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On the same day as the GOP debate, Tucker Carlson will be interviewing Donald Trump | ||
We don't know if it'll be the exact same time, but this is... It's gonna be very, very bad for the GOP debate, and it gives Trump exactly what he wants. | ||
Center stage, with no interruptions. | ||
And a lot of people are attacking Trump, saying he should debate, and the argument from the Trump camp is that, why? | ||
Why would he give airtime to any of his detractors and opponents? | ||
Now what's going to happen is that Trump's going to be doing this interview with Tucker, it's going to smash the internet, and I think the ratings for the GB debate will be much smaller than they'd hoped. | ||
Partly this is due to Fox putting out this memo, or I should say there's a story, where Fox was saying that no one can rebroadcast or restream the debate. | ||
Well, okay. | ||
Then no one will talk about it. | ||
So we'll talk about that, and also as sort of a follow-up to the conversation we were having this morning on the culture war with Trump vs. DeSantis and where that goes. | ||
And then we've got some big cultural news. | ||
Two big stories. | ||
One, Elon Musk says he's gonna get rid of the block feature on X, which has everyone on X losing their minds. | ||
Although I don't think it's the biggest story in the world, it could result in X getting banned from Apple if he actually does this. | ||
So we'll see how that plays out. | ||
We've got a bunch of other stories. | ||
Some are a bit more fun. | ||
It's Friday night, so we'll goof off a little bit. | ||
Kid Rock! | ||
Reportedly, we've seen drinking a Bud Light. | ||
And we're all deeply offended, but we'll investigate this one as well. | ||
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Joining us tonight to talk about this and a whole lot more is Laura Loomer. | ||
Thanks for having me. | ||
Who are you? | ||
What do you do? | ||
Well, my name is Laura Loomer. | ||
I'm an investigative journalist and a conservative activist. | ||
I got my career started working undercover at Project Veritas with James O'Keefe, where I worked undercover exposing voter fraud, and I was embedded inside the Hillary Clinton campaign exposing corruption. | ||
And after I went on or completed working with Project Veritas and James O'Keefe, I then started my own media company. | ||
And I then, you know, started making my videos, which were called Loomerd videos, and amassed a very large online following and found myself banned on every single social media site. | ||
And some banks too, right? | ||
Yeah. | ||
I was really one of the first people to be completely deplatformed as well. | ||
So now I'm doing everything that I can to help President Trump. | ||
I'm sure a lot of your viewers are familiar with Yes. | ||
uh... who i am in the work that i've done and if they aren't it's probably | ||
because i was the platform for seven years they ban you because you're too | ||
effective yes when when you got banned from twitter you | ||
coffee yourself to the doors of twitter yeah headquarters and you became the top trend on the | ||
platform that tried to remove you | ||
What else did you do? | ||
You had migrants go to Nancy Pelosi's house? | ||
Is that one thing? | ||
Yeah, so when they wouldn't give the funding, right, to President Trump. | ||
Remember when Nancy Pelosi shut the government down? | ||
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Yeah. | |
It was the longest shutdown in US history. | ||
And I just decided, well, this is ridiculous. | ||
It seems like they just want to have open borders. | ||
And yet they live in mansions, a lot of these politicians, and they have their own secure homes. | ||
Uh, she had said, I remember laying in bed watching the press conference in her bright pink blazer, she said, a wall is an abomination, a wall is an immorality, an immorality, and it is not who we are as a nation. | ||
And I said, well, Nancy Pelosi has like 25 mansions and they all have walls. | ||
So I was in Arizona at the time and I drove a rental car down to the US-Mexico border and I crossed over at the Ote Mesa line just to show people with my cameraman how easy it was to do. | ||
And I said, well, you know, now that I'm in California, I hear there's a lot of really nice, generous Democrat politicians that think we should have sanctuary. | ||
Let's go find them. | ||
And I went to the Home Depot. | ||
And I found three illegal aliens, and I speak Spanish, right? | ||
A lot of people don't know that. | ||
And I told them that we were going to be filming a documentary at a politician's home. | ||
And in California, right, they don't care. | ||
The illegal aliens, right, it's catch and release, so they're protected. | ||
They're not scared. | ||
And I had said, are you here illegally? | ||
Excuse me. | ||
And they had said, yes, in Spanish, of course, you know, they were from Mexico and Guatemala. | ||
And so I paid them and they came with me and we ended up pitching a tent on Nancy Pelosi's lawn and hopping, hopping her fence. | ||
And I had them hang photos of high profile cases of American citizens who had been murdered by illegal aliens on the tent with zip ties. | ||
And then we were playing football and drinking Mexican Cokes. | ||
And then we even tried to open Her door at her house and then eventually, right? | ||
I thought everybody was welcome there. | ||
She called the cops. | ||
This is online to you could watch it on my YouTube channel and she called the cops on us and it was hilarious because it was the number one trending story on Twitter at the time, even though I was completely banned on Twitter and you could hear the cop on the phone with her and this whole thing is being live streamed, right? | ||
And ultimately she just had to let us go because how much of a hypocrite would she be but ultimately we were deported. | ||
from her house, and then I did it at Gavin Newsom's house, too, at the California governor's mansion. | ||
And I got arrested! | ||
He had me arrested. | ||
This is why they ban you from everything, but thanks for hanging out. | ||
We'll talk about this and a lot more. | ||
Yeah. | ||
We got Phil Labonte. | ||
Hi, I'm Phil Labonte, lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains, anti-communist and counter-revolutionary. | ||
I'm Ian Crossland. | ||
What's up, everybody? | ||
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I'm pressing the buttons tonight. | ||
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So go do that. | ||
That's right. | ||
All right, let's jump into the first story. | ||
This is the news. | ||
So Donald Trump is not going to be debating the rest of the Republican candidates. | ||
And we got news that Trump will reportedly do a sit down interview with Tucker Carlson on the day of the GOP debate on Fox News. | ||
Former President Trump will reportedly sit down with Tucker, the first debate of the Republican primary scheduled to take place on Wednesday in Milwaukee. | ||
The New Times reports former President Donald J. Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with former news host Tucker Carlson. | ||
I'm imagining they're going to publish at Tucker's normal time, which will absolutely compete with the GOP debate. | ||
And then who's going to want to watch the GOP debate? | ||
Nobody. | ||
I can't imagine that anyone watching the GOP debate over Donald Trump with Tucker Carlson. | ||
Is it going to be Vivek and Ron? | ||
And some other people. | ||
Who else is running? | ||
Tim Scott? | ||
Mike Pence. | ||
Mike Pence is going to be there? | ||
Nikki Haley. | ||
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I'll watch it for Vivek. | |
I'm excited. | ||
But I heard a lot of comments, people were saying online that Vivek is going to be like Tulsi Gabbard to Ron DeSantis as Kamala. | ||
Like Vivek is going to... | ||
Vivek is too good at this. | ||
It doesn't matter because it's not going to be as much fun because no matter how bad DeSantis is, he's not as terrible as Kamala Harris. | ||
That was an absolutely beautiful takedown of Kamala Harris. | ||
And again, it is not fair to compare Ron DeSantis to Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris is at the bottom of the barrel like Gollum from Lord of the Rings. | ||
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Ron's actually done a good job in Florida to varying degrees of argument. | ||
I would disagree. | ||
As I say, at least there's an argument. | ||
Kamala Harris I don't think has support from literally anybody, not even Democrats like you. | ||
Do you think there's a better governor than him? | ||
Yeah, look, I think that Florida has always had pretty good governors, right? | ||
It's pretty much a red state. | ||
It's not necessarily red in terms of our political makeup, but in terms of the governors that we've had over the last few years, yeah, we have had Republican governors. | ||
But really, Florida is the largest swing state in the nation, and I wouldn't necessarily say that it is a pure red state. | ||
What happened is that during COVID, you had a large influx of people from New York and New Jersey. | ||
California moving into Florida because they wanted, right, to escape the lockdowns because they thought that Florida was going to be more free and open than places like New York and New Jersey. | ||
And while it's true that our restrictions and our lockdowns were not as draconian, at one point in time they were and they did lock down parts of Florida and there were lockdown orders and masking orders and Ron DeSantis did advocate for the vaccine. | ||
And so then what happened is a lot of those people that moved, well, those are going to be conservatives for the most part, right, who moved to a state to escape leftist policies. | ||
Well, they registered to vote and then the Republican registration rate surpassed the Democrat registration rate. | ||
But the actual makeup of Florida is not majority Republican. | ||
And so this is like one of those misconceptions that we were talking about this morning, because I really feel like they've been trying to position Ron DeSantis as a Manchurian candidate, and they're trying to push this narrative that he's the only successful governor in the country because they needed somebody that could challenge Donald Trump. | ||
Laura's correct. | ||
We talked about this when DeSantis won. | ||
The narrative they're putting out is that he's such a good governor, he converted all of these people to the Republican Party. | ||
But look at Miami-Dade. | ||
It is true, I do believe, that many people probably said, you know what, I'm gonna vote for, you know, I used to be a Democrat and now I'll vote for Ron. | ||
But we know we had mass migration into Florida. | ||
It was the number one destination. | ||
That may be, to Ron DeSantis' credit, for whatever reason, but it's conservatives who moved in and were already going to vote conservative that gave him the massive 20% margin. | ||
I want to give him credit because he attracted conservatives to Florida, but I also want to make sure we give decent credit to the Democrats for being so awful they drove people out of their states into Florida. | ||
Like the way Ron handled COVID, the lockdowns, eventually he got to the point where he was like, we're done. | ||
We're not doing this anymore. | ||
And he spoke up for a lot of people in the United States that were on a downward spiral towards lockdown or shutdown. | ||
But the thing is, is that he spoke up about it, right? | ||
He went on Fox News and we talked about this this morning. | ||
He would go on Fox News and talk about the free state of Florida. | ||
And one thing that I would say that Ron DeSantis's greatest accomplishment is that he has a wonderful PR team, right? | ||
He has a great PR team that is Not the people that work for him. | ||
I'm saying the PR team that's been able to manufacture this image, this facade, right? | ||
That he is somehow Trump without the baggage. | ||
I'm not saying that the people, right, who work for him are good. | ||
No, no, no. | ||
Hold on. | ||
You're correct. | ||
Early on, that's what they were doing. | ||
And then they went... | ||
I'm being facetious, of course. | ||
I'm saying that I personally, right, as a Floridian and as somebody who's run for Congress in Florida twice as an America First Republican, I see on the ground Ron DeSantis is not a good governor. | ||
And they've been able to use other people's experiences and the outlier experience of the COVID lockdowns, which Nobody really expected that to happen, and that's really what they use as their talking points to say, oh, he's such a great governor. | ||
Well, is he? | ||
Right now, we have the highest homeowner insurance rates in the entire country. | ||
The average rate is about $1,700 nationally, and in Florida, it's $6,000 or more, okay? | ||
Okay. | ||
And after this year, it's expected to jump another 40 to 60%. | ||
We have some of the highest utility bills in the entire country as well, which have | ||
increased over 20% in the last year. | ||
And that's all because Ron DeSantis accepted millions of dollars of campaign donations | ||
from the utility companies like FPL, that's Florida Power and Light, as well as the insurance | ||
companies. | ||
And he actually allowed for the insurance industry to participate in writing the insurance | ||
bill that made it so that homeowners in Florida can't really sue anymore, right? | ||
They can't really sue for fraud. | ||
And so what you have now is this massive homeowner insurance crisis. | ||
And it's unaffordable. | ||
People can't even afford their homeowner insurance rates, which is costing more than their mortgages. | ||
And you're going to see a market crash in Florida, similar to what we saw in 2008. | ||
And I believe, and I predict, and a lot of people are predicting this as well, that it's going to trigger a national housing market crash. | ||
And what's going to happen to all those people who move to Florida thinking, oh, I'm going to escape communism? | ||
They're not even able to afford the homes that they're now living in. | ||
Is it because there's so much natural disaster danger for like hurricanes and floods and stuff that the insurance is just out of control? | ||
Yes, but at the same time, right, Rick Scott had this under control. | ||
The insurance crisis has severely worsened under Ron DeSantis' term as governor. | ||
And insurance rates have quadrupled under Ron DeSantis's leadership since he's been governor since 2019. | ||
They made it so the homeowners couldn't sue the insurance companies? | ||
Yeah, so you can pull up the bill. | ||
It might be helpful, Tim, if you pull this up. | ||
And I actually wrote a Substack article about this and it was posted by President Trump. | ||
I don't know the exact number, but just type in Special Session Florida Insurance Bill. | ||
And there were these different measures because they had said, oh, they had argued that the reason why the rates were so expensive is because there were frivolous lawsuits. | ||
And so what happened is the lobbyists, right? | ||
We have a state insurer of last resort in the state of Florida called Citizens Insurance. | ||
The CEO of that company was also the lobbyist who was participating in writing this legislation and pushing it forward. | ||
And what they wanted is they wanted it so that homeowners in Florida were not able to sue if You know, they discovered that their insurance carrier was engaging in fraudulent activity. | ||
And you could really make the argument that given the fact that these companies are insolvent, and Governor DeSantis himself has recently admitted that Citizens Insurance, which is the insurer of Last Resort, right? | ||
That's where people try to go and get insurance if their insurance carrier drops them. | ||
And we're now seeing a lot of these insurance carriers leave the state of Florida. | ||
Well, they're insolvent. | ||
How are they able to pay out claims? | ||
What's the point of people paying their insurance premiums if these companies are not even going to be able to fulfill their claims? | ||
So you could make the argument that that's a fraudulent business practice. | ||
And we see this now in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian from the hurricane last year. | ||
If you go to Southwest Florida and you fly above, you'll see just a sea of blue tarps because so many people have been abandoned. | ||
They talked about it on TV because it was great press for Ron DeSantis getting reelected as governor. | ||
But those people have not had their insurance claims fulfilled or paid out. | ||
So there's going to be a homelessness crisis. | ||
It sounds like they're trying to stop a downward spiral or an expiration of the insurance company. | ||
If they can't make the payments out, then the people want to sue them because they couldn't make the payments that would make them have to pay lawsuits that they can't afford. | ||
Is there a way to appeal to the federal government to bail these Floridians out that don't have homes? | ||
I mean, they're Americans first, and then they're Floridians. | ||
What about the people in Hawaii? | ||
I mean, it's a similar situation if the natural disaster wipes out a swath of homes. | ||
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Look how long the government waited. | |
Look how long Biden waited. | ||
Thank God they're in there now. | ||
What I was saying, if you look at that article, you see what I was talking about? | ||
The state insurer of last resort property insurance, right? | ||
So exactly as I just said, right? | ||
You could read it. | ||
I know it's a lot. | ||
It's very complex. | ||
I wrote a substack about this, and it was shared by President Trump a couple months ago. | ||
But this is a serious issue. | ||
We just had farmers insurance leave the state of Florida, abandoning Floridians in the middle of hurricane season. | ||
I mean, what are these people going to do? | ||
AAA also decided that they were not going to renew homeowner policies in the state of Florida. | ||
I gotta tell you, people have kept telling us to move to Texas or Florida, and the reason we went to West Virginia instead... Well, I tell people, like, weather is a huge issue. | ||
I lived in Miami for a little bit, and that matters. | ||
It does. | ||
I like Florida. | ||
I do. | ||
There's a lot of really, really great things about it. | ||
A lot of people are moving down there. | ||
But yo. | ||
But that is a big issue that's a huge problem and what you're seeing on the ground in florida it's a major retirement hub right so where i ran for congress the villages the largest retirement. | ||
You know community in the entire country the oldest district in the nation per capita. | ||
These are people on fixed incomes, okay? | ||
These are senior citizens on social security. | ||
