On today's show, James Bacon, former White House Chief of Staff to President Trump and Director of Operations for Presidential Personnel in the Trump White House, joins us to discuss the latest in the Middle East, including the Israeli attack on Gaza and the deaths of at least 11 American citizens. Plus, the political fallout from RFK Jr's announcement that he will be running as an independent.
00:00:10.000But to put it a bit more simply, Hamas invaded into Israel and started killing civilians
00:00:17.000Over 5,000 rockets were fired targeting civilian areas, and it's pretty extreme in response to this.
00:00:23.000Israel has declared a full siege on Gaza, and now we're watching buildings being flattened, and of course, You've got people on the left defending Palestine, and then you actually have establishment Democrat types criticizing the far left and actually advocating for more aid in defense of Israel, with many conservatives split as well.
00:00:43.000Interestingly, this issue has divided everybody quite a bit, with many on the right under Trump being either very defensive of Israel or very anti-intervention.
00:00:53.000It gets interesting when you look at exactly what went down in the big news that's happening now.
00:00:57.000So, oh boy, do we have a lot to talk about here.
00:01:00.000There are hostages being murdered right now by Hamas.
00:01:03.000There are threats to execute more hostages as Israel retaliates and fires into Gaza.
00:01:10.000And there's reports that the hostages may contain American citizens and reports that 11 Americans have already died.
00:01:16.000We're going to talk about all that, but then there's the political ramifications as well.
00:01:21.000announced today that he will be running as an independent.
00:01:25.000I believe, based on everything we've seen, there's good reason to believe this will hurt Democrats, especially considering RFK's speech was very much so.
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00:03:30.000It's James Bacon, former Special Assistant to President Trump and Director of Operations for Presidential Personnel in the Trump White House.
00:04:07.000I've always prayed to God, so I decided to communicate with Jesus directly, and I said, please help me, and he said he told me to tell them, so I'm telling you, I did it.
00:05:05.000So, of course, there's going to be retaliation.
00:05:07.000The Wall Street Journal says Hamas on Monday threatened to execute Israeli hostages if Israel continues to bombard civilian homes in Gaza without warning.
00:05:14.000From this hour on, we announce that any targeting of civilian homes without advanced warning will be met regrettably with the execution I'm sorry, I mean it's plain as day.
00:05:22.000civilian hostages we hold and we'll be forced to broadcast this, says Abu Obaida, the spokesman
00:05:29.000for Hamas's military wing Al-Qassam Brigades, in remarks broadcast on Pan-Arab channel Al-Jazeera.
00:05:36.000The enemy does not understand the language of humanity and morals and we will address
00:06:16.000We can talk about the West Bank, we can talk about people going to the West Bank and bulldozing homes or seizing property, all of that stuff, we can have a conversation.
00:06:23.000But this right here, there's zero justification.
00:06:26.000There are people right now in New York, I shouldn't say right now, but probably right now, over this past weekend, celebrating the killing of civilians.
00:06:37.000This is a war of colonization, and it's the first time we've ever seen it on TV in real time.
00:06:43.000It's happened for the history of mankind, but you only hear, like, they went in and they marauded 18 border towns, and then they were there and they destroyed the crops, and then they came back.
00:06:53.000But you don't hear, you didn't see them murdering the people, raping the women, kidnapping the children to raise as their own.
00:07:04.000Yeah it's a strange part of modern warfare how quickly we can see what's going on on the ground especially given the wide access of the internet.
00:07:10.000I mean there are a number of people that I would be interested to hear their take.
00:07:14.000The Hadid sisters are obviously not what I would call political influencers but they have been very vocally pro-Palestine given their heritage.
00:07:25.000It's been a lot of sort of a deluge of information.
00:07:30.000Again, I don't know what's real and what's not.
00:07:32.000That's part of why this is an opportunity to speak scientifically on what I've seen over the weekend, I suppose.
00:07:38.000What I find really fascinating about this is that you have far leftists And what do you call this... I don't even know what you'd call the faction of anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.
00:07:50.000I'm not saying literally the same thing.
00:07:51.000There's people who hate Jewish people, people who hate Israel, or... Let's try and tone it down as much as possible.
00:07:58.000There are people who reject the idea of Israel, who are more nationalist, and then there are white nationalists.
00:08:06.000Yeah, I'm in this regard with the far left completely.
00:08:10.000Not in the sense of like pro-Palestine, but in opposition to Israel as a state.
00:08:14.000And it's just a very, very weird circumstance to see prominent conservatives now completely in agreement with the Democrats.
00:08:21.000Surprisingly, it's like all of a sudden like, whoa, it's just mishing and mashing everything up.
00:08:27.000I mean, I think it's reflective of a lot of stuff that's going on in our country where we have been used to certain political parties claiming certain values and ultimately, especially in complicated, nuanced situations, people you wouldn't expect to agree actually have common ground.
00:08:46.000When I think of far left, I think of people that support Palestine.
00:08:52.000And that's what I've always kind of assumed.
00:08:54.000And it may not be true, but the people on the far left are like, no, Israel's an invading force.
00:08:57.000We need to, but then the, the Biden administration's engaged with the far left had this, these people, and this is maybe I'm just misreading the situation through the media.
00:09:05.000I've been, I've been watching, but, and now Biden sent an aircraft carrier over there to support Israel, but his constituency is like the left.
00:09:13.000And they don't want, they support Palestine, and it's a very broad general assumption, but that's a conflict of interest, and maybe that's a good thing.
00:09:21.000Well, I think there's no room for the nuanced take here, which is obviously Israel has a right to respond and fight Hamas because they were attacked in a vicious terrorist attack, but that we should be focused on making sure this thing doesn't break out into World War III.
00:09:36.000That is what the U.S.' 's interest is here.
00:09:39.000You know, you're right, in essence, but considering who's in charge of this country, I'm not so sure their interests align with what you're describing.
00:09:48.000I think a lot of these companies have a vested interest in World War III.
00:09:51.000And then there's a big question about what constitutes World War III.
00:09:55.000With the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Or you can even go back to say like the US-backed ousting of Yanukovych in Ukraine.
00:10:07.000But with the conflict, the hot conflict, you've got prominent people in Europe saying this is World War III already.
00:10:13.000Now you add into the mix what will likely be the most dramatic and egregious Military escalation from Israel into Gaza that we've ever seen and may result in the end of Gaza.
00:10:26.000I mean, the videos that are coming out of buildings being leveled.
00:10:56.000But if China invades Taiwan and tries to take it right now, then I think it's fair to say, like, objectively, like, okay, World War III, we've got these massive superpower-involved hot conflicts popping up all over the globe.
00:11:11.000And even then, maybe it's still fair that there would be some argument against it.
00:11:16.000No, maybe it's just regional conflict, right?
00:11:22.000mobilizing, Russia mobilizing, China mobilizing, into an actual, easily discernible World War III with a front line, a western front, they will look back historically and this will be a part of that war.
00:11:34.000Right, so when Franz Ferdinand died, no one said, that's it, World War I, World War I's on everybody!
00:12:08.000There's that interwar period where Germany was just seething because half or part of the country had been stripped away and given to Poland and those native Germans that were now under the control of the Poles were being executed and genocided and the Germans were like, you know, cast this belly for war, we need to take our land back.
00:12:24.000And it was just like one big war with like 10 years of like quiet time.
00:12:27.000I mean, that's probably true of all conflict in world history of all time, right?
00:12:31.000Like, we say a war ends, but does it really?
00:12:33.000Because the fallout is what sets up the next one.
00:12:35.000I mean, that's going to be true obviously.
00:13:24.000Dude, you want to talk about war and conflict, fine, but like, if they were really trying to say like, take back their homes, or tear down the fences of an open-air prison, which by all means, make all these arguments.
00:13:36.000I don't see how they're like, we've escaped the prison, quick, go kill civilians.
00:13:40.000Like, imagine there's a dude who claims he was wrongfully jailed and he's in prison.
