Joe Kent Goes OFF, MAGA Coalition Completely SHATTERED
Joe Kent's resignation and alleged FBI investigation signal a fractured MAGA coalition, yet Tate Brown argues the core base remains 100% loyal to Trump. The episode details President Trump denying troop deployments despite 5,000 Marines in Iran, while Elad Ilyahu reports on clearing the Strait of Hormuz as a loyalty test for Japan and South Korea. Discussions cover Rep. Andy Ogles' Hart-Celler repeal proposal, potential Supreme Court rulings on birthright citizenship, and Trump's "super WASP" comment regarding Mike Johnson's Italian heritage. Ultimately, these shifts suggest a radical rightward push on immigration and identity, even as broader alliances fracture. [Automatically generated summary]
Obviously, I'm your host, Tate Brown here, holding down, taking you into the afternoon of the Rumble Daily lineup.
We have some big stories for you guys today.
Obviously, the big one I think everyone is still talking about is the fallout from the Joe Kent fiasco, I guess you would say, for lack of a better word.
There's a lot of interesting angles, commentary.
I don't know what you want to call it that's been occurring with this whole discourse surrounding Joe Kent.
I think it's a complete mess, quite frankly.
And I don't think Joe Kent is really doing any favors for the movement right now.
But everyone's pretty divided on this issue.
I think it's fair to say every group chat that I'm in seems to be split on this.
It's a pretty divisive topic.
And just, you know, it is what it is.
That being said, we're going to get into that.
We're going to see what he had to say and then see kind of what the response is.
I'll give you my take.
We will be joined around 12:10 by the great Elad Ilyahu, who is live from the White House.
Trump is actually having a briefing as we speak.
He's already speaking to the press right now.
We are getting some sound bites coming in.
One interesting one I just saw, I pulled it up as I've been live.
It is from the president, which I just want to show you guys this real quick before we get into the news because this is really interesting stuff.
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With that, we're getting to our first story here.
This is really the story that I don't know if everyone's talking about it across America, but certainly everyone in our sphere, it's safe to say, is talking about this story.
It's obviously the Joe Kent saga.
So we saw yesterday Joe Kent drops this nuclear bomb on the timeline, you know, basically saying, I'm leaving my post as director of counterterrorism.
You know, I believe Israel is the primary reason we are in this war.
You know, they're putting pressure on the Trump administration.
They were, you know, some of the actions they were taking in the Middle East kind of forced our hand, so to speak.
Just really like a eviscerating statement from Joe Kent.
I mean, like an absolute, again, like a nuclear bomb.
It was pretty shocking, I think, because, you know, he wasn't one of those figures you would have necessarily expected to hear a statement like that from.
Because I thought I was going crazy.
So I was waiting to say something, but I was like, I'm fairly confident.
I've seen Joe Kent on the timeline before reiterating Trump's policy on Iran, defending the strikes, saying we needed to take action on Iran.
I was like, I don't think I'm crazy.
I swear I've seen him say something like that along those lines.
So that's why I was so shocked to see that statement from Joe Kent as predicted.
Sorry, this statement would have gone out on the 17th, his resignation letter.
Anyway, when that went out, you could kind of read between the lines what was going on.
And I think it was pretty obvious that this was going to happen, as in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
I think everyone saw this coming, even people that are probably ardent Joe Kent defenders.
It was very obvious that he wanted to step down from his position, but he needed to soften the landing, right?
He needed a way to ensure that, you know, whatever his gripe was with the administration, that he would be able to vocalize it and get it to as many people as possible.
Hence, why this statement was so grandiose and dramatic and these sorts of things.
I don't know if we have time to get into all the clips because we will need to get to a lot here in a few minutes.
I can sort of set the table and then we can continue on this story after we speak to a lot.
And I'm sure he'll have some thoughts on it as well and what he's hearing from the White House, these sorts of things.
This is really kind of at the crux of this whole saga.
I'll just read the copy here and we can watch the video a little later.
Joe Kent tells Tucker Carlson that President Trump's administration misled the world about Iran being an imminent threat.
Kent said the real imminent threat came from Israel, which he claims was planning to strike Iran first, putting U.S. soldiers in harm's way.
He says this ultimately forced the United States to carry out a preemptive attack on Iran.
So, I mean, this is a really tough claim to make, I would say.
Again, it does seem obvious to me that, you know, of course, I mean, of course, like Israel, the Israel lobby, these sorts of, you know, Israel-adjacent groups, like, of course, they would be encouraging President Trump to take action on Iran.
Like, so are the Saudis.
You know, I mean, by some accounts, we've seen even the Emiratis were asking for Trump for Trump to intervene in the situation.
And Trump has been very consistent on all matters, Iran.
I mean, we have, let me see if I can find it in the stack.
I mean, we have a quote here from President Trump, multiple quotes.
I could go through all of them of Trump over the years saying, not only is Iran like a massive threat, a massive geopolitical threat, but we should just take them out.
We should just take them out.
He's consistently said multiple times that Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
And before we get to a lot, I'll play this clip from President Trump.
And then when I get back, we'll kind of break everything down.
But take a look at this clip from President Trump in 1980.
So, I mean, as you see from President Trump, again, I mean, the situation he's referring to, obviously, was the hostage crisis involving Iran, you know, in 1980 during the Carter administration.
And many have pointed out how weak Jimmy Carter was in that moment.
