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Aug. 18, 2025 - Tim Pool Daily Show

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Gazans BLOCKED From Entering US, Trump CUTS Deportation Backlog For First Time In 20 YEARS

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unidentified		Good afternoon, Rumblers.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Welcome to the Tim Pool Daily Show Live, where I'm your host, Tate Brown, taking you into the afternoon of the Rumble morning lineup.
unidentified		You probably noticed I'm not Tim Pool.
		Yeah, you probably saw his tweet yesterday.
		The throat thing is pretty bad.
		Like, it was like super closed up.
		He had to go to the hospital over it.
		It was a pretty crazy situation.
		So hopefully he'll be back soon, maybe like tomorrow, Wednesday, hopefully.
		But he needed an extra day to recover.
		That dude just grinds.
		I mean, you see the amount of content he puts out.
		So yeah, he's resting up.
		So I'm holding it down today for him for the live show.
		I want to shout out Steven Crowder for the raid, getting us into this afternoon segment of the morning show, or the morning show lineup, afternoon.
		Anyway, it's a beautiful day in DC.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We're outside of DC, our nation's capital.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		There's some clouds overhead, but it's a nice balmy weather out.
unidentified		So we're enjoying that.
unidentified		And the newly secured DC, we're going to get into that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We're going to talk a little more about the liberation of DC.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		We also have a big story.
unidentified		We have a massive story, actually, is the State Department is halting visas to Gazans.
unidentified		So we're going to get into that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's a pretty crazy story.
unidentified		And we also have the Trump-Putin ceasefire talks with Zelensky involved.
		And today, Zelensky traveled to DC, or he's traveling to DC to meet with Trump.
		And a whole host of European leaders are heading over to try and see what kind of deal they can get.
		And we also have Gavin Newsome.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Gavin Newsome has a new nickname for JD Vance.
		Let's see if that's what takes down the Trump administration as some really outdated memes.
		So we'll get into that and so much more.
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		But with that, let's get into our first story from ABC News.
		State Department stopping issuance of visitor visas for quote individuals from Gaza.
		The department is conducting a thorough review of the issuance process.
		So let's get into it.
		The U.S. State Department has announced that it is suspending the issuance of all visitor visas for people from the war-torn Gaza Strip, including children in need of urgent medical care.
		Quote, all visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical humanitarian visas in recent days.
		That's what the State Department wrote on X on Saturday.
		Based on State Department statistics from January 2025 through the end of May, a total of 3,804 class B1 slash B2 visas have been issued for individuals with Palestinian Authority travel documents.
		While the State Department numbers do not specify the purpose of the trips nor how many of the 3,804 visas were issued were class B1 or B2, so they don't differentiate.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		They just give you both and a lump sum there.
unidentified		Individuals seeking to enter the United States for tourism or medical treatment fall under the B2 visa class, while B1 covers business travel.
		And they reached out and obviously they didn't comment.
		So one, a lot of people are obviously speculating on this.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The majority of these visas were B2, medical specifically.
unidentified		You know, this is a tough story because, right, you see these images coming out, these videos coming out of Gaza, and it really is, you know, really grim, grim stuff.
		And it tugs at the heartstrings.
		But this is in line.
		The State Department, this decision is in line with the America First agenda of the Trump administration.
		This has been their stated goal is to prioritize America and any and all foreign policy decisions.
		And they don't want to risk it, right?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, the story of American foreign policy over the last however many decades has been cleaning up other people's messes.
unidentified		And this is a huge departure from this.
		I mean, they're saying, look, there's a lot of partners in the region that can handle this.
		If there are people with medical needs, right, again, there's regional partners that can handle this.
		Why do they need to come to the United States?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Why do we need to set this precedent?
unidentified		And it's a very salient question.
		And the State Department is just saying, no, we're not going to be the ones here to pick up other people's messes.
		So, I mean, there is also, there's been, you know, stories with Mark Arubio specifically citing terrorist concerns with a lot of these visa issuances.
		Again, even then, I don't even think you really need a long-winded justification.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I think you can just say, look, we need to prioritize Americans.
unidentified		Every time a country gets destabilized and there's a crisis, are we going to admit thousands of people from there every single time?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that's not sustainable.
unidentified		We already saw that with the Syria situation about a decade ago.
		And again, it sets a terrible precedent because, you know, if you're, like for Israel, for example, they can invade a country or, you know, not invade, but react to the terrorist attack, right?
		There's a war going on, I guess.
		I got to be careful with wording here, but there's a war going on and the people are displaced.
		And the precedent is whatever country this is, let's say, you know, Pakistan and India go at it again.
		They can just say, well, if there's any refugees left over, they can just ship them over to the U.S. and Europe.
		I mean, that was the precedent set with Syria.
		And we're seeing it again here.
		Again, I'm not saying Israel is, you know, pushing for this at all.
		You know, who knows?
		But there is truth to it that a lot of these countries do feel like the U.S. will always be there to clean up their mess.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		And I think this is great.
unidentified		I mean, really, I mean, look, like I said, this is a humanitarian issue.
		Obviously, there's a lot of people with, you know, that are looking for medical treatment, et cetera, et cetera.
		But we have to prioritize our interests as the United States.
		I mean, this is just, this sets such a bad precedent every single time that we do this.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		And the precedent is, if there is a war and there's refugees, we'll bring them in.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		No questions asked.
unidentified		And that's just not sustainable.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's not.
unidentified		So I think this is a great decision from the State Department.
		It sets the tone.
		And this obviously has been so far an entirely new look administration, how we're handling visas specifically.
		We have another story here from Fox News.
		This just dropped like two hours ago.
		This is fascinating.
		This is from Fox.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Rubio's State Department yanks more than 6,000 student visas due to assault, burglary, and support for terrorism.
unidentified		The State Department has yanked more than 6,000 student visas in 2025 for overstays and law violations, including support for terrorism, Fox News has learned.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		The Trump administration has launched multiple initiatives aimed at cracking down on immigration and revoking visas of those attending academic institutions in the U.S.
unidentified		Those who have publicly protested supporting Palestine have faced heightened scrutiny, as one example.
		And Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in May that the administration was reviewing the visa status of students who participated in pro-Palestine protests.
		The roughly 6,000 visas that were pulled primarily were due to visa overstays or encounters with the law, including assault, DUIs, burglary, and support for terrorism, the State Department told Fox Digital.
		We'll get down here.
		They do a comparison with the Biden administration.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So let's see.
unidentified		Those whose visas were pulled due to support for terrorism between 200 people to 300 people engaged in behavior such as raising funds for the militant group Hamas, which the U.S. State Department has designated as a terrorist organization, the official said.
