On this week's show, we discuss the latest in the ongoing saga of the Putin drone strike in Ukraine and the possible cover-up. Plus, the fallout from the boycott against Anheuser-Busch, the collapse of the First Republic Bank, and much, much more.
00:00:36.000And many people are saying either this was a false flag attack on the Kremlin, so that there would be some kind of Justification for escalation, or an attempt to rally public support in Russia for the war in Ukraine, or Ukraine actually did make a crude attempt at taking out Vladimir Putin.
00:00:51.000Either way, you can expect some kind of escalation, and there are many people who are saying, oh no, this is it, this is World War III, and I'm kind of like, I don't know if this is it.
00:01:00.000But an attack on the Kremlin is fairly serious, and if it wasn't really an attack on the Kremlin, they're going to act like it was, so still fairly serious, but we'll talk about that.
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00:03:32.000James Rosen, chief White House correspondent for Newsmax and author most recently of Scalia Rise to Greatness 1936 to 1986, volume one of a two volume biography of Antonin Scalia.
00:03:44.000Is there a website URL or something for people to find the book?
00:03:46.000You can just go to my Twitter feed at James Rosen TV.
00:03:49.000You'll find everything you need there.
00:03:50.000And I think, I don't know, what I most have known you for is because 10 years ago you were illegally, I'm assuming literally and codified as illegal or adjudicated as illegal, but in our view and all the activists spied on and targeted by the Obama administration for literally doing journalism and it was shockingly corrupt.
00:04:11.000So this story was huge in the activist circles and the freedom of information circles.
00:04:15.000Strangely now, many of these left-leaning individuals have abandoned those principles, but that was you targeted by Obama.
00:04:21.000So yeah, we're actually coming up on the 10th anniversary of when this all first came to light.
00:05:41.000And they zeroed in on someone whom they identified as a source for me.
00:05:46.000And ultimately to avoid the lengthy and debilitating costs of a trial, that person stood up in open court and pleaded guilty to providing national defense information to James Rosen of Fox News.
00:05:59.000I have never identified whether this person was a source of mine or not, Because I don't think that's an appropriate business for reporters.
00:06:06.000But they called you a co-conspirator, didn't they?
00:06:08.000Yes, and so it was later disclosed that in order to have access to all of my gmails, which I used to communicate with sources, and to the phone records pertaining to 20 different phone lines associated with me, including even the phone records of my parents on Staten Island at the time.
00:07:04.000Let's just by way of context, Neil Sheehan, now deceased, who was the New York Times reporter who in 1971 broke the Pentagon Papers, which was 7000 pages of classified documents, an internal Defense Department study tracing the arc of American involvement in Vietnam.
00:07:20.000Not even the Nixon administration designated Neil Sheehan as a criminal co-conspirator in a violation of the Espionage Act.
00:07:29.000President Obama himself at a speech at National Defense University on counterterrorism at the time proclaimed himself troubled by the notion Of working reporters being criminalized for doing their jobs.
00:07:43.000And to get to the bottom of how this possibly could have happened, this novel legal designation that was applied in a secret search warrant application filed by an FBI officer and approved by a federal judge so they could gain access to all those records, to get to the bottom of how that happened, President Obama, in what passed for accountability at the time, appointed to investigate the whole thing, Well, the person who had actually approved the search warrant and that novel designation, which was Attorney General Eric Holder.
00:08:12.000I'll tell you quickly another facet to this story.
00:08:16.000The Washington Post broke the story on May 20, 2013, that the FBI and the State Department had been spying on James Rosen of Fox News, including monitoring my whereabouts, examining where and when I used my swipe badge at the State Department, all the phone records that we've talked about, the Gmails.
00:08:39.000As it happened, Attorney General Holder, who quickly acknowledged that he was responsible for this extraordinary legal step that the United States government had never taken before, designating a working reporter as a criminal co-conspirator for doing his job, five days earlier on May 15 of 2013, Attorney General Holder was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee and he was asked about the potential prosecution of a member of the news media for the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.
00:09:07.000And I'm paraphrasing, but pretty closely.
00:09:08.000He said, in terms of the potential prosecution of a member of the news media for the unauthorized
00:09:14.000disclosure of classified information, which is something that goes on, by the way, every
00:09:17.000day in Washington, Bob Woodward is famous for having walked off White House grounds
00:12:07.000According to the Washington Post, Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of staging a drone attack intended to kill Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
00:12:15.000An incendiary allegation that was forcibly denied by Ukrainian officials, some of whom warned it could be a pretext for Russia to escalate the war.
00:14:13.000I was doing research in 2011 on drone stuff and when I... it was about 2014, I think, I actually went to the, what is it, the Northwestern Drone Coalition.
00:14:24.000A group of universities were working with the government and news organizations to figure out what are we doing about this new technology?
00:14:32.000And when I went and met with these university people, I outright told them,
00:14:35.000your biggest concern is probably security.
00:14:38.000Because someone's going to take one of these things, they're going to arm it,
00:14:41.000and they're going to fly it straight into a city, and there is nothing you can do at that point.
00:14:45.000At that point, your question is, where does it blow up?
00:14:49.000And swarm technology is the next level.
00:14:51.000Right, now we're seeing in Ukraine these small commercial-style drones, and military ones but that are small, carrying explosives and payloads, swarming and just peppering targets and stuff like that.
00:15:03.000You'll need, like, a laser defense system where, like, there's a pylon that, if there's, like, 10,000 drones all coming, that the thing will, like, spark out 10,000 shocks and hit them all at once and knock them all down.
00:15:13.000I don't think... Because you can't stop them individually.
00:15:15.000It's not going to be able to move fast enough.
00:15:16.000If they did some kind of laser defense system, I think that could work.
00:15:20.000So you would need a high-powered laser, but it's not going to be able to... Well, it could theoretically move fast enough, but to transfer enough energy from the laser to the drone to disable it might take more than just a second.
00:16:11.000So, be that as it may, first, our only source of information is a very unreliable one, okay?
00:16:17.000As to the question of whether this could be the pretext for an escalation, whether it was a false flag or a genuine Ukrainian attack, the Russians haven't shown throughout this entire conflict that they need any particular pretext to escalate.
00:16:32.000The whole, the war itself is an enormous escalation, right? There was no conflict. So I don't
00:16:38.000think they particularly need any staged events or even a real event to claim as a justification for
00:16:45.000escalation. And the fact is too that the Russian military throughout this conflict
00:16:49.000has been so shockingly ineffective that I'm not sure that what escalations they can even
00:16:57.000successfully mount beyond the obvious one that we all worry about, which is the introduction of some kind of
00:17:03.000nuclear conventional or tactical or genuine nuke-sized nuclear escalation.
00:17:10.000I don't think they're going to go there.
00:17:15.000The one thing I would say about this is it brings up this posture of the United States throughout this conflict, which is that we are not encouraging or enabling the Ukrainian armed forces to launch attacks inside Crimea or Russia itself.
00:18:08.000I think he's up in some Nordic country.
00:18:10.000I just want to say, if this really was a false flag, it is the saddest and most pathetic we've seen.
00:18:15.000I mean, you've got the burning of the Reichstag, which many people believe was a false flag to justify expansion of war and things like that.
00:18:24.000And that was literally burning the whole thing to the ground.
00:18:27.000This is like a little explosion overhead that didn't do much damage at all, and Putin wasn't even there.
00:18:32.000So I'm not sure what they get out of this, really.
00:18:36.000And some people I already see in the super chat are pointing out that there's no way those drones flew 400, 500 kilometers to make it there.
00:18:47.000They just got brought down by some sort of magnetic... We're going to have to... I'm sorry, go ahead.
00:18:53.000We're just going to have to acclimate ourselves to the reality that we're not going to learn all that we would wish to learn about this event.
00:19:01.000But just to your point before about, you know, the reason why the U.S.
00:19:05.000is just not encouraging or enabling Ukrainian armed forces to strike inside Russian territory is because they fear World War III.
00:19:15.000But it just seems to me you're already in a kind of a proxy war to begin with, right?
00:19:21.000And it's a strange way to pursue war-making.
00:19:27.000If your every decision is going to be governed by fear of the opponent escalating the conflict.
00:19:41.000So we are saying, oh, we're not enabling it, but we are.
00:19:44.000Well, in other words, I don't know whether the particular weapon systems that we've been supplying would enable the Ukrainian Armed Forces to do damage inside territorial Russia.
00:19:57.000Probably there's a suite of weapon systems we could supply that would guarantee the ability of the Ukrainians to They don't need full-scale warfare weapons from us to engage in conflict on Russian territory, in Russian territory.
