On today's show, we discuss the latest on the border crisis, including a viral video that appears to show a backhoe being used to lift up razor wire and allow illegal immigrants to flood into the southern border. Plus, we have a bunch of other stories.
00:00:26.000Well, we've got a viral video where it appears, it's been reported, the federal government has deployed a backloader to lift up razor wire to allow illegal immigrants to flood into the southern border.
00:00:39.000And it's just insult to injury, so we'll talk a lot about that.
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00:03:04.000I just gotta say, like, you know, branding is supposed to be memorable and easy to convey, and just how this got approved, it's entirely my fault.
00:03:11.000I went into chat and I was like, where are the mermaids?
00:03:12.000This is an adult show, so, alright, this is not an adult show, this is a family show, so I don't want to talk about what I'm thinking with that title.
00:04:05.000We don't have the exact location or whatever confirmed, but you clearly have CBP trucks there and a backloader lifting up the razor wire, allowing... This is hundreds of people.
00:04:18.000It is mind-blowing that the federal government I just want to stress this once again, and we'll definitely tie in Aid to Israel with it all too.
00:04:24.000Like, not only do they not enforce the law, but they're breaking the law, aiding and abetting
00:04:40.000They are taking your money and your savings, they are spending it on money to blow up kids,
00:04:45.000and they are spending it to facilitate criminal activities in this country.
00:04:51.000When, okay, I just, what would you call it if members of your own, of individuals in your own government are giving resources and material aid to people who are not citizens in order for those people to break the laws of your country?
00:05:05.000It might be treason, but they're not, we're not at war with these people, so maybe not But, once again, to bundle all of it up together, just to make it, we'll make it anti-war too.
00:05:22.000If you're on the right, ask why it is your savings, your buying power, continually goes down.
00:05:28.000It doesn't matter who you are or what you want.
00:05:30.000We can all agree, the first step is, these people need to be stopped.
00:05:34.000We need to get them out of government.
00:05:36.000We need law enforcement to stop people who are committing crimes.
00:05:40.000This is like, okay, treason, and I don't have the whole definition of the word treason, but it's the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.
00:05:46.000The federal government owes its allegiance to the state of Texas.
00:05:48.000It owes its allegiance to every state in the union, and if it's violating Texas law...
00:06:29.000If they're here, allowing them... The argument is once they cross the middle of the river, now that they're in America, they can't be deported.
00:06:37.000And I'm just like, yeah, I don't buy it because I think it was Texas that put the buoy barrier in the water and they came and said, you gotta get that out now.
00:07:25.000I remember I saw a video recently of people, like, putting cardboard and stuff under the barbed wire, crawling, and then they actually made them turn around and go back.
00:07:36.000But that, again, that was just kind of a random video on Twitter.
00:07:38.000There's another video where Border Patrol opens the gate at the bollard fencing and lets people in, and they're just like, and I'm just like, what?
00:07:47.000This is why they got so mad when Trump said build a wall.
00:07:51.000Before Trump said, we're going to go ham on the border, these people were just coming across.
00:07:58.000And what was happening is really interesting.
00:08:00.000They weren't reporting apprehensions because there weren't any.
00:08:04.000So when they say there were only 50,000 apprehensions, immigration was low.
00:08:07.000No, it was probably 550,000 illegal crossings and only 50,000 actually apprehended.
00:08:14.000When Donald Trump started apprehending, apprehensions skyrocketed.
00:08:16.000And they said, see, it's getting worse under Trump.
00:09:28.000That's the thing, that's why we do need to care.
00:09:30.000Because to the Houthis, because you might not care, not many people are aware, but if you read Houthi media, every attack, every bombing, every shelling is not just the Saudis doing it, they call it U.S.-Saudi aggression.
00:10:35.000It was to contain communism because they were considered the domino theory, which was as countries fell to communism, more countries would fall to communism.
00:10:44.000That's like a never-ending thing, so that's not really a war goal.
00:11:54.000Then all of a sudden he became this guy who wanted to reinstate the Russian Empire and, you know, roll into Poland.
00:12:00.000But it's just a nonsense talking point.
00:12:02.000Putin, I think, three or four weeks ago, maybe a month and a half ago, was like, the collective West has lost its mind, or the West has lost its collective mind.
00:13:03.000And then Phil brought up exactly what the government is doing.
00:13:07.000I said they're trying to stamp out the rebel spirit.
00:13:10.000Which is a component of why they're like, get as many non-rebellious people to come into the United States, and that will start to erode our ideals.
00:13:18.000That's part of the thing, one of the things that I'm concerned about with, not just with CBDCs, like Central Bank Digital Currencies, but also with the idea of basic minimum, basic living... Universal Basic Income, UBI.
00:13:32.000When people are on the government payroll, And everyone is on the government payroll.
00:13:39.000That really is going to make people completely subservient.
00:13:45.000Now there's still people that are like, I don't need the government.
00:13:48.000I don't want to deal with the government.
00:13:49.000All I want to do is live my life in a way that is as independent as possible.
00:13:57.000If you have some kind of UBI, there's going to be so many people that are Just completely and totally dependent on the government, more so than now.
00:14:08.000Now, most people in urban areas, most people in cities are on some level dependent on the government, even if it's dependent on the government to make sure that they can get out of their driveway if it snows or, you know, to make sure that they have water and sewage, plumbing and stuff like that.
00:14:25.000But if you have people that are getting a UBI, everything is going to be dependent on the government.
00:15:01.000Biden's asking for $105 billion to fund the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza, to give military aid to Taiwan so they could work on provoking another war in Southeast Asia.
00:15:11.000And there is some for border security to entice the Republicans, but... Right.
00:16:41.000I think them calling it police stations is a pretty dramatic way to describe it.
00:16:47.000It's Chinese law enforcement operating out of the United States with offices to go to Chinese citizens living in the United States and arrest them for crimes against China.
00:16:55.000From what I understand, that's not what it is.
00:16:57.000Again, this is something I don't really know about.
00:17:03.000From what I understand, they have these kind of like offices where they that are, you know, on paper, you know, they say that they're there to help Chinese Americans like with certain documents and stuff.
00:17:14.000And then they might be going after dissidents through those offices.
00:18:52.000And I'm using Iran as an example, but the people that have been heavily radicalized in the Middle East from all these bombings and things.
00:18:57.000Well, the people that have been heavily radicalized in the Middle East are radicalized for multiple different reasons.
00:19:02.000The Chinese, like Tim said, it's all soft power, but they still want to be able to influence, and they want to be, you know, they're using soft power, but it is to have the United States have policies that benefit China, whether they be indirectly or directly benefiting China, you know?
00:19:19.000But China, I mean, China, the really scary thing about Taiwan, so you mentioned sustaining a war right off China's coast.
00:19:25.000If you look at the think tanks have been putting out these war games and about what a battle would be like, the first battle over Taiwan, like the first few weeks, and they never consider nuclear escalation.
00:19:35.000So this is the really scary part about China is that our Pentagon, our military leaders, you hear them say they're openly planning for a direct war with China.