Trump is saying, just go in.
I mean, he's always viewed the military as this, again, this method of resolving these geopolitical quagmars.
So we'll get into that.
We need to get back into that story.
But before we do, I think we need to jump to the great Alad Iliyahu.
And let's see.
I think Allah is muted.
Are you still muted, Alad?
Yes, he is.
It's okay.
You know, we're getting used to doing these White House segments, which are really exciting stuff.
You know, over at the Pentagon, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had his first press briefing of the week.
And now the Prime Minister of Japan, I apologize for butchering her name, Sana Takeachi, who is very popular over in Japan and the president has endorsed and been a close supporter of for some time.
He's having a bilateral meeting with her now.
And then they're set to have a couple of policy meetings.
And then they're going to go off to dinner later tonight.
This is, of course, coming on the heels of the president calling for his allies and our allies in the United States to step up and help him clear the strait of Hormuz from the Iranian threat that's trying to shut it down.
So first, I wanted to mention at the top, at the briefing earlier today, Secretary of War Hegseth really emphasized that the dignified transfer that him and the president went to yesterday.
It was requested that media not show up there.
And that request was obviously granted.
The Secretary of War Hegseth focused on this one thing, too, that many of these families said to him explicitly, and that was to finish the job in Iran.
I think we're a little bit around 14, 15, or 16 casualties so far.
Every casualty is too much, but this is obviously relatively low, all things considering.
I believe they're up to 2,000 deaths right now in Iran.
So we're seeing that portion.
But now the administration is trying to focus on bringing some allies along to try to help him clear the street of Hormuz.
The straight of Hormuz is where some like 20 or 30% of the world oil transits, maybe even more than that.
And a lot of people who use a lot of the countries that use this oil, the president is asking to join and help opening this street.
So that includes South Korea and Japan.
And that's why one of the big reasons why Japan is here today.
The president is going to try to wrangle them in to try to assist them in our war against Iran, particularly when it comes to opening this street.
There's also been a lot of chatter of whether or not the administration was correctly prepared for the potential of Iran closing the strait or whether the Pentagon was prepared for all of this happening so soon.
It's my understanding that obviously this was in the plans.
This isn't the first time the street has been used as leverage by the Iranians, but that's just some chatter happening around town.
Yeah, you know, the president's been chattering a lot about this in the Oval Office.
The other day, he sort of implied that this is a loyalty test.
The United States has so many allies that we stand with so fervently if they were to be attacked.
We fought wars for so many.
We fought a war for South Korea.
I know it's forgotten war, but we've fought wars for many of these countries.
And the president constantly says a constant theme that he plays on is that we're constantly there for our allies, but are our allies ever really going to be there for us?
And do we have effective allies in battling back against our enemies here and abroad?
And that's why I think he's trying to form a coalition now and see which allies are really there to help him.
He actually constantly uses this rhetoric in regard to NATO too.
Like he always says that we will be there for NATO, but will NATO ever be there for us if we need them?
And I don't think many European nations are really displaying good allyship with the United States.
We'll see how that affects relations moving forward.
But I think this is a really big theme that the president loves to focus on.
We are there to help our allies and defend our allies, but our allies almost are never there to help defend us.
And, you know, what actually, what a country that bucks this trend, I know that we don't like to talk about is Israel.
Israel actually carries their own weight against our enemies, our common enemies here.
Israel is doing an extremely effective job in taking out the leadership and other missile launchers and other ballistic missiles in coordination with the United States now, proving to be an effective ally, preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
I don't know.
Imagine if the Europeans were able to assist Ukraine in a similar way, fighting back the Russians.
So we don't have to be burdened down so much there.
Imagine if at one point the South Koreans were effective in disallowing the North Koreans from gaining a nuclear weapon, you know, which is very analogous to what's going on with Israel trying to prevent Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon.
And again, we've literally fought a war in South Korea, hundreds of thousands of American casualties for that.
And, you know, now North Korea still has a nuclear weapon and is able to leverage that.
And I think we're trying to prevent the same thing from happening with Iran.
But I think it's interesting because people constantly trash Israel.
Israel is carrying their own weight here, as opposed to many of our other allies around the world.
And I think even for those that are like full-blown Israel skeptics in the audience, I think they all need to, I would assume, admit that Israel is, A, very effective militarily for a variety of reasons.
I mean, we've seen basically every goal that they've laid out in Iran has been achieved thus far.
And then, B, yes, when America is, again, you know, operating in tandem with them, again, they're just very effective.
It lightens the load on the Americans.
I mean, to your point, like the casualties are still fairly low.
And again, one is too many, but relative to what you would expect from this type of operation, historically, it is somewhat low.
But I think, really, Iran's turned out to be somewhat of a paper tiger.
I've been hearing for years about the ballistic missile arsenal and that, God forbid, they'd be able to hit one of our ships, one of our destroyers, one of our aircraft carriers.
If you recall the spin of the supersonic weapons that could go Mach 8, 9, 10, that's going to destroy our aircraft carriers in the area or whatnot.
There's so much fear-mongering around this, and every single American casualty is too much.
But just historically, the ratios of casualties that we are achieving is, you know, it's effective.
It's obviously you don't want to see any American service members die, but they are making the ultimate sacrifice.
And as many of the parents of these service members said to Secretary of War Hegseth at the dignified transfer, finish the job.
