Louder with Crowder - June 19, 2025


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On this episode of the podcast, we have a special guest on the show to talk about AIPAC and why they should be treated like any other lobby group. We also talk about what the Bible really says about Israel and its relationship with the United States.

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00:00:00.000 Yeah.
00:00:01.000 And there's a component of truth.
00:00:03.000 Yeah, that is in the New Testament, that the church is now part of Israel.
00:00:07.000 And notice that I said part of and does not replace, right?
00:00:10.000 So if you adopt somebody into your family, they become, you know, my last name is Morgan, they become a Morgan, right?
00:00:15.000 They don't necessarily take me out a natural-born son.
00:00:19.000 They don't replace me.
00:00:20.000 They become part of that family.
00:00:22.000 I don't think it makes any sense to say, and replacement theology...
00:00:28.000 It was what was used in the 1930s to fit in a lot of anti-Semitism, and even before that in the 1920s.
00:00:34.000 You know, I'm not saying that this is why Hitler did what he did, but it was certainly a part of his understanding of the world. 0.61
00:00:39.000 It was something he used to manipulate people.
00:00:40.000 Right, yeah, they were like, ah, he was a pagan.
00:00:42.000 Screw the Jews because they killed Christ. 1.00
00:00:43.000 Actually, it was the Romans that killed Christ, but that was the whole point of the story.
00:00:48.000 Yeah, that's your big claim to fame before you guys collapsed.
00:00:50.000 It's just, there's a lot of inconsistencies, and it matters to get this right, because you can really run off the deep end of some stuff that I'm just like, listen, you'll end up fighting against God if you're not careful, and you do need to be careful on this.
00:01:06.000 No, that's wrong.
00:01:16.000 Well, the covenant doesn't apply to Jewish people, only to Christians.
00:01:19.000 No, and I understand they say, well, why would a covenant apply to people who both accept and reject Christ?
00:01:24.000 And of course, the New Testament basically ends with the Jews being given a last chance to convert, right? 0.80
00:01:29.000 So this is the 70th week of Daniel prophecy.
00:01:31.000 And some people will try to say that the pre-preterist or the partial preterist, I guess, will try to say that that was fulfilled in Jesus Christ or that that was fulfilled in 70-80.
00:01:39.000 I can't find any biblical support, and I mean any biblical support for that.
00:01:43.000 I understand the Schofield Bible crowd and everybody.
00:01:45.000 I can't.
00:02:02.000 Unless you have to.
00:02:03.000 Don't allegorize things away because that's the only way these things happen.
00:02:06.000 The entire reason for the book of Revelation, the entire reason is to catalog things.
00:02:12.000 This is Israel's last chance. 0.98
00:02:15.000 There's a reason that it's very easy to read Revelation 1 through 3. Chapters 1 through 3, maybe into chapter 4. And then it becomes incredibly filled with symbolism that is all dependent on your understanding of Hebrew culture in the Old Testament.
00:02:27.000 It is primarily written as a Jewish book saying, hey, here is the last chance.
00:02:33.000 And oh, by the way, Gentiles, thank God that you've been grafted in. 1.00
00:02:36.000 I am so glad we were chosen.
00:02:39.000 To come into this group.
00:02:40.000 But that certainly doesn't mean that God is through with Israel.
00:02:43.000 Otherwise, whole swaths of the Bible would make no sense whatsoever.
00:02:47.000 That would make no sense.
00:02:47.000 Now, all of that being said, none of it makes a basis for foreign policy.
00:02:53.000 No.
00:02:53.000 To be clear.
00:02:54.000 None of it should be based on that at all.
00:02:56.000 And when you're talking about foreign policy, it comes back to, is it a good thing for Iran to have a nuclear weapon or to be nuclear capable?
00:03:03.000 And I get it.
00:03:04.000 You don't believe any of the intelligence agencies who were right that Iraq could not create or have nukes.
00:03:09.000 So they're all in on it.
00:03:10.000 But is it a good thing for Iran to have a nuke or not? 0.85
00:03:12.000 I think not.
00:03:12.000 Should the United States get involved or not?
00:03:14.000 I think not, by and large.
00:03:22.000 None of this has anything to do with foreign policy.
00:03:36.000 As far as domestic policy, I think that AIPAC should be treated like any other foreign lobbying organization, along with...
00:03:43.000 Qatar, along with China.
00:03:45.000 A lot of people sort of skirt that.
00:03:46.000 Russia.
00:03:47.000 Russia.
00:03:48.000 Ukraine.
00:03:49.000 All of them, to be clear.
00:03:51.000 Can't stand AIPAC.
00:03:52.000 Now let's do everyone else as well.
00:03:54.000 You know who AIPAC likes?
00:03:56.000 Hakeem Jeffries.
00:03:57.000 In this case, they like Ted Cruz.
00:03:59.000 Well, I know in this case they like Ted Cruz.
00:04:00.000 They actually came out and said, thank you, Ted Cruz, for being a champion of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
00:04:05.000 And I'm like, ah!
00:04:06.000 Ted's like, no, not right now!
00:04:09.000 Wait!
00:04:10.000 Ted did a horrible job of defending his association.
00:04:13.000 Can we give the answer on AIPAC?
00:04:15.000 He seemed tired.
00:04:15.000 Yeah, can we give the answer?
00:04:16.000 Do we have that clip?
00:04:17.000 Yes, we do.
00:04:18.000 Okay, the answer on AIPAC, which is just a terrible answer.
00:04:21.000 It's a three-minute clip.
00:04:22.000 I've never taken money from the Israel lobby.
00:04:24.000 Have you?
00:04:25.000 Taken money from the Israel... 0.77
00:04:28.000 So AIPAC raises a lot of money for me, but it's actually a misnomer because the people who raise money are individuals.
00:04:34.000 So it's not the PAC itself, but they're individual members who believe in the American-Israeli friendship and relationship.
00:04:41.000 Is AIPAC a foreign lobby?
00:04:42.000 No, it's an American lobby.
00:04:44.000 AIPAC stands for the America-Israeli Political Action Committee.
00:04:47.000 What is it lobby for?
00:04:48.000 So, to be honest, not a whole lot effective.
00:04:51.000 Listen, I came in to Congress.
00:05:01.000 I've worked every day to do that.
00:05:03.000 AIPAC, a lot of times, That should not be the basis of your campaign if you're here to represent the United States.
00:05:11.000 This is what people have a problem with, and I wholeheartedly agree.
00:05:15.000 That was a horrific answer.
00:05:17.000 Horrific.
00:05:18.000 You know why?
00:05:18.000 Because he has to.
00:05:19.000 He has to, otherwise...
00:05:21.000 I'm sorry, there is truth.
00:05:22.000 He has to answer that way or APEC goes, I came into the Senate to make sure that I was the leading defender of my constituents who voted for me and sent me here.
00:05:34.000 Yeah.
00:05:35.000 Why in the world would an answer like, can you say, hey, I place a high premium on the relationship that we have with Israel?
00:05:42.000 Even if you disagree with that, I can understand that.
00:05:44.000 That's fine.
00:05:45.000 But that can't be the, I'm going to be the number one defender of this thing.
00:05:49.000 Are you kidding me?
00:05:50.000 Yeah.
00:05:51.000 Yeah.
00:05:51.000 That's a horrifically bad answer.
00:05:53.000 He was, he was.
00:05:54.000 On the flip side, I don't think, I don't think that Tucker Carlson wants anyone who can have it and go, oh yeah, APEC sucks.
00:06:00.000 And move on.
00:06:03.000 That's his legs out from under him.
00:06:04.000 Yeah, there's even the whole, like, Jesse Ventura thing that Tucker was doing, like, the, I'm just asking questions, tough guy.
00:06:10.000 And it's like, well, let me try and answer.
00:06:11.000 I'm just asking questions.
00:06:12.000 All right, fine.
00:06:13.000 So there's a lot of, Payback sucks.
00:06:17.000 And going back to...
00:06:22.000 Ideal scenario here, to me.
00:06:24.000 Well, first off, most hilarious scenario would be if Russia just reached their wits end and just came in and just dropped Bunker Busters on Iran. 0.74
00:06:31.000 We're like, screw it!
00:06:32.000 We don't want to deal with this!
