April 2, 2024 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| Shadow campaign 2024 or perhaps nothing, but we don't know. | ||
| Right now on X, there are a few viral posts highlighting that hundreds of thousands of people in key states like Texas and Arizona have registered to vote without IDs. | ||
| The argument is that these are likely people who are granted social security numbers for work permitting reasons and then registered to vote because these numbers are massive and strange. | ||
| Now, nobody knows for sure. | ||
| Some people are pushing back a little bit, but considering the volatile nature of 2024, it's good to talk about these things early and see what we can come up with and figure out. | ||
| Donald Trump is campaigning on Biden's border bloodbath, which is brilliant branding and marketing. | ||
| And I saw one tweet where he said, November 5th will be Christian Day of Visibility, when Christians make themselves visible by voting overwhelmingly. | ||
| So we'll talk about that. | ||
| Plus, big news, JK Rowling over in the UK, they passed this hate speech bill where if you post something that is likely to offend a marginalized group, whether intentional or not, They can arrest you. | ||
| So J.K. | ||
| Rowling basically was like, I'm gonna go off! | ||
| Started calling out a bunch of creepy individuals who have been criminally charged masquerading as trans, and the police were like, okay, okay, we're not gonna arrest J.K. | ||
| Rowling, but of course they won't. | ||
| She's super wealthy. | ||
| They'll still go after the little guy who can't fight back, so we'll talk about that. | ||
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| Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Nick Freitas. | ||
| Thank you very much for having me. | ||
| Who are you, sir? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| Well, husband, father to three. | ||
| Former Green Beret back when I was in shape. | ||
| And then I'm currently serving as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. | ||
| But other than that, I'm a pretty good person. | ||
| All right on. | ||
| Glad to hear it. | ||
| We can talk about the inner workings of politics for sure, so thanks for coming by. | ||
| Oh, no, my pleasure. | ||
| Hannah Clare is hanging out. | ||
| Hey, I'm Hannah Clare Brimlow. | ||
| I'm a writer for scnr.com. | ||
| That's Scanner News. | ||
| I'm really happy to be a part of that team. | ||
| Ian's here. | ||
| Hi, everybody. | ||
| Ian Crossland. | ||
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Hello. | |
| It's Ian's birthday. | ||
| Happy birthday, Ian. | ||
| I don't normally celebrate. | ||
| We should talk about tradition tonight, because I don't normally celebrate days just for the sake of it. | ||
| It's like if somebody does something great, I want to celebrate that accomplishment. | ||
| So I'm kind of low-key about dates. | ||
| You don't want to celebrate that you've lived another year? | ||
| Yeah, like I didn't do anything great today. | ||
| I just slept in. | ||
| Celebrate me on the days that I come in hard and do some push. | ||
| We tried to wake him up for personal training. | ||
| He was like, it is my birthday. | ||
| I had too much caffeine. | ||
| I had those Yerba Mates. | ||
| I was up until like 5 a.m. | ||
| I told you not to drink those. | ||
| Too much caffeine. | ||
| So I'm going low caffeine from now on. | ||
| The other night, Ian grabs two Yerbas and I'm like, don't drink the second one. | ||
| I love them. | ||
| They're amazing. | ||
| They're delicious. | ||
| That was like four cups of coffee. | ||
| I was up way too late. | ||
| So I'm going to lower my caffeine intake. | ||
| Who's stealing all my Yerba? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| It was me. | ||
| I drank like four of them from that. | ||
| No, down here. | ||
| I have my own thing. | ||
| You have a secret stash? | ||
| Yeah, I have my Yerba. | ||
| It's half gone. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I know it's good, but I'm gonna have to walk around with a stick and wave it at people when they take my Yerba. | ||
| Thank you for the happy birthday, everybody. | ||
| And Nick, it's good to see you again. | ||
| When we first met, you were running. | ||
| I believe you were actually in the process of running for Congress when we met. | ||
| And then the second time I saw you, you were in Congress. | ||
| So it's really cool. | ||
| Well, I'm in the state legislature. | ||
| I think the first time they had me on, it was because we had a huge dust-up with the guy who's now the Speaker of the House. | ||
| But him and I kind of, yeah, had a bit of a fight on the floor. | ||
| But you were not in the legislature at that time? | ||
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I was. | |
| Oh, you were already in it? | ||
| Oh, cool. | ||
| Let's go deep, man. | ||
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All right. | |
| Hey, Serge. | ||
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Hey, Ian. | |
| Happy birthday. | ||
| Yeah, let's get to it. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| So let's just start with this story. | ||
| It was kind of hard. | ||
| I don't know if we wanted to lead with this because it is a bit of conjecture, but it is incredibly interesting. | ||
| Take a look at this from EndWokeness. | ||
| The number of voters registering without a photo ID is skyrocketing in three key swing states, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. | ||
| I just really want to point out Texas, a swing state? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Since the start of 2024, 1,250,000 people have registered in Texas without an ID. | ||
| In Pennsylvania, 580,000. | ||
| In Arizona, 220,000. | ||
| H-A-V-V, that's Help Assisting Voters Verification or something like that, allows voters to register with a social security number, four digits. | ||
| Illegal immigrants are not able to get licenses there, but they can get social security cards for work authorization permits. | ||
| The data is publicly available. | ||
| We have this tweet from Paul A. Jupila. | ||
| Probably pronouncing that wrong. | ||
| He says 227,077 people in Texas registered to vote without a photo ID during the week of March 16th, 2024. | ||
| Nothing to worry about here whatsoever. | ||
| Totally legitimate. | ||
| He says, to clarify, see the explanations of terms and associated columns. | ||
| Then see the blue highlighted row. | ||
| That's Texas. | ||
| The 227,000 are total transactions with 196,000 matches. | ||
| 192,000 single match alive. | ||
| So it appears as many as 196,000 people registered to vote without a photo ID. | ||
| There were 30,000 total non-matches. | ||
| That would imply of the 30,000 non-matches are people who tried to register with fake social security numbers. | ||
| Or, for whatever reason, submitted a registration form with a Social Security number on it, and it got rejected by the Social Security Administration. | ||
| So take a look at this. | ||
| This is the website. | ||
| I pulled up the week ending March 16th. | ||
| This is ssa.gov. | ||
| This is the Help America Vote Verification Transactions by State. | ||
| And let's just make sure we have this correctly. | ||
| When it says, um... | ||
| Well, where is the total non-matches? | ||
| Total number of verification requests where there is no match in our records on the name, last four digits of the social security number or date of birth. | ||
| So I'll stress that again. | ||
| When they highlight 30, actually I can just pull it up right here. | ||
| Let's jump to Texas and we can see total non-matches for Texas. | ||
| 30,499 in one week. | ||
| That's like 15 times more than the next greatest. | ||
| I mean, that's more than any... Tennessee has zero. | ||
| It's as many as Pennsylvania even just had registered, is the amount of fraudulent attempts in Texas. | ||
| They may not be fraudulent. | ||
| Many of them could be someone put their number down wrong and it came back and got rejected. | ||
| However, Holy crap! | ||
| 1.2 million in Texas since the start of this year? | ||
| I think this is important because it may be nothing. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| Scott Pressler chimed in. | ||
| He says, people need to understand that you do not need a photo ID to register to vote. | ||
| In order to register to vote, you need either a driver's license or the last four of your social security number. | ||
| If someone does not have a driver's license, they use social security number. | ||
| For voter registration, there is also a box that voters must check to indicate they're American citizens. | ||
| As someone who registers voters across the country, I know this information firsthand. | ||
| Furthermore, we are also registering a lot of Amish to vote. | ||
| Amish do not have a photo ID. | ||
| I'm not saying these numbers reflect Amish voter registration. | ||
| The information above just serves to point to other ways people may register to vote. | ||
| I have reached out to two congressmen about the issue. | ||
| So before anybody jumps the gun, the first thing I want to point out is, There could be a regular, say, 30-year-old dude living in, you know, the outskirts of Austin, Republican, and he's like, I'm gonna register to vote, and they say, you can use your ID or your social security number. | ||
| He's like, I'll use my social, it's easier. | ||
| Last word, I gotta pull my ID, I gotta put all those numbers, I'll just do that, right? | ||
| So this could be totally on the level. | ||
| Again, that being said, I think, considering the shadow campaign Time Magazine wrote about, and the fact that we're seeing these massive numbers in key swing states, in places like Texas, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, which is clearly here reflected, Missouri, interestingly, has a large number as well. | ||
| I think we definitely want to pay attention to this. | ||
| I don't know that anyone actually caught anything, but I certainly think this should be investigated now, Yeah, this social security number. | ||
| I also don't think it will be. | ||
| This is what I'm wondering, if I'm in Texas and I'm like, hi, my name is Nick Freitas, and I have your social somehow. | ||
| And I'm like, and these are the last four digits of my social security number, and I vote this way. | ||
| Can I do that? | ||
| Is that what they're letting people do? | ||
| Well, you gotta understand, like in a place like Virginia, where we now have same-day voter registration, the bottom line is that you're gonna go through this process, and unless they have a way to really check this automatically right off the bat, which, quite frankly, if they show up to a polling location to do this, they're not gonna be able to get that instant verification. | ||
| And they may give you a provisional ballot, but then you figure all that out, that gets counted in what, three days later when they've already declared the winner, they're going to come back and really scrutinize that? | ||
| No, they're only going to scrutinize it to the degree that they want to scrutinize it. | ||
| And that's the problem with all of this. | ||
| When you make it easy to cheat, it doesn't mean that everyone cheats. | ||
| But enough people can cheat and enough other people look at that and go, something is wrong with this system. | ||
| There doesn't seem to be sufficient accountability. | ||
| There doesn't be sufficient transparency. | ||
| And so you actually end up undermining the process, even if you haven't done something wrong. | ||
| And I think it's only going to get worse, especially when you look at a place like Texas. | ||
| I mean, yeah, it's interesting that we live in a culture and society that says there has to be a nefarious reason that this looks out of whack, right? | ||
| Like we are aware enough now that there is. | ||
| There are errors that occur in voter registration and that some people may benefit from that. | ||
| And I think that that fear is going to, you know, you would hope that it would drive people to the polls. | ||
| If something's wrong, I've got to act. | ||
| On the other hand, you know, when you look at a number like 30,000 in Texas, when other states haven't registered anybody, it looks extremely odd, especially given the situation at the border, which Texas has to respond to. | ||
| It's 190,000. | ||
| The 30,000 is just the people that came back. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So you're saying, Nick, because it's at a polling station, they don't have enough time or equipment to verify, like give them a social and a fake name? | ||
| So obviously with this, with Texas, we're talking about March, right? | ||
| So they're going to the DMV or wherever it is in order to register. | ||
| Each state is a little bit different on how you get to register. | ||
| But in a place like Virginia, where we have same-day voter registration, and you can walk all the way up to the polling location, register that day, and then vote, you're not going to get the same degree of verification that you would through a regular process where you actually have adequate time. | ||
| And so sometimes the way they try to do that is they'll give you a provisional ballot, and you're supposed to keep the provisional ballots separate, and then you go through those after the fact, and they're supposed to go through additional scrutiny. | ||
| Again, where people are losing trust with this, I'll give you a very personal case from 2020, right? | ||
| This was the year in Virginia, it's COVID, we had a bunch of, we had a special session where Democrats changed the voting laws in Virginia like significantly. | ||
| It's so bad that a judge came back after the fact and said, yeah, you probably shouldn't have done it this way, but we're not going to change anything because the votes have already been cast. | ||
| We had a thumb drive in Henrico County show up with 15,000 votes, right? | ||
| Which they claimed we have all the corresponding voter ID numbers. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| But what do you mean you mislabeled a thumb drive with 15,000 votes? | ||
| Because you can vote up to 45 days before the election in Virginia. | ||
| And so there's serious questions about chain of custody. | ||
| There's serious questions about potential data manipulation. | ||
| And if they would have found the thumb drive had the results been different. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, in the in the issue, I had a reporter come and she was so furious after January 6th. | ||
| And oh, my gosh, I'm like, look. | ||
| She goes, do you really think there was voter fraud all over the place? | ||
| And that guy said, I have never claimed that voter fraud cost me the election. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I've never claimed that. | ||
| I said, but can I ask you a question? | ||
| If instead on election night, I had been down and I had been down, right? | ||
| Cause I was leading and I was leading in the vote counts. | ||
| If I had been down and then all of a sudden a thumb drive showed up In the reddest county in the district, with just enough votes to get me over so I won, would you have written an article about, wow, we really need to change the whole chain of custody? | ||
| Well, yeah, that probably would have been... Yeah, but you didn't, right? | ||
| You never do. | ||
| This only works in one direction, and that's another reason why people are skeptical. | ||
| Now, here's something interesting. | ||
| Single match deceased. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Single match found deceased means the total number of verification requests where there is only one match in our records on name, date of birth, and last four digits of social security number, and the number holder is deceased. | ||
| Why, if we jump over to Texas, 4,571. | ||
| Now, how is that anything other than fraud? | ||
| Okay, no, no, no, hold on, hold on. | ||
| Somebody registered, put it in the mailbox, Drop dead right there. | ||
| Medical examiner says deceased. | ||
| By the time it made it to SSA verification, they were like, ah, that person is listed as dead. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| I'm sorry, I just don't buy that. | ||
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No. | |
| Occam's razor would suggest that people are filling out forms for dead people. | ||
| And also, maybe that happens, what, 10 times? | ||
| Right, right. | ||
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4,000? | |
| That seems like maybe too many. | ||
| Well, the other thing to keep in mind, too, is that organizations actively go to retirement homes, they actively go to assisted living facilities, and they register people who may not be fully cognizant of what is actually going on. | ||
| It is strongly possible. | ||
| In 2020, a bunch of people on the right, who of course were very concerned about the results, were saying dead people voted. | ||
| And they did. | ||
| Do you know what happened? | ||
| People were alive, voted, and then died. | ||
| And then a month later, they were like, hey, this person voted early. | ||
| And then it turns out they were actually dead. | ||
| It's like, well, yeah, they were alive at the time and then died. | ||
| But these numbers are very strange. | ||
| If you put Texas and Pennsylvania, because Pennsylvania has the next most voter registration, you've got about six times more people registered in Texas than in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Six times. | ||
| But 300 times more dead people. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In Pennsylvania, only 16 came back from deceased... registrations from deceased people. | ||
| And what did I say? | ||
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10 is like what I would expect maybe people who... That's a red flag anomaly. | |
| Those aren't supposed to... that amount of deceased voter incomings is not normal. | ||
| I'll just say right now, we don't know exactly what the data means. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| However, I would not be surprised if come November, they say taxes went blue. | ||
| I mean, this is what the people have been warning about for a long time. | ||
| And I think because we think of Texas as the Wild West, they're always like, no, Texas will never go blue. | ||
| Ha ha ha. | ||
| But Texas has changed a lot. | ||
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Right. | |
| Especially since 2016, especially since Covid. | ||
| I mean, there were a large number. | ||
| I mean, I lived in Texas for a little while and I can't tell you how many people were like, oh, yeah, I just moved here from California. | ||
| And that has only increased. | ||
| I mean, we know that. | ||
| In the sphere that we work in, people who are not necessarily from Texas saw Texas as a better place to live and went. | ||
| I think, of course, the voting results will reflect that. | ||
| But again, these numbers don't necessarily reflect people changing. | ||
