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phil labonte
The FBI raided John Bolton's house today over suspected classified documents.
So it seems like everybody that's ever been in the federal government has decided that classified documents are actually their documents and they're going to take them home.
So we'll talk about that.
Ghillaine Maxwell said Epstein didn't kill himself.
So that adds her voice to the chorus of people that have said the same thing.
We'll get into that a little bit.
Kilmar Obrego-Garcia has been released from federal custody in Tennessee.
He has not been, he's been sent to Maryland, but he has not been deported.
I don't know why, so we'll complain about that.
And then the feds kind of decided they're going to go ahead and nationalize Intel, like 10% of it.
I don't know that that's a good idea, but maybe it is.
We'll talk about it.
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william wolfe
Hey, Phil, thanks to be good to be here today.
First time, longtime listener, first time caller.
Great to be in the studio.
I'm William Wolf.
I'm the executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership.
We're trying to make Baptists great again, make America Christian again.
I want to give a shout out to my wonderful wife, Lauren, and my three boys, Evan, Jack, and Daniel, who I think are watching live at home right now.
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Awesome.
phil labonte
Thank you for joining us.
William.
ian crossland
And you spent a lot of time in D.C., like you've been deep within.
william wolfe
Yeah.
Years.
10 years in Washington, D.C., worked for three different members of Congress, worked for Heritage Action, and was a political appointee in the first Trump administration at State and DOD.
I say I did 45 for 45.
I was in for almost all four years.
Honor of a lifetime.
ian crossland
Good to meet you, man.
I'm Ian Crossland.
Happy to be here.
I am an actor, social media entrepreneur, been into social media since 1998.
I was realizing last night when we started doing, I started building email chains for my high school friends in college to keep us all connected through social media.
Then we went to classmates.com.
We got into Friendster.com, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube.
The list goes on.
Now let's make our own.
Libby.
libby emmons
I'm Libby Emmons.
I'm here from the Postmillennial and Human Events.
Glad to be here.
Let's get into it.
phil labonte
All right.
So we're going to start off with this about John Bolton from the AP.
FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton.
The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration National Security Advisor John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said.
Bolton, who emerged as an outspoken critic of Donald Trump after being fired in 2019 and fought with the first Trump administration over a scathing book he wrote documenting his time in the White House, was not in custody Friday and has not been charged with any crimes, said the person who is not authorized to discuss the investigation by name and spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
The search is seemingly the most significant public step in the Justice Department has taken against a perceived enemy of the president are likely to elicit fresh concerns that the Trump administration is using its law enforcement powers to target the Republican votes.
I can barely even say that without chuckling considering how they targeted Donald Trump when he was out of office.
They go on to say they come as the Trump administration has moved to examine the activities of other critics, including by authorizing a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe that dodged Trump, that dogged Trump for much of his first term, and as FBI and Justice Department leaders signal their loyalty to the president.
So this is, I mean, it's nice to see, right, if he's actually violated the law, which they're doing an investigation that's perfectly on the up and up.
It's nice to see that the Trump administration, the DOJ, is actually applying pressure to people that have been not just critical, but they've had questionable dealings with the administration previously.
Do you guys think that this is actually going to materialize in anything considering that Bolton himself is not even not under arrest?
Or I'm not even sure if there's anything more than just searching his house now.
You want to take it away?
william wolfe
Yeah, well, I'd say, you know, John Bolton's never met an invasion he didn't like until this morning when the FBI showed up at his home, right?
And really what's happening here is they're picking up.
This Trump administration is picking up on a former Trump administration Department of Justice investigation into Bolton's potential leakage, handling of classified information in his book.
I just have to say the irony is really thick because when Trump was getting raided and prosecuted for his handling of classified information, which he's a president and he can do, John Bolton said, well, Trump is very careless with this information.
So I guess we're about to find out who's really careless now.
phil labonte
Yeah, if this is, if I understand correctly, this is pertaining to like William Sully, his book.
libby emmons
Right.
phil labonte
That was questionable in the first place when the book was released, right?
libby emmons
Right.
I mean, there were some concerns early on.
This is something Jack Sobic and I were talking about today.
There were concerns early on in 2020 that when he released his book, perhaps he had used classified information to construct that book, which is called The Room Where It Happens, which I think is funny because he basically ripped that off from Hamilton because that's, you know, that's Aaron Burr's song in the show.
I love the show, but whatever.
Yeah, so there was concerns about that, that it had been leaked while it was still in pre-publication, leaked to the New York Times.
And there were also concerns that he was every night apparently taking notes from his classified documents at the office and taking those notes home.
So I think that it's, you know, I think it's certainly interesting to see what will happen with this.
There's also arguments to be made that, You know, maybe there are too many classified documents.
You know, this is something that we've heard Tucker Carlson say over the years: maybe there's too many classified documents.
But also, I was watching MSNBC today looking for something, and this woman was talking about how it's rich for Trump to be talking about classified documents since he had absconded with them.
And she didn't mention at all that, of course, there's the Presidential Records Act and the president can take classified documents.
And every president has taken classified documents.
I mean, there's even the Bill Clinton Sox case about how, you know, the president can keep classified documents in his sock drawer if he so chooses.
But yeah, I think that I think it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
And also, this is a case that this is not a new case.
So to say that this is an intentional political prosecution now, this was a case that the Trump DOJ brought in 2020 and the Biden DOJ dropped it.
william wolfe
That's right.
libby emmons
It's like bringing it back.
william wolfe
When Bolton's book was coming out, they made a pass at blocking it, right?
And it didn't go through.
The judge didn't grant them that.
But Bolton's book, not only was it incredibly negative towards the president, again, Bolton thinks something like diplomacy is a dirty word.
He'd rather drop bombs instead of have talks.
But this does raise the question of classified information.
Classified information is this sort of currency in Washington, D.C., right?
Everybody loves to get and leak classified information, and everybody does it.
I mean, both sides do it.
Republicans do it, Democrats do it.
And how it's going to be weaponized is a question here.
But Bolton is again coming face to face with the fact that no matter how much he wants to be, he is not and will never be the president.
And Donald Trump has been and is.
libby emmons
Right.
phil labonte
You know, you guys mentioned the overclassification.
I think that that's kind of typical of DC, if I understand correctly.
And it's because they don't want people to ask questions, or they at least don't want to have to answer questions.
So the more the bureaucracy can actually get classified, the better they like it because they can just, you know, brush off questions they don't have to answer.
And then if there's ever a time where their feet are held to the fire, they can just say, well, look, it's classified.
I can't talk about it.
You know, and it's not, it's not my fault.
I'm not trying to hide anything.
It's just that this is classified information.
libby emmons
They also pulled Bolton's security clearance, and they did that in January.
And so this government, this administration is tightening things up.
And I think that makes a lot of sense because how sick are you of opening some story from the AP or wherever else that says unnamed, unauthorized sources, you know, familiar with the matter who are unauthorized to speak on it?
And so they're speaking with anonymity.
Like this is something that, you know, when you're reporting on things, you keep looking at this and you're like, why do I believe you and your weird fake sources?
Like, who are these people?
phil labonte
Does this turn classified information or does the amount of classified information and how readily it's leaked by someone that just doesn't have to say their name?
Does that turn classified information into a currency?
Does it make it something that people can look at and say, well, I can get favor with this particular media outlet or what have you?
william wolfe
Well, yeah, not just a currency, but also a weapon.
Like Lydia was just saying, is that they can, I mean, Trump has been now in almost a decade-long battle against the deep state who have primarily used intelligence agencies, so-called classified information, falsified classified reports, the whole Russia gate hoax to attack him and undercut him.
And so, look, I mean, I trust that Bondi and Cash Patel are doing the right thing here.
They wouldn't just be doing this to try to get back at John Bolton of all the bad actors out there.
I mean, he's a bad one, but there's worse ones.
So I would assume they have a legitimate reason to pick up on this investigation.
But that said, it is nice to see the Trump administration going after the really bad actors from the first admin.
phil labonte
To your point, like, John Bolton, as far as John Bolton as a bad actor, it's really more people saying they have a policy difference, you know, different approach than John Bolton, who, yes, I mean, you made it clear that he's a hawkish kind of guy and he thinks that flexing American military might is the best type of foreign policy.
But that's different to someone like, say, Schiff, who was literally lying about Donald Trump, lying about what information was out there regarding the Russia probe, you know, lying to not just to make people think that Trump was guilty of something that he hadn't done, but to actually try to get some kind of legal ramifications on the president.
ian crossland
Along that vein, you'd think that maybe that classified information, if it's accidentally taken home, would be treated much less of a crime than if someone's maliciously utilizing it to, or using fake classifying something that's not real or saying they got, you know, do you think that the stuff that we've heard has been accidentally taken home generally?
I mean, we've got no, I don't know what the Biden and his family is.
william wolfe
I don't think Bolton does anything accidentally.
libby emmons
I think a lot of it has been people want to write their books.
Like Obama took stuff home to write his book.
Biden took stuff home to write his book.
This guy, Bolton, took stuff home, you know, probably to write his book.
And I think that's a lot of what it is.
When stuff gets like this is how this is how politicians get rich off their time in office.
ian crossland
Oh, selling secrets.
libby emmons
Million dollars.
ian crossland
If it's like slip in a box when they're carrying their stuff out and man's in their garage, that is like much less of a crime than someone that's used.
libby emmons
With Biden, it was boxes and boxes of documents.
It wasn't like just one classified document and then everything else was fine.
ian crossland
What was it with Trump at Mar-Lago?
libby emmons
Trump was, it was stuff that he took home.
But he was the president.
He has the right to declassify things and presidents take stuff home.
Yeah, that's like what presidents do.
And then what happened was the FBI, when they were framing up their case, they literally framed up their case.
They put in cover sheets.
They took all of this stuff and organized it in specific ways for their own purposes and took photographs of it.
They were essentially tampering with evidence to try and sway the public toward the idea that Trump had absconded illegally with classified documents.
ian crossland
Like they unsecured the evidence and then took pictures of it in an unsecured state.
Yeah.
william wolfe
Well, they staged it to make it look worse than it was.
So I think two points on the Bolton thing, Phil.
I think what's going on here with Bolton is not just policy differences.
It's that Bolton uses information, I think, in a particularly malicious way to malign and undercut Donald Trump in his memoir.
And in that sense, it's not just a policy difference, but it really is this ongoing and hopefully nearing an end struggle between the last gasp of the neocons who view Donald Trump rightly so as a repudiation of multi-decades of their failed foreign policy.
So it's not just a policy disagreement.
They want to try to put a stake in the heart of MAGA if they can.
And then the second thing I would say, too, is that, look, I appreciate that in many ways we're going tit for tat because we're either going to have equal justice under the law or we're going to have a two-tier justice system where only Republicans or only Donald Trump, you know, or only Trump's associates get prosecuted and persecuted for these things.
So it's good to see it going the other way.
phil labonte
So to your point about trying to put a stake in the heart of MAGA or what have you, or a fight between MAGA and neocons, I think that it's fairly obvious that the neocons are just going over to the Democrat Party, whether it be John Bolton or Bill Crystal or any of the guys at the Lincoln Project, they're all Democrats now.
And even if they haven't officially changed their parties, they're not just people like Joe Walsh.
They're not just Saying I'm a Republican or a conservative, and Donald Trump isn't a conservative, they're actually promoting policies that the Democrats promote, right?
And whether that have nothing to do with Donald Trump, right?
Or that have nothing to do with conservatism.
I saw Joe Walsh was posting about very pro-immigration kind of things, like he's wrong to deport people.
And when you're doing that kind of stuff as a Republican or as a former Republican, you're definitely not a Republican.
It's not even a Rhino situation.
You're actually aligning with the Democrats because you don't like Donald Trump.
william wolfe
Yeah, well, David French voted for Kamala Harris to save conservatism from itself.
That's whatever that means.
All of them are going down this path.
phil labonte
And so I think that it's more about trying to stay in the good graces of the bureaucracy in Washington than it is about having any kind of principled ideas that are conservatively based in conservatism.
libby emmons
Well, there's a huge sort of disagreement about what conservatism is at this point, right?
Because you have so, like, what's conservatism?
It's the idea of conserving things.
And you have a situation now where most conservatives are really opposed to the conservation of American institutions that have been so poisoned by leftism that they're basically useless.
And so the establishment conservatives are like, oh, we still, how could you say that there's something wrong with the Smithsonian?
It's like, well, it says whiteness is the root of all evil.
So kind of there's something wrong with it because it's racist.
phil labonte
Look, open your eyes to see.
libby emmons
Exactly.
But so I think that that is a big split.
And so the conservatives who are like, oh, Harvard is still amazing and it's still a bastion of American educational supremacy, which it kind of just isn't anymore.
Those conservatives are going to align themselves with Kamala Harris.
Those conservatives are going to align themselves with Forever Wars, which is how all of these places stay funded anyway.
And then the conservatives who want to actually preserve like American supremacy and American exceptionalism and want to make sure that the United States is a prosperous home for our children's future, that's sort of a different kind of conservatism now than the history of what we've had for the past 50 years.
ian crossland
You want to conserve American republicanism, Democratic Republicanism, in that you want to preserve the ability of the people to pick their candidate.
And Kamala Harris was thrust upon us by the industrial order.
You would say the Democratic Party is not conservative at all, which is like LOL, of course.
But if they call themselves neoconservative, it's just a fake word they're using to mask their behavior if they're supporting a person that was put into power.
Like the super delegate system in the Democratic Party is an aberration of our system.
We're supposed to select our candidates.
It is very weird.
It is very antithetical to the system right now.
william wolfe
Libby, I think you make a great point there, too, that ties directly into the Bolton thing.
And you can even see it in this recent back and forth between Chris Ruffo and Jonah Goldberg, where Chris Ruffo is saying, look, I'm going to use these tactics to subvert and destroy the left who have corrupted our institutions.
And even if it's messy, even if it's ugly, and Jonah Goldberg was like, well, what exactly are you conserving here?
And Rufo was like, well, what have you conserved?
Which is a great point here.
But I think the old school neocon conservatism would have said something like, even if Bolton misused, mishandled, was careless with classified information because of mu norms and muh decency, you just have to ignore it.
