Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, says that 10 other states have deployed National Guard to Texas to defend the border, and we're hearing reports that private citizens, in various capacities, are making their way to Texas.
There are many people, prominent personalities saying, do not go to Texas, fearing another January 6th type incident.
I don't know what's going to happen.
I think this one should be left up to Greg Abbott and the National Guard and law enforcement.
It should be done through all the legal channels they're going through.
The National Guard are being deployed.
I think it's probably a safe bet to say private citizens shouldn't go anywhere near this in reference to any kind of conflict.
I can't tell people what they should or shouldn't do.
If you're a private citizen, you can go where you're allowed to go, but I definitely think it's important to say There's a lot of danger right now, and Greg Abbott is walking a fine line, and he's walking the right line, and the best way this is carried out is if Greg Abbott can handle this with the assistance of other states.
But a lot of wild news breaking all of this down.
There's also reporting that the Border Patrol Union said they stand with Texas.
So I'm having trouble corroborating a lot of this.
I want to be careful.
It's just a reporter I'm seeing on X. We'll talk about that.
Plus, Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $83 million to E. Jean Carroll for defaming her.
So they say things are getting absolutely crazy.
And of course, my friends, I don't really know how to say this.
I'm just going to.
Ben Shapiro is the number one rapper in the world right now.
All right, all right, all right, let's be fair.
It's not absolutely true and correct to say that, but on iTunes, worldwide, Ben Shapiro and Tom McDonald have released a song in which Ben Shapiro raps one of the verses, and they're in the top of the iTunes charts.
Now, a lot of people point out sales aren't, you know, it's not a lot of competition on iTunes.
We've done something similar.
However, the song just went up.
And so this is this is this is massive to reach this level in one day.
And if everybody buys the song on Amazon or iTunes, it is entirely likely that Ben Shapiro could be as of next week, not actually, but so throughout this next week, they'll they'll track the charts and then the following Tuesday will release the billboard charts across the board.
Ben Shapiro will probably be a billboard charting hip hop artist and rapper.
Because already the amount of sales they have.
So we'll talk about that.
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I want... Look, I'm a big fan of Tom McDonald, and I'm a big fan of Ben Shapiro, though I have criticisms of Ben Shapiro's commentary.
I think a lot of you do.
I respect the work.
As for Tom McDonald, I think he's amazing, and I definitely want to see Tom succeed in the music industry.
And when I talk about the work we do in music and how we want to smash our way into the Billboard chart rankings, the same applies for our friends who make music as well, which includes the guys over at Based Records, Five Times August.
And right now, with Tom McDonald releasing a song with Ben Shapiro, you know we love shouting out Tom McDonald.
But when I heard that Ben Shapiro was going to rap, no one asked me to do this, I said, The love of God, can we make Ben Shapiro the number one rapper in the country?
And it's just, not only, there's a great message in the song, with what the lyrics are themselves, but the troll, I'm sorry, I just, if there's anything I could buy, if there's anything I could wish for right now, Aside from justice on the border, right?
But as a cultural endeavor we can all do right now as just something fun, it's to go to factswithben.com and buy the song to support Tom MacDonald and Ben Shapiro.
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Joining us today, tonight, to talk about this and everything else is the great Larry Elder.
Hey, if I can be the black face of white supremacy, then Ben Shapiro can be the number one rapper in the world.
I have a brand new book, it's called As Goes California, My Mission to Rescue the Golden State, and I'm breaking some big news on your show.
I called the CEO, telling him I was going to be on your show.
Turns out he's a big fan of yours.
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It's about California, how messed up it is, why I ran for the recall election, and at the time I was thinking about running for president, later on I did, and about why I was running and what I would do if I became president.
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Texas prepared for standoff with Biden.
Ten states send troops and law enforcement to the border.
Governor Abbott told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson Friday that 10 states have already sent National Guard troops or other law enforcement members to the southern border to aid Texas in the face of growing pressure from President Joe Biden's administration to allow Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire barriers the state installed to deter illegal immigrants from pouring into the state.
During Friday's interview with Carlson, Abbott said he would be surprised if any of the 25 Republican states that have pledged to support his state did not send additional assistance.
There have been about 10 states, so far, that have sent National Guard or other law enforcement, Abbott said.
They are now joined together with us, and this is a fight for the future of America.
Now, I don't know what's currently going on.
News is happening very, it's changing rapidly with what's happening on the border.
Today was the deadline.
The Biden administration was supposed to do something.
Apparently, I've seen some people spreading a rumor that there was some, they said, okay, today's the deadline, but then they said something like 6 p.m.
and I have not heard anything just yet.
Some people are saying there's very little information coming out because something is actually going on behind the scenes, but I don't know for sure.
Part of me wants to believe, because of normalcy and optimism bias, this will all blow over.
But considering Ben Shapiro is the number one rapper in the world, I think it's more likely to just erupt in the most absurd way imaginable.
I think it's important to point out that at one time Democrats spoke, like Donald Trump did, about illegal immigration and about the borders.
People like Chuck Schumer.
People like Harry Reid.
After the first bombing of the World Trade Center, he even, Harry Reid, even talked about how the 14th Amendment is interpreted to confer citizenship to an illegal alien who has a baby on American soil.
I think our country forgets that at one point we were willing to talk openly about the ills of illegal immigration as a country became afraid of being called racist.
And then we said, it's OK.
We'll just leave the border open.
And now everyone else pays the cost of it, both financially and psychologically.
It really detracts from the American spirit if we have a class of people in this country who are not It's actually a part of it, and we say to the illegal immigrants, the things that you did to get here, the sacrifices you made, were actually for nothing because you don't get the benefits of crossing illegally.
I think it's less that people are concerned about being called racists and more that the Democrats realize this is a big voting constituency, and they wanted to change the electorate because they were losing elections.
America was a 50-50 nation, but you bring in a bunch of people who are going to pull the lever for the Democratic Party, they assume, and all of a sudden you're guaranteed a governing coalition for Democrats in the future.
The argument that you hear them make to the average person that's, say, low political information is that the... You mean stupid people.
I'm trying to be nice.
Is that our unfunded liabilities are going to destroy the economy and we need to have people come in to work because we do not have replacement levels of having babies and stuff.
And I think that there is some validity to the argument, which is why I think it's convincing.
I think that that I think that that makes enough of an argument to convince people that are, again, that are low information.
What do you think is the best way to convince them?
Because I talk to people that just, they'll see stuff on the internet and they're just like, no, they don't believe it.
Even if the argument had validity, that population getting older, unfunded pension liabilities, so-called entitlements, so we need to bring in new people in order to make them contribute so that these people can get their full benefits.
It still has to be legal.
We still have to know who they are, what they're here for, what their intentions are.
You just can't come across a border and go, okay, well, you're solving our unfunded pension liability problem.
My only point, or the only point in asking that question, and the thing that I'm concerned with is convincing people that the situation is untenable.
Convincing them that this is actually a problem.
Because I do believe that most people don't pay attention, you know, most people don't really watch the news very closely and then when they do, they tend to listen to what the talking heads say and they assume that that's the truth.
Michael Malice talks about, you know, when you tell the average person that the news is lying to them, it's like you're being told that the meteorologist is lying to you and he knows, right?
Most people think the news is telling the truth.
How, and my concern is convincing them that we actually do have a real problem and so I want to know what people think the best way to, you know, to actually To move the needle, because it's coming to a head where it's possible that we could meme ourselves into actual conflict.
Like, everything is theater until someone actually does something.
And anytime you get dudes with guns in close proximity with opposing interests, there's a chance for that.
Well, Phil, let's talk about the original sin here.
The original sin is Joe Biden.
He comes in, And he literally says, essentially, the borders are open.
During the debate against Donald Trump, he said, there's going to be a surge to the border.
He promptly reverses every single one of the Trump policies that gave us the most secure border in our history.
And I know that it is.
I'm staying in a hotel where you guys send me.
There are a whole bunch of DEA guys there, border patrol guys there.
And I had a conversation with one right before I got into the car to come over here.
At the hotel I stay at, where you send me.
And they had a whole bunch of border patrol people staying there.
And I talked to them, told them where I was going, they knew who you were, and I said, Donald Trump often says that when he was president we had the most secure border in our history.
Is that true?
And there were two guys there, they said absolutely it was true.
And they said it was like a switch was turned on when Joe Biden came in.
He stopped the Stay in Mexico program.
He resumed catch and release.
The Mexicans took off the 25,000 people they had in their military and moved them elsewhere.
