Cons Inc. FAILS to Learn from Charlie Kirk's Assassination | Guest: Seamus Coughlin | 10⧸20⧸25
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Summary
In this episode, FreedomTunes' Seamus Coughlin joins me to discuss the tragic loss of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, and how the right has squandered the opportunities to come together in order to defeat the left.
Transcript
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Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I've got a great stream with a great guest that I think you're really going to enjoy.
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Believe it or not, it doesn't feel like it was that long ago where my guest today, Seamus Coughlin of Freedom Tunes, was on and we were going to discuss something else,
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but we had the breaking news that Charlie Kirk had been shot. At that time, we didn't know if he was going to die.
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We were kind of just going as the news was coming out. However, ultimately, of course, we know Charlie was killed,
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and in the wake of that, it seemed like for a moment the right was going to come together.
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We were going to see all of these different factions, recognize what time it truly is and how dire the situation really is,
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and put aside our differences and focus on defeating the left once and for all,
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because we're literally in an existential crisis with people who want to kill us.
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But only a few weeks later, we immediately saw a number of established conservative figures decide that actually what was really important
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was to hunt down everybody who had ever made a Hitler joke in private one time,
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and we should stop everything we're doing in order to weed out every one of those people instead of, you know, actually defeating the left.
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I think this has been a disaster, and so I wanted to discuss this phenomenon and how it's basically turned into a conservative civil war at this point.
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Seamus, thank you so much for coming back, man.
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Yeah, man. Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me.
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I'm glad we're going to get to have a chance to talk about some of this stuff.
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It was obviously devastating. Last conversation we wanted to have, Charlie Kirk was murdered.
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It was a horrible day for Americans everywhere.
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It was a horrible day, obviously, first and foremost for him and his family, but also for our freedoms.
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I think it was Mike Rowe who said this. It felt like the First Amendment had been shot.
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This was a moderate conservative who was expressing his values on a college campus, and he was literally murdered.
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And there's a lot to say about it, but obviously today's topic is the fact that the unity that we had for a very short period of time
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on the right seems to have been squandered, and I believe the left basically found a way to pry us apart.
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They're smart strategists. They know where the weaknesses are.
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They know what they're going to be able to get people to fight over, and yeah, they were able to get that done, unfortunately.
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And listen, hopefully, by the way, this is a productive enough conversation that we're able to convince some people
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who might be on the other side of this issue, who might be conservatives, who don't agree with your approach or my approach to go,
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you know what, actually, we should just put our differences aside right now and go after the left.
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Yes. Yeah. Ultimately, this is a plea to get everyone back on track, not to settle the hash between whatever side.
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We're not looking to say, no, we have to stop and do everything my way, just saying, no, we actually just need to stop this and defeat the left.
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All right, so Seamus, I have this incredible difficulty because I do not want, as I said,
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like I really was hoping that post the Charlie Kirk assassination,
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we would just be able to come together and recognize that no matter what is happening,
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no matter what's going on, no matter what internecine disagreements we might have on the right,
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the left is completely in the realm of political violence, wanting to kill you and your children,
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And I feel like that should be something that allows us to say, you know what,
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however you feel about the propositional nation or debates on whether or not we should impose
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Christian values or any of these things, ultimately not getting killed is a pretty good,
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Like we don't have to agree with everybody who's helping us to not be killed.
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Just not being killed is a good way to bring these factions together.
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And, you know, you just pointed out something that I think is critically important in this story,
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which is that obviously the left did this with an eye to break up the right's momentum.
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They know that after the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the leaking of the text message
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from Jay Jones in Virginia, that they looked really bad, that there was a lot of ugly mud
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They looked like they really were embracing political violence and were celebrating it.
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And so they needed something to break up that narrative, right?
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They needed something that could get conservatives to fight each other,
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to break away from the focus on what they were doing and the violence that the left is pushing.
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Now, none of these people are elected officials.
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There is no, you know, this is someone who's, and the stuff people are objecting to were all jokes.
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Like Jay Jones literally called the person he was talking about, you know,
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when he was talking about murdering conservatives and Republicans,
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he called the Republican he was texting and assured her, no, he really meant it.
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And none of this needed to be an issue, but the left specifically framed it this way.
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And now the right has fallen directly into the classic trap where they would rather chase
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the story that has been waved in front of them by the liberal media,
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because it's so important for them to prove their moral superiority to, I don't know,
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And ultimately they end up destroying everything that the right was doing,
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because it was so important for them to stop and just, you know, flex their moral superiority.
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And I can almost sympathize with the drive to say, those jokes were bad.
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I think there are well-meaning people who have fallen into this trap,
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which is why I would argue it was very cleverly set.
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But at the end of the day, part of living in truth is recognizing the full context of any news story
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And the reason that the media published this, the reason they pushed this as hard as they did
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is because they want you to forget about Jay Jones.
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They want you to think that there's an equivalence between these things.
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They also want you to think there's an equivalence between right-wing rhetoric as it currently stands
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and where the Overton window is with respect to either political faction calling for actual violence
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as opposed to making bad jokes or offensive statements.
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And the reality is the left has openly celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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There's a photo that's going viral from the No Kings march of a group of communists
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with a tent set up where they have flyers saying Charlie Kirk had it coming.