| This represents fraud. | ||
| Texas only reports every other week. | ||
| Some people are pointing out that if you go to the later- next week, Texas isn't there. | ||
| Well, they're not the previous week either, but the week ending March 9th, 224,000 attempts, and there were 4,650 registrations for deceased people. | ||
| Now, come on! | ||
| and there were 4,650 registrations for deceased people. | ||
| Now, come on. | ||
| Like, so we're saying 2,300 people, dead people per week. | ||
| per week. | ||
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You want me to believe- Texas, are you okay? | |
| Every week, 2,300 people register and then croak before the Social Security Administration can verify their IDs. | ||
| It's the strangest thing. | ||
| And not only do they die, but it gets reported by the coroner and the data uploaded so that the SSA has the updated information already. | ||
| No, BS. | ||
| Yeah, it's weird. | ||
| Someone is registering dead people. | ||
| I wish that we could pull, like, this week from 2020, you know, and compare the data. | ||
| Do you have that? | ||
| Because, again, like... This website from the Social Security Administration has that data. | ||
| If you could do a side-by-side comparison of this point in 2020 versus this point in 2020. | ||
| You probably want to choose, like, another, like, presidential year election to get, like, a fair... 2020? | ||
| March 21st, 2020? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's see if Texas is on this list, because they- Are they also registering 4,000 dead people? | ||
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64,000. | |
| Zero dead people. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| That's weird. | ||
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What's happening? | |
| You know what, Tim? | ||
| Asking that question makes you a threat to democracy. | ||
| That's the real problem. | ||
| What's happening is I'm thinking a lot about change of governments and how they want the civilians just keep doing what you do, civilian. | ||
| You just have a new leader now. | ||
| Don't even open your eyes. | ||
| They want to change the databases and the paperwork to change who's in control without alerting. | ||
| This is not an example of people voting different in my opinion. | ||
| The whole reporting. | ||
| Totals, deceased, 244. | ||
| March, this is the week ending March, let's make sure we have the date right, March 21st, 2020. | ||
| And for that week, there were 224 deceased registrations that turned out to be from deceased people. | ||
| So let's go to March 16th, 2024, and the total now is 6,698. | ||
| And the total now is 6,698. | ||
| And 4,000, over 4,000 are from Texas alone. | ||
| Like, I think something is up. | ||
| I can't say. | ||
| It sounds like it's almost dangerous to register to vote in Texas. | ||
| Like, it could cost you your life. | ||
| It's the leading cause of death in Texas. | ||
| Maybe the paper they use is just very fine, sturdy, and rigid. | ||
| And so these poor elderly people are taking the thing and they're filling it out, and then as they pick it up, accidentally, the paper cuts their arm. | ||
| That's probably more likely. | ||
| I thought you were going to say they're all laced with something, so when they open them, you know, they all die. | ||
| Oh, it's the ink. | ||
| The ink they use, perhaps, or someone is trying to register people off a list and they don't know these people are dead already. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Or there's a really specific serial killer at Hunt in Texas who only wants to go after people who have just registered to vote. | ||
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This is crazy. | |
| This is like, alert the FBI. | ||
| The FBI will be like, stop talking about it. | ||
| In a normal society, you're like, we have this horrific anomaly on our border right now of people coming across and voter registrations going off the charts. | ||
| Send in the FBI. | ||
| We need to know. | ||
| We need every aspect of this covered and taken care of. | ||
| If we were to do the total calculation from 2011 till today, because it allows you to pull that up, we can see that for 55 million registrations, there are 1 million deceased. | ||
| And that's the entire... for 13 years. | ||
| Over 13 years. | ||
| Now I do want to point out this massive number right here of 367,000 in Texas, which is just absolutely fascinating. | ||
| What the... | ||
| For 13 years, there have been 367,000 registrations for dead people. | ||
| Are people just coming across the border and registering as a dead person and then voting? | ||
| Casting their vote? | ||
| Well, thank God we don't have any border issues with Texas. | ||
| Thank God that's not an issue. | ||
| A state that's incredibly vulnerable to this type of fraud seems to have an issue. | ||
| Missouri also has several thousand, which is crazy. | ||
| Yeah, what the heck look at this for the for this doesn't even include it include Texas because they only report every other week, but 7,000 345 but it's like a one. | ||
| I wonder why somewhere it's not even listing it. | ||
| That's interesting Texas is not here because that number is bigger What do you say next? | ||
| No, I'm just wondering why, because most states have exactly what you'd expect with this, but there's a couple states that stand out as anomalies, and that's strange. | ||
| I mean, I wouldn't have bet on Texas and Missouri. | ||
| Texas, maybe, because you have the legal immigration issue. | ||
| Texas, again, this is February 17th. | ||
| Take a look at this. | ||
| Missouri had 23,000. | ||
| Yeah, why Missouri? | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| Here's the date, February 17th. | ||
| You know, take a look at this, Missouri had 23,000. | ||
| Yeah, why Missouri? | ||
| Hold on, hold on, hold on, let's just slow down right now. | ||
| It isn't... | ||
| Okay, we gotta be wrong about something. | ||
| I'll just say this. | ||
| For Media Matters, matches coming in from deceased people. | ||
| So these are voter registrations where someone tried to register using a social security number and a name, and when it came back to the SSA, they said that person is dead. | ||
| In Missouri, in one week, 23,253. | ||
| Are you still on the 13 years? | ||
| This is February 17th, 2024. | ||
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One week. | |
| It was like a third of the registrations came back dead people. | ||
| February 17th, 2024, one week. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It was like a third of the registrations came back dead people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's like, is this them purging the rolls? | ||
| No, this is a help America vote verification transactions by state. | ||
| And so, look, maybe we're completely wrong, but it says this. | ||
| Single match found alive. | ||
| The total number of verification requests, where there's only one match in our records of a name, last four digits of the SSN, date of birth, and the number holders alive. | ||
| They say total matches, total number of verification requests. | ||
| So someone is registering the vote and asking to verify the social. | ||
| And the socials and the name, look at this. | ||
| Single match found deceased. | ||
| The total number of verification requests, where there's only one match in our records and a name, date of birth, and last for the social and the number holder's deceased. | ||
| This is strange. | ||
| How does 23,000 verification requests not strike them as odd in one week? | ||
| Yeah, what, 76,000 total, 26,000 of them came back dead. | ||
| I can't see the numbers exactly from here. | ||
| 23,000 came back dead. | ||
| That's so ridiculous. | ||
| So you think they purge voter rolls from time to time? | ||
| Well, I'm trying to make sense of this, right? | ||
| Because that would make sense for a huge... Yeah, it would make sense for a huge thing if a state came by and they said, okay, we're reevaluating our voter rolls and we've identified all these people are dead and so we're purging them from the list. | ||
| We want to verify these. | ||
| Yeah, as opposed to like new voter registration. | ||
| And I would expect states like Missouri and Texas to actually take that a little bit more seriously. | ||
| So if I'm trying to come up with a non-nefarious explanation for those numbers, that's all I can think of. | ||
| Otherwise, it's shady as hell. | ||
| It's just weird. | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| And again, like I said... I think you have to be right on that. | ||
| I think it has to be that. | ||
| It can't... I mean, hopefully. | ||
| Because otherwise we live in a very corrupt system and I think that's not great. | ||
| It's a very depressing thing to talk about on Ian's birthday. | ||
| Can I say another thing that just irritates me about this? | ||
| This is one of the problems with bureaucracies in general. | ||
| Is that even when something like this is done, and let's say that the explanation I just offered is the actual explanation, and actually this is something that we would agree with, right? | ||
| The state did the right thing. | ||
| They looked at their voter numbers. | ||
| They said, yeah, hey, we had a whole bunch of people on the voter rolls that need to be removed because of deaths, etc. | ||
| Then put that on there, right? | ||
| Like, make that obvious that that's what you're doing. | ||
| Like, this is why the transparency aspect of all this is so important, is because even when a bureaucracy is doing something that you might approve of, they still don't do it in such a way to where people can actually understand what's going on. | ||
| But again, we haven't verified that that's what's gone on here. | ||
| It looks like that may be the case. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And so I just want to point out, we're looking into the high number of deceased and we're shocked to see it in the immediate, but it may very well be the state is saying, let's run these registrations and see if these people are still around and alive. | ||
| Make sure that their date of birth, name, and everything comes up. | ||
| Can a state do that legally? | ||
| Run your data and try and register you to vote? | ||
| It's supposed to. | ||
| Legally, what states are supposed to do is look at the voter rolls and evaluate them in order to determine that if people have died, they fall off the voter rolls. | ||
| Because here's what ends up happening, right? | ||
| You die, but you're on a permanent absentee list. | ||
| Well, now that absentee shows up to your home and somebody fills that out and sends it off. | ||
| Well, that's voter fraud. | ||
| And so that's why you try to keep those roles updated. | ||
| It's why there's also supposed to be, you know, you have organizations like EPIC, which I think is a problematic group, but it's also supposed to allow states to communicate better among themselves so that when somebody moves, you don't have absentees going to like two locations. | ||
| But like I said before, with same day voter registration, now you've got a place, look at a university campus, right? | ||
| So you don't, you don't live in Virginia, but you go to school at, you know, whatever. | ||
| I think we're actually wrong. | ||
| I, let me read this. | ||
| What is HAVA? | ||
| The Help America Vote Act requires states to verify the information of newly registered voters. | ||
| Newly registered voters for federal elections. | ||
| Each state must establish a computerized statewide voter registration list and verify new voter information. | ||
| The states are required to verify the driver's license number against a state MVA database. | ||
| Only in situations where no driver's license exists should the states verify the last four digits of the new voter registrant social security number. | ||
| The state submits the last digits of the SSN to the MVA for verification with SSA. | ||
| In addition, SSA is required to report whether its records indicate the registrant is deceased. | ||
| These are new registrations! | ||
| Yeah, we gave the benefit of the doubt, right? | ||
| We didn't rush to a conclusion, but that sounds bad. | ||
| Okay, I mean, it says states must only submit a request to us for new voters who do not present a valid driver's license during the voter registration process. | ||
| Straight up, these are new registrations where they're saying someone did not present an ID and Missouri kicked back 23,000 of them as deceased? | ||
| I wonder if Missouri is a hotbed for illegal immigration. | ||
| I feel like even though I'm reading this from the SSA website, it has to be wrong. | ||
| There's no way that's true. | ||
| 23,000 deceased new registrants? | ||
| Out of 68,000 total? | ||
| Yeah, that's a third! | ||
| That's just like throwing it at the wall and seeing what sticks. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| In Missouri though? | ||
| What is going on? | ||
| Some random state in the middle of the country, they're trying to keep it subtle. | ||
| If it was in California, it'd be a red flag. | ||
| They did it in Texas because it's unstoppable. | ||
| It does not say this is being used for voter operations. | ||
| It says they're required for newly registered voters for federal elections. | ||
| That's nuts. | ||
| Someone either screwed up their data input on an Excel spreadsheet somewhere, or that's suspicious as hell. | ||
| Maybe the newly is a typo in it to just say of registered voters? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| Because the states are required to verify the driver's license against a database. | ||
| It says already right here, states must only submit a request to us for new voters who do not present a valid driver's license during the voter registration process. | ||
| That is, all of these that are being sent to the Social Security Administration are purported to be new registrations. | ||
| That's nuts. | ||
| Dude, it's the deceased thing. | ||
| Look, I don't know. | ||
| We're just sitting here, we're reading a website. | ||
| Y'all figure it out. | ||
| Well, how do you get the data of 23,000 dead people to even register them? | ||
| You've got to find that data somewhere. | ||
| You can't accidentally write it down and act like, oops, misclicked 23 a third of the time. | ||
| Probably they all didn't just drop dead that week. | ||
| Probably would have heard about it, I think. | ||
| Was there a mass casualty of that in Missouri we missed? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I heard about this phenomenon where carbon dioxide can build up at the bottom of the lake and then it bursts and sweeps over the neighboring town, asphyxiating everybody. | ||
| Could that have happened somewhere and we just didn't know it happened? | ||
| Well, that's what Media Matters will want us to assume before we make any other conclusions. | ||
| Or it could be that despite the fact that they say this on their website, it's not true. | ||
| That's also true. | ||
| I want to not believe this data, but it's stark. | ||
| Yeah, I was going to say, is what's true better or worse? | ||
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Because 23,000 is not great. | |
| Again, the reason why it's also confusing is because you would expect if somebody is doing this, and they're actually good at it, you're not going to one state. | ||
| And doing all of this. | ||
| But again, I've seen plenty of incompetence in politics, and so nothing really surprises me anymore. | ||
| Is Missouri like a big swing state? | ||
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No. | |
| My thought is like, I keep saying this, I think, I could be totally wrong, Missouri, I'm not super familiar with you, but I think it's a pretty substantial agricultural state. | ||
| And often you have undocumented, illegal aliens. | ||
| People who are there illegally working on farms or whatever else. | ||
| So theoretically there could be a population that would want to register to vote that doesn't have a social security number. | ||
| Hypothetically. | ||
| I'm just running a theory. | ||
| These are numbers from last week, is that right? | ||
| Or these earlier in the year? | ||
| So this 23,000 number is for the week ending February 17th. | ||
| For one week. | ||
| For one week. | ||
| One week. | ||
| I can jump back to February 10th and take a look at Missouri. | ||
| If there's any other 20,000 dead people. 251. | ||
| Which, okay, if a county ran their rolls that week and was purging, a big number would make sense to me. | ||
| But that's not what the website says. | ||
| That's not what the website says. | ||
| Go one week before this one, too, and look at Missouri again. | ||
| Let's go to February 3rd. | ||
| This is a fun game. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| How many dead? | ||
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402. | |
| The Missouri anomaly is insane. | ||
| It was 26,000. | ||
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23,000. | |
| And three weeks later, two weeks after this. | ||
| There's something wrong. | ||
| Something big is going on. | ||
| And I mean, Texas only. | ||
| Let's jump to another week. | ||
| Let's go to February. | ||
| Let's go to January 27th. | ||
| Do we have Texas here on January 27th? | ||
| Because here we go. | ||
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4,607. | |
| 125,000 requests. | ||
| because here we go, 4,607, 125,000 requests. | ||
| This website says these are literally new registrations. | ||
| How is it possible that so many dead people, tens of thousands are submitting new registrations? | ||
| Well, and if there's, like, if there's a portion of them, let's say, or like, yeah, if you write your social security number wrong and it turns out that the number you got was a dead person, like, it would have happened 4,000 times, right? | ||
| Because it would have to match their name, too. | ||
| In 23,000 in one week in Missouri, someone accidentally added a zero or something. | ||
| Even 2000 is a lot. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Compared to their other numbers. | ||
| And it's the same week that it happened in Texas. | ||
| But guys, the important thing to understand is no one will investigate this, not a single Republican will ask about it, and everyone will forget within one month. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| These numbers? | ||
| Let them not forget. | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| And this is just a drop in the bucket of what's to come if we don't start making noise about this kind of thing. | ||
| Well, Surge just sent me some massive breaking news. | ||
| Earthquake in Taiwan? | ||
| Yeah, 7.5 in Taiwan. | ||
| So China's basically launched their earthquake weapon. | ||
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| But let's see if we can pull this one up, get the breaking news. | ||
| Because there's a tsunami warning going on right now. | ||
| Let's see what... Here we go. | ||