And do you think that a senior citizen can afford, you know, a $5,000, $6,000, and in some instances we've even seen $25,000 increases in people's homeowner insurance rates. | ||
I know that sounds obscene, but the most egregious case I've seen thus far is an increase, I know it's going to sound crazy, of $98,000 per year. | ||
An additional $98,000 per year on insurance. | ||
That is what's happening as a result of this insurance crisis in the state of Florida. | ||
So while all these rich people from the East Coast are moving to Florida, all these seniors are basically having to move out of Florida because they can't afford it anymore. | ||
Let's jump to this next story, which is in line. | ||
This is from Florida Politics. | ||
New National GOP 2024 poll shows Ron DeSantis in third place. | ||
Behind, obviously, Vivek Ramaswamy. | ||
In the prediction market right now. | ||
Let me see if I can... I don't know, I got real. | ||
There we go. | ||
This is crazy, when I saw this. | ||
You know, we were talking about it before, that even when they're tied, Vivek is below Ron DeSantis. | ||
And it could be because D becomes 4R in the, you know, alphabetical order, whatever. | ||
But as of right now, this one blew my mind. | ||
Vivek Ramaswamy and the prediction market for PredictIt is in second place, three points above Ron DeSantis. | ||
Now, I'll make a few things clear in this. | ||
Prediction markets are not polls. | ||
It's the sentiment of people. | ||
Who do they think is going to win? | ||
They're basically betting money in real time, like stocks, on who they think is going to improve. | ||
Ron DeSantis going down means people think they will lose money by holding shares in his prediction contract. | ||
And people are buying Vivek at 17 cents because they believe it will actually increase. | ||
These are not polls. | ||
Bill Mitchell was discussing this with us earlier in the Culture War podcast, and he | ||
said, you know, and we had Kyle Becker as well, Becker said that real clear politics | ||
is better. | ||
I do prefer aggregate polling instead of singular polls, like they mentioned this one article | ||
that he's in second place. | ||
Yeah, well, the vague I think has like three polls showing him in second and DeSantis has | ||
like eight, but these polls go back a week or two or two or three weeks or even a month. | ||
So when they do these aggregate polling, just consider the difference between prediction markets, which is real-time, short-term changes, and prediction markets, which is long-term sentiment. | ||
There's reasons to weigh both differently. | ||
But for the time being, I will tell you, one of the things I think that's helping Vivek right now The reason why he may have jumped up is that at 3.05am this morning, Elon Musk tweeted, he states his beliefs clearly. | ||
re-re-exing, I guess, quoting Vivek Ramaswamy's truth, God is real. | ||
There are two genders. | ||
Human flourishing requires fossil fuels. | ||
Reverse racism is racism. | ||
An open border is no border. | ||
Parents determine the education of their children. | ||
The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind. | ||
Capitalism lifts people up from poverty. | ||
There are three branches of the US government, not four. | ||
The US Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history. | ||
Elon Musk is now promoting Vivek. | ||
I mean, they love this guy. | ||
I'm wondering, do we see this continue? | ||
Does Vivek overtake Ron DeSantis? | ||
What do you think is going to happen in next week's debate? | ||
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Easy enough, alright. | ||
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Alright, moving on. | ||
I mean, I have a lot more to say, but I just talked a lot, so I'll let other people talk. | ||
I just don't feel like there's a lot of groundswell appreciation of Ron DeSantis. | ||
People can You know, say what they want about his record. | ||
There are people that are going to cast it in Florida. | ||
I mean, as a governor, there are people that are going to cast it as positive. | ||
There are people who are going to cast it as negative and stuff. | ||
But at the end of the day, people tend to vote with, you know, with their gut more than with their You know, with their belief in policy or whatever, and I think that it is more likely that Vivek is going to communicate with people better than Ron does, and that might be because of the fact that, you know, apparently Ron has, and this is what I've heard, but Ron has a problem relating to people. | ||
He's not the, you know, he's not the guy you're going to want to have a beer with, like the old George W. Bush line was. | ||
We've had Vivek on the show IRL twice. | ||
I was here once. | ||
It was when we were actually using Charlie Kirk's studio down in Arizona. | ||
That was awesome. | ||
And then he came on here when Seamus was guest hosting, but I also got to talk to him on The Culture War. | ||
And he's an easy guy to communicate with. | ||
He will answer the question you ask him, even if it's very, very difficult. | ||
He is quick-witted and smart. | ||
He handles it very, very well. | ||
And he's really good with liberals because he could handle me. | ||
I changed the subject. | ||
I'm asking about Mars colonization. | ||
He was all about it. | ||
He's got an answer. | ||
So let's go back to the Aleppo moment. | ||
Oh my god, I wanted to kill myself when that happened. | ||
Because that was like my peak libertarian guy. | ||
I'm like, now's our time, man. | ||
The libertarians. | ||
Gary's got it. | ||
Here we go, and I'm watching Morning Joe, and I'm just like, my heart sank, and I'm like, I can't believe this is happening. | ||
For those who are not familiar, this is Gary Johnson, right? | ||
Yes. | ||
He's doing an interview, and he's asked how would he deal with Aleppo, and he goes, and what is Aleppo? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Aleppo was a city in Syria that was just flattened. | ||
During the civil war, like at the height of the time. | ||
And it ruined his campaign. | ||
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They were talking about rocket, they were talking about like the end days and that was like being spoken about on the news and he had no clue! | ||
So let's go through this. | ||
I told people, like my viewers, if Donald Trump was asked a question about, insert random topic, if he's sitting down and someone, and the interviewer said, I want to get your thoughts on Roberto the rooster. | ||
Trump, having no idea what the hell he's talking about, would go, look, I know a lot of people want to talk about Roberta, but we've got to focus on jobs in this country. | ||
We've got a border that's supposed to... He would adapt and pivot. | ||
Vivek? | ||
Smart enough to do the same thing. | ||
Ron would do some facsimile if I don't see him being quick-witted enough to deal with these difficult situations. | ||
Another thing that's going to happen that you're going to see is that Vivek Ramaswamy has written books about woke culture and he's going to, well, Ron DeSantis is going to find out very quickly that just talking about woke and talking about Disney and talking about COVID and pretending to be against childhood transitions isn't going to be enough to get him through this debate. | ||
Ron DeSantis has An issue, as you just said, communicating with people and relating to people, and he doesn't really have that likability factor. | ||
You see that he's very awkward in person, and this is because he's on the spectrum. | ||
Politico, you can pull up the article if you want, actually wrote an article about how Ron DeSantis might be autistic, and there are lawmakers in the Florida legislature who have talked about how he has Asperger's. | ||
I know people who have worked with Ron DeSantis in the past, former staffers, who have said that he has Asperger's. | ||
I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with people who have Asperger's, but obviously one of the issues that comes with, you know, being on the spectrum or having some form of autism is that sometimes you lack social skills, right? | ||
That's one of the main characteristics about it. | ||
And so, Ron DeSantis, right, you'll see him in these situations where people will come up to him and say, there was one that I'll never forget where he was, I believe, in Iowa, and somebody goes, oh, I just drove eight hours to come see you! | ||
And Ron DeSantis goes, oh, great, and he walks away. | ||
Like he didn't even ask the guy like if you want a photo or how you doing. | ||
And so Vivek Ramaswamy has written books about woke and Ron's not going to be able to get | ||
away with just saying, oh, you know, like, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna combat wokeism. | ||
Well, how is Ron going to combat wokeism when one of his top lobbyists is a guy named Slater | ||
Bayless who's a lobbyist for Bud Light? | ||
How is he going to combat childhood transitioning when another one of his top lobbyists is a | ||
guy named Mark Lampkin, who represents a company called AbbVie, okay, a pharmaceutical company | ||
called AbbVie that is the manufacturer of a drug called Lupron, which is a drug used | ||
to chemically castrate children. | ||
You understand? | ||
He needs to be called out for this hypocrisy. | ||
What you're talking about with Vivek and DeSantis about Woke is a great point because Vivek really understands the philosophy that's going on at the left now. | ||
I don't know exactly how Deep Ron's understanding is, I don't feel like Ron really, you know, understands the philosophies behind it, whereas I do feel like Vivek understands. | ||
Exactly, you know, he understands, he knows who Mark Hughes is, you know? | ||
He knows the leftists that are writing the philosophies and writing the academic papers that are having significant effects on the culture today. | ||
So he's aware of the actual problems in the philosophy. | ||
A lot of people are gonna say, oh, you know, we're talking about Vivek and Ron. | ||
It's like, well, yes, these are the guys fighting behind Trump for the next position, so I think it's warranted. | ||
I don't care to say if Ron's on the spectrum or whatever. | ||
That scene is, I don't know, whatever. | ||
It's tough to measure. | ||
No, but who cares, right? | ||
We can just say it simply. | ||
Ron is bad with people. | ||
Yeah, I'm not trying to be derogatory. | ||
I'm just saying that it would explain why he has such a hard time | ||
Communicating with people and you'll see the never back down pack and you'll see his campaign say oh well | ||
We raised a hundred and fifty million dollars, which you know it's not really true, right? | ||
That's another lie But all the money in the world as I said this money isn't | ||
going to be enough to buy Ron DeSantis the personality Transplant that he so desperately needs I saw the video of | ||
his eggs to people and he wasn't looking at him And they didn't even know who the hell he was in Iowa, and then you have Bill Mitchell on this morning being like, oh, yeah, Bob Vander Plaats is a kingmaker in Iowa and Ron DeSantis is gonna win. | ||
I mean, the guy's literally putting toothpicks in eggs as Donald Trump flies his plane over and cucks him in real time. | ||
Donald Trump, there is no question, is so good. | ||
You know you want a fist bump too! | ||
Go Trump! | ||
So Trump walks into a room and he commands this entertaining presence. | ||
I went to the White House for the social media summit and I didn't know what to expect and Trump was basically doing stand-up for an hour and we were all laughing. | ||
He was just nailing it. | ||
Ron is the opposite of that. | ||
Vivek? | ||
Nowhere near as good as Trump's commanding presence, but at the very least he can hold his own in a conversation with quick wit. | ||
I guess the question is though, where does Vivek go? | ||
He's not going to beat Trump. | ||
He's not going to be president. | ||
What is he doing? | ||
Where does he end up? | ||
A cabinet position, perhaps? | ||
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I thought so. | |
I think he wants a cabinet position. | ||
I think it's obvious that Vivek is not going to be president, but I do appreciate the fact that he actually is running the campaign that Ron DeSantis, if he wanted to run for president, should have been running, right? | ||
Vivek Ramaswamy was the only other candidate for president that showed up to the rally I organized in front of the Miami courthouse when President Trump was arraigned. | ||
He had a press conference and that was a really big act of courage because think about it. | ||
Those are all Trump supporters there. | ||
He didn't know if he was going to get booed or he was going to get chased away, but actually the Trump supporters there embraced him and went up to him and thanked him because he passed out a press statement saying that if he were to get elected as president, the first thing he would do is pardon President Trump. | ||
And he has not really attacked President Trump much. | ||
Defended him. | ||
I haven't really seen any direct attacks and in fact he's always the first one to come out with a statement whenever Trump has an indictment. | ||
Unlike Ron DeSantis who pretends like he doesn't know what's going on and waits 24 hours to issue a statement and then won't even say Trump's name. | ||
I think you nailed it when you said Viveka's running the campaign DeSantis should have run. | ||
Because Viveka's setting himself up for what's after this election. | ||
I think he's another level. | ||
Vivek is like a brilliant, genius mastermind, business strategist. | ||
I think Trump sees a lot of himself in Vivek, which is why he respects him so much, from when he was a young entrepreneur. | ||
But Vivek is like top level, 0.0001% genius human. | ||
He's not as famous as Trump, so that's why I personally feel like Trump's name recognition is going to get him 50 million votes. | ||
Well, also, you know, Ron DeSantis is like a prostitute, you know? | ||
He's like a cheap hooker. | ||
He's on his knees begging all these billionaire Wall Street hedge fund guys like Ken Griffin and other billionaires like Doug Leone of Sequoia to donate to his campaign because he's not a billionaire. | ||
He's not wealthy. | ||
And I'm not trying to sound like an elitist, but Donald Trump is a billionaire, okay? | ||
He self-financed a lot of his first campaign, and people knew Donald Trump long before he was ever president. | ||
And Vivek, similarly, he has a net worth, from my understanding, that's close to almost $1 billion. | ||
And so he doesn't need to Get on his knees like a cheap hooker and beg these Wall Street donors and these GOP establishment donors who hate Donald Trump for money, because he can self-finance. | ||
And you have to look at the fact that Ron DeSantis has a $250 million campaign operation, and he has blown through most of his cash. | ||
He doesn't have enough money anymore to run a campaign all the way until the Iowa caucus on January 15th, which is why the Never Back Down Super PAC is having to foot the bill for so many things that he's doing. | ||
So that's another advantage that I think you're going to see Vivek is going to come from behind and he's going to continue to rise in the polls because eventually it's going to become a matter of resources. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Vivek has money and Ron DeSantis doesn't. | ||
He also seems to be very intelligent about how he spends his money, Vivek, because he does shows like with Jordan Peterson yesterday, 300,000 views at this point. | ||
With one of the smartest guys in the world, Jordan Peterson. | ||
That cost Vivek nothing. | ||
He just sat in his living room and paid zero to get 300,000 eyeballs. | ||
He's on Twitter, 50,000 hits on each video that's going up. | ||
Elon Musk is retweeting it for another 200,000. | ||
He's probably gained a million voters yesterday just from all this media blitz in the last 48 hours. | ||
And that costs nothing. | ||
It's all social media. | ||
Where's Ron's social media presence? | ||
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I always think about when Carrie Lake was running, she was saying she was applying for a job. | |
right when she was running for office and the voters or the hiring managers, right? So I always | ||
think about that. It's like if you're two candidates for the job or DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, | ||
it's almost, you know, hands down Vivek is the better candidate for the job for whatever you | ||
need him to do. I just think like day one, I'm not going to worry about Vivek when he's given | ||
the keys. I, you know, well, I don't think that we should just say we're not going to worry about | ||
him because look, I met Vivek. | ||
I think he's a nice guy. | ||
And I like the fact that he's coming out in support of President Trump. | ||
But, you know, I'm critical of everybody. | ||
And I think that we also need to be we also need to kind of look into Vivek's ties, right, with the pharmaceutical industry and his his connections with big pharma. | ||
And two things can be true at once. | ||
You can be an excellent communicator and you can be a nice guy and we can appreciate all the things that he's doing to support President Trump and speak out against a weaponized government. | ||
But also I think that we need to, you know, at least be aware of and do our own research like I do, right? | ||
To understand who these people are tied to, you know, how they made their money, what that's going to mean, if they ever do get elected, what kind of position would he be offered if he wanted a cabinet position in the Trump administration. | ||
And those are questions that should be asked. | ||
What I like about Vivek too is that he's very open, it seems, when people are confrontational with him. | ||
I saw that confrontation with the LGBTQ activist, and whenever he's asked a question, he doesn't say, oh, go away, or security, come take this person away. | ||
He's pretty head-on, right? | ||
He jumps into the Viper's den. | ||
I want to show some archives here. | ||
This is Vivek Ramaswamy, February 11th, 2021. | ||
4,757 followers. | ||
I just grabbed a random date from a couple years ago. | ||
Fast forward to December 8th, 2022. | ||
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156,000 followers. | |
Jump a few months ahead to March 2023. | ||
364,000 followers. | ||
And in less than a year, he has jumped to 1 million followers. | ||
to March 2023, 364,000 followers. | ||
And in less than a year, he has jumped to 1 million followers. | ||
This dude is, like you said, he's running the campaign Ron should have been running. | ||
I don't think Ron's capable of anything remotely close to this guy. | ||
This guy's like a gem. | ||
