On today's show, we have a special guest, Joe Kent, who is running for Congress in a primary challenge against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-D.C.). We also have a story about a new ketone-based energy drink called Vault, and Ben Shapiro's testimony before Congress. And we have some serious news about major media companies colluding to shut down conservative outlets like the Daily Wire.
00:00:37.000Ana Paulina Luna's bill to hold Merrick Garland in contempt, failing as several Republicans defected to join Democrats in, for some reason, protecting Joe Biden.
00:00:48.000I am very clearly not happy about this, if you watched my earlier morning segments.
00:01:01.000Advertising networks, major media buyers, were trying to collude to shut down conservative channels like the Daily Wire, citing the Breitbart model.
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00:05:40.000AOC made good on her promise on Wednesday to file articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Alito and Thomas.
00:05:46.000And, you know, it's kind of funny because they're the most based.
00:05:48.000This comes as Senators seek to engage in a new round of lawfare against Thomas over alleged ethics complaints regarding vacations and trips.
00:05:55.000A reporter for MSNBC said that AOC was not actually filing impeachment charges over opinions because she couldn't.
00:06:01.000But due to, quote, conduct around the office, she accused them of not properly disclosing financial benefits and gifts they were given by donors or others.
00:06:11.000She also claimed that Thomas and Alito refused to recuse themselves from cases where they had a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party when asked to force a justice to recuse himself from a case.
00:06:20.000Chief Justice Roberts said that absolutely he would not do that and spoke to the independence of justices and the court itself.
00:06:28.000Clarence Thomas and Alito, they're like the best we have in government right now.
00:06:34.000And it's not surprising to see with all of the problems we're experiencing, right?
00:06:37.000We have Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in jail, Merrick Garland flouting the law, and the DOJ refusing to hold him accountable.
00:06:44.000And the one thing we have, the one thread we have, are these guys at the Supreme Court doing their best and ruling correctly.
00:06:51.000So of course AOC wants to go after them.
00:06:54.000But like I said, All this is is her throwing red meat to her base in her district.
00:07:02.000I think AOC knows to a certain extent it won't go anywhere.
00:07:05.000And even if it did go somewhere, what is she hoping will happen?
00:07:10.000That Biden will get to appoint someone before he's voted out?
00:07:14.000Realistically, I think Claire and Alito and Thomas are great, but likely they will retire within the next four years.
00:07:22.000And so there's panic over who's going to replace them.
00:07:24.000To me, it seems like either she knows it's not going to go anywhere or she's delusional to think that she could somehow get Biden to appoint Supreme Court justices before the year's over.
00:07:33.000See, this is this is where I'm kind of at an impasse.
00:07:37.000Rep Luna introduced her inherent contempt resolution against Garland, and four Republicans defected, joining Democrats to stop accountability.
00:08:05.000If Trump wins, and Republicans take the Senate and the House, we can expect that if Alito and Thomas retire, and then Trump gets to name their successors, we're going to get some pretty good ones.
00:08:46.000To go back to the Supreme Court, though, my point is, this is going to be the most consequential election, not because Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, but because the Supreme Court, these are people who are going to be serving for decades, 40, 50 years, maybe, depending on how old they get.
00:09:28.000They will go to war with pretty much every effective Republican.
00:09:31.000And so AOC is just showing exactly what will happen if the Democrats take charge and take control of the House, or if we only have a thin majority.
00:09:39.000In the House, Democrats will keep up these types of maneuvers.
00:09:42.000But I also think AOC doing this move this week, it's a diversion tactic because Democrats are having a really, really bad week.
00:09:49.000So she is trying to show the Democrat base, hey, we still are fighting.
00:10:52.000I mean, and you know this, everybody knows this, when you see those videos of members of Congress, and it's a tight shot, and they're yelling like, we gotta pass this bill!
00:11:03.000The whole chamber's empty, and they're yelling so they can get the clip on C-SPAN, and then spread it around in their- Hey, that's all it is.
00:11:38.000He's supposed to be overseeing things and vetoing the crazy stuff and just making sure stuff is business as usual and then run the military.
00:11:45.000But instead we've got these intense like judicial attack mechanisms that have been going off and then Congress is still gridlocked.
00:11:59.000And unfortunately, Congress has given them that power.
00:12:03.000I mean, Republicans put forward a lot of different measures that would have restored the power of the legislative branch when it comes to government regulation.
00:12:09.000Luckily, we had the Chevron ruling that's going to give a lot of power back to the legislative branch away from the administrative state.
00:12:15.000If we don't have Congress that's going to actually show up and fight and follow the Constitution, then the president, the executive branch, is going to be able to take us off the war, levy taxes, and turn the administrative state, the judicial system, against the American people.
00:12:26.000Is it the Patriot Act, basically, that set that in motion?
00:12:40.000So that basically said that Administrative branches could determine, interpret their own rules.
00:12:47.000So this allowed for a lot of wacky things, notably the pistol brace ban, where the ATF is like, you know, we've just decided that pistol braces are stock, so we're banning them.
00:12:56.000You can't have, well, you can't have them if it makes your pistol into a short-barreled rifle if it is a stock.
00:13:01.000And it's like, whoa, you made that up.
00:13:03.000You unilaterally decided to make something illegal.
00:13:47.000And I mean, but if the Democrats had had the majority, I think they would do everything they could to actually impeach or at least jam them up and destroy their lives and destroy future Republican nominees for those positions.
00:13:58.000Because that was the whole thing with all the lawfare they've done against President Trump.
00:14:02.000I think they knew in their heart of hearts that most of it was going to fail.
00:16:31.000I wouldn't say that as a candidate, even with groups I'm, you know, generally ideologically aligned with.
00:16:36.000If they're putting out statements on my behalf or someone says, well, this group says this, do you support it?
00:16:40.000I would say, well, no, I speak for me.
00:16:41.000If you have a question, why don't you ask me?
00:16:43.000But that's why most of the time, these attacks, they come not directly to your face because they don't want to give you a chance to respond.
00:16:49.000All they want to do is smear you with the barrage of like, like 2025, racist, whatever.
00:16:53.000Yeah, I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but I know a lot of people who will be
00:16:56.000in the public eye and they'll get attacked for something.
00:16:59.000And in the article, it'll say, you know, they didn't respond to comment or whatever else.
00:17:03.000And actually, they requested comment 20 minutes before they published the story.
00:17:07.000So they never even gave you a chance to respond to it.
00:17:09.000Trump has to go out on his own and be like, I don't know what this is and I don't want
00:17:11.000it because there's no mainstream media trying to talk to him about it.
00:17:15.000From what I can see a lot of the time.
00:17:16.000I mean, so much of everything right now is just sort of political theater.
00:17:20.000AOC is launching this to say to her voters, look, I'm doing things that even other Democrats aren't willing to do.
00:17:25.000I mean, Joe Biden just gave the Medal of Freedom to the NATO secretary general.
00:17:30.000This guy is from Norway and he's like, you're doing a great job with NATO.
00:18:28.000After Joe Biden was found to have committed crimes pertaining to classified documents in his home and office and other locations, with his investigation, it was determined by Robert Herr, he would not be prosecuted.
00:18:39.000He had a conversation with Joe Biden determined that Biden is a sad old man with a bad memory.
00:18:43.000So effectively, he is not competent to stand trial, as many people have interpreted it.
00:18:48.000The Republicans wanted the audio tapes of that interview, of that meeting.
00:18:53.000So they, for a lot of reasons, one, what's Biden's mental state?
00:18:56.000Was he able to communicate effectively?
00:18:57.000And is there anything omitted from the recording?
00:19:01.000They subpoenaed Merrick Garland saying, turn over the tapes.
00:19:49.000But who Because we're supposed to get equality under the law.
00:19:53.000But my view now is, there's only one political party that's willing to wield power, and it's the Democrats.
00:19:57.000So I should just be on their side, right?
00:19:59.000At least then I can advocate for arresting people, and maybe it'll happen.
00:20:02.000The other issue is, maybe, just maybe, the only reason that the country actually functions in any capacity, is because while Democrats are constantly trying to set the curtains on fire, Republicans are slapping their hands away.
00:20:14.000And the moment the Republicans stop, they'll just torch the whole place to the ground, and maybe then we can rebuild something without them in it.
00:20:19.000We need a stronger majority of Republicans that are actually going to stand up so that these four, five who always tend to cross the party lines, that their votes don't matter, that we can cancel them out.
00:20:30.000So when we try to do bold actions like this, we're going to fail because we just have to realize that some people, they're not going to do what they're supposed to do.
00:20:37.000They're not going to do what their constituents actually hired them to do.
00:20:40.000That's a primary issue that should be sorted out in the primary, but we've got to have a stronger control of the House of Representatives so that Speaker Johnson isn't always having to, or whoever is the next speaker, isn't constantly having to play this like, well, do I have enough votes of a thin majority?
