00:00:00.000Apparently, the left genuinely believes there are only two types of Trump voting men in the entire United States.
00:00:05.000Type number one, Ned Flanders, a hyper-religious, archaic traditionalist with a few strangely gay vibes.
00:00:11.000Type number two, a character straight out of Starship Troopers, a militant, hyper-nationalist authoritarian who probably wants to rape home invaders.
00:00:20.000You know, James Tallarico is type number one, or maybe Graham Platner as type number two.
00:00:27.000For a long time, the left has not been able to answer the question, what is a woman?
00:00:31.000It now turns out they also cannot answer the question, what is a man?
00:00:35.000We'll get to the left's fraudulent picture of masculinity, plus the reactionary right's own ugly picture of what men ought to be.
00:00:40.000And we'll get to President Trump at the next game, where, believe it or not, he may have just saved America.
00:00:55.000Alrighty, so one of the most amusing aspects of the 2024 election was the Democratic Party's realization that it had lost men, that men were increasingly trending toward the political right.
00:01:07.000Men are not really fond of a party that calls them toxic and sees them as at best superfluous or treats them as dumb hicks or as rapey bros or as Bible thumping elders from the handmaid's tale.
00:01:18.000Men aren't fond of a party that says that women can be men, that men can be women, and that the world would be better off without men in positions of power.
00:01:25.000Pretty much openly campaigned against men and then they lost.
00:01:28.000And so now they're trying to win men back over.
00:01:30.000The problem is the left has alienated men for so long, they don't even know how to talk to men anymore.
00:02:05.000Joe would vote Democrat in pretty much any election in which Democrats weren't totally crazy and didn't demonstrate their hatred and alienation of men.
00:02:12.000But that is way too much for the left.
00:02:13.000So instead, they are trotting out Jennifer Welch, a screechy left wing lady, as the answer to Joe Rogan.
00:02:19.000Or maybe Hassan Piker, a commie who wears Cartier and pearl necklaces and loves terrorists and foreign dictatorships.
00:02:24.000Or maybe the bros from Podsave America.
00:02:27.000Men are now foreigners in the land of the left.
00:02:29.000When the left thinks of men, they think of stereotypes.
00:02:32.000And when they appeal to men, they try to play on those stereotypes.
00:02:35.000And this is why you get the bizarre contrast between James Tallarico and Graham Plattner.
00:02:41.000So, James Tallarico is stereotype number one.
00:02:48.000So, the left has been sort of off put by the fact that they ran this guy who claims to thump the Bible, but also doesn't believe in anything remotely biblical.
00:02:56.000Like, that basically biblical values are passe.
00:02:59.000And so he takes a bunch of radical left wing values and then reads them into the vaguest statements from the Bible.
00:03:04.000And they're surprised that the right doesn't love this.
00:03:07.000And that the right is kind of annoyed by James Tallarico's ridiculous cosplay as biblical man because the guy says that God has no gender or is gender free or is trans, or he talks about trans kids, or he talks about how his campaign is vegan.
00:03:26.000And then men go, oh no, this is not it, my dudes.
00:03:31.000And so now, basically, Tallarico, who is the Senate Democratic candidate in Texas, where Democrats are going to waste an awful lot of money trying to defeat Ken Paxton and they're going to lose anyway.
00:03:41.000Well, now they're trying to trans Tallarico's positions.
00:03:46.000So remember, Tallarico is incredibly far left, incredibly far left.
00:03:49.000So here he was with a person named Dan Cogdell recently explaining this is Ken Paxton's defense lawyer lying about his view on transing the kids.
00:04:02.000I hear consistent tropes about you being way too liberal for Texas, that you're pro sex surgery for minors, and on and on and on.
00:05:47.000You will also recall that James Tallarica voted against SB 14 in 2023, that banned gender affirming care, which would be, you know, like puberty blockers, hormone therapies.
00:05:56.000Butchering the children for kids under 18 years old.
00:05:58.000He also voted against HB 25 in 2021, which required K 12 students at public schools to compete exclusively on the sports teams, you know, where they have their biological sex.
00:06:09.000So, like boys with boys, girls with girls.
