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00:04:38.000You're like a catcher in baseball almost.
00:04:40.000It's hard to be hard to be an all-star and be a center, but when you are, I mean, you just put it strategically alters the way the game is played.
00:09:03.000So, you know, for people who know that when we, when we shoot, you know, Thought Crime, this is the one show a week where we really do kind of have like a list of topics and they put it on the side there.
00:09:13.000So we sort of chat about what one we want to talk about.
00:09:16.000And I said, look, this whole Nikki Haley play, the big money getting behind her, Americans for Prosperity.
00:09:22.000Charlie, you did a huge monologue on this the other day, talking about the Koch network and their origins and sort of their shift in politics, or at least where they stand on the political spectrum and how their dollars are being leveraged at this point in politics.
00:09:34.000And we were going to sort of have that conversation.
00:09:37.000And then all of a sudden, at this massive like Masters of the Universe Wall Street meeting, the CEO of JP Morgan, Jamie Diamond, gets up and starts telling everybody how important it is that they all go and get behind Nikki Haley.
00:10:36.000So the Yankees, that's your financial sector.
00:10:38.000That's your Northeastern old money, then tied into the energy concerns, the energy interest down in Texas and the military industrial complex, which of course has a massive power base in South Carolina.
00:10:52.000So South Carolina and the Cowboys energy industry tied in with finance.
00:10:59.000Now all of a sudden, you got Nikki Haley.
00:11:01.000Charlie, what is going on with this push?
00:11:04.000Is this actually something where they think Nikki can win?
00:11:20.000We have the documents here printed out.
00:11:22.000If Daisy could find them, and Tyler will be able to add a lot to this.
00:11:26.000The Koch network has convinced themselves through all this fake data and fake polling.
00:11:30.000I don't believe any of it, to be honest with you, that Nikki Haley is the best alternative to Trump and all this.
00:11:35.000And the Koch network has not made a wise political decision for the last decade.
00:11:39.000And Tyler has fought them head on here in Arizona in many different ways.
00:11:44.000So do they think that Nikki's going to win?
00:11:46.000I don't know, but they feel good about it.
00:11:48.000That's the more important answer, Jack, is that these are rich people that can then go to Aspen Christmas parties and they can feel righteous and virtuous that they're not doing the left-wing thing, but they're around someone who's a neoliberal neocon.
00:12:06.000And look, Nikki has run a very disciplined campaign.
00:12:10.000She has been intentional to avoid any MAGA gathering.
00:12:14.000She doesn't want to even try to win us over.
00:12:17.000She believes that she's doing two things.
00:12:27.000And she's not pretending to be one of us, which I actually, in some ways, like respect the game.
00:12:31.000Like she's a corporate shill and she wants to, she's doing the corporate shill thing, right?
00:12:36.000Like no grassroots energy, you know, invade the world, invite the world, future Sedon Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, the whole deal.
00:12:51.000By the way, that used to matter for political power pre-Trump.
00:12:55.000So she still has that muscle memory of when she was governor that you really did need to win over the donor class to be able to win over the rest of the party.
00:13:06.000And not only that, that muscle memory, but she was the heir apparent at one point.
00:13:11.000And so a lot of people forget this, that after Romney, there was this, remember the autopsy of 2012?
00:13:18.000The party needs to go in this different direction.
00:13:21.000We need to be more open to immigrants and Hispanics, the H-1Bs.
00:13:25.000And so it was going to go Marco Rubio and then it was going to go Nikki Haley.
00:13:29.000And then Trump trounces Rubio in the 2016 primary.
00:13:34.000Haley, of course, didn't play a part in that.
00:13:36.000She did at one point compare Donald Trump's rhetoric to Dylan Roof, and I'm not going to let her forget that.
00:13:42.000And then she goes, gets into the Trump administration.
00:13:45.000She begs him to become Secretary of State.
00:13:48.000He says a woman shouldn't be, shouldn't be.
00:14:01.000She becomes UN ambassador and then she leaves, kind of rage quits, and then decides to run against him, even though he basically asked her not to.
00:14:08.000So I think that she's, it's not just the muscle memory.
00:14:11.000It's sort of like very similar to a Hillary Clinton where, you know, you stole my destiny.
00:14:16.000This was rightfully mine and you took it away from me.
00:14:19.000There's a lot of entitlement that Nikki feels.
00:14:58.000He has empowered shows like ours, organizations like Turning Point.
00:15:03.000I can say this, and I don't say it braggadociously, but Tyler, 10 years ago, Turning Point did not exist, 11 years ago.
00:15:08.00011 years later, Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action, Thought Crimes, Charlie Kirk show, Jack Besobic is more powerful than the Koch Network.
00:15:23.000How is it that a bunch of upstart entrepreneurs like us now matter more than the Kokes?