00:20:53.000We need to have people who are ready to use power effectively to hold people accountable.
00:21:51.000I already saw someone super chat asking, for what reason would anyone obey the law when Democrats do not?
00:21:58.000Why would anyone else decide to play a game that no one else is playing?
00:22:03.000So what I see is, with Steve Bannon in prison, and the Republicans unwilling to actually uphold the system, what we have seen here today with this ruling, with the vote in Congress, not that it would go anywhere to be—well, it's contempt of Congress, meaning Congress could act unilaterally in this regard.
00:22:22.000If they voted for it, it doesn't need to go anywhere else.
00:23:57.000I mean, Ana Paulina Luna is a freshman, and for a freshman to put forward something this bold, A couple of congresses ago, even with a Republican majority, this never would have happened from a freshman.
00:24:07.000And we're also seeing a lot of progress on things like national defense, the way that the Ukraine aid package went, and just in the course of like two years, when the Ukraine issue first flared up, you had the vast majority of the Republican caucus that were all on board, send Ukraine billions of dollars.
00:24:21.000But within the course of just two years, we've moved it so now we have a majority of the majority against more endless wars, against more of that funding.
00:24:27.000So we are making slow, incremental progress.
00:24:40.000Because this is a dark, deep, tangled web that we live in.
00:24:44.000And it's been like this for probably 100 years, probably since 19, really since the Federal Reserve and the bureaucrats tried to take over the country.
00:24:52.000And for the first time, like the government was in total control, like George Orwell style in the 90s and 2005, George Bush, freaking Dick Cheney, the amount of power those guys wielded, and then signed into law with Patriot Act and stuff.
00:25:05.000So it is frustrating to like witness that, to see this broken oligarchy.
00:25:11.000But like you're saying, people are stepping up and people are getting brave and coming together and working.
00:25:16.000I don't know if working from within the system.
00:25:19.000We need from within the system, but we really need a private sector that's willing to say no and be disobedient to a corrupt government and work outside the bounds of that system.
00:25:28.000I want to, real quick, just give a shout out to our good friends John Duarte of California, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Tom McClintock of California, and Mike Turner of Ohio.
00:25:39.000These men should never see another penny in contributions from anyone.
00:25:45.000Now, to be fair, these guys in California, they're probably far left as it is, and they don't count as Republicans, so it is a slim majority.
00:25:53.000As for Dave Joyce and Mike Turner in Ohio, Mark my words, I will take every political lever that I have, and I will do everything in my power, I will whisper in every ear I can, do not support these men.
00:26:06.000And we must do everything in our power to make sure that they are either... We're not gonna expel them from Congress, that's not likely to happen.
00:26:15.000But I will do everything I can to support any and every primary challenge that comes their way.
00:26:21.000In fact, I may even personally fly down, hold an event, and stand in a soapbox and call them out personally and scream about how these guys are...
00:26:57.000If you don't like a bill and you're in Congress, OK, but give me an explanation.
00:27:01.000I mean, I'm not a constituent of any of these four men, but I think that they should have to say, like, look, I voted against this for this reason.
00:27:27.000They should have had a prepared statement that went out because I think, you know, again,
00:27:30.000if you don't if you're voting against this, I think I should know why.
00:27:34.000And again, I talk about the Mayorkas impeachment vote vote frequently when I'm on here because
00:27:39.000there were only three Republicans who defected and voted against it.
00:27:42.000But all of them were like, look, I think this is a misinterpretation of the law or whatever.
00:27:46.000I don't necessarily agree, but at least that they were they were explaining what their word was and why they were standing by it.
00:27:52.000I think that's sort of the challenge here, which is like if you are not going to address it, you're hoping no one knows why you didn't vote against it.
00:28:05.000It is fascinating that this was a move by a freshman.
00:28:09.000I think Ana Paulina Luna is really brave and she's definitely of a class of Republicans that are bold in what they choose to do.
00:28:16.000And I hope that is a trend among a lot of politicians, both on the state and federal level, because I think it's a new day and we need to see some more creative actions taken.
00:28:28.000We definitely need the bold new leadership.
00:28:36.000To your point, when these people vote, and they don't talk about their votes, and they don't share their votes, and you have to dig it up, that just shows you how little that a lot of these representatives respect their constituents, because they know people aren't paying attention.
00:28:48.000So they think they can get away with a lot of these really bad votes.
00:28:51.000I'm a really big fan of what Tim Burchette does.
00:28:54.000He basically goes live right as he's walking off the floor.
00:28:57.000I frankly don't see why there isn't 435 members of Congress doing that.
00:29:01.000I'm going to tell you what we just did in here because you're paying my paycheck.
00:29:03.000It was the first time I had ever seen Tim Burchett, who we were able to have on last night, was through one of his videos walking off being like, here's what we voted on.
00:29:23.000They should hopefully be able to use the internet, their outlets, to give an explanation to their voters.
00:29:30.000I think that's why it seems like you can't trust politicians even when you supported them, you donated them, you elect them, because it's like once they get there it all goes behind closed doors and they're kind of moving behind the scenes and you don't know if that person is the same person that you maybe met at a rally or, you know, gave five dollars to or whatever it was.
00:29:46.000The Supreme Court's got to do, I don't know if they have to, but they write opinions after they do a vote.
00:29:51.000I would like to see Congress do that, but I'm with you.
00:29:53.000I think they should do videos because we're in the 21st century.
00:30:20.000You know, you could do quick summaries.
00:30:22.000This could be the way that the system leverages the opportunities that they have to communicate.
00:30:26.000Because, again, if you live in one of these people's districts, I think you do want to know why Merrick Garland isn't being held accountable when defying a subpoena.
00:30:35.000Other people do have to comply with these congressional subpoenas.
00:30:38.000I hear a lot of people say, you gotta understand optics.
00:30:41.000You know, oh, you know, Joe Biden's in such disarray.
00:31:12.000Democrats don't have a problem with that.
00:31:13.000Democrats in swing districts, if Nancy Pelosi or Hakeem Jeffries goes to them and says that they want them to literally just scorched earth, swing district Democrats do it without question.
00:32:04.000Ask them why it's okay that Steve Bannon's in prison right now, but Merrick Garland is not.
00:32:08.000And why they think criminals should be allowed to walk free.
00:32:11.000And ask them, why do they support Democrat policies which result in criminals being free?
00:32:18.000Yeah, I think that's also one of the responsibilities we have as voters, which is to know who our elected representatives are and to be active in pursuing answers from them.
00:32:27.000I think so often people are like, it happens far away from me, but really, you know, we've talked about this a couple of times on the show, but like, You send one email and that might actually be that 100th email they've gotten about it.
00:32:38.000Or you're pointing out something that they're not aware of, right?
00:32:41.000If you're in Congress and you think nobody in my district cares about that, then it really matters if someone reaches out to you and says, I care about this issue.
00:32:49.000That's a lot of times what they're banking on is that nobody's paying attention.
00:32:51.000Like my opponent has voted in lockstep with the Biden administration.
00:32:55.000She comes back to the district and she speaks like a moderate.
00:32:57.000So we've actually had to start an entire website where we track her votes so people can be aware of how she's voting in lockstep with Biden.
00:33:04.000It's mariewatch.com or it's on my website joekentforcongress.com.
00:33:07.000So we've had to track that because she never talks about it.
00:33:10.000Well, and wouldn't it be interesting if that's what the responsibility of the local paper was?
00:33:13.000And maybe there are some local people that do that, right?
00:33:15.000But they had one beat reporter that just tracks how the Congress, like both on the state and federal level, how those people vote and what it is.
00:33:26.000You know, there might be things you have to look up for more intense explanation, but somebody should keep a record of how people who represent you are.
00:33:34.000And I think that is sort of, you're right, what people are hoping, that they can not talk about what they voted no on and just talk about what they're working on.
00:33:43.000I mean, I get that there is a lot going on in Congress, and I understand that maybe not every voter is going to be super informed on every issue.
00:33:49.000On the other hand, you should have an explanation ready when someone says, why did you vote against this?
00:33:54.000Is what are the rules on spending money on billboards and stuff?
00:33:58.000Like, do you know, like, if I were to if I wanted to say, spend like 100 grand putting billboards in their districts in Ohio, saying that they have sold out their country and betrayed the American people?
00:34:17.000The only red line is if you're coordinating with somebody, like a primary challenger, if you're coordinating with their campaign, you can't do that.
00:34:22.000There's a limit on money for you to do that, but if you do it independently as a private citizen, it's on you.
00:34:40.000So, like, even when I tried running ads on YouTube, the mere mention the word Trump flags you as a political ad.
