TRUMP FIRED DHS HEAD KRISTI NOEM | Timcast IRL #1463 w/ Clinton Ohlers
Clinton Ohlers dissects Trump’s firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem—replaced by combative Sen. Mark Wayne Mullen—amid immigration chaos, $200M ad scandals, and leaked Miami GOP chats exposing racist rhetoric. The episode ties media’s shift to "woke" narratives (e.g., World of Warcraft’s loot-focused expansions) to cultural alienation, blaming DEI policies for diluting masculine storytelling in games like EA Skate. It also exposes Democrat ties to undocumented immigrants with criminal records—like Seth Moulton’s State of the Union guest—and contrasts Tallarico’s "non-binary God" claims with declining religious authenticity. The discussion ends with SafeBlood’s vaccine-alternative blood registry, framing it as a response to systemic distrust in modern institutions. [Automatically generated summary]
Donald Trump has reportedly fired Christy Noam, and there's numerous reasons being given.
He is appointing Senator Mark Wayne Mullen to take over the DHS.
We'll see if he gets confirmed or how this is going to play out.
John Fetterman says he's in favor of it.
And Christy Noam is moving over to be a special envoy for the Shield for the Americas, which I have no idea what that is.
So we'll learn all about it.
So it's going to be interesting.
And this shakeup comes after rumors were circulating following what went down in Minnesota that Trump was considering firing Christy Noam.
I didn't believe it because it's so difficult to get a confirmation through that it seemed easier just to have someone else do the job while she is still the head of DHS.
But I guess Trump finally said no.
One of the other stories is that when she's at this congressional testimony hearing, she says she did this $200 million ad campaign with Trump's knowledge.
And then Trump got all pissed.
Like, I had no idea she was going to spend $200 million on commercials.
And she did.
And so it seems like he's pretty upset about that.
We're going to talk about that.
Plus, we got a bunch of other news.
Leaked group chats coming out of the Miami GOP, in which many Republicans say, let's call it untoward things.
Racist things and racial slurs and all that stuff you'd expect from a group chat from a bunch of guys, I guess, who are Republicans.
I'd be curious about what you'd get from a Democrat group chat.
And then we've got an interesting story that's now getting a little bit more steam.
A suspected insider who's on track to make $100,000 this month in the prediction markets, accurately predicting U.S. military action, for which the individual has predicted the U.S. is going to enter Iran.
U.S. troops are going into Iran by the end of this month.
Now, there's some nuance here.
Some people are saying this proves it's going to happen because you've got somebody with insider information making a lot of money, $100,000 in a month.
My argument's a little different.
I think this person's just speculating and then selling their position before it actually gets to that point.
So we'll see.
We'll break down this story.
And then there's a crazy, crazy story.
Seth Moulton brought an illegal immigrant to the State of the Union, and the individual is a person of interest in abuse of a minor.
It's a really crazy story.
We're going to talk about that, my friends.
And of course, a whole lot more.
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We got this from CNN.
Trump fires Christy Noam as frustrations build among White House officials and GOP lawmakers.
According to NBC News following up, they make reference to her place in the administration had become increasingly unstable following the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens by federal officers during immigration operations in Minneapolis earlier this year.
And amid her fraying relationship with the U.S. Coast Guard and other reported infighting at Homeland Security, her firing by the president on Thursday in an online post comes after weeks of bad press.
So here's what Trump had to say.
He said, I thank Christy for her service.
He said great things about her and that she will be moving to be special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere.
We are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida.
And then he's calling on undefeated professional MMA fighter Mark Wayne Mullen to take over the DHS.
And then, of course, I believe the governor of Oklahoma is going to choose to appoint a senator in the interim, which should be interesting because we'll probably get a rhino.
I don't know.
But I didn't think he was going to fire her.
Getting Mark Wayne Mullen approved by the Senate seems increasingly difficult to pull off unless they give us like a tepid establishment guy and the Democrats just go, I guess I'll vote for him.
The Democrats don't want to say yes to anything that Trump does.
As for Christy Noam, I was thinking that was going to happen right around all of the hubbub in Minneapolis.
The messaging that was coming out around that was really bad.
She could have made that whole situation something that didn't get the attention that it did.
They could have handled it far better because honestly, the activities that the police were engaging on, the ICE agents and the federal agents were engaging on the ground, they weren't particularly excessive.
They were dealing with people that were doing all they could to interfere with legal law enforcement.
It feels like people are growing, at least I'm growing increasingly more.
We talked about this the other day about how increasingly difficult it is.
Everything gets stonewalled.
Everything gets blocked.
Congress can't get anything passed.
And people are growing increasingly more kind of just frustrated with the way things are going.
Obviously, the left is frustrated because they don't like anything that's going on right now because it's their job to push back.
And the right is angry on different levels because people that consider themselves America first are fighting with people who are establishment Republicans because nobody can seem to get anything through.
And then they pass laws saying you can't own guns, you can't do anything.
And then at the administrative level, when you go hyper into politics, you've got the Democrats obstructing everything and Trump admin doing relatively little.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Nuking USAID was a massive move.
And so I give Trump credit for that.
But like, Christy Noam is being criticized for, like, we're not getting the deportations people thought we were going to be getting.
The DOJ is getting criticized because you're not getting the prosecutions you thought you were going to be getting.
It's the same thing.
The people in power are not doing anything about the criminals.
So politically, we've got an archo-tyranny.
On the ground, we've got anarcho-tyranny.
And, you know, what's really frustrating for me is that every day you get inaction and failure.
People become more and more disinterested in this.
And then how are you supposed to actually rally people together to solve for these political problems when people are basically giving up because they vote for someone like Trump?
We're a year in, and they're like, this is it.
A year later, we lost Dan Bongino.
He didn't get the job done.
Christine Om wasn't getting the job done.
She's gone now.
People are calling for Pam Bondi to be fired.
The Epstein files thing is flubbed.
And I'm not saying those are the most important things imaginable, but they matter to a lot of people.
And the one thing you could always count on, you know, Benjamin Franklin was wrong.
He said the two things you can always count on, death and taxes, but there's a third.
Yeah, so the thing that I was thinking about, well, you used to characterize, or at least you would tell us how other people would characterize that Trump is the bull in a china shop, right?
Well, if that's the point here, and we have now entered a level of discourse where everything is discombobulated, nobody has any sense of decorum, we were fine with that because we were assuming that that was going to lead to some type of political change.
But if what we're getting right now is a bull in a china shop that leads to war in Iran, it's like it's the same thing we were having before, just with mean words on the internet, which are funny, but it doesn't mean that anything's going to be different this time around.
Yeah, I mean, I would like to see, obviously, I would like to see more deportations.
I've outlined my opinion about the immigration situation more times than I can count.
It does feel like Trump is actually paying more attention to international affairs than he is paying attention to the stuff at home.
And the American First People, they're not particularly interested in what's going on internationally.
They don't want the war in Iran, even though most of MAGA, if you go by the polls, most of MAGA says, look, if this goes well, we're cool with it.
You know, there's something like 75% say if it's only a month, they'll be okay with it.
So generally, the MAGA Republicans are like, okay, this is all right, but don't lose focus on the homeland.