		Although the State Department told Fox News Digital that approximately 40,000 visas have been pulled in 2025, or sorry, altogether at the beginning of that, approximately 40,000 visas have been pulled in 2025 in comparison to the 16,000 that were revoked during the same time frame under the Biden administration.
		Quote, even if the previous administration was doing less, they were still revoking visas, end quote.
		So, yeah, I mean, but you look at the numbers here, right?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, these are very, very valid reasons to revoke someone's visa.
unidentified		Right?
unidentified		This is a no-brainer.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Assault, burglary.
unidentified		Like, what are we doing here?
		We have plenty of Americans that are up to these.
		We don't, I mean, I know like it's kind of the flavor of the month right now to bring the H-1B workers in and replace American workers.
		Look, we do crime pretty well as Americans.
		We got a lot of good, like, really efficient criminals.
		I don't know if we need to be replacing criminals with more criminals.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, this is no good.
unidentified		So, yeah, see, we're seeing this, obviously, raising money for Hamas.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, like, what are we doing here?
unidentified		And the fact that the State Department has found 40,000 people so far on these visas that have been up to this behavior compared to the 16,000 that were revoked in the same timeframe.
		So unless there was an increase of, what, 24,000, you know, bad people between Biden and Trump, that just shows that the Biden admin was asleep at the wheel when it came to the visa situation, that they were just letting people live and let live.
		You know, if you need to burglarize or if you need to raise a few bucks for a terrorist organization, we'll look the other way.
		And this really is.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		I mean, there's so many, so many examples of our visa program programs being exploited.
unidentified		And it's one thing to exploit a system.
		Another thing, to come here and get up to no good, you know, with a visa in hand and Tim talks about all the time.
		I mean the State Department reserves the right to you know, yank a visa whenever they want without, without discretion, really.
		I mean, like they they, they maintain the ability to do that.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So okay, even though they have you know justification here obviously, with assault, burglary and support for terrorism, if you're out of step with you know American policy and you're a guest here, then we have the right to to yank your visa.
unidentified		I mean, you know people say it all the time, but it's true.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		It's like could you imagine going to like Saudi Arabia and then protesting against the royal family there?
unidentified		I mean ridiculous.
		And it's like okay great, we have the first amendment here.
		Yes, for Americans, but if you're a guest here, we know we kind of expect you to act like a guest right, you don't just trample mud and mud into the, into the house.
		So um yeah again, this is just another.
		This is, this is consistent.
		This is a consistent consistently tracks with the uh, America First policy of the Trump administration.
		Um yeah, come on, assault duis, burglar.
		I mean these people we have.
		We have too much of this already.
		We don't need.
		We don't need uh, you know, guests coming in doing this as well and the visa overstays.
		I mean again, no brainer, if you can't even be bothered to renew your visa, then I don't know, you know, I don't know how they could be expected to make it through a citizenship process.
		I mean, if you can't even handle that, you can't even handle, you know, heading down to the embassy or file, you know, sending an email or two.
		I mean, how do we expect you to have the wherewithal to get through the citizenship process?
		So um yeah it's, it's a mess but uh, it's nice to see things are getting mopped up and we have a great example here.
		This was from the Washington Times, no more de facto amnesty.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Trump cuts deportation court backlog for first time in almost 20 years.
unidentified		President Trump took the adage, is that adaj?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		That's how you say that adage adage, that's adage.
unidentified		Oh, I say adage, I just never seen it on in writing writing.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		Here we go.
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		You know, I have a lot to learn.
unidentified		I was homeschooled, I was homeschooled, so that explains a lot of it.
		But uh, president Trump took the adage about finding yourself in a hole and stopping digging to heart, at least when it comes to illegal immigration, where he his almost miraculous improvements at the southern border have resulted in the first sustained decrease in the immigration court backlog in nearly two decades.
		Oh my gosh, I mean what has been going on?
tate brown ▲ ● ▼		So uh, mr Trump paired the Biden Era backlog of more than 4.2 million pending cases before immigration judges to 3.8 million, so that may not sound like a big decrease, but if you consider that it's been slowly increasing well, rapidly increasing for the last 20 years uh yeah that's, that's a huge departure from from business as usual.
unidentified		Um, some of that is because of better efficiency in the immigration courts, officially known as the Executive Office FOR Immigration Review.
		However, quote, the real change has been the drop in new cases.
		A senior Justice Department official said here's reading what the official said here that is entirely due to president Trump's policies securing the border.
		It is not a novel Concept.
		Enforcing the law rather than ignoring it really does work to reduce illegal immigration and the backlog.
		So, this is really encouraging because, I mean, if you're on Twitter a lot, which a lot of you guys are, you're a very political audience, a lot of wonks in the audience, you've seen a lot of expression of dissatisfaction with the Trump mass deportations project thus far.
		And in some cases, yes, you'd be justified to be frustrated.
		I mean, anyone is justified to be frustrated with the volume of illegal immigration that's occurred over the last 20, 30, 40 years.
		So, yes, people really just want them gone, right?
		They're tired of waiting.
		And, you know, Trump obviously ran on mass deportations, iconic signs at the RNC, mass deportations now.
		So, people's standards are sky high, as they should be.
		You have the right and you should, and you should feel this way that your country belongs to Americans.
		You're totally justified in that.
		But some of the dooming on Twitter over Trump's immigration policy is a little out of control because, I mean, the amount of bureaucracy that the Trump admin is up against to get mass deportations across the finish line is absolutely mental.
		I mean, this is the big one that people have talked about: they have these immigration judges that they have this immigration court system, and it's just completely gummed up, probably intentionally, giving people extra time.
		It buys them more time in the country.
		So, the fact that he's slowly getting this trimmed down is miraculous.
		And I mean, the big part is that there's virtually no crossings at the border.
		I mean, that really is like you're able to buy some time, have some breathing room.
		So, you know, even if you are one of those people that's frustrated with, you know, you're expecting, you know, a much larger number of deportations by now, you have to consider two things.
		First, at the very least, just having the boot off your neck for a little while is a great feeling.
		And I'm not coping necessarily.
		I do think there's something to that.
		I mean, because you looked at the buy, I think we just got demoralized during the Biden admin, where you were just seeing millions and millions and millions of people pouring across.
		It's like, okay, we're buying some time, right?
		Trump sells three years to go.
		There's still a lot of work being done.
		Stephen Miller is the mad scientist of deportations.
		He's had four years to scheme here, and now he's gotten his war chest.
		So we're starting to see some of these tactics now come into play now that he has the resources for it.
		And then second is like, look, a lot of people are self-deporting, right?
		I mean, that was the goal.