| Breaking news here on Timcast. | ||
| What do we have here? | ||
| We've got 4X live earthquake near Taiwan magnitude 7.5 felt in Taipei. | ||
| Japan impacted also tsunami alert issued. | ||
| I hope everybody is okay. | ||
| I hope there's not going to be a tsunami. | ||
| Evacuation advisory issued to Okinawa coastal areas in Japan. | ||
| Okinawa encompasses the island chain south of west west of Japan's main islands. | ||
| Tsunami alert issued up to three meters high. | ||
| Holy crap! | ||
| Power outages reported in areas of Taipei. | ||
| Well, you know, the scary thing is if there was a time to actually storm Taiwan, it would be now. | ||
| After a natural disaster of some sort. | ||
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| I mean, yeah, it's going to disable defensive capabilities. | ||
| Yeah, when Taiwan is vulnerable. | ||
| China just doesn't have the capability. | ||
| Take Taiwan? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| But why not? | ||
| When you look at it, if you judge militaries by the Excel spreadsheet, right, like the number of tanks, the number of men, the number of whatever, China's military looks incredibly powerful. | ||
| The problem is that they run into major logistical issues when you're trying to pull off a major amphibious campaign. | ||
| Because Taiwan has about 150, 190,000 people in their active duty military. | ||
| They have 2 million reserves, right? | ||
| And that terrain is not the easiest to fight. | ||
| So now you're going to have to cross 100 miles of open ocean Right? | ||
| Which you're not going to be able to just do that. | ||
| And now how many troops do you have to actually send over to establish a beachhead? | ||
| And then you have to supply a logistical train across a hundred miles of open ocean. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I mean, this is a nightmare. | ||
| And the Chinese military, I'm sorry, 2 million activity personnel. | ||
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Okay. | |
| You think that's all class A divisions? | ||
| No, there's a lot of like conscript troops in there that aren't very good, that are not capable of conducting a complex amphibious operation. | ||
| Then in order to pull it all off, you have to maintain complete air superiority. | ||
| In order to protect your supply lines, unless you're going to be able to move in and do it. | ||
| And by the way, the Taiwanese are going to fight, right? | ||
| They're not rolling over on this. | ||
| And so with minimal U.S. | ||
| support, minimal U.S. | ||
| support, air and naval, no ground troops, China cannot sustain that invasion. | ||
| I just, I don't buy it. | ||
| I don't buy it. | ||
| Not to mention the fact with the currents and everything else, you got to attack at certain times of the year. | ||
| Otherwise it becomes even more difficult. | ||
| It is kind of funny that Taiwan is actually China. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But we call it Taiwan even though it's actually China. | ||
| Republic of. | ||
| The actual. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The OG government. | ||
| The grand republic of China. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Let it reign once again. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I agree as well from an economic standpoint with China. | ||
| They're like, they're not in any state to be funding a war, let alone like making the stuff to have a war. | ||
| It's not really in their best interest. | ||
| If Taiwan was on the border of China, I'd be a lot more worried about it because the logistical concept here is very, very different. | ||
| But 100 miles of open ocean to launch an amphibious operation and sustain it is not easy. | ||
| And I don't even think it would be Chinese if it was on the mainland already. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The only reason those islands are not. | ||
| You know, we got four days until that eclipse that everyone's freaking out about. | ||
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Oh, really? | |
| Half-jokingly freaking out about, I guess. | ||
| Yeah, that NASA's firing the APEC rockets at. | ||
| You know what APEC means, right? | ||
| No. | ||
| The Egyptian god of chaos that chases the sun, the snake. | ||
| So they did it on purpose, naming it that. | ||
| But there's all these wild conspiracy theories. | ||
| And then we get a 7.5 magnitude earthquake off of Taiwan. | ||
| They're flipping CERN on. | ||
| Dude, the conspiracy acts must be lighting up like crazy. | ||
| I imagine at the level of government you're at, you're not with the cultists, like the crazy, like, esoteric, you know, people that are like blood mad. | ||
| But do you, are there whiffs of this, this occult in the government or are you kind of at a stage where it's not? | ||
| One of the beautiful things about being in a citizen legislature is, so most people don't know this, like most of your state legislatures are not full-time legislatures. | ||
| We go down there like 60 days during even years, 45 days during odd years, we'll hear 2,000 bills within that time frame, and then we go home. | ||
| We live in our districts. | ||
| In Virginia, $17,600 a year, roughly, that's your salary. | ||
| It is not supposed to be your life, your career. | ||
| You go down there, you do the people's business, you go back to your district, you hand your constituent services, that's it. | ||
| 46 out of 50 state legislatures, that's the reality. | ||
| When people talk about term limits, I'm like, Not term limits. | ||
| I want Congress to be a citizen legislature because you don't want to pay politicians full time to do it. | ||
| But what it means though is we focus on what we're doing for that period of time and then we get back home. | ||
| This is people that have way too much time, they're just dawdling around for years. | ||
| If you're going to pay politicians to do nothing but sit around and dream crap up, they're going to dream up some pretty stupid crap, right? | ||
| That's got to be, I think about the kings of old, all the Illuminati, all these ancient, or super... I just saw a video of the most valuable house on earth, it's a billion dollar home, and some, I don't know, guy... Where is it? | ||
| I didn't get that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| And during COVID, the guy was so bored, he built this underground grotto. | ||
| These people with so much money that they can do and build almost anything within reason, then they start to dream up crazy. | ||
| Then you get into actual God and spirituality and the occult and all that stuff, and you're like, whoa, now I've got enough time to focus on it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Do you get into it? | ||
| That's kind of weird, because I kind of think of religion as a kind of occult. | ||
| I think of God and spirituality and all that as a form of occultism, but it's just a modern accepted occultism. | ||
| I think there's a difference. | ||
| I'm a Christian. | ||
| And so I think there's a differentiation between that and what is generally associated with the occult. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| I think that some of the stuff when you look at Gnosticism and some of the mysticism that comes up, and yes, some of it is rich guys with too much money and too much time on their hands. | ||
| I think a lot of the universe is more magnetic than we realize. | ||
| And so a lot of these patterns play out, like getting hit by comets that are like magnetically trapped in orbit, our moon eclipsing the sun in just the right proportion where it blocks the entire thing out, held magnetically in position. | ||
| So behavior, you know, our brains are magnetic. | ||
| They have these neural pathways and stuff. | ||
| And I wonder if, like, there is something going on. | ||
| That's the reason, because like Tim kind of brought up jokingly, like April 8th, they're firing these APAP rockets, CERN's firing on, we got our earthquake. | ||
| Could be coincidence. | ||
| I don't really believe in coincidences. | ||
| I'm just checking videos while you guys are talking, just so you know what I'm doing. | ||
| I'm looking at all the breaking footage, seeing if there's... It actually is kind of a really interesting phenomenon that we are the only planet, I believe the only planet within our, certainly within our solar system, but I think it's broader than that, that is actually in a position to be able to have a full eclipse. | ||
| And it's an interesting phenomenon that the one planet that actually has people that can observe an eclipse is the one planet that actually has the sort of lunar eclipses. | ||
| The moon is the exact right size for its distance to the sun so that it creates the eclipse? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's held in the Lagrange point between the earth and the sun probably. | ||
| Where, like, the sun and the earth are pulling on it at equal magnitudes. | ||
| And it also, like, that phenomena has also made it possible to recognize other scientific phenomenon when they looked at things, like, again, with respect to the theory of relativity and whatnot. | ||
| Like, if we weren't in our special position within the solar system, we wouldn't be able to do it. | ||
| It's an interesting thing. | ||
| Some people use it from, like, a design concept. | ||
| Other people think, you know. | ||
| Someone just mentioned in Super Chat, don't forget the dual emergent cicada is a 221-year occurrence. | ||
| So is that like the locust plague? | ||
| We have darkness... What are the plagues? | ||
| Darkness, locusts, river turns to blood, death of firstborn, measles, frogs... Whoa! | ||
| We have measles! | ||
| In Chicago! | ||
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How many plagues are we having? | |
| We had bubonic plague in Oregon. | ||
| River turns to blood? | ||
| How much you want to bet we're gonna get some kind of... like something bad's gonna happen on the border? | ||
| Or like iron, there could be like an iron explosion into the water. | ||
| We're just going to do all four horsemen at once. | ||
| The earth will fertilize itself with iron from time to time and it just spurt like iron water into the rivers and turn them red. | ||
| But the, uh, the killing of the firstborn, I think a lot about sterilizing children when we're talking about that and how people, what they're doing to their children at the children's behest and like, is that meeting some sort of biblical prophecy of destroying your firstborn? | ||
| I think it is fascinating when people make parallels between – when you look at ancient ball worship and whatnot, it was the idea of child sacrifice for fertility or for agricultural purposes or whatnot. | ||
| I mean, the Carthaginians were doing this at the same time that they were fighting the Punic Wars. | ||
| Yeah, it is amazing and absolutely horrific what we are allowing to happen to children in the name of a form of kind of self-worship that is just, you would have thought it unthinkable 20 years ago. | ||
| Man, the stuff that's been going on. | ||
| And I saw this tweet. | ||
| They said the hour is later than you think. | ||
| Like the Biden administration is actively engaging in communist policies, going after their political rivals. | ||
| The position that we are in right now in this country, it's just, I believe anything probably. | ||
| I think the more I read of Antonio Gramsci and the whole concept of the reason why Marx got it wrong is because Marx thought it was economics. | ||
| Gramsci came to the conclusion sitting in a prison in Italy in the 30s that, well, no, you have to set up a complete counterculture. | ||
| And that became known as the march through the institutions. | ||
| He didn't coin that term, but it came. | ||
| And if you look at it, I think a lot of people want to believe that there was some sort of secret force out there where it was the KGB or whatnot that was manipulated. | ||
| And yeah, you had things like active measures that, you know, Yuri Bezmenov talks about and whatnot. | ||
| But more than that, you just have a lot of people that like the explanation Karl Marx gave for everything that ails them. | ||
| And it got really popular in Hollywood. | ||
| It got really popular in higher ed. | ||
| And now we shouldn't be surprised that it's filtered down to the rest of society. | ||
| I'm going to jump to the story from the New York Post. | ||
| Trump hits Biden for border bloodbath, says President a loud monster who killed Ruby Garcia back into the United States. | ||
| What's going on on the border is it's a crime against humanity. | ||
| There are atrocities happening where human smugglers are raping small children and delivering them into sex slavery. | ||
| Customs and Border Protection, with taxpayer dollars, with smiles on their faces, are taking these children, admittedly, saying outright in an interview with Dr. Phil, they know that in most of these instances, or I should say many, that they are delivering children into sex slavery and to sweatshops, and they do it anyway. | ||
| So we were just talking about the previous segment with there's an earthquake in Taiwan, off Taiwan. | ||
| Got the eclipse coming. | ||
| APAP rockets. | ||
| Now we've got the cicadas coming out. | ||
| Now I'm just like, how many plagues are we at? | ||
| And talking about that had me really just think, like, Was the great battle of good and evil going to be something magical, or was it just going to be of this world? | ||
| I mean, is it supposed to be that demons emerge from the cracks in the ground and agents come down? | ||
| Or is it going to be that we, as humans, on this earth, witness the most demonic and evil actions you could imagine, and nothing is done about it? | ||
| I mean, I think that's what's tragic about evil forces in the world, right? | ||
| Like, they are very often happening in front of your face and it's not that there's going to be some big, you know, Marvel movie-like effect. | ||
| It's that you see terrible things happen every day and become conditioned to adjust to them. | ||
| And I think about, you know, some Catholic churches say the prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel, and there's a line in it that talks about, and those who prowl the earth seeking the ruin of souls. | ||
| And I feel like that is what we have sort of let ourselves drift into being used to, right? | ||
| And we say, let live and let live, or we just become accustomed to a certain level of instability and violence. | ||
| And ultimately, we are watching good and evil battle every day, except we're sort of numb and blind to it. | ||
| I can, I personalize that like hearing someone, a woman getting beaten in the house next to mine. | ||
| And like, I'm pretty liberal. | ||
| I'm pretty hands off with like, take care of your, your, your, you and your own. | ||
| And I'll take care of me and mine. | ||
| But at some point I had to intervene and call the cops because the guy was probably going to kill the girl. | ||
| Same thing with like watching genocide happen in a country. | ||
| Like. | ||
| It's like look away man and just wait for it to be done. | ||
| I can't but I mean what can what can we do? | ||
| What can you really do when when the powers that be are in control of the genocide and they want to do it? | ||
| I think it's it's I'm not I'm not always so concerned about the powers that be. | ||
| The issue is we as humans like that we the people of the United States tolerate and allow customs and border protection to traffic children to sex slavery. | ||
| Donald Trump can hit at Joe Biden for it all day and night, but... | ||
| Joe Biden's policies, Mayorkas' policies are meaningless without the men and women wearing those badges with smiles on their faces saying the paycheck is worth transporting children into sex slavery. | ||
| This I just can't get over. | ||
| Donald Trump's calling it the border bloodbath. | ||
| It's brilliant branding. | ||
| This is what people were saying when they started attacking Trump for bloodbath. | ||
| Trump adopted it and is pushing it back on Biden. | ||
| And I can respect that You know, we want to see this through to November because things are looking good despite the fact of whatever those voter registration things we're looking at were. | ||
| But it is shocking to me that there are human beings in CBP that don't care and they'll just do it. | ||
| And I suppose, I shouldn't be surprised. | ||
| I don't know, people like to think that Americans are better and perhaps many of them, you know, Americans per capita are better people when it comes to individual responsibility, personal freedoms. | ||
| And, uh, our core values. | ||
| But you look at the history of this planet and you will see every time there is some kind of authoritarian takeover, I don't care if it's Nazi Germany or the Spanish Civil War or Russia or whatever it may be, there are people who are willing to commit acts of evil to protect themselves. | ||
| Here's what I think. | ||
| There was a book called Ordinary Men that was talking about various SS groups and ISOTSM groups and whatnot within the Nazis. | ||
| And that is, of course, everyone's kind of favorite one to reference. | ||
| But one of the things they talked about is that – and Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot – where it's this idea that we have this idea, well, that was somebody else. | ||
| That was over there. | ||
| There was something wrong with them. | ||
| They were psychopaths. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| They weren't. | ||
| They were ordinary people. | ||
| Like if you were not cognizant of your own individual capacity for evil, then you're not going to actually do the correct things that you need to do in order to combat against that. | ||
| The other thing that I think is important is the greatest evil is not... People have this idea, and this is kind of a leftist trope, that the greatest evil is perpetrated for the quest for power or the quest for greed or the quest for wealth. | ||
| No, it isn't. | ||
| The greatest evils, are always a result of somebody that honestly believes that they're doing something for the greater good. | ||
| And C.S. | ||
| Lewis had this quote once, I'm going to butcher it, I'm not going to get it totally right, but C.S. | ||
| Lewis had this quote where he was basically saying it would be better to be ruled by greedy robber barons than it would by moral busybodies. | ||
| And his whole idea was that the moral busybodies will torment you without end because they do so with the approval of their own conscience. | ||
| And there's nothing more dangerous than somebody that honestly believes that I have to do this to you for your own good, or I have to do this to this other person for the greater good. | ||
| And that's what's really terrifying. | ||
| The person that's greedy or the person that's just questing for power, they can get a little power, they can get a little money, and they might be okay for a while. | ||
