Based Camp - How A Gay Patriot Convinced the Amish to Vote & Won Trump the Presidency

00:00:00.000 Today, we are going to be telling the story of the gay man who convinced the Amish to vote for Trump and likely won him this election cycle.

00:00:11.180 You're like, oh, no, he couldn't have possibly won the election for Trump.

00:00:15.020 Trump won Pennsylvania by 200,000 votes.

00:00:19.640 Okay.

00:00:21.200 180,000 Amish first-time voters were registered by him.

00:00:25.500 Whoa.

00:00:26.880 Okay, wow.

00:00:28.000 So a mainstream Republican, like, staffer for Trump, Jan Halper Hayes, said Trump wins Pennsylvania.

00:00:36.320 We owe it all to this man.

00:00:37.940 By 200,000 votes, this guy registered 180,000 first-time Amish voters, and he didn't just register them.

00:00:46.760 He also registered other people. 0.99

00:00:49.640 Damn. 1.00

00:00:51.200 Wow. 0.99

00:00:52.000 So let's go to the story of Scott Pressler.

00:00:55.380 What I think it also shows, gays are not just now embraced by the Republican Party.

00:01:01.380 It's not just that Trump was the first presidential candidate in U.S. history that supported gay marriage when he was elected.

00:01:07.480 Obama did not, by the way. 0.98

00:01:08.800 It's that this is a two-way love story between real gays, not fake gays, not this fake BS bullshit where it's like, oh, I can identify as whatever I feel like. 0.99

00:01:23.160 Real gays and Trump. 0.97

00:01:25.220 People who didn't have a choice of who they were attracted to.

00:01:28.700 And again, I'm not saying I don't think it's anti-biblical. 1.00

00:01:31.840 I'm just thinking it's not particularly more anti-biblical than something like, you know, prostitution or masturbating to women other than your wife or any number of things that are fairly normal in our world today. 0.89

00:01:44.700 But let's talk about this guy. 0.74

00:01:47.140 So the story of Scott Pressler.

00:01:48.340 Scott Pressler has been a conservative political activist since 2016 when he served as a regional field director for the Republican Party of Virginia.

00:01:57.380 He is openly gay and co-founded the LGBT coalition Gays for Trump the same year.

00:02:03.280 He also became a volunteer for Act for America, an anti-Muslim advocacy group, the following year.

00:02:09.720 He organized March Against Sharia events.

00:02:12.240 Additionally, he has been organized being cleanup events of Baltimore and Los Angeles, where as far as a volunteer, removed trash from the streets.

00:02:19.500 And we'll get into this in a second.

00:02:21.460 Wow.

00:02:21.820 The Vigilant Fox said, you were the most impactful non-billionaire this election cycle.

00:02:27.280 Well done, Scott.

00:02:28.420 You helped us save America.

00:02:30.060 Today was inspired by the tweets we saw on social media from our president.

00:02:33.620 And we were just tired of people doing so much talking, but not enough actually rolling up your sleeves, putting on your boots and getting dirty.

00:02:41.320 That's why we're out here today.

00:02:42.740 And the coolest thing is, you know, Mr. Kang on the corner, he owns a shop over here.

00:02:47.980 He came over to help.

00:02:49.320 We have Mr. Williams who owns a funeral home.

00:02:51.720 He came over.

00:02:52.460 He said, the next time you go out here in the community, you let us know.

00:02:55.140 And if you're looking at what the RNC co-chair said about this individual, he said, quote, Scott Pressler has single-handedly registered more voters for the Republican Party than any other human being alive today.

00:03:08.080 Oh, my gosh.

00:03:09.260 This guy's prolific and a closer.

00:03:13.020 Oh, he's great.

00:03:14.480 He's so great.

00:03:15.580 No, if you watch videos of him, he just so clearly cares.

00:03:19.700 I don't, people, put American citizens first, but illegal immigrants get everything. 1.00

00:03:25.960 And I hope you post this.

00:03:27.440 I want this to go viral because I give a damn and I care about my community.

00:03:31.180 My dad is a retired Navy captain. 0.69

00:03:32.840 He served our country honorably.

00:03:34.560 My grandfather is a retired Navy captain.

00:03:36.580 And I'm doing my part to help our country because I give a damn and I'm going to fight for it.

00:03:41.060 And I am 100% voting for Donald Trump on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020.

00:03:45.260 The Democrat Party does not put our people first.

00:03:48.580 They put sanctuary cities first.

00:03:50.500 They put illegal aliens first. 0.99

00:03:51.900 They tax us.

00:03:52.900 They tax our water.

00:03:54.200 You can't even do laundry and shower on the same day.

00:03:57.580 While Nancy Pelosi is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, robbing our pockets, not doing anything for our people, not passing legislation, passing out pens like they're candy. 1.00

00:04:09.300 Meanwhile, President Trump is signing United States-Mexico-Canada agreement.

00:04:12.760 And he's signing trade deals.

00:04:14.180 And he's cutting our taxes.

00:04:15.320 And he's securing the border.

00:04:16.580 And he's putting our veterans first.

00:04:18.100 I am proud of President Trump.

00:04:21.220 And I am voting for him because he's putting the American people first, period.

00:04:26.200 He wants none of the – he did this without pay at the beginning.

00:04:30.800 He was – what he did for a living was walking dogs.

00:04:34.080 He was just out there trying to fix things.