00:06:23.000Here he was with Dan Cockdell, lying about his views on border security as well.
00:06:29.000I called out Joe Biden for failing to secure our southern border.
00:06:33.000And I got a lot of heat in my own party for doing that.
00:06:36.000But I remember talking with my colleagues in the legislature who represent border communities.
00:06:42.000And they told me about the utter chaos caused by President Biden's policies.
00:06:47.000And the Democratic Party, we're the ones that should be about making government work for people.
00:06:51.000And our immigration system is a prime example of government not working for people.
00:06:56.000And so I'm a border security Democrat.
00:06:57.000I believe we've got to have a sane, orderly process to ensure that we know who's coming into our country.
00:07:04.000And I'm all for welcoming immigrants who want to work hard and live the American dream, who want to make us richer and stronger, as immigrants have always done.
00:07:13.000But I also think we have to keep out folks who mean to do us harm.
00:07:16.000And public safety is the most important thing the government does more important than public education, more important than public health.
00:07:22.000Nothing matters if we're not keeping people safe.
00:07:26.000I mean, Teller goes just lying and lying and lying.
00:07:28.000Here he was explaining that the border should have a welcome match just a couple of years ago.
00:07:37.000I feel like Texans understand this issue of immigration more so than people in other states because we live with it, both the benefits and the challenges.
00:07:46.000So, what I've said is that our southern border should be like our front porch.
00:07:51.000There should be a giant welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.
00:07:57.000He was so tough on border security that in 2021, he voted against House Bill 9, which appropriated $1.8 billion for border security operations.
00:09:34.000Here he was explaining that you can't call yourself a Christian.
00:09:36.000Again, this is the thing that drew Democrats to him the Ned Flanders cosplay.
00:09:40.000You can't call yourself a Christian and destroy God's creation with greenhouse gases.
00:09:44.000You can't be in favor of oil and natural gas and also be a Christian, according to James Tellerico.
00:09:51.000You can't call yourself a Christian and destroy God's creation with greenhouse gases.
00:09:58.000In 2023, this guy voted against HB 1500, which was an energy bill that would overhaul the Texas electrical grid and restrict renewable energy expansion.
00:10:07.000So, again, he's a down the line Democrat, and now he's trying to flip himself into a Republican.
00:10:10.000But the key to understand about James Tallarico is why Democrats were so high on this guy in the first place.
00:10:16.000Why did they think that this was the guy?
00:10:23.000Are basically Bible thumpers who look like they come straight out of howdy doody.
00:10:29.000And if they just cosplay as that thing, if they pretend to be that thing, then Republicans will be happy.
00:10:36.000And that's really, really silly because, again, manliness in the sort of traditional conservative way of thinking about manliness is about fulfilling the duties of men.
00:11:44.000And the left traditionally does not believe in social duties.
00:11:47.000They believe in quote unquote rights, which means liberation from duties in their view, but they do not believe in duties.
00:11:52.000And so what they do is they sort of wear the mask of masculinity.
00:11:56.000They're happy with the guy who thumps the Bible so long as he doesn't read any of the parts, namely 95% of it, that talks about human rights.
00:12:05.000They like the little bit where it talks about being nice to the stranger, but they don't care about the rest of the Bible at all.
00:12:11.000In fact, they don't like the rest of the Bible at all.
00:12:13.000And so what they do is they grab the trappings of masculinity, and then they're surprised when the right doesn't respond to those trappings because we can see that you are pretending.
00:12:22.000We can see that it's a Halloween costume.
00:12:25.000And it all comes off as fake from James Tallarico.
00:12:28.000When James Tallarico is trotting around the landscape a couple of years ago, wearing a mask and explaining that his campaign is now vegan, and this is the moral.
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00:14:14.000And then there is stereotype number two that the left believes about men, which is they are toxic starship trooper dudes.
00:14:20.000That basically, what men are is rough and tumble.
00:14:24.000They talk of Graham Platner, you know, they don't never shave and look kind of messy and treat women like trash.
00:14:33.000And that's what the right things men are, is like a Graham Platner.