| But my gosh, be leery of the moral busybody that is doing all this to save the world. | ||
| There's also another component of it, which we talk about quite a bit, and that is these CBP officers took a deal with the devil. | ||
| The assumption most people make when they hear about the Faustian deal is, You get offered your greatest desires. | ||
| You want to be a rock star? | ||
| You want to be an astronaut? | ||
| You want to be famous? | ||
| You want to be rich and successful and everyone will love you? | ||
| Then cut the deal with the devil. | ||
| The reality is it's much simpler than that. | ||
| The devil shows up when your child is hungry and says, serve the army of evil and your child will know nothing but a full belly. | ||
| But the devil will say, serve the army of good and you'll be fed and you'll be wealthy. | ||
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| And you'll be like, how is any of this wrong? | ||
| All I've got to do is destroy the roaches over there. | ||
| No, no, that's the scary thing. | ||
| Is that these CBP agents No. | ||
| When they take that child, the number on their arm, they are selling a child into sex slavery. | ||
| And you ask yourself, for what? | ||
| For what is it worth? | ||
| Your $1,000 paycheck? | ||
| Must be. | ||
| And the guy saying to himself, I got kids, man. | ||
| These CBP agents would rather transport an innocent child to sex slavers than see their own children go hungry. | ||
| That is the deal with the devil. | ||
| I don't understand how we're months into this story being true and we still have people working for CBP. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Maybe many of them quit. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| We've heard so many stories about good cops quitting. | ||
| We had a couple cops on the culture war who talked about how they got pushed out because they were good cops refusing. | ||
| One guy said they tried to get him to write up a fake warrant and he says no. | ||
| They boot him out. | ||
| You don't play the game, you don't do the evil deed, you're out. | ||
| And it's no surprise we have so many bad cops. | ||
| One of the cops we had on here, this guy Chris, said that leftists fabricated racist posts. | ||
| And the mayor just said, you're all fired, don't care. | ||
| Literally don't care. | ||
| How is it? | ||
| That there could be a person right now wearing a CBP badge knowing what they're doing. | ||
| I have honestly no idea. | ||
| I think, well, I'll take a crack at that. | ||
| If you are a CBP agent and you're nowhere near this component, right? | ||
| Because not everybody in CBP is doing the same job. | ||
| And you're in a BORTAC unit, right? | ||
| Or you're doing something like that where you're going out there and you're doing your job and you think you're doing it well. | ||
| And you may be frustrated with somebody else and what they're doing in the organization or the agency, but you're still going to do your job. | ||
| And because you could say the same thing about the military, you could say the same thing about, you know, any sort of large metropolitan police department. | ||
| I get where you're coming from because it's the idea of at what point does it taint you just being associated with the organization? | ||
| By the same token, you can see someone rationally making the argument that if the good guys aren't doing the job, then the only thing that's left are the bad guys. | ||
| My dad was LAPD for 20 years. | ||
| He got out in 2000, I think. | ||
| He had a massive stroke on the job and had to medically retire. | ||
| I remember wanting to get out of the military at that point. | ||
| I'd only been a couple years, like 98 to 2000, and I was getting out because I didn't like being in a peacetime army and it was boring. | ||
| And I was going to go be LAPD and he goes, don't do it. | ||
| And he saw some of the changes that were happening in the department. | ||
| And one of the things he told me goes, Nick, people get the police they ask for. | ||
| And right now they are asking for a police department that wants to show up and write reports after you're hurt. | ||
| Because if you try to show up and intervene, you're going to potentially lose your job. | ||
| You're going to, again, your kids, you know, how are you going to pay your bills? | ||
| How are you going to pay your mortgage? | ||
| And there's something to that, right? | ||
| The institutions, we have this idea, and I really do think that we've grown up in some degree, I hate to use the word privilege because it's been co-opted, but there's a certain degree of complacency that comes with the sort of relative wealth, prosperity, security that we experience within the United States. | ||
| And you have people that grow up thinking that this is just the way it's supposed to be. | ||
| This is the natural order of things. | ||
| This is about as far from the natural order of things in human history as anything. | ||
| And then you have people that think that they can just throw out the underlying objective morality or the underlying objective philosophies, which made these things, the prosperity and the security possible. | ||
| And you can just kind of pick and choose like a buffet. | ||
| And then you end up with something like this, where you've got people celebrating what's going on in the border right now, because they honestly think it's a representation of tolerance. | ||
| And it's nuts. | ||
| It's like, this is not just good. | ||
| And again, someone sees me saying like, oh yeah, he's a white dude. | ||
| Of course he's a bigot. | ||
| Yeah, I am worried about a bunch of people just flooding into the country because if you don't actually have sovereign borders, that's pretty damn problematic. | ||
| But I'll tell you what I'm also worried about. | ||
| I'm worried about some parent in Ecuador that when they saw the DACA regulations go into place, they thought to themselves, oh my gosh, I can give my kids a better future. | ||
| Well, how do you facilitate that? | ||
| Do you go to a travel agent and just book a flight for your kid? | ||
| No! | ||
| You work with the legal organizations, you work with cartels, because they're the only ones that control border access, and you're trying to do the right thing by your kid, and now your kid's sold into sex slavery, because we had a policy in the United States that really sounded good on paper, but that's what it produces in reality. | ||
| And then when you show them the reality, it doesn't matter because the ideological train has already left the station and it ain't coming back. | ||
| You've lured everyone into a dangerous situation, right? | ||
| You've put American citizens at risk because we're not enforcing border policies and we're potentially exposing their communities to more crime than they actually need to be exposed to. | ||
| And you're also hurting children who are sent away with no one to advocate for them. | ||
| In fact, anyone along the journey could say, hey, you're vulnerable and I'm going to take advantage of that. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| We know they do it. | ||
| We know they do it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, what were you saying? | ||
| I was just gonna say, but they say, oh, but they're fleeing something. | ||
| This is better for them, right? | ||
| Like, how can the Biden administration say, knowing that this even happens to one child, that this is a policy worth enforcing? | ||
| Well, they've incentivized it. | ||
| Like, they've incentivized this behavior. | ||
| It's not just that they allow it. | ||
| They incentivize it. | ||
| Yeah, when Kamala Harris said, come, uh, or they were like, come, come to the United States. | ||
| I think they claimed they made a proclamation and she said, don't come. | ||
| Then later she said, don't come. | ||
| But first they were saying come. | ||
| And, uh, that was disappointing. | ||
| But with this privilege thing you're talking about, I feel it. | ||
| Like I'm in a land of peace. | ||
| I'm like, Oh yeah, I want to be nice to everyone. | ||
| I don't want to hurt anything. | ||
| I don't want to kill that, that invading species. | ||
| I don't want to, I'm talking about animals like, like, Well humans are animals too but like raccoons and shit like I don't want to kill it but like that's my privilege I don't have to I have walls I don't have to go kill the bear because I have walls to protect me right and this is what you got with like saying build the wall 40 feet everyone should have walls access to the walls good fences make good | ||
| Good neighbors! | ||
| I think that's a good thing. | ||
| I mean, but this is what we saw with, especially I think of like East Coast cities that were like, no, no, the border should be open. | ||
| You should let them in. | ||
| We should all be sanctuary cities. | ||
| And then once the brunt of illegal immigration hit them, think about New York City. | ||
| They were like, federal government, we need support. | ||
| I mean, the governor, the mayor, they have asked for support and the Biden administration has said no, and they are suffering the consequences. | ||
| In fact, they're trying to hoist the effects of this onto neighboring counties around them. | ||
| But when it didn't affect them, it was OK if it happened to border communities in Texas and Arizona. | ||
| But when it started to affect them, someone had to step in. | ||
| But you notice even then, right, it wasn't like, oh, gosh, now we're suffering the consequences of our actions. | ||
| Maybe we should reconsider our policies. | ||
| No, it was, hey, federal government, give us more stuff. | ||
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| It's never, let's reconsider the policies. | ||
| And approve work permits faster. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, make it easier for someone to stay here, don't even consider deportation. | ||
| For the cities taking them in, they were, instead of saying, hey, change the policy so this stops happening, they were like, give us money to facilitate it. | ||
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| Or they were going to their own citizens and saying, sorry, your kids can't show up to school today because we've got to house people that are here illegally. | ||
| Which is kind of a third amendment violation. | ||
| Sorry, homeless people who are here. | ||
| There's no space in the shelter for you anymore. | ||
| Or your businesses are being shut down to facilitate illegals. | ||
| That doesn't make any sense. | ||
| That seems a constitutional violation. | ||
| I don't see how there is a country... | ||
| The polls are looking really great for Donald Trump. | ||
| With RFK Jr. | ||
| running, we'll see. | ||
| But even then, it's going to be a challenge. | ||
| If Trump wins, and Republicans take the Senate, the Congress, and they do have, to a certain degree, the Supreme Court, there's still going to be massive backlash. | ||
| Michael Maus pointed this out. | ||
| He said, don't you think if Donald Trump were to win and try to enact this deportation, that California and New York's governors would mobilize their National Guard and say no? | ||
| I don't know that they would go that far. | ||
| I think in more subtle ways they would resist it, and they would do enough to actually make it very, very difficult to do the deportation piece. | ||
| The biggest thing I'm worried about is the federal bureaucracy, because people think that when the president gets in there, you can fire people in the executive branch, right? | ||
| You're the chief executive. | ||
| No, you can't. | ||
| There's a relatively small number of people that you can actually get rid of, and you're right. | ||
| You're going to have states that actually resist that, some more subtly, some more overtly. | ||
| But if we can't do something to tackle the massive federal bureaucracy in the same kind of way that Javier Mele is doing in Argentina right now, if you can't do that, forget it. | ||
| The bureaucracy will wait. | ||
| They can last out four years of Trump. | ||
| They can slow roll stuff. | ||
| You're saying Millet has, the president in Argentina has way more power over the executive branch. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he was able to cut what? | ||
| 13, 14. | ||
| He just cut 14 government agencies of 23 down to 9. | ||
| Just got rid of 22 to 9 ministries. | ||
| Like you're gone now. | ||
| 70,000 government employees were firing you. | ||
| That's the value of small governments, man. | ||
| You can move real quick. | ||
| Big governments become real untenable. | ||
| It's not decentralization. | ||
| Argentina had a massive one. | ||
| The difference was, is that their chief executive has more control over the executive branch than our president has over the executive branch. | ||
| That's what it comes down to. | ||
| Let's jump to the story from the Washington Post. | ||
| RFK Jr. | ||
| argues Biden is bigger threat to democracy than Trump, drawing criticism. | ||
| I love this subtitle. | ||
| Several experts and historians rebuked the independent presidential candidate for his comments in a televised interview. | ||
| Basically, what he said was, Joe Biden's going after his political opponents with criminal charges and censoring people on social media violating the First Amendment, which is the first. | ||
| And of course, uniparty establishment corporate press media rushes out to write stories in a way, this is the secret, this story should not be written this way, drawing criticism. | ||
| We had over on, so timcast.com no longer has news. | ||
| Uh, now, the, uh, former TimCast team is now working with SCNR.com, a separate company. | ||
| And when TimCast was being evaluated by NewsGuard, we ran a story that said something like, Donald Trump says X. And then it was, Donald Trump at a rally today said, said the following, and it was like a paragraph, Trump says that when this happens, he will do this. | ||
| Newsguard asks us why we didn't fact check Donald Trump. | ||
| And I said, because we're just reporting on a quote. | ||
| We're not running a fact check. | ||
| We're just saying Trump at a rally said he would do this thing. | ||
| And they said, yeah, but the thing he was talking about was wrong. | ||
| And I'm like, well, I don't know. | ||
| I'm just telling people it's what he said. | ||
| So they said, okay, you're fake news. | ||
| They gave us a strike because we didn't fact check when we were reporting on a quote, but our reporting was 100% accurate. | ||
| He really did say that, yeah. | ||
| And so, when you take a look at the Washington Post, look at how they do this. | ||
| The story should be, RFK Jr. | ||
| argues Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Drawing criticism. | ||
| Why Why write a story and publish it and include your own editorial context? | ||
| Because they're framing the narrative. | ||
| They want to make sure that people like Ian's mom, for instance, before she actually hears what RFK Jr. | ||
| had to say, she gets slammed by MSNBC, CNN, and Washington Post saying, yes, he said it, but he's wrong. | ||
| Here's why he's wrong. | ||
| Yeah, this will make a reader, your average reader, fire cortisol. | ||
| They'll be like, okay, I'm getting ready for conflict. | ||
| Let's find out what this criticism, this bad, bad news is. | ||
| And then you go into the article reading with that kind of state of mind. | ||
| R.F.K. | ||
| Jr., of course, is completely correct, though he did say Trump trying to overthrow the election clearly is a threat to democracy. | ||
| But the question was, who is a worse threat? | ||
| And what I would say is, I'm not going to answer that, but I can argue Biden is. | ||
| So they're saying he said Biden was. | ||
| Well, he said he could argue that he was, meaning he wasn't sure, but there are certainly arguments to be made. | ||
| Here you go, and then they bring up a Harvard University political scientist and co-author of How Democracies Die. | ||
| Instead of Kennedy's comment, it's a preposterous claim! | ||
| To be a politician committed to democracy, there are two cardinal rules. | ||
| One must accept election outcomes, win or lose. | ||
| One must not threaten or use violence to gain power. | ||
| Donald Trump has clearly violated both rules, while President Biden never has. | ||
| But he just claimed that he could argue Biden is worse. | ||
| Well, Biden is using violence to gain power. | ||
| It's called the federal government going after Trump's lawyers and other Trump supporters. | ||
| That's violence. | ||
| This is why I love what was the Thomas Sowell quote? | ||
| He's like, the single greatest thing about getting a degree from Harvard is no longer being impressed by anybody that has a degree from Harvard. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| And it's for stuff like this. | ||
| And it's always an idea of how they categorize violence. | ||
| It's like, whenever I get invited to speak to students, I always ask them this first question. | ||
| I'm like, what is the one thing that is unique about government, truly unique about government? | ||
| They're like, oh, voting. | ||
| I'm like, you can vote right now. | ||
| Oh, well, you guys have committees. | ||
| You can set up committees all you want. | ||
| You make laws. | ||
| I'm like, we get to use aggressive violence in order to achieve our outcomes. | ||
| We're the only ones that legally can do it. | ||
| But they don't consider the chief executive, the president of the United States, using the federal government agencies to essentially call up social media companies and we won't say threaten, we'll say strongly encourage them to censor people, to de-platform people, to take down certain information. | ||
| You don't think that use of coercive power constitutes violence or the threat of violence? | ||
| No, of course not. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they agree with it. | ||
| And that's the part where, to your point, they want to use the title of objective journalism, but then they want to engage in editorialism. | ||
| And like so many other things where they have just randomly changed the definition of a word, we all lose faith in something that we used to have faith in, because the word meant something. | ||
| It doesn't anymore. | ||
| We know when we see a title like this, it's like, oh yeah, it's the Washington Post, and they're going to editorialize it, and I'm not going to get the truth about what was actually said, and I'm certainly not going to get a comprehensive, from multiple perspectives, analysis of what was said. | ||
| I'm already being told what to think about this, and this is what good people think. | ||
| And if you don't think this way, then you must not be a good person. | ||
| It's a cult. | ||
| Yeah, and it depends on compliance, right? | ||
| Like, I love what you're saying, you know, if you don't think this way, then you're not a good person. | ||
| At a certain point, you have to look at this other side and say, do I think I want to be a good person under your definition, right? | ||
