On this week's episode of Thought Crime, the gang discusses Trump's refusal to sign the Republican National Committee's "pledge" to support the party's eventual nominee, and whether or not that's a good or bad thing. They also discuss the Michigan fraud case, the murder of Craig Robertson, and Dennis Prager's controversial comments on pornography.
00:02:51.620Does that mean that Mitt Romney is going to come out and support Trump when he wins the nomination?
00:02:55.620Does that mean that all the Republicans that are going to do, you know, run against him and they're not going to undercut Trump all the way?
00:03:06.360The New York Times has got the Federalist Society putting out articles today saying, oh, Donald Trump, the conservative case for disqualifying Trump from the ballot in November.
00:03:21.240And the fact that Trump was the first person ever in Republican politics to say and just raise his hand and say, I will not support the eventual nominee, that's the reason he won.
00:04:19.360That shouldn't be a qualifier to get on the stage.
00:04:21.480Now, the only part I'll disagree with, and it's just kind of a minor disagreement, is that I actually don't think there are three parties in the country.
00:05:00.940And there's a lot of Democrats that are figuring this out, and they're switching over.
00:05:05.700And so the party has to become the party of freedom and not relent to what is the uniparty, which is the left, which is what people say all the time.
00:05:15.500There's no difference between Republicans and Democrats when the uniparty is in control.
00:05:20.100The uniparty is not in control right now.
00:05:22.000Well, I just – I love that you just brought up ranked choice – real quick, that you brought up ranked choice voting because I just saw recently there's a legal filing because they considered ranked choice voting in D.C.
00:05:32.020And obviously they're trying to get ranked choice voting in every single red state, every Republican jurisdiction.
00:05:37.360And then it comes up in D.C. and there's a legal filing that's like we can't have ranked choice voting, guys, because it's too confusing to Democratic voters.
00:05:45.640It will keep them from electing Democrats.
00:05:46.680No, it said somewhere this will confuse African-American voters.
00:05:54.120So literally they're admitting straight up in San Francisco where it's not working, in Vermont where they kicked it out, in D.C., the most Democrat areas in America, they're admitting this is not good for minority voters because it limits people's access to the ballot.
00:06:11.780And it's just – and they've done this before.
00:06:13.620They did it – Eric Holder once sued a town in I think North Carolina that tried to do nonpartisan elections because they said like this would keep – this will confuse black people because then they won't know who the Democrat is and it is the constitutional right of black people to vote for the black people party, which is the Democratic Party.
00:06:45.940They want to create a controllable falsetto center.
00:06:49.720It's a radical left that still like dresses normally basically and – but on the pledge thing, just to get it really back to what the alleged topic is, the thing that's really dumb about it is we literally did this seven years ago, guys, when they were all like,
00:07:04.540can we just dwell on – I just love how the RNC is being made a mockery of all their stupid debate rules.
00:07:14.120Oh, we're going to have 40,000 donors.
00:07:15.880Meanwhile, Doug Burgum, I'm going to give people $20 gift cards if they give me $1.
00:07:20.420I bought headphones with that and it was amazing.
00:07:40.440We'll make sure you have 40,000 donors and we'll make sure that you sign a loyalty pledge.
00:07:46.400And by the way, you're trying to tell me if Donald Trump doesn't sign the loyalty pledge, Ronna McDaniel is going to be like, I'm sorry, sir.
00:07:53.140You're not allowed to come up on stage.
00:07:54.640Like she's going to stand up to Trump after they're like groveling because he hasn't signed a piece of paper.
00:07:59.580It shows how illegitimate the RNC has become.
00:09:57.500We were having conversations before our – because like what the heck is legal or illegal?
00:10:02.160It's like if you breathe in the wrong direction with a MAGA hat on, you're going to federal prison for 10 years.
00:10:06.760But it's – I can't even pinpoint – the RNC has become so illegitimate.
00:10:11.640There's such a laughingstock that Chris Christie says, I'll sign your piece of paper, and I don't mean it.