And the problem then exploded, he said, overnight.
There was a legal alien coming across the border, being interviewed by a woman named Martha Raddatz.
She's a longtime reporter with ABC News.
And she said to him, if Donald Trump had gotten re-elected, would you be here?
He said, no.
And she was shocked.
And he said, why?
And he said, Joe Biden has given us permisso.
Change the rhetoric, change the policies, and that's why they're here.
And that's the original sin.
And so Joe Biden should have seen this coming.
You think America is going to sit around and watch millions of people coming across the country and do nothing about it?
The reason they're coming to Eagle Pass is because of the controversy.
Because you have, if they go to other places, I think Lukeville is in Arizona, places where there's a lot of controversy, you have leftist organizations they know are prepared to accept you and fight on your behalf to enter, whereas if they go to some random open border, like I would say unprotected border area, private property or otherwise, they could get shot.
You go to Eagle Pass, let the right and the left fight about it, and the border patrol agents bring you in, Bring you to where you need to go, where someone gives you money.
But I'll say, I don't have a particularly high opinion of Border Patrol agents right now.
However, should that report be correct from, I think it's from Colin Rugg, that the Border Patrol Union announced support for Texas, then I'm on board.
But, CBP agents have to stop facilitating the human smuggling.
I see a video of them raising the razor wire to assist human smugglers.
And Phil, to your point... They should be in prison.
To your point, it is becoming an issue.
In Iowa, it's the number one issue.
It's not even a border state.
I've been traveling all throughout Iowa.
They weren't talking about this when I was there.
It's now become the number one issue over inflation, over the economy in Iowa.
And the most ingenious thing that the southern governors did was start sending these people to cities like Chicago and New York and Martha's Vineyard because then it came to them and all of a sudden now that they're taking this problem seriously or more seriously than before.
I have a friend, a good friend of mine, that was talking, he's got a friend that actually works at Border Patrol, and he isn't even, like, he's not even convinced that they're, like I said, he's not even convinced there's a problem.
He's like, well, my friend says that if they're here illegally, that they can, that Texas can just put them over the border.
And he says, so this is actually a show from, you know, from DeSantis and a show from Abbott.
I'm pretty sure that these people are coming and asking for asylum, and that's why.
Which is an excellent reason why I hold them ten times more responsible than I would if they were actually... You know, you're saying they're intentionally committing felonies because they were told to does not change the fact they committed felonies.
I mean, yeah, subverting the law, a violation of Article, I mean, Greg Abbott says Article 4, Section 4 and Article 1, Section 10.
And so now he's actively trying to stop the state from defending itself.
Yeah, I think for this Biden should be impeached and convicted and following his impeachment and conviction criminally charged along with people in his administration.
That being said, the challenge we face right now is the political barrier of we don't want the Democrats to be able to sub out Joe Biden at a time when Joe Biden is like we want the people to vote.
To bring in Donald Trump to solve the problem, we actually impeach and convict Joe Biden.
They could bring in Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom, and it's gonna benefit them.
The reason Joe Biden is not going anywhere, if you can fog up a mirror, it's because the next person in line is not Gavin Newsom, it's not Michelle Obama, it's Kamala Harris.
She wants to be president.
I read a lot of black media, and they feel she's being picked on for her so-called cackle.
They feel that Joe Biden has given her thankless tasks, like getting to the bottom of the root causes of illegal immigration.
And black women are the most loyal part of the Democratic base, and they will be furious if she's drop-kicked for anybody other than a Michelle Obama.
And Michelle Obama does not want the job.
She wants to be loved.
She wants to be liked.
There's nothing that suggests to me that she has the temperament I want to send her thank you notes every Christmas for that.
She does not have the temperament to be a politician.
She complained for eight years about what it was like to be in a fishbowl of being first lady.
What makes you think she wants to be a politician?
But my point is, there may be a backroom deal with Kamala Harris, but how do you publicly explain Kamala Harris no longer being in the running for president?
Larry, I tell you what, I appreciate, I love the fact that you are here delivering this information because this all sounds, this is all the greatest news that I've heard all day long.
And regarding Gavin Newsom, I mean think about Gavin, aside from what I said about Kamala Harris, what is Gavin Newsom going to offer if you feel that we're on the wrong track?
Nothing.
He praised the pullout of Afghanistan.
He's probably the only major politician who did.
He's a more extremist on climate change than Joe Biden.
He wants to outlaw the sale of new gas-powered cars, as I explain in my book, As Goes California, by the year 2035.
He's more of a climate change extremist than Biden is.
He loves all the spending.
He set up a panel for crying out loud for reparations in California.
He's more left-wing than Joe Biden.
If you're unhappy with how the country's going, what makes you think Gavin Newsom has prescription to make things better?
So you know, I know like you're really, you know philosophy and stuff and you know about Marcuse and stuff like that.
Is Gavin Newsom, is he a true believer or is he just someone that is doing what he's told by like people that know theory and people that know... It's not that complicated.
First of all, as I explain in my book, they tried to keep me off the ballot.
The first provisional ballot comes out, elder's name's not on it, even though we did all the things, you're supposed to get signatures, and this, that, and the other, and do all the filing.
And you have to turn in five years of your tax returns.
By the way, I think illegally, there was a law that was passed by the California legislature, this is before Donald Trump's tax returns had been illegally exposed.
Because they wanted him to turn them over.
Even the outgoing governor, Jerry Brown, didn't sign it because he thought it was a violation of the 14th Amendment, of the Constitution.
So Gavin Newsom comes in, signs it, and requires anybody running for president or governor to turn over five years of tax returns.
We didn't even feel it applied to a recall election, but we did it anyway.
You have to do five sets, 500 pages and 500 pages.
For reasons that still I don't understand, there were seven pages missing from the second set of the two.
So the California Secretary of State says, Elder is not eligible because he did not comply with the requirements.
And she said to the California lawyers, Gentlemen, first of all, the California Secretary of State has a power to correct a minor error, and all you had to do was look at the first set to find the seven pages that were missing from the second set.
But the big thing is that in California we have this endless voting.
Almost six weeks.
And during the campaign, I made, in my opinion, one tactical mistake I made, which I never said anything at my rallies, to go and vote right now.
But I knew people were going to show up and vote on the same day, which they did.
Long lines, almost as long as the election of 2020.
But they had been collecting ballots for almost five or six weeks.
And there's ballot harvesting.
I didn't tell people to do that.
And we need to get in that game.
And in California, registered Republicans are outnumbered by non-registered Republicans three to one.
I got outspent ten to one.
In comes, and for a while, it was a two-step deal.
The first part is, do you want Gavin Newsom recalled?
And if 50% plus one said yes, whoever got the most votes on the replacement side would win.
There were 46 candidates, including myself, on the replacement side.
I got 3.5 million votes, more than almost all the others combined.
California has 58 counties.
On the replacement side, I carry 57 and 58.
The only one I lost was San Francisco, and I lost that by, wait for it, 149 votes.
I raised $27 million in seven weeks.
I raised 27 million dollars in seven weeks. Gavin Newsom outspent me 10 to 1
and for a while the first part of the ballot, do you want Gavin Newsom recalled,
was in the margin of error.
They were scared bleepless.
Big article in the Hollywood Reporter, Gavin Newsom called out all these entertainers to come in, Snoop Dogg tweeted against me, a whole bunch of other celebrities tweeted against me.
In comes Joe Biden, he says, Larry Elder is the closest thing to a Donald Trump clone as I've ever seen.
You're the closest thing to a Donald Trump clone?
I don't know if I should have been flattered or offended.
Barack Obama cut a commercial for him, Kamala Harris did, Warren did, they all did and I took one picture of Donald Trump in my life at that time.
Both of us had our thumbs up together.
I saw that picture over and over and over again.
They kept showing it over and over again, and they said this.
They didn't say, Gavin Newsom is doing a great job for the people of California on crime, on homelessness, on how bad our schools are, on water management, on fire management, and the fact that people are leaving.
No, Gavin Newsom, stop Republican takeover.
That's what they said over and over again.
That was a line.
Stop the Republican takeover.
No matter how bad things are, Republicans will make things worse.
I open my book with this story about what happened after I ran for governor.
I go to a restaurant on the west side of LA.
LA is liberal.
West side is even more liberal.
I get there about 15 minutes before my buddy, and there's a table over here with two ladies, and I think they feel sorry for me sitting there by myself.
So we start talking.
Turns out they're 85 years old.
They've known each other since the second grade.
One of them was celebrating her 85th birthday.
