May 23, 2023 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Well, it's unofficially official. | ||
| Personally, I think the DeSantis team should have waited until tomorrow, because the news came out that they're going to be doing a special interview with Elon Musk on Twitter, where Ron DeSantis will announce he is running for the presidency. | ||
| Now, okay, that's fine, we got the news, the information leaks, Elon Musk confirms he's having a very special interview tomorrow with a big announcement. | ||
| But then the DeSantis team put out a video which basically is them saying they're launching the campaign, saying text launch to this number. | ||
| And I think that kind of spiked their own news story, but okay, fine, whatever. | ||
| It's not legal, but it's official, I suppose. | ||
| Tomorrow will be the official legal announcement where then they are subject to all these laws. | ||
| But as of today, we know for a fact DeSantis, Casey DeSantis has put out a video basically saying Ron DeSantis is running for president. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| Now I want to talk about something else. | ||
| Target held an emergency meeting and they're going to be moving all of their LGBTQ materials and sales products to the back of the store in a bunch of locations because they're panicking over a potential quote bud light situation as parents are concerned because Target is selling Let's just, like, chest binder materials for children and tucking bathing suits for kids and things like that. | ||
| And so, uh, not too happy about that. | ||
| So we got that. | ||
| We got a lot of stuff to talk about. | ||
| Plus, we could probably talk about Ukraine and Russia, Belgrade. | ||
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| to talk about this and a whole lot more is representative Warren Davidson. | ||
| Hey, it's an honor to join you all. | ||
| Love it. | ||
| You want to pull that mic up a little bit? | ||
| Yeah, sure. | ||
| So who are you? | ||
| We know that you're in Congress. | ||
| Yeah, so Congressman Warren Davidson. | ||
| I'm from Southwest Ohio. | ||
| The district goes the west side of Cincinnati from the Ohio River, about a third of the way up the state. | ||
| So I don't have either Cincinnati or Dayton in the district, but kind of that part of our state. | ||
| I came into Congress after John Boehner resigned and won a special election. | ||
| At that time, I was a manufacturing guy. | ||
| I had a group of small manufacturing companies. | ||
| And then prior to that, I was in In the Army, so I enlisted in the Army out of high school, got sent over to Germany when the Cold War was going on, was over there when the wall came down. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Got to go to West Point from there, served in Ranger Regiment as an officer, so Army Ranger, business guy basically when I first ran, and in Congress I'm on financial services and foreign affairs. | ||
| And you're a big crypto guy, so that's good, probably the most knowledgeable member of Congress I'd imagine? | ||
| Certainly one of them. | ||
| We've been working hard to get, I mean, I've been trying to get a bill passed since 2017. | ||
| Seems like it would have really helped a lot. | ||
| A lot of things could have been averted, but, you know, maybe this year will be the year. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| Well, thanks for hanging out. | ||
| We got Seamus Coghlan joining us. | ||
| My name is Seamus Coghlan. | ||
| I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes where we make animated cartoons and I just released one today about our friend Tim Pool over here. | ||
| I think you guys will like it if you go over there and watch that. | ||
| It's a very enjoyable cartoon to make. | ||
| I think it's an enjoyable one to watch. | ||
| Tim seemed to enjoy it. | ||
| He tweeted it out. | ||
| I also have a podcast called Shamer. | ||
| I stream on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. | ||
| Eastern. | ||
| That's over on Rumble. | ||
| We just streamed today. | ||
| I thought I had a great conversation with Will Noland. | ||
| Hey, buddy, Ian Crossland. | ||
| Good to see you, Seamus. | ||
| Great to see you, man. | ||
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Good to be back. | |
| And you, Warren. | ||
| Good to meet you, man. | ||
| Likewise. | ||
| I'm invigorated by all this talk about crypto. | ||
| Maybe we can talk about that tonight, because I know we've got a lot of nutty stuff going on. | ||
| And if you guys want to follow me, Ian Crossland, everywhere on social media, I'd be happy to get in touch with you there. | ||
| We also have Mr. Duprea on my right. | ||
| Yes, Mr. Dotcom, I'm enjoying this coffee. | ||
| Thank you for the brew. | ||
| Oh yeah, that's Appalachian Nights. | ||
| It's quite good. | ||
| Yeah, I'm a fan so far. | ||
| I'm at Serge.com, everyone on the internet. | ||
| Ready for the show whenever you are. | ||
| Let's jump into this first story from TimCast.com. | ||
| Casey DeSantis teases Governor DeSantis presidential campaign. | ||
| Big if true. | ||
| Here's the video. | ||
| They say they call it faith because in the face of darkness you can see the brighter future. | ||
| Let's just play the video so y'all can see it for yourselves. | ||
| You ready for this? | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Is the audio right? | ||
| Make sure we got the audio right. | ||
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They call it faith because in the face of darkness you can see that brighter future. | |
| A faith that our best days lay ahead of us. | ||
| But is it worth the fight? | ||
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Do I have the courage? | |
| Is it worth the sacrifice? | ||
| America has been worth it every single time. | ||
| Text launch to 5-1-2-3-4-5. | ||
| 5-1-2-3-4-5. | ||
| And that's the video. | ||
| And I feel like this is taking a bit of the wind out of their sails. | ||
| Casey DeSantis also tweeted out, big if true, in reference to this story from Fox News, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to announce candidacy for president Wednesday on Twitter sources. | ||
| So we all knew it was coming. | ||
| And tomorrow, Ron DeSantis is supposed, or for those that are listening to us later, later today, Ron DeSantis is going to be doing an interview with Elon Musk on Twitter and he's going to announce he is running for the presidency. | ||
| So we know he is now. | ||
| I think putting out this story and putting out that tweet pulled a lot of the wind out of their sails. | ||
| I can understand leaking a little bit like expectation may happen, tune in, don't miss the show. | ||
| But tweeting out that video basically just announced it and I feel like that's gonna Elon Musk is going to have the interview, and then what's going to end up happening is there's going to be a good amount of people, maybe 20-30% of people who have normally watched the Twitter space are going to be like, oh, I know already. | ||
| They put that video out, it's a text launch, we get it, we get it. | ||
| So, I don't know, what do you guys think? | ||
| A lot of people are ragging on him already. | ||
| A lot of the Trump people genuinely are upset about this. | ||
| I'm going to say it outright, I think the people who are upset at Ron DeSantis are scared of him. | ||
| I do think that this is kind of an example that he needs a better marketing team. | ||
| No offense, guys, if you're listening right now, but... I agree. | ||
| ...you just stomped on your own fire. | ||
| You should have let Elon make the noise for you so that everyone went back and watched that Elon interview over and over again. | ||
| And this is, like, coming off the heels. | ||
| A couple weeks ago, I think you, Tim, on Twitter, you had some issues with his marketing team also. | ||
| Where was that? | ||
| Yeah, they got megs. | ||
| I tweeted about Jazz Jennings, and I was like, why are they so mad? | ||
| Yeah, and it was just... | ||
| No, I think people will still go back to the Elon Musk interview. | ||
| It's still going to be a big deal. | ||
| I just think this pulled a little bit of the wind out of the sails. | ||
| And us talking about it's pulling more wind out of it. | ||
| So I'll tell you right now. | ||
| The original title of this was going to be Target Emergency Meeting. | ||
| They're pulling back this big boycott. | ||
| Bud Light, we're winning. | ||
| And then I'm looking at the news and it's like, They basically announced. | ||
| Okay, well there it is. | ||
| That's the story. | ||
| The announcement video was shot from underneath him to make him look large. | ||
| Obviously, that's a bit manipulative. | ||
| They should have used some slow motion with a few cuts to give some action because it was a very slow, boring video. | ||
| That's just more of an artistic critique. | ||
| Look, I think this is the biggest non-surprise ever. | ||
| I do think a lot of people are going to watch Elon Musk's announcement tomorrow night. | ||
| And look, the race is ultimately going to be Donald Trump versus Ron DeSantis. | ||
| I think it can be healthy. | ||
| We just got to stay focused on beating Democrats. | ||
| You know, a lot of folks back home, pretty confident Donald Trump's going to win the primary. | ||
| And they want to see the competition, you know, at some level. | ||
| But they also want everybody to stay focused on beating Democrats instead of beating each other up. | ||
| Yeah, the other aspect of it is I'm very glad Ron's running. | ||
| So as critical as I'm going to be about the way that they're announcing it, I like more competition. | ||
| I think we need that. | ||
| We need more Democrats, RFK and Biden. | ||
| We need to see those guys debating. | ||
| We need to see Trump and DeSantis debating. | ||
| I'm very happy about it. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I love what DeSantis is doing in Florida. | ||
| Part of what concerns me is just how damaging it can be to any politician's reputation to go up against Trump. | ||
| And how good he is at just ripping these people to shreds. | ||
| It's one of his- Tiny Ron. | ||
| Very strong talents, yeah. | ||
| And you just wonder, if Ron gets in the ring with Trump, is this going to have lasting damage to his political brand? | ||
| Yeah, I think that's the fear for anybody. | ||
| I mean, particularly, you know, getting across ways with Donald Trump, hard to avoid because those are the tactics Donald Trump uses. | ||
| He goes after the person. | ||
| He doesn't really go after the argument. | ||
| And it's worked pretty well for him. | ||
| I guess the hope for a lot of people is that he can kind of work his message in a different way. | ||
| Because that's, I think, the key to appealing to like suburban women, convincing people that he really is going to be able to flip states like Arizona and Wisconsin again and get the win. | ||
| And, you know, people are saying, oh, well, that's the that's the appeal of the Santas. | ||
| We think Trump maybe can't win. | ||
| Well, the competition will prove it and potentially solidify Trump. | ||
| And if it doesn't, hey, who knows where we go? | ||
| What are your feelings like personally between these guys and just the Republican Party in general, like for president? | ||
| I mean, I haven't endorsed anybody in the race so far. | ||
| Personally, I love both of them. | ||
| You know, when I first came to Congress, I mean, when you come in in a special election, I came in in June, so it wasn't like everyone else was coming in. | ||
| I'm like the new kid. | ||
| And when you come in, you have to make a speech. | ||
| And like, literally, you go down and you address, from the floor of the House, all of your new colleagues. | ||
| And okay, it's only on C-SPAN, but it's kind of a big deal. | ||
| And so a big crowd comes in after, you know, take the oath of office and flow through. | ||
| I make it to the back of where the Freedom Caucus and some of the people that I had gotten to know already were. | ||
| And this guy comes up to me and goes, you know, Hey, I'm Ron DeSantis. | ||
| You're from Troy, Ohio, right? | ||
| And I go... | ||
| Yeah, and I thought it was neat that he knew where I was from. | ||
| He goes, my wife Casey's from Troy, Ohio. | ||
| So she literally graduated from the same high school as my daughter graduated from. | ||
| Kind of small world stuff. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Her dad was the optometrist in the town square. | ||
| So I like the DeSantis people. | ||
| I hope that everything stays friendly. | ||
| I would be happy if Rhonda DeSantis was president. | ||
| I certainly was happy when Donald Trump was president, and I'm confident he would do a great job again. | ||
| Yeah, I'd be happy if Ron DeSantis was president. | ||
| I'd prefer Donald Trump. | ||
| I think Trump's gonna go and get revenge, fire a lot of people. | ||
| I think Ron DeSantis goes in and shakes a lot of hands. | ||
| I think policy-wise, Ron is doing a lot of things that help America in a lot of ways, but I wonder if that's... | ||
| what we need right now. | ||
| Well, look, one of the things he did as a governor is, I mean, he inspired governors to be better than they would have been otherwise in a lot of states. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| I mean, he helped Ron DeSantis. | ||
| Look, yeah, well, Donald Trump inspired a lot of governors to do that, and Ron DeSantis, look, would not have... Oh, I see what you're saying. | ||
| I had it backwards. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Ron DeSantis would not have won, and I think he'll be clear on that. | ||
| He would not have won without the support of Donald Trump. | ||
| But as governor, he did his own thing and did it really well. | ||
| I think it's inspiring. | ||
| He's a pretty young guy. | ||
| He's younger than me. | ||
| I think at some point he's got the potential to be president. | ||
| But just like you said, Seamus, hopefully if he doesn't get derailed, right? | ||
| Yeah, well, and you mentioned that he couldn't have won without Trump's endorsement. | ||
| That's certainly true. | ||
| The first time he won, he just barely squeaked past. | ||
| But we have to acknowledge that his next victory after that was an absolute landslide. | ||
| I mean, he turned Florida from Vaguely purple to dark red. | ||
| He crushed it there. | ||
| I think he's done a lot of good. | ||
| I definitely hear everyone's concerns. | ||
| I mean, if this was a question between DeSantis being president and Trump being president, I'm a happy man, right? | ||
| But then there's the question of who's most likely to defeat the Democrats in a national election. | ||
| That's tough. | ||
| I see a lot of people saying that. | ||
| Look, I've seen the polls. | ||
| The polls are very favorable for Donald Trump. | ||
| But I've also talked to people out just in the streets, in the cities, and the general conversation is they groan when it comes to Donald Trump. | ||
| The moderates and the independents, I mean to say. | ||
| And the sentiment seems to be like DeSantis is a normal guy. | ||
| This is why I think Elon Musk is doing this interview with him, because Elon Musk said something like, I just want a normal person to be president or something like that. | ||
| So I think Elon does want Ron DeSantis to win. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| Yeah, whatever that means. | ||
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Interesting. | |
| But what I was saying before when I said, I don't know if we need that right now in reference to good policy. | ||
| Of course, we always need good policy. | ||
| But I think what we desperately need right now is a purging of the corruption. | ||
| Well, exactly. | ||
| And this is something that it's important to really pay attention to, which is throughout the entire Trump presidency, His rhetoric and his tactics and the way he interacted with the elite was much more criticized by media than were his policies. | ||
| Just as you mentioned where Trump will go after people and not necessarily policies and though I'm sure you'd agree with me he does go after policy often as well. | ||
| The media was almost always attacking Trump as an individual. | ||
| Sometimes they'd go after his appointments, that was pretty popular. | ||
| Sometimes they'd go after a policy, or they'd say we're upset that he pulled out of the Paris Accord. | ||
| But often it was, the rhetoric in this speech was damaging, or the way he speaks about people in the media makes them feel unsafe, or whatever they were bloviating about. | ||
| And so, that's part of why I think those are the things we should love about Trump, because those are the things that terrify our enemies. | ||
| He called Rosie O'Donnell a fat pig. | ||
| Which is like not a good thing to say, right? | ||
| It's terrible! | ||
| But I think overall, and I'm not saying that there are not valid critiques to make of Donald Trump's rhetoric, but what I am saying is there were times where he was so unbelievably on the money in a way that I have never seen another politician be capable of, right? | ||
| When he said, I'm the president for Pittsburgh and not Paris. | ||
| I mean, nailed it! | ||
| Nailed it! | ||
| You look at the drain the swamp rhetoric, you know, to what you're saying, Tim. | ||
| Look, that was a phrase that, look, it sums up. | ||
| If that meant a lot in 2016, if it meant something in 2022, post Durham report, when you look at this, drain the swamp is going to be the theme. | ||
| You look at Elon Musk. | ||
| I mean, he bought a crime scene. | ||
| The question is, what are we going to do about it? | ||
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Mm-hmm. | |
| That's a very good way of putting it. | ||
| He bought a crime scene. | ||
| He did. | ||
| All the evidence is there that they were suppressing information, that they were... I mean, if a foreign government had done what Twitter did, we'd be calling it an act of war. | ||
| 100% and kudos to Thomas Massey who coined the they bought a crime scene phrase. | ||
| Okay, good for him. | ||
| The problem with draining a swamp is that I think that the swamp is clogged. | ||
| I don't think it can be drained without some serious plumbing. | ||
| That's why I'm saying drain. | ||
| But he tried last time and he just basically stood there and looked at it. | ||
| There's a difference between a first and a second term and I think Trump underestimated the swamp and I think he comes into a second term and he just says, I've got the snake! | ||
| There's nothing holding him back anymore. | ||
| I think that Schedule F story was real. | ||
| Yeah, I think Ron DeSantis gets in and says, look guys, let's shake hands and figure something out together. | ||
