The Biden administration has ordered the arrest of an opposition journalist. Steve Baker has been in trouble with the FBI for years, and now he's being charged as if he was a rioter. Vladimir Putin is warning the West that he has nukes, and what is the West thinking about that?
00:00:58.000But something happened a few years later.
00:01:01.000He 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.
00:01:12.000It'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...
00:01:20.000I'm reluctant to say Biden is crossing the Rubicon because, you know, figure of speech.
00:01:25.000It'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.
00:01:35.000It'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.
00:02:38.000You can reach out to me, and I will Venmo you or whatever, and I'll send you the cash.
00:02:44.000Because a couple were the closest that I saw.
00:02:47.000I think one thing most people missed in the music video was the deal with the devil.
00:02:52.000While a lot of people pointed out correctly, drug addiction, addiction, social media are big components of this, and they all are.
00:03:00.000There's multiple layers, so for those unfamiliar, we released a music video, Eyes of Advice, had this, you know, pseudo-contest kind of thing.
00:03:07.000The general theme of the video, if you've watched it, it's on the notes, it's very obvious.
00:03:10.000There'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.
00:03:18.000That'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.
00:03:26.000And then it ends up destroying his life.
00:04:46.000Dude, uh, Good Ranchers is, basically you go to the website, you pick a box, they send you a bunch of these farm fresh meats.
00:04:52.000Shout out, they sent us sample meats and I had a burger and it was like, it was a Wagyu burger and it was basically like the best burger I've ever had.
00:04:59.000I mean, granted, I made it, I put grilled onions on it, mayo and cheese, but it was an amazing burger.
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00:05:12.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and, I don't know, World War III, is General Tony Tata.
00:05:23.000I retired Army Brigadier General, formerly performed the duties of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under President Trump in his last year there.
00:05:36.000Businessman, Secretary of Transportation for North Carolina, Superintendent of Wake County Public Schools in Raleigh, North Carolina.
00:05:44.000Former Chief Operating Officer of DC Public Schools.
00:05:48.000And I also write novels and I've got my 16th novel coming out this week, Phalanx Code.
00:05:54.000And 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.
00:06:08.000And silence the voices and you've got, you know, think on the other side, maybe X and Musk trying to defend the little guy.
00:06:17.000And 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.
00:06:43.000I've been screaming that for like two years.
00:06:45.000Yeah, so, you know, in the story, the Phalanx Code is actually a kill list, right?
00:06:50.000That 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.
00:07:03.000And trying to write the code to allow people to decentralize Wi-Fi, decentralize finance, and protect those people.
00:07:11.000And they're trying to break the Phalanx Code so they can understand who's going to die next.
00:07:52.000FBI charging documents in Steve Baker's January 6th case show he was working as a journalist.
00:07:58.000Let's start from the beginning for anybody who doesn't know the context.
00:08:01.000What we're looking at right now is the Biden administration, it would seem, retaliating against a journalist for exposing inconsistencies in Capitol Police testimony.
00:08:30.000He was ignored by the Feds and the Capitol Police.
00:08:32.000He was not considered a suspect for years until he started doing reporting on inconsistencies in statements made by certain individuals involved.
00:08:41.000I'm trying to be a little bit vague, but basically he's speaking out and exposing, as a journalist, corruption in government.
00:08:48.000All of a sudden, he gets a call, you're gonna be charged.
00:08:51.000They play dirty games with him, and then finally ordered him to surrender.
00:08:59.000Now, 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.
00:09:11.000Daniel 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.
00:09:23.000Yet he was out on the streets undeterred to then paint bomb the exhibit of the sacred U.S.
00:09:29.000Constitution at the National Archives a few weeks ago.
00:09:31.000Two-tiered system doesn't begin to describe what is going on.
00:09:36.000In 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.
00:09:48.000FBI 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.
00:09:55.000Capitol show that he was working as a journalist.
00:09:57.000Charging documents describe Baker working as a journalist while at the U.S.
00:10:01.000The 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.
00:10:08.000In 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.
00:10:17.000At the base of the West Plaza, Baker moved past a black damaged half-fence onto steps leading up to the police-positioned bicycle racks.
00:10:25.000In figure 10 on page 8, the FBI describes Baker as performing the actions of a journalist.
00:10:29.000This includes the federal agency referring to Baker as a narrator in a video that has been captured from both inside and outside the Capitol.
00:10:36.000In the video, Baker reports the events that had been occurring, specifically the police killing of conservative veteran Ashley Babbitt.
00:10:43.000Capitol Police Department's response to the riot and city officials announcing that a curfew had been set.