00:13:44.000And he's like, I shouldn't be here, I'm innocent, I was forced in here by corruption and tyranny, I'm a political prisoner.
00:13:49.000And then he breaks out, and then he runs straight for some 20-year-old woman and just beats her to death.
00:13:54.000You'd be like, dude, you should have been in prison!
00:13:56.000I think that a lot, the majority, probably a grand majority of the people in Palestine and in Gaza, whatever you want to call it, they call it, some people call it Gaza, some people call it Palestine, whatever.
00:14:11.000They're just stuck and they're trying to live.
00:14:13.000But then there's a militant, very angry, small group of militant activists, Hamas and others, you know, that are willing to kill and are creating a situation where these civilians are now in the line of fire.
00:14:26.000There are a lot of programs that try to bring aid to the Gaza Strip.
00:14:30.000I remember... It's a really crazy thing when I went to Israel and I was in Tel Aviv.
00:14:35.000And I know people who were involved in skateboard projects in Gaza and people skating in Gaza.
00:14:42.000And I'm talking to this Israeli person about, you know, like, it was really cool to see in the United States a Palestinian from Gaza who made it to the U.S.
00:14:50.000and was skateboarding with an Israeli, and they're like high-fiving and fist-bumping, being like, you know, if only we could find this kind of peace.
00:14:57.000And then the Israeli guy goes, no, they don't skateboard.
00:15:08.000I'm just like, do you genuinely think that's not true?
00:15:11.000And I think the issue is that for a lot of these more Liberal-minded, like this German citizen who was reportedly killed was a German national, but also dual-citizen Israeli.
00:16:18.000Well, we can argue about, like, lewd and lascivious behavior and stuff and, like, the devolution or the degradation of society and stuff, but come on, man, like, What's the justification for running into a music festival and just gunning people down?
00:16:32.000Because in their mind, it doesn't matter who you are, you're all evil.
00:16:35.000So it's like, what's justice in this situation?
00:16:40.000If these people in New York are chanting from the river to the sea, They're talking about genocide.
00:17:23.000The Arabs were also with Germans and the Austrians.
00:17:26.000The British and the French made a deal with the Arabs and they said, if you help us win, if you turn on the Ottoman Empire, we'll give you this area, which is now Israel.
00:17:57.000And then there's something called the Sykes-Picot Agreement, where I think Israel was officially formed.
00:18:02.000I don't want to speak too much on this, but there's something called the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which is worth looking into, too.
00:18:06.000This is one of the reasons why I'm, like, very anti-intervention.
00:18:09.000I never say I'm, like, absolutely anti-intervention, because sometimes I recognize, like, none of the things are absolute.
00:18:15.000But the problem is, you've got a lot of people who don't know enough about any of this, and it's so fervent and insane.
00:18:22.000The people being like, Israel has a right, blah blah blah, and you know, whatever, and I'm like, bro, I'm sitting here watching people kill civilians, saying like, hey, don't kill civilians, and then people are still mad.
00:18:32.000Like, the pro-Israel side is saying they're justified in everything they're doing and whatever, in retaliation, and then the pro-Palestine side are saying that they're justified in pushing out these occupiers, and I'm like, bro, it's like a 20-year-old woman at a music festival got killed.
00:18:49.000And of course, I understand there's fog of war and there's propaganda, but dude, nobody mass-produced big fake videos and got these guys to go on TV and admit to doing these things.
00:19:00.000I mean, this is how I felt when we got involved with Ukraine, right?
00:19:30.000At the Hamas celebration rally in Times Square organized by the far left socialists and Palestinian nationalists, a speaker talks about the Islamist attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis, mostly civilians.
00:20:42.000To start bombing the town next door with a bunch of civilians who live nearby.
00:20:46.000You're not breaking out, you're not... It's like a sally out, kind of.
00:20:51.000If you're in a siege situation and you're the one that's under siege, sometimes they'll sally out and try and cause havoc in the enemy camp, the enemy siege camp, and then come back and kill as much and destroy as much as they can.
00:21:09.000And were seen on video clearing civilians out and telling them to get back.
00:21:14.000And then issued a statement saying, you know, our issue is with the occupying force of the Israeli government who have oppressed and suppressed us.
00:21:22.000We will take every, every effort to protect the lives of civilians.
00:21:41.000This video in particular just reminds me of Pavlov's dog, right?
00:21:44.000She says colonizers and the crowd who's all raised in the West, they're all American, cheer because They know from every public school history lesson that the word colonization is always bad.
00:21:52.000I mean they can't see that there might be any bias in this.
00:21:55.000I mean obviously they've chosen to go to this so they have their own own leaning but with this argument it's it's just I don't I don't know I I hate that this is something that people are going to decide they have an opinion on all of a sudden because of the media media slant because really it's an area of the world that most people don't understand well enough to truly understand what's going on.
00:22:14.000They have signs at this protest saying end U.S.
00:22:19.000Many of the people who are arguing that we not fund Israel, it's not a principled argument about America first and saving the American people.
00:22:27.000It is them secretly trying to get Israel to be in a weakened position so that they can start genociding people.
00:22:38.000I'm saying these people here are referring to Hamas as their fighters.
00:22:43.000There's another video where they say the same thing.
00:22:47.000Where these activists and Palestinians, and there's many, there's Palestinians here, outright say that Hamas is them, and they're doing this intentionally.
00:22:55.000Constantine Kissin made an excellent tweet, I think it was yesterday, and saying, you people in the West, and he was kind of like, is like, you've been told for so long that they hate you for your freedom.
00:23:06.000And it's not that, they hate you because you have more power than them.
00:23:08.000And if they had more power than you, they would conquer you, colonize you, and turn you into something much worse.
00:23:14.000So, Get your head straight, and I've been so anti-war, I put it in quotes, but like, for 20 years, like, no, don't, but like, I can only fathom what would happen if the United States was taken over by marauders or barbarians that would rape and kill.
00:23:28.000Like, that would be... This is the far left.
00:23:49.000I don't think so, other than the squad called for a ceasefire, which is just, I just, look man, yes, okay, we don't want any more fighting, but you are hard-pressed to be like, hey, we stormed and killed a bunch of civilians, took a bunch of hostages, now ceasefire.
00:24:02.000It just seems like arrogance on their part, right?
00:24:05.000But we called for it over here in America, so you guys should stop.
00:24:08.000I think they thought, the Hamas perhaps thought, that taking the hostages would prevent any kind of retaliation, and they miscalculated, and then when the bombs started dropping in Gaza they were like, we need to stop this right now.
00:24:19.000No, no, they're saying they're going to execute the civilians.
00:24:23.000In response to now the bombs, but I think they thought that if they took the civilians, a lot of captives, then they'd have some time.
00:24:29.000The Al-Qassam Brigade sets up rocket depots in hospitals and schools and residential areas on purpose to force Israel to strike civilian targets and then complain that they're striking civilian targets.
00:24:41.000The argument from any of the pro-Palestine side is, where should their resistance fighters set up at all?
00:24:46.000Because there's no military bases there.
00:25:09.000Saying you're a refugee doesn't necessarily mean- and that's terrible because there are people in awful positions who do need support and help, but opening every border in the U.S.
00:25:17.000because we've decided to get involved in wars that we are ultimately not sure how we're going to end anyways is sort of Not the solution, right?
00:25:25.000We're creating more problems for everyone all the time.
00:25:28.000I mean, it is one of the reasons that you have to be so critical of the Biden administration, which is that they were not proactive on the border the way they should have been, and they have also been club-footed when it comes to international diplomacy.
00:25:41.000They have not put an American in a strong position, so we're actually, in my opinion, not in a very strong position to help anyone in any way.
00:25:47.000So, there are a lot of reasons for this, and I'm not trying to put anyone on the spot, it's not a rhetorical question, it's a literal question for you guys.
00:26:09.000The Suez is controlled by Egypt. Shipping, maybe. But well, I mean,
00:26:14.000they kind of guards the Suez. It's not... Obviously, the Suez is in Egypt, yeah.
