Jack Posobiec, Blake Neff and Andrew Colbert join us to talk about USA, Canadian hockey, statues, and our manbuns gay. Jack tells us what it's like to travel with the all-star Secretaries of the Trump administration.
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00:01:20.000Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Thought Prime Thursday.
00:01:26.000This is Jack Posobiec coming to you from...
00:01:29.000A little bit of an undisclosed location, but I am here in Washington, D.C., where Kash Patel was just named and confirmed as your next FBI director at CPAC Week.
00:03:19.000Being invited by Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Besant with these European trips, with this really being this massive Trump delegation, a peace delegation, by the way, to Europe, one to NATO, and then another, which started out as a secret trip, which was then announced by President Trump as we were on the way to Kiev, Ukraine, with Secretary Besant with this mineral deal that everyone's talked about.
00:03:46.000Then, of course, J.D. Vance in Munich on the heels of that.
00:03:52.000It's a huge honor, but it's also a huge responsibility.
00:03:58.000President Trump's White House has embraced what I believe is called radical transparency.
00:04:04.000And this radical transparency includes, by the way, not just bringing in new media and independent media.
00:04:11.000Like yours truly, a co-host here on Thought Prime, Human Events Daily.
00:04:16.000But it's also all the people that follow us on social media, all the people that come to us, and really just the ability to put everyone on social media, on X, on podcasts, in the driver's seat, having a front row seat to actual in the driver's seat, having a front row seat to actual world We're not giving you the sanitized, editorialized takes that you're used to getting from mainstream media.
00:04:42.000The Trump administration actually is committed to radical transparency.
00:04:46.000And, of course, as you say, they were losing their minds that I would be invited on these trips.
00:05:05.000We called it the Night Train to Kiev that people can go see at Human Events Daily, on podcasts, wherever.
00:05:09.000And we can actually show you what it's like traveling to Kiev in wartime, being there with the secretary, having these discussions, and then, of course, the world leaders losing their minds that President Trump would conduct himself with this direct diplomacy in ways that we haven't seen really since the 19th the world leaders losing their minds that President Trump would conduct himself with this
00:05:29.000But again, just an absolute honor and a big responsibility, of course, to go there and also tell the story in an accurate way and give all of our viewers the ability to be there as well.
00:05:40.000So, Jack, what did it feel like in Ukraine?
00:05:50.000I'm actually really curious about this because I think that the press coverage of Ukraine I mean, the conflict with Russia, the war with Russia, has been pretty abysmal.
00:05:59.000Like, I don't see a lot of on-the-ground, like, vibe checks.
00:06:03.000I don't see a lot of the reporting you would actually see normally, or you'd expect to see.
00:06:10.000And I think there's probably some really obvious reasons why we can get into that.
00:06:13.000But, like, what did it actually feel like?
00:06:14.000This is me, just, like, an organic question.
00:06:22.000So, Kiev, of course, itself is away from the far front line, so pretty several hours away.
00:06:28.000But actually, as we were there at the same time...
00:06:31.000As an understanding of the seriousness of the war, there was actually a missile strike that hit Kiev the very morning that we arrived in the city.
00:06:40.000And it struck some, it was one of those ones that kind of got deflected.
00:06:43.000And so the shrapnel and different pieces of the missiles that were coming down, I don't know what the intended target was, but they hit some residential areas.
00:06:50.000And in fact, we visited a hospital that had been hit back last summer.
00:06:55.000So this is a really, this is a real war.
00:06:57.000This is something where people have been normal, because it's been normalized, right?
00:07:01.000It's been three years now, in a sense, but people are used to now living on a regular basis with air raid sirens, with missile strikes coming down, with having to see the first responders and fire trucks.
00:07:16.000Ambulances racing all hours of the night to respond to one of these things to hopefully get people out if there are civilians that are wrapped up in any of this, which, of course, does unfortunately happen.
00:07:28.000And by the way, for the average person, it seemed like the air raid sirens go off and they're nonplussed by it because they're almost used to it after three years.
00:07:38.000Andrew, we go to the Hilton in Kiev, so the Hilton downtown Kiev, and we're only there for an hour.
00:07:44.000They say, get off the train, go shower, shave, get your suit on because, you know, we're going to the Prime Minister and then the Ministry of Finance and then finally President Trump.
00:07:54.000And so we go in, and as we're, you know, just sort of doing the registration and checking in, there's a little...
00:08:23.000We'll hide out in the bunker there until it's over.
00:08:26.000And they were just kind of walking through this as if it was part of the normal chat.
