March 6, 2025 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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Are we back? | |
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Look at that. | |
| We got... | ||
| And I did that amazing introduction. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| I know. | ||
| It was probably the most profound thing I've ever said in my life. | ||
| Okay, just start over. | ||
| No, I lost it. | ||
| Something happened the other day. | ||
| Trump was... | ||
| He was doing something. | ||
| You're so full of it. | ||
| All right, everybody! | ||
| We got the audio back. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| So, here's the news. | ||
| Last night we watched Donald Trump give an address to a joint session of Congress. | ||
| It was incredible. | ||
| Probably the best speech I've ever seen in my life. | ||
| Everyone agrees. | ||
| And Democrats were apoplectic. | ||
| In fact, the reaction has been brutal. | ||
| Sound is working? | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| So we got this poll from CBS YouGov and they're saying most people who watched it loved it. | ||
| However, the backlash is huge. | ||
| Frank Luntz, famous pollster, says it was miserable for Democrats. | ||
| He's pissed. | ||
| He described the reaction they gave to Trump as manna from heaven for Republicans. | ||
| And I'm here for it because I would like to see Republicans win the midterms and for Trump to be able to complete his second term agenda. | ||
| So no obstruction. | ||
| So long as Democrats keep losing their minds, refusing to clap for children who survived brain cancer, then I think we're going to win this one. | ||
| Now we're seeing Nicole Wallace from MSNBC. She said something so vile and disgusting. | ||
| It needs proper context, so I'm not going to... | ||
| But she basically said she hopes this child doesn't commit suicide, and it's disgusting. | ||
| And Rachel Maddow called it disgusting that Trump would actually celebrate this child and prop him up because he had nothing to do with the kid surviving brain cancer, which is nuts. | ||
| Democrats couldn't even clap for this kid. | ||
| The only time they clapped together was when Trump said we had been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Ukraine. | ||
| The polling shows... | ||
| People are not happy with Democrats. | ||
| So we're going to break down the reaction, which is miserable, and then a couple of really big stories. | ||
| We got the Supreme Court. | ||
| This one's weird. | ||
| Basically, the story's complicated, but they're saying Trump's got to give $2 billion away that we can never get back, and it's taxpayer money effectively being stolen from you. | ||
| Donald Trump says we're going to freeze these payments from USAID. A lower court said, no, we're putting a temporary restraining order right now, which means make those payments. | ||
| Trump's response was, how is it temporary? | ||
| If we make the payments, the money's gone forever. | ||
| So he appeals, gets rejected. | ||
| It appeals to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court five to four says, no, no, no, no, Trump, you got to pay. | ||
| So Alito is stunned that the Supreme Court is basically saying the executive branch has to pay out money they will never get back. | ||
| That comes from the taxpayer. | ||
| Now, we got a bunch of other stories, too, but I think one of the biggest stories, which is wild, West Virginia. | ||
| Hey, shout out. | ||
| I've been complaining about West Virginia. | ||
| Just today passed a bill in the Senate that will ban artificial food dyes in foods. | ||
| This is a bombshell. | ||
| West Virginia making this move is going to have repercussions on all food manufacturers in the country. | ||
| Let's say there's a company that makes a toaster pastry-like dessert that uses red dye in their filling. | ||
| They're now going to have to consider, if we want to be able to sell this product in West Virginia, We can't have that die in it. | ||
| So it's a cost-benefit analysis now. | ||
| Nationwide, we make $10 million per year, but we're going to lose $3 million from West Virginia. | ||
| Or let's say they do X amount of dollars, they're going to lose a certain percentage of their revenue if they lose West Virginia. | ||
| Not the biggest market. | ||
| But what may happen is, these companies might say, if we're going to lose $10 million, we might as well spend $5 million. | ||
| Changing out the artificial dyes for natural dyes and then sell those nationwide. | ||
| This could have a massive ripple effect. | ||
| So this is really incredible stuff. | ||
| And then Donald Trump issued a death threat to Hamas. | ||
| And people are really worried that he's banging the war drums. | ||
| But he's saying, release the hostages or else. | ||
| And I think he said shalom Hamas. | ||
| And people are saying, like, this is serious stuff. | ||
| A lot of people are angry. | ||
| We're going to get into all that. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| Also, I watched the Chris Pratt ad. | ||
| It's like one of the best commercials. | ||
| They've got everyone now. | ||
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That's amazing. | |
| Well, Chris Pratt did an impression of Mark Wahlberg and it had me laughing. | ||
| Marky Mark. | ||
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Hi, everybody. | |
| I'm 6'7 Kevin. | ||
| I make documentaries on YouTube. | ||
| You can find me at 6'7 Kevin spelled out on YouTube, and I do on-the-ground reporting for Frontlines at Turning Point USA. Right on. | ||
| Well, thanks for hanging out. | ||
| Of course, Mary is here. | ||
| Yes, I'm 5'1 Mary Morgan, and you will usually find me on Pop Culture Crisis here at TimCast. | ||
| Glad to be here. | ||
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I had no idea you were that short. | |
| Yeah, I had no idea you were that tall. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I am Phil Labonte. | ||
| I'm the lead singer of the heavy metal band, All That Remains. | ||
| I'm an anti-communist and counter-revolutionary. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Here's a story from CBS News that has everybody all riled up. | ||
| Poll on Trump's 2025 joint address to Congress finds large majority of viewers approve. | ||
| Y'all, they're playing dirty games. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| So when I saw this poll, everybody's sharing this metric where it's like 76% approve. | ||
| When I first pulled this up this morning, they actually showed a different metric as their first And it's this one. | ||
| Party identification of speech watchers, 51% Republicans, 27% independents, 20% Democrats. | ||
| And I'm getting to thinking, why would you poll it this way? | ||
| You're basically saying your poll is worthless. | ||
| If 51% of the people who watched it are Republicans, of course, people who watched it are going to like it. | ||
| They voted for the man, and they're Republicans. | ||
| Now, as a lot of people are sharing this around, saying, aha, look, America wins. | ||
| I think they threw this in here. | ||
| To basically create an out for Democrats. | ||
| To say, see, we didn't actually poll Democrats to see what they thought about the speech. | ||
| And then pundits are going to be able to say, oh, you know, we tuned out because Trump's a liar. | ||
| I'm going to say this. | ||
| When you take a look at how CBS did a poll almost a year ago about the State of the Union and not the speech from Joe Biden, they actually if you look at the crosstabs, you can see they chose to actually pull a nationally representative sample of the demographics, meaning they got where's you can see they chose to actually pull a nationally representative sample of 755 Dems, 721 independents and 603 Republicans. | ||
| I argue if they really wanted to, they could have pulled a politically representative sample of speech watchers, not just we generally asked people and here's how it turned out. | ||
| That metric is fine if they said, we asked general people and got this, but if they wanted to do a poll on how people feel about this, wouldn't it make more sense to say, We asked a politically representative sample of people what they thought of Trump's speech, and then you'd see it's probably closer to 50-50, tracking more with Trump's approval ratings, perhaps. | ||
| I think the answer is likely this. | ||
| Democrats are checked out. | ||
| The Democrats had a miserable performance. | ||
| The signs were annoying, and they got made fun of. | ||
| Colbert is making fun of them. | ||
| He held up a sign saying, like, try doing something. | ||
| That was funny. | ||
| I think... | ||
| YouGov probably could not find Democrats to poll. | ||
| And so they were forced to do the poll this way when they found out that Democrats are tuned out or have quit entirely. | ||
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I mean, how many polls are on point in the first place? | |
| But looking at it, a lot of people that I knew that were Democrats just refused to watch Trump at all. | ||
| So I don't even know if they tuned in. | ||
| I don't know if that metric is added into it as well. | ||
| It's bizarre if they think that this guy is. | ||
| The second coming of Hitler. | ||
| Would they not be paying attention to his rhetoric and his plans for the country? | ||
| Like, I was just, I came across these local protesters the other day, and I decided to go up to them and, you know, start chatting. | ||
| And I took pictures of all of their signs. | ||
| They, I don't think these people who are protesting on the street are representative of where most Democrats are at, but they say, stop Project 2025. When has trusting the billionaires ever helped us? | ||
| With fear for our democracy, I dissent. | ||
| Don't tread on me. | ||
| That's in Rainbow. | ||
| I can literally answer all those questions. | ||
| Where law ends, tyranny begins. | ||
| Fight the fascists. | ||
| Let's do that. | ||
| What was the first one again? | ||
| The first one was Stop Project 2025, of course. | ||
| Well, hold on. | ||
| I mean... | ||
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There's no Project 2025. Our democracy is at stake, blah, blah, blah. | |
| So they all basically, and I spoke to them, I was being very polite, and I asked them how they feel about this administration, and they were all saying, like, yeah, we have a fascist dictator in office, and we're going to be protesting. | ||
| And I asked them, like, really? | ||
| Every day? | ||
| Like, you're going to be out here? | ||
| In a pedestrian thoroughfare, like, protesting the fascist dictator. | ||
| For how long? | ||
| Like, until he's, like, out of office? | ||
| And they're like, yeah, I mean, if he even leaves office, I mean, it might be until 2028, for all we know. | ||
| And then they'll keep going every single week. | ||
| Even after that. | ||
| And then once, I guess, the next Republican president is in, they'll just keep coming back every week. | ||
| I know everybody really has a very good feeling about the way that Trump's speech went. | ||
| It was a good speech. | ||
| I'm not taking anything away from it. | ||
| But I want to draw attention to Elise Slotnick, her response. | ||
| Not because... | ||
| It's not because the substance of it was something that I personally find compelling, but the substance of it was a demonstration of the civil war going on in the Democrat Party. | ||
| It sounded like she was a late 80s, early 90s Republican. | ||
| She praised Ronald Reagan. | ||
| She was talking about economic issues. | ||
| She didn't touch any of the culture war issues at all. | ||
| And the reason is because the Democrats that are the donors know that those are losers. | ||
| Americans do not want men and women in the same bathrooms. | ||
| For the most part, Americans still look at Hamas as a terrorist group, and they look at Gaza and they see Hamas. | ||
| Whether or not that's right or wrong, I'm not trying to make an argument. | ||
| I'm telling you the way that most Americans kind of perceive the situation. | ||
| You can see that in polls. | ||
| Most Americans want to still support Israel. | ||
| The culture war issues that the Democrats have attached themselves to are terribly, terribly unpopular. | ||
| The American people want the border closed. | ||
| Trump has taken up all the 80-20 issues where 80% of Americans agree and 20% don't, and basically you can find 20% of the people that will disagree with Republicans for literally anything. | ||
| And I think that it's emblematic in the fact that they're talking about, they're in agreement that it's okay for children to cut off their genitals. | ||
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I think it's TDS, it's Trump Derangement Syndrome, you know? | |
| And to go back to the protests, I've been covering protests ever since Trump got in. | ||
| And I've been talking to these people and it's fascinating what they're saying because I was just in San Diego. | ||
| Somebody told me they think Elon Musk is actually the president. | ||
| They were fully convinced that he was the president. | ||
| Oh, a shadow president. | ||
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Yeah, exactly. | |
| Which is absurd. | ||
| I mean, that's really detached from reality. | ||
| He is just as much a shadow president as any other advisor to any other president. | ||
| Doge is actually entirely mundane. | ||
| Audit department, that's it. | ||
| They give recommendations to the administration. | ||
| If anyone's getting fired, any changes that are made, it is not because Elon Musk has the power to do it himself. | ||
| He's making these recommendations to President Trump. | ||
| President Trump is making those. | ||
| But I don't even think it goes that hard, and I think it's probably way more mundane than even you're describing, in that there's a batch of government employees. | ||
| They work for the United States Digital Service, which they jokingly renamed Doge Service. | ||
| These young men are going in and doing audits as government employees. | ||
| And then someone probably, like Elon probably says, you know, let Trump's assistant, like, let a staffer know what we're looking at. | ||
| Trump probably passively looks at a piece of paper and goes, huh, look at that. | ||
| Yeah, sure, we should end these programs. | ||
| So my point is... | ||
| I doubt Elon is meeting with the president every day and sitting there and then going over big lists. | ||
| Trump is way too busy for that. | ||
| So the separation between Trump and Elon is probably substantial relative to what these people imagine. | ||
| I mean, first of all, saying that Elon is the president is laughable. | ||
| Elon's probably doing a lot less than people realize. | ||
| And I don't mean to demean or disparage the work that he's doing. | ||
| I'm saying the Democrats think he's literally got Trump on puppet strings when he's probably he's running three, four, five. | ||
| How many companies is the man running? | ||
| I don't think he's in the White House 24-7 running the show. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, and the reasoning that I heard from this protester was that he said that this conspiracy was that Elon Musk stole the election using satellites. | ||
| And so Trump owes him everything for that. | ||
| And that was his reasoning. | ||
| Fascinating. | ||
| He's more of a hype man with a cabinet job. | ||
| And if anything, Trump's speech was overselling the impact of Doge just to make it sound cool. | ||
| But if that's what you're doing to get the deficit under control, it's obviously not going to even make a dent. | ||
| He's cutting things by millions. | ||
| Even if you're cutting things by billions, you're not even making a dent. | ||
| Yup. | ||
| That is a big challenge. | ||
| I mean, the other problem, too, is that the story from the Supreme Court, which we'll get into in a second, where I don't want to jump the gun on the rest of these stories, but the Supreme Court forcing Trump to pay $2 billion. | ||
| And it's a weird story because they're not forcing Trump to do anything. | ||
| Basically, a lower court, district court, said, we are pausing Trump's order to halt payments temporarily. | ||
| Which means the final payments will be issued. | ||
| So it's not a temporary halt. | ||
| So Trump files an appeal. | ||
| The appellate court says we have no jurisdiction over this because the executive branch of sovereign immunity and how they issue payments. | ||
| The court, we can't be involved. | ||
