Sen. Doug Mastriano (D-PA) joins us on the show to talk about all the latest in the world of fake news, false flag attacks, AOC getting heckled at a town hall, and more!
00:01:13.000As Luke's t-shirt says, truth is the first casualty in war.
00:01:18.000So we'll talk about that and we've also got AOC getting heckled at uh it was like a town hall thing she was doing and this is like the second time I think we've seen in the past week where her own constituents are getting angry.
00:02:40.000I have Gettysburg and Chambersburg and Hanover and Shippensburg in my district.
00:02:44.000I'm running to be the next Governor of Pennsylvania.
00:02:46.000I served most of my adult life in uniform in the United States Army for 30 years.
00:02:50.000I started off on the Cold War in the Iron Curtain with my wife, Reby, who's here with us.
00:02:56.000After our initial training, we shipped off to Nuremberg, Germany with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
00:03:01.000And patrol the East German and Czechoslovakian borders defending against that kind of a system and ideas and oppression that are now creeping into American society.
00:03:17.000Well, we've got to make sure that doesn't happen here.
00:03:19.000We're very passionate because we did see the flip of that.
00:03:24.000People coming out of it, people being separated by that wall from their families for 40 years, and it was pretty oppressive over there, even on the free side.
00:03:34.000We saw a big difference when we moved back to Germany after the wall had come down, and a big difference in just the whole feel of the nation and the culture there.
00:03:45.000Rebe, would you like to introduce yourself, please?
00:03:47.000Yes, I am Doug's wife, Rebecca, go by Rebe, and I'm hoping to be the first lady in Pennsylvania so we can get things in order instead of having all the left agenda moving forward in our state.
00:04:06.000Most of the Pennsylvanians do not believe that way, and so we want to stand for the people.
00:05:26.000All right, let's jump into this first story from timcast.com.
00:05:30.000Putin has already attempted to detonate a nuke.
00:05:34.000Was stopped by sabotage, insider says.
00:05:37.000Russian expert believes senior-level officials are working against Putin to prevent nuclear detonations in Ukraine.
00:05:43.000A Moscow insider has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently attempted to detonate a nuclear weapon, but that his efforts were sabotaged by top brass at the Kremlin.
00:05:51.000The report published at the Mirror also says unspecified technical issues could account for the failure of Russian nukes in recent weeks.
00:06:22.000Yo, world leaders, they're not above you.
00:06:25.000If you sit down in, if you're in a bar, you wouldn't even realize you're talking to someone because people are just people.
00:06:32.000You go into the courts, you meet politicians, you meet enough people, you meet people who are wealthy and own things, and you realize everybody sort of acts the exact same way.
00:06:40.000Obviously people know different things, people have access to different things, but what I'm trying to say here with this is, When your neighbor got angry at you over some petty BS, that same level of emotion can happen with someone like Putin who's got his finger over the button.
00:06:55.000Do you think this story is true, Doug?
00:08:32.000And another thing to understand here, there is a chain of command specifically with Russia when it comes to launching nuclear weapons that people should know about, because it's not just Vladimir Putin pressing his finger on the button.
00:08:43.000He also, in Russia, they also have something that's sort of similar, like the nuclear football, but they have a briefcase that essentially notifies the general staff.
00:08:52.000The general staff have access to the launch codes.
00:08:55.000Then after the general staff get the launch codes, they could give it to individual weapons commanders.
00:09:00.000Then they, of course, execute the procedure.
00:09:05.000That's the chain of command that they have in Russia, which I think It's also important to understand here, it's not just one guy pressing a button, and there are ways that the chain of command, the general staff, or the individual commanders could say, no, this is crazy, and that's a likely scenario here.
00:09:44.000But then Saddam Hussein got rid of his chemical biological weapons, didn't tell the West, but he kept talking about he's going to use them against us as a deterrent.
00:09:51.000So I do believe that that's a possibility.
00:09:53.000Putin wants us to know that if we take it to the next level, there's a high danger that it's going to escalate.
00:10:37.000I'm not talking about the Asians that make up most of his country.
00:10:40.000And that demographic, he would like to have them in my studies within his sphere of influence.
00:10:44.000I think the most vulnerable place in Europe, other than Ukraine, is Eastern Latvia, Dagobils.
00:10:50.000When I visited there some years ago, I did not feel safe and I was there in civilian clothes with a Danish buddy of mine and it's like 90% ethnic Russian and most of the Russians there stayed as a result of the Cold War being stationed there.
00:11:03.000Their dads were military members or intel officials.
00:11:07.000And they're receiving a stipend from Moscow, by the way, as well, about up to a thousand dollars a month to live.
00:11:26.000Ukraine is also going to challenge them, specifically with the national resources that they have, the gas that they have, specifically in the regions that Vladimir Putin now is occupying inside of Ukraine.
00:11:36.000So there's a lot of things happening behind the scenes.
00:11:38.000There's, of course, NATO and their influence and them being on their border.
00:11:42.000There's, of course, the sphere of influence that Russia wants to still maintain in this specific region.
00:12:36.000Because Napoleon and the Germans and two wars and what have you.
00:12:39.000So, when the first attempt to go into Grozny in the Caucasus, the Russians were beaten back, and eventually came back with overwhelming force.
00:12:47.000I don't think Putin has that leeway, though, right now.
00:12:50.000Do you think it's reasonable, in the sense of an armistice, for eastern Ukraine to be split between the Ukrainians and the Russians, those freeways that go into Crimea?
00:13:00.000I think that's ultimately the goal, is to take those freeways to turn Crimea and Sevastopol into a trade hub.
00:13:05.000But do you think that's reasonable for Ukraine and Russia to share those freeways, to each take one, or neutralize the territory in some sense?
00:13:13.000Are you saying, like, the eastern region goes to Russia?
00:13:15.000Or make it neutral, or just the freeway from the Donbass, there's two of them, and one of them could be Ukrainian and one of them could be Russian.
00:13:23.000So, the land bridge that you're describing, Ian, is exactly what Vladimir Putin needed.
00:13:26.000And I think, actually, his idea of driving that land bridge east, I'm sorry, west towards the Transnistria, which is a breakaway republic on the Ukrainian-Romanian borders, I think he wants to have a broader pro-Russian area underneath his grasp.
00:13:40.000It does remind me a bit, analogies historically are dangerous, but Sudetenland, 1938, Czechoslovakia, Germans there, In Czechoslovakia and of course I'm gonna go and the bad guy Hitler goes in and liberates liberates quote-unquote and we're seeing a similar thing but the problem with Putin has is the resolve of the West.
00:13:56.000I mean how many billions of dollars of American money has gone in there?
00:14:02.000Well there's secret budgets and then there's public budgets.
00:14:05.000The public budget is around 60 to 80 to 100 people guesstimate right now but the house right now is talking about doing another 60 billion bill specifically just for Ukraine.
00:14:17.000That's a lot of And you think about it, the Germans are so proud because they came out and they announced they're giving $2 billion to the Ukrainians to fight the Russians.
00:14:24.000The dirty little secret is they're paying $2 billion a month for Russian oil and gas.
00:15:03.000Because all I'm seeing is escalation, escalation.
00:15:05.000Obviously, the winter is going to stop a lot of the fighting, but Putin is kind of posturing like he might launch another invasion from the north of Belarus right now.
00:16:13.000That's what the Indian General Staff, after the desert storm in 1991, and that was my first combat experience there, they did a study in 92 saying we have to get nukes to prevent this kind of attack on us from any country, not specifically the United States.