		That is a major goal because it saves you from having to dump a lot of resources into these immigration courts or into ICE to conduct raids.
		Is if people can just self-deport, that solves you a lot of problems.
		And we're seeing a lot and a lot of self-deportations, which is what we want.
		That is the best way to get people out.
		They do it on their own terms and they're gone.
		You know, we have the app set up that makes it easier.
		And then now what we saw in the big beautiful bill, and we need to ramp this number up, is the tax on remittances.
		That's kind of the dirty little secret of illegal immigration is a lot of people come here and they send however much percentage of their paycheck back to their home country because obviously, you know, 10 bucks in America, you know, that won't even buy you a subway sandwich anymore.
		But in Guatemala, I mean, now we're talking.
		Now you're the talk of the town if you got 10 bucks on you.
		So yeah, the remittances situation is completely out of control.
		And that needs to be taxed, like at 100% at least.
		That would be in lockstep with the rest of the Trump immigration policy platform, which is mass pressure, ratchet up the pressure, create an environment for illegal immigrants that is unsustainable.
		It makes it very difficult for them to live here continuously because they don't have the right to.
		They're here illegally.
		A remittance tax would be a huge, huge game changer.
		So with that.
		We talk a lot about immigration on the show.
		We still have a lot of stories to get to.
		I'll just briefly go over this one.
		I don't have too much to break down here because it's still developing.
		But we do have it from NBC News.
		Zelensky travels to DC to meet with Trump days after the red carpet reception for Putin.
		I mean, just in the headline, they had to take a little jab at red carpet reception.
		It's like, yeah, he's the president of Russia.
		What are you going to do?
		Like, you know, send an Uber for him?
		I mean, like, what are we doing here?
		What if they did?
		And it's Alaska.
		I mean, like, okay, it'd be one thing if, you know, you brought him to like, you know, Beverly Hills.
	But I mean, it's Alaska.
	You got to show a little love.
	So anyway, and I love Alaska.
	It's the last frontier.
	But anyway, here's from NBC.
	Ukraine Zelensky will meet with Trump on Monday afternoon, just days after the Trump and Russia-Putin summit in Alaska.
	There was no ceasefire at the summit, ceasefire deal at the summit.
	Talk still may be ongoing between the two parties, but we'll have to find out.
	So now Zelensky and the crew, there's a lot of names here.
	We got, you know, von der Leyen, the EU commission president, NATO secretary, Mark Rutt.
	Kier Starmer's pulling up.
	Frederick Mertz from Germany.
	Mac Ron's pulling up.
	Exciting.
	Maybe he'll bring his wife.
	That'd be exciting stuff.
	And then Italian prime minister Maloney.
	So we got the crew rolling out.
	The squad's rolling up.
	And they're here to beg like dogs.
	So that'll be a wonderful thing.
	It's just so nice that all these foreign leaders, they come to the White House with Trump there, and they're like petrified.
	It's such a nice thing because they used to come when Biden was there and it was like they owned the place.
	They'd kick their feet up on the table and they'd like, you know, be eating a rack of ribs in the Oval Office.
	I mean, it was like the disrespect was crazy.
	And then Trump comes in and now they're walking in with their head down and they're like, oh, I'm sorry, please don't yell at me.
	Trump's pulling up like tweets like when the South African president is like pulling up like highlight reels.
	He's like, hey, watch this, dim the lights.
	It's a new frontier.
	I'm loving these struggle sessions.
	Obviously, the Zelensky one where he just came and just got bullied by Trump and JD Vance for like an hour.
	That was funny.
	So Trump's sit down with the leaders will come as he's intensified his efforts in recent weeks to end the war in Ukraine.
	A more than three-year conflict he insists would not have taken place if he had been in office.
	It's probably true.
	So yeah, these cats are rolling up.
	They want to plead their case, obviously.
	And we're going to go and we're going to look at Trump's truth social in the situation.
	This was yesterday night, or last night, I should say.
	This is from Trump.
	President Zelensky of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately if he wants to, or he can continue to fight.
	Remember how it started.
	No getting back Obama given Crimea, and he put some premises 12 years ago without a shot being fired, and no going into NATO by Ukraine.
	Some things never change.
	So Trump's obviously suggesting here with the NATO thing specifically and the Crimea thing that Ukraine is not in a position to just ratchet the timeline back.
	They will have to make some concessions.
	We see here from Rubio, this is also from NBC News.
	Rubio says a Ukraine-Russia ceasefire deal is not off the table.
	So there does, although Trump has said, obviously, the Ukraine's got to make some concessions.
	Let's see down the article here.
	Let's find it.
	So Rubio's touching on Putin's reluctance to move towards a peace deal.
	I want to find it here.
	Right.
	Quote, these are all key elements of any agreement.
	We understand that.
	And if there's going to be a deal, each side is going to give up on something.
	So let me find it here.
	Where was it?
	Potential security guarantees, um, right.
	Here we go.
	Sorry, everyone.
	It's at the bottom of the article.
	Trump said, if I don't get a ceasefire, Putin is going to pay a price.
	And then he walked out of the meeting saying, I didn't get a ceasefire.
	This is from Chris Murphy, a Democrat senator.
	So take that for what it's worth.
	You heard Secretary Rubio downplay sanctions and Putin walks away with a photo hop for zero commitments.
	So the Democrats are just convinced.
	They're convinced that the Trump administration is going to completely get walked over for this negotiations.
	That's ridiculous.
	The whole reason for the Ukraine aid packages that have ramped up in the last few weeks on behalf of the U.S. is because the Democrats under the Biden administration constantly negotiated on the back foot.
	We saw it in Afghanistan.
	Even though, I mean, I would agree that withdrawing from Afghanistan was necessary, you have to do that in a controlled and powerful manner.
	We're the most powerful country on planet Earth.
	You can't just withdraw and negotiate from a position of weakness and negotiate on the back foot.
	And the Trump admin realizes this.
	And the Democrats, since they're so inept at foreign policy and brinksmanship, they just assume that any gesturing that Trump makes towards the Russians is like because he's best friends with Putin or something.
	That's legitimately the position of the average Democrat because brinksmanship is just completely foreign to them and statesmanship, etc., etc.
	This was an interesting quote from Rubio.
	There'll have to be some security guarantees for Ukraine, right?
	I mean, it's one of their fundamental demands is that if this war were to end, they have to make sure this never happens again.
	In order for there to be peace, the Russian side is going to have to accept that Ukraine is a sovereign country that has a right to defend itself and has a right to enter alliances with other countries to defend itself.
	How that's constructed, what we call it, how it's built, what guarantees are built in there that are enforceable.
	That's what we'll be talking about over the next few days.
