Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 59 — Bring Back Blue States？ Michigan Vibe Shift？ Forrest Gump, Bad？

00:00:00.000 From the age of big brother.

00:00:26.220 If they want to get you, they'll get you.

00:00:28.240 The DNSA specifically targets the communications of everyone.

00:00:32.700 They're collecting your communications.

00:00:41.780 All right, here we are.

00:00:45.840 No, no, Jack, I'm here.

00:00:48.400 He got in.

00:00:49.500 He literally got into the seat.

00:00:50.720 I literally just got the message that says, open Jack.

00:00:54.680 It says right there.

00:00:55.880 Right there in the nose.

00:00:56.620 That is my bad.

00:00:57.300 It's my bad.

00:00:58.240 And then you sent me your coded message.

00:01:01.320 I don't know what that is.

00:01:02.620 I assume if I click on it, my crypto wallet gets strained.

00:01:06.760 Amazing.

00:01:07.200 You guys take it.

00:01:08.140 I am here to absorb.

00:01:09.700 Okay.

00:01:10.180 All right.

00:01:10.700 Well, we were just talking before we went live.

00:01:13.520 Like, what?

00:01:14.520 If you could change anything about the U.S. political system that's not a, that's not like

00:01:20.220 a partisan thing, like, oh, I'm a conservative.

00:01:22.160 I want a conservative thing to happen.

00:01:23.500 But just change one neutral thing about the system.

00:01:27.040 What would it be?

00:01:27.600 We should explain.

00:01:28.540 Because it was like, we were talking about how it feels like this is the never ending

00:01:31.640 election, even though we are actually close to the end of the election.

00:01:34.460 And it just feels like it started forever.

00:01:37.220 And then we know that whatever the next cycle is, it's going to start, like, probably halfway

00:01:41.380 through election night.

00:01:42.880 So we were joking before about how the British have this system where, you know, you're only 0.69

00:01:47.880 legally allowed to campaign, like, I forget what it is, three or four weeks prior to the

00:01:52.520 general election.

00:01:53.420 And so, you know, it would be kind of, kind of nice if we could have that.

00:01:58.180 I mean, obviously it would run up against the first amendment, but kind of nice if, if

00:02:02.040 just like get away from politics for two seconds, but no, no, we can't do that.

00:02:06.760 So, so yeah, the question is, um, and, and Blake, that's what you were saying.

00:02:10.160 You wanted to, you'd want to, you'd want to change the primary date, I think.

00:02:13.760 Yeah, I think I would just make it so like you have a, you, like you said, we, maybe you

00:02:17.600 have two or three weeks of official campaigning for a primary.

00:02:21.240 You have your official primary day, maybe like last week of September, first week of

00:02:26.060 October.

00:02:26.640 Then you have your month election period and then bam, you're done.

00:02:31.020 It's over and you can't start campaigning again until pretty close to the next election.

00:02:35.920 Isn't that a, just, well, how do you reconcile that with free speech though?

00:02:39.120 So I think what you can do is you can still shorten the actual campaign period.

00:02:43.040 Like you could make it so you don't actually announce your camp, like you just make it so

00:02:46.600 campaigns are not official until shortly before the election.

00:02:49.100 But you can, you can still advocate, you could still advocate, you could do it, but you

00:02:52.660 could make it so like all the spending and donation is way more efficient only during

00:02:57.460 this narrow window.

00:02:57.820 Then how do you regulate outside groups to spend money in June?

00:03:00.660 Well, you probably couldn't as easily.

00:03:02.800 Like there are, there are obvious, I'm saying this is a change I would make, you know, I'm

00:03:07.160 not saying it's illegal to make it or easy use.

00:03:08.580 We're just saying like if you were, you know, like wave a magic wand and could change something.

00:03:12.200 I'm trying to, yeah.

00:03:13.240 So you think there should be a national primary date?

00:03:15.320 Like, yeah, I think that'd be a good idea.

00:03:17.580 You want a big government nationalized primary date instead of like a state's rights.

00:03:21.120 I don't know that it's a super important part of states' rights.

00:03:24.300 Again, we're just saying.

00:03:25.460 You don't think it's important that states get to decide here in Arizona.

00:03:28.860 Our snowbirds don't come back until September.

00:03:31.480 You know, as entertaining as it is, and I guess as lucrative as it is for us as people who

00:03:35.580 cover politics, I don't think it's like super amazing that it takes like eight months,

00:03:41.220 just the primary process, and we have all this maneuvering where like Iowa matters a

00:03:46.560 ton, and then New Hampshire, and then like, oh, well, to your point, wait, if there was

00:03:53.460 one thing I would change, it would be the first in the nation primaries.

00:04:00.140 And so I know there's a lot of people who are like, that's the holy of holies, you can't

00:04:03.600 touch it.

00:04:04.400 How dare you?

00:04:05.000 Oh, no.

00:04:05.540 In the RNC, too, they're like, you can't touch Iowa or New Hampshire.

00:04:10.240 You know why we do this, by the way?

00:04:12.760 It's because of the corn god.

00:04:14.020 We are in thrall to the corn god who commands that we prostrate ourselves before him in the

00:04:19.480 state of Iowa.

00:04:20.180 I mean, I think there should be like a lottery, and this would make it be like a big thing.

00:04:28.160 Like everybody, it would be like a big national thing, big lottery thing, and like we're all

00:04:32.880 talking about it.

00:04:33.940 Only if Trump could run it.

00:04:34.760 We could do it like the NBA lottery.

00:04:36.360 Like if your state is like doing really bad, like economically, you would get more balls

00:04:40.460 than the hopper for getting the first primary.

00:04:42.380 That's great.

00:04:43.160 That's great. 1.00

00:04:43.780 If you're like the worst, you get more balls. 0.99

00:04:47.160 So the one thing, I think that it's time, and it's still law, to go back to taxpayer-funded 0.99

00:04:54.060 presidential elections.

00:04:55.700 Yeah, I think.

00:04:56.400 I mean, that's how you could do it.

00:04:57.460 We did it before Obama.

00:04:57.820 No, I mean, it's already law.

00:04:58.740 By the way, it's not a new law.

00:04:59.740 It's just that every year the candidates reject the money.

00:05:01.920 I think what you need to do is make the money so hard, like say that you get $2 billion,

00:05:07.060 and then-

00:05:08.100 That's it.

00:05:08.380 That's it.

00:05:08.740 But you can't, by the way, just so we're clear, that means there's no fundraisers.

00:05:11.460 No fundraisers.

00:05:11.920 And then you have to figure, and I say this as someone who runs an outside group, a PAC

00:05:15.460 and a C4 with Tyler, you got to figure a way to rein in the outside groups.

00:05:19.980 The Citizens United case was legitimately the right decision, like constitutionally.

00:05:24.560 It's bad for our country.

00:05:25.760 I'm sorry.

00:05:26.460 It is bad.

00:05:27.260 We are in permanent politics.

00:05:28.780 I am with the Young Turks on this one.

00:05:30.420 Totally agree.

00:05:30.700 It is bad.

00:05:32.060 It is bad.

00:05:34.100 I totally agree.

00:05:35.400 Right?

00:05:35.920 I totally agree.

00:05:37.120 To be clear, the specific case, they wanted to like censor a documentary attacking Hillary.

00:05:41.380 A book, actually.

00:05:41.480 A book, yeah.

00:05:42.040 No, no, that's why it was the right-

00:05:42.960 That was an insane claim.

00:05:44.280 Just so we're clear, it was one of those things where it was the right constitutional

00:05:48.600 decision that was bad for the country.

00:05:51.100 It's the right decision, but here's the point.

00:05:53.640 Nobody saw what the left was going to do after that, which was like basically weaponize all

00:05:57.260 these C3s and C4s- 1.00

00:05:58.440 Exactly.

00:05:58.780 With no regulation.

00:05:59.900 And we're just barely figuring this out as a nation.

00:06:03.340 It's so bad.

00:06:04.060 Basically, what it has done is it's gamified politics of whoever has the more complex,

00:06:09.720 sophisticated infrastructure against political power, not who has better ideas or a better

00:06:13.480 track record.

00:06:14.040 That's right.

00:06:14.220 Yeah.

00:06:14.420 And that's bad.

00:06:15.680 I just, I don't think that's actually healthy.

00:06:17.940 This is a-

00:06:18.440 You know why this is bad?

00:06:19.580 Can I just say this real quick?

00:06:20.760 You know why I think it's bad?

00:06:22.020 The entire concept of America is built on the individual.

00:06:25.420 So anything that takes away from the individual, whether that's, again, the same argument the

00:06:29.160 left makes against corporations.

00:06:30.320 This is the same thing as corporations acting as C3s and C4s.

00:06:35.640 Sorry.

00:06:36.040 Go ahead.

00:06:36.800 So this would be another controversial kind of secular, nonpartisan change, but maybe a

00:06:41.840 little more dangerous and definitely not good for us right now.

00:06:45.520 But I do kind of wonder if like, would it be good if we had a very long, but in existence

00:06:54.020 like term limit on Supreme Court justices?

00:06:56.860 So it would work this way.

00:06:58.480 Supreme-

00:06:58.680 No, you need to term limits first on Congress before you go to Supreme Court. 0.98

00:07:01.140 So-

00:07:01.640 It's like, that's what I always say.

00:07:02.520 Look in the mirror first.

00:07:03.700 For sure.

00:07:04.160 For sure.

00:07:04.720 Okay.

00:07:04.980 So the thinking here is what I'm thinking is, is it's clearly like, one thing that's

00:07:10.300 clearly driving the left insane and why they're going to like nuke the filibuster and

00:07:13.480 do all this radical stuff is because they see the Supreme Court as this like huge obstacle.