00:15:29.000Well, the first wrong that the Koch network did, they committed, was going into states and then basically negotiating with terrorists like John McCain and others, right?
00:15:43.000So the biggest mistake that the Cokes made was they lied to the entire base, which was the tricky part, right?
00:15:48.000Which was we're ultra conservative, we're libertarian, we're, you know, we're the, we're the constitutionalists.
00:16:46.000He took the best of the best from that world to kind of help run some operational stuff.
00:16:52.000And then he moved on and everybody within the conservative base started going, it broke the spell.
00:16:57.000They started going, oh my gosh, all these people have been lying to us for the last 10 years, basically, last eight years.
00:17:03.000And these people that were our Tea Party beloved saviors, which they were funding a lot of Tea Party type behavior, turned out they were just doing that in order to try to control us.
00:17:14.000And in the background, making deals with the Bushes and the McCains.
00:17:18.000And yeah, Corey Gardner is a perfect example.
00:17:20.000I mean, so many people who are now out of office.
00:17:33.000And now these people that are still around that are kind of the hangover piece of this are trying to split the fence.
00:17:40.000They're trying to like make MAGA happy while trying to make that side happy.
00:17:44.000And almost always they're failing and getting evicted from office.
00:17:49.000So Nikki's like one side of the fence now, right?
00:17:51.000Like now it's just, I think it also, it's if I was a Koch network and I wanted to be relevant and impactful, I certainly wouldn't endorse someone who's going to lose by 30 or 40 points.
00:18:04.000I think they actually think they're more powerful than they really are, though.
00:18:10.000I think what they think is that at some point the Trump MAGA America First movement is going to die and they want to be there to pick up the pieces.
00:18:21.000So is this about setting her up for maybe 28 or basically like setting up a national infrastructure to run as a placeholder, that kind of thing?
00:18:31.000I mean, I think in large part, they're willing to have people, what they want to see happen is they've, with their corporate partners, right?
00:19:04.000And so their view of this is like MAGA America First is going to die at some point.
00:19:10.000The Kerry Lakes of the world are going to die off.
00:19:12.000The Donald Trumps are going to die off.
00:19:14.000And we're going to retake visa v the chamber.
00:19:19.000And so when they lose, when MAGA loses, because we're going to help them lose, because we don't care if Joe Biden becomes president for a second term or whatever, then we'll pick up all the pieces and we'll be able to say, ha, see, I told you so.
00:19:33.000And then everybody will adopt the future Nikki Haleys of the movement because we'll go back to that.
00:20:04.000And then Tucker explained it every night for six years and built and grew and strengthened the conservative base where next thing you know, all of a sudden the majority of the conservative base, majority of the conservative influencers, majority will now be in that populist nationalist direction.
00:21:07.000I think that is very safe to say right now, unknown political future.
00:21:10.000Doesn't matter about the band of the Kim Reynolds endorsement in Iowa, right?
00:21:15.000Tucker is the last man standing and perhaps the best choice all along.
00:21:22.000And I think you're right that he is the one that added the intellectual foundation to the MAGA movement that Trump can kind of explain it to the everyman.
00:21:32.000Tucker can add the intellectual foundation and the heft necessary to keep the movement building and growing in the long term.
00:21:39.000So we'll see if there's any life to that.
00:21:42.000I've heard through the grapevine that Tucker's actually entertaining the idea.
00:21:47.000Who knows how realistic it might ultimately be, but I think you're right.
00:21:57.000Look, when I'm looking at the idea of what the future of this is, it's simply this, right?
00:22:08.000You can talk about Trump, you can talk about the Tea Party, you can talk about all these forces moving together, that they've shifted the strategic delta of the fight from left-right to nationalist globalist.
00:22:20.000And this is something that we talked about a ton in 2016, 2017.
00:22:26.000But you can really see this when it comes to a lot of these foreign disputes.
00:22:31.000The Ukraine war, you know, he's a perfect example of that.
00:22:34.000You know, someone who's going full bore in for Zelensky, a guy that's, it doesn't need to be said, he's put his country into his death spiral at this point, and he's been making tons of money off of it on the side.
00:22:55.000And so suddenly he's now bringing people into the party in a way that, as I said before, after that autopsy of 2012, they said, oh, the Republican Party needs to basically needs to cuck on immigration.
00:23:08.000And if you cuck on immigration and say that, oh, we're for amnesty, which of course goes right into what the Chamber of Commerce wants and goes right into what you're seeing a ton of these financial interests go in for.
00:23:20.000Now this is going to be the way that we get it forward.
00:23:22.000So, okay, we're going to be for amnesty.
00:23:24.000We're going to be, and we're also going to be for massive increases in legal immigration.
00:23:28.000And Nikki Haley has said this time and time again, how, you know, we need to go to the companies and ask them what they want.