And Trump is like, no, if he broke the law, even if it looks like I'm quote unquote doing a little political retribution here, that's how they'll spin it, I'm going to do it.
Like I have the power and you don't.
And so I think it really comes down to this new class of conservatives reckoning with how to rightly and in some ways unapologetically wield power for the good of the country.
libby emmons
Sure.
And you also have a situation where Democrats under the Biden administration did all of these things.
They persecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
They put these men in jail, you know, and they went after who they perceived as political enemies of the Democrats repeatedly.
phil labonte
They went after Trump's lawyers.
libby emmons
They were over and over again.
In Georgia, didn't they indict like 19 people?
They claimed that the Trump campaign was like a Rico operation, that it was intended to be a criminal enterprise, which is absolutely insane.
They couldn't even get Diddy on that.
Like, that's ludicrous.
And so I think that what happened now, what's happening now is Trump is like, and the Trump administration, okay, you made new rules.
We're going to follow the new rules.
I wasn't in favor of the new rules as they were made under Biden.
I'm not super in favor of them now, but like, these are the rules now, you guys, you stupid idiots.
And now you're going to suffer the consequences of your own stupid idiot rules.
william wolfe
88 felony charges at least pursued against Trump.
Many of them dropped, but others, you know, prosecuted all the way through.
Dozens of his associates rolled up over the law.
phil labonte
He's not just associates, his lawyers, right?
Like in the United States, you're supposed to have your, you have the right to counsel, and they went after his lawyers for defending him.
That's right.
That's exactly.
That's really, really, that's kind of where it stops being about just getting people that they believe broke the law.
And they're literally punishing people for associating with Donald Trump, specifically, again, his lawyers, which is a constitutionally protected right.
You have the right to counsel.
And when the federal government goes after your lawyers and indicts your lawyers and accuses them of being part of a criminal enterprise just because they're defending you, that's going outside of what is constitutionally, you know, what's constitutionally legal.
ian crossland
You know, what really concerns me is that maybe this, not that this happened, but the potential that the Democratic Party or whoever did broke the law, incited, did these things, went after political opponents in order to incite the other side to do it back to them so that we set a precedent now that as this new world order is coagulating, this is how the order is going to be.
You step out of line, you're going to prison, whatever that line is, and I'm the one drawing the line.
phil labonte
That's the stuff that happens in banana republics.
Like that was one of the things that people are doing.
Yeah, like we heard about this, and you're right.
You're totally right.
Like, I agree.
That's what happens in third world countries.
The United States used to be above that stuff, but the behavior of the Democrat Party in response to Donald Trump, actually, I think honestly, in response to realizing that they didn't have a permanent hold on the federal government when Barack Obama, it could have been anybody famous that people of the Trump role.
ian crossland
You're right.
phil labonte
But yeah, the point that I'm making is I think that once when Barack Obama was elected, the Democrats actually thought that they had a permanent forever.
They were going to have a one-party system.
The Republicans were going to be a regional party, and the real game was going to be who's going to win the Democrat primary because whoever wins that Democrat primary was automatically going to win.
And when they realized they didn't, because Donald Trump won, they literally freaked out.
And instead of saying, how do we adjust our message?
How do we make sure that our next candidate is better than the Republican candidate?
How do we do this?
What they did was we need to use the levers of power that we still have access to in the federal government.
We need to use those levers of power to smear Donald Trump, do everything we can to put him in prison and make anyone that would try to run against us fear for their freedom.
Make sure that they understand if you try to challenge us, we are going to put you in jail.
And thank God it didn't work.
libby emmons
But they said, I thought that that was the goal.
They said that repeatedly.
You could hear it.
Joe Biden thought that Trump would be in prison by the time the election rolled around.
A lot of people.
william wolfe
Or somebody told Joe Biden to think that.
libby emmons
Somebody told him to say it.
I don't know if he thought anything.
Like he was, you know, poor man's a disaster.
They should have taken better care of that fella in that family.
phil labonte
They should have torn out.
william wolfe
I'm going to go back and disagree with that.
Just the fact that I don't think the Democrats did this to incite a reaction that would, you know, give them the ability to do something as a reaction to your action.
I think that this is how they've been fundamentally as a party for a long time.
They've been a post-institutionalist party.
They actually don't, they don't care about our institutions.
They don't care about the procedures.
They don't care about norms.
They pretend to, but they care about power, just pure naked will to power stuff.
And I think when Donald Trump ran and won in 2016 against all odds, it was a huge shock to the system.
And they said, what do we need to do to make sure that this never happens again?
And so they did everything they could to ensure that, you know, some people might even say they released a worldwide pandemic to get him out of office in 2020 and then the law fare and then the assassination attempt.
And so now he's back against all odds in office again.
And so I think that they are realizing actually for the first time that the tables are being turned on them and they're not 100% sure what to do with it.
So my point there is that I don't think it was they were trying to incite us to do the same thing.
I think Republicans are waking up to really, and Trump in particular, not all Republicans, it's Trump.
I mean, look at what happened when Trump got arrested in Georgia.
I mean, there were a lot of Republicans who didn't stand with him because a lot of Republicans were hoping that this actually was the end of the Trump.
phil labonte
I think that was him too.
It was a mix of hoping that it was the end of Trump, but also being afraid because there was a lot of people that had been Trump, Trump allies, that had already been put in jail and had already been through the ringer.
So I think you're right.
They were cowardly, but it wasn't just that they were hoping that Trump was gone.
It was that they were terrified of the Democrats.
william wolfe
Right.
And so I think we are finally realizing that it's much more of a no-holds-barred knife fight than we ever thought it was.
And Trump realizes that more than most Republicans do.
ian crossland
The liberal economic, it seems like the Democratic Party is the American vestige of the liberal economic order, which is essentially run by the British king.
I don't know who's running it.
The British emperor, I should say, because he's the king of Australia.
He's the king of Canada.
He's the king of England.
So he has a lot of kingdoms.
That makes him an emperor.
And the British Empire, they've rebranded in 98, whatever.
Now they call themselves a Commonwealth.
But it seems like they tried to use their imperial authority to thrust not only Kamala Harris on us, but just use power to destroy American will and scare us into submission.
And the people didn't.
Trump didn't bow down.
The people didn't bow down.
People stayed loud.
The internet allowed us to get our word of independence out.
And it's sort of like if we can, because what's happening is this new world order is being created in front of us.
And the British, people want top-down authority.
They want to make sure it's static and it's ordered.
And the American revolutionary system is chaotic in a lot of ways.
We self-governance.
You don't necessarily live like your neighbor lives.
And I think it's an opportunity now to kind of push American democratic republicanism on the world in a way that they want it, in the way that they see it is the best system on earth.
That's why Jeff Bezos was able to create Amazon in the United States.
phil labonte
I kind of disagree with that.
I think that different cultures and different people want different things.
And I think that Iraq was a good evidence of that.
Like we thought that, or at least the argument was made that when we went into Iraq, we would be greeted as liberators and that the Iraqi people would want and embrace democracy.
That did not happen at all.
And it's not because of anything that the United States did.
It's because the people in Iraq don't want that kind of government.
They don't.
And I think that that's something that's Around the world, the different types of governments that are that exist are largely because the people want it.
ian crossland
I think what the most important aspects of what I want the world to adopt is free speech, gun rights, and property rights.
phil labonte
Those things don't exist in the world because the people, like the people just don't desire them enough.
ian crossland
And they don't because they've never experienced it.
phil labonte
Once you experience it, there's no going back.
No, no, I disagree.
ian crossland
Jesus wouldn't.
phil labonte
Some people are different, Ian.
And not everyone thinks like a Westerner.
People are different.
People from different parts of the world experience life and the world differently.
ian crossland
In North Korea, for instance, Yunmei, was it Yunmei Park escaped, North Korean defector, and said, they don't have a word for love in North Korea on purpose because they don't want people to understand the concept and they don't.
And until she got away and she was like, what?
phil labonte
But that's not to say that you could go into North Korea and change North Korea into Kansas.
No, no, no.
Not going to happen.
ian crossland
But if they get a taste, you get a taste of freedom.
You get a taste.
phil labonte
I strongly disagree because like, go ahead.
I know what you was saying.
william wolfe
I was going to say, we tried to give the Afghanis quite a bit of a taste of freedom and 20 years later, they decided they wanted the Taliban back instead.
I mean, so Ian, I think what you're getting at there, too, is that the Western order, Western civilization, I mean, look, this is what I talk about, right?
Is the intersection of Christianity and politics in many ways.
It is rooted in and grounded in Christianity.
And even concepts like freedom of speech and ordered liberty and representative government, a lot of this is drawn from the Christian tradition.
You can argue to certain things from natural law as well.
But yeah, I mean, you're right.
I mean, I think like you give people like freedom of speech and property rights.
A lot of people will want it, but it is also going to be contextualized to their situation, to their cultures, to their history, to their religion, which plays a big part of it.
And I actually think, again, to bring this back to Bolton, like one of the failures of American foreign policy over the last many decades was this idea that we could just go around and sort of export Americanism anywhere in the globe.
It's actually, honestly, it's been one of the biggest hubrises of the American world order since World War II in many ways.
libby emmons
But you have, you know, we also have this big problem where you have so many people in the world who do want Americanism coming to America, right?
And then we end up with overflow here and we end up with a lot of illegal immigration.
So I think that there's certainly a lot of people in the world who want what they think we have to offer.
And that's fair.
But I think that there should be incentives for those people to stay in their own countries and make those places.
phil labonte
Do you think that people want the things that America, do you think that people want the liberty that America offers?
Do you think that they want the security that America offers in comparison to this?
libby emmons
They just like the stuff.
phil labonte
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
In comparison to their home places and the benefits that the government has, because that's my sense, right?
People that come here, they're not coming here because they are actually looking to become American.
And not saying that.
libby emmons
I think it's both.
I think it's both.
I certainly think it's both.
When you have people coming from different places in the world, everyone has their different reasons.
I think we have a lot of people who've come here recently who want the security and the stuff and the $3,000 a month for housing.
And that's a big problem.
I mean, you can't have open borders and benefits for everybody.
That's just not something that's sustainable.
But I do think that, I mean, as an American, as an American who grew up with the idea of American exceptionalism, my parents arguing around the dinner table about which of the two candidates to choose.
I believe it was Reagan or Mondale when I was a kid.
This is what they were arguing about.
Phil knows.
phil labonte
I do.
I do.
Absolutely.
Well, actually, there wasn't really arguing in my house, but I remember it.
libby emmons
I remember.
There was only ever arguing in my house.
But anyways, I definitely want America to be a beacon of freedom and liberty.
I want us to be, You know, I want us to have lots of cool stuff and opportunity and opportunity for everybody in the world who wants to come here and do something cool.
Like, that's awesome, right?
Elon Musk is a guy with a lot of vision.
He wants to enact that vision in the U.S.
I don't agree with all his vision, but that's totally not the point.
And there's a ton of people like that.
And I think that's really worthwhile.
And that's, I mean, that's definitely something I want as an American.
And that's something that I envision as something that's American that are like American values.
ian crossland
You're reinforcing my desire to spread freedom of speech around the globe because we can't have everybody come here.
libby emmons
It just doesn't.
I get what you're saying.
And I kind of agree with you, but not in a military aspect.
No, not in a military aspect.
Like if you remember, if you think about the Soviet Union, right?
Like people in the Soviet Union wanted Beatles records and blue jeans.
phil labonte
Cool.
libby emmons
Like get Beatles records and blue jeans.
unidentified
If you look at cultural exports are huge.
phil labonte
Yeah, but guys, look, you look at Europe right now and like the freedom of speech is being taken away from those people largely and not, I don't know if it's a majority, but largely with American imports.
With the consent of the people.
So it's not the idea, the idea that we can just say, hey, look, we've got this great idea in the United States and you guys should try it.
That like there's not a place on earth or there are very few places on earth that don't have a conceptualization of what the freedom of speech in the United States is like.
libby emmons
No, they don't have that in the UK.
phil labonte
I know they don't, but the point that I'm making is, hold on, the point that I'm making is most of the world understands and they have rejected that intentionally.
So this to my point, you can't just say, hey, you should have what you should want, what we want, because they basically, and especially in a global world that we have now, like we're not isolated nations the way we used to be 50 years ago.
The internet has really brought and made the world much smaller.
Most of the world at least has a conception of what it's like in the United States and what freedom of speech means here.
And most of the world has rejected that.
And some places are going backwards, like Canada, like our neighbor to the north.
Canada, the UK, all over Europe, they're going backwards.
libby emmons
And that is the reason to keep offering it culturally.
phil labonte
That's fine, but the point that I'm making is you can't make people want something.
libby emmons
Not at all.
phil labonte
And what it sounds like Ian is saying is we should do what we can to export these ideas, but we've already done that.
libby emmons
No, but we can't help ourselves.
phil labonte
That's fine.
libby emmons
We're going to keep growing.
We're going to keep getting bigger.
We're going to keep creating, you know, I think we're moving in a better direction as regard to our art forms.
You know, I think we're getting films back a little bit.
I think these things are going to move back in the other direction.
They're going to be a little less woke.
I think that's what's happening.
I have faith that that's what's happening.
And I don't think that those things are going to stay within the boundaries of the United States.
I think it's a terrible idea to go out there with our troops and go around and be like, here's, you know, here's abortions for Africa.
We're USAID.
This is amazing.
And you also had problems with the U.S. Institutes for Peace telling the Taliban to stop eradicating opium production, right?
Because they said that was bad globally.
So we have to get our shit together.
Excuse me.
We have to get ourselves together.
But I do think that what we have to offer the world is still paramount to anything else that the world has out there on its own.
william wolfe
If I could pull the, let's pull the camera back out and look at this.
libby emmons
Do you not think so?
Do you not think so?
william wolfe
I don't think I disagree with you, but I kind of want to maybe take a middle ground here, right?
Okay, so really what we're talking about is, in some ways, is the difference between the developed and the undeveloped or developing world, right?
So in the developed world, think like China, Russia, Europe, the United States, more or less, right?
So in Europe and the United States, everything you're talking about here, Libby, really is the inheritance of Western civilization.
