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00:06:25.000Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if this is the most important story, but it's certainly one of the most fun and Bernie Sanders has to go and spoil everything.
00:06:32.000When you search for the story about the fistfight that nearly occurred in the Senate, in a Senate hearing, most headlines are like, Bernie Sanders stops fistfight, and he did!
00:06:43.000Okay, I'm not really, you know, that you shouldn't fight in the Senate, but here's the story.
00:06:47.000Senator Mullins challenges Teamsters president to fight during committee hearing.
00:06:52.000Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, a Republican, challenged Teamsters President Sean O'Brien to a fight during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Tuesday.
00:07:00.000I really would love to get Senator Mullen on the show now because this was absolutely epic.
00:07:08.000Sean M. O'Brien has been making fun of Mullins.
00:07:11.000He tweeted, Greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made.
00:07:40.000Sir, I wish you was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard and long hours.
00:08:34.000I'm sorry. This is all that he said you'll have your time.
00:08:37.000Okay. Can I respond? Oh, no, you can't Hearing oh wow
00:08:43.000This is in our official government record.
00:08:46.000My question is, does this happen more or less often now that there are cameras televising this than in the past?
00:08:51.000Well, there was that Democrat who just announced he's retiring, and one of his big critiques was that Congress is performative, that everyone's just looking to have their viral moment.
00:08:58.000But what I like about this, and I did confirm this just now, is that Mullins is in fact a former undefeated MMA champion.
00:09:06.000On his official bio on the Senate, Mark Wayne Mullins is a former undefeated mixed martial arts MMA fighter with a professional record of 5-0.
00:09:15.000He was inducted into the Oklahoma Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2016.
00:09:20.000So I'm telling you, this would have been amazing.
00:10:26.000Bernie, Bernie, like, really came off as a badass, except if he was bigger and stronger than the other dudes, I would've been like, oh, that's my president.
00:10:33.000He is like the high school teacher coming out into the hallway and being like, everybody go, go to your rooms.
00:10:39.000And I think, I mean, Mark Wynne Mullins is interesting to me because he's one of the only tradesmen who has a seat in the Senate, right?
00:10:48.000And actually, theoretically, Bernie Sanders also lists himself as a former carpenter.
00:10:51.000And so we have tradesman v. tradesman v. teamster, which I find interesting.
00:10:56.000Do you think that was a planned moment or it's just a moment of passion?
00:10:59.000I think he went in knowing he would try to fight him.
00:11:02.000I just don't think he was expecting a response of like, yes, I will fight you right here and now.
00:11:08.000So here's a tweet from Citizen Free Press Update.
00:11:10.000Mullin posts a picture with his guns and challenges Teamster boss Sean O'Brien to a fight.
00:11:38.000Yeah, let's make some noise about the challenge.
00:11:41.000Do you think that watching dudes fight makes culture become more combative, or is it like an outlet?
00:11:47.000Or do you think that we should see people fight because then we know that there are correct times to channel aggression instead of just letting people be weirdly passive aggressors forever until they default into extreme violence?
00:11:57.000Right, because we're seeing less violence from our at least elected officials than ever.
00:12:01.000But at the same time, I feel like we're more in terms of rhetoric and division, like we've gone further to the extreme.
00:12:06.000So maybe it's we're actually lacking the consequences that comes from this rhetoric that would naturally kind of pull people back.
00:12:15.000You can't just mouth off and expect nothing to happen.
00:12:17.000People eventually will call you out, and some people, like Mullins, they might be willing to go to blows.
00:12:22.000Yeah, I always heard the big difference between men and women was that women are sort of past aggressive, they hold grudges forever, but also they are not prone to violence, whereas men, if they have a conflict, ultimately it'll always come to hitting each other, but then at that point you've decided who's sort of in charge.
00:12:38.000Often yelling with the two guys, guy friends will like yell at each other.
00:12:41.000I don't do it as much anymore, but like growing up it'd be like, you'd scream it out and then you'd be done and then it'd be totally back to normal the next day.
00:13:10.000Yeah, I was working on this piece for a long time where I was like stalking all the professional backgrounds of everyone in the Senate and he's really unique, right?
00:13:17.000There are senators that literally own MLB teams and there's this guy who has a big family and is actually a tradesman who built his company and then made T.U.
00:14:02.000Patriarchal bloodlines in ritual combat.
00:14:06.000Mark Wayne Mullen, I want to make sure everybody understands, he did not start the fight.
00:14:10.000That dude threatened him on Twitter and then imagine... I mean, dude, you're like, I'm here to do my job and this guy's posting that he wants to fight me, that he's going to fight me, and then he's going to show up to where I'm working and testify before me.
00:16:06.000I can't stand the snooty MMA fighters who are, like, smack-talking, and I'm like, I get it.
00:16:10.000They're trying to, like, get attention and build ratings or whatever.
00:16:13.000But I like the fights when a dude loses and the other guy, like, gives him a fist bump, they shake hands or whatever.
00:16:17.000Well, my husband, he's really into UFC.
00:16:18.000He watches it, like, basically any Saturday that there's a fight.
00:16:22.000But he was saying that there's incentive for them to trash talk and try to make it as toxic as possible because then it draws viewers and then, like, their bag's bigger and there's just more attention on them.
00:17:05.000Rep Tim Burchett accuses bully Kevin McCarthy of attacking him with, quote, clean shot to the kidneys in Capitol Hallway.
00:17:14.000Yup, this one's hilarious, and as much as they're saying it's a claim and it's alleged, an NPR reporter was standing there, recording, and tweeted out, she saw this happen, that McCarthy came up from behind him and shoved him, and she thought it was a joke, and then a chase ensued, we started yelling at McCarthy, and what Burchette said is that he elbowed him straight in the kidneys.
00:17:37.000So this, Burchette voted against Kevin McCarthy.
00:17:39.000McCarthy is, it's a mental breakdown, dude.
00:17:43.000Matt Gaetz pointed out at our Miami event, this is so amazing, so glorious, that McCarthy gets a billion dollars or whatever in money for the RNC and for his campaign and all this stuff, so he has control, but he owes people now.
00:17:58.000He's gotta deliver as Speaker of the House.
00:18:00.000Now that he's removed, he cannot deliver on those promises, and those IOUs are now basically toilet paper.
00:18:06.000I can't imagine what it must be like to sell your soul out to what is effectively the Mafia, and then only, what, like a month later, Be like, I am no longer in the position to pay you back.
00:18:17.000I don't think the dudes who gave you that money will take that for an answer.
00:18:21.000And so Kevin McCarthy's probably freaking out and sweating bullets and not too happy with the people who voted against him.
00:18:27.000Yeah, but it's also it's just so corrupt.
00:18:29.000I mean, it's this is exactly why we should have term limits, because you're exactly right.
00:18:37.000I don't like the idea of, well, lately I thought about maybe evolving our House of Representatives into, like, the entire population so that we all have the opportunity to pass, to set up bills, write them.
00:18:48.000No, we still have the Senate, so, and the republics would still, they'd still be there, and if the power goes out, we would send them all to the Capitol.
00:18:54.000So they'd still have their job, they would just be part of the population and, like, deciding bills and sending them to the Senate.
00:18:59.000Because it's too easy to bribe those 450 people.
00:19:03.000I feel like that would be really hard to get things done.
00:19:06.000As opposed to the efficiency of DC now.
00:19:09.000Right, but at least some stuff does happen.
00:19:11.000But maybe that's exactly why we should do that because it would be really hard to get stuff done.
00:19:17.000Like if you want to impeach Mayorkas, and we're not doing that anyways, perhaps that system's the same, right?
00:19:22.000But if you want any funding for the border or anything that you do want pushed through Congress, Then having a convoluted system might be hard.
00:20:15.000I guess it happened because when I was walking back further, somebody was interviewing me or talking to me and he comes running up like, Why did you hit me or something like that?
00:20:24.000I said, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:20:26.000I didn't even know something transpired.
00:20:27.000But a reporter's a witness that said it looked like you, there was plenty of room for you to walk, and then you intentionally hit him.
