On this episode of Smash the Like button, host Alex Blumberg is joined by Laura Loomer to talk about the latest in the culture war between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, Elon Musk's plan to get rid of the Block feature on X, and more.
00:00:00.000On the same day as the GOP debate, Tucker Carlson will be interviewing Donald Trump
00:00:27.000We don't know if it'll be the exact same time, but this is... It's gonna be very, very bad for the GOP debate, and it gives Trump exactly what he wants.
00:00:37.000And a lot of people are attacking Trump, saying he should debate, and the argument from the Trump camp is that, why?
00:00:41.000Why would he give airtime to any of his detractors and opponents?
00:00:44.000Now what's going to happen is that Trump's going to be doing this interview with Tucker, it's going to smash the internet, and I think the ratings for the GB debate will be much smaller than they'd hoped.
00:00:53.000Partly this is due to Fox putting out this memo, or I should say there's a story, where Fox was saying that no one can rebroadcast or restream the debate.
00:01:03.000So we'll talk about that, and also as sort of a follow-up to the conversation we were having this morning on the culture war with Trump vs. DeSantis and where that goes.
00:01:10.000And then we've got some big cultural news.
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00:03:28.000I got my career started working undercover at Project Veritas with James O'Keefe, where I worked undercover exposing voter fraud, and I was embedded inside the Hillary Clinton campaign exposing corruption.
00:03:39.000And after I went on or completed working with Project Veritas and James O'Keefe, I then started my own media company.
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00:04:37.000It was the longest shutdown in US history.
00:04:40.000And I just decided, well, this is ridiculous.
00:04:43.000It seems like they just want to have open borders.
00:04:46.000And yet they live in mansions, a lot of these politicians, and they have their own secure homes.
00:04:52.000Uh, she had said, I remember laying in bed watching the press conference in her bright pink blazer, she said, a wall is an abomination, a wall is an immorality, an immorality, and it is not who we are as a nation.
00:05:03.000And I said, well, Nancy Pelosi has like 25 mansions and they all have walls.
00:05:07.000So I was in Arizona at the time and I drove a rental car down to the US-Mexico border and I crossed over at the Ote Mesa line just to show people with my cameraman how easy it was to do.
00:05:20.000And I said, well, you know, now that I'm in California, I hear there's a lot of really nice, generous Democrat politicians that think we should have sanctuary.
00:06:21.000This is online to you could watch it on my YouTube channel and she called the cops on us and it was hilarious because it was the number one trending story on Twitter at the time, even though I was completely banned on Twitter and you could hear the cop on the phone with her and this whole thing is being live streamed, right?
00:06:36.000And ultimately she just had to let us go because how much of a hypocrite would she be but ultimately we were deported.
00:06:42.000from her house, and then I did it at Gavin Newsom's house, too, at the California governor's mansion.
00:07:18.000So Donald Trump is not going to be debating the rest of the Republican candidates.
00:07:23.000And we got news that Trump will reportedly do a sit down interview with Tucker Carlson on the day of the GOP debate on Fox News.
00:07:29.000Former President Trump will reportedly sit down with Tucker, the first debate of the Republican primary scheduled to take place on Wednesday in Milwaukee.
00:07:38.000The New Times reports former President Donald J. Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with former news host Tucker Carlson.
00:07:48.000I'm imagining they're going to publish at Tucker's normal time, which will absolutely compete with the GOP debate.
00:07:54.000And then who's going to want to watch the GOP debate?
00:08:28.000It doesn't matter because it's not going to be as much fun because no matter how bad DeSantis is, he's not as terrible as Kamala Harris.
00:08:36.000That was an absolutely beautiful takedown of Kamala Harris.
00:08:42.000And again, it is not fair to compare Ron DeSantis to Kamala Harris because Kamala Harris is at the bottom of the barrel like Gollum from Lord of the Rings.
00:09:09.000It's not necessarily red in terms of our political makeup, but in terms of the governors that we've had over the last few years, yeah, we have had Republican governors.
00:09:18.000But really, Florida is the largest swing state in the nation, and I wouldn't necessarily say that it is a pure red state.
00:09:24.000What happened is that during COVID, you had a large influx of people from New York and New Jersey.
00:09:31.000California moving into Florida because they wanted, right, to escape the lockdowns because they thought that Florida was going to be more free and open than places like New York and New Jersey.
00:09:42.000And while it's true that our restrictions and our lockdowns were not as draconian, at one point in time they were and they did lock down parts of Florida and there were lockdown orders and masking orders and Ron DeSantis did advocate for the vaccine.
00:09:55.000And so then what happened is a lot of those people that moved, well, those are going to be conservatives for the most part, right, who moved to a state to escape leftist policies.
00:10:04.000Well, they registered to vote and then the Republican registration rate surpassed the Democrat registration rate.
00:10:12.000But the actual makeup of Florida is not majority Republican.
00:10:15.000And so this is like one of those misconceptions that we were talking about this morning, because I really feel like they've been trying to position Ron DeSantis as a Manchurian candidate, and they're trying to push this narrative that he's the only successful governor in the country because they needed somebody that could challenge Donald Trump.
00:10:42.000It is true, I do believe, that many people probably said, you know what, I'm gonna vote for, you know, I used to be a Democrat and now I'll vote for Ron.
00:10:48.000But we know we had mass migration into Florida.
00:10:53.000That may be, to Ron DeSantis' credit, for whatever reason, but it's conservatives who moved in and were already going to vote conservative that gave him the massive 20% margin.
00:11:02.000I want to give him credit because he attracted conservatives to Florida, but I also want to make sure we give decent credit to the Democrats for being so awful they drove people out of their states into Florida.
00:11:13.000Like the way Ron handled COVID, the lockdowns, eventually he got to the point where he was like, we're done.
00:11:58.000I'm saying that I personally, right, as a Floridian and as somebody who's run for Congress in Florida twice as an America First Republican, I see on the ground Ron DeSantis is not a good governor.
00:12:09.000And they've been able to use other people's experiences and the outlier experience of the COVID lockdowns, which Nobody really expected that to happen, and that's really what they use as their talking points to say, oh, he's such a great governor.
00:14:13.000It might be helpful, Tim, if you pull this up.
00:14:15.000And I actually wrote a Substack article about this and it was posted by President Trump.
00:14:20.000I don't know the exact number, but just type in Special Session Florida Insurance Bill.
00:14:27.000And there were these different measures because they had said, oh, they had argued that the reason why the rates were so expensive is because there were frivolous lawsuits.
00:14:35.000And so what happened is the lobbyists, right?
00:14:38.000We have a state insurer of last resort in the state of Florida called Citizens Insurance.
00:14:43.000The CEO of that company was also the lobbyist who was participating in writing this legislation and pushing it forward.
00:14:52.000And what they wanted is they wanted it so that homeowners in Florida were not able to sue if You know, they discovered that their insurance carrier was engaging in fraudulent activity.
00:15:08.000And you could really make the argument that given the fact that these companies are insolvent, and Governor DeSantis himself has recently admitted that Citizens Insurance, which is the insurer of Last Resort, right?
00:15:19.000That's where people try to go and get insurance if their insurance carrier drops them.
00:15:23.000And we're now seeing a lot of these insurance carriers leave the state of Florida.
00:15:29.000What's the point of people paying their insurance premiums if these companies are not even going to be able to fulfill their claims?
00:15:35.000So you could make the argument that that's a fraudulent business practice.
00:15:38.000And we see this now in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian from the hurricane last year.
00:15:43.000If you go to Southwest Florida and you fly above, you'll see just a sea of blue tarps because so many people have been abandoned.
00:15:50.000They talked about it on TV because it was great press for Ron DeSantis getting reelected as governor.
00:15:55.000But those people have not had their insurance claims fulfilled or paid out.
00:16:00.000So there's going to be a homelessness crisis.
00:16:03.000It sounds like they're trying to stop a downward spiral or an expiration of the insurance company.
00:16:07.000If they can't make the payments out, then the people want to sue them because they couldn't make the payments that would make them have to pay lawsuits that they can't afford.
00:16:14.000Is there a way to appeal to the federal government to bail these Floridians out that don't have homes?
00:16:19.000I mean, they're Americans first, and then they're Floridians.
00:16:52.000We just had farmers insurance leave the state of Florida, abandoning Floridians in the middle of hurricane season.
00:16:57.000I mean, what are these people going to do?
00:17:00.000AAA also decided that they were not going to renew homeowner policies in the state of Florida.
00:17:05.000I gotta tell you, people have kept telling us to move to Texas or Florida, and the reason we went to West Virginia instead... Well, I tell people, like, weather is a huge issue.
00:17:15.000I lived in Miami for a little bit, and that matters.
00:17:27.000But that is a big issue that's a huge problem and what you're seeing on the ground in florida it's a major retirement hub right so where i ran for congress the villages the largest retirement.
00:17:37.000You know community in the entire country the oldest district in the nation per capita.
00:17:42.000These are people on fixed incomes, okay?
00:17:44.000These are senior citizens on social security.
00:17:47.000And do you think that a senior citizen can afford, you know, a $5,000, $6,000, and in some instances we've even seen $25,000 increases in people's homeowner insurance rates.