00:14:37.000So again, they have two pictures of what men look like one is Ned Flanders and the other is Starship Troopers.
00:14:43.000And neither one is what men look like in the traditional conservative viewpoint because the trappings aren't what matters, it's the duties that matter.
00:14:50.000So traditional conservative men can look like A lawyer who works at the office but provides for his family and his kids and is a ranking member of the church and gives charity and does all those things.
00:15:00.000Or a traditional man can look like a member of the military who is out defending the country and comes home to his wife and his kids and works a blue collar job.
00:15:31.000They only come in two flavors for the Democrats the toxic male like Graham Platner or the quasi effeminate Bible thumper, Talarico.
00:15:42.000And again, every day, worse stuff comes out about Graham Platner, the Senate main candidate.
00:15:48.000It turns out that one of the apps that he was on called Kick.
00:15:54.000It was one of the top 10 apps used by teens in America.
00:15:56.000According to Search Logistics, one third of American teens use Kik.
00:16:01.000According to Mark Thiessen, writing in the Washington Post, in 2023, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation set up a fake teen account on Kik for a girl named Jenny and reported that within hours, she was contacted not by one, not two, but dozens of adult men who knew the user was purportedly a minor, but still sent her pornography and graphic messages demanding she send nude images of herself.
00:16:22.000And his Kik account, Platner's Kik account, was still active.
00:17:04.000According to the New York Post, Yale law school grad Daniel Moraff and his fiancee, Leanne Fan, an academic with stints at Harvard and the proudly radical University of California, Berkeley, are the under the radar team who shaped Plattner's candidacy.
00:17:17.000They had originally met while working for Bernie Sanders in 2020.
00:17:20.000They are hardcore members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:17:25.000They had previously been behind candidates like Dan Osborne running for Senate in Nebraska and Summer Leah, Pennsylvania, who is part of the squad.
00:17:50.000This is why they picked him because these people who have no relationship with traditional masculinity I mean, you can watch the tape and see it.
00:17:56.000These folks who have no relationship with traditional masculinity looked at him and they saw the cosplay.
00:18:05.000Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial?
00:19:13.000The main wire is now reporting that Platner registered his oyster business Online domain nine months after he registered his Senate domain.
00:19:26.000So he ramped up his entire shtick here in order to run.
00:19:32.000Graham Plattner says this is false and defamatory.
00:19:34.000I would have thought Fox News learned their lesson after paying Dominion $787.5 million.
00:19:40.000He's saying that in response to a mainwire reporter saying that the oyster business was totally fake.
00:19:47.000Now, I don't know whether the oyster business was fake or not.
00:19:52.000That Graham for Senate was registered as a website in April 2023.
00:19:55.000And nine months later, his oyster company farm domain, wakigneckoystercompany.com, was registered, which doesn't sound like the livest business in the entire world.
00:20:08.000Meanwhile, Genevieve McDonald, who was a campaign manager for Platner, explains why she dropped out of representing him.
00:20:17.000Quote, I became Graham Platner's political director in August 2025 as he launched a bid for the Democratic Senate primary in Maine.
00:20:24.000I quit the campaign in October, disturbed by what I learned about the candidate and concerned about his potential impact on the Democratic Party's prospects in my home state.
00:20:33.000She says, when I raised concerns to anyone in the campaign, Platner would call me and convince me that everything was fine and his intentions were noble.
00:20:41.000When his Reddit comments in 2013 downplaying sexual assault were revealed by the Post on October 17th, I submitted my resignation and made it public I would no longer validate Platner.
00:20:50.000The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
00:22:20.000Well, I mean, that means it's totally okay, according to Bernie Sanders, because again, Bernie Sanders has no standards.
00:22:26.000Jennifer Welch, the left wing response to Joe Rogan, insanely, she, of course, misdirects by saying that MAGA is the party of sexual abuse and pedophilia.
00:22:34.000Well, you know, if you want to make that case, then probably you should eliminate the people in your party who are fans of sexual abuse and pedophilia.
00:23:22.000And now we have a Republican Party that is a pedophile enabler movement.
00:23:29.000So, this is the psychotic, the ambulatory psychotic that Democrats have put forth as the answer to Joe Rogan.