| Like, the people, the values that you think are good, the actions that you think are right, would I also agree with that? | ||
| And I think when you start to really critically analyze the yardstick with which they use to measure character, you don't want to be a part of it, in my opinion. | ||
| The word good. | ||
| Hell thinks they have the power and authority to dictate what that means. | ||
| It's subjective. | ||
| Good, the word God, it's like the same word on purpose. | ||
| Well, I think that we should have a cultural standard. | ||
| Like, I wish that we had a strong enough cultural identity where we could all at the table be like, these things are good and these things are bad. | ||
| And maybe in this room we could, and maybe generally across the political spectrum, there | ||
| are topics where people would say, yes, I agree that's good, and yes, I agree that's | ||
| bad. | ||
| But I think really the details of this get lost. | ||
| And because we don't have a strong collective identity, we don't have a shared sense of, | ||
| you know, a lot of morality is dictated by religion. | ||
| You know, we're a very diverse country. | ||
| And so therefore, we have to really be careful about combing through and saying, well, what | ||
| do we agree is right, wrong, good, evil? | ||
| Because ultimately, you know that there are good things and you know there are bad things. | ||
| But if your neighbor has a completely different definition of these things, then you could | ||
| advocate for completely different policies, which is where we are now. | ||
| And it might be the same definition, but the situation means like if you get the best, there's one sandwich and we're both hungry. | ||
| We both know what it means. | ||
| Good is if I get that sandwich, it's good for me. | ||
| And you know, if you get it, it's good for you. | ||
| So we have to fight about who's good is going to dominate. | ||
| Unless we agreed that good was if we both weren't hungry anymore and could split the sandwich. | ||
| Yeah, but that's not fair because Ian has higher caloric requirements than you, so that's true. | ||
| Or like if it was something you couldn't split up. | ||
| This is why we need sandwich equity. | ||
| Yeah, something non-fungible. | ||
| I'm just saying, if there were ways that we could agree that there were certain outcomes that are good, but if we always see our definitions of good as in conflict with each other, then we're never going to have a conversation. | ||
| Well, I think there's also a difference between useful and good. | ||
| When we say good, there's more of a moral connotation to that. | ||
| So in that situation, what we would do is, there's one sandwich, you're both hungry, and you say, no, you take the sandwich. | ||
| We would agree that it was useful that she got the sandwich. | ||
| We would also agree that it was good that you engage in a form of personal sacrifice to help somebody else. | ||
| And so the term can be used both ways, but we would understand the different moral connotation associated with it. | ||
| But to your point, we're increasingly getting to a point where this idea of a certain degree of shared values just doesn't exist anymore. | ||
| We literally have half the country that doesn't believe the same thing about this country, doesn't believe the same thing about how it was founded or the fundamental principles that informed it, doesn't believe that on the whole it's been a force for good. | ||
| But they don't believe anything. | ||
| I think the important thing to understand... You think it's just nihilism? | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| It's a cult. | ||
| It is a brain-dead cult. | ||
| And so, you take a look at what happens to somebody when they start rigging. | ||
| Yannick Asparian's a really great example. | ||
| She reads a story about people in Long Island who have cut up two people, or who are accused of. | ||
| They were found in a home with blood and guts in the drains, body parts strewn across all over the house, and scattered around Long Island. | ||
| And when the police arrest them, For these crimes, they said they're not bail eligible and let them go. | ||
| What happens? | ||
| The left attacks her for it because she's deviating from the cult. | ||
| So there's a viral video. | ||
| Among the left right now massively viral where higher right chick of libs of tick tock was at university I believe and some guy in the back laughs at something she says and she goes you have a question he goes yeah how do you define woke and she couldn't do it she said it's like anti-normalcy and it's like didn't have a good answer and I think for a lot of people they can they can sort of understand when they see something that is woke what it is because it's almost it's almost a root word itself But they don't actually break it down. | ||
| So I typically break it down. | ||
| There are a lot of conservatives that define it as, like, postmodernist thought and blah blah blah. | ||
| And it's like, no, no, no, that's not correct. | ||
| Because when you take a look at the left as a whole, you see masking, forced vaccination, lockdown policies, pro-Ukraine war. | ||
| You see, and of course, the postmodernist stuff is a component of that. | ||
| But these things don't have a shared ideological root. | ||
| The only thing that woke is, is cult-like adherence to leftist social orthodoxy, an orthodoxy of which is amorphous and has no moral framework. | ||
| That's why they can simultaneously say, war is bad and the military machine is awful because they're funding Israel and go Ukraine! | ||
| Fund Ukraine! | ||
| You're like, okay, I can understand if you're like, no war, but these people who are screaming about Israel have an overlap with people who are screaming about defending Ukraine and they go on their live shows and they preach this stuff. | ||
| They claim, my body, my choice, but you better get the medical treatment we demand! | ||
| There's no moral framework. | ||
| Nothing makes sense. | ||
| It is simply a swarm of bees. | ||
| That's not fair. | ||
| Bees are nice. | ||
| Wasps. | ||
| Many of the people within the hive just feel, in the swarm, if I deviate, I will be obliterated. | ||
| So I'd rather be in it than out of it. | ||
| There's no moral framework at all. | ||
| I think this has a lot to do with the end result of atheism. | ||
| Without a moral framework. | ||
| So I'm not saying you have to believe in God to have a moral framework. | ||
| What I'm saying is this country historically had a Christian moral framework. | ||
| This is not... I'm not offering an opinion. | ||
| I am not making a value assessment on the benefits or otherwise of religions. | ||
| I'm saying a Christian moral framework gave us the Bill of Rights, protected our rights, gave us property rights, and a whole bunch of things. | ||
| Eventually, over time, you start seeing the rise of secular thought, atheism, and these people, like Bill Maher, who's in his 60s, believe it or not, Bill Maher still has a Christian moral framework. | ||
| Although you can see it's weakened. | ||
| Why do I say that? | ||
| He believes in free speech. | ||
| He believes in the innocent until proven guilty. | ||
| He's not a very bright guy, fine, he doesn't read the news. | ||
| But you can see he has this moral framework where he's like, you know, free speech, we should be allowed to speak. | ||
| Well, all of these things come from a Christian moral framework. | ||
| When you get the next generation, who are raised by the likes of Bill Maher, they're postmodernist. | ||
| Nothing you say matters, there is no truth, there is only power, and I must wield it and you must do as I say. | ||
| And that's what the left is today. | ||
| I think that if someone has no moral framework, that they'd be easier to teach morality than if someone has like a misaligned moral framework. | ||
| That would be challenging to unlearn the code. | ||
| So it's easier to teach these people that are still, they might be 25, 28 years old, but they don't know what love is. | ||
| Like, well, you could argue there's default liberals. | ||
| Who are just saying, I guess, and they're marching along with the news. | ||
| And now, we are seeing a lot of Gen Z say they're going to vote for Trump. | ||
| There was a poll that was fascinating. | ||
| 65% of Gen Z, the highest percentage for any demographic, saying Trump was more likely to shake this country up for the good. | ||
| And that, like, Gen Z, it's remarkable. | ||
| So yes, these younger people are growing up realizing what's going on and they're saying, Yeah, I think they were lying to us, and Trump's probably better. | ||
| So, it's probably true that the people who don't know anything... But, the clarification here is, the woke, these are people with no moral framework. | ||
| There's no morality. | ||
| We had Stephen Marsh, who wrote the book The Next Civil War, who repeatedly said, I don't want to hear about morality, I don't care about morality, it's meaningless to me. | ||
| And he said, children should have books teaching them how to do adult sex acts in their grade schools. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| And I'm like, morality comes from a logic of, can we improve society? | ||
| It's not arbitrary. | ||
| That's why atheists like Bill Maher like the founding documents, not all of them, but a lot of them, praise things like free speech, but don't understand how that moral framework gets you these good things and how those good things make a great country. | ||
| So this is real, I find this fascinating. | ||
| I wrote a paper, I was doing a college course, and it was about ethics in the intelligence community. | ||
| And one of the papers we had to write was about what is the biggest ethical question facing the intelligence community. | ||
| And this was at the height of rendition, enhanced interrogation tactics. | ||
| And so we're writing all this, and I contact my professor and I say, I want to make the argument that it's postmodernism. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And he goes, how are you going to sustain that? | ||
| I said, if you'll trust me, that's the argument I want to make. | ||
| He's like, okay, go for it. | ||
| And to your point, because the point you made about the generational component is very, very important. | ||
| And the argument I made was, if you have objective truth, and objective morality, that generally, if it's going to be objective, it has to be sourced from the divine, right? | ||
| In the United States, the religion was Judeo-Christian values. | ||
| And what they did is that provided an objective moral framework, so it wasn't subjective. | ||
| It was, no, this is wrong or right because God says so, and we also see the practical benefits from the application. | ||
| So you have a society where the overwhelming proportion of the population believes this, And applies it. | ||
| So they believe in it, they believe in the benefits, and they believe in the source. | ||
| I said, then when you start to get in the 60s and you have the increase of postmodernism, what you have is people that want to separate good morals from the source. | ||
| Well, now you just lost the objectivity. | ||
| So they're still living in the benefit of, okay, everyone culturally kind of believes in these good morals, but we don't have the source. | ||
| But then you start to go into this realm of like Maslow's hierarchy of needs and self-actualization. | ||
| And if postmodernism is correct, then there is no such thing as a meta-narrative. | ||
| There is no such thing as a projective truth. | ||
| And now all of a sudden, you removed the source. | ||
| Now all of a sudden, the morals get to get redefined. | ||
| And so the same Bill Maher that will just sit there and be shocked at a kid that shoots up a school because he wanted his internal pain to be felt by somebody else, that was just his self-actualization. | ||
| And Bill Maher looks at that kid and goes, that's wrong! | ||
| What do you mean it's wrong? | ||
| Who are you to tell me what's wrong? | ||
| Morality is subjective. | ||
| My morality said it was correct. | ||
| And the thing is, is Bill Maher knows it's wrong, but he doesn't have an intellectually consistent argument that he can make for why. | ||
| And this happened fascinatingly with the Gravel Institute, leftist organization. | ||
| Mike Gravel was the former senator. | ||
| Some kids started using his account to tweet and generate a lot of attention. | ||
| They started the Gravel Institute, and after January 6th, they tweeted that it was a good thing it happened, but it was the wrong people who did it. | ||
| And so naturally, when the narrative came out it was insurrection was bad, they deleted the tweet. | ||
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| But you had leftists outright saying they like it. | ||
| And I can tell you this, you go to any leftist in private, Antifa, and say, what do you think about January 6th? | ||
| They'll say they wish they did it. | ||
| They wish it was them, and they wish they succeeded. | ||
| So that's the only issue. | ||
| The only thing I question is that I do think they have a moral framework. | ||
| I just think that there's no intellectual consistency to it outside of two things. | ||
| Group identity, because to your point about this idea that if they deviate at all, they don't just get ostracized. | ||
| They don't just get punished for it. | ||
| They lose their entire identity because in order to be a part of this group, you give up your individual identity. | ||
| That's not important anymore. | ||
| The only benefits that you get from identifying whatever you want to, or being trans, or being this, you get all the benefits of being able to do whatever you want, provided that you stay within the group orthodoxy. | ||
| That's the cult-like behavior. | ||
| And then there's this other narrative, and that is the oppressor versus the oppressed. | ||
| That's that critical theory Marxist version of it. | ||
| So you've got postmodernism, which doesn't provide any sort of objective moral framework in which to operate, combined with critical theory, which essentially says that the only moral imperative is oppressor bad, Oppressed good, and everything is about how do you consolidate political power? | ||
| Well, if that's your only imperative, then you can essentially justify anything against somebody that goes into the oppressor category on behalf of somebody on the oppressed category. | ||
| They can make anybody an oppressor. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They just simply decide. | ||
| Like that hilarious article that said, straight black men are the white people of black people, or something like that. | ||
| Do you remember that one? | ||
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| Let's see if I can find it. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| I was skeptical of Christianity growing up, just because I was very logical. | ||
| And I was like, if you don't show me the data and prove it, the God thing, then don't... You already told me the Easter Bunny was real. | ||
| I don't believe your lies. | ||
| I got it! | ||
| I found it! | ||
| Straight black men are the white people of black people. | ||
| I kid you not, that was actually the title of this article! | ||
| They need to justify... So Pete Buttigieg is an oppressor. | ||
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| He says. | ||
| He's heteronormative. | ||
| So they said he wasn't actually part of the marginalized community when, yeah, that's right. | ||
| Buttigieg, I think he's gay. | ||
| He is, doesn't matter. | ||
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He's cis. | |
| But not enough. | ||
| Is that not cis? | ||
| Cis means you're straight, doesn't it? | ||
| No. | ||
| On the intersectional pyramid of grievance, he doesn't have enough points. | ||
| He's not grieved enough. | ||
| He's a white male! | ||
| But you're a white man! | ||
| I was talking to a room full of mothers and stuff like that, and they were asking, like, I can't believe what's going on in our schools, and I can't believe that we have all these kids that are now identifying and suffering from gender dysphoria and whatnot. | ||
| And I said, I'm actually surprised the numbers are as low as they are. | ||
| And they're like, what do you mean by that? | ||
| I said, well, imagine something. | ||
| I want you to imagine you walk into a classroom and you are told by virtue of your skin color, or by virtue of your gender, or by virtue of your sexual attraction, you're an oppressor. | ||
| Now you can't change your skin color. | ||
| There's no change in that. | ||
| You can't deal with that. | ||
| So how do you move from the oppressor category to the oppressed category? | ||
| I'm bi. | ||
| I'm trans. | ||
| I'm non-binary. | ||
| I'm pansexual. | ||
| You adopt as many oppressed characteristics as possible. | ||
| I said this the other day. | ||
| I'm like, the left has no use for white men unless we put on a dress and then we're the most important people on the planet. | ||
| They will bend over backwards to appease us once we do that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, this is what I thought about with affirmative action, especially when it came to college applications, right? | ||
| It was a joke among my friends when they were applying to college, like, well, maybe I should just start ticking every box that I can come up with because it betters my odds, which means that, you know, especially with teenagers, You wonder how often this is a very genuine feeling or how much of it is just a fad to fit in with people around them when if you were to just be like oh yeah I'm straight and white you are suddenly not just like not cool but you are actively a force for harm just by virtue of being you. | ||
| It's busted morality. | ||
| But I would love to talk about Christian morality for a minute, if you guys are into it, because I have some questions about particularly loving your enemy. | ||
| I think that's a big part of Christian. | ||
| And I talk a lot about pardoning people in political power, just mass pardons, forgiving those that have wronged you. | ||
| And a lot of the feedback is, Ian, you idiot. | ||
| If you pardon these people, they're going to continue to destroy you. | ||
| So is the Christianity, is that love your enemy thing on purpose to make us slaves to those that do us wrong? | ||
| Or are we supposed to love our enemy? | ||
| No, you are supposed to love your enemy. | ||
| You understand loving your enemy doesn't mean you let them out of jail if they're a mass murderer. | ||
| You can still have love for the person that that is someone that is created in the image of God and you desperately want them to come to a place of repentance and changing the way that they behave and the way that they treat other people. | ||
| But it's also appropriate that if somebody decides to engage in that sort of activity that they'd be locked up and separated from society. | ||