00:16:29.000And they have a long, tumultuous history.
00:16:31.000I call them the Afghanistan of Europe.
00:16:34.000Because when you look at all the violence, all the bloodshed, specifically in Ukraine, it is a major clash point.
00:16:39.000And people were kidding themselves not to see this as an upcoming major proxy war that's happening right now.
00:16:45.000And, you know, I could only hope it de-escalates, but I think this could even last a decade.
00:16:50.000I think it could even last more than that, especially with the way that these wars are fought, especially with how close the people are, especially how there's neighbors fighting against each other, which is atrocious, which is absolutely horrible.
00:17:01.000I think we should try to stop it, but at the same time, I don't see it stopping anytime soon.
00:17:05.000You'd have to... Ukraine would have to sacrifice the eastern region.
00:18:00.000Ukraine, I mean, wow, if they can push through this winter here and then have time to rearm and refit and retrain with all this new equipment and this money, hopefully, that's going to the battlefield, I mean, they might be able to start putting the Russians back.
00:18:10.000But then what do you do, Vladimir Putin, when your armies are pushed out?
00:18:21.000Well, this is why the Chinese have a weird kind of situation on their hands here because
00:18:26.000they're a big trading partner with Ukraine.
00:18:29.000They have a lot of relations with Ukraine.
00:18:31.000But at the same time, they're still geopolitically opposed against the United States.
00:18:35.000So this is a very weird situation for them.
00:18:37.000They're kind of like one foot in, one foot out.
00:18:40.000But I think they're also a country that we should be looking at right now, especially when it comes to Taiwan, especially when it comes to the bigger geopolitical picture, especially with BRICS and the petrodollar in question with Saudi Arabia.
00:18:50.000Let me pull up this next story real quick and we'll get back into it.
00:18:54.000From the Daily Mail, Russia plans false flag attack on hydroelectric dam to flood Kursan in latest attack on energy plants as Ukraine brings in four-hour blackouts to tackle electricity shortages.
00:19:07.000Now, what they're saying is General Sergei Serovaikin Russia's new supreme commander in Ukraine has spoken to Russian media in recent days about what he called a devastating strike on the Nova Kokovka dam, which he said was being plotted by Kiev's troops.
00:19:22.000Serovaikin, who has also been preparing the Russian public for a retreat from the region, said the blast would flood Kursan and cause widespread damage.
00:19:30.000They go on to mention in the article that according to experts from the study of war, it's actually them prepping us to accept a false flag attack.
00:19:39.000Because what's really happening is they're saying, hey, look, they're going to attack us, then they blow the dam, knocking out power in the region, retreating, and then blaming Ukraine for it.
00:20:09.000They are sometimes oriental in their thinking.
00:20:11.000In the end, for Putin, it's about his survival, his power base, and after that, what's better for his vision for Russia.
00:20:18.000I covered this story in my earlier video today on my channel, and it's the United States and US Intel saying Russia's going to launch a false flag attack to flood this.
00:20:27.000Russia is saying the same thing on their state television, and everything they're saying is almost the same exact thing, except you reverse the major actors here.
00:20:35.000They're saying the United States is going to be launching a false flag attempt, and we've seen this kind of rhetoric heat up, especially today, which is concerning, to say the least.
00:20:47.000I think we should always be skeptical.
00:20:49.000But when it comes to this larger war, we have to understand that there's also unconventional warfare.
00:20:53.000What happened to Nord Stream wasn't an accident.
00:20:56.000And I think we have to look at our infrastructure as it's also a potential target for the Russians or the Chinese or even third parties that could intervene and say, hey, it could be in our interest to spark up this conflict, make it a bigger conflict.
00:21:09.000And it might not even be Russia or the United States that could set up a false flag.
00:21:13.000It could be a third party, a country, or another special group that comes in there and it's like, okay, fight each other as we rise to power.
00:21:21.000So obviously the concern is is a humanitarian crisis.
00:21:23.000So we had the deeper rivers cut off the Russian troops, of course, that are on in the Kherson side of the west side of the river.
00:21:30.000The Ukrainians are poised, they've knocked out most of the bridges, the Russians are resupplying with pontoons and boats and what have you.
00:21:35.000That can't be sustained for long combat operations.
00:21:37.000So when, if there's Russian forces tracked, I think that dam is going down no matter what.
00:21:44.000What's surprising to me in my early days in the army, the Soviets, the Russians, were far better at disinformation and information operations than they are today.
00:21:53.000Putin has two audiences, the international audience and of course his domestic.
00:22:14.000You know, we have that image ingrained in our brains, you know, in a t-shirt on the back of a... He has high approval numbers because he turned Russia from an international joke to a place that, of course, made sure that people weren't drinking all the time.
00:22:26.000One of the biggest reasons why Putin is as popular as he is is because he's not drunk all the time like the previous leader was.
00:22:34.000And then when you see him reprimand people who do get drunk, who are in the factories, who are in, you know, major institutions of power in Russia, he makes an example out of them.
00:22:45.000And even when there's occasions to have a drink or have a shot or have cheers, he's like, no, I'm not doing it.
00:22:49.000So that's, you know, one reason why people see him as this kind of, you know, savior to Russia and their interests and their country.
00:22:57.000But at the end of the day, it's just another politician.
00:22:59.000And how long can he last with losses and casualties stacking up?
00:23:02.000I mean, Afghanistan, you know, eight years later on, eight years of war with Afghanistan, they finally withdrew in 1989.
00:23:07.000I mean... But this is Russia's strategy, isn't it always been?
00:23:10.000Just send ridiculous amounts of your troops until you just overwhelm your opponents?
00:23:15.000That has been their approach since World War, actually since World War One.
00:23:44.000It was a Henry Kissinger doctrine that they kind of instituted.
00:23:47.000Vladimir Putin is using this culture war rhetoric.
00:23:52.000There's a lot of people who feel that in the West right now we've got these degenerate, deviant, and just abhorrent ideologies emerging from the left.
00:24:02.000Vladimir Putin seems to be capitalizing that, outright calling out this stuff as Satanism, and so there are a lot of people even in the U.S.
00:24:08.000who think he's actually this, it's this great Christian nation fighting back against evil and degeneracy.
00:24:14.000Yeah, he's also speaking out against child conversion therapy.
00:24:18.000But is this him realizing there's an opportunity to propagandize, or does he actually believe the things he's saying?
00:24:24.000Well, I mean, he has a problem on his hands, because I know he wants to identify that as traditionally Russia, but Russia today is becoming more and more increasingly Muslim than it is Christian or European.
00:24:38.000It's hard to get our minds around, you know, in America, but I think that's part of his land grab with, you know, south of Sesepkazi in Georgia and now in eastern Ukraine.
00:25:07.000I saw the building that they set on fire.
00:25:10.000I got to see the statue that they'd pulled down of Lenin.
00:25:14.000It was a long, complicated story on how that all went down, but I met a lot of these people, a lot of young people.
00:25:20.000And they all basically said the same thing.
00:25:23.000We remember what it was like under the Soviet Union, and we never want to go back.
00:25:27.000So there are a lot of people who talk about the Eastern region, and it's probably true for in the East, a lot of people who are ethnically Russian, they speak Russian and view themselves as more Russian.
00:25:34.000But then you're going to end up with a split in the country from people who are like, I remember the Soviets, you know, we're not happy with that.
00:25:42.000And then there's gonna be a lot of people who are just like, I don't trust the West.