00:23:34.000It's like these same reheated talking points from 2012 that didn't win, that got Mitt Romney destroyed, and would certainly get any candidate destroyed if they were actually on the general election ballot.
00:23:46.000And this is why Trump was able to win the Rust Belt in a way that no other Republican was able to do so for years.
00:23:53.000That he unlocked it by simply saying, I'm going to fight for the workers of this country.
00:23:58.000I'm going to fight for the people of this country to get their fair share in international trade.
00:24:19.000It's like, yeah, it's a tax on other countries for the privilege of doing business within the United States.
00:24:25.000By the way, tariffs are also what built this country for the first hundred years of its existence.
00:24:29.000So, yeah, we're going to go back to those and we're going to protect our workers the same way that most other serious countries protect their workers and their industries.
00:24:38.000And so, when you see Trump moving on all of these issues and at the same token, dropping some of the fights that he has rightly assessed are just not useful or not profitable for Republicans and conservatives to not put those issues at the forefront rather than focusing on issues where Republicans and conservatives do have the advantage.
00:25:01.000That's how you're actually able to bring people into the party.
00:25:07.000And of course, so your doctrinaire conservatives, your libertarians, your textualists, they get very, very upset about this because he looks at these things pragmatically and says, all right, what do we need to do to win?
00:25:20.000And oh, by the way, what policies would be better for the United States?
00:25:23.000Not, he's not going to, you know, it's true.
00:25:26.000And people have said, well, he's not a doctrinaire conservative.
00:26:43.000AFP Action's endorsement will put thousands of AFP action activists and grassroots leaders in the field knocking on doors and urging voters to support Nikki Haley.
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00:27:20.000They use their targeted polling technologies through I-360.
00:28:03.000Where does this come from and what is the truth?
00:28:06.000Well, Charlie, it comes from the echo chambers that they inhabit on every, on a daily basis, the people that they're talking to in their spheres, the people that go back to the Jamie Dimon, right?
00:28:18.000Go back to the Jamie Dimon clip that we played at the start of all of this.
00:28:20.000So Jamie Dimon gets up in that room and says, look, I know there's liberal Democrats in here, but it's important for you to support Nikki Haley.
00:28:27.000Now, imagine the reaction if he had said, I want you to support Donald Trump.
00:28:33.000Now, obviously, it would have gotten a lot of headlines.
00:28:35.000It would have gone hyper-viral, probably even more viral than this video has.
00:28:39.000But, you know, there was a mild, tepid response and people said, oh, okay, you know, I'll go for that.
00:28:43.000Aaron Sorkin is sitting next to him there going, you know, well, maybe, you know, or Andrew Sorgan and a relation.
00:28:52.000And they, this is because the people within that class, the people within the limousine class, the country club class, this is someone to them who is palatable.
00:29:08.000This is someone who they think is the person who should be president.
00:29:14.000This is built into their social mores.
00:29:19.000It's also someone who, you know, Trump, he's sort of like, you know, he's kind of like Rodney Dangerfield and Caddyshack.
00:29:25.000You know, if anyone remembers that, I know I'm kind of dating myself with a reference, but just someone who, even though he checks off all of the boxes, the Jetset class, the leadership class, the elite don't want him in because they know he's from Queens.
00:30:19.000I'm talking about in 2016 when Fox News ran segments again and again and again saying that Donald Trump will not make it to 1235.
00:30:28.000Yeah, and it's just not, by the way, instead of worrying about all this top-level polling AFP, why don't you guys worry about ballot chasing and the actual infrastructure that's going to get us to win?
00:30:38.000Diagnose the problem and actually figure out how to go about fixing it.
00:30:43.000It is, it's as if, entirely, let's talk about this.
00:30:46.000We have a lot of great donors at Turning Point USA.
00:30:48.000The thing that bothers me and Turning Point Action, when people use donors as a pejorative, some donors are great, some donors are awful, right?
00:31:15.000I don't need to give them my money too.
00:31:18.000And then they go out and do stuff against my value.
00:31:21.000Yes, the crazy stuff, like work with like, you know, super neocon-y type people.
00:31:27.000And that's, that's the antithesis of what they said they were.
00:31:31.000But this is probably the most important fact around Cooks and them losing control and all that.
00:31:38.000And forget the fact that you have aging out and brothers passing away and things like that.
00:31:44.000You have a bunch of people who are underneath that have been running that operation for so long that all they care about, again, is making money.
00:31:51.000So this is, you have a consultant class driven culture.
00:32:15.000They hate conservative activists, grassroots activists, because the only thing that can prevent them from taking power is when people organize and take people out.
00:32:53.000And Dave Bratt came out of nowhere and beat her, beat him.