00:07:18.940 So what if you did it?

00:07:19.980 This is a, this is a system.

00:07:21.040 Actually, I think Steve Saylor proposed this where basically you still have the nine justices

00:07:24.920 and what it is, is when you get picked, you get an 18 year term.

00:07:29.680 And so 18, a full 18 year term.

00:07:31.440 And if you die or retire, you can be replaced, but that replacement can only serve out your

00:07:35.760 term.

00:07:36.200 I have a question.

00:07:37.080 And then what this does, just to finish it up, what this would do is it means every president

00:07:41.440 would get two picks.

00:07:42.580 It would take three consecutive terms in a row to get a majority on the Supreme Court.

00:07:49.040 And you wouldn't get this thing where like, you know, there's as it's not as tempting to

00:07:53.360 like pack the court and it would diminish somewhat this thing where they've realized

00:07:58.100 having them on the court for life is such an advantage.

00:08:00.200 So we're picking like 40 year olds to serve on the Supreme Court now because they're like,

00:08:03.520 Oh, they'll be there for 50 years.

00:08:05.080 And it's clearly like people part, both parties are starting to realize the extreme elements

00:08:10.320 latent in the Supreme Court.

00:08:11.820 And I do worry it's going to eventually like cause one of them to have a psychotic break

00:08:16.420 and blow up the system.

00:08:17.540 It's because post Bork, the Supreme Court has become politicized.

00:08:21.240 It is much more political.

00:08:22.260 Prior Bork, it was not.

00:08:23.740 Bork was the Rubicon.

00:08:25.200 Yeah.

00:08:25.940 Bork then Thomas.

00:08:27.140 And it made sense too that like we needed it to be more political because what we were

00:08:30.400 doing is we just had like Eisenhower going and picking Earl Warren and then Earl Warren

00:08:34.600 is going and be like, yeah, I'm just going to remake the entire constitutional order.

00:08:38.080 And then Berger did the same thing.

00:08:39.320 And Berger was a lot better.

00:08:40.880 The Berger court was a big improvement. 0.98

00:08:42.360 He sucked. 0.86

00:08:43.200 Well, personally, his court was an improvement over Warren's. 0.99

00:08:47.220 That'll get clipped because they'll be like, oh, Warren did the just stop.

00:08:50.700 Warren was really bad.

00:08:51.700 Yeah.

00:08:51.880 Warren like, I mean, that's why we get all these, you know, insane pro crime decisions.

00:08:55.200 And then we had a giant crime surge.

00:08:58.080 You get that's where you get the Supreme Court saying, actually, all those laws that ban

00:09:02.460 racial discrimination actually require racial discrimination. 0.56

00:09:05.800 And, you know, you have the rights to abortion.

00:09:07.680 Like all this insane stuff comes out of the judicial ideology they had.

00:09:11.700 Anyway, that's very much downstream.

00:09:14.300 Jack had a fun rule he wanted to change in the U.S. political system.

00:09:17.760 Well, I want to ask you this question before you get to Jack's real quick.

00:09:21.060 Would you trade term limits for Congress, for Supreme Court?

00:09:27.820 As in take Congress term limits instead?

00:09:30.180 So Charlie said that we need, would you want Supreme Court term limits if we could get congressional

00:09:37.400 term limits?

00:09:38.180 I don't know that term limits in Congress are overall as useful.

00:09:43.200 I don't know what you'd be fixing with that necessarily.

00:09:45.380 I worry that if you had term limits in Congress, it would make Congress even more kind of controlled

00:09:50.620 by like lobbyists and D.C. lifers because there would be no one with like the level of experience

00:09:55.440 in Congress to counteract them.

00:09:56.960 They would just kind of do what I think that was the intention of Congress to begin with.

00:10:00.800 I mean, California has term limits and is California like we have term limits here in Arizona.

00:10:06.080 Yeah.

00:10:06.600 And I don't know.

00:10:08.040 I'm not sold on that.

00:10:09.040 One crazy idea I had was if you made it so once you like serve in Congress or in a senior

00:10:15.180 executive position, you can literally never earn more money than you make while a member

00:10:21.700 of government.

00:10:22.300 So there's not as much incentive to cash out.

00:10:24.080 It's like it's a public service thing.

00:10:25.800 You maybe go into it after your career is done.

00:10:27.960 That won't hold up in court though, unfortunately.

00:10:29.640 And you can't restrict people's income.

00:10:30.480 You can't become a lobbyist.

00:10:31.880 I bet you could.

00:10:33.000 Give me one example of where you've been able to say you can't earn a certain amount of money.

00:10:36.580 Well, you could earn a certain amount of money, but you could radically increase their

00:10:39.040 tax rate.

00:10:39.820 Or you could increase like...

00:10:41.420 You just take their money.

00:10:43.120 Yeah.

00:10:43.800 Or you just say this.

00:10:44.960 I am in favor of taking the money of people who are in the government.

00:10:48.140 I know.

00:10:48.420 A lot of this stuff will get struck down.

00:10:49.360 You can just outlaw somebody.

00:10:50.660 But this is...

00:10:51.180 We're kind of wildly speculating here.

00:10:52.960 No.

00:10:53.480 This is...

00:10:54.240 This is a lot.

00:10:54.940 You can outlaw...

00:10:55.420 The question is if you could change anything.

00:10:57.140 Just change anything.

00:10:58.560 You can outlaw someone becoming a lobbyist after...

00:11:01.640 That would be another one.

00:11:02.720 Like lifetime or like decade-long lobbying ban.

00:11:05.720 Or you could...

00:11:06.460 Lifetime.

00:11:07.100 Should be lifetime.

00:11:07.480 Yeah.

00:11:07.740 You could do stuff like that.

00:11:08.680 Or...

00:11:08.880 And often my thought was you could also actually hike the pay of Congress.

00:11:11.900 Like Singapore does this.

00:11:12.960 In Singapore, government officials are paid a ton of money.

00:11:16.880 But...

00:11:16.960 Yeah.

00:11:17.060 Like the standards for them are very high.

00:11:18.920 So that's one way you could do it.

00:11:20.000 You could maybe say, yeah, senators, you make 400K a year or 500K.

00:11:24.540 But you can never make more than that once you leave.

00:11:26.440 Or same for the House.

00:11:27.460 And you know, that would be a few million dollars.

00:11:29.260 People would be annoyed by it.

00:11:30.300 But I think the incentive shift would be better.

00:11:33.060 Let me talk about one of our partners here.

00:11:34.340 Then I have to step out for just a second here.

00:11:35.920 But let me go to one of these here.

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00:12:14.080 I will be right back.

00:12:15.040 You guys keep going.

00:12:15.980 All righty.

00:12:16.460 Well, you're going to miss out on a very fun topic, but it's okay.

00:12:19.060 Yeah.

00:12:19.260 So, well, Tyler will be good on this.

00:12:21.920 So the first one that I wanted to say is just that I don't.

00:12:26.880 So, you know, just having little kids, it's really tough.

00:12:30.240 And Tyler, I'm sure you can attest to this as well.

00:12:32.600 That it's really tough having election season being this close to Halloween because it's

00:12:37.880 like you, you want to do, you know, the fun fall stuff.

00:12:41.080 You want to do jack-o'-lanterns and pumpkins and Tanya Tay is like, oh, let's go for on 1.00

00:12:45.800 the hayride.

00:12:46.460 And I'm like, no, let's go to Pennsylvania and North Carolina and Georgia and win the

00:12:51.740 election.

00:12:52.060 And let's go to all this stuff.

00:12:53.560 And you're like, meanwhile, you know, because it's again, the first Tuesday after the first

00:12:57.480 Monday in November is the constitution.

00:12:59.720 And that made sense when we were an agrarian society.

00:13:02.580 But now it's sort of like, like, you know, lots of modern countries vote on all sorts

00:13:07.200 of different days.

00:13:07.920 And, you know, Blake and I were joking before we went live that I used the old joke that,

00:13:12.340 oh, we should vote on April 16th.

00:13:14.340 So it's the day after everybody pays taxes or something, you know, that's that when you

00:13:19.660 have everyone go to the polls, but it's just like, does it really have to be this close

00:13:23.080 to Halloween?

00:13:24.080 It's killing me, man.

00:13:25.080 It's killing me.

00:13:27.080 I totally agree.

00:13:28.860 We were just actually just talking about this with Charlie because Charlie's like, Hey, I've

00:13:31.960 got, he's like, I've got some space on my calendar to do some extra things.

00:13:35.780 We're trying to figure out with our team going out and doing more, get out the vote stuff.

00:13:39.620 Cause that's how we're thinking.

00:13:40.620 We're just like every second, every hour.

00:13:42.840 And he's like, okay, I have this time on a Thursday and I'm like, okay, show it to me.

00:13:47.140 It was, it was 10 31.

00:13:49.380 I'm like, that's Halloween.

00:13:51.940 He's like, he's like, can we go do a big rally?

00:13:54.340 I'm like, it's going to be really hard in the Midwest to get a bunch of families together

00:13:58.800 on Halloween night.

00:13:59.740 He's like, Oh, I didn't think about that.

00:14:01.120 And I was like, well, like, well, what can we do?

00:14:03.300 We're thinking of some other strategies that we're going to do some other things that night

00:14:05.940 later that night while everybody's at home and kids are like lining up their candy on

00:14:09.680 the ground.

00:14:10.340 But like, yeah.

00:14:11.240 Wait, Halloween's on a Thursday this year.