| And then it's just- But Schedule F, you think realistically that- because my fear and thought is that if any president went in and they're like, all right, Schedule F, I'm firing all the heads of all the agencies, the alphabets, all these administrators, you're fired, the CIA would just have them killed like that. | ||
| And then no one would get fired. | ||
| That's my thought. | ||
| You mean like JFK? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think they did that back in the day. | ||
| But I think when you look at Julian Assange, you can see their tactics have changed. | ||
| So when you look at Trump's first presidency, what do they do? | ||
| They accuse him of being a Soviet spy. | ||
| Now they're trying to accuse him of rape. | ||
| And so you're seeing Democrats now using the E. Gene Carroll story as definitive confirmation, even though there's no evidence of anything. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| So character assassination is the tactic, and then they're trying to make it illegal for him to run? | ||
| I mean, that's... I haven't been following the story the last couple weeks, but what's been going on in that venue? | ||
| Have you, like, since they were trying to make... Well, they're going after him in New York for criminal charges, which we know about. | ||
| He's apparently going to be facing new criminal charges in March of next year. | ||
| They're already talking about that. | ||
| Federal level, you've got the classified documents. | ||
| Georgia, you've got election interference. | ||
| They're just going to throw whatever they can at him. | ||
| They're going to use every procedural manipulation to try and stop him. | ||
| I'm not sure they're going to be able to pull it off. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And then if something bad happens to Trump, I think this country just implodes. | ||
| If you look at the hardcore Trump supporter, you know, indicting Trump or convicting Trump isn't really going to change their support. | ||
| But if you look at the people that are already kind of on the fence, you know, there's almost no one that doesn't have an opinion at all on Trump. | ||
| I mean, he's got 100% name ID and 99.9% people have a pretty fixed opinion of him. | ||
| So how does he move those people? | ||
| And I think they just keep building negative, building negative, building negative. | ||
| And that is the tactic, like you were saying, and it's been working, you know. | ||
| And so the question is, but you look in Ohio, you know, Donald Trump, his message was built for Ohio. | ||
| Everything about it. | ||
| I mean, I got to be on Air Force One ahead of the election with him and showing stuff. | ||
| People did like a three hour long tractor parade. | ||
| And he was just blown away. | ||
| It's like, who would think these people like a billionaire from New York? | ||
| I'm like, they don't just like you, they love you. | ||
| Like, no one made this happen. | ||
| It wasn't a campaign event. | ||
| It was just organic. | ||
| And that kind of support is still there amongst the base. | ||
| But the question is, when you go into places like, you know, the suburbs, you know, places like Pennsylvania, places like Wisconsin, can you flip Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan again? | ||
| Can you still hold Arizona? | ||
| I mean, that's going to be the decider in this election. | ||
| Man, I feel like... Oh, hey. | ||
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| Good to see you. | ||
| I'm so concerned with votes being tallied on machines in private with proprietary software code. | ||
| But did you hear Arizona's banning electronic voting machines? | ||
| Oh, beast. | ||
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No, that's the first I've heard of that. | |
| Yeah, they said unless they're manufactured here in the U.S. | ||
| and the source code is public. | ||
| It's gotta be. | ||
| Wow, free the code! | ||
| Yeah, dude. | ||
| I gave you a shout out earlier when I was reading the news and they said, They can use them as long as the source code is public and it's made in the United States. | ||
| I was like, public source? | ||
| Public code? | ||
| Well, there it is. | ||
| Now we should actively create one of those and use it in Arizona instead of just revert, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, and Dominion said that they were going to be going out of business because of reputational damage. | ||
| And I'm like, if you have the option, Dominion, of either going out of business or building your voting machines here in the United States with open source code, why would you not choose the latter? | ||
| Why would you just be like, oh, I guess we go out of business. | ||
| Especially if you just got a 700 million dollar plus up. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| So they didn't say, I guess it was an interview, and the guy didn't say explicitly, that's it, we're done for, he said, based on the damage we think we're headed towards the drain, that reputational damage is too much. | ||
| They're afraid of the name recognition, they need to change their name. | ||
| Just like Blackwater did, and Monsanto got bought by Bayer because they didn't like the name. | ||
| Is that coming for Bud Light? | ||
| Oh, probably, probably. | ||
| I think every state should do what Arizona did, and say, look, we don't care about... You want out of this one? | ||
| I tell you, it's really simple. | ||
| The left is complaining about the right because, you know, Carrie Lake is filing these lawsuits, and they say, you won't get over 2020. | ||
| I'm like, alright, alright, everybody slow down. | ||
| Here's an idea. | ||
| No more foreign-built voting machines. | ||
| It doesn't even, like, I don't understand the argument against it. | ||
| It's like, what, we got to spend money to get upgraded voting machines for election security? | ||
| Everybody should be in favor of that. | ||
| We make them here in America. | ||
| That's American jobs, good working class jobs. | ||
| We do open source codes that the people have a right to see the code. | ||
| Why would any Democrat disagree with that? | ||
| It's a requirement for all of our defense contracting. | ||
| So why wouldn't it be for our voting system? | ||
| Have you looked much into the blockchain for voting security? | ||
| You know, blockchain really offers a lot of... Look, it's immutable, it's distributed ledger, it's a more secure way. | ||
| I mean, frankly, the most secure computing system is truly available with a proof-of-work kind of architecture. | ||
| But a lot of people don't understand it, for one. | ||
| And two, it really isn't scalable yet. | ||
| But I think you're going to start seeing blockchain voting for shares. | ||
| So I think when you can do votes for things like shares that way, you will eventually see blockchain as an immutable record of what happened. | ||
| And you can audit it. | ||
| It's fully auditable. | ||
| Everyone could download a node. | ||
| If you want to track the election in your state, download the node. | ||
| You see everything. | ||
| All the code is there. | ||
| It would be a great way to run an election. | ||
| I want to just do a hard segue into the cultural stories, because this Target news was really big, and I'm really excited. | ||
| This is a white pill moment for everybody. | ||
| This is hope and optimism. | ||
| Target makes emergency calls after backlash to, quote, tuck-friendly bathing suits and other Pride products. | ||
| The company is terrified of a Bud Light situation, a Target insider told Fox News. | ||
| The company's LGBTQ-themed items were released this month and include tuck-friendly bathing suits, chest binders, and packing underwear along with gender-fluid mugs and other things. | ||
| And I'm pretty sure this was, like, for children, is what the big issue was. | ||
| Consumers called for a boycott of Target over the products taking issue with the swimwear. | ||
| As well as pride-themed children's clothing, including onesies, t-shirts, socks, and swim skirts, with a tag rating thoughtfully fit on multiple body types and gender expressions. | ||
| Target also sells a collection of children's books focused on LGBTQ issues. | ||
| Target is evil. | ||
| If a company targets kids, that company shouldn't exist. | ||
| Bud Light them, tweeted conservative media personality Liz Wheeler. | ||
| Matt Walsh, of course, was saying this is worse than anything Bud Light has done. | ||
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| And so the reporting apparently is that, uh, we have this from the Post Millennial. | ||
| Target to move Pride merch to the back of stores to avoid Bud Light situation. | ||
| Quote, we were given 36 hours to take all of our Pride stuff, the entire section, and move it into a section that's a third of the size. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| Bud Light is seeing another major drop in sales. | ||
| They're nearly 30% down year over year. | ||
| You love to see it. | ||
| It's getting worse and worse for them. | ||
| Conservatives simply said, we have no brand loyalty to Bud Light. | ||
| This is the scariest thing in the world for the biggest brands. | ||
| There's no brand loyalty to Target. | ||
| Nobody's walking around wearing Target shirts being like, yeah, go Target! | ||
| Bud Light at least had some brand recognition with sports, and that didn't do anything for him. | ||
| So when it comes to your choice between Target and Walmart, if people are gonna be like, Target's bad, we won't go there, it's not a big deal to shop somewhere else. | ||
| I really hope that conservatives stick to this because a few years ago we saw a similar attempt to boycott Target when they were saying we're going to allow men to use the women's room and abdicate our responsibility to protect female patrons. | ||
| In our stores, and conservatives said, I'm never shopping at Target again, and then many of them started shopping at Target again. | ||
| So, I hope that this is truly a bridge too far, in that people are going to stick to it this time. | ||
| I would also say that if this isn't stuck to, it's going to set a very bad precedent, right? | ||
| Because people are seeing this as the sort of sequel to the Bud Light boycott. | ||
| And if it falls apart here, that's going to say a lot about the power of conservatives as protesters or as boycotters of products. | ||
| Honestly, I don't think you really need to identify as conservative to have issues with child sex changes. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| I'm not that conservative, really, in life, but little kids that are getting their parents are, like, cutting their body parts off and stuff. | ||
| Like, that just, as a human, I kind of wonder what in the hell is going on. | ||
| Tim's cracking a beer. | ||
| What was that, Ian? | ||
| I didn't, I couldn't hear what you were saying as I was pulling out this wonderful Stud Light Lager, if anybody would like a can. | ||
| Stud Light, give me a taste. | ||
| Stud Light, feel free to grab a can. | ||
| This is, uh, no joke, I don't know if you can see it. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| Stud Light, Stud Light, and there's a cowboy on it, with a horse. | ||
| And it's from Harvest Gap Brewery in Hillsborough, Virginia. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| So we were just driving past this brewery, and we walked in, and I noticed they had something called Stud Light. | ||
| That's hilarious. | ||
| Oh, that's really good. | ||
| I'm not a big beer drinker, but I had no choice but to buy a beer called Stud Light with a manly cowboy on it, because I have to wonder... I'm not saying the brewery did anything to... You want to just grab one? | ||
| Here, here, here you go. | ||
| Plus we got a bunch down there. | ||
| I'm not saying that, I don't know if this brewery made this intentionally because of what was happening, but to see that they've got stud light and there's a cowboy on it, I was like, I kind of feel like, you know, they're having fun. | ||
| Super funny. | ||
| And it's a light lager and it's pretty good. | ||
| But anyway, I just thought it'd be funny if we just cracked some open. | ||
| If you look at Bud Light's market though, I mean, you know, What Ian was talking about, just to be offended by targeting kids for this, is a whole different cross-section than just conservatives. | ||
| But if you look at who shops at Target, it's not as much like who buys your stuff at Target. | ||
| I mean, a little bit of everybody. | ||
| But who drinks Bud Light? | ||
| I mean... Yeah. | ||
| The people that used to drink Bud Light aren't going to go along with this whole trans movement, kind of Dylan Mulvaney kind of thing. | ||
| And they're also not going to buy it was an April Fool's joke. | ||
| And so Bud Light made a bad situation worse by not owning it. | ||
| And now, okay, their ESG score took a tally. | ||
| Instead of owning that, they're still trying to, oh, but see, but we can do everything. | ||
| And it's like, no, man, this is a T-intersection. | ||
| You're going to have to pick. | ||
| You can either keep the people that used to drink Bud Light, or you can go woke. | ||
| I think the thing with Bud Light and Target is that Target has it is smart of them to panic in the way they're | ||
| panicking. | ||
| Yeah. And they should probably just remove these products because | ||
| the left will try and lie. | ||
| But look, I don't care what an adult wants to do. | ||
| You know, you know, Seamus and I will have a disagreement on this. | ||
| Like, I don't care about someone who's LGBTQ or whatever. | ||
| Privacy of your own home. These are all the old traditional arguments from liberals. | ||
| You live your life, you be happy, we mind our own business. | ||
| Keep the kids out of it. | ||
| They're now trying to argue that the LGBTQ stuff is not inherently sexual. | ||
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| It's quite literally what it is. | ||
| LGBT quite literally are references to sexual identities and sexualities. | ||
| There's no reason for you to bring that to children. | ||
| This is what Target is doing. | ||
| They should not be doing that. | ||
| Here's what I think. | ||
| Bud Light loses about 25% of its market with this whole stunt. | ||
| And they're not gonna get it back. | ||
| They may still see growth because new people enter the market and population is, well, if the population expands, if it doesn't, then they're gonna lose more drinkers. | ||
| But I don't think it'll go to zero. | ||
| They've seen about a 30% drop off so far, it's like 28% or something like that. | ||
| These are the people who pay attention, who don't want to drink Bud Light, don't want to be seen drinking Bud Light. | ||
| It's a lot of people who don't care. | ||
| They don't watch the news, they're not on Twitter, they're not on the internet. | ||
| They just went to the liquor store to get some beer, and they said, Bud Light's half off, and they went, wow! | ||
| Me and my buddies wanna get drunk, we'll take it half off. | ||
| Some people might even know, and just be like, don't know, don't care, cheap beer. | ||
| With Target, I think you'll see something similar. | ||
| A lot of people who know will just say, I will not shop there anymore. | ||
| That's why Target is freaking out. | ||
| Not because they're gonna go out of business, but because they could lose 30% of their customers in a month. | ||
| And that's bad news. | ||
| I agree with basically everything you're saying, there's just one thing I'd probably phrase differently, and I think you'd actually agree with me on this when you said there's no reason for them to be introducing this sexual stuff to children. | ||
| We know there's a reason, and we know what the reason is. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Target? | ||
| I think the people at Target who are trying to normalize this, yeah, there's an entire effort within our systems to push sexually perverse behaviors onto children. | ||
| They're owned by Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street. | ||
| These companies keep popping up. | ||
| Any of these publicly traded things. | ||
| I mean, those three corporations, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, own like 24% of Target. | ||
| They are pushing an agenda. | ||
| I completely agree with you, Seamus, and it is bad. | ||
| Look, my kids are at a point where I never thought, gee, we need to cover boys are different than girls and all that stuff. | ||
| It's pretty intuitive, but we're at an age where You know, they're very overtly introducing this to kids and people say, well, you know, gender is a spectrum and it's totally different than sex. | ||
| No, you're given cross-sex hormones, you're using cross-sex pronouns, and the surgeries that you want to do, including to minors, are on the sexually distinctive physical attributes of your anatomy. | ||
| You cannot change. | ||
| You're either an XY person, male, or an XX person. | ||
| You can't change your bone structure, everything else. | ||
| You can't change those attributes. | ||
| With rare exception. | ||
| Yeah, it's out there. | ||
| There are some variants, but that's not what we're having this debate about. | ||
| Those sections that target and, you know, the whole transgenderism movement that's going | ||
| on in the country, spreading all over the place, isn't the traditional, you know, cross, | ||
| you know, issue with hormones that come, their DNA, chromosome issues that you're talking | ||
| about. | ||
| So look, XY people, they're different than XX people. | ||
| Everyone has gotten that for all of time until very recently. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, absolutely. | ||
| You mentioned this point about us having to debate the differences between boys and girls and you not thinking you'd be at this point. | ||
| I feel similarly. | ||
| I first became interested in politics when I was about eight years old because I learned what abortion was and it was so shocking to me that anyone could consider that a morally acceptable thing or that it would be legal. | ||
| And so I've been interested in these things from a very early age and I had some hope as a kid That by the time I was an adult, if I ever had any kind of political career or a career in commentary, we would have moved on to other issues, and society might have progressed. | ||
| Of course, my optimism was misplaced. | ||
| Here we are 20 years later, and we're debating the differences between boys and girls. | ||
| Literally. | ||
| We've completely regressed. | ||
| I don't think we're debating them. | ||
| I think there is a cult that will lie, cheat, and steal. | ||
| So they'll come to you and pretend like there's a debate to trick you into debating them because they know that you'll operate in good faith to debate those ideas. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Meanwhile, I mean, look. | ||
| I know, I think there's truth in that. | ||