Sure.
libby emmons
I'm a big proponent of Western civilization.
william wolfe
Yeah, amen.
And so when you were bringing up sort of, you know, like our fight with the Soviet Union, it made me think of Voice of America.
Like Voice of America was originally like a positive American propaganda thing that we were trying to kind of blast in behind the Iron Curtain.
And so as if you look at, you know, if you look at Africa, India, South America, it's not so much that those countries, they have varying degrees of like, I guess, there's some authoritarians, but there's a lot of free speech.
I mean, Sam Altman was just on a podcast saying that their biggest user, their second biggest user block for chat for, you know, AI is in India.
So India actually does have a decent amount of free speech.
South America has a decent amount of free speech.
Africa is a real mix, depending on what you're looking at there.
Where we're losing free speech is fundamentally in former nations that embraced it because of this virus of wokeness and progressive liberalism.
libby emmons
Did you see the thing recently where the guy got arrested for saying we love bacon outside the site of a future mosque?
There's not even a mosque there.
That's crazy.
william wolfe
Right.
And so it's like we're committing suicide.
libby emmons
How do you possibly not love bacon?
phil labonte
We put we we put we put up a video last night of people of the English flying the English flag and they're wearing masks in order to fly the flag of English in England.
libby emmons
Right.
phil labonte
Like they're they're actually yeah, they're actually putting you're looking at potholes and they're they're painting the English flag in potholes.
So that way the potholes get fixed because the magistrates will say that's the English flag that might offend people.
libby emmons
Meanwhile, the Pakistani flags, the Hamas flags, all these flags get to be.
william wolfe
So Libby, if I were to disagree with you on anything, I would just say it's almost a little bit too idealistic right now, because what what's happened is what we have actually exported around the globe for the last 20 plus years has been a global woke censorship regime.
libby emmons
Oh, I agree with you.
william wolfe
And so it's like problem.
libby emmons
Like to get actually exported that like crazy into the UK.
unidentified
Yes.
libby emmons
You know, Germany and all of these ridiculous places that now have like, you know, trans Nazi prisoners in women's jails like it's out of control.
william wolfe
So I think to get to what you want really kind of is we need to work on our America needs some me time.
libby emmons
We need to work on ourselves, but I don't think I don't think that we should ever like the fact that we have not met our ideals and met our expectations for American greatness is not a reason to discard them.
And it's not a reason to keep trying.
I think I am hopeful and maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm just a goofy optimist about this, but I am hopeful that the past 25 years or so since kind of 9-11, when we've really lost our way and started blaming ourselves for being attacked.
I think that I am hopeful that the last 25 years are an aberration and that we get our patriotic spirit back.
This is one of the only countries in the world where you go to it and like have like you wander down the street and everybody's got flags out.
You know, I mean, even in Brooklyn, when I lived in Brooklyn, like there were streets where everyone had flags out.
You know what I mean?
Like that's not common everywhere else in the world.
We love this country so much.
And I guess I'm really hopeful that this new administration has given me some hope, right?
I mean, we're getting a gift shop in the White House.
That's so great.
You know what I mean?
Like, I know that sounds silly, but that's such a glorious capitalist democratic thing that we're doing, a gift shop in the White House.
We should, how did we not have that?
ian crossland
Sometimes when we're in it, you're in it, you can't see it.
This is the first time.
libby emmons
But I feel like we're getting there.
ian crossland
I feel like when we're already in a position, it happens in this country.
This is one of the top political shows on the planet.
This show we're on right now.
And Joe Rogan, like that didn't exist, couldn't have existed 20 years ago.
We got bombarded with the global culture after the internet appeared, and then we suffered for 20 years in almost like American dazed idealism, like not really like what the guys in the 1850s laying down steel did.
We were just now on our computers just accepting what they did.
libby emmons
And we're not doing that anymore.
I see what you're saying, and you're making a lot of sense.
And I know that you agree with me.
william wolfe
Yeah, it's funny.
I don't really think that I'm arguing with you.
I guess I'm just, so I actually think that, okay, because you just think we need a little isolation.
Well, no, no, no.
Well, we're ratcheting up.
I mean, I think things really hang in the balance.
And again, I fundamentally believe that the path to the renewal of the West, of Europe, of America is, you know, sort of a return to the founding faith of these great civilizations of Christianity.
We need, you know, revival, repentance, renewal.
But I actually, I think that, you know, if it's Gavin Newsome in 2028, he's the worst.
This show could be shut down.
libby emmons
He is so terrible.
william wolfe
I mean, I think we realize that, right?
But it's like I told people, you know, so as a Christian, I believe in the sovereignty and of God and over all things.
But I was concerned as we were heading into the 2024 election because of, you know, I'm nowhere near the level of the people on this show, but just because of my outspoken, you know, political activism that if Kamala Harris won, you know, maybe one day in the near future, I would get a knock on my door.
Maybe not a knock, maybe be a no-knock raid.
Like that was a legitimate fear I think that I had.
And so, so Trump's won again.
And I think right now, what I'm trying to say is we're in this situation, the American political experiment, where for a while yet, still, it's sort of the stakes could not be higher as we ratchet back and forth.
Essentially, to get to everything you want and you want and I want, we need to put the left for the next 20 years.
ian crossland
In a way that they did it is not perceived because basically, I think when you say the left, I think of communism.
I think of the CCP as like the ultimate form of the left on earth right now.
So you want to, it'll come back to me.
unidentified
All right.
william wolfe
Well, we're going to jump to this story because we want to crush gay race communism.
phil labonte
There you go.
Fully automatic, fully automated gay race communism.
All right, we're going to jump to this story from the post-millennial.
Ghislaine Maxwell said Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
She, and along with literally everybody else on the planet, has said that.
Now, how true it is, I don't know.
But anyways, from the post-millennial, in the release transcripts from the Department of Justice interview with Ghilane Maxwell, whoa, said that she did not believe that her former friend, associate, and lover died by suicide.
The revelation was made during her Tallahassee prison interview with assistant AG Todd Blanche.
So you're going to tell us, Blanche said, what you believe, but just to, I want to make sure I understand, your basis for belief is kind of what you've read and seen and your knowledge of Mr. Epstein for the many years you knew him, right?
And actually, there's a third component, Maxwell said.
She went on to detail having experienced now the mismanagement and inefficiencies and total dereliction of duty at the Bureau of Prisons.
Okay, fair, okay.
So, you know, I want to, what I do want to do is be careful about is, you know, asking you to speculate because anybody can do that.
And I don't think it's fair to you or anybody else to ask your, ask you to give us your kind of opinion, Blanche said.
But do you think that the third point you say, which is kind of a failure by the BOP, there's been a lot of, there's an OIG report, there's SDNY investigation about that.
Do you, so you think he was, he did not die by suicide, given all the things we just talked about.
That, that's like what it's like.
libby emmons
I do not believe he died by suicide.
No.
phil labonte
Yeah, go.
And this is, this was actually written by Libby.
So why don't you take it in?
libby emmons
I don't even know I wrote it.
It doesn't have to be.
phil labonte
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
That's the tweet.
My bad.
My apologies.
libby emmons
I did write it.
phil labonte
Okay, well, then go ahead.
william wolfe
Just outed your silly.
Joxed yourself live.
phil labonte
So go ahead and outline what the, what, you know, what, do you think that she's, she's being fulsome?
Do you think that she's actually telling the truth?
Or do you think that this is just her trying to get in the good graces of Donald Trump because she wants a pardon?
libby emmons
Well, she said that she didn't think he killed himself in part because it cost $25 in commissary to stage a hit on somebody in prison.
phil labonte
Oh, okay.
libby emmons
If you read all the way down, which is, that's what she said, which I think that's a problem, if that's what we have going on in prison.
$25 in commissary, not even like gold or something, but like that's cheap.
That's cheap for a hit.
Yeah, it is.
I think a lot of people don't think that Epstein killed himself.
And I think it's sort of interesting that now we have Cash Patel saying that Epstein definitely killed himself.
You have Keelan Maxwell saying she doesn't think that he did.
You have a lot of people who still think that he didn't.
And I think this is a situation where we're never going to really know anything ever.
She also said in this interview that she never saw Trump do anything untoward, that he was always a gentleman, that he didn't do anything inappropriate with Masseus or anybody else.
And I do believe that that's true.
And I do believe that she believes that he didn't kill himself.
ian crossland
She ran a criminal sex trafficking ring for young women.
Why would you believe anything she said?
libby emmons
I don't necessarily, I believe, I would believe that Trump didn't do anything wrong, whether she said it or not.
ian crossland
Oh, you just are convinced of it?
libby emmons
Yeah, I don't think that he did anything wrong.
ian crossland
Oh my gosh.
I've seen pictures of him at parties with his arms around ladies with Epstein.
libby emmons
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that he, I don't think that he got with underage girls.
I don't think he got with underage girls.
I don't think that.
Do I think he was an international playboy doing whatever he wanted?
Yeah.
But I don't think that he, you know, I don't think that he put his hands on a 17-year-old's boob.
I don't think that he, you know, had sex with underage girls.
I don't think that.
ian crossland
I don't think it, but I don't think he didn't.
unidentified
I just don't think that.
libby emmons
I don't think that he did.
william wolfe
Well, you know, to your point, Libby, look, when all this story was breaking recently in the news, I was thankful that I'm not one of those people who has like staked my career or my credibility on the Epstein.
On having a position.
I've hardly ever commented on it.
Obviously, it's a massive issue.
I think, though, that it concerns me.
And I'm not saying you're wrong.
I'm not arguing with you, but that will never know the truth.
Yeah.
I would like to think we can know the truth on this either way in one way, shape, or form.
But I don't know.
libby emmons
They won't release the courts won't allow the release of any of the grand jury testimony.
Yeah, that was you have, they've repeatedly refused to do that.
And this is from super lefty courts in New York State that won't release it.
You have the Maxwell testimony, like everything that the DOJ has had in their possession to release other than like, you know, child porn.
They have, they have released a lot of stuff.
ian crossland
How come they didn't release the testimony?
libby emmons
The court refused to release the testimony.
william wolfe
Well, did you know what the reasoning was?
libby emmons
I don't know.
william wolfe
Yeah.
libby emmons
Yeah.
I mean, but the DOJ has asked the courts repeatedly release the grand jury testimony, and the courts have said, no, we don't see a reason to do that.
william wolfe
Yeah, I do, I do wonder what Maxwell's play here is, too.
Like, I certainly wouldn't, I wouldn't necessarily trust her.
I realize, look, I mean, I'm a big fan of Donald Trump.
I understand that that statement here looks good for Trump, right?
But I fundamentally wouldn't trust her.
And I mean, this, the underlying issue of this is such a wretched, like, moral issue.
Like, I do want to see, I want to see people held accountable for what happened to these girls and who's behind it.
I think we need to know.
I mean, I don't know if that requires leaking classified information.
unidentified
I don't know.
william wolfe
But, you know, I think, and I think the, I will say this, as I've watched all this unfold, if we can't get to the truth on this, like, it just really just continues to undermine the credibility and public trust in the American judicial system.
That's really what's happening.
libby emmons
I think there's concerns for it, sure, concerns about it for sure.
But I do think that, I do think that the Trump administration is trying to do, I think they're trying to release everything that they're able to release.
ian crossland
They sent the Trump administration sent someone to talk to Maxwell, and then she came out with this statement.
Trump never did anything untoward.
And then she got moved to a minimum security prison.
It just seems like a favor.
libby emmons
It does.
She did get moved, but she hasn't got a pardon.
ian crossland
Just seems like a political favor.
Like she said, but then she said he didn't kill himself, which flies in the face of Cash Patel.
So they're like, you can say that part, but then say something nice about Trump and we'll move you to minimum in theory.
phil labonte
I think what she said is, I think that what she was saying is an inference, though, right?
She's inferring that he didn't.
She doesn't have any actual evidence.
libby emmons
She said she believes that he did not.
phil labonte
So she's saying, because of what I know of him and what I've seen in the prison here, and I know that you can get someone killed for $25 worth of commissary stuff, that I think because of all of those things, I think that he didn't kill himself.
So this isn't like she has some kind of statement of belief.
Yeah, it wasn't a statement.
It's not like she has some kind of information that people, you know, that evidentiary assumption.
Yeah, it's not like there's some kind of information that the general public doesn't have.
This is just her saying, I know Jeffrey.
Jeffrey was state of mind at the time.
You know, I knew him.
And because I know what the, how much of a mess the correctional institutions are, this makes me believe that he did not kill himself.
But it's not actually like some kind of concrete statement that you could say, well, look, that's proof.
It's not proof.
It's just her inference, you know?
So even still, I don't think that, you know, whatever, I think whatever people have as a preconception, that's what they're going to fall back on with this, right?
They're going to say, okay, well, so she's saying that Donald Trump didn't do anything.
I hate Donald Trump.
So the reason she's saying Donald Trump didn't do anything is because Donald Trump, she wants a pardon from Donald Trump.
So that makes me believe even more strongly that Donald Trump did something bad.
And if you think that Donald Trump didn't do anything, you're going to say, well, she's a liar.
So I don't think Donald Trump did anything.
Like Libby said, I don't think Donald Trump did anything anyways.
I didn't think anything that he did anything in the first place.
She's a liar.
So, you know, I don't think that, you know, I don't think that Donald Trump did anything.
I don't think that any of the information that she's giving out is actually of any value beyond, you know, beyond just information coming out.
Like, I don't think that it's going to change any minds.
No one's going to hear this and say, okay, that for me, that's the piece of information that makes me change my mind.
I don't think, I don't, I think this changes zero minds.
libby emmons
Yeah, I think that's true.
ian crossland
Except what makes what has changed is that I thought she was going to be in prison for life and treated poorly.
libby emmons
It was 20 years.
She got 20 years.
ian crossland
20 years and treated poorly for running the sex trafficking operation, but they just moved her to minimum security and she said something nice about Donald Trump.
So like if she had said, oh, yeah, he had his hands all over under each woman, she would never get a pardon.
Now she might because she.
libby emmons
I don't think she's going to get a pardon.
phil labonte
Do we maybe end of the bank at the door when he's running out?
unidentified
Right.
libby emmons
Maybe the autopen at the last minute.
ian crossland
She ran that operation.