00:20:21.000In fact, that would probably be the least effective thing to do.
00:20:24.000The most effective thing to do is what that lady did when she brought the statue to that blogger and blew him up.
00:20:29.000Like, insurgency style, targeted guerrilla warfare, disrupting the economy.
00:20:35.000I mean, they're not gonna, there's nothing they're gonna have that's gonna be able to do enough damage to these areas.
00:20:40.000And if they did, open strike on a Russian city would be a total annihilation of every Ukrainian major city by the Russian Air Force.
00:20:47.000It would just, overnight, it would just be total war.
00:20:50.000The entire country would be leveled to the ground if they started attacking Russian cities.
00:20:53.000This is the crazy thing to me about this whole thing.
00:20:55.000The restraint you see in war makes no sense.
00:20:59.000Like, Ukraine could easily have more of these assassinations with a statue.
00:21:07.000For those that don't know, there was this, I guess he was a vlogger.
00:21:10.000He was a guy who would make, you know, he would propagandize in favor of Russia, and he was given a bust of himself, and it exploded, killing him and injuring several others.
00:21:20.000These are the kinds of attacks taking out key targets that are Easier and more effective in terms of destabilizing, you know.
00:21:31.000Because the populace wants to know, well, where's the next place that could be struck and stricken?
00:21:35.000But what you were saying, Ian, was that if Ukrainians did use US-granted or NATO-granted weapons of war on a Russian city, Russia would retaliate with full-scale airstrikes.
00:21:47.000My question is, why don't they do it now?
00:21:50.000I think they really want trade out of this.
00:21:52.000They want to be a richer country after this war is over than before it started.
00:21:55.000So they're trying to take eastern Ukraine east of the Donbass, run those freeways down into Crimea, and just start shipping steel out into the Mediterranean.
00:22:01.000And I do want to stress, there are U.S.
00:22:04.000That was confirmed in the leaks that came out a while ago.
00:22:06.000Plus, there's several other European countries that have boots on the ground.
00:22:09.000And Hannah Clare's point is true, which is what distinction are you really making when on the one hand you're saying, well, we are proceeding very carefully each step up the escalatory ladder so as not to trigger an unwelcome escalation from Mr. Putin, But, you know, five minutes later in the same news conference, you're saying, the weapons and the training that we're providing are killing Russian soldiers, are causing all these extraordinary casualties that the Russians are absorbing.
00:22:40.000So, in essence, you're boasting about the very thing that you're claiming not to be doing.
00:22:44.000But realistically, I think, you know, utilitarianly, they care a lot less about losing humans than they do about losing infrastructure.
00:22:50.000You blow up buildings, that's going to piss them off a lot more than killing a bunch of dudes.
00:22:54.000But again, at what point should the entire Western alliance be governed by fear of whether this particular leader is going to go nuclear?
00:23:04.000You know, does he not also subscribe to MAD, to Mutually Assured Destruction, which governed relations between the US and the Soviet Union for 50 years?
00:23:13.000Mutually assured destruction, in my opinion, is completely overhyped and confused by the average person.
00:23:21.000Because people tend to simplify things and because their views are based off of pop culture and not actual history, they think things like gunshots.
00:23:29.000They don't know what they really sound like.
00:23:33.000It's like that movie Last Action Hero.
00:23:35.000Remember that with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis?
00:23:40.000He lives in the movie, but then he comes to the real world and he shoots the car, but nothing happens.
00:23:43.000Because in movies, you shoot a car and it explodes, like, for no reason.
00:23:47.000And so, what you have with mutually assured destruction is this idea, based on intercontinental ballistic missiles, that if Russia were to nuke a U.S.
00:23:55.000city, we would fire a nuke in return, in retaliation, and then the whole world just blows itself up.
00:24:08.000In other words... If we get nuked, we will launch nukes.
00:24:12.000Well, in other words, what you just identified as, you know, preposterous or whatever is the idea that if we are fired upon with a nuclear weapon, we will fire one back, and then the whole world goes boom.
00:24:23.000Isn't it possible that we clip off the end of that, the whole world going boom, and there's, you know, do you believe, just as a threshold matter, That if we are attacked with a nuclear weapon, we have a second strike, what's called a second strike capability, the ability to launch the second nuclear strike and retaliate.
00:24:39.000So there's so, I think there's so much wrong with the presumption.
00:24:42.000First, there's that famous story of the Russian submarine that received word that a nuke had been launched.
00:24:49.000And the guy in this one, I guess, what did he do?
00:24:50.000He refused to launch it, is the story?
00:24:54.000Pull that up and get us a story correct, because I could be getting it wrong.
00:24:56.000But even when it was like, they have attacked us, the nukes are heading towards us, he goes, I won't fire it, I won't do it.
00:25:02.000And so that was this legend, legendary story, or urban legend, whatever you want to call it, historical legend.
00:25:06.000Yeah, basically he believed that there was an error, because a lot of Soviet tech at the time was not as, you know, Are you sure that he believed it was an error?
00:25:14.000My understanding was that he refused to fire even when ordered to.
00:25:17.000It could be both, but from what I remember of that story that you're talking about, I think he was on a sub, I believe, and he believed that it was an error, it wasn't actually the beginning of a nuclear war.
00:25:27.000There's a movie about this whole subject, Failsafe, where the American pilots have been given word that we've been attacked, and they're reluctant to be the ones that actually You know, but that's why you have command, you know, you have a chain of command and so on.
00:25:40.000His name was Vasily Alexandrovich Arkhipov, and he refused to authorize a captain to fire nuclear torpedoes at the U.S.
00:25:54.000I think it was a British MP or someone in Europe said, You would be insane to sacrifice London or New York for, you know, Warsaw or something.
00:26:07.000That if Vladimir Putin were to use, and especially Kiev, if Vladimir Putin were to use intercontinental ballistic missiles, we're talking multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles with 12 warheads peppering every major city in Ukraine, I do not believe anyone in the West would fire upon Russia with nuclear weapons.
00:26:27.000And if Vladimir Putin were to actually fire an intercontinental ballistic missile at Poland, I do not believe the West would launch nuclear ICBMs in retaliation at Russia.
00:26:37.000as they are legally required to come to the defense of that.
00:26:41.000Required to come to the defense does not mean firing nukes at civilian targets.
00:26:44.000So, but why is MADD... so MADD is a fallacy or is a popular delusion because...
00:26:54.000Well, I think it's more complicated than people think.
00:26:57.000They think that if Russia were to launch a nuke, then, like in that movie, was it War Games with Matthew Broderick, all the nukes go flying in the air, and I just don't think that's reality.
00:27:07.000Because the reality of strategy in war is not that some dude sitting at a computer and he's like, well, a nuke was fired, better fire ours.
00:27:15.000But I will say, if it was World War II, if the Japanese had had nuclear bombs, that they probably would have dropped them back on the United States after Nagasaki.
00:27:22.000Perhaps, but those were gravity bombs.
00:27:25.000The very first nuclear weapons were dropped out of bombers.
00:27:27.000And after, we knew the capabilities, the Germans knew the capabilities of nuclear bombs.
00:27:32.000And there was a rush to weaponize this, and we got there first.
00:27:36.000The United States, knowing the capability of a gravity bomb, seeing a bomber with, you know, fighters on its wing, they'd be like, stop that bomber!
00:27:45.000And we would definitely be prepared for something like that.
00:27:47.000But we shouldn't allow geography, I think, to govern our assessments in this area so that if it's simply the fact that the United States and Russia are so far away from each other and it would require intercontinental ballistic missiles for this kind of exchange to occur.
00:28:06.000Let's shrink our example to India and Pakistan, okay?
00:28:10.000Which, you know, are not as far away from each other and are both nuclear armed and which have a history of conflict with each other, okay?
00:28:18.000Do you believe that mutually assured destruction theory obtains in that theater?
00:28:26.000We need to break down what it really means in that there is the reality that if Vladimir Putin fired an ICBM, a MIRV for instance, a nuclear armed multiple independently targeted reentry vehicle with 12 warheads, It goes up into the air, ejects 12 warheads to pepper the eastern seaboard of the United States.
00:28:48.000The United States would absolutely fire in retaliation.
00:28:52.000But that is an oversimplification of what nuclear war likely will be.
00:28:57.000So in your example with India and Pakistan, we're not talking about a 7, 8,000 mile launch of an ICF into space, which we all know is coming, and then be like, there it is, and we know it's heading for us, we can't stop it, fire.
00:29:12.000India, what I think that the mistake is that when you talk about nuclear war, people only think one thing.