Well, I mean, and to that point, finishing the job, I mean, to tie this back to our conversation around Trump expecting more out of our allies, do you see a situation in which Trump does sort of hand this containment operation?
You know, once Iran has been sufficiently, you know, bombed into the ground, I mean, that kind of seems to be the strategy thus far.
Do you see a situation in which Trump hands the containment operation off just completely to Israel and the Gulf states?
Look, I think ultimately Israel, I know people like to say that I'll lay this out very clearly.
Israel gives the United States plausible deniability.
I don't think Israel acts without the United States' explicit knowledge and approval.
When BPNet and Yahoo wants to make a move, he calls President Trump and asks for permission first.
Israel does not want to lose their greatest and closest ally that we support so much.
So, you know, it really gives us a plausible deniability.
They get to do some of our dirty work.
And then when we're asked about it, we say, you know, actually, no, we didn't want them to do it, but that's okay.
And that's the example of what actually happened.
I believe last night.
An oil field in Iran was struck.
And then Iran responded by attacking an oil field in Qatar or something.
And then it sent out this long truth social post that said, you know, Israel was really mad.
They won't do this again.
And you better not attack Qatar again.
And if you do, we'll completely eliminate the oil fields.
I think this really gives us a lot of different range of operation to do different things because we've got the work and they're effective in doing it.
You know, I sort of wish we had more capable allies in Taiwan, South Korea, full of NATO.
I mean, let alone Spain and the UK.
And also said about, I think it's underreported how much cooperation is happening between the United States and Israel.
As I understand, we're using that that's been confirmed and reported is that many of our tankers are in Israel and taking off in Ben-Gurion airport.
I would be surprised if we didn't have many more military assets flying in and out of Israel.
Charlie Kirk Directs Counterterrorism Wing00:15:14
Man, I just wanted to say it really pisses me off when people, um, baselessly without evidence on the internet, imply that there were foreign elements involved in the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Yeah, and it really frustrates me when somebody like Joe Kent, who would otherwise be pervy to this sort of insider information because he worked in the intelligence community, is kind of alluding to that without providing any concrete evidence.
It's sort of pathetic.
He's gone from literally working in intelligence to just being a mouthpiece, a loudmouth podcaster online, implying things without evidence.
Like, you are inside the halls of where this intelligence would have been exchanged.
Like, you can't come with us with to come with us, uh, come to us with something a little bit more serious than just these allusions to foreign powers being involved.
Uh, it really frustrates me, it really saddens me.
I think it's shocking that he's um under, I think, Semaphore is reporting that he is under FBI investigation, and this investigation started actually prior to him being fired.
I believe it was opened months ago, but Semaphore said they had something like four sources saying as much.
It's really concerning at a time when you know, people, many American people who you would think are patriots have become more sympathetic to Iran than you know, I guess, the serious threat that Iran poses.
I think people also like to forget that Iran was trying to kill the president for some time.
He was also trying to kill John Bolton and Mike Pompey.
So, you know, I have a chip on my shoulder about that stuff.
So, there's been a history of this stuff, and of course, their history of killing American service members.
So, I think that also has something to do with the president's decision-making here.
The fact that they literally tried to kill him, and I think people think that's a hoax.
I don't think people, I don't think the presidents explain that clear and concise enough, but they did try to kill him multiple times, as I understand.
And you know, that has to wane on his mind when considering whether or not to attack.
Well, that was the great Allah Iliyahu joining us live from the White House.
Is really some exciting stuff.
So, yeah, I actually sympathize with the Lad's take here.
I don't know where specifically to go from here.
I guess my take would be: look, you know, Trump, in regards to Trump with Iran, I mean, he's been very, very consistent on this for a very long time that he does view Iran as a threat.
So, I've said this on the show before: this idea that Trump was apathetic towards Iran or really didn't view them as an adversary or a threat in any way until like Bibi, you know, called in a favor, and then all of a sudden, Trump is like fired up about the nuclear program.
I think that's completely ridiculous.
Again, Trump over the years has been pretty consistent on Iran.
You know, you could say Trump had his other position of no new wars, you know, and then he had these criticisms of Barack Obama, you know, saying, Well, Barack Obama's gonna attack Iran and these sorts of things.
And those are fair critiques to make.
And I mean, those are critiques I've made.
Again, I should go out from the outset and say I'm still not like thrilled about this entire operation.
But two things can be true: one, I could be against getting involved to this level, but B, now that we are involved, I want to win this war.
I think you can hold those two positions simultaneously.
And then, beyond that, yes, President Trump has been fairly consistent on Iran.
I'm not entirely surprised that Trump has turned out to be vehemently anti-Iran, vehemently pro-Israel.
He's been like literally from day one, very pro-Israel.
I mean, he's literally gone out in his first term and saying, I'm the most pro-Israel president in history.
So, I don't think people should be particularly surprised that his foreign policy in the Middle East does revolve around our alliance with Israel.
That's just not like shocking stuff whatsoever.
Back to the, you know, the Joe Kent saga.
I mean, you have this interview.
Again, these clips are just so long.
It's really hard to play in the show because it just takes up so much time.
But again, you can, you've probably watched a good chunk of the interview.
I've already watched the interview.
And I do sympathize with Joe Kent to it.
I don't think, I think the narrative is incorrect where people are just saying, oh, well, he's just like, you know, peddling Candace Owens level.
