On this episode of The Daily Caller Live Show with John Rocha and Stone, the boys discuss Johnny Depp's victory in the Amber Heard v. The Washington Post case, the Joe Rogan and Hunter Biden scandal, and the failed "Woke" movie.
00:00:53.000Johnny Depp has won This is big news, and it's a lot of celebrity gossip that I haven't really followed all that much, but there is some big cultural, political victories here.
00:01:19.000This is a huge blow to the Believe All Woman, Me Too stuff.
00:01:22.000Amber Heard wrote this op-ed that was basically defaming Johnny Depp without actually naming him because it was part of the whole narrative about how, you know, women are abused and they have to keep it secret.
00:01:32.000Turns out, well, you know, she's gotta pay damages to Johnny Depp.
00:01:35.000Now, he did lose some of the case, but for the most part, major victory for Johnny Depp and a major blow to Believe All Women and the corporate press, because I believe it was the Washington Post who just uncritically ran this story like, yeah, sure, you can say whatever you want.
00:01:50.000And my question is, why isn't Johnny Depp suing the Washington Post?
00:02:04.000We also have, man, today is kind of crazy.
00:02:07.000We have this, the Democrat who's running against Rand Paul made what may be one of the most insane political ads I've ever seen.
00:02:13.000It's him with a noose around his neck and he's holding on to it talking about how, you know, it was a tool to terrorize his people.
00:02:19.000And I'm just like, Yo, if you think this is, like, the woke stuff was crazy ten years ago, just wait until these woke millennials are running the show completely, as opposed to just suggesting or demanding of these things.
00:02:33.000Imagine when they're actually at the helm.
00:02:35.000I think he won the Jesse Smollett vote, man.
00:02:56.000They shared phone numbers, so maybe he was just sending it to himself, and then I'm like, yo, that means it could be Joe sending it to his son.
00:03:05.000There's a whole bunch of new information coming out from this laptop, the creepy things that Hunter Biden does, but I gotta be honest, you know, if Hunter Biden wants to do weirdo stuff, that's fine, he can do his thing, and I don't think it's anybody's business, but...
00:03:17.000When you learn that through these links that were being sent, they shared phone numbers, it raises questions about whether or not Joe was actually doing business pretending to be Hunter.
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00:04:47.000We also have Brett Dasovic joining us, host of Pop Culture Crisis, because I gotta be honest, I don't know a whole lot about the Johnny Depp stuff and we needed somebody who could tell us more about it.
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00:08:11.000Let's jump into this first story from Timcast.com.
00:08:14.000Jury finds Amber Heard defamed Johnny Depp in trial verdict.
00:08:18.000Heard ordered to pay $15 million in damages, but I don't think that's where it ends.
00:08:23.000There's some caps, and I think Johnny does owe some to Amber, so let's read.
00:08:30.000The seven-person jury reached a decision around 3.20 p.m.
00:08:33.000on June 1st after deliberating for a cumulative 12 hours over three days.
00:08:37.000Hurd has been ordered to pay $15 million in damages.
00:08:41.000However, $5 million of that amount applies to punitive damages, which the state caps at $350,000.
00:08:46.000In Hurd's countersuit, Depp was found guilty of one of three counts of defamation.
00:08:52.000Depp was not present in the courtroom at the time when the verdict was read, although he did teleconference in from the United Kingdom.
00:08:57.000Depp filed a defamation suit against her for $50 million after alleging the op-ed she authored for the Washington Post damaged his reputation.
00:09:05.000His legal team said the actress presented herself as a public figure representing domestic abuse, which had financial consequences for her ex-husband, even though it never specifically included his name.
00:09:17.000For the MeToo movement, with all of these just, you know, believe-all-women narratives, just no matter what, well, now we know that Amber Heard wasn't being honest.
00:09:26.000And also the corporate press, the Washington Post, that uncritically ran this story, which is what they often do.
00:10:38.000And that's a problem because it was done at the time of them getting separated and divorced.
00:10:42.000This is more than just Me Too and corporate press.
00:10:45.000This is a hammer to the face of the narrative machine.
00:10:48.000I was, I mean, I don't know if it's just because I'm, like, pretty blackpilled about all of it, but I was very surprised that he, like, just because the language was so vague, and done in such a way, like, without naming him at all, uh, when even, she even says, like, uh, as a, when she talks about domestic violence, she doesn't infer him specifically, like, uh, Mary on the show even posited, she's like, she could be just saying, what if she's just a spokesperson for domestic violence, not necessarily somebody who has actually had, you know, gone through domestic violence, and said, yeah, but who actually does that?
00:11:15.000Who becomes a spokesperson for something they didn't actually experience?
00:11:53.000That was one of those things where I was like, that one felt more realistic to me because that was dealing with J.K.
00:11:58.000Rowling, who's the main producer and writer on those movies, which is another reason, because she can write books, she's not very good at writing scripts.
00:12:42.000She also never paid off the she pledged the money from the from her divorce settlement to both the ACLU and then what was the other one it was a hospital like a Los Angeles Children's Hospital and she said that she donated it but she did not donate it she pledged the money and then blamed Johnny Depp for saying well you're suing me how can I give them the money now because I may have to pay you back.
00:13:06.000Did anybody read her press release after?
00:13:43.000A brilliant move from co-CEO Jeremy Boring on that one.