00:25:46.000You remember, and that's interesting because their grandparents lived through the Holomodir, however you say it, the forced starvation by Stalin.
00:26:17.000I know there's propaganda, and it really annoys me.
00:26:20.000Like, you pull up American social media, and every single video is like some Ukrainian soldier flicking a cigar, being like, ha ha ha, and I'm like, come on.
00:26:28.000Like, I know they're not winning every single fight, you know, but you look at where the major news is breaking, where the major moves are happening, and what Putin's doing, and like, yeah, they're getting pushed out.
00:26:38.000But there's a lot of people who just, I suppose they don't want to believe it, they want to believe that, you know, Russia is winning, he's advancing, Ukraine is not winning.
00:28:18.000Because there's no pipelines from Pennsylvania.
00:28:20.000So they brought in two ships from Siberia, 4,000 miles away.
00:28:23.000So I want to be able to support Boston, but maybe export also to Germany, get them off of Russian oil and gas, and maybe our friends in Poland.
00:28:30.000And for sure, the Lithuanians have already committed that they want to buy it off of Pennsylvania.
00:28:34.000I was willing to entertain a lot of this Go Green stuff for a while, but the moment you come out and say, you know, Joe Biden says he wants to get us off fossil fuels, he says it was part of his campaign when he ran for president, then he shuts down Keystone, then he bans fracking in certain areas, and then he goes to Saudi Arabia and begs for oil.
00:28:51.000I'm like, it's not about getting, it's not about stopping fossil fuels.
00:28:55.000I don't know what the actual, actually let me just ask you.
00:29:01.000That we gotta stop using fossil fuels and then he hurts the United States and then goes over to Saudi Arabia and begs them to keep up production so we can keep getting fossil fuels.
00:29:56.000Or is it just, I wonder if it's that Democrats know their base wants environmentalism, but they also know you can't have cheap gas and environmentalism, so they're just lying.
00:30:08.000I think they're driven by a gross ideology here that's making life harder and more expensive than the working class people the Democrats claim they represent.
00:30:18.000Before doing that, you know, they got to build back better somehow.
00:30:21.000What better way than to destroy the previous version of it?
00:30:24.000And I really wanted to ask you a question, Doug, because the Biden administration has specifically stopped domestic energy exploration and production.
00:30:32.000Will they stand in your way as governor?
00:30:33.000And can they stop you from doing what you want to do?
00:31:49.000And so, and then of course I'll open up state lands.
00:31:52.000And doing that, I can do all that without being stopped by the EPA.
00:31:58.000Let me pull up this story. It's from the Daily Wire.
00:32:01.000Bill Gates on energy crisis. It's good for the long run.
00:32:05.000The reason I think this is so important, let me give you a bit of context here.
00:32:09.000They say, the billionaire and Microsoft co-founder explained during an interview with CNBC that although global economies cannot immediately discard oil and gas, current shortages in the European energy market will prompt a faster transition away from fossil fuels.
00:32:22.000Now, without the Russian natural gas being available in Europe, it's a setback.
00:32:27.000We need to find non-Russian hydrocarbon sources to substitute for those.
00:32:31.000Keeping those economies in decent shape is a priority.
00:32:33.000Now, on the other hand, it's good for the long run, because people won't want to be dependent on Russian natural gas, so they'll move to these new approaches more rapidly.
00:33:46.000I'll be challenged, of course, by the EPA and the Biden administration when I'm governor next year.
00:33:49.000But we're going to do it because that's underneath the constitutional power of the states.
00:33:55.000The reason why I would say this is the age of the governors.
00:33:57.000We saw during the COVID shutdown, which was eye opening for all of us, whether conservative or not, we saw how dangerous this trend was towards tyranny and stripping away our freedoms that we just took for granted.
00:34:07.000We saw Pennsylvania with very restrictive powers by Governor Wolf and what never was a governor more appropriately named.
00:34:12.000And then, of course, And of course, Ron DeSantis in Florida.
00:34:16.000And I kind of say this jokingly, but I really do mean it.
00:34:19.000I want to bring a little bit of Florida to Pennsylvania, as far as freedoms go.
00:34:23.000Yeah, but guys, this is not what Bill Gates wants.
00:34:25.000And what Bill Gates wants is what Bill Gates gets, okay?
00:34:28.000He paid how much money to the corporate media?
00:36:40.000Yeah, I'm concerned not just about the lies and the manipulation.
00:36:44.000I'm concerned about, you know, China seems to be very much invested in us embracing ideologies that are ripping this country apart.
00:36:51.000So while they're massively expanding, while their population is much larger than ours, while they're, you know, sinking Vietnamese fishing vessels, they're polluting like crazy.
00:37:44.000If you are a moderate, liberal, or libertarian-minded person, and you read the news and say, hey, here's a thing, they call you far right in the media.
00:37:54.000The big point that I keep trying to drive home here is, they keep saying we gotta reduce carbon whilst actively trying to buy it overseas, while ignoring the carbon being produced by these other countries, because they're clearly lying.
00:38:05.000You point that out and they say it's a right-wing talking point.
00:38:07.000Yeah, apparently China's building a coal plant almost every week now.
00:38:10.000Isn't that a violation of these treaties we have with them or something?
00:38:13.000It is, because we're supposed to sell them, I guess, a carbon tax or whatever.
00:38:16.000They're supposed to have a certain limit.
00:38:18.000But for Pennsylvania, we become energy independent and start being a net exporter.
00:40:15.000And so I was talking with one of the energy producers and he's like, all we need is refinery in Pennsylvania and we can turn our natural gas to automobile gas.
00:40:22.000I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
00:41:48.000So if we get on it now, and we start producing this stuff early, Ohio University's working on the upscaling of coal pretty heavily into graphene.
00:41:56.000I would love Pennsylvania to take the lead on something like that.
00:42:07.000So, but here's something really interesting that Ian brought up.
00:42:10.000At the turn of the century in the 1800s, 1900s in New York, they said that there's going to be horse manure piling 10 feet high, the city will be unlivable, it'll smell.
00:42:27.000Ian brings up a good point that we're talking about global warming with carbon in the atmosphere, but they have carbon capture technology that can pull carbon and they can mine it from the air to produce a material like graphene.
00:42:40.000So when we're talking about all this climate change stuff, it really does feel like people are discounting human invention.
00:42:45.000That we might actually, as Ian points out, We have too little carbon in the atmosphere at that point, and we start complaining about it.
00:42:51.000We'll be able to withdraw the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
00:42:54.000You can deposit it on the metals and then turn it into graphene, the carbon.
00:42:58.000You strip the carbon out of the carbon dioxide.
00:42:59.000You can also take methane out of the atmosphere, turn it into carbon dioxide, and then turn it into graphene.
00:43:03.000What's going to happen is we're going to create an industry where we're mining the air, and then we're going to start competing with trees for carbon dioxide.
00:43:08.000So we've got to be real careful about the way we set this global industry up.
00:43:35.000Is there a timetable on how long you'll...
00:43:37.000So I looked at a report, and obviously there's a lot of geological interpretation here, but they're saying we have about two or three centuries worth of energy underneath our feet in Pennsylvania.
00:43:47.000But what about two or three centuries later?
00:43:50.000We got this story from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
00:43:51.000By then we have graphene and we have Mr. Fusion on the back of our cars, like in Back to the Future.
00:43:56.000Let's talk about crime. We got this story from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
00:44:01.000Yes, Wawa's decision to close two stores is a dire statement about public safety in Philadelphia.