| It's the video of Jack Posoba getting punched by the leftist, and then when the cops pull up, because the cops watch it happen, the leftist, one of them goes, I didn't see anything happen. | ||
| They're just lying about everything. | ||
| They know the difference between boys and girls. | ||
| They're just trying to destroy the system. | ||
| It seems like, yeah, when you disrupt the system, it's the person that's the most powerful that suffers the most. | ||
| So, like, if you cut everybody's value by 5%, it's the rich, it's the one with the most value that's going to lose the most, because 5% of the most is more than 5% of less than that. | ||
| So, like, COVID shut down the entire world. | ||
| The United States probably suffered the most because it was doing the best. | ||
| And now we've got the disruption of the youth, of the psychology of the youth. | ||
| The United States has the most to lose, because it's the leader of the planet. | ||
| And I don't think it's an accident, man. | ||
| It's a global internet— When you cut off the tall grass, the short grass stays where it is. | ||
| I'm gonna slightly push back against both things. | ||
| I hear what you're saying, and I think I agree overall, but when it comes to Who can suffer the most? | ||
| So for example, you're right that someone who's extremely wealthy and loses 5% of their wealth has lost more material wealth, technically speaking. | ||
| But if a poor person is living paycheck to paycheck and then they lose 5% of their wealth, maybe they can't afford to pay rent anymore. | ||
| And similarly, we saw during COVID, the UN increased the number of people projected to be at risk for starvation in the third world by like 130 million. | ||
| So, there are certain things that Western countries can tolerate that poorer countries can't. | ||
| And that's actually part of why you see it here, right? | ||
| Because we are so wealthy that we've been able to insulate ourselves from natural consequences for decades. | ||
| If you had a poorer society, the sexual revolution would have fallen apart almost immediately. | ||
| Because what happens when a man starts impregnating women and then he doesn't care for those children, right? | ||
| I mean, it's social and economic pandemonium. | ||
| And very wealthy nations can insulate themselves from that for a little while. | ||
| Leftism only exists in wealthy nations. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| That's exactly it. | ||
| The woke mind virus, as Elon Musk kind of tagged it, is really only in affluent countries. | ||
| There's no like big woke mind virus spreading all over Africa. | ||
| They're not transgender outbreaks all over the global south. | ||
| It's in affluent countries. | ||
| It's, you know, I talked about this too a while ago when I said feminism can only exist in an empire's sphere. | ||
| The United States is so secure that we no longer fear for our women. | ||
| If you go back to tribal era, medieval, whatever, when you're really worried about wild animals and disease, you stub your toe, you die. | ||
| The men are very desperately like, if the women die, we are wiped out as a civilization. | ||
| So the women are protected Keep them in homes, keep them in the camps, surround them. | ||
| You get to the point where you have a very strong military, a very expansive country, crime goes way down, and we start exuding military force out of the country, and so we face very little threats from within. | ||
| Then all of a sudden, there's nothing to worry about with women reaching higher positions in government. | ||
| I know this one probably triggers the feminists, but this is why you don't see these things, like you mentioned, in other parts of the world where they're less affluent, less safe, less secure. | ||
| Very true. | ||
| If we lived in a violent society where people got attacked and shot at and stabbed and raped, Outside, just walking down the street, it would be risky to send your wife out to the grocery store. | ||
| It wouldn't happen as much. | ||
| The guy would be the one that did that. | ||
| But it is. | ||
| It still is. | ||
| It still is a trope of, don't walk down a dark alley. | ||
| And the feminists have been trying. | ||
| There's this weird inflection point where crime was down enough to where the left started saying, stop victim blaming. | ||
| But for the longest time, we would tell people, don't go walk through a dark alley at night, and women should be worried. | ||
| Despite the fact that men are more likely to be victims of violent crime, it's also true that men are more likely to be able to physically defend themselves from another man. | ||
| But it's not just about men. | ||
| I'm talking about wild animals and just general danger. | ||
| If you go way back to humans in a tribal era, If 90, if you have a tribe, if you have 100 men and 100 women and 99 women die, that tribe ceases to exist. | ||
| If 99 men die, they'll struggle, but they'll probably be okay. | ||
| Well, it's not even just a calculation, right? | ||
| It's men caring about the women in their lives and recognizing because they're not insulated from the consequences of their actions by an unfathomable amount of wealth that men and women do have to be in different roles in order to be maximally safe. | ||
| And so, this is something that you have to be unbelievably wealthy to even start to consider as a society. | ||
| The idea that you would start to swap roles between men and women. | ||
| When you're living in a state of nature, right? | ||
| When you're one bad harvest away from your entire family starving, you're not... | ||
| preoccupied with whether you were called bossy when a man would have been called assertive. | ||
| It's not even a question. | ||
| And it's not to say that a society where people are worried about starving all the time is better. | ||
| However, I will say there's no argument to be made that those people aren't stronger and more virtuous than we are today. | ||
| And I'll also add that we could have the best of both worlds if people were capable of living with wealth While still having a spirit of poverty. | ||
| There's no generational memory. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| We don't know what it's like to be preparing for harvest. | ||
| Some people do, but in the United States. | ||
| And to say, we've only three months of food prepared for the winter. | ||
| We're in trouble. | ||
| We're going to have to eat less and hunt more if we're going to make it through this one. | ||
| Yeah, and I mean, if you look on balance, I mean, one of my favorite sites out there is like humanprogress.org. | ||
| Everyone's like, oh, you know, we got too many people. | ||
| We're never going to make it. | ||
| You know, the Malthusians were saying that forever. | ||
| They were wrong. | ||
| On balance, human progress is great. | ||
| The innovation has given us lots of flexibility. | ||
| But the question is, how do we keep the ties that bind us? | ||
| I mean, you know, part of our motto is this idea of E Pluribus Unum. | ||
| And part of the way that you teach that is values and culture, shared values. | ||
| And you think about how easy it was. | ||
| You go back to, you know, what you guys are talking about, the state of nature. | ||
| If everyone could live by just a basic truth of don't hurt people and don't take their stuff, we would really not even need government, right? | ||
| Everything would work just fine. | ||
| And because people can't abide by that simple maxim, well, somebody's got to be the judge of, well, who was wrong to hurt whoever here? | ||
| And look at how much government we have now. | ||
| Versus how little we could have if people could simply not hurt one another or take their stuff We have a constitution that's supposed to have a limited form of government But now we have far more government than will fit within our Constitution And I think the challenge today is how do we get a government small enough to fit back in the Constitution? | ||
| Because we can afford a government that small. | ||
| I think I think just conflict will emerge conflict will emerge I think that We look at hard times as bad things, but I don't think they are. | ||
| I think there needs to be a balance between the good times and the bad times to create strong, well-balanced individuals who are capable of surviving hard times. | ||
| You know, there's a saying, good times make weak men, weak men, you know, hard times, etc. | ||
| But I also feel like it's kind of swinging back and forth like a pendulum, increasing the amount of energy each time. | ||
| You get a good time, then you get weak men, which give you a hard time, and then it keeps swinging back and forth in terms of how extreme it gets. | ||
| What I'm trying to say is, right now we are dealing with a very serious crisis in the United States and in other parts of the world with actual war. | ||
| We have many, many, many weak men. | ||
| In fact, I think this country is... the overwhelming majority of men in this country are weak. | ||
| For example, in New York, Daniel Penney defends people on a train. | ||
| Did anybody in New York come out with signs to protest for Daniel Penney? | ||
| Maybe a couple here and there. | ||
| But was there like a big march where the police were yelling at him and they're blocking cars saying, he's a hero? | ||
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| We don't see that. | ||
| We do, however, see a lot of people putting up a lot of money, which, for a lot of people, can be even more courageous if you're saying, like, I'm going to take a portion of my resources and allocate it to defending this man. | ||
| So my point is not that there are no strong men or strong people, but that in places like New York and these big cities, you are more likely to see people say, I better keep my head down and not engage. | ||
| And I was saying this to Glenn back earlier, I don't think the problem is that evil exists. | ||
| I think the problem is that good men do nothing. | ||
| Yeah, it's a great quote for a reason. | ||
| And you go back to the Declaration of Independence, you know, they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor because that's what it takes to defend a country. | ||
| And that's, look, we're only the land of the free if we are, in fact, the home of the brave. | ||
| And it does take courage, whether it's to cut a check, to show up to an event, to participate. | ||
| You got to make the current system work or it is going to fail. | ||
| Strength also is kind of, like Darwin would say, it's not the strongest of the species that survives, but the most adaptable to change. | ||
| It's the most adaptable humans that get by, which I think is why people aren't stepping up sometimes, because they want to just get by. | ||
| They want to fit in to survive. | ||
| But, you know, sometimes you need people to break the mold. | ||
| I want to jump to that. | ||
| I want to piggyback on that, because I think that's a very, very good point. | ||
| Were you finished, though? | ||
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| I'm not sure? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, I think that's a very good point, and one thing I would argue is that virtue is what makes you adaptable, right? | ||
| A person who's living a life of vice is taking the path of least resistance, and what they're doing is engaging in behaviors that feel good for them in the moment, rather than behaving rationally, making a long-term plan, and behaving based on what's going to be good for them down the line. | ||
| When you're able to do that, when you're able to use your rational faculties to subordinate your passions to what's going to be good for you in the long run, you can adapt to many different kinds of situations. | ||
| But if you've made yourself accustomed simply to doing whatever feels good for you, well once the dynamic changes, you're going to have absolutely no idea how to interact with the world. | ||
| I want to jump to this story from TimCast.com. | ||
| Montana governor signs bill defining male and female. | ||
| Governor Greg Gianforte was lobbied by his adult son to oppose Senate Bill 458 and other bills regulating gender issues. | ||
| They say he signed Senate Bill 458 into law on May 19th. | ||
| The bill states the term female refers to a member of the human species who under normal development has XX chromosomes, and produces or would produce relatively large, relatively immobile gametes or eggs during her life cycle, and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes, including an individual who would otherwise fall within this definition, but for a biological or genetic condition. | ||
| Additionally, the state will not recognize male to mean a member of the human species who under normal development has XY chromosomes and produces or would produce small mobile gametes or sperm during his life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes including an individual who would otherwise fall within this definition but for biological or genetic condition. | ||
| So I'm curious if they included in this anything pertaining to intersex because there are several different genetic circumstances where a person may have XY chromosomes, may appear totally female, and that's like androgen insensitivity disorder or syndrome or something like that. | ||
| So, someone's biologically male, but their body does not in any way react to testosterone. | ||
| So, when they're born, they look like girls, and they grow up, they look like girls, and it's like, hey, wait a minute, that's actually a guy whose testosterone never worked. | ||
| And then there's also people, um, there's a variety of, uh, syndromes, where people could be XYY or XXY. | ||
| I'm wondering how it defines them. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I will say, however, This is particularly interesting considering the transgender rep, you know, in Montana, mentioned in the article, the bill was one of several gender-related policies passed during a contentious legislative session, prompting a vitriolic protest from transgender-identifying representative Zoe Zephyr. | ||
| That led to an official censure. | ||
| The fact that we've come to the point where we have to define male and female is fascinating to me. | ||
| And there was an article I was reading recently, I think it was the Daily Mail, that referred to a transgender male, that is somebody who is male but wants to be a woman, as a female. | ||
| And the media does this thing, which is very strange, where they will call males females and females male. | ||
| I think that's why they have to do this. | ||
| So what happens is, first we say, we hear, man is a social construct. | ||
| Women is a social construct. | ||
| You can be a biological male, but be a woman if you're trans. | ||
| That's what the left argues. | ||
| Then they started just once again changing the words and saying, trans female. | ||
| Now, if you're born male, but want to be female, they call you transgender female, which is not and never was the actual description of what the person was. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| And so this is something I've noticed, where conservatives are now shocked that the left has redefined male and female, which is perplexing to me, because why would that be shocking when they redefine man and woman? | ||
| Why would you think? | ||
| They redefine those words, but they're not going to redefine male and female and strip them of all meaning. | ||
| Well, of course they were going to. | ||
| You can't, like, retreat into that linguistic territory and expect them not to muddle that up either. | ||
| And we had Lance from the Serfs, the leftist, I said, someone asked, what is a woman? | ||
| And he says, easy, an adult human female. | ||
| And I said, oh, okay, so trans women are not women. | ||
| He goes, no, they are. | ||
| Trans women are female, he said. | ||
| Yeah, I was just thinking about Lance. | ||
| I'm like, that makes no sense. | ||
| I explained to him that men that transition to be trans women are trans women and men at the same time. | ||
| They don't stop being one to become the other. | ||
| They become both. | ||
| And he was like, no, that's not what they think. | ||
| He was telling me what the current brainwashing is, is that they don't. | ||
| But the reality is, you never stop being human when you become a trans man or a trans woman. | ||
| You're still a human, you're still a man, and now you're a trans woman and a man and a human. | ||
| Ian's completely right. | ||
| If you're an adult human male, you're a man. | ||
| And then if you are transgender, you are a trans woman, but you are still an adult human male. | ||
| Well, oh, sorry. | ||
| I just think that the definition's pretty good, and it does get after what you say, but for a biological or genetic condition. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| So that would be the things that you were alluding to. | ||
| But the interesting thing there, then, is there may be someone who presents completely as female because of, like, androgen insensitivity, And has spent their whole life believing they're a woman only to find out when they're in their, you know, late 20s. | ||
| So what does that mean? | ||
| Do they lose protections or are people going to see? | ||
| I think I look forward to the day that we're back focused on that like point zero one point zero zero five. | ||
| percent of the population. | ||
| I hope that's where we get back to. | ||
| Because right now we're talking about it to the point where, oh, you have to introduce your five-year-old to this and buy them gear at Target. | ||
| I mean, this is just a crazy place. | ||
| And it's on purpose, frankly, not for a lot of people that are struggling with it. | ||
| I think the real question is, you know, why are so many people struggling with it? | ||
| You know, so you went from in 2013 in the United States, I think there were two gender clinics and now you have hundreds, if not thousand plus of them all over the country. | ||
| Like what happened? | ||
| All of human history, you don't have this. | ||
| Now suddenly it's everywhere. | ||
| I think the real question is, why? | ||
| Well there were also just two genders back then, and now there's hundreds across the country. | ||
| Social media is a big factor, and I think endocrine disruptors are a big factor. | ||
| So I think, I was wondering this, you know, I was listening to some old rock, And didn't it, am I just wrong about this, that rock stars used to be a little bit older and gruffer and thicker? | ||
| Like, I don't know, men just seemed manlier back in the day. | ||
| Dirty. | ||
| Dirtier. | ||
| Definitely dirtier. | ||
| Yeah, but maybe that's just how media, you know, portrayed people and now they're trying to change it or something. | ||
| But there is a trope among millennials where they're like, you watch these old movies and you're like, wait a minute, that dude was 30? | ||
