Ron DeSantis announces he's running for president, and Rep. Warren Davidson joins the show to talk about it and much, much more. Plus, Target is moving LGBTQ products to the back of the store, and a new coffee shop venture.
00:00:22.000Personally, I think the DeSantis team should have waited until tomorrow, because the news came out that they're going to be doing a special interview with Elon Musk on Twitter, where Ron DeSantis will announce he is running for the presidency.
00:00:33.000Now, okay, that's fine, we got the news, the information leaks, Elon Musk confirms he's having a very special interview tomorrow with a big announcement.
00:00:41.000But then the DeSantis team put out a video which basically is them saying they're launching the campaign, saying text launch to this number.
00:00:48.000And I think that kind of spiked their own news story, but okay, fine, whatever.
00:00:52.000It's not legal, but it's official, I suppose.
00:00:56.000Tomorrow will be the official legal announcement where then they are subject to all these laws.
00:01:00.000But as of today, we know for a fact DeSantis, Casey DeSantis has put out a video basically saying Ron DeSantis is running for president.
00:01:09.000Now I want to talk about something else.
00:01:10.000Target held an emergency meeting and they're going to be moving all of their LGBTQ materials and sales products to the back of the store in a bunch of locations because they're panicking over a potential quote bud light situation as parents are concerned because Target is selling Let's just, like, chest binder materials for children and tucking bathing suits for kids and things like that.
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00:03:20.000The district goes the west side of Cincinnati from the Ohio River, about a third of the way up the state.
00:03:25.000So I don't have either Cincinnati or Dayton in the district, but kind of that part of our state.
00:03:30.000I came into Congress after John Boehner resigned and won a special election.
00:03:34.000At that time, I was a manufacturing guy.
00:03:36.000I had a group of small manufacturing companies.
00:03:40.000And then prior to that, I was in In the Army, so I enlisted in the Army out of high school, got sent over to Germany when the Cold War was going on, was over there when the wall came down.
00:03:50.000Got to go to West Point from there, served in Ranger Regiment as an officer, so Army Ranger, business guy basically when I first ran, and in Congress I'm on financial services and foreign affairs.
00:04:22.000I have a YouTube channel called Freedom Tunes where we make animated cartoons and I just released one today about our friend Tim Pool over here.
00:04:29.000I think you guys will like it if you go over there and watch that.
00:04:32.000It's a very enjoyable cartoon to make.
00:04:35.000I think it's an enjoyable one to watch.
00:06:11.000And I feel like this is taking a bit of the wind out of their sails.
00:06:14.000Casey DeSantis also tweeted out, big if true, in reference to this story from Fox News, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to announce candidacy for president Wednesday on Twitter sources.
00:06:26.000And tomorrow, Ron DeSantis is supposed, or for those that are listening to us later, later today, Ron DeSantis is going to be doing an interview with Elon Musk on Twitter and he's going to announce he is running for the presidency.
00:06:42.000I think putting out this story and putting out that tweet pulled a lot of the wind out of their sails.
00:06:47.000I can understand leaking a little bit like expectation may happen, tune in, don't miss the show.
00:06:53.000But tweeting out that video basically just announced it and I feel like that's gonna Elon Musk is going to have the interview, and then what's going to end up happening is there's going to be a good amount of people, maybe 20-30% of people who have normally watched the Twitter space are going to be like, oh, I know already.
00:07:06.000They put that video out, it's a text launch, we get it, we get it.
00:07:09.000So, I don't know, what do you guys think?
00:07:11.000A lot of people are ragging on him already.
00:07:13.000A lot of the Trump people genuinely are upset about this.
00:07:17.000I'm going to say it outright, I think the people who are upset at Ron DeSantis are scared of him.
00:07:23.000I do think that this is kind of an example that he needs a better marketing team.
00:07:26.000No offense, guys, if you're listening right now, but... I agree.
00:09:49.000I guess the hope for a lot of people is that he can kind of work his message in a different way.
00:09:54.000Because that's, I think, the key to appealing to like suburban women, convincing people that he really is going to be able to flip states like Arizona and Wisconsin again and get the win.
00:10:04.000And, you know, people are saying, oh, well, that's the that's the appeal of the Santas.
00:10:28.000You know, when I first came to Congress, I mean, when you come in in a special election, I came in in June, so it wasn't like everyone else was coming in.
00:11:49.000Well, look, one of the things he did as a governor is, I mean, he inspired governors to be better than they would have been otherwise in a lot of states.
00:11:58.000Look, yeah, well, Donald Trump inspired a lot of governors to do that, and Ron DeSantis, look, would not have... Oh, I see what you're saying.
00:12:58.000The polls are very favorable for Donald Trump.
00:13:01.000But I've also talked to people out just in the streets, in the cities, and the general conversation is they groan when it comes to Donald Trump.
00:13:09.000The moderates and the independents, I mean to say.
00:13:11.000And the sentiment seems to be like DeSantis is a normal guy.
00:13:14.000This is why I think Elon Musk is doing this interview with him, because Elon Musk said something like, I just want a normal person to be president or something like that.
00:13:21.000So I think Elon does want Ron DeSantis to win.
00:13:40.000And this is something that it's important to really pay attention to, which is throughout the entire Trump presidency, His rhetoric and his tactics and the way he interacted with the elite was much more criticized by media than were his policies.
00:13:53.000Just as you mentioned where Trump will go after people and not necessarily policies and though I'm sure you'd agree with me he does go after policy often as well.
00:14:00.000The media was almost always attacking Trump as an individual.
00:14:03.000Sometimes they'd go after his appointments, that was pretty popular.
00:14:06.000Sometimes they'd go after a policy, or they'd say we're upset that he pulled out of the Paris Accord.
00:14:10.000But often it was, the rhetoric in this speech was damaging, or the way he speaks about people in the media makes them feel unsafe, or whatever they were bloviating about.
00:14:20.000And so, that's part of why I think those are the things we should love about Trump, because those are the things that terrify our enemies.
00:14:31.000But I think overall, and I'm not saying that there are not valid critiques to make of Donald Trump's rhetoric, but what I am saying is there were times where he was so unbelievably on the money in a way that I have never seen another politician be capable of, right?
00:14:46.000When he said, I'm the president for Pittsburgh and not Paris.
00:14:52.000You look at the drain the swamp rhetoric, you know, to what you're saying, Tim.
00:14:56.000Look, that was a phrase that, look, it sums up.
00:15:00.000If that meant a lot in 2016, if it meant something in 2022, post Durham report, when you look at this, drain the swamp is going to be the theme.
00:15:17.000All the evidence is there that they were suppressing information, that they were... I mean, if a foreign government had done what Twitter did, we'd be calling it an act of war.
00:15:26.000100% and kudos to Thomas Massey who coined the they bought a crime scene phrase.
00:15:40.000But he tried last time and he just basically stood there and looked at it.
00:15:44.000There's a difference between a first and a second term and I think Trump underestimated the swamp and I think he comes into a second term and he just says, I've got the snake!
00:15:53.000There's nothing holding him back anymore.
00:15:55.000I think that Schedule F story was real.
00:15:57.000Yeah, I think Ron DeSantis gets in and says, look guys, let's shake hands and figure something out together.
00:16:03.000And then it's just- But Schedule F, you think realistically that- because my fear and thought is that if any president went in and they're like, all right, Schedule F, I'm firing all the heads of all the agencies, the alphabets, all these administrators, you're fired, the CIA would just have them killed like that.
00:16:23.000I think they did that back in the day.
00:16:25.000But I think when you look at Julian Assange, you can see their tactics have changed.
00:16:29.000So when you look at Trump's first presidency, what do they do?
00:16:31.000They accuse him of being a Soviet spy.
00:16:34.000Now they're trying to accuse him of rape.
00:16:36.000And so you're seeing Democrats now using the E. Gene Carroll story as definitive confirmation, even though there's no evidence of anything.
00:17:22.000And then if something bad happens to Trump, I think this country just implodes.
00:17:27.000If you look at the hardcore Trump supporter, you know, indicting Trump or convicting Trump isn't really going to change their support.
00:17:33.000But if you look at the people that are already kind of on the fence, you know, there's almost no one that doesn't have an opinion at all on Trump.
00:17:39.000I mean, he's got 100% name ID and 99.9% people have a pretty fixed opinion of him.
00:18:18.000And that kind of support is still there amongst the base.