00:44:08.000Despite assertions to the contrary, the move by the locally-based convenience store chain speaks
00:44:12.000volumes about the state of crime in the city.
00:44:14.000I'll just give you my personal story on the state of crime in the city.
00:44:17.000We didn't live in Philly, we lived just across the bridge.
00:44:19.000We're in South Jersey, five minutes away from the bridge, when the riots happened in what they call the summer of love, the 529 insurrection.
00:44:28.000I thought we were fine. I'm like, well, we're not in Philly.
00:46:11.000A thousand carjackings, 4,400 robberies, a couple thousand shootings.
00:46:17.000The gravediggers in Philadelphia said they can't keep up burying the dead teenagers.
00:46:22.000And my opponent can't run on this record.
00:46:24.000And sadly, thank God we have alternate outlets like you guys, because traditional media covers for him.
00:46:29.000Because if that was a Republican, there'd be breathless reporting on how this person had failed the people of the state and turned his back.
00:46:36.000Instead of doing his job and trying to protect the people, we saw the mayhem in the Wawa in the Mayfair district.
00:46:42.000We saw the shooting after a football game in Roxborough, another safe area of Philly.
00:46:46.000We saw carjacking outside in Chester County, outside of Philly, of a mom and a daughter going to school and being, you know, carjacked at, you know, seven o'clock in the morning.
00:47:27.000Josh Shapiro was given that authorization and he refused to use it.
00:47:29.000And instead of Putting criminals in jail.
00:47:32.000He's worked with the Wolf administration to release about 10,000.
00:47:35.000I know Fetterman's getting hit on the head a lot about how he's released, you know, voted to release on the parole board, you know, all these murders and what have you.
00:48:25.000But it's not the same as, you know, for Fetterman, if he wants to come out and say, nonviolent drug offenses should not be handled this way, then I'm like, okay, all right, right on.
00:48:48.000Yeah, there's an important distinction to make here because personally I'm for criminal justice reform, especially when it comes to victimless crimes.
00:48:55.000But at the same time, what they're doing is absolutely absurd.
00:48:59.000It's almost as if they really deliberately want to make the situation as unbearable and as bad as possible on the streets.
00:49:06.000And you see a huge rise in crime, specifically where George Soros has invested into the attorney generals, into the district attorneys.
00:49:15.000And correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like Shapiro got two donations for his campaigns twice from George Soros and has been supported by him.
00:49:38.000It was heartbreaking, because honestly, for the people that are trying to live there and just be safe and raise a family, there is no safe place.
00:49:46.000You know, even in their homes, there's shootings and the bullets go in and the kids, one grandmother raising five kids by herself said they know the difference between a firecracker and a gunshot, you know, and they know what to do.
00:49:58.000They know to run upstairs and lay flat on the floor.
00:50:01.000And I think the youngest one's like five years old.
00:50:04.000The other thing is the school's just locked down because of some sort of crime and the parents aren't told why the school's locked down.
00:50:11.000So now your kids, you know, are locked in and not able to come home, but you don't know if it's an internal or an external, you don't know what the problem is.
00:50:19.000And so there's just a lot of fear that it's instilling into the parents because they don't know every day if their kids are going to come home.
00:50:26.000What happens when a school gets locked down?
00:50:29.000I think various times from what she was telling us.
00:50:32.000We talked of different people when we were down there, but her story was is it just keeps happening.
00:50:37.000It's something that's almost weekly and it varies.
00:50:41.000You know, it might just be, you know, for an hour because they heard there was something in the vicinity and so they were trying to keep the kids in before they let them out, you know, to head home.
00:50:51.000But, you know, sometimes it's internal and if that's the case, I don't know how long that might be.
00:50:58.000What I don't get is that when this kind of stuff happens, the only thing I hear from your modern liberal or leftist is, it's the guns that's the problem.
00:51:33.000But I bring this up because this means that, you know, I heard a story about people in Philadelphia and they're armed and everything's fine.
00:51:39.000They go to Jersey and all of a sudden they're getting arrested.
00:51:40.000And I'm like, wait, regular law-abiding citizens are armed in Philadelphia?
00:53:26.000I don't know if I'll go as far as nukes, but clearly not.
00:53:31.000I was telling him before the show how I'm like, hey man, the Second Amendment says arms and we have to amend it if we want to get specific.
00:53:37.000Would you be okay for constitutional carry?
00:53:59.000Where it will prohibit law enforcement within Pennsylvania from cooperating with the Federals if Joe Biden comes in to enforce unconstitutional laws on the Senate.
00:54:16.000First, yeah, private companies, private entities can have nukes.
00:54:20.000I mean, you've got major weapons manufacturers that fill out the forms, I forgot what it was called, we talked to a guy who had an FFL and he explained there's a form for nuclear weapons.
00:54:29.000And when the Second Amendment was written, you could have a frigate, you could have a man-at-war, you could have a private warship, and you could actually contract with the government, and that's what we have today with these private military contractors and weapons manufacturers.
00:54:43.000So I think if people are concerned about a private citizen getting access to biological and nuclear weapons, instead of just deciding one day that the Constitution doesn't matter, we should actually say, okay, well, let's amend the Constitution as we were supposed to do.
00:54:55.000It's more of a point that over a long enough period of time, people seem okay with the fact that the Constitution has been eroded.
00:55:03.000That's probably the most important thing that I've heard today, is that we're seeing infringements on our rights through a thousand little cuts here and there, and instead of doing the right thing and saying, okay, do you have a Second Amendment right or not, and approaching it from a constitutional amendment process, it's being circumvented by laws and by bureaucrats and bureaucracy and what have you.
00:55:24.000Additionally, another piece of legislation that will be signed into law, of course, is reciprocity, recognizing people's right from other states coming through.
00:55:49.000So constitutional carry, but let's get a little into the nitty-gritty, I guess.
00:55:53.000What about limitations on, you know, magazine size or, you know, if you're saying it's a sanctuary state, I mean, how does that apply to, say, the NFA, like selective fire rifles, fully automatic weapons?
00:56:04.000Yeah, I mean, honestly, I haven't gone that far, but I am troubled by the limitations because we've even seen Joe Biden talk about handguns, you know, and having more than six rounds, that would be a revolver.
00:56:14.000He doesn't even know what he's talking about half the time.
00:56:53.000They don't understand, you know, people get in helicopters and fly around having to cull the boar population because they're dangerous and they destroy the environment.
00:57:00.000But these people don't understand that.
00:57:02.000They live in New York where there is no boar problem and then vote for you to be hobbled when you do have a boar problem.
00:57:08.000You know it's it's nice when you're living in a you know in a little bubble somewhere you know and you know safe and cozy and you have good Wi-Fi and you know good transportation and you have a private jet and the rest of us so it's kind of you mentioned a boar and we lived in Germany for 10 years and so I was out with our son and a couple of his friends when they're little kids and It's an old quarry in Germany and all of a sudden this boar came jumping off the top of the quarry and bounded off the walls and came straight for us and all the kids were running and I'm like, what do you do?
00:57:36.000And so I stepped on a rock and stared at it and it lifted its snout, looked me in the eyes and then veered away.
00:58:10.000You know, lawlessness in Philly, I mean, if that mom had a sidearm with her and a carjacker came, she could've put him out of his misery instead of being terrorized and what have you.
00:58:19.000I honestly think there wouldn't be a carjacking.
00:58:22.000Because people would be like, I better not even try because this woman's probably on it.
00:58:25.000I remember in the 70s I had an aunt that lived in Florida and we'd go visit her down in Vero Beach and we were told don't beep at people back then because they might just shoot you, so...