00:19:44.000They're saying they're trying to deter war, but if it happens, they're going to take them head on.
00:20:06.000He was saying he thinks tens of thousands of American sailors would be killed in the first few weeks.
00:20:12.000Well, there was a... we talked about this, I think, the other day that China does a war game and in every single scenario a US carrier gets sunk.
00:20:19.000Yeah, if you have boats on the surface... It's really the same result.
00:20:24.000We gotta do like a war game, like a D&D style war game.
00:21:36.000The state of Texas got an injunction on the federal government to get them to stop Basically knocking down the borders so that way illegal immigrants can come into the country.
00:21:45.000Maybe not treason, but they're definitely attacking state authority by going into Texas and messing them up.
00:23:33.000Well, when you hear numbers like that, it's just like, what it, you know, it's like, what does that even mean?
00:23:37.000The only time that anyone has ever used those numbers outside of the national debt is in, like, physics.
00:23:44.000When you're talking about the numbers of, like, particles in the universe, you know, it's like, it takes that kind of Like something that massive.
00:23:54.000Otherwise, these numbers are completely and totally impractical.
00:23:58.000The human mind can't even comprehend it.
00:24:00.000And it's the rate of change that's also where it becomes highly impractical.
00:24:46.000And then I remember it was a big deal because one day it put, like, Jesus Christ is Lord on the front page and you had to, like, exit out to see.
00:24:53.000And people were like, wow, like, conservatives were all like, whoa, holy crap, because this is, like, a big website.
00:25:14.000Debts I've always considered... No, I think this is specifically for, um, the interest on the debt is for Medicare, Social Security, and Defense.
00:25:39.000Yeah, or, I'm big into hydrogen fuel, because if we can start producing things that are valuable, and graphene, because if we can start producing things that we can sell around the world, graphene's like $60,000 a ton, and they are just churning it out at Rice University right now.
00:25:53.000Or, you know, what is that stuff, that like blue crab blood or whatever, you know what I'm talking about?
00:26:00.000It's like the most expensive material in the world or something?
00:26:02.000I'm from Long Island, and we just had... Every once in a while, some random horseshoe crab genocide would happen or something, and they'd just be all over the beach.
00:26:12.000And I always hear that it's worth money, their blood, and I'm like, man, I should have been collecting their blood when I was a kid.
00:26:17.000Those are like the blue horseshoe crabs or whatever, and they hook them all up to tubes and extract blood slowly, and it's like...
00:26:23.000I don't know what the deal is, but I've seen that.
00:26:26.000Antibacterial, it's valued in the medical industry.
00:26:28.000But we need, like, when you talk about a dollar, like, I'm a libertarian, so we're always talking about the gold standard, but, you know, we could have a different commodity-based dollar.
00:26:36.000There are different things that can back the dollar.
00:26:38.000Hey, we can go to 2027, we can go to the future.
00:26:40.000Based on all these projections, where we'll be.
00:26:57.000And it says it's going to be 10x in four years.
00:27:00.000And if the debt to GDP ratio goes from 124, 124% to 150%, that means the buying, just a general correlation's not perfect, but that 10x increase in how much money you have correlates with like a 12 times decrease in your buying power.
00:27:16.000Spend your dollars, get rid of them, buy even, like I know that like there's people that- That sounds like financial advice, Phil.
00:27:22.000Oh yeah, well, I'm not giving you any financial advice.
00:27:26.000I like to spend dollars and get things that are valuable.
00:27:30.000I know that whether it be Bitcoin or gold or silver or ammo or whatever.
00:29:08.000But because the cards back then were not that valuable, but we're talking 25, 24 years, now they're all extremely rare and out of print and more valuable.
00:29:21.000I wonder what an Alpha Black Lotus is.
00:30:46.000It's like, I got, I bought it for like 800 bucks a few years ago, and it's just... They used, uh... You know, the longer you hold on to it, the more valuable it gets.
00:30:51.000I think the revolvers back then were, uh, the more ubiquitous was the percussion cap, and that's so, like, little metal primer goes in the back of, you know, each chamber, and then it hits the primer, which ignites the musket ball or whatever, whatever they were using.
00:31:20.000I've been metal detected on my property because there's a battle.
00:31:24.000I'm wondering what relics people will find from the next civil war.
00:31:27.000So they're going to find, you know, magic cards, iPhone 15.
00:31:30.000And, uh, my, uh, my buddy back in New Hampshire, he does a lot of metal detecting and, He's trying to get into off-limit places because, you know, New England's been around a long time, so people have done a lot of hunting and stuff, so he's trying to find places where he's not allowed that he can sneak into.
00:32:06.000So, if what we're facing right now is actually a legitimate threat of World War 3, the population decrease from war and from the fact that people don't have kids means what you're hoping for is less likely to occur.
00:32:18.000Technological expansion typically requires population expansion.
00:32:23.000Like, how many people does it take to make one monitor screen?
00:32:27.000It's probably like 500 different specialties to make one computer monitor.
00:32:32.000But because of the international economy and how everything operates, someone gets cobalt here, and someone gets, you know, quartz here, and someone mines the oil or drills for the oil over here, and then they all go on these different marketplaces.
00:32:46.000I think a really good example is probably just like Pad Thai.
00:32:48.000Or something, some like ridiculous dish that has a spice from Asia and a vegetable from Mexico, and you're like, this unnatural demonic food would never exist were it not for our big oil tankers.
00:33:01.000You know, our big cargo ships around the oceans to bring all these ingredients together.
00:33:05.000If the population declines too much, you lose specialties, and then you're gonna have a guy who's gonna be like, look man, we need someone who can extract hydrogen, but we don't have that anymore.
00:33:16.000So I can work on that, but then we don't have a guy who handles the plastics.
00:33:19.000We don't have a guy who handles the electronics.
00:33:22.000Ian, you're worried about, like, World War III bringing the world to an end, or is there something else you're worried about?
00:33:28.000Is it World War that's got you nervous?
00:33:30.000Yeah, because, you know, for what I do, I basically read, you know, all day every day I sort through, like, hundreds of news articles and read about this, uh...
00:33:38.000You know, war in Ukraine, tensions with China, and all that.
00:33:40.000And I don't like to be hyperbolic in my show and stuff, but I always say, like, if we wake up tomorrow and Russia bombed a NATO base in Poland and we're actually at war with Russia, or if a Chinese ship and an American ship shot at each other in the South China Sea and then it escalated and all of a sudden we're at war with China, You know, don't be surprised.
00:34:01.000We shouldn't be surprised, because at the state of the world that we're in right now, they're just pushing everybody all over the planet.
00:34:11.000And again, I don't try to be over-hyperbolic, but what they're doing, they're leading us down a path of Global War, the likes of which, you know, we've never seen, especially with new technology.
00:34:21.000And I, I, I always, I always want to stress too, because especially when we had, uh, you know, I'll shout it again, Culture War Podcast, you do become slash Timcast.