One of them said she's a human rights proponent, whatever that is.
And then about 15, 20 minutes into the conversation, she says, wait a minute, I know who you are.
You're that guy that ran the recall.
You're that Larry Elder.
She smiled.
She said, guess who we voted for?
I said, you didn't vote for me.
I said, how do you know that?
I said, let's see.
We're on the west side of LA.
You're both Jewish.
One of you is a human rights activist.
You didn't vote for me.
And they admitted they had not.
I said, let me ask you something.
How do you feel about the crime?
And they both admitted they knew people who got mugged.
How do you feel about the way Gavin Newsom shut down the state?
They both said that they knew people who lost their businesses.
A third of all restaurants gone forever in California.
How do you feel about schools?
They both admitted they would never put their kid in a public school in Los Angeles to save their lives.
How do you feel about the fact that people are leaving?
They both admitted they lost friends.
I said, so here we are completing each other's sentences, but you didn't vote for me.
Have you ever had a conversation with a conservative Republican before?
They look at each other and they said, we have not.
Remember when Bob Dole was running and how stiff he was and then after he got done after the election he went on I think it was SNL and everybody was like if I saw that Bob Dole or a bunch of people were like if I saw that Bob Dole I would have voted for him because he was personable and the way that they wanted him to be on the campaign trail was really stiff and That's what Obama had.
I mean, this year when you were shut out of the debate, they used a crazy, oh, this poll doesn't count, you're affiliated with it, and so is Donald Trump.
I had to submit three polls where I was at 1% or better.
Done, done, and done.
She calls me up when the deadline is over and says, I can't use, you can't use one of those polls.
I said, which one?
Rasmussen poll.
I said, why?
Because it's affiliated with the Trump campaign.
And it is true, the rules were any poll affiliated with any candidate cannot be used by any other candidate.
And I said, I submitted a fourth one.
And she said, well, you submitted it too late.
Well, it's because I didn't realize I needed to submit four.
And by the way, Rasmussen promptly put out a tweet and said, Larry Elder can use us.
We are not affiliated with the Trump campaign.
And they still didn't put me up.
I threatened to file a complaint with the FEC for $100 million.
My lawyer is the former chair of the FEC.
And he said, by failing to apply the debate criteria fairly to you, what the RNC did essentially was to give an in-kind contribution to the eight people who did make the debate stage, and based on the value of the two hours of the Fox News time, that's $100 million.
I said, if you don't put me on, I went to Milwaukee, even though I was told I wasn't going to be on the stage, I went to Milwaukee, and I told Ronald McDaniel and the RNC, if you don't put me up there, make the announcement by two o'clock, I'm going to file this complaint.
And 2 o'clock came and went, they didn't do it, so I filed the complaint.
So right now they're facing a $100 million complaint that I filed with the FEC.
When all the $100 million or whatever we have left goes to you, you have some kind of weird pseudo-alternate version of the RNC which is substantially better than whatever it is they're doing now.
She made a comment today just just before we started talking about the finding against Trump, which I understand you want to attack your opponent, but it's a totally BS finding, like it's absolutely outside of the realm of reality.
Donald Trump's not the one who let in 8 million people.
Donald Trump's not the one that made us go from energy independent to having gas prices almost twice what they were.
Donald Trump's not the one that made inflation get to 40-year high.
He's not the problem.
He's not the problem.
And it's also, to me, damaging her four years down the road.
Because assuming that Donald Trump is a nominee, and assuming for a moment that he loses, and And we do the post-mortem on your show, Tim.
One of the reasons you're going to offer is that Nikki Haley stayed in too long, cost Donald Trump money that could have been used against Joe Biden, and gave Donald Trump a lot of tape that he used against him in ads.
And then we have this from Nikki Haley, who tweets, Donald Trump wants to be the presumptive Republican nominee, and we're talking about $83 million in damages.
We're not talking about fixing the border.
We're not talking about tackling inflation.
America can do better than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Let me tell you what Nikki Haley is doing here.
First, Donald Trump issued a statement saying he does not want to be the presumptive nominee.
He wants to win legitimately, and these primaries are actually good for him.
So she's lying there, and then she is taking an attack from Democrats to use against the most popular Republican right now.
This is disqualifying.
She's a Democrat, she's got Democrat donors, Democrat voters, and she's using Democrat tactics to try and go after Donald Trump.
And if Donald Trump has to pay her 83 million dollars, why- I should have sued the LA Times for defamation when I was called a blackface of white supremacy.
I actually tweeted something at Frank Luntz because he was talking about it and I'm just like, anybody who works in media and journalism knows this is fake.
And any journalist claiming otherwise is lying to you.
Why?
Every journalist knows Times V. Sullivan, because every day you write about someone, it has to- You work for LA Times?
Oh wait, sorry.
I don't work for LA Times anymore.
You work for the New York Times?
When you're writing a story, it's gotta get checked by legal!
The lawyer goes through and makes sure you're not in violation.
They all are aware of defamation and libel laws.
And so here, Donald Trump is being told to pay $83 million.
He's not allowed to say he didn't do it!
It's remarkable.
But Trump said several times in court when he was going down it, this is not America.
And the scary thing is, we are now in the world where there is no law.
You've got Navarro facing four months for defying a subpoena.
Meanwhile Eric Holder was the first AG to be found in criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena when he was required to turn over documents regarding Fast and Furious.
Even though, I mean, even in this case, if you read the excerpt from E. Jean Carroll's book where she accuses Donald Trump, she says it was in maybe the summer or maybe the fall, but maybe the spring.
She can't remember any of the details.
She says the dress is still hung in her closet.
Like all of her allegations are ridiculous on their face.
That may have been 10 years ago, but since the culture war expanded to the point we're at now with Bud Light, I think it's now clear that institutions have no problem espousing the ideology of their side.
The issue with this is that Donald Trump was sued in New York City, where it is a stronghold of communists.
But if they know, they're going to be like, they're doing what to Donald Trump?
In fact, you go to the West, you go to Western Maryland.
Okay, Maryland, which is, you know, Baltimore's basically got its boot on it.
And we went to a, we went to a diner and they had flags of Donald Trump riding a tank, standing in a tank with fireworks exploding and him holding like an Uzi.
There's one of him on a velociraptor.
And I'm like, these people love Donald Trump.
Donald.
Sue her back and do it here.
And sue her for defaming you, for claiming falsely.
We need Donald Trump to sue E. Jean Carroll in West Virginia so that we get a default verdict, same as however it is his cases are going down, where they say it was false and defamatory that she claimed Trump assaulted her.
And that she has to pay him because of it.
So then New York says, no, Trump did.
And then West Virginia says, no, she lied.
And then there you go.
The issue right now, what you're bringing up, Phil, is that It's true in the sense that Democrats and their institutions have no problem breaking the rules and doing these things.
The only issue is, I don't see Trump filing a lawsuit.
But it doesn't matter because what we're clearly seeing here is lawfare.
The trial against Trump for fraud in New York is clearly false.
These claims are ridiculous on their face.
So, if they're gonna... I mean, look, they created a new law where women could bring up old cases and sue over it or something like this so that they could... Which case was that?
Was it E. Jean Carroll?
Where she could claim that... Because I think this is a defamation.
If they're gonna play this game, And all that really matters is a judge is going to determine, for some reason or another, Trump is not allowed to defend himself.
So let's look at the fraud case.
The judge ruled in default.
He said, nope, Trump committed fraud, end of story, have a nice day, you can't defend yourself.
They just bang the gavel, it's done.
Okay, well, Trump, go to West Virginia and find someone who'll do the exact same thing in the other direction.
Yeah, there were two or three hundred of them as I recall, but I'm talking about when Donald Trump got elected.
There were 40 cities where there were violent protests all over, including setting fire to police stations.
My point is, had Hillary been president and she were on the other foot, and the election was this questionable, you're telling me that her supporters would have said, oh well, let's rub some doughnut and we'll get back to it.
When you show her, hey, here's news, like, for example, there's a book called Not My Idea, which is being given to children in public schools, where it depicts white people, a white person as a devil, offering you a whiteness contract.
She nearly cried when she saw it.
The issue with Marianne Williamson and many default liberals is, they are being manipulated by demonic, I mean that figuratively, some might mean it literally, propagandists, and they're not aware of what's going on.
Regarding the George Floyd slash BLM riots, starting in May of 2020, four months long.
They're in the streets because of an assumption that what happened to George Floyd had to do with his race.
The lead prosecutor was a black man.
Opening statement.