| The lower court, so the argument is they wrongly issued this order. | ||
| So then it goes to the Supreme Court and they put a temporary stay on the lower court's order and then today vacated their stay. | ||
| So they actually didn't rule anything. | ||
| They just outright said, we're not getting involved, which means Trump is bound by a lower court to give $2 billion of your money away. | ||
| This is absolutely insane. | ||
| Now, again, I don't want to jump the gun on this story. | ||
| I want to talk a bit about what Trump was pitching. | ||
| But to go back to the State of the Union, or whatever you want to call it, Democrats didn't clap for anything. | ||
| I thought they'd at least clap for balancing the budget, right? | ||
| Give some air of actually caring about the American people. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| And then when it came to this 13-year-old boy who survived brain cancer, who was being made an honorary Secret Service agent, heartwarming moment. | ||
| And do you know the story of this kid? | ||
| Let me do this. | ||
| Let's jump to this next story. | ||
| So we have this from The Independent. | ||
| MAGA loses its mind over MSNBC host Nicole Wallace's sickening comments about Trump honoring young cancer survivor. | ||
| Quote, MSNBC should fire Nicole Wallace, disgusting far right pundit, disgusting, comma, far right pundit Charlie Kirk raged following Nicole Wallace's remarks. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I don't get super angry all the time, but when I watch this clip of Nicole Wallace, do they not have the video? | ||
| I legit got angry. | ||
| I called her an effing witch. | ||
| Let me pull the clip up. | ||
| Look at a witch who belongs in hell! | ||
| Okay, look. | ||
| Let me tell you guys the story. | ||
| Do you guys know the story of this 13-year-old kid while he was there? | ||
| Multiple surgeries for brain cancer, correct? | ||
| How did Trump find out about him? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| He was being bullied. | ||
| He was being made fun of and mocked in a viral video because he dressed in his little police officer uniform because he wanted to be a cop. | ||
| He was made an honorary officer after surviving brain cancer, and a bunch of other young people started filming him and making fun of him. | ||
| Like, what are you going to do? | ||
| Arrest him? | ||
| And they were like, they were bullying him. | ||
| It wasn't super brutal or anything, but they were bullying him. | ||
| And so that's my understanding. | ||
| I saw this viral video. | ||
| Someone had said... | ||
| This kid was getting bullied and Trump decided to bring him here and honor him and say, don't let them get you down. | ||
| We're going to make you a Secret Service agent. | ||
| Rachel Maddow called Trump disgusting for it. | ||
| And Nicole Wallace, I, I, I, I, this one really, really got me, got me pissed off. | ||
| And I called her an effing witch. | ||
| So let me, where is that stupid, where's that video at? | ||
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Well, it was artful too how Trump, he went straight from DJ to RFK. I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel. | |
| And I let myself feel joy about DJ. And I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years, right? | ||
| And I hope he lives. | ||
| And the life he wants to live. | ||
| He wants to be a cop. | ||
| He knows what he wants to do. | ||
| And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you. | ||
| And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. | ||
| But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters. | ||
| And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide. | ||
| And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy. | ||
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What a vile, disgusting witch. | |
| Holy crap, man. | ||
| That was so, so past the line. | ||
| And then Rachel Maddow chimed in. | ||
| New York Post reports Nicole Walls and Rachel Maddow blasted for politicizing Trump's honor of a 13-year-old cancer survivor, DJ Daniel, sick and twisted. | ||
| So let's pull up the Rachel Maddow quote. | ||
| Maddow bizarrely accused Trump of being disgusting for spotlining DJ's heroic battle with the disease, for which the youngster had initially been warned would kill him in months. | ||
| Quote, for the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who has thus far survived pediatric cancer as if the president had something to do with that. | ||
| Yo, kid was getting bullied because he wanted to be a cop. | ||
| He had survived cancer. | ||
| He wanted to be a cop. | ||
| He still suffers issues from the numerous surgeries. | ||
| He was giving interviews about this. | ||
| And Rachel Maddow called Trump disgusting for honoring a child who survived brain cancer because he was getting bullied. | ||
| These people are evil, man. | ||
| They are zealous cultist evil. | ||
| This is insane. | ||
| Have they no remorse? | ||
| They only care about saying things that pander to their hive of scum and villainy. | ||
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I remember I saw that live, too, because I wanted to see the liberal side of that. | |
| And when I watched it live, I couldn't believe it. | ||
| I was like, how can you not be behind this? | ||
| And what did you call it for the Republicans? | ||
| It was bread from heaven. | ||
| Frank Luntz called it manna from heaven for Republicans. | ||
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It was such a bad look. | |
| But it's funny because that's like why moments like that are curated parts of a speech so that you can anticipate their reaction. | ||
| And they gave Trump exactly what he... | ||
| Wanted. | ||
| We're playing into his hand. | ||
| I somewhat agree, because Trump knows the Democrats well. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| He said, even if I came up with the cure for cancer, you wouldn't cheer and clap for me. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And Trump knows, and we all know them, but he didn't force them to do it. | ||
| This could have been a layup for Democrats. | ||
| Democrats could have been magnanimous. | ||
| They could have stood up and cheered for the child, and then afterwards said that... | ||
| They could have been reasonable moderate on any of these issues. | ||
| They could have said balancing the budget, of course, is a good thing. | ||
| The insane thing is that when Donald Trump says, this young child survived brain cancer, what a strong little man. | ||
| And the Democrats just sit there stone-faced. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| Dude, you are robots. | ||
| I think the one point at which they actually clapped was in order to cut Trump off mid-sentence when he said something about funding Ukraine. | ||
| They were like, yes! | ||
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Yes, we did! | |
| Yes, we did send them billions of dollars! | ||
| So that he wouldn't have a chance to finish the sentence. | ||
| Probably, but I do. | ||
| Smarmy. | ||
| And then the rest of the time, they're staring at their phones, pretending to fall asleep, and holding up stupid signs like they never grew past student counseling. | ||
| That's like, it's student council, teacher's pet energy. | ||
| To be fair, some of them also stormed out in protest, and we only found out because they told us. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, this kind of falls in line with the thing that we've talked about before, which is if the Democrats would have been complimentary to Donald Trump in 2016 when he first got in, they could have had anything they wanted. | ||
| He is a dealmaker. | ||
| He would have done all kinds of things. | ||
| I personally think that Donald Trump is more concerned with the way people treat him and with people liking him. | ||
| So I think that he would have been significantly more inclined to do whatever they wanted if they'd have treated him nice, if they'd have kissed his butt a little bit, treated him like the president. | ||
| They'd have got whatever they want. | ||
| But the thing is, they can't do that because they have it in their imagination. | ||
| And I think this is because once... | ||
| Barack Obama was elected, the Democrats kind of felt like they reached an end of history point. | ||
| Well, now from here on out, it's going to be Democrats forever. | ||
| The Republicans are going to be a marginalized party that'll be, you know, a small opposition. | ||
| There'll be a regional party. | ||
| They're not going to actually ever get into positions of authority again. | ||
| That obviously proved to be not true. | ||
| And so they freaked out because the left freaks out whenever they lose any institution, any amount of political power. | ||
| They drop the ball and they can't do anything other than just be against whatever Donald Trump says. | ||
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Yeah, and well, Donald Trump has said he wants to reach out his hand and bring the other aisle in, and they keep slapping his hand down and saying no. | |
| And it's unbelievable. | ||
| But watching Rachel Maddow in this situation, too, when this was live, Rachel Maddow was fuming with anger about the speech, saying there were so many fact-check mistakes that she could not list them all in one show. | ||
| Oh, isn't that convenient? | ||
| There are so many fact-check mistakes. | ||
| I just can't even address any of them. | ||
| That's real convenient. | ||
| I mean, whatever they have, whatever these people have is incurable. | ||
| And they truly are of a reprobate mind because I think they have a spiritual problem. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Spiritual bankruptcy among them. | ||
| It's not something to do with their party affiliation. | ||
| There are plenty of Democrats who would never act that way. | ||
| I completely agree. | ||
| I was having a conversation about this earlier, and we talked a little bit about it before the show. | ||
| But I think that this is not of all atheists or agnostics or whatever, but I think when an individual lives only in their own existence... | ||
| When they don't care about others around them and how others feel, and when they don't care about – there's a couple ways you can phrase this. | ||
| Either God's will or the structure of the universe and our place in it is one way to phrase it for those that are secular. | ||
| These people live entirely in the self-gratification universe. | ||
| The only thing that matters is they get what they want. | ||
| They get self-gratification. | ||
| They get to party, wake up at 6 in the morning. | ||
| I'll keep it family-friendly, but everyone knows what Chelsea Handler said. | ||
| And I think the reason why you see right now in the culture war, largely Christians on the right advocating for things that... | ||
| I would describe it as this. | ||
| Liberals advocate for a lifestyle that is destructive to the ends of civilization. | ||
| And currently the right as a whole, largely Christian, is advocating for things that are protective and expansive to creation. | ||
| And I think the component is, the question you ask yourself is, do you consider, when you take actions, your place in the world and what the world is and does? | ||
| For Christians, the question is actually much more simple. | ||
| You know, are you adhering to God's will? | ||
| I think liberals are absent of that largely. | ||
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Yeah, well, because the core idea of Christianity and Catholicism is taking yourself off the throne of life and putting God there. | |
| And that changes how you organize your entire life. | ||
| Self is not the top priority. | ||
| Whereas when you see the liberals, that is their top priority for the most part. | ||
| I think that's better said. | ||
| Much simpler than I put it. | ||
| Do you consider yourself or do you consider everything else? | ||
| It's weird because everyone circulates that heat map meme where you see liberals have an outgroup bias and their last priority is people who are related to them or people who are in their community. | ||
| Their first priority in terms of care and concern is... | ||
| People on the other side of the planet, basically. | ||
| Any marginalized group. | ||
| And that heat map goes around, and then J.D. Vance was also referring to it in terms of Ordo Amoris, the order of loves. | ||
| And what is properly ordered is that you first prioritize your family, and then you go to friends, larger community, society as a whole, your nation, and then the rest of the world. | ||
| The rest of the world can wait. | ||
| I have a correction for you, and it only makes your point better. | ||
| There's the graph, which shows liberals have an outgroup preference, but the heat map you're referring to shows that Democrats' first order of their first priority is inert objects. | ||
| Not even other people. | ||
| And those objects being what? | ||
| Rocks, trees, and dirt. | ||
| Probably, but no, in all seriousness. | ||
| The issue of what do you care about? | ||
| And I mean care in the literal sense of what do you want to protect? | ||
| What do you want to have flourish? | ||
| Among conservatives, it is. | ||
| Myself, my friends, my family, and the order of things as you described it. | ||
| Among liberals, it's the national park, it's the trees, it's the rivers. | ||
| They choose inert objects like rocks and monuments. | ||
| Not monuments, the opposite. | ||
| But like rocks in a national park. | ||
| Now, I've got to be honest. | ||
| I also deeply care about rocks and trees and all that stuff. | ||
| Jeremy Boring made a really great point on this show a couple years ago. | ||
| He was saying that obviously we want to be good stewards of the earth, but everything is within the human perspective. | ||
| If there are no humans, what are we protecting anything for? | ||
| I mean, it is for the sake of humanity. | ||
| That is the order of what we care about, and it's a great point. | ||
| I think liberals do not exist largely within a... | ||
| How do my actions play into the bigger scale of things? | ||
| They're basically just, wake up and I want to feel good. | ||
| I would wonder, do you think that liberals actually feel like what they do matters? | ||
| And the reason I say this is because, you know, if you're a secular person, if you don't have any foundation in religion or anything at all, any kind of spirituality, and you think, well, you know, eventually the sun's just going to burn out and all the stars are going to burn out, so nothing I do actually matters. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Yes, exactly. | ||
| They're nihilists. | ||
| We've had a couple of people on the show, because obviously not everybody on the show is religious. | ||
| We have actually quite a bit who are not. | ||
| And one of our guests said he was completely atheist. | ||
| And I think anybody who is completely atheist and unwilling to even have the philosophical conversation is misunderstanding what atheism means or the bigger picture. | ||
| But he just said, nope. | ||
| Wet robots. | ||
| We recently talked about this on Pop Culture Crisis. | ||
| There was this clip going around of Grimes talking about the decline of religion and how she thinks that's a bad thing, that killing God was a mistake. | ||
| And someone replied to that and said, this is such a sociopathic self-report. | ||
| Basically meaning if you think that anyone's moral framework should derive from religion, you're admitting to the world that you're a sociopath because you should just be born knowing how to live and what's right and wrong. | ||
| And this person is basically saying I'm high born and I was just innately... | ||
| Created better than you religious people. | ||
| I just know right from wrong inherently. | ||
| And you're low-born. | ||
| That's an incredibly common perspective when it comes to atheists. | ||
| Spending a lot of time in the music industry, a lot of people have that kind of opinion. | ||
| They look down on people that have any kind of religion. | ||
| They make the whole, oh, the spaghetti monster in the sky comment and stuff. | ||
| And it's like, religion has been with human beings forever. | ||
| There's always been some kind of religion in every society ever studied, no matter how distant they are in time or space, there was religion. | ||
| And it's likely that there was religion in other types of homo sapiens, not homo sapiens, other types of, like Neanderthal and other, if you believe in evolution, other types of hominids, right? | ||
