Democrats PANIC Over Armed Groups Monitoring Ballot Boxes, File Lawsuit To STOP Midterm Monitoring
Democrats PANIC Over Armed Groups Monitoring Ballot Boxes, Midterm Dispute Could Escalate CIVIL WAR. Democrat organizations are suing a conservative group for encouraging people to monitor drop boxes.
Many fear that as we get closer to election day these conflicts could escalate resulting in one or several polling locations being shut down. While the midterm is important and many expect a red wave this could lead up to a more drastic 2024 cycle
Hillary Clinton is now warning that the GOP is trying to steal 2024 in an unhinged rant.
Divisions are getting worse and a second civil war is becoming more and more likely.
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So again, I hate to see that I predicted this too well.
Now we're hearing the Democratic organization say it violates this law against the Klan or something like that, voter intimidation.
We're seeing a report from CNN.
A woman confronts these individuals, filming their faces and license plate.
The police get involved.
Where do we go from here?
One thing I fear that could happen in the midterms, because it's a couple weeks out.
These organizations that are monitoring polling locations aren't just going to stop at this.
I mean, there's a lot of people who are going to monitor polling locations, period.
I mean, active ones that are open.
I don't know to what scale, to what extent.
I mean, it's just so far two boxes, I guess.
So maybe I'm right that this happened, but not at the scale many people may be assumed.
What happens when left-wing organizations like Antifa show up?
What was the story we saw yesterday?
An individual that was campaigning on behalf of Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio was mercilessly beaten.
He's going to need reconstructive surgery on his face, and he's suffering from internal bleeding.
The left says he's a fascist.
Maybe.
I've seen the reports.
But the violence is there.
There are extremists that are going to begin fighting.
So here's what I fear watching this story.
That you end up with some right-wing groups outside of a polling location, monitoring it, worried about ballot harvesting.
You get left-wing groups like Antifa who show up and fighting erupts.
The fighting results in the polling location being forced to close down.
The police move in, have to separate the groups.
Ain't nobody's getting in.
Now perhaps the police just push the two groups aside and they create a corridor for voters.
Either way, at that point, there will be lawsuits questioning the validity of that polling location, throwing the whole state into turmoil.
What happens there?
I don't know.
Many people may then claim that the vote is illegitimate because some people were barred.
We then have Hillary Clinton coming out.
Saying that the Republicans are already preparing to steal the 2024 election.
That is Hillary Clinton.
That is a crackpot, insane thing to say.
But they're gearing up to refuse to accept defeat.
Donald Trump, of course, refused to accept defeat and they claimed all these crazy things about him.
But they refused to accept defeat in 2016.
It doesn't matter which side you're on.
I am not here to argue on behalf of one side or the other.
I'm not here to argue there is or isn't fraud.
I'm here to point out that when two large factions expand and do not trust the process, the end result is the results of that process are immaterial to the ideology and beliefs of either group.
When Donald Trump lost, they said fraud.
When Hillary Clinton lost, they said fraud.
I mean, and to be honest, they went a bit crazier with it, launching an investigation for years, claiming that Trump was secretly working for Russia.
And here we are.
The animosity is not decreasing, de-escalating.
It's in fact getting worse.
And now taking a look at the issues of abortion, I certainly think that could be a catalyst for a civil war.
Why?
As much as people may not truly understand, nor am I a historian, having been reading a bit about the Civil War, slavery was the principal issue of the First Civil War, but it didn't really matter to most people.
And that's the important factor.
When one side says the Civil War was about slavery and one side says the Civil War was about states' rights, technically they're both right.
Slavery, of course, was the principal catalyst and largest issue.
But for the average person, they didn't really care.
The Union was fighting to preserve itself.
The South was fighting to secede.
What they fought for was particularly specific.
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, in fact, only abolished slavery in the states that were in rebellion, which I believe would have given three Union states the right to maintain slavery.
It was an effort to force them to come back into the fold.
But let's talk about what this means for abortion.
Let's talk about Civil War.
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Let's jump into the first story from 1011 Now.
K-O-L-N, K-G-I-N, Arizona Sheriff steps up security around ballot drop boxes amid reports of intimidation.
A grain of sand in any potential civil war or conflict, but a grain of sand nonetheless.
They report.
The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix said Monday he stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking videos of voters as they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election.
Now, I'll pause there.
This is also part of the escalation of the rhetoric.
Following the 2020 election, there were a lot of crazy stories about Venezuelan servers and Chinese ballots and shootouts in Germany.
Nonsense, in my opinion.
Just wild theories.
But then we ended up seeing a de-escalation in the extremity of the rhetoric, resulting in something a bit more tame.
Dinesh D'Souza's 2000 mules.
Ballot harvesting.
Well, that's not surprising at all.
Much more within the realm of possibility, though there's no direct evidence other than what they presented in the documentary, and there are questions that should be asked.
Not every state bans ballot harvesting, but ultimately the question is procedure and policy around elections, not about fraud.
I think the issue many people need to be worried about is, are certain things allowed and are they not?
Which is what Donald Trump and many of the Republicans were suing for in 2020.
Now, this is what we're seeing.
On Friday, deputies responded when two masked people carrying guns and wearing bulletproof vests showed up at a drop box in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb.
The Secretary of State said her office has received six cases of potential voter intimidation to the State Attorney General and the U.S.
Department of Justice.
As well as a threatening email sent to the state's elections director.
People watching the boxes and voters showing up to vote covered their license plates according to photos shared on social media.
Quote, every day I'm dedicating a considerable amount of resources just to give people confidence that they can cast a vote safely.
And that is absurd.
Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone said during a news conference.
Penzone said his office has referred two incidents to county prosecutors for potential criminal charges.
Fueled by former President Donald Trump's false claims of fraud in 2020 and the debunked film 2000 Mules, drop boxes have become a hotbed for conspiracy theories alleging without evidence that people illegally collected and deposited ballots in them.
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Typically, what you see when someone claims that something is debunked is an opinion piece, an opinion saying, you know, we disagree with their assessment.
AP News wrote in May 3rd, 2022, gaping holes in the claim of 2K ballot mules.
By all means, that's fine to make your argument.
It has not been adjudicated.
I mean, it has not gone through law enforcement or the courts, and so what you have are media, it's the media argument itself.
Now, I'm no fan of claims of fraud, you guys know me, because I think it's voter suppression for the most part, and I think in order to solve it, you need the power to launch investigations and file for subpoenas, and over the past couple of years, we've seen very little fruit come of these attempts at investigations.
What really matters to me is Procedure.
Policy procedure.
Are ballot drop boxes constitutional?
Is election month constitutional?
Is universal mail-in voting constitutional?
Those have not been properly legislated or adjudicated, and I think they need to be.
But either way, I'm not here to argue for any of that.
I'm simply here to point out that two factions are escalating the rhetoric.
Now I want to point something out.
The sheriff in the Metro Phoenix area, stepping up security.
Do you think that is good or bad?
In terms of escalation towards civil war, it's bad.
The left and Democrats are going to claim that police presence at drop boxes is voter intimidation.
They will say the police are now aiding the right and everyone knows cops are right-wing.
Well, there you have it.
A couple of guys outside of a ballot box and the police comments are watching those boxes.
Mission accomplished for the right, I suppose.
The left will claim the police are racist and it's voter intimidation.
But outside of that, we have this story from CNN.
Woman confronts armed man near ballot drop box.
Why is this news?
I don't know.
I don't know why CNN cares.
It was two people pointing cameras at each other and CNN gave this woman a primetime spot.
This will lead to escalation.
And Merrick Garland is stepping in, saying the DOJ has an obligation.
It will not allow voters to be intimidated.
A threat to any election official, worker, or volunteer is, at bottom, a threat to democracy.
We are not a democracy.
That is not a left or right-wing statement.
We are a constitutional republic with democratically elected representatives.
So, I'm wary of anyone saying a threat to our democracy.
We are not a country that is controlled by a popular vote.
Merrick Garland is stepping up because of what we are seeing.