00:04:37.620 That was it.

00:04:38.940 That was all he cared about was trying to fix things.

00:04:41.560 So he entered into politics in 2019 when President Trump said of Baltimore, it's a disgusting and rodent-infested mess. 0.54

00:04:52.220 And what liberals did when they heard that is they said, ring, how dare he call Baltimore a disgusting, rodent-infested mess?

00:05:02.660 Meanwhile, everyone in Baltimore, I mean –

00:05:05.020 Meanwhile, everyone in Baltimore was like – and what Scott Pressler said, if not me, then who?

00:05:09.900 So within six days of Trump's tweet, Pressler organized over 170 volunteers to clean up West Baltimore.

00:05:18.180 They first rounded up 12 tons of trash being removed within 12 hours.

00:05:24.020 And he has done this in other cities.

00:05:30.580 Specifically, he did similar efforts in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Portland.

00:05:42.820 So, again –

00:05:43.820 And is this all like – is this while campaigning or is this just –

00:05:47.580 No, no, just after Trump did that that year, his first thing wasn't even to get into politics.

00:05:52.440 What? 0.99

00:05:52.880 It would just be like, fuck it, I'm going to fix this. 1.00

00:05:55.280 If these cities are like filled with trash, if they're disgusting, well, then we need to make them not disgusted. 1.00

00:06:07.440 This guy's actually working to make America great again.

00:06:11.300 Yeah, is that not like –

00:06:12.300 He's the whole thing.

00:06:13.840 He's the real deal. 0.94

00:06:14.400 I actually – if he runs – and I fucking hope he runs –

00:06:18.120 If he runs in the next presidential election cycle, I think he would clean up. 0.99

00:06:23.240 If you watch any video on him, he is the most wholesome, dedicated motherfucker I have ever seen in my life. 0.98

00:06:30.740 He said he'd come back, and today, he did. 0.99

00:06:34.540 Last time.

00:06:36.860 He is 100%.

00:06:41.300 He – when Democrats were like, no, these cities aren't disgusting, he's like, oh, yeah, America's major cities have fallen into being wrecks. 0.93

00:06:49.440 Let's 12 tons of trash. 0.95

00:06:53.280 Oh, my gosh. 0.63

00:06:54.200 Like, actually contextualize that.

00:06:56.860 So then, you know what he did in 2021?

00:06:59.660 He moves to Pennsylvania, buys property here so he can vote here.

00:07:05.640 No.

00:07:07.020 And he did it in an attempt to try to get people to vote.

00:07:11.320 And one of the core communities he targeted were the Amish, because Amish historically don't vote.

00:07:16.240 So, he did door-to-door canvassing using public records to identify likely Amish households.

00:07:21.360 He set up a stall at the Green Dragon Market, an Amish fair in Lancaster County, to interact with the community regularly.

00:07:28.740 He offered rides to polling stations and assistance with absentee ballot registration.

00:07:33.880 And I also will note here that a lot of people don't know this, but actually Kennedy was really close with the Amish community.

00:07:40.600 He had been campaigning in the community here for ages, apparently.

00:07:44.900 And when the Democrats stabbed Kennedy in the back, not letting him really run as a real third-party candidate in any of the important states, Kennedy then went with Trump.

00:07:56.040 Right now, by the way, he is involved with Trump's transition team.

00:07:59.540 He's one of the people we're going to be reaching out to in terms of trying to get transition spots.

00:08:03.700 And Kennedy, you know, when he moved to the Trump team, a lot of the Amish people, in addition with Scott Pressler's work... 0.99

00:08:11.620 By the way, gay men, people think that, like, so many Republicans are like, oh, you're gay, I hate you. 0.63

00:08:17.620 Even the Amish, who are like, you could not be possibly more heterosexually normative than the Amish. 0.98

00:08:23.560 They're like, yeah, but if you're telling us, like, reasonable things, let's listen and talk through this, right?

00:08:29.160 I've been thinking more about Kamala Harris's loss recently, and I think it's going to be uniquely hard for Democrats to win these individuals back because it's no longer become a fight over policy. 0.94

00:08:39.760 When I look at the, like, rpolitics subreddit right now or on Twitter right now and the lefties that are freaking out, they're all like, oh, you know, if you're black, Republicans are going to enslave you. 0.99

00:08:50.700 If you're gay, Republicans are going to kill you. 1.00

00:08:53.100 If you're woman, Republicans are going to forcibly impregnate you. 1.00

00:08:56.620 And these things just, like, factually aren't true.

00:09:00.880 And the key thing that I think moves people from the left to the right is breaking out of this illusion.

00:09:07.120 Just, like, looking at reality and being like, oh, a gay person was one of the key players in getting Trump elected. 0.82

00:09:12.940 A polyamorous guy was one of Trump's key funders, Elon.

00:09:16.520 His VP was found for him by another gay man, Peter Thiel.

00:09:21.660 Like, this obviously isn't a party that is either antagonistic to or on bad terms with the gay community.

00:09:27.980 And how do you win one of these people back when they found out that you lied to them about somebody, convinced them to unjustly attack and dehumanize this other group, and then they learn that everything that you told them about this other group was a lie?