People like this don't appear all the time. | ||
And most importantly, Vivek, I think, is actually campaigning for after the election. | ||
Yeah. | ||
He can't say it! | ||
You know, so when he was here, I was like, I think you're not gonna- I know you're not gonna win. | ||
And I think you know you're not gonna win, but you're doing this anyway because there's a lot more that comes with it. | ||
It changes the conversation. | ||
You get on the debate stage. | ||
You can bring some issues to the forefront. | ||
And he's like, look, look, I'm running to win. | ||
Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
But he's a smart guy. | ||
He knows what comes next is after this election. | ||
So if Trump, and this is an if, and I don't want to go too far down this rabbit hole, if he gets taken off a ballot somehow, a ballot in any state, that was kind of the topic from today's show a little bit, and that would basically, if he can't get 270, he can't win, do you think the debate stands a chance against the Democratic Party? | ||
Hold on, hold on. | ||
If they take Trump off the ballot, 2024 is going to be wild. | ||
Let's talk about what happens in 2024. | ||
If Trump is removed from any state, they'll try to make that state award its electors to the Democrat. | ||
Maybe they'll try and make, I doubt this, but award it to someone, I don't know, libertarian or something. | ||
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It's like, well, we're not going to give it to the Democrat because we're being fair. | |
But you need to get 270. | ||
If you don't, it goes to the House of Representatives. | ||
They cannot let that happen. | ||
I have no idea what's going to happen. | ||
The speculation is they'll take Trump's name off the ballot in Michigan or Pennsylvania or Georgia. | ||
I think Georgia is the key target. | ||
Yeah, they're trying to use the 14th Amendment to get him on charges of sedition, of course, so that they can use the 14th Amendment to try to remove him from certain states. | ||
That's why they want this to be a very, very fast trial because they want to knock Trump out before the primaries conclude. | ||
That's why I was saying when Trump came out and said everybody should drop out of the race, he's got a point. | ||
If they all dropped out right now, the Democrats' hands are tied. | ||
If they remove his name from the ballot pre-primary, they say, look, we didn't get rid of the Republicans. | ||
You have a choice. | ||
You just can't vote for the criminal. | ||
If everyone drops out and right now Trump is confirmed the nominee, the removal of Donald Trump would be them saying the Republican Party has been excised from the vote. | ||
And then that's a shock to the system. | ||
I'm not saying I know what happens after that, but frogs boiling in a pot is a bad scenario. | ||
People being shocked to the point of waking up is preferable. | ||
The only way they can pull this off is if the primaries are not concluded and there was someone else that if Trump were to be removed, people would vote for. | ||
What do you think about like a Vivek RFK ticket? | ||
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No. | |
He don't like RFK. | ||
I'm like, look man, RFK is better than a lot of the options. | ||
Yes. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
And it's kind of like, I mean, I think a Trump Ramaswamy ticket would be the best. | ||
And I've talked to you about this. | ||
I don't, I'm not into Trump. | ||
I mean, I don't dislike, I don't, I got issues with them, you know, calling Rosie a fat pig. | ||
I feel like he alienated half the world and like, I need a uniter. | ||
I need someone that's going to like help us move forward. | ||
I think unity is cliche. | ||
You know, I think that there's really no such thing as unity and I think it's like a very kumbaya concept and I don't think that we really need to be focused on unity in this country. | ||
We are in a political revolution right now and one, the party that's in control is literally trying to put conservatives and Trump supporters in jail so that they can die in prison simply because of the person they support or the fact that they believe that the election was stolen. | ||
There's no room to play nice. | ||
There's no more talk about civility, no more talk about unity. | ||
We're in a war to save our country, and this is the problem, right? | ||
This is why we're in the mess today, is because so many people, and this is no disrespect to you, but so many people in this country are focused on civility and decorum and, you know, let's go along to get along. | ||
I'm sick of it. | ||
So many people on the right are like that. | ||
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. | ||
The leftists are burning down cities. | ||
The right is like that, and that's why the Republicans lose. | ||
The country is called the United States. | ||
It's united. | ||
We have unity, and that's the reason we function as 50 states. | ||
Without it, it'd be a civil war, so we need to unify. | ||
I know, but we're in the civil war right now. | ||
We don't have unity. | ||
I think it's an illusion. | ||
And let me address that from the left. | ||
I don't think anyone can win on that platform. | ||
Let me address that from the left. | ||
One of the issues with the Declaration of Independence was that South Carolina and Georgia would not sign on unless they removed Thomas Jefferson's criticisms of slavery. | ||
So unity doesn't always mean the best things. | ||
I can understand the argument among the Founding Fathers. | ||
They were like, okay, well, we have no choice. | ||
I do believe that Quebec was a colony of the Crown and they did not want to join up. | ||
So they were like, we desperately need other colonies to agree with us. | ||
Thus, let's just ignore the slavery thing for now. | ||
And I'm kind of like, wow, that sucked. | ||
That sucked. | ||
But I get the argument. | ||
You know, I'm not going to sit here and criticize the Founding Fathers for winning the Revolutionary War. | ||
Just consider, sometimes this idea of unity means unifying with people who are very, very bad at doing very bad things. | ||
Hitler tried to unify Europe. | ||
I mean, it was not the best form of unification. | ||
So right now, the challenge I see in this country is... No, he didn't try to... Extermination is not unification. | ||
Seizing Paris was a step forward towards unification. | ||
Hold on, hold on, hold on. | ||
You could make the argument that Hitler was doing horrifying, awful things. | ||
He was conquering it to unify it. | ||
The simple academic term is unification of Europe, is what people refer to. | ||
And no one's ever saying, that's not an argument to make. | ||
It's in agreement with Tim. | ||
Unification is not always good. | ||
I was not aware that they called it unification. | ||
I was not aware that the extermination of Jews and gypsies and stuff was called unification. | ||
Fair enough. | ||
What Hitler was doing, invading other countries and stealing territory trying to invade Russia, | ||
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was conquer and dominate under one umbrella to control everything. | ||
And yes, he was a psychotic eugenicist, anti-Semite, racist, and all of those awful things. | ||
But in a simple sense, I think they call it European unification or whatever. | ||
I think it's fair to say that like, conquering... | ||
But outside of that, my point is this. | ||
Right now in the United States, we have states that allow for the kidnapping of children to be castrated, and they are legally protected. | ||
You have states like California that are sanctuary states that are completely violent in the Constitution. | ||
So I'm sorry to say, as much as I can understand there is power in unity, Right now, what you have is not unity. | ||
You have someone pinning you to the ground and beating you in the face. | ||
But I'm a bit of a utilitarian. | ||
If California were excised, the Communist Chinese Party would land destroyers. | ||
No, no, we don't want to remove California. | ||
We want to conquer it. | ||
Then they'd appeal to the Chinese for help, for destroyer, for battleships, submarines, nuclear submarines. | ||
If we split up, we lose. | ||
And I don't think we should split up. | ||
I think the federal government needs to be purged of the corruption. | ||
Oh, I agree. | ||
And Vivek talks fervently about it. | ||
But does Donald? | ||
He mentions that he's gonna, but he never lays out a plan. | ||
I've never seen a plan. | ||
I will combine two statements from today. | ||
Bill Mitchell saying that Trump is the big guy and DeSantis is the guy who executes the vision. | ||
Well, I think DeSantis has, that ship has sailed. | ||
But Vivek is running the campaign DeSantis should have run. | ||
So let Trump be the big guy who oversees the thing and then let Vivek be the surgeon who goes in and executes. | ||
And Ron DeSantis doesn't execute visions. | ||
The only thing that Ron DeSantis has executed is his campaign for president. | ||
That should be a t-shirt. | ||
I'm sorry, Matt. | ||
He's too slow. | ||
He's just not adaptable. | ||
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He's not. | |
No, he's not. | ||
And also, it's a facade. | ||
He's a Manchurian candidate, and I'm just so sick and tired as a Floridian, as somebody who's actually, you know, impacted by these negative policies as a result of him allowing for Florida to literally be invaded. | ||
I mean, he has allowed our state to be invaded at the expense of people who are already living there, and he doesn't care. | ||
He doesn't care. | ||
I'm gonna own this one. | ||
I feel personally slighted to the point where I'm sick of the DeSantis campaign. | ||
Yeah, I'm sick of these people. | ||
When I brought this up to Bill Mitchell, and he was a very nice guy after we wrapped the show, we were all hanging out having sushi, we played poker, he got a full house, it was good fun, even, you know, Laura and him got along and were cordial and everything was great, but in this debate, I said, I'm wondering why it is that I'm not this crazy diehard Trump where I'm not tweeting insults at people, I'm not attacking anybody, but when I have even the lightest criticism of Ron DeSantis that's not even overt criticism, his actual campaign staff and the staff of his governor's office | ||
Insult me and attack me! | ||
And the immediate response was, oh yeah, but, you know, Alex Brusiewicz did this, and Laura Loomer did this, and I'm like, okay, stop. | ||
I'm not them. | ||
I don't care. | ||
I'm asking you why it is that there's people like me or Mike Cernovich and several others who have said that the DeSantis surrogates and campaign staff have been vicious towards people who should be allies. | ||
He didn't have an answer, and he said, oh, please, I can't believe I'm hearing this, blah, blah, blah. | ||
I'm like, okay, fine. | ||
There's no answer, and this is all that we deserve. | ||
For the people that were, for a long time, like, a year ago, me praising DeSantis, and now I'm just being attacked relentlessly? | ||
I'm sorry. | ||
I will own it. | ||
I am personally insulted, personally slighted, and I am just sick of their campaign and the campaign staff. | ||
So you know what? | ||
Screw it. | ||
I mean, DeSantis is done. | ||
He already fell to number three in the predicted. | ||
That's because he's going to be number three at the end. | ||
Vivek's on an upward trend, so it is Trump and Vivek is who we should be talking about. | ||
And Vivek is smart enough to know he's not going to defeat Goliath here. | ||
But this is what's so bad about Ron DeSantis, you know? | ||
You just said it, everybody knows it, he's done. | ||
But the sinister aspect of the Ron DeSantis campaign is that he knows that he has no chance. | ||
Okay, I call it the Ron disaster campaign because it's absolutely disastrous. | ||
Okay, I call him Ron Deacon because he's an absolute con man. | ||
Okay, you just put his I mean the the fact that he has DE as his initials, right? | ||
You could just you know, call him whatever you want. | ||
But the fact is, is that Ron DeSantis is only existing in this presidential race for the sake of soaking up | ||
valuable GOP donor resources that could otherwise be used for election integrity efforts or for litigation | ||
to combat a weaponized government. | ||
And when you look at all these candidates, when you combine all the resources collectively | ||
at the end of this stupid primary, when everybody should just drop the hell out | ||
and endorse Donald Trump and rally behind him for the sake of our country and getting rep, | ||
and getting revenge rather, and retribution against these goddamn communists, okay? | ||
It's gonna be an act. | ||
It's gonna be an act. | ||
One billion to $1.5 billion. | ||
And that's a lot of money. | ||
That's a lot of money. | ||
I'm looking forward to it because our ad revenue is going to skyrocket. | ||
They're taking that money and it's essentially going to guarantee Biden another four years if they don't drop out and get behind Donald Trump. | ||
That's what this is about. | ||
They know they can't win. | ||
Let me ask you a question. | ||
A hypothetical. | ||
I was thinking this in my head. | ||
I don't know any realistic scenario where Trump is forcefully removed that makes someone feel good about voting for someone else. | ||
Like if you're a Trump supporter and they lock Trump up, you're like, no way I'm behind Trump. | ||
So there's got to be some kind of scenario for me to ask this question. | ||
So I'll go with an absurd scenario for the sake of argument. | ||
Let's say that there is a super, you know, let's just say an evil globalist plants the Genesis device in the base of New York City and the only one who can stop it is Trump. | ||
And Trump runs in and they're like, no, Trump, if you go in there, you'll be transported to another dimension and you'll be completely wiped from existence. | ||
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And he's like, it's the only thing that I can do to save all the people of the world. | |
And then he disrupts the device and he's gone. | ||
Trump just sacrificed—he's gone. | ||
There's no more Trump. | ||
He's not forced out. | ||
There's no possible scenario to vote for him. | ||
Would you vote for Vivek Ramaswamy? | ||
The only person that I'm voting for is President Donald Trump. | ||
But that's why I asked it in the most absurd way possible. | ||
Trump sacrifices himself to save humanity, and now he's gone forever. | ||
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And the only humanity is going to crumble because the only way that we're going to she's not entertaining your games pool. | |
She's not putting up with your games. | ||
You know, I'm not really into all this like hopium copium bullshit that the Republican Party is trying to force feed voters, right? | ||
I'm a realist. | ||
Some people say that I'm negative, right? | ||
Some people say that I speak too badly about Republicans. | ||
Well, guess what? | ||
I like to call myself an equal opportunity hater, okay? | ||
Because I hate the Republican Party and I hate the Democrat Party. | ||
I hate all political parties, actually. | ||
And that's why I like Donald Trump, right? | ||
Because he's a disruptor. | ||
He's the sledgehammer to the Uniparty that has awakened and has provided a voice to the forgotten man and forgotten woman of this country. | ||
Who have been completely screwed over by both political parties. | ||
And that is the reason why, okay, Donald Trump is being attacked by the left and the right. | ||
The people that are doing the most damage right now to Donald Trump aren't these prosecutors and these radical judges. | ||
It's the Republicans in office, elected Republicans, that are staying silent. | ||
I mean, where's Kevin McCarthy, right? | ||
Our Congress is on vacation right now when they should actually be in Washington, D.C. | ||
fighting against a weaponized government and taking a stand because the heist of the 2024 election is taking place before our eyes right now and Republicans are I'd like to say asleep at the wheel, but they're participating. | ||
Let's shift gears. | ||
I do want to talk about Trump's sledgehammer strategy because I feel like if we're all on a ship together, the United States, and the commander's like, I'm going to destroy this corruption in our system and just start breaking the ship apart, we all drown and die. | ||
What vision does he offer other than I'm going to end all the bad stuff? | ||
Tell me what you want to create. | ||
So you say we're on a ship and he's taking a sledgehammer to it. | ||
Let me give you a better analogy. | ||
We're on a ship, and there's a bunch of little goblins running around ripping the cables out of the wall, and he's like, I'm gonna put an end to this. | ||
And he gets a little net and starts catching all the little goblins in a net, and then he's chucking them into a safe little boat where they'll be brought to an island. | ||
That's what he told me he was gonna do in 2016. | ||
He said he was gonna get rid of the swamp, and he didn't. | ||
And then he tried negotiating with the little goblins. | ||
And now he's gonna destroy it? | ||
I'm sorry, I need a creationist. | ||
Let me try again. | ||
In 2016, Trump said, we're going to get all the little gremlins off the boat and stop them from pulling out all the little golems. | ||
And then... But before we do, let me bring some more golems on board. | ||
No, and then he said, maybe the most effective way to deal with them is to fire some of them, bring some of them in, and convince them to stop doing this. | ||
And then they all jumped on his back and started slashing at him. | ||
He's like, ah, it's not working! | ||
Then they kicked him off and he's like, okay, I got to come back and I just got to catch all these little golems and throw them out of here. | ||
Sometimes you need to have ultimate destruction in order to have a rebirth of something great, right? | ||
What do they say? | ||
It's from the ashes, the phoenix will rise, okay? | ||
Sometimes you need to have ultimate destruction and take a sledgehammer and burn a system to the ground if you want to create something. | ||
Better, that's more hopeful, that isn't completely corrupted by this uniparty system. | ||
And so, that's what I'm talking about, right? | ||
About burning the system down and taking a sledgehammer to it. | ||
I think that it's so corrupt, okay, and it's been so taken over, and it's been so infiltrated by this cancerous rot, okay, that it just needs to be completely taken down and destroyed and rebuilt. | ||
That's like nuclear war talk. | ||
Ultimate destruction is not the words. | ||
I got a better one for you, Ian. | ||
Uh, have you ever seen when they take a dirty coin, and they dip it in... What do they do? | ||
It's like a... Coca-Cola? | ||