In response, from Democracy Docket, we can see The Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans and Voto Latino filed a lawsuit against Clean Elections USA, its affiliates, and unidentified individuals who allegedly have been recruited or encouraged by Clean Elections USA to monitor drop boxes, challenging the organization's voter intimidation practices in Arizona.
The plaintiffs allege that there were at least five instances last week wherein Clean Elections USA supporters Gathered at ballot drop boxes in Maricopa County with the express purpose of deterring voters, the plaintiffs argue that Clean Elections USA alleged coordinated campaign of vigilante voter intimidation.
Practices violate both the Voting Rights Act and the Klan Act of 1871.
The plaintiffs request immediate relief preventing Clean Elections USA from further engaging in intimidation practices as Arizonans have begun early voting and there are only 15 days until Election Day.
I hope it just ends here.
I can't see the future.
I can make a prediction.
My prediction is I see no reason why this would de-escalate.
If you do, please comment below.
Just because a lawsuit was filed will not prevent individuals from deciding to go out and make sure there's no ballot harvesting.
And I gotta be honest, there's no argument against it.
The idea that some dude sitting next to his car is voter intimidation is insane!
You think that because someone else is sitting somewhere, they're stopping you from voting?
They don't know who you're voting for!
Ridiculous.
And you can argue that anyone who would be intimidated by these men could vote in either direction.
Which is why I don't trust the Democrat lawsuits and I'm very suspect as to what's going on.
From Politico.
The Biden administration is set to warn about threats to nation's election infrastructure.
Well, that's strange.
What do you mean?
We heard two years ago we had the most secure election ever.
What changed?
Something is breaking down.
From Politico, top Biden national security officials are tracking multiple threats to the nation's election security infrastructure ahead of the midterms and are set to issue warnings, including an internal intelligence bulletin this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
So let me just pause and say this.
You need to tell me.
2016, our election was attacked.
2020, everything was A-OK.
2020, we're now in trouble again?
What's going on here?
Are they unable to actually maintain any kind of security?
It's very, very strange.
It's almost like when Republicans win, there's a problem.
When Democrats win, there's no problem.
And right now, the Democrats are predicting a Republican win.
All of a sudden, there's a problem again.
Tell me how this does not escalate!
It's psychotic.
Oh, here's the next step.
Hillary Clinton claims right-wing extremists already planning to literally steal the 2024 election.
Ladies already claiming the 2024 election is being stolen.
It's two years away!
Incredible.
MAGA has a plan to steal the election in 2024.
We have to stop them, reads the PAC's homepage.
In conjunction with the Political Action Committee Indivisible, Clinton suggested the 2024 presidential election is in danger, saying, I'm here to highlight something, the former Secretary of State chuckled, that is keeping me up at night.
Right-wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the election.
Amazing.
Hillary Clinton's lost the plot.
She said, and they're not making a secret of it, the right-wing Supreme Court may be poised to rule on giving state legislatures the power to overturn presidential elections.
Just think that.
Just think, if that happens, the 2024 presidential election could be decided not by the popular vote or even that anachronistic electoral college, but by state legislatures, many of them Republican-controlled.
Full stop.
What?
You mean to tell me that when people vote at the local level, it influences federal-level politics?
That's how it's always been, and that was the intended condition.
The Constitution actually says, the state legislatures determine.
The point is, federal elections are state matters.
When it comes to Congress, your district votes for an individual in your state to go represent you.
When it comes to the Senate, the initial system pre the 17th Amendment was that state legislatures would appoint a senator.
And the way the president worked is that the state legislature would determine which electoral voters would go to vote, would determine who would vote for the president.
It was very much intended to be.
You voted for your state rep and your state senator.
They then moved forward with federal matters.
And it makes a lot of sense to operate that way.
I actually agree with it.
Since we've moved to a more federalized system, you end up with inane policy positions and incorrect ones, ignorant ones, where an individual running for Congress will say, I'm gonna clean up our town.
Vote for me.
And I'm just like, bro, you go and vote at the federal level.
You're not cleaning up anything.
It's amazing to me that you actually have people who are like, send me to D.C.
and I'll clean up Dubuque.
It's like, what?
Bro, you're going to D.C.
to vote on war and federal budgets, not on what happens here in our locality.
Now, someone wants to run and say, I'm gonna vote against war.
Vote for me, send me to D.C.
I'll say no war.
We've really lost sight of how this system is supposed to work.
What Hillary Clinton is pointing out is not a plan to steal the election.
She's pointing out that the Supreme Court might actually rule the Constitution is supposed to operate the way the Constitution is supposed to operate.
This is the breakdown of the system.
The Bulwark wrote this story September 20th.
I've highlighted it before.
I want to read for you some of it again as it pertains to what we're seeing now in Arizona.
I'm not a big fan of the bulwark.
I think they're kind of crazy, and I don't know who they represent.
But they write some interesting things.
How the second civil war could start.
The potential U.S.
descent into violence, mutual suspicion, and even dissolution.
Do you know what they'll say in a hundred years if there's a civil war?
They'll say the issue was abortion.
They will say the issue was abortion.
And you must be thinking to yourself right now, that's not, no, abortion's not that big of an issue.
During the First Civil War, neither was slavery.
Now in the South, the South seceded.
It was principally because of slavery.
If there was no slavery, there would not have been a Civil War.
Why did they fight?
Arguably, if you want to argue at the macro level, slavery was the principal issue.
But if you get down to the motivations of why anyone fought, then it was states' rights.
And then the left says, a state's right to what?
And many historians do, not really left or right, but historians will say, a state's right to what?
Exactly, yes.
Slavery.
In fact, in the Confederate Constitution, they enshrined slavery.
Statements from the Vice President were overtly white supremacist and racist.
But, on an individual level, why did someone feel fervent about actually fighting for the Confederacy or the Union?
Union soldiers fought, not for or against slavery, but to preserve the Union, and the South fought to secede.
They called them rebels.
There was a reason why the fighting began, but the fighting was principally about preserving or dissolving the Union.
I shouldn't say dissolving, the South wanted to secede, that was about it.
Interesting thing I learned was that only about 5% of the country actually owned slaves.
And there were a lot of slaves, mind you.
But most people in the South did not care for this issue because most were just poor farmers.
But they fought because their states opted for secession and the North invaded.
That's about it.
The South called it the War for Northern Aggression.
The North called them rebels.
They said it was an internal matter.
People today look back on this and say slavery was the reason.
You read the history, and you'll find that many of the people on either side didn't care.
And I'll stress this point.
The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln.
There was a precursor to it, September of 1862.
January of 1861, I believe January 1st, he issues it, and it only abolished slavery in states in rebellion.
I believe there were three states, Maryland being one of them, that, I think Missouri and maybe Kentucky, I'm not sure.
They were slave states, but they were not in rebellion.
It would have preserved slavery.
Let's read about how the Second Civil War could start.
The Bulwark writes, During the 2022 campaign, National Democrats were bracing for a tidal wave that might eject them from the House and the Senate.
They're going to mention Donald Trump as a candidate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They're going to say this.
In such an environment, many will worry about armed poll watchers, inflamed passions, and even possible violence.
Full stop!
What did we just see?
This article was written by The Bulwark on September 20th.
We are now seeing armed poll watchers, albeit a few.
Hopefully, we don't see more.
What am I going to say?
You're allowed to be armed.
You're allowed to watch ballot boxes.
The reason I say hopefully we don't see more, what I mean is hopefully we don't see more escalation.
If people want to sit and watch ballot boxes, I really don't care.
I see nothing wrong with it.
Inflamed passions and even violence in Texas.
Voters saw unusually long lines in voting precincts in urban areas like Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas.
They're going to say about this time Democrats in Washington began wondering aloud if midterm election results could or should be believed.
As they're doing now.
Imagine a polling station in Texas on Election Day.
The location doesn't matter.
Neither does the underlying dispute.
What matters is a person came to the polls purportedly on the hunt for voter fraud.
States like Texas have given poll watchers more latitude to move around polling places, question procedures, and exercise authority.
This person, in accordance with Texas law, was armed with a semi-automatic pistol.