00:06:34.000 And then the people wouldn't have, like Ian Carroll, people like that would have no idea what to do.
00:06:37.000 I think ideal scenario, number one, you guys tell me, let's look through it.
00:06:42.000 Israel is able to take care of this.
00:06:43.000 Somehow is able to take out the nuclear capabilities.
00:06:47.000 Use the penetrator bomb.
00:06:48.000 We just talked about it.
00:06:49.000 Maybe some clandestine operation.
00:06:52.000 Number two would be that, okay, we come to talks here where Israel says, all right, okay, we'll stop.
00:06:59.000 If we have access to everything, this is basically disarmed, and we have the ability to inspect.
00:07:03.000 And, of course, at the same time, Israel allows the United States to. 0.69
00:07:06.000 That should be part of our negotiations as well.
00:07:08.000 IEA has to go in there.
00:07:09.000 Yeah, I have to go in there.
00:07:11.000 Less ideal scenario would be if the United States sells, gives a bunker buster or whatever artillery, whatever kind of bomb and planes to fly it to Israel to do the job.
00:07:22.000 And then worst case scenario is sending in Americans and any kind of clandestine operation.
00:07:27.000 So these are the different possible scenarios.
00:07:29.000 I'd like Israel to handle it without us. 1.00
00:07:32.000 I really would like to see that because here's what bothers me about Israel. 0.99
00:07:37.000 That means that Israel went in to start a job that they knew they needed us to finish. 0.60
00:07:41.000 That's right.
00:07:42.000 And that's backing us into a corner, and I don't like that, and friends don't do that.
00:07:45.000 On the flip side, when Tucker Carlson goes, should we be paying Israel to spy on us?
00:07:49.000 We're not paying Israel to spy on us.
00:07:51.000 And Ted Cruz couldn't just say, well, it's bad that they do it.
00:07:53.000 You know who one of the worst offenders is, as far as espionage?
00:07:56.000 It's France.
00:07:57.000 Historically, they have been the worst.
00:07:59.000 I don't like.
00:08:00.000 I think it's a bad thing that Israel spies on us.
00:08:01.000 France.
00:08:03.000 What do they do with it?
00:08:04.000 Yeah, what do they do with that information?
00:08:06.000 France has a serious nuclear power, too.
00:08:07.000 A lot of people don't realize.
00:08:08.000 I know, because they suck, but you don't realize until you look at it on a sheet of paper.
00:08:12.000 I think it's bad that the United States spies on Israel.
00:08:15.000 I think it's bad that Israel spies on the United States.
00:08:16.000 I don't think that Israel is as great of an ally as people make them out to be.
00:08:20.000 All of that I agree with.
00:08:22.000 But to only single out Israel, and of course Qatar is one of the worst as far as spying, as far as trying to infiltrate. 0.79
00:08:28.000 Well, and funding terrorism.
00:08:29.000 I know Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
00:08:31.000 That's right.
00:08:32.000 Man, Qatar, they've got their eye on the prize. 0.99
00:08:34.000 Yes, they absolutely do.
00:08:35.000 But it's not honest to say, like, should we be paying Israel to spy?
00:08:39.000 No, we're not paying Israel to spy on us.
00:08:41.000 I think the annual budget is somewhere between three and four billion dollars.
00:08:44.000 We're paying Israel for other intel. 0.76
00:08:46.000 And unfortunately, But it's a misrepresentation to say we are paying to be spied on.
00:08:53.000 All foreign governments essentially accept this.
00:08:56.000 They do their best to curtail it, but they understand that it happens even amongst people that are technically allies.
00:09:02.000 I get it.
00:09:02.000 I don't like it.
00:09:03.000 And Ted should have been saying, no, of course not.
00:09:05.000 It's not in our interest.
00:09:06.000 We don't like that at all.
00:09:07.000 Also, Tucker should have been able to say that maybe, maybe Putin is not our best friend.
00:09:11.000 He also shouldn't have been so easily fooled by one subway and one grocery store when he made the come to Russia video.
00:09:18.000 And Ted rightly pointed it out, like, hey, you're doing this.
00:09:21.000 And Tucker's answer was terrible on that.
00:09:23.000 So they both had some very...
00:09:25.000 They were both off yesterday, I'm telling you.
00:09:26.000 It's like watching two great fighters who did...
00:09:33.000 I think Ted Cruz is when he's debating other politicians.
00:09:36.000 But he has to give these political answers.
00:09:38.000 To me, with Tucker, what I don't understand is he goes, okay, what is the exact ethnic makeup of Arendt?
00:09:43.000 But he interviewed the Tate brothers and didn't know the charges.
00:09:47.000 So it's like, well, are you doing due diligence or are you not?
00:09:50.000 That's what I'm saying there.
00:09:52.000 I think a lot of it is gotcha.
00:09:56.000 Adversarial from the very, very get-go.
00:09:58.000 Yeah, it looked like he couldn't wait to get at him.
00:10:01.000 Yeah, and Tucker was a twerp for most of the interview.
00:10:03.000 He really was.
00:10:04.000 Hey, watch your language.
00:10:05.000 I mean, just...
00:10:07.000 Yeah.
00:10:11.000 The whole thing was annoying.
00:10:13.000 I don't think either view represents most of mainstream America.
00:10:18.000 And if you look at the polls, most of mainstream America, they say, hey, it's probably not a good thing for Iran to get a nuke.
00:10:23.000 It would be good for them to not get to that capability.
00:10:26.000 And then as far as American involvement, a majority support that.
00:10:29.000 But I bet if you frame it in, hey, should the United States sell?
00:10:33.000 For example, the equipment that's needed to Israel to finish the job, you'd probably have a pretty high percentage.
00:10:38.000 And I would say that's the one where it's still a question mark for me.
00:10:41.000 I would like Iran's power to be done once and for all with this. 1.00
00:10:45.000 I understand no regime changes have really worked all that.
00:10:48.000 I understand that.
00:10:49.000 That's not about regime change to me.
00:10:51.000 It's about removing the nuclear capability because that's a bad thing.
00:10:54.000 But I don't like Israel starting something. 0.97
00:10:57.000 And by starting, I do mean responding to hundreds and hundreds of missiles.
00:11:01.000 I don't like them going in knowing full well that if they need something from us, expecting that we will give it to them.
00:11:09.000 Exactly.
00:11:10.000 Exactly right.
00:11:10.000 That's a perfect way to put it.
00:11:12.000 And a good friend doesn't do that.
00:11:14.000 Yeah, we'll see if they actually did that, though.
00:11:15.000 I mean, I highly doubt that they did.
00:11:17.000 I think they probably had conversations about this and said, look, if we're going to take this last place out, it's going to have to be you guys.
00:11:23.000 We don't have the capability.
00:11:25.000 Yeah, maybe.
00:11:25.000 And maybe Donald Trump said, no, take everything else out, but we're not going to do it.
00:11:28.000 I don't know.
00:11:29.000 I don't know what those backroom conversations are.
00:11:30.000 There's a lot of ambiguity by design right now because that's a military strategy.
00:11:34.000 Yes, exactly.
00:11:35.000 This is Donald Trump negotiating.
00:11:36.000 I just want to throw out one quick theory and then we move on to chats that I heard yesterday that was very perplexing.
00:11:41.000 See if you guys can follow this.
00:11:42.000 So first of all, it's illegal under Islamic law, apparently.
00:11:46.000 So a fatwa issued in 2003 saying that a nuclear bomb is counter to Islamic law and so therefore Iran will not, under any circumstances, pursue an atomic bomb.
00:11:58.000 And the only reason that Iran ever pursued an atomic bomb in the first place was because of an arms race set off by Israel when they developed nuclear weapons. 0.82
00:12:07.000 Which is why Iran is enriching past any reasonable point of peaceful use with uranium.
00:12:14.000 Does that make any sense to you?
00:12:16.000 What's also why Iran launched hundreds of missiles in April and October of 2024?
00:12:20.000 Because they're so concerned about Israel's nuclear capabilities.
00:12:24.000 Exactly!
00:12:26.000 So you're telling me, let's just start off with the premise that it's always been against Islamic law.
00:12:31.000 They're cherry picking.
00:12:32.000 But you're saying that you started an arms race because Israel has a bomb.
00:12:36.000 Do you enter an arms race to not create a bomb to create parity?
