March 30, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump. | ||
| We don't have the full details yet, but there it is, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| All of these conservative but anti-Trump people who kept saying Trump was grifting and lying, he was never going to be indicted. | ||
| Oh, they have egg on their face, because Donald Trump's been indicted. | ||
| And you had many on the left, liberals, who were saying he was going to be indicted. | ||
| They were excited for it. | ||
| And you had Trump supporters saying this is an egregious violation of social or political norms. | ||
| But here we go. | ||
| The NYPD has ordered a full mobilization. | ||
| All officers are ordered to wear their uniforms and get ready for potential unrest. | ||
| And there's a lot to break down in that story alone. | ||
| So, oh boy, do we have a lot to go through. | ||
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| Become a member, because tonight, we're gonna have a members-only uncensored show after the main show, which I'm sure is gonna be fun either way. | ||
| So, uh, we will also have call-ins. | ||
| If you become a member, you can join our Discord server, where you can submit questions and actually call into the uncensored aftershow, And have your questions answered. | ||
| We do that Monday through Thursday, so it will be a lot of fun. | ||
| And it's gonna be especially a lot of fun because today, we are joined by the omniliberal himself, Destiny. | ||
| Hey, what's up? | ||
| I'm trying really hard to follow the rules right now, okay? | ||
| Yeah, alright. | ||
| Do you want to just tell people who you are? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| You've been on the show before. | ||
| Yeah, my name is Destiny in Real Life. | ||
| I go by Stephen Bonnell. | ||
| You can find me at YouTube.com slash Destiny. | ||
| And I debate people from a center-left slash progressive position. | ||
| And that's what I've been doing for about the past six or seven years. | ||
| And before that I was a StarCraft II semi-professional gamer. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Who are you? | ||
| Zerg Protoss Terran? | ||
| Zerg, obviously. | ||
| I will say this. | ||
| There's very few people we associate with the left who are willing to come on the show. | ||
| Most people we encounter, we politely offer, we'll say, like, hey, we'll fly you out, we really want to have a conversation. | ||
| I think they're all liars. | ||
| But what happened to Lance? | ||
| He's coming. | ||
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Is he? | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. | ||
| The serfs love him. | ||
| Oh my goodness. | ||
| Love you, Lance. | ||
| Yes, we absolutely scheduled him to come on and he said, Hell yeah! | ||
| And I was like, cool, like, I'm totally down to have anybody who's in the political conversation come on and talk about these ideas. | ||
| But I gotta be honest, I think a lot of them are just lying, and I do not count you as one of them. | ||
| I think you actually are intelligent, you have a lot of good points, and I think you just have different opinions, so I think we'll have a good conversation. | ||
| So thanks for coming, man. | ||
| Yeah, thanks for having me. | ||
| We also have Sean from Uncensored America. | ||
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Hi, how you doing? | |
| Who are you and what do you do? | ||
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Oh, I give this guy a lot of trouble. | |
| That's what I do. | ||
| My name is Shawn Semenko. | ||
| I found the free speech organization Uncensored America, and we basically host speaking events on college campuses with anybody that's censored, canceled, or anything in between, honestly. | ||
| And we're going to have a debate with Stephen and Milo coming up on Christian nationalism at the University of Tennessee. | ||
| It's going to be in a couple weeks. | ||
| Wow! | ||
| That's cool. | ||
| If you want tickets, go to uncensoredamerica.us, and we'll have some for that. | ||
| And also Laura Loomer is going to be speaking at the University of South Carolina. | ||
| Right on, right on. | ||
| Awesome, man. | ||
| I'm Ian Crossland. | ||
| You hit me up at Ian Crossland anywhere on the internet. | ||
| Good to see you guys. | ||
| Let's move on. | ||
| We also have Serge over here. | ||
| Yo, I am Serge.com. | ||
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Pleasure, Destiny. | |
| It's nice to see you in real life. | ||
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Let's do this. | |
| All right. | ||
| Before we go much further, because Sean will kill me if I don't bring this up, festival.minds.com. | ||
| I believe you and I are both doing an event there in a few weeks. | ||
| Yeah, April 15th. | ||
| Yeah, in Austin. | ||
| If you guys want tickets for that, they're still selling tickets. | ||
| Yes, we're doing a live Tim Cast IRL that Friday, and that's sold out, but the Minds event is the second day at the same location, the Vulcan, and you guys are gonna be there, Ian's gonna be there. | ||
| I'll be there too, I'll be speaking that day. | ||
| Yeah, right on. | ||
| Alright, let's jump into this big breaking news story, ladies and gentlemen, breaking. | ||
| Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump. | ||
| Trump will be the first former president to be indicted. | ||
| The grand jury's vote regards an alleged settlement made With adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the former president's 2016 campaign, according to five people with knowledge of the matter per the New York Times, Trump and Daniels allegedly had a sexual encounter in 2006, according to the claim. | ||
| Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges after office. | ||
| While the specific charges are currently unknown, an indictment is expected to be announced as Trump | ||
| will be asked to surrender and face arraignment. A lawyer for the former president confirmed his | ||
| indictment shortly after the initial announcement, the AP reported. In a March 18th Truth Social | ||
| Post, Trump said he would be arrested on the 21st and called for people to protest and take | ||
| our nation back. Okay, so basically after that, they postponed the indictment. | ||
| Things get delayed. | ||
| Then a bunch of people who are, you know, conservative but not pro-Trump started saying, Trump's grifting, he's lying, it's not gonna happen. | ||
| Then today they announced, I think it was today they announced, the grand jury was gonna be suspended for a month. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, just like a couple hours ago, they announced they voted to indict Donald Trump. | ||
| So, obviously, my opinion on this, as we've talked about it before, is this is silly and stupid, but while we have you, man, what do you think? | ||
| I mean, if he committed a crime, I think he should have the book thrown at him. | ||
| I think generally this is a misdemeanor crime. | ||
| Usually there's a statute of limitations, but if records were falsified in an attempt to cover up another crime, then the statute of limitations is extended. | ||
| But I don't think any of us have seen the indictment yet, so I wait until they unseal the indictment to see how silly or stupid I think it is. | ||
| But hey, if he broke the law, I think he should have the book thrown at him. | ||
| Even ex-presidents, I don't believe, are above the law. | ||
| I absolutely agree. | ||
| I'd like to see more presidents get arrested and charged. | ||
| Oh, man, you make me nervous, you guys. | ||
| It's the first time in history a president's ever been indicted. | ||
| No, I agree. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| If they break the law, then they should be charged. | ||
| My issue, I suppose, is it seems overtly political. | ||
| I mean... How can we say that without seeing the indictment? | ||
| That's a fair point! | ||
| But you just said that! | ||
| I said it seems overtly political. | ||
| It's fair to say we don't know for sure but it seems that way especially considering the dude campaigned on investigating Trump. | ||
| They spent years and this was the best they could come up with that Cohen paid Stormy Daniels to not write a book or give an interview or whatever about banging Trump and that Trump tried claiming it was legal fees despite the fact that a letter was put out 2018 where Cohen's lawyer said Cohen paid for it out of pocket, was never reimbursed. | ||
| So I mean like that feels kind of like exculpatory evidence outright which makes this seem political. | ||
| So do you think that the payments to him that were recorded in the book, do you think that's all fake? | ||
| So, I don't know. | ||
| Well, definitely, I'm interested in seeing what, you know, what the reasoning is. | ||
| I just don't understand why. | ||
| Because, like, the thing that drives me the craziest, it happens to the Andrew Tate stuff, too, where things will come out and people immediately say, this is political, it's partisan. | ||
| It's like, why don't I just wait until the indictments come out? | ||
| And then we can actually see. | ||
| When the indictments come out, it might be that there's a lot of stuff in there, and it's like, oh, okay, that's fair. | ||
| And it might be, wow, this is BS. | ||
| Like, it's obviously political. | ||
| Because Brad campaigned on doing this. | ||
| Sure, but I mean, like, people can campaign on all sorts of things, right? | ||
| Giuliani campaigned on cleaning up New York. | ||
| But that makes it political. | ||
| Well, that literally makes it political. | ||
| If you campaign on, like, enforcing laws, like, is that a political statement? | ||
| No, he campaigned on investigating Trump. | ||
| Maybe he thought Trump broke some laws. | ||
| I mean, it seems like a fair thing to campaign on. | ||
| Show me the man, I'll show you the law that he broke, right? | ||
| Well, we're about to see that show once the indictments are unsealed, huh? | ||
| So here's what I think with the potential of this case. | ||
| You have a lawyer? | ||
| I imagine you've gone through legal stuff, right? | ||
| Not like a dedicated one, but I have a couple, depending on what I'm going through, yeah. | ||
| Do you go through their itemized invoices? | ||
| You might, I mean, I don't know if you do or not. | ||
| I've never made a single payment of over $10,000 to a lawyer, so usually they send me the itemized thing and they bill by every 15 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever. | ||
| These bills that Trump's paying are over hundreds of thousands of dollars? | ||
| I think for Cohen, wasn't it like $330,000 or something at the end of the day? | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| And so, I really doubt Trump was handed this invoice, looked at it, and said, no, no, we can't say we paid Stormy, that's illegal, let's falsify this record. | ||
| He probably got a legal bill and was like, just pay him, I don't know, whatever. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Didn't Cohen claim that he and Trump had personal conversations about this particular issue? | ||
| Yes, after the fact. | ||
| But in 2018, Cohen's lawyer claimed Cohen paid for it personally, without instruction from Trump, and was never reimbursed for it. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Do you think has Cohen claimed otherwise, though? | ||
| After the fact, yes, Cohen has claimed otherwise. | ||
| And those claims were under oath, correct? | ||
| Then he should be charged with perjury, if that's the case. | ||
| But was the statements by his boss, were those statements under oath? | ||
| His boss? | ||
| Or the other lawyer? | ||
| Yeah, the other lawyer. | ||
| Were those under oath? | ||
| I don't know who the letter was filed with. | ||
| Something that Rosenstein said that I think was really important when he was asked for questioning—this was like three or four years ago, I think—is he would get very irritated when he was brought before Congress and claims of the media—I think Jim Jordan did this to him—claims from the media would be brought before him and they'd say, well, what do you think about this? | ||
| What do you think about that? | ||
| And he'd say, well, I don't think that's true. | ||
| And he's like, do you think they're lying? | ||
| And something Rosenstein said was, well, if you think they're lying, bring them and have them testify under oath. | ||
| So I think it's important when we look at people's statements, people will say a lot of things. | ||
| We saw this with Giuliani and his claims about Trump. | ||
| People say a lot of things and then when they're under oath, their stories change significantly. | ||
| So I'd always be cautious to compare statements made under oath to something that some guy might have just said in a letter or said to the press or said to a friend. | ||
| Who's Rosenstein? | ||
| I think this was sent to the Federal Election Commission. | ||
| Maybe, yeah. | ||
| That's what it says. | ||
| Via email, Federal Election Commission, Office of Complaints Examination and Legal Administration. | ||
| Attention, Crystal Dennis. | ||
| And the letter says that Cohen did it of his own volition. | ||
| He paid for it out of pocket. | ||
| He was never reimbursed. | ||
| So I would put it this way. | ||
| It seems political when you have a letter like this from years ago, from five years ago. | ||
| But again, fair point. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| My issue with it for the most part is, really? | ||
| Falsified record misdemeanor charge. | ||
| You want to get into the debate about Barack Obama blowing up a kid? | ||
| Because I would absolutely love to talk about that. | ||
| Look, if they want to give Trump a misdemeanor charge and lock him up for however many months a misdemeanor gets him, I would absolutely be willing to agree, you're right, he's got to be charged. | ||
| Next up, Obama, he blew up a kid. | ||
| I don't know if Obama broke a law. | ||
| I don't think Americans of any capacity are allowed to kill other Americans. | ||
| Of any capacity? | ||
| Don't cops do it all the time? | ||
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Not like... I mean, it seems like they're in the service of doing... Hold on, hold on, hold on. | |
| That's a little bit of a semantic trick you played there, right? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Obviously, you can kill people in self-defense, but Obama bombed a civilian restaurant in Yemen, a country we're not at war with, killing civilians, including a 16-year-old American citizen. | ||
| Like, you can't—if you're in the military, you can't just—or a cop—you can't just go and kill somebody. | ||
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Murder. | |
| You can't murder somebody. | ||
| Yeah, but I imagine the justification Obama would use was that this was in defense of U.S. | ||
| interests or defense of the United States, and in his role as Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United States has offered wide deference from the Supreme Court for taking actions in the commission of protecting the United States, even if we disagree with him. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's criminal. | ||
| I mean... But that's fine, but there's a different question of, like, is it illegal versus do you think it's criminal, like, bad, right? | ||
| It's probably bad, I guess, but, like... So the Obama administration's argument was that they were trying to target a terrorist leader, but I'm not... I mean, you make a fair point, but I'd be willing to argue that the president does not have the authority to bomb countries we are not at war with. | ||
| Well, what about when Trump assassinated Soleimani? | ||
| That was an assassination. | ||
| Where was that taking place in? | ||
| In Iraq. | ||
| In Iraq, a country we have an AUMF over, an authorization for use of military force. | ||
| I don't think the authorization for use of military force, I'm pretty sure we were on good terms with Iraq at that point. | ||
| I don't know if we had the ability to do whatever we wanted in that country. | ||
| That was a political assassination, though. | ||
| But there are executive orders that are against the United States. | ||
| I don't disagree. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I'm just saying that, in general, there's multiple questions going on here. | ||
| We can say, do we think it's wrong or bad? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| I think, generally, the United States president killing American citizens is generally a bad thing, unless there's really good justification for it. | ||
| But there's a difference between that versus, is it illegal? | ||
| And I think that the law tends to—we argued about this a little bit before the show—when Trump was doing things at the border that we thought, when I say we progressives and the left got really mad at, the Supreme Court tended to side with him because the president has given wide deference over matters of national security. | ||
| What was he doing at the border? | ||
| Um, I think it was when he was using, um, he couldn't get the funding for the border wall. | ||
| Um, oh, no, no, no. | ||
| It was over banning certain people coming into the country. | ||
| Um, when he, he named the, there were seven Muslim-majority countries, and when he was running for president, even Giuliani said, he's trying to find ways to do a Muslim-majority ban. | ||
| Technically, he's not allowed to do that. | ||
| Venezuela, North Korea are on that list though. | ||
| Yeah, well, he changed it up, I think, after the first one didn't go through for whatever reason, but once he did that ban, when people tried to challenge it, the Supreme Court basically said, eh, president, border, he can do almost anything he wants, because it's the president of the border. | ||
| Yeah, but that's not blowing up a kid. | ||
| I didn't say it was blowing up a kid, but I was saying that, in general, you would think that, like, when we're talking, like, border, if we're talking about, like, passing policy at the border, that seems like a congressional thing. | ||
| Like, we should be passing laws about immigration policy. | ||
| But the president can do that basically all on his own because the Supreme Court's like, hey, he's the president, national security, he can do almost whatever he wants. | ||
| I think I see the disconnect. | ||
| I'm less concerned with legality. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm only talking legality. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So I think that a president who bombs a country we're not at war with should be stripped of his power and criminally charged for killing an American citizen. | ||
| And it should be literally under the U.S. | ||
| murder statutes that are covered by multiple state and federal laws. | ||
| I don't look at it like, well, you know... Is a murder statute, could I, in Tennessee, get arrested if I bomb somebody in Yemen? | ||
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Is that a... I don't know what the... I mean, that's a good point. | |
| You might, yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I mean, that might be, like, way worse than murder. | ||
| It might be terroristic, international, there might... Like, I'm pretty sure if you, as an American citizen, set off a bomb in a foreign country, you'd be criminally charged in the U.S. | ||
| Yeah, but I don't know if they'd be under state statutes, right? | ||
| That sounds like something... Federal. | ||
| International, federal, yeah, maybe... | ||
| Julian Assange is being criminally charged in the U.S., even though he's not a U.S. | ||
| citizen who didn't do anything in the United States. | ||
| Kim Dotcom, for that matter, too. | ||
| I mean, the dude's never even been... was never in this country, and they went after him, so... I just think that when we... I think it's really important that we separate conversations of what should somebody be charged with versus, like, what do we think is wrong. | ||
| And I think both conversations are important. | ||
| We could talk about, like, is this wrong or is it not wrong, and there's probably a good conversation to be had there, but there's a difference between that versus, like, somebody needs to be charged here, because, like, well, charged with what? | ||
| Is there actually a crime broken, or is it just like we're really upset about this particular thing? | ||
| Which is fair. | ||
| Yeah, I think the Patriot Act's insane. | ||
| And the National Defense Authorization Act, insane. | ||
| I mean, it really gives the president the authority to bomb an American citizen anywhere in the United States. | ||
| It doesn't. | ||
| It gives them the right to rendition anyone, anywhere in the world, and then hold secret tribunals. | ||
| And I think that's wrong. | ||
| And I think if we're gonna just play, like, the question of, is it legal? | ||
| Well, then there's a whole lot of really awful stuff the government's gonna end up doing if we just say, well, they made it legal so they can do it. | ||
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But they can't. | |
| Yeah, but this is what I always fight against, like, when it comes to, like, BLM and everything, too. | ||
| It's important to change the laws. | ||
| If we want people to be held accountable, we have to change the laws to reflect what we think our moral will is so that we can actually get people to be held accountable. | ||
| Because otherwise you just get a bunch of people that are like, this is wrong, do something! | ||
| It's like, okay, well, I don't know, what do you want us to do? | ||
| Like, it's not illegal, like, we can't do anything about it, you know? | ||
| If we changed the law and it made it illegal to bomb kids in Yemen, then we wouldn't be able to charge people that were doing it while it was legal, because it was legal when they did it. | ||
| Yeah, probably. | ||
| But, I mean, do we want to make it so that when we change laws we can retroactively... No, I don't, anyway. | ||
| Like, we're probably... I don't think we were ever officially at war with Syria, right? | ||
| No. | ||
| But Trump bombed the airport, is that like... But again, he's the president, it's our military, like... | ||
