On this episode of the President's Daily Brief, we discuss the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and discuss the possibility that federal agents may have been involved in the planning and execution of a cover-up.
00:00:50.000we have an investigation happening in buffalo Apparently, before this tragic incident occurred at the grocery store, advance warning was given to several people, one of which was a retired federal agent.
00:01:13.000So now, it is being reported by the Buffalo News that there is an active investigation into whether or not this individual should be charged as an accomplice.
00:01:20.000Of course, this story is going around because a lot of people are looking into, let's just call it, nefarious and malicious means behind the scenes involving federal agents with these tragic incidents that have occurred.
00:01:35.000I don't blindly just believe the theories that people are putting out, the conspiracies.
00:01:40.000But I do think it's interesting to talk about, because some people seem to think there may be more going on, and I think the information we get out of these warrants an investigation.
00:01:51.000Now, typically when people investigate themselves, they don't find anything wrong, so who knows?
00:01:55.000But there are a lot of other questions about what happened with the Uvalde shooting, like how this poor kid A couple days after his 18th birthday was able to get a credit line or able to get money to buy an extremely expensive rifle, get it delivered and pick it up all in the span of less than two days?
00:02:14.000There needs to be an investigation here.
00:02:15.000But we have more information coming out and I'm shocked to say, for the first time in a long time, the left and the right are united.
00:02:23.000They're united in their disdain for the police.
00:02:25.000Who stood in the hallway as they heard the shots going off and did nothing.
00:02:30.000And outside barred parents from getting in, armed parents, from saving their kids.
00:02:35.000So it's remarkable to see left-wing activists just as outraged and for the same reasons as the rightists.
00:02:42.000So hey, who'd have thought this would be the thing that would unify us?
00:02:45.000But when kids lose their lives and police do nothing and bar people from saving them, I think you're gonna get a lot of, a lot of people are gonna be angry.
00:02:51.000So we're gonna talk all about this and a bunch of other stuff.
00:02:53.000Joining us to discuss this is Brian Dean Wright.
00:02:59.000Yes, I am here to enjoy you all, but beyond being here, I host a podcast called the President's Daily Brief.
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00:04:26.000The chat has exploded, everyone's saying Fed.
00:04:30.000Oh yeah, we talk about a road to redemption, so is there something like that when you're no longer a Fed, or how long until you're no longer?
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00:04:39.000What's the thing that I have to do to make myself redeemed?
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00:07:07.000Let's read this first story from the Buffalo News.
00:07:10.000Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance.
00:07:15.000They're actually wondering If this dude should be charged as an accomplice.
00:07:19.000What they're basically saying is that, in this, I think it was in the Discord, that the, oh, I'm swallowing it wrong, here we go, the perpetrator shared the information with six individuals, one of which was a retired federal agent.
00:07:33.000They say, agents from the FBI are in the process of tracking down and interviewing the six people, including the retired agent, and attempting to determine if any of them should be charged as accomplices, the two sources with close knowledge of the probe told the Buffalo News.
00:07:46.000The two sources did not identify the agent by name and could not confirm what agency he worked for.
00:07:52.000I just gotta start off by saying sometimes there are racist former federal agents, sometimes people who are criminals work for different departments, or maybe this guy was in a discord and did not see any of this information and that's why he didn't report it.
00:08:06.000But the reason I want to lead with this is because there's a lot of questions around all of these.
00:08:11.000It's becoming particularly prominent to see on Twitter and other platforms where people are questioning How these things can actually happen?
00:08:18.000Like, how is it, you know, with Uvalde, a guy, two days after his 18th birthday, gets one of the best, most expensive rifles possible?
00:08:55.000Yeah, look, there are bad apples in every bunch, aren't there?
00:08:58.000And whether this guy was knowledgeable and actually ignored his own training, which is these folks, especially bureau guys, they know absolutely the signs, the flags and when and where to report those.
00:09:12.000So he should have a very special, sensitive tripwire is the point.
00:09:16.000And the fact that he didn't do what he should have is really odd and frankly disconcerting because it doesn't make sense.
00:09:24.000So I can't confirm a lot of what people are posting in these stories, but some people are saying that apparently these guys might have been in Uvalde and in Buffalo in the same discords, or that the people egging them on may have been in the same discords.
00:09:38.000If you go back all the way to Columbine and you look at the investigation into that, Even even Dylan clay blot.
00:09:48.000I think his name was I forget But even his his family said, you know, he spent a lot of time in the garage We always heard these loud noises.
00:09:56.000He was always blowing things up This is kind of similar in the sense that there are a lot of warning signs, right?
00:10:02.000Like really he's telling people just like the guy in Texas, you know told people he told that girl who he tagged on social media in LA like I'm gonna do this and I mean if that isn't a sign that there is some clear mental problem that there's this very blatant cry for help.
00:10:17.000There's almost the desire to attract attention before the fact.
00:10:22.000And I think right now the conversation as it should be is you know what else can we do?
00:10:26.000But I think what we're starting to see now is Well, actually, there really isn't a need necessarily for more laws or more sort of bureaucratic steps.
00:10:34.000It's just actually to execute what the things that we were supposed to do more thoughtfully, more consistently, whether it's at the schools, you know, making sure doors are shut for people's sake.
00:10:42.000If you're a parent or you're a loved one or you're a neighbor and you start seeing this stuff, Raise the flag.
00:10:47.000Do the things that we all know to that work, right?
00:10:50.000So I don't know in this case as we learn more that we really should have an additional layer of of laws or whatnot.
00:10:57.000It's really just making sure that we what we do and you know have on the books just execute that more thoughtfully more consistently.
00:11:03.000And I'll tell you that this issue of training that's one that I think is really odd on this with this fellow because he was so young there is no He just got this gun.
00:12:39.000And from an intel perspective, that's what you look for to stop those attacks.
00:12:43.000So I think, again, we're going to see the more investigative work that gets done, there are those little pops and flags that we're going to see retroactively be like, we should have seen that.
00:12:52.000Or somebody did see that and they didn't do something.
00:12:55.000And I think that's where we're going to start really making a difference when these horrible events happen.
00:13:03.000The next attack is going to change, but that's what we learn.
00:13:05.000Yeah, basically what you were just saying before, to add on to that, when I look at these incidents, I think one of the problems we have is that we think there's a solution.
00:13:15.000And maybe there is, I'm not saying we shouldn't try and figure something out, but I wonder
00:13:19.000if when people are saying, we need armed teachers, and I'm like, well, I think if people were
00:13:23.000armed in general, we'd probably be better off.
00:13:27.000But I don't know if that solves the problem of a deranged young person who plans this
00:13:54.000We can be like, OK, how about armed teachers?
00:13:56.000And then the kid just, the next person makes a plan to accommodate for armed teachers.
00:14:01.000I think the issue is that we've got a cultural and mental illness problem.
00:14:07.000I think that, you know, I know a lot of conservatives say mental illness problem, but you look at the medication these kids are on, and we have a fatherlessness problem.
00:14:35.000And all I'm going to say is I don't even have, it's not even a question, it's more just an observation.