00:17:56.000I know that sounds obscene, but the most egregious case I've seen thus far is an increase, I know it's going to sound crazy, of $98,000 per year.
00:18:05.000An additional $98,000 per year on insurance.
00:18:09.000That is what's happening as a result of this insurance crisis in the state of Florida.
00:18:13.000So while all these rich people from the East Coast are moving to Florida, all these seniors are basically having to move out of Florida because they can't afford it anymore.
00:18:22.000Let's jump to this next story, which is in line.
00:19:45.000Yeah, well, the vague I think has like three polls showing him in second and DeSantis has
00:19:48.000like eight, but these polls go back a week or two or two or three weeks or even a month.
00:19:55.000So when they do these aggregate polling, just consider the difference between prediction markets, which is real-time, short-term changes, and prediction markets, which is long-term sentiment.
00:20:05.000There's reasons to weigh both differently.
00:20:08.000But for the time being, I will tell you, one of the things I think that's helping Vivek right now The reason why he may have jumped up is that at 3.05am this morning, Elon Musk tweeted, he states his beliefs clearly.
00:20:22.000re-re-exing, I guess, quoting Vivek Ramaswamy's truth, God is real.
00:21:05.000I mean, I have a lot more to say, but I just talked a lot, so I'll let other people talk.
00:21:09.000I just don't feel like there's a lot of groundswell appreciation of Ron DeSantis.
00:21:17.000People can You know, say what they want about his record.
00:21:20.000There are people that are going to cast it in Florida.
00:21:22.000I mean, as a governor, there are people that are going to cast it as positive.
00:21:25.000There are people who are going to cast it as negative and stuff.
00:21:27.000But at the end of the day, people tend to vote with, you know, with their gut more than with their You know, with their belief in policy or whatever, and I think that it is more likely that Vivek is going to communicate with people better than Ron does, and that might be because of the fact that, you know, apparently Ron has, and this is what I've heard, but Ron has a problem relating to people.
00:21:53.000He's not the, you know, he's not the guy you're going to want to have a beer with, like the old George W. Bush line was.
00:21:59.000We've had Vivek on the show IRL twice.
00:23:11.000They were talking about rocket, they were talking about like the end days and that was like being spoken about on the news and he had no clue!
00:23:18.000I told people, like my viewers, if Donald Trump was asked a question about, insert random topic, if he's sitting down and someone, and the interviewer said, I want to get your thoughts on Roberto the rooster.
00:23:29.000Trump, having no idea what the hell he's talking about, would go, look, I know a lot of people want to talk about Roberta, but we've got to focus on jobs in this country.
00:23:35.000We've got a border that's supposed to... He would adapt and pivot.
00:23:42.000Ron would do some facsimile if I don't see him being quick-witted enough to deal with these difficult situations.
00:23:47.000Another thing that's going to happen that you're going to see is that Vivek Ramaswamy has written books about woke culture and he's going to, well, Ron DeSantis is going to find out very quickly that just talking about woke and talking about Disney and talking about COVID and pretending to be against childhood transitions isn't going to be enough to get him through this debate.
00:24:09.000Ron DeSantis has An issue, as you just said, communicating with people and relating to people, and he doesn't really have that likability factor.
00:24:17.000You see that he's very awkward in person, and this is because he's on the spectrum.
00:24:22.000Politico, you can pull up the article if you want, actually wrote an article about how Ron DeSantis might be autistic, and there are lawmakers in the Florida legislature who have talked about how he has Asperger's.
00:24:35.000I know people who have worked with Ron DeSantis in the past, former staffers, who have said that he has Asperger's.
00:24:40.000I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with people who have Asperger's, but obviously one of the issues that comes with, you know, being on the spectrum or having some form of autism is that sometimes you lack social skills, right?
00:24:51.000That's one of the main characteristics about it.
00:24:53.000And so, Ron DeSantis, right, you'll see him in these situations where people will come up to him and say, there was one that I'll never forget where he was, I believe, in Iowa, and somebody goes, oh, I just drove eight hours to come see you!
00:25:06.000And Ron DeSantis goes, oh, great, and he walks away.
00:25:08.000Like he didn't even ask the guy like if you want a photo or how you doing.
00:25:12.000And so Vivek Ramaswamy has written books about woke and Ron's not going to be able to get
00:25:17.000away with just saying, oh, you know, like, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna combat wokeism.
00:25:21.000Well, how is Ron going to combat wokeism when one of his top lobbyists is a guy named Slater
00:25:25.000Bayless who's a lobbyist for Bud Light?
00:25:27.000How is he going to combat childhood transitioning when another one of his top lobbyists is a
00:25:31.000guy named Mark Lampkin, who represents a company called AbbVie, okay, a pharmaceutical company
00:25:35.000called AbbVie that is the manufacturer of a drug called Lupron, which is a drug used
00:25:45.000What you're talking about with Vivek and DeSantis about Woke is a great point because Vivek really understands the philosophy that's going on at the left now.
00:25:56.000I don't know exactly how Deep Ron's understanding is, I don't feel like Ron really, you know, understands the philosophies behind it, whereas I do feel like Vivek understands.
00:26:10.000Exactly, you know, he understands, he knows who Mark Hughes is, you know?
00:26:13.000He knows the leftists that are writing the philosophies and writing the academic papers that are having significant effects on the culture today.
00:26:22.000So he's aware of the actual problems in the philosophy.
00:26:25.000A lot of people are gonna say, oh, you know, we're talking about Vivek and Ron.
00:26:28.000It's like, well, yes, these are the guys fighting behind Trump for the next position, so I think it's warranted.
00:26:34.000I don't care to say if Ron's on the spectrum or whatever.
00:26:37.000That scene is, I don't know, whatever.
00:26:44.000Yeah, I'm not trying to be derogatory.
00:26:45.000I'm just saying that it would explain why he has such a hard time
00:26:48.000Communicating with people and you'll see the never back down pack and you'll see his campaign say oh well
00:26:53.000We raised a hundred and fifty million dollars, which you know it's not really true, right?
00:26:57.000That's another lie But all the money in the world as I said this money isn't
00:27:01.000going to be enough to buy Ron DeSantis the personality Transplant that he so desperately needs I saw the video of
00:27:07.000his eggs to people and he wasn't looking at him And they didn't even know who the hell he was in Iowa, and then you have Bill Mitchell on this morning being like, oh, yeah, Bob Vander Plaats is a kingmaker in Iowa and Ron DeSantis is gonna win.
00:27:18.000I mean, the guy's literally putting toothpicks in eggs as Donald Trump flies his plane over and cucks him in real time.
00:27:24.000Donald Trump, there is no question, is so good.
00:27:35.000So Trump walks into a room and he commands this entertaining presence.
00:27:42.000I went to the White House for the social media summit and I didn't know what to expect and Trump was basically doing stand-up for an hour and we were all laughing.
00:28:13.000I think it's obvious that Vivek is not going to be president, but I do appreciate the fact that he actually is running the campaign that Ron DeSantis, if he wanted to run for president, should have been running, right?
00:28:23.000Vivek Ramaswamy was the only other candidate for president that showed up to the rally I organized in front of the Miami courthouse when President Trump was arraigned.
00:28:31.000He had a press conference and that was a really big act of courage because think about it.
00:28:37.000He didn't know if he was going to get booed or he was going to get chased away, but actually the Trump supporters there embraced him and went up to him and thanked him because he passed out a press statement saying that if he were to get elected as president, the first thing he would do is pardon President Trump.
00:28:53.000And he has not really attacked President Trump much.
00:28:56.000I haven't really seen any direct attacks and in fact he's always the first one to come out with a statement whenever Trump has an indictment.
00:29:03.000Unlike Ron DeSantis who pretends like he doesn't know what's going on and waits 24 hours to issue a statement and then won't even say Trump's name.
00:29:10.000I think you nailed it when you said Viveka's running the campaign DeSantis should have run.
00:29:13.000Because Viveka's setting himself up for what's after this election.
00:29:51.000He's on his knees begging all these billionaire Wall Street hedge fund guys like Ken Griffin and other billionaires like Doug Leone of Sequoia to donate to his campaign because he's not a billionaire.
00:30:05.000And I'm not trying to sound like an elitist, but Donald Trump is a billionaire, okay?
00:30:08.000He self-financed a lot of his first campaign, and people knew Donald Trump long before he was ever president.
00:30:17.000And Vivek, similarly, he has a net worth, from my understanding, that's close to almost $1 billion.
00:30:23.000And so he doesn't need to Get on his knees like a cheap hooker and beg these Wall Street donors and these GOP establishment donors who hate Donald Trump for money, because he can self-finance.
00:30:35.000And you have to look at the fact that Ron DeSantis has a $250 million campaign operation, and he has blown through most of his cash.
00:30:43.000He doesn't have enough money anymore to run a campaign all the way until the Iowa caucus on January 15th, which is why the Never Back Down Super PAC is having to foot the bill for so many things that he's doing.
00:30:53.000So that's another advantage that I think you're going to see Vivek is going to come from behind and he's going to continue to rise in the polls because eventually it's going to become a matter of resources.