| They look like they're 50! | ||
| Why is it that everybody looks so much younger today? | ||
| I'm wondering if endocrine disruptors have been screwing with us for the past couple of decades, the past few generations, because plastics are a new thing for human civilization. | ||
| Plastics and vaccines. | ||
| I mean, if you look at RFK, RFK for, you know, the Democratic presidential candidate, he's talked about vaccines for a long time. | ||
| You know, look, I got vaccinated. | ||
| I was in the Army. | ||
| I mean, I didn't know that you could function as an adult without getting shots. | ||
| Until I got out of the army and my doctor said, oh yeah, you don't actually need shots. | ||
| But like every time I went to see a doctor, I was getting vaccinated against something. | ||
| But if you look at kids that came up in this era over the past, you know, few decades, they've never gone up in an era where they didn't have lots of vaccines. | ||
| Some people say it's that. | ||
| I just think we should have an honest investigation as to, you know, what did change. | ||
| I think, I don't, I wouldn't want to isolate just vaccines. | ||
| I think big pharma in general. | ||
| The amount of pills, medications, whatever you want to call it. | ||
| We're giving kids more shots than ever. | ||
| We're giving them more pills than ever. | ||
| We are, we've got chemicals loaded up on our food. | ||
| Something's happening. | ||
| It's birth control too. | ||
| People don't acknowledge that. | ||
| There's a lot of excess estrogen that just gets peed back out into the water supply. | ||
| I was thinking, like, I learned about amphetamines in, like, D.A.R.E. | ||
| in, like, third grade, and I was like, oh, amphetamines are, like, they get you going. | ||
| They get you speed. | ||
| They're nasty drugs. | ||
| Like, the gateway leads you to amphetamines. | ||
| Amphetamines are the dark. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, Adderall. | ||
| It's an amphetamine. | ||
| I think it's, like, four different amphetamines or something like that. | ||
| Like, it's a combination. | ||
| And you're actually considering giving those to children? | ||
| You're not. | ||
| Considering they do! | ||
| So, my point is, when we're talking about, first, you know, because the original subject was male and female and trans stuff, I would not be surprised if, well, I will first say, it is a fact, look this up, there was a birth control that masculinized young girls Because of the exposure to this birth control in women, resulted in the female fetus becoming masculinized. | ||
| And that, we read about it on the show. | ||
| So birth control is doing this. | ||
| Then we also know that plastics are endocrine disruptors, which is why we use the glass bottles. | ||
| And Liquid Death had a funny commercial recently about people getting plastic shoved in their bodies to make their butts bigger and they're like plastic surgery or whatever. | ||
| It was funny because they're all about using aluminum cans instead of plastics because plastics are bad. | ||
| But I do think a large component is social pressures. | ||
| Which is why we see typically it's like the overwhelming majority of trans kids are female because they're being pressured by social media. | ||
| But then I do think one of the reasons we're seeing some of this may just be people are suffering from endocrine disruption. | ||
| Their bodies aren't producing the right hormones and the right levels. | ||
| And this is not some right-wing conspiracy theory, right? | ||
| The data has shown that testosterone has been decreasing for the past few decades now. | ||
| This is a real problem. | ||
| I was just learning about apparently when a man sees a woman comes into contact with a woman his testosterone spikes by 20% roughly. | ||
| This is something I just learned. | ||
| I don't know if it's real or not, but it sounds cool. | ||
| And so I'm wondering if all this interaction with women digitally, like watching Movies with women in it, and watching porn, for instance, is getting this, like, the body stops producing the testosterone spike because it's not getting the reciprocity from the woman, so it realizes, like, oh, okay, she's not really there. | ||
| She's not really there. | ||
| And then when you see a woman in real life, she's not really there. | ||
| Like, we're becoming adapted to not have this testosterone spike. | ||
| I hear you're saying, but I feel like that's way too... that's too many leaps happening there. | ||
| It's a long shot. | ||
| If anything, looking at all these women would increase men's testosterone. | ||
| You would think so, but then if it happens over and over and over and over and you're not getting the value of the testosterone, the body might just stop. | ||
| Well, there's at least a correlation between wealth and poverty, right? | ||
| So if you look, what's different in wealthy countries than in poor countries? | ||
| And there are so many different things. | ||
| But I do think that it'd be a worthwhile subject. | ||
| But today, I mean, look, this professor at Brown, she got canceled. | ||
| She was one of the first cancel culture people in it. | ||
| I mean, she's an atheist professor at Brown. | ||
| And she started going, well, what happens with like, okay, there's someone who's transgender And then in their peer group, once one person identifies as transgender, lots of other people in that school or in that peer group start to identify as transgender too. | ||
| And she coined it sudden onset gender dysphoria because she wanted to investigate it and gave it a label. | ||
| But the whole APA, you know, Psychological Association, went after her, canceled her, got her unpublished and everything. | ||
| She had written scholarly journals and she was going at it from an academic perspective. | ||
| They've literally worked to kill any serious academic study into, yeah, what does explain this? | ||
| And it was just an intellectual curiosity, like, well, why is it all of a sudden spreading to other people versus, you know, the biological or genetical issues that were referenced in the Montana law? | ||
| Yeah, well this is also interesting too, right, because they'll argue that this idea of social contagion is also a far-right conspiracy theory, but the president of WPATH, which is like the leading transgender activism organization on the planet, has acknowledged that social contagion is driving, in some part, the massive surge of kids who are now identifying as trans. | ||
| Yeah, you also call it peer pressure. | ||
| That's what we used to call it in the 80s. | ||
| Well, isn't it so crazy that they would even try to get away with saying teens aren't doing things because of peer pressure? | ||
| Of course they are! | ||
| How could you say there's this one category of behavior that's immune to peer pressure among teens? | ||
| That's insane! | ||
| It's also a way for a kid to take control of their parents and the law, basically. | ||
| Control from their parents. | ||
| Yeah, if a 14-year-old can be like, now because I say this, you all have to bow to me, and I'm 13. | ||
| But like, what a power surge for a young human to be able to be like, all I gotta do is say I'm trans and then I can... And then, depending on the state, the doctors will be like, come right in and we'll have those old boys removed. | ||
| You can get, like, teachers fired if they don't agree with you. | ||
| You can get politicians fired. | ||
| Like, it's crazy the amount of psychotic powers involved. | ||
| No, it's true. | ||
| It allows you to just jump in social standing massively, which is what young people want. | ||
| They want more social status. | ||
| It's not so much about social status. | ||
| And Ian's point is talking about authority and control of the legal system. | ||
| But they're the same. | ||
| They're the same, right? | ||
| The more social status you have, the more control you have over the system. | ||
| No, I disagree. | ||
| Like, the most social status you could possibly have is to be in full control socially and legally. | ||
| I disagree. | ||
| People want to just give you things, be around you, and, you know, in terms of authority, you could be the most hated person in the world, but everyone gives you stuff. | ||
| But I would say that somebody who is in a position of legal authority but is hated has a lower social status than someone who's in a position of legal authority and who everybody loves. | ||
| I'm saying that they both play a role in social status. | ||
| Like, if our laws privilege a certain group of people, they have a higher social status, no? | ||
| Like, to a certain degree, you can argue that people are attracted to someone of great governmental wealth, but there's a balance. | ||
| If you are the ugliest, most out of shape, smelliest, You know, dude living in a basement. | ||
| All right, I get it. | ||
| You can, you can, Ian, you can go out in New York and you can dress up in a historical period according to New York law and they are forced to give you what you want. | ||
| You can force a massive multi-billion dollar corporation to do whatever you want. | ||
| That doesn't mean you have any good social status. | ||
| And that's kids in general have no social status. | ||
| That's the issue, actually. | ||
| That people of no social status are going and exploiting the system. | ||
| Well, but I would say that if there are laws that are written that tell people they're not allowed to disagree with you, there's social status in that, right? | ||
| When our legal system privileges groups of people, that boosts their social status. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| So if the law says anyone can do whatever they want, there's no social status? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| My argument is not that social status... I understand that there has to be a differential, like some people have to be lower in social status than others for like the legal question to apply. | ||
| My point is simply that when one group of people are set aside by the law and said they have special privileges, that increases social status. | ||
| But I'm talking about how the law does not protect a group of people. | ||
| It's random. | ||
| The New York City law says anything you do is protected. | ||
| It's literally anything. | ||
| So a homeless person of no social status has control in a system if they choose to. | ||
| That's not social status. | ||
| That's just a broken system. | ||
| So my initial response to what Ian was saying is that creating these quote-unquote transgender protections boosts the social status of people who have that identified label. | ||
| What I'm trying to clarify is that's not the case. | ||
| You don't think so? | ||
| You don't think that that boosts their social status? | ||
| The fact that they can go around telling people they have to use their pronouns or that employers can't discriminate on that basis? | ||
| Because anyone can do it for anything, right? | ||
| So the law doesn't say you have to use someone's she, her, he, and pronouns. | ||
| It says anyone who says anything has to be respected. | ||
| I'm just going to say in New York, if you're a black man and defend anything conservative, then you must be a white supremacist, right? | ||
| So, I mean, I do think there's something, I don't know whether it's called social status or whatever, but you have all these people that it's like, if you step out of what they're, you know, one of my colleagues referred to somebody, you know, we don't need any more brown faces that aren't brown voices or black faces that aren't black voices or things like that. | ||
| And it's like, well, you know, Tim Scott's like, I'm not supposed to talk? | ||
| And so there is this kind of, I don't know, heresy code. | ||
| I don't know whether it's status or whatever, but kind of this whole kind of woke culture has got its own heresy code. | ||
| There is no doctrine of grace over there. | ||
| You cross the line, you're canceled. | ||
| And so I think to your point, yeah, there's a, but that's highly selective in terms of where you would even have status. | ||
| I mean, some areas, your status goes even worse and maybe even in peril. | ||
| When they say that anyone can dress in a historical period costume, they are not privileging transgender people. | ||
| They are basically saying anyone can wear and dress and be called whatever they demand, and you must adhere to it. | ||
| If they said, if someone who is traditionally male appears in non-traditional, you know, or appears as female, presents in female stereotypical clothing, using female names, you cannot discriminate on this basis. | ||
| That would be outlining just trans people. | ||
| But New York's law, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. | ||
| It says you can dress in historical period. | ||
| Like, those words actually appear in the law. | ||
| Which means you could dress up like a pirate in New York City and say, I'm pirate gender, and it's protected. | ||
| And your pirates could be our inmate. | ||
| Pirates are not protected, but they are now. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| Pirates are not protected gender in New York City. | ||
| You are a privileged class. | ||
| This is something that Jordan Peterson said in response to Bill C-16, which I thought was a great observation, which is that what a lot of these protection laws do is they enshrine Um, a person's fashion choice as like a legally protected identity. | ||
| That's what I'm wondering. | ||
| Could I go in in chain mail? | ||
| Or like plate mail? | ||
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| I identify as a knight from the Middle Ages. | ||
| So, so look. | ||
| I've brought this up time and time again, where the lawyers told me and I'll get laughed out of the courtroom, but the New York Civil Rights Law, uh, Human Rights Commission says historical period. | ||
| I have no idea why! | ||
| That's kind of insane! | ||
| It's not gender. | ||
| Right, but it literally says it, meaning you can put on a full plate armor and be like, these are my clothes. | ||
| We talked about this a while ago, right? | ||
| Yeah, and that's right, we actually had a lawyer on the show, and they were basically saying that, I think we were joking about wearing a fursuit or something and saying like that, and he said, I mean, legally, yeah, but you'd probably get laughed out of the courtroom. | ||
| Well, no, I talked to several human rights lawyers who told me that. | ||
| So this is 2019 or whatever, I call a bunch of lawyers and I said, what would happen if someone did this? | ||
| And they said, everyone knows the point of the law, you'd get laughed out of the courtroom. | ||
| The problem is now as they've expanded it, there's no way this makes sense when they added the words historical period. | ||
| Because now you can dress up like I mentioned, you know, put on a safari costume and a big white fake beard and call yourself the colonel, and they can't, that's protected. | ||
| Historical period is protected. | ||
| Yeah, I think at some point, you know, a lot of the country's just like, yeah, we're going to move on. | ||
| You guys go ahead and do that. | ||
| And we're not going to go along with it. | ||
| And that's kind of where this whole effort to counter that it goes with Bud Light. | ||
| Like, man, we're just you do it. | ||
| Go do your thing as an adult. | ||
| Whatever you are, but I'm not drinking Bud Light anymore. | ||
| We talked about that last night. | ||
| How do you see like the value and differential between political power and I guess private sector power like? | ||
| Well, there's obviously some sort of correlation between power and money, right? | ||
| So I don't think that's new to our culture or any other place around the world. | ||
| But you know, if you look at if you look at You know, influence, you know, at some point, cultural influence really drives the politics. | ||
| I mean, a lot of times people say in a functioning democracy, you get the government you deserve, you get what you voted for. | ||
| And people will get frustrated by what we get. | ||
| And it's hard to believe that, you know, you could have, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene win 80% of the vote in her district. | ||
| And, you know, You know, AOC won 80% of the vote in her district, and people love them both, but they're so very different. | ||
| And I think that gets to, like, our Constitution actually is designed to have that kind of flexibility. | ||
| But somehow, in the era that we're in, there's this idea that everything has to be federalized. | ||
| And I think that's the problem. | ||
| It's like, yeah, you can actually do your thing in New York and do it your way. | ||
| Ohio, we're not going to do that, probably. | ||
| And, you know, if you really want to, you could maybe do it in a certain area, but we're not going to change our laws like New York did, and Texas may do it totally different. | ||
| But if you want to make it all one big federal policy and just cram it down your throat, that's the tension. | ||
| People are trying to seize power in Washington and impose their will on everyone else. | ||
| Yeah, I think one massive problem with the direction the United States has gone in really over the past hundred years is, to create an analogy, we've gone from a neighborhood to an apartment building. | ||
| So, when you're in a neighborhood, everyone has their own house, they have their own lawn, they can make decisions about their house, they can add something on to it, subtract something from it, have a garden, not have a garden, own chickens, whatever it is. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And you're all houses, you're all in the neighborhood, you all have the same zip code, but you're able to make decisions about your own property. | ||
| There's some sovereignty, there might be an HOA that puts some limitations on it, but overall you can make your own choice for your own property. | ||
| Now it's like the United States has become a condominium, and each state is its own little condo. | ||
| And you're able to make decisions, and it's technically your own property as a state, or as the governor of a state, or as the people of a state, but you're not fully sovereign because There's a certain pattern you have to follow so that you don't move outside of the status quo of what is like architecturally sound for that building. | ||
| But Ron DeSantis was able to tell him to shove it during the COVID attempted shutdowns. | ||
| So you would still consider him in the apartment complex, but just like... I would say he's starting to make moves out. | ||
| Yeah, I would say that like he's sort of starting to shift the paradigm because what happens is when you have an incredibly strong federal government, Each state becomes more affected by decisions made in other states in a way where they historically were not when the government didn't have as much oversight or when the federal government didn't have as much oversight. | ||