00:18:21.000But the question is, when you go into places like, you know, the suburbs, you know, places like Pennsylvania, places like Wisconsin, can you flip Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan again?
00:19:02.000I gave you a shout out earlier when I was reading the news and they said, They can use them as long as the source code is public and it's made in the United States.
00:19:11.000Now we should actively create one of those and use it in Arizona instead of just revert, yeah.
00:19:17.000Yeah, and Dominion said that they were going to be going out of business because of reputational damage.
00:19:21.000And I'm like, if you have the option, Dominion, of either going out of business or building your voting machines here in the United States with open source code, why would you not choose the latter?
00:19:33.000Why would you just be like, oh, I guess we go out of business.
00:19:35.000Especially if you just got a 700 million dollar plus up.
00:19:39.000So they didn't say, I guess it was an interview, and the guy didn't say explicitly, that's it, we're done for, he said, based on the damage we think we're headed towards the drain, that reputational damage is too much.
00:19:50.000They're afraid of the name recognition, they need to change their name.
00:19:53.000Just like Blackwater did, and Monsanto got bought by Bayer because they didn't like the name.
00:20:31.000That's American jobs, good working class jobs.
00:20:33.000We do open source codes that the people have a right to see the code.
00:20:36.000Why would any Democrat disagree with that?
00:20:37.000It's a requirement for all of our defense contracting.
00:20:40.000So why wouldn't it be for our voting system?
00:20:42.000Have you looked much into the blockchain for voting security?
00:20:46.000You know, blockchain really offers a lot of... Look, it's immutable, it's distributed ledger, it's a more secure way.
00:20:51.000I mean, frankly, the most secure computing system is truly available with a proof-of-work kind of architecture.
00:20:59.000But a lot of people don't understand it, for one.
00:21:02.000And two, it really isn't scalable yet.
00:21:05.000But I think you're going to start seeing blockchain voting for shares.
00:21:10.000So I think when you can do votes for things like shares that way, you will eventually see blockchain as an immutable record of what happened.
00:21:39.000Target makes emergency calls after backlash to, quote, tuck-friendly bathing suits and other Pride products.
00:21:46.000The company is terrified of a Bud Light situation, a Target insider told Fox News.
00:21:51.000The company's LGBTQ-themed items were released this month and include tuck-friendly bathing suits, chest binders, and packing underwear along with gender-fluid mugs and other things.
00:22:02.000And I'm pretty sure this was, like, for children, is what the big issue was.
00:22:06.000Consumers called for a boycott of Target over the products taking issue with the swimwear.
00:22:10.000As well as pride-themed children's clothing, including onesies, t-shirts, socks, and swim skirts, with a tag rating thoughtfully fit on multiple body types and gender expressions.
00:22:21.000Target also sells a collection of children's books focused on LGBTQ issues.
00:23:17.000Nobody's walking around wearing Target shirts being like, yeah, go Target!
00:23:20.000Bud Light at least had some brand recognition with sports, and that didn't do anything for him.
00:23:26.000So when it comes to your choice between Target and Walmart, if people are gonna be like, Target's bad, we won't go there, it's not a big deal to shop somewhere else.
00:23:34.000I really hope that conservatives stick to this because a few years ago we saw a similar attempt to boycott Target when they were saying we're going to allow men to use the women's room and abdicate our responsibility to protect female patrons.
00:23:48.000In our stores, and conservatives said, I'm never shopping at Target again, and then many of them started shopping at Target again.
00:23:54.000So, I hope that this is truly a bridge too far, in that people are going to stick to it this time.
00:24:00.000I would also say that if this isn't stuck to, it's going to set a very bad precedent, right?
00:24:04.000Because people are seeing this as the sort of sequel to the Bud Light boycott.
00:24:09.000And if it falls apart here, that's going to say a lot about the power of conservatives as protesters or as boycotters of products.
00:24:17.000Honestly, I don't think you really need to identify as conservative to have issues with child sex changes.
00:24:24.000I'm not that conservative, really, in life, but little kids that are getting their parents are, like, cutting their body parts off and stuff.
00:24:32.000Like, that just, as a human, I kind of wonder what in the hell is going on.
00:25:12.000I'm not a big beer drinker, but I had no choice but to buy a beer called Stud Light with a manly cowboy on it, because I have to wonder... I'm not saying the brewery did anything to... You want to just grab one?
00:25:28.000I'm not saying that, I don't know if this brewery made this intentionally because of what was happening, but to see that they've got stud light and there's a cowboy on it, I was like, I kind of feel like, you know, they're having fun.
00:25:44.000And it's a light lager and it's pretty good.
00:25:47.000But anyway, I just thought it'd be funny if we just cracked some open.
00:25:49.000If you look at Bud Light's market though, I mean, you know, What Ian was talking about, just to be offended by targeting kids for this, is a whole different cross-section than just conservatives.
00:26:02.000But if you look at who shops at Target, it's not as much like who buys your stuff at Target.
00:27:47.000They may still see growth because new people enter the market and population is, well, if the population expands, if it doesn't, then they're gonna lose more drinkers.
00:28:40.000I agree with basically everything you're saying, there's just one thing I'd probably phrase differently, and I think you'd actually agree with me on this when you said there's no reason for them to be introducing this sexual stuff to children.
00:28:48.000We know there's a reason, and we know what the reason is.
00:28:50.000It's because they want to groom these kids.
00:28:55.000I think the people at Target who are trying to normalize this, yeah, there's an entire effort within our systems to push sexually perverse behaviors onto children.
00:29:02.000They're owned by Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street.
00:29:14.000I completely agree with you, Seamus, and it is bad.
00:29:18.000Look, my kids are at a point where I never thought, gee, we need to cover boys are different than girls and all that stuff.
00:29:25.000It's pretty intuitive, but we're at an age where You know, they're very overtly introducing this to kids and people say, well, you know, gender is a spectrum and it's totally different than sex.
00:29:36.000No, you're given cross-sex hormones, you're using cross-sex pronouns, and the surgeries that you want to do, including to minors, are on the sexually distinctive physical attributes of your anatomy.
00:30:38.000I first became interested in politics when I was about eight years old because I learned what abortion was and it was so shocking to me that anyone could consider that a morally acceptable thing or that it would be legal.
00:30:49.000And so I've been interested in these things from a very early age and I had some hope as a kid That by the time I was an adult, if I ever had any kind of political career or a career in commentary, we would have moved on to other issues, and society might have progressed.
00:31:17.000I think there is a cult that will lie, cheat, and steal.
00:31:22.000So they'll come to you and pretend like there's a debate to trick you into debating them because they know that you'll operate in good faith to debate those ideas.
00:31:31.000I know, I think there's truth in that.
00:31:32.000It's the video of Jack Posoba getting punched by the leftist, and then when the cops pull up, because the cops watch it happen, the leftist, one of them goes, I didn't see anything happen.
00:31:42.000They know the difference between boys and girls.
00:31:44.000They're just trying to destroy the system.
00:31:45.000It seems like, yeah, when you disrupt the system, it's the person that's the most powerful that suffers the most.
00:31:50.000So, like, if you cut everybody's value by 5%, it's the rich, it's the one with the most value that's going to lose the most, because 5% of the most is more than 5% of less than that.
00:32:00.000So, like, COVID shut down the entire world.
00:32:03.000The United States probably suffered the most because it was doing the best.
00:32:07.000And now we've got the disruption of the youth, of the psychology of the youth.
00:32:11.000The United States has the most to lose, because it's the leader of the planet.
00:32:14.000And I don't think it's an accident, man.
00:32:16.000It's a global internet— When you cut off the tall grass, the short grass stays where it is.
00:32:21.000I'm gonna slightly push back against both things.
00:32:24.000I hear what you're saying, and I think I agree overall, but when it comes to Who can suffer the most?
00:32:30.000So for example, you're right that someone who's extremely wealthy and loses 5% of their wealth has lost more material wealth, technically speaking.
00:32:38.000But if a poor person is living paycheck to paycheck and then they lose 5% of their wealth, maybe they can't afford to pay rent anymore.
00:32:44.000And similarly, we saw during COVID, the UN increased the number of people projected to be at risk for starvation in the third world by like 130 million.
00:32:55.000So, there are certain things that Western countries can tolerate that poorer countries can't.
00:33:00.000And that's actually part of why you see it here, right?
00:33:03.000Because we are so wealthy that we've been able to insulate ourselves from natural consequences for decades.
00:33:10.000If you had a poorer society, the sexual revolution would have fallen apart almost immediately.