00:34:46.000Like, you could say, like, well, you know, pizza, Trumps, whatever, and, like, using the word Trump as literally Trump, and it's just like, nope, that's political, you said Trump, it's election year, whatever.
00:34:55.000So, but I'm kind of feeling like maybe we should put together some kind of ads and launch it in their district.
00:36:27.000But these other scumbag rhino establishment shills will sell this country down the river and then buy the stock on China so they can profit as it's happening.
00:36:58.000I wonder about the Founding Fathers, and I've just got such, like, an idealized version of them in my mind.
00:37:02.000I think they're all, like, great men, just paragons of virtue.
00:37:06.000And Ben Franklin's, like, an alcoholic philanderer, had sex with women and kids out of wedlock.
00:37:11.000God knows the horrible things he said to people and did to people behind curtains.
00:37:15.000But because of what he did for society, he's lauded as a hero.
00:37:19.000And I think we're just seeing a lot of the Maybe good people doing evil, doing bad, or sometimes their horrible behavior is getting propagated.
00:37:30.000Like Trump, people went after him for his behavior because he said Rosie O'Donnell was a fat pig.
00:37:36.000But the things he was doing was like keeping us out of wars in the Middle East for the most part.
00:37:40.000He was trying to end the wars in the Middle East.
00:37:42.000So history would look at that as a good president trying to end the wars, get America out of the war.
00:37:49.000I mean this is when Jim Imhoff, the senator from Oklahoma died, the Washington Post ran this thing that was like this anti-climate whatever and actually he has a really long history.
00:37:58.000He served in the Senate for an incredibly long time.
00:38:00.000I don't need you to love everything he did but like if you make everything about your own personal vendetta against people you're actually completely slanted in your presentation of history.
00:38:09.000Let's jump to this next story from the New York Post.
00:38:11.000Ladies and gentlemen, the House has passed the bill to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and 198 Democrats tried to block it.
00:38:22.000The House approved a measure Wednesday to require proof of U.S.
00:38:25.000citizenship when registering to vote, a measure strongly opposed by top Democrats.
00:38:30.000A majority of 216 Republicans and five Democrats voted to pass the Safeguard America Voter Eligibility Act, with swing district reps Henry Cuellar of Texas, Vincente Gonzalez, Jared Golden, Don Davis, and Marie Glusenkamp Perez among those crossing party lines.
00:38:44.000Now, for those that are watching live, I will say I stand corrected when I said Democrats march in lockstep with their party.
00:38:51.000In this instance, swing Democrats actually did defect, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway because Republicans were definitely going to pass this.
00:38:58.000And also, it wouldn't matter anyway because it will die in the Senate, or actually it'll never make it to the Senate, and Biden would veto it anyway.
00:39:07.000With those five that crossed party lines, just before that, those five voted with all the Democrats to keep that bill off the floor.
00:39:38.000I don't want illegal immigrants to vote in our elections.
00:39:42.000It's interesting because it would be nice to see authenticity on this issue because I think it does affect all Americans.
00:39:48.000I mean, we talk about illegal immigration in terms of crime.
00:39:51.000It affects every American in terms of the crime.
00:39:54.000You talked about the drug trafficking across the border, the effect it has on the area you live in.
00:39:59.000There have been reports that, you know, African-American voters are saying, hey, this is actually disproportionately affecting me because you're making it so I'm having a harder time with employment.
00:40:08.000There are challenges that I'm facing because of this.
00:40:11.000I mean, I think People have a more nuanced understanding of the complexity of allowing illegal immigration to flood across the border.
00:40:19.000And so we actually behoove a lot of Democrats to say, hey, we take the verification of who is participating in the election seriously because we know it really could affect you and affect your life.
00:40:30.000I don't think that has to be like some sort of weird race issue.
00:40:33.000I mean, even the White House, when they condemned this act, were saying one of their complaints was it'll make it harder for Americans to Vote, as if Americans can't produce some sort of ID or verification that they are citizens.
00:40:45.000I mean, it's just so ridiculous that it's obvious why they want this bill to go through.
00:40:50.000But when you are registering to vote, typically, most people through the DMV, you have brought your piece of mail, your birth certificate, your social security card, and your credit cards with you to get your ID in the first place.
00:41:01.000The idea that you could not produce any of that to register to vote, but you have to to get an ID, it's just bonkers.
00:41:08.000That's how threadbare the defense against it from the White House was.
00:41:10.000And again, it stands to reason that there are Democrats who, you know, I think you're right.
00:41:16.000They probably all were like, well, I really need to vote for this because of my constituents.
00:41:20.000Hopefully there are at least some of them that can see the logical thread of like, no, it's worth verifying who is voting in the elections.
00:41:26.000Asking for proof of citizenship isn't a racist act.
00:41:28.000It's just, hey, you should be a citizen here to vote in the country.
00:41:33.000You know, like two years ago when we said that Biden opened up the border to flood the country to skew the census numbers so that they could get more allocation of U.S.
00:41:41.000House of Representative seats, they could get more electoral college votes, they could eventually get these people to vote.
00:41:45.000They said that we are conspiracy theorists, we are racist, we are horrible.
00:41:48.000This is the second vote where they've proven exactly what their intent is.
00:41:52.000A month ago, the Republicans put forward a bill that said only American citizens would be counted in the census, and only American citizens would be counted when it comes time to allocate U.S.
00:42:00.000House of Representative seats, electoral college votes.
00:42:04.000So this is now the second time the Democrats have said they basically want illegal immigrants and non-American citizens voting in our elections, completely and totally disrespecting American citizens and our ability to choose our own government.
00:42:17.000I've been thinking about it a little bit because the White House had said at one point when they condemned this act, they were saying, oh, well, it's already illegal for illegal immigrants to vote in our elections.
00:42:26.000But then we talk about the H-A-V-V, the voter verification system and how many people come up as a non-match.
00:42:32.000And it makes me think like, OK, well, if you think it's if you believe the laws reinforce, this shouldn't offend you.
00:42:38.000And then also you should think it's good because someone who doesn't speak our language, who's trying to get a driver's license or whatever, may not understand that they are being registered to vote and then you're setting up for failure.
00:42:49.000I mean, it's just it's so illogical that they would be opposed to this unless they're just going to be direct about what they want.
00:42:55.000My response when they said, it's already illegal for them to for non-citizens to vote.
00:43:16.000It's very good to show exactly what would happen if the Democrats get control of the U.S.
00:43:20.000House, if they continue to have control of the Senate, and if they get control of the executive branch, and to put them on record.
00:43:25.000They're on record right here, and I really encourage people to look at the procedural vote.
00:43:28.000Because procedure really dictates and a lot of times trumps policy.
00:43:32.000If you can control procedure, you can control policy.
00:43:35.000And every time the Democrats put forward pieces of legislation, they vote in lockstep on the procedural vote.
00:43:40.000And anytime they go to block anything the Republicans are doing, like closing down the border, stopping inflation, preventing illegals from voting, the Democrats will vote in lockstep to attempt to kill it before it goes on the floor.
00:43:52.000And the reason procedure is more valuable is because deciding what gets seen, because people are going to vote yes on whatever they see, if they're going to vote yes at all.
00:44:03.000So you say they'll get lockstep on the procedure to try and make sure things don't come to the floor, but then if they do, they're like, well, we can send like nine of our guys to vote yes on that because we can afford it.
00:44:13.000So it's a pretty big deal when you vote against the rule vote that your own party puts forward, and you never see Democrats do that.
00:44:21.000Democrats will always vote in lockstep.
00:44:22.000If Republicans go to put a bill forward and the House leadership, the minority leadership in this case, says don't vote for that, all the Democrats won't vote for it.
00:44:31.000Same thing when they have the majority.
00:46:11.000I saw a couple quotes in the Independent article we had up earlier.
00:46:15.000The minority leader, when she was asked about Annapolina Luna's bill, was like, it's just a waste of time.
00:46:21.000There's a shift in narrative of being like, well, it's ridiculous.
00:46:25.000The White House saying, oh, the SAVE Act isn't necessary.
00:46:28.000It's going from And they don't do this on everything, but on some of these issues, it's less about attacking you to make you feel bad and feel scared to vote for it.
00:46:35.000It's more about like, well, actually, you guys are just wasting time.
00:46:52.000I liked what you said before that, like, now we have on record who is voting on this and how they voted.
00:46:56.000And to your point, the procedural vote might be more indicative than the actual vote.
00:47:00.000Are there any other issues like this that you would like to see brought before Congress to see how representatives shake out before the election?
00:47:09.000I think that we should continue to vote on H.R.
00:47:13.000I think that should be brought up pretty much every week and put people on record because the Democrats right now are in full retreat mode from the Biden agenda.
00:47:21.000After the debate, the Democrats were all like, oh, they're distancing themselves from Biden after voting in lockstep with the Biden agenda.
00:47:27.000So it's kind of like, what's the deal, guys?