Epstein was one of her boys.
libby emmons
Right.
phil labonte
But when you say ran that operation, do you think that the operation means that she was bringing young girls for all the people that were going to Epstein Island?
ian crossland
Or do you think that it was just I don't know, but she was the one at the center.
This is according to people that were around them, like the set heels that Maria Farmer, I think, would talk like Ghee Lane was at the middle in this bubble and everyone was kind of revolving around Ghee Lane and this was like her brothel or whatever.
phil labonte
Okay.
Well, I mean, there's other people that she's actually cleared or said that didn't do anything.
She said that Clinton hadn't gone to the island, I believe, is what she said, correct?
libby emmons
Yeah, I think that's right.
phil labonte
Yeah.
So, I mean, there's other people that she's, you know, made, you know, said things about.
And again, it flies in the face of what people kind of already thought because everyone kind of already thought that Bill Clinton was a dirty old man and had done dirty old man things on Epstein Island.
And that's why there's a picture of him in a dress on Epstein.
In that blue dress, the blue dress that's at Epstein Island.
ian crossland
You were saying that you wonder if we'll ever get to the bottom of it.
And I sort of, I don't, I don't want to.
It's like I don't want to go poke the bear.
william wolfe
Yeah, I mean, I think, well, like, I mean, when you get onto this subject, we can talk about Trump.
We can talk about Clinton.
We can talk about, you know, Epstein himself.
But I mean, really, like, just sort of what weighs heavy on me is like the actual people who were victimized and trafficked.
Right.
And then what this sort of speaks to is like, can we, is there a two-tier justice system, not just in our country, but in our world globally?
I mean, there are other parties and agencies involved with this.
So it's like, do the rich and famous and politically powerful get to abuse anybody they want to with no justice or not?
And so, yeah, I mean, that's why I want to get, I, I, I kind of always have this instinct, this desire for justice to get to the bottom of something, you know, because I either there's justice for everyone or there's justice for no one.
phil labonte
Well, I mean, look, this is.
libby emmons
I don't think that's true.
william wolfe
Oh, yeah.
libby emmons
That there's justice for everyone or there's justice for no one.
I think that there's a lot of places in the world where there's justice for no one at all.
And I think there's a lot of places in the world where there's justice for some.
You know, I mean, there's, there are varying degrees of what people get served justice.
Like this woman who was just released, she was the wife of a Tory counselor in the UK.
And she had said something untoward about migrants after the Southport stabbings.
And she was in prison.
She was in prison for like, what, like a year or something, a year and a week, I think, something like that.
That doesn't seem just at all.
ian crossland
And then even in sister.
libby emmons
There's definitely some.
william wolfe
I think what I was trying to say is like sort of the idea that like everybody counts or like nobody counts.
phil labonte
Well, I mean, there's nothing like the idea that the rich and powerful get away with all kinds of things.
That's, I mean, that's as old as human society.
libby emmons
Yeah, King, wasn't it King?
Yeah, it's not good, though.
He made his own church.
ian crossland
Henry VIII.
phil labonte
Yeah, what was the cut off two of his heads, two wives' heads or something?
ian crossland
There's the genetic argument, and it's kind of a hard one to have, but a poor, a malnourished human that gives birth to malnourished children over generations produces arguably stupidity or like can lead towards producing stupidity in the brain.
And those people can't run, they have a hard time running corporations and endeavors.
And so they're relegated to the slave class or the plebs, these people that eat bread, and they don't have nutrition.
And then this other class of people has been feasting off of all the nutrient and education, and they know how to run things.
And so they've elevated themselves to this other class.
And that's how it's been since the Roman Empire, at the very least, since kings and subjects and even the people at the top will like Stalin.
He'll kill off his other people at the top eventually.
Like the justice fails, you know.
phil labonte
To your point, William.
And like, I agree.
Like, it's not a good thing.
I'm just saying that it's about as normal as any other human traits or any other phenomena that happens with human beings.
And again, yes.
And to be honest with you, the United States, for a long time, I think that the United States probably had the best record about that.
There was a long time where I think you could actually get a certain amount of justice for people, even powerful people that have broken the law.
But I think that has broken down now.
I think that the politically connected are largely insulated from justice.
But at the same time, I say that, but Epstein did die in prison, and there were very few people that were as connected as Epstein was.
So, yes, I do think that it's very common for wealthy people to get away with whatever they're doing.
And I think that's largely because they have the resources to hire the best lawyers and stuff like that.
But it's not all the time because, again, Epstein was in prison when he died.
william wolfe
Yeah, but why was that if Epstein was killed in prison?
I mean, sure, you could take that as a measure of justice, but if that is what happened, who was being protected by having Epstein killed?
phil labonte
So I don't know, but the point that I'm making is, again, Epstein had, you know, ample resources and he still ended up in prison.
You know, so it's like there is some amount of our system does, you know, does put wealthy people in prison.
And Epstein was probably going to be in prison for the rest of his life.
Ghillain going to jail for 20 years.
Like she may not be there the rest of her life, but she's going to be super old when she gets out, barring some kind of pardon.
So the only point that I'm making is, yes, I agree it's a bad thing.
And I still think that the United States and our system of justice is better than most in the world and might even be better than anywhere else in the world.
ian crossland
It seems like when our political elite started getting this untouchability factor was around when the liberal economic order started after World War II, like because of the heavy British influence, like the kings, you cannot put them in jail because they own everything and they make all the law.
Their word is the law.
Now we're stuck with that.
phil labonte
So would you say that Epstein was not politically well connected?
ian crossland
He was, but he was scapegoated.
I think he was scapegoated and put down to blame everything on him and shut it up.
phil labonte
So you think that there were other people that were involved in the illegal goings-on on his Les Wexner was friends like with his Victoria Secret people.
ian crossland
Apparently, it would come and go and they're like young models, young models.
Ghylaine Maxwell now getting moved to minimum security, really?
I mean, not that she's a threat, but like she's at the top of a global child sex trafficking ring.
You wouldn't think she'd be put in a minimum security prison a year after she got arrested.
It's kind of, I think Epstein got all the blame.
They wanted him to take all the blame.
Not that he's getting all the blame, but they want him, they put him down.
And everyone loves calling it the Epstein files.
But like, I mean, Ghylaine's dad, I don't want to even talk.
This is such a dangerous conversation to have.
phil labonte
But why is it dangerous?
william wolfe
It's very dangerous.
ian crossland
It's because I don't, because a million people are listening, and I don't want to say something that's not true and put wrong things in people's minds.
Well, people will be seeing this for years after.
Nice.
phil labonte
We say things that are wrong all the time.
So just rely on the fact that you're not saying that you say that just rely on the fact that it's opinion and speak your mind.
ian crossland
I think that every once in a while, like Prince Andrew, it's hard not to scapegoat.
I mean, they kind of like, I don't know what exactly he is with the British Empire, but there are instances where people in power will get thrown under the bus or just like Weinstein.
libby emmons
They checked him under the bus.
ian crossland
Weinstein.
unidentified
That was the movie mogul, Miramax.
ian crossland
Oh, yeah, yeah.
They hit him hard.
libby emmons
Yeah, he's still in jail.
ian crossland
And in royal families, you know, if a brother, I mean, to the point where a king will kill his brother so his brother doesn't usurp his kingdom, you know, it's horrible.
phil labonte
I just think that's the thing.
serge du preez
That interview was such an unforced error, though.
Like, he didn't need to get that interview.
ian crossland
Which interview?
serge du preez
The interview that he, I forget who was there.
phil labonte
Candace interviewed him.
serge du preez
Yeah, I think it was Candace, but that was such an unforced error.
Like, bro, did not need to do that, and he totally threw him out of the bus.
libby emmons
You didn't think that was.
Oh, okay.
I thought you were talking about the wine standard.
serge du preez
No, no, no.
No, Prince.
ian crossland
I think that that's what they thought about Epstein, too.
He didn't need to blow the lid off that thing.
And he was just careless.
And they're like, take him down.
Put it, get him out of here.
phil labonte
Yeah, I don't know that I, I mean, I don't know that I have a strong opinion as to how many people that Epstein was schmoozing with were actually involved in criminal activity.
It's possible that there were some.
I don't think that everybody that was schmoozing with Epstein was also involved in criminal activity.
I don't think that, you know, if you got a, if there was a picture taken with you and Epstein, that means that you were involved in criminal activity.
I straight up, straight up do not think that Stephen Hawking was diddling little girls like that dude.
libby emmons
He was beaten up by his wife.
phil labonte
It was in the chair, really.
Poor guy.
But yeah, so I do think that there were people that were associates of Epstein or took pictures with Epstein that were not involved in criminal activity.
And sure, there are probably people that were, but I don't know to the extent as well.
ian crossland
It was all those people that got stuck in it.
And all of a sudden, the 17-year-old's touching them inappropriately.
And then that could be considered illegal.
And they're like, they don't even know she's 17.
Yeah, those guys aren't criminals.
serge du preez
Yeah, that's the idea between it being on a honeypot operation for like, you know, for intelligence operations.
They'd get somebody on something like that.
So the girl that doesn't look like she's 17, but she is.
And then they can go, oh, well, she was actually 15 years old and you had no idea.
It's like, oh, she told me she was 19.
That doesn't matter at that point because the news has already run around the world three times.
That's what's the argument for her.
william wolfe
Two points.
One, Alex Jones is right, right?
There's like global time.
Global satanic pedophiles running a lot of stuff at the highest levels of international governments around the world.
And then the second thing I would say on this, too, again, because this is not an issue that I've like staked a lot of like interest in or commentary on other than watching it unfold.
But I do want to share a Bible verse because I think it's really applicable here.
This is Luke 8:17.
For there's nothing hidden that will not be disclosed and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.
ian crossland
I mean, that sounds like the apocalypse.
Like AI is going to take everyone's emails and everyone's videos and everyone's hard drives and they're going to make them all public at once.
phil labonte
You're going to offend the Christians.
ian crossland
I think that that's the great revealment of nothing, there are no secrets.
I think that might be coming.
The AI is going to snap and make everyone's everything public.
william wolfe
Well, I think Luke's actually talking about judgment at the end of all time.
unidentified
But you're both on the same page.
ian crossland
I got a question for you as a holy man.
libby emmons
It's the end times.
ian crossland
What aspect of this global cabal is satanic?
phil labonte
Ian's not on the same page.
ian crossland
Well, I'm just turning to page.
unidentified
I'm not turning page.
ian crossland
Let's go to page three.
What's satanic about it?
william wolfe
Yeah, I mean, that's a good question.
libby emmons
Satanic about what?
ian crossland
The global cabal, the pedophile rings that we're talking about.
Like, what's satanic?
Because I hear that term satanic come up.
Regards.
william wolfe
Wait, Phil, why is that funny?
phil labonte
Yeah, Ian's my favorite person.
He's hilarious.
ian crossland
He's denial.
serge du preez
Have you seen the WEF, like their like their crazy, like, I guess you call them rituals, like with Klaus Schwab?
Have you seen all the stuff that they've done this?
Like, they almost do it.
They don't have to do that stuff.
They do it almost as like for some unbeknownst reason.
And that's why it looks pretty satanic.
It looks like some, what's that one movie like with Brad Pitt or what not Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise?
They had that weird party in New York.
I can't remember that any other movie.
It's escaped me now.
But it's not with the masks.
william wolfe
Eyes wide shut.
serge du preez
Eyes wide shut.
Yeah, they do all that other weird stuff.
william wolfe
I've never seen it, but I know what you're referencing.
serge du preez
Yeah, yeah, they do all that weird stuff, and they don't have to do that, but they do that for some reason.
And for me, like in most people, I look at it and be like, well, that's kind of weird.
ian crossland
So it could be cultish for sure, like ancient.
william wolfe
Let me try to answer a question here briefly, just like very briefly and from a theological perspective, right?
So in the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul writes about how we wrestle not only with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers in the spiritual realm, dark powers, right?
And so as a Bible-believing Christian, I believe fundamentally everyone, whether you recognize it or not, is either serving God or the devil, right?
So it's like, according to just basic Orthodox Christian theology, like that's the divide.
Some people do it more intentionally than others, but I do absolutely believe that there are many powerful people in the world who are trying to and intentionally pursuing tapping into occultic, demonic power to bolster the subversive and evil work that they're doing.
ian crossland
So is it when it's demonic, is that that they're allowing the animal aspect of themselves to take over and run the show as opposed to the divine inspiratory aspect of the human, the consciousness?
libby emmons
You know, like if I divine would not be animal, it would be evil.
william wolfe
Yeah, we're using different categories.
ian crossland
The animal being the destructive, consumptory kills to eat.
It wants money to protect itself.
It wants to be warm so it will kill people to get warm.
Like it takes over without the animal, you're nothing.
So you have these two aspects.
william wolfe
So the terminology that I would use is actually really, and it's interesting in our before we got on camera, you were talking about pride, right?
So Satan is, you know, many people say sort of like that, you know, the first sin was the sin of pride, Satan wanting to become God.
So I wouldn't use the phrase animal so much as it's as we are creators.
God made us to worship and love and serve him.
We've rejected that.
Instead, we're trying to dethrone God, make ourselves God.
That's Satan's rejection of his place in God's created order as a created being worshiping and serving him.
So that it's really the pursuit of deity in rebellion against God.
ian crossland
Do you think that AI is like a manifestation of humans attempting to become God?
william wolfe
I'm not going to weigh in on that.
I'm not 100% sure.
ian crossland
AI feels inevitable, which is why I wonder if the humans are attempting to usurp the power of God, whatever that means, the ability to create atomic printing, take hydrogen and make oil, make food, make water, make whatever you need because you can fuse it all together really fast.
william wolfe
Okay, well, I know we're way off topic here, but Ian's running me down a slide.
So let me answer the AI question here real quick.
I believe that man, you know, God has gifted man with incredible faculties and abilities.
So the ability to produce something like AI as a tool, I can see very much as just an exercise of the dominion mandate.
And so, no, I don't actually think AI can ever actually be a God.
Maybe some people in Silicon Valley, I know some people in Silicon Valley view it as an effort to create a God.