00:14:39.000But Child Protective Services were showing up to people's parents, to parents' house where they refused to vaccinate their kids within hours, right?
00:14:47.000In the height of the pandemic of COVID, Child Protective Services was stepping in swiftly.
00:14:54.000So it's just kind of bizarre that the same government services that we are looking to protect children in the case that the parents are not doing their job seem to be kind of absent when this is a very clear case of a kid who is troubled, who is abusive, who is... I mean, if you're 17 and you're cutting yourself, you're cutting your face repeatedly, I mean, how much more of a red flag law do we need to say this kid is not... But boy, if he had said my parents won't get me vaccinated, holy crap, the Child Protective Services would have been there within minutes.
00:15:26.000What if he says my parents won't let me get my Adderall prescription filled?
00:15:30.000Will Child Protective Services come and take him?
00:15:33.000Will they side with him because he needs his Adderall?
00:15:35.000Or will they side with the parent because it's inconscionable to give a 14-year-old Adderall?
00:15:39.000My parents won't let me choose my pronoun.
00:16:00.000The government is not good at solving state of mind.
00:16:02.000You need like a spiritual leader or something or something like that.
00:16:05.000I think we are in a culture war for a reason.
00:16:07.000We have very serious cultural problems.
00:16:09.000Now, it's cool to see that the left and the right are unified in their disdain for the police over this one, but when you look at how the left has been approaching basically everything, I can say it feels to me the reason moderates and conservatives are kind of united.
00:16:21.000You've got post-liberal, libertarian, centrists, and conservatives all in sort of an agreement because they're actually addressing facts and issues.
00:16:45.000So I look at the deep cultural issues, and I'm sorry if I'm not going to take a liberal's word for it, because they believe Jesse Smollett.
00:16:53.000And now we have this tweet going viral from another fake account, claiming that Governor Abbott sent a rep to this guy's house, telling him that we'll pay you to stand with the governor, and if you don't, we'll criminally charge you or something.
00:17:07.000It's the most ridiculous made-up fake story, probably by a 12-year-old.
00:18:50.00019 officers waited outside and listened to children get slaughtered.
00:18:54.000I hope all of these cowards are sued into bankruptcy.
00:18:56.000They deserve prison too, but I doubt that's going to happen.
00:18:59.000Let me read for you this excerpt that Matt posted.
00:19:03.000The authorities now say that local officers first entered the school at 11.35, two minutes after the gunman, and that there were 19 officers in the hallway by 12.03 p.m., but that they did not breach the door and kill the gunman until 12.50, even as they continued to hear him firing.
00:19:22.000I just want to pause, and perhaps tug at your heartstrings, maybe a little bit.
00:19:27.000I want you to imagine being in the hallway hearing 10-year-old children being shot from a high-powered rifle and with 19 people around you armed, and I want you to imagine what must possibly be going through your head to think, I'm not gonna do anything.
00:20:06.000Look, I'll tell you from my view, having worked with law enforcement and the intelligence community, when you're going face-to-face with really awful, evil people, you just go.
00:20:18.000And you get into this line of work because you know that you're there because other people can't be or won't be.
00:20:35.000And so, you know, the extent to which this did or didn't happen, I don't know.
00:20:39.000But I'll tell you, if you had a bunch of guys in a hallway who knew that this slaughter was happening, And they put aside their oath and their commitment to those kids or their community because they were afraid for their own lives.
00:20:51.000While at some level I think most of it can understand like, hey, we want to preserve ourselves.
00:20:58.000When you sign up to be a law enforcement official or even an intelligence officer, you understand that your body at some level belongs to the mission.
00:21:23.000Most people that I've ever worked with in law enforcement, they come to the table with that orientation in their heart.
00:21:28.000That's just what they do because they know that they're going to be called on to do that.
00:21:31.000It doesn't matter who your kids are or your spouses or whatever.
00:21:33.000When you hear that moment, when you see that that person needs to be taken down, you go and you know that you can put yourself in harm's way.
00:21:51.000The Patriot is one of my favorite movies of all time.
00:21:53.000And when I watch these movies, I always see those guys in the front line with the spears or whatever, and I'm like, they know they're gonna die.
00:21:59.000And they stand there knowing they are going to die.
00:22:03.000And it's remarkable because that's something you choose to walk up to, stand there and say, this is it.
00:22:21.000I have run into danger for stupider reasons than that.
00:22:24.000When I worked for these, these media companies and the, we hear the gunshots and we hear the, the, the flashbangs go off and we take cover and we slowly tried going towards it just to film it.
00:23:31.000I'll tell you, working with a lot of guys in the military, they have told me stories, and no doubt people who are listening and watching right now probably know what I'm about to say, in terms of when you've got your brothers next to you, and if there's somebody coming at you, you get up and you fire.
00:24:32.000And so I'm going to eat that one and I'm going to own up to the poor wording of the idea.
00:24:36.000What I was thinking of when I was tweeting that was this is what happens after quote unquote defund the police.
00:24:43.000I didn't mean to say that this department was specifically defunded.
00:24:46.000I said when you demonize police When you memorialize criminals, this is what you'll get.
00:24:52.000Why would an officer, they're thinking to themselves, if I go in there, they're going to blame me.
00:24:57.000They're going to, you know, they're going to say, oh, he started shooting because you did it.
00:25:00.000They will throw, so no one is willing to take the actions anymore.
00:25:03.000Yeah, I was imagining that it from their perspective, maybe in like, fog of war, they didn't know what was going on.
00:25:09.000If there were multiple shooters, if it was a hostage situation, if ever there are three guys in there with ar 15s trained on the door, ready for cops just to walk through one by one and take them down one by one.
00:25:19.000And they're like, we're not going to add to the bloodshed.
00:25:30.000This idea though, building on what you both have just said, this idea of risk aversion, right?
00:25:34.000So if you right now are in a law enforcement capacity in this country, you know that if you step incorrectly, you are going to be under a massive microscope, irrespective of your intent.
00:25:47.000So, could there have been an issue here where some of those people, particularly collectively, are like, oh god, if we do the wrong thing here, or the cameras are going to be outside, and we're all going to get nailed for this.
00:25:56.000To what extent is there a risk aversion sort of culture developing within law enforcement because of this sort of the woke stuff, or even some degree of actually good scrutiny over what people in law enforcement have done historically.
00:26:12.000I think that that could also potentially be something that we're looking at here.
00:26:16.000Well, the last two Democrat presidents, one being the current and the one before Trump, you know, the day this happened or two days ago, they were talking about George Floyd and talking about the need for police accountability.
00:26:28.000So when you say, have we taken it too far?
00:26:48.000If this is what it means, if every time I do something, you're going to subpoena my body cam footage to have NBC edit it in a way that makes me look like the best.
00:27:02.000Yeah, if in the military, if those soldiers didn't have the authority to mow down civilians at will in the heat of the moment, we would lose every war.
00:27:38.000The correlation is that their authority to be brutal has been stripped away from them.
