THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 13 — Willard Romney's Revenge? Dems Legitimizing Prostitution? Oliver The Fake?
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Join Jack, Jack and the gang as they discuss the latest in the Biden scandal, an elegy for Pierre D'Alecto, the indictment of Hunter Biden, the hot-wifing experience, and more!
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time once again for this week's edition of Thought Crime.
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Tonight's topics for myself, Charlie Kirk, and the gang. The end of Romney, an elegy for Pierre
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D'Alecto. The indictment of Hunter Biden. Why is it coming right now? What does it really mean?
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This Virginia Democrat hooker candidate, the hot wifing experience. And finally,
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Oliver Anthony cancels a show, but didn't disclose how much he was getting paid. We're
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going to get into this and more. Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to commit thought crime.
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From the age of Big Brother. If they want to get you, they'll get you.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's edition. This week's edition of thought crime.
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Are you ready to commit thought crime? Because we've got a lot. Let's go around the horn. I'm
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not even sure because we've got a lot of craziness going on right now. Who's who do we have? We have
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Blake. Blake, you're I'm in D.C. Blake, you're in Phoenix, right? What's up, Blake?
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All right, guys, if you want to just open up Mike's Blake's mic in my ear so I can hear him
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at some point, that'd be really, really cool. Super appreciate that. Blake, you there?
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Can you hear me? I'm here. Can you can you hear me, Jack? There we go. Now I got Blake. Now
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I got Blake. And I think I heard Andrew as well. You probably did. That's right. Andrew's Andrew's
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in Santa Barbara because he because, you know, he just has his West Coast bias. He's doing West
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Coast bias. What's up, Colvat? I'm I'm doing well. Thanks, Jack. How about yourself? How's
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the swamp? Oh, the swamp is just delightful. We have a massive note, though. Our gas prices
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up here are spiking just as much as yours are now. Not we're not nearly as high. But the
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spike that we've seen just over the last week has been insane. Our gas prices are up almost
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a full dollar here since last week. Almost. And I was in California about a week ago. And
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I think are you guys hitting about six, almost six dollars a gallon right now?
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Yeah, we are. Yeah. It's about five. How do you do it? I mean, honestly, Santa Barbara's
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a small town, so we don't drive a whole bunch. So we don't feel it as much as probably like,
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you know, our Los Angeles friends. But I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, California is
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and actually this this includes Arizona, Nevada. I believe Washington and Oregon are considered
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the same sort of gas island. So they are is it has to do with where the oil comes from.
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It has to do with where they're getting refined. California has all these special
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additives and regulations that the refineries, these these benchmarks that refineries need
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to hit. So it can only come from certain refineries. So it limits the supply even more. It's a whole
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problem. But all right. And then so I don't actually feel it. So Charlie will be here in
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a little bit. He's at the pastor summit right now. He's dealing with some stuff. He's taking
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care of business on assignment, of course, for Turning Point USA, the faith coalition.
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But we're here. We're going to hold down the fort until Charlie returns. So shoot us your
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emails. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Let's get into the first topic here. This one, I think
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we've all talked about it, but we haven't all mentioned it together. This one, the the
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revenge or should we say the elegy for Willard Romney, Willard Mitt Romney has announced he's
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quitting the Senate total rage quit right before the 2024 election. So he's going to serve out
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the remainder of his term. And of course, as befits his character, he's riding off into the sunset
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by having the globalists at the Atlantic publish a completely obnoxious, passive aggressive interview
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trashing his colleagues, trashing Trump, trashing the GOP base. So what is the final word on the
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GOP's 2012 standard bearer, the man who was the nominee for president in 2012? And Blake, I think you
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actually have an excerpt from the from this article that's by McKay Coppins in the Atlantic.
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Oh, well, yeah, exactly, Jack. It's it's amazing. So of course, he's everything about Romney is,
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you know, the supposed like, you know, politeness and decorum and all the damage that Trump does to
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our democracy by being all the last Boy Scout. Yeah, yeah, the last Boy Scout. So naturally,
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what he does is he announces he's retiring. And then, you know, in perfect timing with it,
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McKay Coppins has this biography that he's putting out. That's, you know, all about Romney and has all
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these like data points in it. And he's basically just like Romney doing like a drive by shooting on
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other members of the Republican Party as he leaves. Let's see, like one of the lines from
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it. This is a summary as Axios summarizes it helpfully for us. Romney shares a unique disgust
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for senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, who he thought were too smart to believe
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Trump won the 2020 election, but quote, put politics above the interests of liberal democracy
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and the Constitution. And then the even wilder one is for Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio. He says,
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quote, I don't know that I can disrespect someone more than J.D. Vance. That is a direct quote from
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Senator Romney describing Senator Vance, who he still has to, you know, share a Senate chamber with for
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the next year before he actually quits. But, you know, J.D. Vance, I mean, can someone explain what
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what is J.D. Vance done in his time in the Senate that's been so ill reputable? Does anyone have
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what when he went to East Palestine and it seems it seems his crime is that went on there. I'm
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trying to figure this out. It seems his crime is that, you know, J.D. Vance came out of Ohio. He
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went to Yale, I believe it was. And then he was in finance and was, you know, and then wrote his
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memoir, which was very well received. And he's this up and comer on the coast. And then I guess he moved
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back to Ohio, started doing too many appearances on Tucker Carlson tonight. And like, according to
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Romney, it was like the transformation was just was just too jarring. Like it was too, too much of a
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transformation for for Mr. Romney, who himself has basically transmuted into this like Democrat,
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I guess. But that doesn't count. This is an interesting. This is an interesting take on on
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all of it. And Andrew, maybe you can give us a sense of it, because what I think that Romney's
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really upset about here is that he's considering J.D. Vance a trash, a class traitor. He's calling
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him a class traitor and saying, look, you're allowed to make money in finance. You're allowed
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to make go to Yale. You're allowed to go to the great schools. But the one thing and you're certainly
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allowed to run for the Senate. But the one thing you're not allowed to do is actually go out to the
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people of your state, listen to the their interests and listen to their issues and then grow
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and go and try to actually represent them in the United States Senate.
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Well, this is this is I think class traitor. I think that's really smart framing, Jack,
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because at some level, a lot of this is much more about vibe. It's much more about what
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Mitt Romney thinks is classy versus gross or respectable versus, you know, essentially
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untoward and beyond the pale. Right. So it's all based on his own little framework of
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of class structure, of decorum, those sorts of things. So it says here in this, he says
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he was also highly critical of Senator J.D. Vance, Republican of Ohio, who reinvented his
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persona to become a Trump acolyte after publishing a bestselling memoir, Bill Billy
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Elegy, about the working class that Romney loved. So Romney loved the book. So I at some
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level, I think it was just like, so I love this book. And how can this guy then become like
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a Trump bootlicker? Go ahead. Right. So I can explain it. There's there. And just real
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quickly, it's kind of like because in the book, J.D. Vance's conclusions, I would say,
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and I don't offer this as criticism. I just say it's sort of it's an evolution on J.D.
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Vance's part because he sort of just says in the book, well, that that sort of that
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blasé classic Republican line of, you know, and everybody just needs to pull themselves
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up by their bootstraps. I can do it. So can you. And we should cut, you know, taxes for
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big businesses. And the one percent pays most of the income tax. And that that's kind of
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it. And then when he went to actually run for office and started really engaging with
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people politically, that's when he shifted not socially. Right. But he shifted economically
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to become more of a populist. Blake, what are you saying?
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Well, it's what's so telling in this article is like some of the just the little specific
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anecdotes that it does pick. And you I almost wonder if Coppins is like subtly trolling
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Romney. Apparently Romney lives by himself and his family like in D.C.
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It mentions let me get let me get the line here. It talks about his bat his pad that he lives
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in. And it says the place had not been Romney's first choice for a Washington
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residence. When he was elected in 2018, he'd had his eye on a newly remodeled condo at the
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Watergate with glittering views of the Potomac. His wife Anne fell in love with the place, but
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his soon to be staffers and colleagues warned him about the commute, which, by the way, it's
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like a mile and a half to the capital. So he grudgingly chose practicality over luxury
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and settled for the two point four million dollar townhouse instead. And then, of course,
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this is not good enough for for Anne. So she never visits him when he's in D.C.
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So it turns into a gross bachelor pad that has it mentions there's crumbs everywhere and
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seltzer because, you know, you know, Mitt Romney would never he's he's very good.
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He's a good goody two shoes Mormon. He's not going to crack open a Diet Coke.
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That's not allowed. And so it's only going to be the seltzer water. And just all these
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things. He goes after Vance. And one of the things that he criticizes Vance for is that
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J.D. Vance called Indigenous Peoples Day a fake holiday. It is a fake holiday. It is
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literally created as an alternative to Columbus Day because, well, Columbus Day is also kind
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of a fake holiday. Sorry, Italians. But like to kvetch about that, excuse me, the man who
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discovered the United States of America, that's not fake. That's amazing. That's glorious.
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Whatever. The country was almost named after him and our capital is partly named after you
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guys can debate that. Columbus Day is a great holiday. May it rain forever. But here's here's
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what I will say is that his basic beef with J.D. Vance. And by the way, we we had J.D.
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Vance on the show on Thursday and, you know, we didn't talk about it. I want to keep it classy,
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whatever. You know, J.D. has like a whole like U.S. Steel thing. The EPA is coming after
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U.S. Steel, going to tank the U.S. Steel industry. I mean, the guy's focused on real
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stuff that affects real people. And if you get down to what his book was about, his book
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was about, listen, all of these powers that be these greater powers that are, you know,
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causing this massive drug addiction on ODs, whether that's the border or just the plight
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of the Rust Belt and how there's no jobs and young men are looking for purpose and meeting
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and things to do, but they don't. So they fall into drugs, whatever. A lot of that stuff was
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railing against all of the issues that populism is sort of birthed out of. Right. So yes, J.D.
