00:00:53.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:00.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:48.000I mean, honestly, Santa Barbara's a small town, so we don't drive a whole bunch.
00:01:52.000So we don't feel it as much as probably like, you know, our Los Angeles friends.
00:01:57.000But I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, California is, and actually this, this includes Arizona, Nevada, I believe Washington and Oregon are considered the same sort of gas island.
00:02:08.000So they are, it has to do with where the oil comes from.
00:02:14.000It has to do with where they're getting refined.
00:02:16.000California has all these special additives and regulations that the refineries, these benchmarks that refineries need to hit.
00:02:25.000So it can only come from certain refineries.
00:02:50.000This one, I think we've all talked about it, but we haven't all mentioned it together.
00:02:54.000This one, the revenge, or should we say the elegy for Willard Romney?
00:03:01.000Willard Mitt Romney has announced he's quitting the Senate, total rage quit right before the 2024 election.
00:03:08.000So he's going to serve out the remainder of his term.
00:03:12.000And of course, as befits his character, he's riding off into the sunset by having the globalists at the Atlantic publish a completely obnoxious, passive-aggressive interview, trashing his colleagues, trashing Trump, trashing the GOP base.
00:03:27.000So what is the final word on the GOP's 2012 standard bearer, the man who was the nominee for president in 2012?
00:03:36.000And Blake, I think you actually have an excerpt from this article that's by McKay Coppins in The Atlantic.
00:03:47.000So of course, he's everything about Romney is, you know, the supposed like, you know, politeness and decorum and all the damage that Trump does to our democracy by being all.
00:03:58.000So, naturally, what he does is he announces he's retiring.
00:04:01.000And then, you know, in perfect timing with it, McKay Coppins has this biography that he's putting out that's all about Romney and has all these like data points in it.
00:04:10.000And he's basically just like Romney doing like a drive-by shooting on other members of the Republican Party as he leaves.
00:04:16.000Let's see, like one of the lines from it.
00:04:19.000This is a summary as Axios summarizes it helpfully for us.
00:04:23.000Romney shares a unique disgust for senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, who he thought were too smart to believe Trump won the 2020 election, but quote, put politics above the interests of liberal democracy and the Constitution.
00:04:39.000And then the even wilder one is for Senator JD Vance of Ohio.
00:04:43.000He says, quote, I don't know that I can disrespect someone more than JD Vance.
00:04:49.000That is a direct quote from Senator Romney describing Senator Vance, who he still has to, you know, share a Senate chamber with for the next year before he actually quits.
00:04:59.000But, you know, J.D., I mean, can someone explain what has JD Vance done in his time in the Senate that's been so ill-reputable?
00:05:09.000Does anyone have what when he went to East Palestine?
00:05:11.000And it seems his crime that went on there.
00:05:48.000This is an interesting take on all of it.
00:05:50.000And Andrew, maybe you can give us a sense of it because what I think that Romney's really upset about here is that he's considering JD Vance a class trader.
00:06:00.000He's calling him a class trader and saying, look, you're allowed to make money in finance.
00:06:06.000You're allowed to go to the great schools.
00:06:08.000But the one thing, and you're certainly allowed to run for the Senate, but the one thing you're not allowed to do is actually go out to the people of your state, listen to their interests and listen to their issues, and then grow and go and try to actually represent them in the United States Senate.
00:06:25.000Well, this is this is, I think, class trader, I think that's really smart framing, Jack, because at some level, a lot of this is much more about vibe.
00:06:34.000It's much more about what Mitt Romney thinks is classy versus gross or respectable versus, you know, essentially untoward and beyond the pale, right?
00:06:46.000So it's all based on his own little framework of class structure, of decorum, those sorts of things.
00:06:52.000So it says here in this, he says he was also highly critical of Senator JD Vance, Republican of Ohio, who reinvented his persona to become a Trump acolyte after publishing a best-selling memoir, Ilbili Illogy, about the working class that Romney loved.
00:07:21.000And just real quickly, it's kind of like, because in the book, JD Vance's conclusions, I would say, I don't offer this as criticism.
00:07:29.000I just say it's sort of, it's an evolution on JD Vance's part because he sort of just says in the book, well, that sort of blase, classic Republican line of, you know, and everybody just needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
00:07:52.000And then when he went to actually run for office and started really engaging with people politically, that's when he shifted not socially, right?
00:08:02.000But he shifted economically to become more of a populist.
00:08:07.000Well, what's so telling in this article is like some of the just the little specific anecdotes that it does pick.
00:08:13.000And I almost wonder if Coppins is like subtly trolling Romney.
00:08:17.000This is the part where apparently Romney lives by himself and his family.
00:08:21.000In D.C., it mentions, let me get the line here.
00:08:26.000It talks about his pad that he lives in, and it says, the place had not been Romney's first choice for a Washington residence.
00:08:33.000When he was elected in 2018, he'd had his eye on a newly remodeled condo at the Watergate with glittering views of the Potomac.
00:08:41.000His wife Anne fell in love with the place, but his soon-to-be staffers and colleagues warned him about the commute, which, by the way, it's like a mile and a half to the Capitol.
00:08:50.000So he grudgingly chose practicality over luxury and settled for the $2.4 million townhouse instead.
00:09:00.000And then, of course, this is not good enough for Anne.
00:09:02.000So she never visits him when he's in D.C.
00:09:05.000So it turns into a gross bachelor pad that has it mentions there's crumbs everywhere and seltzer because we know Mitt Romney would never he's he's very good.
00:10:12.000You know, JD has like a whole like U.S. steel thing.
00:10:15.000The EPA is coming after U.S. Steel, going to tank the U.S. steel industry.