00:23:36.000Now, what's amazing about this is what she says about men there.
00:23:39.000She's saying that it bleeds all the way down to the voters.
00:23:41.000So, she thinks that Trump voters are, in fact, sexual abusers who don't care about family and who like pedophilia.
00:23:48.000That is what she's saying about the not just Trump, which of course is a lie, but she's also saying about Trump voters all the way down.
00:23:54.000So, this is why Democrats look at Trump voters.
00:23:55.000They go, Who could we get to appeal to those voters?
00:23:58.000What if we got our own guy who has sexual abuse problems, but he talks like this and he doesn't shave and also he pretends that he's a manly, manly man?
00:24:34.000You didn't like traditional morality, wait until you get to post traditional morality.
00:24:39.000See, when you do away with the definition of manliness as a series of duties, duties to wife, duties to children, duties to community, duties to state and country, when you do away with all of those matrices for what it means to be a man, what you end up with is a bunch of costumes.
00:24:56.000In just a second, we'll get to the reactionary rights idea of what masculinity is.
00:25:00.000Apparently, It involves walking around bare chested and having women pose for pornography and such.
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00:26:12.000So, Andrew Tate is back in the news today because there is an extraordinary piece over at New Yorker Magazine by Heidi Blake, a very long investigative piece about Andrew Tate's extraordinary abuse of women, tremendous abuse of women, well documented abuse of women.
00:26:29.000And it was well accepted and treated by people on the right.
00:26:33.000Because when you don't think of masculinity as the duty to go find a woman and marry her and have children with her and take care of those children and lead a traditionally moral life, what you end up with is the cosplay of masculinity.
00:26:47.000Great big bustles and sports cars and beautiful women who don't give a damn about you, but who are there for the clout and maybe for the money because you're their pimp.
00:27:16.000Andrew Tate takes money from ignorant people and he abuses human beings.
00:27:21.000And somehow he is treated with a level of respect.
00:27:23.000And the only reason I can explain this is a post traditionally moral right.
00:27:28.000And it turns out that you ditch traditional morality and some pretty terrible downstream effects occur.
00:27:32.000So if the stereotype on the left is that men are either James Tallarico or Graham Platner, The stereotype on the reactionary right, people who are not ensconced in traditional morality, is that manhood is really working out shirtless in your made over warehouse in Romania while being surrounded by women who don't give a damn about you and pose in pornography.
00:27:53.000That's what masculinity really looks like.
00:27:57.000And traditional morality was a good thing.
00:27:58.000You're going to miss it when it's gone.
00:28:01.000So, according to Heidi Blake, the Tates moved to Romania from the UK in 2015 after three British women accused Tate of rape and strangulation.
00:28:11.000She writes, Court records show that local police sat on at least two reports indicating that the Tates were coercing Romanian women into sex work.
00:28:18.000Andrew openly discussed bribing law enforcement officials in war room chats and bragged on social media about his connections.
00:28:24.000Everyone wants to be friends with the pimp, he wrote in a since deleted tweet.
00:28:27.000Now, again, why is Andrew Tate relevant?
00:28:29.000Well, he is one of the most watched people on planet Earth, as he will tell you himself.
00:28:33.000Now, for those who listen to the show who are unaware of Tate's social media presence, it's enormous and it's been enormous for years.
00:28:39.000And he's been promoted by some of the top people in right wing politics.
00:28:44.000He is also, as stated, one of the worst people in public life.
00:28:50.000According to the article, Tate's representatives claimed he hadn't really meant what he'd said online about sexually exploiting women.
00:28:55.000He had simply been playing a character for entertainment.
00:28:58.000He would have sex with women on webcam for a price.
00:29:01.000One of the webcam girls, the article calls her Maya Navarro, alleged that Tate raped her multiple times and strangled her and also another woman multiple times.
00:29:09.000Another woman, who the article calls Hannah Price, showed UK police a series of messages from Tate discussing the alleged assault.
00:29:15.000I love raping you, he had written to her.
00:30:53.000who have not been given any sort of guidance by their parents or by their communities to pay him money to promote his crap.
