Vince Coglianese: DNC Predictions, Don Lemon, and Why Kamala Harris Is Terrified
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The Democratic National Convention starts this week, and it s going to be appalling. But there are entertainment possibilities, and we think we ve found them. For the first time in a long time, we re doing a live stream to react to Carmela Harris s primetime speech, starting Thursday night at 8:30pm ET, where Jason Whitlock will join us in studio. This will be airing on TCN Only, so go to Tuckercarlson.net/livestream to catch the whole thing live Thursday night, 8:00pm ET. In the meantime, here s our latest episode on the DNC with Vince Colonnese. We ll be covering the craziness that is Antifa outside the convention, and what it s like to be a member of the law enforcement profession in the face of all of that chaos, wearing a mask, and all of the other things that goes with it. If you like the show, please consider becoming a patron patron patron and/or share it on your social media accounts! Thanks to our sponsor, Caff Monster Energy Drink Co. and Tuckcoarlson! Don t forget to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! or wherever else you re listening to this podcast! Enjoy! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What's your favorite kind of mask? 2:30 - What do you like about Antifa? 3: what do you think of the DNC? 4: what kind of masks do they wear? 5: what would you like to see at the convention? 6: what are you looking for? 7:15 - What would you see in the future? 8:40 - Why do you want to see more of them? 9:00 11:10 - What are you think they look like? 12:30 13:00 -- What do they look for in a good time? 14:30 -- How do they're dangerous? 15:40 -- How many masks? 16:20 -- do they have a place in your life? 17:10 -- what do they do well? 18:10 19:00 | What is the worst thing you would you want them to be? 21:30 | What are they do to you like in your head? 22:40 | How do you feel about the future of the party?
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The Democratic National Convention starts this week, appalling, but there are, thankfully,
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entertainment possibilities, and we think we've found them. So for the first time in a long time,
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we are going live this Thursday night, 8.30 Eastern. We'll be doing a live stream to react
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to Carmela Harris's primetime speech. Great Jason Whitlock will join us in studio. This will be
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airing on TCN only. We recommend it strongly, so go to tuckercarlson.com to see the whole thing
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live Thursday night, 8.30. In the meantime, here's our latest episode on the DNC with Vince Colonnese.
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So someone just sent me a video of the protesters outside the DNC. So I guess, almost by definition,
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even crazier than the people inside the DNC. And the first thing you notice is they're all wearing
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masks outside. And I don't want to be mean, mental illness is real. They're obviously mentally ill.
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But what's so interesting is I never see that in my life. Do you ever see anybody wearing masks outside?
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Yeah, but that's, so there are categories of people, I think, who are just neurotic
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and who've been misled, especially by the left. And they wear the mask still up until this very day.
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I actually think the cost to socialization is even worse. It's like your health is awful,
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but like, what does that say about you and how isolated you are from the rest of society?
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That can't be good for your head. And the truth is, I think, I don't think it's for like a lot
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of these people, I don't really think in the end it's really about the health. They maybe soothe
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themselves by saying that. Fundamentally, it's a political gesture. It's, I'm a part of a club.
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It's a uniform. It's signaling you're with the left. And they're still doing it to this day. It's
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like crazy. I think I'm just too out of it. I mean, because I see that and I'm like, okay,
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especially if it's a man, you're totally emasculated and pathetic.
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You have no self-respect at all. You hate yourself and for good reason. That's the first thing I
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think. With contempt, but also pity, like I just can't, like you actually see people with masks
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Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately. And I do think like the people that you're talking about outside the
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convention, that's also a means to commit a crime and get away with it.
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That's really, so a lot of states in our country, I don't know if it's all the states, but a lot of
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On the books. And the concept is that you shouldn't-
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You shouldn't like a bandit, like be able to just rob a store with a handkerchief tied around your face.
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So they have anti-masking laws, which I think are still on the books and no one's ever gotten
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Those were anti-Klan laws, I think, in most places.
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Well, that would be a useful law in order to prevent that activity. So anyway, but these guys,
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and they commit crimes. It's the same, it's the truth about Antifa. How often did we see a riot
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committed by Antifa where they destroyed things, where they killed people, where they burned,
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they burned down the third precinct in Minneapolis, all of the chaos, and they're wearing masks.
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In order to prevent people from knowing who they are so that they can be held accountable.
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And we accept it because the left says, well, mask wearing is necessary.
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I don't want to digress too much, which is a problem that I have, but did the FBI ever,
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I mean, I know we spent a lot of time tracing the roots of Christian nationalism and like scary
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middle-class grandmothers are still in jail from January 6th, et cetera, et cetera. But did anybody
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in law enforcement ever get to the bottom of Antifa?
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No, no. And they've shown almost no interest in it.
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They came to my house and threatened my wife, vandalized my house, killed a bunch of people
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I remember really clearly. Did the cops ever follow up with you after-
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I don't want to make it about me or whine about it. It's not about me.
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You would think as a victim of it, as your wife being a victim of it, then maybe you'd
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No, nobody cared. And the cops did come to my house months later. In fact, two black cops,
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both of whom told me they were voting for Trump in DC, great guys, came to my house and told
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The cops told you, you're on your own. That's what they-
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They didn't say you're on your own. They said, we recommend that you carry a gun.
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Which I did, of course. But no, they were actually great. But no, but there was no effort
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to kind of find out who did this. But it's just interesting. Again, I don't want to make
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it about me because it's not, but I just think it's remarkable that you could have this armed
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militia in the streets that still exists. And nobody at the FBI, they really are criminals,
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the people who run the FBI, if I can just say. Chris Ray's a freaking criminal. I'm trying not
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to use the F word. But they don't get to the bottom of it.
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Yeah. Well, just ask the crisis pregnancy centers around the country. So all the pro-life pregnancy
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And who work with them in the early stages of their child's life.
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Yeah, adoption. Like angels on earth. Every single person I've interviewed who works with
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or for a crisis pregnancy center is, first of all, a lot better person than I am.
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And you can feel the spirituality come off of them.
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The goodness, the innate goodness come off of them. And all of the crimes against those places,
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they don't get solved. In fact, they don't even get looked into in any meaningful way.
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And that includes firebombing. That includes vandalism, smashing windows,
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attacking these facilities. Meanwhile, if you're singing church hymns outside of an abortion mill,
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your life will be destroyed. If you're a grandmother singing church hymns outside of an abortion mill,
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your life will be destroyed. And when Merrick Garland, the attorney general, was asked about this
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in Congress, like, hey, crisis pregnancy centers being destroyed, old ladies singing outside of
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abortion mills. He said, well, he didn't say the old lady, but the old lady, her face is out and
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it's in daylight, so we can catch her. But the Antifa people, they do it at night.
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So Speaker Mike Johnson, who's constantly telling you what a great Christian he is,
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sort of led the effort to refund the FBI and build them a new headquarters and has done nothing.
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I mean, the FBI is now a kind of anti-Christian secret police force. And the purportedly Christian
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Speaker of the House just sort of rubber stamps their funding every year and nobody does anything
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about this. I mean, you can feel the frustration in my voice, I think.
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It's totally despicable. And I hate dwelling on that.
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Because what it starts to do is it creeps into your mind, but none of it matters.
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Like, you start becoming so fatalist about it, you know, it's like, I don't care whatever the
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And I don't want to be tempted by that thought. Like, I really don't.
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Not that I have any idea what you're talking about, Vince.
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Which is why, okay, so do you think Trump learned enough lessons from round one in order to do it
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You know, you hope so. I mean, I think like a lot of people, why am I talking? I'm here
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to interview you. But since you asked, I think like a lot of people, well, first of all, I
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really like Trump enormously as a person. A. B. I think that the alternative is so shocking
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that I, you know, I've kind of put on pause all thoughts like the one you just raised.
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Right. Because it's super clear what's going to happen if the Democratic Party holds power. It's
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not about Kamala Harris. She's not even, I don't think there's any evidence. She's like an actual
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Right. So it's about the party. It's about the collective. It's about the people who really
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have wrecked the country continuing to loot it and to destroy the first and second amendments,
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the Bill of Rights, civil liberties in the United States for another four years, which will really
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be kind of the end. And then you're just a one party state. That's what I foresee. And that's just
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so bad that I'm not spending a ton of time thinking about the question that you just raised. But you
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Yeah. But the, I mean, first of all, the chances of both of these scenarios are very high. Like one
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where Kamala wins and we head for what you think is the end. Do you, is it that, is it that dark for
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Well, I have no idea. My ability to foresee the future is like non-existent. Every political call
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And that's true, by the way, of almost like literally everybody in politics.
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Yeah. And I also think just judging from my own brief and not very exciting life,
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one takeaway from it though, after 55 years is your victories turn out very often to be your losses
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and your losses almost always turn out to be your victories. And we don't see that as people. It's a
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consistent theme throughout history, throughout the old and new testaments. It's like just when you
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think everything is lost, that is, I mean, well that actually, that's the theme of Christianity.
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Out of, you know, being tortured to death, the world is saved.
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Don't you feel like, don't you feel like that that happened in 2020? So in a sense,
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the losses of 2020 have definitely hardened like the world of normal people to the point that like,
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they're not playing games anymore. They're not dressing up their language. They're being very
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They're not trying to suck up to everybody else.
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I mean, I like, look, if we had to do 2020 over again, I don't want the outcome that we got,
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but I will say it's made a lot of people better. And in fact, you and I have talked about this.
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It's made a lot of people better. That is absolutely right.
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The spiritual component, the religious component in the country took off in a way that I couldn't
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I felt it coming. I don't know why, but I actually have not been surprised by it. I've
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been delighted to see it, but not surprised. But I do think that people I know, I'm really
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blessed to know, are all deeper and smarter and warmer with each other, more real with
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each other, you know, more, more, I love yous, more honesty.
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Way more. So I, I just know for my own family, and I'm not talking about material prosperity,
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I just mean, I'm speaking only in terms of love, is so much stronger and happier, you know,
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for after COVID, after all the, after the BLM riots, after all the sadness we've seen after the
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clearly stolen election, you know, all these bad things happen. But, but people I know love each
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other more. So yeah, no, you're absolutely, so like, I'm not going to even guess, I shouldn't
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even have said all that about the Democratic Party, because I don't know what's going to
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Well, I guess if you take the, the long view, which as a Christian, you should, if you take
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the long view, in the end, you're not really all that disturbed by the pace of this. I mean,
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you're disturbed on behalf of your family, of course, you care about your country, but you
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have this eternal optimism that, well, the Bible does kind of lay out the misery that
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And so, in the end, you always wonder, like, at what stage in history are we living through?
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Yeah. So I think you have an advantage because you're 15 years younger than me-ish.
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But I was born in 69, and so from 69 to 2016, my core assumption was, you know, everything's
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great, and everything's going to get better every year, and like, bad things don't happen,
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our system is totally solid. And, you know, there are, of course, bad actors within the
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system, but they don't control the system. The system is fundamentally real. It is a democracy
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in some loose sense that people do have a say in how they're governed, et cetera, et cetera,
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et cetera, et cetera. 9-11 is real. I mean, you know, like, whatever. I just, like, kind
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of believed everything. And, but, you know, the lesson of history is there's always turmoil,
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and a lot of things are always going to be fake.
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And, you know, the Lord of the earth is Satan. I mean, that's kind of right. And so it's just
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like, this is what it is. It's what it's always been. I just think people who are,
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your age are less shocked by that than I am. Yeah. Yeah. My main impediment is just being
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shocked. Like, I can't believe this is happening. Yeah, that's true. What? They're putting people
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in prison for praying at abortion clinics? Like, what? They replaced Easter with Trans
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Visibility Day? I can't believe this. I know. Which is kind of like, I'm not a boomer, but it is
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kind of, thankfully, I'm not a boomer, but it's kind of a boomer response. The opening ceremonies
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to the Olympics. Yeah. The fact that they would do a fake Last Supper with all trans people or
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drag people. It's like, does it get any more brazen? I mean, and they're like, oh, it's
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totally normal. Like, what are you all complaining about? What? I mean, it is, they double barrel
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middle finger every Christian on earth. Of course, because Christianity is the enemy. That's what
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they hate. That's what they actually hate. Like all the other, all the nonsense. We're here
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to help black people. We're here to help trans people. We're here to help immigrants. You're
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not here to help anybody. You're here to oppose Christianity is what you're here to do. Period.
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That's their goal. Whether they know it or not, but don't listen to what they say, watch
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what they do. For sure. So what, okay. Tell me what to make of, speaking of spiritual themes
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in our politics, the abortion lobby shows up at the DNC this week and sends with them a mobile
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vasectomy clinic. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So you can get snipped, um, if you want at the DNC. This at a time
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where the birth rate among native born Americans is like not way below replacement. Definitely. Not
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having babies. Yeah. Why would that be your priority? It's a death cult. It's a total death
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cult. I mean, every, look, at the bottom of every one of these policies that they pitch and they sell
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you was like a good thing is human suffering at the bottom of all of them. Yeah. So a really good
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example of this is the climate stuff. So let's assume for a moment that all of their climate
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catastrophizing is correct. Yes. That it's our activity that's making the earth warmer. Okay.
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Well, it turns out that the warmer the planet is, the better it is for humans. Right. More humans
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survive in an environment where the earth is warmer. In fact, when the earth is colder, lots of people die.
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Lots of people die. And so there, and there's no, actually no, there's no, um, challenge to that
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science whatsoever. It's totally clear. You know, if it's a matter of like sea level rise, all this
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other stuff, we have like amazing alert systems, hurricanes. The reason people don't die to
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hurricanes is because we have, we have such a far out advanced notice that they're coming. Uh, our,
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our buildings are so much more durable. They never talk about death counts, by the way, when they talk
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about hurricanes and what they're doing in the climate change, way fewer people die due to hurricanes.
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No, it's never at its core about human flourishing ever. So if it's not about human flourishing,
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it's about the opposite. It's about death. It's eternally fine with it. In fact, they view us as a
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cancer on the earth, at least the, the radical left's so-called environmental movement and the
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abortion thing. It is, it is, it's a death cult. It's all sort of like pagan tribal religions have had
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death rituals. Of course, human sacrifice is the one constant. Yes. I, on my radio show,
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I refer to this as human sacrifice all the time because that's what it is. And I, it's so, it's
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breaking yourself of the spell of using their terminology is such a challenging thing to do
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because it's like everywhere. It surrounds you. It's like every newspaper you read, every
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television show you watch, every social media post you consume, lots of them in the past,
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they use like the language of the left as it's shifting, as it's modifying. And if you don't use the
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language, you're censored. So it's mind control as you know. And so the, the obsession with death
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and advancing it as a social good is one of the most destructive things that any culture can do.
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And we're living through it. I mean, this abortion fetish is out of control. And you know,
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what's even crazier is that the Kamala campaign, to the extent that one exists, that, that has a
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policy agenda, that's their thing. They think that's their number one issue is abortion. Yeah.
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And they think that she's a great pitch woman for it. She's so good at an abortion. She's like,
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so how many abortions would equal freedom and happiness? We don't have enough abortions. That's
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the, no, but is there, can they, I mean, I always feel like in politics, you know, effective
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politicians describe the future. They will bring you a few vote for them. Yeah. Vote for me and you get
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whatever, a new car. Fine. I get that. What, but when you run on abortion, it's like, we have a lot,
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we have hundreds of thousands of abortions every year, um, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
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abortions every year. So, um, how many more until we're happy? I mean, some years we've had,
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I think in the vicinity of a million abortions a year, which, um, for those people who pay attention
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to immigration, uh, that's about the number of legal immigrants we bring into the country every year.
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So we're aborting a million Americans and then importing a million workers each year,
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give or take. Right. That number of changes. And it's super disheartening because it's like,
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first of all, you're killing off the next generation of the people who have a vested
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interest in this country. And then you're importing people who don't at all. It's.
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And no, no tie to its history at all or to its systems or to its creed. Yeah. It's not.
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I mean. To its culture, to its language. They're not even bothering themselves with
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that question. It's like a sensible immigration system would actually be predicated on those
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questions. Right. What can you contribute? How much do you adhere? Are you going to assimilate?
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Are you going to buy into our culture and creed? Those are the core questions of how you compose
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a country and allow immigration at the same time. They're not even, they're aligning those. They're,
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who cares? Just bring everybody in and forget legal. We'll just, we'll establish an app south of our
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border. You just like an Uber. You just sign up to come into the country and the Biden administration
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will human traffic you in. Yes. Which is what they're doing at your expense. Isn't that wild?
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And then convincing Americans that having children is like the worst thing that they could ever do.
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That component of this is the part that makes me think that Turning Point is paying for it or
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something. Like somebody set up, like a right-wing group set up a vasectomy machine outside of the
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DNC. It's pretty funny. But I don't know. I mean, the left has been obsessed with abortion for years.
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It hasn't diminished the number of people who buy into the storyline.
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It's just so interesting. I mean, I've been pro-life, you know, since my 20s anyway,
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Even before then. But I never really connected that to birth control. I mean, I'm Protestant. I never had
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any problem with birth control, practice birth control. But isn't that fine? I'm not even sure to
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think of it now. But I know what I think of people who are obsessed with preventing conception and
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Yeah. They're obsessed with it. And then they pretend that there's like no moral qualms about it.
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Well, they're obsessed with it. And they pretend that everyone else is like,
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you're obsessed with controlling women's bodies. No, I appreciate women's bodies. I don't really want
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It's stupid. But that's like, that's misdirection, of course.
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It's like putting it in, putting the debate in a place that they feel that they can have
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it safely. But like, if you were for it, and there are a limited number of people who I've
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heard make honest arguments. Like, yeah, it's extinguishing a human life. Like, a human life
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But I think it's worth it. They try and, at least that person is being honest about what's
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At least that's an honest conversation. Instead, with the left, that's just like, you'd be like,
00:21:48.340
okay, we want to pass a law to prevent late-term abortions. No late-term abortions. Which,
00:21:52.180
by the way, majority, the whole country agrees that no babies should be killed in the third
00:21:56.460
trimester. That's a terrible time to do that. It's always a terrible time, but that's where
00:22:03.560
Yes. And so what the left says is, oh, that never happens. Or they'll say, oh, it only
00:22:08.640
happens in very rare, very rare circumstances where the life of the mother's on the line.
00:22:15.920
That's total bullshit. And the reason I know that is because the Guttmacher Institute,
00:22:19.620
which is the leading gatherer of abortion statistics on behalf of the abortion industry,
00:22:25.220
says that the majority of abortions that take place late-term are healthy babies, healthy mothers.
00:22:32.040
Healthy babies, healthy mothers. The majority. Nobody knows this because the media doesn't tell
00:22:36.860
you that. It oftentimes involves women who either didn't know they were pregnant, which suggests that
00:22:42.580
they probably weren't all that healthy, physically healthy. Or it's women who dither on the
00:22:49.480
question on whether or not they would get the abortion at all. They eventually, in a very late
00:22:56.240
Or are pressured into it, which is a means for helping the worst kind of men in our country.
00:23:03.180
And that's really, I mean, at its core, like if you really wanted to attack it,
00:23:10.920
Women only have value to the extent they work for me at some bank.
00:23:15.680
I mean, no one ever says the truth, which has to do with the labor. But women are amazing
00:23:22.260
employees because they're more dutiful and reliable than men. And having had a lot of
00:23:27.400
women work for me, I can say that. I worked in a business that was mostly women. And they're
00:23:34.180
They're less distracted. They're more task-oriented.
00:23:36.600
They actually do what they say they're going to do.
00:23:39.340
You know what I mean? They don't space out and try to improvise midway through or get high
00:23:44.600
You know, they just like women, just like my daughters as compared to my son. You know,
00:23:48.740
they're just like, they do the job. And so it's great to have women work for you. And
00:23:55.160
they're nice too, especially if you're a man. They're like, just, you just get along with
00:23:58.360
It's great. And I love working with women. But there's a temptation, like if you were
00:24:05.280
soulless, to want to encourage them, like not to have kids because they get in, that kids
00:24:11.180
are a higher priority than your, whatever stupid job you're offering them.
00:24:16.580
And so the labor market pushes this shit, this anti-fertility stuff on women, tells them
00:24:24.400
it's liberation. And I'm sorry to say this, but a lot of them like don't think it through
00:24:27.780
and they're like, yeah, it's liberation. It's sad. And, um, and that's how you wind up
00:24:34.100
Yeah. There's, um, there's a, a group, I think it's based in DC.
00:24:38.180
It's capitalism, Vince. We have to support it or else we're against free markets.
00:24:41.860
There's a, there's a, there's a left-wing group in DC that's dedicated to this issue,
00:24:47.200
Well, I support them because I agree with that.
00:24:48.640
I think the PPAU, I think is where they got like a progressive anti-abortion union or
00:24:53.600
something. And it, at its core is exactly the argument you're making, which is like,
00:25:00.640
Like, why are we telling them that their most important purpose is corporate America?