00:10:19.000I mean, the guy's focused on real stuff that affects real people.
00:10:22.000And if you get down to what his book was about, his book was about: listen, all of these powers that be these greater powers that are, you know, causing this massive drug addiction, O D's, whether that's the border or just the plight of the Rust Belt and how there's no jobs, and young men are looking for purpose in meeting and things to do, but they don't.
00:11:09.000You've sent me the cover of this 2015, 2016 Never Trump from National Review.
00:11:15.000You know, Katie Pavlich was one of these people, but now Katie Pavlich became a defender of President Trump.
00:11:21.000This is not because when he actually got into office and we saw the policies, we saw the blue-collar boom that the top or the lowest 10% were their wages were going faster than the top 10%.
00:11:33.000Compare that to Joe Biden's economy and not even a chance, right?
00:11:38.000So he's basically mad that he thinks Vance sold out to get elected.
00:11:43.000All right, there might have been some calculation with Vance to get elected, but let us not forget this.
00:12:09.000So, the image we're looking at is, of course, when Romney met with Trump after the 2016 election, there was discussion he might be Secretary of State, I believe, was the office, and they had dinner in D.C.
00:12:19.000And, of course, we have that immortal photograph where it's, you know, Trump has probably the most impish grin we've ever had Donald Trump give, and then that kind of Romney grimace.
00:12:30.000I think that that was 2016 in a nutshell.
00:12:36.000So, this is when December 2016, after he's already won.
00:12:40.000Yeah, he just, you know, he kind of sucks up to him, doesn't get it.
00:12:43.000And then, of course, you know, runs for Senate later.
00:12:45.000I'm like, I'm going to execute Trump's agenda, but then I'm also going to vote to impeach him over a Ukraine phone call.
00:12:51.000But I really want to fixate on that phoniness thing because there's another great part of this Atlantic profile where it talks about, you know, Romney considered, you know, this protest run for the presidency in 2024.
00:13:04.000And then the reason he doesn't do it is because it might, you know, if he runs, it might prevent a Democrat from winning.
00:13:08.000By the way, Romney's a Republican, allegedly.
00:13:10.000And it says here, Romney relished the idea of running a presidential campaign in which he simply said whatever he thought without regard for the political consequences.
00:13:21.000I must admit, I'd love being on the stage with Donald Trump and just saying, that's stupid.
00:13:27.000He nursed a fantasy in which he devoted an entire debate to asking Trump to explain why in the early weeks of the pandemic, he'd suggested that Americans inject bleach as a treatment for COVID-19, which Trump didn't actually do.
00:13:40.000But we'll set that aside for a moment.
00:14:22.000He spent his entire life trying to achieve his father's goal.
00:14:28.000So George Romney, who of course tried to run for, tried to run for president, failed.
00:14:33.000Former governor of Michigan tied into the audio industry very, very cutely.
00:14:37.000So the idea was that Mitt Romney, and what he's really lamenting here, think about it.
00:14:44.000This guy has waited very much like Hillary Clinton, by the way, because all the way back to her sophomore year of college, she knew she was going to be president when she's back at Wiesalian.
00:14:54.000And Romney was doing the exact same thing.
00:14:57.000He's been structuring and tailoring and being very careful about every movie made and every step and every comment and every quote, even his little 47% that'll never vote for me, kind of quote, all of these things all the way up trying to project the perfect image.
00:15:14.000And then along comes a guy like Trump who throws all those quote-unquote rules of the road out the window and the people embrace him for it because they love the authenticity, even if they don't always agree with the things that he's saying.
00:15:29.000I think there's a sheer level of resentment there that a guy can just come along and break all the rules and then achieve more success.
00:15:38.000At the end of the day, Mitt Romney at this point, okay, so he's a one-term governor of Massachusetts, a one-term senator of Utah, which last time I checked is a different state than Massachusetts, and a failed presidential candidate.
00:15:51.000Mitt, you're never going to be on the big list, Willard.
00:15:55.000You're never going to be even on the VP list.
00:15:59.000You are going to be, you're not even going to be a footnote.
00:16:01.000You're going to be a dingleberry to a footnote on history.
00:16:05.000You know, Jack, I love that point because in this same article, it talks about how he got all these private messages from senators like Mitch McConnell.
00:16:13.000Like, I wish I could say exactly what you're saying.
00:16:15.000That's, it shows that Mitt Romney is feeding this biographer lines to pump himself up.
00:16:24.000He's like, I got all these text messages from these people saying they wish they could be as unfettered in their criticisms of Trump as I am.
00:17:10.000But if you look one level deeper, you then see reporting that says he entertained a third-party run as president, something he fantasizes about still.
00:17:19.000But Blake and Jack, why did he not run?
00:17:24.000Because he realized it would help get Donald Trump elected.
00:17:33.000He would rather not run so that a Democrat can continue being in the White House than to allow a conservative populist candidate like Donald Trump to oust the Democrats from power.
00:17:46.000Which, and by the way, we should probably tie this into, and I've been talking about this for the last two days now, but of course, the Washington Post finally catching up.
00:17:57.000Joe Manchin weighing a run for president as an independent.
00:18:02.000So right there, this is exactly what the no labels candidacy that I know Charlie's been really banging the drum about was all about finding candidates like a Manchin or a Romney to get in and then get on the ballot to hopefully or possibly prevent Trump from reaching that 270.
00:18:22.000We had Richard Barris on the program and he raised a pretty insightful point.
00:18:26.000He said, if you do something like this, you run the risk of not hurting Trump, but actually hurting Biden in key states that, yeah, they may not be normally toss-up states, but look at a state like Minnesota that has very similar demographics to a Michigan or a Wisconsin.