| I guess the other question is, you know, in talking about Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, he wasn't the intended target. | ||
| The intended target was somebody else, and he had just a few weeks prior killed Anwar al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman's dad. | ||
| So he kills this guy, who's an American citizen, then argues, well, look, you know, he was a jihadi, he was preaching against the United States, he had to be stopped. | ||
| But then a few weeks later he targets a civilian restaurant in Yemen, blows up this restaurant with a drone strike, killing Anwar al-Awlaki's son, Abdulrahman. | ||
| And the response was, well, we were targeting a terror leader, so it's okay. | ||
| So I guess the question is, I'm curious as to the legalities and the moral standing of One, does the President have the legal authority to kill anyone in any country at any time in the eyes of the United States? | ||
| If he does and hits the wrong target and kills an innocent American citizen, is there a manslaughter-similar charge for this kind of conflict? | ||
| I think internationally, unfortunately, I think we just don't tend to hold countries responsible. | ||
| This has happened multiple times. | ||
| I'll avoid the USS Liberty example because that's a whole loaded thing. | ||
| But there was, let's see, I think Iran After we killed Soleimani, in the night or the night after that followed, Iran accidentally shot down, I think, one of their own civilian airliners, and there were no charges, nothing was held for that. | ||
| In Iran? | ||
| In Iran, yeah. | ||
| And they're like authoritarian though, you know? | ||
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True. | |
| No, I'm just saying that internationally, I believe it happened over Ukraine as well. | ||
| I think that there was a missile launched from Crimea, I believe, that was probably, with the assistance of Russian troops, there was a civilian airliner shot down there, but nothing happened. | ||
| The United States, I believe, I think we shot down a civilian plane. | ||
| um that killed like over 150 or over 200 people that might have been um south of iran i think um flying towards saudi arabia maybe and and we didn't do anything about that we said sorry but i think that was like 200 or so somebody said i mean it happens it sucks but i mean precedent internationally is that like sometimes mistakes happen countries do mistakes they're bad and you pay money sometimes but there's usually not like criminal courts for those types of mistakes but it was proven then yeah of course we say um the best i could do on short notice the acl acl you wrote an article saying that it was on lawful Well, if the ACLU said it. | ||
| No, I mean, yeah. | ||
| When they said which was unlawful? | ||
| Not just the killing of Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki, but the other civilians that were killed in these countries were not at war with was. | ||
| It says the killing program isn't only unlawful, it's unwise. | ||
| And that's about, you know, on the short term. | ||
| There have been legal arguments made that Obama does have the right to kill Americans abroad, but I kind of feel like, you know, we've got multiple amendments that afford American citizens a plethora of rights before they can just kill you. | ||
| So that's where I'm at on the issue, I suppose. | ||
| Do you still have American rights when you're in another country? | ||
| You still pay taxes, so yes, you do. | ||
| And the State Department will send guys to rescue you if you're kidnapped. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| This is the first I've heard of the USS Liberty that you mentioned earlier. | ||
| Oh God, no, don't even do it. | ||
| 1967, during the Israeli Six-Day War, they accidentally torpedoed, or they shot down... Yeah, but depending on who you ask, it's not an accident. | ||
| That's like a whole can of worms of weird Jewish stuff. | ||
| Let's jump to this next story. | ||
| From TimCast.com, quote, political persecution, election interference at the highest level in history. | ||
| Trump responds to indictment, will reportedly surrender early next week. | ||
| Never before in our nation's history has this been done. | ||
| The statement from Trump. | ||
| Let's pull it up. | ||
| Let's read it. | ||
| Here we go, if I can. | ||
| Text is kind of small. | ||
| He writes, this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. | ||
| From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the radical left Democrats, the enemy of hard-working men and women of this country, have been engaged in a witch hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement. | ||
| You remember it just like I do. | ||
| Russia, Russia, Russia, the Mueller hoax, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, impeachment hoax one, impeachment hoax two, the illegal and unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid, and now this. | ||
| The Democrats have lied, cheated, and stolen in their obsession with trying to get Trump. | ||
| But now they've done the unthinkable, indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant election interference never before in our nation's history. | ||
| Has this been done? | ||
| The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaign, but weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent who just so happens to be a President of the United States, and by far the leading Republican candidate for President has never happened before, ever. | ||
| Manhattan D.A. | ||
| Alvin Bragg, who was handpicked and funded by George Soros, is a disgrace. | ||
| Rather than stopping the unprecedented crime wave taking over New York City, he's doing Joe Biden's dirty work, ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on. | ||
| This is how Bragg spends his time. | ||
| I believe this witch hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden. | ||
| The American people realize exactly what the radical left Democrats are doing here. | ||
| Everyone can see it. | ||
| So our movement and our party United and strong will first defeat Alvin Bragg, and then we will defeat Joe Biden, and we are going to throw every last one of these crooked Democrats out of office so we can make America great again. | ||
| Well, very interesting. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| They better be doing a really good job at that office. | ||
| I think there's a lot of political consideration that has to go into these charges, because it's a really scary world when your criminal justice system is potentially interfering with an election. | ||
| Which is something that, despite what some Americans think, that's all of our intelligence agencies try really hard to avoid this exact scenario where you might be indicting or arresting or charging with crimes like somebody that could be running for president. | ||
| So I hope that whatever they have, I hope when these indictments are unsealed, some really solid stuff, and it's not just a whole bunch of like, you know, Lucy, whatever, that ends up falling apart. | ||
| What do you think about, he mentions Ukraine. | ||
| Do you remember the whole Ukrainegate fiasco impeachment? | ||
| Donald Trump quid pro quo? | ||
| Yep, I do remember that, yeah. | ||
| What about it? | ||
| Am I allowed to say the f-word? | ||
| After 15 seconds, yeah. | ||
| I mean, we try to keep it family-friendly. | ||
| In the first 15 seconds, they demonetize. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's fine. | ||
| I'm okay with that impeachment, if that's what you're asking. | ||
| You think Trump committed a crime? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| You want to elaborate? | ||
| I know it's been a long time. | ||
| It's been a while, but my understanding was that Trump contacted Ukraine, Zelensky, and he was asking if there was wrongdoing done by I think it was by Biden and finding that prosecutor and if they had any information about potential wrongdoings that Hunter Biden or Joe Biden had been involved in in Ukraine. | ||
| And in exchange for that, he wanted to withhold aid that was already congressionally approved to Ukraine for that. | ||
| So what's wrong with that? | ||
| Like, why is that a problem? | ||
| Um, legally or morally, or... Both, either, whatever you say. | ||
| Legally, I believe it's because I don't think the president has the authority to withhold that aid. | ||
| I don't remember what the legal arguments were on that. | ||
| Um, for the moral part is our president probably shouldn't be asking other countries to investigate, like, wrongdoings of political opponents. | ||
| That's a really scary moral... But Joe Biden wasn't running for office at the time. | ||
| Um, I mean, then why was he... Hold on. | ||
| I'm trying to think of the timeline for this. | ||
| Yeah, Joe Biden, it was a year before he announced. | ||
| That was part of the controversy that Joe Biden had not announced he was running for office at all. | ||
| No, but hold on. | ||
| He might not have announced it, but I'm pretty sure most people knew he was running. | ||
| In the early polls, if you looked at a lot of the polling aggregate sites, they were already polling Biden. | ||
| He'd already been factored in quite a while. | ||
| They might have announced that he was going to run for office, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people were expecting it. | ||
| I mean, that's just speculative media stuff. | ||
| So Trump isn't actively investigating a political opponent, unless the argument is we all secretly knew that was going to be the case. | ||
| Like Bernie Sanders was still in the race. | ||
| There were a bunch of other people. | ||
| At the time, the controversy was like, why Joe Biden? | ||
| There were other Democrats that were actually talking about running and it wasn't Joe Biden. | ||
| He announced late. | ||
| He did announce late, but he was still factored into the polls really early because, like, a lot of people thought he was going to run. | ||
| The question is, though, is do we want the president contacting other—even if he's not running, he is still the type of political opponent, right? | ||
| What if the vice president did the same thing? | ||
| Is that— If the vice president was—I think that anytime you're reaching out—like, let's ask, if we pull back on a macro level, why is Trump asking this information? | ||
| Does he genuinely think that there's been some grave wrongdoing done by the Bidens that needs to be corrected for? | ||
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| And if so, why isn't he asking our intelligence agencies for information about this? | ||
| Why is he going to another country and asking? | ||
| I mean, I don't... We have the Five Eye Spy Club. | ||
| We do that all the time. | ||
| We don't do that all the time. | ||
| Going to another leader and saying, hey, I need you to get dirt on a potential political opponent because I think you're something... He wasn't a political opponent. | ||
| He was the vice president of the former opposite party guy that he just... as he came into office. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| He's some kind of political opponent, right? | ||
| Even if he wasn't directly running yet. | ||
| I would argue, if he was asking to sue for AOC, for instance, I would say that it's similar. | ||
| Trump didn't go to the president of Ukraine and say, I got this political opponent I need dirt on. | ||
| He said, what's up with this video of Joe Biden threatening to withhold congressionally approved aid unless you take action on his behalf? | ||
| And the president of Ukraine was like, I'm not sure he was. | ||
| Well, can you look into that? | ||
| I want to know what that's about. | ||
| It wasn't just, can you look into that? | ||
| It was, if you don't find what I need, I might withhold aid that's already been congressionally approved for you. | ||
| That was the issue. | ||
| If he was just asking questions, we wouldn't be having the conversation. | ||
| He would have been impeached, right? | ||
| So this is the point that I'm getting at. | ||
| When this started, and Donald Trump asked about this, specifically because there was a viral video of Joe Biden outright admitting to threatening to withhold congressionally approved aid unless a prosecutor got fired, you had Joe Biden breaking the law. | ||
| Sure, so there was a video of Joe Biden on stage making the claim slash joke on stage where he's saying, I told him if you don't do it, you're not going to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| But in terms of him like, well, but in terms of there actually being a serious offer on the table, where he was like threatening to withhold aid, I'm not even sure if that was ever the case. | ||
| We have that one statement that he was made public. | ||
| Victor Shokin signed a sworn affidavit that that's what happened. | ||
| Sure, number one. | ||
| Number two, the impetus for Shokin being removed from Ukraine was not to get some kind of political dirt on an opponent. | ||
| It was a completely different scenario. | ||
| This is a prosecutor that all of Europe and over half of Ukraine wanted fired, that the United States was acting on behalf of the Western world and trying to pressure this prosecutor out because of his lack of prosecuting corruption in the country. | ||
| That's a totally different thing then. | ||
| I threaten to withhold aid from this guy because he's not giving me dirt on potential political opponents. | ||
| So why is it that the guy who was being investigated, Mykola Zlochevsky, returned to the country? | ||
| He had fled when Shokin was investigating him, and then after Joe Biden got Shokin removed, Zlochevsky returned to the country to begin working on Burisma again. | ||
| Why did he return to the country? I could have been for any number of reasons. I'm not sure. | ||
| Right. So the argument from the Democrats, the specific corruption that wasn't being | ||
| prosecuted, referring to is the prosecution of Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma. | ||
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| And the argument they made was he wasn't investigating him. | ||
| That was the problem. | ||
| And then Joe Biden says, and we got him out. And then they put in someone solid. | ||
| The only issue is when Shokin had about a dozen active investigations into Burisma and Zlochevsky, | ||
| Zlochevsky fled the country. | ||
| They tried, they froze his account. | ||
| When Biden came in and got the prosecutor fired, Zlochevsky safely returned to Ukraine without fear of criminal prosecution. | ||
| When Donald Trump made that phone call, Zlochevsky fled again. | ||
| So it sounds more like you've got Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, you've got a former CIA director on the board of Burisma, and Zlochevsky, the founder, and Shokin had around 12 to 14. | ||
| All of the investigations into Burisma were dead. | ||
| No, that's not true. | ||
| Wrong. | ||
| It was absolutely true. | ||
| Completely false. | ||
| They were only revived one month before Shokin was forced out. | ||
| Every single one of those probes was completely dead. | ||
| That's wrong. | ||
| You can Google it and look for it if you want. | ||
| Yeah, so I'm citing Matt Taibbi. | ||
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| Right, and if you don't want to trust a journalist or whatever. | ||
| Or like any actual article, not a tweet. | ||
| I'm not talking about a tweet, I'm talking about an article that he wrote breaking down what happened with Ukraine and his investigation into Tlachevsky, and this is from like 2017 or whatever. | ||
| Okay, so your claim is that the probes into Burisma never went cold and never died, that they were active the entire time? | ||
| They were active the entire time, right. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| My understanding is that those probes were all cold and all dead, and it was part of the reason— Well, hold on. | ||
| You said dead before nice and cold. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| They weren't being actively worked on. | ||
| So— There were probes, but nobody was doing anything with them until— It was one month before Shoken was actually ousted that there was some progress started to be made on those. | ||
| So the— That's a very difficult question to get into. | ||
| The fact is, there were active investigations. | ||
| Well, but that's kind of the meat of what we're talking about, right? | ||
| Well, so— It's kind of important to settle the fact of the matter on that, yeah. | ||
| Were there 12 investigations, yes or no? | ||
| I know that there were investigations open for a couple years, but my understanding is they were open. | ||
| That's all that matters. | ||
| It's not all that matters. | ||
| They were dead investigations, and there wasn't any progress being made on them. | ||
| That's what I read that was reported. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| My point is this. | ||
| But that's pretty important, because if they were being actively investigated, then that obviously changes a little bit the story that we're telling, right? | ||
| So, did Shokin have investigations into Burisma and Slotchevsky? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He had about a dozen. | ||
| But whether or not the investigations were live or dead, isn't that important? | ||
| You don't think so? | ||
| Did Slotchevsky flee the country while these were on the books? | ||
| Yes, he did. | ||
| When Shokin was removed and the investigations were officially stricken, Zlotchevsky returns. | ||
| So do you think that there are criminal wrongdoings that he's done that he's not being prosecuted for? | ||
| What I think is that the United States is in an energy crisis, in a war with Eastern powers. | ||
| The United States has been trying to get a pipeline for natural gas called the Qatar-Turkey pipeline into Europe, but Syria said no. | ||
| Syria destabilizes for whatever reason. | ||
| We want to run that pipeline through Syria, through Turkey, into Europe to offset the Gazprom gas monopoly. | ||
| Russia runs natural gas into Europe through Ukraine through gas promise about 20%. | ||
| It's massively powerful for them and allows them to control prices. | ||
| The United States has interests in setting up an energy company to offset that monopoly, | ||
| hence Burisma. Hunter Biden's on the board, probably for these reasons, | ||
| a former CIA director, probably for these reasons. | ||
| Was Burisma one of the smaller gas companies in that country? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And it seems like the U.S. | ||
| was trying to compete with Russia to get cheaper gas to Europe. | ||
| And the argument made was that Europe was constrained by high gas prices from Russia, and that we wanted the European economy to be bolstered and grow faster to compete with China, but Russia was basically keeping us pinned down. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| This is nice conjecture, but like, is there anything backing up any of this? | ||
| Aside from like... This is all the official reporting. | ||
| What do you mean by official reporting? | ||
| There was official reporting that we got rid of Shokin because we wanted to bolster U.S. | ||
| interests. | ||
| That's the only speculation I have. | ||
| I'm saying based on the facts, it seems to me the issue was Shokin did have investigations into Burisma, which was a problem for U.S. | ||
| interests, not because of corruption, but because it's more of a war front. | ||
| Do you think that Shokin was a corrupt prosecutor? | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| Why did all of Europe and a lot of Ukraine hate him? | ||
| Because Europe wants cheap gas. | ||
| Shoken was impeding that. | ||
| It's not an issue of corruption, it's an issue of conflicting interests. | ||
| He was impeding it how? | ||
| So active investigations into Burisma are impeding U.S. | ||
| interests in competing with Gazprom. | ||
| Burisma isn't even the largest gas player in that country, though. | ||
| That's not the point. | ||
| We don't have the Qatar Turkey pipeline into Ukraine because Syria blocked it. | ||
| So you have a multi-front effort going back to, I think, like the 2000s to get cheaper natural gas into Europe. | ||
| So of course they're not going to like anybody who's got eastern allegiances. | ||
| It's possible that with Ukraine you had in the eastern part of the country more pro-Russia sentiment. | ||
| With Yanukovych you had more pro-Russia sentiment. | ||
| And you had government officials that were like, look, We're not just pro-West. | ||
| Of course, then he gets ousted. | ||
| There's unrest. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| For Yanukovych, though, Yanukovych was standing alone with that pro-Russian status, though. | ||
| That wasn't all the government officials. | ||
| Part of the reasons why people were so upset with Yanukovych was because he was trying to push for Russia in opposition to what their parliament was even pushing for. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| He wasn't the only person. | ||
| The sentiment was fairly split, but was leaning towards the EU. | ||
| Had been voted on by their parliament to favor the EU. | ||
| That was what the vote was for. | ||
| And so the way I see it is, there are probably elements of that government that were more favorable to Russia, which is why Europe doesn't like them. | ||
| The people, Ukrainians who want to be a part of the EU and members of the EU who want Ukraine to join, because they want more control over natural gas, of course naturally would oppose anybody who is siding with Russia. | ||
| Do you think that Ukraine was a corrupt country prior to 2014? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I mean it's do you think so when so for all of Europe and for everybody complaining about the corruption and stuff relating to Shokin, you think that all of that was BS and they just didn't like him because he was preventing their cheap oil or cheap gas? | ||
| Say that one more time. | ||
| You think that all of the upsettedness that people across Europe and Ukraine had with Shokin I can only speak on a surface level about this one particular issue because I don't know the inner workings of all of Ukrainian politics. | ||