I mean, that basically means any modern pistol, mind you.
I don't know if anyone's got... Technically, revolvers are semi-automatic, so I'm like, I don't know what kind of pistol you'd have that would fire... A single-action revolver, I guess?
A discussion escalated into a confrontation, perhaps about the proper place to stand inside the polling precinct in relation to others, or about how to properly mark the ballot and use the ballot scanning machine.
Things spun out of control.
The person feared fraud was afoot and meant to stop it by any means necessary.
It first came through a raised voice, then physical intervention, and ultimately through the brandished weapon.
Tension and shouts ensued, followed by a scuffle.
One shot rang out and a poll worker lay bleeding on the floor of the gymnasium.
The polling place was a high school.
As the blood pooled, the victim passed away.
Simultaneously, a friend of the victim hit send on a video taken in the conflict of its horrible aftermath.
The video, as these things do, flew faster than news coverage and became a national sensation.
Raw emotions frayed further.
I'll push back a little bit.
Brandishing a weapon in a high school ain't never gonna happen.
I don't know about Texas.
I believe they've recently passed constitutional carry, did they?
It's been a while since I've looked at this.
But I don't know if you can have a gun in a high school.
Maybe you can.
Constitutional carry, I suppose.
But let's not say high school.
That's pointless.
Let's just entertain a more plausible reality.
A poll watcher scared of fraud?
I'm sorry, a poll observer shooting a poll worker?
That's a leftist framing.
Let me give you a more neutral framing.
Actually, let me give you a more right-wing framing.
Antifa claiming that poll observers who are unarmed are white supremacists show up and begin mercilessly beating people.
Claiming that they're Trump supporters and fascists who need to be stopped and they're intimidating people.
A fight breaks out, the polling location shuts down.
Let me give you a more neutral perspective.
Right-wing groups that are armed are outside of these polling locations watching.
Left-wing groups then show up and claim these armed individuals are intimidating voters, particularly minorities.
A scuffle breaks out.
A fight ensues.
Someone gets shot.
The polling location is shut down for that reason, and the votes can't be processed.
The police show up.
A murder investigation ensues.
Or how about this?
Someone shoots a gun.
That's it.
Nobody gets shot, nobody gets hurt.
That's it.
What happens?
Let me give you this scenario.
A polling location, anywhere.
Swing State.
People are lining up to vote, there's protesters, and then a gunshot rings out.
Center for Reproductive Rights shows us the hostile and illegal states.
Let's operate on just the illegal states.
And you're seeing the South.
The South, plus you've got, I believe, South Dakota and Idaho.
And they have made it illegal to get abortions.
So this website says it's illegal.
Hostile states make it very, very difficult.
And you can see, we now have a states' rights issue.
Whoever wins The 2024 election, they'll be the union, as it were.
Here's my prediction, which very, very well may be wrong, because I give it only a small probability, but I see it as a potential path we may be walking towards.
Abortion is made illegal.
2024, I'll give you a couple scenarios.
The simple scenario that I've predicted is, Republicans have already, Lindsey Graham's already said he wants a national abortion.
Chuck Grassley said, I'm sorry, a national abortion ban.
Chuck Grassley says no.
Republicans win.
When they do win the House and the Senate, they then start advocating for the right to ban abortion in all of these states.
Now, many have said the Republicans won't move for this, but I believe the only reason they're rejecting it now is because it's pre-midterm and they're scared.
Talk to any pro-lifer, they're outright saying they want abortion banned at the national level.
The federal level.
My prediction.
Come 2024, with Joe Biden in office, Republicans are unable to pass sweeping abortion reform.
They want abolition.
Violence is erupting between states.
Bleeding Kansas level chaos.
Maybe not to the extreme degree, but John Brown type stuff.
Maybe.
I mean, we've already seen extremism with the left.
You then get a Donald Trump who says, if you vote for me, I will sign the abortion ban on day one.
Democrats panic, but it's not a major issue.
The economy is.
And so what ends up happening is that while abolition is a big issue for Republicans, as it was in 1860, You end up with Democrats.
They care.
But too many people think the economy is more important.
Trump wins.
You then get a sweeping abortion ban and Democrat states rejecting the law, refusing federal authority.
And then you get a breakdown.
But there's a better solution.
There's a better, uh, actually, not a better solution.
There is a, uh, there is a worse scenario.
Probably a better way to put it.
Hillary Clinton is maybe right.
Supreme Court rules state legislatures decide who the president is.
Not a popular vote.
Not a statewide vote.
The state legislatures.
It just so happens that for the longest time, they've determined a popular vote in their state is the way to do it.
2024 comes around.
Questions of fraud erupt in key states.
Interestingly, Hillary Clinton's PAC highlights the six states where Republicans are claiming fraud took place.
Interesting.
Well, the state legislature is there a Republican.
So what do they say?
Citing the evidence and claims in 2024, we are determining that the votes should go to Donald Trump.
And then you end up with the first election, technically, where there's no popular vote winner, where I'm sorry, where the popular vote winner and Electoral College vote presumed winner actually loses.
What happens is the states say, the electoral college votes are determined by us, and so we award them to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump then wins without the popular vote in the state or the federal level.
Democrats at that point absolutely will try to secede once again.
Oh, don't come at me with that party switch stuff.
Here we are with Republicans once again being on the side of abolition, the defense of human rights, and the Democrats on the side of rejecting federal law.
What lies before us is an ever-decreasing amount of variables.
When you look further and further ahead, the potentiality of variables increases exponentially, and the likelihood of you predicting the proper path or the probable path is diminished.
If I'm standing in front of a window, And I have a rock in my hand.
And someone says, asks, what'll happen if you throw the rock?
I can say, there's a very strong possibility the window breaks.
Depending on the strength of the throw.
Depending on the kind of window.
But let's say it's a regular old pane glass, you know, single pane glass house or whatever.
Yeah, a rock's probably gonna break it.
Now let's go back in time.
Let's go back one whole day and say, what will happen tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m.
as John keeps complaining about that ugly window?
Well, a lot of things could happen.
We could go out for pizza, we could go to the movies, or we could stay at the house and stare at it.
John could get increasingly angry, hand me a rock, and then say, smash it.
There's too many variables in between.
I see this path.
It's a possible path, but there's no guarantee we stay on the path that leads towards it.
And I hope that's the case.
Unfortunately for us, we walk down the path where there's now armed men outside of ballot boxes.
Outside of ballot dropbox locations.
I can only imagine the far left is going to respond.
They're filing lawsuits for now, but a woman already went and confronted this guy.
How long until Antifa shows up?
Then you get a fight.
Then, right-wing groups respond, and what happens when you get a Portland-style clash at polling locations?
Let us pray that does not happen.
But I don't have a solution for you.
Because if it's true, what people think about 2,000 mules, well then, people on the right are going to show up no matter what.
And either way, the left will show up because they're going to accuse the right of being, you know, fascist, trying to voter intimidate.
I feel like it's a strong probability.
Here's the latest array of opinion.
The New York Times.
Is America headed for another civil war October 12th?
From the Gazette.
Is another American civil war possible from October 24th?
Here's one from Time Magazine.
The U.S.
is heading toward a second civil war.
Here's how we avoid it.
I will give you one last little beacon of hope.
Several former Charlie Crist colleagues have endorsed Ron DeSantis.
Several Democrats have come out and endorsed Ron DeSantis.
It's possible that the Democrats are losing steam to an extreme degree.
So maybe, maybe the Republicans just win and the Democrats lose.
But I'll tell you something, my friends.
I could be getting these numbers wrong because I'm not a historian.
But I believe the North had around 20 million residents.
The South had 9 million and 5 million were slaves.
It was a minority fighting for the South.
Let's say the Democrats end up losing across the board and maintain only about 25 to 30 percent of the population.
Then they try to secede.
And then you get civil war.
One thing people don't understand about civil war, they say, it's not going to be the same because you won't have state on state.
They really just, I, you know, look, I am not an expert on this and there's a lot I didn't know about even a week ago.