00:18:45.000If you split the Biden vote, if you split even any sizable portion of the Biden vote, then you got another Cornell West who might be on the ballot as well.
00:18:54.000Trump could actually, or potentially expand his map and turn those states that we think of as nominally blue into battleground states under this scenario.
00:19:08.000Since Tyler's not here, he's made this point to us separately, Tyler Boyer.
00:19:13.000He's brought up like the biggest obstacle to this working is actually their own vanity and that they can't really collaborate with each other.
00:19:20.000Because he's pointed out the way you could actually make it so a state is like you, let's say they wanted to run Romney for president.
00:19:28.000The way you could make Romney actually damage Trump is you'd have to have Biden not running Utah.
00:19:33.000You'd just be like, you're not going to win Utah.
00:19:35.000And then you only have Romney and Trump, and you get every single Democrat to vote for Romney.
00:19:40.000And then maybe you get a few crossover Republicans, and maybe you upset in the state.
00:19:44.000Or on the flip side, maybe in, you know, you could do this in Minnesota or any number of states.
00:19:51.000But then you'd have to be like, we are entirely running our campaign to stop Trump, which means we're deliberately running to try to throw it to the House or something.
00:20:00.000And they just, they can't collaborate to that degree to pull it off.
00:20:03.000And instead, you just get these weird, fanciful, like, oh, we're going to, we're going to start a new political.
00:20:17.000Like Kansas, Nebraska could be one of those maybe Missouri.
00:20:21.000You take all those states and then you throw up this.
00:20:23.000This, by the way, is sort of a rehash of the Evan McMuffin, aka Evan McMuffin strategy from 2016, where they ran him to thinking that he could block that he could block Trump in Utah.
00:20:37.000He ended up doing fairly well in Utah.
00:20:40.000But of course, it was a complete failure nationwide.
00:20:42.000This is the CIA total hack who was running.
00:20:45.000So what you're saying is, or what Tyler's strategy, I remember him saying this the other day, was that you would then have the Democrats not run a candidate in that state with the hope being that it would essentially neutralize those votes.
00:20:59.000Of course, the trouble being then you'd have to make sure that you could own up your votes in the other areas.
00:21:04.000But hey, if you're not campaigning in these states, then maybe that's money and resources that you can spend in the battlegrounds.
00:21:18.000I can't remember which one, but the Whig party ran four different candidates in different regions of the country to try to just throw the election to the House.
00:21:28.000And I think, I can't remember if they were going against James K. Polk.
00:21:32.000It was one of those, you know, one of those guys before the Civil War.
00:21:34.000And it was just a total disaster in the end, because it turns out if you're running on such a cynical ploy of we're just trying to throw it to the house and we're not like really playing to win the election outright, that's such a message of weakness.
00:21:48.000It's a, you know, we don't believe in ourselves.
00:21:50.000We don't believe in our ability to build a winning coalition.
00:21:53.000We just really believe in stopping the other guy.
00:21:55.000And I could just easily see that blowing up in their face if that's what they attempt.
00:22:07.000But don't count him out, folks, because Serpentinus Willardus, as I called him, is a snake.
00:22:15.000And snakes always turn up underfoot when you least expect them.
00:22:22.000We know that Charlie is on his way soon, but I did want to move over to the second topic if we can, because Hunter Biden finally indicted for something at least in this case.
00:23:18.000I got a lot of proof that Hunter Biden was definitely on hard drugs the entire time that he had that gun.
00:23:24.000And this is even prior to him losing it in a fight with his mistress, his ex, His deceased brother's ex-wife, uh, that he was hooking up with, that she took it away from him, probably smart, by the way.
00:23:40.000One of the smartest things that she did, took the gun away from him and tossed it in the trash can outside of a supermarket.
00:23:49.000So he was obviously lying to the ATF, and he has now been charged with this.
00:23:54.000Now, the real question isn't why he was charged, but I think the interesting question is: why is he being charged now?
00:24:00.000And I really do think that him being charged out, because keep in mind, we've known about this for years at this point.
00:24:06.000I think he's being charged now because that plea deal fell through, and because just in general, you're starting to see some movement within the party, within the administration, even to sort of put pressure on Joe Biden and the Biden family themselves.
00:24:24.000I think they're under a lot of pressure right now.
00:24:27.000You're already seeing the New York Times, the Washington Post drop concurrent op-eds this week calling for the ouster essentially of Joe Biden from office, saying he shouldn't run again.
00:24:38.000Now, all of a sudden, his son is being indicted.
00:24:40.000The Republicans are over here talking impeachment.
00:24:42.000Kevin McCarthy out there talking impeachment, talking criminal behavior.
00:24:46.000And so, there's a lot of pressure that's going on to the Bidens right now, and all of it really being the linchpin of Hunter Biden.
00:24:59.000So, here's the real thing that here's the real thing that our audience needs to be aware of: is that Weiss is a proven crook, in my opinion.
00:25:09.000He's U.S. Attorney Delaware, now the special counsel.
00:25:13.000Everybody in the, if you read NBC, Politico, whatever, they always say Trump appointed.
00:25:21.000I guess technically he did, but it was by way of recommendation called a blue slip, two Democrat senators, yeah, that basically make their recommendation.
00:25:32.000So, Weiss has been in the Biden pocket for a long, long time, part of that Delaware machine.
00:25:38.000Biden's been in power for 40 plus years.
00:25:41.000So, here's what people need to understand: that if he, because he is under investigation, that this sort of rescues Hunter from testifying before Congress, right?
00:25:58.000There's a couple different ways this could play out because he can just say that, hey, I'm under investigation.
00:26:18.000But also, if that happens, then Hunter could not plead the fifth.