00:12:38.000 Or do you enter an arms race to at least match your opponent or exceed their abilities like Russia and the United States did during the Cold War?
00:12:45.000 Like there was an arms race for a reason.
00:12:47.000 And then going on to say, well, yes, but we're never going to create a bomb.
00:12:50.000 You don't have to worry about that.
00:12:51.000 Iran's never going to create a bomb in the first place.
00:12:53.000 It's against Islamic law.
00:12:54.000 Never mind the fact that they started to enter the arms race.
00:12:57.000 I got a question.
00:13:01.000 No civil purpose at all.
00:13:02.000 It's against Islamic law.
00:13:03.000 It's in the Koran?
00:13:05.000 It's not.
00:13:06.000 I was going to say, the atomic bomb.
00:13:09.000 Came around, what, 1950-something?
00:13:11.000 I haven't even seen this chat.
00:13:13.000 I think they're basing it on saying, for example, Islam is such a humane religion that during war they say, do not even harm a tree if you can avoid it, right?
00:13:21.000 They kill you for not converting. 0.95
00:13:24.000 That's the only basis that I can think of.
00:13:27.000 And people do that.
00:13:29.000 There is some, I mean, they may be pulling it from somewhere.
00:13:31.000 I don't have much of an issue there, but it's like the mental gymnastics you have to do.
00:13:35.000 To believe that the guiding principle behind the Iranian regime right now is that an atomic bomb is against our beliefs and against our understanding of how this world should operate.
00:13:43.000 Yet, we're enriching uranium only.
00:13:45.000 And then to go back and to go, yeah, we're enriching uranium.
00:13:48.000 So, it's because they have a bomb.
00:13:50.000 But I thought you couldn't create a bomb.
00:13:52.000 I will say this.
00:13:52.000 The more I think about it, I understand the argument.
00:13:54.000 I think politically it would be a mistake for the United States to strike.
00:13:57.000 To do an airstrike.
00:13:58.000 I think politically it would be a mistake.
00:13:59.000 I do too.
00:13:59.000 Well, I think it would be better for...
00:14:01.000 I think, in other words, we start from the premise of...
00:14:08.000 I think that it would be a mistake.
00:14:10.000 What if they do a strike and it's over at that?
00:14:11.000 There's no ground invasion, there's no regime change.
00:14:13.000 I still think it would be a mistake.
00:14:15.000 Politically, I think it would be totally fine.
00:14:17.000 I don't agree with it necessarily, but I think it would be totally fine.
00:14:20.000 I would be against it.
00:14:22.000 The polls are with Trump on this one.
00:14:24.000 I mean, the polls I read last night.
00:14:25.000 Like 73% even, you know, are with them.
00:14:28.000 I thought you said the polls, like Rand Paul.
00:14:30.000 You said polls.
00:14:31.000 Oh, no, the Pauls are here.
00:14:33.000 are all for this.
00:14:34.000 They're all.
00:14:36.000 I was like, what?
00:14:37.000 What if we get the UK to do it?
00:14:38.000 Oh, they're a nation of pussies. 1.00
00:14:39.000 They're not going to do anything.
00:14:39.000 They are, but maybe they can do one thing.
00:14:40.000 As Archie Bonka said, England is a fair country.
00:14:45.000 It is.
00:14:46.000 That's what he said.
00:14:47.000 I would be, if I had to give you an answer, unless something changes, I would be against a strike right now.
00:14:52.000 And I get it, Soleimani, and I get it, the Houthi.
00:14:53.000 It's not just because of how charged this is right now and how the left and the far right will unite and say, see, more of the same, even though it's not accurate.
00:15:01.000 Well, you don't know what will happen either.
00:15:02.000 So I am with you in that I don't want the airstrike.
00:15:05.000 Today, I would say, no, I don't want it.
00:15:07.000 If we could guarantee, somehow, someway.
00:15:10.000 That the airstrike would be the end of it and there were no boots on the ground.
00:15:13.000 Then yes, but you're right.
00:15:14.000 You can't.
00:15:15.000 So as of right now, I'm like, then no.
00:15:17.000 Right.
00:15:17.000 And I do, honestly, an alternative may be to have one of these other countries do it.
00:15:22.000 They won't.
00:15:23.000 England, if you really want to support these guys, they're sending a carrier over there, so okay, fine.
00:15:26.000 I think it was a carrier.
00:15:27.000 Maybe it was just a battle group from England.
00:15:29.000 Do you still have any carriers?
00:15:30.000 Let's get Haiti. 0.97
00:15:30.000 Do you have a little weird jumping off thing at the end of them? 0.97
00:15:33.000 Yeah, throw some dirt cookies at them. 1.00
00:15:34.000 All right.
00:15:35.000 It's time for Chat Thursday.
00:15:38.000 Chat.
00:15:42.000 And of course, we'll be here tomorrow with you.
00:15:45.000 Woohoo! 1.00
00:15:45.000 Rumble Premium, that's just for you guys. 1.00
00:15:47.000 All right, chat Thursday.
00:15:49.000 Thursday.
00:15:50.000 Oh, and by the way, I know Nick DiPaolo, well, you're going to, so this weekend, Josh is going to be in Indianapolis and St. Louis.
00:15:57.000 Go and show him you love him because these clubs. 0.85
00:16:04.000 So supporting live comedy, funny, it's going to be a great show.
00:16:06.000 St. Louis Club is a lot of fun, disregarding the fact that it is in St. Louis.
00:16:11.000 Chat.
00:16:11.000 All right, first chat from Professor Savage Dad.
00:16:15.000 Question for the crew.
00:16:16.000 What country would a regime change campaign be best carried out in for Americans?
00:16:22.000 Iran, Canada, or Mexico?
00:16:24.000 Oh, a regime change?
00:16:25.000 Yes.
00:16:28.000 None?
00:16:30.000 I'd say Canada.
00:16:31.000 I'd say Canada, just because Canada is close.
00:16:35.000 Canada, you know, we could take advantage of the resources more.
00:16:40.000 We could set up more fair trade deals.
00:16:42.000 We don't have to change the regime, though.
00:16:43.000 You just take it.
00:16:44.000 Like, that's one of those things that we never do.
00:16:46.000 But then in Mexico, I don't want to take it because of the cartels.
00:16:49.000 I don't want to deal with your problem.
00:16:50.000 Yeah, I don't think you could have a regime change, because the truth is, it doesn't matter who's in power, the cartels are the ones in power.
00:16:55.000 In Canada...
00:16:58.000 How about that?
00:17:00.000 We'll take Alberta.
00:17:01.000 I'll do it if they bring in Don Cherry.
00:17:04.000 Yes, exactly.
00:17:05.000 He should.
00:17:05.000 He's that guy.
00:17:06.000 That guy should be given asylum. 0.98
00:17:07.000 He should.
00:17:08.000 They fired him just for saying, wear a poppy.
00:17:10.000 Just like saying, you know, support your veterans.
00:17:13.000 Really on Iran, it has to come from the citizens. 0.95
00:17:15.000 I'm not, I don't, you know, because Nick, you said Iran, and I understand the thought behind that, but if it doesn't come from within Iran, I'm not for it. 0.99
00:17:25.000 And I'm also not sure that it's going to be better than what we currently have.
00:17:28.000 We've dealt with that several times over in the Middle East.
00:17:30.000 I think it will for a short period of time if they bring back the Shah's son. 0.99
00:17:33.000 If they do that, yes.
00:17:34.000 If they do that.
00:17:35.000 But I will say this.
00:17:36.000 I don't have any faith in the Islamic world getting it right long term. 1.00
00:17:39.000 Because people go, Iran was great. 0.83
00:17:41.000 Well, sure it was.
00:17:41.000 But you could say that about Egypt at a point in time.
00:17:43.000 You could say that about Turkey at a point in time, right?
00:17:45.000 And then they end up getting it wrong again.
00:17:47.000 I mean, we do have to acknowledge that there was the overthrowing.
00:17:52.000 It means there were enough people there who wanted to thrust themselves into the third world, which means there's still a significant portion of them there. 1.00
00:17:59.000 So if there's a regime change, I do think that it would probably be better than the Ayatollahs because they have sort of a government in waiting, but I don't have faith that it would last long term. 0.81
00:18:09.000 So that's none of my business.