00:25:09.580
Like literally, like imagine, imagine if you had a window of time where you could perform
00:25:14.380
magic in your life. Literally this, and the magic could only be performed during this like
00:25:18.480
20 year window of time. And some company hired you and said, we'll hire you under this condition.
00:25:22.640
You never use your magic. You never, never once will you be able to use this magic ability
00:25:27.920
that you'll never be able to do again. You can never use it during the time that you work for us.
00:25:31.720
Okay. In fact, we'll pay for you not to do it. And which is what they do. They do this to women
00:25:36.320
and that they have this like, they have this incredible magic, miraculous ability. And we have
00:25:42.480
huge sectors of our society dedicated to telling them, don't use it.
00:25:54.500
And we think the spreadsheet's more important or you can create value for our stock.
00:26:00.200
It's so unbelievable. And it's, what's interesting is I, I'm, I'm now, I'm sorry,
00:26:06.220
I keep attacking Republicans. I plan to vote for them just to be clear. Don't have an option,
00:26:10.500
but the number of Republicans who sort of leaders I'm talking about, not the voters
00:26:14.580
by and large, but their leaders like totally buy into that. And they're like, I wish these,
00:26:19.900
you know, pro-family, anti-abortion people, Christians would just shut up. Just shut up.
00:26:25.320
Like, how does that help private equity or war against Iran?
00:26:29.040
Do you know what I mean? Like they're, they, they totally agree with the left on these issues.
00:26:36.940
I think part of it is like, they're too lazy to take the mental inventory necessary to make the
00:26:41.160
arguments. I think that's part of it. Honestly, having met, I mean, you've, you've met way more
00:26:45.340
of these guys than I have, but I've met a lot of them.
00:26:48.880
And if it's not, if it's not an issue that's like in the headlines right now,
00:26:52.900
there's not a lot of deep thoughts on the subject.
00:26:55.200
You know, like they, there's not a lot of like existential thought thinking going on.
00:26:59.860
Which is unfortunate. It's really unfortunate because the right, the, the normal, the normal
00:27:05.540
American, which I love using, by the way, I just, I think the phrase normal is like the
00:27:10.540
Because it really does reflect like what we are all thinking fundamentally.
00:27:20.100
Normal people recognize the value that it's given to them and they feel awful for the
00:27:23.820
people who've been sold the lies. And so we should just speak up for it. And you should,
00:27:28.480
if you're a conservative politician, Republican politician, and you don't have a good argument
00:27:32.340
against the death cult, one, you shouldn't be a politician. You should get out of the game
00:27:36.760
entirely. But two, like, at least like sit down. Maybe, maybe have a wife, sit down with her and
00:27:41.540
talk about it and like come up with some clear answers and then fight for what's right. And then
00:27:45.840
fight to create a world where people don't feel like they need to kill a baby in order to thrive.
00:27:51.300
I would like to see, I mean, maybe I'm getting less, I don't know, laissez-faire as I get older. But if you
00:27:57.960
see the energy that went in to destroying the lives of all those middle-aged, diabetic,
00:28:05.520
lower middle-class white Americans who went to defend the Constitution on January 6th, like really,
00:28:16.980
As long as that machine exists, why not turn it on any company that encourages its female
00:28:22.120
employees to, quote, freeze their eggs? There's something about that. Like any company that
00:28:28.300
encourages women to work themselves to death in pursuit of some totally pointless goal like private
00:28:35.200
equity or banking and then tells them, but we'll pay for you to freeze your eggs. Why don't we sick
00:28:44.800
I don't know. I mean, it's like, sorry, I know I'm not supposed to say that, but I think that,
00:28:49.120
like those are, like that's evil. That's totally evil. I mean, give up the one thing that really
00:28:54.760
matters that will bring you joy in your age in exchange for some shitty job at Citibank.
00:29:01.440
The January 6th thing is like, is the perfect, the perfect understanding way to, the perfect
00:29:07.460
template for understanding all of this. Because remember in the wake of January 6th,
00:29:10.520
that Washington Post article about how they were all in debt.
00:29:16.100
It was the last piece of journalism that paper committed.
00:29:18.180
It was like three or four days. It was, it was very close to January 6th.
00:29:21.380
They did like a basic piece of journalism, like who are the people in the, in the crowd?
00:29:25.600
And the answer to that question was that they were all in deep financial distress.
00:29:29.920
Most of them. Not, not all of them, I guess, but a lot of them. They had bankruptcies and
00:29:34.800
massive amounts of debt and were very, had a lot of financial discontent. And that was the last time
00:29:40.540
I think that that paper treated them as humans. But at its core, what that story tells you is that
00:29:46.280
they don't have the financial means to fight back. If you have the full weight of the federal
00:29:49.060
government against you with a bottomless pit of resources, they can print their own money.
00:29:53.560
There's no chance you who have declared bankruptcy are going to survive in the face of that. No
00:29:57.780
matter how decent you were, no matter how few laws that you actually broke or whatever,
00:30:01.900
it doesn't matter. You're going to be destroyed. But if you're Purdue Pharma,
00:30:06.060
If you, to, to, to litigation, if you make opioids that kill people.
00:30:10.280
Well, of course you'll still, the Sacklers are still billionaires.
00:30:12.300
And then lie to them about that. Or, you know, if you're,
00:30:14.960
heck, even Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was headed towards a settlement until like,
00:30:19.800
there was a national uproar about it. And that guy, the 9-11 mastermind,
00:30:23.700
how many years out are we from that? And we have January 6th grandmas who are serving years in
00:30:28.520
prison. The guy with, the guy who you interviewed, Jacob Chansley, like years, like the sentences
00:30:34.620
that these people have been given. Lives destroyed. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed still haven't
00:30:39.200
resolved that. The 9-11 attacks. It's a crazy. Have we, um, so we, we got, uh,
00:30:44.960
Kevin McCarthy, um, the former kind of mediocre speaker who is now much missed by me to, to,
00:30:52.560
to, to give up some of the 9-11 footage, um, right before I got fired.
00:31:02.960
Yeah. I was like, wow, that's a story. Tell me.
00:31:05.620
Yeah, that is a story. Like why are there any 9-11 documents still classified? Like, what is that?
00:31:10.660
Why are there any JFK documents still classified?
00:31:12.380
Well, you know why. Yeah. To protect people who lied about those events. But anyway, back to
00:31:17.080
January 6th. Sorry. Why are we going to have to wait, you know, 61 years to see the rest of the
00:31:23.260
January 6th footage? It's been almost four years. Yeah.
00:31:26.380
So why, why is the Republican speaker continuing to hold all this footage? Why not make it all public?
00:31:33.980
Sometimes I think that they get so obsessed with controlling the storylines.
00:31:38.040
Mm-hmm. They're not even good at it though. That's like the, but it's like, well, we can't
00:31:41.260
let that become the story because that could be a cost to us. I'm like, I don't know. What is the
00:31:44.580
evidence that you're great at this? Like, like, you know, what, what evidence should exist that
00:31:50.180
demonstrates that you are the person that we should rely on to set the timeline for when the
00:31:54.100
public finds out this stuff? Yeah. That's, it's idiotic. And, uh, yeah, I think I'd happen to believe
00:31:59.440
that telling the truth is, uh, the most important thing because the more you do that, so long as you
00:32:05.140
actually believe in our system as a place where the voters get to say, yeah, they have to have that
00:32:09.500
in order to make those decisions. That's it. That's the whole ball game. You can't have democracy
00:32:13.600
with censorship, period. Can I, can I, I know you don't want me to ask you too many questions,
00:32:18.160
but let me ask you one at least. Um, the fact that they replaced Biden. Yeah. Made me a little bit
00:32:24.540
hopeful that the election isn't quite as rigged as you might expect. In other words, they were so
00:32:31.540
concerned that the voters really would have their say with Biden in office that they replaced him.
00:32:37.100
They said, we can't, this is too much. And, and I, and I've, I've talked about this with friends on
00:32:42.020
the right and some of them are under the opinion that, oh no, it was too obvious. Like they, so if
00:32:46.440
they're going to rig the election, it'd be too obvious because nobody likes Biden and they don't
00:32:49.540
want to give away entirely that it was rigged. That's kind of the, I think the way that they explain
00:32:54.020
this away. I don't think, I think that's, I think that's wrong because the left is completely
00:32:58.400
brazen about their lives. I don't, I don't think they would pause for a moment to be like,
00:33:01.820
oh no, the public thinks it's rigged because Biden got reelected. I actually think that at least at
00:33:06.720
this moment that voters kind of like the way Trump is saying, if they can make it too big to rig,
00:33:13.420
they really do have a say right now, which is why the info war continues like the, the battle as Alex
00:33:19.000
Jones says, but the battle over, um, the voters minds is still so intense. It suggests to me very
00:33:26.380
strongly that the election system really does work at least to an extent.
00:33:32.700
But I think that's true in any system. I mean, what's so striking to me is how just having traveled
00:33:39.920
a lot and looked at a lot of different systems around the world is there really are no purely
00:33:45.020
totalitarian countries or systems that never have been. I mean, Stalin, who is about as close to an
00:33:50.860
absolute dictator Mao, same as the world has ever seen. Um, you know, both of those regimes spent
00:33:57.620
a huge amount of time and money on propaganda, even though they had absolute power, they could
00:34:01.320
kill anyone they wanted. So you, you really do end up ruling by consent, whether you want to or not,
00:34:08.020
whether it's manufactured consent or legitimate consent, but you have to control people's brains.
00:34:13.360
You can't just rule indefinitely at the point of a gun. So, um, you know, I'm not, I, I think you
00:34:20.400
make a good point. I want the people in charge to at least try to convince me because that shows
00:34:26.660
respect. Yeah. I'm not sure what is going on, to be honest with you. I mean, I haven't done
00:34:32.560
hallucinogens in 35 years, but I'm getting that kind of weird, like dream sequence feeling about
00:34:39.040
American politics right now. Yes. I'm not quite sure what the hell is this? Well, you had Ben Carson
00:34:43.420
on recently. Yeah. And he said something that stuck with me. I love Ben Carson. Yeah. He's a
00:34:48.300
great human being. And, um, he's a, he's a, the perfect case study in the way that the media will
00:34:54.140
destroy you as soon as you turn against their interests. Yes. Um, because Ben Carson was a
00:34:58.380
celebrated neurosurgeon, pediatric neurosurgeon, uh, up until the moment. And to the point that it was in
00:35:05.540
childhood curriculums to learn about Ben Carson's life in schools, and you'd read his book,
00:35:09.540
gifted hands and learn all about him. They later made a famous, a Hollywood movie about his life.
00:35:15.060
And the second he ran for politics, they cast him as a moron. He's an idiot. He's so stupid. He's,
00:35:22.880
he messed up brain surgeries all the time, right? You started seeing all these like stories come out
00:35:27.180
and then he was heralded by places like the New York times. And then of course, and then after that
00:35:31.260
eviscerated the second he declared interest in Republican politics. And the second, especially that
00:35:35.520
he spoke up on behalf of life. That was so on the God frequency though, as you know,
00:35:39.780
I know you know him. He's like, it, it doesn't even, it doesn't, it doesn't bother him. He's got
00:35:44.120
such a great attitude. I love it. It's infectious. So he said to you that this switcheroo that they
00:35:50.320
just pulled off is a test of the media's ability to rig the election. That's right. Nicely put.
00:35:56.600
And I love that. I love that because it's true and, uh, we're witnessing it right now. So my thought
00:36:04.120
process is, and I wonder about you too, is that at what point does the media's ego get in the way of
00:36:10.980
their partisan priorities? In other words, Kamala is refusing to do interviews. And right now their
00:36:17.120
partisan priorities are to get her elected. But you and I both know these people in the press.
00:36:22.220
And if there's one thing that might override their partisan priorities, it's their obsession with
00:36:27.480
themselves to the point that like this drumbeat of like, why isn't she doing an interview?
00:36:32.380
Why isn't she sitting down with CNN? Why isn't she sitting down with ABC? It's enough to be
00:36:37.300
enticing. Yes. To the people in that world that they're like, you're beginning to see at least
00:36:42.220
little murmurs of it. Like, oh, she, she should do an interview. Well, you know, the voters deserve
00:36:45.720
that. You're beginning to see, I, I think that their egos may override their partisan priorities.
00:36:49.940
I hope so. I hope. Though, I guess the kind of argument would be to work at a place like NBC News or
00:36:55.560
CNN and I've worked at both, um, now requires total degradation, total. Like you can have no
00:37:03.340
self-respect at all. Um, or you couldn't work there because you're being told to say things
00:37:08.980
that are obviously untrue to lie every single day. There's no dissent allowed. And your average adult
00:37:14.980
man wouldn't put up with that because it's like, well, I have opinions too. And as a, like a human
00:37:19.480
being and not a slave, I get to express my opinions. No, you can't. I think that's an intolerable
00:37:24.000
work environment for anyone with, with any dignity at all. Therefore, the people who work there,
00:37:29.800
um, most of whom I know, uh, they just don't have any dignity left. I mean, I hope I'm wrong.
00:37:36.220
I want everyone to have dignity, but I don't see it. Do you? No, it's like very humiliating.
00:37:42.540
It's so humiliating. Um, I work at CNN, really? Just the, the, the crimes of omission are really,
00:37:49.280
they're just liars. It's, and then to like go on TV and then to treat people who would support
00:37:55.420
Trump with contempt, which they were doing like this very weekend. There's like the Sunday shows
00:37:59.040
like we interviewed these people and they have no idea what they're talking about is basically
00:38:02.480
like what? I know. And you do living like this absurdly pampered life, like completely away from
00:38:09.700
all of the problems that these people have very real problems. I saw, I saw Don Lamont is running
00:38:18.220
around right now. He's doing man on the street interviews. That's his latest iteration. For
00:38:20.960
whom? For Don Lamont. It's his DL on his microphone. For his own. On his microphone. I haven't talked
00:38:27.360
to Don in a while. I had high hopes for Don, but he learned nothing. I know you did. I know you did.
00:38:32.820
Because you're good about that. But when he was, when he was talking to these. We got fired the same
00:38:36.680
day. Yeah, I know. I called him right away. But yeah, I call everyone when they're fired, period.
00:38:44.900
But yeah, he, Don, I, I wanted him. Because usually getting fired, you know, you learn something about
00:38:51.640
yourself. Sure. It's humbling. It's so important to be fired regularly, I would say, especially if
00:38:57.480
you're arrogant like I am. So I've really enjoyed getting fired, but, and I thought this will be
00:39:01.500
totally good for Don. It'll be totally good for me, which it was. And, but Don didn't seem to even
00:39:06.760
pause. No. And I, the giveaway was his interview with Elon Musk. It was a total disaster because he
00:39:13.900
refused to take any inventory of his priors. It was entirely a political, like partisan talking
00:39:18.600
points exercise. It was really embarrassing, actually, because if Don Lemon, I want to get
00:39:24.820
back to his man on the street thing in a minute, but Don Lemon, like a decade ago, was willing to say
00:39:29.200
things on television that his network didn't agree with. Yes. And there's like this famous Morgan
00:39:34.360
Freeman interview he did where the two of them were sitting around talking about how obsessing over
00:39:39.420
race actually exacerbates racial division in the country. That's for sure. And we should stop doing
00:39:43.020
that. That's what the two of them sitting there agreeing on that subject. I was like, what happened
00:39:46.460
to that guy? He just, he just sold out, I guess. I, it is from and far, I don't know him. But how can you
00:39:52.860
get fired if you're Don Lemon and you get, you know, you're hired at CNN, you're gay,
00:39:58.520
you're black, you obviously can never be fired, obviously, because you can't fire someone in
00:40:03.480
those categories. Ask anyone who runs a business. You can't, you're afraid to. And they fire you
00:40:08.460
anyway. Then at least part of you has to think like, how did I get fired? Like, what did I do
00:40:14.620
wrong? I must've played some role in this. They suck. Okay, that's fine. I hate my bosses. They
00:40:18.480
humiliate me. You know, I'm mad at them. I get it. I've certainly been there. But come on, it's like a
00:40:23.280
marriage. Like if it, if it blows up, each side has some culpability. What's mine? Like,
00:40:28.500
what did I do wrong? That's true. I don't think he even, I, and I had a long conversation with him
00:40:33.640
on the phone. I should have said, Don, you know, you've got good, I think Don has good qualities,
00:40:39.640
great qualities for TV, actually. And I told him that, but you should just really pause and ask
00:40:45.500
yourself. Like, yes, CNN sucks. I can confirm that as a former employee, but you kind of suck
00:40:51.960
too. So that's what fired people have to ask themselves, but he never did. Well, the underlying
00:40:57.700
question for, at least for me watching from the outside was, okay, so now he's free. He doesn't
00:41:04.160
have anybody telling him what he, what he has to say. It's so great. The script is gone and there's
00:41:09.680
nobody, there's no advertisers for you to, in fact, you can build your own. You have to do that whole
00:41:13.500
world. And he stuck to the script. I was like, oh, so I guess he truly believes this nonsense.
00:41:19.100
And that's gets to this man on the street. He's talking to people like all across, I guess,
00:41:22.880
across the country. He's going to different places or beach communities that he's staying in. And he
00:41:26.300
just happens to put a microphone in people's faces. I'm not sure, but he's talking to people
00:41:29.520
and he's asking them who you're supporting. And he's getting a lot of people saying, Trump,
00:41:33.340
voting for Trump. And a lot of black people responding, I'm voting for Trump. And in one,
00:41:38.120
he confronts the guy who says, uh, I was better off financially under Trump. And he says, that's
00:41:44.360
not true. Don, that's not true. No, you were, you were happier. He's like, uh, Trump wasn't
00:41:51.640
president. He's like fact check, false, a fact check, uh, false. Like did he actually, he didn't
00:41:56.680
say the words fact check false, but he virtually did it. He was like, no, no, no. Things are much
00:42:00.000
better now economically. And you're like, what world is he living in? And, and, you know, I guess
00:42:07.060
in some sense it's definitely, I guess he buys into the facade. If he, if he, if he, if he truly
00:42:12.000
believes that he buys into the facade, because like this, all this conversation about the economy,
00:42:15.940
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The Greeks invented democracy. So if you like democracy, you're Greek. If you've ever voted for
00:44:44.980
a candidate, voted someone off an island, left work early to go to the polls, or lied about going to the
00:44:50.780
polls so you could leave work early, that's good enough. You're Greek. So eat like it. That means
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ordering delicious and fresh chicken souvlaki with tzatziki from Jimmy the Greek. You deserve it,
00:45:01.980
you pillar of democracy, you. You're Greek. Eat like it with Jimmy the Greek. Hashtag gimme jimmy.
00:45:11.780
No, but can I just ask, even like economic analysis aside, the arrogance required to look
00:45:19.220
into someone's face and disagree with his own assessment of his financials? Like, no, actually,
00:45:24.880
no, actually, we've never met before. But what you just told me about your life is not true.
00:45:29.840
It can't be true. It's like, shut up and listen. Just listen to people for a second. Like it's,
00:45:36.140
first of all, it's kind of fun. Second, you learn a lot. And, but how arrogant would you have to be
00:45:41.320
not to listen? Just ask a few questions and then bounce your own assumptions off them and see what
00:45:45.720
they say. Vince, I know you, you told me that you were diagnosed with cancer recently,
00:45:50.020
but you don't have cancer. We've never met. I'm not a physician, but I just want to say you don't
00:45:54.900
have cancer. Silly man. That's right. That would be true. That'd be true if I met Cori Bush, right?
00:46:00.620
She has healing hands. You ever, you know that story? No, what, wait, stop. What's, wait,
00:46:04.820
Cori Bush has healing hands? Cori Bush is convinced that she has the ability to heal
00:46:08.860
illnesses with her hands. Okay. She just placed her hands on you and you're healed.
00:46:12.600
Uh, she said, I believe that that exists. She, no, but Cori Bush specifically has this power
00:46:17.740
and she's been holding out on us, I think, uh, because Cori Bush, the Congress, the Congresswoman
00:46:22.660
just got beaten in the primary. There's like a lot of, there's a lot of illness all across the
00:46:26.000
country. Why is she wasting her time? Not healing it. Yeah. What is she doing in a committee meeting
00:46:30.160
when she could be fixing pancreatic? I mean, I thought, yeah, I thought Biden's whole thing was
00:46:34.500
like curing cancer of the moonshot initiative. Hello, we've got Cori Bush. Yeah. Hello. Cancer rates
00:46:39.180
skyrocketed under Biden. Quite incredible. Yeah. Amazing. Wow. So Don is doing a, sorry,
00:46:46.400
just to close out the Don Lamont conversation. He was highly annoyed. He told me that I called
00:46:50.440
him Don Lamont. I thought it was hilarious. And by the way, I said it with affection.