00:32:55.000But anyways, they realized in that moment, that is the only thing that can prevent us from moving forward.
00:33:01.000And then what happens just a couple of years later, Donald Trump.
00:33:04.000And then everything starts to break apart.
00:33:07.000So at this point, they're in like a totally different pullback mentality, which is like, hey, we've got to take a completely different approach to this.
00:33:16.000We're perfectly okay pushing kind of almost a third party, which is what they're doing with Kirsten Cinema at this point, and trying to talk Joe Manchin into doing it and other people.
00:33:26.000And that is for now their pathway forward to retaking the Republican Party.
00:33:31.000Well, part of that is ranked choice voting.
00:33:34.000They want to get rid of the party elections.
00:33:36.000This is the reason why they want to get rid of the party elections.
00:33:39.000If they can eliminate party elections, precinct committee men elections, all of this, they have more likelihood of retaking the party and preventing an Eric Cantor situation to ever again happen in the future.
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00:35:11.000So last week, right before Thought Crime, I went and saw the first showing of Napoleon literally right after Human Events finished, you know, where the studio is here.
00:35:23.000We've got a theater that's basically across the street.
00:35:25.000So went over, sat down, said, all right, this is for show prep.
00:35:48.000Poland was a country that's extremely pro-Napoleon.
00:35:51.000Poland actually still has Napoleon in the national anthem because Napoleon fought for Polish independence.
00:35:56.000And that's why a lot of the Polish legions joined the Napoleonic army in the invasion of Russia, as long as many Prussians and Austrians, etc.
00:36:06.000But so when Napoleon came out, of course, the trailer looked great.
00:36:14.000But then there was this interesting underlying sense that, you know, are they just going to depict him as a cuck the entire film?
00:36:21.000Well, it turns out, Charlie, and for anyone else who hasn't seen it yet, this is exactly how they show him.
00:36:26.000So, you know, this movie is that Napoleon is an overly ambitious, crazy, deranged psychopath.
00:36:34.000He is constantly being cheated on, and that is his sole animating purpose.
00:36:39.000And so, even though he goes on to win several of the battles that you see in very brief scenes, by the way, most of the scenes that you see in the trailer are the only scenes they actually show of the battles themselves.
00:36:50.000It's really all about how mad he is at his wife, later becomes his ex-wife.
00:36:55.000It doesn't show anything of Napoleon the general.
00:36:59.000Napoleon, you could arguably say the single most victorious general in human history, a guy who wins something somewhere northwards of 90% of his battles, which is just completely unprecedented.
00:37:13.000There's no explanation of his rise to power or why the people supported him, why his army supported him.
00:37:20.000They basically just say, well, he's a nutjob.
00:37:22.000And France went crazy for about 20 years and then England won the end.
00:37:33.000It's kind of like, it's kind of like reading a Wikipedia article or something.
00:37:36.000It's like somebody went through a Wikipedia and went through.
00:37:41.000So, you know, you can read a Wikipedia article and get maybe like a couple of vignettes of different items of someone's life, but they're all going to be completely skewed.
00:37:49.000If it's someone who's a historical figure, a political figure, it's always going to be skewed.
00:37:52.000And then it just jumps from one thing to another.
00:37:55.000So in one scene, he's like, you know, there's a sex scene between him and Empress Josephine.
00:38:01.000Then suddenly he's fighting in Egypt and he's shooting cannons at the pyramids, which they don't explain why.
00:38:09.000Then he's like staring at a mummy and he hits the mummy with his hat.
00:38:13.000And then it cuts again and he's back in France.
00:38:15.000And then suddenly he's like marching into Russia.
00:38:18.000And you have no understanding of what the context is.
00:38:21.000The battle scenes just show guys kind of running at each other, but there's no actual background as to why these battles are taking place.
00:38:29.000There's no understanding of what the political situation is, why France is doing these things.
00:38:35.000It's all, again, it's just all tied to this.
00:38:39.000The backbone of the whole film really is him being upset at his wife.
00:38:44.000So I, I mean, this is a man of destiny, as Hegel would call it.
00:38:49.000He's one of the most interesting people ever.
00:38:52.000And interestingly enough, he actually treated Jews very, very well.
00:38:55.000Was that communicated in the film of how he was actually protective of Jews and actually how he hated the Papal States for how they treated Jews?
00:39:10.000There's no explanation of the Napoleonic Code.
00:39:13.000There's no explanation of the reforms that he put through during his rule.
00:39:17.000The fact that he was generally a populist while he was in charge.
00:39:22.000There's no explanation of any of these things, Charlie.
00:39:24.000It's just he's some nutjob who magically came to power.
00:39:29.000Like there's even, there's hardly even any other characters in the film, like these, these incredible figures, these world historic figures that set forward, you know, the course of human events from the 18th century or the 19th century, the 1800s.
