Trump, whether it's Biden. | ||
| They always write checks that they can't pay for. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And we have to understand that this is not just a liberal problem, a Democratic problem. | ||
| I mean, when you look at what Bush and Trump did as far as spending, I mean, you want to pull your hair out because they exacerbated this problem. | ||
| And the problem is just continued and only made worse by the Democrats. | ||
| So to see this kind of reckless spending... If we weren't in a situation where we had low interest rates right now, I think people would really appreciate or feel the impacts of what this spending means to us. | ||
| I mean because right now the interest on the debt is at least somewhat manageable. | ||
| The second interest rates go back up and it really impacts our ability to not do things. | ||
| And I actually worry. | ||
| My big thing is I think that China is staring us in the face. | ||
| I don't think people appreciate that these guys are playing the long game. | ||
| Their military buildup and everything else economically they're doing. | ||
| Yeah, and they're also writing blank checks as well with their Belt and Road Initiative. | ||
| They're buying up all of Africa. | ||
| They're buying up Latin America. | ||
| They're buying up factories. | ||
| They're buying up resources. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| We're literally giving all of our money to Pfizer. | ||
| We're literally giving all of our money to Lockheed Martin. | ||
| And what are they doing? | ||
| They're getting they're getting paychecks for screwing ... us over in Afghanistan for giving us medicines that go ... from 80 per 88% effective C to 3% effective C in 5 months and ... those the people getting the government contracts those are ... the people getting blank checks with no infrastructure ... no resources nothing to show for it except corruption that ... goes both ways Democrat and Republicans are responsible ... for it and I think even if Republicans doing and I agree ... with I agree with your point Sean they're not going to do anything. | ||
| Do you know what the most interesting thing that I thought happened over the past couple weeks that didn't get a lot of attention is, and this sounds very Inside the Beltway, so I'll preface it with that. | ||
| The House Republicans kicked the U.S. | ||
| Chamber off of their coalition calls. | ||
| And they basically said, we don't need you anymore. | ||
| To me, and I know a lot of people are sitting there saying, OK, what's the big deal or what? | ||
| But they recognize that for the first time, the party is shifting a little bit to represent the workers, not the leaders. | ||
| It's not about representing the corporations anymore, but the workers. | ||
| And there's been this dynamic shift in politics where the Democrats used to represent union workers and men and women who were blue collars and worked with their hands. | ||
| And now the Republican Party, because largely Donald Trump refocused them, have now recognized that's who their constituency is. | ||
| Those are the people that need to get taken care of and listened to and are overlooked, not the big corporations who are there to pay lip service to a lot of this stuff and at the end of the day take everything they can from Republicans and then support Democrats. | ||
| Trump really broke that system, man. | ||
| Oh, crushed it? | ||
| Yeah, the Republican was this corporate party. | ||
| The Democrats were supposed to be like for union working guys. | ||
| And then in 2016, you know, 2015 started to change things with Bernie and Trump. | ||
| I remember that Vox article saying the Democrats had become the party of the ultra wealthy. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, they were fleeing the Republican Party. | ||
| Then you ended up with a bunch of populist, nationalist, you know, conservatives. | ||
| More like Steve Bannon, more like Trump. | ||
| And all of a sudden, where do the establishment corporatists go? | ||
| The Lincoln Project. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's just, it's, the Uniparty has been jammed into one weird mash. | ||
| And it's just blatantly obvious for everyone to see. | ||
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Yeah, absolutely. | |
| If you're not paying attention, you'll be fooled by this WWE-style wrestling match in front of you. | ||
| But at the end of the day, I think the same special interests, the same billionaires that are getting more money than ever, are the ones buying out the Republicans, buying out the Democrats. | ||
| And that's why we're not going to see any difference when the Republicans take back Congress and the Senate. | ||
| It's not going to mean anything, because we're not going to see anything from it. | ||
| Listen, here's the thing that I think For so long, I'm not a supporter of term limits. | ||
| I believe that at the end of the day, you have to be held accountable for your decisions, right? | ||
| What Trump showed us is that leadership does matter. | ||
| One of the coolest things about working for him was that he just wanted it done. | ||
| It wasn't like, hey, how many PowerPoint presentations have you guys put together and how many meetings? | ||
| Can you do it? | ||
| Will it work? | ||
| Will it make things better? | ||
| Full stop, get it done. | ||
| And I think what's happened is people have recognized that that's now the new litmus | ||
| test. | ||
| If you're sitting around giving a bunch of lip service to why a problem can't be handled, | ||
| then you're going to be replaced. | ||
| And I think that if they don't get it, then they'll be... | ||
| I'm actually at the point where I'm just saying, get out of the way. | ||
| Let me build the Fediverse. | ||
| actually going to get done. But I think people are now saying if you don't do it, get out of the way because there's | ||
| going to be somebody behind you that will primary you and get it done. | ||
| I'm already there. I'm actually at the point where I'm just saying get out of the way. Let me build the Fediverse. Let | ||
| me build crypto currencies because the these politicians are it's a joke what they've done over the last 20 years of | ||
| my life. | ||
| That's excellent. | ||
| That's a good way to see it. | ||
| Just start doing the work. | ||
| I want to ask you, we talked about 2022. | ||
| What about 2024? | ||
| Do you think Trump is going to run? | ||
| Do you think DeSantis is going to run? | ||
| Today, I believe that Donald Trump is running for president. | ||
| I have talked to him a few times. | ||
| He has not tipped his hand, but everything that he says and how he says it and what he cares about, like, he's in. | ||
| Could it change? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| But I do think if Trump runs, no one of significant runs against him. | ||
| There is, it's just, I mean, and if that they want to, they can, but he will crush them. | ||
| If you look at the system, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, by the time they get to Super Tuesday, it'll be over. | ||
| But if he doesn't run, I keep hearing people say he should play like this elder statesman. | ||
| That's not Trump. | ||
| He's not the elder statesman. | ||
| That's not the role he wants to play. | ||
| He wants to be in charge and get things done or not in. | ||
| And I think he's going to do it. | ||
| He needs to be the guy who grabs the other person's microphone and goes, excuse me, excuse me, no, listen, as opposed to the waiting to be respected. | ||
| That's what people like about him taking charge. | ||
| I don't see a role where he says, hey, let me be the behind the scenes guy. | ||
| That's not who Trump is. | ||
| What about DeSantis? | ||
| I think if Trump doesn't run, there's no question in my mind, DeSantis is the immediate front-runner. | ||
| He's sort of the next version of Trump. | ||
| He's younger. | ||
| I think he's better with the media. | ||
| He's better with the media. | ||
| I think he's handled a lot of cultural issues very, very well. | ||
| We'll have to see his policy positions. | ||
| I think, you know, one of the things that really sold me on just being like, I'm going to vote for Trump, school choice was big. | ||
| I really am a big fan of that. | ||
| Ending the war in Afghanistan was big. | ||
| Of course, Biden kind of ruined all that. | ||
| But I would honestly, just right now, based on a very preliminary view, I'd prefer DeSantis over Trump. | ||
| I didn't vote for Trump in 2016. | ||
| I'm not a fan of the character. | ||
| I understand why people are. | ||
| But I will say, I suppose, if it is Trump, I'd probably vote for him again. | ||
| Well, look, I mean, here's the reality. | ||
| I mean, just from a political sense, if he runs, he's the nominee. | ||
| I mean, it's just— Maybe. | ||
| I think DeSantis is going to give him a fair running because— First of all, DeSantis—but I don't think, A, DeSantis runs against him, number one. | ||
| Number two, again, if you look at the early states—and again, part of this comes down to how the game is played in terms of how do you accumulate the 1,500-plus delegates needed to be the nominee. | ||
| And right now, the system and the grassroots and everything favors Trump. | ||
| So, if he runs, he is the nominee. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| And if he doesn't run, I think DeSantis is the presumed frontrunner. | ||
| There's some others. | ||
| Things happen. | ||
| Barack Obama, you know, wasn't—I mean, he was a state senator four years out. | ||