00:10:48.000Now let's just add one more layer to this.
00:10:51.000There 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.
00:11:00.000In 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.
00:11:11.000And by doing so, they said, okay, you're fine.
00:11:24.000My 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.
00:11:37.000They'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.
00:11:49.000I am no longer outraged with the government.
00:11:52.000I 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?
00:12:10.000Like, you know now, if the government is dealing with a conservative, you know they are not going to be dealt with fairly.
00:12:33.000It should have been plainly obvious and he shouldn't have even been in jail.
00:12:38.000The 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.
00:12:53.000It is now time to start looking at our fellow Americans and saying, why aren't you paying attention to this?
00:12:58.000Why aren't, why are you allowing this?
00:13:01.000But I think, I think that's not, that's not true.
00:13:05.000When 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.
00:13:16.000You look at the presidential polls, Trump is winning.
00:13:18.000It's an inversion from where we were four years ago.
00:13:21.000I 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.
00:13:38.000And 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.
00:13:48.000Which is, and I want to stress this, I'm not going to sit here and play a game and say November is an election.
00:14:02.000You have to register as many voters as possible.
00:14:04.000You have to get your friends and family to vote.
00:14:06.000You 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.
00:14:22.000Now the one thing that does have me worried is all of the court cases against Trump, and there's nothing in response.
00:14:28.000So 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.
00:14:36.000Yeah, 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.
00:14:46.000Talking to your friends about it is not enough right now.
00:14:49.000These are the things that make people get in the street and riot, or you use your voice on the internet.
00:14:54.000Now we don't have to riot as much, because we have internet video, so we can complain and protest on the internet.
00:14:58.000We don't have to form these dangerous mobs.
00:15:01.000You've got to be loud publicly about this right now if you want to be one of the ones that spoke up.
00:15:06.000Yeah, I don't think this is complicated at all.
00:15:09.000The framers of the Constitution did not trust the government.
00:15:13.000They 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.
00:15:23.000And right now, the press is not free if you're standing for freedom.
00:15:33.000They're part of the influence operation that's going on right now.
00:15:37.000Baker 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.
00:15:59.000So you served in the Trump administration.
00:16:19.000So, 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?
00:16:45.000And, 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.
00:16:59.000I had soldiers calling me that had served with me, crying, saying, sir, was this all in vain?
00:17:07.000This 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.
00:17:22.000And 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.
00:17:36.000We were talking about that before the show, the breaking of NATO.
00:17:39.000Yeah, 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.
00:17:55.000We adjusted together and we were going to leave together whenever that was.
00:18:00.000And this administration, they just left.
00:19:59.000NATO warned that giving in to Vladimir Putin could spark nuclear World War III conflict.
00:20:05.000I love this because what we are being given by the press right now is no option.
00:20:11.000If we give in to Putin, it's nuclear war.
00:20:13.000And if we win in Ukraine, it's nuclear war.
00:20:18.000So what are any of us supposed to be thinking right now?
00:20:22.000It seems like, okay, I guess World War III is an inevitability?
00:20:26.000Well, 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.
00:20:45.000Because 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.
00:20:58.000And 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.
00:21:07.000And so that's what they're trying to tee up here.
00:21:10.000It's a craven political domestic move.
00:22:16.000And you let that play out, and you can't have a conversation today like, where's the diplomacy?
00:22:25.000I 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.
00:22:31.000We'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.
00:22:40.000And he snapped back at me and said, oh, so you just want to give Putin everything.
00:22:44.000I'm like, well, why was there not this cacophony of BS when Obama let Russia have Crimea.
00:22:54.000Was that the more flexibility after the election comment?
00:22:59.000And so what's the issue now that it's, you know, potential is, and it's all about Trump is Putin, Putin is Trump.
00:23:07.000That's the lie that they got to keep going.
00:23:11.000Because they're running on fumes into this election year.
00:23:15.000And 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.
00:23:31.000Like look at, let's just shift over to Hamas and Israel.
00:23:35.000I mean, what's Biden doing in Michigan?
00:23:53.000There are Americans that are still being held hostage.
00:23:55.000So anyone that says, oh, you know, ceasefire now, you're literally saying ceasefire and bargain with the terrorists that currently hold Americans hostage.
00:24:36.000Let'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.
00:24:45.000I like the American First mentality, but with the caveat of, at what cost?
00:24:50.000Because 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.
00:25:26.000I 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.
00:25:33.000My thoughts with Putin and the war in the Ukraine, what I've been trying to figure out is why, firstly, they took Crimea.
00:25:38.000I 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.
00:25:46.000So 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.
