The Culture War #48 - Texas National Guard Deadline With Feds, Biden VS. Texas: Civil War
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Join hosts Tim Castor and Jonny LoQuasto as they discuss the situation on the Texas border with the federal government and the potential of Texas seceding from the Union and joining the fight. Sponsors! Best Fiends - Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! Betonline - Rate, review, and subscribe to our new show Assassinations, wherever you get your news and information. The Assassinations podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp and Sponsored by Jackpot City Casino. BetOnline is a leading provider of high-speed, high-stakes gambling and entertainment services. You can get 20% off your first month with discount code "ELISSA" when you enter the discount code: CRIMINALS at checkout. There are no exchanges, no fees, and no exchanges are required. Just paypal.me/TheBestFiends and use the promo code: PODCAST at checkout to receive $5 and contribute $5 to the BetterHelp mobile game development fund. If you like the show and want to support the podcast, please consider pledging a monthly or annual recurring monthly fee of $5, $10, $15, $25, $50, or $100, $150, and we'll get you an ad-free version of the show for your choice of our newest episodes. We'll be giving you a 20-day free trial of our new Gimlet Provenza mobile game! and iOS 7 Pro! as well as unlimited access to the App Store and Google Play, and all future episodes throughout the App store. Subscribe, and other major podcasting and social media platforms. Learn more about your ad choices, and social platforms, including TikTok, wherever else you get a chance to access the best deals are available, including the best listening experience, including best vids, the most powerful listening experience in the world, the best review and the most personalized recommendations, including social media options, the world will be able to reach you. and most personalized experience, the ultimate listening experience on the most influential podcast in the best reviews and the best podcast on the best of the best places in the most places on the world. , the most authentic and the fastest including the most of the fastest listening experience and the biggest social media platform in the fastest growing podcast for the most on the highest listening experience out there in the country.
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Talk about a volatile situation on the Texas border. Right now trending on Twitter is treason
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stand with Texas. Biden administration. More and more states are lining up to voice their support
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for Texas as they defy the federal government in securing their border. And it's a pretty wild
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situation. The Biden administration has no good options. They are actively facilitating human
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smuggling operations and the largest criminal alien invasion we have seen in this country probably
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forever. I mean so now you have a circumstance where the feds want border barriers removed razor
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wire. The Supreme Court said they can remove it but the Texas National Guard says no. The Biden
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administration gives Texas till today to to back off so they can remove it and the AG of Texas Ken
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Paxton says no. You also have several states which have already sent material support to Texas
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and just yesterday Donald Trump called unwilling states to deploy their National Guards to Texas
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for the explicit purpose of repelling federal agents who are trying to open up the border and let
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illegal immigrants into the country. Needless to say there is but we are separated from here and
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Civil War with nothing but a thin veneer because the risk of escalation is great. I want to stress this
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point to make sure people understand normalcy bias optimism bias and what might happen because
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there's probably a lot of people right now saying what a silly idea there will not be a civil war.
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A point that I've made many times on Tim Castor on my other shows. We say the civil war of 1861
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began at Fort Sumter. Only one person died I believe and I believe it was an accident no one was actually
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trying to kill each other. However despite the fact that we say historically Fort Sumter was the
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opening battle of the civil war. Locals the American population including those in the south and the north
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still did not think they were in one and so at the first battle of Bull Run they came to picnic.
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Citizens, residents came to picnic to watch what they thought would be nothing because civil war was
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not possible despite the fact historically we believe the civil war had already started and it was chaos.
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So I can't tell you that what's happening in Texas will be civil war but civil war has been trending
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for several days now. Treason is trending and the current front runner for the president for the
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presidency and former president has called for states to dispatch armed soldiers to go down and
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lend assistance to Texas that is an active defiance over this jurisdiction with the federal government.
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I would argue that this situation right now is Fort Sumter-esque. You have much like Fort Sumter a
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dispute over jurisdiction and who has a right to this area. South Carolina was arguing that the
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union had no right to be in this this fort because they had seceded. The union said no it's ours and we
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can be here and it became active conflict. Hopefully this chills out but maybe it won't. So we'll talk
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about what's going on with Texas and we'll talk about the potential of Texas seceding from the union.
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We got a couple guests joining us. I don't know which one of you would like to introduce yourselves
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first. I'll let Tony go. Yeah great to be here. Tony Ortiz. I'm with Current Revolt. We are the third
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fourth largest conservative media outlet in Texas. We focus specifically on Texas politics. We don't
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write up anything national so everything we do is based around Texas news and Texas happenings.
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We've been at it for about three years four years and it's it's been a pretty wild ride. Texas a lot of
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people forget Texas is huge bigger than some countries so there's a lot of news and political
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stuff to cover and we focus on all that. I believe Texas is the largest state in the continental U.S.
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Yeah well yeah and uh you know I like to U.S. I believe this is the right word because Alaska is on
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the continent. I like to make the joke it's hard for me to respect countries that are smaller than
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the state of Texas so that kind of that kind of spreads out pretty far. 30 million people.
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A lot of people and um with this border invasion a lot more coming in. Yeah uh but I mean it's
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affecting the entirety of the country and every other state which is interesting so good sir.
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Yeah uh I'm I'm Daniel Miller. I've been here before. This is great and of course the last time
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I was here was when Trump decided to announce for like the second or third time and so we had to do
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running commentary on it. Right right right. Yeah but uh I'm president of an organization called the
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Texas Nationalist Movement. We're the outside of the two major political parties. We're the single
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largest political organization in the state uh and and our mission is the political cultural
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and economic independence of Texas. We want Texit. I wrote the book. I mean it's literally called
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Texit. Texit. It's such a good it's such a lucky uh portmanteau like that you you were able to say
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Texit. Well you know you know what's funny you know people people look at that and you know that
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originated when Greece was looking at exiting the euro right and and that's when they started talking
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about Grexit and then you know Baraj and the rest of them did Brexit and and we're sitting over here
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like you know we literally have an x in our name. I mean it you know it's it just kind of writes itself
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but isn't there Blexit too? Like oh there's oh right that was yeah that was uh uh black democrats
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correct in the democratic party. Yeah yeah so I mean insert exit to whatever you got something going on.
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But but you know that's that's part of a larger trend. I mean you know this idea of of decentralization
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and you know I've been Tim I've been I've been working on the issue of Texas independence since
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1996. I mean and and I will tell you that we're we're standing here on the precipice you know most
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people that went it went unreported by the media but but literally in the summer of 2022 Survey USA
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who has been rated the most accurate political pollster in the country uh they surveyed I think it was
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eight different states Texas being one of them uh and and I mean they were it was a massive sample size
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you know for for a poll of that type and and essentially what they found was that 66 percent
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of likely Texas voters would vote Texas out if it was on a ballot. I think I do have like a distinction
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to make with that question because based on what I saw the question was more like do you think Texas
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has the right to independence do they have the right to versus like the question being should they go
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ahead and do it? Well that no but if you look at the question it's do you support Texas do you support
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your state withdrawing from the union and joining a union of other conservative states so at the heart
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of that question is beyond a shadow of a doubt. Well there's an important distinction between like
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do you have do you think you should have the right to own a firearm versus do you want to exercise that
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right? But you're talking about a different question on this on that poll though there was a question
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about do you support a state's right just like there was a question about you know if if a state made
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this decision would you support military force against them? You know that that was but but at the heart of it
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was that one single question that got down to the issue of political will and if that was if that
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had been conducted in a vacuum you know I think that we would be having a different conversation about
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whether it was valid or not right but you know you start looking at that trajectory 2009 we were 35
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percent you know on a question that was virtually identical right then you get to 2014 went right around
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the time of the Scottish independence referendum that was the first time we crossed over a majority of
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Republicans supporting the issue and that was not some you know that was a Reuters Ipsos poll right so we've
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been on this trajectory for a long time but here's the bottom line polls are irrelevant what what matters is
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when you get like they had in Scotland in 2014 or in the UK a couple years later when you actually put it on a
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ballot let people debate the pros and cons and then have and have it culminate in a vote to express the
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political will of the people of Texas yeah and so you know for those lists those listening and watching
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you know we've recently uh Daniel Miller's group has attempted to put the question on the Republican
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ballot yeah and it's failed um for multiple reasons well like without public support or it's an
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administrative failure it was an administrative failure uh the the reasons being one uh and
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these are these are from the chairman of the Republican Party it was turned in after the due
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date and two that they used digital signatures so this petition so there's active sabotage is that
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what's happening I mean the Republican Party does not want it yeah I mean look you got to understand
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the Republican Party of Texas has two planks on its platform essentially calling for this question to be put
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to the people of Texas uh the the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas screwed Texas voters
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when he did what he did he he violated the Texas election code he he made a case that frankly was
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was weaker than a five gallon bucket of baby piss I mean let's just be honest uh about why he rejected
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it he gamed the system and he disenfranchised Texas voters having this opportunity to vote in a
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non-binding way on this question march well let's let's start from the beginning right now with the
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news that we have going on so uh the question of Texas independent secession the conflict now with
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the feds is is bubbling up and it's it's interesting that there has been text that there's been this
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interest in secession and independence but where are we now what we we know that there's been a
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conflict it's a eagle pass it's Shelby Park it's not just though there's also I believe McAllen
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was it was was one area where they had all these uh illegal immigrants under under this bridge or
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whatever so what is the latest conflict that is happening that's resulting in the National Guard
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at odds with federal agents well it's all this stuff right at the that park uh there's a Shelby
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Park right and everything going on there have you had a chance to to go down there no it's crazy like
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you know I I went for the first time a few months ago I believe with Ashley St. Clair and
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nuance bro and um seeing it in person versus seeing like the constant videos and and everything
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is way different and it's it's a total crap show down there and these people are coming in in hordes
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it is really a majority men uh some children some women and you walk around and there's trash all over
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the place some of the interesting things we saw pretty in a pretty common way were sim cards um
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antibiotics condoms used condoms all over the place right clothes bras underwear uh is very odd
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and you know this is escalating we've had we've broken records for the amount of illegal immigration
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coming in and these people they come in they they find a way to cross over they'll throw they bring
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blankets with them they'll throw them over the barbed wire and then they'll kind of toss each other
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or hand each other over the barbed wire and you know you'll see agents come over and basically just
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kind of walk them over to a staging area and then just get them processed yeah they just get them
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processed and then you have some of these charities especially the catholic ones and I'm a catholic
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catholic charities that come in and they provide them food or assistance or money help them process
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and help them like go across the country and then their court dates are years and years down the line
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these people aren't going to show up years later by then they've already figured out something else
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so the issue with uh the texas national guard is there were video uh videos released several months ago