| Trump was still on TV. | ||
| I mean, like, there's enough time that somebody can emerge. | ||
| But I would say, looking at the field today, DeSantis is the presumed frontrunner if Trump doesn't run. | ||
| Who would you prefer? | ||
| Probably Trump, I'd imagine. | ||
| I think, look, from a selfish standpoint, Trump—but I don't—I actually like DeSantis. | ||
| I like how he's governed. | ||
| I like how he pushes back on the media. | ||
| I like how he—look, one of the things that I thought was so great is during COVID, when he was getting all the flack at the beginning for how he's handling it, he stuck to his guns. | ||
| He said this is the right thing to do, and he didn't bow to public pressure and polls. | ||
| And I like that. | ||
| I'm so tired of watching someone pick their finger in the air and saying, hey, what's the right decision? | ||
| I think DeSantis has core values that I may not agree with every time, but I know he actually believes them and he means it and he'll fight for them. | ||
| What if it's Trump-DeSantis? | ||
| Well, I can't imagine a scenario where DeSantis agrees to be the VP. | ||
| Yeah, he's on track to be president. | ||
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Right. | |
| And he also, two guys that are chief executives like that don't, I mean, you don't want to play second fiddle. | ||
| Trump is always going to be the alpha dog. | ||
| And so he needs somebody who plays that role well. | ||
| And after, in 2028, you know, DeSantis very well could come in. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| I mean, that's the end of the fourth turning. | ||
| But again, if you think about it, every time that you try to game the system, politically speaking, And say, okay, well, in five years I'll be there. | ||
| It doesn't work. | ||
| I mean, you either run when you think you should run or you don't. | ||
| But I just don't see a way that you could overcome Trump's political advantages in the system. | ||
| People are saying Ron Paul 2024 in the comment section. | ||
| And a lot of people are saying Brandon 2024 in the comment section as well. | ||
| I think Brandon would be a good running mate. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Trump-Brandon. | ||
| Trump-Brandon. | ||
| It's like literally not a person. | ||
| It's just the sentiment people are voting for. | ||
| I agree with it. | ||
| I'll just fund that alone. | ||
| I'll vote for it. | ||
| If people know the meme, Well, if you don't, I think most of the people who listen to this do get it. | ||
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Oh, definitely. | |
| Yeah, I do get a kick out of the fact—I mean, that goes back to the point that we were talking about the media. | ||
| I always think it's funny when you expose the stuff, the idea that that reporter stood there. | ||
| I mean, I was just like, it didn't rhyme. | ||
| It's not like Biden rhymes with Brandon. | ||
| I mean, like, how do you come up with that? | ||
| But it just shows you how complicit these guys are that no matter what they said, they were just like, well, they're congratulating you, Brandon. | ||
| When I went on your show, it was actually really funny because when you played the clip, you hear Beep Joe Biden, beep Joe. | ||
| So it's like the bleeps. | ||
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Right. | |
| And then I was just funny trying to hear it and you guys are bleeping it. | ||
| And it was so obvious that the bleeps are every like second. | ||
| And this lady's like, let's go, Brandon. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| I mean, again, that goes back to my, it's, it's, it's, it's raining outside and yet you're being told it's sunny. | ||
| It's like, how do you possibly get, let's go Brandon out of F Joe Biden? | ||
| I mean, I I'm sorry. | ||
| I don't know if there's some kind of Latin etymology, etymology. | ||
| You go back in time. | ||
| You're like, well, if you decline the verb, do you have, that's the flag you need, Luke. | ||
| Let's go, Brandon. | ||
| I already ordered one. | ||
| It's on its way. | ||
| And I already had a t-shirt and it's the bestseller on the store right now. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yup. | ||
| The let's go Brandon shirt. | ||
| Uh, but ours is a little bit more explicit cause it says let's go Brandon in big words, but it has a, The alternate definition. | ||
| It has the alternate definition as its shade, as its shadow. | ||
| So I will say, you know, as a segue off of this, the two things that are fascinating | ||
| politics to me right now, just in terms of someone who's been studying this for a long | ||
| time, are one, when you look at these Trump rallies, you got a guy who's not running for | ||
| office on like Saturday nights, jam packing the Alabama one. | ||
| I don't know what the attendance was in Iowa or Georgia, but tens of thousands of people | ||
| who are spending their Saturday night going out and seeing a guy that's not running for | ||
| office. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| On the exact opposite, I'm watching these football games, rallies, et cetera, where | ||
| people are yelling, F Joe Biden. | ||
| I mean, I've never seen either reaction in modern history where you've got a group of people going out to support a non-candidate, in this case Trump, because they believe in him and the movement, and people at public events yelling political things in a huge stadium. | ||
| And it's not like, you know how sometimes you can hear a faint chant? | ||
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I mean, this is something that's overtaken the entire football stadium. | |
| I got this image on Instagram. | ||
| I tagged it, let's go Brandon. | ||
| And the reason I did is because we all know what it means. | ||
| I went to a restaurant this past weekend, and there were two signs in the window. | ||
| The first says, Dear Valued Customer, Due to COVID-19, our food suppliers have sharply increased the price of our food. | ||
| Regrettably, we are forced to raise our prices for the first time in seven years. | ||
| Thank you for your patience and understanding as we face these difficult times. | ||
| And the sign next to it says, now hiring. | ||
| The funny thing is, they put COVID-19 in red letters on their sign, and I'm like, it should read, thanks to Joe Biden. | ||
| And both signs should say, thanks to Joe Biden. | ||
| These are his policies. | ||
| We're in his presidency. | ||
| It is Buttigieg, it is his appointees. | ||
| This is one of the reasons Let's Go Brandon is at public sporting events. | ||
| I put Let's Go Brandon on this. | ||
| I put it on Twitter. | ||
| I got over a thousand retweets. | ||
| People understand the problems. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Maybe not everybody, but enough people are seeing this and they're recognizing. | ||
| So I think Let's Go Brandon is the perfect phrase for these times because it allows you to convey an idea wrapped in, you know, kind of a little, a little, a little nice friendly package. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's clean. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's a very dirty phrase. | ||
| Let's go, Brandon. | ||
| It's like a real life meme, but everyone knows exactly what you're saying. | ||
| You know what I feel bad for, though, by the way? | ||
| I don't know if I should feel bad, but it's like people who are named Karen, you know? | ||
| And I'm like, you wake up one day and you're like, how did I become a bad person? | ||
| And now you're like, there's a bunch of dudes named Brandon that are walking around like, hey, life is good. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Let's go, Brandon. | ||
| No, Sean, I really... I'm dying to ask you a question. | ||
| I hope that's okay. | ||
| Well, thanks for coming by tonight. | ||
| Catch you later. | ||
| Now, as you know, press secretaries kind of sell stuff. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What was something that the administration came to you with, trying to sell, that you were like, Oh my God, no. | ||
| Is there anything that was like, Oh crap, do I have to do this? | ||
| I know there's some people... Oh, there's a couple of handbags at Ivanka. | ||
| No, I'm just kidding. | ||
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I know there's some people talking about... Can you just squeeze in these handbags to one of your answers? | |
| There's some people talking about inauguration, there's some people talking about the Syria strike, about those comments that you made before. | ||
| Well, I mean, there were things that we sold, I remember early on, like the travel ban. | ||
| I think we... how we sold that was... | ||
| Horrible, I mean in terms of like we didn't have our act together We didn't have the full list of countries and the method I so there were things that we tried to sell that frankly I just don't think we did well because we were new and we didn't have all of our ducks lined up in a row But there wasn't anything that was like, oh my god, I can't do this It was more like if we're gonna do it We've got to have everything lined up ready to go and and that happened more often than not I think one of the things that I was proud to have started and then I left is that After we kind of blew healthcare, I remember one day walking into the Roosevelt Room, Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time, I looked at him and said, OK, where are the groups on us? | ||
| They're getting ready to do all this repeal Obamacare. | ||