00:25:59.000I never thought that that was the case.
00:26:00.000I thought it was pure economics, they want that seaport.
00:26:02.000Tucker said in the intro to the interview that he believes Putin is expressing historic claim to Ukraine as a territory.
00:26:42.000That's like the right third of the map of Ukraine.
00:26:46.000That's where we're on the center right or in the more to the left to the to the western side?
00:26:50.000Yeah 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.
00:27:10.000And 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.
00:27:27.000And I think that's what he ultimately wants.
00:27:31.000I 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.
00:27:46.000There's a lot of territorial claims out there.
00:27:48.000I was in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
00:27:52.000And everybody I would talk to would say, okay, well in 1582 this was, you know, my land and now it's not.
00:27:59.000And so, I don't know who we are to impose on this being sorted out.
00:28:09.000I know that from a NATO perspective, we have an obligation to NATO nations because we're part of a collective security arrangement.
00:28:18.000And to the extent that we have that obligation, we should do what we can to ensure the integrity of NATO.
00:28:29.000And that ought to be a collective decision.
00:28:31.000I 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?
00:28:48.000And so there wasn't a whole lot of deliberation.
00:28:51.000It 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.
00:29:03.000So I think that, you know, ultimately, look at NATO, do what we gotta do, where's the diplomacy?
00:29:13.000You got diplomacy, military, economic, we gotta bring diplomacy in there.
00:29:18.000Blinken is the most incompetent Secretary of State we've ever had.
00:29:21.000I was just gonna say, it's like we've got Blinken, and you've got actually President Biden himself, like, Who can do it?
00:29:26.000Because the president is not like the commander-in-chief that's out there making the decisions.
00:29:34.000Now, 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?
00:29:45.000Oh, the doctor came back and said that he, or no, the press release about his biography or whatever.
00:29:53.000Anyways, If Blinken is as incompetent as he seems, and the president isn't even cognizant, like, who's running the show?
00:30:04.000Like, who do you think is actually doing it?
00:30:06.000Because Lloyd Austin isn't there either!
00:30:08.000So, like, who the fuck is in Washington D.C.
00:30:25.000I 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.
00:30:35.000They didn't want Russia to be so powerful, have the Mediterranean as well.
00:30:40.000Now, 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.
00:31:24.000As long as you're friends with the oligarchs, I guess.
00:31:26.000This is the pitch for the separation of California breaking into two states, is the coastal regions become a state.
00:31:35.000You 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.
00:31:41.000No, no, the actual argument right now is the coastline is its own state.
00:31:44.000Congratulations, you get what you want.
00:31:46.000And then the eastern farmland becomes its own state.
00:31:48.000And the only problem with that is those cities would all starve to death.
00:31:53.000I 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.
00:32:05.000I was talking to my buddy about the homeless problem in California.
00:32:09.000I'm like, look, California has plenty of money to handle the homeless problem.
00:32:13.000California has plenty of authority to pass all the laws they want.
00:32:21.000But, 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.
00:32:32.000It's to say, don't invade NATO countries.
00:32:35.000So, 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.
00:32:56.000In the military you have a thing called an area of operations and you have what's called an area of interest.
00:33:01.000Ukraine 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.
00:33:32.000I don't want one American boot on the ground in Ukraine.
00:33:37.000I don't want one son or daughter, mother, father, etc.
00:33:41.000to be killed in Ukraine for any reason whatsoever.
00:33:47.000Right now it does not fall within the legitimate, vital U.S.
00:33:54.000interests that are codified in the National Defense Strategy.
00:34:09.000Exactly, because technically Ukraine's not an American puppet state, technically.
00:34:13.000But realistically, with Burisma, I mean, they've been working together with the Bidens.
00:34:17.000Well, I mean, we've shut down and limited, restricted energy production in this country so we could buy it from Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.
00:34:30.000The 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.
00:34:46.000of shutting down energy production in the United States, going from net exporter to net importer, importer from rival nations like Venezuela, Iran, and Russia.
00:35:02.000And the media does nothing to expose it.
00:35:05.000It's really counterproductive, and it's a national security issue.
00:35:10.000And 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.
00:35:41.000No, that's what they're going to learn instead of civilization.
00:35:43.000I'm saying, if you give them civilization, that's the point, what are they going to learn?
00:35:47.000They'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.
00:36:14.000You, you, like, either they're gonna bomb you or you're gonna invade them, and I think you learn a lot.
00:36:18.000When 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?! !
00:36:24.000And 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.
00:36:31.000Like, 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.
00:36:38.000Did you, when you were serving as a general, or I don't know what your career promotion rate was like.