| So there's no contradiction within Christian morality when we say love your enemy, but at the same time that there's a moral obligation to protect society and the innocent. | ||
| But there's also a really easy way to put it. | ||
| Do you love your child when you let him eat ice cream all day and stick the fork in the power outlet? | ||
| That's not love. | ||
| Tough love. | ||
| That's not love at all. | ||
| Love would be saying, I want you to be better, and the best way to go about that is rehabilitation. | ||
| You are going to prison for the crimes you committed. | ||
| I love you, so I'm going to punish you. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I understand it. | ||
| it. | ||
| That's how I grew up. | ||
| Wait a second. | ||
| Wait a second. | ||
| But let's look at the problem because there's punishment which is harsh and doesn't come | ||
| from a position of love. | ||
| And there's punishment that does come from a position of love. | ||
| So when I discipline my child, I don't do so because I want to cause pain. | ||
| I don't do so because the punishment is what I'm looking for. | ||
| I'm doing so because if they've engaged in a behavior that I know is bad for them and | ||
| bad for society, I have one of two courses of action I can take. | ||
| I can either explain that to them and then I can explain why what they did is harmful | ||
| to them and disrespectful or harmful to others. | ||
| And then I can create an environment to where they understand. | ||
| And punishment in my house was more built around the whole restitution. | ||
| Like if you hurt your sister or if you did something like that, well then it's like you have to make amends to the person that you hurt because I wanted them to associate. | ||
| You're not in trouble because daddy says you're in trouble, right? | ||
| You're in trouble because you hurt another human being. | ||
| And you need to make restitution for that. | ||
| You need to make that right. | ||
| Now, I can either set that discipline up in an environment which I can control that allows them to learn and fully grasp that lesson out of love, or I can just let them get away with it and one day the state will deal with them and the state is not going to be anywhere near as nice or concerned with learning that lesson as daddy is. | ||
| And so that's the important component of punishment within a Christian moral framework, is this idea of bringing about repentance and restitution. | ||
| It's not just punishment for punishment's sake. | ||
| Yeah, you're not seeking to see someone suffer. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Which is why we got rid of the cruel and unusual. | ||
| We specifically eradicated that from our governance style. | ||
| Yeah, technically. | ||
| Yeah, I mean it was certainly the influence behind it was this idea that there's a certain degree of punishment that is by its very nature in and of itself evil even if it's trying to correct something that might be, you know, inappropriate behavior. | ||
| Let's lighten the load a little bit. | ||
| We had a very, very heavy conversation, and now let's talk about bad things that are kind of funny. | ||
| We have this story from the New York Post. | ||
| California's $20 fast food minimum wage balloons menu prices, with some chains increasing costs by nearly $2. | ||
| All these laws do is literally just destroy your economy. | ||
| So, let's see. | ||
| Do they have the photos here? | ||
| There was, uh, there was one photo, I thought they had it, where the prices were, uh, here we go! | ||
| Okay, so they do, they do have, do they have the double menu? | ||
| Okay, here we go. | ||
| So this one's Burger King. | ||
| A Whopper meal was $11.89. | ||
| What is it now? | ||
| $12.49. | ||
| A Texas Double Whopper was $15. | ||
| What's it, Texas? | ||
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$16.89! | |
| Whoa! | ||
| Went up by $1.80? | ||
| That's crazy! | ||
| And then you look down at In-N-Out, and it was a double-double, it's a double-meat, double-cheeseburger, $5.65, now it's $5.90. | ||
| They have just increased the price of all the food because you passed a law saying you gotta pay more. | ||
| You didn't change anything! | ||
| In fact, the only thing that changed was they don't have the additional money in their coffers, so they fire people until they can get there. | ||
| I talked to a guy, an accountant, New Jersey was raising the minimum wage, and it was going up like 50 cents. | ||
| And he was like, it's gonna go up 50 cents, and then six months, 50 cents more. | ||
| We're talking about in a year, this is gonna be a 10% increase. | ||
| Now imagine you're a business and you have thin margins. | ||
| Your margins could be 10%. | ||
| And now you're seeing a 10% labor cost increase. | ||
| So now your margin's 2%. | ||
| Of course you're gonna raise your prices. | ||
| But if you raise your prices, then people aren't gonna shop there. | ||
| They're gonna say your prices are too expensive. | ||
| He said, when they put in, The increase, I think he said something like 20% of my clients shut their businesses down. | ||
| And it's because in their bank right now, they have $10,000 and they got to make payroll and the money comes in. | ||
| And when the money goes out and there's a little bit on top, they set up a rainy day fund. | ||
| And then when they do this dramatic change, they're like, we don't have the extra thousand dollars to make payroll. | ||
| What do we do? | ||
| Shut her down. | ||
| Take the money that we have left, we'll keep it for ourselves, and we'll try and start something else. | ||
| Understaffed. | ||
| So we had a bill, Virginia House of Delegates, raising the minimum wage in Virginia statewide. | ||
| So keep in mind, Loudoun County is the wealthiest county in America. | ||
| Oh yeah. | ||
| Loudoun County is the wealthiest. | ||
| Lee County, Virginia, the median individual income is $18,000 a year. | ||
| So they were going to change the minimum wage for all of Virginia to $13.50 an hour. | ||
| Drastic increase. | ||
| Because right now it's like $11. | ||
| Because Loudoun County can afford it. | ||
| Oh yeah, Loudoun County doesn't care. | ||
| In fact, all the legislators carrying and cheering this on are all coming from counties that are significantly wealthier than the poorer counties in Virginia. | ||
| And when you point this out, and this is one of the things I hate, when people get up and you're supposed to explain your bill, they don't explain the bill. | ||
| They give you their hopes and dreams and aspirations for what they hope their bill will do. | ||
| And so, this bill is going to lift people out of poverty. | ||
| I said, you know what this bill does technically? | ||
| Does anyone want to know what it legally does? | ||
| You will make it illegal to offer someone a job for $13.49 an hour or less. | ||
| That's all the bill does. | ||
| You hope it will do all these other things, but what it actually does is make it illegal. | ||
| Think about that for a second. | ||
| You've got a county where the median individual income is $18,000 a year. | ||
| We're making 12 bucks an hour is a pretty good gig. | ||
| Nope. | ||
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| You can't do it. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because a bunch of representatives who know this much about economics, and who know it's not going to actually affect them, get to go on TV and talk about how much they care about the working poor, when in reality they just cost their jobs, they cost their hours, or they made everything they're going to buy more expensive anyways, which will eat into the supposedly pay increase that they got. | ||
| Who was the lady who said 50 bucks? | ||
| You saw that in California? | ||
| She's like, we'll make it $50. | ||
| It's just like, okay, you'll just eradicate every business. | ||
| Make it a hundred or you hate the poor. | ||
| Yeah, rest in peace to all the franchisees that could never afford that. | ||
| It's gonna make the business, the business itself might make money, but every franchisee is just like, well, there goes my business. | ||
| Bye-bye. | ||
| Do you guys remember in, uh, it was a 2019, uh, 2019-2020 cycle, Bloomberg, I think it was, it was when Bloomberg was, he put a half a, half a billion. | ||
| And then that woman was on TV and she was like, he put 500 million into this race, that means he could give every American a million dollars. | ||
| And then the anchor was like, wow. | ||
| Let me pull that up. | ||
| I don't think that's how this works at all. | ||
| That math doesn't math. | ||
| Slow down there. | ||
| No, it is interesting because I think you're right. | ||
| It's a political talking point for someone who is in a district where their constituents aren't going to feel the difference, right? | ||
| Like, if you're representing the wealthiest county in America and now we can all say, oh great, so we have raised the minimum wage, you know, it's mostly to pat yourself on the back and pretend like you're doing a good thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the problem is that because of this narrative, because of the advertising, because of the fact the media doesn't do their job, I had a room full of students come into my office and they were FFA students, right? | ||
| Future Farmers of America. | ||
| And they said, what's some of the biggest legislation that's going to affect agriculture? | ||
| I said, the minimum wage increase. | ||
| And I asked these students, they said, how many people in the labor force, what percentage of the labor force do you think makes minimum wage? | ||
| And the average estimate they gave me was 50%. | ||
| I said, it's less than 3%. | ||
| And out of those 3% making minimum wage, the vast majority of them will not be making minimum wage six months from now, as long as they can keep the job. | ||
| Because that's how upward economic mobility works. | ||
| But if you take them out of the labor market at the very beginning, because now they can't get a job, or they can't get sufficient hours... They're not in the market, they can't go up. | ||
| They can't go up, right? | ||
| But that's okay, they got a welfare check for that. | ||
| So it was Mara Gay from the New York Times talking to Brian Williams. | ||
| This is the New York Times! | ||
| Why did they fact check that? | ||
| I believe the clip has since been deleted by everybody. | ||
| Yeah, it doesn't exist anymore. | ||
| But uh, the quote was, let me see if I can pull up the quote. | ||
| Uh, during her discussion with Williams and former New York City Bloomberg's campaign, | ||
| blah blah blah, but then she suggested that Bloomberg could have given each of the 327 | ||
| million Americans $1 million and still had money left over, which would have been better. | ||
| Better use of his cash? Yeah, no. And then uh, oh, what was this? | ||
| Oh, Brian Williams, I think he brought up someone saying that and said, it's an incredible way of putting it. | ||
| And Gay for a Part agreed, it's an incredible way of putting it. | ||
| It's true, it's disturbing. | ||
| It does suggest what we're talking about here, which is that there's too much money in politics. | ||
| These are the people that are at the New York Times and MSNBC. | ||
| And so if you wonder why it is they lie and they're dumb, well, it's because of the people they hire. | ||
| New York Times editorial board member saying it is true. | ||
| He could have given everyone, I think it was like $1.27 or something like that. | ||
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| They couldn't even buy anything off the dollar menu now. | ||
| There is no dollar menu. | ||
| There's no dollar menu. | ||
| Well, we always kind of in a dark humor way, these minimum wage increases should be called the no kiosk left behind bills because the more difficult you make it to hire somebody, and it's not just the wage component, it's all the different rules. | ||
| Oh, it's all the different rules. | ||
| It's all the different restrictions. | ||
| Every time you do that, what you're telling small business owners is we're going to make hiring someone a bigger liability for you. | ||
| So find something else. | ||
| Let me just play this clip for you. | ||
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But you see it as a possibility. | |
| If he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars. | ||
| I've got it. | ||
| Let's put it up on the screen. | ||
| When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear. | ||
| Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. | ||
| U.S. | ||
| population $327 million. | ||
| Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math. | ||
| He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over. | ||
| It's an incredible way of putting it. | ||
| It's an incredible way of putting it. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| It's disturbing. | ||
| It does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics. | ||
| And it makes it difficult because what we want... These people vote! | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Votes! | ||
| They have TV shows. | ||
| She's right! | ||
| She's an editorial board member of the New York Times! | ||
| It hasn't helped us. | ||
| Well, and they mention in the first article that I guess afterwards she tweeted, like, buying calculator BRB, which I appreciate the self-deprecating humor. | ||
| On the other hand, you went on national television and were like, and this is true! | ||
| I read it on the social media! | ||
| And they all, like, the producers didn't catch it? | ||
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| There's like two producers it has to go through before it gets to Brian Williams. | ||
| He reads it on the air and he's like, wow! | ||
| And she's like, yeah! | ||
| This really fits into our narrative nicely. | ||
| It's crazy how that worked out! | ||
| That's just so crazy that we live in this reality. | ||
| But these are the people fact-checking, so don't worry. | ||
| But it's disturbing and true. | ||
| I want to go to the reality where they live underground and are super high-tech and they have like high-speed magnetic rail trains and stuff. | ||
| I'm tired of this junk reality where idiots run the show. | ||
| I don't know, not everybody's an idiot that's running the show. | ||
| I just see the idiocy. | ||
| It was $1.53 per person. | ||
| 500 million divided by 327 million is 1.53. | ||
| What could you buy in today's economy for $1.53? | ||
| Arizona iced tea. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Can you now? | ||
| I feel like that went up, too. | ||
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| Oh, man. | ||
| Well, you have change left over. | ||
| Yeah, you could buy a dollar fifty three of Bitcoin It's remarkable | ||
| I do think, you guys talked about kiosk positions in the bathroom, but this whole raising the minimum wage is just bringing in the age of automation. | ||
| Employees are going out, minimum wage workers on its way out. | ||
| Well, we were talking about it before. | ||
| I think, okay, again, don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure I read something where that $20 minimum wage in California, that there was a special thing that was put in there about baking bread, And I think it was like if you bake bread on site, you're not subject to the same minimum wage laws. | ||
| And oh, by the way, Panera gave a ton of money to Gavin Newsom. | ||
| The CEO of Panera is a huge Newsom donor. | ||
| This was the only way out. | ||
| In fact, the bill got proposed and then got brought back to the table. | ||
| They were like, except for places that you bake your own bread, you don't have to do this. | ||
| Keep in mind, Panera once opened up a shop. | ||
| I think it was in New York City. | ||
| They opened up a store somewhere where you just paid what you could. | ||
| Right, and it was going to be this very... Is that store still open? | ||
| It is not! | ||
| Interesting! | ||
| It turns out a lot of the hipsters going in there decided they couldn't pay anything for the sandwich they were getting. | ||
| Jon Bon Jovi did that, actually had a restaurant where it was a pay-what-you-can thing. | ||
| It just kept seeing the meme over and over. | ||
| I don't know if the restaurant's still open. | ||
| I should look into it. | ||
| So the latest reporting is that Panera will raise their wages to $20 an hour, but that story from Bloomberg, yeah, how Panera Bread ducked California's new $20 minimum wage law. | ||
| I love that they will do it, but they don't have to. | ||
| They don't have to, but who are they going to hire? | ||
| I mean, if you're an employee that's looking for jobs, are you going to go to Panera where you don't get paid? | ||
| If you bake the bread and sell it as a standalone item, Oh, I was waiting for, like, McDonald's. | ||
| Watch, McDonald's Burger King is like, hey, would you like a roll with your meal? | ||
| They're going to have, like, one little stove in there. | ||
| But think about it. | ||
| They cook one, you know, double arch roll every morning. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And it's ten bucks. | ||
| And then they're sold out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's all they got to do. | ||
| It's broken along with the ice cream machine. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Bon Jovi's restaurant is still open because of the JBJ Soul Kitchen. | ||
| It's open. | ||
| It's a community nonprofit restaurant. | ||
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| Pay what you will? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If people can't pay, they invite them to pay what they can. | ||
| And what if that is nothing? | ||
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| I think then they feed them anyway. | ||
| It looks like it's a non-profit, so it gets funded. | ||
| It's a good tax write-off for him. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's exactly what that is. | ||
| It's not a business opportunity. | ||
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No. | |
| Necessarily. | ||
| Not supposed to be. | ||
| No, it's just supposed to help you. | ||
| We know how those go. | ||
| Non-profits are great business opportunities. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Not supposed to be profitable, but... Just ask the Clintons! | |
| I mean, it's... this is what these businesses do. | ||
| You have a company, let's say your profits are gonna be a million bucks. | ||
| You start a non-profit, and then right before the end of the year, you donate that million dollars to your non-profit, and you pay zero taxes. | ||
| Your company's net, you know, your total taxable income then is, ah, it's only $70,000 in profits, so we gotta pay, you know, $20,000 or whatever in taxes. | ||
| That million dollars that we had, that we made, oh, that was donated to charity. | ||
| It's my charity that I own, that buys yachts! | ||
| Yeah, it takes people on charter fishing trips. | ||
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That's right! | |