00:26:19.000It's a... Yeah, it's on the... So, the Sinai Peninsula is where the Suez is, and then you
00:26:25.000have Israel further east of there. So, perhaps there's a strategic military point because it
00:26:33.000gives them the eastern side of the Suez, I suppose.
00:26:35.000It always was, too, because the Romans would sail over there, well, they would do it through Egypt, but then they would pick their boats up and walk them across before the canal was ever built, and then put it back down, and then I mean, it probably is the most logical reason.
00:26:57.000That opens up the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
00:27:00.000So taking Russia's warm water port in Crimea, if NATO were to acquire or the EU were to absorb Ukraine, would be very bad for Russia.
00:27:10.000So now Russia's trying to secure this whole land bridge into Crimea because that's where they have access to the Black Sea.
00:27:17.000And then there's other points of access they have into the Black Sea as well.
00:27:21.000But this is a major naval base for them.
00:27:23.000And then of course you have what may be the Suez.
00:27:25.000Obviously the Panama Canal was massively and strategically important for us to control.
00:27:30.000And I think it was like 10 years ago, China was trying to build a Nicaraguan canal, which is insane because the landmass is massive, whereas Panama is very thin.
00:27:38.000And then with the Nicaraguan canal, they would have to decimate this natural aquifer that everyone got water from.
00:27:44.000Ultimately, I think the program was abandoned, however.
00:27:49.000It could be that the US, we hear this all the time that Israel is our most important ally in the region.
00:27:54.000I'm like, okay, I guess in the sense that in terms of the form of government and the perception, like the world view, yes, that makes sense.
00:28:02.000But what is the actual strategic military purpose?
00:30:10.000Are we going to go to every single country on the planet whenever a bomb falls?
00:30:14.000No, but if one of your military allies is under attack, you go to the war room and that's where you stay for the next 28 hours or whatever.
00:30:20.000I was on Twitter for like 12 hours yesterday.
00:30:46.000Why aren't we talking about what's going on in, say, these African nations?
00:30:51.000We didn't intervene with the IRA way back in the day.
00:30:56.000There are definitely, there has always been a stance that we pick and choose and I'm glad that you brought up the Uighur Muslims because we still sent our Olympic team.
00:31:03.000We made a big show of saying we're not going to send any of our officials or diplomats yet we still went with it.
00:31:08.000I mean the double standard for what we are allowed to be outraged on humanitarian platforms it's just ridiculous and I think ultimately we know that this is not Based on any sort of bleeding heart, dedication to anything.
00:31:22.000It's always about something strategic and powerful.
00:31:24.000And in this case, we've already put ourselves in a weak position.
00:31:26.000So what are we, I think that's like, I can't get past the point of what is the purpose of this?
00:31:32.000I just, my question is what, what about Israel makes people's brains stop working?
00:32:08.000There's no rational thought whatsoever.
00:32:10.000It's the most annoying thing in the world.
00:32:12.000I used to have a chat server And the most annoying thing in the world was people always tried to make Israel a subject.
00:32:23.000Like, to talk about it when it was not even in the news.
00:32:26.000Whatever it is, there are places in the world right now where there are tribal factions locking up, oppressing, beating, and murdering other factions.
00:32:36.000China, for instance, but for some reason, it's Israel.
00:32:41.000I'm like, hey, okay, let's check out the history of what's going on, and they're like, The people right now, the conspiracy theory is that Israel knew it was going to happen and let it happen so they could justify flattening Gaza.
00:33:26.000And we've had people on this show where they just get really, really, really angry at the subject and start ranting about it.
00:33:35.000And I'm like, what is up with people, dude?
00:33:37.000Certainly, World War II, the way Hitler exterminated six million, according to historical records of Jewish people, has caused an emotional attachment to just the entire concept of Judaism and extermination of humanity.
00:35:10.000scrambled to evacuate Afghanistan, as ordered by Biden, and the significant amount of weapons and equipment left behind there, has now been used to attack Israel, a close ally of the U.S.
00:35:19.000Biden is incapable of leadership, and a total embarrassment on the world stage.
00:35:23.000I don't know that any of this is confirmed, right?
00:35:47.000And I think it is fair to say, considering the Taliban's desire to support Gaza, the Palestinians, it makes sense that the weapons that they got control over would fall into the hands of the Palestinians.
00:36:01.000Now, the bigger picture, I suppose, is whether or not any of this is true, as I mentioned a moment ago, people, when it comes to Israel-Palestine, their brains shut off.
00:36:10.000I'm sorry, I'm not saying literally everyone, maybe not you guys, but it's impossible to have conversations with people about this.
00:36:15.000We've even had guests, like I mentioned, who just lose it and can't hear a reason.
00:36:20.000The point is, that being said, this will be tremendously bad for Joe Biden.
00:36:26.000When Afghanistan happened, Joe Biden lost something like 15 points in the polls.
00:36:30.000I imagine Netanyahu cannot stand the guy.
00:36:33.000I imagine he finds no comfort in Biden being around, being in control, you want to call it.
00:36:41.000Obviously, the surrender of military equipment and human life to the Taliban in Afghanistan was one of those egregious losses of American military Right.
00:36:49.000I mean, this this theory is even on the table because Biden handled Afghanistan so poorly, right?
00:36:58.000Take it a little with a grain of salt.
00:36:59.000But the fact that we know weapons and other supplies were left behind means that this is on the table in the first place, which, again, is a direct responsibility of the Biden administration.
00:37:09.000I don't understand how anyone can defend Biden going into 2024, given the record and the position that he has put everyone in in the last, what, two years of his presidency?
00:37:20.000But I don't like that everyone is kind of jumping on the Biden administration and trying to blame America for this conflict.
00:37:26.000This conflict has been going on for a long time, to say the least.
00:37:32.000Everyone wants to always attribute things to America, like, oh, they released the aid to the sanctions on Iran, so they got six billion.
00:37:39.000It's like, that hasn't been confirmed.
00:37:41.000We don't know that Iran directly directed this attack.
00:37:45.000We don't know that the funds were directly used.
00:37:47.000But what we're seeing are people like Senator Lindsey Graham and the neocons in the Republican Party trying to score points against Biden and saying we need to bomb Iran's oil refineries when we don't even know what the facts are yet.
00:38:01.000We don't even know the extent of this stuff.
00:38:04.000Someone pointed that out about Lindsey Graham.
00:38:06.000He's almost 70 and has no kids, so he has, like, nothing to lose.
00:38:26.000Hey, look, man, if you tell me that you're in favor of funding and support for any country, no matter what it is, Israel or Ukraine, hey, man, I got some military PTs.
00:39:25.000But hey, look, man, at least he went there, I guess.
00:39:27.000It reminds me of that movie, Edge of Tomorrow, when they're like gonna send Tom Cruise to the front line.
00:39:32.000Like, M. Malcolm Nance, you're going in.
00:39:34.000But hey, look, I'm not saying that Israel's right or wrong, I'm just saying if you want military funding for any of these countries, Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran, bro, I will put you in that plane, you can pull the lever.
00:40:17.000But I'm thinking about 9-11, which is why I brought it up, because they said it's the Muslims that want to...
00:40:21.000No, we wanted the oil in the Middle East, so we went in and took it, and we said, Muslim, Muslim, and we caused all this chaos, and it was just like, that was stupid of me, because now I'm like, I want to I'm thinking like, dude, the worst threat we could face is Islamic terrorists.
00:40:37.000But I think the Russians are Christian.
00:40:39.000I mean, the Russians are like Orthodox Christian, they should be on our side, defending what's right, you know, what's what's good and right.
00:40:44.000I'm not saying it's a real but I don't want to turn into a some religious thing.
00:40:47.000It's just we got to we got to call a white peace in Ukraine and start working together to defend Earth.