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I mean it's not just about the videos about the people who've witnessed this happen where federal
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agents were removing the razor wire cutting it or in one instance using heavy machinery to lift it up
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allowing these people to illegally enter the United States and Texas of course yeah and you know it
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wasn't just barbed wire that we put up you know Abbott put up these uh I call them pool float pool floaties
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um but these orange balls right and the left was saying there was uh razor blades in the middle of it
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and the the balls were meant to like deter people from coming over and I guess I think one person
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like died or got injured from from from that um but a lot of like whatever governor has done has been
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just deterrence and that's kind of what the razor wire is it's a deterrent we haven't actually gotten to
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the point where we're you know deporting these people or removing them from the country we're just kind of
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showing a force with these razor wire and you know I'm not a big fan of governor Abbott um he I believe
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he can do a lot more he's a decent governor and right now I do think that he should be applauded he's doing a
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decent job but a lot of what's being done and uh Wade Miller brought this up he's a great follow on
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Twitter but Wade Miller brought this up and he said you know a lot of what Abbott's doing is just um
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repelling these people or just sorry deterring them he's not actually removing them from the
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from the country I've heard a lot of that criticism that yeah and since the beginning uh of this crisis
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or I shouldn't say since the beginning but there was a period where uh the governor was loading people
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up on buses and planes and sending them to other states and a lot of conservatives are cheering forth
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saying haha this will show these sanctuary cities and states and to be honest I kind of did now you've
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got New York uh Mayor Eric Adams saying this is going to destroy the city Mayor Johnson in Chicago
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is freaking out they're talking about building internment camps for these people curfews are
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being enacted all across the country immigration is becoming a pressing issue largely because Texas
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said you want the problem you got it however my view is that's only exacerbating the problem
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he's actually helping the Biden administration smuggle these people across the country and I
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understand it made a political point however it's still a problem now at some point the governor
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said that's it no more and I don't know if this is true but I heard that he's there Texas has stopped
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funding the shipping of these people this this political move uh to make a point or to you know
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actually alleviate the stress on Texas as well as you know make a political point but I I've heard
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that slowed down as they've put up the razor wire look I I will tell you the the busing issue he's
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gotten both praise and criticism 13 years ago that was that was the official position of the
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organization uh of the TNM we we secured donors to do that to send to do to do that very thing just
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take them straight to Washington DC that was our deal so you know the joke was when Abbott started
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doing it it's like man somebody's been pouring through the archives on our website but you know
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obviously no one ever took us up on it but the time to make that political point was 13 years ago
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I mean Perry when Perry was governor the Obama administration enacted what was called the alien
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transfer and exit program and essentially what they were doing was they were taking uh interdicted
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illegal aliens from every state to the west of Texas taking them uh putting them on buses and
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transporting them to Presidio Texas now let me tell you Presidio is is a very small community very
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sparsely populated literally they would take them to uh on the buses they would uh pull up to
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the international bridge they would point across to Mexico and they would spill them out and send
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them back to Mexico but the problem with that is the only thing on the other side of that bridge is
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the Chihuahuan Desert okay so what what was happening was they would get off of the bus they would cross
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the bridge they would camp out they would uh go a mile or two down the border and cross right back
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into the county and so the county sheriff is you know screaming like crazy because all of a sudden now
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in a matter of days he's got 30,000 brand new people in this massive crisis and so you know it was
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it was uh a suggestion that that we had made to essentially prove the political point but we're
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at a situation with the border where making that political point was 13 years ago you know it's not
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today we're we're in an unprecedented territory as far as the border surge goes and so you know I I get I
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get the sentiment right I understand that you know we need to make these people wake up but at the end
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of the day it's those policies that are being fostered or foisted upon Texas by the federal
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government by politicians that are elected by these people in these states that are creating this problem
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and Tim to your point sorry real quick just to finish what I was saying the the issue as people
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argued is that Texas does not have the authority to deport well and and I don't know I I care less
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about that but to your point like the the shipping of people to other states it it's like what you
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said it kind of spreads the problem around and there's also using our tax dollars to fund these
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people's trips right um I think it makes for a good mean and it gets the people going like sending these
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illegal immigrants to other states frankly I like to see them being sent to Canada but um it doesn't
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actually solve the problem and in fact you're probably benefiting them they have they can go to other
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states if they need to go there Biden was probably ecstatic when he heard oh you're gonna help me
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do this thank you thank you very much yeah you're gonna help me get to Chicago you're gonna help me
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get to New York like yeah the Biden administration is trying to facilitate the these so it is not
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just that Texas this is what's funny when Texas and Florida and other states are like ah we're gonna
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put these you know criminal aliens on buses and send them out the Biden administration was like
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oh we've been doing that for years thank you for for helping yeah like I said it's a good
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meme and it gets the people going and it's good it's good political propaganda for our side
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we're sending these we're sending these people to Democrat cities but it it does actually it doesn't
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actually do anything and that's been the criticism you know you know like like Tony said I mean we've
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been equally as critical of Abbott I mean I think when we were here last time we talked about this
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people that's what I'm saying Abbott's not been very good for on a lot of issues people have been
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very critical well yeah and I mean a lot of what you see is to score political points I mean look
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case in point the the issue with the park right now right that's two and a half miles of border
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right Texas has 1,254 miles of border with Mexico while all of the attention is being focused there
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right now on two and a half miles you've got another 1,200 miles plus of border that are effectively
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undefended and granted you know there's actions being taken there I mean you've got some with
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operation lone star but there's been criticisms of that too but but I think what we're seeing here
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with the park in particular is much like the issue with the busing right which is this has drawn the
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attention I mean it has created the situation where there is there is no escaping there is no denying
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this crisis this break between Texas and the federal government you know it's much like like we talk about
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the battle of Gonzales you know I mean if people ever see that the size of the cannon that the battle
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of Gonzales was fought over I mean it's tiny right I mean look there are people in Texas that own
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handguns that are probably bigger than that right but but it becomes this this issue where look that
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this is kind of the point right here where where we're going to essentially litigate in the public
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sphere this entire crisis with the border and if it if it is really concentrated that two and a half
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miles and it and it makes this happen so be it you know uh I pulled up can we pull this image
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the uh the Gonzales cannon yeah for those that aren't familiar uh the gist of the story is what
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was it was Mexican officials uh government wanted the cannon said turn it over and they made a they
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made a flag with the cannon saying come and take it yeah and now people are posting this is really
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funny I was reading a news article about what's going on uh in Texas and people have made
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Gonzales razor wire uh flags just come and take it with razor wire and these news outlets don't know
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what the flag is they're saying flags have been made threatening you know and enticing the federal
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government to try and take the razor wire and I'm like I mean these journalists don't know what the
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Gonzales flag is I mean written like true Santa Ana propagandist in the 21st century okay so um
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you know it's funny I've been talking about the the fear of civil war for some time and not even in
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this context and people would say to me that uh you really think states are going to line up soldiers
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and go fight the federal government or I'm like no of course I've never thought that you know when
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when we were talking about the prospect of civil war in 2018 or whatever it was social destabilization
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rising political factions random various factions and cells fighting each other in the streets and
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economic and political destabilization like you see in almost every civil war ever and now here we are
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with what do we have 30 some odd states voicing their support for Texas in their defiance of the federal
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government asserting authority over this over this over this uh jurisdiction and civil war is trending
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because the what is separating us right now from civil war is is a thin veneer in that what happens if
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today the Biden administration makes a move to federalize the Texas National Guard
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serious question like what what do you as as as Texans what do you think the Texas National Guard
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would do what would Greg Abbott do would they simply say well you win they're yours now well look I'll
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just throw throw in my two cents because I don't know I mean well there's literally a crystal ball
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there but I don't I don't I don't I don't think any of us uh have have a crystal ball on this but but
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look I'll tell you literally right before we went to air um I got a message from someone who's down there
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uh communicating with some of the some of the guys in the in the National Guard uh there there are
00:21:54.560
discussions happening among among the National Guard that are deployed right now about what their reaction
00:22:00.760
will be uh if they do get federalized and and look that was that was our criticism of Abbott's use of
00:22:07.340
the Texas National Guard all along is that at any point they can be called into federal service and in
00:22:13.520
order to stand down now granted there is some some legal precedent there that that says that maybe that
00:22:19.180
doesn't necessarily apply but it does create the situation what it it right and and I'm I'm I'm told
00:22:25.380
the Texas has a state guard as well we do we have a three branch military the Texas military
00:22:29.880
department's made up of three branches it's it's Air National Guard Army National Guard and the Texas
00:22:33.740
State Guard the State Guard cannot be federalized and it's been our organization's position since 2012
00:22:39.360
that that should be the primary vehicle for use uh by Texas for uh border protection simply because
00:22:46.940
it cannot be federalized I'd argue it can be because the reality is if they want to if they want to break
00:22:54.740
if they want to break the law which which they could but that creates a crisis of its own well hold on
00:22:58.640
there sir is the Biden administration current breaking the law in Texas oh well trust me I'm
00:23:02.880
not shilling saying that Biden won't break the law but what I'm saying I'm saying he is well yeah yeah
00:23:07.780
oh I get that that's not the the point that I'm making the point that I'm making is is that there
00:23:12.100
is a legal mechanism where the federal government can call the National Guard into federal service right
00:23:16.760
there is not a similar mechanism for the state guards those are protected this is this is I think
00:23:22.380
this is an important issue to bring up and it's the um I I would I guess it's the hopes and prayers
00:23:28.580
of people who have faith in words on paper second amendment says the right to keep a bear arm shall
00:23:34.440
not be infringed I gotta tell you it has been in friend infringed to you know and they they will
00:23:38.880
roll over for it I you know we all remember COVID it was the police that were arresting people it was
00:23:44.120
the police that were forcing masks on us it was the police that were keeping gyms shut down right and
00:23:48.860
these are police that you know the right spend so much time like thin blue line like support our
00:23:53.280
police and then it was the same people that were locking us up in our homes that were enforcing
00:23:58.020
these these these laws against us so yeah when when people thought um say oh yeah the the Texas
00:24:04.280
military is going to stand up against the government I don't think it's going to happen well I don't think
00:24:08.460
it'll go like that and and I and I want to I want to be very clear here because I don't I don't want
00:24:12.160
to be misunderstood on this point what we're what I'm talking about is the fact that it if right now
00:24:18.460
you're looking at this this dance between the state of Texas between the governor the attorney
00:24:23.840
general and the federal government the DOJ Department of Homeland Security and if you look
00:24:28.740
at at these letters and these responses that are going back and forth you're seeing a lot of legal
00:24:33.720
language look that's legal posturing for political purposes and so you know if you shift those duties
00:24:40.220
for border protection over to the state guard to have the federal government step up and say hey you
00:24:45.800
know what we don't care that we don't have any authority to federalize there's no mechanism for
00:24:50.700
them to do that for them to do that would be an extra legal issue that becomes political the political
00:24:56.580
ramifications are what I'm talking about so so I I agree right right now I believe that the the legal
00:25:03.680
the the legal argument for federalization has not been met and there are a few criteria that must be
00:25:09.760
met in order for the federal government to nationalize a national guard one of which is
00:25:13.580
uh the inability so so they could they will make these arguments I argue they're wrong but of
00:25:19.020
course one of the criteria is that it is impossible for the federal government to enforce existing
