On this episode of THA Thought Crime Thursday, the boys discuss the latest in the Trump administration, including the latest on Kevin McCarthy and his potential replacement for Reince Priebus, the potential for a second term for Donald Trump, and much, much more!
00:09:41.900Yeah, so kind of echoing what you say, I think that Kevin was great in terms of the way that he was able to be open with TPUSA.
00:09:54.300I think that he was very open with a lot of people in the conservative movement and certainly on the MAGA part side of the house.
00:10:00.940I agree with what Tyler's saying about his stance on a lot of the issues.
00:10:05.040I guess my one concern, though, regarding that specifically and why I'd be, why I would say Lee Zeldin ahead of McCarthy for Chief of Staff is that with Zeldin, you have this situation where people, you know, I think everybody on all sides of the Republican Party has a lot of goodwill, or I should say Zeldin has a lot of goodwill with them.
00:10:29.640Whereas with Kevin, I feel like you risk kind of reigniting the entire rift that led to him being pushed out as speaker to begin with.
00:10:40.360And I'm not saying that he isn't qualified or anything like that.
00:10:42.820I'm just saying that it feels like it would reignite a lot of the things that have kind of simmered down since then.
00:10:48.540Yeah, just the best example would be someone who is like the unknown CEO of a mid-major publicly traded company that took it from good to great.
00:11:00.240Yeah, and you want to, because what's the problem we had so much in the first Trump administration?
00:11:05.020You know, you do an executive order and then the staff would just, you know, not do it.
00:11:09.940We've had James Bacon on the show and he talked about this.
00:11:12.420You have those executive personnel parasites, they slow play everything, they ignore things, they misinterpret your orders.
00:11:19.800I feel like you want a chief of staff who's going to be tracking those things and, you know, he follows up on it.
00:11:27.060Not two months later, not two years later, but two days later, two weeks later, says, why didn't you do this?
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00:20:16.140Our next thing is, we normally don't talk about this sort of thing, but it just, it piled up into such a big furball that we actually have a lot to say about it.
00:20:45.200I just inherently, if something has lasted for a while, I have like this primal instinct to protect it from the bacterial infection of the Wokis.
00:22:35.900And then we don't know where it was taken.
00:22:37.620Some people have theorized it's a photo that predates her surgery notably.
00:22:42.200And so this just people lost their minds.
00:22:45.440So people have speculated that she's dead, that she's in a coma, that she's like splitting with the Prince of Wales because he's having an affair with this other woman or that he impregnated this other woman.
00:25:27.420So when this first got announced, people thought, oh, well, she must have some kind of, you know, disease like Crohn's or something like that, where that's why she's getting surgery.
00:25:39.260And by the way, you have to go through many, many different surgeries throughout your lifetime if you have, you know, some kind of a disease that's relevant to that.
00:25:51.440So it's actually not shocking at all from what they said is like that she's undergoing the surgery in January.
00:25:58.120It's going to be a while before she recovers.
00:26:00.220And a lot of these are super invasive.
00:26:01.660They take out big chunks of your intestine.
00:26:04.420And you have to do that many times throughout your life.
00:26:29.320The big meta issue, of course, is, is it unhealthy for America that we like care about this to any degree?
00:26:35.160Well, I just think we care about government corruption and like government lines.
00:26:39.380It's a foreign governments and it's even corruption.
00:26:42.860It's they're just sort of designated state owned celebrities in the UK in like a weird way.
00:26:49.040I think it's more likely she got an invasive surgery that I mean, she's a royal.
00:26:54.720Well, so, you know, like they don't want to see these people like recovering and they don't want.
00:27:01.120There's like a bunch of people like that are looking at you, like how you're parenting and how you're doing your job and all that stuff.
00:27:07.640So it's just easier for them probably just to disappear.
00:27:11.260And it is probably just a stupid decision on behalf of the social media team of the royal family to be like, well, people are getting concerned.
00:27:33.140It's the it's like the new guillotine.
00:27:35.540Well, I mean, if you have a if she did undergo surgery because she has like a disease of some type that that required it and she was boosted, boosted multiple times,
00:27:52.940I mean, you should not take the mRNA genealogy shot if you have the autoimmune disease.
00:27:55.960A final kind of thought crimey issue is there are all all kidding from me aside.
00:28:02.560There are like quite a few accounts on Twitter and such that are, I guess, conservative coded that have full just fully leaped into the, you know, Kate Middleton's dead body double.
00:28:32.100Well, when you've been lied to so many times and you're used to sort of being in this frame that the media is always lying to you, that the government and specifically the government's always lying to you or, you know, government associated media in many of these cases, that you sort of develop this, you know, I guess you could call it a habit.