00:40:54.000I mean, I don't think Ukraine wants to... Ukraine and Russia have not successfully worked out a peace deal, I'll say that, and I think it would be impossible to say, okay guys, we've got a new world conflict, so you guys just take a pause and we'll move on.
00:41:07.000I mean, what I'm waiting for next is anything to happen in Taiwan, because everyone can tell that We are on the brink of very serious chaos and I think everyone knows the U.S.
00:41:49.000At a certain point, we talk about the actions here.
00:41:53.000Under Donald Trump, Abraham Accords, normalization of relations between Israel and many Arabic nations, Donald Trump, no new wars, and while there was budding conflict with Ukraine and Russia, under Obama, it stops when Trump gets in.
00:42:14.000The intention of the existing administration, the unit party in this country, is to perpetuate war for their neo-liberal new world order, whatever you want to call it.
00:42:51.000It's like, at a certain point, I'm not gonna go into the nitty gritty of all the classified documents to determine, was Russia biding their time?
00:42:59.000And it was just a coincidence that all of this happened the way it did.
00:43:01.000And just be like, nah, the simple answer is this.
00:43:30.000I know we're going to talk about RFK Jr.
00:43:33.000in a second, but I just really think this is one of the moments that Democrats are going to have to evaluate if they can get behind the Biden administration for a second term.
00:43:51.000No, the average Democrat voter probably doesn't know or care at all and might just give you a generic, but we support Israel, far leftists.
00:43:59.000We'll vote for Joe Biden because they're crazy people.
00:44:04.000A lot of these prominent leftists and Antifa people who have big social media followings endorsed Joe Biden and said, like, we're we got to support him because Trump's a fascist.
00:45:23.000You know, they're like, they're saying like, the Russian forces are decimated and they're losing and Ukraine's winning, but he'll take Poland!
00:45:31.000I think I was saying, was it before the show, I've been so accustomed to false flags, just because Golf of Tonkin, I was talking to my dad, he was like, oh yeah, that was, he went, he served in Vietnam, he was in the Navy, and he remembers the false, so that I'm like, so anti-interventionalist, but uh, Then sometimes people just get attacked.
00:46:17.000I mean, I get, you know, the desire to sort of feel like you need to act right.
00:46:24.000But in this case, you have to go back to, like, our government is to serve the American people and what is ultimately the best interest of the American people.
00:46:31.000I can understand an argument for we have allies, we've made agreements, we've made deals.
00:46:34.000But, you know, I think the president has the duty to the American people first.
00:46:57.000And now you have... It doesn't matter what you think is true.
00:47:01.000In fact, it doesn't even matter what is true.
00:47:03.000It matters what people end up believing is true.
00:47:05.000Certainly, I do believe the truth matters, and we try our best to get to it, but the political ads are all gonna say one simple line, under Donald Trump, historic peace agreements with Israel.
00:47:16.000Under Joe Biden, 11 Americans dead in escalating conflict.
00:49:06.000Whether or not they let this thing happen, those dudes murdered, raped, like they were, they killed, from what I'm reading about this music festival... Did they rape?
00:49:16.000They killed people and then they raped women right next to their friends' dead corpses.
00:49:27.000And so watch out, because when the Ukraine war started, all that... Look, let's be honest.
00:49:32.000Israel is so much better at propaganda than... But I think two things that a man needs and will kill for is eating and having sex.
00:49:39.000And if these men are militaries and there are no women in their society, oh, you better believe they want to have sex.
00:49:44.000Yeah, but they're not... It's not like these guys were like, urgh, I'm so angry, I wanna... It's more like these evil oppressors will know when we control them and they wanna subjugate the people that they view as oppressors.
00:49:59.000And then the psychotic urges of masculinity come out when they're in battle after the kill, the man wants to... Well, it's not that.
00:50:06.000You're thinking of it... A lot of it is spitting in the face of Israel.
00:50:12.000Taking the women is an insult to Israelis.
00:50:16.000It was known throughout time, like when Alexander the Great's forces or like a military force would invade and take a city, the commander would have to tell the troops, do not pillage, do not rape.
00:50:26.000And a shitty commander wouldn't be able to keep his troops under wraps and they'd just go destroy.
00:50:30.000And so like a good commander would keep his men from doing it.
00:50:33.000But it was just the proclivity for, you know, a worn out dude that just got done putting his life on the line, his adrenaline's all No.
00:51:41.000Yeah, my question is, why do you care about Israel to the point where you think we should intervene and provide aid, but no other countries?
00:51:46.000Um, maybe because it's probably like our third strongest ally, maybe next to Germany.
00:51:51.000And if they go down, I think that China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran will take over the world.
00:51:59.000Israel is capable, fully capable, they're an advanced, technologically advanced military.
00:52:04.000They are fully capable on their own of defeating Hamas.
00:52:08.000So I think a danger here is that Israel, this goes into a broader war and Israel has in the back of their mind, well if we get into trouble the US will bail us out.
00:53:35.000The drone attack, you know, killing hundreds of, you know, militants is way, way... The harsh reality of war sometimes is you want a non-proportional response in order to make it all stop before it escalates.
00:54:11.000See, Ian, what we're trying to say is... I mean, you eradicate all of them if one of them stings you.
00:54:14.000Yeah, but what you're arguing is a wasp stung you, so you brought a flamethrower and you wanted all the other wasps... I'm not going to travel Europe to kill all the wasps.
00:55:24.000You can't come to me and be like, Israel should not be targeting, should not be taking action against the Hamas targets, the al-Qassam brigades.
00:55:31.000And I'm like, but they're shooting at them.
00:55:34.000You walk outside and a guy's got a Ruger 10-22 and he's firing at you and he hits some of your kids and the only weapon, and so you pull out your SCAR-20S and then you're like, I'm going to return fire.
00:55:44.000I'm like, whoa, but yours is way bigger than his.
00:55:46.000It kind of feels like, Yeah, war is war, dude!
00:55:48.000When the American colonists were colonizing North America and slaughtering the native population, it's similar to that, but we didn't have internet video back then.
00:55:55.000We'd have the same conversation, like, well, you know, but what happened, the natives would come into town, guerrilla force, they'd tomahawk some dudes, grab some women, take them back to the tribe, and then the Americans would go with their rifles and slaughtered all of them.
00:56:28.000They didn't take it, and it wasn't special for them in any way.
00:56:30.000This is different because as far as I understand, those regions in West Bank, Gaza, et cetera, were not really inhabited until Israel became a state and then there was reason to be able to support populations in those areas and then they immigrated into it.
00:56:43.000Indigenous people versus people that migrated there after there was a state established and allowed them to survive in those areas, I don't know if that's exactly the same.
00:57:33.000And then, in the end, he finally realizes that because the world has fallen to vampires, and he is one of the last humans, he is the legend.
00:57:44.000From the perspective of humans, there is a legend of vampires that, in the middle of the night, come and kill you while you sleep.
00:57:50.000When the world became all vampires, there was a legend of a man who lurks during the day and kills you in your sleep.
00:57:56.000That was his realization that they arrested him and were to try him for the crimes of murder.
00:58:28.000I just don't know what the proposed solution is right now, when you have Israel, for all their faults, and then Palestinians don't want peace, they want from the river to the sea.
00:58:39.000These are act- like, they'll lie to you.
00:58:42.000We know they lie, we know the far left lies.
00:58:44.000They are evil people, they lie, lie, lie.
00:58:46.000They're trying to sterilize children, they want you to abort your kids, they do a whole bunch of things, and then they go in politics, they lie.
00:58:52.000There's a video where Jack Posobiec got punched in the face.
00:58:56.000And the far-left activists say to the cops, I didn't see anything happen.
00:59:00.000They just lie with a smug look on their face.
00:59:02.000You have videos of the people in New York amongst their peers cheering for the killing of civilians, calling them illegal colonizers.
00:59:08.000We, as regular people, are like, okay, we can understand the nuances of military conflict, don't like these stories we're being told, but will not tolerate civilians at a music festival being just murdered and dragged to the streets.