	So Rubio's rhetoric is just completely out of lockstep with what the Democrats are saying.
	I mean, I'm going to close that down there.
	This is the problem: people don't actually read the story and read what these officials are saying.
	They're just going off of a tweet of, you know, what Chris Murphy fires off.
	Yes, Rubio is committed to ensuring that Ukraine doesn't get steamrolled, right?
	That's the position of the Secretary of State.
	And then the Democrats are still insisting that Trump and Putin are going to carve up Ukraine or something or whatever.
	So yeah, keep an eye on this story as Zelensky and the crew pull up.
	Maybe we'll get another funny dressing down.
	But ultimately, obviously, we hope for a ceasefire and a satisfactory deal to come because we don't want war, especially in Europe.
	So yeah, true social.
	So let's get to this next story here.
	This is from Newsweek.
	This is very cringe.
	So just brace yourself.
	From Newsweek, Gavin Newsom's team doubles down on new JD Vance nickname with dance meme.
	Get ready for it, guys.
	I didn't even want to cover this, but it's a big story because it makes me so upset.
	It's that bad.
	So lame.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has doubled down on his new nickname for Vice President JD Vance.
	Just Dance Vance.
	Bro, stop.
	I mean, dude.
	Oh, oh, no.
	You know, blue sky is down there.
	All right.
	Take that to blue sky.
	I don't even know.
	Maybe the blue skyers would even be upset.
	It's that bad.
	And what they did was they took a picture of Vance's face and put it on the box.
	It doesn't even matter.
	It's just like the name alone is just terrible.
	I can't stand these people.
	And look what they're doing.
	They're imposing this on us every day.
	The Gavin Governor Newsom press office.
	And I can't mute it either because I kind of need to see it for my job.
	And I just get angry every time I see it.
	Dude.
	Like Donald Trump tiny hands.
	Oh, look, it's like how Trump types.
	I get it.
	But it's me, a Democrat saying that.
	Isn't that so funny?
	And like they're conceding that Trump has completely defined what is funny, right?
	They're conceding that Trump is hilarious.
	And they're conceding that Trump is the tastemaker as far as communication styles.
	Look at this.
	So nice.
	That's something Trump would say.
	And then they take this like boomer Facebook meme, but they switch it up and put and put Gavin Newsom there.
	Because like they're so demoralized and so defeated that they're like their last hope here is just emulating and I guess parodying to an extent, but they're not even really parodying.
	They're just emulating right-wing right-wingers.
	So it's like, it's hilarious.
	It just shows that the culture has shifted so rapidly that the best that the Governor Newsom press office can throw together is like this weird, like half-baked parody of Trump, but it's not even really because it does have like a level of sincerity to it.
	And just dance Vance.
	Dude, I mean, dude, what?
	They need new staffers.
	I mean, are these these, are these the COVID remote learning staffers that came through and are working in these comms departments?
	Because I mean, like, what are we doing?
	I mean, seriously, this is just look highly anticipated.
	This isn't this, this joke died like a year ago.
	It was funny for like a week.
	The Ray Gun girl dancing or whatever.
	I don't even, like, she was in on it.
	Like, and it lasted a week, and they're dragging it up a year later.
	And they probably paid $5 million to a PR firm to come up with this.
	Meanwhile, Trump just keeps calling him new scum, and no one really knows what it means.
	And it's hilarious.
	He didn't pay a dime to a marketing agency for that.
	And he cooks them every single time.
	So the result of that is Newsom is the favorite now for the Democrat or presidential nominee.
	So the Democrats are cooked.
	They're cooked.
	This is their comedian in chief here, just like copying Trump.
	And he's leading, this is polymarket.
	So, you know, take that for what it's worth.
	I've said on IRL previously that I don't know if the Democrats are wanting to, I mean, because JD or Gavin Newsom, in comparison to some of these figures here, is a bit more moderate, even though I would disagree.
	But as far as he presents, he presents more moderate.
	That's fair.
	I don't know if the Democrat base is going to be down with this.
	I think they're going to be angry and they're going to want to take on AOC.
	They want an AOC to go at it and stick it to Trump.
	So we'll see.
	I mean, like people keep floating Andy Bashir.
	This is like, they call him Electabros.
	It's these guys on Twitter that their entire thing is just like elected.
	They just read election results all day and they salivate over that.
	And they don't even really care about policy.
	They just care about their team winning.
	There's a lot of them on the Republican side as well.
	I mean, it's hilarious that they think Andy Bashir would have any chance in a Democrat primary.
	If you know, he's the governor of Kentucky, which is a red state.
	And to be a Democrat governor in a red state, you have to make a lot of concessions that progressives will hang you for.
	And then look at some of these names that Polymark is proposing here.
	The fact that Kamala Harris is this far down is crazy to me because I think she's actually got a decent shot.
	Dwayne The Rock Johnson is only one percentage point behind Kamala.
	That's hilarious.
	Isn't he a Republican, The Rock?
	I don't know.
	I think he spoke at the RNC in 2004 or something.
	But he's ahead of Jon Stewart.
	That's got to make Jon Stewart mad because I don't know the idea The Rock's ever really expressed anything overtly political.
	And Jon Stewart just gets up there and just like rages on TV every night.
	And he's like supposedly a comedian.
	Stephen A. Smith.
	I was saying for a while he might be a sleeper pick, but I don't know.
	J.B. Pritzker, I don't think he would fit in the motorcade.
	I don't think he'd fit in the presidential car.
	So I don't know if that would work out too well.
	Corey Booker, you know, the potato man.
	You know, he's just kind of got crazy guys.
	John Fetterman, that would be interesting.
	Yeah, so anyway, I could go.
	I could go on and on.
	Let's see here.
	We do have a guest, John Root.
	We're bringing him in because we do want to cover.
	You've probably seen some of the NFL discourse on Twitter, but he's not around yet.
	So I'm waiting on the team to update me whenever he's ready.
	We'll figure that out.
	But we do have a few more stories here that we can get into.
	Let's talk D.C.
	It is close to home for like an hour and some change outside of D.C.
	I go there a lot.
	I'm in town quite a bit.
	And I have seen, a lot of people are asking me, have you seen, or rather, they should say, do you feel more comfortable?
	Do you feel safer in D.C.?
	It still feels crazy.
	You still see a lot of homeless.
	You still see people just like walking around in the street.
	Like, who knows how they got there?
	But you are seeing an increased police presence because the National Guard is freeing up resources for the Metropolitan Police Department.
	So you are seeing an increased police presence in places you wouldn't ordinarily see them.
	But we have this fascinating story here from the Wall Street Journal.
	More National Guard soldiers head to D.C. and prepare to carry weapons.