00:13:47.000So Amber Heard wrote, the disappointment I feel today is beyond words.
00:13:50.000I'm heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband.
00:13:57.000I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women.
00:14:19.000The one thing you'll always hear in stories like this is that when you lie and make false accusations, you're making it harder for actual victims.
00:14:25.000And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that.
00:14:32.000Yeah, my point is that, I mean, look, to pretend to care about a group of people that you are allegedly pretending to be one of as an imposter so you can sort of use whatever social capital you think being a victim will get you as a porn.
00:16:16.000So they don't actually, you expect it to be some type of YouGov statistics or something that says, yes, it is in fact rare for people to falsely accuse someone.
00:16:25.000They always just fall back on communism.
00:16:28.000On, well, he had more power, that's why I lost.
00:17:58.000But that meritocracy was all that mattered.
00:18:01.000So if you had problems, you just sought to solve it.
00:18:04.000You tried to figure it out now that we have big cities and people aren't moving around anymore
00:18:09.000We've become much less meritocratic now You have people who are born rich stay rich who can wield
00:18:14.000influence laws get crafted around this and you end up with regular people
00:18:18.000Like CNN goes after that guy who makes a meme Yeah, so some some like dock worker who or some warehouse
00:18:23.000worker who posted an email at Nancy Pelosi. They go after him
00:18:25.000He can't do anything about it There's the one it was like the WWE meme of like the guy
00:18:30.000like power bombing like the CNN logo or something like that And they were like we'll reveal his name unless he promises
00:18:36.000never to post a meme again Yeah, exactly.
00:18:39.000Well, they'll sit there and do something like, you know, destroy a teenager's life over a completely fabricated story and repeat that he's some kind of white supremacist who's harassing a Native American who was a veteran when none of it's true, and also tell the entire country where the kid went to school while doing it, while inciting hatred against them.
00:19:01.000Then someone posts a meme poking fun at them and they go, I'm in danger.
00:19:06.000So I don't mean to say in the most extreme case-cast system.
00:19:09.000What I mean to say is we're growing to this point where you have people who are just third-generation wealthy.
00:19:17.000They just... It's remarkable how, you know, I've met people who are just rich because their families were rich, and they buy things from each other with insane amounts of money.
00:19:27.000I would be like, you bought lotion for 50 bucks?
00:20:07.000James O'Keefe may be one of the most defamed people, and he has to fight tooth and nail and ask people to help support him to win these lawsuits, which he does.
00:20:16.000Johnny Depp is just ultra rich, and he's like jamming out in the UK like, whatever, and then he wins.
00:20:21.000When you've got that kind of FU money, you just write a blank check to a lawyer and say, win for me, and then you leave.
00:20:26.000Yeah, I just want to be wealthy enough that a false accusation against me won't be able to stick.
00:20:31.000Even if he had lost, I mean, it's one of those things where because he had won the court of public opinion so handily, like, say he loses but he has his reputation back, he can make that up in money in rolls in no time and pay off that $100 million lawsuit if that had been the way this had gone, but I think he would have ended up winning either way because his reputation is now, at the very least, he's employable again by big studios, he'll be able to make more money again, and that's just proof that it keeps going.
00:24:54.000Yeah, you don't want to get the cheap stuff, huh?
00:24:58.000Here's the craziest thing about this is, yo, look, I mentioned this in the intro to the show.
00:25:02.000I don't care if Hunter Biden wants to do weird stuff.
00:25:05.000You know, everybody's, everyone, there's the meme where it's like the person's dying and they're like, delete my search history because everybody's, you know, searched for weird things they'd be embarrassed by.
00:25:14.000If Hunter Biden wants to watch Lonely Widows, OK, dude, that's your thing.
00:25:19.000But if Joe Biden is using the same phone number as Hunter, then how do we know how do we differentiate between the business dealings of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden?
00:25:28.000This sounds to me like just evidence on top of evidence that Joe Biden was using his son as a proxy to do deals on the side while he was You know, influential in government, vice president or otherwise.
00:26:13.000Timing could not be worse. Common measured paybacks can come later.
00:26:17.000So we have this right here. What is this? What is this in reference to? What are they
00:26:21.000doing? I don't know. I let me let me read. This is, quote, James and Hunter Biden were
00:26:26.000in the midst of a lucrative deal with Chinese executives at the time, while Joe Biden was
00:26:30.000out of public service for the first time in nearly half a century. Having left the vice
00:26:34.000presidency a few months earlier. Hunter Biden turned to his uncle and.
00:26:38.000At least as much as to his famous father for emotional support.
00:26:41.000Hunter also relied upon James Biden, who goes by Jim, and is known as Jimmy within the family, on matters of dollars and cents.
00:26:48.000Within days of that exchange, Hunter received another email from his uncle urging him to take advantage of a financial opportunity related to Joe Biden.
00:27:35.000That Joe was doing some work and was like, oh yeah, Hunter also uses his... It probably wouldn't be for you or I or any person of normal means who was committing that kind of a crime, right?
00:27:44.000But for the Biden family... Yeah, allegedly committing that kind of a crime, right?
00:27:48.000People don't share cell phone numbers with other people.
00:28:44.000I'm wondering, like, how does someone who's brought up in this, like, privileged family turn to this kind of life?