I'm a lawyer.
The most important part of a trial is the opening statement.
In his opening statement, he took pains to say police in general are not on trial.
The Minneapolis PD in general is not on trial.
This individual is on trial.
In fact, he said the police are doing a good job.
They have to make split decisions, life and death, in a very short period of time.
This individual's on trial for what he did or what he didn't do, and he was never even charged with a hate crime.
Yet most people out in the streets, because of the assumption that what happened to George Floyd had to do with his race.
There's a website called policemag.com, my last point, and people who are self-described as very liberal were asked, how many unarmed black men did the police kill in 2019?
50% of the self-described very liberal people thought the police killed 1,000 unarmed black men in 2019.
8% thought they killed 10,000.
Wow.
What did the regular self-described liberal people think?
39% of them thought the police killed 1,000 unarmed black men in 2019.
5% thought they killed 10,000.
The answer, according to the Washington Post database, was 12.
That's the gap between what they think is going on and the reality.
No wonder you're out in the street.
I'd be out in the street if I thought the police killed 10,000 unarmed black men every day.
And again, the point is that the lead prosecutor of black men never even implied that what Derek Chauvin did had anything to do with George Floyd's race.
There's a man on the street video where someone uses that data and asks, you know, young black students at a college how many black men are shot every year.
And they're shocked when they find the number is 12.
But there's one guy in particular who argues with him.
He's like, Really, only 12?
Why don't we say like 100?
He's like, no, we can't say 100, the number is 12!
And it's like this thing where the guy just cannot accept it, so he asks to compromise on the number.
We have had conservatives come on this show, and I have talked about the Ahmaud Arbery case, and they did not know the details of this case.
They still thought it was a guy jogging.
You had when the McMichaels were convicted, and I forgot the other guy's name.
I should probably learn his name, to be honest.
The guy who simply filmed it also went to prison.
You had high-profile prominent conservatives say something to the effect of, this proves conservatives aren't racist.
As if to imply, this time, with Ahmed Arbery, it actually was a racist attack.
When in reality, the issue at hand, found in the court, was not whether or not there was a hate crime committed, it was whether or not While we all agree Ahmaud Arbery was in the act of committing a felony, the question is, did the McMichaels have a right to stop him?
And the jury found the McMichaels did not have a right to stop the man who we believe was committing a felony because they did not witness the felony themselves.
So, any subsequent action was their responsibility.
Ahmaud Arbery confronting them, trying to grab the shotgun from, I believe it's Travis McMichael.
The shotgun goes off a couple times in the fight.
Ahmaud Arbery takes it to the chest and dies.
They are criminally responsible because they should not have.
And fair point, they were told not to.
However, I've had conservatives come on the show and say, oh, wasn't this a white guy's chase on a black guy who was jogging?
Despite the fact that police had evidence of him burglarizing a home, That the police had gone door-to-door and say, this is the guy we believe is burglarizing the home, and that a gun had been stolen, so when someone said, hey, it's that guy again, McMichael's got in their car and chased after him.
Called the police, the police said, do not follow.
They should not have followed.
But many people argue the morality of, if your neighborhood is being, you know, effectively terrorized by this repeat burglar, and even someone who even stole a gun, You're going to want to stop that.
There's a moral issue there.
So the question ultimately became, and the jury decided wrong, the law states that if a misdemeanor is committed and you witness it, you have a right to citizen's arrest.
However, if a felony is committed and you do not need to be a witness, simply someone could say that person committed a felony, stop them.
However, because of the way the law was written in a very archaic fashion, the judge said to the jury, you decide whether or not they needed to be witnesses or not, and the jury said they should have been witnesses, therefore they're criminally responsible for the death.
This is the survey that went viral several years ago.
White liberals are the only demographic with a racial out-group preference.
So black people have a slight bias towards black people, Latinos towards Latinos, Asians towards Asians, white conservatives towards white people, liberals against white people.
So I don't think the issue actually is that they have a grievance about white on black crime.
I think that white liberals generally just don't like white people.
And so if anything interrupts their narrative about white people, that's when they go on the offensive.
So for example, Asians don't fit the narrative of white privilege, so Asians don't get included in their benefits package of how we gotta help minorities.
I said, whoever said compound interest is the greatest force in the universe, and by the way, I checked, it wasn't Einstein who said it, whoever said compound interest is the greatest force in the universe never encountered white guilt.
I just think there's a whole bunch of white people that feel really, really bad about slavery, really, really bad about Jim Crow, really, really bad about how black people used to be treated, and this is their way of making up.
So I met these activists when I was in North Dakota at the No Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
And I'm there to document stuff.
But of course, it's all leftist protesters who are very, you know, woke.
And I'm sitting down for dinner because I'm friends of friends.
And we get into a conversation.
This one guy brings up... So what happens is I said, I gotta leave tomorrow because I have to drive to California.
I have a meeting at 9 in the morning in three days, so I gotta drive overnight.
And he smirks and says, a meeting at 9am?
He's like, that's colonial thinking.
And I asked him, what does colonial thinking have a meaning?
And he's like, it's colonial thinking, dude, like having a schedule to wake up.
You think the Native Americans do that?
They wake up when they need to wake up.
They wake up when the sun comes up.
And I was like, white people didn't invent time or scheduling, dude.
And he was like, yeah, they did.
It was the colonists who brought all that stuff.
And I was like, bro, People in Asia have time and can track the hours of the day and decide we should meet at a certain point of the day.
And he goes, no, it's it was white people who brought that.
And I was like, my dude, the Chinese invented compasses 1000 years before you did.
And he goes, no, it's it's white Europeans who brought that stuff to China.
And I'm like, Holy crap, this guy literally thinks white Europeans invented everything, developed science and technology, and then exported that to Asia.
And I'm like, is this true?
China invented compasses a thousand years before Europeans did.
I don't hold that against, or I don't say, wow, Asia, you're so great, or Europe, you're so dumb.
It's just a thing that happened.
But these people believe white people invented everything.
My favorite, my favorite, I have to bring up my favorite, my favorite, is one of the excuses the Berkeley kids give is they have trouble finding the DMV.
No, it's crazy, but I do think that they ultimately...
Race is at the forefront of a progressive mind always.
Always.
And they are always, because they are all, I think, whether it's they hate themselves because they're... It's by design.
It's whatever it is, they ultimately use that to say, well, everything I've heard that is a stereotype about another race that could potentially be perceived negatively, I have to make sure I'm on guard against it at all times.
What you're describing is the result of people being taught critical race theory.
Critical race theory in and of itself is not ideas.
Critical race theory is a way to approach the world.
It is seeing race Before anything else so when we were arguing.
Oh, we don't want to teach kids critical race theory.
We weren't arguing Oh, you don't want kids to know history or know that there are different types of people different color people in America Whatever it is.
We don't want people to have the illiberal view that race comes before the human being.
I was in Boston in 2004 when this guy with funny ears, skinny guy, whose name nobody could pronounce, came out and gave the intro speech for John Kerry.
And Barack Obama said, there's no blue America, there's no red America, people went nuts.
There's no black America, there's no white America, people went nuts.
He decided to run for president.
He's on 60 Minutes.
He was not yet the frontrunner, but he's catching Hillary.
And the correspondent said, Senator, if you don't win, will it be because of race?
And I sat back and I said, let's see what this guy says.
He's going to give some sort of victocrat answer the way Al Sharpton did when he ran and lost and claimed it was racism, or Jesse Jackson ran twice and lost and said it was racism.
Senator Obama said, no.
If I don't win, it will be because I have not articulated a view that the American people can embrace.
He also gave a speech at a black church when he was running.
He talked about how much racism he thought was still in America.
And he said, the Moses generation, referring to the generation of Martin Luther King, the Moses generation has gotten us 90% of the way there.
My generation, the Joshua generation, has to get us that additional 10%, which I thought, Phil, was reasonable because there was a Fox Opinion post, 2002, 8% of Americans believe Elvis is still alive.
6% believe if you send him a letter he'll get it.
So it's 8% you gotta wipe out.
So basically what he's saying is we have 2% to work on.
He gets elected.
Both polls show that blacks and whites thought race relations would improve.
When he left both blacks and whites thought they got worse.
If Barack Obama is actually a Marxist or does not have a liberal worldview, then he It's completely within reason to think that he was lying, because those ideologies are intentionally subversive.
He has to have been lying, because what he said is just the opposite of what he ran on.
The guy that America thought they hired, even people who didn't vote for him were crying, because they said, we've reached a threshold here.