00:10:16.940Trump has not signed a piece of paper.
00:10:18.920But the real truth, Jack, the real question, Jack Posobiec, is can we – I want to see Mike Pence's voter file, donor file.
00:10:26.620I do not believe he has 40,000 donors.
00:10:28.900Did he give out some gift cards that we were unaware of, Jack?
00:10:31.480Was there some sort of Mike Pence gift card scheme?
00:10:34.420There was this article back when Hillary ran in 2008, and Rush Limbaugh used to talk about it all the time.
00:10:43.780And I think it was the New York Times had found it.
00:10:45.940This is when all of these Chinatown – like just residents of Chinatown in San Francisco and New York City were maxing out to Hillary Clinton all over the place.
00:10:56.040And then the New York Times was like, oh, that's great.
00:10:58.200They actually went and like looked up some of the people, and they found that it was like busboys and people like washing dishes.
00:11:06.060They're – you know, they're scrimping together and they're saving all so they can max out to Hillary Clinton.
00:11:10.780And Rush was like, no, it's very obvious what's going on here.
00:11:13.700There's members of the Chinese Communist Party that are walking around in New York City and San Francisco handing them the money and telling them to hand it to Hillary Clinton.
00:11:24.380Pence has got a Chinese money laundering scheme.
00:11:26.440I'm not saying he's coming from China, but I'm saying he's probably using straw donors or something like that in order to get himself up to the $40,000 limit.
00:11:47.280George, I'll be on the debate stage, and I will take the pledge that the RNC puts in front of me just as seriously as Donald Trump did eight years ago.
00:11:55.360So when he signed the pledge, as Reince Priebus went up there and begged him to do it, and then on the first debate stage, he didn't raise his hand to say he would support the nominee.
00:12:03.460I will do whatever I have to do, George, to be on that stage and to be able to make the case to the American people that there is a need for new leadership.
00:12:12.720And I'll take the pledge just as seriously as Donald Trump did eight years ago.
00:12:15.920So you're going to take the pledge, but you don't really mean it?
00:12:19.360No, what I'm saying, George, is that I'm going to do exactly what the RNC has set us up to do.
00:12:25.160Not eight years ago, Donald Trump signed the pledge and then absolutely disregarded it in the first debate, and there was absolutely no penalty for that.
00:12:32.720I'm going to do whatever I need to do to save my party and save my country.
00:12:36.700I mean, he's not going to do anything that he needs to do because there's one obvious thing that he should have done to become president.
00:12:41.740There's an obvious thing, yeah, which is fix your BMI.
00:13:13.860Here, pay someone to like weld you into a room for a month, and then we'll come back, and we'll drop like, you know, a multivitamin down a slot, and then we'll come back.
00:13:27.880He's a big talker when we're a few miles away from each other.
00:13:35.520He's got a lot to say when he's got a phone in his hand, posting something on social media.
00:13:43.240We're going to know what he's really made of if we see whether he shows up two weeks from tonight or not on that stage, because I'll tell you one thing for sure.
00:13:52.780I will be there, and I am waiting for him, and then we'll answer him.
00:14:03.220Because where I grew up and the way I was raised was a man who has something to say to another man, comes up to him and looks him in the eye and says it to him.
00:16:56.900I think he will probably skip the first one.
00:16:58.760But I think he has that natural read on, like, what makes people talk about him the most.
00:17:03.920And there's got to be a scenario where he somehow ends up on the debate stage and just totally blows everyone away.
00:17:10.220He has to remind everyone, like, wherever I go, I am the number one most important person.
00:17:14.920And if he never shows up, the press will try to come up with this thing where they're like, oh, you know, we're getting Haley-mentum from the debate stage.
00:17:22.780And they'll try to create a narrative.
00:17:24.480And the best way to scuttle that is you just blow it up by having him show up once, obviously dominate the debate stage.
00:17:30.660And then he doesn't need to show up again, probably.
00:17:33.880Yeah, I think he doesn't need to show up to this first debate.