00:33:14.000Because what happens when a man starts impregnating women and then he doesn't care for those children, right?
00:33:18.000I mean, it's social and economic pandemonium.
00:33:21.000And very wealthy nations can insulate themselves from that for a little while.
00:33:25.000Leftism only exists in wealthy nations.
00:33:43.000It's, you know, I talked about this too a while ago when I said feminism can only exist in an empire's sphere.
00:33:52.000The United States is so secure that we no longer fear for our women.
00:33:57.000If you go back to tribal era, medieval, whatever, when you're really worried about wild animals and disease, you stub your toe, you die.
00:34:06.000The men are very desperately like, if the women die, we are wiped out as a civilization.
00:34:10.000So the women are protected Keep them in homes, keep them in the camps, surround them.
00:34:14.000You get to the point where you have a very strong military, a very expansive country, crime goes way down, and we start exuding military force out of the country, and so we face very little threats from within.
00:34:23.000Then all of a sudden, there's nothing to worry about with women reaching higher positions in government.
00:34:29.000I know this one probably triggers the feminists, but this is why you don't see these things, like you mentioned, in other parts of the world where they're less affluent, less safe, less secure.
00:34:37.000If we lived in a violent society where people got attacked and shot at and stabbed and raped, Outside, just walking down the street, it would be risky to send your wife out to the grocery store.
00:34:57.000There's this weird inflection point where crime was down enough to where the left started saying, stop victim blaming.
00:35:04.000But for the longest time, we would tell people, don't go walk through a dark alley at night, and women should be worried.
00:35:11.000Despite the fact that men are more likely to be victims of violent crime, it's also true that men are more likely to be able to physically defend themselves from another man.
00:35:22.000I'm talking about wild animals and just general danger.
00:35:25.000If you go way back to humans in a tribal era, If 90, if you have a tribe, if you have 100 men and 100 women and 99 women die, that tribe ceases to exist.
00:35:37.000If 99 men die, they'll struggle, but they'll probably be okay.
00:35:41.000Well, it's not even just a calculation, right?
00:35:44.000It's men caring about the women in their lives and recognizing because they're not insulated from the consequences of their actions by an unfathomable amount of wealth that men and women do have to be in different roles in order to be maximally safe.
00:35:59.000And so, this is something that you have to be unbelievably wealthy to even start to consider as a society.
00:36:05.000The idea that you would start to swap roles between men and women.
00:36:08.000When you're living in a state of nature, right?
00:36:10.000When you're one bad harvest away from your entire family starving, you're not...
00:36:16.000preoccupied with whether you were called bossy when a man would have been called assertive.
00:36:23.000And it's not to say that a society where people are worried about starving all the time is better.
00:36:29.000However, I will say there's no argument to be made that those people aren't stronger and more virtuous than we are today.
00:36:36.000And I'll also add that we could have the best of both worlds if people were capable of living with wealth While still having a spirit of poverty.
00:37:39.000You go back to, you know, what you guys are talking about, the state of nature.
00:37:42.000If everyone could live by just a basic truth of don't hurt people and don't take their stuff, we would really not even need government, right?
00:37:51.000And because people can't abide by that simple maxim, well, somebody's got to be the judge of, well, who was wrong to hurt whoever here?
00:37:58.000And look at how much government we have now.
00:38:01.000Versus how little we could have if people could simply not hurt one another or take their stuff We have a constitution that's supposed to have a limited form of government But now we have far more government than will fit within our Constitution And I think the challenge today is how do we get a government small enough to fit back in the Constitution?
00:38:18.000Because we can afford a government that small.
00:38:21.000I think I think just conflict will emerge conflict will emerge I think that We look at hard times as bad things, but I don't think they are.
00:38:35.000I think there needs to be a balance between the good times and the bad times to create strong, well-balanced individuals who are capable of surviving hard times.
00:38:45.000You know, there's a saying, good times make weak men, weak men, you know, hard times, etc.
00:38:49.000But I also feel like it's kind of swinging back and forth like a pendulum, increasing the amount of energy each time.
00:38:55.000You get a good time, then you get weak men, which give you a hard time, and then it keeps swinging back and forth in terms of how extreme it gets.
00:39:04.000What I'm trying to say is, right now we are dealing with a very serious crisis in the United States and in other parts of the world with actual war.
00:39:37.000We do, however, see a lot of people putting up a lot of money, which, for a lot of people, can be even more courageous if you're saying, like, I'm going to take a portion of my resources and allocate it to defending this man.
00:39:49.000So my point is not that there are no strong men or strong people, but that in places like New York and these big cities, you are more likely to see people say, I better keep my head down and not engage.
00:40:00.000And I was saying this to Glenn back earlier, I don't think the problem is that evil exists.
00:40:05.000I think the problem is that good men do nothing.
00:40:07.000Yeah, it's a great quote for a reason.
00:40:08.000And you go back to the Declaration of Independence, you know, they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor because that's what it takes to defend a country.
00:40:17.000And that's, look, we're only the land of the free if we are, in fact, the home of the brave.
00:40:22.000And it does take courage, whether it's to cut a check, to show up to an event, to participate.
00:40:27.000You got to make the current system work or it is going to fail.
00:40:30.000Strength also is kind of, like Darwin would say, it's not the strongest of the species that survives, but the most adaptable to change.
00:40:37.000It's the most adaptable humans that get by, which I think is why people aren't stepping up sometimes, because they want to just get by.
00:40:55.000So, I think that's a very good point, and one thing I would argue is that virtue is what makes you adaptable, right?
00:41:01.000A person who's living a life of vice is taking the path of least resistance, and what they're doing is engaging in behaviors that feel good for them in the moment, rather than behaving rationally, making a long-term plan, and behaving based on what's going to be good for them down the line.
00:41:16.000When you're able to do that, when you're able to use your rational faculties to subordinate your passions to what's going to be good for you in the long run, you can adapt to many different kinds of situations.
00:41:27.000But if you've made yourself accustomed simply to doing whatever feels good for you, well once the dynamic changes, you're going to have absolutely no idea how to interact with the world.
00:41:40.000I want to jump to this story from TimCast.com.
00:41:42.000Montana governor signs bill defining male and female.
00:41:47.000Governor Greg Gianforte was lobbied by his adult son to oppose Senate Bill 458 and other bills regulating gender issues.
00:41:55.000They say he signed Senate Bill 458 into law on May 19th.
00:41:58.000The bill states the term female refers to a member of the human species who under normal development has XX chromosomes, and produces or would produce relatively large, relatively immobile gametes or eggs during her life cycle, and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes, including an individual who would otherwise fall within this definition, but for a biological or genetic condition.
00:42:21.000Additionally, the state will not recognize male to mean a member of the human species who under normal development has XY chromosomes and produces or would produce small mobile gametes or sperm during his life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes including an individual who would otherwise fall within this definition but for biological or genetic condition.
00:42:40.000So I'm curious if they included in this anything pertaining to intersex because there are several different genetic circumstances where a person may have XY chromosomes, may appear totally female, and that's like androgen insensitivity disorder or syndrome or something like that.
00:43:01.000So, someone's biologically male, but their body does not in any way react to testosterone.
00:43:04.000So, when they're born, they look like girls, and they grow up, they look like girls, and it's like, hey, wait a minute, that's actually a guy whose testosterone never worked.
00:43:11.000And then there's also people, um, there's a variety of, uh, syndromes, where people could be XYY or XXY.
00:43:19.000I will say, however, This is particularly interesting considering the transgender rep, you know, in Montana, mentioned in the article, the bill was one of several gender-related policies passed during a contentious legislative session, prompting a vitriolic protest from transgender-identifying representative Zoe Zephyr.
00:43:39.000The fact that we've come to the point where we have to define male and female is fascinating to me.
00:43:45.000And there was an article I was reading recently, I think it was the Daily Mail, that referred to a transgender male, that is somebody who is male but wants to be a woman, as a female.
00:43:58.000And the media does this thing, which is very strange, where they will call males females and females male.
00:44:03.000I think that's why they have to do this.
00:44:05.000So what happens is, first we say, we hear, man is a social construct.
00:44:16.000Then they started just once again changing the words and saying, trans female.
00:44:21.000Now, if you're born male, but want to be female, they call you transgender female, which is not and never was the actual description of what the person was.
00:44:31.000And so this is something I've noticed, where conservatives are now shocked that the left has redefined male and female, which is perplexing to me, because why would that be shocking when they redefine man and woman?