| But what I do know is there has been a tremendous effort by Western forces leading to outright physical military conflict to get natural gas into Europe to offset Russia's control of gas prices. | ||
| Naturally, it seems like these things are related. | ||
| Speculative. | ||
| The facts are, the U.S. | ||
| went to Syria and said, can we build the Qatar-Turkey pipeline? | ||
| Syria literally said to the United States, that would be bad for our ally, Russia, so we will not allow it. | ||
| Fortunately for us, for whatever reason, Syria falls into civil war and we just happened to oppose the guy who denied that. | ||
| I don't think the whole reason for opposing it has to do with gas, but it's convenient for us nonetheless. | ||
| We weren't able to do it, and to make it worse, Iran wanted to tap the same natural gas field and send the gas through Iraq and Turkey into Europe to strengthen Russia's control of energy. | ||
| So the argument was the EU is trying to grow and become a unified bloc to compete with the growth of China, and Russia was basically impeding us because Russia wants to be their own big dog, right? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Man, if you ever wanted to revisit a detailed breakdown of this, I'd be interested to do a little bit of reading prior to this, but let's say hypothetically I grant you all of that. | ||
| Why didn't Trump say any of that? | ||
| Trump doesn't know what the hell's going on. | ||
| Okay, so the impetus for this whole conversation of Trump pressuring them to find out if any wrongdoings happened had nothing to do with anything you just laid out. | ||
| It was just having to do with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. | ||
| It had to do with him seeing a video and then seeing people and post memes. | ||
| Probably, to be completely honest, it was Tucker Carlson. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But it was a little bit more than just asking questions, because if he was just curious, I don't think that the question of aid being withheld would have ever been brought up in that conversation. | ||
| So clearly there was a little bit—you're saying that Biden wasn't seen as a political opponent at all, but if that was the case, I don't know why Trump would go so far to try to solicit information from the Ukrainian government such that he would withhold aid or threaten to withhold aid in exchange for some information about him. | ||
| Seems like a random politician to target, like, why would he be so dead set on getting information about Biden? | ||
| He hates the Democrats. | ||
| They were calling him a Russian spy. | ||
| I think there's a little bit more. | ||
| I think it has to be a little bit more than that. | ||
| Revenge to throw away, to get impeached. | ||
| I mean, you can think that, but I don't even care all that much about the speculation as to why he did it, right? | ||
| If you want to argue, you can, but it's not... Well, I think that's probably one of the most important parts. | ||
| That is the most important part, is why he did it. | ||
| But you have to make assumptions to get to that point. | ||
| If he's asking for dirt specifically with respect to a political opponent, I'm making assumptions? | ||
| I feel like there's a lot more assumptions being made on your end that he was just genuinely interested in what Joe Biden had said and was threatening to withhold aid because he wanted a legitimate investigation of the firing of a prosecutor. | ||
| I feel like it's pretty legitimate. | ||
| What we know is that he said, what's going on with this video, I want to see some action on this or else, right? | ||
| I feel like there was a little bit more said than that, but I don't remember because it's been a long time. | ||
| Sure, but I feel like the specific requests he was making for information are probably pretty important. | ||
| I can look up exactly what the charges are alleged, but it's been a while. | ||
| So I guess the reason I bring it up is not to just debate Trump or whatever, but to ask the question of Should we indict Joe Biden for doing the same thing? | ||
| I don't believe Joe Biden did the same thing, though. | ||
| The request and who it was on behalf of was far different than... But Joe Biden does not have the authority to threaten to withhold congressional approval. | ||
| I don't know if Joe Biden actually threatened to withhold aid. | ||
| He admitted on camera that he did. | ||
| He said something on camera that I don't know if that's what he actually did. | ||
| He literally said on camera, I told him, I don't know if Biden admitted to a crime there or if he was just talking shit. | ||
| the billion dollars and he said you don't have the authority to do that I | ||
| said call the president ask him see what he says well son of a bitch six hours | ||
| later he's fired Trump also said on camera they could shoot somebody on 6th | ||
| Street and I got arrested for it but that's different from admitting to do | ||
| committed crimes I don't know if Biden admitted to a crime there or if he was | ||
| just talking shit Biden also was in front of an audience saying that he had | ||
| what like 170 IQ and graduated from Harvard Law right He obviously didn't do that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So I don't know when Biden is on stage like, I told him I was gonna withhold it. | ||
| I don't know if he's just like, you know, he got his big boy pants on. | ||
| He's talking shit. | ||
| He actually did do that. | ||
| And he didn't have the authority to do it. | ||
| And it was on behalf of some selfish motive or whatever, then yeah, I think there should obviously be an investigation. | ||
| But the fact that there's never been an official statement confirming that there's never been any side from the Ukrainian officials confirming that Maybe there should be! | ||
| Everything relating to that, yeah, but every time Republicans say there should be and they go and look, they find nothing, okay? | ||
| But whether it's Benghazi, whether it's Hillary's emails, whether it's a lot of Dr. Biden stuff— We know that Hillary's email stuff is—was there. | ||
| That's not even— We don't know if Hillary Clinton gave a command to delete stuff that shouldn't have been deleted to impede an investigation. | ||
| We don't know that. | ||
| We never found information about it, which is what the charge would have been for. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| We know that she had a server with 35,000 emails on it. | ||
| We know that her staff smashed hammers. | ||
| We know that one of her staffers, I guess, he went on Reddit and he said, how can I purge emails with someone's name on it or something like that? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And like, I think, didn't he get charged or something? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think it was granted immunity in exchange for information. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy, right? | ||
| I remember when that happened, like, some dude on Reddit found the account, and they were like, I think this guy works for Hillary. | ||
| Sure, but the crime that we were looking for was whether or not Hillary Clinton ordered classified emails to be deleted, which doesn't seem like that was—we spent a whole lot of time talking about that. | ||
| And for all the complaining that we do about a judge indicting Trump or intelligence agencies interfering in elections, Comey coming out and making the statements that he did about Hillary Clinton were not only unprecedented, but also potentially election-altering, too. | ||
| So, I mean— Do you think— Barack Obama ordering a drone strike that killed an American citizen. | ||
| Warrants an investigation of that? | ||
| There might have already been an investigation. | ||
| I don't know what the vetting process inside of orders from the government. | ||
| Whether there was or wasn't, do you think there should have been? | ||
| Yeah, there probably always should be when there's collateral damage. | ||
| Didn't it happen? | ||
| Was it in Afghanistan or Pakistan? | ||
| Wasn't there a hospital that we accidentally bombed like a year and a half ago, I think, where I think like 20 or 30 people died and it was all civilians? | ||
| Like, yeah, anytime something like that happens, there should obviously be some type of oversight. | ||
| But that's different between, like, there needs to be a criminal charge for an intentionally destructive act done, right? | ||
| Do you agree that there's a world of difference between, um, Biden ordered an American citizen killed overseas versus American citizen dies as a result of collateral damage from a drone strike? | ||
| Those two things are worlds apart, right? | ||
| Well, the added context is we're not at war with this country and it doesn't matter. | ||
| Even if we are at war with the country, they're still worlds apart, right? | ||
| So we'll slow down for a second. | ||
| Sure, my question is very simply. | ||
| The authority granted to the president does not extend to bombing any random country. | ||
| Well, it seems like that's not where we're at legally right now, right? | ||
| I think it's not where we're at because the American people don't do anything about it. | ||
| Did we vote in Congress to bomb the Syrian airport when Trump returned fire for whatever gas attacks? | ||
| No, but I think there's something different to an active war zone we do have troops on the ground in, and I don't agree with Trump firing... Yeah, but we're not at war with Syria. | ||
| We have ground troops. | ||
| We haven't declared a war since World War II. | ||
| I don't agree... Sure, but we didn't even have a U.S. | ||
| Senate use of... I don't agree with Trump's firing of... Sure, I'm just saying that, like, if an American citizen, Let's jump to this next story from the Tampa Bay Times. | ||
| DeSantis says Florida will not assist in possible Trump extradition after indictment. | ||
| So it seems like when you're asking me a moral question versus a legal question, those are two different things. | ||
| If you're asking me legally, it seems like that seems to be that the president can indeed order drone strikes on places | ||
| that were not at war with. | ||
| That seems to be where we're at legally right now. Morally, should he be able to? | ||
| I don't know. I don't know what the justification is for that, but... | ||
| Let's jump to this next story from the Tampa Bay Times. | ||
| DeSantis says Florida will not assist in possible Trump extradition after indictment. | ||
| The Florida governor weighed in on Twitter. | ||
| He said, the weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head. | ||
| It is un-American. | ||
| The Soros-backed Manhattan DA has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. | ||
| Yet now he is, and there's a second tweet here. | ||
| Where is it at? | ||
| Wait. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Yet now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent. | ||
| Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with the Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda. | ||
| Uh, what are your thoughts? | ||
| Is he actually Soros-backed? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| Or was it that, like, because I thought that the actual thing was, like, George Soros, uh, contributed to a PAC that has also contributed to him. | ||
| I think it's a little different, but regardless. | ||
| But even outside of that, I mean, Ron DeSantis saying, we're not going to allow, what is he saying? | ||
| We're not going to extradite, right? | ||
| Is what it sounds like. | ||
| Well, you know, did he even really say that? | ||
| He said, we'll not assist in the extradition. | ||
| It's like a pretty tepid statement, to be completely honest. | ||
| So, I don't even know if there's an actual question to be asked. | ||
| Should Florida assist in the extradition? | ||
| Like, does it matter? | ||
| Well, it kind of matters. | ||
| I think it matters based on the precedent of the crime. | ||
| If this is a crime that they wouldn't normally extradite for, then they probably don't have an obligation to, right? | ||
| I don't think California would extradite me if I had an outstanding speeding ticket in Iowa. | ||
| This might be a similar thing where they don't extradite me. | ||
| But if somebody did a double homicide and Florida was like, we're not going to extradite | ||
| him, that would probably be a pretty big deal. But I don't know if a crime like this, if an extradition | ||
| is ordinary or not. | ||
| Donald Trump, what's the charge? That he falsified a legal bill? | ||
| Well, it's that he falsified a legal bill, but it has to be something more than that, right? | ||
| Because that charge in and of itself is a misdemeanor that the statute of limitations would have expired on. | ||
| So it's that he falsified that legal bill in the commission or the obscurement of another crime. | ||
| I think it's related to election stuff. | ||
| The argument was that it pertained to campaign finance or they use campaign funds to do it or something like that. | ||
| Because Cohen billed Trump campaign or whatever. | ||
| I guess we'll see when the indictment comes out if they're stretching this up to a felony. | ||
| My view is it's all overtly political and this country is being ripped to shreds. | ||
| So I don't know if it really matters whether DeSantis is going to do anything or not. | ||
| Whether we can have a debate about it or not, no one's going to agree. | ||
| The end result is just going to be people on the right saying that Trump is being politically persecuted and people on the left saying it's justice. | ||
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Well, it only matters for the primary because DeSantis this whole time has been trying to position himself as Trump without the bad stuff. | |
| That's sort of his whole brand. | ||
| But as you go into this more and more, you're going to see that DeSantis really isn't a Trump guy. | ||
| He's going to try and make his own brand of sort of Trumpism, but with some other stuff. | ||
| And I think a lot of the hardcore Trump people, like myself, I mean, I was a day one 2016 supporter, right? | ||
| When he came down the Golden Escalade, I was already sold. | ||
| But a lot of people that I know in DC or in sort of these other circles, they think, oh, well, we should move on from Trump. | ||
| It's time for DeSantis to take over. | ||
| But I mean, the reality is this whole thing is only going to help Trump. | ||
| I think the mugshot. | ||
| It's going to be on t-shirts. | ||
| It's going to be art. | ||
| People are going to love it. | ||
| On the left, they're loving it because they think, oh, we finally got him. | ||
| We got the handcuffs on Donald Trump. | ||
| On the right, they're just going to think he's a martyr. | ||
| Can I play this video from Dash Dabrowski? | ||
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| I think I got to turn it down. | ||
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Big news! | |
| Donald Trump has been indicted in Manhattan! | ||
| The grand jury just voted to indict Donald Trump for his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. | ||
| This is big news! | ||
| Big news! | ||
| I don't know if he realizes, like if he's in control of his moods, when he goes, uh, what is he, uh, been indicted, he tilts his head forward and he gets shadow under his eyes and looks real villainous for a second. | ||
| What is it called, the Kubrick stare or whatever? | ||
| Comes back up, yeah, it's awesome! | ||
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I'm sorry, I think it's highly entertaining. | |
| It's an act. | ||
| I mean, obviously. | ||
| He's been doing this for money. | ||
| When it comes to stuff like this, I think it's really important that you mentally swap the people out in your head to figure out how you feel about it, because we have a huge problem right now in this country with actually having principal positions on any fucking issue whatsoever. | ||
| So I think that when people are trying to think like, should Trump get arrested for this? | ||
| Like, think like, if it was Hillary Clinton, would you feel the same? | ||
| If it was AOC, would you feel the same? | ||
| If it was DeSantis, would you feel the same? | ||
| I think it's really important to do these mental swaps to check for honesty, to make sure that it's not just like you said, like all partisan politics at the end of the day. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Especially when legal systems are involved. | ||
| I agree, but I don't think it's principles. | ||
| I don't think anyone's principled at all. | ||
| But I'm not saying that from like a dejected, you know, sense or like, you know, I'm jaded and blackmailed. | ||
| I'm saying it that people genuinely don't understand the moral philosophies around principles and their positions. | ||
| So the example I often give is When it came to Florida on the Parental Rights and Education Bill, you had conservatives being like, parents have the final say in whether or not their kids are being exposed to this stuff and whether or not their kids are going to get these treatments. | ||
| The teachers have no right to withhold that information from the parents. | ||
| And then my response is, in Washington, they completely agree. | ||
| That the parents have final say. | ||
| So when the parent says the child should get sex change surgery, the government should not be allowed to intervene to stop it. | ||
| You see the point? | ||
| The principle is the same. | ||
| Should parents have final say, but both conservatives and left liberals or whatever position have a differing view of when it should be allowed. | ||
| When it comes to a child deciding they are trans, the left passes laws saying they can withhold that from parents. | ||
| When it comes to parents wanting to give their children sex change surgery, conservatives argue the state should intervene to stop that. | ||
| So, which is it, right? | ||
| People don't have principles, they have moral foundations. | ||
| And they have lines that they're willing to cross or not cross. | ||
| And so, both sides will argue, my principle is X, but it does not apply. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Do better. | ||
| I don't think there's a do better or there's a bad. | ||
| It's quite literally, if two factions of people have different moral standards, that's it. | ||
| Yeah, but I think the problem is not being honest about those moral standards. | ||
| I think that's the issue, because when we argue for certain principles, I think everybody ends up... At the end of the day, we're all attacking the shadows and the ghosts of the people that we're arguing against, because nobody actually believes in a lot of the things they're saying, and that hurts our ability to actually move the conversation forward. | ||
| Like, there's a lot of people, for instance—I think I even saw this on your Twitter, I don't remember the tweets—there was a lot of conservatives that fucking hated red flag laws, and now after this trans shooting, a whole bunch of conservatives are like, well, should mentally ill people have guns? | ||
| I'm not actually sure. | ||
| And it's like, what changed? | ||
| And that's exactly my point. | ||
| Is that the principles don't apply to most people, left or right. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But then there are principles there, you just have to dig a little bit deeper. | ||
| So like for some conservatives, people are just like, fuck trans people, I don't want them to have any rights. | ||
| Rather than like, I don't agree with like red flag laws. | ||
| And we just have to get to like the deeper positions where they actually are so we can fight against those positions. | ||
| See my thing with red flag laws is I'm completely in favor of them so long as they have an adversarial due process. | ||
| The problem with red flag laws literally is that they're non-adversarial. | ||
| It's like someone can go to a judge, the judge can issue a writ and just come and take your guns. | ||
| Whereas due process requires your rights to confront an accuser, to file a rebuttal, to say no, and then actually have a chance to have proper adjudication. | ||
| So I used to not be in favor of it until it was actually conservatives who argued that through due process your rights can be curtailed. | ||
| Hence, like being put in prison. | ||
| If you break the law and then a court gives you due process and says you broke the law, we can literally lock you in a box and take everything away from you. | ||
| And I'm like, okay, fair point. | ||
| In that case, if you're mentally ill and then someone files a claim saying you're a risk to yourself and a harm to yourself or others, then you should have the right to receive a notice in the mail, answer that claim, reject it, and then have a judge actually issue a standard due process. | ||
| If you're in prison, you can't have guns. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So if there is some standard by which we believe you are a threat and you are going to cause harm, then you have a right to challenge that in court, same as any other criminal charge you have. | ||
| And then if you lose, come take your case. | ||
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Sure. | |
| And I think that that is a defensible—that argument is defensible. | ||
| But it's not defensible if it only comes up when a trans person goes on a shooting spree. | ||
| I completely agree. | ||
| And it seems like there's a lot of arguments against red flag laws that are still standing. | ||
| Those arguments didn't go away. | ||
| I'm probably against red flag laws. | ||
| I lean slightly against them just because I feel like it makes it so hard. | ||
| If you're a guy that likes guns and you've got mental issues, man, going to a therapist becomes really fucking scary. | ||
| Because what if you get a diagnosis that is now precluding you from owning firearms? | ||
| uh... and now you've got a shop in court and you've got a fight a judge for your | ||
| second right which is very important one in the united states | ||
| uh... that gets harry and depending on how people you know represent red flag | ||