00:18:12.000 My business is making sure that they cannot, the people who chant death to America, and I don't care, plenty of people chant death to America, yeah, the leaders who chant death to America, that they don't have the ability to bring death to America.
00:18:21.000 That is it.
00:18:22.000 California chants death to America.
00:18:23.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:18:24.000 I think we should bomb them.
00:18:25.000 I would.
00:18:26.000 I like a regime chant.
00:18:27.000 Leave Temecula.
00:18:30.000 You know, parts inland.
00:18:31.000 Just bomb the coast.
00:18:32.000 Next check.
00:18:33.000 Start with Newsom's house.
00:18:35.000 Yes.
00:18:36.000 Brought up the cartels.
00:18:37.000 Amaya Kata asks, question for Stephen and all, are the cartels making so much money mostly off the U.S. or other countries?
00:18:45.000 What?
00:18:46.000 I don't know.
00:18:46.000 They make money in everything.
00:18:48.000 Here's the thing.
00:18:48.000 There are certain areas in Mexico, there are certain cities where you know they are run by the cartel.
00:18:53.000 Like, it's well known.
00:18:54.000 And that's not necessarily everywhere in Mexico, but they make a lot of money off of the poorest border.
00:18:59.000 And here's the thing, when people say, Well, we've seen that the states that have legalized, just using weed, for example, there are more under-the-table weed dealers than there ever were because now you've increased the demand pool, right?
00:19:17.000 So people will try and avoid those taxes.
00:19:20.000 So that hasn't ended them.
00:19:21.000 Legalizing all drugs doesn't, but let's say that it did, okay?
00:19:23.000 Drugs were no longer a marketable commodity.
00:19:27.000 You have to understand that cartels, that Professional criminals, they don't view themselves as drug dealers.
00:19:35.000 They don't view themselves as armed dealers.
00:19:37.000 They view themselves as professional criminals.
00:19:39.000 They're going to find a way to make money through crime, whether it's human sex trafficking.
00:19:44.000 The libertarian answer is, well, legalize all drugs.
00:19:48.000 Obviously, guns should be available because of the Second Amendment. 1.00
00:19:50.000 And then sex work is real work. 0.99
00:19:52.000 Okay, what about child sex work?
00:19:53.000 And like, well, come on, that's...
00:19:55.000 No, no, no, we know that that's what the cartel...
00:20:02.000 There's no doubt about that.
00:20:04.000 So, the only way to deal with them is violently, and to reduce their ability to be effective.
00:20:11.000 And we've seen that, by the way, with the Southern border.
00:20:12.000 You seal that up, and we've got to make sure we do the same thing with Canada.
00:20:15.000 That's why our eye is on them, because it's just like two holes in a boat.
00:20:18.000 Plug one, more water's coming in.
00:20:20.000 You've now increased the pressure through the other.
00:20:22.000 So I don't know where they make most of their money, but they do absolutely thrive in an environment where we do not have a locked down border, for sure.
00:20:29.000 They like that.
00:20:29.000 It'll never go away completely, but you have to remove as much of the profit motive as you can.
00:20:33.000 Killing them has never worked because somebody else just comes up.
00:20:36.000 I mean, because there's money to be made.
00:20:37.000 Right.
00:20:38.000 So somebody will step into that void to try to make the money.
00:20:40.000 So you've got to try to attack it on that end, which is...
00:20:43.000 So we can control access way more than we can control people being addicted to drugs, so let's try to make that access so costly to get around, or almost impossible, that it's no longer financially viable.
00:20:54.000 Right.
00:20:54.000 Yeah.
00:20:55.000 Or libertarians say, well, libertarians are classical libertarians.
00:20:57.000 Yeah, no borders and legalize all drugs. 0.99
00:21:00.000 That's a stupid idea.
00:21:00.000 Like, yeah, that'll render them useless.
00:21:03.000 Yeah, you wouldn't be able to find a cartel member if you legalized all drugs and opened up the borders.
00:21:08.000 But people want to buy it, Stephen.
00:21:10.000 They should be able to engage in commerce.
00:21:13.000 Okay.
00:21:13.000 Fine.
00:21:14.000 I just think it's a stupid argument.
00:21:15.000 It goes apart so quickly.
00:21:16.000 You know, Bear, the company management used to sell heroin.
00:21:19.000 Yeah, and they stopped.
00:21:20.000 Next chat.
00:21:21.000 Next chat from MPTigerT.
00:21:24.000 Question for the crew.
00:21:25.000 A lot of secular folks believe in simulation theory.
00:21:28.000 Wouldn't that just be God?
00:21:29.000 Pretty much.
00:21:30.000 Yeah.
00:21:31.000 It's like The Matrix to a degree.
00:21:32.000 That's why I don't like The Matrix.
00:21:34.000 I don't like it because I don't think it's as good as people think it is.
00:21:36.000 Oh, stop it! 0.95
00:21:38.000 It's like now everything is a multiverse.
00:21:40.000 Everything is a multiverse.
00:21:41.000 Like, yeah, okay.
00:21:42.000 I took humanities and philosophy and I get it.
00:21:44.000 And you combine it with quantum physics and parallel universes.
00:21:47.000 But then you come back to God.
00:21:48.000 So the idea is, for every way the world could be, there is a world which is that way.
00:21:52.000 Every time a decision is made, it splits a reality.
00:21:54.000 It's like, okay, what determines a decision?
00:21:56.000 My decision, is that a decision?
00:21:58.000 Is there a world where I just don't do this?
00:22:00.000 And what cosmic force determines what constitutes a decision?
00:22:04.000 Because literally every single syllable scratch movement from all of us right now, we just created five zillion universes right in here.
00:22:15.000 And I haven't heard an answer that's very clear on it.
00:22:18.000 So people will do anything they can to avoid coming to grips or terms or facing like, okay.
00:22:24.000 Is there a God or isn't it?
00:22:25.000 You can call it the universe.
00:22:26.000 You can call it a cosmic force.
00:22:27.000 You can call it a simulation, but that would mean that someone has had to create a simulation.
00:22:32.000 At a certain point, you have to make your own decision, but you call it whatever you want.
00:22:36.000 And then, here's the thing.
00:22:38.000 To me, if you just say, I don't believe in any of it.
00:22:40.000 We don't have answers, but I think eventually we'll get there.
00:22:42.000 We don't have any answers for how the world started.
00:22:44.000 We don't have answers for the Big Bang.
00:22:45.000 We'll get there eventually, and so I'm willing to roll the dice.
00:22:49.000 No God.
00:22:49.000 Okay, fine.
00:22:50.000 But, if you say, Simulation, if you say a higher power or the universe, okay, now you have to come to terms with which is most likely.
00:23:00.000 Any of these other explanations or the one that says there's only one way of the truth and the light, and that is through the Son and Father, Jesus Christ.
00:23:11.000 Now you've stepped over.
00:23:12.000 You go, okay, I believe there's something greater.
00:23:14.000 Okay, now you have some decisions to make, and I get that it's scary.
00:23:17.000 If you're just an atheist, okay, fine.
00:23:18.000 Enjoy hell.
00:23:19.000 Next chat.
00:23:21.000 Next chat from Rumble Forskin.
00:23:23.000 Do you think the left will claim crime went up under Trump's term because they started reporting the statistics again?
00:23:29.000 Have they?
00:23:30.000 Is that a rhetorical question?
00:23:31.000 Of course the left will.
00:23:32.000 I mean, no matter what, even if crime goes down, period.
00:23:35.000 They're blaming him on what's going on now.
00:23:36.000 They're blaming the riots on him.
00:23:38.000 I love this.
00:23:39.000 You're doing something illegal.
00:23:39.000 We're coming to stop it.
00:23:41.000 You start throwing rocks and shit, and Trump's the chaos.
00:23:44.000 Yeah.
00:23:44.000 I mean, at what point?
00:23:46.000 It's like arguing with...
00:23:48.000 It's an insult to children.
00:23:50.000 Yeah, it is.
00:23:50.000 I mean, grown children.
00:23:52.000 At least children ask why.
00:23:54.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:23:55.000 Like, I get tripped up by questions from my kids all the time.
00:23:57.000 Like, when am I going on a van?
00:24:00.000 Why is the sky blue?
