Louder with Crowder - We’re Back: Hegseth’s Confirmation, Cali Wild Fires & Elon's Free Speech Fiasco

00:00:00.000 Hey Steven, you ready?

00:00:16.000 Ready for what?

00:00:17.000 The, uh, We Didn't Start the Fire parody.

00:00:21.000 I think that's kind of played out, actually.

00:00:23.000 I don't really want to do it.

00:00:24.000 Well, I mean, I've never done one with you guys, and it just looks like a lot of fun.

00:00:28.000 I thought, you know, maybe we could do one.

00:00:29.000 I know.

00:00:30.000 We did it a lot.

00:00:32.000 You take this one.

00:00:33.000 I don't need to be in it.

00:00:34.000 Are you sure?

00:00:35.000 I mean, this is your baby.

00:00:36.000 I don't want to step on your toes.

00:00:37.000 No, it's not a baby.

00:00:39.000 I don't like it.

00:00:39.000 You do it.

00:00:40.000 Okay, well, if you say so.

00:00:41.000 Yeah.

00:00:42.000 All right.

00:00:42.000 It's right up your alley.

00:00:43.000 Cool, thanks.

00:00:44.000 Wait, how did you get in here so fast?

00:01:06.000 Terrorists attacks are up, Trump Tower's Cybertruck, car attack in Germany, and one down on Bourbon Street.

00:01:17.000 Fires in the Palisades, Congress gave themselves a raise, Justin Trudeau said goodbye, Jimmy Carter finally died.

00:01:24.000 Certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently. 0.98

00:01:30.000 Gangs of rapists in UK, Brian Stilter is still gay. 0.99

00:01:34.000 Rumble gets a new investor. 0.99

00:01:36.000 Biden pardons child molesters.

00:01:37.000 Burning lady on the train.

00:01:39.000 Immigrants are not to blame. 0.98

00:01:41.000 TikTok is still getting banned.

00:01:42.000 Fire sale on Greenland.

00:01:44.000 We're back now and getting louder.

00:01:47.000 We've got long hiatus in the liberal series.

00:01:50.000 We're back now and getting louder.

00:01:53.000 No, we didn't start it, but the fight goes on.

00:01:57.000 Elon Musk and Ramaswamy anchored babies, missed their mommies, more expensive H-1Bs.

00:02:02.000 China hacked the treasury Election was certified P.P. Harris died inside Biden's offshore drilling ban Dana White's a Zucker fan What price do you put on national security?

00:02:15.000 Families can be deported together.

00:02:17.000 Whitney Cummings acting based.

00:02:19.000 Still no office for Matt Gaetz.

00:02:20.000 South Korea president hiding in his residence.

00:02:23.000 Ukraine drones attacking Russia.

00:02:25.000 Jay-Z says he never touched her.

00:02:27.000 RFK, blow it away.

00:02:28.000 Whoops, that was his uncle.

00:02:30.000 Back now and getting louder.

00:02:32.000 We were on hiatus in the liberals.

00:02:36.000 We're back now and getting louder.

00:02:39.000 No, we didn't start it, but the fight goes on and on.

00:02:44.000 The Panama Canal is vital.

00:02:46.000 We need Greenland for national security purposes.

00:02:49.000 Canada and the United States.

00:02:51.000 that would really be something click rumble premium and join now for 99 annually or 9.99 a month to get the entirely ad-free experience and exclusive content from ladder with crowder nick de paulo mr guns and gear donald trump jr and an ever-expanding roster of content creators and free speech

00:03:19.000 so so so first

00:03:58.000 First sip of the year, though not really, and first headphones group of the year.

00:04:03.000 Already?

00:04:04.000 Of course.

00:04:04.000 I didn't turn them up because I was recording something the other day and I forgot, but really glad to be with you.

00:04:09.000 First year where we start the year off, Rumble Premium, no longer just Mug Club.

00:04:13.000 You get everything there at Rumble Premium, so we're really happy to be with them, and of course we'll be continuing.

00:04:17.000 You just continue, you click that button, get to continue watching on Rumble Premium, the additional 100% more show.

00:04:22.000 At least say 50%, it's 100%. 0.93

00:04:23.000 A lot happened during...

00:04:26.000 We've been back for a couple of weeks.

00:04:28.000 There was weather going on and, of course, pre-production with super videos and camera stuff.

00:04:33.000 Some things that you'll see coming up.

00:04:35.000 A big stream on January 20th.

00:04:37.000 I don't know if you know that's a big date.

00:04:38.000 Who's crumpling paper?

00:04:39.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:04:41.000 What are those mics?

00:04:44.000 So, we're going to go through it.

00:04:46.000 The things that you requested most.

00:04:49.000 Elon Musk H-1Bs.

00:04:50.000 We're going to be talking about that as to whether there is cause for concern.

00:04:56.000 If it has been a net positive, net negative, or neutral, we're just going to try and call balls and strikes on that because there are some things that I will, spoiler alert, a little concerning.

00:05:05.000 I am Ante, removing the cap of H-1B. We'll be talking about the Palisades, the fires, but really actually today will be the definitive installment of Gavin Newsom, What a Piece of Sh**. 0.97

00:05:15.000 We're going to do that segment today. 0.93

00:05:16.000 It's a long time coming.

00:05:17.000 Can't believe we didn't do it.

00:05:19.000 And the Pete Hegseth confirmation, that was big yesterday.

00:05:22.000 It encapsules everything that is wrong today as it relates to feminism permeating, infesting the halls of, well, I guess the halls of the House. 1.00

00:05:34.000 Congress.

00:05:35.000 Congress.

00:05:35.000 I mean, chambers.

00:05:36.000 Whatever you want to call it.

00:05:37.000 Also, Jimmy Carter died.

00:05:40.000 And we're going to discuss the...

00:05:45.000 Child Predator Empowerment Act.

00:05:47.000 Sorry, that's what the Democrats are calling the bill that passed the House, proposing that biological men cannot compete in women's sports.

00:05:53.000 So a lot to get into.

00:05:54.000 I don't know if you know that.

00:05:54.000 Apparently the left now cares about pedophiles.

00:05:57.000 It's a thing.

00:05:59.000 So if at some point today, no doubt, when we discuss and have discussed for leftist pedophiles, you may see this.

00:06:08.000 Head on over to Rumble.

00:06:09.000 And at some point this year, I'm willing to bet we are removing our streams from YouTube entirely because I'm tired of them.

00:06:14.000 Yeah, so download the Rumble app.

00:06:15.000 I love that Gerald didn't know that.

00:06:17.000 And if you ever lose contact with us, it's a live show.

00:06:20.000 Weekdays, 10 a.m.

00:06:21.000 We don't do anything.

00:06:22.000 Nothing up our sleeve.

00:06:23.000 Bring up CNN right now because it's Pam Bondi who's fine.

00:06:27.000 So you see that this is live.

00:06:29.000 It is 10.15 Eastern.

00:06:31.000 Got that all out of the way.

00:06:32.000 Question of the day is...

00:06:36.000 Just how emphatically do you tell people that women shouldn't be in combat?

00:06:46.000 Like, on a scale from 1 being, of course, to 10 being, what?

00:06:51.000 Is this a serious question?

00:06:52.000 Just comment.

00:06:53.000 Because, I don't know if you know this, but you're now being shamed for saying that women are biologically, physiologically weaker than men.

00:07:00.000 That's controversial in 2025. I mismarked a lot of checks, 24. I know.

00:07:06.000 I know that.

00:07:07.000 But it's on a scale of one to Hegseth, actually.

00:07:09.000 Yes, exactly.

00:07:09.000 One to Hegseth.

00:07:10.000 Though he has to walk it back a little bit.

00:07:12.000 Number two, CEO Captain Morgan.

00:07:14.000 How are you, Brent?

00:07:15.000 I am doing fantastic.

00:07:16.000 Go Irish. 1.00

00:07:17.000 My Irish are in the national championship next Monday.

00:07:19.000 Yeah, I know you don't care, but that's why I'm saying to people who do care.

00:07:22.000 Okay.

00:07:22.000 Yeah, he cares.

00:07:23.000 All four of you.

00:07:24.000 How are you doing?

00:07:25.000 Doing well.

00:07:26.000 Wasn't a very, you know, had a lot of work to do.

00:07:28.000 A lot of work to do over this.

00:07:29.000 Quote-unquote break.

00:07:31.000 Those wordles aren't going to fill themselves out.

00:07:33.000 No, they are not.

00:07:34.000 I'm a Sudoku guy, and you know it.

00:07:36.000 And then we also have, of course, today in third chair.

00:07:38.000 When you hear this, you know him.

00:07:38.000 You love him.

00:07:40.000 He's going to be at the Spokane Comedy Club February 7th and 8th.

00:07:46.000 Sitting right next to me is actually Travis Kelsey today.

00:07:50.000 Yeah, we do have Travis Kelsey.

00:07:51.000 Yeah, you think I... I don't think...

00:07:54.000 I don't think it's that close.

00:07:56.000 It's Josh Feierstein.

00:07:57.000 It's not just...

00:07:58.000 It's not with him.

00:07:59.000 Yeah.

00:08:00.000 You good?

00:08:00.000 You have a good...

00:08:01.000 Yeah, yeah, it's good.

00:08:02.000 I had a good Christmas, good break.

00:08:03.000 Glad to be back.

00:08:03.000 Got an espresso machine.

00:08:04.000 It's been amping me up.

00:08:06.000 Yeah, dude.

00:08:07.000 Don't mess with me.

00:08:07.000 I'm caffeinated up.

00:08:08.000 He's going to be like Gavin Newsom circa 2008?

00:08:12.000 Oh, jeez.

00:08:12.000 Yes.

00:08:13.000 He had a blow problem.

00:08:13.000 He did.

00:08:14.000 Yes.

00:08:14.000 It's obvious.

00:08:15.000 Now, let's just move on with this because there's so much to get to.

00:08:19.000 While we were gone, and of course you see some people just as worthy adversaries, And, you know, it's always sad when someone passes, especially another one taken too young at 106. Jimmy Carter, whose presidency was awful and post-presidency was worse and did irreversible damage to the fabric of America, did kick the bucket.

00:08:48.000 And so this is our final Jimmy Carter time to close.

00:08:52.000 Sadly, Jimmy Carter has passed away.

00:08:55.000 Time to close.

00:08:58.000 Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.

00:09:05.000 When Mr. Carter became president, inflation was 4.8%.

00:09:08.000 As you said, it had been cut in two by President Gerald Ford.

00:09:13.000 It is now running at 12.7%.

00:09:15.000 Pressure is building again in Washington for a new look at gas rationing.

00:09:19.000 I'm in the line two hours in.

00:09:21.000 I can't get gas.

00:09:22.000 This is baloney.

00:09:23.000 For the first time in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe that the next five years...

00:09:30.000 Will be worse than the past five years.

00:09:34.000 Carter doesn't get my vote next year.

00:09:36.000 Time to close.

00:09:39.000 Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.

00:09:46.000 The U.S. Embassy in Tehran has been invaded and occupied by Iranian students. 0.55

00:09:50.000 The Americans inside have been taken prisoner.

00:09:52.000 Late yesterday, I canceled a carefully planned operation which was underway in Iran.

00:09:59.000 To position our rescue team for a later withdrawal of American hostages who've been held captive there since November 4th.

00:10:08.000 The responsibility is fully my own.

00:10:10.000 Time to close.

00:10:13.000 Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.

00:10:20.000 By guaranteeing the neutrality of the Panama Canal, the treaties also serve the best interest.

00:10:26.000 Of every nation that uses the canal.

00:10:29.000 Carter hadn't been seen in public for almost a year.

00:10:32.000 He's been in home hospice care for 19 months.

00:10:35.000 And hoped to live long enough to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, which he has now done.

00:10:40.000 I know that it's time for things to close.

00:10:46.000 I know that it's time for things to close.

00:10:57.000 Stop it.

00:10:58.000 Don't say it's tasteless.

00:11:00.000 I thought it was full of flavor myself.

00:11:03.000 Also, you know, there was the funeral.

00:11:04.000 Again, we weren't here.

00:11:06.000 So we want to experience this with you.

00:11:07.000 you the funeral of course took place and was not without drama as many of you know and as seen here let us pray in silence his face hurts and where is his glasses he can't see without his glasses Put his glasses on.

00:11:29.000 Put on his glasses.

00:11:31.000 It was the bees!

00:11:33.000 All along.

00:11:35.000 That guy survived a hundred years but couldn't survive voting for Kamala Harris.

00:11:39.000 It was the bees.

00:11:41.000 Bee allergies, no joke.

00:11:43.000 Also shrimp.