No, an electrolysis, like water with electrical current, and then you watch all the grime just evaporate from it, and there is a beautiful, shiny silver coin beneath it. | ||
That's how I view what Trump, like what I hope Trump can accomplish, is that there is this great country with a brilliant founding structure and documents. | ||
I'm watching this show. | ||
It's called The Uncanny Counter on Netflix. | ||
It is, uh, it's a Korean show. | ||
And the interesting thing is, there's a scene where, what caught my attention, was when a detective is questioning a guy, they say, don't plead the fifth. | ||
That's what the translation said. | ||
And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, South Korea has the fifth amendment? | ||
Or something akin to it? | ||
And so I looked up the, uh... | ||
I looked up their version of the Constitution, and a lot of what South Korea has is very similar to what we have in the United States. | ||
And it made me think, I'm like, man, we do have a really, really great system that I'm glad to see other countries flourish in protecting civil rights and human rights, this vision. | ||
I'm not a big fan of the nation-building BS that's come out of it, but it is cool to see that this culture persisted. | ||
This system that was built is now covered in crap and tarnish, and it's got little leeches and barnacles stuck to it, and we just gotta take that beautiful silver coin that's covered in grime, dip it in that little electrolysis water, and let all the stuff drip from it, and then pull up that shiny coin once again. | ||
That is one, but it's more complex. | ||
There's lots of pieces and parts that have been added onto the machine that are unnecessary. | ||
I'm just giving you a simple analogy. | ||
And if you take one of them out, the entire machine will break, or some of them out. | ||
Hold on. | ||
That, like, I get what you're saying about, because what I'm hearing is you're saying we should be cautious about any kind of... | ||
We have a process to how to change the government. | ||
I don't want to see this is the problem Elements of the car Donald Trump we don't have a ride | ||
Donald Trump tried to use a redress of grievances the legal process in the Constitution having lawyers | ||
Go out and ask what is the legal process by which we deal with this? | ||
You had... Who was it? | ||
I'm forgetting his name. | ||
One of the guys was indicted, went to the alternate slate of electors, and then explained to the press, don't worry, in the event a lawsuit prevails, we will have this group here to sign the documents, and they called it a conspiracy. | ||
One of the quote-unquote acts of conspiracy is that Donald Trump reached out to Brian Kemp and said, look, we want to... I forgot exactly what he said. | ||
Something about... | ||
Finding the fraud through whatever legal means. | ||
And they said that was an illegal conspiracy. | ||
Yeah. | ||
So the point is, if there is a process by which to do this, Donald Trump was working that process. | ||
OK, sorry, Phil. | ||
So I interrupted you, Phil. | ||
But yeah, thank you. | ||
No, it's fine. | ||
It's just that I lost what I was saying. | ||
OK. | ||
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But this is my point. | ||
I'm just concerned about the destruction as a tactic. | ||
Is that? | ||
Oh yeah, no, I'm not. | ||
I want more. | ||
More destruction of the United States? | ||
I've said it before and I'll say it again. | ||
I'm a patriotic guy. | ||
When people say they want to destroy the United States, I start to get nervous. | ||
No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
Stop, Ian. | ||
The system has been destroyed. | ||
So this is what we're saying, is that you just said that there's a system, right? | ||
There's a political process. | ||
That process Really doesn't exist anymore because as we've seen, the Uniparty has hijacked it and they don't respect the process. | ||
They don't respect the process. | ||
They stole our election in 2020. | ||
They stole our election. | ||
They interfered in our election. | ||
They colluded as state actors, right? | ||
These big tech social media companies colluded with federal agencies and agents within the federal government and within the Biden campaign to Illegally interfere in our elections and completely bastardize and assault that process. | ||
So, I understand where you're coming from, but that's just your vision of the process. | ||
It doesn't exist anymore. | ||
It's been destroyed and it's been corrupted. | ||
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In 1913, yeah. | |
It was co-opted by the International Banking Cartel. | ||
It's been hijacked. | ||
And the only way that we're going to get any type of process back is if we burn the system to the ground. | ||
Listen, Ian, the point that I'm making is not burning the system to the ground. | ||
I've talked about this multiple times on the podcast here. | ||
I want to take apart the bureaucracy. | ||
And that is going to mean taking apart the government because the government is made of multiple different bureaucracies. | ||
So I do want to take apart the government. | ||
I want to get rid of HUD. | ||
I want to get rid of the DOT. | ||
I want to get rid of a lot. | ||
of cabinet-level bureaucracies. | ||
That means firing a lot of people, putting people out of work. | ||
And I'm fully aware of what that means. | ||
I feel like I'm saying this the second time in a row, but there are too many people that talk about, I want to make cuts or I want to reform or whatever, and it never happens. | ||
And every year the budget gets bigger. | ||
And every year we go further into debt. | ||
Every year they print more money. | ||
Let's just cross our fingers for Trump-Ramaswamy 2024. | ||
Because Ramaswamy can go out and do the advocacy work in areas that Trump may be weak on. | ||
I've heard from a lot of people, and this is earlier, this is not today, but several months ago, Run-of-the-mill regular old people when I'm out hanging out in, you know, DC or whatever, liberal people saying they don't like Trump, but man, they cannot vote for Joe Biden. | ||
And then I say, what if the VP is DeSantis? | ||
And they're like, well, he could actually, you know, be a stabilizing force. | ||
Okay, that might work. | ||
I don't know if people feel that way today. | ||
I actually think Ramaswamy is the right choice for VP if Ramaswamy would be willing to do it because he's clearly shown that he's very, very good at communicating with people from this professional standpoint, where Trump is this loud, boisterous, entertainment-style character. | ||
I think Ramaswamy could pick up and fill it. | ||
Ramaswamy likes the camera, too. | ||
I mean, let's not... No, no, I'm not saying he doesn't. | ||
Donald Trump has a loud presence, but, you know, Ramaswamy is not exactly a wallflower. | ||
I'm not saying he's a wallflower. | ||
He loves the spotlight. | ||
Ramaswamy's persona is the suit-wearing... Well, let me answer that question for you. | ||
And Trump is the, listen here, tough guy, I'm going to tell you. | ||
And so Trump has that loud, you know, powerful presence. | ||
And for the people that don't like that, Ramaswamy comes in in the suit with the tie and says, don't worry, I'll take care of this. | ||
Let me translate. | ||
I'm the kind of guy, man, where if something burns me, I'm not going to touch it again. | ||
And Trump failed in 2016. | ||
That whole four terms of drain the swamp and the COVID lockdown that he set in motion with giving Fauci all that power. | ||
Like, I don't want to touch that again. | ||
I don't see an alternative candidate. | ||
Vivek Ramaswamy? | ||
For sure, for sure. | ||
And, you know, I would love to see him win. | ||
I just don't think that is possible. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I don't know. | ||
It's a year left, you know. | ||
I mean, who knows what can happen. | ||
Or it's over a year still. | ||
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I kind of still just want Trump to complete his arc. | |
Personally, I don't care. | ||
I just want whoever is going to go in and injure the federal government. | ||
Whoever's going to go in there and cut. | ||
Ramaswamy was saying that he's going to cut 75% or he intends to cut 75% of the federal government by the end of his first term. | ||
That sounds Absolutely dreamy. | ||
Okay, that sounds like really, really, really compelling stuff to me. | ||
So, again, whoever's going to cut the most government, whoever's going to make the government the smallest out of all of them, that's who I'm going for. | ||
That's who I'm with. | ||
I want to do a very hard segue because we talked a lot about politics, and let's just get into some cultural issues. | ||
Ladies and gentlemen, I have bad news. | ||
From TMZ. | ||
Kid Rock enjoys a Bud Light? | ||
Pussy. | ||
So apparently Kid Rock was spotted at an event at the Sky Deck in Nashville Thursday night at Colt Ford's show, Drinking Bud Light. | ||
So a lot of people are saying it's probably the only beer they had or whatever, but I don't know. | ||
I guess the point of the story is this is a guy who opened fire on Bud Lights at FU, who now I guess doesn't care all that much and is back on drinking it. | ||
I mean, look, I haven't had a drink in many, many, many, many years now. | ||
It's like five, six years or whatever, so I'm not the one to talk smack. | ||
After all of the stuff, like, you go out of the way to make a video and stuff, you'd think that he'd have the wits about him to drink whiskey that night. | ||
It's not like Bud Light's the only option. | ||
I mean, maybe he was. | ||
Okay, fine. | ||
But, like, dude, you could go a day without drinking to not get this photo. | ||
I just think that there's too much attention put on this stuff. | ||
You know, like, I don't drink, so I don't really care either way, you know, because I'm not drinking beer regardless. | ||
But people get so worked up about this. | ||
I don't know, I just find these stories to be a little silly at times because, okay, yeah, Dylan Mulvaney was put on a Bud Light can, and yeah, it's not exactly tasteful that Bud Light had an entire marketing campaign that was trying to force transgenderism on the public, but the obsessiveness, right, of, like, the right on this issue, it's just, I just feel like these are distractions and there's a lot more important issues in our country. | ||
I understand you can boycott them, but the media, right, they'll fixate on it, they'll talk about it, but they're not talking about other things that matter. | ||
There's so many stories that go unreported every single day because, especially the right, they have this obsessive nature and this obsessive quality and latching onto things and it's like, okay, we get it, okay? | ||
It's kind of tired now. | ||
We can move on to other things that are more important. | ||
We can move on to, sorry, we can move on to other things that are also more important. | ||
I think this is the most important thing. | ||
As I've mentioned now, you know, 50 billion times ad nauseum to our audience, laws are only enforced if a culture supports it. | ||
So the reason why police refuse to enforce the law against these adult sex shows that they're inviting children to is because television, Walmart, Amazon, and all their libraries and all the small businesses are putting up the flag saying, this is what we want. | ||
So the cops are like, I know it's illegal, but we're not going to get involved because we'll be shunned and ostracized. | ||
I understand where you're coming from, but there's just so much bullshit that's fed to people around these topics. | ||
For example, right? | ||
And this is what I'm talking about with them wasting everybody's time. | ||
Everybody gets in a, you know, in a hissy fit about Bud Light and they say, okay, we're gonna boycott. | ||
And then it's like all these viral videos of popular politicians coming out with videos like Ron DeSantis, for example, right? | ||
He sat down with Benny Johnson, who had his camera crew come with Ron DeSantis and was like, Oh, so Governor, what's your favorite beer? | ||
Oh, I really like a Guinness. | ||
I really like Guinness, and I'm not going to drink Bud Light anymore. | ||
Well, yeah, okay, I think that Bud Light's in the wrong for pushing transgenderism onto the public. | ||
Well, guess what? | ||
Guinness also, okay, had an entire marketing campaign where they had a TV commercial marketing Guinness beer. | ||
And it was a teenager at a Christmas celebration. | ||
You can even pull up the commercial, too, so people can see it. | ||
Type in Guinness Transgender Commercial, and it's about a grandfather who sees, right, I think it's... I remember this one. | ||
I think it's his grandson, and I guess the... The grandfather wears... The grandfather was like a secret cross-dresser and then realized... | ||
That's J&B Whiskey. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Whatever it is. | ||
Not Guinness. | ||
No, but it was a Guinness. | ||
There was a Guinness. | ||
J&B Whiskey commercial? | ||
No, but it was for Guinness. | ||
If you type it in, Guinness had actually had this issue as well. | ||
And so, Ron DeSantis then goes on this whole tirade with Benny Johnson, and he says, okay, well, I'm never gonna drink a Bud Light ever again. | ||
And then two weeks later, what does he do? | ||
He has a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., and one of the co-sponsors of this fundraiser is a guy named Slater Bayless. | ||
Who is one of the lobbyists for Bud Light. | ||
So just a clarification, the J&B Whiskey is, I guess it's the parent company for Guinness. | ||
Yeah. | ||
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Right, so Rose on Guinness. | |
Rag on Guinness. | ||
So my point is to show you they're just not that educated. | ||
If you're going to do a boycott on something and you're going to take such a hard line stance and you're going to be like, oh, I'm going to be against Bud Light because they're pushing transgenderism. | ||
Actually, you know, like have the intellectual motivation to go investigate whether these other companies are pushing this. | ||
It's embarrassing. | ||
And it just shows, you know, how We deserve better as voters and as the American people. | ||
We deserve better than politicians that are going to try to win our votes by saying that they're going to boycott Bud Light because they're against transgenderism and then they're going to have a closed door, slimy DC fundraiser with the lobbyists of the manufacturer of the child castration drugs and the manufacturers of all these, you know, all these... | ||
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Bud Light, for example. I hear the left making that same point, right? It's like, don't you know, | |
all these other brands do pride stuff and you guys, you silly conservatives are just focused | ||
on Bud Light. I don't like that argument. It's like the beast is too big to stop, | ||
so you might as well just give up now. Give in! | ||
I'm not saying to give in, I'm saying that they need to be principled and then they waste all this time focusing on these... What's the point of people sitting down with Ron DeSantis and letting him bloviate about how he's against Bud Light when they're just gonna let him have a pass because he's having these fundraisers and they're not even morally consistent. | ||
But I don't care about Ron DeSantis on this issue, my point is politics is downstream from culture. | ||
If, and the left has known this for years, that's why they heavily invest in Hollywood and music. | ||
It's why they ban, and like, you got this big song right now, Rich Men North of Richmond. | ||
The reason it's big is because regular people have the ability to share a song that resonates | ||
with them. What do we get from corporate mainstream media, this weird woke garbage nonsense? | ||
You get Kim Petras, and you get Sam Smith doing Satanism on stage. | ||
Then you get a guy in Appalachia singing about how they're screwing over the little guy, and regular people can push that and make it go viral. | ||
Culture is what drives politics. | ||
If you make something culturally unacceptable, it just can't happen. | ||
I understand that. | ||
I understand that. | ||
I understand the point that you're trying to make, but what I'm saying is that in order... It's not exactly culturally unacceptable because they're still engaging in it behind closed doors, right? | ||
Yeah, they lost $400 million. | ||
So you actually have to... You actually have to stick to it, and we just have lazy politicians and... And Kid Rock. | ||
Lazy people in our society that say, oh, well, you know, I'm just gonna have a closed-door fundraiser. | ||
I'm gonna have a Bud Light. | ||
They don't even stick with it, and then we end up having egg on our face, and it's just, it's embarrassing. | ||
That's why we call out Kid Rock for hypocrisy. | ||
Some people are saying it's a Pepsi can. | ||
No, I checked. | ||
Pepsi cans have vertical barcodes. | ||
I looked. | ||
That looks like a Bud Light can. | ||
I'm gonna say I can't really tell what that can is. | ||
Fine. | ||
Fair point. | ||
But Bud Light has lost 400 million dollars. | ||
They've lost around 30... Anheuser... Anheuser... AB InBev has lost around 30% I think their stock. | ||
It took a major hit. | ||
AB InBev was forced to sell off like 8 different craft beers. | ||
They have been hit so hard by this. | ||
It is... It is to the point now... | ||
Where you've got corporations trying to pull back from all this crazy leftist garbage. | ||
Target, for instance, for the first time in six years missed their quarterly projections and lost money. | ||
You've got Disney now facing a major backlash. | ||
Netflix, Disney, and a bunch of these streaming channels lost subscribers, and it's because they keep trying to push this insane, woke leftism. | ||
Yeah, and I understand. | ||
I support the boycotts, but I think that at the end of the day, right, there's too many people who are given a free pass, right? | ||
Especially politicians who like to go on Fox News and have their 30-second talking points about these issues. | ||
It's just some- And fair point, I mean, these- They're some of the loudest people about it, but then they're doing it themselves, so- The politicians are grifters who are gonna be like, what's popular? | ||
And just try and pretend that they're gonna be on board with it. | ||
Like, DeSantis supporting Guinness after the fact, even though Guinness was getting criticized for the same thing. | ||
Well, and Bud Light also, and I'm here to talk about Ron DeSantis, right, which is why I brought up Ron DeSantis and Bud Light, but, you know, I wanted to make people aware of that. | ||
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That's how you're going to capture Gen Z too, is talking about this cultural stuff, right? | |
