Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Biden Admin ARRESTS Opposition journalists, HE IS NOW PUTIN w. Gen Tony Tata | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 I'm not.

00:00:18.000 They put the guy in handcuffs for no reason.

00:00:22.000 The FBI charging documents over this journalist show that he was doing journalism.

00:00:28.000 This is a crazy story.

00:00:29.000 The Biden administration has ordered the arrest of an opposition journalist.

00:00:35.000 What makes this story so wild, Steve Baker was at January 6th.

00:00:39.000 It has been years and he's not been charged.

00:00:42.000 He was clearly recording.

00:00:44.000 The charging documents outright describe him walking towards the Capitol, recording himself while narrating what is going on.

00:00:51.000 And that's the description of everything he's doing.

00:00:54.000 He is now an investigative reporter for The Blaze.

00:00:56.000 It's a wild story.

00:00:58.000 But something happened a few years later.

00:01:01.000 He began investigating inconsistencies in testimony of Capitol Police officers, and then lo, now he's being charged as if he is a rioter or January 6th participant.

00:01:12.000 It's absolutely fascinating, but man, you know, we did a really great show over on the Culture War podcast this morning about the Roman Empire, so...

00:01:20.000 I'm reluctant to say Biden is crossing the Rubicon because, you know, figure of speech.

00:01:25.000 It's not literal, or it's not even heavily literal in that this may be the point of no return, but it is a major, major, I don't know, inflection point.

00:01:35.000 It's not the first journalist we've seen, but this may be the first journalist who directly exposed lies and potential perjury being targeted in what appears to be retaliation.

00:01:47.000 And they're misdemeanors.

00:01:49.000 We're gonna go through that.

00:01:50.000 That's the big story here.

00:01:51.000 We do have information on the Fannie Willis hearing about disqualification.

00:01:55.000 And then, this is absolutely wild.

00:01:57.000 We're now being told, here we go, corporate press, that if we don't actually go into Ukraine, then we'll have nuclear World War III.

00:02:07.000 Whereas, obviously, if NATO were to actually send troops in Ukraine, you run that risk.

00:02:13.000 Vladimir Putin warning.

00:02:14.000 He has nukes and he will use them.

00:02:16.000 What is the West thinking?

00:02:17.000 We're gonna talk about that before we do, my friends.

00:02:20.000 Big news, Eyes of Advice, our first week out.

00:02:23.000 And I said I was gonna give 1,000 bucks to whoever got closest to the description of what the video was about.

00:02:29.000 I decided to give 2,000, and I commented on those posts.

00:02:32.000 If you are one of those posters, I commented on them.

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00:02:44.000 Because a couple were the closest that I saw.

00:02:47.000 I think one thing most people missed in the music video was the deal with the devil.

00:02:52.000 While a lot of people pointed out correctly, drug addiction, addiction, social media are big components of this, and they all are.

00:03:00.000 There's multiple layers, so for those unfamiliar, we released a music video, Eyes of Advice, had this, you know, pseudo-contest kind of thing.

00:03:07.000 The general theme of the video, if you've watched it, it's on the notes, it's very obvious.

00:03:10.000 There's a guy whose life is good and bright and it's slowly decaying as he keeps going into this world, and then it turns out he's taking drugs.

00:03:18.000 That's the overt and obvious, but there is the more subtle metaphor of, the devil has offered him greatness, he's offered him this deal, come into my world and I'll give you everything you could ever want.

00:03:26.000 And then it ends up destroying his life.

00:03:28.000 So shout out to the couple of people.

00:03:30.000 Two people instead of one.

00:03:32.000 One person mentioned the symbolism of Christianity and the devil and Satan and the things they offer you.

00:03:38.000 And the other person mentioned drugs and social media. I thought that was good.

00:03:42.000 So thanks everybody.

00:03:44.000 It was off the cuff. It wasn't planned. I didn't plan a contest.

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00:05:12.000 Joining us tonight to talk about this and, I don't know, World War III, is General Tony Tata.

00:05:19.000 Great to be here with you, Tim.

00:05:20.000 Who are you and what do you do?

00:05:22.000 Tony Tate is my name.

00:05:23.000 I retired Army Brigadier General, formerly performed the duties of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under President Trump in his last year there.

00:05:36.000 Businessman, Secretary of Transportation for North Carolina, Superintendent of Wake County Public Schools in Raleigh, North Carolina.

00:05:44.000 Former Chief Operating Officer of DC Public Schools.

00:05:47.000 Wow!

00:05:48.000 And I also write novels and I've got my 16th novel coming out this week, Phalanx Code.

00:05:54.000 And it's a story about, you know, think the worst instincts of Google and Facebook and their digital carnivores trying to crush the little guy and de-platform people like everybody sitting around this table.

00:06:08.000 And silence the voices and you've got, you know, think on the other side, maybe X and Musk trying to defend the little guy.

00:06:17.000 And our hero, Garrett Sinclair, gets pulled into trying to help defeat the Phalanx Corporation, which has all these assassin squads out there trying to kill, kill people like, you know, this team right here that are trying to speak truth to power.

00:06:32.000 Man, busy guy, 16?

00:06:34.000 Sixteen.

00:06:36.000 The book over my shoulder is number sixteen.

00:06:37.000 Tell me in the book the guy falls to his knees and he's like, SCREAM THE CODE!

00:06:42.000 Does he scream that?

00:06:43.000 I've been screaming that for like two years.

00:06:45.000 Yeah, so, you know, in the story, the Phalanx Code is actually a kill list, right?

00:06:50.000 That the Phalanx Corporation has encrypted of all the people in the Optimist Project, think Musk and X, that are trying to do D-Phi and D-Y and all of that.

00:07:03.000 And trying to write the code to allow people to decentralize Wi-Fi, decentralize finance, and protect those people.

00:07:11.000 And they're trying to break the Phalanx Code so they can understand who's going to die next.

00:07:17.000 This is gonna be fun.

00:07:17.000 Thanks for hanging out.

00:07:18.000 We got Phil Labonte.

00:07:19.000 All that stuff is great.

00:07:20.000 You know, they say that generals are, you know, once you get to the general officers, like, they're doing it because they want to coast.

00:07:25.000 But you just sound busy as hell.

00:07:27.000 Anyways, I'm Phil Labonte.

00:07:28.000 I sing for the heavy metal band All That Remains.

00:07:30.000 I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary.

00:07:31.000 Ian.

00:07:32.000 Oh, hello.

00:07:32.000 Ian Crossland.

00:07:33.000 Great to be here.

00:07:34.000 We already did our intro, so let's keep moving.

00:07:35.000 Surge.

00:07:36.000 Yeah, let's get to it.

00:07:37.000 Amsterdam.com.

00:07:38.000 We also have an obscene amount of leap year candy.

00:07:40.000 Basically, it's just blue and yellow packaged candies.

00:07:42.000 I've done it with Butterfingers, Starbursts.

00:07:44.000 I'm gonna sound like I'm chewing all the gum.

00:07:46.000 Just push the mic away.

00:07:47.000 Don't eat candy in the mic.

00:07:48.000 Alright, here's the news.

00:07:50.000 No more joking.

00:07:51.000 This is wild!

00:07:52.000 FBI charging documents in Steve Baker's January 6th case show he was working as a journalist.

00:07:58.000 Let's start from the beginning for anybody who doesn't know the context.

00:08:01.000 What we're looking at right now is the Biden administration, it would seem, retaliating against a journalist for exposing inconsistencies in Capitol Police testimony.

00:08:12.000 Let me give you the quick version.

00:08:13.000 Steve Baker is a reporter.

00:08:15.000 He's an investigative journalist.

00:08:16.000 He works for The Blaze.

00:08:17.000 He was working as a journalist, an independent journalist, on January 6th.

00:08:22.000 I have personal friends of mine were there with him.

00:08:27.000 He was there as a journalist.

00:08:30.000 He was ignored by the Feds and the Capitol Police.

00:08:32.000 He was not considered a suspect for years until he started doing reporting on inconsistencies in statements made by certain individuals involved.

00:08:41.000 I'm trying to be a little bit vague, but basically he's speaking out and exposing, as a journalist, corruption in government.

00:08:48.000 All of a sudden, he gets a call, you're gonna be charged.

00:08:51.000 They play dirty games with him, and then finally ordered him to surrender.

00:08:55.000 Today, he surrendered.

00:08:56.000 They put him in cuffs.

00:08:58.000 This is where it gets wild.

00:08:59.000 Now, I can tell you right here, the charging documents even show, and I'll show you all that, but I wanna pull up a tweet here, which, um, I don't know, actually, here we go.

00:09:11.000 Daniel Horwitz says, as you watch them arrest Steve Baker, realize that last November Jackson Green, a climate activist, attacked the Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial in the National Gallery of the Arts West Wing.

00:09:23.000 Yet he was out on the streets undeterred to then paint bomb the exhibit of the sacred U.S.

00:09:29.000 Constitution at the National Archives a few weeks ago.

00:09:31.000 Two-tiered system doesn't begin to describe what is going on.

00:09:35.000 Now take a look at this.

00:09:36.000 In the charging documents, they actually say that he is walking around, I love this, from the exterior steps, he's walking around narrating and recording.

00:09:48.000 FBI charging documents and the arrest of Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker over his coverage of the January 6th protest and riot at the U.S.

00:09:55.000 Capitol show that he was working as a journalist.

00:09:57.000 Charging documents describe Baker working as a journalist while at the U.S.

00:10:00.000 Capitol.

00:10:01.000 The documents state that Baker had been video recording the event and providing commentary as to what had been occurring inside and outside the Capitol building.

00:10:08.000 In Figure 3 on page 4 of the charging document, it states, At approximately 1.19pm, Baker recorded his approach toward a double-fence-manned police line.

00:10:17.000 At the base of the West Plaza, Baker moved past a black damaged half-fence onto steps leading up to the police-positioned bicycle racks.

00:10:25.000 In figure 10 on page 8, the FBI describes Baker as performing the actions of a journalist.

00:10:29.000 This includes the federal agency referring to Baker as a narrator in a video that has been captured from both inside and outside the Capitol.

00:10:36.000 In the video, Baker reports the events that had been occurring, specifically the police killing of conservative veteran Ashley Babbitt.

00:10:42.000 The U.S.

00:10:43.000 Capitol Police Department's response to the riot and city officials announcing that a curfew had been set.

00:10:48.000 Now let's just add one more layer to this.

00:10:51.000 There are dozens of other journalists, some who are even with this guy, as they were covering January 6th, who have not been charged, face no charges.

00:11:00.000 In one instance, one individual, doing the exact same thing in the exact same capacity, didn't get charged, and the speculation is, when he reported this, he called them insurrectionists.

00:11:11.000 And by doing so, they said, okay, you're fine.

00:11:14.000 You're good.

00:11:15.000 But this guy's on the other side.

00:11:16.000 He's an opposition journalist.

00:11:17.000 He covers January 6.

00:11:19.000 He says, here's what's happening.

00:11:20.000 They say, you're under arrest.

00:11:23.000 You're an insurrectionist.

00:11:24.000 My outrage is no longer with the government doing these kind of things because they've been doing them the entire time that President Biden has been in office.

00:11:37.000 They've been doing them Leading up to President Biden getting into office with the essentially opposition inside the government to President Trump and anything he was trying to get done.

00:11:49.000 I am no longer outraged with the government.

00:11:52.000 I am now outraged that people are accepting this and not that there are not enough people standing up and saying this is going to literally ruin our country because if you can't if we If we cannot trust that our government can be trusted at least generally, right?

00:12:10.000 Like, you know now, if the government is dealing with a conservative, you know they are not going to be dealt with fairly.

00:12:18.000 There is no doubt in anyone's mind.

00:12:18.000 100%.

00:12:21.000 And if you do get treated fairly or get treated well, it becomes something worthy of making a remark about.

00:12:27.000 Oh, wow.

00:12:27.000 You know, they actually were nice to him.

00:12:29.000 Oh, wow.

00:12:29.000 Look, man.

00:12:30.000 Kyle Rittenhouse got off.

00:12:32.000 Amazing.

00:12:32.000 No!

00:12:33.000 It should have been plainly obvious and he shouldn't have even been in jail.

00:12:38.000 The idea that the government does not target and attack conservatives, anyone that isn't politically correct, essentially, it is no longer Acceptable to say, oh, we're angry with the government.

00:12:53.000 It is now time to start looking at our fellow Americans and saying, why aren't you paying attention to this?

00:12:58.000 Why aren't, why are you allowing this?

00:13:00.000 Why are you accepting this?

00:13:01.000 But I think, I think that's not, that's not true.

00:13:05.000 When we went over that story yesterday, they did a poll and found 65% of 18 to 24 year olds believe that Donald Trump will shake up this country for the better.

00:13:16.000 You look at the presidential polls, Trump is winning.

00:13:18.000 It's an inversion from where we were four years ago. 0.94

00:13:21.000 I think more and more people are actually paying attention and the hope everyone has is I think the far-left extremists of this country are begging for someone to act a fool, to act out, to help them destabilize the country.

00:13:38.000 And I think the people who are paying attention are listening to shows like this, or shows like, you know, listening to people like Glenn Greenwald, Steven Crowder, and they know we have to muster up everything we can to win in November.

00:13:48.000 Which is, and I want to stress this, I'm not going to sit here and play a game and say November is an election.

00:13:54.000 November is the battlefield.

00:13:56.000 It is political tactical warfare.

00:14:00.000 This means...

00:14:02.000 You have to register as many voters as possible.

00:14:04.000 You have to get your friends and family to vote.

00:14:06.000 You have to, the RNC, which is failing, but people on the right who support Trump, or just any member of Congress opposing the machine, we need to be in the lawfare game 100% filing every piece of paper.

00:14:22.000 Now the one thing that does have me worried is all of the court cases against Trump, and there's nothing in response.

00:14:28.000 So I certainly hope people are paying attention because We need the lawfare on our side right now to get ready for what happens in November.

00:14:28.000 Yeah.

00:14:36.000 Yeah, and this is not the time to, like, maybe you're realizing what's going on is a little bit insane, no matter what political party you adhere to.

00:14:46.000 Talking to your friends about it is not enough right now.

00:14:48.000 You need to speak up publicly.

00:14:49.000 These are the things that make people get in the street and riot, or you use your voice on the internet.

00:14:54.000 Now we don't have to riot as much, because we have internet video, so we can complain and protest on the internet.

00:14:58.000 We don't have to form these dangerous mobs.

00:15:01.000 You've got to be loud publicly about this right now if you want to be one of the ones that spoke up.

00:15:06.000 Yeah, I don't think this is complicated at all.

00:15:09.000 The framers of the Constitution did not trust the government.

00:15:13.000 They believed that the people, we the people, had the right to hold the government accountable, and that's why they wrote the document, particularly about the free press.

00:15:23.000 And right now, the press is not free if you're standing for freedom.

00:15:29.000 There's a corporate press.

00:15:31.000 They're not journalists.

00:15:32.000 They're operatives.

00:15:33.000 They're part of the influence operation that's going on right now.

00:15:37.000 Baker and others, they're journalists actually trying to do what the framers of the Constitution intended for journalists to do, to hold accountable These governments, our government, the federal government, because corruption is rampant and right now we've got the most corrupt federal government we've ever seen in our lifetime.

00:15:59.000 So you served in the Trump administration.

00:16:01.000 How long were you in the army?

00:16:01.000 I did.

00:16:06.000 28 years.

00:16:06.000 It's a long time to serve your country and now to have said what you just said, a corrupt federal government.

00:16:14.000 I can't, I don't even know what the right question is.

00:16:16.000 How does it feel?

00:16:17.000 Like, what's your frame of mind?

00:16:19.000 So, yeah, how I feel, you know, I try to capture it in some of the, you know, this book behind me is in first person and the big dilemma that I see for how I feel and what I capture with Garrett Sinclair and the Phalanx Code is that, is everything that I have done, that Garrett Sinclair fictionally has done, losing people in combat, is it worth it?

00:16:43.000 Was it worth it?

00:16:45.000 And, you know, after the Afghanistan folly that went, you know, when everybody was on vacation, you know, three Augusts ago, and, you know, all of that unraveled so quickly.

00:16:59.000 I had soldiers calling me that had served with me, crying, saying, sir, was this all in vain?

00:17:04.000 They broke a generation.

00:17:07.000 This administration broke a generation of soldiers, 20 years of soldiers, rotating in and out of Afghanistan, believing that they're doing the duty that was asked of them to preserve and protect our nation.