| And he's like, well, which groups? | ||
| I'm like, I don't know, the AMA, the doctors. | ||
| He's like, yeah, no, no one's with us. | ||
| And I was like, okay, this is a problem. | ||
| So when we knew that tax reform was coming up next in the queue, I literally was like, we're having a meeting every day, we're sitting down, we're lining up our top folks, and we're gonna do this right. | ||
| But out of the gate, look, it was exciting and different and new, but we definitely made a fair share. | ||
| Because I can imagine, it's definitely not an easy job. | ||
| And for me personally, I'd be like, okay, I gotta sell this. | ||
| Well, first of all, this goes back to what we said a moment ago. | ||
| You're a spokesperson. | ||
| No one's sitting there saying, Hey, before you go out, do you agree with this? | ||
| This is your job. | ||
| It's your analogy about being a sales rep. | ||
| I don't want to sell this. | ||
| Well, first of all, this goes back to what we said a moment ago. | ||
| Tim was bringing this up. | ||
| I mean, you're a spokesperson. | ||
| So I mean, no one's sitting there saying, Hey, before you go out, do you agree with | ||
| this? | ||
| This is your job. | ||
| It's your analogy about being a sales rep. | ||
| Maybe there's some products that you don't want to necessarily... | ||
| Here's one of the things I was bringing up earlier. | ||
| I'll mention this passively. | ||
| One of the famous instances that you were criticized for was Trump's inauguration. | ||
| with but that's you either quit at some point or you suck it up. | ||
| Here's one of the things I was bringing up earlier. | ||
| I'll mention this passively. | ||
| One of the famous instances that you were criticized for was Trump's inauguration. | ||
| I've heard that. | ||
| The claims versus the largest audience ever. | ||
| It was a three-day weekend. | ||
| and say, oh yeah, there are definitely things I didn't agree with, and try and give at least | ||
| a more honest view of what the job was like, and then the media's going to run, Sean Spicer | ||
| admits to being a liar. | ||
| Right. | ||
| They'll never go after Psaki that way. | ||
| No. | ||
| And the fact of the matter is, look, I've said this from the beginning. | ||
| It was a three-day weekend. | ||
| We wake up after the president takes this historic, you know, gets inaugurated, this | ||
| historic comeback campaign and wins, and we wake up and this is what they're talking about. | ||
| And so we're trying to cobble together basically a case that says, this is stupid. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| Think about what we're doing right now. | ||
| Live streaming a show with tens of thousands of people, right? | ||
| That didn't exist when Obama was president. | ||
| So I was like, okay, we've got people that were live streaming things on Twitter and people that were... That's the context they want to include. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So my point was, how do I basically make the case that this is a silly argument And a lot of people did. | ||
| They were excited about President Trump. | ||
| I know from my own family that there were security issues getting to the mall because of increased issues and routes and all this stuff. | ||
| So I'm trying to make the case, and everyone's like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. | ||
| But this is a very important thing people need to understand in any election. | ||
| D.C. | ||
| Overwhelmingly Democrat. | ||
| Democrat wins, people walk out their front door and they're standing there. | ||
| Rural areas vote for a president, they're not flying 2,000 miles to make it to D.C. | ||
| Some did. | ||
| When it comes to voting, for instance, and I'll say this passively, I don't want to derail the conversation, but with mail-in voting, why is it so powerful for Democrats? | ||
| Because they have one apartment complex with 1,000 voters in it. | ||
| They can knock on all those doors in a day. | ||
| A conservative has to go to rural areas and drive miles between houses in some instances. | ||
| But also, I mean, yeah, or they go to a union hall where everybody's there. | ||
| They fill it out right now. | ||
| That doesn't happen. | ||
| I mean, it's just not the same. | ||
| So when I saw this, I remember seeing the story, and I didn't care about it. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| I'm like, oh, did he mean live streaming or something? | ||
| I'm not going to get into an argument about a spokesperson upselling the president, even if it wasn't the case. | ||
| Same thing with Psaki. | ||
| I want to make sure this is clear, because now I'm getting all the leftists being like, oh, he's just chilling. | ||
| No, I said the same thing of Psaki. | ||
| I don't blame Psaki for not getting asked by journalists. | ||
| But I will just say this, just to be clear. | ||
| I think we could have done a better job. | ||
| And just so everyone understands, the president, I get back from the briefing room, the phone rings, the White House operator's like, the president's on the phone, and he said some things that cannot be repeated. | ||
| That's what I wanted. | ||
| He's like, what were you doing? | ||
| And I thought, okay, hey, you want me to go out and explain to people that this is ridiculous? | ||
| That's not what he wanted. | ||
| He was pissed. | ||
| That's what I wanted. | ||
| That's what I was really interested in. | ||
| And I do have to admit, the way that they treated you and the way that they're treating Saki, night and day, total difference. | ||
| And it's just absolutely crazy to see the questions they ask you and the questions they ask her. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| One of my favorite memes is, stop making me defend Trump. | ||
| There's this comedian who did a video where he's in the workplace and there's two guys saying something ridiculous about Trump. | ||
| And he hears it and he goes, guys, that's not true. | ||
| Trump didn't do that. | ||
| And they go, What are you, far right? | ||
| He's like, no, no, I just said something that wasn't true. | ||
| And so he's like, every time he defends Trump, like, why are you defending Trump? | ||
| And he's like, because you're wrong! | ||
| Cheryl Atkinson came on my show, I don't know, six months ago or something. | ||
| She mentioned this book that had come out. | ||
| There's a professor at the University of Houston. | ||
| He's a journalism professor. | ||
| And he makes clear, first thing he says in the book is, I voted for and supported Bernie Sanders, so by no means do I support Donald Trump in any way. | ||
| But he goes through every single one of the media narratives that Trump is accused of. | ||
| You know, there's some good people on both sides, this, that. | ||
| I mean, all those things that Trump has supposedly said. | ||
| And he says, here's exactly the transcript of what he says. | ||
| Here's the context in which he said it. | ||
| And it's like, this guy literally breaks down every one of these things and makes it clear, I don't like him, but it's what you're saying to him. | ||
| He's like, I just want to be clear what the truth is about what he did say, not what CNN's headline was. | ||
| And it's just amazing. | ||
| I didn't realize some of this stuff. | ||
| There are things that Trump said that I just assumed, okay, I assumed that he didn't really mean that or whatever. | ||
| But then you go back and you read it and you go, he actually didn't say what the, what the CNNs and the Washington Post and the world said. | ||
| A very fine people hoax. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's, it's, it's amazing how you can have him say, they should be condemned totally, completely omitted from, from the record. | ||
| Any other transcript. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I loved the fact of actually stopping and saying, And, you know, not to make it personal, but there were so many of these things that happened to me. | ||
| There's one that became really famous, where it's like, Spicer hides in the bushes. | ||
| There's no bushes to hide in! | ||
| I mean, like, I don't mean to be a jerk. | ||
| And so I'm arguing with the Washington Post editor the day after that story comes out, right? | ||
| And he goes, OK, all right, we're going to say that you were near bushes. | ||
| And I'm like, I have a picture! | ||
| Everything that happened was on camera. | ||
| So I finished a TV hit and I walked over to where the media was. | ||
| There's a row of hedges that you have to walk by. | ||
| And so the Washington Post is like, all right, we'll change it to you are near bushes. | ||
| What does that have to do with anything except for an attempt to try to undermine and demean the president? | ||
| It's the game they play. | ||
| I once had a story written about me that was actually meant to be favorable. | ||
| And I get a call from a fact checker, it was the New Yorker that did this. | ||
| And it was this crazy story about me and my buddy, hackers and journalism. | ||
| And so the fact checker goes, so it says here in the story that you live in a closet. | ||
| And I said, no, I don't live in a closet. | ||
| So you're denying it. | ||
| But no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| It's like a closet, right? | ||
| And I was like, no, it's a full bedroom with a window. | ||
| Yay! | ||
| But like, you have to go through someone's apartment, like someone's room to get into it. | ||
| And I said, have you ever lived in New York? | ||