Like, I don't think that's the case at all.
I think he just, you know, did come under this conviction fairly recently because if we are to go off of his, you know, rhetoric thus far, I mean, Joe Kent has been pretty anti-Iran and he has viewed Iran as this threat.
You know, here's from 2020.
The war with Iran talk is very black and white in a gray world.
Iran has been at war with us since 1979.
So he's already, you know, in 2020 saying we're already like belligerents in a war.
The killing of Suleimanis, who he's, you know, abbreviating here, is the first decisive act we have taken against Iranian terror since the 80s.
So again, I mean, you know, here's the thing about politicians is like once you do come into the public sphere, if you're going to change your position on something as massive as like foreign policy, that needs to be communicated to the, you know, the American people.
I think within five years, if you're a political commentator, there's room for evolution on politics.
There's room for evolution on policy.
But if you're someone that's like running for Congress, you're stumping for a position in the Trump administration.
I think you would need to explain to people if your position has changed on this sort of thing.
He's saying, Iran's been at war with us since 1979.
So then why would you care if we're declaring war?
Why would you care if we're like conducting wartime operations in Iran?
That's just like retarded.
And then Trump puts this up on True Social.
Again, in 2020, Joe Kent, you know, basically just regurgitating a lot of the talking points that people are using now that are in support of this war with Iran from Joe Kent.
We should not sit and wait for the next attack.
Wipe out Iran's ballistic capability now.
Wipe Iran's ballistic capability out and get our troops out of Iraq.
They are only targets now.
No U.S. wounded in action, killed in action as a tribute to the professionalism of our military and intel professionals, not Iranian restraint.
So he's literally saying in 2020, we should just go to war with Iran.
We should wipe out Iran's ballistic capability.
So in five years, he's, again, had this massive evolution.
Again, if you're a commentator, that's fair.
You know, if you're a public intellectual, that's fair.
But if you're running for Congress consistently, he ran for Congress twice.
And if you're joining the Trump administration, I think you should articulate that to us.
Like, again, if your position has changed, because this is the Joe Kent that I was thought, you know, that we had here.
So again, just completely shocking stuff.
You know, again, there's just a lot to get into.
This is a really interesting clip.
I don't want to play the whole thing because we are running out of time here.
Joe Kent and Tucker spin out a, quote, dark theory that Trump went to war with Iran because he's, quote, under threat by Israel, which could have been behind his 2024 assassination attempt and also Charlie Kirk's death.
That to them is more plausible than Trump having any agency whatsoever.
So, you know, again, this is what's so frustrating because I've held this position since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which, again, the most plausible theory is the obvious one, which is that the left killed him.
Like a leftist killed.
I mean, that's just like, again, that is the, not even the theory, the cause, right?
That is what all the evidence points to.
It's kind of undeniable at this point from my perspective.
You know, again, it just, if you have an alternative theory, you have to admit that the evidence for that is very minuscule compared to the overwhelming amount of evidence that points to Tyler Robinson being the killer and leftist, like, you know, being radicalized by leftist ideology.
And then in conjunction with that, the left obviously celebrated this.
But I won't even go into all that.
The point is, I've had this frustration since the Charlie Kirk assassination, and it's been, I've had this frustration with the Trump administration, is I felt like the response has been lacking.
I mean, we talked to Will Chamberlain.
He explained some reasons why, but still, it needs to be more public.
Like, you need to be sending a message to the left that this sort of behavior is just not going to be tolerated.
And that's why you wanted to see more high-profile arrests.
This is why you wanted to see public statements made when you're breaking up these sort of power blocks, these leftist, you know, these leftist groups and power blocks.
Well, part of the reason I think that explains why we saw some inaction on this, why we saw a lot of inaction on this, is guys like Joe Kent are literally directing counterterrorism, which is like the one, you know, wing of the government that you would expect to be deployed against leftists after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
And he thought Israel did everything.
He thought that Israel killed Charlie Kirk, this, that, and the other.
Well, no wonder we weren't like seeing any targeting of high-profile leftists.
No wonder we weren't seeing any leftist power blocks broken up.
No wonder we weren't seeing these door-to-door raids on leftists across the United States.
No wonder.
Because this is the director of counterterrorism was like busy peddling this theory that Israel was behind Charlie Kirk's death.
So it's like, oh, well, that explains why nothing happened.
That explains, because he's probably not the only one, if I had to, you know, venture a guess.
So it's very blackpilling ultimately above all else.
So let me see if the guest is ready.
We are going to be joined by the Great Nightmare Vision of you guys have probably seen.
You know, a great poster.
I texted, I shot him a text to see if we can get an update on his status.
If not, we could just go into a mailbag portion.
Full disclosure, Nightmare Vision, great poster.
He has indicated that he's had some Wi-Fi issues.
I think potentially the Iranians or possibly even the Israelis have interfered here.
They've intervened and they have shut down his Wi-Fi connection, which is really just some dramatic stuff.
It's a dramatic escalation, I would say, in this conflict.
So we'll have to see what the latest is on that.
To this point that I'm making, I saw this from Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator, who's a great mutual, great, great mutual of mine.
We haven't been dismantling leftist terror networks because the guy in charge of counterterrorism was busy blaming everything on Israel.
Again, like it's it's it's it's too it's too like uh it's kind of two-factored.