00:59:21.000Then they'll lie and say, oh, but our poor civilians will make propaganda videos.
00:59:57.000Unfortunately, I think overwhelmingly it falls to the Palestinians and the ideologues, more so Hamas, but yes, in many ways, the Palestinians, they just want to purge Israel completely.
01:00:42.000And so, as much as we'd like to see a ceasefire, as much as we wouldn't like to see people lost, and we wouldn't like to see civilians taken hostage, We can all agree these things are bad.
01:00:50.000On the other hand, it's not like we can just be like, hey, guys, stop.
01:01:02.000It's insane to me that people are so fervent about it because it's like, I got an idea.
01:01:07.000Let's, uh, secure our borders, bring manufacturing back to this country, get rid of these garbage international agreements like TPP, and make America great again.
01:01:15.000And then when people are like, did you hear about the conflict happening?
01:01:17.000And, uh, no, I didn't, because I'm concerned about our borders, which are currently porous and have millions of people born there.
01:01:22.000Yeah, this is an example of one of Jesus's parables, when he said, take the plank out of your own eye before you try and take a speck of dust out of your brother's eye or your friend or whatever.
01:01:56.000The Republican National Committee and Trump's campaign both took aim at Kennedy's liberal background, while National Democrats stayed silent, as Kennedy insisted in a speech in Philadelphia.
01:02:04.000Quote, Voters should not be deceived by anyone who pretends to have conservative values, said Trump.
01:02:09.000Spokesperson Stephen Chung in a statement, he labeled Kennedy's campaign nothing more than a vanity project for a liberal Kennedy looking to cash in on his family's name.
01:02:16.000It's really funny because Democrats are hurt by this, not Donald Trump.
01:02:21.000I don't know if y'all watched his speech where he talked about finally the United States can recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day and stand up, you know, blah blah blah, left woke talking point, and said he wants to have a new declaration of independence, independence from the corporations that are doing all these things, and I'm like, I don't see this guy pulling any Trump voters.
01:02:40.000Uh, the crowd looked to be more liberal leaning and cheering for him saying Indigenous Peoples Day.
01:02:46.000I think this narrative of criticism from the GOP is because they're trying to keep Democrats unified and they want RFK to be seen as Trump.
01:02:56.000The way they stop RFK from pulling votes from Democrats is by convincing Democrats that RFK Jr.
01:03:01.000is a Trump supporter or a Trump in some way.
01:03:05.000Yeah, and he teed himself up to have this moment in his speech where he could have potentially really courted Trump voters and then he let it go.
01:03:11.000I mean, he did say a lot of really interesting stuff along the way, and I thought it was perfectly fine.
01:03:16.000He said at one point, you know, his big tenet was we need to Give up our addiction to picking sides.
01:03:23.000And I thought that was a great, great sentiment, right?
01:03:25.000So many people don't want to hear anything.
01:03:26.000They know they're supposed to fall under a certain label or side of a certain party, so they just continue to agree with it no matter what.
01:03:31.000He was saying, for example, over the past six months, I've really started to listen to different people, and I've gone to the border, and I've talked to border patrol agents and migrants and people in the community, and I've really started to rethink my position on this.
01:04:17.000So ultimately, RFK is just needing to be different than Biden, and he is going to do that.
01:04:24.000Obviously, I mean, other than our scenario where he, you know, collapses on stage and Newsom takes over, we know the DNC would never let RFK be the frontrunner, and so the Independent is the best way he can court voters at all, like Ross Perot.
01:04:41.000I think he's run a great campaign, especially by saying he's going to focus on the deep state.
01:04:47.000His whole campaign has been about, the deep state is unaccountable to the American people, and my number one priority is going to be fixing these government agencies, like HHS that destroyed the country in 2020.
01:05:00.000So I think his campaign has been great.
01:05:02.000He may be playing to get more Democrat votes now, but I do think the effect would be to take more Republicans, or at least right-leaning independents.
01:05:11.000Why would they vote for... Why would a right-leaning independent vote for Kennedy?
01:05:16.000Because they see all his appearances on all these shows, which are overwhelmingly right-leaning, and he's talking to... he's speaking to... I think he's speaking to right-leaning voters.
01:05:30.000His whole thing is opposing the COVID tyranny, opposing the deep state, and the left-wing media hasn't given him any oxygen, whereas the right-wing media has been giving him all his oxygen.
01:05:40.000But there are many people on the left who hated the lockdowns as well.
01:05:48.000Sure, but like, I don't see that as being strong enough.
01:05:53.000If you come out in your announcement speech celebrating Indigenous People's Day, I'm not sure the anti-woke post-liberals are gonna be like, that's my guy!
01:06:14.000I think that's what's fueling his campaign, or the right-leaning centrists.
01:06:18.000Kind of the Joe Rogan listener crowd is what's fueling RFK's campaign.
01:06:24.000And the Republican nominee, if Trump wants to win in 2024, the key to victory is to get that crowd.
01:06:31.000See, I can see where you're coming from, but he has, RFK has steadily gained among Democrats.
01:06:37.000I mean, he came out at like, what, 5%?
01:06:39.000He's almost up to 20% favorability among Democrats now.
01:06:42.000So as much as maybe there are a couple people who are excited about him, who are sort of moderate to, you know, almost independent, Republicans will say, I think there are more people who are discontented in his base that he will pull away.
01:07:00.000It'll be interesting to see what voters RFK targets now, and if he shifts the style of his campaign like you just said, Tim, where maybe this is more a leftward shift.
01:07:11.000Like, it's been conservatives that have been hooting and hollering because they like what he said about COVID, but they're ignoring everything else that he said.
01:07:18.000I mean, and a lot of libertarians have come out and been like, the dude is anti-gun.
01:07:23.000He's like a liberal who just, his only position that aligns with conservatives is that he didn't like the COVID lockdown.
01:07:28.000But he's also been very critical of woke culture, cancel culture, and the far left.
01:07:33.000And I think the Republicans like him for that reason, too.
01:07:35.000He's kind of this symbol of, you know, I'm a non-woke liberal.
01:07:42.000I just think that there are lots of moderates who lean left socially that also feel that way.
01:07:47.000I think we don't give enough credit to the fact that the DNC and the Biden administration have to court the middle ground when they have positioned themselves more— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
01:07:59.000I think that he just needs to be not establishment to abide in DNC.
01:08:04.000I think that the Republicans have enough on the field where it's unlikely that they will see tons of Republicans flocking to RFK because, you know, he ultimately is an environmentalist lawyer.
01:08:14.000I mean, he's not someone that is going to capture people on their base.
01:08:18.000I think what I find most interesting about his shift towards being an independent candidate is what he said, which was that, you know, it is painful for me to leave the party that my family's political legacy comes from.
01:08:28.000But I think it's so often that we see the media, obviously for, in my opinion, biased reasons, focusing on fractures within the Republican Party that they gloss over the splintering that is going on among Democrats.
01:09:17.000If you take a look at the graph, you can actually see that there is only a tiny red sliver that jumps to RFK, but a larger portion of the Democrats.
01:09:34.000And I mean, I was looking at a poll that came out of New Hampshire a couple weeks ago.
01:09:37.000You know, they'll say, who are you planning on voting for?
01:09:39.000And they'll say, who's your second choice candidate?
01:09:41.000And it's not like Republicans are saying, well, if it's if it's not my number one choice, you know, DeSantis, Trump, whoever it is, I'm going to switch to RFK.
01:09:49.000They're going to pick another Republican.
01:09:50.000They're more likely to, whereas Democrats are not particularly happy with Biden already.
01:09:55.000And so if they're presented an alternative, it's more likely that they'll pick it.
01:10:00.000I think he's a much more favorable candidate to Republican mindset than... To Republicans, but not to Democrats, whereas RFK is, you know, at least baseline more Republican, especially to that moderate class that I think the DNC really overlooks.
01:10:12.000I mean, they trample on them all the time.
01:10:18.000I love when we have a third party candidate.