00:17:22.000 And this administration, this Secretary of Defense, this president, abandoned those Veterans by not holding anybody accountable for what transpired, and they fundamentally broke NATO, which I know we'll talk about in a little while.

00:17:35.000 Yeah, can you explain that?

00:17:36.000 We were talking about that before the show, the breaking of NATO.

00:17:39.000 Yeah, so, I mean, when I was the undersecretary performing those duties, I always talked to my You know, Brit, French, you know, other NATO counterparts that we had come in together to NATO or into Afghanistan as NATO.

00:17:55.000 We adjusted together and we were going to leave together whenever that was.

00:18:00.000 And this administration, they just left.

00:18:03.000 They did no coordination.

00:18:05.000 They left 29 other partner nations, allied nations, to fend for themselves.

00:18:10.000 And You know, Afghanistan is a big country with very poor infrastructure, and the Taliban was sweeping across. 1.00

00:18:18.000 I know for a fact there was a lot of anger throughout many, many NATO nations.

00:18:22.000 And so NATO was fundamentally broken coming out of Afghanistan. 0.80

00:18:28.000 And so why do you think Biden and Blinken, etc., did nothing as Russia started moving to the border of Ukraine and through Belarus?

00:18:40.000 What unifies any entity the best?

00:18:44.000 And that's a common threat.

00:18:46.000 And so in the wake of breaking NATO, they saw an opportunity, a political craven opportunity, to do nothing.

00:18:56.000 There was no engagement.

00:18:57.000 There was no conversation.

00:19:00.000 You know, Russia just moved to the border.

00:19:02.000 There was no, you know, summit, try to intervene or stop it.

00:19:07.000 Because it brought NATO together with a common enemy.

00:19:12.000 And then, think about what happened at the very beginning of that war.

00:19:19.000 Biden and Blinken offer Zelensky a ride out because their intelligence was so bad.

00:19:25.000 as bad as it was in Afghanistan. And Zelensky said, I don't need to ride out, I need ammo, man.

00:19:31.000 And so think about that headline, though, if that had been Trump. It would have been,

00:19:39.000 Trump offers to Putin to decapitate the Ukrainian government on the eve of invasion.

00:19:46.000 Instead, these information operatives and the corporate media just let it go.

00:19:53.000 Let me pull up this story so we can get into the foreign policy stuff.

00:19:56.000 We have this from Express.co.uk.

00:19:59.000 NATO warned that giving in to Vladimir Putin could spark nuclear World War III conflict.

00:20:05.000 I love this because what we are being given by the press right now is no option.

00:20:11.000 If we give in to Putin, it's nuclear war.

00:20:13.000 And if we win in Ukraine, it's nuclear war. 0.84

00:20:18.000 So what are any of us supposed to be thinking right now?

00:20:22.000 It seems like, okay, I guess World War III is an inevitability?

00:20:26.000 Well, you know, the information operation going on right now is to get the Congress, to get the United States to support war in Ukraine, perhaps even boots on the ground.

00:20:43.000 But why?

00:20:45.000 Because there's this narrative out there that you gotta stop Putin, and the left has been successful in saying Putin is Trump, Trump is Putin.

00:20:58.000 And so the more they can keep that alive, the more they can beat it over the head and shoulders of the American people for the next nine months.

00:21:07.000 And so that's what they're trying to tee up here.

00:21:10.000 It's a craven political domestic move.

00:21:13.000 It's got nothing to do with Ukraine.

00:21:15.000 It's got nothing to do with Russia.

00:21:16.000 I'd say Biden is Putin right now.

00:21:19.000 Oh yeah, totally.

00:21:20.000 Having multiple journalists arrested.

00:21:22.000 But I don't know if you can provide deeper insights perhaps.

00:21:25.000 Why is NATO and the West so hell-bent on taking Ukraine?

00:21:30.000 Yeah, so I come at this from a pretty defense-oriented thing.

00:21:38.000 I say, what's our vital interest in Ukraine?

00:21:42.000 Well, the vital interest is sort of secondary, because it's the integrity of NATO that is the real U.S.

00:21:49.000 vital interest in Western Europe.

00:21:53.000 So, Ukraine is somewhat threatening that.

00:21:57.000 So, let's make sure that we maintain the integrity of NATO.

00:22:03.000 That doesn't mean go to war in Ukraine.

00:22:05.000 That means doing all the diplomatic stuff you gotta do.

00:22:09.000 Economic stuff you gotta do.

00:22:10.000 Yeah, maybe provide some military stuff.

00:22:13.000 But you work it around the fringes.

00:22:16.000 And you let that play out, and you can't have a conversation today like, where's the diplomacy?

00:22:25.000 I was on some TV show and the anchor snapped back at me when I said, hey, we gotta sit down, we gotta hammer out a deal.

00:22:31.000 We've got to do like we did in the Balkans with Clinton and Wes Clark and draw a line in the sand here and bring in peacekeepers and all of that.

00:22:40.000 And he snapped back at me and said, oh, so you just want to give Putin everything.

00:22:44.000 I'm like, well, why was there not this cacophony of BS when Obama let Russia have Crimea.

00:22:54.000 Was that the more flexibility after the election comment?

00:22:57.000 Right.

00:22:59.000 And so what's the issue now that it's, you know, potential is, and it's all about Trump is Putin, Putin is Trump.

00:23:07.000 That's the lie that they got to keep going.

00:23:11.000 Because they're running on fumes into this election year.

00:23:15.000 And I just got to tell you that the squandering of resources, the potential brinksmanship that's going on here, is all based in domestic politics.

00:23:31.000 Like look at, let's just shift over to Hamas and Israel. 0.81

00:23:35.000 I mean, what's Biden doing in Michigan?

00:23:38.000 Right?

00:23:38.000 He's trying to win the Muslim vote.

00:23:42.000 And he's trying to get Netanyahu not to get his hostages back.

00:23:46.000 He's trying to... They're American.

00:23:48.000 This is something that people forget or ignore or whatever.

00:23:50.000 There are still Americans over there, too.

00:23:52.000 Yeah, yeah, right.

00:23:53.000 There are Americans that are still being held hostage.

00:23:55.000 So anyone that says, oh, you know, ceasefire now, you're literally saying ceasefire and bargain with the terrorists that currently hold Americans hostage.

00:24:07.000 Like, this is insane.

00:24:09.000 Yeah, so we gave six billion for six hostages.

00:24:13.000 And now there are more Americans held hostage by Iran proxies than before the six billion.

00:24:19.000 Unreal.

00:24:20.000 Unreal.

00:24:20.000 My attitude is America first.

00:24:23.000 Right, yeah.

00:24:24.000 But, you know, I don't care about what Israel does or wants to do. 0.92

00:24:28.000 I don't care about Gaza. 1.00

00:24:29.000 Everyone's saying, oh, it's genocide or whatever.

00:24:31.000 You had that airman who lit himself on fire.

00:24:33.000 A hot pocket.

00:24:34.000 We're the United States, okay?

00:24:36.000 Let's secure our border, let's bring back jobs, let's help the people of this country who are working hard every day and wondering why they can't pay their bills, and if there are Americans being held hostage, we rescue them.

00:24:45.000 I like the American First mentality, but with the caveat of, at what cost?

00:24:50.000 Because if it's going to be like, we're going to level everything around us to dust in order to put ourselves, that's not the way to go first.

00:24:57.000 That's so extreme.

00:24:58.000 Exactly.

00:24:59.000 But to even present the idea is so extreme, it's to be unrealistic.

00:25:05.000 We're not going to be like, let's just nuke everybody that's not American because we're American First. 0.96

00:25:08.000 Like, that's ridiculous. 0.94

00:25:09.000 I would hope that we wouldn't invade foreign countries. 0.92

00:25:12.000 We got the nukes.

00:25:13.000 We gotta use them.

00:25:16.000 Do they have an expiration date? 0.99

00:25:17.000 Damn it, we better not waste them! 0.99

00:25:21.000 That's a joke. 1.00

00:25:22.000 Calm down.

00:25:23.000 So some guy in the military's just like, this nuke's gonna go bad in a month.

00:25:25.000 We gotta fire it off.

00:25:26.000 I know that they put expiration dates on body armor so that way they buy new body armor, because that stuff doesn't go bad unless you leave it in the sun.

00:25:33.000 My thoughts with Putin and the war in the Ukraine, what I've been trying to figure out is why, firstly, they took Crimea.

00:25:38.000 I think what they're trying to do is take those freeways, East 97 and 105, that go down into Crimea, and establish like a land bridge east of the Donetsk.

00:25:46.000 So then Putin goes on this Tucker Carlson interview and he's like, Russia, Ukraine is part of Russia from ancient times, and I don't know if he said it needs to be reunified, but he's indicating like a greater reunification war, which is more like Hitler.

00:25:59.000 I never thought that that was the case.

00:26:00.000 I thought it was pure economics, they want that seaport.

00:26:02.000 Tucker said in the intro to the interview that he believes Putin is expressing historic claim to Ukraine as a territory.

00:26:10.000 So if that's the case, okay.

00:26:12.000 But if he just wants Sevastopol, that means that they're going to end up wanting Turkey.

00:26:16.000 Or alliances with Turkey?

00:26:17.000 No!

00:26:17.000 Because they gotta get through the Bosphorus.

00:26:19.000 An alliance with Turkey, maybe.

00:26:20.000 Yeah, an alliance.

00:26:21.000 They need to get with Turkey on good terms.

00:26:23.000 Turkey's in NATO.

00:26:24.000 So like, what is the plan then to take over Turkey?

00:26:28.000 What do you think his plan is?

00:26:29.000 Have you derived a mission?

00:26:30.000 Yeah, so what I think Putin's plan is, everything east of the Dnieper River, he believes that he can secure.

00:26:40.000 He's not there yet.

00:26:42.000 That's like the right third of the map of Ukraine.

00:26:46.000 That's where we're on the center right or in the more to the left to the to the western side?

00:26:50.000 Yeah well the Dnieper comes so you know it's like a football it's about a third of the way from the the eastern boundary from Crimea and so you know it's about a mile wide it's it's you know you're saying everything east that's that's like half the country.

00:27:07.000 Yeah, roughly, one-third.

00:27:10.000 And I think that was his original goal, and I think right now what he wants is the coal, the oil, the natural gas, the Mariupol, the port, and to pull all that together with Crimea and have a little operating base where he's got natural resources.

00:27:27.000 And I think that's what he ultimately wants.

00:27:31.000 I gotta tell you, I've been like all throughout so many different countries, the Balkans, all these different countries that have had the Ottomans, the Turks, the Persians, the Roman Empires crisscrossing.

00:27:46.000 There's a lot of territorial claims out there.

00:27:48.000 I was in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

00:27:52.000 And everybody I would talk to would say, okay, well in 1582 this was, you know, my land and now it's not.

00:27:59.000 And so, I don't know who we are to impose on this being sorted out.

00:28:09.000 I know that from a NATO perspective, we have an obligation to NATO nations because we're part of a collective security arrangement.

00:28:18.000 And to the extent that we have that obligation, we should do what we can to ensure the integrity of NATO.

00:28:29.000 And that ought to be a collective decision.

00:28:31.000 I think, you know, bringing in, you know, Finland and Sweden and, you know, All of a sudden, we took that on, and if Russia pokes into one of those countries, all of a sudden we're Article 5's activated, right?

00:28:48.000 And so there wasn't a whole lot of deliberation.

00:28:51.000 It was just, okay, we're expanding NATO, which in and of its own right is not a bad thing, but When you have a belligerent Russia, you gotta work your way through all this.

00:29:03.000 So I think that, you know, ultimately, look at NATO, do what we gotta do, where's the diplomacy?

00:29:11.000 That's my big question.

00:29:13.000 You got diplomacy, military, economic, we gotta bring diplomacy in there.

00:29:18.000 Blinken is the most incompetent Secretary of State we've ever had.

00:29:21.000 I was just gonna say, it's like we've got Blinken, and you've got actually President Biden himself, like, Who can do it?

00:29:26.000 Because the president is not like the commander-in-chief that's out there making the decisions.

00:29:34.000 Now, I do believe that he's making some decisions because I think he made the decision to do that presser at night when he botched it after the, what news was it that came out?

00:29:45.000 Oh, the doctor came back and said that he, or no, the press release about his biography or whatever.

00:29:53.000 Anyways, If Blinken is as incompetent as he seems, and the president isn't even cognizant, like, who's running the show?

00:30:04.000 Like, who do you think is actually doing it?

00:30:06.000 Because Lloyd Austin isn't there either! 0.99

00:30:08.000 So, like, who the fuck is in Washington D.C. 0.99

00:30:11.000 running the country? 0.99

00:30:12.000 And if there's no one, why can't we just fucking close the whole place? 0.98

00:30:16.000 Right, right, right. 0.97

00:30:16.000 Yeah, well, I mean, I think we all know the answer to that. 0.97

00:30:20.000 Susan Rice is in control at the moment.

00:30:22.000 And it's early, too.

00:30:23.000 It's only 8.30.

00:30:24.000 I'm sorry.

00:30:25.000 Diplomacy.

00:30:25.000 I like this idea because if for some reason, like, the Soviet Union got split up by a bunch of oligarchs in 89, they gave that area of Sevastopol to Ukraine on purpose because they wanted to defeat Russian hegemony in the region.

00:30:35.000 They didn't want Russia to be so powerful, have the Mediterranean as well.

00:30:39.000 So they did that on purpose.

00:30:40.000 Now, if that happened in the United States and we were broken up by some oligarchs and they gave the entire West Coast a strip all the way down the West Coast to Canada and we had no Pacific access, we would have invaded decades ago to get that land back.

00:30:53.000 So that's what Putin's doing.

00:30:54.000 He wants the access to the ocean.

00:30:56.000 So Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are going to seed California.

00:30:59.000 it's going to force Turkey and Russia to come together. So maybe that's why 0.94

00:31:02.000 the U.S., why this alliance is so against giving them that that that Black Sea access? So Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos

00:31:11.000 are going to cede California, is that what you're saying?

00:31:16.000 And that we're going to invade?

00:31:18.000 Yeah, just a thin strip, all the coastlines, so that we can't get into the Pacific.

00:31:22.000 Can I still go surfing?

00:31:23.000 That's my only question.

00:31:24.000 As long as you're friends with the oligarchs, I guess.

00:31:26.000 This is the pitch for the separation of California breaking into two states, is the coastal regions become a state.

00:31:35.000 You know, a lot of people initially were saying it would be like the North and the South of California would become North California, South California.

00:31:41.000 No, no, the actual argument right now is the coastline is its own state.

00:31:44.000 Congratulations, you get what you want.

00:31:46.000 And then the eastern farmland becomes its own state.

00:31:48.000 And the only problem with that is those cities would all starve to death.

00:31:52.000 Right.

00:31:53.000 I mean, not if it became their own state, they would just not have a good time of producing resources and generating They got a bunch of income with Silicon Valley and with the entertainment industry.

00:32:05.000 I was talking to my buddy about the homeless problem in California.

00:32:09.000 I'm like, look, California has plenty of money to handle the homeless problem.

00:32:13.000 California has plenty of authority to pass all the laws they want.

00:32:15.000 California can handle it.

00:32:16.000 If California wants to take care of that problem, they can take care of it. 0.84

00:32:18.000 Who am I to say anything about it?

00:32:20.000 Whatever.

00:32:21.000 But, you know, back to the situation with NATO and stuff, like, the point of NATO isn't to say, don't get close to NATO or we'll start a fight.

00:32:32.000 It's to say, don't invade NATO countries.

00:32:35.000 So, like, the idea that we have to engage Russia because they invaded a country that borders a NATO country, I mean, like, Is that even, I mean obviously that's something we can't do, but I mean we have to, I just don't understand what the thought process is with trying to pick fights when NATO's there for a reason.

00:32:55.000 It's a great question.

00:32:56.000 In the military you have a thing called an area of operations and you have what's called an area of interest.

00:33:01.000 Ukraine would be in the area of interest and I hope it stays there and it doesn't become in the area of operations so it's an area where you collect intelligence you figure out what's going on you can you try to determine second and third order impacts and and you do what you can to preserve and protect your area of operations in position to make sure nothing impacts your area of operations and that's what what I have consistently advocated for in this conflict.

00:33:32.000 I don't want one American boot on the ground in Ukraine.

00:33:37.000 I don't want one son or daughter, mother, father, etc.