00:31:03.000Vivek has money and Ron DeSantis doesn't.
00:31:05.000He also seems to be very intelligent about how he spends his money, Vivek, because he does shows like with Jordan Peterson yesterday, 300,000 views at this point.
00:31:12.000With one of the smartest guys in the world, Jordan Peterson.
00:32:06.000And I like the fact that he's coming out in support of President Trump.
00:32:10.000But, you know, I'm critical of everybody.
00:32:12.000And I think that we also need to be we also need to kind of look into Vivek's ties, right, with the pharmaceutical industry and his his connections with big pharma.
00:32:24.000You can be an excellent communicator and you can be a nice guy and we can appreciate all the things that he's doing to support President Trump and speak out against a weaponized government.
00:32:31.000But also I think that we need to, you know, at least be aware of and do our own research like I do, right?
00:32:39.000To understand who these people are tied to, you know, how they made their money, what that's going to mean, if they ever do get elected, what kind of position would he be offered if he wanted a cabinet position in the Trump administration.
00:32:51.000And those are questions that should be asked.
00:32:53.000What I like about Vivek too is that he's very open, it seems, when people are confrontational with him.
00:33:00.000I saw that confrontation with the LGBTQ activist, and whenever he's asked a question, he doesn't say, oh, go away, or security, come take this person away.
00:34:15.000He knows what comes next is after this election.
00:34:19.000So if Trump, and this is an if, and I don't want to go too far down this rabbit hole, if he gets taken off a ballot somehow, a ballot in any state, that was kind of the topic from today's show a little bit, and that would basically, if he can't get 270, he can't win, do you think the debate stands a chance against the Democratic Party?
00:35:13.000Yeah, they're trying to use the 14th Amendment to get him on charges of sedition, of course, so that they can use the 14th Amendment to try to remove him from certain states.
00:35:22.000That's why they want this to be a very, very fast trial because they want to knock Trump out before the primaries conclude.
00:35:29.000That's why I was saying when Trump came out and said everybody should drop out of the race, he's got a point.
00:35:34.000If they all dropped out right now, the Democrats' hands are tied.
00:35:38.000If they remove his name from the ballot pre-primary, they say, look, we didn't get rid of the Republicans.
00:35:46.000If everyone drops out and right now Trump is confirmed the nominee, the removal of Donald Trump would be them saying the Republican Party has been excised from the vote.
00:35:54.000And then that's a shock to the system.
00:35:56.000I'm not saying I know what happens after that, but frogs boiling in a pot is a bad scenario.
00:36:01.000People being shocked to the point of waking up is preferable.
00:36:04.000The only way they can pull this off is if the primaries are not concluded and there was someone else that if Trump were to be removed, people would vote for.
00:36:13.000What do you think about like a Vivek RFK ticket?
00:36:47.000You know, I think that there's really no such thing as unity and I think it's like a very kumbaya concept and I don't think that we really need to be focused on unity in this country.
00:36:57.000We are in a political revolution right now and one, the party that's in control is literally trying to put conservatives and Trump supporters in jail so that they can die in prison simply because of the person they support or the fact that they believe that the election was stolen.
00:37:15.000There's no more talk about civility, no more talk about unity.
00:37:18.000We're in a war to save our country, and this is the problem, right?
00:37:21.000This is why we're in the mess today, is because so many people, and this is no disrespect to you, but so many people in this country are focused on civility and decorum and, you know, let's go along to get along.
00:37:58.000One of the issues with the Declaration of Independence was that South Carolina and Georgia would not sign on unless they removed Thomas Jefferson's criticisms of slavery.
00:38:10.000So unity doesn't always mean the best things.
00:38:13.000I can understand the argument among the Founding Fathers.
00:38:15.000They were like, okay, well, we have no choice.
00:38:17.000I do believe that Quebec was a colony of the Crown and they did not want to join up.
00:38:23.000So they were like, we desperately need other colonies to agree with us.
00:38:26.000Thus, let's just ignore the slavery thing for now.
00:38:30.000And I'm kind of like, wow, that sucked.
00:41:21.000He's a Manchurian candidate, and I'm just so sick and tired as a Floridian, as somebody who's actually, you know, impacted by these negative policies as a result of him allowing for Florida to literally be invaded.
00:41:34.000I mean, he has allowed our state to be invaded at the expense of people who are already living there, and he doesn't care.
00:41:48.000When I brought this up to Bill Mitchell, and he was a very nice guy after we wrapped the show, we were all hanging out having sushi, we played poker, he got a full house, it was good fun, even, you know, Laura and him got along and were cordial and everything was great, but in this debate, I said, I'm wondering why it is that I'm not this crazy diehard Trump where I'm not tweeting insults at people, I'm not attacking anybody, but when I have even the lightest criticism of Ron DeSantis that's not even overt criticism, his actual campaign staff and the staff of his governor's office
00:42:27.000I'm asking you why it is that there's people like me or Mike Cernovich and several others who have said that the DeSantis surrogates and campaign staff have been vicious towards people who should be allies.
00:42:39.000He didn't have an answer, and he said, oh, please, I can't believe I'm hearing this, blah, blah, blah.
00:44:26.000I'm looking forward to it because our ad revenue is going to skyrocket.
00:44:29.000They're taking that money and it's essentially going to guarantee Biden another four years if they don't drop out and get behind Donald Trump.
00:44:43.000I don't know any realistic scenario where Trump is forcefully removed that makes someone feel good about voting for someone else.
00:44:50.000Like if you're a Trump supporter and they lock Trump up, you're like, no way I'm behind Trump.
00:44:54.000So there's got to be some kind of scenario for me to ask this question.
00:44:57.000So I'll go with an absurd scenario for the sake of argument.
00:45:01.000Let's say that there is a super, you know, let's just say an evil globalist plants the Genesis device in the base of New York City and the only one who can stop it is Trump.
00:45:14.000And Trump runs in and they're like, no, Trump, if you go in there, you'll be transported to another dimension and you'll be completely wiped from existence.
00:45:21.000And he's like, it's the only thing that I can do to save all the people of the world.
00:45:24.000And then he disrupts the device and he's gone.
00:46:21.000He's the sledgehammer to the Uniparty that has awakened and has provided a voice to the forgotten man and forgotten woman of this country.
00:46:29.000Who have been completely screwed over by both political parties.
00:46:33.000And that is the reason why, okay, Donald Trump is being attacked by the left and the right.
00:46:38.000The people that are doing the most damage right now to Donald Trump aren't these prosecutors and these radical judges.
00:46:45.000It's the Republicans in office, elected Republicans, that are staying silent.
00:46:51.000I mean, where's Kevin McCarthy, right?
00:46:53.000Our Congress is on vacation right now when they should actually be in Washington, D.C.
00:46:58.000fighting against a weaponized government and taking a stand because the heist of the 2024 election is taking place before our eyes right now and Republicans are I'd like to say asleep at the wheel, but they're participating.
00:47:10.000I do want to talk about Trump's sledgehammer strategy because I feel like if we're all on a ship together, the United States, and the commander's like, I'm going to destroy this corruption in our system and just start breaking the ship apart, we all drown and die.
00:47:22.000What vision does he offer other than I'm going to end all the bad stuff?
00:47:32.000We're on a ship, and there's a bunch of little goblins running around ripping the cables out of the wall, and he's like, I'm gonna put an end to this.
00:47:39.000And he gets a little net and starts catching all the little goblins in a net, and then he's chucking them into a safe little boat where they'll be brought to an island.
00:47:46.000That's what he told me he was gonna do in 2016.
00:47:48.000He said he was gonna get rid of the swamp, and he didn't.
00:47:50.000And then he tried negotiating with the little goblins.
00:47:56.000In 2016, Trump said, we're going to get all the little gremlins off the boat and stop them from pulling out all the little golems.
00:48:01.000And then... But before we do, let me bring some more golems on board.
00:48:04.000No, and then he said, maybe the most effective way to deal with them is to fire some of them, bring some of them in, and convince them to stop doing this.
00:48:10.000And then they all jumped on his back and started slashing at him.
00:48:14.000Then they kicked him off and he's like, okay, I got to come back and I just got to catch all these little golems and throw them out of here.
00:48:19.000Sometimes you need to have ultimate destruction in order to have a rebirth of something great, right?
00:48:25.000It's from the ashes, the phoenix will rise, okay?
00:48:28.000Sometimes you need to have ultimate destruction and take a sledgehammer and burn a system to the ground if you want to create something.
00:48:37.000Better, that's more hopeful, that isn't completely corrupted by this uniparty system.
00:48:42.000And so, that's what I'm talking about, right?
00:48:44.000About burning the system down and taking a sledgehammer to it.
00:48:48.000I think that it's so corrupt, okay, and it's been so taken over, and it's been so infiltrated by this cancerous rot, okay, that it just needs to be completely taken down and destroyed and rebuilt.
00:49:12.000No, an electrolysis, like water with electrical current, and then you watch all the grime just evaporate from it, and there is a beautiful, shiny silver coin beneath it.
00:49:22.000That's how I view what Trump, like what I hope Trump can accomplish, is that there is this great country with a brilliant founding structure and documents.