I mean, that's what the kids care about. | ||
They don't care about the nitty gritty and how deep these issues go. | ||
They like the funny picture of Kid Rock holding a Bud Light after he just posted a video a few months earlier. | ||
I think young people actually care about issues, you know? | ||
There's a lot of young people that would really like to be able to have families and own a home and they're finding it unaffordable right now to own a home in America and the only candidate that is actually talking about Generation Z and Millennials being able to have affordable homes and be able to have affordable housing is Donald Trump. | ||
He's the only one. | ||
He's the only one who's actually talking about it and talking about His plan for, what does he call it? | ||
Freedom cities, I believe, right? | ||
Isn't that what he calls it, Tim? | ||
His freedom cities so that young people in America can also experience the American dream. | ||
I don't like this idea that, oh, it's just young people consumed with TikTok and culture. | ||
There's a lot of young people that care about the economy, that care about the fact that by 2045, do you know that Generation Z is the last generation in this country that's going to be majority white? | ||
We're not going to have a majority white America anymore. | ||
So we, what I'm saying is that we are, you know, we are being... What is the race that people have to do with? | ||
What I'm talking about is that we're being replaced, right? | ||
So people have talked about replacement theory, and they've talked about the fact that we've been invaded. | ||
We've had an immigration invasion into our country that is changing our culture. | ||
So you're saying that politics is downstream from culture, but nobody seems to care about the fact that immigration is fundamentally transforming the traditional culture of our country. | ||
And there's young people that care about that. | ||
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We've lost our culture. | |
Right, so the racial component I don't see as mattering. | ||
No, but I'm just using that statistic because that was a news report that came out the other day. | ||
There was a study out that said that Generation Z is going to be the last generation in which America, if you look at the census right now, we're currently a majority white country, Yeah, because because of the mass migration and all of the immigration into our country. | ||
And so if you're making the argument that politics is downstream from culture, well, what's culture if we're not even going to have the same thing? | ||
Well, I don't care about that statistic. | ||
Well, I think that I think that I think that there's I just know that there's a lot of people in Generation Z that are focused on topics like immigration and the fact that we're being invaded. | ||
It is important. | ||
Rapid, uncontrolled immigration can distort a country's culture and then twist its laws. | ||
So we do have to be careful about that. | ||
I agree with you, though. | ||
I don't think that, like, where your great-grandfather lived matters about your culture. | ||
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No, no, I'm saying a majority white. | |
I'm talking about the fact that, you know, like America, right, from its inception, right, I'm talking about America as a white Christian country. | ||
That is originally, like, what our country was. | ||
And so it's not, I don't, it's not for people to be, it's not supposed to be interpreted negatively. | ||
These are facts, right? | ||
These are facts. | ||
People get so triggered when you say majority white, but this is factual information about the transformation of our country. | ||
That doesn't matter to me. | ||
I don't care if this country is white, black, Asian, Latino, mixed, whatever, so long as the Founding Fathers' ideals, the visions of the Constitution are upheld. | ||
And so I can look to any number of the overwhelming majority of these white liberals Half of, this is the funniest thing about that statistic, it's like half of white people in this country are the Marxists and the Communists that are causing all the problems, that have the weirdest racial views on everything. | ||
But I would just put it this way, that statistic means so little to me, I would gladly All of these communists, neo-marxists, white liberal left whatever, if they were like, we're gonna go to Venezuela, I'd be like, no, wait, don't. | ||
And if all of the Venezuelans who are like, we hate living under communism and we dream for America came instead, I'd be like, oh no, we're not a white majority country anymore, but we have a whole bunch of freedom loving, libertarian minded people who love the founding fathers. | ||
That is so much better than white communists. | ||
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Like when people used to come to this country, right? | |
They'd come from all different walks of life, but you'd be united under the American. | ||
You're talking about the American dream. | ||
That was the culture, right? | ||
You work hard and you're going to reap the benefits. | ||
Now it's just we've lost that. | ||
So now you have all these cultures kind of clashing. | ||
Yeah, I'm just trying to make the point that, you know, a lot of times people think, oh, | ||
you know, all the all the Generation Z cares about is pop culture when really what we should | ||
be focused on when we talk about culture is our our culture as a country right? | ||
And there's so much negativity around those terms, like nationalism, for example, and we've lost so much pride in our country. | ||
The youth of this country has been taught, a lot of them, right? | ||
They're being indoctrinated to hate America, to embrace Marxist and communist ideology. | ||
And so when we talk about politics being downstream from culture, we need to reclaim our national culture, our national identity. | ||
And that's not going to be done by boycotting things like Bud Light. | ||
That's going to be done by securing our border and electing people like Donald Trump that are going to put America first. | ||
That too, that too. | ||
I'm just saying, like, these cultural battles, politics is downstream from culture. | ||
Let's not allow Hollywood to come out and say, orange man bet. | ||
Disney ran commercials. | ||
This is the weirdest thing. | ||
They ran Disney, the Disney Channel had anti-Trump commercials. | ||
It's like for children. | ||
We know what they're doing. | ||
They're trying to indoctrinate kids. | ||
So the cultural battle is extremely important, making sure the next generation, as you say, they care about this stuff. | ||
So I'm not saying like Bud Light is the only thing we should focus on. | ||
I'm saying cultural battles in general matter. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And we want to make sure that, look man, I was hanging out with family. | ||
And my, it was my cousins and their kids and they were saying, Oh, you know, their teenage daughter doesn't care about news and politics. | ||
You're not going to get her to care and bother with it. | ||
And I was like, Oh, I can explain it to her. | ||
So she'll understand. | ||
And then I said, okay, um, you don't care about news, right? | ||
And she's like, no. | ||
And I was like, is there, is that like president politics, Congress? | ||
Like, no, I don't care about that stuff. | ||
And I said, okay, is there, is there someone in your school you don't like? | ||
She's like, yeah. | ||
And I was like, imagine if they were put in charge of you and they could make all the rules for you and tell you what to do. | ||
And she went, no! | ||
And I was like, okay, that's politics. | ||
See, in high school, your politics is very small. | ||
Once you graduate, now all of a sudden you're like, wait, that guy is making the rules for me! | ||
No way, no. | ||
What matters to you in your world is what surrounds you, so I was like, you'll get into news, but it's basically, like, all the drama you're going through in high school, imagine it was on TV, and that's what politics and news is for adults. | ||
I thought you made a good point earlier, Laura, about boycotts and laziness, people. | ||
I think it's important that if you're going to boycott a product that you find out the company that makes it, find out the company that owns them, and then boycott all of that product. | ||
Yeah, and that's all I'm trying to say is that you see a lot of this oftentimes where people say, Oh, it's like a fad, right? | ||
It's in the moment and people say, yeah, I'm going to boycott this, but they don't actually know what that means. | ||
Like, do you know who actually owns the company, right? | ||
It's like people saying, oh, I'm going to boycott PayPal, but then they're like, oh, okay, can I, can you send me your Venmo? | ||
Well, do you know that PayPal owns Venmo? | ||
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Right. | ||
So there's just so much intellectual laziness amongst our, our, our community and our population. | ||
And it's embarrassing, right? | ||
It's embarrassing when you see people talking about this and then, you know, they don't even know what they're talking about. | ||
Cash App is the way to go if you want to boycott PayPal. | ||
Well, I'm banned on Cash App, so I boycott all of them. | ||
Didn't you have your Bitcoin address messed with or something? | ||
No, that wasn't me. | ||
That was somebody else. | ||
I had my Venmo shut down. | ||
I had my PayPal shut down. | ||
I was banned on Cash App even though I had never even used Cash App. | ||
I just had downloaded it, and when I went to use it for the first time, it said that I had been suspended. | ||
I'm banned on GoFundMe. | ||
But that's my point, right? | ||
Let's talk about big tech. | ||
So we have this other big story that's going on right now. | ||
Everyone's losing their minds over on X. Elon Musk announces plan to remove the block feature on X in violation of Apple and Google Play Store guidelines. | ||
I genuinely do not understand why Elon Musk would want to remove the block feature. | ||
He says block is going to be deleted as a feature except for DMs. | ||
He says it makes no sense. | ||
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It makes a lot of sense. | ||
What do you guys, what do you, like, why not just, why not just mute? | ||
No, because blocks stop someone from basically stalking you. | ||
But then they just make a fake account and stalk you. | ||
Then I'll block that one too. | ||
But then they just make another one. | ||
And I'll block that one too. | ||
And then they make 50 more and then you're busy. | ||
But then that makes so much time for you. | ||
And I'll block them every single time. | ||
I think it's better to mute someone and they don't know they're muted. | ||
So they can scream to the void. | ||
There are prominent high-profile people with millions of followers who don't make fake accounts, and their job exists to stalk your Twitter, take your tweets out of context, and insult you and smear you and make money off it. | ||
I'm gonna make it harder for them by blocking them. | ||
Now they'll have to make a fake account, but many of them do not do it. | ||
Someone suggested if the mute button also made it so they can't post or reply to any of your stuff. | ||
That's a block. | ||
But they could still view your stuff. | ||
Right, I can open anyone's Twitter page in a private tab and see their profile if they've blocked me, but you have to seek it out. | ||
Blocking someone makes it so that you don't appear in their feed anymore and out of sight, out of mind. | ||
It helps tremendously. | ||
There's another thing you can do, and it's a forced unfollow, where you go to the person who's annoying and you block and unblock right away. | ||
What this does is, if these people are stalking and like just being annoying or like, I try to use this word lightly, harassing. | ||
Harassing to varying degrees is hard too on the internet, but there's a point where you can get to it if they're posting your address. | ||
And I've had people post photos of my house and address and things like that. | ||
If I block them, they'll go nuts. | ||
They'll make a fake account, and then they'll start using that account to bother me again. | ||
So one thing you can do is block and unblock really quick. | ||
They're no longer following you, and now your posts won't appear in their feed, and they might slowly forget about you. | ||
There's a couple ways you can do it, but more importantly, let's just put it this way. | ||
There are prominent, high-profile, non-profit organizations who have staff who don't run sock puppet accounts, and if you block them, they stop talking about you. | ||
That's why blocking works. | ||
There's other things, too. | ||
I mean, some people do not... If you're telling me they might make a fake profile and stalk me and harass me anyway, okay, well, I'll make it harder for them. | ||
At least give me some options. | ||
It's like, don't say, well, they're gonna break in your house anyway, so just open your windows. | ||
It's like, no, I'll lock my windows. | ||
Sure, they can smash the window and climb in, but I'll at least make it harder for them. | ||
But it's kind of like blocking someone's, like, making them wear a blindfold so they can't see you. | ||
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It works. | |
Like, it's like— Yeah, but it's not really— It doesn't, because— Well, it's not— Bro, it works. | ||
If your goal is to make it so someone can't see your social media, you can't do it. | ||
They can always make a new account. | ||
And it works. | ||
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It works. | |
The guys who work at Media Matters don't make fake accounts. | ||
That's it. | ||
How do you— There's no way to know that. | ||
There— Okay, bro. | ||
Yes, there is. | ||
And I don't want to start talking about private security stuff beyond this, but you are completely wrong blocking matters. | ||
It is one of the first things we do in a security assessment when you're dealing with people swatting and doxing and sending bomb threats. | ||
The first thing you do is you make it harder for them to interact with you and your content. | ||
Yeah, mute. | ||
They can't call you. | ||
Mute does not do that. | ||
Every time they try and call your number to call a bomb threat or whatever, it just goes into the void. | ||
It never picks up. | ||
The point is, you want them, you want to be harder for them to see you. | ||
That's it. | ||
You want to reduce visibility. | ||
It is not perfect, but it is the first action you take when dealing with stalking and harassment. | ||
It also, it prevents them from, like, interacting with your tweets. | ||
And your followers. | ||
And your followers. | ||
And posting porn and other... So that kind of stuff matters about, like, how they can interact with your account is different when it's a block versus a And some of these accounts have 50,000 followers, and they don't run sock puppets. | ||
Their goal is, with their account, to harass you to gain followers. | ||
If they can no longer do that, they'll target someone else. | ||
That's why adding to the mute function that they can't post on your stuff or retweet your stuff... That's a block. | ||
That's a block. | ||
It's just a... No, but they can still see your stuff. | ||
And they still can right now. | ||
I personally think that if they're thinking of, like, actually removing the block feature, then they should make it a policy that you're not allowed to have an anonymous account because I'm in favor of keeping the block. | ||
I agree with you. | ||
As somebody who has been harassed online and has had stalkers and, you know, people be really, you know, weird online. | ||
Uh, you sometimes have to block them, right? | ||
Because people get obsessive. | ||
Like, there are stalkers that, you know, latch onto you, and sometimes for your own safety, as Tim said, you have to block them because it becomes overbearing. | ||
They start posting, they reply to your posts, with pictures of your house, with your family members' names. | ||
And it's also a way, like, they can't say, oh, bullying is against our terms of service. | ||
You can't have people saying that bullying is not acceptable online, but then also say, okay, you're not allowed to block somebody. | ||
You have a right to decide what you don't want to see. | ||
I don't personally think that people should be deplatformed. | ||
I don't think that we should be banning people, but every single person should have the right to filter what they see, and if they want to block somebody, just like you can block someone on your phone, you should be able to block them on Twitter. | ||
You have the right to limit who has access to you. | ||
Yeah, you're not silencing them. | ||
You have the right to say you don't have... | ||
I don't want you interacting with me or anything that I am doing. | ||
You have that right in reality, like in the physical world, you can leave someone's presence and then you just don't go where they are, and if they show up, you leave, or you might have to call the cops or whatever. | ||
But you have the right to say that. | ||
There's one thing I just saw, Linda Iaccarino just tweeted a few minutes ago, our users' safety on X is our number one priority, and we're building something better than the current state of block and mute. | ||
Please keep the feedback coming. | ||
This was in response to something that... Yeah, just like Twitter now has content creators, right? | ||
Okay, well, we should send Linda this clip so she can listen to us, because these are good things. | ||
Yeah, I think something could be better than block and mute. | ||
I've always found block to be kind of ridiculous, because people can just make fake accounts anyway. | ||
It's like, I can't make you shut your eyes when you're looking at me. | ||
That's up to you. | ||
I can ask you to leave. | ||
I can close my ears off, but I can't shut your mouth, Phil. | ||
Like, I can't do that. | ||
So reply, guys. | ||
There are people on Twitter who are reply guys. | ||
They have, uh, there's one guy with 120,000 followers only because he refreshes your page, waits for a new tweet, and then immediately posts something gross or offensive or insulting. | ||
If you block them, they can't do that anymore. | ||
They won't make a new account because they're trying to build followers on their current account. | ||
So blocking works. | ||
More importantly, there are people who do this, and they will also post threats, photos of family members, private information. | ||
You block them, they can't do it anymore. | ||
There's a bunch of reasons why blocking is important. | ||
Yeah, we need an amalgamation of the abilities. | ||