00:33:41.000 to be killed in Ukraine for any reason whatsoever. 0.51

00:33:47.000 Right now it does not fall within the legitimate, vital U.S.

00:33:54.000 interests that are codified in the National Defense Strategy.

00:33:58.000 It's just not there.

00:33:59.000 Like, giving up all those resources, that's okay?

00:34:02.000 Like, national defense-wise, it's okay to lose that?

00:34:07.000 What are we losing?

00:34:09.000 Exactly, because technically Ukraine's not an American puppet state, technically.

00:34:13.000 But realistically, with Burisma, I mean, they've been working together with the Bidens.

00:34:17.000 Well, I mean, we've shut down and limited, restricted energy production in this country so we could buy it from Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.

00:34:30.000 The you know the America first policy is to expand energy production so we don't have to have people in the Middle East and and we can begin to look more inward and fix our domestic policies and I fully support that and the insanity. 0.99

00:34:46.000 of shutting down energy production in the United States, going from net exporter to net importer, importer from rival nations like Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.

00:34:57.000 It's just upside down.

00:35:00.000 It's insane.

00:35:02.000 And the media does nothing to expose it.

00:35:05.000 It's really counterproductive, and it's a national security issue.

00:35:10.000 And I'll just give, for the normies that play video games, if you're playing a game Civilization, and you're importing all your oil, you have battleships, cruisers, submarines, bomber planes, and you're importing your oil from countries that then declare war on you, your equipment stops working.

00:35:25.000 All of it.

00:35:25.000 This is fantastic.

00:35:26.000 I really do think Civilization should be required teaching in schools.

00:35:30.000 I'm not kidding.

00:35:31.000 You get some, you know, 13-year-old boys, and you say, play Civilization, and they're like, school's awesome.

00:35:37.000 But what are they going to learn?

00:35:39.000 Dildos.

00:35:40.000 In civilization?

00:35:41.000 No, that's what they're going to learn instead of civilization.

00:35:43.000 I'm saying, if you give them civilization, that's the point, what are they going to learn?

00:35:47.000 They're going to learn that, so you start the game off as a nomadic tribe, you build your cities, you expand your borders, But you don't know where the oil is, you don't know where the nuclear, uh, the uranium is because your civilization has not discovered it.

00:36:01.000 What happens?

00:36:02.000 When the game advances to a certain point and your scientists discover uranium, you find you have none.

00:36:08.000 The guys next door do, and they're building nuclear weapons. 0.79

00:36:11.000 So what do you do?

00:36:12.000 The game gets wild.

00:36:14.000 You, you, like, either they're gonna bomb you or you're gonna invade them, and I think you learn a lot.

00:36:18.000 When I was a kid, I had Civilization II, and I learned a whole lot getting pissed off playing, being like, WHY ARE THEY INVADING ME?! !

00:36:24.000 And they didn't even have the same kind of resource development as the modern one does, but it's like, because you have access to things they want.

00:36:31.000 Like, your country could be cutting them off from water access, and they're going to stampede through to take what they want for their people. 0.95

00:36:38.000 Did you, when you were serving as a general, or I don't know what your career promotion rate was like.

00:36:44.000 Track record.

00:36:45.000 What, like, was it, were you full on, like, what we're doing in the Middle East is good in the early days?

00:36:49.000 Did it feel good, like, after 9-11?

00:36:52.000 Or did it seem like...

00:36:53.000 It was more conquistador.

00:36:55.000 Yeah, so I'll tell you.

00:36:56.000 I was commanding in the 101st Airborne.

00:36:59.000 I had my troops in Kosovo doing that sort of low-intensity conflict mission.

00:37:06.000 We were, you know, we were fighting and 9-11 happened while I was over there.

00:37:13.000 And the commander of the 101st Airborne says, okay, you're coming back in November and you're going to do some quick training.

00:37:20.000 You're going to go to Afghanistan. 0.99

00:37:22.000 And so we were in that quick training and he comes down and it was January of 2002 and I was in Louisiana about to wrap up training and we were supposed to go to Afghanistan.

00:37:33.000 He says, you're not going to Afghanistan, you're going to Iraq.

00:37:36.000 I'm like, What's in Iraq?

00:37:38.000 There's nothing in Iraq. 0.96

00:37:39.000 It makes no sense.

00:37:41.000 He says, that's what we're doing.

00:37:43.000 And so I actually, being a writer, I went home and I wrote a couple of pages just to sort of get it on paper.

00:37:50.000 And the essence of it was, it just makes no sense.

00:37:55.000 the one time our country asked for a head on a platter with Osama bin Laden 0.96

00:37:59.000 and we're going to squander the goodwill of the people that want that vengeance, for lack of a better term,

00:38:10.000 and they want Osama bin Laden's head on a platter.

00:38:17.000 And we take that goodwill and we direct it at Saddam Hussein. 0.95

00:38:23.000 I felt like Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, they were dead set on doing that.

00:38:29.000 I think it was the wrong thing to do.

00:38:31.000 It forever changed.

00:38:34.000 Middle East policy US policy in the Middle East and Set us on a path that today we're still dealing with put us for 20 years in Afghanistan killed, you know thousands of soldiers maimed thousands of soldiers and I'm not I was never happy with that but I saluted and moved out and I did my military duty and But, you know, I've got that document today and I just, you know, I went home and I vented because we were supposed to go and serve justice to Osama Bin Laden.

00:39:11.000 And instead, we used all that goodwill of the American people to go to Iraq.

00:39:16.000 Where do you think we're heading?

00:39:18.000 I mean, there's big talk of World War III.

00:39:20.000 It's been non-stop for the past year.

00:39:22.000 Well, I think with this group, with Biden and Austin and Blinken in charge, I think there's a real potential that things could get even more out of hand.

00:39:36.000 I talked about the Afghanistan intelligence miss, the Ukraine intelligence miss, the Hamas intelligence miss.

00:39:48.000 What's the one thing that, you know, hasn't manifested yet?

00:39:51.000 And that's our border.

00:39:53.000 That's a huge intelligence miss, right?

00:39:56.000 As bad as these people are with Afghanistan, with thinking that, you know, offering Zelensky a ride out, the exact opposite instinct on Ukraine, that, you know, we have agreements with Israel, and we miss that as much as they miss that.

00:40:15.000 And so, the border.

00:40:18.000 What don't we know right now?

00:40:19.000 Because that's just been wider.

00:40:21.000 Millions of people coming in, and you got this president going to, taking Texas to court to try to stop them from stopping people from coming in.

00:40:34.000 And so how is that going to manifest?

00:40:36.000 Where is it going to manifest?

00:40:37.000 That's the one thing that really worries me.

00:40:40.000 And then you've kind of got sleeping over in the Pacific, China-Taiwan, And I'm not sure how that's going to manifest itself.

00:40:49.000 I think China's a pretty crafty player. 0.93

00:40:52.000 They may try to do more of a soft takeover like they did with Hong Kong, as opposed to, you know, nuke it.

00:40:59.000 Because what happens if we lose Taiwan Semiconductor that makes a good chunk of the world's semiconductors?

00:41:07.000 There's one thing that we haven't really touched on, but it seems to be a recurring theme, is what's going on at CIA?

00:41:17.000 Why does CIA not know about Ukraine?

00:41:20.000 Why did they get left flat-footed on Ukraine?

00:41:21.000 Why did they get left flat-footed with the attack in Israel?

00:41:25.000 And does it have anything to do with things like DEI, which everybody's terrified that it does have something to do with that, first of all?

00:41:30.000 And second of all, is it also Is it something that you believe a new administration could change, or is it something that, because of the way that DEI works, it gets into your human resources departments, is it something that you need to really clean out the entire bureaucracy to fix?

00:41:47.000 You know, there's a lot of stuff.

00:41:49.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:41:49.000 No, I think Vivek Ramaswamy makes a lot of sense when he talks about, you know, getting rid of, you know, one of every three people or whatever.

00:41:56.000 And I think there's a lot of merit to that.

00:41:59.000 I think you've got to come in and be ruthless about your federal government, your bureaucracies, because they are bloated.

00:42:06.000 They are, you know, serving, they're self-licking ice cream cones where they serve themselves essentially.

00:42:14.000 With regard to DEI and all that, of course, that's impacting performance everywhere, where we're focused on how people feel as opposed to the raw facts about, okay, what's our national interest?

00:42:27.000 How are we going to get it done?

00:42:29.000 Let's get it done work all night until you got it done and because the thing is if we're gonna hate CIA Let's hate CIA because they're doing things that help America as opposed to things that hate that hurt America Yeah, let me let me let me play this clip.

00:42:41.000 This is from 2021.

00:42:41.000 I hope I have the right one I'm gonna play it anyway I used to struggle with imposter syndrome, but at 36, I refused to internalize misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.

00:42:54.000 I am tired of feeling like I'm supposed to apologize for the space I occupy, rather than intoxicate people with my effort, my brilliance.

00:43:04.000 I am proud of me.

00:43:05.000 Full stop.

00:43:07.000 My parents left everything they knew and loved to expose me to opportunities they never had.

00:43:13.000 Because of them, I stand here today a proud first-generation Latina and officer at CIA.

00:43:21.000 So this is just one of these woke commercials?

00:43:25.000 What year is it?

00:43:26.000 This is 2021.

00:43:28.000 You gotta fight the patriarchy, you know.

00:43:30.000 The patriarchy has convinced her that she can't do it.

00:43:32.000 Wait, did Russia go into Ukraine?

00:43:35.000 22.

00:43:35.000 22, and that was in February?

00:43:37.000 Yeah, and then there was the thing in October.

00:43:41.000 Yeah, that worked out real good.

00:43:44.000 Real good.

00:43:47.000 Yeah, and it's either incompetence or intentionally... It's intentional.

00:43:51.000 Like, they're just like, just let them attack so we'll have a reason to build up our military to fight back.

00:43:55.000 Well, I mean, why?

00:43:57.000 There's more.

00:43:58.000 Can I play more for you guys?

00:43:59.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:44:00.000 There's more here.

00:44:02.000 When I was 17, I quoted Zora Neale Hurston's How It Feels to be Colored Me in my college application essay.

00:44:09.000 The line that spoke to me stated simply, I am not tragically colored.

00:44:13.000 There is no sorrow damned up in my soul nor lurking behind my eyes.

00:44:17.000 I do not mind at all.

00:44:19.000 At 17, I had no idea what life would bring, but Sora's sentiment articulated so beautifully how I felt as a daughter of immigrants then and now.

00:44:28.000 Nothing about me was or is tragic.

00:44:31.000 I am perfectly made.

00:44:33.000 I can wax eloquent on complex legal issues in English while also belting guayaquil de mis amores in Spanish.

00:44:41.000 I can change a diaper with one hand and console a crying toddler with the other.

00:44:46.000 I'm a woman of color.

00:44:47.000 I am a mom.

00:44:49.000 I am a cisgender millennial who's been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

00:44:54.000 I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise.

00:44:59.000 I am a walking declaration.

00:45:00.000 Sounds like it is.

00:45:01.000 A woman whose inflection does not rise. 0.99

00:45:03.000 Okay, we get it.

00:45:04.000 The CIA is woke.

00:45:05.000 This is what, this is their recruitment videos.

00:45:08.000 This is why they're getting the rug pulled out from under them on all these things. 1.00

00:45:11.000 They are moronic. 1.00

00:45:13.000 And the scary thing is... 1.00

00:45:16.000 Their interests, the interests of woke people are absolutely in misalignment with this country.

00:45:21.000 And anyway, you cut it.

00:45:23.000 So why is the border completely open and the country being ripped to shreds and Gen Z struggling to pay their bills? 1.00

00:45:28.000 Because of woke CIA.

00:45:30.000 You're 100% right.

00:45:31.000 I was talking about this on PCC a little bit today.

00:45:34.000 That's Pop Culture Crisis.

00:45:36.000 Yes, Pop Culture Crisis on every day at 3 on the YouTubes.

00:45:40.000 PopCultureCrisis.com Right now we're starting to see the crisis of competence in a lot of places, so I think that we all think that, you know, this is part of the reasons that CIA has problems.

00:45:54.000 It initially started in the entertainment industry.

00:45:57.000 You saw it where people were complaining about video games being uncreative, unoriginal, complaining about the way the characters were drawn, and then They responded and you start having these big games come out that aren't done when they get released and they have to be updated and blah blah blah.

00:46:12.000 People are unhappy with them.

00:46:14.000 Same thing is happening with the movie industry.

00:46:16.000 They keep putting out remakes that aren't as good, degrading quality and stuff like that.

00:46:22.000 It's because of the fact that you end up with people that are unqualified to do jobs getting hired to do jobs because their friends end up in the human resources department of this.

00:46:33.000 Now, this is happening in, this is obviously happening in the military.

00:46:38.000 It's happening at CIA.

00:46:39.000 It's currently, there was, there is, I saw the the stuff coming out about the plagiarism at Harvard.

00:46:46.000 That is directly connected to the DEI stuff.

00:46:48.000 The There is a problem at Stanford University, the medical university in California, I believe.

00:46:55.000 Ben Shapiro was talking about it.

00:46:57.000 There's problems with kids not knowing the courses or the basics and stuff that they need to know in high school.

00:47:06.000 All of this stuff comes back to the fact that we are taking a portion of time that people are supposed to be given to one particular discipline, right?

00:47:17.000 whether it be flying airplanes, air traffic controllers, or intelligence, or whatever it is,

00:47:23.000 that discipline is now being, the time that's supposed to be dedicated to that discipline

00:47:29.000 is now being eaten up by DEI and by critical theories and social justice stuff,

00:47:34.000 and those kinds of programs do not get smaller.

00:47:38.000 They only eat more and more and more of your time and funding,

00:47:42.000 and that means your intended discipline or whatever continues to fail and have more and more problems.

00:47:49.000 And this is exactly the reason that socialist countries fail.

00:47:53.000 Their economies fail because they are not productive, because they end up eating up the time trying to make sure that everybody is a good communist or a good socialist.

00:48:02.000 This has happened multiple times in history.

00:48:04.000 You've got all kinds of examples of it.

00:48:06.000 Yeah, Canada's calling for, or was it the Toronto Star or whatever the paper was, calling for food price regulation?

00:48:14.000 Yeah.

00:48:15.000 We know where that goes.

00:48:16.000 There was someone talking about that, what's her name, in New York, the New York AG was talking about the climate crisis and beef and stuff like that.

00:48:25.000 Oh, she's going after a beef manufacturer because beef is bad for the environment. 1.00

00:48:30.000 Listen, if you let the government get in total control of food production, millions of people will die.

00:48:37.000 That happens every single time the government gets in control of food production.

00:48:41.000 There has been famines every single time in history.

00:48:44.000 But I gotta tell you, there's a lot that has been going on in this country that people won't fight for.

00:48:49.000 But if you take away a man's cheeseburger, I really think you might be asking for trouble on this one. 0.99

00:48:55.000 Because I mean, if I went to a restaurant and I said I would like a medium rare cheeseburger and they said, is an impossible burger good?

00:49:03.000 I would say no.

00:49:06.000 No, it's not.

00:49:07.000 You guys are, you're talking about, like, what you were just talking about, Phil, is kind of like incompetence at the CIA, which could be leading to, like, inability to collect data and intelligence.

00:49:14.000 I'm concerned with the more nefarious, like, you know, the easiest thing to do would be let's let them just attack a little part of our country.

00:49:21.000 A few thousand people are going to die, and that'll give our entire nation Cass's belly to declare war and focus the force of our GDP on anything we want and make so much money. 0.88

00:49:31.000 And God bless those 3,000 sacrifices.

00:49:34.000 And I don't know if that's what's going on.

00:49:36.000 I'm concerned that that's where this country's been in the last decade.

00:49:40.000 20, 23 years.

00:49:41.000 I get that vibe with 9-11.

00:49:43.000 I don't like that they had to stand down that morning and immediately went into Iraq, Afghanistan, and sold all that metal off to China in three weeks.

00:49:49.000 Immediately, all that evidence.

00:49:51.000 And then now we're seeing seven hours in Israel.

00:49:53.000 Hamas is tearing them up for six, seven hours with no response.

00:49:58.000 I think the DEI stuff is way more dangerous because they're using it to get justification to, essentially, to get into every aspect of your life.

00:50:08.000 If they're going to use the climate and climate justice is what they're going to call it.

00:50:12.000 They're going to call it climate justice.