Like paying attention to immigration is the biggest thing.
And then the stuff in the fall, when it comes to the elections, like that's going to be whether or not people feel like their dollar goes as far as they arbitrarily think it should, right?
Like they want to be able to go to the grocery store, pay their bills, and have some left over.
And they want to feel like there has been movement on that.
If they don't, Republicans cannot win.
I've said this a million times.
If they do, Republicans can win.
That's not a guarantee that all Republicans are going to win, but they're definitely not going to win if people feel like their dollar is stretched in.
But that's something that, again, if he can keep this to a short-term issue, like a month, gas prices will go down by the time the elections or the campaigns get into full swing.
And the American people have a fairly short memory when it comes to this kind of stuff.
When it comes to, you know, things that happened six months ago or a year ago, it might as well have been five years ago.
They care about what's right in front of them right now.
And if their wallets feel strained, they will not vote for Republicans.
And again, I've said it a million times.
This is not a guarantee that Republicans will win.
It's just the conditions that are necessary for Republicans to be able to win.
If things are going poorly in the economy, if people feel like they can't pay their bills, they always vote against the party in power.
The history says that generally the party in power loses in the midterms.
It's just going to be a bloodbath if they don't, if they have to.
Do you think this could be part of a larger strategy, moving Christian Ohm out at this time?
So, for example, Trump in his first term was pretty famous for moving somebody out, moving an interim person in.
So, we saw Jeff Sessions go to then have Matthew Whitaker as an acting attorney general.
I'm wondering, could this move with Christian Ohm be a strategic shift while all the eyes are on what's going on in Iran so that when we come back from that and move on to the next phase of his administration, then they bring somebody in who maybe can go even more aggressively after immigration.
As everybody knows, and it's here in the last time, him and I kind of had a back and forth.
I appreciate your demeanor today.
It's quite different.
But after you left here, you got pretty excited about the keyboard.
In fact, you tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times.
And let me read what the last one said.
It said, greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made.
Sir, I wish he was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard in long hours.
Like the United States, since the fall of the Soviet Union has kind of been a rat utopia where everyone's just living off, you know, the massive tit and getting fat and has all the entertainment and food and cheap gas.
And now, so people are going like dystopia.
There's you see this feminist creep.
It's not women.
It's just this feminist creep that's a result probably of the largely women.
You know, feminism, I think feminine energy usually comes out of women more than it comes out of men generally.
Sometimes you look at that clip that we just saw and it does seem to suggest that this is probably what Trump's going for.
He's going for somebody to get in there who is going to be tough and is willing to not shrink away from controversy, clearly, in order to be aggressive about what he wants to get done.
They say, Miami-Dade County Republican Chairman Kevin Cooper said anyone associated with this chat should resign immediately.
Republican state rep Juan Porris on Wednesday called on Carvajal directly to step down, describing the message as deeply disturbing.
In messages, Gonzalez said, you can F all the K's you want, just don't marry them and procreate.
Warning about the risk of having, quote, a little K running around.
He responded, I would death not marry a Jew.
In another anti-Semitic exchange, Valdez changed the group chat name to Gooning and Agartha, referencing slang for a male, if you know what I mean, and the mythical civilization promoted by Adolf Hitler's top henchman, Heinrich Himmler.
Valdez described Agartha as esoteric Nazism, essentially, while Gonzalez said it was Nazi heaven, sort of.
To be fair, if you're not giving us the context of what they were saying, just putting in quotes a small, like him saying esoteric Nazism essentially, they could be criticizing it for all I know.
Not that I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt, to be honest.
Another exchange, Valdez said, we need to have a moratorium on immigration temporarily, unless it's someone from a first world country.
Yeah, I obviously mean whites.
Some chat users also use derogatory language about women, while others frequently used the word N and additional disparaging and violent comments against black people.
Ew, you had colored professors, Gonzalez wrote.
I reguse, he meant refuse, to be indoctrinated by the coloreds.
He later said, avoid the coloreds like the plague.
Most of the time, I don't even say because it's like you're going to end up being guilty by association for something if somebody says something that you had nothing to do with.
Now, that being said, the Republicans should ignore all the calls for resigning and stuff because the Democrats will just use that as confirmation that the people actually meant it and that they were actually racist and stuff.
They might be able to get away with saying, oh, this is just, you know, we were just being, you know, locker room talker, whatever, however you want to call it.
They're not going to approve these people if they say they're sorry.
So they should ignore all the calls for people to resign.
No, I think this has everything to do with what we were talking about yesterday with World of Warcraft.
I'm not even joking or exaggerating.
When there's this clip that Asmund Gold has on his ex account where he watches a clip from World of War, like from Warcraft, not World of Warcraft, but the original IP from 1994.
And the point is this.
When we were all kids, the content we got was like dudes in armor running through a battlefield screaming.
And, you know, you've got like Braveheart and things like that.
They've just created some new character and it's a black.
Basically, they're like, here's your new hero is a black woman.
And like, I have no problem with black women.
I find them extremely erotic and exotic and all these things.
Lots of stuff.
But to make them the main protagonist of an action game for kids is like makes them kind of maybe resent that they're being force-fed shit that's like weird.
You know, like you don't go on a battlefield and expect to see a large black woman next to you in combat.
Let me translate the eonisms because I actually talked about this earlier today as I did a breakdown of like all like basically just elaborating everything we're talking about.
Concord, for those that aren't familiar, was a $400 million project by Sony that launched to tens of players.
Like ultimately they sold 25,000 copies of the game, but nobody was playing it.
And within 11 days, they shut it down and refunded all their money.
It is considered to be the biggest flop in the history of all media from $400 million to zero.
Even bad movies that flop, it'll be like it was a $100 million budget.
It did $60 million.
It's a flop.
Oh, there's some movies that lose that much, but the point is, I went through and looked at the characters in this game, Concorde, and it's a bunch of like Tumblr-esque, woke, weird, they-thems and she-thems.
There's like a fat Pakistani guy, and it's like, first and foremost, we go to fantasy games and realms to play as the like the extreme superhero.
You want a guy who's jacked up and you want a woman who's super hot.
Like, you don't want to be yourself.
You want to be in a fantasy of the best.
But more importantly, for these games, people need to see something recognizable.
And so, to Ian's point about an orc black woman, Lesbian.
The question is: will any young person see that character and recognize that trope in some kind of way?
No, it doesn't exist.
And so, what ends up happening is they keep trying to make these like the example that I give in the Overwatch video game, which came out 10 years ago, and we played these videos yesterday as well.
The characters are 100% stereotypes.
Hilarious.
But you know what the thing is?
Stereotypes are recognizable.
So, when someone sees an Egyptian character, and it's not demeaning, and she's got like a hieroglyph over her eye, they're like, oh, she's Egyptian.
Then, when you decide you're going to make a, you know, a black woman who does not in any way behave or represent anything related to black females and their culture or black culture, no one likes it.
So, no one will touch it.
And anyway, not to get into all that right now.
We'll talk about that later.
This goes back to the point about these group chats.
I'm going to loop it back in.
Young guys go online.
They do not have an opportunity to see war, conquest.