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I mean, the media doesn't spend a single moment condemning any of this,
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you need to condemn private jokes made in a private group chat.
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Now, to be clear, if you had a Republican official running for office
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They want you to behave as if that is what is happening.
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which is you say, yeah, group chats weren't great.
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You're not calling to condemn, to denounce, to cancel.
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Remember 10 seconds ago when all these very, very principled conservatives were saying,
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That's why we can't put any pressure on Jimmy Kimmel.
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and trying to cancel conservatives for using the wrong jokes in private.
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Again, you don't have to agree with the behavior.
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But as you point out, the No Kings protests just show us
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that the left has not stepped away from this at all.
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In addition to that picture you were talking about,
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there's also a Hispanic woman with a Mexican flag
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She's pointing at her throat and shooting, right?
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Like trying to say, we're going to shoot you in the throat.
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We're going to shoot more of you in the throat.
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Like this is not a situation that is analogous, okay?
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And these are the people who are teaching your children,
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Like these are very, very dangerous people to have wishing death upon you
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because they have your health, your wellbeing, your children.
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This is just nothing, nothing like the young Republican thing.
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And so the fact that they were not able to simply stay on focus and say,
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Now, how about you guys murdering Charlie Kirk?
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Again, it's almost like they're paid to do that.
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It's almost like if I didn't think these people actually did believe
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I would swear they're being paid by the opposition
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If I want to try to maybe steel man my opponent's argument here,
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I could say there might be conservatives who are concerned
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about the direction the right is going in and they're thinking,
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well, these things start as jokes and then eventually it becomes serious
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and they want to do that and that's what happened on the left.
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Actually, the left started by saying we need to punch Nazis.
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They were speaking very earnestly and then they just expanded
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So the left at no point in time ever joked about any of this.
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They've always been very serious about political violence
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and they've always said so openly and surprise, surprise,
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the end result has been that there's more political violence
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and that by and large, even the moderates on the left
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So I think, again, we just need to be sober about what's happening.
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Like you said, we can and should say, okay, yeah,
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don't actually affect my life to the same degree
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They're literally explicitly calling for violence.
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And we should probably stay laser focused on that,
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especially when the response from civil authorities
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All right, we have not seen the kinds of arrests
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that we would need to see in order to prevent something like this
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until Antifa isn't just declared a terror group,
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but is really and truly treated like a terrorist organization,
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the way a government that's trying to defend its people
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from violent lunatics would treat a terrorist organization,
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and we are being failed by the people we elected
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Like this is not somebody got fired from their job.
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where the speaker gets shot in the throat, right?
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The country cannot continue as intended in this manner.
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And yet it feels like we're still having debates,
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as opposed to like, no, there's like a shooting war
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completely disagreeing with Ben Shapiro on this.
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because I've seen, for instance, Shapiro saying,
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is that the left has let their radicals go too far
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like actually Donald Trump was considered a radical.
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A lot of those guys are still now kind of Trump, right?
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But of course, all the things that Trump is doing now
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to keep the peace in different American cities,
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You know, tariffs, reshoring, reshoring business.
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These are all things that the establishment conservative
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with Ron DeSantis once they thought they could.
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They always thought all parts of this were too radical.
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And the idea that, well, if we just dial it back
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and we be moderate while the left embraces its radicals,
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well, that's not what got Donald Trump elected twice.
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So actually that narrative is just entirely false.
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that the establishment pushed back against Trump on
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were all of the positions that he was more right-wing on.
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And I consider that to be unfortunate, actually.
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I think Trump needs to be better on a number of issues.
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Their concern was that he wanted to close the border,
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especially after the border's been left wide open
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It's really difficult to take the establishment seriously
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I think he's done some awful things to the party.
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The establishment has pretty much only been upset
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about the good things he's done in typical fashion.
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and in actually protecting us from the radicals
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how bad the retaliation from the left is going to be.
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while Trump was in office under Republican leadership.
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or they're doing this bitchy, passive-aggressive,
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where they go, well, they shouldn't have done it,
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when the Republican who they're constantly telling us
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They're talking about acting outside of the law.
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No, actually, if we just thoroughly enforced the law
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It's not legal to fund terrorist organizations.
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I mean, this is an unprecedented situation, isn't it?
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that not only will they not outright condemn it,
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And we have a Republican administration in place
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and really is not doing as much as it needs to.
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And instead of staying laser focused about that,
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Anyone who believes in like the nuclear family,
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like a constitutional Republican style of government.
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Like the minute anything runs in front of them,
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So there's a couple of things happening, right?
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Doesn't mean every American GI endorsed communism.
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But the third Reich is not reconstituting itself.
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Cause that's what the leftists have been saying
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And that's what the conservative leadership believes.
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So if they don't spend all of their time crushing
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every ounce and turn themselves to anti-fascist crusaders,
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and you can recognize that they are not the same thing
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when did you stop beating your wife style question slash statement
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my interlocutor is actually doing something reprehensible.
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No one's talking about making an alliance with Nazis.
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We're saying we don't need to discard like human waste,
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any person in our movement who the left accuses of being a Nazi.
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like obviously people are not looking around and being like,
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I'm really excited about that one guy who shared a Hitler meme.
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let's not stop literally everything we're doing to try to defeat the
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So we can argue with each other about whether or not like this one
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Hitler meme is the most dangerous thing to ever exist in the world.