When I block someone, I can still see them. | ||
I don't want to see those people. | ||
I want to mute them. | ||
I don't ever want to think about that. | ||
When you block someone, Twitter stops showing you everything from them. | ||
Not always. | ||
Or it'll say, this user has been muted or blocked. | ||
I'm like, I know. | ||
So don't show me that crap. | ||
I don't want to know that they're posting. | ||
Erase them from my field of view. | ||
If you block someone, And then someone else quote tweets them and says something, it'll say this tweet is unavailable. | ||
And then you can choose to go to the person's profile and view the tweet by clicking view tweet, but they limit what you see, giving you the option. | ||
I also have a policy of anyone who blocks me that I see I block back. | ||
Because then they're going to play that game where they don't want you to be able to read what they're saying about you, but they're going to go to your tweets and start doing the same, like doing the inverse. | ||
I personally love mute. | ||
Something that minds, we didn't have a mute function in the beginning. | ||
I don't know if it has a mute function right now. | ||
It's got a block function, but block is like, it's not that I don't want you to know what I'm up to. | ||
I just don't want to listen to you. | ||
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Are you guys familiar with Steam? | |
I know Tim and Ian. | ||
Are you guys familiar with Steam? | ||
Yeah, it's like a video game software on your computer. | ||
If you're caught cheating, it'll ban your computer. | ||
So it doesn't matter if you make a new account, it knows you're logging in from the same piece of hardware and you will never be able to log into that game again and play. | ||
Yeah, that's my question for you guys. | ||
Would you guys be in favor of a hardware ban? | ||
So you'd be able to block Ian if he's being gross on a hardware ban? | ||
You can easily capture the wrong person with a hardware ban. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
I don't like banning people. | ||
Imagine someone going on a library computer. | ||
So this actually happened with a lot of VPNs and stuff. | ||
The whole network gets banned because one person uses a certain router or whatever, and then that IP is banned instantly. | ||
A lot of these networks auto-ban VPN IPs anyway. | ||
I think banning people is a failure of a concept. | ||
You should be banning accounts if the account violates terms, and then if they make a new account, it's fair game. | ||
If you want to put in your terms that someone that's been banned can't make a new account, I think that's dirty because people change and become better people. | ||
and that's the idea is we want to make each other better. I don't think you should be banned for anything unless you're | ||
inciting violence, you know? | ||
I just think that the terms of service need to be uh, identical to the United States Constitution. Awful but | ||
awful. You love mine. | ||
That is mine. I don't look like you have Linda Iaccarino that just came out and basically said as a way to | ||
to kind of soften the blow, the reality check that, hey guys, just kidding. | ||
You know, they all lied to you when they said that the new ownership of Twitter, or X as they want to call it, is now pro-free speech. | ||
It's not, okay? | ||
Because they're creating these advertiser blocklists. | ||
But instead of actually saying, hey, we're going to ban people that we don't like, they're going to say, hey, if you're a content creator, you can, you know, buy Twitter Blue, and then you can be a content creator, and you're going to get paid. | ||
Except if you're lawful or awful, we're going to put you on a blacklist. | ||
And that's what they just said that they're going to do. | ||
At Twitter. | ||
So it's basically the same censorship regime that we saw at Twitter 1.0, but they're trying to play good cop, bad cop by putting the blame on the advertisers. | ||
So instead of it being, oh, Elon Musk or Linda Iaccarino are censoring me, it's now, oh, well, sorry, you're on our advertiser block list. | ||
You have to take it up with the advertisers. | ||
I kind of take it. | ||
Let's talk about this. | ||
I did just get paid on Twitter. | ||
I got paid $4,377. | ||
I had a total in the past 28 days of 241 million impressions. | ||
I did just get paid on Twitter. I got paid $4,377. I had a total in the past 28 days of 241 million impressions. | ||
And the reason I disclose all of this to you is because there are a lot of people with substantially less | ||
impressions who got paid more, and people with more impressions who got paid substantially less. | ||
Have you disclosed how much you got? You did, you tweeted it, right? | ||
Yeah, so I need to check and see Because I don't think you can check your impressions on your phone. | ||
You have to be on your computer to check it I think so. | ||
I need to see what the impressions were but I know they're gonna be over a hundred million and But I have at least over 150 million impressions every single month, and I just got paid today, and I only got paid $190.22. | ||
So if you open a browser and log in, and go to analytics.twitter.com, it'll show you right away what your impressions are. | ||
But you gotta log in on the browser and do desktop site or whatever. | ||
Without, I'm not gonna reveal anyone's identity, but we know, I know someone who received a couple hundred dollars with only a few thousand followers, and you've got how many, half a million? | ||
I have half a million, and every single week I post multiple videos, almost exclusively on Twitter now because I don't really, I don't, I've never been monetized on YouTube, and for some reason, my Rumble channel, no matter how much I post, it just doesn't let me... | ||
Grow my channel. | ||
It's very strange. | ||
And so I could get like 2,000 views on Rumble and YouTube, but then I'll get a million or five million views on a video that I upload to Twitter. | ||
And I consistently get hundreds of thousands of impressions on all of my tweets. | ||
All of my tweets go super viral and people can see from these videos they have millions of views, but even then I'm getting paid the same amount of money as people who have literally 70, I don't know, like And there were 570 followers. | ||
I saw one person that had 2,000 followers and they said that they got paid $4,000. | ||
This is the crazy thing. | ||
Apparently they're saying this payment was just for the past 10 days. | ||
I don't... And there are people... It doesn't make any sense. | ||
Yeah, that's reportedly for the past 10 days. | ||
And there are people who got paid like $10,000. | ||
You're talking about Ian Miles Chong's numbers were off the hook. | ||
He tweeted it out. | ||
StillGrey is his Twitter account. | ||
What did he get? | ||
StillGrey. | ||
He posted three payments over the last... | ||
I don't know. | ||
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Four. | |
Four payments over the last month or something, and they were all pretty impressive. | ||
It was like 6,000, 10,000. | ||
Yeah, but I want to know, how is it that Ian Miles Chung, if you look at those payments, one of them was like 7,000, one of them was 13,000, I believe, and the other one was 16,000, because I tweeted about it before coming on tonight. | ||
And I said, how is it that he has about 200,000 followers more than I have, okay? | ||
And he's getting paid, you know... There it is. | ||
Three hours ago. | ||
Yeah, so if you look at it, he's got about 720,000, I don't know, you'll have to see the exact number, but over 700,000 followers, and he gets paid $7,302 this month. | ||
I have half a million and I get paid $190.22. | ||
I mean, I should at least be in the $1,000, $2,000, maybe even $3,000 range. | ||
700,000 followers and he gets paid $7,302 this month. | ||
I think they make 20 grand this month. | ||
I have half a million and I get paid $190.22. | ||
I mean I should at least be in the $1,000, $2,000, maybe even $3,000 range. | ||
It's not like that's that much of a difference. | ||
It's possible that the ads are weighted differently on YouTube. | ||
I know different creators would get different revenue models. | ||
It was all proprietary. | ||
They'd be like, this guy we really like. | ||
They're blacklisting people. | ||
They actually said they're putting you on the lawful but awful. | ||
But how do you know that? | ||
I find Linda Iaccarino to be lawful but awful. | ||
I can't stand her. | ||
I don't like the fact that she's a world economic forum puppet. | ||
I don't like the fact that she pushed the vaccine. | ||
I don't like the fact that she's a leftist who came from corporate media. | ||
I don't like that. | ||
So if I were in a position of power like that someday, maybe she'll end up on a demonetization list, right? | ||
Lawful but awful is subjective. | ||
There are people that love me. | ||
There are people that think I'm awful. | ||
Just like there's people that love her and people who think she's awful. | ||
And I think it's really ridiculous that we're allowing one person to decide what is lawful but awful. | ||
It's discriminatory. | ||
I don't think it should be one person, I agree, but there are situations where lawful things should be censored, in my opinion, as a social media admin, because no censorship is chaos. | ||
You'll have blown-open body parts when you open your newsfeed. | ||
Child abuse? | ||
Yeah, stuff like that. | ||
Well, child abuse is illegal, but viewing a blown-open body is legal. | ||
But you don't want that on your website when everyone lands on your homepage, because no one will come. | ||
We're not talking about porn or, you know, dead bodies on the timeline. | ||
We're talking about, they're saying what's lawful and awful is I'm not, I'm not posting anything graphic or nasty. | ||
I'm not violating terms of service. | ||
I'm exposing Ron DeSantis every single day. | ||
And I guess, you know, given the fact that maybe Elon Musk has come out and said that he supports Ron DeSantis, you know, he allowed for him to have his kickoff on Twitter. | ||
Maybe that's why I'm being demonetized, right? | ||
Who knows, but I think that politics are coming into play because I will say that everybody that messaged me today who has a large account on Twitter, who received a couple hundred dollars or fifty dollars when people that have a quarter of their following receive thousands of dollars, we all have one thing in common. | ||
You know what that is? | ||
Well, actually, it's two things, but it's really one thing if you encompass it all together. | ||
We're all Trump supporters, and we're all outspoken critics of Ron DeSantis. | ||
And I find it to be really interesting that the thing that everybody who received a large payout has in common, they're all outspoken supporters of Ron DeSantis. | ||
It's just strange. | ||
I think it's bizarre, and maybe someone can investigate. | ||
Yeah, he's a DeSantis guy. | ||
When I think about social media censorship, I don't like telling corporations what they can and can't do when it comes to their own company and their own data sources. | ||
So I think we should make them free their software code, let other people spin up versions of X that will interoperate, and then they can compete terms of service. | ||
So if my version of X is better than Elon's terms, and I don't ban people like you, or don't demonetize, people like you will come use the service, and people will come to my terms because my terms are better. | ||
Otherwise you're just smashing a hammer down on corporations. | ||
Did you just say I don't like telling companies what to do? | ||
That's why we gotta make sure that we make them open up their code. | ||
I don't like just systematically using the government to decide how a corporation has to run its business. | ||
You want to make them open up their code. | ||
I'm open to antitrust situations where monopolies need to be broken up and you can't split this | ||
company apart like Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger. | ||
If you made those three separate companies, Zuckerberg would still own them all. | ||
Do you think that, do you consider Twitter, would Twitter need an antitrust situation? | ||
Yeah, it's a monopolistic force. | ||
But there's Gab, there's Parler, there's, what's the other one? | ||
There's Truth. | ||
Shout out to Truth Social. | ||
Mine isn't like Twitter. | ||
I'm talking about that are Twitter kind of thing. | ||
Blue Sky, Threads, Mastodon. | ||
There's like five things that are, well Mastodon's different, but that's like five competitors for Twitter. | ||
Like, Twitter is not, in any way, a monopoly. | ||
Because there are competitors. | ||
Just because the competitors don't, you know, don't get the same kind of traffic... They definitely are the state actors. | ||
I mean, look, we saw... Look, Section 230 definitely needs to be repealed and these companies need to be held accountable. | ||
I have an active RICO lawsuit right now against these companies. | ||
Well, no, they're not. | ||
They've transcended the role of a private company. | ||
They are essentially state actors. | ||
We saw during the congressional hearing that they're working on a third-party cloud server called JIRA. | ||
JIRA, you know what JIRA is? | ||
Project Management Software. | ||
Yeah, but- They're using this to communicate with the DOJ and DHS and | ||
FBI and CIA. | ||
That's all fine. | ||
You're no longer a private company. | ||
That's all fine. | ||
That doesn't mean you repeal all of 230. | ||
230 you can you're gonna Maybe these companies don't get 230 protection, fine, but you don't repeal 230 because they're companies that need to be treated differently under the law. | ||
You can implement it. | ||
Well, I think it's important for people to understand that Section 230 was also created before these social media companies ever existed. | ||
Fair enough. | ||
And so it's really become a Frankenstein law, I guess you could say, that has turned into a monster. | ||
Fair enough, and these companies, maybe their status needs to be looked at or whatever, that's totally fine, I have no issue with that, but you don't repeal all of 230 because of that. | ||
answer to your question, Phil, about is it a monopoly? I defer to daily unique users. | ||
And I would say like you've got to pick a number at some point, 500 million daily unique | ||
you know, is it views or something like that? | ||
I strongly disagree because there's there's multiple options that people can go to just | ||
because Twitter is the most successful doesn't mean that there aren't other options for people | ||
to go to. So like and look, I get it. They're like Google's like most of the Internet. I | ||
get it. But like all my stuff runs runs on brave like and I don't use the Google stuff. | ||
I have a real problem with saying, hey, we don't want to force companies to do stuff, but then being like, but we're going to go in there and we're going to make them open up their code for other people to go ahead and share and make it public. | ||
And then we're going to force them to do this and force them to do that and especially because it sounds to me like you're looking to or you're talking about Twitter as a as a monopoly because of Twitter success not because of some kind of barrier to entry that Twitter and the government have You know, you might be right about Twitter. | ||
I don't know the numbers on the back end, but you brought up Google, Alphabet. | ||
competitors. None of them haven't been able to do what Twitter's done. Fair enough. But | ||
that doesn't mean that the government needs to do something about Twitter because other | ||
companies haven't been able to emulate their success. | ||
You might be right about Twitter. I don't know the numbers on the back end, but you | ||
brought up Google, Alphabet. Now that's one that I want to focus a little more confidently | ||
on that it's a monopoly, that it runs ad networks. It runs search engines. They have art like | ||
they own eight companies. I mean, Alphabet owns like things in all medical industry, | ||
things so like Google's Maybe Twitter's still too small. | ||
Maybe X is too small to be considered a monopolistic force. | ||
But I mean, I find Google to be kind of monopolistic right now. | ||
My phone is running on freaking Android Google. | ||
I mean, I don't, I don't, I get wary about stuff. | ||
I get wary about people or about the idea of the government getting involved just because a company is big. | ||
And a lot of people think that because a company's big, that must mean that they had some kind of, | ||
you know, some kind of either there's been a barrier to entry to other competitors in the | ||
marketplace or something like that. And I don't think the government should just be like, okay, | ||
well, we're going to stick our nose in. There's a lot of different, like you said, you mentioned | ||
your Google phone. | ||
I use an Apple phone. | ||
App stores. | ||
So Google and Apple have a monopoly on the app stores right now. | ||
If you don't play by their rules and you want to get your app on there, you can't. | ||
They won't let you load your app into their store. | ||
That's a monopoly. | ||
Didn't Tim, wasn't the Timcast app available from the website for a while first? | ||
It still is. | ||
Mine's went through hell trying to do it. | ||
Good news, the apps are currently in review and should be up in a week. | ||
So if you don't there's they have like rules like some people said of removing a block feature from Twitter or X would make it so that it can't be uploaded into the store now and that's a monopoly that's a decision by alphabet if Twitter can even exist in the network so like at some point I mean at some point we need to seize control of these corporations or they will seize control of us. | ||
So I'll just say one thing real quick, too, for those that are wondering. | ||
The reason I'm posting about the metrics and the money is because, as a new feature on Twitter, I think it's important people understand how much work you have to do, how much you get paid for that work, what kind of work gets money. | ||
And so I had 243 million impressions in the last 28 days. | ||
I got paid $4,377. | ||
Axe staff told me this would be actually July. | ||
I got paid $4,377. | ||
Axe staff told me this would be actually July, I think half of July, | ||
because everyone got paid on August 8th and I didn't. | ||
They said all of that money I didn't get paid would be included in the next payout. | ||
So this 400... It should follow through, that 243 million impressions, because we're looking about... It makes sense, it's about 28 days, is $4,377. | ||
A lot of people are saying that... | ||
Smaller channels, smaller Twitter accounts that get less views are getting substantially more money. | ||
And that's because of interactivity. | ||