00:29:17.000An ICBM launching from a silo in the ground in Siberia or in Oklahoma and then flying through the air, when in reality what's likely going to happen is Vladimir Putin, when he escalates to nuclear war, is going to take nuclear artillery and he's probably going to use lower yield gravity bombs, 100 kiloton, maybe even getting to the point of a megaton, These are much, much smaller these days, and attacking Ukraine to win, if he has to.
00:29:43.000No one in the West is going to retaliate with a nuclear strike on Russia if Russia uses nukes to win the war in Ukraine.
00:29:50.000However, our leaders in the present government, including the National Security Advisor at the White House, let's say, Jake Sullivan, have stated many times that they have communicated to the Kremlin
00:30:05.000through the channels they have, and they have them, that very, very severe consequences
00:30:11.000would befall Mr. Putin and his government if any kind of nuclear weapon were introduced
00:30:27.000If Russia introduced the most severe, I'd imagine, is a U.S.
00:30:31.000declaration of war and... No, I mean really could actually imagine taking place.
00:30:37.000Right, yeah, I think there's a strong possibility that if Vladimir Putin were to use tactical nuclear artillery or small lower yield weapons, nuclear weapons in Ukraine, that NATO would formally declare war and the US would enter the war and have a strong, probably generate a decent amount of public support if they come out and say, They just use nukes!
00:30:58.000The world will not be destroyed, we must stop this madman.
00:31:52.000But I just think it's fascinating this idea that Russia, which is a massive economy, would be losing to the only country that's become poorer since the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:32:05.000But they're not just fighting that country.
00:32:07.000They're obviously fighting a coalition that's supplying them and training them and so on.
00:32:11.000Look, you don't have to be a military analyst or have military experience to assess this conflict and to be able to discern accurately that it hasn't gone well for Russia and that it, you know, what was the, I think, the operating premise of both the Russians and the West at the start of the conflict was that it wasn't going to last very long and that they would, if they had the gumption, if they had the nerve Well, you know, Putin's problem was that he sat back and let NATO expand for decades.
00:33:27.000They're plucking convicts out of prisons and throwing them there.
00:33:30.000And even after the call-up order that went down in September, I think it was, which met with some extraordinary displays of resistance on the streets of Moscow and elsewhere, You know, the reports are that, and this is also verified by interception of signal communications between soldiers at the front and their families and so on, but they are throwing even the conscripts into battle without sufficient gear, making them pay for their own helmets.
00:34:02.000Their quartermastership alone has been an absolute catastrophe.
00:34:06.000We heard the same thing about Ukraine.
00:34:08.000There was that guy last year or whatever who tried to volunteer and then said it was a disaster, people need to have guns, and they were like, if you leave we'll shoot you or whatever.
00:34:16.000But we ought to be more surprised hearing it about the Russian military.
00:34:21.000Considering, considering, but you know, I think you do make the point, NATO is, it's basically Russia versus NATO and Ukraine's being propped up by us.
00:34:27.000I want to jump to this story, and we'll pull this one into the culture war.
00:34:31.000Let's start with this, from the post-millennial.
00:34:46.000Maybe there's something we can do to drum up support among young people and inspire them to be the heroes of tomorrow, to stop the madman that is Vladimir Putin.
00:35:01.000You're supposed to inspire young, overly-testosterone-filled dudes to go on and blow stuff up to join the military, not change their gender.
00:35:14.000Tom Cruise just gave you the second Top Gun, and this is how you follow up?
00:35:18.000Top Gun, one of the best recruitment videos ever.
00:35:21.000The Hero's Journey, and I see this story, and you know my responses to it, I don't care if you want to be a drag queen, by all means, go ahead and do your thing, but it's a hobby.
00:35:29.000That's not something you sign up for military service to do.
00:35:34.000Yeah, it'd be like talking about how many girls you ran through or something.
00:35:37.000It'd be like, oh yeah, I slept with 15 women last year.
00:36:58.000You should be excited to have a drag queen in your neighborhood.
00:37:00.000What they gotta be doing is indoctrinate kids via video games.
00:37:03.000They gotta give really awesome VR or free video games, free download, make it so addictive and awesome and then be like, join the military now.
00:37:14.000But now imagine you get Call of Duty 6 or whatever number they're on, and it's like, the story starts and the guy's like, I was on a ship when Harpy Daniels did a performance.
00:37:22.000And then you're watching a drag queen and you're like, I don't feel inspired to die.
00:37:26.000Like, to go to war to save my country.
00:37:28.000You know what the male power fantasy's more like?
00:37:31.000If they had a guy just like Spider-Man, it'd probably be a lot better.
00:37:35.000Literally have a guy just like Spider-Man and do a backflip would be better recruitment than a drag queen.
00:37:40.000This brings to mind the statement of Mike Huckabee when he was one of the candidates against Donald Trump in 2016, and they still were having large debates with the whole field of candidates.
00:37:51.000And Huckabee said on that occasion, something fairly close to this, the United States military is not a laboratory for social experimentation, okay?
00:38:00.000It has one mission, which is to preserve and defend the national security and territorial sovereignty of the United States.
00:38:09.000And I think I would wait a long time if I waited for somebody in the Pentagon to explain to me
00:38:17.000There needs to be congressional hearings and dishonorable discharges or stripping of rank
00:38:24.000or something for the people who are responsible for this.
00:38:27.000You've already got the meme of the Russian, have you seen the Russian military ad? Where it's
00:38:32.000like this dude's all ripped and he jumps out of a plane and then lands in the snow and he puts
00:38:37.000the mask on, he's got the gun and it's like, you are going to be a hero in Russia. Then you get
00:38:42.000the American ads and it's like, I have two moms and I'm a drag queen. And it's like, man,
00:38:48.000look, they may not have the resources.
00:38:52.000They may be having a hard time with the, they're using old tanks now and they're recycling old
00:38:56.000weapons, but we're going to, we're having a personnel problem.
00:39:00.000Yeah, we literally cannot get enough people to go to boot camp, not just because of ads like this and an apathy, but also because people don't qualify.
00:39:09.000There are more people turned away because they are overweight or they struggle with a mental health disorder, they have a drug use problem, that do not qualify for the military.
00:39:17.000I mean, the DoD put out this report saying basically it's like...
00:39:20.000I want to say 200,000 people every year that qualify to join the military, and of those, around less than 10% actually have an interest in joining.
00:39:28.000I mean, it is a miniscule population who I really think we should just talk to and say, hey, did this commercial with the drag queens seem appealing to you?
00:39:36.000Like, where is the basic marketing study where they gather a bunch of people who successfully did the thing they wanted and say, would these appeal to you if you had to do it again?
00:39:44.000Because I don't think this would work.
00:39:46.000It's so profoundly offensive, and it's not so much the drag queen thing, because I'm like, I don't care if people want to do that and have, you know, gay men's burlesque.
00:40:10.000they were like, join the Navy so that you can hang out with your buddies and eat,
00:40:13.000you know, drink beer and watch the game. I'd be like, that's also, that's also bad.
00:40:16.000It's not for fun. Granted, this is worse, but... I mean, honestly, you want to dress in drag fine,
00:40:20.000but not while you're in the service. You're in uniform there. Maybe on your private time,
00:40:24.000but not while you're on duty. That's the other thing. There's photos of this dude protesting,
00:40:28.000and I'm like, is he allowed to do that as a Navy serviceman?
00:40:32.000Protest holding up a sign for abortion?
00:40:35.000Look, I think we all agree that this is not the answer to the recruitment problem, right?
00:40:44.000And so, you know, at a threshold level, we condemn those who thought that this somehow would be the answer to that problem.
00:40:52.000But if you really want to look at the actual root of the problem itself, It gets to what you said earlier, I think, which is you were talking about what's going to motivate a young person to join the military, which is an all-volunteer institution, to potentially give up their lives, right?
00:41:31.000The military is not about establishing personal identity.
00:41:34.000It's about giving up your personal identity for the group.
00:41:36.000Well, and I will say, the Surgeon General just came out with this report saying the next public health crisis is loneliness and social isolation.
00:41:45.000Do you know what branches of the military are successfully reaching their quotas?
00:41:51.000It's things that people feel like they are part of something bigger.
00:41:55.000We can identify our problem and yet we don't apply it to the institution that apparently needs it most, the military recruitment.
00:42:01.000The Air Force struggles, all reservists struggle, the Army struggles, the Navy struggles, but yet something that has a really strong core identity, the Marines, and again Space Force, they are doing okay.
00:42:13.000They're not doing great, but they are making their quotas.