00:28:49.000Maybe something, a deep trauma from his past made him turn to drugs to escape?
00:28:55.000Maybe he's gone through... Why would he be sending his dad porn?
00:29:00.000Maybe his dad was abusing him and that's why they share phone numbers and send or he sends adult content to his dad because they had an inappropriate relationship when he was younger.
00:29:22.000Hunter's mom and brother died in a car accident, and he was actually in the car with them.
00:29:26.000I can say trauma to this 1972 so hunter that might have just Destroyed his mind, but when you add into the fact that their dad his dad is Sniffs little girls and gropes children, even little boys, and kisses them.
00:29:41.000I'm like... The Tara Reid accusations are unconscionable.
00:29:45.000It's unconscionable that it wouldn't be investigated.
00:29:47.000That right before he's running for office, a girl comes out and is like, he pushed me up against the wall and fill in the blanks.
00:32:11.000Like whoever wrote this, do you think they believed that when they were typing it, they were like, oh no, this is actually, this is totally different.
00:32:18.000Someone was like, you know, you know the meme where it's, if you ever want to get the answer to a question, just post the wrong answer and then someone corrects you.
00:32:27.000Somebody was like, I know that if I share the image of Biden kissing his granddaughter, the media will ignore it.
00:32:32.000So if I post the wrong thing, I'll be forced to fact check it.
00:32:35.000I just typed in Biden smelling girl into the search engine.
00:33:00.000That would make anyone, I would imagine, would make someone's life hard, knowing that.
00:33:05.000I'm not saying, again, that I know for a fact, I'm just saying when I look at someone like Hunter Biden, who's doing all these drugs, who's really messed up and sending his dad porn, I'm like, sounds like his creepy dad who sniffs children, gropes them, was probably doing the same to his son.
00:33:19.000I think they both like porn and they both know they both like porn.
00:33:21.000It sounds to me like his dad made it normal to share porn with his son, which is in itself disturbing.
00:33:36.000It does kind of seem like one of those things where like when you've been a drug addict for that long and especially if your family doesn't discipline you when you're younger and you don't find a way to like get clean or get better and your brain just gets more and more addled and there's no repercussions for your actions.
00:33:53.000It's like escalating and getting worse and getting worse and it's just more noticeable to us because it's such a prominent family.
00:33:59.000But I just don't know if I would expect anything more if he didn't take the I don't know if he's clean now if he's doing better now, but it's just not something that I have a hard time believing that he'd be able to get clean without help and His dad's clearly not helping him.
00:34:12.000His family's too worried about their public image that they're having their His messages and his laptop deleted and you know kept out of the public record.
00:34:20.000They don't have time to worry about how his actual health is You know what though?
00:34:24.000The Biden family, they probably enjoy delicious meals of crab from Delaware.
00:35:03.000No, we can't show them, but I mean, if you wonder if Hunter's doing okay now, look at that article and look at those pictures, and that will answer the question for you.
00:35:10.000I don't know how old the pictures are, but he does not look like he's doing good.
00:38:24.000That was a good example of high production value, but focusing on whatever issues she wanted to talk about in the community, you know, walking the streets of Baltimore.
00:38:32.000I just want to point out, they took the tweet, they took that unbelievably banal, histrionic, dramatic, left-wing tweet that we see every couple months and made a commercial.
00:38:43.000The, my kid said to me, I'm scared because Republican is gonna do X. It's like, Your kid didn't say that.
00:39:32.000That's what a lot of it always feels like to me is that they're looking they know they're not gonna win Especially in like specific.
00:39:37.000Oh, yeah, he's trying to get attention so that he can make his next career move Well, he clearly literally wants victim points by actually putting a noose around his neck I can't think of a more direct parallel to being like, oh look at me.
00:40:55.000Besides everything that is obviously wrong with this, if he was running for president after he had already served two terms, why would the kid be confused about the possibility of him winning?
00:41:08.000The idea that you can only have two terms is not voter-enforced.
00:41:13.000It's not like we let them run again and then the American people go, no, he had two terms, we're not voting for him.
00:43:02.000I mean, I'm not entirely fully settled on this.
00:43:04.000I just think, you know, in terms of the president having to run for re-election, When you get into the last two years of their four-year term, it turns into silly season.
00:43:13.000And people start cutting checks for, OK, what vote do I need?
00:45:05.000And they don't want him to go away because people are screaming in their ears in the media.
00:45:10.000So they voted for a guy who tanked the economy, who is driving gas prices through the roof, apparently is conversing on the finer links to porn with his child.
00:45:22.000Just, I mean, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and so now here we are.
00:45:35.000Oh, that would have been the worst, right?
00:45:37.000There was, uh, like literally the other day I was scrolling Instagram and I had three stories in a row where it was like friends posting their gas, like filling up their gas tank where it's like going over $80 and says, thanks Joe Biden.
00:45:48.000And like all three of them were like, like one had like a sticker on it.
00:45:52.000The other one just was like a middle finger.
00:45:53.000And it was just all people focusing on the fact that they can't afford to drive anymore.
00:45:57.000I think the Federal Reserve has been planning to crash this for a while, and they're blaming Trump and Biden, and they're making us blame Trump and Biden.
00:46:04.000And this has just been a fascist move since they know it was falling apart.