| New York has something called railroad apartments. | ||
| Have you ever seen those? | ||
| Where you have a living room, bedroom, bedroom, bedroom. | ||
| They're connected because of the way the buildings were built. | ||
| And I said, this one isn't technically a railroad. | ||
| When you walk in the living room, there is a room, but there's another room attached to it separate. | ||
| And he goes, right, right. | ||
| Like a closet. | ||
| And I went, right, like a closet. | ||
| And then they wrote, Tim Pool sleeps in a closet. | ||
| But that's, it's again, how do we want it? | ||
| They have to, they pick a narrative. | ||
| My friend made spaghetti with white sauce, took like alfredo and olive oil with rosemary and garlic and whipped it up. | ||
| Really? | ||
| And the journalist is like, so you're eating sauceless spaghetti noodles? | ||
| And he goes, well, I made a white sauce, I'm Italian. | ||
| And they're like, yeah, but like not marinara, not like a red sauce. | ||
| And he's like, yeah, but I made like an alfredo, like a white sauce. | ||
| I'm like, you know what I mean? | ||
| But like not tomato sauce. | ||
| And he goes, Right, no sauce. | ||
| Would you just give up at that point? | ||
| Because you know they're going to justify righting wrongs. | ||
| Yes, you're right, I suck. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| And then they ended up writing this ridiculous story about us. | ||
| But the funny thing is, a guy from GQ saw it, believed it, and was like, I want to do a feature profile on this, and then showed up and was like, none of it was true. | ||
| I'm like, yes, here's my bedroom with my window and my bed. | ||
| It's amazing, though, but once they write one thing like that, then it justifies every other reporter from using that as a fact as if it's gospel, right? | ||
| Because, well, it was written once before, therefore it must be. | ||
| And that's the problem. | ||
| And, you know, I've mentioned this before, but there are literally two chapters in the book that go through the media and how complicit they are and what they do to cover up for this. | ||
| Because it's not always what they write, it's what they don't write. | ||
| Man, journalists, at least in this beautiful, idealized world, were the fierce, independent folks challenging the establishment, holding the powerful to account, when in reality, they're literally just working for those people to sell products. | ||
| By the way, I'm watching the comments and one of the guys says, fact checkers. | ||
| And I'm like, you want to talk about, like, if you go to school and you're in high school and you literally have no skills, the guidance counselor at one point comes up to you and says like, Have you thought about becoming a fact checker? | ||
| Like, I think that's what happens, because these folks, literally, when I left the White House, I had all these anecdotes. | ||
| And at one point, Mike Pence had given this speech about how many people were out of work. | ||
| And let's just say, hypothetically, the number's like 1,000 people were out of work. | ||
| And the Washington Post gave it four Pinocchios, because it lacked the context that, well, 1,000 people were out of work, the population had grown, therefore, and I'm like, No, no, all he said was this is how many people are out of work, but they deemed it 100% false because it lacked the context. | ||
| And I'm like, that's not how people talk. | ||
| That's how the game is played. | ||
| My favorite is when Bernie Sanders and Trump both gave the exact same stat, something about inner city kids not having jobs. | ||
| And PolitiFact said Bernie was mostly true and Trump was mostly false, because what do either of those statements mean? | ||
| Mostly true, mostly false. | ||
| The point was the exact same. | ||
| Trump said, you know, 51% are out of work. | ||
| Bernie said the same thing. | ||
| They said Trump was lying. | ||
| Bernie wasn't. | ||
| Well, again, you've got to. | ||
| That's how it works. | ||
| Let's go to Super Chats. | ||
| Let's read some of the audience questions. | ||
| If you haven't already, smash that like button. | ||
| Get your Super Chats in. | ||
| We'll read as many as we can. | ||
| But we'll try to focus on getting them some good questions through. | ||
| I'll see what we can get. | ||
| Alright, let's see. | ||
| Luke Jacek says, wanted to comment on your segment on Chappelle. | ||
| If people are offended by that, I recommend the well-known family-friendly movie Blazing Saddles. | ||
| Great movie. | ||
| Excellent. | ||
| I bought one when they started banning all those movies. | ||
| I was like, I want to have a copy of this, you know, just because you never know. | ||
| I wasn't allowed to watch R-rated movies growing up, but that was one my dad said I could watch. | ||
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It's important. | |
| All right. | ||
| We got a good question. | ||
| Sorry, I don't want to interrupt. | ||
| No, you're just picking it up, baby. | ||
| No, I just read this one. | ||
| Glenn Compton says, for you, Sean, as someone who did the job, who was better, Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Kayleigh McEnany? | ||
| All right. | ||
| Normally, I'm going to go with Sarah. | ||
| And I'll tell you, she followed me. | ||
| I just think it's different. | ||
| And there's no disrespect to Kayleigh. | ||
| But I also think that the longer that you had in Trump world to watch what the president liked and didn't like and what worked, you know, so that you could kind of sit back and say, OK, less of that, more of that. | ||
| So I think, Sarah, at that point, we were going through Russia, still had the Mueller report. | ||
| The headwinds were a lot different. | ||
| Yeah, I am impressed with the press secretaries that worked under Trump. | ||
| I mean, yeah, you guys, I think all did a pretty good job. | ||
| I look at Jen Psaki and I think, like, she actually does a really good job in my opinion, too, because her job, you know, running circles around a press. | ||
| That being said, it's like an amateur boxer who's in a match that's being thrown is going to look like they're doing pretty well versus people who actually know how to box. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So she can literally look back right now and say, hey, I was press secretary and all the stories were great. | ||
| But you guys were also dealing with insane people that couldn't stop talking about Russia. | ||
| Like literally, they were just obsessing about it with barely anything there, and then it | ||
| all came out. | ||
| Here's my favorite anecdote, just to make you understand. | ||
| So the White House press corps went out there. | ||
| You know, you got a CNN contract, not because you did good reporting, but because you did | ||
| So Brian Karam, who is the reporter for Playboy—yes, they have a White House correspondent—got a contract on CNN, not because he broke some story or anything, because he got into a huge, big tussle with Sarah during a briefing. | ||
| So CNN signed him. | ||
| I mean, literally, that's how you got a contract was to be a jerk in the briefing room and to jump up and down and to make yourself like a hyena. | ||
| And so they reward him with a cable contract. | ||
| That tells you everything you need to know about how that briefing room works. | ||
| We got a good super chat considering what we were talking about. | ||
| Brandon McGregor says, all this let's go Brandon is giving me an existential crisis. | ||
| I think the cool thing is that now he's got like shirts and banners and you know that like you know he can walk around with stuff that says let's go Brandon. | ||
| There's a Canadian government memo going around saying that the term let's go Brandon shouldn't be talked about by government officials, that it's deemed illegal now. | ||
| It's going to be racist by the end of this week, I guarantee it. | ||
| Tim Miner says, Tim, please explain to Sean the concept of a Michael Malice press secretary and how it will change everything. | ||
| Are you familiar with Michael Malice? | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| We're big fans. | ||
| He's great. | ||
| He is one of the best Twitter trolls, but he's a smart guy. | ||
| He wrote a book about North Korea. | ||
| We've had him on a couple times. | ||
| He's going to be back here soon, actually. | ||
| Is Michael New Wright? | ||
| would just you know everyone's really excited that in the event I think I | ||
| think it would be of Dave Smith gets the Libertarian candidacy and he's running | ||
| he'll appoint Michael Malice who is this anarchist it's Michael knew right does | ||
| he consider himself new right I think so because you wrote that book about it | ||
| Yeah, he wrote a book called The New Right, and he explains what it means. | ||
| But he would just take the media to task in a way people have never seen before. | ||
| Trolling them, playing games, mocking them. | ||
| Everyone's very excited about the prospect. | ||
| So I have to follow him, is what you're saying. | ||
| Oh, definitely! | ||
| I mean, we're huge fans of Michael. | ||
| Yeah, he's gonna be here soon. | ||
| Really excited. | ||
| That'd be fun. | ||
| But yeah, yeah, it's just... | ||
| It would be one of the greatest media smackdowns. | ||
| The journalists would stop showing up. | ||
| Yes, they would. | ||
| We're just very confident. | ||
| And I think it's because, you know, for say like you or Sarah or Kaylee, you take the job seriously, you're working, you're gonna answer questions. | ||
| I feel like Micah would be like... | ||