00:58:33.000Yeah, an armed society is a polite society, and we have to understand it's basic principle.
00:58:38.000You respect other people, you don't freak out, you don't curse at people, you don't try to attack people, you don't try to steal their stuff or violate their rights.
00:58:45.000And as long as you do that, you'll be fine.
00:58:47.000But again, we also have to understand the criminals will always find guns.
00:58:52.000They will always have, you know, Things like machine guns.
00:58:54.000They will always have 30-round magazines.
00:58:56.000And if the general public is limited to, let's say, five rounds, right?
00:59:00.000A criminal knows that when he's robbing a store, oh, the clerk only has five rounds.
00:59:04.000So if I'm in a shootout with him, one shot, two shot, three shot, four shot, five shot, he has to reload.
00:59:10.000And it puts the average citizen at a disadvantage when criminals who don't follow the law anyway will violate it.
00:59:16.000And of course, will use it in order to justify the punishment against the average law-abiding human being.
00:59:21.000I'm not even... I'm just tired of even hearing it and saying it because it is basic arithmetic.
00:59:27.000It is so rudimentary it is 1 plus 1 equals 2.
00:59:31.000If citizens can't have guns and criminals are already breaking the law, you're basically just saying the people who don't care about the law can carry weapons.
00:59:46.000And we keep saying it, but it doesn't resonate with these people who are trying to ban guns, that the people, only law-abiding people are going to pay attention to those laws.
00:59:59.000In the bottom line, do we have a Second Amendment right or not?
01:00:02.000And if we don't, then do a constitutional convention and not come here and slowly strip away these rights here and there.
01:00:08.000Because you're right, when you take the weapons away from the innocent, from the citizens, of course, then only the criminals will be armed.
01:00:14.000And we've seen that over and over again.
01:00:19.000And this is why I always tell my friends who aren't from the city, why you don't get involved in road rage incidents.
01:00:26.000Why, like, I'll be driving with a friend and someone will cut him off and I'll start wailing on the horn and flipping him off and I'll be like, you want to die?
01:00:31.000Because you never know if who you're flipping off is going to be some gangbanger who's, you know, looking for trouble.
01:00:37.000It's a city where the criminals, the people who are intent on committing crimes or who outright just don't care about the law, are the ones who are armed.
01:00:48.000Well, in that respect, in Chicago, don't pick fights unless you know for sure, like, don't pick fights, you know, outright.
01:00:55.000And then, don't get into a fight even if it's, unless you know your circumstances.
01:01:00.000So, what I mean by that is, if someone is getting up in your face and they're threatening you, the fight you've always won is the fight you've avoided, is the saying.
01:01:10.000Chicago's a place where I've seen people get into fights that it's just like, you wanna talk smack about me?
01:01:19.000And the other issue is, if they have a gun, these people are more likely to hurt you with it, as opposed to your law-abiding citizen who does not want that fight.
01:01:27.000So, that's why I've, you know, especially growing up in Chicago, I've just been like, We'd be better off if the people were scared to come near me to commit a crime because I'd be armed.
01:01:37.000Because I'm telling you, all the criminals are armed as it is.
01:01:40.000They make videos of themselves waving the guns around and all we can do is cower and cross our fingers and hope they're not going to shoot us.
01:02:36.000From TimCast.com, evidence implicating Hunter Biden in 459 crimes was just sent to every member of Congress.
01:02:44.000The report was produced following a 13-month investigation into material found on his laptop.
01:02:49.000The file was sent to all 535 members of Congress on October 20th, and includes 140 alleged business-related crimes, 191 sex-related offenses, and 128 drug-related crimes, according to The Sun.
01:03:03.000It was also sent to district attorneys and U.S.
01:03:05.000attorneys for the jurisdiction in which the alleged crimes occurred.
01:04:29.000But what do we hear about these pro-lifers?
01:04:31.000So, you talked about Mark Halk and how, you know, one Saturday, three weeks ago, four weeks ago, about 30 agents showed up in 15 cars on an early morning.
01:04:39.000We call that a night raid in Afghanistan.
01:04:41.000We'd help plan these ops where we'd take down tough armed terrorists that have killed people and then sent in
01:04:47.000special operators, about 30 or so, usually, you know, earlier in the morning at 7. But we do
01:04:52.000that not proportionally towards a pro lifer because he got in a shouting match with an opponent
01:04:57.000of his position and apparently the guy was cussing over his kid and so Mark pushed him and the
01:05:01.000lower court threw the case out and now the feds are to come in with overwhelming force.
01:05:07.000I never dreamt in my lifetime we'd see the Department of Justice and potentially the FBI being politicized so much because we have firebombing of crisis pregnancy centers but then nothing happens in defending their rights but of course it's heavy-handed abuse and we saw two priests arrested up in New York State now as well for being pro-life and praying outside a clinic.
01:05:51.000We used to have, back in the day, I mean, maybe this is just a trope, and maybe there's reason to complain about it, but people get into bar fights.
01:05:57.000And the cops would be like, go home guys, you're wasting everybody's time with this.
01:06:00.000These days, you make a federal case out of it.
01:09:03.000They need to keep people in a tight space where there is a controlled narrative, and I'm gonna, you know, I'm sorry, beat the dead horse, but They will come out and claim we've got to reduce carbon emissions while Joe Biden's dumping the strategic petroleum reserve, which is keeping petroleum flowing, and then go and beg, you know, our rivals for oil.
01:10:57.000But despite that, and so because of that, I can't boost posts.
01:11:01.000But despite that, I'm the number one in the nation over Democrat and everyone else on Reach and Facebook, because we told people how we circumvent it.
01:11:22.000We've been doing it for two years because of all that's been going on with COVID and just people were hopeless in Pennsylvania and so we get invited to all these different counties and events and things and so we went.
01:11:37.000You guys would have a great YouTube show, the two of you guys co-hosting it, talking about policy and stuff.
01:12:00.000I don't know if he's still there, but I remember being told he comes down to the balcony every day and talks about what's going on and just lays it out.
01:13:23.000Well, I was just gonna say, we try to point people to the fact that it doesn't have to be this way, and we try to encourage them, each one of you can do something, and if we all come together, and we all, we're all gonna, like you're just saying, you know, we're all gonna have different backgrounds, different opinions, But if we can all agree to come together on some issues, we can make a difference.
01:13:45.000And that was one of the big ways of encouraging people.
01:13:50.000And to watch out for each other, right?
01:13:52.000Like, to remember, you know, be your neighbor's keeper kind of thing.
01:13:57.000You know, if somebody's struggling, help them out.
01:14:00.000And a lot of people came together and met during the pandemic.
01:14:08.000We started a fireside, Doug started a fireside chat because people were so confused with our shutdown in Pennsylvania because it was so random how it was happening and businesses couldn't figure out like can I stay open or am I on the list that has to close and what's that look like and so anyway Doug got on every night for about a half hour and just kind of laid out the latest.
01:14:32.000Here's the list and he sometimes was just reading through all the the rules and Talking to people and people were asking questions.
01:14:39.000Hey, I have a hair salon So seriously, I can't be open, you know, but the abortion clinics are open, but I can't cut hair I mean, you know, it was it was like people just wanted to know like well what's going on?
01:15:49.000These talking points where they'll say, oh, it was only a few neighborhoods.
01:15:52.000Some viral tweet among a Democrat personality said, oh, the right wants to claim that the country was burning during major riots, but it was only a few neighborhoods.