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was once a critic of Trump. Yes. But like many on the conservative side that were formerly
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never Trumpers, I mean, Katie Pavlich comes to mind, right? She was one of the signees
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of that. Jack, you know this well. You sent me the cover of this 2015, 2016 never Trump
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from National Review. You know, Katie Pavlich was one of these people. But now Katie Pavlich
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became a defender of President Trump. This is not because when he actually got into office
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and we saw the policies, we saw the blue collar boom that the top or the lowest 10 percent
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were where their wages were going faster than the top 10 percent. Compare that to Joe Biden's
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economy and not even a chance. Right. So he's basically mad that he thinks Vance sold out
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to get elected. All right. There might have been some calculation with Vance to get elected.
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But let us not forget this. Show image 99. Show 99. This image. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. Let's talk about sellouts. Let's talk about sellouts. There's even a better part
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for the podcast audience. Tell us what we're looking at. Yeah. Go ahead, Blake. What are
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we looking at? Oh, so the image we're looking at is, of course, you know, when Romney met
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with Trump after the 2016 election, there was discussion he might be secretary of state,
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I believe, was the office. And they had dinner in D.C. And of course, we have that immortal
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photograph where it's, you know, Trump has probably the most impish grin we've ever had
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Donald Trump give. And then that kind of Romney grimace. I think that that was 2016 in a nutshell.
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Let's build it. This is when Romney December 2016. So this is December 2016 after he's already
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won secretary of state. Yeah. He just you know, he kind of sucks up to him, doesn't get it. And
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then, of course, you know, runs for Senate later on, like, I'm going to execute Trump's agenda.
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But then I'm also going to vote to impeach him over a Ukraine phone call. But but I really want
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to fixate on that phoniness thing, because there's another great part of this Atlantic profile,
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where it talks about, you know, Romney considered, you know, this protest run for the presidency
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in 2024. And then the reason he doesn't do it is because it might, you know, if he runs,
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it might prevent a Democrat from winning. By the way, Romney's a Republican, allegedly.
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And it says here, Romney relished the idea of running a presidential campaign in which he simply
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said whatever he thought without regard for the political consequences. I must admit,
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I'd love being on the stage with Donald Trump and just saying, that's stupid. Why are you saying
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that? He nursed a fantasy in which he devoted an entire debate to asking Trump to explain why
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in the early weeks of the pandemic, he'd suggested that Americans inject bleach as a treatment for
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COVID-19, which Trump didn't actually do. But we'll set that aside for a moment. Let's get to the
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thing. Romney, if you ran for president saying whatever you actually thought and saying,
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that's stupid. Why did you say that? If you'd run like that in 2012, you probably would have become
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president because that is literally what Donald Trump did in 2016. And it allowed him to become
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president. He was, as you know, there was nothing fake about Trump. Trump was like pure id as a
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candidate. And that is so much of what made him so magnetically appealing. And it's so hilarious to
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read Mitt Romney complaining that he's like, why did, why is JD Vance such a fraud? Why is Josh
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Hawley such a fraud? By the way, I wish I could run for president without being a huge fraud. Like
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I was in 2012. Because, because think about it, right? He spent his entire life trying to achieve
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his father's goal. So George Romney, who of course tried to run for, uh, tried to run for president,
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failed former governor of Michigan, uh, tied into the auto industry very, very cutely. So
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the idea was that Mitt Romney and what he's really lamenting here, think about it. This guy
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has waited very much like Hillary Clinton, by the way, because all the way back to her sophomore year
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of college, she knew she was going to be president when she's back at Weasalian. And, and Romney was
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doing the exact same thing. He's been structuring and tailoring and being very careful about every
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movie made and every, every step and every comment and every quote, even as little 47% that'll never
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vote for me kind of quote, all of these things, all the way up trying to project the perfect image.
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And then along comes a guy like Trump who throws all those quote unquote rules of the road out the
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window and the people embrace him for it because they love the authenticity. Even if they don't always
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agree with the things that he's saying, um, I think there's a sheer level of resentment there
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that a guy can just come along and break all the rules and then achieve more success. Cause at the
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end of the day, Mitt Romney at this point, okay, so he's a one-term governor of Massachusetts,
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a one-term Senator of Utah, which last time I checked is a different state than Massachusetts
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and a failed presidential candidate. Mitt, you're never going to be on the big list.
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Willard. You're never going to be even on the VP list. You are going to be, you're not even going
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to be a footnote. You're going to be a dingleberry to a footnote on history.
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You know, Jack, I love that point because in this same article, it talks about how he got all these
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private messages from senators like Mitch McConnell. Like I wish I could say exactly what you're saying.
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That's, it shows that Mitt Romney is feeding this biographer lines to pump himself up. He's like,
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I got all these text messages from these people saying they wish they could be as
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unfettered in their criticism. So run as I am. And so run, let's do it. Yeah. So, but what's,
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what the point you're making is that he resents Trump because Trump is unfettered in everything.
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And now Mitt's trying to slide in there and be like, I'm the real, like, you know, truth teller here.
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It's totally jealousy. It's total revenge. It's probably for being snubbed for not winning for
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Trump winning and him not winning. He finds him a gross ogre that gets all the things that he,
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that he really deserved. And it's just, it's just beautiful. But here, here's, here's the real
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takeaway from this is that he's now saying, I'm not running. It's time for the old guard to get out
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of the way. We need some new fresh blood. But if you look one level deeper, you then see reporting
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that says he entertained a third party run as president, something he fantasizes about still,
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but Blake and Jack, why did he not run? Because he realized it would help get Donald Trump elected.
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That's the big bingo. That's it. The whole kit and caboodle is right there. He would rather not run
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so that a Democrat can continue being in the white house than to allow a conservative populist
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candidate like Donald Trump to, to oust the Democrats from power, which, and by the way,
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we should probably, we should probably tie this into, and I, I've been talking about this for the
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last two days now, but of course the Washington post finally catching up Joe Manchin weighing a run
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for president as an independent. So right there, this is exactly what the no labels candidacy that
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I know Charlie's been really banging the drum about, uh, was all about finding candidates like
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a Manchin or a Romney to get in and then get on the ballot to hopefully, or possibly prevent Trump
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from reaching that 270. We had Richard Barris on the program and he raised a pretty insightful point.
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He said, if you do something like this, you run the risk of not hurting Trump, but actually hurting
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Biden in key States that, yeah, and they may not be normally toss up States, but look at a state like
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Minnesota that has very similar demographics to a Michigan or Wisconsin. If you, if you split the
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Biden vote, if you split even any sizable portion of the Biden vote, then he got another Cornell West
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who might be on the ballot as well. Trump could actually, or potentially expand his map and turn
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those States that we think of as nominally blue into battleground States under this scenario.
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And it's a great point. Uh, since Tyler's not here, he's made this point to us, uh, separately,
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Tyler Bowyer. He's, uh, he's brought up like the biggest obstacle to this working is actually their
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own vanity and that they can't really collaborate with each other. Cause he's pointed out the way you
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could actually make it. So a state, um, it's like, let's say they wanted to run Romney for
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president. The way you could make Romney actually damage Trump is you'd have to have Biden not running
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Utah. You just be like, you're not going to win Utah. Don't even bother. And then you only have
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Romney and Trump and you get every single Democrat to vote for Romney. And then maybe you get a few
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crossover Republicans and maybe you upset in the state or on the flip side, maybe in, uh, you know,
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you could do this in Minnesota or any number of States, but then you'd have to be like,
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we are entirely running our campaign to stop Trump, which means we're deliberately running to try to
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throw it to the house or something. Uh, and they just get, they can't collaborate to that degree to
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pull it off. And instead you just get these weird fanciful, like, Oh, we're going to, we're going to
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start a new political party. So I get it. So you're saying like, fine, take a state like that. You know,
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you're going to lose, right. That, you know, Biden's going to lose like, uh, okay. So Utah,
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where else like Kansas, Nebraska could be one of those, maybe Missouri, you take all those States
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and then you throw up this, this by the way is sort of a rehash of the Evan McMuffin, AKA Evan
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McMuffin strategy from 2016, where they ran him to think thinking that he could block, um, that he
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could block Trump in Utah. He ended up doing fairly well in Utah. Um, but of course it was a complete
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failure nationwide. This is, you know, the CIA total hack who was running. So what you're saying
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is, or what Tyler's strategy, I remember him saying this the other day was that you would
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then have the Democrats not run a candidate in that state with the hope being that it would,
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it would essentially neutralize those votes. Of course, the trouble being then you'd have to
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make sure that you could own up your votes in the other areas, but Hey, if you're not campaigning
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in these States, then maybe that's money and resources that you can spend in the battlegrounds.
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Yeah. And it's also unpredictable at that point. Uh, the funny thing is, is we have had a
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presidential election that works like that. It was one of the ones in the 1800s. I can't
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remember which one, but the, uh, the Whig party ran for different candidates in different
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regions of the country to try to just throw the election to the house. And I think camera
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if they were going against James K Polk, it was one of those, you know, one of those guys
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before the civil war. And it was just a total disaster in the end because it turns out like
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if you're running on such a cynical ploy of, we're just trying to throw it to the house
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and we're not like really playing to win the election outright. That's such a message
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of weakness. It's a, you know, we don't believe in ourselves. We don't believe in our ability
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to build a winning coalition. We just really believe in stopping the other guy. And I could
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just easily see that blowing up in their face. If that's what they attempt.
00:22:46.540
No, I just, I leave it right there. I think Mitt sees the writing on the wall. I think he's
00:22:52.840
blackpilled. I think he's out of it, but don't count him out folks because serpentinus
00:22:58.420
Willardus as I call him is a snake and snakes always turn up underfoot when you least expect
00:23:07.780
them. Uh, we know that Charlie is on his way soon, but I did want to move over to the second
00:23:13.360
topic if we can, because Hunter Biden finally indicted for something, at least in this case,
00:23:21.420
we've got Hunter, but we're going to go out of order just a little bit, guys. It's all right.