00:49:41.000And the interesting thing is, there's a scene where, what caught my attention, was when a detective is questioning a guy, they say, don't plead the fifth.
00:49:56.000I looked up their version of the Constitution, and a lot of what South Korea has is very similar to what we have in the United States.
00:50:03.000And it made me think, I'm like, man, we do have a really, really great system that I'm glad to see other countries flourish in protecting civil rights and human rights, this vision.
00:50:13.000I'm not a big fan of the nation-building BS that's come out of it, but it is cool to see that this culture persisted.
00:50:20.000This system that was built is now covered in crap and tarnish, and it's got little leeches and barnacles stuck to it, and we just gotta take that beautiful silver coin that's covered in grime, dip it in that little electrolysis water, and let all the stuff drip from it, and then pull up that shiny coin once again.
00:51:20.000One of the guys was indicted, went to the alternate slate of electors, and then explained to the press, don't worry, in the event a lawsuit prevails, we will have this group here to sign the documents, and they called it a conspiracy.
00:51:31.000One of the quote-unquote acts of conspiracy is that Donald Trump reached out to Brian Kemp and said, look, we want to... I forgot exactly what he said.
00:52:37.000These big tech social media companies colluded with federal agencies and agents within the federal government and within the Biden campaign to Illegally interfere in our elections and completely bastardize and assault that process.
00:52:55.000So, I understand where you're coming from, but that's just your vision of the process.
00:53:42.000That means firing a lot of people, putting people out of work.
00:53:46.000And I'm fully aware of what that means.
00:53:50.000I feel like I'm saying this the second time in a row, but there are too many people that talk about, I want to make cuts or I want to reform or whatever, and it never happens.
00:54:01.000And every year the budget gets bigger.
00:54:03.000And every year we go further into debt.
00:54:11.000Let's just cross our fingers for Trump-Ramaswamy 2024.
00:54:15.000Because Ramaswamy can go out and do the advocacy work in areas that Trump may be weak on.
00:54:19.000I've heard from a lot of people, and this is earlier, this is not today, but several months ago, Run-of-the-mill regular old people when I'm out hanging out in, you know, DC or whatever, liberal people saying they don't like Trump, but man, they cannot vote for Joe Biden.
00:54:34.000And then I say, what if the VP is DeSantis?
00:54:35.000And they're like, well, he could actually, you know, be a stabilizing force.
00:54:40.000I don't know if people feel that way today.
00:54:41.000I actually think Ramaswamy is the right choice for VP if Ramaswamy would be willing to do it because he's clearly shown that he's very, very good at communicating with people from this professional standpoint, where Trump is this loud, boisterous, entertainment-style character.
00:54:58.000I think Ramaswamy could pick up and fill it.
00:56:22.000Okay, that sounds like really, really, really compelling stuff to me.
00:56:26.000So, again, whoever's going to cut the most government, whoever's going to make the government the smallest out of all of them, that's who I'm going for.
00:56:50.000So apparently Kid Rock was spotted at an event at the Sky Deck in Nashville Thursday night at Colt Ford's show, Drinking Bud Light.
00:57:01.000So a lot of people are saying it's probably the only beer they had or whatever, but I don't know.
00:57:06.000I guess the point of the story is this is a guy who opened fire on Bud Lights at FU, who now I guess doesn't care all that much and is back on drinking it.
00:57:16.000I mean, look, I haven't had a drink in many, many, many, many years now.
00:57:21.000It's like five, six years or whatever, so I'm not the one to talk smack.
00:57:26.000After all of the stuff, like, you go out of the way to make a video and stuff, you'd think that he'd have the wits about him to drink whiskey that night.
00:57:37.000It's not like Bud Light's the only option.
00:57:40.000But, like, dude, you could go a day without drinking to not get this photo.
00:57:45.000I just think that there's too much attention put on this stuff.
00:57:47.000You know, like, I don't drink, so I don't really care either way, you know, because I'm not drinking beer regardless.
00:57:52.000But people get so worked up about this.
00:57:55.000I don't know, I just find these stories to be a little silly at times because, okay, yeah, Dylan Mulvaney was put on a Bud Light can, and yeah, it's not exactly tasteful that Bud Light had an entire marketing campaign that was trying to force transgenderism on the public, but the obsessiveness, right, of, like, the right on this issue, it's just, I just feel like these are distractions and there's a lot more important issues in our country.
00:58:21.000I understand you can boycott them, but the media, right, they'll fixate on it, they'll talk about it, but they're not talking about other things that matter.
00:58:28.000There's so many stories that go unreported every single day because, especially the right, they have this obsessive nature and this obsessive quality and latching onto things and it's like, okay, we get it, okay?
00:58:42.000We can move on to other things that are more important.
00:58:44.000We can move on to, sorry, we can move on to other things that are also more important.
00:58:48.000I think this is the most important thing.
00:58:52.000As I've mentioned now, you know, 50 billion times ad nauseum to our audience, laws are only enforced if a culture supports it.
00:58:59.000So the reason why police refuse to enforce the law against these adult sex shows that they're inviting children to is because television, Walmart, Amazon, and all their libraries and all the small businesses are putting up the flag saying, this is what we want.
00:59:15.000So the cops are like, I know it's illegal, but we're not going to get involved because we'll be shunned and ostracized.
00:59:20.000I understand where you're coming from, but there's just so much bullshit that's fed to people around these topics.
00:59:58.000Guinness also, okay, had an entire marketing campaign where they had a TV commercial marketing Guinness beer.
01:00:06.000And it was a teenager at a Christmas celebration.
01:00:10.000You can even pull up the commercial, too, so people can see it.
01:00:12.000Type in Guinness Transgender Commercial, and it's about a grandfather who sees, right, I think it's... I remember this one.
01:00:18.000I think it's his grandson, and I guess the... The grandfather wears... The grandfather was like a secret cross-dresser and then realized...
01:00:35.000If you type it in, Guinness had actually had this issue as well.
01:00:38.000And so, Ron DeSantis then goes on this whole tirade with Benny Johnson, and he says, okay, well, I'm never gonna drink a Bud Light ever again.
01:00:45.000And then two weeks later, what does he do?
01:00:47.000He has a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., and one of the co-sponsors of this fundraiser is a guy named Slater Bayless.
01:00:55.000Who is one of the lobbyists for Bud Light.
01:00:57.000So just a clarification, the J&B Whiskey is, I guess it's the parent company for Guinness.
01:01:09.000So my point is to show you they're just not that educated.
01:01:13.000If you're going to do a boycott on something and you're going to take such a hard line stance and you're going to be like, oh, I'm going to be against Bud Light because they're pushing transgenderism.
01:01:22.000Actually, you know, like have the intellectual motivation to go investigate whether these other companies are pushing this.
01:01:30.000And it just shows, you know, how We deserve better as voters and as the American people.
01:01:36.000We deserve better than politicians that are going to try to win our votes by saying that they're going to boycott Bud Light because they're against transgenderism and then they're going to have a closed door, slimy DC fundraiser with the lobbyists of the manufacturer of the child castration drugs and the manufacturers of all these, you know, all these...
01:01:53.000Bud Light, for example. I hear the left making that same point, right? It's like, don't you know,
01:01:58.000all these other brands do pride stuff and you guys, you silly conservatives are just focused
01:02:02.000on Bud Light. I don't like that argument. It's like the beast is too big to stop,
01:02:07.000so you might as well just give up now. Give in!
01:02:10.000I'm not saying to give in, I'm saying that they need to be principled and then they waste all this time focusing on these... What's the point of people sitting down with Ron DeSantis and letting him bloviate about how he's against Bud Light when they're just gonna let him have a pass because he's having these fundraisers and they're not even morally consistent.
01:02:30.000But I don't care about Ron DeSantis on this issue, my point is politics is downstream from culture.
01:02:36.000If, and the left has known this for years, that's why they heavily invest in Hollywood and music.
01:02:41.000It's why they ban, and like, you got this big song right now, Rich Men North of Richmond.
01:02:46.000The reason it's big is because regular people have the ability to share a song that resonates
01:02:50.000with them. What do we get from corporate mainstream media, this weird woke garbage nonsense?
01:02:57.000You get Kim Petras, and you get Sam Smith doing Satanism on stage.
01:03:01.000Then you get a guy in Appalachia singing about how they're screwing over the little guy, and regular people can push that and make it go viral.
01:03:17.000I understand the point that you're trying to make, but what I'm saying is that in order... It's not exactly culturally unacceptable because they're still engaging in it behind closed doors, right?
01:04:15.000Where you've got corporations trying to pull back from all this crazy leftist garbage.
01:04:21.000Target, for instance, for the first time in six years missed their quarterly projections and lost money.
01:04:26.000You've got Disney now facing a major backlash.
01:04:30.000Netflix, Disney, and a bunch of these streaming channels lost subscribers, and it's because they keep trying to push this insane, woke leftism.
01:04:39.000I support the boycotts, but I think that at the end of the day, right, there's too many people who are given a free pass, right?
01:04:48.000Especially politicians who like to go on Fox News and have their 30-second talking points about these issues.