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The people you're trying to fight now are literally the communists.
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That is not the same as a public statement that violence against you and
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We can't treat these things like they're on the same level.
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I know I probably sound like a broken record at this point,
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but I just really want to stress that these are not the same thing.
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Like there's a lot of people who are very touchy.
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it's impossible not to notice that most of the people who are really
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and having to stop the entire movement to talk about it.
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you need to immediately like throw the entire conservative movement into
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turmoil and make it impossible for us to push what needs to be done so
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that you can like cancel five guys somewhere because they triggered like your
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This has to stop being what dictates our political strategy in the United
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We cannot be obsessed with world war two and the Holocaust forever.
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It's just a question of whether this is something that rises to the level of
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So what we should be doing as a movement right now is staying unified in
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calling for the people who like literally do want to kill us.
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regardless of where you stand on any of these issues,
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regardless of whether you support Israel or not,
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the person most likely to kill you is probably a radical leftist,
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no one from this group chat was going to climb on top of a building and
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That's not within the reasonable realm of expectation.
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They consider people who do support Israel Nazis.
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Like if you're going to be worried about genuine violence from any group of
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probably the ones who are actually doing the violence and calling for more
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if you want to talk about who the actual threat is to you,
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who is more dangerous to a Republican Jewish person,
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some guy making a Hitler joke or leftist who will literally literally shoot at
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or we'll send agents of the state to arrest you for being a conservative,
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but the left is just far more dangerous to you.
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like obviously the left and it's communist agenda,
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it's violent agenda is far more dangerous to you,
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even as an Israeli supporter or a Jewish person in the United States.
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I disagree with plenty of people on the right and I will continue to disagree with
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Like I'm not spending one ounce of energy getting any person I disagree with on
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that also goes for the people who disagree with us on this.
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if you've just been condemning this group chat and you've been outspoken on this,
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I think you put your energy in the wrong place.
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I am still very happy to work with you on everything else here.
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We've got to solve the problems that are actually facing us.
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we really do need to be concerned about the fact that there are people who want to
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enact violence against us in that it's so socially acceptable for them to call for it.
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whether you can tell based on the text messages too,
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that this is not the first time that they've talked about this.
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I think she says something like you were saying this before,
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I don't know anyone on the right who even at their absolute worst is fantasizing about the children of leftists dying in their arms.
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what right-wingers actually spend most of their time doing is advocating for the safety of children who would be harmed by left-wingers,
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you shouldn't be able to kill your baby in the womb.
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you should not be able to give your child drugs that are going to result in an irreversible chemical castration.
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trans and kids is good because it's only left-wing people doing it anyway.
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And I want to see the children of left-wingers get hurt.
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The reason I oppose your movement is because you want to hurt children.
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They use this fake concern for children as a pretext to enact their agenda.
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But they clearly don't actually care about it because again,
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not only do you have an example of a prominent Democrat who isn't even considered a radical leftist,
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comfortable and comfortable enough to just openly fantasize about Republican children dying multiple times.
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surprise the people who like scream at the top of their lungs.
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unrestricted privilege to murder as many unborn babies as they want,
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I don't care what side of the aisle you're on or your children are on.
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it is just amazing that he ended up calling her back just to be really clear.
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there's a complete moral case for this and you need to understand it.
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They don't move on policy unless they feel pain.
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that they feel this entitled is they control the entire apparatus when it comes to things like entertainment,
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You look at Jimmy Kimmel and what happened with him.
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everyone reversing their decision on this after,
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including shooting up an ABC station to get him back on the air.
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But another big part of it is that he had all the Hollywood influence,
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That a bunch of his friends who were critical to the,
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And that's what giving control of your culture over to your enemies does.
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You're we're always talking and why won't the right make art?
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And I know that you are getting ready to start a new show.
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So can you talk a little bit about that show and why you think it's important for the right to take charge of the cultural reins,
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just as much as it's important for them to use political power?
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I just want to respond to something you said there about Jimmy Kimmel specifically.
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It's so outrageous and insulting that after Charlie Kirk gets murdered over protected speech,
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and the fact that he and his compatriots on the left have such little shame that they would unironically make him out to be the victim in that scenario is beyond parody.
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I don't even know if I could make a cartoon about that.
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Myself and my team have created over 600 videos on the Freedom Tunes channel alone.
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We've also done videos with other organizations.
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is beyond 700 at this point on the Freedom Tunes channel.
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And the reality is it's because people want this kind of content for so long.
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It has been dominated by people who hate your values.
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The closest the right has ever been able to get to any kind of satire in the mainstream from their perspective.
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They just happen to go after the left sometimes.
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So I make these cartoons and my goal as I'm making them is not like,
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my perspective just organically emerges from the script and makes its way into the cartoon.
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And then obviously what ends up being funny about that to me is someone who's on the right
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is the nonsense you get from the left and sometimes from right wing people.
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So I made a decision a little while ago that we needed to move beyond just making
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I think those are important and we plan to continue making them,
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but we need to start competing in the arena of half hour long television length programming.
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And so after the election, we had a little bit of money saved up just because we got extra traction
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And I invested that money back into the company, back into trying to build more culture,
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putting some projects together behind the scenes.
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What I'm basically saying is we have the first episode of the show totally finished.
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So we decided we wanted to launch an anthology series.