| To think that it's useless or you can just decide you don't need that anymore in a generation or two, that's the stupid take. | ||
| It's something that's so deeply ingrained in human beings that you think you can just walk away from it because, look, I watch the Nature Channel, man. | ||
| I got it all figured out. | ||
| You're a moron. | ||
| Religion is the principal, how do I describe this? | ||
| It is the indicator of? | ||
| And the proof of humans' higher thinking in that the basis of the thought is what exists beyond known reality. | ||
| When you're asking questions about what exists and what is that we could not touch, smell, see, or hear is what sets us apart from literally every other animal on the planet. | ||
| That's where humans are just discernibly above. | ||
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Well said. | |
| I mean, Carl Jung said, with the death of God, there needs to be something else to replace that hole in the heart of a man. | ||
| Because there's just something in us that draws us towards God. | ||
| And if we don't have that, there's this chasm. | ||
| And that's why I think so many of the liberals treat what they believe as almost a religion. | ||
| Oh yeah, absolutely. | ||
| We'll jump back to the Trump speech reaction. | ||
| We've got this video of Frank Luntz. | ||
| Now, Frank Luntz is, well, what do they say? | ||
| He's a conservative pollster. | ||
| I don't know if he actually is. | ||
| He doesn't like me, I'll tell you that. | ||
| And Frank Luntz explains why he's angry with Democrats after Trump address. | ||
| This is good news for everybody who is concerned the Democratic Party has lost their minds because this is a guy who does, he does panels where he convenes a bunch of people, asks them what they think. | ||
| And here he is basically saying the Democrats' tantrum. | ||
| And reaction to Trump is manna from heaven for Donald Trump. | ||
| Take a listen. | ||
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Each because there's what I call a killer line. | |
| It's something that differentiates Trump from other presidential speeches, from other key moments in politics and in governing. | ||
| I just want to emphasize, that was the longest speech ever. | ||
| It's not quite a state of the union, but it's similar to it. | ||
| And no one's ever gone longer than him. | ||
| That was the most political speech ever. | ||
| He referred to his predecessor by name more than any other individual who's held one of these speeches. | ||
| Third, it was the most partisan ever. | ||
| Whether you had Democrats sitting on their hands or Republicans jumping up, you saw, you knew exactly who was who based on the view on television and based on being in the chamber. | ||
| And fourth, it was the most disruptions by the minority party ever. | ||
| Whether you're holding up those placards, whether you're yelling at him, as the congressman did, and being unwilling to keep quiet when he was called on it, if you're a Republican, that was arguably, and I've been doing this now for decades, if you're a Republican, that was manna from heaven. | ||
| That was exactly what you wanted to hear, and you're shocked that he was saying it so bluntly. | ||
| If you're a Democrat, it was sheer hell. | ||
| Because it tells you that this is going to continue. | ||
| And if you're an independent, you agree with the policies, but you don't agree with the tone. | ||
| This was the best thing that could have happened to the Republican Party and Trump's coalition. | ||
| The big concern most of us have is how much can Trump get done before the midterms? | ||
| Because that's when squishy Republicans will bow out and stop supporting his agenda. | ||
| And that's when, if Trump loses the midterms, he either gets impeached or gets obstructed, and then nothing else can happen for the remainder of his four years. | ||
| But with actions like this from the Democrats, booing, jeering, or whatever, screaming and constantly just jeering, Al Green getting thrown out. | ||
| Did you guys hear that they're drafting a censure of Al Green over this? | ||
| Good. | ||
| Good. | ||
| I have to imagine Republicans planned this. | ||
| They crafted this specifically to be like, how can we make Democrats make a fool of themselves? | ||
| They're so predictable. | ||
| I mean, look, I personally have said multiple times, we need to see more things like censure because a lot of times there's really egregious behavior by people in Congress. | ||
| And I honestly, this is one time where I'll say both sides. | ||
| There's egregious behavior by people in Congress. | ||
| And because of the way that our political system works, there's not often... | ||
| Repercussions. | ||
| They don't get voted out of office, etc., etc. | ||
| So there's got to be something to say, look, this guy's kind of a scumbag. | ||
| And I think that censure, you know, because removal from office is so difficult, censure, you know, give it to him. | ||
| At least let the record show that this person's trash. | ||
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Yeah, well, and Al Green's been in public office since like the 70s. | |
| So he's one of those swamp creatures, if you will. | ||
| And the liberals, they should lead by example. | ||
| You know, they always say Trump needs to be better at reaching the hand over the aisle. | ||
| They should lead by example and actually clap when we want to reduce cancer rates in children. | ||
| I mean, you could argue that if Democrats deviated from their standard play, which they can't, but if they did for some reason, they'd have cheered for Trump when Trump did good things. | ||
| And it would have given more arguments to their positions in other areas. | ||
| I was talking about this this morning because they were holding up the sign saying save Medicaid. | ||
| And they've not made a single argument other than don't trust Trump. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| It's like Trump says he's not going to touch it. | ||
| Trump says he's not going to touch Social Security or Medicaid. | ||
| So you just waving that sign doesn't mean anything to anybody. | ||
| Imagine if a single Democrat had two brain cells to rub together and said... | ||
| You know, to be honest, I actually think it's good that Doge is going in and trying to find waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| I wish them the best. | ||
| However, the concern here is they have already, in their mass firings, laid off critical employees and had to rehire them. | ||
| And so I get it. | ||
| You're doing a broad brushstroke. | ||
| We want the waste, fraud, and abuse gone. | ||
| That was overreach. | ||
| My concern is they might accidentally step on Medicaid or Social Security. | ||
| Regular people would say that's reasonable. | ||
| In fact, I could literally say that right now, and people have a reasonable position to take. | ||
| But Democrats can't do it. | ||
| If you actually wanted to win an election, that's what your argument would be. | ||
| It would be like, vote for me because we'll be more cautious when it comes to the things you need. | ||
| I like Trump. | ||
| He does some good stuff. | ||
| We'll do it a little bit better. | ||
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Use a scalpel instead of a hatchet for cutting these jobs. | |
| They're not even using a hatchet. | ||
| They have like the back of a wooden chair. | ||
| They're beating against a tree, hoping the tree falls down. | ||
| It's not gonna. | ||
| You're like, dude, that's not an object that can cut through a tree. | ||
| And they just, they're not smart enough to understand this. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| There's a peer pressure, too. | ||
| I'm sure that anyone on the Democrat side in there who wanted to applaud anything knew they would face social repercussions for doing so. | ||
| And I'm sure that's the same on the Republican side. | ||
| If you didn't stand up and clap for what you were supposed to stand up and clap for, you would face consequences. | ||
| So there's that and there's this mean girl behavior. | ||
| I mean, they're literally dressing up in pink costumes and doing their theatrics together. | ||
| Like, on Tuesdays, we wear pink. | ||
| That was the last straw for me. | ||
| Like, them coordinating their outfits like 12-year-old girls, protesting the mean jerk who's running for student president. | ||
| It was embarrassing for all of female kind. | ||
| You know, that is a good point about the social thing, because that's kind of how I feel about it. | ||
| And then I'm imagining the joke I made about beating a tree with the back of a wooden chair. | ||
| It's like you've got a group of Democrats, and they're all standing around. | ||
| And there's literally a hatchet on the ground. | ||
| But then Donald Trump is seen using it. | ||
| So Democrats are like, no, we don't do that. | ||
| That's wrong. | ||
| It's racist. | ||
| And then the moderates, you know, five, ten years ago were like, guys, what are you proposing? | ||
| And then they start trying to use a blunt stick hitting the tree. | ||
| And if you dare speak up, they hit you with the stick. | ||
| So then the moderates end up leaving, going, joining Trump, who's reasonable, makes sense. | ||
| I got to be honest, he's talking big game and he's kind of a jerk when he does it. | ||
| But at least he's actually getting the job done. | ||
| Yeah, he referred to these independents who are saying, like, I agree with the policies, but his tone, though. | ||
| Like, are you living in a decade prior? | ||
| I just am shocked that people are still tone-policing Trump. | ||
| He's cooled down so much. | ||
| If you remember the way that he sounded ten years ago, or even five years ago, his tone is unrecognizable. | ||
| He tries so hard to be polite and magnanimous. | ||
| Are you saying that he's less hilarious? | ||
| Kinda, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I am. | ||
| And that was plenty funny for the first five minutes, but the rest of it was down to business. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And I do love the little quips that he throws out there. | ||
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Pocahontas. | |
| Yeah, and it was funny because I had a tweet get picked up. | ||
| Someone said the first racial slur of the night, and I said, well, Elizabeth Warren's not an American, so it's not a racial slur, it's just a regular slur. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know. | ||
| The fact that she brought up a racial slur, which it's not a racial slur. | ||
| It's not, first of all. | ||
| And second of all, the fact that she tried to imply that it is a racial slur, it shows that they're still five to ten years behind. | ||
| They're never getting... | ||
| They're five or ten years behind and they're going slower than the rest of the class. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| But I think this points to the fact that there is a civil war in the... | ||
| Still, this points to the fact that there's a civil war in the Democrat Party. | ||
| They don't know who they are. | ||
| Online pundits, people like Kyle Kalinske and people like Hassan and people like that do have the ear of young people, right? | ||
| They get a lot of views. | ||
| Those people are saying we need to be more progressive. | ||
| We need to be more progressive, which translates to we got to be commies, like straight up. | ||
| But at the same time, again, at least the... | ||
| The reply from the actual DNC was very moderate, very middle of the road, because they're losing the donors. | ||
| Whether people like it or not, donors matter. | ||
| And the communists are not going to get donors. | ||
| They might get a lot of people on the ground, but... | ||
| It's not about the donors anymore. | ||
| They're losing their fictitious NGO circuitous methods of funding. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| But you're not going to win... | ||
| They're not going to win... | ||
| If they're losing that, they're not going to win elections without donations. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| The sentiment is, it's over, right? | ||
| This was a couple years ago, or in the past year, we saw that the donors were fleeing the Democratic Party. | ||
| The big billionaires that started coming out and all of a sudden being like, I've seen the light, I've changed. | ||
| Democrats were still like, well, at least we have USAID funds funneling through various NGOs that make their way back to us. | ||
| And then Trump was like, nope, gone. | ||
| Although they're still going to get their last $2 billion, I guess. | ||
| Yeah, apparently. | ||
| I think that's kind of ridiculous, but I mean, I don't know if we're going to actually dive into that or not. | ||
| Wait a second. | ||
| I mean, for now, we just wrap up by saying thank you, Democrats, because, you know, if you weren't insane, it would be very hard to make an argument against you. | ||
| And your policies are bad, but you're not smart enough to make good arguments. | ||
| So I don't need to steel man the Democrat position. | ||
| I can literally just play the video of them. | ||
| Screaming like banshees and be like, that's the argument. | ||
| And it's like, well, okay, I guess we just vote for Trump and the Republicans, I guess. | ||
| And, you know, it's because of the Democrats' insanity. | ||
| We got this coalition with RFK Jr., with Tulsi Gabbard, with Elon, and it's been swimmingly. | ||
| It's really actually kind of remarkable that the left doesn't see that. | ||
| The Democrat Party doesn't seem to grasp that they've lost the moderates in their party to the Republicans because the average American has rejected the far left. | ||
| And the far left, whether or not those are the policies the mainstream Democrats, if there are mainstream Democrats, whether or not those are the policies that the Democrats actually want to institute, that's what people hear. | ||
| The Republicans have capitalized on it. | ||
| And the people that... | ||
| Our activists continue to say we need to center the marginalized. | ||
| We need to center the marginalized. | ||
| And all that does is make the most extreme people get all the attention. | ||
| And that turns off all the moderates. | ||
| The tactic of centering the margins doesn't work. | ||
| We're going to jump to this next story, my friends. | ||
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| Here's the story from Fox News. | ||
| SCOTUS rules on nearly $2 billion in frozen USAID payments. | ||
| The case came after Trump froze nearly $1.9 billion in aid. | ||
| The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration's request to block a lower court's order. | ||
| For the administration to pay nearly $2 billion foreign aid money, delivering a near-term reprieve to international aid groups and contractors seeking payment for previously completed projects. | ||
| I want to pause and just say, I do not believe it's fair to call them previously completed when we learn that a lot of these projects were nonsense in the first place. | ||
| And I would call them spiritually fraudulent, in that literal fraud requires deception to extract funds, and the Biden administration and government was well aware of what they were doing. | ||
| But I call it spiritually fraudulent because the American people would never approve of these expenditures at their cost. | ||
| In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said that the February 26th deadline imposed by a lower court for the Trump administration to pay the funds had already expired and directed the case back to the district court to clarify any additional details on payment. | ||
| Given that the deadline in the challenge has now passed, and in light of the ongoing preliminary injunction proceedings, the district court should clarify What obligations the government must fulfill to ensure compliance with a temporary restraining order with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines? | ||
| U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, for his part, moved quickly Wednesday to take action on the matter, ordering both parties to appear in court Thursday to consider plausible repayment schedules. | ||
| So let me just give you the quick gist. | ||
| Trump says don't pay this. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because his view is largely that they were funneling money in ways that are untoward. | ||
| I'm being careful because it's not fraud when Biden gives you the money. | ||