| laws of what type of pushing for yet it is a really scary thing but uh... yeah i i think | ||
| that that that's a good point as a challenge | ||
| it reminds me of the uh... they were myself uh... uh... to get a job or | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's like that scene with the, you know, saying the women carry guns, and she's in front of Congress, and she's like, well, you know, if you don't want women to carry guns because you're worried about what's going to happen, then you either have to ban all guns, or you've got to let women do it, and they like ban all guns. | ||
| It's like, okay. | ||
| Well, that's kind of what it feels like happened with the transgender thing, after the shooting. | ||
| Reporters are like, all of a sudden, they're like, well, maybe it is really important that we look at the mental health of people that have guns, and like, everyone in the left is like, what the fuck? | ||
| Well, like, yeah, of course, but... | ||
| Well, I agree. | ||
| I think if someone goes on Prozac, you could argue that they're not mentally well for a gun. | ||
| If someone's an alcoholic, you could argue. | ||
| That's like 25% of fucking Americans at this point, though. | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| Pharmaceuticals, any of that. | ||
| That's scary. | ||
| And there's another interesting thing. | ||
| I talk about when I was in L.A., in Venice, and you got those guys selling weed cards. | ||
| And they're like, I'm walking down the street, going to the skate park, and this guy goes, yo, yo, yo, yo, man, you got your weed card yet? | ||
| You got your weed card? | ||
| And I'm like, nah, nah, nah, I don't have a weed card. | ||
| And he's like, why not? | ||
| Why don't you have your weed card? | ||
| And I'm like, I don't need one. | ||
| He's like, I'm not sick, and he goes, oh, you skateboard, right? | ||
| And I'm like, yeah. | ||
| He's like, don't you, like, hurt your legs or whatever? | ||
| And I was like, yeah, sometimes my knees. | ||
| And he goes, oh, bro, you got knee problems? | ||
| Oh, you need some meat. | ||
| You need some weed. | ||
| You gotta get a weed card. | ||
| Doctor will get you signed up. | ||
| Not interested. | ||
| You get that weed card. | ||
| You smoke weed. | ||
| You are ineligible. | ||
| You can't own a gun. | ||
| Maybe for physical pain, you could get away with it, but if you say it's stress, you're gonna... No, no, no, no, Ian. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| Or are you saying it could theoretically be true with red flag laws? | ||
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Yes. | |
| It's insane. | ||
| On the form it asks you if you are a user of narcotics. | ||
| And so the risk is if you have a weed prescription card, yes you are. | ||
| And that means you will be ineligible for owning a gun. | ||
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That's insane. | |
| Huh. | ||
| Yeah, so you ever see the, what are they called, the forms you fill out when you have to buy | ||
| a gun? | ||
| It asks you if you're a user of narcotics. | ||
| And they have it classified federally as a Schedule 1 narcotic. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's like the worst possible one. | ||
| If you have a weed card, I don't think you'll be able to argue you weren't lying. | ||
| They're gonna say, you have a weed card prescription, like, to do this drug. | ||
| There's no shot. | ||
| I can't believe that. | ||
| I've never heard it—that's actually real—that anyone's ever had their guns taken away because they had a weed card. | ||
| I've never heard that. | ||
| I can see that argument, though. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I know that's not the case, because if that was, I would have heard conservatives complaining about it. | ||
| They are! | ||
| They want Hunter Biden arrested over it, because he filled out a form and said he wasn't a drug user when he's a crackhead. | ||
| No, no, no, but that's— That's literally why they want him arrested. | ||
| For Hunter Biden? | ||
| Hunter Biden filled out a form. | ||
| The form was released publicly, and on it he said he was not a drug user, despite- For- are you- the 4473 for a gun? | ||
| The- the background check form for a gun. | ||
| It asks you if you're a user of narcotics. | ||
| I feel like they wanted him arrested because they said that he's doing illegal dealings overseas where he's roping his father into the... Specifically for the gun issue, it was like his girlfriend or whatever, his wife threw the gun in a dumpster behind a school. | ||
| Did they accurately date the crack use, though, for when he filled out the form? | ||
| That was the question. | ||
| That's really important. | ||
| It's the argument, he quit doing crack a long time ago, thus he was saying no, and the argument was he's like still a crackhead, they found a crack pipe in his car around some time or whatever, and so I am not saying overtly and outright every single person who ever has a weed card will never be able to buy a gun again. | ||
| I'm saying if they want grounds to take your weapons and you have had a weed card, they will come, they will have a notice, and they will say, look, you have a weed card, you're a user, tell it to a judge, we're taking your guns. | ||
| They'll use it as a pretext. | ||
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We do! | |
| Oh, wait, hold on, okay. | ||
| I looked up the 4470 thing, so I'm curious now. | ||
| So it says, oh, well, so it says, are you an unlawful user of marijuana? | ||
| So I would say if you've got the card, you're probably not unlawful, but federally, as a federal firm, maybe you would be. | ||
| You would absolutely be. | ||
| They actually say on the form, I'm pretty sure it says, note, regardless of local laws. | ||
| See what it says? | ||
| It says that, right? | ||
| Yeah, it says possession of marijuana remains unlawful under federal law regardless of whether it's been legalized. | ||
| Oh shit, well, government's coming for my gun soon. | ||
| This country is built on the back of hemp, man. | ||
| Look at George Washington's eyes on the $1 bill he stole. | ||
| We got news, ladies and gentlemen! | ||
| We have information on the Trump indictment breaking. | ||
| have crushed referencing databases to like axe guns from people that have like legal | ||
| marijuana cards or whatever. | ||
| But they can if they want to. | ||
| Theoretically, maybe. | ||
| We got news, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We have information on the Trump indictment breaking. | ||
| Trump indicted reportedly on 34 counts related to falsifying business records. | ||
| The indictment stems from Trump allegedly falsifying records concerning $130,000 payment | ||
| to Daniels, Stormy Daniels, in 2016. | ||
| CNN reports they were informed of the number of indictments by an unnamed source. | ||
| So, we take that with a grain of salt. | ||
| Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty, yadda yadda yadda. | ||
| Let's play the clip from CNN. | ||
| Do we have audio here? | ||
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My source is that this is 34 counts of falsification of business records, which is probably a lot of charges involving each document, each thing that was submitted as a separate count in a couple of matters. | |
| Okay, well that's it. | ||
| Is that like if he's like, yeah, and then he responds? | ||
| It has to be more than that. | ||
| More than what? | ||
| It has to be more than just counts of falsifying business records, I think. | ||
| It has to be something election related to keep it to go past the misdemeanor thing, I think. | ||
| I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna agree. | ||
| I think it's definitely gonna be more than just the Stormy Daniels thing. | ||
| Falsifying business records, is that like if they're in an email chain and he's like, are you sure? | ||
| And then he sends email, he's like, response, yes. | ||
| And then he's like, okay then, is that three counts? | ||
| My guess is gonna be that I think he was paid back, wasn't it over a multi, like a year period or two year period? | ||
| The falsifying business record, like let's say that I paid you bi-weekly over an entire year. | ||
| Right? | ||
| It would be 26 different payments that I'm lying about, so it'd probably be 26 separate counts of falsifying records. | ||
| That'd be my guess. | ||
| But again, it has to be more than just falsifying records, because that's only a misdemeanor, and the statute of limitations is expired, and it's a fucking misdemeanor. | ||
| Why would we charge an ex-president over a misdemeanor? | ||
| That's the most insane thing. | ||
| That's the outrage from conservatives. | ||
| It has to be something more than that. | ||
| It has to be something more than that. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I think it's going to be worse than people think. | ||
| Right now, everyone's saying it's a Stormy Daniels thing. | ||
| I bet it's going to be something else. | ||
| Something completely different. | ||
| I don't know about completely different, but it's going to be... It's got to be related to campaign fund misappropriation, or... The question is, will it be dubious, or will it be questionable, or will it be airtight? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I kind of feel like it's probably going to be dubious. | ||
| I mean, Ukrainegate as it was, and Mueller and Russia and all that stuff did not pan out. | ||
| I have very little... In terms of indictments, there were a lot of good indictments that came from the Mueller investigation. | ||
| No, I mean like, Trump isn't a Russian spy, he wasn't working with the Soviets. | ||
| Oh, probably. | ||
| Like, nothing was born of those things, you know what I mean? | ||
| I feel like this is just like, they're gonna spin their wheels, Trump's gonna fundraise off it, he's gonna raise record amounts of money, there's gonna be a mugshot that will turn into t-shirts, people will get rich off of it, Donald Trump will win the election in 2024, and then we'll not even talk about this moment later on. | ||
| Does this kind of thing give people the right to go deeper into his life and look for things and serve subpoenas and warrants and things? | ||
| To like look at emails from 20 years ago? | ||
| Does it open up old I would hope that prosecutors are being intelligent when it comes to charging somebody that's going to run for president. | ||
| It's not even the fact that he's a former president. | ||
| It's that he's going to run for president. | ||
| The absolute worst case scenario for the health of this country is that Donald Trump gets indicted, charged, and convicted of something that's not really that big of a deal that somehow inhibits his ability to run for office. | ||
| Because now you've justified every single conservative that thinks that the system is trying to keep him out using judicial means. | ||
| The left doesn't even get to feel good. | ||
| Because, like, let's be honest. | ||
| Let's say he goes to jail for something really stupid like lying about, you know, paying off a porn star. | ||
| Like, you don't even film that stuff. | ||
| Like, I wanted him to go down for, like, the pee tapes for the Putin stuff, right? | ||
| Not for this bullshit. | ||
| So, yeah, no, I hope they're sitting on something good. | ||
| Otherwise, they have to realize they're making the entire United States look like a joke. | ||
| I don't think there's going to be anything there. | ||
| I mean, it's been years. | ||
| They've known about this for years and they've not done anything. | ||
| So it really just feels politically expedient. | ||
| And they just disbanded the grand jury two days ago or something for a month. | ||
| Today they announced it was going on break for a month and then all of a sudden they're like, oh by the way. | ||
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That's so weird. | |
| I have a question for you, Stephen. | ||
| It's kind of off topic, but it's somewhat on topic. | ||
| I'm talking about the war in Ukraine and the Russian war. | ||
| What do you think is the solution to ending this or to the future? | ||
| Well, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. | ||
| First question is, how do you feel about the war in Ukraine? | ||
| I'm happy Ukraine is winning. | ||
| I hope they get back Crimea. | ||
| Fuck Russia. | ||
| So what do you think would be a solution to make that happen? | ||
| Ukraine winning the war and getting back Crimea and saying fuck Russia. | ||
| What's defined winning the war? | ||
| Getting back Crimea. | ||
| Having their borders restored to what they were in 1991 when they broke off from the Soviet Union and when the entire world recognized the country as having the borders that it did that included the Donbas and included Crimea. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Well, there's a lot of people. | ||
| Some of my friends think that same thing. | ||
| What's the, I suppose, justification for U.S. | ||
| involvement? | ||
| Justification for U.S. | ||
| involvement is probably that the stability of Europe is potentially at risk, that we are seeing an actor engaged in actions that haven't happened in decades, where one sovereign state invades another sovereign state to steal territory from them. | ||
| It's just something that we don't really see around the world anymore, especially in Europe. | ||
| And I think that the opposition to that should be led by the United States. | ||
| I think it's important for us to be seen as a leader of the world to do that. | ||
| Would you be in favor of a similar military response if it came to Taiwan? | ||
| Taiwan and Hong Kong are so much more complicated, and I'm not well-versed enough in the history | ||
| to know if I would feel the same for that. | ||
| The stability of Southeast Asia and the region, you know what I mean? | ||
| True, but I think that our responsibility is the presence we have and the relationships we have with Southeast Asia. | ||
| I mean, we do have good relationships with South Korea and Japan, but it's different than Europe. | ||
| But I would have to read up way more on Taiwanese history and the deals that China has carved out with respect to the autonomy of Taiwan to know if I would feel the same way about defending them militarily versus Ukraine. | ||
| But I feel very strongly about the understanding of Ukrainian history and everything, that their borders should be respected. | ||
| Do you think the $100 billion price tag is justified? | ||
| I think a really big price tag is justified. | ||
| I mean, I'm not going to sit here and argue to know the difference between $100 billion versus $1 trillion versus $500 billion, but I think that it is worth it for the United States to be making heavy investments into the security of Europe. | ||
| I think that that position that we have as the leader of the Western world and leading those efforts to protect Ukraine is really important. | ||
| You go to Ukraine and fight the Russians? | ||
| Fuck no. | ||
| Would you send other people's kids there to fight Russians? | ||
| U.S. | ||
| troops in Ukraine fighting Russians is probably something I would not support. | ||
| What about special forces doing operations to assist Ukrainians? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I'd have to think a lot. | ||
| What do special forces mean? | ||
| If we're talking about people going over to train troops, maybe. | ||
| For instance, if we're sending weapons systems over there, and we're sending troops over there to train them to use those weapons systems, that might be important so that those weapons systems don't misfire or they're crashing planes up into Poland or some shit. | ||
| And they did. | ||
| They did do it one time. | ||
| Yes, they did. | ||
| What about the U.S. | ||
| using reconnaissance measures and surveillance to provide intelligence to the Ukrainians To then have the Ukrainians use the weapons we provided to, say, sink the Russian flagship in the Black Sea? | ||
| I think so far I think that's been fair game. | ||
| I think that a lot of people around the world share intelligence, and that's probably just a given at this point, are sharing intelligence with Ukraine. | ||
| There's probably no difference than China or Russia sharing intel with each other as well. | ||
| What about former US military, now veterans, fighting on the ground in Ukraine using US | ||
| intelligence, US weapons, and US funding to assist Ukrainians in say, like, sinking ships | ||
| and stuff like that? | ||
| I think it sounds silly, but I think there is a distinction that they are former US military. | ||
| The scary part about US troops… troops and Russian troops shooting at each other is the potential for escalation into all of us getting blown up. | ||
| But if a former U.S. | ||
| military person gets killed by a Russian troop, that's a Ukrainian soldier, that former U.S., it is what it is. | ||
| Do you really think Russia is going like, well, they're not really a U.S. | ||
| military, so we're not going to do anything about it? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I disagree, I think. | ||
| I think there's a massive, there's a huge difference between that guy used to be part of the U.S. | ||
| military, he's fighting Ukraine, versus there are armed U.S. | ||
| troops on the ground. | ||
| There's a whole escalatory pathway for U.S. | ||
| soldiers in Ukraine. | ||
| You think Putin cares? | ||
| Absolutely, yeah. | ||
| I mean, they just took down one of our drones, whether it was an accident or not, they did a fuel spray on it. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And then clipped it. | ||
| And we do dumb shit like that to each other, sometimes it happens, but having uniformed U.S. | ||
| troops on the ground in Ukraine would be a massive escalation. | ||
| Do you think Russia is going to allow Ukraine to win? | ||
| Is Russia going to allow Ukraine to win? | ||
| Well, I mean, they've allowed them to get as far as they have so far. | ||
| But now they're positioning nukes north of Ukraine and Belarus. | ||
| I heard the strategic nuclear weapons being moved into Belarus. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| I don't know if that's posturing. | ||
| The UK is deploying depleted uranium tank busters, which are radioactive. | ||
| Russia responded by saying, we warned you that if you use depleted uranium, that's nuclear escalation. | ||
| And now they're moving nukes to the region. | ||
| Sure, but they've been talking about nuclear escalation for like two years. | ||
| But then they did it, and now Russia is sending nukes into the region. | ||
| Sure, into Belarus, yeah. | ||
| But like, are they actually going to start using? | ||
| I don't think Russia's going to. | ||
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| I don't think so. | ||
| I don't know what Russia's going to use. | ||
| The mistake people make is they assume nuke means, you know, 100 megaton ICBMs. | ||
| Doesn't happen. | ||
| Even strategic nuclear weapons, I think, would be- Nuclear artillery. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| Depleted uranium is different than firing nukes. | ||
| No, I'm talking about nuclear shells. | ||
| I don't think they're going to be firing nuclear shells. | ||
| I don't think they'll be firing small-yield, no Davy Crockett's, no exotic, miniature nuclear arms. | ||
| I don't think that'll happen. | ||
| I don't even think China, I don't think anybody would support Russia in those types of actions. | ||
| I disagree. | ||
| You think that China would support Russia? | ||
| Yes, hands down. | ||
| I think the U.S. | ||
| has already lost its position. | ||
| Was it Brazil and China just announced that they're going to be trading outside of U.S. | ||
| dollars? | ||
| China's brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| is in such a fractured position right now that I'm pretty sure China's going to be like, sucks to be you, United States. | ||
| I don't think it's about being in a fractured position. | ||
| I don't think anybody wants to be in a country where people are shooting nuclear weapons, including China and everybody else in the world. | ||
| It's going to be in Ukraine. | ||
| This is what I'm saying. | ||
| The U.S. | ||
| will not, this was brought up by, I think it was an EU politician, he said, if Russia uses lower yield nukes in Ukraine, the West will not respond with similar nuclear weapons or greater. | ||
| Why would, who cares what a EU politician says though? | ||
| He said, I don't know, who was this? | ||
| It was like a UN guy or something. | ||
| I don't care who it is, if it wasn't the U.S. | ||
| president, UN has no fucking, you know, No one is going to risk... What did he say? | ||
| He says no one's going to risk Warsaw for Kiev. | ||
| If Vladimir Putin escalates the conflict in Ukraine, Western forces will not escalate to the point where they would put their home countries at risk. | ||
| They will keep the conflict in Ukraine. | ||
| Well, of course, but Ukraine's not a NATO country, so all we'll do is send stuff to help, but we're not going to be putting troops there. | ||
| We're not going to be flying planes over there. | ||
| What they were saying is that if Putin uses nukes in Ukraine, the West will not fire nukes on Russia in return. | ||
| Fire nukes on Russia in return? | ||
| I don't believe so. | ||
| But wasn't Biden's initial claim that we'd be destroying their fleet in the Black Sea or something? | ||
| Well, we took out their flagship. | ||
| But again, I wouldn't look to a UN or an EU politician to speak on behalf of the US military or what the US is willing to do, because at the end of the day, that's really all that matters, right? | ||
| I agree with your principle that countries shouldn't be invading and colonizing territory, but then I look at what the U.S. | ||
| did the last 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. | ||
| We haven't done anything even remotely similar. | ||
| We didn't take any territory from Iraq. | ||
| They're not on our border. | ||
| We have a puppet state in Iraq. | ||
| We have corporations set up in Libya like Osprey. | ||
| Iraq holds their own elections. | ||
| Iraq is its own country. | ||