00:11:44.000 So.

00:11:46.000 We're done with that.

00:11:46.000 That's about it.

00:11:49.000 I heard it was COVID. Long COVID, unfortunately.

00:11:53.000 He looked dead for a while.

00:11:54.000 So this just happened yesterday.

00:11:55.000 I just wanted to touch on it so you could see the clever wordplay.

00:11:58.000 You see this from the left, right?

00:11:59.000 We're not pro-abortion. 0.82

00:12:00.000 We're pro-choice, even though they ignore five choices as it relates to reproductive options, women's health, whatever they want to call it.

00:12:08.000 They're pro-choice, the left, as it relates to...

00:12:10.000 Nothing except for abortion and drugs.

00:12:12.000 They'll talk about...

00:12:13.000 Take any policy.

00:12:15.000 The term is a lie.

00:12:17.000 Dreamers.

00:12:18.000 They'll use these terms.

00:12:19.000 They'll say, oh, you want to ban books.

00:12:21.000 The book banning bill.

00:12:22.000 You mean banning pornography.

00:12:23.000 The same thing is happening right now.

00:12:25.000 So, this is something that everyone should be on board with.

00:12:29.000 And by that, I mean you can go back to the change my mind.

00:12:32.000 The very first one, I believe in 2016 or 2017. One of the first three.

00:12:36.000 There are only two genders changed my mind where I asked. 0.97

00:12:39.000 For the first time, well, what is a woman? 1.00

00:12:41.000 How many genders are there? 1.00

00:12:43.000 What is a man?

00:12:44.000 And back then, all the activists were saying, well, no one's talking about sports.

00:12:48.000 Right.

00:12:49.000 Well, no one's talking about children, right?

00:12:50.000 That is what you can watch in real time.

00:12:53.000 That's one of the benefits being here since 2008. You can see the activists back then tell me that I was strawmanning the idea that biological men would compete in women's sports.

00:13:02.000 Well, now, you would think if we were still, if there was not a slippery slope, Every single Democrat, of course, would be on board with a bill that simply opposes biological males competing in women's sports.

00:13:16.000 But no, it was pretty much just House Republicans who passed that bill yesterday.

00:13:20.000 The House passing a bill that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in women's sports.

00:13:26.000 The legislation would impact transgender athletes in federally funded schools, grades elementary through college, and would result in a school losing funding if violated. 0.99

00:13:36.000 The bill, the proposal, it's called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, which is actually very good because often these bills are really stupid. 0.99

00:13:44.000 That's right. 0.98

00:13:45.000 It actually is what it says.

00:13:47.000 It's exactly what it says.

00:13:48.000 But the Democrats have now called it this, and it was trending yesterday, the Child Predator Empowerment Act, because you're supposed to believe that Democrats are very concerned about pedophiles these days.

00:13:58.000 Don't ask about NAMBLA. They're saying that this bill now will result in inspection of girls' genitals. 1.00

00:14:05.000 Well, first off, maybe. 0.96

00:14:11.000 Maybe.

00:14:12.000 Okay.

00:14:13.000 So, if you mean a female nurse or a qualified professional will check those who are suspicious, you know, the barely passables, and by that we mean the absolutely not passables, trying to engage in contact sports with women to be subjected to a physical inspection to, in fact, confirm that they are a woman. 0.51

00:14:31.000 Sure.

00:14:32.000 You know what?

00:14:32.000 Hey, let me just tell you this.

00:14:33.000 And this is the new phrase that I would like to say.

00:14:35.000 I'm fine with it.

00:14:37.000 H-1Bs. 1.00

00:14:38.000 I don't believe that India has done anything as well, period.

00:14:44.000 Let alone better, but not even close to as well as the United States ever.

00:14:47.000 India.

00:14:48.000 Not their religion. 0.98

00:14:49.000 Not their culture. 0.98

00:14:50.000 Not their innovation.

00:14:51.000 Not their economy.

00:14:52.000 Not their government system.

00:14:54.000 Not their human rights track record.

00:14:56.000 I believe that everything about India is worse. 1.00

00:14:59.000 Not because melanin.

00:15:01.000 But because of the culture, because of the moral fiber at the root of the rot in a place like India. 1.00

00:15:08.000 Not all Indians. 0.99

00:15:09.000 I'm talking about their history.

00:15:10.000 So, I have zero desire to import any component of India to the United States.

00:15:16.000 If that's racist, I'm fine with it.

00:15:19.000 Yeah, I don't think boys...

00:15:21.000 Biological males should compete in women's sports. 1.00

00:15:23.000 And if we have to confirm this through some kind of a physical examination, as we all have been subjected to...

00:15:29.000 Every boy ever playing sports?

00:15:31.000 Exactly.

00:15:31.000 I'm okay with it.

00:15:32.000 Turn your head and cough.

00:15:33.000 I'm fine with it.

00:15:34.000 That's sexist.

00:15:35.000 I'm fine with it.

00:15:36.000 It's racist.

00:15:37.000 I'm fine with it.

00:15:38.000 Comment below.

00:15:40.000 I'm fine with it.

00:15:41.000 I'm fine with it.

00:15:42.000 I had a guy look like Jimmy Carter. 0.99

00:15:44.000 Check my balls every year. 0.98

00:15:45.000 Yeah, well that was Jimmy Carter. 0.99

00:15:47.000 Oh, shoot.

00:15:48.000 It was Jimmy Carter.

00:15:50.000 We needed a lot of charity work post-presidency.

00:15:53.000 I wouldn't call it charity.

00:15:54.000 It was quite rough with him. 0.99

00:15:55.000 That guy was a pedophile. 0.98

00:15:57.000 He wasn't a doctor. 0.98

00:15:57.000 I'm sorry about that. 0.98

00:15:58.000 It's okay.

00:15:59.000 That was a guy my dad knew.

00:16:03.000 I, too, was checked by a trusted relative.

00:16:06.000 For safety.

00:16:08.000 So now all of a sudden the left wants you to believe that they care about child predators.

00:16:11.000 Is this working with anybody?

00:16:12.000 Like the left cannot help themselves from losing.

00:16:17.000 We've come back this new year and they don't understand the mandate that has just been given.

00:16:22.000 The tides are changing.

00:16:23.000 The pendulum is swinging and that does mean you have a problem with a lot of Johnny-come-latelys on the right side because people see it as a viable market.

00:16:31.000 They shunned it for a long time and now people want to get on that train.

00:16:34.000 So be very leery of people who claim to have recently put on your team jersey, but the left, they can't help themselves.

00:16:41.000 They think the winning strategy is we really actually should allow men to compete in women's sports.

00:16:47.000 And our argument is going to be if you believe that... 0.97

00:16:51.000 A physical, you're a pedophile. 0.84

00:16:53.000 That's their argument. 0.99

00:16:54.000 Great, let's go with it.

00:16:55.000 Yeah, please double down on that.

00:16:56.000 That's one of the issues that cost them the election, most likely, or at least weighed heavily on people's minds when they went to the ballot box.

00:17:02.000 And they got destroyed in that issue.

00:17:04.000 Please, I think two Democrats voted for this bill.

00:17:07.000 Only two.

00:17:08.000 I would have expected 30, 50. All of them, but I know that they're so entrenched in their ideology.

00:17:13.000 Here's the thing.

00:17:16.000 Okay, so you say they can't have a physical inspection.

00:17:19.000 Alright, fine.

00:17:20.000 Let me ask you.

00:17:21.000 Should men compete in women's sports? 0.97

00:17:22.000 They can't say no.

00:17:24.000 There's no proposed alternative.

00:17:26.000 None.

00:17:26.000 This could easily have some guy...

00:17:28.000 A woman has to perform it. 1.00

00:17:30.000 It needs to be done in private.

00:17:31.000 Right?

00:17:31.000 The kind of medical exams we've all experienced.

00:17:34.000 Or a gynecologist.

00:17:36.000 Not to mention, can't you test chromosomes with a blood sample?

00:17:39.000 You can.

00:17:39.000 If there's questions after you go into the hood, then yes.

00:17:44.000 The mandatory vaccine people don't want a needle put into you to draw some blood.

00:17:47.000 Right.

00:17:48.000 That's true.

00:17:51.000 Look, the kid in Kindergarten Cop got this right.

00:17:54.000 This doesn't need to be a book.

00:17:57.000 The tumor one?

00:17:58.000 Oh, no. 1.00

00:17:59.000 Boys have a penis. 1.00

00:18:00.000 Girls have a vagina. 1.00

00:18:01.000 Just have him check you out. 1.00

00:18:02.000 I'm sure he'd be thrilled.

00:18:03.000 He hasn't gotten work in years.

00:18:04.000 Now, before we move on to Pete Hegseth, and boy, is that something that I want to sink my teeth into, do download the Rumble app.

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00:18:23.000 It is an unbelievable app right now.

00:18:25.000 Everything is usable.

00:18:26.000 I mean, you can watch it on your television.

00:18:27.000 And we really, this year is the year that YouTube is hopefully to be seen only in our rearview mirror because liberal propagandists may be larger than they appear.

00:18:39.000 Now, they're always larger.

00:18:42.000 Pete Hegseth.

00:18:43.000 Pete Hegseth.

00:18:44.000 Let me start this with, again, I'm fine with it.

00:18:47.000 Wait. 0.82

00:18:48.000 I believe that women are physiologically weaker than men. 1.00

00:18:52.000 And I believe that this is easily observable through all data that we have available to us, as well as the eyeball test, as well as the world record test.

00:19:00.000 So, it's sexist for me to say that women should not be in combat roles?

00:19:05.000 I'm fine with it.

00:19:06.000 Just comment below.

00:19:07.000 I don't think this is a radical opinion.

00:19:11.000 But this was the centerpiece as far as the arguments from the left yesterday.

00:19:16.000 The future Secretary of Defense, I have very little doubt that that'll be the case, Pete Hegseth.

00:19:21.000 He was grilled during this confirmation hearing.

00:19:25.000 And, well, I present to you Exhibit A as to why women should not be in active combat roles, as well as This Week in Feminism. 0.90

00:19:38.000 This Week in Feminism. 1.00

00:19:44.000 Mr. Hegseth, should we take it to believe that you believe that the two women on this committee who have served honorably and with distinction made our military less effective and less capable?

00:19:56.000 I have many concerns about your record, and particularly your public statements.

00:20:00.000 Most likely.

00:20:01.000 Because they are so hurtful to the men and women who are currently serving in the U.S. military.

00:20:06.000 You will have to change how you see women to do this job well, and I don't know if you are capable of that. 1.00

00:20:13.000 Have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?

00:20:22.000 Don't worry about it, Rono, you're safe.

00:20:23.000 Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally Denmark, by force?

00:20:30.000 or would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?

00:20:35.000 I have serious concerns that your behavior toward women disqualifies you from serving in this role.

00:20:42.000 So you're saying sauce for the goose, but certainly not sauce for the gander.

00:20:47.000 And let me just say, the American people need a sec deaf who's ready to lead on day one. 0.97

00:20:52.000 You are not that person.

00:20:53.000 When you are asking us to lower the standards to make you the secretary of defense simply because you are buddies with our president-elect. - Right, yeah, lower the standards It's not like this guy has a resume that would put most of those in our house and send it to shame.

00:21:07.000 Here's the thing.

00:21:08.000 You would think there would be a self-awareness from women on the left. 1.00

00:21:12.000 This would be like a black male Republican going up and yelling at women. 0.99

00:21:17.000 Angry black men. 1.00

00:21:19.000 Toxic masculinity. 1.00

00:21:21.000 Instead, men are measured.

00:21:22.000 He was here, controlled, answering rationally.

00:21:25.000 They wouldn't let him answer.

00:21:26.000 They were shrill. 1.00

00:21:28.000 And they couldn't comprehend some of the responses because you can see the moment it dawned on Elizabeth Warren, like, this is not your husband who has to listen to your silly, nagging bullshit. 1.00

00:21:38.000 That's not how this works. 1.00

00:21:43.000 It was feminism on display. 1.00

00:21:45.000 It was illogical.

00:21:46.000 It was irrational.

00:21:47.000 It was shrill.

00:21:48.000 It was every negative stereotype that one could throw at women embodied, and of course that doesn't mean all women, just these women, because they were very, very offended.

00:21:58.000 Upset and continued on the line of questioning as it related to women in the military. 0.99

00:22:04.000 So going back to January 2013, you told a Fox News interviewer that women in the military simply couldn't measure up to men in the military, saying that allowing women to serve in combat roles would force the military to lower the bar.

00:22:19.000 You picked up on that same theme in 2015, making remarks on Fox News, referring to women in combat as, quote, it would erode standards.