	So let's read here from the Wall Street Journal.
	More National Guard troops are heading soon to Washington, D.C., and they are preparing to start carrying weapons in the coming days, officials say.
	A major shift that comes after President Trump said he was deploying them to, quote, take back the Capitol from what he described as violent criminals.
	He didn't describe, he just explained there's a lot of violent criminals in D.C. That's just objectively true.
	Defense officials previously had said the 800 National Guard soldiers deployed wouldn't be armed, unlike many federal law enforcement agents sent to the Capitol.
	They also weren't to have weapons in their vehicles.
	Quote, weapons are available if needed, but will remain in the armory, the U.S. Army said in a press release Thursday.
	But late Friday, some guards deployed to Washington were told to expect an order to carry weapons, according to people familiar with the planning.
	As of Saturday morning, no formal order had been given, a Defense Department official said.
	Three states said they were sending National Guard troops to Washington at the request of the Trump administration.
	West Virginia, there we go, it's a great state, will send 300 to 400 troops.
	South Carolina plans to send 200, and Ohio is set to deliver 150.
	The state's governors, all Republicans, said Saturday.
	And a White House official said that while additional National Guard troops will be called to the district and might be armed, they aren't making arrests at the time.
	The official said that on Friday night, guard soldiers conducted roving patrols on foot and in vehicles around the National Mall.
	Since arriving in Washington on Tuesday, National Guard's troops jobs have largely been to serve as a visible presence in public areas, according to defense officials.
	They have been assigned administrative, administrative, and logistical duties as well as quote area beautification work.
	So true.
	That is what is going on because it is a beautiful sight.
	The picture they used here is fantastic.
	Yeah, there's something too that you know, a lot of people on the right are like kind of freaking out about this.
	Oh, this is like an increase in federal presence, you know.
	And it's like, these are the same people that saw what Bukele was doing.
	Like, we need that here.
	What did you think the Bukaleification of the U.S. would look like?
	Do you think it was vibes and essays?
	No, it's going to be National Guard troops who are mostly patriots open carrying in your nation's capital because that's what you got to do, right?
	I mean, we've talked about previously how embarrassing the situation is in Washington, D.C., our nation's capital.
	I mean, every time you go there, you're going to see a lot of foreign tourists and a lot of, and you'll, and you'll engage with foreign dignitaries, a lot of staffers coming from overseas.
	It's embarrassing.
	It's a really bad look.
	We're the United States, right?
	It's embarrassing to have these people come here and see, and they see this America in the movies that's described to them.
	And then they come here and they just see like Day-Z or they see like, you know, a zombie movie.
	It's really embarrassing.
	So, I mean, it's a matter of time that we start ramping up our area beautification work.
	That's how you mitigate.
	That's how you mitigate.
	That's how you mitigate criminal activity.
	It's just the presence alone.
	I mean, again, it's unclear what authority that these National Guard troops have, but I think you'll consider twice, you'll think twice about cleaning out a CVS's deodorant.
	If there's a bunch of dudes locked and loaded outside, right to roll, rolling on in Humvees.
	It looks like it looks like a Call of Duty map out there right now.
	And it's great.
	And like, it's really funny if you go down to DC right now and there's these Humvees rolling around.
	And then you just have normal people just like jogging around, having a good time.
	And they'll never, I mean, a lot of them that are on the left will never tell you that they feel more safe.
	Yeah.
	Because in their head, they have this weird, like, warped power dynamic where they view like the military and police as somehow more threatening to them than like actual drug-addicted, zombie, homeless, criminal, turbo, wild, crazy people.
	There's a lot of adjectives I could use there.
	Not many adjectives that are safe for work, but these people are just running around the streets just throwing people around like ragdolls on the subway.
	And yeah, these liberals will be like, oh, actually, it's the military's the scary one.
	I'm like, really?
	When's the last time you saw that a National Guardsman went into a CVS and stole deodorant?
	Maybe that has happened.
	I don't know.
	But the homeless are doing it every night.
	They love it.
	That's what they're all about.
	Hey, we'll read a little more of the article here because this is really interesting stuff.
	Pentagon officials said that the National Guard troops are trained in de-escalation techniques and would serve much as they did in Los Angeles in June.
	At that time, Trump deployed more than 4,000 National Guard members, 700 Marines, and other federal agents in response to protests against raids conducted by U.S. immigration and customs enforcement.
	Their deployment sparked backlash when images circulated of National Guard vehicles parked by immigration checkpoints and U.S. Marines backing ICE teams.
	And that gets us into the second story from the Washington Post.
	Let's get the headline.
	It's always important.
	Immigration enforcement shaped first week of Trump's DC takeover.
	So while everyone was oohing and awing at the Humvees, everyone's getting their hinge profiles updated, you know, snapping photos in front of tanks or whatever.
	Little do we know, there was ice was cooking in the background.
	It provided a good smoke screen for them.
	So let's read here from the Washington Post.
	D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, which is still the craziest name for a Mayor Bowser, really.
	I mean, what's Mayor Waluigi coming in soon anyway?
	It's not either.
	D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwab.
	Come on, what are we doing with these last names?
	Emerged from the federal court Friday in the midst of one of the greatest crises in the history of home rule for the district and applauded what they saw as one win for the city.
	A judge indicated D.C.'s police chief could remain in charge of the force.
	I would say the biggest crisis in the history of home rule for the district is the fact that they don't even rule over their own streets.
	I mean, for the last 50 years, that's been the case.
	It's like, again, there's only so many ways I can describe it, but it really is really grim stuff out on the street.
	I mean, it is total delinquency at all times.
	If you, even now, like, the city has changed in the last 10 years, ask anyone that's lived in D.C. for a while.
	We had Scott Greer on the show last week.
	He's, you know, been in D.C. for a long time.
	He's like, just five years ago, it wasn't like this.
	I mean, he's like, 10 years ago, the nightlife in the city was completely different.
	Where now the nightlife in the city, you know, you get some side quests along the way because you're engaging with hostile mobs.
	I mean, it might be one of the few places in the world where you have PvP-enabled nightlife.
	Yep, it is.
	You got to be ready to throw hands at any moment, right?
	And now the National Guard's involved, so it's really getting wild.
	It really is like a Call of Duty map.
	But yeah, so let's keep reading.
	Sorry, I get sidetracked.
	But let's see.
	But on the ground, the reality was Mercury.
	Yeah, the Washington Post, Democracy Dies in Darkness.
	Yeah, hilarious.
	Okay.
	Thanks, Bezos.
	As the federal court hearing wrapped, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Patriot, was at the DC police headquarters surveying the department that President Donald Trump had declared to be under federal control.
