On this week's episode of RUMBLE Live, the crew is back with a brand new episode featuring a special guest, comedian Josh Firestein, who joins them to talk about everything from NPR's defunding, to the Trump administration's new tariffs on Mexican cars and trucks, and much, much more.
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00:01:35.000You get Evita, you get Vince, you get me, then Tim Pool, then Russell Brand, Jeremy at the Quartering, and Viva Fry.
00:01:40.000More to come, and thank you so much for welcoming the Bongino Army and Vince, which of course is short for, in its original tongue, Vincente, which means mostly shops at J.Crew, but it works for them.
00:01:53.000Today, we're going to be talking about NPR.
00:04:53.000Josh Firestein, not underscore Firestein on X. And my half-Asian lawyer, who, by the way, tonight and tomorrow is going to be at TK's Comedy Club in Addison, Texas.
00:06:19.000So Alex Rosen from Predator Poachers, you know him.
00:06:22.000He's been a friend of this show where he tracks down.
00:06:24.000Sex offenders, and he confronts them, often gets them arrested.
00:06:28.000He actually, in this latest clip, was arrested himself for tracking down a verified, allegedly self-admitted pedophile at a steak and shake, and he's the one who gets carried out in cuffs.
00:06:59.000Steak and shake in Branson, Missouri, employs pedophiles so she knows he's been caught before and arrested for trying to meet a little kid.
00:07:08.000And she still defends him and still employs him and said it was slander even though he admitted to everything and got arrested for it.
00:07:14.000Yeah, if all that is true, that's a real problem because some fast facts, the recidivism rate for pedophiles is 35%.
00:09:55.000If you keep living in this society where people are arrested for trespassing because they're confronting not only potentially an active pedophile, but someone who knows about it in the name of empathy, in the name of tolerance, is employing them, which, by the way, is putting people at risk, this is how you end up with Dirty Harrys.
00:10:13.000This is how you end up with Charles Bronson, Death Wish.
00:10:34.000I mean, look, the breakdown of society is what leads people to think they have to do something.
00:10:39.000And when you let rioters destroy cities year after year after year when they get butthurt over something, and then you go, ah, the peaceful protests with fire in the background, and then you've got a guy being like, hey, FYI, people.
00:10:59.000You know, already in the system, already known, right?
00:11:02.000You're not exercising your discretion as a law enforcement officer to not just walk that guy out and go, look, you're not doing it the right way.
00:11:16.000I have to say allegedly, because my lawyer is here, but the person in question working at Steak and Shake was trying to actively hook up with a minor, that employee, okay?
00:11:25.000This person has already been arrested and was caught by Alex.
00:11:29.000The restaurant owner admitted that she, keyword being she here, was aware of the arrest but refused to believe that this person is the monster that he actually is and decided to employ him anyway.
00:11:42.000This is the issue of empathy and tolerance over judgment.
00:11:47.000And I'm sorry, that's a problem of a feminized society through feminism.
00:12:14.000If you've already been arrested, if you've already molested a child, and now you're back in the public sphere where you could even potentially ruin another child's life, no, sorry, you're out.
00:12:48.000By the way, the IPCE, do they have like a corporate headquarters or maybe, you know, like a convention that the Houthis could bomb every year?
00:13:04.000Do you think that's an extreme statement?
00:13:06.000If you are a pedophile who has been convicted, who has been, in other words, beyond all shadow of a doubt, you can't be in society, period, anymore.
00:13:24.000But do me a favor, and if you have a problem with what we're saying right now, and I understand there's compassion and there's blah, blah, I get it.
00:13:50.000There's got to be mistakes that cross the line, right?
00:13:53.000I mean, if you just consistently say, well, we're just going to compassion our ways into what?
00:13:58.000Into letting anyone do anything, right?
00:14:00.000I mean, there has to be a line, and the society has to enforce that line, and the government that the society has created needs to be the first.