00:34:28.000Uh, Steven Marsh and I were talking before the show started, because he was, I showed him the Civil War rifle.
00:34:32.000And he was like, what was the first, the first battle?
00:34:34.000And I was like, uh, Bull Run, Manassas.
00:35:20.000It's possible they say it started with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
00:35:24.000I tend to think of it as 9-11, personally.
00:35:28.000The US was just stomping on everyone's neck for the first 18 years of it.
00:35:31.000Yeah, but bro, the US has been doing that for a lot longer than- But 9-11 changed, like, lockdown, police state crap, you know, Patriot Act, people were getting, you know, take your shoes off at the airport kind of crap, looking over your shoulder, afraid of Muslims, like all this dumb I'll tell you.
00:35:45.000So just an anecdote about when I went to China, I remember getting in or I was getting on the plane to fly.
00:35:51.000I forget where we were flying next, but I was all nervous going through their security.
00:35:55.000I was like, I'm going to have to take my shoes off.
00:35:57.000They're going to really go crazy and pat me down.
00:36:05.000And then when we got back into the U S my wife bought like some hand cream in Australia and they put it in like a special bag and they were like, you can't, I mean, I don't know if it's the remnants of 9-11.
00:36:14.000shook her down and like ripped apart all her stuff and said she couldn't bring it
00:36:17.000in or if she wanted to she had to like mail it to it was crazy I'm like this is
00:36:21.000just the remnants of 9-11 of what they did to us after that it hasn't gone away.
00:36:26.000I mean I don't know if it's the remnants of 9-11 there the thing that we're
00:36:31.000experiencing is not actually about stopping terrorism.
00:37:32.000That's like, because if we have kids, it's not enough.
00:37:34.000You need to, you need to mass produce love.
00:37:38.000And we need to make hydrogen fuel and graphene to get out of this steel hellhole that we're in and start making lightweight superconductors locally really fast and cheaply.
00:38:06.000But either way, if we had an industrial revolution on par with what it was in the past, and we bring back a bunch of jobs, you could have manufacturing plants pop up all over the place.
00:38:21.000And it's going to have to be You know, we often do joke about graphene and Ian's fervor, but the reality is it is a bold move to reconfigure an economy towards building a material that can be used to expand and create a bunch of new products.
00:38:52.000And then it's like, oh, this is convenient, people might want to use it.
00:38:56.000We can't just sit here and be like, let's just keep doing the same thing we've always done.
00:39:00.000We need to be like, guys, we should be, we're doing, we have the CHIPS Act, we're making silicon chips in Arizona now, or we're starting to, that's great.
00:39:08.000We should have a, in some way, it's gonna require, I believe most of the private sector, which means a cultural shift, Where we get someone who goes, I want to bring together a bunch of financial institutions and invest a hundred billion dollars in manufacturing plants for graphene, we're going to employ five million people in the United States, and we're going to be exporting a building material and superconductor, which is going to be in major demand around the world, that will massively increase, benefit the U.S.
00:41:23.000It can hold a full cell phone charge after only 10 or so minutes.
00:41:27.000Your phone, whether or not you have the graphene polymer batteries or the graphene lithium, I don't remember what it's called.
00:41:34.000But they're putting them in batteries.
00:41:36.000They think that this technology in electric car batteries means you'll pull your car up to the pump at the gas station, plug in the supercharger, and you'll literally watch the charge go up like a gas tank.
00:43:07.000said, okay, we are going to bolster our manufacturing, develop new technologies, create a very strong, robust middle class that works in development of new technology and new infrastructure and new raw materials and metamaterials, we occupy Alaska, using our own land to rare earth minerals, for instance, stop doing dealings with China, we would then become that shining city on the hill, and other nations would say, we gotta be like them, we gotta do business with them.
00:43:34.000Yeah, and if we're not, don't have a global empire.
00:43:36.000We should be able to do those things without having this empire.
00:43:42.000So the problem with the CHIPS Act is that it's basically corporate subsidies, 50 billion dollars, which is adding to the debt.
00:43:48.000You know, I think the answer isn't subsidizing this industry, which is something, you know, China does.
00:43:53.000I think we should, you know, resort to more capitalism and deregulate and, you know, give people tax incentives and to start factories.
00:44:02.000You know, they're actually getting a lot of the Taiwanese companies to build factories.
00:44:05.000The things that you're going to have to do to get To get people to start businesses like that is, I don't know the first thing about making chips or anything, but I mean, between unions, minimum wages, the amount of things that you have to deregulate and pull back on, it's just astronomical.
00:44:25.000Whereas I understand and agree with your point, I don't think that it's that bad to have the government try to do things to, tax breaks or whatever, to incentivize companies to start it.
00:44:36.000But they're giving them billions of dollars.
00:44:40.000I'd rather him give it to a company in the US than give it to Israel to drop bombs.
00:44:45.000A lot of it's going to Taiwanese companies to bring them here.
00:44:49.000Which I'm not sure the percentages, but I know some of it.
00:44:51.000Because the big reason why we have companies that are doing things overseas and stuff is because of labor laws and because of regulations here.
00:45:01.000If you can roll those back, then there's an incentive for companies to start.
00:45:07.000But as long as the federal government has the type of legislation or regulation that disincentivizes companies from starting, I mean, it's got to start it somehow.
00:45:17.000And I want to correct you on one thing.
00:45:19.000Not really correct, but I want to counter.
00:45:20.000I want a strong, robust American empire that is achieved by being really cool, producing great products, being a great trade partner, not interfering in other countries' business and politics, but being so good at everything we do that they want to learn from us.
00:45:36.000We want other countries to say, let us know what you need.
00:45:39.000That new thing you guys are working on, your economy's really great, we all love America, we all want to be like America, your movies are awesome.
00:45:44.000We want to win through cultural means, not bombing children.
00:46:04.000also removes that government by force and then puts in a sock puppet government.
00:46:09.000Sometimes, sometimes, but other times they just sanction the hell out of them.
00:46:13.000And, you know, that's part of the reason why, you know, the U.S.
00:46:16.000on the global stage right now, if you're like a developing country and you see the way the U.S.
00:46:20.000operates, especially now, all for the past year and a half, you had Blinken, Biden talking about You know, lecturing Russia on the war in Ukraine, talking about this rules-based order, and now we see them fully backing Israel as they're just blowing up kids and everybody can see it for themselves.
00:46:35.000It's just like the hypocrisy is very obvious to other countries.
00:46:38.000But the funny thing about Russia and Ukraine is...
00:46:41.000Russia is having a territorial dispute with a neighboring country.
00:46:45.000The United States flew to the other side of the planet to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:46:57.000Well, because the Taliban were harboring Osama bin Laden, so we had to go and build a nation there, and then Russia invades a neighboring country over a border dispute, and we're like, whoa, whoa, hey, Hey there, wait a minute!
00:47:07.000Condoleezza Rice, like a few days after, sorry if I got a little worked up there Ian, you looked a little startled.