01:10:20.000I mean, I will say I listened to this whole speech because that's what I do for my job, and I like that he talked about – he had this line saying, you know, there have been independent candidates in the past, but this time it's going to be different because you're going to win.
01:10:34.000And I don't think that's necessarily true, but I do think that it's nice to see someone who is representing people who are frustrated with the party system.
01:11:26.000I just can't imagine, you know, working out like, hey, you're not invited to Thanksgiving this year because you're running for president as a third-party candidate.
01:11:35.000They're like, cool, I didn't want to go anyways.
01:11:37.000Yeah, he's actually said his family disagrees with him politically, but they get along.
01:11:41.000And he has a bunch of pretty mainstream, I mean, not that Hollywood is where you should put all your interests, but he has a lot of celebrity followers, isn't it?
01:11:49.000Like Woody Harrelson, he had a concert with, I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but you know, RFK has appeal in a way that Biden does not in a lot of aspects of culture.
01:11:59.000His wife is super famous actor, Cheryl Hines from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
01:12:04.000I'm just gonna say it, her outfit today was great.
01:12:07.000I would be happy to have her come on as a first lady.
01:13:47.000I was going to ask you, James, how much of the president's value and effectivity is around that one guy and how much of it is around the people he surrounds himself with?
01:13:56.000Well, I think it's been a trend in American politics since FDR of the presidency becoming more and more ceremonial over time, to the point today where today's president has a 100th the power that FDR did.
01:14:11.000Curtis Yarman has talked about that a lot.
01:14:13.000Um, the deep state has become a massive problem, and the people truly pulling the levers of power are kind of this expert class at the top of the bureaucracy that, of course, leans left and is permanent.
01:14:26.000You know, they have civil service protections, and it makes it hard for a president to control the bureaucracy and control the policy.
01:14:42.000Is that why you got involved with your project with Heritage?
01:14:45.000Yeah, that's the idea behind Project 2025 at Heritage, actually, which is basically an effort to get the personnel right this next administration, and also an effort to make sure that the bureaucrats that have the true levers of power in our bureaucracy are able to be held accountable.
01:15:04.000That doesn't mean we're going to fire all of them, but if somebody is obstructing policy, it's making sure that person can be fired.
01:15:11.000Because, you know, all these candidates love to talk about what they're going to do, but if you don't first get the bureaucracy under control, you can't do anything else.
01:15:22.000I imagine the president's pretty neutered when it comes to that, but with a good staff, what would be an example?
01:15:30.000What are the top three or five roles that the president would need to surround him or herself with?
01:15:34.000What are the top five powerful roles that they would pick?
01:15:37.000I know chief of staff would be one of them.
01:15:39.000Chief of Staff is extremely important.
01:15:41.000I think, I don't think it's necessarily the roles, I think it's the actions the President would need to take.
01:15:47.000There is a massive barrier between the President and his own Cabinet Secretaries.
01:15:52.000So, there's a White House bureaucracy within the White House itself, and they kind of serve as this management barrier where they tell the President's Cabinet Secretaries what to do instead of the President directly.
01:16:04.000And this management bureaucracy was Created under FDR and it's only grown bigger and bigger.
01:16:10.000So I think the next president needs to do things like kick the National Security Council permanent bureaucrat staff out of the White House on day one.
01:16:51.000If the president and his cabinet secretaries dig into these agencies, they are going to figure out how things are really run and they're going to get a better handle on this stuff.
01:17:01.000Why did FDR create this managerial class?
01:17:05.000So FDR was spinning up all these new agencies in the 30s during the New Deal and he wanted to put in place a system that would last after he left.
01:17:16.000So he did this thing where he got all these progressive academics to come up with a plan for how can I better make this administrative state work.
01:17:26.000And these progressive academics based their plan on the monarchies in Europe, which had massive bureaucracies where the United States didn't.
01:17:35.000And FDR took their plan and he implemented it.
01:17:38.000And so it's this idea of a permanent expert class, an expert class that keeps the policies going no matter who the president is.
01:17:48.000Was it because he was getting bribed by like special interests and it was like favors or was it because he couldn't run the government properly to win the world war that he needed a fight?
01:18:00.000I think it's ideological more than anything else.
01:18:05.000It's just always been this left-wing idea that we need government by an expert class.
01:18:12.000So what are you guys specifically doing to combat this issue?
01:18:19.000So there's a lot of things the president can do, but basically all the tools the president has are in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which actually was passed by Congress to help the president better control the deep state, because it had become such a problem.
01:18:37.000And it created an agency called the Office of Personnel Management, and they're supposed to manage the bureaucrats.
01:18:44.000But what's happened over time is that agency that was created got captured by the bureaucrats themselves.
01:19:56.000You know, get rid of the non-essential ones, and you can use reduction force exercises, which is just a fancy term for mass government layoffs, to do that.
01:20:05.000But then at the top, it's more, you know, picking apart certain places where the bureaucracy has a hold, like the State Department.
01:20:13.000You need to go in and tear that place apart.
01:20:16.000If people are resisting, you need to fire them.
01:20:44.000And so you're not going to fire all those people, but what does it being non-essential mean?
01:20:49.000It means they're non-essential in some way.
01:20:52.000So you start from there and look at that.
01:20:55.000Would it be an executive order that would be like...
01:20:58.000This would put it into action or something?
01:20:59.000This agency, Office of Personnel Management, would do it.
01:21:03.000So, for example, on day one you could say, we're doing a reduction in force to get rid of all the diversity, equity, and inclusion offices across the federal government and let's just start there.
01:23:02.000So when you want to go work for the government, you got to think carefully, like you want an essential job because you are at risk of being shipped up with the illusion.
01:23:09.000This little thing right here, this is America.
01:24:21.000You ever see those things around the internet where they're like, you can get paid a million dollars a year to live on this remote island and maintain its lighthouse.
01:24:34.000Especially if you work, and this is not to mean to any of our bureaucrats who are listening and who support the show, you guys are great, but if you work in like a boring office for the government and you are constantly being reminded every couple years that you're non-essential when the government sets down, that's gotta hurt your self-esteem, right?
01:24:50.000You would take this cool island, maintain whatever, hang out with the other guys.
01:24:54.000Someone in the chat there says they left in 2011, it's no longer been inhabited since then.
01:25:31.000People would love to, like, get a trip to go somewhere like that, some exotic location.
01:25:36.000I think Charlie Kirk, he was pushing to decentralize the, uh, just the RNC, the Republican And so decentralizing the government might also be effective, so they're not all sitting there on K Street, able to walk from one guy's office to another.
01:25:50.000Well, it's funny, I actually went on Charlie Kirk's show to tell him why that was a bad idea.
01:25:54.000It kind of works, but it doesn't work.
01:25:55.000In South Africa, we have three different states, but... The problem is that the president doesn't control the government, and moving the agencies away is kind of what the bureaucrats want.
01:26:06.000They want to be away from his supervision.
01:26:26.000They should totally do this because you then get The, uh, you get development.
01:26:32.000Why are we wasting money on these departments, the DOE and all this stuff?
01:26:35.000No, no, no, Department of Education, I should say.
01:26:37.000Let's just, that funding, instead of just pulling the band-aid off and getting this big congressional file bag, okay, well, we agree we'll keep funding it, but it's got to be on Alaska now.
01:26:46.000And then what happens, you start developing this area, spreading people out, it expands American interest.
01:26:50.000It's just really great for us all around.
01:26:52.000Well, wasn't this this thing with the Department of Interior?
01:28:43.000I would think that there is value to reducing the bureaucracy because the bureaucracy would be more willing to work with, like, economic forum, like, technocratic establishment.
01:29:31.000At least help this underpopulated island while you're at it.
01:29:34.000I think part of what we're going to come up against with mass layoffs is a lot of these people are really good people that work in a position that should not be there.
01:29:41.000And it's really impersonal that they're going to lose their job.