00:47:15.000Yes, Cenk, there's a reason for that, because the status quo within the dominant media culture is that you do not get to say things that are right-leaning.
00:47:23.000So of course he's not going to be in the news for any of his left-wing opinions.
00:47:28.000Joe was in the news for tons of left-wing stuff, supporting Bernie Sanders, supporting Andrew Yang, and supporting universal basic income numerous times.
00:47:35.000The issue is that Cenk doesn't actually read the news.
00:47:45.000When you actually go to the news websites, you're like, oh, Joe Rogan's promoting universal basic income, which is almost socialism.
00:47:52.000And he says, not promoting left-wing ideas.
00:47:56.000Fair enough, but also the stories that have been the biggest, the ones that have been the most controversial, and the ones that have resulted in people coming after him and thus became giant stories were all the ones where we had right-wing perspectives because those are the ones you are not allowed to have.
00:48:10.000It's the Elon meme of like, the left has gone so much further to the left that people- And authoritarians.
00:48:15.000Yeah, the Joe Rogans of the world who kind of just stayed put, the Joe Rogans, the Bill Mahers, are kind of like, no, you guys changed a lot.
00:48:22.000And so in his mind, I can see him still thinking that he's a, I don't know if you'd call himself progressive, but liberal-minded. I can see him thinking that.
00:49:03.000If you don't actually investigate, if you don't actually listen to people, and you just believe the narrative machine, well then of course Cenk is surprised by this.
00:49:12.000Do you think the news has gotten more dishonest, or it was always this dishonest?
00:49:20.000They've just become more overt in certain ways, and there are also different audiences they've decided to pander to that have made it more obvious to us that they're dishonest.
00:49:26.000Take a look at this from Fast Company.
00:49:28.000Why you need to take right-wing comedy seriously.
00:49:31.000From Joe Rogan to the Babylon Bee to Steven Crowder, the new book That's Not Funny deconstructs their appeal and why it matters.
00:49:38.000Yo, Joe Rogan was a famous comedian 20 years ago.
00:49:51.000If you can't realize that this mainstream sitcom comedian hosting these shows, who is a liberal, if you can't see that you've moved on this one, I don't know how I can help you.
00:50:20.000If you live in a world where you only hear from the establishment machine and you think Joe Rogan is right-wing because you don't actually investigate anything he said, you're going to get frustrated.
00:50:32.000That anger that we feel about Joe Biden doing illicit business dealings with Ukraine and China through his son, about the quid pro quo with the prosecutor in Ukraine, with the president.
00:50:43.000Fire the prosecutor, you're not getting the billion dollars, which he had no authority to do.
00:50:46.000I get angry because there's no accountability.
00:51:36.000But, you know, maybe... Genuinely... Joe Biden, you know... I think he's... I think... I think Cenk...
00:51:41.000You know what I think happens is he lives in this narrative world of the corporate press and the ground keeps dropping out beneath his feet.
00:51:59.000They had been told over and over again what was true and what was going to happen.
00:52:03.000I gotta talk to Cenk about, or Cenk rather, sorry Cenk, about Hillary's emails.
00:52:07.000When that dropped and they went to WikiLeaks, like, what did that, because I remember him talking about it or at least acknowledging it and being like, well the DNC's complete trash.
00:52:26.000A principled person says, you know, I'm not a fan of the Republicans, but hey, if they're destroying public records, Trump was accused of something similar with cell phones or whatever.
00:52:35.000I'm like, yeah, we should, we should know about that.
00:52:36.000That's, that's, you know, we need to hear about that.
00:53:46.000And then maybe then you can be like, maybe there's a reason why politically homeless, post-liberals, moderates, libertarians, and conservatives all occupy a similar space.
00:53:55.000Maybe there's a reason Christian conservative and traditional liberal can sit in a room and agree and make jokes with each other, because we know, for the most part, What is true and what isn't.
00:55:10.000And that's what I think it ultimately comes down to.
00:55:12.000There is a great filter happening right now in politics, where the people who don't read the news are drifting off to the left, and the people who do... I should say, the people who don't fact-check are drifting to the left, and people who do are drifting to the right.
00:55:24.000Well, not only that, I think a lot of the people who don't read the news are also being pushed to the right by people on the left they see behaving absurdly.
00:55:30.000Or, also, it's possible they're staying in the same place, but the left is moving so far to the left that they seem right-wing by comparison.
00:55:37.000Hey, look, I'm gonna say it right now.
00:55:52.000Because they will call literally every single person who's outside of their bubble of maybe 3% of the population right-wing, and then whenever our country passes any kind of legislation which is conservative, they go, this is not how a representative democracy is supposed to work.
00:56:07.000Well, I don't know, like you spend all your time calling 95% of the population right-wing, so why would it be a threat to our democracy for more right-leaning legislation to be passed?
00:56:16.000When they're saying our democracy, they're not talking about you.
00:57:06.000I would also hazard a guess that the average person, the politically uninitiated, doesn't know that any of those are hoaxes, except for maybe the Smollett one.
00:57:38.000Now, I'm not trying to start a conversation around 9-11, I'm trying to point out that one of the most culturally significant historical moments, and most people would say two.
00:57:45.000Because they didn't actually look into what happened.
00:57:48.000But, I'll tell you this, a lot of these people would say, never forget, but they never learned in the first place.
