On this week's episode of Sunday Uncensored, we have a special guest on the show to talk about the latest scandal surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) and his affair with a male staffer. We also have a new segment called "The White Nationalist" where we get to hear from the man in charge of the white nationalist wing of Antifa, Joe Kent.
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00:02:02.000I mean, the last time the media came after Matt Gaetz, I mean, two years ago, they were saying all kinds of horrible things about him, big sex scandal.
00:02:09.000Of course, they never materialized any evidence whatsoever.
00:02:11.000Then we come to find out that people from, you know, the FBI and the people that tried to extort Matt Yates and his family, they concocted the entire thing just to try and bring down Matt.
00:02:22.000Have you experienced... I don't think anyone accused you of having a gay affair or anything like that, but have you experienced... Not yet.
00:02:38.000And they made it very obvious, too, because when they wrote this expose about how I had ties to the radical right, their source document, I'm not kidding, was from Rose City, Antifa.
00:02:47.000AP said, according to Rosa De Antifa, who tracks white nationalists, Joe Kent is a white
00:02:53.000nationalist. And then the crazy, the chain reaction happens from there because then like
00:02:56.000the New York Times, Polico, they all say, well, it's AP, it's the Associated Press.
00:03:02.000How do you deal with that? I mean, look, I can understand what we do.
00:04:15.000So at a time when they're like, Joe Kent's a neo-Nazi, I'm like, actually, the neo-Nazi kids are spending money and effort and resources against me.
00:04:21.000So the hatred of me formed this alliance between Rose City Antifa and the Gripers.
00:04:52.000I think your average person that was politically aware, at least, during Donald Trump's presidency and since, I feel like they kind of understand that the far left, the activist left, Calls literally everybody white supremacists, literally everybody Nazis, I think.
00:05:12.000I'm hoping that your average person has kind of picked up on that undisputable fact, but maybe it's just me being an optimist.
00:05:23.000Is it going to get to the point where people just start saying shit like, oh, this candidate fucked the pig, and then people just go like, shut the fuck up, dude.
00:07:37.000The real story is probably a little more complex and the actual solutions for the problems probably are not the feel-good solutions that people are hoping for.
00:07:47.000So it's easy to get people that are politically inexperienced to vote for you if you tell them, no, check it out.
00:08:05.000I mean, that's the, that's the question.
00:08:06.000I mean, I feel like the smart people are actually fairly easy to get, like, cause they'll put in the work, they'll do the research, they'll come ask you hard questions.
00:08:13.000And, you know, I feel like most of those folks are, are gettable.
00:08:16.000And then there's the ideologues on the other side who are just never going to vote for a Republican.
00:08:20.000Like they're not gettable, but there's all, I think there's a lot of people out there who are legitimately, You know, they've got too much going on in their lives.
00:08:49.000And the Democrats have a massive narrative machine in the corporate press, but they also have organizational power that Republicans just don't have.
00:10:37.000We're going to offer them the world as well.
00:10:39.000The Republicans are going, we need to convince as many people as possible to vote for our guy, we need good policy, and the Democrats are like, we need to alter the laws to make sure we can fill out as many ballots as possible.
00:10:50.000Fuck actually convincing people, just get the numbers.
00:10:55.000And when they have to convince people, it's only emotional, right?
00:10:58.000I feel like Republicans spend a lot of time, maybe honorably, being like, here is why my policy makes sense, and here, whatever, and they're like, Trump is going to ruin our country.
00:11:09.000Trump wants to take away your women's rights, and this, that, and the other.
00:12:03.000But then when they actually go through Trump's financials, it's like, this is the only guy that's ever been a president that lost money.
00:12:10.000I suppose maybe if you go back in time, you know, a couple hundred years, you might find some of the early presidents who were very, very poor.
00:15:09.000Like cuz I don't know it like, you know, I called my Twitter handle is Tim cast made it in 2009 and Because it was just like broadcast Tim cast Is that a common thing people do cuz like I'm seeing tons of people do that and I'm wondering if they're just copying off Me or copying off of you.
00:16:06.000We had them on and when I started going off about Ukraine, the Qatar Turkey pipeline, Gazprom, which I do often, they're just like, We have no idea what you're talking about.
00:16:39.000But the media tried to sell that story so intensely, like, Putin is so evil, he'd blow up his own gas pipeline.
00:16:49.000Sometimes I'm just like, I wish I could be evil, because holy fuck would it be easy.
00:16:54.000You don't even have to know anything, apparently.