00:42:15.000Trump needs to get reelected and fire all of these people, just strip them and boot them out.
00:42:21.000You want to, you want to know what you need to make you want, you want a commercial right now.
00:42:32.000And a Russian soldier is, you know, firing on some soldiers and then the guy like grabs a child and runs from an explosion and then gives the child to the mother who's crying and thanks him and he's like, go, go, go!
00:42:43.000And then the guy turns around and runs into battle in slow motion and it's like, be the hero, join the army.
00:42:48.000Yeah, but it's got to be like an invasion of Alaska and be like, don't let it happen here.
00:42:52.000So anything, anything, anything better than a guy dressing up like a woman and dancing?
00:42:58.000No young man is being like, wow, that's why I want to go to a battlefield and die.
00:43:04.000When they discharged all these people out of the military during this COVID crisis, And it was like the most based, hardcore dudes that were like, I'm not putting that you cannot make me.
00:43:20.000And now they're all pissed off the United States, like they're going to come back.
00:43:25.000I think this is us losing the war, right?
00:43:28.000Sun Tzu says, win the war before you start it, before fighting it.
00:43:33.000So right now we have recruitment problems, and the best they can come up with this, China's like, looking at, you know, Xi Jinping's looking at his watch like, don't invade Taiwan yet, let's let him fester for a little bit.
00:43:43.000Oh, they're doing the drag queen thing?
00:43:45.000Once we miss military recruitment goals for the fifth year in a row, then we'll move in.
00:43:49.000I mean, I feel like this is so obvious and it's happening very publicly.
00:43:53.000America exports its culture at such a high level that there's no way that this is not part of anyone's calculation, thinking, wow, they don't have a healthy population.
00:44:05.000Their young people have higher rates of depression than anyone else.
00:44:10.000They are looking to join the military.
00:44:54.000And if Taiwan becomes a point of contention... She never actually said that, but on Saturday Night Live...
00:45:01.000I thought it was in some New Yorker profile.
00:45:03.000No, she said that when it comes... So the actual context of what Sarah Palin said was, to be vice president, she would be in a good position considering Alaska actually negotiates with Russia over the Bering Strait.
00:45:14.000And in fact, from the westernmost part of Alaska, you can see Russia.
00:45:18.000So they're often dealing with trade negotiations as Russian ships are moving through these territories.
00:45:23.000And then Tina Fey went on Saturday Night Live and went, I can see Russia from my house!
00:45:26.000And then every Democrat was like, I can't believe Sarah Palin said that.
00:45:29.000And that was also true, George W. Bush gave a speech where he was like, who came up with this word?
00:45:34.000Because actually, is it Will Ferrell or one of the comedians?
00:45:38.000He was the one who came up with strategery, and George W. Bush was like, ugh.
00:45:42.000Yeah, he gave a good speech where he was like, ah, too bad, I wish I'd come up with that one.
00:45:45.000I'm of the observation that we need to negotiate peace right now, and if that means concessions to the Russian army and giving them a piece of Ukraine, if we don't and we escalate, the Chinese will invade Taiwan with Russia as their ally.
00:45:57.000So we're better off ending this thing with Russia so that China's afraid to go into Taiwan because they'll suffer the same kind of losses that the Russians suffered.
00:46:11.000I think an argument could be made either way along with the lines that that Ian was just sketching out, which is to say Ian's point is if I understood it correctly with just now was If we secure a diplomatic resolution to this conflict right now, that makes it more difficult for China to launch an invasion of Taiwan.
00:46:31.000Whereas you could say that the greater demonstration of resistance that the West puts up in Ukraine will be more likely to convince China of the resistance they would face if they moved on Taiwan.
00:46:47.000Um, I think that if we produce too much resistance in Ukraine that China will have no, eh, they'll have a choice, but they'll choose to join the war.
00:46:56.000If the United States continues to push, push, push, push, push the Chinese and the Russians, they're already building another economy.
00:47:02.000They're ready to take control of the world right now.
00:47:04.000And if we don't end this, it's going to escalate into a multi-faction war.
00:47:08.000And then, just like Hitler took Poland after Mussolini took North Africa, China will take Taiwan, just like Russia is trying to take Ukraine.
00:47:19.000But it's better off if we just get China alone trying to act, like pushing Russia and China together is insane.
00:47:24.000I'm just saying, get out of cities, homeschool your kids, get some chickens, start a little garden, because watching the drag queen navy thing, I've kind of lost all faith in the US military's capabilities, to be completely honest.
00:47:37.000I think the resistance that's been shown to Russia is enough to prove to China that there's going to be insane
00:47:42.000Resistance in Taiwan of some sort of military incursion. I'm not so convinced anymore. Keep it up. Correct. This is what
00:47:47.000I I this would like if you came to me and said do you think the United States would win?
00:48:23.000Should we regard that the Chinese communist state is foreordained to failure for the same reason that the Soviet Union failed, which is to say it is morally bankrupt at its core?
00:48:43.000No, I'm saying do we do you regard that the Chinese enterprise However strong they might seem in the moment, however much they build up their military, that ultimately the Chinese enterprise is foreordained to failure because it is morally bankrupt at its core.
00:48:56.000It's a good point because the United States is morally bankrupt at its core as well.
00:49:30.000But China uses capitalist mechanisms with a totalitarian communist party controlling all of these things to have rapid expansion.
00:49:40.000And they've got a lot of people, and what they'll do is they'll put the Communist Party and every major corporation to control it, but let it function to a certain degree.
00:49:48.000Give it capitalist free reign, but always make sure you've got your tendrils in it so it can't go outside of your control.
00:49:55.000Any effort at economic liberalization without political actual democratization is a Potemkin village, right?
00:50:02.000Nobody believes the Chinese assessments as to their GDP rates, you know?
00:50:06.000Their property values are ridiculous, it's all fake.
00:50:10.000In other words, if you have freedom until you reach the boundary of the Communist Party, then you don't really have freedom.
00:50:17.000And I don't care if you're calling that market reforms or whatever.
00:50:20.000But to the point of whether, you know, this moral equivalence, it brings to mind a favorite quote of mine from William F. Buckley Jr.
00:50:27.000Who used to say when, in the 70s, when people would say, oh, the CIA and the KGB are the same guys.
00:50:33.000You know, they just, they wear different colored trench coats, like in Spy v. Spy, but like they're, they do the same things.
00:50:38.000And Buckley would say, men who push old ladies into the way of an onrushing bus and men who push old ladies out of the way of an onrushing bus are, it seems to me, ought not to be grouped together as men who go around pushing old ladies around.
00:50:52.000So what happened when the federal government went to that woman in Alaska's house because she looked like another woman on January 6th and they raided her home?
00:50:59.000I just, I understand that China's operating these Uyghur concentration camps and doing very, very horrible things that we're not doing, but...
00:51:07.000My view is, while China may be morally bankrupt to a substantially worse degree, the United States has no leg to stand on.
00:51:14.000We've got a corrupt government that's been corrupt.
00:51:16.000The country's been extracted for its value, its labor being extracted for decades.
00:51:22.000You've got interests in the United States working with China to send our labor over there.
00:51:26.000You've got Joe Biden flying on Air Force Two with his son to do private equity deals with China.
00:51:30.000The United States, at this point, is a shell of whatever it may have been a hundred years ago.
00:51:36.000The federal government for sure, but the states are powerful, especially some of them.
00:51:39.000And many of the states are aborting kids at nine months and sterilizing children.
00:52:13.000And the tactic they have is you censor shows like ours at 49% and prop up shows like CNN at 51% so in the long run you fail and they succeed.
00:52:23.000They will absolutely make sure that what happens fits the corporate algorithmic structure which is moral decay and a psychotic expansion of the woke cult.
00:52:33.000The United States may very well succeed in many regards.
00:52:35.000I'm not completely I don't think the United States will cease to exist.
00:52:40.000I think what's going to happen is if there is a large-scale global war of some sort, we're not winning it.
00:53:19.000Russia's clearly, you know, either... I don't think Russia's going to fall.
00:53:23.000Russia's probably going to work with China.
00:53:24.000We may see some grand war, but I don't see how the US actually is able to pull through considering what we're witnessing now internally and in our own military.
00:53:41.000Like, they actually believe Marxism makes sense, because they don't know what they're talking about.
00:53:45.000You see these videos of young people saying the stupidest things you've ever heard, and you're like, man, uh, Greta Thunberg, I mean, she's not American, but she's outright saying, kill 60 million people overnight, when she says, we must end fossil fuels now, we're not going to vet!