00:26:22.000So, right now, he can say, I can plead the fifth if he gets brought before Congress.
00:26:26.000I'm pleading the fifth, I'm pleading the fifth, and refuse to testify before Congress.
00:26:31.000So, his Fifth Amendment protections would also disappear if Weiss gives Hunter a plea agreement with a prosecution waiver or some other immunity.
00:26:40.000So, as soon as you put Hunter in an immune from anything box, he no longer can plead the fifth.
00:26:48.000You could subpoena him right away before Congress, and boom, he has to talk or else he's going to be putting himself at risk.
00:26:55.000But as long as he is under investigation, as long, I mean, this guy's never going to see jail time, never going to go to prison.
00:27:01.000As soon as he has immunity of any sort, a plea deal of any sort, any sort, he's under the gun.
00:27:09.000But as long as they keep dragging this out until 2025, if Joe Biden's re-elected, if that's that's the game they're playing, then Joe Biden will pardon him or some other, he'll get community service, something else like this.
00:27:22.000So, the audience needs to understand this is all about protecting Joe Biden and protecting Hunter to insulate Joe Biden.
00:27:33.000I think it's probably, I think it's easy to overanalyze these things.
00:27:36.000You know, like we were asking, like, why did they do it now?
00:27:38.000Well, okay, well, it's because they had, you know, a plea deal that got blown up because it was a huge attempt to just, you know, put the whole thing under the rug.
00:27:55.000And I think there is a lot of cynicism on the right.
00:27:58.000Certainly, we've heard Charlie opine on that that this doesn't matter.
00:28:03.000Well, I mean, it is like these are felony charges.
00:28:05.000They do carry a maximum time in prison, I think, of like 15 years or something like that.
00:28:10.000If you stack them all, he won't get that, of course.
00:28:12.000But, you know, these are real charges that they were avoiding bringing against him before.
00:28:17.000And these charges don't preclude charging him for anything else.
00:28:20.000And I think, you know, we have reason to be happy with that.
00:28:23.000We have taken something they tried to first completely scuttle in the 2020 election.
00:28:27.000And they, you know, they managed to probably get Joe Biden elected president, but they didn't manage to completely destroy the story.
00:28:33.000They had to admit the laptop was real.
00:28:35.000Then we forced them to bring charges against Hunter when they previously were trying to not do that.
00:28:42.000Then they have to throw out their plea deal and they have to do this.
00:28:44.000Like we're showing signs of progress here.
00:28:47.000At a minimum, we're forcing them to talk about everything that's in it.
00:28:50.000They have to come up with excuses for why it doesn't matter.
00:28:53.000They have to deal with all of these whistleblowers who didn't exist six months ago.
00:28:57.000It is a situation that is gradually getting worse for them.
00:29:01.000And, you know, I don't think we want to just howl that the entire thing is, you know, Democrats doing four-dimensional chess.
00:29:07.000Now, whether they're going to try to exploit this to shove Biden aside, if they might be trying to exploit this to shove Biden aside, or some people will.
00:29:15.000I think it's important to remember Democrats have factions within their party just as much as conservatives do.
00:29:35.000Gavin Newsom makes that statement saying, well, I think that Kamala Harris is the natural successor to Joe Biden when he asked if he's going to run, right?
00:29:44.000But think about what he's actually doing.
00:29:46.000This guy's, Gavin Newsom is a very shrewd operator.
00:29:49.000What he's doing is he's tying Kamala Harris to Joe Biden.
00:29:55.000And he's essentially saying that if we're going to, you're seeing a preview of what actually sounds like a primary candidate attack.
00:30:01.000Think of all the stuff that we're seeing on the Republican side right now, these sort of like thinly veiled attacks.
00:30:07.000So he's basically saying the failures of Joe Biden are tied directly to Kamala Harris.
00:30:12.000And if she tries to run, that he will tie her to them.
00:30:16.000So even though it sounds like he's building her up, I think what he's subtly doing is actually burying her.
00:30:42.000All right, let's go ahead and play Cut 67.
00:30:47.000So I asked our team, our video team, to pull the closest thing that came to a denial that he was going to run from this Chuck Todd, Gavin Newsome interview.
00:31:00.000And I'm going to play it for the audience to see what you guys think.
00:31:12.000And am I supposed to interpret that comment about the vice president that if for some reason the president chose not to run at this point, everybody rallies around her?
00:31:32.000So that's him basically saying, hey, no, Camela will be up next because he cannot be seen to be usurping a woman of color in the power echelon and the Democrat Party.
00:32:32.000It's good to know that you guys can carry the show.
00:32:35.000Without me, I had full faith, and you guys have been doing a great job.
00:32:38.000Yeah, there's a lot of takeaways here.
00:32:40.000Is Gavin going to be, you know, are they going to replace Joe Biden with Gavin?
00:32:45.000I think it's important, and I said this earlier in our program, that it's worth repeating, things are not going very well.
00:32:51.000All is not well in the Democrat circles right now.
00:32:54.000And whether it be the one that I want to really emphasize, though, that we've been playing kind of just for fun over the weekend is the smart guys really felt like this Republican primary was going to be competitive.
00:33:04.000The experts thought that this would be a close Republican primary.
00:33:08.000And I'd love to spend some time on that one because I think that that is an important one.
00:33:14.000I know, Jack, you agree, is because I think if they thought that the Republicans were going to beat themselves up and fight amongst themselves, then there was going to be an opening for all the lawfare to work.
00:33:29.000The fact that Donald Trump is so convincingly up in the primary has been one of the false predictions of the regime in this political year of 2023.
00:33:39.000Jack, why don't you riff on that for a second?