And I'm not saying that you should always just be into that stuff, but they're not seeing stories of heroism and they're not being given challenges.
They're not being told, here's how you succeed.
Here's how you be strong.
Here's how you be better.
Instead, they're being told to hold hands and kiss puppies.
And it's like, yo, there's a time and a place for hugging your puppy, but guys want to jump off buildings and punch each other in the nuts.
And for that matter, we can also get into, we'll save this for the end of the show.
The new game, EA Skate, one of the most anticipated games of all time, no joke, has 1,900 players on average right now.
Again, one of the most apocalyptic failures of a media.
Within six months, the player base dropped.
They lost 70% of their players after launch because it's not a game where, as a man, you are being told, here's how you conquer the world.
It's a game where you play as a morbidly obese guy with tits and you're being told by some young girl to go and have fun and play and dance.
All right, let's, because we're already talking about it, let's jump to this.
And I want to show you this clip.
And we have this from World of Warcraft.
They have a new game coming out.
And I want to just start by saying to everybody who doesn't care about these video games or anything like that, the purpose of this segment is to discuss the destruction of masculinity, the removal of what it means to be a man, the challenge to our young people, and how it's, I believe, brewing extremism and politics in a way that we're not going to be happy with.
So we just talked about this group chat leak where you've got these guys, they're saying a bunch of racist things.
And I got to be honest, I don't think for the most part these people actually are deeply racist.
I think they're trying to be shocking and edgy.
They are trying to be aggressive because this is what young men do.
And I want to show you just the beginning, a little bit of this video from World of Warcraft to give you an example of what is being done to our young people.
And if men cannot find an outlet for their drive and aggression, they will find it somewhere else.
And it used to be in our media and our video games where kids would play cops and robbers and chase each other around and the little boys would play fight.
And now they're being told to stop doing it.
It's a problem that people have addressed over the past 20 years, but has never stopped.
The problem of you got a little boy and a little girl in grade school, and the little boy wants to jump up and down and he wants to punch the ball and he wants to play and he's told to sit down and shut up and be like a girl.
watch this, slamming her staff into the ground, creating a big burst of energy, which is kind of dumb because what she was doing was actually a healing spell.
I guess, to be fair, it hurts your enemies and heals your allies or whatever.
And they got it right 20 years ago, and it became the hottest IP ever.
Even Dave Chappelle was talking about how he played World of Warcraft.
Tons of celebrities are like, this game is amazing.
And now it's about decorating your house.
So ultimately, here's my point.
We talked about it last night.
We'll talk about it now.
Young men need an outlet for adventure, for growth, to conquer.
And it's not about just being a merciless dictator and beating people and enslaving people.
It's about being the best version of yourself and the male power fantasy.
That is saving the woman and being the hero.
And now, all the IP, it's like Fortnite.
It's like cartoon, silly, collectibles, and that is 100% female.
Now, this is the funny thing.
This is why, like, it all comes together with like what they're doing with non-binary stuff, which, of course, we can get into the James Tallerico thing where he says God is non-binary.
But they're basically like, how do we make the game for boys and girls?
I know you beat the crap out of each other in order to decorate your house instead of just one or the other.
I know.
How about you make a game where you can decorate your house for the people who want to play that game?
Or if women want to play Candy Crush, they can.
And for the guys, you play the game where you slay the dragon and then use its entrails to decorate your house.
This is a mixture of both the corporate structure of these companies now, which are so large that they get focus groups and they try to find ways to advertise.
In Hollywood, for movies, it's called four-quadrant movie making, where you try to make movies for men, women, young, and old.
And usually, when me and Phil were talking about this earlier, when you try to make something for everybody, you end up making something for nobody at all.
If they should make it so she gets bigger the more she eats, like Katamari Damazi, ever play that where you roll that ball around and sticky things to the ball and the ball gets bigger and bigger.
And then you're like rolling it through cities and like picking up buildings and stuff.
There's something important that needs to be said.
If World of Warcraft and these companies really do want to just make money, okay, well, OnlyFans make substantially more money than anything they're doing.
So why don't they just make World of OnlyFans and you'll make money?
My point is, if the goal is to make money and you don't care that you're destroying your intellectual property, then just go full boar, baby.
Well, you know, the direction I was thinking of looking at this in is I'm wondering if what we're actually seeing here is a much larger cultural shift.
There's a great article written by a guy named Jacob Savage in this online journal Compact.
It's called The Lost Generation.
And the premise that he makes there is that what happened between Generation X and the millennials, and then it's going to be Generation Z, is that that move for DEI and to get equal representation of women and everyone else in the workforce just took over like the cultural, you know, we call the cultural industries.
So film, universities, television shows, where the Gen Z white males didn't leave and say, okay, we're going to give our seats to black women, right?
But what they did is they then were part of, you know, hiring programs that only hired basically non-white males.
So you had all of these, you know, millennials who work up and coming in, say, the entertainment industry to be writers and producers and things.
And suddenly they're being looked over no matter how good their work is.
And what I would wonder is, are we seeing this same phenomenon here in the video game world?
Because this is totally fitting up.
Yes, it's totally fitting up time-wise because it was about 2014, they say, when this shift really took place.
And then you saw white males largely going to other kinds of industries, kind of like what we're doing here.
But talking about how millennial men, older millennials, Gen X, and boomers have largely kept their positions, but it's become really, really hard for young guys, for younger millennials, Gen Z, and likely some Gen Alpha kids to find jobs because they're basically pulling the ladder up behind them, right?
So there's this push for diversity and inclusion that happened, started probably 10 years ago, really kind of peaked in 2020 or whatever.
And so there were all these guys in these positions, and they jumped on board with it right away, saying, oh, yeah, we want to make sure that we hire diverse people.
And they were hiring people, you know, all kinds of different backgrounds and stuff.
And they were essentially blocking out the possibility for young white guys.
And then you have all these positions or you have all these kids that are just not getting jobs.
They go to college.
They get sold the bill of goods that if you go to college, you'll get a job.
You go ahead and take a loan out because you'll get a good job and you'll be able to pay it off.
And these young guys aren't getting jobs at all.
And it's starting to show in the culture because the type of stories that a diverse, you know, a diverse group of people or a woman would write or a person from a minority background, they are different types of stories than young men.
It's not necessarily just that, but the type of person who would get ahead by those types of programs would.
So these industries have been diverse for years.
There have been fantastic writers and directors of all different races for a very long time.
But the ones who have gotten by virtue of these programs put a specific interest in the concept of identity and talking about how identity affects storytelling, which is going to leak into the type of stories that you think are necessary to tell on screen.
If we're talking video games and movies also, a lot of it is, if it's not the four quadrant approach that I was talking about for the big blockbuster movies, it is the idea that you make your movies with a female audience in mind, even if they're doing it wrong.
So in Hollywood for superhero movies, that's to put women in roles that were traditionally, these characters have always existed, but they were never at the same level of supergirl is not superman in a lot of ways, or in the same way Batman and Batgirl, all of these things, is that when people go, when men go watch superhero movies, that is the male power fantasy, the quintessential idea of being the hyper-competent, good in any situation dude who can solve, you know, it still exists in a realm today, what they call dad TV,
which is military dramas or covert ops stuff like terminalist or anything Taylor Sheridan is doing, stuff like that.
