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00:00:34.900All right, guys. I think it's been pretty obvious here recently that, unfortunately, the left has decided that assassination is a real viable plan for them in their political playbook.
00:00:45.120More and more leftists seem to be moving to a position where they are trying to justify what happened to Charlie Kirk.
00:00:51.360And it is a big problem because it seems like the right may have a particular vulnerability to assassination attempts,
00:00:59.460as if that might be something that could strike down critical leaders in a moment where otherwise there is not the opportunity to carry on their legacy.
00:01:07.220Talking to me about that today is Titus Tecria.
00:01:10.460He is the executive director of the American Cinema Foundation.
00:02:01.660And you're more famous than me, so you're next.
00:02:03.960And if they get you, then, you know, maybe even nobody's like me are next.
00:02:07.080You don't know what's going to happen because you have no idea how the attractions of the game play out.
00:02:14.380How important does it feel to be murdering people?
00:02:19.080I've never, I'm not a murderer, first of all, even an amateur, and I've never really given this thought.
00:02:25.740But then you see it on the news and you begin to think, oh, my Lord, I never thought it would be this way.
00:02:30.980And also, it makes so much sense that some crazy person is going to do this because it's just wall-to-wall coverage with so many people running coverage for you.
00:02:41.180And there's only one side that's losing here, and it's us.
00:03:07.000And, you know, the willingness to commit murder and the sort of ragtag army of psychopaths who are going to do it, they're not equal on both sides.
00:05:00.420If you're not out there speaking publicly, you should be scared for the people you admire and support publicly.
00:05:06.240I don't think anybody who ever, you know, supported Charlie Kirk with his vote, with his money, with his applause, ever thought, I'm setting this guy up for death.
00:05:59.120It's, you know, crazy Democrats going up on a stage like they did back in 2020 when they nominated Joe Biden.
00:06:04.800And you have a bunch of insane politicians saying transgender is the civil rights question of our generation.
00:06:10.860And then there's psychopaths in the media saying, I've got a child here that we're trying to mutilate who's going to ask you a transgender question.
00:07:43.820They are important people and they are, in a way, America and America's last hope, at least for civil political transformation done in full view of the public.
00:07:53.480You know, I always thought Charlie Kirk isn't saying tough stuff, but it turned out he was the courageous man.
00:08:01.860And everybody who, like me, is saying tough stuff out there on X isn't getting shot yet.
00:08:05.520Who was actually taking his life in his hands?
00:08:35.260Do you want to support the consent of the government or do you want to enact it once you're voted into office or appointed and you have a legal mandate?
00:08:44.940Either way, you are in danger of your life.
00:08:47.160This is the real situation of law and order in America.
00:08:50.420Again, it's not predicting the future.
00:09:19.000And I think a really important contrast that you drew there was kind of the state the right was in at an event like NatCon, where it was, okay, we've won.
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00:11:51.600People are so ready to chase the next thing.
00:11:53.960They are so willing to abandon whatever the last topic was that even a full-on political assassination attempt that wounded the president and killed Corey Compator.
00:12:05.060Let's not forget, a man was murdered that day.
00:12:11.600The man died protecting his family, covering himself in glory, but covering the rest of us in shame because ultimately the left never paid a price for this.
00:12:19.660They never paid a price, and that was always a very dangerous way to go about this.
00:12:58.260Even you look to 9-11 and the unifying event that that was.
00:13:02.300Yes, eventually people looked at maybe some of the responses and said this was not the way to go.
00:13:07.680But in that moment, everyone was unified.
00:13:09.800They knew that the most important thing was supporting America, grieving the loss, preparing for some kind of retributive action.
00:13:17.960But here we are today, and despite the fact that no action was taken on Trump, we now see the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:13:25.320And yet again, we have so many, like you said, congressmen, politicians, Trump officials, and even, of course, big-name conservative influencers saying, no, no, whatever you do, there can be no cost paid.