	So these chowder heads were getting all hyped up.
	Some judge said, oh, yeah, the D.C. police chief can remain in force.
	Meanwhile, Patriot Stephen Miller was browsing through the police headquarters, scheming and plotting.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	So Stephen Miller's in there.
	He's scouting.
	Miller's presence at the D.C. police headquarters showed how rapidly the White House had become embedded in the machinery of local law enforcement in the nation's capital.
	And it highlighted how much the first week of the federal takeover has focused on the topic he has directed most intensely, immigration enforcement.
	More than 40% of the roughly 300 arrests reported by the White House targeted undocumented immigrants, also known as illegals.
	Well, undocumented.
	Undocumented.
	Undocumented.
	I mean, I don't like a driver's license that document.
	I don't know.
	Now, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to compel the D.C. police to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, the issue that lit the fuse that led to the city suing on Friday.
	We'll read here.
	If the immigration directives move forward, D.C. could confront an unprecedented quandary whether to comply with or resist an agenda that fuses a crackdown on crime with the removal of undocumented immigrants and homeless people from city streets.
	Trump has already suggested that if the agenda works here, it could be exported to other liberal urban centers.
	The president's authority comes from an untested provision of the D.C. Home Rule Act that allows him to use D.C. police for, quote, federal purpose.
	If he declares an emergency, as Trump did last week, while violent crime, this is what they keep doing here.
	Get ready for this.
	Get ready for the spin from the paper of record.
	Well, one of the papers of record.
	While violent crime rose to historic levels in 2023 and remains a concern for many D.C. residents, it has fallen substantially over the past two years.
	Okay, as it truly is please.
	Again, there's two things going on.
	There's two ways to debunk this.
	One, I mean, there was so many articles that DC police commander who was like falsifying violent crime data.
	Yeah.
	He got busted.
	I mean, that happens a lot.
	He just, he happened to be getting busted for it.
	And second, it's homicide rates haven't really dropped in a dramatic fashion.
	And so the easiest way to tell if they're fudging the numbers on violent crime is you track homicides because homicide is the one crime that you cannot you cannot cover up.
	I mean, a homicide, someone's gone, so people are going to notice.
	You can't cover that up.
	You can't move some numbers around to make your homicide numbers look better.
	And if you look at all these cities that are popping the champagne over violent crime going down, their homicide rate is staying pretty consistent.
	So it's not like all these delinquents are like, you know what?
	I'm done with robbing.
	You know, I'm done with arson, you know, but I can't let go of the killing, right?
	You know, I can, you know, I can go without burning a house down.
	You know, I can go without throwing a couple bricks through a window or, you know, beating someone up.
	But I just can't, you know, the homicide thing, it's still, it was my first love.
	So I can't get it.
	Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't happen.
	You know, that doesn't happen, though.
	The homicide tracks with the violent crime.
	This is, this is, you know, rookie stuff.
	So anyway, yeah, they can say it's fine.
	Whatever.
	Regardless, the violent crime rate there is still like 100 for every 100,000, I think is the number, which puts it on par with a lot of angry cities and countries that have a lot of crime, which is embarrassing.
	The violent crime rate should be zero.
	I mean, that's totally feasible.
	You've been to Singapore, you know, you've been to Dubai.
	You've been to San Salvador.
	I mean, hello.
	Violent crime, you can fix it.
	It's not something you have to tolerate.
	You can just fix it.
	You can just do things.
	And that's exactly what they're doing here.
	Miller outlined the agenda on Fox News Saturday, bragging about federal officials seizing illegal guns, targeting more than 70 homeless encampments that had, quote, scarred and disfigured the public streets.
	So true.
	Saying ICE agents were embedded among the local police.
	So great work from ICE.
	Thank you to the National Guard for creating a smoke screen.
	Well done, boys.
	Keep going.
	And if you want to join ICE, there's some really great benefits you should consider it.
	I think it'd be a monster job and you can be part of the Reconquista of the United States.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	We're going to get into our last story.
	We got a hot swap, last second edition.
	We're actually bringing James Klug in to talk about this last story.
	Got about 15 minutes with him.
	I'm just going to tee off the story here a quick surge before we jump in.
	This is from ABC News.
	NFL teams will again stencil messages in the end zone.
	The NFL is considering his on-field social justice.
	So, you know, you love it.
	We all love this, the whole crap going on in the pain here.
	So 32 teams, you get to choose from one of these four options.
	End racism, stop hate, choose love, or inspire change.
	And it takes all of us.
	We'll be stenciled in the opposite end zone for all games.
	So what are we doing?
	I mean, is the NFL really?
	They're doubling down on this.
	I mean, it just feels so juvenile and weird that we still have to do this.
	Trump won.
	This loss of the ballot box.
	We're going to bring James Klug in to discuss this.
	Surge is getting it set up.
	The king.
	Let's see here.
	Drumroll.
	James, how are you doing?
	Can you hear me?
	Yeah, what's going on?
	How you doing?
	What's going on, dude?
	Hey, yeah, so we were talking NFL.
	I don't know if you saw the NFL end zones that have been graced with here.
	I'll do it for Surge.
	Where's that guy?
	Oh, I don't know.
	It won't let us go full screen.
	I'm telling you this, I don't know.
	Anyway, the NFL.
	Do I need to turn my camera, by the way?
	I got kind of a mobile rig here right now.
	Sorry about that.
	Yeah, should be.
	I don't know.
	But hey, this is how we do it here at Rumble Live.
	We're on the fly.
	We do things.
	We're agile.
	We're flexible.
	But yeah, I wanted your thoughts on the NFL situation.
	Yeah, they're letting you choose from four great options to put in the end zone and racism being one of them.
	There's a lot of racists out there that are watching the NFL and they see the paint on the end zone and they think, wow, I could be so much better.
	I shouldn't continue down this path.
	So let's see.
	Here we go.
	We got full screen.
	That looks good.
	I've got to reframe this one second.
	So anyway, so I was curious.
	I'm playing a little bit of catch up here, but what are the options right now?
	Because end racism, I mean, that's going to be disappointing a lot of fans.
	You know, that's really going against kind of what they're looking for.
	You know, there's a lot of people on the other side of that issue, right?
	So in this kind of national debate that we're having.
	What are the other options?
	Do we know?
	Yeah, it was end racism, stop hate, choose love, or inspire change.
	So you have four great options there.
	Why is this?
	Man, inspire change.
	I don't know.
	Maybe the fourth one.
	I'm not really sure.
	Are people allowed to vote on this stuff?
	The craziest thing, like, why are we still doing this?
	You know, I thought Project 2025 was supposed to eliminate all this like nonsense that we're dealing with.