But when you try to make it for everybody, what they just did is they just put women in those roles rather than adjusting for the type of storytelling, which there are still good stories that can be told here.
But they didn't do that.
They just slapped a new coat of paint on what they were doing and it's falling flat.
They're not willing to approach that type of post-apocalyptic story anymore with any sense of realism.
There was a show back in like the early 2000s called Jeremiah that was really, really good talking about stuff like that and the way warlords would crop up in different areas of the country and stuff like that.
But that type of story, there is no premium put on that type of what they would consider accuracy, at least what we know of history and how war affects or when different people come into different communities, take over, and what happens.
There's no approach to that anymore.
Also, the other problem is, is back in the day, movies were made or television shows were made by people that studied literature.
Now movies and television are made by people that study film.
So they don't have a classical understanding of those stories the way they would have in the past.
Well, and the thing is, they could do that most of the time.
They're not doing that.
There is the idea that you could tell a unique story from a unique culture and people would have a certain level of interest in that.
But what they would rather do is slap the new coat of paint on it because they are looking to gather the largest audience possible.
To them, if you tell a story unique to African culture or unique to Spanish culture, these studios are now run by corporate executives.
And these corporate executives, they look at demographics and they look at focus groups and test groups.
What audience is going to come out the most for this, depending on the budget for that movie, they are going to soften it and make it the most kind of mishmash bit of like, you know, cinematic oatmeal, basically, where it's all slop that runs together because they're trying to get everybody to watch.
And what people actually want to see are authentic stories.
And they don't realize that most people, they do not need to see themselves represented on screen to go and watch a movie.
It's just not something that's actually real to people that aren't terminally online.
I find that the attempt to please everybody does miss the mark because I think the thing about culture and cultural victory is when you make something that appeals to a niche and then the rest of the world sees it and they're like, holy shit, I want to become part of that.
And then they change to form your niche and you build your niche.
Well, I mean, that's the way I've always seen valuable art is like it, it hits us so right that it appeals to people that never even knew it could exist.
I mean, even that, like the point I always make with that movie is it ends on a love ballad.
Like, when was the last time you saw a movie that actually like unapologetically leaned into that type?
He gets the girl at the end, right?
Like, he, so in that story, he's kind of a man out of time.
He, he doesn't really, he feels like the world has passed him by.
He doesn't really know if he has what it takes anymore because there are younger pilots.
The military is moving past what he does.
Makes perfect sense.
That's something that anybody of any age, I think, can at least understand.
Even a young person can understand because they look at their dad and they say, like, my dad doesn't know what's going on in the world either, right?
And depending on how, you know, romantic, you know, how much you're willing to romanticize that type of storytelling, that speaks to men and women, young and old, but it's not designed specifically for that purpose.
Men love it because of the idea of flying a jet and getting the girl.
Women love the idea of it because, you know, competent men save the world for them in jets.
If I was going to write a movie and there's an action movie, and should I have the guy, should there be a romantic story in the movie where the guy gets the girl at the end, or should it just be pure action?
It should save the woman and the child, but he has to move on anyway.
And look, the whole reason guys try to be competent and try to be successful is because they want to get women.
They want to attract women.
That's the base instinct, right?
So if you, and it's like, sure, there's the, there's a portion of guys that would be like, yeah, he, he decides not to, and he's, he's got bigger things on his mind.
But unless you have an integral part of the story that says he can't do this for what happens, like Terminator 2, because that was my argument.
And I think this all comes back to they've overcomplicated all of this.
They've made this type of storytelling more difficult than it needs to be.
There's a reason why these tropes have worked for as long as they have because people understand people want those basic concepts.
They want to see people overcome obstacles.
They want to see people fall in love.
They want to see all of these things.
But it's like they're being told, whether it's by feminist literature or people who study critical race theory or all these things, you can't do that now.
It's promoting bad ideas.
It's gotten us to where we are in society.
Patriarchy.
Exactly.
It's the patriarchy.
So by trying to be clever and work around it, they end up making their products worse.
But yeah, so I mean, it is something that's still ingrained in people.
They want to find connection, and men generally want to find connection with a woman.
And so, like I said, even though the men go their own ways, the MGTOW guys, like they're complaining about the fact that they can't meet women.
They're complaining.
They're upset about it.
And they say, well, it's not worth it.
But that's all motivated by the fact that they're angry that they can't find a person that they think is interested in them or they don't feel like they can trust women and stuff.
So the desire, the motivation is almost always for a family or to be with a woman or whatever.
I just think, yeah, the point that you're bringing up is if you look throughout history and you look at some of the iconic films, it's this idea of the self-sacrificing male who restrains many of his urges and things or self-interest in order to build something larger.
You notice like the old Clinton Wood movies like Pale Riot or something, you know, comes into town, restores order, then rides off in the sunset.
You see it in a real, probably sort of a forgotten film now, but a classic with Shane, a famous Western, very much like that, where Shane then, having done, having overcome the, you know, the cattle barons, I believe it was either rides off, you know, into the distance.
And there was something very appealing about that, as well as appealing to the guy who comes and gets the girl and saves the day.
But I think what's not appealing is when those roles get all reversed, because it's not what men are looking for and who they want to be.
It's not what women are looking for and what women want.
And I think if we want to look at iconic films, I mean, let's go all the way back to the original Star Wars, right?
There you've got Luke Skywalker shooting a grappling hook, grabs Princess Leah, they swing across, you know, some abyss, you know, in the middle of this huge ship.
And he's competing or Luke's hand solo's competing with him for her affection.
And she's totally feminine.
I mean, she's out there wielding a blaster, but she's still a feminine character.
You fast forward to episode seven where they bring in Ray, who turns out to be Ray Palpatine.
And I mean, she's, you know, the Mary Sue, right?
She just, oh, finds the Millennium Falcon in the junk, you know, junkyard, and she can fly everything.
I always love Vader when Luke's beaten on with the lightsaber and Vader's like, and then he goes, oh, it's like the one time you get to hear him scream and he gets his arm cut off.
He gets all the girls, but that might be more what they mean, which is like he gets the women, the women want him, because that's the whole James Bond power fantasy is like the men want to be him, the women want to be with him.
But he's not like, like, it got bad in the Daniel Craig movies when they focused too much on after Casino Royale on how much he loved Vesper.
Because I'm like, I don't really care if James Bond is in love because that's not really what James Bond is about on the structural level of the character.
We're going to jump to this story from the Boston Herald.
Moulton State of the Union guest referenced in police reports involving sexual assault and juveniles, according to police.
Let's see.
Congressman Seth Molton's illegal immigrant guest during the State of the Union address is referenced in police reports involving sexual assault and juveniles.
Police say the Herald submitted a public records request to the Secretary of State's office in the Milford Police Department regarding two reports, one from June and the other from September of 2021, where Marcielo Gomez de Silva was apparently named as the person of interest.
The Herald sought the police report number 21-23101 dated 9-15-2021 featuring Marcelo Gomes de Silva and 1-16-254 dated 6-30-21, also featuring the 19-year-old.