00:33:44.000And that's why I think it's so funny because I remember having these conversations behind the scenes with strategists, with pollsters, with consultants, people telling me, oh, these indictments are going to come.
00:33:55.000Trump is going to drop like a rock in the polls.
00:33:58.000He's going to knock himself out of the race.
00:34:03.000And I remember kind of scratching my head saying, yeah, I see how you guys could think that, but I just don't think that's going to be the case.
00:34:13.000I think people are going to say these indictments are political.
00:34:17.000These polite, these indictments are fake.
00:34:25.000And they are going to have a backlash whereby you will actually see independents, centrists, and moderates, maybe even people that weren't for Trump in 2020, actually start to take another look at him because they will see every institution completely turned against him.
00:34:43.000That's actually been the difference here.
00:34:46.000Also, you just have this complete crater of a campaign by Ron DeSantis, which has now actually hurt his standing.
00:34:55.000Really, just politically, all political capital that he's had is gone.
00:35:02.000And we're not sure even what his political future will be going from here.
00:35:06.000But at the same time, the real big, I think, blinking light, the system blinking red for the Democrats right now is that if you go to real clear politics and you look up the average, the national average, not just for the primary, Charlie, but for the general Trump Biden, Donald Trump is currently leading for, as far as I know, the first time ever in his entire political history,
00:35:36.000leading in the general election against the Democrat.
00:35:40.000It's only by about half a point, but you've never actually seen him up in the real clear politics average.
00:35:47.000As of today, he is now beating Joe Biden in the national popular vote.
00:36:39.000I mean, it always feels like such narcissism when they talk about these things.
00:36:42.000It feels like every four years, they're like, this is the year we're going to have this like real third party that takes off.
00:36:48.000And really, the third party that took off was Donald Trump.
00:36:52.000And he just took over a major party because he was so successful at it.
00:36:54.000He's like, I'm going to take the Ross Perot energy of the 90s, mix in a little of the, you know, the Pat Buchanan energy and a little, some little normal Republican stuff and just take over major party.
00:37:11.000I think we could because there is this real sense that, as you say, the machine is breaking down, that they had this intent that, you know, we could use 2023 to set things up so that 2024 is just this walkover, you know, the election on autopilot.
00:37:27.000They thought, you know, Donald Trump, he does, you know, he focuses a lot on his own affairs.
00:37:31.000So if we indict him, he'll like totally implode, obsess over his criminal cases, forget all about the national election.
00:37:38.000He'll get totally derailed in this primary.
00:37:40.000And they just thought they could set everything up so it would all line up and there's no competitive race whatsoever.
00:37:46.000And instead, that plan is cracking apart.
00:37:49.000And what's very funny is, you know, what none of them were banking on, clearly none of them were actually making any plan on will win because Joe Biden will have a successful presidency that people want another four years of.
00:38:10.000We have the machine set up to be so slick and efficient that it's just impossible to have a competitive race, no matter how disastrous things are by 2024.
00:38:18.000And instead, they're getting caught off guard by shocker.
00:38:21.000It turns out that when the walls were closing in on Trump, he was not actually beaten forever, only the 50th time that's happened.
00:38:28.000And then on top of that, the Biden administration is even more of a mess than they were originally anticipating.
00:38:35.000You know, inflation might be coming back again.
00:38:38.000We see gas prices getting more expensive.
00:38:40.000The Ukraine war seems to be going really badly again.
00:38:44.000And, you know, so that could be Afghanistan 2.0 by next year, where this thing just turns into a total disaster.
00:38:51.000And there's so many things going awry.
00:38:53.000And then, on top of that, Joe Biden has sort of burned a lot of his credibility with the left, which they thought would be fine.
00:38:58.000And instead, they have Cornell West, a person that if you're on the left, you've actually heard of.
00:39:49.000So Trump has this unparalleled ability, at least within the Republican Party, of winning those Rust-belt states, those upper Midwest states.
00:39:58.000Yeah, it didn't work out in 2020, but it was close, razor-thin.
00:40:02.000And we're talking 50,000 votes across three states.
00:41:24.000And I think we're going to see states like Michigan.
00:41:27.000You're seeing the alarm bells go off, play cut 35.
00:41:31.000We're heading into another presidential race.
00:41:34.000If the election were held today in Michigan, do you think Donald Trump as a Republican nominee could beat President Biden as a Democratic nominee?
00:41:41.000I'm going to look at you all right now.
00:41:43.000Everybody says Michigan's a blue state.
00:42:37.000So, so Michael Moore has gone into irrelevancy in recent years, but in the Obama years, he was the ultimate, let's just say, before the internet was a thing, troll-not even.
00:42:50.000This is a, you know, I don't even know if Charlie, were you in like grade school?
00:43:10.000Yeah, he was like the Democrats' Hillbilly elegy.
00:43:14.000So he is really the fact that Andrew doesn't even know his name is not an insult to Andrew at all because he's not in Zeitgeist.
00:43:21.000Michael Moore's irrelevant, which is interesting.
00:43:22.000And by the way, Michael Moore is one of a great example in politics of like when you get famous with Fat Man Energy and all of a sudden you become super skinny, like Al Sharp Bin or Mike Pompeo, it's like really weird.
00:43:47.000Anyway, so, but Michael Moore, he is very in touch with the industrial rust belt.
00:43:52.000He was kind of the ombudsman to the rust belt for the Democrat Party for years, always talking about, you know, fair trade and all these different things.
00:43:59.000He was very similar to kind of what I would call the Garrison Keeler Democrat.
00:44:02.000Michael Moore and Garrison Keiller were two of the more trendy, Midwestern-based Minnesota, Michigan-based Garrison Keeler from Mankato, Minnesota, and Michael Moore from Michigan.