00:23:25.140
We'll be okay. Hunter Biden being indicted take two this time around. He's not indicted. Oh,
00:23:33.140
this isn't the tax stuff. This is nothing on the laptop. This is well, sort of, it indirectly
00:23:38.680
involves the laptop and I'll explain why this is lying to the ATF, lying to federal agents,
00:23:44.340
three counts of fraud. This is that ATF form when Hunter Biden purchased that firearm. And when
00:23:50.000
everyone purchased a firearm, you have to make a declaration to the ATF federal authorities that you
00:23:56.700
were not on hard drugs. Well, we've got a copy of laptop. I've got a copy of laptop sitting right
00:24:03.400
here next to my desk. And guess what? I got a lot of proof that Hunter Biden was definitely on hard
00:24:08.600
drugs the entire time that he had that gun. And this is even prior to, uh, him losing it in a fight
00:24:15.420
with his mistress, uh, his ex, his, uh, his, his, his deceased brother's ex-wife, uh, that he was
00:24:23.940
hooking up with that. She took it away from him. Probably smart, by the way, one of the smartest
00:24:28.300
things that she did took the gun away from him and tossed it in the trash can outside of a supermarket.
00:24:36.720
So he was obviously lying to the ATF and he has now been charged with this. Now, the real question
00:24:42.240
isn't why he was charged, but I think the interesting question is why is he being charged now? And I
00:24:48.100
really do think that him being charged now, cause keep in mind, we've known about this for years at
00:24:52.600
this point. I think he's being charged now because that plea deal fell through. And because just in
00:24:58.680
general, you're starting to see some movement within, within the party, within the administration,
00:25:06.380
even to sort of put pressure on Joe Biden and the Biden family themselves. I think they're under a lot
00:25:12.820
of pressure right now. Uh, you're already seeing the New York times, the Washington post drop concurrent
00:25:18.520
op-eds this week calling for the ouster essentially of Joe Biden from office saying you shouldn't run
00:25:25.080
again. Now, all of a sudden his son is being dited. The Republicans are over here talking impeachment,
00:25:30.020
Kevin McCarthy out there talking impeachment, talking criminal behavior. And so there's a lot
00:25:34.540
of pressure that's going on to the Bidens right now. And all of it really being the linchpin of Hunter
00:25:40.280
Biden. All right. So go for it. I'm going to, yeah. So here's the real thing that here's,
00:25:48.520
here's the real thing that our audience needs to be aware of is that Weiss is a proven, uh,
00:25:54.560
crook in my opinion, the U S attorney of Delaware. Now the special counsel, everybody in the, if you
00:26:02.080
read NBC politico, whatever, they always say Trump appointed. Trump loves to remind us. I didn't
00:26:07.420
appoint him. I guess technically he did, but it was by way of recommendation called a blue slip to
00:26:14.360
Democrat senators. Yeah. That, that basically make the recommendation. Okay. Right. So Weiss has been
00:26:21.300
in the Biden pocket for a long, long time. Part of that Delaware machine. Biden's been in power for
00:26:27.080
40 plus years. So here's what people need to understand that if, um, if he, because he is under
00:26:36.500
investigation, that this sort of rescues, uh, Hunter from testifying before Congress, right?
00:26:45.200
There's a couple of different ways this could, this could play out. Is it because he can just say
00:26:49.000
that, Hey, I'm under investigation. Uh, I can't now, uh, testify before Congress. That's not the way
00:26:55.720
this works. Um, so, so a couple of different ways, let me get back to the starting point here.
00:27:00.100
President Biden can't pardon Hunter, right? Politically it would be disastrous, but also
00:27:05.800
if that happens, then Hunter could not plead the fifth. So right now he can say, I can plead the
00:27:11.580
fifth. If he gets brought before Congress, I'm pleading the fifth, I'm pleading the fifth and
00:27:15.460
refuse to testify before Congress. So his fifth amendment protections would also disappear if Weiss
00:27:22.060
gives Hunter a plea agreement with a prosecution waiver or some other immunity. So as soon as you put
00:27:29.100
Hunter in a, in a immune from anything box, he no longer, uh, complete the fifth, you could subpoena
00:27:36.340
him right away before Congress and boom, he has to talk or else he's going to be putting himself at
00:27:42.060
risk. But as long as he is under investigation, as long, I mean, this guy's never going to see jail
00:27:47.080
time. He's never going to go to prison. As soon as he, uh, has immunity of any sort, a plea deal of any
00:27:53.420
sort, any sort, he's under the gun. He has to testify. But as long as they keep dragging this out
00:27:59.220
until 2025, if Joe Biden's, uh, reelected, if that's, that's the game they're playing, then Joe Biden
00:28:05.440
will pardon him or some other, he'll get community service, something else like this. So the, uh,
00:28:10.060
the audience needs to understand this is all about protecting Joe Biden and insulate, uh, protecting
00:28:15.760
Hunter to insulate Joe Biden. Blake, what'd you take? Uh, I think it's probably, I think it's easy
00:28:22.360
to overanalyze these things. You know, like we were asking like, why did they do it out? Okay.
00:28:26.400
Well, it's because they had, you know, a plea deal that got blown up because it was a huge attempt to
00:28:31.680
just, uh, you know, it was garbage, the whole thing under the rug. And so now it's like, it was a
00:28:36.360
corrupt plea deal. It was, of course, of course it was a corrupt. Now this is less corrupt. And I think
00:28:43.360
there was a lot of cynicism on the right. Uh, certainly we've heard, uh, you know, Charlie
00:28:47.460
opine on that, that, you know, this doesn't matter. Well, I mean, it is like, these are felony
00:28:52.500
charges. They do carry a maximum time in prison. I think of like 15 years or something like that.
00:28:57.680
If you stack them all, he won't get that of course, but you know, these are real charges that
00:29:01.920
they were avoiding bringing against him before. And these charges don't preclude charging them for
00:29:06.940
anything else. And I think, you know, we have reason to be happy with that. We have taken something.
00:29:10.960
They tried to first completely scuttle in the 2020 election and they, you know, they managed to
00:29:16.600
probably get Joe Biden elected president, but they didn't manage to completely destroy the story.
00:29:20.880
They had to admit the laptop was real. Then we forced them to bring charges against Hunter when,
00:29:26.380
uh, they previously were trying to not do that. Then they have to throw out their plea deal and
00:29:31.160
they have to do this. Like we're showing signs of progress here at a minimum. We're forcing them to
00:29:36.100
talk about everything that's in it. They have to come up with excuses for why it doesn't matter.
00:29:40.020
They have to deal with all of these whistleblowers who didn't exist, uh, six months ago. It is a
00:29:45.040
situation that is gradually getting worse for them. And, you know, I don't think we want to just
00:29:49.900
howl that the entire thing is, you know, Democrats doing four dimensional chess. Now, whether they're
00:29:55.940
going to try to exploit this to shove Biden aside, if they might be trying to exploit this to shove
00:30:01.220
Biden aside, or some people will, I think it's important to remember Democrats, uh, have factions
00:30:05.200
within their party, uh, just as much as conservatives do. And that's exactly my point. That's exactly my
00:30:10.940
point. This, that you're seeing factional infighting now. That's why there there's leaks coming out on
00:30:16.120
Obama. That's why, uh, Gavin Newsom of course is chomping at the bit. Hillary Clinton suddenly
00:30:21.540
reappearing, you know, Gavin Newsom makes that statement saying, well, I think that Kamala Harris
00:30:26.720
is the natural successor to Joe Biden when he asked if he's going to run. Right. But think about what he's
00:30:32.800
actually doing. This guy's Gavin Newsom is a very shrewd operator. Um, what he's doing is he's tying
00:30:38.980
Kamala Harris to Joe Biden. And he's essentially saying that if we are going to, you're seeing a
00:30:44.680
preview of what actually sounds like a primary candidate attack. Think of the, all the stuff
00:30:49.700
that we're seeing on the Republican side right now, these sort of like thinly veiled attacks.
00:30:53.780
So he's basically saying the failures of Joe Biden are tied directly to Kamala Harris. And if she tries
00:31:00.760
to run that he will tie her to them. So even though it sounds like he's building her up,
00:31:05.780
I think what he's subtly doing is actually burying her. It's possible. Actually. So, so,
00:31:13.180
I mean, Blake, if you have a point, I wanted to make, I think we have, I think we have Charlie
00:31:18.480
here now. So, um, is he joining us? All right. Oh, I've been listening. I've just been one. I've
00:31:25.940
just been wondering when I was going to call them. No, no, go ahead, Andrew. All right. Let's go
00:31:30.340
ahead. Welcome. Welcome, Charlie. I'm going to play cut 67. So I asked, uh, our team, our video
00:31:36.760
team to pull the closest thing that, uh, came to a, uh, a denial that he was going to run from this
00:31:44.780
Chuck Todd, Gavin Newsom interview. And I'm going to play it for the audience to see what you guys
00:31:49.700
think. Is this, is this a denial? I, I certainly don't think it is. I think this is slick, slippery,
00:31:55.520
Gavin Newsom, not answering the question. Play cut 67. And am I supposed to interpret that
00:32:00.380
comment about the vice president that if for some reason the president chose not to run at this
00:32:04.180
point, everybody rallies around her. It's the Biden Harris administration. That's a, maybe I'm a
00:32:08.820
little old fashioned. Maybe I'm a little, maybe I'm a little old fashioned about presidents and vice
00:32:14.120
president. I was a lieutenant governor, so I'm a little subjective. All right. So that's him basically
00:32:20.380
saying, Hey, no, Kamala will be up next because he cannot be seen to be usurping a woman of color
00:32:27.340
in the, you know, the power, uh, echelon and the Democrat party. So it's very fascinating. He didn't,
00:32:35.080
he didn't deny it, which I think is interesting, but here, I'm going to make one final point. And
00:32:38.480
then Charlie, I want you to take it away. Here's the final point. Um, Mike Davis, article three project
00:32:43.560
is making this point on Twitter. He's saying, why don't you just grant immunity right now to,
00:32:50.780
um, Hunter Biden, just give it to him because getting Joe Biden is much more consequential
00:32:56.820
than some crackhead son. It's an interesting take. I don't think a lot of our audience would
00:33:01.200
be happy about that. They want to see Hunter behind bars, but if you do that, then you, you
00:33:05.280
trot his butt right before Congress, you make him testify. He can't plead the fifth. It's an
00:33:09.660
interesting, interesting strategy. All right, Charlie.