00:08:29.000Like, yeah, the gym's open this time to this time, the breakfast is this time to this time, and this is where the air raid bunker is across the street if you should use it during your stay.
00:08:38.000So it's kind of surreal in the sense where there's almost like an eerie normalcy to it over there, but as a guy who doesn't live there, it's like, wait, what do you mean the air raid?
00:08:48.000You know, obviously it's very jarring as well.
00:08:51.000I mean, that kind of reminds me of my experiences in Israel, by the way, where it was just like people kind of with this imminent threat of missiles landing somewhere near them and rockets flying over their heads.
00:09:04.000So I think the human experience is that you kind of normalize these things and you learn to live with them, but it's a very tragic thing.
00:09:13.000And I think that on this note, Jack, that some of our audience could misconstrue.
00:09:19.000Our sort of like anti-continuing the war stance, you know, as being anti-Ukraine.
00:09:39.000I mean, Blake, you could probably summarize better than any of us.
00:09:43.000But the, you know, J.D. Vance had this...
00:09:48.000Five-point breakdown of why the tone out of this administration is, it could feel anti-Ukraine, but it's not.
00:09:58.000There was a line that, I said this to, I forget if it was Politico or one of the interviews that I gave recently, and they said, well, who do you think is winning the war?
00:10:44.000The first time was in May of 2022, just a couple of weeks after it began, a couple of months, I guess.
00:10:49.000They don't want to hear that perspective because they want to have this sort of like Marvel movie version of reality where it's, you know, it's good guys and bad guys, good versus evil and, you know, play up to those that like 14-year-old version of events as if you are a 14-year-old.
00:11:05.000I mean, as opposed to looking at the reality on the ground and saying, look, you know, this stuff is academic for us as Americans.
00:11:11.000You know, we get to root for our favorite team.
00:11:13.000like you're watching the Super Bowl or something, or USA Canada is going to be tonight.
00:11:18.000And of course, we're rooting for the team.
00:11:19.000But in a hockey game or a football game, there aren't people blown to bits and coming home in body bags.
00:11:26.000So no, it's not like rooting on a sports team at all.
00:11:28.000It's the real war, and total war is the realest thing that can possibly happen in a society.
00:11:34.000And it's something where it should be avoided at all costs, if at all possible.
00:11:39.000And that's obviously President Trump and J.D. Vance were elected to do, and that's what they're doing.
00:11:43.000Yeah, I mean, I I just remember like Trump's town hall with Caitlin Collins was like one of the first big events of the last campaign.
00:11:55.000And she pressed him on the Ukrainian conflict and said, and he said, I just want the killing to stop.
00:12:03.000And at the end of the day, that is the most important thing.
00:12:08.000We can debate about, you know, how much territory they need to cede.
00:12:12.000Whether this was winnable at all, we can debate Biden's strategy, a ton of different things, but the bottom line is we want the killing to stop.
00:12:21.000Ukrainians are good people, we want the killing to stop.
00:12:23.000Yeah, it's good people, and this is a cousin word.
00:12:30.000To the Christians out there, do you really want to see another war where Christians are getting blown up, where Christians are being killed?
00:12:37.000And, you know, at the end of the day, people want to sit there and say what they want about NATO. They use this phrase in the military all the time.
00:12:44.000And they say, look, you know, you've got your plans, you've got your operational.
00:12:59.000And in the real world, you can't just do whatever you want.
00:13:02.000If you're at the park and you see a bear that's sleeping and you go up and start poking him and the bear attacks you, you can't turn around and say, oh, well, I didn't attack the bear.
00:13:14.000And unfortunately, we can't change reality.
00:13:17.000So the best we can do is manage our perceptions of reality, manage our expectations of reality, and live in the world as it is that we're given.
00:14:39.000The talent, the skill that you have is crazy.
00:14:42.000And just go out and have a good time tonight.
00:14:45.000And I just want to wish you a lot of luck.
00:14:47.000You really are a skilled group of people.
00:14:49.000It's an honor to talk to you and get out there and there's no pressure.
00:14:55.000I can tell you honestly, every person in here, players, staff, management, coaches, We are all proud Americans and we want to represent our country the best way we can and do our best to bring in a win tonight.
00:15:07.000Thank you again on behalf of everybody.
00:18:19.000That is 1-800-4-RELIEF. 1-800-4-RELIEF. One thing I've always liked about hockey is that hockey is one of the only games where fighting is like...
00:18:33.000There's certain penalty time allotted to it.
00:18:37.000Other, you know, like football, it's okay, you get a personal foul or something, but it isn't something that's institutionalized in the game and normalized in the game the way it is in hockey.
