00:00:56.480And here I find myself, my show, as the target of ire from the Congressional Asian Pacific
00:01:03.120American Caucus. You see, they're upset because in an episode of Timcast IRL, when I was not here,
00:01:09.000mind you, Ian Crosland asked a question that I think maybe he phrased a little poorly,
00:01:15.480but it is a question that should be asked. Now, Ian suggested, first he asked,
00:01:21.620If China were to invade, say, Alaska, and we had Chinese forces moving through the country, should the United States in turn Chinese Americans?
00:01:34.460The reason he was asking is because the U.S. did it during World War Two.
00:01:37.860And currently in China, they intern Uyghur Muslims.
00:01:40.780Now, I'll just say right off the bat, very obviously, no, the U.S. shouldn't.
00:01:47.020It was bad when they did to the Japanese, and it would not even do anything meaningful today.
00:02:09.200We don't know if a tourist, if a permanent resident, or even someone here on a temporary
00:02:14.540visa is here for a reason other than stated. Therein lies the big challenge. It's not a
00:02:20.660question of whether or not these individuals are Chinese. It's whether they are of national origin
00:02:25.940to China. Now, I know there's going to be a lot of more racial identitarians on the left and the
00:02:30.460right that will question that. And I think it's fair to say that human beings on a surface level
00:02:35.920don't really know how to draw that distinction. Most countries are ethnic. Most countries have
00:02:43.560an ethnic core identity, especially China. But the United States has got migrants and you've got
00:02:49.820Chinese Americans who have been here for a very long time. And as you may know, I myself am of
00:02:54.720mixed Asian and European descent. So I don't know how you answer this question reasonably, but I do
00:03:02.280think asking it is totally fine. Now they're mad at us, but I think the conversation should be had.
00:03:07.620So, dare I say, I am going to jump into the fray. Ian Crossland comes on the show. He asks questions not from this political perspective. And that's why I like having Ian on the show. Sometimes we argue for those that watch Tim Kest IRL. Many people say he's the best. Many people say he's the worst. But I just say this. Ian asks questions because he's not a political guy.
00:03:35.080So often we find ourselves in conversations, sometimes derailed, sometimes frustrating.
00:03:41.120But I'm not here to have a, yes, I agree.
00:03:44.780I agree to conversation with a bunch of libertarians and conservatives.
00:03:48.460So it is good to throw in the mix to have sometimes that frustrating conversation.
00:03:53.760If I was here to pander, I don't know, I'd be screaming about Israel or something, whatever.
00:03:58.420But of course, there's a bigger conversation about World War III.
00:04:01.420And that's where I think we're going to head to in this question.
00:04:04.560why it's coming up. So let me show you the statement made by this
00:04:09.440caucus about us. And then we'll talk, of course, about the news and exactly what was said and what
00:04:17.540should be said. Before we get started, of course, my friends, head over to town. I don't even know
00:04:21.520if I have TimCast.com pulled up right now. We'll just pull it up for you. Head over to TimCast.com.
00:04:25.500Join the frame, my friends. Get involved. Don't let them silence us putting out this fake outrage,
00:04:31.800whatever it may be, stand with us. We are facing a new wave of cancel culture. So please hear me
00:04:37.480when I say we have to build community. When people were locked down, when they were shut out, when
00:04:43.840they were fired from their jobs, where did they turn to? Nobody even knew their neighbors. As they
00:04:50.020start this cancel culture thing all over again, insulate yourself. All of us together and U.S.
00:04:57.080members. We protect each other. Now, I'm also grateful to Rumble for the parallel economy
00:05:01.900because it looks like censorship is on the rise, especially with TikTok. So keep that in mind.
00:05:07.260Timcast.com. Join now. Get in the discord. Let's jump to the news. I think I have it here.