01:04:55.000It's just some- And fair point, I mean, these- They're some of the loudest people about it, but then they're doing it themselves, so- The politicians are grifters who are gonna be like, what's popular?
01:05:02.000And just try and pretend that they're gonna be on board with it.
01:05:05.000Like, DeSantis supporting Guinness after the fact, even though Guinness was getting criticized for the same thing.
01:05:08.000Well, and Bud Light also, and I'm here to talk about Ron DeSantis, right, which is why I brought up Ron DeSantis and Bud Light, but, you know, I wanted to make people aware of that.
01:05:15.000That's how you're going to capture Gen Z too, is talking about this cultural stuff, right?
01:05:19.000I mean, that's what the kids care about.
01:05:20.000They don't care about the nitty gritty and how deep these issues go.
01:05:24.000They like the funny picture of Kid Rock holding a Bud Light after he just posted a video a few months earlier.
01:05:29.000I think young people actually care about issues, you know?
01:05:34.000There's a lot of young people that would really like to be able to have families and own a home and they're finding it unaffordable right now to own a home in America and the only candidate that is actually talking about Generation Z and Millennials being able to have affordable homes and be able to have affordable housing is Donald Trump.
01:06:00.000His freedom cities so that young people in America can also experience the American dream.
01:06:04.000I don't like this idea that, oh, it's just young people consumed with TikTok and culture.
01:06:09.000There's a lot of young people that care about the economy, that care about the fact that by 2045, do you know that Generation Z is the last generation in this country that's going to be majority white?
01:06:19.000We're not going to have a majority white America anymore.
01:06:23.000So we, what I'm saying is that we are, you know, we are being... What is the race that people have to do with?
01:06:33.000What I'm talking about is that we're being replaced, right?
01:06:36.000So people have talked about replacement theory, and they've talked about the fact that we've been invaded.
01:06:42.000We've had an immigration invasion into our country that is changing our culture.
01:06:47.000So you're saying that politics is downstream from culture, but nobody seems to care about the fact that immigration is fundamentally transforming the traditional culture of our country.
01:06:57.000And there's young people that care about that.
01:07:04.000Right, so the racial component I don't see as mattering.
01:07:08.000No, but I'm just using that statistic because that was a news report that came out the other day.
01:07:12.000There was a study out that said that Generation Z is going to be the last generation in which America, if you look at the census right now, we're currently a majority white country, Yeah, because because of the mass migration and all of the immigration into our country.
01:07:26.000And so if you're making the argument that politics is downstream from culture, well, what's culture if we're not even going to have the same thing?
01:07:34.000Well, I don't care about that statistic.
01:07:36.000Well, I think that I think that I think that there's I just know that there's a lot of people in Generation Z that are focused on topics like immigration and the fact that we're being invaded.
01:08:00.000I'm talking about the fact that, you know, like America, right, from its inception, right, I'm talking about America as a white Christian country.
01:08:06.000That is originally, like, what our country was.
01:08:09.000And so it's not, I don't, it's not for people to be, it's not supposed to be interpreted negatively.
01:08:26.000I don't care if this country is white, black, Asian, Latino, mixed, whatever, so long as the Founding Fathers' ideals, the visions of the Constitution are upheld.
01:08:34.000And so I can look to any number of the overwhelming majority of these white liberals Half of, this is the funniest thing about that statistic, it's like half of white people in this country are the Marxists and the Communists that are causing all the problems, that have the weirdest racial views on everything.
01:08:51.000But I would just put it this way, that statistic means so little to me, I would gladly All of these communists, neo-marxists, white liberal left whatever, if they were like, we're gonna go to Venezuela, I'd be like, no, wait, don't.
01:09:05.000And if all of the Venezuelans who are like, we hate living under communism and we dream for America came instead, I'd be like, oh no, we're not a white majority country anymore, but we have a whole bunch of freedom loving, libertarian minded people who love the founding fathers.
01:09:17.000That is so much better than white communists.
01:09:19.000Like when people used to come to this country, right?
01:09:21.000They'd come from all different walks of life, but you'd be united under the American.
01:09:25.000You're talking about the American dream.
01:11:37.000What matters to you in your world is what surrounds you, so I was like, you'll get into news, but it's basically, like, all the drama you're going through in high school, imagine it was on TV, and that's what politics and news is for adults.
01:11:47.000I thought you made a good point earlier, Laura, about boycotts and laziness, people.
01:11:51.000I think it's important that if you're going to boycott a product that you find out the company that makes it, find out the company that owns them, and then boycott all of that product.
01:11:59.000Yeah, and that's all I'm trying to say is that you see a lot of this oftentimes where people say, Oh, it's like a fad, right?
01:12:05.000It's in the moment and people say, yeah, I'm going to boycott this, but they don't actually know what that means.
01:12:09.000Like, do you know who actually owns the company, right?
01:12:11.000It's like people saying, oh, I'm going to boycott PayPal, but then they're like, oh, okay, can I, can you send me your Venmo?
01:12:16.000Well, do you know that PayPal owns Venmo?
01:13:01.000So we have this other big story that's going on right now.
01:13:02.000Everyone's losing their minds over on X. Elon Musk announces plan to remove the block feature on X in violation of Apple and Google Play Store guidelines.
01:13:11.000I genuinely do not understand why Elon Musk would want to remove the block feature.
01:13:17.000He says block is going to be deleted as a feature except for DMs.
01:13:43.000There are prominent high-profile people with millions of followers who don't make fake accounts, and their job exists to stalk your Twitter, take your tweets out of context, and insult you and smear you and make money off it.
01:13:56.000I'm gonna make it harder for them by blocking them.
01:13:58.000Now they'll have to make a fake account, but many of them do not do it.
01:14:01.000Someone suggested if the mute button also made it so they can't post or reply to any of your stuff.
01:14:21.000There's another thing you can do, and it's a forced unfollow, where you go to the person who's annoying and you block and unblock right away.
01:14:28.000What this does is, if these people are stalking and like just being annoying or like, I try to use this word lightly, harassing.
01:14:35.000Harassing to varying degrees is hard too on the internet, but there's a point where you can get to it if they're posting your address.
01:14:40.000And I've had people post photos of my house and address and things like that.
01:14:45.000They'll make a fake account, and then they'll start using that account to bother me again.
01:14:50.000So one thing you can do is block and unblock really quick.
01:14:53.000They're no longer following you, and now your posts won't appear in their feed, and they might slowly forget about you.
01:14:59.000There's a couple ways you can do it, but more importantly, let's just put it this way.
01:15:03.000There are prominent, high-profile, non-profit organizations who have staff who don't run sock puppet accounts, and if you block them, they stop talking about you.
01:15:14.000I mean, some people do not... If you're telling me they might make a fake profile and stalk me and harass me anyway, okay, well, I'll make it harder for them.
01:16:41.000And posting porn and other... So that kind of stuff matters about, like, how they can interact with your account is different when it's a block versus a And some of these accounts have 50,000 followers, and they don't run sock puppets.
01:16:55.000Their goal is, with their account, to harass you to gain followers.
01:17:00.000If they can no longer do that, they'll target someone else.
01:17:02.000That's why adding to the mute function that they can't post on your stuff or retweet your stuff... That's a block.
01:17:10.000I personally think that if they're thinking of, like, actually removing the block feature, then they should make it a policy that you're not allowed to have an anonymous account because I'm in favor of keeping the block.
01:17:32.000Like, there are stalkers that, you know, latch onto you, and sometimes for your own safety, as Tim said, you have to block them because it becomes overbearing.
01:17:39.000They start posting, they reply to your posts, with pictures of your house, with your family members' names.
01:17:44.000And it's also a way, like, they can't say, oh, bullying is against our terms of service.
01:17:48.000You can't have people saying that bullying is not acceptable online, but then also say, okay, you're not allowed to block somebody.
01:17:56.000You have a right to decide what you don't want to see.
01:17:58.000I don't personally think that people should be deplatformed.
01:18:00.000I don't think that we should be banning people, but every single person should have the right to filter what they see, and if they want to block somebody, just like you can block someone on your phone, you should be able to block them on Twitter.
01:18:10.000You have the right to limit who has access to you.
01:18:15.000You have the right to say you don't have...
01:18:18.000I don't want you interacting with me or anything that I am doing.
01:18:21.000You have that right in reality, like in the physical world, you can leave someone's presence and then you just don't go where they are, and if they show up, you leave, or you might have to call the cops or whatever.
01:18:32.000There's one thing I just saw, Linda Iaccarino just tweeted a few minutes ago, our users' safety on X is our number one priority, and we're building something better than the current state of block and mute.
01:19:11.000There are people on Twitter who are reply guys.
01:19:14.000They have, uh, there's one guy with 120,000 followers only because he refreshes your page, waits for a new tweet, and then immediately posts something gross or offensive or insulting.
01:19:28.000If you block them, they can't do that anymore.
01:19:30.000They won't make a new account because they're trying to build followers on their current account.
01:20:07.000If you block someone, And then someone else quote tweets them and says something, it'll say this tweet is unavailable.
01:20:12.000And then you can choose to go to the person's profile and view the tweet by clicking view tweet, but they limit what you see, giving you the option.