Okay, you could you could say, um, and I think you would be justified in saying that, yeah, the Israel lobby definitely put a lot of pressure on the Trump administration to carry out this operation.
Um, again, there's reporting that indicates that Israel jumped the gun on this, even though it looks like the United States was prepared to take action in Iran regardless.
Again, Israel jumped the gun here.
Um, and again, the number one beneficiary, I would say, of this war is Israel.
I really don't think there's any question about that.
But, you know, on the flip side, like Charlie Kirk, like, really, we're going, like, is that what we're doing now?
Is that where we're going?
So it's hilarious.
You're seeing all this, all this rhetoric, you know, regarding this whole situation that, you know, MAGA is divided.
I do agree.
So, you know, here's why the title that we went with here at Timcast was basically, you know, MAGA coalition is completely shattered.
No, the base has never been more united, I would actually say.
But I do want to steel man a lot of it because a lot of guys in the in our sphere in the MAGA sphere are just hand-waving away, you know, when people say, well, the coalition is shattered.
You know, a lot of prominent, you know, a lot of prominent individuals, I mean, Tim is one of them and Mike Cernovich, a few others I've seen have been saying, well, the coalition, you know, it's been squandered.
It's been shattered.
What they're trying to say, I'm going to steel man this.
What they're trying to say is the coalition that got Trump elected is shattered.
I think that's completely fair to say because, again, that coalition was broad, right?
It wasn't just MAGA.
It was the big tent MAGA coalition, right?
So you had your libertarians, you had your this, that, and the other.
You had all these different, you know, organizations, these, these, these wings, these whatever that were a part of the coalition that got Trump elected.
But that's not his base.
So people are kind of using these interchangeably, coalition and base.
They're using interchangeably.
Every president, every presidential campaign has to stitch together a coalition.
They have their base.
Trump's always had his base, but he had to bring in a few extra pieces of the electorate in order to win the last election.
That's what's being described when we're talking about a coalition.
Now, people online, again, to my point, are using coalition and base interchangeably.
And that's kind of the problem.
Because look, we see polling here.
This is from right angle news network.
CNN polling reveals that despite blackpilling from the term on the online, some editorializing going here, but I respect it.
President Trump's approval among MAGA is at 100%.
And more importantly, Americans who identify as MAGA have not decreased, but have increased by 2% since 2024.
This is an NBC news poll.
Actually, it wasn't CNN polling, but there was a CNN reacting to the NBC News poll that said 100% of MAGA was supportive of Trump.
They approved of Trump thus far.
And this is why the base is united.
And the base is growing by all accounts.
Like a lot of people are just saying, you know what, I just trust the president.
It is what it is.
I believe in MAGA.
I think this MAGA project is viable.
I do think while it's not perfect, obviously it's the president.
What do you expect?
It's like, it's never going to be perfect.
You know, I do believe that this MAGA thing, this MAGA movement, the President Trump would be the most viable political vehicle for my ideas to get America to the point where I'd like it to be.
And that seems to be resonating.
Again, it's increased by 2% of Americans who identify as MAGA.
And again, the core base is at 100%.
So while it is true that, again, okay, the coalition may be fractured, the coalition may be shattered.
I do think that's true.
I mean, you have these guys, these guys like Dave Smith or, you know, Ian Carroll, like some of these guys who, you know, came and rallied for Trump, right?
They came behind Trump in 2024.
And then three months later, they're calling him like a pedophile.
They're calling him like a pedophile, like controlled by a foreign government.
So, I mean, if that's your coalition, like, okay, then, yeah, these, I don't really care if we're losing those kinds of people.
Like, okay, yeah, thanks for voting for us.
We're going to move on and reward the base now.
I don't really like care if people, again, it took three months for him to completely fall apart because they're probably like temperamentally Democrats anyway, or the temporarily temperamental, temperamentally liberals, fundamentally.
I mean, a lot of these libertarians are because a lot of libertarianism, not all, I know some great ones, but a lot of libertarians are fundamentally liberals because they just have this view of like, why can't the government just like leave individuals alone, right?
It's the same rhetoric you hear that people use about the LGBT stuff.
This is why a lot of libertarians end up like pro-LGBT, pro-trans, all this stuff.
As long as it's not affecting me, I don't care.
And it's like, that's just how society unravels because society, all society is, is just, society is just a makeup of individuals.
It's a conglomeration of individuals.
So, of course, when a large proportion of society is conducting themselves in ways that is self-destructive, society is going to turn a bit worse.
It's going to take a turn for the worse.
That's exactly what we've seen over the last 60 years.
This whole like, yeah, just let everyone do whatever they want.
It doesn't affect me.
Actually, it does affect you.
It does affect you because, again, society isn't independent from individuals.
Society is just a collection of individuals.
It's a conglomeration of individuals.
It's not a surprise.
It's not a surprise that when you start letting people, you know, encouraging people to engage in behavior that's completely self-destructive, society gets worse.
Again, that's just how that's how things.
I thought everyone understood this, but a lot of people don't.
And it's led to, again, like Trump, again, he had to, you know, bring these people in.
Well, thanks for getting elected now.
Good riddance.
Again, you're just seeing here this coalition talk.
Okay, yeah, the coalition may be broken apart.
Again, like the commentary coalition, that's fair.
Like Theo Vaughn and Tim Dylan are no longer full-blown MA.
Okay.
Yeah, that's how election cycles work.