00:27:42.000I'm not saying that it's good for cops to be brutal, but I think that in some cases they need to feel like they can be in order to survive.
00:27:50.000I would only offer, brother, that I think that there is a good thing that we teach both in law enforcement, the intel community, and military, and that is target discernment.
00:27:59.000So understanding who's in front of you and whether or not to pull the trigger.
00:28:03.000And I think that a certain bridling of that raw human nature that just wants to throttle and kill, it's not such a bad thing actually.
00:28:11.000So some discernment around target selection is brilliant.
00:28:13.000But your point, and this is really important, in that fog of war, in that intensity, when your adrenaline is pumping, Are you going to make that perfect decision 100 times out
00:29:34.000For you to stand outside that room hearing gunshots, knowing there are children inside.
00:29:38.000Even if you don't hear gunshots, if you know children had been shot an hour ago, still can't go in.
00:29:44.000There are kids who were shot inside can't go in what do they think was gonna happen like you after he killed all the kids He wasn't a threat anymore.
00:29:50.000He's still got a gun look let him run out of bullets first.
00:29:53.000That's crazy apparently had like what like 1,600 rounds We need right now for our future generations Heroes to look up to you know we need we need a story about one of these cops what should have happened and Storming in, kicking the door in, pulling out their service weapon, and ending this psychopath, and then telling people about how he risked everything to save these kids, and that's what you want to be when you grow up.
00:30:22.000Yeah, well, the Border Patrol agent who actually did eventually kill him, right, was getting his hair cut.
00:30:27.000His wife texted him and said, there's an active shooter in the school, help, and I'm sure you can find that article, and he was in the barber shop, he didn't have his weapon on him, but his barber had a shotgun, Holy cow!
00:31:15.000That's what people dream of when they join the forces.
00:31:17.000Good people dream of having that moment when they can jump up, grab the nearest available weapon and make it happen.
00:31:24.000Well, I wanted to say before we move to this really interesting sounding story, I think that this might be the result of what happened during the pandemic when they were locking down, they were enforcing all these unconstitutional rules and the good cops were like, I'm out!
00:32:07.000It's just a dad who said, I've got to save my family, you know?
00:32:13.000Again, what I would love to know is about this man's life.
00:32:17.000What drove him in his life to become who he became?
00:32:21.000In his childhood, in his young adulthood, what made him decide that in that moment, sitting in that barber chair, that he has this beautiful family, That he was going to either try to save them or he would know that as he was trying to save his family he could be shot and killed and he would be gone and his family would have to survive without him.
00:32:38.000But he still got himself out of that chair grabbed that shotgun and ran.
00:32:41.000There's something interesting and beautiful about his soul that I would love to understand because that's exactly what we need to uplift and celebrate.
00:32:47.000Yeah, it's actually a good origin story for his kid to be like if you were doing a movie about it about someone hero or like like a marine or a law enforcement guy did something great and it's like his origin was that his dad risked his life and that was the message he got and that's why he went on to become a hero.
00:34:08.000Whoever the president invites to his balcony is always a very important, very symbolic.
00:34:13.000I will bet right now that Biden will take someone from Buffalo To highlight the racism angle, because that is what we do in our American politics.
00:34:23.000He will not take a hero and say, this is a guy who risked everything.
00:34:26.000He will take a victim and say, and it's because of this country that victimhood like this exists, because you're all bad.
00:36:40.000The first was my brother still is an alcoholic but needed to be in rehab so I left to go make a bunch of money to get him into rehab.
00:36:48.000So thank God he's sober and doing better now.
00:36:52.000The other was I saw a lot of people who no longer were there for the right reasons.
00:36:59.000I can't talk a lot about the programs that I was involved in, but the upshot is that they were lying to the White House and the NSC and the oversight committees about how successful we were being at certain things.
00:37:10.000And I was like, you guys, this is incorrect.
00:37:13.000And they basically just told me to go F myself, right?
00:37:17.000So after a while, you were baptized as I was, born and raised in rural America.
00:37:23.000My family loved the country and I have cousins who joined the military and all that.
00:37:27.000So joining the CIA was an extension of that.
00:37:29.000So you would have thought, as I did for many years, that everybody would want to remain
00:37:34.000committed to the mission, to the country.
00:37:37.000But then I got to this level where I'm involved in various programs and I'm watching them
00:37:41.000lie to our elected leaders, which I don't know in hindsight how naive of me not to think
00:37:46.000that some of my colleagues would lie to protect themselves so they could get promoted, right?
00:37:51.000But it was so disheartening that I was like, I'm not going to spend another 20 years of my life around these people who aren't here for the right reason.
00:38:01.000So do you think, does the CIA have a little bit of an Enron problem, where the numbers are inflated, but everyone likes the cons of the result, and so they're like, yeah, this is great.
00:38:36.000So everybody waits two years and then leaves.
00:38:38.000So everybody kicks this corrupt can down the road.
00:38:41.000And so that's what's happening inside the agency to this day.
00:38:44.000So, term limits for administrative state.
00:38:46.000This has been brought up to me multiple times, and I'm a fan.
00:38:50.000What you're saying absolutely solidifies my belief in that.
00:38:52.000If they're waiting two years to get into promotion, and they'll just say whatever they need to say, I mean, that's the deepest, darkest crap.
00:39:01.000So I don't know what the solution is other than you've got to have more sunshine into those kinds of systems and you have to have people you know raise their hand to the inspectors general etc to say hey there's an issue.
00:39:13.000But ultimately this is about the House and the Senate the oversight committees and their staffs knowing what questions to ask and holding the people in power to account.
00:39:24.000That's what has failed over these past number of years with all these FBI agents who did this ridiculous crap in Michigan, you know, setting those guys up.
00:39:32.000We saw it with guys like John Brennan, who knew damn well that there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
00:39:38.000But he left the agency and he went around the country for two years saying it was all but true, if not absolutely true.
00:39:47.000Clapper with when they're talking about the PRISM spying network that they had uncovered and asked if they'd been spying on American people.
00:39:53.000His response was not wittingly, knowing full well, yes, you have been spying on the American people.
00:39:57.000They built a big station, like a big building in the middle of nowhere to do it.
00:40:18.000And they asked him, Aldrich, why'd you do it?
00:40:21.000And he said, because I know what's best for this country and its national security, and I'm going to act on it.
00:40:28.000So the Deep State are these people who have profound powers who decide that based on their own politics, their own beliefs, they're going to do whatever the hell they want to do, irrespective of the law, and then they get away with it.
00:40:40.000So it was like a corporate governance basically that got built in 1946?
00:40:48.000Through the Second World War, there was something called the OSS, that was kind of the External Intelligence Service, and then obviously the FBI preceded that.
00:40:55.000But yeah, it was this... There was a need for foreign intelligence to understand what our adversaries are doing and to get ahead of that, right?
00:41:21.000And there are different people who answer that in different ways.
00:41:23.000Maybe you don't do it at all because it's just too risky.
00:41:25.000So you get rid of the CIA altogether, or you manage it better.