In 1964, MLK gives a speech before British television, and he said, I'm amazed, this is right after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 64, he said, I'm amazed at the progress America's made in the last couple of years.
Why, in 40 years time, we could have a black president.
Almost on cue, Barack Obama.
He didn't say in 40 years time there'll be black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and there have been.
He didn't say in 40 years time there'll be black presidents of Ivy League universities, and there are.
He didn't say the three biggest cities would all have black mayors, LA, New York, Chicago, and they do.
He said president, meaning once it happens, it's done.
It's done.
And now people act like it never even happened.
This is the only majority white country that's ever elected, let alone re-elected, a black president.
Only majority white country that's had a secretary of state that's black.
We had back-to-back black secretaries of state.
Secretary of Defense is black.
I mean, knock it off!
The two most prestigious professions in America are, are powerful anyway, are doctors and lawyers.
The AMA is the biggest trade association of doctors.
We've had two black presidents of the AMA.
There's been a black president of the ABA.
What more do you need to say in order to prove that for the most part, if you...
If you go to school, invest in yourself, avoid the criminal justice system, don't make bad moral mistakes, you'll be fine in America no matter what race you are.
What more needs to happen in order for us to say that?
But the problem is those people are so numerous, or they're numerous enough that when combined with the malicious, they probably make a majority of Americans.
Between dumb and actually malicious looking to use these things for power, that's probably enough to be a majority.
He delivered the eulogy at Jordan Neely, the performer in New York who was in the chokehold.
He immediately was like, well, I'll deliver the eulogy because this was definitely a racial thing, never mind the fact that the guy had an arrest record and people called in saying he's threatening people on the subway.
I think New York wants to terrify people into fleeing because the only people willing to stay in a city that's going through what it's going through are people who are going to vote Democrat.
And so you bring in a bunch of illegal immigrants, you increase your congressional seats, and then you guarantee half the people you brought in, well, or half the people in your district can't vote because they're not citizens.
Now all you need is 20,000 votes from these people, no conservative opposition whatsoever.
You look at what's going on with the, you know, was it Daniel Penny in New York, right?
You know, Barack Obama wrote a book, which was very good, the first book, Dreams from My Father.
It's all about the angst he felt because he didn't have his biological father in his life.
Last time he saw his biological father, he was 10 years old.
Wow.
Al Sharpton.
Al Sharpton had a nice middle class life until his father ran away with another woman and then down to the hood he went.
Jesse Jackson was raised by a single mom who was impregnated by the married man who lived next door.
And in South Carolina, where Jesse Jackson was raised, he was taunted by kids saying, Jesse ain't got no daddy, Jesse ain't got no daddy.
Al Sharpton's mother was estranged from her father, had a boyfriend, took back up with the father briefly, got pregnant with Al Sharpton, and tried to abort him with a coat hanger.
My point is, these are probably four of the most prominent so-called black leaders in America, all of whom either had no relationship with their own father or a bad one, yet they don't talk about it!
They don't talk about it, but they talk about systemic racism.
And it's never been less of a problem in America, racism, than today.
And if you are trained, again, if you are trained or if you are educated in a way where the first thing that in every subject, the first thing that's brought up is race somehow, whether you're talking about geography or whether you're talking about math or whether you're talking about history, whatever, if somehow all of the topics are tinged with racial discussion, you're going to be racist.
Like that you are going to create racist people because there is going to be a certain percentage of the white people that hear, oh, all white people are bad, that are going to resent it and that are going to push back and say, well, screw you.
I'm going to create a white affinity group.
And you'll end up with more people that are white supremacists, more Nazis.
You'll end up with blacks and minorities that hate white people because they're told, hey, all the white people are your problem.
These things, these are problems that we are creating for our society.
I want to get your thoughts on something because I've told this story on the show before.
It's from Occupy Wall Street and we were all sitting around in the middle of the park Across the street from Occupy was, I think it was a Burger King, that people would use the bathroom in, and, uh, there was this, uh, this black dude that we were all friends with said, I'm gonna, I'll be right back guys, I'm gonna run to Burger King and, uh, hit the bathroom.
This white guy goes, hey, when you're over there, can you grab me a double cheeseburger?
And he goes, what?! !
And he just walks off.
And everyone was like, huh?
He comes back and he's like, you see what happened, man?
We were talking and I was like, what happened?
He's like, asking me to get a cheeseburger for him.
And I was like, oh, what do you mean?
He's like, like I'm his boy, like I'm going to get his food for him.
And I was like, I think he's your friend.
And he just wanted to see if you'd grab him a cheeseburger when you're over there.
He's like, no, you don't understand, dude.
You don't understand what it's like and what racism and how it works.
Yeah, it's low trust and it inhibits communication.
I mean, that's what all of this is about, making it so that no one can actually say, well, I feel this way about something.
This is how I perceive this and feel like it is not someone trying to have a power grab and have influence over their life, trying to oppress them in some way.
I have a friend that I grew up with about six blocks from my house.
I grew up in South Central.
Both of us are black, of course.
And he was the most gifted athlete that I've ever seen.
He was a quarterback for the high school team.
He was the starting two-guard on the basketball team.
He was the best pitcher on the baseball team.
He picked up a tennis racket, never took a lesson, hit it against the back wall for two weeks, and then tried it out and made the tennis team.
He had a bad attitude though.
He would come late to practice, but he still got started because the coach wanted to win.
So fast forward, I go away to college.
I go away to law school.
I come back to visit him.
He changed his name to a Muslim name.
All of a sudden, the white man is oppressing him.
And I said, dude, you and I went to the same schools, had the same teachers, took the same classes.
How come the white man didn't stop me?
Oh man, you've been indoctrinated.
And he changed his name to a Muslim name, and I told him that the Muslim slave trade was probably more vicious and more nasty than the European slave trade.
The rate of death for the black slaves was higher.
He said, oh, you're reading white historians.
I said, Henry Louis Skip Gates is a white historian.
He's the head of the black studies department at Harvard.
This is how vicious this kind of stuff is.
Mine was totally corrupted.
We started yelling at each other, screaming at each other.
I told him he was a victim and I said, go look in the effing mirror.
Your problem is you.
And until you man up, you're always going to live like this.
He was being asked by the correspondent, who's black, James Brown, he said, how are you able to deal with your race as a poker player?
And Phil said, Poker, the only color that matters in poker is green.
And James Brown was taken aback by that.
Dodgers were in the World Series a few years ago, and Mookie Betts had done a game-winning home run or something like that, being interviewed by another black guy named Harold Carmichael, I think, on ESPN.
But what you end up with with these policies and you know Charlie Kirk was talking about this.
You get people in high positions of these companies who will hire someone to put them in a closet somewhere, figuratively, like, just hire them, shuffle them off, and then write down on your California DEI report, you've got 10% black people or whatever.
And it's just like, they look at it not as, I'm gonna hire this person for a job, they're looking at it like, every year we have to spend X amount of dollars to satisfy our diversity requirements.
And if they're not competent, then you have to lower your evaluation standards in order to justify why you hired them.
In which case the product becomes inferior.
The service becomes inferior.
You're not helping anybody.
We have a proposition in California in the 90s called 209.
Which made it illegal to use race as a factor for college admissions and for hiring and for contracting.
And all these left-wing people said, when you do this, blacks won't be able to get into UC Berkeley and UCLA because of race-based preferences being eliminated.
And it is true.
It got passed, and there were fewer blacks admitted into UC Berkeley and fewer blacks admitted into UCLA.
However, they were admitted at UC Irvine, UC Riverside, the less competitive campuses, and were more likely to graduate on time without student debt.
Which shows you that the people that you thought were benefiting were in fact not being benefited, they were being hurt.
They tried to repeal it, and even left-wing California, L.A.
Times endorsed the repeal, even left-wing California kept it in.
A friend of mine who was a celebrity was posting on Instagram in support of repealing this, and so... And by the way, the repealing side outspent the non-repealing side 10 to 1, and still lost.
So I had an interesting conversation with my very lefty Hollywood actress friend, and posting on Instagram supporting the repealing of this, which would allow racial discrimination in public contracting, education, and a few other places.
And I said to her, I said, what percentage of California is white?
But I was like, so you're proposing that California make it Legal for public contracting and schools to discriminate on the basis of race.
And she's like, yes.
And I was like, and the largest racial demographic in California is white people.
Yes.
I said, do you think that all of these white people will just, and I said, do you think white people are racist?
And she goes, yes.