	Yeah.
	You know what I mean?
	Like we voted for that.
	We voted for that change.
	But yeah, dude, the fact that this is still going on kind of blows my mind.
	I think that they're just looking for like national attention at this point because everything has become so much more conservative.
	The pendulum has swung so much that I think they're just looking for like Donald Trump's attention, attention from the administration.
	You know what I mean?
	But yeah, I don't know.
	I mean, I know that when I was going to Philadelphia Eagles game, shout out to the Eagles, I saw that they had like end racism on, you know, kind of whatever.
	I'm not the biggest sports expert here, but in the touchdown area, basically.
	And dude, at this point, like everyone just ignores this stuff.
	Right.
	Like, I don't even know who are they doing this for, right?
	Like, who's actually concerned about this stuff?
	Who actually is interested in seeing that on the field?
	Nobody cares about this stuff.
	I don't know what we're still doing.
	Like, I thought we were done with this.
	Apparently we're not.
	Yeah.
	Well, yeah, there's something to specifically targeting the NFL.
	Because, I mean, you know, love it or hate it, obviously there's a lot of people very critical of Americans' fascination with professional sports.
	And a lot of those concerns are justified.
	But again, like I said, for better or for worse, the NFL is an institution.
	It is distinctly American.
	And it is something that is really important to like a large number of men across this country.
	It's something they look forward to on Sundays and Monday nights.
	There kind of seems to be kind of a more of a demoralization tactic, but and that used to work.
	Like I remember like when the NFL first started doing this stuff and they had like the black national anthem and stuff like that, you did feel a bit like helpless to some degree because you're like, oh, they're really doing this.
	And there's like, they're going to shove this down my throat now.
	But now it's almost like kind of embarrassed.
	You're just like, dude, why?
	No one else is still doing this.
	I mean, like, we saw Pride Month where none of these, you know, companies changed their logos or very few of them changed their logos.
	So now I don't feel helpless.
	I'm just kind of confused.
	I'm like, what are we doing?
	What are they still doing?
	I mean, maybe at this point, they're just looking for any little bit of attention, trying to make headlines.
	Like, oh, my, maybe, maybe the goal is trying to get the headline.
	Oh, they're still doing this kind of thing.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, maybe that's the goal.
	For a lot of these, a lot of these organizations, you know, they are run by professional business people and they're looking to be in the headlines.
	So maybe this is just one last hurrah trying to get into those headlines, at least for the next four years.
	You know what I mean?
	Like that's their big focus.
	That's their big goal.
	I know that there was like a male cheerleader and whatnot.
	Everyone's thinking, hey, we're done with that.
	Well, people are also talking about it, right?
	Sure.
	Maybe that's just kind of this last woke hurrah BS trying to be like, hey, we're not done with it just yet, you know, as they're like fizzling out.
	But yeah, I don't know.
	I mean, certainly like Gen Z's not putting up with it.
	They don't, they don't tolerate that nonsense in sports.
	And I think a lot of it's just being ignored.
	But the US, one thing I will say, we are a lot further ahead than a lot of other places.
	Like, dude, in Canada, they're still doing like land recognitions, right?
	They might be doing it in the UK as well.
	I mean, that stuff is so over the top and so unsuccessful.
	Occupied road of land.
	It's just so gross, dude.
	It's like, what are you guys doing?
	Like, this is ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	But so at least we're further ahead on that stuff.
	But yeah, I don't know.
	It's a mixture of me wanting to say everyone's ignoring it.
	Like the people at home and that go to the games are ignoring it, but it's still right now making headlines just because everything's swinging so much more to the right.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's, I think that's a big aspect of what's going on is the NFL is so big.
	And it takes a lot for the average NFL fan to be dissuaded to not tune in to watch.
	And the NFL knows that.
	And so I think that's why they feel like they can push the envelope a little more, like you said, to grab headlines because they know that that audience isn't going anywhere because they can, I mean, with the amount of crap they put their audience through during COVID and they didn't shake them.
	So it's one of those things, like there are certain companies with certain audiences that you can put pressure on and you can actually cancel, right?
	We saw that with Bud Light.
	Like who was their clientele, right?
	It was college students.
	They didn't want to do this whole trans woke gross stuff.
	That was a successful boycott because they were out of their realm, right?
	Their audience said absolutely not.
	Well, NFL is super mixed and people are so dedicated to it.
	Like I have a ton of friends.
	Dude, what's the Sunday?
	Red Zone.
	Right.
	Right.
	Red Zone is like a religious experience to them.
	Right.
	And I know that sounds kind of pathetic, but like, you know, they're obsessed with it.
	They love it.
	They absolutely, it's every single Sunday.
	They look forward to it.
	Right.
	And so kind of going on what you were saying, NFL's basically at a point where they could just smack somebody across the face over and over again, call them fat, call them ugly.
	And they're still going to be like, well, I'm still going to watch the games, dude.
	I don't even care.
	People do not care at this point.
	They will literally tolerate anything.
	NFL knows that, but within reason, right?
	Like maybe they have one last hurrah of a lot of woke nonsense over the next three years or so.
	If I were to guess, I think it's going to be calming down because people really just don't care about it.
	Yeah, I mean, that really is the thing is the national environment has changed so much.
	But yeah, like I remember during COVID, I mean, we had the Kaepernick thing and NFL fans didn't really know how to react.
	So they were just like, oh, he's not a good quarterback.
	Like that was their problem with him.
	And then you had like, he's like NASCAR.
	Like, I remember NASCAR was getting crazy during COVID where they had like the guy, you know, LARPing like there was like the 50s, like there was a noose in his garage or whatever.
	And like that was like a whole thing.
	It was the garage pull down, dude.
	They were looking for it anywhere, bro.
	They were looking for it anywhere.
	So we've definitely gone away from that, right?
	We've definitely gone away from that.
	We're like, didn't Kaepernick just have his new docuseries for everyone that doesn't know his story, which is like three people, maybe tops.
	They had that canceled, you know?
	It's just like, nobody cares, bro.
	Yeah.
	You know?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The national, I mean, another indication you can tell the national environment is changing is because college football is getting so popular.
	And it's like, to a degree, I think a lot of football fans have, I mean, I don't know what the TV numbers look like, but a lot of, at least anecdotally, a lot of guys, I know younger guys, prefer college football to the NFL because college football seems to celebrate a lot of aspects of American culture that make us great that the NFL is abandoned.
	I mean, for one, it's just like vitality and youthfulness and just like love for the game.
	Because the NFL, there feels kind of a degree of coldness because there's so much money involved and everything.
	I know college football is getting pretty bad at the NIL stuff, but college football still feels like to a degree the players actually care about the program that they're playing for.