00:53:58.000It's like, okay, yeah, if you ended fossil fuels right now, like New York just banned natural gas, these people, their brains are broken.
00:54:33.000No, these people are too moronic because of what they read on the internet to know nuclear power is clean and actually the best way to generate electricity.
00:54:40.000So I see in this country, The cities are corrupt.
00:54:45.000Our best chance, in my opinion, is probably Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, maybe a Trump-DeSantis ticket, but that's going to require a serious amount of force to go in and start arresting and criminally charging the corrupt politicians who are doing insider trading, who are illegally targeting American citizens with unjust criminal probes.
00:55:04.000They're going to have to start firing all the bureaucrats, and that's a decade-long project plus.
00:55:09.000You can't reverse 50 years of corruption overnight.
00:55:12.000And the problem with all of that is while Trump may want to do it, he's facing resistance from nightmare zombie politicians who just want to get an office so they can buy and trade stock while the Titanic sinks.
00:55:23.000I am not confident in the federal government outside of the United States, and I'm not confident that we are going to be the dominant unipolar power.
00:55:32.000I don't even think we're going to be a superpower in 20 or 30 years.
00:55:35.000There's one word that did not appear in it in all that you said.
00:55:39.000God has a strong lack thereof in this country.
00:55:48.000In other words, if you regard that the cities are corrupt and you regard that the federal government is corrupt, those are two large sectors right there, right?
00:55:56.000Of our society, federal government, municipal government.
00:56:30.000Yeah, we need a sea change, we need a collective consciousness, something to change.
00:56:33.000This country has experienced a severe moral and communal decay.
00:56:39.000Over the past couple decades in this past these past 10 years have been a rapid acceleration of it to the point where starting around 2016-2017 you started to see serious conversations in corporate press about civil war and the real prospect of it.
00:56:53.000A Princeton professor coming on the I think like MSNBC saying we are in a cold civil war.
00:56:58.000You start seeing factions fighting in the streets.
00:57:00.000You're seeing crime running rampant in all of our major cities with no willpower to do anything about it.
00:57:05.000In fact, in Chicago, despite the fact that crime is increasing and people don't feel safe there, they elected an even further left politician.
00:57:14.000So that's why I say get out of these cities.
00:57:16.000Do I think we as the United States will get through this?
00:57:19.000But the night is always darkest before the dawn.
00:57:21.000If you want to stay in these places, it's going to get bad.
00:57:23.000If China wants to take Taiwan, we may resist, but they're probably going to get it.
00:57:29.000Looking at how the federal government is acting, what I see as our best path forward is Trump getting into office, Following through with Schedule F, we need some serious criminal justice action.
00:57:42.000I'm talking getting an AG who starts going department to department and issuing criminal indictments on, say, people in the FBI for targeting American citizens with trumped-up BS and ignoring the far-left extremists who have done comparable things, or worse things.
00:57:56.000I believe, though, that if he did that without the consciousness, the will of the consciousness, he'd be killed by the CIA overnight.
00:58:36.000If everyone said, we all agree, look, I'll put it this way, we've talked to many people who are religious, I am not a Christian, I do believe in God, but I firmly believe, and this is obvious, if every single person in this country had the same faith, You wouldn't really need law enforcement.
00:58:53.000You would to a small degree, but you wouldn't have to worry too much if everyone 100% was faithful.
00:59:10.000And so, what you actually end up getting is, to varying degrees, a large portion of a population having one moral framework, and thus you don't see a lot of crime, but then you have some people who just genuinely don't care, or through crimes of desperation commit crimes, so you'll need some kind of law enforcement or policing or communal watch or defense or something like that.
00:59:29.000Right now what we have is a completely shattered social infrastructure with no moral framework at all.
00:59:34.000And woke people, these younger people that are growing up, have no moral framework at all.
00:59:40.000We here on this show have a solidly, whether anyone, any liberal or whatever wants to admit it, in the United States a solidly Christian moral framework.
00:59:50.000Bill Maher has a Christian moral framework in his worldview.
00:59:53.000He believes in the presumption of innocence, which is rooted in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which is where Blackstone's formulation comes from, which is where we get our Fifth Amendment and Fourth Amendment and other amendments.
01:00:05.000But you look at the woke generation now, you look at the younger generation, they don't care about any of that.
01:00:10.000They've actually come out against the Constitution.
01:00:12.000They have protested saying we should get rid of it.
01:00:14.000They don't believe in fundamental rights because they don't have the same moral framework we do.
01:00:19.000Their moral framework is rooted in the fascistic view, there is no truth but power.
01:00:25.000Judaism is... I'm finding myself more Jewish by the day.
01:00:29.000And I think what's happened is these global banking cartels are sometimes run by people with Jewish ancestry and they're, they might not even believe in God, but they call themselves Jewish and they're poisoning the name of the Jew and taking credit for something that I want to see it.
01:00:44.000I want to see you behave like a Jew, if you are.
01:01:03.000I think the youngest generation is so lost because we are a culture that didn't safeguard our morals.
01:01:10.000I understand objections to organized religions.
01:01:12.000People feel like any institution, you know, churches can become corrupt, but we didn't raise children in a collective understanding of what's good and what's wrong.
01:01:22.000We raised children in a culture that said, you know, push your boundaries constantly.
01:01:27.000Anything is whatever you want it to be.
01:01:28.000It was a very ambiguous time and this has been going on since the 80s.
01:01:32.000And I think as a result, we have a generation of people who are in many respects hopeless and lost.
01:01:39.000And that is a very difficult thing to come back from because bitterness is a pill you can't unswallow.
01:01:59.000And she was, uh, coming out being like, oh, they were so bad to me, they were so awful.
01:02:04.000So what happens is, Tucker Carlson releases a text where he says, I saw this video of Proud Boys beating up an Antifa guy, and I started getting into it, saying I could taste it, and then I realized, you know, I shouldn't be thinking these things, this is bad, I don't want to be in this place.
01:02:19.000They show the first part of the quote that makes it look like Tucker is just bloodthirsty.
01:02:24.000They then give you this massive story about Fox and Dominion and text messages and a lawsuit and settlement before they give you the actual quote.
01:02:33.000Which is Tucker saying, these are bad things, we shouldn't think these things, and that's my point.
01:02:38.000Because what happens is people will read the first quote, once they get down to the part about Dominion, old news from a month ago, they'll just stop reading.
01:02:46.000I think about this person, Abby Grossberg, and this is what this nation has raised people to be.
01:04:35.000If they deviate from that line, they lose followers.
01:04:38.000We can have Luke Rudkowski come on this show and rant about how he doesn't like Donald Trump, and people still like and follow Luke Rudkowski.
01:04:44.000Because whatever space we're in, we're more interested in having an honest conversation and explaining our ideas, even if it challenges my or someone else's opinion.
01:04:51.000People will still be like, well, I want to hear what these people think and why.
01:05:10.000I don't see how the United States remains a dominant power, if it even still is, if half or more of this country are either lazy, ignorant, willfully ignorant, or willfully manipulative like these young men.
01:05:48.000It was from like, I don't know, maybe it was the Obama era.
01:05:52.000And there were ads that were created to promote Obamacare.
01:05:56.000And one of them showed this sort of effete looking guy in his pajamas and he You know, he was dressed in red flannel pajamas and he had a little cup of java and he had sort of horn-rimmed glasses.
01:06:11.000So it might be tempting to sort of, to write off the current generation of young people as pajama guy or, you know, they're just completely wrapped up in their artificial cocoon of, you know, their phones and social media and everything else.
01:06:26.000But You know, just getting older, I recognize that these are glib distinctions to say that one generation had grit and understood, and this generation doesn't.
01:06:38.000You can't compare any of the generations since World War II.
01:06:42.000Well, the kids that were growing up in the internet, you brought this up before the show, the kids that were born into the age of the internet don't have the reference of knowing what it's like without the machine.
01:06:50.000It's one thing to say when the boomers, when the greatest generation is talking about the boomers, and you're like, don't criticize the younger generation.
01:07:00.000There's that quote from Socrates about how they got no respect.
01:07:04.000After several generations, you've come to the point where Gen Z is morbidly obese, lazy, demanding safe spaces full of cotton candy because people said naughty words on campus, and you compare that to the greatest generation who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
01:07:17.000But again, how many members of this current generation that we're so quick to dismiss are the heroes who are responding at school shootings or are in the military and doing extraordinary things.
01:07:30.000We're missing our recruitment goals and the Uvalde cops did nothing and the security guard in Parkland ran away.