There's interest in the presidential election.
And then as soon as the election's over, yeah, what do you expect?
And I'm not saying this like dunk on like Theo Vaughan.
He's a comedian.
I don't expect him to be like a political commentator.
So I'm not really going to be swayed one way or the other on like what his take is on the current political situation.
It's just really useful around the election to have these guys.
And the Democrats realize the same thing.
Do you think any Democrat now cares what Megan Thee Stallion's take is on anything political?
But around elections, really useful to have her because she can rally, rally people at a, well, rally people at a rally.
It can generate excitement, communicate to potentially communicate to voters that aren't completely clued in on what's going on.
That's just like how it works.
That's how celebrity endorsements work.
So another poll here, another set of polling.
Among Republicans, do you agree with Trump or Carlson and Kelly on foreign policy views?
This was a poll from JL Partners.
84% of Republicans agreed with President Trump, while 6% agreed with Carlson and Kelly.
Because like, are you going to side with a political commentator?
Are you going to side with the guy who has racked up these foreign policy victories over the last 10 years now?
Probably President Trump.
Again, it's not this mystery why people trust the president.
Again, I trust the president.
I'm loyal to President Trump.
That doesn't mean I need to be over the moon about every decision he makes.
I don't think I have been.
I've been fairly critical.
I mean, granted, I wasn't a public figure during the first term, but I had plenty of critiques of President Trump in the first term.
I mean, I was actually, the first term was in many ways kind of a letdown.
It was a huge letdown, actually.
That's fair to say.
I think even President Trump would admit that, you know, in some regards.
But the second administration, again, I wasn't expecting this total takeover and no more elections, like Trump's the Caesar now.
I'd like to see that.
That's why the memes are funny.
That's why the memes are useful and salient because it's like, okay, that's what we would like to see.
My expectations were a Trump administration that was better than the first administration.
And that's what we've gotten.
I mean, the Iran War thing, again, I'm not optimistic about it.
I don't think it's heading.
I don't think it has headed in a direction that's entirely encouraging.
But again, if he can get this mopped up in a few weeks, I don't think people really care about the midterms, to be completely honest with you.
And again, if he achieves a geopolitical victory out of it, then I think, if anything, it reflects well on him.
You know, again, we could be against it, us here.
But the reality is, if you're watching this stream, if you're on Twitter, you make up a very small proportion of the base.
That's just the reality.
Everyone that tuned into the Joe Kent interview, anyone that has an opinion on Joe Kent, whether you're for or against, if you're upset, if you're in favor, whatever, if you have an opinion on Joe Kent, you're already in the vast majority, or sorry, minority.
You're in the vast minority of Republicans.
I would venture a guess.
I would hazard a guess.
The majority of Republicans, even now, have no idea who he is.
I think that would, I don't have any polling in front of me, but I would venture a guess that that's just the reality.
The majority of Republicans don't even know who he is.
That's a bad thing, I guess.
I mean, you know, you would want people to be as involved and politically active as possible.
But a lot of the reality of the situation is a lot of Republicans.
This is why the MAGA coalition is so strong because a lot of them see what Trump says and they see the actions that he takes and they say, I think he reflects me and represents me better than any previous Republican or any other Republican.
So I'm just going to kind of trust him and I don't need to be up to date on every single thing.
Is that good or bad?
It's neither here nor there.
That's just how this sort of works, right?
That's how this MAGA coalition, this MAGA base works is they just sort of trust the president instinctually.
It's really, it's a beautiful thing, quite frankly.
I mean, it is beautiful to see a president that commands this level of loyalty.
Because again, when the Trump administration does take action, that pushes the Republican Party to the right.
That pushes us, you know, not to go back to these previous, not to rehash previous discussions, but like the main problem, the main issue as I see it is immigration.
And that is the one thing that the Trump administration is solid on and that continually pushes the right, that continuously pushes the Republican Party to the right on is immigration.
I mean, do I need to go through the, you know, the net negative migration, the white South African?
I mean, there's been so many victories on immigration.
Again, are the deportation numbers where we want it to be?
I mean, I want the deportation numbers to be in the tens of millions.
So, no, obviously not.
But again, what you're doing is you're raising the baseline for what the voter, you know, what the what the median Republican voter expects from a Republican politician.
You're raising the baseline.
You're moving the football down the field.
You have Andy Ogles, rep Andy Ogles coming out and saying we should just repeal the Hart Seller Act.
We're on the trajectory where that is going to be the mainstream position in the Republican Party in the very near future.
That is absolutely massive.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor, or sorry, rules against birthright citizenship, you know, rules in favor of what we want to see, you know, a result of that court case, saving this country actually becomes like realistic.
I mean, because right now, I'll even admit it's a very narrow window of victory right now.
That's the reality.
Like, it's still, even with all of this, how far we've come, I think the odds are still against us.
I think everyone can remember that moment where he found out your boy, you know, was, you know, was cut with something, you know?
You know, I have a good friend.
I'll just say, my good friend Devin, great guy, total patriot.
When I found out he was half Italian, you know, it's not a bad, I don't have anything against, I love Italians.
I think Italians are great, you know.
I've been known to knock back a Fettuccini Alfredo from time to time.
But it's when it's revealed to you like that.
You know, it's almost like, you know, a little heads up would have been nice.
You know, I guess it's just, it's this feeling of like, I thought you were, like, you can see Trump, like, you know, he's playing it off.