00:37:22.000And 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.
00:37:33.000He says, you're not going to Afghanistan, you're going to Iraq.
00:38:34.000Middle 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.
00:39:11.000And instead, we used all that goodwill of the American people to go to Iraq.
00:39:22.000Well, 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.
00:39:36.000I talked about the Afghanistan intelligence miss, the Ukraine intelligence miss, the Hamas intelligence miss.
00:39:48.000What's the one thing that, you know, hasn't manifested yet?
00:39:53.000That's a huge intelligence miss, right?
00:39:56.000As 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.
00:40:21.000Millions 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.
00:41:20.000Why did they get left flat-footed on Ukraine?
00:41:21.000Why did they get left flat-footed with the attack in Israel?
00:41:25.000And 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?
00:41:30.000And 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?
00:41:49.000No, 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.
00:41:56.000And I think there's a lot of merit to that.
00:41:59.000I think you've got to come in and be ruthless about your federal government, your bureaucracies, because they are bloated.
00:42:06.000They are, you know, serving, they're self-licking ice cream cones where they serve themselves essentially.
00:42:14.000With 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?
00:42:29.000Let'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.
00:42:41.000I 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.
00:42:54.000I am tired of feeling like I'm supposed to apologize for the space I occupy, rather than intoxicate people with my effort, my brilliance.
00:44:19.000At 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.
00:45:36.000Yes, Pop Culture Crisis on every day at 3 on the YouTubes.
00:45:40.000PopCultureCrisis.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.
00:45:54.000It initially started in the entertainment industry.
00:45:57.000You 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.
00:46:14.000Same thing is happening with the movie industry.
00:46:16.000They keep putting out remakes that aren't as good, degrading quality and stuff like that.
00:46:22.000It'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.
00:46:33.000Now, this is happening in, this is obviously happening in the military.
00:46:57.000There's problems with kids not knowing the courses or the basics and stuff that they need to know in high school.
00:47:06.000All 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?
00:47:17.000whether it be flying airplanes, air traffic controllers, or intelligence, or whatever it is,
00:47:23.000that discipline is now being, the time that's supposed to be dedicated to that discipline
00:47:29.000is now being eaten up by DEI and by critical theories and social justice stuff,
00:47:34.000and those kinds of programs do not get smaller.
00:47:38.000They only eat more and more and more of your time and funding,
00:47:42.000and that means your intended discipline or whatever continues to fail and have more and more problems.
00:47:49.000And this is exactly the reason that socialist countries fail.
00:47:53.000Their 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.
00:48:02.000This has happened multiple times in history.
00:48:04.000You've got all kinds of examples of it.
00:48:06.000Yeah, Canada's calling for, or was it the Toronto Star or whatever the paper was, calling for food price regulation?
00:48:16.000There 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.
00:48:25.000Oh, she's going after a beef manufacturer because beef is bad for the environment.
00:48:30.000Listen, if you let the government get in total control of food production, millions of people will die.
00:48:37.000That happens every single time the government gets in control of food production.
00:48:41.000There has been famines every single time in history.
00:48:44.000But I gotta tell you, there's a lot that has been going on in this country that people won't fight for.
00:48:49.000But if you take away a man's cheeseburger, I really think you might be asking for trouble on this one.
00:48:55.000Because 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?
00:49:07.000You 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.
00:49:14.000I'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.
00:49:21.000A 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.
00:49:43.000I 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.
00:49:51.000And then now we're seeing seven hours in Israel.
00:49:53.000Hamas is tearing them up for six, seven hours with no response.
00:49:58.000I 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.
00:50:08.000If they're going to use the climate and climate justice is what they're going to call it.
00:50:12.000They're going to call it climate justice.
00:50:13.000It's going to be connected to all of the left-leaning stuff.
00:50:17.000It's going to be connected to all the left-leaning stuff.
00:50:20.000If they're going to use that, that's way more of a threat than a false flag.
00:50:23.000It'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.
00:50:40.000And 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.
00:50:56.000If they love what you're doing, They're going to come, they're going to be in your school.
00:51:00.000If not, they're going to go to charter or private or whatever.
00:51:56.000Yeah, well, I mean, to make the mission, you know, they'll do whatever.
00:52:01.000But 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.
00:52:13.000They've got to be mentally fit, physically fit, and they do get their citizenship that way.
00:52:20.000But they've been there for a while, they've got the proper documentation.
00:52:24.000I think they're going to send them all to Ukraine.
00:52:26.000you know, the wholesale, you know, these are all military age males.