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Yes! | |
| The room is mine! | ||
| And Dave Smith is going to be like, thank you, Michael. | ||
| Please do more. | ||
| It would be very much so the goal of exposing the media, their manipulations, the cathedral, and less about speaking up. | ||
| But how cool would it be to stand up there and say, you know, so-and-so. | ||
| I mean, I did a story today at the end of my show where I talked about the fact that there's this huge controversy. | ||
| I don't even know that it's huge. | ||
| But there's a controversy about hooters and these new uniforms they have. | ||
| And back in 1985, CNN's host Jake Tapper was the Hooters spokesman and made all these comments. | ||
| And it's just like, you know, I'd love to be able to stand up there and be like, well, did you have that same view when you were representing Hooters? | ||
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Call him out. | |
| I think that's why Kaylee did a great job. | ||
| She had that big book. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| And it was just like, boom. | ||
| I think what would have been better for Kaylee is if she just stopped and been like, you really want me to do this? | ||
| Give me three seconds. | ||
| You can either sit back down, say you're sorry. | ||
| I'm going to go there. | ||
| Tab four. | ||
| I feel like that's kind of like what Michael would do. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You know, he's the kind of guy who's going to be like, ooh, he's going to pull up a book and he's going to read. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Dilly Bod says, there are some things Tim and Luke say I agree with, but there are things I don't. | ||
| I know I'm not a famous internet person, but I would like to talk with them, pick their brains a bit. | ||
| We have an event this Saturday in the Harper's Ferry area. | ||
| It's mostly sold out, but we are going to be auctioning off ten tickets. | ||
| So it's five slots. | ||
| Each slot is two tickets, and that means if you bid and you're in the top five, then you will, you know, win. | ||
| So we're trying to set that up right now. | ||
| Hopefully we can get it to work properly. | ||
| And then we're also going to be auctioning off Look, if you watch the Castcastle vlog, you'll see all the jokes, but I'll keep it straight for everybody here. | ||
| We're basically auctioning off a come-visit facility. | ||
| So we're setting up a bidding system for cool merch and events on the website soon, so perhaps there's an opportunity for individuals to come and hang out at the space. | ||
| We're definitely trying to figure out a way to balance between auctioning and getting a ticket, because I don't like the idea of like, oh, if you're rich enough you can just come hang out, that kind of sucks. | ||
| At the same time, if we put up like, hey, one ticket available to come hang out, it would instantly be gone and people would be like, yo, like, don't even have a chance to even try to get one, so... | ||
| We're working it out, trying to figure out how we can make it work. | ||
| We may actually start doing big live events. | ||
| We had a conversation at a business meeting today about actually doing live events around the country. | ||
| Friday nights, presumably, because that's when it's easier for me to travel, leave in the middle of the day, fly somewhere, do the live event, get to stay and leave, you know, head back on Saturday or Sunday. | ||
| So we're working things out and hopefully we'll be able to get around the country and do some events. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Let's see what we got here. | ||
| John R says, Tim, you should attach a small shelf to the wall where Sean is sitting, so he or any other guest selling a book can showcase it, and that is a brilliant idea. | ||
| That is a killer idea. | ||
| I am so happy to hear this. | ||
| Now, of course, you're going to do it after I leave. | ||
| We are, yeah. | ||
| How about this is the shelf? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Just set it on your shoulder. | ||
| You can get a sketching of it. | ||
| That's a good idea. | ||
| That's a really good idea. | ||
| I love that idea. | ||
| I see our audience. | ||
| John R, very clever. | ||
| This is entrepreneurship. | ||
| These are the kind of feedback that we need. | ||
| More importantly, if you can go out and buy it, that will help me. | ||
| That'd be cool, too. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| It's Radical Nation by Sean Spicer. | ||
| Radical Nation. | ||
| Jeb F.J.B. | ||
| Reid says, if you steal $900 of merchandise, just don't put it in the bank. | ||
| $600 plus deposit gets you investigated by the IRS. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That's a great point. | ||
| That, by the way, that's one of those scary things that, God forbid, that ever becomes law. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I think you're never going to get it undone. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And I think that that scares me. | ||
| I mean, just the transactions that we make back and forth these days between individuals. | ||
| My understanding is what they'll do is they'll track the total income and total outgoing, but not the individual. | ||
| So here's what I think. | ||
| I don't want to have to worry. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| At some point, once government's in, it doesn't go bye-bye. | ||
| I mean, it gets worse. | ||
| It's a surveillance bill that will know everything you're doing. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Was it Dave Smith who said, there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's a version of an old quote. | ||
| Oh, OK. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| I think it was Tom Clancy who said, uh, what the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms, and killing people. | ||
| It's not good. | ||
| It's not good at much else. | ||
| That's pretty much. | ||
| We got a good one here. | ||
| Um, Wayne last, uh, first name. | ||
| Oh, sorry. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Let me start over. | ||
| Mr. Kerr, first name Wayne, says, it looks like the Biden picture is sniffing Lydia. | ||
| It does. | ||
| Let's go, Brandon. | ||
| That's the whole point. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Joe Biden. | ||
| We originally were like, we need a piece of art to cover the panels, like the switches and the thermostat. | ||
| And so I was like, let's do a creepy Biden. | ||
| And then Ian was like, no. | ||
| I was like, I don't want Joe Biden behind me, Tim. | ||
| You just went, no. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| Hard stop. | ||
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Nope. | |
| All right. | ||
| Let's see what we got. | ||
| Not this time. | ||
| Shan Jack says there are no blue states, only blue cities in strategically advantaged districts. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Yep, and there are even blue areas in red states too, which is interesting. | ||
| Jason Diaz says, Sean, what was the deal with that brown suit? | ||
| That was awesome. | ||
| Brown suit? | ||
| Did you wear a brown suit? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't think I had one. | ||
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I think you did. | |
| I barely remember that. | ||
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Huh? | |
| I barely remember that. | ||
| It was a long time ago. | ||
| Is this like the blue dress thing? | ||
| I mean, I think I've had one in the past, but I don't think I ever wore one. | ||
| Oh, is he talking about the first day? | ||
| That was gray. | ||
| If that's what he's talking about. | ||
| Day one was gray. | ||
| It wasn't brown. | ||
| It was gray. | ||
| No, there is no brown. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Not that I'm not, just so we're clear, I'm not anti-brown. | ||
| I believe in diversity of suits. | ||
| I'm a more inclusion, but I do not, I don't, I'd not currently own a brown suit, nor did I wear one at the White House. | ||
| Is that the one with the pinstripes? | ||
| That is. | ||
| With the light blue background, kind of gives it a brownish tint. | ||
| I can see it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And by the way, yeah, I'm just going to let that go. | ||
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All right. | |
| Unvaccinated Soldier says, my name is Brandon, and I've never felt so much support from my fellow countrymen. | ||
| Do you think there's something to it? | ||
| Should I pursue a political position? | ||
| Yes! | ||
| Dude, yes. | ||
| Like, now's the time for all Brandons to try and get into politics. | ||
| Like, Brandon, that's me! | ||
| Meeting your way in! | ||
| Plus, everybody's already made your merch for you. | ||
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That's right! | |
| You can change your name legally. | ||
| First name Letts, middle name Go, last name Brandon. | ||
| LG Brandon. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| Alright, D says, Sean's time was understated but highly impactful. | ||
| My question, did he ever get a manicured question or see Trump slash executive branch counsel with press before a speech? | ||
| So say the second part again. | ||
| I guess the gist of it is, were you ever given a question in advance, or did you guys ever work with the press before a speech? | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| So there were times, so let's say the president was doing a press conference or whatever. | ||