And I said, so you think the 40% of white people who have political, who politically dominate certain areas, you think they'll decide after this law is repealed to be less racist?
She's like, no.
And I'm like, so is it possible then in say a city where it is 80% white when they're having elections or when they're putting up public jobs or schooling, they put up signs saying whites only?
She's like, yeah.
And I'm like, why would you want that to be the case?
And she didn't realize, I don't know.
And I'm like, listen, how about we all just agree?
We do not want anyone to judge or ban or anybody because of race and just pick the person they think should have the job.
Chris Matthews had a show on MSNBC for a long time, and one time in an unguarded moment, he said, you know, most white people would not vote for a white person if they thought he was racist.
He even said that.
Yeah.
In California, roughly it's about maybe 6% or so percent black, about 9 or 10% Asian, and the rest is split between whites and Hispanics.
So the police department exactly reflects the demographic of Los Angeles.
Yeah, when something goes down, if it's a white cop shooting a black person or a Hispanic, the same activists come out and start screaming systemic racism.
So it didn't even matter.
During the O.J.
Simpson case, the chief of police was a black man.
We had back-to-back black police chiefs in.
He did a study during the trial to find out if anybody did anything with the evidence tampering it.
I mean, if you want to say that, like, everybody has their own biases and there are people that are, you know, everyone, like, that are, like, more selective to their own, people that are of their own color, that kind of stuff is almost, like, self-evident to some degree.
Like, people, that's just kind of, like, you see people end up, like, they move to the same neighborhoods with people like them and, you know, that's just the way people are.
But just – and if you want to call that racism, that might be – might be everybody's
And at the time, he had so much media attention on him, right?
He was this senator and he had these young children, he was just tragic.
He knew he was ruining this person's life to make himself sound more sympathetic and did it again and again and again.
I mean, that's true with all of this, right?
He does things to make himself seem palatable, to make himself seem sympathetic to the cause that he's courting.
So with all the stories about being a civil rights activist, it's to say to minority people, oh, no, I help you and I see your causes.
But he doesn't actually do anything.
He puts in this chief diversity officer.
This is off my mind because this person resigned today after three years on the job just to say, look, I am the most diverse person.
I am the person who encourages the diverse hiring in the White House.
No one did this before me.
And it's so if he doesn't win the election when Trump is reelected, For him to say, well, Trump doesn't have a chief diversity officer, even though I specifically created this position.
I was going to read a note, but I got a comment now, because there's a viral clip of this guy named Professor Richard Wolff, who has to be one of the most disingenuous or stupid professors I've ever had the displeasure of having listened to.
And he has this viral lecture he does.
People were retweeting it, it was getting hundreds of thousands of views, and said, this is required learning for every school.
What does he say?
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He does this bit where he goes, if you're going to be hired by an employer, Let's say you negotiate, whatever.
And he says, I'll pay you $20 an hour.
You have to produce more than $20 of value per hour in order for him to hire you.
So at the end of the day, if you feel like you're being ripped off, it's because you are.
And it's just like a five-year-old came up with this.
Yeah.
A five-year-old came up with the idea that so I did I earlier today I recorded like a half an hour breakdown of just everything wrong with it and it's funny because I'm probably like my audience the people who watch my clips in the morning probably know even more about it than I do because they run businesses and they have jobs but I was like let's invert this.
Let's invert the proposition brought up by this Marxist professor because he cites Karl Marx in his argument.
A guy, let's say Phil, wants to hire Kellan.
Kellan is going to produce widgets.
So Phil says...
You make widgets for me, I pay $20 an hour.
Callan says, I can make one widget per hour.
Phil says, okay.
Phil then has to pay the taxes, manage the business, source the materials for the widget production, and then figure out how to sell the widget.
So Phil does all of that.
Phil ends up getting paid $5.
He sells the widget for $25.
So that extra $5 value goes into his pocket for what he's doing.
Let's invert the proposition.
My response to this guy would be, I got an idea.
If I wanted to hire someone to make widgets, let's say skateboards, and they said I can make one skateboard per hour for $50, but I know that you're going to get $10 extra in my labor because I'm a Marxist who listens to this lefty guy, so I refuse.
I'm worth more than that.
I say, okay, let's make a different deal.
You make the skateboard and then pay me to sell them.
How much do you want to pay me to do your sales?
What do you mean?
How much are you going to pay me to do the sales work for you?
So now you pick up the managerial stuff, you pick up the regulatory work, you pick up insurance or whatever it is you need, you source the materials, you pay for all that, then you bring me the skateboard, I will sell it for you and I'll take 20% of the sales.
The only issue at hand with the proposition of an employer and employee is who is accepting risk and who is not.
Because you could flip employer and employee in either direction and the only thing that matters is who assumes the risk.
Guaranteeing a salary to someone to make a product means they don't gotta think about it, they don't gotta worry about it, they get paid a flat rate, and they can go home and cash that check.
But if Phil ends up paying for a hundred widgets and cannot sell them, he's bankrupt, he loses everything, and he can't buy dinner.
Which is also why, Tim, the minimum wage, and people on the left love to jack it up, hurts the very people who are unskilled.
Because you're requiring somebody to pay for something you can't do, you can't produce.
And Milton Friedman said the minimum wage law is perhaps the most, quote, anti-Negro law in the statute books.
Wow.
One time, a black teenager was more likely to be employed than a white teenager.
Now in the inner city you find 50% unemployment for people looking for jobs largely because the minimum wage has priced them out of competition You're not able to produce $15 worth of stuff.
You're not gonna work about six years ago six or seven years ago I was I had a meeting with an accountant dude, you know start picking up accounting work for us and And the company was much smaller back then.
I don't think they had any employees.
So New Jersey had a law in the books where the minimum wage was increasing a set amount over a period of time.
And he told me that they lost, I think, 30% of their customers in the latest minimum wage increase.
Right.
And he was like, so obviously we as an accounting firm, we're actually taking a hit and we're going to have to lay some people off.
The reason we lost 30% of our clients is because they went out of business overnight.
He's like, what you gotta understand is if they say they're increasing the hourly rate of select server staff from $10 to $11 an hour, they want to do it slowly, so they say, you know, $10 to $10.50, now it's going from $10.50 to $11.
The people who are running these small diners, the people who have, you know, a small restaurant or pizza place, or it's, you know, maybe an antique store or something, They're on razor-thin margins, in a tough economy, and they're not paying themselves as much as they pay out in labor.
One day, the dial gets clicked over, and now they have to find 30% more in wages, so either they increase the prices, which causes a customer shock, they don't get as many customers in because the customers don't have the money to pay the increase.
Overnight, he's like, within a span of a few months, one by one, they fall down like dominoes, and they say, thank you for everything you've done for us, but we're closing the doors.
There was a study about New Jersey and Pennsylvania, this is in the 90s, and one state raised the minimum wage, the other one didn't.
So this gave you an ideal laboratory to find out what's going to happen.
And according to these two professors, they're named for Card and Kruger, the state that raised the minimum wage had an increase in jobs relative to the state that did not, which refuted probably Years of study about the minimum wage.
And so Bill Clinton and the other Democrats began touting this study because it justifies raising the minimum wage.
However, other economists try to replicate the results.
And instead of asking employers, did you raise, did you hire people or not hire people, they asked for payroll cards to confirm it.
And it turned out the state that raised the minimum wage lost jobs relative to the states that did not.
Just the opposite of what the left-wing economists said.
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I spoke with Tom MacDonald and the Daily Wire crew, and I told them I'm going to go do Facts with, what is it?
Okay, I gotta make sure, it's Facts with Ben, right?
He is, and his Twitter troll game has been A+, where he was like, thank you to my parents for sending me to classical violin school for 15 years or whatever so I could be the number one rapper in America.
Tom McDonald and Ben Shapiro are both number one on iTunes, which is in the world, I'm pretty sure.
But let's be real.
iTunes is not the main place where everything's at.
So while it is a good metric, and it does beat out a lot of the industry because they've lost interest in being able... Nobody will buy their music, so they just give up on it.
We can still sell music this way.
When you buy on Amazon or iTunes, it's a dirty game, but it's the only way they actually track for the billboard charts.
If by next Thursday at 11.59pm, We can amass a large amount of sales for Tom McDonald and Ben Shapiro.
I'm hoping.
We weren't able to pull off because they played.
I feel like we got shafted.
We did together again with the Daily Wire.
And they said our sales did not count because they changed the reporting metric.
So naturally this pisses me off.
This feels to me like an opportunity for success and revenge.
Because it's not our song.