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And each episode is a completely different story, completely different concept,
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and expresses some kind of like conservative or Christian or right wing value,
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not through the conservative character owning the lib and having his rant on camera,
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but just organically through the jokes, through the story,
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because that's how the left has influenced people historically as they have dominated entertainment
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It's not like they have one character walk up to another character and like own them with facts
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Usually what happens is like they tell a story and the moral of the story ends up being something
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like, well, actually it's okay to get divorced and reinvent yourself.
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It's really beautiful and romantic to cheat on your fiancee with a homeless guy.
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It's perfectly good for you to lie in the favor of a left wing political cause.
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Again, not rants, not speeches, just stories that are constructed in a specific way.
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And the reality is I don't even know how much of it is directly intended.
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The artists are all leftists or have left wing perspectives.
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And so it just organically flows from them as they write these stories.
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And so what we're doing is we're just trying to tell stories that are really good, that
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have truth, beauty, and goodness in them and are interesting and funny.
00:39:21.700
And so right now we have a crowdfunding campaign going to fund the first season of our show.
00:39:27.300
We can't win the culture war if we're not making culture.
00:39:37.180
And we've gotten a massive outpouring of audience support.
00:39:39.840
We're about 12 days in and we're more than 50% funded, which is huge.
00:39:43.760
So if you guys want to get access to the pilot, you want to see what we're doing,
00:39:47.260
go over to twistedplots.com, support us, help us make this show.
00:39:53.160
And the hope is after we produce the first season of this show,
00:39:56.720
we're going to be able to expand out into other things,
00:39:59.160
making other shows, potentially making movies, because the fact of the matter is the right
00:40:05.640
A lot of right-wing organizations have attempted this.
00:40:07.860
I think some of them bit off a little more than they could chew because they didn't have
00:40:10.820
experience in entertainment and they tried making too much at once.
00:40:14.500
That's why we're starting in a reasonable, humble way, but in an impactful way.
00:40:18.860
Like this is going to be a really, really good show.
00:40:23.020
Yeah, I just encourage people to go and contribute.
00:40:27.500
A lot of people, of course, will talk endlessly about why we don't have right-wing culture.
00:40:36.880
But when it comes time to actually fund right-wing culture, all of a sudden, no one's around.
00:40:44.780
We need a culture of embracing creativity and projects and making sure that people who share
00:40:51.080
our values, as Seamus said, he's not making an after-school special.
00:40:54.580
He's not making one of these Christian movies where it's just 95% an altar call.
00:41:02.120
We're talking about building actual shows out that are funny, entertaining, and just happen
00:41:07.580
to organically have a right-wing viewpoint and therefore are much more successful.
00:41:13.220
So, again, I think people need to put their money where their mouth is and actually support
00:41:20.780
Because if they don't, then you can't really sit around and tell me, oh, well, why don't
00:41:33.040
And they won't expect to immediately make money on the return.
00:41:36.960
But they'll keep putting out left-wing movies, even if they don't turn a profit, just because
00:41:40.640
they think it's so important to have that art there in the world.
00:41:44.000
And if a leftist can be that committed to their beliefs, one would hope that you can
00:41:49.200
Well, and this is the thing not a lot of people realize.
00:41:51.240
Part of why we have such little entertainment on the right is because this stuff costs way
00:41:59.260
An episode of The Simpsons, I mean, it costs millions of dollars for one single episode.
00:42:03.020
And it takes about nine months to make each one.
00:42:06.400
Now, you might say The Simpsons has a lot of big stars on it.
00:42:11.560
But you can look at smaller shows with lesser known cast.
00:42:14.120
So initially, when South Park premiered in 1997, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were nobodies
00:42:20.720
It cost $250,000 to make one single episode of that show in season one.
00:42:33.020
Well, it's because you need a crew of sometimes dozens of people working for months at a time.
00:42:40.620
So we've been able to budget really efficiently here.
00:42:43.320
We're going to be able to make our entire season for the inflation adjusted cost of one
00:42:52.900
If you guys go over to twistedplots.com, you'll be able to see our first episode.
00:42:56.420
We also did a pitch for the crowdfunding video that you'll be able to see at twistedplots.com,
00:43:00.440
where we include little samples of visuals from the show.
00:43:03.460
And we've been able to do some animation tests.
00:43:05.660
We're going to be able to get this to look really, really nice.
00:43:07.620
Like it's at television level quality for sure.
00:43:10.600
With Freedom Tunes, part of the charm of it is like, listen, we got to churn each video
00:43:15.880
Sometimes we'll make a video in like two or three days.
00:43:18.660
The animation quality when you do that is not always going to be at the level you might
00:43:23.240
With this, we're like, because if they're longer episodes that we're taking more time
00:43:27.400
on, we're really able to put attention to the animation details that we don't always
00:43:38.200
We want to make something that even a left-wing person is going to see.
00:43:40.960
And like, yeah, maybe the morals piss them off, but they're not going to be able to say
00:43:45.820
And like, if they are, they're lying because it's going to be good.
00:43:50.080
Um, and we've already gotten a lot of really good feedback on our first episode.