00:52:31.000So, you know, keep, keep your friends close, your enemies closer, you know,
00:52:36.000but I, I, I think that with this, I think they're going to send them all to Ukraine.
00:52:41.000I mean, I don't, I don't know how likely that is, but it really is problem.
00:52:50.000You 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.
00:52:57.000Load up all of the fighting-age males, make promises to them, drop them off in Poland and say, oh jeez, they're not Americans.
00:54:09.000The 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.
00:54:29.000And they're also going to make you dumber.
00:54:30.000Yeah, 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.
00:54:46.000Because I had some laser beams shot in my eyes to fix my vision.
00:54:51.000If I could get my vision fixed without that, or if I could have, I would prefer to not have gotten laser beams shot.
00:54:56.000Yeah, I can see why they would want the tech to be secret.
00:54:59.000Well, 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.
00:55:14.000Either 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.
00:55:24.000Like, use the military to create goodwill.
00:55:28.000I 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.
00:55:46.000So 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.
00:56:08.000But 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!
00:56:38.000We 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.
00:57:22.000And 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.
00:57:32.000The 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.
00:57:47.000I 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.
00:57:56.000So Trump was planning on, he's had a timeline for a withdrawal out of Afghanistan.
00:58:01.000Do you believe there was a way to do that properly?
00:58:06.000What's your vision for how we could have worked this?
00:58:09.000Well, I was there, I was part of that, and we, you know, around Christmas time we said, We got 29 other partners there.
00:58:23.000The plan is to go to Bagram and then we can collapse from there.
00:58:27.000I 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.
00:58:42.000And 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.
00:58:54.000But if we would have kept air power there, we could have prevented this Taliban overrunning Instantly.
00:59:40.000But 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.
00:59:54.000Why did they abandon Bagram in the middle of the night?
00:59:58.000Yeah, because, you know, everybody in this administration was on vacation and they're incompetent and they, you know, even... It sounds intentional.
01:00:06.000I mean, I don't know how you accidentally do that.
01:00:07.000Yeah, I just think that, you know, everybody was... So part of the drill was Austin purged every board.
01:00:16.000So there's lots of boards in the Pentagon.
01:00:24.000And, 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.
01:01:19.000When, 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?
01:01:30.000I'm like, I didn't take any documents with me.
01:01:33.000You know, it's like, it wasn't classified, but it was sensitive.
01:01:40.000And, and, um, they said, well, nobody in your old office can find it.
01:01:46.000And 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.
01:01:58.000That's how damaging this arrogance of this administration coming in the way they did, and it's been nothing but chaos.
01:02:08.000And it's essentially, it's just motivated by we're just going to do everything that Trump wouldn't or didn't do.
01:02:14.000And so all of the things we're talking about here, like even Austin testifying about his absence, right?
01:02:23.000I mean, I worked directly for Austin twice.
01:02:26.000I was a deputy commanding general when he was a commanding general on 10th Mountain.
01:02:29.000I was an airborne battalion commander for him when he was Airborne Brigade Commander, and so I know him pretty well.
01:02:35.000He knows very well that you got to let the boss know you're not going to be at work, right?
01:02:40.000I 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.
01:02:59.000The deputy had to sign it, and it was witnessed by a third person.
01:04:06.000I 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?
01:04:13.000You know, I think, Ian, we're saying it was 1913, it was the Federal Reserve, the Republic's been gone for a long time.
01:04:19.000Well, 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.
01:04:28.000And, you know, a lot of people have speculated that someone, someone else is in charge of Joe Biden.
01:04:34.000And I've made the argument, no, no, I think it's Joe Biden.
01:04:37.000You 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.
01:04:49.000Well, there's no accountability, and when you have no accountability, then, you know, anything can go.
01:04:54.000But, 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.
01:05:06.000And Twitter says, you know, oh, okay, yeah, sure.
01:05:09.000And then, okay, let's roll the FBI in on that, too, to make sure that, you know, we deplatform these other people.
01:05:36.000And I think he's, first and foremost, how does he maintain power?
01:05:40.000How does he aggrandize himself financially?
01:05:43.000How does he help his family and friends and political party then way down the list is how do I help?
01:05:50.000America 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?
01:06:04.000It should come from the President himself?
01:06:05.000I think it should come from the press.
01:06:08.000And I think that then they should make decisions from Congress, should hold people accountable.
01:06:17.000The system ought to work as the framers designed it.
01:06:20.000And 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.
01:06:27.000I 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.
01:06:43.000You 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.
01:06:54.000Now we got, what was it, that Space Force video saying respect my pronouns?
01:07:06.000You 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.
01:08:23.000We 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.