00:14:12.840 That means we have a, that means that's a thought crime night, isn't it?

00:14:17.100 Yeah, I guess.

00:14:17.920 Very spooky edition of thought.

00:14:20.320 Is Charlie normal on Halloween or does he have, I know some, some people are like, you

00:14:24.540 know, it's so in and it's like, it's like demonic or satanic or whatever.

00:14:29.280 Well, I mean, look, we have a lot of religious that are listening at home right now who are

00:14:32.980 not big fans of Halloween.

00:14:34.420 Totally appreciate that.

00:14:35.600 Totally understand that.

00:14:36.900 I kick the more, you know, hallmark approach to Halloween, which is just like culturally,

00:14:43.640 I think this is a thought crime subject that we can kind of maybe transform this into.

00:14:48.040 Cause I totally agree with Jack.

00:14:49.020 It's like election year is really tough. 0.99

00:14:52.140 Halloween, it always sucks.

00:14:53.140 Cause it's like literally days, hours, stressful moments before the election. 0.68

00:14:57.000 But here's the bigger question is, is, uh, you know, on Halloween is like how much, uh,

00:15:04.660 how much should you celebrate Halloween in general?

00:15:08.260 Right.

00:15:08.900 And as a American cultural element, which I love Halloween because the, the culture in

00:15:15.140 it, when you go overseas and Jack can probably attest to this a little bit with his extended

00:15:20.600 family and everything else, like people abroad have this obsession with how America celebrates

00:15:26.700 Halloween is like a really interesting thing.

00:15:29.340 Well, so in, in Eastern Europe, um, all saints day and all souls day are bigger than Halloween.

00:15:34.600 So Halloween is growing like in Westernized places, uh, in different parts of even like

00:15:40.260 Asia and Europe, but in Eastern Europe, the, so like the institution of Halloween goes back

00:15:45.300 to all saints day being November 1st and then all souls days the day after.

00:15:49.600 So, you know, in Eastern Europe, if it's, if it's early November and you go to the cemetery

00:15:54.480 and this is where that we get the name Halloween comes from all Hallows Eve and hallowed being

00:15:58.740 a soul or a saint.

00:15:59.820 And so let's wait, like when you say that our father, um, you know, hallowed be thy name,

00:16:03.980 holy be thy name, hallowed, all Hallows Eve.

00:16:06.600 So on, on that day, if you go to a cemetery in Poland or anywhere in Eastern Europe, you're

00:16:12.180 just going to see candles everywhere and garlands of wreaths and bouquets of flowers.

00:16:17.680 And it's not, it's not like the Mexican day of the dead, although it's, it's not dissimilar.

00:16:22.980 I mean, there's certainly some similarities to it in terms of honoring those who passed

00:16:26.900 before you.

00:16:27.820 Uh, but that's really where it goes back to.

00:16:30.240 And it's, so you don't know, you don't get like trick or treating and jack-o'-lanterns

00:16:33.280 and things like this and other parts of the world, uh, and the costumes and all.

00:16:36.560 Again, you are starting to see some areas that are celebrating it in the American way in

00:16:41.380 the same way that it's seemingly like you can go to like Japan and China and some places

00:16:44.600 that they have, uh, they have like Santa Claus and Christmas, but then of course you can't

00:16:48.480 go to Saudi Arabia and celebrate Christmas because Christian holidays are banned in the

00:16:52.980 kingdom.

00:16:53.380 Oh, there you go.

00:16:56.520 All right.

00:16:57.240 Should we go on to the, to the boat topic?

00:17:00.020 Wait, wait, wait.

00:17:00.780 But there was, there was the one other change, the one other change, Blake, that we, that

00:17:03.700 we were talking about before.

00:17:05.980 Oh, oh yeah.

00:17:06.700 The map.

00:17:07.920 Yeah.

00:17:08.280 The map.

00:17:08.620 So, so Tyler, where are you on this?

00:17:11.060 Cause Blake and I are actually in agreement, red and blue.

00:17:13.920 We want to change the colors back.

00:17:15.820 We want to change it back to is what the greatest cultural hijacking of the Republican party

00:17:22.740 happened in that election with Bush where they swapped the colors on us.

00:17:26.340 Blue is a better color.

00:17:27.660 Thank you.

00:17:28.360 It's the blue.

00:17:29.100 It's the conservative color.

00:17:30.300 I can't remember who it was.

00:17:31.580 I think it was red are the commies.

00:17:33.420 Red should always be the commies. 1.00

00:17:35.120 Like they are all around the world.

00:17:36.600 It was NBC news, um, or CBS is one of the two that, cause remember this is like, this,

00:17:43.400 this is just before the 24 hour news cycle cable news had really taken.

00:17:47.600 And people have to get this.

00:17:48.660 That is the red States and blue States thing did not exist prior to the year 2000.

00:17:53.300 That was not a thing.

00:17:54.700 It was the 2000 election.

00:17:56.380 They decided.

00:17:57.140 Yeah.

00:17:57.540 They totally decided it.

00:17:58.940 It was NBC got together in cahoots with CBS where that you would tune in and they just

00:18:04.260 decided overnight to swap red States and blue States, probably because they saw polling

00:18:10.180 that said that people didn't like the color red as much.

00:18:13.660 Well, I think they used to, they used to just actually like switch it back and forth a lot.

00:18:18.580 Nope.

00:18:18.880 That's not true.

00:18:19.580 It was always, it was the, the blue States during Reagan.

00:18:23.580 It was like Reagan was blue and that was like in the American psyche.

00:18:28.200 And this is because you know what it was though.

00:18:30.780 It was because Tyler, what it was, was that some, some, uh, networks did it, that blue

00:18:35.560 was the incumbent and then red was the challenger.

00:18:38.760 So because Reagan was the incumbent, Reagan was blue and then his challengers would be in

00:18:45.100 red because red was like the challenger.

00:18:47.640 But even prior to that, I think it's what Blake said.

00:18:49.740 It was just sort of like you would depict your opposition as blue basically, or excuse me,

00:18:54.340 your opposition would be red because during the cold war, nobody wanted to be red.

00:18:57.660 And your point too, is this, is that worldwide, all of the labor party colors, all of the, uh,

00:19:07.420 socialism left of center colors are always red on every map, every, uh, and again, outside

00:19:15.440 of America, it's the conservative parties sometimes take hold, but then most of them are known as

00:19:22.220 liberal democratic parties, which are the Republican equivalents in most, in most

00:19:27.400 countries.

00:19:27.780 And they're always depicted as blue, always depicted as blue, not swapped.

00:19:32.140 And it happened until 2000.

00:19:33.160 And that is not taught in schools and it should be taught in schools and we should demand it.

00:19:38.460 You know, when Trump takes back over, he should come out and be like, I think we need to have

00:19:42.420 blue back on the map.

00:19:45.360 I'm not going to, we're going to make this an executive order.

00:19:48.020 It would be an amazing marketing.

00:19:49.260 Everyone would rebuy the blue MAGA hat.

00:19:51.080 Yeah, it should be, we're going to do a blue MAGA hat and this next election, JD, God bless

00:19:56.740 JD.

00:19:57.260 He's going to be an incredible president or whoever, you know, whoever Trump endorses, he's

00:20:02.100 only going to be depicted as blue from now on.

00:20:05.300 Otherwise we're going to cut funding for PBS, whatever.

00:20:08.940 But then Trump wouldn't be able to wear his red tie, that's the issue.

00:20:12.360 And PBS should come out and you put, you put PBS should come out.

00:20:15.300 Hey, just so you know, this next election, Republicans are going to be depicted as blue

00:20:18.460 and then everyone's going to have to follow suit.

00:20:19.920 It's so easy, right?

00:20:21.880 That's the pathway.

00:20:23.520 Now I'm, I'm looking now like through the history and they like, yeah, they actually

00:20:26.200 do overtly say this where they were just like, yeah, like, you know, the red state

00:20:29.700 thing associated, the Democrats were not happy about being associated with like pinko commies. 0.59

00:20:35.300 They didn't like reds. 1.00

00:20:36.200 So they wanted such a scam, man, such a scam, total scam, just straight up hijacking.

00:20:43.980 It definitely is a real thing.

00:20:47.900 So what else are we discussing?

00:20:49.620 A boat sank, Charlie.

00:20:50.820 Did you hear about this?

00:20:51.680 We haven't even gotten to our actual like first topic, but that was a fun, a fun riff.

00:20:56.360 So have you heard about this?

00:20:58.000 There was a lesbian boat captain or something? 1.00

00:20:59.300 Okay.

00:20:59.440 Yeah.

00:20:59.680 So basically, you know, I think like the worst defeat in the entire history of the Royal

00:21:04.840 Navy was, I think it was, there was a battle they lost in World War One where like one 0.85

00:21:09.800 German ship sank like eight of their ships or something like that.

00:21:13.060 Anyway, when that happened, it was maybe 3% of the total Royal Navy.

00:21:17.540 Anyway, I only bring that up for comparison because basically more than 10% of the entire

00:21:22.580 New Zealand Navy just sank in peacetime.

00:21:26.080 It is their first ship lost since World War Two.

00:21:29.180 Let me get the name because it's this like whack-a-doodle.

00:21:31.820 So this is not the U.S. Navy.

00:21:33.300 This is not the U.S. Navy, but it's, you know, part of the American empire because who are

00:21:37.340 we kidding?

00:21:37.900 It's New Zealand.

00:21:39.140 And so this was the HMNZS Manawanui, a hydrographic vessel commissioned in 2019.

00:21:50.980 And it sank off the coast of Samoa four days ago because it ran aground on like, it ran

00:21:58.800 aground somehow, had a, had a gash ripped in it and the whole thing sank.