00:22:30.000 June 2024, you said on Ben Shapiro's podcast, quote, women shouldn't be in combat at all. 0.63

00:22:39.000 Correct.

00:22:39.000 And then, of course, we've talked about it in 2024. You published a book, and you say on page 26 of your book, we need moms, but not in the military, especially in combat units.

00:22:53.000 Page 48 of your book, you claim that women should not be in combat roles because men are distracted by women.

00:23:02.000 And then 10 weeks ago, you appeared on the Sean Ryan show and said, I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.

00:23:13.000 Problem?

00:23:14.000 So here's the thing.

00:23:15.000 She's like, you said it would lower standards.

00:23:16.000 Well, the military did lower standards in 2022. Again, all references available at loudearthcredit.com.

00:23:22.000 Link in the description.

00:23:23.000 Yeah, this is overlay A4. The army scrapped their gender-neutral test because women were failing at a not one, not two, not three, not four, not five.

00:23:30.000 Six times!

00:23:32.000 Higher rate than men. 0.98

00:23:34.000 You hear that correctly.

00:23:36.000 Women were failing the test at a rate six times higher than men.

00:23:40.000 So in 2022, the military said, well, let's just lower it and say that women are brave and beautiful. 0.98

00:23:44.000 Yes.

00:23:45.000 And the standards, by the way, are to make sure that we have a military that can fight and win wars.

00:23:49.000 That's not a movable line.

00:23:50.000 The line is just there.

00:23:52.000 I don't want the men who fail either.

00:23:53.000 Exactly.

00:23:53.000 To be clear.

00:23:54.000 I don't want male standards to be lowered to make this gender neutral standard across the board so we can have, you know, fatties and... 1.00

00:24:01.000 Dorks.

00:24:01.000 Yeah, no, you're absolutely...

00:24:03.000 I feel like I'm talking about myself when I said it, but...

00:24:05.000 No, but here's the thing.

00:24:06.000 The weak men who go into the military are still stronger than the average woman. 1.00

00:24:11.000 It's just, it's not even close.

00:24:13.000 Here's something else that many of you don't take into account.

00:24:15.000 Those who protect women.

00:24:17.000 Of course, sports notwithstanding.

00:24:18.000 Female soldiers, they're at least twice as likely to be injured than male soldiers. 1.00

00:24:25.000 Women are 67% more likely than army men, by the way, to receive physical disability discharge for some kind of musculoskeletal disorder, meaning some kind of an injury, largely in the hips, in the legs.

00:24:36.000 This happens a lot from carrying packs.

00:24:37.000 And by the way, the reason the number ranges from 1.5 to 10 is that women fail, or get injured, sorry, I should say, at a rate more than 10 times the men in basic training.

00:24:49.000 Yeah.

00:24:49.000 After that, it levels off a little bit because some of the women have made it through, and a lot of them go to positions that aren't necessarily physically active roles, and so it's not the accurate sample size.

00:24:58.000 Ten times the rate in basic training, but at least twice the rate across the board, and that does matter. 0.98

00:25:03.000 It's a matter of public policy, just like healthcare, because these women qualify for benefits when they're hurt in basic training. 1.00

00:25:10.000 So you have to pay.

00:25:11.000 Also, you have to pay for the training of the ones that just didn't pass.

00:25:14.000 Yes.

00:25:14.000 The ones that didn't get hurt or you're not paying disability for forever that just didn't pass, you pay for that training to go through.

00:25:18.000 Yes.

00:25:19.000 But they only want to talk about the ones that passed.

00:25:20.000 Oh, look, they can do it.

00:25:21.000 Right.

00:25:21.000 Oh, sure, a couple.

00:25:22.000 Yeah, this is the military equivalent of no child left behind.

00:25:25.000 Some should be left behind.

00:25:28.000 You said that we shouldn't have moms in the military and certainly not in combat roles. 0.99

00:25:32.000 How is that?

00:25:34.000 Help! 0.98

00:25:35.000 I'm pinned down!

00:25:36.000 I'm pinned down!

00:25:37.000 I can't!

00:25:37.000 Send in the moms!

00:25:38.000 Send in the moms! 1.00

00:25:40.000 Well, if you're out of MREs, maybe you could breastfeed.

00:25:42.000 I don't know.

00:25:43.000 Could be.

00:25:44.000 Could be.

00:25:44.000 I'm sure there are a few privates who want bitty, but that's not what we're talking about.

00:25:50.000 I've never been so disappointed in my life.

00:25:52.000 I am willing to go and lay down my life for you, and the response is, no!

00:25:56.000 Wait, wait, no, you don't understand. 0.99

00:25:58.000 I'm going to go fight and possibly die to make sure that you're safe. 0.99

00:26:01.000 Stop it! 0.99

00:26:01.000 Equal rights! 0.99

00:26:02.000 Yeah.

00:26:03.000 What?

00:26:03.000 Yeah.

00:26:04.000 It's just, we are less safe.

00:26:05.000 We are less lethal.

00:26:06.000 There is no reason for women to be in combat roles. 1.00

00:26:09.000 Okay?

00:26:09.000 Some women, I'm sure.

00:26:11.000 You'll find the five women in the country who could give you ten pull-ups or whatever it is. 1.00

00:26:15.000 You'll find a handful.

00:26:16.000 But let's just be honest about this.

00:26:18.000 This is how delusional the feminist left has become. 0.99

00:26:21.000 If you were to hear this on a podcast, and you have, I'm sure, in some of the men's rights podcasts where a girl's going, well, actually, it depends. 0.56

00:26:26.000 Some women are just as strong as men. 0.99

00:26:28.000 Sure, but we're talking about the...

00:26:30.000 I know a woman who deadlifted 405 once. 0.95

00:26:34.000 Okay, we understand that steroids are available, but the point that we're making...

00:26:39.000 When we are trying to have an efficient military, we have to look at these general patterns.

00:26:44.000 And by the way, Hegseth tried to answer many times, but Warren, because nothing's better than perpetuating the original stereotype, kept interrupting and getting flustered, angry, irrational, wouldn't let Hegseth respond.

00:26:58.000 Senator, I'm not familiar with...

00:27:00.000 Article you're pointing to in 2013, but it underscores my argument completely, because in that 2013 argument, I was talking about standards.

00:27:08.000 Standards are what it's always been about, Senator.

00:27:10.000 Please, let's not have this same fight again.

00:27:11.000 I voted you directly.

00:27:13.000 Senator, again, I very much appreciate you bringing up my comments from 2013, because for me, this issue has always been about standards.

00:27:22.000 And unfortunately, because of some of the people that have been in political power for the last four years, priorities other than standards, lethality, and meritocracy have driven decision-making.

00:27:36.000 Senator, the concerns I have and the concerns that many have had, especially in ground combat units, is that in pursuit...

00:27:43.000 Of certain percentages or quotas, standards have been changed.

00:27:46.000 And that makes the combat more difficult for everybody involved.

00:27:48.000 Let me make a suggestion about what happened in that 32 days.

00:27:52.000 Senator, it's not even a question I've thought about.

00:27:55.000 You can think about it right now.

00:27:56.000 My motivation for this job has never been about what could conceivably come next.

00:28:03.000 Time is short.

00:28:04.000 Go back to your Pinterest fake drum circle, you non-Cherokee. 1.00

00:28:07.000 Here's the thing.

00:28:09.000 Do you understand this?

00:28:11.000 Women. 0.81

00:28:12.000 You are less safe because of the policies coming from people like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden.

00:28:19.000 Do you understand that?

00:28:20.000 You are less safe.

00:28:21.000 Women in general are less safe if they are actually shipped off to combat. 1.00

00:28:24.000 We know that.

00:28:25.000 Far more exponentially more likely to get injured.

00:28:27.000 And you, as an American citizen who foots the bill, you, the average American woman, you are less safe.

00:28:33.000 They are not looking out for you.

00:28:35.000 Here's something, and of course to follow the same pattern, same playbook as Kavanaugh, the character assassination.

00:28:41.000 And that usually comes down to drinking and allegations that have already been cleared.

00:28:47.000 No charges brought of sexual harassment because something, something, something, it's the era of the woman. 0.97

00:28:53.000 Pete Hegseth must be an alcoholic.

00:28:55.000 I have read multiple reports of your regularly being drunk at work, including by people who worked with you at Fox News.

00:29:03.000 She doesn't know where the beer is.

00:29:05.000 Do you know that being drunk at work is prohibited for service members under the UCMJ? No.

00:29:10.000 Senator, those are multiple false anonymous reports peddled by NBC News that run directly contradictory to the dozens of men and women at Fox News Channel who I work with who came on the record.

00:29:23.000 I'm not hearing the answer to my question.

00:29:25.000 You recently promised some of my Republican colleagues that you stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed.

00:29:33.000 Correct?

00:29:36.000 Absolutely.

00:29:37.000 Will you resign as Secretary of Defense if you drink on the job, which is a 24-7 position?

00:29:44.000 You first.

00:29:45.000 I've made this commitment on behalf of the men and women I'm serving.

00:29:49.000 I've made this commitment on behalf of the men and women I'm serving because it's the most important deployment of my life.

00:29:55.000 I'm not hearing an answer to my question, so I'm going to move on.

00:29:57.000 Yeah, well, she didn't move on.

00:29:58.000 Hirano went on to end her questioning with this.

00:30:02.000 You have to be cleansed.

00:30:06.000 It's just, yeah.

00:30:09.000 It's like she's right there.

00:30:12.000 By the way, I'm going to skip one real quick.

00:30:14.000 You can bring up this overlay, Matt.

00:30:16.000 Yeah, you know what?

00:30:16.000 I'll quit drinking when you actually stop paying with taxpayer funds for booze from Nancy Pelosi's liquor store.

00:30:26.000 What's available to the house?

00:30:28.000 8 to 4. Drinks.house.gov?

00:30:32.000 By the way, isn't it weird that the liquor store Opened by Nancy Pelosi is only open for day drinking.

00:30:40.000 Closes at five.

00:30:41.000 They don't even say, oh, it's five o'clock somewhere.

00:30:44.000 Like, it's four!

00:30:45.000 Quick! 1.00

00:30:45.000 Gotta get your liquor! 1.00

00:30:46.000 Well, it works almost out.

00:30:47.000 Why would you be drinking still?

00:30:49.000 Crown Royal, I said!

00:30:50.000 Oh, I love it.

00:30:52.000 So they want to do this.

00:30:52.000 Oh, he drinks.

00:30:53.000 By the way, I don't care.

00:30:54.000 I don't care.

00:30:55.000 Cool!

00:30:56.000 If he drinks.

00:30:57.000 I don't know if you know, but all of Western civilization was created and forwarded by people who drank. 0.85

00:31:03.000 It's alcoholism.

00:31:04.000 A problem.

00:31:04.000 Guys who drink?

00:31:05.000 Fun.

00:31:07.000 Mostly.

00:31:09.000 And then you have, on the same line of questioning, Mark Kelly and Lady Lane, I'm sorry, Tim Kaine, who left his merry-go-round in the world of make-believe.

00:31:20.000 Oh my goodness.

00:31:21.000 Tried to smear Mr. Hegseth, but actually made him sound, I would say, kind of cool.

00:31:28.000 December of 2014 at the CVA Christmas Party at the Grand Hyatt at Washington, D.C. You were noticeably intoxicated and had to be carried up to your room.

00:31:38.000 Is that true or false?

00:31:40.000 Anonymous smears. 1.00

00:31:41.000 One of your colleagues said that you got drunk at an event at a bar and chanted, kill all Muslims. 0.99

00:31:47.000 Another colleague, not anonymous, we have this, said that you took co-workers to a strip club. 1.00

00:31:53.000 You were drunk.

00:31:53.000 You tried to dance with strippers.

00:31:55.000 You had to be held off the stage.

00:31:56.000 And one of your employees in that event...

00:32:01.000 Filed a sexual harassment charge as a result of it.

00:32:05.000 Now, I know you deny these things, but isn't that the kind of behavior that, if true, would be disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense?

00:32:14.000 Senator, anonymous false charges.

00:32:16.000 Look again at that wordplay.

00:32:18.000 Isn't this the kind of thing, if true? 0.99

00:32:19.000 Well, if you had a hairbrush, you wouldn't look like a retard. 1.00

00:32:23.000 Hypotheticals. 0.96

00:32:23.000 We don't know that for sure, Stephen. 0.96

00:32:25.000 We don't know.

00:32:26.000 Tim Kaine, you expect us to believe you're sober?

00:32:28.000 And if so, you have a problem.

00:32:34.000 And then you had Senator Mullen, by the way.