00:44:42.000They redefine those words, but they're not going to redefine male and female and strip them of all meaning.
00:45:50.000So that would be the things that you were alluding to.
00:45:51.000But the interesting thing there, then, is there may be someone who presents completely as female because of, like, androgen insensitivity, And has spent their whole life believing they're a woman only to find out when they're in their, you know, late 20s.
00:46:19.000Because right now we're talking about it to the point where, oh, you have to introduce your five-year-old to this and buy them gear at Target.
00:46:27.000And it's on purpose, frankly, not for a lot of people that are struggling with it.
00:46:31.000I think the real question is, you know, why are so many people struggling with it?
00:46:35.000You know, so you went from in 2013 in the United States, I think there were two gender clinics and now you have hundreds, if not thousand plus of them all over the country.
00:46:51.000Well there were also just two genders back then, and now there's hundreds across the country.
00:46:55.000Social media is a big factor, and I think endocrine disruptors are a big factor.
00:47:01.000So I think, I was wondering this, you know, I was listening to some old rock, And didn't it, am I just wrong about this, that rock stars used to be a little bit older and gruffer and thicker?
00:47:13.000Like, I don't know, men just seemed manlier back in the day.
00:47:31.000Why is it that everybody looks so much younger today?
00:47:35.000I'm wondering if endocrine disruptors have been screwing with us for the past couple of decades, the past few generations, because plastics are a new thing for human civilization.
00:47:57.000I mean, I didn't know that you could function as an adult without getting shots.
00:48:00.000Until I got out of the army and my doctor said, oh yeah, you don't actually need shots.
00:48:03.000But like every time I went to see a doctor, I was getting vaccinated against something.
00:48:07.000But if you look at kids that came up in this era over the past, you know, few decades, they've never gone up in an era where they didn't have lots of vaccines.
00:49:10.000So, my point is, when we're talking about, first, you know, because the original subject was male and female and trans stuff, I would not be surprised if, well, I will first say, it is a fact, look this up, there was a birth control that masculinized young girls Because of the exposure to this birth control in women, resulted in the female fetus becoming masculinized.
00:49:36.000And that, we read about it on the show.
00:49:40.000Then we also know that plastics are endocrine disruptors, which is why we use the glass bottles.
00:49:45.000And Liquid Death had a funny commercial recently about people getting plastic shoved in their bodies to make their butts bigger and they're like plastic surgery or whatever.
00:49:52.000It was funny because they're all about using aluminum cans instead of plastics because plastics are bad.
00:49:59.000But I do think a large component is social pressures.
00:50:03.000Which is why we see typically it's like the overwhelming majority of trans kids are female because they're being pressured by social media.
00:50:10.000But then I do think one of the reasons we're seeing some of this may just be people are suffering from endocrine disruption.
00:50:18.000Their bodies aren't producing the right hormones and the right levels.
00:50:21.000And this is not some right-wing conspiracy theory, right?
00:50:24.000The data has shown that testosterone has been decreasing for the past few decades now.
00:50:42.000I don't know if it's real or not, but it sounds cool.
00:50:44.000And so I'm wondering if all this interaction with women digitally, like watching Movies with women in it, and watching porn, for instance, is getting this, like, the body stops producing the testosterone spike because it's not getting the reciprocity from the woman, so it realizes, like, oh, okay, she's not really there.
00:51:13.000If anything, looking at all these women would increase men's testosterone.
00:51:17.000You would think so, but then if it happens over and over and over and over and you're not getting the value of the testosterone, the body might just stop.
00:51:24.000Well, there's at least a correlation between wealth and poverty, right?
00:51:28.000So if you look, what's different in wealthy countries than in poor countries?
00:51:32.000And there are so many different things.
00:51:34.000But I do think that it'd be a worthwhile subject.
00:51:36.000But today, I mean, look, this professor at Brown, she got canceled.
00:51:41.000She was one of the first cancel culture people in it.
00:51:44.000I mean, she's an atheist professor at Brown.
00:51:47.000And she started going, well, what happens with like, okay, there's someone who's transgender And then in their peer group, once one person identifies as transgender, lots of other people in that school or in that peer group start to identify as transgender too.
00:52:01.000And she coined it sudden onset gender dysphoria because she wanted to investigate it and gave it a label.
00:52:08.000But the whole APA, you know, Psychological Association, went after her, canceled her, got her unpublished and everything.
00:52:16.000She had written scholarly journals and she was going at it from an academic perspective.
00:52:20.000They've literally worked to kill any serious academic study into, yeah, what does explain this?
00:52:25.000And it was just an intellectual curiosity, like, well, why is it all of a sudden spreading to other people versus, you know, the biological or genetical issues that were referenced in the Montana law?
00:52:35.000Yeah, well this is also interesting too, right, because they'll argue that this idea of social contagion is also a far-right conspiracy theory, but the president of WPATH, which is like the leading transgender activism organization on the planet, has acknowledged that social contagion is driving, in some part, the massive surge of kids who are now identifying as trans.
00:53:21.000Yeah, if a 14-year-old can be like, now because I say this, you all have to bow to me, and I'm 13.
00:53:26.000But like, what a power surge for a young human to be able to be like, all I gotta do is say I'm trans and then I can... And then, depending on the state, the doctors will be like, come right in and we'll have those old boys removed.
00:53:36.000You can get, like, teachers fired if they don't agree with you.
00:54:03.000People want to just give you things, be around you, and, you know, in terms of authority, you could be the most hated person in the world, but everyone gives you stuff.
00:54:10.000But I would say that somebody who is in a position of legal authority but is hated has a lower social status than someone who's in a position of legal authority and who everybody loves.
00:54:20.000I'm saying that they both play a role in social status.
00:54:22.000Like, if our laws privilege a certain group of people, they have a higher social status, no?
00:54:26.000Like, to a certain degree, you can argue that people are attracted to someone of great governmental wealth, but there's a balance.
00:54:33.000If you are the ugliest, most out of shape, smelliest, You know, dude living in a basement.
00:54:41.000You can, you can, Ian, you can go out in New York and you can dress up in a historical period according to New York law and they are forced to give you what you want.
00:54:53.000You can force a massive multi-billion dollar corporation to do whatever you want.
00:54:57.000That doesn't mean you have any good social status.
00:54:58.000And that's kids in general have no social status.
00:55:01.000That people of no social status are going and exploiting the system.
00:55:06.000Well, but I would say that if there are laws that are written that tell people they're not allowed to disagree with you, there's social status in that, right?
00:55:12.000When our legal system privileges groups of people, that boosts their social status.
00:55:17.000So if the law says anyone can do whatever they want, there's no social status?
00:55:20.000My argument is not that social status... I understand that there has to be a differential, like some people have to be lower in social status than others for like the legal question to apply.
00:55:30.000My point is simply that when one group of people are set aside by the law and said they have special privileges, that increases social status.
00:55:37.000But I'm talking about how the law does not protect a group of people.
00:55:56.000So my initial response to what Ian was saying is that creating these quote-unquote transgender protections boosts the social status of people who have that identified label.
00:56:08.000What I'm trying to clarify is that's not the case.
00:56:11.000You don't think that that boosts their social status?
00:56:12.000The fact that they can go around telling people they have to use their pronouns or that employers can't discriminate on that basis?
00:56:16.000Because anyone can do it for anything, right?
00:56:18.000So the law doesn't say you have to use someone's she, her, he, and pronouns.
00:56:21.000It says anyone who says anything has to be respected.
00:56:24.000I'm just going to say in New York, if you're a black man and defend anything conservative, then you must be a white supremacist, right?
00:56:32.000So, I mean, I do think there's something, I don't know whether it's called social status or whatever, but you have all these people that it's like, if you step out of what they're, you know, one of my colleagues referred to somebody, you know, we don't need any more brown faces that aren't brown voices or black faces that aren't black voices or things like that.
00:56:48.000And it's like, well, you know, Tim Scott's like, I'm not supposed to talk?
00:56:53.000And so there is this kind of, I don't know, heresy code.
00:56:57.000I don't know whether it's status or whatever, but kind of this whole kind of woke culture has got its own heresy code.
00:57:02.000There is no doctrine of grace over there.
00:57:06.000And so I think to your point, yeah, there's a, but that's highly selective in terms of where you would even have status.
00:57:12.000I mean, some areas, your status goes even worse and maybe even in peril.