00:16:56.000But knowing everything, it would be so much easier.
00:17:00.000Because then I could actually be like, ain't nobody's gonna be able to argue with me because the sophistry is way up, you know, above the level, man.
00:17:07.000Don't you think there are people that actually think that?
00:17:29.000It's the equivalent of this article over here from Newsweek.
00:17:34.000We talked on TimCastIRL about how conservatives tend to be more attractive.
00:17:37.000There's like five prominent studies in the past ten years that say conservatives are more attractive.
00:17:42.000And the segment we were doing was talking about privilege.
00:17:44.000I said a person who's attractive goes through life and has it easier.
00:17:47.000They assume then, if life is this easy, anybody can do what I did.
00:17:52.000And people who are ugly have it harder and think, life is really difficult, we have to band together and fight oppression.
00:17:57.000Thus, you'll get this natural bias emerging.
00:18:00.000They cut all that out, took a clip of me just being like, conservatives are naturally more attractive, and then they called me ugly, and started shit-talking my appearance, and I'm like, okay, these people are fucking evil, man.
00:18:11.000I'm ugly and I'm not tall, and I'm still a rock star.
00:18:17.000I mean, hard work, perseverance, talent, the willingness.
00:18:28.000It's not even necessarily hard work, but for the most part, it's the unwillingness to give up.
00:18:34.000No matter how smart you are, no matter how talented, how attractive, how tall, how short, as long as you don't give up, you become successful.
00:18:41.000All That Remains was a band for like eight years before the record that put us on the map came out.
00:18:51.000No, I was working odd jobs or working in the mall and stuff and doing part-time jobs and put out a couple records and just got in the van and destroyed my credit and did everything that bands do.
00:20:52.000I mean, Matt Gaetz is one of the only sitting members who endorsed me because that would be most of the party wouldn't endorse against an incumbent.
00:20:58.000But we took her down and we outworked her.
00:21:00.000We knocked on 130,000 doors, did 300 in-person town halls.
00:22:27.000I mean, we're really trying to keep the Republican Party in the district united, which I think most folks realize that we weren't able to do that.
00:22:34.000And if we want to flip the seat, we've got to be united.
00:22:44.000And so one of the big hard lessons learned was that we need to, especially at the end of the primary, we've got to unify.
00:22:50.000And if we don't, the Democrats just exploit it.
00:22:51.000Because you don't see the Democrats have these internal fights.
00:22:54.000I think it's healthy for us to have them sometimes.
00:22:56.000I think the process that played out with that Matt Gaetz letter, I think that was very, very helpful.
00:23:00.000It showed the American people just like, hey, the Republican Party, like, They're actually out there, they're having these hard conversations.
00:23:05.000But yeah, I think the unity's gonna be key, especially our local parties, our county and our state party.
00:23:10.000They're 100% behind flipping the seat.
00:23:15.000He's a commercial truck driver from New Jersey who like unseated an incumbent and he spent like $150 and it was mostly on Dunkin' Donuts for like people who, he just went door to door and passed out flyers and was like, you should vote for me.
00:23:28.000And like, I think There is a certain level of boots on the ground work that really is effective.
00:23:34.000They can hand people a lot of ballots, but if you have already put your name in their mouths, it's different.
00:23:40.000I haven't met a ton of politicians, but the handful of them that I have met, when you meet them, they if they win, they tend to be very charismatic.
00:23:50.000Even people that I disagree with, like or whatever.
00:23:52.000It's like if I've met them or whatever, it's like you're like, all right, I see why people can get behind that
00:25:44.000I'm saying he has some kind of gravitational force where even the people who hate him can't stop looking at him being like, I can't stop looking at him.
00:25:52.000I fucking hate him, I fucking hate him, but I can't stop looking at him.
00:26:10.000I think getting out and being authentic is the biggest thing, because people want to see the authenticity, like they're kind of sick and tired of the canned talking points and all that.
00:26:18.000You know, people will say things like, he's not presidential.
00:26:22.000It's like, Gavin Newsom is not presidential.
00:26:32.000But neither was Joe Biden, so they figured out how to fix that.
00:26:35.000But Joe Biden, this is going to sound really cruel, but he won his seat in the Senate when his family was going through a really big tragedy, right?
00:26:44.000His wife had been in the car accident, his daughter had died, his son.
00:26:47.000He got sworn in standing next to his son's hospital bed.
00:26:51.000Maybe he is plastic in personality, but he was a memorable launch into American politics, and in a way that is really sort of, I mean, heartbreaking and tragic, right?