00:32:37.000 Who says that?

00:32:38.000 Yeah, isn't it true? 0.89

00:32:41.000 If true, if you went to a strip club and showed your swastika on your chest to the black stripper, commonly referred to as cinnamon, that that would be a problem? 0.95

00:32:53.000 Okay. 0.97

00:32:54.000 I'm fine with it.

00:32:55.000 I don't care if he drinks.

00:32:57.000 I don't believe the smears.

00:32:58.000 Again, these are anonymous.

00:33:00.000 These are smears. 0.89

00:33:00.000 Remember when we heard that Donald Trump jerked from Bitch Cassidy, that Donald Trump jerked the Secret Service car on January 7th? 0.89

00:33:06.000 Oh wait, none of that was true. 0.74

00:33:08.000 But you did have Senator Mullen, actually, by the way.

00:33:10.000 And I said it angrily because I was still angry.

00:33:11.000 But I'm actually happy about this.

00:33:13.000 Mullen pointed out, and I want you to watch the reaction of the man behind him.

00:33:17.000 He pointed out how senators often show up drunk to vote, likely from Pelosi's liquor store.

00:33:23.000 The senator from Virginia starts bringing up the fact that what if you showed up drunk to your job?

00:33:29.000 How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?

00:33:35.000 Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign for their job?

00:33:39.000 And don't tell me you haven't seen it because I know you have.

00:33:42.000 Yeah, by the way, the original shot that I said that was raw, there's a guy behind him who goes...

00:33:47.000 But I do like the selection in the shots there where when he said shown up drunk and they show Tim Kaine.

00:33:53.000 Yes.

00:33:53.000 With his hair looking wasted.

00:33:55.000 Yes.

00:33:56.000 Yeah, absolutely does.

00:33:56.000 He just rolled out of bed.

00:33:58.000 Yeah.

00:33:58.000 Whoa, look at us, Gerald.

00:33:59.000 Wow, we're on the same page.

00:34:00.000 Also, really quickly, here's just an overlay of Hex's awesome shirt.

00:34:06.000 Nice.

00:34:07.000 Nice.

00:34:07.000 Fantastic.

00:34:08.000 The hat's a little cheesy, but okay.

00:34:10.000 Let me tell you this.

00:34:12.000 This is the reason they do it, okay?

00:34:16.000 The left has learned, and they try to make screw-ups something relatable. 0.97

00:34:20.000 So, for example, if you hear, the reason Mel Gibson is so easily forgiven is because, wait a second, he got drunk, he was rocketing down the PCH, he called a cop sugar tits and blamed all of the ills of the world on the Jews. 0.98

00:34:30.000 He's clearly out of his mind. 0.99

00:34:32.000 Ah, Mel. 0.59

00:34:33.000 But if they go, wait a second, hold on, this guy had a little too much to drink one time?

00:34:37.000 Oh, wait.

00:34:38.000 I've done that.

00:34:39.000 Wait a second.

00:34:40.000 Oh, wait, it turns out he got into an argument with a girlfriend?

00:34:44.000 I've done that.

00:34:45.000 So people naturally try and distance themselves.

00:34:47.000 That's when they virtue signal the worst.

00:34:49.000 I would never!

00:34:50.000 You do, and you did.

00:34:52.000 You didn't blame the Jews for space lasers, and you didn't call a cop sugar tits, but I guarantee you've been in an argument with your spouse. 0.93

00:34:58.000 I guarantee you that you have had too much to drink at some point in time, unless you're a teetotaler like Donald Trump.

00:35:03.000 If it's relatable, it's kind of like when you watch a film and you see something.

00:35:08.000 And you see a little bit of yourself and you get uncomfortable.

00:35:10.000 You're like, oh, yeah, I've lost my cool and done that.

00:35:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:14.000 So they want to make the screw-up just relatable enough.

00:35:16.000 And then, of course, they have to overreach when that doesn't work and they find themselves at something, something or other Brett Kavanaugh gang rape.

00:35:21.000 But this is the exact same playbook they used with Brett Kavanaugh.

00:35:26.000 Drinking is one thing, but the concern is about truthfulness.

00:35:29.000 And in your written testimony, you said sometimes you had too many drinks.

00:35:34.000 Was there ever a time when you drank so much that you couldn't remember what happened or part of what happened the night before?

00:35:41.000 I'd like to not remember this.

00:35:42.000 No, I remember what happened, and I think you've probably had beer, Senator, and...

00:35:50.000 So you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened?

00:35:57.000 You're asking about blackout.

00:35:59.000 I don't know.

00:36:00.000 Have you?

00:36:03.000 Could you answer the question, Judge?

00:36:07.000 That's not happened.

00:36:08.000 Is that your answer?

00:36:09.000 Yeah, and I'm curious if you have.

00:36:12.000 I have no drinking problem, Judge.

00:36:14.000 Nor do I. Okay.

00:36:16.000 Thank you.

00:36:16.000 Isn't she from Wisconsin?

00:36:19.000 Yeah.

00:36:19.000 Yeah, where it has 48 of the 50 drunkest counties in the United States.

00:36:24.000 All of the top 10, I think.

00:36:25.000 Saying you don't drink and being from Wisconsin, that's how you lose your seat.

00:36:28.000 Yes, exactly.

00:36:29.000 I don't think I want to vote for this lady again. 1.00

00:36:31.000 She doesn't like to have a good beer. 1.00

00:36:32.000 I used to think she was like one of us, you know, puts her pants on one leg at a time. 0.96

00:36:36.000 She got a haircut like my mom. 0.93

00:36:38.000 She got a haircut, yeah.

00:36:38.000 Yeah, gets blacked out drunk for a little while.

00:36:40.000 My mom gets drunk.

00:36:41.000 Oh, she's from Minnesota?

00:36:42.000 Minnesota.

00:36:42.000 Oh, okay, all right.

00:36:44.000 Well, there's some I like it.

00:36:54.000 Feels good.

00:36:56.000 Then it devolved into Mr. Kavanaugh.

00:36:59.000 Do you ever consume beer on weekdays?

00:37:01.000 Look, I'll be really honest with you.

00:37:03.000 I have never once consumed alcohol to the point of being blackout drunk.

00:37:06.000 I don't know that I've ever been hungover.

00:37:08.000 And I do drink.

00:37:10.000 But I would say that I have.

00:37:13.000 Just to prove a point.

00:37:14.000 I'm like, yeah!

00:37:15.000 I didn't touch a drop in college.

00:37:17.000 High school, college, never touched a drop until I was 22 or 23. You know.

00:37:21.000 I used to get milk because I didn't like the taste of any alcohol.

00:37:24.000 Milk?

00:37:26.000 I know.

00:37:27.000 I still drink milk.

00:37:29.000 I think that deserves another admonition.

00:37:32.000 I would lie and say, yeah, I went to college.

00:37:37.000 I did go to college, but I didn't get blackout drunk in college.

00:37:39.000 Because who?

00:37:40.000 Who cares?

00:37:41.000 You want to talk about pearl clutching?

00:37:44.000 Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell couldn't be more easily offended than those on the left.

00:37:48.000 Beer on weekdays that the guy overconsumed at a Christmas party?

00:37:53.000 Who cares?

00:37:54.000 You know who else drank too much?

00:37:56.000 And I'm not advocating alcoholism at all.

00:37:59.000 George Washington would drink a bottle of wine in a single sitting and he ran a distillery.

00:38:04.000 Martin Van Buren?

00:38:05.000 The Van Buren boys?

00:38:06.000 Notorious Street Gang?

00:38:07.000 He drank so much he was nicknamed Blue Whiskey Van.

00:38:10.000 Andrew Jackson?

00:38:11.000 He celebrated his inauguration with a rager.

00:38:14.000 Made his own whiskey.

00:38:15.000 Warren G. Harding?

00:38:16.000 Drank in the White House during Prohibition!

00:38:19.000 Warren G., baby.

00:38:21.000 Harry Truman?

00:38:24.000 Drank bourbon daily and berated White House staff if the drinks were too weak and then dropped A-bombs.

00:38:33.000 Hey, Grant dropped when the Civil War.

00:38:36.000 He was a booze bag.

00:38:37.000 Churchill, two bottles of champagne just at lunch.

00:38:39.000 The guy was drinking constantly.

00:38:40.000 I'm not advocating for it.

00:38:41.000 But to act as though this is disqualifying from the same party that supports billboards Wake and Bake, I'm sorry.

00:38:48.000 I'm done with it.

00:38:49.000 I'm fine with it.

00:38:50.000 Oh, oh, oh, you think drinking is really bad and offensive?

00:38:53.000 And then, okay, well, we're the party of, it's okay if the guy has a few beers.

00:38:57.000 Why? 0.90

00:38:57.000 Because George Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, shut up. 0.90

00:39:00.000 That's why.

00:39:01.000 It's also okay if you have some Democrats.

00:39:03.000 It's fine.

00:39:04.000 We don't care.

00:39:06.000 Kamala?

00:39:06.000 Well, she may have a problem.

00:39:07.000 But the point is...

00:39:08.000 I think there's been many times...

00:39:11.000 People in the house, it's only open from 9 to 4, 8 to 4, Nancy Pelosi's liquor store.

00:39:16.000 Kamala Harris had a beer with a late night host on a weeknight.

00:39:19.000 She did!

00:39:19.000 In front of the whole country.

00:39:21.000 She'd never opened a beer before in her life.

00:39:22.000 So did Elizabeth Warren.

00:39:23.000 She's like, I'm just here with my mate having a beer.

00:39:26.000 Just like you, I'm having a beer.

00:39:29.000 I'm normal, right?

00:39:30.000 Normal people do this.

00:39:31.000 Give her a stiff drink, her mushroom cut would stand up. 0.98

00:39:33.000 Mushroom cut. 0.99

00:39:36.000 She's a fungus. 1.00

00:39:37.000 There's no purpose to these hearings, by the way. 0.98

00:39:38.000 There is absolutely zero purpose.

00:39:40.000 It is political theater.

00:39:41.000 It needs to be done away with.

00:39:42.000 I don't want them for anybody anymore because you already have the answers to these questions.

00:39:46.000 They meet in private.

00:39:46.000 They submit answers in writing to questions that these people have.

00:39:50.000 This is purely to go on camera.

00:39:52.000 This is one of the only venues in the world where this is legal.

00:39:54.000 I can go and make claims about you to the American people, but if I say it just right, you have no recourse whatsoever.

00:40:02.000 I have no liability, but I've just told everybody out there, I understand.

00:40:21.000 You still have people out there who believe that Brett Kavanaugh...

00:40:24.000 You still have people who believe the UVA rape hoax. 0.99

00:40:26.000 You still have people who believe that Mattress Girl wasn't a liar and sex fiend herself. 1.00

00:40:30.000 You still have people who believe that Nick Sandman was taunting Native Americans because the press moves on.

00:40:34.000 Even if you win, even if you win the lawsuit, guess what?

00:40:37.000 You don't get back your name.

00:40:39.000 That's what they do.

00:40:40.000 And as someone who has been in the spotlight, this has happened with...

00:40:43.000 People here, too, are going, what?

00:40:45.000 What is it?

00:40:45.000 All right, fine.

00:40:46.000 So just say, okay, all right, I'm fine with it.

00:40:48.000 And this was actually a pretty fun exchange because we have to move up.

00:40:50.000 We have so much to get to.

00:40:51.000 Hegseth had a moment here with, I believe he's from Montana, Senator Tim Sheehy.

00:40:57.000 He answered these questions in a way that I guarantee you no one else in that room could have.

00:41:02.000 You know, actual real-life experience and qualifications.

00:41:05.000 Pete, I'm actually going to ask you questions because I want to hear your answer.

00:41:09.000 How many genders are there? 1.00

00:41:10.000 Tough one.

00:41:12.000 Senator, there are two genders. 0.93

00:41:14.000 I know that well.

00:41:15.000 I'm a sheehee, so I'm on board. 0.98

00:41:21.000 What is the diameter of the rifle round fired out of an M4A1 rifle?

00:41:26.000 That's a 5.56.

00:41:28.000 How many push-ups can you do?

00:41:31.000 I did five sets of 47 this morning.

00:41:33.000 Nice.

00:41:36.000 What do you think our most important strategic base is in the Pacific?

00:41:41.000 In the Pacific, Guam is pretty strategically significant.

00:41:46.000 How many rounds of 5.56 can you fit into the magazine of an M4 rifle?

00:41:51.000 Depends on the magazine, but standard issue is 30, Senator.

00:41:56.000 And what size round does the M9 Beretta standard issue sidearm for the military fire?