00:44:28.000Because I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump.
00:44:32.000Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor executives and said, if you close these factories as you're planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send it back and nobody's going to buy them.
00:45:53.000This is the same Flint, Michigan that lost their water supply under Barack Obama.
00:45:58.000And if you watch his very first book, his very, very first, excuse me, his very first documentary, Roger and Me, what was it about?
00:46:07.000It was all about the closing of the GM plans.
00:46:11.000This is out in 1989, the closing of the GM plants in Flint, Michigan, the losing of jobs, the fact that they were sending all these jobs overseas, the outsourcing, the fact that they were destroying these American workers, destroying American societies, that they were gutting the entire Midwest.
00:46:31.000And the whole thing, the crux of it is him trying to get an interview with the CEO of General Motors at the time, a guy by the name of Roger Smith.
00:46:40.000So the name of the documentary is Roger and Me.
00:46:42.000And he's just constantly, he's the guy who created the whole, and you see people do this every day now of standing around and running up to politicians or leaders or people in power with a microphone and a camera and sticking it in their face.
00:46:55.000He was, Michael Moore was doing it before Alex Jones was doing it, long before Alex Stein was doing it now.
00:47:01.000So many people, everybody does it in DC now, but Michael Moore actually was the first guy to do this on the big stage.
00:47:08.000And so because of that, it really created an entire industry.
00:47:12.000And so it's almost like he sort of had this tie-in with those populist working class roots that, of course, he completely lost when he became a multi-millionaire.
00:47:29.000And so that's why he just goes in for all the insane rush gatory and insanity full-on TDS.
00:47:34.000But it does seem like there was this one moment, the addicts call it a moment of clarity, where right before the 2016 election, he basically described what was about to happen.
00:47:44.000And then obviously what did happen on that day in November.
00:47:52.000Oh, Jack, here, I got something to add.
00:47:54.000So, here, bringing it back like full circle is the fact that we're talking about third-party candidates and how the margins are so tight.
00:48:03.000And Jack, you made this point earlier that some of these marginal states that we think of marginally blue or whatever, you put Cornell West in there, you put conservative populist energy with Trump, the third-party candidacies are going to completely flip the Democrat machine algorithm.
00:48:19.000And that is why you're seeing Washington Post, New York Times put out warning shots.
00:48:24.000I think if we're going to play back to the Hunter-Biden second and this round two with the gun charges, if you're going to put a positive spin on it, it's because that's another shoe to drop.
00:48:38.000That's another warning sign that Democrat operatives are saying, you know, we're pulling the alarm bells here.
00:48:51.000In the Washington Post, he said, if he's not good at saying no, in other words, Joe Biden is one of the most stubborn politicians you will ever meet.
00:48:58.000This is time and time again the way people describe him.
00:50:07.000This is from the epilogue of Roger and me.
00:50:10.000And it's just, it just, you listen to it, and it sounds like something that Trump could say.
00:50:13.000Michael Moore finally confronts the guy from General Motors and says, Mr. Smith, we just came from Flint where we filmed a family being evicted from their home the day before Christmas Eve, a family that used to work in the factory.
00:50:27.000Would you be willing to come up with us to see what the situation is in Flint is like for those people.
00:50:32.000Smith, I've been to Flint, and I'm sorry for those people, but I don't know anything about it.
00:50:36.000Well, families are being evicted from their homes on Christmas Eve.
00:50:38.000Listen, I'm sure General Motors didn't invict them.
00:50:41.000You'd have to go talk to their landlords.
00:50:43.000Well, they used to work for General Motors and now they don't work there anymore.
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00:52:04.000Okay, Blake, tell us about the Virginia Hooker woman that is running for office.
00:52:47.000And in one of the tightest races in a district that is almost exactly 50-50, there's breaking news this week.
00:52:54.000So there's a candidate named Susanna Gibson.
00:52:58.000She is a nurse practitioner and the mother of two young children running in a highly competitive suburban Richmond district.
00:53:04.000And she has a side job that was recently brought before public attention, which is that she and her husband have performed sex acts on camera for money on a pornographic website.
00:53:17.000And now the entire world knows about it.
00:53:20.000And the response of Democrats has been to replace her on the ballot.
00:53:25.000The response of Democrats has been to say that it is totally fine to do paid sex acts on camera and basically be a prostitute as long as you're a Democrat, I guess.
00:53:37.000And so we have this headline right now in Politico.
00:53:42.000So what if a candidate live-streamed sex acts with her husband, they leave out for money?
00:53:49.000And that is what we're campaigning on in Virginia right now.
00:53:52.000And so we may be on the brink of them successfully pulling that one off and taking politicians from merely figurative prostitutes to literal prostitutes.
00:54:03.000You know, I remember a time when there was a rumor, a very, very nasty, pernicious, disgusting rumor of a certain tape about Donald Trump in Moscow in a hotel that was bandied about across the entire internet.
00:54:50.000And they said interesting thing to note.
00:54:52.000One of the details here is that there were acts they were doing that they had to take to a private room on this website that they were using.
00:55:01.000So much of this basically became public because they were doing it on a website that literally anyone can visit.
00:55:08.000And, you know, horned up porn addicts mean who they are.
00:55:12.000They have created mirror websites that automatically record all of the videos on this live porn broadcasting website and they archive it so they can watch it later.
00:55:23.000So a lot of the reporting, including from the New York Times, has talked about these videos being leaked onto the internet, which they're about as leaked as your average upload on YouTube is if someone shares a link for them.
00:55:49.000So the Virginia House of Delegates, it's a very competitive race here.
00:55:53.000And there's a lot of outside money pro-abortion groups that flood into Virginia.