00:23:08.000Dude, before he was even voted in as Speaker, he was moving into the Speaker's office, and Matt Gaetz called him out for it.
00:23:16.000This dude was having a temper tantrum the whole time.
00:23:19.000I have to imagine that when Kevin McCarthy was facing that showdown in the first vote to put him in as Speaker, He was probably scared as hell that he was not going to get it.
00:23:30.000And when he was like, I'm just going to move my stuff and I'm going to get it.
00:24:01.000Yeah, I can't imagine the stress that this kind of public, you know, life brings to anyone, but it does seem a little weird that you would be like, there's that guy for the first time, I'll hit him.
00:24:12.000On the other hand, like, maybe that is a sign that, you know, Congress is as unstable as it looks from the outside.
00:24:19.000I mean, at least Mark Wayne Mullins, you know, formally challenged him to basically a duel, but with your hands, whereas this seems like a, like, cheap shot.
00:24:26.000Yeah, like a petty sucker punch type of thing.
00:24:29.000Yeah, Mullins confronted the guy who called him out and said he wanted to fight.
00:24:32.000Stands up, and I love when he goes for his wedding ring.
00:24:35.000He's like, I'm gonna take that ring off.
00:24:42.000This McCarthy guy had me on edge the entire time, and I kind of kept my mouth shut in the first few months that he was Speaker because I wanted the best for the House.
00:24:49.000But he sounded like Trudeau the whole time.
00:25:17.000I mean, I think of the British Parliament, and they... I don't know that anyone challenged anyone to a fight on the floor of Parliament, but they yelled... Similar in Australia, too.
00:25:30.000Like that kind of decorum, like willing to kind of like take off his tie or get his tie undone if he's getting hot, but like not throw cups at people and stuff like that.
00:25:38.000Like he has a limit to the- There was some senator, I can't remember who it was, who threw a snowball at someone during a debate on global- Was that recently?
00:25:47.000It was a long time ago because I think I was writing about it.
00:25:49.000It might have been Tesser from Alaska.
00:26:02.000And I guess, you know, we weren't allowed to throw snowballs at my school because they could have pebbles in them and you could hurt someone.
00:26:08.000But I mean there's a difference between decorum and vitriol and you could say like okay we're going downhill in terms of decorum because we should all be polite and things like that but in terms of just I mean we have been accusing each other congressmen have been accusing each other of things like racism and corruption for a long time like that's not new so I mean either way these people are they're going they're backstabbing each other they're trying to ruin each other's careers is it a big deal that they might I mean, now it might just be coming to the surface a little bit more.
00:27:01.000Okay, and then that means in the past he has called her a fat— or he's acknowledging that he did call her a fat pig in the past?
00:27:05.000I don't think he's— I don't think he was implying that he literally said the words fat pig, but that he was implying that he's insulted only Rosie O'Donnell or something like that.
00:27:13.000That, I think, is— Unless he meant literally the only person he's called a fat pig was her.
00:27:16.000When it goes too far is when you're in public office and you're using your time publicly to insult people, like, with mean— like, you dumb idiot, that thing, because then that just wastes time, wastes taxpayer money.
00:27:28.000I agree, but personally, I don't think calling someone a fat cow is any worse than slandering someone as a white supremacist or a racist or whatever.
00:27:36.000One might be construed as more street and fighting words, but personally, I would rather be called a fat cow than an anti-Semite that could actually ruin your career in this day and age.
00:27:45.000And congressmen have been calling people that for a long time.
00:27:48.000And I gotta tell you, Ian, the more time they spend insulting each other is less time they spend on Giving our money away for BS government projects and war.
00:27:58.000So, I would much prefer it, you know, we talked about this yesterday with war, that I would take the entire war budget and just give it to some random guy.
00:28:05.000Because some random American dude can spend it infinitely better than we waste on all these wars like 20 years in Afghanistan.
00:28:11.000But I would rather every single member of Congress engaged in narcissistic mudslinging on the floor
00:28:20.000if it meant they weren't all in lockstep with funding war and foreign intervention.
00:28:25.000That kind of backs up my suggestion that we disperse the House of Representatives. If
00:28:30.000they're that useless and you'd rather just see them insulting each other,
00:28:33.000they really don't have any place in this country. We the people can pass laws and bills into the
00:28:38.000Senate. We don't need these 450 stopgap bribery vulnerabilities anymore.
00:29:02.000And then it would have created a fourth branch of government that's the people.
00:29:04.000The people would represent local people to go and act as another form of like a representative of the people themselves instead of... That feels like it just makes the government bigger.
00:29:12.000Yeah, and more bribery, you know, vulnerabilities.
00:29:15.000It's quite literally more members of Congress.
00:29:17.000Either we do it ourselves and there's 330 million of us and you can't bribe us all.
00:29:21.000No, we need to repeal the 17th Amendment, and we need people to focus on their local politics more.
00:29:25.000And stop acting like Kevin McCarthy can do anything for you.
00:29:28.000The dude does not represent any of us in any way, okay?
00:29:32.000He represents his district to the federal government.
00:29:35.000He does not represent you as a person.
00:29:38.000People think that our federal elected representatives are going to do anything for us at home, and I've long complained about this.
00:29:43.000You see these congressional ads where they're like, I'm gonna clean up this town.
00:29:48.000You're gonna go vote on war and other garbage.
00:29:50.000If you wanna clean up your town, if you wanna fix your crime, you gotta vote for local reps.
00:29:54.000And so a lot of- and your governors and your state senators and things like that.
00:29:58.000You want to know why California's all messed up?
00:29:59.000It's because they vote for these people locally.
00:30:01.000It's not anything the federal government's doing.
00:30:03.000Yeah, they can't- also, they can't read these 3,000 page bills.
00:30:06.000But if we crowdsource it and we let the entire US population have at it, you better believe there's going to be at least 700 people that are going to go read those 3,000 pages.
00:30:16.000Yeah, but then these are the people that we need, like, pushing the bills.
00:30:19.000No, no, these are- this was once called- The issue is that members of Congress should have to read the bills before they vote on them, but they don't do it.
00:30:48.000I'm trying to think of what it would be.
00:30:50.000I mean, I think what they would say, and I don't believe this, but the counterpoint would probably be, you know, it would be impossible for us to produce effective legislation that wasn't lengthy, and so actually you're making it impossible for us to get to, like, you know, they'd make, like, you're slowing us down argument, but maybe that's the point.
00:31:11.000You used to actually have to have different ones and that was a lot more efficient because you could actually know where the money was going, but they want the big bills so they can all slip their pork in there and lobbyists can be like, haha, like a little nut for me here, a little presents.
00:31:24.000And then, I don't know if you guys follow Rand Paul, like every year he exposes how much money is spent on useless things like giving birds cocaine and studying that or whatever it is.
00:31:34.000No, it's crazy and it's literally, I would say, criminal how much they steal from taxpayers on useless things.
00:31:44.000All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want to play this video for you of Nikki Haley and explain to you why it is that you must vote for Donald Trump and why it is this woman should never be allowed anywhere near the seats of power.
00:31:54.000Reclaim the Net says, Nikki Haley says, if she's made president, every social media user will be verified by their name for national security purposes.
00:32:05.000When I get into office, the first thing we have to do, social media accounts, social media companies, they have to show America their algorithms.
00:32:13.000Let us see why they're pushing what they're pushing.
00:32:39.000And they know their pastor and their family members are going to see it.
00:32:41.000It's going to help our kids, and it's going to help our country.
00:32:44.000Okay, so the funny thing about that is she's completely wrong.
00:32:48.000This country is built on anonymous pamphleting and writing and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and many others.
00:32:55.000So what she's doing is she's taking things that Elon Musk has pointed out, which are good ideas, the option to be verified, and the choice to interact with those who are, and turning it into the government will force you to do it.
00:33:09.000And then she immediately goes, first of all, she's like, everyone needs to have their name attached to their social security or to their social networking.
00:33:16.000First of all, it's a national security threat.