00:57:17.000When they say that anyone can dress in a historical period costume, they are not privileging transgender people.
00:57:25.000They are basically saying anyone can wear and dress and be called whatever they demand, and you must adhere to it.
00:57:32.000If they said, if someone who is traditionally male appears in non-traditional, you know, or appears as female, presents in female stereotypical clothing, using female names, you cannot discriminate on this basis.
00:57:44.000That would be outlining just trans people.
00:57:46.000But New York's law, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
00:57:48.000It says you can dress in historical period.
00:57:51.000Like, those words actually appear in the law.
00:57:54.000Which means you could dress up like a pirate in New York City and say, I'm pirate gender, and it's protected.
00:58:10.000This is something that Jordan Peterson said in response to Bill C-16, which I thought was a great observation, which is that what a lot of these protection laws do is they enshrine Um, a person's fashion choice as like a legally protected identity.
00:58:30.000I've brought this up time and time again, where the lawyers told me and I'll get laughed out of the courtroom, but the New York Civil Rights Law, uh, Human Rights Commission says historical period.
00:58:45.000Right, but it literally says it, meaning you can put on a full plate armor and be like, these are my clothes.
00:58:50.000We talked about this a while ago, right?
00:58:52.000Yeah, and that's right, we actually had a lawyer on the show, and they were basically saying that, I think we were joking about wearing a fursuit or something and saying like that, and he said, I mean, legally, yeah, but you'd probably get laughed out of the courtroom.
00:59:02.000Well, no, I talked to several human rights lawyers who told me that.
00:59:06.000So this is 2019 or whatever, I call a bunch of lawyers and I said, what would happen if someone did this?
00:59:10.000And they said, everyone knows the point of the law, you'd get laughed out of the courtroom.
00:59:15.000The problem is now as they've expanded it, there's no way this makes sense when they added the words historical period.
00:59:21.000Because now you can dress up like I mentioned, you know, put on a safari costume and a big white fake beard and call yourself the colonel, and they can't, that's protected.
01:00:48.000It's like, yeah, you can actually do your thing in New York and do it your way.
01:00:52.000Ohio, we're not going to do that, probably.
01:00:54.000And, you know, if you really want to, you could maybe do it in a certain area, but we're not going to change our laws like New York did, and Texas may do it totally different.
01:01:01.000But if you want to make it all one big federal policy and just cram it down your throat, that's the tension.
01:01:08.000People are trying to seize power in Washington and impose their will on everyone else.
01:01:12.000Yeah, I think one massive problem with the direction the United States has gone in really over the past hundred years is, to create an analogy, we've gone from a neighborhood to an apartment building.
01:01:22.000So, when you're in a neighborhood, everyone has their own house, they have their own lawn, they can make decisions about their house, they can add something on to it, subtract something from it, have a garden, not have a garden, own chickens, whatever it is.
01:01:33.000And you're all houses, you're all in the neighborhood, you all have the same zip code, but you're able to make decisions about your own property.
01:01:38.000There's some sovereignty, there might be an HOA that puts some limitations on it, but overall you can make your own choice for your own property.
01:01:45.000Now it's like the United States has become a condominium, and each state is its own little condo.
01:01:51.000And you're able to make decisions, and it's technically your own property as a state, or as the governor of a state, or as the people of a state, but you're not fully sovereign because There's a certain pattern you have to follow so that you don't move outside of the status quo of what is like architecturally sound for that building.
01:02:09.000But Ron DeSantis was able to tell him to shove it during the COVID attempted shutdowns.
01:02:15.000So you would still consider him in the apartment complex, but just like... I would say he's starting to make moves out.
01:02:19.000Yeah, I would say that like he's sort of starting to shift the paradigm because what happens is when you have an incredibly strong federal government, Each state becomes more affected by decisions made in other states in a way where they historically were not when the government didn't have as much oversight or when the federal government didn't have as much oversight.
01:02:38.000And so what I think DeSantis is doing, and again, analogies limp, and where this one falls apart, is that we could actually, you know, disassemble the condominium and put people back onto their own property.
01:02:48.000And I think governors like DeSantis move us in that direction by pulling away from federal oversight.
01:02:55.000I want to jump to another crazy story.
01:02:58.000Hard segue, we got this from the Daily Mail.
01:03:00.000Second Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower comes forward.
01:03:03.000Agent claimed he was passed over for promotion and removed from tax investigation team for claiming the president's son was getting preferential treatment.
01:03:11.000They say a new case agent who has not been identified since he was fired last week without any explanation after working on the Hunter Biden investigation since 2018.
01:03:20.000His complaint comes days after it was revealed the DOJ removed his entire team, according to his supervisor.
01:03:25.000IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel had told Congress the agency wouldn't retaliate against whistleblowers in April.
01:03:31.000So, if you are the son of, uh, the President, you get away with committing crimes.
01:04:14.000Look, not only did he get caught red-handed, the whole coalition of intelligence experts got caught red-handed concocting the story to cover for Hunter Biden's laptop.
01:04:27.000And look, kudos to Tucker Carlson for highlighting this in the 2020 election cycle.
01:04:32.000But frankly, it got dropped right away.
01:04:34.000One of the guys in the middle of that, Tony Bobulensky, came forward, did the interview with Tucker Carlson, and said, look, if it's Russian disinformation, how am I carbon copied on the same email?
01:05:00.000And you know, this is why what happened, what Matt Taibbi is working on at Twitter and the Twitter files is so important.
01:05:06.000Because you see, they weren't just doing this at Twitter, they were doing this all over.
01:05:11.000And it might not be the exact same cast of characters that wrote the cover story for Hunter Biden's laptop, but it is the same coalition of three-letter agencies that are using the power of the government To cancel speech in America.
01:05:23.000And whether it was political speech or COVID speech, you still think back to like, I mean, for me, I always like, you know, Dwight Eisenhower, big deal at West Point, big deal for the country.
01:05:55.000Fauci doesn't epitomize the scientific-technical elite, look what was going on in the midst of all this stuff.
01:06:02.000And at the center of dominating both of those are these three little agencies, canceling and covering and all for political influence operations.
01:06:46.000It's only really since the end of World War II.
01:06:49.000I think the fall of the American empire would be the greatest thing for the United States.
01:06:53.000Because the American empire, as people refer to it, is this expeditionary force that we've sent all over the world with military bases, insane foreign policy, world policing.
01:07:06.000And what we need to get back to is our own borders, our own people, our own jobs, our own economy.
01:07:28.000And one thing you mentioned about the left loving the military-industrial complex, I mean, this is one of Trump's greatest accomplishments, to be honest, that he pushed the warmongers and the war hawks out of the Republican Party.
01:07:58.000But he definitely made some mistakes there.
01:08:00.000However, my greater point is, so many people So many hawks were able to find refuge in the Democratic Party because they said, initially, or at least they claim to say, we don't like war.
01:08:25.000Yeah, and now I'm like, well... Like, you know, I'm kind of pro-industrialism.
01:08:28.000If we didn't have American military bases all over Earth, then what would be the other... Like, I had never thought about, like, what would be the other option if we got rid of the American military-industrial complex.
01:08:37.000Well, there would probably be a Chinese military-industrial complex.
01:08:39.000There'd probably be, like, Russian invasions all across, and then that would take... So, like...
01:10:24.000And, you know, the elites could go in and get things.
01:10:27.000But, you know, the regular people went somewhere else.
01:10:30.000So the flow at the end of the Cold War was not into there other than a little bit of sense of curiosity.
01:10:35.000The flow was how do we be more like the West?
01:10:38.000You know, when I was in high school, Ronald Reagan rode through my town on a train, and I got to see him speak in Sydney, Ohio.
01:10:44.000And he said, you know, a lot of things at that time.
01:10:46.000One of his famous quotes is, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
01:10:50.000But we're in an era right now where people say they want what was on the other side of the wall.
01:10:56.000They come in Congress and say they want socialism, they want democratic socialism.
01:11:01.000And I'll just tell you, the place where America is a force for good, so to your point, Ian, The Korean Peninsula.
01:11:08.000You look, South Korea, south of the 38th parallel, first world economy, first world health care, mission-sending country, all kinds of things.
01:11:16.000They're a global donor to help others around the world.
01:11:20.000North of the 38th parallel, they had the other ideology.
01:13:48.000And look, thankfully, this is now bipartisan, stopping the fentanyl.