00:09:42.840 Like, they go to a Trump rally as an out openly gay person, and they realize everyone is nicer to them than at a Kamala rally, or as a black person, or as a—you just can't win them back once the veil is revealed. 0.98

00:09:56.700 So, now that the orange turd has won, we should now rename America hell, because it is going to be hell on Earth once they strip everyone's rights away that is no straight white cis man. 0.98

00:10:13.220 So, buckle up. Hope you frickin' Republicans are happy. I'm outta here. 0.99

00:10:18.880 Because you have turned this from a policy battle into a what-is-true-about-reality battle.

00:10:28.360 Will Republicans go and try to take away their rights? Will Republicans try to enslave them or kill them? 0.96

00:10:35.060 And when the answer is not just no, but so emphatically no, it's almost comical, and that Republicans are actually maybe their only real allies left who will protect them, you know, like lesbians, for example, from cis men pretending to be trans and getting on dating apps and aggressively harassing them, 0.99

00:10:52.860 or beating them up at bars, or associating the gay movement with the ridiculousness of things like trans women in sports, which obviously makes the gay movement look bad. 0.71

00:11:04.380 And so, the Democrats are like, oh, this is an LGBT issue. And the Republicans are saying rightly, no, it's not. It's a weird sex pest issue, and it should not negatively reflect on the gay community. 0.95

00:11:15.960 And let's call them the normal gays, because there are normal gays. And normal gays—and I know a lot of normal gays. I know a lot of weird gays. 0.97

00:11:21.900 The normal gays are, like, overwhelmingly Republican, I'd also point out. They'd almost sort of be these—for me, the modern stereotype of the wholesome dad Republican meme, which I think might surprise people who don't have that many friends in the gay community. 0.71

00:11:39.540 So, how do Dems win, given that this is the case? Well, it's not about running a non-woke candidate, even though wokeism is the problem, because Kamala was a non-woke candidate, and Biden was a non-woke candidate.

00:11:51.120 They need to run an anti-woke candidate, a candidate who calls out woke bullshit on the regular and demeans it. 0.80

00:12:00.340 And I'd say, how do we as Republicans keep up this win? Well, you need to call out the individuals who would besmirch our new and growing set of allies, like the normal gay males. 1.00

00:12:16.460 And so, when an individual is out there in a Republican circle calling out them for—I don't know whether it's sinful for the Bible's perspective, be like, are they actually living a sinless life? No.

00:12:27.660 Are they doing more to help the Republican Party than people like Scott Pressler? No.

00:12:31.840 Well, then they can fuck right off. You get to make these sorts of accusations when you live that way. 1.00

00:12:38.620 When you aren't living that way, this is for you and yourself to deal with.

00:12:43.780 And because of this, Republicans are going to keep winning, because I know that Republicans can do this.

00:12:49.640 They can actually police the extremists within their own community, and they have been.

00:12:53.540 Whereas Democrats can't do this. 0.86

00:12:56.640 You will not have a mod on our politics banning someone for some ridiculous, oh, I don't feel safe because I'm gay in Republicans' rant post.

00:13:06.640 But you will get people on conservative message boards banning people for aggressively homophobic rhetoric. 0.96

00:13:14.140 And that's why Republicans are going to win, because we deal with our own extremism while the left is too cowardly to do it. 0.97

00:13:20.700 And you also see this from Trump in his support of the gay community. 0.94

00:13:23.680 And I actually think you can see the success of this just by looking online at YouTube videos and stuff like that.

00:13:29.100 You look at someone like Leather Apron Club's channel, and he did a video saying, don't vote for Trump.

00:13:33.680 Don't vote for the Republicans. This party no longer stands for us.

00:13:37.760 I feel ostracized when I say anti-Semitic things. I feel ostracized when I say anti-gay things. 0.76

00:13:44.300 I don't like the word homophobic. It's stupid. But anti-gay things, basically. 1.00

00:13:47.820 He's like, when I say that being gay isn't right, I feel ostracized in this community.

00:13:52.100 And the community, and he acted as if this is going to, you know, keep Trump from winning.

00:13:57.540 This is going to keep Republicans from winning.

00:13:59.280 When the truth is, is we don't want people like that in our community anymore.

00:14:03.960 This is America. We don't outlaw something just because it's a sin.

00:14:12.420 We don't want to live under your version of Sharia law. 1.00

00:14:15.600 We are winning because we have ostracized people like that.

00:14:19.600 And if Democrats are going to win ever again, is they need to ostracize their own people who are equally exclusionary.

00:14:30.400 When somebody goes online or at an event and says something like, I promoted someone because they're black.

00:14:37.660 I promoted someone because they're a woman. 1.00

00:14:39.380 They shouldn't feel comfortable.

00:14:40.660 They shouldn't feel safe at that event.

00:14:42.940 If somebody goes around as a non-passing individual and is using women's restrooms and otherwise intimidating women just so that they can feel validated, they should be treated like somebody walking around with a swastika tattooed on their forehead.

00:14:56.460 You need to treat this stuff for what it is.

00:15:00.700 When somebody who obviously has the body of a man and is competing in women's sports, they need to be treated like somebody with a swastika tattooed on their head. 0.99

00:15:08.700 Because they are a symbol of oppression, hatred, and bigotry.

00:15:13.520 They are utilizing a systemically unfair system that allows them to compete against individuals they obviously shouldn't be competing against to beat up on people who are weaker than themselves. 0.89

00:15:23.940 When somebody goes around and says something like, black people can't be racist, they need to be treated like somebody who just said the n-word, would-be at a Trump rally, which is very harshly.