00:33:18.000Like, yeah, that would be a national security threat if you forced everyone to put their name on their social network.
00:33:25.000She didn't mean it to sound like that.
00:33:26.000The reason she's calling it a national security threat that has anonymous accounts is because that is their hard, you-can't-stop-us, we-don't-need-to-vote justification.
00:33:33.000We are going to send a national security letter to X and force them to do it, to Facebook, etc, etc.
00:33:53.000I didn't think about it so deeply before, but it's exactly like you said, man.
00:33:57.000Silence Duguid was Benjamin Franklin's first pen name.
00:34:01.000He couldn't get published in his brother's paper when he was like 14, so he made some fake middle-aged lady, and then he started getting published.
00:34:07.000And of course, Poor Richard's Almanac, he was a guy named Poor Richard, and he would seed like revolutionary content into the populace, because he always, his whole life, he probably wanted to revolt against the king.
00:34:16.000But he wasn't able, if he said it out loud, they would have cut his head off.
00:34:20.000And if the same thing in modern day, if it becomes tyrannical, you have no choice.
00:34:23.000Well, especially when there are people who feel like their anonymity allows them to operate in society because their views are not permitted.
00:34:30.000I mean, to confront, you'd have to start really unpacking what hate speech is in America if you really want to take away anonymous speech online and where the boundaries of free speech are.
00:34:40.000And that's what I think, you know, I'm not totally against her justification of, like, if you had to put your name by everything you said, maybe you would operate differently.
00:34:49.000But there are people who write, you know, under pen names because they fear that they'll be targeted by a progressive attorney general who might go after their job or whatever else because they believe something that's not popular.
00:35:01.000It starts to be this thing where, like, I just wonder what box we're opening.
00:35:06.000And I'm not against the idea of accountability online, but at what cost and what are we protecting?
00:35:12.000It's kind of ironic because Nikki Haley rails against China, just one of the many countries she probably wants to go to war with.
00:35:17.000But at the same time, I mean, this is the exact same type of police state that China is rightfully criticized for.
00:35:23.000So this is something that she wants to introduce.
00:35:25.000I mean, it's like she is on the wrong side of basically every single issue, which is almost impressive.
00:35:31.000Impressive batting average for just like the George Bush Republicans who basically killed the party for an entire generation.
00:35:36.000We should just make it so that in order to pass a bill, the person who is proposing it has to enter legislation by combat.
00:35:44.000You have to literally force the bill through.
00:35:46.000Mark Wayne Mullins is getting all this stuff through.
00:35:49.000You've got to carry the bill passed through the gauntlet of Congress.
00:36:27.000I think it does give you, it gives you a sense of value and purpose, which changes your, how you approach the world, which is very interesting.
00:36:34.000That would also get rid of all the oxygenarians that we have in Congress as well.
00:37:23.000So we have social media people who work here at Timcast, and we have the semi-unwritten rules of various social media platforms when posting, and TikTok is the most insanely restrictive.
00:37:49.000YouTube is actually one of the least restrictive, though they are fairly restrictive.
00:37:53.000Yeah, and it's it's crazy because I, I mean, I've got the Blaze's YouTube channel suspended for an entire week because I'm, I'm not gonna say what I said about the Elliot page.
00:38:54.000My page on Facebook got demonetized once for lies.
00:39:00.000An organization claimed that one of my videos was fake news, and so it triggered a hard demonetization, and my video that I put up was 100% factually correct.
00:39:12.000I reached out to the organization and I said, my video is correct, and they said, no it's not, here's your headline.
00:39:17.000And I said, the headline's a question, and the first sentence of the video is rejecting the claims made by people who are asserting this, and they were like, Oh, we didn't actually watch it.
00:39:28.000So a third party flagged me to Facebook and got my money turned off.
00:39:34.000It's not even about their internal teams.
00:39:35.000It's about them letting leftist progressive activists and government agents.
00:39:38.000And I gotta wonder, with this election integrity partnership stuff going on, I'm wondering if, you know, maybe we should reach out to members of Congress who are working on this and the people we know who are working on it and ask them about what Facebook is doing with the Poynter Institute and the power they give to third parties to remove content they don't like.
00:39:58.000But see, that's why the left always wins and they're going to keep winning.
00:40:01.000I work with a ton of right-wing conservative non-profits.
00:41:04.000I think, like, if automatically there's half of that, I mean, obviously we could talk about, like, the economic, I guess, implications of that many people being out of a job, but if it's, like, if the federal government is so huge where we actually need to talk about the economic consequences of that many civil servants losing their jobs, then that's a problem in and of itself.
00:41:20.000He was saying layoffs because that bypasses the restrictions.
00:41:23.000You can lay them off for budgetary reasons.
00:41:51.000And my argument is, if you don't think, or if you think that there is no way to replicate my success in other people, then what's the point of school?
00:42:01.000If school can't create a path toward success for people, then what's the point of doing it?
00:42:07.000His attitude was basically, there's a lot of good teachers who are in these schools, and this is my point.
00:42:14.000The government funds a project, hires a bunch of people, and then says, okay, this doesn't work, but we can't stop it now because we're addicted to it.
00:42:21.000We are economically addicted to this industry.
00:42:24.000If we stop funding schools, we're gonna have hundreds of thousands of people out of work.
00:42:27.000We can't have it, the economy would collapse.
00:42:28.000Also, because we didn't allow for any competition.
00:42:30.000I mean, there are private schools, there are homeschools, things like that, but obviously, predominantly, most people's money are tied up in their taxes, which then go to their public schools, so they rely on them.
00:42:38.000I mean, education in America is ultimately a failing business, so it should close.
00:43:36.000Actual Justice Warrior Sean, he did a video where I think places in Baltimore, like there's a lot of schools where literally zero percent, like, Well, Oregon just did away with their graduation requirements, and they're saying there are learning losses because of COVID, but also that means your system is pretty weak that three years could— I mean, students really suffered during COVID for a lot of reasons, but it also means that, like, there was absolutely no effectiveness in online schooling or anything else.
00:44:00.000The teachers that were tasked with having to educate kids remotely couldn't do it.
00:44:04.000This means that our system is not adaptable.
00:44:06.000This is not proof that you guys are successful.
00:44:09.000And I think to Tim's medicine metaphor, you know— Ron Paul's.
00:44:14.000You know, if they're saying this is the thing you take to fix it, you go to public school, the thing is, doctors will then say, oh, you're having side effects from the medication I gave you.
00:44:21.000Instead of stopping it, they'll say, take five others.
00:44:24.000Which is why, you know, we get universal preschool and we get all these other programs that the government is saying, we're not effective, but we're going to continue to fund ourselves until we figure out a way to keep this failing system up.
00:44:34.000That's a disservice to students and their parents.
00:44:37.000I mean, this is why I love school choice.
00:44:39.000If you gave them the opportunity to spend their monies in a way that better suited their children's needs, because there's no way bureaucrats in Washington know children better than their own parents, they would probably be more effective.
00:44:49.000The Department of Education and the public school system, it exists to benefit teachers, to benefit administrators.
00:44:55.000It's not actually to the benefit of the students and definitely not the benefit of the parents.
00:44:59.000I think one of the things you said, Hannah-Claire, exactly, that is pretty profound is that the problem with the school, the education system, the Department of Education, is that they have a monopoly.
00:45:10.000There's no real viable option if it does shut down.
00:45:13.000There's not another system where people can just go get jobs there and bring their kids over there, and there should be.
00:45:18.000Because the monopoly, government monopolies, are just as dangerous as private sector monopolies.
00:45:32.000He's like, okay, he gets his tablet out, and he's like, which phone do you want?
00:45:34.000He starts typing it all in, here's your number, and okay, it's gonna cost this, so I swipe the card, and it's kind of annoying, and then you're done.
00:45:39.000In Venezuela, they had to create fake jobs for the sake of propping up their fake economy, which didn't work, obviously.
00:45:46.000So, they're mandated to have a person who gets the phone, a person who asks you what kind of phone you want, a person who deals with your phone plan, a person who takes the money, a person who writes down the bill.