00:14:25.220And they have every reason to believe that to be true.
00:14:28.320And when we were discussing this, you made, I think, a very good point before we got on air about why the right is particularly vulnerable to assassination.
00:14:38.500Why removing figureheads like Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump seems much more impactful than it would be if it was on the left.
00:14:47.180Because there's a very deep divide between the MAGA base and the Republican leadership.
00:14:53.900And the only thing that's currently tying those two groups together, the actual political apparatus and the voters, the actual Americans, are personalities like Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk.
00:15:04.800Without them, the base simply cannot be heard by the institutions and the institutions simply do not respond to the base.
00:15:13.140Can you talk a little bit about why those structures are so important?
00:15:16.540Yeah, so we are in a situation where we are barely beginning to climb through the elite institutions.
00:15:24.660Like your show, Blaze, you know, I invited my friend Matt Peterson, Ian Seed Blaze to be on my panel.
00:15:32.100We go back a decade, a decade back, Matt and I were talking about what would you do if you tried to move in the direction of media?
00:15:39.420That is not just what we studied in political philosophy, but what Americans actually believe and they're dealing with on a daily basis.
00:16:07.700They will deal with the misery and they'll just do this job.
00:16:11.580And that's, you know, the way forward.
00:16:14.000But it's just beginning to climb into a new media system, a new system of elites, a new way to tell Americans you're actually being represented.
00:18:52.440Maybe you no longer have a connection to young men who are the future of the right-wing movement, of the Republican Party, of conservatism.
00:19:03.220Nowadays, we complain about Reaganism, partly because Reagan made mistakes, partly because Reagan's heirs are horrible people.
00:19:09.800But if Reagan had been assassinated when he was shot back in 81, and that wasn't ideological, there would not have been the 80s.
00:19:16.800We would have gone back to this sort of centrist, liberal, left-of-center, eventually quite far-left-of-center liberalism that brings down the country over the heads of middle-class people.
00:19:28.560It would have been a catastrophe in the 80s, you know, sort of like the catastrophe we're dealing with now, where you can't tell the young generation of middle-class men, you will have a chance.
00:19:37.540Work hard, you'll get a job, you'll marry, you'll have a home, you'll have, you know, a family.
00:20:05.600The fact that people aren't willing to face it, there is something in ordinary, decent, right-wing, middle-class, middle-of-America people who are lovely people,
00:20:13.080there's something weak in them in this sense.
00:20:15.020Like, they're scared to say something, even as basic as, I want complete reform at the Secret Service.
00:20:21.820No more playing around with what is the right excuse for shooting Donald Trump.
00:20:28.180Like, what do you want the Secret Service to say?
00:20:31.660That the dog ate their homework and that's why some kid shot the president?
00:20:35.560What is the right excuse for you, for somebody to shoot Donald Trump?
00:21:21.720Who on our side is willing to say hearings at the secret service now?
00:21:27.520I want everybody from the FBI on down at work, as Trump says, Antifa is now terrorism.
00:21:33.980It always was, and now we're willing to say it.
00:21:36.240Reality is catching up with us, and the law is catching up with reality, and let's see action.
00:21:41.000But also, secret service protection for people who are now credibly in danger.
00:21:45.760As you were saying, reality is catching up with us.
00:21:48.560A lot of people are getting death threats.
00:21:49.860It's secret service protection and publicity in congressional hearings saying, this guy, this lady, they are all getting death threats from psychopaths.
00:22:01.300If people are putting their names and faces out there, they also now have targets on their backs.
00:22:06.700They deserve protection, and they deserve the attention of the public.
00:22:11.140Somebody is out there, like, you know, I applaud intellectual leaders, political leaders, even influencers.
00:22:18.020But is my applause painting a target on that guy's back?
00:22:22.800He deserves the protection, and he deserves the public acknowledgement.