01:07:37.000So now what we're seeing is there was a story in Philadelphia where a man raped a woman on the train and not a single person did anything to help.
01:07:45.000That's where we are with our current generation.
01:07:47.000Does the name Kitty Genovese ring a bell?
01:07:52.000So Kitty Genovese was a woman in Queens in 1964 and she lived in a big apartment building that had a central courtyard area and she was attacked and raped repeatedly and killed and she died from her injuries.
01:08:07.000And the investigation, this is 1964, which as far as I'm concerned is modernity, and the investigation determined that there were several dozen people Who were aware of the attack, who were witnessing it take, or different parts of it take place.
01:08:24.000Not one single person called the police.
01:08:28.000And the Kitty Genovese case endures as a model of urban sociology.
01:08:31.000It's been taught for 50 years in college courses.
01:08:35.000And what was the reason that nobody called the cops?
01:08:38.000And as opposed to your example on a subway where nobody lifted a finger, you're right there in the thick of it, you might be afraid that you're going to get slashed or whatever.
01:08:45.000Here was a situation where these several dozen people in this apartment complex looking down on their courtyard didn't even face the hurdle of personal exposure to danger, right?
01:09:02.000Okay, so, you know, when you cite an example like that one on the subway as an example of today's morality, depraved morality on the part of a given generation, then we can talk about Kitty Genovese from 1964, which was a generation by and large with much greater civic sense.
01:09:19.000Yes, yes, yes, but I'm saying it just has gotten worse.
01:09:22.000Like, I'm not comparing those people to the people who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
01:09:26.000I absolutely agree that generations have increasingly gotten worse.
01:09:31.000Now, what we're dealing with there is two singular stories that, you know, the plural of anecdote is not data.
01:09:37.000We have these stories, they're interesting.
01:09:38.000But I think when you look at what's happening with our universities, you take a look at the fact that movies, they're firing, they fired Sarah Silverman, I think.
01:09:47.000She got fired from a movie because she did a blackface joke 15 years prior, mocking the idea.
01:09:53.000We're in a generation now where you have college students screaming at professors that this is not about education, it's about safe spaces.
01:10:01.000Look, there's a lot of troubling phenomena out there with the current generation.
01:10:04.000All I'm saying is that if I were on that day where I have the supernumerary Reese's peanut butter cup that I just shouldn't, right?
01:10:17.000I'm pretty sure it's going to be a person of the current generation who's going to get me to a hospital and who's going to take care of me.
01:11:14.000We're at a point now where Our standard, and using abortion as one single example, you have states that have said no limit.
01:11:22.000You have states that have banned it outright.
01:11:24.000A complete hyper-polarization of morality in this country.
01:11:27.000You have people, you have states that are advocating for child sterilization with sex change surgery despite the fact that the universities and medical practice in Europe have already abandoned it.
01:11:37.000They don't care about what makes sense.
01:11:40.000I think it is Not that I'm saying that we're going to lose, but there is a very clear moral decay in this country with the current generation that didn't exist with the previous generation.
01:11:52.000And now, again, I'm not giving any of my own opinions because I'm not paid to do so, although I'm willing to explore those options with Tim Kast.
01:12:00.000Here you are talking about moral decay, and the person whom you have identified, just in the course of our conversation, as the only person who can possibly start the great rescue effort of the United States that urgently needs to be undertaken, is Donald Trump.
01:12:27.000That's quite literally the moral decay to which I'm referring.
01:12:29.000A 30-year-old case that clearly appears to be fabricated, a false accusation that he was working for Russia, Ukrainegate, clearly something Joe Biden was doing, engaging in a quid pro quo, and our morally decayed country indicted Trump for figuring it out rather accidentally.
01:13:11.000But Trump is, at the very least, someone who's, I would say, our only chance at getting rid of the first layer of crust That has taken over our government system.
01:13:21.000And all the other potential Republican contenders whose names we all know you regard as hopelessly corrupt?
01:13:33.000That's why I said a Trump-DeSantis ticket is probably pretty good.
01:13:36.000I think it is a good job, but I think DeSantis is going to negotiate.
01:13:40.000And what that will do is just be another sludge in the machine of slowly moving forward, whereas Trump's going to go in like a bull in a china shop and just start saying, enough, I'm done with this.
01:13:50.000But we need the groundswell, because the head does nothing without the body's attention.
01:13:53.000And so the people, the generation, I think this is why institutions should be brought up, don't demonize generations of humans, because Every generation faces its own coming-to-God moment, its own struggle and overcoming of it.
01:14:07.000And this generation is facing it, and a lot of them are failing.
01:14:09.000They've been sucked into the machine and have become something they're not, or that they weren't, or that they don't want to be, or that they don't understand.
01:14:15.000But there's a lot of great ones, and we're speaking to all of them, especially the ones that are listening to you right now.
01:14:21.000Like, I don't know what, 30-40% of our audience is between the ages of 18 and 34.
01:14:26.000Like, we've got a lot of you listening right now, and it is you that is going to change the world and hold this thing together.
01:14:32.000So what I'm saying is, not that every single person that exists is bad.
01:14:38.000I'm saying that millennials have a very serious malignancy, and so does Gen Z. Something that we've not seen in the past.
01:14:44.000In the 1990s, I grew up in Chicago as a Democrat, as Democrat could be, and I worked at a bunch of non-profits when I got older.
01:14:52.000I did register vote actions, and I thought I liked Obama until, you know, he started blowing up kids, and obviously the stuff he did to you was really bad.
01:15:00.000But that was what my family believed in, and when it came to abortion as a really good moral example, The argument that I would hear from my urban liberal Democrat friends was, no, none of us like it.
01:15:11.000We all think abortion is bad, but it's not an issue for government.
01:16:07.000The thirst for power and money knows no bounds.
01:16:11.000The doctor in Florida who made videos saying she was gonna yeet teats today and talked about, you know, she makes tons of money giving young girls double mastectomies because they're going through some kind of psychological trauma.
01:16:23.000This is moral decay that did not exist.
01:16:25.000Now don't get me wrong, lobotomies happen.
01:16:27.000And then everybody was like, yo, these are bad things, you should stop doing it.
01:17:20.000You have Gen Xers which are net positive, but maybe it's 60-40.
01:17:26.000There's a decent amount of people in their 40s and 50s who are very weak.
01:17:30.000And allow this kind of stuff to take over.
01:17:33.000You then get the millennial generation, which inverts, where very few millennials are of strong moral character, and overwhelmingly are vapid, narcissistic, social media-driven individuals.
01:17:43.000Gen Z actually might be slightly more based.
01:17:45.000Then Millennials, because we're starting to see a bunch of young people protest the algorithmic psychosis that Millennials were entrenched in.
01:17:52.000So I think that may be a net positive, but Gen Z is still fairly even.
01:17:57.000Gen Z is better than Millennials, I think, but Millennials are, and I'm a Millennial, I think Millennials are the worst.
01:18:03.000Well, the thing I like about Z and Millennials is that they're involved.
01:18:06.000The problem with Gen X, and I'm not speaking for everybody, because obviously James, you and I are ex, I'm like tail end of it a year earlier or in the middle of it somewhere, is that they checked out.
01:18:32.000You know, where in evenings entertainment was you watch TV, one of the three channels, maybe you had a VHS machine, but you played board games, you know what I'm saying?
01:18:42.000And like there were times of the day that were set aside, generally the morning and 6pm.
01:18:47.000And in those times, if you wanted to be engaged in the business of acquiring information, those were the times when you did that.
01:19:19.000I think about where we are culturally today, and especially with AI and algorithms and what that's leading to, it's static, it's chaos, and where we were in the 90s and before that, and it just feels like an unraveling.
01:19:33.000That is certainly, I feel like, a psychological attack by foreign interests, corporate interests, to try and disrupt the people of the United States.
01:19:42.000It's not a natural thing that just happened because these people are who they are.
01:19:46.000I think it's just a result of the internet.
01:19:48.000I mean, exactly to your point, there was limited connection to the outside world.
01:19:54.000You got information at certain times, otherwise you were more engaged with your family life and your community.
01:19:58.000I don't think when we had the internet, which of course is a great blessing in a lot of ways, we knew what it was like.
01:20:04.000We didn't know we'd have to put it back in the box, right?
01:20:06.000We didn't know that at some point you would hand a 12-year-old a smartphone and say like, Okay, be careful on this.
01:20:12.000You could get semi-addicted to it and be constantly seeking dopamine hits through people online.
01:20:17.000We didn't know what we were bringing up and that's why I think it's so important to talk about the challenges that specifically face the youngest generations in this country because they're unlike any generation before them.