00:57:52.000So, in that same line, I was hanging out with a couple friends, I'll be vague, and they were shocked that Not five or six police officers died in the J6 riots.
00:58:08.000And they were like, I was like, no, no, no, there's, I mean, there's some complications with identifying what caused the police officer's death.
00:58:18.000I'm fuzzing up the... He had a stroke or something?
00:58:21.000Yeah, a stroke afterward or something like that.
01:00:00.000The only thing they cared about was adhering to the social norms and narrative to fit in.
01:00:06.000So if you said something like, hey, I think we need a better investigation into this, because, like, we spent more money, I think, on Bill Clinton, you know, banging an intern than we did on that, and then they'd be like, what are you saying?
01:00:38.000I was at a bar in New York, and then someone was bringing up the story, and I laughed, and I said, man, that whole thing played out like a bad action movie.
01:00:44.000And then this journalist gets really angry and goes, I AM SICK OF HEARING THIS CONSPIRACY ABOUT- And I was like, whoa, whoa!
01:00:58.000I said that whole thing played out like a bad action movie.
01:01:00.000Did you read the story on what happened with like, he grabbed his wife, then he didn't grab his wife, and they dumped his butt out of a helicopter?
01:01:20.000Why are you getting so angry about this?
01:01:22.000This is what happens to people when anything threatens their constructed worldview.
01:01:27.000So what's happening now is with people who have the ability to read information on the internet, fact check things for themselves and be like, Oh yeah, look at this.
01:01:34.000Joe Biden did say, if you don't fire the prosecutor, you're not getting a billion dollars.
01:01:49.000Brandon Strzok told us the other day how he ended up walking away from the Democrats because someone told him that Trump never mocked a disabled reporter.
01:02:51.000And I say that because that doesn't mean everyone at all times absolutely only talks about politics.
01:02:56.000Obviously, you know, Brett talks about pop culture stuff on Pop Culture Crisis.
01:03:00.000But what I mean is, when you see podcasters who got started Well, so, let's just pretend there was an election and let's just say one candidate got, I don't know, 80 million votes.
01:03:11.000And the other candidate, say, got 80 million votes.
01:03:13.000How many people are there in the United States of America?
01:03:57.000And especially given the fact that it seems like we're inundated constantly with political discussion, political discourse, whatever you want to call it, and still a huge percentage of people don't vote.
01:04:14.000If people don't vote, and the amount of people who don't vote is greater than the greatest amount of votes for a single candidate, then there's no president.
01:04:57.000Demarchy would be like, you'd get Congress duty.
01:05:00.000It's like one day you go to your mailbox and you got like a certified letter and it's like you've been chosen for Congress duty and you're like, ugh.
01:05:12.000But what I think I think what I'm trying to get at ultimately is that there's this huge attempt to push people to one side or the other by the respective sides to pull people into their side or push people to their side or whatever it is that you want to call it.
01:05:27.000While in reality, everything is based on turnout.
01:05:31.000Are people going to show up and are people going to turn out in terms of running actual campaigns?
01:05:36.000Especially at the local level, you don't really care about changing the mind about somebody who's not registered your particular party, whatever candidate you're running.
01:05:44.000You're really caring about turning the people out who you already know are going to vote for you.
01:05:50.000And so I feel like that's part of the big reason why the political rhetoric is so heated, because it's not about convincing people To your ideas.
01:06:01.000It's getting the people who already agree with you to just show up.
01:06:13.000To search for the information on their own.
01:06:15.000To take the initiative upon themselves, read the news.
01:06:19.000The left needs to strictly control the news and make sure they don't get access to what's really going on.
01:06:24.000And also, what is most important to them is flooding the voting booths with uninformed people.
01:06:30.000So this is why you constantly see get-out-and-vote campaigns where some left-wing celebrity, which is to say most if not all of them, is on screen telling you that you need to get out there and vote.
01:06:39.000Because they know if somebody needs a celebrity to tell them to vote, they don't know anything about politics, and they are therefore going to choose whoever the Democrats are putting up.
01:06:53.000I think that's going to backfire on them.
01:06:55.000Currently, you've got the border situation being what it is.
01:06:59.000There's the argument made that the conservatives want the labor, the liberals want the votes.
01:07:04.000Especially when it comes to Hispanics, we've seen the demographic shifting heavily, heavily towards the whole conservative side.
01:07:16.000Meaning that a bunch of liberals are trying to depend on those votes incoming, and it's gonna backfire.
01:07:23.000Because I think the left has gone so far left, you've got a family-oriented, generally heavily religious population, who they used to send get-out-the-vote campaigns to their community, all of a sudden realizing, holy cow, these guys are way, way, way more left than I want, and I honestly think it's going to backfire.
01:07:42.000Yeah, people are questioning the narrative way more than they were a decade ago.
01:07:47.000In 2009, part of the reason why I was disillusioned with life is because no one, it seemed like 7% of the people cared.
01:07:52.000Now it's like 20, 28, 27% of the people.
01:09:39.000Let's hear what Mr. O'Rourke has to say.
01:09:41.000I just took the position that may not be politically popular, maybe too honest, that not only should no one be able to purchase an AR-15 or an AK-47 because they're designed to kill humans in that high-impact, high-velocity round.