| We didn't take any territory from them. | ||
| We didn't declare any of this, like, this is now part of the United States. | ||
| It's a totally different scenario from what's happening in Ukraine and Russia. | ||
| We removed the Ba'ath Party from power, which caused ISIS to appear, you know. | ||
| But, I mean, you could say it's legit, but it's a puppet state. | ||
| I'm not saying it's legit, but I don't think we can call it a puppet state. | ||
| I don't think it's fair. | ||
| They hold their own elections. | ||
| They are their own country. | ||
| You might not like it. | ||
| We did remove Saddam Hussein. | ||
| We did ban the Ba'ath Party from reforming. | ||
| That is true. | ||
| But we didn't come in and say, like, we're going to carve off this part as, like, New Connecticut as a part of the United States now. | ||
| That's an insane thing to do. | ||
| That's an insane thing to do. | ||
| We haven't done that. | ||
| Russia went into Ukraine and they took territory. | ||
| This is Russia now. | ||
| That hasn't happened in so long. | ||
| It's an unprecedented action in this age. | ||
| Post-91, post-Soviet Union. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| Yeah, I think of it as like, after the Soviet Union broke up, the oligarchs split it all up and they took away the warm water port from Russia because they didn't want to be a global hegemon. | ||
| They were like, no, we're going to give Sevastopol to Ukraine now. | ||
| Russia's landlocked and they can have their other. | ||
| It'd be like in the U.S. | ||
| if they took the West Coast and took a long strip down the West Coast of the U.S. | ||
| and gave it to Canada, and we had no Pacific access. | ||
| That at some point, the U.S. | ||
| would be like, this is insane, and we're gonna invade and take Pacific access. | ||
| And that's where I see the Russians coming from. | ||
| But how? | ||
| They recognize the border. | ||
| That's the country. | ||
| You might not like it, but... | ||
| It's just de facto. | ||
| It's not de facto. | ||
| What if Canada was like, we really want Alaska? | ||
| This is bullshit. | ||
| It's not even connected to the US. | ||
| We're going to take this. | ||
| We can't do that. | ||
| Well, they can try. | ||
| They could try. | ||
| De facto, if we didn't have West Coast access. | ||
| I wish they'd fucking try. | ||
| I would just love to win a war against Canada. | ||
| And it would give us pretext to seize Canada. | ||
| We would end up taking Canada and annexing it into the United States. | ||
| No more land acknowledgments. | ||
| The way we did with Libya, the way we invaded over through Gaddafi took them off the gold. | ||
| We did that with authorization through fucking through NATO and even through the UN. | ||
| I'm pretty sure Gaddafi was so bad, I think even China would abstain from voting no on that one. | ||
| But again, I'm just saying that, here's what I'm trying to say. | ||
| There's something very unique in particular. | ||
| I'm not saying that, because I know a bunch of people are swearing now, probably saying, oh, he wants Iraq and Afghanistan, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| I'm not saying those invasions were good. | ||
| I'm not saying our occupation was good. | ||
| But I'm saying there's something fundamentally different from invading a country and taking territory and saying, this land is mine now. | ||
| Even in Afghanistan, where we were for 7,000 years, we didn't actually say, this is US territory now. | ||
| Right? | ||
| There are people there, they ran, they did their elections, they did other things, eventually we left, but like, it's not U.S. | ||
| territory, whereas that has to happen with Crimea and Ukraine. | ||
| You know, we almost took Mexico? | ||
| I was watching this documentary on, what was it, the Mexican-American War, and then we, like, Americans were actually in favor of just taking it, and we won, but then the president at the time, I can't remember who it was, Polk or something, he was like, nah, nah, Mexico can stay Mexico. | ||
| The tactic the liberal economic order has been using is corporate- Well, we took Texas and stuff. | ||
| It's corporate colonization. | ||
| California. | ||
| Gaddafi set up the U.S. | ||
| dollar and all these American corporations like Sydney Blumenthal's Osprey Global Solutions. | ||
| Hillary made sure that he got his defense contract in Libya. | ||
| So they say, oh no, we're not taking that land, but it is profiting us massively because we have it set up as a corporate stock. | ||
| Sure, I mean everything profits us, but I mean that's a fundamentally different thing again from like taking the land and being like, we're going to... I would argue that colonizing corporately overseas is much worse than taking a piece of land on your border. | ||
| But it's still way different. | ||
| It's different, yeah. | ||
| It's different than, like, this is U.S. | ||
| land that we are now administering legally, and this is our land now. | ||
| But if you legally say it's okay to invade and take something over, it doesn't make it okay to invade and take it over just because you said it was legal. | ||
| You guys are going in circles. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| Let's jump to domestic story. | ||
| We're going in spirals, Tim! | ||
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| Alright, here we go. | ||
| From the Daily Mail! | ||
| NYPD orders full mobilization plan. | ||
| All uniformed officers are on standby as extra manpower is deployed to ring of steel around Manhattan's DA's office amid fears of violence after Trump's indictment. | ||
| I really don't think that New York City is MAGA country enough to the point that they have to worry about a bunch of Trump supporters showing up to the Manhattan DA's office. | ||
| I'm just worried they're going to march them all down into the tunnels for drills next. | ||
| And then we know what happens. | ||
| Have you seen The Dark Knight Rises? | ||
| Oh, that's right! | ||
| And then they're going to release all the inmates from their jails! | ||
| Oh, man! | ||
| I've seen the Warriors, yeah, jeez. | ||
| I wonder what New York would be like if, I don't know, 8,000 people convicted of violence were just released. | ||
| All those COVID patients are going to come crawling out of the old person's homes? | ||
| Those power electric chairs? | ||
| They live underground. | ||
| Yeah, so anyway, I find this funny because, um, let me see if I have this, uh, this tweet somewhere. | ||
| Where is this? | ||
| I think people are just, like, so paranoid, they just don't want to risk it, right? | ||
| Like, January 6th was such a disaster, and it was a disaster at, like, multiple levels of failing to be ready for what was gonna happen. | ||
| I think for New York, they're probably saying, like, better safe than sorry, because, oh my god, if something got repeated where they weren't ready, it's just gonna look so bad on everybody involved, you know? | ||
| Sure, we have this, uh, we have this video coming out of Tennessee, where a bunch of leftists... | ||
| Stormed the Capitol and fought with police. | ||
| They actually made their way into the chamber in what conservatives are calling an insurrection. | ||
| So, I mean, that's basically it. | ||
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Look, they're fighting with cops and people are getting arrested. | |
| And it happened in Kentucky, too. | ||
| But, like, this happens all the time. | ||
| I mean, it's funny, there were numerous protests by the left where they actually were banging on the doors of the Supreme Court, or actually went inside to the congressional buildings and shut down legislative sessions, and they were never considered that big of a deal. | ||
| And even right now, it's like the media's not covering this like it's that big of a deal to shut down your Capitol. | ||
| State capitals, I guess, don't matter? | ||
| I don't know what. | ||
| Well, it matters, but just how much does it matter? | ||
| I mean, the media's covering it, right? | ||
| That was a video by the media, right? | ||
| Yeah, someone posted it. | ||
| Was this Kelsey Gibbs? | ||
| Yeah, Kelsey Gibbs posted it and then deleted it. | ||
| Greg Price got a copy of it and reposted it. | ||
| And then maybe she reposted it again. | ||
| It looked like it really wasn't. | ||
| Super violent. | ||
| I mean, I don't think anyone got hurt. | ||
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| Typically, what we mean when we say, like, the news doesn't cover it is that, like, sure, local outlets may run the story, but is it getting headline attention? | ||
| Is it getting primetime attention? | ||
| Is it the conversation? | ||
| It didn't shut down the authorization of the new president of the United States, which is what January 6 was. | ||
| They were trying to, like, slow or stop the counting of the votes to get Biden elected, or something like that. | ||
| So it was like a federal election. | ||
| That was what made that one such a big deal. | ||
| Plus, it was high profile. | ||
| Yeah, it was kind of goaded on by our president. | ||
| I think it was a big deal, too. | ||
| He did say Donald Trump was involved in setting it up directly. | ||
| You know, not the violence, but just... He said, peacefully march to listen to politicians. | ||
| Yeah, just getting the people in the vicinity, he was part of that. | ||
| I think it was something he said for months, that they were going to steal our election from us, and we need to fight like hell to keep it. | ||
| I think it was more that than the march peacefully thing, but... Well, he said march peacefully, and there was a permitted rally at the Capitol. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| How can you go- Okay, we're backing up a little bit. | ||
| How can you take the one thing that Biden said on stage one time as definitive proof that he was actually trying to withhold aid, but the numerous statements- He literally said he did. | ||
| And Trump literally said that we need to fight like hell- Trump did not say storm the Capitol. | ||
| He didn't say storm the Capitol in those exact words. | ||
| But he said we need to fight like hell. | ||
| He said we need to fight like- What does fight mean? | ||
| Does that mean be obese and stand at the Capitol? | ||
| capital? | ||
| Yeah, it's not an argument. | ||
| If Joe Biden sat on stage, could you imagine if I told this guy I did this and everyone | ||
| went, oh, no, he literally said he did a thing. | ||
| And we're like, hey, if he said he did that, we should investigate. | ||
| Trump said fight. | ||
| And then later, now go march peacefully. | ||
| It's like, well, those are metaphors. | ||
| The left says fight all the time. | ||
| We don't mean physically. | ||
| We mean spiritually. | ||
| We mean sure, but it's followed or that was followed up by months of saying that, like, | ||
| they're going to steal the election from you. | ||
| You have to fight to save your country. | ||
| Like, you don't think that that type of rhetoric can directly lead to people saying, like, oh, our election is being stolen, like Trump said, it's being stolen, and we need to fight, like, go to the Capitol and fight to save our country? | ||
| In that line, do you blame trans activists for calling for fighting when this person went and shot up a church or a grade school? | ||
| For the trans shooter? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, they've been saying it's genocide nonstop over and over again, and they've been saying get up weapons and you have to fight. | ||
| Yeah, but I don't know why that shooter did the shooting. | ||
| Do you? | ||
| So the police said there's a manifesto and that the working theory is it's related to the identity of the shooter. | ||
| The gender identity. | ||
| Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| You said two totally different things. | ||
| Are the police saying that it was... Yes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So I read... Hold on, I want to be very specific. | ||
| Yeah, wait, yeah. | ||
| I'd be curious to know, because I read four different articles and I was trying to find out was anything from this manifesto released. | ||
| No, the media is saying they should release it. | ||
| They will release it. | ||
| My understanding is the police has not commented on the material in the manifesto yet. | ||
| What did they say about it specifically? | ||
| It was the police chief, I guess. | ||
| He was asked specifically, did the gender identity of the shooter play a role? | ||
| And he says, the theory is that is the case. | ||
| We're investigating, etc, etc. | ||
| I heard that. | ||
| That's actually what he said. | ||
| Okay, I don't know what that means. | ||
| Because it could mean what you're saying. | ||
| So let's say that in the manifesto, they're saying things like, I've been watching a whole bunch of YouTube commentators like Vosh saying that there is a transgenocide and I need to go and take action to prevent that. | ||
| Then I would say that's horrible. | ||
| And people that are saying it, actually, fuck, even if they didn't say that, the people that are saying there's a trans genocide and we need to fight should be held accountable. | ||
| I think that's a bad thing. | ||
| If you believe in stochastic terrorism, I think that that's definitely that. | ||
| But if it's something like where the person is like, oh, like, I'm trans and people in my life don't accept me, I'm gonna go shit over school, I think that's meaningfully different than inspired by rhetoric from people calling for violence, right? | ||
| So, when we see these protests from far leftists, like at the Capitol, like in Kentucky and Tennessee, do you think the storming of those capitals is the fault of people like Vosch saying, you gotta take- I don't know if Vosch ever said that. | ||
| Well, those- My understanding is the storming of those capitals was for gun reform. | ||
| Kentucky was trans rights. | ||
| They were holding up trans rights signs. | ||
| Was it trans rights? | ||
| Oh, I thought they were doing it in response to the shooting. | ||
| Sure, sure, but no, no, Kentucky was that they're banning—I think it was Kentucky, right? | ||
| They're banning sex changes for kids. | ||
| It might have been in Kentucky. | ||
| For Tennessee, I think it was for firearms, right? | ||
| Tennessee was firearms, but it overlapped with that issue. | ||
| It was primarily a firearms protest. | ||
| So let's just say Kentucky, the storming of the Capitol there, where they're in the gallery and they're being arrested and they're holding up trans signs, do you think the suspense of that, the inhibition of that legislative session and the storming of that Capitol is the result, is the fault of activists saying, take up arms and go fight? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| If somebody is storming buildings, I think they should be held legally accountable. | ||
| If they're trespassing, then they absolutely should be. | ||
| And I think that people that are using alarmist rhetoric to get people to go and fight, whether that's Donald Trump or whether that's far-left people on YouTube, I think should also be... Did Fox do that? | ||
| Yeah, you guys say it all the time. | ||
| It's one of those things. | ||
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| You've got to be careful of alarmist rhetoric. | ||
| Well, hold on, because Hassan does it, but he says only in video games. | ||
| Well, unless it's an imminent call. | ||
| Like, vague calls like, hey, go do this thing. | ||
| That's not illegal. | ||
| That's protected First Amendment. | ||
| But if you say, on this day, at this time, do this thing, then that's an imminent threat. | ||
| I understand that's illegal under the First Amendment. | ||
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| The issue that I have is a general alarmist rhetoric. | ||
| There's a lot of people saying that there's a transgenocide incoming, so buy firearms. | ||
| That feels a little bit like Great Replacement rhetoric, except on the left instead of the right, to me. | ||
| Where people on the right sometimes will say things like, immigrants are invading, they're taking everything, you need to buy firearms to protect yourself from spooky immigrants that are replacing white people. | ||
| That feels similar to people saying there's a transgenocide, buy firearms because Republicans are going to take your rights away. | ||
| That type of, like, any type of rhetoric that is basically stating that, like, your life is on the line, buy a gun, in my opinion, is, like, very, very, very unhealthy for the state of the country. | ||
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I agree. | |
| I don't like the metaphor, fight for your rights. | ||
| It's been around my entire life. | ||
| You gotta fight for your rights. | ||
| And in the United States, they literally did 250 years ago. | ||
| And throughout the ages, they have had to do that. | ||
| But they have done it literally with weapons. | ||
| And so the idea that we need to... We got into a fight yesterday. | ||
| Oh, you mean we are arguing? | ||
| That's not a real... Like, what does fight even mean? | ||
| Are you Elizabeth Warren saying? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| Come on. | ||
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| Well, I mean, that's what we're talking about, the word fighting. | ||
| Like, if you say, go fight for your right, are you really encouraging violence? | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| But, like, typically, every political organization says, fight for your rights, and they're not implying physical violence. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| They're implying a struggle against a political machine to encourage people to vote and to get in politicians and get policy in place. | ||
| So if someone's on a heavy dose of psychoactives and they hear that and they go fight physically, you gotta put it on the person. | ||
| I don't think you blame the person. | ||
| You gotta blame the person that fought, not the person that said go fight. | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| I think we have to have a more holistic, intelligent view of this. | ||
| What I would say is you have to look at the totality of rhetoric and you've gotta ask where does it lead. | ||
| If somebody is saying, like, listen, lawmakers are coming for your rights, you guys need to fight for your rights, okay? | ||
| Like, we gotta do that. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| But if somebody's saying, like, you are being eliminated from this country, people are trying to genocide you, they're gonna use whatever means possible to take you out, you need to get armed, you need to train, you need to be ready for when these people come to town, like, that's like, okay, what the fuck? | ||
| Right, exactly, yes. | ||
| You have to look at the totality of the rhetoric, it's not just like a one statement, it's like, how is it being presented all the time? | ||
| What we are seeing with these posters, like Trans Day of Vengeance, they had pictures of guns on it. | ||
| It's being accompanied by posters that say, take up your arms, no one is coming to save you. | ||
| And videos of these activists saying, quite literally, to beat people. | ||
| Did you see that one? | ||
| They got like a club made of a curtain rod, and they're like, beat them, beat them, hurt them. | ||
| Yeah, although I'd say we have to be really careful about, because, I don't know how big some of these, like, for some of these trans organizations that people are obsessing over, the Trans Day of Vengeance, and then there was another one, like the Trans Resistance something network or whatever. | ||
| Trans Radical Activist Network. | ||
| Yeah, like, I don't even know if these things exist. | ||
| Um, like, I see a lot of, like, I know Fox News wrote- I think it had a few thousand followers. | ||
| Yeah, it had, like, well, on Twitter, like, that- But they're the ones organizing the event in D.C. | ||
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| Yeah, but I'm curious how many people are gonna even show up to that. | ||
| Because I looked at that page, and it's, like, a WordPress page with, like, two links. | ||
| That's what it always is. | ||
| And the Twitter page has, like, 300 followers. | ||
| And you'll get- With no names attached. | ||
| You'll get a few hundred people to show up. | ||
| I bet it's a Russian app. | ||
| Oh, yeah? | ||
| Russia? | ||
| I mean, honestly, uh, I would not be surprised if it was Russia or China, or both. | ||
| Oh, wait, did they cancel it? | ||
| Oh, apparently they cancelled the April 1st thing. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| April Fool's! | ||
| Breaking news brought to you on the TimCast podcast. | ||
| What was the April 1st thing? | ||
| The Trans Day of Vengeance. | ||
| Oh, they cancelled it. | ||
| What a horrible name! | ||
| I know. | ||
| Where did you get that from? | ||
| Where was that news? | ||
| Well, that's good. | ||
| They did the right thing. | ||
| I think that was definitely being construed as a violent call, so I think that was the right move. | ||
| The organization says this action is not happening due to credible threat to life and safety. | ||
| Oh wow. | ||
| I think fight for your rights, okay. | ||
| Vengeance starts to get a little bit weird though. | ||
| Revenge, also the word revenge, I don't like the word revenge. | ||
| Can you have peaceful revenge? | ||
| I guess you can. | ||
| Watching someone fail is like a form of revenge if you're like me not doing anything. | ||
| I would say that's an unconventional use of the word though. | ||
| Probably not good. | ||
| Vengeance. | ||
| That implies past wrongdoing. | ||
| I do think it's absolutely insane that after what happened on Monday, the media's response to this was very, very much like, oh, the poor trans community, whereas they typically don't do that for any other mass shooting. | ||
| They don't lament the ideology. | ||
| Well, because what are the other mass shootings? | ||
| These are like white dudes. | ||
| We're really poor white people? | ||
| I think for this one there's a pretty big deal about it being a trans person, which I don't think it was necessarily made as big a deal for the past one. | ||