01:20:26.000Worse still, we're hearing that crazy story about Roblox.
01:21:14.000I'm going to play this clip so I can explain to you moral bankruptcy in a way that I think you might say, oh man, let me see if I can pull this up from the post-millennial.
01:21:25.000I'm always up for some good moral bankruptcy.
01:21:28.000In whatever form you want to feed it to me.
01:21:30.000You know, you can go bankrupt and still be very wealthy, I found out.
01:21:34.000There is this phenomenon, I think, where people in this modern generation feel like they're failing if they're not on the internet, if they're not connected.
01:22:12.000When you don't have that watchful eye, they tend to go back to old patterns.
01:22:17.000I have woken Jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it and said, here, you take this and you put it in your vagina.
01:23:23.000Typically, people receive what's called a penile inversion vaginoplasty if they're adults, but because Jazz underwent puberty blockers, Jazz did not develop any physical function in terms of sexual components.
01:23:38.000This resulted in severe complications and multiple surgeries where they had to take stomach lining to create the inside of what is a permanent wound.
01:23:47.000In the pelvis of this young male, the purpose for which is so that a man who is attracted to this to this to jazz can insert themselves for sexual gratification.
01:23:58.000After the surgery, because the wound tries to seal itself, you have to introduce what's called a dilator every day, which is a device that cranks the wound open with lubrication.
01:24:08.000This is the story of a mother on the Learning Channel, a major corporate cable channel explaining how she wakes up her biologically male child in the middle of the night and says stick this in your wound and crank it open or I will and then goes on to say if she leaves and that wound closes I will wring her neck tell me this is not moral decay when on cable television this which I believe to be purely criminal child abuse is celebrated I see that and I just say we have reached a severe state of moral decay
01:24:43.000It's a kind of, it sounds like a psychosis.
01:24:50.000And the idea that it would be presented on any sort of viable commercial television outlet of some kind is staggering to me.
01:24:58.000And you know Ron DeSantis hasn't filed any criminal charges against his family for what they've done.
01:25:03.000It's gotten to the point where, I'll phrase it this way.
01:25:06.000If it was 1990 and we heard a story about a parent who did this to their child, they'd probably be arrested, investigated, the child would be removed, given psychotherapy and some kind of help.
01:25:17.000This is to the point where not only is... Look, there are people in this country who are mad at me right now for saying this.
01:25:27.000This woman says that she forces her child to do this.
01:25:34.000That's why she has to wake up her child in the middle of the night and say, do it or I will for a TV show.
01:25:38.000And instead of saying, maybe we should investigate because this sounds like abuse.
01:25:43.000This sounds like the child does not want to engage in this practice and the mother is making them do it and it could be potentially harmful.
01:25:49.000Why don't we get protective services or some kind of law enforcement to at least investigate?
01:25:53.000Not only are we not doing that, we're putting it on television, celebrating it, giving them commercials.
01:27:21.000All I want is to be happy and feel like me and I don't feel like me ever.
01:27:27.000The interesting thing with this now is that Jazz, a biological male, who was raised as a female and underwent surgery, is dating women.
01:27:35.000This to me is obvious moral corruption of our society in ways we've not seen in previous generations.
01:27:43.000I'll tell you what it brings to mind for me.
01:27:46.000It brings to mind the statement from John Kenneth Galbraith.
01:27:51.000Raise your hand if you know who John Kenneth Galbraith was.
01:27:53.000He was an economist, he coined the term the Affluent Society, and he was also President Kennedy's ambassador to India.
01:28:02.000And he and Buckley used to have a kind of a relationship, sort of like Scalia and RBG, where you had these two people on different sides of the issues who would debate, and they were best friends.
01:28:13.000But John Kenneth Galbraith said, I think around 1960, that America is the first country in the history of the world Where more people are at risk of dying from having too much to eat than from having too little.
01:28:29.000And the choices that, and the decision-making and the enterprise that you've just played is, are the choices and decisions and the enterprise of an elective society where, you know, if you go around the world or if you go into other neighborhoods in the United States where they don't have enough to eat, no one's doing this sort of thing.
01:29:11.000TLC also hosted 19 Kids and Counting which were Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar who were these homeschooling Christians and they were sort of another view and an extreme family because that's how TLC made money for years and years and years.
01:29:24.000They took people who lived in sort of unorthodox ways, or not in a normal way, and put them both on TV.
01:29:29.000And one of the sons-in-law, Derek Dillard, on Twitter, this is, I think this was in like 2016, maybe 2014, said, you know, jazz is being abused, this is not real, you know, there's only two genders, and this is all terrible.
01:29:47.000And TLC said he can't appear on the show anymore.
01:29:50.000He is not allowed to be on this thing where theoretically he makes money because they sided with the gender ideology and this was, I mean, close to a decade ago at this point.
01:30:00.000We have seen this coming for some time and instead of intervening and saying like, well let's at least have both opposing opinions on air and let people sort it out for themselves, you know, I know you always say this, but people thought, well, this one makes more money, so we'll side with it.
01:30:15.000I don't even know if it does make more money.
01:30:17.000But there is a – when you look back, it's sort of dark to think that along the way we could have had rational discussions and we could have said, I don't know, maybe this is too far, maybe there are some boundaries we're crossing.
01:30:30.000And instead we're like, no, we need to let people live as they live even when you sacrifice a child body, basically.
01:30:37.000When I saw Rachel Dolezal, she was the lady out in the Seattle area, I think, who became convinced that she identifies as an African-American person and took every step possible to further that idea, including changes in the way she presented herself and so on, but she got as far with it As securing the position, I think, of executive director of the local NAACP out there, okay?
01:31:09.000She got to be in charge of an organization that advanced the interests of people of color, even though she herself was white.
01:31:17.000And when I saw that take place, I thought to myself, well, what should prohibit me from saying that from the age of five, I have strongly identified as a Beatle?
01:31:27.000And I'm going to demand that all of you, anyone who comes into my presence, and all of you who don't, shall now treat me as a Beatle.
01:31:35.000That starts with the checks, but that's not the end of it, right?
01:32:16.000Scientists put a bunch of rats in a space, limited space, unlimited resources, food and water, and then observed what they would do, and they broke down to the point where they were huddling around each other, no longer engaging in normal rat behavior.
01:32:33.000One group started grooming themselves and did nothing else.
01:32:38.000With a limited amount of space, they would all congregate in one small area.
01:32:43.000They, uh, the social breakdown resulted in, like, stopping eating and then dying.
01:32:50.000When they would take one of the rats from this place and put it back into a normal rat society, it would retain the social behaviors and spread them and then bring social decay.
01:33:17.000Like, don't, gluttony is a sin for a reason?
01:33:19.000Well, the difference is, cities are like the rat utopias, but you can still get out to the country and get away from these congested areas.
01:33:26.000So the difference is, In the rat utopia, they stayed in one place.
01:33:32.000In the human utopia, people who are seeing the decay are fleeing and the people who are absorbing the decay are staying.
01:33:38.000And they're making TV shows about the people that are staying there.
01:33:48.000So, you know, the people of this moral ideology, eventually, from aborting their children and sterilizing their children, are less likely to reproduce and share those ideologies.
01:33:59.000They try to go to schools, but conservatives have started pulling their kids out and engaging in homeschooling, so I think, rather optimistically, for bad reasons, the future is more likely to course correct, and this will naturally resolve itself.
01:34:13.000Well, these kind of movements, which are Stalinist, At their core, ultimately become self-devouring.
01:34:21.000You know, my feeling about this is that in 1954, we had Brown v. Board of Education, right?
01:34:28.000The landmark Supreme Court ruling that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson from 1896, which had said separate but equal is constitutional, right?
01:34:37.000And after Brown v. Board of Ed, it was no longer lawful or constitutional for a state system to discriminate against somebody based on their color.
01:34:47.000And then there were subsequent Supreme Court rulings, which, you know, I think Brown v. Board of Ed mandated desegregation, quote, with all deliberate speed.
01:34:56.000But there was a – I think it's Alexander v. Holmes, forgive me for not remembering off the top of my head, but there was a 1969 Supreme Court ruling which took it further and said, not with all deliberate speed, now, okay?
01:35:09.000So African Americans were and remain a minority group.
01:35:41.000The left today, Black Lives Matter, for instance, they want to reverse Brown v. Board of Ed.
01:35:46.000Derrick Bell, for instance, spoke out against it, saying it was wrong, and he agreed with Plessy v. Ferguson.
01:35:50.000So, if they're allowed to continue down that path, we'll get segregation.