01:20:19.000I also have a policy of anyone who blocks me that I see I block back.
01:20:23.000Because then they're going to play that game where they don't want you to be able to read what they're saying about you, but they're going to go to your tweets and start doing the same, like doing the inverse.
01:20:47.000Yeah, it's like a video game software on your computer.
01:20:51.000If you're caught cheating, it'll ban your computer.
01:20:53.000So it doesn't matter if you make a new account, it knows you're logging in from the same piece of hardware and you will never be able to log into that game again and play.
01:21:00.000Yeah, that's my question for you guys.
01:21:02.000Would you guys be in favor of a hardware ban?
01:21:05.000So you'd be able to block Ian if he's being gross on a hardware ban?
01:21:10.000You can easily capture the wrong person with a hardware ban.
01:21:17.000Imagine someone going on a library computer.
01:21:19.000So this actually happened with a lot of VPNs and stuff.
01:21:23.000The whole network gets banned because one person uses a certain router or whatever, and then that IP is banned instantly.
01:21:30.000A lot of these networks auto-ban VPN IPs anyway.
01:21:32.000I think banning people is a failure of a concept.
01:21:35.000You should be banning accounts if the account violates terms, and then if they make a new account, it's fair game.
01:21:41.000If you want to put in your terms that someone that's been banned can't make a new account, I think that's dirty because people change and become better people.
01:21:48.000and that's the idea is we want to make each other better. I don't think you should be banned for anything unless you're
01:22:15.000Because they're creating these advertiser blocklists.
01:22:18.000But instead of actually saying, hey, we're going to ban people that we don't like, they're going to say, hey, if you're a content creator, you can, you know, buy Twitter Blue, and then you can be a content creator, and you're going to get paid.
01:22:28.000Except if you're lawful or awful, we're going to put you on a blacklist.
01:22:30.000And that's what they just said that they're going to do.
01:22:33.000So it's basically the same censorship regime that we saw at Twitter 1.0, but they're trying to play good cop, bad cop by putting the blame on the advertisers.
01:22:43.000So instead of it being, oh, Elon Musk or Linda Iaccarino are censoring me, it's now, oh, well, sorry, you're on our advertiser block list.
01:22:50.000You have to take it up with the advertisers.
01:22:55.000I had a total in the past 28 days of 241 million impressions.
01:22:56.000I did just get paid on Twitter. I got paid $4,377. I had a total in the past 28 days of 241 million impressions.
01:23:09.000And the reason I disclose all of this to you is because there are a lot of people with substantially less
01:23:15.000impressions who got paid more, and people with more impressions who got paid substantially less.
01:23:20.000Have you disclosed how much you got? You did, you tweeted it, right?
01:23:23.000Yeah, so I need to check and see Because I don't think you can check your impressions on your phone.
01:23:27.000You have to be on your computer to check it I think so.
01:23:29.000I need to see what the impressions were but I know they're gonna be over a hundred million and But I have at least over 150 million impressions every single month, and I just got paid today, and I only got paid $190.22.
01:23:41.000So if you open a browser and log in, and go to analytics.twitter.com, it'll show you right away what your impressions are.
01:23:47.000But you gotta log in on the browser and do desktop site or whatever.
01:23:54.000Without, I'm not gonna reveal anyone's identity, but we know, I know someone who received a couple hundred dollars with only a few thousand followers, and you've got how many, half a million?
01:24:02.000I have half a million, and every single week I post multiple videos, almost exclusively on Twitter now because I don't really, I don't, I've never been monetized on YouTube, and for some reason, my Rumble channel, no matter how much I post, it just doesn't let me...
01:24:17.000And so I could get like 2,000 views on Rumble and YouTube, but then I'll get a million or five million views on a video that I upload to Twitter.
01:24:24.000And I consistently get hundreds of thousands of impressions on all of my tweets.
01:24:30.000All of my tweets go super viral and people can see from these videos they have millions of views, but even then I'm getting paid the same amount of money as people who have literally 70, I don't know, like And there were 570 followers.
01:24:43.000I saw one person that had 2,000 followers and they said that they got paid $4,000.
01:25:16.000Yeah, but I want to know, how is it that Ian Miles Chung, if you look at those payments, one of them was like 7,000, one of them was 13,000, I believe, and the other one was 16,000, because I tweeted about it before coming on tonight.
01:25:27.000And I said, how is it that he has about 200,000 followers more than I have, okay?
01:25:32.000And he's getting paid, you know... There it is.
01:25:36.000Yeah, so if you look at it, he's got about 720,000, I don't know, you'll have to see the exact number, but over 700,000 followers, and he gets paid $7,302 this month.
01:25:40.000I have half a million and I get paid $190.22.
01:25:41.000I mean, I should at least be in the $1,000, $2,000, maybe even $3,000 range.
01:25:42.000700,000 followers and he gets paid $7,302 this month.
01:25:49.000I think they make 20 grand this month.
01:25:51.000I have half a million and I get paid $190.22.
01:25:55.000I mean I should at least be in the $1,000, $2,000, maybe even $3,000 range.
01:26:00.000It's not like that's that much of a difference.
01:26:01.000It's possible that the ads are weighted differently on YouTube.
01:26:04.000I know different creators would get different revenue models.
01:26:49.000I don't think it should be one person, I agree, but there are situations where lawful things should be censored, in my opinion, as a social media admin, because no censorship is chaos.
01:26:58.000You'll have blown-open body parts when you open your newsfeed.
01:27:26.000I'm exposing Ron DeSantis every single day.
01:27:29.000And I guess, you know, given the fact that maybe Elon Musk has come out and said that he supports Ron DeSantis, you know, he allowed for him to have his kickoff on Twitter.
01:27:36.000Maybe that's why I'm being demonetized, right?
01:27:38.000Who knows, but I think that politics are coming into play because I will say that everybody that messaged me today who has a large account on Twitter, who received a couple hundred dollars or fifty dollars when people that have a quarter of their following receive thousands of dollars, we all have one thing in common.
01:27:54.000Well, actually, it's two things, but it's really one thing if you encompass it all together.
01:27:57.000We're all Trump supporters, and we're all outspoken critics of Ron DeSantis.
01:28:01.000And I find it to be really interesting that the thing that everybody who received a large payout has in common, they're all outspoken supporters of Ron DeSantis.
01:28:15.000When I think about social media censorship, I don't like telling corporations what they can and can't do when it comes to their own company and their own data sources.
01:28:23.000So I think we should make them free their software code, let other people spin up versions of X that will interoperate, and then they can compete terms of service.
01:28:31.000So if my version of X is better than Elon's terms, and I don't ban people like you, or don't demonetize, people like you will come use the service, and people will come to my terms because my terms are better.
01:28:42.000Otherwise you're just smashing a hammer down on corporations.
01:28:44.000Did you just say I don't like telling companies what to do?
01:28:47.000That's why we gotta make sure that we make them open up their code.
01:28:52.000I don't like just systematically using the government to decide how a corporation has to run its business.
01:28:59.000You want to make them open up their code.
01:29:02.000I'm open to antitrust situations where monopolies need to be broken up and you can't split this
01:29:06.000company apart like Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger.
01:29:10.000If you made those three separate companies, Zuckerberg would still own them all.
01:29:13.000Do you think that, do you consider Twitter, would Twitter need an antitrust situation?
01:30:26.000230 you can you're gonna Maybe these companies don't get 230 protection, fine, but you don't repeal 230 because they're companies that need to be treated differently under the law.
01:30:36.000Well, I think it's important for people to understand that Section 230 was also created before these social media companies ever existed.
01:30:42.000And so it's really become a Frankenstein law, I guess you could say, that has turned into a monster.
01:30:51.000Fair enough, and these companies, maybe their status needs to be looked at or whatever, that's totally fine, I have no issue with that, but you don't repeal all of 230 because of that.
01:30:59.000answer to your question, Phil, about is it a monopoly? I defer to daily unique users.
01:31:05.000And I would say like you've got to pick a number at some point, 500 million daily unique
01:31:08.000you know, is it views or something like that?
01:31:10.000I strongly disagree because there's there's multiple options that people can go to just
01:31:15.000because Twitter is the most successful doesn't mean that there aren't other options for people
01:31:19.000to go to. So like and look, I get it. They're like Google's like most of the Internet. I
01:31:25.000get it. But like all my stuff runs runs on brave like and I don't use the Google stuff.
01:31:30.000I have a real problem with saying, hey, we don't want to force companies to do stuff, but then being like, but we're going to go in there and we're going to make them open up their code for other people to go ahead and share and make it public.
01:31:44.000And then we're going to force them to do this and force them to do that and especially because it sounds to me like you're looking to or you're talking about Twitter as a as a monopoly because of Twitter success not because of some kind of barrier to entry that Twitter and the government have You know, you might be right about Twitter.
01:32:04.000I don't know the numbers on the back end, but you brought up Google, Alphabet.
01:32:08.000competitors. None of them haven't been able to do what Twitter's done. Fair enough. But
01:32:12.000that doesn't mean that the government needs to do something about Twitter because other
01:32:16.000companies haven't been able to emulate their success.