00:22:02.680 And that is noteworthy because the captain of this nautical vessel was the first woman

00:22:08.760 and first lesbian commander of a ship in the New Zealand Navy.

00:22:13.040 And, you know, people, people are drawing hateful conclusions based on that, Charlie.

00:22:17.540 So, uh, why would they draw hateful conclusions?

00:22:21.260 But you're not allowed to mention that she's, was she chosen for as like a DEI deal?

00:22:27.300 Well, you know, officially no, but unofficially, who are we kidding?

00:22:31.140 Uh, we're not supposed to talk about it now, but I think we can all agree, you know, before

00:22:35.520 she unfortunately managed to do the one thing you're not supposed to do with your boat, which 1.00

00:22:39.480 is sink it by running into things.

00:22:42.720 Uh, it was probably, it was kind of highlighted, you know, Oh, look, look at the diversity we have

00:22:46.680 in our Navy.

00:22:47.240 We have this extreme, this extremely diverse person doing this not traditionally diverse

00:22:51.460 job.

00:22:52.520 Uh, so, you know, we're all very happy about this, but this is an incredible thing I wanted

00:22:57.000 to highlight, which right after this happened, a, uh, a fellow on X named, uh, John Conrad,

00:23:03.380 who is the CEO of maritime news.

00:23:05.780 He had an extremely funny take on this.

00:23:09.260 He says, I interviewed a female veteran who served as an officer on American ships about

00:23:13.820 this incident, the ship sinking, and she shared an intriguing perspective I've never heard

00:23:18.260 before.

00:23:18.860 She said it took men centuries and thousands of shipwrecks to master commanding ships without

00:23:25.500 major incidents.

00:23:26.340 And we should expect some losses as women who think differently, learn the ropes and gain 1.00

00:23:32.340 the experience of doing it their way, doing it.

00:23:35.860 That is driving a ship to not sink.

00:23:38.520 She said losses are to be expected and they are okay, especially if there's no loss of

00:23:43.240 life.

00:23:43.700 She said, we shouldn't try to investigate this from a male perspective, but learn lessons

00:23:50.200 from a female perspective.

00:23:52.280 So this is all a learning experience.

00:23:54.840 Charlie, women are learning how to drive boats without sinking them. 1.00

00:23:58.520 And we need to be understanding this boat cost a hundred million dollars, by the way.

00:24:02.860 And, uh, you just, we gotta, we've gotta be very understanding and empathetic about this,

00:24:10.720 you know, as we worry about China expanding aggressively and we're going to, the real tragedy,

00:24:17.000 Charlie would be if we allowed this sunk boat to sink our commitment to diversity.

00:24:22.680 We can't allow that to happen.

00:24:24.080 It would put an anchor on the DEI agenda.

00:24:28.220 It would, it would, it'd be heartbreaking.

00:24:30.380 We need to, we need to sail, you know, the high seas of equity can be, can be turbulent,

00:24:36.560 but they must be sailed.

00:24:38.700 I think these programs have gone completely overboard.

00:24:40.700 Jack was in the Navy.

00:24:41.920 Completely overboard.

00:24:42.980 He's completely overboard, but these programs, I think we should hoist these programs by the

00:24:49.560 yard arm.

00:24:50.280 And we would definitely want to keel hall over in laughter when we hear more, but I don't

00:24:56.580 want anyone to be too salty when they hear that the record won't go as well as everyone

00:25:03.900 had thought.

00:25:04.920 So you don't need to be wearing a Dixie cup to understand that this isn't going to work.

00:25:09.980 I could probably do more, but I'm just going to stop there.

00:25:11.960 Um, it does remind me though, of, uh, funny enough, it's not really a DEI story, but, um,

00:25:17.740 Blake, you're familiar with the work of L. Ron Hubbard, right?

00:25:20.860 Oh yeah.

00:25:21.340 Yeah.

00:25:21.500 Yeah.

00:25:21.600 Yeah.

00:25:21.780 The Dianetics.

00:25:22.660 Yeah.

00:25:23.080 Dianetics.

00:25:23.980 Scientology.

00:25:24.500 So, so he spent a lot of time on a boat.

00:25:27.080 No, he did.

00:25:27.580 Yeah.

00:25:27.740 He, it was, it was called this, this, this, the, um, he has a, the church of Scientology

00:25:32.420 has a, has a boat right now.

00:25:35.060 Oh yeah.

00:25:35.120 That's where like you get the top level Scientology.

00:25:37.320 It's the C organization, the C or T eight or something they call it.

00:25:40.600 Yeah.

00:25:40.880 But did you know, did you know that L. Ron Hubbard prior to all of this in world war

00:25:46.260 two served as a Navy officer.

00:25:48.220 And when he was in the Navy officer, he worked on a patrol boat out of San Diego.

00:25:52.780 And one of his jobs was to on the patrol boat was to escort, um, like aircraft carriers

00:25:58.800 in and out of Harbor again, during world war two.

00:26:00.660 So there was this real risk that Japanese submarines might come in and attack the aircraft carriers

00:26:05.480 as they were going in and out of port.

00:26:06.860 This was a time when they were extremely vulnerable, obviously Pearl Harbor had happened.

00:26:10.600 So, uh, there was a lot of tension around the harbors.

00:26:12.980 And so at one point he escorts this, uh, I don't see what ship it was here.

00:26:16.860 He escorts this aircraft carrier out and then he's bringing it back in and he orders his

00:26:21.500 men to, he's very young here as before Dianetics and everything.

00:26:24.920 And he orders the men to sail towards these islands that are just South of Coronado.

00:26:29.860 And when he, when he does this, he then decides to hold an unsanctioned, um, gunnery exercise

00:26:36.880 while he's there and says, open fire on those islands.

00:26:39.780 And let's just get some gunnery exercise while we're in unscheduled, et cetera, et cetera. 0.76

00:26:43.820 Well, it turns out that he had actually sailed, uh, South of the border and into the territorial

00:26:49.100 waters of Mexico.

00:26:50.480 And that those were the part of the Coronado Island chain that actually fell under Mexican

00:26:55.800 sovereignty.

00:26:56.760 Uh, and so long story short, L Ron Hubbard was relieved of command for accidentally declaring

00:27:01.640 war on Mexico.

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00:27:47.840 Now, wait a minute, Charlie, on this topic, someone did have a good commentary here, and this

00:27:53.760 is like a DEI related comment.

00:27:55.860 The comment on the thread was it's always the left celebrating people's sexuality and where

00:28:04.060 they come from, from a minority status or whatever else until they screw up and then 1.00

00:28:08.940 they don't recognize them anymore.

00:28:11.300 So it's always like, look at this wonderful captain of the ship.

00:28:15.540 That's a lesbian, the first lesbian ever to captain a ship. 1.00

00:28:18.180 And then she sinks the ship and then she's not a lesbian anymore. 1.00

00:28:20.400 They don't, they don't cover that part.

00:28:22.140 And it's the same thing that happens whenever people commit crime that are out on the streets

00:28:26.240 is they, they, you know, they want to celebrate people for their, for their gender, for their

00:28:32.740 ethnicity, for all that.

00:28:33.960 But as soon as they commit a crime, they're like, Oh, I think this is a man with a dark 0.99

00:28:38.240 complexion.

00:28:38.940 He's no longer, you know, Hispanic or black or whatever, whenever, whenever somebody commits 0.99

00:28:43.560 a crime, same thing.

00:28:45.580 So you can't have it both ways.

00:28:47.080 And that's actually what's destructive in society.

00:28:50.380 Michigan.

00:28:50.860 Tyler, do you want to talk about that?

00:28:51.900 What's going on in Michigan?

00:28:52.760 All of a sudden, I mean, over the summer, we thought Michigan was kind of dead.

00:28:55.980 And all of a sudden, Michigan has roared back to life as a legitimate, not a BS, like one

00:29:02.620 off poll, a legitimate battleground state.

00:29:04.860 And this has kind of been a slow crawl.

00:29:06.860 Trump down four, Trump down three.

00:29:08.440 All of a sudden, poll after poll shows Trump up in Michigan.

00:29:11.900 Tyler, what is going on here?

00:29:13.800 Well, I have a theory and then I want to hear your theory.

00:29:16.000 Well, I mean, look, we, we saw in 2016, the surprise win in Michigan happened because

00:29:21.400 the left invested so little into the state of Michigan that they thought it was just

00:29:25.360 like a done deal that Hillary was going to win Michigan. 1.00

00:29:27.840 There's a couple of things to think about.

00:29:29.520 We can get into potentially down the road here.

00:29:31.360 But Michigan is just right over the border from Ohio.

00:29:33.840 You have a lot of the same things, right?

00:29:35.460 Blue collar workers, the unions are clearly coming out in support of Donald Trump.

00:29:41.260 So the polling that's taking place within the SEIU, for example, which is huge in Michigan,

00:29:47.000 is coming out and saying that we've got a big Trump base here that is unexpected.

00:29:52.720 That's we've never seen before.

00:29:54.060 That spells doom for the left because there's a lot of secret voters, a lot of people who

00:29:57.440 don't want to come out and talk about it because union bosses in the state of Michigan are

00:30:02.680 going to hammer you for coming out and supporting Republicans, but that doesn't mean they're not

00:30:06.140 going to vote for a Republican.

00:30:07.780 So that's part of what you're seeing in Michigan.

00:30:09.740 You have a lot of, they have a huge problem that we've discussed at length in the inner cities

00:30:13.800 in Detroit.

00:30:15.060 We saw, I personally saw it walking along the streets.