Milford Deputy Chief John Sanchioni denied both of those requests, indicating that the police report from June 21st involves sexual assault and juveniles, and that the report from September 21st involves juveniles.
He did not elaborate.
The deputy chief simply wrote, The records you are requesting are not public record.
In accordance with blah, blah, blah, involves a sexual assault and juveniles report, blah, blah, blah, involves juveniles.
So it's pretty interesting that it seems the Democrats always side with some kind of criminal.
Like beyond the fact that they're here illegally, they always hold up these people that they believe are these model immigrants that they can say, oh, you know, look, this is an illegal person.
This person's here illegally.
They don't have papers.
They're an undocumented person.
And then it always turns around and bite him in the ass because they've got some kind of criminal history that really Americans just don't want to have to.
They don't want to hear about it.
They don't want to hear that this person, that immigrants are committing crimes.
They want criminals sent out of here.
And Democrats can't help but take the side of people that are coming to the United States and committing massive amounts of crime.
They believe that if the structural issues in the United States weren't the way they are, that these people wouldn't have committed crimes.
And I think that's totally BS.
I think there are people that are more inclined to commit crimes and there are people that are less inclined to commit crimes.
And the people that are more inclined to commit crimes do multiple crimes like come here illegally.
There was four years of the Biden administration where the, where basically anybody that could get here was allowed to stay.
There was no background checks on anyone to talk about.
And so there were a lot of people that had issues in their initial, in their countries of origin, where they said, oh, I can get out of here and I'll go to the United States and I can start over or I can just stay there because the United States is allowing basically anyone to come in, right?
Biden himself said it.
He said, you should surge the border here for, if you can get to the border, we'll take you in.
If you want to seek asylum, come here, et cetera.
And they were just allowing people to come into the interior of the country.
Anyone that got here, they didn't have to go to a port of entry.
They didn't have to go through the normal asylum rules.
They just showed up and the Biden administration let them in.
So that was a gigantic magnet for people that were criminals in their countries of origin to come to the United States.
Also, that is, you know, structurally for the Democrats, that's a benefit because of what it does for the census.
And then what it does is it takes advantage of the toxic levels of empathy that a lot of people in their voter base have, which means that they get to use it.
It's politically expedient for them to use it as a means of growing their voting base as well as changing the demographics of whatever cities they're going to, whatever, people that are more in line with Democrat policies.
And then you are the bad guy if you, for some reason, don't believe it.
And the funny thing was, we saw the video, I think we talked about it last week, about the lady who she fled.
Her and her partner fled to Canada and couldn't afford the rent there because it's freaking expensive to live wherever they were in Vancouver or whatever it was.
And said, look, we can't apply for any of the social services.
We don't qualify.
That's fine.
And I was like, look, I don't know what this lady's full plate of political beliefs are, but it's not hard to believe that if you fled America, fled Trump's America, that you probably have a pretty soft stance on American immigration, right?
You probably think that anybody that wants to come here is, you know, it's all well and good because it's our duty to apparently help everybody else across the world.
And it's all, it's weirdly, it's not even hypocrisy because it's intentional.
If we didn't have such eyes on what's happening, I think this may be, maybe the first time in world history ever in human history that we know of that a society realized they were being invaded through a mass migration.
It's got to always, after the fact, they find out maybe the government knows.
But if the government's complicit, I mean, when the government says police search, they'll keep the population snowed out and not knowing what the fuck until they're taken over.
And then they're like, see, now, but this is worse than complicit, though.
But that people are treated like the bad guy when they speak out against it.
I don't think that dynamics really existed much in history because we didn't have internet video to see and to complain about the problem in the acute moment.
Well, you know, a lot of this goes back to demographic forecasting that they did back in the early 2000s, right?
So in general, 80% of children tend to adopt the political views of their parents.
And so back in the early 2000s, I mean, the Democrats did, a lot of people were talking about this, but in particular, the Democrats realized the risk for their party, which was that liberal voters are reproducing at much lower rates than conservative ones.
So as the demographic trajectories were going, it would only be a short matter of time before conservatives are really outpopulating.
Conservatives and moderates, moderate conservatives, are outpopulating your farther left base of the Democratic Party.
And so you really did need to come up with new voters.
And if they weren't going to give birth to new voters, then you have to import your new voters.
So it's been a long strategy going on probably for about 20 years or more to do just this.
And then it also ties in to communist interests in the United States, right?
So the long-standing goal of the communist parties was to bring in people from poorer countries who would be more ideologically aligned with socialism because they would benefit the most from it.
And actually Venezuela was seen to be a significant player in that because as Venezuela destabilized under its previous regimes, then it's sending more and more refugees who are liable to come eventually United States with at least more socialistically leaning proclivities, right?
And so that's what you do.
That's how you replace one voter demographic with another in order to maintain political power.
And we see that, of course, taking place in Europe, where the elite political class of Europe is more than willing to offset the indigenous voter base of natural-born Europeans with migrants and then play to those migrant interests.
We saw that in Spain just last, I think it was last week, where they gave citizenship to something like 500,000 African immigrants for the express purpose of offsetting what they called the far right.
And so then they're members of the, then they're not illegals, they're members of the community.
If you listen to the people in Minneapolis talk, they were all saying the same thing.
These are members of our community.
And so they're trying to convince people that these people that are here illegally, that have come in illegally, that they're vital members of the community and we can't break apart communities.
They use these phrases that are politically charged and essentially emotionally charged in order to get people to feel bad because the whole suicidal empathy thing is a real phenomenon, right?
So you tell people that they're actually important members of the community and we can't break up communities like that.
And people are like, oh, well, we can't deport these people.
That's sad and it makes me feel bad.
And so then they're hoping that the argument becomes, well, we need to allow these people to stay.
And then they promote an amnesty program and allow them to become citizens.
And then you have a significant increase in the voter base, which is likely to be largely Democrat.
We were talking this morning.
When you have people from the third world come in, the way that their societies are structured and the things that they expect from their government is different.
In the Somali community in Minnesota, there was a lot of people that expected if they vote for the Democrat or the person that they vote for, they expect that person to literally shield them from the law.
And there was a guy in Maine that's a Somali guy.
He was on camera talking to his representative saying, look, we voted for you.
You have to protect us from this stuff.
And he didn't mean to try to change the law.
He meant literally to interpose himself between the law and the community that voted for him.
You should protect us.
We should be allowed to break the law and you protect us because we voted for you.
That's totally a foreign concept in a country like the United States where, look, you can play by the rules, but the law is the same for everybody.
And the notion that this person was trying to get across is if we vote for you, then we should be above the law because you should protect us.
It also kind of underlines just how much the Overton window has switched in a lot of ways, where it depends on how much of a romantic view you've carried about immigration in the past.
You know, a great part of the American story was the idea that the people that wanted to get here, that really did believe in what America stood for, could do so, integrate into the community, assimilate to the values that Americans had.
And to most of us, depending on how far you are along the line, now that was a beautiful thing.
And it was something that a lot of Americans supported and a lot of them still do.
And they come up against this idea of people who have crossed the border illegally.
They are now part of your community.
And they are taxed with the idea that they have to be harsh and say, look, this isn't the way.
This isn't how community, you know, this isn't how we build upon the empire that we have here.