00:15:36.720 But the woke are just not willing to do that yet. 0.90

00:15:40.480 And until they get to that point, they're going to keep losing.

00:15:43.720 Obviously not this next primary and the primary after an election cycle.

00:15:46.600 It always reverts.

00:15:47.340 I'm talking long term.

00:15:48.260 And just to understand what you guys are going to be fighting long term, next election cycle, it's J.D. Vance.

00:15:54.520 You're going to need to bring real big guns to beat him.

00:15:57.820 This guy is cogent, young, intelligent, and appeals to half your audience.

00:16:03.760 And I also think what was really interesting is the way he got the Amish on board.

00:16:07.540 So he emphasized a recent incident where straight authorities bring it on Amish farmers' dairy for selling raw milk without a permit, framing it as government overreach.

00:16:17.780 Which it was, by the way.

00:16:19.040 And Susie Weiss, friend of the show, one of my favorite human beings alive, has written on this extensively.

00:16:24.800 He stressed Trump's stamps on religious liberty, which aligns with Amish values. 0.97

00:16:28.920 And he emphasized protection of agricultural practices, traditional lifestyles, and educational choice.

00:16:33.720 All of those are things that we care about and Amish care about.

00:16:36.060 But the urban model culture, because they have no kids, could only survive by taking children from demographically healthy cultural groups.

00:16:42.760 And they have begun to overreach into the Amish community.

00:16:46.400 And the Amish are like, do not touch my children. 1.00

00:16:50.380 And what was said to the Amish, and I actually believe this really strongly, and I love that the Amish got this message, which is, if you're not voting, then nobody's going to care about you, politically speaking.

00:17:03.440 They're not going to care about overreaching.

00:17:04.840 They're not going to care about shutting down your farms.

00:17:07.600 And it got to them.

00:17:09.400 Now, let's talk about his background.

00:17:11.420 Okay?

00:17:11.840 So we're going to be...

00:17:12.980 Scott Pressler was born in 1988 in Jacksonville, Florida.

00:17:17.000 He grew up in a military family, as his father was a United Navy captain.

00:17:22.720 He later earned degrees in criminal justice from George Mason University.

00:17:26.180 His political career began in earnest in the 2016 election cycle.

00:17:31.380 Prior to this, he did a stint as the Republican Party organizer of Virginia.

00:17:35.560 His political activism took a significant turn.

00:17:37.940 Pressler became a volunteer and later an employee for ACT for America, an anti-Muslim advocacy group.

00:17:44.080 Pressler gained prominence as a co-ordinator of Marching Against Sharia.

00:17:47.280 He came out in June 2016.

00:17:50.040 So right as he began organizing as a Republican, he also came out.

00:17:53.740 And that was what motivated him to organize as a Republican.

00:17:56.780 And what motivated him to do this was actually the nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, where a Muslim shot up a gay nightclub.

00:18:02.600 Where he's like, the Republicans are the only people who are really willing to protect us. 0.58

00:18:08.160 He also, and I'll put a graph on screen here, but what I'll say is, stop the steal, which he also helped, made him a horrible person.

00:18:16.520 Stop the steal is evil.

00:18:18.420 The Republicans clearly were not, you know, like the Democrats, had nothing to do with any of this.

00:18:25.120 Pressler has focused on voter registration drives, particularly in swing states like Pennsylvania.

00:18:29.580 Pennsylvania, and he now has 1.5 million followers on Twitter.

00:18:34.180 And he has been called things like a crazy conspiracy theorist, which, of course, all Republicans have.

00:18:42.660 I mean, we have.

00:18:44.280 And, yeah, that's the story of this guy.

00:18:47.420 So what are your thoughts, Simone?

00:18:49.040 He sounds like an incredible person.

00:18:50.940 And, yeah, I think anyone also, it's very easy for people who only read mainstream media to think that people who are on the ground seeing real things happen are conspiracy theorists.

00:19:02.400 But those are the people who are actually, I trust what he sees on the road so much more than I would trust what someone is reading in the media.

00:19:09.840 And the things that you see out door knocking, the things that you see out talking with people, really can change, like, a lot.

00:19:17.720 It is pretty crazy what's actually going on on the ground.

00:19:20.980 So even that.

00:19:22.140 The whole trash collection thing, just everything he's done just is so cool.

00:19:27.560 Yeah, and that he never seemed to have any, he's born to a military family.

00:19:31.720 He never seems to have done anything for personal pride.

00:19:34.180 It was always just like, here's a problem.

00:19:36.520 Can somebody fix it?

00:19:37.720 Yeah, all-American goodness.

00:19:40.180 This is that can-do attitude that makes our country so awesome.

00:19:45.260 And, wow.

00:19:47.360 I love what he represents.

00:19:48.680 I mean, we had a reporter with us recently, and when I was 13, I started a biology camp for underprivileged kids, right?

00:19:55.880 So I set it up in, like, a poor neighborhood, and we did a biology camp because I knew that, like, our kids did that.

00:20:00.840 And she's like, why did you do that?

00:20:02.240 And I go, well, I liked biology.

00:20:04.380 And she's like, why did you do that?

00:20:06.020 And I was like, I answered that.

00:20:08.060 I thought it was fun to study this subject, and I wanted to share what I liked with other people.

00:20:12.640 And so many people, they like something or they care about something, and they're like, oh, but actually, like, starting something, come on, I'm not going to do that.