00:47:13.000Condoleezza Rice, a few days after Russia invaded, was on TV and was like, I forget exactly what she said, but Condoleezza Rice of the George W. Bush administration said, a country cannot invade another sovereign nation, or something like that.
00:47:27.000And did you see, do you remember George W. Bush's little Freudian slip or whatever it was?
00:47:32.000He was giving a speech and he was like, one man's decision to invade Iraq, I mean Ukraine, and then he kind of laughed and he was like, yeah, Iraq too.
00:47:43.000I watched that video like a hundred times.
00:47:46.000This country is full of shit, unfortunately.
00:47:47.000It's definitely somewhere in his brain, but... The founding fathers, I think if they saw what was going on, they'd be like, They'd be stacking bodies.
00:47:54.000It's like your grandfather being like, son I gifted you this really nice car and you totaled it.
00:48:06.000The Founding Fathers notoriously just petitioned over and over again, and I think it's fair to say it was not the Americans who started the Revolutionary War.
00:48:23.000If we go straight to Lexington and Concord, They said, hand over your guns or else.
00:48:28.000The Americans, the Founding Fathers were like, I'm gonna write a strongly worded letter to the King, and the King's like, screw off, I'll write another letter to the King.
00:48:34.000And it was a year and a month after Lexington and Concord, they signed the Declaration of Independence.
00:48:40.000So it's not like the Americans were like, it's time to stack bodies.
00:48:43.000They were like, please, please, we're just trying to have some representation here.
00:48:49.000Fair enough, but you know, Washington did cross the Delaware and kill everybody in their sleep.
00:48:56.000My point is, America may be rebels, but when we started, we were not the dudes who decided to go and kill other people.
00:49:04.000We were the dudes who honorably and reasonably said, listen, what you're doing is not working and we are telling you now, this has to change.
00:49:13.000And if you don't listen to us, the change will come either way.
00:49:16.000And then it was the Crown that was like, we're gonna come and put you down.
00:49:20.000And then we said, we didn't start it, you did.
00:49:23.000They came to Lexington and Concord and they said, we are going to come at you.
00:49:27.000It was not Americans who went to England to fight, it was the Crown sending regulars to the colonies saying, we are going to impose our will from overseas on you and brought the guns and then demanded of the Americans.
00:49:39.000I think The founders of this country were calm, rational, reasonable people who understood war was bad.
00:49:46.000They did not want foreign entanglements.
00:49:48.000I love reading about the Barbary Wars and Thomas Jefferson.
00:49:52.000He's like, we don't want to be involved in any of this stuff.
00:49:57.000Pirates, North Africa and Jefferson and other founding fathers, Adams, they're all basically just saying like, look man, we're just selling stuff.
00:50:09.000They said to the, it was, they said to the, to the, in England, they said to the, the United States representative, they said the Quran gives us the, the, Approval and authorization to kill you and take your stuff because you are infidels.
00:50:30.000So the Marines have been fighting for the country for as long as there has been a country.
00:50:35.000This is the Barbary War, a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the King of Sicily against the Barbary States, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli.
00:51:01.000I remember you made the point before we started recording that, like, you favor, you know, the U.S.
00:51:06.000could have a strong Navy and kind of police the waters a bit and work with their trading partners to counter piracy.
00:51:12.000And I think that is a completely legitimate, you know, foreign policy to have, just to have a Navy and fight piracy with your trading partners.
00:51:27.000A lot of people like to point to the Barbary Wars as an example of how all the Founding Fathers actually were not non-interventionists, but they were responding to their property being attacked.
00:52:32.000should have some type of, whatever you want to call it, empire, in the sense that we are so good, our laws are just, our people are fat and happy, I mean it figuratively, our economy is great, and it's done through production, it's done through trade, it's done through technological development, and then what happens?
00:52:49.000Nobody's People will be jealous because we're rich.
00:53:29.000One thing back to the British, like, bringing the war to America.
00:53:32.000You know, when we talk about Ukraine, I mean, for so long, Putin and the Russians were telling, you know, the US, like, You know, stop doing what you're doing.
00:53:42.000And, you know, in the weeks and months leading up to the invasion, you know, almost a year before, they were, you know, massing troops and they submitted these security proposals.
00:54:16.000We're, you know, we can't even, we try to put our self in the other person's shoes.
00:54:20.000Could you imagine if Russia was funding a war in Canada?
00:54:25.000You know, like there was a civil war there and then we intervened and Russia started sending them missiles and intelligence.
00:54:30.000There was just a report in the Washington Post that said the CIA in 2015 started building up Ukraine's intelligence services, the SBU and the GUR, which is their military intelligence, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
00:54:44.000And they were basically saying that because of that support, Ukraine's able to kill people inside Russia.
00:54:50.000They pointed to the car bombing of Daria Dugina.
00:55:33.000It is, it is going to be, uh, like, like the Mujahideen.
00:55:37.000It is, it is, Ukraine is now, uh, what was it?
00:55:41.000The Republicans passed a funding bill for Israel, but not Ukraine.
00:55:43.000They're saying it's gonna be dead in the Senate.
00:55:45.000Joe Biden, here, let me, let me pull the story up.
00:55:47.000Post-millennial, Biden admin announces additional $425 million military package to Ukraine.
00:55:53.000So we have weaponized and armed Ukraine, but Ukraine is losing.
00:55:58.000The appetite for funding this is on the decline and we've got an election coming up.
00:56:03.000What do you think happens to the extreme, I'm not saying extremists, I'm saying like very fervent national militia groups in Ukraine who are funded and trained by US forces when the US pulls out and says you're on your own?
00:56:17.000You talk about the fear of bombings in third countries, outside of Russia and stuff?
00:56:26.000Give it 20 years, and you've got trained armed groups in Ukraine who hate the United States for some reason or another, and you get Al-Qaeda all over again.
00:56:36.000There's, you know, because you hear the Russians talk about the Nazis in Ukraine, but there is a real neo-Nazi element in Ukraine.
00:56:43.000You know, it's not huge, but it is very influential, and there are certain groups.
00:56:47.000So there was like these raids going on in Russia that were done by this group called the Russian Volunteer Corps.
00:56:52.000They were Russians, Russian people, that were fighting, you know, went over to Ukraine in 2014 to fight for them, and they're like openly neo-Nazi.
00:57:37.000Is it like racial superiority mindset or something?
00:57:40.000Yeah, you know, I don't focus too much on the Nazi element, but there is like the Azov Battalion that was basically a neo-Nazi militia during the 2014 Donbass War and the coup and everything that joined the Ukrainian forces.
00:57:55.000And there's also, you know, the history of Bandera and the Ukrainian nationalists during the World War II.
00:58:00.000that worked with the Nazis and there are people that wear, you know, Nazi iconography
00:58:05.000on their uniforms and stuff and it is pretty prevalent, like you'll notice it
00:58:10.000in pictures of Ukrainian soldiers with the certain Nazi icons. So it is definitely an element
00:58:17.000of their, you know, what they call the far right.