00:30:17.860 There are a lot of black men who are in Michigan who are voting for Trump.

00:30:22.320 That's a huge thing.

00:30:23.560 The Hispanic numbers for Trump are up like an extra 15% across the country.

00:30:27.780 So all those things kind of pull into one thing, which is that's doom for the left.

00:30:33.280 And then not to mention, you have a huge Muslim population that exists in Michigan who are

00:30:38.860 really ticked off at Kamala.

00:30:40.460 They don't trust Kamala.

00:30:41.420 And if they're looking at this and they're going, Hey, if I don't trust Kamala, why would

00:30:45.760 I vote for somebody who's economically going to destroy my business?

00:30:49.840 Yeah. 0.98

00:30:50.320 And so we, that's well said there, there's the, the black men are defecting and they're

00:30:54.800 trying to do some rap concert or something to rally them. 0.98

00:30:56.760 The Arab Muslim thing, which I want to talk about, Blake, the Israel thing is really screwing 1.00

00:31:00.620 with them.

00:31:00.920 It's sort of, it's not getting nearly as much public attention.

00:31:04.400 Let's, let's zero in on this.

00:31:05.300 In all the states where the Israel thing is really hurting them, Michigan is number one.

00:31:09.480 Number one.

00:31:10.100 And the stuff that's just quietly going on, a very funny one.

00:31:13.100 I only learned about this the other day.

00:31:14.540 Did you know that the student government at the university of Michigan is like a bunch

00:31:19.340 of anti-Israel zealots and they, they got elected on a platform of like, shut it down

00:31:25.000 till we shut Israel down. 0.96

00:31:26.800 And they started defunding all of the student programs.

00:31:29.840 And so there's a hilarious article in, um, either tablet or forward one, one of the Jewish

00:31:34.280 magazines that's saying like, you know, they're pointing out that kind of no one cared about

00:31:38.860 this like extremely zealous anti-Israel group.

00:31:41.600 And still they started like, they defunded the ultimate Frisbee team.

00:31:45.000 They started just yanking funding from all these things.

00:31:47.880 Like they shut down like a shuttle service to the airport or something like that.

00:31:51.600 Cause they're like, we're shutting it down until, until like a Michigan divests from Israel. 0.75

00:31:58.460 And so this is the university of Michigan.

00:32:00.400 And what, so what stands out there is of course, this is not just a bunch of like, you know,

00:32:05.180 it's not a bunch of Muslim activists.

00:32:06.640 You, it kind of is a crossover of you have Arab Americans and Muslims who are very,

00:32:11.600 uh, passionate about this, but also just sort of your, your young college, really ideologically

00:32:18.380 activated.

00:32:19.300 Yeah.

00:32:19.400 White liberals.

00:32:19.900 You know, so the people who go to Ann Arbor and excuse me.

00:32:24.900 And so these people who would normally be doing tons of get out the vote, these are

00:32:28.600 the people who would have been, you know, harvesting every ballot for Obama.

00:32:32.940 They're the ones who were, you know, pretty active for, well, I should say they actually

00:32:36.500 helped Hillary lose cause they were on mad about the Bernie Sanders thing. 1.00

00:32:39.600 Now these people are, this type of person is very angry about, uh, the war in Lebanon.

00:32:46.300 The fact, you know, they're still mad about Gaza.

00:32:48.380 This stuff is really activating them.

00:32:50.580 And the American wider media has sort of, I don't want to say moved on cause they are

00:32:55.960 still covering it, but they aren't as attuned to this.

00:32:59.020 But for this subset of the liberal coalition, it's a huge deal.

00:33:05.240 Uh, you can see this going on recently.

00:33:07.320 Have you heard about what's going on with a Ta-Nehisi Coates?

00:33:09.800 Yeah, no, but I've, I've seen his name pop up in a lot of group chats.

00:33:13.280 I, again, I'm a little busy trying to track early ballots.

00:33:17.220 Of course.

00:33:17.800 Of course.

00:33:18.180 So I'll just set this up.

00:33:19.400 Well, he kind of, he kind of just did like the 10, seven thing that they're all doing

00:33:23.920 basically, well, so he did, but he helps do it.

00:33:28.180 He was one of the first to do it as well because he, uh, he signed like an open letter

00:33:33.960 right after the Gaza attack that people didn't like the wording of.

00:33:37.140 But what was going on with, uh, Coates is he has a new book out now, which is like, I

00:33:41.980 think his first book since between the world and me, which is a terrible book, but I'll

00:33:45.980 leave that aside.

00:33:46.740 So Coates has a new book out and one of the essays in it is basically critical of Israel

00:33:53.500 says, you know, Israel, Palestine is apartheid or whatever.

00:33:56.360 And what's very funny about this is suddenly like some of the left, cause you know, there

00:34:00.280 are people on the left who are very pro Israel and they get there.

00:34:02.780 This, a lot of the people who used to push Coates really aggressively got very amped up

00:34:06.840 about this and attacked him.

00:34:07.880 And this is blowing up CBS news right now because, uh, I need to get the clip number.

00:34:14.120 Uh, so this is one 35.

00:34:16.040 He's on CBS news and they're interviewing him about his book.

00:34:19.460 And just imagine the guy who everyone was saying was like the greatest black intellectual

00:34:24.000 in America getting treated like this in 2014, 2015.

00:34:27.640 Uh, let's play one 35. 0.98

00:34:29.980 And I have to say when I, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took

00:34:35.760 away the awards and the acclaim, took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away.

00:34:39.980 The content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.

00:34:45.660 And so then I found myself wondering why does Ta-Nehisi Coates, who I've known for a long

00:34:51.160 time, read his work for a long time, very talented, smart guy leave out so much.

00:34:56.080 Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it? 0.67

00:35:00.540 Why leave out that Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it?

00:35:04.240 Why not detail anything of the first and the second intifada, the cafe bombings, the bus

00:35:09.140 bombings, the little kids blown to bits.

00:35:10.960 And is it because you just don't believe that Israel in any condition has a right to exist?

00:35:19.560 Well, I would say the perspective that you just outlined, um, there is no shortage of

00:35:24.020 that perspective in American media.

00:35:25.940 Um, that's the first thing I would say.

00:35:27.860 So this blew up CBS news.

00:35:30.620 Uh, they are disintegrating right now.

00:35:32.160 They had to have a meeting.

00:35:33.040 They apparently have a like race department inside CBS news that why?

00:35:37.900 Cause he can't, it's a race unit actually. 0.90

00:35:39.960 It's like, it's like a special investigative unit just focuses on race.

00:35:44.420 No, no, but is it, is it that they were too hard on him or not?

00:35:46.260 They were too hard on him, that they were too hard on him, which Coates himself actually

00:35:49.460 handles it fine.

00:35:50.340 I think I don't like Coates, but he's kind of a genial guy.

00:35:53.420 So he actually responded to it well, but a lot of people were like, this was like a racist

00:35:58.880 attack on him.

00:35:59.920 And of course the, you know, they say like CBS is shilling for Israel too hard.

00:36:03.400 So this is roiling CBS news in a huge way.

00:36:06.680 And so if you look at kind of the corners of X that we're not normally seeing, that's

00:36:11.480 what's going viral here.

00:36:12.560 People got super angry that they got so aggressive on him.

00:36:16.140 And so I think if you're seeing the shift, this is to get it back to Michigan.

00:36:21.220 This issue is still very much alive.

00:36:23.480 If you are a person who's active and involved on left-wing politics, they are paying attention

00:36:29.300 to this a ton, even if maybe our show isn't talking about as much or Fox news or, you know,

00:36:35.540 even other mainstream news outlets, if they're not focused on as much, it's still a top one,

00:36:40.920 top two issue for these left-wing groups that Kamala is probably going to need to get over 1.00

00:36:46.320 the hump in Michigan.

00:36:47.640 And I think people often overstate the percentage of these states that is Muslim or Arab, but

00:36:53.700 it's still a real amount.

00:36:54.600 I think in Michigan, it's four or 5%.

00:36:56.780 And if you imagine that's maybe a normally a 70% Democrat demographic, and if that only

00:37:02.700 becomes 50%, 45%, if a lot of them stay home, we've often discussed how in any of these swing

00:37:10.620 states, about 45% of the vote is just locked in for each side.

00:37:14.520 So a little like 1% dip in your turnout is catastrophic.

00:37:18.240 I have a projection to make here, I guess, an estimation.

00:37:23.020 I bet Kamala is going to lose more of the Muslim vote in Michigan than Trump will lose 0.53

00:37:28.160 of the Mormon vote in Arizona and Nevada.

00:37:31.960 Is Trump doing bad with Mormons?

00:37:34.460 No, I mean, this is the whole narrative that they're trying to push from the Kamala campaign

00:37:37.460 in Arizona and Nevada is that like, oh, all this stuff.

00:37:43.080 But the real story that's happening to this point is that there is a significant bleed out

00:37:49.060 in the Muslim vote.

00:37:50.280 I would argue even the Jewish vote that we'll see.

00:37:53.880 It's just not.

00:37:54.560 The polls say it's not happening so far.

00:37:57.000 Well, and the same thing with Mormons, right? 0.99

00:37:59.220 So like that could be part of the narrative that comes out of this election is, you know,

00:38:05.200 Trump wins as we expect in the, in the Sunbelt.

00:38:09.400 Well, Trump wins Arizona and Nevada, right?

00:38:13.120 And we look at the numbers and Trump potentially picks off Michigan.

00:38:18.000 Well, a big part of the narrative and story needs to be and should be is that, hey, you

00:38:23.540 know, we need to spend more time, number one, with the unions.