00:18:18.400Because Kevin McCarthy is going to ask him to and he's going to do it.
00:18:22.660And then he's not going to show up again.
00:18:24.220But I also think Trump has good memories at the Reagan Library when he destroyed every single one of these people's careers.
00:18:29.580That was the – yeah, that was the place.
00:18:32.180The first debate was just kind of about Megyn Kelly and you had John Kasich chopping lettuce.
00:18:37.260The Reagan Library was like when all of them – so they had a couple weeks of prep and they go back and all their consultants gave them these one-liners.
00:18:53.980And Scott Walker had – he thought he was like a tough guy and he said, well, we don't need an apprentice in the White House.
00:19:03.220Like that is so – is that the one – how many – wait, wait, wait.
00:19:08.780How many of those lines do you think –
00:19:10.540That's not the one where Trump is like a drive-by on Rand Paul out of nowhere, wasn't it?
00:19:12.180How many of those lines do you think – how many of those lines do you think that DeSantis team has planned right now?
00:19:18.240They probably got a million of those lines because a lot of this is the same – you know, a lot of the infrastructure from Ted Cruz that's come over.
00:21:49.820But they would like – forget all this like parameters and RNC stuff and Fox News.
00:21:53.920By the way, it would be like the most watched thing ever.
00:21:55.680Or get them to come to Bedminster and then just like blow them off and go to a McDonald's and buy McDonald's for a bunch of people and then like forget about it.
00:22:03.460It would be funny or just like not show up.
00:22:06.060It just shows how – it just shows how feckless and irrelevant the RNC has become.
00:22:12.140No, I was just going to – I mean obviously Trump should debate at least once.
00:22:15.640I think he should make sure that Tucker should be up there.
00:22:19.920I think he's got to think about the general electorate, not just the primary electorate.
00:22:23.600But Charlie, to your point, there's precedent for that because that's exactly what Reagan did.
00:22:27.660That's where we got that line, I paid for this microphone, that he actually went, established his own debate, set up the entire thing and paid for his New Hampshire.
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00:26:01.900We have our incredible staff in the Midwest all present and killing it at the Iowa State Fair.
00:26:07.400We have a massive booth, and you can read it.
00:26:10.320I don't know if we can get a picture up.
00:26:11.780I can send it over, but probably not on here.
00:26:13.660But it says lead your precinct, lead your country.
00:26:16.580And right now we are recruiting hundreds and upon hundreds of people to become precinct committeemen in the state of Iowa and also get involved with the caucuses.
00:26:24.620So, we're going to have, I think, thousands of people that we are now going to be motivating to make sure they get out to their caucuses across the state of Iowa so that we get the best possible result for a candidate come caucus time here.
00:27:04.380Well, so there's a big story that went viral over the last day or so, and it actually goes back to 2020.
00:27:10.800It's Michigan stuff, obviously, one of the states that was heavily contested in the 2020 election, and it's specifically this police report out of Muskegon County.
00:27:21.680I don't know if I mispronounced that, but I think it's Muskegon.
00:27:25.480It's the western part of Michigan near Grand Rapids, and it's this police report where a county official calls the police and says, hey, we're getting all of these ballot applications dropped off.
00:27:37.920I believe it's that you would send out a ballot application, send it in, and then they would mail you the ballot because they were doing all the mail ballots.
00:27:43.980And one person is dropping off thousands of these, about 10,000 total they estimated.
00:27:50.060And Muskegon County has only got 175,000 people.
00:27:53.020So, if you account for who's kids and everything, it's like one out of every 13 voters in Muskegon County had this ballot application dropped off by one person.
00:28:02.280And they're like, we're looking at them, and a lot of them seem really, really similar.
00:28:07.700And so, the cops go in and investigate.
00:28:11.360It's not clear from the police report whether this is all the ones that were suspicious or if they just sort of took some examples to then look into it further.
00:28:19.580And they start looking at them, and they're like, okay, well, one, a lot of these seem to have made-up addresses that are not real addresses.