00:41:28.000I always wonder if the deep state is the, and correct me, the organization itself is so big and so well entrenched that by the time there's a new president and they switch out John Podesta for, who's the guy now?
00:41:46.000Bill Byrne, right? I mean by the time you swap these people out, it doesn't
00:41:52.000matter who's at the top. Like I'm doing my thing and you know he doesn't know I
00:41:57.000exist. I know who he is just to stay out of his hair. Is there some truth to the
00:42:01.000fact that the apparatus is so big that the people at the top they rotate and no
00:42:05.000That's absolutely true, and this gets back to the point that was made about whether it be term limits, even in your bureaucracy, your mid-level guys, or it's just a size issue.
00:42:15.000You've just expanded the state in the past 20, 30 years to such an extent that there are so many people who have so many entrenched interests that A, it slows down your mission, But then, B, you get more and more people who can do more and more damage to your country because you give them such expansive powers.
00:42:29.000So I'm a big fan of actually reducing, not just the size of government, generally speaking, which it's true, but specifically the deep states at work, the agency, the FBI.
00:42:39.000I certainly think the administrative state, the deep state, whatever you want to call it, is a serious problem.
00:42:44.000But what about the argument, and I'm not saying it's a good argument, I'm just saying this is the argument made, that if we curtail our powers internationally and domestically, China will take over and then we'll be living in a unipolar Chinese superpower, you know, planet.
00:43:03.000The CIA and the FBI are not going to stop China.
00:43:05.000The FBI starts at least 10 cases every day against China right now.
00:43:10.000We have over 100,000 Chinese nationals who come into this country every year.
00:43:14.000So the issue isn't... it is like a dam that is bursting.
00:43:18.000We're trying to put our finger in it to stop it.
00:43:21.000You have good leadership within the White House and the House and the Senate that understands that China is a threat and starts treating them as such.
00:43:52.000I mean, he basically said, look, you guys start buying more of our stuff because you're stealing our stuff, right?
00:43:56.000So that's the thing that right now people are forgetting.
00:43:59.000Biden is actually thinking about getting rid of the tariffs.
00:44:02.000But Trump actually said, look, no, the tariffs ultimately are about saying to the Chinese, you still steal billions of dollars of our economy, our intellectual property every year.
00:44:12.000So you're going to start paying more to these tariffs or it's a penalty.
00:44:21.000So my question, I suppose, was if Trump was working towards ending this expanding dominance of the Chinese economy and taking of our infrastructure, our manufacturing, things like that, I should say, our economic infrastructure, and the spies weren't able to stop it, but they were able to stop Trump, they've effectively propped up China.
00:44:40.000They've secured our doom on the global stage.
00:45:36.000We used to produce our own pharmaceuticals.
00:45:37.000We used to produce our own fertilizer.
00:45:39.000The whole Gulf Coast was where we got them.
00:45:41.000Why did we ever move these industries overseas?
00:45:43.000And show me one person in the Senate and there are lots of Pro-America, I hate China, I hate Russia's senators, and they're all on the right.
00:45:50.000Show me one of them who is making a concerted effort to say, I don't care what the global market says, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, you know, fertilizer, all of you have to come back to America because there is a geopolitical and national security risk to having these critical... You want to get your olive oil from Italy?
00:48:08.000So, particularly without going into the history of the FBI, he absolutely decided the political winners and losers of this country.
00:48:15.000And that's really what happened during the 2020 and 2016 election, particularly 2016 with Hillary Clinton and Trump, right?
00:48:23.000So, after Trump was elected, you had a bunch of former CIA and FBI officials, James Comey, leaking classified information to force the appointment of a special counsel.
00:48:34.000This is one man, an FBI director, who decided that Trump should not be in power, not because there was actual data or information that said we had a problem, but he just didn't like the guy.
00:48:43.000So he goes to the New York Times, leaks it in order to get Bob Mueller.
00:49:20.000The agent, Sussman himself, who lied on the FISA warrant to get the FISA, that's the same guy.
00:49:29.000It is the same level of corruption and negligence and evil and dereliction of duty On a different level, but it's the same idea as the 19 guys in Texas who stood in the hallway and listened to the gunshots.
00:49:42.000This is exactly what your mission is, and you're like, yeah, but I'm not gonna do it.
00:49:46.000Like, you know this is a lie, yeah, but I'm not gonna do it.
00:49:49.000Like, you know what your job is right now, and the oath you have taken, yeah, I'm gonna do the opposite.
00:49:55.000You know, I'll tell you one piece that in the last couple weeks I did on my podcast and talked a lot about that doesn't, I think, get enough attention.
00:50:04.000107,000 people last year died because of fentanyl or drug overdoses.
00:50:07.000Most of them of the 107,000 were fentanyl.
00:50:10.000The point is most of that comes from China.
00:50:12.000Those are precursor chemicals that come from China.
00:50:14.000China knows these companies that are producing it.
00:50:17.000They know that they in turn are dealing with Mexican cartel members.
00:50:21.000And it's then all feeding into this country.
00:50:24.000China is killing a hundred plus thousand of our people.
00:50:28.000Why are we not like outraged that the communist government in Beijing is doing this in concert and collaboration with Mexican cartels?
00:50:36.000It is just, it should be getting far more attention certainly than even Ukraine.
00:50:40.000I mean as much as that Absolutely runs the risk of World War III, and I think we can talk about that as well, because I think we're getting there.
00:50:47.000That issue of dead Americans in this country, especially in rural America, is so real and so painful for me personally, but for so many others, it deserves more of our attention.
00:50:57.000And that's why, because it's rural America, and we were saying to this before the show started, if the overdoses from fentanyl and Chinese opioids were Upper East Side collegiates, this would have been stopped by now.
00:51:11.000But it's mostly rural, mostly poor, mostly hillbilly whites, and we don't really care.
00:52:02.000And then they end up dead because there's just such tiny amounts of that that they end up killing.
00:52:06.000I find it to be an extension of the opium wars.
00:52:08.000Apparently, this is when the British and other Europeans were shuffling opium into China.
00:52:13.000They were basically colonizing China in the mid-1800s, and they were like, we're going to wreck their population, make them incapable of fighting, and then we're going to conquer it and take it as another colony, like what they did with India.
00:52:22.000But the Chinese eventually fought back and pushed them back to the coast and off and into Taiwan or Hong Kong or these islands.
00:53:01.000This stuff they're working, colluding with the CCP?
00:53:06.000I want to talk to you guys about guns.
00:53:07.000Because I had this tweet this Friday, so I want to talk about my tweet.
00:53:11.000I tweeted, the government should provide all 16-year-olds with a free AR-15 after they pass firearm ed in high school.
00:53:18.000If you haven't, then once you turn 18, you should be entitled to one free AR-15 from the government after passing a general knowledge test at the Department of Gun Services.
00:53:26.000Demand universal gun ownership now, call your member of Congress, and demand they pass this legislation.
00:53:31.000A lot of people said that I was trolling.
00:54:36.000I think the only problem I have with this tweet is that I don't think getting your gun from the government is the best thing because if they really want to conquer you, they'll make the gun have a defect and then give it to you.