| We would find out who was there that day, because obviously a lot of the networks switch out. | ||
| They have two or three people there. | ||
| So we would kind of pulse them and say, hey, are you interested? | ||
| And they'll come to us. | ||
| It works both ways. | ||
| They'll say, hey, I'd really like a question today. | ||
| OK, well, what are you interested in asking? | ||
| And you'd say, oh, I want to ask about how he's doing with revising NAFTA. | ||
| I want to talk to him about, you know, the wall, whatever it is. | ||
| And so they wouldn't ever give it to us, but we would know the subject or we would say, gosh, if you're, we really want to talk about, you know, trade with, we had one time with the Prime Minister of Canada was there and we said, you know, if there's, if you're interested in asking something about the trade and the tariffs or, you know, renegotiating NAFTA, we'd love to. | ||
| And they, okay, great. | ||
| But you would never, ever know what the question was going to be. | ||
| And I'd imagine, too, with someone like Jim Acosta, you knew he was always just throwing pies. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, well, just to answer that question, that was never on our list. | ||
| But the president, after the first couple times, was like, don't bother. | ||
| Like, I'm just going to go with who I want. | ||
| And it was pretty obvious that he didn't really—he could handle it. | ||
| Did you know Donald before he—like, how did you get the job? | ||
| So he had been a donor. | ||
| I was at the RNC for six years, and I'd met him probably twice, three times over the court prior to him announcing the run. | ||
| And then when he ran, one of the things that I had done is oversaw the debate process. | ||
| It was the first time in history that a party had actually taken an assertive role in the debate process, which is insane that it had never happened. | ||
| But I was like, this is crazy. | ||
| We're having liberal journalists decide the questions for grassroots conservative voters. | ||
| So I took it over and said, this is how it's going to be run. | ||
| And Trump was obviously the front runner. | ||
| So he started calling me from time to time saying, hey, what about this? | ||
| What's happening here? | ||
| And we developed a great relationship. | ||
| I had always viewed the party, like I say, as the league. | ||
| Like, my job was to make sure the grassroots voters decided who our nominee was. | ||
| And then whoever that became, we worked as hard as we could. | ||
| And I think there was a lot of people who A, resented my view because they said, well, you know, this guy can't win or this person can't win. | ||
| And my view was that's not my role. | ||
| That's not the party's role. | ||
| That's the voter's role. | ||
| And I think Trump appreciated that. | ||
| And so we kind of started to grow closer and closer because I was one of the guys that would be willing to go up to Trump Tower, help with events, help craft messaging. | ||
| And frankly, after he won, there wasn't a lot of people who had been in that position that had been willing. | ||
| There was actually a front page style section story on me in the Washington Post that said, the outsider's insider. | ||
| And it was just a bunch of people crapping on me saying, I can't believe you're throwing away your career on this guy. | ||
| He's never going to win. | ||
| And I think Trump appreciated the fact that, you know, like I said, my view was he was the nominee. | ||
| My job was to work as hard as I could for him. | ||
| But a lot of people wouldn't come near him. | ||
| And so when he won, I think he recognized the fact that You know, here's a guy who was loyal to me, that worked hard, that frankly had experience, and, you know, he offered me the job on December 22nd. | ||
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All right. | |
| Connor Choine, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, says, I have family who watches MSNBC all day. | ||
| How do I convince them what's happening and what Biden is doing? | ||
| Turn the channel to the Newsmax that they've rebranded. | ||
| You know, that's the crazy thing though. | ||
| They'll be told that they believe Newsmax is fringe, crazy, you know. | ||
| Yeah, but test them. | ||
| Tell them, turn in, I'm on every night at six. | ||
| Tell them to tune into my show once and say, tell me something that's crazy or, I mean, I think every night we have discussions about what's in the news. | ||
| We have people on it to analyze it and that's it. | ||
| But we get branded in a way that's, that's frankly, as I said, I had a, I got a, someone asked me the other day, he said, what do you guys think about how you cover the election? | ||
| I said, I'm proud of it. | ||
| They said, well—I said, give me an example. | ||
| So we had people on our network that had dissenting opinions that talked about the fact that they thought that Trump won this. | ||
| I said, great. | ||
| That's our job, is to allow people to come on, give their point of view, be able to back it up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But I think they're so used to people on MSNBC and CNN saying, this is it. | ||
| There's no dissenting opinion. | ||
| Believe this, suck it up, take it. | ||
| And so I would argue, tell somebody who's just an MSNBC watcher, tune in one night at six o'clock. | ||
| Tell me what you think. | ||
| And if you have a problem, I'd like to hear what it is. | ||
| I mean, meaning them, because I think that's the problem is that MSNBC and CNN basically brainwash people into believing that anything but them is blasphemy. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I saw the Super Chat. | ||
| I didn't know if I was going to read it, but I'm going to read it anyway, because it's actually kind of sad. | ||
| Patrick Rose is asking me about somebody, but using the person's troll online name. | ||
| I'm going to use the person's real name. | ||
| Hey Tim, have you talked to Jamie lately? | ||
| My understanding is that this individual was a big troll on the internet, a friend of mine committed suicide, and there's a lot of things, I think I may have talked a little bit about it before. | ||
| I have some opinions on it, but I probably don't want to say too much, but this was a notable hacker trans woman, and I think it was a couple years ago. | ||
| I think, just to keep it short and brief for the person asking, probably because I'm in a documentary called Hacker Wars, and I'm very obviously friends with a lot of these people, I think the culture war causes a lot of people very serious distress, especially in the LGBTQ community. | ||
| If you take a look at someone like Blair White, for instance, who's a trans woman but conservative, Trump supporter, you can see the vitriol, the hate. | ||
| I think some people can't handle it. | ||
| So it's a sad story and I decided to read it because I was really sad to find out when I did what happened to Jamie. | ||
| It's brutal, man. | ||
| It's really sad. | ||
| But let's, uh, let's, you know, just try and move on and keep talking about other stuff, I suppose. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Riding with Ryan says, Love the show. | ||
| Ian is the best. | ||
| Really need help. | ||
| Down on luck and need help. | ||
| Oh, and then posting cash app. | ||
| Sorry, I'm not gonna read that one. | ||
| But let's read a little bit more. | ||
| Blue Sea says, Tim, it is not a driver shortage. | ||
| There is a hard labor dock worker load unload problem. | ||
| Drivers cannot do the job of these dock workers and drive too. | ||
| Really interesting. | ||
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Wow. | |
| All right, Marvin Carlson says, the trillion dollar coin was floated during the Obama administration. | ||
| There's actually a webcomic where Obama says, like, let's do it. | ||
| Let's make two single trillion dollar coins. | ||
| And then after they mint them and they open the case, there's one missing. | ||
| And they're like, where did it go? | ||
| And then Joe Biden's at a strip club and he's got the coin and he's like, more wings! | ||
| And he flips the coin and they're like, Mr. Vice President, we can't break change for a trillion. | ||
| He was like, Yeah, they're like, we can't make change for a trillion dollar coin. | ||
| He's like, then just bring even more wings or whatever. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Yeah, very good. | ||
| A lot of wings. | ||
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Yep. | |
| A lot. | ||
| Into the Fray podcast says Fauci needs to go on Rogan. | ||
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That would be me. | |
| That could be a massive fundraiser. | ||
| Just being like, watch this thing happen. | ||
| But there's no way. | ||
| He avoids anything controversial or any kind of criticism or critique. | ||
| Do you see him when Rand Paul was questioning him? | ||
| His face gets so red. | ||
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He can't stand any dissent. | |
| And he loves to have pictures of himself. | ||
| It's so weird. | ||
| It's so cringe. | ||
| Do you think, like, you know how sometimes you see that iconic photo, like, in a political sense, like a historical sense, and there's this figure looking up at, like, a picture of Churchill, and, you know, they're always thinking, what would... Do you think Fauci looks at Fauci and goes, what would Fauci do? | ||