01:32:19.000You might be right about Twitter. I don't know the numbers on the back end, but you
01:32:22.000brought up Google, Alphabet. Now that's one that I want to focus a little more confidently
01:32:27.000on that it's a monopoly, that it runs ad networks. It runs search engines. They have art like
01:32:33.000they own eight companies. I mean, Alphabet owns like things in all medical industry,
01:32:37.000things so like Google's Maybe Twitter's still too small.
01:32:41.000Maybe X is too small to be considered a monopolistic force.
01:32:43.000But I mean, I find Google to be kind of monopolistic right now.
01:32:46.000My phone is running on freaking Android Google.
01:32:50.000I mean, I don't, I don't, I get wary about stuff.
01:32:53.000I get wary about people or about the idea of the government getting involved just because a company is big.
01:32:59.000And a lot of people think that because a company's big, that must mean that they had some kind of,
01:33:04.000you know, some kind of either there's been a barrier to entry to other competitors in the
01:33:09.000marketplace or something like that. And I don't think the government should just be like, okay,
01:33:14.000well, we're going to stick our nose in. There's a lot of different, like you said, you mentioned
01:33:34.000Mine's went through hell trying to do it.
01:33:36.000Good news, the apps are currently in review and should be up in a week.
01:33:40.000So if you don't there's they have like rules like some people said of removing a block feature from Twitter or X would make it so that it can't be uploaded into the store now and that's a monopoly that's a decision by alphabet if Twitter can even exist in the network so like at some point I mean at some point we need to seize control of these corporations or they will seize control of us.
01:33:58.000So I'll just say one thing real quick, too, for those that are wondering.
01:34:01.000The reason I'm posting about the metrics and the money is because, as a new feature on Twitter, I think it's important people understand how much work you have to do, how much you get paid for that work, what kind of work gets money.
01:34:13.000And so I had 243 million impressions in the last 28 days.
01:34:19.000Axe staff told me this would be actually July, I think half of July,
01:34:24.000because everyone got paid on August 8th and I didn't.
01:34:27.000They said all of that money I didn't get paid would be included in the next payout.
01:34:31.000So this 400... It should follow through, that 243 million impressions, because we're looking about... It makes sense, it's about 28 days, is $4,377.
01:34:52.000So the Krasensteins get paid way more money because their tweets encourage debate.
01:34:57.000Which means more people... It doesn't matter how many impressions you have, if people see me post something silly or stupid, and they see a million views, that doesn't mean they clicked the tweet and then saw an ad beneath it.
01:35:08.000So, for people who are on Twitter and wondering why you're not getting paid, you make a tweet where you say, hey guys, what do you think about, you know, Donald Trump doing a backflip?
01:35:17.000That's going to generate more money with 100,000 impressions than me posting a photo of Trump literally backflipping and getting 10 million views, but no one clicks.
01:35:25.000What's so gross is when I'm going on Twitter, X, and it'll be a post that'll say,
01:35:29.000you walk into the room, she's looking at you like this with an ice cream cone in your hand.
01:35:37.000Ever since they monetized like two months ago, it's this junk crap.
01:35:41.000I mean, I will say it's a little bit of a bait and switch business practice.
01:35:44.000First, it's like, okay, guys, you have to have, what was it, 5 million impressions per month and post a certain amount of times, what was it, 20, you have to have at least like 20 tweets.
01:35:59.000But my point is, it's like, first it's, oh, okay, it's impression-based.
01:36:02.000Now, all of a sudden, after they used it as a marketing gimmick to get all these people to sign up, like, oh, wow, Who can make $10,000 a month if I just decide to become a professional Twitter poster?
01:36:12.000Now all of a sudden it's, oh just kidding guys, it's not Twitter impressions, but it's engagement within your posts.
01:36:17.000It's just really dirty in my opinion because, you know, it's not what they told us and I look at some of these posts.
01:36:28.000I'm a very controversial person, if you couldn't notice or you couldn't tell already.
01:36:33.000And the fact of the matter is there's always people in my comments debating and talking and I'm trending on Twitter multiple times a week and the fact that I can get that much engagement, I can trend on Twitter five times in one month and I'm getting paid $190.22?
01:36:48.000I think that there's a political bias here and I think that they need to provide more transparency with regards to how this algorithm is run and how their lawful but awful blacklist is being operated.
01:37:01.000If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with your friends, share it on Twitter.
01:37:32.000I think you need to be premium, meaning you need to be $8 a month for blue, and then you need to sign up your Stripe account and hook it all up before you even start getting paid.
01:37:47.000Also, since you don't have an after show on Friday nights, how about an after show for the Culture War podcast?
01:37:52.000Well, we are looking at ways to create a member premium thing for the Culture War.
01:37:58.000The reason we do it on Friday mornings is because that's the only time we have to do it.
01:38:01.000Uh, Friday nights, the plan has always been to do one of two things.
01:38:05.000Live jam session after the show, which we used to do.
01:38:08.000And we were building this new space for that purpose, and it's just- was supposed to be done two years ago.
01:38:12.000So, uh, we- Ian and I were talking, we may just actually clean up the- the pre- the former Culture Wars space for music performances, and then just get that audio set up, because I don't know how long the new studio's gonna take to get done.
01:38:24.000But the other thing we're planning is Poker with the Boys!
01:38:27.000Which is... the live stream poker show.
01:38:30.000We've been talking to a couple people about being the regulars and the hosts for the show and then getting regular players.
01:38:38.000It is a table talk, goofing off show about a variety of issues while people play poker for fun.
01:38:44.000So if you're not a poker person, it's really just having comedians hang out with, you know, people like, you know, we'll have Alex Jones sitting down playing a game and everyone's kind of talking.
01:38:53.000The challenge we have with that is it's illegal to do everywhere and it's so stupid.
01:39:31.000Alright, I'm Not Your Buddy Guy continues, says, I was deeply disappointed in Ben Shapiro in having a very short-term outlook on this, saying the indictments are the reason to drop Trump.
01:39:41.000If they can do it once, they'll do it again.
01:39:43.000That is a very, very short-term way of thinking, and it's um...
01:40:46.000Whatever they want to say, it's still a conflict of interest because he has a financial relationship, whether it's pre-existing or current.
01:40:53.000That's a conflict of interest that he should be disclosing, which he has never publicly disclosed to his audience.
01:40:58.000I could be wrong, but I think what it is, the DeSantis campaign bought, like, a newsletter advertising thing?
01:41:04.000They say that it was list rentals, but I don't know.
01:41:07.000I've rented lists before, and you don't get checks that big.
01:41:10.000Well, I mean, the Daily Wire's got a big list.
01:41:16.000And I'll tell you right now, those aren't the type of payments that you get for list rentals.
01:41:20.000I'm just saying that that's the same thing that the Babylon Bee said when they got, you know, called out for having their ties with Ron DeSantis.
01:41:31.000I think people just need to investigate, right?
01:41:34.000Like I do, and look into the backgrounds of these people, and you won't be so surprised if you really see their past comments.
01:41:39.000K2Water says, Tim, for the earlier segment today, rioters and looters are different races, but I would bet a majority of them vote Democrat.
01:41:47.000If Civil War broke from riots, it would still be left-wing versus right-wing.
01:41:50.000Yeah, so the point that I was making, I did a segment, I record segments, extra bonus segments throughout the week, and then put them all, put the extra ones on Friday, was that you get a lot of people who will post these riots, and it's a bunch of like black teenagers, and then I'm like, yeah, but come on, post the Antifa riots, all white people.
01:42:05.000And I'm like, my point is, like, it's not the racial component, as K2Water nails, it's a bunch of Democrats.
01:42:13.000Like, it's leftist Democrat voters that are doing this.
01:42:16.000It's not like, it's not a bunch of conservatives going around smashing cars and looting Nordstrom.
01:42:59.000Bill was a really good sport about being called an... Okay, he said that he was called an aging lesbian, or he looked like one.
01:43:06.000No, he said that Alex Brusewitz, I called him, had said that he looked like an aging lesbian and he was complaining and trying to say, oh, Trump supporters are so mean, you know, all this victim stuff that the DeSantis people love doing and engaging in, as if they're not online attacking Trump supporters and saying, oh, Donald Trump should be in prison.
01:43:23.000And then Alex Brusiewicz took the clip of him just saying, I look like, and ran it.
01:43:28.000Michael Matlis has already retweeted it.
01:43:31.000And then Bill, I gotta give him credit, afterwards he started laughing, he says, I knew the moment I said it, they got me.
01:43:36.000And they were gonna make that clip, and he laughed about it.
01:43:38.000So, you know, respect to Bill for coming on.
01:43:42.000Because look, I'll be honest, we even talked about it, a bunch of, when we reach out to the DeSantis people, like, guys, we wanna have an honest conversation.
01:43:54.000TheBonusHoles, good name, says, Instead of getting rid of the block button, Elon should make good on his promise to make Twitter free speech.
01:44:08.000Vivian Reed says, In the culture war, Laura mentioned about the quid pro quo with Kenneth Griffin, but never got a chance to talk about it.
01:44:14.000Can you guys talk about it a little here?