01:13:50.000There was a... Marco Rubio got a bunch of heat, I think in like 2015, where he... Marco Rubio's claimed that no recent mass shootings would have been prevented by gun laws.
01:14:00.000And then Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post, the fact checker over there, not only didn't give it any Pinocchios, he gave it the rare Geppetto.
01:14:39.000The first thing I think is, if you ask the average Democrat voter what they believe an AR-15 is, they're going to tell you that the AR stands for assault rifle, and they're not going to be able to define to you that they're going to think that it's full-auto.
01:14:50.000I would guess that most of them think that's true. So, uh, shout out to our good friend Ethan Klein. He was talking on
01:14:54.000H3 and he was mentioning something about people going in front of Abbott's house with AR-15s and he goes, eh, eh, eh,
01:15:00.000eh, eh, eh, eh, dididididididid. I'm like, is that what you think those things do? Yeah. No, they actually do. No
01:15:09.000wonder you want to ban them. Well, so I, I, um, as someone who went to an art school, I am an expert on people who don't
01:15:15.000know anything about guns, but I talk about them a lot.
01:15:15.000And so I remember I was having a conversation.
01:15:17.000That's like embedding to research, you know, like you're going in the tribe method.
01:15:20.000It was like a case study kind of thing, yeah.
01:15:24.000So, I was having a conversation with a friend, And she said to me that, um, she, she was like, well, I don't, I don't think that we should have like these semi-automatics.
01:15:33.000And I was like, do you know what a semi-automatic is?
01:15:36.000Like it's semi, fully, you pull the trigger and it sprays the bullets.
01:15:41.000And I was like, no, no, no, that's not what any of that means.
01:15:44.000And I tried to explain that that was not the case.
01:15:47.000Uh, and, and their response was to just insist that we still didn't need to have them.
01:15:52.000I wish I had the clip, but I remember watching... Cool person in other ways, by the way, but just was out to lunch on that one.
01:15:57.000I remember watching... Jesse Smollett is trending.
01:16:27.000Oh, no, last week I was watching MSNBC, one of your big cable news networks, and they were talking about gun control, and like your point, both of the anchors were like, yeah, we need gun control.
01:16:42.000So we have two people who've never shot a gun talking about gun control, clearly not knowing anything about the thing that they're trying to control.
01:16:50.000They need to learn how to control guns, those two people.
01:16:54.000Remember the reporter who got PTSD from firing an AR-15?
01:16:58.000And then people were replying with comments of them training their young daughters to shoot it.
01:17:03.000They're like, this is actually not that bad.
01:17:05.000There's a video going viral of a little girl, dual wielding, I don't know what she's got, 1911s, and she's using two fingers to pull the trigger, and then they're like, this is child abuse, look what they're doing to that child, and I'm like, well, the real problem is that they're having her fire two handguns simultaneously, which is just terribly inaccurate, there's no reason to do that.
01:17:23.000There's a meme I love, and it said, actually, maybe I can pull it up, try and find it.
01:17:52.000Children and guns are simply a bad idea.
01:17:54.000Your average firearm is too unwieldy for a typical child to operate in a safe and effective manner.
01:17:59.000Children are much better suited to crew-served weapons.
01:18:02.000The semi-stationary characteristic of a mortar or heavy machine gun relies less on the child's physical strength and stamina and also builds teamwork.
01:18:10.000And it shows a little boy and little girl and it shows like a machine gun and a mortar and a thumbs up.
01:18:15.000I actually had the thought after... I don't think that should be legal.
01:18:19.000After this Texas... Could they fly drones from an iPad?
01:18:24.000I was picturing, like, kids, third graders getting gun safety lessons in government school, if it's gonna be in the United States government schools, that, like, if a shooter comes in and kills the teacher and there's 12 kids in the class ducking for their desks, and one of the kids sees the teacher's, you know, sidearm that the teacher was killed before it could use, The kid, what, you just want him to huddle there until he gets shot?
01:19:00.000I mean, when it comes to your life, yes, they should.
01:19:04.000Well, they want more autonomy for kids when it comes to, you know, all the stuff that they shouldn't have autonomy in.
01:19:11.000But when it comes to like actually teaching kids to use guns like they used to in schools, like there are pictures from the 50s and 60s where middle schoolers are learning to shoot, like they're learning marksmanship.
01:20:07.000And so the left is like, what is going on?
01:20:09.000Well, it serves their narrative because they hate cops, right?
01:20:12.000So when you have a story about the cops barring parents from saving their kids and not going in themselves, they're like, hmm, what's this all about?
01:20:18.000Then you've got the, uh, one of the guys involved, one of the cops, I guess, got a seat on the city council or something.
01:20:24.000So the left has been pushing these, uh, these conspiracy theories.
01:20:26.000Well, also, I mean, what happened there is the perfect example of what gun control does.
01:20:30.000The police stop law abiding citizens from protecting, from protecting themselves and people they care about, while the maniac who kills people still doesn't and gets away with it.
01:20:40.000And that is the function that those police officers served in that instance.
01:20:45.000Like, obviously it would be ridiculous to give a third grader the right to open carry a handgun, but in the presence of a supervised adult that is licensed, maybe you could legalize their ability to handle one for training purposes, and then if it hits the fan, you know, and it's wartime in the classroom like it was in Texas last week, these young soldiers can defend themselves.