00:39:44.000You know, you easily could have had him writing a letter to Thomas Jefferson and talking about the Louisiana Purchase or, you know, having him maybe, I don't know, because at one point he was considering attacking New Spain and really arming the New France, which was later became the Louisiana Purchase.
00:40:03.000And so at one point, he was actually considering sending troops and mobilizing them to the Americas.
00:40:08.000It's just imagine what that have meant for American history.
00:40:17.000So Talleyrand, all of the figures, Napoleon's own brother, his family members, they pop up and then they're gone after like one scene.
00:40:26.000And you're left sitting there that if you don't know the background, because when I go to one of these films, I try to put myself in the perspective of, okay, I'm someone who knows nothing about the subject matter, you know, or like if Tanya's there, I'm just kidding, she actually knows a lot about it.
00:40:41.000That, you know, that it left you completely, it would have left you completely confused.
00:41:34.000So, you know, your question is, was, does the regime like this movie?
00:41:39.000And for me, you know, I'm looking at it and the main takeaway that I got is that you had this ending of with this very like baby boomer 1960s, 1970s kind of take that, you know, war is bad and war shouldn't happen.
00:41:54.000We should just be, you know, against war because all conflict is bad, right?
00:42:00.000You know, there's one thing to say I stand for peace, but understanding why countries go to war rather than being this like, you know, like a beatnik hippie or something.
00:42:10.000There's an obvious difference between those two strains of thought.
00:42:15.000It was progressivism, Ridley Scott just pushing this over and over and saying that, you know, men cannot be, there's no such thing as a great man.
00:42:23.000And the Telegraph actually kind of gave this away.
00:42:24.000And so, you know, they said, you know, this is a film that debunks and deconstructs the mythos around great man theory, the great man theory of history.
00:42:33.000And so I'm watching this film thinking, yeah, it really does seem like there's an attack on men of ambition and trying to get around this idea that great man theory, that, you know, this theory that basically we talk about it all the time, that, you know, soft men, weak men create hard times and then hard men create strong times, that this is strong men create good times, that, and this is perpetuated by these great men.
00:42:56.000So they do it with Napoleon, and then all of a sudden we see this trailer for Julius Caesar.
00:43:38.000So, what you're getting at, Jack, is that Napoleon, Caesar, there's this subgenre of content where they're trying to lay the foundation that the right is trying to prop up an authoritarian problem solver, and they're trying to pepper the landscape with this sort of, you know, predictive programming.
00:44:01.000Hyper-masculine, you know, we have to, democracy is some sort of a shared group dynamic that we must protect.
00:44:11.000Yeah, and it's very, it's very much more explicit when you see the Julius Caesar trailer here.
00:44:18.000We must protect democracy from another Julius Caesar coming, the rise of, you know, the rise of the next dictator.
00:44:27.000And by the way, at the end of, and shout out to Mr. Regrove for pointing this out on his review of Napoleon, because there's even a scene, believe it or not, at the end of Napoleon that is a very obvious reference to Andrew Tate, right?
00:44:44.000Like, like something that you'd never think that would, you know, fit itself into a historic, you know, historical narrative, historic fiction of one of these biopics.
00:44:54.000But there's a scene where Napoleon, so it's after Waterloo, and they have Napoleon, and he's about to be exiled for the second time, this time to St. Helena's off the coast of Africa.
00:45:07.000And they go to the very back of the ship, or I should say the aftmost position on the ship, and they find Napoleon eating breakfast, and it's like a traditional British breakfast, and you talk about how good it is.
00:45:20.000And he's surrounded by these young midshipmen.
00:45:23.000And midshipmen are officers in training.
00:45:25.000So you haven't joined the Navy yet, but you're sort of coming up through the academy.
00:45:29.000You're coming up, even the Naval Academy today.
00:45:32.000And they're surrounding Napoleon, and he's regaling them with his stories.
00:45:37.000And then the Duke of Wellington comes up and says, What's this all about?
00:45:41.000And they say, Oh, the youth, they love Napoleon.
00:45:45.000And Wellington kind of goes, That brute, get them out of there.
00:45:48.000And this is clearly a reference to Andrew Tate and the way that Andrew Tate, who in their view is this model of hyper-toxic masculinity, who is completely evil.
00:46:01.000And the only people that it resonates with, again, are young males.
00:46:08.000I want to chime in here, actually, because this, Jack, you touched on it, but I think we could make more of a point on it.
00:46:14.000The great man theory is really what's under attack here.
00:46:17.000I mean, I went to the University of Washington, Seattle, right?
00:46:20.000And I remember, and this is, you know, years ago, not to date myself, but they're giving me a tour of the school.
00:46:26.000And the most beautiful building on campus is the Sousala Library.