00:18:47.000And so when that game, I guess it was last week when that match took place, the morning after, I just sat both of my sons down.
00:18:56.000I had just gotten home from Ukraine, too, when that game was on.
00:18:59.000I was just, you need to watch these kids.
00:19:01.000You need to watch, you know, the United States of America just kicking the crap out of some canucks.
00:19:06.000Because, honestly, they really deserve it for booing the national anthem.
00:19:10.000But in general, there's this energy, this vibe that's going on with America now.
00:19:16.000That's set, obviously, by President Trump.
00:20:12.000They trick you with this where they say Alberta is Canada's Texas, but Canada's doing a lot more work there than the Texas is in that term.
00:20:24.000Canada's national identity is being more lib than America.
00:20:28.000I don't think you want to add the 40 million more lib than America Canadians.
00:20:33.000Their national sport is basically committing assisted suicide.
00:21:03.000There was a historical issue, a historical mistake that obviously needs to be corrected.
00:21:09.000We're just going to go and hit undo on that one, just like we're hitting undo nationally when it comes to the Biden administration, the Obama administration, and the Carter administration as well.
00:21:18.000Blake, of course, and I have spoken in the past about how we should do that as well with a number of pieces of the 1960s while we're at the Cultural Revolution that took place here in the United States.
00:21:28.000But when it comes to the Panama Canal, it's a joke.
00:21:34.000It's ours by right of the fact that we built it, that we bled for it, that red, white, and blue created it, and it would not exist otherwise.
00:21:43.000When it comes to Greenland, by the way, and I made this comment here on the program a couple of weeks ago, I'll say it again.
00:21:49.000The United States has provided the defensive shield for Greenland since World War II. And yes, that...
00:21:56.000It does grant us certain rights to it, whether you like it or not.
00:22:01.000Look, sovereignty is a key point of sovereignty.
00:22:04.000And Blake, I love your thoughts on this.
00:22:05.000A key point of sovereignty, as J.D. Vance pointed out vis-a-vis NATO, is being able to defend yourselves.
00:22:11.000If you are not able to defend your own nation, then are you really a fully sovereign nation?
00:22:19.000So when all of Europe is saying, oh, we're going to have this army of Europe, and we're going to control ourselves, and we're going to defend ourselves, okay, yeah, go for it.
00:22:28.000But the reason you have the welfare state that you do in Europe...
00:22:31.000It's because the United States provides for your defense, and that's why they all have the free universities and the free healthcare and all the rest of the stuff, because they don't have to pay for defense.
00:22:39.000But then on the flip side of that, what did they do?
00:22:42.000They completely destroyed their birth rates, and so they started importing all these migrants from the third world.
00:22:48.000So you've got no defense, you've got institutions that are completely collapsing, and you've got this huge third world influx, which J.D. Vance rightly pointed out is the largest threat to Europe.
00:23:30.000They would join us on a lot of our conflicts abroad.
00:23:34.000But it's one of those, you know, many different things where they've just, they've certainly followed many of the same patterns we've had where you can watch the videos and you'll have some like...
00:23:43.000Fat person who can't run a mile is in the Canadian military.
00:23:46.000And it's a very welcoming place if you want to affirm your 18 different gender identities within government employment.
00:23:54.000And everything about Canada is sort of sad because Canada was a real country with a real identity.
00:25:32.000The statcan.gc.ca, number of proportion of foreign-born population in Canada, on their own website, they have it projected at over 25% in 2036. This is their own website.
00:26:04.000Yeah, at this point, Canada's national identity is just being anti-America.
00:26:12.000That's basically their whole raison d'etre.
00:26:17.000We're anti-America, and America is big and loud.
00:26:22.000And Pierre Polivier, or however you say his name, Pierre Polivier, the apple-eating guy, who I've always said from that very minute that he put that video out, that it's just very rude and kind of disgusting to eat on camera like that while you're talking to someone.
00:26:38.000So he decided in this moment to attack President Trump rather than side with President Trump against Trudeau, which is just, to me, seems like the most politically brain-dead thing you could do at a moment like this.
00:26:54.000So you're going to side with the European leaders.
00:26:56.000You're going to side with all of the people that are like Adam Schiff and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi and all the rest and attack Trump.
00:27:06.000And try to call yourself Canada first by attacking Trump rather than saying, yes, President Trump is right about the current government.
00:27:17.000And Trudeau's been in power for how long there?
00:27:18.000It would be such an obvious political move to rally the people like those great freedom truckers that we saw in the Freedom Convoy a couple of years ago.
00:27:57.000I cannot imagine, I mean, what is America at right now?