01:21:25.000The only way to stop active shooters like this is to make them understand that if they walk into a shop or a store that they hope to rob or a bank, they will be met with lethal force.
01:21:38.000We've lived in like this marshmallow utopia for a really long time.
01:21:42.000We have a hard time seeing hard truths.
01:21:44.000It is interesting to see, like, my friends who are all posting stuff about, like, uh, ACAB in, like, 2020 now saying, like, well, no, you don't need a gun.
01:21:59.000This is, like, the, the, it's like, if this, if this was, like, a police, if this was a movie about the police, this would be, like, the opposite of a movie.
01:22:04.000It's, like, they're the, actually, the worst people on earth.
01:22:33.000So you're saying you want to pass a law that you think they won't, that racists won't enforce against other racists, but will be weaponized against black and brown people?
01:23:28.000I don't want bad thing. You want bad thing. You ask questions about good thing. You want bad thing.
01:23:31.000That is literally the entire strategy. Why do you want bad thing?
01:23:33.000Tim Pool is on the cover of the newspaper the next day. Man want bad thing.
01:23:36.000It's totally insane. And basically the whole idea is let's look at policy based on the intentions
01:23:43.000and not the results or the incentives that said policy creates.
01:23:47.000Culturally, can this be a multifaceted approach?
01:23:50.000Like, I'm all with you on the gun side, too, but NPR, two, three years ago, did a Mass Shootings Can Be Contagious research show, which is extremely indicative of the way the media covers it, too.
01:24:01.000Like, can we all get on the same page of how we're covering this sort of stuff?
01:24:24.000And they'll say, here's his manifesto, read it!
01:24:26.000Everything that he wanted, here you go!
01:24:29.000Well, worse still is what happens is when the manifesto comes out and clearly the person's insane, the media will latch onto anything that smears the right.
01:26:30.000Well, is it identity politics to acknowledge that specific political groups are trying to do things that they've outwardly stated they're trying to do?
01:26:37.000If you just assume everyone in the group is, like, adheres to the group authority it is.
01:26:42.000So, if ten people walk into a bank, and they're all wearing the same outfits, and they all came in the same truck, and then nine of them commit a bank robbery, and the last guy's like, you go get them, guys!
01:26:51.000And then you're like, you're all bank robbers.
01:26:58.000No, no, no, just someone who was hanging out.
01:27:00.000How bad would your luck be if a group of ten people walk into a bank all wearing the same clothes, nine of them commit the robbery, and the tenth one just stands there watching and cheers them on?
01:27:09.000How bad would your luck be if you just happened to be wearing the same clothing as the bank robbers that day, and you walk in and they start robbing you, and you're like, wait a minute!
01:27:18.000When, like, the guy steals the painting and everyone's dressed in the same clothes, and so they're all moving around, and everyone's like, where'd he go?
01:27:25.000Like, there's just some random guy who's wearing the same clothes, and he's like, ah, crap.
01:27:29.000It's tough when I get, it's tough when we talk about the Democrats or like the left because I know there's people that are Democrat that aren't crazy and then same with the right.
01:27:38.000Right, but that's why we say they're NPCs.
01:27:41.000Because if at this point you're like, Jimmy Dore had a segment, the Young Turks were ragging on him, because he was like, if you're anti-war, you vote for Trump.
01:27:48.000And I'm like, that is objectively true.
01:27:50.000Trump didn't start any new wars and he was pulling our chips out of the Middle East.
01:28:15.000That was almost none of my friends have heard anything about that.
01:28:18.000When we talked about this and they're like, why would you?
01:28:20.000First of all, I didn't tell them who I voted for.
01:28:22.000They just kind of assumed whoever I might have voted for because I didn't post Biden memes and talk about that stuff.
01:28:28.000And I just asked, I was like, do you have any idea about either the Abraham Accords or the progress we've made in the Middle East or North Korea?
01:28:43.000I was like the thing like you mentioned with Brandon Strock about with what was that with the Insulting the yeah for me.
01:28:49.000It was the ms-13 gang members and how they framed how he said it as all Members, you know all people from Mexico and it's like when I saw the clip.
01:28:57.000It was so egregious I'm like you have to be at least somewhat aware, but most people aren't going to take the time to actually look into it so I just I always just, you know, Socratic method or people say like, yeah, well, Trump's a racist.
01:29:20.000I was having a conversation with somebody and they mentioned that they thought Trump was racist against immigrants.
01:29:25.000And I pointed out that immigrant was not a race.
01:29:28.000And they said that we should stop talking politics.
01:29:33.000What usually happens is I'll say, like, what do you mean?
01:29:37.000If they'll say something like Trump is racist against, you know, Muslims or whatever, I'll be like... Yeah, they'll mention the Muslim ban.
01:30:11.000I just don't, I think, I think it's just a simple answer.
01:30:13.000It's like Trump banned a bunch of countries because the Obama administration's DOJ or state department said that there was risks there.
01:30:19.000Well, you know, whatever, man, Trump did say, you know, that he wanted to put a moratorium or whatever on Muslims entering the country or whatever.
01:30:28.000Also, it's funny to point out to them that Obama was called Deporter-in-Chief.
01:30:31.000That blows their minds when they find out how many people he deported, but also most of them don't know anything about the drone strikes or anything that went on before that because they weren't politically initiated before the Trump presidency.