01:30:29.000The fact that it'd be less expensive to cover their salaries for a year than to keep them all to- The Ukraine aid could pay for that 20 times over.
01:31:24.000It's like, you got to go to Redbox and get like 10 movies.
01:31:27.000Well, West Virginia was one of the places I finally saw video stores again.
01:31:32.000And it was because there's not great internet connection everywhere.
01:31:34.000And you got people who will, you know, come into town for the week or every two weeks to get groceries and stuff and rent their movies and then go back on the mountain where there's no internet service.
01:31:42.000They need their DVD player and then come back.
01:31:44.000And like, I can only imagine that's tenfold in certain parts of Alaska.
01:31:48.000You know, Elon's taken away all the mystery.
01:31:50.000I gotta say, you know, life was so much more fun.
01:32:11.000And then you go do something else and you have no idea what happened.
01:32:13.000This is one of the problems I talk about with kids today.
01:32:15.000And I think, you know, I feel like I transitioned out of this period because the internet became so dominant while I was in high school or, you know, social media and stuff.
01:32:22.000Kids today like if there's if there's fighting at school if there's like bullying or whatever else like it just follows you online after school whereas you don't go home and there were drama in the 90s you just had to call your friends on the landline whereas now it's it's all over snapchat it's all over Instagram you know they're sort of plugged into these scenarios which at times can be really negative constantly.
01:32:42.000Maybe it's nice and that's why people like living in rural areas where you can say I'm just going to back away now and I don't have internet so you can't contact me That's actually the indoctrination aspect is like a big part of why I would not want to public school my kids, but it's that it's that Wait, what were you just saying?
01:32:57.000The kids that have access to things online all the time and so therefore, you know Inter-friend group drama or whatever I couldn't do it.
01:33:04.000I couldn't put my kid through that like I had to deal with it in school And then I go home and cry and then that would be it but I didn't have to it didn't taint my life I mean, I think that's all me around your kids off social media, which is really challenging because there's that idea that they want it I mean, it's it's it's a I got an idea.
01:33:21.000Yes, if your kids being bullied you can make it all go away by sending them to unalaska You send your kid you move your family or do you send the bully?
01:33:27.000I feel like going on a trip where there would be awesome Wouldn't you guys want to vacation on an island?
01:33:44.000Just bureaucrats and bullies on Alaska.
01:33:47.000I was been thinking lately, I don't want to be, I want to go to Israel, but it's like the last year I've been thinking, I do not want to go there right now.
01:34:40.000That was the idea, was that it was a piece of land on a big floating ball of water, but the other theory is that it was all rock, and it twisted open, and the hydrogen shot out of the cracks and mixed with the oxygen to form ocean water.
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01:35:28.000He says, as far as intervention goes, I will say that if American citizens are being held hostage, then we have a duty to destroy the individuals responsible.
01:35:44.000I mean, and also there are Americans who are wrongfully detained in Russia, right?
01:35:48.000We've got Americans all over the place that we need to help.
01:35:52.000It's not to downplay the suffering that they might be going through, but we gotta think this one out.
01:35:56.000It certainly speaks to the danger of not trusting your government, because when the shit hits the fan for real, and you don't trust them, that's a big problem.
01:36:06.000Joseph says, no intervention equals I'm okay with suffering, lol.
01:36:10.000I mean, like, the problem with intervention is we can't intervene everywhere.
01:36:15.000So then it's just, someone is like, I watched the news today, and this country was bad, so we must intervene, and it's like, did you watch the news yesterday?
01:36:42.000There's a force that can deal with that.
01:36:45.000I don't know if there's no international force or whatever, but imagine that there's a house down the street from you and the roommates are having a dispute over who gets to use the game room at what time and they're fighting.
01:36:56.000You're just gonna be like, bro, I have nothing to do with this.
01:36:59.000Also, in a different house, someone else is yelling, and you're like, hmm, not that house.
01:37:04.000No, but like, there's one house, and you hear two guys arguing in the game room, and they're fighting, and you're like, that fight is getting pretty bad, maybe I should go kick the door in.
01:37:11.000Then there's another house next door, where you hear a woman mercilessly being beaten, and she's screaming for help, please, dear lord, help me.
01:37:19.000And you're like, hmm, and there's a Russian guy with a big gun standing, and he goes, no.
01:37:22.000And you're like, yeah, okay, no intervention there.
01:37:24.000Like, it's just... How about we just be like, look man, I guess the domestic analogy doesn't really work because you can always call the cops.
01:37:31.000There is some inter-home, you know, law enforcement agency.
01:37:35.000Yeah, I guess you can call Team America, right?
01:38:45.000It's like, I talk about how people always say it's hard to play the evil route in video games.
01:38:50.000Like, RPGs that allow you to play the good guy or the bad guy, and everyone always jokes that it's hard to play the bad guy, and I'm like, nah, they make it for a reason.
01:38:57.000There are people who just like being evil.
01:39:32.000That was the mentality of some of these people.
01:39:35.000Shane H. Wilder says not to downplay the situation, which probably would not have happened if Trump was in office, but how long until we're in hot war?
01:39:41.000No wartime president has ever lost, so this could be used to bolster Biden's numbers.
01:40:19.000Well, Biden just sort of makes things up as wrong, so we're pretending that we're not as involved in a lot of wars that we are obviously involved in, right?
01:40:26.000I don't think he's a wartime president, but he's also not successfully handling any of the conflict he's gotten us entangled in.
01:40:32.000Yeah, if he's a wartime president, he really messed up that Afghanistan situation.
01:40:34.000The emperor's champion says, I have completely lost any sympathy I had for the Palestinians, and I don't believe anything the left says about Israel because of how much they lie.
01:40:56.000And then they'll look at each other and give them like, dude, I suppose those celebrating Hamas's moves would be in support of Hamas.
01:41:03.000Imagine, imagine just like, Okay, obviously we as American citizens are not happy with what's happening in Ukraine, but you better believe they're taking your tax dollars and using it to fund the war in Ukraine.
01:41:15.000I wrote this on Twitter, ignorantly supporting something doesn't make you an advocate for it, but history might not know the difference.
01:41:52.000I'm not saying the war or the occupation or anything was good and, you know, everyone likes what's happening.
01:41:56.000I'm saying one side... Let's put it this way.
01:41:59.000Let's say Israel is just better at propaganda.
01:42:01.000And they're like, when we do it, we'll make sure we're doing it smart.
01:42:04.000Okay, well then the public face of all of this is Israel is trying to avoid civilian deaths, but still collateral damage happens and civilians die.
01:42:11.000And Hamas is gloating and threatening to kill more.
01:44:04.000Once you directly go for the civilians, all gloves are off.
01:44:06.000The counter argument that you're going to get with that argument, and you're right, they did, but is that Israel has been sieging civilians and starving them and having them live without medicine.
01:44:16.000So it's like a passive attack on civilians.
01:44:23.000That's the argument that the Palestinians are making is that Israel has been passively attacking the civilians by putting them in a siege situation.
01:44:29.000The conditions in Gaza are brutal and it's very, very bad.
01:44:33.000Israel controls a lot of what goes into and out of the Gaza Strip.
01:45:17.000I mean, it all just seems like, you know, I don't want to say anything that I don't know about, but it seems like obviously there is nuance to this conflict that none of us pay attention, or it's difficult for people who are not there to know all the details of.
01:45:29.000Number one American Rob says, Ian is correct.
01:46:10.000I'm saying a journalist should ask AOC.
01:46:11.000You, AOC, are a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America who promoted an event where they celebrated the murder of civilians.
01:46:18.000Do you agree with your organization, or is this an instance where your opinion stands out?
01:46:24.000And I will say, to me, from checking her Twitter, I haven't seen any statements come out about any of this, so it seems like her office is going dark.
01:46:31.000How hard is it to be like, kill civilians?
01:46:33.000I bet there are journalists that are trying to get a hold of her, and she is stealthily avoiding this, which is not a great sign, you know?