But learning even as little as I have really changed my perspective on a lot of this.
I believe it was Robert E. Lee from Virginia who was a U.S.
military man and he said, it's a question of raising my arms against my home state or my home country and I could not envision raising my weapon against Virginia.
People just don't get it.
They're like, no one cares about their state.
But you care about your neighbors?
No, no one cares about their neighbors.
Will you be the one pointing the gun at them, telling them to get back in their homes because you're the boss now?
See, those people don't get.
Someone may be from California.
They're in the National Guard.
They're the police.
And the federal government says, we need to stop the rebellion.
So they dispatch National Guard and federal troops to stop what's happening in California.
Someone said to me the other day, Tim, the Feds aren't going to use the California National Guard to stop a California rebellion.
I know that.
That's not the point I'm making.
The point I'm making is that it will be the Army.
The Insurrection Act.
You're from California.
You enlist or you seek a commission.
You're a CEO.
24 years old.
You're getting training.
A bunch of your friends are enlisted and a bunch of people you know.
You know.
You know people.
You have friends.
You work with them.
You're in the Army.
California threatens to secede.
The California National Guard, they're not going to side with the federal government.
Of course they operate under the direction of their governor.
The U.S.
invokes the Insurrection Act and seeks to deploy the army against California.
Several of the high-ranking officers say Do I raise my arms against my own family?
My friends?
And they say no, and they defect.
And then you end up with Democrats 2.0 fighting a civil war.
The one question that people need to ask themselves as well.
Who is China going to fund?
And who will Russia fund?
It's going to be really interesting, isn't it?
Let me slow down.
I hope we don't get to that point.
From where we are now to where we get there is a long path ahead of us and I hope... I hope we just kinda wind things down.
Unfortunately, I'll say it again as I have many times.
Although it could just end here and everything calms down and there's no escalation and I would appreciate that.
I don't see any reason why things would de-escalate.
Do you?
No one's ever given me an answer.
No one's ever given me an answer as to how things de-escalate.
We can only see the probabilities of escalation because our cultures have bifurcated.
There you go.
I'll leave it there.
Next segment's coming up at 8 p.m.
over at youtube.com slash TimCastIRL.
Thanks for hanging out, and I'll see you all then.
Last night, Ron DeSantis debated Democrat Charlie Crist.
And I gotta say, having watched the debate, Ron DeSantis absolutely obliterated Charlie Crist in this debate.
It was laughable, and I gotta say, it was basically pointless.
The polls have Ron DeSantis up something like 10 points.
Charlie Crist has nothing to campaign on.
The Democrats are in complete disarray.
This looked to me like Ron DeSantis doing a victory lap.
I'll give you a couple quick examples because I want to show you this story from NBC News real quick to make the point.
Florida's Hispanic voters back DeSantis over Crist support Martha's Vineyard migrant flights.
That was like one of the only things that Charlie Crist had on Ron DeSantis.
He's like, you know, you're wasting taxpayer dollars flying migrants out of here to Martha's Vineyard.
Ron strikes back and he goes, And that was it.
That was a great point.
I'll tell ya.
Ron DeSantis is not invincible.
I got one that Charlie Crist brought up about him running for president, which was interesting.
We'll get into that.
or in New York, in DC, or in Martha's Vineyard.
And that was it, that was a great point.
I'll tell you, Ron DeSantis was not invincible.
I got one that Charlie Crist brought up about him running for president, which was interesting,
we'll get into that.
So there were some things that DeSantis is getting criticized for, but one key moment,
I think one key moment was when Ron DeSantis was talking about parental rights in education
and no sex changes for children.
Irreversible medical treatments for kids who can't consent.
And Charlie Crist got obliterated.
He had no answer to this.
DeSantis comes out and he's like, if you're 15 years old, you can't get a tattoo in the state of Florida, but they're going to give you permanent medical, you know, body alteration.
You can't consent to that.
Every time Charlie Crist gets asked about child sex changes, he just goes, well, women have a right to choose!
Women have a right to choose!
And it's like, okay, hold on, what does that have to do with this issue?
Now, the reason why I bring that one up, for one, the economy is the big factor here, and Charlie Crist tried getting Ron DeSantis on that, saying that the economy was, you know, the inflation was really high in Florida, it was very expensive, and that's just a lie.
Florida is relatively expensive, but not the most expensive place in the country.
Substantially more expensive places to live.
And one of the reasons why costs are going up is because Ron DeSantis is a victim of his own success.
The demand to live in Florida is so high that it actually increases costs.
But this stuff doesn't work.
I'm sorry.
The polls just show Charlie Crist is in the gutter.
You've got this panel, CBS News did, where they brought in a Democrat, an Independent, and a Republican.
All of them agreed.
I was shocked to see it.
I mean, I was shocked that a Democrat would break from the cult.
But this is the funny thing, they asked the Republican, and he's like, you know, I don't like what they're doing to these kids in schools.
And they're like, okay, Democrat, what say you?
And she's like, yeah, I agree, I got a bunch of kids, and I don't like what they're doing in schools.
Oh, independent?
Yeah, the schools, it's a real problem what they're doing.
You see, surprisingly, The culture war issue on indoctrination of kids with adult material is freaking parents out across the board.
And now it looks like we're going to see Democrats break and start voting Republican.
At least the polls are starting to look so bad.
We're hearing that Jill Biden is going- I saw this, this was reported by- Well, I saw a tweet.
That's how you know it's true.
No, but I saw one tweet.
Jill Biden's going to campaign in a place Republicans haven't won in nearly 30- in over 30 years!
And it's like, why is a Democrat going to a safe, blue district?
Well, I think it's fair to say Democrats know they're in trouble.
They know they're in very serious trouble.
The polls have it across the board and they've got nothing left to argue.
Let me shout out our good friend Lawrence Tribe.
Of course, I mean that somewhat facetiously.
Lawrence Tribe said, put lipstick on a pig and what do you get?
Carey Lake.
Wow!
That's an excellent political argument for the midterms.
That sways me who's concerned about gas prices.
And then it's a picture of the cat emoji whose mind's being blown?
Wow!
I'm sorry, like, this is it?
Lawrence Tribe?
That's all you?
He's got 1.3 million followers, and that's the best he could muster up?
Democrats are facing the apocalypse, but what do you think the media has to say about it?
Of course the media is acting like, in any way they can, that this was neck and neck, and oh, you know why?
They want to pander.
They want to pander to middle-of-the-road, but there's no middle-of-the-road.
They seem to think, OK, look, if we come out and just say it, like Ron DeSantis mopped the floor with Crist, then Democrats are going to get mad.
They're not going to watch.
They're not going to read the article.
If we come out and say Charlie Crist did really, really well, well, that defies the science.
It defies the studies, the polling, and the actual swing.
So what do you do?
You say, well, you know, Yeah, come on.
I actually took notes.
You know, I never really take notes for this kind of stuff, but, uh, watching the debate, there were a bunch of things that I thought needed to be brought up, and I'll explain to you why I think Ron DeSantis hit the nail on the head.
For one thing, he said he's gonna be, uh, baby stuff.
Baby stuff.
So diapers, and formula and things, tax-free.
He was saying that we're gonna make it so that it's easier for you to have a family.
He said even pet food!
He's going after the cat ladies!
Man, Ron DeSantis knows the game he's playing.
So, Charlie Crist defends the idea that parents don't have a right to know what's going on in education, which is insane, considering that even Democratic parents want the right to know.
DeSantis mentions that when you adjust for demographics, they're number one in math and reading over COVID, and that Charlie Crist and Democrats wanted to lock everything down.
This is just a few points.
A few points.
Opposing the mandates.
Charlie Crist was defending big corporations like Disney.
Crist was refusing to address, in that one instance I mentioned, child sex changes.
Kept saying over and over again, just abortion, abortion.
And then he broke the one rule they had.
So this is where he got Ron DeSantis.
They had a rule beforehand that the candidates would not ask each other questions.
And I wonder if the reason was Ron DeSantis didn't want to be asked about this.
Because I think Ron DeSantis flubbed this one really, really bad.