00:20:22.080 And I think that you're right. 0.98

00:20:23.440 That is what makes America great, when you're like, oh, yeah, Baltimore is a f***ing dumpster right now. 0.94

00:20:29.800 Maybe I should try to clean it up because no one else is going to do it. 0.73

00:20:33.120 Well, America was formed by people who didn't like what they had, so they came here, and they built something better.

00:20:40.200 And that happened in over a series of decades and now centuries, and I think it's produced a really great country.

00:20:48.640 And the only way that we are going to stave off complete and terrible civilizational collapse is if we manage to maintain that spirit and don't lean into the indolence that we're starting to grow.

00:21:01.660 Well, and I think here also, another thing is, you know, the Republican movement is right now, I think, the only real friend the gay and the lesbian movements have.

00:21:11.420 And when I say the gay and the lesbian movements, I mean the real gay and lesbian people.

00:21:14.520 The lesbian people who are like, I like the female form. 0.96

00:21:18.680 And so if you have, like, a penis and are, like, 6'2", and are on a lesbian dating app and look nothing like a woman, like, that's a problem for me. 1.00

00:21:25.740 Or one of the things that always got to me was the woman who was beaten at a gay bar for suggesting, not to a trans individual, but to another lesbian woman that she wasn't interested in dating trans women. 0.99

00:21:39.500 And so two trans women beat her. 1.00

00:21:42.280 And on, like, Reddit, people were cheering this. 0.98

00:21:46.940 In the lesbian form, people were cheering this. 0.97

00:21:48.560 And I think what it shows is that, well, Reddit's an overwhelmingly male site, and what we were actually seeing here was trans women, you know, who considered themselves lesbians, like some of the people in these posts who want to arm themselves and attack people. 0.67

00:22:04.260 That's who makes up the majority of these sorts of communities now and has excluded real women who prefer female bodies. 1.00

00:22:12.780 And with gay men, like, why would you want to associate yourself with this obviously predatory group? 1.00

00:22:17.720 And when you talk about obvious predators, you know, I was talking about recently, PDA files being part of what is causing a lot of young people to become trans. 0.96

00:22:30.320 And the reporter I was talking to was like, oh, that can't possibly be the case.

00:22:34.320 And I'm like, she's like, that sounds like a conspiracy.

00:22:36.660 And I was like, okay, do you agree that some gay men are PDA files just in the same way some trait men are? 0.91

00:22:43.440 I mean, look at the Catholic Church, right? 0.74

00:22:44.780 Like, this is clearly a phenomenon.

00:22:46.500 And she's like, yes, I agree. 0.99

00:22:47.880 Some gay men are PDA files. 1.00

00:22:49.640 And I was like, well, with that being the case, do you not agree that if you can convince somebody to start taking puberty blockers at the age of 15, that when they reach legally the age of consent, that they are going to look a certain way? 1.00

00:23:07.280 And she had this moment of realization where she's like, oh, shit. 0.99

00:23:12.780 I was like, yeah. 1.00

00:23:13.560 And gay men are wholesome. 0.78

00:23:16.340 And this is what somebody is like, with Republican support non-gay men. 0.79

00:23:21.900 And keep in mind that Scott Pressler, he came out at the same time he joined the Republican movement.

00:23:28.440 It's not like he was a Republican and then he came out.

00:23:32.720 He did these two things at the same time and received so much support that he was like, yes, I want to continue to support these individuals.

00:23:40.720 And I think that this just goes so against progressive narratives, which just gaslight people into believing that the Republican movement is anti-gay or anti-lesbian.

00:23:50.720 When in truce, it's the only real friend they have left.

00:23:55.940 But do you have further thoughts, Simone?

00:23:57.380 No, I really agree with you.

00:24:02.380 And I think it's telling how much violence actually is coming from the progressive movement, both in threats and in action.

00:24:13.720 I'm not saying that conservatives don't also commit violent acts, but the assumption is that progressives never do.

00:24:21.540 And I think they are doing so at an equal, if not higher level.

00:24:24.980 Yeah, well, and I think that the other thing I take away from this is just a level of like, just if you care about something in the world, go and do it.

00:24:35.520 And that's what earns our respect.

00:24:37.320 It's not, you know, people are always calling us elitist, right?

00:24:40.680 And then they're surprised when they meet our friends and they have like face tattoos and like just got out of prison.

00:24:45.260 And they're like, what?

00:24:46.720 Like, but I thought you were like elitist, elitist.

00:24:49.360 And I'm like, well, I'm elitist in that I believe that some people's lives matter and other people's lives don't.

00:24:54.220 But whether your life ends up mattering or not is based on your own goals for the future, your willingness to work for those goals.

00:25:02.680 It's not based on, you know, how much money you have or how many people are paying attention to you.

00:25:09.000 And I think the person who is like Scott Pressler mattered more than any billionaire in this election cycle is one probably right.

00:25:15.560 Because he didn't just focus on the Amish.

00:25:17.360 He also focused a lot on hunters.

00:25:19.260 He also focused a lot on like various other categories that he knew would likely vote Republican.

00:25:23.800 So basically just low propensity people in Pennsylvania, the key swing state.

00:25:29.060 Well, it's not just that you see lots of things of him preaching on the street when he's doing street cleanups.

00:25:33.860 When I say preaching, I mean preaching the Republican message where he's like Democrats just don't care anymore.