He's a very charismatic guy.
You know, he gets the crowd going.
He's a showman.
You know, he's playing the crowd.
You know, he's doing crowd work.
But you can tell there is behind all of this, there is this slight feeling that, hey, I got misled.
You know, I thought you were one thing.
It turns out you're something else.
There's this feeling of, you know, a little bait and switch almost.
That's what I'm detecting here.
And everyone has had that moment.
Like when I found out my boy Devin, who I assumed, like Trump, assuming of Mike Johnson, I assumed that he was a super wasp, you know?
I wouldn't have said super wasp.
We'll get into that.
I thought he was a wasp.
You know, I thought he was just, you know, one of those.
I found out he's half Italian.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You know, I feel like it's like a Jerry Seinfeld moment.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's just like a heads up would have been nice.
You know, I shouldn't have to find out.
There shouldn't be a grand reveal.
It's just a little surprising.
It's just, I didn't know.
I didn't know you swung that way.
You know, I didn't know.
I didn't know that the Sopranos meant something more to you.
I thought when we watched the Sopranos that it was like a look in on a foreign world.
I didn't realize you were relating to that.
Because that would have changed some things.
I didn't know you were watching Everybody Loves Raymond and you were relating to that.
You know, when you listened to Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin, I didn't know you were resonating with the lyrics.
I thought this was like a look into a distant land, a lifestyle that was unfamiliar.
I didn't know.
I didn't know.
So I totally resonate with what President Trump is saying.
Now, the second part of this is even more fascinating.
We're not going to get Nightmare Visions.
It's not happening.
Sorry, folks.
What's even more fascinating to me is Trump, as far as I understand, coining the term super wasp.
I've never heard anybody say this in my entire life.
And President Trump tends to do this.
He tends to say something that you've never heard before in your entire life.
And this is another one of those moments.
A super wasp?
I'm sorry.
I was familiar with wasps.
You know, we're talking white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant.
Is a common term people use sort of interchangeably with Heritage Americans, but you know, Heritage Americans does include a few other groups.
Wasp is referring to that, you know, founding stock, that founding, you know, English, you know, I guess British, but primarily English, you know, stock Protestant.
You know, you're thinking like Episcopalians, maybe Presbyterians.
Super, super, super wasp.
Is that like some sort of, you know, is that a Northrop Grumman development?
You know, a super wasp.
Is this like a Captain America moment?
Is that what's going on here?
Are we deploying super wall?
I mean, he just, this kind of feels like a Freudian.
I think this might be a Freudian slip.
I think he wasn't supposed to say.
It kind of reminds me of, you know, what Obama said about the aliens.
You know, it's kind of the same thing Trump said.
I don't think he was supposed to say that.
This kind of feels like this to me.
I mean, Trump, were you supposed to reveal that we were working on super wasps?
When I think super wasp, here's what I think.
You know, the name of war is the name of the account here.
Secret Service agents responding to the Augusta national golf course incident where an armed man took hostages and demanded to speak to President Reagan.
This took place in 1983.
I see this gentleman here.
You know, take a look at the socks.
you know, look at all this.
That's a soup.
That seems like a super wasp.
Are we bringing this back?
Is this what's going to mop up the Iran situation?
It's the super wasps.
I mean, again, it's just one of these things.
It just kind of gets dropped on you.
It kind of feels like a bomb gets dropped on you.
We have super, we had super wasps this whole time.
I didn't know.
You know, it would have been nice to know.
I just didn't know.
I thought wasps are gone because you go to an Episcopalian church now and there's pride flags everywhere.
There's like five people there and they're all like lesbians.
You know, you go by an Episcopalian church in 2026 and it looks like a Subaru dealership.
You know?
And the pastor or the Reverend, you know, most predictable lesbian build ever.
I mean, names Pat, drives a Subaru, has a wallet.
You know, I mean, these are all common, you know, has the haircut of an eight-year-old boy.
You know, these are all kind of what you would expect to see.
Now, with the super wasp, does that mean the Episcopalian churches are coming back?
You know, they're making a comeback.
You know, is this what's happening?
I just don't know.
I don't know what President Trump means by this.
This is really, you know, forget the Iran, you know, thing.
Joe Kent, whatever.
I don't, I don't really care.
I want to know what he's talking about.
I want to know what President Trump is talking about here.
Because he definitely didn't just let this slip.
You know, I said earlier, I was speculating maybe he let this slip.
I think this is intentional.
I think this is a message he's sending to someone.
I don't know who, but scares the crap out of me.
So I guess we'll just see what super wasp is.
You know, is he going to deploy?
Are we going to see, are we going to see this being deployed nationwide to potentially haul off massive hordes of third worlders who have infiltrated the country?
I think that might be the case.
You know, will we see Brooks Brothers stores make a massive comeback?
There'll be a renaissance.
You know, will we start seeing across the South Southern gentlemen with juleps and seersucker suits?
I mean, is this what's going to be happening?
I'm just asking questions here.
You know?
Is this, is this, I don't know.
I'm just curious.
I'm just curious what a super WASP is.
It's really interesting to me.
It's really intriguing.
That's why I'm really hammering down on it.
So let me see if I've got anything else to talk about in this deck.
Oh, yes.
We got to talk about this.
Oh, my gosh.
This is like the best news I've ever heard in my entire life.