00:28:54.220I guess you could call it maybe a process or a frame that you're always sort of looking for the angle on everything.
00:29:00.120And you're always your your first your your prior assumption is going to be that, you know, that these people are lying to you personally, you know, I'm you know, I would look at it and say, you know, I think that this is a case where the British media has obviously anything with the royal family is going to be huge fodder in British media.
00:29:22.520I mean, they just love any kind of scandal with the royals.
00:29:25.700But I've also I would also point out that this is the first time in a long time that there's been a scandal with Kate and William, because for years prior to this, it's been all about Harry and Meghan Markle.
00:29:38.040And, you know, Nigel Farage even asked Trump if he would consider deporting Prince Harry over this.
00:29:43.520I guess I guess I guess I think it had to do with drug use.
00:29:47.880And then he you know, he lied on his visa application because in his book he talks about using heroin around the time that he was applying for his U.S. visa and all this.
00:29:56.300And so he could have lied. And so Trump kind of says, et cetera, that that maybe they you know, they wanted to kind of like achieve some parity with, you know, with Meghan and Harry and say, oh, we've gone on them a little bit too much.
00:30:08.920And, you know, here's Kate and William. We've got to dirty them up a little bit.
00:30:12.800So let's let's go in on this. And of course, you know, that fits with the you know, the sort of woke slant that we've seen from, you know, the BBC going in and, you know, race swapping like all of British history and, you know, Netflix doing the exact same thing with a lot of these historical shows that are set in the U.K.
00:30:30.160So it's like, hey, what what if we what if we get rid of of Kate as the queen?
00:30:35.420Does that mean that Meghan could maybe be the queen and that'll be like the next phase of it?
00:30:39.060I don't know. Just kind of seems like something they would want to be able to do.
00:30:43.020So let's go through the most likelihood of what this actually is.
00:30:46.060OK, I think we could probably do top six.
00:30:49.820How about so number six least likely is she went in for abdominal surgery and is under the weather and has to recover.
00:30:56.320That's boring. And we live in Donald Trump's earth, which means why wouldn't they just say that if that was the case?
00:31:01.600They have just said that. But Charlie, that's the boring answer.
00:31:05.080That's not exciting. So therefore, it's not true.
00:31:07.740We live in Donald Trump's world. The most interesting thing is more likely to be true.
00:31:10.840So then I bet for me, this is an alternate timeline that we're living in.
00:31:15.460For number five, I'd say the number five most possible is she's been arrested for murder.
00:31:24.000Oh, they have found out she took out. She's the queen.
00:31:27.620She's currently at Gitmo. She she's been arrested.
00:31:32.240Real, real, real, real, real, raw royals, real, raw royals.
00:31:37.180Number four is all the rumor, you know, the affair, divorce stuff.
00:31:41.240You know, I could I could buy that being true, you know, like and then maybe number three is have we considered, you know, they say it's an abdominal surgery.
00:31:52.200But what if it's a little bit lower if you can't like, no, like, no, no, we have to we have to entertain the possibility that that surgery has a long recovery time and would keep you away from the public eye.
00:32:08.720Princess of England would be having the opposite surgery as the first lady of France and that kid's situation or the former first lady of America.
00:32:29.380But obviously, the most likely result is, of course, that she, you know, she was she was killed by William and he should be in jail and he's going to get away with it because the deep state lets its actors get away with whatever they want.
00:33:32.740So I'm very glad that we're talking about Haiti on a Thursday.
00:33:36.240So who do you want to go deeper, Jack, into that or because not everyone knows that that they're they're changing the Big Mac in Port-au-Prince.
00:33:55.600Hey, so a lot of people have probably heard this by now.
00:33:58.120People have, you know, for anyone who hasn't, you know, there's basically a complete and there has been a complete lack of government in Haiti for about three years since the president was summarily assassinated pretty early on in the in the Biden administration.
00:34:12.220And so they had this sort of new warlord slash provisional president kind of thing that no one had ever actually elected or voted for.
00:34:22.120And he had been quasi in power for a couple of years.
00:34:27.020Yeah, he's now been deposed by the cannibal gangs who are running amok all over Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
00:34:35.660That government has completely fallen.
00:34:43.580I'm not entirely sure how many have fled the country at this point.
00:34:48.020But what's really amazing about Haiti and we actually write this in we because all this was going on, we decided to throw this into Unhumans in the book.
00:34:59.040And we did a whole section on it because a lot of people don't understand how Haiti became the way it is.
