Feb. 6, 2024 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| The border bill, it's not really a border bill. | ||
| They're calling it a border security bill, but it is a disaster. | ||
| It's basically funding for Ukraine to the tune of $60 billion, funding for Israel, and $20 billion for amnesty, I guess? | ||
| The bill basically just codifies exactly what it is the Biden administration is doing. | ||
| It creates an easier path for asylum seekers, quote-unquote, to be granted asylum and to be given work permits. | ||
| This was the play. | ||
| It was obvious. | ||
| Joe Biden screws up the border and basically creates a mess. | ||
| Then, when Republicans start complaining, Joe Biden says, I need, I need a bill. | ||
| Then when they put together a bill giving Biden everything he wants and destroying the border, they call it a security bill. | ||
| So when Republicans in the House, not the Senate, oppose it, the media will run rampant screaming, the Republicans are against their own bill. | ||
| That was the narrative and that's exactly what's happening. | ||
| So we'll talk about that. | ||
| Plus we got crazy news. | ||
| Depending on how you view it. | ||
| The federal government has sent a memo calling on the Alaskan National Guard to deploy to the southern border, which would include Texas for support for aviation. | ||
| It's a single grain of sand in the heap of things are kind of heating up. | ||
| The last time this happened, as many people are claiming, it's routine, this happens all the time. | ||
| The last time it happened was five years ago under Trump, and it was 10 personnel. | ||
| We're now seeing 20 personnel. | ||
| It's either the most tone-deaf thing imaginable, the most tone-deaf thing you can do at a time when the state is in... 14 states basically had a meeting. | ||
| All their governors came together saying, we will secure the border against the Biden administration. | ||
| Joe Biden has threatened a deadline against them. | ||
| And now you've got the Alaska National Guard coming down to work with CBP on the border, and this does include Texas as part of their deployment. | ||
| Naturally, there are already attempts to claim this is nothing, don't worry about it, but it's a grain of sand. | ||
| And I think it's probably bad precedent, but we'll talk about that. | ||
| Plus, Well, I want to talk about this rumor of RFK Jr. | ||
| running on Libertarian tickets, and maybe, and then I want to talk about Michael Rapoport, leftist comedian, well, liberal comedian, who absolutely, he's not a leftist, he's a liberal, absolutely hates Donald Trump, has now made several videos talking about how he's gonna vote for pig-dick Donald Trump, so we'll talk about him. | ||
| He's a funny guy, but he's very liberal. | ||
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| Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Josh Smith. | ||
| Hey, what's going on, Tim? | ||
| Thanks so much for having me back. | ||
| I appreciate you. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Who are you? | ||
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What do you do? | |
| I'm the host of Break the Cycle with Joshua Smith, live in the evenings on YouTube, and I'm a candidate for President of the United States for the Libertarian Party. | ||
| Right on. | ||
| So this should be interesting. | ||
| We got Phil hanging out. | ||
| Hello, everybody. | ||
| My name is Phil Labonte. | ||
| I am the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains. | ||
| I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary. | ||
| And Libby's hanging out. | ||
| Hey, guys. | ||
| I'm Libby Emmons. | ||
| I'm hanging out. | ||
| I'm with the Post Millennial. | ||
| Glad to be here. | ||
| And of course, sir, just pressing all the buttons. | ||
| Yes, I am back. | ||
| I am here. | ||
| It's good to be back. | ||
| I also see a friend of mine across the table here. | ||
| What's up? | ||
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What's up? | |
| Yo, I made it back. | ||
| I'm back from Miami. | ||
| What's happening, everybody? | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| I feel good, man. | ||
| I got out of town. | ||
| I went to Miami and I'm like, yo, you want to talk about a culture war? | ||
| Being in a place with a bunch of people that you don't necessarily agree with and you're not the one curating who you're going to hang with and hanging with them for a long time anyway. | ||
| And just being with those people, that's like frontline material. | ||
| It's really invigorating. | ||
| I was just in L.A. | ||
| for a week. | ||
| And so was Libby. | ||
| Libby was in California. | ||
| Yeah, I was in California for a good stretch. | ||
| I was in L.A. | ||
| working with Prager on something and then... Did you step in any poop? | ||
| No, but I did keep saying to my son, hey hon, don't step in the poop, hey watch it, don't step in the poop, that we were in L.A. | ||
| and San Francisco and we actually had a spectacular time. | ||
| We were, me and Allison were hanging out at MGM National Harbor all weekend and I had some stories early in the day about this Trump derangement syndrome guy, but there was another guy who was a fairly liberal guy who was like, I don't like Donald Trump, we gotta vote for Biden, blah blah blah, but he was complaining about the poop. | ||
| He really, he was like, he's like, have you seen they got this map, the social media app where you can see all the poop? | ||
| And I was like, you get it. | ||
| Why would you want to vote for these people? | ||
| Poop and death, it's like two things. | ||
| In California, the politicians fell upwards. | ||
| That's what, Gavin Newsom, they wanted to cover the whole state in poop. | ||
| Let's jump to this story. | ||
| We'll get, we'll kick it off with this Huffington Post headline. | ||
| It's a betrayal. | ||
| Republicans go ballistic over bipartisan border bill they demanded. | ||
| This is the game. | ||
| Everybody who knows anything about politics predicted exactly this. | ||
| Biden comes out and says, I need a new law to secure the border. | ||
| Republicans and Democrats in the Senate come together and create an amnesty bill which codifies exactly what Biden is already doing. | ||
| There's no negotiation here. | ||
| It literally just gives Biden everything locked in, nailed in, bang! | ||
| And so when House Republicans are like, yo, no! | ||
| The media, of course, was always going to say the Republicans are lying, obstructing, and this was part of their plan. | ||
| Donald Trump wants chaos. | ||
| This is what they're saying. | ||
| They're saying that The reason why, in the House, they're calling this bill done on arrival and they won't vote on it is because they're terrified of Donald Trump and Donald Trump wants chaos so he can win the election. | ||
| It is the long con. | ||
| But here's the reality. | ||
| We've got this post from Mike Lee, U.S. | ||
| Senator for Utah, who says, the dirty dozen disasters in the so-called border deal codifies catch-and-release, allows up to 1.8 million illegal aliens to enter before temporary closing off parts of the border, It funds sanctuary cities and NGOs sending illegals around the country. | ||
| It subsidizes free taxpayer-funded legal counsel to illegal aliens. | ||
| It expands parole instead of limiting it. | ||
| It increases green cards by $50,000 per year for five years. | ||
| Work permit for adult children of H-1B visa holders. | ||
| Immediate work permits to every illegal released from custody after they pass an initial screening. | ||
| Nothing to deport illegals. | ||
| Afghan Adjustment Act creates a pathway decision for over 60,000 poorly vetted Afghans who were brought to the country due to Biden's disastrous withdrawal. | ||
| Weakens asylum screenings by codifying Biden policy. | ||
| No immediate funding for the wall. | ||
| And now, I love how Mike Lee said, this is bad for the border. | ||
| What it doesn't mention is $60 billion in funding for war in Ukraine. | ||
| Or I believe it's, what, $14 million for funding for Israel. | ||
| $74 billion in total between Ukraine and Israel. | ||
| And the whole bill is only $120 billion. | ||
| So, I mean, you're talking $20 billion for border. | ||
| And then it's basically a war powers bill. | ||
| It's a foreign wars funding act. | ||
| Zero dollars. | ||
| Zero laws and zero policy for border security. | ||
| Well, and the craziest thing, and Libby and I were talking about this before the show started, if you read through the bill, and I don't know why Mike Lee's not bringing this up and other people, but there's a portion of this bill, there's a provision in this bill that gives the right for all of these things to be heard in the D.C. | ||
| District Court going forward. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
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We found it. | |
| Yeah, it's going to give them... It's on there on 150. | ||
| Yeah, it's going to give them... Where can I put that? | ||
| Page 150, do a search for judicial review. | ||
| It's right there at the bottom, page 150. | ||
| All reviews on these matters will go through the district court in DC, in the District | ||
| of Columbia. So they will have free reign over all of these issues from now on in DC. | ||
| The biggest problem with the bill, the existence of the bill, is the Republicans allowing it to | ||
| be debated is giving credibility to the argument that there is a necessity, | ||
| is that the bill is necessary in the first place. | ||
| The federal government has all of the authority that it needs to take care of the border. | ||
| There does not need to be another bill. | ||
| There doesn't need to be new authorization from Congress. | ||
| There does not need to be anything except for the executive to use the powers that he has and to handle the job assigned to him in the Constitution. | ||
| One of the few things that are specifically said that the president has to take care of. | ||
| I just want to give a shout out. | ||
| I asked Libby to tweet out the bill so I could pull up the DC provision. | ||
| But Libby retweeted Mike Cernovich. | ||
| He said, if the border bill were truly a compromise, Democrats would support it as a standalone rather than tie it to the $60 billion WTF to money laundering Ukraine. | ||
| It's all about money laundering. | ||
| But I just love the WTF. | ||
| Like $60 billion. | ||
| It's done. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| It's remarkable that anyone in their right mind could try to justify this expense. | ||
| Meanwhile Ukraine's forcibly enlisting females to fight their war because they're doing so badly. | ||
| How long have they been doing that? | ||
| At least a month now. | ||
| So they're forcibly enlisting women to fight their war. | ||
| We're in Ukraine? | ||
| In Ukraine, yeah. | ||
| Well, women are already fighting in Israel for sure. | ||
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Oh yeah. | |
| That's like part of the deal. | ||
| But the situation in both Israel and in Ukraine is like these are arguably existential threats, right? | ||
| So like if the Palestinians had their way, there wouldn't be an Israel. | ||
| And if Russia has its way, they might take at least half of Ukraine. | ||
| Oh, I mean, can I point out that when I said $14 billion to Israel, that includes to Palestine as well? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because we're funding both sides of that war. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And we have been forever. | ||
| Like clowns! | ||
| Like damn fools! | ||
| We're dummy shit! | ||
| I mean, anybody who's watched our foreign policy in the Middle East for the last, I don't know, three, four, five decades knows that we always fund both sides of every war. | ||
| Then we never lose! | ||
| It's so infuriating. | ||
| Schumer is saying the children of Gaza will starve. | ||
| And like, come on, we all know when you send money to these NGOs, it funnels up to Hamas. | ||
| As soon as these resources go in, Hamas is the governing body, they take it. | ||
| Why are we playing this game? | ||
| And I'm not saying like, pick a side. | ||
| I'm saying neither! | ||
| Let's come back to America, baby! | ||
| The fact that we're talking about it is so frustrating because there is absolutely no legitimate reason for Ukraine and Israeli funding to be tied to controlling our own border. | ||
| It's so goddamn frustrating! | ||
| It's a lie, right? | ||
| I mean, it shows the lie so clearly. | ||
| You don't care about American sovereignty. | ||
| Not at all! | ||
| You don't care about American national security. | ||
| What they really don't care about are Americans. | ||
| I mean, when I talk to liberals, when I talk to conservatives, everyone's like, yeah, it's a little too much. | ||
| This whole immigration thing is too much. | ||
| You have officials in New York saying it's going to destroy New York City, and everyone's like, oh, let's just do that anyway. | ||
| Let's destroy New York City. | ||
| Let me read this. | ||
| This is page 150 of the bill. | ||
| It says, judicial review. | ||
| Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, judicial review of any decision or action in this section shall be governed only by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which shall have sole and original jurisdiction to hear challenges, whether constitutional or otherwise, to the validity of this section or any written policy directive, written policy guideline, procedure, or implementation thereof issued by or under the authority of the Secretary to implement this section. | ||
| Long story short, do you guys want to know what this bill is? | ||
| It's trying to corporatize the American government by giving diplomatic control to the Federals. | ||
| They're trying to make sure that Donald Trump will have no power to do anything about the border if he becomes president. | ||
| They said constitutional or otherwise, meaning we're going to do it whether it's constitutional or not if we sign this bill. | ||
| Well, and it's, I mean, listen, I'm not a lawyer. | ||
| Let's read that again. | ||
| It literally says, whether constitutional or otherwise. | ||
| Now I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not super versed in legalese, but I will say that sounds to me like we're giving full reign to DC already has full reign over a lot of stuff. | ||
| We already know that Biden didn't need a border bill to do anything. | ||
| He signed all of this open border nonsense into executive orders and various actions within his first couple of days in office. | ||
| Huge numbers of border measures saying, we're going to increase the number of asylum seekers we're going to let in, we're going to Give everybody a court date. | ||
| We're going to, instead of remain in Mexico, we have remain in the U.S. | ||
| for as long as it takes. | ||
| And now this border bill, what it really does is it says we're going to get more border agents to process more people faster. | ||
| We're going to get more immigration judges to give more people asylum faster. | ||
| There's nothing good in there. | ||
| There's nothing good. | ||
| The record was 10,000 per day. | ||
| This says, if it reaches $8,500 per day, then we'll move the rest to a legal port of entry. | ||
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What? | |
| Wait, wait, wait, wait. | ||
| There's no... They're not saying they're going to stop them. | ||
| They're saying, after $8,500, the rest can go apply at a legal port of entry, and it removes the requirement for courts in many circumstances. | ||
| Well, and you saw what Chris Murphy said, right? | ||
| Chris Murphy, who's one of the architects of the bill, said that under this bill, the border never closes. | ||
| He said the border never closes. | ||
| So what kind of border security is this if we can't even close our own borders? | ||
| Well, here's the thing, too. | ||
| So I don't know if you saw this, but if you saw this bill, you'd be criticizing every portion of this bill if it came across your desk and you actually had the time to read it before. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But Matt Gaetz, who for all intents and purposes is a pretty decent guy most of the time on some of this stuff, but he came out and he said, why don't we just defund UN so we can fund Israel? | ||
| I had to pose to him. | ||
| I said, Matt, you realize this isn't Israel, right? | ||
| We don't live in Israel. | ||
| You're the America First guy. | ||
| What are you doing, you know? | ||
| But yeah, this whole bill is from front to back just terrible. | ||
| There's nothing good in there. | ||
| We fund the UN and the UN hires a bunch of people that are linked to Hamas and puts them in Gaza to distribute all of the aid to Hamas. | ||
| But this is where we can find a compromise. | ||
| How about we say, alright, 60 billion to Ukraine, but no more funding to the UN ever, no funding to, you know, this is the last one, like, you tie it to something. | ||
| What did I say? | ||
| The general idea is you tie it to something in such a way that it puts them in a position they can't maintain. | ||
| We'll fund the wars that they want if we can bulldoze all of Washington, D.C. | ||
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No! | |
| Listen, 12% of the population... 12%... Okay, if we can bulldoze D.C., I'm in. | ||
| No, but 12% of the population of the United States is having a problem putting food on the table today, and we're sending $60 billion to Ukraine. | ||
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Why? | |
| Why? | ||
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Because Chuck Schumer is threatening us. | |
| It is money laundering. | ||
| And he threatened that if we don't do it, then he's going to send our kids to go fight in Eastern Europe. | ||
| Everybody that's in office now needs to get fired. | ||
| November needs to be an absolute, it must be a massacre. | ||
| Everybody that's in office, if you're an incumbent, fire them. | ||
| A metaphorical massacre. | ||
| We're talking about the vote. | ||
| Let me pull up this from the Postmillennial. | ||
| Chuck Schumer demands border never closes bill pass or else U.S. | ||
| troops will have to fight in Ukraine. | ||
| He did not literally say Ukraine. | ||
| He said in Eastern Europe in a NATO ally in a few years. | ||
| And so it's vague enough. | ||
| First, he could mean Poland. | ||
| He could mean Sweden. | ||
| I think it's fair to argue he might literally mean Ukraine, in that the West wants to take control of it and would absolutely shove it to NATO if they had to. | ||
| But he's basically saying, Vladimir Putin is going to invade Europe, and so we need this border security bill? | ||
| Who's border security? | ||
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Ukraine's? | |
| It's a Ukraine border security bill. | ||
| I want to know how my border got to Ukraine. | ||
| It's pretty bizarre. | ||
| You know, when we say, how did our freedoms get to the Middle East? | ||
| How did our border get to Ukraine? | ||
| Who's we now? | ||
| Fire them all, bulldoze DC, salt the earth. | ||
| I truly, I'm coming to believe this hypothesis, at least I have the hypothesis, that we are in a slow coup that's been going on for a hundred years, man. | ||
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Slow? | |
| It's like a banking, yeah, they're trying to do it not fast enough to alert the people. | ||
| JFK. | ||
| Like JFK, the Federal Reserve, the business plot, There's so much. | ||
| There's so many foreign wars that are proxy wars with money getting laundered away from our country. | ||