01:16:01.000It was widespread, rampant, and everywhere for whatever reason.
01:16:05.000You want to say it was because people were angry about George Floyd, or you want to say they were angry because they were locked up because of COVID?
01:16:11.000Regardless, Michael Tracy, journalist, he went to these small towns all over the country that people didn't know about.
01:16:17.000And he saw the same thing, boarded up windows, spray paint, please don't hurt us.
01:16:21.000We support you, please leave us alone.
01:17:04.000On some of the biggest issues, the economy, the cost of goods, and crime.
01:17:08.000You've got Democrats who have actually supported and bailed out rioters and criminals, advocated for letting out convicted murderers, and then on gas prices Joe Biden actually campaigned on getting us off fossil fuels.
01:17:23.000So I just tell people, look, There's a lot of things you can complain about culturally.
01:17:59.000I understand a lot of people may be concerned about, you know, other issues in the culture war, but you can't complain about crime and gas and then vote for Democrats.
01:18:09.000I would say it's more of a psychological war.
01:18:11.000Former KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov, when talking about psychological warfare, subversion, and control of Western society, said specifically, quote, exposure to true information does not matter anymore.
01:18:22.000A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.
01:18:26.000The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with authentic proof, document, and pictures.
01:18:33.000And I think that quote definitely rings true today with our modern society, especially with the mass amounts of kind of hypnosis, mind control that is really out there, what some people have described as fifth generation warfare.
01:19:10.000But these books are in grade school libraries.
01:19:14.000And when parents simply say, hey, this material is not appropriate for my kid, they get kicked out of these meetings, they get told not to speak, they get the boot, and then we're told just that this is the kind of stuff that grade school kids should have access to.
01:19:25.000So, was there something that happened recently with you guys?
01:19:49.000It was so bad that the committee chair said, okay, we understand now.
01:19:53.000But the pictures in some of those books that she had there are extremely graphic, and it's for elementary ed kids, and if you and I shared that material with underage people, that would be an offense.
01:20:06.000Josh Shapiro, my opponent, supports that being in the libraries.
01:20:09.000We actually had a bill that would protect kids from obscene material in the schools, age-appropriate books, and it was called book banning by the Democrats, and our Democrat governor, Wolf, vetoed it, and my opponent cheered.
01:20:20.000On the same side here, they celebrate, of course, gender pronoun games in our schools.
01:20:24.000Our schools are becoming, really, a culture war class in Pennsylvania.
01:20:28.000Because they know, if they can indoctrinate the kids, they get votes in, you know, 18 years.
01:20:33.000And the kids are told not to tell their parents if they're transitioning or which pronouns they're using, and the parents will get on board later on.
01:21:05.000Look, I'm all for making sure people are living happy and healthy lives for the trans community, but what we're talking about now is, it's a simple issue.
01:21:16.000Parents saying, hey, me personally, I don't think it is right for my children to read a book that shows graphic sexual depictions.
01:21:24.000And they're being called book burners, fascists, transphobes.
01:21:29.000Domestic terrorists, if you talk too loud in a school board meeting.
01:21:37.000You can ask, well if you ever get the chance, because he's not going to debate you, you can just ask him, do you think banning Playboy would be book bannings?
01:21:44.000Is that banning a book to ban Hustler from schools?
01:21:48.000We're not talking about telling kids they can't read ideas.
01:21:51.000It's specifically that these are adult Adult-oriented things.
01:21:55.000You know, it's one thing if you're like... And actually, I brought this up with... I can't remember who I brought it up with.
01:22:02.000The Bible has certain depictions in it that are actually adult and graphic.
01:22:07.000And my attitude is, yeah, the parents should be there talking with their kids and deciding if they want their kids to be reading certain things.
01:22:13.000I don't care if it's a religious text or if it's a book.
01:22:16.000The idea that teachers will decide for the parents and the parents have no say somehow equates to book bannings is ludicrous.
01:22:23.000And we see the videos on the libs of TikTok, you know, and they're using their platform to indoctrinate, and that's an abuse of power there.
01:22:30.000You're there to educate, not to indoctrinate.
01:22:32.000We want to teach kids, you know, how to think, not what to think, and that's a dangerous trend here.
01:22:36.000And now that there's a push to force the parents out of their kids' lives, in their education, in their choices, and what have you, in their understanding, in their worldview, that's troubling.
01:22:46.000You know, we started off this conversation about You know, Lieutenant Mastriana serving in the Iron Curtain, you know, defending against the godless system that Ronald Reagan described.
01:22:56.000And in those days, during the Soviet Empire, of course, schools were used to indoctrinate, to socialize and indoctrinate according to the edicts of the rulers.
01:23:04.000And I remember being, I'm so glad it's not like that in America.
01:23:08.000But we're seeing that coming here in America.
01:23:12.000So that's, I view that as like the Chinese Communist Party, but for the Western version.
01:23:19.000They've got, the Chinese Communist Party has an office in all of their major companies so that they have political control with how these companies operate.
01:23:26.000ESG is basically the same thing, it's a workaround to get ideology into the business.
01:23:30.000You know what though, I think it's not working.
01:24:02.000But me, together with the Republican General Assembly, we can cut off ties with businesses or not invest in China or Russia or companies that work against our ideas and ideals.
01:24:10.000I wonder if the same goes for free speech, supporting the First Amendment, and social media companies that take control of the commons.
01:24:18.000Since I've been on the receiving end, you know, much as you guys have been on some of the censorship here, which is just repugnant to me, you know, who's deciding what right and wrong is on some of these issues we've debated over the past couple years, which we won't bring up because we're going to be banned on some of the platforms, ironically.
01:24:31.000But I have introduced legislation that would make these social media platforms culpable and subject to being sued by citizens in Pennsylvania if that passes.
01:25:36.000Facebook actually was experimenting on people.
01:25:38.000They were purposefully sending happy content and hurtful content to people to see how they would react, and sure enough, when they flooded someone's feed with depressing content, they became depressed.
01:25:50.000Well, they were launching psychological experiments on unsuspecting users who didn't know that they were participating in a program that manipulated the algorithm to see how they could manipulate their emotions.
01:26:00.000So that's some larger psychological warfare that's happening that, of course, they're seeing what they could get away with.
01:26:05.000They're seeing how far they could manipulate a human being.
01:26:08.000If you can make someone feel sad, you can make someone believe a particular idea, that's godlike power and authority that I think should be absolutely put in check.
01:26:17.000And I kind of agree with Tim more than I do with Ian, because we need to understand what's happening behind the scenes.
01:26:26.000Who's getting a fair share of viewership?
01:26:28.000Ideas are being shared, which ideas are being censored, and more importantly, make the code of conduct simple and enforceable.
01:26:35.000Don't make it vague, don't make it general, don't punish people, don't delete their livelihood, don't take them away from the market of ideas just because they expressed an idea, and you're gonna use an overall vague term in order to destroy their ability to communicate?
01:26:48.000That is draconian, that is evil, and a lot of these companies have ties to governments, ties to intelligence agencies, especially with their start, So how do you tackle that as a governor?
01:27:23.000If you said something to someone that they didn't like, you duke it out, you just punch each other, you know, then it's resolved on the spot.