00:35:03.760But a lot of people and I don't know if we have the map handy of the island of Hispaniola as the entire island is called is that Haiti shares half of its island with the island with the country of Dominican Republic.
00:35:14.820The mid-republic was the Spanish colony.
00:35:20.240The difference being between the two is that during the French Revolution, the slaves slash former slaves of Haiti decided to rise up and essentially commit genocide against all the French people that lived on their half of the island.
00:35:37.680And slaughter all of them, the women, the screaming children, specifically along racial lines.
00:35:44.720Even, by the way, after the revolution, revolutionary government, and Blake and I discussed this, revolutionary government had freed the slaves, didn't matter, kill all the French anyway.
00:35:54.180So they did that and, I mean, you can just, it's amazing that this is a distinction that can now be seen from outer space, this borderline, because you have one country that over 200 years ago, 220 years ago,
00:36:10.060was founded in this sort of quasi-proto-Marxoid slave revolt, and then another country, which was founded by, you know, a serious country, the Spanish Empire, later gained its independence, fought many wars against Haiti.
00:36:26.760And you can see one is like a lush tropical resort and the other is a complete wasteland filled with cannibal gangs.
00:36:32.060And it is, it's important to note that Haiti is legitimately infested with demonic voodoo.
00:36:49.720Well, so, voodoo, you know, it's really where, Haiti is where voodoo comes from in the Western Hemisphere.
00:36:56.800So it's brought from a lot of much more ancient tribal African practices that were brought along, you know, again, you know, forcefully brought to the Caribbean.
00:37:09.800But it really was Haiti where voodoo made itself, you know, planted its flag in the Western world, in the Western Hemisphere.
00:37:17.700You see this spread throughout the other islands.
00:37:19.560You see, you know, these types of practices and a lot of like blending of West African traditions with Christianity and Catholicism.
00:37:28.620Again, Spanish, French empires, you get Catholicism there.
00:37:31.600And they come up with these very bizarre, very dark, demonic occult practices that are going on, in many cases, completely subverting Christianity and Christian symbols for use in these practices.
00:37:45.760And so you'll have cases where, you know, the killing and the ritual killing and the ritual ingestion of flesh, let's just say it, ingestion of flesh, is done as part of these rituals.
00:37:58.740In fact, during the slave revolt, or one of the early revolts going on back in 1804, one of the leaders of this was himself a shaman of sorts, a witchcraft shaman of sorts.
00:38:13.520And they were sacrificed animals, pass around the cup of blood for everyone to take part in, to kind of give them the blood rage.
00:38:23.940And then they would go off and start killing all of the plantation owners.
00:38:26.940I mean, what's crazy with voodoo is it's very much a, it's a belief with like a, where the supernatural has a lot of impact on your life.
00:38:38.560So they very much believe in the power of magic, that you can put curses on people, that you can cast spells on people.
00:38:45.460And, you know, and the famous voodoo doll is just sort of a fictional trope version of this.
00:38:50.420I don't know if they specifically do it that way, but the general idea that someone can put a curse on you, and there's all sorts of people who have magic.
00:39:16.040And in their version of it, it's more like they can kind of enslave a person, like they can kind of kill you, but control your body.
00:39:23.060And I believe, I don't have it in front of me, but I think there's cases where the power of suggestion is so strong.
00:39:28.720Like people have basically become zombies because they believe that they are a zombie and it's so powerful on it.
00:39:35.320But the big picture here, of course, is there's all this trouble in Haiti yet again.
00:39:40.920If you, you know, if you're 30 years old, this is probably about the eighth or ninth time there's been some like, oh, massive crisis in Haiti.
00:39:49.080And the government's a mess and there's gangs in the streets and they're doing all of this stuff.
00:40:25.160I think that they, I think China should have to try to figure out Haiti.
00:40:27.940Because there's sort of this, it's, it gets at, I think the flaws or the shortcomings of, if you want to call it our global neoliberal order post cold war, where what we do is we very much perpetuate a system that is clearly essentially hopeless.
00:40:43.980Haiti's government is a complete calamitous disaster and it is not serving the people of Haiti and it's not serving any of their neighbors for us to prop up what is clearly a disaster where,
00:40:54.960Oh, just an armed mercenary gang can murder your president and they literally can't even hold elections anymore.
00:41:03.260We can't even tell, are they canceling elections because they just want to be dictators or are they canceling elections because they are not even capable of organizing a vote by the public.
00:41:13.200That is the level of state failure that is the level of state failure that we are at.
00:41:16.480And in the past, a thousand years ago, it was not possible to have a failed state like this because if you were that much of a disaster, your neighbors came in and just took you over.