00:38:26.080 And this is a big conversation for the next four years is we need to talk about Vladimir

00:38:31.860 Lennon, Vladimir Lennon hated the unions for one reason, one reason alone.

00:38:36.440 Because communism and union spirit don't jive together.

00:38:39.960 And so we have to talk about that and how they all work together.

00:38:44.300 And we need to embrace that in the right way with the Republican Party.

00:38:48.220 But then this whole issue on the Muslim communities, which is that, you know, it turns out when

00:38:53.460 you come to America and you're looking for the American dream and you want to run a business 1.00

00:38:56.000 that's more important than, you know, just like kowtowing to like these like stupid 0.99

00:39:01.380 little idiosyncrasies that the Democrats have within minority communities. 0.99

00:39:07.960 And that if we break through that in the next year, it's game over.

00:39:12.080 And that's not just with the Muslim community.

00:39:13.900 Like we mentioned, that's what the Jewish community that's with anyone else is like, hey, 0.90

00:39:17.080 life is better in America when the government leaves me alone.

00:39:19.480 We don't talk about our race, our ethnicity, even our religion first with those with the 1.00

00:39:25.300 minority communities.

00:39:26.100 We talk about what makes America great, leaving me alone so I can just live my life and we

00:39:31.980 move forward.

00:39:32.520 And I don't want to get into all that because that's just like, that's not what thought

00:39:35.060 crime is about.

00:39:35.600 But like, this is a real issue is I think, you know, all this talk that the left focuses

00:39:43.400 on all these little tiny minority communities, including the LDS community that's here,

00:39:48.300 the Muslim community, we have to take what's there on the table and make a real effort.

00:39:54.060 And the first year of the Trump administration, the Jack, do you have a thought on that?

00:40:01.980 Well, no, I just from the union perspective that I know that, you know, looking at Pennsylvania

00:40:06.320 and we started talking about Michigan, but Josh Piro up there is not whipping the union

00:40:11.240 votes the way that you would normally see in a presidential year.

00:40:14.300 You're not seeing the big union bosses come out for Kamala Harris.

00:40:17.440 You're just not seeing that level of support at the institutional level.

00:40:20.860 And then at the, you know, the factory level or whatever you want to call it, the construction

00:40:25.580 site level, you're not, again, those guys are all Trump supporters to begin with.

00:40:29.660 So the fact that you're not seeing this big union support, the firefighters union just

00:40:33.600 come out to say that they're not going to be endorsing this year.

00:40:37.200 This is a jump ball.

00:40:38.480 There's a real jump ball here.

00:40:40.000 There's a lot of inroads.

00:40:41.120 And look, it's what Tyler's talking about.

00:40:43.020 I think all of us have been talking about it for a long time, that we're living through

00:40:46.700 a restructuring and it used to be that the Republicans were the party of quote unquote

00:40:51.500 the rich and the Democrats for the party, the working man, the working family.

00:40:56.960 Well, guess what?

00:40:57.840 That seems like that's switching now.

00:41:00.140 So are the Republicans as a party and will the administration, the Trump administration,

00:41:05.100 which Deo Valente will come in to power in a couple of weeks here, that are they really

00:41:12.540 going to make strides towards that?

00:41:14.220 And I think J.D. Vance, of course, being that generational pick, a transformational pick

00:41:17.900 to be able to do so is uniquely positioned to make that outreach.

00:41:22.660 So the other thing that they're saying that's playing a role in Michigan is Michigan has

00:41:27.040 a ton of working class men that are low propensity, that because of Michigan's looser

00:41:35.860 voter registration rules, I think you can register up to the day voting, right, Tyler?

00:41:39.000 Yes, you can.

00:41:39.480 That there's a lot of working class men that are getting into the roles that are throwing 1.00

00:41:43.260 off Democrat projections.

00:41:45.000 There is a ton.

00:41:46.520 I mean, in Michigan, more than any other place, there is what you could call technical school

00:41:51.780 culture where you don't go to four year college and you just kind of because of the auto

00:41:55.900 manufacturing understand it's not just that you work for a Ford or GM.

00:41:58.360 It's all the auxiliary industries.

00:42:00.400 Contractors.

00:42:00.920 Tons, right?

00:42:01.740 People that just specialize in making tires, that just specialize in making like lube parts,

00:42:06.160 like very specialized stuff.

00:42:07.800 And there's hundreds of thousands of men and women, but mostly men that work in these

00:42:12.580 industries.

00:42:14.140 And they're saying that the male problem could tip Michigan.

00:42:18.140 And then you got Gretchen Whitmer doing the Doritos Eucharist. 1.00

00:42:22.000 What was that?

00:42:22.840 By the way, can we get that?

00:42:24.260 This is Michigan, by the way.

00:42:25.400 It's tied into Michigan.

00:42:26.440 I'm going to talk.

00:42:26.840 It's interesting if that if that's correct, because it would be backfiring.

00:42:30.920 I when I've said I've argued Michigan is probably the toughest get.

00:42:34.720 And one of the biggest factors is they have probably the most militant left wing government

00:42:40.540 of any of the swing states.

00:42:42.220 Like you have Whitmer, you have your their secretary of state who I is that Noslin or

00:42:47.200 something.

00:42:47.540 No, Dana Nessel is the attorney general.

00:42:50.380 Yes.

00:42:50.960 And then you have like Jocelyn Berger or something.

00:42:53.840 OK, both of those people, Dana Nessel is a very evil. 0.99

00:42:57.480 She's very evil. 1.00

00:42:58.640 She's maximum lawfare. 1.00

00:43:00.440 Oh, she's like it's Jocelyn Benson.

00:43:02.320 So it's like the Troika Troika of girl bosses in Michigan.

00:43:07.600 They're I'm praising them.

00:43:09.300 They're highly effective political operatives.

00:43:12.340 They care about maximizing the left's odds of getting wins.

00:43:17.980 And for Democrats for decades, that was make it as easy as possible to register.

00:43:23.620 Make it as easy as possible to get those low propensity voters in.

00:43:27.200 If we're correct, that low propensity is a conservative leaning group.

00:43:31.380 This election, it would definitely be funny and interesting if like we were to win Michigan

00:43:36.560 and maybe not Wisconsin specifically because of that.

00:43:39.820 And I'm checking poly market odds right now.

00:43:41.900 They still say Pennsylvania is the most likely of the three kind of blue wall states.

00:43:46.560 Michigan is surging.

00:43:47.920 But it's right up there.

00:43:48.620 So it's 56%.

00:43:49.940 Here's my prediction.

00:43:52.660 Again, Kamala has no lack of money because she's getting, you know, probably allegedly 1.00

00:43:56.240 Iranian laundered money through ActBlue, which there's no way that ActBlue is legitimate. 0.86

00:43:59.820 There's no way.

00:44:00.260 I'm sorry.

00:44:00.740 There's no way that part of it is part of it.

00:44:03.380 There is no way.

00:44:04.540 Allegedly.

00:44:05.640 Allegedly.

00:44:06.800 Allegedly, ActBlue.

00:44:07.560 So the, it's not like she has to pick and choose.

00:44:12.960 And so the, I think Blake, you're hitting something really smart, which is that kind

00:44:18.660 of like the reign of terror of like middle-aged women of Michigan, the reign of terror of the 0.98

00:44:23.260 middle-aged women of Michigan, like the men are like enough, right? 1.00

00:44:27.200 We have a girl boss, a secretary of state, a girl boss, an attorney general, a girl boss, 1.00

00:44:31.440 enough of the wine mom tyranny. 1.00

00:44:34.700 We need, okay.

00:44:35.940 We will resist.

00:44:37.040 Okay.

00:44:37.340 I'm checking.

00:44:38.140 The men of Michigan, and let me just say you one thing.

00:44:40.780 I will say it out loud.

00:44:42.360 Muslims have, Muslim men and women have a very hard time voting for a female for office.

00:44:47.940 They don't believe women should be involved in politics. 1.00

00:44:49.900 Now, I don't share that view, but that is a Islamic view that like, you know how many

00:44:54.900 Muslim women come up to me on campus asking for selfies? 1.00

00:44:58.540 And I asked like, oh, what's up?

00:44:59.720 They say, oh, we love Trump.

00:45:01.520 Blah, blah, blah.

00:45:02.000 Kamala is the worst.

00:45:03.080 And I was like, oh, why? 0.98

00:45:03.600 I had like, oh, women shouldn't be in politics. 1.00

00:45:05.160 I'm like, oh, okay.

00:45:05.780 Well, you know, that's your view.

00:45:07.420 I guess you import the third world. 0.99

00:45:08.520 You get the third world. 0.55

00:45:10.700 That might really come back to bottom.

00:45:12.900 That part of the third world is going to hurt the girl boss brigade. 1.00

00:45:17.060 I'm checking now.

00:45:17.980 Michigan football, they lost to Washington.

00:45:20.160 You know, they might be Detroit Lions are looking spotty.

00:45:22.680 We might need them to lose a game here or there.

00:45:24.580 So people, you know, feel.

00:45:26.400 All my sports correlated to politics stuff blew up when I thought that Herschel Walker was going

00:45:30.320 to win because Georgia had a good year.

00:45:31.540 Oh, yeah, that's true. 1.00

00:45:32.900 My whole theory was stupid. 0.99

00:45:34.160 I feel like, you know, maybe if they're, we need the Michigan men to be a little more 1.00

00:45:37.520 down spirited, but, or maybe they got to win.

00:45:40.320 As long as Oregon beats Michigan on the 2nd of November, of which I may or may not go

00:45:44.820 to.

00:45:46.480 Or, you know what?