00:24:02.000 And I'm like, well, because of the reflection, because of our atmosphere.
00:24:05.000 He goes, oh, well, why is it reflecting?
00:24:07.000 Why do we have an atmosphere like that?
00:24:09.000 You're like, I don't know.
00:24:11.000 It's hitting particles in the air.
00:24:12.000 I don't know.
00:24:13.000 Don't use hairspray because there was a hole in the ozone, but it closed up.
00:24:16.000 That's about the extent of my...
00:24:20.000 I don't know.
00:24:20.000 My father would say to me like I'm five years old, why is this sky blowing?
00:24:23.000 What are you writing a fucking book?
00:24:25.000 Not anymore, Dad.
00:24:27.000 God, I can't read one.
00:24:28.000 Yeah, Dad.
00:24:29.000 It's about you.
00:24:31.000 It's a Harry Chapin song.
00:24:32.000 Next chat.
00:24:32.000 It's the chapter on loving father.
00:24:35.000 Alright, next chat from ChrisWBuckley63.
00:24:39.000 Question for DiPaolo.
00:24:40.000 Uh-oh.
00:24:41.000 What would you do as an ICE officer to get illegal alien roofers who won't come off the roof? 1.00
00:24:45.000 Oh, boy.
00:24:46.000 Can't imagine.
00:24:48.000 Someone was sitting there and thought of a layup.
00:24:51.000 It's very easy.
00:24:52.000 You pull up a taco truck.
00:24:55.000 I mean, a real one.
00:24:56.000 Like a real good food truck.
00:24:58.000 Yes.
00:24:58.000 They come down and bing-bang.
00:25:00.000 Yep.
00:25:01.000 Unless you were going to start a fire.
00:25:04.000 I loved it.
00:25:05.000 Electrical.
00:25:06.000 Yeah.
00:25:07.000 I don't know.
00:25:07.000 Depends on how prickly Nick is in the moment.
00:25:09.000 That's true.
00:25:10.000 It's a lot of my mood.
00:25:11.000 You're right.
00:25:11.000 Yeah.
00:25:11.000 I actually bring him out, you know, I bring him out of some basses.
00:25:15.000 Just start playing Tejano music, you know, welcoming environment.
00:25:18.000 The carrot is the taco and the house fire is the stick.
00:25:21.000 That's right.
00:25:21.000 That's right.
00:25:21.000 No.
00:25:22.000 Yes.
00:25:23.000 I like them.
00:25:23.000 I just, you know, but I, you know, they have to be here legally.
00:25:27.000 Yeah.
00:25:27.000 But they work hard and, you know, I like the Italians of it.
00:25:31.000 Some of them.
00:25:34.000 At least the Italians learned English. 1.00
00:25:37.000 I know, that's the thing.
00:25:38.000 That's the other thing I never understood.
00:25:39.000 You know, press one for Spanish.
00:25:41.000 How come everybody else had to learn?
00:25:42.000 Yeah, I know.
00:25:43.000 Why make an exception for the Spanish? 1.00
00:25:45.000 I don't understand that.
00:25:46.000 If you take away the incentives to learn the language, then people just won't.
00:25:50.000 The big difference is...
00:25:53.000 I understand, but you can't make the comparison because Italians came here before there was a welfare state.
00:25:59.000 People coming post-welfare states.
00:26:01.000 In other words, you can't judge their character the same way.
00:26:02.000 I was talking about the positive attributes, but yeah, no.
00:26:05.000 They're few and far between.
00:26:07.000 I was talking about the Italian.
00:26:09.000 Sicilian. 0.92
00:26:09.000 Sicilian. 0.92
00:26:11.000 No, but there's a big difference between, hey, immigration, where it's a net risk.
00:26:15.000 Okay, try your hand at it.
00:26:17.000 You're promised freedom and opportunity and nothing else.
00:26:20.000 And basically saying, oh, you know what?
00:26:22.000 I've done the risk analysis.
00:26:23.000 I'll get free stuff.
00:26:24.000 You cannot compare pre-welfare state immigration to post-welfare state immigration.
00:26:29.000 It's totally different, and it's been different in every country where we've seen that contrast, just to be clear.
00:26:35.000 Tony Soprano explained it perfectly with Dr. Melfi in an episode about the Italians coming home.
00:26:40.000 We came over because the Rockefellers, they needed their fucking work of bees and shit, but we wanted a piece of the action. 1.00
00:26:45.000 Yes, whereas Mexicans, you know, they go back in the winter. 1.00
00:26:49.000 They send their money back.
00:26:50.000 Yeah, they do.
00:26:51.000 Yeah, I think that that tax should be increased at least fourfold.
00:26:55.000 Right now, I think it's 5 or 10 percent was what was suggested in the big bill.
00:26:58.000 I'd like to see it at least at 30, 40. Yeah.
00:27:01.000 Don't get to come here and send money to a country that you fled.
00:27:04.000 Either stay there, work there because you love it so much, or come here and become a part of this country.
00:27:09.000 But don't come here and fleece us.
00:27:10.000 Take advantage and send the money.
00:27:11.000 Don't funnel money out.
00:27:12.000 That's not how any countries should operate.
00:27:14.000 Next chat.
00:27:15.000 All right, next chat from Revan's Padawan.
00:27:18.000 Question for Stephen.
00:27:19.000 Why does women's empowerment revolve around freedom and choice while men's empowerment revolves around duty, sacrifice, and servitude? 0.76
00:27:25.000 By design?
00:27:27.000 You're talking about a movement when you're talking about women's suffrage that was, yeah, get the vote, but no draft or paying taxes or bucket duties. 0.65
00:27:34.000 Like, that's the basis of it.
00:27:36.000 And by the way, that ended up being the basis of a lot of modern woke left, quote-unquote, civil rights movements.
00:27:43.000 I'm not talking about, hey, we should all start on the same square.
00:27:47.000 That we should all have the same base level of human rights.
00:27:49.000 I'm saying feminism was really the first and most pervasive modern movement that said, oh, we should start at an advantage to right wrongs of the past. 0.98
00:27:58.000 And so, yeah, I will tell you this, even when you see conservative women out there, We still want men who are chivalrous.
00:28:11.000 But then you say, okay, what is your duty?
00:28:12.000 Meaning, what is a walkable offense?
00:28:14.000 That's really what we're talking about.
00:28:16.000 Any woman out there, if she's with a man and he will not protect her and will not provide for her, that's a walkable offense. 1.00
00:28:23.000 That's a duty.
00:28:24.000 That's an expectation.
00:28:25.000 What is the walkable offense for men?
00:28:28.000 And it's a question that you never hear answered.
00:28:31.000 And I mean, pretty much never.
00:28:33.000 In other words, if something goes bump in the night, man has to answer it.
00:28:36.000 That's the expectation.
00:28:37.000 It's a walkable offense.
00:28:38.000 If he hides behind you or sends you out the door, what's the walkable offense for him with you?
00:28:45.000 If it's a walkable offense that he goes, I just don't feel it.
00:28:47.000 I quit my job and I'm going to find myself.
00:28:50.000 And now you don't have a home.
00:28:51.000 That's a walkable offense.
00:28:52.000 What's the walkable offense?
00:28:53.000 Is it if he comes home and there's chaos?
00:28:55.000 You're not the peacemaker?
00:28:57.000 Is it if you don't do the household duties?
00:29:03.000 Blowing the gardener.
00:29:06.000 It's this idea of duty that as a citizen of this country, there are certain duties that come with that.
00:29:12.000 As Christians, there are duties that come with that.
00:29:14.000 And I think that's one of the underpinnings of this country being kind of our Christian faith and foundation.
00:29:20.000 Just look at all the states and the people that founded this country, what they believed.
00:29:24.000 Duty is a big part of it.
00:29:26.000 Duty doesn't get you salvation, but duty is definitely spoken about now that I am a believer, what do I do?
00:29:32.000 What ought I do as a believer?
00:29:34.000 And that's something that we've gotten away from in general.
00:29:36.000 And it rears its head specifically in the feminism argument, but in a lot of other ways.
00:29:41.000 We've gotten off of the what am I supposed to do and gotten to the like, well, what can I just get from the system?
00:29:47.000 That's right.
00:29:49.000 It's a terrible place.