00:58:20.000I kind of hate using the term far right these days because people probably call me far right, but it is like there's certainly that element inside Ukraine.
00:58:27.000I think it's worth breaking apart what Nazism is exactly.
00:58:29.000Hitler just used that term National Socialist and he made some psychotic political movement out of it, but he called it National Socialist.
00:58:36.000But just if you're a nationalist and you're a socialist, doesn't mean you're a Nazi like Hitler.
00:58:43.000There's not a lot of light between... As much as the socialists and communists don't want to admit this, there's not a lot of light between...
00:58:54.000The Nazis are nationalists and they have a lot of racism, and the communists tend to not be nationalists.
00:59:01.000They want to see a global socialism, but they're racist too a lot of the times, and you can see that in the way that the socialists are behaving towards a lot of the Jewish people that you see a lot of the anti-Semitism that's going on now.
00:59:20.000There are nuanced differences, but the real significant ideological differences are between liberalism and socialism, which Nazism is a type of socialism, because liberalism is based on enlightenment principles, right?
00:59:39.000The fundamental thing about liberalism is the individual should be free to live their life and that the government is there to maybe have a social safety net, maybe not, but there's different amounts of governments that are acceptable.
00:59:52.000But with socialist ideologies, the collective comes first.
00:59:56.000So the Nazis believe that the German people came first.
00:59:59.000And communists believe that the workers come before anyone else.
01:00:02.000But it's a collectivist versus an individual ideology.
01:00:08.000So there's not a whole... The differences between Nazis and commies is only nuance.
01:00:14.000It was basically like Nazis were traditional and commies were progressive.
01:00:22.000But to get back to this, the 425 million dollars that they're announcing here.
01:00:27.000So this is money that they do have left.
01:00:30.000They're kind of running out of money to send over there.
01:00:33.000So Biden, in that $105 billion package that he requested, it includes $61 billion to keep the Ukraine war going for another year.
01:00:42.000They want to do it so they could get through the 2024 election.
01:00:46.000And again, there was this Zelishny, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief, just did an interview with The Economist saying, it's a stalemate, there's not going to be a breakthrough, but that doesn't matter to Biden.
01:00:56.000They want people to be, you know, there's still, there's been fighting, territory hasn't changed hands much, but a lot of people are dying, and that's what they want to continue funding.
01:01:19.000Well, if you actually see how some senators kind of pitch this now, I know this is... I know Mitt Romney was saying this recently, you know, their argument for continuing this war going is, oh, we're getting our money's worth, you know?
01:02:34.000They're never gonna get it, but maybe that would incentivize them.
01:02:38.000No, because you got a member of Congress being like, million dollar bonus, huh?
01:02:42.000Yeah, but Raytheon's gonna pay me two million after I get out of Congress and go take that job and lobby for him.
01:02:46.000Well, that's another thing now, like the corruption is so obvious.
01:02:49.000Like Lloyd Austin, Biden's defense secretary, he came straight off the board of Raytheon.
01:02:55.000And he started funding this war in Ukraine that made all these weapons, Raytheon weapons, in very high demand, weapons that they stopped making.
01:04:03.000And he goes, then what do I do with these employees?
01:04:05.000So the problem is the war machine becomes an addiction where it's not just about the kind of bribery of, I'm going to tell your constituents you did this.
01:04:13.000It's that, okay, look, if we lay off a hundred thousand people, economy is going to get hit by this.
01:04:19.000You gotta keep building these things just to keep the economy going because these jobs will be lost otherwise.
01:05:05.000And the reason that they do that is because, or the reason they can do that is because they break up the production of them throughout multiple congressional districts.
01:05:14.000So you'll have The pieces that go into tanks made throughout the whole country.
01:05:19.000So no one person can say, we're going to stop this.
01:05:23.000Because everybody's like, well, if we stop making the tanks, there's going to be job loss nationwide or in these 50 congressional districts.
01:05:32.000And the Congress people are like, no, you're not going to do anything that's going to affect our job market.
01:05:37.000So the incentive is not just from the government.
01:05:40.000It's or it's not just the government wants these things.
01:05:43.000It's the way that the government has set up intentionally set up the production of these of weapons and stuff like that.
01:05:49.000It's it's throughout the whole economy.
01:05:52.000And so you've got you've got the incentive from multiple people in Congress to say no to vote against it.
01:05:58.000Did you want to add anything to that before we jump in?
01:06:00.000I was just going to say, I remember Matt Gaetz voted for, you know, he's been very good on the wars, some wars in the Middle East.
01:06:05.000He introduced resolutions to leave Syria and stuff.
01:06:08.000Unfortunately, he just voted to give Israel $14 billion to fund that war.
01:06:19.000I don't remember exactly when, but I just remember he went on Twitter and he's like, I voted for the NDAA because- Real quick, National Defense Authorization Act.
01:07:44.000So hopefully, Elon, you'll Yeah, your ACL is like a strong, strong component in your knee, and this can end careers for pro athletes and stuff.
01:07:52.000Well, Mark has access to the best medicine on earth.
01:08:13.000The first thing I want to say is, ladies and gentlemen, don't take medical advice from podcasters, and talk to your doctor about what's right for you.
01:08:19.000But this story is very interesting as per the sentiment held by people in this country and how it relates to R.F.K.
01:08:41.000take skepticism on the campaign trail.
01:08:44.000I think this number is highly questionable.
01:08:48.000That one in four Americans know someone who died, that is a strong, like, I think we'd hear in the news about that many people having died.
01:09:32.000I am not talking about this because I care to talk about the efficacy or issues around vaccines.
01:09:36.000That's for you guys and your doctors or whatever.
01:09:38.000I do think it is politically important that people feel this way because there's a question of We're talking with Luke Rutkowski about RFK Jr., and Luke was saying there's a good possibility that RFK could take votes from Trump because Trump was bad on vaccine mandates and lockdowns, and RFK Jr.
01:10:01.000I think you're going to find somebody who says, I'm willing to forgive Trump on a lot of things because he's anti-woke, he's challenging his government contracts, no new wars, etc.
01:10:14.000So that being said, let me read a little bit.
01:10:17.000They say, Americans are growing more skeptical about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and politicians from left and right are echoing these fears in their campaigns to win the White House.
01:10:27.000Polling this week shows that while most voters trust shots for COVID-19, MMR, and other bugs, millions more have changed their minds in recent months and no longer see them as safe.
01:10:38.000The surveys come as health chiefs warn of rampant online misinformation linking injections with death and autism, and that ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug typically used in animals, can treat COVID-19.
01:10:47.000Again, don't take medical advice from a news organization either.
01:10:50.000Despite these warnings and their implications for public health, two politicians are building vaccine skepticism into their 2024 campaign.
01:10:57.000It's DeSantis and it's RFK, but here's the image.
01:11:42.000If there was a major class action lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for vaccine side effects, how likely would you be to join the lawsuit?
01:14:11.000What do you think is causing this shift in the American public's perception?