00:43:54.440
We still plan on like doing a little bit of tweaking, messing with the audio and stuff,
00:43:58.360
but you'll be able to get a version of it behind the, you know, twistedplots.com, go
00:44:04.500
And again, it's 25 minutes long, but yeah, part of what I want to express here too, is
00:44:09.000
the reason it's been so hard for conservatives to do this kind of thing in the past is because
00:44:14.940
And part of what's amazing about the present day is we can use platforms like give, send,
00:44:23.120
Because like, let's face it, if you go to a conservative organization and ask them to
00:44:28.860
fund something like this, it's not even just that they might not be willing to, they probably
00:44:36.180
If you want really good, sharp looking animation and a good story, and you want the video to come
00:44:42.380
out looking really decent and actually being above the crust of a lot of the stuff you
00:44:47.200
might see on television, if you want it to actually compete, it is going to be expensive.
00:44:51.620
And that's part of why I'm so grateful to the people who have contributed so far, because
00:44:56.180
again, in just 12 days, we're 50% funded, which suggests that this is what people want.
00:45:01.980
It actually sends a message to the establishment.
00:45:06.400
People want content that does espouse right-wing values.
00:45:10.500
People want content that's made by people who don't have contempt for them, who don't
00:45:14.960
hate their way of life, who don't hate their family, who aren't trying to slowly chip away
00:45:22.100
And again, they also want it to be made by people who are outsiders.
00:45:28.080
They don't necessarily like trust conservative ink to produce this stuff.
00:45:36.880
Well, we are going to go to the questions of the people here, but obviously great to
00:45:42.760
have Seamus on and make sure that if you can, that you go and support his work.
00:45:51.540
So if you go to twistedplots.com, it'll take you to our landing page.
00:45:55.280
And then the donation amount you select will go through Gibson go.
00:46:01.420
So just twistedplots.com, you'll see everything laid out there.
00:46:08.520
The only way we're going to be able to do that is by making culture.
00:46:11.100
Right now, all of entertainment media is basically dominated by people who hate your values and
00:46:16.920
they're chipping away at your culture through propaganda.
00:46:26.740
If you guys give us your support, we will be able to make something really special here
00:46:39.400
Herb Seasoning says conservatives always run until they are out of breath to say how bad
00:46:44.280
it would be for fellow Republicans to actually ally with the American right.
00:46:49.080
Again, this is unfortunately a scenario where there seems to be infinite amount of energy
00:46:53.900
to reach out to the left, debate the left, have conversations with the left, even whether
00:46:59.560
the left is trying to kill you, but not so much for the right.
00:47:05.680
Conservatives are always canceling to their right and reaching out to their left, and that
00:47:10.000
tells you a lot about the American political dynamic.
00:47:14.900
But this kind of goes into what I'm saying, right?
00:47:17.500
Like culture has been dominated by people on the left.
00:47:19.560
It isn't just news media, and who do you repeatedly see portrayed as like the only good conservative
00:47:28.300
It's always the Republican who condemns the other Republicans.
00:47:34.640
So Sorkin is a very funny guy because if you've ever seen the West Wing or the newsroom, he does
00:47:46.660
do a lot of this preaching that I think is generally not effective.
00:47:50.420
I actually think his style of writing turns a lot of people off, but he's talented enough
00:47:57.180
that he's able to get away with the preaching because the dialogue is really snappy and the
00:48:03.300
way it's worded is very satisfying to hear, especially if you agree with it.
00:48:08.100
But in his show, The Newsroom, if I'm not mistaken, the protagonist is a Republican, and all he
00:48:15.740
does for the whole series is criticize conservatism and Republicans.
00:48:22.140
And if I'm not mistaken, they even did an episode where the network doesn't want to let him
00:48:27.680
criticize the Tea Party because as we know, at that time, the mainstream media was just
00:48:32.540
terrified of criticizing the Tea Party and the brave Republican with real principles stands up
00:48:42.960
and in front of the public on television, he criticizes the Tea Party. So this is a longstanding
00:48:49.480
trope in media, the principled conservative who wants to lose.
00:48:55.060
They actually called, if you remember, the Tea Party, the American Taliban at the time.
00:49:01.800
That's where that came from. And this became very popular among the left at the time, right?
00:49:05.160
You had Jon Stewart and all these people repeating it, and they're all repeating this Aaron Sorkin
00:49:09.220
line that's been thrown out by this Republican that he's writing. So yeah, I mean, this, and talk
00:49:16.160
about, of course, projection. Like today, it is the left that is doing terrorism. But the Tea Party was
00:49:21.960
going to be the American Taliban. And yeah, you're exactly right.
00:49:25.420
And again, it's like, I do have a certain level of respect for his writing ability. I really do,
00:49:29.680
because he is able to make it sound smooth and clever, but it is just preaching at the end of
00:49:35.120
the day. It's like he's having arguments in his head, and then he's writing them, and his self-insert
00:49:41.780
is totally owning the cons. It's actually really funny.
00:49:45.700
This has been, you know, Aaron Sorkin's greatest hit, I think, against him most of the time,
00:49:50.600
is that all of his characters sound the same, because they're all him.