01:46:41.000Well, I just think it's, I'm just gonna come out and say it, AOC has not issued a statement condemning an organization she's a member of celebrating the mass killing of Jews.
01:46:52.000When did, she hasn't even posted on Twitter in like three days?
01:47:02.000I think it's because she knows that her base is a bunch of people who hate Israel and hate Jewish people.
01:47:09.000And I think you'll see this throughout the Democratic Party.
01:47:11.000There is going to be a lot of people who are now losing support because there is probably no correct way to make everyone happy.
01:47:18.000Can we just imagine, like, a politician who is a known member of the Klan, and the Klan goes out celebrating the lynching of a black guy, and then people are like, well, you know, AOC, like, the politician didn't know about it.
01:47:29.000I'm like, dude, she's a member of that organization.
01:47:56.000I mean, in this regard, what I'm saying is, she doesn't want to cause damage to the people she supports.
01:48:03.000That's interesting, too, because she's supposed to be a representative of the people she represents, so if they want war, does that mean she has to want war?
01:48:09.000No, a representative is supposed to be the safeguard for that.
01:48:12.000She should come out and condemn the killing of civilians, but she knows she will get eviscerated by the left.
01:48:18.000So she says nothing, because she's evil.
01:48:21.000I think it's funny, though, that the Democrats that are condemning her are staunch interventionists, and they're like, what a horrible thing for this squad to say!
01:48:30.000Send our troops over to Israel and send more money!
01:50:23.000But the underdog when you're like I would imagine it and if you're like oppressed and you're in complete and total slave servitude Like you'll do whatever you can to get out anything.
01:50:33.000I don't see how Killing civilians helps anyone in that circumstance. Like I was saying, if
01:50:41.000you're in prison and you break out, and the first thing you do is run full speed and mercilessly
01:50:46.000beat to death a 20-year-old woman, everyone's going to be like, clearly freedom wasn't his
01:51:14.000Yeah, if they broke out, and like I said, targeted only military and ushered civilians away, imagine if they tore the barricades down, paraglided in, Rounded up all the civilians and then said, start leaving, get in your cars and go.
01:51:48.000Gunfight probably would have still happened, but we would be sitting there being like, why are they killing civilians?
01:51:52.000I was reading that in Israel that a lot of them are disarmed, they don't have guns, and a big part of the problem right now is that Hamas knew that.
01:51:59.000That's why they were going door-to-door, slowly, just executing people.
01:52:03.000And then the Israeli government issued, like, an emergency order to give people the right to get guns really, really rapidly.
01:52:08.000I can't believe that Israel had gun control like this.
01:52:13.000It's absolute necessity for a Second Amendment for a right to bear arms, that is why.
01:52:16.000I think one of the things about Hamas, too, is how can they say they represent people in Palestine when they're willing to put them in harm's way, knowingly put them in harm's way, and put those surface-to-air missiles, et cetera, in their hospitals?
01:52:26.000How can you say you represent Palestinians who are willing to get them killed?
01:52:28.000They say they got nothing left to lose.
01:53:37.000Alright, MonkInTraining says, Tim, US supports Israel because it's a cultural technological intelligence ally.
01:53:42.000Ian, what are you seeing now the results of a culture at war with the West at large and Israel?
01:53:50.000Peace can't be held when you have enemies that want you dead.
01:53:52.000I don't understand the question exactly.
01:53:54.000I don't think it's a question, I think he's saying you can't have peace if the other side wants you dead.
01:54:00.000Like if there's two people and one guy's like, look man, can we just leave each other alone?
01:54:05.000The other guy is saying like, no, I want death.
01:54:07.000In the United States, that's why you carry a weapon.
01:54:10.000And so the left makes the argument, which they're lying, where they show the comic where it's the Klan and a bunch of black people and a guy in the middle saying compromise, which is literally not the argument between left and right.
01:54:19.000Left and right is saying destroy the right, they're evil, they're fascists, and the right saying, please leave me alone.
01:54:23.000Because I believe deep down most of the anger and aggression is about territory, that the United States has invaded Iraq, invaded Afghanistan, Libya, and that Israel was formed in 1918 or whenever it was formed and put there.
01:54:36.000So like, I don't think they hate, just hate me.
01:54:39.000I think that they hate that we've colonized that area of the world and displaced them.
01:54:44.000Mr. Avi says, the amount of people justifying war crimes right now is astounding.
01:54:48.000The same people who said Russia was evil for bombing schools and hospitals are saying it's fine when Israel bombs civilian centers.
01:54:53.000I think it's all bad, I just want the violence to end.
01:54:56.000And here's my response is, you are completely correct about bombing schools and hospitals, but they're not arbitrarily doing it.
01:55:00.000Israel was not like, haha, we're gonna go blow up a hospital.
01:55:03.000They were like, hey, all those rockets are being fired from a hospital.
01:55:08.000That's where the rockets are coming from.
01:55:10.000I want to give a shout out to Shuan Head, however, who tweeted, as an American, I frankly couldn't imagine having my water shut off every time my country did a war crime.
01:55:21.000It's a really great tweet because it acknowledges that it was a war crime what Hamas did, but the US would be in real trouble if we kept getting our water shut off every time we did something.
01:55:35.000Let's see, Patriot American says Hannah, the IRA, he means Hannah Clare, the IRA used to have backing from politicians, even judges of Irish Catholic descent in America, dating back to the Irish War of Independence in 1918, up until the end of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1995.
01:55:49.000Oh, I forgot that we put boots on the grounds then.
01:55:52.000I mean, it's one thing for there to be support politically, but we didn't intervene in the way that we were obviously going to in Israel.
01:55:58.000Dude, I just love how the, like, you have this, the Troubles, you know, 30 years ago in Ireland, and they're like, Ireland for the Irish, but now they're all like globalists who are like, open borders, and like, what?
01:56:12.000It's funny how this conflict only ended because of the European Union created the Schengen zone, so now there's like... Yeah, it was weird.
01:56:21.000But now that's all done again, I guess, because of Brexit.
01:57:43.000Yeah, I mean, I think Pittsburgh is a really interesting city.
01:57:45.000I will say I've never been there, I've just read a lot about it because I keep thinking I will go there.
01:57:50.000But it's, to me, a representation of a lot of cities in America that get left behind, and I know that there's an argument to being like, oh, we should bring our show to places that are more liberal-centered, but I think, especially because Pennsylvania is such an interesting place generally, I'm all for Pittsburgh.
01:58:04.000You know, then we all go to the Heinz Ketcher Museum or we go to the, um, is it?
01:59:29.000I mean, I don't have anything to do with the events.
01:59:31.000I'm really grateful to people that do, they work really hard.
01:59:33.000But it would be interesting if we kind of do a home and away format where we do like, you know, two hour to three hour drive from us, do that radius and then have the bigger trips too.
01:59:56.000I think part of it was when I moved to West Virginia, it was like during the pandemic, and so there wasn't a ton of things to do.
02:00:01.000So I kept thinking, when things get open or whatever else, I'll go.
02:00:06.000I honestly the anthropology home outlet is near Pittsburgh and so in my mind I was like I'll go there and then I'll I wouldn't do Philly though just personally I wouldn't do Philly and I wouldn't do Baltimore to be honest but there are other places in Virginia in West Virginia you know again Pennsylvania I'm gonna I'm gonna pitch Pittsburgh.
02:00:37.000We can make RFK come to our Pittsburgh event, since apparently he lives in Pennsylvania.
02:00:42.000All right, we'll grab one more Super Chat here.
02:00:43.000We got Luke Watt who says, Ian, as soon as I heard you say, Jesus told me to tell you, and God told me to respond, here's to my first Super Chat, very well spent.
02:01:29.000So you got to kind of, one question at a time, relax, let your brain calm down after the message comes.
02:01:33.000Because when you're in a calm state is when you can really hear the message.
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02:03:00.000I know a bunch of people messaged me about not being at the event, but when you're there working in the morning and you want to go home and change clothes because you're sweating, it's Miami.