| And you're not doing anything for it. | ||
| In one instance they found, I don't know where this payment came from, but there was a story of a child center or some facility was built getting $18 million per month with no one in it. | ||
| It was completely empty. | ||
| There was one story about the Biden administration started funneling money through the EPA to various climate change groups that previously had no money on the books. | ||
| In one instance, an NGO had made only $100 the year prior and received a multi-million dollar grant. | ||
| So, basically, the gist of this is with USAID, Trump's like, no, no, no, we're freezing this. | ||
| A lower court said, pay it. | ||
| Or, I'm sorry, yeah, Trump said we're freezing it. | ||
| A lower court said, we're temporarily freezing your ability to freeze the payments, make the payments. | ||
| Trump appeals. | ||
| The court, the appellate court says, we have no jurisdiction on this one. | ||
| The executive branch determines if they're going to make these payments. | ||
| It's called, what is it called, cyber immunity. | ||
| And then it goes to the Supreme Court. | ||
| The Supreme Court issues a temporary stay on the lower court stay. | ||
| So Trump's is in effect. | ||
| The Supreme Court then vacates their stay, triggering the lower court. | ||
| So Trump now technically has to just make the payments. | ||
| This is absolutely insane. | ||
| Let me put it simply. | ||
| Donald Trump is trying to stop $2 billion of your taxpayer dollars from going out in ways he does not feel are legitimate. | ||
| There's been no ruling on the legitimacy of these payments, but the court's requiring him to pay it. | ||
| This is nuts. | ||
| I read Alito's dissent, and I was actually really surprised that this was considered, or that the court found this way in the first place. | ||
| The executive has to be able to say no to this type of behavior, and I was really surprised that the... | ||
| SCOTUS found this. | ||
| I was expecting it to be 5-4 the other way, at least. | ||
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Well, this is a slap in the face for all taxpayers. | |
| I mean, the kinds of things that were found in this were unbelievable, like LGBTQ activism in Serbia, you know, Egyptian tourism. | ||
| Nobody would vote for this as a taxpayer. | ||
| But the judges, I don't know who the judges were that voted for this. | ||
| I'm kind of curious now. | ||
| Oh, it was the Liberal Justices Roberts and Amy Cooney Barrett. | ||
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Really? | |
| Amy Coma Barrett, too? | ||
| Well, that's obvious. | ||
| She kind of hates Trump. | ||
| Yeah, she's not great. | ||
| People are spreading around this clip of her from last night looking at Trump with such disdain and disgust on her face. | ||
| Yeah, well, she was a mistake. | ||
| She was awfully verklempt about the death of George Floyd and cried about it. | ||
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Oof. | |
| Well, I mean, she's better than a liberal, but she's not great. | ||
| And so I have a question here. | ||
| This is an interesting issue, right? | ||
| Let's say there was a federal office that said, we're instructing our employee to go and strangle that woman across the street to death. | ||
| And then Trump was like, whoa, that's illegal. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| We're putting a freeze on that. | ||
| And then liberal groups sue. | ||
| A court says, no, no, we're pausing Trump's order. | ||
| Complete that action. | ||
| Strangle that woman. | ||
| You know, says, no, we're not going to do this. | ||
| He goes to the Supreme Court. | ||
| The Supreme Court says, we're not getting involved. | ||
| The lower court carry out your order. | ||
| Thus, the action must be completed. | ||
| This is a very obvious circumstance where an illegal action was offered up. | ||
| Trump was trying to stop what appeared to be an illegal action, and the courts told him to do it. | ||
| Obviously, that's not what we're dealing with. | ||
| The reason I give that analogy is, in this case, that is Trump's argument. | ||
| These payments are not legitimate. | ||
| They must be stopped. | ||
| And the courts are basically saying, no, Trump, the crime must be completed. | ||
| Who enforces what in this regard? | ||
| Trump as the executive branch, if he truly believes this is illegal and it's not been ruled on the merits, whether it is or is not, a legitimate legal payment, maybe it is fraud, who knows? | ||
| And a lower court says, you can't pause because it has to get paid. | ||
| Can a lower court instruct the executive branch to commit illegal actions or commit actions it believes to be illegal? | ||
| Yeah, that... | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Who can enforce against it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So this kind of does harken back to the question about whether judges have the authority to prevent the president from, or the executive office, from making decisions. | ||
| Because this was, initially, it stemmed from a U.S. District Court, Amir Ali, on February 13th, barred the administration from suspending foreign aid payments. | ||
| So, like, a district judge... | ||
| Should not be able to prevent the executive from essentially carrying out the will of the people. | ||
| The president's the only elected official that's elected by the whole body politic, right? | ||
| The representatives are all representing certain districts, they're representing states, etc. | ||
| The president is the only elected official that's elected by all of America. | ||
| The whole country, he won all seven swing states. | ||
| The whole country swung to the right. | ||
| So the president has a clear... | ||
| I know that the left hates to hear it, but it was clear that the United States, the people, did not like the way the country was going. | ||
| You look at polls, the right track, wrong track, the whole country felt like we were on the wrong track when President Biden was in. | ||
| Now that President Trump's in, they feel like the country's on the right track. | ||
| So this – again, this – I do agree with people that say that the SCOTUS should not be making decisions based on what the people think they're doing. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| But at the same time, I don't see how this... | ||
| I don't see their reasoning for why this should be. | ||
| And I do think that the president should be the executive that... | ||
| And it should be that the executive gets to decide how the executive office... | ||
| You know, how it's executed. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, I mean, especially when it comes to two billion dollars, if Trump is saying, hey, this is not legit. | ||
| USAID is basically shut down. | ||
| He's laying people off. | ||
| We've seen over and over again that many of these payments were going to nonsense, ridiculous organizations that were doing nothing, gender studies in Pakistan, whatever it might be. | ||
| So Trump says, let's not give this money away. | ||
| How can you how can a court instruct Trump to break the law? | ||
| And BT dubs, this is who we're being told as a fascist dictator. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And as for what you said about a popular mandate, I don't know why, but they had Stephen A. Smith on The View like a day ago, and he was trying to explain to these mentally disturbed women what a mandate means, and they couldn't quite grasp it. | ||
| He said he won the popular vote, and they were like, oh, but only by a little, though. | ||
| Just by a tiny percentage, though. | ||
| So that means that it's not the will of the people. | ||
| And then he's like... | ||
| He won every swing state. | ||
| That's literally how an electoral college works. | ||
| Stephen A. Smith said he won every swing state. | ||
| 89% of counties shifted rightward. | ||
| He won the popular vote for Republicans' first time since 2004. He increased his vote margins among black and Latino voters. | ||
| He's got a mandate. | ||
| And he's like, we can sit here in Hemant Hall if we want. | ||
| That's a mandate. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
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Well, he put a 90-day freeze on this, and there is some nuance, because the $2 billion isn't all USAID payments, so it's only some existing contract. | |
| So he still has frozen some, so there's a little bit of nuance to it, but it's still not great. | ||
| I mean, what would happen if Trump just says, we ignore you, we're going to do whatever we want? | ||
| I mean... | ||
| What can they do? | ||
| That has happened before. | ||
| The Chief Justice has made his decision. | ||
| Now let's see him enforce it. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I was talking to Will Chamberlain a while ago, and he's a lawyer, for those who don't know, a friend of the show. | ||
| He was on recently, I believe, when I was out. | ||
| And I asked him, why doesn't the Supreme Court just take the obvious positions that are correct? | ||
| I think we were talking about Texas v. | ||
| Pennsylvania in 2020, and he said because they have no enforcement mechanism, and if they make rulings that are too, let's just say, strong, That people are going to reject, then it's revealed the emperor has no clothes. | ||
| So the Supreme Court tries to make rulings that they feel are in line enough with the current social fabric so that they will actually happen. | ||
| If the Supreme Court comes out and issues a ruling, say, like in 2020, that Trump actually won or something, then the blue states are going to say, enforce it. | ||
| And then people realize Supreme Court rulings don't mean anything. | ||
| So they try and keep things a little tempered, as it were. | ||
| And then that basically means they don't issue the rulings where they need to be issued. | ||
| I mean, I suppose that does make sense. | ||
| But it is true that the SCOTUS doesn't have any means of enforcement. | ||
| Marshals? | ||
| So, like, what are they going to do? | ||
| Are they going to go raid a government bank account and force an employee? | ||
| What if Trump was like, who's in charge of issuing these payments? | ||
| They're like, you're fired. | ||
| It's like, okay, alright, who are you going to enforce now? | ||
| There's no one who does that job. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| What are you going to do about it? | ||
| Let's jump to this next story, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is a bombshell report from West Virginia Watch. | ||
| Now, what's fascinating is this is a local news story to West Virginia, but I'm going to tell you this is one of the biggest stories in the nation right now. | ||
| West Virginia Senate passes bill banning artificial dyes in food. | ||
| Opponents say it's overreach. | ||
| Cry more. | ||
| Quote, this is probably the most important bill that we will vote on in our entire careers. | ||
| Here, said Senator Laura Joaquin Chapman, Republican of Ohio. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Our health is not for sale. | ||
| Is that like Ohio County or something? | ||
| The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill banning synthetic dyes in food after Republican lawmakers stressed that it would make food healthier for West Virginians, who have some of the worst health outcomes in the country. | ||
| The measure House Bill 2345, which already cleared the House. | ||
| Would prohibit the sale of any food with certain types of yellow, blue, green, and red dyes, including red 40, that helps give candy its cherry red hue. | ||
| And I believe it's made from those little mites. | ||
| They have like an aluminum substance in them that is bright red, and they mush the little mites, and then it makes red. | ||
| And you eat it. | ||
| Then there's tartrazine, which is a yellow dye, which is made from coal tar. | ||
| Gross. | ||
| So basically, let me, here we have bill status here. | ||
| Can I see this? | ||
| I want to read the actual text of it. | ||
| We'll pull that up in a second. | ||
| But I'll tell you why this is one of the most important things happening in the country right now. | ||
| Let's say West Virginia is not the biggest market for any food product. | ||
| But there is, what, like a million-something people live in the state. | ||
| So how many boxes of cereal, perhaps? | ||
| Let's say... | ||
| Let's say toaster pastry of some nondescript brand. | ||
| And they've got blue, red, and yellow dyes in them because the sprinkles on their strawberry toaster pastry nondescript item. | ||
| That company now can't sell in the state. | ||
| They're going to say you can't sell those here. | ||
| They've got a banned substance in them. | ||
| This company is going to now have to do a cost-benefit analysis where they say... | ||
| How much will it cost for us to shift into a non-synthetic dye to use natural dyes like banana, carrots, or blueberries, which is, I believe, what Canada does. | ||
| They don't use bananas. | ||
| They might actually, something like that. | ||
| In Canada, they use carrots and blueberries and raspberries and stuff for the various colors. | ||
| And they might say, it's going to cost us $10 million to change production. | ||
| Okay, how much money are we going to lose in West Virginia? | ||
| We're going to lose $10 million. | ||
| They're going to say, so we break even? | ||
| But then in the following years we make that money back? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Change to all natural dyes. | ||
| This could have nationwide effects on all food production because one state did it. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I also wonder what that means for us going to the grocery store in West Virginia because literally every food item has these chemicals in them. | ||
| And now... | ||
| Is this something you've been consciously avoiding? | ||
| Food dies? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I mean, like, I got Pop-Tarts downstairs. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Yeah, I was about to say. | ||
| And they're delicious. | ||
| You ordered, like, about a billion of them. | ||
| A thousand. | ||
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A thousand. | |
| A thousand Pop-Tarts! | ||
| Come on, we got, like, 30 people who work here. | ||
| Those things are gonna be gone. | ||
| The brown sugar cinnamon is the best flavor. | ||
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Oh, by far. | |
| Yeah, so good. | ||
| We do have s'mores and cookies. | ||
| You know, whatever. | ||
| We bought them because Julia, who skates here, she says they're illegal in Europe. | ||
| So you can't get them. | ||
| And we were like, what? | ||
| So we had to buy them. | ||
| So we had to buy a bunch. | ||
| And then when they're back, we're going to make ice cream sandwiches out of Pop-Tarts. | ||
| Listen, RFK Jr. eats cheeseburgers sometimes. | ||
| Being healthy doesn't mean only eating carrots like a rabbit. | ||
| I think this is one of the best things we have seen in the country, and I'm glad it's happening in West Virginia. | ||
| Now, if only they would get rid of that crackpot Uber law where they ban independent contracting, maybe we could have something going good here. | ||
| I gotta be honest, this is a grand slam from West Virginia. | ||
| A grand slam. | ||
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Shoutouts West Virginia. | |
| I'm curious though if they make like purple dyes. | ||
| Do they use the red and the blue or do we need to watch out for the purple ones because they're still bad? | ||
| Only the primary colors I'm guessing? | ||
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Yeah, I don't know. | |
| I don't know if this is outdated information. | ||
| I'm pretty sure that West Virginia is still the highest obesity rate in the country. | ||
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No way. | |
| Yeah, in the entire country. | ||
| I don't know why that is, but I doubt artificial dyes are to blame. | ||
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Dang, I thought that would have been Texas. | |
| I think... | ||
| Isn't that true? | ||
| Highest morbid obesity rate in the entire country? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| West Virginia? | ||
| Let's find out. | ||
| It might have been relatively recently. | ||
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My money's on Texas or another southern state. | |
| I thought it was Texas. | ||
| Is it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's find out! | ||