| out and say the same thing. It's like this one they did. | ||
| Yeah, but I think for this one there's a pretty big deal about it being a trans person, which | ||
| I don't think it was necessarily made as big a deal for the past one. And then I think | ||
| that the temperature is up really high right now because apparently Republicans have nothing | ||
| else to talk about but trans people, so we're like all focused and fixated on trans people | ||
| right now, so when a shooting happens with a trans person— I don't think it's Republicans. I think it's both | ||
| Republicans and Democrats. | ||
| Republicans are obsessed with trans people right now. | ||
| But Democrats are, you know, putting books like Genderqueer in schools, or I should say schools are putting those in place. | ||
| Loudoun County, we saw a Republican get elected in Virginia primarily because of what happened in Loudoun County, which is literally two seconds. | ||
| You get in the car, you drive 20 seconds, you're in Loudoun. | ||
| And it's because these schools, they had sexual assaults. | ||
| They had these books depicting graphic things for kids. | ||
| And then when parents wanted something done about it, Democrats called them bigots and ignored the problem. | ||
| So they turned to Republicans, Republicans embraced it. | ||
| Yeah, but isn't this, like, what school boards are for? | ||
| Like, don't you go to your school meetings, you say, we don't want this here, and then you talk to the superintendent? | ||
| Have you watched those meetings? | ||
| Some of them, but not all of them. | ||
| When the parents go and present the books, they get kicked out or silenced and told they can't speak about it. | ||
| For, really? | ||
| For all of them? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
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| I didn't say all of them. | ||
| Well, because I can imagine it happening at, like, one or two meetings. | ||
| When Matt Walsh wanted to speak in Loudoun County, they changed the rules so that he wasn't allowed to, so he had to rent a basement apartment to be able to speak. | ||
| Was Matt Walsh a resident of that county? | ||
| No, and you didn't need to be. | ||
| Anyone was allowed to speak at these meetings about issues, so when they found out a prominent | ||
| conservative was coming, they changed the rule to bar him from coming, so he had to | ||
| become a resident. | ||
| That was not a rule normally. | ||
| Do you think that might be fair? | ||
| It is absolutely fair that someone in California can pay AOC $3,000 to help her win her campaign. | ||
| It's absolutely fair that in a Virginia gubernatorial election, someone from, where does he live, | ||
| Tennessee, comes over and says, like, here are my thoughts on this matter and why it's | ||
| To change the rules to bar it, I think is ridiculous. | ||
| And I think that's, but those are federal level things that we're talking about generally. | ||
| Not the governor one, but like the AOC one. | ||
| But don't you think it might be a little bit different? | ||
| Like, let's say that you've got like a... Wait, wait, wait, wait, full stop, full stop. | ||
| Outside the federal thing. | ||
| Local Democrats raise money out of state all the time. | ||
| Sure, I'm saying that if you have local superintendent meetings, if I go to my child's school to have a conversation about the curriculum with the teachers and there are other parents there, if I started to see people show up from California or Wyoming, we're from Nebraska, I'd be like, I don't know why you guys are here right now. | ||
| That would make me really uncomfortable. | ||
| Completely agree. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So if it was the case that, like, it might have been the case, and I don't know for the Matt Walsh thing, I don't know in particular, but it might have been the case that there wasn't a law in the books for that because it's just something that's never come up before. | ||
| But if it is going to be a thing, then I gotta understand, like, yeah, you don't need to be at these meetings. | ||
| This isn't, like, your political process. | ||
| This is a very local level thing. | ||
| Well, so to go back to the main point, to put it simply I suppose, Loudoun County was a flashpoint where parents were not being listened to, they were protesting. | ||
| I remember we went down to Catoctin Skatepark, we saw parents outside tabling being like, when we go to these meetings they won't listen to us, we need change. | ||
| And that was a huge rallying cry that gets a Republican elected. | ||
| So Republicans are looking at this, and they're hearing parents say, when the COVID lockdown stuff happened, and we heard what these teachers were telling our kids, we were shocked. | ||
| And when we tried to get these things changed, they resisted. | ||
| There's one parent's getting sued by the teachers, by the teachers union or whatever, filed a lawsuit against them because they asked for records on what's being taught to their kids. | ||
| I feel like if we look I'd be curious to look up that lawsuit because I feel like sometimes yeah okay look that one up I'm curious what they're actually being sued for um but the my question would be like can't you just vote out the superintendent like this is part of our local election process like if you don't like the school superintendent don't we vote on that I'm just trying to imagine what the resistance is. | ||
| And now what I'm wondering is, is there resistance for a majority of parents saying something or is it a few conservatives that are fighting against this and they're upset that their voice is being drawn up by the other parents that don't agree with them? | ||
| That'd be my question on this. | ||
| I think there's like a big difference between sexual degeneracy and transsexuality. | ||
| Well not for conservatives. | ||
| That's the unfortunate thing, is that people are talking about transsexuality as if it's degenerate, and it's not. | ||
| Waving your unit in front of a child in a bar is degenerate, in my opinion, whether it's in a public park or in a bar where they say it's okay to do it. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I kind of wonder, maybe I'm being a little bit unfair here, but I kind of wonder for a lot of parents if the COVID lockdowns were the first time that they ever actually looked at what their kids were reading in school. | ||
| And then a lot of them were like, wait, what's going on here? | ||
| And so like the impression is that like, oh my God, all of this crazy stuff's made their way into the school. | ||
| It's like, well, no, that's been part of a curriculum for probably quite a while. | ||
| You just never noticed because it was a school, you don't actually give a shit what your kid is reading. | ||
| But that's just a guess. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I think that's true. | ||
| There were a lot of videos where The kids were on Zoom classrooms, and the parents recorded it being like, what are they telling my kids? | ||
| And then what happened was, when these parents came out and started complaining about it, because no one knew what was going on and paid attention, they said, you're lying, it's not true, it's not happening. | ||
| But it is happening, and it is shocking, and because parents didn't pay attention, this is why I think it's become a major political issue right now. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| All right, what's this lawsuit, I'm curious. | ||
| I couldn't find it. | ||
| Oh, fuck, wow. | ||
| Yeah, there was... I would need a few minutes. | ||
| This is something that happens, because I always tell people, if you hear something, always look it up. | ||
| I'll hear something like a person was removed from a meeting just because they were asking questions, and then when I let her go read the story, it's actually like they were making a ton of noise, they were asked to leave once, it was private property, and then they were escorted off, and then they weren't even charged with a crime. | ||
| Things always get twisted, really hardcore, so I'm always curious when I hear, like, there's a lawsuit against somebody, like, what is it actually for? | ||
| Well, there's a bunch of these meetings, and the reason is, Parents, is this one from Fox News? | ||
| They'll try to read, like, they'll be like, hey, we came here to complain about this book, and you refuse to listen, so I'm going to read from this book. | ||
| And then once they do, they go, whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't read that stuff in here, that's graphic! | ||
| And they're like, yes, but these are in our schools. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Yeah, I mean, here you go, here's one of the stories from a year ago. | ||
| Georgia parent reading sexual content from library at school board meeting is cut off as inappropriate. | ||
| Don't you find the irony? | ||
| The concerned parent shot back at the school board member. | ||
| So this is why people are concerned. | ||
| I mean, have you seen Genderqueer? | ||
| Have you seen that book? | ||
| It's just one book. | ||
| We had, uh, Asra Noumani came in and she brought, like, 50 different books with various critical race theory, racist ideology, as well as gender ideology stuff. | ||
| That was, like, really crazy. | ||
| Like, this book is really crazy and on Amazon it's listed as 18 and up only. | ||
| Aside from the overt sex acts that are in the book, that should not be accessible to children, there's a bunch of stuff in there that kids should not be reading about. | ||
| Just in general. | ||
| What, so like what school is including this? | ||
| Are they what, like giving it, assigning it as like sixth grade? | ||
| Libraries. | ||
| I think a few of them had it as curriculum, a lot of them had it as in the libraries. | ||
| Well, okay, so library and school are like two, those are two very different things. | ||
| Like, if my second grader can buy this at a scholastic book fair, that's one thing. | ||
| But if this is in, like, the library of, like, a high school, I think it's a bit different. | ||
| Like, there are adult sections in libraries at high schools. | ||
| Like, I don't know... High school librarian gaining attention online for promoting the genderqueer book to students. | ||
| Blah blah blah, I don't know, just Google it. | ||
| Uh, Ron DeSantis actually put together a presentation where he actually listed out all the schools that had these books. | ||
| And the craziest thing was that Nikki Fried, who's, like, the Democrat trying to run against him, Took a screenshot of what he posted and then wrote, posting buttplug porn to own the libs. | ||
| And it's like, yo, that is a book showing a buttplug next to an anus that they're showing children in grade schools, and that's what the complaint is about. | ||
| If even a Democrat gubernatorial candidate is calling it buttplug porn, I think we got a problem. | ||
| Sure, I just have to see what we're talking about. | ||
| Like, what you just brought up, was that a librarian in a school, or was it just a librarian? | ||
| High school librarian. | ||
| Oh, high school librarian. | ||
| And what is the book that's being complained about? | ||
| Well, I googled genderqueer. | ||
| Is it that they're, like, telling kids at the library to rent the book, or is it a librarian on Twitter promoting the book? | ||
| She went on TikTok and was telling, like, all of her students or whatever, like, you guys should get this book or something. | ||
| Was the book in the library, or was it just a librarian making a book? | ||
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Because I feel like these details are really important, right? | |
| I don't know. | ||
| It matters! | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, if a librarian is recommending a book, she's like, this is a good book to read. | ||
| Yes, they can be found at her school's library. | ||
| Okay, gotcha. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| She's making sure, at least. | ||
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Jeez. | |
| Yeah, so, let me pull up the Rhonda Sanders one. | ||
| Because they keep saying he's banning books, and it's like, dude, telling kids you can't have Hustler in the library is not banning books, you know what I mean? | ||
| Let me see if, uh... I can't play this online, so don't pull this up. | ||
| I can't show you the... That's for the after-hours stream. | ||
| Yeah, we can do it there, but I don't even know if people are going to want to see it. | ||
| I want to see it. | ||
| I need to see it. | ||
| You got to give people a reason to come to the after-hour streams, okay? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Butt plugs and books might be it. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Let me find the video. | ||
| If I search for it on Twitter, oh, here we go. | ||
|
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Is this it? | |
| Ron DeSantis addresses book controversy. | ||
| I have to pull it up on Twitter. | ||
| Because on Twitter you have the full thing. | ||
| While he's looking, about Hillary's emails? | ||
| You said something was illegal about those? | ||
| What was the question? | ||
| Alright, we'll go back to it later. | ||
| So we won't show this on the stream because YouTube will give us a strike if I show this stuff. | ||
| Don't do it. | ||
| But, you know. | ||
| Cheers. | ||
| Yeah, Twitter video player sucks. | ||
| I'm going to have to reload it. | ||
| Well, you already saw that much. | ||
| I don't have my glasses on, so I can't see well, but I'm assuming it was a butt plug? | ||
| It was a butt. | ||
| It was a butthole. | ||
| Roberto Clemente. | ||
| Baseball. | ||
| What is, can you read the tweet for me? | ||
| What does the tweet say? | ||
| It says, yesterday we exposed the book ban hoax. | ||
| If news stations could not show this explicit material on air, why should it be shown in schools? | ||
| Oh, is that what it, okay, so they show genderqueer, there's some overt sex acts, there's, uh, two little boys engaging in what some, they should not be showing children, then where's the, uh, let me see, is this, it's not playing audio? | ||
| There's no sound coming out of this? | ||
|
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Third grade and discrimination in a way that an individual by virtue of his or her race | |
| color sex or national origin is inherently racist or oppressive whether consciously or | ||
| unconsciously Here are the books parents found in Florida schools and | ||
| reported for removal What was found is shocking | ||
| Let's, uh, we'll make it bigger and then try and jump in. | ||
| This is an on-stream, right? | ||
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It's not, the audio is. | |
| The audio is. | ||
|
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Okay. | |
| Okay. | ||
| While noting that those dicks are so big, and if none of this causes you to pause, there's | ||
| another section where a group of boys masturbate together and are pressured to ejaculate into | ||
| a bottle. | ||
| A Mountain Dew bottle, of all bottles. | ||
|
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Aw, disgusting. | |
| Are these ideologically driven hooks? | ||
| Oh, here we go. | ||
| Here we go, this is the really bad one. | ||
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My name is Eric O'Nolan and Matthew Nolan was found in a Broward County school and contains | |
| graphic depictions of how to masturbate for males and females while also including an | ||
| entire section. | ||
| Yeah, so that's what Nikki Frey was complaining about. | ||
| That this is not appropriate for children, circling the butthole and explaining how to use butt plugs and all that stuff. | ||
| So, you know, I kind of think that shouldn't be. | ||
| I'm curious, so is this in a high school library? | ||
| Are these like in restricted sections? | ||
| Or what is the access to these books like? | ||
| Some of them are in grade schools. | ||
| I thought before it was just like a porn book. | ||
| This seems like, whether we agree or disagree, it seems like it's a guide for sexual exploitation for teenagers, essentially, is what it looks like. | ||
| Butt plugs go a bit beyond that. | ||
| You know. | ||
| They do, but kids stick a lot of weird things in their bodies. | ||
| There's a lot of girls that do a lot of fucking dumb things and end up hurting themselves. | ||
| Yeah, we shouldn't be giving children books explaining how to use butt plugs. | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| I generally probably agree. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But, again, like, I'm curious, like, what is the access? | ||
| That's just it! | ||
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That's just it. | |
| It's like, hey, let's not have that book, though. | ||
| What is the access, though, right? | ||
| Because, like, again, if you tell me this is available to a second grader, that's a lot different than, like, I'm just saying, that's a lot different than, like, this is a high school book that, like, you have to be 18 and older to rent, right? | ||
| They actually did say this. | ||
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For anal sex, with an encouragement to use a butt plug, Even more startling is the guide on how to sext for children. | |
| Encouraging them to send photos that don't include your face, hide your birthmarks and scars, and edit out your piercings and tattoos. | ||
| Books by Rupi Kaur, such as Homebody, Milk and Honey, and The Sun and Her Flowers. | ||
| Let me- let me jump back. | ||
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Because he- Hillsboro. | |
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| They explain where they were found and how their kids were accessing them. | ||
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Sure. | |
| Flamer, by Mike Curato, was founded Broward, Collier, Hillsboro, Marion, Seminole and Volusia County Schools. | ||
| The camp the boys go to in the book has an island that the book says... Okay, so they basically just outlined that it's in schools in Florida. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| I'm just saying, like, you agree there's a difference between, like, this is, like, in a high school that you've got to be, like, a junior or older to check out versus this is in, like, the grade school library. | ||
| These are two, like, pretty different things. | ||
| Some of them are in grade schools, yes. | ||
| Like, uh, genderqueer, the reason it got so much attention is because it was in grade school specifically. | ||
| I think it was in, like, a sixth grade classroom or something. | ||
| The teacher brought it in. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We cover all the stuff when it happens. | ||
| We have to pull it up right now. | ||
| But, like, look. | ||
| Simply put, this is what conservatives have been complaining about. | ||
| They're like, hey, you know, like, in Florida they said if you're in kindergarten to third | ||
| grade you should not have access to this stuff, they should not be teaching it, that's it. | ||
| After that, you can do, like, whatever. | ||
| Parents have a right to know about it, and they said that in fact teachers are still | ||
| allowed to talk about identity and sexual orientation stuff, but not in a classroom | ||
| setting, meaning a teacher could literally tell a student one-on-one if they asked, hey, | ||
| what's that picture on your desk? | ||
| Well, that's my husband, or whatever. | ||
| And, oh, okay, that wasn't banned. | ||
| What was banned was a classroom curriculum setting of educating kids on these issues. | ||
| And only kindergarten through third grade, though they are now expanding it to, I think, all through eighth grade or whatever. | ||
| I think it is important, the word children, because if you're 17 and tomorrow's your birthday, you're still a child, legally. | ||
| Yeah, I guess it's like, the thing that bothers me is that, like, conservatives will say things like, we shouldn't teach this to children, and it's like, some of these books would be incredibly inappropriate for, like, a six-year-old, but for, like, an 18-year-old, I don't know, it'd probably be good to know some of this stuff. | ||
| Well, an 18-year-old's totally different. | ||
| I know, but that's- 17-year-old. | ||
| So like, for instance, like, I'll fight over- Not in schools, man. | ||
| Wait, we're not in schools. | ||
| I don't think schools should have this stuff even for 17-year-olds. | ||
| Uh, there's a lot of stuff available in the library, I don't know. | ||
| Right, yeah, I think, like, a video explain- a book showing how to use a butt plug is over the line. | ||
| Sure, and even if you do think that- Sex ed stuff is fine. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, I mean, that's part of it, right? | ||
| I really disagree. | ||
| Like, you're talking about kink, and kink goes beyond basic sex education. | ||
| Do you think that, like, uh, like, toys for women should be discussed in books? | ||
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No. | |
| Okay. | ||
| They probably should- For kids, you mean? | ||
| What do kids mean? | ||
| For seventeen and under, I guess. | ||
| For, like, seventeen and eighteen year olds. | ||
| I think instruction manuals should not be in You know what I mean? | ||
| I think that the issue is that teenagers are engaging, and there's a lot of especially conservative parents that like to pretend that teenagers don't do anything sexual until they're 18. | ||
| And that's just not the case, regardless of what they want to believe, especially when half these conservatives get pregnant at 16, 17, 18. | ||
| Anyway, but there's a lot of people like to pretend that their kids aren't into anything sexual blah blah blah and then when it comes to children that are starting to exploit doing these things stupid things happen where people are putting dumb things in their bodies they end up going to ERs or worse they don't tell their parents at all and they have like these hugely complicated problems probably not the most common thing in the world but again I think that for like a 17 and 18 year old like books on this available at a school library that's not like assigned as part of the curriculum I think you can argue whether or not it's a big deal or not. | ||