00:54:45.000And they know how to exploit the defect in the weapon.
00:54:46.000I'm not saying the only place to get the gun.
00:55:55.000So 16-year-olds are going to make law or vote for laws, but I can't fully participate in that law for five more years.
00:56:01.000So if we're going to have a real equitable society, to use their words, then if you have the right to vote on something, you must have the ability to have full participation in that.
00:56:49.000This is why when they try and lower the age of adulthood in a variety of ways, I'm kind of like, what are you really doing?
00:56:57.000When you look at what's going on in these schools, you know, the grooming, and I see these memes from these liberals on Facebook where they desperately try to conflate the grooming argument with banning books, and it's just like, I see this meme and it's, you know, they want to ban books, and there's like an old man with a mug hat yelling, and I was like, I think they were concerned about the graphic depictions of adult activities in those books that were available to children.
00:57:19.000If you're defending that, and you're doing it out of ignorance, or it's willful, then either way, the outcome is the same.
00:57:28.000When you come out and then say, kids should be, you know, participating in governance at 16, it's like, you're creating a threshold for which we reduce the age of adulthood.
00:57:39.000Look, I don't know if 18, you know, where that number comes about, because it certainly 200 years ago was, you know, you were 13, you were considered a man or whatever.
00:58:33.000He said, I'll give you a dollar if you ever see the end of this gun while I'm holding it.
00:58:36.000And of course, he'd never gave us a dollar because we never saw it and we understood how important that was.
00:58:40.000But somebody on Twitter earlier today, I forget who it was, I'm sorry, tweeted, how many of these mass shooters were young boys raised by fathers who taught them how to hunt?
00:58:55.000So that's why when I, days after these shootings, and we hear Congress stand up and say we need to pass this law or that law, this is the stuff, this is the conversation that we need to have as a country.
00:59:05.000Understanding who these individuals are, their families, the dynamics, the health, you know, mental health, all that.
00:59:10.000Because you are so right, and whoever tweeted that, bravo to them, because that's spot on.
00:59:15.000Yeah, and I remember thinking, I actually had this conversation before I left the healthcare field with one of my co-workers, and his dad wasn't really involved in his life, and there was a shooting, and I was like, this is terrible, but man, I think one of the things that all of these shooters have in common is that they don't have dads, and he's like, What?
00:59:38.000It's a dad to sit down with you and say, son, you need to understand responsibility and what it means to have obligations to your community.
00:59:47.000And it's also the moment when the dad bops you on the head and said, that was dumb.
01:00:13.000Or what about the age that we should give children?
01:00:16.000I think this conversation is just as important, if not more important.
01:00:20.000But you hear also oftentimes from the left, they will say, oh, here the right, you know, here the conservatives go again talking about family issues and about, you know, knock it off.
01:01:21.000What I love about Libs of TikTok, which is why they got banned from Twitter, is I just wish you would find some liberal teachers who are so enthusiastic about math and science as they are about their genitals.
01:01:34.000These teachers make non-stop videos about telling their kids, and I told my girl, and it's like, Do you ever talk to them about reading, right?
01:01:42.000So if you look at, again, all these millions of statistics of five generations, you can't just look at the shootings and say, wow, that's an anomaly.
01:02:05.000I mean, we have hardcore drag shows in children's second grade classroom, and we're supposed to pretend this is normal?
01:02:15.000Quite frankly, and this is gonna sound hard, and I don't want it to come out the wrong way, I'm surprised there are not more school shootings, because our kids are so messed up in the head.
01:02:25.000They're told boys can get pregnant, they have tampons in their bathroom, they play on girls' teams.
01:02:32.000These kids are so confused with everything.
01:02:36.000And then their teachers don't even want to talk about English and math.
01:02:38.000They want to talk about their dating lives.
01:02:40.000And in case anyone out there starts to text, you do know I am married to a guy, right?
01:04:39.000And if you're getting made fun of, welcome to the friggin' club, you know?
01:04:43.000It's like, I remember talking to a Mormon when Book of Mormon came out and he was saying that he found a very offensive Book of Mormon.
01:04:48.000I was like, as a Catholic, let me tell you, it's about damn time someone else's religion was made fun of by mainstream Culture so welcome to welcome to being like everyone else.
01:04:56.000Yeah, you know, that's what that's what he said Ricky Gervais said he thinks trans people should have rights and be treated like everyone else and that's why he's gonna make fun of boom That he's like, that's what true equality is it is it means if everybody is equal then everybody is fair game for for being my I talked about this a little bit on Pop Culture Crisis a couple days ago.
01:05:16.000ago, we were talking like if someone like if a soldier loses a limb in the
01:05:19.000military in the war or something, you don't like haha, you losing your you
01:05:24.000like you don't smash people for what they what they don't have. But it may
01:05:37.000But at the same, I don't like like, make be making other people the butt of my jokes.
01:05:41.000I kind of stopped doing that just in general.
01:05:43.000Although, you know, one of the things if I can, so I have hung out with a ton of guys in the military who have lost arms and legs because of Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:05:52.000And I've also hung out with tons of guys who are in the military and they're gay, or we have lesbian service members, whatever it may be.
01:05:59.000The way that you know that you are in with that group is when somebody makes a crack at you.
01:06:05.000I was with about 15 guys at a black rifle coffee company.
01:06:09.000Most of those guys that they hire have lost limbs.
01:06:12.000They, uh, some of those guys, when they walk in, you know, they'll be like, their legs, their arms are really loud and noisy because they're half fucking robots, right?
01:06:20.000The point is they will make fun of each other about like, Hey, quiet down, man.
01:06:58.000That's why I have fewer females friends, I think.
01:07:00.000But I wanted to say, too, that it does feel great when somebody makes a joke with you about something that maybe you can't even change, that you're just like, oh yeah, that's actually pretty funny.
01:07:08.000And I feel now like I'm part of your in-group.
01:07:36.000They cut all that out and they just take the sentence and they're like... But I just love how all the hit pieces against Ricky Gervais are literally what he was complaining about.
01:07:45.000He was actually talking about the woke cancel culture and how they're demanding special privileges because they don't want to be made fun of, but he was like, but everybody is equal so we're all gonna be made fun of.
01:07:55.000And then they write articles saying he's a transphobe and he's violent and he's dangerous.
01:08:00.000Yeah, but I mean the alphabet soup, which is really run by just communists, like all minority groups in activism right now, you can't have it both ways.
01:08:11.000You can't say this immutable characteristic makes us so special and so unique and so different that we have to celebrate it, but we also want to get treated like everybody else.
01:08:21.000If you want to get treated like everybody else, that stinks.
01:08:24.000Because when you're treated like everybody else, you're standing in line.
01:08:27.000We all want Emerald Club status at the airport so that we can bypass all the lines and we can have a fancy drink.
01:08:46.000Flip your Ukraine flag and put up your rainbow flag.
01:08:51.000Just unfollow all the brands and follow the Saudi Arabian ones and you're good.