00:45:55.000Like, you walk in, you say, they say, how can I help you?
00:46:33.000And you get private schools, you get homeschools, you get co-ops.
00:46:36.000People do have innovation, especially when they see that the system is broken.
00:46:40.000But it makes me wonder, you know, you'll have student teachers who are promised if you work in a public school for X number of years, we'll pay off your student loan debt, which we have also given you because we're the government and we're trying to help you.
00:46:52.000And I would wonder if it would be more interesting to see those people go off and start, you know, Montessori schools in more places or explore, you know, different opportunities with the degree that they have.
00:47:01.000I think good teachers are really valuable.
00:47:03.000It's not to shame all of them, but the government just wants you to stay in its broken system and it's willing to take you down with it if you're a teacher.
00:47:09.000A good teacher, a competent teacher, is going to flourish even without the public school and the teachers' union safety net.
00:47:15.000And we see that with charter schools and private schools.
00:47:17.000And there are even, I guess, industrious teachers who are creating their own homeschool curriculums that could be applied to different homeschool pods.
00:47:25.000There's a desperate need for teachers who are competent, but I don't think we do those teachers any service by subsidizing the incompetent ones.
00:47:31.000Yeah, and the government doesn't reward teachers' entrepreneurship.
00:47:34.000It just beats them back into submission as much as it can until they eventually establish something.
00:47:58.000It is a nutcracker, which many are familiar with, but it's, uh, blue, holding a pride flag with a rainbow hat, and then there's a very happy, I guess, yeti, and unicorn.
00:49:05.000No, because I don't want to support it, but look, if I was going to buy it, it would be like a novelty gag gift, making fun of wokeness.
00:49:12.000They're selling them legitimately, and it's kind of, it's, look, If you are a otherly abled person of color, and you would like to purchase the Santa Claus, then I'm glad the option exists for you.
00:49:26.000I have no problem with the free market providing.
00:49:29.000If there are people who have this lived experience, and they would like to be represented on a Christmas tree, then the market shall provide.
00:49:36.000But Target as a massive, I believe they're multinational, but a massive national corporation.
00:49:43.000I know Australia's got a fake version that they stole from us.
00:50:49.000But I mean the question is like who specifically is the, I mean aside from like white liberal women, but it's like a very specific group of people who celebrate Christmas but also really want to indulge in the wokeness, which I feel like is huge.
00:51:03.000Also, are we sort of expecting a lot of You know, paraplegic people to suddenly appear on earth?
00:51:11.000This could have been one Etsy business that did really well, but instead Target is like, everyone knows someone in a wheelchair, which feels more, like, disturbing to me.
00:51:19.000But that's the thing, like, with all this woke stuff, whether it's pandering to women or to black people in wheelchairs who aspire to be Santa, it's not actually about the group they're representing.
00:51:30.000It's about the activists who see it as a virtue signal.
00:51:34.000Yeah, I remember as a kid being told that I could be Santa, but it's just a weird thing.
00:51:37.000Like, oh, he has to be just like me, has to be in a wheelchair, too.
00:51:40.000It's like, well, he'd be better flying around the world if he didn't have a wheelchair.
00:51:43.000It's about that time of year, should we have the Santa debate?
00:51:58.000And I think there's a bigger question now on top of this.
00:52:02.000I don't know that we can answer that question until we answer the question of how do you explain to children that there is black, paraplegic Santa and white, cis-heteronormative Santa.
00:52:12.000No, I'm not telling my kids the only Santa is black and in a wheelchair.
00:52:15.000No, I'm going to take the FDR approach.
00:52:48.000It's the worst MCU opening in the Marvel franchise history.
00:52:51.000And it's because people just don't care for these woke Bad storylines where they just ham fist in politics.
00:52:59.000And when people started complaining back in the day about how they like made Anne Boleyn, Anne Boleyn's played like a black woman.
00:53:07.000And people are like, yo, I don't care about black actors getting lead roles.
00:53:11.000I care that you're taking historical figures and characters and changing their race like the Little Mermaid.
00:53:17.000South Park made a really great point about this.
00:53:20.000In the latest show they did, the Panderverse, the special, where PC Principal is yelling at the kids saying, you just don't like black people.
00:54:03.000They tried claiming that Samus Aran, the game character, was trans.
00:54:06.000So for those that aren't familiar, Samus Aran is the star of the video game Metroid, the Metroid series.
00:54:11.000And at the end of the NES game, if you like beat it in the right way or whatever for the credits, it shows the character take the helmet off and it's like super, it's like 8-bit or whatever, but there's long blonde hair like, aha!
00:54:36.000And so what happens then is a bunch of trans activists are arguing, well, Samus Aran is six foot three and, you know, like a hundred and eighty pounds, therefore that proves Samus was actually trans.
00:54:58.000Well, I was going to say, this is a tangent at this point, but to Ian's question about the whole Santa debate, I'm actually very anti-Santa, because Santa is not a... I mean, Saint Nicholas is a religious figure, but Santa, the modern iteration of Santa, is basically just a way to shove consumerism down our throats by people who are not Christians, who are secularists, and who only want to make money.
00:55:19.000Do you think the people who had designed that Santa are Christians who celebrate Christmas?
00:55:24.000Do you think all the people also vary against Santa movies?
00:55:27.000Have you noticed that nowadays a Christmas movie, it's all about Santa and gifts and a secular message.
00:55:31.000It's a way to undermine the Christian.
00:55:33.000On the Hallmark Channel, it's about everyone ending up together, getting married.
00:55:36.000It undermined the family unit for me because it made me distrust my parents.
00:55:40.000Not only did they lie to me for 10 years.
00:55:42.000And then I found out, I was like, what else are they lying to me about? It was terrible.
00:55:46.000They would, I didn't appreciate them every year around Christmas when they would be the ones that
00:55:50.000would bring me the gifts. It should have been a bonding experience for the family. And that's
00:55:54.000this Soviet communist consumer crap, splitting up the nuclear family yet again with now your
00:56:00.000parent can't be the hero this year. I think there are really interesting
00:56:03.000ways to talk about Santa because I like the folklore aspect of it.
00:56:07.000I think it's fun to have imaginative opportunities for kids.
00:56:10.000I wouldn't necessarily introduce this to your kids, but David Sedaris is the short story author who has a really funny essay about at dinner parties he'll ask people as an icebreaker, and what does your country tell you about Santa?
00:56:22.000And it changes, and if you haven't heard it you should definitely look it up.
00:56:26.000I think it is interesting that I grew up with the Rupert books, which are like a British children's series, and Santa lives on a cloud, and in America we learn he lives in the North Pole.
00:56:35.000Like, there are ways to talk about this in an interesting way.
00:56:38.000It's just sad that America's Santa now is like, you know...
00:56:42.000I care less about the skin color so much as, like, what is he doing?
00:56:50.000Like, it introduces a level of bureaucracy to this, like, kind of mystical story that other, like, lots of cultures tell.
00:56:57.000And it makes us seem lame, I will say.
00:56:59.000The best is the Tibetan myth of Santa Claus, where they would, every winter, their yurts would get covered up to the chimney, and they'd have to climb out the chimney and go to the pine trees, and they'd find these mushrooms growing, these white and red Amanita muscaria, and the reindeer would be eating them, and they'd go and they'd collect the mushrooms, they'd come back, they'd climb down the chimney and then hang the mushrooms up in socks above the fire to dry overnight, and then the next morning they'd boil them and make tea with them.
00:57:23.000Every culture has, like, various versions of this.
00:57:25.000Yeah, check out the myth of psychedelic Santa.
00:58:37.000I was gonna go with he's getting older, you know, he's got some some arthritis in his knees from climbing up and down the chimney, so maybe it's time to retire Santa and then they'll introduce Mrs. Claus or just call her Santette or something.
00:58:49.000I'm gonna go with Santa did a 720 on the mega ramp and then when he was going up for a varial 540 he clipped the coping and flipped forward shattering his ankles and so it's not a permanent thing and he's not a paraplegic it's just that he's got serious leg damage because he was in the X Games last year.