00:31:01.000Tate presided over an online network called the War Room, in which for a fee of about $8,000 a year, he promised to free the modern man from socially induced incarceration.
00:31:10.000Members learned how to recruit women into sexual slavery in a series of tutorials Tate called his pimping hose degree.
00:31:16.000He had used one woman named Yasmina Penkoff as a teaching case, reporting on her subjugation over the secure messaging app Telegram.
00:31:23.000He said, I've done this with over 100 girls.
00:31:30.000He had also created a nonsense enterprise called Hustlers University that basically you paid him in order for him to allow you to clip his stuff and attract new subscribers.
00:31:48.000He brought women into webcam modeling, which is to say pornography, and he would sleep with them in order to get them to do this.
00:31:57.000He would personally, again, have sex with women on webcam for a price.
00:32:01.000Tate has claimed that in his first month with Hroskova, that is the woman who he is on camera hitting with a belt when she was 15, he made more than $100,000 and the brothers bought an Aston Martin.
00:32:12.000At the peak of the webcam business, according to the brothers, they had 75 women working for them.
00:32:17.000And Andrew said that more than 30 women had his name tattooed on their skin.
00:32:23.000Tate called the women his wives and ordered them to address him as king.
00:32:25.000Okay, now, the question here is not why Andrew Tate did what he did.
00:32:30.000There have been horrible men for all of human history.
00:32:32.000The question is why he is rich and why he is famous, and more importantly, why he is so well accepted on parts of the right, the fringy parts of the right.
00:32:41.000According to the New Yorker, Rick Grinnell, who is President Trump's presidential envoy, worked in order to free them so they could travel.
00:32:53.000Grinnell met at Mar-a-Lago with Romanian politician Victor Ponta, who later told The Times they discussed the Tate's case.
00:33:00.000Grinnell has denied aiding the Tate's or speaking about their case, though he has publicly affirmed, I support the Tate brothers.
00:33:06.000Naturally, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have been huge supporters of Andrew Tate.
00:33:13.000Carlson released a documentary recently.
00:33:16.000Called the end of men about the decline of masculinity.
00:33:19.000He has spent hours of airtime proclaiming Tate's innocence.
00:33:23.000The same is true of Candace Owens, who went to Romania to interview him and hugged him and said he was innocent and falsified all the accusations against him.
00:33:36.000JD Vance followed the brothers on X. Donald Trump selected one of their lawyers, Paul Ingracia, to serve as the White House liaison to the Department of Justice.
00:33:43.000Ingracia had previously tweeted that Tate was, quote, the embodiment of the ancient ideal of excellence.
00:33:49.000Which is why he had been targeted by, quote, the satanic elite that attempt to systematically program and oppress all men.
00:33:55.000And of course, we talked about it at the time.
00:33:58.000The president's lawyer, Alina Habba, appeared on a podcast with Tate and said she was a big fan and said that she had his back.
00:34:07.000And the answer is when you get beyond traditional morality, you end up with just the cosplay of morality.
00:34:14.000You end up with the cosplay of masculinity.
00:34:18.000You end up with the picture on the left again of Tala Rico, the Ned Flanders, or Starship Troopers, Graham Platner.
00:34:23.000Or you end up with this bizarre pyramid scheming pornographer, sort of Hugh Hefnerization, but with some MMA overtones.
00:34:35.000And that's supposed to be masculinity.
00:34:36.000But it turns out that masculinity is, again, about performance of duty in the world.
00:34:42.000Performance of duty, that is what masculinity always was.
00:34:45.000And if you don't do those things, you are not masculine.
00:34:47.000You are something else, but you are not masculine.
00:34:51.000Because righteousness is a masculine quality, it is a thing that you must pursue.
00:34:57.000And when you rob men of their initiative, when you rob men of their roles and you rob them of their duties, they end up cosplaying manhood.
00:35:04.000Which brings us to what I think is actually the most important story, probably of the last couple of decades.
00:35:09.000Already in just a second, we'll get to why American men are falling off.
00:36:14.000According to the New York Times, two new papers, one published Monday, the other in May, are the first academic endeavors that test whether the smartphone was a cause.