| And like, I mean, 9-11 even, I could just go down a list of things I find in my hypothesis that this is a news show. | ||
| I'm not going to do that on a news show, but like the last 10 years, it's been like, they're like, make it, don't alert them. | ||
| Don't alert them. | ||
| Just let's get the money. | ||
| Let's do the COVID spending. | ||
| It increased our budget by like 20%, our deficit by like 20% in like two years. | ||
| Soft coup. | ||
| I mean, I would actually suggest, I would ask, at what point does the government become the functioning and in control government, right? | ||
| So Taiwan, the official name of Taiwan is what the Republic of China, I believe, correct? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so many people make the joke that Communist China is just West Taiwan. | ||
| Because the original government of China fled to Taiwan. | ||
| They've maintained themselves ever since, resisting the communists. | ||
| And so my question is, at what point, after the coup happened in the United States, Woodrow Wilson, who knows, the banker plot, the Federal Reserve... 1913, that's about right. | ||
| Right, so my point is simply this. | ||
| Maybe the revolution was Donald Trump. | ||
| Not that he is a perfect guy, not that he was the guy, but that he ripped the establishment's power in twain, and they were losing their minds. | ||
| And they're still losing it. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And so when everyone's like, they're trying to stage a coup, and I'm like, well, you know, the thing is, the establishment was in control. | ||
| The Uniparty was in control. | ||
| Then a bunch of people on the internet made a bunch of memes, and the reality TV real estate mogul wins, And says, don't do wars, we're shutting it down, secure our borders, and then they lose their minds like, we've lost control of this. | ||
| That's why it's funny when they say our democracy. | ||
| They say Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy. | ||
| They're literally saying that there's a populist uprising against the autocratic control we've maintained for generations. | ||
| Yep, that's true. | ||
| It was George Bush Sr. | ||
| in the 90s said that we were moving towards a new world order, this liberal economic order was fading into something new, a global order. | ||
| And Trump got into office and cancelled the Trans-Pacific Partnership right away, three days in. | ||
| If you look at the Investor State Dispute Settlement Clause in that Trans-Pacific Partnership, it said foreign countries, these investors, these Malaysian oil companies, can sue a state For discrimination. | ||
| If we chose not to buy a Malaysian company's oil as American citizens, they could sue our country, and as taxpayers, we would have had to pay a corporation out. | ||
| That's what that Trans-Pacific Partnership was going to do to us, and Obama was on board. | ||
| And then Trump came in and threw it in the garbage. | ||
| I don't even know if he knew what it was, what it was doing. | ||
| I don't know if he stopped something he understood. | ||
| He just knew there were a bunch of people outside yelling Trump, and they had expressed concerns about it. | ||
| Let's not fool ourselves and act like there's not so much foreign influence today still in the United States. | ||
| Of course, of course. | ||
| Apex, arguably one of the very strongest outside influences in the United States today and it's, you know, and it's not good for us as Americans, especially when you're an American first person. | ||
| But Trump got in office and immediately hired John Bolton. | ||
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So, I mean, the establishment thing is kind of... No, no, I think Donald Trump... He was not great at hiring. | |
| It was the worst. | ||
| It was really bad. | ||
| Understand Donald Trump thought... | ||
| He was like, I'll play ball and I'll get done what I want to get done. | ||
| And they were like, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| You don't understand. | ||
| You live under our boot. | ||
| You know, they, they, the, the, the joke is, you know, as soon as you win the election, you sit down in the Oval Office, guy from the CIA sits down and just hands him, sits down to Mr. President, opens a manila folder and then slides a picture of JFK right across the table and says, we'll be in touch and then leaves. | ||
| Right. | ||
| We get it. | ||
| We get it. | ||
| Trump is the guy who was like, what is this? | ||
| I don't know what you're showing me. | ||
| Why are you showing me a picture of this guy? | ||
| And they're like, um, We're letting you know. | ||
| Letting me know what? | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| Too dumb to intimidate. | ||
| He doesn't understand what I'm trying to say to him. | ||
| He's like, look, we're going to secure the border. | ||
| We're shutting down. | ||
| There was no Mr. President. | ||
| We're not. | ||
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Yes, we are. | |
| I'm the boss. | ||
| And he doesn't listen. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So what do I think is? | ||
| When Trump was running, I remember I was in D.C. | ||
| Trump had a meeting with a bunch of established Republicans. | ||
| They did not want him. | ||
| The Democrats wanted him to be the Pied Piper candidate. | ||
| Trump, I think, genuinely wants to secure the borders, bring jobs back. | ||
| That goes against their agenda. | ||
| And so he thinks, when he gets in, now I'm the president. | ||
| I've got to play ball with some of these guys. | ||
| I've got to, you know, there's favors. | ||
| We'll bring in John Bolton. | ||
| I think Sheldon Adelstein wanted a lot of favors. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And so then what happens? | ||
| Russiagate. | ||
| And Trump, I think, finally realizes, bro, you are being tricked, manipulated, and lied to, and you brought in a bunch of dumbasses. | ||
| I question whether or not there are people In available to fill the positions that are not currently like already steeped in the bureaucracy, right? | ||
| Right. Like there are a lot of positions that have to be filled. | ||
| And I don't know who you go with. | ||
| That's actually someone that's not, you know, that's not already got there. | ||
| They're, you know, significant connections to to the existing bureaucracy just because, you know, that's my | ||
| concern. | ||
| But Bolton is like, well, obviously, the worst. | ||
| Let me tell you, in order to hire John Bolton, Trump had to drive past a local prison, drive past a city dump. | ||
| All better people and go way, way down to the to the Pacific garbage gyre where he got a submersible and went | ||
| down to where all the deepest trenches of garbage have sunk. | ||
| And dig even deeper than that. | ||
| And there's John Bolton. | ||
| We could have dug up the corpse of Madeleine Albright. | ||
| It would have been the same thing, essentially. | ||
| And so, yeah, it's terrible. | ||
| And so that was what worries me about Trump, too, right? | ||
| Like in 2024, should Trump win? | ||
| Is it the same thing going to happen? | ||
| And then that's great. | ||
| And I get that. | ||
| But my concern is that a lot of my young Republican friends, because I have a lot of friends that are Republicans, tons of friends that are very excited about Trump because of who the VP pick might be. | ||
| And I think everybody's like, oh, it's got to be somebody like Vivek or somebody like Kristi Noem or somebody like that. | ||
| And I'm like, you realize that like 80% of the GOP is still like deeply entrenched like neocons and they have to play to that part of the party, not the 7% that like Vivek. | ||
| It would be really funny if Trump just like came out and was like, I've chosen my VP, John Bolton! | ||
| I think it's gonna be somebody along the lines of Nikki Haley, I really believe that. | ||
| I think it might be Tucker, man. | ||
| I'll put it simply for those that don't know, John Bolton has a long history of working in administrations and just wanting more. | ||
| And so he had a quote, I think this was during the Trump administration, he said something like, this time next year we will be celebrating in Tehran. | ||
| And so he is just a... | ||
| Neocon, maximalist, warmonger character. | ||
| Nikki Haley ain't got nothing on the war he wants. | ||
| Trump hiring him was a mistake. | ||
| And then Bolton stabbed him in the back. | ||
| You could do the higher cabinet of a bunch of successful businessmen. | ||
| At this point, it's like the founders did. | ||
| The founding fathers were a bunch of successful businessmen that got together and started and ran a government together because they knew how to run things and they weren't entrenched in the garbage. | ||
| Elon Musk for VP. | ||
| I mean, if you're talking about getting people that are actually going to satisfy, like, supposedly the other side of the aisle, the last people they're going to be satisfied with are people that are, like, you know, CEOs and board members of companies. | ||
| Dude, you can't satisfy the other side of the aisle. | ||
| I would agree with that. | ||
| We were talking about this downstairs because this song came on by Passion Pit. | ||
| And there's a line, he has a song called, I Took a Walk. | ||
| And there's a line in the song where it says, we can rip apart all the socialists and all their damn taxes. | ||
| And the left went nuts over the song, attacking the band and criticizing them, it was like a cancel culture thing, for having dared said that. | ||
| And that the point of the song though, is it's about the feelings of like his elder, his relatives, and it's quotes from them and things they have said. | ||
| He's not literally saying he hates socialism. | ||
| He's just saying like, this is what the older guy said to him. | ||
| But the left doesn't care what's true. | ||
| They don't care about the point of the statement or the message. | ||
| It's just, it's surface level. | ||
| It's one-dimensional thinking. | ||
| So if you want to satisfy these people, I mean, we were talking about this just before the show and I mentioned it in the morning segment about this guy. | ||
| I was playing poker and he had Trump derangement syndrome down in DC. | ||
| And I realized something, my girlfriend had said, he was muttering to himself, he was screaming, how could you vote for Trump? | ||
| He would not listen to a single word. | ||
| He asked me to name one thing Trump did that I liked, I said, no new wars, he keeps muttering. | ||
| He's like, you can't even name one thing, I'll make Abraham Accords, he keeps muttering. | ||
| And I'm like, this guy can't hear a word. | ||
| He's just sitting there. | ||
| So stupid. | ||
| These people are so dumb and stupid. | ||
| And then my girlfriend's like, he doesn't know what the Abraham Accords are. | ||
| And I was like, ah, there's no way for him to respond at all | ||
| to what that means because he doesn't know. | ||
| You can't satisfy these people because they live in a shoebox. | ||
| But arguably besides the no new wars thing, the best thing Trump did was like make people extreme | ||
| on the corporate news media being the enemy of the people. | ||
| I mean, that's the greatest thing that Trump did. | ||
| And it was hilarious watching him work. | ||
| I mean, just, you know, the way that he's able to just troll people in real life is amazing. | ||
| Like, that's great. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| But I do worry about Trump, too, and what that means for, you know, the people who get their hopes up for a lot of stuff and then it doesn't happen. | ||
| In 2020, less than half a million people came across the border and were apprehended. | ||
| It was less than half a million. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Illegal immigrants. | ||
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| What can you really expect from Donald Trump too? | ||
| Like, what is it that you think people are expecting? | ||
| I think, well, I think people, first of all, the VP spot. | ||
| I think that a lot of people are going to be let down when we find out who the VP is. | ||
| But that's not even when he's president. | ||
| Let's say he gets elected and I don't know. | ||
| And you know, people are like, oh, it's going to be somebody great. | ||
| I'm like, do you remember who his VP was last time? | ||
| So let's say it's Trump-Burgum. | ||
| I'm just picking like the least probable candidate. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What do people think? | ||
| Like, what do you perceive as the hopes and dreams? | ||
| I think on the extreme side, it's that, you know, all these people are going to go to jail, right? | ||
| Like, this is the revenge tour. | ||
| We're going to lock up all these corrupt people and shut down the border, and we're going to end all the wars, and we're going to, you know, give all the tax cuts. | ||
| But that's what a lot of people think. | ||
| But no, no, no, but like, first, Locking people up and arresting everybody. | ||
| Maybe some people might get some referrals. | ||
| You don't think that some people won't get arrested? | ||
| I sure hope so. | ||
| I don't think it's going to be like military tribunals where they go after the Clintons or anything. | ||
| I think it's going to be like we're going to hear about lawyers and we're going to hear about election officials. | ||
| There's going to be criminal charges brought up by... I mean, could you imagine if Kash Patel was the AG? | ||
| Right, there would be criminal charges. | ||
| I don't think it's going to be like this apocalyptic thing. | ||
| Ending wars? | ||
| Well, Donald Trump is the best president in my lifetime on foreign war. | ||
| And pulling our troops out of Afghanistan, setting the deadline for it, I should say, Biden screwed that up, trying to get our troops out of Syria, and no new wars. | ||
| He kind of expanded the Syrian war, though, a little bit when he did that too, right? | ||
| When he tried to get our troops out? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How so? | ||
| Didn't we send them a bunch more cash right after that happened? | ||
| I mean, if we're leaving, and like, if you came to me and said, we're gonna pull our, here's what Trump wants to do, he wants to get all our troops out of Syria, and then we'll give Syria some cash, it's like, okay. | ||
| But he didn't pull the troops out. | ||
| No, no, no, he did, he gave the order, and then the officials lied to the American people, to him, and kept them in. | ||
| Fair. | ||
| Right, that's messed, look, if the only thing I could be offered was, vote for Donald Trump, he'll take a dump on the floor of the White House, but he won't start a war, I'll take it. | ||
| Yeah, that is a better deal. | ||
| Considering how many people are taking dumps on the floor. | ||
| To be honest, Joe Biden is like, he'll dump on the floor, in his pants, everywhere he goes. | ||
| He'll have to change his pants several times. | ||
| He'll start several wars. | ||
| And I'm like, well, there's no upside that. | ||
| Yeah, well, also, none of us are stupid enough to believe that Joe Biden is actually leading the foreign policy in the United States right now, right? | ||
| Dude is a mess. | ||
| They just did a poll, they just put out a poll where only 23% of the respondents said that they think his mental capacity is good enough to be president again. | ||
| And that's, I mean, I think that's high. | ||
| I think 23% is high, but that's really low in a poll for this country. | ||
| Well, you heard what Bill Maher was saying. | ||
| Gavin Newsom's a winner. | ||
| He can win an election. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Joe Biden Man. | ||
| You know, the argument from the DeSantis people that the only reason or one of the main reasons they don't want Trump is Trump is a loser. | ||
| He's going to lose. | ||
| Everyone hates him. | ||
| And it is true. | ||
| The only reason Joe Biden won is because people vote against Donald Trump. | ||
| I take that back. | ||
| Not the only reason. | ||
| A good factor in why Biden actually got votes was not because anyone liked Biden, but the strong factor in why Biden won was because activists went out and collected ballots. | ||
| Because they mailed ballots to people and then people were told how to vote. | ||
| Well, I'm telling you, listen. | ||
| And then they told us that wasn't happening. | ||
| I hate this. | ||
| The United States is really big on politicians failing upwards. | ||
| We've known this forever. | ||
| And coming from California, I watched Gavin Newsom ruin San Francisco. | ||
| San Francisco used to be a really beautiful city when I was a kid, and he ruined it. | ||
| He destroyed it. | ||
| And instead of going, hey, that guy really ruined one of our coolest cities in the state. | ||
| Let's get rid of him. | ||
| We said, let's make him the governor of the state. | ||
| And so we can have a Poo Maps for all of California. | ||
| And next, who knows? | ||
| Maybe the country. | ||
| Maybe the world. | ||
| Why stop there? | ||
| Mars needs more. | ||
| There was an article written several years ago that I had covered. | ||
| California is five years ahead of the United States. | ||
| Over the past several decades, whatever happens in California five years later is national. | ||
| And so they talk about a bunch of policies, you know, gay marriage was a big issue in California, things like that. | ||
| Illegal immigration, sanctuary cities became... Sanctuary states for trans kids. | ||
| Well, California had sanctuary cities, which then turned into a sanctuary state, and then all of a sudden you start seeing it spread across the country. | ||
| And I think it has a lot to do with the undue influence they have through illegal immigration. | ||
| They get extra votes. | ||
| Oh yeah, there's no doubt. | ||
| Yeah, some members of Congress have said it's between five and seven extra congressional seats, which is five to seven extra electoral college votes for president because of non-citizens they have illegally allowed into their country in defiance of federal law. | ||
| Well, under Trump, Trump said that the census should differentiate between people who are here illegally and citizens who are, you know, obviously lawful citizens. | ||
| And that's what he was aiming for. | ||
| And Biden reversed that within his first few days in office. | ||
| And of course, the reason is to get more congressional seats for Democrat-led states that allow all that illegal immigration. | ||
| I want to jump to the story from the Anchorage Daily News. | ||
| February 3rd, Alaska National Guard plans deployment to assist federal government on US-Mexico border. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I posted an image of this and someone said, who knew Alaska was so based? | ||
| And everyone responded, Alaska assisting the feds is not based. | ||
| So the gist of the story is this. | ||
| They're deploying a couple aircraft and 20 personnel to assist with the aircraft. | ||
| They say it's routine. | ||
| This is, they say, Major Ryan Wierzbicki, a spokesman for the U.S. | ||
| Army's Joint Task Force North, said in a phone interview that Alaska Guard members would be sent to any of four states along the border, including Texas and Arizona. | ||
| Federal requests for states to provide border assistance are issued regularly and have become routine. | ||
| Now, I tweeted about this somewhat facetiously. | ||
| I said, what do you call it when a National Guard is called up to go against another state's National Guard? | ||
| And I got community noted on X, where it took selective excerpts from the article to obfuscate what's actually happening. | ||