00:46:53.580
Uh-huh. Mr. Lamont is here. Yeah. He always reminded me of Ricardo Montalban
00:46:57.480
and Fantasy Island. Welcome to Fantasy Island. It's a better, it is a better pronunciation.
00:47:03.000
I just always pictured him in like an ascot, like roll with it, like be who you are. You know what I mean?
00:47:08.080
Totally. He had a kind of Suave Bolo vibe to him that I found hilarious and kind of charming.
00:47:14.620
And just be that guy. Don't give me a lecture about journalism. You have no idea what it is.
00:47:18.420
You've never practiced it. Just like be your kind of 70s self. You know what I mean? Yeah.
00:47:24.180
Whatever. But what is, who is he working for now? I have no idea. I don't know how much money he's
00:47:30.200
generating or what, but I guess it's kind of funny because he was, he's like complaining about his
00:47:34.380
relationship with Elon Musk and he thought he had some arrangement. I don't even know what that means.
00:47:38.080
But he's still producing content and posting it to X. So, whatever.
00:47:44.020
I, my feeling was, and again, I haven't called him, I should, is that he was kind of running out
00:47:50.180
of options. Again, if you're Don Lamont and you get fired from CNN, like how hard would that be?
00:47:57.020
I mean, how many times did the HR department say when he was hassling female employees, for example,
00:48:01.460
like, yeah, we can't, we can't fire this guy. I'm sorry. Like it had to have been pretty bad.
00:48:11.420
So what, um, Biden's talking tonight at the DNC, what's he going to say?
00:48:17.120
I know what he's not going to say, which is he's not going to hold everything that happened
00:48:24.720
against, uh, to him against his own party. He's not going to take it out on them. He is
00:48:30.900
suffering the latest indignity to his presidency, which is the sitting president of the United
00:48:36.640
States is speaking on night one of the Democrat convention. That's as humiliating as it gets.
00:48:42.720
You're so right. It's low. It's the lowest billing place they can put him. They want
00:48:47.460
to get it done and over with. So people don't think about him for the rest of the week.
00:48:51.540
It's the whole thing. And, you know, and they're dressing it up as, oh, it's a theme. You know,
00:48:55.360
we have him first and then Obama second and Clinton third. And, uh, and then Kamala finishes
00:49:00.160
things off. This is what they want to leave you with. But realistically, you understand the
00:49:03.720
tactics here. It's like, they want to bury this. They know they've got to feature him,
00:49:07.000
but they want to bury it on night. If the DNC was a fancy restaurant, Biden would be seated
00:49:11.840
right next to the men's room. For sure. That is not a fashionable table. He's in the last row
00:49:16.640
and coach. I know, totally. Really upset that there's a line for the bathroom next to him.
00:49:22.040
He's in a middle seat. Yeah, that's, I know it's such a good point. But, um, well, I mean,
00:49:28.640
he deserves it and so much more and he'll get, he'll get what he deserves. But, um, like it does
00:49:35.620
seem like prerequisite for party membership is being willing to set aside your own interests,
00:49:41.580
your own self-respect, your own dignity on behalf of the collective.
00:49:45.580
Yeah. I mean, how bitter do you think he is about this in real life?
00:49:49.900
I don't know. I don't know to what extent he's capable of complex emotions or thoughts like that,
00:49:55.460
um, at this stage because he is impaired. But I, I know pretty certainly that his wife and his
00:50:03.260
son and his daughter, uh, you know, feel the sting. I mean, how could they not?
00:50:09.540
Guy's president of the United States. He, is he still, he is still president, right?
00:50:13.020
But then Obama stabbed him in the back, uh, and in the front and, you know, Nancy Pelosi stabbed him.
00:50:19.340
They all did. They swooped in and they, and they took him out and they're not really ashamed of it at
00:50:23.600
all. They're like, they're, they're pretty nakedly brazen about it. Uh, and that's, and that's what we're
00:50:29.420
left with. And like, it is so fundamentally at its core, anti-democratic. It's not about at all
00:50:36.340
the, about the consent of the governed. In fact, the primary itself was rigged. I mean, Biden should
00:50:40.720
have never even been on their primary ballot. The voters, 14 million, which is not that many
00:50:44.500
people, but 14 million people registered the thoughts on the subject. And they said, we're
00:50:47.900
with Biden. But again, it was, it was rigged. They kept everybody else off the ballot. They wanted
00:50:51.400
to keep RFK away from it. And Dean Phillips and anybody who would possibly even deter from,
00:50:57.160
from Biden gathering. My pal, Jill Stein. Yeah. Jill Stein. All of them. But can I just
00:51:02.540
ask just, um, like about the nature of the democratic party? It's, I don't vote Democrat
00:51:08.360
because I don't agree with them on most things. Well, now I don't agree with them on anything.
00:51:13.480
Uh, but really I don't vote Democrat because I don't understand like the requirements for
00:51:21.300
membership. Like you've got a couple of brothers, parents, wife, child, you know, you've got a very,
00:51:29.000
I know your family, very close family. If somebody said, you know, in order to remain a conservative
00:51:33.840
or a publican or a radio show host in good standing, you have to denounce your brother,
00:51:38.900
Fred. Not a chance. Like, I think you'd die before you did that. Not a chance in the world. Right.
00:51:44.360
That's right. Not a chance. If they told me to reject the tenants of my faith, I wouldn't.
00:51:48.120
If they told me to attack my family, I wouldn't. Under any circumstance. No. In fact, that courtesy,
00:51:54.200
that, that obligation extends to the people I care about who aren't my family members. Me too.
00:51:58.220
Me too. So that's like. So personal loyalty is more important to you. Love is more important to
00:52:04.260
you than any human made structure. Correct? A hundred percent. Right. A hundred percent.
00:52:09.860
But that's not true for partisan Democrats. It's not true in the Biden family.
00:52:14.380
Just look at what they did with Joe. I know. I don't,
00:52:17.460
there's no circumstance where I let my senile grandfather like run the country. Yes.
00:52:23.900
Nevertheless, drive a car. I know. You know, you take away his license and you figure out how to
00:52:28.460
take care of him. How many people do you know where as they had relative advanced to like really late
00:52:33.300
stage of losing their faculties, they had to take their guns away or like take their license away.
00:52:39.860
That's right. It's a super difficult conversation. Oh, yeah.
00:52:42.640
But it's one that's done out of immense love. It's really hard. And that's not, that's not what
00:52:48.060
happened here. Instead, we all got stuck with the liabilities, the country that is. And, you know,
00:52:54.220
I do think that obviously crystal clear, as you've said for so long, and I've been saying a long time,
00:52:59.420
there's a lot of string pulling going on with Biden. Yeah.
00:53:02.160
You're supposed to comfort yourself with this notion that somebody else is actually running
00:53:05.420
the show. Don't worry. The senile guy's not. But I actually think the most dangerous answer is that
00:53:09.720
he is in charge of some things. And I think some of the chaos we've seen is the result of that.
00:53:15.440
I think Afghanistan in a big way was probably as a result of his senility. The fact that we lost all
00:53:21.980
those people, 13, and then he gets there to that dignified transfer of remains, which should be a
00:53:26.860
dignified transfer of remains in Delaware and doesn't for a moment give them the decency that
00:53:32.740
they deserve in light of his decisions. Talks about himself and his own son who died in a rock
00:53:37.300
in a firefight. Yeah. Ignores them, stares at his watch. It's some of the most offensive things that
00:53:44.800
any of us have ever seen. Well, he did something that I saw personally up close several years ago
00:53:50.760
before he ran that I thought was one of the lowest things I've ever seen. He had this daughter-in-law,
00:53:56.280
his son, Hunter's wife, who I thought was a great person. I thought she was a great person.
00:54:02.640
And he winds up having an affair with his sister-in-law. And, you know, obviously this
00:54:08.240
is devastating to his wife and three children. You know, but these things, you know, whatever,
00:54:13.840
I'm trying to judge, but it's a big deal, right? And it's a big deal in the neighborhood that we live
00:54:17.900
in in DC at the time. And Joe Biden in his horrible, disgusting, ludicrous, fake doctor
00:54:26.060
wife, issue this statement saying, we support Hunter and his new love, you know, our deceased
00:54:34.020
son's widow. And don't even mention his daughter-in-law, who has been a loyal family member
00:54:42.420
for over 20 years, has traveled a lot with Joe Biden because his wife didn't want to go with him.
00:54:46.240
I saw this. And, you know, Kathleen Biden's like the mother of their three grandchildren. Like,
00:54:52.060
this is not my business, someone else's family. Okay. I generally try not to judge these things,
00:54:55.800
but he issues a public statement saying we're on the new chick side. Well, what about this girl
00:55:01.920
was your daughter? I have a daughter-in-law. Like, I know that's a really intense and important
00:55:06.220
relationship in a family, particularly the father and his daughter-in-law. The mother of your
00:55:10.280
grandchildren? Are you joking? Yeah. And they just ignore her like she never existed?
00:55:15.420
I thought, I was so offended by that. I just couldn't believe a man would do that.
00:55:22.000
But then they reiterated it with London Roberts. She's been a loyal, good daughter-in-law.
00:55:25.040
They did the same thing with London Roberts and her daughter, Navy Joan. You know, they,
00:55:29.420
Hunter's daughter, you know, just ignoring her existence, not even like, like actually going out
00:55:35.760
of their way to insult her existence with the whole like stockings thing at Christmas. Like,
00:55:39.280
they won't even hang her name up. They refuse to acknowledge she exists. And to this day,
00:55:43.020
I just talked to London Roberts not long ago. We interviewed her. She had, she put a book out
00:55:46.700
about the subject and it's kind of, she still wants to kind of earn her way into their world.
00:55:51.680
I think that's the impression I got. And I, I don't think she should bother with that at all
00:55:57.440
because like, they've been pretty clear about what they think of her and the family.
00:56:00.160
How could you do that? How could you do that? William F. Buckley did that. His son had an
00:56:05.620
illegitimate child, his grandson. And William F. Buckley in his will said, I'm not, you know,
00:56:11.080
no money for him. If I'm remembering this correctly and I'm sorry, I know everyone
00:56:15.120
reveres William F. Buckley, but I just, I, I lost all respect. I have no respect for that at all. If
00:56:20.180
you, it's your child or grandchild, like that's really important. The grandchild's innocent.
00:56:26.220
Well, I totally agree. And your blood. Yeah, I know. Sorry. I don't get, it's a big deal.
00:56:31.180
It's so sidetracked, but like, I think Joe Biden is actually a really rotten person,
00:56:35.780
I guess is what I'm saying. I hate to say that. And I think it matters. So what sort of person you are.
00:56:40.420
I do. Everyone's like, Oh, it doesn't matter. What matters to me. Yeah, it does matter. And all
00:56:45.520
of the, like the, the, you know, and Trump is a complicated person, of course, and he's got,
00:56:49.800
he has moral failings, no question. But the lies that we're constantly told about his moral failings
00:56:54.900
are like absurd. Like the idea that he's like trying to personally profit off of the presidency,
00:56:59.380
like all of the available evidence, uh, uh, like demonstrates the complete opposite. Like he's
00:57:05.160
lost billions of dollars in net worth by doing it. It's endless hassle, endless litigation,
00:57:08.840
and like, like I, what deal has existed that has enriched him as a result of having been in the
00:57:14.920
president? Well, he's gotten a lot poorer for sure. Um, does feel to me like he's going to go to jail
00:57:21.980
if he doesn't win. They're going to put him in jail. They're very desperate for that. Are they going
00:57:25.860
to put him in jail before? I keep hearing people keep sending me this stuff. That sentencing date
00:57:30.020
is mid-September. That's correct. The 18th, I think. And, um, they really want to. I, I, uh,
00:57:37.500
this will come down to, I think, a political assessment because they don't want to martyr
00:57:42.260
him ahead of it. So the, so. Putting a man in jail two months, what, you know, eight weeks before a
00:57:48.680
presidential election? No, that's right. On fake charges? That's right. But that, that judge,
00:57:53.260
remember, he kept threatening him with all these gag orders and saying, oh, you violated it,
00:57:56.220
violated it, but he never quite put him in jail, even though he was constantly hanging that thread
00:57:59.660
out there. I think it's because they became aware during the trial that this was backfiring
00:58:04.300
politically. So it wasn't just Biden self-immolating. It was that the public started
00:58:08.480
becoming convinced that Trump really is a victim of a rigged system. And that was showing up in the
00:58:13.260
polls throughout that process. And so they have to be cognizant of this. Now I won't put it past them
00:58:18.540
to do something tyrannical that's against their political interests because they have this
00:58:22.780
overriding desire. They can't control themselves. Yeah. But it's one of the factors. It's so
00:58:26.780
unfortunate that that's it. That's what it's all about. It's hard to believe. Yeah. I, I, I guess
00:58:31.440
this is the disadvantage, as I said earlier, of age. It's like, I, I refuse to believe that could even
00:58:35.560
happen in the United States. But if it did, I think we could wind up. I mean, that close to the
00:58:41.040
election. I don't know if they'll do it, but this is, here's the thing that still amazes me.
00:58:45.780
July 13th, Trump was shot in the head this year, in case you were forgetting. The news cycle lasted
00:58:54.220
maybe a week, maybe two on that subject. And it's evaporated. It's gone. Do you, I mean,
00:59:03.040
I was, I know how quickly news cycles move. So I, I, and the, and the desire not to talk about that.
00:59:08.400
I could, I could smell it coming a thousand miles away. I knew that they would move on.
00:59:11.360
Well, the Trump people didn't want to talk about it, to be honest, but Biden's secret service allowed
00:59:17.260
Trump to get shot in the face. They allowed it whether, you know, intentionally or not. So like,
00:59:21.500
why is that not the biggest story in the world? But you would think it would be the biggest story
00:59:24.360
all the way through the election. Like in, like in once again, normal America, if a presidential
00:59:29.660
candidate gets shot in the head, you would think that the overflowing of sympathy and certainly all
00:59:34.860
of the media attention on that subject would basically put them on a glide path to the election
00:59:38.240
that for the remainder of the election, which is not that much time left, that we'd be litigating
00:59:42.860
all of this. How did this happen? How do we prevent it from happening? Why did somebody shoot
00:59:46.060
Trump? The underlying motivations. Have you noticed like there's no conversation about that anymore?
00:59:50.540
The motive, the motive question disappeared in like five seconds. It was like the Vegas shooter.
00:59:54.220
It disappeared. Well, he was just your average 20 year old with no social media profile whatsoever.
00:59:58.700
No motive at all. No one helped him do it. Um, and you know, there was no real security failure
01:00:06.220
at all. You just couldn't put an agent on a roof with a pitch that steep. It's just, it's pretty,
01:00:10.520
pretty conventional stuff. 140 yards from the, from the stage. Yeah. Um, but you saw the Biden
01:00:17.980
administration allow an assassination attempt to shooting and that's just a, that's a fact.
01:00:25.000
They allowed that. And again, I'm not saying they did it on purpose. Seems pretty clear they did.
01:00:31.080
How could that not be on purpose? But I don't have any proof of that, but they, they allowed it.
01:00:34.740
We can say that conclusively and no one ever mentioned it again. And, and Republicans don't
01:00:39.300
mention it. I don't understand why. One of the ways I think that they allowed it, one of the,
01:00:44.100
because once you're knocking on really important doors and like, if you start opening a bunch of
01:00:49.580
them, eventually you get to a place you're like, man, this is really dark. What we just saw.
01:00:52.460
It's so dark. I agree. Um, I think one place that I've been in is that the Biden administration,
01:00:58.780
um, is ruthless in, in how they wield the government politically, as we know, with the United States
01:01:04.120
Department of Justice. And they, they resent the fact that Trump gets secret service protection at
01:01:10.620
all. They hate that they have to give him by virtue of the law as a former president, secret service
01:01:16.560
protection. So to the extent that they give him anything, they're just like, whatever, we'll send
01:01:21.740
him something, but protecting him, not a priority, protecting Dr. Jill, when she's doing an event in
01:01:27.420
Pittsburgh and an indoor arena, just down the road from Trump, uh, you know, it, in a, in a really
01:01:31.640
sophisticated way with all the teams necessary to protect her and going above and beyond a hundred
01:01:36.300
percent, we'll do that. Yeah. The repulsive fake Dr. Harpy wife gets all the bodyguards she wants,
01:01:41.160
but, but the candidate doesn't. But the secret service director that she handpicked for the role,
01:01:47.040
Kim Cheadle, because Kim Cheadle served on Jill Biden's detail when she was in the white house
01:01:52.800
originally with, uh, when Joe Biden was vice president. So, so, so they choose Kim Cheadle to
01:01:58.440
run the show. The last thing they're going to do is concern themselves with how safe is Trump and
01:02:02.380
should we give him what he needs? Screw that guy. We'll give him the bare minimum. Meanwhile,
01:02:06.820
if in case you're looking for evidence that Biden and Jill and the secret service are political,
01:02:12.900
look no further than RFK. RFK asked for secret service protection because he's from the most
01:02:18.000
assassinated family in American political history. And because there's actual threats to his life and
01:02:22.620
he actually needs it in order to conduct a presidential campaign, but because they were,
01:02:27.000
they were so petty that they didn't want to dignify his campaign as real. They refuse to give him secret
01:02:32.900
service protection merely because they didn't want to give him the visual of being considered a
01:02:38.120
presidential candidate. That's it. They were just like, screw that guy. So they're making all these
01:02:42.200
political considerations. They refuse to give RFK protection. And then Trump, they barely give him,
01:02:46.720
they give him the B squad and he gets shot in the head. That's one interpretation of events.
01:02:53.180
Yeah. Here are a couple of fat girls who don't know how to operate a firearm.
01:02:57.940
Most of us, well, actually all of us go through our daily lives using all sorts of quote,
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And it's happening out in the open without anybody saying anything about it.
01:03:55.140
This is a huge problem. And we've been talking about this problem to our friend,
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Yeah, it is. It's so overwhelming that, um, because if you live in a country where the secret
01:05:54.340
service is corrupted and we clearly do live in that country, then it's like at that point,
01:06:00.800
you know, that's a life or death thing. You know, that's not the education department. That's a,
01:06:05.740
They investigate who left cocaine at the white house and then they destroy the evidence within
01:06:09.620
weeks. And they say, the investigation's closed. There's no chance we'll ever get to the bottom of
01:06:13.280
it. They destroyed it. They didn't keep it. I mean, how much cocaine could they possibly have had?
01:06:18.420
It's not like they were running out of real estate. Like just keep it in the evidence room. You know,
01:06:23.200
we can keep this for a while. We'll keep the case open. We'll see if we can get some answers.
01:06:30.160
Yeah. It tells you that, um, like maybe the one, the agencies that can never be corrupted,
01:06:36.500
no matter what, that have to remain as pure as any government agency can remain pure,
01:06:41.380
um, have been totally, you know, so that would include, I'm sorry to say it in your presence.
01:06:46.780
I know you're a product of military family, but DOD. Yeah. FBI and secret service. And of course,
01:06:53.260
CIA and DIA. And they're working really hard to do it to the Supreme court right now.
01:06:57.260
They're working very hard to corrupt that institution because it's not serving their power
01:07:01.020
interests, at least not to the extent that they want it to. And, uh, so that needs to be corrupted
01:07:05.400
too. It's a, it's a virus and it just, it just keeps on spreading. It just keeps spreading.
01:07:09.620
And now they're using Kamala as the vehicle for all of this. And she is so dumb. She's shockingly
01:07:19.560
dumb. Is she? You can tell. Can't you tell? Well, she, she seems, um, well, she's dumb in a,
01:07:26.900
in a, in a, in a, she's socially dumb. She, she doesn't know how to communicate with people.
01:07:30.720
Yes. Like human beings are alien to her. Yes. And she really doesn't have time for them.
01:07:35.080
And she, she tries to figure out a way to condescend to them. And then she just ends up
01:07:38.960
speaking in circles. Yes. Because she doesn't actually know how to communicate.