They're not paying us to promote it anyway.
Anything you buy will go to likely Tom McDonald.
But I would love, and I know many of you would, to see Ben Shapiro on the Billboard Hot 100 as one of the top rappers in the world.
And it's possible if y'all go out and buy their song and want to spend that $1.29.
It seems like every time he's about to crack some major milestone, they go, ooh, whoopsie, we can't, you know, for this reason, and so it is an uphill battle, but understand everybody, we are trying to storm the gates of the woke institutions, and they're not happy about it.
So they're trying to find every way imaginable to stop us, but I just, I just would love to wake up, not next week Tuesday, but the following Tuesday, when the billboard comes out, and Ben Shapiro is one of the top rappers in the world on the Hot 100, which is the, the list. That'll be amazing. I think they'll be number one
sales. I think they, here's what I think's going to happen based on the size of Tom's audience,
you know, us doing a push for it and Daily Wire. I think it's possible that Ben and Tom could
reach number one on the hip-hop charts.
Hot 100, however, that's tough.
I do think if everybody, you know, who watched our shows and their shows, because this is a massive audience, especially with Tom, I think it's possible they reach like 75 Hot 100.
Wow.
But, because at that point you need like 30 million streams, and which is, you're going to need like 50 to 100k sales.
Tough, tough, tough, tough hit.
Number one.
Hot 100.
They would need, I think, probably like 500,000 sales.
But I would just... Man.
I don't think it's gonna happen, but Ben Shapiro getting a gold record for rapping?
That would just be amazing.
Anyway, we'll read your superchats.
We'll read your superchats.
Alright, here we go!
Chris Lambert says, two days in a row.
Uh, this news on Texas ain't gonna be stopping anytime soon.
Triple Flip says, en masse is pronounced en masse.
Please, guys, please.
Well, okay.
Here we go.
I'm not your buddy, guy.
He's returned.
He says, can you hear that?
Drums in the distance.
Drums of war.
Now it comes down to those with the temperament of a toddler and those who seek the West's destruction versus those who refuse enslavement.
Who shall win?
There was a story we didn't get to, but there's rumors that private militia groups are making their way down to Texas.
That's what I've heard.
And, you know, I can only say this.
I'm not gonna tell anybody what they can or can't do in a free country where you're free to move around, do whatever you want.
My opinion is, anybody not involved in Texas law enforcement, who is not ordered by their superiors to be down there, you stay away from it.
Not for safety's reasons, but also, I'm worried someone's gonna, like, get in the way of Greg Abbott at a very crucial moment.
Not that Greg Abbott is a perfect guy.
His record is not perfect.
But, you know, imagine you've got the top athlete, you know, they're playing tennis.
Don't run out on the court thinking you're gonna help.
There was a statement released by Biden today or tonight while we're during the show about something that they have planned for the border, but I didn't read the whole thing.
The Real F'n Deal says, what event do you think future historians will recall as the first step of the American Civil War?
Of the Second American Civil War.
Well, it's interesting.
It's very interesting because when you look at the history of the United States leading up to the Civil War, it could be reduced at infinitum.
In the 1820s, there was discussion of civil war for the issue of slavery, and nothing happened for 40 years.
Some people might argue that the definitive moment was the election of Abraham Lincoln because several states seceded from the Union before he was even inaugurated.
And so that secession led to fighting.
Typically we think the war itself started with Fort Sumter, but Bleeding Kansas had been happening for seven years prior, where you literally had abolitionists and pro-slavery forces going to these states and fighting because, like literally killing each other, because they wanted new slave territories or, you know, free states.
I think it's fair to say that the Civil War in Kansas was Civil War.
It's just not actual Civil War in New York or Maryland or Pennsylvania or whatever.
Not that anything went to New York, for instance.
But the idea that armed ideological factions from the North and the South were going to new territories and fighting over it.
Is that not a component of the Civil War?
It's only that when it drew in all the other states, we're like, this is when the Civil War started.
So that being said, if history, if we're basing it off of what history currently goes by, you would need an eagle pass.
It would need to be an eagle pass.
The moment when the federal government came there and said, it's our jurisdiction, back off.
The state said, you are in violation of codified law.
No.
And then, Fort Sumter was not a legitimate battle.
Nobody was trying to kill each other.
Only one guy died and I think it was by an accident.
Eagle Pass could be a moment where Border Patrol agents order National Guard to drop their weapons, the Border Patrol says, back up, no, you drop your weapons, and then we hear shots fired, nobody's injured.
What would happen if National Guard or CBP engage in a conflict where shots are fired, nobody knows who shot first, nobody gets injured, nobody dies?
We'd say, wow, crisis averted.
A hundred years later, they'd say, the first battle of the Second Civil War, Eagle Pass, just like Fort Sumter.
So, I believe you would need an Eagle Pass type moment.
And what we would look at is, all of the fighting we've seen in Portland and Washington in the Summer of Love riots are effectively the Bleeding Kansas.
The Stop Cop City riots, January 6th, people would refer to that as our civil strife period, much like Bleeding Kansas was.
And Eagle Pass, I hope not.
But something like Eagle Pass would be that shot heard around the world.
The Constitution gives the government limited duties and powers and obligations.
One of them specifically is the borders.
Specifically is immigration.
Question is, when the federal government is not doing its job on that issue, is it okay for the states affected to do it for them?
And I think the answer is yes.
But when they're not doing their job, and they're not, and Congress is not stopping this, and they're not, it seems to me that the states have an obligation to defend their border.
Depending on what happens, we're either in the Civil War or not.
And he's completely right.
If what happens in Eagle Pass dissolves with no... There was talk, I was gonna say, there was talk of a Senate deal on the border, which is basically Texas giving up.
Like, they're talking about thousands of people per day to be allowed in if this is the deal.
So, let's say everybody just chills out, pulls their people back, the border is secure, whatever, no conflict, no crisis happens.
Nobody's gonna say a civil war started.
However, When we are finally at the point, hopefully not, but if we ever get to the point, where there are National Guardsmen shooting at Federal Law Enforcement, history will look back and say the Civil War started a long time ago.
Like Fort Sumter.
This is the point that I was making.
Even though we historically look back and say the Civil War started at Fort Sumter, the people still were at the first Battle of Bull Run thinking there was no Civil War.
They were already in it, they just didn't know.
And so, Fair point.
If tomorrow Joe Biden says, I hereby resign.
I'm done.
I leave.
I give up everything.
Kamala Harris fumbles and bumbles and then everything just stops.
States start cleaning things up.
The federal government stops doing everything.
The DOJ stops going after Trump.
Trump gets elected, comes in, cleans things up.
No civil war ever happened.
Nothing.
That's an ideal scenario, I guess.
unidentified
Yeah, it's like, what if no one died at Fort Sumter?
Cain Abel says, while we are in Civil War II, started by Dems, China will invade Taiwan, starting an official World War III.
I think we are doomed to repeat everything again.
I support Texas.
I think there's a strong likelihood that our adversaries, particularly the BRICS nations, are fomenting civil war in this country, so that when they make their moves, it prevents World War III.
When China moves onto Taiwan, there will not be a World War III, because the United States will be too busy fighting itself.
And so they get their regional conflict, Venezuela gets their regional conflict, Iran gets their regional conflict, and all the regional conflicts are the world at war.
But without U.S.
intervention, it's not going to be as pronounced, it's not going to be as widespread, and the U.S.
Well, most people in Taiwan don't believe that the U.S.
is going to come to their support in the event that Taiwan is invaded anyway, because of the way Gavin Newsom pulled out of Afghanistan.
And the thing about that, Tim, is not only did he pull out, not only did he leave $7 billion worth of military equipment, not only were 13 personnel service members killed, and we left behind hundreds of Americans and Afghan collaborators, He publicly said, Joe Biden did, that nobody advised him that the Taliban would come back and the Afghan government would collapse.
Two generals testified under oath.
That's exactly the advice that he was given.
So if you're a friend or a foe of America, either our military is so incompetent they did not see this coming, or they gave Joe Biden competent advice and the commander-in-chief was so incompetent he didn't follow it.
No matter what I did, how high I got, nothing changed.
Money wasted and citizens abused.
CBP should quit.
Nazi camp guards just followed orders too.
Bravo, sir.
Bravo, sir.
For, you know, for standing up and doing the right thing.
Man.
Yeah, I think regardless of what CBP are saying, there's not going to be a circumstance where someone comes up to me in the street and says, oh I'm with the CBP, I'm a big fan.
I'm going to be like, you need to go make a statement.