00:47:28.000Were you following Biden or did you know that he was mentally declined and what's your excuse for following him?
00:47:35.0002, the Secure the Border Act, put forward basically every single week to put people on record.
00:47:40.000Like we have an invasion on our southern border.
00:47:42.000What is your excuse for not addressing that?
00:47:43.000People are dying in my district and throughout the country from fentanyl.
00:47:47.000What is the excuse for taking no action?
00:47:49.000And I think they should tie it to funding.
00:47:50.000I think that's worth shutting the government down over saying, hey, we're not going to fund this government one penny until the executive branch actually secures the border.
00:48:05.000You're saying your district in Washington?
00:48:07.000Is it coming across the Canadian border?
00:48:09.000Some is coming across the Canadian border as far as illegal immigration goes.
00:48:12.000I don't think we've seen an uptick from the fentanyl and narcotics trafficking.
00:48:16.000That's all coming from south of the border, the San Diego area.
00:48:19.000But basically the I-5 corridor is the fentanyl expressway because Washington, Oregon, And California all have very, very lax drug control measures.
00:48:30.000So the amount of illegal activity that takes place on that corridor, in particular the trafficking of fentanyl, it's just off the charts.
00:48:37.000We've seen a skyrocketing numbers of people dying from fentanyl overdoses.
00:48:41.000In our district, I've done ride-alongs of all our different county law enforcement, talked to the DEA task force, and they say all of it's coming right from across the southern border.
00:48:48.000When you say secure the border, are you concerned about the Canadian border?
00:48:53.000Because of the CBP-1 app, basically the ability to fly into the U.S.
00:48:57.000directly or fly into Canada and then cross the Canadian border, a lot of people from China, from Southwest Asia, are coming into Canada to Vancouver, Vancouver and Canada, and then coming across the border that way, because they can basically book their travel through the CBP One app to get access to the country and declare asylum.
00:49:18.000That's another big thing that HR2 closed, it closed the asylum loophole.
00:49:22.000Because basically under Trump, you had either remain in Mexico or go to the first safe third country, you couldn't come directly to America.
00:49:29.000That's why if you look at the footage from the border, I've been down there twice, the people that are coming into the country illegally, They're not running away from the Border Patrol.
00:49:36.000They're running to the Border Patrol so that they can claim asylum right away.
00:49:39.000That automatically then gives them a legal status inside the U.S.
00:49:43.000That's why you hear AOC say, well, it's not illegal to declare asylum because we're basically granting these people a legal status almost immediately.
00:49:50.000It's like subsidized immigration in some way because you say asylum and they're like, OK, well, now you can stay.
00:49:55.000It's going to make it harder to deport them.
00:49:57.000Is it like a random guy with no ID comes across the border, a 27-year-old guy, speaks Spanish, you don't know who he is, where he's from, and he's like, I'm running away from the Venezuelan corruption.
00:50:07.000And you're like, okay, welcome to the United States.
00:50:10.000And here's a work permit and a social security number.
00:50:12.000And a lot of them will ditch their IDs.
00:50:14.000When I was down there in San Diego, we did a whole video on it on my social media.
00:50:17.000There is just a massive amount of ID cards from all over the world that are getting thrown right on the Mexican side of the border, right on the U.S.
00:50:23.000So these guys will come, they'll ditch their documents, they'll go, they'll claim asylum and say, hey, I'm being persecuted in my home country because of my political affiliation, my sexual orientation, my race.
00:50:46.000Yeah, the Mexican government is issuing temporary IDs to Chinese nationals.
00:50:52.000So we found a lot of Mexican ID cards down there at the border that actually have, you know, you can tell you can look at the picture and you can look at the name.
00:51:06.000The Chinese or the Mexicans are doing that?
00:51:09.000The Mexican government is giving them, giving these ID cards, these temporary IDs to Chinese citizens.
00:51:14.000I think they pay a couple hundred bucks for it.
00:51:16.000And as long as they have a limited amount of time, they stay in Mexico and they're transiting through to come to the U.S., that gives them a legal status inside Mexico, right?
00:51:24.000Those ID cards are useless to them once they get to America.
00:51:34.000It's wild how abused the system is, in large part because people know they can cross into America.
00:51:40.000And especially under Joe Biden, they know that the way he's positioned himself and the way his government works, they're going to allow you to stay.
00:51:45.000Because once you declare asylum, and they're like, great, we're going to vet you, here's some paperwork, come back later.
00:51:51.000Maybe some people come back for their appointments or for their hearings and stuff, but like probably not.
00:51:56.000And so you have people who have this claim to asylum but are not actually going, not completing the asylum process or the asylum dates are years and years out and it just becomes this terrible system.
00:52:05.000And then you'll get, you know, to Democrats especially being like, well, we need better cameras and more judges and really we just need to stop incentivizing people to illegally enter the country.
00:52:15.000Yeah, none of the Democrat proposals have fixed the asylum loophole.
00:52:58.000He basically was going to say, for the good of the party, you get the idea.
00:53:01.000I want to stress this as we enter this segment.
00:53:04.000In 2020, March of 2020, The Atlantic published Stay Alive, Joe Biden.
00:53:09.000Democrats need little more from you than your corporeal presence.
00:53:12.000There were questions about whether Biden was too old and whether he was dying, whether the plates in his brain would negatively impact his ability to do the job.
00:53:21.000And that conversation was four years ago.
00:53:24.000We have since then seen so many videos.
00:53:31.000So we know, those of us that have paid attention, so has Peter Welch.
00:53:36.000There is not a reality in which a senator who is more embroiled in politics than we is not aware of these videos and what is afflicting the Democratic Party because it affects everybody down ballot.
00:53:48.000For him to come out now and say, we are shocked to have seen this.
00:53:52.000He's spitting in your face and he's laughing at you as he does.
00:53:56.000Democrats right now that are acting like they did not know they are lying to you because they are evil.
00:54:02.000Especially Senate Democrats who worked Joe Biden for years and years and years.
00:54:20.000And if I stopped being able to speak correctly, not that I'm super articulate as it is right now, everyone in this room would notice.
00:54:28.000I mean, it's just not possible that his colleagues in the Senate are not aware of what's going on, especially because he's such a public figure.
00:54:34.000There's that phenomenon where if you hang out with somebody every day and they're getting fat, fatter and fatter, you don't notice it.
00:54:39.000Whereas people that haven't seen them in a long time are like, whoa, you've gained 15 pounds of fat in your face.
00:54:44.000So people might, that might've been happening with Biden, but that just indicates that they're stupid and they're not perceptive.
00:54:49.000Right, and they worked with him intensely for years in the Senate, then he became the VP, then he took some time off, he still hangs around Washington, and they're still seeing him.
00:54:57.000I mean, to your point, yes, maybe if every single day you see someone you don't notice all of the changes, but they are familiar with him, they knew him at his prime, so to speak, and they have still been exposed to him.
00:55:07.000You can't tell me they don't see any change at all.
00:56:35.000That's what Congress should be trying to get to the bottom of right now.
00:56:37.000Who is making the key decisions in the Oval Office during the Afghanistan withdrawal, during the Ukraine crisis?
00:56:43.000Who just authorized American missiles to be shot from Ukraine into Russia, putting us closer to World War III than we've been since the Cuban Missile Crisis?
00:56:51.000Because it's clear it wasn't the guy that was on the debate stage, and he's the person that, ostensibly, the American people elected to be the commander-in-chief.
00:56:59.000So we can't let the Democrats skate with this theater.
00:57:02.000I don't think it matters who they put forward.
00:57:03.000We've got to hold them accountable for the damage they've done to the country.
00:57:07.000I think that they're, again, Tim Burchette, who we had on last night, was saying we just can't get complacent because it's not just about the presidency.
00:57:16.000It's about the down ticket races and having a Senate House and also, I would argue, state level offices that are willing to, they want to pursue policies that are really for the American people.
00:57:29.000And I think some of the downside of constantly being on a news cycle that's like, what's going on with Biden?
00:57:34.000Is that there are lots of things happening that we are not paying attention to.
00:57:39.000That being said, it is fascinating to see how many people are starting to feel comfortable enough to say like, oh, no, he's not saying maybe George Clooney just penned an op-ed where he was like, the man who was at the fundraiser I was at three weeks ago was not the same one as 2020.
00:57:53.000Sir, why did you not say something three weeks ago?
00:57:54.000Like, where have you been this whole time, except for the fact that you obviously have some side of clout as a Democratic fundraiser?
00:58:01.000Yeah, I think the not getting complacent is key, because Republicans, we did this in 2022, we said, oh, it's going to be a big red wave.
00:58:07.000Things are trending so badly in the country, people make a different decision.
00:58:10.000Look, the Democrats know how to do very, very tricky things when it comes to getting enough ballots across the finish line.