00:33:16.600
No, it's definitely interesting. I was having just a tech thing here. So, uh, great to be
00:33:20.660
here guys. It's good to know that you guys can carry the show. Uh, without me, I had,
00:33:25.240
I had full faith and you guys have been doing a great job. Yeah. There's, there's a lot of
00:33:28.340
takeaways here is, is, is Gavin going to be, you know, are they going to replace Joe Biden
00:33:33.840
with Gavin? I think it's important. And I said this earlier in our program that it's worth
00:33:38.220
repeating things are not going very well. All is not well in the Democrat circles right
00:33:42.680
now. And whether it be the, the one that I want to really emphasize though, that we've
00:33:46.520
been playing kind of just for fun over the weekend is the smart guys really felt like
00:33:50.780
this Republican primary was going to be competitive. Uh, the experts thought that this would be
00:33:55.920
a close Republican primary. And I'd love to spend some time on that one. Cause I, I think
00:34:00.200
that that, and no, I, no, this is an important one. I, I, I know Jack, you agree is because
00:34:05.140
I think if they thought that the Republicans were going to beat themselves up and fight
00:34:10.700
amongst themselves, then there was going to be an opening for all the law fair to work.
00:34:16.140
So Jack, let's start with that one. The fact that Donald Trump is so convincingly up in the
00:34:21.680
primary has been one of the false predictions of the regime in this political year of 2023.
00:34:30.280
Right, Charlie. And, and, and that's why I think it's so funny because I remember having
00:34:36.320
these conversations behind the scenes with strategists, with pollsters, with consultants,
00:34:41.700
people telling me, Oh, these indictments are going to come. Trump is going to drop like a rock
00:34:46.520
in the polls. He's going to knock himself out of the race. The independents won't go for this.
00:34:51.660
They won't stand for it. And I remember kind of scratching my head saying, yeah, I, I, I see how
00:34:57.460
you guys could think that, but I just don't think that's going to be the case. I think people are
00:35:03.120
going to say these indictments are political. These polite, these indictments are, uh, are fake.
00:35:10.840
They're trumped up charges, right? Pun intended, obviously. And they're going to have a backlash
00:35:16.660
whereby in, you will actually see independent centrists and moderates, maybe even people that
00:35:22.920
weren't for Trump in 2020 actually start to take another look at him because they will see every
00:35:29.320
institution completely turned against him. That's actually been the, the difference here. Also,
00:35:36.260
you've, you just have this, this complete crater of a campaign, uh, by Ron DeSantis, which has now
00:35:42.240
actually hurt his standing really just politically, his all political capital that he's had is gone.
00:35:48.180
It's, it's, it's completely gone at this point. And, uh, we're not sure even what his political
00:35:53.700
future will be going from here, but at the same time, the real big, I think blinking lights, the,
00:36:01.620
the system blinking red for the Democrats right now is that if you go to real clear politics and you look
00:36:08.480
up the average, the national average, not just for the primary Charlie, but for the general Trump Biden,
00:36:16.520
Donald Trump is currently leading for, as far as I know, the first time ever in his entire political
00:36:24.060
history, leading in the general election against the Democrat. Uh, he's, it's only by about half a
00:36:30.560
point, but you've never actually seen him up in the real clear politics average. As of today,
00:36:36.920
he is now beating Joe Biden in the national popular vote.
00:36:41.080
It's, it's really remarkable. So let's go through this list. I think it's important.
00:36:47.940
So if just to kind of remind people, the whole idea of DeSantis and this primary evaporating is
00:36:54.720
not helpful to the Democrat algorithm, the awful polling with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
00:36:59.120
the Hunter impeachment, but then let's kind of get to the Mitt Romney, no labels thing.
00:37:03.840
Anyone can chime into this. Blake, Andrew, smart money is that Joe Manchin and or Mitt Romney
00:37:09.200
or so coalition is going to run a splinter strategy here. None of this was supposed to
00:37:14.940
happen in 2023. So Blake kind of lead us through this. Do you think we're going to see some
00:37:21.320
competitive by competitive? I mean, marginal defining third party candidates running for
00:37:27.580
office, Blake. I mean, it always feels like such narcissism when they talk about these things.
00:37:31.960
It feels like every four years, they're like, this is the year we're going to have this like
00:37:35.560
real third party that takes off. And really the third party that took off was Donald Trump. And
00:37:41.180
he just took over a major party because he was so successful at it. He's like, I'm going to take
00:37:45.020
the Ross Perot energy of the nineties, uh, mix in a little of the, you know, the Pat Buchanan energy
00:37:50.480
and a little, some little normal Republican stuff and just take over major party. He is the winning
00:37:55.700
third party, but will we see a third party run? I think we could. Cause there is this real sense that
00:38:02.840
as you say, the machine is breaking down that they had this intent that, you know,
00:38:09.300
we could use 2023 to set things up so that 2024 is just this walk over, uh, you know,
00:38:14.840
the election on autopilot. They thought, you know, Donald Trump, he does, you know, he focuses a lot
00:38:20.020
on his own affairs. So if we indict him, he'll like totally implode, obsess over his criminal cases,
00:38:25.260
forget all about the national election. He'll get totally derailed in this primary. And they just
00:38:30.340
thought they could set everything up. So it would all line up and there's no competitive race
00:38:34.440
whatsoever. And instead that plan is cracking apart. And what's very funny is, you know,
00:38:40.000
what none of them were banking on. Clearly none of them were actually making any plan on
00:38:43.700
we'll win because Joe Biden will have a successful presidency that people want another four years of.
00:38:48.740
Nobody was banking on that. They were just banking on, we can make it so that Trump falls apart.
00:38:53.420
They aren't able to mount an effective campaign. We, you know, we have ballot harvesting,
00:38:57.340
we have mail-in voting, we have the machine set up to be so slick and efficient that it's just
00:39:02.780
impossible to have a competitive race, no matter how disastrous things are by 2024. And instead,
00:39:07.860
they're getting caught off guard by, uh, shocker. It turns out that when the walls were closing in
00:39:12.680
on Trump, he was not actually beaten forever. Only the 50th time that's happened. And then on top of
00:39:18.200
that, the Biden administration is even more of a mess than they were originally anticipating.
00:39:23.740
Uh, you know, inflation might be coming back again. We see, uh, gas prices getting more expensive.
00:39:29.460
Uh, the Ukraine war seems to be going really badly again. And, you know, so that could be
00:39:35.380
Afghanistan 2.0 by next year, where this thing just turns into a total disaster. And there's so
00:39:41.120
many things going awry. And then on top of that, Joe Biden has sort of burned a lot of his credibility
00:39:45.460
with the left, which they thought would be fine. And instead they have Cornell West, a person that if
00:39:50.640
you're on the left, you've actually heard of, he's running for president. He's not, you know,
00:39:55.100
he's not won over by all these things that, well, if you run, you're going to let Trump get elected.
00:39:59.120
He's biting that bullet and saying, I don't care. And if enough Democrats are willing to say that
00:40:08.620
So, so two things on this. I think it's really interesting. I want to play this, uh, Debbie Dingell
00:40:14.080
clip 35. So if you can get that ready, she's saying that Trump could win Michigan. So one of
00:40:20.500
the interesting things, and, and Charlie, you made a great point earlier this week where you kind of
00:40:24.220
tied it into that, uh, uh, what's the document? I'm just playing it more. What's his name? Um,
00:40:31.000
who's the documentarian more, Michael Moore. I was like Russell Moore, David Moore. Okay.
00:40:36.420
Michael Moore. So Trump has this unparalleled ability, at least within the Republican party of
00:40:44.620
winning those Rust Belt States, those upper Midwest States. Yeah. It didn't work out in 2020,
00:40:50.000
but it was close, razor thin. And we're talking 50,000 votes across three States. All right.
00:40:55.620
So here's, here's what's interesting. You put Cornell West in as a third party in these States,
00:41:01.380
he's peeling two to three points off of the Democrat ticket and he doesn't care. But what's,
00:41:08.340
what's interesting here. And we've talked about this before is, and I think it's a really interesting
00:41:13.120
thought, crime intrigue. Is this a revenge tour on behalf of Bernie Sanders? Is this a revenge tour
00:41:21.040
on behalf of Bernie Sanders? Bernie Sanders and, uh, Cornell West are very good friends. Cornell West
00:41:28.540
help him, him write some of the Democrat platform heading into 2020. That was like his consolation
00:41:33.900
prize for Bernie Sanders getting screwed twice by the DNC. So I think Cornell West is in it regardless.
00:41:40.700
He's already qualified for the ballot in Arizona and Florida. He's working on getting those, uh,
00:41:45.020
qualifying for the ballot in other States. I think the, the next one coming up is Nevada,
00:41:49.280
October 15th. He's got to get on before then. I think he's going to do this. I think he's going
00:41:53.420
to play spoiler, at least in a number of these States. I don't know if you'll get to the
00:41:57.220
Jill Stein level in 2016, but it's very, very interesting. And the Democrats simply did not
00:42:03.880
predict in their algorithm that Trump was going to be this resilient with four indictments later.
00:42:09.320
They did not, they did not, uh, factor that in. And I think we're going to see States like
00:42:15.260
Michigan. You're, you're seeing the alarm bells go off, play cut 35.
00:42:20.420
We're heading into another presidential race. If the election were held today in Michigan,
00:42:24.840
do you think Donald Trump as a Republican nominee could beat president Biden as a democratic nominee?
00:42:30.040
I'm going to look at you all right now. Everybody says Michigan's a blue state.
00:42:34.600
Michigan is not, it is purple. It is a very competitive state and Donald Trump would do
00:42:41.320
well in Michigan right now. I'm not, the elections a year away. We're at a very volatile time.
00:42:47.640
But I'm not taking Michigan for granted. And I'm going to say, I've said that very strongly to many people.
00:42:53.720
Do you feel like the Biden team is taking Michigan for granted right now? Should they be doing
00:43:03.640
Um, let's just say, I think we've gotten their attention.
00:43:10.040
Powerful clip, I think. And we actually do have this Russell Moore one.