01:07:41.800
Well, she kissed her husband with a mask on and, you know, as a married person, I looked
01:07:46.980
at that and I was like, I, there's, there's kind of no explaining that, you know, that is
01:07:51.760
sort of the end of any potential respect I had for you. Kiss your husband with a mask
01:07:55.640
on. Tim Walls shakes his wife's hand on stage. Well, Tim Walls, I mean, you know, yeah, come
01:08:04.840
on now. Walls out for Kamala. No. Yeah. I mean, Tim Walls. I'm sorry. Uh, that, that it's
01:08:13.580
so, it's so funny to live in a society where you have to like deny obvious things. I look
01:08:17.060
at Tim Walls, I'm like, Oh, I know exactly who you are. Like instantly, like instantly I
01:08:22.840
went to boarding school. I know who Tim Walls is, um, big time. And you can't, I mean, I actually
01:08:29.300
don't, I know I have zero actual evidence, but having spent four years in a New England boarding
01:08:34.340
school in the eighties, like I, you know, his type, are you kidding? Oh yes. Oh, I
01:08:39.680
had a couple of doormasters like Tim Walls for sure. Um, show up in your room late night
01:08:45.340
drunk to talk about stuff. Yeah. Um, you know, he's like, he's like, he's absurd. He's a
01:08:49.720
cartoon character in so many ways. A tyrannical cartoon character. I, well, of course. So like
01:08:53.640
he did, he did start the gay club at his high school. Oh, I'm very aware of that. He started
01:08:56.920
the, you know, what was it? Gay Straight Alliance. Gay Straight Alliance. Yeah. Totally
01:08:59.900
normal. He was the, um, he, you know, he was just, he was just sick of bullying. You
01:09:03.800
know, he just couldn't, he couldn't handle the bullying. Yeah. Yeah. He was just pretty
01:09:07.800
sure. It's just so funny. That's funny for a guy who shot his own residence with paint
01:09:10.940
balls for standing on their Porsche. Uh huh. And that's the, who's, who established a snitch
01:09:15.700
line during COVID for noncompliance with. It's all of a, it's all of a piece. I would
01:09:21.040
say it's all very consistent with what, I mean, I remember, oh, I could tell you stories.
01:09:26.000
It was, you know, whatever. I can't even get into this. But the bottom line is I look at
01:09:30.800
Tim Walls and I'm like, I know exactly, you could have been a, you could have been the
01:09:34.960
doormaster on my hall in 1984, you know, getting all the boys to let's go boxing Sunday morning.
01:09:42.480
Here's a, here's our special athletic supporter that, you know, you have to wear. Um. But he's
01:09:48.220
a very deceptive human being. Oh. Like everything about him is. Does anyone else notice this about
01:09:52.900
Tim Walls? I mean, is this. Again, I, I shouldn't. I'm probably way over my skis. I have zero
01:09:59.200
evidence other than just what seems clear. Like I, what's some of the best advice I ever got,
01:10:04.880
which has turned out to be true all these decades later from a really wise person. It's like,
01:10:09.320
trust your instincts on people. Like. Okay. I mean, he allowed American cities to burn to the
01:10:14.340
ground. I think you can mock him a little bit. I think that's allowed for being. I know you just
01:10:18.360
hate to say things that you can't, I'm, I'm, I'm doing heavy implication here, but the guy,
01:10:24.300
there's something wrong with the guy. I guess that's just really obvious. Does it,
01:10:26.660
does it matter? He's the running mate. He's the beta. He's in the bitch seat. Does it actually
01:10:31.020
matter politically? Probably not. Maybe, but maybe it does. I just don't want somebody working
01:10:35.340
out their issues while trying to take charge of the country. The whole thing. These people are
01:10:38.580
all freaks. There's not like one person who has a normal, happy, personal life. Like, and by the way,
01:10:45.680
there are very few on the Republican side. Very J.D. Vance is one of them, which is one of the reasons I was
01:10:49.300
so enthusiastic. The guy was a pretty normal guy actually, but I think it really matters. If you don't,
01:10:55.620
if you don't go home to some normal relationship, it's based on love and respect and honesty.
01:11:02.140
If you're kissing your husband with a mask on or shaking hands with your wife,
01:11:06.620
you're a freak. And I feel sorry for you, but no, you can't have power. No power for you. Freak.
01:11:12.620
That's how I feel. This, uh, this weekend, they, uh, put Kamala in some like,
01:11:17.780
like small test unscripted moments. Like, let's see what she can do with this, you know? And it all
01:11:22.380
went disastrously. Uh, but one of them was that she was in Pennsylvania. She stopped at a Sheetz
01:11:26.480
gas station. Now when I think Sheetz, I think it's basically, you know, like a Wawa, like it's a
01:11:30.980
touchscreen sandwich shop. You know, you go and you enter your order and then the sandwich show up a
01:11:35.580
few minutes later. Somebody makes it for you. I thought it was a gas station. Yeah, it's a gas
01:11:38.840
station, but fundamentally on the inside, if you're going to visit the indoors of it, you'll get your
01:11:42.220
sandwich there on the touchscreen. Yeah. Everyone, anyone who lives near a Sheetz knows that that's
01:11:46.740
what it's worth. That's what you do. Kamala Harris goes into the Sheetz gas station. She brings her
01:11:52.260
husband and, uh, she brings Tim Walls, phony Tim Walls. And, uh, they go in together and what does
01:12:00.000
she shop for? A bag of Doritos. She's like, she walks in there like, what are you getting? What
01:12:05.020
are you getting? And she's like, Doritos, she says. And she walks around like she has no idea where the
01:12:10.080
chips are. She's like staring all around the store. She has no idea. And her husband grabs it
01:12:16.500
and she goes, Oh, Dougie. And she reaches and she grabs the bag. She pulls them away. She's like,
01:12:21.100
I'll take those. And she rips them out of her hand, rips, rips the Doritos out of his hands.
01:12:25.380
And then, and then cackles. And she walks off. Everything about it felt so completely unnatural
01:12:30.420
and controlled. Well, I think it's, I mean, I've only been to Sheetz a few times, but the one thing
01:12:33.840
I remember about Sheetz, they have one of the world's second to Bucky's, but one of the world's
01:12:38.260
largest selections of chewing tobacco, every kind of dip like ever, including like some you've never,
01:12:43.860
you know, pomegranate flavored or whatever. I always buy a 10 or two there. I don't know how
01:12:48.700
you could pass by the extensive snuff selection to buy Doritos. Like that itself is disqualifying.
01:12:55.220
Yeah. And they're not even cool ranch. Like they were regular Doritos. Like if, if I've,
01:13:00.200
I'm not a Doritos person, but I know Doritos aficionados. Yeah. They're all cool ranch people.
01:13:04.200
Are they? I totally believe that. Like the regular Doritos, like what a poser. And she has no idea what
01:13:09.520
she's doing. And by the way, you're making me think, I want to see her in Bucky's. I want to see
01:13:13.600
the Kamala Harris Bucky's fusion experience. I'd love to.
01:13:17.500
I doubt there are many people in Bucky's. Bucky's is a truck stop in Texas. I think it's moved to
01:13:24.480
Florida now. It's all over the place now. Right. And they have more gas station bays than any other
01:13:28.280
conventional gas station. And the cleanest bathrooms, most famously a candy selection.
01:13:32.660
I was in there late night. You can buy artwork in the bathrooms. For real? Yeah. The walls of the,
01:13:38.340
leading into all the bathrooms, they have artwork on the wall with prices. So when you're in the
01:13:43.460
bathroom, you can choose art and buy it off the wall. Wow. It's pretty cool. Yeah. It's a cool
01:13:48.720
place. They make beef jerky and all the fudge you could possibly eat and all the barbecue you could
01:13:53.460
possibly have. Tell me about it. I was in a Bucky's. We were doing a book tour in like 2018,
01:13:59.260
maybe. And I was on the road. Emily Lynn is sitting right there. And we, I had the driver pull over
01:14:05.340
into Bucky's like three in the morning. We're driving from like Dallas to Houston. Yeah. And no one had been
01:14:09.080
to Bucky's. And I was like, Bucky's is the greatest. Cause I love, I always buy all the
01:14:13.380
weird chewing tobacco there. So we're wandering through Bucky's and, um, I get to the candy
01:14:18.160
area. I love candy. Yeah. And. And they have like old fashioned candy. They've got like walls.
01:14:23.500
I was going, and I, they had like a thing, like malted milk balls. Yeah. It was like $4 for
01:14:28.340
four pounds. And I'm getting this thing and Emily comes up and takes my arm and she's like,
01:14:32.300
I think that's enough. I was like, thank God you're here. No, you do need, that's true. You
01:14:40.340
do need a woman in your body. You do, you do. You totally do. Impose restraint upon you. You totally
01:14:43.560
do. My wife was like kind of rushing me out. I'm like, but wait, there's like, and you could buy
01:14:49.120
like housewares there. Oh, I do 100%. So, and then I would get distracted. Mesquite, barbecue, charcoal.
01:14:55.180
I mean, it's just. And I had my dog in the car with me. We were traveling and, uh, we just,
01:14:58.700
this past week or so. And, uh, we were, we were going to, you know, when you have a dog in the
01:15:02.820
car, you put a water bowl, usually like outside the vehicle, like on the ground and let the dog
01:15:06.200
drink. And, uh, I didn't need to, cause Bucky's had a water fountain for dogs. Like they had a
01:15:11.040
regular water fountain and right on the ground, they had a little unit for dogs. So you could just
01:15:14.900
get the water fountain going and the dog can drink right from there. I was like. So that's the,
01:15:19.040
okay. Bucky's is the kind of capitalism we were promised. Yeah. And BlackRock is the kind that we got.
01:15:25.260
Right. And I feel, let's get, let's get more Bucky's, less BlackRock. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
01:15:31.800
Someplace that you enjoy going that doesn't sap your soul when you're there. That is interested
01:15:36.420
in what you want is trying to serve you in some way. Yeah. You know, is not like buying every house
01:15:42.080
on your street and turning them into rentals or like really wrecking your life. Well, they have a
01:15:47.600
Chick-fil-A style enthusiasm. Yes. So when you walk in, they say hello and they like. But wasn't that the
01:15:52.660
whole point of market capitalism? It was going to serve what people wanted. It was going to respond
01:15:56.780
to the needs and desires of the population. Yeah. Not redefine them. And actually what you,
01:16:01.880
you don't want grandchildren. You want a trans kid. Yeah. Like, I don't know how we got there.
01:16:10.520
You don't, no, you don't, you don't want that fence. What you want is density in your neighborhood.
01:16:17.000
You want public housing on your street. You want that. And if you don't want that, you're a racist.
01:16:20.880
Right. Right. Like that's actually what we got. Yeah. Yeah. We got gay race communism,
01:16:26.620
but it was supposed to be Buc-ee's with like super clean bathrooms and dog water fountains and
01:16:31.580
like massive malted milk ball supplies and like every kind of dip. Not just, you know,
01:16:40.600
Skoll and Copenhagen, but like getting into the serious esoteric chewing. That's right.
01:16:46.980
A chewing tobacco for every man. Yeah. With no lecturing about it either.
01:16:50.300
No, not at all. Yeah. I'd like the kiwi fruit. Yeah. Okay. Coming right up, sir.
01:16:56.520
That's awesome. That is awesome. And, and no, no judgment. I mean, yeah, it's, I don't know. I mean,
01:17:02.140
you talk about this a lot, but I just spent the last almost two weeks driving through most of East
01:17:07.700
coast America. I was all the way up from, from Maine to Florida back and forth. Did you really?
01:17:12.240
Yeah. And what did you think? I, I felt sadness for a lot of what I saw for, well, actually I'm,
01:17:20.660
I love the country. So I found so much of it to be beautiful.
01:17:23.740
And you grew up, your dad was in Marine Crofts or you grew up everywhere.
01:17:27.520
Yeah. Most of the East coast. Hawaii was our one detour away from that. Um, but almost the East
01:17:32.420
coast my entire life. And, um, but the country is beautiful. I love driving through it. I love
01:17:38.580
seeing how much, you know, so much land and there's so much to drive through and, um, really
01:17:43.560
neat and, and, and cool people. Uh, but then like you see so many communities where things are like
01:17:54.720
Like all of the elements get through your home. You know, the, the roofs are falling apart.
01:18:00.260
You know, the water clearly must pour in every time it rains.
01:18:07.880
Oh, so it's not, it's not just you like saw junkies at a gas station. It's like you saw people
01:18:15.820
Like pot, like actual poverty. If there's a hole in your roof, you're impoverished.
01:18:22.580
You know, you've got some, you got a real issue. Like you live in a death trap. So,
01:18:27.480
um, yeah, there's a lot of that out there. And should you, if you.
01:18:32.080
And I saw, by the way, in a lot of those yards, I saw Trump flex.
01:18:36.580
So we're paying for the pensions that were guaranteed retirement of bureaucrats in the
01:18:43.640
Ukraine who work for the corrupt government of Ukraine run by the anti-American, anti-Christian
01:18:55.520
But we're paying for businesses in Ukraine to stay open.
01:18:59.320
Yeah. I'm almost, I, I, I gotta go back to my notes, but I had a, um, I had a piece a
01:19:04.320
while ago about this and I keep notes every day for my radio show. And I remember I shared
01:19:07.920
this on the air that we were paying, I think subsidies to keep small businesses open in
01:19:13.880
Yeah. It's so grotesque. It's hard to metabolize it, but you drove through our own country in
01:19:20.280
the last two weeks and you see people who don't have patched roofs.
01:19:24.860
Yeah. Yeah. And so like the country's not doing well is a, is a, an understatement.
01:19:32.780
Um, and there's lots of people who are suffering and that's why, you know, we kind of glanced
01:19:37.020
off of the economic discussion earlier, but I really think it matters that we are at a
01:19:41.400
point right now where, where the country is at over a trillion dollars in credit card
01:19:44.500
debt. This is, this is a record and we've never had this much credit card debt in our
01:19:48.900
nation's history. And credit card debt is totally destructive. Um, you're looking at,
01:19:58.360
Yeah. On, on these. And, um, that means, you know, people are being destroyed and they
01:20:04.400
can't make ends meet. The unemployment numbers are all a scam with that.
01:20:07.460
Wait, can I just ask like, we, we used to put people in prison back when the mafia was
01:20:12.360
offering loans at lower interest rates than those.
01:20:15.280
Yeah. That the, yeah. Usury and loan sharking, we called it.
01:20:19.720
And all these sort of nice Italian guys wound up in jail.
01:20:23.640
Yeah. But it's cool when the credit card companies do that. How does that work?
01:20:30.960
The answer, Joe Biden, the Senator from Delaware making that happen.
01:20:33.940
Yeah. Um, that, that's how that works. Uh, but people are in massive, massive debt and
01:20:39.680
the unemployment numbers are a scam because, um, really what they represent is that there
01:20:43.320
are people working multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet. That's what that means.
01:20:47.200
So all this stuff about like, oh, unemployment is slow. No, it's not. People are working multiple
01:20:50.800
jobs in order to pay for just how expensive their lives have been.
01:20:54.940
And all the employment gains have been among immigrants. All of them.
01:20:58.220
Zero, net, I mean, net, zero gains among native-born Americans.
01:21:04.820
Immigrants, foreign-born workers gaining all. So it's, uh, you know, and my cousin E.J.
01:21:09.960
Antony is, I think, the single best economist on this subject.
01:21:13.320
And he's just been amazing on it. And, and, uh, he's not. All of the available evidence
01:21:17.720
demonstrates he's right. And no American needs a government report to tell them that they're
01:21:21.320
miserable, by the way. I love that the media sort of waits for unemployment reports to tell,
01:21:24.700
like Don Lemon, like telling you, you shouldn't be miserable. No, the data says not that you're
01:21:28.460
not miserable. You're fine. Like what? Those, all of that government stuff is one cooked and
01:21:33.560
two, a trailing indicator of what's actually happening.
01:21:35.540
Um, but a drive from, where did you go? Like you went from where to where in the United States?
01:21:41.700
I was, so I was, uh, in, from Greenville, Maine was as far north as I was.
01:21:50.440
Yeah. And so I got to see a bunch of places. I was in, um, that was in the Atlanta area.
01:21:57.700
I flew some of it at the beginning and then I drove most of it. I drove, uh, in order to get
01:22:02.240
to Maine. I flew into Boston. I drove the four and a half hours, whatever it is to Greenville.
01:22:07.640
Uh, I was in Atlanta. I was driving in the Atlanta suburbs. I went to, um, Southwest Florida,
01:22:15.100
drove all the way up, you know, past Tampa, went to Jacksonville, Florida, drove from there,
01:22:19.740
went to coastal North Carolina, drove from there, uh, back to Washington DC. And I, I flew to be here
01:22:25.320
with you. And, um, so get to see a lot of places. And, uh, like I said, it's a beautiful country,
01:22:31.360
but it's disturbing how much of it is in disrepair. And like, you just think to yourself,
01:22:38.700
you, you, it, there's a part of you that's like, I don't know what you could possibly do
01:22:46.420
I was, I don't fly very much at all. I try not to travel at all. Uh, but I've taken a couple
01:22:54.340
flights recently, commercial flights and I'm shocked by the airports and, um, I'm shocked
01:23:02.460
by how disorganized they are, the TSA screening. I don't remember it being that bad. I've taken
01:23:08.520
about four years off from really flying that much. And, and then I thought to myself, wow,
01:23:14.060
I didn't know how degrading and stupid this was. I'd forgotten how degrading and stupid
01:23:19.840
it was. And then I thought, you know, the people making decisions about the way this
01:23:24.280
country is run. Like they don't have any contact with us. There's no, there's no donor to either
01:23:28.500
party who flies commercial. Like nobody flies commercial with money in this country. It's
01:23:33.040
crazy. I grew up in a rich area and world of rich people. Everyone flew commercial. Nobody
01:23:38.120
had a plane. Nobody. Now everybody flies private. It's crazy. And one of the effects of that is
01:23:44.640
people who are making these decisions were paying for these politicians. They just don't
01:23:49.820
know. They don't see it at all. And they definitely don't drive, you know, from Tampa to coastal North
01:23:55.280
Carolina and then DC. They just don't. Yeah. Do you think that has some, some effect?
01:23:59.040
That has a huge bearing. I mean, look, TSA conditions the rest of us to be compliant.
01:24:03.780
I mean, that's like, so if that's not your experience, you kind of feel like you're in
01:24:07.980
What is the facial that you stare into a camera? This happened to me yesterday. I had to fly
01:24:13.040
yesterday or two days ago. And they're like, will you look into there? I was like, no, thank
01:24:17.000
you. Yeah. But you don't have to. Like, what is that? I'm sorry. I know I'm showing how out of
01:24:22.720
touch I am. I just don't travel very much. It's just security theater. And like, you know,
01:24:25.860
what is, first of all, what is the ID checker assessing? What are they doing? Like a compelling
01:24:29.960
background check on you or something that, you know, what's your history of terrorism? I mean,
01:24:34.160
the whole thing is really stupid and degrading and super annoying. Like, why am I standing in line?
01:24:41.300
It was all 9-11. George W. Bush created all of this right after 9-11. And we had to,
01:24:45.180
because there was an imminent threat and we were under attack by terrorists. And then you fast
01:24:49.640
forward 23 years later and the Taliban still run Afghanistan. They're way better armed with our
01:24:55.220
money and their infrastructure is much better because we built it and they're still in charge.
01:25:00.000
And we're left in this decaying country with fewer civil liberties having to be humiliated at the
01:25:05.280
freaking airport. Like, why shouldn't we see all the 9-11 documents? Like, why, you know,
01:25:13.000
if anything justifies another January 6th, which is to say people just like moving up to the Capitol
01:25:18.120
and demanding something, why wouldn't it be seeing those documents? Yeah. That event changed this
01:25:23.520
country profoundly and forever. Yes. We're its citizens. We pay for it. It's being done in our
01:25:28.000
name. And we can't know what exactly happened because why? And it's changed in really stupid,
01:25:33.680
tyrannical, and official ways. But predictable ways. So like, like TSA doesn't catch anything,
01:25:38.160
right? So they do their annual screenings where they like practice, like, will you catch the
01:25:41.640
weapons that we put through? They put actual weapons through the x-ray machines and the TSA
01:25:46.280
agents don't catch them. They have a, their fail rate is astronomical. Really? Yeah. So
01:25:51.180
they're not actually even catching the things that they're tested on. And we're all subjected to do
01:25:56.800
this as if it's keeping us safe, which of course it isn't. Why are we doing this? Like I would settle
01:26:01.620
for, if you want to make one modification, locks on the cockpit door. Totally fine. I'm good with that.
01:26:07.080
Beyond that, why are we doing the rest of this? I'm willing to take the risk.
01:26:09.920
I am. I'd rather live in that world. It's a happier world. It's more spiritually compelling.