00:36:21.000Proving phones caused the decline is a tricky endeavor.
00:36:23.000There were a number of major events in those years, including the Great Recession.
00:36:26.000Isolating smartphone use is difficult.
00:36:28.000One theory that an economist at Middlebury College named Myers said is young people began to socialize more on their phones and less in person.
00:36:36.000Consequently, they were less likely to have sex and become pregnant.
00:36:38.000Professor Myers said iPhones may also have made pornography more accessible.
00:36:42.000Which led young people to substitute it for sex, or young people may have used them to obtain better information on avoiding pregnancy, including contraception and abortion.
00:37:06.000And so what we have done is we have emptied out social standards, we have emptied out responsibilities, and we have given access to hacking your dopamine centers to kids.
00:37:16.000And as a society, we pretended all of that was fine.
00:37:19.000Now, some of us have been warning for literally decades that when you abandon traditional standards of morality and you do the live and let live, what does it matter if kids watch pornography?
00:37:27.000What does it matter if we obliterate the traditional masculine duties?
00:38:18.000Quote, As societal standards and traditional values have declined, the crassest elements of sexual deviancy and pornography have taken over the public square.
00:38:26.000It is the youngest generations who have paid the price.
00:38:28.000Never in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged, and yet so empty.
00:38:36.000The old faith in traditional morality was too bourgeois, archaic, sexist, and close minded for this brave new world.
00:38:40.000Our new God is tolerance of all behavior.
00:38:44.000But the live and let live societal model is a recipe for societal disaster.
00:38:47.000The myopic question posed by advocates of the new tolerant morality is, How does this immoral behavior hurt you?
00:38:53.000But the overwhelming truth is that these are not individual acts, but inherently social acts with social consequences.
00:38:58.000If millions of people accept the deviance as normal, that reshapes society in vastly destructive ways.
00:39:04.000Moral self-destruction may seem to have no consequences for an individual, but the destruction of societal standards has always had consequences.
00:39:13.000Quote, if you build the world to your own specifications, and everyone else does as well, social contact becomes nearly impossible.
00:39:20.000Love, the attempt to reach out to another person to bring that person into your world requires a faith To which the jaded can never aspire.
00:39:27.000It is becoming rarer and rarer to find true romantics.
00:40:30.000And the symptoms of an unhappy society are written all over our politics and our culture.
00:40:37.000When you have a reactionary right embracing disgusting, disgusting, Of Andrew Tate and his imitators and his publicizers and the people who defend him.
00:40:52.000And when you have a left that similarly believes that's what men are and then tries to channel that toward candidates, again, one of the things that you will notice is the number of these people who, number one, are unhappy, the answer is extraordinarily high.
00:41:03.000And number two, the number of these figures who are leading traditional lives, and the answer is virtually none.
00:41:13.000Because again, when the society declares war on men, it is not just that they're declaring war on the traditional sort of trappings of masculinity.
00:41:21.000And you can't fix that war by putting the trappings back.
00:41:26.000When you obliterate the duties, when you obliterate what it means to be a man or what it means to be a woman, that is very, very difficult to rebuild.
00:41:32.000And the only way to rebuild that is ground up.
00:41:34.000The only way to rebuild that is by re inculcating the idea that virtue matters and that duty matters and that roles matter.
00:43:12.000Anyway, here was President Trump responding to Stephen A. ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, who was talking about running for president, said he would blame you if the Knicks lost.
00:44:41.000She said that his attendance was a vibe killer.
00:44:45.000It already has been a vibe killer because now the city has to shut down.
00:44:53.000Down all the MSG watch parties that happen outside of the arena that have been the source of like so much fun for everybody, both if you're there and if you're watching it after the clips are posted.
00:45:06.000Now, all of that's going to get shut down tomorrow because Trump wants to show up.
00:45:13.000Now, my understanding is that's not even true that the watch parties were happening outside MSG when the Knicks were on the road, not when they were at home, but doesn't really matter.
00:45:20.000Hakeem Jeffries showed up wearing a Knicks hat again.
00:45:24.000The sudden Knicks fandom is a little much for me.