| It's pretty high up on the list. | ||
| West Virginia. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It has the highest adult obesity rate in the U.S., 41%, followed by Louisiana and Oklahoma. | ||
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41%. | |
| This might not be the principal reason, but it's a good start. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The tastes are changing, I think, especially among young people. | ||
| I noticed that Sweetgreen, this really trendy, fast, casual salad chain, just introduced new French fries, which they fry in avocado oil instead of seed oils. | ||
| And you're paying a premium, of course, but you're paying it so that you can follow the trend of against not eating seed oils, which is like... | ||
| Kind of it's interesting like how the fashions of food change because I remember like five ten years ago everyone was going vegan and everyone was drinking oat milk and eating all these weird boutique vegan Yeah, and Spindrift! | ||
| Sponsor us! | ||
| They're posting pictures of their dinner on a rustic cutting board. | ||
| They're really into eating raw meat and things like that. | ||
| That's cool now. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Spindrift. | ||
| They know it's up. | ||
| You know it's gonna be funny when it turns out like the guy who runs it is some like super woke crazy guy. | ||
| But that's fine. | ||
| You make a good product. | ||
| Carbonated water, grapefruit juice, orange juice, lemon juice, and hibiscus for color. | ||
| They didn't gotta mush those little bugs and put them here to color. | ||
| They put a little bit of flowers in there. | ||
| And hibiscus tastes good. | ||
| So we got the bill pulled up. | ||
| This is amazing stuff. | ||
| A bill to amend and reenact 1672, the Code of West Virginia, 1931, is amended relating to the prohibiting certain products that are injurious to health. | ||
| Yo, check this out. | ||
| Any drug or article of food shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this article, for the purpose of the article, in the case of drugs, if, when sold under or by a name recognized by the U.S. pharmacopoeia official at the time, it differs from standard strength, quality, purity laid down therein. | ||
| Let's just say blah, blah, blah in the pharmaceuticals. | ||
| They're basically saying, like, if we already think these things are bad, which includes heroin, blah, blah, blah, we're including that. | ||
| But let's scroll down, because it is actually, this bill is actually more pronounced than just dyes. | ||
| If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it, if any, oh, I should start with the food or drink, right? | ||
| In the case of food and drink, confectionery or condiment, if any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity, that's insane. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part of it. | ||
| So this is going to get rid of like certain, like this could actually get rid of certain seed oils. | ||
| If they're using vegetable oils in replace of dairy or something. | ||
| One could theoretically argue. | ||
| If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it, so like non-dairy cheese maybe, if it is an imitation of or is sold in the name of another article, whoa, if it consists wholly or part of disease decomposed, yeah, we get that, if it is colored, coated, polished, powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, Fine. | ||
| Or if any means is made to appear better or greater than the value than it really is. | ||
| It's interesting. | ||
| And here's the juicy part. | ||
| If it contains any added substance or ingredients which are poisonous or injurious to the health, including butylated hydroxyanisole, propylparaben, FDNC blue number one, FDNC blue number two, green number three, red number three, red number 40, yellow number five, and yellow number six. | ||
| They go on to add. | ||
| If it's sold under a coined name, it does not contain some ingredient suggested by such name or contains blah, blah, blah. | ||
| There's a couple in there that are pretty massive. | ||
| And it goes on to add, And then it adds, an elementary, middle, or high school may permit the sale of food items that do not comply with this section as part of a school fundraising event if the sale of those items takes place off of and away from school premises or the sale of those items takes place on the school premises at least one half hour after the end of a school day. | ||
| That's a ridiculous exemption at the bottom, by the way. | ||
| Regardless, RFK Jr. should be invited to West Virginia when the governor signs this, and he's gonna. | ||
| So this is statewide, right? | ||
| It's a statewide ban on all of these dyes. | ||
| And that includes tartrazine, which RFK Jr. did a big video about, which is coal tar derivative that they put in food. | ||
| And it's been associated with certain health injurious effects. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| 32 yay, 2 nay. | ||
| Is that legit? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Looks like it, yeah. | ||
| Wow, good job, West Virginia. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| Governor better sign this. | ||
| There's going to be a lot of big companies pissed off because they're going to be like, We're going to have to change so much of what we do to accommodate this food. | ||
| Do you guys assume that this is going to be something that other states are going to take up? | ||
| Do you think that the federal government is going to jump in on this? | ||
| Yes, I think I'd like to see RFK Jr. start lobbying Congress. | ||
| It's narrow and it's going to be tough because big companies, you're going to have a big cereal producer. | ||
| And they're going to lobby the member of Congress who's going to be a Republican because they're going to be in some rural place in Oklahoma and they're going to be growing corn and they're going to say, this is going to cost us an insane amount of money to make this change. | ||
| And that's going to cost jobs. | ||
| And then when these people are all laid off because you voted on this, we're going to remind them it was you. | ||
| And so you're going to see some squishy Republicans on this one. | ||
| But statewide, it's going to happen. | ||
| Well, I mean, Republicans... | ||
| There's a lot of arguments against it that you're going to get from small government conservatives, right? | ||
| Anytime the government says you can't do this, you can't do that, there are small government conservatives that are like, no, this is bad on principle. | ||
| Libertarians wouldn't like this. | ||
| I think that I actually saw Michael Malice tweeting about he doesn't think that it's good the government do these kind of things. | ||
| What, Banning dies? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Why? | ||
| I don't remember his exact— It's wrong. | ||
| I don't remember his exact right. | ||
| Well, I think the reason was because the government shouldn't be involved in this kind of stuff. | ||
| The corporations aren't entitled to the same freedoms that institutions are. | ||
| I am not going to argue Michael Malice's position. | ||
| You've done it. | ||
| Michael Labonte, you are wrong. | ||
| My point only being that there are going to be people that are going to make those arguments. | ||
| I do think that it's good to say, look, these type of substances, you shouldn't be using them in foods. | ||
| The things that Trump laid out in the speech last night, the instances of child cancer, the instances of obesity, I think it's 75% of America is overweight with 40 being morbidly overweight. | ||
| That's unacceptable. | ||
| There's no reason for our country to be like that. | ||
| And I do think that it has something to do with a sedentary lifestyle, yes, but I also think that it's the food we eat and the things that are put into the food. | ||
| I think that we should get rid of corn subsidies and stop having everything be made with so much sugar. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| I do think it's the Internet. | ||
| I think the principal reason why Americans are so fat is the Internet. | ||
| 40.3% of adults are obese. | ||
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That's disturbing right there. | |
| At ease. | ||
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We're late to the game on this, though. | |
| My buddy from England came over here and we went to the gas station. | ||
| He started looking at the different candies and reading the different ingredients. | ||
| He's like, we don't have this over in England. | ||
| It's a standard of living thing. | ||
| I think most people feel it's about time that we have the same standard of living and standard of health that European countries have. | ||
| I don't know why that's common sense to EU countries. | ||
| The candies in the UK, they're great. | ||
| Chocolate over there is awesome. | ||
| It's actually better for some reason. | ||
| The chocolate in the UK is better than the US. Oh, and they have the one that girls aren't allowed to have. | ||
| The Yorkie Bar. | ||
| It's not for girls. | ||
| You don't know about this? | ||
| You can't have it. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because it's not for girls. | ||
| Is there a black market for these? | ||
| Nope. | ||
| If you walk in and try and buy the Yorkie bar, they will tell you it is not for girls. | ||
| I'm kidding, by the way. | ||
| It actually exists. | ||
| And it's like a famous marketing thing that they did. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Yorkie. | ||
| It's not for girls. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| And there's a girl. | ||
| A woman, and there's a red circle with a line through it. | ||
| What's that thing called? | ||
| I've never known what that was called. | ||
| A cross out or something? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Did you say a circle with a line through it? | ||
| You know what it is. | ||
| And they underline not. | ||
| You were saying what the chocolate fill. | ||
| Yeah, so the food in Europe is great. | ||
| There's multiple places. | ||
| It's not like... | ||
| You'll notice a difference, right? | ||
| But it's not like things are worse. | ||
| Honestly, a lot of times you go to fast food in Europe and it's actually better, like the way that it's prepared. | ||
| And I think that has to do with the actual people that are making it. | ||
| But like in the UK, McDonald's is like McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken is Kentucky Fried Chicken. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| So it's not like it's impossible to make the things that we're used to without these chemicals and without these dyes and stuff like that. | ||
| It's perfectly possible. | ||
| And I think that, you know, it's not a bad thing for the government to say, all right, look, we're going to get rid of these things. | ||
| And at the very least, see what happens. | ||
| So I will add, the bill will go into effect January 1st, 2027. Which I think it makes sense. | ||
| Could you imagine if they banned it literally right now and like every store had to just dump all of these products? | ||
| But this is going to be nuts because all the food lions and what do we have in West Virginia? | ||
| We have food line in Weiss. | ||
| Weiss, we have Martins. | ||
| Martins. | ||
| I hear that they're doing a—this might not be in West Virginia, though it might be down in Winchester. | ||
| I hear there's a Publix coming, which I really hope. | ||
| Well, in West Virginia at least, all of these supermarkets are now—their regional managers are probably saying, OK, we can't carry any of these products starting in 2027, so we need to start weaning off of them. | ||
| They're going to start going to the manufacturers and saying, heads up. | ||
| Come January 1st, 2027, we won't be selling your products. | ||
| You need to get us alternatives. | ||
| And it could be crazy. | ||
| One of the things this might do, and this is crazy, West Virginia might see the emergence of state independent food producers. | ||
| So that is non-national chains. | ||
| You might be in Maryland. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| You go to Maryland and they have Pop-Tarts on the shelf in a gas station. | ||
| You cross the river and they have top parts. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| I think if this gets picked up by other states, what you're going to start seeing is grocery tourism. | ||
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Yes. | |
| People are going to travel to neighboring states that they know regulate food dyes and seed oils, pay a premium for those foods because that matters to them. | ||
| Based. | ||
| People who live in the tri-state area, which is Virginia and Maryland, I guarantee you, the hippy-dippy Loudoun County people are going to be like, we drive into West Virginia because they don't have Kellogg's, they have bell rugs. | ||
| And those fruity groups don't have weird dyes in them. | ||
| And you're going to see weird new products, and there's going to be a cereal called Slaps, and it's going to have a toad who's like, puffed rice is good. | ||
| Lucky yarn. | ||
| And it's going to be a British guy with a bunch of little shapes. | ||
| They should just donate all of the obsolete Pop-Tarts to me. | ||
| I will take them happily once this goes into effect. | ||
| The illegal Pop-Tarts. | ||
| The illegal Pop-Tarts are mine. | ||
| I call dibs. | ||
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I call the brown sugar cinnamon one. | |
| As annoying as the health nut stuff is, I feel like the health nuts are the new Jesus freaks. | ||
| They're just kind of... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't like the shift for crunchism. | ||
| No, but they're becoming like Ned Flanders about health food. | ||
| That's what I mean. | ||
| And this shift where crunchism is now a symbol of being right-wing instead of left-wing. | ||
| I noticed the change and it's a little bit... | ||
| They can get a little bit annoying and they can get a little bit preachy about it. | ||
| But aside from that, it is a status symbol to get health food nowadays. | ||
| Also, with the popularity of something like Erewhon, which is known for $70 smoothies in L.A., they also sell just normal groceries at an extremely premium price, and it's seen as a status symbol to eat healthy these days, and that's kind of a sad thing. | ||
| I want to know what you guys think of the EBT idea, banning... | ||
| Banning the purchase of artificial foods with BT cards. | ||
| I'll say real quick, though. | ||
| Quick tip for anybody. | ||
| If you want to find celebrities, stand in front of Erewhon. | ||
| And, like, good luck spelling it. | ||
| I don't even know how to spell Erewhon. | ||
| I've been there. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| But, like, you stand outside and, like, every ten minutes a celebrity is walking in and out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I saw Jake Gyllenhaal there. | ||
| And he did one of those things to me. | ||
| He said, like, hey, buddy. | ||
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I was like, oh! | |
| He's gonna get in trouble because he said that. | ||
| Oh, but this was 15 years ago. | ||
| Okay, I thought you were recently. | ||
| I was like, Jake Gyllenhaal pointed at me. | ||
| And Tobey Maguire pointed at me once, too. | ||
| That was cool. | ||
| I was in front of a coffee shop. | ||
| I was canvassing. | ||
| And I was like, hey, sir. | ||
| And he's like, not today, buddy. | ||
| And I was like, yes! | ||
| Tobey, Spider-Man! | ||
| That's great. | ||
| I'm excited for the... | ||
| I want Tobey Maguire in all the Spider-Man movies from now on. | ||
| Him and Tom Holland, they can be friends. | ||
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Oh, he was the best by far. | |
| Anyway, EBT, no artificial foods, based. | ||
| Well, some people were saying you're taking away poor people's freedom to have sweet treats. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| Yo, I lived in Seattle, and all of the people, like the government there, hands out cash to anybody who asks. | ||
| And so when I first moved to Seattle, I'll call it a long story, but my first work plan didn't work out. | ||
| And I had something lined up before getting there, and so I was broke, and I was looking for jobs. | ||
| And someone said, you should go to the Health and Human Services and tell them, and they'll give you a food card. | ||