We just heard anecdotes of people being like, I'm not doing this, and they're quitting.
But some people are just staying.
And I know it's difficult.
I don't care.
Look.
People say, oh, Tim says quit your job, blah, blah, blah.
Dude, I'm saying if they're doing things that, like, are destroying this country.
I am not saying sacrifice your job if you're scared to say you support Trump.
I'm saying you should say you support Trump because if everybody did, then there would be no concern, no fear, and they couldn't do anything about it.
You don't need to lose your job over this.
I'm just saying stand up for yourself, speak up for what you believe in.
It's a nuanced position.
But if you're a human smuggler... Dude, I just... Well, I'm not a human smuggler.
I just work for the... I work up here.
I'm like, guy, your organization is smuggling humans.
If you're a CBP agent in West Virginia, understand that the resources you provide and the infrastructure around you facilitates that even in the slightest degree.
There was, uh, in Ohio, It was, I believe, ICE brought a bunch of illegal immigrants to a police station and said, we need these guys held temporarily so that we can then, in the morning, get transport to deport them.
And the sheriff was like, you got it, boss.
The next day, ICE was gone.
And they were just like, what is this?
We have a bunch of illegal immigrants sitting here.
So they released them right onto the street of where they live.
I'll tell you this, right now, let's be reasonable as we can.
If you're a CBP agent, you should be in protest to your superiors, like, what's going on?
I don't want to be party to this.
More importantly, if you're at the border, you should say, hey man, I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to facilitate the smugglers.
The cartels are bringing people up for thousands of dollars, and then the only way that's possible is because the cartel knows they can do a handoff with Customs and Border Protection.
If there was no CBP there to accept them, and the policy was rejection, the coyotes and the cartels would have no business at all.
Because they'd be like, yeah, pay us, we'll get you up to the border, where there's a fence, the National Guard, and you can't get in.
They'd be like, I'm not paying you.
The cartel is making, I think it was like a billion dollars off of the human smuggling.
BS Production says, what happened to yesterday's episode 947?
It is up in its full 2 hours and 20 minutes on Rumble.
So go to Rumble, Timcast IRL, subscribe to our Rumble channel, and it is there.
To keep it simple, There are rules that are universal that apply to Rumble, YouTube, and X, where if certain things that I can't repeat are said, then I've been told explicitly by, you know, people working at these companies, the show gets taken down, there's nothing you can do about it.
And so these have to do with legal liability, criminal liability, and things like that.
So, uh, in terms of last night's episode, it just got to that point.
And then what we did was we put it to the members only.
Why do we do that?
It's fast, easy, it's already set up, and then once it's done, immediately the show is in full, available on all podcast platforms and Rumble, and the offending, you know, issue is snipped out of the show.
So, that's it.
For the future, we're gonna do what every other television station does when these things happen, and that's a dump a button.
Fox News has it.
CNN has it.
Historically, all have it.
It's not really been an element of the podcasting world, but I will tell you, one of the big reasons why a lot of your favorite podcasts stopped going live, started switching to either premieres or pre-recorded, was because of this issue that you can't control.
Some people are hanging out, they're talking for a few hours, someone says something off the cuff, they don't realize what they actually said, and there's nothing we can do about it, but with the dump button, click, seven seconds deleted, and none's the wiser, right?
It's a shame that's the world we live in, but unless you're hanging out in someone's house, There's no platform that can support certain things being said.
So, I want to stress this.
Everybody was like, you should stream on Rumble.
I've already talked to Rumble about it.
Rumble said, yeah, we have no choice but to take you down if the same thing was said.
And I'm like, I know, right?
So, we did put the episode on Rumble.
You can watch it there.
It is available.
And iTunes, Spotify, etc.
Let's, uh, let's grab some more Super Chats.
Guardsman Norheim says, Richard Wolfe talks and his facial expressions mimic- mimicking every Disney villain.
It's very off-putting.
Why would anyone trust someone who acts like that?
It's just- it's really funny because he did this interview, uh, with Abby Martin and that- so this is a viral clip.
The audio is not normalized well, but he reiterates his point in an interview with Abby Martin, and they're both just smirking.
And I'm like, I mean, come on, like, Abby and him are smart people.
There's no way you research the issue of economics and ignore the fact that most businesses are small.
Even larger businesses, CEOs do a lot of work.
It is this weird world where you have all of these leftists who genuinely believe CEOs don't do anything.
I mean, to be fair, Jack Dorsey probably didn't do anything when he was CEO of Twitter, but the question then is like, what's his compensation and what value is providing to a system?
These people do not understand how difficult it is to pay.
Right, so the legality of, let me put it this way.
I remember the first time I was like, wow, I'm making a lot of money.
I'd like to give my mom stuff.
And my count's like, oh, that's illegal.
I was like, what?
I was like, I can't like, you know, give my mom, no, there's a federal limit on how much money we can give someone per year.
And then you've got to pay extra money or income tax and stuff like, oh, okay, okay, well, hold on, we won't do that then.
And, okay, but you could theoretically just give someone any amount of money, but then it's all taxed.
And I'm like, okay, well, so that is possible.
You can't just pay people.
You can't give anybody you want a job.
If I hire someone, I have to create a legitimate, written out explanation of what their job is and why they're getting paid.
It has to be on record for our accounting.
Why?
Because rich people in the past have hired their son and paid them a lot of money.
And then the IRS is like, you're just trying to gift your kid money.
You can't do that, so now we have to actually have on record, in the event of an audit, here's the person, here's their job, here's their expectation, here are their hours, here's what they do.
It's wild.
And so these people, these leftists, think CEOs literally do nothing.
Don't get me wrong, slumlords exist, and there are corrupt people, but the idea that because there's a corrupt individual and a criminal, that means all of capitalism is bad, is just, you're being manipulated by crackpots like this Richard Wolff guy.
Let's say you wanted to buy a house for your mom and it costs $250,000.
You do that.
That your mom would have to pay the government 30 or whatever percent of the value of the house in taxes.
So how could the family member actually accept a gift of that magnitude?
They cannot.
So while it is technically possible for you to hand them a check, so you would have to calculate the cost of taxes and how it was to get to 250, write a check for that amount, family member then pays the government their share of the gift you were giving a family member, and then your family member could buy a house.
There you go.
Welcome to why so many people think taxation is theft.
They want you down there spending money to help build up the infrastructure and the economy of Puerto Rico.
So they're saying, hey, look, we're going to tell you this.
You're a millionaire.
You're going to spend a million bucks a year in taxes.
Keep it.
But you've got to live in Puerto Rico six months and one day, because then you're going to be spending that money in Puerto Rico, and that's why we're letting you keep it.
So, taxation, they use as a way to manipulate and social engineer.
That's why they put a tax on cigarettes, they put a tax on gas, they put a tax on soda pop.
They want to manipulate your behavior, and I think that is unconstitutional.
But we've heard a lot about that over the past few years of people posting being like, hey, I checked my thing and it was the wrong one, and it's just so dirty, man.
Creepy stuff!
Alright.
Ian says, I want to bring up to Mr. Elder that the Nuremberg trials clearly stated that following orders was not a valid excuse for committing crimes.
Yeah, they're just facilitating one of the largest human smuggling operations.
And I'm not to downplay Holocaust.
My point was, I do believe what CBP is facilitating is probably the lowest tier of human rights violations and atrocities.
The highest, of course, being genocide and Holocaust.
But what's the, like, you've opened the door to atrocities.
It's facilitating what the cartels are doing.
There are young girls being raped every single day in large numbers.
It's disgusting.
I was talking to a couple guys from Texas this morning, talking about how there's used condoms and just filth everywhere.
It's disgusting.
These cartels are only able to do this because CBP is standing there waiting with smiles on their faces and open arms saying, we got it from here, buddies.
So all of these crimes against humanity that are occurring would stop if CBP simply said, we will not facilitate this.
Instead, what they're saying Well, they allow it to happen.
There was an interview where a CBP guy says they keep allowing them in.
And the guy doing the interview says it's kind of strange because to the average observer, it's CBP that is allowing them in and putting them in cars and driving them to their destinations.
If CBP said, you will not, you shall not pass, the coyotes would be like, we're dead in the water.
We can't run this business anymore.
So, so long as you have thousands of people dying in the deserts, drowning in the rivers, and young women being raped repeatedly, and some of these are being sex trafficked.
I'm sorry, but CBP is engaged in, like, an atrocity.
The lowest tier, I don't like, come on.
Anyway, tough talk.
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