| It said, they are not going against each other. | ||
| I'm like, I asked the question intentionally, you know, not to state it definitively, but it is true. | ||
| These individuals will be providing assistance to CBP in Texas as well as. | ||
| But that does mean Texas. | ||
| That does mean part of their deployment will put them up against Texas. | ||
| I don't know how else to describe it. | ||
| If Texas National Guard is saying, no to CBP, back the F off, and you have no jurisdiction here, or we've cut you off from your jurisdiction, how in any way could you interpret Any amount of National Guard being called in by the feds to a variety of states, which include Texas, anything other than, they will be as part of the deployment against Texas National Guard. | ||
| It also says, they also said, it's a routine thing. | ||
| Many people responded saying, it's totally routine. | ||
| It's not that big a deal. | ||
| Yo, it says in the article, the last time they did this was 2019. | ||
| Five years ago is not routine. | ||
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| Now, I'm not saying Joe Biden got on the phone and said, we need to bring the National Guard in to get to stop Texas. | ||
| I'm saying it's a grain of sand in a heap. | ||
| And the question is, is this the most tone-deaf move you could possibly make when the Texas National Guard has deployed armed soldiers to physically remove and bar federal agents from removing border barriers? | ||
| Or was it an intentional, CBP needs assistance because of what is happening with... Look, I'll put it this way. | ||
| I don't care what state they go to. | ||
| CBP and Texas are completely at odds as to how to operate this. | ||
| We've had people who have reported on the ground, at the border, tell us When Taylor Hanson was here, he said, tens of thousands of people, it's chaos, there's litter. | ||
| What happened after Texas took over? | ||
| Three? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He said four to six, maybe. | ||
| And I said, thousand? | ||
| He goes, no, no, no, no, four to six, like four, five, or six. | ||
| And I was like, you mean like on my finger four? | ||
| Yeah, four people. | ||
| I'm like, when, what? | ||
| So when CBP is facilitating human smuggling, and then Texas steps in, what do you think it's going to mean that the Alaska National Guard is assisting them? | ||
| It means these individuals who are providing assistance with aviation to the CBP will be at odds with the mission of the Texas National Guard. | ||
| That's a fact. | ||
| And I'll give you one more. | ||
| Let me see if I can find this... I had this... I'm surprised Alaska would send them, to be honest, and Dunlea, because it's... I mean, that state kind of already hates the Fed anyways. | ||
| Yeah, why would they do that? | ||
| That's like one of those states that's actually pretty anti-federal. | ||
| I had the story pulled up, I lost it, but the Border Patrol Union supports the new border bill. | ||
| Yeah, there's a lot of pay increases and stuff for border guards in there. | ||
| But the border bill, as we've covered in a previous segment, does not have any security at all. | ||
| It codifies 8,500 criminal aliens entering the country every day and gives them the funding, and it gives them more authority to adjudicate asylum claims without a judge. | ||
| So, of course, they're for it. | ||
| Do we want, let's say this law, look, they're planning on having this law probably pass, I doubt it'll happen, but if it did, and CBP is now in the legal, has legislatively been given the right to bring in five to eight thousand criminal aliens every day, and in some instances determine their asylum cases just right there, and they get work permits, Alaskan National Guard is going to be helping them do that. | ||
| And that's still three million illegals, illegal immigrants a year, by the way, which is not a huge drop in what we're seeing currently. | ||
| So it's it's not it's not good. | ||
| None of this is acceptable. | ||
| I mean, it also, though, I mean, the the the border bill also has an increase in pay for asylum and border agents. | ||
| Yeah, that's a big part of it. | ||
| So I'll point this out, too. | ||
| In the community note, it said it has nothing to do with Operation Lone Star. | ||
| That's exactly my point. | ||
| Operation Lone Star is Texas' operation securing the border. | ||
| This mobilization has nothing to do with that. | ||
| It has to do with supporting Customs and Border Protection in what they do, which is the opposite of Operation Lone Star. | ||
| And so they are trying really hard to downplay this move being made. | ||
| I think we have to point this out because Alaskan governor, Mike Dunleavy, actually joined 24 other GOP governors in support of Greg Abbott. | ||
| Why now would he be like, okay, I guess? | ||
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No, no, no. | |
| We put pressure on them and say, don't you dare. | ||
| I don't care if it's 1, 5, or 20. | ||
| I don't care if it's 200. | ||
| We should say, no, CBP is facilitating human trafficking. | ||
| Do not send support. | ||
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| It's all for show, though. | ||
| Did you see what Abbott said? | ||
| He said that there had been 3,000 to 4,000 people coming across in a day, and now it's gone down to 3,000. | ||
| Yeah, it's wild. | ||
| That's what he was just saying. | ||
| That's what Taylor Hanson was telling us. | ||
| Taylor has gone down. | ||
| Shout out to Tenet Media. | ||
| He reports for Tenet. | ||
| Taylor was saying that he was there during the peak of the crisis, and there's garbage and thousands of people. | ||
| And then once Texas takes over, 4,000. | ||
| That's wild. | ||
| If I understand correctly, they have moved the locations to places in New Mexico and Arizona? | ||
| They've started to go into other states? | ||
| Which also makes sense for this deployment. | ||
| Texas, look, Texas is at odds with CBP. | ||
| They have put up barriers in Operation Lone Star shipping containers with razor wire all over them. | ||
| So the criminal enterprise is shifting operations to other parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. | ||
| So what? | ||
| Alaska National Guard is going to go help the human smugglers, CBP, at the border in Arizona? | ||
| That is still working against this country. | ||
| It's worse than just working against Texas. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so like the 10th amendment gives Texas the right to handle their own border situation anyways. | ||
| I mean, at the end of the day, the border bell would get rid of that. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| That's, and that's the goal. | ||
| I think that's the goal because the 10th amendment gives them the right. | ||
| And what they've moved the deadline on the, the, the cutoff deadline from Biden. | ||
| What three times now has it been like three times? | ||
| Cause they can't do anything. | ||
| They can't do anything. | ||
| They're the, the, the constitution gives Texas the right to, to guard their own borders. | ||
| They could guard, They're borders from any illegal invasion that they want to, because it's not mentioned that that power is strictly given to the federal government. | ||
| So what does the 10th Amendment say? | ||
| It says that anything not mentioned expressly for the federal government here in the Constitution is up to the states. | ||
| Actually, what is it, Article 4, Section 4 states that the federal government must defend from invasion? | ||
| Sure, yes. | ||
| Now you got this bill that the National Guard can respond with lethal force on the border. | ||
| Yeah, but they can litigate what is an invasion all day long for My point is, when you've got photos and videos of human traffickers with rifles, to the point where a Republican has proposed a bill that would allow the National Guard to use lethal force against these individuals, I'm like, uh, I kind of think when they're smuggling humans with weapons into our country, and many of them are flying the flag of their home country, and like, they have guns, I would call that an invasion. | ||
| Did you guys see Bret Weinstein talk to Tucker Carlson? | ||
| He went down to the Darien Gap, which is this area south of, I think, southern Panama. | ||
| Yeah, the most dangerous. | ||
| Like 60 miles of jungle, where this is like where most people meet their maker when they're trying to flee here. | ||
| They go through the Darien Gap. | ||
| I don't know if most, but a lot of people die in that jungle. | ||
| And he said he saw camps. | ||
| Lots of camps, and they were very friendly. | ||
| One in particular, very friendly, and they let him in, and he was talking to people there. | ||
| They're fleeing economics. | ||
| They're not fleeing political asylum. | ||
| There's economic asylum, which is not... The U.S. | ||
| government, first of all, is not supposed to take people for economic asylum. | ||
| That's not a real thing. | ||
| Cause it displaces our own economics. | ||
| Secondly, then Brett's like, yo, and then I went to this camp and it was a Chinese camp and they wouldn't let us anywhere near it. | ||
| And they were what I would call hostile. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So what I think is happening is that there is an economic migration happening, but it's masking an invasion. | ||
| Think of it like this. | ||
| I think that's, I think there's a good chance of that. | ||
| Yeah, there's something that people don't or that we don't talk about or people don't bring up much that I heard someone discussing today was the one child policy in China that went on from the 70s. | ||
| I think it was like just a couple until recently. | ||
| There are you know, probably a couple and I'm probably not exaggerating but I don't know for sure but I imagine it's probably a couple hundred million young men with no that have Nothing to do and no women. | ||
| China needs to do something with these guys. | ||
| Because women were aborted on top of everything else. | ||
| Little girls were aborted before they could be born. | ||
| Yeah, and so these guys, young men that have nothing to do, they start civil wars. | ||
| They start, they cause all the problems societies run into. | ||
| It's always young men that have nothing to do. | ||
| And don't have limits. | ||
| They don't have families. | ||
| I want to clarify. | ||
| We got a super chat so I want to give some clarification because they're pointing out that it says potentially deployed in early 2025. | ||
| I think it's important that people know that but I don't think it changes anything that we're talking about right now. | ||
| It's tone-deaf right now to make this announcement. | ||
| And the other thing we talked about early in this segment is the point of the border security bill One strong point is that, and why they're starting wars, they want to make sure that whatever happens, if Donald Trump gets elected, they steamroll through what they want with or without him and lock him in place so he can't change anything about it. | ||
| Announcing this deployment early means that if Trump does get in office, he'll have a harder time stopping it from happening. | ||
| Can we talk about how crazy it is that we're bombing Iraq again for 33 years and we want to open the border completely? | ||
| I mean, we've destabilized so many regions in the Middle East and we're like, yeah, come on in. | ||
| It's totally cool. | ||
| No one's going to worry. | ||
| And also, when people come in, right, we have this part of our culture now is to tell everyone that America sucks and everything that America stands for is bad. | ||
| Part of whose culture? | ||
| That's part of American culture. | ||
| Not my culture. | ||
| That's part of the culture of the nation in which we were born and raised. | ||
| That culture has been taken over by really bad actors who hate America and hate Americans. | ||
| Cultural revolution. | ||
| It's a cultural revolution. | ||
| And so we have people coming in and you have all of these progressives saying, your culture is better than ours. | ||
| So don't bother assimilating. | ||
| Don't learn English. | ||
| Don't learn our values. | ||
| Don't become part of our culture. | ||
| And that's not how it used to be when you had like the Ellis Island community. | ||
| That's what they are, they're communists. | ||
| It's the communists that did that. | ||
| You guys love poker tables. | ||
| You will get kicked out for speaking any other language but English. | ||
| I have fun hanging out watching you guys play poker. | ||
| Yuri Bezmenov warned us of this in the 80s. | ||
| I mean, he defected from Russia and said, hey, the communists are taking over every single one of your institutions, your libraries, your schools, your government, your hospitals, all of the not-for-profits, mental health care. | ||
| What about the banks? | ||
| Publishing? | ||
| But the only reason that matters... Have they overtly taken over the banks? | ||
| Probably, yeah. | ||
| The only reason it matters that they did this is that we no longer go to church. | ||
| But to be fair, the communists are taking over a lot of churches too. | ||
| Yeah, that too. | ||
| I mean, there's a church right up the street from my house hanging a giant rainbow flag in front of the church. | ||
| Liberation theology. | ||
| Yeah, I'm like, what are you guys, what are you worshiping here, man? | ||
| I mean, this is not... I don't know, I moved to West Virginia and the churches, the church I go to is full. | ||
| I'm converting Orthodox currently because they're like the one church that hasn't cucked to the communists. | ||
| Do you go to that one that's like downtown Charlestown? | ||
| I don't want to say on air. | ||
| Where do you go to church at? | ||
| See you there. | ||
| See you every Sunday with my child. | ||
| Seamus would go there and really nice and I told the story of how like we were gonna go grab food and Seamus was like yeah I got church and I'll be out at this time I was like cool meet up and you know I show up with my brother and I'm just wearing my clothes and I see these like little kids playing and they're dressed very nicely and I was like man Something got lost. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You know, and it's not about, in my opinion, it's not about being Christian and believing in God, although I think there's a strong correlation between these things. | ||
| Community is huge. | ||
| Community and, what's the right word, I guess, decorum, in a sense. | ||
| Decorum, community, manners, feeling like you're part of something. | ||
| Like the church I went to in Brooklyn, where I really liked the, you know, I liked the other people there. | ||
| I taught CCD there, and I liked them. | ||
| But they... What does that mean? | ||
| Sorry, CCD. | ||
| CCD, I forget what it's called, but it's basically where you teach the kids Catholicism, and they go through all the sacraments. | ||
| So they start young and they go through... Catechism. | ||
| Catechism, yeah. | ||
| You do the same thing for Orthodox Church, too. | ||
| Yeah, you go through all the sacraments, you have like, you know. | ||
| CCD is so you can get confirmed as an adult. | ||
| In the church, yeah. | ||
| But like you do. | ||
| You have to do it for Orthodox Church. | ||
| Confession and communion and confirmation and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| But it was very like there was a Spanish mass that had all the families at it and there were a ton | ||
| of kids and the whole mass was in Spanish. | ||
| And then you had the English mass, which was just a lot of old people and hardly any kids. | ||
| And we don't speak Spanish, so much the pity, I guess. | ||
| And we would walk out of mass and like all the families and kids were coming in and like, | ||
| we weren't part of that mass. | ||
| And I found it really frustrating. | ||
| And I would say to the, you know, I would say to the leadership of the church, | ||
| we should do one giant bilingual mass and parts of it are in Spanish and parts of it are in English. | ||
| And they'd be like, well, we won't all understand what's going on. | ||
| And I'm like, it doesn't matter if we know what's going on or not. | ||
| The only thing that matters is that my kids and your kids are all hanging out, you know, trying to get in trouble playing under the pews. | ||
| That's all that matters. | ||
| That's what matters. | ||
| And that's the only thing they're doing to get in trouble. | ||
| Right, that's great! | ||
| You know, like, my son recently got in trouble because he was at CCD, and it turned out that he and his friend cut mass. | ||
| Like, they do CCD and then they have mass. | ||
| And the mom, my son's friend's mom, called and was very upset that the boys had cut mass. | ||
| And I'm thinking, like, yes, that's important. | ||
| They should not cut mass. | ||
| That's a problem. | ||
| I'm also thinking, this is great! | ||
| This is great! | ||
| Like, this is what you're doing? | ||
| You are rebelling by cutting mass? | ||
| I'm thrilled! | ||
| In Brooklyn, like, what are you doing? | ||
| You're, like, getting high on the street corner and robbing people. | ||
| Here, you're cutting masks. | ||
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This is perfect. | |
| Big deal, yeah. | ||
| Well, I'll say this before we move on. | ||
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I hope he's not watching tonight. | |
| I've been saying this for a while. | ||
| You know, the communists, the two things they have to be at war with all the time is a strong family unit and faith, right? | ||
| Because when you have those strong ideals in your family or in your church community, then you don't just automatically cut to the communists. | ||
| You don't say, oh, we need this collectivism to save us. | ||
| But what was it, video games or TV? | ||
| Because it was like the 90s when things started to fall apart. | ||
| Because that's when people started to go, when I started to go inward, I could play a game by myself for 10 hours alone without talking to someone. | ||
| I had books before that. | ||
| But if I ever played with toys, like Legos or micro-machines, it was way better to have a second person to play with. | ||
| A book, obviously I was always alone, and it didn't make me communist. | ||
| But video games made me very disconnected from human. | ||
| And then a lot of online games, it's not about being kind, it's about, like, talking shit online. | ||
| Well, that's what the schoolyard is, too. | ||
| The kids are talking shit. | ||
| The mid-2000s Call of Duty. | ||
| Maybe online stuff's not too bad. | ||
| Is it video games? | ||
| I don't want to blame them because I love them. | ||
| I don't think it is video games. | ||
| Why are people so disconnected? | ||
| It's in the schools. | ||
| All of the stuff, all of the socialization stuff, basically all the socialist influence that we have now. | ||
| It's all in the schools. | ||
| It started in the 80s, and that was when it first kind of took root. | ||
| Peggy McIntosh and Mr. Hapsack in 1989. | ||
| What's his name? | ||
| Paulo Freire and the pedagogy of the oppressed and stuff. | ||
| All of this stuff became the predominant way that teachers learned. | ||
| So this stuff got into the schools that teach teachers. | ||
| So that means that every teacher And then all those teachers went all over the country, so they're in Oklahoma and they're in Nebraska and Idaho. | ||
| Exactly, so these teachers are the teachers that teach the teachers, right? | ||
| So you get it at the very source. | ||
| You get them into an ideology that is based on an oppressor-oppressed dynamic, and you can apply that however you want. | ||