01:08:58.000You said something earlier, Daniel, I thought was really interesting where you said you were almost surprised that there weren't more shootings.
01:09:03.000I don't want to take away too much from where we were headed with the jokes and Ricky Gervais, because I love this conversation, but I've had that same thought.
01:09:10.000But then I'm thinking about people driving on the road and how so many people drive past each other all day on the road over and over, these hundreds of miles, 140 miles difference, 70-70.
01:09:22.000And they don't hit each other because they don't want to.
01:09:24.000And most people don't want to hurt each other.
01:09:39.000So, uh, Northern Ireland, for instance.
01:09:42.000I remember I was getting a tour of Northern Ireland and there's like a memorial for when, you know, a group of guys went and shot and killed another group of guys.
01:09:48.000And, you know, on one side of town they're like, these guys were heroes, and other side of town like, these guys were villains.
01:09:54.000And it's just like there was no reason to do that.
01:10:00.000You can look at the literal tribalism with, you know, what we've seen in Africa where one day one tribe goes out and starts beating and killing the other tribe for almost no reason.
01:10:10.000When you start to see some of these tweets where there was one guy who said, I wish all Republicans get cancer and die excruciating deaths.
01:11:20.000You know, we are falling into these rival camps, but if our leaders don't start.
01:11:24.000I want to pull up this tweet thread from Zach Seward, who is the Editor-in-Chief at Quartz, who posted one of the most deceptive, falsely framed articles I've ever seen.
01:11:38.000It's a really good example of the problems we face.
01:11:40.000Before I start this by criticizing the mainstream media for lying to you, I want to point out that there absolutely are conspiracy theorists and lunatics and cult members on the right.
01:11:48.000They exist, but they're not VC-funded.
01:11:51.000They don't have investors who are giving them all of this money.
01:11:53.000There are some small right-wing outlets, conservative outlets, that do get funding, but they're not nearly as bad as this.
01:12:12.000Because while in the piece it does mention you have to go through a background check and all that stuff, the way they frame it is incredible.
01:13:12.000And if in fact that's the idea, then the question becomes, particularly from that outlet that we know as a lefty outlet, Why do they want to remove all guns?
01:13:20.000Is it really just about trying to save the kids in school?
01:14:29.000The shocking thing about Quartz is that there are two dozen outlets just like that, right?
01:14:35.000Between Quartz and Axios and Mother Jones and you just go on and on and on and they're all the same and they're all funded by basically the same venture capitalist Lefty ideologue billionaires.
01:14:53.000Kind of like the one thought is who the leaker is of the Supreme Court document when went through of who's married to who and who was a bridesmaid at who's wedding.
01:15:13.000The Beacon, The Daily Caller, they're great publications, but they're paltry in number compared to the left.
01:15:19.000And you look at the funding that goes into these left-wing Democrat publications, hundreds of millions of dollars, and then you look at right-wing publications who sometimes get some funding, but not really.
01:15:32.000What was that CIA program where they were working directly with media?
01:15:57.000They actually put the listening device in the ear, and then they used the antenna, and they built another part in the back, kind of in between the shoulders.
01:16:04.000And what they did is they took the cat, because, hey, it's just a cat.
01:16:51.000We talked about this with Luke Radkowski of We Are Change.
01:16:54.000There was something that happened in the 70s where a senator, I think, came out and said the CIA is working directly at these news outlets.
01:17:02.000Well, so there was a huge dust-up throughout the 70s where basically the House and the Senate were like, you guys are doing way too much in the CIA.
01:17:12.000Frank Church was one of the Senators, he's from Idaho.
01:17:14.000And there were others, they looked into this, and the CIA director, they called him on the carpet, both overtly, that is to say out in public, and behind the curtain.
01:17:21.000And like you guys are killing way too many people without authorization and y'all a bunch of cowboys.
01:17:27.000And some of these programs that you're talking about were part of that conversation that we need to rein you in because we've given you too much power and y'all are abusing it.
01:17:37.000And it's not just you the CIA, it's the president and all the president's men as it were.
01:17:41.000Who are like, hey, with the military we can't do certain things, but we can use this tool at the CIA and we can have them go kill various people or foment uprisings, etc.
01:17:56.000If you give people power, some percentage of them are going to abuse it.
01:17:59.000But if you give them a whole bunch of power, it is game on in terms of your country.
01:18:03.000And that's really, for me, in the past 5-10 years, has completely changed my understanding of giving so much power to the CIA or NSA or FBI.
01:18:42.000I don't want to see these people lose their gigs, and the problem is when they're the ones that control the assassination attempts, anyone that's going to try and unseat them from their gig is a real threat.
01:18:51.000It has a big like, yo, you don't want to anger people that control the button, like, basically, but...
01:18:58.000If it is, I mean, you think we'd be better off without these organizations?
01:19:03.000I think of the Fed in Michigan who's doing a covert op and he's on a chat room with some guy who's like, I hate Governor Whitman.
01:19:13.000Let's plan the kidnapping, you know, and then they're having meetings.
01:19:16.000And then all of a sudden, at no point we were like, wait a second, we're actually going to plan to kidnap the governor just to trap this one.
01:19:23.000Aren't we taking this a little too far, guys?
01:19:27.000They're ordering vans, and someone's going to Hertz, and they're picking up rope, and it's like, I think we're getting a little too excited about kidnapping the governor, guys.
01:19:35.000I know we want to catch this bad dude, but this is getting a little crazy.
01:19:39.000So at what point does, yeah, when you said they need to be reined in, I think that's an example of reining it in.
01:19:44.000And it kind of strikes me bizarre that no one in the hierarchy was like, I think you guys need to slow down the kidnapping plan.
01:20:01.000Or has it been around longer than that?
01:20:02.000It's been around longer, but yeah, look, here's where I come down on this.
01:20:06.000I think it's absolutely reasonable based on what we have seen over the past 10 plus years, certainly since the 2016 election.
01:20:12.000It's reasonable for people to say the intelligence community has grown too big and too powerful, just like it did back in the 1970s.
01:20:21.000We need to remove some of the authorities.
01:20:23.000We need to have more oversight because we recognize that there might be a need for a collection of foreign intelligence to understand what our adversaries are doing.
01:20:38.000But it's gotten too big and there's too much power and we need to pull that back in.
01:20:41.000And that happens after we have the House and the Senate.
01:20:44.000If they actually functioned, they would do the investigations into that to figure out how bad the problem is.
01:20:49.000And then we figure out how deeply we have to rein it in.
01:20:52.000Absent a functional Congress, That's when the American media is supposed to do the work, do that investigative work to expose some of this stuff.
01:21:01.000But when you have a media that is so in the tank for folks, particularly on the left, what's their incentive to actually get to the bottom of some of these abuses?
01:21:09.000There's no outside function right now that's keeping power in check.
01:22:38.000I don't know if we can play the full thing, but we'll play Ghosts in the Machine, a controversial psychological operations advertisement from the army.
01:22:47.000If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.
01:22:50.000Pretend to be weak that he may grow arrogant.