01:26:17.060
And it demonstrates, you know, like a cohesive society. You don't need that. And in fact,
01:26:22.000
the more they make the society more chaotic, the more they justify all of this, you know,
01:26:28.300
the more that they, they import incompatible cultures and, you know, make everyone live in
01:26:34.080
squalor. Like eventually they're, they're increasing social distrust so much that they're offering a
01:26:38.320
justification for the system that they built. That's right. It's, it's self licking ice cream
01:26:43.180
cone. Yeah. Um, what happens at the democratic national convention this week? Well, I think it's
01:26:50.640
going to be a big demonstration. If you're clear thinking about this, if you stare at it and you're
01:26:55.800
just like objective, what you're going to witness is chaos. You're witnessing, first of all, why are they
01:27:02.340
doing it in Chicago? And like, what world do you appeal to the broad American middle for, by having
01:27:09.360
a Democrat convention in Chicago, Illinois? Because none of us can ever during the course of our
01:27:14.560
lifetimes escape the year 1968. Everything is in reference to that year. Yeah. And so I just,
01:27:22.680
why not? I mean, they should have another march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge too. I mean,
01:27:26.500
everything is like, everything is a replay of that period. It's weird. Yeah. And so now Kamala Harris
01:27:32.820
is the nominee. Amazingly, by the way, this whole convention's fake because she was made the nominee
01:27:38.480
weeks ago in secret in an online vote. So this whole thing is like a scam. Everything about it
01:27:46.000
is a facade. Even the votes are fake because the votes were taken weeks ago. Yes. All to foreclose on
01:27:51.240
the obvious chaos that's going to happen anyway. We're already seeing it. That's right. I mean,
01:27:54.820
like, and this is, you know, God, I want Republicans to be so much better than they are.
01:28:00.380
But insofar as they exist now, the way they do, Milwaukee was like placid. Yeah. It was peaceful.
01:28:07.440
It was orderly. Yeah. It was compelling. It was great. Great speakers. I mean, you were there. You
01:28:11.580
saw it. You had better billing than Joe Biden does. I didn't think that, um, I wasn't planning to go
01:28:17.260
actually at all. I didn't want to go. I've been to every convention since 96. I didn't want to go to
01:28:23.460
any more conventions. They asked me to speak. I wasn't going to do it. Then I was like, I should
01:28:27.300
do that and make myself do it. I loved it. I had like the best time ever. Yeah. Why?
01:28:33.640
Because I liked the vibe. I liked the people. I mean, obviously I've been around it my whole
01:28:38.480
life. So I saw, you know, everyone I've ever met was there, but also I just, I thought it
01:28:41.840
was a happy, happy, happy time. Um, and I think it really, Trump survived getting shot in
01:28:49.920
the face and that has motivating. Yeah. I mean, that just changed everything. I, I know
01:28:56.260
it feels like that was 40 years ago, but it was last month, uh, that that happened. It
01:29:03.900
was, it was just, it was happy. Anyway, it was a great time. I thought.
01:29:07.900
So they always tell you it's the most important election of your lifetime, but of course this
01:29:11.560
one actually is that's demonstrable. And it's also because it is so important being censored
01:29:16.420
at every level by the tech companies. So we were thinking about this a couple of months
01:29:19.920
ago and we thought, why not get on the road live in front of actual people, live audiences
01:29:24.860
coast to coast, a nationwide tour where we can't be censored. That'd be good. It would
01:29:30.060
also be fun. So we're doing it. We're going to be on stage with some of our friends, some
01:29:33.540
of the most fascinating people we know, the most recognizable people we know, responding
01:29:37.480
to what is happening in America this September in real time. It'll be just like the podcast,
01:29:43.740
but it's going to be live. So we're excited to announce our friend Larry Elder is coming
01:29:48.460
to join us in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Our friend John Rich will be there with us in Sunrise,
01:29:53.160
Florida. We're adding more stops. We just added another stadium show in Redding, Pennsylvania.
01:29:57.480
We'll be joined on stage by Alex Jones. They tell you what Alex Jones is like. Have you seen
01:30:02.060
him in person? You should make up your own mind. It's going to be fun as hell and interesting
01:30:07.360
and intense. And we hope you will join us. Go to tuckercarlson.com right now to get your
01:30:27.640
After Trump got shot, I realized I liked him more. Yep. And my views about him became less
01:30:33.800
complex. I agree. Did you have the same sense? Like, like, in other words, like I always try
01:30:39.040
and maintain some objective distance. Like, this is, I don't like about this guy. I wish he would
01:30:42.680
do this differently. I wish he didn't do that. I wish he hired better people, whatever, whatever
01:30:45.600
criticism you want to level against him. And, and by the way, you should, as you're right as an
01:30:49.720
American to do that because the end goal should be to make him better. And Trump is the rare
01:30:53.640
politician who actually does listen to people no matter their station in life, no matter where they
01:30:57.300
come from. He's actually interested in what you think. So that's a good sign. He'll, he'll actually
01:31:01.020
change, uh, when given advice, but my views about him became less complex after that. I was like,
01:31:08.080
I really liked this guy legitimately. I agree. Because what he displayed was unusual and aspirational.
01:31:17.800
Did you feel like that? I felt that way really strongly. I, I hate complaining. I don't think men
01:31:23.460
should complain. I really mean that. Um, it's one of my core beliefs. It's how I was raised and I
01:31:27.780
will never shake that belief, that conviction that, you know, stop complaining. Like, what did
01:31:33.700
you think this was? And I will never not admire physical courage. I, I just admire that. And, um,
01:31:41.280
I want to have it myself. I don't know if I do. I haven't been tested very often in my life, but I
01:31:45.760
would like to think that if I was ever shot in the way that Trump was, that I would behave as
01:31:51.420
manfully as he did. I don't know that I would. Um, you, you can't know, but he did, he was tested
01:31:59.000
in a way that was very meaningful to me, leaving aside the politics, but like all of a sudden you're
01:32:03.860
talking and bang, you get hit with something. It's clearly a bullet. You don't know if you're dead
01:32:09.560
or not. Yes. And, and then you stand up and yeah, I just, that that's the acid test for me because
01:32:18.100
it really matters what you're like as a person. It matters to me. I'm not a Democrat. I don't
01:32:23.220
care about your stupid party. And it's the point of the exercise is not to huddle together for
01:32:28.800
increased power because I don't feel powerless as a person. Right. I have a family. I don't need a
01:32:34.720
party to make me feel whole unlike liberals. And, um, so what really matters to me is what you're like.
01:32:41.540
And do you have virtue and you know, Trump is a mixed bag on that question, but part of virtue is
01:32:49.120
bravery. It's a big part of virtue. Actually, it turns out much bigger than I understood as a
01:32:53.940
younger man. And he's brave, like actually brave, not fake brave. Oh, he's so brave. Oh,
01:33:00.180
they're so courageous. Kamala is so courageous. She's a coward. She's terrified. She's clearly
01:33:05.440
terrified. Yeah. And he's not. And that like, okay, I'm voting for the guy who's brave over
01:33:11.960
the coward. Yeah. And, and on Trump being a mixed bag in terms of like virtue and things,
01:33:16.560
I always remember. Let me just say, I'm a mixed bag on virtue. We all are. Right. So I thought,
01:33:21.600
okay. In fact, that's a Christian admission and, and. Well, it's a true admission. Here's the thing.
01:33:25.820
I, uh, I always think about, um, my dad who you, you mentioned is a Marine Corps officer. And at one
01:33:31.480
point he worked very closely as you do with the chaplain in his unit, a guy, great American who
01:33:37.380
has the same name twice. His name is Alan Allen, chaplain, Alan Allen. And, uh, he's a great human
01:33:42.780
being. And my dad was once complaining to him about, you know, various chaplains in the military and
01:33:48.320
how some of them are not so impressive and he wishes they were better and more Christian and
01:33:52.000
more and more virtue and that kind of thing. And, uh, he said, uh, he said, Vinny, I think they were
01:33:58.420
the same rank. He said, uh, Vinny, remember Jesus chose 12 centers to follow him.
01:34:04.840
12 centers. And he was right about that. And I always keep that in mind. It's like, before I
01:34:10.760
like start judging other people for their moral feelings, like, like the people who were tasked
01:34:16.360
with advancing the greatest message humanity's ever known were failed, were, were, had immense
01:34:25.400
Yes. And, uh, Peter was a coward. Yeah. I mean, it's just denied Jesus three times as predicted
01:34:30.720
because he was too afraid. Yeah. I agree completely. The most important apostle.
01:34:36.720
So they choose, they just, you know, God chooses unusual vehicles.
01:34:39.420
I think, I think that's right. And I, I just, in a, in a time where, you know, reality itself is
01:34:46.960
hard to identify or even define, you know, in a digital world, in an AI world,
01:34:55.400
it's hard to know what is real. Everyone is struggling with this. One thing that is absolutely
01:34:59.860
real is that when you're shot in the face unexpectedly.
01:35:04.060
Um, we can see something deep about who you are. And we saw Trump live on camera. We saw something
01:35:11.500
about him that was just remarkable, was absolutely remarkable.
01:35:14.580
It was animal. It was like in a good way. It was, it was just like, he just, it was great. It was
01:35:19.740
And I must say, I talked to him that night and, um, the night he was shot that Saturday
01:35:24.060
night, maybe, I think. And, uh, I was in Maine, but I talked to him and he didn't, I mean,
01:35:29.980
he didn't mention anything about himself. That's just a fact. I mean, look, I'm not flacking for
01:35:35.380
Trump, but this is just a fact. It was like, did you see the crowd? They were so brave.
01:35:41.980
They didn't run. That's the first thing he said. I was like, wow.
01:35:46.680
Yeah. They also, they also saved his life because the people who were outside the perimeter who
01:35:52.120
began shouting up about Thomas Crooks being on the roof, the Trump supporters, they were the only
01:35:57.020
ones who were raising the loud alarm about what was happening. And they were the predicate to that
01:36:01.440
cop getting his head over the roof and scaring Thomas Crooks into taking action at that moment.
01:36:07.160
Well, it's so perfect though. It's like only the Trump voters are willing to notice the obvious.
01:36:11.200
Yes. They haven't been trained to deny what their senses perceive.
01:36:14.560
No. In fact, their senses are elevated to the peril. And they can, they can smell it. And so it's not
01:36:25.620
just some looky-loo who's up on the roof, just trying to see what's going on on the stage.
01:36:30.180
They're worried about Trump's safety and they're yelling out, he's on the roof. He's on the roof
01:36:34.780
officer. They're screaming. They saved Trump's life. Every element of that. I know we keep returning
01:36:40.560
to this, but it's such an amazing moment in history.
01:36:43.260
Every element of it conspired to save him. Every element of it. From the people shouting,
01:36:49.380
the cop getting his head above the roof, the frenzied rush to take the shot by Thomas Crooks
01:36:54.260
as a result, Trump's head turned towards a chart, saying moments before, take me off teleprompter,
01:36:59.640
I don't even care, I'm going to do the chart. And just all of those things, they conspired in a way
01:37:04.900
that can only be divine. That can only be the product of divine intervention. And, and I saw
01:37:11.140
that and it's one, so I had simpler views about Trump after that. And I had more grateful views
01:37:16.680
I agree with both those things. And his, I, you know, I would, I talk about myself way too much
01:37:22.880
as it is, but I try not to, because I think it's such an unattractive, the most unattractive quality
01:37:27.680
in a man. But I think if I was shot, like he was shot, I'd be like talking about myself. Like,
01:37:34.540
oh, I can't believe I got shot. And Trump, who's like famously, everyone's like, Trump's such a
01:37:39.320
narcissist. He didn't, well, at least when I talked to him, he didn't mention himself. It was only about
01:37:45.260
And there's no one else listening to this conversation. Well, other than obviously NSA's
01:37:50.320
Besides criminals. But anyway, but he's not doing it for an audience. Just me. No expectation. I'll repeat
01:37:57.240
it. You know what I mean? And he didn't mention himself. It's only about the other people. And I
01:38:01.160
thought, man, I just thought it was so revealing. It was, it was in a way that's not fakeable.
01:38:08.120
Yeah. It's cool. And then you talked about that at the convention.
01:38:11.760
Which was cool. Yeah. I believe those were the, that was the substance of your remarks talking about
01:38:15.280
what he was like. Oh, like, I guess I ad lib that speech. So I actually have no memory.
01:38:22.060
You don't have any memory. I was, so, so I guess it renders moot the following question. I, I wonder,
01:38:26.220
is there any point, do you ever give a speech where you feel the gravity of it? Or are you at
01:38:29.620
the point where you're so used to giving speeches that even speaking on the Republican convention
01:38:35.100
stage with every network in the United States concentrated on your remarks? None of that?
01:38:39.560
Oh, I felt the gravity of it. Well, in the sense that they told me to, to write a speech. I mean,
01:38:44.500
I'm a writer. I can, I've certainly written a lot. Um, but I don't write with speeches. The one
01:38:49.320
thing I just don't write speeches. I never have one time in my life, but I felt like, well,
01:38:54.020
I want to be the obedient little bitch or whatever. I want to do what I'm told, I guess.
01:38:59.080
I don't know. I knew you weren't going to write it. I knew it. I actually, I knew it. In fact,
01:39:03.060
I told, as soon as I heard that you were given a dress, I said, he's not going to write it.
01:39:06.160
He's just going to do it. Well, I, I made a good faith effort and I, um, there was no sauna at my
01:39:11.880
hotel. So I said, I can't write obviously without my sauna, but I did actually spend like eight hours
01:39:17.520
fretting about it and trying to write it on my iPhone. And then I was like, I can't write a speech
01:39:22.620
for myself. I could write a speech for someone else, but I got to say, whatever, I'm not going
01:39:27.540
to. So I didn't, I guess, I know you, I know you're a good writer, obviously like your career,
01:39:31.320
whole career has been writing. Even when you were on television, it would, I would laugh at people
01:39:34.320
and be like, I wish Chuck would get back to writing. I'm like, I don't think you're familiar with what
01:39:37.540
he's doing on a daily basis, literally writing all the time. I just knew that you wouldn't do it
01:39:42.540
because it's just, I don't know, maybe it's your ego. Like you're going to give this speech off
01:39:47.120
teleprompter and you're just going to say what's on your mind. And I knew kind of reflexively,
01:39:50.560
there's no, this is the one venue. It's just, honestly, I kind of thought like,
01:39:56.640
you're just like, no, screw you. I'm not doing a speech. I'm not writing a speech.
01:39:59.780
Well, ultimately I said that in a much more polite way to the, to the, all the staff at the, you know,
01:40:06.080
the really nice people who are, you know, doing the run through and whatever. And I was like,
01:40:10.800
I just can't do this. No, I don't like to write speeches because then you don't learn anything.
01:40:15.400
There's something about speaking in conversation or, I don't, I really believe that words have,
01:40:24.580
you know, elucidated words, spoken words have, have like spiritual power. In the beginning was
01:40:31.900
the word and the word was with God and the word was God. Like, what does that even mean? I'm not
01:40:35.240
sure what it means. I mean, the word I guess is Jesus, but that's beginning of John. But there's
01:40:40.280
something about we tell the truth. We don't just know the truth or believe the truth. We tell the truth.
01:40:45.040
There's something about using the one thing that we have that the rest of the animal kingdom
01:40:50.140
doesn't have, which is the power of speech that makes things real and that gives them
01:40:55.400
power. Anyway, I find that when I talk, or I think everyone finds this, if you think about
01:41:00.920
it, that saying something out loud allows you to understand things like you learn. In other
01:41:07.860
words, we think of language as something that we use to inform or educate others. I'm going
01:41:13.200
to tell you something. I do it for a living. Here are my views. But what we miss is that
01:41:18.380
we're being educated too. Like we're learning. The speaker is learning as he speaks.
01:41:25.180
Words have immense power, for sure. Words are so, for the reasons you just like that.
01:41:29.540
But they change the speaker, not just the listener.
01:41:31.580
And they, yeah. And especially like, you know, when you repeat something over and over,
01:41:36.560
it establishes a groove in your mind so that you kind of can draw upon it.
01:41:40.440
To use it again. So speaking is very helpful in that way. You know, repetition is a good
01:41:45.500
way to learn anything. But if you're deprived of the tools, it's disorienting. And it leads
01:41:52.060
Meaning, like the left's current program, which has been a program for a while that many
01:42:02.720
Shut up racist is a perfect example. To change language in such a way that you can't even think
01:42:07.340
clearly about what's going on. That reality is so distorted by your lack of vocabulary
01:42:12.140
that, or by your distorted vocabulary, that you're incapable of resolving the problem.
01:42:18.760
You can smell that there's a problem, but you don't actually know how to navigate out of it.
01:42:22.140
This is like gender affirming care is a perfect example of that. Gender affirming. First of all,
01:42:27.340
it's already a lie because it's establishing that your body is a mistake and that what is correct
01:42:35.360
is for you to mutilate it. Like, it's like, what?
01:42:39.000
We're just affirming something that preexisted in this decision.
01:42:41.960
And you scare people into compliance and then they begin to lose the vocabulary necessary to
01:42:49.880
Yes, totally. And he was the best at writing about it. And that's why it matters so much,
01:42:59.560
And the ability to speak to an audience and then to, first of all, learn for yourself,
01:43:05.040
but also to detect what they're actually picking up.
01:43:08.440
Is a skill that you have for sure. And it's made you successful. It's a skill that Kamala Harris
01:43:14.060
does not have. It's that, that's the skill she doesn't have. She doesn't have that skill. She
01:43:18.180
can't do it. She can't talk to an audience and see that they're receiving her. She doesn't know
01:43:22.240
what they're receiving. She can't read their body language. She doesn't know like how to change
01:43:26.980
her tone. Have you ever noticed she tells these jokes, nobody laughs, and then she cackles to
01:43:30.460
It's because she isn't able to connect on a human level because she's not all that interested in
01:43:35.640
what they're saying through their expressions, through their reactions.
01:43:38.480
Well, she's certainly missing out on one of life's greatest and richest experiences, which is to
01:43:45.700
I mean, that's kind of the only reason to be alive, really. And it's like the most beautiful,
01:43:51.960
great, fun thing ever. And speaking in public is the easiest thing you could ever do. You
01:43:58.820
just can't worry about it. And as long as you don't worry about it, like everyone would
01:44:02.120
be great at it actually, including Kamala Harris. And when I don't know her, I've never even
01:44:06.600
met her. I have relatives who know her actually. Um, you know, whenever they say she's kind of
01:44:14.440
But she's obviously terrified. She's obviously afraid. I look at her, I'm like, Ooh, you're
01:44:19.800
afraid. She's scared to death. She's scared to death. That's the first thing I register
01:44:25.020
That woman is afraid because she knows that she's fraudulent and-
01:44:32.080
No doubt. No one ever mentions that. Like she's, like Biden just had, you know, 50 years
01:44:38.520
of life in Washington, kind of the precedent of how things are done in a restrained republic
01:44:45.020
kind of seeped into him. She's coming from a different world. She's coming from California
01:44:49.720
which is post-political. It's a one-party state and she has no problem using force at
01:44:55.640
all. And, uh, and all the fascists around her are the same. So like, no, but, but I
01:45:00.020
just feel, I do feel sorry for Kamala Harris. Again, I don't know where I'm just making these
01:45:03.460
judgments on the basis of watching her, but I feel like this is someone who can't admit
01:45:08.120
who she really is, what she really thinks is, um, and is really, really afraid. And you
01:45:15.180
Yes. Which is why I loved Trump at the National Association for Black Journalists.
01:45:29.760
The weeks leading up to it put the Trump campaign on its heels because one, the narrative was
01:45:34.780
so disrupted by the fact that they just replaced Joe with Kamala.
01:45:37.720
And then the media went all in on selling her. It was like, she's so great. She's wonderful.
01:45:43.380
And then they adopted this line of attack that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are weird.
01:45:51.120
Okay. So they were like, weird. Now I love laughing that off because of how absurd the
01:45:59.540
The abortion worshipers are telling you J.D. Vance is weird.
01:46:01.780
Yeah. The men in dresses crew. Like, like, oh yeah, it's so weird. Uh, yeah. Okay. Okay.
01:46:09.080
But you have to, you have to be honest enough to admit it's an effective line of attack.
01:46:14.980
Insofar as it's the kind of thing that it's like the language of the teenage girl. It's
01:46:20.240
like, it doesn't require a deep assessment of what's going on. You use, you use weird.
01:46:25.400
It's a way to make somebody toxic in, uh, and it's, it's effective. It's an effective
01:46:30.720
weapon. So there's going to be a category of voter that definitely cares a lot about the policies,
01:46:36.300
and specifically the ways in which they affect them and their, their bottom line. But there
01:46:40.660
are also broad categories of voters who really do kind of ride the vibes of an election. Who
01:46:44.580
is this person? And, and I don't mean vote switchers. I mean, whether or not they'll show
01:46:47.980
up to the polls at all, you know? And so, okay, weird's one line of attack. What's the
01:46:52.820
line of attack on Kamala? She's a phony. She's fraudulent. She's a fake. Now, if Trump gets
01:46:59.460
up on a stage and he goes, Kamala Harris is a phony. Does CNN cover that? Does the New York
01:47:05.600
Times put it on A1? Does, you know, Washington Post, any of these news outlets? No. But
01:47:10.720
if Trump goes on stage, he goes, she's black. It's like five minutes ago, she was Indian.