00:28:00.00014% foreign-born or something like that, Blake, which is already, you know, maxing the population and stressing the culture.
00:28:08.000I mean, which is one of the reasons President Trump got elected.
00:28:11.000But living in a country, I mean, this is on their website.
00:28:15.000Like, from their national, like, statistical, whatever that is, StatCan, you know, Statistics Canada.
00:28:24.000To live in a country bordering on 30% by 2036 of foreign-born population in Canada, that's extraordinary.
00:28:33.000And the amount of social upheaval that you would experience in a country with nearly 30% foreign-born is pretty unthinkable, actually.
00:28:42.000And I don't think Canada yet fully appreciates that unless they're all ready to subdue themselves and submit themselves to foreign invaders that will then have power over them.
00:28:56.000Because that's what's going to happen.
00:28:57.000They will not have the will, the national identity, or the internal strength, constitution to overcome these foreigners that are going to tell them how to live and how to vote and how to run their country.
00:29:14.000And I think what, Blake, you might know this better than, but they've, essentially Trudeau has said he's going to step down, but he's going to serve until something happens, essentially.
00:30:04.000In Canada, the parties are vastly more centralized than they are in the U.S. In the U.S., You have the Republicans and Democrats.
00:30:12.000There's only two parties, but a random real estate guy can just roll in and hijack the GOP and say, oh, it's my shindig now, and he can just take the party's presidential nomination.
00:30:24.000And then there can be other Republicans who don't like it, and they oppose him in the Senate, in the House, in running for governor, all of that.
00:30:54.000I'd have to check the exact number, but I think it might literally be under 100,000 people in Canada.
00:30:59.000It is not a lot of people who are official members of parties.
00:31:04.000You basically have who decides who are the candidates for prime minister in Canada?
00:31:09.000It's literally a few tens of thousands of people who bother to vote in the party leadership races, and then that guy decides the agenda for the entire party.
00:31:18.000And on top of that, Canada has all this other ridiculous fake stuff, like everything about Quebec.
00:31:23.000So to have any high-level job in Canadian politics, in their government, if you want to be on the Canadian Supreme Court, if you want to hold XYZ jobs in the Canadian government, you have to be bilingual in English and in French.
00:31:35.000How many people in Canada are bilingual in English and French?
00:31:42.000Because if you don't live in this tiny corridor between Toronto and Montreal, like the Ottawa-Montreal corridor...
00:31:50.000None of you are going to be becoming bilingual.
00:31:52.000There is no reason to know French if you live in British Columbia.
00:31:55.000There is no reason to know French if you live in Nova Scotia.
00:31:58.000There is no reason to know French if you live in Winnipeg.
00:32:01.000So unless you go out of your way to learn French, a language that no one has any reason to learn except to go into politics, you basically can't go into politics in Canada.
00:32:10.000Canada is a fake, fake, fake, fake, fake democracy.
00:32:14.000And they need to be called out for this.
00:32:16.000Now imagine you're an immigrant to Canada, which like 35% Quebec is only, I think, 20% of the population of Canada.
00:36:24.000We're talking about dead stars somehow.
00:36:27.000Somehow Canada led to dead stars, but nevertheless.
00:36:31.000I just kept thinking about, because the Saturday Night Live 50th was recently, and...
00:36:37.000Saturday Night Live used to be such a political force, and not even political, but cultural force.
00:36:42.000Saturday Night Live was a massive cultural force in America for decades, probably up until about the 2000s, and certainly just died off in the Obama era, but because they were told, you're not allowed to make fun of Obama.
00:36:57.000And from that point on, it just became...
00:37:00.000Utterly ridiculous in a shell of itself.
00:37:02.000But they used to have so much great content and so many good actors and just incredible talent.
00:37:08.000People who came from that era were incredible.
00:37:14.000And instead, you would see these replays of it, I guess.
00:37:20.000I've seen a few clips of SNL 50th anniversary, but it's just like...
00:37:25.000It just reminds me of like, oh yeah, that's a show that used to be good, but now it's not.
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00:39:48.000So in Canada, first of all, to have any high office in Canada, you need to be bilingual in English and French, which nobody is.
00:39:56.000I think under 5% of the population is actually fluent in English and French, and you totally need to go out of your way to learn it, which almost no one does.
00:40:04.000So if you don't fit into this literal elite globalist class that grows up right around Ottawa and is raised bilingual from birth, you basically just can't be a top...
00:40:15.000Second, in Canada, their political parties are so powerful that basically, if you run the party, you're just the absolute dictator of the party.