| You can apply it by race, you can apply it by gender, you can apply it by any way you want, but once you get that framework, Into the education of an entire generation, it just starts pumping out people that are ideologically possessed, that have the same worldview, which is, it is our job, it is government's job, it is our job, it is society's job to make things equal. | ||
| And that's why you get people that want equity, you want to have people that have equal outcomes, and that just turns into socialism. | ||
| Let's jump to this story. | ||
| We got this from Sportskeeda. | ||
| Some libs are waking up. | ||
| Internet Reacts says comic Michael Rapoport says voting for Trump is on the table after seeing migrants beat NYPD. | ||
| I just want to say this real quick. | ||
| I can't remember who tweeted it. | ||
| It might have been Michael Malice, so apologies if I don't get the attribution right. | ||
| But someone said, imagine what it must feel like to be in the corporate press. | ||
| Where after nearly a decade of calling Donald Trump a fascist, far-right, white supremacist, you find that most people in this country intend to vote for him. | ||
| I saw that. | ||
| That was Cernovich. | ||
| That wasn't Cernovich? | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| I know what you're talking about. | ||
| So it's a great point to be made. | ||
| The power of the media narrative is gone. | ||
| They can say whatever they want about Trump. | ||
| Nobody cares. | ||
| And now you've got Michael Rapoport, who spends his time or spend his time complaining online about Big Dick Donald Trump. | ||
| That's what he would say over and over again. | ||
| And now he's made a video saying voting for him is on the table. | ||
| And it's because... It's a really fun video. | ||
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It is. | |
| There's a bunch of issues. | ||
| But mostly, this past week... | ||
| You got illegal, you got criminal aliens beating cops. | ||
| Hold on, let me start over. | ||
| You got criminal aliens mercilessly beating NYPD. | ||
| In Midtown. | ||
| In Midtown. | ||
| And they get arrested and are released right away. | ||
| Alvin Bragg, who has charged Donald Trump with like 30-something felonies, won't even say what the felonies are, released these guys. | ||
| And he was like, oh, we couldn't tell from the video exactly who they were. | ||
| But did you see this thing, Tim? | ||
| McConnell is now saying, don't, don't, don't vote for the bill. | ||
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McConnell's saying don't vote for him. | |
| McConnell is telling Republicans to block the Langford-Schumer borderless bill. | ||
| We'll jump to that, but let me play the Michael Rapoport video. | ||
| I don't know, is it too crude? | ||
| Oh, it's fun. | ||
| I think he's funny. | ||
| I think he's a funny guy. | ||
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This is why when I say voting for pig d*** Donald Trump is on the table. | |
| Voting for pig d*** Donald Trump is on the table. | ||
| Wait, wait, why is he censoring Dick? | ||
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The other day in New York City, six illegal aliens Two of them, right? | |
| Two cops. | ||
| in my P.D.'s finest. | ||
| They jumped a New York City cop in Times Square and were arrested and released without bail. | ||
| I know it's a city thing. | ||
| I know it's a state thing. | ||
| I know all that. I know all that. | ||
| I know all that. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Stay with me. | ||
| Released without bail. | ||
| Came out of the courtroom on some Tupac, raising the middle finger with the Detroit Red Wings jerseys. | ||
| What the f*** is the world coming to? | ||
| If you could be from another country, beat up a cop in New York City, and walk out with no f***ing bail? | ||
| What the f*** is the world coming to? | ||
| Dude, he's right! | ||
| Yeah, Allen Bragg needs to be impeached. | ||
| But this is not just like some cops gotta fight. | ||
| Dude, I have seen Occupy activists push a cop and get assault on an officer charges, and they're in deep trouble. | ||
| These people, like Michael Rapaport has come from another country, assault officers, and ain't no big deal. | ||
| I said it last time I was in your show, and I'm going to say it again. | ||
| One of two things is happening here with Michael Rapaport. | ||
| Either A, the Biden campaign stopped paying him. | ||
| But we have McConnell saying not to vote for this bill and Michael Rapoport saying that voting for pig dick Donald Trump is on the table. | ||
| Maybe the adrenochrome supply has run out and these people are starting to come back to real life. | ||
| Maybe it's true. | ||
| I think that's probably the case. | ||
| Reason is not an accident. | ||
| Reasonable people are the reason this country exists in the first place. | ||
| It's definitely not adrenochrome, Ian. | ||
| It's not adrenochrome. | ||
| The reason is taking hold of these people. | ||
| This is why I said that line about, imagine what it must be like to be a corporate journalist who for a decade said Trump was a fascist white supremacist, and today, people intend on voting for the guy. | ||
| More than half the country. | ||
| That's why, you know, I love telling the story about the dude I met in DC who had Trump's Arrangement Syndrome, because, pardon me, next time I encounter something like this, I'm not gonna try and argue with the guy, give a point, I'm just gonna say, I'm on the right side of history. | ||
| That's what I'm gonna say to him. | ||
| I'm gonna say, I'm on the right side of history, you're on the wrong side of history, We got, we got the polls. | ||
| So you're in the weird minority of weirdos who don't watch the news. | ||
| I don't know what you're going on about. | ||
| If people- Michael Rapoport? | ||
| If he's saying it, wow, we won. | ||
| Think about, think, yeah, like, I mean, to Tim's point, like, think about how many people, like, when they get into the voting booth and they're, you know, they've got their, you know, they're alone, they'll actually vote for Donald Trump, right? | ||
| They would never admit it, but when they actually got into the booth, they'd actually check for Donald Trump. | ||
| If people like, you know, Like this guy, are making, articulating that it's acceptable to conceive of yourself voting for Donald Trump. | ||
| I feel like there's probably a lot of people that this gives them permission. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| People that don't feel confident. | ||
| This gives them permission to vote for Trump. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| They feel like, now I can, someone else said it, I can do this. | ||
| And he noticed too, it's not just me, I'm not crazy. | ||
| Maybe Donald Trump, that's what I think a lot of people think. | ||
| So the next time I'm at a poker table and some guy with Trump Derangement Syndrome starts yelling at me, I'm just gonna go, Listen, I'm gonna tell you why voting for pig dick Donald Trump is on the table! | ||
| Because New York City's finest were beat up! | ||
| Uh, let's play the rest of the video. | ||
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I know, Mayor Adams, you're from Brownsville, Brooklyn. | |
| I know this bull****. | ||
| What the **** have I gotten myself into? | ||
| Stay with me. | ||
| On the same day that that happens, Cadaver Joe Biden issues an executive order | ||
| about four **** quote unquote settlers in Judea, Samaria, AKA. | ||
| the West Bank, some troublemakers, three of the four have already been arrested. | ||
| You issue an executive order about four troublemaking f**k-ups who've already been arrested in Judea, Samaria, while there's a war going on, while there's 100-plus hostages still being held in Gaza. | ||
| You're talking about that, but you got nothing to say about m*****s Beating up cops in New York City, the greatest city on earth? | ||
| Maybe it's not. | ||
| Maybe my city is not the greatest city on earth anymore. | ||
| Here's the important thing. | ||
| He's wearing a Star of David. | ||
| One of the things that really shifted Rappaport was the Israel-Hamas conflict. | ||
| And when he's coming out and being like, why is Joe Biden more concerned with the West Bank instead of our cops? | ||
| That's like, holy crap. | ||
| The first thing that came out was, what's going on with these activists who are anti-Israel? | ||
| Now he's actually like, yeah I care about Israel, but this year's more important. | ||
| He's being pushed further and further. | ||
| I want to give him a shout out. | ||
| Last time we talked about him, he has that really funny video where he gets hit in the head with a snowball. | ||
| The funniest video online, yeah. | ||
| I know, it's one of the best. | ||
| Because he's self-aware. | ||
| I think he's a funny guy, and I respect it. | ||
| What if the whole thing was just a troll? | ||
| It was. | ||
| The video of him getting hit with a snowball? | ||
| No, I mean prior to that. | ||
| All the shit about him, you know, hating the right and big dick Donald Trump and all that. | ||
| What if it was all just a big, giant con? | ||
| It would be great if he just came out really calm, like, I just want to say to everybody that I never really hated Trump, I just thought it was funny to yell and make fun of him, and I'm voting for him, and thank you so much, and he puts on a MAGA hat. | ||
| After this video, I'm almost positive that they took his bag away. | ||
| He's not getting money from the Biden campaign anymore, for sure. | ||
| But yeah, one of the big points, takeaways of this was he's actually mad that Joe Biden focused too much on Israel. | ||
| That's the crazy thing. | ||
| You guys hear about Biden saying Netanyahu is a bad dude or whatever? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's trying to win these votes back. | ||
| Yeah, I think that was clearly leaked just to try and appease the progressive left and get them back on it. | ||
| See, I think Netanyahu's not amazing too, you guys, right? | ||
| We're all on the same team still, you know? | ||
| He's a bad dude! | ||
| Come on, man! | ||
| Run some bad boys. | ||
| But I think that was such an obvious, dumb leak, purposeful. | ||
| I think once you've won over Michael Rapaport. | ||
| It's a good point you were saying, Phil, about giving permission. | ||
| Because I made the joke about being at the table and saying, you know, next time in public I'll say something like that. | ||
| But I guarantee there's probably a lot of guys who are default liberal, don't pay that much attention, but have been given permission. | ||
| Now they can still insult Trump. | ||
| But they can be like, yeah, pig dick Donald Trump, you know, but I gotta be honest, man. | ||
| I got my vote for him because dude like Joe Biden and he's a cadaver, you know what I mean? | ||
| They're not going to be able to put Joe Biden up in this in this election. | ||
| Something's going to change soon. | ||
| What if they give him? | ||
| I mean, who would they put up instead? | ||
| Everybody hates Kamala. | ||
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| And she only has one phrase. | ||
| You know who it is? | ||
| It's going to be the Antichrist Newsome from California. | ||
| There's got to be a way to get around Kamala though. | ||
| And Kamala is literally kryptonite to a white male progressive. | ||
| What is he going to say? | ||
| Really, but she makes absolutely no sense. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| It does not matter. | ||
| Everyone knows that she is like the worst, absolute worst person the Democrats could possibly field, but at the same time, they can't do anything with her. | ||
| They can't attack her. | ||
| She's the first woman, She's multiracial. | ||
| She is untouchable. | ||
| And if you do, she absolutely will turn it on you and call you, you're the racist, you're the blah blah blah. | ||
| She will use that at the drop of a hat. | ||
| I don't think anybody cares about being called a racist anymore. | ||
| Kamala Harris withheld evidence when she worked in San Francisco. | ||
| She withheld evidence that kept somebody on death row that she knew was innocent. | ||
| There's like a lot of black progressives who hate Kamala Harris because she locked up more black people. | ||
| Oh way more blah blah blah. You know, based on like, crap evidence. But she also withheld, withheld, purposely withheld | ||
| evidence knowing that somebody was innocent to keep him on death row. | ||
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None of that matters. And none of that matters to the left at all. I don't even think that she has | |
| the ability to see what can be, never mind being unburdened by what might have been. I | ||
| believe it's going to be Newsom, I do, I really believe that he's going to do something crazy. I | ||
| just, tell me how they get in, how How do they how do they get her out of the way? | ||
| Tell me how they do it and maybe because I don't think that Newsom like I think that Newsom is far more of a threat to not only to the United States, but to the to like Donald Trump into Republicans, but how do you get him into the position to run? | ||
| Well, you'd have to get her to resign, but she's power-hungry. | ||
| She only had 3% of the vote when she was running on the Democratic ticket, when she was trying to get that ticket. | ||
| Like I said, I don't think that Kamala Harris is good, but I just don't see the path to get her into the position. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| We'll jump to the story from CBS News. | ||
| Oh boy. | ||
| RFK Jr. | ||
| mulls running for president as libertarian as he struggles with ballot access. | ||
| Tell him he has to get nude to do it. | ||
| I will say this. | ||
| I have heard some people who are libertarian party members associated with the Mises caucus Nothing from high up, just mutterings from regular folks that this is their big push and they really do want this. | ||
| I'm curious, is it true and what's going on? | ||
| Yeah, I believe it is. | ||
| I believe they do want it. | ||
| Whether they want him to get the nomination or not, they definitely want him to jump in and shake up the election. | ||
| There's no doubt about it. | ||
| I've seen grumblings from several people in the Mises caucus, including my good friend. | ||
| I just made a five minute video about this that I put out in public, so it's not like I'm saying anything that I haven't said. | ||
| I think that Heiss and Angela, the chair of the Libertarian Party, as well, we've seen her make comments that show support for an RFK Libertarian run. | ||
| And the problem is I don't think RFK can get our delegates to vote for him and make him an MP. | ||
| He's not a Libertarian. | ||
| Well, he's terrible on every issue except for one. | ||
| I mean, really, he's been… What's the one good issue? | ||
| The healthcare freedom stuff. | ||
| I mean, the guys… Healthcare freedom. | ||
| Yeah, he's a medical malpractice lawyer. | ||
| I mean, that's what he does, right? | ||
| So, like, he came from, you know, litigating these really high-profile medical malpractice cases, and so, like, of course libertarians are like, yeah, healthcare freedom! | ||
| But he's like the Homer Simpson meme with all the fat pinned up behind him, you know, where it's like, and socialist monetary policies, and he's an eco-fascist, and he hates guns, and it's like... And he wants to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day. | ||
| You know, and he said directly, you know, if the House were to bring him a bill banning the Second Amendment, he'd be happy to sign it. | ||
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He said that. | |
| How did that come out? | ||
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He publicly has said that. | |
| He's been anti-gum forever. | ||
| Listen, this guy's an old school progressive. | ||
| I mean, not progressive. | ||
| He's an old school Kennedy Democrat. | ||
| He's good on a couple of things. | ||
| He does hate the deep state. | ||
| I don't believe that he knows what the deep state is. | ||
| When did he say that? | ||
| Sign a bill. | ||
| I'm trying. | ||
| I've seen it a billion times though. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Look up Kennedy. | ||
| I'd be happy to sign Second Amendment. | ||
| You know, considering the performance that he just had on Dave Smith's podcast. | ||
| Three months ago. | ||
| Vows to respect Second Amendment and not take it. | ||
| You know, yada yada. | ||
| Gun control cannot meaningfully reduce gun violence. | ||
| Comes out against gun control in June. | ||
| All of them are basically anti-gun control. | ||
| But he is a liberal on them. | ||
| I mean, I suppose the issue is, if he said years ago something like that, it's important to bring that up. | ||
| Well, he's been saying that stuff for a long time. | ||
| Right, it's important to bring that up. | ||
| And now that he's running and he knows it's not a popular issue with moderates, he's evolving on the issue. | ||
| Well, yeah, you know, he's going to say whatever he wants to say to get elected. | ||
| But what the problem is, is here, he didn't understand what running as an independent would be like as far as ballot access goes, right? | ||
| We're talking $100 million to get ballot access across the country. | ||
| As a Libertarian party, we spend $2 million a year fighting for ballot access in like three or four states. | ||
| And we are a pretty established party as far as third parties go. | ||
| We're the third largest party in the United States. | ||
| We're the fastest growing party in the United States. | ||
| And he didn't realize like, oh, this ballot access stuff is really, really hard. | ||
| And so he could come over and get ballot access with the Libertarians. | ||
| But the problem is he doesn't share any of our values at all. | ||
| And Libertarians are very staunch about their values. | ||
| There's one state you guys don't have? | ||
| New York. | ||
| You don't have New York? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Wow. | |
| How? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Uh, so Larry Sharp actually ran as governor and got the required amount to get us ballot access there, and the legislature went and changed the rules after that and took us off ballot. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Oh, that's low. | ||
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Wow. | |
| That's New York. | ||
| That's what they do. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So the Libertarian candidate for president's not going to even be on the ballot in New York? | ||
| We can't. | ||
| There's a possibility. | ||
| It's likely to cost us about $300,000 or more. | ||
| That we should raise that money. | ||
| We're working. | ||
| Larry Sharpe's running a whole campaign to raise money. | ||
| You need to raise how much? | ||
| I think it's like $300,000 or $400,000. | ||
| That's a lot of money. | ||
| But there's also caps on how much you can give, right? | ||
| Right, exactly. | ||
| But it's not to a politician. | ||
| It's a political party, though. | ||
| Yeah, I think a PAC you can donate a lot more than just to, like, there's 33, like, for a federal campaign right now there's 3,300. | ||
| Individual donor cap right now, but I think with a pack and stuff like that Which I think they're working with you can donate a lot more money to them But yeah It's a lot of money and and it's a lot of work and they need petitioners and they have to get out and get like they change the the amount of petition sign that you need to like some ungodly amount so And they don't have a whole hell of a lot of time to get it done. | ||