00:49:54.580
Right. It's all him talking to himself, having discussions with himself, how he thinks he
00:49:59.540
would talk to a Republican that was reasonable, what it would look like if a Republican was
00:50:03.920
reasonable. It's just being Aaron Sorkin. You know, so that's kind of the entire, like you
00:50:09.560
said, he's a gifted writer. He does have a, you know, a great turn for phrase, you know,
00:50:15.060
with dialogue. But ultimately, it really always just sounds preachy. It just simply sounds like
00:50:20.360
a more elevated version of the after-school special, where, you know, the parents, you
00:50:24.880
know, and the kid's like, well, I guess you were right all along, mom and dad. Thanks,
00:50:30.720
We've got Blood Based here with just a generous donation. Thank you very much.
00:50:36.420
We've got Mimibu. I'm not sure exactly how to pronounce that. It says, use outrage to
00:50:41.920
advantage. Say, Kirk assassination worse than the war in Gaza, or Kirk's assassination worse
00:50:48.080
than MLK juniors, if they want a red flag to chase. I see what you're saying. Like, so steal
00:50:53.820
back the conversation of momentum by saying something that is going to kind of throw them
00:51:00.160
off their game. I could see that. I don't know if that's necessarily going to work at this point,
00:51:06.320
but I do like the idea of being on the offensive with the frame, figuring out this is what Trump
00:51:12.480
does so well, right? This is why Trump, for whatever his flaws, is so effective, because he will
00:51:17.560
just step in and wreck a news cycle, right? He'll just step in and say, what do you guys want to
00:51:21.840
talk about? Well, I'm talking about something entirely different, and I'm going to say it in
00:51:24.880
such an audacious way that it's the only thing that you can talk about, and now you're just talking
00:51:29.280
about me, and he knows how to drive a news cycle, and it's often by using the kind of tactic you're
00:51:33.420
talking about. Latrita Bidditt, IRS enforcer, says, Oren and Carlin Baratsko, I don't, I'm not sure who
00:51:46.000
that is, sorry, inspired me to start something grassroots, ordered a voter walking map going door
00:51:51.080
to door at local Republicans are useless. The boats are burned. Nobody is coming to save us. Well, I am
00:51:56.980
very glad that you are getting involved. I'm glad that if, you know, can encourage you to get involved
00:52:04.440
in local politics, then that's fantastic. Do remember, though, that while, you know, knocking
00:52:09.420
on doors for Republicans is good, you're still getting them to vote for local Republicans, right?
00:52:13.540
And they're probably useless, as you point out. So remember, it's not just about getting the votes,
00:52:18.580
though I'm not decrying what you're doing. It's also about building community, right? We need to,
00:52:23.320
we need to cultivate the type of leaders that we want. And the only way we can do that is by having
00:52:27.780
the communities that inculcate the type of virtues that we're looking for. So working with your church,
00:52:33.260
working with local organizations, you know, I'm part of a fraternal organization, the old Glory Club
00:52:37.540
that helps do this kind of stuff. If you can get things like that started in your community,
00:52:42.160
that is just as important as going around and like knocking on doors for political candidates. In fact,
00:52:47.680
probably at the end of the day, more important. So I'm not saying don't do that. I'm just saying also
00:52:51.880
be aware that it's not just about politics. If you get culture, as we were talking about with
00:52:57.840
Seamus and his project, if you control culture, the politics will follow, right? And so that's
00:53:03.560
critical to remember. Herb Seasoning says, with how activated they have become without wide legal
00:53:12.060
crackdown, we're in a position to get hosed in 2028. 2020 summer won't compare. Again, you really
00:53:19.700
should take the left seriously at this point. They are violent and they are willing to use that and
00:53:27.100
deploy that and cheer that on and champion the people who do violence in their name. And so you
00:53:32.440
should not underestimate them and you should be looking to remove that capability thoroughly.
00:53:37.540
That's really what the Trump administration should be doing top to bottom here is stripping the left of
00:53:42.380
all of its ability to activate any of these centers of power that they can normally manipulate
00:53:53.060
Salty Saiyan says, the left got away with murdering Charlie. They continue to commit violence.
00:53:57.480
They continue advocating for more. What do we do now? Again, I agree that this is not a good
00:54:02.860
situation. And the very first step, of course, would be to actually work together to focus on punishing
00:54:09.820
these people and dismantling it. So the first thing we need to do is stop getting worried about stupid
00:54:15.240
group chats and what jokes people are made about them and start punishing the left. Start making
00:54:19.820
it impossible for them to do what they're doing. Make sure that it's illegal. Make sure that it's
00:54:24.840
actually punished once they are arrested. Make sure the administration is taking this seriously.
00:54:30.540
What can you do individually is, of course, a different question.
00:54:33.780
I would really suggest learning how to operate a firearm. Own one if you are legally allowed to own one.
00:54:41.140
Remember, you're not looking for a fight. You're not looking to be tough.
00:54:43.700
You're looking to protect your family and the people around you. So you need to train and you
00:54:47.820
need to be grouping with like minded people. Just talked about being in organizations,
00:54:51.560
being in contact with men from your church. Make sure you guys have a group chat. Everybody's got a
00:54:57.460
plan for how to protect someone if there is an issue. Have that kind of stuff that you're in your
00:55:02.960
private life, as well as also trying to influence the larger discussion with the administration and
00:55:08.460
whatnot. Yeah, well, and this is important because you mentioned we need to punish them. You're
00:55:12.600
right. Legal authorities absolutely do need to. But as far as what your average citizen can do,
00:55:17.400
the left only calls you a hypocrite when you found an effective strategy.