00:43:13.800
Charlie, I don't know if Charlie, do you want to like preface it a little bit?
00:43:17.160
Michael Moore. What if Russell, Russell, Michael, I don't know. I don't know where it's up.
00:43:24.120
Look, I, apparently. Yeah. So my, so, so Michael Moore has gone into a relevancy in recent years,
00:43:29.640
but in the Obama years, he was the ultimate, let's just say, before the internet was a thing,
00:43:37.480
Not even, but this is the Bush year, man. This is a, you know, I don't even know. Charlie,
00:43:42.360
were you in like grade school? Yeah, no, I mean, he did. Bowling for Columbine was his big one.
00:43:48.760
Uh, that was the one right after the Columbine Mass.
00:43:53.800
Which was totally ripped off of a book, by the way. He did none of the research in that.
00:43:57.800
Yeah, he, he was like the Democrats hillbilly elegy. So he, he is really, the fact that Andrew
00:44:05.880
doesn't even know his name is not an insult to Andrew at all, because he's not in the zeitgeist.
00:44:09.960
Michael Moore's irrelevant, which is interesting. And by the way, Michael Moore is one of a great
00:44:13.880
example in politics of like, when you get famous with fat man energy and all of a sudden you become
00:44:18.360
super skinny, like Al Sharpton or Mike Pompeo. It's like really weird. Okay. Uh, same thing with,
00:44:23.640
with Michael. No, as soon as Michael, as soon as Michael Moore started certain governors,
00:44:27.400
yes, exactly. Michael Moore started to lose weight. It was, it was really strange. Okay.
00:44:31.640
So, and Michael Moore is actually way older than people think. Oh, like just put that in the chat.
00:44:35.560
It's true. Um, anyway, so, but Michael Moore, he is very in touch with the industrial rust belt.
00:44:41.160
He was kind of the ombudsman to the rust belt for the Democrat party for years, always talking about,
00:44:46.680
you know, fair trade and all these different things. He was very similar to kind of what I would
00:44:49.960
call the Garrison Keillor Democrat. Michael Moore and Garrison Keillor were two of the more,
00:44:54.120
uh, trendy, uh, Midwestern based Minnesota, uh, Michigan based Harrison Keillor from Mankato,
00:45:01.480
Minnesota and, um, Michael Moore from Michigan. Anyway, enough of that. This is back in 2016.
00:45:07.000
Michael Moore warned about this. This was a huge clip in 2016. I remember I tweeted it
00:45:11.080
at the time back in 16 and got a huge, um, viral response. Play cut 71.
00:45:15.960
Okay. Because I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump. Donald Trump
00:45:24.040
came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said,
00:45:32.680
if you close these factories as you're planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico,
00:45:37.320
I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobody's going to buy them.
00:45:45.560
It was an amazing thing to see. No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything
00:45:53.080
like that to these executives. And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and
00:46:00.360
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump's election is going to be the biggest
00:46:20.280
So, that clip was before the election and he called it. He called it as the FU election and he called
00:46:28.200
the blue wave crumbling. Jack, bring us back in the time machine and connect it to today.
00:46:33.960
Well, so if you go back and, and look at where Michael Moore got his start, right,
00:46:39.960
he's the Mr. Flint, Michigan. Uh, there's the same Flint, Michigan that lost their water supply
00:46:45.080
under Barack Obama. And if you watch his very first book, his very, very first, uh, excuse me,
00:46:52.440
his very first documentary, Roger and me, what was it about? It was all about the closing of the GM
00:46:59.720
plants. This is out in 1989, the closing of the GM plants in Flint, Michigan, the losing of jobs,
00:47:07.640
the fact that they were sending all these jobs overseas, the outsourcing, the fact that they
00:47:12.920
were destroying these American workers, destroying American societies, that they were gutting the entire
00:47:19.320
Midwest. And the whole thing, the, the crux of it is him trying to get an interview with, uh, the CEO
00:47:25.960
of general motors at the time, a guy by the name of Roger Smith. So the name of the documentary is
00:47:30.600
Roger and me. And he's just constantly, he's the guy who created the whole, and you see people do this
00:47:35.400
every day now of standing around and running up to politicians or leaders or people in power with
00:47:41.480
a microphone and a camera and sticking it in their face. He was, Michael Moore was doing it, uh,
00:47:46.440
before Alex Jones was doing it long before Alex Stein was doing it. Now, so many people,
00:47:51.240
everybody does it in DC now, but Michael Moore actually was the first guy to do this on the big
00:47:56.200
stage. And so because of that, uh, it really created entire industry. And so it's, it's almost like he
00:48:03.720
sort of had this, this tie in with those, those populist working class roots that of course he
00:48:11.880
completely lost when he became a multimillionaire and he's very, very wealthy now. Uh, and so that's
00:48:18.600
why he just goes in for all the insane Russia Gatorry and insanity full on TDS. But it does seem like
00:48:24.680
there was this one moment, the addicts call it a moment of clarity where right before the 2016 election,
00:48:30.760
he basically described what was about to happen. And then obviously what did happen on that day in November.
00:48:47.240
Blake, what, what, what, wait, what, what do you need? Oh,
00:48:51.400
Hey, I got something to add. So here bringing it back like full circle is the fact that we're talking about
00:48:57.240
third party candidates and how they, the margins are so tight. Uh, and Jack, you made this point earlier
00:49:02.760
that some of these marginal states that we think of marginally blue or whatever you put
00:49:06.680
Cornell West in there, you put conservative populist energy with Trump. The third party
00:49:12.200
candidacies are going to completely flip the Democrat machine algorithm. And that is why you're
00:49:18.520
seeing the Washington post, New York times put out warning shots. I think if, if we're going to play
00:49:23.640
the back to the Hunter Biden second in this round two with the gun charges, the, if you're going to
00:49:31.160
put a positive spin on it, it's because that's a nether shoe to drop. That's another warning sign
00:49:37.400
that Democrat operatives are saying, you know, we're pulling the alarm bills here. Joe Biden,
00:49:42.520
you really could lose your odds of losing are now greater than your odds of win winning.
00:49:47.160
And how did David Ignatius put it in the Washington post? He said, if he's not good at saying no,
00:49:52.680
in other words, Joe Biden is one of the most stubborn politicians you will ever meet.
00:49:56.360
This is time and time again, the way people describe him, he is stubborn. And so now that
00:50:01.160
he's in there, yeah, the machine wants him out, but he's stubborn. He's not going to come willingly.
00:50:05.560
So they're going to have to start putting out these flares, these warning shots to get him to move.
00:50:09.720
And how did David Ignatius put it? He said, you are at risk of ruining your greatest achievement,
00:50:16.120
which was stopping Trump was stopping Trump. And now we're afraid this in David Ignatius,
00:50:23.240
again, is the CIA spokeshole. They want a press release written. They go to David Ignatius.
00:50:27.960
So David Ignatius doing the bidding of the intel agencies. They know the dirt they have on Biden.
00:50:32.840
And they're saying, hey, you were good for a purpose. You've outlived that purpose. You need
00:50:39.080
to step aside. So it's very interesting. If you're going to look at Hunter Biden,
00:50:42.520
you're going to tie in the third party, you're going to tie in this Democrat algorithm. I mean,
00:50:46.440
that that would be the glass half full. I'm not sure I buy it with Hunter,
00:50:50.040
but I certainly think these third party candidates have them terrified.
00:50:55.000
Can I? All right, let's get to the next segment here. But yeah, sorry, Blake. I'm sorry, Jake,
00:50:59.160
Blake. Jack, Jack, hold on one sec. Let's just let's you have a quick thought, Jack.
00:51:04.520
Yeah, just a quick thought. This is the the from the epilogue of Roger and me. And it's just it just
00:51:08.760
you listen to it. It sounds like something that Trump could say. Michael Moore's go is finally confronts
00:51:13.640
the guy from General Motors and says, Mr. Smith, we just came from Flint where we filmed a family
00:51:19.240
being evicted from their home the day before Christmas Eve, a family that used to work in
00:51:24.120
the factory. Would you be willing to come up with us to see what the situation is in Flint is like for
00:51:28.920
those people? Smith, I've been to Flint and I'm sorry for those people, but I don't know anything
00:51:33.400
about it. Families are being evicted from their homes on Christmas Eve. Listen, I'm sure General Motors
00:51:38.040
didn't evict them. You'd have to go talk to their landlords. Well, they used to work for General Motors,
00:51:42.360
and now they don't work there anymore. Sorry about that. Could you come up to Flint with us?
00:51:46.700
I cannot come to Flint. I'm sorry. That's the Trump movement right there, right there.
00:51:52.800
All right. All right. So we got to set the stage here. So Virginia has a House of Delegates,
00:51:58.400
delegates, the former House of Burgesses. They're a special state, so they get to hold their elections
00:52:03.460
in odd numbered years. They're just like that for some reason. So we're having an election in two months
00:52:09.260
in Virginia. The House of Delegates is very close. I think it's 50 Republicans, 46 Democrats,
00:52:15.040
and some open seats right now. And very close. Who wins that race is going to be very important for
00:52:22.180
what Glenn Youngkin is able to do in his last two years as governor. It's going to be a big deal.
00:52:29.340
And in one of the tightest races in a district that is almost exactly 50-50,
00:52:33.860
there's breaking news this week. So there is a candidate named Susanna Gibson. She is a nurse
00:52:41.500
practitioner and the mother of two young children running in a highly competitive suburban Richmond
00:52:45.740
district. And she has a side job that was recently brought before public attention, which is that she
00:52:51.780
and her husband have performed sex acts on camera for money on a pornographic website. And now the
00:53:00.160
entire world knows about it. And the response of Democrats has been to replace her on the ballot.