00:28:25.420Some of them have the same signature, and it doesn't match what's already on file because, again, these are ballot applications.
00:28:32.080So, they often already have signatures on file for their voter registrations and such, and now they're different.
00:28:37.440And they start exploring this more and more, and they find one of the people whose name is here, and she says, yeah, I filled out this form, but I didn't sign it.
00:28:45.020I don't know who signed it or how it ever got to you.
00:28:48.040And they just find all these red flags.
00:28:49.920And then they go to the actual place of business where this is held.
00:28:53.260It's GBI Strategies, I think is the name of the firm.
00:28:56.600And GBI Strategies, they investigate their place, and they just find more strange things.
00:29:02.020They find more ballot applications, half finished.
00:29:04.360They find eight firearms in pelican boxes, a mixture of semi-automatic rifles and custom pistols.
00:29:13.940With suppressors, like it's a James Bond movie or something.
00:29:16.600And they were apparently legally owned guns, so I'm glad they're not doing illegal gun trafficking to our knowledge.
00:29:23.780But they had these guns, and somewhere on a whiteboard, they had in a phrase, and they didn't note what the purpose of this was, but someone wrote on a whiteboard, like, major topics, weapons in the field.
00:29:34.020You know, maybe they meant, like, we need to be weapons in the field because we're going to go win the election for Brandon, who they weren't calling Brandon yet.
00:29:42.120But that's how ahead of the times they were.
00:30:19.260And if the fate of this investigation was we found all this weird stuff and then we just decided collectively we're not going to look at it anymore, how often did that happen in the incredibly fair election that was 2020?
00:32:03.800One thing I disliked with this article is they loop it in with, like, the old footage from 2020 of, like, a van pulling up in, I think, Wayne County, Michigan to whatever center it was.
00:32:13.460I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head.
00:32:15.160But it's like, guys, that van, like, it's been discussed.
00:32:18.160The van is not someone dumping 200,000 votes out of nowhere to swing Michigan to Biden with these made-up ballots.
00:32:25.540And, in fact, like, Wayne County didn't even vote more for Biden than it did in 2016.
00:32:30.060It was one of the only counties in Michigan that didn't.
00:32:33.100And they also kind of give it this number, 800,000.
00:32:37.240They're like, this thing in Muskegon County proves 800,000 fake votes in Michigan.
00:32:44.160And, no, what it is is the Secretary of State, the former Republican Secretary of State for Michigan says, I believe up to 800,000 improper ballot applications were sent out.
00:32:55.040So this is a more interesting – I don't – the specifics you might be right on.
00:33:01.880I was going to say the reason they picked that video is because that wasn't – I remember this from 2020.
00:33:05.860That was an exclusive video obtained by the Gateway Pundit.
00:33:08.920So I think all they're doing there is just referring back to their own reporting.
00:33:12.100We do that at postmillennial and human events every day.
00:33:15.080Well, okay, but then they're referring back to a story that essentially didn't go anywhere, and it actually proved to be a huge distraction.
00:33:21.720And that's where I would critique this.
00:33:22.980For the right, we care a lot about election integrity, and I think with a lot of cases, we get sort of carried away with believe every alleged case of election integrity or of election fraud when what would be much better for us as a party in a movement is if we could just decisively prove and get someone convicted even on a single one, even if it doesn't change the result of the election.
00:33:46.340If we put in a lot of resources to figure out exactly what happened in Muskegon County and found a criminal and convicted them, that would do a lot more than like really wild allegations of ballot mules or whatever that go nowhere.
00:33:58.080My defense is not going to be as specific.
00:34:00.220It will be more general of the gateway pundit, which is that there is a role for boundary-pushing, headline-grabbing type of journalism, publishing that does, let's just say, add an element of excitement and an element of sexiness.
00:34:19.920At the same time, I agree we must always be anchored to the truth.
00:34:24.700The gateway pundit, they will engage in what would be considered third-rail stories, and I'm glad because there needs to be an organization that does that.