We have to make changes.
And you're held to account to say, like, if you don't come to this, the same conclusion we do, which is that anybody can come in no matter what, you are a bad person because they're expecting you to look at somebody in the face and say, this guy who lives next door to you, you're saying he has to go, right?
It's not a fair position to put them in, but it's also not a fair.
You were put in that position by them.
And like we were saying earlier, depending on who your elected officials are, you know, the idea of empathy goes a long way in a lot of these voting blocks.
You know, part of this, this really the gross or the sad part about this situation is that they were, a lot of those people were told to come here by the guy who became president.
So like, it's not like a bunch of people just came in under somebody's watch and snuck in and were like, no, now they're here.
We got to get them out.
I think there'd be a lot more people on board like, hey, that can't happen.
They were invited by the guy that was the president.
It wasn't even about asylum or anything like that.
They came across multiple borders to get here.
They wanted to be here.
They didn't want to be in Mexico.
They wanted to come all the way here because America allows them more economic opportunities.
And to criticize Trump, as we should, they didn't do enough about the factory farms.
They didn't punish any of the companies that were incentivized to hire these people because they know that they'll face a slap on the wrist and maybe some fines and that person gets deported.
They don't suffer any penalties for that.
The whole point of it was to import a legitimate slave class that Republicans have paid lip service to deportations, but both parties benefit from.
So that kind of policy would do something to change people, you know, change the minds of people coming here.
If they knew that they couldn't get work, if they knew that they couldn't rent an apartment or find some place to live, then they wouldn't come here.
But they know that the government has all kinds of programs.
They know that the government has all kinds of support structure for illegals that honestly frequently aren't offered to regular Americans, to American citizens.
And so there are even, I mean, look, there are even programs that the government has to help people that have come here illegally or people that are seeking asylum or whatever.
HHS has a program called, I forget the name of the program, but they had a program where they were basically shipping people around the country to do basically the whole trying to turn, it essentially boiled down to turning flights, right?
So you'd come here ostensibly as a refugee and they would give you a flight to somewhere around, somewhere in the country.
And what it turned into was they were flying people to red places in order to try to turn them purple, you know, to try and affect the outcomes of elections.
It was also a problem with the messaging that like when they were making the deportation videos, right?
They're making hype reels that are basically red meat for the base.
But the problem is, is like there is a large part of your voting demographic now, especially with a big tent policy, is there are people there that want those deportations, but it's hold their nose and see it done because they wouldn't have the heart to do it themselves, which is, of course, the point, like you were saying, of bringing people in was to make it harder for you to see a person have to be removed from the country because you've turned them into a person.
They're no longer somebody who came here illegally.
They're a human being.
And unfortunately, it is the government's job to look at them as somebody that needs to be deported, not as the individual.
So a lot of that messaging, I felt like ended up turning a lot of people away from it because a lot of the people in the middle saw those videos and they're like, you're making light of it.
I get it.
Like it's funny, whatever, but you lose people.
And if the point here is to build your political capital, not spend your political capital, I don't think that that was the right thing to do.
You probably got to see Sin Frontera, man, because like that film Kevin, a 6-7 Kevin made, kind of goes into like what happened to make all of these, you know, everyone come here and how messed up it is.
It was like a joke he said to somebody outside after a show, and now 100 million people or whatever, 50 million people saw it.
And he said he was getting death threats.
I'm like, bro, you just burned your bridge with me because he had Donald Trump on his show like four weeks before the election and basically handed him the election with that, with that, you know, publicity and his seal of approval as a, as a comedian, and him and Rogan together.
They did one where like the DHS head was like Batman and I'm like, bro, like, like, I think that one was made while they were on, well, while the government was shut down.
I'm like, who's the editor that's like working while the government is shut down to make all this stuff?
To the point about the podcasters, that's a hard one because he lost a lot of the, he has since lost a lot of those podcasters that kind of helped him get elected, like the Andrew Schultz's and stuff like that.
But he also can't change his business plan just because they might not have understood what he actually wanted to do.
He was open and honest about what he wanted to do.
A lot of people just weren't willing to look at what it was going to look like to do mass deportations.
He was very clear during the entire campaign that deportations were going to happen.
In fact, he was so clear that the people on the right or the more America first right, they don't think that he's done enough.
So if he's lost people that were watching, you know, the Theo Vaughn show or watching Joe Rogan, that's because they didn't understand what he was actually offering or what he was saying he was going to do.
Donald Trump hasn't been as extreme as the people on the far right that voted for him wanted him to.
So the idea that he should do less, I think that would have actually lost him more in the long run.
Everybody's mad about something and saying, this is it.
They're going to lose the midterms.
They're going to lose all this stuff.
Are we kind of entering?
Is it possible that information is moving so fast now and public opinion changes so fast now that we're out of the age of like two-term presidents like back-to-back terms?
I don't know enough about business to really know, but I would think you would start a company that you would run at a loss on purpose and make it lose you 50 billion.
And then you're like, see, I'm not worth so much, right?
Well, I mean, even we, how often does immigration and deportations come up and they find the old videos of Obama saying like, you can't just come here.
You can't just come here and expect to exist, right?
You're going to have to pay the piper if you want to do that.
We're going to either send you back or whatever's going to happen.
Like those views aren't all that different for most of us, but most people have memory hold it so fast that they don't realize how much things have changed.
Like it wasn't a border wall.
It was a border fence that they talked about back then.
So like for me specifically, as somebody who still considers himself to have quite a few fairly liberal positions economically, I don't look at the right as if they like small government anymore, anyways.
That's something that's actually more popular on the right as well.
The idea of the libertarian right is a shrinking portion of the electorate now.
I mean, they were never all that big in particular, but they really have kind of dwindled down in numbers.
There's not a lot of people that are like, oh, let's really, really constrain the government.
There are a lot more people nowadays that are like, all right, we're right-wing, but we want to use the government to enforce our policies and to push our agenda.
And to be honest with you, as much as I used to be a libertarian, I think that because of the world that we live in, you have to use the power that you're given when you're elected, right?
The voting population votes.
They don't vote for you to just not do anything.
They don't vote for you to just stop the Democrats.
They vote for you to do things and deliver for them.
I don't think that when it comes to the right, they're looking for policies that would be considered handouts or government programs, but I do think they want to see the government exercise power that they have in favor of policies that they like.
I think to your earlier question about are people so one issue-minded that it would be hard to even have a two-term presidency.
I think we are in something unique in history, which is America as a country has gone through a period of incredible disillusionment.
For example, freedom of speech, right?
When I was growing up, up until 2020, freedom of speech was seen as sanctuariesanct.
And then suddenly everybody's getting canceled for speech crimes.
And most of those crimes that you're getting canceled for was actually being accurate about the truth and the science and about the pandemic, right?
And so ultimately, and that's just piled on, right?
And now, you know, it used to be like real conspiracy theory land to think that RFK Jr. was, excuse me, John F. Kennedy was assassinated by like a conspiratorial plot.
And now we're like, yeah, it looks like it was our intelligence agencies, right?
And that's mainstream.
And so what's happening is we're becoming disillusioned over one thing after another so that the institutions that were seen to be trustworthy, like the USDA, when I was in sixth grade, I mean, we'd see films about how the USDA had come and made our food supply safe.