I want to address the one thing that DeSantis, I think, got wrong, and then we'll talk about what the media is saying.
The Daily Mail says Ron DeSantis repeatedly refuses to say whether he will serve full term amid 2024 speculation, but says he's focused on beating worn-out old donkey Charlie Crist.
You're running for governor, Crist said, and I have a question for you.
Why don't you look at the eyes of the people of Florida, look at the eyes, and you will serve all four years?
I just want to make things very, very clear.
The only worn-out old donkey I'm looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.
DeSantis is favored to win re-election by 8 points, according to FiveThirty, so 8.
So this is it.
They weren't supposed to ask each other questions, and Ron DeSantis didn't answer.
Crist asked him again.
DeSantis responded, well listen, I know Charlie's interested in talking about Joe Biden in 2024, but I just want to make things very clear.
We get it.
The exchange came after back and forth, yadda yadda.
DeSantis' rise to stardom, okay, we get it.
Alright.
A Vanity Fair report from last month claimed that DeSantis has told those close to him he thinks Trump is an effing moron, and he would have no problem facing off against him in a primary.
An unnamed Republican source recalled him telling donors, the only way to beat Trump is to attack him head on.
He says you would turn to Trump during a debate and say, why didn't you fire Fauci?
You said you would build the wall, but there is no wall.
Why is that?
DeSantis' rise from member of House of Representatives to governor of the third largest state is widely credited to Trump's backing, but today there is no love lost between the two.
According to an excerpt from Maggie Haberman's book, Confidence Man, Trump has called DeSantis fat, whiny, and phony.
Okay.
I don't believe Maggie Haberman, but I want to tell you something.
I was unimpressed with Ron DeSantis when he was asked this question.
Because I will give you the very quick logic that, to me, is obvious.
If Ron DeSantis says nothing when asked about running in 2024, and then come 2023, he announces he is going to be running.
I'll say late 2023, he's like, I am going to run to seek the seat of the presidency in the primary and against Donald Trump.
What happens?
The left goes, aha, we knew it, we always knew it, we knew it the whole time.
Okay.
If Ron DeSantis says right now to Charlie Crist, I am running to finish out an entire four-year term as governor.
That's my plan.
Next question.
What's the worst-case scenario?
Come 2023, he announces he's running for office and says, I'm not going to finish out the term of governor if I become president.
They're going to say, aha, we knew it.
It's going to be the exact same response.
If I were in the debate, and this is just me, and I'm not up there, so look, I don't have the consultants screaming in my ears.
If I was running for governor, and I did want to run for president too, and was even planning on it perhaps, and my opponent said, are you going to run for president?
Are you going to abandon the people?
Come on, look people in the eye.
I'd say, Is that seriously your question?
First of all, why are you asking me?
And second, sure, look right at the camera and say, I am running for governor of Florida to finish out a four-year term because the people of Florida want me to do it, because I believe that I can do good in this state, and I will be an excellent governor in a second term.
We'll make it happen.
What else should I say?
Should I say more?
Should I say, I am running to be your governor?
I don't know what else you want me to say.
Is it hard?
Ron could have just said it.
And then I'll tell you this, you know, I'd say, look, I will never abandon the people of Florida.
I will run to finish out this term.
You have my word.
What does it mean?
It means that eventually you'd say, look, the political climate changed.
And because Donald Trump, you know, either look, if Trump does run, I have it on good authority.
That Ron will not.
Ron will not run against Trump.
It is political suicide.
And so what I've heard from tons of people, you know, tons of people on the show who are in these circles, they're like, Ron will not run against Trump.
Because it would just be apocalyptically bad for him, and it would actually hurt him moving forward, and he knows that he needs Trump's backing, actually.
But, if Trump bows out, then he does run, and that's why he wants to leave the door open.
If Trump bows out, I'd just say, listen, you know, the people of Florida, know that I will never abandon you.
And as president, you will hold a special place in my heart.
I will make sure that everything is done right.
In fact, I believe I can do more for you as president and more for this country.
I will make sure that you are left in good hands.
What's so hard about that?
That's where I think he did get hit a little bit because Charlie Crist, you knew he was breaking the rules and went after him.
But here's what I love.
Let's pop over to our good friends at CNN.
Well, I don't think he needed to debate at all, but I'm glad he did.
Take a look at this.
538, which leans left, has the split at 8.1%.
That's the lead DeSantis has over Crist.
So I don't see why he even would debate.
Take a look at this.
538, which leans left, has the split at 8.1%.
That's the lead DeSantis has over Crist.
So I don't see why he even would debate.
He doesn't need to.
But here's the story.
I'm not going to read through every little stupid opinion they give, but take a look at this.
Five takeaways from the only Florida governor debate between DeSantis and Crist.
DeSantis won't commit to a full four-year term.
That was a mistake.
You should have just done it.
Look, politics, we're dealing with short-term talking points.
That's how it works.
We're two weeks out.
You say right now, within two weeks, with early voting and all that stuff, you just say, I'm running to be your governor, man.
And that's it.
Two and a half years from now?
Two years from now?
People are going to be... What is it?
Did I remember this?
No one's going to care about this.
It's an eternity away.
So I think he made a mistake on that one.
DeSantis ducks on abortion.
Really?
You can't say that Charlie Criss ducks on child sex changes because Criss kept slinging abortion at him.
When he asked about child sex changes.
You see how this works.
DeSantis accused Chris of only supporting abortion rights out of political expediency.
He noted that when Chris was a Republican, he often considered himself on the other side of the abortion debate.
Chris, a former GOP governor who left his party in 2010, once characterized himself as pro-life.
The question is, is this an honest change of heart?
Or is this a guy that's going to shift with whatever when he needs to try and keep his political career alive?
DeSantis said, I think we all know the answer to that question.
DeSantis defends his most controversial actions.
You see, this is the funny one.
They go after the Martha's Vineyard stunt, and they say DeSantis defends.
You see how they're framing this?
Hurricane test, pandemonium.
None of this is framed against Charlie Crist, despite the fact that Hispanic voters actually back DeSantis, supporting his Martha's Vineyard migrant flights.
That's the game they play.
All right, all right.
Five takeaways, says the Tallahassee Democrat.
And once again, it's all the same thing.
DeSantis weaves an abortion.
Can you afford Florida?
A tough question.
Four more years.
Obviously, this is the Tallahassee Democrat, so I get it.
I think it's part of USA Today.
But you can see how all of this is basically just either playing it, that both are on even footing, or that DeSantis was facing problems.
I really just think it's a ridiculous argument to make.
DeSantis White House speculation.
Here's the New York Times doing the same exact thing.
The death toll from the hurricane.
DeSantis made false and misleading statements about abortion.
Oh, come on.
Culture Wars took up a lot of bandwidth.
It is all pro-Democrat.
All of it.
Let me tell you where we're really at.
DeSantis is up eight points.
DeSantis brought up a bunch of really amazing points.
He says one of the biggest tax relief packages ever.
To help you have a family.
That's amazing.
That's really fantastic.
So are they going to come out and be like, Republicans won't actually support women when they do have babies?
Well, what do you think Ron DeSantis is doing?
I think it's just not true anyway.
It's the funniest thing when I see these memes and they're like, it was like the line for the adoption agency with pro-lifers and it was like an empty thing.
And I'm like, dude, Google it.
Pro-lifers are more likely to adopt than pro-choice people.
They like to do these gotchas where they go to these rallies and they're like, are you pro-life?
How many kids have you adopted?
And it's like, how many have you adopted?
What's the point?
You'll find there are tons of people there who have adopted.
And I'm pretty sure, like, Amy Coney Barrett's family adopted two kids because they really are trying to help.
But here you go, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me tell you how bad things really are.
The bulwark—oh, we love the bulwark, don't we?
Democrats need to know what time it is.
The bulwark is a website founded by conservative commentators Bill Kristol and Charlie Skyes that publishes original commentary, often from an anti-Trump perspective, and aggregates news from around the web.
Democrats need to know what time it is.
I'll show them what time it is.