01:13:51.000Because, you know, there's a girl in my district, Lizzie Murphy, 21 years old, took a Xanax at a party, bad idea, but it was laced with fentanyl.
01:13:58.000One pill, one party, killed her, right?
01:14:01.000And so that's happened in tens of thousands of times, like 70,000 Americans dead with fentanyl.
01:14:06.000And to your point, if we had control of Mexico, look, there might still be cartels supplying something, but we would not have this kind of crisis on our hands today.
01:14:16.000And that's part of the challenge today since, you know, The question is, can we unite to deal with this problem and so many others?
01:14:47.000I mean, it would be a pretty easy acquisition.
01:14:50.000They would have better government than they have today.
01:14:53.000On the other hand, look, they've got Trudeau and all this socialism, cancel culture galore, all kinds of the, you know, utopia that the far left in America wants.
01:15:03.000I would trade one far left person who wants to fundamentally remake America with critical theory Marxism For one, you know, freedom-loving Canadian.
01:15:12.000I mean, I might give you a ten-for-one deal.
01:15:15.000You can have ten of these far-left crazy people for one, like, freedom-loving Canadian.
01:15:30.000I feel like we are on the cusp of the end of the American military-industrial complex, or at least that's one option.
01:15:37.000And I'm really, like, considering, like, if that does happen and we become just the United States of isolationism, what are we going to do, like, when another country starts taking over its neighbors?
01:15:50.000So this is an interesting question, right?
01:15:54.000There's this phrase, like, isolationism, and I understand this is just sort of a term people use politically, but I don't think not getting involved in wars is accurately described as isolationism, right?
01:16:06.000I mean, if you're still trading with other countries, if you have pro-social interactions with other countries, you're not isolated, you're just not fighting them.
01:16:13.000I think with the question of Other countries being invaded, there's a real question there.
01:16:18.000There's a real concern, because there are human rights violations all over the world, but then also there are human rights violations all over the world.
01:16:25.000I mean, how do we decide which ones we get involved with fighting?
01:16:28.000And that's who has the most resources we can acquire.
01:16:30.000That's why I'm like, it's just all BS.
01:16:32.000We're not invading China over their concentration camps.
01:18:07.000I would say the left has still done more damage just because of the denigration of the family, which is the fundamental social building block.
01:18:13.000But fundamentally, I agree with you that neoconservatives have done a massive amount of damage.
01:18:18.000And frankly, I wouldn't really draw a distinction between the neoconservatives and the left.
01:18:22.000All of the ideological founders of the neoconservative movement were either Marxist or former Marxist, right?
01:18:27.000Irving Kristol said a neoconservative is a leftist who's been mugged by reality.
01:18:49.000And they believed firmly, and you can tell based on their foreign policy that they believed this, that social order could be fundamentally restructured in ways foreign to the nature of man.
01:19:02.000Or a culture that's being governed through the barrel of a gun and with the threat of force.
01:19:07.000Of course we can go to Iraq or Afghanistan and turn these countries into modern democracies, because government can do anything.
01:19:15.000You threaten force strategically in the right areas, you can completely reshape a culture, an entire culture.
01:19:22.000I mean, these are fundamentally Marxist ideas.
01:19:27.000It works over the course of 80 years and just genocide and the eradication of living memory.
01:19:33.000So we don't know, like the Romans just transformed Rome.
01:19:37.000It used to be, you know, a lot of different countries before it was the Roman Empire.
01:19:41.000But now with modern media, there's no way to do that without everyone watching the torture and the annihilation of humanity.
01:19:48.000So we kind of reject The idea of like going into Iraq and just killing everyone and planting the seed of Americanism that didn't, wasn't going to happen.
01:20:42.000And, you know, clearly the Russians have, I think, there's enough evidence to say they've violated norms to the point where they're war crimes.
01:21:40.000Those are all different missions that need different resources.
01:21:43.000Is the mission regime change in Russia because you're going to have war crimes tribunals?
01:21:47.000Because you're not having war crimes tribunals unless there's regime change in Russia.
01:21:51.000So there are people in the State Department that want that.
01:21:54.000Victoria Nuland, who spent, you know, the better part of a decade working to engineer this war, and frankly is like rooting for it to be bigger.
01:23:24.000Yeah, I'm wondering if the lack of definition of a mission is because they want to keep it clandestine so that they're not overtly saying, we are involved, Vladimir Putin, just so you know.
01:24:28.000It's been used to impose their will on Not just government, not just, you know, the Trump campaign, but on average ordinary citizens in every layer.
01:24:38.000And why would we give them more power?
01:24:40.000They're essentially saying, gosh, if we had all the power of the Chinese Communist Party, we could keep you safe from the Chinese Communist Party.
01:24:48.000Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting because one point that's been mentioned here is the fact that our goals have been very vaguely defined, at least on the public facing front.
01:24:57.000You see this anytime anyone wants to run some kind of scam or hustle the American people, right?
01:25:01.000You set a goal that's theoretically impossible to meet or that's very vague.
01:26:26.000You know, I've met him, but I don't really know him.
01:26:27.000I certainly haven't gotten to know him.
01:26:29.000Is it like, do you guys even have a chance to get to know each other in Congress?
01:26:32.000I mean, we definitely don't spend as much time between House and Senate.
01:26:36.000You know, I've gotten to know some of the more conservative senators over there well, you know, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, you know, Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, some of the conservative folks, Tim Scott.
01:27:47.000When Medicaid passed in the 60s, healthcare was like 6% of GDP.
01:27:51.000Then we started subsidizing it with Medicare and Medicaid and every other thing.
01:27:56.000And now over 50% of the babies born in Ohio are born on Medicaid.
01:28:00.000So, you know, it is a massive takeover of the system.
01:28:04.000In a lot of hospitals, like 80% of it is healthcare.
01:28:06.000So you go back to, you know, big pharma, we're like, Four and a half percent of the world's population, we take almost 40% of the world's prescription drugs.
01:28:15.000Like why is there this big demand for the country?
01:28:18.000And I think in our country, we have kind of business interests that in a lot of ways have more influence over the politics than the politics have over the business interests.
01:28:27.000How come there's no committee on far-left extremism?
01:28:32.000I mean, frankly, when you look at one of the committees that we fought to get created is the Committee on Weaponization of Government.
01:28:38.000So you look at the Woken Weaponized Government, this subcommittee that it's a part of the Judiciary Committee, but it selects people that aren't even on Judiciary that became part of this Committee on Weaponization.
01:28:50.000You look, as they had Matt Taibbi on talking about the Twitter files, Literally, he's there testifying to this committee in Congress, in his house, somebody from the IRS shows up at his house.
01:29:01.000Now look, having audits happens, but no one, literally no one, believes that an IRS agent showing up at Matt Dabey's house was a coincidence, right?
01:29:11.000It is a weaponization of government, and we have a committee, and this shows, like, Republicans are taking this seriously.
01:29:28.000Why didn't he refer anybody for prosecution?
01:29:30.000But Congress, shame on us if we don't follow through and do something, whether it's about weaponized government in the agencies, whether it's about the weaponization of the military industrial complex.
01:29:43.000All that happens, we give them more money.
01:29:45.000If you go over to the Scientific Technical Elite, you're going to tell me we're going to keep letting these guys do like Fauci said to Rand Paul.
01:29:53.000I don't have to tell you how much money I got paid for approving these FDA patents and drug approvals from licenses.
01:30:01.000We're not going to restructure the National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control in the wake of all this stuff.
01:30:24.000I don't disagree with you that that is a problem, but the weaponization of government and the collusion with big tech, I think, is where what you're saying comes into play.
01:30:34.000That's probably the main focus, but I feel like if you want to go after Google for weaponizing its software, don't be like, hey, you banned that guy, you're using it as a weapon.
01:30:44.000It's the fact that, well, firstly, the fact that they can ban the guy is kind of a weaponization, that they have that authority.
01:30:50.000Like, if I give you a giant stick, you just have a giant stick, but I can start to consider that a weapon.
01:30:57.000I want to make sure I just merge these ideas for everybody, because you're talking about the weaponization of big tech, but the government was utilizing big tech by going to them, getting a portal made, so the government is effectively using big tech as the shield to say, hey, it's not us, we're not doing it, all we're doing is making requests to a private company, and the private company is removing public citizens and their speech and their ideas.
01:31:19.000Yeah, but you look like they went after parents that showed up at school board meetings.
01:31:23.000They just defined a recent term, radical traditional Catholics, i.e.