00:55:21.340
So getting people canceled for celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk, perfectly reasonable thing
00:55:28.060
to do, right? The issue with cancel culture is not that some people lose their jobs. It is not a
00:55:33.060
position on the right, nor has it ever been a position that no one should ever lose their job for
00:55:38.340
any reason. That's never been a conservative argument. Our argument is that the left has
00:55:44.000
weaponized the market system and social media and the way that these agencies respond to what's posted
00:55:49.500
online in order to get people fired for having very normal opinions like trans women aren't women,
00:55:55.980
or there's only two genders, etc. We should want a school teacher to lose their job if they're in
00:56:04.260
public mocking somebody for being killed when that person has the same values as many of their
00:56:10.800
students. Yep, that's exactly right. That's exactly right. Wild Speaker says they won't ally with
00:56:17.240
Americans that have a heterodox view of the 20th century, but they will endlessly chase a larger
00:56:22.120
percentage of the black and Hispanic vote. Yeah, that's exactly right. Again, the conservatives are
00:56:27.900
always canceling to the right and reaching out to their left, no matter how unfruitful that has been
00:56:32.300
for them in the past, and they have to learn to change on this. They just have to. We can't play
00:56:37.240
these games anymore. See, now you're going to make me say your name nine times and I can't pronounce
00:56:43.480
it. It says, I think I saw that some of the pro-Palestine people say worse than that joke. Pretty sure
00:56:49.940
they meant it too. I'm sure that's true, right? Ultimately, there are probably people who have said
00:56:55.460
worse and meant it. But that again, like what percentage of these people are an effective force
00:57:02.780
on the right that we really need to defeat? Most of those pro-Palestinian people are on the left,
00:57:07.860
right? Like that's actually where most of that sport is coming from. So obviously, as I think
00:57:12.480
you're kind of alluding to here, in either direction, the left is worse even on this issue.
00:57:18.080
So if you care about that first, then just care about it and defeat the left.
00:57:21.340
And there's just a unique bloodthirst that exists on the left. Listen, human beings are all flawed
00:57:27.200
and I'm not trying to make it sound like the right are angels or anything. But just in terms
00:57:32.280
of acceptable discourse, regardless of where you are on the Israel-Palestine issue, somebody who's
00:57:38.640
right-wing, no matter how much they don't like Israel, they're probably not going out and saying
00:57:44.320
that like October 7th was good. There are left-wingers who absolutely have made that claim.
00:57:49.300
Right. So, I mean, again, we have to be sober about how dangerous these people are. They're
00:57:54.480
not joking. Like they're actually not. And they tell you that they're not joking.
00:57:58.660
Yeah. When, you know, when Josh Shapiro's house is set on fire, it turns out it's a leftist
00:58:03.820
pro-Palestinian guy, right? So even, even in that vein, you're, you're right that even
00:58:08.980
in, of people who hold those positions, it's obvious that the leftists that are actually
00:58:12.260
violent with them. Uh, Zhang Wei says, uh, Huck Finsdale, T L T H S. Sorry. I have no idea
00:58:19.860
what that is. So lions township high school. That's a, they, they, they must know me from
00:58:26.180
LT. That's where I went to school long, long ago. And, uh, Hinsdale were our rivals. So it's
00:58:31.760
a little word play right there. I see. I see. All right. Yeah. I was, uh, I was like, that
00:58:36.360
is, that is some deep lore. If I glad you had that one. Uh, Machiavelli sucks says, imagine
00:58:43.380
all the weird stuff that goes on in Hollywood parties. Yeah. I mean, I think that's pretty
00:58:48.560
obvious at this point, sadly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I really don't want to, uh, wild speaker
00:58:54.220
says, what did you think destroying the left meant vibes, papers, essays, losers, uh, lest
00:58:59.620
we forget the old proverb, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Well, and you know, I don't
00:59:04.700
even know about the last part there, but yeah, it is ultimately true that we have to,
00:59:09.260
uh, treat the left as a real threat and we have to stop playing patty cake. I mean, I
00:59:13.640
don't know how anyone doesn't get this at this point, but the debate club is over. They
00:59:17.560
shot the guy who wants to debate them in the throat. Okay. You simply don't have that
00:59:21.080
option anymore. And I'm sorry, but someone making jokes somewhere is just not the same
00:59:25.360
and I'm not going to pretend it's the same. I'm not going to stop my whole movement to make
00:59:28.480
sure that people believe it's the same because I'm such a good moral person. Like, no,
00:59:32.800
like, sorry, but that is not moral. That is not you being a more moral person. That is
00:59:37.360
you being self-righteous. That is you being a Pharisee. That is you burning things down
00:59:41.620
so that you can feel superior, but still ending up in a terrible place. You're putting your
00:59:46.240
own, your own virtue signaling ahead of actually defeating the left. And I just don't have time
00:59:50.340
for that right now. Also, I want to mention something here. Cause I agree with you. I don't
00:59:53.880
buy into the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but also I don't define my enemies
00:59:59.160
on the basis of who my enemy tells me my enemies should be. That's right. So do with that what
01:00:04.440
you will. Like, I'm not, I'm not going to sit here and say like, Oh, well, if the left says
01:00:07.960
that that guy's really a Nazi, he must really be a Nazi. Well, and again, JD Vance has already
01:00:13.680
spoken this, right? JD Vance was the one who said, look, we're not doing this. And he was exactly
01:00:17.680
right. So all these people who are attacking, like, look, if you're not, if you're telling me that
01:00:22.800
I'm deeply immoral for not getting obsessed without this, I hope you're saying the same thing
01:00:26.660
about JD Vance because then everybody knows who you are, right? Like then it just, then it becomes
01:00:30.860
clear who you really are. Uh, Memi also says Titanic plot, old, uh, woman remembers an old
01:00:38.680
fling more fondly than her kids and throws away a chance to ensure their livelihood to dump treasure
01:00:43.580
in an ocean before she dies. Heck, uh, not even for a museum. Or even if she wanted to be like,
01:00:50.560
you know, even if she wanted to be a philanthropist, like, Oh, I'll give half to my kids and the rest
01:00:53.940
to charity or I'll give all of it to charity or whatever, like nothing just throws it off
01:00:58.340
the boat. It's crazy, man. But this is, this is an important lesson about media because there
01:01:04.600
are a lot of things about that film. And the reason I talk about it is because it is like
01:01:09.340
the number one highest grossing romance film of all time. So it had some cultural impact,
01:01:13.440
right? Um, on paper, it's like a horror story on paper. Rose is just a psychopath, but James
01:01:21.060
Cameron is truly a master of his craft. And he gets you through excellent music, great cinematography,
01:01:29.040
fantastic special effects to root for the bad guys in the film. And so what media essentially
01:01:35.980
does is it kind of hypnotizes you. And we've given that hypnotic power over to the left completely.