00:45:47.280 Tyler wants me in Happy Valley that day of the Penn State, Ohio State game.

00:45:50.900 It's way more important.

00:45:52.380 I'm going to be at that.

00:45:53.320 Well, if Michigan's in contention, though.

00:45:54.960 It's not.

00:45:55.780 But I guess, which is going to matter more?

00:45:57.280 Because we were talking about how optimism is more important for the right.

00:45:59.900 So do we, for our turnout to be up, do we need their teams to be winning?

00:46:03.000 So they like win at sports, win at election, or do we need them to be like, America's finished.

00:46:08.860 Penn State is not even going to win the Big Ten.

00:46:11.740 If Penn State beats Ohio State, I guarantee you we'll win that state.

00:46:14.640 Not guarantee you.

00:46:15.120 I'm like, that play, right?

00:46:16.280 They have not beat Ohio State.

00:46:16.980 But would we lose the Senate?

00:46:18.100 You know what's really interesting?

00:46:19.180 Let me ask, when was the last time Penn State football beat OSU?

00:46:26.580 I think it's been like 10 years, 8 years?

00:46:29.180 Last time was October 22, 2016, when Trump won the White House, baby.

00:46:34.900 I remember that.

00:46:35.660 That was 8 years ago.

00:46:37.540 They won in a dramatic upset, 24-21 in Beaver Stadium.

00:46:42.200 They have not beat Ohio State in 8 years.

00:46:48.100 Isn't that crazy?

00:46:48.600 Yeah, that was like their first big win coming out of the whole scandal, remember?

00:46:52.060 Because that's when they started turning things around after the whole Sandusky stuff.

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00:47:32.560 Okay.

00:47:32.880 We have three options that you can pick from.

00:47:34.440 We can talk about Lieutenant Dan.

00:47:36.240 We can talk about how couples meet.

00:47:37.620 Or we can talk about the tranny Star Wars Stormtrooper. 0.99

00:47:41.560 You kind of have to do Lieutenant Dan.

00:47:43.300 All righty.

00:47:43.920 Okay. 0.61

00:47:44.420 We got to hit Lieutenant Dan.

00:47:46.140 You can do it quickly.

00:47:47.060 You can do all of them.

00:47:48.220 I think you should do all of them.

00:47:48.920 Just really quick. 0.98

00:47:49.900 Just fire through all of us. 0.98

00:47:50.860 Lieutenant Dan, homeless guy that's actually a really bad guy with a criminal history,

00:47:54.360 stayed in his boat throughout Hurricane Milton and lived.

00:47:58.760 That's great.

00:48:00.140 Do we need to say anything more about him?

00:48:02.360 Is this kind of amazing?

00:48:03.840 Because I turned to Mikey yesterday.

00:48:06.620 I was like, this guy's dead.

00:48:07.460 And he lived.

00:48:08.100 Because he literally stayed in his boat throughout the entire hurricane.

00:48:11.060 And his logic was like, well, this is him right there.

00:48:14.020 If the sea levels increase.

00:48:16.500 And he stayed the entire.

00:48:17.660 It's hilarious.

00:48:18.300 He stayed in.

00:48:18.720 It's like Storm Surge.

00:48:19.320 He'll just.

00:48:19.800 Yes.

00:48:20.100 He said, if the Storm Surge goes up, his boat will just go up.

00:48:22.940 A rising tide lifts all boats.

00:48:24.360 And so do we have the cut of.

00:48:26.680 And by the way, he also walks around with like.

00:48:29.860 With.

00:48:30.620 What the heck is it called?

00:48:32.360 He looks like Lieutenant Dan.

00:48:33.380 He has the.

00:48:34.300 Crutches.

00:48:34.860 Crutches.

00:48:35.360 Yes.

00:48:35.560 Thank you.

00:48:36.400 And.

00:48:37.140 Do we have tape of Lieutenant Dan?

00:48:40.180 This guy's right out of Central Casting.

00:48:44.420 Let's see.

00:48:45.640 Turns out he's like a really bad guy, though.

00:48:47.280 And he has like a criminal. 0.78

00:48:47.980 And he tried to set his wife on fire or something.

00:48:49.460 This is like an important part.

00:48:50.600 He also.

00:48:51.140 Apparently he battered an officer with a violin.

00:48:54.160 Should not have survived.

00:48:55.020 Points for creativity.

00:48:55.960 Play cut 133.

00:48:58.620 How's the ride?

00:48:59.760 The water's gone.

00:49:01.380 Yeah.

00:49:01.560 It's going out into the water.

00:49:03.380 It's going out.

00:49:03.940 It's being pulled out.

00:49:04.940 Yeah.

00:49:05.420 It's safe.

00:49:06.360 It's safe right there.

00:49:07.340 How are you doing?

00:49:10.700 No problem.

00:49:14.440 So I guess that's it.

00:49:16.520 He made it.

00:49:17.300 He survived.

00:49:19.880 That's it.

00:49:21.940 Yeah, it's good for him, I suppose.

00:49:23.700 You know, a real thought crime would be Forrest Gump's not a very good movie.

00:49:28.140 You don't like Forrest Gump?

00:49:29.220 It's okay.

00:49:30.200 I get why people like it.

00:49:32.060 But like, especially 30 years on, I think we have to recognize a lot of Forrest Gump is

00:49:37.240 like a very, it's like the most obnoxious elements of like boomer self-worship.

00:49:43.460 Because Forrest Gump is a literally like message, but it is a good movie.

00:49:48.540 Yeah.

00:49:48.800 Wait, wait, wait.

00:49:49.460 Time out.

00:49:50.080 Time out.

00:49:50.880 Forrest Gump is the equivalent of we didn't start the fire.

00:49:55.380 Okay.

00:49:55.680 You don't have to like Billy Joel.

00:49:57.800 You don't have to like his voice, but you can appreciate the historical context that's

00:50:01.920 built around the movie.

00:50:03.380 Ignore the whole story.

00:50:04.300 Ignore all the fictional parts.

00:50:05.300 The entire movie is just like mentally challenged, boomer lives through like important things 0.85

00:50:12.280 and like becomes rich inexplicably and also like makes the civil rights movement succeed.

00:50:17.380 That's why every boomer connects with people.

00:50:18.580 I know.

00:50:19.080 Exactly.

00:50:19.660 It's so outrageous.

00:50:20.800 And it's like every boomer is like, I did that.

00:50:24.280 I passed the civil rights act.

00:50:26.680 I ran across the country.

00:50:28.320 I got super rich and I won the Iron Bowl.

00:50:30.700 Yeah, exactly.

00:50:31.420 And you know, in the novel, he like goes into outer space and he becomes like a senator

00:50:35.560 and stuff.

00:50:36.320 It is based on a novel.

00:50:38.680 It is definitely the worst novel to have ever been turned into a like well-received motion

00:50:45.000 picture.

00:50:45.400 Is that right?

00:50:46.000 The movie made it more realistic, which is crazy.

00:50:50.260 Like the movie made the book more realistic to Jack's point.

00:50:53.100 Well, when you first see it as a, I will say though, as a young kid, when I first saw

00:50:56.600 it, it teaches you about the sixties and seventies though.

00:50:59.060 Yeah.

00:50:59.320 It's a, that's what I'm saying.

00:51:00.400 Like we didn't start the fire.

00:51:01.420 It's like you get, get through it.

00:51:02.920 Like makes it, it makes history a little bit more fun, which I appreciate.

00:51:05.920 I can, I can get on board.

00:51:07.360 Yeah.

00:51:07.420 And I mean, and then also it's just, yeah, I mean, there's, and it's pretty accurate.

00:51:11.160 Like some, like how, like the whole, like Black Panther scene.

00:51:15.220 Yeah.

00:51:15.520 They, every single piece that they had on there, like there's like actually really like

00:51:19.840 ruined your back Panther body. 0.59

00:51:22.540 There's like fun parts, like a fun spin on like really like heavy parts of like American

00:51:28.420 history and like the middle of the middle of the 20th century.

00:51:30.760 Like, yeah, what about, what about the fact that Jenny is the villain of Forrest Gump?

00:51:37.880 Yeah.

00:51:38.440 Wait, what did you, what did Jenny do?

00:51:39.660 That was really bad. 0.99

00:51:40.500 I mean, she was like dumb, but she constantly cheated on Forrest and was like so bad. 1.00

00:51:44.320 She just didn't get with Forrest. 0.99

00:51:46.700 No, she abused, no, she just, she abused a, a, a person that totally took advantage of 1.00

00:51:54.280 the person that had.

00:51:54.760 I mean, I guess she did.

00:51:54.780 She manipulated him and it was, and like, she only came back to him when she had like a 0.80

00:51:58.760 chronically life debilitating disease.

00:52:00.380 Like here, take care of your son.

00:52:01.860 Now you get to meet your son because I'm dying.

00:52:03.920 Yeah.

00:52:04.280 Okay.

00:52:04.600 Yeah.

00:52:04.760 It's so bad.

00:52:05.640 It's like, I don't want anything to do with you.

00:52:06.920 Oh, by the way.

00:52:07.500 Yeah.

00:52:07.620 You're super rich and you like save the civilization and you got like a medal of honor.

00:52:12.440 But he, but the point is too, with, with him was like, he overcame that toxic feminism.

00:52:18.900 Who is it?

00:52:19.740 Nicole Kidman.

00:52:20.400 Who is the Jenny actress? 0.74

00:52:21.940 Uh, not Nicole Kidman.

00:52:23.080 I can't remember though.

00:52:23.900 She's a, she's a, Robin Wright.

00:52:26.020 Robin Wright.