00:22:26.520America needs to know that lefties are out there doing crazy things, and that the government is not going to be putting up with this anymore.
00:22:35.200Donald Trump is also who the thought, you know, good Christian guy.
00:22:38.280How do you react to getting shot in an atmosphere where lefties are out saying psychopathic things about fascism?
00:22:44.440No, he did the Christian thing and forgave.
00:22:47.420I don't see Donald Trump out there throwing anybody in jail or worse because he got shot.
00:22:53.960I get angry for, you know, less than being shot in the face, which I never have been.
00:22:59.240Well, I think a big part of this is the fact that ultimately a lot of conservatives have bought in to the liberal frame of authoritarianism.
00:23:11.480That any level of actual consequence for the left's action must be a hint at some kind of authoritarianism or validates the left's claims of authoritarianism in some way.
00:23:23.580And so the most important thing, more important than anything else, is to prove to the left that you are not an authoritarian, that you're not one of the bad guys.
00:23:34.020Now, we've seen this on the right in so many other instances.
00:23:36.520And the funny thing is that a lot of the people who are now attacking the right wingers who want to take some kind of action used to be people pointing out that this was a bad behavior by the right.
00:23:46.800But they are now themselves engaging in it because they cannot imagine a world in which the right actually exercises power.
00:23:54.040The exercise of power is the most dangerous thing in the world.
00:23:56.760So if you are willing to go out there and impose a cost on the left, if you are out there to make sure that, yes, we do have law and order and we will pursue you to the fullest extent of the law, and it is not about a slap on the wrist.
00:24:08.900It is a permanent place in a penitentiary unless you actually committed the murder, in which case we can put you right through the express lane to correct justice.
00:24:17.640But ultimately, I think there are a lot of conservatives who just bought into this idea that if you are just pleasant enough, if you just play by the rules enough, if you just show enough principle, then there will just be this kind of revival from the left, that they will suddenly be swept with the guilt of the fact that you were acting correctly and they were not, and they will suddenly stop their actions and see the light, and they will themselves buy a MAGA hat.
00:24:41.500And that is just obviously not happening.
00:24:44.680Like, I can even understand why you would think this five, maybe ten years ago.
00:24:49.500But when you watch the left respond to failed assassinations with the attempt to successfully have assassinations, then I think it's fine to just say that the left is the party of assassinations, that they are the side of political violence, and that as a righteous magistrate handed the sword of justice by the divine order,
00:25:08.540it is your job to make these people completely unable to silence someone like Charlie Kirk again.
00:25:22.740And you can't have people with free speech when the answer from the left is a bullet.
00:25:26.540And so my principle is to return to a world where Charlie Kirk can speak on college campuses without a single bodyguard, without a single Secret Service agent, because every single left-winger who is in any way tangentially associated with the organizations and the NGOs and Antifa and everyone else involved is in jail.
00:25:48.720You can speak freely on college campuses without the fear of retribution.
00:25:53.280But I think another important part of this is the nature of the relationship between MAGA and the institutions in the United States, because one of the reasons that guys like Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump are so critical is that the still, even to this day, after everything, institutional conservatism is basically just left-wingers.
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00:27:56.180So, Titus, I'm far from the only person to point out that conservative institutions have not served conservatives in the United States in a very long time.
00:28:06.240There are a few that are trying to do better, I think, on that front.
00:28:10.200We have seen, I think, big reforms in places like Heritage and places like Claremont have been pushing this kind of stuff for a while now.
00:28:17.680But in general, it's still very clear that the remnants of the, yeah, just kind of controlled establishment Republican Party are still very, very much involved.
00:28:27.620I think a large amount of just the parroting of this, like, well, both sides and we have to, you know, unify and all this stuff.
00:28:34.480A lot of this is just knee-jerk reactions, just Republicans going through the motions because they never understood themselves as actually being opposition.
00:28:42.520They just kind of parrot the bromides that will calm the people they were put in a place to manage down, right?