| And I was like, nah, that's not what I do. | ||
| I'm not about that. | ||
| And they said, bro, have you been paying taxes? | ||
| And I was like, yes. | ||
| That's your money. | ||
| Use it now. | ||
| You need it, right? | ||
| And I'm like, sure. | ||
| And I was like, okay, just go and see what they say. | ||
| And I told them... | ||
| I just moved here. | ||
| I had a job lined up. | ||
| It fell through. | ||
| I'm currently looking for work. | ||
| And they handed it right to me. | ||
| Like, on the spot. | ||
| They were like, here you go. | ||
| I don't know if they actually literally, I think it came in the mail. | ||
| And they said something, you get like $114 a month, and you can only buy cold things. | ||
| And I was like, sure. | ||
| So I went and bought groceries with it. | ||
| The other people that I knew, it was, what did you think they bought? | ||
| They were buying garbage, candy bars, ice cream, just whatever nonsense. | ||
| The reality was, though, that's not the worst of it. | ||
| They buy a candy bar. | ||
| I'm not going to cry, right? | ||
| They were selling it. | ||
| They would stand outside of grocery stores and they would say, hey, what are you buying? | ||
| And they'd be like, I'm just picking up like milk, bread and eggs. | ||
| I'll buy it for you if you give me 15 bucks. | ||
| And so it's like 25 bucks for the groceries. | ||
| They buy it on the EBT and get handed 15 bucks cash. | ||
| Super illegal. | ||
| That's what they were all doing. | ||
| The whole thing is super corrupt. | ||
| And I think they got to be way more strict about how they do this stuff. | ||
| I ended up getting a job at a Pete's Coffee and Tea within only like a month or so after that. | ||
| So I didn't end up needing it. | ||
| And then I served tea and coffee to people. | ||
| It was fun. | ||
| People with enough time to run an EBT scam outside of the grocery store should probably do what you did and just get a job. | ||
| I don't understand, like, not wanting to have a job. | ||
| Time on your hands to just stand out there heckling people. | ||
| I wanted to do a job. | ||
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That's crazy. | |
| Look, there are people who don't want jobs, and that's crazy to me. | ||
| That's foreign to me. | ||
| Like, if I'm not doing something, I'm, like, listless and guilty. | ||
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That just means you're human. | |
| That's a human quality, I thought. | ||
| I think that it should be obvious that people that are on EBT shouldn't be getting junk food. | ||
| I feel like that's obvious. | ||
| I guess the issue was that they were like, what constitutes junk food? | ||
| Are you going to regulate the percentage of carbohydrates in an item? | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, is dark chocolate junk food? | ||
| It's got antioxidants and is actually considered to be a superfood, so maybe we allow dark chocolate but not milk chocolate. | ||
| And now... | ||
| Then you get into the weeds. | ||
| So they basically said, no prepared food. | ||
| Because then you're going to McDonald's and Burger King. | ||
| Just groceries. | ||
| But then you go to a grocery store and you're buying, you know, candy bars. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's jump to this next story from the Daily Mail. | ||
| Trump issues a chilling final warning for Hamas to release all hostages or it is over for you. | ||
| I would call that a death threat, but it's a president warning a terror organization, so it's a bit different. | ||
| President Trump put out another dire threat saying, Shalom Hamas, meaning it means hello and goodbye, you can choose. | ||
| Release all the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all the dead bodies of the people you murdered or it's over for you. | ||
| Only sick and twisted people keep bodies and you are sick and twisted. | ||
| I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job. | ||
| Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don't do as I say. | ||
| I have just met with your former hostages whose lives you have destroyed. | ||
| This is your last warning. | ||
| For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza. | ||
| While you still have a chance, also to the people of Gaza, a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages. | ||
| If you do, you are dead. | ||
| Make a smart decision. | ||
| Release the hostages now or they will be held to pay later. | ||
| Holy crap. | ||
| What do y'all think? | ||
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Cue the pro-Palestine protest. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| Yeah, this is going to give you so much new material. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I'm going to be working for months. | ||
| I mean, that's a good thing. | ||
| I mean, I don't know what this is going to actually turn into because I feel like he's made these comments multiple times. | ||
| Like he said, let the hostages go by the end of the weekend and let them go by this date. | ||
| Nothing's actually come of it, so I don't know what this means. | ||
| I'm not sure what kind of policy the United States is going to actually implement, and it's not like Israel actually needs the U.S. help to do anything. | ||
| They've managed to destroy Gaza without the U.S. being involved, really, so I'm not sure what Trump's doing other than maybe just doing a... | ||
| Kind of a placating kind of gesture towards Israel, maybe? | ||
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I mean, this could be powerful, because when have we ever seen a president make threats like this? | |
| I've never seen a president say something like this. | ||
| And I think there's some strength behind it. | ||
| You know, it might actually make Hamas think twice. | ||
| I don't know, but we'll see. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| He's already threatened him several times. | ||
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Yeah, that's true. | |
| I think they're just like, they're on the internet like, what more can be done? | ||
| They're hiding. | ||
| Some of them are probably in Qatar or Dubai. | ||
| They're not even in Gaza, so what do they care? | ||
| Do you think we're going to see Israel quote-unquote finish the job? | ||
| There is no finishing the job. | ||
| You're never going to end up with a population of Palestinians in Gaza that are happy with Israel. | ||
| I don't believe that at all. | ||
| That's not what finishing the job means. | ||
| What do you think finishing the job means? | ||
| I think he's saying Israel goes in and just wipes it out. | ||
| Wipes out all the Palestinians? | ||
| Not all of them, but puts them back under occupation, militaristically destroys all political leadership or whatever structures they have, absolutely flattens the grid, the economy, the structures, and then just reoccupies. | ||
| I mean, maybe. | ||
| Gaza then just doesn't become a thing anymore. | ||
| Yeah, I don't see a situation where Gaza is... | ||
| You know, returns to what it was before without Israel being in there. | ||
| Like, Israel got out in, what was it, 05 or something like that? | ||
| They pulled all the Jews out of Gaza. | ||
| They pulled all their military out of Gaza. | ||
| And then they got rockets for 20 years. | ||
| And then they got October 7th. | ||
| And so they're like, all right, we're just going to go and destroy everything and, you know, see how that works. | ||
| I don't see a two-state solution at all. | ||
| I think that it's probably going to be occupied by the Israelis for the foreseeable future. | ||
| I only see more problems unless they actually do remove the Palestinians and send them to Egypt or Jordan or whatever, but the Jordanians don't want them. | ||
| The Egyptians don't want them either, because it seems like everywhere there's a significant population of Palestinians, they try to take over the government. | ||
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The crazy thing, too, is you're asking, there's a larger population in Gaza than there is in West Virginia. | |
| So you're asking for like 2 million Palestinians to be moved. | ||
| That's a tall order. | ||
| What if we banned artificial food dyes in Gaza, and that started helping them with their health issues? | ||
| I don't think that that's going to do a whole lot, honestly. | ||
| I wonder if they even have access to that. | ||
| Do they have Pop-Tarts over there? | ||
| They do have... | ||
| Look, I saw videos of before the Israelis went in there and just smashed everything, and it looked gorgeous. | ||
| It looked like... | ||
| I know that there were things that they couldn't have. | ||
| No, there were some luxury areas there. | ||
| Not so much anymore. | ||
| They had luxury car dealerships. | ||
| There was a lot of stuff that was... | ||
| that it looked to me like a normal city on the Mediterranean I don't you know I don't know what the limitations were I know there were things that they couldn't have but I don't know exactly what those things were and all appearances were it was gorgeous and the the people of Gaza had relatively normal lives in Gaza it I don't buy for a second the whole Outdoor prison BS that the left in the U.S. has globbed onto. | ||
| That seems to me to be BS. But, you know, now it's just, you know, rubble because that's what happened, you know? | ||
| Because war. | ||
| My only concern here is I just really don't want to be involved as the United States. | ||
| Don't want to be involved in any of it. | ||
| And the only way out... | ||
| Don't want to pay for it? | ||
| Right, but there's no exit. | ||
| There's no door. | ||
| There's no way to... | ||
| Get out of it. | ||
| I think ultimately, and it's funny because basically everybody agrees on this, even people who are pro-Israel, there has to come a time where Israel can take care of itself, and that means we should be working towards that goal immediately. | ||
| So does that mean two, three, five, six years, whatever? | ||
| I don't think ten years, I think it's way too long. | ||
| But I think what we don't want is Afghanistan times 300. If we just said tomorrow we're out, goodbye, good luck, then... | ||
| We'd have a very, very bad circumstance, for sure. | ||
| But I think there's a reasonable thing in, you know, I don't know, between five and ten years of slowly reducing the amount of foreign aid to Israel so that they can start supplementing it on their own. | ||
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It doesn't sound like we want to reduce it, though, with Trump's grandiose new Gaza plan, which I don't know about you guys. | |
| I think he's going to have to bring transplants in because I can't imagine Palestinians working at restaurants and hotels that, you know, Israeli people are going to. | ||
| I just don't see that working. | ||
| I don't see. | ||
| I mean, look, I didn't I didn't think that they would be able to get along before October 7th. | ||
| Now, since October 7th, I don't think anybody likes each other any more than they did. | ||
| So, I mean, look, it's just going to be... | ||
| A future of animosity for the, you know, or the future is full of animosity for the foreseeable future. | ||
| I don't think anyone that's alive this generation is going to feel any kind of magnanimity? | ||
| Magnanimity? | ||
| Magnanimity. | ||
| Magnanimity. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| I don't think they're going to have any good feelings towards each other at all. | ||
| I think that this generation... | ||
| For both, you know, Palestinians and Israelis, I think it's pretty much over. | ||
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Yeah, that's why I think he has to bring in transplants. | |
| So who wants to move to Gaza? | ||
| Hell no. | ||
| Hell no. | ||
| Well, like, if the entire population was displaced and they secured it with the most powerful, like, there's nothing left. | ||
| It's flat. | ||
| And they started building casinos or something. | ||
| People might want to come there in 10 or 15 years. | ||
| But that's just, that's fiction. | ||
| That's not reality. | ||
| Yeah, you can't have the people that are looking to, you know, shoot rockets into their neighbor's backyard. | ||
| Like, you're not going to have people that are like, I'm going to go to Gaza and go to the Trump Hotel and gamble. | ||
| You know, I'm not going to, you know, Maragaza or whatever. | ||
| So that way I can gamble. | ||
| And then hope that rockets don't land here. | ||
| Hope the Israelis don't retaliate against something. | ||
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What if he gave you just a gold star condo in the new Trump Tower? | |
| Would you move to Gaza? | ||
| No. | ||
| Is it a casino? | ||
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It's a casino as well. | |
| Tim Kest, IRL, live from New Gaza? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Live from Maragazo. | ||
| Maragazo. | ||
| The funny thing about... | ||
| Mar-a-Gazo and Mar-a-Lago, when people were saying that, is that Mar-a-Lago means from the lake to the sea. | ||
| Oops. | ||
| Ooh. | ||
| And then when you have like Mar-a-Gaza, it's like, you know, from the river to the sea, you've got... | ||
| Awkward. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So what was the population in Gaza before? | ||
| But Mar-a-Gaza would just mean from the sea to Gaza. | ||
| What was the population number of Gaza before October 7th? | ||
| Two million. | ||
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Are you sure? | |
| I thought it was three. | ||
| No. | ||
| Was it two? | ||
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Wow. | |
| I don't know. | ||
| I can Google it, but... | ||
| That's massive. | ||
| It's like Manhattan levels. | ||
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Currently, it's 2.1 million. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| So it was definitely... | ||
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2.1 million. | |
| From 2.26. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
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Which I don't know if they can count... | |
| I was just wondering how many of our illegals we could ship there, theoretically. | ||
| But it wouldn't even scratch the surface, so never mind. | ||
| Like 50 mil, right? | ||
| I like how you think. | ||
| Have you guys seen the commercials from Kristi Noem? | ||
| She has commercials as head of DHS saying, leave. | ||
| She was like, if you are here illegally now, and we remove you, the American dream is over for you, and you could never come back. | ||
| But if you leave now... | ||
| We may let you in in the future, so do the right thing. | ||
| Yeah, just commercial saying that. | ||
| So the concern, though, is I don't think we would send illegal immigrants to Gaza. | ||
| That's silly. | ||
| They sent them to Ukraine. | ||
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Right. | |
| To replace the male population. | ||
| They've already introduced the bill to grant citizenship to illegal immigrants who join the military. | ||
| And then when war comes to NATO, they're going to say, I do think that was a large component of their plan. | ||
| That's why they're bringing a lot of young men and calling them refugees. | ||
| Because there were these bills to grant them citizenship if they joined the military. | ||
| And then we get war with Russia. | ||
| Guess who's getting sent out on the first boats? | ||
| It's going to be those who are trying to get citizenship. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, I don't know, man. | ||
| My bigger concern is just... | ||
| Do we actually want to be involved in these wars? | ||
| And I think the challenge Trump has is that Hamas probably knows we don't. | ||
| To be fair, Trump is dumping money into Israel, and he's not going to back away from that. | ||
| But considering his stances on Ukraine and other places, they may make the bet that he's got a limit. | ||
| Well, I mean, it's really the American people that have the limit. | ||
| And I think that even the people that are – that have a positive view of Israel, they don't want Americans going and fighting in Israel or in Gaza at all. | ||
| That is, I think the unpopularity of that question would be somewhere in the 80s. | ||
| That would be another 80-20 issue. | ||
| Like, there aren't a lot of people that are like, yeah, man, let's send Americans over to Gaza to fight for Israel. | ||
| No, no one's going to want that. | ||