00:29:50.000 And it's reflected in divorce laws, by the way.
00:29:51.000 They go, well, marriage is, you know, it's a...
00:29:54.000 It's supposed to be a covenant, but it's a contract.
00:29:55.000 But you have states, many states, I think most states, in this country, where if a man has worked his ass off and does really well and he marries a woman, she can cheat on him.
00:30:06.000 She can cheat on him, leave, and still enforce the contract because of a walkable offense. 1.00
00:30:11.000 He has to pay for it.
00:30:13.000 He has to fund the lifestyle she's become accustomed to.
00:30:15.000 There is no enforcement on that contract that says, yeah, but you don't get to walk from the duties that you signed on to in being a wife. 1.00
00:30:22.000 It doesn't exist.
00:30:23.000 You can put numbers on a paper that say, this is what a husband, this is what a man is required to do when you sign on a dotted line.
00:30:31.000 And you can apply it to primary earner, but that's usually men because women won't marry men typically who make less than them. 1.00
00:30:37.000 But you can apply, you can go, okay, here's a number, it's quantified.
00:30:39.000 Your value is this and you're required to continue providing it.
00:30:42.000 One side is incentivized to break it and there is no similarly applicable enforcement.
00:30:49.000 That is a problem, and it's why a lot of young men aren't getting married.
00:30:52.000 So it's by design to answer your question.
00:30:54.000 Next chat.
00:30:54.000 All right, next chat from Mr. Never Miss.
00:30:56.000 I live in Jersey and every Walk it back.
00:31:03.000 I live in Jersey and everyone here hates higher taxes, but studies show we have lower crime and better education and quality of life.
00:31:10.000 In Jersey?
00:31:11.000 Is this a valid argument for higher taxes?
00:31:13.000 What are you, what are you, jeep?
00:31:17.000 I feel like that's a miss.
00:31:18.000 Yeah, that's a miss.
00:31:19.000 Tell me about Camden, New Jersey.
00:31:21.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:31:22.000 Say hello to Newark for me.
00:31:24.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:31:24.000 That's more of a municipal thing.
00:31:26.000 New Jersey City.
00:31:28.000 Yeah.
00:31:28.000 And no, it wouldn't be an argument for higher taxes.
00:31:30.000 I don't care what you have in a survey.
00:31:33.000 If you take from rich people and give it to poor people, the poor people in the survey are going to be like, yeah, this is a fantastic gig.
00:31:39.000 We did this with healthcare.
00:31:41.000 Healthcare based on surveys around the world.
00:31:42.000 If you have free healthcare, you might feel good about it, but you might still die.
00:31:48.000 People in Colombia are more satisfied with their health care than people in the wealthy areas of Beverly Hills.
00:31:52.000 I will say this.
00:31:53.000 It's just a bad idea.
00:31:54.000 I get it.
00:31:55.000 It's lazy to say correlation doesn't equal causation, right?
00:31:58.000 Because sometimes we have to make an inference from what we view as a consistently strong.
00:32:03.000 In other words, if there's a correlation that keeps reappearing.
00:32:08.000 Every time we sort of remove for other variables, okay, you can make the inference that there seems to be some causation here.
00:32:14.000 Often we make the inference and sort of assume causation.
00:32:16.000 So I get that.
00:32:17.000 So people just say that to any stat.
00:32:19.000 That being said, I am willing to bet that if you were to look at the different municipalities in New Jersey, in other words, if you compare Camden and you compare, I don't know, Red Bank, I don't know, Tool Man knows New Jersey better than I do, compare them, the strongest correlation that you will find is not going to be the tax rate.
00:32:37.000 As far as why crime is lower in one.
00:32:39.000 In other words, that is not the strongest correlation that we have.
00:32:43.000 I guarantee you would probably see demographics.
00:32:45.000 You would probably see more intact families.
00:32:48.000 You would probably see less crowding, a less urban area.
00:32:52.000 You would see other correlations that pop out at you long before you go, oh, there's a difference in the marginal tax rate of 4.2% or whatever it is.
00:33:01.000 So that is where I would say.
00:33:03.000 Be careful to jump the gun on saying this correlation of taxes causation because you haven't eliminated for other variables that have a much stronger tracking with the end result.
00:33:14.000 I know at one point, Jersey had the highest car insurance.
00:33:18.000 Yeah, because of carjacking?
00:33:19.000 Probably, but...
00:33:22.000 Detroit invented it.
00:33:23.000 Yeah, highest car insurance in the United States, so...
00:33:26.000 Yeah.
00:33:26.000 I don't know if that's still true or not, but...
00:33:29.000 Most densely populated state?
00:33:31.000 New Jersey?
00:33:31.000 Yeah, it makes sense.
00:33:32.000 Yeah.
00:33:33.000 Because it's a small state, and then they have the runoff of New York with those cities, and then they still, even their suburbs are pretty busy.
00:33:38.000 Right.
00:33:38.000 And there's some beautiful, there are some beautiful places in New Jersey.
00:33:43.000 Oh, yeah.
00:33:43.000 They did a few gigs out in the sticks, you see horses and, you know?
00:33:47.000 Yeah, and people's beds.
00:33:51.000 I see horses with bullet wounds and knives stuck in them.
00:33:54.000 Did you ever do Hasbro Heights, the bananas?
00:33:56.000 What are you kidding me?
00:33:57.000 In the hotel?
00:33:58.000 I don't know, maybe 14 times?
00:34:00.000 Oh my gosh.
00:34:00.000 That was the most depressing.
00:34:01.000 I know.
00:34:02.000 You go in there and you see a picture of...
00:34:06.000 Yeah, it's like the paper that's rolled out.
00:34:10.000 Bananas.
00:34:10.000 Bananas.
00:34:11.000 That's right.
00:34:11.000 It's bananas, I always make, 60 years old, I gotta cash a check with this emblem on it.
00:34:18.000 A banana with sunglasses and a microphone.
00:34:22.000 And then you look at a picture of Seinfeld when he was like 27. Yeah, exactly.
00:34:26.000 And you're going, oh my god.
00:34:27.000 You don't even have any stage lighting.
00:34:29.000 You're like in Ballroom B, and it's just people with these chairs they toss in there.
00:34:32.000 It's a function room.
00:34:33.000 I know.
00:34:34.000 Somebody throws a bouquet, you catch it when you're doing comedy.
00:34:39.000 Joke's on you, lady. 1.00
00:34:40.000 Go home with bouquets and garter belts.
00:34:42.000 They did have one of those.
00:34:44.000 You can go on my Twitter.
00:34:46.000 There's steps that go up to the second floor of the hotel.
00:34:50.000 But they have one of those, what do you call those chairs?
00:34:52.000 There you go.
00:34:52.000 There's a banana.
00:34:54.000 That's the logo on the check.
00:34:57.000 But they have one of those chairs that stare at.
00:34:59.000 The old people sit and they go up. 0.99
00:35:01.000 Oh, yeah.
00:35:01.000 They have one of those.
00:35:03.000 I took a picture of myself and it was a Budwell.
00:35:06.000 I said this was in my rider.
00:35:08.000 And it's always uncomfortable when the club is in the hotel where you're performing.
00:35:11.000 Oh, yeah.
00:35:11.000 That's always great.
00:35:12.000 People think they have access.
00:35:12.000 They're like, yeah, yeah, I'm going to find your room.
00:35:14.000 You're like, son of a bitch.
00:35:15.000 Yeah.
00:35:15.000 No kidding.
00:35:16.000 Yeah.
00:35:16.000 All right.
00:35:16.000 Don't let them follow.
00:35:17.000 There's a positive side of that, too.
00:35:19.000 Go ahead.
00:35:19.000 Yeah.
00:35:19.000 Well, I get it.
00:35:21.000 Grab another chat.
00:35:21.000 Get a little boy up there.
00:35:23.000 Throw their dentures on the stage? 0.82
00:35:25.000 Yes.
00:35:27.000 I have a whole thing.
00:35:30.000 Literally the last time I was in Hasbrook Heights bananas is you're not far off.
00:35:34.000 Next chat.
00:35:34.000 I got hit in the chest with a jar of Bengay.
00:35:38.000 Alright, next chat.
00:35:40.000 Parliaments?
00:35:41.000 They still make parliaments?