| There's probably good arguments in both sets, but it's way different than, like, an eight-year-old having access to it. | ||
| But that was part of the issue. | ||
| The reason it comes up is because young kids did have access to these books, and that freaked people out. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| If that is the case, sure. | ||
| I just don't know if I believe that's the case yet, because I don't know if I'm seeing anything compelling. | ||
| But if it is, I agree. | ||
| Like, there should be an age-appropriate conversation around what's available to children. | ||
| Kindergarten through sixth grade, like, probably should have no access to any of this stuff. | ||
| I think we'd agree with that, right? | ||
| When Ron DeSantis' administration comes out and says, kindergarten through third grade, | ||
| none of this stuff, the Democrats came out and lied and said it was don't say gay. | ||
| Despite the fact that the bill barred people from also talking about straight marriage | ||
| as well. | ||
| I believe the issue with that bill was that after it specified K through three, I want | ||
| to say in the very next line, it said, and age-appropriate up to high school as well. | ||
| I think there was a vague interpretation there. | ||
| We can look up the actual bill itself, but I'm almost positive that it included up through | ||
| high school as a vague line after that K through three thing. | ||
| I'm almost positive because I remember we read the bill on stream. | ||
| But either way, it wasn't a don't say gay bill. | ||
| You couldn't say straight either. | ||
| No, well, the issue... You could not say straight. | ||
| I don't know if that was true that you couldn't say straight. | ||
| It did not specify the word gay or anything. | ||
| It just said you cannot talk about orientation or identity, which includes all of it. | ||
| Yeah, but the problem is you generally don't need to talk about an orientation if it's straight because that's just what you assume, right? | ||
| I think that the main concern, the legal argument that I heard for the concern for the quote-unquote don't say gay bill was that that bill created a private cause of action that any parent could sue or bring legal action to any school whatsoever, whatever they wanted to, if they felt like one of these things was being brought up in an appropriate manner. | ||
| And that might extend to just saying that, like, an author of a poem is gay. | ||
| You wouldn't necessarily say somebody's straight, because that's just assumed, right? | ||
| It's like in a movie, if we see, like, a husband and a wife kissing, nobody asks a question, but when two guys are kissing, it's like, well, why are they gay, right? | ||
| Obviously, there's going to be a bit of a different treatment for gay relations versus straight ones. | ||
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| And if you're a member, you have the opportunity to submit questions and actually call into the show and ask those questions. | ||
| So we will be taking calls from our Discord channel. | ||
| But for now, let's read some of these Super Chats. | ||
| Daniel, Cohen says, isn't Destiny a girl's name? | ||
| True. | ||
| Where does Destiny come from? | ||
| Is it just like a gamertag? | ||
| Yeah, I was like eight years old. | ||
| It was before the game. | ||
| Yes, unfortunately. | ||
| Did the game make you more popular? | ||
| Initially, it pissed me off because it kind of messed with my SEO, but I think I'm doing good now. | ||
| It's trending on Twitter right now. | ||
| Yeah, it always is, because the game is usually trending. | ||
| And then if I do anything, people talk about me too, so who gets mixed up? | ||
| I still get emails every now and then from people that are asking me, like, hey, can you reset the password on my Bungie account? | ||
| And like, yeah, it's kind of dumb. | ||
| All right, Freedom Jeffrey 1776 says, Hi Tim, how do I become an elite member? | ||
| You sign up at TimCast.com for the $100 tier and that makes you an elite member. | ||
| And then you get access to the elite chat room and the people hanging out in the elite chat room are networking. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| So hopefully though, once we get our physical location set up, the third floor will be like the actual clubhouse. | ||
| And it will be basically like a hillbilly version of a social club that people in New York have. | ||
| So like in New York, they have the $50,000 a year clubs, like ridiculously expensive, like just Soho House or whatever. | ||
| We're gonna do the redneck version. | ||
| Wait, you're going to have like an actual place in here where fans are going to come and hang out? | ||
| We have purchased a three-story building in West Virginia that we are putting on the first floor, a coffee shop. | ||
| It's currently in the planning phase. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Second floor is going to be gaming and hangout. | ||
| And then the third floor is the private club, which is going to be a hundred bucks a month. | ||
| Substantially cheaper than your typical social club. | ||
| So it's like the working class version of these things. | ||
| So people can hang out, meet each other and collaborate, you know, like clubs do. | ||
| Your own Equinox. | ||
| Is that what that is? | ||
| Well, I mean, like, in New York, I think the Soho house is like $50,000 a year to be a member. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, like $4,000 something per month they pay. | ||
| But then, like, there's free food, there's free drinks, you're hanging out with a bunch of rich people, so you're like, I got an idea for a business, and then someone connects you with someone else. | ||
| That's power, right there. | ||
| Helps people start businesses. | ||
| Alright, Wayback says, DeSantis put out a perfect statement in regards to the Trump indictment. | ||
| He said he won't assist in the extradition and it's a political pers- prosecution. | ||
| He's won me back with that statement. | ||
| Trump 2024, DeSantis 2028. | ||
| I thought it was fine. | ||
| Um, but it's- it's kind of like him being like, you know, don't count- I'm not involved. | ||
| As a- you know, so it is what it is. | ||
| You know, I'm not gonna- I give him a C minus. | ||
| C- C minus. | ||
| It's like, eh, whatever. | ||
| Alright, let's grab some more. | ||
| Mick Spencer says, Hey Destiny, thank you for being who you are and always holding fast to your principles. | ||
| I enjoy seeing you on EFAP way back. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| What's EFAP? | ||
| Oh man, it's a show called Every Frame a Painting, where they go over like movies, and it takes them like six hours to do a movie. | ||
| And I've been on a couple of those, I think. | ||
| Oh, they just break it down scene by scene? | ||
| Yeah, frame by frame. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| All right, Max Reddick says, Tim, Sam Seder seems to think you are afraid to debate him, claiming that you asked him to come on the show during COVID as his excuse for not coming on. | ||
| Would you publicly ask him to come on the show? | ||
| So the issue with Sam is, I've known him for a really long time, and I made a tweet where I was like, we typically invite people on the left to come on the show, and then they just never do, they never respond, or they respond once and they don't get back to us. | ||
| And then Hassan and Sam both said, I'll totally do it. | ||
| And so I privately messaged both of them and said, awesome, would be excited to have you, | ||
| especially Sam, because Sam was the first guy to ever give me a shout out in media ever. | ||
| He said like, oh, look at these guys, Occupy Wall Street, fantastic work. | ||
| And I was like, we'll cover the cost of everything, we'll fly you out. | ||
| And then Sam basically was just like, I'm not going on your show. | ||
| And then tweeted accusing me of like, you know, making it up or something. | ||
| Oh, it might have been a COVID thing because he just went on Patrick Bette Davis' show. | ||
| He tweeted at me that he was going to come on the show and then privately was like, oh, I'm not coming out there. | ||
| And then I'm like, OK, whatever. | ||
| Like you said you would. | ||
| You actually set a date and everything. | ||
| I told you the date. | ||
| I told you the time. | ||
| You said yes, you agreed. | ||
| And now when I'm setting this up, you're like flaking out behind the scenes and then putting putting me on the spot. | ||
| If Sam wanted to, would you host a debate with him on your show? | ||
| No. | ||
| And, uh, Hasan, yes. | ||
| Hasan politely messaged me and said, Hey, look, man, I know I said I would. | ||
| I feel kind of something like I feel pretty bad, but like, I'm not comfortable flying right now with COVID. | ||
| And I was like, totally understand, dude, no problem. | ||
| Later on, when I asked him again, he's like, bro, I host my own show. | ||
| And I said, you are totally correct. | ||
| Like the idea that I'm going to ask someone who hosts their own show to cancel their show to come on my show. | ||
| I just totally get it. | ||
| So if I, like, Kyle Kalinske, for instance, has talked about coming on the show before, but I'm like, whenever you can, because I know you do your own show, like, I'm not, you know, if people want to come on the show, it's, it's, it's like doing me a favor. | ||
| But the issue with Sam is that I, I believe he is, like, he's a grifter. | ||
| You don't think he believes what he says? | ||
| I believe, I think, I think maybe half of it. | ||
| I think he doesn't know about a lot of issues and he says things just for the sake of shock value. | ||
| He makes a bunch of videos, he's like, another thing is like all he would do is rag on Dave Rubin. | ||
| He's like one of those guys who makes a bunch of videos just talking about drama and people that I'm really not interested. | ||
| And then the publicly agreeing to come on the show in good faith, like when I made a good faith offer, and then privately backtracking and then putting it on me and now claiming I'm scared, like the whole thing's a bit. | ||
| Tim's scared to debate me. | ||
| No, dude, he's just a low-brow grifter. | ||
| Bro, I'll have you on anytime you want to come on. | ||
| Like, here you are, and I think you're, like, substantially more intelligent and capable of debate than Sam Seder is. | ||
| I mean, obviously that's true. | ||
| No, I'm just kidding. | ||
| I think Sam's a really smart guy. | ||
| I mean, I can't speak to your private messages, but yeah, I would hope. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I don't view him as a grifter. | ||
| I feel like Sam is pretty smart compared to most of the people. | ||
| If I was scared of anybody and allowed to debate, I think it would generally be Sam Seager. | ||
| I'll tell you one of the personal negative experiences, but like, still going to have him on the show, was when I tried to explain to him deontological versus utilitarian moral philosophy. | ||
| Oh, I watched this. | ||
| And he didn't understand it. | ||
| And so my like, how do you how do you convey an idea to someone who has who doesn't understand these concepts? | ||
| Well, I went for pop culture. | ||
| And instead, like it was a it was a bunch of I remember because you said the villain is usually the utilitarian guy. | ||
| I remember I watched this. | ||
| I remember. | ||
| So my I said, when I think we're talking about universal health care, and I said, it's utilitarian versus deontological morality or ethics, right? | ||
| Deontological ethics is basically stating that you cannot take an immoral action against an individual regardless of the outcome and utilitarian thinking is an action against an individual which is unethical is justified if it benefits the greater. | ||
| And Sam was like, I don't know what that means. | ||
| And I'm like, okay, how do I debate a guy who doesn't understand these concepts? | ||
| Well, me thinking, like, I'm here to convey ideas in good faith said, think about Thanos versus like Captain America. | ||
| Thanos wants to wipe out. | ||
| And then his response was to make a video and all of his fans mocking me for talking about Marvel. | ||
| But here's a better one. | ||
| When we released our first song, he ran it through an audio filter to make it sound bad and then played it on his show, calling it garbage and lying about it. | ||
| The dude is just the lowest of low tier grifters. | ||
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Did he? | |
| I feel like I saw them. | ||
| Bro, he ran my song through an audio filter. | ||
| Was he on that episode? | ||
| Because it was the girl and the other guy. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't remember if he was on the show. | ||
| Sam Seder's show played the song we put out and put it through this weird filter to make it sound like garbage. | ||
| And that song actually did really well. | ||
| It's the best song we've had so far. | ||
| Charted on Billboard in a bunch of different categories. | ||
| And then they're just like, oh, it's so bad. | ||
| Oh, man, it sounds like Nickelback. | ||
| And I'm like, if anything, it sounds like emo, not Nickelback. | ||
| You know, I'll point something out about Sam. | ||
| It's all fake grifting. | ||
| Sam went on Patrick Bet-David's Valuetainment podcast. | ||
| I thought it was very cool. | ||
| I didn't see the whole thing, but they talked about Medicare, they talked about finances, and then Sam, you put up a video on your channel that says, it's a picture of you and Pat, and it says, Sam Seder debates rich guy who hates taxes. | ||
| Like, you didn't even use his name. | ||
| That's dirty, dude. | ||
| It's all grifting. | ||
| It's all fake garbage. | ||
| Like, he's a huge podcaster. | ||
| You should make a big deal out of that. | ||
| He's grifting. | ||
| Well. | ||
| But I love you, Sam, and I want to have you on. | ||
| I don't want to fight on every point. | ||
| That's part of the YouTube game. | ||
| People do that. | ||
| I'm sure if I go through your channel, I'm sure you guys have got, like, crazy thumbnails and titles and stuff. | ||
| Like, I think my editor probably puts up crazy thumbnails. | ||
| Like, there are times where I ask him, like, why didn't you have this person's name? | ||
| And he's like, oh, like, they don't do well on the algorithm. | ||
| You can't put that person's name in the title. | ||
| It'll fuck the video up or whatever. | ||
| Maybe that's for some of theirs, but yeah. | ||
| But actually, Valuetainment Podcast would algorithmically be boosted way more than Rich Dude, which is very generic. | ||
| Sure, possibly. | ||
| When you say Grifter, what do you mean by that? | ||
| I'm just curious. | ||
| In the literal sense, I believe that his shtick is to say things to convince people to watch, as opposed to say things principally which attract an audience. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Me personally, yeah, there's a bunch of positions where my opinion has evolved or changed, notably with police. | ||
| We had Michael Malice on the show. | ||
| And then my position changes more towards, yeah, okay, maybe the cops aren't as, I'm not gonna defend the cops as much as I used to. | ||
| For someone like Sam, his people, whether it was him or otherwise, running my song through an audio filter to make it sound bad, that's just weird and dirty. | ||
| And there's been other instances. | ||
| Seriously though, I don't really care to think about the guy. | ||
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Okay. | |
| But when I publicly said, like, bro, I would love to have you on the show here, I'm thinking, like, I've debated him before. | ||
| I know there were, like, people got their hoots and hollers out of it, but it would be great to have him on the show. | ||
| And then he pulls this stunt. | ||
| I'm just like, the dude played me and then made it seem like I'm the one who backed out. | ||
| It was all a grift to rally his audience. | ||
| Hasan didn't do that. | ||
| Hasan outright told me, like, I'm not comfortable traveling during COVID. | ||
| Sorry, bro. | ||
| And I was like, I appreciate it, man. | ||
| And that was the end of it. | ||
| I saw a tweet from Destiny about a week ago that says, I'm about to I forgive everybody from my past. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| I'm moving forward. | ||
| Yeah, I like it. | ||
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All right. | |
| All right. | ||
| Let's read some more super chats. | ||
| Free men die free says nobody will tolerate a Trump indictment while Bush, Biden and Obama roam free while being guilty of acts of treason and war crimes. | ||
| Powder keg is lit. | ||
| Whether—I'll say this to you, Destiny—whether you agree with them having committed crimes, the sentiment, I think you would agree, among the people of this country is probably there, right? | ||
| Yeah, the sentiment is there, but again, I think we have to—it's important to ask from a judicial point of view, like, what is the crime being committed? | ||
| Because sometimes we just really don't like somebody. | ||
| We want them to be, like, arrested, you know? | ||
| I agree, and I think you made a good point about think about if it was Hillary or Trump and, like, switch the positions. | ||
| I think the greater point often that I talk about though is the emotional state of this country can't tolerate something like this. | ||
| It doesn't matter if it's true or correct. | ||
| What matters is we know Trump supporters are going to outright be like, it's BS, it's unjust, end of story. | ||
| Maybe, but I feel like there is... I agree with you to some extent, but I think that a country's strength is measured by the veracity of its institutions. | ||
| And when your judicial institutions start to bend to the whims of whatever is politically expedient, you might be creating a more scary world than if you have to tolerate some tumultuous short-term period of political unrest. | ||
| I think that's a really important thing to consider. | ||
| You're in a really scary area when judges are thinking like, We could indict this guy, but man, you know, it's going to be really rough on Fox News for the next, like, seven days. | ||
| But that's how it goes. | ||
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It's like Chauvin. | |
| Or the Ahmaud Arbery case. | ||
| You know about the Ahmaud Arbery case, right? | ||
| I'd imagine you'd be on the right side of that one. | ||
| Those were the guy that got chased down who was jogging in the neighborhood or whatever? | ||
| Well, the felony burglary suspect who was fleeing the scene of a crime. | ||
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It's amazing. | |
| Oh man, we're gonna have a way different... This is the one where like... When did you watch the trial? | ||
| Parts of it, but this is a long time ago. | ||
| So the prosecution outright stated he was a felony burglary suspect. | ||
| If you get your news from like, corporate press or whatever... Oh my god, I'm not familiar with the case. | ||
| Do you, are you uh... Well then just look into it, because I think you'd come out on the right side of it. | ||
| I did, but there were like, there were so many claims. | ||
| Like somebody claimed that, for instance, like he didn't have tennis shoes on, he had boots on or whatever. | ||
| But then I saw pictures of what it was, like no, these are not boots. | ||
| Right, that's a lie. | ||
| That's immaterial. | ||
| So the issue was the police went door to door, Everybody had known that someone had been committing burglaries. | ||
| A gun had been stolen from a vehicle. | ||
| The cops showed the picture of Ahmed Aubrey to a bunch of the neighbors. | ||
| When Aubrey entered a home under construction and was seen, neighbors all called each other. | ||
| Someone witnessed the guy running down the street, and they were like, hey, that's the guy. | ||
| The McMichaels got in the truck and chased after him. | ||
| We're told by police not to pursue, but pursued anyway. | ||
| They were in front of him. | ||
| Arbery had a guy behind him who was filming the whole time. | ||
| Arbery ran around the truck and then grabbed Travis, I think it was Travis Michael's shotgun, and they fought over it. | ||
| It went off into his chest, killing him. | ||
| I think we can make a whole bunch of arguments about whether they should have followed or not followed, but the fact that the dude who simply filmed it is spending the rest of his life in prison, I think, says a lot about the fact that it was totally bunk. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I'm not coming out here saying he stole a lollipop from a little kid while wearing construction boots and that Kim was jogging. | ||
| into it and it's going to be completely different than how you've said it. | ||
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No, no. | |
| I'm not sure. | ||
| I just can't comment because I don't know the details of it. | ||
| I'm not coming out here saying he robbed, he stole a lollipop from a little kid while | ||
| wearing construction boots and that Kim was jogging. | ||
| I'm giving you like, so the conviction was due to the fact that under the citizen's arrest | ||
| law there was a potential interpretation where the gist of it is if it's a misdemeanor, you | ||
| had to have witnessed the crime, but if it's a felony, you're allowed to make a citizen's | ||
| arrest without being a witness to the crime. | ||
| The issue was, it was an old law that was written in a simplistic way that had like a comma or something, and the jury instructions by the judge was, you interpret how you see it. | ||
| The prosecution argued, regardless of a felony or misdemeanor, you had to be a witness. | ||
| And the defense argued, no, no, no, there's two different clauses here. | ||
| If it's a misdemeanor, you need to be a witness. | ||
| However, it's a felony, you can make an arrest. | ||
| The jury decided to take the prosecution's interpretation, and thus they were convicted. | ||