00:58:16.000That doesn't mean they won the argument politically.
00:58:18.000That means execution-wise, their machinery was able to get ballots across the finish line to get them to the top of the ticket.
00:58:24.000And so I fear they're doing that right now behind the scenes.
00:58:53.000He just burned it all down for no reason.
00:58:55.000That's why I think you should have a statement ready to go.
00:58:57.000If you're going to vote against something like this, you should be like, here is my reasoning.
00:59:00.000I may not agree with it, but you should be prepared to publicly say this is the decision I made before someone has to say, you know, send a reporter or someone at your office to say, why did you vote that way?
00:59:09.000Again, maybe there's a statement I haven't seen.
00:59:54.000I want to know the rest of their voting record, too.
00:59:56.000I mean, I don't know anything about them, so it's hard to say, like, what else or why they would be appealing.
01:00:01.000But again, like, if this is the only way I'm learning about you on sort of a national stage, I really wish that you had posted a statement, because I think we should know.
01:00:10.000Is it a single bill, like a single topic bill?
01:00:39.000He was against it from the get-go, and was like, look, I'll vote on it if it comes up, but I don't know why we're even doing it.
01:00:44.000Like, Biden's doing bad enough by himself.
01:00:47.000And the sentiment was typically reported as, That if Biden's in this scandal already, we don't need to make Garland the boogeyman.
01:00:56.000And if Republicans want to go to Congress and play politics instead of upholding the law, it's exactly why they suck and why everybody—it's why people don't like them.
01:01:06.000It sounds like they got some bureaucrats that are in safe districts assuming they're going to get re-elected because their constituents are heavily— Because if they did it in a soft red, then the populist base would say, later, We're not voting for you, and then the Democrat would win.
01:01:20.000But you get a couple guys in safe red, they can betray the voter base, they can betray the rule of law in this country, and they'll probably end up winning anyway.
01:01:26.000That's sort of because the bureaucracy is tangled with these dudes financially, and they don't want to disrupt the power structure yet.
01:01:34.000They're waiting until they can do a swap, like an Indiana Jones style.
01:01:38.000They need the idol before they can take the sack of gold, or they need this bag of sand.
01:01:43.000So, like, they're trying to – they're like, no, it'll destabilize things too much if we put this through, if we lose our – Merrick Garland goes to jail.
01:02:00.000And he comes out and he's like, you know, I used to agree with my colleagues on the issues and the excesses of the FBI, but you know, once they brought me in the back room, I kind of understood where they were coming from and now I'm on their side.
01:02:10.000And it's like, what, did they smack you up with a sock full of oranges or something?
01:02:26.000If you look at how challenging it was for McCarthy to get elected, 20 plus votes or so, I think it's going to be a fight because look, I mean, I know some Republicans don't like this, but Republicans aren't afraid to have their own internal wars out in public and say, hey, I don't support leadership.
01:02:42.000That can be frustrating to some people sometimes.
01:02:44.000I think it's a good thing because we're actually saying, hey, we are elected to represent people back in our districts and we're going to be accountable to them regardless of what our party says.
01:02:54.000I think it's key that we take a strong majority and we have a good, strong majority of people that are on the new right, populist right, whatever you want to call it, that are actually going to wield power properly and stand up to whether it's Merrick Garland or standing up to the guys in the SCIF.
01:03:08.000I mean, I worked in SCIF for most of my military career and some time in the CIA.
01:03:11.000And it's like the people that they send to the Hill to give briefings.
01:03:16.000They're not just analysts that are giving briefings.
01:03:32.000And so that's very dangerous when you have people that are just going to listen to whatever is put out in the skiff.
01:03:38.000Yeah, I'm a bit demoralized after this.
01:03:40.000I'm not sure how I feel or what's going to get me over that hill again.
01:03:44.000But if two deep red Republicans are going to take a dump on the floor of the House, It's going to take a lot to get me back on track to actually want to vote for any of these guys.
01:04:34.000So I'm just like... I mean, look, I know Riley, so I know at least we're good here, but that's not confidence building for what anyone else is supposed to think.
01:04:52.000I guess I can see why it's discouraging, but I feel like it makes me want to be more careful
01:04:57.000and pay more attention to who I'm voting for.
01:04:59.000Because I think, again, you have to really know who you're sending.
01:05:03.000And especially if, again, I don't know anything about these Republicans, so it's hard for me to comment on their career or their record or anything like that.
01:05:08.000But hypothetically, if you have a Republican or Democrat who's in a district that knows they're going to get reelected, they've been in office forever, it would be easy for the voters and for the candidate to become complacent to take that for granted.
01:05:19.000And it would mean that you have to stay more on top of what they're doing.
01:05:24.000I think so often we get sort of We're so angry with the federal government, and then we should be, but we have the option to try and change it.
01:05:34.000It's so easy to be like, well, I forgot you guys, I'm not going to do anything.
01:05:39.000But then it continues on, like you have to sort of be active to be a part of it.
01:05:43.000We have to make sure that these guys in Ohio, and the guys in California too, I guess, but it's California, so what can you expect from California?
01:05:50.000But Ohio, safe red districts, they need to pay a very serious political price.
01:05:57.000What they have done is one of the most infuriating things, one of the most egregious violations that I've seen in a long time.
01:06:23.000As long as you do your research, you watch the news, you know the man is evil and he's lying to you.
01:06:28.000But these guys are supposed to represent the rule of law and the opportunity for us to vote in a new group of representatives who are going to actually uphold the law.
01:06:36.000And like I said, You want to argue Bannon should be in prison?
01:06:40.000That means Merrick Garland should be as well.
01:06:42.000But they do not uphold the rule of law.
01:06:45.000So whatever that political price must be, I am sick of the political gamesmanship.
01:06:50.000Whatever the argument is where, you know, you mentioned in the SAVE Act, these Democrats try to block the SAVE Act, but as soon as it hits the floor, they get permission to vote in favor of it.
01:06:59.000So they can go back to their districts.
01:07:05.000So whatever the deal was, Johnson going to these guys and saying, just vote to block it, it'll die, and you're going to face no consequences?
01:07:32.000Maybe I make some phone calls and ask some people if they agree we should just put up and just call them corrupt!
01:07:36.000They're not gonna lose their elections, but maybe the guy selling hot dogs on the street corner will tell them to F off and won't sell him a hot dog.
01:07:41.000Or say that they don't want people to have IDs in order to vote.
01:07:46.000This was not holding Garland in contempt for defying congressional authority.
01:07:50.000Maybe they should just come on Culture War and explain themselves.
01:07:53.000I mean, I think that's one of the interesting things about this platform is that you could talk to them directly about it in a way that a lot of people who are as frustrated as you are would want to hear.
01:08:25.000Like, we are in a position where, and we being people who are on the internet, who are interested in the internet, they're able to sort of find information in ways that traditionally you had to just go through the press secretary.
01:08:36.000You had to wait and to see if Fox News had them on.
01:08:38.000And for a lot of congressmen, you know, I hate to say it, but they're just not high enough profile to necessarily get an automatic call from a major outlet.
01:09:08.000It's publicly available, but you have to dig for it as well.
01:09:11.000How their individual accounts, their individual re-election or election campaigns are funded, the PACs that support them, because that's going to tell you a lot about how they're going to vote or how they do vote.
01:09:21.000I also think it says a lot when these people are very, very buttoned up and they only speak through press releases or they'll only go on Fox or CNN for a canned 30-second hit where they know automatically what the questions are going to be.
01:09:33.000The people that won't do in-person town halls where they answer any question from anybody.
01:09:38.000Like my opponent, when she does a town hall in the district, you have to submit the question to the staffer ahead of time.
01:09:43.000It's pre-screened and she communicates through press releases.
01:09:46.000And the candidates and the politicians who won't come on podcasts.
01:09:49.000There's so many podcasts out there right now.
01:09:52.000I try to not say no to a podcast because there's so much soundbiteness out there.
01:09:56.000When you get a chance to actually explain things and just have discussions with people, I think if you're asking to represent The district, or even bigger than that, a state or the rest of the country, you should be open to long-form discussions to show people exactly who you are and how you think.
01:10:11.000I think people are scared of long-form discussions.
01:10:13.000They're like, don't think they can handle it.
01:10:15.000I mean, you should talk about this because you've done so, you have really been active online, but I think it's not as intimidating a platform once you kind of get into it, unless I guess you're really trying to hide something.
01:10:24.000If you're confident in what you believe in, then it's good.
01:10:54.000And I think people are really craving the interaction that you get from podcasts where you can actually get to know somebody and how they think and where they stand.
01:11:01.000And so I think people who avoid those platforms, I feel like that silence is becoming more and more deafening.