00:45:27.000I mean, maybe Hakeem Jeffries has been a long time Knicks fan.
00:45:29.000He's never worn a Knicks hat, but here we are.
00:45:33.000So I've had a few things to say about Donald Trump going to the Knicks game.
00:45:38.000And, you know, at this point is game day.
00:45:42.000And I think Knicks fans just want to enjoy game three, the first home game that we've had in 27 years.
00:45:51.000But it also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan.
00:45:55.000I mean, does this guy even know the difference between Karl Rove and Karl Anthony Towns?
00:46:24.000I feel like he doesn't know the difference between Karl Rove, a five foot. 11 bald white guy and Carl Anthony Townsend, a seven foot tall, large black man who plays center for the New York.
00:46:35.000I feel like he probably knows the difference.
00:47:03.000I'm sorry, longtime Knicks fans, especially the ones who didn't vote for Mom Dhani, but you brought this upon yourself.
00:47:09.000The justice of the divine will only be served if the Knicks lose.
00:47:13.000And especially if they lose a 2 0 lead after winning a couple on the road in San Antonio.
00:47:17.000That is the only way that justice, cosmic justice, will be performed here.
00:47:20.000So if the president was a tool in that cosmic justice, then I'm all for it.
00:47:25.000The president may have just saved America, I guess, is what I'm saying right now.
00:47:28.000And if, in fact, the Knicks lose because President Trump showed up for game three, then I will support a change to the Constitution that.
00:47:35.000Allows for him to run for a third term because I mean, there are just things that have to be done here.
00:47:41.000Also, just going to say if you're going to blame Trump for the Knicks losing, I seem to remember another political figure who was in the stadium last night who has a far more correlative record with regard to New York sports teams losing when he shows up.
00:48:17.000I've been talking about him all week long about who he's rooting for.
00:48:22.000Of course, he's a Wemby fan, and he goes to school with a bunch of Knicks fans.
00:48:25.000And it turns out that tiny Knicks fans are just as obnoxious as large Knicks fans, apparently.
00:48:31.000And so he was very, very happy this morning.
00:48:34.000That's really my stake in this thing my son is happier when the Knicks lose in this particular series.
00:48:39.000But apparently, the Knicks fans were unhappy, and so they decided to riot in New York City, which, again, do I find this particularly supportive?
00:50:13.000Anyway, away from basketball and to other absurdity California voting, a complete absurdity, as we discussed yesterday on the program.
00:50:22.000The votes that are being tabulated are fraudulent.
00:50:24.000I am saying that ballot harvesting in California is a disaster area.
00:50:28.000And the fact that you have people who literally go house to house to every Democratic registered voter or go to homeless shelters and pick up votes from there is a problem.
00:50:37.000Here's Speaker Mike Johnson saying substantially the same thing.
00:50:41.000They are counting votes weeks after the election.
00:50:43.000We have entire nations with huge populations like India that can count their votes in 24 to 47.
00:50:49.000You're saying it's rigged like the president?
00:50:51.000I'm saying it stinks to high heaven and everybody knows that.
00:50:56.000Well, I mean, it is definitely a thing that has all of my California friends very, very upset.
00:51:03.000Bill Asale, who is a district attorney for the Central District of California, he is asking for witnesses or information on voter fraud in California.
00:51:11.000Again, it's going to be very difficult to find voter fraud.
00:51:14.000The problem is the procedure, it's legal.
00:51:16.000It's not voter fraud, it's just legal.
00:51:17.000It's legalized ballot harvesting that provides the opportunity to find people who are not with it or who normally wouldn't vote or who don't care.
00:51:26.000And you go to them, and there's no limit.
00:51:27.000As long as you're paying your vote getters enough, they can go to Rando on a street corner and get his ballot tabulated.
00:52:49.000I think if someone is taking their time to count the votes, I think if someone is looking at every single thing, because in California, it's the most populous state.
00:53:48.000This is the dumbest conspiracy theory I have ever heard because the Democratic establishment and Karen Bass wanted Spencer Pratt in the runoff.
00:53:56.000They don't want any part to do with Nithya Rahman.