So the Krasensteins get paid way more money because their tweets encourage debate. | ||
Which means more people... It doesn't matter how many impressions you have, if people see me post something silly or stupid, and they see a million views, that doesn't mean they clicked the tweet and then saw an ad beneath it. | ||
That's where you make money. | ||
So, for people who are on Twitter and wondering why you're not getting paid, you make a tweet where you say, hey guys, what do you think about, you know, Donald Trump doing a backflip? | ||
That's going to generate more money with 100,000 impressions than me posting a photo of Trump literally backflipping and getting 10 million views, but no one clicks. | ||
What's so gross is when I'm going on Twitter, X, and it'll be a post that'll say, | ||
you walk into the room, she's looking at you like this with an ice cream cone in your hand. | ||
What do you do? | ||
It's just such engagement farming trash. | ||
I'm so sick. | ||
Ever since they monetized like two months ago, it's this junk crap. | ||
I mean, I will say it's a little bit of a bait and switch business practice. | ||
First, it's like, okay, guys, you have to have, what was it, 5 million impressions per month and post a certain amount of times, what was it, 20, you have to have at least like 20 tweets. | ||
Do you remember, Tim, what it was? | ||
20 tweets per month, I think, or 20 tweets per week. | ||
I don't know, 5 million. | ||
But my point is, it's like, first it's, oh, okay, it's impression-based. | ||
Now, all of a sudden, after they used it as a marketing gimmick to get all these people to sign up, like, oh, wow, Who can make $10,000 a month if I just decide to become a professional Twitter poster? | ||
Now all of a sudden it's, oh just kidding guys, it's not Twitter impressions, but it's engagement within your posts. | ||
It's just really dirty in my opinion because, you know, it's not what they told us and I look at some of these posts. | ||
I post a lot more. | ||
I get a lot of engagement. | ||
I'm a very controversial person, if you couldn't notice or you couldn't tell already. | ||
And the fact of the matter is there's always people in my comments debating and talking and I'm trending on Twitter multiple times a week and the fact that I can get that much engagement, I can trend on Twitter five times in one month and I'm getting paid $190.22? | ||
I don't think so. | ||
I think that there's a political bias here and I think that they need to provide more transparency with regards to how this algorithm is run and how their lawful but awful blacklist is being operated. | ||
We're gonna go to Super Chats! | ||
If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, share it on Twitter. | ||
Here's what you do. | ||
Take the URL, go on X, Twitter, whatever you want to call it, post it, and then ask a question. | ||
Hey, this episode with Laura Loomer is really interesting. | ||
What did you think? | ||
And then you'll get paid by X, apparently. | ||
And you'll help the show. | ||
Not if you're a Trump supporter, though. | ||
No, you actually have to put, hey, they're wrong about DeSantis, do you agree? | ||
You have to praise DeSantis, but if you're a Trump supporter and you tweet it, trust me, you're not going to get paid. | ||
You get less money. | ||
I think you need to be premium, meaning you need to be $8 a month for blue, and then you need to sign up your Stripe account and hook it all up before you even start getting paid. | ||
Let's read! | ||
Noah Sanders says, First today, baby. | ||
Congratulations. | ||
Tim, don't forget the chicken auction. | ||
I hope to get an invitation. | ||
Also, since you don't have an after show on Friday nights, how about an after show for the Culture War podcast? | ||
Well, we are looking at ways to create a member premium thing for the Culture War. | ||
The reason we do it on Friday mornings is because that's the only time we have to do it. | ||
Uh, Friday nights, the plan has always been to do one of two things. | ||
Live jam session after the show, which we used to do. | ||
And we were building this new space for that purpose, and it's just- was supposed to be done two years ago. | ||
So, uh, we- Ian and I were talking, we may just actually clean up the- the pre- the former Culture Wars space for music performances, and then just get that audio set up, because I don't know how long the new studio's gonna take to get done. | ||
But the other thing we're planning is Poker with the Boys! | ||
Which is... the live stream poker show. | ||
We've been talking to a couple people about being the regulars and the hosts for the show and then getting regular players. | ||
The show is not a poker show. | ||
It is a table talk, goofing off show about a variety of issues while people play poker for fun. | ||
So if you're not a poker person, it's really just having comedians hang out with, you know, people like, you know, we'll have Alex Jones sitting down playing a game and everyone's kind of talking. | ||
The challenge we have with that is it's illegal to do everywhere and it's so stupid. | ||
So we gotta figure that one out. | ||
But, uh, that's the plan for Friday nights. | ||
We'll see what happens. | ||
Alright. | ||
Keaton Carpenter says, Tim, share the show with your friends. | ||
Tim, never post the link on his own Twitter. | ||
Uh, I do sometimes. | ||
And I did today. | ||
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. | ||
But, uh, but typically rarely. | ||
And, cause we're doing the show. | ||
You know? | ||
I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, now is the time to circle the wagons around Trump. | ||
He must show these communists we will not tolerate this. | ||
A cabal should never be able to dictate who can or cannot be elected in any country. | ||
Agreed. | ||
Alright, I'm Not Your Buddy Guy continues, says, I was deeply disappointed in Ben Shapiro in having a very short-term outlook on this, saying the indictments are the reason to drop Trump. | ||
If they can do it once, they'll do it again. | ||
That is a very, very short-term way of thinking, and it's um... | ||
I don't know, myopic. | ||
I don't know why people are surprised, though. | ||
I mean, look, Ben Shapiro has a notorious Never Trumper. | ||
I don't know why people even pay attention to him. | ||
His voice is so grating, it makes my ears want to bleed. | ||
And the thing about Ben Shapiro is that he's an original Never Trumper. | ||
People need to remember, in 2016, he fabricated allegations of assault with Michelle Fields when he was working at Breitbart | ||
against Corey Lewandowski, who was the campaign manager for Donald Trump. Okay. And then when | ||
the video came out, it showed that they actually he actually didn't assault Michelle and Ben | ||
had egg on his face and he has continued to be aggressively anti Trump. So I don't think people | ||
really should be taking him seriously on any of those. If anything, the indictments I make me lean | ||
more towards Trump because that you we can't allow this on Ben Shapiro has also | ||
received a hundred over $110,000 in payments as I posted on my Twitter the other day from Ron DeSantis. | ||
If you look at the financial reports. | ||
They bought a newsletter thing, right? | ||
Is that what they did? | ||
Whatever they want to say, it's still a conflict of interest because he has a financial relationship, whether it's pre-existing or current. | ||
That's a conflict of interest that he should be disclosing, which he has never publicly disclosed to his audience. | ||
I could be wrong, but I think what it is, the DeSantis campaign bought, like, a newsletter advertising thing? | ||
They say that it was list rentals, but I don't know. | ||
I've rented lists before, and you don't get checks that big. | ||
Well, I mean, the Daily Wire's got a big list. | ||
I've got a big list, too. | ||
I've got a massive list. | ||
And I'll tell you right now, those aren't the type of payments that you get for list rentals. | ||
I'm just saying that that's the same thing that the Babylon Bee said when they got, you know, called out for having their ties with Ron DeSantis. | ||
But regardless, he has a history. | ||
I think people just need to investigate, right? | ||
Like I do, and look into the backgrounds of these people, and you won't be so surprised if you really see their past comments. | ||
I like this one. | ||
K2Water says, Tim, for the earlier segment today, rioters and looters are different races, but I would bet a majority of them vote Democrat. | ||
If Civil War broke from riots, it would still be left-wing versus right-wing. | ||
Yeah, so the point that I was making, I did a segment, I record segments, extra bonus segments throughout the week, and then put them all, put the extra ones on Friday, was that you get a lot of people who will post these riots, and it's a bunch of like black teenagers, and then I'm like, yeah, but come on, post the Antifa riots, all white people. | ||
And I'm like, my point is, like, it's not the racial component, as K2Water nails, it's a bunch of Democrats. | ||
Like, it's leftist Democrat voters that are doing this. | ||
It's not like, it's not a bunch of conservatives going around smashing cars and looting Nordstrom. | ||
They're not voting Republican. | ||
Because Republicans are like, we will arrest these people. | ||
And the Democrats are like, we'll let them go. | ||
Gee, I wonder who they're voting for. | ||
Let's grab some more! | ||
Raymond G. Stanley Jr. | ||
says, Laura, I did an X poll from the culture war about who won the debate. | ||
You won with 69%, with an astounding 26% in second place was loud noises. | ||
So Bill got, what, like two or three? | ||
Respect to Bill for coming on the show, at the very least, because a lot of the Desantis people just won't come on or can't come on. | ||
I saw about 40 minutes of it, and you guys all were making good points. | ||
I highly recommend checking it out. | ||
It was fun. | ||
It was very fun. | ||
Bill was a really good sport about being called an... Okay, he said that he was called an aging lesbian, or he looked like one. | ||
No, he said that Alex Brusewitz, I called him, had said that he looked like an aging lesbian and he was complaining and trying to say, oh, Trump supporters are so mean, you know, all this victim stuff that the DeSantis people love doing and engaging in, as if they're not online attacking Trump supporters and saying, oh, Donald Trump should be in prison. | ||
And then Alex Brusiewicz took the clip of him just saying, I look like, and ran it. | ||
Michael Matlis has already retweeted it. | ||
Leave it to Brusiewicz. | ||
And then Bill, I gotta give him credit, afterwards he started laughing, he says, I knew the moment I said it, they got me. | ||
And they were gonna make that clip, and he laughed about it. | ||
So, you know, respect to Bill for coming on. | ||
Because look, I'll be honest, we even talked about it, a bunch of, when we reach out to the DeSantis people, like, guys, we wanna have an honest conversation. | ||
They refuse to do it. | ||
And they are not allowed to do it, so. | ||
Alright, let's go! | ||
TheBonusHoles, good name, says, Instead of getting rid of the block button, Elon should make good on his promise to make Twitter free speech. | ||
Fair point. | ||
Free speech isn't free, though. | ||
We have a lot of rules in this country that allow us to speak freely. | ||
We have a good one for Laura here. | ||
Vivian Reed says, In the culture war, Laura mentioned about the quid pro quo with Kenneth Griffin, but never got a chance to talk about it. | ||
Can you guys talk about it a little here? | ||
Yeah, so there was a report that came out yesterday or the I believe it the day before yesterday and I think it was originally if I recall correctly published in Bloomberg and then it was recirculated by Yahoo as well since they have a paywall at Bloomberg and essentially what it was is it said that Ken Griffin had actually shaped the legislation that Ron DeSantis, if you recall, last year had said that he was going to make it illegal after there was this really big viral story, went viral about how individuals tied to the Chinese Communist Party wanted to purchase land near Ocala, Florida, which is close to where I live, and they wanted to have it be a medical testing center for monkeys. | ||
And people started freaking out, and then it prompted DeSantis to say, okay, we're going to pass legislation to make it so that Chinese nationals cannot acquire land in the state of Florida if, you know, they're tied to the CCP. | ||
Well, ultimately, right, Ron DeSantis did this, and he used it as campaign fodder to say that he was protecting Floridians from foreign land grabs, right, since a lot of Chinese nationals are buying up a lot of America's farmland. | ||
But it was another example of him misrepresenting what he actually did. | ||
He had originally said he was going to make it all-encompassing, right, of all the land. | ||
But then Ken Griffin, who, as I pointed out before, is the head of the Citadel Hedge Fund, which recently received an effusion of $1.5 billion from Sequoia, which is heavily compromised by the CCP. | ||
And additionally, one of the global managing partners of Sequoia, a guy by the name of Doug Leone, just donated $2 million to Ron DeSantis' PAC. | ||
And so Ken Griffin, because he has so many financial interests and ties in China, and his net worth is now worth over $22 billion as a result of that infusion, which allowed him to Participate in the stock and bonds market in China with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
He went to DeSantis and had him change the language, right? | ||
And it was never disclosed to the public. | ||
So this is quid pro quo because in return, Ron DeSantis received a donation of $5 million to his political committee from Ken Griffin. | ||
And that's going to now allow, right? | ||
Right on. | ||
Chinese nationals to acquire land and what it can Griffin do well right before | ||
Ron DeSantis filed to run for president he moved himself and a lot of his | ||
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employees to Miami Florida. What did DeSantis change exactly language-wise? So | |
now it's near now it's only land only near military bases I believe as opposed | ||
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to all land. Yeah. Right on. Let's read some more. Where we at? | |
Kurtalingus says, if a state removes Trump from the ballot, can the people of that state still write his name in? | ||
Two, Seamus coffee spoons, the flavored ones that dissolve as you stir. | ||
Where'd my spoon go? | ||
That's a really good idea. | ||
Yes, if Trump's name is removed, you can write him in, of course. | ||
But the point is, there's gonna be a lot of voters who normally just vote Democrat, Republican, and they're gonna be like, huh? | ||
And they're not gonna be able to vote for anybody. | ||
It'd be funny to have a biodegradable spoon in every bag of Seamus coffee. | ||
It disintegrates in your coffee. | ||
I wish we could do that. | ||
I don't think we can do that. | ||
It's a big game. | ||
That would be amazing. | ||
Like, yeah, a cinnamon spoon or whatever. | ||
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Like a cinnamon sugar cube. | |
The color of the Irish flag, yeah. | ||
I mean, it would take a long time to figure out how to do something. | ||
Cellulose, maybe? | ||
No, no, no. | ||
You could do a sugar thing, but it's just like, to actually get it manufactured, packaged, attached to the bag, shipped out. | ||
We are nowhere near that level. | ||
Maybe once the actual physical location is up, we can start doing specialty products. | ||
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Alright, alright, we'll grab some more. | |
Anime Lair says, Hi Tim, I'm one of those uninitiated people you speak of, and I was just wondering if you'd get in contact with you directly. | ||
Let me know so I won't message again. | ||
I don't want to look like some crazy stalker. | ||
I don't believe you're uninitiated, and that's why I read your comment, because you know that I use the term uninitiated, and you are watching this show and reached out. | ||
Um, my email, I have an email on the website. | ||
But, uh, I gotta be completely honest. | ||
It's almost impossible to get in touch with me. | ||
I don't answer my phone anymore. | ||
Uh, I... Everything's screened. | ||
I... Don't own a computer. | ||
I don't own a phone. | ||
And, uh, it's impossible for me to have these devices. | ||
So, there you go. | ||
Welcome to the club, guy. | ||
I get 400 emails per day. | ||
I delete most of them instantly. | ||
I'll message Tim and maybe hear back from him the next day. | ||
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Maybe. | |
I just see him at night. | ||
Unless it's really important that I'll text you. | ||
400 plus emails by the time I wake up in the morning and I'm just like, delete. | ||
And then my phone is just, it's insane. | ||
And there are people that are like, dude, I texted you. | ||
What's going on? | ||
I'm like, bro, I got 8,000 texts yesterday. | ||
That's how I feel. | ||
It drives me crazy. | ||
I just can't. | ||
I can't answer it. | ||
You know? | ||
Yeah, and people just don't have boundaries, too, when you're a public figure, right? | ||
They just think that, oh, you're just going to drop your life and everything that's going on because I'm the most important thing in the world, right? | ||
I'm just speaking of the people that, of course, want to blow your phone up and annoy you all day. | ||
You know the number one question I get asked is? | ||
What? | ||
What do you guys think is the number one question people text me for? | ||
Is it okay if I message you? | ||
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No. | |
Can you retweet this? | ||
Close, close. | ||
Can I come on your show? | ||
Close. | ||
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Can you shout me out? | |
Because those are like number three and number four. | ||
Can you shout me out online? | ||
A shout-out retweet, you're close. | ||
Any idea? | ||
Read this article? | ||
No. | ||
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Really? | |
You guys can't figure it out? | ||
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They want their own Casper flavor. | |
No. | ||
Alright, nobody can get it? | ||
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No. | |
What do you look like without your hat on? | ||
That's a good one, and I still want to know. | ||
The number one question I get asked by anybody who's for some reason acquired my phone number has to do with another show. | ||
Will you go on... Nope. | ||
Will you have Sam Seder on? | ||
Nope. | ||
Nobody's texting me that! | ||
In a perfect world. | ||
InfoWars? | ||