00:46:30.000And it's got all these great white men, thinkers of Western society and history up at the top of this statues of them.
00:46:38.000And I remember the tour guide says, well, they're all old white men, so like, who really cares?
00:47:04.000But the great man theory is that great men, you don't have to place a value judgment on their actions or even the product of their actions, but great men can bend history to their will, right?
00:47:17.000So they will overcome obstacles and then bend the trajectory of human history, which is objectively a good thing.
00:47:26.000But this is also why they hate Elon Musk, right?
00:47:29.000So Elon Musk is another white man that is bending history.
00:47:32.000I mean, he went out and did the unthinkable and bought X and very well might be a defining moment in human history because it might allow this populist revolt and revolution that's happening across the globe to take root intellectually, ideologically, in the minds of many more people.
00:47:49.000So I think this idea that it's fallen out of favor is very key.
00:47:54.000So Hollywood is actively working on an assault campaign subconsciously that most people will not pick up, right?
00:48:03.000They'll just see in Donald Trump and think, oh, I better have trepidation before I pull the, you know, pull the lever for Trump because he is this proto-fascist, dictatorial-minded person, right?
00:48:16.000It doesn't matter if it's rooted in truth.
00:48:18.000It's an ideological subversion that is absolutely 100%, I think, intentional.
00:48:24.000And even if it's not intentional, it just shows deeply how the subconscious of the left works and how afraid they are that they are losing power.
00:48:35.000So this great man theory, I think you can't make too much of it.
00:48:51.000And Charlie, I'd ask you about this because, you know, really the opposite of this is what is the opposite of the great man theory is sort of, you know, and the great man theory, I think, is best summed up as history is the history of great men, right?
00:49:07.000When you read about history, you're reading history of great men.
00:49:09.000But the opposite of sort of great man governance, if you want to have that argument, is the longhouse, the longhouse system.
00:49:42.000So your vestiges of law, et cetera, et cetera.
00:49:46.000So pop culture and media and academia, they're very focused on trying to make people afraid of what happens when a society gets too masculine.
00:49:54.000So the Napoleon movie, The Undercurrent, is this what happens?
00:50:22.000Which you think about it, it's like we need to share our feelings and we need to kind of gather around a table and I'll have all this talk.
00:50:31.000Again, I'm not necessarily against democracy and the ideal.
00:50:33.000I just think democracy is a really bad idea.
00:50:35.000Representative government is a good idea.
00:50:39.000But unfortunately, they will not, not unfortunately, the entire intellectual and ideological kind of regime right now refuses to acknowledge that most times history, including civilization, comes down to small groups of alpha men to break things so that you can have peace.
00:51:00.000And that is Washington, Lincoln, Churchill, Patton.
00:51:04.000Like those are four off the top of my head.
00:51:06.000And they were on most of them, Washington being excluded, but Lincoln especially and Churchill were incredibly unpopular before the crisis, unpopular after the crisis, but incredibly necessary during the crisis.
00:51:20.000And democracy is, again, not sustainable, bad idea.
00:51:28.000But this idea that you're somehow going to be able to fix all of our ills and all of our problems by sitting around a table and sharing your feelings, what's hilarious is that you actually end up getting something closer to the tyranny that they say that they do not want.
00:51:44.000It just looks differently and it calls itself something different.
00:51:48.000And, you know, Jack, I think you would agree, the best is in the balance between the feminine and the masculine.
00:51:55.000If you were to ask somebody, what does a society look like if it becomes too feminine?
00:52:21.000We were a country that was founded in war, in a rebellion against the current government of the land.
00:52:31.000You know, where I sit here on the East Coast, you know, this was all part of the British Empire.
00:52:35.000These were British colonies and British citizens under the British crown who decided to rebel against it.
00:52:42.000Then we got to the point where we were a country where the sitting current vice president of the United States challenged the Secretary of the Treasury to a duel to the death, shot and killed him.
00:53:09.000Again, one of, by all accounts, one of our founding fathers by any measure, Alexander Hamilton.
00:53:15.000And now we are a country that puts warning labels on shampoo bottles.
00:53:22.000I want to make a point on this Caesar thing, though.
00:53:25.000If you look back at that trailer, Charlie, you triggered this thought for me.
00:53:28.000You're talking about the mask and the feminine.
00:53:30.000You actually listen to the man in that trailer who's super smart, by the way.
00:53:35.000He's saying something that's sort of broad and you could interpret it either way, but it's just an interesting observation.
00:53:40.000The two women, not trying to be offensive here, but they don't seem like they were maybe, you know, of, let's just say they're people of color, right?
00:53:50.000And yet they're talking about this very masculine man that's, you know, taking, they are incredibly fearful of this person, Caesar.
00:54:02.000They say, I mean, if you would play that clip back, and we don't have to, but you will notice a distinct tonal change between the two women.