01:35:54.000And, in fact, they've reintroduced segregation in many universities.
01:35:57.000Well, this would be the difference between the Civil Rights Movement and BLM.
01:36:01.000But in short, what you're seeing with this fight over bathrooms and the whole transgender question is a minority group that has its own sense of aggrievement and which is seeking to use The courts and other traditional means to redress this to their satisfaction.
01:36:25.000Now, when everyone saw the TV broadcasts of the film footage of Sheriff Bull Connor, you know, sicking dogs and fire hoses and billy clubs on innocent African American demonstrators, The horror was so vivid and readily discernible that no one would quarrel with a ruling like Brown v. Board of Ed.
01:36:53.000The policy was so self-evidently discriminatory.
01:37:00.000There was so much interaction between the majority and the minority group.
01:37:05.000Here, I remember seeing Cory Booker on the very first debate that was held for the 2020 cycle.
01:37:23.000And Cory Booker, you know, he's been around for a while.
01:37:25.000People in Washington certainly know who he is, but perhaps this was his chance really to introduce himself to the American electorate writ large.
01:37:33.000And maybe he wouldn't get another better chance.
01:37:38.000But I remember him saying in that debate, we must spend more time talking about trans Americans and in specific African-American trans Americans.
01:37:50.000We're talking about a minority here that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction, okay?
01:37:57.000And yet look at the extraordinary attention that's paid to this.
01:38:00.000Look at the resources that are consumed with it.
01:38:02.000Look how much time we're spending discussing it, okay?
01:38:05.000And that is because... But we're not talking about that small of a minority.
01:38:08.000We're talking about, I think, 47,000 young people in the past four years have been put on sterilizing chemicals.
01:38:15.000I think that's fairly substantive that establishment medical practices are engaging in this behavior to this degree, and we're in the thousands of young girls who have had their breasts removed, and we're talking about 15-year-old girls.
01:38:26.000Right, but what I'm talking about is the success of a very, very small minority.
01:38:31.000in bringing its grievance to the big show.
01:39:16.000Head over to TimCast.com, become a member, so we, uh, you can watch the uncensored members-only show coming up at about 10, 10 p.m., but let's read your superchats.
01:39:24.000Um, NotYourBuddyGuy says, this is Canada.
01:39:27.000A conservative MP had his family threatened in China, and the liberals silenced him, saying it would be debunked despite CSIS confirmation.
01:39:36.000I mean, the CCP had threatened his family in China.
01:39:54.000says, Tim, at first I was angry about the weak-willed wants to understand white rage run in our military into degradation, then recalled living on a ship for a year with sailors, and well, sounds about right.
01:41:06.000Chickens, it's called line breeding actually, so you can do like a generation, but you don't want to keep doing it.
01:41:11.000And so then we introduced Roberto Junior, but now we're getting to the point where Roberto Junior may have to get his own private mansion with some girls because You know, now he's... He's become part of the very problem he was intended to solve.
01:42:34.000But they're like small ones, aren't they?
01:42:37.000I can't say I know the exact models, but that's where they've been getting their drones from.
01:42:45.000Casey Willis says, first super chat ever, and I've been listening since day one, had my first cup of your Appalachian Nights blend this morning, and I do have to say, as a usual drinker of Folgers, your coffee is chef's kiss.
01:42:57.000Oh yeah, so the two signature blends we have now, we have a light and a dark, and we have like a very light and a very dark.
01:43:03.000Next we're making is, so this will be about six weeks, is a medium and two, a light and a dark decaf.
01:43:09.000So the medium roast is Stand Your Grounds, and then we have Unwoke and Sleepy Joe.
01:44:10.000Are you going to do K-Cups for Tim Caffey?
01:44:12.000Yes, those are currently in production, K-Cups.
01:44:14.000So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to order like a thousand for us here and they're going to be just like unlabeled just so that we can have them so we can drink them because I want to have my coffee in the morning.
01:45:26.000We're talking about small drones the size of your fist, carrying an explosive payload, and we're talking about thousands, and even hundreds.
01:45:35.000They're going to be flying low and over buildings.
01:45:37.000They're not going to be able to be shot out of the sky.
01:45:39.000They might be flying straight down, too.
01:45:41.000But they're not going to come from way up high.
01:46:58.000But China is going to go through a similar thing, right?
01:47:01.000Their moral bankruptcy will lead to, as the saying goes, strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men.
01:47:40.000But I think the first thing we'll start seeing is imports will become exorbitantly expensive.
01:47:44.000Because the petrodollar will just be weak, and the U.S.
01:47:47.000won't be exporting anything, and then it's gonna become harder to come buy certain goods, we'll start seeing serious inflation, China will move on Taiwan and we'll shrug.
01:47:56.000Things like that will start happening.
01:47:57.000But, uh, grains of sand making a heap.
01:48:01.000You won't recognize the history until the history's passed.
01:48:04.000We could be in World War III right now, and we won't know until 50 years afterwards when the historians say, well, we believe it started on this day.
01:48:56.000What I'm saying is that nuclear war isn't the apex.
01:48:59.000When people talk about nuclear war and mutually assured destruction, what people need to understand about that is, it's referring to the very end of the nuclear war, not the beginning and middle of it.
01:49:10.000Most people, when I talk to them about mutually assured destruction, they, so this is how it comes up.
01:49:14.000I say, you know, I think Putin will use nukes.
01:49:16.000No, he won't because of mutually assured destruction.
01:49:18.000I'm like, dude, the start of the war is not Putin being like, blow up New York!
01:49:33.000Let's declare war, but it's not going to immediately be ICBMs flying all over the place.
01:49:37.000And to your point that, uh, When the Soviets installed nuclear missiles on Cuba, precipitating the Cuban Missile Crisis, people forget this.
01:49:49.000They also sent 40,000 Russian personnel, Soviet personnel to Cuba to To build.
01:50:19.000Kalashnikov says, Tim, you should make Matt Walsh watch Attack on Titan or Psycho-Pass, then see if he holds the same ignorant opinions that all anime is demonic.
01:51:06.000I thought that entertainment and alcohol were like the devil or demon, but then I realized I was extremely egotistical in that time and that like a balance of these things is part of the nature.
01:51:19.000Kiabo Bandit says, sitting in the ER with an eyepatch on and I still wouldn't miss the show even if I'm 20 minutes behind to keep up the good work.
01:51:54.000I'm gonna wear a dress on the show just to do it to you.
01:51:58.000I suppose the challenge is, you know, when Jordan Peterson talks about social enforcement, there was shared morality on what the parameters were, what we should and should not do.
01:52:10.000And we got to the point where liberals won, live and let live, anyone can do whatever they want.
01:52:14.000But if anyone can do whatever they want, you now have to explain to a child why it is that someone is doing something in public, which leads to the expansion of whatever these things are, and that's where we're at.
01:52:25.000Joe Spinella said the Navy just asked Bud Light to hold their beer.
01:52:29.000Quite literally, they were like, hey, you want some Bud Light?
01:52:31.000They're gonna be the new Bud Light partners in Navy.
01:53:00.000This whole thing would have been avoided and then suddenly Bud Light Seltzer would have had sort of this brand era that they're apparently trying to use to connect with the youth.
01:53:08.000Did the marketing VP get her job back?
01:53:11.000She's still on leave, but I don't know if that means she's coming back, which I bet she is one day.
01:53:16.000Kyle Miller says, Tim, as someone who works in disaster recovery, there is no recovery plan for if a civil event was to happen, we would be stagnant for decades.
01:53:43.000And then it'd be really interesting after that.
01:53:45.000Probably only Florida and South Dakota would say no.
01:53:48.000I could see it as, like, a defensive maneuver, but, you know.
01:53:51.000I mean, people need to read more about the Civil War, because there were slave states that were like, we disagree with what's going on, but we really don't want to go to war.
01:53:58.000Dude, I was just at Harper's Ferry yesterday, or two days ago.
01:55:29.000I'm saying the only thing that has a potential to actually purge the corruption in this government is probably Trump, but I didn't say I was gonna save anybody.
01:56:22.000Michelle Therese says, Tim and crew, great show and great guest.
01:56:25.000James, check out the Genovese documentary made by Kitty's brother, where he debunks the story that no one came to Kitty's aid, people did call the police, and stayed with her while waiting for the ambulance.
01:56:35.000That's not how it was taught, but I will check it out.
01:56:37.000I wonder what platform I can see that documentary on.
01:56:39.000I don't trust the media, so I mean, I hear that and I'm like, alright, you know, I'll consider it.
01:59:58.000I don't know about Biden and his dome tent.
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