01:47:15.440
Now she's black. I don't know. I love them both, but somebody has got to answer that
01:47:19.000
question. Everyone went crazy and, and it was, it was perfect. And the reason it was
01:47:25.220
perfect was because it forced all of the places that hate Trump to carry his remarks. And
01:47:30.960
it fed an underlying, the subtext of that entire exchange is, Kamala Harris is a phony. And
01:47:36.640
it implants it right into the lifeblood of the, of the United States. Like people get
01:47:39.940
to see it no matter where you can see it. I wish they'd done that with Obama. He, I mean,
01:47:43.620
he's half white, raised by white people. He's more white than he is black. Yeah.
01:47:49.020
Culturally. And he is exactly one half white. Sure.
01:47:52.740
So why did Republicans not say our half white president or half black president? Like, why do
01:47:57.520
they have to be like the first black president and just buy into the lie? It's a lie. And
01:48:02.160
they had, it gave him moral power because it, you know, made him, it gave him claim to the
01:48:09.640
civil rights movement, which is like the one sort of holy story in American history. Yeah.
01:48:15.500
Supposedly. Self-a-lie, but whatever. Everyone's been taught that. And he got to lay claim to that.
01:48:20.880
And, but no one also had the balls to puncture it. And just like Kamala, his family didn't come
01:48:25.120
from, wasn't in the United States. Oh, I'm aware. The whole thing was fraudulent,
01:48:27.500
but, but just as a factual matter, as a genetic matter, I'm not attacking anybody. Obviously,
01:48:32.920
I'm just saying like, he's half white. And, but no one, that was considered so outrageous. Yeah.
01:48:40.420
That'd be like white lives matter or all lives matter. Another demonstrably factually true phrase
01:48:46.940
that became a criminal offense, literally a criminal offense. Like the FBI investigated people for
01:48:50.780
saying white lives matter. Yeah. But, and nobody pushed back. But, and these categories don't
01:48:54.960
exist for any practical sort of descriptive reason. They only exist for political power because like,
01:48:59.920
you know, if you call Elon Musk an African-American, like people are like,
01:49:03.940
they, that's like a total violation. You're not allowed to say that despite the fact that he,
01:49:07.060
but I have, or if like, you know, George Carlin once cited this, like if you come from Egypt,
01:49:11.280
right. You're technically, you're an African-American. Are we allowed to say that? If you're an
01:49:15.060
Egyptian, are you called somebody an African? No, not in American political discourse.
01:49:18.060
But what does it mean allowed? Why not just tell the truth? Like, why are we such cowards? If you
01:49:22.520
allow lies to go unchallenged, they harden and then they become, you know, the, they become the
01:49:29.680
instruments of torture that you'll suffer under. That's a fact. Yeah. So like, why are we playing
01:49:35.240
along with this? We shouldn't. What cowards are we? Yeah. I never called Obama. I was on TV every day,
01:49:40.360
the Obama administration. I never said our half white press, he's half black, which is a fact. Like I
01:49:45.200
didn't have the balls to say that. What's wrong with me? Yeah. And like, you like how like people
01:49:49.900
get mad if, if Trump refers to him as Barack Hussein Obama, he'll say Barack Hussein Obama,
01:49:54.240
which is actually his middle name. Yeah. And you're like, you can't, you can't, how racist is
01:49:58.920
he for saying that? Why am I playing by your rules anyway? Because somebody was named Saddam Hussein.
01:50:03.380
Now I can't say Barack Hussein Obama. Like what is, it actually matters though. If you,
01:50:07.760
if you decide that you're going to lie because someone is make quote making you like, whose fault
01:50:15.920
is that? It's yours. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a lot of that going on, unfortunately. So I keep
01:50:20.880
interrupting you. What is going to be the theme of this convention? It starts today.
01:50:28.100
I mean, it's going to be, I mean, you'll, you'll see the chaos on the outside, but on the inside,
01:50:35.600
you're going to be served, um, an endless stream of lies about the current state of our country.
01:50:41.560
They'll tell you that the misery that exists within it is not actually happening, that people
01:50:45.800
are far happier, that, um, that things are fine. Also, you're going to get this weird.
01:50:51.680
So she's going to run as the incumbent basically.
01:50:53.300
They want everything. They want it both ways because they're going to lie to you about the
01:50:58.800
current state of affairs. And then they're going to tell you what her day one agenda is as if she
01:51:02.920
didn't have power to begin with. Right. So they're doing, and, and the Trump campaign has been great
01:51:07.540
on this. They said her day one was three and a half years ago. So let's stop pretending that it's
01:51:11.320
starting. So that's why, I mean, they could make her president. I mean, they could 25th amendment
01:51:15.480
Biden. I mean, they basically already have in effect, if not literally, but they could just make her
01:51:20.620
president. They probably by all rights should, because she does seem non-senile. Um, but they
01:51:27.840
won't because they don't want her to have to take responsibility for the current state of the
01:51:31.580
country. Is that, that's my guess. I don't know. Yeah. Or they're, or they're so wrapped up in the
01:51:37.800
idea that, oh, we shouldn't give it to her this way because we give it to her with the election is
01:51:41.080
more legitimate or something like they shouldn't, the woman shouldn't have to be made president by
01:51:45.580
virtue of the 25th amendment. The first woman president, they just, you know, we settled on her.
01:51:50.120
I don't know what their thinking is on that. Oh, are they doing the first woman thing?
01:51:53.540
They're doing the first everything. Really? Yeah, of course. Oh my goodness. They're
01:51:58.360
going to, that's going to be a big theme this week. First woman? The first woman president?
01:52:02.800
Yeah. Yeah. It's just crazy that like, since we've already established that there's no definition of
01:52:08.380
woman, like why should I care? Tell me why I should care. 100%. You don't, I mean, there's no such thing
01:52:13.940
as a woman. So like, why is it meaningful that we have one as president? Yeah. And there's no
01:52:18.040
difference between a woman and a man, none. They can be Navy SEALs. So like, what, what's the mean,
01:52:25.200
what's the significance of this? There is none anymore. I mean, they've erased, there's the,
01:52:29.840
the attacks on women that have been led by Biden and Harris are, I think, I think are unprecedented
01:52:35.340
actually in American history. I mean, if this is another area where it's like, Republicans really
01:52:39.540
should sink their teeth into this for every, in every possible way. So stupid. But title nine?
01:52:44.160
Yeah. The fact that the Biden administration came along and said that women are not a real category
01:52:49.280
and that men can be in their locker rooms and take their sports teams and beyond and all of those
01:52:54.480
things. Why isn't there like a nonstop campaign against that atrocity? There should be like, why do
01:53:04.200
we have women's sports then? What's the point of that? Why do we have any separate category for women
01:53:08.480
to participate and succeed and on an equal playing field? We shouldn't under that notion. And so the
01:53:14.980
Biden administration is leaning on all out assault on the very existence of women. Right. And then of
01:53:20.460
course, once the credit for the first woman president, should that occur? So it's incoherent,
01:53:26.200
obviously. It's totally incoherent. It's got all the markers of Marxism as it presents itself
01:53:30.040
throughout history. Which is just deceptive to its core. It doesn't, it's shape-shifting and there
01:53:35.500
are no fixed meanings to anything. It's just, I need to be empowered. You need to obey. And that,
01:53:39.280
that those are the only immutable rules. Yep. Yep. I mean, it is very much like my body,
01:53:44.060
my choice here, take the COVID vax or I'll kill you. Yes. Wait, what? I thought it was my body,
01:53:49.300
my choice. No. Only when you're killing your kids, not when you're, I'm forcing some.
01:53:54.620
Yeah. It's every single, I mean, it's like. I almost called it poison, but I would be censored
01:53:59.020
by YouTube if I did that. Well, so I just want to be clear. I'm not calling any substance that was
01:54:03.800
federally mandated poison. Okay. Good. Thank you for that. And so, I mean, it's like guns too.
01:54:09.200
They're the same way on guns that, you know, you don't, you don't need them, but we do. They'll
01:54:14.500
protect us. It's all, it's all. Is she going to get elected? Kamala Harris? Yeah. I think it's
01:54:22.580
a lot closer than I want it to be. There are 30 states that are, can we fill with drop boxes?
01:54:27.520
That seems like a problem. And, you know, there've been some positive advances like banning
01:54:34.380
Zuckerberg's in 27 states. You saw like states like Georgia and Texas have passed real voter
01:54:39.660
integrity laws that have increased the quality of their election system. But then there are states
01:54:43.880
like Pennsylvania where things are still a little too chaotic, where you have these drop boxes across
01:54:48.040
the country, Wisconsin, of course. These are pivotal states. But that, like no state that has drop boxes
01:54:55.620
can be considered legitimate. How can I, how can I believe an election result in a state with drop
01:55:02.320
boxes? Right. Yeah. If, if, no matter what party you're a part of, if the election doesn't go your
01:55:05.940
way and your state's full of drop boxes, your suspicions are going to be sky high. So how is that
01:55:11.060
stabilizing for a Republican? So I had a conversation this morning, actually, with someone, a well-known
01:55:17.740
very knowledgeable person from Republican politics who said, you know, there are all these states
01:55:22.960
with drop boxes and I'm really concerned about this. And I said, well, what don't, isn't there an
01:55:26.860
RNC that like exists to deal with this? And this person said, well, the problem is that these drop
01:55:34.380
boxes are disproportionately in what he called urban areas. And no one at the RNC wants to be seen as
01:55:40.820
criticizing the way things are done in urban areas. And I thought, well, why is the RNC hiring
01:55:47.440
guilty white liberals? If, if you're a guilty white liberal, I'm not attacking you, you know,
01:55:52.880
I don't want to live near you or, or meet you, uh, obviously, but there's a political party for you.
01:55:58.500
Yeah. Like what are they doing at the RNC? Yeah. It's a good question. It is a good question.
01:56:04.160
I mean, it is completely critical that we get ahold of that. I mean, like, you know, you've got,
01:56:09.860
was it Michael Watley and Laura Trump are now running the RNC. They established this renewed
01:56:15.100
emphasis on voter integrity. Um, and all these, I think they've got all sorts of legal challenges
01:56:20.700
they've mounted across the country that's headed in the right direction. But if you are opting out
01:56:24.620
of dealing with election integrity in critical areas, because you're afraid you'll be seen as
01:56:28.460
racist for trying to protect the votes of the people who live there, you've lost the plot.
01:56:32.420
You've lost the plot because it turns out voter integrity laws. If we're talking about black voters
01:56:36.540
specifically are disproportionately beneficial to black voters. But what happened in Georgia
01:56:42.320
after they changed their election laws to make it so that you can no longer just do signature
01:56:47.980
matching on a, uh, a mail-in ballot, they said, you got to send in your, your driver's license
01:56:52.760
number with the ballot. Well, yeah. When they did that, black voter participation went up and fewer
01:56:58.720
black votes were rejected. Yeah. It's obvious. And it's, it's been, it's always obvious. In fact,
01:57:04.080
signature matching was working to the detriment of authentic black voters. They were having their
01:57:07.520
ballots thrown out because it turns out sometimes your signature doesn't match what you signed when you
01:57:11.020
were 18 years old. Like when you get older and you signed like some, and you get some idiot who's
01:57:14.740
looking at, not a handwriting specialist, just some random, you know, bureaucrat looking at two
01:57:19.340
ballots and the signature and be like, mm, throwing that out. Throwing it, what?
01:57:23.200
I think that the period where there's going to be this intense emphasis on black voters
01:57:27.620
is coming to an end because of immigration and native born black voters will become less important
01:57:37.560
to election outcomes. Dramatically less important starting after this election. And so that means
01:57:43.400
black political power, as we've thought about it for the last 60 years will be in rapid, rapid
01:57:49.220
decline. And it's just interesting. It's, it sort of reminds me of organized labor. You know,
01:57:54.200
I'm not against unions. I'm not against black voters. I'm not, I'm, I'm for all American voters,
01:57:57.780
but they got sold out by their leadership. For sure. Yeah. Like so completely. And I'm not sure
01:58:03.200
people really understand that. Like, I just, I just don't think it's going to matter too much
01:58:08.140
actually, because the demographics of the country have changed so much, uh, in the last 10 years
01:58:14.880
that like, do people get this? I hope so. I, there is, there's like some shifting. It looks
01:58:21.100
like among black men, which has been good. Uh, the left is very angry about that. And the more angry
01:58:25.480
they get about it, the more likely they're, they are to try and take it out. But increasingly it's
01:58:29.080
just symbolic though. I mean, if you have 10 million illegal aliens or 30 million illegal aliens that
01:58:35.200
we don't even know the number, but it's tens of millions and they're all going to vote, you know,
01:58:39.600
sooner rather than later, probably, but definitely at some point, no one's going to be deported.
01:58:43.680
Then like the whole civil rights movement, that whole mythology, it becomes sort of meaningless
01:58:47.960
because the democratic party will have political power without black voters. Like no matter what they
01:58:51.440
do, it doesn't matter. Yeah. And they, the whole, and then the whole history of that party has been
01:58:54.880
hurting black, black people, black Americans. It's disgraceful all the way
01:58:58.860
from, you know, we, you mentioned at the outset of the conversation, like the KKK and Margaret
01:59:02.680
Sanger and the targeting, the so-called Negro project. I mean, it has been a relentless assault
01:59:07.700
actually on black Americans, uh, which is a disgrace. And, uh, I hope, I just hope more and
01:59:13.420
more people can wake up to it, but while they still have political power to the extent that they do,
01:59:17.220
and it's being sold out now as you speak. Uh, and so that's crazy. That's crazy. And I don't,
01:59:22.820
yeah, I don't have a ton of friends who are, uh, black Democrats. Um, I know a lot of, and love a
01:59:30.020
lot of, you know, right-wing black people, but I have one friend who's a black Democrat, really good
01:59:35.460
guy. But I made this point to him a few years ago. I was like, it's kind of over for the political
01:59:41.260
power that you've been talking about your whole life because of immigration. Yeah. And, um, he had
01:59:47.580
honestly not really thought about it. And, uh, well now you're seeing it in Chicago. Now I'm
01:59:52.120
bragging, but I think he agrees with me now because it's just, it's just numbers. It's a
01:59:54.840
numbers. How many, how many angry town hall meetings have you seen in Chicago over this
01:59:58.400
issue? Yeah. A lot, a lot. Black residents of Chicago, they're going confronting, but the
02:00:03.380
alderman right in Chicago, confronting them and saying, what the hell? Why? So wait a second.
02:00:08.220
So foreigners, illegal foreigners are pouring into the country. They're coming to Chicago.
02:00:12.520
They're taking all of the public resources and we're being left in the slums. And how
02:00:17.520
many times this is going to happen before you wake up to it? Like, like when the riots
02:00:21.280
were happening, the George Floyd riots were occurring and Chicago became one of the latest
02:00:24.980
cities to be ransacked. The lady who looked like Beetlejuice who ran the city, she deployed
02:00:30.740
the national guard to the extent that a mayor is supposed to do that anyway, but they were,
02:00:33.920
she was given resources. She sent it to, what do they, what do they call that? The, the,
02:00:37.440
the million mile or something. The, uh, the really nice area of Chicago where all of her
02:00:42.500
donors live, like the richest area of Chicago. Meanwhile, the South side left defenseless.
02:00:47.240
People were getting murdered in the streets, losing their lives, places being wrecked because
02:00:52.320
she refused to protect the most vulnerable because she had no interest.
02:00:56.640
I saw this during Katrina in New Orleans. The French quarter was fine. All the cops were
02:01:00.000
in the French quarter. Lower ninth, nobody. I saw it. Um, yeah, no, of course it does sort
02:01:06.240
of raise the question. I mean, this is the purpose of ginning up racial hostility, obviously,
02:01:10.980
is to make people vote against their own interests, their demonstrable interests,
02:01:15.980
because they so, they so despise or they're so afraid of the other party coming to power on racial
02:01:22.680
grounds. Yeah. That's, that's what is actually happening. Sorry. It's, it's totally crazy.
02:01:33.800
This week it's joy. It's joy. This is this weekend. That's, that's what they keep telling
02:01:38.520
everybody. What's, I could think of it being about a lot of different things. Um, but joy
02:01:43.400
is the most preposterous of all because she's so obviously joyous. She's kissing her husband
02:01:47.560
with a mask on. So this is the most joyless person I've seen lately. Well, this is, that's
02:01:54.720
consistent. The pitch is opposite of everything. But why that's like a deep, I've never really
02:01:59.240
figured it out. Like why should an effective lie is always like a few degrees off from center
02:02:05.340
from the truth. Right. Yeah. Isn't it? I mean, last week she was like, I'm for no tax on tips. Now
02:02:10.100
like she had the Trump policy. Yeah, I saw that now. Yeah. I'm for no tax on tips. She said,
02:02:15.640
okay, like what, where did that come from? Oh, I'm going to secure the border. What? Who are you?
02:02:20.280
Like, will you stop lying to us? But why not instead? Like, but that's not how normal people
02:02:26.240
lie. Normal people, like I catch you doing something wrong and you, you know, like it's
02:02:30.900
not as bad as it looks or, but you don't whip around and accuse me of doing the exact thing
02:02:36.560
that I caught you doing. Like, what is that? No, that you do in an abusive relationship.
02:02:42.500
Really? Yeah. In an abusive human relationship. I mean, this is kind of like the classic sort of
02:02:46.940
like cheating on your wife and trying to figure out a way to survive it. Yeah. You start blaming
02:02:51.940
her as the center. Right. So the, so this is the democratic party's relationship with Americans
02:02:57.800
is an abusive one. I saw that. I actually saw that once. I was actually, well, probably didn't
02:03:03.640
tell us. I was with somebody who I wasn't there for this, but he got caught cheating and I was like,
02:03:09.760
whoa, not a good person. And I said, what did you say? And he said, I screamed at her for spending
02:03:15.500
too much at Saks on our credit card. I was like, what? You get caught or she had evidence that he
02:03:22.600
was doing something wrong, which he was. Yeah. And you attack her. I thought that was the most
02:03:27.500
screwed up thing I'd ever seen, but that's a thing you're saying. Definitely. Which is why family
02:03:33.020
analogies are so perfect for all of this. It's like, like, what do you do? I know you've done
02:03:37.200
this for years, but like, what does it mean to run a healthy household? Like, do you lock your
02:03:41.940
doors at night? You know, how do you protect your family? You know, what does that look
02:03:45.600
like? What kind of example are you to your children? All of those things. The only things
02:03:49.420
that matter, you mean? Yeah. Yes. The Democrats are leading the most dysfunctional household
02:03:55.280
you've ever seen. Yeah. They're like abusing the children, attacking each other, all the sins
02:03:59.820
that they're committing, they're projecting onto all their other family members. Yes.
02:04:02.620
Yes. It's really degrading and, and total dysfunction. It's awful. And it's also why it's
02:04:09.020
godless. It's also why it's godless. Because you begin assuming this omnipotent power over
02:04:14.540
reality itself and begin telling everyone else that they're the problem and they're the sinners
02:04:18.800
and that they should respond to you. And it's, meanwhile, in the healthy household, what's
02:04:23.880
happening is there's a father who's demoing for his children what it looks like to have
02:04:31.280
And their children only know God through that lens. Yes.
02:04:34.340
They only can, that's, that's how you know. How do you, so we refer to God the father.
02:04:37.940
How do you even know how he functions as a father unless you have a human father as a
02:04:41.820
frame of reference? You don't. You don't understand what that looks like. If you have a dysfunctional
02:04:47.160
relationship with the men in your life, how are you ever going to get your head around
02:04:50.860
the idea that God the father is a loving father? You know what I mean? So like all of these
02:04:57.100
I do know, I've never thought of it before, but this is a, yes, I know, of course I know
02:05:01.620
It's why fathers are so important. Because like all of reality centers around what your impression
02:05:06.720
of what it means to have a good father is. That's, that's it. That's the whole ballgame.
02:05:11.620
So the left is leading the dysfunctional household where they're driving everybody to self-destruction
02:05:17.620
and it should be the obligation of normal people to counter that and to have a healthy household
02:05:25.240
That's so interesting. I, I have noticed the symptoms of what you're saying. And the main
02:05:32.760
one is the people they're attacking, you know, I don't have a PhD on America or whatever,
02:05:37.840
but I, you know, I know a lot of like rural Trump voters, for example, and they're not
02:05:43.360
only good people, they're actually like the best people I've ever met. And they're also
02:05:46.320
the most useful and skillful people I've ever met. Like the most, like actually the most,
02:05:51.060
they can do the most useful things. And the people attacking them, someone like Janet Yellen,
02:05:57.200
the treasury secretary, from my perspective, which is a simple perspective because I'm a simple man,
02:06:02.800
is like an utterly disgraced figure. Like utterly, like there's no one who has less credibility,
02:06:09.280
a shorter track record of real achievement. There's no one who's like more repulsive in every way
02:06:15.160
than Janet Yellen, to me anyway. And she's the one helping to like malign people with real skills.