We'll just scroll down here a little bit to this passage.
They say, Cinema has yet to, Christian Cinema, has yet to hold a single event or cut one ad for Katie Hobbs.
Sources in the state indicated that Hobbs doesn't want Cinema's help.
Something I find perplexing.
And when I inquired with the campaign about whether they wanted Cinema's help, they declined to speak about the matter on record.
When I asked Sinema's office whether I could be certain the candidate was even voting for Hobbs, they left the impression that she was but would not confirm on the record.
WTF is happening?
The Democrats are imploding.
That's what's happening.
Sinema, the Democratic senator in Arizona, won't even commit on record to voting for Katie Hobbs.
Okay, Lawrence Tribe.
You want to rag on Carrie Lake?
Let me tell you how bad things really are for you.
We were talking with Lisa Reynolds last night on Timcast IRL.
She was a congressional staffer.
And she had this look on her face.
Lisa, I don't know what you know or what you're hearing.
But I look at Carrie Lake.
Master of media.
She worked in journalism for decades.
She came out and this was so brilliant, man.
You've got to watch the Carrie Lake press conferences.
She is... It is masterful.
It is artisanal.
The smackdown she gives the media.
Some guys like... When it comes to issues of crime, some people of... Many people of color are saying it.
She goes, how many?
What?
How many people of color?
Well, there are studies.
Which ones?
Bam!
I was like, yo!
Don't let him play those games, because she knows!
Because she's worked in media!
Because she's been on the other side!
Absolutely amazing.
Now, I don't know about Blake Masters.
I think he's Arizona too, right?
We'll see.
Right now, 538 is being predicted very heavily in favor of Republicans.
Let's pull this up.
Let's go over to 538.
Take a look at this.
The Senate forecast is 45 in 100 Republicans win.
And the only reason that is, is because Democrats only need to defend That's the unfortunate reality for Republicans because Kamala Harris is the tiebreaker.
If it went 50-50 and yet a Republican vice president, it would be Republicans win.
And for that, they're saying a 50-50 split is a Democrat victory.
It would be a Republican victory if the executive branch was different.
So, when you actually take a look, I believe it's 40 to 45 for the full swing.
Meaning, there's a 40 and 100 chance that Democrats take 51 seats and a 45 and 100 that Republicans take, I think it's 10.
No, I think it's 15.
Yeah, it's 15.
It's a 15-point swing.
Republicans are actually favored to win the majority, if you're only going by majority.
But if there's a tie, Democrats get the tiebreaker.
So we'll see what happens.
In the 2022 House forecast, Republicans win 81 in 100 scenarios.
And it's only getting worse.
So what do you think?
You think they're finally starting to realize how bad it's going to be?
The Democrats?
It's a dead heat for the Senate, with Republicans favored to win the House.
No, I don't know what's going to happen, man.
I do know that Joe Biden and a few others, I think they're going to campaign for Fetterman.
Right now, Fetterman's polling lead, I think, is like two points above Dr. Oz.
But considering the polling margin of error swings from like 7 to 13 points in some areas, it's hard to believe that with gas prices as high as they are, People are going to want to vote for Fetterman.
We had Doug Mastriano on the show.
It's hard to believe that people really are going to want to vote for Shapiro.
I mean, that's the crazy thing.
I'm looking at the polls and it's like an eight-point lead, or a seven-point lead, I think, for Shapiro for governor in Pennsylvania.
And I'm like, yo, if you're in Pennsylvania and you are vomiting whenever you look at a gas pump, voting for the Democrat is going to make it worse.
But yeah, you know what?
There's actually a schadenfreude in all that, right?
Gas prices skyrocketing.
And we just sit back and we're like, well, you reap what you sow.
Like, you voted for this, congratulations, I guess.
So there it is.
It's what you wanted.
Look, you want to convince your friends and family to vote.
Some of them are in a cult, and it's really hard.
I get it.
But for a lot of these people, you need to only just be like, gas prices.
And they're going to be like, yeah, but abortion gas prices.
But what about gas prices?
Sorry, dude.
Don't know.
Don't care.
You really want to spend five bucks a gallon, and you're complaining about issues that aren't even going to happen?
Listen.
If the Republicans win the House and the Senate, they're not passing any of these bills.
Joe Biden is still going to knock them back.
But you get Republicans in the Senate and the House, and they will at least put a stop on the radical Democrat agenda, which is destroying our energy industry.
Joe Biden cancels Keystone, bans fracking, and then goes and begs the Saudis for oil.
That is inconsistent, at the very least.
You let the Democrats stay in, they run roughshod over you, your prices skyrocket, and they say, whoopsie!
The viral clip in question that I saw, and I saw many people commenting on, was not the full video.
In the full video, it is clear that what is happening to Katy Perry's eye is probably some sort of paralysis, or it could be, it's a possibility, Katy Perry Practice quite a bit to perfect a weird eye glitch.
I really don't think that's the case.
But let me give you the gist of it.
Here's a story many of you may have heard.
Katy Perry's on stage.
You can see her there and she's got like one eye drooped all the way down and one eye open.
And then she like presses her temple and her eye opens before glitching and closing.
She presses again, her eye opens up.
Everybody has an idea as to what's really happening and the big conspiracy theory is that she is suffering from Bell's Palsy due to the vaccine.
With the Hodge Twins tweeting that Katy Perry's got that Pfizer eye.
Now I'm not saying the Hodge Twins are actually saying she's suffering from Bell's Palsy or anything like that.
I think it's a joke about Bell's Palsy and I want to make sure I point that out.
One of the big dismissals here is that by simply making a joke about Bell's Palsy, you're implying Katy Perry actually got Bell's Palsy.
No, no, no, no.
It's joking about her eye drooping and then making fun of Bell's Palsy.
I guess.
Either way.
There is a longer video that has been surfacing.
There's, like, a shortened version which shows her eye, like, half-closed.
And now we've got all of the conspiracy theories in the world, and none of them make sense or are correct.
I have no idea what to tell you, but I can tell you this.
It's not Bell's Palsy.
Bell's Palsy does not make your eye, like, work like normal and all of a sudden just close.
Bell's Palsy makes the muscles droop, and they're paralyzed, so your eye is half-closed and you can't smile.
That ain't it.
So, I want to take a look at the video, and I want to talk about it, because I'm going to debunk everything.
It is not eyelash glue.
Okay, look.
I don't know definitively anything.
It could be Bell's palsy, it could be eyelash glue, it could be a performance, it could be Botox injury, it could be a nerve disorder, and it could be wonk eye.
That's what she calls it.
Katy Perry claims she has wonk eye.
But none of these things stand up to scrutiny.
So I can only say, I got no idea what it is.
But I've been looking at this video since yesterday.
We didn't talk about it anywhere.
A lot of people are already talking about it.
But I'm gonna go through debunking everything everyone claims that it is.
Here's the story from The Sun.
Katy Perry's eye leaves fans horrified and thinking she suffered paralysis live on stage.
The best thing I can probably think of is a cramp, a muscle spasm.
She's doing this performance.
She's probably sweaty.
Maybe she's been drinking.
Muscle spasm makes the most sense.
I don't know.
I think she's like straight edge, so maybe that's not true.
The Sun says, Supporters were left fearing the 38-year-old pop star had suffered from facial paralysis during her Las Vegas residency.
Here we can see some photos of it.
Okay, you know what?
Let me just jump to this.
From Majid Nawaz.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the video.
Let me zoom in quite a bit.
This is a slightly longer video than what many people are sharing.
And so, I want you to watch.
So what we're seeing, I'll describe it for those that are, her eyes are both open totally normally.
Now, all of a sudden, full stop, at around the six second mark, she starts twitching both of her, like both of her eyes, like something's going on.
And then, very slowly, her right eye just slowly closes completely.
When you wink, you have to compress all of your facial muscles, so it's really hard to keep one eye perfectly open.
There was that actress, do you guys ever see Arrested Development?
The woman who played the mother in Arrested Development had that perfect wink where she could close her eye perfectly without crunching her whole face.