00:53:06.540
I'm just kidding. The response of Democrats has been to say that it is totally fine to do paid sex
00:53:12.900
acts on camera and basically be a prostitute as long as you're a Democrat, I guess. And so we have this
00:53:20.840
headline right now in Politico. So what if a candidate live streamed sex acts with her husband,
00:53:27.900
they leave out for money? And that is what we're campaigning on in Virginia right now. And so we
00:53:34.780
may be on the brink of them successfully pulling that one off and taking politicians from merely
00:53:40.180
figurative prostitutes to literal prostitutes. You know, I remember a time when there was a rumor,
00:53:50.400
a very, very nasty, pernicious, disgusting rumor of a certain tape about Donald Trump in Moscow in a
00:53:59.500
hotel that was bandied about across the entire Internet. MSNBC had it for days. Jake Tapper
00:54:07.280
talked about it as if it was a serious thing. And this certain particular tape involved a certain
00:54:14.040
particular act in that Moscow hotel room. And it turns out that it wasn't Donald Trump who was
00:54:22.000
performing acts like that. In fact, it was Democrat women that were performing those and they have
00:54:27.400
actual tapes like that. And in fact, you can pay them to perform them for you. Interesting. And
00:54:32.220
they said interesting thing to note. One of the details here is that there were acts they were doing
00:54:37.980
that they had to take to a private room on this website that they were using. Uh, so much of this
00:54:44.420
basically became public because they were doing it on a website that literally anyone can visit and,
00:54:50.840
uh, you know, horned up porn addicts being who they are. Uh, they have created mirror websites that
00:54:56.520
automatically record all of the videos on this live porn broadcasting website and they archive it so they
00:55:02.620
can watch it later. Uh, so a lot of the reporting, including from the New York times has talked about
00:55:08.300
these videos being leaked onto the internet, which they're about as leaked as your average upload on
00:55:14.500
YouTube is if someone shares a link to it. As leaked as the show is. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's as leaked as
00:55:19.800
this program is. Yeah. If they, if they cover this segment that we're doing, whoa, media matters just
00:55:24.580
leaked what Charlie Kirk said on, on rumble. Oh my gosh. I, I, I just want everyone to understand. So the
00:55:31.560
Virginia house of delegates, it's a very competitive race here and there's a lot of outside money pro
00:55:37.220
abortion groups that flood into Virginia. So this, this woman was definitely at some point sat down
00:55:42.900
with a bunch of consultants, Susanna Gibson, and they said, okay, they're going to run attack ads
00:55:48.000
against you. Susanna Gibson, tell us everything. Tell us all the skeletons that you have in your
00:55:52.960
closet. And she was probably like, well, I think I have a couple unpaid parking tickets. And, uh,
00:55:58.680
I think I jaywalked a couple of times and, uh, we'll tell us everything, anything that they might
00:56:03.560
be able to, and imagine the calculus in her head where either she didn't think this was a big deal
00:56:10.360
or thinking this wouldn't come out being like, Oh wait, you mean that the thing I do every Thursday
00:56:16.420
night where we film with my husband, having sex for money is not going to somehow like, you know,
00:56:23.340
come out in an opposition research file. Like this was not going to be made public.
00:56:29.500
Jack, it's, it's like a weekly Pilates class except, you know, naked and in public.
00:56:34.940
Yeah. So what's for money and taking instructions. I'll say this as, as, as a dad, you know,
00:56:41.640
I can't help but feel bad for the kids. Um, they've, they have, uh, and you'd look on our website and
00:56:46.460
she shows pictures of her children that are their, uh, daughter and little boy. They look,
00:56:51.780
they look like great kids, looks like a happy family. And you just feel bad knowing that
00:56:55.660
this is, I'm, I'm sorry, but it is what it is. Uh, you got to live in the world that those kids
00:57:01.800
are going to be hit with this for the rest of their lives now. So you've now ruined your children's
00:57:06.140
lives because of this, because of your narcissism, because of your self-sent interest. I don't wish
00:57:11.560
it. Oh yeah, they're definitely going to be divorced. Uh, all, all of that stuff is going to come out.
00:57:15.500
But, um, the way they found her was because her username was actually hot wife experience.
00:57:23.020
And, and Charlie, I wasn't sure, are you familiar with the term hot wifing? Do you know what hot
00:57:26.740
wifing is? No. So hot wifing, this is, it's a play on a military, a piece of military slang
00:57:35.600
known as hot racking. So in hot racking, that's when you're, you're stationed at a garrison or like
00:57:42.400
when I was in the Navy, this happens on, uh, the LA class attack sub sometimes and there's not
00:57:46.360
enough birthing for everybody. So you're, it basically means you're sharing a bed, right?
00:57:50.460
So, but at different, on different shifts, if someone's on day shift, then the other person
00:57:54.080
sleeping, someone's a night shift, they take turns, you're hot racking. So hot wifing is the same
00:57:58.860
idea. According, according to urban dictionary, hot wifing, uh, is a term where a hot wife is a woman
00:58:06.120
whose husband likes to share her sexually with other men or likes to watch her have sex with other
00:58:12.380
men. And the wife enjoys pleasing her husband in this way. This is different supposedly from
00:58:19.320
cuckolding where in, wherein the husband is not a sub that's submissive hot wifing supposedly does
00:58:26.380
not involve the humiliation of any of the participants. Uh, the, the section here, the
00:58:32.960
couple spends most weekends hot wifing with men they met online. So just so everybody knows
00:58:38.520
the term hot wifing. Yeah, but that's, that, that actually contradicts some of the reporting
00:58:42.880
that I've seen. So, so I guess he's quoted, the husband is quoted. It's saying in the live streams,
00:58:49.160
it admitted that sometimes she quote unquote makes him allow her to have sex with other men.
00:58:55.200
Uh, so that's interesting. The, the other part of this, that's really galling to me is the fact
00:58:59.760
that she's now claiming she's the victim of a sex crime. And she says she's, uh, she's working with
00:59:07.020
local law enforcement, uh, to get to the bottom of this. Um, yeah, working closely with state and
00:59:13.260
federal law enforcement says her lawyer, Daniel P Watkins. Uh, but this was like revenge porn.
00:59:19.100
If you, if you're sharing your wife, you're cocked. Like if you're, if, if another man is sleeping
00:59:23.880
with your wife, you're cocked, like there's no way around that. Sorry. No guys, no, no, not at all.
00:59:27.420
Here's one last little piece. Yeah, of course. Here's one last little piece of irony of this,
00:59:33.300
right. We all remember the infamous P tapes, the, uh, the allegations that Trump was in a Russian
00:59:38.860
hotel, you know, urinating on, on hotel beds or whatever. This I found interesting. She's quoted
00:59:46.920
as saying in one of these videos, y'all can watch me pee. If you tip me and give me some tokens.
00:59:54.460
So, you know, she hasn't tweeted in about a week. So I think if we give her some tokens,
00:59:58.940
um, then maybe, you know, maybe we can get her up on Twitter. You know, I actually looked up
01:00:03.240
what the, the prices are for the tokens. Cause it sounds, it sounds a lot. It's 500 tokens,
01:00:08.920
a thousand tokens. But when you look it up, it turns out 500 tokens is only equal to something
01:00:13.060
like one of the articles had it. I don't see it right now. It said it was like 40 bucks,
01:00:17.200
40 bucks. That's it. Like I, I give more to into church every weekend. You're paying 40 bucks and
01:00:24.340
you're going to give away that really? I mean, listen, sweetheart, I think you could do a
01:00:28.680
little better and you're probably going to have to now because I don't see any other way that
01:00:31.960
you're going to be able to sustain yourself. I mean, I think this is, this is a vindication
01:00:36.380
of the, uh, the trust all women movement. I want, I want to flag. I think we need to hook
01:00:41.880
her up with Andrew Tate. You gotta be careful with the word hooking up there. Uh, one of the,
01:00:47.220
uh, things I really want to flag again in this Politico headline, the one that says, you know,
01:00:50.760
who cares if our politicians are prostitutes? It's a politicians have always pushed society's
01:00:57.840
sexual boundaries. The next taboo is bound to fall soon. Like, okay. Like how far are
01:01:03.220
we going to go? It's just like, we, we just need Politico to come out and it's just like,
01:01:06.840
you know, so what if a, if a candidate like commits incest? So what if a candidate like
01:01:11.540
is in a polycule? So what if a candidate sold their child to like international pedophile
01:01:16.500
rings? Like who hasn't? It was, the murder was a lot. Those murders were a long time ago.
01:01:21.840
He served his debt to society. Let him run. Come on. Didn't John Fetterman have like some
01:01:27.740
double murderer on his staff at one point, uh, when he was running for Senate, they were
01:01:32.160
like, didn't Democrats take reform? I mean, Democrats took, uh, you know, Ted Kennedy who,
01:01:36.920
you know, killed a girl that he was cheating on his spouse with and they called him the conscience
01:01:41.020
of the Senate. They actually have called him that at some point. And like, you know, one
01:01:45.600
of the greatest senators to ever live. So I guess it was rather inevitable. We'd go from
01:01:49.320
that to, to this and just, it's all very galling. One of the other lines they've taken is that,
01:01:54.760
you know, this is the Republican effort to silence women. We're trying to silence women
01:01:59.920
by saying that we don't like it when people are prostitutes.
01:02:04.400
Yeah. So let's make sure. And if anyone disagrees, Blake, I know, agrees. I think Jack does.
01:02:08.560
She's a hooker and some people are saying, Oh no, she's a hooker. Sex acts for cash. Anyone
01:02:14.100
disagree? I don't disagree. I completely agree. Just cause you're a digital. I think
01:02:20.740
I'm just, it's a shocking. Yeah. It's a shocking word. Uh, she's shocking dude. She's a digital
01:02:28.180
prostitute. Uh, but yeah, I mean, it's not, it's not a word we use though. This is far
01:02:33.220
fans. I mean, half of the, half of the sorority girls at ASU with only fans accounts are hookers.
01:02:40.820
So it's not that shocking of a word. So I mean, if you sell your body for cash, so
01:02:46.980
Wasn't ASU one of the number one schools on sugar daddies.com
01:02:54.580
If not, like, it seems like the experience, you know, they traffic entirely on their reputation.
01:03:03.360
Yeah. They call it the girlfriend experience, right? Where you pay $2,000 to have a girlfriend
01:03:08.500
experience. It's like, you just go to Kappa Kappa Gamma at ASU. Yeah. Those girls, they make a nice
01:03:15.160
income tax free. ASU is currently number four temple university. My school is number three.