00:34:33.960Sometimes you're going to come up empty, or sometimes you're going to find out that Epstein Island is legit.
00:34:38.640So I think you would agree, Blake, there is a place for the provocative, the boundary-pushing.
00:34:43.600Definitely, but I guess I would say what's the left-wing equivalent of gateway pundit?
00:34:51.920But the New York Times, they obviously paper things over.
00:34:55.640The New York Times, the thing about it is you will, the New York Times is a very biased outlet, but they're biased in what they choose to cover.
00:35:02.620They're biased in how they frame everything.
00:35:09.000They'd be more so, but even the Daily Beast is not going to just wildly, I think, again, the headline here was, this proves mass ballot fraud in Michigan.
00:35:17.680They would never title something like that.
00:36:08.580It doesn't matter if 800,000 is the correct number.
00:36:12.640The reality is it probably is hundreds of thousands of improperly registered people.
00:36:18.760And what we know at Turning Point Action, the research that we've done and taking the Democrats' own research, is they know they get one vote for every two people they register.
00:36:32.080They tell all of their groups, their outside C4s, that if you can register two young people, one of them we can get to vote, meaning we can chase their ballot, we can harvest their ballot and go from there.
00:36:45.060We know in Michigan the game that they're playing is they're trying to either falsely register or accurately register.
00:36:53.740It doesn't really matter at this point because it doesn't matter if you're a warm, live body, you're dead, or you're nonexistent in Democrat world because all that matters is the paper that results in that registration because they're going to figure out a way to deliver the ballot, the paper ballot, to the mailbox, and that ultimately gets to the processing center.
00:37:42.380It may not be 800,000, but if it's half that, that's 400,000.
00:37:46.800And that means that on the Democrats' notes alone, they expect out of that 400,000 that got registered, 200,000 to get returned.
00:37:55.920That should scare every single person that's witnessing and listening to this story.
00:38:00.180And that's where I don't think they're actually sewing up this story, to your point, which is like, well, what's the meaning of this, right?
00:38:07.700And we don't always get there, actually, because, you know, Gateway Pundit will come out with something, and then, like, the moderates will be like, oh, I'm embarrassed because I got one fact wrong because they said that the sky was cloudy and it was really a clear blue sky that day.
00:38:22.140The real fact here is that hundreds of thousands of people are getting registered that don't really want to vote, whether they're alive, real, or not.
00:38:34.000So, Blake, you will be publishing your next op-ed for GatewayPundit.com.
00:39:37.160I get why it happens, but I don't think it does the right a lot of credit.
00:39:41.060And I guess I would ask, what's, like, the big political victory that we won because of, like, a Gateway Pundit article that was written that way?
00:39:53.120I think Jim and his brother Joe, who has an excellent book series on this entire, well, prior to this report, I should say.
00:40:01.720Everything that we've learned prior to this report are fantastic.
00:40:05.420And, you know, on the journalistic point, you've got to give them credit because the Gateway Pundit actually did unearth this report.
00:40:11.480So we wouldn't even be here talking about the, you know, the quality of the headline if it wasn't for the fact that they actually did do the digging and they were dogged on this story.
00:40:32.940Yeah, so 6.15 a.m. local time, I guess mountain time yesterday in, which I believe you guys are all in right now, or no, you're Pacific time right now.
00:40:44.820Provo, Utah, yesterday morning, the FBI raided a 75-year-old man living on a suburban street, suburban neighborhood.
00:40:56.460Man weighs 300 pounds, walked with a cane, had trouble getting around by himself, discovered his blind son.
00:41:02.940They raided him in a pre-dawn raid, full Bearcat SWAT truck that came up with them, rifles drawn at maximum, screaming at him, 6.15 in the morning.
00:41:15.840We've got a video that, you know, do we have the video?
00:41:43.500So it's somebody directly across the street who is filming, and what you see is the preview, basically, how the event started and unfolded.
00:41:51.840You don't actually hear or see the shooting in the video that's come out.
00:41:55.780The Salt Lake Tribune posted this, as long as a few other people have posted it out and verified it.