00:28:49.600As where you have guys like Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, and I've said this many times over, but the most dangerous thing about Donald Trump is that he's not ideological.
00:29:01.540And the left hates this because that's not the job of Republican politicians.
00:29:05.420The job of Republican politicians is to tell you to shut up and just take what's being fed to you.
00:29:09.960But Donald Trump, even if some people might feel he's not sincere on any given issue, is listening to what the base is saying and delivering it because that's what he does.
00:29:21.160As a businessman, as a leader, that was his plan in any other scenario, and he's just carrying it over to politics.
00:29:28.560So when you have these singular figures that are willing to push back against what is otherwise a very unresponsive conservative institutional apparatus and say,
00:29:39.760this is how you are going to treat your voters, whether you like it or not, those are pretty clutch positions.
00:29:45.960And I think, as you're saying, we can raise up more elites, more figures.
00:29:51.020I am certainly very much in favor of this understanding.
00:29:55.620But ultimately, there is something very singular about right-wing leadership in a way that perhaps there is not for the left, at least in the current day.
00:30:06.240In order to cut through the Gordian knot, you must be this kind of figure who's willing to push back against what is an overwhelming sea of people who are just trying to control you with donor interests and money and everything else.
00:30:17.520And you have to be willing to connect with people that, honestly, the people next to you revile.
00:30:39.460And you can see that even much of the Republican leadership, conservative leadership, is trying to, like, do their best not to throw shade at this whole thing.
00:30:47.540Because for them, this is, you know, some kind of low culture that they should not be in any way related to.
00:30:53.900And I guess my question ultimately is, when you have this culture of just singular leaders who are able to bridge that gap, is this even something that we can ultimately change when that seems to be a quality of successful right-wing leadership in our time?
00:31:13.320Yeah, I think there are three different levels to these questions.
00:31:17.900First, let's start with, you know, with Charlie Kirk actually being interred and with all the memorials that led to that.
00:31:25.280You can see a lot of kitsch or sentimental or stuff that's not pleasant or is not quite the right way to do it.
00:31:32.360But how can you look at any of that and not see the love and the suffering of millions of people who aren't just this or that guy?
00:31:42.280There's room for lots of different kinds of Americans in America, but there is one American character, and it is the character of middle-class, middle-American Americans.
00:31:53.340You know, you can have a lot of influence if you're elite, coastal American, but only in agreement with middle-class Americans.
00:32:01.400Every time you get out of that agreement, you just are 10 or 15 years from a revolt.
00:32:08.640Religious revolts, taxpayer revolts, military, political, whatever the thing it is that people on the left or the revolutionary side do that is insane, leads to an American revolt.
00:32:19.160The history of American politics is the history of American revolts against elites.
00:32:23.280This is what Jefferson and Madison did to John Adams and the Federals.
00:32:28.380This is what Andrew Jackson did to John Quincy Adams.
00:32:32.520In a strange way, even Lincoln did this.
00:32:36.380Lincoln said, this country is run by a conspiracy of senators and Supreme Court justices and the presidents.
00:32:42.680Those are the elites in D.C. who are corrupting the country.
00:33:24.340If you've not spent time with them, lived in their homes, gone to their feasts, listened to their music, then I'm not sure how could you ever get it.
00:33:34.040And I think everybody who doesn't should be under suspicion.
00:38:33.380But we also have what the other thing Charlie offered, guidance, not inspiration, but guidance, not the pep talk, but standards of judgment and of action.
00:38:41.480Every college campus that we're dealing with should have free speech.
00:38:47.220And that means we get to choose the speakers and they have to put up with it or the state goes in and asks them, what is the discrimination against people who apparently you don't like, but it's just America out there?
00:38:59.400The colleges do a million things, starting with, oh, the security costs are a problem.
00:39:04.180Like, I hate it, but some lefty threatened violence.
00:39:08.400So, oh, you know, we just have a budget for fainting couches.