00:41:24.800And now instead, what we do is we have the international community and we have the United Nations and we have humanitarian missions and we're basically just dumping, you know, food and medical supplies into this anarchic, you know, disaster state.
00:41:41.940And the reason is that I think, first of all, I think part of the country is literally under a spiritual oppression.
00:41:47.300I've talked to missionaries and missionaries that have gone there and they say they've seen the darkest stuff that a human being can see.
00:41:54.280In fact, I know people that have come that went to Haiti passively as like agnostic atheists and they came back searching for Jesus because they saw like legit demonic activity.
00:42:03.560Well, do you have to do they say any more that?
00:42:06.560Yeah, there was one guy who saw somebody who literally didn't sleep for two weeks and would just like run literally run around and not sleep for two weeks, like ran through the whole island with like supernatural type capacity.
00:42:21.500There are claims that people have seen like quasi levitation stuff, like almost head spinning type stuff.
00:42:29.260And then Andrew says this was very common.
00:42:33.740Yeah, here's one that when Andrew was in Haiti, there were common stories about people turning into cats at night, which I don't know.
00:42:40.840They all knew someone that turned into cats.
00:42:45.700But this like supernatural energy or just also the stuff where, you know, you look in the Hollywood films where someone like looks possessed, right?
00:42:54.880Imagine like entire towns that look that way.
00:42:59.260Yeah, where it's just they they then there's a lot of churches there, too, and it's growing.
00:43:04.800But like Haitian voodoo culture is legit, like one out of three people in Haiti participate and they sacrifice animals and they do like pagan blood rituals.
00:43:16.640So, yeah, it doesn't seem to have worked out for them.
00:43:19.980No, I mean, yeah, look, show me a pagan culture that sustainably can survive.
00:43:26.420And, you know, there's a reason why the Aztecs are no longer around.
00:43:51.120No, what's crazy is what's going to what is at risk of destroying India is they got one of the most toxic intellectual imports from the West, which is affirmative action.
00:43:59.160And they do it by caste and it's a colossal disaster.
00:44:02.700They're one of the only countries that does affirmative action that is as stupid and bizarre as the way we do it in America, where if you're like in one of the four kind of normal castes, you're discriminated against systemically.
00:44:15.000And you instead it's the like tribes and other backward casts, I think is what they call them.
00:44:19.680Yeah, but that's the best management for the lifestyle of what you guys are talking about, where it's like essentially a free-for-all society that exists, which is, I mean, that's why it's basically plugging the dam on that that allows that to exist.
00:44:43.500I mean, there are islands that enter the second world, and they're not totally anarchy, and they're poor, but, you know, they have like resorts and, you know, Barbados, for example, Turks and Caicos, Grand Cayman.
00:44:56.080Dominican Republic is a lot like Haiti, same island, and it is literally, I think, more than 15 times richer than Haiti.
00:45:04.040Now, I do want to push back on one thing, which is Andrew and others are pointing out, you know, they revolted too early.
00:45:10.280And I will say, what we really need to blame here, and it's important to give right blame to these people, because they're to blame for a lot of things, is the French.
00:45:33.820And the reason I say they gave us Haiti is Haiti, as far as, you know, we get all of our, you know, horror porn about slavery in the U.S. before the Civil War, you know, 12 Years of Slave stuff, you know, whipping people.
00:45:46.680Like, Haiti, run by the French, was not like the antebellum South.
00:46:06.220So what you'd do is you'd constantly ship in slaves from Africa.
00:46:11.200It was estimated that a field hand in a Haitian sugar plantation had a life expectancy of about four years, like, from when they start working in there.
00:46:20.520And so that is why they revolted and killed everybody.
00:46:24.240It wasn't merely, you know, we want to be free.
00:46:26.980It was straight up, if we don't do this, odds are all of us will be dead in five years because of how horrifying this is.
00:46:35.420And so I just, I do want to give that concession that Haiti is super messed up.
00:46:40.380But much of this is downstream of when you have a catastrophically horrible way of running your country, such as anything set up by the French.
00:46:50.800And we still feel the ramifications 200 years later.
00:46:53.940And so we can even draw the comparison there between Haiti and Britain, where Britain has an orderly emancipation process for its colonies and the slaves in those colonies.
00:47:05.100And the result is that anything that's still a British colony today is pretty good.
00:47:09.980Any place that was a British colony is doing a lot better than anywhere that was a French colony.
00:47:40.660One of them went all the way down to Barbados.
00:47:42.260Well, Hamilton, I believe, was born there, and then he moved to the U.S., and that's why we got that musical where, you know, everyone is an immigrant and they rap and stuff.