00:05:13.180U.S. lawmakers condemn right wing podcasts calls for Chinese American internment. Heavens me. I
00:05:18.540love how they use this picture of me. Like, hey, I didn't say it. Put me up there. Members of Asian
00:05:25.240American Congressional Caucus warn. The dangerous and unacceptable rhetoric fuels discrimination and
00:05:30.300violence. No, I think that's silly. I think there's a fair point. First of all, I am going to just say
00:05:37.240this. How dare you? I am not going to play this not Asian enough game. You can't come to me and
00:05:43.160do that. OK, I am Korean. OK, little bitty Japanese. And if you know the history of those
00:05:48.120two nations, you might go, ooh. Indeed. Let me just say this. I love Japan. It's great. I love
00:05:58.280anime and manga. Big fan. Watched Dragon Ball Z my whole life, okay? Lupin the Third, good fun.
00:06:04.560And I had some Japanese people comment that it was offensive, as I explained why I am part
00:06:09.680Japanese too. But let me just say, the ancestry that I have going way back, which actually
00:06:21.640interestingly implies the Japanese heritage wasn't really that long ago, a couple hundred years,
00:06:25.660maybe. Let me just say it was not a Romeo and Juliet love story where the Korean woman and
00:06:30.740the Japanese guy were like, you know what? Even though our countries are racist towards each
00:06:36.940other and hate each other. We love each other. I'm pretty sure that's not the way it went,
00:06:40.020if you know what I mean. And I'm going to say this. Don't be ashamed of your history.
00:06:45.600Just because it happened doesn't mean you're at fault, Japan. Okay? We know what Japan did to
00:06:50.860Korea over and over and over again. But let me just tell you, Koreans and Japanese, they're racist.
00:06:57.840Very racist. Okay, I'm just going to say it, right? Anyway, Asian American lawmakers in U.S.
00:07:03.860Congress have condemned a right wing podcast that called for the forced internment of Chinese
00:07:08.740Americans during a hypothetical war with Beijing. Now, one of the reasons I'm going to go ahead and
00:07:12.260say no to this is because I'm part Asian. Like, I'm not convinced the government's going to be
00:07:17.640able to tell the difference between a Laotian, a Korean and a guy from China. So let's just not
00:07:24.360lock people up based on their race. The joint statement was released by Congresswoman Grace
00:07:29.340Meng, Chairwoman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and Judy Chu, KPAC's
00:07:34.740Chairwoman Emerita, as well as Congressman Ted Lieu. The backlash was sparked by the comments
00:07:40.700made on TimCast IRL, a pro-Trump video podcast. It's just, they have to do that. It's pro-Trump.
00:07:46.660We've been ragging on Trump nonstop. It's like the war has not been popular. I've been calling
00:07:52.680it a disaster and a failure, yet they won't stop calling it a pro-Trump podcast. It's like if you've
00:07:59.020ever once said something, that's who you are for the rest of your life. Trump can do something
00:08:02.820different and we can get mad about it. During an episode posted on August 14th, social media
00:08:09.380influencer Ian Crossland, Ian is not even an influencer. Lord have mercy. He said,
00:08:17.520if there was a war between the Chinese and the Americans and the Chinese landed in like Alaska
00:08:22.560and started coming through Canada, what do you think, what do you think we should intern all
00:08:28.020the Chinese Americans we can find because it kind of seems like we should. Grace Meng of New York is
00:08:33.480among U.S. lawmakers to criticize comments by guests on Timcast IRL. Indeed. Crossland claimed
00:08:39.160he did not want to implicate all Chinese Americans because that's horrific, but proceeded to question
00:08:43.360their allegiance. How can you tell where their allegiances are? And how do you know if their
00:08:47.660allegiances will or won't flip if the tide of war starts to change? Now, the question again is not
00:08:52.820the race of the individual, but of their allegiance to a nation and their national origin
00:08:57.600or nationality. Meaning, there are American white people who moved to China and became
00:09:02.920Chinese citizens. Hassan Piker says he loves China while he condemns the United States.