00:39:14.360No, let's send the government asking questions and let's open that up, especially through Congress and through influencers and through like having thought on Tucker Carlson.
00:39:24.140Weekly show where he says another shows you another crazy college.
00:39:27.380Expose them to humiliation, expose them to the American public.
00:39:32.220If they don't want to have conservative speakers in, this is what they get.
00:39:50.820We have an actual standard of judgment from the college all the way to congressional hearings or asking the state, you know, could the Department of Justice look into discrimination here?
00:40:03.200We have the power of the state and we have the law on our side and we have the people on our side.
00:44:50.020I think your point about elevating others around you on your way up is quite critical.
00:44:55.460I've actually seen quite a bit of resistance to this in the conservative movement.
00:44:59.500There's such a constant need for self-promotion and self-elevation and settling scores, internecine warfare.
00:45:06.480Even when you don't actually control anything that people are obsessed with, like, cutting out their own little swath of this.
00:45:13.660But rarely looking for others to go ahead and mentor, to lead, to bring into positions.
00:45:21.700They are unwilling to scout talent and support talent, especially with young conservative men who are, let's just be frank, are far to the right of most of the people in the conservative institutions.
00:45:34.260But unfortunately, this means that a lot of people are hesitant to elevate those people.
00:45:38.740Because they're more worried about what the left might say about the people they're elevating than the actual people they are putting around them.
00:45:45.120To the point where I see conservatives passing over a lot of very talented right-wing up-and-coming guys for, like, porn stars.
00:45:55.440Like, frankly, the fact that it has been, in many ways, very difficult to move, for me, several incredibly talented right-wing individuals into any kind of role.
00:46:06.820Just getting foots in the door into these institutions.
00:46:25.960Because, like you said, if you can elevate many people with that similar drive, that similar understanding, that similar value system and vision,
00:46:34.960then taking one person out doesn't mean you sever the connection between the institutions and the culture.
00:46:40.980Because there's an army of guys behind you.
00:46:43.900If there's 20, 30, 50 Charlie Kirks behind Charlie Kirk, then shooting Charlie Kirk gets you nowhere.
00:46:50.040In fact, it just gets you a more radical Charlie Kirk.
00:46:52.340If there are 50 guys more radical than Donald Trump behind him, shooting Donald Trump doesn't get you Mitt Romney.
00:46:57.440It gets you a guy far more radical than Donald Trump.
00:47:02.640And that's why we need to be putting these people into institutions, A, because it's the right thing to do.
00:48:29.940You know, the funny thing is that for a long time we had the saying of boiling the frog, right?
00:48:34.300That the left was doing it fast enough to where the frog couldn't notice.
00:48:38.040But today I feel like we are now like directly propane torching the frog.
00:48:42.420And yet I'm still seeing a number of people say, oh, really, it's fine.
00:48:46.160And is this just human nature that they're unable to escape the idea that we might be heading towards a reality that they had not planned for?
00:48:54.680Or is this something unique to kind of the American experience having been like this leader of the world forever that kind of got to dictate the terms of how the political experience would go?
00:49:05.860Look, I wasn't born and raised in America.
00:49:08.580So whenever I explain politics to my American friends, I always start with the same thing.
00:49:12.260Just remember, you're the only empire in world history that hasn't been conquered.
00:49:55.400We're going through a lot of that, including the political assassinations.
00:49:59.940It's perfectly possible, not just that people don't notice it going bad, but that people have noticed it's scary and they are just running for cover.
00:52:59.020Yeah, unfortunately, I think that that is the correct understanding.
00:53:02.580And biolismism or, you know, spiteful mutant theory, however you want to categorize it, the idea that the left is a coalition of those that are looking to destroy the good and the beautiful, the true, means that is, in a way, an eternal coalition.
00:53:15.580It will never be completely removed, but it can be put back into its place.
00:53:21.540And so I think that's what needs to happen here.