From the Inside Wire, breaking news.
X will soon let users restrict both post and replies by region or country.
Thank goodness.
I don't have too much commentary on this.
I think you all know why this is the greatest thing you've ever heard in your entire life.
Finally, I really actually am only intending on restricting posts from the Indian subcontinent.
Because you have India and then you have the Muslim versions of India.
So you have Pakistan, Bangladesh.
I think we've heard enough from them.
You know?
I think we've heard enough out of those guys.
They don't really have much to add.
Really at all.
You know, you see these posts from, and the page will be called like the art of masculinity.
You know, the divine essence of man.
And they have like a Greek profile, you know, Greek statue profile picture.
And every post is just like clear, clearly generated by ChatGPT.
Give me an esoteric right-wing take on Joe Count, Joe Kent.
And then they spit something out and they put it on their, and that's, that's, that's it.
That's their post.
Here's how you conquer.
You know, here's how you conquer that mountain of your land.
I didn't know if it was going to be like East, Central, West, you know.
Europe, by and large, will get filtered out.
So this is really interesting stuff.
You know, this kind of, I like that apps are beginning to get filtered by, how do I say this without getting clipped by Media Matters?
I like, no, you know, I'll say it.
I like that apps.
I like that apps are getting filtered by nationality.
Because Hinge, I don't know if you guys, you know, I'm off the market.
You know, I found a great gal I'm spoken for.
But when I was on the market, you know, I was playing the field, Hinge was this, it still is, the app of choice for those who, you know, want a more serious relationship.
And Hinge had this filter you could deploy, which would filter by race, which is really a hilarious thing.
Every person that's on Hinge knows what I'm talking about.
And all the filters on that app were locked behind the premium, you know, paywall.
Like you needed to pay for the premium edition of Hinge to utilize height, you know, politics, you know, whatever.
Do you drink or do you smoke cigarettes?
All of these filters you needed to pay for premium for.
The one filter they gave the free users was the race filter.
You could filter by race.
So of course, okay, never mind.
Anyway, so they gave you the option of the race filter.
It's like Joseph Goebbels designed the app.
I mean, like, it's crazy that, like, it's like a full-blown, you could sort by height, you could sort by race.
Like, what next?
You could sort by genomes.
You could sort by cranial measurements.
I mean, it's literally like a Eugenesis designed that app.
It's really stark.
I mean, it's shocking, like, someone like me coming on there.
And the explanation for the race filter was like, oh, well, this helps black people somehow.
I don't know if you know anything about like the sexual preferences of people.
It does not help black people to have race filters on dating apps.
I digress.
Anyway, it's interesting to see nationality filters have become ubiquitous across apps.
Now you're seeing it on X.
Now you're seeing on X that people are now able to sort by effectively sort by nationality.
Now, again, this isn't like hinge where you could basically sort by race.
You know, again, it's like very, you know, it's got this very antebellum feeling to the app.
You know, you're like, I want, I want a pure, you know, you could like select by that.
Twitter, not quite as precise because you could sort by North America if you wanted to.
The Canadians, if you know anything about Canada's immigration policy over the last 50 years, you're still going to get Indians.
You're still going to get hit with Indians.
So I don't think there's really a way to escape Indians.
I think this filter isn't precise enough.
So my challenge to Nikita Bierre and the rest of the cats over at X, let us dial in even more.
Let us sort by country.
You know, I don't think we should be able to sort by, I think that'd be wrong.
It'd be a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
We can't sort by race, but we should be able to sort by country.
We love Canada, what Canada used to be, but, you know, it's been overtaken by India.
And India is the main culprit.
Why we even have, why there's even demands, you know, for a region country filter in the first place.
I don't think it was, you know, I don't, I actually like some of the posts from that.
I won't filter out Africa because Africa is fascinating, some of the posts on there.
It's like people, like, it's people giving updates on spells they've cast, you know, people giving updates on like different animals that they've sacrificed.
It's actually kind of fascinating.
Some of the updates coming out of Africa.
Southeast Asia, I might filter for that just because it's kind of gross what's going on down there.
South Asia first.
So you look at all these regions on here.
The only culprit here for why anyone's demanding a nationality filter in the first place is South Asia.
Like, let's just be honest here.
So with that, let me see.
Do we have any super chats?
I think they'd be at the top.
I don't think so.
I don't think we have any super chats.
So, you know, I don't know.
I think, you know, some people are saying here, no, I do want to be able to sort by race on Twitter.
Again, I can't necessarily co-sign that because I'm a public figure.
But if that's what you want, you know, it could be interesting.
I guess I'm just trying to dial in on how do we keep India out of the situation.
So really fascinating stuff here.
And we will get into much more stories next week.
But with that, I think we should wind the show down.
We're going to get into it.
Tomorrow, we got a fantastic interview dropping with the great raw egg nationalists.
We had a fantastic conversation.
We dialed in on the death of masculinity.
You know, why it seems like masculinity is dying in the United States.
And it's really, you know, it's a really salient conversation because, I mean, obviously, everyone knows about the environmental factors.
You know, everyone is fully aware of how these chemicals are impacting the human being, the human body.
But he also talks about why liberalism in and of itself is kind of a containment for masculinity and why it is difficult to imagine masculinity being emboldened, thriving under liberalism.
So be ready for that conversation dropping tomorrow.
It's really exciting stuff.
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