00:55:42.000And hat tip to Angelo for making the connection.
00:55:45.000But one of our producers, I mean, if we're really going to extend the fact that this is an echo of Trump, now, first of all, you've got Dan Goldman, the heir to Silver Spoon heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, saying Trump has to be eliminated, right?
00:56:02.000You've got a lot of people basically saying, you know, all of these lawsuits aren't working.
00:56:08.000I mean, everybody's openly questioning the fact: are they going to come for Trump?
00:56:12.000And then you and then you tie in multiple articles, Guardian on Down, about how this is all an echo.
00:56:26.000We've said for a while, they're going to try to kill Trump.
00:56:30.000Somebody, one of us here attended a certain play in Central Park a few years back where they took Julius Caesar, right, and portrayed him as Donald Trump.
00:56:47.000They were doing bathtub scenes together.
00:56:49.000And every single night, night after night after night, they were stabbing Donald Trump to death on that stage in Central Park.
00:56:57.000And let me tell you, when I went there to disrupt this, which was right after Steve Scalise was shot by a rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth MSNBC Russia Gator, that I said, you know, this is the normalization of political violence.
00:57:13.000You're normalizing this, and you are all reminiscent of Joseph Goebbels.
00:57:17.000Goebbels would be proud because you're sitting there cheering, clapping, laughing, by the way, laughing as a guy who's your stand-in for the president of the United States.
00:57:28.000And we're talking like Quentin Tarantino levels of blood on this stage, and the crowd couldn't get, they couldn't get more of it.
00:57:37.000Yeah, and I mean, this is an infinitely deep topic that we can keep going into.
00:57:42.000But again, the American founding, America was founded by men of destiny, as Hegel would say, men that decided to stand up against evil and do good.
00:57:52.000And at the very least, look, Napoleon, I know very little about him.
00:58:31.000Okay, well, then that's fair because that's exactly what it is.
00:58:36.000It starts out that it's not going to be, you know, you think it's actually good for the first couple, like the first 20 minutes or so, are fine.
00:58:45.000And you can see that they've decided to, you know, go ahead and execute the queen of France or, you know, the deposed queen of France at this point.
00:58:53.000And then it cuts to, you know, it cuts to Robespierre.
00:59:00.000He's screaming and he's in, you know, he's in that court, the people's court that they set up, right?
00:59:05.000It's interesting, by the way, how you have all these Marxian-style names, even though this is, you know, years, like 50 years before Marx, or more, though, maybe 75 years before Marx.
00:59:15.000And he's up there saying they, you know, mercy.
00:59:35.000And whenever you rise up like that, as opposed to the American Revolution, which was, as you say, as we've said it here, American nationalist elites leading the country, not a complete just execution of the previous ruling class, that's what you get into.
00:59:54.000And so they depict, and it's documented that Napoleon was there for a number of the executions from the guillotine in France.
01:00:03.000So he's there watching and quite upset about this.
01:00:09.000And then they kind of show how that Robespierre himself gets, you know, gets taken out.
01:00:14.000And then it gets up to the basically the mob of 1795 when basically when the mob then turns itself on the new French government and they turn to who someone at the time, I think it was a commander,
01:00:30.000Commander Napoleon, to say, hey, you need to stop this mob because these guys, it's like a BLM riot, basically, where, you know, or an Antifa riot because I guess they're all white, where they're about to smash down and kill everybody in the center.
01:00:46.000And Napoleon famously says, what shall we do?
01:00:50.000We should disperse the mob with a whiff of grape shot and killed over 100 of them.
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01:02:20.000All right, Tyler, I'll let you take the lead on this, but Jack, can you set Tyler up on this single issue?
01:02:24.000Can I just to blame my last on the previous?
01:02:28.000Napoleon had just become a general on this date when he stopped the mob.
01:02:34.000And that, of course, was basically it's considered the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of whatever came next.
01:02:56.000Okay, so we are going into the single issue op.
01:03:00.000And we've talked about this for a while.
01:03:02.000Tyler, you have a whole side podcast now where you basically talk about this nonstop, how the Democrats have turned single-issue voters into a ballot-harvesting social media machine utilizing TikTok, use elect utilizing all sorts of new media.
01:03:20.000The Republicans, our side, seem to be asleep at the wheel.
01:03:42.000Well, the black voter, we were talking about the Trump and the BLM stuff, and we were questioning whether or not it made sense to put a lot of time and money into chasing BLM endorsements for the 2024 race.
01:03:58.000And I said, please, God, no, for the love of God, no.
01:04:00.000It just, it's a complete waste of time.
01:04:02.000I mean, not that it's a waste of time and money.
01:04:06.000But if you're going to actually be committing resources to something, I would really love to find a way to turn these single-issue voters for our side.