01:08:38.000So 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.
01:09:00.000You 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.
01:09:13.000Okay, 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.
01:09:32.000So I think it's corporations doing it and they're just doing it for profit and the byproduct is Endocrine disruption.
01:09:38.000I want to ask your opinion about, like, so the military used to have a standard for mental health, right?
01:09:45.000And now they've clearly stopped paying attention, not just because of the trans people, and that's not what I'm getting at.
01:09:53.000Just last week, a man immolated himself in front of, you know, in Washington, D.C.
01:09:58.000How is it that that is getting by people in the military?
01:10:03.000How is it that someone that is not only Clearly mentally ill if he caught himself on fire.
01:10:08.000The guy was so brainwashed by the leftist dogma that they're allowing in, obviously.
01:10:16.000The kid had a Reddit profile, and you can go down the list of anarcho-communist gripes, whether it be profit, or property, or environmentalism.
01:10:30.000Literally, he hit Every last single topic that a woke person could hit.
01:10:36.000And 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.
01:10:53.000Phil, I think the word is not allowed.
01:10:57.000I think the word is right here we're looking at is being promoted, right?
01:11:02.000And so this, in the name of inclusion, I think they've sort of opened the aperture, inclusion, and then you have the recruiting challenges.
01:11:14.000And 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.
01:11:29.000As an infantry officer though, do you think that women are as capable in a combat role as dudes?
01:11:37.000Wouldn'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?
01:11:50.000Men or would you want a mixed platoon?
01:11:53.000I 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.
01:12:02.000And if there, you know, if there are some women in there that can do that, then, you know, whatever.
01:12:08.000But 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.
01:12:25.000And 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.
01:12:43.000This video is why recruitment is down.
01:13:04.000I 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.
01:13:16.000So 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.
01:13:37.000But we were having dinner and he said that he was a captain.
01:13:40.000He intended to be his whole career here.
01:13:43.000And now he's in his mid thirties and he's resigned his commission because it's woke.
01:13:46.000I get it, like, national defense, military is national defense, so why are we overseas?
01:13:50.000And 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.
01:14:02.000That was—but they'd use that as an excuse to constantly expand, expand, expand.
01:14:05.000They might attack us later, so let's attack them first.
01:14:08.000It'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.
01:14:23.000It doesn't feel like defense Yeah, so so I'm gonna probably get it wrong.
01:14:27.000But 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.
01:14:41.000You 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.
01:14:53.000The Navy maintained, meaning permanent, Protected commerce, helped go overseas and increase the markets for the country.
01:15:07.000And you know, remember, piracy was a big thing back then, and the Navy helped protect all that commerce because we were shipping stuff everywhere.
01:15:15.000So, the army can scale up and down as required, but the Navy is really what's needed.
01:15:23.000So, 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.
01:15:41.000Is the big problem that they've just kept a big army and it's cost the country unfathomable amounts of wealth?
01:15:47.000The major cost to the country is not military expenditure.
01:15:51.000The major cost to the country is entitlements.
01:15:53.000If you're talking about the Fed or you talk about the debt and stuff like that, it is All driven by the entitlements.
01:16:01.000Our unfunded liabilities is where our actual debt is.
01:16:04.000The 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.
01:16:14.000Last year was the first time that we spent more on servicing the debt than we spent on the United States military.
01:16:43.000That'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...
01:16:52.000Militias 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.
01:17:09.000That'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.
01:17:34.000Opposing and saying to the federal government because this Marxist ideology Wants a strong federal government.
01:17:41.000They 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?
01:18:08.000It would be like, the draft the next morning, I would imagine, would get signed, and then... I nominate David Hogg for first in line.
01:18:17.000When 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.
01:18:25.000But I guess, like you were saying... And that Harry guy, whatever his name is.
01:18:28.000The creative attacker is going to win, or at least they're going to get their strike off first.
01:18:32.000So it's like, no matter how big our military is, if someone's creative... Look at Israel, okay?
01:18:36.000They got attacked, they got surprised.
01:18:39.000They'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.
01:18:53.000I mean, you know, that's an existential threat right there, and people get lost in the politics of all of that.
01:19:00.000But, 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.
01:20:00.000And it was like, that's really what they believe.
01:20:03.000And I feel like liberals can't at all wrap their head around people believing other things.
01:20:09.000And 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.
01:20:29.000It all says that it can't interact with reality.
01:20:32.000And people just don't believe that people think differently to them and have very, very different ways of thinking.
01:20:40.000To be fair, you know what I was thinking?
01:20:42.000There are these videos of people getting really angry because their pronouns aren't being respected.