02:06:24.280
It's like, that's not an accident. This whole system is set up for useless people to have power.
02:06:29.180
Whereas in a just society, they would have no power.
02:06:31.940
I know. Sometimes I wonder like at the lowest levels, like whether like the productive among us
02:06:38.580
are like, I don't know. It's, you know how like at the lowest levels of government,
02:06:42.800
other than the household, which of course we were just talking about, like the HOAs and the community
02:06:48.560
boards. Like they're all consistent of like, like the insecure busybodies. And like the productive
02:06:55.740
people who should be in those roles, the ones who have families and know how to mediate a dispute
02:07:01.220
between their children. Insecure busybodies. You know what I mean? Yes, I do. Like they're not
02:07:05.060
actually in charge of those organizations. No. And so, I don't know. This, this is the best system
02:07:10.620
ever devised in terms of a government, but there are clearly weaknesses. Like that's,
02:07:14.680
and that's one of them. The feeder system into the bigger aspects of government is a lot of
02:07:19.420
insecure busybodies. It's, and I, maybe that's probably always been that way. You know, I'm sure
02:07:26.460
the Roman Senate was filled with insecure busybodies, but it, it never, I guess what I think is new and
02:07:33.240
really obnoxious at best poisonous at worst is not just that like the, the least competent people
02:07:40.660
have the most power, but that they use that power to hurt the most competent people. That is just
02:07:45.800
crazy to me. It is. Like you would think like they would, at least for self-interest reasons,
02:07:50.460
they would say, well, you know, people actually know how to run a power grid or fly an airplane
02:07:55.120
or perform heart surgery. Like we shouldn't attack them on the basis of their skin color. Cause we
02:07:58.560
like need those people. We don't want to be Zimbabwe, but they seem to want to destroy all
02:08:02.980
those people. Do you feel like that's gotten worse? I mean, obviously it feels like-
02:08:07.280
Oh my gosh. Yes. Like the, you know, you asked me earlier about like the distance that the ruling
02:08:12.760
class has from the rest of America. You'd probably be better at answering that question. Like, I mean-
02:08:17.940
I don't know. I mean, I obviously, you know, I guess I'm part of the ruling class. I've been in it my
02:08:22.240
whole life and, and every, and I do think it gives me a better perspective on how lame they are.
02:08:27.680
There's no mystery for me. I know exactly who they are cause I know them, but, um, and I have
02:08:32.360
total contempt for them. Whoa. I'm trying to control it. Um, no, my conclusion, just based on
02:08:38.880
the evidence, again, it's hard to know intent, impossible really, but just on the basis of
02:08:42.340
outcomes is that the whole point of the program is not to uplift anyone. It's to hurt people,
02:08:48.680
specifically Christians above all, but also anyone who's productive, free thinking, you know,
02:08:55.920
the people you really need, like the guys who designed and run the power grid. Like those
02:08:59.800
are the people you need most. Yes. First responders, firemen, cops, EMTs, airline pilots. Like it's not
02:09:07.700
just like, Oh, we need more incompetent airline pilots. It's that we need the current group of
02:09:14.140
airline pilots to die because they have skills that we'll never have. I mean, I feel like this
02:09:21.380
whole system is based on hatred born of envy. That's, that's the way I read it. And you look
02:09:28.700
at, there are a couple of foreign countries, South Africa and Zimbabwe, particularly where
02:09:33.500
the whole point wasn't to like redistribute the land to the landless that didn't actually
02:09:37.800
happen. All the land went to the people with political power. The point was to crush the
02:09:43.000
farmers because the farmers were too productive. And that was offensive to the people in charge.
02:09:48.080
It's like, you go get that yield out of that land when you're tobacco or whatever you're
02:09:52.200
growing. They couldn't. So we have to crush and kill them. They killed them. A lot of them.
02:09:57.380
And so I feel like they're hurting people is the point that does feel it's, it's definitely
02:10:02.000
not about helping black people or helping trans community or helping immigrants. I probably
02:10:07.320
wouldn't be totally against it. If it was, I like helping people, but it's not, it's not
02:10:11.060
about your policies. Like all of that is enabling their destruction. The enabling is what's
02:10:16.220
happening. So like, you know, this whole, like the needle exchange programs, like the left has
02:10:19.520
been on this for years. Wait, you're going to help people continue to inject drugs into their
02:10:22.960
bodies. That's the, that's the plan. Like, uh, all of the marijuana initiatives, like you're
02:10:28.520
going to continue, you're going to dull people. That's the, the plan is to broadly dull the
02:10:31.640
American people. The trans stuff, you're going to tell people, yes, your body's a mistake.
02:10:35.980
The only intervention is my big corporate donor getting rich off of your misery for the rest
02:10:40.280
of your life. Like that's again, to go back to the family analogy in a family, you would intervene
02:10:46.900
in a real, in a healthy family, in a dysfunctional family, you would enable. And that's what they're
02:10:52.760
doing. They're enabling destruction. Yeah. See, I can't relate. I mean, I am, you know,
02:10:57.520
the oldest man in my family pretty much at this point. So I intervene all the time. Like that,
02:11:02.760
that's what you do. I've seen it. Yeah. I mean, I'm an intervener, like immediate intervener.
02:11:07.820
So, um, I think that's your duty. And I just kind of, I don't, I, you know, I love this country and
02:11:14.680
I love its cities. For example, I've lived in a number of them, but I have contempt for people
02:11:20.200
who allow like a needle exchange program to happen. Like, why doesn't someone go burn down
02:11:25.740
the needle exchange? Like, I'm serious and, and take the lumps, go to jail for it. But we're not
02:11:29.600
going to give people intravenous drugs in my neighborhood, period. I'm not going to put up with
02:11:33.800
that period. Yeah. And if you punish me for getting in the way, I will accept that punishment.
02:11:38.440
But I'm not going to allow it. I don't know why people allow that. I really don't. I'm
02:11:42.700
probably saying too much, but I'm not encouraging violence. I'm encouraging zero tolerance for
02:11:47.660
killing people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, but the, you know, meanwhile, the Biden administration,
02:11:51.860
like sending out needle kits, like they're like, they're a part of this. And, but, and it's
02:11:57.100
just, I don't know if you'll accept that. What, what won't you accept? Yeah. I mean, I was in
02:12:03.040
Australia this year and they put people in camps and concentration, like actual,
02:12:07.560
and if you bring that up, you know, that you put people in concentration camps for COVID. Well,
02:12:12.160
they're not really concentration camps. Really? I remember. What were they? I remember the colored
02:12:16.140
tape that they had on the floor. Yeah. If you stepped across it, you would be arrested.
02:12:20.580
Yeah. And they did. They arrested people. Yeah. People put up with it. You're going to get to a
02:12:24.280
place like Canada where they're just like, well, getting to the exact same place that Germany got to
02:12:30.120
in 1933, where if you're useless, we're going to kill you, which they did. They killed hundreds of
02:12:34.060
thousands of Germans, Christian Germans, because they had disabilities or they were useless and
02:12:39.160
they murdered them in hospitals, children. And they're doing that in Canada now with the MAID
02:12:43.280
program and just killing people. Well, it's just cheaper for us to kill you. And everyone's putting
02:12:49.500
up with it. It's just like, you can't put up with certain things. And they'll punish the useful.
02:12:53.780
So they'll kill the useless and punish the useful. So the truckers in Canada get their lives
02:12:59.580
destroyed by merely exercising what is their God-given right, which is to protest, which is
02:13:05.160
to object in the democratic system in which they thought they lived and then have their lives
02:13:10.040
destroyed. And because they didn't have any power to stop it. And that was, I mean, Antifa burns down
02:13:14.600
cities. Canadian truckers set up hot tubs in the streets and protest the government.
02:13:19.580
Yeah. It just seems like there's no kind of way out other than saying, you know, I'm willing to
02:13:28.360
be punished for trying to stop the killing of other people. And that's what I don't like about
02:13:35.820
the party system. It obscures what's at stake. It's like, well, I want my guy to get elected or my
02:13:40.280
party to thrive. It's like, none of that really matters. You cannot allow some NGO to abet intravenous
02:13:47.580
drug use. Like, let's just start there. Or fund the NGOs to the tune of billions of dollars to
02:13:53.100
traffic every foreign national across our border they can get their hands on.
02:13:56.500
Yeah. Well, I never understood why the totally useless governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, didn't just
02:14:02.560
put the national guard on the border. I've said that to his face. I ran into him at an event. I was like,
02:14:06.880
why don't you do that? It's really complicated. It's not complicated. If there's a home invasion
02:14:11.220
in my house, I'm going to get my firearm and stop it if I can. Yeah. And then I'll deal with the
02:14:16.720
concerns because it's my family. So my priority is pretty simple. Protect my family. And then,
02:14:21.940
you know, if the laws are broken, I'll take my lumps. Do you think mass deportation is possible?
02:14:26.780
Of course not. Of course it's not possible. So the majority of the public supports it.
02:14:30.940
Yep. Right now. They don't have the stomach for the images of it, obviously. So the second,
02:14:37.320
you know, the media can find one sob story, they'll accelerate it quickly to hurt Trump and to
02:14:44.080
justify allowing the chaos to continue. And I do think there's a middle ground. I don't think you
02:14:50.060
have to do mass deportations. I think if, if, uh, if Washington was responsible enough, which of
02:14:55.300
course we know the answer, they're not, but if they were responsible enough, they could just create
02:14:59.140
the conditions whereby people wouldn't be able to live here and, and take from us. So
02:15:05.180
past nation, why do you verify? Like literally force businesses to have to hire workers who are allowed
02:15:10.520
to work for them. But we're so far past that because that presupposes that, you know, the
02:15:16.180
immigrants are, all they're getting is access to our labor markets, right? Either if I would stop
02:15:22.380
people from working without papers, without the legal right to work. But we're bringing in tens of
02:15:30.280
millions of people and giving them flat out subsidies that are much higher than American citizens are
02:15:36.420
receiving. Sure. Yeah. So we're paying them to come here. We paid for their travel up here
02:15:41.640
indirectly. State department's doing it. UN's doing it at scale. And then once they get here, it's just
02:15:47.360
like, it's a pinata party with U S tax dollars, a bankrupt country is paying people to invade it.
02:15:54.560
So at that point, it's like, what are we really looking at? Well, you're looking at suicide. Like
02:15:58.240
you're looking at a country that's trying to destroy itself or whose leaders are trying to destroy it.
02:16:02.520
And then that's when you reach like the point where like, I just have to say more prayers about
02:16:06.500
this. I don't know. I know, but you have to, so, but if you had like a real administration that
02:16:11.000
could come in who had the will to do it, you cut off all of that. You don't need someone who could
02:16:15.380
explain it, you know, words matter. Someone who could just get up and say, not against immigrants,
02:16:19.960
but this is obviously suicide and we're not going to participate. Is J.D. Vance a good explainer?
02:16:23.740
I think he's great and he's sincere. You know, I'm certainly politics is not good for people.
02:16:31.620
So, you know, I have seen people change. I pray that he doesn't, but I, as someone who knows him
02:16:36.320
pretty well, I think, um, as of right now, I think he's a, he's the opposite of weird. He is. And I
02:16:44.000
think they're all weird. I'm not even going to say all the people I know are actually really weird
02:16:47.600
in Republican politics. It's definitely most of them. Some of them are obvious, Lindsey Graham or
02:16:51.920
whatever. Everyone jokes about it, but, but there, there's so many freaks, like just truly
02:16:57.340
deceptive people because the business draws them like a bug light. He's not at all that way. So.
02:17:04.620
You're not excluding Democrats from that assessment. You're just saying, you know,
02:17:07.240
you happen to know that a lot of Republicans are weird.
02:17:09.060
Well, anyone in the, at this point in the training party is like, you're a freak.
02:17:13.960
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's, that's a female admiral. Like if you're saying that, what? No, I mean,
02:17:19.060
in the Republican party, which should be the party of normal people, it represents normal
02:17:22.260
people. Sure. Yeah. You know, tries to, pretends to. So, um, no, JD Vance is like the most normal
02:17:27.940
person. Oh, you see, you really think that's, I was, I mean, I, I have wondered, like, you know,
02:17:32.140
a lot of these guys is JD Vance, like sort of, he's at the top of the normal people list for now.
02:17:36.540
I think he is. Um, are there a couple who are really normal? I, in my opinion, this is just my
02:17:42.700
opinion, whatever one man's opinion, but, um, Senator Schmidt from Missouri is wonderful man.
02:17:48.160
I like like an actual good person. I know that for a fact. Um, so, you know, I'm sure there are
02:17:55.740
others. Yeah. I like Tommy Tuberville. Yeah. I don't, so I don't know him, but I don't, I just
02:18:00.200
have talked to him a lot. I thought he was a hero for the abortion fight. Yeah. Yeah. I completely
02:18:03.760
agree. No, I look, I'm generalizing. I'm just disappointed in the party, but there are certainly
02:18:07.620
a ton of freaks. JD is not, he's like a normal person. Yeah. And, um, and he's really, he's
02:18:13.000
legit smart. Uh, so yeah, he could definitely make the case. And what purpose does he serve?
02:18:17.960
Is it just to explain or what purpose does he serve working with Trump? Do you think?
02:18:22.780
Well, again, these are just, I mean, my opinions, I don't really know the answer. How'd this turn
02:18:26.760
into an interview of me? I just want to know. I genuinely want to know because I know you're
02:18:30.720
a fan of JD. I am. Yeah. And I want to know why. Yeah. I've known him since long before he
02:18:35.060
got into politics. So, uh, so I have, you know, a sense of him as a person, I think, because
02:18:39.840
politics does, you know, it's a very weird business as you well know, since unlike me,
02:18:44.840
you still live in Washington. But, um, uh, from my perspective, I mean, I can't speak
02:18:49.720
to why Trump chose him and it was Trump who chose him, you know, facing enormous pressure
02:18:56.000
from sleazy anti-American Republican donors who have all kinds of agendas, none of which
02:19:03.380
have anything to do with life in the United States. Trust me, really, really unbelievable
02:19:08.400
people, but, uh, in a bad way, but he faced them all down and chose this guy cause he wanted
02:19:14.680
to. So from my perspective, the message that JD Vance's pick sent was there is more to the
02:19:20.600
Trump phenomenon than just the man. There's a set of ideas or at least impulses. I don't
02:19:25.100
know, ideas, but just the basic, the basic concept is a leader of a country should look
02:19:30.120
out for his own country. It's like not hard. And by picking JD Vance, who clearly believes
02:19:36.440
that, um, Trump is setting up a, a, a legacy, a really meaningful legacy. Like this is the
02:19:44.400
direction of the party because people can't wait for Trump to leave in the Republican
02:19:47.880
party and just go back to being completely bought and paid for arm of the lobbying community
02:19:55.200
in Washington, whether it's pharma, the banks are certainly the power brokers of the party
02:20:00.500
are excited. Certainly the weapons manufacturers, the defense industry, the killing people business,
02:20:06.340
that goes on, that's made it such a rich city. Um, those people can't wait for Trump to leave
02:20:11.460
and just put in some stooge, which is most of them and call it Trumpism or whatever, but it's
02:20:17.740
the opposite. And JD Vance is like tangible sign that Trump understands that there's more to this
02:20:25.900
than just him. This is a really important idea. It's a very common sense idea. It's the most
02:20:30.600
common sense idea. You can't have a democracy if the people who run the country aren't acting on the
02:20:35.360
country's behalf by definition. And it also seems like he has the most perspective out of everybody
02:20:39.480
in Washington, meaning he's lived in every category of American life. Yes. And so as a result, if you
02:20:47.760
have that much stored wisdom, you should put it to good use. I totally agree. And you hate to reduce
02:20:54.160
people to their biography. And we do that too much in my view, but biography does matter. Like how you
02:21:00.860
grew up, Matt, the fact that, you know, you're the son of a Marine officer and grew up all around the
02:21:05.060
country, like literally all around the country on bases like that, knowing you for a long time, that
02:21:09.420
very much affects your worldview. That's my perception. So it does matter. And the best thing
02:21:15.160
about JD biographically, in my opinion, is the fact that he grew up in, you know, one of these kind
02:21:20.760
of sad communities, post-industrial communities in Ohio, Southern Ohio, Appalachia, and
02:21:26.940
joins the Marine Corps, enlisted. He's smart. He winds up at Yale Law School, which really is like
02:21:33.700
the center of the credential factory in American life. Yeah. And forget Ohio, there's not a lot of
02:21:39.300
Marines going to Yale. Yeah. Yeah. Not enlisted. No, he's like literally enlisted, enlisted Marine.
02:21:46.080
Yeah. Yeah. Like my father, you know, and the guys who tell you to be careful of when they've been
02:21:51.040
drinking, you know, like, and he went to be a law school and then he immediately, cause it's, it's a short
02:21:56.760
step from Yale Law School to private equity in the Aspen Institute. Yeah. And then Trump is starting
02:22:02.340
to rise and people are like, oh, here's our white Appalachian guy, except we've already molded his
02:22:08.760
brain. So why don't you come to the Aspen Institute and tell us all David Brooks and all the douchebag
02:22:13.880
community, what it's like to be a product of this sad, you know, opioid addicted world that you're from.
02:22:20.480
And he does, he dutifully does like, why wouldn't he? And he does this for a couple of years and he
02:22:25.700
realizes through a lot of contact with these people that they're disgusting and he winds up
02:22:31.420
hating them, which is very much sort of my personal story. Yeah. Yeah. Like my contempt is born of like
02:22:39.180
knowledge and contact. Like I'm not, this is not theoretical for me. Like I dislike people because
02:22:43.340
I know them and I know how completely they have abandoned their duty to the country. And I have
02:22:50.460
contempt for them for that. And JD had had exactly the same experience. And he's like, I know exactly who
02:22:55.560
you are. I know everything you have to offer. Yeah. And I'm not interested. He's got the right
02:23:00.180
perspective. And boy, they hate him for that. It's so good. And he's got, and unlike them,
02:23:04.340
he doesn't have contempt for the people that he grew up with. He doesn't have contempt for the
02:23:08.440
voters. No. And, and that's the critical element. And JD, I will say is a lot like Dr. Ben Carson in
02:23:13.760
this way, because Ben Carson kind of had that, that trajectory. Yeah. And once, so JD, as you pointed
02:23:20.720
out, was the muse to middle America, he was the muse to the unwashed American masses. Exactly.
02:23:25.280
The left loved him when he was merely an author and they could pretend like they cared about those
02:23:29.860
people. Right. That was the only reason they loved him. And then the second he announces that he's
02:23:33.600
interested in Republican politics, now he's, now he's evil. Now we're going to make up stories about
02:23:37.800
him. The same with Ben Carson. It's, it happens, it just happens over and over and over again.
02:23:42.340
Totally right. And the fact that he criticized Trump and Trump is a fascist and da, da, da, da,
02:23:48.340
and basically saying the same things that, you know, David Brooks says every week or
02:23:52.540
Tom Friedman or any of those other morons in the New York times editorial page.
02:23:57.240
And then he like realizes that now actually there's like more to Trump than that. And he,
02:24:01.420
and then he ends up liking Trump and it's like pretty sincere. I think, I mean, I know it is
02:24:05.040
cause I've seen it and they're like, wait, you can't, you can't work for Trump. You once disliked
02:24:10.240
Trump. You said the same things about Trump that we say every day. Therefore it's like,
02:24:13.160
what do you even say? As we're speaking, Kamala Harris is disavowing every position she's ever
02:24:17.560
held. And the idea that you'd be critical, be like, Oh, you didn't like Trump once?
02:24:22.540
Well, I kind of like, I don't kind of, I very much like people who change their views on things.
02:24:27.440
Sincerely change your views. Don't just tailor their views to whatever's expedient,
02:24:30.540
but who actually have had, we used to call it growth. Remember that? When people grew,
02:24:34.960
they like sorted through the evidence and realized they were wrong. I mean, I've had that experience
02:24:40.980
so many times. I know, I'm sure you have also. For sure. I like that. Yeah. I like that. Tell me,
02:24:46.520
that's why I like AA meetings. Tell me how wrong you were. Like admit it, admit how powerless and
02:24:51.980
flawed you are. And now I'll trust you. Yes. I don't trust you if you pretend to be God because
02:24:56.800
you're not. Yeah, exactly right. Right. Yeah. You just take, take everything apart and just stare
02:25:01.700
out on the floor and see what, see what fits together again. But those are honest people. Yeah.
02:25:05.960
And the dishonest ones, which is most people in authority are like, Oh, I've always thought that,
02:25:11.140
you know, whatever. Men can become women or whatever. Trans visibility day has been important
02:25:16.100
to me since 1972. Like what? Yeah. Yeah. Or they pretend, they just pretend like they ever had
02:25:21.580
those positions. Like, you know, Barack Obama, he was like, marriage is only between a man or a woman.