| And so what I think DeSantis is doing, and again, analogies limp, and where this one falls apart, is that we could actually, you know, disassemble the condominium and put people back onto their own property. | ||
| And I think governors like DeSantis move us in that direction by pulling away from federal oversight. | ||
| I want to jump to another crazy story. | ||
| Hard segue, we got this from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Second Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower comes forward. | ||
| Agent claimed he was passed over for promotion and removed from tax investigation team for claiming the president's son was getting preferential treatment. | ||
| They say a new case agent who has not been identified since he was fired last week without any explanation after working on the Hunter Biden investigation since 2018. | ||
| His complaint comes days after it was revealed the DOJ removed his entire team, according to his supervisor. | ||
| IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel had told Congress the agency wouldn't retaliate against whistleblowers in April. | ||
| So, if you are the son of, uh, the President, you get away with committing crimes. | ||
| If you're the son of this President. | ||
| Yeah, I was gonna say, right, right, right. | ||
| Because Don Jr. | ||
| couldn't get away with not committing crimes, right? | ||
| They were threatening him. | ||
| They were trying to lock him up for literally nothing. | ||
| They put his face on Time Magazine, wrote red-handed, and he didn't do anything. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| You can't catch someone red-handed when they actually didn't do anything. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
| But this is how they lie, right? | ||
| It has to be as far as possible from the truth. | ||
| It's not a small little lie. | ||
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| It's, we caught this guy doing something red-handed when they didn't even have evidence because nothing happened. | ||
| Yeah, nothing happened. | ||
| You know who has been caught red-handed? | ||
| All right, the guy who has pictures smoking a crack pipe and them. | ||
| That's who's been caught red-handed. | ||
| Look, not only did he get caught red-handed, the whole coalition of intelligence experts got caught red-handed concocting the story to cover for Hunter Biden's laptop. | ||
| And look, kudos to Tucker Carlson for highlighting this in the 2020 election cycle. | ||
| But frankly, it got dropped right away. | ||
| One of the guys in the middle of that, Tony Bobulensky, came forward, did the interview with Tucker Carlson, and said, look, if it's Russian disinformation, how am I carbon copied on the same email? | ||
| I got an email. | ||
| We were part of the same deal flow. | ||
| How did I wind up? | ||
| This is true. | ||
| I know this is true. | ||
| And I told everyone at the time, look, I know Tony. | ||
| I will vouch for this guy. | ||
| He's telling you the truth. | ||
| And the story was dead. | ||
| Everyone killed it. | ||
| And you know, this is why what happened, what Matt Taibbi is working on at Twitter and the Twitter files is so important. | ||
| Because you see, they weren't just doing this at Twitter, they were doing this all over. | ||
| And it might not be the exact same cast of characters that wrote the cover story for Hunter Biden's laptop, but it is the same coalition of three-letter agencies that are using the power of the government To cancel speech in America. | ||
| And whether it was political speech or COVID speech, you still think back to like, I mean, for me, I always like, you know, Dwight Eisenhower, big deal at West Point, big deal for the country. | ||
| Very successful general. | ||
| I think very successful president and underappreciated. | ||
| But his farewell address, he said, you know, cautioned against the military industrial complex. | ||
| We saw that play out for a long time. | ||
| Used to be the left was anti-military industrial complex. | ||
| They can't get enough of it lately. | ||
| But the other thing he cautioned against was the scientific-technical elite. | ||
| And if St. | ||
| Fauci doesn't epitomize the scientific-technical elite, look what was going on in the midst of all this stuff. | ||
| And at the center of dominating both of those are these three little agencies, canceling and covering and all for political influence operations. | ||
| For the left. | ||
| They accused a sitting president of treason, and they targeted his family. | ||
| And now we have questions about what Joe Biden's doing. | ||
| And I tell you, the way it feels to me, what it feels like to me is, the nation is captured by corrupt elites, the establishment. | ||
| That's what we refer to it as. | ||
| Maybe it needs a different name, maybe we call it the deep state. | ||
| But these people don't care about this country, and there's something else. | ||
| We were talking about this last night when we discussed the fall of empire. | ||
| The idea was that every 250 years, they say, you know, empires collapse. | ||
| Phil was talking about this. | ||
| He's like, well, the U.S. | ||
| hasn't been an empire for 250 years. | ||
| It's only really since the end of World War II. | ||
| I think the fall of the American empire would be the greatest thing for the United States. | ||
| Because the American empire, as people refer to it, is this expeditionary force that we've sent all over the world with military bases, insane foreign policy, world policing. | ||
| And what we need to get back to is our own borders, our own people, our own jobs, our own economy. | ||
| And that's what Trump was doing. | ||
| The people who oppose him are those who want the American empire. | ||
| They want war in Syria. | ||
| They want pipelines in Europe. | ||
| They want to control various parts of the Middle East. | ||
| And we, as Americans, don't care about any of that, but we're still along for the ride because they're taking us there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, it's very real. | ||
| And one thing you mentioned about the left loving the military-industrial complex, I mean, this is one of Trump's greatest accomplishments, to be honest, that he pushed the warmongers and the war hawks out of the Republican Party. | ||
| He turned them into Democrats. | ||
| A certain amount of them. | ||
| Rod Bolton has a mistake. | ||
| Look, look, and this is something I've said repeatedly about Trump. | ||
| He does not surround himself with the best people. | ||
| I mean, he has really made some bad picks. | ||
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| Some great picks as well. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Not sending his best. | ||
| Not all of his picks were bad, that's for certain. | ||
| But he definitely made some mistakes there. | ||
| However, my greater point is, so many people So many hawks were able to find refuge in the Democratic Party because they said, initially, or at least they claim to say, we don't like war. | ||
| And they said, you know what? | ||
| We don't like war, but we don't dislike it as much as we dislike mean tweets. | ||
| I have a mixed bag on military-industrial complex because I hated it from 2006 when I found out it existed. | ||
| I've never known. | ||
| Now you love it. | ||
| Yeah, and now I'm like, well... Like, you know, I'm kind of pro-industrialism. | ||
| If we didn't have American military bases all over Earth, then what would be the other... Like, I had never thought about, like, what would be the other option if we got rid of the American military-industrial complex. | ||
| Well, there would probably be a Chinese military-industrial complex. | ||
| There'd probably be, like, Russian invasions all across, and then that would take... So, like... | ||
| I don't, like, I'm not, like, just, hey, America, die. | ||
| I'm not trying to, like, stomp it out, because, like, what, it's so bad, get rid of it. | ||
| Like, what are your thoughts, Mark? | ||
| Yeah, look, I enlisted in the Army. | ||
| The Cold War was going on, right? | ||
| And, you know, people think about the Soviet Empire was there. | ||
| They were the communists. | ||
| We were the good guys. | ||
| And, you know, I wanted to be part of defending America. | ||
| And so, I, look, at the time, Hunt for Red October was a big deal. | ||
| The submarines and the tanks and everything. | ||
| And I was like, I don't want to be in any of those, but I'll jump at airplanes. | ||
| That'll be great. | ||
| So I wanted to be an airborne ranger. | ||
| I got the chance to go do that. | ||
| I get over to Germany, the wall was still up. | ||
| I mean, we had live ammo on our vehicles. | ||
| We were prepared for the Soviets to come rolling over and the wall goes down. | ||
| I was in Bad Tolz, Germany, the German Alps in the south, training with 10 special forces | ||
| groups. | ||
| And this guy stands on the podium and he goes, write this day down. | ||
| This is going to be one of the most famous days in history, 9 November, 1989. | ||
| And I mean, I was a private, so I didn't say this out loud, but I was like, oh yeah, pretty | ||
| bold intro to your talk, you know, but he goes, the wall just came down and we didn't | ||
| know whether he was real or not. | ||
| So like that Thanksgiving, go into Berlin and see people for the first time. | ||
| I could speak a little bit of German at the time. | ||
| This guy could speak pretty good English. | ||
| And he's like, this isn't like this everywhere. | ||
| And we were in the Kudam district, which is kind of like Times Square, you know, Berlin's version of New York's Times Square. | ||
| And I was like, no, you know, we have small towns and everything. | ||
| He goes, no, the stores are open at night. | ||
| And there's fresh milk. | ||
| And I was like, yeah, you know, I'm trying to explain like a 7-Eleven or something to him. | ||
| He goes, no. | ||
| And there's like always food on the shelves and like everyone can go in. | ||
| Like his mind was blown. | ||
| I was like, yeah, you want everyone to go in because you sell more stuff. | ||
| But he was told like we were even more poor than they were. | ||
| We had two blocks for show. | ||
| And, you know, the elites could go in and get things. | ||
| But, you know, the regular people went somewhere else. | ||
| So the flow at the end of the Cold War was not into there other than a little bit of sense of curiosity. | ||
| The flow was how do we be more like the West? | ||
| You know, when I was in high school, Ronald Reagan rode through my town on a train, and I got to see him speak in Sydney, Ohio. | ||
| And he said, you know, a lot of things at that time. | ||
| One of his famous quotes is, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. | ||
| But we're in an era right now where people say they want what was on the other side of the wall. | ||
| They come in Congress and say they want socialism, they want democratic socialism. | ||
| And I'll just tell you, the place where America is a force for good, so to your point, Ian, The Korean Peninsula. | ||
| You look, South Korea, south of the 38th parallel, first world economy, first world health care, mission-sending country, all kinds of things. | ||
| They're a global donor to help others around the world. | ||
| North of the 38th parallel, they had the other ideology. | ||
| Paradise. | ||
| Yeah, paradise up in North Korea. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Nothing going wrong there. | ||
| But for America intervening, The whole Korean peninsula would be like North Korea. | ||
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| And, but for China, I mean, look what China did. | ||
| We could have made the whole peninsula like South Korea, but China stopped it. | ||
| So look, we do need a strong military, but we don't need an empire. | ||
| I mean, I think, look, one of the best book titles, I don't know, Republic, Not an Empire. | ||
| We, what did you, you know, the question to Ben Franklin, what have you wrought, sir? | ||
| A republic. | ||
| If you can keep it, and the real thing is we lost our way. | ||
| How do we get back to a constitution, a government small enough to fit inside that constitution? | ||
| What concerns me is like the Spanish-American War at the end of the 1800s. | ||
| Cuba was controlled by the Spanish Empire, so the United States decided, we're going to liberate Cuba. | ||
| They attacked, they dispelled the Spanish fleet, they liberated Cuba. | ||
| They didn't take it. | ||
| We could have made Cuba American territory, but instead, because of the righteous that we were, we let them become independent. | ||
| And then they became a communist threat. | ||
| So at some point, the value of being the one in control of the strength and conquering and governing the world, there is value to that. | ||
| I'm just terrified. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| No, I think that's actually a really good point. | ||
| My eyes have been opened. | ||
| We should just go in and start taking over other countries right now, because we're better than they are. | ||
| You're saying we should take over Cuba? | ||
| Name a country, their economies are usually bad, right? | ||
| There's a lot of crime and corruption. | ||
| Mexico. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| We already fought a Mexican-American war, and we didn't keep it. | ||
| We could have. | ||
| But the president, who was it at the time? | ||
| Was it Polk? | ||
| I can't remember. | ||
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| He was like, nah, we're not gonna keep Mexico, we're gonna give Mexico back. | ||
| And people in America were actually very much in favor of keeping it after we won that war. | ||
| And if we did, would there be a big problem with cartels? | ||
| Now, I'm not seriously suggesting that we invade other countries, but fair question. | ||
| If the United States did keep Mexico after that war, would there be a problem with cartels and crime and all that stuff? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think there'd still be massive demand for drugs. | ||
| I mean, that's a big problem. | ||
| I mean, as long as there's demand, there's going to be supply. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| But right now, the challenge we're dealing with is, look, drugs have been bad. | ||
| They've always been bad. | ||
| It's a bad idea to take them, in my opinion. | ||
| But now they're being poisoned with fentanyl, right? | ||
| And so where's the fentanyl coming from? | ||
| It's coming from China. | ||
| And look, I just got to think we got to stop that. | ||
| We're voting on bills today. | ||
| And look, thankfully, this is now bipartisan, stopping the fentanyl. | ||
| Because, you know, there's a girl in my district, Lizzie Murphy, 21 years old, took a Xanax at a party, bad idea, but it was laced with fentanyl. | ||
| One pill, one party, killed her, right? | ||
| And so that's happened in tens of thousands of times, like 70,000 Americans dead with fentanyl. | ||
| And to your point, if we had control of Mexico, look, there might still be cartels supplying something, but we would not have this kind of crisis on our hands today. | ||
| And that's part of the challenge today since, you know, The question is, can we unite to deal with this problem and so many others? | ||
| Without conquering? | ||
| Hopefully without conquering. | ||
| Do you think we can? | ||
| I think we can. | ||
| I'm certainly not calling for an invasion of Mexico. | ||
| What he's saying is if we went to war in Mexico, we would probably not lose. | ||
| What about Canada? | ||
| What's war in Iraq and Afghanistan? | ||
| If this was all business, I mean, Canada, we would have already acquired them, right? | ||
| 40, 50 million people. | ||
| I mean, it would be a pretty easy acquisition. | ||
| They would have better government than they have today. | ||
| On the other hand, look, they've got Trudeau and all this socialism, cancel culture galore, all kinds of the, you know, utopia that the far left in America wants. | ||
| I would trade one far left person who wants to fundamentally remake America with critical theory Marxism For one, you know, freedom-loving Canadian. | ||
| I mean, I might give you a ten-for-one deal. | ||
| You can have ten of these far-left crazy people for one, like, freedom-loving Canadian. | ||
| Or Venezuelans. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| Or Venezuelan. | ||
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| Yeah, trying to escape communism. | ||
| People who are like, hey, communism is bad, America is the dream, and they want to be here. | ||
| We're better off with everything. | ||
| Just travel. | ||
| Just travel. | ||
| I feel like we are on the cusp of the end of the American military-industrial complex, or at least that's one option. | ||
| And I'm really, like, considering, like, if that does happen and we become just the United States of isolationism, what are we going to do, like, when another country starts taking over its neighbors? | ||
| So this is an interesting question, right? | ||
| I want to mention something. | ||
| There's this phrase, like, isolationism, and I understand this is just sort of a term people use politically, but I don't think not getting involved in wars is accurately described as isolationism, right? | ||
| I mean, if you're still trading with other countries, if you have pro-social interactions with other countries, you're not isolated, you're just not fighting them. | ||
| I think with the question of Other countries being invaded, there's a real question there. | ||
| There's a real concern, because there are human rights violations all over the world, but then also there are human rights violations all over the world. | ||
| I mean, how do we decide which ones we get involved with fighting? | ||
| And that's who has the most resources we can acquire. | ||
| That's why I'm like, it's just all BS. | ||
| We're not invading China over their concentration camps. | ||
| Look at Eisenhower, though. | ||
| Go back to Eisenhower. | ||
| Look, he didn't get called an isolationist. | ||
| He ended the, you know, pushed for the end of the Korean War, you know, it ended, you know, as he was campaigning to be president. | ||
| But, you know, you look at winding that war down, he could have continued it and waged it. | ||
| At the end of World War II is the last time we had as much debt as we have today, right? | ||
| And we knew, like, you can't have that much debt relative to the size of your economy. | ||
| So the entire global monetary system was reset and everyone knew you have to pay down the debt. | ||
| So Eisenhower said, we can't get involved everywhere. | ||