00:14:28.000Look, that's where I line up when we're at this point where everything is so warped.
00:14:31.000I will say this, the church, Gerald Albert Thomas, in many ways, the modern, non-denominational evangelical church has failed people in a lot of ways.
00:15:08.000Which, by the way, speaking of societies that are broken, and I'm not a fan of, and on YouTube this would be considered racist.
00:15:14.000And on Rumble, it might be considered a little bit racist.
00:15:18.000If you're feeling down about how bad it is in the United States, just remember, thank your lucky stars or the Lord above, because you could have been born in India.
00:20:08.000We went through this with Snap and Soda.
00:20:11.000If you can't stop funding to NPR and PBS, dead shows on a dead medium that would never exist otherwise, then you don't believe that there's any opportunity or any justification for trimming government.
00:22:43.000You guys were 0 for 3. On the three of the biggest stories in the last five years, you guys were 0 for 3, and yet you maintain that NPR is not biased?
00:22:53.000Wow. By the way, fact check, everything that you just heard there is accurate.
00:22:57.000We actually had this framed out for the segment.
00:23:09.000Washing, cleaning money, where you put it through different entities and sources so that people don't really know where it's coming from.
00:23:14.000Okay? You have the government, and the money goes to NPR, PBS, where they claim that they are actually funded by viewers like you, and then they affect the outcome of elections so that they continue the cycle of government funding.
00:24:35.000So, of course, the left, who wants this propaganda to continue, and Pravda R., they came to the defense of NPR, because you can't trim anything from the government.
00:24:47.000Like a representative Greg Caesar played, by the way, by Keegan-Michael Key.
00:25:36.000So I'm sad to see that this once proud committee, the principal investigative committee in the House of Representatives, has now stooped to the lowest levels of partisanship and political theater to hold a hearing to go after the likes of Elmo and Cookie Monster and after the ARGARC, all for the...
00:25:56.000Unforgivable sin of teaching the alphabet to low-income families' children.
00:26:59.000Can we not all start with, yeah, trans dinosaur enthusiasts at NPR?
00:27:04.000You know, I don't know, maybe you get a few bucks, maybe a million, but by the time we reach 534 million per annum, I think the taxpayer deserves a little bit better for their money.
00:29:10.000Marginalization. Marginalization is like a more spreadable substitute for butter that some people have argued is a more healthy replacement.
00:29:54.000In here, 2023, there's this show on PBS, Washington Week with The Atlantic, and they had a roundtable attacking Republicans for questioning what we then found out to be true, only a very short period later, Biden's mental acuity.
00:30:12.000It's not just making an issue of Biden's age.
00:31:43.000You can't even get 10% of privileged, white, wealthy, doctorate-holding viewers to give to this shit.
00:31:51.000But they think it's compassionate to take from you, who makes less, you, who likely has invested less, to pay for the crap that they want to watch.
00:32:28.000And by the way, these women, these white women, 126% chance they're more likely that they're going to have a $250,000 portfolio.
00:32:35.000Do you also know that that probably means they have internet?
00:32:38.000Which means they probably have more access to all of human history or than all of human history to content for kids that's free for them on YouTube and other platforms.
00:32:46.000It's not like this is the only place they can go.
00:35:07.000You're 0 for 3 on the biggest stories that would affect the outcome of the election and always making the error to favor one side, the Democrats, and 87 and 0. If we can't cut the 530-something million dollars to NPR or soda from Snap...
00:36:38.000This is what everyone is talking about.
00:36:39.000Full disclosure, you know, I'm not a fan of the UAW and how they have played the largest role in destroying the American auto industry.
00:36:46.000So my first reaction was, ooh, looking at these tariffs on auto imports and seeing that the UAW is supportive of this, that is probably going to be bad for American consumers.
00:36:58.000But then I thought about it, and I did a little more, not a little more digging, but kind of did a refresher course on the tariffs that we see in other countries.