01:00:29.000Yeah, I thought everybody knew that one.
01:00:31.000You know, to put a little Christmas cheer into this conversation, they figured out at Rice University how to weave nanothreads, carbon nanothreads, through broken, severed spine.
01:00:39.000And then the spine finds itself and regrows back together.
01:00:41.000And they've got mice with completely severed spines that are able to walk again.
01:00:45.000So what you're saying is Santa may walk again.
01:00:47.000Tim, would you rather have a Target insemination kit or a Target paraplegic black Santa for Christmas?
01:01:07.000You know, if it was like the end Wokeness account announced they were selling these things as jokes, I'd buy a bunch of them and give them out to people.
01:01:13.000But the fact that Target is legitimately selling these things makes me be like, well, I don't want to give them money now.
01:01:39.000There is a market for us to buy Black Paraplegic Santa because it's a mockery of woke ideology and we think it's funny.
01:01:45.000I would just really like to see photos from, you know, like probably December 24th, maybe, you know, into January of people and their clearance section at Target and see how much these are selling for then.
01:01:55.000Is it Costco or Lowe's where they actually have the black blow-up Santas?
01:02:42.000Republican wins Loudoun County Commonwealth Attorney race against Soros-funded incumbent after infamous gender-neutral school bathroom rape scandal.
01:03:01.000I say across street, but you know like he's down the street You know it's down, but I mean technically yeah, it's right over the hill so it's right there But so we know we actually know a lot of people who are involved with what's going on And it's a very mixed left and right County, but seeing this is actually tremendous.
01:03:16.000It's not the first time we've seen Soros DA's get Get you know basically fired And, uh, it's just, it's all around good news.
01:03:24.000I think we look at stuff like this, we take a look at the Marvels failing, we take a look at Bud Light failing, we take a look at all these things.
01:03:39.000I had the honor and privilege of meeting the mother of one of the students at the Loudoun County High School that was protesting males in the girls' bathroom.
01:03:47.000And so we had a good conversation about it, and I was excited to meet this person.
01:03:53.000Her family has been pushing back and speaking up, and I'm like, this is exactly what we need.
01:03:57.000Now we can see Loudoun County maybe paving the way for pushing this stuff out.
01:04:01.000What's happening is you've got these urban woke people from D.C.
01:04:05.000Moving westward into the more rural areas and trying to bring their chaos with them.
01:04:10.000But the people are starting to resist and push it all back.
01:04:13.000So as we see all these crazy videos, look at this.
01:04:37.000And I don't know if it's that, you know, a lot of people play these stats games, so they're like, crime's actually on the way down.
01:04:42.000But that doesn't take into consideration what type of crime they're referring to, and could it be that the reason crime is down is because people are too scared to go outside?
01:04:49.000Or because they made it legal, like in San Francisco, where you can rob 800 bucks and it's not charged.
01:04:56.000So in San Francisco, where they're like, we're actually seeing crime on the decline.
01:04:58.000Or people just stop reporting it because they know it's not going to be taken seriously.
01:05:03.000Yeah, I think ultimately there is... I like these stories about people winning and doing something because it's so discouraging.
01:05:10.000When you're in San Francisco and your target has nothing out because people keep shoplifting, I think it's one of the doors that opens up, well, why don't I just take something?
01:05:40.000This is the most important aspect of this.
01:05:43.000Biberaj is notorious in Loudoun County, that's the attorney, for having her office stick convictions for disorderly conduct on Scott Smith, the dad who was arrested for confronting a school board in a June 2021 meeting after his daughter was raped in a high school in a female restroom by a biological male in a skirt.
01:06:00.000So let me just say, this guy, his daughter is raped and he shows up to school and he's furious.
01:06:06.000They end up arresting him and this lady has him criminally charged and now she is fired.
01:06:30.000Do you think this is the kind of thing though that, and this is a little cynical of me, where people will get excited about this one race and then they'll forget that they have to go out and be active and do it in their communities?
01:06:41.000Well, the point is, when, you know, there's two factions on a field, when one side starts breaking and faltering, you don't say, okay, pack it in, guys.
01:06:53.000And now it is time to, as the woke lunatics retreat from the hilltop of culture, abandoning movie franchises, abandoning the stories that we know and love, we storm in and plant our flag and replace what they have tried to destroy.
01:07:07.000This is a legitimate route, cultural route.
01:07:10.000Sometimes, when the enemy breaks, you want to let them flee because you don't want to run into a potential trap, but this is not a potential trap.
01:07:20.000At the end of the fight, when Cornwallis is like, is that militia making their center?
01:07:25.000And then they're like, they start running away, and then once they go over the hill, that's the Continental Army waiting to trap them, and then unloads on the British.
01:07:34.000They call it the hammer and anvil tactic, where you feign a retreat, and then they charge it, and that's your anvil, and then you come around and flank them from behind as your hammer.
01:07:41.000Well, I think this is, if nothing else, proof that focusing on the cultural issues, they actually can change policy, and they actually have political consequences.
01:07:49.000Because I don't know about you folks, but I often see, especially establishment conservatives, Republicans, saying, this doesn't matter.
01:08:08.000And especially like we see how motivated especially suburban moms are when it comes to the issue of like what's happening in schools.
01:08:14.000So I think if next year if Republicans are worried about the suburban mom vote, we actually need to keep hitting this issue.
01:08:20.000We need to go harder on it and not back away.
01:08:22.000I actually feel like one of the ways they could do that is by pushing, like there are a lot of states that have these laws, they'll get marketed or they'll get written about as they're anti-gender affirming and whatever else.
01:08:33.000But really, if you look at it, a lot of times they are people voting against or judges overturning rules that say you can't tell parents about what's going on with their kids in school.
01:08:43.000And I think even progressive parents would want to know if their children are going by different programs and it starts to be like this unifying issue.
01:08:50.000If a child makes a choice in school like that, any parent would want to know.
01:08:54.000You can't decide arbitrarily who is dangerous and who is not and whose kids are secret about this.
01:09:01.000There are ways to continue to push this issue.
01:09:03.000Loudoun County is so unique because they had that specific case, but there are other parents who would get behind, I need to know what's going on with my kids.
01:09:09.000You know what I think is going to convince a lot of suburban women to vote for the likes of Donald Trump, or at least someone more right-leaning, is in the event that they have male children, explaining to them the late 2010s history of the false accusations, Mattress Girl, all of these stories in the Me Too movement, and When you see this degree of wokeness right now, I think what's worrying for mothers and fathers who have daughters is this story about what happens to this guy.
01:09:39.000But what's as worrying to a parent who has a male child, right?
01:09:44.000The destruction of your son's life because woke people can lie about him, a chism of racism, bigotry, assault, or otherwise, and there will be no due process, there will be no innocent until proven guilty, they will destroy this person's life.
01:10:06.000Well, I definitely support due process, but there's this also interesting tension in a way between due process and freedom of speech.
01:10:14.000I don't know if you guys are familiar with Tommy Robinson, but one of the many legal issues that he's had in the UK was reporting on, I think it was like a grooming gang, forgive me in the comments if I get this wrong, but reporting on a grooming gang trial.
01:10:27.000And the UK had it that there was a moratorium in the press because the official reason was that they wanted due process.
01:10:33.000They didn't want these people's names slandered if they were found innocent.
01:10:37.000People who are critical of it say actually it's to basically hide the fact that mass
01:10:40.000migration has led to an increase in sexual assaults.
01:10:43.000But what do you guys think about kind of that issue?
01:11:20.000Unless it falls into what's called defamation per se, where what you've said is so shocking and egregious that damages aren't needed and the defamation in and of itself warrants just, you know, pursuit.
01:11:33.000Like, I guess the issue would be, if I claimed Ian kicked a dog, Well, I don't know.
01:11:40.000You know, did I know it was false is the question in times of E. Sullivan, and if Ian tried to sue me claiming that, it'd get thrown out.
01:11:46.000What if you claimed that I was running a puppy mill and, like, slaughtering animals and, like, not paying my taxes?