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Nobody's going to want that. | |
| We're going to go to Super Chat, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, share the show with everyone you know, and stay tuned. | ||
| The Uncensored Call-In Show will be coming up at 10 p.m. | ||
| at rumble.com slash timcastirl for premium members. | ||
| So check it out. | ||
| It's going to be a lot of fun. | ||
| Not so family-friendly, but we're going to take calls from the members of our Discord server, and then we've got some stories for you that are not so family-friendly we'll get into. | ||
| All right, the deplorable Mrs. Drake Super Chat saying Greenland was named to trick people into going there. | ||
| After we acquire it, let's change it to Red, White, and Blueland. | ||
| Isn't it fascinating that Greenland is just ice? | ||
| Actually, what we should call it is what it really is. | ||
| Frozen hellscape. | ||
| Tundra. | ||
| We're not after it because it's not like there's going to be parties up there. | ||
| We're after it because it's strategically relevant. | ||
| Trump could offer the people of Greenland $1 million each, and it would be about $55, $58 billion. | ||
| So imagine if he said... | ||
| It's like nothing. | ||
| For the United States? | ||
| That's one USAID rounding error. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Right? | ||
| That's one month of doge. | ||
| So that's a lot of money. | ||
| But for Greenland and control of the Northwest Passage, imagine if Trump said, you don't even need a million. | ||
| You could say $200,000 and say $10 billion to buy Greenland. | ||
| Each resident of Greenland will get $200,000 from the U.S. government if you vote to join. | ||
| It's not going to happen, but I mean, that's something the government could do easily to buy it. | ||
| I do think that it was cool that Trump was like, look, the people of Greenland should... | ||
| You know, should decide their own destiny and stuff like that. | ||
| He followed up that comment literally right after that saying, but we're going to take it if they like it or not. | ||
| We're taking it one way or another. | ||
| One way or another. | ||
| I think that the impression that I got from taking it wasn't that the U.S. is going to actually just annex it, but it's going to be like, look, we've got a military base. | ||
| We're going to have military bases in Greenland because it's necessary for global security. | ||
| He's going to get money. | ||
| I mean, look, a million dollars. | ||
| Let's say he offered 50 grand. | ||
| 50 grand to each household. | ||
| And it was like 1 billion. | ||
| People there are going to be like, why not? | ||
| We get U.S. passports. | ||
| We get U.S. security. | ||
| We get investment infrastructure and hard cash. | ||
| I think Trump's going to win over Greenland. | ||
| Not a lot of people. | ||
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What we could do, too, to appease the liberals is we could call it Rainbowland to shout out to the LGBTQ community. | |
| Oh, and then we can send all of the gay people there. | ||
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Gays to Greenland. | |
| They're going to want to go there. | ||
| All right. | ||
| All the best parties are. | ||
| They can't be naked all the time if they go. | ||
| No, they're not going to want to go. | ||
| It's not that it's always cold. | ||
| In the summer, it's almost always sunny. | ||
| And what people don't understand about, say, like Alaska, Alaska has the longest growing season because a lot of sunlight. | ||
| And so they have massive vegetation. | ||
| Massive. | ||
| So in the summer, it's crazy. | ||
| In the winter, it's crazy. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| It's extremes. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| We got Man of History, says Tim. | ||
| Earlier you were talking about pizza and or food with the best ingredients. | ||
| If you're ever in the Houston area, may I recommend pepperonis? | ||
| Indeed you can. | ||
| Papa John's is the best. | ||
| And that is not me just saying, man, I sure love pizza. | ||
| When you look at the ingredients, Little Caesars and Papa John's are the best, but Papa John's is slightly better than Little Caesars. | ||
| The ingredients are largely the same, but Papa John's actually makes it on the spot. | ||
| They take the dough. | ||
| The dough is, it's like flour, yeast, and water. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And they literally just make regular and like salt or something. | ||
| And their cheese is legit. | ||
| Real cheese. | ||
| The sauce is minimal ingredients. | ||
| Papa John's uses like real ingredients. | ||
| Pizza puts Splenda in their crust. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Little Caesars is good, but they make them on the spot, but the dough is pre-made, I believe. | ||
| The crusts are like pre-made and shipped there. | ||
| Though the ingredients still are just like flour and yeast. | ||
| And then Domino's has a bunch of stuff in their crust as well, like preservatives or whatever. | ||
| Papa John's is the way to do it. | ||
| I'm a big fan. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We have a bunch of superheads saying F. | ||
| There's no sound. | ||
| There's no sound. | ||
| We figured that one out. | ||
| Thanks for paying to let us know. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Captain Winkle says, yeah, one of my chats was finally read about Ukraine and the cartels. | ||
| I even have the white cat T-shirt, and everyone thinks it's a portrait of my cat, Mr. Bunkers. | ||
| Keep up the great work. | ||
| Amo a ghost girl. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Amo? | ||
| Don't know. | ||
| Alright, let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| It is freezing on me. | ||
| Jonathan Velez says Byron dumped on Wu and Luna flamed all four sanctuary mayors today. | ||
| Pure gold. | ||
| Can't forget Mace slamming them too. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| Also, another interesting story we didn't get into was the criminal investigation into the Tate brothers in Florida. | ||
| And Byron Donalds came out in support of it. | ||
| I'm actually largely freaked out by it. | ||
| Because I feel the only reason they're going after him is because he's famous. | ||
| I get that he said a bunch of really awful things on camera on various shows several years ago about something he did years prior. | ||
| So you could make accusations against him, but there's something that's kind of just, like, by all means, if you committed crimes, go after him. | ||
| If he's admitted to it, then investigate those things. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I'm just saying, it kind of freaks me out that some dude, he flies to Florida and then immediately they're like, we have launched a criminal investigation or executing search warrants against them. | ||
| And it's like, whoa, like... | ||
| That's kind of... | ||
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I don't know. | |
| It just feels kind of weird. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| What do you guys think about that? | ||
| You think they should be doing that? | ||
| I don't think that an investigation is beyond the pale. | ||
| I don't think that it's... | ||
| Obviously, I don't want to see an abuse of power. | ||
| I don't want people to throw the guy in jail just because they don't like him. | ||
| He's said some things that people don't like. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| But he's also admitted to crimes on video and stuff like that. | ||
| So if they... | ||
| If they do an investigation and it's legit, fine. | ||
| So which crimes did he admit to? | ||
| He's admitted to... | ||
| I'll say this. | ||
| I've seen only a bunch of viral clips that people have shared, but the problem I have with that always is that people take things out of context all the time. | ||
| There's certainly a litany of videos of him saying things like... | ||
| Take their accounts. | ||
| Like, one where he said, don't let them control their social media so they can't leave you and they have to do whatever you say. | ||
| So he's basically saying, like, he puts women in a position where they can't leave and they'll do whatever he wants. | ||
| The issue, I suppose, is that some of the accusations made against them have to do with underage girls. | ||
| All of this is really, really awful stuff. | ||
| And so part of me is like, if a guy goes on camera and says he did it, you gotta investigate him. | ||
| I don't care who he is. | ||
| The other part of me is Florida wasn't investigating him at all. | ||
| And then he flies to the United States to do a podcast or whatever, and immediately Florida's like, get him! | ||
| And I'm like, nah, I don't know. | ||
| It just seems disconcerting, I guess. | ||
| But I suppose the real question is, I guess investigate the guy if he said it on camera, you know? | ||
| Said what, though? | ||
| What did he say on camera? | ||
| It's been a while since I've even kept track of this story. | ||
| This is the thing about the videos that have gone viral, is that he's largely talking about amoral degeneracy behavior. | ||
| Oh yeah, throw him in jail. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's how I feel. | ||
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Why do we need to even litigate, like, who, how old were they, blah, blah, blah? | |
| No, just throw them in jail. | ||
| Degenerate? | ||
| Gone. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I mean, that's legitimately how I feel. | ||
| I know I'm being a little bit tug-in-cheek, but, like, we should have obscenity laws and moral policing and seduction should be a crime on the books. | ||
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Really? | |
| And that's exactly what he has described himself doing to these women as a manipulation tactic. | ||
| Seduction. | ||
| I think one clip that was circulating recently, which is what you said. | ||
| I think you were off air when you said it was like the reason why he was kicked off Big Brother in the UK. Yeah. | ||
| The video of him beating that chick with a belt. | ||
| And then he said like, oh, we were just doing like BDSM. I don't care. | ||
| Go to jail. | ||
| But people have figured out that that chick is allegedly. | ||
| What does he call it? | ||
| His bottom bitch. | ||
| Like his favorite. | ||
| Vivian is her name. | ||
| She's since claimed on video that it was all consensual and whatever. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| But people have done the math and figured out that she was in fact like 15 in that video. | ||
| Again, don't care. | ||
| Lock him up. | ||
| Yeah, lock him up. | ||
| Basically, that's how I feel. | ||
| If you're being a degenerate and promoting that, I don't care what happens to you. | ||
| I'm not going to lose sleep over it. | ||
| The issue I see with it is that, at this point, the dude clearly is not going to be holding any evidence or have any proper in him that's going to be any evidence for any crime. | ||
| After the Romania thing fell apart, which is weird, how does the Romania case against him fall apart? | ||
| I'm pretty sure they didn't drop the charges, though. | ||
| In Romania? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think, well, again, I don't follow it all that much, but it's been a couple years now, hasn't it? | ||
| Yeah, I don't follow it that closely either, but I'm pretty sure they did not drop the charges. | ||
| But it has completely fallen apart to the point where he was able to leave the country. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's not going back. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I thought that they were going to extradite him to the UK because he also faces charges in the UK, and he's not there. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| So is the US going to extradite him to the UK? That is an ally of ours. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We're responsible to do that. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look, the overall situation for Andrew Tate is not looking good in general. | ||
| Like, he's got a lot of money and he's got a lot of people that have bought into his club and everything. | ||
| He says the most bizarre things. | ||
| So he was on PVD, right? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| That's why he's in Florida. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he said that the reason why... | ||
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I didn't... | |
| Admittedly, I did not watch the clip, but the caption said he claims men went to Epstein Island because they're not allowed to have multiple wives. | ||
| What? | ||
| And I was just like, does anyone hate men more than Andrew Tate? | ||
| Like, you just think all men are pedophiles? | ||
| Well, that and he said... | ||
| Sorry, this is supposed to be a family-friendly show. | ||
| Didn't he recently tweet that a man should have as many children with as many women as possible because then you're a conqueror? | ||
| And it's like, well, the Western world, the greatest civilization... | ||
| In history, it was built on monogamy. | ||
| Ghetto. | ||
| He just said something extremely ghetto. | ||
| All right, here we go. | ||
| We got the real hydro. | ||
| He's got a couple of good ones today. | ||
| He says, Tim, you should just become a Christian already. | ||
| You know it's the best path, and you already know so much about Christianity. | ||
| We're actually discussing this a little bit before the show. | ||
| The issue is, I don't believe in Christ. | ||
| So I'm not going to lie and pretend I do. | ||
| It's just not in me. | ||
| But I do think that the Christian moral tradition is the superior moral tradition, and I believe it is the most likely to lead to a prosperous and beneficial future for all of mankind. | ||
| But that's a logical system, and I, you know, we probably need to go—I need to sit down with Jordan Peterson. | ||
| That's what I need to do. | ||
| How far are you willing to investigate the question? | ||
| Because it's really all about, did Jesus Christ resurrect from the dead? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I recommend a book on this called The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. | ||
| It goes through the witness accounts and historical documents from the time. | ||
| And just argument by argument, I think that it would really resonate with you. | ||
| Or someone who feels similarly to you. | ||
| I grew up Catholic. | ||
| I think the first problem I had was the Catholic Church did nothing to actually teach philosophical understanding. | ||
| Of their moral framework and belief structure. | ||
| They took it for granted, largely. | ||
| And they did not explain it very well. | ||
| Which led to my family, well I should say me personally, becoming a teenage angsty atheist. | ||
| Only for a few years though, until I actually started reading about quantum physics and philosophy. | ||
| And then spoke with a few individuals and said, oh wow, okay, I do believe in God. | ||
| And I do believe that there is like divine will and things like this. | ||
| But I don't understand how that then confers to a mandate in the Bible or, like, that Scripture as the structure of what is true and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| So what I can say is I think that God is observable. | ||
| I think God exists. | ||
| I think God does play a role in the universe and on Earth, and he certainly does intervene in existence and creation. | ||
| But I don't believe—I don't know why I would follow Scripture. | ||
| I don't know that it's proven to me in any meaningful way that it is fact. | ||
| And I've been told throughout my life, just, you have to have faith in it. | ||
| And I'm like, well, to be fair, telling me to have faith doesn't actually ignite faith within me. | ||
| And I'm not going to lie and pretend it does. | ||
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What do you think you would need to see to believe in Jesus' reality, I suppose? | |
| Because history, there's a bunch of different historical documents that prove he lived. | ||
| What would you mean? | ||
| I believe he lived. | ||
| I think the political component of the story is of a great man. | ||
| It's fascinating. | ||
| I watched The Passion for the first time like a year and a half ago, and the message I got from it was deeply political. | ||
| I don't know that anything short of a miracle would change my mind. | ||