01:20:47.000If that righteous indignation is funneled into combat infantry, I think we'll win some battles there, right?
01:20:53.000So maybe the Space Force individual is not incorrect.
01:20:55.000Maybe, you know, and service should guarantee citizenship.
01:21:00.000I agree with that, but it's actually a one-up on where we currently are.
01:21:05.000It'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.
01:21:16.000I 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.
01:21:32.000I don't have a problem with that particularly if they are vetted.
01:21:35.000If it was a situation where it's like you got to find people that actually want to be, you know.
01:21:50.000I wouldn't have a problem with the U.S.
01:21:51.000military 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.
01:22:34.000So you bring someone in, they serve the country amicably, they help us, they assist us, legal
01:22:38.000resident work rights and everything but you're not voting.
01:22:41.000The erosion of voting is gutting and destroying this country.
01:22:45.000But we do have the phenomenon of internet video.
01:22:48.000So, 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.
01:22:55.000Whereas 200 years ago, these people are coming off the boat, not knowing what the hell's going on.
01:22:59.000So the vetting might be a little easier.
01:23:04.000You 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?
01:23:23.000And then the people who live there say, because this is the person who made it all possible, we don't want to forget him.
01:23:26.000And they say, okay, well we outvote you now, so we vote to tear it down and stop wasting money.
01:23:32.000I 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.
01:23:38.000They had what I thought sounded like a halfway decent idea.
01:23:43.000You can, anyone can vote, like any citizen can vote, right?
01:23:46.000But 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.
01:23:58.000Local 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.
01:24:09.000Wrap up your point, but I want to go back.
01:24:11.000Well, I just think that that might be an idea worth discussing.
01:24:14.000What 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.
01:24:30.000Someone says, I don't think we should.
01:24:32.000My 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.
01:24:49.000I don't like that people would come to this country and say, who cares about the Constitution?
01:24:55.000You'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?
01:25:20.000It really just comes down to the simple fact.
01:25:22.000If 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.
01:25:35.000So 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.
01:25:49.000The 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.
01:26:00.000We're 51% of the population now, and we hereby vote for a football game instead.
01:26:04.000And now the people who like baseball are like, but we don't- we don't like football.
01:26:08.000They 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.
01:26:15.000That it's not an act of evil, it's an act of change.
01:26:20.000My 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.
01:26:31.000And the more we bring people in like that, the more the country changes to the point where it cannot be saved.
01:26:37.000I 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.
01:27:15.000Like their own culture, independent of the United States.
01:27:18.000We should encourage people to come to the United States and assimilate.
01:27:23.000We should not allow people to come into the United States that don't share our philosophy.
01:27:28.000If 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?
01:29:23.000And it could be because Republicans left, maybe.
01:29:26.000But 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.
01:29:34.000And so when the state said, Tax... public coffers are not for non-citizens?
01:29:40.000This young guy goes, but my mom's not a citizen.
01:30:01.000Right, but I'm saying plucking from another country, someone who enlists and they bring them in.
01:30:04.000If 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.
01:30:22.000I'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?
01:32:00.000Well, I just, so like, my impression is that the Department of Education has basically been used to ideologically indoctrinate literal generations of kids now.
01:32:11.000In my opinion, there's two generations that we've got basically indoctrinated.
01:32:14.000It 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.
01:32:34.000I 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.
01:32:46.000So it's not just that it's in schools for your kids.
01:32:49.000The teachers are being taught, this is how you teach kids.
01:32:52.000They're being taught the Paulo Freirean method.
01:32:54.000So my idea now is we should not abolish the DOE.
01:33:06.000So when Trump gets elected, you're never going to abolish the DOE.
01:33:09.000Congress 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.
01:33:16.000Here's uniform policy across the country, what you've got to do.
01:33:20.000Let them all protest and whinge and cry, but welcome to the system you're a part of.
01:33:58.000And 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.
01:34:16.000And so, that became the euphemism, really, because, unfortunately, there's a big racial overlap there.
01:34:25.000Black Hispanic, white Asian, it's a typical achievement gap, as they call it in education.
01:35:01.000And to move up in the bureaucracy, you kind of got to be approved by your boss.
01:35:07.000And 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.
01:35:24.000People 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.
01:35:42.000Those extreme policies get funneled through each of the state and local county because education is mostly a local Deal, right?
01:35:55.000It's mostly the Department of Education at the federal level has very little influence on things at the local level.
01:36:04.000Do they have influence on the curriculum that's picked?
01:36:07.000Unless it's Common Core, you know, this curriculum that, you know, I was able to implement.