01:03:20.740
Uh, number two is UCLA and number one is NYU just looked up for 2023 for, for, for what? Only fans
01:03:28.380
income. Why you know, that is no, that's, that's all for, for the top 10 sugar baby universities in
01:03:35.440
the United States. I don't, that's according to sugar book.com. If you know, I'm like gay men
01:03:42.480
as sugar babies, then NYU would be on the list, but there's no way. NYU comes even close to ASU that
01:03:49.960
that that's a fake list. Well, it could be that ASU is moving to, it could be that they're moving
01:03:55.800
to other sites. They may have some local sites. They may have some, they may just have ASU sugar
01:04:00.620
babies set up. We don't even know. We might need just to get someone to go undercover there
01:04:04.400
to actually find out what's going on. Also, how is, how is UCLA? Honestly, how is UCLA beating USC
01:04:10.820
in the Los Angeles area? That that's like, yeah, no, I don't trust this website. Hold
01:04:15.020
on, hold on. Hold on. Andrew asked now, Andrew asked, what is a sugar baby? So a, um, maybe
01:04:23.660
I don't want to know exactly money for company. No, I mean, I got it. No, no, no. It's not,
01:04:30.680
no, no, no. It's it's companionship. It's no sugar babies. Even more than paying them to
01:04:39.640
leave. So it's the girlfriend experience. It's the work I'm going to buy you. I'm going
01:04:43.640
to pay your tuition. I'm going to pay for your rent. I'm going to pay for basically whatever
01:04:49.260
you wardrobe, whatever you want, total financial pampering travel at times. And then every
01:04:55.220
once in a while, the sugar daddy, you know, gets what's coming to him. I mean, the sugar
01:05:00.020
baby is just a mistress. Like that's what it is. It's just a mistress. Yeah. Yeah. That's
01:05:04.240
but is there like a website? Is there a website? Do you want to know? There's several. Okay.
01:05:09.760
That's why you, that's why you have a list. Okay. I get it. I get it. Oh, several, but
01:05:15.560
no, but so, so, so a lot, a lot of these, a lot of these sorority girls at major state
01:05:21.860
run institutions who go to college who don't actually study, they end up making only fans
01:05:27.080
accounts and sell their bodies for cash. And then on the weekends, they'll dress up and
01:05:32.520
very revealing, you know, type clothes and they'll go on a girlfriend experience with
01:05:37.000
some hedge fund guy in Scottsdale at a nice steakhouse and get $2,000 for companionship.
01:05:45.440
Do you guys remember when only fans tried to get rid of nudity and it just like completely,
01:05:50.100
it completely, uh, backfired. Didn't work at all. Yeah. Well, because they were reaching
01:05:57.160
out to people, um, to try to get them on to say, Oh, you know, didn't they, I think they
01:06:03.000
reached out to James Lindsay at one point, um, to try to get him to come on to only fans.
01:06:08.380
And he was like, well, what would I put up there? And they were like, put up lectures.
01:06:11.380
And he goes, so would you want me to put up lectures? Like, like shirtless or something?
01:06:15.700
And they were like, Oh yeah, that'd be great. And he said, Oh, okay. So there we go.
01:06:18.700
So even though, even the, even the people there, when they tried to rebrand, they didn't know how
01:06:23.080
to do. All right. I get it now. No, but, but, but there are companies that, and it's been sued
01:06:31.780
many times and criminally investigated as prostitution companies that are escort services, right? That,
01:06:38.120
and, and they will go on dates with men and they'll say, Oh, you're just paying for the experience of
01:06:44.080
the girl coming with you. Okay. So let's, uh, we have 15 minutes. Uh, I, we, we need to,
01:06:50.620
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01:06:56.060
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slash Charlie. Okay. I think we're going, this is actually a great segue because we covered the
01:07:52.220
Oliver Anthony thing a couple of weeks ago. Jack Posobiec is Oliver Anthony be really revealing the
01:07:57.280
person that you and I accused him of being a couple of weeks ago. Who is this guy? Jack.
01:08:00.900
So Charlie, this is a really shocking situation. I think for a lot of people who are Oliver Anthony
01:08:08.740
fans and, and look, I came out initially when I saw the video, I saw the song and said, wow,
01:08:13.460
great song. I like it. I love the steel guitar getting in there. But then when he started giving
01:08:18.960
these interviews, all of a sudden it seemed to be a different voice that was coming out than the ones
01:08:23.680
that wrote the words of that song. And now we have a situation where, and I'll explain it in as short
01:08:30.160
terms as possible. A show that he was planning to do with cotton. I Joe was canceled. This was going
01:08:37.540
to be at the Knoxville convention center in Tennessee. It was going to be next week. And
01:08:41.820
he came out and canceled it and essentially said it was over high ticket prices. And they said,
01:08:47.660
why are we canceling? We're canceling over high ticket prices. And he made a post essentially
01:08:52.720
blaming the promoters for setting ticket prices too high. However, the promoters, uh, at the
01:09:01.780
convention center then came out with their own posts saying it's a dang shame what the world's
01:09:07.960
gotten to for customers of the world famous cotton Joe. Many times we show, we say a show has been
01:09:14.500
canceled due to circumstances beyond our control. Well, we are canceling the Oliver Anthony show under our
01:09:20.600
full control. And they are pointing out that the reason that the tickets went up is because and Oliver
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Anthony had agreed to for an hour long show at 12, $120,000 fee. So they ran the math. They said,
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look, and, and I'm sorry folks, but if you haven't run a public event before, and we all know that
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Charlie Kirk has run a million of these things, you don't, you just don't appreciate everything that goes
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into it. The overhead, the size of the venue, the insurance security, all of the little pieces,
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the moving parts, the vendors that you need to pay when you're running into these things.
01:10:00.340
And so we were basically saying, look, if this guy wants us to drop our ticket cost without
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dropping the cost that he's agreed to be paid when we come out from this thing, then what he's really
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trying to do is make us lose money on a contract that he's already made with us. And of course,
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Oliver Anthony now has come back saying, Hey, I didn't know this. This isn't my fault. This was
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a miscommunication. But, but Charlie, I don't know. And I know you've run a lot of events before. I know
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you've dealt with situations like this. I'd really interested to hear you read on it.
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Yeah. No, I, I, I'm, I'm on, I'm not on Oliver Anthony's side because he produces noise, not
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music. But beyond that, the part here that really bothers me, this is such, this is, this is someone
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who is almost thinking like, I'm not saying is thinking like a trained Marxist that does not
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understand incentives, understand how markets work quite honestly. Yep. So here's a guy that comes in.
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He's like, well, I demand $120,000. That's not an unreasonable ask, by the way, that's actually
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a pretty fair rate, but simultaneously I'm going to price control the tickets and I'm going to
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basically centrally plan and intervene with the person that is then going to run all the
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production. And so they say, wait, what, hold on a second. We have to charge a certain amount
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because there's facility costs, there's security, there's ticketing, there's AV, there's insurance,
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not easy, not cheap. We're doing it literally right now. So the equivalent would be, you know,
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with some of the speakers that we pay, they don't get to come in and tell me what I get
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to charge. Sorry. That's not once I sign your contract and I pay you like once what we're
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agreed to, then, you know, you're, you're, you're done. And in a good way, right? Like
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we will pay you what we're agreed to do. And then we'll go from there. You don't get to come
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in and all of a sudden call shots and be like, well, I want this to be a working class thing.
01:11:49.020
Well then wave your fee, Oliver Anthony, wave your $120,000 fee, right? Or do the show for
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free. And so I'm completely on the side of the event organizers here.
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These are hard to put on. These are, these are energy intensive. These are risky by the
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way. I mean, for example, I don't know if this planned to be an outdoor event, but if
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it was going to be an outdoor event, you know, bad weather could cancel the event. You know,
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you could have traffic problems, parking problems. I mean, just, you guys know, act con, we had
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the secret service completely and totally, um, you know, obliterate our events. And we had
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to deal with that, that this, you stay up all night in the days that lead up to it, right?
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You're constantly dealing with customer service problems. And as we run these events, right?
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You start to learn that the, the appreciation of putting them on is completely, it's, it's
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not, you know, it's not lost on those of us that do it. But I look at this Oliver Anthony
01:12:42.480
thing and I, and I, I can't help but think that, you know, this, this guy's thinking like
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the very same people we were fighting, which is like a Marxist, which is, he says, give
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me all my money and then I'm going to price control the tickets for the rest of them.
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So, and that, that's an, that's a real Marxist, by the way, that's a real Marxist, right?
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Because a real Marxist isn't someone who's going to give away anything for free. A real
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Marxist is going to get rich. Um, there's, there's a, there's a John Lennon line where,
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um, in, in this playboy famous playboy interview that he gave before he was murdered. And they,
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they asked him a question about, you know, well, you sing all these songs about no possessions
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and no borders and, you know, but you've got, you know, multiple houses, you've got your,
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your, your penthouse in New York, you've got millions and millions of dollars. You know,
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why don't, why don't you share any of your money? And, and, and John Lennon responds to
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the interview and he says, well, no, that's different. That's my money. I earned that.
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So I earned that money. Your money should be spread around.