01:26:50.000I was looking to work with our group of folks who go out into the world and hire NOCs.
01:26:55.000Those are people that we would never officially recognize as intelligence officers.
01:26:59.000And I asked our NOC hiring officials, What do you look for?
01:27:05.000And she said to me, we don't look for the F students, obviously, or the D students, as it were, sort of A, B, C, D, F, the grades, right?
01:27:13.000D or F students, those kids don't work.
01:27:16.000But we can't hire A and B because they're too good and smart and they don't want to put up with the bureaucratic baloney that this place has.
01:27:25.000So what we have to try to find is like a good solid C plus student.
01:27:45.000So they want people that are not so adherent to authority that they'll get A's and B's, because that's what they're told to do, but they're not so stupid that they can't follow along, that they're willing to join, but they're also willing to betray.
01:27:57.000A and B students have ambition, but they want efficiency.
01:28:05.000You can go out into the private sector and earn a ton of money.
01:28:07.000You can go be successful as your A and B students.
01:28:09.000But your C plus student, they tend to struggle more in life.
01:28:11.000So you need somebody that isn't quite Tip of the spear, as that video just said.
01:28:16.000But that shouldn't be true, by the way.
01:28:18.000We should want A students and B students working for our government because we want efficiency, we want smarts, we want the best we can get.
01:28:28.000So I don't buy that video because of that, having been on the inside.
01:28:32.000But I understand why people might think that that's true.
01:28:35.000The only other quick caveat I'd add is there is one part of me that loves that because when I was out as an officer, I was meeting with a source, and he was like, why aren't you taking notes?
01:28:46.000I'm telling you all these great and amazing things.
01:29:12.000So it's this former CIA contractor and he's always trying to, he's basically a contractor now for private individuals, trying to help the little guy.
01:29:21.000And he explains to you how he does things and why.
01:29:55.000It sits in New York and in DC in terms of those media operating rooms deciding what the editorial line for the day is going to be, what the American people need to think about.
01:30:04.000It's the people who write the headlines, knowing that 70-80% of people don't read the story, just the headline.
01:30:10.000If you want to shape an agenda, if you want to push people into believing something, that's where you spend your time and your money.
01:30:16.000It ain't in some whiz-bang CIA operation that's propaganda.
01:30:20.000Which, by the way, that was good back in the 50s and it's not so great now.
01:30:23.000But anyway, that's where your power is.
01:30:25.000One thing about the video, if we could ask your huge followers, I feel like I'm pretty well traveled in this country.
01:30:30.000I can't think of what city has bright orange subway cars.
01:30:36.000All of your followers right now, if you could be like, oh yeah that's the subway in They showed it twice, and I'm like, I know America pretty well.
01:31:27.000But, like, I want to really make the world better and create new technologies like running fresh water, solar-powered heat, you know, things that will make us more resilient as a species, make people laugh, make people relax.
01:31:40.000Like, even the head of the CIA and Kim Jong-un want to laugh.
01:31:45.000and relax a little bit, but I've also got to make sure people have enough food.
01:31:48.000I don't know if there's people that actually want to starve the population so that it grows slower.
01:31:54.000You hear about Bill Gates talking about reducing the growth rate, and I don't know if there are
01:31:59.000people that really want that, which seems crazy, but other than that, like, do you think we could
01:32:09.000Look, are there people in this world who have a particular agenda for an environmental issue or the global population or whatever, and then they use their money to affect that outcome?
01:32:20.000I mean, we have foundations in this country, all over the world in fact, but the United States have a massive number of private family foundations that chase after whatever their own family's goals might be.
01:32:31.000It wouldn't be a wild assumption to hear or an argument to hear somebody say, this family or this person really gets excited about X issue.
01:32:40.000Now they're really going to change all of our lives just because they and their big money want to change it.
01:32:44.000So absolutely there's precedent for that.
01:32:48.000The second piece though, tell me again, it's more of like... I don't know, I'm asking if it's possible.
01:32:54.000I mean, I know you don't have the answer, but do you think it's possible to fix this planet, bring people together, like all of us together?
01:32:59.000Yeah, and I'll tell you what... Real quick, sorry to interrupt.
01:33:03.000Watching the ad, there's an advertisement, and it looks to be in German.
01:33:42.000But I will tell you, in terms of the media stuff, you know, how can we shape, how can we encourage, how do we grow as a people, as a country, as a species, whatever it might be.
01:33:51.000No joke, and I'm not saying it because I'm here, it's this.
01:33:54.000These kinds of shows are where it happens because what you do is you encourage people to think To think for themselves and to think critically.
01:34:02.000You give them information and you say, hey look, here's my bias.
01:34:22.000And if people trust us, Not just because, oh, they seem smart, but they know that day in and day out when we talk to them, we say, here's the data, you decide.
01:34:33.000Here's why it's important to you, but it's your call.
01:34:36.000Then people are less like, hmm, what are you trying to do to me?
01:35:58.000But anyway, your sentiment of how do we find Solutions to the problems that will make the world a better, more peaceful, more healthy, more prosperous place at the individual level.
01:36:10.000You looked at those yahoos in Davos and all they did was talk about what can we do to make them obey?
01:36:16.000How do we cut countries off the global monetary and banking system if they won't vaccinate their people and everyone collapse?
01:36:24.000And John Kerry, how do we punish people that will not accept climate change and everyone collapse?
01:36:28.000That whole thing should have been... We should have built a wall around Davos and forced them to live there and given them some primitive weapons and hunger games.
01:39:29.000And what we'll do, too, is we'll make it so that when you add the word, it doesn't actually put the word in the article until the article's done.
01:39:34.000Because then no one wrote the article.
01:39:37.000They might be able to argue that, like, well, there were 700 words already there, and you put that word in there, so it completed a statement.
01:39:54.000Ashton de Rojas says, can you let people know Schumer is planning a Senate vote on two gun control bills day after Memorial Day, and to call your state reps and senators to oppose these bills?
01:40:04.000Better yet, call your state reps and senators and demand they repeal the NFA.
01:40:35.000Beckmeister says, New York Shooter's Discord username, Discord ID, about me, you can't begin to imagine how we get them to do the things they do.
01:40:44.000I mean, but is that, that could be anybody.
01:40:46.000This could be a random crazy person who's trying to egg on people, you know what I mean?
01:44:37.000They do, based upon when we would notice, when you live with them and you have them on the farm, and you know as well, you know what they're saying.
01:44:45.000When there was a fox nearby, it was a different sound.
01:44:48.000When it was like, run and take cover, he would make some sound.
01:45:21.000There's like 10 politicians who are actually trying stuff.
01:45:25.000Alright, Minion715 says, Tim, check out New York response with BillS9407 making the purchase or possession of all types of body armor a felony if it is passed.
01:46:24.000We did have some, I don't know if they went up, they might be in Chicago, and it's a quote from Michael Malice that says, the quote was something like, the corporate press gives you the narrative, TimCast.com, or TimCast gives you the news.