00:42:01.580And so they were serving a search and arrest warrant against making threats on President Biden, making threats on Kamala Harris, as well.
00:42:11.300And there's a number of other federal officials on this individual.
00:42:15.560But what's very interesting is that the FBI had actually had this guy under surveillance physically, either starting or occurring all the way back in March of this year.
00:42:26.740They spoke with him at his home in March of this year after visiting him or after following him to church, where they watched him attend services and then get into the car with another individual, confronted him at his home, asked him about the posts.
00:42:41.960He, you know, he told them, come back with the warrant.
00:42:45.020Apparently, they did come back with the warrant here several months later.
00:42:49.240And and they claim at this point that he was he was brandishing a gun.
00:42:54.980And that is why they decided to open fire, killed him and inhaled a bullet.
00:43:13.160I just want to make sure we communicate that that one of the posts, he said, FBI, next time you come to my door, you know, let me know, because I'm going to have a loaded gun waiting for you.
00:43:23.920Well, and he has all of the posts are extremely inflammatory and incredibly boomer.
00:43:29.840Like it's all like the laugh emoji thing, like all of this.
00:43:32.600Like I have expected to put one up as like it's very like next time.
00:43:37.660It's like when agents come to my place, I'm going to kill you.
00:43:40.380It's going to have like a minion on it or something.
00:43:43.380This is this is someone in their life, maybe not necessarily in your family, but I'm sure that, you know, someone in your life who's in that age range that posts like this.
00:43:52.340Look, here's what I'll say is that some people on the sinister left are doing the F.A.F.O. stuff.
00:45:45.180It's the thing that if you've been around the right a long time, it'll pop up on Facebook, on our on Internet forums in real life at the Thanksgiving dinner with a lot from the guy like this unfortunate man who was just killed by the FBI.
00:45:57.500And it's this like we're headed for a civil war.
00:46:00.300Like, I don't see how this can end peacefully.
00:46:01.860This is going to end in a sometimes the line they'll use is national divorce, which is maybe the peaceful version of this split the country.
00:46:07.860And the reason we put this in the topic in the show is I think we could have the debate like is this is this cope, which is there's sort of I think there's an apocalyptic bias in a lot of conservative people where it's like it seems really hard to imagine like, oh, change the system politically, you know, win elections, change your city, change your state, change the country.
00:46:28.560And instead, it's so much more comforting to think like the Democrats, they're going to screw up so bad that there'll just be this explosion and there'll be this like glorious redemption.
00:46:37.520And we'll we'll win this civil war somehow, even though we don't have the army, we don't have the FBI, we don't have the police, we don't have the corporations.
00:46:44.680We would basically just be a bunch of like we're all like cripplingly obese.
00:46:48.240So we'd be a bunch of fat people with guns and win a civil war.
00:46:53.220To Jack's point, why isn't Madonna received a raid from the FBI?
00:47:44.480We're trying to get the audio cleaned up.
00:47:46.440I've even seen people on Twitter that have that have cleaned this up where they've taken the explosion out to see if you can hear any voices or anything in that.
00:48:10.860It's it's hard to tell what's being said or who's who, you know, who's saying what basically.
00:48:15.820Um, but then a flashbang goes off and then the video cuts off because the guy I guess the guy either either he stopped filming or that's the only part of the film that he's.
00:48:25.380Yeah, and so some some people say that this was more of a hit than it was of a rate, right?
00:48:33.160But I guess I would say that just to me that ends up we sound a lot like, you know, these Antifa every single time, you know, one of them is, you know, he was just turning his life around.
00:48:41.800And then the police showed up and shot him just because he pulled a gun out of his waistband and waved it like a maniac.
00:48:46.860And there is an element of, you know, play very stupid games and win.
00:49:08.940What I have seen people say was, why did the FBI decide to do this when and I'd love to do this, too, that, you know, we have a photo and I posted this on on Twitter earlier.
00:49:20.120And the New York Post actually ran it where this was a guy who was not only well known and well liked in his community.