00:42:01.000 A 9mm, Senator.

00:42:05.000 What kind of batteries do you put in your night vision goggle?

00:42:10.000 Duracell. 1.00

00:42:12.000 Take that, you Energizer bunny bitch. 1.00

00:42:15.000 Amazon Basics for our military. 1.00

00:42:18.000 Because it depends on the head.

00:42:20.000 Yeah, but I think it's AA. Okay, you know what?

00:42:23.000 You got him on that one.

00:42:24.000 Let's go back to if he's had a couple of old Milwaukee's in his past.

00:42:28.000 That's right, yeah.

00:42:29.000 Speaking of Klobuchar's questioning Bondi right now, let's hope she doesn't make too much of it.

00:42:35.000 That is a rough side-by-side for her.

00:42:37.000 Don't put her side-by-side with Bondi.

00:42:39.000 Bondi's like five years older than Klobuchar, but Klobuchar at any age would be a distant second to Bondi.

00:42:51.000 Is this the world you want to live in?

00:42:52.000 Where if someone has ever made mistakes, and here's the thing, he's admitted, well certainly we talked about Kavanaugh, admitted to, the only reason they went down that line of questioning is they found out that he had said, yeah, sometimes in the past I drank too much.

00:43:03.000 Do you want to live in that world?

00:43:05.000 And let me tell you what it is.

00:43:06.000 It's anti-God.

00:43:08.000 The idea of forgiveness, redemption, right?

00:43:10.000 But it can only exist if married with accountability.

00:43:13.000 The left doesn't believe in accountability.

00:43:14.000 On the outset, whether it's abortion, whether it's horrible policy, whether it's how your actions affect your fellow citizen, they don't believe in that.

00:43:22.000 And then they don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.

00:43:25.000 They believe in disqualifying someone today, 20, 30, 40 years later.

00:43:32.000 Because of mistakes that they may or may in their youth.

00:43:35.000 Is that the kind of world you want to live in?

00:43:38.000 Really, that's what this is about.

00:43:39.000 And that does stem from third-wave feminism, because it's not about actually solving problems. 1.00

00:43:43.000 It's about catching somebody.

00:43:45.000 It's about gotcha.

00:43:46.000 It's about scoring points.

00:43:47.000 And that's why we see this male-female divide, and it's why we see the right-left divide, and they will try and blame you. 0.98

00:43:52.000 Don't allow them to do it.

00:43:53.000 Hegseth showed up, ready to take names.

00:43:56.000 And I'm glad he did, because you know what?

00:43:57.000 You know what?

00:43:58.000 Work days like that can be brutal, as we know in this office, if you find yourself in a situation where you're not mentally prepared. 1.00

00:44:06.000 F*** damn thing. 0.99

00:44:08.000 Why is my mouse sticky? 1.00

00:44:10.000 See, I'm looking at porn again on this thing. 0.99

00:44:12.000 The f***? 0.99

00:44:14.000 Doesn't cut, doesn't paste. 0.99

00:44:16.000 Did you guys replace my mouse?

00:44:17.000 Hey, Devin. 0.99

00:44:18.000 Look at this piece of s***. 0.99

00:44:19.000 Everything okay, Devin? 0.99

00:44:20.000 Yeah, everything's great.

00:44:22.000 Does it look okay?

00:44:22.000 Does this clicking?

00:44:24.000 Does that sound normal to you?

00:44:28.000 Yeah, I don't know about that.

00:44:29.000 Uh, I just came over to see if you had a cut of that sketch we recorded earlier.

00:44:34.000 You either get an ear infection or you're re-carded.

00:44:37.000 I just told you, right?

00:44:38.000 Nothing's working.

00:44:39.000 Who do I gotta go to get a computer that was made in this decade?

00:44:43.000 I... Jesus.

00:44:44.000 Not you.

00:44:46.000 Obviously.

00:44:47.000 You know what?

00:44:48.000 You seem a little off.

00:44:49.000 Here, have some 1775 coffee, Devin.

00:44:51.000 It'll make you feel better. 0.99

00:44:52.000 Probably put a roofie in it, you pig. 0.99

00:44:53.000 No, it's just Bolivian-grown coffee, roasted in Florida. 0.99

00:44:56.000 It's good stuff.

00:44:56.000 Yeah, it's good stuff.

00:44:57.000 It's non-woke coffee.

00:45:00.000 Not bad, right?

00:45:02.000 Yeah.

00:45:03.000 Sorry, I'm just not me without my coffee.

00:45:05.000 Oh, don't worry about it.

00:45:06.000 It's not really a big deal. 0.84

00:45:07.000 Give me a new friggin cup of tea!

00:45:09.000 1775 coffee Premium coffee supporting freedom of speech.

00:45:18.000 Go to 1775coffee.com slash Crowder and use promo code Crowder for 10% off your first bag.

00:45:24.000 Look, I will tell you, let me make it really simple.

00:45:32.000 No gimmicks.

00:45:32.000 It's better coffee in a larger size at a cheaper price.

00:45:36.000 No gimmicks, just really good coffee.

00:45:38.000 1775coffee.com slash Crowder.

00:45:40.000 You can use the code Crowder for 10% off.

00:45:42.000 It's all we drink in this office.

00:45:43.000 I highly recommend the Peaberry.

00:45:45.000 Better coffee, better price, no gimmicks.

00:45:47.000 And they don't give money to people who hate you.

00:45:49.000 How's your face, Josh?

00:45:51.000 It's alright.

00:45:51.000 Devin's got a good swing on her.

00:45:53.000 Yeah, she's small, but small. 0.95

00:45:56.000 Now, speaking of people who hate you, Gavin Newsom.

00:46:01.000 Okay, so the LA fires.

00:46:02.000 This has been going on.

00:46:03.000 It's a tragedy.

00:46:05.000 Obviously, we know this.

00:46:06.000 And by the way, James Woods, who watches the show, he's been on the show, his entire neighborhood pretty much burned down except for his home.

00:46:15.000 And you have people on the left saying, oh, he was lying.

00:46:16.000 Do you guys know how this works?

00:46:17.000 They don't allow you in the neighborhood and they tell you that everything is burned down.

00:46:20.000 He was as surprised as you were.

00:46:21.000 Frankly, it looks as close to a real-life miracle as you can see when you look at his neighbors versus his house.

00:46:26.000 So our heart goes out to him and those affected.

00:46:28.000 I know he's helping those in his community.

00:46:31.000 The L.A. fires, though, it's been politicized, of course.

00:46:34.000 If something is politicized, I want to be clear, it doesn't mean that it's politicized wrongly, because the root cause of it can be political in nature.

00:46:43.000 And that's what we see with California and Gavin Newsom.

00:46:46.000 So let me set this up for you. 0.98

00:46:48.000 you the los angeles fires right they've burned down at least 40 000 acres as of this broadcast 150 000 evacuations oh - Oh, shit. 0.95

00:47:09.000 Don't worry about that, dude. 0.99

00:47:12.000 Just awful.

00:47:26.000 And hopefully, if we want to find common ground, the starting point is, how do we prevent this from happening again?

00:47:32.000 That means some questions have to be asked.

00:47:35.000 First off, when are the fires going to stop?

00:47:37.000 When will people be safe?

00:47:39.000 Then you have to ask, what started them?

00:47:41.000 Or who?

00:47:43.000 Why wasn't the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Best, why wasn't she there? 1.00

00:47:47.000 A lot of questions that are being asked, and the good news is that we have some answers, which brings us to Gavin Newsom, what a piece of shit. 0.98

00:47:57.000 All references available online. 0.94

00:48:05.000 Link in the description.

00:48:06.000 We do have some answers.

00:48:08.000 Okay, how did this happen?

00:48:09.000 No, it's not climate change, to be clear.

00:48:12.000 Matter of fact, you could argue that climate change activists are at the root of this.

00:48:15.000 So, let's go to Gavin Newsom, and we're going to go through some of his past policies, too, so you can see that pattern of behavior.

00:48:22.000 The year 2025. Newsom cut funding.

00:48:26.000 For wildfire and forest resiliency by $101 million.

00:48:31.000 $101 million.

00:48:32.000 And it's important to note, that's what's happening for 2025, for this fiscal year.

00:48:38.000 And you know this, as of this Monday, at the same time, you might be saying, oh my gosh, okay, they just have to cut somewhere.

00:48:43.000 Well, they've decided to spend an additional $50 million to fight Trump on immigration.

00:48:47.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:48:47.000 So just $101 million, just $50 of that $100 million as it relates to wildfire prevention, could have been right back. 0.87

00:48:54.000 They've decided that They want to politicize it.

00:48:57.000 Let's fight Trump on immigration.

00:48:58.000 And by that, they mean let immigrants in.

00:49:00.000 Illegal immigrants, their rights have been placed over yours in California. 1.00

00:49:08.000 If you're an American citizen, you get to the back of the line.

00:49:11.000 In 2020, Newsom launched this program.

00:49:15.000 Okay, which sounds good on its surface to alleviate these sort of bureaucratic hurdles as it related to clearing brush.

00:49:21.000 You guys know this.

00:49:21.000 You have to clear underbrush if you want to prevent fires.

00:49:24.000 Okay, so that seems like a good idea, right?

00:49:28.000 Here's the problem.

00:49:29.000 Despite this project, it spanned 525 individual projects, right?

00:49:34.000 650,000 acres were approved.

00:49:37.000 Only 6,000 of the acres have been cleared.

00:49:40.000 There have been zero completed projects in the Los Angeles area.

00:49:44.000 And the California State Park Superintendent, his name is Richard Fink, said that the state doesn't clear brush because, quote, we're here to protect the natural habitat.

00:49:54.000 Thanks, Gavin Newsom. 1.00

00:49:55.000 What a piece of shit. 1.00

00:49:57.000 So the result has been residents having to apply for a permit, pay a fee, and then clear the brush themselves. 1.00

00:50:07.000 Gavin Newsom, what a piece of shit. 1.00

00:50:09.000 Since 2014. Whoa. 1.00

00:50:13.000 Since 2014, again, voters approved these bonds to build new water storage in California, right?

00:50:23.000 So the voters said, yeah, yeah, yeah, we have to have more water storage.

00:50:25.000 Okay.

00:50:25.000 Put to a vote.

00:50:26.000 The Democrat Party, the leader of the Democrat Party in California, Gavin Newsom, has completed zero.

00:50:32.000 None.

00:50:32.000 What?

00:50:33.000 None whatsoever. 0.60

00:50:34.000 To show you how asinine environmentalism has become in placing The Earth, and more so, environmental policy, the ism, the dogmatic religion of neo-environmentalism, over the rights of California citizens.

00:50:50.000 I don't think it can be displayed for you better than this next video. 0.64

00:50:52.000 Here is excess rainwater.

00:50:55.000 You're sitting just going like, oh, rain, California, they need water.

00:50:57.000 Water literally falls from the sky.

00:51:00.000 Here it is, draining right out into the ocean.

00:51:04.000 That ledge right there at the bottom is called the Stillean Basin.

00:51:09.000 And then it flows onto the channel.

00:51:12.000 So yeah, California, they live on the ocean.

00:51:17.000 They just can't use it.

00:51:19.000 Well, that water didn't have any salt in it.

00:51:20.000 They had to salt the water and put it in the ocean.

00:51:23.000 Otherwise it would be drinkable.

00:51:24.000 How about this as a policy?

00:51:25.000 Just a starting off point.

00:51:27.000 Okay.

00:51:28.000 Import water in California.

00:51:29.000 Bring it in.

00:51:30.000 Reservoirs.

00:51:31.000 And no exporting.

00:51:34.000 Think that would make a difference?

00:51:35.000 Think that would make a difference?

00:51:37.000 They're draining their own reservoirs.

00:51:39.000 That begs the question, why?

00:51:40.000 Well, we got to the clearing of the underbrush.

00:51:42.000 And by the way, do you have any idea how bad it has to be as far as underbrush for trees?

00:51:45.000 Right now, you could go out to a tree in your backyard.

00:51:49.000 Don't do this.

00:51:50.000 And hold a map torch to it, and it would not light on fire.

00:51:54.000 It would require extreme heat, extreme heat, or an extreme amount of time.

00:51:58.000 What you can do is if you can chop some wood, like wood from a live tree, fresh wood, put it in a fire.

00:52:04.000 You'll probably wait for 45 minutes to an hour as it steams before it lights on fire.

00:52:10.000 That means this has not been cleared for a very, very long time because environmentalists have gotten it wrong again.

00:52:15.000 Here's another area where they've gotten it wrong.

00:52:17.000 References available.

00:52:18.000 Gavin Newsom in August of 2024, and this was fact-checked by PolitiFact as not being true.