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00:10:07.660Kevin Smith, another guest, questioned whether it was possible. I don't think you could do that now
00:10:12.460because I think while they were interning the Japanese, a lot of people probably didn't know
00:10:15.740what was happening. You can't do stuff like that now. With social media and stuff, there'd be
00:10:19.940protests outside of each one of them. I mean, I would personally protest that. I'm not playing
00:10:24.380this game guys i got issues with chinese military stuff okay but i'm not going to be like oh yeah
00:10:28.980that guy looks a certain way put him in a cage that's stupid because i look a certain way the
00:10:33.880lawmakers slammed the dangerous and unacceptable rhetoric calling it an insult to millions of
00:10:37.360loyal citizens these actually i think i have the uh the full statement where do they where do they
00:10:43.460post it okay i'm gonna let's uh congressional asian pacific caucus x they they didn't they
00:10:53.120posted it, but they didn't actually say the name of the show, though they did comment and respond
00:10:58.100to it. So a mega podcast. All right, let's pull up the actual statement they wrote.
00:11:04.060There were just Chinese-American members of Congress. We are appalled by recent comments
00:11:07.220made in a pro-Trump podcast while discussing a hypothetical war with China. The panel made
00:11:11.260deeply disturbing statements, arguing that it seemed like we should send the Chinese-Americans
00:11:14.720to incarceration camps and that it is difficult to tell where their allegiances are. These comments
00:11:19.660invoke centuries-old racist tropes that cast Chinese Americans as perpetual foreigners and
00:11:24.460question their loyalty to the United States. Such rhetoric fuels discrimination and violence against
00:11:28.440Chinese Americans and those perceived to be Chinese and contributes to a climate in which
00:11:32.800one in five Americans are currently concerned about Chinese Americans posing a threat to U.S.
00:11:36.960society. They say to call for a return to one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history, the
00:11:41.960incarceration of more than 120,000 American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II
00:11:46.580is dangerous and unacceptable. This kind of rhetoric has no place in our country and we
00:11:51.200condemn it in the strongest possible terms. I'm going to go ahead and stop you right there and
00:11:55.480say, how dare you? You know what? I'm going to argue this. I, as a multi-generational American
00:12:03.140with some family that came from Korea and part Japanese because of the history of the war and
00:12:09.580the conflict between the two countries, I would argue that I and my show have more right to
00:12:15.180discuss this, then you guys, you see, I think that I represent the great melting pot of America.
00:12:24.420I'm going to go ahead and claim a grieved status against these full Asians, because as a mixed race
00:12:30.340person, I do not have privilege amongst the full Asian nor the full white community. Therefore,
00:12:36.380in hierarchy of oppression, I am correct. I'm only half kidding when I say that. My point
00:12:42.800ultimately is my family fought for civil rights. We literally experienced this like not me to only
00:12:50.520the smallest extent, the remnants of these conflicts with, you know, we had an issue with
00:12:54.280white supremacists. They were very mad at my family because we're a mixed race family.
00:12:57.580But my mom, my grandpa, my grandma experienced it firsthand as they were together and married and
00:13:04.800my parents and my uncles and aunts were born before the Civil Rights Act and before Loving
00:13:10.080v. Virginia. So don't you tell me what my show can or cannot discuss. That is deeply offensive
00:13:18.600to everything that my family went through. And you people stop trying to play your politics
00:13:24.620on race on a show hosted by a mixed race Asian guy. It's ridiculous. I say this as somebody who
00:13:36.020has white family members who fought against racism and who married outside their race and who believe
00:13:45.120in the right to love and not be discriminated against based on your race. I believe these
00:13:51.700conversations are incredibly important. And I applaud Ian Crossland for asking the question
00:13:58.040because the U.S. did it before. And so the American people need to parse through what it means
00:14:04.360if we enter another war with a nation like China with a large Chinese-American population.
00:14:10.780Now, I am not Chinese, but I fully recognize, knowing the stories from my family,
00:14:17.340that many Americans who are not Asian or don't know Asians can't tell the difference between various Asian nations.
00:18:45.300We have a changing civilization, a changing country.
00:18:49.580What we ask ourselves in terms of figuring out who is and is not against us, it's not a question of race.
00:18:56.020All right. I just I just don't stand for that.
00:18:58.780They say a Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government and resigned.
00:19:04.340Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, was charged in April with one count of acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
00:19:10.280She was accused of doing the bidding of Chinese officials, such as sharing articles favorable to Beijing without prior notification to the U.S. as required by law.
00:19:18.800The 58-year-old was elected in November of 22 to a five-person city council.