01:04:15.000The same way the left has done this in state after state using the abortion issue.
01:04:19.000They're using referendums in all of the Rust Belt states.
01:04:34.000And it's really simple to, if you think about it, this is, I mean, this is what they've done.
01:04:40.000So the explanation for people, and people don't get this.
01:04:43.000I think I tweeted this out not that long ago.
01:04:44.000People were like, oh my gosh, I just realized this.
01:04:48.000We don't live in the same America anymore because big tech and technology in general and the Democrat Party have made it so that it's pretty accessible to find out who your neighbors like religiously, who your neighbors like politically, and everything else in their own personal life.
01:05:07.000So you know more personally about your neighbors.
01:05:10.000If you really want to know, like it's not that hard to figure out now, you know everything about them.
01:05:15.000Well, to think that that doesn't spill over into how the left is operating politically, that is insane.
01:05:22.000And our side just isn't doing any of it, right?
01:05:25.000So you look at this and you go, okay, well, what is the left actually doing right now?
01:05:29.000Well, they're not going, they're not chasing ballots.
01:05:33.000They're not trying to convert ballots of people who are regular voters that are independents.
01:05:39.000So if you're an independent and you're a 404 voter, which they call that, you voted in the last four elections, they're actually not even, they're not bothering with you, right?
01:05:48.000If they find out that you like love the Democrats now or whatever, then they'll bother with you.
01:05:52.000But in general, they're not going to screw with you because they know you're going to vote.
01:07:21.000What is for the people that don't care about voting, but are either center-right, you know, libertarian, conservative-leaning people that don't care about voting, right?
01:07:30.000So, it's a whole different, it's a whole different subset, cohort, right?
01:07:34.000What would be an issue that they care about singularly that for people that don't really care about voting but lean our way?
01:08:16.000It only is power crime in general if you go super basic.
01:08:19.000But I would argue that it must be a no-nuance or else I would argue that's the reason why Trump got popular, though, was because he made the wall issue, like simplifying the wall issue so easy.
01:09:10.000That's why the wall was such a great way to put it, because it made it, it sort of focused your ire on something else.
01:09:18.000But I mean, I think what's emotionally happening with a lot of Americans, and by the way, you could pull this year after year after year for the last 20 years.
01:10:51.000This is what we were talking about earlier, where Trump in 2016, I think rightfully, decided to choose, like a general would, decided to focus on avenues of attack that were most strategic and advantageous to his own victory.
01:11:05.000He looked at that issue and said, you know, this is something where I'm going to, you know, we're going to put some effort towards this, but it's not going to be the, it's not going to be the access point.
01:11:14.000It's not going to be the main avenue of attack.
01:11:17.000And I think he realized, and you're seeing that now as well, where he's saying, look, we got Roe v. Wade done.
01:11:29.000And I think that's something from a political standpoint, a strategic political standpoint, something that the conservatives should be doing.
01:11:36.000So we fought for years to put this at the state level.
01:12:28.000My argument would be that it's actually not as hard because what we're finding in our data is that the places that have the lowest, the greatest amount of low propensity of voters for Republicans are in rural areas.
01:12:43.000So it's just people who are too lazy or just don't care or they think their vote doesn't matter.
01:12:48.000And so these people just, all they need is basically a nudge and knock on the door to say, hey, I kind of know you or I'm from the neighborhood.
01:12:56.000And I'm more that that alone is the first step.
01:12:59.000It's the same concept as, again, Mary K sales or trying to sell Tupperware door to door or buying the cookies from the kid that's on the football team in your neighborhood.
01:13:29.000And I think maybe the answer is that there's not one single issue on the right that's going to be equivalent to abortion on the left.
01:13:35.000Maybe you have to sort of scatter shot this because, you know, there's some stats that show that 50% of hunters in like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania are not registered to vote.
01:15:03.000I would make the argument here, actually, as part of this, is that that's why we need to focus on different subjects.
01:15:09.000I'm not suggesting that guns aren't a good subject.
01:15:12.000I just, I don't know how, what other topics are there that.
01:15:15.000Well, we have a couple that have come up, and this is where Jack and you are kind of right about things that could go adversely for us in this next election.
01:15:23.000And I hate putting this out in the public, but like, you know, targeting people who are anti-vax, anti-COVID, like lockdowns.
01:18:02.000Also, secretly in their heart of hearts are like, yeah, but like I could see an instance where somebody, you know, I don't want to tell them that they can or my daughter or whatever.
01:18:11.000So that is probably the vast majority of people that when they go to the polling in Montana or Kansas or Ohio, where we see these initiatives fail, that's really what's, I think, the psychology at play with abortion.
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01:22:55.000Look, this is how you actually make the magic that carries you all the way through to Election Day.
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