01:31:37.000So they put these tags on it, they weaponized government.
01:31:40.000Thank goodness our country was kind of alarmed across the political spectrum when the government wanted to start spying on your bank accounts.
01:31:48.000If you got $600 of activity, they're going to report all your bank account activity to the IRS.
01:31:53.000I was really encouraged that most everybody said, whoa, wait a minute, that's crazy.
01:31:57.000But they didn't hire 87,000 IRS agents.
01:32:00.000I mean, that's five infantry divisions worth of IRS agents.
01:32:03.000They don't want five extra infantry divisions of IRS agents to go after a few billionaires and millionaires.
01:32:08.000You mentioned getting a committee on health care.
01:32:40.000And the health insurance companies post-Obamacare, look, they have like 20% net margins.
01:32:45.000The hospitals have to get bigger and the patients get removed from seeing their doctors, right?
01:32:53.000So when you had, you know, little kids, they would go to the pediatrician, you could take them in.
01:32:58.000Well, now you can't because you can't get in for three weeks.
01:33:01.000Well, the same people that are driving the doctor to be billed, You know, bill every, you know, 10 minute increments or eight minute increments or whatever, log their time and stay loaded up on their calendar so they can't even see anybody.
01:33:13.000Um, well, gee, guess where the kids have to go now?
01:33:16.000Cause they can't get in to see the pediatrician tomorrow.
01:33:18.000Well, they got to go to the ER, right?
01:33:38.000People from all over the world still come here, it's still the best, but it has not run well.
01:33:43.000People should talk to Michael Malice, because he talks about this, how people don't understand how bad it was in the Soviet Union, and they think it can't get worse.
01:33:49.000Can I just make one point about the USSR?
01:33:53.000You were talking about this a little bit earlier with the Iron Curtain, before it fell.
01:33:57.000How people were shocked that there was fresh milk in the stores.
01:34:02.000So, when you look at the public attitudes in the U.S.S.R.
01:34:07.000versus those in the United States, Americans were in many cases unwilling to believe that the genocidal activity that was reported as coming from the U.S.S.R.
01:34:18.000actually happened there because it was just beyond our comprehension that people could be doing that to each other.
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01:36:02.000There was some violent incident that occurred in a city, and I said, why would people choose to live in these cities where you're getting beaten by violent mobs, when you can go live out in the middle of nowhere and get, like, goats and chickens and stuff, and then I did, like, this little joke line about it's either the chickens or being beaten.
01:36:52.000I want to see people rising to the occasion, like Daniel Penny did.
01:36:55.000I want to see people in New York City protesting out, waving signs in support, peacefully of course, in support of Daniel Penny, and make sure the local government knows that you, as a resident of this city, do not like the crime.
01:37:07.000And that, you know, there's that woman, the victim and witness said Daniel Penny's a hero who saved her life.
01:37:30.000We're going to be, we've got Mr. Bocus Pumpkin Spice Experience is coming soon.
01:37:34.000It's going to be our year round pumpkin spice coffee because I just never understood why they made it seasonal if everybody always wants it and likes it.
01:37:41.000And then we're doing, this is an idea from one of our members, Focus with Mr. Bocus.
01:37:46.000We'll be, I think it's going to be our espresso roast.
01:37:49.000So context for that super chat, free the code, is something I say a lot in regards to the social media networks, the large social media networks that are acting in the commons, Google, Twitter, Facebook.
01:37:58.000I feel like their source code should be available for people.
01:38:01.000Yeah, that was a pretty bold move by Elon Musk to go public.
01:38:06.000You can look at it and give us suggestions.
01:38:09.000And he threw the gauntlet down, and of course no one has taken it up.
01:38:12.000They're not going to out what's going on at Meta.
01:38:15.000I would be open to, as like an anti-trust movement, to mandate that companies functioning in the United States have to have free software code.
01:38:42.000If he becomes president, I will be happy.
01:38:44.000I just think we need right now, you know like, I'm imagining this big siege vehicle, you know, and Donald Trump is the bull in front of it.
01:38:53.000He crashes through the gates and he rampages up the ivory tower and they run fleeing from the building and then DeSantis comes in and starts signing the policies and the bills and stuff.
01:40:05.000But what I mean by COO is he's the one running the company, getting the job done, but the CEO is the visionary who's telling, you know, like DeSantis... I mean, DeSantis is a little more introverted.
01:40:27.000Even people that don't want to have a good time in Donald Trump's presence, Fine.
01:40:32.000You're actually having a good time with Donald Trump.
01:40:34.000You know, DeSantis isn't that kind of personality.
01:40:36.000I mean, he's a guy that'll, you know, he'll be kind and everything else, but like once he talks, he just can go back in the back and start cranking away on another policy and just get after it.
01:40:46.000And, you know, I think either of them can be good.
01:40:48.000I know, you know, Probably what's going to work in terms of rallies is going to be the energy behind Trump, and energy really does drive electoral politics in a lot of ways.
01:40:59.000That's why DeSantis didn't win by much of a margin when he ran the first time, but then after the people in Florida experienced the, you know, let this guy just go off and do his thing and he's going to come back and roll out another killer policy, they're like, oh, we want more of that.
01:41:15.000Alright, we got a question for you from, uh, there's no name.
01:41:18.000It says, Warren, can you touch on the SEC Chairman Gary Gensler and his attack on crypto innovation in the U.S., also about his role as CFO for Hillary 2016, signing off on the payment for Crossfire Hurricane, get him out of office.
01:41:31.000Yeah, we're working to get rid of Gary Gensler.
01:41:33.000I gave a hearing where I was able to communicate with him and say, look, I plan to fire you.
01:41:38.000We've got a bill that basically restructures the Securities and Exchange Commission and eliminates the chairmanship.
01:41:48.000And right now there are five commissioners.
01:41:50.000Originally it was created as a commission because the commission was supposed to do the decision making, and then they supercharged the powers of the chairman.
01:41:57.000And Gary Gensler is front-running everybody.
01:41:59.000I mean, he's moving ahead of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, the House, the Senate.
01:42:07.000And frankly, it's all to impose his will on everything.
01:42:11.000And so there's almost no accountability.
01:42:12.000The commission, you either have four commissioners that are useless, Or you need, you know, and one chairman, or you go back to say, look, our capital markets are the best in the world.
01:42:23.000I mean, look, we got four or 5% of the world's population, 25% of the world's GDP.
01:42:28.000We have over 50% of the world's invested capital.
01:42:59.000John McGee says trial for Trump's 34 New York charges is set for March 25th, 2024, right in the middle of primary season, and he has to be present.
01:43:07.000If that's not coordinated election interference, what is?
01:43:43.000So you think like in the state of New York, they would remove Trump from the ballot?
01:43:47.000I think a bunch of states will try to do it, but I'm not sure it matters, because any state where it's contested, you're gonna have people saying, do not remove his name.
01:43:53.000I mean, that's the whole thing, where they want to try to get somebody convicted of a felony, because that makes you not a qualified elector in those states, and then you can't appear on the ballot.
01:44:02.000So, look, if they can't stop, they're so committed to stopping Donald Trump in any way they can, so you kind of got a plan.
01:45:00.000I mean, they're doing poorly, but five, six months ago, that was well before what happened with Bud Light, so.
01:45:08.000Maybe they're panicking and trying to figure something else out.
01:45:12.000Bo says, what do you guys think about an election system where you can track your own vote to ensure it's who you voted for, access it with name, social security number, and current address?
01:45:20.000Also a litmus test and easy civics question like number of states.
01:45:25.000Yeah, the downside for that is then your vote's not private.
01:45:28.000Somebody else can know exactly how you voted as well.
01:45:30.000If they have your private information and your social security number, name, birthday, and mother's maiden name and address.
01:45:35.000If it's encrypted and you have like a QR code that only you can scan with your device.
01:45:39.000You mean like you had private keys and there was a public key or something like that?
01:46:14.000One vote doesn't change the outcome of an election.
01:46:17.000So you'd go to court and they would say your vote... There are times where one vote does change the outcome of an election.
01:46:23.000So what happened with a lot of the votes that Trump brought forward, I'm sorry, a lot of the lawsuits, is when they were like hey look we've got what we believe is you know impropriety in terms of the like signature verification they'd say the amount of votes in question would not alter the results therefore case dismissed yes standing was the argument and that's what made so many people so frustrated uh between november and january 6th and why they wanted to show up and rally rally peacefully protest
01:46:50.000And frankly some people were so frustrated to the point where they crossed the line because they felt like they couldn't get, you know, any kind of hearing in court.