But this is what happens with Katy Perry.
Her eye is totally down and one is totally open.
Very slowly it closes.
Now the reason I want to talk about this, everybody I see sharing this video where her eye is already half closed.
Then I see all these women being like, oh it's clearly eyelash glue.
And I'm like, yeah it probably is eyelash glue, moving on.
Then I see this video, which is longer, and you can see your eyes are open, and then one just slowly goes down.
But here, we'll keep watching.
She touches her face.
What she's doing, likely, is pulling the skin back.
Pulling on the muscle.
It then closes right away.
She ignores it.
It's stuck.
She then pulls it back again, it opens up, and then blinks asynchronously with the rest of her face.
If I were to make a guess, I would say not Bell's Palsy.
Possible, but I don't think so.
In it, he says, receipts.
BMJ.
This is the British Medical Journal, I believe it stands for.
A patient who experiences two facial palsies, one after the first and another after the second dose, strongly suggests that Bell's palsy is linked to the Pfizer vaccine.
So, we've seen many reports showing that Bell's palsy is a side effect now.
As horrifying as it is, Bell's palsy is temporary.
I would strongly encourage anybody to go talk to a trusted medical professional.
Don't take any medical advice from me, as I often say.
And make sure you trust your medical professional.
I say it every time.
It's no excuse to be like, Tim, I don't trust my doctor.
And I'm like, well, don't tell me.
Go find a doctor you do trust.
I clearly did.
Joe Rogan clearly did.
Come on, it's possible, guys.
Talk to a medical professional.
Anyway, I don't think it's Bell's Palsy because I've got a bunch of things I've got to go through.
I don't think it's Bell's Palsy because, let me see, here, Justin Bieber.
When Justin Bieber had Bell's Palsy, what happens is your eye stays open.
You can't close it because it's paralyzed.
And so you've got one eye open and you've got... So I don't think it's Bell's Palsy.
So here's the video.
Let's take a look at this.
Let's start with this one.
BitButter on Twitter says, So let's pause and address this.
Bell's palsy by pulling on your cheek, X. You can correct, you can sometimes correct
stuck eyelashes by pulling on your cheek. So let's pause and address this. In this clip,
with 8.2 million views, this is why I'm saying there's a full video. Her eyes already closed.
Eight point- This is the one everyone's watching.
No, you gotta watch the full video!
Her eyes already closed, and you can see people think it's a stuck eyelash.
When you watch the full video, her eye is totally open, and it just slowly droops down like something's wrong.
Botox, maybe?
BitButter says, OK, Katy Perry's right eye is her wonk eye.
This is apparently well known among fans.
This now seems to me the most likely explanation.
Wrong!
Good sir.
Do a cursory image search.
Wrong!
And I can prove it.
Again, I have no idea what's wrong with her eye, but I can debunk all of these things.
I can debunk all of them.
Katy Perry reveals wonk eye details on American Idol.
Let's slow down.
Go back to the beginning.
First, this video that says what's happening with 8.2 million views is the most prominently shared video.
The Majid Nawaz video has 127,000 views.
I didn't see this one until early this morning.
In it, you can see it starts with her eyes completely open, and then one eye slowly closes for, like, no reason.
It seems very strange why that's happening.
Her eye keeps blinking.
She pulls on it.
Muscle spasm to me makes the most sense.
Stuck eyelash doesn't because her eyes are open and then it slowly closes.
That doesn't make sense to me.
Now let's talk about Katy Perry's wonk eye in a story from 2021.
Katy Perry was talking with a contestant on American Idol and she said, I have wonk eye.
What is wonk eye?
Alright, here's an image.
A very large image.
You can see Katy Perry's left eye in this image is slightly closed and her right eye is open.
Now, this is what I entertained.
I said, she says her right eye is her wonk eye.
Maybe these images are reversed.
Notice that tattoo on her hand.
I checked.
The tattoo is on her right hand.
That is her right hand.
Her right eye is more open than her left eye.
Someone tweeted in 2016, how can you be so cute?
And Katy Perry said, that wonk eye though.
Someone then asks, which side?
And Katy says, right.
Excuse me.
So here's my point.
Katy Perry's right eye is more open than her left.
Is that what her wonk eye is?
It's more open?
Apparently she has eye drops because of this.
Okay.
Then explain to me how in this video her eye slowly closes and it's her right eye.
And then she pulls on it.
Again, maybe what she means by wonk eye is weird muscle spasms.
And that's why when her left eye was slightly closed, her right eye was open because of muscle contraction issues.
You ever get a cramp?
Okay, if you engage in strenuous physical activity, you get cramps.
And you sometimes have to use force from other muscles to pull things.
I have, uh, I get really bad leg cramps if I don't drink enough water or eat enough protein.
And, uh, I'll go out skating very, very heavily, and then all of a sudden, in the middle of the night, it's like, the cramp is so hard, I have to use my arms to pull my leg.
Ooh, it's painful.
I think she's sweating, she's performing, maybe dehydrated.
Let's debunk another point people are making about Katy Perry.
Even I tweeted this.
Maybe it's a Botox thing.
Botox does not cause this, okay?
When you get droopy eyelid, it just looks like this.
The lady's got a droopy eyelid.
She got Botox in her forehead, probably.
It's supposed to relax the muscles, paralyzing them, so they don't wrinkle.
And then, you know, initially when you get Botox, your face is paralyzed or whatever.
And then the Botox lasts for like three to seven months, getting rid of wrinkles, but your face returns to normal after a little bit.
Some people experience a droopy eyelid.
A droopy eyelid is not A closing eye that gets stuck that you have to pull open.
That's very strange.
Is it possible that Katy Perry is a robot?
I guess.
It's possible that animatronics exist at that point.
Just, I would say, probably not based in reality.
No.
Robots maybe exist.
Aliens, sure.
Things that are physically possible, but just astronomically unlikely.
Muscle spasm.
Alright, what's this one?
Here we go.
The tattoo on her arm.
On her right arm, she got Sanskrit.
There you can see the flower on her right arm.
So I'm just pointing this out because when she says her right eye is her wonk eye, there's her right arm, her right eye is open, and it's also her right eye that fails her on stage.
So.
Many people are wondering.
Could it be Bell's Palsy?
That's the next one.
Okay, I already said no.
Here's the story from June.
Singer Justin Bieber has revealed he is suffering from facial paralysis after cancelling shows this week.
The 28-year-old said in an Instagram video that the condition is due to a diagnosis of Ramsey-Hunt syndrome.
Okay, so that wasn't even Bell's Palsy!
As you can see, this eye is not blinking.
I can't smile on my side of the face, so there's full paralysis on that side of the face.
Ramsey-Hunt syndrome is when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near someone's ears, say medical experts.
Earlier this week, Bieber's Justice World Tour, which began in February, announced three shows would be postponed.
Let me just point something out to you guys.
You got a lot of people talking about monkey pox.
Remember monkey pox?
You got a lot of people talking about Bell's palsy and Ramsey-Hunt.
Yo, you gotta be careful, man.
This kind of stuff can happen to you.
It really, really can.
Now, some people are concerned about Bell's Palsy as a side effect of the vaccine.
We have this Toronto woman develops Bell's Palsy after COVID vaccine.
Jennifer Gibson says she knew there might be side effects after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, but wasn't prepared when two weeks later, she developed Bell's Palsy.
It was temporary.
It is typically temporary.
Talk to a trusted medical professional.
Make sure you're getting proper risk assessment on any medical treatment you're doing.
This woman, I believe she's a Canadian actress.
I think it's the woman.
And she's since posted photos where she's fine.
Her face is back to normal.
It is a known side effect.
It is rare.
And it is temporary.
But again, you got to make your own medical decisions, right?
You'll also notice her paralyzed eye doesn't close.
I don't really want to discourage them from getting this one.
She blinks with one eye and the other eye just stays completely open.
So perhaps the argument is what's really happening with Katy Perry is that she does have Bell's Palsy and when her eye closes she's choosing to close it and it's her left eye that won't close.
But then her left eye blinks several times.
I just don't see it.