01:44:16.000Yeah, so there was a report that came out yesterday or the I believe it the day before yesterday and I think it was originally if I recall correctly published in Bloomberg and then it was recirculated by Yahoo as well since they have a paywall at Bloomberg and essentially what it was is it said that Ken Griffin had actually shaped the legislation that Ron DeSantis, if you recall, last year had said that he was going to make it illegal after there was this really big viral story, went viral about how individuals tied to the Chinese Communist Party wanted to purchase land near Ocala, Florida, which is close to where I live, and they wanted to have it be a medical testing center for monkeys.
01:44:59.000And people started freaking out, and then it prompted DeSantis to say, okay, we're going to pass legislation to make it so that Chinese nationals cannot acquire land in the state of Florida if, you know, they're tied to the CCP.
01:45:12.000Well, ultimately, right, Ron DeSantis did this, and he used it as campaign fodder to say that he was protecting Floridians from foreign land grabs, right, since a lot of Chinese nationals are buying up a lot of America's farmland.
01:45:24.000But it was another example of him misrepresenting what he actually did.
01:45:29.000He had originally said he was going to make it all-encompassing, right, of all the land.
01:45:34.000But then Ken Griffin, who, as I pointed out before, is the head of the Citadel Hedge Fund, which recently received an effusion of $1.5 billion from Sequoia, which is heavily compromised by the CCP.
01:45:49.000And additionally, one of the global managing partners of Sequoia, a guy by the name of Doug Leone, just donated $2 million to Ron DeSantis' PAC.
01:46:00.000And so Ken Griffin, because he has so many financial interests and ties in China, and his net worth is now worth over $22 billion as a result of that infusion, which allowed him to Participate in the stock and bonds market in China with the Chinese Communist Party.
01:46:16.000He went to DeSantis and had him change the language, right?
01:46:20.000And it was never disclosed to the public.
01:46:22.000So this is quid pro quo because in return, Ron DeSantis received a donation of $5 million to his political committee from Ken Griffin.
01:47:52.000Maybe once the actual physical location is up, we can start doing specialty products.
01:47:56.000Alright, alright, we'll grab some more.
01:48:00.000Anime Lair says, Hi Tim, I'm one of those uninitiated people you speak of, and I was just wondering if you'd get in contact with you directly.
01:48:07.000I don't want to look like some crazy stalker.
01:48:09.000I don't believe you're uninitiated, and that's why I read your comment, because you know that I use the term uninitiated, and you are watching this show and reached out.
01:48:18.000Um, my email, I have an email on the website.
01:48:20.000But, uh, I gotta be completely honest.
01:48:22.000It's almost impossible to get in touch with me.
01:49:01.000Yeah, and people just don't have boundaries, too, when you're a public figure, right?
01:49:04.000They just think that, oh, you're just going to drop your life and everything that's going on because I'm the most important thing in the world, right?
01:49:10.000I'm just speaking of the people that, of course, want to blow your phone up and annoy you all day.
01:49:14.000You know the number one question I get asked is?
01:50:59.000It's like all of a sudden, you know, I have a photo of President Trump and now I probably had, and this is no exaggeration, and I still haven't even gone through all my messages.
01:51:06.000I mean, if I look right now, how many is it?
01:51:33.000was here, we would like, of course, we always love to have your dad on, you know, if it happens, it happens, but we'll go through the normal channels, and I'm not gonna pester everybody, but it's a lot, and the funny thing is, like, you know, I don't talk to Joe, like, So Tom Segura's tour is called I'm Coming Everywhere.
01:52:27.000Like I get asked all the time, cause I'm really good friends with Roger Stone.
01:52:30.000Oh, can you get Roger to come speak at this event?
01:52:32.000Can you get this person to come speak here?
01:52:34.000It's like, You know, these people have speaking fees, right?
01:52:36.000A lot of people don't seem to understand the sacrifice that you're asking somebody to make by, you know, harassing and badgering another person to come attend an event.
01:52:47.000And there's just no personal boundaries, I feel, when you're a public figure, and it's hard to kind of have that life.
01:52:53.000It's very overwhelming, and I struggle with it.
01:52:58.000You know, everyone always wants to go on Joe Rogan's show.
01:52:59.000There's a lot of people, I think, who would do really, really well on the biggest podcast in the world.
01:53:04.000But the first thing I told Joe before I went on his show was, hey man, I'm never going to ask you to go on your show.
01:53:20.000And then, you know, my attitude is very much You gotta understand how many people, everyone is trying to get something from someone else because they think the key to their success is another person, but it's really just gonna be you.
01:53:32.000You know, I will say something really fascinating.
01:53:34.000As you get older, and you notice the people that you knew and where they end up and where some people don't end up, it's just like an interesting thing to reflect on.
01:53:49.000And now where I am now doing this show and everything.
01:53:52.000But what's always amazing to me is seeing people from my neighborhood when we were kids who were just some random kid being a pro skateboarder or a rock star.
01:54:00.000And then someone being like, oh, you realize that dude in the band, like he's signed to a major label deal.
01:54:12.000But a lot of this stuff is like, you can track, you can look back at everything they did and you're like, oh, I see how they made it there.
01:54:18.000Some people get lucky, don't get me wrong.
01:54:19.000Yeah, like getting that, your big break, people seeking that big break where you get put in the spotlight and a hundred million people see you.
01:54:25.000It's still, it's up to you to make something of that big break.
01:54:52.000And I think that so many people always, they rely on others, right?
01:54:55.000They have this group mentality of, okay, I need other people to join with me, when you just have to recognize the power of your own actions, the power of taking the first step, and the power of your own voice.
01:55:07.000And really, the most powerful thing that a person can do is be courageous, because you don't know, right, how far Being courageous and taking a first step and being a leader and doing something innovative on your own can be.
01:55:20.000I think that some of the most transformative and impactful things that have happened in our world have been done by just people acting on their own accord.
01:55:49.000You you have done things that have generated more press than billion-dollar PR firms could ever wish for
01:55:54.000One of the reasons why they ban you But it was funny because when they banned you from Twitter
01:55:58.000and then the next thing we know all these journals are like Laura Loomer
01:56:01.000Has handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter You were the top trend in the world on Twitter on a
01:56:05.000platform that just tried to remove you You I was I was the top trend on Twitter while I was no big
01:56:10.000friend while I believe president Trump and
01:56:13.000Vladimir Putin were at the g20 summit and they were even talking about it at the g20 summit because I had a friend
01:56:18.000of mine who Was there reporting on it and they told me that Emmanuel
01:56:21.000Macron had turned to them and was talking about Oh my god, somebody just handcuffed themselves to Twitter
01:56:28.000So like I said before, you sometimes just have to do things on your own and it may sound crazy and it may sound absurd but It could be transformative.
01:56:50.000But I don't imagine it would be a very strong debate because I don't think that Ben and I are the... Like, I know the meme with Ben is debate me, but I think the reality is for Ben is have a conversation with me about it.
01:57:01.000We'd probably go back and forth on a few points.
01:57:52.000When you brought that up, I pulled up a news article that said, here's the provision in the Constitution, Article 2, saying, from separate states.
01:57:59.000And then there's a bunch of other fact checks saying, that's actually incorrect and misinterpreted.
01:58:02.000So if it were possible, do you think it would be better to have Ron as a VP or, like, RFK?
02:00:21.000Yeah, so it's an autobiography, but it's also a historical, really, documentation of how we got to this point in this country with the cancel culture and the deplatforming movement.
02:00:30.000From my perspective, as a canary in the coal mine, I was one of the first people to really be deplatformed and digitally exterminated everywhere until I got my Twitter account back in December.
02:00:40.000And the book is called Loomerd, How I Became the Most Banned Woman in the World.
02:00:43.000And I want to remind people that, yeah, I'm on Twitter, but I'm still banned everywhere else.
02:00:47.000I'm still banned on PayPal, GoFundMe, Venmo, Cash App.
02:00:51.000I don't think most normies, I don't think, realize exactly how much crap Laura's had to go through.
02:01:16.000It's actually changed the political course of our country.
02:01:21.000I mean, people don't know that my undercover investigative work in the Clinton campaign was utilized during the debates and actually helped facilitate President Trump getting elected.
02:01:30.000Or that you were an OG Veritas reporter.
02:01:33.000That's what I'm saying, when I was undercover at Veritas and the stuff that I did with Pelosi and the stuff that I did, of course, with Twitter, they don't know about the lawsuits I filed because I've been, like I said, silenced for the last several years.
02:01:44.000A lot of people don't even know that I ran for Congress because my campaign was the only campaign in the nation that I had access to creating social media.
02:01:50.000So we talked about, people have asked, we gotta go quick because we're over, but what is the key to success?
02:01:56.000And we often talk about, they did a study and they found perseverance.
02:02:38.000Yeah, well, that's why I tell people, and I've been saying it for years,
02:02:41.000and this has been my motto for at least seven years now, civil disobedience is the way forward, okay?
02:02:46.000You don't have to be violent, but civil disobedience and acts of revolt against authority, peaceful, creative, artistic, public, like I've done, is the way forward because it's provocative and it makes people think.
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