00:35:42.000 Yes!
00:35:42.000 When you bump a cigarette, it's a parliament there.
00:35:45.000 Chesterfield?
00:35:45.000 You're right!
00:35:46.000 Meet me upstairs.
00:35:48.000 Still has a Reagan on the packet.
00:35:49.000 Alright, next chat from W.R. Woodman.
00:35:54.000 Question for the crew.
00:35:55.000 Alex Jones has a different view of Iran than Stephen.
00:35:58.000 Would you consider having him on to discuss those differences?
00:36:01.000 Yeah, sure.
00:36:03.000 Here's the thing is I don't want to put him on the spot because I think that – And I don't think that most of us are as far apart as the people who scream on social media are.
00:36:15.000 It's like, okay, should Iran have a nuke?
00:36:16.000 No, if people say, well, I don't believe that they have a nuke, and they have an argument to make as far as intelligence and as far as...
00:36:26.000 Okay, I think there's probably a case that can kind of be made, but lacks some historical context.
00:36:32.000 If Alex Jones is saying, hey, he doesn't care, he doesn't think that a nuclear-capable Iran is at all bad for America, then I would disagree with him, but I don't know that that's his position.
00:36:43.000 Yeah, I understand a lot.
00:36:45.000 The thing that I don't love right now is the World War III.
00:36:50.000 Kind of stuff.
00:36:50.000 And I understand why, though, that that's coming from Alex.
00:36:53.000 Because I really do think that he's like, hey, we're being walked into another war.
00:36:57.000 And that's one of the points that I do understand why people are so hesitant on the right.
00:37:01.000 Even Dave Smith of the world, like, we've seen this movie before.
00:37:05.000 And he's not wrong on that.
00:37:06.000 He's not wrong on that. 0.71
00:37:07.000 And that's why I'm like, hey, guys, you do have to pay attention to that.
00:37:09.000 You do have to protest the idea of the United States getting involved in another long, bloody, costly conflict in the Middle East to do a regime change and bring democracy and nation build.
00:37:18.000 Right.
00:37:19.000 Right.
00:37:19.000 That you absolutely need to stand.
00:37:20.000 And we are.
00:37:21.000 We're saying absolutely not.
00:37:22.000 I'll get in the streets if I have to.
00:37:24.000 If that's the decision from this president.
00:37:25.000 I don't think it's a decision from this president.
00:37:27.000 We certainly aren't there today.
00:37:28.000 And to say that this is World War three over and over and over and over and over again, whether it's Alex Jones or anybody else.
00:37:34.000 I just think that does a disservice to your audience, because at some point we're just going to tune it out.
00:37:38.000 Right.
00:37:38.000 Case in point.
00:37:45.000 Yeah, I stayed up all night.
00:37:46.000 Yeah, I know.
00:37:46.000 They've been saying stuff like that over and over and over again.
00:37:49.000 So every time now that Iran says something, I just completely tune it out because I'm like, I don't think they're actually going to do anything.
00:37:54.000 They're counting on you doing it.
00:37:55.000 Maybe.
00:37:56.000 Well, but the defense apparatus of countries doesn't tune it out necessarily.
00:38:00.000 Maybe they're trying to do that.
00:38:01.000 But I just don't think that we are serving our audience as well by constantly telling them, breaking!
00:38:08.000 This is World War III.
00:38:10.000 Like, going with the extremes that the mainstream media typically does on the breaking side of things, but then throwing World War III in there.
00:38:16.000 That being said...
00:38:20.000 There's a lot of people who do that.
00:38:21.000 Friends of ours that do it.
00:38:22.000 And I'm like, I just don't think that's a great idea.
00:38:24.000 That being said, last night, wasn't there a report out that Russia sent something over to Iran?
00:38:30.000 Russia, as far as I know, they've said, we're sitting this one out.
00:38:33.000 We don't want anything to do with it.
00:38:34.000 I'll have to look it up.
00:38:35.000 I was a little shocked.
00:38:37.000 We don't want to do this.
00:38:38.000 Well, Russia has a giant contract with Iran for drones that they are using in Ukraine right now, so they're probably not going to attack them.
00:38:46.000 They're saying it was a Chinese cargo plane that landed in Iran.
00:38:49.000 That's not what I heard.
00:38:50.000 That doesn't surprise me.
00:38:53.000 That doesn't surprise me.
00:38:55.000 It's full of fireworks, guys.
00:38:56.000 They're getting ready for their version of 5-4th.
00:38:58.000 It's fine.
00:38:59.000 Look, for the same reason that Iraq was a mistake, because Iraq was not a threat to the United States at that moment in time, and the regime change obviously created a bunch of instability.
00:39:07.000 We have a different question to ask ourselves because the same intelligence that was saying Iraq does not have nuclear weapons or capabilities is saying that Iran does while they are saying death to America.
00:39:19.000 while they're And other intelligence agencies are saying, they're going to get there.
00:39:29.000 I think it's a very different question because we were not there with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
00:39:33.000 We weren't.
00:39:34.000 That's why it was a mistake.
00:39:35.000 So the same potential mistake applies, that regime change doesn't work out well.
00:39:40.000 It pretty much never works out well.
00:39:42.000 And I just don't have faith.
00:39:43.000 I don't have faith anywhere, I will tell you this, in the Islamic world, and I will tell you this as well.
00:39:49.000 In the communist world, which includes most of South America, I don't have faith in any of these nations to get it right long term, and I have very little faith in Europe to do so right now.
00:40:00.000 This is the last spot.
00:40:01.000 I mean, there's no other place that even is close to approaching opening up more speech, advocating on behalf of speech, granting people more.
00:40:11.000 Second Amendment rights.
00:40:13.000 Well, half our country here is pooing on that.
00:40:16.000 Yeah, no, absolutely.
00:40:17.000 But that's what I'm saying.
00:40:18.000 It's half.
00:40:18.000 In the other countries, it's the majority.
00:40:20.000 So I don't have any faith in the Islamic world to get it right long term. 1.00
00:40:23.000 I think in any given decade, pick an Islamic country that's making progress.
00:40:27.000 Fast forward one or two decades.
00:40:28.000 They're right back to square one.
00:40:29.000 And I think the same thing when you look at South America.
00:40:32.000 I mean, look at Chile, for example.
00:40:34.000 And I get it.
00:40:35.000 Pinochet put a few people on involuntary helicopter rides, okay?
00:40:38.000 I'm not advocating for that.
00:40:40.000 But!
00:40:42.000 It was Allende before him, right?
00:40:43.000 You have to look at the socialist, communist, Marxist who was in charge, and there's a reason that people welcomed in Pinochet, right?
00:40:48.000 It was called the Chilean experiment, where it was this bastion of success and economic development, and then that changed.
00:40:57.000 I mean, Malay, I think he'll be there for a while, and then I think it'll revert back. 1.00
00:41:00.000 Brazil, hey, they were on the right track.
00:41:02.000 They're not anymore.
00:41:03.000 I don't have faith.
00:41:04.000 In any other areas of the world to get it right long term because they are very different from this country.
00:41:10.000 So I think regime change is a bad it's a bad standpoint for us to I guess create or base our foreign policy as far as our involvement.
00:41:21.000 Now do I think would I take 10 or 15 better years from a non-nuclear capable Iran if the people overthrew it? 0.99
00:41:29.000 Of course I would.
00:41:30.000 Of course I would.
00:41:31.000 Yes.
00:41:31.000 But I don't want people 20, 30 years from now going like, well, look, we helped with regime change in Iran and we're back to raping little girls.
00:41:37.000 Like, because everyone could have seen that coming.
00:41:40.000 I don't know that you can take anywhere, honestly, could it be, could anyone in the Islamic world have more than 30 years of getting it right? 1.00
00:41:49.000 More than 30 years of continual progress away from barbarism.
00:41:53.000 I don't think, I think 30 years would be generous.
00:41:56.000 Honestly.
00:41:56.000 Lane says Japan.
00:41:58.000 Well, that's not the Islamic world. 0.98
00:41:59.000 I didn't say the Islamic world.
00:42:00.000 Oh, Islamic world. 1.00
00:42:01.000 Yeah.
00:42:02.000 Yeah, I didn't say the Islamic world.
00:42:03.000 And in Japan, they still can't own guns.