01:27:29.000For instance, Ethan Klein just got banned off YouTube, a seven-day ban or something, for saying that he thought Ben Shapiro should be more gassed I think. Well if there was, he said if there is
01:27:38.000another kind of holocaust that he hopes that gets the first one. And it was
01:27:43.000a joke but it was a very poorly veiled joke and it was sort of like not a direct call to
01:27:49.000violence. It's not illegal because it's not um you know what do they call it when it's like you
01:27:59.000It wasn't an imminent threat, but these veiled threats are enough for social media companies a lot of times in their terms to be like, that's not allowed here.
01:28:10.000It can incite violence though, so that's a problem.
01:28:12.000Well, look, I want to just address this one just a little bit.
01:28:15.000We didn't get into it, but I don't think Ethan Klein should have been suspended.
01:28:19.000I even said it the other day when we went over the comments in the first place, but the fact that he's trying to claim it's a joke, it's like, dude, come on.
01:28:26.000You should have said it was a joke after he said it, right in the same breath, man, if you're gonna do a joke like that.
01:29:07.000And now the FCC doesn't... What's that?
01:29:10.000I think a lot of the restrictions on the media have been lifted, have been, like, rules have been changed that's allowing a lot more of this garbage.
01:29:19.000So we had a FCC would say like, yeah, it's legal, but it's not allowed on the network.
01:29:23.000But now there's no, it's not allowed on the network talking.
01:29:26.000It's up to these private companies instead of the FCC.
01:29:29.000It's definitely a legal, it's legal to do it, but whether or not it's righteous, I don't know, or justified or any of that.
01:29:38.000I err on the side of free speech personally.
01:29:40.000But you know, if you say, well, someone rid me of this priest, you know, that's, and then the priest gets killed.
01:29:47.000Yeah, I don't think you should... I don't think that should be banned.
01:29:49.000I don't think what Ethan Klein said should get him banned.
01:29:52.000I think we should all get to hear it and then be like, wow, that was gross, you know?
01:29:55.000But if he thinks it's a joke and he thinks it's funny, that's fine.
01:30:09.000Right now, Ethan's, you know, attacking or being very critical of Ben Shapiro because Ben said, if another Holocaust happens, I hope Ethan and his family escape, but that's just me.
01:30:18.000And then he's like, you know, these fascists, they don't get it, blah, blah, blah.
01:30:21.000And I'm like, dude, When the people on the left say that we should ban comedians, censor people, and shut them down, that's extremism.
01:31:19.000And it's happened so quickly to us since 2020.
01:31:21.000This is why I like the idea of freeing the code, because I want to leave the decision up to the network creators of if they want to ban doxing on their network or not.
01:31:32.000We just got to find where free the code doesn't mean like give out your IP and all the intellectual property you've actually done in writing that code.
01:31:38.000There has to be a line where it depends on what kind of business you are, I think.
01:31:43.000I think it depends on what kind of, you know, we've talked about this too with like whether Twitter is a platform or whether it's publishing this information.
01:32:24.000But if you're a network owner and someone puts something illegal up and you don't immediately remove it, you're complicit in... Decentralizes it, like I said.
01:32:32.000If Elon removes his ability by putting Twitter out as a decentralized system, And he just says, Twitter no longer has the ability to ban accounts.
01:32:42.000Like, it's hosted on other servers and people can host their own servers.
01:32:50.000I mean, look, dude, if you go out in the street and stand, if you go into a hotel and start screaming racist things, they're not going to come and shut down the hotel.
01:34:47.000In Philadelphia, why are you voting Democrat?
01:34:49.000You're stuck in that school and your kids are, you know, flailing.
01:34:52.000But the mere fact that I point out that He's forced school choice for himself and is able to afford a very expensive school, about $30,000 to $40,000 per kid for kids, and that becomes anti-Semitic.
01:35:03.000That's how ridiculous the media has become in America, and in Pennsylvania specifically.
01:35:10.000Let's talk about school choice and why, for the Obamas, he could afford a very expensive school for his daughters in Washington, D.C., but what about the rest of the kids in Washington, D.C.?
01:35:21.000Why don't they have that same right to choose a school?
01:35:24.000This is the reason why he won't debate you.
01:35:26.000This is why many of these leftists won't come on a show like this.
01:35:30.000We'll simply ask, hey, how come these people are opposed to school choice, but they send their kids to these expensive charter schools and private schools?
01:36:33.000He says, Tim, do you read superchats starting from the beginning of the stream or starting from the point during the stream at which you start reading superchats?
01:37:22.000And labels are always dangerous anyway, because we're all free thinkers.
01:37:26.000But I looked at what happened in Washington State, Oregon, New Mexico, and Colorado, and they were promised great revenues with taxation, but we've seen actually a 30% increase in crimes, gateways, all the stuff we were warned about actually came true in those four states I just mentioned.
01:37:40.000So I've been studying the topic there, so I'm not for recreational use.
01:38:29.000Alright, The Hazmat 221 says, Tim, long time listener, I took your advice to heart and I got a 74 acre parcel in PA after fleeing New Jersey to live off grid with my newly wed wife.
01:38:39.000We don't want PA to become the next New Jersey and support Doug wholeheartedly.
01:38:51.000You know, you left New Jersey because of failed Democrat policies and you're coming to a state that needs to be Republican and free and not bring in those failed politics with you.
01:40:06.000All right, let's read this one from a name I can't read.
01:40:09.000He says, Tim, I was going to become a $1,000 a month member for the next 84 years, but then I read Jezebel about Ian being a conservative, so I decided not to.
01:42:00.000But I think we're trying as desperately as possible to not have that happen.
01:42:05.000And we're hoping that with like a midterm and then 2024 election, we can actually just win a culture war and stop the country from falling apart.
01:42:12.000interject something. So during the shutdown a lot of people would get very
01:42:15.000aggravated and actually say some you know pretty potentially violent things
01:42:18.000about how frustrated they were with the government and then I would ask them the
01:42:21.000question like well did you vote in the last election? No.
01:42:24.000Did you vote in the presidential? No. I'm like then you're part of the problem.
01:42:27.000So secession is I'm going to say it's a ridiculous idea.
01:42:31.000We resolved this at the ballot box, and let's do it this way.
01:42:36.000And if you're really that serious about it, and it sounds like he's pretty passionate about it, then volunteer for a campaign, donate to a campaign, or maybe run for office yourself instead of talking so bombastically.
01:42:46.000Well, personally, I think secession is a great idea when you see it from a point of view of decentralization, from the point of view of how the Amish have done it, from the point of view of individuals taking personal responsibility for themselves.
01:42:59.000We might be at odds here, but that's how I see it, and I think it's a great idea that we should strive for on an independent, local level.
01:43:05.000You mentioned a convention of states, too.
01:43:08.000Is that between governors or between state legislations?
01:43:10.000That would be through state legislators selecting representatives to represent a state in a convention of states.
01:43:16.000And obviously, it's coming out of the conservative movement, but there's also fears on the Second Amendment side that that could be a runaway convention that could start infringing upon our rights, and that might be another way to circumvent the constitutional process.
01:43:29.000You know, individually, the Amish still pay their taxes, they still obey our laws and what have you.
01:43:33.000Even though they have their own schools, they still have to pay school tax to, you know, that seems ridiculous.
01:43:39.000But a fracturing at the greater level, like I'm thinking 1861, I don't want, maybe, you know, without the conflict, but I don't want to see that happen to our country.
01:43:48.000We're better off as a United States of America.
01:44:34.000He says, hey Tim, big fan of the show.
01:44:35.000If Josh Shapiro keeps avoiding Doug's debate calls, he should debate Mises Caucus Libertarian candidate Matt Hackenberg instead.
01:44:42.000It would really make Josh look cowardly.