| Yes, he definitely does. | ||
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What would I do? | |
| How many masks would I wear? | ||
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Maybe I should wear two masks. | |
| All right, Dragon Lady says, gas here jumped 14 cents overnight. | ||
| We make a pan of wings that went from $24.99 to $34.99. | ||
| Five count chicken tenders, $6.99 to $7.99. | ||
| Making me hungry. | ||
| Oh yeah, sounds good. | ||
| That's when we can actually get the stock in, which is completely unreliable. | ||
| Yep, inflation is so wonderful. | ||
| Yeah, we're kind of out in the middle of nowhere and gas went up like 20 cents in a week. | ||
| It was crazy. | ||
| But we talked about this earlier, Luke, this is a tax. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| As long as you plug your ears and close your eyes, you can pretend to be happy. | ||
| Hey, hey, cartel members in the Taliban haven't been happier. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| heck, that's a couple bucks. | ||
| You do that a couple of weeks if you're driving, I mean, a couple times a week. | ||
| It makes a big difference. | ||
| It makes a big difference. | ||
| Wages are not going up. | ||
| Prices are going up. | ||
| But don't worry. | ||
| Everything the Biden administration is doing is a huge success according to them. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| As long as you plug your ears and close your eyes, you can pretend to be happy. | ||
| Hey, hey, cartel members in the Taliban haven't been happier. | ||
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That's right. | |
| Exactly. | ||
| That's the target demographic. | ||
| Joe Biden's approval rating is through the roof among MS-13 and the Taliban. | ||
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Yep. | |
| All right. | ||
| Jimmy King says, Tim and crew, thank you for all you do. | ||
| Have you seen or looked up what is going on between the ATF and the rare breed firearms and their FRT-15 trigger? | ||
| The case is huge for the Second Amendment and does not have much coverage from larger YouTube channels. | ||
| Do you know about that, Luke? | ||
| I've been hearing a lot about it. | ||
| We should have Pew Pew Pew or Phoenix Arms on to talk about this issue. | ||
| There's been a lot of interesting developments about 3D printing and firearms and I would love to delve into that topic more. | ||
| It's, and then we'll go to the range. | ||
| That'll be fun. | ||
| That would be great vlog material. | ||
| Now that we have Fridama stand, we bought about 50 acres. | ||
| We're going to set up our own range and it'd be a lot of fun. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I, we theoretically could do a thousand yard range, but I don't, I don't think we have enough for it. | ||
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So just not enough, but we'll, we'll have a range. | |
| My heart's broken. | ||
| All right, Derna 1804 says, the 1% is an incorrect framing for the scale of the class problem in the US. | ||
| 31% of households make more than 100,000. | ||
| Wokeness is just a, what is this? | ||
| Shibboleth for ossifying the class structure. | ||
| Shibboleth, interesting word. | ||
| Professors are knights and CEOs are dukes. | ||
| Serfdom is already upon us. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Shibboleth. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| That's a good idea. | ||
| Voto says, Castcastle is prompted about culture building. | ||
| Why not collect ballots from members and crew, have Wilt come by and explain each section | ||
| being proposed and what are those ramifications? | ||
| Do you mean Will? | ||
| This way, it's new voters understanding about ballots versus results. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| That's a good idea. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Lloyd Nace says, question for Tim Orshon. | ||
| Trump runs, I will definitely be voting for him. | ||
| But what's to say that the media, big tech, Soros will not do anything and everything to stop him? | ||
| I would rather see DeSantis run. | ||
| They will run. | ||
| I mean, they will do that. | ||
| They will do everything. | ||
| And frankly, if it's DeSantis, they'll do the same. | ||
| I mean, that's what we're up against. | ||
| I feel like DeSantis would navigate it better. | ||
| Plus Trump's, how old is he? | ||
| He's 74? | ||
| He might be 75 now. | ||
| He's gonna be old if he does run again. | ||
| So Joe Biden's 78. | ||
| Yeah, I know, but that's not good. | ||
| I gotta be honest, I think an 80-year-old Trump will be 10 times as spry as a 77-year-old Joe Biden. | ||
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True. | |
| Still up there. | ||
| Look, I had to keep up with the guy for a while. | ||
| I mean, he's up early, he stays up late. | ||
| I'm not worried about that. | ||
| I mean, the question is just, I can't believe that you'd want to walk back into the frying pan, but that's a decision that he's going to make. | ||
| Yeah, he's in the frying pan. | ||
| I mean, he's doing the rallies. | ||
| That's different. | ||
| I mean, I think that there's a sense of going out there, being with people who are out there to enjoy you, who want to express their support for you, as opposed to then waking up the next day. | ||
| I heard he loves the rallies. | ||
| Oh, he loves them. | ||
| He feeds off of them. | ||
| But what I mean is, he's in the frying pan right now. | ||
| They just haven't turned the heat on yet. | ||
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Oh, fair enough. | |
| Coming out, going in the public, doing his rallies. | ||
| It's very obvious people expect him to run. | ||
| He doesn't even have a Twitter account. | ||
| That's the other thing. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| That's helped him, I think. | ||
| I think that's helped him. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I think so, because you can't criticize. | ||
| I mean, there's times when he probably would have weighed in something, and then all of the left would have gone berserk, and now he can't. | ||
| You know, I don't have a lot of, you know, I criticize him sometimes, but he would be hilarious right now. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| And the country needs that. | ||
| I tell you, the statement I put up the other day about Hunter and saying, you know, I'm thinking about taking up painting myself. | ||
| I thought that was so classic Trump. | ||
| We need that on Twitter. | ||
| Yeah, you do. | ||
| All right, let's see what we got here. | ||
| Grizzlab says, Hey Tim, Ian, and Luke, what's the best and trustworthy Bitcoin wallet website do you recommend? | ||
| Well, first, let me just say, guys, we don't give financial advice. | ||
| However, Ian, what is your favorite Bitcoin website? | ||
| Well, I usually buy it through Coinbase and then transfer it to a Metamask wallet. | ||
| If I do, but that's Ethereum and I do it in Ethereum. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, there's like Exodus. | ||
| There's what's the other one? | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| I forgot the name of Edge. | ||
| Edge is pretty good. | ||
| Exodus. | ||
| Those are the ones that are. | ||
| And you can also I also have a Nano. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| A Nano Ledger X, which you can hold the crypto offline in cold storage. | ||
| That's probably the most secure way to hold it, but it's harder to trade. | ||
| You? | ||
| Tim? | ||
| I like Coinbase and Gemini. | ||
| But there's one thing I will always say is that if you're holding your crypto on an exchange, you don't actually have any crypto. | ||
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Yes. | |
| That's an important one. | ||
| But no advice to anybody. | ||
| I'm not telling you to do anything or buy anything. | ||
| Are you in crypto? | ||
| I'm pretty much just still in silver dollars. | ||
| Susan B. Anthony's Heck yeah. | ||
| One year ago, Bitcoin was what, like $9,061 right now? | ||
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Excellent investment. | |
| And you know what the funny thing is? | ||
| It happens every few years and everyone says the exact same thing. | ||
| 61 right now Excellent investment. I hear the funny thing is | ||
| It happens every you know few years and everyone says the exact same thing. So I remember too late | ||
| Yeah back so back in like 20 2011. I almost bought Bitcoin at 70 cents | ||
| I didn't do it. | ||
| Yeah, I would have bought thousands. | ||
| And my friend talked me out of it. | ||
| And then as time goes on, it's like five bucks. | ||
| Are you still friends? | ||
| Yeah, friends is in quote. | ||
| Actually, not really. | ||
| I haven't talked to him in years, but he's a cool dude. | ||
| We just slowly stopped hanging out. | ||
| But then it's five bucks. | ||
| And I'm like, no, if only. | ||
| Then it's 20 bucks. | ||
| Ah, geez, if only. | ||
| Then it's 100. | ||
| Oh, man, I can't believe it. | ||
| And then finally, when it was like at 1,000 bucks, I'm like, OK, I'm just going to buy something. | ||
| And now it's at 61 and I'm like, okay, you know. | ||
| So I think the prediction right now is that in the next two months it should hit 230. | ||
| So Max Keiser called this. | ||
| I don't know if it will happen. | ||
| Maybe it won't. | ||
| But when you look at the trend waves for Bitcoin, every four years there are similar waves and it has a lot to do with the code of Bitcoin and how the halving occurs and things like that. | ||