| Depending on the charity, they could just donate that money again. | ||
| I remember when, like, didn't Zuckerberg give a bunch of his money to an LLC? | ||
| And the media reported, like, Zuckerberg's giving all his money away. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He was actually putting in an LLC to protect it from taxes. | ||
| He's giving it all away to himself. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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That's right. | |
| Yeah, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. | ||
| Can a charity give money to a charity? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Do you then write that off? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, non-profits don't pay taxes anyway. | ||
| So you wouldn't get a negative. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| There are tax credits where you actually get money back from the government based off of how much you donate to something. | ||
| But what some companies do is, you got 200k in profits, you give it to a charity, then you, as a consultant for that charity, get paid a portion of that money, which you then donate again. | ||
| There's a lot of dirty games people play with taxes, and this is why tons of rich people have non-profits. | ||
| Because non-profits can basically do anything. | ||
| Look, you taking an Uber? | ||
| Non-profit pays for it. | ||
| So if you want operating income that's shielded, then you just have a non-profit that works in a similar space that legitimately will do things. | ||
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Right? | |
| Let's say you have a non-profit that actually donates food to the needy. | ||
| Well, you, in the process of doing that, be like, oh yeah, I'm having a meeting with someone, we'll put it on the non-profit. | ||
| And so, some of your operating expenses can be diluted by these people putting it in non-profits instead. | ||
| Or other businesses and things like that. | ||
| Dave Chappelle talked about this, where he was talking about the debate with Trump and Hillary, where Trump was like, yeah, of course they took advantage of this stuff, it makes me smart. | ||
| If you want to change the laws, you can change, but you're not going to because your major donors take advantage of all these things. | ||
| And they won't let you. | ||
| And it was like, man, Mike Trump! | ||
| That was one of the most stark moments of that entire debate season. | ||
| We're gonna go to Super Chats! | ||
| 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 to become a member and support our work directly because this show is made possible thanks in part to viewers like you. | ||
| We're gonna have that members-only uncensored show coming up for all of our members at 10pm. | ||
| Not so family-friendly, but good fun. | ||
| But for now, we will just read your superchats, so smash the like button, let's dive right in. | ||
| AlphaTurkey, with the first superchat, wow, defeating Clint Torres, saying, 1000th episode, feature Tim in all white. | ||
| If I owned all white, perhaps, which I don't. | ||
| There's time, you could buy all white! | ||
| What is it, next Tuesday? | ||
| It's coming up, right? | ||
| Wait. | ||
| Wait, is it next Tuesday? | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| We should just do the 1000th episode. | ||
| Oh, okay, wait. | ||
| The Eclipse is Monday. | ||
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Oh. | |
| Okay, good. | ||
| Where do we fit into the apocalypse? | ||
| Just throw in an extra episode and make that one your 1000th. | ||
| Episode 999. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| Episode 999 will be on the day of the Eclipse. | ||
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Dude, this is- and it's episode 1000 the next day. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| You gotta put together an all-white outfit, dude. | ||
| It's a new day. | ||
| It's gonna blow people's minds. | ||
| It's a new reality. | ||
| The Large Hadron Collider is gonna fire up, a particle's gonna burst, doing something to the eclipse and the rockets in the air and then- The Euphrates will dry up. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| Hear about it all on our 1000th episode! | ||
| The eclipse just stays for three days and we're like, ah, crap. | ||
| Clint Torres says, howdy, people! | ||
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Howdy, Clint! | |
| Jungle Run says, don't call them criminal aliens, call them colonists. | ||
| It's actually pretty good. | ||
| I like invaders, personally, but... Sea Cowboy says, Nick, run for governor. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, you totally can't make me. | ||
| Oh my gosh. | ||
| You can't make me. | ||
| No. | ||
| But thank you, I appreciate it. | ||
| I appreciate the sentiment, unless of course you realize what a horrible job that is. | ||
| Stephen Says says, rumor is that Ian has a birthday. | ||
| Happy birthday, Ian. | ||
| May you have many more. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I actually got a gift. | ||
| I'm going to open it at the end of the show. | ||
| And Allison slaved over a store-bought cake drawing hexagonal lattices. | ||
| She did. | ||
| She made a graphene cake. | ||
| Out of not graphene, though, I don't think. | ||
| I told her we should get an Oreo cake to sprinkle the Oreo dust and tell them it's graphene. | ||
| And then she drew the hexagonal lattices. | ||
| It was really good. | ||
| I don't think I'm going to eat it, though. | ||
| You're just going to stare at it and praise it? | ||
| You can make that personal sacrifice and give others your birthday cake. | ||
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Cake equity! | |
| Alright, let's grab some more. | ||
| Matt says, not first, but it is my birthday today. | ||
| No, it's Ian's birthday today! | ||
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You get your own birthday! | |
| Do you have a twin? | ||
| It's a good year for birthdays. | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
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What year is it? | |
| 2024. | ||
| But is that like the year of, uh, why'd you say it was a good year for birthdays? | ||
| Good year for birthdays. | ||
| I've been saying that for my whole life. | ||
| What year were you born? | ||
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79. | |
| 79. | ||
| Is that a, what is that a rabbit or something? | ||
| No, that's the, Oh God, I should know this by now. | ||
| The year of the monkey. | ||
| I thought I want to be the monkey, but I think I'm the pig. | ||
| I think I'm the goat. | ||
| I'm the goat. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I remember we talked about this before. | ||
| Ian takes the Ron Swanson approach that birthdays were made up by Hallmark to sell cards. | ||
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Birthdays? | |
| They're PSYOPs. | ||
| Gets you thinking about things other than what's important. | ||
| TheAuthenticHydroPX says, Been waiting to see Nick here again. | ||
| MTA is such a great podcast. | ||
| If possible, Nick and Master Heinz would be great for a Culture War episode on the Founding Fathers' vision and how the Feds messed up. | ||
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| Yeah, he's talking about the Making the Argument podcast, me and Christian and my wife Tina on that. | ||
| That'd be great. | ||
| That the Founding Fathers messed up? | ||
| No, no, no, that the federal government messed up the Founding Fathers' intention. | ||
| We had a whole episode once where we dedicated it to what would we change about the Constitution. | ||
| And the two things that we would change are the 16th and 17th Amendments. | ||
| And the 16th Amendment, I think, just destroyed federalism. | ||
| Everyone focuses on the 17th, which was the popular election of senators, but the federal income tax is what destroyed federalism in this country. | ||
| I was just reading a lot about that today, actually. | ||
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| Nico Barney says, Nick, at your last Pints and Politics at the Uville Brew, I floated the idea of a national divorce. | ||
| As our country and culture continues to divide, do you still think federalism is possible, even though federalism has grown too far? | ||
| So yeah, I do. | ||
| And I'll tell you why. | ||
| Because if you look at what's actually going on in Texas right now, this is an excellent example of a quasi-constitutional crisis where Texas goes down there, they start to secure the border. | ||
| Federal government challenges them, they come in, Article 4, Section 4, we got the border, it's our authority. | ||
| But then they don't do anything about it. | ||
| And then Texas says, okay, fine, but we're still going to do it. | ||
| Like, okay, you've got your ruling, but we don't get to submit to an invasion of our state. | ||
| And you having the authority to secure the border also means you have the responsibility to do it, and you're not doing it, so we're going to do it. | ||
| Now you force this issue with, is the federal government actually going to come down and expend resources Preventing Texas from securing their own border. | ||
| And that's where you get these sort of, these crisis moments where you had, I think, I think you had, what was it, an additional 24 states that actually made public statements, like Glenn Youngkin made public statements supporting Texas and their decision sending troops. | ||
| We sent the Virginia National Guard to Texas. | ||
| To assist with that. | ||
| So, I still think that, I still hold out hope for this idea that the federal government, the states, are going to push back against either the federal government refusing to live up to its constitutional responsibilities, or overstepping its constitutional boundaries. | ||
| What makes it difficult, though, is the 16th Amendment, which essentially gives the federal government the ability to extort the states with their own money. | ||
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| Unregistered Skeptic says, Nick, thoughts on Youngkin vetoing the gun control? | ||
| Oh yeah, he's vetoed just about everything. | ||
| There was one, like it was an auto sear bill that's already federal law that didn't really change anything. | ||
| And then there was one other bill that he let go through that didn't do much. | ||
| It basically said that, the problem with it is that if a school says that, hey, we're notifying you that your child might hurt himself or someone else, If you then allow that child to get access to a firearm and they hurt someone, you can be held criminally liable. | ||
| There's some issues for how that could potentially be abused, but it wasn't a huge deal. | ||
| Reasonable people could disagree. | ||
| But the big ones, like the so-called assault weapons ban, which is the dumbest thing, Weapons don't assault people, people assault people, right? | ||
| And people think that when they hear assault weapon, they're thinking like a belt-fed machine gun. | ||
| You put a pistol grip on any semi-automatic rifle, you've just made it an assault weapon, | ||
| right? That's stupid. | ||
| You get a Ruger 10-22, but put it in black. | ||
| Oh, you got a Ford grip on it? | ||
| Oh, there you go. | ||
| Now it's become a salty, right? | ||
| So he vetoed that. | ||
| The other big one that was just ridiculous was this safe storage bill. | ||
| And again, this is one of these things where if the press actually did its job, people would understand how bad some of these bills are because they think, oh, safe storage. | ||
| Yeah, you should keep your gun locked off so your kid can't get it. | ||
| So I asked a question on the floor. | ||
| I said, okay, if your bill goes into effect, And my 16-year-old daughter, who's been shooting guns since she was 5, like knows how to responsibly handle a firearm. | ||
| I'm away. | ||
| Cops, I live out in a rural area. | ||
| Somebody kicks in my door to hurt my daughter. | ||
| She grabs my pistol and defends herself with it. | ||
| Am I now a criminal? | ||
| The answer was yes. | ||
| That's what it means. | ||
| So Governor Yunkin has vetoed all of those, all the egregious gun bills he's vetoed. | ||
| So good job, Governor. | ||
| So you're happy with his performance as governor? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Look, there's always going to be things we disagree with somebody on, but he's probably going to set a record number of vetoes this year because there's a record number of stupid stuff coming across his desk. | ||
| And I think he's been very, very diligent on getting rid of some of the worst stuff. | ||
| So I really appreciate it. | ||
| Do you find that clarifying the bills as they're being discussed helps the governor make a | ||
| better decision on his veto? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, I think it's important. | ||
| I mean, understand that when you're talking about politics, you're talking about consensus. | ||
| And so sometimes when people ask me, like, when you debate on the floor, do you actually | ||
| think you're changing their mind? | ||
| I'm like, no. | ||
| Like, very, very few times do we actually change anybody's mind on the floor, but I'm | ||
| not speaking to them. | ||
| I'm speaking to everybody that's going to watch that clip that I then push out on social media. | ||
| It's another reason why people ask me why I don't do press conferences. | ||
| I'm like, why would I want the Washington Post to lie about what I said when I can go to Instagram and put it on there and get 500,000 views, which is more than the daily circulation of the Washington Post, right? | ||
| Yes, it adds clarity for constituents, and then it also sends the right signal to the governor and whatnot. | ||
| Again, I don't think he needed a signal for this. | ||
| He knew it was the wrong thing and did the right thing, but yeah. | ||
| Daniel Gagney says, Happy birthday, Ian. | ||
| It is also my birthday today. | ||
| Thanks, Gagney. | ||
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Happy birthday. | |
| What did we say? | ||
| It's only Ian's birthday. | ||
| Yeah, stop trying to steal Ian's thumbnail, everybody. | ||
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HBD! | |
| Okay, it's HBC. | ||
| Whenever I see your initials, I think, happy birthday, Claire. | ||
| That's not what it means. | ||
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All right. | |
| Max Reddick says, Tim, according to reports, Governor Whitmer authorized criminal aliens to be sent to Livingston County, where I reside. | ||
| Really concerned about how the police will handle it since residents won't put up with it. | ||
| Look into this. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Well, we saw what happened in Staten Island. | ||
| Do you guys remember that? | ||
| When they sent buses of criminal aliens into these neighborhoods and the residents came out, the cops started attacking the residents and arrested them. | ||
| And so, it's like I bring these things up and people are like, stop breaking up the police! | ||
| And I'm like, Staten Island cops attacked their own community to defend criminal aliens who are illegally invading this country. | ||
| I don't know what you want from me. | ||
| It's just those bad cops in all of these videos all the time. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Good cops are quitting. | ||
| Alright, what do we got? | ||
| Grab some more superchats. | ||
| Where you going? | ||
| Oh, Let's Go might actually be a reference to 2nd of the 325 Airborne Infantry Regiment. | ||
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Oh, right on. | |
| That was my first unit in the 82nd Airborne and Let's Go was our motto. | ||
| Charles G says, Nick, you should move to West Virginia to represent us. We are better than | ||
| Virginia. Love your YouTube shorts. I appreciate it. | ||
| But you know, I. | ||
| Jason Mayeres, the Attorney General of Virginia, he kind of put out a funny tweet reminding West Virginia that them seceding from Virginia is not something that we appreciate, and we're now going to petition the federal government to bring West Virginia back into Virginia, which I think would be an excellent addition. | ||
| We would love to have you guys back. | ||
| I don't think we want to be with you guys. | ||
| You push too hard, you may end up with an East Virginia as well, so watch out. | ||
| Although the funny thing is, The story of how West Virginia came to be, all of the young men are conscripted and go fight. | ||
| It's Virginia at the time. | ||
| And then the people who live there were like, okay, all in favor of voting to leave. | ||
| And so I couldn't imagine being a young man, being told you have to go fight for your state. | ||
| You say yes. | ||
| And then as soon as you leave, like, okay, now let's vote while they're not here. | ||
| And then they do. | ||
| And they take your home from you. | ||
| Then people come back after fighting and they're like, it's a different state now. | ||
| There is a very good constitutional argument to be made that West Virginia did not legally become a state. | ||
| It was just convenient for the Union at the time and so they accepted it. | ||
| And then afterwards Virginia wanted it back and the Supreme Court said, shut your mouth. | ||
| Well, there are counties in Virginia that still have clauses in their charters that they can go be part of West Virginia if they want to. | ||
| I would also point out that, yeah, the famous song, West Virginia, is about Western Virginia, not West Virginia. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| You're just jealous. | ||
| Country Roads? | ||
| Country Roads. | ||
| Everything he talks about in that is in Virginia, not West Virginia. | ||
| It's actually written about Montgomery County, Maryland. | ||
| Well, let's all agree to not believe that. | ||
| Wow, you're trying to start something and you're wrong! | ||
| So, here's what happened. | ||
| The guys who wrote it... Who was it? | ||
| John Denver? | ||
| John Denver, yeah. | ||
| So, it was written and sold to him, I believe. | ||
| It can't just be about Montgomery County, because it mentions things that are not in Montgomery County. | ||
| They were driving through Montgomery County when the guy came up with Country Roads Take Me Home. | ||
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| And then they thought, Montgomery County, Maryland doesn't really sound very country, so let's just... They went to a library, pulled out a book on West Virginia, started looking up things in West Virginia, and then putting those things in the song. | ||
| It was written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nievert, and John Denver, the three of them. | ||
| I don't know, I'm just learning about this as we go. | ||
| They decided... Western Maryland also wants to be part of West Virginia, so I'm just saying, it's a great state. | ||