| Yeah, so it looks like Let's see there might be the party committee state district and local unlimited And, uh, National Committee, it's unlimited. | ||
| Yeah, that makes sense. | ||
| If it's our National Committee, you can just... I mean, we had people donate, like, a house and stuff. | ||
| I mean, you can donate... But I mean, if the Libertarian Party only needs $300,000 to get on ballot access... Not doing great financially right now. | ||
| That's actually surprising to me that the Libertarian could not muster. | ||
| I mean, how many Bitcoin Kripos have enough money? | ||
| Well, here's the thing. | ||
| The Libertarian Party's been existing on like $1.7 million a year budget for a decade. | ||
| So it's not like it's a ton of money. | ||
| Was it bigger before a decade ago? | ||
| No. | ||
| I think the biggest we ever were were in 2000 when Harry Brown was the candidate. | ||
| And he actually doubled the size of the party membership. | ||
| I don't know that that meant that we had more money. | ||
| Oh, I'm sorry, I'm wrong, I'm wrong. | ||
| An individual can only give the party $10,000 per year. | ||
| $10,000, yeah. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I was reading it wrong. | ||
| Yeah, for individuals. | ||
| And then PACs can give, like, way more money. | ||
| Oh, no, no, no. | ||
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It's $41,300. | |
| Sorry. | ||
| How many times are you going to read this wrong? | ||
| Individuals. | ||
| I sat on the National Committee for two terms. | ||
| To the National Party Committee, it's 41,300. | ||
| I think it used to be 30, now that I'm thinking of it, I think it used to be like 35, 60, but they've upped the cap on these things. | ||
| They did for the presidential election, too. | ||
| It used to be like 27 or something. | ||
| Now it's 3,300 that an individual can give. | ||
| Where do people donate to the party? | ||
| LP.org. | ||
| How many petitions do you need to get in New York? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Larry Sharp is the man that would know that. | ||
| He's running the whole thing. | ||
| Yeah, I think we've had him on a couple times. | ||
| Yeah, Larry's been here, and he's been a Rogan and stuff too. | ||
| He's running for governor, right? | ||
| He did. | ||
| He's not running for governor currently, and I've been trying to get him to jump in the race to run for VP, but now Clint has announced that he's running for VP, so that's my guy. | ||
| Clint Russell, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Clint Russell is running to be VP for the Libertarian Party? | ||
| Who do you think's actually gonna get it? | ||
| Well, I mean, you want it. | ||
| I want the... No, I'm running for president. | ||
| Right, that's what I mean. | ||
| I mean, I want Clint to be my vice presidential candidate. | ||
| Okay, right on. | ||
| There's no doubt about it. | ||
| Who do you think's gonna get it? | ||
| Right now, there's... It's like kind of a four-way... I shouldn't ask you that way. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I should ask you, who's the frontrunner? | ||
| Who's the frontrunner? | ||
| Yeah, it's me, Chase Oliver, who's kind of like the left-leaning social progressive libertarian, but he has some good policies too, but he's like, That's interesting. | ||
| who always talks about LGBTQ rights and stuff like that. | ||
| There's also Lars Mapstead, who actually founded Adult Friend Finder. | ||
| So he actually helped create this terrible OnlyFans culture that you see in America today. | ||
| So he's the loaded candidate. He's got millions of dollars. | ||
| And then, of course, Michael Recktenwald, who you've had on the show as well as the main guy. | ||
| Yeah, that's interesting. I've been asked about Recktenwald a lot | ||
| by a lot of people I meet outside, like just out in the streets or whatever, | ||
| we're libertarians. They'll be like, oh, what was Recktenwald like? | ||
| And I'm just, you know, I don't know. | ||
| But I find that interesting. | ||
| It seems like he's got the name recognition. | ||
| He's, uh, I don't, I mean, I don't see it. | ||
| He's only raised, he only raised $20,000 in the last quarter. | ||
| So it's not like he's getting, like, a ton of play. | ||
| What about you? | ||
| Have you announced? | ||
| A little bit less than that. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| Do you do crowdfunding? | ||
| Uh, yeah, I mean, we're raising money at joshuasmith2024.com. | ||
| Man, it's, it's, it's kind of wild how successful the, uh, Libertarian Party is despite its, like, It's a shoestring budget. | ||
| It's a shoestring budget. | ||
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| And they put it together and worked really hard. | ||
| And it is the fastest growing party in the country. | ||
| And I think that, you know, we're not going to win the presidency in 2024. | ||
| I talk about that all the time. | ||
| Not with that attitude. | ||
| No, but anybody, any libertarian candidate is like, we're going to win the presidency in 2024 is just lying to themselves, really. | ||
| I mean, but we do have the opportunity to, you know, With RFK Jr., though, he gets you past a certain threshold. | ||
| We talk a lot about this 5% threshold, which I actually found out means minor party status. | ||
| It's like 15% to get into the debates. | ||
| Of course, if we poll at 15 in any of the major polls, they have to put us on the debate stage. | ||
| That's what I want. | ||
| That's my biggest goal. | ||
| And that would be like in the general? | ||
| Just polling to the general, not even in the general election. | ||
| So if we polled at 15%, there's a requirement for the debate commission. | ||
| To allow that party to debate. | ||
| So we would get on the stage with, you know, whether it's Trump or Biden or Trump or Newsome, you'd have a libertarian up there saying, all right, these things. | ||
| That would be RFK Jr. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| An RFK Jr. | ||
| Dave Smith VP ticket. | ||
| Would you be VP for RFK Jr.? | ||
| No. | ||
| I'm not going to do it. | ||
| It would be too much of a conflict for me. | ||
| See, here's the issue I see with it. | ||
| If the idea is you know you're not going to win, why wouldn't you just take an RFK Jr. | ||
| candidacy and just get the numbers? | ||
| Because then we fool everybody about what the Libertarian Party is about. | ||
| We saw this with Gary Johnson and Bill Weld. | ||
| Bill Weld sat on the board of CFR, right? | ||
| I mean, this guy was terrible on nuclear energy. | ||
| He was terrible on all kinds of stuff that Libertarians support. | ||
| And so him and Gary Johnson went out and they talked about, well, there should be some minor restrictions on the two way. | ||
| And Hillary Clinton's really a great service, public service and this and that. | ||
| And so we got this like huge influx of membership for Gary Johnson that all ended up being like the left leftist, like social progressive libertarians. | ||
| And once they realized that, hey, that's not really what the party stood for, they left. | ||
| The social progressive libertarians probably have the worst to offer, because they're just the Democrats with no freebies. | ||
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They're the Democrats who like guns. | |
| You can get guns out of them and they're going to end all your entitlements. | ||
| Respect my pronouns. | ||
| No welfare. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| It's all of the bad things about the Democrats, but you get guns and you get, you know, a bunch of freebies. | ||
| Well, and the problem is that these guys are like, well, we want to, you know, and Jacob Hornberger, who is running but has totally destroyed his campaign, talks about this all the time. | ||
| Like, those guys just want to like, oh, well, Social Security, we just want to make a little cut here and the tax, you know, we want a fair tax and we want to do that. | ||
| It's not like they're not looking to try and roll back these systems. | ||
| They're looking to like take little cuts out and that's not good for us either because | ||
| then people show up and they're like, oh man, you guys want to, you guys are like two way | ||
| absolutists and you want to get rid of social security for the younger generations and everybody's | ||
| like, well, what's going on here? | ||
| You know? | ||
| And so it's, it's bad for the party to have somebody like RFK in my opinion, but to the, | ||
| to the, to the upper brass on the LNC and some of these people, of course they want | ||
| it because they want the money. | ||
| They want the donor list. | ||
| RFK might have no choice. | ||
| He's horrible. | ||
| Well, and he may not get on the ballot. | ||
| He's not going to be on the ballot in probably 35 states. | ||
| If he really does, I mean, it's crazy how the Democrats just nuked his campaign. | ||
| Well, they had to. | ||
| They also, you know, may have shot his uncle. | ||
| You think he was going to win? | ||
| And his dad. | ||
| And his dad, too! | ||
| I was gonna say, like his uncle. | ||
| So he should be happy all they did was nuke his campaign, really, but no, it's the truth. | ||
| They may have shot his dad. | ||
| And his uncle. | ||
| Yeah, the truth is that he's probably, as an independent, he's not gonna be on the ballot in like 30-something states, and he doesn't have the kind of money to buy the ballot access. | ||
| But if he's libertarian, he automatically gets all the ballot access. | ||
| Any ballot access that we have as a party, if he gets the nomination in May, he automatically gets our ballot access. | ||
| Which is everything but New York at the moment. | ||
| I think there's one other state that we're working on, but we're going to get it. | ||
| I knew we were working on Maine, but we've got Maine now. | ||
| We hit the threshold. | ||
| I feel like he'd come in, raise a bunch of money, get it on this ballot in every state, get 8 to 15% of the vote. | ||
| I mean, he's really popular. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Everyone leaves the party the next year. | ||
| I don't think the people who are in the Libertarian Party are morons. | ||
| You're giving the Libertarian Party a lot of credit. | ||
| I'm talking about the Mises Caucus. | ||
| If you've got social progressives, weirdo libertarians, your party's fractured and busted up. | ||
| We've gotten rid of a lot of them. | ||
| A lot of them have left. | ||
| Basically, if the Mises Caucus has taken over, And everyone kind of gets it. | ||
| And at the convention, everyone's like, look, this is not a representation of true libertarian values, but it is an alliance between an independent and a third party that are trying to sh- Democrat, he's a Democrat. | ||
| Even though he's not a Democrat, he's a Democrat. | ||
| But you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, come on, you gotta compromise a little bit. | ||
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It sucks. | |
| He's an independent, running right now, who's shut out from the mainstream, who has an opportunity to team up with third party, and both are trying to smash through the front gates of the establishment. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So, I see, I understand, you might say, he's bad, but if we combine, you know, with our powers combined, we're on the debate stage. | ||
| In your third party, Tim, whatever third party, this non-existent third party that I'm making up currently that you run, Hillary Clinton comes to you. | ||
| No, Hillary Clinton's the establishment with all the power, and she's in position. | ||
| Sure, but your party needs money, you need donors, you guys have to compromise. | ||
| Wrong analogy. | ||
| It's the same policies. | ||
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It's the same policies though. | |
| RFK is not Hillary Clinton, come on. | ||
| Same policies. | ||
| I mean the policies are almost indiscernible. | ||
| He's an eco-fascist, he wants to shut down businesses that refuse to go to war. | ||
| He wants to go to war with Russia? | ||
| Well, he wants to go to war in the Middle East, for sure. | ||
| RFK Jr. | ||
| wants to go to war. | ||
| He's been talking about it. | ||
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Yeah, absolutely. | |
| Look it up. | ||
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Let's pull it up. | |
| He's changed his stance on the warfare stuff so much over the last six months, especially since October 7th, right? | ||
| Like, big time, big time. | ||
| So, yeah, man, I mean, he's not great on these things anymore. | ||
| Ecofascism is pretty easy to turn people on if you make them aware of being able to reuse the carbon. | ||
| It's so reusable. | ||
| This guy has specifically said he wants businesses shut down that don't go along with the climate agenda. | ||
| He's bad on everything. | ||
| He's bad on everything. He's saying that we should withdraw from the Middle East to come back to America to start | ||
| working on America. | ||
| What date is that? | ||
| His website right now. | ||
| Okay, that's not what he's been saying in the media though. | ||
| Well, look, my point is simply this. | ||
| Like, it is not fair to compare RFK Jr. to Hillary, despite the fact we can agree that RFK Jr. has bad policies | ||
| across the board. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Hillary Clinton is a... | ||
| I'm trying to think that's anybody else. | ||
| Hillary Clinton is literally voting for the bureaucracy. | ||
| The problem is that this person holds none of our values. | ||
| No. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And so we're going to put him in... Cenk Uygur! | ||
| No, absolutely not. | ||
| If I had a political party, and Cenk Uygur came to me and said, look, you've got a lot of people who are behind you when we get the poll numbers. | ||
| I've got a lot of people behind me. | ||
| If we came together and everyone who was between the two of us knew the point of this was to just drive a car straight through those front gates, and this means y'all are on the debate stage next year, I would say yes. | ||
| I actually said, if it came down to Mitt Romney versus Hillary Clinton, and Cenk Uygur was there, I'd vote for Cenk. | ||
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Why? | |
| At least he'll pardon Julian Assange, I guess. | ||
| What am I supposed to expect with the two of the Uniparty establishment? | ||
| I'm not saying I like his policies at all. | ||
| I think the dude's actually fairly crazy. | ||
| And he's not an American citizen. | ||
| My point is simply, look man, people come to me and they say, Trump did this bad thing and this bad thing, and I'm sitting here just whistling and being like, no, no worse. | ||
| And they're like, yeah, but what about this bad thing and this bad thing? | ||
| And I'm like, yo, this country has been riddled with such bad things from bad people for so long. | ||
| And then I'll tell you this. | ||
| If somebody comes to me and they're like, I'm running for office. | ||
| And what are you going to do? | ||
| I'm going to, I'm going to clean up the streets. | ||
| I'm going to clean up crime. | ||
| I'm going to restore America, make it really, really great. | ||
| I'll be like, that sounds pretty good. | ||
| What else are you going to do? | ||
| I'm going to go bomb foreign countries. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Have a nice day. | ||
| I'm not voting for you. | ||
| You can, you can talk about securing the board. | ||
| You can talk about bringing jobs back. | ||
| And then you say, but we got to intervene in the Middle East. | ||
| And I say, I'm out. | ||
| Because I know what that leads to in terms of inflation, what it leads to in terms of death, blowback, conflict, crisis, all of this stuff, and I've witnessed some of it. | ||
| You get Donald Trump, he could literally come out and be like, I don't care about anything domestically, I don't care about any American, I don't care about you, I only care about me, but I won't go to war. | ||
| I'll be like, okay, I'll take it. | ||
| Military command, man, that's their number one job. | ||
| So when I get these people saying to me, like this guy the other day, and he's saying all this stuff about how bad Trump is, and he's a liar, and I love it. | ||
| He said, every business Trump has ever had has gone bankrupt. | ||
| And I'm just like, well, that's just literally not true. | ||
| But I'm like, I don't care. | ||
| I don't care if the dude was in an alley slinging dope. | ||
| I'm like, no new wars! | ||
| You know, let's deal with our problems internally, and we'll have to. | ||
| So long story short, If... And I understand your position, I'm not telling you you're wrong, I'm saying like, for me, I see the point where it's like... | ||
| I see RFK Jr. | ||
| as a guy who's wrong, but I see him as a good dude. | ||
| He's just wrong. | ||
| Marianne Williamson is a good person. | ||
| She's just wrong. | ||
| And if we could team up and fundamentally change the two-party environment we've had for generations, I mean, that is a grand slam. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Well, then, listen, great with Robert Kennedy, but why not any other libertarian candidates, right? | ||
| Like, you have a giant platform, right, and other people have big platforms, and you're all sick of the wars. | ||
| Who's polling at his numbers? | ||
| They could be. | ||
| Anybody could be if they got the visibility that he's had, right? | ||
| And this is the point. | ||
| He's a Kennedy. | ||
| He's a Kennedy. | ||
| Yeah, but he's got visibility. | ||
| People know who he is, right? | ||
| He's got the name recognition. | ||
| He's got the visibility. | ||
| And so this is the point. | ||
| The Libertarian Party needs a boost. | ||
| Here's a guy who was booted from the Democratic Party and cold-shouldered trying to court independents. | ||
| I'm not saying the Libertarian Party should bring him on. | ||
| I'm saying I see the case for, let's fund the mental health change system. | ||
| Oh sure, I see the case too. | ||
| I understand the case. | ||
| I think the case is wrong. | ||
| And I don't think the delegates are going to put him in that place. | ||
| And I agree with that on that. | ||
| I don't want to tell Libertarians they should vote for him. | ||
| Compromise though, it's a big part of politics, is compromising. | ||
| With the enemy. | ||
| Have you ever met a Libertarian? | ||
| It's gotten us to be the most powerful country on earth. | ||
| Have you ever met a Libertarian? | ||
| Have you ever met a Libertarian and spoken to them? | ||
| Compromise? | ||
| Libertarians are known for their purity tests. | ||
| If you accept the existence of the post office, you will be excommunicated from the Libertarian party. | ||
| Do not test them, Ian! | ||
| Do not test them! | ||
| Can we just real quick? | ||
| We should say that compromise has gotten us to where we are today. | ||
| Well, the United States... | ||
| Can we just show Ian this meme? | ||
| The compromise of all 50 states. | ||
| So this is a meme from the Simpsons, and it's Edna, Krabappel, Skinner, and Willie. | ||
| And he says, brothers and sisters are natural enemies, like progressives and libertarians, or communists and | ||
| libertarians, or ANCAPs and libertarians, or libertarians and other | ||
| libertarians. | ||
| They ruined... Damn libertarians, they ruined libertarianism. | ||
| And then Skinner says, you libertarians sure are a contentious people. | ||
| You've just made an enemy for life. | ||
| That's libertarianism. | ||
| Pretty much it, yeah. | ||