01:30:44.000I think I should hire canvassers, the people who stand in the street and wave to people and just be like, hey, do you have a minute to talk about the greatest president ever, Barack Obama?
01:30:53.000Just five seconds and they'll be like, yeah, sure, what's up?
01:30:55.000We are trying to get petitions to Provide legal immunity for Barack Obama because he killed an American child without charge or trial.
01:31:03.000We think that it was an accident, and he should not be held accountable, nor should he give up his peace prize, and we're looking for signatures.
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01:32:42.000Nomas says, Tim, laugh and have fun with Joe Bob as a guest.
01:32:48.000Matthew Reckamp says, in regards to Uvalde, obviously it's wrong to shoot cops, but at what point do they stop being cops and start being accomplices?
01:33:44.000Like, you can rag on Hunter Biden and call him a degenerate or whatever.
01:33:47.000The bigger issue is the political implications of sharing phone numbers.
01:33:49.000But I was like, look, I typed in Hunter Biden, you know, MILF, MILF porn or whatever, not to actually watch it, because I'm researching the news, and if someone saw that in my browser history, what would they... Tim, what are you doing?
01:35:46.000So the whole gist is like a guy comes to his house and he's like, I'm the social contractor.
01:35:51.000And he's like, what's your superpower?
01:35:52.000He's like, I build and buy things without your consent, regardless of whether you want them and then expect you to pay for it when I'm done.
01:36:35.000Neil Sawyer says, hey Shim Sham, I tried to use Potatoes to pay for my membership to Freedom Tunes, but for some reason it only let me use this garbage currency called USD.
01:36:43.000Yeah, so I've been talking... Seriously, best ten bucks I've ever spent.
01:38:22.000So, typically what they're doing is looking for cam girls.
01:38:27.000And so as soon as they see someone start to do something, they put them on a watch list, pay more attention to it, and then as soon as they see it get close, they nuke it.
01:38:35.000I don't know if they can do that for a lot of YouTube stuff.
01:38:38.000I do believe they probably have someone watching this show every night.
01:42:01.000SirLemonGrab says, with the culture divide, it's like we are watching the left and liberals fighting over hand grenade and we are trying to stop them from pulling the pin.
01:42:11.000I know, that's why I'm like, dude, just, you know, go about your business.
01:42:15.000Make money, speak up, build culture, focus on you, do your thing, you know?
01:42:23.000Mike Ross says, the hoops you have to jump through to share a cell phone number is a bit wild.
01:42:29.000I manage a $1.6 billion company's network and phone plan is not normal.
01:44:08.000You know, a while ago, I can't remember if it was Vice or Vox, but there was a mini-documentary on this fellow who was 3D printing firearms.
01:44:18.000And all they did is they took footage of him in an interview where he was speaking to them, and he was just speaking reasonably about The fact that because of 3D printing technology, it's going to be difficult to regulate guns, and Americans have a right to keep and bear an arm, but, keep and bear arms, but they played scary sounding music underneath it, so I was like, oh, he's back!
01:44:39.000That's my favorite, and they turn up the shadows and make the side of your face look darker.
01:47:21.000Like, you need to understand that the goal here with the restrictions on gas prices was to make sure that carbon emissions would be reduced.
01:47:27.000And then people are just gonna be like, what?
01:48:55.000is false look at map first cav emblem top right US Army unit that map is from
01:49:00.0002014 he applied to be a fact-checker for you I was in that unit oh that's a video
01:49:06.000from several months ago I don't know well I'll take a look at it I suppose
01:49:10.000leaks war plan video what they were What they were saying was that this dude had a map of Ukraine showing movements and they believed that it showed movements that had not yet happened yet.
01:49:21.000I suppose he's saying this was from 2014.
01:52:25.000I just want to say that the Supreme Court is currently going over a court case related to guns, and I'm just crossing my fingers for a broad ruling that basically says constitutional carry nationwide.
01:56:45.000So then if you don't do that when you're 18, you can go in and fill out a general knowledge
01:56:48.000You know, like, you gotta know how to load it, you gotta know where the safety is, you gotta know how to point.
01:56:52.000They'll ask you basic questions, like, what are the four basic rules, and then you get your government-issued, you know, air.
01:56:57.000The best argument against this, I'm somewhat kidding, by the way, but they were like, government subsidizing weapons will drive the price up to ridiculous numbers, and make it hard for people to buy.
01:57:06.000There'll be like, yeah, no, if the government promises everyone a free gun, there'll be a gun shortage in like two weeks.
01:57:48.000And it wrote two paragraphs about Ian being a scientist who was trying to formulate graphene, but a witch came and like stole his banana or something.
01:58:51.000That's the only thing it really is, like a muse.
01:58:54.000Because you can do creative story, and that's what I did for the Ian Graphene thing, but you can't continue the story.
01:59:00.000So it'll write you a paragraph, or two paragraphs, and then you can't continue the story, because if you put in new inputs based on the old paragraph, it creates a different story.
01:59:10.000Well, Joe Biden's using it to write his speeches.
01:59:16.000Kamala Harris has an earpiece and it's an auto AI generator and she's just like, the dog went to the store and Ukraine's small and I'm the president and they're like, what is she saying?
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