00:25:24.520
united states law with their current forces and require national guard to enforce that law the
00:25:30.800
administration will of course argue the law says you know if there's people here we got to bring
00:25:35.380
them in and process them oh we're being barred so we're going to need to federalize the national
00:25:38.880
guard the second is active rebellion against the united states and I don't know if they'll try and
00:25:44.480
make that argument if they do make a move because a bold statement to make for them to say texas is in
00:25:49.060
rebellion against the united states they'll likely say this is our jurisdiction the supreme court agrees
00:25:54.300
in order for us to enforce the law removing these barriers we require that texas national guard that
00:26:00.940
being said uh it's I do not believe it's legitimate the Biden administration is actively breaking the law
00:26:06.260
sure however I do believe there is a political play texas should use their state guard and not
00:26:12.780
national guard for this reason you've described in that circumstance however I'd imagine the legal
00:26:17.760
argument made by Joe Biden is there is no distinction between a state guard and a national guard it is only
00:26:24.480
them trying to assert some nebulous you know technical detail to try and avoid the legal responsibilities
00:26:30.680
of their of their of their national guard they would make that argument too which there are serious
00:26:36.300
political ramifications if the federal government did try to make that move he'd basically be
00:26:41.900
smacking everyone in texas in the face well it's game over at that point you know because and I think
00:26:47.220
this is you know this gets to the point that you were talking about a moment ago Tony about
00:26:50.700
about these these various people in positions of authority circumventing constitutional rights you know
00:26:57.780
doing the things that they do um what what we're seeing here is is frankly the thing that that I
00:27:03.720
loved about Trump's four years in office is that it created such a situation that it forced all of
00:27:10.200
this out in the open I mean it's slapping everyone in the face right and so the the thing that I think
00:27:16.100
is is quite interesting about this particular situation if it were to go down the way that that you
00:27:20.500
described is at that moment the mask is off right everyone sees it well it's look that's happening
00:27:27.480
right now it's an election year I don't this is the that's that's the biggest thing right if this
00:27:32.340
was happening it happening not in an election year I think 60 was an election year yeah true
00:27:37.100
true true but it's not on the ballot I think with the media being is so transparent now at least like
00:27:42.660
so much is exposed it's an election year this is like the worst situation for democrats to be in
00:27:47.260
and for biden to be in right this this border crisis even liberals and I don't mean like hardcore
00:27:52.600
leftists but even liberals are not happy about what's happening with the border in our country
00:27:56.600
and so this is a this is a losing issue for biden to keep allowing to happen or to be very aggressive
00:28:03.740
on my guess is that things will calm down everybody's kind of beating their chest and he may just let
00:28:10.360
texas kind of do its thing and maybe put out a bold statement it's is that normalcy bias so so my
00:28:18.600
concern is uh normalcy bias optimism bias which is optimism bias is people just think it's going to work
00:28:25.180
out in the end that this is this is the dominant view people have is like it'll be fine normalcy
00:28:31.520
biases it can't happen because it doesn't happen and which is why I bring up the point of Fort Sumter
00:28:38.020
where we look at the history book and here's a timeline and we're like the civil war started here
00:28:42.220
yet even after that people were like I'm gonna go have a picnic at the first battle of bull run
00:28:48.120
and the the I love the the art that was drawn of the moment of like the mayor's panicked holding
00:28:54.340
his hat as shots are being fired they're watching men get their guts disemboweled blood and rampage
00:29:00.100
no one thought it was going to happen despite the fact we look back and say they were already in a
00:29:04.560
civil war before it and so my concern is there are uh you know as we were mentioning this last night
00:29:12.200
on IRL there are actually really really terrifyingly simple things which could result in
00:29:18.420
just like hyper escalation uh I won't say what those things are because they are so simple for anyone to
00:29:26.020
do that someone may hear me say so I won't bring it up but yeah there there are things available to
00:29:32.040
every person where ten dollars in in in resources and you could this thing could go crazy that's how how
00:29:39.720
how uh how crazy it could it could how fast it could escalate we had a Eric Prince on the show
00:29:45.260
uh a couple weeks ago and I asked him with everything that's going on in the United States
00:29:50.580
and this is funny because I'm talking to him about this before what this this escalation on the border
00:29:54.700
and I was like do you think based on what you've seen around the world with the the jobs you've been
00:29:59.420
involved in and the controversies uh that the U.S. is entering this kind of period and he said look what
00:30:04.960
I'll tell you is everyone I've worked with who's been in a country where it's fallen to revolutions
00:30:10.580
of war whatever it happens overnight it's in an instant one day everything's normal the next day
00:30:17.120
you wake up the power's not on there's no internet you can't make a phone call and so my fear is
00:30:23.280
nobody ever wants war look they're obviously they're warmongers you know Nikki Haley can go on stage and
00:30:30.360
say something like we gotta go to Ukraine it's like yeah we get it Hillary Clinton can talk about
00:30:34.580
what she wants for war but my point is when it comes to conflicts like this I do not believe
00:30:40.840
the Biden administration is salivating at the chance to suppress a rebellion I don't think
00:30:46.320
Greg Abbott is salivating at the chance to deploy National Guard in active combat against the federal
00:30:51.400
the federal authorities but there becomes a point there comes to a point of it's a game of chicken
00:30:55.620
where neither side feels that there is an appropriate exit that can save them in these circumstances
00:31:02.100
there are a bunch of possibilities to consider let's say uh Biden announces today that in order
00:31:09.300
to enforce Supreme Court rulings and have these barriers removed they will need the assistance he
00:31:14.700
doesn't even make it a contra he doesn't make it a conflict he says thank you Texas National Guard for
00:31:18.720
all of your help we now require your assistance in securing these the securing the border he'll call
00:31:24.740
it and following the Supreme Court's orders make a move to federalize let's say that uh National Guard
00:31:32.140
in Texas they just go okay you got a bus and then word comes uh uh down from on high cut the razor wire
00:31:38.680
and remove it and instantly all the National Guard just say okay we remove all the razor wire the news
00:31:44.080
that would ripple through this country as we are facing six to ten million people flooding the photos the
00:31:50.860
videos the betrayal I mean the the confidence in government would evaporate overnight I don't know
00:31:59.000
what that leads to but governments only function off of confidence if if a guy came to your house
00:32:05.020
in a clown costume knocked on the door and said I'm officer with the clown division open up you're under
00:32:10.980
arrest you'd be like what is that this is a joke I don't respect clown division if people view law
00:32:18.320
enforcement and government much the same way they would view a random clown showing up meaning they
00:32:21.900
have no confidence that this organization is any authority they ignore it and if the authority cannot
00:32:28.420
exact uh fear they cannot maintain control so people talk about the federal government it's it's it has a
00:32:35.880
monopoly on violence the police have a monopoly on violence there is the confidence in humans in the
00:32:41.120
United States that if you break the law you'll go to jail however that's been eroded as we've seen
00:32:45.920
these mass raids on stores stores are shutting down and more and more people are starting to realize
00:32:50.380
I have no confidence that should I act inappropriately anything will be done to me or should anyone act
00:32:56.180
appropriate inappropriately to me anything will be done to them so if we come to the point where the
00:33:00.420
Biden administration acts outside act already acting outside of the law says we will make sure the
00:33:09.060
criminal aliens invading this country are unabated what happens to the view of what the federal
00:33:14.740
government can and should be doing at a time when they've already gone after the former president I
00:33:18.800
mean confidence is eroded so that the best case scenario in my opinion would be something like
00:33:24.100
that the federalization of the National Guard they all just agree there's no active conflict what that
00:33:28.920
means for the fabric of the country I don't know now however what if Greg Abbott says with sweating
00:33:34.960
bullets sitting in his office being like I do not want to do this I've never wanted to do this and he's got
00:33:40.320
people screaming in his ear being like if you let the Biden administration rip through Eagle Pass you
00:33:46.160
will not only lose your your legacy your career the state will be destroyed and you will go down in
00:33:51.940
history as one of the worst politicians this country has ever seen stand your ground and what if he just
00:33:57.740
says fine more importantly what if he's got community leaders industry leaders high profile wealthy people
00:34:04.340
of Texas being like do not let him do this to us and so he says I have no choice National Guard do not
00:34:10.540
belay those orders you are under our command reject that what happens if Joe Biden responds by saying
00:34:17.420
not I think the might the move for the federal government would be federalized the National Guard
00:34:20.320
but what if in a situation like that Joe Biden says I hereby invoke the insurrection act you are in
00:34:25.520
rebellion and we will deploy army against you those seem like and he arrests Greg Abbott and that's like
00:34:30.740
the ultimate campaign thing you see Greg Abbott get arrested and he goes to jail for like a couple
00:34:34.320
days while you know he's in insubordinate to the the federal government right and now he can run on
00:34:38.700
that I went to jail for Texas I but is he running uh well he uh he probably will he's not on the ballot
00:34:44.980
this time yeah it's off year but it's it's a great thing for him to move up if he wants to run for
00:34:49.380
VP or president whatever right um I I think like what you're saying it's possible something like this can
00:34:55.940
happen I don't think that this is that point yet people are lazy people are too comfortable as long
00:35:01.980
as Americans have internet food on the on the on the on the shelves and recreational activities
00:35:08.720
whatever else happens in the country they're fine with right I mean look how look how many people bent
00:35:13.080
over for COVID yeah I mean we couldn't leave our houses and but then you got the summer of love
00:35:18.920
these these riots that we saw across the country were not over George Floyd it was because people
00:35:25.220
you know I I think for me I didn't see this right away because I was in the suburbs I was in South
00:35:30.900
Jersey so I had a house in the backyard and you could walk around your neighborhood and do whatever
00:35:34.740
and Walmart was still open but people in New York there was nothing you know my friends were in New
00:35:39.340
York like the stores are all closed the restaurants are all closed the uh there's a few places to buy
00:35:44.200
food and you're locked in this tiny you know 400 square foot box and all these young people just went
00:35:49.940
nuts given the opportunity to go out and be angry they took it yeah so I do think that COVID did result
00:35:56.540
in the worst riots we've seen in this country in 50 years 30 plus deaths it was wild what we were
00:36:01.480
seeing and the pretext was oh but they they're racist you know George Floyd I wonder what if you're
00:36:09.220
right about Greg Abbott and he's like hey this would be great for my election prospects moving up
00:36:13.780
vice president president who knows what if Abbott the political class around him genuinely believe
00:36:22.740
and convince him the Biden administration is in free fall their approval ratings are 35 percent
00:36:28.980
the right side of history is opposition to the unpopular government stand against him I think that's
00:36:36.440
what's more likely than like Texas secession I think what's more likely is you get a a majority of states
00:36:42.740
that come together and they say we don't recognize the federal government as legitimate
00:36:47.360
we are the new federal government and it's almost like a quasi coup right why would that not escalate
00:36:52.800
into a civil war and that could right but that that my point being is that that is more likely than
00:36:57.400
Texas seceding right right right right right is that a bunch of states come together and work together
00:37:02.380
I know you don't think so I'm triggering him right now yeah that is more likely than Texas being like
00:37:07.440
you know what peace out we're we're we're leaving have you guys seen the trailer for
00:37:11.260
824 civil war look it's and here's the kind of Texan are you right something like that
00:37:15.300
well and here's the thing to think about look this idea of of a split right you want to call it a civil
00:37:22.220
war whatever you want to call it this idea that there's about to be a shake-up of the game board
00:37:27.020
uh you you think about when that trailer dropped how immediate how immediately it became the thing
00:37:35.000
everyone was talking about and look the term civil war has trended on twitter at least daily
00:37:40.840
since that trailer drop it's that conspiracy that hollywood always kind of like predictive program
00:37:46.040
yeah like and so yeah but it's really simple if you think about it you're a guy you're gonna make
00:37:51.640
a movie at a studio and you say what's what's what's generating buzz sure and they're like civil war man
00:37:56.640
if we made the movie we make a billion dollars that's really all it is well and it may be but
00:38:00.920
you have to understand those things are all sort of outcroppings of this subconscious thought here
00:38:07.120
that the united states as a political and economic entity uh is is not a fact it's not the byzantine
00:38:15.880
empire it will not be around for 1400 years right and and the fact of the matter is whatever those if
00:38:23.640
they're political pressures they're social pressures they're economic pressures uh we know that the federal
00:38:28.880
system as it stands right now is a one-size-fits-none enterprise right um you know we we know time and
00:38:35.980
time again you talked about biden's approval ratings i mean anytime you look at the approval
00:38:40.160
ratings of the u.s congress i mean typically the only thing that they're more popular than is herpes
00:38:44.600
and that depends that's actually true though it's weird and i mean you know and that depends on
00:38:49.880
what day you're asking the poll right uh i mean so you know to be to be fair ever sorry to interrupt
00:38:55.300
but you're fine when when when individuals are pulled in their districts they pull really high
00:39:00.400
and the reason congress pulls so low is you know someone will when they're asked like what do you
00:39:05.560
think about congress oh they all suck my guy's good though yeah and so individually members of
00:39:09.040
congress actually do pretty well in their polls which tells you it's a it's it's a systemic problem
00:39:12.500
right people people do not have any any trust or faith you know you mentioned confidence a moment ago
00:39:17.700
and i heard tony mention the word legitimate um you know legitimization is is the only thing i mean
00:39:24.620
that's really the the tale of of statecraft and geopolitics over the last 100 years is this this
00:39:31.300
seeking of of legitimacy but contrary you know and and look i know you tried to trigger me man it's
00:39:38.120
okay i still i still i still like you look i i'm just i'm just gonna say this you know this is the
00:39:43.880
thing that that i have one of the reasons that i have poured my soul into texas independence because
00:39:49.400
this you can see this coming i mean 1996 august 24th when i crossed that line in the sand uh i i
00:39:57.620
could you know it was on the horizon you know these political and cultural and economic pressures
00:40:02.900
didn't just drop out of space right this is not something that happened right now these trends have
00:40:08.240
been moving this direction for a long time and and so you know when marjorie taylor green or whoever
00:40:13.680
talks about national divorce or we're talking about texas becoming a self-governing independent nation
00:40:19.180
understand that what we're talking about here is a process where the people get a say in in their
00:40:25.340
government yeah and it relieves that sort of pressure because we can agree look let california
00:40:31.120
govern california let new hampshire govern new hampshire let all these other states govern themselves
00:40:35.540
we don't have to be enemies but we also don't have to bend a knee to a federal government run by two
00:40:41.260
and a half million unelected federal bureaucrats that want to give us all complimentary colonoscopies every
00:40:46.560
time we want to get on an airplane well so it's worse than than this texas is being ruled by
00:40:52.020
california what's happening is with a state like california allowing mass illegal immigration calling
00:40:58.420
themselves a sanctuary state they're being apportioned more seats in congress and more electoral college
00:41:02.720
votes so if we were i there's been varying estimates i think we had um a few members of
00:41:08.680
congress and i can't remember who who drafted the bill or the resolution or whatever i think thomas
00:41:13.180
massey pointed out um they want the the citizenship question we only count citizens towards congress
00:41:19.480
and they asked them i think california had between five and seven extra seats maybe uh it may be as a
00:41:26.420
whole democrats get five to seven extra seats because they bring in criminal aliens the way it
00:41:31.380
works is california lets in a million people they then do a sentence say look a million people we get a
00:41:37.300
seat in congress we get an electoral college vote the mistake many conservatives keep making i mean
00:41:42.160
donald trump says this is that the illegal immigrants vote no they don't voting is not the process by
00:41:47.360
which change is it is not the process by which laws are enacted laws are enacted by representatives
00:41:52.520
who make votes in congress and by representatives electoral uh college members who are elected and then will
00:41:59.660
vote for the president you do not need an illegal immigrant to cast a ballot for anyone their mere presence
00:42:06.640
on the census will give a democrat an extra vote out of the 538 they need for the presidency you know you
00:42:14.680
have what four or five extra votes because these people so they're in essence voting as to how our
00:42:20.020
system operates sure but texas has to negotiate to the federal government with people who should not
00:42:26.660
even be there and they're representing non-citizens which points to the to the fundamental brokenness of the
00:42:32.860
federal system i mean you know the scenario you just laid out i think people don't think about in in those
00:42:38.300
terms you know if it if it were about illegal aliens voting or being on a pathway to being able to vote that
00:42:44.520