| You have to be focused. | ||
| And I think that's the time we're in today. | ||
| We have to convince people, look, you can't live with this much debt. | ||
| And even if you say, oh, we can print more money. | ||
| Well, haven't we just tested this? | ||
| Well, you can print some money, but you're not going to be able to buy the same amount of stuff. | ||
| Inflation is real, right? | ||
| And so you can't just print your way out of this. | ||
| You actually have to get back to the discipline and focus that scarcity produces. | ||
| And frankly, Republic keeps you that way. | ||
| But if you want to try to build an empire, that's why empires fail, is because they overconsume the resources that they've got. | ||
| And that's really what's happening. | ||
| And the neocons have done as much damage in terms of debt and destruction of freedom as the far left is in our country. | ||
| And that's why Trump's presidency was so important. | ||
| We haven't fully purged the party of these folks, but we need to finish the job and frankly make sure the neocons are homeless. | ||
| Well, it's a complicated question. | ||
| I would say the left has still done more damage just because of the denigration of the family, which is the fundamental social building block. | ||
| But fundamentally, I agree with you that neoconservatives have done a massive amount of damage. | ||
| And frankly, I wouldn't really draw a distinction between the neoconservatives and the left. | ||
| All of the ideological founders of the neoconservative movement were either Marxist or former Marxist, right? | ||
| Irving Kristol said a neoconservative is a leftist who's been mugged by reality. | ||
| Well, I'm sorry. | ||
| Reality doesn't mug you. | ||
| The truth sets you free, but whoever sold you that Marxist ideology did mug you. | ||
| And it's not true. | ||
| But what the neoconservatives couldn't see was that it wasn't reality that was corrupt, it was their insane ideology that was. | ||
| But they still stuck to it. | ||
| And they believed firmly, and you can tell based on their foreign policy that they believed this, that social order could be fundamentally restructured in ways foreign to the nature of man. | ||
| Or a culture that's being governed through the barrel of a gun and with the threat of force. | ||
| Of course we can go to Iraq or Afghanistan and turn these countries into modern democracies, because government can do anything. | ||
| You threaten force strategically in the right areas, you can completely reshape a culture, an entire culture. | ||
| I mean, these are fundamentally Marxist ideas. | ||
| I don't think they work. | ||
| They don't! | ||
| It works over the course of 80 years and just genocide and the eradication of living memory. | ||
| So we don't know, like the Romans just transformed Rome. | ||
| It used to be, you know, a lot of different countries before it was the Roman Empire. | ||
| But now with modern media, there's no way to do that without everyone watching the torture and the annihilation of humanity. | ||
| So we kind of reject The idea of like going into Iraq and just killing everyone and planting the seed of Americanism that didn't, wasn't going to happen. | ||
| No one would have tolerated that. | ||
| Never. | ||
| So I think this top-down transformation doesn't work anymore. | ||
| It's not even happening in the United States. | ||
| In Afghanistan, in a hundred years, if we created the culture there, then I think it would be like South Korea. | ||
| Yeah, but it would be so brutal. | ||
| It would have to be sober, like killing people for speaking out against the new regime kind of brutal. | ||
| It wouldn't, it wouldn't track with our modern culture. | ||
| Yeah, and it didn't. | ||
| And that's why we said we shouldn't be in there and we should leave. | ||
| It's insane social engineering, right? | ||
| It's completely insane social engineering. | ||
| In a similar vein, but what are your thoughts on this Ukrainian war? | ||
| What's your foreseeable for the future of the end of this conflict? | ||
| I'm one of a small group of people that's never voted for anything for Ukraine, and it's not because I'm sympathetic to Putin or anything. | ||
| It was an unjust invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| And, you know, clearly the Russians have, I think, there's enough evidence to say they've violated norms to the point where they're war crimes. | ||
| These things aren't acceptable. | ||
| But there was a reason that there was a war there, and it was preventable. | ||
| Look, you can never say it wouldn't have happened if Donald Trump was president, but we know that it didn't happen when he was president. | ||
| And look, weakness invites aggression. | ||
| You know, Joe Biden just oozes weakness everywhere. | ||
| And when you look at how this war is being waged, it is a proxy war. | ||
| It's undeclared. | ||
| It's undefined. | ||
| You know, there's no mission. | ||
| It's like, well, help Ukraine. | ||
| Help them do what? | ||
| Oh, we'll stop the Russians. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Look, I mean, there is no military school anywhere where that's going to get you a passing grade on a mission statement. | ||
| Is the mission to make sure that this war doesn't spread to NATO? | ||
| Is the mission to make sure there are no Russians in Ukraine? | ||
| Does that include Crimea? | ||
| Those are all different missions that need different resources. | ||
| Is the mission regime change in Russia because you're going to have war crimes tribunals? | ||
| Because you're not having war crimes tribunals unless there's regime change in Russia. | ||
| So there are people in the State Department that want that. | ||
| Victoria Nuland, who spent, you know, the better part of a decade working to engineer this war, and frankly is like rooting for it to be bigger. | ||
| Yeah, regime change in Russia. | ||
| And, you know, look, the basic phrase, you know, ready, aim, fire. | ||
| Where's the aim part? | ||
| We haven't even defined the mission. | ||
| I just sent a letter last week to Secretary Blinken, like, what do you say the mission is, Mr. Secretary? | ||
| Because you're coming asking for more resources to do what? | ||
| Let's define the mission. | ||
| And I think at some level, any of those could be just. | ||
| I mean, it looks unjust what Putin did. | ||
| So you could go all the way to regime change. | ||
| You could say, look, Ukraine's not part of NATO. | ||
| It's just that we defend NATO. | ||
| We're stopping right here, rooting for you. | ||
| But our focus is here. | ||
| But you should define it. | ||
| And if you just have an open checkbook, Frankly, it's the worst of all outcomes because the Ukrainians want their country. | ||
| They will do anything to get it. | ||
| You give them a lifeline and hope, but it's on purpose being turning these people into a meat grinder. | ||
| So if you look at, you know, Senator Mark Warner, who He's basically celebrating the fact that it's a meat grinder. | ||
| It's grinding down the Russian army. | ||
| And of course, the unstated part is it's grinding down the people of Ukraine as well. | ||
| That's not a just war. | ||
| It's certainly not being waged justly. | ||
| And so I do think you have to define the mission and you have to hold people accountable. | ||
| If you don't define the mission, no one can be held accountable for success or failure. | ||
| And that's on purpose, I think. | ||
| Yeah, I'm wondering if the lack of definition of a mission is because they want to keep it clandestine so that they're not overtly saying, we are involved, Vladimir Putin, just so you know. | ||
| So they're like, What? | ||
| We don't even know if we're there! | ||
| Is there some mystery that we're there or what we're doing? | ||
| Yeah, really. | ||
| The official seal hasn't been stamped yet, but I mean, the signs are there. | ||
| It's lend-lease at the very least, I think. | ||
| But you think that's why they haven't declared an official mission statement? | ||
| Because they don't want to push? | ||
| They don't want the accountability for what the outcome is. | ||
| And frankly, they want the open checkbook. | ||
| They want the cash to flow. | ||
| And they like the meat grinder. | ||
| And look, These are the same people. | ||
| If you look at Mark Warner, not only is he the guy celebrating this, he's the guy that introduces the Restrict Act. | ||
| And they say the Restrict Act is a TikTok ban, except it doesn't ban TikTok. | ||
| It goes after American citizens. | ||
| It's completely Orwellian. | ||
| It's worse than the Patriot Act. | ||
| It is the Patriot Act for the Internet. | ||
| And you look at who the neocons are. | ||
| They all wanted, you know, to spy on American citizens, but oh, just to keep them safe. | ||
| What has that power been used to? | ||
| It's been used to impose their will on Not just government, not just, you know, the Trump campaign, but on average ordinary citizens in every layer. | ||
| And why would we give them more power? | ||
| They're essentially saying, gosh, if we had all the power of the Chinese Communist Party, we could keep you safe from the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| That's the restrict act. | ||
| Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting because one point that's been mentioned here is the fact that our goals have been very vaguely defined, at least on the public facing front. | ||
| You see this anytime anyone wants to run some kind of scam or hustle the American people, right? | ||
| You set a goal that's theoretically impossible to meet or that's very vague. | ||
| So with BLM, BLM is a brilliant scam. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Well, because At what point can we say racism is over? | ||
| It's ended. | ||
| It's gone. | ||
| Never. | ||
| You'll never be able to say that. | ||
| So, someone's always going to be able to profit off of that brand. | ||
| Similarly, if you don't define the goal that you have in Ukraine, you can keep throwing money at it. | ||
| Just like we did in Iraq. | ||
| Just like we did in Afghanistan. | ||
| There were so many different stated goals at different times for what had to be done over there. | ||
| I remember as a kid hearing this repeatedly on the radio. | ||
| Operation Iraqi Freedom. | ||
| This is about bringing freedom to Iraq. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Right? | ||
| Like, when do we declare Iraq a free country? | ||
| At what point does the United States say, alright, we've done our work and it's time to go home. | ||
| We've achieved our mission. | ||
| It gives you license to stay as long as you want. | ||
| After we completely wipe out their government and then leave. | ||
| Now that people are free. | ||
| No, they're free. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| Yeah, great. | ||
| Things are gonna be awesome over there. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| Big update on the Restrict Act. | ||
| I mean, relatively big. | ||
| No one signed that thing in a month and a half. | ||
| Looks like all that horrible press that came out about it when Lindsey Graham was made a fool of on Jesse Watters' show. | ||
| That was hilarious. | ||
| It's like leprosy now. | ||
| He's like, I'm not on board with that. | ||
| And he's like, yes, you are. | ||
| You're a sponsor. | ||
| Like, oh, I am. | ||
| We'll fix that. | ||
| And he's still a sponsor, Lindsey. | ||
| Is he still? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because these people are evil! | ||
| Dude, Lindsey Graham. | ||
| Do you know Lindsey personally? | ||
| You know, I've met him, but I don't really know him. | ||
| I certainly haven't gotten to know him. | ||
| Is it like, do you guys even have a chance to get to know each other in Congress? | ||
| I mean, we definitely don't spend as much time between House and Senate. | ||
| You know, I've gotten to know some of the more conservative senators over there well, you know, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, you know, Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, some of the conservative folks, Tim Scott. | ||
| Uh, folks that way in the house. | ||
| I mean, there's colleagues that I've gotten to know. | ||
| Great. | ||
| There's some of my best friends period, uh, anywhere ever. | ||
| And I didn't meet him until I always started doing this. | ||
| There's just a lot of really good people that doesn't get enough attention. | ||
| I mean, frankly, there's at least four or five dozen. | ||
| Really good people fighting for the right things in the House. | ||
| That's not enough to change everything, but it is changing things. | ||
| Aren't people shocked? | ||
| I mean, they saw this first week when we had the debate and the fight for who's going to be Speaker of the House. | ||
| And a lot of skeptics on, well, is McCarthy really going to do whatever? | ||
| I mean, he's fighting, he's doing the stuff. | ||
| And I think a lot of us said, yeah, I think we're going to get there. | ||
| And the reality is Republicans are stronger because of our narrow majority, because we did find a way to work together. | ||
| Do you think Congress is corrupt? | ||
| It's dysfunctional. | ||
| And look, one of the ones that I look at is post-COVID, we can't get a healthcare committee. | ||
| We can't get a dedicated committee on oversight for healthcare. | ||
| Healthcare is almost 25% of GDP. | ||
| When Medicaid passed in the 60s, healthcare was like 6% of GDP. | ||
| Then we started subsidizing it with Medicare and Medicaid and every other thing. | ||
| And now over 50% of the babies born in Ohio are born on Medicaid. | ||
| So, you know, it is a massive takeover of the system. | ||
| In a lot of hospitals, like 80% of it is healthcare. | ||
| So you go back to, you know, big pharma, we're like, Four and a half percent of the world's population, we take almost 40% of the world's prescription drugs. | ||
| Like why is there this big demand for the country? | ||
| And I think in our country, we have kind of business interests that in a lot of ways have more influence over the politics than the politics have over the business interests. | ||
| How come there's no committee on far-left extremism? | ||
| You know, there is. | ||
| I mean, frankly, when you look at one of the committees that we fought to get created is the Committee on Weaponization of Government. | ||
| So you look at the Woken Weaponized Government, this subcommittee that it's a part of the Judiciary Committee, but it selects people that aren't even on Judiciary that became part of this Committee on Weaponization. | ||
| And that's what they're looking at. | ||
| You look, as they had Matt Taibbi on talking about the Twitter files, Literally, he's there testifying to this committee in Congress, in his house, somebody from the IRS shows up at his house. | ||
| Now look, having audits happens, but no one, literally no one, believes that an IRS agent showing up at Matt Dabey's house was a coincidence, right? | ||
| It is a weaponization of government, and we have a committee, and this shows, like, Republicans are taking this seriously. | ||
| We don't have the executive branch. | ||
| I know people are frustrated and say, when's somebody going to jail? | ||
| And I think you look forward to going through the Durham report and saying, why did Durham pull some punches? | ||
| Why didn't he bring in Comey? | ||
| Why didn't he refer anybody for prosecution? | ||
| But Congress, shame on us if we don't follow through and do something, whether it's about weaponized government in the agencies, whether it's about the weaponization of the military industrial complex. | ||
| They can't pass an audit. | ||
| There's no accountability. | ||
| All that happens, we give them more money. | ||
| If you go over to the Scientific Technical Elite, you're going to tell me we're going to keep letting these guys do like Fauci said to Rand Paul. | ||
| I don't have to tell you how much money I got paid for approving these FDA patents and drug approvals from licenses. | ||
| We're not going to restructure the National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control in the wake of all this stuff. | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| We have to. | ||
| Yeah, when I think of the technical weaponization is the proprietary software of our social media. | ||
| Like, when I can't know if it's tracking me, I can't know if I'm being manipulated, or I don't have access to know, that's a weapon! | ||
| That's an entirely different subject. | ||
| I don't disagree with you that that is a problem, but the weaponization of government and the collusion with big tech, I think, is where what you're saying comes into play. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
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| That is very important. | ||
| That's probably the main focus, but I feel like if you want to go after Google for weaponizing its software, don't be like, hey, you banned that guy, you're using it as a weapon. | ||
| It's the fact that, well, firstly, the fact that they can ban the guy is kind of a weaponization, that they have that authority. | ||
| Like, if I give you a giant stick, you just have a giant stick, but I can start to consider that a weapon. | ||
| I want to make sure I just merge these ideas for everybody, because you're talking about the weaponization of big tech, but the government was utilizing big tech by going to them, getting a portal made, so the government is effectively using big tech as the shield to say, hey, it's not us, we're not doing it, all we're doing is making requests to a private company, and the private company is removing public citizens and their speech and their ideas. | ||
| Yeah, but you look like they went after parents that showed up at school board meetings. | ||
| They just defined a recent term, radical traditional Catholics, i.e. | ||
| pro-life Catholics. | ||
| Rad trad Catholics! | ||
| We had the whistleblower on our show! | ||
| Rad Tradkath. | ||
| Yeah, Rad Tradkath, that's me! | ||
| So they put these tags on it, they weaponized government. | ||
| Thank goodness our country was kind of alarmed across the political spectrum when the government wanted to start spying on your bank accounts. | ||
| If you got $600 of activity, they're going to report all your bank account activity to the IRS. | ||
| I was really encouraged that most everybody said, whoa, wait a minute, that's crazy. | ||
| But they didn't hire 87,000 IRS agents. | ||
| I mean, that's five infantry divisions worth of IRS agents. | ||
| They don't want five extra infantry divisions of IRS agents to go after a few billionaires and millionaires. | ||
| You mentioned getting a committee on health care. | ||
| What would that look like? | ||
| I mean, it would look like they own the whole jurisdiction. | ||
| And part of it is they would have a dedicated subcommittee on oversight. | ||