00:25:39.800 Like they're putting us in jail when Nancy Pelosi is like earning hundreds of thousands a year. 1.00

00:25:45.140 Like it is a party that is holistically in support of the oligarchs now.

00:25:50.780 Yeah, well, and again, it's understated just how much any person can do.

00:25:57.360 And I think a lot of people look at, we point to Elon Musk as an example of someone who sees a problem and fixes it.

00:26:04.120 And it's very easy for someone to say, well, yeah, if I were a billionaire, I would just fix problems too.

00:26:09.680 But here is a guy who is not a billionaire who made a very, very, very significant difference in the trajectory of, and keep in mind, like Elon Musk had a lot of efforts in Pennsylvania, so did this guy.

00:26:22.080 And he made a huge difference without giving away, you know, millions of dollars, without making big efforts like that, without giving big rallies that could draw out, you know, tons of people.

00:26:32.180 And I really think that if you don't make the change that you want to see in the world, it's on you.

00:26:37.200 Like you don't get to have nice things if you don't fight for those nice things.

00:26:41.340 And this, I think, ties in a lot with the American dream, how there's this complete misunderstanding where people now are like, the American dream is dead.

00:26:49.420 It's no more possible.

00:26:52.840 Because they somehow think the American dream is, oh, I'm entitled to a house and a car and all these other luxuries in life without basically working for them.

00:27:02.380 Whereas the American dream has always been about merely having the option to do that if you're lucky.

00:27:10.180 It was never guaranteed if you work hard.

00:27:13.020 It was never even guaranteed if you don't work.

00:27:15.600 It was just like, this is a place where it's possible.

00:27:18.360 And people were coming from many places where it simply wasn't.

00:27:21.560 And there are still many places in the world where the American dream is impossible.

00:27:24.900 The American dream remains alive and well.

00:27:27.620 And people like this guy represent that, which is cool.

00:27:33.860 Well, and I, you know what?

00:27:35.380 We should take this moment to be like, this guy is not unique.

00:27:39.460 There are other individuals like him that are out there flipping districts to actually make America a better place.

00:27:46.300 So can we stand Joe Rittenhouse for a while?

00:27:48.360 Because he flipped Montco for Trump.

00:27:49.940 Yeah, well, yeah.

00:27:52.340 So Joe Rittenhouse is, he was the local Trump operative in our county, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a key swing district in a key swing state.

00:28:02.560 And yeah, no one in the news is talking about him.

00:28:05.920 But he is a local dude, a parent, a husband, and someone beloved in our community who just went out there and relentlessly worked.

00:28:14.580 Really hard, used data-driven methods.

00:28:17.840 The local Republican, like the GOP, the RNC, did nothing to help him.

00:28:23.060 Nothing to help him.

00:28:24.560 Completely abandoned his part of the campaign.

00:28:27.160 And when he's talking to us, he's like, look, I need to build all of this from scratch.

00:28:31.220 Because everything that's here right now is corrupt, and it's in service of this dead ROC that doesn't actually care about getting Trump elected.

00:28:42.720 And I need to build this up from scratch.

00:28:45.340 And he did.

00:28:46.740 He did.

00:28:47.140 And he moved the needle so much.

00:28:49.780 So you can say, okay, like this guy, you know, Scott got Trump elected.

00:28:54.520 But Joe Rittenhouse did as well.

00:28:56.540 If Joe Rittenhouse wasn't here, if Montco hadn't moved for Trump, which he did, by the way, maybe if you weren't here.

00:29:03.820 I mean, you were constantly working in this election cycle.

00:29:06.400 People are like, oh, Simone, you didn't win.

00:29:09.960 And it's like, yeah, but she did better than last time.

00:29:12.140 Well, and all of my get-out-the-vote efforts were just Republican get-out-the-vote efforts.

00:29:17.360 I didn't use my name.

00:29:18.300 I didn't promote myself.

00:29:19.740 And, I mean, broadly, I just wanted to test out the efficacy that I had on Republican voter turnout.

00:29:25.640 And especially low propensity that voter Republican can turn out.

00:29:28.780 But, yeah, I mean, they're also, again, like there are so many people who go unnamed.

00:29:32.560 Another person that I really respect in this election cycle who worked in our area is Fletcher Carper, who is, has been kind of like Scott.

00:29:42.280 Someone who, for many, many elections, has just been out there on the ground.

00:29:46.640 I mean, when I was, when I had my first longer conversation with him, he talked about how, you know, he's been driving at night in snowstorms while door knocking and then wrecked his car, you know, because it's just so dangerous.

00:29:57.360 But he was out there door knocking anyway.

00:29:59.000 He would do anything it takes to just try to get out the vote.

00:30:03.200 He was insanely efficient.

00:30:06.360 He helped me with petitioning collection before he started doing general door knocking for the Republican, for Republican voter turnout in Pennsylvania.

00:30:13.540 And I could not believe how many signatures he got in a short period of time.

00:30:17.900 Somehow he just, like, managed to close people.

00:30:21.140 And, I mean, you know, as a, as a, as a male knocking on people's doors, it is not easy.

00:30:25.580 It's hard.

00:30:25.900 People yell at you.

00:30:27.080 People hate you, you know.

00:30:29.460 Yeah.

00:30:30.540 So, I just, yeah.