that's one discussion but the fact that it creates this ideological imbalance and the federal system speaks to
00:42:51.940
the the power that the federal government has or has has stolen uh in our lives you know their ability and that's why
00:42:59.820
you see all of this every two to four years this ridiculous punch and judy show over who gets the
00:43:04.100
reins of power in washington dc is because they wield it like a club for their ideological viewpoint
00:43:09.420
so take a look at what happens in a major city like chicago the democrats will bring in 300 000
00:43:15.780
criminal aliens uh these people who uh i i criminal alien is the legal academic term and i'm not saying
00:43:21.680
that to be cute people like say illegal illegal immigrant i'm saying literally criminal aliens they enter
00:43:25.860
the country illegally they're not documented they go to chicago and it results in as joe biden put it
00:43:31.600
i'm gonna quote joe biden here the city's turn to dirt that's what he said he said that in 2007 it's
00:43:36.340
a viral clip going around right now hard-working people don't want to pay taxes into a system that's
00:43:41.840
doing this so they leave you end up with you only need in a congressional district that is
00:43:50.100
uh a large portion criminal aliens let's say your congressional district 775 000 people has 200 000
00:43:56.900
criminal aliens it's a really high number it's not really that high but it allows for the state to
00:44:02.460
get an extra congressional seat you are now only seeking votes from that half a million no longer
00:44:07.720
are you seeking to win the majority of 775 000 if they were all hard-working americans it's a harder
00:44:13.540
pitch you need to convince more americans to vote for you if you have large portions of people who can't
00:44:18.700
vote but give you the seat anyway they they are second-class citizens effectively i mean they're
00:44:22.880
not citizens but i mean like they are second class their their voice does not matter you have already
00:44:27.920
been granted the power now you need only convince a small portion to vote for you if conservatives
00:44:33.500
don't want to live in an area that's overrun by crime like we're seeing here i'll break it down like
00:44:37.300
this here's what i think is happening in the cities they're they're bringing in mass waves of
00:44:41.640
criminal aliens into new york into chicago otherwise we are seeing stores shut down and evaporate
00:44:46.960
who's going to move first conservatives this is a fact we saw the mass migration in migration from
00:44:54.400
california new york illinois into florida and texas what this means then is you've now eliminated
00:45:00.780
your political opposition and given yourself an extra congressional seat where the only people left
00:45:05.340
to vote are going to be democrats guaranteeing an extra seat in congress that cannot be opposed
00:45:10.300
yeah there's a there's a strong argument to be made because there's a lot of people that want to
00:45:13.980
abandon our cities right they want to abandon down abandoned dallas they want to abandon chicago like
00:45:18.560
what you're saying and move to the burbs and i'm a burbs guy i love the suburbs but uh there's a strong
00:45:23.120
argument to be made because of that that we shouldn't abandon them we should continue to fight for our
00:45:26.900
cities and that's getting involved in like city council elections and school board elections and
00:45:31.360
stuff and people the average person doesn't care about local politics they care more about a
00:45:37.000
presidential thing right so if you pull somebody's voting record it's all about voting in a
00:45:40.420
as a president in a presidential election nobody half most people can't name who their mayor is for
00:45:44.380
their city they can't name their reps they can't name their reps right and that's a huge problem if
00:45:49.000
you're watching this and you can't name your rep or your mayor like figure it out right because that
00:45:54.160
that is what happens locally in your town is way more important than what joe biden is doing in dc
00:45:58.780
right and um yeah to your point we're we're all abandoning our cities and now you've got this
00:46:05.040
second class person who's being represented in the government who doesn't have a vote um who well
00:46:11.400
that that's their next play yeah that is not fair that they're not heard what what state or what
00:46:16.200
city was it that allows non-citizens to now vote for city council elections yeah it's probably a good
00:46:22.040
amount california a lot of them that's absurd to me that's crazy new york is doing it and um you know
00:46:28.060
boston maybe as well it's it's it's it's insane and i think they'll start from the bottom they'll work on
00:46:33.240
like okay you know if you've got a child in the district you can vote in like school board elections
00:46:37.220
they're doing right and then that'll that'll trickle upwards like okay now you can vote in
00:46:41.260
like city elections okay you know what we've already got you voting for the mayor let's let's
00:46:45.280
allow you to vote for like state reps and congressional spots right um it's gonna get worse it is it is
00:46:51.960
in my view democrats looking at the united states as the titanic already hitting the iceberg and
00:46:57.680
deciding we're gonna steal as much of the fine china as we run to the lifeboats and it's crazy to me
00:47:02.400
it's crazy to me you can treat these these non-citizens this the demographics that vote
00:47:08.100
for liberals you can treat them horribly and they will continue to vote democrat no matter what
00:47:13.360
right well it's it's it's it's actually a simple existential question the republicans want you gone
00:47:19.080
the democrats will keep you here nothing else matters yeah and and like like the black vote the
00:47:24.460
republican party spends so much time and money trying to appeal to the black vote and and they should
00:47:30.140
but we've seen very little movement on it actually being substantial right like donald trump pardoned
00:47:36.960
a bunch of these rappers and these people for really stupid stuff and he i guess the strategy
00:47:42.580
was that he's going to win the black vote well i don't know that he's going to win the black vote but
00:47:47.240
i do think that helped because you got a lot of high profile you know rappers being like i f with trump
00:47:54.100
i guess i i mean here's the thing but what does it move the needle one percent i i look at these
00:47:57.640
high profile people i've looked at high profile political celebrities in texas and they don't
00:48:02.840
even vote i'm not going to name names but there's a substantial amount of political celebrities that
00:48:07.420
reside in texas and when i pulled their voting records these are people that literally make their
00:48:11.960
living off of politics and they don't vote right so yeah right you pardon this rapper and he's like oh
00:48:18.080
yeah i i fuck with trump but like he he's not gonna go vote and his buddy's not gonna go vote
00:48:23.300
they'd rather get high they'd rather do something else right yeah if you can't if you make your
00:48:27.460
living off politics and even you can't be bothered to go vote you think that joe schmo that listens
00:48:33.180
to rap because in his favorite rapper got pardoned you think he's gonna go and do it i don't i don't
00:48:36.500
think so didn't the guy who made that song f donald trump come around and be like yeah like he
00:48:41.140
changed his mind i think so yeah i don't know maybe i'm wrong about that i want to accuse someone of
00:48:45.420
having opinions they don't have or whatever yeah but yeah i don't see i think i think it goes back to
00:48:51.400
what i was saying as long as the internet's working the food foods on the table within the
00:48:55.720
fridge or on the shelves and they've got running water most people are just satisfied with playing
00:49:00.060
video games what does most what does most people have to do with a conflict yeah and you're right
00:49:05.420
like right it's very cheap what you were saying to trigger like a big conflict but i i think a lot
00:49:10.940
if we're looking at a conflict especially with the way people are so neutered nowadays you're looking
00:49:15.620
at something that just kind of lasts for maybe a day and then everybody's like yeah it's fine you know
00:49:20.120
and then marvel movies coming out i would uh nobody's seen watching marvel movies anymore
00:49:23.760
yeah that's true i mean i mean you didn't get the memo but no but think about this i haven't seen
00:49:27.540
one of them i mean the marvels was a steaming turd yeah it's the worst it's the worst film uh the
00:49:32.640
marvels is the lowest box office of any film including the incredible hulk which was considered the black
00:49:37.200
sheep of the marvel films but not to go into marvel specifically culturally culturally ratings have
00:49:43.860
collapsed from the emmys the grammys or whatever uh sales of movies games everything they're they're
00:49:50.400
they're flattening out well because everything has an agenda right i can't i can't my wife noticed this
00:49:56.260
and she's she's not she wasn't born and raised in america my wife knows like every single show has or
00:50:00.960
even commercial you can't turn on the tv without some sort of propaganda where it's like you got like
00:50:06.900
something right have you seen aquaman 2 no and i'm not going to you know what it's about
00:50:11.020
not what the bad guy is burning an ancient fuel which releases greenhouse gases and is causing
00:50:16.680
global warming it's like i'm just exhausted hearing he even says at the beginning they find
00:50:22.860
this ancient technology and they're like this was all covered in ice before and he goes thank god
00:50:26.360
for global warming the the only time i watch these garbage movies is when there's nothing else on on the
00:50:31.300
the american airlines flight the wi-fi entertainment channel right so like i'll watch it right but like
00:50:36.040
a great example of a movie that did well was like godzilla did you watch a godzilla minus one yet you
00:50:40.660
should right so i went because i love godzilla in general but i went thinking this was just going
00:50:46.080
to be like your typical monster movie it's going to be like kind of it's just whatever monsters
00:50:50.120
fighting but this was a phenomenal movie it had a love story there wasn't any messaging there wasn't
00:50:55.220
any real political stuff to it it was just like love story conflict giant monster overcoming that
00:51:01.200
family like all of that and it's phenomenal the one like what you know nominated for grammys you know
00:51:06.500
movie did really really well top gun maverick yeah and so they're gonna make another one yeah
00:51:10.560
and it's like pure americana right but that's why you know we're looking at these superhero movies and
00:51:15.880
they're fading this this a lot of this cultural stuff is losing its its power and its relevance
00:51:21.240
and so going back to the main point it's you don't think there would be a conflict because
00:51:25.420
most people don't care but the the reality of every single war ever is most people don't care
00:51:32.060
and uh i mean for instance you look at world war ii public sentiment was we will not be involved
00:51:37.180
it wasn't until pearl harbor when people are like now we have to care so uh this is this is not
00:51:43.960
necessarily a correct number but it is a a meme do you know how many people what percentage of
00:51:50.060
people fought in the american revolution three percent so it's not absolutely true it's mostly just
00:51:58.480
like uh very few people thought but the fighting the fighting force of the of the colonies was
00:52:04.340
something between like three and ten percent of the population look i'll give you i'll give you
00:52:08.300
another stat i mean you know from from the time of the start of the texas revolution to the end of
00:52:12.640
the battle of san jacento over 60 percent of of the people that signed up to fight in the texas
00:52:18.420
revolution in the texian army uh bailed out you know there was texas was never able to mount its full
00:52:24.680
strength on a battlefield but ultimately that that that's not what matters what matters
00:52:30.320
uh i i think and we're not talking about this i don't want to put this in in war terms because
00:52:35.640
that's not what this is but but i think you know when we talk about these these ideas that are pushing
00:52:42.160
and sort of the the the public push i think it goes back to what i said a moment ago about the the
00:52:48.860
movie you know the civil war movie you know it's we could call it predictive programming but i look at
00:52:54.140
these things as is cultural outcroppings and that's why you know you see these these cultural
00:52:58.320
manipulators in hollywood and places like that trying to move people everything you know they
00:53:02.980
got to preach at everyone but but i'm going to tell you underneath the surface where everyone is
00:53:06.880
yeah they've got internet but they also have to go to the gas pump and they got to go get groceries
00:53:11.020
and they see those prices and in underneath it all uh i think and i know particularly in texas people
00:53:16.520
are as nervous as a chihuahua crap in a peach pit and they should be so uh i'll use this example um
00:53:22.020
in order to change the name of dallas to like stalinsburg or something how many people would
00:53:29.240
you need to vote to change the name of of dallas to to stalinsburg well it's stalingrad you just need
00:53:36.920
like what a majority so just wrong and really wrong i'll give you a good example uh i recently went on
00:53:44.200
vacation to utkiagfik do you know where that is no do you know where barrow alaska is yeah yeah
00:53:50.840
barrow alaska is now called you a territory at barrow alaska was renamed in 2016 to utkiagfik
00:53:56.100
there are uh four to five like around four thousand or so people who live in the town
00:54:01.280
how many people did it take to change the name of the town so i'm told i think it was between like
00:54:07.020
is about 70 people the issue is not you need to convince a majority of people to make a political
00:54:13.200
move just those that vote what i mean just the majority of who votes is what i well but think about
00:54:17.160
what that means yeah which is not it's very little very little people specifically at the
00:54:20.960
municipal level so text it how many people do you need to vote in order to have texas declare
00:54:27.620
independence yeah i gotta be honest probably a hundred thousand well i'll tell you some more
00:54:31.440
dad and here's why so one of the guys that works uh with us that we consult with he is the foremost
00:54:36.900
expert on independence referendums worldwide his name is dr matt courtrop uh and and dr q as we call
00:54:44.060
him although we did have to warn him not to wear a q lapel pin when he visited the university of texas
00:54:48.300
because you know awkward uh but he i don't think he understood but but you know a lot of the the the
00:54:55.600
work that he's done as an academic has been about self-determination and independence movements he's
00:55:00.160
consulted with i think 14 or 15 and so um he one of the things that he pointed out was he went back
00:55:08.080
over the last hundred years dealing with these independence referendums and here's what he found on
00:55:12.780
average they drive voter turnout 85 percent wow uh and that's you know and that's with a pretty
00:55:19.820
broad sample so and and this is where i'm at with with texit or texas i think be careful yeah i think
00:55:27.300
i think it's a good um it's a good war drum and i think it gets the people going but in in like actual
00:55:35.300
moving to get it done and act and people actually being like you know what i'm going to vote today
00:55:41.400
to secede it's not it's not a real thing well here's here's the fun part about that argument is
00:55:48.500
i heard the very same thing uh from the remainers before the brexit vote it's it's the same argument
00:55:54.700
and my my thing here is is look i respect that you know one of the things that we've said time and
00:56:00.500
time again is we absolutely want to make sure that we get when this goes on a ballot that we have a
00:56:06.280
broad conversation a a big vigorous debate on the relationship between texas and the federal
00:56:12.500
government because there are people like you like you know look i think it's i think it may be a good
00:56:16.820
idea but in practice that it's problematic those things those things bear out eventually and you get
00:56:22.900
what you had in 2014 where the you know scotland said no thanks you know but then you get brexit
00:56:29.240
where you know you get over a majority so i think the issue of independence would be
00:56:34.320
so dramatic it would drive mass turnout in which you'd need a substantial amount of people to
00:56:40.260
actually be convinced to vote yes or no you have to but what what i would to go back to my point
00:56:44.380
about you know i'm saying like a hundred thousand if if today someone let's say there's an issue no
00:56:51.080
one cares about and it's like should we uh uh reroute this water pipe through this area which would
00:56:57.000
which could alter efficiency by one or two no one's gonna vote no one's gonna care you could
00:57:01.080
dramatically shift like how how plumbing operates in austin with a microscopic percentage of the vote
00:57:07.040
so when you say most people don't care about this stuff that's actually the worrying thing if it comes
00:57:14.160
down to a vote on something serious like renaming your city but no one's like i don't care what the
00:57:21.360
city's named you wake up and dallas has been renamed to stalingrad yeah it took like 2 000 people to do it
00:57:25.980
and that's my point so with an issue like independence you are going to have very very
00:57:31.880
powerful federal interests dumping billions into marketing and making sure it's the only thing that
00:57:37.000
matters which will result in turnout for sure so my concern is if you really can't convince someone to
00:57:44.060
care it becomes easier and easier to vote for one extreme or the other yeah which is what like
00:57:49.700
hollywood and the democrats are doing so much are trying to um keep people like i keep saying neutered
00:57:54.420
they want them to just be comfortable be happy like here consume your consume your slop watch your
00:57:59.740
movies right um don't worry about voting um and and it's going to continue that way until things get
00:58:06.480
really bad and i don't think we're there it needs to get really really bad for people i think we are
00:58:10.860
there i don't think i don't think we're there i think we're years off when you look at the airports
00:58:14.880
in major cities and they have hundreds to thousands of illegal immigrants in new york when they kicked
00:58:20.500
kids out of their schools so they could house illegal immigrants in chicago you have the black
00:58:25.380
community in uproar where activists are now coming out these are former democrats saying trump is the
00:58:31.140
only solution because you have illegal immigrants occupying their schools their stores and they're
00:58:38.160
wondering why it is my kid's gym is no longer in use like the the issue is now affecting regular
00:58:46.640
people in ways they don't want to deal with but see these things are cyclical like let's say trump
00:58:51.140
wins okay and then they're like oh my guy won i'm cool yeah things get a little bit bad but you know
00:58:56.060
like maybe maybe he's he sucks right maybe illegal immigration relatively stays the same but he goes
00:59:01.300
on tv and he says a lot of really great things and it keeps the people going like oh yeah you know
00:59:04.880
things are bad and yeah my gym's shutting down and yeah this and this and happening but
00:59:08.500
we got trump and the memes are cool and red team's winning right and so they relax again and then the
00:59:14.060
democrats get fired up and so these things like it's like it's a constant like pendulum swing and
00:59:18.920
it keeps it keeps one side happy and then it goes and once i don't i don't i don't i think that maybe
00:59:24.880