| That's how it is. | ||
| Nobody hates libertarians more than other libertarians. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It's the very truth of our existence. | ||
| I just love that story about when they asked about whether or not | ||
| you should be able to sell heroin to children. | ||
| And I think was it Gary Johnson said no, and they booed him? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, that was so that was in 2016 they when they had this this huge caucus in the party called the audacious caucus and they were like all super like offensive Not even in caps like leftists really and and so, you know, the party's changed a lot We got we got rid of the the abortion plank. | ||
| They kicked that out. | ||
| So there's no more like room for Error there and then you got guys like me who are running who I consider myself in America first populous libertarian candidate, right? | ||
| Like I don't I don't believe in open borders. | ||
| I don't believe an abortion. | ||
| I know that I know that we've had this debate on the show several times, but I don't believe that you should be able to sell heroin to five-year-olds. | ||
| I don't believe that doctors should be able to force push kids towards like mutilative surgeries and stuff like that. | ||
| I think they should be prosecuted. | ||
| But I also believe that the Federal Reserve has destroyed the economy and the Warfare State has done nothing good for any Americans and These entitlement programs are destroying us and, you know, so... Was it Austin Peterson who said it? | ||
| Yeah, it was Austin Peterson. | ||
| Okay, wait. | ||
| I just googled it. | ||
| C-SPAN's got the clip. | ||
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Of course it did. | |
| China has no constitutional authority to regulate drugs. | ||
| That being said, at the state level, I would support some legislation that would stop children from being allowed to purchase drugs and prosecute anyone who would put a child in danger because I do believe that children do need some protection. | ||
| Yes, you should not be able to sell heroin to a five-year-old. | ||
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I'm sorry. | |
| I'm sorry. | ||
| In my opinion, Austin was by far the best candidate that year, too. | ||
| He was close. | ||
| It wasn't far off in the vote. | ||
| I think you need compromise. | ||
| It's politics. | ||
| I'm an idealist in my soul, but in reality, I'm more of a compromist. | ||
| I'm down to do things I don't want to do to get by. | ||
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We're past that, bro. | |
| And so, you know, I was talking to this guy the other day. | ||
| He said that the Libertarian Party isn't libertarian enough. | ||
| And I was like, well, what, what do you mean? | ||
| I was like, it's Austin Peterson got booed when he said, you know, he'd prosecute people selling heroin to kids. | ||
| And he was like, and he looks at me and he goes, abortion. | ||
| And I was like, yeah, I think the Mises Caucus are fairly pro-life, right? | ||
| Is that true, Josh? | ||
| The Mises Caucus? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think there's a bit of a split there, but for the most part, it's pro-life. | ||
| Like Davis. | ||
| Yeah, and I'm pro-life, and I think Keis is probably pro-life, and a lot of these people. | ||
| But there are still some people who, you know, think there's a good faith effort on both sides of the debate, and this and that. | ||
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You say good faith debate. | |
| Go ahead. | ||
| I would say that I am not in the pro-life camp, but I certainly do not believe there's a good faith debate with the left on abortion. | ||
| I think there's not a good faith debate in a lot of areas, yeah. | ||
| There's a good faith debate with people like me and people like you, or, you know, I really think it was a great conversation I had with Glenn Beck on the issue, which I've probably evolved quite a bit on it since then, probably moved a little bit further to the right on it a great deal, because I have a libertarian stance on the issue of the 14th Amendment. | ||
| And my position on abortion is actually just libertarian. | ||
| At what point does the government have the right to determine someone must provide their body to someone else? | ||
| And I, you know, I don't want to get into an abortion debate. | ||
| But my point is... Yeah, we did this for like, on the after show for like an hour or so. | ||
| Yeah, I don't want to get into it. | ||
| But my point is like, that's where the real debate is. | ||
| Where we actually are genuinely like, what's the constitutional limitations? | ||
| What can the government do? | ||
| And then you have the left that they're just like, we just want to kill babies. | ||
| Yeah, it's bad. | ||
| It's gross. | ||
| It's like they're basically sacrificing their own children to Moloch, dude. | ||
| That's really what it is. | ||
| I can't put it any other way. | ||
| It is a self-correcting problem. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| And I have a lot of friends on the right that say, let your enemies do what they need to do. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake. | ||
| So there's a religious argument for me, but there's also, I think, the libertarian argument. | ||
| Anyway, the point I was making to Euan is that compromise made sense in the 90s when Democrats and Republicans overlapped on almost everything except, how much taxes should people pay and should it be this high for this bracket or this low? | ||
| And, you know, how strong should the border be? | ||
| Now the issues are like, sanctuary states should be able to, people should be able to kidnap your children and bring them to a sanctuary state where they can get a forced exchange. | ||
| Like, I don't see a compromise there! | ||
| And an abortion at the same time. | ||
| More compromise just to get the LP on the ticket. | ||
| That I get. | ||
| I found the Reason article with RFK talking about the gunman. | ||
| So it's called RFK Jr. | ||
| The Reason Interview, and it's an actual interview. | ||
| And he says, I love Tulsi Gabbard because she understands the importance of disentangling or unraveling the empire and unraveling the war machine. | ||
| So that's good. | ||
| But on banning assault weapons, he said... Wait, wait, wait. | ||
| I want to pull it up. | ||
| Yeah, just look up RFK Jr. | ||
| The Reason Interview. | ||
| Okay, let me pull up the quote. | ||
| Yeah, but there's another quote here where he says, I'm not going to take away anybody's guns, but if a bipartisan bill to do so passed Congress, I'd sign it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And assault weapons doesn't mean anything anyway. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's such a vague... But that's actually correct. | ||
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We've long known that he's an anti-gun guy. | |
| You should sign off on something that people want. | ||
| As president, I would never sign a bill that was unconstitutional. | ||
| Not something that's anti-constitutional, but I mean, I do think that it makes sense to say, you know, if this is what the people want, you should do this. | ||
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Nope. | |
| Veto stamp. | ||
| Not an unconstitutional thing. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| You're missing my point. | ||
| I hear your point. | ||
| The border security bill, bipartisan, does not mean the will of the people. | ||
| It means the corporate establishment paid off a bunch of crackpots or insider trading at the time. | ||
| I do want to quote-unquote border security bill right now is quote-unquote bipartisan. | ||
| Well it's not really bipartisan though. | ||
| Republicans in the Senate did help them draft it. | ||
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My buddy Chris Hansen who sent me the article from Iowa, I appreciate you sending it. | |
| The president doesn't have any constitutional leniency when it comes to the border. | ||
| No, he should not. | ||
| He's charged with, this is your job. | ||
| With not allowing an invasion. | ||
| Yeah, this is your job. | ||
| The point of the presidency is quite literally that if there is a bad bill that's bipartisan, he vetoes it. | ||
| He has to veto it. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| But again, we're talking about this bill as if it's legitimate. | ||
| As if the concept of needing this bill is legitimate. | ||
| And it's not. | ||
| No, it never was. | ||
| It's entirely illegitimate. | ||
| This is a distraction. | ||
| Well, it depends on how you look at it, Phil. | ||
| The fact that we've spent, you know, that you're spending so much effort and energy discussing this when the president has every bit of authority that he needs currently in the Constitution to defend the border, take care of all the problems we have at the border. | ||
| The president has all the authority he needs. | ||
| This is literally just extorting the American people so that way they can get money to launder in Ukraine and give money to Israel to defend their own country. | ||
| How are they laundering money without Sam Bankman Freed? | ||
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I don't understand. | |
| They don't have their chief money launderer anymore. | ||
| It's actually crazy. | ||
| I actually met a lawyer for his family. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I mean, look, I gotta tell you, I tell these stories about National Harbor, D.C., and this is where all these people are hanging out. | ||
| You want to meet the high-powered lobby? | ||
| I gotta tell you, man, this casino is apparently the highest grossing casino in the country. | ||
| I can't even, I don't, there's just like 20,000 people downstairs at the tables, and they're probably all millionaires, and I cannot fathom. | ||
| I saw a guy sitting at a table with like 20 grand just playing away, and I'm just like, this is nuts! | ||
| You go to the poker room, they had a, I guess it was, I don't know if you guys know anything about it, 2550 was on the list, but apparently it was even bigger than that. | ||
| Long story short, what does that mean? | ||
| It means everybody who played had to bring $100,000. | ||
| So you have basically one or more. | ||
| That's the minimum. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| And so these are people with a million dollars on the table. | ||
| I was not playing anywhere near that level. | ||
| I was playing 2-5. | ||
| And I met a guy who was a lawyer who was talking about how he's actually a lawyer for their family. | ||
| And, you know, he didn't go into any classified details, but it was interesting to hear the perspective he had on what was going on. | ||
| Did they drop the charges on that guy? | ||
| I mean, it just seems like... | ||
| It's all dirty. | ||
| Yeah, I read that they dropped some charges. | ||
| Yeah, a bunch of the charges got dropped. | ||
| They dropped some charges, but not all. | ||
| Yeah, they can't really put him in jail when he was the one laundering their money. | ||
| I gotta say this. | ||
| I gotta say this right now. | ||
| I gotta say this right now. | ||
| If you're a journalist, you're trying to figure out how to get started in journalism. | ||
| I got a tip for you guys. | ||
| Because people often ask, what can I do to get started? | ||
| And everyone always says, buy a cell phone and go to the border. | ||
| I got a better one for you. | ||
| You don't tell them stories though, that's a good idea. | ||
| Go to the poker room at MGM National Harbor. | ||
| Yo. | ||
| It is, it, no I'm not kidding. | ||
| The people I have met there, it is wild. | ||
| I mean, first of all, I was hanging out with a guy who was a Mises Caucus guy the other day, | ||
| and he knew who I was, and he was like, oh, and we're talking about normal stuff. | ||
| But then you meet a guy who's a lawyer for the Bankman Freed family. | ||
| And I'm like, tell me more, good sir. | ||
| If you want to get into journalism, Or I mean post-millennial should just have a... | ||
| I might do this. | ||
| I don't know, I'm just trying to sit at a table. | ||
| No, no, no, I'm saying hire somebody. | ||
| Maybe we'll have SCNR hire someone literally just to play 1-3 and keep an ear open. | ||
| But really, if you want the big shots, it's 2-5 or 5-10. | ||
| Those are very expensive games and it's hard. | ||
| But the things you overhear there, and the things people are talking about, because these are people in DC who have a lot of money. | ||
| If they're playing 5-10, that means they spent between $600 and $2,500 to play that game. | ||
| And I gotta tell you, these guys, they play more than that. | ||
| So you have to wonder what job they have in the DC area. | ||
| And it's not a construction worker. | ||
| No, you're gonna find lobbyists and lawyers, and they love to talk. | ||
| You can't film here, though. | ||
| Some casinos do allow it, but if you're in MGM National Harbor, it does not. | ||
| And probably because... | ||
| These guys are going to be high-powered lawyers, delegates, political staffers, people who are doing things maybe they shouldn't be doing, but you'll hear those opinions. | ||
| I'm willing to bet you will find a ton of stories if you just play the game and ask, like, oh, really? | ||
| Like, what do you do? | ||
| What is that like? | ||
| Oh, is it true what they said about that guy? | ||
| You're going to get scoops galore. | ||
| Because these dudes hang at the table, they're bored all day, they're there for six hours or more. | ||
| They're probably drinking. | ||
| Some of them, a lot of them are drinking, and the server's coming around offering drinks. | ||
| Actually, but if you go on Saturday night, I'm willing to bet that's a good spot for a journalist to hang out. | ||
| Poker room at MGM National Harbor. | ||
| Now all the DC politicians are going like this. | ||
| All the ones you've had on the show are like, thanks! | ||
| Thanks a lot! | ||
| Well, I was saying before, I think this is where they actually launder money. | ||
| So, when I played this past week, yesterday, when I was cashing out, they had like a supervisor come over and track the cash out, write down my name, write down the table I was on, the game that was played, how much money was played, how long I was there, and then thanked me for my business. | ||
| And I'm like, I wonder if that has to do with money laundering. | ||
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That's wild. | |
| Yeah, because we talked about it before. | ||
| If you want to launder money, if you're... I was actually talking to some some dude there about it. | ||
| And he was like, nah, you don't need to go to a poker room for that. | ||
| Just bring up a briefcase. | ||
| And I'm like, how do you how do you report your taxes? | ||
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No. | |
| I came into 20 grand. | ||
| It's really easy. | ||
| You got a proxy, a guy who works for your company or just someone you know who you want to have the money. | ||
| And then you've got a guy who's going to make the donation. | ||
| And they play a hand of poker, and then the guy goes, oh, jeez, I'm gonna bet $20,000. | ||
| Ah, you beat me. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And there's no record of what cards you had. | ||
| You just muck them, so you don't even know if it was a con game. | ||
| All you see on camera is two guys played a game of poker and one guy won $20,000. | ||
| Now he reports it on his taxes. | ||
| Clean as a whistle. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And we know what that money's really for. | ||
| I've seen Ozarks. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I've seen the movie. | ||
| I've seen the show. | ||
| That's what they did the show, right? | ||
| I mean, that was the big thing. | ||
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I haven't seen Ozarks. | |
| Yeah, they opened a casino so they could launder cartel money. | ||
| I mean, that was the whole thing about the show. | ||
| The poker room is especially interesting. | ||
| You sit down with your cash, and then you say, I'm gonna bet 10 grand, and the other guy says, I call, and then you go, ah, he got me. | ||
| So let me explain this. | ||
| Let's say, it can work really simple. | ||
| Anybody who plays poker knows how you could do this, but for those that understand, you don't need to show your cards. | ||
| If I've got the best possible hand, let's say I get a royal flush. | ||
| I have the best hand, but I want Phil to be given money. | ||
| Phil could have the worst possible hand. | ||
| Or he could have a hand and then when I bet all my money and he calls my bet and flips over a mediocre hand, all I have to do is say he got me and then put my cards face down in what's called the muck. | ||
| No one will ever see what I had. | ||
| Which means I can choose to lose without any proof that I actually won. | ||
| I wonder if casinos in the future are going to change it so your cards are... Always tracked. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They could. | ||
| I mean, they can record it. | ||
| Yeah, we have an RFID table. | ||
| They could track it. | ||
| I mean, they make the poker hand cameras, too, for the big poker hand and stuff. | ||
| But you have to show those. | ||
| Now they do RFID, where you've got it on the table, you get the cards, and you rub them. | ||
| You don't have to, but you try to get them to move so it reads, and then the computer gets all the information. | ||
| I don't think they're going to spend $20,000 on an RFID table at any casino. | ||
| And they're not going to intentionally expose people that are trading money under the table. | ||
| Yeah, they're not interested in exposing money laundering. | ||
| They have no reason to stop that. | ||
| I am not suggesting National Harbor does this or is in any way knowledgeable of anything that's going on. | ||
| Good to caveat that. | ||
| Yeah, I think it's a fine establishment. | ||
| Dude, I gotta tell you, man. | ||
| I've been to a lot of casinos, okay, and a lot of people have, but you go to MGM National Harbor, and I do not understand how these people are there. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| You want to play one hand of, like, Ultimate Hold'em. | ||
| It's basically, it's like a blackjack, but it's a different table game called Carnival Games. | ||
| It's gonna cost you, let's see, it's $50, $50, $50, $150, and then to play is another, so $200 to see one hand. | ||
| And if you want to raise your bet because you got a good hand, you're putting another $150 on top. | ||
| How is anyone playing there? | ||
| I do not understand. | ||
| There's gotta be people, well I don't know, speculation, they're like, from a foreign government, they're like, go to D.C., get the job done, and give that city a million bucks while you're there. | ||
| Take this ten million with you. | ||
| It's Maryland, it's not D.C. | ||
| National Harbor is a Maryland, yeah. | ||
| How far from D.C. | ||
| is it? | ||
| A couple miles. | ||
| So it's like a hotspot, a D.C. | ||
| hotspot, but it's out of D.C.? | ||
| So this is the thing, I'm like, I really just think maybe it's, There's a lot of big money coming through D.C. | ||
| Yeah, there's no gambling in D.C., right? | ||
| No, but National Harbor's Maryland, and it's just south of D.C., and I'm like, maybe D.C. | ||
| is more powerful. | ||
| It's not listed in one of the top cities for millionaires. | ||
| It's actually nowhere near it, but there's a lot of money running through there, and I'm seeing... There's a lot of diplomats, too. | ||