01:11:07.000It indicates that they're afraid in that either they have secrets and they don't want them to slip out or that they've done, and I guess they've done some horrible things and maybe those would be secrets that they want to keep.
01:11:18.000When you're free and open, man, it's the easiest thing in the world is to sit and talk to people.
01:11:24.000And it's interesting because you could be selective about it too.
01:11:26.000You could still want the Fox interview, the five minutes on whoever's show, but there are lots of local podcasts.
01:11:34.000I'm sure in whatever state any politician is in, there is someone who has a local podcast that is specifically interested in the political happenings of their state.
01:11:44.000And potentially your congressman coming on that podcast would really assist them and also give you access more directly to your constituents in a way that being on Fox News doesn't really.
01:11:56.000There's sort of another step in between national TV and local TV now because you have these internet-based platforms that can be either national or local.
01:12:09.000Like you want to, if you're a musical artist, you put your stuff on the internet, the entire world sees it.
01:12:13.000Like you're a politician, the entire world knows who you are now.
01:12:15.000I get, I get a lot of young people now at my events that will come up and they've just got their phone and they're like, Hey, I have a podcast that has 50 followers or whatever.
01:12:22.000And you know, well, I try not to say no because I appreciate the opportunity to reach people that I normally wouldn't reach otherwise.
01:12:45.000Because I assure you, Many of them probably don't know what party they are, but their politics align more so in this direction, which is why it's very important that we get rid of the rhinos and bring in people who actually will inspire these young people leaning in this direction so we can win.
01:13:00.000You got someone like Donald Trump, who, like, up against Barack Obama, he probably looks like a crass old man, but up against Joe Biden, he looks like a young, spry, hilarious comedian.
01:13:09.000So, like, I want to play a video for you so you can understand why young people are flocking towards Donald Trump.
01:13:14.000dude, they're going to lean towards Trump if Biden's the other option.
01:13:17.000So the Democrats really have got to put their pedal to the metal and get a charismatic candidate
01:13:21.000in front of the camera immediately or they're going to lose the entire youth base.
01:13:25.000And so they don't have to do that, right?
01:13:27.000Like, it's OK if they don't have a charismatic candidate and they use the like, let it go.
01:13:32.000I want to play a video for you so you can understand why young people are flocking to
01:14:51.000You know, and the rumors where it's like, you know, he hires these beautiful women for these jobs and like in his office, you know, or whatever.
01:14:57.000And then, you know why he's doing it, right?
01:16:04.000You know what he's saying without him even saying it.
01:16:06.000But I think that authenticity on the Republican side, and in particular with younger voters who feel like they've been betrayed by like the ruling class that's talking heads on TV like we were just talking about, I think they immediately bite on the authenticity.
01:16:19.000I mean, somebody reading off a teleprompter in a suit to them, I think regardless of what you're saying, is going to be a major turnoff.
01:16:25.000But if you're up there and you're just talking, you're presenting who you are, I think you're gonna be much more appealing to that younger demographic.
01:16:31.000I do think the Democrats kind of communicate in a lot of just kind of grievances.
01:16:35.000They're kind of guilting you into voting.
01:16:37.000If you're not voting for them, you're a bad person.
01:17:24.000I think Tapper, maybe in that same segment, started referring to these elites in the Democratic Party that have had it with Biden, flat out, in your face, saying, there are elites now.
01:17:35.000It's like in the Romes, they had the plebs, which were the common man, and then they had the, whatever, the autocrats or the authorities.
01:17:44.000And now they're like, just telling you, yeah, there are people that are considered, they consider themselves elites, that they are better than you, and that they run the show and decide.
01:17:52.000It's pretty stark that it's right in your face, but this word elite's been getting thrown around for like 20 or 30 years.
01:17:58.000It's become normalized now, and it's like, bro, they're not elite.
01:18:02.000Elite means that you're good at what you do.
01:18:04.000It doesn't mean that you were born with money.
01:18:05.000It doesn't mean that you have connections.
01:18:09.000It can refer to people who have access to things that you don't either because of financial resources or because of social power.
01:18:15.000I mean the argument that someone is elite could be skill based or it could just actually be a way to reference them socially.
01:18:22.000I think you're right that there is an interesting pivot from someone like Jon Stewart being like the elites as I sit on my national television show, right?
01:18:30.000Like it's always someone else and it's always someone from the outside saying, you know, they're the elite. And I think that was the
01:18:37.000I think there was a level of him being like, yeah, of course I'm elite. I'm a billionaire.
01:18:42.000But people are abusing the rest of you. And I think I'm going to say something. I know
01:18:45.000Dave Chappelle has a bit on that where he's like, he came from inside the house, told
01:18:49.000us what was going on, then went back into the house.
01:18:51.000Exactly. Well, I think Trump also, there's definitely that honesty factor where he's
01:18:55.000just like, yeah, you guys know who I am.
01:18:56.000I'm a billionaire, but I'm telling you, the rest of these guys are screwing you over.
01:18:59.000But I think Trump also hearkens back to our old elites who actually built this country.
01:19:04.000Like you talked about the founding fathers, those guys in their time, they were the elites, they were the ruling class, but they felt that they had an obligation to the people of the country.
01:19:13.000And they felt that their names were directly tied to the country.
01:19:16.000I personally think that that's how Trump views this as well.
01:19:19.000Because he could have just retired to his golf course, never come back, been a billionaire.
01:19:23.000But he views his success as being deeply intertwined with America's success.
01:19:28.000And that's the way our old elites, our old ruling class really used to view their duty to the country.
01:19:34.000And that went way off the rails, probably since the end of World War Two, or maybe even the establishment of the Federal Reserve, like you talked about.
01:19:40.000And our elite started basically just, you know, really only looking out for themselves,
01:19:45.000looting the coffers, abusing their power. And Trump's one of the first guys who came from the
01:19:49.000inside and said, hey, this is wrong and we've got to stop it. And I'll be the instrument to stop it.
01:19:53.000It was like the people that are elite are not actually elite. A lot of them are not like Ben
01:19:58.000Franklin was an elite human being, regardless of his social status.
01:20:50.000The political strategy, which was widely acknowledged at the time, was that Barack Obama as a black man needed an old white man to convince a lot of the older Democrats to vote Democrat.
01:20:59.000Joe Biden was like, you won't believe how old I am.
01:21:18.000Joe Biden is what they're pitching towards Democrats.
01:21:21.000And then they're hoping the progressive younger people will go for, you know, I think you see this with the Republicans, too.
01:21:26.000And they were like, Trump must have a female VP.
01:21:29.000It's like, no, he does not need a female VP.
01:21:31.000I mean, if there's a lady VP who's good and some for some.
01:21:35.000Actual, tangible reason other than the fact that she has a uterus, then fine, but there is this identity politics that comes into it.
01:21:42.000They're like, to balance out the rest of the ticket, we have to cover up for whatever fault you have.
01:21:48.000If you're Joe Biden and you're old and white, then we need someone who is female and diverse and maybe younger, although she's not that much younger.
01:21:58.000Elite people in power, people that were of elite minds.
01:22:01.000I think that would send shockwaves of fear through the imperial strategists that are trying to control the country through bureaucracy that with this federal spy club that they've got going.
01:22:09.000Have you ever, do you know what Myers-Briggs personality tests are?
01:22:13.000You know, they have the letters, the INTJ or whatever.
01:22:15.000I can't remember what it was, but I'll look it up.
01:22:17.000There's a study done that there's a certain personality type that congregates in DC and it's the same personality type that – it's very uncommon and it's what Hillary Clinton is.
01:24:12.000It was a terrible night, and I really regret it happened.
01:24:23.000But the fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're gonna be on, you know, faith that I can intervene on your way to go to, you know, work tomorrow?
01:24:32.000Age, age wasn't, you know, The idea is I'm too old.
01:24:39.000The fact of the matter is, how can you assure you're going to be out on, you know, on your way to go, you know, work tomorrow, age, age wasn't, you know, the idea that I'm too old.
01:24:48.000Keep in mind, that soundbite is supposed to be reassuring to those Democratic supporters who have gone wobbly.
01:24:55.000Did you ever watch the debate afterwards?
01:25:36.000And even then, we later found out, later from the radio host, that the Biden campaign had given her a list of questions to ask President Biden.
01:25:45.000That is a huge no-no in journalism, and the host was fired for it, but it remains quite telling that in the Biden campaign's efforts to show that the president has not missed a step, his campaign felt the need to feed questions to the hosts for a call-in radio interview.
01:26:01.000And the president still, even then, failed to deliver in many of his answers.
01:26:05.000Now, many elected Democrats are expressing concern about this answer, too, although it was quite coherent.
01:26:11.000George Stephanopoulos asking him how he would feel if he ultimately loses to Donald Trump, which polls have suggested he will.
01:26:21.000I feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.
01:26:29.000As long as he gave it his all and did the goodest job he could do.