01:11:51.000It'd be like... I mean, that's... that's... actually, I don't... I don't even think that would qualify.
01:11:56.000It'd be like if you said I was a rapist, then that would be definition per se.
01:12:08.000It's criminal activity, contagious disease, and something so morally shocking and reprehensible or whatever, like calling someone a pedo is defamation per se.
01:12:33.000So if you if you said that Ian was an evil person who was running a puppy mill that kills dogs, they'd say, OK, well, is that an opinion statement about a puppy mill?
01:12:41.000We don't we don't know if this warrants that, you know, a level of going to law, going to court over it.
01:12:47.000I think one of the questions with Freedom of the Press is, you know, It is accurate to say this person was accused of, this person is standing trial for this, and I understand the sensitivity of the crimes.
01:13:00.000And I think this is what we get from an untrustworthy press, right?
01:13:04.000The fact that you would present it as like, it's a done deal no matter what, this is definitely, they're not presenting any other sides, they have decided there is a narrative and they're going to follow it through, even if they might throw the word in allegedly a couple times, it's not honest reporting.
01:13:16.000Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, accused of getting into a fight with a male prostitute over a drug deal gone wrong.
01:13:24.000And of course, people are going to be like, okay, well, hold on.
01:13:47.000And what's really tricky with journalists is that they really only need one person to make that accusation to be able to write that headline.
01:13:59.000There are activists, attorney generals everywhere who will levy all kinds of stuff against you.
01:14:03.000I'm allowed to accuse Joe Biden of taking bribes.
01:14:06.000And I think everyone's going to agree, like, yeah, he probably did.
01:14:08.000There's no official government determination so far.
01:14:12.000Members of the Republican Party have presented evidence that they say asserts this, but it's not been, like, adjudicated.
01:14:17.000I think we're still allowed to come out and say that he is a corrupt MF-er who is taking bribes.
01:14:21.000When I look at the word accused, the definitions, all the definitions are to charge with a shortcoming, to charge formally, to make a charge of wrongdoing.
01:14:28.000So if you're not charging them, literally, that means you don't have the legal authority.
01:14:33.000No, it also says to claim that someone has done something wrong.
01:14:37.000The thing is, if I accuse someone of doing something or if someone is, like, charges are brought against someone, theoretically, if you're being ethical, you present evidence that might contradict the point that seems obvious.
01:14:47.000Like, if the government says, you know, you burned down a building, I would potentially say there are other people and I would get a statement from you.
01:14:53.000But if you're trying to present information honestly, you're supposed to represent multiple points of views and possibilities, but that's not really how it works anymore.
01:15:03.000That's it. I guess maybe there could be an official accusation like a capital A and that's like when it's a legitimate
01:15:08.000Accusation from like someone with authority as opposed to all this nonsense being the issue is people are evil
01:15:14.000The issue is as a culture We used to have scruples and people were like I can't lie
01:15:19.000in the newspaper like I feel so bad I'd be scared like well, how could I couldn't get away with that now?
01:15:23.000Everyone's just like I don't care what happens to you.
01:15:25.000I'm gonna do whatever I want Yeah, and in our defamation cases the victim has to prove malice that that person acted with the intention of destroying your reputation Which if you were to be like, hey New York Times you printed something false about me and they could be like, oh Whoops, we didn't know, slash, we didn't do it, slash, we don't care, then you can't prove malice, it's extremely difficult.
01:15:40.000And then what happens is, you go to court, and you say, they defamed me, and they'll file a motion to dismiss under anti-SLAPP legislation, or Times v. Sullivan, whatever, and the judge has to then agree discovery is warranted.
01:15:53.000So you have to provide some evidence they may have, like, this is the crazy thing, in order to actually sue, you have actual mal-standard, and Times v. Sullivan is that the person doing the libel or slander knew what they were saying was false.
01:16:06.000Which means, if someone in the press lies, or, here's my favorite, if someone tweets a thing and it was a joke, a news organization can take that, run it as fact, and then say, oh, but we thought it was real.
01:16:20.000How do you prove that they knew that it wasn't, like, that's a paper trail that will almost never exist?
01:16:25.000Internal communications where they're like, well, gee, I know this is not true, but run it anyway, which exactly doesn't exist.
01:16:33.000So, I guess you get what you get, but, you know, I guess going back to the main story.
01:16:38.000We gotta jujitsu this because false accusations can bring down nations.
01:16:41.000If, like, the Soviet Union would go around accusing people, accusing people, accusing people, take them away without a trial or any kind of process.
01:16:51.000And it's kind of annoying because technically it is you're not allowed to like make a false police report or anything like that but when it comes to like all of these like Me Too cases or even just the run-of-the-mill a sexual assault allegation where that results in a charge where the man is found innocent or not guilty you would think that if there's a person coming saying that this person like, assaulted me, and the man is then found not guilty,
01:17:40.000So if somebody's accused, like, if a guy commits sexual assault and the charge is going to be like 10 years or something, then if it's a false accusation, it should be 15.
01:17:50.000The reason being, it's one thing for someone to commit a crime and then have the government, the law enforcement, and the court system seek to bring some kind of justice and stop this person as an offender.
01:18:17.000We don't want people to try and use law enforcement as a weapon against people through false accusations, so that's an entirely separate crime.
01:18:24.000So they should serve the sentence of the person, of what would have been for the person they accused, and they should get an additional charge over the manipulating and falsifying government, you know, blah blah blah blah.
01:18:33.000The only prominent example I can think of of someone getting their just deserts for trying to weaponize the legal system is Jussie Smollett.
01:18:41.000I mean, but he at least, there was a trial thing, he ended up like, you know, it was a nothing burger, but still there was at least, I mean, when was the last time you remember someone being charged with, like, lying and leading police on their life?
01:18:53.000He still, to this day, is maintaining it really happened.
01:18:56.000He did an interview with, uh, was it Charlemagne?
01:18:58.000I think it was, and he was like, that's what they said, and he was like, really?
01:19:12.000If right when it went down, he said, look, we were trying to bring awareness and we were trying to, you know, make people- It's a performance art piece.
01:19:20.000No, he could have said, me and my friends decided to stage this because we felt like other stories of other victims weren't getting any national attention and only a celebrity could bring to light the injustices that were happening.
01:19:41.000We're years past this now and people would be like, oh, OK.
01:19:44.000And seriously, his PR team should have said, own it and claim the issue is, like, here's what if I was a PR guy for Smollett, I'd immediately do a Google search for some kind of racist hate crime.
01:19:55.000And then I would have Justice Smollett be like, when I saw this story and that no one cared, I knew the only way to get the attention of the press was for a high profile celebrity to do it.
01:20:04.000So that's why I decided to stage this event.
01:20:54.000I think part of it is that he liked being, you know, celebrated as his victim.
01:20:57.000And I think that kind of attention is very hard to give up, especially since I don't think he'll really act again at this point.
01:21:02.000I wonder where he is now, especially with the Israel-Palestine stuff.
01:21:06.000So there are a lot of celebrities that hitched their wagons to the woke left, and now they're regretting it.
01:21:12.000Could you imagine being Justice Smollett and destroying your entire career over this attempt at anti-Trump nonsense, only to find out that you're on the wrong side of whatever this is?
01:21:21.000In the entertainment industry, a lot of the people who are running it are going to be more pro-Israel, and then all the leftists who would have supported him if his hate crime worked were going to be pro-Palestine.
01:25:08.000If, in fact, the longer clip in the full context shows Hassan say there is no excuse ever for killing babies, and I recognize that, then okay.
01:25:17.000For the sake of just this, we will be very clear in that regard.
01:25:20.000Hassan calling babies settlers while justifying Hamas killing settlers is a horrifying thing in and of itself and I hope, I HOPE he's clarified later on that he does not support the killing of babies.
01:25:33.000I almost never say this, but I feel for Ethan over the past few weeks, the clips I've been seeing, because Ethan is, I would say, very moderate, especially for an Israeli, about the situation.