01:46:38.000I think that's on some of the billboards, so I did see that we have the one in Times Square, but That was more of like a statement, like, we're here, get used to it.
01:46:47.000And we bought a bunch in Chicago because that was actually, like, the biggest regional demographic for the show is Chicago.
01:46:53.000So I was like, we'll put them in Chicago because apparently people in Chicago like the show.
01:47:09.000I think we need to stop A lot of people, all of these channels, all of these independent creators, need to stop looking at the establishment mainstream media as if they are some big monolith, and start recognizing that we've beached the shore, we are storming, we've breached the walls, we are running across the beaches of Normandy figuratively, and they're firing all of these smears and hit pieces desperate to stop us.
01:47:35.000But all we gotta do, is as we get big enough, is just start taking over those spaces.
01:47:39.000So, I don't know, Super Bowl ads or something?
01:47:42.000Yeah, and you'll realize when you start doing it, too, that the amount of cover you run as an independent journalist or an independent creator is so much more than a guy on a beach head storming against machine guns.
01:47:52.000One guy doesn't provide a lot of cover for everyone else, but when you're a loud voice in the media, man, is that a distraction for the people that aren't comfortable with it.
01:48:00.000What's funny is the hubris of the mainstream folks in their position, like, you know, Anderson Cooper.
01:48:05.000There are more people watching Bobby Flay make a frittata than are watching him.
01:48:09.000But if he would tell you he's the most important voice, people have 40,000, 50,000 people watching him a night.
01:48:15.000So it's kind of funny to see that they still think they're these powerful voices and they're really we shouldn't give them any any props because they're they're kind of obsolete.
01:48:24.000All right, Junkie Bok says, cops are now watered down. The poke mandate made many good ones leave.
01:48:29.000The defund programs and protests made the good ones leave.
01:48:32.000Effective cops also typically have past military training and there are few remaining. This
01:48:36.000was the point I was trying to make on Twitter, which was probably not well framed. But
01:48:40.000when you create a culture around the defund movement, and you demonize cops and you
01:48:48.000And then you get, there's two kinds of cops.
01:48:52.000There's the cop who's like, I am doing this job, not because of the rewards I'm doing, because I must, I must be the person to run in to save those lives.
01:49:00.000And then you get other cops who are like, I don't know, man, I just need a job.
01:49:03.000And what we have now are the, I don't know, man, I just need a job.
01:49:06.000I'm not going to run in there and get shot at you nuts.
01:49:15.000Alright, Drake Tilson says, I'm an FFL.
01:49:17.000Many FFLs offer payment plans through their credit card processing companies so they can close sales with people who otherwise don't have the cash or credit to pay for the firearm.
01:49:28.000I mean, financing's financing, you know?
01:49:31.000Flinch Sun says, In reference to your earlier segment, the reason that feds are referred to as glowies is from Terry A. Davis and his less than charitable term he uses for the CIA and how they glow in the dark.
01:54:43.000So I was like, all right, well, you know, if we're gonna buy ads and actually buy ads, we'll do it in Chicago.
01:54:48.000It's a big city, and the people there have similar views.
01:54:51.000It's a big liberal city for sure, but if you don't like Democrats and you're not a conservative in Chicago, you're basically like me, you know?
01:54:59.000If you guys see billboards, get a nice high-res shot of it and tweet it at me.
01:55:02.000Tag me in it and I'll see if we can circulate it on the show.
01:55:04.000Give me the address of where it is, the location.
01:55:09.000JoshOhMyGosh says, Tim, if the government subsidizes guns using tax money, it may turn out like the universities raising prices to get more money.
01:55:50.000I also think it's funny that the student debt forgiveness people are like 13% of the population and they want all of the poor people to subsidize their, their degrees.
01:56:38.000Second, Fleet Actual says, Tim, if they aren't old enough to be armed, they aren't old enough to vote, force them to choose one or the other.
01:56:49.000They'd be like, OK, let's get 16-year-olds to vote.
01:56:51.000There was a bunch of students protested gun violence, and they were like, just because we're students doesn't mean we aren't allowed to protest.
01:57:01.000And I'm like, no, your lack of experience and knowledge on these issues is why you shouldn't protest.
01:57:06.000But I don't really mean you shouldn't protest.
01:57:08.000I'm just saying, like, I don't think you, as a gun control person, regardless of age, has done any research on this.
01:59:23.000We have the chicken parties at chickencitylive.com so you can give five bucks and then treats come down and then once a hundred dollars hits a chicken party happens and so when we were launching Pop Culture Crisis Live I said we need to do the same thing You know, like, we need to have it so that when people superchat, something happens, and then when you reach a number, something happens.
01:59:41.000So now, during pop culture crisis, the hosts, you know, will be talking, and if you superchat, a money gun shoots 20s into the air.
02:00:06.000Odysseus Horse says, Tim, if you're serious about the absolute nature of 2A, you should get Brandon Herrera, the AK guy, out to tell you about the ATF form to register your nuclear device.
02:01:17.000Matt Reese says, the left are saying mental health isn't an issue, while you see a clear trend to normalize mental illness, as if madness should be the new baseline.
02:01:27.000This is the hill I'm on right now, is the pharmaceutical industry is the root problem of this, because it's just too much of a coincidence not to be.
02:05:31.000It's the most powerful thing you can do.
02:05:33.000You know, we started doing this marketing thing recently, but everything for this show has been organic growth, which is just totally nuts.
02:05:40.000And I talked to some marketing people who couldn't believe it.
02:06:08.000Daniel Turner, power of the future, powerofthefuture.com, and also always a shout out to Bristol Farm, Virginia on Instagram, our fantastic sheep farm.
02:06:19.000I sent you a picture of the sheep, but I don't know if you can pull it up in time.
02:06:22.000I can't pull it up in time, but I am going to put that link in our bio, so your socials will have it.
02:06:27.000My sheep are just the most beautiful sheep in the world.
02:06:52.000I used to think it was unethical to shave sheep just because of the way they scream and struggle, but I saw a sheep with so much wool it couldn't move, so you kind of gotta... You see how they vaccinate the baby sheep?
02:07:03.000They have them sitting in that conveyor belt thing with their feet up, and it just pulls them forward, and they don't move, and it just gives them the shot, and then it drops them, and they walk away.
02:07:16.000And we did joke about the whole CIA that you work for the Fed and everything, but thank you so much for doing that and the work you've done and for coming and talking about it.
02:07:32.000All right, I wanted to leave you guys with this quick thought.
02:07:34.000I was just talking to Chris Carr, who's one of our editors over at TimCast.com, and I said, Chris, I would really like to know how many of the cops who just stood in the hallway while those kids were dying had their own kids.
02:07:45.000I was like, I'm willing to bet that not a lot of them have their own children.
02:07:48.000And I was like, this is how a culture dies when we're not willing to defend the people who need our defense the most, because our family line ends with us, and if we're to die, that's it.
02:07:56.000So anyway, that's not exactly a bright note to leave you with, but I also want to say you guys can follow me on Twitter at Minds.com at Sour Patchlets, as well as SourPatchlets.me.