01:46:59.000The courts were not listening and frankly a lot of people felt like the politicians weren't listening.
01:47:05.000And so I think that's why we had the process.
01:47:07.000What you'd have to do with the QR codes is if you found that your vote was incorrect and they wouldn't fix it and you can't get a lawsuit, you'd have to find a number of people That would equal that have evidence of their votes being improper.
01:47:22.000But then the problem is how do you prove your original vote was actually for the other candidate?
01:47:26.000What will end up happening is they'll go to court and they'll argue they did vote for Trump.
01:47:31.000They're just expressing regret now and their votes are correct.
01:47:37.000You'd take a picture showing that they voted for someone else than you asked to vote for, you'd post it to social media, and you would just get banned.
01:47:45.000They'd be like, ah, this is a... Yeah.
01:47:48.000All right, let's grab some more Super Chats.
01:47:50.000Paul Nyholm says, China's demanding loan payments from their Belt and Road Initiative, and they are starving out third world countries by causing them to default and drop their own social and government services.
01:48:17.000Xerath Ecliptico says, men are learning, as long as the family courts are weaponized against them.
01:48:24.000No fault divorce is teaching that it is no longer worth the risk to wed in a family when it can be stripped away with a simple, I'm not happy.
01:48:42.000You can talk about a lot of good things you like him for, things that he did were good, I don't know, sure, sure, whatever, but no-fault divorce was like, let's literally just destroy the foundation of this country.
01:48:52.000With, like, functional prenups, I could imagine it, like, if we get divorced, all my prior money is still mine.
01:48:59.000And then, I think you were saying, Seamus, there are versions of prenups where if I initiate the divorce, I forego my prenup, and you can take half of whatever, so it kind of disincentivizes the divorce.
01:49:09.000Yeah, basically, I'm against prenups as a concept, but that's one version of it that I think might... I don't know, because what you're saying is, because then you're incentivizing a person to stay in the marriage, right?
01:49:21.000So I guess that couldn't be... That's not similar to other prenups, but one thing I'll mention, with Reagan and no-fault divorce...
01:49:28.000This is the reality of the slippery slope.
01:49:30.000What happened was on Reagan's first marriage, according to him, his ex-wife had to make up a bunch of lies and false accusations against him in order to get the divorce.
01:49:40.000So his thinking was, well, if we have no false divorce, people aren't going to be smeared with false accusations because their wife wants to leave them.
01:49:48.000Well, this is what always ends up happening.
01:49:50.000People claim we're going to give an outlet to something that's already happening because it's an ugly reality but we can't prevent it.
01:49:56.000And then that thing ends up exploding.
01:49:58.000This is how the left always gets the social change it wants.
01:50:00.000Let's just let this small handful of people who are going to do this anyway do this thing and then everyone ends up doing it.
01:50:06.000No Fault Divorce is a perfect example.
01:50:08.000Let's give an outlet to something that's already happening and now it happens all the time.
01:50:13.000All right, Guardsman Norheim of the 10th First says, Tim, I was watching The Hill this morning and was blown away to see one host, Brianna Joy Gray, claim you were covering for neo-Nazis.
01:50:22.000I think they need to consider and change host again.
01:50:26.000Why were you watching The Hill's Rising?
01:50:27.000Wait, why were they saying you were covering for neo-Nazis?
01:50:30.000Because of that guy who took four clips of one episode and posted it on Russian social media, so they claim.
01:50:36.000And because I was like, how do we even know that's legit?
01:50:39.000And the media was claiming that this guy was a fan because he took four clips from one episode of the show, and the clips show he wasn't even subscribed to the show.
01:50:49.000Isn't it amazing that there was no attribution to Bernie Sanders when one of his fans decided to shoot up a bunch of my colleagues at a congressional baseball game?
01:50:58.000Actually, the other host on the show actually brought that up and made that a point, saying no one actually... Oh, Robbie said that?
01:51:10.000You can watch The Hill, which is a machine built on corporate dollars where they've chosen hosts to put on a show, and these are not people who built the show, these are not people who are particularly good at what they do.
01:51:22.000Or you can come to a show like 10 Cast IRL, which was built from the ground up without any corporate investment or backers, and the show works because we did a good job of it.
01:51:30.000Why is it that Brianna Joy Gray would say something so nonsensical about me, and I believe it was Elon Musk?
01:51:36.000It's because she is not a competent media personality who would normally rise to this position.
01:51:42.000She was someone who was put in this position because she's on Twitter.
01:51:46.000Whereas, why do you come to watch this show?
01:51:48.000Well, this show was really small, and it was a YouTube channel with no support, no funding or anything.
01:51:52.000We started doing it, and then people were like, hey, this show's pretty good, and they started watching it.
01:51:56.000The Hill's Rising is, they invested a bunch of money, shuffled around various hosts, found a person, and now they have vapid opinions that don't seem to make sense.
01:53:22.000It's funny, the whole way she threw that, she was talking about anti-legacy media, saying, oh, we're not part of big media, and stuff like that.
01:53:41.000You can take a bunch of money, buy a set, and then say, find me a host for a show, or you can look at the people who are rising in today's ranks, people who just slowly built up a show because they did a good job.
01:53:52.000It's meritocracy versus institutional power.
01:54:46.000I mean, we live in a culture where people are so focused on their immediate short-term gain that the elderly actually care more about their own comfort or even social standing than they do the next generation.
01:57:33.000Your representation is at an embassy or a consulate.
01:57:38.000The downside is the way that Donald Trump got beaten in this lawsuit, he tried to fight it and so that we counted citizens.
01:57:46.000The way that non-citizens are stealing representation isn't just by people trying to vote illegally.
01:57:52.000It's when you have over-representation on the congressional maps.
01:57:57.000We've talked about it quite a bit actually.
01:57:59.000You have like five to seven extra members of Congress in California and with the sanctuary cities you oversample the population in urban areas so it creates more blue districts, specifically blue districts, and it puts more people into certain states.
01:58:13.000So it really is theft of representation.
01:58:16.000And then when you look at the way the resources are distributed, it's generally distributed on a per capita basis.
01:58:22.000It should be distributed on a per citizen basis or an electoral vote basis.
01:59:00.000But my point is simply to say that not only, like you said, does representation become lopsided because they're counted and they get extra electoral votes or more representation in government.
01:59:11.000When their family members are on welfare, they'll end up taking welfare from them.
01:59:15.000So they're still pulling out of the system.
01:59:17.000And there was an article written by a left-wing outlet a few years ago after Trump got elected that said, these poor undocumented citizens are too afraid to get welfare now that Trump's been elected.
01:59:34.000I don't know if we can actually sell donuts like that, but maybe we'll make a coffee that's like, you know, Joey's bag of donuts or whatever.
01:59:41.000We are planning on, uh, we've got a few things launching.
01:59:44.000K-Cups are coming in the next couple of weeks.
01:59:46.000They've got to manufacture them, but we've got all the different varieties.
01:59:50.000We've got a few different blends that are, uh, blends and roasts that are coming.
01:59:54.000We've got Mr. Boca's Pumpkin Spice Experience.
01:59:56.000But then we're also going to be adding, um, Protein powders and other things like that to the casper
02:00:02.000marketplace. So we're really really excited for all this stuff
02:00:04.000I'm really excited for our mct protein mix for working out and we're working with a
02:00:09.000Specialists on the proper formulation for exercise and all that stuff
02:00:14.000So we'll get to that point we get to that point, but i'm really excited to be able to launch that
02:00:16.000That's actually a lot easier to launch surprisingly because when it comes to like making protein powders and
02:00:22.000supplements I'm not gonna do any vitamins or brain blast or any of that
02:00:25.000stuff It's going to be like protein for exercising and MCT for energy when you're exercising.
02:00:29.000But they make that stuff and then we formulate how we want it.
02:00:34.000So we want a certain mix of MCT and protein so you're getting fat and you're getting protein.
02:00:38.000And then we work with a specialist to make it.
02:00:40.000But they have huge batches ready to go to formulate and mix so they can make it a lot faster with coffee.
02:00:45.000It's like we have to roast it and make sure it's fresh and ready and all that stuff.
02:01:09.000And then the first order I think we're doing is not biodegradable, but we're talking about them because we told them we wanted biodegradable or nothing.
02:01:15.000And they said, well, then nothing it is.
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