It does seem strange because she's like out of breath and huffing.
In the video you see Katy Perry, and she's like And then her eyes like just oh man that seems so brutal Imagine to us big fan, but I think you're absolutely wrong on this one So you can see again?
Okay, whatever Yeah, the woman, you know, eyes not working.
Then we got this story.
Let's go to Eric Clapton's anti-vaccine diatribe blames propaganda for disastrous experience.
This story is from May 16th, 2021.
Eric Clapton detailed his disastrous health experience after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and blamed, quote, the propaganda for overstating the safety of the vaccine in a letter the guitarist shared with an architect anti-lockdown activist.
Clapton previously shared his thoughts, blah blah blah, He says, quote, about six weeks later I was offered and
took the second AZ shot.
But with a little more knowledge of the dangers, needless to say, the reactions were disastrous.
My hands and feet were either frozen, numb, or burning and pretty much useless for two weeks.
I feared I would never play again. I suffer with peripheral neuropathy.
We're seeing a lot of medical episodes, we'll put it mildly.
The propaganda to the vaccine was safe for everyone.
In the letter, Cladden also discussed discovering heroes like anti-lockdown UK politician Desmond
Swain, as well as similarly minded and somewhat argue conspiratorial YouTube channels.
Guys, I can tell you something really simple about this.
We're seeing a lot of medical episodes, we'll put it mildly.
We're seeing stories like Katy Perry and the theories around what's really causing it.
You also need to understand with the hyper focus on these things, we are going to start
seeing what we want to see.
Keep that in mind.
Talk to a medical professional.
I'm not discounting any of the latest reports.
Keep that in mind.
What I'm saying is, be careful about scale.
It may be that one in a million people suffer from, you know, X syndrome or something like that.
And most people don't pay attention.
Then a news story breaks and they're like, X syndrome is everywhere.
And all of a sudden you have 300 news stories and you're like, how is this happening?
How are there so many news stories?
And it's like...
Well, once the story became clickable, you have 300 million people in this country.
You now have 300 news reports about people with this syndrome.
So keep that in mind.
When it comes to the COVID vaccines, you also need to keep in mind side effects are real.
So again, make sure you trust your doctor.
Ask them questions about your risk assessments and things that make you feel more comfortable.
Make sure they know about your lifestyle, your allergies, and all that stuff.
But find a doctor you trust.
Get advice from the professionals.
Here's the point.
If you've got 70% of the population vaccinated, and like 40% have received four doses of the vaccine, That means you're looking at a very, very large number.
So, let's just say we're looking at 70%.
Yikes!
So, we're at, what, 200 million, 210 million people potentially vaccinated.
And of them, vaccinated several times.
So, let's add a big chunk.
And let's just say there's 300 to 400 million different administered doses, or something like that, because of the boosters and multiple boosters.
Each and every one of those creates an opportunity for side effects.
You're then going to see news stories pop up like crazy.
This doesn't mean... I am not saying side effects don't exist.
I'm saying they do exist.
I'm saying some of these stories are actually scary.
But I'm also saying it may be much more rare than you realize.
It's just the news is making money off of it, and we are administering tons and tons of vaccines.
That being said, I want to make sure it is very, very clear to everyone that you need to trust your doctor.
I've talked about it quite a bit.
There's viral tweets being resurfaced from conservatives who were very heavily advocating for people to get the vaccine, and I've never been a fan of that.
Ben Shapiro said, what did he say?
Get the vaccine, dummies.
Casey Neistat said, go get vaccinated.
And my response always was, guys, I don't care from the left or the right, go talk to a doctor.
Then people respond to me saying, Tim, my doctor is dumb.
And I'm like, why would you hire a dumb doctor?
That's just ridiculous.
I'm sorry.
Come on.
I found a doctor.
Doctor gave me a bunch of medicine.
Joe Rogan found a doctor.
Doctor gave him a bunch of medicine.
They're our doctor.
Like, it is not like every single doctor in the country is secretly a Biden voter or whatever or a Democrat or whatever you're concerned about.
So you can find a good doctor and talk to them and make sure you're getting adequate medical advice.
They'll talk to you about your risks, the health assessment, modern up-to-date information.
And if they can't answer the questions, yo, it's no harm, no foul to be like, Doc, I don't trust you.
That's the weirdest thing to me.
Absolving yourself of the responsibility in finding a good doctor.
This idea that you could go to any medical practitioner and be like, well, he's a doctor, therefore I'll just take his word for it.
It's just like, no, come on, they're people.
Look, you're gonna go to Eric Clapton and ask him to shred some Dragon Force?
I mean, I really, I'd be willing to bet that he probably could, you know, shred if he practiced, but he's not a Dragon Force guy.
He's Eric Clapton, you know, he's good at guitar, but he's not gonna...
Maybe he does.
Maybe I'm wrong.
My point is, even among doctors, some are better than others.
I mean, even among guitar players, I meant to say.
I know people who are professional skateboarders.
And I'm like, they're very good at skateboarding.
And then you can look at the top-tier, cream-of-the-crop, best-of-the-best and be like, okay, those guys are way better.
They're both still pros.
So whose advice do you take?
If you get a top-tier pro saying, you know, nose grinds on rails don't exist, I'm gonna be like, okay.
Actually, this is a really good example for anybody who understands skateboarding.
For those that don't, I'll explain it.
There's a trick on a skateboard where you ollie, you jump with the board, and then land on the nose with your back truck in the air, like you're bouncing on the nose of the board, with one truck grinding against the ledge or rail.
It's called a nose grind.
If you ollie and swing the back truck over so that the board is crooked, well, that's called an over crook, right?
There are top-tier pros that claim you cannot do an over crook on a rail.
Because they say when you try to nosegrind, the board just falls into that position.
They're completely wrong.
And these are some of the best pros in the world.
They're completely wrong.
There's no logic to what they're saying.
They're making an emotional argument about them not having the skills to pull the trick.
It's a funny example.
For those that are in, you know, skateboarding, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
The point is, there's a hard trick, which is doing a straight nosegrind on a rail, and an easier version, bending the board so it balances more easily, which would be called an overcrook.
Instead of just admitting they can't do the nosegrind, they just say, nosegrind doesn't exist.
And I'm just like, bro, it clearly, oh I'm sorry, they say overcrook doesn't exist.
It is a nosegrind.
It's like, no, you're doing the easier trick.
Stop.
Stop it.
You go to a doctor.
They think they're the best in the world.
They give you bad advice.
Don't just immediately trust them.
Go find a doctor and be like, here's how old I am, here's how much I weigh, here's my activity, and be honest.
A lot of people weirdly don't want to answer doctors' questions.
I always find that very strange.
It's like, do you smoke?
And they're like, uh, no.
Just say yes!
The doctor's there to give you medicine!
Just say, yeah.
Yeah, I drink smoke, I don't exercise, I eat Twinkies all day.
If you do, admit it!
And I will add, too, it's funny that people are, like, reticent to admit to doctors that they either don't, like, you go to the dentist, like, do you floss?
Yes.
Like, no, you don't.
Just say no, you don't!
The doctor can see your mouth, dude.
It's the weirdest thing to me.
It's like, you're gonna lie to your doctor.
Bro, I go to the doctor, and I guess the issue is, you clearly know what you're doing is wrong when you don't take care of yourself, so you'd lie to the doctor, and the doctor knows you're lying.
It's so dumb.
You go to your doctor.
To be honest, I eat a lot of meat, I eat a lot of fat, and that's true.
If the doctor says, well, you've got high cholesterol or something, I'd be like, huh, okay, well, you know, better figure that one out.
Anyway, here's my point.
The Katy Perry thing has lit up the internet with conspiracy theories, and you've got some people saying it's the vaccine, which I don't think it is, and you've got some people saying it's eyelash glue, but I think the full video disproves that.
It's simple, man.
We don't know.
And I gotta say, I think it might just be like a muscle spasm.
She's huffing, she's wheezing, she's on stage performing.
I bet she's out drinking or something.
Or she's dehydrated, she's not taking care of herself.