00:37:08.000And I actually think that this policy, if implemented correctly, could favor you, the consumer, and by the way, makers of cars, and not just the union, and certainly not just the big three.
00:37:21.000If you actually get into the rules, you realize this is designed to specifically kind of cut China, Mexico off at the knees, who are often one and the same, and to empower even...
00:37:31.000Japanese car manufacturers, Korean or American car manufacturers, who try and bring some jobs here onshore rather than simply seeing you as a consumer market.
00:37:39.000So it could be a pretty good thing, but we'll give you the information.
00:37:51.000What we're going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States.
00:37:57.000If they're made in the United States, there's absolutely no tariff.
00:38:01.000We started off with a 2.5% base, which is what we were at, and we go to 25%.
00:38:07.000And basically, as you know, and as you've been seeing, not reporting as accurately as it should be reported, because it's a massive story.
00:38:16.000Businesses coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs, and I think also because of November 5th, the election.
00:38:23.000So we'll effectively be charging a 25% tariff.
00:38:27.000But if you build your car in the United States, there is no tariff.
00:38:30.000And what that means is a lot of foreign car companies, a lot of companies are going to be in great shape because they've already built their plant, but their plants are underutilized, so they'll be able to expand them inexpensively and quickly.
00:38:41.000And you all know he has been on a tear lately as it relates to tariffs, which earned him the nickname the Terrifier.
00:39:02.000Do you think you can just turn this back on and make a product that's more expensive and inferior and people will buy it and that industry will thrive and all of a sudden the middle class will be booming again like you think it needs to be because of manufacturing jobs?
00:39:13.000Do you think that's going to happen without any kind of incentive for manufacturing jobs to come back to the United States?
00:39:36.000This is going to cost a little bit, but at least you're not going to have slave labor doing this, and at least these are going to be American manufacturing jobs.
00:39:42.000We've been championing the cause of the middle class.
00:39:54.000So, you do have major trading partners, for example, like Korea, Japan, you're talking about Kia, Hyundai, right, and Honda, Toyota.
00:40:02.000They don't have tariffs, to be clear, on American cars coming in.
00:40:06.000That being said, they already have plants here in the United States, and like he said, they have the ability to ramp up capacity quite a bit.
00:43:26.000You don't think that an American car manufacturer would like to open up the second biggest market in the world in China and can make a very inexpensive car?
00:43:34.000They're not allowed to do so unless they hand over all of their IP.
00:43:38.000Effectively, there's one exception, Tesla, which is weird.
00:45:37.00010%. Okay, so in the United States, you can get Mercedes, you can get BMW, you can get all these cars, and I think there's about a 2.5% tariff as baseline.
00:45:44.000Okay, you have a 10% one in Germany, but that's not all.
00:50:16.000So especially if you're putting these places in right-to-work states so they can avoid the unions, which you know these foreign car companies are not going to go and build in Detroit and Cleveland and Chicago areas.
00:50:59.000We just helped the American workers sell more cars.
00:51:03.000And now, since there's more demand for your cars, you're going to produce more cars and ramp up production at the already existing facilities that can handle more production.
00:51:43.000And if they have their way, American cars are just going to continually get more expensive and become crappier.
00:51:49.000This is a way to favor, to at least allow a possibility for the American consumer to have more choice if they want to employ Americans and not have to be beholden to the UAW, who, by the way, largely create cars with Chinese parts in Mexico anyway.
00:52:03.000So this whole be American, buy American, I understand.
00:52:36.000China, you have consumers, but you're also really, you guys are protectionists as far as your businesses, your industry, making sure your people have jobs.
00:52:44.000Same thing with Japan in a lot of ways, certainly with the EU.
00:52:49.000I know that you think the American worker can afford it and we can subsidize the whole world, but at a certain point, we're not just people.
00:52:55.000Who hand over our money, you do have to start playing fairly, and that's what...
00:53:00.000And by the way, it's leverage, it's negotiation.