00:27:46.000And I would see people post these photos that made their lives look so fucking awesome.
00:27:52.000And this was early on and people would be like, You know, I learned this really quickly.
00:27:56.000It's like, their life is nothing like that.
00:27:59.000That was one photo for one second of their day where in the morning they got up and sat on their couch, drinking a coffee in their boxers, watching TV.
00:28:07.000And then like, they went out to the movies and took one photo with their friends and it looks like they're on this great adventure outside and it's like, then they said peace out and went back to sitting on their couch in their boxers.
00:28:15.000Yeah, I like, there was this influencer I followed, not followed, but she had a blog and she faked going to Disneyland for her birthday.
00:28:26.000She was like, yep I'm having this super cool adventure so glamorous and like it's all a Manipulation and then she wrote about it and was like I I didn't go anywhere Like I made it up because like your life is a lot more.
00:29:00.000I follow a couple AI people that are completely fake.
00:29:03.000Pop Culture Crisis, our pop culture show, talked about this, where there are several major influencers that are completely developed by marketing companies, and they're fake people.
00:29:37.000It's crazy that we've gotten so conditioned that the fake people are more appealing than the real people.
00:29:43.000This might be a real person, I can't tell.
00:29:45.000I mean the other thing is because a lot of people photoshop their photos or face tune them, their photos start to have the AI effect without it actually being AI.
00:29:55.000That's what I was worried about with all the filters.
00:29:56.000At least this is when deepfake was coming out where everyone was doing all the filters.
00:29:59.000If everyone was doing filters over their face, eventually the deepfake is going to be really difficult to tell from reality.
00:30:05.000You're not going to be able to differentiate deepfake from filter covers.
00:30:10.000Yeah, it's like they're ruining all the sense-making, you know, methods that we have.
00:30:14.000And then to your point, like when you actually go, you have a town hall, you meet someone in person, like that is what they actually remember, right?
00:30:22.000If you're only, especially people who are like really busy, whatever, they spend a lot of time on social media, like those fake human interactions fade away in comparison to interacting with a real human.
00:30:55.000So back, like, he has this big long thread, and I'm not gonna go through the whole thing, but essentially what he said is like, imagine back in the day, A hundred years ago, a kid has a strawberry, right?
00:31:07.000Then take that same strawberry and then you extract the juice and sugar out of it and you concentrate it and you put it into a candy and give it to the kid.
00:32:17.000I was just gonna say that the most significant proof of what you're talking about is Kylie Jenner, who told all the girls that she followed, no, I don't have lip fillers, no, I don't have lip fillers, I just overline my lips.
00:32:30.000She's a billionaire for a makeup company.
00:32:32.000She profited off giving girls something that is completely unrealistic and being like, but if you just overline your lips with my specific products, you too can finally have this look.
00:32:51.000You know, the thing that sucks is a friend of mine, like there was a girl that I'd gone on a couple of dates with and she committed suicide earlier this year.
00:32:59.000And she was one of those, you know, she was a, her name was niece and she was an Instagram, you know, and she had had some challenges with mental health, obviously.
00:33:07.000And there was one of the posts she put up like right before she passed away.
00:33:11.000She put up a picture of herself that she had photoshopped and then her in the same spot without the Photoshop and the difference was so slight.
00:33:22.000And it really bothers me when I think about it because she was really pretty and she was really cool and she just had the worst self-image.
00:33:30.000There's a story I covered today where this 37-year-old woman was like, I don't recognize myself anymore.
00:33:35.000And it's funny because what we're seeing is the normal process of aging for women.
00:33:41.000Now they're talking about it amongst themselves publicly for everyone to see, whereas they used to just not do that.
00:33:46.000A woman would be 37 going there and be like, I'm getting crow's feet.
00:33:50.000Now they take pictures of themselves every single day.
00:33:53.000They take their highlights and their Photoshops and put them as their profile pictures.
00:33:56.000And then one day they look at their picture and look in the mirror and go, huh?
00:34:14.000I mean, I feel like the whole social media thing, it's really affecting the way people communicate with each other.
00:34:17.000Because I feel like there's a difference when I talk to like really young folks, like the zoomers or whatever, just going door to door and getting out there more in the community and talking to folks that are, you know, 20, 25 years younger than me.
00:34:28.000I feel like there's a difference between 20 year olds and me.
00:34:30.000The communication is just, it's not there.
00:34:32.000I didn't, I don't feel that way about the millennials.
00:34:34.000I don't know if that's because it's one removed.