00:50:13.000 It's going to be connected to all of the left-leaning stuff.

00:50:17.000 It's going to be connected to all the left-leaning stuff.

00:50:20.000 If they're going to use that, that's way more of a threat than a false flag.

00:50:23.000 It's more of a chronic threat, that behavior, but the acute threat would be the false flag that gets everyone in a moment to sign on the dotted line to go send the... DEI, critical race theory, Green New Deal, all of this, it's just Marxism.

00:50:40.000 And it's led to this recruiting crisis that we face today because, you know, having run large school systems and, you know, parents vote with their feet, kids, you know, teenagers vote with their feet.

00:50:56.000 If they love what you're doing, They're going to come, they're going to be in your school.

00:51:00.000 If not, they're going to go to charter or private or whatever.

00:51:03.000 Same thing with the military.

00:51:05.000 If the military unifies, offers a positive message, and is focused on a good mission, You're going to get oversubscribed.

00:51:17.000 If what it is is divisive, you know, here, swallow this ideology, go get six shots, then it's going to do the exact opposite.

00:51:29.000 What are the, you know, we saw this Courage to Serve Act.

00:51:32.000 They want to give these criminal aliens coming across the border citizenship by joining the armed forces. 0.67

00:51:39.000 Was there ever talk of that?

00:51:40.000 Do you see that as a possibility?

00:51:41.000 Yeah, there'd have to be significant vetting.

00:51:43.000 I know that there are some.

00:51:46.000 Well, you say there'd have to be, but of course there would not be.

00:51:51.000 Right, right.

00:51:51.000 Oh, you mean if it was going to be good!

00:51:54.000 No, we're not talking about that!

00:51:56.000 Yeah, well, I mean, to make the mission, you know, they'll do whatever.

00:52:01.000 But I do know that in my commands I've had, you know, these, they call them dreamers and that kind of thing, that come in and they serve and, you know, many of them are very good.

00:52:13.000 They've got to be mentally fit, physically fit, and they do get their citizenship that way.

00:52:20.000 But they've been there for a while, they've got the proper documentation.

00:52:24.000 I think they're going to send them all to Ukraine. 1.00

00:52:26.000 you know, the wholesale, you know, these are all military age males.

00:52:31.000 So, you know, keep, keep your friends close, your enemies closer, you know,

00:52:36.000 but I, I, I think that with this, I think they're going to send them all to Ukraine. 0.97

00:52:41.000 I mean, I don't, I don't know how likely that is, but it really is problem.

00:52:46.000 It's a problem that solves itself.

00:52:50.000 You get millions of fighting-age males crossing the border at a time when you're like, we've got a military deficit, we need troops in Ukraine, here's what they can do.

00:52:57.000 Load up all of the fighting-age males, make promises to them, drop them off in Poland and say, oh jeez, they're not Americans. 0.96

00:53:04.000 But think about this.

00:53:05.000 If these illegal immigrants end up fighting in Ukraine, the U.S. 0.98

00:53:08.000 just says they're not Americans.

00:53:10.000 It's nothing to do with us.

00:53:13.000 We're not fighting there.

00:53:15.000 And it's not NATO either.

00:53:17.000 These are Guatemalans.

00:53:18.000 With all American gear, just no American flags.

00:53:20.000 They stole our equipment.

00:53:22.000 Tell me you're advocating Guatemala invading Ukraine.

00:53:25.000 I mean, look, we have quote-unquote volunteers, Americans volunteering to fight in Ukraine.

00:53:30.000 It's like, come on. 0.88

00:53:31.000 Like, as if Russia is going like, DRAT.

00:53:34.000 These American veterans who are being paid to fight in Ukraine.

00:53:37.000 If only they were actually on paper American soldiers so that we could declare war. 0.85

00:53:41.000 No, Russia knows exactly what's going on.

00:53:43.000 So I want to excite people to apply for the military.

00:53:46.000 And I'm thinking like, what are some good ideas?

00:53:48.000 One is like, super soldier program.

00:53:50.000 You want to get like, bionic implants?

00:53:52.000 You want to get CRISPR technology?

00:53:53.000 You want to run, you know, three minute miles, breathe every 20 minutes, see 7,000 feet in 2020?

00:53:58.000 There are laws against that stuff.

00:54:00.000 Yeah, but the Chinese are doing it, so we need to counter that and be public about it to increase the rates of the military. 1.00

00:54:08.000 I hear what you're saying.

00:54:09.000 The only problem is if the current military was to offer some kind of CRISPR technology or like gene editing super soldier program, it would be like to make your skin darker.

00:54:20.000 Or something like that.

00:54:20.000 Yeah, it would be simple things.

00:54:21.000 Do you regret being white because of your privilege? 0.85

00:54:23.000 We can change that.

00:54:24.000 I think taking less breaths, needing less oxygen, seeing further, having better hearing.

00:54:28.000 They're not going to do that, though. 0.99

00:54:29.000 And they're also going to make you dumber.

00:54:30.000 Yeah, like, also, like, if this stuff was possible, I mean, I understand that it's still, you know, something that they're thinking of, but, like, if it was possible to, like, fix someone's eyesight or give someone better eyesight, think of how much money Like, you could make, by just making that available to the public. 0.96

00:54:46.000 Because I had some laser beams shot in my eyes to fix my vision.

00:54:51.000 If I could get my vision fixed without that, or if I could have, I would prefer to not have gotten laser beams shot.

00:54:56.000 Yeah, I can see why they would want the tech to be secret.

00:54:59.000 Well, the thing is, if they had that kind of tech, like CRISPR tech and stuff, not that it's not coming, I just don't think that it's here now, and I think that you're talking about stuff that's still a couple decades away.

00:55:09.000 Yeah, be part of the prototype.

00:55:10.000 Be the prototype.

00:55:11.000 That would be the message, you know?

00:55:13.000 It shows the super soldier.

00:55:14.000 Either that or, like, just global peacekeeping missions where we go around building wells and, like, solar-powered water condensation for countries that don't need it, necessarily, that don't ask for it, but we're there to help anyway.

00:55:24.000 Like, use the military to create goodwill.

00:55:27.000 We already do a lot of that.

00:55:28.000 I mean, what I would say, even in Afghanistan, you know, 80% of combat is building wells, building schools, diplomatic relations, the young private, the young sergeant, the young lieutenant out there acting as an ambassador for the country, and they do a fantastic job at that.

00:55:46.000 So when we are deployed in mass and scale, that's the big effort is to build infrastructure because part of the exit strategy is to leave it better than we found it, let this entity stand up on its own and execute.

00:56:04.000 And so that's the goal. 0.96

00:56:08.000 But when you have a folly like Iraq, in my opinion, You know, now it's Shia Muslim, and there's a land bridge into Israel through, you know, it used to be the Persians and the Arabs were fighting right at that border there, and what we did through, you know, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and Cheney's idiocy is eliminate that! 0.98

00:56:38.000 We eliminated the major hedge against the Persian hegemony on the Arabian Peninsula, and now what we have is Hezbollah, Hamas, Shia militia groups in Syria, Iraq, and the Houthi rebels. 0.81

00:56:54.000 Hezbollah's Persians? 0.99

00:56:55.000 No.

00:56:57.000 They're supported by Iran.

00:57:00.000 Iran okay this year. Yeah, they're they're all Shia Muslims, okay 1.00

00:57:04.000 So is what I'm sorry When we debase the bath party in Iraq is basically when 1.00

00:57:11.000 they all just went and created a paramilitary Shia organization and that's what we have now is ISIS 0.97

00:57:16.000 Yeah, well, Sunni is ISIS. 1.00

00:57:21.000 ISIS is Sunni. 0.95

00:57:22.000 And ostensibly that's why we still have some troops over in Syria and Iraq, up in the Kurdistan area and so forth, to defeat that.

00:57:32.000 The major point here is that this destabilization going on in the Middle East is fueled by Iran, in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. 0.52

00:57:47.000 I mean, they're disrupting supply chain through the Red Sea, where Maersk, the biggest shipping company in the world, is saying, I'm not moving through there.

00:57:56.000 So Trump was planning on, he's had a timeline for a withdrawal out of Afghanistan.

00:58:01.000 Do you believe there was a way to do that properly?

00:58:06.000 What's your vision for how we could have worked this?

00:58:09.000 Well, I was there, I was part of that, and we, you know, around Christmas time we said, We got 29 other partners there.

00:58:20.000 Let's go to 2,500 people.

00:58:23.000 The plan is to go to Bagram and then we can collapse from there.

00:58:27.000 I was even advocating for bringing in the 82nd Airborne to the three major areas, allow for NATO partners to move in, and then you collapse and you collapse everything up at Bagram.

00:58:42.000 And you either hold Bagram And cut a deal with the devil there, so you got some real estate, it's a major platform, we put in hundreds of millions of dollars there, or you get out of Dodge.

00:58:54.000 But if we would have kept air power there, we could have prevented this Taliban overrunning Instantly. 0.99

00:59:06.000 Instantly.

00:59:08.000 I mean, I had my helicopter shot up in the Korengal Valley.

00:59:12.000 The one thing a general can do in a captain's base camp, I got on the radio, and I said, we're in a dogfight right now.

00:59:19.000 In five minutes, I had a B-2 bomber, two A-10s, and two Apache helicopters.

00:59:25.000 Wow.

00:59:25.000 And that captain said, sir, you can fight with me anytime.

00:59:29.000 That's the most immediate delivery of ordnance ever.

00:59:34.000 The general has called and said, get a fast mover in the air.

00:59:38.000 They're up there real quick.

00:59:40.000 But my point is, like, as, you know, these Taliban convoys going around the country could have easily been stopped in their tracks to support the army that we had trained.

00:59:54.000 Why did they abandon Bagram in the middle of the night?

00:59:58.000 Yeah, because, you know, everybody in this administration was on vacation and they're incompetent and they, you know, even... It sounds intentional.

01:00:06.000 I mean, I don't know how you accidentally do that.

01:00:07.000 Yeah, I just think that, you know, everybody was... So part of the drill was Austin purged every board.

01:00:16.000 So there's lots of boards in the Pentagon.

01:00:19.000 There's a Defense Policy Board.

01:00:21.000 There's an Acquisition Board.

01:00:22.000 There's a Technology Board.

01:00:24.000 And, you know, like on the policy board was Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger, and a bunch of other names, and Tony Tata was added by President Trump.

01:00:32.000 I'm sorry.

01:00:34.000 He purged all of those, and what did that do?

01:00:40.000 It ensured there was no overlap, because they didn't value the hard work that all of us had been doing.

01:00:49.000 And they assumed arrogantly that they knew everything and they knew better.

01:00:55.000 And so all these plans that we had worked on were just gone.

01:01:00.000 And to the point, I had been in Riyadh, January 6th, that's where I was, with the ambassador and met and meeting with Khaled bin Salman.

01:01:12.000 We signed a major defense cooperation plan with the Saudis.

01:01:16.000 It was very important.

01:01:19.000 When, when I, about a month after I'd left the administration or, or, you know, the administration had changed, I get a call from the defense attache and they said, Hey, do you have a copy of that?

01:01:30.000 I'm like, I didn't take any documents with me.

01:01:33.000 You know, it's like, it wasn't classified, but it was sensitive.

01:01:37.000 Do I look like a politician?

01:01:39.000 Right, exactly.

01:01:40.000 And, and, um, they said, well, nobody in your old office can find it.

01:01:46.000 And so what they had to do to recreate the document was take the Saudi version in Arabic and translate it, and then they had to put it back together and reconstruct it.

01:01:58.000 That's how damaging this arrogance of this administration coming in the way they did, and it's been nothing but chaos.

01:02:08.000 And it's essentially, it's just motivated by we're just going to do everything that Trump wouldn't or didn't do.

01:02:12.000 Yeah, it was the exact opposite.

01:02:14.000 And so all of the things we're talking about here, like even Austin testifying about his absence, right?

01:02:23.000 I mean, I worked directly for Austin twice.

01:02:26.000 I was a deputy commanding general when he was a commanding general on 10th Mountain.

01:02:29.000 I was an airborne battalion commander for him when he was Airborne Brigade Commander, and so I know him pretty well.

01:02:35.000 He knows very well that you got to let the boss know you're not going to be at work, right?

01:02:40.000 I mean it's not, you know, but when I went on that trip to six different nations as the Undersecretary, I had to sign a piece of paper saying I was going to be away And I was appointing this guy to be my deputy, or my deputy was going to take my duties.

01:02:59.000 The deputy had to sign it, and it was witnessed by a third person.

01:03:04.000 The processes are in place.

01:03:06.000 And so as he was testifying yesterday, listening to him say, well, we've now put in, you know, there were processes in place.

01:03:15.000 And it's not like, you know, the career civil servants there, Do a pretty good job.

01:03:21.000 Like I had a woman that ran the undersecretary's office. 0.97

01:03:26.000 She'd been there for 30 years.

01:03:27.000 She knew everything.

01:03:28.000 She and she was is awesome. 0.52

01:03:32.000 She made sure I signed all that paperwork and she filed it and it's a notification.

01:03:37.000 A big email goes out.

01:03:38.000 This was all cloak and dagger.

01:03:40.000 They didn't want anybody to know.

01:03:42.000 They didn't want it to get out.

01:03:44.000 And why these people, you know, the chief, the deputy, the secretary, why they still have jobs, I have no idea.

01:03:51.000 Is this when he went to get surgery?

01:03:53.000 Mm-hmm.

01:03:54.000 And they just didn't tell anyone because they didn't want to?

01:03:55.000 He was in the hospital under anesthesia.

01:03:55.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:03:59.000 Nobody was in charge.

01:04:00.000 And he said at no time was there a lapse in coverage.

01:04:02.000 I think he's pushing that perjury line.

01:04:05.000 Wow.

01:04:06.000 I kind of feel like, you know, we were having a conversation this morning about the Roman Empire and everyone's like, are we in a similar time?

01:04:13.000 You know, I think, Ian, we're saying it was 1913, it was the Federal Reserve, the Republic's been gone for a long time.

01:04:19.000 Well, I don't know about all that, but I can tell you is right now, since the Biden administration began, the, like, something has gone missing from this country.

01:04:28.000 And, you know, a lot of people have speculated that someone, someone else is in charge of Joe Biden.

01:04:34.000 And I've made the argument, no, no, I think it's Joe Biden.

01:04:37.000 You know, maybe it's 50-50, but I imagine it like, Joe Biden mutters some gibberish, and then the people in the room look at each other like, uh, whatever you say, and then do nothing.

01:04:48.000 And then that's why it's chaos.

01:04:49.000 Well, there's no accountability, and when you have no accountability, then, you know, anything can go.

01:04:54.000 But, like, think about this, you know, unelected bureaucrat, you know, 30-year-old, whatever he was, that was calling Twitter and saying, hey, we don't like these people, let's deplatform them.

01:05:06.000 And Twitter says, you know, oh, okay, yeah, sure.

01:05:09.000 And then, okay, let's roll the FBI in on that, too, to make sure that, you know, we deplatform these other people.

01:05:16.000 It's that kind of thing.

01:05:18.000 You get these people in the White House, and they think that they're elected, that they have the power, and they just start doing stuff.

01:05:24.000 And if there's no accountability, particularly from the media, it's out of control.

01:05:30.000 And so, you know, I think Biden is particularly incompetent. 0.99

01:05:34.000 I think he's corrupt. 0.94

01:05:36.000 And I think he's, first and foremost, how does he maintain power? 0.83

01:05:40.000 How does he aggrandize himself financially?

01:05:43.000 How does he help his family and friends and political party then way down the list is how do I help?

01:05:50.000 America and the citizens he you know from my point of view every decision he makes kind of follows that that hierarchy do you think the Accountability should come from Biden?

01:06:04.000 It should come from the President himself?

01:06:05.000 I think it should come from the press.

01:06:08.000 And I think that then they should make decisions from Congress, should hold people accountable.

01:06:17.000 The system ought to work as the framers designed it.

01:06:20.000 And yeah, I think the President should say, you know what, it's unacceptable not to tell me you're going to be gone for a week.

01:06:26.000 You're out of here.

01:06:27.000 I think it should be I think the president should say to Frank McKenzie of the CENTCOM commander or to to Lloyd Austin or or you know, whomever you know, it's unacceptable what happened in Afghanistan You're out of here.

01:06:43.000 You know, the one thing I love about the Navy if the captain runs the ship into a coral reef He's fired The next day they put somebody else in charge.