I think that would be a poor way of trying to pursue the use of AI, but it doesn't have to be that.
unidentified
Okay.
phil labonte
All right, guys.
We're going to jump to this next story here.
And we have a little bit of news on it as well as not just what was posted today.
Kilmar Obrega Garcia is released from federal custody in Tennessee from NBC News.
Kilmar Obrego Garcia was released from federal custody Friday, months after he was wrongfully deported to an El Salvador prison.
libby emmons
Where are you reading?
Wrongfully deported?
phil labonte
NBC News.
libby emmons
Oh, that's.
phil labonte
They say it right there, wrongfully.
libby emmons
That's NBC fans.
phil labonte
Yeah, they wrongfully.
It was not wrong.
They actually did the right thing.
He was wrongfully deported to an El Salvador prison and accused of being a gang member.
william wolfe
He was.
phil labonte
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes in the Middle District of Tennessee ordered Abrego Garcia's release from a jail near Nashville, Tennessee, where he had been held since he was freed from El Salvador's Seacott prison in June.
Abrego Garcia is en route to his family in Maryland.
Sean Hecker, one of his attorneys, said Obrego Garcia was unlawfully arrested and deported, which is wrong because he's here illegally.
libby emmons
Yeah.
And he was, yeah.
phil labonte
And he was caught trafficking people as well.
libby emmons
Trafficking human beings.
Yeah.
phil labonte
This is this is this is absolutely the opposite of informing people.
It is absolutely just lying to people.
Abrego Garcia was unlawfully arrested and deported and then imprisoned, all because of the government's vindictive attack on a man who had the courage to fight back against the administration's continuing assault on the rule of law, Hecker said in a statement.
Now, I mean, granted, this is his lawyer that's saying that, but still, the fact that they ran with that quote and they do no pushback.
Right?
libby emmons
No, they think that it was 100% wrong to support this guy.
phil labonte
He now has 48 hours to reach his brother's house in suburban Maryland, where the judge said he's allowed to live under a series of conditions.
He'll also have to check in with immigration officials at ICE Baltimore's field office.
Abrego Garcia's attorney had requested the 30-day pause that prevented their client from walking free last month out of fear that he might be detained by federal immigration and customs enforcement officers upon his release.
That ruling followed two others that aimed to protect Abrego Garcia.
This is insane.
In July, the U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Nashville sought to release Abrego Garcia.
At the time, Crenshaw denied a government motion to block his release, writing that the Trump administration had failed to provide evidence that Abrego Garcia must remain detained or that he is a flight risk.
This is insane.
libby emmons
That's crazy.
And the other thing that's crazy about that, too, is that this Maryland man, Arbrego Garcia, he had a detainer.
He had an immigration detainer.
He was supposed to be deported.
It's just that the judge in the case said that he should not be deported to El Salvador, given the conditions in El Salvador at the time.
But since that time and since he was prior to when he was deported to El Salvador this year, conditions in El Salvador were substantially different.
Most of the gangs that he had feared had already been imprisoned by Bukele, right?
So the conditions that prevented his release to El Salvador were no longer in effect.
It had been totally different.
But now what's happened, and this is a development since, yeah, you have the Bill Malugan up, and we actually got a statement at the postmillennial from Christy Noam about this.
But can I read it?
phil labonte
Yeah, if you have a statement from the postmillennial, please.
libby emmons
Oh, I can do that too.
Can I do this one first?
phil labonte
Sure, go ahead.
libby emmons
Okay.
So ICE put out a statement saying pursuant, oh, this was leaked, I think, pursuant to the court order issued in the District Court of Maryland on July 23rd, please let this email service notice that DHS may remove your client, Kilmar Amondo Arbrego Garcia, to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now because Uganda just agreed to take deported illegal immigrants that are not permitted to go back to their home country.
william wolfe
So did they confirm that that's not a fake?
libby emmons
Yeah, this is not fake.
And then to postmillennial, Christy Noam said, activist liberal judges have attempted to obstruct our law enforcement every step of the way in removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from our country.
Today we reached a new low with this publicity-hungry Maryland judge mandating this illegal alien who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator be allowed free.
phil labonte
What costume do you think she was wearing when she was writing the statement?
libby emmons
I think there must have been cowboy boots.
william wolfe
This is probably, I don't know if she's writing business Barbie.
phil labonte
Yeah, there he goes.
She's wearing, she's writing, she's writing, this is definitely wearing a suit and a tie.
ian crossland
She's got a tougher outfit on those.
She's a t-shirt.
phil labonte
Oh, yeah.
ian crossland
Shirt suit and tie.
Yeah, pants.
phil labonte
Actually, she might have actually just been wearing like a male's suit that's fit for her.
libby emmons
I don't think she.
No, I don't think she has that.
I think she's big on the jeans with the blazer, the t-shirt, like you said, the MAGA hat, and the cowboy boots.
phil labonte
I absolutely love Christy Noam and her cosplay.
She is, she's taking official cosplay to new levels every time I see her.
libby emmons
Did it do the South Park thing where they had her face just smelling?
phil labonte
Beautiful.
It was awesome.
libby emmons
Yeah, I don't think she liked that very much.
phil labonte
Well, I mean, look, her AVI on X for a while was Christy Noam with the laser eyes.
So, you know, she had to have at least a little bit of a sense of humor.
unidentified
Yeah.
libby emmons
Yeah.
william wolfe
Look, this case has been wild, right?
Because, I mean, the Democrats latched on to this guy like a like he was like the reincarnation of Rosa Parks.
phil labonte
Yeah.
william wolfe
Like he's some sort of civil rights icon and hero when he's he, you know, remember when Trump ran like in 2016.
So this is like in 2015 or something.
And Trump says all these illegal immigrants they're like criminals and they're rapists and everyone lost their mind.
Like, oh, he's so racist.
And it's just like over and over again, you scratch some illegal immigrant in this country and you find some MS-13 gangbanger like abusing pedophile.
phil labonte
I want to narrow down on a point with that for us in a second, but Libby, you were going to read the post-millennial statement you said?
libby emmons
Oh, I did.
phil labonte
Okay, all right.
unidentified
I did, we're good with that.
phil labonte
Is it so?
I mean, look, I can't help.
I'm not, I'm not a particularly spiritual guy.
I'm not particularly big on religion.
I'm consider myself agnostic.
I cannot help but listen to the Democrats and the things that they get behind and be like, you guys are literally trying to be comic book evil bad guys.
Like they get behind everything that is against good things, everything that is against anything that produces positive results for a family.
They are just, they get behind all of the criminals.
It literally is as if they are written by a comic book.
And like, how can we make a political party that is just the evil guys?
The guys that just like are like, it's evil.
I love it.
You know, it's like, it really is as if they are like just made in a Hollywood movie to be this is what bad guys are.
ian crossland
Man, speaking of it, I think that's because they use Hollywood movie style media to manipulate them and brainwash them into these zombie horde mentalities, personally.
william wolfe
Yeah, I mean, look, I mean, I've said it like this before, right?
The Democrats hate God, they hate family, they hate marriage, they hate children, they hate our nation.
So, like, figure out what it looks like to pursue a policy agenda that, you know, that displays a hatred for all those things which are, you know, fundamentally a part of what we would call the true, the good, and the beautiful.
And that's their policy program.
ian crossland
Some of it's, too, it's toxic compassion.
Like, it's not manipulated necessarily by evil.
You can, you can manipulate good people into doing evil things.
And a lot of times, people, if they see a woman crying, they just think, I need to stop that.
serge du preez
You mean like, you mean like toxic empathy?
ian crossland
Toxic empathy.
Too much of it.
william wolfe
Organized empathy, suicidal compassion.
libby emmons
Toxic femininity.
william wolfe
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure.
I mean, there's no doubt about that.
But it's like, even then, it's so hypocritical, too, because it's like, you know, what they're weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth and rending their garments and traveling down to El Salvador to see Kilmar when he's just a terrible guy, right?
So I think it really is just in that sense, it's really performative empathy.
That's what that's the word I would use.
It's performative empathy for somebody that they think fits into their sort of intersectionality boxes of an underprivileged individual that they can use to weaponize against like the goodness of the American nation.
ian crossland
That I find malicious when people, I do believe you that there are people in positions of power that are not actually feeling the empathy.
They're just pretending like they do.
And to get the people that actually do feel the empathy to follow their lead.
Like they're like, look, I care.
I'm going to go to El Salvador when deep down, like it's a political stunt.
phil labonte
Do you think you believe that?
ian crossland
Oh, what's important?
Oh, I got a chance to say anything I want because they're busy.
God is good.
You are connected to the universe.
Your thoughts are affecting reality.
They're bending and twisting the web of fate.
william wolfe
None of that is true.
phil labonte
Okay, enough, Moonlord.
I sent it to you on X. All right, thank you.
I don't have X here because I'm on Tim's.
william wolfe
Ian's going to be like, don't bring this guy back.
He contradicts everything I have to say.
ian crossland
I need you to contradict.
For too long, I stuck around people that just said yes to everything I would say.
I was boring.
I couldn't improve as a human.
william wolfe
That must have been like when Biden was president.
ian crossland
I just felt like I was being kept in a cushy cage.
What are you guys pulling up next?
What are you talking about?
phil labonte
Hold on a second.
libby emmons
There was a breaking.
ian crossland
Oh, there's breaking news?
phil labonte
Yeah.
And it was.
libby emmons
Yeah.
phil labonte
You put it in the general?
libby emmons
No, I put it in the IRL Slack.
No, the scheduler.
ian crossland
When you cut me off when it's time, but until your thoughts are vibrating, your neurons, which is causing a resonation of the field around you, which the people in that resonation field then start to vibrate.
And so that's how you have a fabric coupling of psychic communication.
But I think the spirits of reality also are in that magnetic field.
phil labonte
Yeah.
So this is breaking.
The Trump Administration Live updates.
FBI search home and office of John Bolton.
Trump critic turned Trump advisor turned critic.
It looks like, I don't know why this is such a bit.
What was that?
libby emmons
The invest.
phil labonte
Go ahead and read it, Libby.
libby emmons
Yeah.
So it turns out John Bolton is also being investigated for potential violations of the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to illegally retain or transmit national defense information, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the case.
phil labonte
Yeah.
libby emmons
This also came up on, I think, on Jesse Waters as well.
phil labonte
So, yeah, so they're investigating Bolton as well.
The Espionage Act is a, you know, it's a very big deal.
That implies that he's given national secrets to foreign entities, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
libby emmons
So that would mean that he was sharing classified information, not just to write his dumb book, but to, you know, potentially, potentially undermine the foreign affairs of the Trump administration, which is what he's been trying to do since Trump came into office in January, anyway.
william wolfe
I'm thinking of the T-word is on the table here.
The T-word.
I don't know if you know it.
It's a very big word.
It's a big word.
phil labonte
It is.
Treason.
unidentified
Treason.
phil labonte
Very bad thing.
william wolfe
That's what this is.
libby emmons
So that's pretty interesting.
That really makes it a lot less of a, you know, so-called political prosecution, and it puts it into the realm of actual criminality.
ian crossland
But if they're nailing the sorry, I interrupt.
libby emmons
No, go for it.
ian crossland
The espionage aspect of it, if it's that he took classified information and put it in his book, and now the Chinese government's able to read his book.
So that's espionage.
libby emmons
I'm like, I think that's different.
phil labonte
Yeah.
libby emmons
I don't think so.
ian crossland
I would hope.
libby emmons
Yeah, that seems like that would.
ian crossland
But this indicates that he's actually sending information to foreigners.
libby emmons
Or just sharing information with people that he is not authorized to share information with.
phil labonte
This is totally pontificating, or maybe I'm asking you guys totally to pontificate.
But who do you like?
That is the job.
Who are the most likely recipients of this information?
Do you think that he would be sharing it with like Ukraine or with well?
libby emmons
He's he was into he was into the whole Ukraine war, right?
So I don't know.
I mean, I'm not great with foreign affairs, I gotta say.
phil labonte
That was the first thing that came to mind for me is like you know, like sharing information.
william wolfe
We know that the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, was like calling the Chinese and offering them assurances that he had no right and no authority to do outside of the chain of command, undercutting the president whom he answered to.
phil labonte
So, I mean, you know, I gotta say, I don't know why they haven't called him back and actually court-martialed that guy.
william wolfe
You know, Stephanie's crazy.
libby emmons
I forgot about that.
That was seriously messed up.
william wolfe
Well, bringing up Bolton and the Espionage Act just reminded me of this.
And I just have to say, like, it's time not to just have raids or we need arrests.
We need arrests.
Hopefully, we're getting there, but like, we need arrests.
phil labonte
This is something that we talk about.
There's a lot of people that are very, even like that sit around the table a lot.
We were talking about it last night.
There are people that are extremely impatient.
They believe that Donald Trump should have come back in and like people should have been arrested immediately.
And I've been like, look, you need to understand that there is a process that they have to go through because you don't want people to get arrested and then get away with it.
If you don't have all your ducks in a row and you don't have all of this stuff together when you prosecute and you charge them and they get out because you didn't have your S together, then you can't charge them again because of the double jeopardy, right?
Like they've already beaten the charge.
You can't charge them again.
You don't want to just willy-nilly do this stuff.
Now, I hear, and this is just stuff that I've read on X and stuff, but I hear there are grand juries being assembled for multiple different infringements or different charges that have been brought against people or they're looking to see.
So I do think that arrests will be coming or more arrests will be coming.
But I think that this situation with Bolton shows that they are working on this stuff.
And so I agree with you totally.
I want to see more, but I also have, at least as far as my, you know, my gut says, like patience is better because it means that if they do make an arrest, they have a more solid case.
You know, the feds have like a 95%, they have like a 95% conviction rate when they, or higher.
Like if they arrest someone, they have their shit together.
ian crossland
Or they're kangaroo courting it up, you know, one or the other.
But numbers are so high.
phil labonte
It's possible.
william wolfe
One of the issues here, too, is that like for a lot of these things, we've been aware of them for so many years.
And it's like, well, yeah, well, Biden, it was Biden's DOJ.
Like Biden's, they weren't going to go roll up Mark Milley, right?
You know, who are looking to, they closed the case on Bolton, right?