00:52:22.000 It is true.

00:52:23.000 The guidelines prioritize fish over farmers in that they allocated more water for an endangered fish while limiting What farmers could access Gavin Newsom? 1.00

00:52:35.000 What a piece of shit. 1.00

00:52:40.000 And in one case, it's a fish that can't even swim. 1.00

00:52:43.000 What?

00:52:44.000 Yeah.

00:52:44.000 You know what that fish should be called?

00:52:45.000 Extinct.

00:52:46.000 Dead.

00:52:47.000 Yes.

00:52:47.000 It shouldn't have a name.

00:52:48.000 So farmers in the San Joaquin Valley, they were actually losing, or they were facing a loss of 20% of irrigated ground.

00:52:56.000 Why did Newsom do this?

00:52:57.000 Again.

00:52:58.000 To preempt new federal rules by Trump.

00:53:00.000 You can hear it on the Joe Rogan show.

00:53:01.000 He talked about this specifically on the Joe Rogan podcast.

00:53:04.000 That's something like 40 million plays.

00:53:06.000 Also, Gavin Newsom did this in 2019 to defy Trump.

00:53:09.000 So we'll cut wildfire management by $100 million.

00:53:12.000 Spend $50 million to fight Trump on immigration.

00:53:14.000 In this case, I'm going to stick it to Trump by harming the citizens of my own state.

00:53:19.000 If that is not a reason for a recall in California, you are beyond hope.

00:53:24.000 To give you an idea, too, other policies, Gavin Newsom, just to show maybe not malice, but inefficiency, from 2019 to now, they spent $135 billion.

00:53:32.000 Billion dollars on high-speed trains.

00:53:34.000 Again, environmentalism because they want mass transit.

00:53:37.000 They don't want you to have a car.

00:53:38.000 It's also why you get penalized if you drive certain vehicles or if you sell certain vehicles in California.

00:53:42.000 These high-speed trains were supposed to connect L.A. to San Francisco.

00:53:45.000 Right now, we are 2025. Not one passenger.

00:53:48.000 I know what you're thinking.

00:53:49.000 Some?

00:53:50.000 No.

00:53:50.000 Zero passengers have been served.

00:53:52.000 Thanks, Gavin Newsom, you piece of shit. 1.00

00:53:59.000 Duh. 1.00

00:53:59.000 Give it time. 1.00

00:54:01.000 2023. After Californians were facing a constant homeless problem, needles and human excrement in the street, and again complaining and voting in municipalities to try and fix it, Gavin Newsom finally heard their pleas.

00:54:14.000 Oh, sorry, did I say heard their pleas?

00:54:15.000 No, no.

00:54:15.000 He wanted to keep up appearances, and he finally cleaned off the streets of San Francisco for communist Xi Jinping's visit.

00:54:22.000 Folks say, oh, they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.

00:54:27.000 That's true.

00:54:29.000 Because it's true.

00:54:33.000 And just some other ones that I want to throw in because I don't like them.

00:54:36.000 October 2024, Newsom signed a bill that prohibited voter ID. What a piece of shit. 1.00

00:54:43.000 2024. The year 2024 to 2025, that fiscal year, $73 billion. 1.00

00:54:51.000 State budget deficit.

00:54:53.000 Of note, this was just released, I believe, this morning.

00:54:55.000 Texas just saw a budget surplus of $24 billion.

00:54:59.000 There you go!

00:55:00.000 That's impressive, considering the difference in taxes.

00:55:02.000 Yes, it absolutely is.

00:55:04.000 No personal income tax.

00:55:05.000 No personal income tax.

00:55:06.000 Property taxes are high.

00:55:07.000 But again, that's a pretty widespread.

00:55:10.000 $70-something billion deficit, $24 billion surplus.

00:55:14.000 Texas, hey, good for you.

00:55:15.000 That'll buy a lot of wheelchairs. 0.99

00:55:18.000 Or one really good one.

00:55:20.000 One in solid gold.

00:55:23.000 Diamond wheels.

00:55:25.000 The thing is...

00:55:25.000 I don't know if California can ever fix it.

00:55:29.000 This has been going on for a very, very long time.

00:55:32.000 This is a perfect example of brainwashing.

00:55:34.000 The people who are in California, they still believe it.

00:55:36.000 You have people there who believe that this is the byproduct of, my God, climate change.

00:55:40.000 And if they don't get it right...

00:55:42.000 The state that is probably the most beautiful in the union, arguably, for sure.

00:55:46.000 Definitely top three.

00:55:47.000 And more rich in natural resources than, again, top three any other state.

00:55:53.000 There is no reason for California to not be able to make it work.

00:55:57.000 They have every single natural advantage and they keep screwing it up because of leaders like Gavin Newsom.

00:56:04.000 If they continue this way, I don't know.

00:56:05.000 I think California at this point is pretty much doomed.

00:56:07.000 Was it stunner?

00:56:08.000 Now it's such a bummer.

00:56:09.000 How'd it get this way? 1.00

00:56:10.000 Leadership is getting dumber. 0.99

00:56:12.000 Running down L.A. to keep a little office alive. 0.99

00:56:17.000 The Golden State just might not survive.

00:56:24.000 California, rest in peace.

00:56:28.000 It's a liberal disease.

00:56:33.000 Gavin Newsom battle sleeves California get off your knees yeah it was darker than I anticipated A little bit.

00:56:51.000 Just to give you some background, because we're grilling Hegseth and people like Brett Kavanaugh, effectively Boy Scouts in comparison.

00:56:57.000 Look, people make mistakes.

00:56:59.000 I'll point him out, just because at this point, I guess tit for tat, in 2005, while he was San Francisco mayor, Newsom had an affair with his secretary. 1.00

00:57:08.000 Some would say, what a piece of shit. 0.97

00:57:10.000 She was married to his campaign manager, and while we're discussing charges that have been completely unverified and largely cleared of a Hegseth, Newsom was accused, and here's the thing. 1.00

00:57:25.000 Repeatedly, going back, I believe, as far as 2007, of alcoholism, and a big reason why is because of plenty of videographic evidence.

00:57:34.000 So I'm asking about the attack on the Yale students over New Year's, and, you know, it's kind of spreading across the country.

00:57:39.000 A couple other, some news outlets in other countries are picking it up.

00:57:43.000 And it's a good reminder how important it is to remind our parents to be good stewards of underage drinking.

00:57:51.000 I appreciate that.

00:57:51.000 The only other question I have is it hasn't been a very easy week for you, and I wonder whether you have any comment on the Mattia and Roth story about the drinking.

00:57:59.000 Thank you very much.

00:58:00.000 That was a great cheap shot.

00:58:02.000 You can't help yourself.

00:58:04.000 You cannot.

00:58:06.000 Now, maybe he was drunk or not, or on blow or not, but the issue is the line, because then he claimed to have entered rehab.

00:58:14.000 Yeah.

00:58:14.000 It was sort of, all right, okay.

00:58:17.000 But then in 2018, it was confirmed because Newsom admitted, He actually never went to rehab. 1.00

00:58:23.000 What a piece of shit. 1.00

00:58:26.000 It's the lying. 1.00

00:58:29.000 Right?

00:58:30.000 They don't actually care.

00:58:31.000 This is the left wants to hold you to a standard that is one that's unattainable while they hold themselves to none whatsoever.

00:58:38.000 California is a wreck.

00:58:40.000 It's a disaster.

00:58:41.000 It is a disaster as a direct result of policies by people like Gavin Newsom and the Democrat Party.

00:58:48.000 And he's more concerned with The rhetoric.

00:58:51.000 Whenever the left says, hey, it's time to unite, you know they're lying to you.

00:58:54.000 You know they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes. 0.99

00:58:56.000 And don't call this man new scum because it really, it hurts his feels. 0.99

00:59:00.000 I'm not naive. 0.99

00:59:01.000 I get the California derangement syndrome.

00:59:03.000 I've been living with that for years and years. 1.00

00:59:04.000 New scum. 1.00

00:59:05.000 You know, in the same seventh grade. 1.00

00:59:07.000 I remember the guy on Baltimore Avenue that called me new scum. 0.98

00:59:10.000 I was in seventh grade. 0.99

00:59:12.000 I can handle that.

00:59:15.000 Apparently.

00:59:16.000 No, I do.

00:59:19.000 I feel, because unfortunately the guy in Baltimore Avenue was his dad. 1.00

00:59:25.000 That's been this week's installment of What a Piece of Shit. 0.98

00:59:28.000 If you feel it on your heart to donate, to help some places where you can, we'll give you the links. 0.99

00:59:32.000 The California Fire Foundation, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, there's Pasadena Humane.

00:59:38.000 These are organizations that you can go to right now.

00:59:41.000 You can donate online or in some...

00:59:43.000 Some capacities, if you're in California, give your time.

00:59:46.000 Please consider helping your fellow American be better than the left who helps them zero parts whatsoever.

00:59:52.000 Did I miss anything?

00:59:52.000 Nope.

00:59:53.000 You're good.

00:59:53.000 Okay.

00:59:54.000 All right.

00:59:54.000 I know it's going to be a long...

00:59:55.000 It's not just rich people, by the way.

00:59:56.000 Some people think it's just celebrities and rich people.

00:59:59.000 There's some poor folks out there lost their stuff, dude.

01:00:01.000 Oh, yeah.

01:00:01.000 Yeah, of course.

01:00:02.000 Yeah, a lot of people have.

01:00:03.000 I bet you're going to see a lot of people leave California and not go back.

01:00:05.000 Oh, yeah.

01:00:06.000 I hope that the policies change from this.

01:00:07.000 I mean, this is devastating.

01:00:09.000 Yeah.

01:00:09.000 How do you not look at this?

01:00:10.000 I mean, the only reason that people can look at this and go, okay, we couldn't do anything about it was because of climate change.

01:00:15.000 That argument basically covers up any personal responsibility of politicians, of residents, of anybody going, I'm in a high fire area, it's dangerous, there's tons of wind coming in, this is not the first time that that's happened, it's a big issue, and I'm just going to go, well, it's climate change, so I guess I've got to throw up my hands and go, wow, we can't do anything about it.

01:00:35.000 We've got to start being proactive on this stuff and holding people accountable.

01:00:38.000 But do you see, again, it's the pattern from the left where there's no accountability for them?

01:00:41.000 No.

01:00:42.000 It's you, because you drove a Jeep.

01:00:46.000 Right.

01:00:47.000 Yeah, it's never, hey, did you drop the ball?

01:00:50.000 No, no, it's climate change.

01:00:52.000 Hey, did you have the option of abstinence, contraception, adoption?

01:00:59.000 No, it's abortion. 1.00

01:01:03.000 Hold on a second.

01:01:04.000 Hold on a second.

01:01:05.000 Were there other choices that could have been made as it related to shutdowns and COVID? Hold on a second.

01:01:11.000 Did you have any options here as it related to censorship, these big tech companies?

01:01:14.000 No, no, government.

01:01:16.000 And that brings us to this next one.

01:01:17.000 Look, I know that some people will be upset in us discussing this, but we've been pretty fair in calling balls and strikes.

01:01:24.000 And there was a lot of controversy as it relates to Elon Musk.

01:01:28.000 I think he's done a lot of good for this country, purchasing Twitter, turning it to X. Great.

01:01:32.000 But I will tell you, look, before we get into this segment, I completely disagree on H-1Bs, and I think the approach from Elon Musk is absolutely concerning.

01:01:43.000 It's disconcerting, it's concerning.

01:01:46.000 You can comment below if you agree.

01:01:48.000 I don't like to see infighting, but I also don't like to see people being swindled, and I certainly don't like to see people on the right advocating for policies that would cause irreparable harm.

01:01:59.000 To the American worker when it is completely unnecessary, and the only people who have an interest in this are those with a profit motive in giant tech companies.

01:02:09.000 And I'll lay out the case for you, okay?

01:02:12.000 This doesn't mean that Elon is wrong on everything.

01:02:14.000 I disagree with him on H1Bs, and I disagree with banning people who are critical of you on a platform that's pro-free speech.

01:02:20.000 So to set that up, last week Elon spoke with, I believe, Alice Weidel, Germany's AFD. And he reiterated, this is good, his defense, his stance on free speech.

01:02:34.000 Without freedom of speech, people are obviously not able to say what they want to say, and then they cannot make an informed vote.

01:02:43.000 So if people are simply fed propaganda and have no access to what's really going on, then they can't make an informed vote, and then you don't have a real democracy.

01:02:55.000 So that's why I say...

01:02:58.000 Free speech is the bedrock of democracy.

01:03:01.000 There must be free speech in order for people to make an informed vote.