01:06:54.000 Now we got, what was it, that Space Force video saying respect my pronouns?

01:06:58.000 Oh boy.

01:06:59.000 You see that one?

01:07:00.000 I think it was Space Force.

01:07:00.000 No.

01:07:03.000 Yeah, I'm kinda just like...

01:07:06.000 You know, our southern border is non-existent, you've got looming international conflict, World War III maybe, and our military is very concerned with pronouns.

01:07:16.000 And?

01:07:16.000 Not confidence building.

01:07:17.000 Well, I mean, in that video, she ties pronouns to combat readiness.

01:07:24.000 God, that's... And that's the insulting part.

01:07:29.000 And how you become combat ready is real simple.

01:07:33.000 You train, train, train, and you have very tough training, and you eviscerate people

01:07:40.000 when in this training they make mistakes so that they learn and they don't make that mistake

01:07:45.000 when they're in the real game.

01:07:47.000 So, let's, we have this video, I think this is the video, let's play it.

01:07:51.000 Oh God.

01:07:52.000 Libs of TikTok tweeting, Lieutenant Colonel Bree Fram, a trans-US Space Force official,

01:07:56.000 spoke to the US Air Force about inclusion and demanded everyone to respect LGBTQ people

01:08:02.000 and their pronouns.

01:08:03.000 All too often, I hear leaders talk about providing everyone with dignity and respect like it's

01:08:09.000 an aspirational goal.

01:08:11.000 This is a test.

01:08:12.000 That's not good enough.

01:08:14.000 Dignity and respect is the bare minimum.

01:08:18.000 Wrong! 0.86

01:08:19.000 Respect is earned, not given.

01:08:20.000 It's the floor of where we can be.

01:08:23.000 We must set our sights higher and focus on intentional inclusivity because there are still far too many people out there, not just LGBTQ individuals, that feel marginalized, shut out, or discriminated against.

01:08:38.000 So for all of you out there, I ask you to set out your symbols of pride, share your pronouns in your email, particularly if you're a person who doesn't think they need to, initiate difficult conversations about racial and gender barriers, and share a bit of your vulnerability in a way that draws others in.

01:09:00.000 This is insane.

01:09:00.000 You all have the power to take intentionally inclusive actions to ensure the multiple perspectives that we know make us stronger as we devise winning warfighting strategies get heard.

01:09:13.000 Okay, so my assumption is that China or Russia or Iran or whatever is poisoning our water supply, hacking our internet, sowing mis and disinformation all across the internet to indoctrinate people into strange ideologies which inhibit their ability to win wars. 0.67

01:09:32.000 So I think it's corporations doing it and they're just doing it for profit and the byproduct is Endocrine disruption.

01:09:38.000 I want to ask your opinion about, like, so the military used to have a standard for mental health, right?

01:09:45.000 And now they've clearly stopped paying attention, not just because of the trans people, and that's not what I'm getting at.

01:09:53.000 Just last week, a man immolated himself in front of, you know, in Washington, D.C.

01:09:58.000 How is it that that is getting by people in the military?

01:10:03.000 How is it that someone that is not only Clearly mentally ill if he caught himself on fire.

01:10:08.000 The guy was so brainwashed by the leftist dogma that they're allowing in, obviously.

01:10:16.000 The kid had a Reddit profile, and you can go down the list of anarcho-communist gripes, whether it be profit, or property, or environmentalism.

01:10:30.000 Literally, he hit Every last single topic that a woke person could hit.

01:10:36.000 And then he, again, he is supporting an enemy of the United States who is currently holding Americans hostage by burning himself alive in front of an ally's, you know, embassy.

01:10:53.000 Phil, I think the word is not allowed.

01:10:57.000 I think the word is right here we're looking at is being promoted, right?

01:11:02.000 And so this, in the name of inclusion, I think they've sort of opened the aperture, inclusion, and then you have the recruiting challenges.

01:11:14.000 And look, if somebody wants to raise their right hand, I don't care what they dress like, what they do, if they're physically and mentally fit to carry a machine gun or a radio, good on them, let them execute.

01:11:27.000 That's sort of my view.

01:11:29.000 As an infantry officer though, do you think that women are as capable in a combat role as dudes? 1.00

01:11:37.000 Wouldn't you wouldn't you if you're go if you're you're commanding you would say on average if you're cut Yeah, if you're cut it, but if you're okay stop at this if you're going into combat and you are leading a platoon Would you prefer a platoon of?

01:11:50.000 Men or would you want a mixed platoon?

01:11:53.000 I would want the platoon that is able to train together and execute together and carry, you know, do fireman's carries and carry the ammo and all that.

01:12:02.000 And if there, you know, if there are some women in there that can do that, then, you know, whatever. 1.00

01:12:08.000 But the bigger picture to me is that this kind of, you know, BS is taking a very fringe piece and it's promulgating a A dogma that is part of the recruiting challenge.

01:12:25.000 And so they must be underwriting, they being the senior leadership in DoD, this erosion of values and erosion of unity in the name of 5-10 years from now having more of this.

01:12:43.000 This video is why recruitment is down.

01:12:45.000 Right.

01:12:45.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:12:46.000 This is it.

01:12:48.000 We had that Newsweek poll the other day.

01:12:50.000 65% they found of 18 to 24 year olds favor Trump.

01:12:54.000 They think Trump is going to shake this country up for the better.

01:12:57.000 You think those 65 people are going to want to enlist for this?

01:13:00.000 No, I was thinking... But to be... I want to add this real quick.

01:13:03.000 It's not just that.

01:13:04.000 I mean, If you were too young to enlist after 9-11, because a lot of people did when they saw what happened, and then you saw what happened with Iraq and Afghanistan, yeah, you're not going anywhere near that stuff. 0.85

01:13:16.000 So there are probably a lot of young people seeing the failures, especially now with Afghanistan, and they're like, I'm not joining that garbage. 1.00

01:13:22.000 For what? 0.95

01:13:23.000 And then you add this on top.

01:13:26.000 I'm not surprised we're seeing what we're seeing.

01:13:28.000 I've often referenced this guy I met.

01:13:29.000 He was a captain.

01:13:30.000 He resigned his commission.

01:13:31.000 He says, I don't want to work out.

01:13:32.000 He wanted to be in there for his career.

01:13:34.000 Stuart Schiller, right?

01:13:35.000 I don't remember his name.

01:13:35.000 No, I don't know.

01:13:37.000 But we were having dinner and he said that he was a captain.

01:13:40.000 He intended to be his whole career here.

01:13:43.000 And now he's in his mid thirties and he's resigned his commission because it's woke.

01:13:46.000 I get it, like, national defense, military is national defense, so why are we overseas?

01:13:50.000 And you could say, well, it's like, sometimes if you just sit still, you're an easy target for people to come across your border, so you gotta go out in forays and fortify the areas around where you live so that those things—the Romans did it. 0.94

01:14:02.000 That was—but they'd use that as an excuse to constantly expand, expand, expand.

01:14:05.000 They might attack us later, so let's attack them first.

01:14:08.000 It's not—the argument is it's national defense, that's why they send the military, but like, I— When when people look at it like it doesn't feel like we're defending ourselves when we're aggressing East Through Europe and conquering it.

01:14:22.000 I don't know.

01:14:23.000 It doesn't feel like defense Yeah, so so I'm gonna probably get it wrong.

01:14:27.000 But if I remember right the the the Constitution says We shall raise an army and we shall maintain a Navy and those two words I believe are intentional.

01:14:41.000 You scale the army up and down because the framers were worried about the big land wars going on in Europe and the abuse by the federal government of those big armies to oppress people.

01:14:53.000 The Navy maintained, meaning permanent, Protected commerce, helped go overseas and increase the markets for the country.

01:15:07.000 And you know, remember, piracy was a big thing back then, and the Navy helped protect all that commerce because we were shipping stuff everywhere.

01:15:15.000 So, the army can scale up and down as required, but the Navy is really what's needed.

01:15:23.000 So, you're exactly right is what I'm saying, and the Constitution sort of bears out this idea of, you know, let's have a big army when we need a big army, but let's keep the Navy so that we can keep our sea lanes open, and we can keep the trade going, we can keep the commerce going.

01:15:41.000 Is the big problem that they've just kept a big army and it's cost the country unfathomable amounts of wealth?

01:15:47.000 The major cost to the country is not military expenditure.

01:15:51.000 The major cost to the country is entitlements.

01:15:53.000 If you're talking about the Fed or you talk about the debt and stuff like that, it is All driven by the entitlements.

01:16:01.000 Our unfunded liabilities is where our actual debt is.

01:16:04.000 The amount of money that we spend on the military, while it is large, especially compared to other countries, it is nothing compared to the amount of money that we have to spend on just servicing the debt.

01:16:14.000 Last year was the first time that we spent more on servicing the debt than we spent on the United States military.

01:16:20.000 Man, that's nuts.

01:16:21.000 Do you know what the budget is off the top of your head?

01:16:22.000 Servicing the debt.

01:16:23.000 And remember, that's just paying the interest on the debt.

01:16:25.000 That's not paying off the debt.

01:16:26.000 So when I was under Secretary, it was around $720 billion, and it's probably up around $800 billion.

01:16:34.000 Okay, that's not... was it just too much?

01:16:36.000 Is it the reason you scale the army or the military up and down because you don't want to go bankrupt in a time of peace?

01:16:41.000 Standing armies are a threat to liberty.

01:16:42.000 Yeah, right.

01:16:43.000 That's the point the framers were making, is that a large standing army is a threat to liberty, and that's why they had the National Guard, the well-regulated...

01:16:52.000 Militias which not to cut you off which a lot of state police forces right now are Basically armed like the army and or like the military and there's a lot of people that have a problem that sorry for good right right no But that that tension should be between states like Texas and the federal government That's that's built into the Constitution.

01:17:09.000 That's what it's all about that governor has certain powers you cannot Federalize the National Guard unless you, you know, deploy the Insurrection Act.

01:17:19.000 And he mentioned tension.

01:17:21.000 That's part of what the Second Amendment is for, too, is part of that tension.

01:17:23.000 Right, right, right.

01:17:24.000 No, no, it's all very relevant.

01:17:26.000 I just like what you're saying, so I'm like cheering you on.

01:17:29.000 And there should be more of that.

01:17:31.000 There should be more governors. 0.99

01:17:34.000 Opposing and saying to the federal government because this Marxist ideology Wants a strong federal government.

01:17:41.000 They want to to increase the size of federal government so that they can oppress and and Control and that's that's what it's all about That's where we are today as a nation and that's you know, that's it's a very scary time right now If our military was below recruiting standards, and then some grand-scale conflict erupted overnight, would we be able to pat our numbers quicker?

01:18:08.000 It would be like, the draft the next morning, I would imagine, would get signed, and then... I nominate David Hogg for first in line.

01:18:15.000 You ever see Edge of Tomorrow?

01:18:17.000 When Tom Cruise's character's like, I'm a PR guy, and they're like, that's why we're putting you on the front line, we're gonna put you on the front line, give you a camera so you can film it.

01:18:23.000 And I nominate David Hogg.

01:18:25.000 But I guess, like you were saying... And that Harry guy, whatever his name is.

01:18:28.000 The creative attacker is going to win, or at least they're going to get their strike off first.

01:18:32.000 So it's like, no matter how big our military is, if someone's creative... Look at Israel, okay? 0.98

01:18:36.000 They got attacked, they got surprised.

01:18:39.000 They're shutting down businesses because they're using everybody from 18 to 70 to go defend their country and fight in Gaza and be on the border with Lebanon and fight Hezbollah.

01:18:53.000 I mean, you know, that's an existential threat right there, and people get lost in the politics of all of that.

01:19:00.000 But, you know, I've been to the Golan Heights, I've been down to the border with Gaza, I've been into Jerusalem, I've been along the West Bank.

01:19:07.000 So, I mean...

01:19:10.000 You talk about a country that every day has to worry about surviving when Iran says death to Israel, death to the United States.

01:19:18.000 Believe them!

01:19:18.000 Believe what they're saying!

01:19:20.000 Don't try to deal with them like this, you know, administration's trying to do.

01:19:24.000 Just believe that they want Israel to not exist and that they want to harm the United States as much as possible. 0.98

01:19:31.000 To that point, that was one thing that frustrated me when Barack Obama was in office.

01:19:36.000 He refused to believe the jihadis wanted what they said they wanted.

01:19:41.000 He was constantly saying, well it's economic, it's because they don't have this or they don't have that, and it's like...

01:19:47.000 You know, when ISIS was around, they put out Dabiq with like literal explanation of, this is why it was entitled.

01:19:56.000 This is why we fight you.

01:19:58.000 This is why we hate you. 0.99

01:19:59.000 This is why we fight you.

01:20:00.000 And it was like, that's really what they believe.

01:20:03.000 And I feel like liberals can't at all wrap their head around people believing other things.

01:20:09.000 And it's something that I've seen when it comes to like, now this, the whole Marxist stuff, like, The philosophy that underlays our society and the Western society is an Enlightenment philosophy, whereas Marxism and stuff like that, and especially the LGBTQ stuff and stuff, the philosophy that underlies that is all counter-Enlightenment.

01:20:29.000 It all says that it can't interact with reality.

01:20:32.000 And people just don't believe that people think differently to them and have very, very different ways of thinking.

01:20:40.000 To be fair, you know what I was thinking?

01:20:42.000 There are these videos of people getting really angry because their pronouns aren't being respected.

01:20:47.000 If that righteous indignation is funneled into combat infantry, I think we'll win some battles there, right?

01:20:53.000 So maybe the Space Force individual is not incorrect.

01:20:55.000 Maybe, you know, and service should guarantee citizenship.

01:20:59.000 Yeah, I know, isn't that funny?

01:21:00.000 I agree with that, but it's actually a one-up on where we currently are.

01:21:05.000 It's funny that they're talking about the Courage to Serve Act, service guaranteeing citizenship, but it doesn't work when you're bringing in people who are not from this country, who are going to vote against your values. 1.00

01:21:15.000 That's just it.

01:21:16.000 I personally, like the concept of someone comes into the United States or joins the military and becomes a, you know, serves a service, serves an amount of time in the military and then is allowed to become a citizen.

01:21:32.000 I don't have a problem with that particularly if they are vetted.

01:21:35.000 If it was a situation where it's like you got to find people that actually want to be, you know.

01:21:39.000 Yeah.

01:21:39.000 Someone comes here legally?

01:21:40.000 Well, I mean, well, the thing is, If they wanted to, like, say you live in Guatemala and you're just like, I want to join the U.S.

01:21:47.000 military, so I'm going to send an email, I want to join the U.S.

01:21:50.000 military.

01:21:50.000 I wouldn't have a problem with the U.S.

01:21:51.000 military grabbing a dude from Guatemala, putting him on a plane, shooting him over here, vetting him, making sure that he actually does want to join the military and actually believes the things that we do, put him through significant training and then put him in a unit and after he serves his time, if he serves his time honorably and he gets an honorable discharge, then I wouldn't have a problem with him becoming a citizen. 0.97

01:22:09.000 I would.

01:22:10.000 What?

01:22:10.000 He should, legal resident permits fine, but the issue with citizenship is the more people

01:22:15.000 you bring into your country who don't have your values, they will vote against you no 1.00

01:22:19.000 matter what.

01:22:20.000 That's why I said, that's why I said vetting.

01:22:22.000 But vetting's fine.

01:22:23.000 I mean, if a guy is from Guatemala, he's going to know Guatemalan history, Guatemalan superheroes,

01:22:29.000 Guatemalan food, and he will vote for those things.

01:22:32.000 Those things aren't bad things.

01:22:33.000 They're just not American things.

01:22:34.000 So you bring someone in, they serve the country amicably, they help us, they assist us, legal

01:22:38.000 resident work rights and everything but you're not voting.

01:22:41.000 The erosion of voting is gutting and destroying this country.

01:22:45.000 But we do have the phenomenon of internet video.

01:22:48.000 So, like, a lot of Guatemalans are huge fans of Spider-Man, for instance, and watch American TV from the age of three, so they know English really well.

01:22:55.000 Whereas 200 years ago, these people are coming off the boat, not knowing what the hell's going on.

01:22:59.000 So the vetting might be a little easier.

01:23:01.000 Look, the math is simple, okay?

01:23:04.000 You have 100 people in a small town, their grandfathers built the bridge, their great-grandfathers tilled the fields, and they deeply care about the statue of the town's founder, and you bring in 100 people who aren't from there, and they're gonna say, why are we funding 10% of the budget towards maintaining the statue?