So it's like, you're right.
It's, it's only August still.
It's not even September yet.
So good, good word, Phil.
phil labonte
You know, I just, like I said, I mean, I have the same impulses.
I want to see people go to jail that have violated the law.
I think that there's been tons of political prosecutions from the Democrats.
There was a point that you made earlier.
You were talking about you think that the Democrats would come after possibly you.
I think that if the Democrats get back into power, I think they will come after people like Joe Rogan.
They'll come after people like Tim.
They'll come after people all over the right, people that are influencers because the influencers, they believe that the influencers are why they lost.
They don't believe that their policies were bad.
They don't believe that people rejected Kamala Harris because of her inability and her stunning lack of political skill.
They believe that it was because influencers and people were lying and telling stories and all sorts of things.
They believe that free speech is a bad thing.
So I think that they will come after a lot of conservatives using whatever tools they have at their disposal, which the federal government has significant tools at their disposal.
I mean, they'll come after as many people as they can.
ian crossland
What do you think about, and this is a little bit of a tangent, but I really want to talk about Gavin Newsom because I think he saw what you're talking about, that it was the power of the communication of like podcasts and things that elevated, like Trump went on Rogan two weeks before the election, went on Theo Vaughan, huge exposure to a new crowd of people or people that didn't quite know maybe were on a fence.
And Newsom saw that, so he's been doing podcast runs.
I think he's going to be the Democratic nominee in 28.
libby emmons
He's willing it into action.
He put it on his, you know, he put it on his wishboard.
He's going to make it happen.
unidentified
Okay.
ian crossland
So it'd be him and J.D. Vance.
libby emmons
Yeah, you already see him going after J.D. Vance.
There was this crazy thing this week where Gavin Newsom posted a picture of himself in high school versus Vance.
Oh, yeah.
And he looks like this prep school pretty boy with a really nice scarf.
And J.D. Vance looks kind of like a fat weird kid.
And you're looking at it and you're like, I'd rather have the fat weird kid than the guy with the pretty boy with the scarf.
william wolfe
Yeah.
A couple of points on that.
One is that I think Newsome will probably get it, but you have to remember.
phil labonte
I'm not so sure.
william wolfe
Well, I was going to say, you have to remember that so much of it has to go through the black vote, and particularly in the South.
And are they going to go for Newsome or not?
It was when Biden was struggling in the primary, Clyburn had to go drag his rear across the finish line in South Carolina to lock it up for a minute.
phil labonte
I'm not so sure that Clyburn will give the blessing to Gavin Newsom.
And if Clyburn doesn't give him the blessing, he will not be the guy, first of all.
Second of all, I don't think that the you know as well as anyone else that the Democrat Party has so many people that are very committed to the progressive agenda, to the whole woke thing.
You know, a white guy with that.
I mean, if you saw the, you've seen the pictures of his family, blonde family.
libby emmons
They don't really care about that.
They only care about power.
phil labonte
No, the progressives, the progressives that are the people that are going to be voting in the primary care, the people that are vote, like your major Democrats.
libby emmons
They have no leader.
I mean, the thing is, he's the only one.
phil labonte
Hold on, hold on.
I think that he would have a significantly difficult time getting over that hump.
He would need, and one of our guests that was here the other day made a great point.
He would need someone like Crockett as the VP, which is on the podcast the other day.
No.
libby emmons
He had her on the other day, and he was praising her and telling her how wonderful she is.
She's awful.
And she went out there saying that ICE are supposed to be Uber drivers for illegal immigrants.
That's their whole job.
phil labonte
Insane.
william wolfe
She just got redistricted in Texas.
phil labonte
Well, she might be looking for a job.
But if you have someone like Jasmine Crockett, then maybe he has a better chance.
But I don't know if he can do it alone because the Democrat Party still has that civil war going on.
Are they a normal party or are they the Progressive Party?
ian crossland
It seems like they failed.
The Progressive Democratic Party has failed and is shattered.
And now Newsome's there to pick up the pieces.
I don't think he's really a nut job.
phil labonte
But it hasn't yet.
ian crossland
In the process, yeah.
phil labonte
It hasn't left behind the woke stuff.
There's a massive fight in the Democrat Party about whether they are between the progressives and the liberals.
Just the other day, someone that Kayla, the not-so-Erudite, was posting on X, and I thought it was a ridiculous thing that she said, but she said that she had a clip of the woman and the black Republican guy and the radical progressive from Jubilee, and where the woman was doing all of the intersectional, making all the intersectional arguments and the conservative kid.
Yeah, the conservative kid just ragged all her.
He just beat the snot out of her.
And Kayla said something along the lines of, you know, Democrats or liberals should have never agreed to this stuff.
We don't agree to it, talking about the progressive ideology.
don't agree to it, and we should never let these people get so loud.
libby emmons
I personally think they're going to elect Mom Donnie to lead New York City.
phil labonte
Yeah.
I personally think that that statement is ridiculous.
I think that she's saying that because there are so many people that have actually come out against woke, the Democrats have never had a worse or haven't had such a bad brand in 50 years or something like that.
And I think that she's doing damage control because your average liberal absolutely was on board with all the progressive stuff.
When they thought they were winning, they were all on board with it.
You know, it was very rare.
There were very few.
There were few, not, and maybe Kayla's one of them.
I don't, I'm not familiar with her work, but there are very few people in the Democrat Party that were what you would consider regular liberals, not progressives, but regular liberals that were speaking up against the progressives because the progressives were so loud and so aggressive.
And they would call them all.
They would call them all the names.
They would call them racist, blah, blah, blah.
If you tried to push back.
So nobody had the balls to do.
libby emmons
A lot of those people are now in the Republican Party and they voted for Trump.
phil labonte
So the idea that the liberals weren't on board with it, I think is totally ridiculous.
ian crossland
Some of the liberals were afraid of, they were voting against Trump, not necessarily for the psycho policies, but and so those people now is opportunity because there won't be Trump in 28.
Obviously, it'll be Vance probably.
And it's just a matter of, is Vance going to scare people?
Like, I don't think he needs to.
phil labonte
It doesn't matter if Vance is going to scare people.
The left is going to scare people.
They're preparing the field for Vance to be considered worse than Donald Trump.
The argument's going to be, look, Donald Trump was bad, but Donald Trump was a buffoon.
J.D. Vance is much smarter.
J.D. Vance went to, I think he went to Harvard, right?
He went to this elite, the Ivy League school.
J.D. Vance made a bunch of money in the tech world.
He's much smarter.
He's much more dangerous.
He's worse than Trump.
william wolfe
Donald Trump is Hitler, but J.D. Vance is worse.
phil labonte
You know that they were doing it when he's not Stalin.
william wolfe
They couldn't say that.
phil labonte
But they were doing that exact same thing when what's his name from Florida was running?
libby emmons
DeSantis.
phil labonte
DeSantis.
They started laying the groundwork for DeSantis is worse than Trump because, and it was the same argument.
Trump's a buffoon and DeSantis is smart.
DeSantis is a lawyer.
DeSantis is this.
libby emmons
So he's worse than Trump.
That's what I have to do with Gavin Newsom.
And you're saying that you think that the Democrats aren't going to go for Newsom because he's a white guy.
And I think when the Democrats are in trouble, they always go back to the white guy because all of those liberal women who go out there and complain about everybody, they really just trust a white guy.
phil labonte
I think they have to figure out who they are as a party.
libby emmons
They are not going to figure that out.
And when they do figure it out, it's going to be the far left.
That's what they're going to go for.
They're leaning towards Mom Dani.
They're leaning towards all that stuff.
And that's why you see the big problem where Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, they're not endorsing Mom Dani, but they're also not saying anything against him because they can't.
They have to wait and see what happens.
william wolfe
No, but revolution never stops where you're not going to stop.
New Yorkers aren't going to go to perpetual revolution.
And so, I mean, it's going to be a problem.
libby emmons
They didn't used to be.
They didn't used to be.
I mean, if the Democrats could actually go back to their, you know, non-racist roots as, you know, a party that is pro-union, where you can be a pro-life Democrat, where, you know, you're pro-social safety net, but you're, you know, like the 1986 liberals.
william wolfe
Well, no, I know, I know what you're saying, but I mean, I just, I don't see that.
libby emmons
That's now what MAGA is.
william wolfe
That's six feet underground on the left.
libby emmons
Well, it's what MAGA is, right?
MAGA has taken that place.
Like you can be a pro-choice MAGA Republican.
You can be that, right?
You can't be the reverse of that on the left.
It's just, it just doesn't exist.
ian crossland
I think a lot about parties, and I actually posted that the party doesn't make the man.
The man makes the party.
And when you look at a Democrat, a party, a political party, it doesn't matter what it's called.
Who's in the party right now?
That's what that party is.
What are they saying?
That's what that party is.
And it can change from moment tomorrow.
It might be a completely different party if we have 18 new people and 18 people leave.
So keep that in mind.
william wolfe
Well, on that point, they released this whole list of words.
I don't know if you saw this.
They were like, here are words Democrats need to stop using, like birthing people and chest feeding and centering and letting people in.
phil labonte
Everything LGBTQIA was holding space.
william wolfe
Holding space.
The point there is that if you're trying to like counsel your radical activists and not even that radical, it's like pretty widespread throughout the party to stop using words like chest feeding and birthing people.
Like that's that's who the party is.
I don't think their messaging discipline is going to change that.
phil labonte
Well, I mean, yeah, I think you're right.
And that's my point.
I think that the progressives are the actual heart and soul of the party now.
I think that the, just like Libby was saying, like Democrats have left.
Democrats came over to the MAGA side in large part.
Now, there's some people that really, you know, they have to hold their nose and vote for Donald Trump, but they still did.
And I think that someone like J.D. Vance is probably less offensive than Donald Trump to those people.
And I think that the Democrats are actually going to end up being the progressive party and the old school, you know, normal Democrats are actually going to evaporate.
libby emmons
You guys saw the thing last night, right?
In Virginia, Winsom Sears, lieutenant governor, she's running for governor.
She was out there having a rally and some people showed up to protest her.
And this one, this gray haired white lady held up a sign and it literally it literally read, hey, Winsome.
Winsom's a black woman.
Hey, Winsom, if trans can't share your bathroom, then blacks can't share my water phone.
unidentified
Ah!
william wolfe
I saw that.
It was great because it gave me an opportunity to make this point with this theory that I have, which I think is 100% factual as all my theories are, is that white boomer, woke progressives are the only actual really racist people left in America.
libby emmons
And they're going around yelling at us about anti-racism all the time.
william wolfe
So they grew up, like they grew up sort of in the vestiges of like institutionalized racism to whatever degree it did exist in this country.
libby emmons
Well, there's Jim Crow.
I mean, that stuff exists.
william wolfe
Yeah, right, right.
But I mean, like, after the, like, however much continued, even in uninstitutionalized fashion.
But anyway, these people, like, they actually don't like minorities, right?
So it's like all your like 23-year-olds.
libby emmons
Well, they like them to do their lawns and house.
william wolfe
Exactly.
It's like, who's going to pick our crops?
Like, all the 23-year-old Zoomers who share like the racist memes, like those guys aren't actually racist.
This lady who held the sign up is, right?
Like, she really actually is.
And this gave her an opportunity to display it, you know, finally one time again.
phil labonte
Have you heard of Nick Fuentes?
unidentified
Well, yeah.
william wolfe
I mean, I know.
phil labonte
Because I know that man is actually racist.
ian crossland
A lot of what Nick does is performative, too.
He mixes it up.
phil labonte
Maybe, but he's definitely racism.
libby emmons
I thought that this thing with this sign was really, was really pretty amazing because she had to, she hand-lettered this sign.
She had to write this down.
She had to read it over and make sure there weren't any mistakes.
She put American flags on either side of this sign so that everyone would know this is what she thought America was all about.
And then she went out there in public and said that, you know, transgender and gender ideology is the same thing as equality under the law for races, even though obviously races, all races have two sexes.
There's no difference.
There's no difference.
And there are no rights that transgender people don't have.
There are not any rights that transgender people don't have.
william wolfe
In fact, there are rights that they seem to have that nobody else has.
libby emmons
Nobody else has.
william wolfe
Like the right to go invade an opposite gendered private space, bathroom, whatever.
libby emmons
Right.
All kinds of weird.
william wolfe
Special trans rights.
phil labonte
A lot of these problems could, a lot of these problems will get solved when people stop using the phrase gender.
Gender is a made-up thing.
Sex is real.
Gender is make-believe.
libby emmons
Well, of course, I mean, gender was created as a concept, essentially, by feminists so that they could say that there were not innate roles that were specifically for women.
You know, if you look at the roots of, if you look at feminism in the 20th century, it caused this problem rather substantially.
This problem would not exist otherwise.
phil labonte
Stop using the phrase gender.
Gender isn't real.
Sex is real.
Biological sex is real.
Men are men.
Women are women.
And all that other stuff is just mumbo jumbo to confuse you.
But we're going to jump to one quick story here at the end here.
From NPR, Intel will give the U.S. government a 10% stake, says Trump.
President Trump said on Friday he has asked Intel CEO Lip Bau for tan for Lip Bow Tan for a 10% stake in the company during a recent meeting at the White House.
He agreed and they've agreed to it.
And I think it's a great deal for them, Trump told reporters.
He's walked in wanting to keep his job and ended up giving us $10 billion for the United States, Trump said.
libby emmons
That means that the United States has 10% stake in Intel?
phil labonte
That's what it says.
Is that fascism, by the way?
libby emmons
Is that sort of unprecedented?
That seems a little crazy.
phil labonte
No, it's not unprecedented because the fact that, I mean, you had to.
libby emmons
They didn't have a stake in Ford or anything or Boeing.
phil labonte
GM, they did, right?
After the 2008.
Yeah, they owned a bunch of stuff.
libby emmons
And what about all the banks?
phil labonte
Yeah, we do have stupid.
It's not unprecedented.
But I think that's a good question.
Hold on, hold on.
Hold on.
Guys, the point of this, I think, and I haven't read this through yet, but I think the point of this is to do something to increase the United States access to chips that are necessary for national defense.
Because right now, there's tons of really complex chips that go into all kinds of missiles and all kinds of planes and all kinds of stuff.