01:03:04.000 Completely agree.

01:03:05.000 I would take it a step further.

01:03:06.000 It's not just about propaganda.

01:03:08.000 If you suppress open debate, people can't make an informed decision or vote.

01:03:14.000 You know, like with H-1Bs. 1.00

01:03:16.000 So, Mr. Musk has repeatedly referred to himself as a free speech absolutist.

01:03:21.000 Again, great.

01:03:24.000 Does the tree bear fruit?

01:03:27.000 This happened while I was gone was really concerning, to be clear.

01:03:32.000 And not just because of the approach, but again, because of the policy H-1Bs. 0.50

01:03:35.000 It's a scam.

01:03:35.000 And you know it's a scam because people now saying it's a good thing, like Vivek, said it was a scam.

01:03:40.000 I'll show you the clip.

01:03:42.000 So, and let me ask you where you guys line up on H-1Bs.

01:03:45.000 I understand the idea of brain drain.

01:03:47.000 I understand bringing the best and the brightest from other countries to the United States so that we have the best and the brightest.

01:03:53.000 And we're not competing against other people and their own intellectual resources.

01:03:57.000 I understand it.

01:03:58.000 That's not what is happening with H-1B. So this debate started on X. Laura Loomer criticized Trump appointing, I believe it's Sriram Krishnan.

01:04:09.000 I hope I have that.

01:04:09.000 Sriram Krishnan.

01:04:11.000 I hope I'm pronouncing it right.

01:04:12.000 A senior.

01:04:14.000 This was the post.

01:04:16.000 How will he control immigration in our country and promote America first innovation when Trump appointed this guy who wants to remove all restrictions on green card caps in the United States so that foreign students can come to the United States and take jobs that should be given to American STEM students?

01:04:31.000 Okay, now let me be really clear here.

01:04:33.000 I also understand, and I've said this for a very long time, that be American, buy American isn't necessarily true. 0.99

01:04:39.000 Sometimes American-made stuff is crap. 0.83

01:04:41.000 And sometimes, Certainly, union-made American stuff is non-existent. 0.97

01:04:48.000 We simply don't have the manufacturing in the United States, in which case, I understand international economy and trade, so long as it's done fairly.

01:04:54.000 I am not saying that we need to shut ourselves off from the world.

01:04:57.000 That is not the debate over H-1B visas.

01:05:01.000 Now, this came from Laura Loomer.

01:05:03.000 Elon Musk could have said nothing, but he decided this was a worthy cause for him to speak out.

01:05:10.000 That's, again, Don't agree?

01:05:24.000 Then he said, What I would say resembles a leftist tactic.

01:05:40.000 Not saying he is.

01:05:42.000 Maybe he doesn't know.

01:05:43.000 But the rhetoric sounds the same. 1.00

01:05:45.000 He said the contemptible fools I'm referring to are those in the Republican Party who are hateful, unrepentant racists. 1.00

01:05:52.000 They will absolutely be the downfall of the Republican Party if they are not removed. 0.99

01:05:56.000 And he was talking about, of course, people who were critical of H-1Bs.

01:05:59.000 Largely those coming from India because it's a huge majority of H-1Bs.

01:06:04.000 And this is where I've said before.

01:06:06.000 New phrase for the year.

01:06:07.000 I'm fine with it.

01:06:08.000 I'm fine with it.

01:06:10.000 If you say it's racist, for me to say there's nothing from India that I want to import, unless there are people who cannot be found in the United States, such brilliant innovators, engineers, CEOs, people breaking ground, okay, fine.

01:06:24.000 That's not how the system is being used.

01:06:26.000 Outside of that, there's nothing I want.

01:06:29.000 Even to just, by osmosis, there's nothing I want from India. 1.00

01:06:33.000 Not the culture, not the religion. 0.95

01:06:34.000 Not the government, not the mindset, nothing.

01:06:37.000 I think it's all bad.

01:06:39.000 And I think the mindset is incompatible with the idea of America first.

01:06:43.000 That's my opinion.

01:06:44.000 You think that's racist?

01:06:45.000 Okay, I'm fine with it.

01:06:46.000 Comment below.

01:06:47.000 Also, on calling balls and strikes, you've got to give them a little bit of credit in that second part to take a giant step back.

01:06:53.000 It's a pretty good quote. 1.00

01:06:55.000 If you're going to be a jerk, that's a good way to be a jerk. 1.00

01:06:57.000 Now, this is having been through the Vox Apocalypse, where... 1.00

01:07:01.000 Yeah, big time.

01:07:10.000 Uh, the justification from those at X, well, you have the right to speak, but you don't have the right to be paid for it.

01:07:15.000 And as I understand it, Laura Loomer lost her individual subscribers over 2000.

01:07:20.000 YouTube said no one could run ads and they throttled our channel, which was terrible and caused damage to the tune of millions of dollars a year.

01:07:26.000 But you've made up for it.

01:07:27.000 Rumble premium mug club members.

01:07:28.000 Thank you.

01:07:29.000 Yeah.

01:07:30.000 They didn't say, we're not going to allow mug club members at all.

01:07:33.000 We're not even going to allow individuals to support you.

01:07:35.000 The exact same rhetoric that we saw from Elon here, again, has me concerned.

01:07:39.000 Yep, just big time.

01:07:40.000 Let me lay out the case.

01:07:41.000 He also removed verification from users who were critical of him on this subject of H-1Bs, and he suspended others.

01:07:50.000 And again, what he said, exactly, the First Amendment is protection for free speech, not paid speech.

01:07:56.000 That's exactly what YouTube said.

01:07:58.000 And Vox said.

01:07:59.000 But if you're selecting who gets paid and who doesn't, based on a point of view, or even worse, based on being critical of your point of view, look in your rearview mirror, there's free speech absolutism.

01:08:11.000 Yeah.

01:08:11.000 You could do one of those things where you say, who said this, and put this quote out there, and you would swear this was like Susan Wojcicki circa 2017. Right.

01:08:18.000 That's exactly, when I saw that, I was like, holy crap. 0.77

01:08:21.000 Okay, Elon, you gotta fix your thinking on this. 0.93

01:08:24.000 Or you're just completely wrong and don't understand what you just said.

01:08:26.000 Because what you're doing is worse than Google.

01:08:29.000 Google said advertisers don't want to be next to your content.

01:08:32.000 They had some cover for that, right?

01:08:33.000 What you're doing is saying, even if people want to personally give you money, no.

01:08:37.000 That's like what Justin Trudeau did in Canada.

01:08:39.000 Let me tell you this.

01:08:39.000 If I spoke out the way that I am right now, and all of you, Mug Club or Mug Premium, if instead you were subscribing, you were ex-Premium members, our entire livelihood here would have been shut off.

01:08:52.000 Gone.

01:08:54.000 And you know what?

01:08:55.000 And I would welcome Elon Musk to come on the show and have a very subdued, a very rational dialogue about this where we can air our disagreements and hopefully come to some common ground with the American people.

01:09:08.000 I hope that he walks it back, but no.

01:09:12.000 If people now say, well, yeah, yeah, I expected Donald Trump in this administration to uncap H-1Bs, that's just not true.

01:09:19.000 That's not what we voted for.

01:09:20.000 And I will tell you this.

01:09:21.000 I know the position of those at Rumble on H1Bs, and you can join right now.

01:09:25.000 Rumble Premium, you click that button.

01:09:26.000 We're going to continue with this segment.

01:09:29.000 We're going to continue here right now on Rumble, but on Rumble Premium, it's going to get wild and woolly.

01:09:33.000 Let me get to the reason to why people may have a problem with H1Bs.

01:09:39.000 And it's not because something something melanin brown.

01:09:42.000 Quickie Mart.

01:09:43.000 It's not that.

01:09:44.000 There's a real reason to have a problem with it.

01:09:47.000 There's a reason that Vivek Ramaswamy had a huge problem with it only a couple years ago.

01:09:51.000 And I believe even on this show.

01:09:54.000 Kind of like when he was supportive of the TikTok ban until he was against it.

01:09:57.000 I don't know why people can change their minds.

01:10:01.000 I haven't.

01:10:01.000 Certainly not on H-1Bs.

01:10:03.000 So, according to the Department of Labor's website, this is how they describe H-1B. The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire non-immigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or...

01:10:16.000 As fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.

01:10:20.000 Okay, fine, fine.

01:10:21.000 I'm going to go to the last part.

01:10:23.000 I understand it, and I get it.

01:10:26.000 You can Google Brain Drain, read up on that.

01:10:28.000 I understand that as a form of policy.

01:10:30.000 That's not what is happening with this program, and I'm going to...

01:10:34.000 Let me make the case here for you so that it's irrefutable, so that you know the game, and then you can vote on it.

01:10:39.000 It's time for Claim Truth.

01:10:44.000 Okay.

01:10:45.000 So if you want to say this is racist, fine.

01:10:47.000 If Elon wants to say this is racist, fine.

01:10:50.000 I'm okay with it.

01:10:51.000 Let's go to the claim here that they make, that H-1Bs are capped, for example, at 65,000 visas per year.

01:10:59.000 Okay, that's the claim made by the left.

01:11:01.000 All right.

01:11:01.000 The truth is that when you take renewals into account, 442,000 H-1B beneficiaries are currently in the United States.

01:11:08.000 442,000, all references available at lotearthcredit.com.

01:11:11.000 Let's look at another claim for H-1B advocates.

01:11:15.000 H-1Bs are actually paid the same or more than Americans doing the same job. 0.90

01:11:20.000 They're not replacing Americans with cheap labor.

01:11:23.000 They're procuring talent that couldn't be found here in the United States.

01:11:27.000 So these people are actually being paid more.

01:11:29.000 Here's the truth.

01:11:30.000 Absolutely not.

01:11:31.000 Not even close.

01:11:33.000 There's so many references for this segment.

01:11:35.000 I hope that you go look them up.

01:11:36.000 H-1B salaries are at least 17% to 34%.

01:11:41.000 I've seen numbers as high as 40. These are conservative numbers.

01:11:43.000 17% to 34% lower than the actual median salaries for those professions when employing Americans.

01:11:50.000 The largest H-1B employers, by the way, they save about an average of $41,000 per year per employee.

01:11:57.000 Who are the largest employers?

01:11:59.000 Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta.

01:12:03.000 Let me give you some examples, which I'm sure could not be foreign to Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg or any of them.

01:12:09.000 Tech salaries.

01:12:10.000 So, here's a direct apples to apples.

01:12:12.000 A software programmer or developer, the median cost for an American salary is about $144,000 a year.

01:12:17.000 Median for an H-1B, $100,000 a year.

01:12:20.000 That's $44,000 difference.

01:12:23.000 A software analyst.

01:12:24.000 You want to tell me that you can't find software analysts in Austin?

01:12:30.000 The median American salary, $114,000 a year.

01:12:33.000 Median H-1B, $78,000 a year.

01:12:36.000 It is replacing Americans with cheap labor. 0.90

01:12:40.000 I want to be very, very clear.

01:12:42.000 Also, this is pretty tough because they make this claim, meaning those on the left, those who are advocates of unfettered immigration, and I just don't believe in that because it's the greatest country in the world.

01:12:53.000 I think it's okay for us to have some standards, and I think it's okay for us to put our citizens first.

01:12:57.000 That's just my point of view.

01:12:58.000 You say racist, I'm fine with it.

01:13:00.000 The claim they make...

01:13:01.000 That H-1Bs fill jobs that Americans can't do. 1.00

01:13:05.000 Here's the real problem with that.

01:13:06.000 And you saw this with this response from Elon saying it's bringing in the best and brightest, and then Donald Trump said, I have plenty of H-1Bs on some of my properties.

01:13:13.000 Well, which is it?

01:13:13.000 We've been told that we need illegal immigrants to do the jobs that Americans won't do, picking lettuce, strawberries, right?

01:13:19.000 Americans won't do them, so we need them. 1.00

01:13:20.000 Now we're being told we need these people because we don't have Americans good enough to do the high-paying specialty jobs.

01:13:26.000 Well, what you're really saying is there are no jobs for Americans.

01:13:31.000 You know where they don't say that?

01:13:32.000 India.

01:13:33.000 So Elon Musk posted on X, there is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent.

01:13:38.000 It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.

01:13:41.000 That's not true.

01:13:42.000 I will get to that.

01:13:46.000 Because it's not true, to quote.

01:13:49.000 Vivek tweeted out, our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.

01:13:54.000 I agree with that.

01:13:55.000 If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

01:13:59.000 Sure.

01:14:00.000 The good news is, hey, that half of this country, more than half, who elected the president, guess what?