01:25:45.000He's actually donated money to help Palestinians.
01:25:48.000He acknowledges that he does not support Israeli settlements, so that's not, like, you know, where they're actually, like, getting... You don't think he is?
01:25:55.000Ethan Klein was an edgy boy on the internet who made crude jokes way back in the day.
01:26:00.000No, but you don't think he's moderate on the Israel-Palestine issue?
01:27:20.000So he comes out and says, I'm gonna donate to Palestinians and stuff because his entire audience is this.
01:27:26.000But that's why I feel bad for him because he is trying to, I mean, in this one regard, he is trying to, I guess, like, be I don't know, building bridges as much as he can but they're still not accepting it.
01:27:39.000I can't help but feel for him in that situation.
01:27:42.000Let me just stress, there have been many times in the show where Ian and I have been mad at each other and we've gone at it.
01:27:47.000I would not ever sit down next to a person Who says, yeah, but babies are settlers.
01:27:54.000You're not gonna sit right here and tell me you think killing babies... I'll take it up to the edge of that, but no, because like in Vietnam, seven-year-olds had grenades in baskets and they'd walk up to the American soldier and then they'd blow him up, so they had to start shooting seven-year-olds.
01:28:05.000But babies, they don't move, they just lay there.
01:28:07.000You take them captive at the very least.
01:28:11.000And Ethan Klein is sitting there actually having a discussion with this guy, and the fact that the show didn't stop on the spot when he said that, I would have been like, no, no, no, no, tell me right now you are not saying what you are saying.
01:28:23.000Ethan's just like, well, I mean, come on, and they go back and forth a little bit.
01:28:27.000I'm sorry, I think Ethan Klein saw his waning internet presence and decided, I gotta choose a side.
01:28:35.000I'm gonna go with the left because that's what celebrities are doing and that's what I guess we do because it was not a principle-based decision nor a knowledge-based one.
01:28:42.000You take a look at when Steven Crowder wanted to have a conversation with Ethan.
01:28:56.000You had an opportunity to sit with Jordan Peterson and have a conversation with someone who is very moderate, open, and understanding.
01:29:03.000Jordan Peterson's famous interview with, I think it was Jim Jeffries, where Jeffries says, do you think the government should mandate, you know, that people provide service?
01:29:17.000And Ethan Klein had that opportunity and could have gone that middle-of-the-road route where he says, y'all are crazy, chill out, I'm gonna talk to who I want to and believe what I want to believe.
01:29:26.000Instead, he told people like us, like Jordan Peterson, to F off your bigots and racists and misogynists, and he hitched his wagon to people who are calling him a Zionist pig, celebrating Hamas, I'm not saying Palestine, I'm drawing a distinction, and a dude who quite literally said, but babies are settlers.
01:29:44.000That's what Ethan Klein decided to buy into.
01:30:09.000But that doesn't mean that we leave people like that behind.
01:30:12.000He's so influential in society, I want to help him.
01:30:15.000I think this is a really interesting internet frenemies moment to have because I think it's actually probably what's going to happen when many progressive families assemble for Thanksgiving, right?
01:30:26.000They're gonna have to look at each other and instead of it being like conservative uncle yells at, you know, progressive nephew.
01:30:33.000It's gonna be Israel versus Palestine, baby!
01:30:35.000And it's going to be people who think they're on the same side.
01:30:37.000These generations that look apart and say like, but why are you saying this thing?
01:30:41.000And I think a lot of people have this moment where they'll have sort of extremist rhetoric brought to them like this, like the justification of how and if and when you should potentially harm children in this conflict, obviously the answer is never, and have to confront these people they think they have everything in common with.
01:30:58.000I think this is a really interesting moment of reckoning and I think because these are well-known personalities you can see where the bifurcation is, but people are going to experience this in their real lives very soon.
01:31:17.000Well, and that's why I think this is also why I feel bad for him.
01:31:19.000I don't think he's being as calculated or at least not to this.
01:31:23.000He actually broke down in tears talking about a video he saw of a Palestinian father clutching his dead child when he was talking to Hassan.
01:31:31.000I mean, obviously, it was terrible, and I think he is someone who is ultimately an empathetic person.
01:31:36.000I don't think he's evil, and I think he is seeing the horrors of this war, but you can't deny that, yeah, this is his bed, and he's been trying to capitalize on these people who are now turning on him, because obviously they would eventually.
01:31:51.000It's that when he deleted that Jordan Peterson episode and then publicly condemned Jordan Peterson, I'm like... Yeah, that was the weakest.
01:31:58.000That is... When you see that photo of all the people doing the Roman salute to Hitler, and the one guy's angrily like, no.
01:32:11.000He was just one of those other people who was like, I'm just going to do whatever they tell me to do because I don't want to get into a fight.
01:32:15.000He's completely reliant on his community for social cues.
01:32:19.000Surrounded by evil people who would, like, listen.
01:32:23.000If you are someone who thinks that Israel is taking it too far and they're killing too many civilians, I hear ya.
01:32:27.000If you're someone who thinks Hamas went too far and they started this on October 7th, granted the fight's been going on for generations, then I hear ya.
01:32:34.000If you're gonna sit there and say, but babies are settlers.
01:32:36.000Like, dude, you are way past that point.
01:32:42.000Even if after the fact he says, alright, I get it, babies shouldn't die or whatever, but like, the babies are settlers means he intended to get to that point morally.
01:32:52.000I've been kind of black-pilled on Twitter because I've seen people kind of argue also that, well, the Palestinian babies, it's basically just a future terrorist that's being killed.
01:33:29.000The point is, though, when it comes to left versus right in this country and the fight we're seeing in the breakdown of the left, dude, Ethan could have, a lot of people said like, why did he go into this leftist camp where you can't be funny and you have to be walking on eggshells?
01:33:44.000He was always like this edgy dude who made offensive jokes.
01:34:10.000He might be empathetic, he might have emotional attachments, but this is like his business now is to be saying the right thing to the right people.
01:34:16.000And I can't imagine what you're going to do.
01:34:18.000There's nothing he can do to change it.
01:34:20.000And I think in some ways it would be more interesting to see a version of this where there's principle behind it.
01:34:26.000Well, you know, I believe this but you guys will have to believe whatever or I have these certain standards but he compromises himself and I don't really follow his stuff that intensely but he repeatedly compromises what you think could be his value and that means that ultimately he is to be bought.
01:34:40.000Although I can't- this is the most praise I've ever given Ethan Klein.
01:34:43.000I've done several hit pieces on him in general.
01:34:59.000And he and Hassan did have a sit-down where they both talked about their perspective on Israel-Palestine.
01:35:04.000And I thought at least that exchange of ideas where they both clearly were trying to remain friends through that, I thought that was useful.
01:35:14.000Especially when it comes to Israel-Palestine, it's not just the left that's having this internal breakdown.
01:35:30.000Even though Candace has been very consistent that she wants to worry about America, and basically all she tweeted out was that governments should not engage in genocide, which if you believe that Hamas is the elected government of Palestine, is also applicable to both sides.
01:35:44.000Dude, I'm concerned with having American aircraft carriers over there.
01:35:47.000I keep being told about the USS Liberty.
01:35:49.000That's something with the Israeli government.
01:35:52.000No, you should be careful about that one.
01:35:55.000Allegedly, the Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft.
01:35:59.000I mean, they did end up paying out the American government.
01:36:01.000So I'm concerned like false flag operation, like a missile comes out of Gaza and hits one of our aircraft carriers, but it was actually Israeli missile.
01:36:53.000Maybe the USS Liberty thing was an accident, probably.
01:36:57.000That's the controversy over it, is that the Israeli government claims it was an accident, but Jocko Willink, I think, interviewed some survivors who say that they don't think it was an accident.
01:39:46.000A home is where your family is, a house is, you know, a container or something like this.
01:39:52.000And so, when you say someone's homeless, you're saying they don't have anywhere to sleep safely.
01:40:00.000The left is trying to distinguish, or not distinguish, well yes, they're trying to make a distinction between, there could be someone who lives in a shack, It's their home and their family's there, but it's not a house.