And the U.S. outsources that stuff to Taiwan, right?
A lot of chips that are made in Taiwan.
So if I understand correctly, this is because they want access to the semiconductor industry.
So hold on a second.
In a statement released on the company's website late Friday afternoon, Intel confirmed that the government would take an 8.9 billion investment in Intel Common Stock, reflecting the confidence the administration has in Intel to advance key national priorities and the critically important role the company plays in expanding the domestic semiconductor industry.
So the point is we need to have semiconductors built here for national defense, for all of the all of the high-tech military assets that we have.
So this is something that I've actually talked about a bit and I've inquired with people.
Should we have some kind of Manhattan Project style program to shore up our semiconductor availability here in the U.S.?
Because without, should China decide to take Taiwan, we are almost guaranteed or we're almost required to help them because of national security, right?
You have to engage in a war because if we don't, we don't have the ability to provide the semiconductors that we need, not just for our, you know, our phones or whatever, but for actual necessary things for national security, for military planes, for anti-air systems, for missiles and stuff like that.
Those things are necessary.
libby emmons
How much of them would be if they took the whole company?
phil labonte
Yes.
ian crossland
It would be, but it starts with 10%.
libby emmons
Right.
But it.
ian crossland
Well, no, I don't think so.
I think it's when the government and the corporations collude to take power.
libby emmons
That's oligarchy.
phil labonte
But that's not, and it's not.
ian crossland
There's a small group of wealthy men.
phil labonte
They're not colluding to take power.
This isn't a.
ian crossland
Power is 10% stock.
phil labonte
But the point is, it's the government working with the company in order to be able to produce the things necessary that the government, you know, the thing the government needs.
ian crossland
I'm not saying fascism is evil.
Some fascism is good.
And in a way, this might be a very good thing because if it comes to life and death, I'll take fascism and survival over not fascism and death.
And if it means that we need to step up, our government needs to take control of the private company to make weapons for our survival.
Well, that's an argument I'm working with.
phil labonte
10% stake is not taking control.
ian crossland
It's the first step, though.
libby emmons
Okay, so that's different.
That's a question of if there's going to be another step.
10%, if not.
phil labonte
The point of that is giving them money, right?
That's what they did.
They gave Intel money so that way Intel could expand in the U.S. If they just printed $8 trillion or $8 billion and gave it to them?
ian crossland
Yes.
Okay.
I mean, that's not the word.
Maybe we do.
I'm with you on the superconductor.
I mean, we need chip production in the United States and we need to step on it and get it going.
We need to put the gas on that.
phil labonte
Yeah, I mean, personally, I think there's a couple industries that the U.S. should needs to really put some effort into.
I think when it comes to energy creation, I think nuclear.
I think that, I mean, possibly, excuse me, possibly solar.
I'm not against solar power.
I think that in the future, it's probably going to be more common.
ian crossland
Also, piezoelectric.
Have you followed that much?
They've just developed these walkways that charge in Tokyo.
Yeah.
phil labonte
Oh, yeah, they walk on them.
Yeah, yeah.
ian crossland
It's just the stress, the tension creates electricity.
phil labonte
Yeah, that's great for helping.
That's great for helping municipalities and stuff like that.
But I'm thinking of stuff like I'm thinking of the stuff that would be able to.
ian crossland
Explosive force.
phil labonte
Well, not so much that.
I'm thinking of stuff that would be able to run data processing centers, things that AI is going to need because the U.S. isn't going to be in an arms race with AI, with other countries over AI, because AI could possibly be the, could possibly be a revolutionary technology that makes other countries' military assets almost useless.
So that's possible.
But what do you guys think?
Do you think this is a good idea?
Do you think at this price point, do you think it's a smart move?
Do you guys have an idea about it?
william wolfe
I mean, there's no doubt that making sure that we have reduced dependence on supply chains that could be easily threatened or weaponized against us, whether it's in the chase, like we have, you know, supply chain dependence on China for a whole host of different things.
This was exposed during the pandemic.
We rely on chip production in Taiwan, which is in a very vulnerable region.
And, you know, there's been some really good work being done by Elbridge Colby on sort of the Taiwan issue in particular and trying to get like Pacific allies to step up to the plate on that.
So that's important.
Maybe this is a part of that strategy.
You know, I'm going to pull Donald Trump.
You're just now telling me this for the first time.
So, you know, it does seem odd to me.
It seems odd.
Like, I mean, I trust it's not illegal that we're purchasing investment in a company.
It does feel a little bit like picking winners and losers, but maybe Intel is the only game in town.
unidentified
And if that's the case, then, you know, also stopping them from selling chips to China.
Wasn't that a thing?
phil labonte
There are certain chips that no one can sell to China.
So like NVIDIA, which NVIDIA is already the winner.
Like lately in the past five years, NVIDIA has been absolutely crushing.
And I don't think this, I don't think $10 billion for Intel is going to boost up Intel to the capacity that NVIDIA has.
NVIDIA has been just crushing when it comes to chip manufacturing.
So I don't think that it's actually picking winners and losers.
I do get the feeling that this is just about securing access to chips made here in the U.S.
But yeah, I think that, I mean, personally, I think that it's a good thing because the U.S. needs to have the ability to produce chips for our national defense.
william wolfe
As long as these jobs aren't going to be given to H-1B visas.
And so if we're building chips in the United States of America, we darn well better make sure that the jobs are going to American citizens.
phil labonte
I mean, I agree.
I think that personally, I think the whole H-1B visa program should be ended for a decade at least.
ian crossland
Normally, the government would subsidize the industry and then Intel would reap the rewards, maybe $9 billion in tax write-offs or something.
So the idea that the government bought stake in a private company with my money is very strange.
Unprecedented.
As are a lot of things.
phil labonte
It's not unprecedented, though.
ian crossland
What happened before?
phil labonte
They bought, they basically, when they bailed out GM, in 2008, right after the end of the year, there was a bunch of banks they bought.
Yeah, like they're, this is not unprecedented as all of them buy it and liquidate it.
No, they just gave them money.
william wolfe
You know, I think Ian's, like, Ian's right, though, like, it's a little bit different in that this is a proactive measure being taken to sort of accelerate a positive development versus a reactive measure being taken to ameliorate a disaster.
phil labonte
How do you think?
william wolfe
Two different things.
phil labonte
How different in your mind is this to the Manhattan Project?
william wolfe
Well, so you, you had brought up the Manhattan.
It was funny because Ian was like, this is fascism.
Then you're like Manhattan Project.
Then Ian's like, yes, we need it.
So I was like trying to track.
Like the Manhattan Project was a different thing.
That wasn't the United States heavily investing in one particular company.
It was a collaboration to solve sort of a critical civilizational issue with heavy government investment in a project, like in a government project.
phil labonte
Wouldn't this be significantly less impactful?
Like the $10 billion to a company that already exists, as opposed to literally bootstrapping the technology, the infrastructure, and the weapon itself.
william wolfe
Yeah, but the difference here is the Manhattan Project was fundamentally federal funding for a federal project.
This is federal investment in a private company.
phil labonte
Okay.
william wolfe
So that's sort of the difference.
phil labonte
So for me, at least from my perspective, the way that I see it, I feel like it's a much smaller effort than something like the Manhattan Project, right?
william wolfe
I have no idea what the price tag was on the Manhattan Project.
libby emmons
It was crazy.
That's my guess.
I don't know.
I don't mind it.
I don't mind the investment in Intel.
If the stated goals are these AI race things and whatever else, I don't think I mind it very much.
ian crossland
I've been deeply concerned about Taiwan, that's for sure.
So, I mean, I see the solution they're aiming at.
phil labonte
The adjusted for inflation, the Manhattan Project was $35.4 billion.
ian crossland
Over how long?
william wolfe
A lot of money to build a bump.
libby emmons
Maybe a couple of years.
phil labonte
A couple of years.
Yeah.
It is a lot of money to build a bump, but they had to invent the technology, you know?
It was $2 billion back in 1940.
libby emmons
That's what has to happen now, right?
Like, technology has to be invented.
ian crossland
Which would be AI.
The government could.
phil labonte
So that's what the chips are, part of what the chips are for, I imagine.
ian crossland
And then maybe they are working on it.
william wolfe
Chips power everything.
I mean, the world runs on semi-competitive.
phil labonte
And again, I don't think that the government shouldn't be making chips just for, like, they shouldn't be investing in Intel so that we have chips to run iPhones, right?
They should be investing in, if they're investing in Intel, the chips should be exclusively for military uses, for anti-air missiles, for cruise missiles.
Yeah, and that, to me, that's why it's acceptable because, like, look, man, I don't need the government to put $8 billion into Intel so that way my microwave can connect to the internet, right?
I don't care.
libby emmons
Yeah, I definitely don't, I have no appliances that talk.
phil labonte
Yeah.
You know, like, I don't need to make sure that the Roombas are safe, right?
We need to make sure that the F-35s can fly, that the F-22s can fly, that, you know, cruise missiles can work, that we have the ability to defend the United States and our interest rates.
ian crossland
I don't like the grids that go down until they stay up.
william wolfe
Any of those goals?
I mean, maybe it's not a precedent.
phil labonte
I don't know.
william wolfe
Maybe there's been other times where we've proactively invested in a certain company to help procure a particular outcome.
libby emmons
Well, we've also done things like NASA, right?
So NASA is a massive public enterprise, and without it, we would have no private space companies.
Like we're the only country that has private space companies.
That's pretty baller, right?
william wolfe
Yeah.
libby emmons
And without the investment that we put into NASA, that would like there'd be no SpaceX.
There'd be no whatever Jeff Bezos' one is, what Blue Origin.
There wouldn't be any of that stuff without that major investment.
So I do think that there is a place for government investment to boost industry and things.
I just think that a lot of it has to be done with a mind toward what the marketplace wants.
Like Joe Biden's EV charging stations all across the country, that was a bad idea.
And there weren't that many of them, just like Kamala Harris's EV buses, you know, that broke and no school districts wanted them.
ian crossland
Is that all done through subsidy?
libby emmons
Yeah, that was all done through executive orders and subsidies and mandates and all kinds of things like that.
So it wasn't like it was like the government put out RFPs for contracts and then, you know, awarded contracts.
phil labonte
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Who knows?
That's happened a couple times.
ian crossland
Maybe you meet your boyfriend.
phil labonte
Yeah, or your boyfriend, you know.
But right now, we're going to read some super chats.
The cleaner, 47129, just said, just welcomed my son, third child, to the world today.
I figured I would continue the tradition of announcing on Timcast.
Thank you very much, sir.
Congratulations.
That's awesome, dude.
Make more.
We are very big fans of babies here at Timcast.
We want to see you guys have a happy family and a happy life.
And babies tend to make people happy.
So congratulations.
ian crossland
As you get older, you'll notice the adults will start to die off in your life.
And if you don't have the younger generation there, it's kind of lonely.
phil labonte
Sovereign Fish says, unsubbed until Phil Lobotomy is no longer on the show.
Dude's a total clown show.
Here's 10 bucks.
Do a trick clown.
Thanks for the $10.
ian crossland
It's a good click you made with your mouth.
phil labonte
Ian's on Yoder says, Ian's on tonight.
Hope he talks about graphene.
ian crossland
I didn't yet, but when we were talking about industrializing through government purchasing of companies, I wonder if they're going to start buying graphene companies.
phil labonte
Jesse Hughes says, William Wolfe, the most based Baptist I know.
So he's got some fans out there.
ian crossland
Didn't even get into religion much, Tim.
william wolfe
I mean, yeah, I mean, you were saying crazy things that I didn't really have a chance to sit straight on it.
phil labonte
No, we told you.
We told you.
You sat down.
We were like, he's going to say some crazy stuff.
You're like, what do you mean?
Like, you'll see.
He's my favorite.
william wolfe
I'll talk to you after you.
phil labonte
Cal says, big fan, first super chat.
Per tradition, I'm here with my wife who's working on bringing our daughter into the world.
Thanks for helping us stay informed enough to hopefully make the world a better place for her.
Go, Tim Crew.
Cheers.
Awesome.
Thank you very much for the super chat.
Congratulations and best wishes to your wife and to your daughter.
And if this is not your first, great.
If it's your first, make more.
Raymond G. Stanley says, Holy moly, John Bolton got rated.
We need to do a wellness check on Elad.
Bolton Bros Unite.
I'm hearing through the grapevine that Elad's mustache is quivering in fear.
ian crossland
We wanted to make Elad and John Bolton the thumbnail, but a little too.
phil labonte
It's okay, like the family guy.
It's okay.
Did they hurt you?
Oh, it's okay.
Let's see.
Alec Pitt says Bolton lied about WMDs in Iraq.
unidentified
Yeah.
william wolfe
Fact check, true.
libby emmons
So did Colin Powell.
unidentified
True.
phil labonte
Yeah.
ian crossland
Or did he was he given fake information that he repeated?
libby emmons
He was given fake information about the yellow cake, and then he had to go before the UN and apologize.
unidentified
Okay.
libby emmons
That must have been really humiliating for him.
ian crossland
Yeah, because saying something that's untrue that you think is real is different than lying.
libby emmons
Yeah, no, I think that's true.
phil labonte
Daniel the Master McCollen says, Phil, in my opinion, as a as an American-born trucker, you're wrong about trucks.
Most people can drive a truck forward, but few can back them up.
Sucks that illegals ruin it for the actual hardworking, legit drivers.
Look, man, I agree about it.
It sucks that illegals have ruined it for the American hardworking truck drivers.
I agree totally.
I've spent a lot of time, you know, driving on the roads because of touring and stuff.
And the bus is, you know, 45-foot and stuff.
So I get what you're saying.
And I've noticed the difference when you stop and truck stops to fuel up.
You see a lot of people that are not native-born Americans or that don't speak English or whatever.
And that's a massive problem.
We need people in the United States that are working and that are doing things like driving 18-wheelers.
They need to be able to speak English.
So it's good that the Trump administration is cracking down on this.
Hopefully they are as brutal about it as I want them to be because I think all of these people that are here on visas that can't speak English, like if you can't speak English, you should not be driving a truck.