01:14:06.000 They're not buying into the woke BS. There are plenty of Americans in STEM fields, certainly in software, in hardware, better than those in India.

01:14:16.000 And they don't even need to fake their degree.

01:14:17.000 They don't even need to fake their resume, which we'll get into, by the way.

01:14:20.000 This is enabling gross abuses of human rights, just to be really clear.

01:14:23.000 So Vivek said this.

01:14:26.000 Which surprised me.

01:14:27.000 And again, he's been on the show.

01:14:28.000 He's a friend of the show.

01:14:29.000 I largely like Vivek.

01:14:30.000 But this really surprised me because we ran this on the show October 2024. Vivek said that the H-1B system was irreparably broken, basically a scam.

01:14:40.000 A lot of the people who have come here through the H-1B system would tell you, as I would, that it's just a broken system no matter who you're seeking to serve.

01:14:47.000 My general approach is when something's broken in government, you can't really fix it when it's lasted that long.

01:14:53.000 You need to shut it down, start with a blank slate, and rebuild from scratch.

01:14:56.000 And that's just a stylistic point that I've applied to this issue as to any other.

01:15:00.000 And I know somebody may be confused.

01:15:02.000 You misheard lift the cap and increase H-1Bs.

01:15:06.000 That was three months ago.

01:15:07.000 It was October of 2024. The end of October.

01:15:10.000 Look, guys, comment below if you're bothered by me speaking on this.

01:15:15.000 We've been remarkably consistent on this.

01:15:17.000 Here's another truth.

01:15:19.000 Americans can do the work.

01:15:22.000 And want to do the work.

01:15:23.000 65% of all H-1B petitions that are approved, they're somewhere in the computer-related fields.

01:15:31.000 So here's a study by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States showing that Americans, they're not falling behind in STEM fields.

01:15:38.000 As a matter of fact, they're ahead.

01:15:40.000 They show higher levels of skills in computer science than counterparts in India, China, Russia.

01:15:48.000 Now, do I agree that you probably have some mediocre millennials or Gen Z who don't want to work? 0.85

01:15:53.000 Sure.

01:15:53.000 But this is a country of over, was it close to 330 million people?

01:15:58.000 Is that where we are now?

01:15:58.000 330, 340, 350, 350 million people?

01:16:01.000 You're going to tell me that there aren't enough Americans skilled in these endeavors, so you have to go to India?

01:16:08.000 Question.

01:16:08.000 If that's the case, why does India still look like India?

01:16:13.000 Here's another truth. 0.99

01:16:14.000 By the way, I mean it sucks. 0.98

01:16:16.000 I mean India doesn't look very good. 0.98

01:16:18.000 I mean, I don't look at India and see... 1.00

01:16:20.000 Got to import that shit. 1.00

01:16:22.000 That's not what I look at. 1.00

01:16:23.000 Just because of the poop on the ground?

01:16:25.000 Yeah, just because of the poop on the ground.

01:16:30.000 They've had plenty of people.

01:16:31.000 A steamboat of poop? 0.94

01:16:34.000 Hungry seagulls.

01:16:35.000 India has had plenty of people and far more time than the United States.

01:16:39.000 Look at the United States.

01:16:40.000 Look at the Western world.

01:16:41.000 One of these things is not like the other.

01:16:43.000 That's my opinion.

01:16:44.000 You say racism, I'm fine with it.

01:16:45.000 Here's another truth.

01:16:48.000 Assuming that everything I provided for you here wasn't accurate, most people don't know it's still rife with fraud.

01:16:56.000 You see it all across H-1Bs. 1.00

01:16:58.000 So there's an Indian degree mill that sold more than 36,000 fake degrees for would-be H-1B beneficiaries. 0.94

01:17:06.000 It's very easy to fake, and no one is checking.

01:17:10.000 Less than 2% of H-1Bs are checked for compliance on an annual basis.

01:17:15.000 That's half the annual H-1Bs, if they were all accepted.

01:17:20.000 And we can't know.

01:17:21.000 A lot of this is just, it's not an even playing field.

01:17:24.000 And people who work in these sectors will tell you, yeah, yeah, there are entire mills.

01:17:28.000 And not only that...

01:17:29.000 But they also skim off the top.

01:17:31.000 You're about to say something.

01:17:32.000 So the 36,000 was over time.

01:17:33.000 They did a report on it, but that's just one company.

01:17:35.000 That's one company.

01:17:36.000 That's one company that's out there.

01:17:37.000 If there are 100 companies, it's a giant percentage potentially each year.

01:17:41.000 I went to the Ivy League of India.

01:17:44.000 What is it?

01:17:45.000 Phoenix, Harvard.

01:17:50.000 It's DeVry, Stanford.

01:17:51.000 Hogwarts.

01:17:52.000 Wharton.

01:17:54.000 Are you making things up?

01:17:55.000 Yes.

01:17:56.000 I went to Not Your Dame.

01:17:59.000 Here's another truth for you.

01:18:01.000 There are plenty of Americans right now who are qualified, who are better, who want those jobs, but companies instead decide to underpay foreigners to do those jobs.

01:18:10.000 So half of the H-1Bs went to these staffing or outsourcing companies.

01:18:16.000 Jeez.

01:18:16.000 And actually in 2024, the staffing company Cognizant was found guilty of discriminating against Americans in favor of Indians, just to be clear.

01:18:25.000 Cognizant was a company with the most H-1B approvals, 2013 all the way through 2019, and then 2024. They had a good run, and then they made a comeback 2024. And here's something else, too.

01:18:37.000 So you have people who are not better than Americans, people who are coming from countries that engage in degree fraud and resume fraud or inflation, and then these companies who favor people from these nations skim off the top and take commissions.

01:18:52.000 So just the Indian Staffing Company, HCL, $7 billion in their annual revenue came from the United States H-1B market alone.

01:19:00.000 Wow.

01:19:01.000 $7 billion.

01:19:03.000 It's illegal.

01:19:04.000 They're not supposed to take commissions.

01:19:05.000 Ever seen a house in your neighborhood with six Indian families living there?

01:19:11.000 We all have.

01:19:12.000 And that's not good, by the way, for Indians. 0.99

01:19:15.000 Because they should improve their country.

01:19:18.000 We shouldn't be bringing them here to underpay them.

01:19:21.000 And use them to displace American workers. 0.99

01:19:23.000 Again, this is my opinion.

01:19:24.000 You say racism.

01:19:25.000 I'm fine with it.

01:19:27.000 HCL was also caught underpaying H-1B beneficiaries by $95 million a year when you're talking about their annual undercutting.

01:19:35.000 Jeez.

01:19:36.000 And here's another thing, too.

01:19:37.000 If these don't point to you, you see these salaries, you say, well, maybe we just don't have any software analysts in the United States. 0.96

01:19:42.000 We suck at everything.

01:19:43.000 I don't agree with you. 0.99

01:19:44.000 But here's another truth.

01:19:45.000 There are so many H-1B jobs that any American can do.

01:19:49.000 Hey, let me ask you this.

01:19:51.000 You think H-1B best and brightest.

01:19:52.000 Maybe you're thinking like some engineer for Mercedes who's coming to the American headquarters who's so skilled that they need this person here.

01:19:59.000 I understand that.

01:20:00.000 Same thing you see it all the time in the entertainment industry.

01:20:02.000 You need a comedian.

01:20:03.000 You need an actor.

01:20:04.000 Hey, guess what?

01:20:04.000 You have to bring them here because you don't have the American to fill the role.

01:20:07.000 I get that at the elite of the elite of the elite.

01:20:10.000 Let me ask you if these jobs sound like they would qualify for meeting that criteria.

01:20:15.000 Pickleball coach!

01:20:17.000 H-1B salary, $90,000 a year.

01:20:20.000 A baker.

01:20:21.000 No American bakers.

01:20:22.000 H-1B salary, $36,000 to $38,000 a year.

01:20:25.000 Yep, it's used for that. 0.89

01:20:27.000 Massage therapist.

01:20:28.000 H-1B salary, $30,000 to $52,000 a year.

01:20:32.000 Bringing in the best and brightest.

01:20:33.000 Massage therapist from India.

01:20:34.000 They don't even have the grip strength.

01:20:36.000 Well, that's before happy endings, though.

01:20:38.000 Yes.

01:20:38.000 How could we need a pickleball perch?

01:20:41.000 That's a lazy sport invented in America.

01:20:43.000 This is a system that is being abused.

01:20:45.000 It's being abused by American tech corporations who want to displace American workers and underpay them.

01:20:49.000 And it is being abused by those in government to try and purchase votes.

01:20:52.000 And it is being abused by these third-party staffing companies in India, or who bring people from India, to commit fraud and to take a commission.

01:21:02.000 I don't know why Uber driver wasn't listed.

01:21:04.000 It's like every single Uber driver I see.

01:21:07.000 Every time I'm missing an egg roll, I'm like, oh yeah.

01:21:09.000 You mispronounced pickleball coach.

01:21:10.000 Here's...

01:21:11.000 By the way, I only really found out what pickleball was like this year.

01:21:14.000 I know.

01:21:14.000 I was like, wait, it's just tennis on a smaller court?

01:21:16.000 With a bigger racket?

01:21:17.000 Why?

01:21:18.000 Bigger ball?

01:21:19.000 It's the H-1B of sports.

01:21:20.000 Because you can't play tennis at 60 and they needed something to do, Stephen.

01:21:24.000 I don't know.

01:21:24.000 It seems too fast for old people.

01:21:26.000 I don't like it.

01:21:27.000 So, here's another truth, by the way.

01:21:29.000 Indian students...

01:21:31.000 Who are looking for tech jobs dominate H-1Bs.

01:21:34.000 72% of H-1B beneficiaries are from India.

01:21:37.000 So don't say that it's racism for someone to specifically speak out against H-1B and mention Indian immigrants.

01:21:45.000 72%.

01:21:46.000 China's about 11%.

01:21:48.000 1% or so from the Philippines.

01:21:50.000 1% from Canada.

01:21:52.000 Okay, 65% of all H-1B petitions that are approved, they're computer-related, a lot of them.

01:21:57.000 And something else, too, we have a real problem with getting people here on student visas and then automatically H-1B. 72%.

01:22:07.000 Of H-1B beneficiaries were here on some kind of a student visa before that at one point.

01:22:12.000 Let me ask you this.

01:22:13.000 You say it's racist for me to say, hey, I think that we have Americans, and by think I mean know that we have Americans who are qualified, who are better, who want these jobs, who want to be paid fairly.

01:22:22.000 By the way, this is not capitalism, lest you socialists, former Bernie bros try and throw it at me.

01:22:26.000 This is cronyism.

01:22:27.000 If I say, hey, hold on a second, we should focus on Americans first, and there's nothing about India that I want to import here as a matter of culture, history, or mindset.

01:22:36.000 You say racist.

01:22:37.000 Let me ask you this.

01:22:39.000 Your stance, correct me if I'm wrong, is you believe that there's something about being Indian that makes you an innate programmer?

01:22:52.000 What?

01:22:52.000 Why?

01:22:54.000 What other proof would you have?

01:22:56.000 That Indians, by birthright, are better programmers in the United States. 1.00

01:23:00.000 I don't know all programmers in the country, and I don't know all people in tech, but I have spoken with tech support.

01:23:09.000 I'm not super impressed.

01:23:11.000 Be fair, every time they tell me to turn it off and turn it back on, they're right.

01:23:14.000 That's true.

01:23:15.000 That is true.

01:23:17.000 And I'm going to actually get to solutions here.

01:23:19.000 I believe that this is an issue that can be solved, H-1Bs. 1.00

01:23:22.000 And in this new year, we've decided, you know what, we want to... 0.98

01:23:24.000 Be different than people who just bitch. 1.00

01:23:26.000 We often do this, but we need to outline a little more clearly.

01:23:28.000 Five steps that we can take so we can solve the issue and still be able to bring in the best and the brightest in this country.

01:23:34.000 At first, in response, by the way, to stealing all of their talented engineers.

01:23:37.000 You can continue watching with us on Marvel Premium as we go through this solution.

01:23:40.000 India is actually firing back and stealing American actors. 0.96

01:23:45.000 Well played.

01:23:45.000 Man, I'm so tired.

01:23:53.000 I feel so sick. 0.80

01:23:58.000 Drink piss. 0.65

01:24:04.000 Woohoo! 1.00

01:24:05.000 Cow piss heals all sickness and disease. 0.99

01:24:09.000 I got a paper cut.

Louder with Crowder - January 15, 2025

We’re Back: Hegseth’s Confirmation, Cali Wild Fires & Elon's Free Speech Fiasco

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