made sense 20 years ago with the hyperpolarization and cultural bifurcation that we've seen over the
00:59:30.240
past 10 years yeah i think we're moving past that point we're now at a point where you have
00:59:35.740
child sex change operations and shockingly the governor of ohio is trying to make sure they stay in
00:59:42.220
place you have joy reed here i'll give you i'll give you the the the remarkable uh hypocrisy of of
00:59:50.020
of these leftist arguments joy reed argues that books about adult activities should be allowed in
00:59:57.640
public schools and this happened this past week however the subject matter was so shocking msnbc
01:00:05.260
censored the words so they're like we can't let the general public hear this it's offensive but grade
01:00:11.100
school children now look you actually have people dedicating their campaigns and actively calling
01:00:17.180
for mobilization i'm talking about activist direct action because they want children to get sex changes
01:00:23.260
i look if the issue before was should we raise taxes three percent or lower them should the wealthy pay a
01:00:30.080
slightly higher progressive tax yeah i understand nobody shows up but when you have an issue where
01:00:34.380
washington state for instance will allow a pedophile to kidnap a child bring them to the state to
01:00:41.020
undergo at the age of 14 a sex change operation and there is no legal penalty for the pedophile i'm not
01:00:46.960
exaggerating it's it's a sanctuary uh uh state for child sex changes i believe it's washington i could
01:00:53.340
be wrong but i think washington oregon and this is in california are doing this if a maybe not oregon
01:00:58.300
if someone goes online and grooms your child and says yes yes get these surgeries do these things
01:01:03.800
i'll come pick you up and kidnaps your kid from nebraska yeah the state says we will not prosecute
01:01:09.800
the individual who did that these are things where i do not see us in the future reconciling uh the
01:01:17.040
example i like to use is actually oklahoma and colorado oklahoma has banned abortion outright
01:01:21.680
colorado has removed all restrictions up to the point of birth i mean these states border each other
01:01:27.140
this is a remarkable situation to be in i'm not saying in a good way i'm saying holy crap you have
01:01:32.500
a scenario perhaps where man and a woman uh are together woman gets pregnant six months in the
01:01:39.460
woman says for whatever reason this man is bad and if i have a kid with him it's i'm stuck forever i
01:01:44.900
can't do this we're not going to be able to afford it i have to abort this child let's just say seven
01:01:50.760
six months but the baby is viable the baby can survive outside the womb in the middle of the night
01:01:54.680
she gets up and she flees and starts making her way to colorado still in the state the husband
01:01:59.060
wakes up and says oh my god what's happening finds out from a friend she's going to colorado to get
01:02:03.660
an abortion he says that's my son she's going to kill my son help he goes to law enforcement and says
01:02:09.260
she is trying to commit murder and the state agrees what she is doing is illegal in fact i think it
01:02:14.580
might have been alabama or arkansas i'm not sure which state actually said it is conspiracy to commit
01:02:19.740
abortion if you plot to leave the state to go do it and we will hold you criminally liable what
01:02:25.140
happens when we get these scenarios where colorado says hurry hurry come in quick and we'll we'll
01:02:30.920
terminate the child and oklahoma says you are committing felony a felony crime by doing this
01:02:35.980
at a certain point we cannot just say it'll all be fine nothing will happen no because at a certain
01:02:41.760
point some guy is going to be like i will do everything in my power to uphold the law there there's
01:02:47.020
some really interesting questions that i've asked pro-lifers about the circumstances that we're
01:02:50.920
facing with the end of roe v wade and one is do you believe abortion is murder and i'm not going to get
01:02:56.820
too much into this because when you talk about it but typically they say yes and my response is
01:03:00.120
would you uh would you if you are witnessing a murder about to take place take action up to and
01:03:06.240
including lethal force to stop a murder from happening the answer is yes i say okay now understand what
01:03:11.200
what you've just said when colorado says at the point of birth you can terminate the life of the baby
01:03:16.300
and while people might not publicly want to say what they think they wouldn't do the sentiment is
01:03:22.000
very obvious in the bifurcation of morals in this country which perhaps like i mentioned to go back
01:03:26.880
to the main point 30 years ago yeah nobody cares about tax policy or should we you know uh have this
01:03:32.980
kind of grain or that kind of grain in surplus or whatever but now we're talking about whether or not
01:03:37.240
a state has the right to end the life of a child at nine months whether a state has the right to take a
01:03:41.540
child from your home and perform a sex change operation on them and see here's where i'm at like
01:03:45.900
these things are already happening they've been happening forever look how many abortions we had
01:03:48.920
just last year and and you know yes you'll get that that random quote-unquote extremist that will
01:03:53.540
do something very extreme that i won't talk about on here and that's that's horrible and whatever um
01:03:58.960
but the average majority of people won't they won't really act on it like i'll give you an example
01:04:03.360
but that's the point already made it's never been in any context ever the majority of people who are
01:04:09.080
required to act on something in fact there's that famous quote i always forget who said it let it never be
01:04:14.120
said that a small group of dedicated people cannot change the world indeed it's the only thing that
01:04:17.420
ever has in in most conflicts and crisis and civil wars it is always a microscopic portion of the
01:04:23.740
population that triggers mass upheaval like occupy wall street is this big historic moment in the
01:04:28.900
country and it was only at its peak a couple a hundred thousand or so people across the country
01:04:33.600
in a country of 300 million yeah i i just don't see it happening with like for example something like
01:04:40.640
like texas secession i don't see i don't see people being like it like i said it's a good meme
01:04:46.940
and it gets people fired up but in actual like when you put pen to paper it's like i want to vote to
01:04:51.940
physically leave the united states i don't think we're there yet we may get there what's more
01:04:57.620
likely is that there's one way to find out more likely is a coup like i said i i i can tell you the
01:05:03.260
strategy to guarantee that texas votes for independence and passes mail-in voting i'm not kidding
01:05:08.640
well you go you go you go door to door the there there's always a misrepresentation of what the
01:05:14.140
issue is instead of instead of asking someone would you like to vote uh do you believe that texas
01:05:20.740
should secede from union today and and and make that declaration people are gonna be like well i
01:05:24.680
don't know about that how about you said do you believe that we should return more of your tax money
01:05:27.980
to you stop taking tax money from your paycheck to the federal government and frame it in this way
01:05:32.800
and they're like i vote for secession look i mean look the way one of the things that we did to
01:05:38.120
to to reframe the discussion and tony's probably going to stick his finger down his throat because
01:05:42.780
he's heard this before but but but i mean literally how we reframed it was was simply this you know is
01:05:49.560
we're we're talking to texas voters we're asking this question if texas was already independent we
01:05:55.560
had control over our own border and immigration policy our own currency our own economic taxation
01:06:00.440
policy we had our own military we had everything that 200 other self-governing independent nations
01:06:05.740
around the world had right and instead of talking about texas we were talking about whether we would
01:06:09.940
give up that control and join the union knowing everything you know about the federal government
01:06:14.120
today would you vote to join and you know when when you reframe it in those terms people understand
01:06:20.740
that there is a case to be made that there is there is the way you know texas is the way to secure your
01:06:27.980
rights to get to get that control and the fact of the matter is the federal government cannot sell
01:06:32.520
their position what are they selling 34 trillion dollars worth of debt a collapsed border i mean
01:06:37.220
let's blowing up weddings let me let me tell you this i can prove that this issue is not going to
01:06:41.600
pass we had up daniel miller's group put forth a resolution and the resolution was to go on a ballot
01:06:48.420
for the republican primary and it was just do you think what was the specific question the state of
01:06:53.520
texas reassert its status as an independent it was just a question it wasn't even like taking action it
01:06:58.580
was just a question simple thing right and in order to end up on the ballot the state republican
01:07:05.200
executive committee of texas which is comprised of what many would argue the most conservative
01:07:11.640
right-wing people in the state voted it down well you're saying that bureaucrats voted it down
01:07:19.280
it's not bureaucrats these are they would be very upset if they were listening and you called the srec
01:07:24.340
bureaucrats these are people that are grassroots activists was it was it the general population who
01:07:29.960
voted or is it like that's and that's that's actually a good argument for why i also agree that the srec
01:07:35.120
is not a representation of the average person but this is the representation of people that are the
01:07:41.960
farthest right-leaning and i think it sounds more like a special interest group blocked uh yeah i think
01:07:46.880
i think it's easy to label them that but this is also the same group that during convention they agreed
01:07:52.100
that it should be part of the platform that texas secession should be yeah i mean it passed a
01:07:57.320
convention this is what's interesting they agreed that the party platform should include texas and
01:08:02.780
then they betrayed the and then when it actually came up for voting they didn't right even the chair
01:08:07.380
wait wait hold on you understand what you're saying 90 of people voted in favor of it look the
01:08:12.160
political establishment hey and and you know in and tony would make the argument that that the srec many
01:08:17.600
would bristle at being called the political establishment the state republican executive
01:08:20.580
committee all right the the folks that he's referring to i know that but but i would argue
01:08:24.960
that they're they're also political establishment just a different one that we would that we would
01:08:29.520
normally think would you call the majority of the srec establishment uh at this point i think that
01:08:34.660
there is a a big gulf between the srec and where the people but would you call them political hacks
01:08:40.240
and establishment i i would label probably the a good a good majority of them i gotta tell you i'm and you
01:08:46.660
may disagree but that's okay i i don't know i just know that they're gonna freak out about that well
01:08:50.720
they can but they had an opportunity look we've given the republican party three separate opportunities
01:08:56.460
to bring this question to the people and and even couched it in a way to say look we're not saying
01:09:02.300
that that uh you should pass a platform plank or come out as the republican party and declare that
01:09:08.940
texas should be independent what we're saying is you should respect article one section two of the
01:09:13.560
texas constitution enough that says that the people have the inalienable right to alter reform
01:09:18.320
or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient you should respect the people
01:09:23.180
and the constitution of texas enough to just ask the question you know what is so wrong with asking
01:09:31.460
the people of texas if they want to continue in an abusive relationship with the federal government
01:09:35.280
i i wonder uh just real quick the srec guys uh who are they what are the what is their net worth
01:09:42.120
where do they work they work for free they're not compensated they're voted in by well that's a
01:09:47.200
whole other question because well that's not that's a good point that's actually a good point
01:09:51.200
are these guys like they're compensated well no no that's not what i'm asking are these guys who
01:09:55.640
just like you know might uh be the manager at a grocery store yeah maybe maybe a contractor
01:10:00.960
who a small company yeah actually yes that's that's probably what they're all doing local
01:10:04.800
stay-at-home moms yeah quite a summer summer stay-at-home moms yeah but but look let's be
01:10:10.460
clear and and tony and i we could have an entire hour talking about what's going on with the state
01:10:16.500
republic with the state republican party right now but but let's also be honest many of those folks
01:10:21.720
are are they have political ties to a political establishment uh i mean beyond a shadow of a doubt and
01:10:28.680
and you know the the thing that i think is quite interesting is at the same meeting
01:10:32.840
that they made the decision to not put it on the ballot they also passed a financial disclosure
01:10:38.260
requirement a rule for the srec members and the chairman uh that to this point no one seems to be
01:10:44.140
able to produce uh any of those reports i mean you know to say look who's in your pocket real quick so
01:10:50.060
there was a vote what what was this vote they got 90 percent uh it was at the last convention when
01:10:56.220
they added the two planks to the platform so the so these are the state republicans that's the
01:11:00.600
grassroots look the the state republican party in texas uh the the convention most people don't
01:11:05.820
realize is the single largest political convention happens every two years yeah i mean it's in the
01:11:11.060
world i mean it's you're going to have 9 000 delegates and alternates at that thing so it represents a
01:11:16.840
broad swath of the republican party now interestingly enough the the people that we would traditionally
01:11:22.280
think of as the political establishment in texas uh you know the the squishes um in the republican
01:11:28.340
party despise the convention they despise the srec uh you're saying i mean you want to talk about a
01:11:34.620
civil war there is an internal civil war happening in the texas gop right now uh and and and it is
01:11:41.500
our part in that that entire dance right now is a small microcosm so i think you know tony to to your
01:11:49.200
point i think saying that the state republican executive committee voted it down because it's just
01:11:54.220
you know a bridge too far whatever it is i think it ignores the larger internal battle that's going
01:12:00.040
on who's in whose pocket who's in their ear who's controlling so so let's shift a little bit then in
01:12:04.680
this uh this question uh what's happening with eagle pass and the entire board the immigrant the
01:12:09.020
immigration crisis how much is this affecting the lives of the average texan it's not i mean i'm i'm in
01:12:17.060
dfw which is very far from the board yeah i mean if you're looking for direct effects i mean that
01:12:21.520
would be difficult but indirectly i mean at the moment that you create a 12 and a half billion
01:12:26.420
dollar annual hole that texas has to pay for and you're tucking into people's pockets that has
01:12:32.440
spillover effects into discussions about property taxes and sales taxes and quality of life sure
01:12:37.360
you know the average the average normie just is they turn on the news and they say oh man a bunch
01:12:41.400
of these illegals are crossing over man that's crazy sip move on with your day if abbott instead of
01:12:47.580
shipping all these uh criminal aliens across the country just drop them in austin you'd probably
01:12:52.580
get a session you know probably wouldn't know the difference i don't yeah but you know like you're
01:12:56.620
dropping them off in like like suburbs like frisco right you drop off a bunch of illegal that may do
01:13:01.080
it and actually that is maybe a good uh strategy is like instead of shipping them to these leftist
01:13:05.460
states let's start shipping like a sample size well oh perfect so so for any of my team listening be
01:13:11.220
sure to get me jeff leach's home address well so well but think about what would happen you're look
01:13:15.880
so you have this stunt where it's like let's make democrats feel what happens when criminal aliens
01:13:20.100
come in in mass and you've got crisis in these big democrat cities yeah now if you really wanted
01:13:25.880
texas to declare independence you need the same sentiment you're getting from eric adams but in
01:13:30.900
austin so you want to you want to get people to wake up and be like we're being screwed over by the
01:13:35.780
federal government you take a look what's going on right now at the national guard and cbp but
01:13:40.300
centralize all of those problems into the cities of texas and they're going to vote for
01:13:44.680
you're getting daniel ideas he's going to start running buses no no look i said earlier that ship
01:13:49.460
sailed 13 years ago i mean that was when when you needed to make the political pull but look we're
01:13:53.320
in a crisis situation i mean that's just that's kind of where i'm at and and i think i think to
01:13:58.140
tony's point i think people probably see it uh and a lot of folks just sip their beer they kind of move on
01:14:05.980
but what what the current crisis that's happening right now the two and a half miles the razor wire the
01:14:12.380
whole thing uh is i think it's making people pay attention to the issue and you know they're
01:14:17.740
having to fill in a lot i mean you know that's that's just kind of where the situation is they're
01:14:22.420
having to do a lot of catch-up we were talking about this before the show where my gauge of
01:14:26.580
whether people are caring about an issue is whether like the normie boomer starts sending me stuff and
01:14:31.280
i said that i'm starting to get normie boomer sending me clips of this show specifically and
01:14:36.580
that's really what you need the average fox news voter which is somebody who just casually sees
01:14:42.420
the news on maybe at work or at the at the airport they see this stuff happen and they move on with
01:14:47.760
their day and that's currently that is the average voter but once we start seeing normies consuming
01:14:54.080
media or content that's not fox news or cnn or washington post that's when we can start inflicting
01:14:59.880
some change so uh ian crossland co-host on tim cast iRL said that his parents are total normies
01:15:04.920
they watch msnbc and when he visited him over the holidays they were talking about uh
01:15:09.600
migrate illegal immigration and stuff and he said his parents were like this is a disaster this is
01:15:14.600
insane what's happening and it's like the one time there's been an issue you know he was he was
01:15:19.460
saying he was talking to them about ohio because they're from ohio and the child sex change bill is
01:15:24.460
going through and there was actually you know his dad's like well they're just trying to help these
01:15:28.400
kids and the mom was like no this is wrong and it's like there's some contention there with
01:15:31.640
immigration it's just like no everybody i mean this is taken over as the uh principal issue for
01:15:37.820
the american voter it's uh it's the plurality uh so the first the most important issue to americans
01:15:43.080
is immigration the second is inflation and i think the only reason that is because people don't know
01:15:46.920
that immigration affects inflation causes it to spike sure well and and look i'll tell you from a
01:15:52.200