01:23:23.000 And then the people who live there say, because this is the person who made it all possible, we don't want to forget him.

01:23:26.000 And they say, okay, well we outvote you now, so we vote to tear it down and stop wasting money.

01:23:30.000 And now your statues are gone.

01:23:32.000 I heard someone, I forget where I heard it, someone, maybe it was a super chat or something like that on another podcast or whatever, either way.

01:23:38.000 They had what I thought sounded like a halfway decent idea.

01:23:41.000 Local elections?

01:23:43.000 You can, anyone can vote, like any citizen can vote, right?

01:23:46.000 But then, as you get up in, like up to state level and then federal level, he was talking about having some kind of service to be able to vote on a state or a federal level, and I think that that might actually not be a bad idea.

01:23:58.000 Local level, because local is the stuff that impacts people most, and actually, if you vote in your local elections, that's when you'll feel like your vote matters the most, because... So... Good.

01:24:07.000 No, just to clarify my point.

01:24:09.000 Wrap up your point, but I want to go back.

01:24:11.000 Well, I just think that that might be an idea worth discussing.

01:24:14.000 What I'm saying is, there is nothing evil or inherently bad in a basic level to someone saying, okay, so we're going over the town's budget and I see that we're spending $1,000 a month to clean and maintain the statue.

01:24:30.000 Someone says, I don't think we should.

01:24:31.000 You're allowed to think that.

01:24:31.000 You're allowed to.

01:24:32.000 My point is, if everyone agrees the statue is a good thing and we like it, when you bring in people who are not from there, And they now have the right to vote, they're not going to value the traditions, the morals, the ethics of what was built in this town and what made it good.

01:24:49.000 I don't like that people would come to this country and say, who cares about the Constitution?

01:24:54.000 What does that mean for me?

01:24:55.000 You've got these videos of these people who are like, I'm the child of immigrants, and this country is racist, and blah blah blah and all that stuff, and I'm like, Why do you hate what?

01:25:04.000 Like you're voting against us.

01:25:06.000 You're voting against what we want.

01:25:07.000 You're voting against what made this country good.

01:25:09.000 We obviously want to progress.

01:25:11.000 We want to get rid of bad things.

01:25:12.000 We want to expand civil rights.

01:25:13.000 But coming here and just calling, it's remarkable that you have people who would come here and say this country is absolutely racist.

01:25:18.000 We want reparations.

01:25:18.000 We hate it.

01:25:20.000 It really just comes down to the simple fact.

01:25:22.000 If you like that your town does a certain tradition, okay, just understand the more people who move in who don't have that tradition, The more likely it is that we'll be done away with.

01:25:35.000 So this means if we go to Guatemala and say, join the military and we'll give you citizenship, they're going to come here and they're going to say, I don't care about baseball. 0.97

01:25:42.000 So why would I support baseball?

01:25:44.000 Why would I support anything having to do with it?

01:25:47.000 It then comes down to a vote.

01:25:48.000 Surprise, surprise.

01:25:49.000 The hundred people who live in this town who always vote to have a citywide baseball game are now finding themselves outvoted by people who are nice people, who are good people and hardworking people who say, no, no, no, no, we don't want to waste money on this.

01:26:00.000 We're 51% of the population now, and we hereby vote for a football game instead.

01:26:04.000 And now the people who like baseball are like, but we don't- we don't like football.

01:26:07.000 Too bad!

01:26:08.000 They came in, they changed your traditions, they changed your way of life, and what you had, and what your parents built for you, and your grandparents built for you, has been erased.

01:26:15.000 That it's not an act of evil, it's an act of change.

01:26:18.000 Not all change is bad.

01:26:20.000 My point is simply, when it comes down to issues like the Constitution, what the values of this country are, bringing in people who don't have those traditional values will fundamentally change the country. 1.00

01:26:31.000 And the more we bring people in like that, the more the country changes to the point where it cannot be saved.

01:26:37.000 I don't think the points that you're making like there's no I don't have any argument with those but I do think that historically we have been able to have people come in and assimilate them I think the problem has been legal assimilation and and and I've I recently just talked to a person in their 90s saying they came here from Italy their grandparents said you will learn the language you will learn to be an American we will learn what it means to be an American and I love that that's fantastic You should not like society should not allow our society the United States should not allow people to come here and then demand that they set up an enclave where they can have where they can behave like their own. 0.97

01:27:15.000 Like their own culture, independent of the United States. 0.84

01:27:18.000 We should encourage people to come to the United States and assimilate. 0.97

01:27:23.000 We should not allow people to come into the United States that don't share our philosophy. 0.91

01:27:28.000 If you are a communist, if you don't believe that in liberalism, I don't care what your religion is, if you have an extremist view and you believe that your religion is going to take precedence over the laws here, so if your religion says something atrocious, Then you're going to do it?

01:27:46.000 No, you're not welcome.

01:27:47.000 Let me give you another scenario.

01:27:50.000 We say, okay, anybody who wants to serve in the military and is vetted and is a good person, no criminal record, you can serve.

01:27:58.000 You become a citizen.

01:27:59.000 What's another issue there?

01:28:00.000 Let's say this person is 20 years old.

01:28:03.000 They come in, they serve four years, they get out.

01:28:05.000 Congratulations, sir.

01:28:06.000 Welcome to America.

01:28:07.000 They say, awesome.

01:28:08.000 The first thing they do is they walk up to the voting booth and they say, I want my mom to come next.

01:28:14.000 Bang.

01:28:15.000 Now what happens is, their community is outside this country, you're going to see sponsorship.

01:28:21.000 So now they're going to say something like, I assume responsibility for my mother, my brother, my sisters, and you get chain migration.

01:28:29.000 Immigration, inherently, is not a bad thing.

01:28:31.000 It's a good thing, actually.

01:28:32.000 But it has to be done legally.

01:28:33.000 The people have to be placed properly.

01:28:35.000 They have to assimilate. 0.98

01:28:37.000 That means no enclaves.

01:28:39.000 That's bad.

01:28:39.000 And that means no chain migration.

01:28:41.000 That's bad as well.

01:28:42.000 But where it currently stands right now, you bring in one young man, the first thing he does is he offers to sponsor a family member.

01:28:48.000 Which means he assumes tax liability and debt liabilities, and they can come and live in the United States sponsored by him.

01:28:55.000 This is what we end up getting.

01:28:57.000 Those people who come here, their community is still their home country and they will vote to benefit their home country.

01:29:06.000 Like, they're gonna vote to keep the door open.

01:29:08.000 They're gonna vote.

01:29:09.000 We saw this in California in the 90s, when the Republicans said, public services cannot be given to non-citizens.

01:29:15.000 There were riots, there were protests, and the state has never been Republican since.

01:29:20.000 It's now just strongly Democrat.

01:29:23.000 And it could be because Republicans left, maybe.

01:29:26.000 But what basically happened was, you had a bunch of young people who are American citizens whose parents were not, and whose family members were not.

01:29:34.000 And so when the state said, Tax... public coffers are not for non-citizens?

01:29:40.000 This young guy goes, but my mom's not a citizen.

01:29:42.000 My dad's not a citizen.

01:29:43.000 That means if they're ever sick and in trouble, they can't get help.

01:29:47.000 No way!

01:29:48.000 I oppose that.

01:29:48.000 We hereby vote to give money to non-citizens.

01:29:51.000 That's what you get.

01:29:53.000 Yeah, I mean, it has been policy for a long time where if you join the military, you can join the military and you can become a citizen.

01:29:59.000 That's not new.

01:30:01.000 Right, but I'm saying plucking from another country, someone who enlists and they bring them in. 0.98

01:30:04.000 If someone's a legal immigrant to this country, meaning they're already legally here as a resident, and they want to go through that process, I agree with that.

01:30:12.000 Absolutely.

01:30:13.000 I believe that's part of assimilation, right? 0.94

01:30:15.000 Joining the military, serving, basic training, learning what it means, swearing an oath to the Constitution, all that good stuff.

01:30:21.000 Fantastic.

01:30:22.000 I'm saying, you pull someone from a foreign country, and you bring them here, and after a few years, they're just... If we took a bunch of, like, illegal immigrants, and just were like, we're creating new platoons, we're gonna... 10,000 dudes, are there chances that they'd be like, yes, yes, excellent, and they get in there, and they're like sleeper cells for, you know, some Lebanese terrorist organization, and they turn on their commander in the middle of combat, and they overthrow their platoon and take control? 0.96

01:30:44.000 That's a movie!

01:30:45.000 Like, is that actually potentially possible?

01:30:47.000 That's my next part.

01:30:51.000 That would be a good story.

01:30:53.000 You know, I'm listening.

01:30:56.000 I mean, it's such a rich conversation.

01:30:59.000 The idea of taking illegal immigrants and Weaponizing them, giving them weapons, training them, you know, within a structured environment. 1.00

01:31:12.000 I think right now they would have to go through months and months and months of training on just the laws of the country.

01:31:26.000 You know, sort of like the citizenship process.

01:31:30.000 And then there would have to be a heavy-duty weeding out process as well.

01:31:34.000 And I think Tim makes some very, very good points about, you know, that erosion of your values or your culture, your system.

01:31:44.000 That's what's happening right now in the country.

01:31:46.000 Right?

01:31:47.000 So, I mean, we're seeing this.

01:31:49.000 So I want to bring up schools, because I think that's where it's coming from, and you have so much talk to mention.

01:31:55.000 I just want to put a pin in it.

01:31:57.000 Go ahead, finish what you were saying.

01:31:58.000 I'm sorry.

01:31:58.000 No, no, no, go ahead.

01:32:00.000 Well, I just, so like, my impression is that the Department of Education has basically been used to ideologically indoctrinate literal generations of kids now.

01:32:11.000 In my opinion, there's two generations that we've got basically indoctrinated.

01:32:14.000 It seems like Gen Z is rejecting it, but I don't know if, I think that we've already got such a significant output of Students that graduated that were taught using basically Marxist power dynamics to base their schooling on.

01:32:34.000 I personally am in favor of getting rid of the Department of Education completely, but I also am aware that the The reason that it got so ubiquitous through schools is because it's in the schools that teach teachers.

01:32:46.000 So it's not just that it's in schools for your kids.

01:32:49.000 The teachers are being taught, this is how you teach kids.

01:32:52.000 They're being taught the Paulo Freirean method.

01:32:54.000 So my idea now is we should not abolish the DOE.

01:32:57.000 And I think Thomas Massey is wrong.

01:32:59.000 What we should do is...

01:33:01.000 Mandate Gadsden flags.

01:33:04.000 Ban Pride flags.

01:33:06.000 So when Trump gets elected, you're never going to abolish the DOE.

01:33:09.000 Congress is not going to allow it, but maybe Trump or somehow we get an appointee in there who says, you know, I'm going to bang the gavel.

01:33:16.000 Here's uniform policy across the country, what you've got to do.

01:33:20.000 Let them all protest and whinge and cry, but welcome to the system you're a part of.

01:33:23.000 Thoughts?

01:33:25.000 Yeah, well, you know, I was the superintendent of the 15th largest school system in the country, Wake County.

01:33:31.000 Wake County, 150,000 students, 170 schools, 18,000 employees, half of whom are teachers,

01:33:38.000 9,500 teachers.

01:33:40.000 Twelve municipalities within this very large county.

01:33:47.000 Raleigh, and then you had eleven others like Cary, Morrisville, Wake Forest, Apex, etc.

01:33:54.000 And some were very rural.

01:33:56.000 Zebulon, etc.

01:33:58.000 And some were, you know, obviously dense cities like Raleigh and Southeast Raleigh and there's about 35 percent what they call free and reduced lunch students right which was representative of low-income students.

01:34:16.000 And so, that became the euphemism, really, because, unfortunately, there's a big racial overlap there.

01:34:25.000 Black Hispanic, white Asian, it's a typical achievement gap, as they call it in education.

01:34:32.000 So, this was 12 years ago.

01:34:34.000 I was a superintendent.

01:34:39.000 So you were there when they were going through all the Common Core stuff, right?

01:34:43.000 It had just come out.

01:34:45.000 I left kind of right as all that was coming out.

01:34:49.000 And, you know, I have to say that there's a corporate mentality just like anywhere.

01:34:59.000 It's a bureaucracy.

01:35:01.000 And to move up in the bureaucracy, you kind of got to be approved by your boss.

01:35:07.000 And so there's a lot of groupthink that happens, and that groupthink is influenced by, even though there were no unions in North Carolina Right-to-Work State, they had the North Carolina Association of Educators, which was a quasi-union-like entity.

01:35:24.000 People paid dues to it, and it's very liberal, very pro-Democrat politician, very Much tied to the American Federation of Teachers and the teachers unions writ large at the national level.

01:35:42.000 Those extreme policies get funneled through each of the state and local county because education is mostly a local Deal, right?

01:35:55.000 It's mostly the Department of Education at the federal level has very little influence on things at the local level.

01:36:04.000 Do they have influence on the curriculum that's picked?

01:36:07.000 Unless it's Common Core, you know, this curriculum that, you know, I was able to implement.

01:36:12.000 I created two leadership academies with public service.

01:36:15.000 I created Career Technical Academy.

01:36:17.000 I was fighting against charter schools.

01:36:21.000 Did you feel like you had good results with those programs?

01:36:23.000 Well, the two leadership academies, they were single gender and, you know, a young men's and a young women's leadership academy.

01:36:31.000 I had a lot of parents telling me I'm worried about my kid going to 1500 student middle school.

01:36:39.000 The mayor of Raleigh last year emailed me and said, Tony, your two leadership academies have the highest graduation rates and the highest proficiency rates in the state of North Carolina.

01:36:53.000 And the Democrats on the school board fought me on creating those.

01:36:59.000 You know, they didn't want that change.

01:37:02.000 They wanted to kind of do lockstep on whatever it was that, you know, the teachers unions were talking about.

01:37:09.000 So that's the real, there's this ideology that's force-fed and then the promotion rates or the promotion within the system, you kind of got to go with that if you want to get promoted, right?

01:37:24.000 And then it just becomes ossified and all of a sudden you get what's happening and like, You know, a couple of counties over here in the school board that... Loudoun.

01:37:36.000 Yeah, Loudoun County.

01:37:37.000 That's 30 seconds.

01:37:38.000 You drive down the road, you make a left turn, you're in Loudoun.

01:37:40.000 Yeah, right, exactly.

01:37:42.000 Alright, we're gonna go to Super Chats!

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01:38:16.000 All right, here we go.

01:38:17.000 Tracer says, not first!

01:38:19.000 Tracer, you were first.

01:38:20.000 Nice job, Tracer.

01:38:21.000 Nice job.

01:38:22.000 Shane H. Wilder says, Happy Friday, gang.

01:38:24.000 Great culture war today.

01:38:25.000 Also, do you think Biden is trying to pull an Obama by going after journalists with anonymous sources?

01:38:30.000 Oh, Catherine Herridge, man.

01:38:31.000 Oh yeah, that's another great... $800 fine per day unless she gives up her source. 1.00

01:38:37.000 Is it?

01:38:38.000 I was under the impression that judges usually respected when a... No.

01:38:38.000 Nuts.

01:38:45.000 No?

01:38:45.000 That's not the case?

01:38:46.000 Okay.

01:38:47.000 When it comes to journalists and sources, judges will use the amount of legal force that they believe will compel a person to comply.

01:38:57.000 What's supposed to happen is, after a certain amount of time, if the individual does not comply, and it becomes apparent the court cannot compel them, they're supposed to stop.

01:39:05.000 There was a journalist who went to jail, I think, for like 180 days for refusing to give up some video footage or something.

01:39:13.000 I think we might have had him on the show.

01:39:15.000 What was his name?

01:39:17.000 Something Wolf, I think.

01:39:18.000 You want to look it up?

01:39:19.000 Was it Josh Wolf?

01:39:20.000 That was a while ago.

01:39:21.000 Is he from Epic Times?

01:39:24.000 I don't know.

01:39:25.000 It's just a very famous story of a journalist who refused to hand over video footage and got locked up.

01:39:30.000 Is that Josh Wolf from Medium?

01:39:32.000 I have no idea.

01:39:33.000 Uh, it's been a while, but basically what ends up happening is the court, eventually, you know, the lawyer says, there is no amount of time you can hold this person in prison that will compel them to do it, so they have to be released.

01:39:33.000 I don't know.