00:30:32.040 So, people like Joe Rittenhouse, people like Fletcher Carper, people like Scott.

00:30:35.680 I'm just, I'm so glad they exist.

00:30:38.060 We're so lucky that they exist.

00:30:39.800 And I, you know, I hope that, for example, Joe Rittenhouse gets a place in Trump's administration. 0.99

00:30:46.040 They would be so dumb to pass up an opportunity. 0.90

00:30:50.220 And now we need to have a people-like scene from Starship Troopers where it's like, people like X, you know. 0.99

00:30:56.780 But it's so true.

00:30:57.960 I really, I think that going forwards, what's going to determine if we save this country, it's the people who are staffing Trump's administration.

00:31:09.120 Yeah.

00:31:09.420 Now that the win is complete, the key element is follow-through.

00:31:14.620 And the initial momentum.

00:31:17.140 Do not trust the deep state.

00:31:18.800 They don't care about you.

00:31:20.360 They don't like you.

00:31:21.520 They don't want you to succeed.

00:31:23.120 Yeah.

00:31:24.020 When I say deep state, that means deep state Republicans well.

00:31:26.940 But if they work for a think tank, do not trust them.

00:31:33.440 Unless you verify.

00:31:35.640 No, there are a lot of really great people who work for think tanks.

00:31:38.340 And I mean, think tanks exist because there is so much deep state now.

00:31:41.760 I mean, there's only so much deep state that you can eliminate.

00:31:45.040 So you have to figure out, even if you're going through the process of dismantling it, you have to have people who know how to dismantle it.

00:31:51.300 And people within think tanks are the only ones who know that.

00:31:54.220 So there are people in think tanks that we know.

00:31:56.620 Like Heritage Foundation.

00:31:57.760 I'd love to connect Heritage Foundation with the Department of Efficiency.

00:32:01.180 And I know that the Heritage Foundation did some naughty things with Project 2025.

00:32:04.880 I don't agree with everything they said there.

00:32:06.620 But their lawyers are the only people.

00:32:07.640 Project 2025 was also pretty misrepresented in many ways.

00:32:11.520 Yeah, but they are the only people with the lawyer team that's needed to protect competent individuals firing people.

00:32:21.360 It is very hard to fire people within the national government.

00:32:24.560 And Project 2025 has what we need to handle those firings.

00:32:29.140 Yeah, I think going forward, it's about getting the right mix of DC insiders who know how to dismantle the machine and then get it done operators who are really good at getting things executed.

00:32:43.260 And if you combine those two groups with sort of the dismantling experts and then the redesign experts, you could see immensely positive change just in terms of eliminating entirely redundant and unnecessary bureaucratic bloat that is eating up tax dollars.

00:32:58.660 This is a nonpartisan issue.

00:33:00.760 This is just about getting things to run well and more efficiently.

00:33:07.180 No, I completely agree with you.

00:33:09.360 And I really hope, you know, actually, like, okay, here's what I'd love.

00:33:14.540 And we might do another episode on this.

00:33:16.660 If you personally know an individual where you have some information on them that has done a lot to make this country a better place and isn't getting a proper shutout, I want to do those shutouts.

00:33:28.660 I want people like Rittenhouse and Fletcher to have the air that they need because it's not – I mean, look, Scott caught the tailwinds, right?

00:33:39.940 And he did a lot, and I appreciate that.

00:33:41.900 But I don't think he's the only person like him out there right now.

00:33:45.700 I think he'd be the first person to say that.

00:33:48.140 You know, the media has caught on his story because it's a great story, and he did make a very material and real difference.

00:33:53.640 But you're absolutely right.

00:33:54.560 He's not alone in this.

00:33:56.380 This is a team effort.

00:33:57.600 And we need to be – and I think everyone, like, locally Republican, they know the guy who's like, oh, my God, this guy was, like, way above and beyond of what anyone would expect.

00:34:11.000 And you know what's funny?

00:34:12.080 Everyone thinks that these individuals are, like, crazy religious cultists.

00:34:15.680 They never are.

00:34:16.720 You know who they are almost always?

00:34:17.940 They are young, new-right men.

00:34:21.340 That's who's carrying this election.

00:34:23.680 Every single one of these guys is, like, a tech forward, like, fairly – like, on, like, gay rights, for example. 1.00

00:34:30.600 They're, like, fucking whatever. 1.00

00:34:31.700 Like, let's just stop molesting children and all this weird trans – yeah. 1.00

00:34:36.440 They are sane humans.

00:34:39.120 It is no longer – the base, the foot soldiers of the Republican Party is no longer, you know, extremist, pre-er-peacehood, peter-priesthood types.

00:34:53.300 It is now your average sane, like, base camp watcher.

00:35:00.280 That's who's carrying the elections for our party now.

00:35:02.880 It makes me feel good about the future of the United States.

00:35:05.720 It's – yeah, it makes me feel good as well.

00:35:08.860 And it does better at telling those – and this is very different than the average person who's carrying it for the Democrats.

00:35:14.480 These people actually are woke extremists.

00:35:17.360 And I think that when we accept this, when we accept how extreme the Democrats have gone, how extreme the people leading their party have gone,

00:35:27.560 and how non-extreme and mainstream and accepting the Republican Party is now,

00:35:34.480 I think that we have a possibility of entering an era of one-party leadership in a way that could be good.

00:35:45.260 What would be the coolest is if essentially the Republican Party becomes one party of leadership?