00:52:26.440 Oh, Robin.

00:52:26.840 It is Robin Wright.

00:52:27.680 Was it really?

00:52:28.360 Yeah.

00:52:28.920 No.

00:52:29.480 Yeah.

00:52:29.680 She's Robin Wright.

00:52:30.860 Yeah.

00:52:31.200 Yeah.

00:52:31.580 And she was in Princess Bride.

00:52:33.920 She's one of those people that has sown her way through like, she, she aged herself into

00:52:40.620 a feminine.

00:52:41.220 She aged from cute love interest to sinking New Zealand ships.

00:52:45.220 Yep.

00:52:45.560 I know.

00:52:45.900 No.

00:52:46.000 I mean, exactly.

00:52:47.380 She could, she could have, she might play the captain in the movie they make out of it. 0.69

00:52:51.860 And a wine mom fem boss. 1.00

00:52:53.300 It's crazy.

00:52:54.500 She's Princess Bride too.

00:52:55.760 That's right.

00:52:56.080 She's Princess Bride.

00:52:57.180 I got my, uh, got my event.

00:52:58.720 I got to run to here.

00:53:00.280 Wait, so we're not allowed to talk about, what are we allowed to talk about?

00:53:02.480 Sports?

00:53:02.840 We could talk about, uh, what was the last thing that we, we, we haven't talked about

00:53:05.880 how couples meet yet.

00:53:07.460 Uh, if we want to do that, we could also, yeah, this, this was actually really interesting.

00:53:11.020 I think about this all the time.

00:53:12.780 This kind of stuff that culturally, how America has shifted.

00:53:15.920 I don't know if we can throw up that quick, uh, timeline graphic in the background here.

00:53:20.660 I think it's like it.

00:53:21.540 Yeah.

00:53:21.700 Can we play it like silently?

00:53:23.260 Cause we could watch it.

00:53:24.400 While we talk over it.

00:53:25.140 Uh, it's a one 28 as B roll.

00:53:27.520 Yeah.

00:53:28.860 So this is, so if you watch it, Charlie here, it's, it's how couples meet.

00:53:32.720 Starting in 1930, coming up to the present.

00:53:35.040 And if you look, it's hard to read here, but the top it's friends and family.

00:53:38.760 It's like over 25% for friends.

00:53:41.680 I saw it earlier.

00:53:42.400 Yeah.

00:53:42.540 Uh, and obviously no one online in ye olde sixties and seventies.

00:53:47.140 And I think what this ends up with like over 50% of people meeting on the internet.

00:53:51.980 Uh, so it shifted.

00:53:53.240 So the, the, the, the synopsis is that, uh, like the top four ways I think it started

00:53:57.880 where like friend, family, friend, family was the number one predominant one, friends.

00:54:02.960 Uh, and then it was school and church.

00:54:07.560 Church is pretty low always.

00:54:09.380 Although it collapses really hard.

00:54:11.480 Even just, even in, it dropped way off in the seventies.

00:54:14.620 Yeah.

00:54:14.900 So the seventies.

00:54:16.020 So after the sixties and seventies church dropped way off, it's almost, you can see a,

00:54:21.080 like how America's evolved based off of where we spend our time and friends is always going

00:54:27.440 to be there cause everyone has friends, whatever.

00:54:28.720 It's always going to be, not everyone has friends anymore.

00:54:31.120 Okay.

00:54:31.340 Well, everyone thinks that they have friends.

00:54:33.840 Let's put it that way.

00:54:34.740 What is it?

00:54:35.360 Those polls where it's like 80, it's like 50% of Americans say they have no friends or

00:54:39.320 whatever.

00:54:40.000 But here's what's so interesting.

00:54:41.700 The more money we've invested into college, the further college has dropped for relationships.

00:54:47.420 So a couple of different things.

00:54:49.360 College was really high up there.

00:54:51.840 Now it's not high up there.

00:54:53.300 We spend probably a thousand times more on colleges now than we did in the early 20th

00:55:00.200 century.

00:55:00.920 You look at that.

00:55:02.660 Now church has dropped way, way down.

00:55:05.520 Uh, bar and restaurants kind of held, friends is held up there, but then like online has basically

00:55:09.920 taken the place of all family, a big chunk of friends, all college, all school, all neighbors.

00:55:17.020 Like nobody that basically what it's saying to me when I look at this is that people don't

00:55:23.740 leave their house anymore or even start relationships, any kind of relationships, whether it's friendly

00:55:28.620 relationships at school, at college with neighbors, uh, all of that and coworkers is jumped up.

00:55:35.780 So it's like, if you don't meet someone online, the only, the only chance you have to meet them

00:55:40.240 is like maybe a shot with friends and then at work.

00:55:42.580 Well, I think what, what's actually interesting looking at this that I do wonder about is the

00:55:47.900 decline in, you know, both school and coworkers is going to line up a lot with sort of the

00:55:52.940 rise of, you know, like me too kind of sexual harassment angst.

00:55:57.900 Like you can definitely like get in a lot more trouble for this than you used to.

00:56:02.140 And, you know, I think, uh, there's a libertarian economist, uh, Brian Kaplan, who will talk

00:56:07.000 about this and, and others will too.

00:56:09.120 Like this does seem like pretty harmful.

00:56:12.000 Like when you think of, you know, who should you be pairing off with?

00:56:14.700 Like you'd want people, you have things in common with, you have like shared interests

00:56:18.420 or shared passions or just shared culture, shared nature, shared stuff in common.

00:56:22.780 And one of those things would be people that you are coworkers with.

00:56:26.540 And, you know, given that we have integrated workplaces now, it's actually kind of insane

00:56:31.440 that it's like so frowned upon to basically like date coworkers now.

00:56:34.700 And it used to be, if you look at into the nineties, like 15, 16% of people of, of couples

00:56:41.080 met while they were at work and you spend a lot of time at work.

00:56:44.540 It's kind of wacky to say that that's largely not acceptable.

00:56:48.180 And the same deal with school.

00:56:49.600 Like when you were in college is basically the single best time you have in your life

00:56:55.340 where you are around a ton of people who are presumably not married, who are about your

00:57:00.120 age, about your, you know, but marriage is not prioritized.

00:57:03.860 It's not, it's not.

00:57:04.740 And that's bad, but I'd say one, it's not prioritized, but two, there's a lot of things

00:57:08.540 that actively discourage it as well.

00:57:10.740 I think people are very much trained to be afraid of kind of any level of like romantic

00:57:17.340 forwardness or interest.

00:57:18.860 That's not carefully mediated.

00:57:21.000 Like I think a big thing that drives online is not simply that it's easy.

00:57:24.340 It's that it's like the only thing where you can communicate with someone and it's

00:57:29.580 assumed off the bat that this is a romantic communication and people want that security

00:57:35.660 blanket.

00:57:36.540 And the problem is, is that that is very unromantic.

00:57:40.900 It is super unromantic to have none of that ambiguity to it.

00:57:44.940 And I think it messes people up actually.

00:57:47.620 Yeah.

00:57:48.220 I mean, then how many people are meeting online then?

00:57:50.800 How do they say?

00:57:51.320 Over 50% by the end.

00:57:52.560 Well, that's terrible.

00:57:53.480 Yeah.

00:57:53.680 Yeah.

00:57:53.840 It's bad.

00:57:54.840 And the apps are bad.

00:57:55.780 Meeting people.

00:57:56.740 How couples meet.

00:57:57.820 It's over 60%.

00:57:59.960 It's over 60%.

00:58:01.000 That's horrifying.

00:58:03.440 Now, some of those, you know, church declines, but I would say like, you know, there are religious

00:58:08.480 versions of dating apps.

00:58:10.980 There's a, you know, Catholic match, J date, um, Christian, all of those.

00:58:15.220 Uh, I have a friend who met someone through like a, a Lutheran dating app and he had to like

00:58:20.320 drive an entire state over cause he's in one of those bespoke types of Lutheranism that

00:58:25.700 there aren't a ton of, so that does happen.

00:58:28.340 There is some element of that with online, but a lot of, all of the trends with online

00:58:33.160 are bad.

00:58:33.760 The other reason it's good to be dating people that you meet in real life is it's a much

00:58:37.940 more, or it's a much more organic thing.

00:58:42.600 It's more real.

00:58:43.220 It's more organic.

00:58:43.980 It's also, you don't have a big problem with online is you create this problem when you're

00:58:50.320 competing with essentially everyone in the world, as opposed to the more rational, like

00:58:54.600 you are interfacing with the handful of people, you know, in your town, in your workplace, in

00:59:00.200 your neighborhood, that sort of thing.

00:59:02.620 Once you're online, people get decision paralysis.

00:59:04.980 This is bad with women because women can get, you can go on an app and you can get a match 1.00

00:59:08.540 from 500, a thousand men.

00:59:11.120 How do you ever remotely choose between all of those?

00:59:14.000 You don't.

00:59:14.780 Your temptation is always to like, maybe go after the most desirable one, but women tend 1.00

00:59:19.640 to be much like one another.

00:59:21.160 And so they will like similar things.

00:59:23.140 So they'll all end up competing.

00:59:24.740 There's a whole cascade of problems that come from everyone being online and it's going to

00:59:31.140 destroy civilization and kill us all, Charlie.

00:59:33.360 I think you're right. 1.00

00:59:35.060 All right, everybody.

00:59:35.980 Thank you guys for listening today.

00:59:38.180 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:59:40.640 And keep on committing thought crimes.

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Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 12, 2024

THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 59 — Bring Back Blue States？ Michigan Vibe Shift？ Forrest Gump, Bad？

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