01:14:14.000I mean, the corporate press has been insistent on vaccines.
01:14:18.000And you know, we here, as good stewards of information, we don't break any of these YouTube rules.
01:14:25.000How could these people possibly hold these views?
01:14:28.000I think that it's the fact that people mistrust authority.
01:14:31.000You know, trust in the media and trust in the government had been going down for a long time prior to COVID, and COVID just annihilated a lot of people's trust.
01:14:45.000There's a lot of people that are Horribly embarrassed by the the way that they supported the government that they believe things that the news said and I think that that this is the the the result of that if you have a society that
01:15:03.000generally has a declining in trust and a, and honestly, we are more cynical than we've ever been. You know,
01:15:11.000it's like being earnest is now looked at as something to be mocked.
01:15:16.000And so believing that what the news tells you is, is something that will get you mocked nowadays.
01:15:23.000If you say, Oh, I believe if you have enough followers on Twitter, you can say, I believe anyone, anything.
01:17:48.000RFK Jr., I gotta say, he was a big disappointment, um, because, you know, I'm kind of a single-issue type of guy, and he came out really strong on Ukraine, you know, very well.
01:17:56.000And then, uh, people started calling him... Sorry, 1500 Adults.
01:18:00.000Yeah, it's just such a disingenuous title of the article.
01:18:32.000Most people understand that they're not trying to... They're not supposed to be, but the way the article phrased it, it makes it extremely manipulative.
01:18:39.000But the point that I'm making is most people understand that if you are talking about polls,
01:18:43.000you're not talking about a poll of a hundred thousand people like the most actually.
01:19:06.000Sure, but it's a Rasmussen and, what is it, the, I want to get the name right, the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
01:19:15.000So, the way polls are done is through, there's a scientific polling method where they take a wide range of individuals, they whittle down their networks.
01:19:27.000There's bad things and huge margins of errors when it's done improperly, but you basically try and create a cross-section of America, Isolate it down to the key demographic areas where you notice these ideological shifts, and then poll a thousand people, and then figure out what the percentages are, and then try and, like, that's, it's normal.
01:19:46.000And you can argue there's a margin of error in these things, but right, polls, no one can see the future.
01:20:03.000I like the fact that he's countered to the narrative that the government puts out.
01:20:12.000I think that he's terrible on literally everything except for vaccines.
01:20:16.000Yeah I would say so again with the foreign policy like he was he's very good on Ukraine and he explains it well he interviews people you know he had his own podcast he was interviewing people I know this guy named Ben Abloh who wrote a book called how the West brought war to Ukraine it's like a very short book that came out right after the invasion explaining how the US provoked it so we interviewed him and he really understands the issue but when it comes to Israel people smear him you know they they called him an anti-semite and he just went all in on Israel and when this thing happened it's just like He says that the U.S.
01:20:47.000needs to support an Israeli sustained military campaign.
01:21:15.000When the polling data comes out showing how many people voted, Rasmussen almost always nails it.
01:21:19.000For the record, I really, really like accurate polling.
01:21:22.000Like, if you can get 10,000 people and you get an accurate readout of what those 10,000 people think, maybe you can be like, The issue is if Rasmussen does five polls and then they say, here's what people are saying, 51%, 49%.
01:21:36.000Then the election happens and they go, yeah, it was, they were right, 51, 49.
01:22:07.000If you want to come out and make a statement that one in four Americans believe something, you better poll at least 90% of them.
01:22:14.000Ian, you're not asking for a poll, you're asking for an election.
01:22:16.000I'm asking for a real poll, not these junk polls that they do.
01:22:19.000Polls are kind of the best you have when it comes to the things you're looking to find out, when it comes to election polling.
01:22:25.000They're better than I think that's lazy thinking, just because that's how it's always been done, just deal with it kind of mentality.
01:22:33.000Well, you're saying that's just, like, the best we can do?
01:22:35.000He didn't say we shouldn't improve it.
01:22:36.000I'm saying it's just, when it comes to, you know, especially elections, when you, like, it is kind of your best indication of where people are at, is polling.
01:22:45.000And the question is, has the polling organization been accurate in the past?
01:22:49.000And then, if we look at Rasmussen and find that they typically are very accurate, you discrediting them because you don't like polling methodology makes no sense.
01:22:57.000I just credit them because they pulled 1,100 people and then they claimed to speak for 330 million.
01:23:08.000And most polls actually say 47 people of those polled said.
01:23:12.000Yeah, or that's what they should say, not the shock statement of... You're complaining about a news organization, not the polling institutions.
01:23:17.000No, I think, you know... Speaking of polls, there was just a poll conducted by... I forget the name of the place, but it was about Israel and Gaza, and it said the majority of Americans support a ceasefire.
01:23:26.000It said the majority of Republicans do, which, like, I almost didn't believe it.
01:23:31.000You know, I think that a lot of Americans do want a ceasefire, but it was like 80% of Democrats and 56% of Republicans.
01:23:38.000You know, they polled like 1,500 people.
01:23:53.000Another issue I have with polling is, and this is a little bit off base, is that I feel like it is a self-fulfilling prophecy sometimes.
01:24:00.000If they poll people and they're like, 80% want this, then people will see that and be like, yeah, me too.
01:24:05.000That can kind of That's why their political polls will often try and skew it in favor of their politician, to convince people that our guy's the winner.
01:24:14.000Because people want to vote for the winner.
01:24:16.000If you see the polls, the election polls right now, I mean, Trump is leading the pack still by so much.
01:24:23.000So that indication, like, we don't know the exact, what the exact vote would actually be, but from constant polls showing him so far ahead, it gives you an idea.
01:24:41.000Again, because just, you know, the average Trump voter might not be so ideologically drawn to Trump.
01:24:49.000I know so many people have voted for Trump in 2016.
01:24:51.000It was just a vote against the establishment.
01:24:54.000Same thing in 2020, just a lot of people that didn't like Biden.
01:24:56.000I also knew a lot of people that didn't vote for him that did it because they were kind of sick of it.
01:24:59.000But I think this COVID issue, again, when it comes to Americans, issues that really affect them, I mean, this is something that really affected Americans.
01:25:08.000Me, personally, I, you know, my wife's business closed down, we moved out of the city, we, you know, changed our whole life.
01:25:14.000And it's something that people are going to remember.
01:25:17.000You know, this is, this was a very, Serious time in in America, you know, it's kind of like if you think back on it, you know, I was living in Brooklyn at the time with the lockdowns and it was just looking back like it was so insane and everybody went along with it and I saw Andrew Cuomo and when I would go get a coffee on the TV with his nipples sticking out telling us to stay in our houses and it was crazy and I was so angry about it.
01:26:00.000Now, what I would love to talk about is the vaccine, the COVID vaccine, or the series of COVID vaccines.
01:26:05.000I don't want to start going too hard on it on YouTube.
01:26:08.000I know that YouTube has requested that we don't, you know, splatter our opinions about it.