01:01:43.000
What I'm saying is we need media that rather than like blindly hypnotizing you into accepting bad
01:01:49.000
values puts good edifying messages into the content that's being produced. That's what we're trying
01:01:54.600
to do. Now, if you go over to twistedplots.com, you'll be supporting us in that.
01:01:58.540
There you go. Also, I have still never seen Titanic.
01:02:06.580
Well, yeah. I mean, at this point, I know the plot. Like I've, I've seen it by proxy,
01:02:10.780
of course, basically through clips and discussions on it, but I somehow have never, never, I'm like
01:02:16.740
that guy who's just like, yep, never watched Star Wars, didn't know about it, you know.
01:02:23.540
Michael Robertson says, how do we balance uniting the right with rooting out the fake right?
01:02:28.460
They allowed the left's problems to get this bad.
01:02:30.420
I don't want to unite with, say, Mitch McConnell.
01:02:33.800
So again, it's not about, I want to be clear because there's this weird belief that to not
01:02:41.160
spend all your time denouncing and hunting and trying to pull people out of the movement,
01:02:46.560
is the same as like agreeing with them and being ultimately on their side, right?
01:02:54.340
I haven't stopped disagreeing with, I don't know, the guys at the Babylon Bee or whatever.
01:02:58.080
Like I have all of those arguments, but the only reason I'm even fighting with them at
01:03:03.560
the moment is like, they want to spend all their time, like trying to like cancel other
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It doesn't mean that our disagreements go away, but like, we just don't have time for
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So I'm not asking you to like be a big Mitch McConnell fan or, you know, think that conservatism
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I'm just saying at the moment, we should be using all of our available energy to punish
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the left for the death of Charlie Kirk to prevent more of this.
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Once that's done, we can go back to like figuring out, you know, who's going to influence the
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Yeah, and again, by the way, I know and have met Seth Dillon and Kyle and other people at
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the Babylon Bee who I like and, you know, consider friends or at the very least friendly
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And as we've been expressing, we all want to be on the same page with this.
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Even if we disagreed on this specific issue, it's really important for us to be laser focused
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about the fact that there's more that the administration needs to be doing to keep us safe.
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Joe McDermott says, we can't hold the left accountable even when they're supporting what
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happened to Charlie until targeting conservatives and getting them out of power.
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Yeah, again, you know, as we just said, these people have to be held accountable.
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There is no other, there should be other, no other focus right now.
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All of our energy should be directed exactly at that project.
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Mimi says, how to be a good conservative, give up position.
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Dr. Lighthouse says, it's strange how little know of the World's Fair of 1893, in particular
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Palacio's World of Iron, a worthy monument to Christopher Columbus and Chicago White City.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm really only familiar a whole lot with that particular World's Fair because,
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of course, The Devil in the White, is it The Devil in the White City is the book that they
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talked about, H.H. Holmes, really focused on that World's Fair and all the events around it.
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But a very interesting time in history, to be sure.
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And Dr. Lighthouse also says, we need to mainstream the great proposals of the old World Fairs.
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Well, of course, that was a big thing for Walt Disney, right?
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Like, that's basically what Epcot was supposed to be, was like this ongoing World Fair.
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He thought it was very important to bring that to the masses.
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One of the interesting things about that, ironically, is the more technology we've had
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make things instantly available, the less World Fairs hold any kind of significance.
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Because the thing about the World Fair was you would all get together and see this new
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and excellent thing that was being built you couldn't see anywhere else.
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Now you can see it in 10 seconds on YouTube, and you don't have to go anywhere to see the
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newest technology being displayed on a regular basis.
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So that's kind of lost some of its utility, but I do understand what you're saying there.
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All right, guys, we're going to go ahead and wrap this up.
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