00:40:24.000You can bar anyone from running under the party's name, and you're just the total boss until they finally overthrow you.
00:40:32.000You could never have Donald Trump happen in Canada because the Republican Party could have just had whoever the boss was, Mitch McConnell or something, say, oh, no, Donald Trump is not.
00:44:01.000Which, Blake, you're the one that actually showed me this in Deadpool with...
00:44:05.000Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively's husband, Blake Lively, and Justin Baldoni's lawsuits against, they recreated Justin Baldoni, and it's a guy that has a feminism podcast and has a man bun to say that he's talking about women's issues.
00:44:20.000It is definitely a look, now that I think about it, where you can visualize the male feminist, and I think there's two types.
00:44:27.000You'd have the dweeby, pasty male feminist, who would be kind of a...
00:44:32.000I feel like it'd be kind of a younger Bill Gates-looking guy, and he would have a t-shirt that would say, like, this is what a feminist looks like, and he would, like, talk a lot about being, and he's like, I am a strong male, you know, female ally, and they'll be creepy.
00:44:45.000And then we have the man bun feminist thing, and this would be, like, a little dreamier, a little more, I don't know, I'm not gay, so I can't assess, but they're kind of considered hotter, right?
00:45:17.000I mean, I... I won't tell what's going through my head, but...
00:45:23.000I... Yeah, I... There's not much I can say here, so...
00:45:32.000Basically, the way I look at it is their brain is so, like, the manvine is actually their brain that's so minuscule that it's, like, trying to exit the back of their head, so there's no actual brain inside.
00:45:42.000When I see one of these things, I mean, like, you just, you look at this creature, this individual, I don't even know how to describe the, you know, clearly andronomous physiognomy.
00:47:52.000I can say that as a woman and as someone who's very grateful my husband doesn't have a man bun.
00:47:58.000But Justin Baldoni's team released an entire website that he put up basically all of his communication with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
00:48:08.000But the trial is not until next March.
00:48:10.000But I think it was yesterday or on Monday, Blake Lively actually added her kids to her complaint and said that her kids...
00:48:17.000Are experiencing emotional harm because of Justin Baldoni as well.
00:48:21.000I don't know if any of those people are.
00:48:26.000Charlie, I did find a video of a man bun on campus.
00:48:30.000If we want to go to that, I know you will remember this very well.
00:49:03.000Just wanted you guys to all feel that.
00:49:05.000And his pod, he had a podcast with a woman.
00:49:10.000And his podcast was called Man Enough, and it was all about toxic masculinity and how men really talk about their feelings and are shutting things down.
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00:52:01.000To remind people who have forgotten, four years ago, uh, not five years ago, I guess, Donald Trump, like, at the height of, like, the summer of Floyd when they were tearing down all the statues, Trump came up with the idea we should, instead of tearing down statues, if people want to honor other Americans, let's build more statues.
00:52:18.000So you came up with this idea, National Garden of American Heroes, where we're going to build a big set of statues of great Americans and have them all in a garden and anyone can visit it.
00:52:28.000And you could put it in Washington or somewhere else.
00:52:30.000I'm not sure if they picked the place.
00:52:31.000Anyway, he revived the Biden got rid of it as he got rid of many things like our border.
00:52:35.000And Trump brought it back when he came back.
00:52:37.000And just today, he was talking about who he's going to put in the Garden of American Heroes.
00:52:45.000And it's Black History Month, so he mentioned a lot of great black Americans.
00:52:49.000Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, people in that vein.
00:52:52.000And he also mentioned, though, this is a new name that he just added, Kobe Bryant.
00:52:58.000Actually, do we have the clip of him reciting all of the names?
00:53:11.000We're going to produce some of the most beautiful works of art in the form of a statue for men like Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson, what a great athlete that was, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, who's not a bad athlete.
00:53:43.000During Black History Month, we pay tribute to these heroes and to so many others, but not simply because they're black heroes, but also because they are truly American heroes who inspire all of us, very much so.
00:53:57.000So that's, I think that's actually a very fun idea.
00:54:01.000And so we were talking, like, what, who, if we actually get this statue garden built, who...
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00:54:14.000If you guys have any names you want to suggest, we can have them over in the studio quickly whip up some concept art for what their statue might look like in the hypothetical garden.
00:54:27.000We already did whip a bunch of pairs, so they might start showing them.
01:02:49.000When you have lots of statues, you can get away with, you know, some maybe statues that would be more controversial, like 236. With 236, we have Richard Nixon along with O.J. Simpson, who...
01:07:05.000I think everyone on the list overall is deceased, but there's people who we would definitely want once they depart this world, hopefully in a while.