01:39:44.000 And then that's what happens.

01:39:46.000 She, uh, Catherine Herridge is being charged $800 per day. 1.00

01:39:48.000 Good for her for sticking to her guns, though. 0.99

01:39:51.000 Real journalist.

01:39:52.000 Yes, real journalist.

01:39:53.000 Jacob Paradis says, Narbar's candles on Public Square now has a line of scented laundry detergent.

01:39:58.000 Ooh, really?

01:39:59.000 Let's go!

01:40:00.000 Also, our candle inventory has been restocked.

01:40:02.000 I gotta tell you, Super Chats, you know, it's give or take, you never know, but if you're like one of the first Super Chats, they usually get red, and that means we're gonna shout out your advertisement or whatever.

01:40:14.000 Cheapest way to get a sponsorship spot on the show, I suppose.

01:40:19.000 All right.

01:40:20.000 The Emperor Champion says, congratulations Democrats, you have become what you despise, tyrants and despots who refuse to see what you have become.

01:40:29.000 Yeah, but I don't know if they despise tyrants and despots.

01:40:31.000 I think they're kind of into it.

01:40:32.000 You know what I mean?

01:40:32.000 They just don't like it when it's the other way.

01:40:33.000 There's a statue of Lenin in Seattle.

01:40:36.000 They're very happy with it.

01:40:39.000 Yeah, you were right.

01:40:39.000 That guy's name is Joshua Wolf.

01:40:41.000 He served 226 days in prison.

01:40:42.000 Wow.

01:40:43.000 Nearly the longest of any journalist in U.S.

01:40:45.000 history for protecting source materials.

01:40:47.000 Yeah.

01:40:49.000 Crazy. 0.59

01:40:50.000 Let's go.

01:40:51.000 I'm not your buddy guy says, I hope people realize the true stakes of 2024.

01:40:53.000 The U.S.

01:40:55.000 isn't the only country making decisions as though they're about to be going after people.

01:40:59.000 It's gonna get wild, man.

01:41:01.000 The New World Order.

01:41:02.000 What's it gonna look like?

01:41:03.000 T-Rex Pet Shop says you should get a Mormon on the culture war to debate Seamus, since they both believe they're the only true church. 0.95

01:41:11.000 Oh, speaking of Mormonism, I talked about Mormonism last night and I was incorrect.

01:41:14.000 I was saying that there was some passage in, like, the texts which were—the text that I was referencing was called the Doctrine and Covenants from 1835, which I actually bought a copy of last night.

01:41:24.000 I'm looking forward to reading this.

01:41:26.000 But I was—the guy that told me said it was Mormonism, the stuff I was quoting.

01:41:29.000 Was it Islam?

01:41:30.000 The Talmud! 0.70

01:41:30.000 No, it's like Old Testament. 0.70

01:41:32.000 Ah, Judaism. 0.99

01:41:33.000 Deuteronomy?

01:41:35.000 Yes. 0.99

01:41:36.000 The quote that I was reading about having to pay, if you rape a woman, a virgin, you've got to pay her father $50 and marry her. 0.99

01:41:42.000 That's from the Talmud. 0.98

01:41:44.000 That's not Mormonism. 0.81

01:41:45.000 All right.

01:41:46.000 Let's grab some more.

01:41:47.000 Asiri Design says, you see the documents that How do you pronounce this?

01:41:51.000 Polyvay?

01:41:52.000 Revealed in Kennedy yesterday.

01:41:54.000 Trudeau actively covered up... How do you pronounce it?

01:41:56.000 Pierre Polyevra.

01:41:57.000 Polyevra?

01:41:58.000 There you go.

01:42:00.000 Trudeau actively covered up Canadian biolab leaks from CCP operatives.

01:42:04.000 What?

01:42:05.000 Is that true?

01:42:06.000 Yo, shout out Pierre Polyevra, that guy is awesome.

01:42:09.000 That's crazy.

01:42:10.000 He's giving me hope for Canada.

01:42:12.000 Patrick De Niro says it's not Biden crossing the Rubicon, it's him seizing Caesar's assets and silencing, gelling his supporters.

01:42:20.000 You gotta watch The Culture War from this morning.

01:42:23.000 So, Tenet Media on YouTube, The Culture War podcast.

01:42:27.000 Take a listen on YouTube.

01:42:30.000 We talked about Rome the whole way, and there's really interesting things, but I think the general consensus is Trump is not Caesar, and we actually discussed what period of Rome we may be in, and it's really interesting.

01:42:42.000 A lot of really, really interesting stuff happened in Rome.

01:42:44.000 More than most people even know, so I recommend it.

01:42:48.000 Sean Brown says, Tim, check out Kentucky Bill 500.

01:42:51.000 They're trying to pass a law to make it where employers don't have to give you a lunch or breaks at work anymore.

01:42:56.000 That's nuts.

01:42:57.000 Come on.

01:42:58.000 You don't get to eat.

01:43:02.000 All right.

01:43:03.000 TheAuthenticHydroPX says, Tim, I, as TheAuthenticHydroPX, am your biggest fan, and I can't wait to see your honest and genuine work covering the news tonight.

01:43:11.000 Wow.

01:43:12.000 Thanks, Hydro.

01:43:12.000 That's very nice of him.

01:43:13.000 That's very nice.

01:43:15.000 TheAuthenticHydro, wow.

01:43:16.000 He's very kind.

01:43:17.000 Yeah, big fan.

01:43:18.000 I'm a big fan of him, too, actually.

01:43:20.000 There's some fake Hydro account.

01:43:22.000 We're not going to read those.

01:43:23.000 Some controlled opposition.

01:43:27.000 For those that don't know, in the super chats, Hydro is just every night sending hundreds of dollars to smack talk the show.

01:43:36.000 But I consider that a form of endearment.

01:43:39.000 Yes.

01:43:41.000 Dudes insult you if they like you. 1.00

01:43:44.000 Tiznalorum says, and how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family.

01:43:59.000 Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

01:44:01.000 Crazy. 0.99

01:44:03.000 Man. 0.70

01:44:04.000 You guys ever see that meme where it's, uh, the women are like, oh, you're so great, I'm gonna miss you so much.

01:44:09.000 Oh, you're so lovely.

01:44:10.000 Okay, bye. 1.00

01:44:11.000 And then as soon as the woman walks away, they're like, what a bitch. 1.00

01:44:13.000 And then the guys are like, you dumb a-hole, you're an idiot. 1.00

01:44:16.000 Yeah, screw you. 1.00

01:44:17.000 And then when he walks away, they're like, that guy's great. 0.99

01:44:19.000 My dad used to give my friends that he liked the Most amount of garbage just constantly giving him crap, you know, and we're metal kids So we're all walking around with long hair and stuff Like so my dad was just constantly laying into him and there were kids that he didn't like that He never addressed like he barely would look at them like hey, you know, that's the guy code.

01:44:42.000 Yeah, right You learn that guy camp, right? 0.57

01:44:44.000 So actually I read something funny, maybe you'll know this better.

01:44:47.000 I read that in basic training, men start by fighting with each other, but in the end they figure out their structure and order.

01:44:55.000 Women start by being cooperative, but in the end they form cliques and they're mad at each other. 1.00

01:45:00.000 Yeah, well, I hadn't heard the women part because I spent most of my time in the infantry. 1.00

01:45:04.000 I did command.

01:45:06.000 I had women in my command at the higher levels. 0.99

01:45:09.000 But, yeah, that's interesting.

01:45:11.000 Not surprising.

01:45:12.000 Yeah.

01:45:13.000 I don't know how true it is, just I read it on the internet.

01:45:15.000 The dudes not getting along in the beginning is part of them figuring out who's competent and who should be in charge.

01:45:21.000 That's how babies play, too.

01:45:22.000 Little boys will play like that.

01:45:23.000 Anybody who's had chickens knows this.

01:45:25.000 The roosters will like puff their necks up and tug on like this at each other, and then eventually figure out who's the boss. 0.73

01:45:30.000 And the girls do it too. 1.00

01:45:31.000 Right, right, right.

01:45:33.000 And then we actually had our first annual TimCast Cockfest today.

01:45:38.000 We had... Allison made rooster chili. 0.86

01:45:41.000 I hear it was good.

01:45:42.000 It got annihilated!

01:45:44.000 Like, everybody... So we had a full roast rooster, and I had a little bit of it, and it was good.

01:45:49.000 It's chicken.

01:45:50.000 There's no other way to describe it.

01:45:51.000 We literally ate chicken.

01:45:53.000 But Allison's rooster chili, everyone, as soon as they tasted it, they were like, that's it.

01:45:58.000 Wow.

01:45:59.000 Cleared out.

01:45:59.000 Did you guys finish it off?

01:46:00.000 Yeah, it's gone.

01:46:01.000 The other thing is it was soaked in vinegar, like pressure cooked in vinegar.

01:46:05.000 They're like four.

01:46:06.000 Marinated overnight.

01:46:07.000 Vinegar is the secret MVP.

01:46:10.000 It smelled, we licked it off the top, it smelled rough.

01:46:13.000 I can't do it.

01:46:14.000 But I bet it tastes good.

01:46:15.000 Well, I don't know about the other... I have a feeling.

01:46:17.000 It's still marinating, right?

01:46:19.000 The one that was roasted I don't think was marinated in vinegar.

01:46:22.000 Yes, that one was kind of bland.

01:46:23.000 The one that was just sitting out?

01:46:24.000 Yeah, there was nothing on it.

01:46:26.000 No flavor to it?

01:46:26.000 That was straight-up roast rooster.

01:46:28.000 It was like, rooster was taken out, put in the oven for several hours, and it was good!

01:46:33.000 People were saying it was tougher than normal, but I'm like, I can't tell.

01:46:35.000 You just put it in your mouth and you eat it.

01:46:36.000 It's like chicken.

01:46:36.000 It was a little tougher.

01:46:37.000 I obviously got her too late.

01:46:39.000 Yeah, a little bit too late.

01:46:40.000 Yeah, the rooster roast.

01:46:41.000 You know, the crazy thing is when we cut into the rooster, so much fat came out that once it sat for a little while, there was a layer of fat congealed on the plate.

01:46:51.000 It was a lot of fat.

01:46:52.000 Interesting.

01:46:53.000 Yeah, I think there's something different about real homegrown backyard chicken.

01:46:58.000 Granted, we're eating roosters.

01:46:59.000 You know, they're not like broiler hens or anything like that.

01:47:00.000 Chicken tender.

01:47:01.000 Kim was saying a lot of the chickens you eat are six-week-old chickens.

01:47:04.000 So these roosters are like years, two years old.

01:47:06.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:47:07.000 Year and a half?

01:47:08.000 No, no, no, no.

01:47:09.000 Some of them are.

01:47:09.000 Eight months, nine months.

01:47:11.000 So you got fat roosters.

01:47:13.000 You got to put them on a training regimen?

01:47:15.000 You just feed them.

01:47:16.000 No, I think these ones are like eight months.

01:47:17.000 Okay.

01:47:18.000 Yeah.

01:47:19.000 But older.

01:47:19.000 Much older than what normal chickens you eat.

01:47:21.000 Maybe that's why they're so tough.

01:47:22.000 Six weeks.

01:47:22.000 Yeah, but they inject those chickens with weird hormones to make them grow faster.

01:47:25.000 That's nasty stuff, dude.

01:47:27.000 Yeah, but also it explains why the, the, the, uh, when you order wings, they're really small.

01:47:33.000 Oh, young chickens?

01:47:34.000 I mean, I always wondered this, like, if you go to a bar and you're like, I'll take the wings, you get these little drumsticks, and then I'm like, the drumsticks on our roosters are like this.

01:47:42.000 They're big.

01:47:42.000 And you go, you go to the fried chicken place, you get big drumsticks.

01:47:45.000 Like, they're giving you baby chickens, man.

01:47:46.000 Alright, we'll read some more.

01:47:49.000 Well, enough, enough chicken talk!

01:47:51.000 Enough chicken talk.

01:47:52.000 Dave Collins says, the people with TDS would rather start World War III and ignore President Biden's dementia than see President Trump elected again. 1.00

01:48:00.000 It's a mental disorder. 1.00

01:48:01.000 Dude, that's how I'm feeling. 0.83

01:48:03.000 That's how I'm feeling.

01:48:04.000 I'm like, all this weird Afghanistan stuff seems to be rooted in domestic policy, like you were saying.

01:48:11.000 They just hate Trump so much, they'd rather the whole world burn down.

01:48:17.000 Man, shocking.

01:48:20.000 It's a weird combination of people that hate Trump and they are willing to burn the world down to prevent Trump, and then people that want to burn the world down so they're supporting the people that hate Trump.

01:48:32.000 Yeah, they're like this world order thing, we're gonna make it and change it one way or another and Trump's in the way.

01:48:40.000 Yeah, personally I think it's a whole lot of Marxism that's going on.

01:48:44.000 Yeah, I do too.

01:48:46.000 All right, Blazalot says, Factory Worker here.

01:48:49.000 You helped keep me aware of the world outside of here, and for that I am grateful.

01:48:53.000 As a kid that in Married with Children, that grew up with Married with Children, that Al hated his wife and family as an adult.

01:49:02.000 I'm not, I generally get the idea of what you're trying to say, because I realize that he actually loves his family.

01:49:07.000 Yeah, I guess.

01:49:08.000 Like, the problem I had with Made with Children was that certainly when the family was threatened, they'd band together.

01:49:14.000 You know, it's like, outside.

01:49:15.000 But the show is basically just him complaining about being married and hating his family.

01:49:19.000 They were all hating each other, yeah.

01:49:20.000 I couldn't do it.

01:49:22.000 I hated that show.

01:49:23.000 It was kind of, I think that it was, it was fairly a new concept too at the time.

01:49:27.000 Like I don't recall a lot of... There's like the... No ma'am was funny.

01:49:30.000 Archie... What was the Bunker?

01:49:31.000 Archie Bunker?

01:49:32.000 No ma'am?

01:49:33.000 Yeah, but Archie Bunker was, Archie Bunker was, was a very different thing.

01:49:37.000 Archie Bunker was like a comment on, was a comment on a...

01:49:40.000 Excuse me, comment on society in a very different way.

01:49:43.000 They used Archie as, like, the thing not to be, and all the people surrounding him were like... Was he the guy who wanted to beat his wife?

01:49:49.000 Yeah, well, no, no, that was the Honeymooners to the moon, Alice.

01:49:53.000 That was prior to Archie Bunker.

01:49:55.000 I love the, on Futurama, when Fry, they go to the moon exhibit, and they show the Honeymooners, and he's like, one of these days, bang, zoom, straight to the moon.

01:50:06.000 And then Leela's like, I didn't realize early astronauts are so fat. 0.99

01:50:09.000 And he's like, he's not an astronaut.

01:50:11.000 And he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife.

01:50:13.000 It was.

01:50:15.000 It was.

01:50:16.000 One of these days.

01:50:17.000 I thought that.

01:50:18.000 That's a messed up thing to say.

01:50:19.000 What the?

01:50:20.000 The, uh.

01:50:22.000 The honeymoon, or the um, Archie was more like the Simpsons than Married with Children was like the Simpsons.

01:50:27.000 Archie?

01:50:28.000 Archie Bunker.

01:50:29.000 He's kind of like Homer Simpson.

01:50:30.000 He's kind of the archetype of Homer Simpson. 1.00

01:50:31.000 Like a dumb, lovable, angry, kind of stupid dude. 1.00

01:50:35.000 But like, everyone around him is really awesome. 1.00

01:50:37.000 Maybe. 1.00

01:50:38.000 Whereas Married with Children was just a bunch of scumbuckets that just treated each other like dog shit. 1.00

01:50:42.000 That's tough to watch. 1.00

01:50:43.000 We weren't allowed to watch it growing up.

01:50:45.000 I mean, I thought it was a great entertaining show when I would watch it, but...

01:50:49.000 It's just cheap laughs.

01:50:50.000 All right, Michael Brown says, pesky constitutionalist here.

01:50:54.000 Keep on keepin' on, Tim Kasten crew.

01:50:55.000 Everyone, support independent journalism.

01:50:57.000 God bless you all.

01:50:59.000 Shout out to Steve Baker.

01:51:01.000 Best of luck, sir.

01:51:01.000 Let's see what we got.

01:51:03.000 I think we're gonna have him back on the show to talk about what's going on because this is nuts.

01:51:06.000 For the FBI to be like, there he is, walking up with a camera, filming and narrating what's happening.