| I just don't. | ||
| I can see the logic in the moral structure and why I view it as largely superior. | ||
| The Constitution, the moral framework of the United States, the success the United States has had, and the vision we as a nation... | ||
| And the good people of it, not everybody, have for the world and what we're building and hoping to create. | ||
| I can look at the past and I can look to our plans for the future and say, I believe largely the Christian moral tradition has led us on the right path. | ||
| And its current structures, particularly the Ten Commandments, are the simplest way to explain the best logical path forward for a sound system that will bring us to prosperity. | ||
| I can look at other moral traditions and say, wow, they do really bad things we don't like. | ||
| And that is a bad thing. | ||
| We don't want to follow that. | ||
| But I don't know if it's ever possible to convince me of a faith-based system just to believe in it. | ||
| And again, I'm not going to pretend that you could. | ||
| If someone came to me and said, read this book, with all due respect, I'm going to read the book and say, that's a really interesting opinion from a guy who experienced something I did not. | ||
| Well, it's not a personal account. | ||
| He is a historian, so I highly recommend that. | ||
| All right, I'll take a look. | ||
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Do you believe in heaven and hell? | |
| No, not really. | ||
| Maybe 20%. | ||
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I do, and Nancy Pelosi is going to hell. | |
| I'm just kidding. | ||
| I want to because I would agree with that. | ||
| Pray for Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| No, everybody, I don't know if I believe in the traditional Christian's view of a heaven and a hell, but I think when you have conversations about religion with theologians, it goes from a more simple view to a more philosophical, expansive view. | ||
| And so talking with Seamus about it, The way he described it, and I don't want to cite Seamus, because I could be getting this wrong, and I don't want to imbue beliefs on him that are not correct. | ||
| But I've had people explain to me that the perception of hell as like caves with fire is overly simplistic, and meant to describe a phenomenon to people who were, at the time, illiterate or incapable of understanding. | ||
| And that what you're actually saying is that you will be separate from God and outside of his warmth, his love, his creation. | ||
| And so heaven... | ||
| Is an indescribable phenomenon of being with God and hell is without. | ||
| And in that regard, probably I'd agree with largely something in that respect. | ||
| Well, if Seamus said that, he would be correct. | ||
| It's probably what he said. | ||
| I just didn't want to be like, because I don't remember exactly what he said. | ||
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No, shout out Seamus. | |
| I share that belief as well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, but we'll grab some more Super Chats and we can talk more about this maybe in the Uncensored for a few minutes. | ||
| What do we have here? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Tao HK says, no, Tim, religion is a cult like the left that uses God to enact war for land. | ||
| I would say this. | ||
| I believe that, with all due respect, that is how I viewed things when I was in high school. | ||
| I am not saying that to imply that the belief itself is sophomoric. | ||
| I am saying that upon reading books on philosophy and morality... | ||
| And again, reading about quantum physics played a big role in this. | ||
| And that's all just really faith-based, to be completely honest. | ||
| I'm assuming these things are correct. | ||
| So I try to build things based off of what I can touch, smell, see and hear and interact with in the world and how I can make things work. | ||
| So I don't completely agree with that. | ||
| I do agree evil people will manipulate things to their ends. | ||
| So when you take a look at wokeness, you can take a look at things that are inherently good that are turned evil. | ||
| Fighting racism, I think, is a good thing. | ||
| It is bad that people mistreat others because of the way they look. | ||
| I'm not a fan of that. | ||
| The woke have turned that into an evil structure. | ||
| They've used that as a weapon. | ||
| Certainly, Christianity has strong and good moral traditions and structures. | ||
| The Ten Commandments are largely, I would say, a great logical system for a prosperous society. | ||
| And there are evil people who would claim to be divine or prophets or whatever to push people into dark paths to manipulate them. | ||
| Evil people doing evil things does not inherently mean that a belief structure or moral tradition is a bad thing. | ||
| So some religions are bad and have bad moral traditions, and some are good and some are the best. | ||
| All right, we got a lot of religion ones today. | ||
| Druish says, God created us with a desire for him and something greater than ourselves. | ||
| All of us try to fill it, but only those seeking God will accomplish it. | ||
| I do believe that there is divine mandate from God, and I believe that we must be dutiful to Him. | ||
| Probably largely because I grew up Catholic, but I don't, again, like, I'm not going to pretend that I read the Bible and said, wow, I believe this. | ||
| I just, it didn't resonate with me. | ||
| But I believe that there is a reason we are here, and we have duty and obligations that must be fulfilled. | ||
| And that's why I have large disdain for many liberals. | ||
| Because they live only for themselves in the moment. | ||
| And that's why also these red pill dating bro guys largely exist the same way. | ||
| Although many of them might be more anti-woke to a certain respect because they don't like how feminism attacks masculinity, they're still largely living in this world of everything for me and of me. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I reject that. | ||
| I think we exist for everything else. | ||
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I think the Red Pill guys are right about the symptom, wrong about the answer. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I particularly don't like the bang as many women as possible and have as many kids. | ||
| Western civilization was built on monogamy. | ||
| I know there's bad people who did bad things and they created divorce and there's no-fault divorce. | ||
| That doesn't mean that we abandon a strong moral tradition which helped build prosperous families and civilization. | ||
| Also, the guys who are saying things like, don't marry women because the state is bad and women might do bad things to you. | ||
| They might divorce you and take your money. | ||
| And I'm like, first of all, who are you dating, right? | ||
| For the Christians out there who are going to church and meeting good Christian women of actual moral virtue, they have a lot less to worry about. | ||
| And Catholics have substantially lower rates of divorce than any other denomination. | ||
| We talked about this on the culture war last week when we were debating, can the West survive without Christianity? | ||
| And it was funny because it was like, you know, the fellow who was making the argument against Christianity as a strong world tradition, like as a requirement, said Christians have comparable rights of divorce to secular individuals, except for Catholics who have like a ridiculously low rate of divorce. | ||
| And that's like fertility among Christians is only slightly higher than liberals, except for Catholics who have substantially higher fertility rates. | ||
| And so I'm like, you know, practice preach, man. | ||
| Anyway, let's grab some more Super Chats and... | ||
| Maybe we're going to talk about the religion all the time. | ||
| Real Hydra with another banger. | ||
| He says there is an app called Yuka. | ||
| Y-U-K-A. You can scan your food and it will tell you how healthy it is for you. | ||
| Tim, you talk a lot and forget you have a guest. | ||
| Sometimes. | ||
| But Yuka is interesting. | ||
| Love Doge says ban pet food dye. | ||
| Well, there we go. | ||
| Triton 54 chimes in. | ||
| Anyone else remember when a bunch of old white Democrats held up auction paddles? | ||
| Need no punchline. | ||
| The memes write themselves. | ||
| They do. | ||
| Track media only says SCOTUS basically ruled they didn't want to rule on it. | ||
| So it isn't on them to enforce anything. | ||
| It would be the lower court trying to. | ||
| Indeed. | ||
| And Alito was stunned. | ||
| He was like, what? | ||
| We just need to say outright, it's simple. | ||
| They have no authority over the executive branch to issue this ruling. | ||
| But, of course, Supreme Court is scared. | ||
| They are terrified. | ||
| Jonathan Westcott says, Careful, Tim. | ||
| West Virginia might raid you for having Pop-Tarts with artificial dyes now. | ||
| That'd be a funny bit. | ||
| We should do it. | ||
| The law passes and, like, SWAT kicks the door in and they're like, Where are the Pop-Tarts? | ||
| I don't know where they're at. | ||
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They're all in my mouth. | |
| They, like, punch a hole in the drywall and pull out just boxes and boxes of Pop-Tarts. | ||
| Those aren't mine, I swear! | ||
| Book them, boys. | ||
| Real Hydro, man. | ||
| You've got a lot of serious super chats today. | ||
| He says, most aluminum cans have a thin plastic lining on the inside. | ||
| We are made of plastic. | ||
| If you want to eat good, get chickens, LOL. Based. | ||
| True. | ||
| Did you know that it is impossible to be depressed if you have chickens? | ||
| I'm not a doctor, and I have no scientific evidence for this, but I have to imagine anybody who's depressed, who just simply watches chickens, could not help but laugh. | ||
| It's impossible. | ||
| Have you ever watched chickens? | ||
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You know, I haven't, but now I think I might have to. | |
| You have to. | ||
| It's hilarious. | ||
| They're so dumb, and they make funny little noises. | ||
| The hens, they go as they walk around, and they want food from you. | ||
| They're hilarious. | ||
| How could you look at them and be mad or upset? | ||
| You're going to sit there and be like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. | ||
| So you're not a dog person or a cat person. | ||
| You're a chicken person. | ||
| Oh, dogs are great too. | ||
| But like... | ||
| Dogs are great for different reasons. | ||
| Dogs are like loyal soldiers, you know, who will stand by you in your time of need. | ||
| Cats are pompous little, you know, I don't know. | ||
| They're pompous. | ||
| I love them. | ||
| Yeah, but they exploit you, but it's okay. | ||
| It's okay. | ||
| We tolerate that. | ||
| Chickens! | ||
| You know, we got a cat and we got a chicken right here. | ||
| See, we like them. | ||
| Chickens are just hilarious. | ||
| They're so dumb. | ||
| It's like you wonder how they can survive. | ||
| They just like walk and they poop where they stand. | ||
| It is incredible how dumb they are. | ||
| They made it this long. | ||
| But... | ||
| They're dumb. | ||
| Roosters have more honor than most liberal men and many conservative men. | ||
| He's talking about you, Kyle. | ||
| Roosters will sacrifice themselves fighting off a predator to protect the hens. | ||
| And you see stories all the time on X where it's like there was one very famous viral post that had millions of views. | ||
| And it was like farewell to the noble rooster. | ||
| He was fighting off a hawk that was attacking the coop and he saved his girls. | ||
| And Roberto, who is now going on, he'll be four, four years old. | ||
| He's getting old. | ||
| He's our king regent of Chicken City. | ||
| We had a moment a few years ago where the chicken coop was totally encased except for a small door. | ||
| The chickens could come out and graze in the little garden that we had. | ||
| And a hawk swooped down, and he yelled, alerted the hens, and all the hens ran towards the door. | ||
| He led them there and then stopped outside the door and waited for all of them to go in before he went in. | ||
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That's divine masculinity right there. | |
| That's the noble rooster. | ||
| And we call chickens cowards, yet chicken males die for their families on a daily basis. | ||
| And there are a lot of men. | ||
| You ever see the viral video where the flood hits? | ||
| And the dad jumps on the table and abandons his family. | ||
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What? | |
| There's a family sitting at a table and a rogue wave hits and water breaks through and the dad just jumps up and runs for it and leaves the family behind. | ||
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Terrible. | |
| Embarrassing. | ||
| It is so embarrassing. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| And then you have stories of a pizza delivery man who saw a burning building and ran in to rescue two children and suffered burns to his arms. | ||
| Because there are strong men out there. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Roosters. | ||
| They're a good example. | ||
| We call people chicken when they're cowards, but roosters are less likely to engage in cowardice, in my opinion, at least from what I've seen, than a lot of humans. | ||
| A lot of humans. | ||
| So, get chickens. | ||
| They're based. | ||
| Let's grab some more Super Chats. | ||
| Ben Jammin says, to those small government conservatives, it's safe to allow the Fed to ban poison from food. | ||
| Agreed. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| Fungus Among Us says, which side of the Pop-Tart do you butter? | ||
| Obviously the dry side. | ||
| You keep the frosting on the other side. | ||
| The butter's not going to soak into the frosting. | ||
| So Pop-Tarts are delicious, but they get the dry corners, you know? | ||
| A little dry. | ||
| They're still good, but when you butter a Pop-Tart, not only are you damaging your health, you're enjoying a delicious treat. | ||
| Let's grab a couple more. | ||
| What does it say? | ||
| What if they couldn't find Dems to poll because they've been deported? | ||
| Jimmy says July 4th, 2026 will be the 250th birthday of America. | ||
| It's 16 months away. | ||
| Let's have the greatest celebration ever. | ||
| We guys are planning for that. | ||
| Trump was talking about that. | ||
| He was in a big ceremony like every state would have a big party. | ||
| It's next year, right? | ||
| Yeah, 16 months away. | ||
| That's going to be boost during Trump's second term. | ||
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A fun fact, the average length of an empire, 250 years. | |
| Indeed, but the question is, how long has America been an empire? | ||
| Since after World War II? Then the next question is, does speed of communications increase the rate by which an empire will collapse? | ||
| So when we look back at all empires, their communications were all very slow and usually handwritten notes. | ||
| Until now... | ||
| One could argue the American – America, the United States became an empire after World War II with the creation of liberal economic order, but we have digital communications, so that rapidly speeds up social development, for better or for worse. | ||
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Interesting point. | |
| So could this be the end? | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| Maybe we've got 200 years left. | ||
| Some argue that we're entering the Roman Empire phase. | ||
| The Republic is dying. | ||
| But don't forget, the Roman Empire had 200 years of prosperity. | ||
| So, we won't know any better. | ||
| Trump will become Emperor of America, conquer Canada and Greenland, and subjugate Europe, and everyone will live in prosperity with wealth for 200 years until the empire collapses. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Do you guys see Gladiator 2 by chance? | ||
| No. | ||
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Great movie, but it had this one line that I thought was fantastic. | |
| He said, The gates of hell are open every day. | ||
| Smooth is the descent and easy is the way. | ||
| And he said that to the emperors. | ||
| I thought it was fantastic. | ||
| Oh, geez. | ||
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Yeah, follow me on YouTube at 67Kevin. | |
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