01:27:02.000I mean, Jake Tapper's, like, fake outrage that he has there, it's like, hey man, where was the outrage when 13 American soldiers got killed during the Afghan withdrawal, when three more got killed defending the border of Iraq, Syria, and Jordan under this commander-in-chief?
01:27:15.000When we decided that we were going to get us into essentially World War III with this disastrous policy in Ukraine.
01:27:20.000I mean, the things that a commander-in-chief should be held accountable for, it's like crickets, but then all of a sudden he has a bad debate and he stutters through some things and says some goofy stuff.
01:27:28.000Now the Democrats are super outraged and now Jake Tapper is really ready to hold him accountable.
01:27:32.000It's all just so fake, it's disgusting.
01:27:34.000Was Tapper even outraged when Joe Biden said, no, American soldiers have died on my watch?
01:27:40.000The other fascinating thing to me here is that Biden can't get any questions that were teed up to him correctly.
01:27:49.000And it's gotten so bad that George Stephanopoulos, who did the post-debate interview, I don't know if you guys saw this, but TMZ had this article, someone stopped him on the street and was like, do you think Biden should run again?
01:27:58.000And George Stephanopoulos was like, no.
01:28:00.000And then later had to be like, oh, I shouldn't have talked about it publicly.
01:28:03.000But you just sat down with this guy and you said that he can't do this.
01:28:11.000I mean, the debate was bad, but it was already evidence that was out there.
01:28:17.000I mean, I know some people will argue Joe Biden's gotten really bad in the last six months, but he was always seeming to have some kind of cognitive, verbal issue.
01:28:26.000I mean, the gaffes were run-of-the-mill.
01:28:34.000You know, with the Afghanistan surrender and the lack of outrage, the route that commenced as a result of that rapid surrender and attempted pullout, had it been like 700 American soldiers got killed, would there be outrage?
01:29:19.000When Hamas launched the attack on October 7th, we saw protesters in Times Square celebrating, and Democrats didn't know which direction to go with it.
01:29:28.000Do we do we sacrifice the little youth vote we have or how old they didn't they didn't know because they're trying not to alienate voters.
01:29:35.000And I mean up to that point we had lost nearly 3,000 Americans in Afghanistan.
01:29:40.000We lost another 5,000 in Iraq and people barely bat an eye because you had regime media like CNN who benefits heavily from the established order in the ruling class in Washington D.C.
01:29:52.000Running cover for the entire nonsense up until Trump comes into office and Trump says, I want to end these wars.
01:29:58.000The next thing you know, Trump is colluding with the Russians who are putting bounties on the heads of American soldiers completely made up.
01:30:03.000They made the entire thing up and admitted it later on.
01:30:06.000But that's the way these people like CNN.
01:30:08.000We'll run cover for the worst abuses of the U.S.
01:30:12.000government, especially with Democrats in control or establishment Republicans, the military industrial complex, basically just the establishment in Washington, D.C.
01:30:21.000These guys are completely disingenuous.
01:30:23.000Luckily, I think CNN is dying because they've just been lying for so long.
01:30:26.000And the same thing with most mainstream media.
01:30:28.000Well, I mean, that was clear that was trying to bring it back.
01:30:31.000That was another big story that we didn't have enough time to get into, but we'll round off this segment with.
01:30:44.000Zucker came in and said, let's take the CNN brand of news and turn it into reality TV garbage that hates Donald Trump and alienate half the country.
01:30:53.000His pitch was basically, we're losing ratings anyway, let's isolate a market and capture it.
01:30:58.000And they went for resistance, far-left lunatics, and now they have one of the highest demographics in terms of their average viewer, and nobody wants to watch.
01:31:06.000Because they're not a news network anymore.
01:31:09.000Do you think their ratings would have been better if Trump had served a second term, like gotten into the White House in 2020?
01:31:16.000Because in some ways it would give them more to be mad about.
01:31:18.000I mean, that's almost one of the things that I wonder about.
01:32:22.000There's a video of him saying that he was getting prescribed this and they made him look sickly.
01:32:27.000And then when he had on, what did he have, like Farid Zakaria?
01:32:30.000And he called him out and he's like, oh, yeah.
01:32:33.000So CNN doesn't deserve to ever come back.
01:32:36.000I think using the word rating, it's kind of, um, it's a, it's a, it's a sign up because when you give something, when you rate something, you're like, Oh, how good is that?
01:32:46.000Not about how many people see the thing.
01:32:49.000There could be a hundred million people watch the show and all give it a one out of 10 because it's, they rate it a terrible, terrible, hate watching CNN.
01:32:57.000They have high ratings because a lot of people watch, but they're actually rated very poorly because the people can't stand watching it and they're afraid.
01:33:04.000They don't come out of it with a good feeling.
01:33:06.000The challenge is that CNN may die, but MSNBC lives on, right?
01:33:11.000I mean, there are more mainstream progressive or left-leaning news outlets than there are conservative or, you know, God forbid we just have a centrist news platform that just gives information of the same size that bring in the same revenue and stuff like that.
01:33:29.000I do think ultimately there can never be an exact competition because the internet has become so prevalent and the alternative – I mean I don't want to say alternative.
01:33:38.000Like podcasting is such a normal thing or having a YouTube-based show or having Rumble or whatever else.
01:33:43.000Like these alternative ways of getting news out there are making it so that CNN, MSNBC, Fox News all have to compete with that.
01:33:50.000They all have started cultivating YouTube channels and putting out clips so that they can get the viewership that's never going to be on the TV.
01:33:56.000They don't even have cable subscriptions.
01:33:58.000CNN, eight years ago, should have started shows like this.
01:34:08.000Oh, it's this Mockingbird media out things where the CIA started this Operation Mockingbird where they wanted to manipulate the public through mass media, Vietnam.
01:34:17.000There was a lot of outrage during Vietnam with the caskets coming back, the American bodies.
01:34:23.000We saw how horrible it was and we stopped it.
01:34:26.000as a society and they're like we can't let that happen again whoever this this uh imperial
01:34:30.000strategist the imperial um five eyes spy club controls the mockingbird media they're like we
01:34:35.000got to take control of this media and now what's happening is the media is competing with its own
01:34:39.000suffering you can't it's not that like rogan's so good let's be like that
01:34:43.000It's like, we are just—now it has become apparent how awful we are as a structure, and holes are appearing within their system, and you're just spurting out the lifeblood of what they needed.
01:34:58.000The people who used to run the Deep State had kids.
01:35:01.000Those kids didn't start the Deep State, the liberal economic order, but they did see their parents maintain it.
01:35:06.000So they kind of understood how to maintain it.
01:35:08.000Then they had kids, and those kids saw their parents maintaining a thing but never building it, and they don't exactly know the intricacies.
01:35:14.000So we're in the third generation of the liberal economic order, and holes have begun to appear, and like the cartoon where the guy's trying to plug the holes in the ship, they don't know how to make it stop collapsing.
01:35:32.000It means to take away the blinder or something.
01:35:34.000I think apo means to take away, and calypso is like a veil, means the veil, so to remove the veil.
01:35:41.000Yeah, DMT, talk about seeing through the veil and stuff.
01:35:44.000We're gonna go to super chats, so if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button?
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01:35:52.000I am really pissed off at the Garland thing because Bannon's in prison right now and he shouldn't be.
01:35:55.000Or at the very least, Garland should be.
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01:36:10.000I'm going to reach out to my agent and my lawyer to take a look at what kind of billboards we can run in these districts and I thought about it and I'm thinking something like Mike Turner does not support law enforcement.
01:36:26.000Maybe for both of them, because they will not support the enforcement of the law and, you know, how they tried to uphold it, equality under the law.
01:36:58.000We've got some news here on our front.
01:37:01.000I talked with the city of Martinsburg about the Skatepark Expansion Project, and they have not yet secured land, but should they, and they're going to begin fundraising, we have already made our pledge to them, six figures, to help support this skatepark expansion in the area.
01:37:16.000I told the guy at the city, we want to make a world-class facility that attracts people from all over the place to come and hang out here, if you guys are okay with that, and he said, absolutely.
01:37:24.000So that's exciting news, and we're going to talk to some big industry partners, see if we can make a big park out here as well.
01:40:52.000When you're not campaigning or raising your children.
01:40:54.000And of course, you all know that I'm a huge fan of Men at Work, so the episode where Colin Haye was playing overkill on the street playing the guitar, and then periodically the song would kick back up.
01:41:04.000And I love the scene where he's hiding in the closet, and he just looks at Colin Haye and he's like, just keep it down.
01:41:11.000And that's when he hits the high point of overkill and he starts belting.
01:41:19.000says, Tim, you've been on one today with your videos.
01:41:21.000I second the calling out of terrible evil and useless people no matter what side they claim to fight for.