| Well, I mean, you've got the panhandle of Maryland, this thin strip that goes along, and it's all MAGA country. | ||
| They're not like Baltimore. | ||
| We went to a restaurant and bar. | ||
| It was really fun during COVID lockdowns. | ||
| And it's like mask mandate on the door. | ||
| You walk inside and everyone's just like, nobody's wearing a mask. | ||
| And they had one of those Trump flags where he's got an Uzi on a tank. | ||
| There's explosions behind him. | ||
| He's riding a velociraptor. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| They had those two. | ||
| Yeah, and we were like, this is MAGA country, baby. | ||
| Alright, let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Michael M says, given the popularity of RFK, if something were to happen to Biden, could the DNC reclaim RFK as their candidate for November? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| They don't want him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Could they? | ||
| He's not in line. | ||
| He's not in line. | ||
| And they're probably going to be like, even if he was, we can't trust him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The CIA is going to be like, we killed his dad and his uncle. | ||
| So he's never going to work with us. | ||
| Whoops. | ||
| I think it's funny. | ||
| That's basically mainstream accepted now. | ||
| Like all these prominent personalities being like, well, yeah, you know, the CIA did it. | ||
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| That's wild. | ||
| Bill Hughes says dead people are moving to Texas. | ||
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| Yep. | ||
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How about that? | |
| They love it there. | ||
| There's demons inhabiting the bodies of other people. | ||
| They're a very loyal voting demographic. | ||
| The text vet says just saying record amount of illegal immigrants and now there's a record number of non-ID vote requests seems odd. | ||
| Certainly. | ||
| I don't know what you're implying, sir. | ||
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There would never ever be any corruption in the voting system. | |
| That's sarcasm. | ||
| Voice the People says don't forget about the Rolling Stone article called Biden is building a superstructure to stop Trump from stealing the election. | ||
| They are telling you what they plan to do to keep Trump from office. | ||
| Yeah, I love how Time Magazine wrote an article, what was it named, Molly Ball? | ||
| The Shadow Campaign to Save the Election. | ||
| And they literally called what they did a conspiracy. | ||
| Behind the scenes, a conspiracy was unfolding. | ||
| That's what they wrote! | ||
| And Molly Ball? | ||
| That seems questionable to me. | ||
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| Jennifer Reems says, I want to thank Nick for his History of Rome episodes and introducing me to Mike Duncan's History Podcasts. | ||
| So happy to see Nick on here tonight. | ||
| Love y'all. | ||
| No, thank you very much. | ||
| Yeah, that was an awesome podcast, man. | ||
| I don't know if you've ever listened to it. | ||
| I don't know if you guys, you know when that whole trend went around, like why do, how often do men think about the Roman Empire? | ||
| I actually have a mug that says, yes, actually I am thinking about the Roman Empire. | ||
| But Mike Duncan did this excellent podcast. | ||
| I don't, I mean, his politics, I think, are crap, but 170- The podcast is good. | ||
| 175 episode podcast of the history of Rome is excellent. | ||
| Outstanding. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It is funny, though, because men were not shocked at all. | ||
| And it's actually kind of confusing that women are shocked. | ||
| But it also shows you the general oblivious nature of women. | ||
| But what I mean is there's two things. One, they don't know what guys are... | ||
| They don't ask guys like, what are you currently thinking about? | ||
| And the guy's probably just saying nothing. | ||
| And it's because they're thinking about Rome and it's like nothing relevant to say to you. | ||
| But the big talking point was that... | ||
| There was that viral clip where it's a guy and his girlfriend walking in a mall. | ||
| And it was made by a woman. | ||
| She's like, here's what I'm thinking. | ||
| She's like, making my way back there. | ||
| And the guy's going, okay, two exits to my left, one to my right. | ||
| There's a guy in front of me looking kind of sketchy. | ||
| I better make some space. | ||
| The guy's constantly thinking about safety, security, planning ahead, and the woman's oblivious. | ||
| Well, that video is... | ||
| The original one was, like, what women think about when they're with a man they trust. | ||
| It wasn't when it was just, like, all the time, right? | ||
| Like, if you're with someone who's reliable, who is worried about your safety, you have the luxury of not thinking about it. | ||
| And I think that that is the difference between men and women, which is that their brains are constantly... Well, if you ask a man, what are you thinking about? | ||
| And he says nothing. | ||
| I doubt they're actually thinking about absolutely nothing. | ||
| It's just such an abstraction. | ||
| Whereas women are constantly monitoring every situation because their brains are required to do different things than men. | ||
| I got in trouble with the man council because I did a reel on that where I said, all right, ladies, I'm going to let you in on something. | ||
| When men say nothing, it's probably ... I said, that's an option, but it's probably not worth it. | ||
| It's probably one of three categories. | ||
| I said, we're either probably thinking about something like how I would occupy a Costco during a zombie apocalypse. | ||
| You know, because I'd have everything. | ||
| Or I'm thinking about maybe the Roman Empire. | ||
| Or I'm thinking about that thing you wore with the corset and the... I said, so it's one of those things, right? | ||
| It's, it's, it's like, you know, resistance Rome or rated R, right? | ||
| Like, those are the three. | ||
| That's a great way of putting it. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
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| The how to occupy a Costco during a zombie apocalypse. | ||
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| Hit the nail on the head. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| If only we could get rid of the ABC in Virginia so they could actually have like, you know, whiskey and Costco. | ||
| And if we could add like a firearms and ammunition section to Costco, it is the perfect zombie apocalypse. | ||
| Well, there's Costco. | ||
| Are you listening? | ||
| This is how you improve your business. | ||
| There are some states where Walmart has booze and guns. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh yeah, that's true. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Where was I? | ||
| I can't remember. | ||
| Is it Texas maybe? | ||
| No, I don't know. | ||
| That sounds like it would check out. | ||
| Maybe not though. | ||
| Texas sounds like they might have like booze laws of some sort. | ||
| I can't remember where I was where it was like they had booze and they had guns and I was like, wow. | ||
| You could build, like, an entire city in a Costco. | ||
| Like, a small village. | ||
| Because of the high ceilings. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, not that I'm gonna let a ton of people in there, right? | ||
| But, like, you know, friends and family, sure. | ||
| Again, zombie apocalypse! | ||
| Well, to secure a Costco would require a decent amount of people. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You've got rotating, uh, you need patrol, you need, uh, how many exits? | ||
| Well, that's all about your, that's six or seven. | ||
| I think it's actually fewer. | ||
| Well, I know it's probably six or seven, because it depends on if they got one of the tire facilities and the whole deal. | ||
| Like, you gotta think this stuff through. | ||
| You gotta turn the roof into a chicken farm. | ||
| How many guys per point of egress do you need? | ||
| Well, you want to do shift cycles, right? | ||
| You don't want to do 12 hours at a time. | ||
| But then the other thing, too, is if you can properly barricade some of those exits, you can probably get down to, like, two or three, and now you're operating. | ||
| And you want to hit it at the right time, right? | ||
| You want to hit it at the time where they, like, have hot tubs and stuff like that. | ||
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| Zombies not being known for their intelligence. | ||
| You could actually, probably, properly barricade and not have to worry about strategic attacks on your Costco. | ||
| Whereas if you were dealing with, like, an invasion from extraterrestrials or a foreign force... You gotta guard the roof. | ||
| Totally different scenario. | ||
| So, after we go through our mind and we're thinking about zombies, then we go, but if it was aliens, we have to do roof security now. | ||
| Or do the zombies climb walls. | ||
| And I'm not going for a Costco when it's aliens, right? | ||
| Because they're smart enough to go for population centers, right? | ||
| They're thinking about this. | ||
| They've probably been listening to this conversation. | ||
| When we say nothing, it's one of three things. | ||
| They're here, they're doing Intel right now. | ||
| So no, go to the Costco. | ||
| No to the Costco? | ||
| Where are we at right now? | ||
| Yeah, it's funny. | ||
| Cause like I'm on my phone and my girlfriend's just like wondering what I'm doing. | ||
| And then she looks and what was, what was the last one? | ||
| And the last one I was looking at was like frogs that were squeaking. | ||
| And I'm like, I don't know. | ||
| I'm just like, there's nothing secret going on here. | ||
| It's just like a tiny frog going. | ||
| And then she enjoyed the frog. | ||
| So we had a good time. | ||
| We'll grab a couple more super chats here. | ||
| Raymond G. Stanley Jr. | ||
| says, PA recently passed automatic voter registration. | ||
| Here we go! | ||
| Automatic? | ||
| How's that? | ||
| It's probably like motor voter laws. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| CallMeTag says, Nick, you're an inspiration to countless young men trying to find their way in this crazy world we're living in. | ||
| Thank you for all you do for this country and your countrymen. | ||
| Tim and the gang, keep up the great work you guys do. | ||
| Love you guys. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Here's a good one. | ||
| Troy Erickson says, Tim, you always say we must create culture. | ||
| Would you sponsor a songwriting contest? | ||
| You could gift the winner a video for their song and exposure. | ||
| We certainly could! | ||
| It is a challenge. | ||
| The Trash House team is basically like Carter, and then Kent is... Carter banks for the music, Kent Welling does all our video stuff, and that's why it's like a song every couple of months. | ||
| And we've done my songs a bunch, and we obviously want to do more songs and more bands, but it's just... it's really difficult. | ||
| But this is a pretty good idea. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| I gotta talk to Carter about it because he's in charge of all that stuff. | ||
| But that could actually be pretty cool. | ||
| However, I'll tell you guys right now, I guarantee that we'll get a thousand submissions and 999 will be like razor blades for the ears. | ||
| That's a lot of time commitment. | ||
| I don't mean to be a dick. | ||
| It's just like... | ||
| Sometimes there's a diamond in the rough and you're like, wow, this person wrote a banger. | ||
| If they get even like some basic recording and stuff, it'll be huge. | ||
| And then there are people who have masterful production. | ||
| You're like, yeah, it's just not good, man. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's just not good. | ||
| I don't know, but different strokes are different folks. | ||
| Just because we don't like it doesn't mean it's, you know, it's not for other people. | ||
| Laurel says I'm an immigration lawyer specializing in illegal aliens. | ||
| 99% know they can't vote. | ||
| They only break the law when there's something in it for them. | ||
| Someone may be stealing their identities, but they aren't doing it themselves. | ||
| I think... | ||
| Nobody is going to submit a deceased person intentionally for verification because they know it'll get kicked back and that number is going to appear somewhere. | ||
| I think they've got a list of names and they're just sending the forms in. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And that's a lot easier too to manage, right? | ||
| Trying to get a bunch of people lined up in order to go in and falsely register vote, that's problematic. | ||
| Like just sitting there and requesting absentee ballots or registering, you know, that's, yeah. | ||
| MF Damien says, Eclipse alignments cause gravity anomalies. | ||
| Where this eclipse crosses paths with the 2017 eclipse is directly over the new Madrid seismic zone. | ||
| Hope X doesn't mark the spot for that cutting loose. | ||
| Yeah, it's going right over Eagle Pass, too. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| The darkness. | ||
| Madrid seismic zone, he calls it. | ||
| Next week's gonna be wild. | ||
| Man. | ||
| Let's go! | ||
| Brian Egan says, Tim, was driving today when I passed what appeared to be an active crime scene, Marshall County, Tennessee. | ||
| Ton of cops, cameras, three-letter agents, no ambulance. | ||
| I think they pulled a fill and found all that remains. | ||
| Well, okay. | ||
| I don't know what happened. | ||
| That was a long joke. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| To get to that punchline. | ||
| That's what that was. | ||
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That was good. | |
| We'll grab a couple more here. | ||
| A couple more while we're still here. | ||
| Oh yeah, did you see that? | ||
| No, I didn't. | ||
| is thinking the police, BP, etc. are the same old guard. | ||
| They aren't. See reality. All the good ones quit, were fired, and have been replaced. Look at | ||
| the girl victim shot and killed by the cops in Cali that went viral today. Oh yeah, | ||
| did you see that? | ||
| No, I didn't. | ||
| This is nuts. A dad murders his wife, kidnaps his daughter. | ||
| High speed chase. The cops are on scene and one cop's yelling to her, come to me, come to | ||
| me, get out, get out, come to me. She runs to her, the other cops shoot and kill her. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| How do you accidentally shoot a 15 year old girl like that? | ||
| And then he goes, stop shooting her, stop shooting her! | ||
| And he's like, okay, okay. | ||
| And then I guess they realized afterwards they shot and killed her. | ||
| Jeez. | ||
| That's crazy, man. | ||
| But that is just, you know, it's important to mention. | ||
| 300 million interactions, that's not all. | ||
| Yeah, I go with the, yeah, if you look at the total number of interactions between law enforcement and people, I mean, obviously the vast majority of them are not Indian in a situation like this. | ||
| I do think that you have a significant problem with respect to the recruiting and training of officers. | ||
| You're seeing the same thing in the military right now. | ||
| And I think it's intentional. | ||
| Right, you're watching departments because typically if you look at the military, if you look at law enforcement, you're usually getting people that are a little bit more dedicated to the concepts of law and order. | ||
| They're usually a little bit more conservative or whatnot. | ||
| And I think they're actively trying to change the culture within these departments and within the military. | ||
| And yeah, I think it's definitely causing problems. | ||
| So I'm not blind to that going on, right? | ||
| I don't believe in blindly supporting any sort of profession. | ||
| Uh, without understanding that people are individuals. | ||
| Um, I can respect that somebody that wants to, you know, enter a profession for the right reasons to try to protect people and they put themselves in harm's way to do so. | ||
| I can respect that. | ||
| But yeah, there's going to be, there's going to be bad people and they need to be held accountable because quite frankly, when you do have somebody in law enforcement or in the military that is deliberately corrupt or bad or evil at their job, it's, it's doubly, it's doubly bad because they've not only violated the law, they've also violated the public trust. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| KCB says flipping Texas wipes out 10 deep red state electoral votes. | ||
| One Rust Belt state is all Biden would need. | ||
| And that, and so, you know, we're all sitting here thinking like, look at these swing states. | ||
| Trump needs to win. | ||
| He's going to win. | ||
| And their play is Texas. | ||
| Maybe it is. | ||
| And then maybe Texas and Missouri somehow end up flipping and they go, wow, this is a surprise to everybody. | ||
| How could this have happened? | ||
| Trump won the swing states he needed and Texas went blue. | ||
| Missouri is interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| We should keep an eye on these numbers every week. | ||
| These registration numbers, because those are crazy. | ||
| All right, my friends. | ||
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| That's awesome. | ||
| It's been fun having you here. | ||
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It's been a blast. | |
| I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow. | ||
| I'm a writer for scnr.com at Scanner News. | ||
| You can follow all of our work at TimCastNews on Instagram, Twitter. | ||
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| Happy birthday, Thank you, Hannah-Claire, and you reminded me, this, what is it going to be? | ||
| April 27th, it's a Saturday, Austin, Texas. | ||
| I'm going to be performing at the Minds Festival. | ||
| It's festival.minds.com is where we get tickets. | ||
| I'm going to be playing music with Toby Turner. | ||
| We've got a comedy set. | ||
| It's sort of like Tenacious D. It's hot. | ||
| It's so good. | ||
| So we'll be kicking the show off early, and then it goes late. | ||
| It's like five to midnight. | ||
| We'll be doing roundtable discussions, debates, comedy, music. | ||
| So come on out to Austin. | ||
| It's tickets.minds.com. | ||
| We'll see you there. | ||
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Cool. | |
| Happy birthday, man. | ||
| Thanks, man. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Thanks for coming to Hank as well. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
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My pleasure. | |
| And to everybody else, see you later. | ||
| We'll see you all over at TimCast.com in about a minute. |
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