And there was a huge level of trust I think Americans had in our institutions that has really been shattered over the last five to six years.
And people are now figuring out how do we really arrive at the truth and move forward.
And so the good thing about that is we're so much more aware.
And we're very aware now on issues of big pharma and the stuff that I'm focused on, on really medical science misinformation and false science put out in order to advance the interests of really big corporate interests that are putting out products that are harmful to people.
So the awakening has been very important.
But I think the flip side of it is that we can become too simplistic in jumping to our conclusions, right?
We can, like glyphosate.
One of the best articles written explaining what went on with Trump's executive order on glyphosate was written by a woman, Dr. Sherry Tenpenny.
Okay, now Dr. Sherry Tenpenny has been at the forefront of Maha, at the forefront of warning about all of the things that seemed like conspiracy theories at first that turned out to be totally true.
And she's able to do that because of her medical expertise.
So when she comes out saying, hey, Maha, don't get bent out of shape over this.
This is more complex because of our dependency on glyphosate, right?
We don't just, you know, this is a, we're in a, we're in a fix now that we got to slowly extract from, right?
Texas Demon nominee Tallarico's past remarks on abortion, race, and gender draw scrutiny.
If you have gone to his ex page and looked at anything 2020 or previous, it is a treasure trove of basically memeable stuff.
From Fox News, while running as a moderate with bipartisan appeal, Texas state rep James Tallarico, who defeated rep Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic Senate nomination, has a history of making controversial statements on matters of race, religion, gender, border security, and beyond.
With Tallarico in the national spotlight for the first time, many commentators and strategists are resurfacing some of his past remarks.
Among them is a 2021 video of Tallarico at the Texas House floor in Austin opposing a bill to ban men from women's sports and claiming that God is non-binary.
God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.
God is non-binary, said Tallarico, adding, trans children are God's children made in God's own image.
A self-identified Presbyterian seminarian, Tallarico cast many of his political stances in the Christian and biblical language.
However, while speaking on a January episode of the Esler Klein show, Tallarico appeared to equate Christianity with other religions, including Hinduism and Islam.
I believe that Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us, but I also believe that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways with their own simple structures.
And I've learned more about my tradition by learning more about Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam and Judaism.
And so I see these beautiful faith traditions as circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos, he said.
I tend to be, you know, unless you are somebody who is deeply into your religion, politicians being religious always feels a lot of time as if it's something that they put on as part of their voter demographic, depending on, you know, their party and stuff like that.
I mean, these things are, there are things in certain religions that are exclusionary of other religions.
Like, you can't be a Christian and say, oh, you know, the Hindus got some stuff right when it comes to spirituality.
Like, the basic tenet of being a Christian, whatever your denomination is, you believe that Christ is the Son of God and that he died and was resurrected and that was like the payment for sin.
That's how human beings, that all human beings are fallible, all man sins, and Christ paid the ultimate price for your sins, right?
If you don't believe that, or you believe something in addition to that or whatever, you're not actually a Christian.
I will counter a little bit because I think that Christianity in the beginning was an amalgamation of different beliefs, like different stories, and then they created a unified story.
So like we could do that with all the religions of earth to create a new religion.
And I mean, that's really where these kind of debates belong, right?
They belong, they're theological, theological debates, and you can have theological debates with your friends.
You can talk about that amongst yourselves, or you can go to debate philosophy and stuff.
But when you're taking an established religion and wearing it like a skin suit and saying, oh, well, I kind of believe these things, but in front of this crowd, I'm going to say things like God is non-binary, which is completely not true, right?
Like the idea of God being non-binary, God is pretty clear about what God is.
Just because God made women doesn't mean God is a woman or God isn't both.
But yeah, like these religions have a serious history and they have an understanding of themselves that Tallarico is just basically using in a way to attract votes.
And now Jasmine Crockett blaming Republicans for cheating.
So literally, there's an equal time rule where if he gets time on one of the night shows, Jasmine Crockett is supposed to get an equal amount of time.
She didn't get that time, and now she's decided she's going to blame Republicans for the cheating, even though it was clear that it was Tallarico and I think it was Jimmy Kimmel.
You know, I'm doing a quick look too here at the focus and the emphases of the seminary here, according to ChatGPT.
And so what we're finding is Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, you know, it's described here as emphasizing ministers who are preparing to engage in justice, inclusion, and community service.
So a big social justice emphasis and inclusivity, affirming stance on LGBTQ and inclusion and ordination, right?
So we're talking about bringing in that group into actually ordained pastoral roles and supporting the full participation of this community in church leadership.
Right.
And then interfaith engagement, like we saw with the Hinduism and all that.
So this would really represent, you know, it's kind of interesting.
Actually, I went to seminary.
I've got a master's in the history of Christian thought from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
And one of the things I was very interested in were the movements in the early 20th century among the liberal theological liberalizers.
And it's really very much like what we're seeing today.
And this is a manifestation of it, of wanting to drop all the things that might be, say, offensive about the religion or maybe offensive to some modern views of science.
You know, it's really interesting where things have gone on that because people are much more open to the ideas of the supernatural and miracles and things today than they were just 30, 40 years ago.
But when you go back, you see how they were trying to adapt to those trends in their society and to say, well, let's get away from the idea of miracles.
Was Jesus really born of a virgin birth?
Did he really walk over all these things?
These are myths and stuff.
And then what you do instead is you focus on things like social justice or the good things that the religion could do because you no longer really have any more actual historical or symbolic content, right?
And so I think this is what we're seeing here with Tellarico: that's just an extension of that.
And so now we have full DEI and religion.
And just as we were looking at it in video gaming or film or everything else, it's not appealing to very many people.
And this is exactly what happened with the mainstream denominations: the more they went this direction, the more they lost interest because either Christianity is true or it's not.
So they're trying to justify faith kind of using science because they don't believe it anymore.
And now they're coming up with like these different various DEI type beat things to weave in there to kind of replace what they now think is like mythologic.
Yes, if you go back to the 1920s in particular, there was a movement because science showed that nature was just an unbroken chain of cause and effect.
There was a big move away that miracles could even be a real thing, right?
God didn't intervene, right?
And so, well, what do you do if you're going to try and be a Christian, but you no longer believe God intervenes, right?
Well, the only thing you can push towards is, well, let's do good things in society.
Let's be on this good cause or that good cause.
And this, in a lot of ways, is an extension of that.
And the connection there is with Presbyterian Church USA, which was a very big part of that movement at that period of time.
For one thing, I actually think the broader community, easier access of communication that we have, I mean, there's much more open discussion.
And so it's much easier just to talk about taboo subjects, right?
Whereas before you go back to the 1980s, just people didn't talk about these things.
Even in, say, like a church Bible study, if you were reading a passage where Jesus heals, you know, it'd be some brave person to say, hey, have you who's had answers to healing?
You know, a prayer for healing.
And then suddenly all these people would start talking about it.
But even in church settings, they didn't always feel comfortable talking about some things sometimes because they felt like it's just, this is really out there.
It's very marginal, right?
And that just goes to show about how common cultural values really start shaping what people feel free to talk about.