| Diplomats have a lot of money. | ||
| That must be it, but I'm like, I'm seeing what looks like some working-class dude pulling $25 slot levers, and I'm just like... | ||
| This is the craziest place I've ever been. | ||
| There's also people ruining their lives with gambling. | ||
| I mean, you can't take that out of the equation. | ||
| Sure, but... I don't know, man. | ||
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You go to, like, Maryland Live, or... Gambling's like heroin to some people, man. | |
| It really is bad. | ||
| It is a bad addiction. | ||
| Yeah, I get it, but, like... I mean, look, if someone's making, like, 80k a year, they get their one paycheck for the weekend, they're gonna be there for five minutes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't... I don't believe that. | ||
| Like where all that big money is coming from? | ||
| I mean, maybe it's just the reality that DC's got a lot of secret millionaires and a lot of money flying through and | ||
| people are Gonna go to the casino. I think seven of the top ten | ||
| richest counties are the counties that surround the DC area I don't know about that many but I think one of them like | ||
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one of them high like Fairfax is really rich Yeah, I don't think it's seven of ten | |
| I look I look I was looking this up to try and figure it out and it's like California has the whole Chevy chase | ||
| So Marin County is one of the richest counties in the entire country. I know that that's the right across the | ||
| Golden Gate Bridge There are a lot of gambling there | ||
| No. | ||
| Not at all. | ||
| It's Sausalito. | ||
| It's all Bay Territory. | ||
| It's Loudoun County Falls Church, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Fairfax, Howard, which is in Maryland, Arlington, Virginia, Marin County, which is in California, Douglas County. | ||
| So yeah, I mean, it's not the seven, but it's got, let's see, one, two, Three, four, five of the top ten. | ||
| So you're effectively right. | ||
| Fun fact, the Golden Gate Bridge is still privately owned by a secret group of people. | ||
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What? | |
| Is that right? | ||
| The Golden Gate Bridge is owned by a secret group of people? | ||
| I don't know if that's still the truth, but that was the truth for many, many, many, many years. | ||
| It was like a secret, secret group of people in Marin County that actually owned the bridge. | ||
| Oh, in Marin County, you don't say. | ||
| Yeah, of course. | ||
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| And before we read Super Chats, I do want to give a shout-out to our good friend Taylor Lorenz for one of the nicest things she could have possibly said in relation to my work. | ||
| I was deeply moved. | ||
| I saw an interview she did where she said Tim Pool is dishonest. | ||
| Which shocked me until she explained in greater detail what she meant. | ||
| She said, Tim Pool does not do journalism. | ||
| He comments on other people's work and he is dishonest. | ||
| And I went, oh, she's saying the news that I am reading from the New York Times and from the Wall Street Journal is fake. | ||
| Based. | ||
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I like it. | |
| I support it. | ||
| But that's the gist of what she said! | ||
| Isn't that what most podcasts do? | ||
| We look up current events and then comment on current events? | ||
| But sometimes when you say something someone disagrees with, they'll call you dishonest, but you just don't agree. | ||
| Doesn't mean you're not lying. | ||
| She literally says in the interview, Tim Poole does nothing original, he just comments on other people's news, and he's dishonest. | ||
| But if I'm commenting on news, what's dishonest? | ||
| It's not my opinion on the news, right? | ||
| Because an opinion isn't a fact-based question. | ||
| So, she's saying the news is fake. | ||
| She said the quiet part out loud. | ||
| She did. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| We're gonna raid superchats. | ||
| Alright, Stephen says, second, hello Josh, in fact, good sir, you are first. | ||
| Stephen. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Shane H. Wilder says the Alaskan National Guard will probably be deployed in the summer so they can pass out on the Texas heat in a Napoleon invasion of Russia scenario. | ||
| Well, it may be early next year, we don't know exactly when. | ||
| The point is, why are you going to announce this? | ||
| I mean, this is a bad idea. | ||
| Yeah, this is like a virtue signal. | ||
| And they haven't done it in five years. | ||
| At the very least, it was just really dumb timing. | ||
| Raybert G. Standbert Jr. | ||
| says, Tim, did you see Bill Maher prove his incompetence once again with PBD on his show when talking about Gavin Newsom for president? | ||
| It was painful. | ||
| I do not agree with the general assessment of his performance. | ||
| What happened is Bill Maher said, Gavin Newsom is a winner, I don't understand why we can't have him. | ||
| Patrick Bette David said, are you a results-based guy? | ||
| PBD, he's so good at what he does with his interviews. | ||
| And Bill's like, what do you mean? | ||
| Well, results, you're saying like, he's a winner, so what did he do to win? | ||
| And Bill says, no, he wins elections. | ||
| Then PBD says, Patrick Bette David, by the way, value attainment, says, what did he do that was good for California? | ||
| And Bill says, he made it rain, I don't care. | ||
| He's like, there's bad things about California. | ||
| I don't like everything he does. | ||
| I don't actually see this as a gotcha moment, as a lot of people do, because Bill Maher was not trying to make the point that Gavin Newsom's policies are good. | ||
| He was trying to make the point this guy is capable of winning an election against Trump and Biden is not. | ||
| And that is a true and correct point we should be concerned about if they try to swap Biden out for Gavin Newsom. | ||
| However, I do give some brownie points to, come on, Bill. | ||
| Don't cheer for a guy. | ||
| You can't complain about Trump for being bad, and then say, I have no idea what the other guy's done. | ||
| But, like, he's like, not everything Gavin Newsom's done is good. | ||
| I mean, there's bad things, of course. | ||
| What has he done that's good? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Okay, well, now you're talking about Gavin Newsom is a winner, can win an election, and he's kind of bad, but Trump is very bad. | ||
| Okay, whatever, I get it. | ||
| It's probably a reason why Bill Maher does not want to come on this show. | ||
| I mean, to be fair, he's like a super rich old guy who's like, doesn't want to go on anyone's shows. | ||
| Also because you won't let him smoke weed in here, so. | ||
| We offered to go out there and try and work something out. | ||
| They said no. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| Yeah, and I will not go on real time. | ||
| I would never. | ||
| I can't stand that. | ||
| It's so silly. | ||
| Like, it's just WWE. | ||
| It's not your format, man. | ||
| I mean, I could easily, it's just like, sit there for, you know, speak for 10 minutes and then you're done and then argue with some guy who's going to say stupid things and get a rise out of the audience. | ||
| It's just, but Club Random, we tried, we're like, hey, we'll go to LA. | ||
| We'll set up our show for a week and then we'll come on the show. | ||
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And they're like, well, you know, can't do it. | |
| Whatever, he doesn't owe me anything. | ||
| All right, let's grab some more. | ||
| Mr. Battalion says, Tim, have you thought that AK is betting on DT winning 24 since the deployment isn't until 25? | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| All these moves that are being made are to create crises under Donald Trump's presidency. | ||
| They're not going to be able to Russiagate him again. | ||
| So what can they do? | ||
| This bill will give the federal government all of these powers, and it's locked in, and if Trump wants to change it, it goes to D.C. | ||
| federal court. | ||
| That was the key you guys pointed out. | ||
| I was glad I found that. | ||
| I've seen a couple people share it now, but it's not. | ||
| It's not making the rounds like it should be, because that's probably the crux of that bill. | ||
| Besides the war funds, that is the biggest part of that bill. | ||
| And then what happens even if Congress tries to change it? | ||
| Will it also have to go to a D.C. | ||
| court? | ||
| It's what it sounds like to me. | ||
| I mean, like I said, I'm not a legalese guy, but it sounds to me like everything pertaining to this issue from now on will have to go through the D.C. | ||
| District Court. | ||
| I think Congress would be able to override it themselves without court, but Trump won't. | ||
| What's going to happen is Trump will get elected and he'll be like, we're going to shut it down. | ||
| We're going to lock Wrap the borders and then immediately Democrats will file suit and say the bill, the law of this land says we have to go to D.C. | ||
| court where they will immediately say Trump loses. | ||
| Even if he gets elected he's only going to have four years. | ||
| They're going to wrap it up in court for two. | ||
| Immediately. | ||
| Minimum two years in the D.C. | ||
| district courts. | ||
| People forget that you may win the case but it's going to take so long for it to get done it's effectively useless. | ||
| Especially in the D.C. | ||
| district court. | ||
| They're going to keep pushing it back, pushing it back. | ||
| All these other things are going to take precedence. | ||
| It's going to be bad. | ||
| Let's read this one, this one's good. | ||
| Quan Xin says, Xin, want to clarify something you said last Friday. | ||
| In Singapore, you can't get caned for littering. | ||
| You can get caned for illegal entry or overstaying your permit for 90 days. | ||
| That might help with U.S. | ||
| immigration issues. | ||
| I'm not in favor of caning, but I do believe that atypical punishment that is not cruel and unusual Well, I don't know, atypical and unusual, I don't know what unusual means, but I do think there could be forms of penance that would actually be substantially more effective than torture or locking someone up with their gang. | ||
| Yeah, it's not, you could do cruel or, it's not cruel or unusual, it's cruel and unusual punishment is not allowed, but if it's not cruel, it can still be unusual. | ||
| Oh, good point. | ||
| And if it's not unusual, it can still be cruel. | ||
| Like putting people in prison where they get raped. | ||
| Wow, it shouldn't be, but I think the point is cruelty is unusual. | ||
| Listen, what happens to pedophiles? | ||
| I don't care. | ||
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They can go to prison and get raped for all I care. | |
| We could use some unusual... I agree with the atypical or unusual. | ||
| We talked about this. | ||
| I guarantee you, if I was given, like, you are the Supreme Chancellor, how will you end crime in Chicago? | ||
| I would say, When you are caught for violent offenses, we will make you wear a diaper and crawl around in a public park surrounded by everyone with their cell phone cameras filming you. | ||
| And you have to say, gobby gooby, gobby gooby for two hours. | ||
| If you made them do it in their living room, that would be unusual. | ||
| I like it in the park. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| Here's my question about the definition of cruel. | ||
| I'm talking about violent criminal offenders who are caught. | ||
| Convicted in a court of law and their punishment is to be to be mocked in public. | ||
| Humiliated. | ||
| I think cruel needs, like, torture is cruel. | ||
| Solitary confinement is cruel. | ||
| These things cause tremendous, like, lifelong traumas and physical disabilities. | ||
| You getting made fun of for an hour or so is a, like, I gotta tell you. | ||
| In Chicago, these guys are gonna be like, ain't no way, I'm getting caught dude. | ||
| Because they're gonna put you in a diaper and make you, you gotta hop like a bunny down Michigan Avenue, and everyone gets to film you. | ||
| And that's forever. | ||
| You're not going to go to jail, but that will be who you are, and they'll be like, I don't want to be that. | ||
| I like the diaper idea. | ||
| I like the public humiliation aspect. | ||
| Public humiliation was big in the Puritan days, wasn't it? | ||
| You had like the stocks and stuff, they'd put you out in public, or Hester Prynne with her A, that was humiliating. | ||
| And people would throw tomatoes and stuff. | ||
| Or the lady who, I forget what her crime was, but her sentence was to work at a fast food restaurant. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So I'm riding the car with some skateboarders. | ||
| And some of these guys from the south side of Chicago, it's probably when I'm like 20, 19 years old maybe, and the way they speak, they say, when I go to jail, I'm going to X. They don't say if. | ||
| They don't say, I hope I don't. | ||
| They say, when I do. | ||
| And the other thing is, many of them like that they've done it, and they brag about it. | ||
| They go, you ain't notion. | ||
| You know, ish. | ||
| Where did you get locked up? | ||
| Man, I spent X amount of time in this place. | ||
| You're gonna come at me, bro? | ||
| It's just like getting your wings in the military, man. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| It's like something you're proud of. | ||
| But if they said, aren't you that guy I saw in the diaper? | ||
| Gaba goobying down Michigan Avenue and everyone laughed at you? | ||
| He'd be like, nah, that wasn't me, I swear to God. | ||
| There's video, buddy. | ||
| I'm pretty sure that was you. | ||
| Where there's a guy, there's a guy who's like on his bed on the internet naked or something, and then someone tweeted, there's another guy who posted something and someone tweeted him, hey aren't you that guy that's butt-ass naked on your couch? | ||
| And he's like, no it's not me, and they post a picture of it. | ||
| People are terrified of that. | ||
| And so I'm not literally saying we should have people dress in diapers, I'm making the point that the idea of locking someone in a box with their gang, and they like it, That's not solving any problems at all. | ||
| It's all the way from home. | ||
| It's like a career move. | ||
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Yeah, literally. | |
| It's like a criminal career move, yeah. | ||
| And then there's a lot of people. | ||
| It's not helping. | ||
| There'll be a guy who's like, I saw this in Ferguson. | ||
| So they're struggling to pay their bills. | ||
| They're driving to work, and they've got a busted taillight. | ||
| They get pulled over. | ||
| They can't pay the bill, so they don't. | ||
| Then they get pulled over. | ||
| So there's a bunch of small towns when you drive through the St. | ||
| Louis metro. | ||
| It's like 99 different cities. | ||
| And so, when you can't pay the bill, it's like, it's a weekend in jail. | ||
| The only problem, it's two days. | ||
| No big deal, right? | ||
| But if you've got six tickets across six jurisdictions, they put you on tour. | ||
| It's where you go to one jail. | ||
| Two days later, they transport you to the next jail. | ||
| Two days later, next jail. | ||
| I'm like, how is taking this guy out of the workforce and stripping him of the money he doesn't have helping anybody because he couldn't pay a ticket? | ||
| None of that solves any problems. | ||
| That's not a good reason. | ||
| And how are we taking gang members, putting them in boxes with their gang where they're happy it's happening, and acting like we're solving the problem in any way? | ||
| I was just thinking about Boo Kelly. | ||
| You guys see he got elected with 90% people or so? | ||
| And there's apparently like a, well, according to the news, very legitimate election, but people love him. | ||
| What is he doing to get the gangs off? | ||
| Is it just severe brutality in El Salvador right now? | ||
| He's just locking them all up. | ||
| They're arresting them all. | ||
| And they're just putting all these guys? | ||
| They're arresting them and putting them in a brutal prison where they just all sit there. | ||
| Like Arkham Asylum? | ||
| Like it's the worst of the worst of their society all together in one? | ||
| Arkham Asylum! | ||
| Basically, that's what it looks like in the pictures. | ||
| And they're terrified, dude. | ||
| So there are guys who have gang tattoos, and they're hiding in the shadows. | ||
| It's wild, some of the stories I've heard. | ||
| Cause like, you join a gang, you get a tattoo on your face. | ||
| Now that Bukele's locking up all the gang members, their makeup, covering it up, they're panicking, like, if I get seen associated with a gang in any way, it's straight to lock up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I was talking to my Salvadorian friend just the other day in D.C. | ||
| and he said, like, he went back just recently after Bukele was elected and he says it's like night and day. | ||
| Like, he doesn't even recognize his own neighborhood anymore from when he grew up as a kid. | ||
| He says it's the most violent country in the world, or at least in Central. | ||
| It was up there. | ||
| Definitely a top five. | ||
| And now it's one of the safest in the world. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And Bitcoin's legal tender. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And their economy is like... | ||
| Sick. | ||
| This is Zaitsev. | ||
| Check page 213 of the bill. | ||
| Aliens from non-contiguous countries shall not be included in calculating the sum of aliens encountered. | ||
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| Can you pull that up, 213? | ||
| Aliens described in subsection blah blah from non-contiguous countries shall not be included in calculating the sum of aliens encountered. | ||
| What are the, which countries? | ||
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Are they saying that if you come from China to Mexico you're not going to be counted? | |
| Non-contiguous means if you don't touch, if your country doesn't touch the U.S. | ||
| Right. | ||
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| That is messed up, you guys. | ||
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Wow! | |
| Call your congressman tomorrow. | ||
| Everybody that is not from Canada or Mexico is not counted in that three million a year that we'll be allowed in. | ||
| This bill is very important. | ||
| We've got a Canadian illegal immigration problem. | ||
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We just had two people arrested. | |
| Two illegal immigrants were just arrested for running a human trafficking ring across the Canadian border. | ||
| You should screenshot that. | ||
| It's much easier to get into America from Canada than it is to get into Canada from America. | ||
| I heard some pod... Stitch and I were talking about this particular phrase, and they were saying that they were thinking that it might be something having to do with Cuba, but the way that it sounds to me, it does sound like if it's not, if you're not from Canada or Mexico, which are the only two countries that are legitimate, where the people could make legitimate asylum claims because you're supposed to stop in the first | ||
| safe country that you come to. | ||
| If that if it's the case, then that means that they that anyone that isn't from Canada or Mexico | ||