02:25:25.820
Like, like not anymore. Not apparently. And he's never looked back.
02:25:30.680
Well, it's always the, you know, it's sad. It's the closet cases that are like so weird on that
02:25:35.720
subject. You know what I mean? It's, I've seen it so much. Um, it makes them so uncomfortable
02:25:41.600
that they kind of like go too far in the other door. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. No, I'm
02:25:47.620
serious. That's pretty funny. Like dating 10 women at once. Did you see the video of Biden at the
02:25:55.300
debate in 2007, democratic debate, announcing that Barack Obama had an AIDS test?
02:26:01.360
Yes. I think I, remind me. Oh, it's the funniest video ever to Biden. It's at the,
02:26:06.920
this is all the things that happen that get lost that nobody recalls. But, um, in fact,
02:26:11.400
I think we put it up on our X feed because it's so good. But Biden, who really is like a soulless
02:26:17.480
person, uh, said, well, I know, I think, you know, AIDS is a, you know, it's a real problem
02:26:23.440
in the African-American community. And I think we should all get AIDS tests. I mean, Barack Obama
02:26:27.760
had an AIDS test. There's a cutaway of Obama being like, I hate you. Biden's like, he just
02:26:35.620
lets it hang there for just one second. And he's like, I mean, I, which is totally good.
02:26:38.900
And, you know, I think he was, he's negative, but I mean, all men should get an AIDS test.
02:26:46.600
Obama is so mad. So mad. Cause like everybody in democratic politics knows that Obama, you know,
02:26:53.560
they all think that Obama is on the down low. Like they all think that I, trust me, they think
02:26:58.480
that. Well, he, he, uh, I mean, there's actual evidence for this. I mean, because David Garrow's
02:27:03.600
biography, he wrote about it. I'm aware. I've talked to Dave Garrow about it. Which was like,
02:27:06.820
which was, uh, and that book was, you know, it was the definitive book on Obama.
02:27:12.840
That guy interviewed. So he won, what's the award? He won an award for his MLK book.
02:27:16.700
And then he goes parting the waters or I can't something like that. Yeah. And then he goes on
02:27:22.300
and he writes this, the most single, the single most in-depth book on Barack Obama that's ever
02:27:26.260
existed. He's talked to literally everybody, like Obama's mailman, everybody, like anybody who's
02:27:30.900
ever had any contact. Former girlfriends too. Former girlfriends. And that's where he got the
02:27:34.780
letters where Obama was admitting his gay fantasies to a girl that he was seeing. And, uh, that was,
02:27:40.320
and so the media refused to cover it, which was totally real. It was like, it's, it's in the book.
02:27:44.660
There's no denying it. I mean, Garrow is considered, I think one of the most authoritative
02:27:50.480
biographers alive. And, uh, you know, people just get right back. And Garrow's a liberal.
02:27:55.240
And, but I think, um, I'm pretty sure if I can say conclusively that Garrow came to really kind
02:28:01.760
of dislike Obama and to think he was fraudulent during the writing of that book. And, um, that book
02:28:08.380
was, I don't know, it wasn't banned of course, but it was, uh, it was definitely. Yeah.
02:28:14.660
It, cause it got, you know, it got to the core question, which is who is this guy exactly?
02:28:19.960
And there's, you know, he's clearly has a lot of talents. I've always thought that about Obama,
02:28:23.700
but it was, he was also like, there's deception at the core.
02:28:28.260
Also like it kind of gives away the game. Cause if their whole belief is that it's totally normal
02:28:31.780
to be gay, then like, why wouldn't they just feature it?
02:28:34.960
Like why wouldn't they just be like, oh, this is another great detail about his life that
02:28:38.080
Well, I, it's so weird to be, you know, on the right or wherever I am and feel like you're
02:28:44.040
more liberal on this stuff than like the democratic party. Cause there are plenty of people in the
02:28:48.260
democratic party who are still closeted. And it's like, by the way, I do not believe in
02:28:52.360
getting into, you know, I think people should be allowed to reveal as much as they want about
02:28:56.440
their personal lives. Like privacy is really important. In fact, it's essential. So it's not
02:29:00.560
my place to, you know, get into that, but there are a ton, including really famous ones. And it's
02:29:06.560
like, how dare you get up and everybody else is constantly lecturing everyone about their sex
02:29:11.720
lives. Like it's your business. It's not just shut up about everyone's sex life. Okay. One,
02:29:15.980
two, if you're like Mr. You know, or, or Ms. You know, gay rights advocate and you're
02:29:21.460
closeted, like what, how can you live with yourself?
02:29:25.800
Also the core point with all of these stories is like, if, if you're leading your life in
02:29:31.560
deception, why should you have any responsibility over the rest of ours? So if you're an
02:29:35.260
power, yeah, if you, if you have power, it is reasonable to ask fundamental questions about
02:29:39.640
what you're honest about and what you're lying about.
02:29:41.860
Dude, I agree completely. And we all lie and, um, and it's bad, but it's like super,
02:29:52.900
Yeah. Yeah. It tells you a lot. And as a voter, you want to know that kind of thing. Oh,
02:29:56.900
like, uh, in Kamala Harris's case, you'd, you see the, the, the intern who once worked for her,
02:30:02.560
who revealed what it was like working in her office in, uh, in San Francisco.
02:30:06.320
I think it was approximately exactly what you would expect.
02:30:10.060
Every time she walked in in the morning, they had to say, good morning, general.
02:30:17.880
General. So like, I think a lot of people don't realize, like, I guess there is like,
02:30:21.160
there is a format, there is like a formal title that you could refer to an attorney general as
02:30:24.700
general, but it is so preposterous that almost nobody does it. It's so stupid.
02:30:28.140
I know many attorneys general, many, many, more than 10. And I've never called a single one of them.
02:30:33.040
No. And to the extent that you've ever talked to them about it, they're like kind of embarrassed
02:30:36.420
by the concept. Like not actually a general. So don't say that.
02:30:40.280
Yeah. Not generals. Yeah. So she would walk in in the morning and her expectation was that every
02:30:46.340
single person would stand and say, good morning, general. Yeah. Now, as you know, my dad is a
02:30:52.320
Marine general. An actual general. Right. And he said, he told me, he's like, that story alone
02:30:58.280
is told me everything I need to know about her. Every single thing I need to know about her is
02:31:03.560
encapsulated in that one anecdote. That's right. It's totally right.
02:31:06.300
Demand the interns who are not allowed to make eye contact. Stand up when you walk in and say,
02:31:11.280
good morning, general. Yeah. You should not have your hands on the levers of power.
02:31:14.640
Well, yeah, because it suggests a hollowness, an insecurity, a fear. I mean, again, she's terrified.
02:31:22.040
This person is terrified. She's been elevated far beyond her capabilities. And she knows that,
02:31:28.000
of course. That's why she's so brittle. And, you know, people like that are really dangerous.
02:31:33.560
They're not centered. They don't have limits. Yeah.
02:31:36.540
We just took a break and we were laughing about all the things that we can't say on YouTube that we
02:31:41.880
bleep. And really, I think the only three categories are if you claim that men cannot become women by
02:31:49.440
tapping their heels together and wishing it so. If you claim that the 2020 election, you know,
02:31:55.000
that Biden didn't really get more votes than Black Jesus. If you question the election in any way,
02:32:00.680
and what's the third? Oh, the VAX. The VAX is great. Everything about the VAX is great.
02:32:06.260
It's safe and effective. And if you say anything to the contrary of those, you just get demonetized
02:32:12.280
and then they take your channel away. But I think you can say pretty much anything. I think those are
02:32:16.320
the only three guidance points I've received. Yeah. So that leaves a lot, doesn't it?
02:32:20.520
So, so I just want to make directly clear that I totally believe in the VAX, the 2020 election
02:32:26.920
and the tranny stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Full blown. And I saw Bigfoot on the way in here. I don't know
02:32:30.600
if people can hear that they say that. I think I did. I saw him on the way in. You know, the earth
02:32:34.400
is flat, of course. A hundred percent. That's a moon landing fake. The moon landing is fake.
02:32:38.900
I came around to that. I didn't believe it. CIA killed Kennedy. No problem at all.
02:32:42.640
Yeah. Yeah. You can, you can say all of that, but so you're saying everything we said before
02:32:46.420
that you can, nobody could hear it. No, no one can hear it. No, no, no. I was just endorsing
02:32:50.480
those views. I think the VAX is safe and effective. I just want to say that Ivermectin is for,
02:32:54.680
it's a horse dewormer or something. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. Here's my last,
02:32:58.960
because we're trying to turn this around today. So I, I could keep going, but we have to get this
02:33:03.660
into edit to bleep all the stuff that YouTube doesn't want you to hear, which you can get on our
02:33:08.120
website, tuckercarlson.com uncensored. If you like, here's my question.
02:33:12.640
We both agree that there's no chance Kamala Harris gets, quote, elected president except
02:33:18.460
through the unremitting lying by the American news media. Like she's their candidate. They
02:33:24.840
have to get her across the finish line. This infuriating to me. So infuriating that I don't
02:33:29.500
really watch. You have to watch because you have a daily show of all the dishonest media outlets
02:33:35.660
out there, which is basically all of them, including the wall street journal. Uh, what
02:33:41.080
is the most dishonest? The most dishonest. I, I would say, I guess the people who jump off the
02:33:48.520
page at me immediately, I guess there's two shows in particular. One is Morning Joe. Like the,
02:33:55.380
the whole cast of Morning Joe, they literally have a character on that show who's called Barnacle.
02:34:00.020
Yeah. He hangs on to the show. He's been hanging on for years. Um, but anyway, the, the point is
02:34:06.080
like that show, like they'll change their attitudes on a dime just to serve whatever the left wants at
02:34:11.160
any given moment. It's really sad. It's pathetic. And they're so angry about Trump. Um, and so that,
02:34:17.000
that comes out of, they were Trump cheerleaders. They were Trump cheerleaders and now they're Biden
02:34:21.300
cheerleaders or they have been up until Biden got replaced because Biden was close to them. It was the
02:34:26.900
show he watched in the morning. So they tailored their programming only to his interests. And
02:34:30.620
it's really embarrassing. And I would never. So when they round you up, you and your family
02:34:34.920
and put you in some camp or put you on trial for thought crimes, you think Morning Joe
02:34:41.400
Just on principle? I don't think so. And I don't think this clip will be the reason for that. I
02:34:45.640
think literally they, they, they already know what to think of me. Um, and then it's,
02:34:50.520
I know all those people very well and it's sad to see it. I mean, Joe Scarborough is like
02:34:54.820
not stupid at all. Joe Scarborough is actually smart. Not that that matters. There's a lot of
02:34:59.480
bad, smart people, but, uh, he is not stupid. He's much smarter than your average cable news person.
02:35:05.800
But his, like what they're doing doesn't represent, like he was a Florida congressman and, and, and
02:35:10.620
then he left and then there was, who's represented by like, like who in Florida would say, yeah,
02:35:15.860
that guy's speaking for me. No, no. But what I'm saying is like, he knows, like he, he like Don
02:35:20.180
Lamont, something like that. You think, well, does he really know what he's saying? Right. You
02:35:25.440
know, no, not really. Um, I don't think he does. I don't think he has any idea what he's saying
02:35:29.200
actually, which kind of makes me sort of like him. Joe Scarborough knows exactly what he's
02:35:33.280
doing. That's all I'm saying. Well, yeah. Yeah. He's tactical in, in his presentation. No
02:35:39.220
question. I mean, and somehow he's thrived amidst all of this. Like, I don't like he and Mika got
02:35:43.840
married and now they do the show in, in Florida and they pretend they're in DC and it's like,
02:35:48.000
it's all very weird. How's that going? Do they look happy? I haven't seen it in a while.
02:35:50.840
I don't know. Is that working for them? I, I, I can't, I, I, I don't know. There's so
02:35:56.220
much phoniness on TV. So it's like, everyone's always pretending to be. I know. I don't, I
02:35:59.820
don't think it's working that well. As you know, I don't think it's working that well. Um,
02:36:02.240
the other show that stands out to me, that's like so cartoonish, but it does have like millions
02:36:05.800
of viewers is The View. Have you actually seen The View? Not like beginning to end. I'm, I'm a clip
02:36:11.720
consumer of The View. Yes. Like, just like a lot of people. Like I, I, uh, I, I will never allow somebody
02:36:17.420
to tell me what happened and then just reinterpret that event in that way. Like, I hate that. Like
02:36:21.440
that happens all the way that happened to you, like throughout your entire career, but especially
02:36:24.740
around Fox, like the left always had these views of you that weren't filtered through watching a
02:36:28.720
clip of your show or even, or certainly not the entire show. It was literally what some lefty
02:36:33.440
outlet told them about you. That's their interpretation. They never get it right. I mean,
02:36:36.680
I always feel like I have all kinds of obvious faults. I have definitely have some pretty serious
02:36:42.080
bigotries. They're just not racial bigotries, but do you know what I mean? They always got it
02:36:47.240
wrong. They always, you won't tolerate certain things. That's what bigotry means. There are
02:36:50.880
certain kinds of people I don't like, um, at all in a very unreasonable way, but they're not black
02:36:56.500
people. Actually, they're affluent, a lot of affluent whites. I just don't like them. Uh,
02:37:02.000
especially some of the ladies. I just don't like them. The ones who scream at you. Yeah. The ones
02:37:06.800
who scream at me. And I'm, by the way, I'm not defending that that's bigotry, but it's not the kind
02:37:10.620
of bigotry they're always accusing me of. It's like, yeah, you're right. I'm a bad person,
02:37:15.040
but in a very different way. Can you be like, you'd be more accurate. But if she comes lumbering
02:37:19.100
towards you with blue hair, like you enter mask, like you kind of have a read on which way this is
02:37:23.640
going. Yeah. But you shouldn't judge people without knowing them, I think, but I do in that way,
02:37:30.060
but it was never, they were always like, you know, whatever. Anyway, no. Do people yell at you less
02:37:34.540
now? Yeah. Never anymore. I don't go anywhere, you know? Wait, but I mean, in the few times that
02:37:38.500
you're at an airport, for instance, do they yell less? Yeah, not at all anymore. Oh, that's good.
02:37:42.940
It's interesting. I don't really know what that's about. Well, you know, not having your face on
02:37:47.400
Fox and then the media pretending like you don't exist. Meanwhile, you have the number one podcast
02:37:51.600
in the country. Yeah. Basically, all the lefties who would be conditioned to yell at you don't
02:37:56.920
consume whatever everyone else is consuming. I never cared. It never bothered me. Just don't
02:38:01.060
come to my house, you know? That was always my view. So anyway, the view, I haven't seen the view in
02:38:05.420
a long time. It's just, it's like, it's over the top, like comical cheerleading for like everything
02:38:11.020
the left is for. And they're always against Trump at all odds, like at all costs, no matter what he
02:38:15.940
does. He's always guilty of everything. He was, he was rightly prosecuted by every Democrat prosecutor
02:38:20.820
in the country. He should be in jail. It's like, it's just. Is Joe Farah's daughter still on there?
02:38:26.700
Yeah. And nobody talks about that. He is such a nice man. Joe Farah is a nice man. And he had this
02:38:32.560
very low IQ daughter. What is it? It's World Net Daily, right?
02:38:39.000
I've known him like 30 years and he's just a nice person. And, but he had this daughter who
02:38:44.080
was like an idiot and sad. And she went up in the view, I heard.
02:38:51.380
Yeah. Well, nobody holds the Joseph Farah thing against her. Like, meaning I realized that
02:38:56.900
you wouldn't hold it against her. But what I'm saying is like the left for years demonized
02:39:03.980
So like, like under like, I guess, normal circumstances, anything even related to him,
02:39:10.480
they would demonize, but not so with her. Like she's on the show and nobody even brings
02:39:14.920
She's, as I remember, is the kind of person who will just say whatever it takes to get
02:39:19.800
the acceptance of the people around her. Is she like a regime defender?
02:39:23.200
For almost entirely. Occasionally she'll like issue like a squeak of moderation in the midst
02:39:27.800
of all of their babbling. But, but no, for the most part, a regime defender is really
02:39:31.240
sad and stupid and easy to control. Like a lot of people on TV.
02:39:34.880
It's awful. Um, but then like, of course there's like Joy Behar who like once wore blackface
02:39:39.980
and she's still like on the show and, uh, you know, Whoopi Goldberg who like clearly
02:39:44.340
doesn't do any research. She just wings it entirely. Uh, which is funny.
02:39:49.100
Joy Behar. So I did the view once 20 years ago when I worked at CNN, the PR department pushed
02:39:53.960
me to do the view. And the only thing, Barbara Walters was there. I remember that. I remember
02:39:58.480
I think the whole thing was like so mindless, but Joy Behar was like the screechiest human
02:40:01.940
being I'd ever met in my life. Is she still that way?
02:40:06.100
A hundred percent. Maybe worse. Probably worse.
02:40:14.260
And do you think that like any, any world in which Whoopi Goldberg is moderating whatever
02:40:18.280
meaningful, whatever little debates might be breaking out at the table is like crazy.
02:40:22.640
One last question. Do you think like, I know that there are very, very few Republican donors
02:40:29.980
who, um, are worth much, unfortunately there are some, but not a ton, but I always thought
02:40:35.300
like a show, like the view and a person like Joy Behar, that could be such a brilliant disinformation
02:40:40.620
campaign. Someone who's so unappealing. So like prima facie repulsive that she pushes people
02:40:48.340
away from her position. Could it be that Joy Behar is actually getting funding from
02:40:52.800
ex-Republican donor to discredit the other party's program?
02:41:04.680
Oh, it's so, it's so crazy. I don't, I, I, I don't even really know how like she got
02:41:09.320
jobs. Like, wasn't she on CNN at one point? She had like a headline.
02:41:16.320
Anyway, the point is, it's like, it, it still exists. They're still crazy. It makes for
02:41:21.160
great fodder for clips. I mean, I love clips from the show because it's so ridiculous. It's
02:41:25.340
so easy to eviscerate. It's like Ben Shapiro debating a college student. It's like the easiest
02:41:31.780
Yeah. Thank heaven for that. A daily show would be impossible without the rest of the media.
02:41:37.100
I remember certain days when I had a daily show. Thank heaven. I don't do that anymore. But
02:41:40.420
be like, oh my gosh, it's August. Like, what are we talking about? This is before the
02:41:44.380
news went totally crazy all times. But, um, you know, there's always some Tom Fox, our
02:41:50.500
genius producer would always be like, what? I don't know what to write about tonight. He'd
02:41:54.860
be like, I'll send you some clips. And they would piss me off so complete.
02:41:59.300
You have like Don Lemon saying that a plane disappeared into a black hole.
02:42:02.880
And you're like, of course we have to do that. But you know, actually, now that I think
02:42:05.060
about it, that may be the one thing he was right about.
02:42:07.580
I was just thinking that exact same thing. That was the old Don Lemon. That was like Don
02:42:11.540
Lemon before he decided to do whatever Jeff Zuckerberg wanted. Totally. Yeah. And I remember
02:42:16.740
mocking him and being like, oh, that's so stupid. Compared to what? Like what's, so what's, what's,
02:42:23.520
Yeah. And like, I think it was, I think when he said that there was like a panel of people
02:42:26.540
on and everyone looked so embarrassed that he said it out loud.
02:42:29.920
But he stuck to it and that was his greatest moment.
02:42:32.420
Yes. I totally actually, I'll end with this, his greatest moment ever. And I think I'm,
02:42:37.020
correct me if I got this wrong, but he was profiled by like Atlanta magazine or something.
02:42:43.180
I remember. I don't remember the magazine specifically, but I think I may be getting
02:42:45.600
this wrong, but he's sitting and the reporter is a female reporter, very good writer, this
02:42:49.660
woman. I think I know her, but whatever. Anyway, she was, I can't remember who it was, but she's
02:42:53.660
having lunch with Don Lemon and he's like, you know, in journalism, you know, think about
02:42:58.120
journalism, Vince, those who have been chosen to practice it, to stride its hallowed halls,
02:43:04.400
men like Woodward and Bernstein and myself. And he's just giving this like impossibly pompous
02:43:11.000
lecture. And the waiter comes up and he's also like fussy and pompous. And Don Lemon goes,
02:43:17.860
I'd like some lemon sorbet. And the pompous fussy waiter goes, I'm sure it's actually pronounced
02:43:24.760
sorbet, which is like devastating. Actually mispronounced the name of the dessert.
02:43:30.180
After trying to impress your dinner guest with how impressive you are.
02:43:33.120
But Don Lemon is living in this like airtight bubble of self-esteem that's just impregnable.
02:43:40.400
Like you can't violate Don's self-esteem. It's just, it's bulletproof. And so he goes,