00:53:02.000I'm sure when people say, hey, we will move some plants over, Donald Trump will ease up on it.
00:53:43.000Now, I understand we want to sell stuff over there in different ways, but we have done this in every industry, it seems, where we have screwed the American worker over, and we never had to.
00:53:58.000And are we paying the lowest price for something versus the short-term benefit versus the long-term benefit of making sure that we have capacity?
00:54:08.000Right. I mean, we talk about cars, but I'll tell you, if you look at the pharmaceutical side, the number of drugs that come here or the key ingredients that only come from China or something like 80 or 90 percent, right?
00:54:45.000What do you think would happen if they weren't facing 20, 30, 40 percent?
00:54:50.000Taxes and tariffs, for example, in China or 15-20% when you add it up in Europe.
00:54:55.000If they were able to sell that much more product from which they've been boxed out, you think that might reduce costs?
00:55:03.000You think that if they had a bigger market, a bigger buying pool, you think they might be able to make more cars, right?
00:55:09.000Because as capacity goes up, often costs can go down.
00:55:12.000Do you think that they could be a more profitable company?
00:55:14.000Do you think they could make cars that are cheaper, more effective for people who are in that lower end of the market?
00:55:19.000We don't really have a market, American cars, as far as Europe, as far as China.
00:55:24.000And China, by the way, is a big problem because if you look at EVs, guess what?
00:55:27.000They're all too happy to supply Europe with cheap EVs provided they steal intellectual property from other companies and Europe's happy to take it.
00:56:56.000TK's Comedy in Addison this Friday and Saturday.
00:56:58.000The signal controversy, it's still going on.
00:57:01.000It's what they're talking about on media because it's the one thing they think is close to a win, and even Dave Portnoy, let's run this clip, decided to weigh in.
00:57:12.000He's like, hey, morons, you guys included me on a single group chat with sensitive classified information discussing the Houthis attack before it happened.
00:57:24.000Pete Heskiff's immediate reaction is like, no, that never happened.
00:57:27.000We didn't leak any classified information.
00:57:44.000You can't have the top of the top security people in the United States with the most sensitive information in the world adding random editors of a magazine that hates Trump's guts to a group chat talking about an attack before it happens on a terrorist group.
00:58:05.000Update here, and this is why yesterday a lawsuit was filed against the Trump administration over this whole Signal App story, alleging, quote, unauthorized use of Signal App for official business, violating the Federal Records Act, and the lawsuit is looking to get a declaration that failing to preserve Signal messages is also a violation of the FRA.
00:58:27.000A lot of people are sounding off on it.
00:58:38.000Yes. But there also is something to be said for not allowing this to snowball into a bigger issue than it needs to be if someone made a mistake.
00:59:28.000Of all the ones you're going to add, right?
00:59:30.000And what we haven't heard yet, and there's actually going to be a filing today, there's a deadline for a response to the motion for temporary injunction is at 1 o'clock today, and then there's a hearing at 4 o'clock.
00:59:41.000Now, it might get pushed back, so we'll see exactly what the government's position is outside of some of the public statements or some of the interviews that have gone on, but...
01:01:33.000I mean, and look, people will say, again, oh, signal messages.
01:01:36.000No one should ever have signal messages.
01:01:38.000This group that filed the lawsuit, actually one of their bases for filing the lawsuit is that they already have federal records requests, federal open records requests for signal messages that pre-existed this whole dispute, right?
01:01:51.000Because governments are already using it.
01:01:55.000There was one about something related to the Ukraine war where some of the staff were using Signal and they said, look, your issue, this may or may not be the best way depending on the level of sensitivity of the information, right?
01:02:06.000And there are certain systems for classified information.
01:02:08.000But here, it's really about are you retaining the records in the right way?
01:02:12.000And that's where someone's going to have to step up and go, these should not have been set to delete.
01:02:16.000And regardless of whether it's classified or not, that was kind of a...
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