| is is not counted. So the number could be, you know, God knows. | ||
| And that's for the purpose of closing the border. So they won't have to close the border if it's | ||
| just all people from not Mexico. Yeah. So you could have like, you know, | ||
| 5000 people from from Africa, and they don't count towards the 5000 people to close the border. | ||
| That's what it seems like. | ||
| That's what it looks like. | ||
| Most of the people are not coming from Mexico. | ||
| Not Mexican nationals. | ||
| Excuse me, this bill is ass. | ||
| It needs to go away very quickly, very fast. | ||
| Everyone should call their congress people. | ||
| Tomorrow. | ||
| All day. | ||
| All day long. | ||
| What time? | ||
| Should we coordinate like at two in the morning? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| It doesn't matter when. | ||
| The time doesn't matter. | ||
| Just fill up their mailboxes. | ||
| Is there a website you can go to where you put in your area code and it shows you who your congressman is? | ||
| There should be, yeah. | ||
| Well, I mean, everyone, you can go to your, yeah, you can Google. | ||
| If you Google whatever your, you know, I'm from this town who's my congressman, Google will tell you what your district is. | ||
| I will say, though, Mitch McConnell coming out and saying it. | ||
| So Mitch McConnell's basically the guy in my lifetime that has always been like, oh, there's a bad bipartisan bill coming through? | ||
| We should vote for it. | ||
| You said that, but I saw something from Tenet Media earlier that said that Mitch McConnell was for it, so I'm not sure. | ||
| Oh, I didn't say that. | ||
| Libby said it. | ||
| Libby was wrong, not me. | ||
| I'm just parodying. | ||
| Libby, why are you lying to me? | ||
| Why are you lying to me? | ||
| Yo, why are you lying, Libby? | ||
| Mitch McConnell saying to vote against the bill. | ||
| That's what I thought. | ||
| He didn't say that? | ||
| She said she saw it. | ||
| I said I saw it on Alex Boyd Johnson's Twitter. | ||
| I was surprised to hear that because Mitch McConnell basically is like the bad bipartisan bill machine, right? | ||
| He's the guy in the Republicans that's like, oh, it's another bill that's going to not help American citizens at all? | ||
| Sure, why not? | ||
| Every every time I want to see anything about this bike popular people never really stoked. | ||
| It's always what do you do in Kentucky get it together geez? | ||
| You got you have Thomas Massey and Rand Paul Yeah, I know. | ||
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And Mitch McConnell, of all the people? | |
| Come on. | ||
| Alright, Jacob Hawley says, Ian, I just want to thank you. | ||
| Your humanity and compassion and your quick jump to assume the best in people has given me hope. | ||
| About a year ago, I was depressed, alone, and without purpose. | ||
| I considered ending myself many times. | ||
| You and God saved me. | ||
| You know what, dude? | ||
| I was thinking this, like, yesterday. | ||
| If you live in fear, even if you succeed, you've failed. | ||
| Like, you have to have at least that Hope? | ||
| Hope is what makes us human. | ||
| in the future. Hope? Yeah, yeah, even if things are bad, like fuck it, be hopeful man, because | ||
| things are going to get better and live like that. Hope is what makes us human. Winston Churchill was | ||
| great about that during World War II because it was like the darkest time in British history and | ||
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they, people were getting bombed in London, they were, anyway. Let's read this. | |
| E.W. | ||
| says, y'all need to go watch the Dave Smith's interview with RFK Jr. | ||
| this past week. | ||
| I did. | ||
| Dave 180'd on RFK Jr. | ||
| The idea that he would VP with RFK Jr. | ||
| after that is hilarious. | ||
| Go watch the interview. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He wrecked. | ||
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I'm telling you, there's the longest- He was a fan of RFK Jr.? ? | |
| I think he's a fan of the anti-war narrative that he had been having prior to this Israeli-Palestinian conflict recharging. | ||
| But he obliterates RFK Jr.? | ||
| On Israel? | ||
| He took him to task on all of this stuff real bad. | ||
| And in fact, at the end asked him, do you think Israel has too much influence on American politics? | ||
| And it was the longest pregnant pause I've ever seen. | ||
| It was probably 10 seconds. | ||
| Somebody made a video of it with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music because it was so long. | ||
| He was like, well, And then he starts saying, well, I'm not really a politician, so I couldn't tell ya. | ||
| Okay, alright. | ||
| Sure, you couldn't. | ||
| Yikes. | ||
| I will just say this. | ||
| Phil, MTG reacted to it, and it came from Punchbowl. | ||
| I was just playing with you, Libby. | ||
| So nobody owes us any favors. | ||
| If you don't want to come on the show, then you don't come on the show, that's fine. | ||
| But there are a lot of these personalities who are terrified to come on this show because they know you say it, I'm going to Google search it right there on the spot and pull it up. | ||
| And so we've had a hard time trying to book RFK Jr. | ||
| for sure. | ||
| Yeah, it's going to be a hard one for sure. | ||
| You know, there's another thing, too. | ||
| He's been invited to the Libertarian Party of California convention. | ||
| In fact, they're doing a debate there that has him, Cornel West, Jill Stein, and any Libertarian candidate that was willing to pay $5,000 to be in a debate for our own party at our own state convention when they're not charging them. | ||
| Which is kind of weird, right? | ||
| I would say it's kind of weird. | ||
| Anyways, so he's going to debate, I think, Jacob Hornberger and maybe Michael Recktenwald because they paid the fee. | ||
| I refuse to pay the fee. | ||
| Johnny Medler says RFK Jr. | ||
| endorsed Hillary Clinton three times. | ||
| He's one of them, no matter what he says now. | ||
| Yeah, but he's pulling votes from Joe Biden. | ||
| I think he's pulling votes from both sides. | ||
| It's mostly Joe, mostly Biden. | ||
| I think it's polling now, mostly Biden. | ||
| I think in a general election, he's pulling from both sides. | ||
| Yeah, probably a little, but I think he's really got that Democrat flair. | ||
| Yeah, but there's a right-wing contingent that really likes this guy because of his COVID stances. | ||
| Oh yeah, COVID's content with Trump and COVID. | ||
| If you guys are looking for a COVID guy, I want to put the COVID regime in Guantanamo Bay. | ||
| All right, let's read this. | ||
| Domestic Tourist says, Please pray for my dog Scout. | ||
| Cast, crew, and listeners, he is currently battling bone cancer and I'm not sure how long he has. | ||
| I'm a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and he's my service dog. | ||
| He saved my life. | ||
| Sorry to hear it, man. | ||
| I hope for the best. | ||
| I hope he has a good recovery and just cherish every moment you can have with him. | ||
| Praying for your doggo, man. | ||
| Thanks for sharing. | ||
| Heal those bones. | ||
| So Mr. Bocas, we were on Friday. | ||
| You know, someone came down and said, he's like sprawled out on the ground, like staring at the floor, his face just flat on the ground. | ||
| And we were kind of worried like at any moment he could die. | ||
| I mean, we've artificially lengthened his life as long as we can. | ||
| He's got a defective heart. | ||
| He's got defective kidneys and he's young, but this is, you know, eat garbage and live in the street. | ||
| Maybe when he was younger, he ate some chemical or who knows. | ||
| And so we came up and he was sitting there. | ||
| And so I thought to myself, you know what? | ||
| He's on a special diet for his kidneys. | ||
| But it's looking really bad. | ||
| He really, he eats, he's hungry, that's good, that's a good sign, but he's not putting on weight. | ||
| So I thought we should give him some raw beef. | ||
| Because he really, really, when he came up here, he was trying to eat the biltong like crazy, but he can't eat it, it's salted and it's spiced. | ||
| And I was like, he's showing signs of like, this may be the end. | ||
| End of life, yeah. | ||
| And so if he loves beef, he's got his last meal coming, buddy. | ||
| And so we gave him a chunk of raw beef, he ate it, He's looking better. | ||
| And I have read studies about feeding cats raw meat, because it's literally what they eat. | ||
| And so I'm hoping, and it may be a stupid thing to hope, that if he is about to die, and I'm going to give him some good food before he goes and let him fill his belly with raw meat like he'd love to eat, I'm happy he gets it. | ||
| But I'm kind of hoping that maybe that, that... Kickstarts him. | ||
| Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, that just eats it, and it helps him put, put weight back on or something. | ||
| And so I looked into what is the lowest phosphorus meat, because that's, that's what you got to watch out for, for his kidney problem, and it's beef. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And so I was like, straight up, non-salted, low-sodium, just regular old raw beef, and he went nuts for it. | ||
| I'm hoping that keeps him eating, and I'm hoping the raw meat is better for him and helps him put weight back on. | ||
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But, uh, if not, then I'm just happy that, uh... He had a good end. | |
| He had a good last meal of the raw meat. | ||
| Because this stuff, we feed him for his kidney diet. | ||
| It's little, you know, dry pellets. | ||
| And then he's got this canned food that looks like garbage. | ||
| And he eats it, but he just, like, you know. | ||
| Why would you not just want something good? | ||
| I've got the Liver King's beef liver supplement pill. | ||
| And every once in a while, I was pulling, undoing a capsule and putting a little powder on it. | ||
| Man, he goes nuts for that beef. | ||
| He wants it. | ||
| You should get all the Liver King's growth hormones, dude. | ||
| Shout out to Liver King. | ||
| You just get absolutely jacked like that, dude. | ||
| You should do it. | ||
| That'd be great. | ||
| Get like a supercharged vehicle and just get super jacked. | ||
| It'd be great. | ||
| I'd love to see it. | ||
| And just claim liver and clean eating the entire time. | ||
| We'll get you some cream and clear, you can take a bath. | ||
| I'm gonna do a liver cleanse I'll tell you guys about on another show. | ||
| Phobes says, Hey Josh, it's simple. | ||
| Just asked him whether Libertarians should vote for Dick Cheney if he were the Libertarian nominee. | ||
| That's a funny joke. | ||
| Yeah, but like, No, that's a funny joke because Dave Smith asked Nick Sarwark, the prior chair of the LNC, who I was at war with, on his show, do you think libertarians should vote for Dick Cheney if he's the nominee? | ||
| And he said, Hitler, Hillary Clinton, anybody. | ||
| Yes, they have an obligation as a libertarian to vote for them because it helps the libertarian party. | ||
| And that's kind of where- Nick Sarwark is very dumb. | ||
| That's why we took over the party. | ||
| I mean, Nick Sarwark was the reason why we took over. | ||
| One of my favorite points to make was I constantly hear these Trump supporters, conservatives in general, say, if the Libertarians just voted for Trump in 2020, then Trump would be the president. | ||
| And I said, Libertarians don't like the Republican Party. | ||
| They have this worldview, not all of them, but many of them, that Libertarians We are conservatives. | ||
| And we owe our vote to the Republicans too, that's the other thing. | ||
| And it's like, I'm like, Libertarians don't like 90% of what Republicans do. | ||
| I don't understand why they would want to vote for you. | ||
| A lot of us were Republicans, and in fact, modern Libertarians today came from the Ron Paul movement, okay? | ||
| And like, we watched them arrest our caucus members at caucuses around the country for Ron Paul. | ||
| We watched them change the national convention rules to keep delegates out. | ||
| Like, we're not going back. | ||
| We got one more, it's a good one. | ||
| Rah Gidnuk says last. | ||
| Anywho, you must get Rebaport on Timcast. | ||
| Give him platform and expand viewers. | ||
| Please, he's hilarious and I'd love to hear him rant about Pig Dick Trump and Cadaver Joe for two hours. | ||
| I'm sure not alone in desiring that. | ||
| So we've reached out to his agent and we are trying to get him on the Culture War. | ||
| I think it would be two hours of laughing. | ||
| I think we'd be laughing the whole time. | ||
| You know, for the people who don't like Trump... He's so funny. | ||
| Yeah, I gotta say, for all the people who really hate Trump, he's a funny guy and self-aware. | ||
| So I feel like it wouldn't be this thing where we're just yelling at each other about being wrong. | ||
| I think we'd be laughing our asses off with everything he says. | ||
| He's been funny for years. | ||
| I would really I would really enjoy that. | ||
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So I hope I hope he gets back to us and made a whole career off of being a bad actor. | |
| Like literally that was like his whole shtick is like I know I'm a bad actor. | ||
| I act bad in movies on purpose now because that's who I am. | ||
| He was in my favorite movie true romance. | ||
| It's like my very favorite movie ever made. | ||
| Alright everybody, if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, share the show with your friends, head over to TimCast.com, click join us, because the Members Only Uncensored show is coming up in a few minutes and you don't want to miss it. | ||
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| It is going to be a not-so-family-friendly show, but it's totally worth it. | ||
| And you're supporting our work! | ||
| You can follow the show at TimCast IRL, you can follow me personally at TimCast. | ||
| Josh, do you want to shout anything out? | ||
| Yeah, follow me on Twitter at JoshuaAtLarge, and of course go check out my show, Break the Cycle with Joshua Smith on YouTube, Rumble, and also Odyssey, but we're live on YouTube. | ||
| I am PhilThatRemains on Twix. | ||
| I'm PhilThatRemainsOfficial on Instagram. | ||
| The band is All That Remains. | ||
| You can follow us on Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, YouTube, Amazon Music, you know. | ||
| When's that album coming out? | ||
| We're gonna release some music end of March, first week of April, very last, at the very end of first quarter, beginning of second quarter. | ||
| The first release and then the record should be June. | ||
| Have you, have you announced which songs are getting released? | ||
| No, but you know which one it is. | ||
| I know, I'm just like, I'm waiting. | ||
| It's such a good song, dude. | ||
| It's so good! | ||
| We'll have the mix hopefully in the next couple weeks. | ||
| I got one more trip to finish up two more songs, and then we got to do some vocals and stuff, but... Are you going heavier or softer? | ||
| Well, now it's all acoustic now. | ||
| Dude! | ||
| Can we play it on the show? | ||
|
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No, no, it's his fault for asking that. | |
| Once we've launched, you want to play it on the show? | ||
| It's not acoustic, I'm kidding. | ||
| We should do an acoustic album. | ||
| Can you do an acoustic version? | ||
| That'd be pretty savage if we did that. | ||
| We can do a couple songs. | ||
| We've done two weeks acoustic. | ||
| We've done Forever in Your Hands acoustic. | ||
| We've done a couple of them acoustic. | ||
| We can get away with it, but not every one. | ||
| I'll just say this before we jump to Libby, but I've heard the songs and I'm just like, I was talking to Allison and I was like, when did Phil show us all this? | ||
| Like I was, we were playing it. | ||
| Like Phil's like, here's a sample and I'm playing it in the house in my playlist before anyone can hear it. | ||
| I'm honored to be able to do it. | ||
| But, dude, you gotta release it. | ||
| I'm excited for it. | ||
| Really, the thing is, it's just a matter of getting everything done. | ||
| Everybody's got a bunch of things they've got going on, moving pieces, getting our drummer, getting time and stuff. | ||
| But it's coming. | ||
| It's almost done. | ||
| We've got, like, just a couple more things to finish up. | ||
| Did you get the drummer to play a disco beat? | ||
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| You have a drummer that plays classic with, like, the... Not anymore. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Libby. | ||
| I haven't seen you in a while. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Hi, I'm Libby, guys. | ||
| I adore you. | ||
| When's your album dropping? | ||
| My album is dropping in just a couple weeks. | ||
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All right. | |
| And I'm really excited about it. | ||
| I hope that you guys all come to, I don't know, what do you do when albums, do you have a party? | ||
| CD release. | ||
| CD release? | ||
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Any guest spots from Ben Shapiro? | |
| No, Ben Shapiro won't be there, sadly. | ||
| It's an album of Libby reading quotes from famous philosophers and political pundits for two hours. | ||
| And, you know, on the B side, it's just me doing some Ibsen monologues from Dollhouse. | ||
| So it's going to be really pretty stellar. | ||
| And if you want to hear more about that... | ||
| If you want to hear more about that, you can follow me at Libby Emmons on Twitter and see all the work we're doing at ThePostMillennial.com. | ||
| We'd be glad if you subscribe to ThePostMillennial.com slash subscribe. | ||
| I want to get that record. | ||
| Sounds great. | ||
| I want to do it now! | ||
| Well, I'll help you if you want to do that. | ||
| If you're really about it, let's do it. | ||
| That's like afternoon's work. | ||
| Yo, you could write, you could do like all the, like it could be all electronic and then it could be Libby reading The Post Millennial. | ||
| Vaporwave. | ||
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That's hot. | |
| Yeah, let's let's do it. | ||
| I'm Serge.com. | ||
| Follow me on SoundCloud. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| And everywhere else. | ||
| I argue on Twix. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| Let's go to the after show. | ||
| Big, big ups to everybody here. | ||
| Good to be back. | ||
| Good to see you, Josh. | ||
| Love you, man. | ||
| I'm going to be debating destiny on February 11th. | ||
| That's next Sunday, I think, or Saturday in Cincinnati. | ||
| That's going to be great. | ||
| So it's going to be a debate conversation about election integrity. | ||
| I've been doing research, man. | ||
| And when you start going down the rabbit hole of finding names of people that work at companies that work with companies, it's like, Whoa, what are the ethics of calling out these people? | ||
| Destiny does not know what he's getting himself into. | ||
| Dude, this is going to be the hottest event Cincinnati has seen in winter in a long time. | ||
| He's not going to be able to handle debating Ian. | ||
| Yeah, Steve Bonnell. | ||
| So it's a debate conversation. | ||
| We'll see where it flows. | ||
| I'm really looking forward to it, so check it out. | ||
| I'll let you know more as the week goes on, and we'll see you on the after show. | ||
| Alright, we'll see you all over at TimCast.com. |
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