| I don't know exactly what is supposed to occur now, but considering the crisis and people are looking for hedges and outs, and just like the trend of Bitcoin is to go in these big waves, a lot of people are speculating Bitcoin will hit 230. | ||
| That being said, I'm not giving anybody advice. | ||
| I am not buying any right now. | ||
| So I'm not going to make it seem like I'm saying it's going to go up and then I'm going to go rush and buy. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| So I've got, you know, crypto. | ||
| I'll do like small increments here and there on a regular basis, you know, sometimes, but I'm not going to like unload into crypto thinking it's going to go up right now. | ||
| But a lot of people are speculating. | ||
| I don't know what you guys think. | ||
| People are predicting like 200 something by the end of the year. | ||
| It's always going up, that's the thing. | ||
| It goes down. | ||
| I mean, I wouldn't do any short-term stuff there. | ||
| Again, not financial advice, but Max Keiser was telling me when it was still worth, I think, about a dollar, and I told him to screw off. | ||
| No, I know. | ||
| And I didn't listen to him, so I'm not the one to give advice here. | ||
| I've been thinking, like, if the currency... Just think about that. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| No, I'll go with it. | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| If you just said, you know what, just to humor you, I'm going to buy one. | ||
| Like 200 grand. | ||
| Here's what happened though. | ||
| When Max was telling me around the same time he was telling Luke, it wasn't easy. | ||
| It was complicated. | ||
| It was a lot harder to buy. | ||
| And so I ended up having a small amount because people donated to my address. | ||
| And then I remember being like, I can't even deal with this. | ||
| Hey Luke, you want to buy it? | ||
| And Luke was like, I was telling Tim, you need to get in this because Max told me and I was like, I didn't listen to him. | ||
| He told me I'd regret it and I was like, I don't care. | ||
| I was like, dude, I don't want to. | ||
| I felt bad. | ||
| I was like, I don't want to do this, man. | ||
| I'm like, this is going to go up. | ||
| He's like, no, no. | ||
| I'm like, I did. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
| What I was thinking is that if, okay, so Bitcoin right now can get you like 30,000 loaves of bread, and if the American dollar inflates by a hundred times, then it'll be able to get you, I don't know, what, three million loaves of bread? | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| Bitcoin. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| If the American dollar inflates, the cost of bread skyrockets, you'll still be able to buy the same amount of bread with the Bitcoin. | ||
| It's just that you'll, if you have US dollar... Well, the cost of bread is not directly correlated to the inflation of the dollar. | ||
| Okay, I see what you mean, though. | ||
| I see what you mean. | ||
| It's not a direct representative. | ||
| Paying somebody to make the bread is going to cost more. | ||
| So imagine that they start inflating the U.S. | ||
| dollar, the Bitcoin's going to be able to buy you more and more bread, ideally. | ||
| No, that's not true. | ||
| Because the Bitcoin's going to be gaining value also. | ||
| That's not necessarily true. | ||
| It's a little bit true. | ||
| What would happen is, if somebody is being paid in U.S. | ||
| dollars to make bread, and then the dollar inflates, they're going to need more money to buy the bread themselves. | ||
| What I wonder is, is it going to get to a point where the people that make the bread are like, what's worth more, bread or money? | ||
| Well, bread. | ||
| So give me, I want, one Bitcoin's going to get you one loaf of bread now. | ||
| Let me put it this way. | ||
| In November when, last year when it was like 11 or whatever, and I was like, oh, okay, you know, you should buy some Bitcoin. | ||
| Bitcoin ended up going up to like 60K. | ||
| Funny enough, wood, lumber, went up the same rates. | ||
| So even if you bought the Bitcoin, you could still buy the same amount of wood with it. | ||
| If you had US dollars, you couldn't buy wood anymore. | ||
| It just crossed my mind that maybe at some point the people that own the resources are going to dictate the value of the Bitcoin, not the US dollar. | ||
| I think mostly what'll happen is Bitcoin is going to go up simply by its deflationary nature. | ||
| It will become worth more as more people start using it, but it's a very, very complicated issue. | ||
| But how about this? | ||
| If you haven't already, go to TimCast.com, subscribe, become a member. | ||
| We're gonna have a members-only segment coming up at about 11 or so p.m. | ||
| is when we publish it. | ||
| And you can like this video, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends. | ||
| You can follow the show at TimCast IRL. | ||
| Just search for it. | ||
| And you can follow me personally at TimCast on basically every platform. | ||
| Sean, it's been a blast. | ||
| Thank you guys for having me. | ||
| You want to shout out your book and social media? | ||
| Yeah, Radical Nation. | ||
| I go to Amazon, Newsmax.com, slash 23. | ||
| But the one thing I love about this is the first comprehensive look at the people and the policies in the Biden administration. | ||
| If you want to understand who's running this government and what they're trying to do, it's in there. | ||
| And the last thing that I love about the book is that it's not just explaining. | ||
| The last chapter, chapter 20, is actually a conservative agenda checklist. | ||
| If you want to get more involved, if you want to know how to fight back, if you want to | ||
| Cool. | ||
| know organizations that'll help pay your legal bills if you get into trouble for fighting | ||
| against critical race theory, literally my thought was if you're going to tell everyone | ||
| everything that's wrong, you got to tell them what they can do to make things better. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And that's the thing that I loved about it, is it was like, it's not just going to tell | ||
| you all the problems, but it's going to tell you how to fight back, how to get your kids | ||
| involved in organizations that will put them on the right track. | ||
| And you know, like I said, if you want to run for office, if you need to get read up | ||
| on some of these economic issues that are important, because here's the thing, every | ||
| one of these issues, we have the facts on our side. | ||
| And as the holidays come up and you're going to be sitting there at Thanksgiving with the crazy uncle, the crazy aunt, who talks about immigration or critical race theory and tells you, oh, it doesn't, like Terry McAuliffe here in Virginia, it doesn't exist. | ||
| There's a whole section in there, chapter 16, about critical race theory, its origins, what it intends to do, the goals of it. | ||
| You need to be able to fight back with the facts. | ||
| The book has it all in there. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
| You got social media? | ||
| At Sean Spicer on Twitter, at Sean M. Spicer on Instagram, at Sean Spicer on YouTube, and apparently Ian's making me get mines. | ||
| Mines and storable food and crystals, and we're gonna load you up before you leave here. | ||
| I got spirulina before the show started. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| I've spent like a couple hundred bucks with all the ideas ordering things, so thank you guys for having me. | ||
| It's a pleasure to be out here. | ||
| Yeah, we got way more stuff to talk about. | ||
| But in today's video on the Luke Uncensored, I gave some very interesting prepper tips, and if you're interested in that, you can check it out on LukeUncensored.com. | ||
| I have a lot of fun on that platform, and I hope to see some of you there. | ||
| Yeah, I'm really glad you guys are here. | ||
| Thanks, Luke. | ||
| Great shirt, by the way. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Sean, thanks again for coming, man. | ||
| And Jessica, thanks for the art. | ||
| It's beautiful on the back wall. | ||
| Yeah, it's amazing. | ||
| And the guy that sent me this, I'm going to get your name and shout you out because I love this crazy art behind me. | ||
| And I'm Ian Crosland. | ||
| See you later. | ||
| This has been a super fun conversation. | ||
| It's not every day we get to talk to somebody who worked with the Trump administration. | ||
| I'm a little creeped out by this new painting that Jessica did for us, but it is wonderful and I appreciate it. | ||
| It just looks like Joe Biden is sniffing me, which is exactly what I've always wanted. | ||
| You guys are more than welcome to follow me on Twitter at Sour Patch Lids. | ||
| That's such an awesome painting of Joe Biden. | ||
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Yeah, I love it. | |
| It's so creepy. | ||
| The landscape behind Ian is just beautiful. | ||
| What is it, like charcoal art or something? | ||
| It's gonna come alive. | ||
| Charcoal? | ||
| Well, so go to TimCast.com, be a member. | ||
| I really want to talk to you about, you know, your time in the White House and other stuff like that. | ||
| So for everybody, we'll have a segment up. | ||
| We record it now, but then we just publish it around 11. | ||
| So thanks for hanging out. |
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