00:53:23.520No, sorry, the inmates don't run the asylum.
00:54:53.140And I bet the American people know where they stand on most of these questions.
00:54:57.180But they have never been activated because these sorts of issues, who holds the keys to the pantheon, who keeps the gate there, that is enormously powerful.
00:55:06.360All of those things have to be talked over again.
00:55:08.960The only advantage we have with social or with digital media is that you can get people to touch reality, see what's actually going on, show people video of stuff that will freeze their blood in their veins,
00:55:19.940but also remind them of all of the great and good things out there that should get them to act.
00:56:00.700They will actually be there protecting Americans.
00:56:02.680Imagine if the FBI had spent the type of time it did staging the kidnapping of Gretchen Wittwer to actually hunting down Antifa terrorists who were going to really kill political targets.
00:56:17.160That would have been a very different outcome, and that's exactly what it should become now.
00:56:21.840Innocent children in Christian school would have been saved.
00:57:18.740And you have to just demand for it, ask for it.
00:57:21.120If right-wing people do a whole celebrity culture thing where they are celebrating ICE people, National Guardsmen, we will see America rise again.
00:57:30.980People actually like law and order in the country.
00:57:33.020But the assurance people get, the willingness they have to be friendly to their law enforcement separates America from I don't know how many other countries.
00:57:44.880You don't want to know what it's like elsewhere.
00:57:47.720You don't want to know what it's like to fear the FBI or the CIA.
00:57:51.640I mean, some of us already do, but most people don't.
00:58:00.940It means pushing people to the top so they can speak for the nation.
00:58:04.000But also, it means just making everything public.
00:58:06.640Film everything, speak everything, put it out on social media, drown this kind of crazy, liberal, mind-control thing where 100 people say the same thing in the same words.
00:58:15.740Drown it out in just ordinary Americans who say whatever it comes like out when they say it.
00:58:20.060We're not going to have the kind of curational, overproduced, elite-controlled messaging they have.
00:58:29.340And we're just not going to have the billions of dollars that they have to start with.
00:58:33.580There's not going to be an America tomorrow where everybody knows what, you know, Arabella Advisors is, what the Tides Foundation is.
00:58:39.140Nobody's going to worry about what is Bill Gates paying for just to corrupt, you know, Protestant churches.
00:59:18.980Well, I think that Tides has already explained very importantly that he was also a guy who had a vision for the fact that young people could be one for Trump.
00:59:27.240I'll never forget one of his interviews while I was watching where they asked him about this.
00:59:31.200And they said, hey, you know, what what what made you think that you should be going into these colleges?
00:59:36.940And he said, look, all the stats say young people don't vote.
00:59:39.480All the stats say they're never going to go right wing and that this is a waste of my time.
00:59:44.860And so I knew what was happening there.
00:59:47.280I was actually talking to people, building those relationships, understanding the lives of people there.
00:59:51.960And I knew in a way that abstract poll numbers couldn't tell you that these people were ripe for a conversion to Donald Trump.
00:59:58.520Also, let's not forget that Charlie Kirk is one of the few guys who is putting himself in a situation where he was even available to be shot at this point.
01:00:07.360Steven Crowder has already said there's a reason he more or less stopped doing the change my mind segments.
01:00:11.420It's because the threats became too violent.
01:00:13.400So let's recognize Charlie Kirk knew what he was doing.
01:00:17.360He knew he was going into a situation where he could not be 100 percent protected.
01:00:22.600And even in that situation, he was willing to speak with people.
01:00:25.340And that's why we have to change things, because that should not be a moment of courage.
01:00:30.320It should not be courageous to step onto a college campus and talk to someone that it should not be an act of ultimate courage.
01:00:37.120That should be an everyday occurrence in the United States.
01:00:39.440And the fact that it had to be something that conservatives were more or less basically laying their lives on the line to do tells us everything about where we are.