01:51:11.000 He's parading.

01:51:12.000 It's like, come on, man.

01:51:15.000 Right. 0.97

01:51:15.000 It's just ridiculous. 0.97

01:51:16.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:51:16.000 It's so ridiculous. 0.99

01:51:18.000 I suppose the argument from the left is that, but he was doing that while supporting J6. 0.87

01:51:23.000 And it's like, he's not smashing things.

01:51:26.000 He's not fighting with cops.

01:51:28.000 What you think about who he supports and doesn't support is immaterial to the fact that he is performing an act of journalism alongside other journalists.

01:51:34.000 And it's not illegal to say, I support the things that are going on at J6.

01:51:39.000 If you're not actually doing the things, you're not breaking the law by saying, man, I don't think they did anything wrong. 0.53

01:51:45.000 Like, you're maybe saying something dumb or something wrong.

01:51:48.000 But one of the journalists who was alongside him who didn't get charged, well, he called them insurrectionists. 0.85

01:51:54.000 So that's all it takes.

01:51:55.000 Now you're a journalist.

01:51:56.000 Man, this country.

01:51:59.000 All right.

01:52:00.000 Federale Actual says, just like I won't delete Twix, I'll never stop listening to this cast.

01:52:04.000 You got truth bombs dropping everywhere with the most based retired BG ever, and a rock god dropping F-bombs in the first hour.

01:52:11.000 Loot cast needs a rock god. 0.98

01:52:12.000 I've already said I'm sorry.

01:52:13.000 Oh, yeah.

01:52:13.000 I mean, we didn't get into it, but Axe has banned misgendering.

01:52:17.000 Yeah, specifically repeated targeting, misgendering of someone.

01:52:21.000 And that was always the rule.

01:52:23.000 That was the original rule.

01:52:24.000 The original rule that we all complained about was they said you can't harass someone and misgender them.

01:52:32.000 The rule was never simply calling someone the name would result in you getting banned.

01:52:36.000 They always qualified it by saying it's repeated targeted harassment. 0.94

01:52:40.000 Yeah, and then shut up. 1.00

01:52:40.000 But they were still banning people for saying things like, what did Zuby say? 1.00

01:52:44.000 Okay, dude.

01:52:45.000 Okay, dude, and they suspended him for it.

01:52:47.000 I think Megan Murphy said, but a man's not a woman, though. 1.00

01:52:50.000 Yeah, Megan Murphy said men aren't women, though, and she got banned. 1.00

01:52:53.000 She responded to someone, which is where the targeting comes in.

01:52:56.000 It's like, oh, she responded to someone.

01:52:59.000 So, how do you define harassment?

01:53:01.000 Who gets to say what words you gotta be called?

01:53:03.000 Like, do I get a protected class too now?

01:53:05.000 The rule says if you, as the victim, report it.

01:53:07.000 I just don't think it's gonna fly for very long, but it's an interesting concept.

01:53:11.000 I mean, harassment in general, you ban it.

01:53:14.000 Yeah, but like... What the hell's harassment on the internet?

01:53:17.000 Slippery slope, man.

01:53:18.000 There's no reason for this rule to exist, Elon.

01:53:21.000 The rule does not make sense.

01:53:23.000 I will stress this right now.

01:53:25.000 I appreciate the things that Elon has done and is doing.

01:53:29.000 But the idea of misgendering is inverted in the political spectrum.

01:53:34.000 The left thinks it's misgendering to call someone who wants to use a pronoun something else, and the right believes it's misgendering if you call someone who is male female pronouns or vice versa.

01:53:44.000 So the definition of misgendering, this is the problem with the rule in the first place.

01:53:48.000 It shows a leftist woke bias.

01:53:50.000 So, you want to complain?

01:53:52.000 Look, I'm going to say it right now.

01:53:54.000 That rule being in place shows X is woke.

01:53:57.000 Period.

01:53:58.000 No questions.

01:53:59.000 I don't care what Elon says.

01:54:00.000 He's like, it's going to be targeted harassment.

01:54:02.000 Doesn't matter.

01:54:03.000 Elon, you're woke.

01:54:05.000 We're not going to get an argument of degrees of wokeness.

01:54:08.000 There should not be a policy against calling someone the wrong pronoun.

01:54:13.000 That's wokeness.

01:54:14.000 Yeah, or call on someone any name.

01:54:17.000 If I call Tim a monkey over and over and over on Twitter, he can block me.

01:54:21.000 And I'm gonna say this right now.

01:54:24.000 I will likely pull the TimCast News' official corporate pro account and I will cancel Blue over this.

01:54:31.000 I'm not kidding.

01:54:32.000 There should not be a misgendering policy on any social media platform.

01:54:36.000 So I will cancel verification.

01:54:38.000 I will shut it all down.

01:54:39.000 I'm over it.

01:54:40.000 I get about a thousand bucks every two weeks and who cares?

01:54:44.000 I'm done.

01:54:46.000 And I encourage everyone to cancel their Twitter pro so long as X is saying they will shadow ban you for misgendering.

01:54:54.000 Delete the policy or I'm done.

01:54:56.000 I will shut it down first thing.

01:54:58.000 I'll give it a week and we'll see what happens.

01:54:59.000 Maybe they'll come out and apologize for doing it, but I'm going to terminate the TimCast corporate account.

01:55:04.000 Do you know how expensive it is to run a business account on X?

01:55:07.000 It is not $10.

01:55:08.000 It's thousands of dollars.

01:55:09.000 Thousands.

01:55:10.000 And every time we add people, it is more expensive for a business to add a verified account than it is for the individual to verify their own account.

01:55:18.000 We are spending a lot of money on X. And I will also say this.

01:55:22.000 I am hereby cancelling my pledge to put in the remainder of the quarter million dollars in advertising on X because of this.

01:55:28.000 And I don't care if people are like, you said you were going to do it and I'm not doing it anymore.

01:55:31.000 Done.

01:55:31.000 They want to put in a misgendering policy?

01:55:33.000 I will not pay for that.

01:55:35.000 So I'm gonna cancel that ad right now.

01:55:37.000 Actually, I did that ad last night.

01:55:39.000 I'm pissed about this.

01:55:40.000 It makes sense.

01:55:40.000 You know, if you're endorsing a company and you're spending money on their website, you're spending money to advertise and stuff.

01:55:51.000 And one of the reasons is because of This kind of thing this kind of commitment to free speech and stuff like that.

01:55:58.000 I'm not sure what he means by harassment.

01:56:00.000 I'm not sure if it is just like using a the wrong pronoun one time or whatever don't care.

01:56:06.000 I understand that clearly but.

01:56:09.000 I'm not sure what it is, but that doesn't change the fact that the reason that people have embraced Elon so much is because he really does try to get it right about not censoring ideas.

01:56:23.000 And I think that if you're saying you must use the pronoun that someone else requests, if it is a requirement, then you're getting into Regulating cognitive liberty.

01:56:40.000 And cognitive liberty is what is at stake here.

01:56:44.000 The reason that the leftists and the LGBT lobby demand that you use the pronoun is because they want you to conceive of them as man, if they're a trans man, or as a woman if they're a trans woman.

01:56:59.000 It is about your liberty to think for yourself.

01:57:05.000 The point is to make you think the way they want you to think.

01:57:11.000 And there's no two ways about that.

01:57:12.000 The point is to make you think what they want you to think, because the way we think is in words.

01:57:17.000 I love Elon.

01:57:19.000 Love what you're doing.

01:57:19.000 A lot of it, man.

01:57:20.000 But firstly, you're not the arbiter of free speech.

01:57:22.000 No one has a control of what that is or how that works.

01:57:25.000 So value and effort.

01:57:27.000 You cannot contain this thing.

01:57:28.000 It's like the one ring.

01:57:29.000 So you've got to free the code of that network and let other people spin up versions of Twitter that they can share your code with you.

01:57:35.000 The code is free.

01:57:36.000 You can see their code.

01:57:37.000 You need all of it.

01:57:38.000 Some of it is open, but it's not all of it.

01:57:40.000 You need algorithms.

01:57:41.000 You need front-end code.

01:57:43.000 You need lots of different types of back-end code.

01:57:46.000 And that's freeing the speech, is giving that code to people so that they can make their own versions of the networks with their own terms that they can ban misgendering on, and then we'll leave that one and go to the one where they don't ban misgendering.

01:57:58.000 That's the way you do it.

01:57:59.000 You've got to release this beast, dude.

01:58:01.000 You don't do that with something you paid $44 billion for.

01:58:04.000 I mean, that's just not happening. 0.99

01:58:06.000 Tim just cancelled a $250,000 ad read because of this stupid, trying to control free speech. 0.93

01:58:10.000 I had committed last year, because of the good things they were doing, $250,000 in the first quarter. 0.89

01:58:16.000 I spent $25,000, I launched, live on the members show, a $25,000 campaign for my account.

01:58:22.000 So far as the ad run has committed, has spent, $5,336.

01:58:26.000 I am terminating it right now.

01:58:30.000 That's it, man.

01:58:31.000 It's the next century.

01:58:33.000 It's the evolution of what the First Amendment is.

01:58:35.000 It's on the internet.

01:58:36.000 It's the code base.

01:58:37.000 You need access to code bases.

01:58:39.000 That is freedom.

01:58:40.000 Yeah, I still don't think that... I still have the opinion that you can free the code, but most people aren't going to be able to read it.

01:58:49.000 That's likely now.

01:58:50.000 Maybe next generation they'll have better understanding.

01:58:53.000 Teach kids code.

01:58:53.000 That's a big, big deal.

01:58:56.000 I think we should teach kids how to farm.

01:58:58.000 Because no one network can make the right terms.

01:59:03.000 Terms are just kind of variable from person to person.

01:59:06.000 They should be, because it's your company.

01:59:07.000 You can have whatever terms you want.

01:59:08.000 But that's the point.

01:59:08.000 Elon, he spent $44 billion on it.

01:59:10.000 He's not going to just give the code away.

01:59:16.000 I mean, literally, if he gives the code away, he's gonna default all the people that he borrowed money to loan to buy.

01:59:23.000 He didn't just buy, you know, he didn't just liquidate stuff to buy it, like, he secured funding, he got financing from multiple people.

01:59:31.000 That's how these things are done.

01:59:32.000 Like, he's not, he's just not gonna, there will be no freeing of the code in X so that way someone can make a competitor.

01:59:39.000 That's just not gonna happen.

01:59:40.000 And there's no reason for, like, no one would go to the competitor.

01:59:43.000 Um, if the Twitter terms go haywire, then you would use the other service.

01:59:48.000 Someone just sent me something saying they got locked out for calling someone he.

01:59:53.000 Someone's basically saying I got suspended for it.

01:59:55.000 For calling a woman he?

01:59:56.000 For referring to someone as a he.

01:59:58.000 This is like if I call somebody like a wolf man, am I going to get in some sort of misgendering trouble because he's a, it's a guy with red hair, but I was like, he looks like a wolf to me.

02:00:06.000 You know, topically, this is the, this is a problem, you know, for, for, X and for us and stuff like that, but this is obviously not the only only attack on free speech In the West you look at what Canada is doing and that's serious stuff because you can get they're talking about life imprisonment for hate speech and They're even talking about preventative

02:00:30.000 imprisonment if you might commit hate speech or something like that so it's new to me it is it is

02:00:35.000 really really really crazy the the law that they're trying to pass in in canada and that's

02:00:40.000 something that is you know you can go to jail for stuff in in if you that you post on the internet

02:00:45.000 in england and you can go to you know i believe you could probably do the same in like new zealand and

02:00:49.000 and australia So the idea that you should be allowed to say whatever you want, that's something that we still need to fight really, really ferociously for.

02:01:01.000 I don't think there's been any significant change.

02:01:03.000 As much as it's great that Musk bought the X and it showed potential and hopefully this is not a consistent problem that they have and things do Gets solved in a way that's satisfactory to people of our opinions.

02:01:19.000 But there is no guarantee.

02:01:21.000 All right, well, I'm gonna have to log in and I deleted the tweet.

02:01:25.000 I don't know if that deletes the campaign, probably not.

02:01:27.000 I don't know how the campaign could exist without the tweet, but I'll still have to go into the back end and make sure I shut that down.

02:01:32.000 And you know what I'd said was by the end of quarter one, March, we don't do ad spending in January because you're doing budgeting.

02:01:39.000 And then I was like, well, we didn't get through much in February either, so March will be a big ad spend for us.

02:01:46.000 And I actually was talking to some of our clients and partners about the big ad spend we're going to do.

02:01:51.000 It's cancelled.

02:01:52.000 Officially cancelled.

02:01:54.000 And The Hill's reported on this.

02:01:55.000 It's been reported far and wide.

02:01:56.000 Axe has reinstated their misgendering policy.

02:01:59.000 Feel free to do it, brother.

02:02:00.000 I ain't giving you money for it.

02:02:01.000 So that's it.

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02:02:08.000 Because the work we do is made possible thanks in part to viewers like you.

02:02:12.000 And this means that everyone at TimCast will lose their verification badges.

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02:02:19.000 Then they'll likely derank and drop us. 0.99

02:02:21.000 Don't know, don't care, I'm not paying for this garbage. 0.99

02:02:24.000 Rumble exists. 0.95

02:02:25.000 And right now the big free speech competition is between X and Rumble.

02:02:30.000 Rumble it is, I guess.

02:02:31.000 I know we do the live show on YouTube, but I'm talking about if we're going to be considering anything for any kind of new platform, Axe is gone.

02:02:39.000 So long as they have this misgendering policy in place, Elon will have to personally come out and announce it's been rescinded, revoked, otherwise I'm not interested.

02:02:46.000 Anyway, thanks for hanging out.

02:02:47.000 You can follow the show at Timcast IRL if you'd like, and you can follow me personally at Timcast if you're still using the platform.

02:02:54.000 General Tata, do you want to shout anything out?

02:02:56.000 Thanks for a great conversation.

02:02:58.000 I think we really hit on some key topics that we're able to drill down on.

02:03:03.000 And thanks for pimping the book, Phalanx Code, where we actually, it's the struggle between big tech and the little guy.

02:03:12.000 And so it's a very apropos to end on that note.

02:03:16.000 I am PhilThatRemains on Twix, and I'm PhilThatRemainsOfficial on Instagram.

02:03:19.000 The band is All That Remains.

02:03:20.000 You can follow us on Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, you know, the internet.

02:03:26.000 And don't forget, the left lane is for crime.

02:03:29.000 That's right.

02:03:29.000 When you gotta pass that dude, you're just breaking the law for a moment.

02:03:33.000 Then you're gonna be right back to the speed limit, I promise.

02:03:36.000 Real quick, this is the game.

02:03:38.000 The big brands threaten to pull their ads off of Axe because of...

02:03:42.000 Because he didn't have a misgendering policy?

02:03:44.000 Okay, well, I'm doing the same thing.

02:03:46.000 I'm not living in this world, man.

02:03:48.000 I think that makes sense.

02:03:51.000 We should have him on the show.

02:03:52.000 I know, obviously.

02:03:54.000 And I had Octagon1975 on Twitter ask me to ask you, Tony, what's that ring represent that you got on?

02:04:01.000 This ring.

02:04:02.000 That's it.

02:04:02.000 I have to leave right now.

02:04:04.000 Oh, literally?

02:04:04.000 You're going out the door.

02:04:06.000 I'm leaving right now, so let's... Well, maybe next time.

02:04:08.000 It's a West Point ring.

02:04:10.000 1981 graduate.

02:04:11.000 I'll talk to Warren next time.

02:04:12.000 Good to see you, man.

02:04:13.000 Surge.

02:04:14.000 Yeah, I'm Surge.

02:04:15.000 See you later.

02:04:16.000 Have a good weekend.

02:04:16.000 I'm sorry.

02:04:16.000 I'm just really pissed off over Axe right now.

02:04:18.000 I've just... I'm losing my temper.

02:04:20.000 Dude, this is what happens when people try and centralize authority. 1.00

02:04:23.000 You always fuck it up. 0.99

02:04:24.000 You cannot give power to one guy like this. 1.00

02:04:26.000 It's insane.

02:04:29.000 Okay, we're gonna wrap it up.

02:04:31.000 Go have a good time.

02:04:32.000 It's Friday night.

02:04:32.000 I gotta get out the door.

02:04:33.000 Go see family.

02:04:35.000 Thank you all so much for hanging out.

Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - March 02, 2024

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