01:26:13.000I would love to, because I think this is just, so many people were traumatized by this experience of the COVID vaccine, or the COVID virus, and then the vaccinations.
01:26:21.000I mean, the thing about, you know, I left New York before this happened, You had to show them your vaccination papers to go into a restaurant.
01:26:30.000That is stuff that the anti-vaxxers were saying a few decades ago that people were like, not even a few decades ago, not long before that, people were like, that's crazy.
01:26:52.000So RFK Jr., Israel, so that model, what New York City did, and I think other cities did it, I think DC might have did it for a little while, you know, the vaccine passport was modeled on Israel's Green Pass.
01:27:03.000Israel, like, was very, you know, vaccine mandate and lockdowns and stuff, and I believe it was called the Green Pass.
01:27:09.000So kind of one of the most intrusive things that they did to us was based on Israel's model.
01:27:14.000China, on the other hand, they had their lockdowns that were really insane, but they actually, they tried to implement some sort of vaccine mandate in Beijing and people were like, no, we're not doing that.
01:28:46.000I mean, Biden's mental degradation has become very apparent.
01:28:49.000If the poll is for Democrats, five points towards RFK, meaning your average person has a 95% chance of voting for Joe Biden, that still means 5% vote for RFK Jr., whereas the poll for Trump supporters is like one.
01:29:03.000What are your feelings on Vivek Ramaswamy?
01:29:07.000Uh, he says, you know, a lot of good things, but I think his foreign policy, he's pretty off base, uh, on some things with, you know, Taiwan.
01:29:15.000For instance, he, he wants to commit to defending Taiwan, but he also says things like, oh, once we get semiconductor independence, then we're not gonna, uh, you know, worry about Taiwan anymore.
01:29:24.000But he's still saying that, you know, to deter war, we should, you know, commit to war with Taiwan and also his plan to end the Ukraine war.
01:29:32.000He's like, I'm going to get Putin to sever his military alliance with China.
01:31:20.000I mean, um, you know, right now I think really the U.S.
01:31:24.000just has to end it and make Ukraine negotiate something and whatever that is.
01:31:29.000And, you know, realistically, at this point, Russia's not going to give that territory up.
01:31:35.000And, you know, it's the Donbass and Zaporozhye and Kherson, you know, we're not, we shouldn't be risking nuclear war for those territories.
01:31:42.000You know, it shouldn't have gotten to this point.
01:33:07.000If his argument is, it is not that bad that far left extremists were throwing firebombs at the White House, set fire to a church, and they rushed Trump into an emergency bunker, and that doesn't warrant investigations and arrests, it's not insurrection, it's not sedition.
01:33:23.000Well then, you're coming from a very biased perspective.
01:33:38.000But, so that means his view of what's going on, when he sees, you know, something happening that leads us to civil war, his perspective is skewed by an establishment perspective, whereas I think ours is certainly skewed by an anti-establishment perspective, but, as Phil pointed out with Jonathan Haidt's research, the right knows what the left is thinking, the left does not know what the right is thinking.
01:34:00.000So, we are a more moderate, probably in many ways right-leaning, For a variety of reasons, basically because the left doesn't come on the show, I think the people on this show are fairly moderate.
01:34:10.000But that means we have a more holistic view of what's going on and why, and Steven's more biased in that regard.
01:37:27.000And the reason I don't is because there are an if Hamas, right, if the attack on the seventh, if Hamas were like super soldiers, they would have killed everybody.
01:38:15.000Like, I agree that the kind of the right of return that the people, the Children of refugees in Gaza that want to go back to, you know, their homes that their parents or grandparents were kicked out of is not really a realistic thing.
01:38:27.000But, I mean, we're talking about a peace deal essentially that wouldn't happen if them just opening the fence and letting them go.
01:38:33.000I'm not saying that's going to happen.
01:38:34.000They need to negotiate, you know, a real peace.
01:38:36.000The point is... But the more that this keeps going on and they keep killing children, I mean... But now you're shifting away from what My point is, when protesters say, from the river to the sea, you are giving them the benefit of the doubt when what you're giving them makes literally no sense as to their own arguments.
01:38:49.000If their argument is a right to return to land, which currently has houses and families living in it, then you would argue that the nicest way to view it is that they will come enter those homes and say, we live here now too.
01:39:02.000That absolutely will result in violence.
01:39:04.000Yeah, I mean, the thing is, like, when it comes to a one-state solution, with the things that Israel's doing in the West Bank, right now they're still kicking people out of their homes, especially since things popped off on October 7th.
01:39:16.000You know, a thousand Palestinians have been kicked out of their houses by settlers.
01:39:20.000I'm not here- No, I know you're not saying that, but you're talking- I'm talking about leftists- Right now, if they just open it- but leftists, but we're- I'm talking about protests in the United States.
01:40:22.000Their entire life is under control of the Israeli military.
01:40:25.000And, you know, we talk about what happened on October 7th.
01:40:28.000You know, there was an attempt at nonviolent protests in 2018 and 2019 called the Great March of Return, where they just walked to the border fence.
01:40:37.000And some people were throwing rocks and lighting stuff on fire, but mostly... Max didn't mention that.
01:40:57.000My simple thing for all of this is I literally, as it pertains to American policy, don't care about the moral arguments of war in foreign lands because the argument is we can't adjudicate this for them.
01:41:58.000My argument is, there are people in the United States who are advocating for extreme... Look, if a pro-Palestine activist comes to me and says, from the river to the sea, and then they're like, we will return to our land, and we will have this back, I go, okay, and they go, help, help, they're killing our kids!
01:42:15.000I'll be like, Bro, there's a war going on where Hamas just killed a bunch of kids and now Israel's killing more civilians because they're bombing things.
01:42:26.000You can't come to me and cheer for the murder of civilians and then be angry that Israel's killing civilians because I'm like, you guys are in a war and one side has power.
01:42:40.000I don't think they should cheer civilian death.
01:42:42.000Again, I do think that's a small minority.
01:42:44.000And the problem is, the same argument is made by people in support of Israel, where they're like, Israel's not trying to kill civilians, they were attacked and they're retaliating, take out commanders and leaders, and now you're highlighting these civilians?
01:43:02.000So you had Recktenwald on the other day, and he mentioned that there was some evidence that on October 7th and the fighting that happened a few days after IDF killed some Israelis, and he didn't have a citation for that.
01:43:13.000So that's actually something that Max Blumenthal covered at the Gray Zone, but he cited Israeli media.
01:43:19.000And again, this is just evidence that some of the civilians might have been killed by the Israeli military.
01:43:25.000Not that he was wrong, it's that if he said, there's been reports, it's possible when the IDF came in, fog of war, they didn't know who was shooting who, and there was friendly fire.
01:43:35.000I'd say, well, that happens all the time.
01:43:38.000He said they were bombing houses and shooting people, but to come out and be like, the IDF was killing their own people and bombing houses!
01:43:46.000I don't think he said- I mean, I just didn't get that vibe from the way Recktenwald said it, but maybe I'm just biased because I- So here's my view.