texas perspective obviously you know that that polling has has shifted across the union you know from
01:15:58.960
immigration in the border being the number one you know to it becoming the number one issue but
01:16:04.440
for well over a decade uh when you know texas tribune university of texas released that poll
01:16:09.560
what every quarter every six months whatever it is for well over a decade now since they've been
01:16:14.000
doing that polling uh when they poll the people of texas about the most serious issue uh that that
01:16:20.240
is confronting the state you take uh immigration in the border and you combine them together and
01:16:25.520
they're the number one issue it's been on the forefront of texans minds for quite some time
01:16:30.660
i think we need to uh you know i'll i'll phrase it this way we talk a lot about politics and the srec
01:16:36.600
and you know who's voting for what and all that that's boring well no but i gotta be honest i don't
01:16:41.540
i think what we're seeing right now is completely unexpected uh as much as people are like aha tim pool
01:16:46.800
gets to talk about civil war oh he's been i was never talking about armed national guard confronting
01:16:51.860
federal agents yeah so the the question of whether or not anyone votes for anything is
01:16:57.440
not relevant to the actual discussion of what is currently happening on the border and with other
01:17:01.880
states because ain't nobody's going to vote for whether or not some anxious shaken up 19 year old
01:17:07.700
national guardsman panicking as cbp guys with guns tell him to drop his weapon no one's voting on how
01:17:13.040
he responds to that well look i'll tell you 2011 i i've written two books but i'm not an author by any
01:17:19.620
means i don't i don't write books for a living but in 2011 i wrote a book called line in the sand and
01:17:25.140
what i did in that book was pretty much put down where i thought this was going to head and i said
01:17:30.880
basically texans had three options and i think this applies for everyone if you study these trends and
01:17:37.300
you look at the internal political cultural economic pressures you take it all in tow we we have three
01:17:43.060
options you can you're going to see balkanization right that's that's one option where you just say
01:17:49.400
let's naturally let this thing fall apart which you don't want that's why it's called balkanization
01:17:54.780
no one wants mass graves and communities fighting one another the other is secession you take your
01:18:00.300
independence in your own hands you release that pressure where you have a state leave or the last
01:18:05.840
thing is capitulation where you basically just get down on your knees and you you let the federal
01:18:11.220
government take control over everything but we ultimately know that that ends in collapse as well
01:18:16.140
because they have a one size fits not approach i like to call it uh fillet the state is that on a
01:18:23.460
shirt i don't know but you know it's not sure i'd want to wear but that's basically what it is you
01:18:27.520
get on your knees and you are now in service of voters that would probably wear that shirt do not
01:18:32.620
fillet the state you know i was thinking about this too um i i i i those are those are the three
01:18:39.540
branches the forks in the road right the secession balkanization balkanization but i gotta be
01:18:44.720
honest when people have been talking about national divorce in fact national divorce is actually
01:18:48.120
trending in politics on on x right now measure that but it's not peaceful national divorce is not
01:18:52.600
possible uh i do believe that for a state like texas perhaps may be the only state capable of
01:18:58.880
actually peacefully seceding from the union for a variety of reasons but the issue with balkanization
01:19:04.520
is that too many other states are locked to each other so california is heavily reliant on the
01:19:10.260
colorado river as is uh you know um nevada and and i believe arizona as well so if if you know if
01:19:18.340
arizona i could be the mayor states wrong but if if it ups uh an up river state decides we're going
01:19:24.520
to maximize our utilization of this water source and they in any way control it which results in
01:19:31.280
those downstream being cut off from their water you have war guaranteed well look balkanization is is
01:19:36.460
really it's it's done by non-state actors right that you the the borders when you see balkanization
01:19:42.560
happen i mean go back and look at what happened in yugoslavia or look at what happened in iraq post
01:19:47.600
saddam hussein you know that nobody cared about the national borders what what they cared about was
01:19:53.480
the the territory that was owned by the people that were most like them religiously politically it's
01:19:59.440
it's a it's a reduction to violent tribalism uh and that is you know when you see things like you
01:20:05.320
you mentioned the the summer of love and the riots in the cities that is what i believe an attempt at
01:20:10.240
balkanization when you start to see those types of things happen so you know you have to there is a
01:20:15.320
very distinct difference between state actors and you know engaging in withdrawal from political bodies
01:20:21.600
versus you know a reduction to violent tribalism versus you know obviously worshiping at the feet of
01:20:29.640
the federal government so um my question really is what's what's which one of those pathways is the
01:20:37.640
most peaceful pathway to get it done you know granted you're right the federal government could react
01:20:42.320
poorly if a state made a vote and said i want to go out but if you think about the pressure that the
01:20:48.180
federal the federal government would be under right that's why i'm not real keen on what's happening on
01:20:53.600
the border right now i know it needs to happen but i don't like the fact that it had to be framed
01:20:58.540
this way whereas you had an opportunity to let texans vote on this simply because if a state goes
01:21:04.200
to the polls right now and votes themselves out right you have a very public debate the people get
01:21:10.160
a chance to vote you know people participate you get those those levels you know it becomes unquestionably
01:21:16.320
one of the largest democratic exercises that we see outside of the elections here and so imagine what
01:21:21.380
sort of pressures the federal government then becomes under if they react badly to it when frankly
01:21:26.900
they've sent people you know your age to go fight bleed and die for that same right for people around
01:21:33.480
the world tim's point i don't i don't think that this is possible without uh violence like do you
01:21:38.720
think that if if and i don't think it's going to happen and that's all that you lose oh yeah we would
01:21:44.200
not the idea of texas winning against the federal government it's not going to happen i'm sorry to
01:21:48.900
interrupt but i don't mean that i mean the moment violence starts you have lost the the the win
01:21:54.720
condition for any of us is peacefully maintaining our lives and the moments von kicks off like the
01:22:00.480
end result of any kind of conflict will never be yay we want it's going to be you sifting through
01:22:04.600
the rubble of what what you once called look at look at aleppo it's it's not a win sure well i mean
01:22:09.300
okay but but but follow that scenario right now right so let's let's let's just we're going to go
01:22:14.560
hypothetically into the future texas legislature passes a law called the texas independence referendum act
01:22:21.100
that says at a point in the future texans are going to go to the polls and answer this question
01:22:25.680
should the state of texas reassert its status as an independent nation it's not going to be a secret
01:22:30.660
i mean let's be honest if we could you know if we can get the cover of newsweek uh this edition
01:22:35.280
just by what's going on then it's going on the balance not going to be an issue so you will have
01:22:39.820
this vigorous debate and i mean it will be the normal thing that you see it'll be threats you know
01:22:45.060
it'll be the federal government saying you're going to let grandma die in a ditch texas can't make it
01:22:48.800
on its own it's going to be all that normal stuff we'll make the case and let's say that it wins so
01:22:52.840
you you have people go to the polls they vote and then the next day literally nothing happens because
01:22:59.320
literally nothing happens it doesn't mean once you have the vote that you're immediately out okay so
01:23:03.660
that's great so is the federal response going to be what when we vote is it going to be after the
01:23:09.860
vote is taken at what point does the federal government decide they're going to invoke some military
01:23:14.860
response to this thing and then what will the ultimate blowback be i mean we're talking about
01:23:20.680
hypotheticals and there's scenario you're you're presenting it's not even triggering seceding it's
01:23:26.540
just asking the question but i'm talking about even if we triggered it so let's move even farther
01:23:30.740
forward let's say for so let's say somehow you convince a good chunk of democrats which are huge in
01:23:36.280
texas and you convince the majority of republicans so you'd have the majority of democrats or a good chunk
01:23:41.360
of democrats and the majority of republicans which we don't even have close to to pass something like
01:23:45.440
this but let's say you get it done the government the federal government i think they just treat texans
01:23:51.120
if they pass this like they treat uh what's this uh these sovereign citizens you have some loony that's
01:23:56.300
like i'm a texas citizen you can't arrest me and they're like yeah this guy's loony he thinks he's a
01:23:59.640
texas sovereign citizen and they just arrest him well then it's not realistic no it is though but but see
01:24:04.740
you're you're oversimplifying the the situation you're and it's almost an attempt to downplay
01:24:09.600
the fact that when you're talking about states withdrawing from a political union and you have
01:24:15.100
these massive democratic exercises where this happens i mean you know you you paint your scenario
01:24:19.700
like that uh you know what if what if the european union had done the same thing to the united kingdom
01:24:24.640
or that scotland had done the you know the uk had done the same thing to scotland or the 100 other
01:24:30.020
you know plus examples that we see around the world over the last 100 years i mean what what would
01:24:37.260
make you think that that sort of situation would happen that they would just treat it like it was
01:24:41.300
a passing fancy or a lark you're talking about serious geopolitical ramifications for these sorts
01:24:48.300
of things especially when the federal government has gone around the world for the last 80 years and
01:24:52.680
shed blood in support of the right of self-determination you have also to factor in our foreign
01:24:57.980
country is going to recognize texas as an independent nation it's not going to happen it's not a
01:25:01.900
realistic thing we don't even have the votes the everything we find out everything texas has done
01:25:07.260
has been focused on just appealing to the republican party there's been no ballot proposition at least
01:25:12.200
a realistic one to be on the democrat ballot oh we absolutely and that's and to tim's point like
01:25:17.720
that's why i think if you're going to do this stuff it's it's the only path forward is going to
01:25:22.020
be and i don't i disavow this of course but like violence because you're not you don't have the votes
01:25:26.020
for it well but but but voting is one way to find out vote i i think voting is normalcy bias
01:25:33.060
the 1861 did not start because people voted like hey we're like and i agree with you that's my point
01:25:39.980
is like yes the only way to pass this is through violence it's but but it's it's that's not what
01:25:44.760
i'm necessarily what i'm saying uh abraham lincoln gets elected his platform in 1860 was not vote for me
01:25:52.160
and i will deploy troops to occupy southern states nobody voted for that to happen he was in power as
01:25:59.080
an executive and made the decision to do so now the states did did the representatives did vote on
01:26:03.020
seceding the fascinating thing is that several of the confederate states voted no initially and it
01:26:08.120
wasn't until abraham lincoln called for conscription to deploy you know was it like 15 000 troops or
01:26:13.920
whatever he was trying to conscript that my my point here is this voting does not matter right now
01:26:19.900
with this with the current context of what's happening with all of these states i mean look
01:26:23.900
florida's deployed personnel to texas true nebraska has deployed personnel to texas and donald trump
01:26:29.620
has just called on willing states to deploy their national guard to texas the issue is not whether
01:26:37.460
or not you get a vote it's an issue of whether or not the federal government decides or texas decides
01:26:43.160
we will not back down and with this will escalate to the next step no one's going to vote no like i'll
01:26:48.200
put it this way nobody voted for greg abbott to deploy national guard to repel federal agents
01:26:51.880
he is in charge he runs on that platform right and nobody no no serious politician in texas no
01:26:58.680
serious one is actively platforming or running on texas secession not a serious one but that's
01:27:05.980
clowns that do but not any real ones and and neither did the confederate states they did not say vote for
01:27:11.720
me so that in two years we can vote to secede they said i will defend your homes and your rights vote
01:27:16.320
for me but even in the current scenario what's happening is these these other states and this
01:27:20.440
is what i said in the beginning of the show what's more likely these other states are partnering with
01:27:24.960
us with us and working with us and agreeing with us yeah we need to help you guys out and secure your
01:27:29.740
border that is not saying hey we we agree with you guys you need to leave like get the hell out of
01:27:34.240
here right do you do you know why southerners fought in the civil war it was like property i think
01:27:39.920
people argue it's property rights no sort of maybe because they felt like their homes were being
01:27:45.160
invaded that's why southerners fought in the civil war if you're talking about the rank and file
01:27:49.620
soldier that was their primary motivation the the principal argument made by a lot of people is like
01:27:54.060
what caused civil war slavery i mean over overarching it was it was the uh whether or not abraham lincoln
01:27:59.240
would abolish slavery the confederate states felt that he would despite the fact his argument was no
01:28:03.400
you can keep it but no one else can have any more and only around five percent of people in the
01:28:07.580
country actually owned slaves right the average southerner was not moralized and uh charged up over the
01:28:14.900
idea of we must defend slavery the average southerner was sitting there and they're called
01:28:20.520
they're called to to join arms because union soldiers were invading their state and putting
01:28:25.920
their mothers their brothers their sisters in in in death's path and so how do you convince someone
01:28:32.360
to defend to to fight in a civil war to fight in any war you're not going to go to them and say
01:28:37.880
hey you know five percent of these wealthy plantation owners own slaves defend them they're going to be
01:28:41.720
like huh no what happens is hey the union is is deploying troops and they're marching on your farm
01:28:47.880
right now jim in three days they'll be at your house and he's like tell me what to do man they
01:28:54.880
don't care about that so when i'm when we're looking at what's going on it is true that there are and this
01:29:00.940
is an important distinction as well people make a lot of assumptions about war probably because they
01:29:05.040
watch too many movies in uh the the secession of i think virginia initially was like two to one
01:29:11.000
against secession and then it became like two to one for secession meaning you had large loyalist
01:29:15.920
factions in southern states that did not want to secede at all and you actually had pro-confederate
01:29:20.840
sentiment in northern states to a lesser degree in fact uh one of the most interesting things is
01:29:25.120
maryland which is north of dc and was a slave state so abraham lincoln what did he do he went in
01:29:31.020
and arrested the members of the state legislature who were in favor of of uh slavery or secession
01:29:35.360
delaware also was a slave state the things that end up going down are never due to set public
01:29:41.100
sentiment here's what i want here's what i don't want it's nobody voted for abraham lincoln to deploy
01:29:45.860
troops nobody voted for anyone to fire on fort sumter they voted for hold my state in the best
01:29:51.280
interests that you can and so if greg abbott as governor decides and it's not going to be him saying
01:29:58.700
you know what we're gonna go to civil war that's not what happens what's gonna happen is they're gonna
01:30:04.220
say sir several armed border patrol agents have just aimed their weapons at our guardsmen and
01:30:09.780
order them to drop their weapons our our our you know commanding the commanding officer down there
01:30:15.220
told them stand to not not to stand down what should we do the question is not we hereby declare war and
01:30:22.600
they bang the table it's tell our men not to back down what happens from there i mean who knows
01:30:28.120
and that's why i keep saying i uh that scenario and what comes from that
01:30:34.220
what is more likely is a bunch of states get together and stage like a coup of some sort or
01:30:39.600
don't recognize it that's more likely than texas being like peace out we're done i i i agree and uh
01:30:45.040
and i i believe the view there is if the if if everybody looks at biden's approval rating
01:30:51.160
and they're not thinking of civil war or conflict of federal government they're thinking
01:30:54.640
biden has zero popularity we actually are the united states and by standing firm with this position in
01:31:01.420
texas national guard then come 20 come november we win the election and everything is just normal
01:31:05.960
and stable i uh people are calling this the lone star rebellion i shouldn't say people there's a
01:31:10.940
meme going around showing all the states they lone star rebellion i'm like texas is not in rebellion
01:31:14.420
texas is upholding the law as codified by congress and their state the biden administration has gone
01:31:19.760
rogue if republican governors feel that way as well deploy troops to support that i i honestly don't
01:31:27.100
think people would get behind the biden administration absolutely not to enough of a degree and then
01:31:31.100
what happens is november there's an election he's just the democrats lose power tremendously
01:31:35.460
republicans win and the united states remains the united states without conflict and then that's why
01:31:38.740
i think like this is an absolute disaster for biden trump is like people they do not want trump
01:31:43.460
and they will continue to do everything to keep him off the ballot they do not want him right
01:31:48.340
and that's why you're seeing nikki haley now appeal to democrats to come vote in the republican
01:31:52.300
republicans want him and moderates want him yeah and gen z want this is the craziest thing yeah and
01:31:58.320
and oh man the the the fact the gen z ideology and mentality of of it's just crazy to me i can't
01:32:05.600
understand i well it's based the a 28 of gen z are leftist are far left it's it's it's a cultural
01:32:12.920
bifurcation donald trump is winning gen z three polls came out there's numerous articles from left in
01:32:18.760
publications saying democrats are panicking over losing gen z to donald trump and that's why it's
01:32:22.280
so crazy to me because like they the millennials are completely lost right like i'm a millennial
01:32:27.340
like our generation's completely lost yeah uh but the gen z like they and it's it's such a it's such