| So if you look at, you know, yeah, we have an oversight committee. | ||
| But if you look at energy and commerce, like, A lot of their attention right now is focused on energy policy, right? | ||
| But they oversee a healthy portion of the healthcare market. | ||
| And so I think, you know, one of the proxies I get is, well, who spends the most money on lobbying in DC? | ||
| Well, probably healthcare. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And the health insurance companies post-Obamacare, look, they have like 20% net margins. | ||
| The hospitals have to get bigger and the patients get removed from seeing their doctors, right? | ||
| So when you had, you know, little kids, they would go to the pediatrician, you could take them in. | ||
| Well, now you can't because you can't get in for three weeks. | ||
| Well, the same people that are driving the doctor to be billed, You know, bill every, you know, 10 minute increments or eight minute increments or whatever, log their time and stay loaded up on their calendar so they can't even see anybody. | ||
| Um, well, gee, guess where the kids have to go now? | ||
| Cause they can't get in to see the pediatrician tomorrow. | ||
| Well, they got to go to the ER, right? | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| The ER bills out at a massively higher rate. | ||
| I mean, it is the most corrupt system. | ||
| It's so dysfunctional. | ||
| And some people are at the point where they're just like, look, I don't care. | ||
| Nationalize it, healthcare, single payer, whatever. | ||
| It can't be worse than what we have. | ||
| Yes, it can. | ||
| It can always be worse! | ||
| People from all over the world still come here, it's still the best, but it has not run well. | ||
| People should talk to Michael Malice, because he talks about this, how people don't understand how bad it was in the Soviet Union, and they think it can't get worse. | ||
| Can I just make one point about the USSR? | ||
| You were talking about this a little bit earlier with the Iron Curtain, before it fell. | ||
| How people were shocked that there was fresh milk in the stores. | ||
| So, when you look at the public attitudes in the U.S.S.R. | ||
| versus those in the United States, Americans were in many cases unwilling to believe that the genocidal activity that was reported as coming from the U.S.S.R. | ||
| actually happened there because it was just beyond our comprehension that people could be doing that to each other. | ||
| You know what people in the U.S.S.R. | ||
| were unwilling to believe? | ||
| That we had fresh food, that there weren't shortages, that people weren't starving. | ||
| They thought those were rumors. | ||
| They thought there's no possible way that there is somewhere in the world where everyone isn't starving. | ||
| And actually we have fat homeless people now, so it's kind of a problem. | ||
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| says, Tim, IRL yesterday was mad fun. | ||
| Dan is a cool dude. | ||
| You're both right. | ||
| Him, F what the F they say. | ||
| You, we're done holding it. | ||
| We forward the line. | ||
| I concur. | ||
| Bongino was fun. | ||
| Nachoman Randy Sandwich says, Ian, do Simon and Garfunkel parody The Sound of Seamus. | ||
| Of Seamus. | ||
| We'll work it out. | ||
| Ian says, choose the chickens or you'll get mobbed, you was warned. | ||
| Ah, that's awesome. | ||
| Yeah, that's a reference to the new video I just did taking Tim, actually not taking Tim out of context, really. | ||
| It was the actual, I mean, it was out of context. | ||
| No, I don't think so. | ||
| Did you do Tim's voice or did Tim do it? | ||
| No, it's just an actual audio. | ||
| I took a completely unedited clip from Tim and animated it. | ||
| When I first heard it, I thought Seamus somehow faked it. | ||
| I was like, there's no way I delivered that in this way that fits his video so perfectly. | ||
| So basically, it's me saying... Tell them to watch it. | ||
| I wonder if how much... Well, I guess you don't have to say. | ||
| Well, I'm gonna give the context. | ||
| There was some violent incident that occurred in a city, and I said, why would people choose to live in these cities where you're getting beaten by violent mobs, when you can go live out in the middle of nowhere and get, like, goats and chickens and stuff, and then I did, like, this little joke line about it's either the chickens or being beaten. | ||
| So Seamus made a video. | ||
| Watch it on Freedom Tunes, because it's ridiculously funny. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Outdoors with the Morgans says, nice job on Beck's show today. | ||
| Look forward to the day you get back to West Virginia. | ||
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| Were you with Glenn Beck? | ||
| Yeah, he called me. | ||
| How was it? | ||
| It was fun. | ||
| It was good. | ||
| I was down at the Blaze. | ||
| Yeah, a few weeks ago I was down at the Blaze. | ||
| I didn't meet Glenn when I was down there, but I saw pretty much everybody else. | ||
| It was epic. | ||
| Yeah, we had a good conversation. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| What did you guys talk about? | ||
| Penny. | ||
| You know, I basically said that, um... It was what I said earlier. | ||
| It's just rephrasing the same quote. | ||
| I said, I don't think the issue with these big cities is that evil exists. | ||
| It's that good men do nothing. | ||
| I want to see people rising to the occasion, like Daniel Penny did. | ||
| I want to see people in New York City protesting out, waving signs in support, peacefully of course, in support of Daniel Penny, and make sure the local government knows that you, as a resident of this city, do not like the crime. | ||
| And that, you know, there's that woman, the victim and witness said Daniel Penny's a hero who saved her life. | ||
| That's the kind of stuff you need. | ||
| People should come out and say that. | ||
| Let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Purple says, free the code CROSSLANDBOCUS2024, cast proof for life. | ||
| Bocus is doing good. | ||
| He got a second round of stem cells, by the way. | ||
| He's doing really good. | ||
| He's spunky. | ||
| We're going to be, we've got Mr. Bocus Pumpkin Spice Experience is coming soon. | ||
| It's going to be our year round pumpkin spice coffee because I just never understood why they made it seasonal if everybody always wants it and likes it. | ||
| And then we're doing, this is an idea from one of our members, Focus with Mr. Bocus. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We'll be, I think it's going to be our espresso roast. | ||
| So context for that super chat, free the code, is something I say a lot in regards to the social media networks, the large social media networks that are acting in the commons, Google, Twitter, Facebook. | ||
| I feel like their source code should be available for people. | ||
| Yeah, that was a pretty bold move by Elon Musk to go public. | ||
| Here's our algorithm. | ||
| You can look at it and give us suggestions. | ||
| And he threw the gauntlet down, and of course no one has taken it up. | ||
| They're not going to out what's going on at Meta. | ||
| I would be open to, as like an anti-trust movement, to mandate that companies functioning in the United States have to have free software code. | ||
| I'm talking AGPL-3. | ||
| I don't know about all of their code, but the algorithms. | ||
| Well, we'll start with the algorithms. | ||
| Because that's manipulating the public. | ||
| Alright, omgbuppies says, DeSantis understands the culture war. | ||
| The need to stop the long march through the institutions. | ||
| The GOP has generally failed in this regard. | ||
| I like DeSantis. | ||
| If he becomes president, I will be happy. | ||
| I just think we need right now, you know like, I'm imagining this big siege vehicle, you know, and Donald Trump is the bull in front of it. | ||
| He crashes through the gates and he rampages up the ivory tower and they run fleeing from the building and then DeSantis comes in and starts signing the policies and the bills and stuff. | ||
| That's how I view it. | ||
| Henry says if DeSantis wins the primary, I can see Trump running as an independent. | ||
| If that happens, the Democrats win due to a split conservative vote. | ||
| Yeah, it's entirely possible. | ||
| Yeah, although they did let Donald Trump run last time because or in 2016 because they thought he was an easy | ||
| candidate to beat. | ||
| I think the Pied Piper candidate. Yeah. Yep, man where they were wrong. | ||
| Viking Vets says this is what all these politicians don't understand. | ||
| It's not about winning. | ||
| We don't care to win if it's back to the old useless Republicans. | ||
| We would rather go down swinging than bend the knee with a neocon win. | ||
| I'm not, I don't think DeSantis is diswamped-us. | ||
| I think DeSantis is doing a lot of really, really great policy and he's really understanding what motivates a lot of us. | ||
| I just see him as He's not... He's a CEO. | ||
| Oh, not a CEO. | ||
| You know? | ||
| CEO is like Trump. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| He's been rocketed in Florida and he's definitely not a neocon. | ||
| No, I agree. | ||
| I like DeSantis. | ||
| But what I mean by COO is he's the one running the company, getting the job done, but the CEO is the visionary who's telling, you know, like DeSantis... I mean, DeSantis is a little more introverted. | ||
| Trump... There you go. | ||
| You can't get much more extroverted than Donald Trump. | ||
| You cannot. | ||
| I mean, he just fuels energy. | ||
| Anytime you're in his presence, he's got energy. | ||
| You have a good time. | ||
| Even people that don't want to have a good time in Donald Trump's presence, Fine. | ||
| You're actually having a good time with Donald Trump. | ||
| You know, DeSantis isn't that kind of personality. | ||
| I mean, he's a guy that'll, you know, he'll be kind and everything else, but like once he talks, he just can go back in the back and start cranking away on another policy and just get after it. | ||
| And, you know, I think either of them can be good. | ||
| I know, you know, Probably what's going to work in terms of rallies is going to be the energy behind Trump, and energy really does drive electoral politics in a lot of ways. | ||
| That's why DeSantis didn't win by much of a margin when he ran the first time, but then after the people in Florida experienced the, you know, let this guy just go off and do his thing and he's going to come back and roll out another killer policy, they're like, oh, we want more of that. | ||
| And they wanted a lot in Florida. | ||
| Alright, we got a question for you from, uh, there's no name. | ||
| It says, Warren, can you touch on the SEC Chairman Gary Gensler and his attack on crypto innovation in the U.S., also about his role as CFO for Hillary 2016, signing off on the payment for Crossfire Hurricane, get him out of office. | ||
| Yeah, we're working to get rid of Gary Gensler. | ||
| I gave a hearing where I was able to communicate with him and say, look, I plan to fire you. | ||
| We've got a bill that basically restructures the Securities and Exchange Commission and eliminates the chairmanship. | ||
| He fires Gary Gensler as chairman. | ||
| He would still be a commissioner. | ||
| And right now there are five commissioners. | ||
| Originally it was created as a commission because the commission was supposed to do the decision making, and then they supercharged the powers of the chairman. | ||
| And Gary Gensler is front-running everybody. | ||
| I mean, he's moving ahead of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, the House, the Senate. | ||
| He's moving ahead of Treasury. | ||
| He's moving ahead of CFTC. | ||
| And frankly, it's all to impose his will on everything. | ||
| And so there's almost no accountability. | ||
| The commission, you either have four commissioners that are useless, Or you need, you know, and one chairman, or you go back to say, look, our capital markets are the best in the world. | ||
| I mean, look, we got four or 5% of the world's population, 25% of the world's GDP. | ||
| We have over 50% of the world's invested capital. | ||
| I mean, why would you mess that up? | ||
| But Gary Gensler is in the process of messing it up. | ||
| And you look at crypto, he's clearly declared war on crypto. | ||
| He's a henchman for Elizabeth Warren. | ||
| And he's front-running everything for Elizabeth Warren, frankly Sherrod Brown, who's the chairman of Senate Banking. | ||
| So they're doing nothing over there except incentivizing him to do this. | ||
| The way to rein him in is to restructure the Securities and Exchange Commission. | ||
| Right on, right on. | ||
| Let's grab this next Super Chat. | ||
| John McGee says trial for Trump's 34 New York charges is set for March 25th, 2024, right in the middle of primary season, and he has to be present. | ||
| If that's not coordinated election interference, what is? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| You know what though? | ||
| That would look great for him. | ||
| I'm sorry I was late. | ||
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I was in court because the swamp brought me in. | |
| Amazing. | ||
| Fantastic PR for him. | ||
| A lot of states are going to do that. | ||
| until he wins the primary going into the general and decree he is ineligible, then say Dem | ||
| and third or fourth parties only on ballot. | ||
| A lot of states are going to do that. | ||
| I would not be surprised if New York says, New York will pass some law about eligibility | ||
| or something. | ||
| So you think like in the state of New York, they would remove Trump from the ballot? | ||
| I think a bunch of states will try to do it, but I'm not sure it matters, because any state where it's contested, you're gonna have people saying, do not remove his name. | ||
| I mean, that's the whole thing, where they want to try to get somebody convicted of a felony, because that makes you not a qualified elector in those states, and then you can't appear on the ballot. | ||
| So, look, if they can't stop, they're so committed to stopping Donald Trump in any way they can, so you kind of got a plan. | ||
| How are they going to go after him? | ||
| And you got to have a plan to stop him. | ||
| And this is also why I really, really like him. | ||
| I know people have concerns about electability, but I'm sorry they're not doing the same things to stop DeSantis. | ||
| They're just not. | ||
| Because they know that... They're scared of Trump. | ||
| They are particularly afraid of Trump. | ||
| That is why I like him. | ||
| Yeah, me too. | ||
| Jeff T says, Harley Davidson teamed up with Budweiser. | ||
| Harley's stock is crashing. | ||
| What were they thinking? | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| Oh no! | ||
| Hopefully that was a deal that, if it's true, hopefully that was inked ahead of April 1st. | ||
| But there are places like stadiums that don't want that deal. | ||
| No, their stock's up 1%. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah, in the past month, they're down 13.82%. | ||
| In the past six months, they're down 31%. | ||
| I don't think it has anything to do with Bud Light. | ||
| It's a bit of a hit either way. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, they're doing poorly, but five, six months ago, that was well before what happened with Bud Light, so. | ||
| Maybe they're panicking and trying to figure something else out. | ||
| Bo says, what do you guys think about an election system where you can track your own vote to ensure it's who you voted for, access it with name, social security number, and current address? | ||
| Also a litmus test and easy civics question like number of states. | ||
| Yeah, the downside for that is then your vote's not private. | ||
| Somebody else can know exactly how you voted as well. | ||
| If they have your private information and your social security number, name, birthday, and mother's maiden name and address. | ||
| If it's encrypted and you have like a QR code that only you can scan with your device. | ||
| You mean like you had private keys and there was a public key or something like that? | ||
| It prints out a code. | ||
| Like a blockchain? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It would be the same thing where, you know, if it's not your keys, then it's not your coins. | ||
| If you had not your keys, not your vote, then you can actually have a different system. | ||
| Here's the problem. | ||
| Let's say you go to a voting station and you go to the machine and you say, I'm voting for DeSantis. | ||
| And then it goes, here's your, your ballot has been tabulated. | ||
| Here's your QR code proof. | ||
| And you go, awesome. | ||
| Take your phone and you scan it and it says Trump. | ||
| And you go, hey, I voted for DeSantis. | ||
| You can't sue. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| One vote doesn't change the outcome of an election. | ||
| So you'd go to court and they would say your vote... There are times where one vote does change the outcome of an election. | ||
| So what happened with a lot of the votes that Trump brought forward, I'm sorry, a lot of the lawsuits, is when they were like hey look we've got what we believe is you know impropriety in terms of the like signature verification they'd say the amount of votes in question would not alter the results therefore case dismissed yes standing was the argument and that's what made so many people so frustrated uh between november and january 6th and why they wanted to show up and rally rally peacefully protest | ||
| And frankly some people were so frustrated to the point where they crossed the line because they felt like they couldn't get, you know, any kind of hearing in court. | ||
| The courts were not listening and frankly a lot of people felt like the politicians weren't listening. | ||
| And so I think that's why we had the process. | ||
| What you'd have to do with the QR codes is if you found that your vote was incorrect and they wouldn't fix it and you can't get a lawsuit, you'd have to find a number of people That would equal that have evidence of their votes being improper. | ||
| But then the problem is how do you prove your original vote was actually for the other candidate? | ||
| What will end up happening is they'll go to court and they'll argue they did vote for Trump. | ||
| They're just expressing regret now and their votes are correct. | ||
| You know what would happen? | ||
| You'd take a picture showing that they voted for someone else than you asked to vote for, you'd post it to social media, and you would just get banned. | ||
| They'd be like, ah, this is a... Yeah. | ||