01:00:48.420Wild Speaker says the GOP wants to keep the fringes of the right on the fringe because they lack the courage of their convictions.
01:00:53.900That's why the talent goes unutilized.
01:00:56.920And, yeah, Titus, I really have to agree with this.
01:00:59.280I think a lot of people, even those who are doing OK, are worried that the guy behind them might make them actually hold their beliefs real.
01:01:09.820They might have to realize the rhetoric they're using might actually have to push for something that they are otherwise won't be popular with donors or others.
01:01:17.920And so I think that is why we often see a lot of the right go to waste, because if you bring on these guys who are more radical than you are more right wing than you are more conservative than you, then you might have to actually start delivering on promises.
01:01:33.480It won't be enough to just offer something to a random donor or a random crowd and then go back to whatever you were doing previously as an institution.
01:02:28.420It's why don't more young men get married?
01:02:30.340Because they don't have the guts to go to that moment.
01:02:32.620And I don't blame them because it's humiliating.
01:02:35.840It's very difficult to say, you know, I'm planning a future here even without the mortgage when I'm actually not in control.
01:02:42.100Now, the problem is that people who make six figures or seven figures feel the exact same way.
01:02:47.060You have no idea the amount of money that rich people throw away just because if they took it, then they would have to commit to a project that is super risky.
01:02:56.080And it's not clear whether people on our side love anybody on our side enough to give them a second chance if they should fall.
01:03:04.480It's not clear that if ever the celebrity perfect glamorous dream breaks for a spell, we will allow them back.
01:03:13.000There's enormous insecurity, both reputationally and financially and organizationally for people on the right, partly because it's new to everybody.
01:03:21.440It's like I'm just doing it for my first time.
01:03:23.280It's partly because the education for it was missing.
01:03:28.360People on the right aren't that political.
01:03:30.880They're always out there saying, like, you know, next week I'm going back to, like, my kid's little league game or something.
01:03:36.440They're not going to commit to anything for the long term.
01:03:39.380It encourages, you know, people complain about grifting, fair enough.
01:03:44.140People complain about established, you know, rent-seeking, if you want to speak economically.
01:03:48.280Economically, parasitism, if you're more honest.
01:03:55.740A lot of the problem is just a gig economy mentality.
01:04:00.780People on the right are essentially freelancers.
01:04:05.040People on the right look at the rich people and say, oh, these people would never help me.
01:04:08.740And they look at their base and they think, like, maybe I'm just a few mistakes away from being not canceled, but, you know, maybe even just ignored into poverty.
01:04:21.880The insecurity of the position of speaking publicly when you are not an official or if you're an official, but, you know, you're under control of the party or it never goes away.
01:04:32.460I've talked to senators who assure me that they feel powerless.
01:04:35.360You're literally one man in a million, you know, even less, one in three million, I guess, a hundred senators in 300 million Americans, you know, like, let's deport a couple of tens of millions and then recalculate.
01:04:49.640But for now, this is what we're saying.
01:04:54.720They just do stupid little shows where, like, they give a speech that sounds like Mr. Smith, but if you've ever been to the Senate, well, I mean, it's just empty.
01:05:03.100They're doing this to an empty room in front of a camera to cut the ad for the Gmail, you know, give me some money thing.
01:05:13.240These are disgusting people who live disgusting lives.
01:05:15.620And the reason, insecurity, basic issues like, you know, Charlie solved a lot of these problems, like he had a real organization, he had a real basis, and he was always out there getting in touch with people.
01:05:27.300You know, you couldn't tell him, like, what's going on in the real world.
01:05:57.520But you need a certain degree of security to realize that you're not going to get fired, and this is the moment to start taking risks.
01:06:05.480You have to push scandal constantly, but you have to choose the scandals you push.
01:06:10.220What is the fight that you are fighting today that gets you to the victory, that gets you to a fight that will be even more important to win and more beneficial if you do win?