	It means a little bit more.
	So I'm sure it's a really interesting thing.
	There's this like hardcore meritocratic aspect of it as well, where it's like, who's going to get into the NFL?
	You know what I mean?
	Like there's that energy as well.
	There's you representing your tribe, your school, your college.
	That's a really big deal, too.
	I know there's similarities there with NFL and whatnot.
	But yeah, I think to a certain degree when it comes to, or probably an extreme degree when it comes to college football as well.
	I mean, dude, it's do or die for a lot of these kids.
	Like they've worked their entire lives.
	They're going for the NFL and that's all that matters.
	You know, all that other nonsense doesn't freaking matter.
	They're not safe.
	You know, they're not safe in their job or anything.
	It's, it's, hey, you get injured, you lose that possibility of getting in the NFL.
	There's none of that, you know, nonsense.
	There's no room for nonsense when it comes to that.
	You know, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So I mean, I think overall, like, and we're seeing with the cheerleader, obviously, people are really angry.
	But there's this general sense of the culture in America moving to the right because you are seeing some, there are still some holdovers.
	People, especially around the immigration thing, get spooked pretty easily.
	You're seeing a lot of podcasters come out and like basically counter signal the Trump administration's immigration policy.
	So it's like, okay, yes, I mean, we should be happy that the Overton window has moved to the right.
	Like Sidney Sweeney is literally going on TV and is like, I have blonde hair and blue eyes.
	It's the best.
	And that's like normal now.
	And it's like, okay, wow, this really is really Trump's America.
	It's getting wacky and wild out here.
	We knew we were back when white people started showing up back in ads.
	We knew there was a change going on, like actually attracted people as well, just in general, are back in ads.
	We knew we were back.
	As for the male cheerleader thing, I mean, like, haven't there always been male cheerleaders, but they're there for like a supportive kind of position in cheerleading, right?
	They do the lifting, they do all that stuff.
	They're pretty big guys.
	Usually, I'm pretty sure they're straight dudes too.
	Like, they're just big, strong guys that throw up the flyers.
	And in this case, we have a guy like dancing like a girl.
	Again, Project 2025, we voted against this stuff.
	Go hit the oil rigs, get out of here, you know?
	So we're not tolerating that.
	But I think that is another thing where it's like, you know, people are doing these little things here and there for, okay, well, this is the dominant kind of culture right now.
	Not saying that, you know, the woke people are saying, oh, woke is dead.
	Oh, it's totally gone.
	No, like, you know, these psychopaths still control every single major institution in the United States.
	But culturally, there has been a pretty significant shift, especially with, you know, Gen Z, Gen Alpha.
	Like, they don't really put up with this stuff.
	So I still think, like I said, they're doing a lot of that stuff for to grasp onto those headlines.
	But yeah, what were you saying about the immigration aspect?
	Podcasters going back on, oh my gosh, mass deportations are actually happening.
	This is spooky.
	Let's give the left everything they want.
	Is that what you're talking about?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't want to name names per se, but yeah, you're seeing people.
	Yeah, they're like, wait, what about my gardener?
	No, no, I needed him.
	My God.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, dude.
	What are we going to do without exploiting the cheap illegal labor?
	I have these conversations on the street all the time with people because that's obviously the biggest thing that stands out for the Trump administration.
	And when people are criticizing it, that's the thing that they bring up, right?
	Oh my God, mask, dangerous guys kidnapping people.
	But we kind of figured this would be the case going into the election.
	Like, you know, everyone knew that, holy crap, we just opened the floodgates.
	We allow millions of people in.
	Americans get killed.
	You have a record-breaking human trafficking crisis, sex trafficking crisis, child trafficking crisis.
	I mean, the list goes on and on.
	There's no positives to this.
	We knew though, once the mass deportations would start, the only goal for the media right now, basically, is, hey, capture everything bad that is happening with ICE, and we need to make it every single little instance a headline.
	So if somebody's resisting arrests, that goes CNN, mainstream news.
	Oh my God, look, they're being aggressive with this illegal immigrant, you know?
	And so that constant footage is getting a lot of people to kind of buckle.
	Similar to the pressure that people were facing maybe in like 2020 with posting a black square, it's kind of that similar vibe where it's like, oh, we need to keep bombarding you with, look at this poor little, you know, Jose.
	He's being apprehended.
	Turns out he like, you know, played around with children and none of us knew that, but you figure that out three days later.
	Nobody follows up and understands it.
	So you end up with a bunch of ignorant people that are just super upset.
	And that includes podcasters.
	You know, like I'm not intelligent just because you put a mic up to my mouth.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	I mean, I agree with the sentiment we do need to start putting tariffs on podcasting equipment.
	This is getting a little out of control.
	Exhibit A right here.
	I mean, what, like, you know, but well, dude, thanks for jumping in.
	It was a last second hot swap, but I really appreciate it.
	Where can people find you at?
	Yeah, you guys can find me at youtube.com/slash James Klug or James Klug on Instagram, real James Klug on everything else.
	Awesome, dude.
	Well, I appreciate it.
	Well, hopefully we can get an extended chat.
	Sometimes we'll get a full, full interview in.
	So I appreciate it, man.
	Have a good rest of your day.
	Let's do it.
	Thanks.
	See ya.
	All righty, guys.
	Well, that was James Klug.
	He came in, saved the day.
	He held it down, gave us some really good correct takes on the NFL.
	I just want to thank you guys for joining me for this hour of the Rumble live show.
	I don't know.
	It's been a little up in the air recently with the Rumble lineup.
	Whoever comes after us, I'm not entirely sure.
	Maybe Surge.
	I'm not sure now.
	No.
	Yeah, we don't know.
	So we would love to raid, but we don't know who.
	We don't know what to do.
	So anyway, yeah, thank you for hanging out.
	Hopefully we can get Tim back soon.
	Really hope so.
	You Tim.
	Yeah, we need Tim.
	He's the GOAT.
	I mean, his name's in the channel name.
	I mean, what do we?
	It's not Tate Cast.
	It's Timcast.
	So yeah, we need Tim back.
	Just yeah, I pray for him.
	You know, he's worked a lot.
	He's, you know, grinding.
	So we'll get him back here soon.
	I'm optimistic.
	Thanks to producer Surge for holding it down.
	Yo.
	You can find me on X and Instagram at RealTate Brown.
	Come hang out.
	Maybe send me what you think should be in the NFL end zone.
	I think there should be another option.
	They should let you vote and we can put whatever we want in the end zone.
	I think that'd be a lot of fun.
	We can have some naughty words.
	So anyway, yeah, thank you for hanging out.

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