| All right, let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Paul Nyholm says, China's demanding loan payments from their Belt and Road Initiative, and they are starving out third world countries by causing them to default and drop their own social and government services. | ||
| That was always the goal. | ||
| Yeah, that's a tactic. | ||
| Economic hitman. | ||
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| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's what we're going to do in the rest of Africa as well, unfortunately. | ||
| That's what they're going to do to Ukraine. | ||
| Yeah, totally. | ||
| Nat Heisenberg says, Gadsad coined woke mind virus, Elon repeated. | ||
| Correcting the record. | ||
| Xerath Ecliptico says, men are learning, as long as the family courts are weaponized against them. | ||
| No fault divorce is teaching that it is no longer worth the risk to wed in a family when it can be stripped away with a simple, I'm not happy. | ||
| That was Ronald Reagan. | ||
| I think Ronald Reagan put the stake to the heart of this country and just drove it straight through with no-fault divorce. | ||
| Not even a question. | ||
| Unbelievably horrible. | ||
| You can talk about a lot of good things you like him for, things that he did were good, I don't know, sure, sure, whatever, but no-fault divorce was like, let's literally just destroy the foundation of this country. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| With, like, functional prenups, I could imagine it, like, if we get divorced, all my prior money is still mine. | ||
| And then, I think you were saying, Seamus, there are versions of prenups where if I initiate the divorce, I forego my prenup, and you can take half of whatever, so it kind of disincentivizes the divorce. | ||
| Yeah, basically, I'm against prenups as a concept, but that's one version of it that I think might... I don't know, because what you're saying is, because then you're incentivizing a person to stay in the marriage, right? | ||
| So I guess that couldn't be... That's not similar to other prenups, but one thing I'll mention, with Reagan and no-fault divorce... | ||
| This is the reality of the slippery slope. | ||
| What happened was on Reagan's first marriage, according to him, his ex-wife had to make up a bunch of lies and false accusations against him in order to get the divorce. | ||
| So his thinking was, well, if we have no false divorce, people aren't going to be smeared with false accusations because their wife wants to leave them. | ||
| Well, this is what always ends up happening. | ||
| People claim we're going to give an outlet to something that's already happening because it's an ugly reality but we can't prevent it. | ||
| And then that thing ends up exploding. | ||
| This is how the left always gets the social change it wants. | ||
| Let's just let this small handful of people who are going to do this anyway do this thing and then everyone ends up doing it. | ||
| No Fault Divorce is a perfect example. | ||
| Let's give an outlet to something that's already happening and now it happens all the time. | ||
| All right, Guardsman Norheim of the 10th First says, Tim, I was watching The Hill this morning and was blown away to see one host, Brianna Joy Gray, claim you were covering for neo-Nazis. | ||
| I think they need to consider and change host again. | ||
| Why were you watching The Hill's Rising? | ||
| Wait, why were they saying you were covering for neo-Nazis? | ||
| Because of that guy who took four clips of one episode and posted it on Russian social media, so they claim. | ||
| And because I was like, how do we even know that's legit? | ||
| And the media was claiming that this guy was a fan because he took four clips from one episode of the show, and the clips show he wasn't even subscribed to the show. | ||
| Isn't it amazing that there was no attribution to Bernie Sanders when one of his fans decided to shoot up a bunch of my colleagues at a congressional baseball game? | ||
| Actually, the other host on the show actually brought that up and made that a point, saying no one actually... Oh, Robbie said that? | ||
| Yeah, Robbie said that. | ||
| Well, what I will say of The Hill Rising is... | ||
| You have two things to consider here. | ||
| You can watch The Hill, which is a machine built on corporate dollars where they've chosen hosts to put on a show, and these are not people who built the show, these are not people who are particularly good at what they do. | ||
| Or you can come to a show like 10 Cast IRL, which was built from the ground up without any corporate investment or backers, and the show works because we did a good job of it. | ||
| Why is it that Brianna Joy Gray would say something so nonsensical about me, and I believe it was Elon Musk? | ||
| Uh, Elon Musk, yeah. | ||
| Elon Musk. | ||
| It's because she is not a competent media personality who would normally rise to this position. | ||
| She was someone who was put in this position because she's on Twitter. | ||
| Whereas, why do you come to watch this show? | ||
| Well, this show was really small, and it was a YouTube channel with no support, no funding or anything. | ||
| We started doing it, and then people were like, hey, this show's pretty good, and they started watching it. | ||
| The Hill's Rising is, they invested a bunch of money, shuffled around various hosts, found a person, and now they have vapid opinions that don't seem to make sense. | ||
| I'm not surprised. | ||
| Also, this is hilarious, hold on, I just gotta make a comment about this. | ||
| They're claiming that you're covering for a neo-Nazi by saying he wasn't one of your fans? | ||
| How is that covering for him? | ||
| Like, that makes him worse if he's one of your fans and you're covering for him? | ||
| Because The Hill Rising is fake, not woke. | ||
| It's like, it is woke. | ||
| They want us to bow and say, oh no, oh geez, we better adhere to the machine's narrative because look what they're smearing us with. | ||
| The media comes out and claims that he was a fan because they're liars. | ||
| Typical, yeah. | ||
| Bellingcat. | ||
| Oh, I trust Bellingcat. | ||
| I'm pretty sure it was the founder who was making AI images of Trump getting arrested. | ||
| Like, that's a non-partisan actor. | ||
| They find this profile. | ||
| There's no direct evidence of it. | ||
| I think it's like CNN's like, but he had a picture of his birth certificate or some other nonsense. | ||
| Like, oh yeah, we all post that to our social profiles. | ||
| Makes no sense. | ||
| But maybe it's real. | ||
| I don't know or care. | ||
| A dude posting four clips from one show, and you can see he's not subscribed, is not a fan. | ||
| They're just saying that because they are trying to weaponize things for political gain. | ||
| If Breonna Joy Gray is saying that, it's because she is lying to you, or because she's just very, very stupid. | ||
| Which is possible to be both. | ||
| It just got bought. | ||
| As of tomorrow, it's owned by Nextstar Media Group. | ||
| Talk about corporate conglomeration. | ||
| It's funny, the whole way she threw that, she was talking about anti-legacy media, saying, oh, we're not part of big media, and stuff like that. | ||
| It was just so funny. | ||
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Well, you are now, Breonna. | |
| What's Nextstar? | ||
| Look it up, though. | ||
| Nextstar Media Group. | ||
| Let's find out. | ||
| Could be a startup, who knows. | ||
| I'm just saying, like... No, they're big. | ||
| They own a lot of stuff. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You can take a bunch of money, buy a set, and then say, find me a host for a show, or you can look at the people who are rising in today's ranks, people who just slowly built up a show because they did a good job. | ||
| It's meritocracy versus institutional power. | ||
| Yeah, it's publicly traded. | ||
| Nexstar is publicly traded. | ||
| They own CW. | ||
| They own 75% of CW. | ||
| Oh, so the Hill Rising is this big corporate network. | ||
| Surprise, surprise! | ||
| They have those opinions. | ||
| But I'll tell you how it works. | ||
| They don't go to people like Brianna Joy Gray and say, say this or else you're fired. | ||
| They find people who are stupid who say stupid things and then say, that's the kind of person we should hire. | ||
| So I've seen this at all the media companies I've worked for. | ||
| How is it that you end up with someone who writes a story that's just the most insane garbage ever, They're not forced to do it. | ||
| These are people who genuinely believe stupid things because they're not smart. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Surprise, surprise. | ||
| Chris Page says, Seamus, back in the day, old people would plant a tree or build a business for the children. | ||
| Now they sell the children or gifts... | ||
| or gifts of the old for today. | ||
| Hmm. No, well, I think it's true. People sell out. | ||
| No, it's true. | ||
| I mean, we live in a culture where people are so focused on their immediate short-term gain that the elderly actually care more about their own comfort or even social standing than they do the next generation. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| I'm reading this one. | ||
| It says, uh, Evil Zombie Ham says this $20 is for Seamus. | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| Tim Pool Chicken Tune is freaking hilarious. | ||
| I've been playing it on repeat and laughing for the last five minutes. | ||
| Tim probably won't give you the $20, so it's a good thing I'm a member of your site. | ||
| That is not true. | ||
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Thank you! | |
| I have $20 right here. | ||
| Oh, from you to Seamus. | ||
| Thanks for working. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I can't throw it! | ||
| Guys, give me superchats and say that more often so that Tim just keeps taking money out of his wallet. | ||
| And I will remind people that a portion of that superchat does go to YouTube, so you're getting a premium. | ||
| I'm getting a premium, so send more money and we'll bankrupt Tim. | ||
| So basically what happens is, I made a funny joke, Seamus took my funny joke, How dare you! | ||
| How dare you characterize it that way! | ||
| You made an innocuous statement, and as I was listening to it... Innocuous! | ||
| It was perfectly delivered! | ||
| You were being completely serious! | ||
| You were saying, this is how I really feel about the world, my name's Tim Pool, and then I said, this is gonna make an excellent cartoon. | ||
| It was really funny how, like, you basically turned in my warning, you turned it into a threat. | ||
| Like, so basically I was saying, like, it's a warning. | ||
| You live in these seasons. | ||
| What happens? | ||
| And then Seamus animated it so it looks like I'm threatening people. | ||
| Yeah, you guys really have to watch it. | ||
| Please. | ||
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I can't wait. | |
| When he showed it to me, I was crying, laughing. | ||
| It was so good. | ||
| I showed him this morning. | ||
| He was dying. | ||
| Yeah, and I was like, I went and got my girlfriend. | ||
| I was like, you gotta watch this. | ||
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Come on, come on. | |
| And she was like, I don't get it. | ||
| No, I'm totally kidding. | ||
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She loved it. | |
| She busted out laughing. | ||
| Yeah, she was laughing too. | ||
| Free Food for a Life says, just wanted to say, hi Seamus, love your work on cartoons and your podcast. | ||
| But in your podcast and pints with Aquinas, y'all about have me converting from Protestantism to Catholicism. | ||
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| No. | ||
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Yes! | |
| Do it! | ||
| You're so close. | ||
| You could do it. | ||
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Send me a DM. | |
| Send me a DM on Twitter. | ||
| They're talking about Shamer? | ||
| Yeah, they're talking about shame. | ||
| So what's the premise? | ||
| I haven't seen it yet. | ||
| I shame everybody. | ||
| Just one by one? | ||
| I just go through the whole country. | ||
| I'm like, shame on this guy for this reason. | ||
| No, I'm just sort of like talking the issues. | ||
| It's just a political podcast where I go through the events of the day and then sometimes I'll interview people. | ||
| All right, let's read this one. | ||
| Sean D says, thank you for representing Butler County. | ||
| Is there any way for Ohio to get its representation back from the southwestern states with illegal immigrants counted in the census? | ||
| Ohio GOP were able to district out Tim Ryan or else they were going to come for your seat. | ||
| Yeah, look, this is a great question. | ||
| I've got a bill that is basically called the Fair Representation Act. | ||
| It basically makes it so, like, the 14th Amendment is clear to me that, you know, I don't represent, I represent American citizens. | ||
| I represent no one who's not a citizen. | ||
| If you came to the country legally, I mean, I hope you have a good time. | ||
| Glad you came to America. | ||
| Your representation is at an embassy or a consulate. | ||
| The downside is the way that Donald Trump got beaten in this lawsuit, he tried to fight it and so that we counted citizens. | ||
| The way that non-citizens are stealing representation isn't just by people trying to vote illegally. | ||
| It's when you have over-representation on the congressional maps. | ||
| We've talked about it quite a bit actually. | ||
| You have like five to seven extra members of Congress in California and with the sanctuary cities you oversample the population in urban areas so it creates more blue districts, specifically blue districts, and it puts more people into certain states. | ||
| So it really is theft of representation. | ||
| And then when you look at the way the resources are distributed, it's generally distributed on a per capita basis. | ||
| It should be distributed on a per citizen basis or an electoral vote basis. | ||
| That would be a better system. | ||
| And we should decide that of our own accord. | ||
| But if we can't, we should amend the Constitution to make it clear. | ||
| I've got a constitutional amendment proposed. | ||
| It would be great. | ||
| And look, Ohio would pick up probably two seats out of that. | ||
| Who knows what every other state, but we know California and some of the border states would lose representation. | ||
| It not only is electoral representation stolen, but I just want to make one point really quick here. | ||
| The two things conservatives say is they steal our votes and they take welfare. | ||
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And the left goes, well, actually, because they're not citizens, they can't do either. | |
| Ben Shapiro doesn't say that. | ||
| Well, all right. | ||
| That was my left impression, but you're right. | ||
| It did sound more like Ben Shapiro. | ||
| But my point is simply to say that not only, like you said, does representation become lopsided because they're counted and they get extra electoral votes or more representation in government. | ||
| When their family members are on welfare, they'll end up taking welfare from them. | ||
| So they're still pulling out of the system. | ||
| And there was an article written by a left-wing outlet a few years ago after Trump got elected that said, these poor undocumented citizens are too afraid to get welfare now that Trump's been elected. | ||
| It's like, oh, interesting. | ||
| I thought that wasn't happening. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Chaser says, Tim, the coffee shop must sell Joey's bag of donuts. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| I don't know if we can actually sell donuts like that, but maybe we'll make a coffee that's like, you know, Joey's bag of donuts or whatever. | ||
| We are planning on, uh, we've got a few things launching. | ||
| K-Cups are coming in the next couple of weeks. | ||
| They've got to manufacture them, but we've got all the different varieties. | ||
| We've got a few different blends that are, uh, blends and roasts that are coming. | ||
| We've got Mr. Boca's Pumpkin Spice Experience. | ||
| But then we're also going to be adding, um, Protein powders and other things like that to the casper | ||
| marketplace. So we're really really excited for all this stuff | ||
| I'm really excited for our mct protein mix for working out and we're working with a | ||
| Specialists on the proper formulation for exercise and all that stuff | ||
| So we'll get to that point we get to that point, but i'm really excited to be able to launch that | ||
| That's actually a lot easier to launch surprisingly because when it comes to like making protein powders and | ||
| supplements I'm not gonna do any vitamins or brain blast or any of that | ||
| stuff It's going to be like protein for exercising and MCT for energy when you're exercising. | ||
| But they make that stuff and then we formulate how we want it. | ||
| So we want a certain mix of MCT and protein so you're getting fat and you're getting protein. | ||
| And then we work with a specialist to make it. | ||
| But they have huge batches ready to go to formulate and mix so they can make it a lot faster with coffee. | ||
| It's like we have to roast it and make sure it's fresh and ready and all that stuff. | ||
| Much different, much different. | ||
| But man, I'm torn between the Appalachian Knights and the Bocas. | ||
| I'm sorry, the Roberto Jr. | ||
| I gotta try a Roberto Jr. | ||
| rise with Roberto again. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| Do we have any in the house? | ||
| No, we need to get more. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it goes so quickly. | ||
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It's sold out. | |
| But I'm really excited. | ||
| We're gonna get a whole bunch of K-Cups here, so we'll have all those ready to go. | ||
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Sweet. | |
| And then the first order I think we're doing is not biodegradable, but we're talking about them because we told them we wanted biodegradable or nothing. | ||
| And they said, well, then nothing it is. | ||
| And we were like, what can we do? | ||
| And they said, do a run with non-biodegradable. | ||
| And then once we get up and running with manufacturing biodegradable, it'll switch over. | ||
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Cool. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| The thing is, though, to be honest, the biodegradable ones, they're better for the planet. | ||
| They don't last as long. | ||
| No. | ||
| Because they're not sealed the same way that the other K-Cups are. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So they're exposed to air. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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