01:40:13.000And so they're unhoused, which means they should have a house.
01:40:15.000Were you guys talking about the San Francisco cleanup?
01:40:33.000It's also inaccurate because it assumes that if you just give them shelter, then the problem is gone, which is what they're trying to do, but you still have that basically plethora of likely problems, including addiction, maybe mental illness, that will follow them.
01:40:44.000I think, I genuinely, here's a problem that we face.
01:40:48.000You know, when I talk to the likes of Stephen Marsh and he says that, you know, you're right or you're biased or whatever, and I'm like, no, dude, you just don't know what you're talking about.
01:40:56.000And how do I tell you that I'm actually not biased, I just am telling you the truth?
01:41:03.000So I have my biases, of course, I'm pro 2A.
01:41:05.000However, my position on 2A is rooted in how do you have a functioning system of governance that has a constitution and constitutional guaranteed rights, and then one faction trying to Vote away those rights.
01:42:39.000Yeah, you got to get away from the cult and build systems that let people govern themselves.
01:42:42.000Because it's too easy to become a cult leader with this technology.
01:42:45.000So the issue is, in reference to this one, Aaron said, we should build houses for the unhoused and give them places to live.
01:42:54.000And I said, okay, and then who's going to maintain that house?
01:42:56.000Because many of these people, when I mentioned that probably 80% of homeless people choose to be homeless, he was shocked and didn't believe it.
01:43:27.000But something that is encouraging is that you're right, and also there's a high percentage of homeless people who are only transiently homeless.
01:43:35.000Like, they don't remain homeless in the United States, which is very encouraging.
01:43:39.000Because it is a country where you actually are able to reach that rock bottom and then build your way back up.
01:43:44.000But my point is, not to specifically focus on homelessness, my point is, the left gives you these surface-level nonsensical positions and then demands them with rage.
01:44:06.000These are people who are unwell and incapable of maintaining and sustaining a house.
01:44:11.000Oh man, Libby was on the show and I was like, this is coming from people who never owned houses before, because this is a lot of work.
01:44:17.000And then Libby was mentioning like, oh yeah, when I have a problem, I'm like, I can't call the soup anymore.
01:44:21.000Yeah, when you rent, you just call the superintendent and they come and fix your problem for you.
01:44:25.000It reminds me of that show, Extreme Home Makeover, where they would be like, you're a family, you have some good story and we're going to demolish your house, we're going to build this really fancy house.
01:44:33.000But often those houses were incredibly, they needed a lot of electricity, they need a lot of water, they need to be maintained.
01:44:40.000They were the most expensive house in a neighborhood that really didn't sustain that.
01:44:44.000And so it was ultimately a financial burden in a lot of cases.
01:44:47.000And I think that is sort of the position we're putting some people into, that they don't They don't want to be a part of the system, so to speak.
01:44:54.000They don't want to pay rent or deal with any of this stuff.
01:44:56.000They have their own ways of living, and forcing them into it doesn't always work.
01:45:00.000And they've done studies about the amount of money per homeless person that places like San Francisco spend, and it's absolutely astronomical.
01:45:07.000I mean, it's like you're talking about- Like a hundred grand.
01:45:09.000So you actually got an upper middle class salary being spent on a single homeless person who is still not living well.
01:45:16.000So not only do they not have the solutions to it, but what they're trying to do is actively bad.
01:45:21.000I get that from a compassionate standpoint they don't want to see homeless people on the street suffering, but I'll again bring up that most people who are homeless do not remain homeless for the entirety of their lives.
01:45:30.000So, you know, they're treating homelessness like a, I guess, like a disease that someone just has and will have forever.
01:45:36.000They will never again be, I guess, able to support themselves, which is the wrong way to look at it.
01:50:46.000Alright, Paul Tascalo says, 8 suspects ages 13-17 arrested in the Las Vegas school beating death, all being charged with murder, and will be tried as adults according to report.
01:50:55.000Interesting, I'd like to see the full details.
01:50:57.000A lot of people were talking about this story, did you see this one?
01:51:00.000But a lot of people didn't mention that it was actually the dude who died who swung first.
01:52:05.000And a lot of people are screaming to do so, and I'm just like, bro, I watched a grainy video of people stomping on a guy, I don't know anything about it.
01:52:11.000If a dude, if you saw, like, here's the problem I have.
01:52:13.000There could be a video of five guys stomping on a dude.
01:52:16.000And they're like, oh no, why are they doing that?
01:52:19.000And then someone releases a video that's got 10 seconds more, and the dude being stomped on is waving a knife around and screaming, and then throws the knife and starts punching somebody, and I'm like, oh, okay, that guy's clearly crazy.
01:52:29.000Then someone posts another video of 10 seconds before, and this gang is actively opening fire on a crowd of people, and this guy runs up and starts waving the knife around saying, stop, stop!
01:52:38.000And it's like, you just don't know what happened.
01:52:41.000Theoretically, that's why we have trials, right?
01:53:00.000With the video we've seen and your testimony, and Richie McGinnis literally standing there behind him and helping the dude who got shot to the hospital, I'm like, pretty sure Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense.
01:53:11.000In this instance, all I saw was a video of some guy stomping on a guy, and him swinging at somebody, and I'm like, I don't know.
01:53:17.000Are you open to charging kids as adults now?
01:53:20.000It just depends on the circumstances, but sure, yeah.
01:53:24.000Right, see the problem, the reason why we have to, so the answer is yes, is because gangs will go to a 13 year old kid and be like, hey, go do, you know, take this gun and go kill that guy because you'll, you won't go, you'll get out when you're 18.
01:54:52.000It's like inflation, you have to account for it somehow.
01:54:56.000Amanda says Ben Franklin actually wanted Britain and America to stay together until Parliament humiliated him when he represented Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
01:55:04.000Then he was all on board for separation.
01:55:06.000I think that he was playing them, personally.
01:55:09.000I think that his intention was revolution the entire time, but you might be right.
01:55:32.000I like Tim's idea that he got into some sort of cool skateboarding accident, just taken a year off, you know, everyone needs a chance to recover.
01:56:32.000Yeah, it's like, I guess they're claiming that Saint Nick was this brutish Nordic barbarian who was mercilessly raping and pillaging until he became Santa.
01:56:42.000Every culture has their own Santa, and doesn't that make you proud of yours if that's your culture, you know?
01:56:47.000I forget what kids movie it was, but it was like some kids movie where all the, like, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny were all, like, real, and their version of Santa was just, like, this hardcore Russian, like, Russian Santa.
01:57:52.000I just watched this movie, I don't know if anyone knows what it's called, where two women go on vacation to Australia, to this rural town, and they get a job at a pub.
01:58:02.000It's a horror movie in the sense that these women are the villains the whole time.
01:58:05.000Basically what happens is, it's a rowdy pub, Then, like, one of the girls is drinking and wants to hang out with this guy who's not really that good of a dude and was causing fights.
01:58:13.000So then the main character gets an axe and slashes his tires.
01:58:16.000And then it ends with them just burning down this pub.
01:59:41.000This whole, or Walter Lawson, this whole retconning and giving it to a woman all for no reason before they even had an opportunity to portray him as he was written.
02:00:25.000Woke leftists are evil, and they're writing what they think is their power fantasy.
02:00:31.000So, for the average person, Captain America is like a male power fantasy of, I'm gonna jump on the grenade, that's gonna be me.
02:00:40.000If I was ever tested, I would prove that I'm not a coward.
02:00:43.000And what these people are doing is, their perspective of the strong female power fantasy is, he told me to smile, I'm gonna beat and rob him.
02:00:51.000It's like, ah, well, you're the villain, so... about that.
02:00:55.000It just seems like such an overreaction.
02:00:56.000Like, he tells you to smile and so you beat him up.
02:01:27.000Get someone else's kids to fight for you!
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02:03:23.000I will be in the comments today to argue with you guys, because some people want to argue about my hair being too long, which is super weird.
02:03:28.000Just like, you know, live your own life, but whatever.