| So, simply put, the left argues he was trespassing. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| The prosecution outright said he was a suspect in a felony burglary. | ||
| But because they did not witness the felony burglary, they had no justification for a citizen's arrest. | ||
| When they say he was a witness for a felony burglary, what does that mean? | ||
| Suspect. | ||
| Suspect for a felony burglary. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| It means he had illegally entered a private residence. | ||
| Had he? | ||
| Yes, he's on camera doing it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah, and so the left said he's just trespassing. | ||
| It's just no like Burglary does not mean theft. | ||
| It means when you illegally enter someone's property. | ||
| And then so then the story that you're telling me is these three guys were just following him in a truck. | ||
| Two guys. | ||
| The third guy saw him running on the street and started filming on his phone. | ||
| Completely unrelated to the McMichaels. | ||
| He got charged along with him and is spending the rest of his life in prison. | ||
| That's a crazy story. | ||
| I'll try to look it up more, because when I argue with left-leaning people about Rittenhouse, they give me crazy interpretations as well, but that's the case I'm far more familiar with. | ||
| But we were right about Rittenhouse. | ||
| You were right about Rittenhouse. | ||
| Yeah, but that's just a case I'm more familiar with. | ||
| I think if you look into the Arbery case, you're going to be like, oh wow, yeah. | ||
| When the Arbery case, what did he enter? | ||
| There was a house under construction. | ||
| He's on camera going into the property, and he looks around and then he leaves. | ||
| That's felony burglary. | ||
| Now, I'm not here to argue semantics or morality. | ||
| I'm saying that's literally under the law felony burglary, which the McMichaels use as justification. | ||
| So, there had been a string of literal burglaries. | ||
| Like, okay, let me slow down. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| There had been a string of colloquially defined burglaries, where someone entered property and took items. | ||
| Uh-huh. | ||
| The circumstance in question that he was a suspect on was he was caught on camera entering private property, looking around, and then leaving. | ||
| That makes him, you know, if that is proof that he committed the crime, that is felony burglary. | ||
| We've actually dealt with this. | ||
| So people need to understand this. | ||
| If you have property with no fence, no barrier, people are allowed to walk on your property and do whatever they want. | ||
| All you can do is ask them to leave. | ||
| If you put up a sign saying no trespassing, And they walk onto your property, they're now guilty of a slap on the wrist trespassing charge, because they've been given a warning. | ||
| If you take a piece of thread, a tiny piece of thread, and wrap it around your property, and someone goes underneath it, they've now committed felony burglary, because they have bypassed a physical barrier, regardless of what that barrier is. | ||
| So when he entered the house, he had committed a felony. | ||
| Now, he wasn't convicted of it, I don't know. | ||
| The point was, there were a string of burglaries and the police were asking people, have you seen this man? | ||
| So when they saw him running into the street, they were like, that's the guy the cops told us about! | ||
| Chased after him, called the police, the police said, do not pursue. | ||
| Okay, hold on. | ||
| So when you say this, okay, Jesus Christ, it's been so long and I didn't cover this one closely. | ||
| So when you say the cops told him that, right? | ||
| So I'm just, I'm looking at an article from The Independent. | ||
| The white father and son accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were told by police that he wasn't a burglar days before they chased the black 25-year-old and shot him dead in the street, according to prosecutors. | ||
| So were the prosecutors lying there, or did the police specifically say that this guy was not a burglar? | ||
| I need to know where that article's from, because I'm talking about facts after the case. | ||
| These are opening statements relating to the trial of the three white men accused of murdering black 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. | ||
| The police went to them and said, we're looking for this man. | ||
| he is a felony burglary suspect. | ||
| The issue- Apparently the prosecutors also shared statements from the | ||
| suspects where they admitted that they did not believe that he'd even stolen anything. | ||
| Apparently Greg Gray- Stealing is not burglary though. | ||
| That's the important distinction. | ||
| Burglary is illegally entering a premises by crossing the barrier. | ||
| But they were chasing him because they thought that he had carried out other burglaries. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But apparently- He wasn't just jogging, right? | ||
| This is not- look- Yeah, but I'm saying like, was the citizen's arrest because | ||
| he walked into a property because They thought he was stealing shit. | ||
| A gun had gone missing and they thought he was the guy who did it. | ||
| There was a string of thefts and burglaries. | ||
| But then when Gregory McMichael is here telling investigators, I don't think the guy's actually stolen anything out of there for statements relating to seeing him. | ||
| That was a video where he enters a building and then leaves. | ||
| They believe that that was evidence that he had been the person who had actually been stealing things. | ||
| A few weeks prior to the incident, a gun had been stolen from a vehicle. | ||
| That's the most pronounced part of the story. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| Also, Travis McGill shot Mr. Arbery three times with a shotgun. | ||
| That sounds like it went off more than once. | ||
| You should watch the video. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Do you think we're all three when they were fighting over it? | ||
| It's off camera. | ||
| So here's the issue. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If two people are holding a gun, they're both in possession of the gun. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So it's not as simple to say in a news story that he shot him three times. | ||
| That's a prosecutorial argument. | ||
| Yeah, but two people holding a shotgun. | ||
| And fighting over it, and then it goes off. | ||
| Three times? | ||
| semi-auto shotgun. Probably it went off, he was still holding it, and then he fired it two more times. | ||
| Okay, a shotgun, you fired a shotgun before, right? Oh yeah. | ||
| Well, two people holding, even with buckshot, if you pull a trigger with two people, that shotgun's gonna | ||
| go flying. So it's really weird, if you watch the video, you can see both of their hands are | ||
| on it, and they're shaking it back and forth. They had tight grips. I don't know. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I'll look it up later. | ||
| But also, taking into consideration the statements of the defense and the prosecution are going to favor their view of the story. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And the ultimate conclusion was based on the fact that they were performing a citizen's arrest, but because they had not witnessed a felony in progress, they had no right to perform a citizen's arrest thus. | ||
| And because the cops told them explicitly to back off, apparently. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And that he wasn't a burglary suspect? | ||
| He was. | ||
| But the cops... Apparently the prosecutor said that the cops had made the statement to these people days earlier that he explicitly was not a burglary suspect. | ||
| Do we have the video to watch? | ||
| The video of the shooting? | ||
| The shotgun? | ||
| Yeah, I'm curious. | ||
| Oh, I mean, I'll try and pull it up, but I gotta be honest, we recently tried pulling it up, it's really hard to find. | ||
| But let's read some more superchats. | ||
| But anyway, my point is just this, not that it's, like, the clearest cut case of self-defense, like with Kyle Rittenhouse, but it's that this guy's not a jogger. | ||
| It's not so simple, say, like, three guys lynched this dude or whatever. | ||
| Wait, was he not a jogger? | ||
| Like, come on, bro. | ||
| You think a guy drove 26 miles from his house to jog through a random suburban neighborhood? | ||
| Um, I don't even know if that's how- this reminds me of like when people like did Rittenhouse go to a whole other state to defend his property. | ||
| The dude didn't live there. | ||
| Yeah, sure, but I don't know where he- I don't know where he lives. | ||
| Maybe- maybe he lives in an apartment complex, he drives around so drunk. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I truly don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We'll read some more Super Chats and then we'll- we'll- we'll talk more, you know, members only. | ||
| I don't want to, uh- Would a guy- would a guy drive 26 miles to walk into a construction site and walk away? | ||
| I'm not sure, like- That's what he apparently did. | ||
| Well, but purportedly he was jogging, right? | ||
| So they say he was jogging, but there's video you can watch of him entering this property. | ||
| And then the left was like, well, he was just looking around, you know? | ||
| It's like, come on. | ||
| He's jogging and then decides to go look around in someone's private property? | ||
| It's just weird. | ||
| If it's an under-construction site, I don't know. | ||
| No, dude. | ||
| Seriously? | ||
| You're telling me that a shot went off three times in a guy's chest while he was fighting over it? | ||
| That's a seriously question, right? | ||
| Watch the video. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I would want to see the video. | ||
| Do your super test. | ||
| Go, sorry. | ||
| But no, but like, the idea that someone went jogging that decides to, in the middle of the night, jog in the middle of the night and then go into someone's house just doesn't seem to make sense to me. | ||
| Construction site, but yeah. | ||
| But like, it's not like a barren frame. | ||
| It's a house. | ||
| It's a fully constructed house. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| And there's like materials inside, they're doing the interior, but whatever. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Alright, let's see what we got here. | ||
| Mike Casanelli with Big Ol' Super Chat. | ||
| It just says, celebrate the first Super Chat. | ||
| Well, thank you very much. | ||
| They started doing that thing where it's like whenever you Super Chat for the first time you get an award or something on YouTube. | ||
| Oh yeah, in the little YouTube chat. | ||
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Nice. | |
| Do you guys have memberships for your YouTube yet? | ||
| Uh, we had members-only chat, but we switched to just running a Discord because it's better. | ||
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Oh, okay. | |
| And then let people do the free chat. | ||
| I mean, you can pay for memberships on YouTube to get little icons next to your name if you guys want. | ||
| Yeah, we do. | ||
| We do have that. | ||
| They have little beanies. | ||
| Oh, cute. | ||
| And you get Bocas and Roberto Junior emojis. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| All right, let's see. | ||
| Let's grab some good ones while we're here. | ||
| Iggy the Incubus says, seeing as Pandora's Box is open, can we indict Bush for lying to America to justify Iraq's invasion? | ||
| What about Obama for Abdulrahman al-Awlaki? | ||
| I mean, how about we just go for Bush and the Iraq invasion and all that stuff? | ||
| Should he be arrested for that? | ||
| Is it illegal for the President to lie to his citizens? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Is that a law? | ||
| I'm not sure if that's a law. | ||
| Man. | ||
| It should be, like, declaring war. | ||
| All right, let's grab some super chats. | ||
| I'm trying to find a good one, you know, so bear with me, guys. | ||
| Raymond G. Stanley Jr. | ||
| says, Tim, Libby listened to you in an article about Biden saying trans people shape our nation's soul, no affirming care, only child sex change and medical mutilation. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Correct words. | ||
| Oh, hi, Destiny. | ||
| I know, I'm always yelling at the post-millennials, it's funny. | ||
| And they like, they listen to the show and Libby's always hanging out, so it's like, they know, like, they know I know that they're gonna listen. | ||
| But they wrote an article where they said something like assault rifle, and I was like, it's not an assault rifle, so they fixed it, and then they called something gender-affirming care, and I'm like, just call it a child sex change. | ||
| Alright, what do we got? | ||
| Just a lot of people who don't like Destiny. | ||
| Based? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Uh, let's see what we got. | ||
| Noob Actuals says, Hey Tim, I appreciate your insight on the show you give. | ||
| I'd love to see you guys reach out to Lucas Botkin. | ||
| He has very radical, really traditional 2A views. | ||
| Top-notch American. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
|
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Alright. | |
| Yo, uh, Yomenai Gaming says, This is infuriating. | ||
| Destiny is outright wrong about Trump. | ||
| He never threatened to withhold aid. | ||
| Biden did that. | ||
| On camera, look up the Trump call. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Is that true? | ||
| Today's the first I've ever heard that Trump was threatened to withhold aid also. | ||
| Pretty sure that's what he got impeached for. | ||
| That was that was the news narrative. | ||
| But to be fair, we should probably just pull up the actual transcript of the call and then be right about as to whether it was or wasn't. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Just, uh, let's see, here's another one that says Destiny's a liar. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| John Casey says, does anyone believe that Trump can receive a fair trial in New York, let alone in New York City? | ||
| They want to take this farce to court, fine, but they should have to change it as a neutral, to a neutral venue as possible. | ||
| To as neutral a venue as possible. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| It shouldn't be tried in New York City. | ||
| Yeah, but I mean, like, what would be a neutral venue for Donald J. Trump? | ||
| Uh, if you go north of New York City, literally 45 minutes, you actually get a 50-50 zone. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| You get a jurisdiction with a court that's like— I'm just saying that, like, I'm imagining, like, interviewing jurors, like, do you have a strong opinion on Donald Trump? | ||
| Like, it feels like everybody's gonna be incredibly opinionated on him. | ||
| Well, no, but there's, like, if you go 45 minutes north of New York, like, not even—of Manhattan. | ||
| If you go just north of, like, the Bronx, it's 50-50 Republican-Democrat. | ||
| So if they asked people, you'd get people to be like, yeah, I voted for him. | ||
| Sure, oh yeah, no, but I mean, like, typically, a jury's supposed to be unbiased. | ||
| It's not supposed to be six in favor of him or six against him. | ||
| It's supposed to be like... Right, right, right. | ||
| It's just going to be heated, yeah. | ||
| There's no way to get a jury who's going to be like, I don't know who this man is. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Who I don't have strong opinions on, yeah. | ||
| Do you know who this man is? | ||
| I do. | ||
| He was the president. | ||
| Do you like him? | ||
| Oh, boy. | ||
| That's going to be scary, too, because there's going to be people who are going to look around, and they're going to be thinking they do like him, but they're not going to say it publicly. | ||
| William Jones says, Tim, you need to get update on your two-way rights. | ||
| You can use weed and have guns. | ||
| Courts gave it the okay about a month ago. | ||
| I don't think that's on the, uh, the forms right now. | ||
| I don't think it's on the forms. | ||
| Alright, El Rojo Grande says, Obama was sued by the ACLU for that strike and lost. | ||
| The courts have already decided it wasn't lawful, which can only mean it was a crime, just never charged. | ||
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Hm. | |
| Wait, what is that? | ||
| If they sued him for that and lost, how did they decide it was unlawful? | ||
| Uh, yeah, it depends. | ||
| Was it like a wrongful death suit? | ||
| Like, it depends on what the lawsuit was. | ||
| But, you know, like, wasn't O.J.? | ||
| He won the criminal case but lost the civil case? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And then he wrote a book called If I Did It, and then the family won the rights to the book and then made the if really, really small. | ||
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Yep. | |
| And it just says, I did it, you know? | ||
| That was funny. | ||
| All right. | ||
| David Morton says, I disagree with Destiny on almost everything, but he has my respect for standing up to the online jihadis. | ||
| Russell Miller says, Tim and Destiny, true centrists. | ||
| I can agree and disagree with both of you on different topics, but I recognize legitimacy of your stances. | ||
| White Pill episode. | ||
| What is that supposed to mean? | ||
| I think it means that, like... I'm half-Cuban. | ||
| I don't appreciate that. | ||
| Well, like, people think you're being honest about your views. | ||
| I don't appreciate being called white-pilled. | ||
| White-pilled? | ||
| It just means optimism. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'll let it slide for now. | ||
| White-pilled means you give them hope for the future. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Yeah, it's a good thing. | ||
| Dye your hair blue. | ||
| It's a good thing. | ||
| Dye your hair blue. | ||
| Yeah, a lot of blue-haired comments. | ||
| What made you decide to dye it blue? | ||
| Charity. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| But now I like it, because it triggers the ever-living hell out of people. | ||
| I'm like the blue-haired guy, cuck, that everybody hates. | ||
| Well, there you go. | ||
| All right, here's what we're going to do. | ||
| If you haven't already, would you kindly... Here we go. | ||
| Ant345 says, when I worked on a house under construction, someone robbed about $3,000 in tools and materials. | ||
| That happens a lot. | ||
| That means a lot. | ||
| Alright, if you haven't already, would you- oh wait, hold on, I gotta read one more. | ||
| Spidgebee says, Sam Cedar is obsessed with Tim. | ||
| Half of his thumbnails have Tim Pool in the headline. | ||
| If you're gonna go low, go get Ethan Klein. | ||
| He'll bring Cedar like he did to Crowder. | ||
| Two for one. | ||
| Ha ha ha ha ha. | ||
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| Destiny, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| YouTube.com slash Destiny, Instagram.com slash Destiny, and Twitter.com slash TheOmniLiberal. | ||
| And also, for the show that Tim is doing, and me, I don't think we'll be on the same one, but Festival.Minds.com if you want to buy tickets to the event going on in Austin by the guys that are working at Minds.com. | ||
| Actually, I checked that URL and it didn't take me to a ticket page, so it might be tickets.vulcanpresents.com at the moment. | ||
| They may end up changing that and doing both. | ||
| Oh, true. | ||
| Yeah, Sean, good one. | ||
| If you're listening to me, you gave me the wrong link, so suffer. | ||
| So you can go to tickets.vulcanpresents.com, and that's where you can get the tickets. | ||
| April 15th, MindsFest. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| Sean? | ||
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If you want to see Stephen debate Milo, it's going to be happening on April 11th, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. | |
| UncensoredAmerica.us for tickets for that, and more upcoming events. | ||
| We're coming back to Penn State after a girl spit on Alex Stein, so we'll see what happens next time. | ||
| People follow you on Twitter? | ||
| Oh, what's that? | ||
| I was going to say, that's going to be interesting, because between the two of you, I don't know how anyone's going to talk. | ||
| You mean me and Milo? | ||
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We're going to moderate it. | |
| It's going to be a little physical gesticulation. | ||
| Show your feelings. | ||
| Is he straight now? | ||
| He's ambiguous. | ||
| Here's the thing. | ||
| The media lied about it. | ||
| He says ex-gay. | ||
| Milo explained that he's still attracted to men, but he abstains. | ||
| He's less of a degenerate now. | ||
| He's kind of given up the degeneracy lifestyle. | ||
| And so for that, if he's not having sex with men at the moment, it doesn't necessarily mean he's straight or gay. | ||
| He's just celibate. | ||
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He prefers reformed sodomite. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| He's not straight. | ||
| What if he had sex with women? | ||
| So his point was that when he came out and said this, he's still attracted to men, but he's choosing to abstain from sex altogether. | ||
| Oh, altogether. | ||
| The media came out and said he's claiming he's straight now, and he never said that. | ||
| Are you really gay if you abstain completely? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I wonder what makes you gay, the act of sex or wanting it. | ||
| All right, all right, let's get to the members only section. | ||
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I'm Ian Crossley. | |
| You can follow me on the internet anywhere. | ||
| We also have Serge Duprea. | ||
| Yeah, Serge.com. | ||
| Let's get to the members only. | ||
| Alright everybody, we will see you all over at TimCast.com in about seven or so minutes. |
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