00:42:05.000 Yeah, there's a lot of issues.
00:42:07.000 So what I'm hearing you say is that, you know, nation building and regime change is not really your thing.
00:42:12.000 But what about colonialism?
00:42:15.000 A huge colonialist fit.
00:42:16.000 Okay, fantastic.
00:42:17.000 See, if we're going to do anything, it should probably just be that.
00:42:19.000 Yeah, no, the principle right to keep India over there and just use the resources. 1.00
00:42:23.000 Yeah.
00:42:23.000 You stay there.
00:42:24.000 Yeah, yeah, you stay there.
00:42:25.000 Yeah, you stay there.
00:42:26.000 Right.
00:42:26.000 Keep your poop.
00:42:27.000 Yes.
00:42:29.000 Keep your poop. 0.99
00:42:30.000 Of course I'm joking.
00:42:30.000 Send us your raw minerals.
00:42:32.000 All right.
00:42:33.000 Final...
00:42:36.000 All right, final chat from DadLife20.
00:42:39.000 Okay.
00:42:39.000 Why show any mercy towards Islam?
00:42:42.000 It's a cancer that threatens mankind.
00:42:46.000 Legit question.
00:42:49.000 I'm thinking.
00:42:52.000 I get it.
00:42:53.000 Call London.
00:42:54.000 I get it.
00:42:56.000 I will say this.
00:42:58.000 When people say, oh, if I need a flying spaghetti monster to tell me not to kill or not to steal, then I must be a horrible person.
00:43:04.000 You need God as a crutch.
00:43:05.000 You are a horrible person.
00:43:07.000 Sure.
00:43:07.000 Yeah, but mercy.
00:43:08.000 Not you.
00:43:09.000 Mercy was not considered a virtue throughout all of human history until modern Christendom.
00:43:12.000 You know that?
00:43:13.000 You think Native Americans? 0.88
00:43:15.000 We're judging people based on how merciful they were?
00:43:17.000 Of course not.
00:43:18.000 That's a modern Christian ideal.
00:43:20.000 And unfortunately, mercy is, or your capacity as a Christian for mercy, is not meant to be endless. 0.86
00:43:27.000 Right?
00:43:27.000 So you do need to know when to apply it.
00:43:31.000 With Islam, when you say mercy, I guess, what do you mean?
00:43:34.000 If you're talking about bombing Iran, that's very different.
00:43:36.000 We're talking about foreign policy.
00:43:38.000 If you're talking about mercy for Islam, I'm going like, ah, it's their culture. 0.99
00:43:41.000 None.
00:43:41.000 I think we need to call it out as a terrible, backwards culture from an awful, violent religion.
00:43:47.000 Sure, there are plenty of good Muslims here in the United States.
00:43:50.000 Most of them are largely secular, just like the Shah there in Iran.
00:43:54.000 I mean, this is a guy who was a Muslim who drank, for crying out loud. 1.00
00:43:57.000 But I have no tolerance for it taking over large swaths of the United States.
00:44:02.000 Anyone who believes in Islam as a prescription. 1.00
00:44:08.000 Sharia law, as, you know, you're talking about Dimitri, when you're talking about, for example, a poll tax, all of curfew, right?
00:44:16.000 Different treatment for citizens of different religions.
00:44:20.000 That can be tolerated 0%, and there can be no mercy whatsoever.
00:44:25.000 And I do think that we do need to start from a negotiation point if we're dealing with anyone from the Islamic world of, all right, kind of like you talked about the cartels, of mitigation. 1.00
00:44:35.000 Mitigation because they always, the Islamic world always gets it wrong. 1.00
00:44:40.000 Long term.
00:44:41.000 Always.
00:44:42.000 And here's the big difference.
00:44:43.000 And this is why, unfortunately, Christians have been browbeaten and have allowed our white guilt to get the better of us. 0.91
00:44:50.000 It goes back to the founding, right?
00:44:51.000 And you've heard me talk about Jesus Christ versus Muhammad. 0.99
00:44:53.000 Look, if every single person in your neighborhood, okay, if every single...
00:45:01.000 You might think he's weird, but I don't even think you'd have a complaint filed with the HOA.
00:45:06.000 If he made it the hangout spot for the disciples, he'd be like, come on, these guys, that's too many, it's beyond capacity.
00:45:13.000 But it would be a guy who wouldn't commit any acts of violence.
00:45:15.000 It would be a guy who honestly was doing nothing but serving.
00:45:20.000 Most he might be preaching.
00:45:21.000 I don't think you really have a problem with him.
00:45:22.000 If every single person in your neighborhood acted like Muhammad, you'd have no more neighborhood. 0.99
00:45:27.000 And you'd be a slave.
00:45:29.000 Very different.
00:45:31.000 And that's why you look at the founders of the feast, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, okay? 0.98
00:45:35.000 Now let's compare the spread of the religions.
00:45:38.000 The initial spread of the religions.
00:45:39.000 Because I know someone's going to go to the Crusades.
00:45:42.000 Christianity.
00:45:43.000 When it initially spread.
00:45:46.000 If you were a Christian, you were persecuted.
00:45:48.000 You can look at the first martyrs.
00:45:49.000 And my name is after the first martyr.
00:45:51.000 Thanks, Mom.
00:45:52.000 Thanks, Dad.
00:45:52.000 Laying that one on me.
00:45:53.000 Why my name is for martyrs?
00:45:54.000 Different spelling.
00:45:56.000 They were flayed alive, some of them.
00:45:59.000 Boiled alive?
00:46:00.000 Thrown off of rooftops?
00:46:01.000 Meaning, if you were known to be a Christian, you were persecuted, tortured, and murdered.
00:46:06.000 And it spread by word of mouth.
00:46:09.000 Initially.
00:46:10.000 Not by war.
00:46:12.000 Islam.
00:46:13.000 At this point in time.
00:46:14.000 Muhammad starting it. 0.95
00:46:16.000 There were no known oppressors because people didn't really know what Islam was.
00:46:19.000 And initially, people weren't concerned about it subverting any type of government.
00:46:23.000 So no known oppressors.
00:46:25.000 The initial Muslim converts weren't being tortured.
00:46:28.000 And killed as a matter of policy was always spread by the sword.
00:46:34.000 From its inception, it was spread by the sword.
00:46:37.000 Including Muhammad's sword. 0.62
00:46:38.000 You understand that, right?
00:46:40.000 So if you're going to start, even if you assume it's nothing but archetypal, okay, let's just consider it an archetype.
00:46:48.000 How it's affected the world.
00:46:49.000 Because whether you agree with the idea of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior or not, okay, you still have to agree that it's an archetype that has impacted the world.
00:46:58.000 More than most any other religion, you could probably add Islam to that list.
00:47:02.000 Okay.
00:47:02.000 So what's the impact?
00:47:04.000 All right.
00:47:04.000 Well, Jesus Christ never took a wife, never raped a kid, never killed anybody, never waged a war.
00:47:11.000 All right.
00:47:12.000 That's the starting off point.
00:47:14.000 Made people come back to life.
00:47:15.000 Made people come back to life.
00:47:17.000 There you go.
00:47:17.000 Wash some feet.
00:47:18.000 Muhammad did rape a kid. 0.97
00:47:20.000 Sorry, she was nine.
00:47:21.000 Only humped her thighs until she was six. 0.98
00:47:24.000 Did kill people.
00:47:25.000 Gross.
00:47:26.000 Did advocate for killing of people and had an open-ended call for the specific second-class citizen treatment of people who did not agree to convert to his religion.
00:47:37.000 And it was followed to the letter.
00:47:41.000 To act as though you expect any other impact from these religions other than how they initially grew would be foolish.
00:47:50.000 To say, yeah, sure, Muhammad did all that. 0.99
00:47:53.000 And called for all that.
00:47:54.000 And that's how Islam was spread initially.
00:47:56.000 But there are some really nice Muslims in Jersey now who have some flat screens is silly. 1.00
00:48:02.000 Anytime you go to the Islamic world where they gain, where they coalesce and they have a significant amount of power to the point of impacting and determining the foundations and policies of government, it ends in a nightmare. 1.00
00:48:19.000 We shouldn't expect anything else.
00:48:22.000 And we should treat it with the expectation that it will result in a nightmare.