01:32:33.660
a weird demographic right these i think the majority of them don't have driver's licenses they they're
01:32:38.600
more connected to they grew up with the internet right um and um they they love donald trump and it's
01:32:45.480
just so interesting to me to see why they're so into it and they're and they're so about being based
01:32:50.980
versus like the average millennial is just consuming i i just content i'm gonna i'm gonna
01:32:55.220
tell you what my one theory i have there's a viral video of uh gen z guy showing a micro apartment in
01:33:01.560
new york city it's two thousand dollars for 55 square feet congratulations if you can find a job
01:33:07.800
good luck maybe you can live in a closet at the same time this gen z 20 22 year old in new york city who
01:33:15.400
just got their degree and is trying to find a job notices there's a lot of criminal aliens being given
01:33:20.100
hotel rooms with beds tvs and bathrooms yeah and the and debit cards and cash and the best they can
01:33:26.180
muster up is sharing a closet with a friend at a thousand bucks a month each and then donald trump
01:33:31.540
comes or comes up to you on the tv and says they're stealing from you ripping you off they're giving
01:33:36.040
these people your hotel rooms and this gen z kid maybe a lot of them don't want to admit it but
01:33:40.920
they're probably thinking like man i just i'd love to have my own place i'd love to just be able to get
01:33:45.700
a good job that pays money and i feel comfortable i hang out with my friends i can get a drink at night
01:33:48.860
joe biden's offering me making everything worse and donald trump is offering to bring back the
01:33:53.920
american dream and that's why um i keep telling like republican groups they keep uh running on taxes
01:33:59.660
and taxes and property rights and property values and all this stuff the average zoomer the average
01:34:05.360
gen z kid they're they may not own a home ever it's just so it's insanely expensive even in texas the
01:34:11.200
property values are going up i'm paying more taxes on my place uh and and instead they should
01:34:16.960
campaign on what you're talking about like you've got a demographic of people in this case illegal
01:34:22.700
immigrants that the government is catering to and assisting and helping out and you grew up here
01:34:28.840
you were born and raised here you love your country your state and nobody wants to give you a thing
01:34:34.600
what did we have in texas i think it was utd uh one of our colleges was providing financial assistance
01:34:40.640
like tax dollars to illegals and not regular young and not a regular people imagine what it must be
01:34:47.800
like to be in your own home let's say you're you're you're in your own house with your family
01:34:53.500
and you wake up you come downstairs and you say what's for breakfast and family member mom or whoever
01:35:00.920
was cooking says oh we have no breakfast for you i'm sorry and then seven guys from down the street show
01:35:06.740
up and start eating pancakes they your your your mom or whoever's pouring them orange juice and
01:35:11.180
laughing and you're like i i live here yeah i live here can i have like russia after the revolution
01:35:16.500
by the way i remember it was unt that did this and i think they got trouble for it well that's denton
01:35:21.660
man that i mean unt i mean that's a whole other these colleges are out of control i just it's like
01:35:26.520
imagine you uh you go to your dad and this is for gen z and you're like yo dad can i borrow the car
01:35:31.360
me and my friends want to go to the movies he's like sorry i can't a couple of guys from down the
01:35:35.340
street showed up i don't know who they are but they wanted to borrow the car so i let them take
01:35:37.960
it you'd be like what that's what's happening in new york to gen z everything that they're
01:35:43.680
supposed to inherit i you know i remember crossing the williamsburg bridge once man that thing is
01:35:48.320
massive and it's a fun it's fun to walk across williamsburg bridge i do think so i don't know if
01:35:53.060
you ever have you ever done it you've been in the city and all the bridges are fun manhattan bridge
01:35:56.300
and you can see you're way high up and you can look across and see everything and i'm like
01:36:00.100
i didn't spend a single penny to build this i did not pay taxes to build it i showed up to new york
01:36:06.840
one day walked across this bridge and had a heck of a time thank you to the people who invested their
01:36:14.140
blood sweat and tears to build this so that in my life i could freely walk across it and experience
01:36:20.260
that luxury there is a gift given to us by the generations that come before us that we inherit
01:36:27.140
and this may not be the first time in history but for the united states one of the first times
01:36:32.320
the next generation that is to inherit the gifts from those who planted trees whose shade they know
01:36:38.040
they would never sit beneath is being handed to strangers from a foreign land and who came here
01:36:44.240
illegally in violation of the law and when you were told we have worked really hard and we will we
01:36:49.500
will bestow upon you this gift as you as you come into age and inherit the system they're now being
01:36:54.200
told to f off this random guy who showed up we don't know he gets your stuff instead and do you
01:36:59.500
think these these people that come here do you think that they have any sort of american pride or
01:37:04.300
any kind of appreciation for what our country's doing for them actively that's why i get i get so mad
01:37:08.980
when i see people flying flags of foreign countries and i probably shouldn't but like when i see like
01:37:13.660
and i'm hispanic when i see mexican flags being flown around puerto rican flags whatever the other
01:37:18.740
country's flags i get i get i genuinely get like frustrated it is it is it's an it's an insult
01:37:25.000
it's it's like someone showing up to your house and stealing your food and laughing because you
01:37:28.780
can't do anything about it and then they're there they take your food and they go to their neighbor's
01:37:32.240
house and you're just like what is what is this you know when i went to the the border um they were
01:37:36.580
we were interviewing these these illegal migrants and they were laughing about it and uh it took
01:37:42.700
everything in me not to just flip out they were laughing about what was happening on and then
01:37:47.480
and crossing over and stuff and you know another interesting thing kind of off topic we were
01:37:51.880
talking to some of them and some of them were telling us we can't talk about some of these
01:37:56.160
things that we want to talk about with you because the cartel will see this and they will come after
01:38:00.300
us i i have uh ashley st claire reported that there are major airline plane tickets that say no name
01:38:07.300
given i have seen them so i have confirmed the existence of such boarding passes there is they're
01:38:14.180
they're working on ashley is working on this big story which um i don't know when or how they're
01:38:18.800
releasing it or whatever but there's also many other uh things that uh is being done by these
01:38:25.080
major airlines and the federal government which would man i'd love to just say but it's not it's
01:38:31.340
not my story and it's not details that you know i've vetted and there's people who are whose lives
01:38:36.000
at risk but i really really like ashley and the people she's working with need to get this
01:38:40.480
information out there's that viral video out of winchester new york where they're smuggling
01:38:45.840
children there's a human smuggling operation going on plane lands in the middle of the night
01:38:49.800
and one of the guys facilitating it says if the american people knew what the biden administration
01:38:53.620
was was doing there would be a revolution and the stuff that i'm seeing from ashley i'm just like
01:38:58.580
if these things appeared on like times square billboards if there was a super bowl commercial if
01:39:06.360
people were just made aware of what's going on you you'd have a you'd have at the very least a
01:39:11.080
political revolution come november the likes of which we've never seen and and so many people
01:39:16.040
this stuff's happening on a day-to-day and people just don't see it because the media is not talking
01:39:20.120
about it i uh i went to the airport your flashlight's on oops sorry uh went to the airport coming back
01:39:25.820
from um one of these tp usa events and ran into uh was there with sean fitzgerald actual justice
01:39:32.180
warrior in nuance bro and uh we ran into taylor hansen and he he called us up and he said
01:39:36.660
they they have illegals here and they're they're letting them through tsa oh that was right that
01:39:41.620
was wild yeah we were there point okay yeah and so me and sean are like we've got to go see this so
01:39:46.920
we we we run downstairs and we run into nuance bro and we we're walking through the the terminals
01:39:54.620
and nuance notices like this group of people and they've got they've all got these like folders with
01:40:00.560
them like specific folders and so he starts speaking to them in french like this this horrible
01:40:06.720
version of french and we confirm and he showed this guy shows him his paperwork and these catholic
01:40:11.460
charities are providing them paperwork and stuff right and here's where it's funny so we're
01:40:15.780
interviewing these people we i can see like these leftists and you know they're leftists because
01:40:19.160
they're wearing masks in the airport watching us right and i'm i'm very i'm very obviously brown
01:40:24.440
nuance is very obviously brown and sean is like in the corner like watching us too and after we
01:40:29.480
interview these people me and nuance leave to go like sit down and look at what we're what we were
01:40:33.000
filming and like cut the video and stuff to put it out and this this leftist goes and instead of
01:40:37.460
coming to us to complain to me and nuance about insulting these these illegals she goes to sean
01:40:43.180
and she's like why are you filming illegals why are you why are you guys treating them this way blah
01:40:47.980
blah blah she's like complaining to him and sean tells her i don't know who those guys are
01:40:51.940
and then like as soon as he's done saying that he comes and sits next to us it's like really hilarious
01:40:56.620
but this stuff's happening this is this is actually a really wild story uh turning point usa is in
01:41:01.880
arizona yeah and so you get the biggest gathering of i i i think it's fair to say conservative
01:41:10.100
influencers granted to be fair there's libertarians there that are there as well and and post liberals
01:41:15.080
because that's a big thing happening now but the biggest gathering of the right and they're all going
01:41:20.160
through the airport and they're all posting videos being like yo there are like just masses of of
01:41:27.380
criminal aliens here with the envelopes and it's funny because you get these uh these leftists on
01:41:31.940
twitter being like why are you uh one of them uh who was it mike i think hassan piker might have posted
01:41:37.000
this something like sees foreign looking person these migrants yeah and they're making the point like
01:41:42.320
they're probably just regular people and ashley st claire is like they're all holding migrant packages
01:41:47.160
yeah they they have this specific thing instruction booklets of like how to fly yeah and of course as
01:41:53.820
i mentioned ashley has uh has already broken the story that they have boarding passes that say no
01:41:58.380
name given yeah it's an organized criminal enterprise these people like hassan crack me up because this
01:42:03.620
this these guys they live very affluent lives which is nothing wrong with that but they don't actually
01:42:08.660
go out and see what's happening they they'd rather sit in front of a camera and talk about it but
01:42:13.680
yeah you you he can easily it's easy very easy for him to be like oh they're targeting these just
01:42:17.820
brown people just based off the the amount of melanin in their skin but it's like no dude they've got
01:42:21.860
these they've got these they've all got these packets right i was at the airport and security had
01:42:27.540
to come and i put this up on my twitter security had to come and escort a migrant out because he had
01:42:31.520
walked into the women's restroom wow and it's like i mean it's very obvious that it's a woman's
01:42:36.420
you got the dress and everything right and uh of the silhouette and he walks in there just casually
01:42:41.240
and you can see all these women like freak out and they have to escort him out i uh i think the
01:42:47.100
gate agents the pilots the flight attendants i think the uh tsa i think cbp any one of these
01:42:56.160
individuals who is aware that they are facilitating human smuggling operations should be criminally
01:43:01.360
charged absolutely and you know the majority of these people are leftists like the majority is
01:43:05.020
flight attendants they're all hardcore well there's a one of the videos i saw come out of tp usa might
01:43:10.060
have been nuanced but i'm not sure was when one of these conservative people uh from the from the
01:43:14.900
event were filming one of the flight attendants says why do you even care if people are flying
01:43:19.880
these flight attendants absolutely are leftists who know they're facilitating criminal activities
01:43:25.080
and i want to stress this because i pulled this up from the doj multiple times
01:43:28.660
uh two two uh u.s enlisted soldiers who went to prison not for crossing the border illegally with
01:43:36.280
criminal aliens but for giving them a ride from uh near the border to their destination where they
01:43:42.200
would be facilitated and transported so several years ago into the trump administration it is federally
01:43:47.220
illegal it is state level illegal and you have cbp agents i saw a video where they opened the border
01:43:54.380
barrier and let people walk through they're human smugglers so you know i i've said this numerous
01:44:00.680
times i'll say the same thing for the gate agents and the pilots of these planes i've had pilots who
01:44:05.560
are fans of the show say i did you know i only found out after the fact that they that they had these
01:44:10.520
people on my on my plane and i'm like it's a very difficult position to be in but i draw the line
01:44:16.580
human smuggling and so people will say to me you know oh tim you're so hard on people saying that
01:44:21.980
they should risk losing their job by speaking up and i'm like my friends listen please hear me
01:44:25.440
i am not saying anyone should go to their job and advocate for murder death or violence i am not
01:44:30.920
saying that people should go to their jobs and scream in their bosses faces quite literally the
01:44:34.600
point i've made is if you are at work and someone asks you who you're voting for you should freely say
01:44:38.780
i'm gonna vote for donald trump if you want to if that's who you're voting for my point is if
01:44:43.400
everybody who was supporting trump just calmly said here's why you would not have the fear of cancel
01:44:48.740
culture because everybody would be free to express their political opinion i am not saying
01:44:52.600
destroy your life you know uh to advocate for violence or anything that crazy you shouldn't
01:44:58.640
advocate for violence at all in the instance however that someone comes to me and says tim i understand
01:45:04.400
what you're saying about speaking up saying i support donald trump but if i lose my job i can't
01:45:08.120
feed my kids my family and pay my rent my response is i understand i know that's very very hard
01:45:12.880
i wish you could but it's tough fair point if someone comes to me and says tim i cannot quit
01:45:19.860
my job how am i going to feed my kids i say what's your job and you go i'm a pilot who facilitates
01:45:24.800
human smuggling operations i would say i look forward to seeing you in prison but but i can't
01:45:28.980
quit my job i'm a commercial airline pilot i'm like how about when you notice and i'm not trying
01:45:34.480
to be i'm like i understand this is a very very difficult thing for everybody if you are if you are
01:45:39.300
sitting in the cockpit preparing for the flight and they make you aware that there will be criminal
01:45:44.020
aliens part of a human smuggling operation being brought into your plane you simply say i am afraid
01:45:50.060
that if i fly this plane i'll be committing a crime transporting uh and you can show them the doj
01:45:55.740
this i i mean this you can google search doj criminal charges transporting illegal aliens and say
01:46:02.240
you like you can fire me right now but i'm afraid that if i actually transport these people i'll be
01:46:08.500
in violation of federal law and i won't do it that's a very very different thing from saying i
01:46:13.780
don't want to speak my opinion my job which i understand that being said am i supposed to have
01:46:19.440
sympathy for someone who knowingly engages in human smuggling and won't stop doing it i don't
01:46:25.080
understand this well look they you know they do it under the color of law right i mean it's it's the
01:46:29.180
nuremberg defense uh you know they process these guys give them asylum claims with dates far in the
01:46:34.720
future uh and then so now now it's official right those people are officially here under the under the
01:46:41.780
us's asylum policy and i can i do understand they're trying to make some kind of legal defense but i will
01:46:45.820
stress army uh military men gave a ride to illegal aliens in the united states and were criminally
01:46:53.460
charged for it the idea that cbp would remove border barriers and open the barrier to allow them to
01:46:59.880
come in that's the crime that's facilitation you want to you want to argue after the fact it's like
01:47:05.020
uh the person who smuggled them into the country was you like if a private citizen opened up one of
01:47:11.400
the gates the at the at the bollard fencing and let migrants in no question that's illegal you can't
01:47:16.760
wear a badge and claim you're not breaking the law a cop goes to a bank and says i need to take all
01:47:20.540
your money i'm not robbing the bank it's it's a procedural and here's what the core issue is the
01:47:24.460
core issue is like the the government and these agencies they don't view these illegals as illegal
01:47:28.580
they're um they're they're they're migrants they're coming here because their government's going after
01:47:33.360
them or the barrier for this and this is what this is what pisses me off about the left they they claim
01:47:38.620
that these people and the right does this too we want them to come here legally that's that's what
01:47:43.040
the government considers them doing they're coming over and they're saying oh the cartel's after me
01:47:47.200
or oh you know my government's trying to do something against me that's why i need to uh claim asylum
01:47:52.320
here these people the the barrier for what they need to claim asylum is so low and the government
01:47:59.380
considers that legal we need to raise the barrier on what is the minimum requirements for being able
01:48:06.360
to claim asylum and frankly they should be like a lot of these people are coming from like south
01:48:10.060
america these other countries should attempt to assist them on their way up here i don't know why
01:48:14.160
their their first stop is the united states this is one of the things i brought up quite a bit i mean
01:48:17.280
these people are not mexican and right you know people don't understand there was a few years ago when the
01:48:21.920
when the massive caravans were coming vox.com and the la times ran the story where they asked one of
01:48:27.760
the migrants why are they coming to the united states and they said one one said i miss buffalo
01:48:31.640
wild wings mexico has buffalo wild wings too mexico is actually a beautiful country mexico city is
01:48:37.440
amazing and there's a video where they were offered asylum a full status in mexico and one of the guys