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There there's going to be a delay. It's very easy to be generous with other people's money,
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right? So it's easy for Oliver Anthony to say the working class guy. And now in reality,
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he's actually depriving his fans from having a great experience to be able to see him because
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he wanted the price control and say, Oh, you know, I, I think that this is, you know,
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this costs too much. And so while he's railing against the rich men of, you know, the wealthy
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man North of Richmond or whatever his whole thing is, which I think there's some fair wisdom in his
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piece. It's honestly a very well composed piece. It just doesn't sound very good. It's all about
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resentment. And it's also, this is one of the reasons where we have to be very careful not to
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allow the, the destruction of markets just based on any sort of seed of resentment that this could
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have been an above all winner for all people. The event organizer could have won. Oliver Anthony
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would have gotten paid. People had, would have had a wonderful experience and said, there's no event
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whatsoever. And Oliver, I don't know, do we have this tape tape him of him now speaking out? And he
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has no idea what he's talking about, honestly. And so by the way, why doesn't Oliver Anthony just go
01:14:54.680
do a concert for free? Why doesn't Oliver Anthony, since it's such a cultural phenomenon. Why doesn't
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Oliver Anthony just go to Richmond and go get a free speech permit with his guitar and just go give
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a free concert for the people, man? Play cut 104. I had to pull off on the side of the road and make
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this video. I'm, uh, my adrenaline's pumping, man. I'm pissed off right now. And don't buy Cotton Eye
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Joe tickets for $99 a piece. And sure as hell don't buy VIP passes for whatever bullshit price they're
01:15:26.980
on. Um, I have a buddy of mine who's not a booking agent. He's a friend of mine. He's a full-time plumber
01:15:32.780
and I'm trying to hire him full-time as my booking agent. And, uh, he agreed to this show, I guess,
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without asking for what the ticket prices are. Um, don't pay $100 for a ticket. That's horse shit.
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Uh, if we've got to cancel the venue and play somewhere else, we will. Uh, I didn't agree to it
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and I don't want you to pay it. So please don't just, I'm just trying to get the word out now. It's
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I don't know when the event got posted, but just wait, hold on a second. Then why are you charging
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$120,000? Do you understand any economics at all? Why don't you just go do it for free? So let me get
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this straight. I want my $120,000, but don't go pay money to come here from me. So go do it for free.
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This is Bernie Sanders as a younger ginger with a long beard is what this is playing a banjo,
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banjo ginger. Bernie Sanders is what this is screaming about. Well, you know, this is BS
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price is a hundred dollars is actually a pretty mainstream ticket price in America is actually
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what this is. And he's saying, Oh no, don't pay this again. Mr. Anthony, why don't you go get a
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free speech permit and go perform a free concert at Richmond? If you're really a man of the people
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and you could have a little collection box and people would give you money because you want to
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get paid. I have no problem with people getting paid. What I do have a big problem with is people
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all of a sudden complaining that people want to pay you when you are charging to get paid. And with
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zero understanding how multi-dimensional systems work incentives, ticketing, promotion, insurance,
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all of it. Okay. You guys can take it from there or just on the flip side, the flip side of it. It's
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like, don't, if you don't like a $100 price tag for a concert, you know, there's a, there's a radical
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act that you can do. It's now I want to prepare everyone who's about to say this, but don't go,
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don't go to the concert. If it's too expensive to you, watch a recording on YouTube, go do something
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else, go to a movie, even a movie ticket will be like $30 cause it's Biden's America now, but like,
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just literally do anything else you want. You mean these tickets for like these rock people from the
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60s that boomers like are all like $700 a piece now. So a hundred dollars isn't even that expensive,
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but it's all just, it's all just very stupid. Well, listen, here, here's what, what stood out
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to me and, and hat tip to Cernovich for calling this out. But if you read Oliver Anthony's tweet
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about it, he goes, cotton. I it's very deceptive. This is to Charlie's point. It's written totally
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like a Marxist. Cotton eyed Joe claims we are charging people 120,000 per show. They have
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since turned their comment off, but I want to clarify the most I've ever made on a show is
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$35,000. We've done two shows in North Carolina that were completely free and have another show,
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free show scheduled September 30, 23rd in Kentucky for a cancer benefit. Cernovich's reply was amazing.
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He says cotton. I Joe did not claim he's charging people 120,000 to show. They said, that's the deal
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they made. Notice he did not deny that he deflects by mentioning other shows and, uh, and free shows
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irrelevant. This is how they avoid the truth. I totally, totally agree. He doesn't deny it.
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The event was canceled, so he didn't have to say I was going to get paid that much. Um, so now he's
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just, he's caught between a rock and a hard place and he can't even, because he thinks he has to be a man
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of the people. Yeah, go ahead. But no, I just want to say, I mean, how does he think that these
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events happen exactly? If you demand $120,000, this shows that Oliver Anthony is not a very smart
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person. Okay. How does he exactly think all the incentive structures were? How do you rent the
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venue? And by the way, you cannot, and you will not do an event if you don't make money. Okay. Jack
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told me to stop and lay off. Jack said it's where Oliver Anthony has been, uh, properly handled.
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Well, no, here's the thing. Here's the question. You want to talk about the workers? What about the
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people who work for the venue? What about the bartenders? What about the security guards? What
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about the production crew? What, where do you think the money comes from? Oliver Anthony banjo Bernie?
01:19:56.940
Where do you think all the money comes from? Okay. It comes from the ticket holders. It comes from the
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ticket buyers. It comes from the people who, by the way, are willing to spend more to do a meet and
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greet with you, get a selfie with you. Have you maybe record a little video with them or something?
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That's where the money comes from to get all of those people. It's not just about you, bro.
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If you notice every single video he makes, it seems to be about himself and talking about
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how I'm for the people I'm for the people, but it's really not about the people because
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you wouldn't actually take the time to understand how any of these productions work or have even a
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little bit of just humility, just basic humility over understanding that you're walking into a
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situation that a lot of people have walked into before. A lot of people have put a lot of work,
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a lot of reputations, a lot of credibility on the line, and you're now deciding you're going to
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dictate to them that what the terms are going to be and how things are going to go. So that's fine.
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I mean, if you want to charge $25 a head, that's great. Go do what you're going to do, but just
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understand that you're going to be playing at a different tier of venue, a different size of crowd,
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a different amount of people, because that's just the way the world works. And you can't change
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the way the world works just because you wish you want it so bad. I'm sorry. That's Karl Marx.
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That's communism. That is literally going and taking money away from people that would otherwise,
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otherwise have to spend it. You're trying to squeeze people because of your own ego. It's
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all about your own ego, dude. This guy's ego is bigger than his beard. And the beard is very big.
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It's quite large. It's, it's, it's, it is also quite Marxian, by the way.
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Yeah. Do we have that, by the way, can we put it up here? Let's put up a 105. Has anyone ever seen
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Karl Marx and Oliver Anthony at the same place, same time? They haven't. It's never happened.
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That is cunning resemblance. Das Kapital is going to be his next, his next, his next song is going
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to be the workers of the world. Unite against the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie of Appalachia
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I would just say, be careful, be careful who you put your trust in. Be careful who you put your faith
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in. People are always going to come around flavor of the month, flash in the pan, and you should not
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trust people just because they are good actors, good painters, good musicians. Look, I love liberals.
01:22:45.840
I think liberals are great. I think liberals are wonderful. I want liberals in my society. I want
01:22:52.060
them painting nice pictures. I want them making food. I want them styling hair, doing fashion. I don't
01:23:00.800
want them running anything. I don't want them in charge of the military. I don't want them in charge of
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businesses. I don't want them in charge of police, but I think there's definitely a place for those
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with the artist's soul, just as long as they understand their place.
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I was waiting for who was going to say that. Final thoughts are, I'm never going to forget Banjo,
01:23:31.000
Ginger, Bernie Sanders. That's a line that's going to stick with me. Bravo, Charlie.
01:23:37.540
His ego is bigger than his beard. Here's the deal. I actually was sort of supportive of this guy when
01:23:41.780
he first came out. I think when we first talked about it on the show, I gave him a pass. I was
01:23:46.400
like, listen, he's new to this. And maybe that's still the case. Maybe he doesn't understand how
01:23:51.020
these deals get made. I don't care. But for him to be, him just be like, it's more tonal for me.
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He's like asserting the way, I don't know, something about it just strikes me as really
01:24:02.620
arrogant and self-important. And that's the part I don't like. And I think he's not passing the test
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of how to handle a lot of attention. He's fumbling royally. And expect glowing write-ups in Salon
01:24:23.060
There is a, Jack, do you have any final thoughts? Because I have a couple as we wrap this up
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tonight. Because there's something really deep here that I think that animates Oliver,
01:24:32.380
that Oliver, you just threw something out about hatred. I'll finish it.
01:24:36.740
About the type of people he hates. And I really like for you to get that out. But I think this is,
01:24:41.300
this is based on envy. This is based on anger. And it's looking at the world from a very negative
01:24:50.560
mindset. And it's a very negative mindset, a mindset of scarcity, not a mindset of abundance.
01:24:56.000
And I think that it's not, it's clearly not something that's in tune with what we need in
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this country. I'm just going to say, I really hope he preys on this and changes his mind. I really do.
01:25:06.660
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. And that applies to both Oliver Anthony
01:25:12.480
and that Virginia delegate candidates, you know, well, online page.
01:25:18.720
Yeah. So I have to actually go in a second here, but I want to just prove it to you. Almost every
01:25:22.420
mainstream media outlet is coming to Oliver Anthony's defense. Every single one. As I proved last
01:25:26.960
time, Oliver Anthony cancels event over too high ticket prices. Not true. Not true. And just,
01:25:34.820
okay, a couple of things. It's very clear that Oliver Anthony hates people who owns the means
01:25:38.460
of production. George Orwell called himself a socialist for most of his life. And the more
01:25:43.860
he hung around socialists, he realized they were more animated by the hatred of the rich
01:25:48.560
than trying to take care of the poor. We have to be very careful that our heroes who might say a thing
01:25:58.200
or two to try to represent working people are not animated by trying to go after people who own
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the means of production. I am all for representation for the working class, the white working class,
01:26:10.040
the black working class, all of it. I'm all for restoring the muscular class in this country.
01:26:16.300
But if we start to get in a direction where all of a sudden we're driven
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by people that have deep seated envy, anger, resentment, like Oliver Anthony,
01:26:25.100
then we're going to be in a real tough spot and a bad spot actually, because I think deep down
01:26:29.700
Oliver Anthony hates people who start businesses, hates entrepreneurs. And that really is dangerous.
01:26:37.660
I reject that completely. There is a healthy balance between entrepreneurs who make the world
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a better place and make the world work and the working class. That balance is a healthy one.
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Oliver Anthony, he is Ginger Bernie Sanders with a banjo. And with that, we wrap up our conversation
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tonight with Thought Crimes. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com. God bless you guys.