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Is it about Vice? | |
No. | ||
Okay, you guys lose. | ||
It's, can you call Joe Rogan for me? | ||
Oh yeah, I want you to let him know to tell Tom Segura to call his next tour. | ||
I'm still coming. | ||
Dude, Tom Segura. | ||
Tom, name your next tour. | ||
I'm still coming, bro. | ||
I get emails and phone calls you wouldn't believe from like, hey man, it was really good seeing you a couple weeks ago. | ||
I came out, thanks for having me. | ||
Can you reach out to Joe Rogan for me? | ||
And I'm like, I just delete the email. | ||
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Yeah. | |
People are like, Phil, you know, can you tell Zoltan this from Five Finger? | ||
Can you tell Ivan this? | ||
Or can you tell At? | ||
That happens a lot. | ||
I just tell people, I'm like, I'm gonna be really honest with you, okay? | ||
I'll be very, very blunt. | ||
What do you think would happen if every time someone asked me to reach out to Joe Rogan... He'd block you instantly. | ||
He'd block you. | ||
He'd have to. | ||
Right? | ||
I'm just texting Joe non-stop like- You know how many messages I've received since I was with President Trump? | ||
Can you talk to Trump for me? | ||
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It's just crazy. | |
It's like all of a sudden, you know, I have a photo of President Trump and now I probably had, and this is no exaggeration, and I still haven't even gone through all my messages. | ||
I mean, if I look right now, how many is it? | ||
It's crazy. | ||
It's like, dude, I might... 1,247 unread text messages. | ||
And it's like, oh, can you get me a meeting? | ||
Can you do this? | ||
And I just, I don't, I can't reply. | ||
This is why everyone's like, why don't you get Trump on the show? | ||
We would love to have it. | ||
It's because I am not going to go to all of the people we know who are in Trump's circle and be like, hey, talk to Trump. | ||
It's not happening. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Like, when Don Jr. | ||
was here, we would like, of course, we always love to have your dad on, you know, if it happens, it happens, but we'll go through the normal channels, and I'm not gonna pester everybody, but it's a lot, and the funny thing is, like, you know, I don't talk to Joe, like, So Tom Segura's tour is called I'm Coming Everywhere. | ||
Hilarious. | ||
I want his next tour to be called I'm Still Coming. | ||
I was like, hey, what's up, buddy? | ||
You know and that's about it It might be something random like an article comes out | ||
about Bigfoot and then I'll be like I just have a shit So Tom Segura's tour is called. I'm I'm coming everywhere | ||
hilarious. I want his next tour to be called. I'm still coming | ||
I just got to get the message through to Tom. So can you message Joe Rogan and ask him? | ||
That's right. | ||
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Okay. | |
You'll notice if you guys, if you start doing, it's not personal when you don't get responded to by people that are on TV. | ||
It's just, it gets so big so fast that like, and you want to maintain still like a normal human life. | ||
It just becomes overwhelming, you know, because people, people just don't really understand how unrealistic their requests are. | ||
Right? | ||
Like I get asked all the time, cause I'm really good friends with Roger Stone. | ||
Oh, can you get Roger to come speak at this event? | ||
Can you get this person to come speak here? | ||
It's like, You know, these people have speaking fees, right? | ||
A lot of people don't seem to understand the sacrifice that you're asking somebody to make by, you know, harassing and badgering another person to come attend an event. | ||
And there's just no personal boundaries, I feel, when you're a public figure, and it's hard to kind of have that life. | ||
It's very overwhelming, and I struggle with it. | ||
You know, everyone always wants to go on Joe Rogan's show. | ||
There's a lot of people, I think, who would do really, really well on the biggest podcast in the world. | ||
But the first thing I told Joe before I went on his show was, hey man, I'm never going to ask you to go on your show. | ||
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Yeah. | |
You know, you hit me up anytime you think that I'm a good fit. | ||
And he was like, no, it's cool, man. | ||
We'll figure it out. | ||
And that was it. | ||
And then he called me back like an hour later, like, hey, man, actually, can you fly out this Friday? | ||
And I was like, that's in two days. | ||
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Yeah. | |
And then, you know, my attitude is very much You gotta understand how many people, everyone is trying to get something from someone else because they think the key to their success is another person, but it's really just gonna be you. | ||
You know, I will say something really fascinating. | ||
As you get older, and you notice the people that you knew and where they end up and where some people don't end up, it's just like an interesting thing to reflect on. | ||
I'm young. | ||
I remember how I viewed all the people in the world who were doing great things and how I felt about it. | ||
Right. | ||
And now where I am now doing this show and everything. | ||
But what's always amazing to me is seeing people from my neighborhood when we were kids who were just some random kid being a pro skateboarder or a rock star. | ||
And then someone being like, oh, you realize that dude in the band, like he's signed to a major label deal. | ||
Like they got like 100 million. | ||
I'm like, whoa, damn, John's doing that. | ||
That's crazy. | ||
I don't even think about these people anymore. | ||
It's like a crazy thought. | ||
But a lot of this stuff is like, you can track, you can look back at everything they did and you're like, oh, I see how they made it there. | ||
They did the work. | ||
Some people get lucky, don't get me wrong. | ||
Yeah, like getting that, your big break, people seeking that big break where you get put in the spotlight and a hundred million people see you. | ||
It's still, it's up to you to make something of that big break. | ||
Rogan did that to me. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
I had 300,000 subscribers when Joe asked me to come on his show, and then I jumped up to like 600. | ||
And then the next time I came on his show, I jumped up to 800. | ||
But if you hadn't put in five years of daily work, you wouldn't even be asked to go on the show in the first place. | ||
Yeah, you never know when you're gonna get your break. | ||
It just comes randomly when you least expect it, you know? | ||
And so, you have to work hard. | ||
You have to do it on your own. | ||
And people often ask me when I speak, well, How do I get involved? | ||
How do I organize? | ||
What's the best way to organize? | ||
And I think that so many people always, they rely on others, right? | ||
They have this group mentality of, okay, I need other people to join with me, when you just have to recognize the power of your own actions, the power of taking the first step, and the power of your own voice. | ||
And really, the most powerful thing that a person can do is be courageous, because you don't know, right, how far Being courageous and taking a first step and being a leader and doing something innovative on your own can be. | ||
I think that some of the most transformative and impactful things that have happened in our world have been done by just people acting on their own accord. | ||
Let's simplify it. | ||
One day, Laura Loomer decided to go hire some illegal immigrant workers at a Home Depot and go to Nancy Pelosi's house. | ||
There's no barrier for entry for that. | ||
There's no gatekeeper, there's no industry. | ||
Literally, Laura, this is what I say when you handcuff yourself to Twitter's door. | ||
By myself. | ||
You you have done things that have generated more press than billion-dollar PR firms could ever wish for | ||
One of the reasons why they ban you But it was funny because when they banned you from Twitter | ||
and then the next thing we know all these journals are like Laura Loomer | ||
Has handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter You were the top trend in the world on Twitter on a | ||
platform that just tried to remove you You I was I was the top trend on Twitter while I was no big | ||
friend while I believe president Trump and | ||
Vladimir Putin were at the g20 summit and they were even talking about it at the g20 summit because I had a friend | ||
of mine who Was there reporting on it and they told me that Emmanuel | ||
Macron had turned to them and was talking about Oh my god, somebody just handcuffed themselves to Twitter | ||
So like I said before, you sometimes just have to do things on your own and it may sound crazy and it may sound absurd but It could be transformative. | ||
You could change the world. | ||
Let's read more. | ||
El Cid says, Tim, you need to debate Ben Shapiro on why Trump should be the nominee and not DeSantis. | ||
Yeah, I'd love to. | ||
I don't think so. | ||
I don't think it would happen because we're both doing our own shows. | ||
We're both very busy. | ||
But I don't imagine it would be a very strong debate because I don't think that Ben and I are the... Like, I know the meme with Ben is debate me, but I think the reality is for Ben is have a conversation with me about it. | ||
We'd probably go back and forth on a few points. | ||
He'd have to concede a few things. | ||
I'd probably say, I get where you're coming from on a bunch of different things. | ||
You know, but I definitely think it should be Trump and not DeSantis. | ||
And I'm just, I'm sorry, man. | ||
Look, you could make all the arguments in the world about DeSantis on policy or whatever. | ||
I know Laura disagrees on all those things, but one simple thing matters. | ||
His policy is out of the question. | ||
His campaign has failed. | ||
It, maybe there's a chance it turns around. | ||
I don't think it's the zero. | ||
I just think it's like 1%. | ||
Maybe I'll be wrong, but like his PR people, his communication staff are just doing so apocalyptically bad. | ||
If Trump or Vivek gets the nomination for president, do you think it would be better to have Ron as a VP or someone else? | ||
It can't be a VP, it's unconstitutional. | ||
Oh, that's right, because they live in the same state? | ||
Because they live in the same state. | ||
But what about RFK, structurally? | ||
When you brought that up, I pulled up a news article that said, here's the provision in the Constitution, Article 2, saying, from separate states. | ||
And then there's a bunch of other fact checks saying, that's actually incorrect and misinterpreted. | ||
So if it were possible, do you think it would be better to have Ron as a VP or, like, RFK? | ||
RFK. | ||
I would never want Ron as a VP. | ||
I don't want him anywhere. | ||
I want him gone. | ||
I want him to leave Florida. | ||
I never want to see him again. | ||
20% of Democrat voters like RFK. | ||
And a lot of people like Vivek, too. | ||
And then practically speaking, outside of like, in terms of the broader political attraction, | ||
a cross-party ticket. | ||
20% of Democrat voters like RFK. | ||
And a lot of people like Vivek too, liberals. | ||
But like a Trump-Kennedy ticket, I think, gets you, captures a lot of, even a small | ||
That's a unity ticket. | ||
You said you like unity? | ||
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There you go. | |
And you know, I want to give credit to the person that was first to propose that idea. | ||
It's Roger Stone. | ||
So Roger Stone was the first person to put that into the public sphere about a possible Trump-Kennedy ticket. | ||
We have yet to interview Roger Stone. | ||
He'd be interesting to interview. | ||
Yeah, I know he wants to come on. | ||
You guys should have Roger Stone on. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I think Culture War is probably better. | ||
A longer conversation about everything. | ||
Or actually, I mean... Like a Friday where he does both, maybe? | ||
I've never talked to him before, but I hear a lot about him. | ||
Maybe we'll figure that one out. | ||
Yeah, you have to have him on. | ||
Yeah, absolutely. | ||
He's an icon. | ||
Tim, Adrienne Curry's tweeting at you and I. She says that she wants you to reach out to Joe Rogan for her. | ||
And she asked me to tell you, Ian, that she's... She says, can you tell Ian that he rolls too many ones? | ||
Don't shoot the messenger. | ||
I'm just saying. | ||
Thanks for relaying the evidence. | ||
Actually, Adrian, can you tell Michael Malice that I've been thinking about him? | ||
Let him know. | ||
To be honest, though, I mean, Adrian Curry could probably, should probably go on Joe's show. | ||
She'd be great. | ||
She'd be absolutely wonderful. | ||
She's hilarious. | ||
Here we go. | ||
Amos Moses says, when are you going to have Texas congressional candidate Brandon Herrera, a.k.a. | ||
Jesus, on? | ||
He is coming on. | ||
And I love how people are saying, let's go Brandon. | ||
He's already got shirts. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Bunker Branding. | ||
Demolition. | ||
Matt from Demolition Nation or whatever. | ||
He made shirts for them already. | ||
You can get them at Matt's website. | ||
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All right. | |
You know, before we close the show, I'd like to ask you about your book a little bit. | ||
I don't want to override Super Chats, but I do want to know what's in there. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
So, my book, I don't know if people can see it all there, if I should grab it, but it's called... Loomer, do you want me to grab it? | ||
Oh, they can see it! | ||
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Yeah, they can see it. | |
Yeah, so it's an autobiography, but it's also a historical, really, documentation of how we got to this point in this country with the cancel culture and the deplatforming movement. | ||
From my perspective, as a canary in the coal mine, I was one of the first people to really be deplatformed and digitally exterminated everywhere until I got my Twitter account back in December. | ||
And the book is called Loomerd, How I Became the Most Banned Woman in the World. | ||
And I want to remind people that, yeah, I'm on Twitter, but I'm still banned everywhere else. | ||
I'm still banned on PayPal, GoFundMe, Venmo, Cash App. | ||
I don't think most normies, I don't think, realize exactly how much crap Laura's had to go through. | ||
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I didn't know, to be honest. | |
Like, your average person doesn't know. | ||
Well, and how much I've done, too, right? | ||
Because people just say, oh, they read my Wikipedia page, which reads like a serial killer's. | ||
Actually, there are serial killers that have better Wikipedia pages than me. | ||
The stuff that you've done is all kind of hilarious and awesome. | ||
But it's been impactful. | ||
It's actually changed the political course of our country. | ||
I mean, people don't know that my undercover investigative work in the Clinton campaign was utilized during the debates and actually helped facilitate President Trump getting elected. | ||
Or that you were an OG Veritas reporter. | ||
That's what I'm saying, when I was undercover at Veritas and the stuff that I did with Pelosi and the stuff that I did, of course, with Twitter, they don't know about the lawsuits I filed because I've been, like I said, silenced for the last several years. | ||
A lot of people don't even know that I ran for Congress because my campaign was the only campaign in the nation that I had access to creating social media. | ||
So we talked about, people have asked, we gotta go quick because we're over, but what is the key to success? | ||
And we often talk about, they did a study and they found perseverance. | ||
That you're unwilling to give up. | ||
And I just want to stress, all you did was took a cheap little pair of handcuffs. | ||
It was handcuffs, right? | ||
It was handcuffs, but it wasn't just a pair. | ||
I knew that they were going to try to cut the bolt. | ||
So I had my handcuffs have a metal bar welded over it so that they couldn't cut it. | ||
And so then I also threw the key down the drain, right? | ||
On the sidewalk so that they wouldn't be able to use the key. | ||
So they had to actually chop it off with that, you know, that jaw, what do they call it? | ||
Jaws of life? | ||
They had to use jaws of life. | ||
There's no barrier to entry to that kind of nonviolent civil disobedience in protest, | ||
which generates worldly attention. | ||
Yeah, well, that's why I tell people, and I've been saying it for years, | ||
and this has been my motto for at least seven years now, civil disobedience is the way forward, okay? | ||
You don't have to be violent, but civil disobedience and acts of revolt against authority, peaceful, creative, artistic, public, like I've done, is the way forward because it's provocative and it makes people think. | ||
Yes. | ||
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Yeah, you know. | ||
The internet stuff. | ||
Amazon Music. | ||
I always forget them, you know. | ||
The internet. | ||
The internet. | ||
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And look for my crazy hair, because I'll probably have a picture with that to make sure it's me. | ||
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There's other ones out there, but it's me. | ||
Good to meet you, Laura. | ||
Yeah, really nice meeting you. | ||
I really enjoy the show, and I'm a fan, and I really appreciate you inviting me my first time here, and I had a great time. | ||
Right on. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Yeah, my first time, really. | ||
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You guys can follow me at kellenpdl on x. Also follow Cast Brew Coffee on x. It's the Twitter account for our coffee company. | |
Are you running that? | ||
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I am not, but it's like two days ago I think it was set up and I was just there so I know about it. | |
We're just basically gonna be posting a bunch of skits. | ||
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Yeah, it'll be like mini Cast Castle. | |
We're writing a bunch of jokes and we're just laughing about our plans and just I saw some footage today. | ||
Did Wesley show you? | ||
Yeah. | ||
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That's good. | |
It's pretty nice. | ||
They're masters of special effects. | ||
I really appreciate it. | ||
Aaron and Wesley, man. | ||
It's funny. | ||
All right, how are you doing? | ||
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Yeah, we're good, we're good. | |
All right, everybody. |