I also think going back to there's a fantastic video of a presentation at Oxford by a scholar named Craig Keener.
And he did a two-volume series back in 2014.
And this, I think, really does get to your question.
So 2014 was a turning point when scholarship in universities in certain niche fields like science and religion started saying, is there more to the reports of miracles than we've been given credit coming from our scientistic background.
And so Craig Keener at Oxford in 2014 gives this incredible synopsis of what he had found in, it was at the Ian Ramsey Center.
And anybody can Google it.
It's an hour of amazing documentation where he went around the world because his wife's African.
And he said, you know, their family had stories of miracles that were just mind-blowing.
And so he wanted to see, he's a New Testament scholar.
What I was thinking about systems, I mentioned systems earlier.
Like people are like, I want, if we get rid of glyphosate, it'll fix.
You know, how come my cause isn't creating the effect I expect?
Miracles can't happen because what's, but you realize like systems, we're in a larger system than we can perceive.
And there may be a cause outside of human perception or unmeasurable with current tools that's prayer may be doing, I mean, that's my personal take on it.
Very much the interconnected nature of the fabric of reality is apparent at this point.
I mean, if you study space-time and you've watched Nassim Harriman's stuff on the source child proton, you know that we're in this like web of density that's interconnected, you know, interfering with itself at the speed of light, transmitting information.
So I'm all on board.
But I didn't learn that until internet video.
Before internet video, I was very skeptical about all of it until I saw some evidence of like, what the bleep do we know?
Remember that kind of cheesy documentary that came out about quantum physics?
It was quantum physics.
You know, that was my first answer to your question, Brett.
This is my take on it.
Why are people more open to supernatural?
Because quantum physics.
And then the mainstreaming of quantum physics in 2007 through the internet video and all the thousands of people now talking about prayer, but their own version of it.
When you go from a worldview where you just think everything's like a mechanistic system, which goes back to the philosopher Descartes, right?
But the idea is everything's a mechanistic system and there's no room for anything but the gears, right?
And then you switch from that to understanding quantum physics, and now you have a very believable, I'm going to say, platform through which a omniscient, omnipotent being could very easily interact and engage our universe.
The AI videos that are created with, and I think the songs themselves are actually AI as well.
But he's pretty talented.
He knows how to prompt an AI, definitely.
So Wolf374171 says, I don't remember anyone calling for Gnome to be fired, but okay, I guess.
How about an actual problem named Bondi?
Yeah, I think that that's a very popular take.
People would like to see Pam Bondi taken out.
But again, I think that it comes back to the situation of who is actually going to get confirmed by the Senate.
There's a lot of people say, you know, we got to fire this person.
We got to fire this person because they're not producing the results we want and we like.
And whereas I agree with the sentiment, they're not producing the results that we were looking for.
It also has to be a person replacing them that will realistically get confirmed by the Senate.
And considering there's a boatload of appointments that still haven't been confirmed, I don't know that there are a lot of people on a list of people that would actually be able to get the job that we get approved by the Senate.
S guest says, per tradition, I'm watching from the hospital after my wife gave birth to our third child, a baby girl.
Congratulations.
Love to hear it.
We need more babies.
Let's see.
That one gamer says, Phil's being too nice to Pam Bondi.
Her behavior at the hearing was atrocious.
She made the whole admin look bad.
Look, you can be totally right about that, but what I said about getting someone to replace her is still true.
Like, I know people hate to think about how the sausage is made in Washington, right?
Like, everybody likes to say, just do this, just do that.
But there are so many processes and procedures that have to be gone through when you're doing anything in D.C.
This is part of why people get so frustrated with D.C., part of why things happen so slowly, because there is a process and a procedure for basically everything that happens in D.C.
And all of them are designed to slow things down.
Nobody wants D.C. moving fast because then you'll end up having you'll end up having changes that are detrimental and they won't be well thought through.
The House is only two years for a reason because the population will have their opinions will sway depending on what's going on.
So you have the House to represent the people.
They only get two years, but the Senate is six years and that's supposed to be more deliberative.
And that was part of the design.
The federal government isn't supposed to do all the crap that it does.
And so I get, you know, when you're starting to pull stuff out, you want it to happen fast so that way we can get rid of all the bureaucracy and stuff.
And I agree completely, but it doesn't change the fact that the way that the government, the federal government is structured is intended to move slow because it's not supposed to be able to do 90% of the stuff that it does.
It also feels like that's all kind of gone out the window because the Supreme Court is very much politicized now in a way that it never was before, or at least that it shouldn't have been before, right?
When we got our last cat that we bought from this lady, she's, you know, she had like tons of cats that she, you know, kept and helped whatever.
She wasn't like a, I think she was a business owner or whatever, but she had a sticker on the back of her car that said pack the courts.
And for people that are unfamiliar, that means get, expand the court and put more people on that agree with you.
And I mean, if you, if you do that, you're going to end up with like a 20-person court, and it's going to be just, it's going to be just another political tool.
And there are people that are going to say, well, you know, Thomas is so conservative and he's ideologically motivated.
And there are people that are going to say, well, Jackson is so politically motivated and et cetera, et cetera.
And it's like, yeah, that's the truth.
But this is the system that we got.
And just adding people to the court isn't going to fix anything because when the other team gets in power, they're just going to go ahead and add more people.
And it's just going to be a never-ending expansion of the court.
And then it'll be a situation where the court doesn't have any authority or nobody trusts it as it is.
I was hesitant to bring it up, but people have been saying, you know, it's sad because people want to hear me sing and feel like they can't super chat.
If your response to the spicy group chat is anything other than I want to get a beer with those guys, you're a joyless dork.
I mean, look, some of the stuff they said, you might not want to admit that you want to get a beer with them, considering, you know, it was pretty uncouth.
It was definitely stuff that you don't want people to know you said.
Some of the other ones could just be, you know, going along because that's the vibe of the room.
I guess it depends on how joyless you are in the conversation are you having.
Are you going to talk about it and laugh about the stupidity of it?
Are you going to talk about the expediency of getting caught saying stuff like that when you're trying to supposedly make things happen for your party?
And I said, I said, like, I have to defend your right to wear sweatpants to the airport, but they just now make it a law that you have to wear your headphones.
That's one of the numerous wonderful things about Japan.
They're all very polite and very quiet.
They're not trying to, you know, be super loud and annoy everybody.
Chain Swarm 3 says, Wow is made by woke women for woke women these days.
The story is all about trauma and how hard having trauma is and it's boring AF.
Look, you want to have an adventure series that has adventure.
You want to see, you know, horror games be actually scary.
And apparently, the effort to make things palatable for everybody so that way you can make the most broad player base as you possibly can, that's watering it down and it's actually not working.
Wolf Bain650 says, Saturday is my son's second birthday.
I don't even know if I necessarily believe that they're actually doing that for the sake of making more money.
I think a lot of it is just being ideologically poisoned and willing to sacrifice.
The people that are making these decisions are the middle managers, and they're basically browbeating the people in upper management who aren't listening to the actual fan base.
When you get one where somebody's like, keeping with Tim Cast traditions, I'm here with the birth of my son, Adolph, and then you'll know that it was fantastic.
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