00:55:57.000So this woman was definitely at some point sat down with a bunch of consultants, Susanna Gibson, and they said, okay, they're going to run attack ads against you, Susannah Gibson.
00:56:22.000And imagine the calculus in her head where either she didn't think this was a big deal or thinking this wouldn't come out, being like, oh, wait, you mean that the thing I do every Thursday night where we film with my husband having sex for money is not going to somehow, like, you know, come out in an opposition research file?
00:56:44.000Like, this was not going to be made public.
00:57:48.000So hot wifing, this is, it's a play on a military, a piece of military slang known as hot racking.
00:57:55.000So in hot racking, that's when you're stationed at a garrison or like when I was in the Navy, this happens on the LA class attack sub sometimes when there's not enough birthing for everybody.
00:58:06.000So you're, it basically means you're sharing a bed, right?
00:58:08.000So, but at different, on different shifts.
00:58:10.000So someone's on day shift, then the other person's sleeping.
00:58:18.000According to Urban Dictionary, hot wifing is a term where a hot wife is a woman whose husband likes to share her sexually with other men or likes to watch her have sex with other men and the wife enjoys pleasing her husband in this way.
00:58:34.000This is different, supposedly, from cuckolding, wherein the husband is not a sub.
00:58:42.000Hot wifing supposedly does not involve the humiliation of any of the participants.
00:58:49.000The section here, the couple spends most weekends hot wifing with men they met online.
00:58:55.000So, just so everybody knows the truth.
00:58:57.000Yeah, but that's that actually contradicts some of the reporting that I've seen.
00:59:01.000So, so I guess he's quoted, the husband is quoted as saying in the live streams, it admitted that sometimes she quote unquote makes him allow her to have sex with other men.
01:00:59.000I think we need to hook her up with Andrew Tate.
01:01:01.000You've got to be careful with the word hooking up there.
01:01:04.000One of the things I really want to flag again in this politico headline, the one that says, you know, who cares if our politicians are prostitutes?
01:01:12.000It's politicians have always pushed society's sexual boundaries.
01:01:44.000Didn't John Fetterman have like some double murderer on his staff at one point when he was running for Senate?
01:01:50.000I mean, didn't Democrats take reforms?
01:01:52.000I mean, Democrats took Ted Kennedy, who killed a girl that he was cheating on his spouse with, and they called him the conscience of the Senate.
01:02:00.000They actually have called him that at some point.
01:02:02.000And like, you know, one of the greatest senators to ever live.
01:02:05.000So I guess it was rather inevitable we'd go from that to this.
01:05:33.000But no, but a lot of these, a lot of these sorority girls at major state-run institutions who go to college, who don't actually study, they end up making OnlyFans accounts and sell their bodies for cash.
01:05:48.000And then on the weekends, they'll dress up in very revealing, you know, type clothes and they'll go on a girlfriend experience with some hedge fund guy in Scottsdale at a nice steakhouse and get $2,000 for companionship.
01:06:04.000Do you guys remember when OnlyFans tried to get rid of nudity and it just like completely, it completely backfired?
01:06:46.000No, but there are companies that, and it's been sued many times and criminally investigated as prostitution companies that are escort services, right?
01:06:55.000That and they will go on dates with men, and they'll say, oh, you're just paying for the experience of the girl coming with you.
01:08:32.000I love the steel guitar getting in there.
01:08:35.000But then when he started giving these interviews, all of a sudden, it seemed to be a different voice that was coming out than the ones that wrote the words of that song.
01:08:44.000And now we have a situation where, and I'll explain it in as short terms as possible: a show that he was planning to do with Cotton Eye Joe was canceled.
01:08:55.000This was going to be at the Knoxville Convention Center in Tennessee.
01:09:06.000We're canceling over high ticket prices.
01:09:08.000And he made a post essentially blaming the promoters for setting ticket prices too high.
01:09:17.000However, the promoters at the convention center then came out with their own post saying, It's a dang shame what the world's gotten to for customers of the world famous Cotton Joe.
01:09:30.000Many times we say a show has been canceled due to circumstances beyond our control.
01:09:35.000Well, we are canceling the Oliver Anthony show under our full control.
01:09:40.000And they are pointing out that the reason that the tickets went up is because Oliver Anthony had agreed for an hour-long show at $120,000 fee.
01:09:55.000They said, Look, and I'm sorry, folks, but if you haven't run a public event before, and we all know that Charlie Kirk has run a million of these things, you just don't appreciate everything that goes into it.
01:10:08.000The overhead, the size of the venue, the insurance, security, all of the little pieces, the moving parts, the vendors that you need to pay when you're running into these things.
01:10:18.000And so you're basically saying, look, if this guy wants us to drop our ticket cost without dropping the cost that he's agreed to be paid when we come out from this thing, then what he's really trying to do is make us lose money on a contract that he's already made with us.
01:10:38.000And of course, Oliver Anthony now has come back saying, Hey, I didn't know this, this isn't my fault.
01:10:55.000No, I'm not on Oliver Anthony's side because he produces noise, not music.
01:11:00.000But beyond that, the part here that really bothers me, this is such, this is someone who is almost thinking like, I'm not saying is thinking like a trained Marxist that does not understand incentives, understand how markets work, quite honestly.
01:11:24.000But simultaneously, I'm going to price control the tickets and I'm going to basically centrally plan and intervene with the person that is then going to run all the production.
01:12:21.000I mean, for example, I don't know if this is planned to be an outdoor event, but if it was going to be an outdoor event, you know, bad weather could cancel the event.
01:12:28.000You know, you could have traffic problems, parking problems.