01:45:17.000Then, you get people on the pro-Palestine side in New York cheering for the killing of civilians, and then coming out and being like, help, help, they're killing civilians.
01:45:25.000Hamas is also saying that they didn't mean to kill civilians.
01:45:28.000So, if you're going to argue that Israel— Hamas is saying that they didn't mean to kill civilians.
01:45:34.000That's what Israel's saying, and they're slaughtering civilians right now.
01:46:17.000I mean we had, when we were talking to Stephen Marsh earlier, he said you realize the left died this month.
01:46:23.000Because of what because of Palestine because of because of the activists tearing down the flyers because Or I believe that was the larger insinuation is because of what we're seeing with Like Amy Schumer for instance reposting campus reform like a conservative campus publication We are seeing mainstream celebrities now posting right-wing things and actually saying wow we were wrong about the left I can't believe we were so wrong because of how many people have she like BLM posting the paraglider Yeah, it's stupid.
01:48:03.000Sears is a standing invitation to come on any one of our shows or even just to come here and hang out and have a slice of pizza because we're big fans.
01:48:24.000Sears ever has time, Or he's on the East Coast, we'd love to have him.
01:48:27.000But I'm not surprised people who host shows are too busy to come and be on my show.
01:48:32.000Typically, people who come to the show do different, are not hosts, and they have day jobs where it's like, oh, I can swing by that night and do the show.
01:48:40.000But, uh, you know, we'd love to have him.
01:50:01.000Yeah, but when he interviews the protesters, he's very fair, he just asks them a question, lets them answer, he doesn't insert anything, he does a good job.
01:50:07.000And then Cassandra is as anti-war and as isolationist as you can be, and hates Israel.
01:50:55.000I know. So I disagree with Cassandra on a lot of things.
01:50:59.000And, uh, you know, I've talked to her about it, but I'm like, dude, I'm not gonna stop being friends with someone because of our opinions on a foreign war.
01:51:05.000I mean, that's the craziest thing ever.
01:51:06.000It's funny, people were, like, in the tweets of people who'd be like, like, you know, don't go on TimCast anymore because Cassandra's opinions, and I'm like, oh, okay, dude.
01:52:13.000I'll just say, you know, Cassandra, let's let's have China Uncensored on.
01:52:16.000David Zhang, Laowai86, and also SerpentZA.
01:52:22.000Speaking of China, my friend Joseph Solis Mullen, he writes at the Libertarian Institute, he just put out a book about China called The Fake China Threat, kind of trying to go against some of the war propaganda, so go check that out.
01:52:33.000Are you familiar with Thucydides Trap?
01:52:36.000So that's the general, I wouldn't call it the layman's understanding because it's a little bit more esoteric, but the simple idea is the minutiae doesn't matter, what matters is we are facing a rising economic threat to the United States, the United States is not going to tolerate that.
01:52:50.000And, you know, but we do have a choice.
01:52:54.000I mean, I prefer the Trumpian... But another thing about this book, sorry, that Solis Mullen gets into, you know, he's a libertarian, it's from kind of a more right-wing perspective, is about the trouble that China has economically.
01:53:07.000And one of the best arguments in the book is if you look at China's backyard, they have a big border with India, Japan.
01:53:14.000I mean, these are big countries that don't want China to expand in the region.
01:53:19.000Um, so they have a lot to deal with in their own neighborhood, so there's a lot of reasons just not to be so afraid of China, and that's what he lays out in the book pretty well.
01:53:26.000The Lion says, a culture war episode with Laue86 and SerpentZA would be pretty dope.
01:55:03.000There was a little red cat that stayed outside my door, and I fed, like, everybody that stayed in the place, like, fed him.
01:55:08.000There's turds everywhere, they love turds.
01:55:10.000During the elections in Turkey, this was back in, I think, like, 2014, I was in Istanbul, We were going around different precincts because there was concern over election fraud and crazy stuff was going on.
01:55:21.000And this street dog decided to become friends with us and come with us everywhere we went.
01:55:26.000I called him Herman because Herman is the name I give to any animal at any point because it's just like a generic name.
01:56:32.000I wonder what would cause that because I would go down to like this little harbor that was by my house on Long Island and sometimes there would just be like, there's the whole beach covered in dead horseshoe crabs.
01:57:16.000And we could, developing Alaska would be fantastic.
01:57:18.000Alaskans, we had a bunch of people, messages saying they'd love it because it would help expand industry and, you know, build things and boost the economy.
01:57:42.000Deus Flex says, reminded that the Barbary Wars was the only reason Thomas Jefferson purchased a Quran and Ilhan Omar used it to swear herself into office.
01:58:02.000If you're gonna use a Quran, that's a good one to use.
01:58:04.000But, like, the reason it exists is not for the reason it is presumed when she puts her hand on it, you know what I mean?
01:58:10.000Like, it's like, oh wow, he had a Quran, he was studying, like, I will swear it was more so, like, he was studying because they were enemies.
01:59:03.000Because you'll need them for the top, they're called net decks.
01:59:08.000And so, when you're playing competitively in the standard format, where it's like, I don't know how they're doing it these days, five, the last five sets or something.
01:59:18.000So, a card will come out, it'll be called like Ian the Great.
01:59:23.000And it just came out, They're all over the place, but everybody who wants to
01:59:28.000build the top tier deck for competition needs it, so the demand is ridiculously high right away.
01:59:34.000Usually what ends up happening is, or I should say in certain circumstances, this happened
01:59:38.000at least once to me, you can buy a box of boosters for $150 and you're almost gonna
01:59:46.000get one or two, and so the combined value of all the cards you pull will be greater
01:59:52.000It's because the average person does not want to spend a hundred bucks on a bunch of random cards.
01:59:56.000They want the one single card, so they pay a premium just to get it, and that means you can buy a bunch of boxes, crack them all open, and turn a profit.
02:00:17.000KCB says, The right wing has become tolerant and weak.
02:00:21.000We are being socially engineered to revert back to being patriotic though, through ever increasing oppression.
02:00:26.000Recruiting is way down and the military needs patriots.
02:00:30.000The interesting thing is when we were talking with Stephen Marsh earlier, he mentioned, you know, in his book, The Last Election, like, that it always comes down to what the military decides to do.
02:00:40.000And I think that's a really interesting point.
02:00:42.000If people are resigning their commissions because of wokeness, and the military is overly woke, I think it's fair to say we know what direction the military would go in the event of civil conflict.
02:00:50.000There's part of me that thinks that the reason the upper echelon, the brass, if you will, in the military are woke is because when you get to the higher ranks, definitely generals, it becomes political.
02:01:03.000So I don't know that I believe that they actually believe in the woke stuff so much as know that You know, know the things that they have to say and the positions that they have to hold if they're going to achieve another, you know, another, if you're going to get another star.
02:01:19.000If you got one star and you want a second one, you want to get another, you know, another, uh, you want to get another commission or get a command or whatever, you have to be able to, you have to say the right things and have the right opinions.
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