00:49:28.000He was a carpenter who had just put together a ramp or like a disabled neighbor.
00:49:33.040Someone who's pretty well known, a regular churchgoer.
00:49:37.120It seemed like there were probably ways to do this that would have been better and safer, not only for the defendant.
00:49:44.340In this case, the suspect, but probably safer for the FBI agents, too.
00:49:51.420I think that there's almost, you know, kind of the thing like when you all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
00:49:56.820Like when all you have is your whole SWAT loadout to go around and raid anyone who posts something insane on Facebook, everyone looks like a domestic terrorist.
00:50:05.660So to be fair, this is a normal church activity to do this kind of stuff with a Mormon culture.
00:51:52.320As Al Michaels would say, one of the greatest international sports moments in American history right up there with the miracle on ice against the Russians.
00:52:52.780That she was like a normal soccer playing woman who didn't act like this at all until she got a taste of the spotlight and until she started chasing that dragon of more dopamine hits.
00:53:09.880I'm fighting for equal rights, equal pay, et cetera, et cetera.
00:53:13.220And then suddenly goes and blows it at the last minute.
00:53:16.160But keep in mind that this is the same U.S.
00:54:08.600You know, she took it over for this like vanity political project and made it, you know, a politics thing instead of a national pride thing and made it so like and then, you know, oh, what was my greatest career highlight?
00:54:19.240Like making it so that our men's national team is worse because we have to divert all this funding to this like ascended middle school squad to win their World Cup.
00:54:27.500And, you know, I think it's very American for us to be very annoyed by that and to see a comeuppance.
00:54:34.080It's a form of I think new American is the great right spelled N-U American.
00:54:47.680And then like he woke up one day is like, you know, Nike's not there and everybody's not there and you lose and you don't make teams and that everybody's like laughing at you.
00:54:57.140She's kind of coming to this realization that like maybe hopefully that that everybody really does like there's more haters than the lovers.
00:55:07.100More people are now talking about women's soccer and actually watching women's soccer because of them losing than if they actually would have been in the final.
00:55:14.420And this was like Brittany Griner at the WNBA.
00:55:16.140Right. It's like nothing made me more irritated than seeing a full stadium walking Brittany Griner home.
00:55:21.580It's like some I'm sure the left is going to try to turn this into like some like heroes arc, you know, like she's down and out and like she's going to come back and they're going to do some kind of crap to like.
00:55:33.020I think this was her last game, though.
00:58:32.580No, in all seriousness, though, I can totally see her running for office, and that disturbs me.
00:58:38.300And there's going to be a lot of that, by the way.
00:58:39.940I think there's going to be – I think the unfortunate – if we're successful in making sure that we have a Republican president this next election cycle,
00:58:47.740I think you're going to see a huge swing to the opposite where the left is going to be running more celebrity-style candidates, even more so than they do.
00:59:06.700And so I think there's going to be positives and negatives to that.
00:59:09.960The positive is that I think it's going to actually put us in a place where we can make sure that we win as long as we have the infrastructure for that.
00:59:17.500The negative is you're going to have, like, Megans, like, as U.S. Senators, and that's going to be a real problem.
01:00:10.860I think that we are going to see a place where, because, okay, so America has broken, essentially, into several camps at this point.
01:00:20.300You know, obviously, Tyler was completely wrong when he disagreed with me earlier on this.
01:00:23.460But, and I was completely right, as per usual.
01:00:28.120And then, because America has become more polarized and essentially more tribal, if Megan Rapinoe can find an area where there's just enough people in her tribe,
01:00:41.700that's why what Tyler's saying is right about either a Senate seat, definitely there are congressional seats that she could run for.
01:00:48.620I know you all have an interesting senator there in Arizona, by the way, who's not exactly like this, but definitely an interesting sort of bird herself, that we are going to see more of it.
01:00:59.900We're just definitely going to see more of it.
01:01:02.260Yeah, I mean, she definitely gives Kirsten a cent about right for her money.