01:44:45.000There's a lot of people, here's my first thoughts on this question.
01:44:47.000Obviously a lot of people who are Libertarians, we have a lot of Mises Caucus and Libertarian friends, they want to be contenders in this.
01:44:54.000They want to make sure people recognize them.
01:44:56.000And so I see a lot of people being like, you know, you should debate the Libertarian.
01:44:59.000But they actually make an interesting point here that I thought.
01:45:02.000It really would make Josh Shapiro look cowardly if you excluded him and the conversation shifted away from Democrats into something totally different, you know what I mean?
01:45:26.000I don't have her name handy, but she made it on the ballot, and she's a viable alternative to Josh Shapiro, that's for sure, if you want to vote red.
01:45:32.000Yeah, we were talking with some of the, you know, I think it was when Dave Smith was here, he's a Mises Caucus guy, and we're good friends, we're big fans, but I gotta say, look man, I don't view the new MAGA Republican America First types as the lesser of two evils the way I viewed the establishment Republican Party.
01:45:53.000I certainly don't agree with everything the Republican Party has to offer, But there's a handful of Republicans where I'm like, yeah, they're actually pretty good.
01:46:38.000The reason why, and whatever we think of Bush the elder is irrelevant to my point, but Perot came in and he ensured a Clinton victory, which began a transition in our country culturally.
01:46:49.000I do think it would be hilarious, and I understand the political challenge, but it would be hilarious if you guys just organized the governorship debate and put his podium up there and just... there you go.
01:47:03.000We could even make him, you know, a little bigger than life, if that helps.
01:47:07.000I mean look, you invite the Green Party candidate too, let them represent the left, and then be like, why is he refusing to show up and actually speak to you?
01:47:16.000I don't think you'd mention him at that point, just call up the 2022 Pennsylvania Governor of the Bay, whoever comes.
01:47:21.000Invite everyone who's running officially on the ballot.
01:47:24.000I promise Josh Shapiro he could bring Donna Brazile with him, who of course cheated famously in 2016, gave Hillary all the questions before the debate.
01:47:32.000I'll even give him a box to stand on so he looks taller.
01:47:34.000It's okay Josh, I'll see you on the debate floor man.
01:47:36.000Do you guys know each other personally?
01:48:12.000I don't know what you guys are saying there, but I'm concerned.
01:48:15.000We're rocking the Marne because in 1918 when the Germans broke through the French lines, my unit stood like a rock on the Marne River and stopped them.
01:48:24.000All right, Isaac Glover Show says, can Mr. Mastriano please consider joining the new Trump administration in 2024 if he loses his governor's race?
01:48:32.000Also can't wait to see Carrie Lake win.
01:48:35.000We're going to win bigly at the borough from Donald Trump.
01:48:38.000But thank you for thinking so much in me.
01:49:02.000Look, I can disagree with you or anybody else, but as long as you know why you think something, I'll be like, OK, well, you know, you know, you mentioned some things on the show about your policies, and I'm like, I actually don't know enough to refute what you're saying.
01:49:14.000I'm not going to argue about something I don't know just for the sake of politics.
01:51:38.000You know, I think the more eyes that are on things, the better off we are, the more accountability for public.
01:51:42.000We're spending $31 billion a year in Pennsylvania on education.
01:51:46.000According to a 2020 report from the National Education Association, we are the 12th highest in the nation spending-wise with 28th in quality student before COVID.
01:51:54.000We're not getting our bang for the buck.
01:51:56.000And so my goal is actually to do education rather than indoctrination.
01:51:59.000And history, civics, and constitution need to be brought back.
01:52:18.000I see, and you know, granted, you know, I came in with a framework and understanding of the Constitution, but being in the Pennsylvania Senate during the shutdown during COVID was a crash course in the Constitution.
01:52:28.000I had no idea things were happening so rapidly.
01:52:31.000And much of it was because of ignorance of the laws and the rules and our basic constitutional rights that people seem to not have a grasp of anymore.
01:52:38.000It'd be cool if little kids in elementary school learned how to write a bill and pass it with the other kids could vote on it and then change some behavior in the classroom.
01:54:26.000But you did something that wasn't hurting people in a great degree.
01:54:29.000I understand there can be problems, like, you know, if a car can't get through and someone loses their job, or there's a lot of problems there.
01:54:34.000But that's why you get arrested for it.
01:56:23.000That's why, you know, the Senate race is interesting and it's a lot about, you know, law and order and crime, as I mentioned before, but there's nothing that they can do about law and order and crime at the state level.
01:56:58.000I think he's a bad guy, I think he's done bad things, but hearing a story like that, it's just like... Rock bottom, Parmesan cheese bottom.
01:58:11.000He said he had no problem giving a cake, selling a cake, to a gay wedding.
01:58:14.000It's that he didn't want to make a custom message about supporting it.
01:58:18.000Well, now he's been sued several times.
01:58:19.000I'm curious, you know, how do you solve for this?
01:58:21.000Look, the law says you can't discriminate on the basis of, you know, these, these, well, I should say national origin, gender, gender identity.
01:59:01.000If it's a small business where it's like one person, you shouldn't be able to bring an action.
01:59:05.000But if it's like a chain or a dominant business and you can prove that they've monopolized a certain area or something like that, then you can.
01:59:15.000Well, no, I mean like, if you're a single individual who has a storefront selling flowers and you say, I'm not gonna do business with you, it should be like, carry on and move on so you can find flowers anywhere.
01:59:24.000But if it's Walmart, they shouldn't be able to turn you away because they've dominated and monopolized such a large portion that you can't really go anywhere else.
01:59:54.000Let's try and find a good one because we only got a little bit of time left.
01:59:58.000You know, I'll say this just as I'm kind of trying to read and speak at the same time.
02:00:02.000I do try to find good questions, especially hard ones, but when a good portion of all of the superchats are just outright, love you, big fan, you know, go Mastriano and things like that, it's like, you know, I can't just sit here for 10 minutes trying to find everything.
02:00:18.000But let's see if we can, I'll just try and make sure I can find one more, just a good one that we can end off with.
02:00:27.000Otherwise, I'll just grab what I see coming up soon.
02:00:54.000Yeah, the one thing I, you know, I know that there was a lot of Q&A sessions with politicians in the past, and they always do pre-screened questions.
02:01:02.000But at the same time, hey guys, you know, I always try to find good ones, but everybody's just saying they love you, so I guess that's what you get.
02:01:26.000Pennsylvania is the birthplace of our country.
02:01:28.000It was founded by William Penn, who, of course, escaped persecution for his own faith.
02:01:33.000He founded our state with the idea that all men could be free people and live their lives as they saw fit, not as a governor or magistrate or king saw fit.
02:03:21.000I don't normally watch it, but it was good.
02:03:22.000And I also watched your video on YouTube today, because I saw it on my recommendeds, which I got recommended for some stuff, but I guess not TimCast.
02:03:41.000It'd be funny to do a skit where it's like ten years from now, and it's this futuristic world of flying cars, and Ian's like, you know, a little bit older, and he's looking at a picture of Doug over here, and then he looks up at a statue of him, and it says, he created the first graphene plant, revolutionizing technology, and Ian's like, we did it.
02:04:01.000We could build a campus where people come and learn to make it with lasers and we'll create a new industry.
02:04:10.000Alright everybody, thanks for hanging out.
02:04:12.000We're not having a members-only show because we don't really have enough time for it, unfortunately, but I do appreciate all of you who are members who help make it all possible, and we will see you all next time.