00:35:52.720 Because the Republican Party now basically is both the old, like, sort of conservative values lifestyle party,

00:36:01.360 and also this super socially progressive, like, libertarian party.

00:36:06.960 Okay, so I feel like what we're seeing is the new right could eventually just become everything and then split into factions which then compete.

00:36:14.840 And I'm all for that competition.

00:36:16.300 I want there to be variety.

00:36:17.860 But this does seem like – because it is so pluralistic and multifaceted,

00:36:21.740 I could see the new right splitting into new factions eventually, but I'm okay with that. 0.93

00:36:27.580 And it does represent a lot of good things.

00:36:29.480 And I like the competition of tradition versus accelerationism.

00:36:34.840 I like the competition of – sorry about the weaknesses, but yeah. 0.95

00:36:40.700 Well, no, and I also like, you know, with Scott being like, oh, Muslims want me dead. 0.99

00:36:46.220 Like, I love how much of the, like, LGBT movement, like, pretends not to notice that Muslims want them dead. 1.00

00:36:54.060 Not all Muslims, mind you, but definitely a portion of stuff.

00:36:59.480 But – and Sharia law is not something that they – 0.98

00:37:02.620 To be fair, Malcolm, they want themselves dead too.

00:37:05.300 They're sterilizing themselves. 0.86

00:37:06.940 They're threatening to end themselves.

00:37:09.620 They're, you know, they're the anti-human party. 1.00

00:37:13.200 They kind of want all humans dead. 1.00

00:37:15.200 So is it so hypocritical that they also want, you know, gay humans dead? 1.00

00:37:19.120 No, because they want all future humans dead. 1.00

00:37:22.960 They want to make themselves dead. 0.79

00:37:25.340 They want to make everyone, everyone gone, undue. 1.00

00:37:29.480 Bad humans.

00:37:30.860 Well, I love you to death, Simone. 0.97

00:37:32.960 This conversation has been illuminating, and I hope you had fun learning about the gay Republican who won this election for Trump.

00:37:42.080 I did, and I love you.

00:37:44.200 I love you, too.

00:37:44.540 And I'm making for you for dinner fried rice plus the –

00:37:48.620 Chicken leftovers?

00:37:50.540 Chicken leftovers, yeah.

00:37:52.060 Is that correct?

00:37:52.720 I wouldn't even make fried rice.

00:37:54.020 You've got a lot in the fridge that needs to –

00:37:55.340 No, that's the leftover fried rice, and I'm having leftover manicotti.

00:37:59.640 Does that sound good?

00:38:00.540 You're so perfect.

00:38:02.320 Waste not want not.

00:38:04.400 And Val, that was so nice of her to, like, drop my manicotti.

00:38:08.060 Hey, we live in the type of neighborhood where people drop off food for us.

00:38:12.520 Maybe you should drop off more eggs for the neighborhood.

00:38:15.140 Just become the egg of her.

00:38:17.060 Well, she's getting more eggs for that, for sure. 0.99

00:38:19.100 I need to leave a – remind me.

00:38:20.480 We need to leave a basket for her. 1.00

00:38:22.940 I love you a great deal.

00:38:24.760 I told you about the college student that I saw at the polls on Tuesday.

00:38:29.940 No, tell me about this college student.

00:38:31.780 It was like, Republicans are the conservative ones, right?

00:38:34.720 Like, that's the conservative party?

00:38:38.180 Yes.

00:38:39.460 Is the right – am I on the right side?

00:38:42.380 Yeah, this is supposed to – we were on the wrong side the last time.

00:38:45.800 They will be mad, but I'm sorry.

00:38:49.080 This is what we get for having an autistic audience. 1.00

00:38:51.840 I love that he was like, are Republicans the conservative ones?

00:38:54.900 Yeah.

00:38:55.640 No, what you should have said is no, not really.

00:38:59.360 Well, no, but he wanted to vote conservative.

00:39:02.860 But, I mean, yeah, not really.

00:39:05.340 He was that college?

00:39:06.680 The college kid?

00:39:08.040 Yeah, he was a college kid.

00:39:09.200 And somehow he made it through this entire election cycle, not knowing which political party was the conservative one, which is impressive.

00:39:18.540 And I kind of want to live in his world, because wherever that is, it's different.

00:39:25.700 Oh, no!

00:39:26.900 It's too late.

00:39:28.820 Is it too late?

00:39:30.000 Is it going to work?

00:39:32.580 Oh, no!

00:39:34.180 I'm so scared.

00:39:36.160 They're not falling anymore.

00:39:37.940 They're not falling?

00:39:38.800 Oh, but the car is moving, you guys.

00:39:41.320 The car is moving.

00:39:42.380 Oh, no!

00:40:02.840 Here comes a T-Rex, you guys!

00:40:05.840 Oh, no!

00:40:07.840 Mommy, I got a T-Rex!

00:40:09.840 Oh! 0.60

00:40:10.840 What are they doing?

00:40:18.840 Now, this is why we don't wander off into the woods, right, Toasty?

00:40:22.840 Yeah.

00:40:23.840 Because there's animals out there.

00:40:27.840 Octavian, this is why you can't wander off, right?

00:40:31.840 Now, this is why it comes a wild animal.

Based Camp - November 11, 2024

How A Gay Patriot Convinced the Amish to Vote & Won Trump the Presidency

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