01:41:27.000So this is basically like, you know, I could grab a spicy headline and do a segment monologuing about the news and Joe Biden, this, that or otherwise, but the Krasensteins, they're evil people.
01:41:38.000And I did a 25 minute long breakdown of how I define evil, why I think they are evil, what I think evil is.
01:41:46.000The simple version is that There is entropy and there's negative entropy in the world.
01:41:51.000Life seems to try to organize things into complex systems, and the destruction of that is anti-life.
01:42:00.000So for people whose end goal is self-empowerment to the destruction, which would result in more entropy in the destruction of civilization and complex systems, that to me is what evil is.
01:42:11.000And it can be simplified by The Krasensteins intentionally lie to people, pull things out of context, and misrepresent things to trick people into doing things that hurt them.
01:42:20.000They've been accused in the past of harming innocent people, they were raided by the Feds a long time ago, and they were never accused of any crimes or anything.
01:42:28.000But these are guys who go on X, and they're just one example, because he tweeted something like, Trump's a convicted felon, and how could we have come to this point?
01:42:35.000Challenging a man to a golf game, blah blah blah.
01:42:53.000But that's omitted from these people to trick those who are low information or ignorant or not smart enough to fend for themselves, so that their resources can be extracted from them, and it causes them harm in the long run.
01:43:04.000If society functions in that way over a long period of time, it will break down and it will die.
01:43:11.000So I believe that properly informing people and giving them information so they can live a functional, better life, a rising tide lifts all ships and then humans can expand.
01:43:23.000He explicitly stated his intention was to play this social engineering manipulation tactic, where you state something as an aside so that it becomes an afterthought, not part of the actual argument, so that no argument can be made.
01:43:39.000So you see this in the media all the time where they say, Donald Trump, comma, a convicted felon, comma, was recently seen buying tickets to a movie theater.
01:43:46.000And you're like, ooh, the convicted felon thing has nothing to do with the story.
01:43:49.000There's no argument, no context, no information.
01:43:52.000But they put these things in stories as a way to make sure the idea sticks outside of that argument.
01:43:59.000Another way to explain it is, if you go to someone and say, did you know Trump is a felon who did a bad thing?
01:44:51.000And then eventually it began to decay, but it was strong early on, the Roman Republic at least, and then it turns into the Empire.
01:44:57.000The United States has been around for several hundred years, and there's a reason for it.
01:45:01.000Decentralized meritocratic systems with a light nucleus, over time power coalesces, and then eventually you get crackpots who try to extract power and burn the ship down.
01:45:10.000You look at the end history of Rome, and that's what happens.
01:45:14.000People begin to just extract for themselves.
01:45:18.000My take on Ed and Brian Krasenstein is that I think people are like pallets, and that they can do evil and good, and that if that cycle of evil is replicated, if a human continues it over and over, you might say that person is evil, even though what's more accurate is that person commits evil and has done it 78% of the time, and if the evil acts perpetuate, then we're in dire straits. But those
01:45:41.000people can be turned and do good also.
01:45:43.000So I try not to alienate people by putting them in boxes of perception.
01:45:48.000Yeah, but after all this time, you know what I mean? So the point I'm making is when these guys
01:45:55.000post, Donald Trump is a convicted felon, and I can't believe anyone would consider voting for
01:46:01.000How dare he challenge Biden to a golf game?
01:46:03.000There's so much information missing from that, that a person would need to be informed upon to actually improve their lives, and they're doing it intentionally.
01:46:11.000He tweeted he was intentionally doing it.
01:46:15.000Like, a manipulation tactic to just push people.
01:46:18.000He said, we're going to keep doing this and hammering it over and over again, knowing that the context is completely different.
01:46:25.000That Trump never faced due process for any secondary crimes.
01:46:31.000In 2018, the Feds raided their home and seized half a million dollars in cash because their website was running ads pushing people to Ponzi schemes and downloading viruses, according to the Feds, that resulted in their bank accounts being drained.
01:46:44.000Now, I could play this game too, and I could say, Brian and Ed Krasenstein, the guys who were raided by the feds for fraud and for scamming people and destroying their lives and hurting innocent people, accused Donald Trump of impropriety by challenging Biden to a golf game.
01:46:59.000But does that really provide you with enough context as to who these guys are and what really happened?
01:47:10.000How about we play that game, and in every instance I say this, tit for tat, is that the game you want to play, Krasensteins?
01:47:15.000In any instance you want to play this game, as you've stated you will, I will always preface with, you were raided by the Feds because you hurt innocent people.
01:47:22.000Their lives were destroyed, their money was stolen, and it's your fault.
01:47:26.000You know, my question is, can you use that manipulation tactic where you're seeding the premise into the question or into the statement where it's inarguable for good?
01:47:41.000If people are in crazy evil state and you put good things in as a supposition that are unquestionable, The ends do not justify the means because you never meet the ends.
01:47:50.000If you decide that lying and manipulating and controlling people is the path towards your dream vision of what society should be, then you are the evil people.
01:47:58.000But if you just let the evil go by without trying to manipulate it into good...
01:48:03.000I believe that there needs to be some kind of light central nucleus that acts as some kind of restrictive force, but for the most part you want a widely decentralized meritocratic system.
01:48:12.000So you look at the United States, a largely decentralized meritocratic system for a long period of time, but power does coalesce over a long period of time.
01:48:21.000You get the centralization of federal authorities and it leads to a point where the machine just breaks.
01:48:26.000So there's a reason why the United States lasted longer than the Soviet Union.
01:48:29.000The Soviet Union was a hyper-centralized machine state that could not function properly.
01:48:42.000However, you look at capitalist systems and the coalescing of power into monopolies and government authority, eventually it will break down.
01:48:52.000You get revolutions, you get social disorder and collapse.
01:48:55.000But again, to your point, if you think lying to someone to manipulate their behavior into doing something that you think is good is good, you're evil.
01:49:05.000Yeah, but not lying, if it's just truly what I believe.
01:49:07.000If it's like, say, all these people think that cutting up other humans is the right way to do it, and I'm like, well, as we know that being kind to people is the basis of goodness and what we all want, you should do these things.
01:49:20.000And then they don't even question that kindness is the basis of what we want.
01:50:41.000It was supposed to be that a well-informed population could run their country very well.
01:50:46.000And if someone says, I don't want to get, say, my doctor says that I'm high risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, I should not be required to get this vaccine.
01:50:57.000Well, these people would lie to you because it's better that the entirety of society, so say I, do this one thing.
01:51:39.000They are hoping the law ceases to exist so that they can recreate it.
01:51:43.000The moment we stop We stop believing in this system and the Constitution is the moment they say, finally, we've gotten their confidence broken.
01:51:52.000That's what I'm worried about with everything they're doing.
01:51:54.000The point at which people on the right say, there is no system.
01:51:57.000And that's why I'm extremely angry and concerned about these Republicans who did not hold Garland in contempt because they just did it.
01:52:06.000That's a big part of what the left wants you to do, too.
01:52:08.000They want you to say, well, it's all rigged anyway, so I'm not going to vote.
01:52:11.000Or maybe you're going to, you know, Fed post on the Internet or you're going to do something stupid.
01:52:15.000Then they can throw the full weight of the system against you.
01:53:06.000They keep screaming that it's Trump, but I'm telling you, like, anybody who takes five minutes to do a Google search realizes, hey, they've been lying the whole time.
01:53:13.000The easiest way to explain this to your family members when they don't believe you, they're like, no, it's the Republicans who are lying.
01:53:17.000It's like, who in the family told you that Joe Biden was ill?
01:53:25.000And you didn't believe me, and then you watched the debate and you were surprised to learn that the media had lied to you, that Democrats had lied to you, the commercials, all of these things, they were all lying the whole time, and I was the one telling you the truth.
01:57:30.000Viperman says, put this toward the billboards targeting the rhinos.
01:57:33.000Well, again, guys, like, I gotta call my lawyer first.
01:57:37.000And so everyone gets all excited and I'm like, I'm going to call my lawyer and there's going to be like, here are the laws limiting what you can do.
01:57:42.000And it's like, okay, you know, and then maybe we'll do something.
01:57:44.000But I do think a couple of billboards in each district would be, would be cathartic.
01:57:49.000Mike Williams says, buy a billboard truck that you could reuse whenever you want.
01:58:34.000The mayor of Serious Town says, has anyone considered that having schools, which are notoriously led by leftists who dislike tradition in Christianity, teaching children what the Bible is about?
01:59:45.000Yeah, we started homeschooling about a year ago, and it's been awesome.
01:59:48.000If you can do it, I highly recommend it.
01:59:50.000There's a lot of different ways you can get into it.
01:59:51.000But I think pushing school choice at the local level, and then maybe even eventually the federal level, is the way that we break free from that system.