You shouldn't have a CDL.
libby emmons
Well, that guy couldn't even read the highway signs.
phil labonte
That's exactly my point.
william wolfe
You get a CDL license if you can't speak English.
phil labonte
You go to California.
libby emmons
And it turns out that in California, in California.
No, it turns out that there was a bribery scheme going on.
So there was a guy who was paying.
william wolfe
Yeah, there was a third world behavior.
libby emmons
Paying someone off, paying the testing company off to pass failing students.
phil labonte
Yeah, you're 100% right.
The idea that you can just pay someone.
libby emmons
Oregon and Washington.
phil labonte
Yeah, the idea that in America, that like if, I mean, look, if you give, if you try to give a police officer money when they pull you over, you should go to jail.
libby emmons
Yeah, that should not be it.
phil labonte
But in other countries, it's normal.
It's what you do.
You give the police officer money and then they let you go and you don't have to deal with all the stuff.
You have to give whatever the police, I don't know what it costs to bribe a cop.
But that's something that's normal all over the world.
It's normal in Russia.
It's normal all over South America.
That's just the way that it is.
So it's special and unique and something that we need to try to make sure that remains about America.
Like that is not acceptable behavior here.
You can't just give someone money and they'll go ahead and say, okay, well, we'll let you through even though you can't do it.
And that's what's going on.
And like you said, it's third world behavior.
And it's because we have so many people that are here from countries and from cultures that are so different from our country.
And this is the point, part of the point that I was making earlier about like you can't just give people freedom, right?
Like cultures are different.
And what is acceptable behavior is different from culture to culture.
Here we are, like, I know this is, this is, you know, maybe it's, you can call it chauvinism or whatever, but in my opinion, America is the best country in the world.
And part of the reason is because we can rely on other Americans to not do things like accept bribes and allow people.
libby emmons
I think we can, yeah.
ian crossland
I think we have to, again, you can't give people freedom, but you can give them the keys, which is English right now in modern culture.
phil labonte
You mean like the language of English?
ian crossland
Yeah, if you learn the language of Europe, you have the keys to freedom, basically, in the modern day.
phil labonte
Okay.
Clank, clank, I'm a tank says, will you guys talk about the UK and Operation Raise the Colors?
Cities that can't pay to collect garbage suddenly have money to cover up patriotic acts.
We have, man.
libby emmons
We were talking about it earlier.
phil labonte
Painting the English flag in potholes so that way the magistrate will come and cover them up.
What a ridiculous thing.
The idea that you have to wear a mask to fly the flag of your own country.
And I didn't see it yesterday, but I saw something today where there was a protest.
People that were immigrants to England were protesting and they had a big problem with the fact that people were flying the English flag.
And the reason is because they're like, oh, this offends me.
It's like, then get the F out, man.
Like, this is our country.
libby emmons
That's absolutely crazy.
And the promotion.
phil labonte
Yeah, perfect.
Yeah.
Bring it up.
serge du preez
I just want to show this as well.
I've been seeing it happen a lot.
A lot of people are posting about it.
It's happening in Ireland.
It's been happening even in Germany.
People in Scotland are flying the St. Andrews flag.
If it's happening in the continent, in the continent and within Germany and stuff like that, it's spreading.
And if this is an incident I saw, I found as well, which apparently happened in York last night.
It says the Muslim gang officially attacked locals over raising the flags, being St. George's flag.
And then also, of course, the Union Jack police swarmed the area off Conference Stream Post with the incident because that's what they would do.
Yeah, it's I mean, everyone's seen all this stuff about Tommy Robinson and how he said that he wants to.
I think it was like other special forces guy posted something about September 13th.
And then Tommy Robinson, obviously, the UK Everglinton liked that guy.
We're talking about it.
So we're definitely talking about it.
It's big news.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
william wolfe
I want to.
I've seen a lot of commentary about the state of England, right?
And whether they're gone.
And I know that they're not.
I have to believe that they're not.
So if you're watching this to our English brothers and fathers on the 4th of July, it's all about America.
But for the rest of the year, we are rooting for you to wake up and take your country back.
ian crossland
I mean, our language is English.
Talk about a bond with England.
We are one people with different governments at the moment.
phil labonte
I mean, the United States, in my opinion, the United States is the fruition of the promise that was begun with the Magna Carta.
libby emmons
Well, you know, James Joyce, who was an Irish novelist, he said the English gave us their language and we taught them how to use it.
And I feel like the English gave us the concept of freedom and we taught them what it means.
phil labonte
Yeah, true.
So yes, clang clank, we do talk about it.
We totally agree.
Like this is this is this cannot stand.
England needs to be English and the English people need to stand up and assert their rights.
serge du preez
The Europeans.
phil labonte
Yeah, the Europeans.
ian crossland
If the king's floundering and not doing it, that's why self-determinance is so important in self-governance because you can't rely on the old guy every day, you know?
serge du preez
Yeah.
phil labonte
Wyatt Claytonberg says, do a culture war with ex and current congressmen who want to reopen 9-11.
Can you help people get?
Can you help you get people?
Kook Alex Jones, Muddy the Water so much, people won't touch it.
But the San Diego story needs told.
libby emmons
San Diego story.
phil labonte
I don't know.
I don't know.
And I mean, I know Ian would like to be in on that conversation.
ian crossland
What's it about?
What's the topic?
phil labonte
9-11.
ian crossland
Yeah.
I interviewed Richard Gage.
He's been architects and engineers for 9-11 True.
phil labonte
Kuk Alex Jones, Muddy the Water.
Hey, buddy.
ian crossland
He started an organization that was just really, really, really effective at pushing out, you know, information about 9-11 that wasn't presented in the NIST, the original government explanation, let's say.
But that's a whole other conversation.
Yeah, bring me on for that one.
unidentified
Okay.
ian crossland
In fact, if we could get Richard Gage for that, that'd be fascinating.
phil labonte
Shane H. Wilder said, Senator Carol Alvarado will filibuster the redistricting bill hearing tonight.
Texas rules state she can have no food or drink and must remain standing, but she's used a catheter before and went 15 hours.
Gross.
libby emmons
That is gross.
phil labonte
Gross.
libby emmons
Also, sounds painful.
phil labonte
Yeah, gross.
And thank you for that information, Shane.
Gross.
Sailor Motoko says, at home recovering from a second hospital stay with diverticulitis.
Boy, that is an awful situation.
I've got diverticulosis.
I had diverticulitis once.
Man, that put me down for a while.
ian crossland
What do you do?
phil labonte
He says, thank God this time it wasn't complicated.
And as soon as I'm back to 100%, I'll be getting the affected part of whoa, part of my colon cut out.
Best of luck, man.
Best of luck.
ian crossland
What do you do to get it under control?
Is it just like inflammation at the colon?
phil labonte
I took, they gave me antibiotics and I think an infection that causes inflammation.
Well, itis inflammation.
So, but yeah, I mean, I was down for a week.
Like, I was rough.
And when I, like, I came back, I came back to work a little too early, too, because I was a little loopy on when I came back.
I was like, man, maybe I shouldn't.
libby emmons
Antibiotics make you loopy.
phil labonte
Yeah, I was like, maybe I shouldn't be talking about politics tonight.
I didn't say anything too crazy, but I felt it.
I was like, you know, let's see.
Omega Rasu says, Ian doesn't understand.
Satanic is a bastardization of the Hebrew word Hashatan, which means the opposition, which presumes anything that opposes spirituality, religion, Yahuwah, Christians conflate.
serge du preez
Oh, Yahweh.
phil labonte
Yahweh.
ian crossland
It's an interesting way to look at it.
It makes for a very exclusive way to worship, though.
william wolfe
Well, that's sort of the key tenet of Christianity.
ian crossland
Is it accepting, though, of other ways?
william wolfe
No, no, I mean, Jesus said, I am the way.
He was a Jew.
The truth.
phil labonte
Sure, of course he was.
ian crossland
A Jew is the way.
serge du preez
You can, yeah, that's the fulfillment of the Old Testament.
Why won't we be Jewish?
There are, there are because he came in and created the New Testament.
That was the new, the new agreement.
libby emmons
It was a new covenant.
ian crossland
He wasn't Jewish.
He would have told you to be Jewish.
phil labonte
Hey, there are, there are, there are Messianic Jews as well.
There are Jewish people, Jews, that believe that Christ was the Savior.
That's true.
They still retain their Jewishness.
They still do things that the Old Testament says, like, they'll still act like everyone should have Seder before Easter.
libby emmons
You know, we should all have that on Holy Thursday.
phil labonte
Okay.
william wolfe
Again, you should read the book of Galatians.
It's just a few short chapters.
Paul takes this question head on.
Just read the book of Galatians in your New Testament.
ian crossland
Okay.
phil labonte
Yeah.
Good idea.
ian crossland
By the way, though, you should read it out loud.
phil labonte
You should read it out loud on stream and post it to your ex-page.
ian crossland
Galatians.
That's a good idea.
phil labonte
Okay.
Jay Stewart says, CAG had a holdover for Guatemala, not El Salvador.
His lawyers are lying to the public and need to be brought before the bar.
Time these liars defend their license instead of being allowed to walk away scot-free.
Okay.
unidentified
True.
serge du preez
Kilmar Garcia.
phil labonte
Yeah, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
serge du preez
In case anyone missed that line there.
phil labonte
Let's see.
Bright Results Media says is a member for 30 months.
And he says, Good to see you, Libby.
Hope you come.
Hope you cover some of these days.
Tim is missing.
Best wishes, everybody.
libby emmons
I have also been sick.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
I was too.
libby emmons
Over a month.
It's been brutal.
serge du preez
Everyone's been sick.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian crossland
They drive me out.
libby emmons
But thanks for the shout out.
serge du preez
Yeah, true.
phil labonte
Libby's wonderful.
So let's see.
serge du preez
Thanks for being a member for 30 months.
phil labonte
Yeah, thank you.
unidentified
Appreciate it.
william wolfe
It's an oddly specific time mark, but it's good for him.
phil labonte
That's what it said.
Unite Unite Glue said the guys from China, fact chasers in the China show, might be great guests for any of the shows you guys do.
They lived in China for years and cover nothing but news coming out of China every day.
They are really, that's a really good YouTube channel.
True.
The China Show is, you guys should follow them on YouTube.
unidentified
They're good stuff.
serge du preez
I follow a lot of that stuff.
I went to high school in Singapore, so I'm very, very aware of China and its impact in the world.
And yeah, I like their stuff.
ian crossland
What do you think?
serge du preez
I'll try and have them on the show.
ian crossland
What do you think about the mandate of heaven?
serge du preez
The mandate of heaven is a concept where the Chinese people kind of decide who is going to be their leader based upon just the average happenings within China.
It's an idea of like if you lose the mandate, if you do something that like tarnishes your honor, the honor of China as a whole, then you will no longer be the person who rules China.
It's happened a couple of times across numerous dynasties within China.
If basically, if the CCP is just viewed as, if you think about the CCP, they're just another dynasty.
If the dynasty loses like the mandate of heaven, then they're no longer fit to rule China and the Chinese people then overthrow them.
It's happened many times.
ian crossland
Trump said he wants to go to heaven.
And I was like, I think the road to heaven runs through China.
serge du preez
Interesting.
libby emmons
Well, he was, he's, I thought that was really interesting because he was saying, you know, I haven't always been the best guy.
And maybe if I can stop all this killing, that would help me out.
serge du preez
Yeah.
william wolfe
It was interesting.
So, we have a second to talk about that real quickly because Trump obviously got lambasted years ago when he said, I've never asked for forgiveness.
unidentified
Right.
william wolfe
And again, I'm theological, conservative Christian.
I don't believe in works-based salvation, right?
Like, I believe that it's the free gift of grace in Jesus Christ for all of sin and fallen short of the glory of God.
But to hear that from Trump, to me, it's like saying I'm low on the totem pole.
It sounded humble.
You know, it's like he's like inarticulating, inarticulate, inarticulate in his expression of sort of a change in his spiritual posture.
And I like, yeah, like that's not how you get into heaven.
But, you know, the fact that you want to go to heaven and you realize that you have shortcomings is sort of the first step in realizing you need a savior.
phil labonte
Getting shot in the ear will change you.
ian crossland
I wonder who told him that he was low on the totem pole.
unidentified
That was a weird thing.
libby emmons
I think he probably just perceived that himself.
william wolfe
All right.
serge du preez
So let's read this one right here.
phil labonte
Yeah, we got one more from Gabe Hernandez.
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william wolfe
Yeah, thanks for having me on again today, folks.
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That's my organization's Twitter handle.
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We are working to revitalize the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the last conservative theological bulwark here in the United States of America, to hopefully make America Christian again.
So check us out at the Center for Baptist Leadership.
ian crossland
Oh, I wanted to debate great works getting you into heaven as well as great thoughts.
william wolfe
Have me come back.
phil labonte
Let's do it.
william wolfe
Let's, man.
ian crossland
That'd be a great thing.
Good to see you, William.
phil labonte
There's no debate.
Jesus was pretty clear.
ian crossland
Yeah, but if you don't do the work, then you can't create a system for people like Jesus to appear.
phil labonte
What?
william wolfe
Okay, so now, Ian, on top of Galatians, you need to go read the book of James.
unidentified
Okay.
Okay.
ian crossland
Thanks for everybody for coming.
I'm Ian Crossland.
You can follow me at Ian Crossland on the internet, YouTube, Twitter, everywhere.
Just follow me at Ian Crossland.
Happy to be here.
Take away, Lib.
libby emmons
I'm Libby Emmons.
You can find me on Twitter at LibbyEmmons.
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And I would love it if you subscribe to my newsletter, which is thepostmillennial.com slash Libby.
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phil labonte
And I am.
ian crossland
I'm going to be doing the Discord pre-show on Monday.
Okay.
6 p.m.
It's with Slick Sith.
So come join us on Discord in the Timcast Discord.
I'll see you there at 6 p.m. on Monday.
phil labonte
I am Phil That Remains on Twix.
The band is all that remains.
You can check the band out on Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube.
Don't forget the left lanes for crime.
We will see clips all weekend long, and we will be back here on Monday.
I believe Tim will be back.
If not, it will be Tate in the morning, and I will be here doing IRL on Monday evening.
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