01:12:30.000I mean, just you guys know, ActCon, we had the Secret Service completely and totally, you know, obliterate our events and we had to deal with that.
01:12:39.000You stay up all night in the days that lead up to it, right?
01:12:43.000You're constantly dealing with customer service problems.
01:12:46.000And as we run these events, right, you start to learn that the appreciation of putting them on is completely, it's not, you know, it's not lost on those of us that do it.
01:12:59.000But I look at this Oliver Anthony thing and I, and I, I can't help but think that, you know, this, this guy's thinking like the very same people we were fighting, which is like a Marxist, which is he says, give me all my money, and then I'm going to price control the tickets for the rest of them.
01:13:25.000There's a John Lennon line where in this Playboy, famous Playboy interview that he gave before he was burdered, and they asked him a question about, you know, well, you sing all these songs about no possessions and no borders, and you know, but you've got, you know, multiple houses, you've got your penthouse in New York, you've got millions and millions of dollars.
01:13:46.000You know, why don't you share any of your money?
01:13:48.000And John Lennon responds to the interviewer and he says, well, no, that's different.
01:14:02.000It's very easy to be generous with other people's money, right?
01:14:05.000So it's easy for Oliver Anthony to say the working class guy.
01:14:08.000And now, in reality, he's actually depriving his fans from having a great experience to be able to see him because he wanted the price control and say, oh, you know, I think that this is, you know, this costs too much.
01:14:22.000And so while he's railing against the rich men of, you know, the wealthy man north of Richmond or whatever his whole thing is, which I think there's some fair wisdom in his piece, it's honestly a very well-composed piece.
01:14:37.000And it's also, this is one of the reasons where we have to be very careful not to allow the destruction of markets just based on any sort of seed of resentment.
01:14:52.000That this could have been an above-all winner for all people.
01:15:02.000And Oliver, I don't know, do we have this tape him of him now speaking out?
01:15:07.000And he has no idea what he's talking about, honestly.
01:15:10.000And so, by the way, why doesn't Oliver Anthony just go do a concert for free?
01:15:14.000Why doesn't Oliver Anthony say such a cultural phenomenon?
01:15:17.000Why doesn't Oliver Anthony just go to Richmond and go get a free speech permit with his guitar and just go give a free concert for the people, man?
01:16:39.000Banjo Ginger Bernie Sanders is what this is.
01:16:43.000Screaming about, well, you know, this is BS prices.
01:16:46.000$100 is actually a pretty mainstream ticket price in America, is actually what this is.
01:16:54.000And he's saying, oh, no, don't pay this.
01:16:56.000Again, Mr. Anthony, why don't you go get a free speech permit and go perform a free concert at Richmond if you're really a man of the people and you could have a little collection box and people would give you money because you want to get paid.
01:17:11.000I have no problem with people getting paid.
01:17:14.000What I do have a big problem with is people all of a sudden complaining that people want to pay you when you are charging to get paid and with zero understanding how multi-dimensional systems work.
01:17:31.000Incentives, ticketing, promotion, insurance, all of it.
01:17:36.000Okay, you guys can take it from there.
01:17:38.000Or just on the flip side, the flip side of it, it's like, if you don't like a $100 price tag for a concert, there's a radical act that you can do.
01:17:49.000Now, I want to prepare everyone who's about to say this, but don't go.
01:17:53.000Don't go to the concert if it's too expensive to you.
01:18:14.000But it's all just, it's all just very stupid.
01:18:19.000Well, listen, here's what stood out to me.
01:18:22.000And hat tip to Cernovich for calling this out.
01:18:25.000But if you read Oliver Anthony's tweet about it, he goes, Cotton Eye, it's very deceptive.
01:18:31.000This is to Charlie's point, it's written totally like a Marxist.
01:18:35.000Cotton Eyed Joe claims we are charging people $120,000 per show.
01:18:40.000They have since turned their comment off, but I want to clarify.
01:18:44.000The most I've ever made on a show is $35,000.
01:18:47.000We've done two shows in North Carolina that were completely free and have another show, free show scheduled September 30, 23rd in Kentucky for a cancer benefit.
01:20:22.000It comes from the people who, by the way, are willing to spend more to do a meet and greet with you, get a selfie with you, have you maybe record a little video with them or something.
01:20:33.000That's where the money comes from to get all of those people.
01:20:48.000But it's really not about the people because you wouldn't actually take the time to understand how any of these productions work or have even a little bit of just humility, just basic humility over understanding that you're walking into a situation that a lot of people have walked into before.
01:21:07.000A lot of people have put a lot of work, a lot of reputations, a lot of credibility on the line, and you're now deciding you're going to dictate to them what the terms are going to be and how things are going to go.
01:21:24.000But just understand that you're going to be playing at a different tier of venue, a different size of crowd, a different amount of people, because that's just the way the world works.
01:21:36.000And you can't change the way the world works just because you wish you want it so bad.
01:25:53.000It's very clear that Oliver Anthony hates people who own the means of production.
01:25:58.000George Orwell called himself a socialist for most of his life.
01:26:01.000And the more he hung around socialists, he realized they were more animated by the hatred of the rich than trying to take care of the poor.
01:26:11.000We have to be very careful that our heroes who might say a thing or two to try to represent working people are not animated by trying to go after people who own the means of production.
01:26:24.000I am all for representation for the working class, the white working class, the black working class, all of it.
01:26:29.000I am all for restoring the muscular class in this country.
01:26:34.000But if we start to get in a direction where all of a sudden we're driven by people that have deep-seated envy, anger, resentment, like Oliver Anthony, then we're going to be in a real tough spot, in a bad spot, actually, because I think deep down, Oliver Anthony hates people who start businesses, hates entrepreneurs.