01:48:46.020
leading the caravan says how many of you want to stay in mexico nobody says anything how many of you
01:48:49.840
want to continue to the united states they go yeah so you're given asylum you're given an opportunity
01:48:55.600
but they want to come here instead we have a super chat uh big boys uh asked thoughts on oklahoma
01:49:00.940
governor kevin stitt talking about civil war last night and he would fight uh and he would fight the
01:49:06.600
federal government if he had to so uh just real quick i looked this up the daily beast ran a story
01:49:11.960
newsmax airs alarming discussion of civil war with federal government oklahoma governor kevin stitt and
01:49:17.560
newsmax host carl higby mused thursday about a potential force-on-force conflict between texas
01:49:22.760
and the biden administration after the supreme court ruling higby began by telling stitt that
01:49:26.960
there's rumblings that joe biden should or may actually federalize the national guard take that
01:49:31.220
power from greg abbott in response to the high court's ruling governor abbott remained defiant saying
01:49:36.380
in a statement i will continue to defend texas this we understand they're going to say quote let's say
01:49:40.920
this showdown i mean that's what it is it's a showdown it's a showdown of power and loyalties and
01:49:45.280
constitutionality let's say biden does that the newsmax host theorized how many people say no you
01:49:51.440
know what screw you biden administration and how many people stay and fight with texas versus the
01:49:56.440
federal things and does this put us on a course for force-on-force conflict stitt called the
01:50:01.660
situation which has so far seen several migrant deaths very weird while adding that the clash is
01:50:06.480
a powder keg for tension quote we certainly stand with texas on the right to defend themselves
01:50:10.360
but biden is going to be in a tough situation so in other words he's going to try to federalize
01:50:14.540
these troops in other words put them on federal orders and so now their allegiance technically
01:50:18.840
goes to the president of the united states instead of the governor the dispute between texas and the
01:50:22.600
federal government blah blah blah blah as for how those in the texas national guard would act if
01:50:27.000
biden were likewise to use his authority stitt said quote i think they would be in a difficult position
01:50:31.880
to protect their homeland or to follow what biden's saying it's very interesting but then you know then
01:50:36.720
you've got oklahoma and florida and tennessee and you've got these other states that would send our
01:50:40.400
national guard to help and support the efforts of governor abbott because every state is a border
01:50:44.720
state so it's a longer conversation i don't know that he's actually saying they will will fight
01:50:51.400
yeah i don't think so it's a big click baity but okay look i think it's i think it's important at
01:50:55.620
this moment to recognize that oklahoma is in fact the largest county in texas um you know large enough
01:51:01.700
that it has its own governor it has a has a the world's biggest casino are one of the world's biggest
01:51:06.280
casinos actually because texas doesn't allow gambling well there you go not yet well no that's
01:51:10.700
a that's a whole other conversation about policy direction in texas but look i mean you know again
01:51:15.860
i don't think those those comments are unsurprising i mean we're we're seeing we're seeing states and
01:51:21.840
officials from those states lining up in support of of texas action related to the border against the
01:51:27.840
federal government and fighting back against federal overreach so i mean nope no shocker i think it's just
01:51:32.200
campaign rhetoric i mean it could be i mean you know but maybe i'm just so blackpilled on
01:51:36.980
campaigns campaign rhetoric is enough to get you arrested and put in prison yeah sure enough to
01:51:40.820
get you elected well but you know the other part about and look i mean we could we can also have that
01:51:45.020
conversation about how unfortunately for many many years now i mean think about when i said a moment ago
01:51:51.820
that we first made the the bus uh argument right or the state guard argument uh this the border issue
01:52:00.340
has been a massive issue in texas for quite some time it's been a concern and politicians in texas
01:52:06.760
particularly those that are considered establishment politicians know that all they have to do they're
01:52:12.980
like they're like uh peter in in office space right they got to just go in and do enough not to get
01:52:17.560
fired right but but in the in this case and it's been a criticism for for uh for abbott as well is they
01:52:24.880
just have to go do enough legislatively enough of a show that they can put something on a campaign
01:52:30.460
mailer when it comes time to campaign you know we're in a little bit different territory and i
01:52:34.660
think you could make the case that maybe there is some some bluster here but but sometimes things take
01:52:40.100
on a life of their own and this is the situation that we're in right now i mean when you have these
01:52:46.060
these letters and lawsuits flying back and forth and you've got these these governors stepping up and
01:52:52.620
saying look we're with texas and you've got congressmen calling on biden to federalize the
01:52:58.260
the guard and start arresting people now we're we're in a different territory it may be it may
01:53:03.440
have started as campaign rhetoric uh or it might have had sincere motivations at the end of the day
01:53:08.800
i could eat a three pound block of cheese and couldn't give less of a crap how it started or what
01:53:13.460
the motivations are the the fact of the matter is is the moment that we're in right now is pointing us
01:53:19.500
inevitably toward this this clash between the state and the federal government i think
01:53:23.600
conservatives are not listening to what democrats are saying when they say insurrection we we don't
01:53:32.860
believe an insurrection happened because i think any sane and rational person would just be like it
01:53:36.900
was a bad riot and also a lot of people protesting and parading but insurrection i mean come on that's
01:53:41.700
not an insurrection the democrats are saying it is the democrats are saying on january 6 2021
01:53:48.260
the sitting president of the united states tried to engage in a sit in a coup they literally call
01:53:54.660
it a coup attempt and tried to invoke a civil war in this country and when they say that donald trump
01:54:02.140
is actively engaged and blah blah blah they are telling you they believe we are actively in a civil
01:54:10.240
war right now but people on the right aren't listening to what they mean when they say donald trump
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should be removed from the ballot for waging insurrection they are saying the front runner
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for the republican for the president for the presidency outside of political party
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has attempted to start a civil war and actually deployed troops in support of him to subvert the
01:54:33.820
u.s government we have to stop him by any means necessary and republicans go there was no
01:54:38.920
insurrection what you're talking about you think where do you think democrats are taking this when
01:54:42.840
they claim we we look at the efforts to remove donald trump from the ballot as lawfare i don't i
01:54:49.100
don't think they view it as lawfare i think they are quite literally saying we are at war and you
01:54:53.800
started it look political scientists journalists from around the world are are over here right now and
01:55:01.860
have been for years looking at this place like a like an unfolding case study on how political unions
01:55:09.800
collapse um i can remember recently sitting down for an interview with a french documentary crew
01:55:15.680
we were the last stop they had gone city after city after city they'd been over here for i think
01:55:21.880
about two or three weeks in the entire documentary that they're working on is about um the the
01:55:29.040
polarization and i think it's incorrect to call it polarization because typically you think there are
01:55:34.520
two polls this is a a fragmentation uh that that splits across all kinds of different lines but but
01:55:42.080
it's here we are in that situation and to your point anyone who thinks that all of this just cropped
01:55:48.420
up yesterday this has been a cold civil war brewing for a long time and the opposition i mean you literally
01:55:54.420
had biden and and kamala crisscross the united states during their campaign and and threatening
01:56:02.020
to pour gas and light matches on everything that that folks like us you know in our core values
01:56:09.340
and and yes what drove me nuts when republicans were like you know congratulations joe biden you know
01:56:14.440
i don't like him i don't agree with your process like look man i don't congratulate an arsonist who
01:56:19.500
threatened to arson for two years on setting a fire have you have you seen biden's first campaign
01:56:24.280
out of the year no the it's remarkable i remember you know i've only been uh i would say
01:56:32.000
a functioning member of society for only a couple presidencies like i'm a child during
01:56:36.620
bill clinton what does that i mean you can call that functioning member of society but i'm like
01:56:39.640
a little kid i don't know what's going on i'm not working don't be bragging about your youth
01:56:42.820
but uh 37 but uh you you know in my life i've seen george w bush and i'm i'm watching the political
01:56:49.860
campaigns john carrey mitt romney barack obama and what did the commercials used to be
01:56:55.680
i remember a lot of these political commercials john smith wants to raise taxes wrong for chicago
01:57:03.300
wrong for us and i was like huh joe biden launches an ad saying donald trump supporters are an extremist
01:57:11.100
faction that must be stopped by any means necessary vote for me and i went huh okay that's a wild thing
01:57:18.360
to see in a political campaign ad it's wild thing to see the president your president right and i made
01:57:23.520
this point during covid joe biden came out and said we are doing this we are doing that we have
01:57:29.100
done this and that's why we did that and i pointed out when he says we did this he's talking about blue
01:57:34.580
state lockdowns while florida and south dakota and other conservative republican states were doing the
01:57:40.120
opposite and defying the federal government joe biden was giving a national address saying we we we
01:57:45.120
which excluded you and so i think you need to pay attention to what the president has been saying
01:57:50.620
for some time now he's not talking about this country as though there is a country he is speaking
01:57:55.660
specifically to the blue states the win condition for people like joe biden the establishment woke
01:58:03.260
whatever you want to call it is the start of a civil war not winning a civil war the win condition for
01:58:09.740
them is because if a civil war does start the constitution is immediately void like abraham lincoln's
01:58:15.820
suspending habeas corpus in uh the corridor from dc up to philly trying to trying to arrest the supreme
01:58:22.460
the chief justice of the supreme court threatening this because of yeah but literally arresting members
01:58:28.580
of the of the maryland state legislature because they had a pro-slavery sentiment the moment the war
01:58:35.080
starts the biden administration says constitution is hereby suspended like abraham lincoln before me
01:58:43.820
we must take extreme measures to preserve this union which means in this conflict we will not tolerate
01:58:51.140
the possession of illegal firearms we will not tolerate seditious speech sure but we will use your home
01:58:59.980
to house our soldiers but but you know and here's the thing and this goes back to sort of the discussion
01:59:04.720
we were having about the srec and and all those guys the real divide here is not and it's the position
01:59:11.240
we've had all along the real divide is not an r versus d it's not a blue versus red i mean that that's
01:59:18.200
sort of how how it crops up but this is the people versus a political establishment because literally
01:59:23.660
he could invoke he could invoke uh abraham lincoln policies during the civil war before the civil war
01:59:29.820
and get invited to go speak to a republican uh lincoln reagan dinner uh in january or february you know
01:59:36.920
because there are people that look at those things and they believe it's union above principle right they
01:59:42.440
believe that we should do everything we can to keep the union together and the necessary part of the
01:59:48.340
union uh being together is the federal government and if you don't capitulate to the federal government
01:59:52.960
then you are anti-american and you are bad and there's a group of people out here who's saying
01:59:57.820
no all political powers inherent in the people we're the ones who make these decisions we believe in the
02:00:03.820
rule of law we believe in being a constitutional republic and that is truly the divide it's the
02:00:08.740
people versus a permanent political class that believes that we are too stupid to govern ourselves
02:00:13.660
i think i think you can you can hate your government or be unsatisfied with your government and also be
02:00:17.260
proud to be an american and i kind of i guess i fall under that category i'm not happy with obviously not
02:00:21.400
happy with the way joe biden's running i'm not happy with the way our government's run majority of
02:00:25.640
the time i'm not happy with the way texas is run um but i still love my state and i still love my
02:00:29.540
country and i'll continue to this is the best country that uh ever has been yeah and it really
02:00:34.720
is i talk about the uh our system of governance is the best the founding fathers were brilliant
02:00:41.660
is absolutely that's why people are breaking laws just to come here it is uh it's why we're so
02:00:46.100
prosperous it's why we're so successful um it's why we we enjoy such tremendous rights there's small
02:00:52.200
you know people can point to small countries they look how well they do it's like you got a very very
02:00:55.240
small country look at the size of the united states and the success we've had for for for
02:00:59.300
governing this massive very different you know uh group of people that even you know even you go
02:01:06.260
back 100 years the south the the the uh the northeast the west they're very different cultures
02:01:11.620
but we found a way to govern this in a way that people were satisfied for a very long time
02:01:15.320
that's why i think this country needs to be protected and the constitution is so important and the
02:01:19.960
system of governance is fantastic but i would make the argument one last time as we get close to
02:01:23.840
wrapping up when people posted the meme showing all the states supporting texas and they wrote
02:01:28.580
lone star rebellion i said there's no rebellion the biden administration has gone rogue and is
02:01:35.400
actively committing crimes so the united states is fine we must exercise our constitutional rights in
02:01:43.620
removing such a person and perhaps you know i'd advocate a year or two ago for impeachment and
02:01:49.020
conviction at this point i recognize nah the best path forward is just vote him out because
02:01:54.300
you impeach the guy now then they run somebody else let them have their biden he can't win and our best
02:01:59.480
path to correcting this is just to have this vote in november and make sure look you guys want to come
02:02:04.560
out and say they're going to cheat they're going to do this and otherwise then you better make sure
02:02:08.260
you double up your efforts and getting people registered to vote knocking on doors hey you're worried
02:02:13.160
about mail-in voting in your city why aren't you going out and telling people to fill out their mail-in
02:02:16.960
ballots for trump if the democrats are going to do it you got it you got to counter in the exact same
02:02:20.660
way and play the same game but be better at it well i i will i will say this because i know we are
02:02:25.600
getting close to wrapping up i would encourage people out there that want to get a better understanding
02:02:30.580
of how this is unfolding i would encourage them to go look and study the texas revolution
02:02:35.960
because this is effectively starting off the exact same way you know the flag that was hoisted over the
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alamo was a mexican tricolor with the date 1824 in the middle of it because they initially started
02:02:48.540
out that process to fight for their rights under the mexican constitution of 1824 that had been usurped
02:02:54.040
by the dictator santa ana and the centralists in mexico city uh and in it and out of that grew uh you
02:03:00.740
know it grew independence you know march 2nd was when texas independence was declared the alamo fell
02:03:06.620
march the 6th the men in the alamo never knew that independence had been declared in fact in fact
02:03:12.440
travis wrote a letter to his friend jesse grimes and he said let the convention therefore declare
02:03:18.900
go ahead and declare independence for if they do the world will know and my men will know what we are
02:03:24.900
fighting for but if they do not my men are willing to lay down their arms but under the flag of
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independence we will peril our lives a thousand times you see that that's where i think people
02:03:36.860
need need to look at that as an example this is way more like 1836 than it is 1776 and and you know
02:03:44.100
whether we have agreements on how that vote how a texat vote would turn out it's important to
02:03:49.320
understand that that revolution sealed in texas forever the principle that all political powers
02:03:54.200
inherent in the people and people should be able to choose how they are governed didn't uh i'm i'm pretty
02:04:00.080
sure the u.s conquered mexico for the most part and then polk gave it back is that what happened
02:04:04.200
well yeah they marched all the way down to mexico city yeah and then we actually occupied and
02:04:08.740
controlled everything and then the american people were in favor of us keeping it but then polk was
02:04:13.040
like we don't want to deal with this and they went back and said we're going to get our guys out
02:04:15.980
here and it's yours we um we just need more people to vote it's really what it is and if you're
02:04:21.940
watching this and like it's really it's a lot of it's really easy to clip stuff and share stuff and go on
02:04:26.760
twitter or x and complain about things and share memes and we should continue doing that but it
02:04:32.520
literally takes like 10 minutes to go vote and i feel so um depressed when i see all these people
02:04:41.620
that talk about politics non-stop and i like hey did you vote i'll text them hey did you vote today
02:04:46.260
oh i was just so busy blah blah like i said i run some of the biggest political celebrities in texas
02:04:51.220
and and they don't they don't vote they can't be bothered to vote it takes 10 minutes figure it out
02:04:55.980
even if you don't know exactly everything on the ballot just at least go at the minimum go vote
02:05:00.500
republican at the very minimum yeah well gentlemen this has been a a very fun conversation of course
02:05:06.300
uh today is the federal deadline i kind of feel like nothing will happen it's a lot of blathering
02:05:12.860
and posturing but it doesn't mean nothing will happen eventually so we'll see make sure you guys
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02:05:37.180
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02:05:49.340
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02:05:55.720
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02:06:10.340
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02:06:14.760
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