01:36:12.000I created two leadership academies with public service.
01:36:17.000I was fighting against charter schools.
01:36:21.000Did you feel like you had good results with those programs?
01:36:23.000Well, the two leadership academies, they were single gender and, you know, a young men's and a young women's leadership academy.
01:36:31.000I had a lot of parents telling me I'm worried about my kid going to 1500 student middle school.
01:36:39.000The 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.
01:36:53.000And the Democrats on the school board fought me on creating those.
01:36:59.000You know, they didn't want that change.
01:37:02.000They wanted to kind of do lockstep on whatever it was that, you know, the teachers unions were talking about.
01:37:09.000So 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?
01:37:24.000And 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.
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01:38:47.000When it comes to journalists and sources, judges will use the amount of legal force that they believe will compel a person to comply.
01:38:57.000What'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.
01:39:05.000There was a journalist who went to jail, I think, for like 180 days for refusing to give up some video footage or something.
01:39:13.000I think we might have had him on the show.
01:39:33.000Uh, 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.
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01:40:02.000I 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.
01:40:14.000Cheapest way to get a sponsorship spot on the show, I suppose.
01:40:20.000The Emperor Champion says, congratulations Democrats, you have become what you despise, tyrants and despots who refuse to see what you have become.
01:40:29.000Yeah, but I don't know if they despise tyrants and despots.
01:41:03.000T-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.
01:41:11.000Oh, speaking of Mormonism, I talked about Mormonism last night and I was incorrect.
01:41:14.000I 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.
01:42:30.000We 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.
01:42:42.000A lot of really, really interesting stuff happened in Rome.
01:42:44.000More than most people even know, so I recommend it.
01:42:48.000Sean Brown says, Tim, check out Kentucky Bill 500.
01:42:51.000They're trying to pass a law to make it where employers don't have to give you a lunch or breaks at work anymore.
01:43:03.000TheAuthenticHydroPX 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.
01:43:44.000Tiznalorum 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.
01:44:17.000And then when he walks away, they're like, that guy's great.
01:44:19.000My 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.
01:44:42.000Yeah, right You learn that guy camp, right?
01:44:44.000So actually I read something funny, maybe you'll know this better.
01:44:47.000I read that in basic training, men start by fighting with each other, but in the end they figure out their structure and order.
01:44:55.000Women start by being cooperative, but in the end they form cliques and they're mad at each other.
01:45:00.000Yeah, well, I hadn't heard the women part because I spent most of my time in the infantry.
01:46:41.000You 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.
01:47:34.000I 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.
01:47:52.000Dave Collins says, the people with TDS would rather start World War III and ignore President Biden's dementia than see President Trump elected again.
01:48:20.000It'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.
01:48:32.000Yeah, 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.
01:48:40.000Yeah, personally I think it's a whole lot of Marxism that's going on.
01:49:33.000Yeah, but Archie Bunker was, Archie Bunker was, was a very different thing.
01:49:37.000Archie Bunker was like a comment on, was a comment on a...
01:49:40.000Excuse me, comment on society in a very different way.
01:49:43.000They 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?
01:49:49.000Yeah, well, no, no, that was the Honeymooners to the moon, Alice.
01:49:55.000I 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.
01:50:06.000And then Leela's like, I didn't realize early astronauts are so fat.
01:51:28.000What 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.
01:51:34.000And it's not illegal to say, I support the things that are going on at J6.
01:51:39.000If you're not actually doing the things, you're not breaking the law by saying, man, I don't think they did anything wrong.
01:51:45.000Like, you're maybe saying something dumb or something wrong.
01:51:48.000But one of the journalists who was alongside him who didn't get charged, well, he called them insurrectionists.
01:53:25.000I appreciate the things that Elon has done and is doing.
01:53:29.000But the idea of misgendering is inverted in the political spectrum.
01:53:34.000The 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.
01:53:44.000So the definition of misgendering, this is the problem with the rule in the first place.
01:55:10.000And 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.
01:55:18.000We are spending a lot of money on X. And I will also say this.
01:55:22.000I am hereby cancelling my pledge to put in the remainder of the quarter million dollars in advertising on X because of this.
01:55:28.000And I don't care if people are like, you said you were going to do it and I'm not doing it anymore.
01:56:09.000I'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.
01:56:23.000And 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.
01:56:40.000And cognitive liberty is what is at stake here.
01:56:44.000The 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.
01:56:59.000It is about your liberty to think for yourself.
01:57:05.000The point is to make you think the way they want you to think.
01:57:43.000You need lots of different types of back-end code.
01:57:46.000And 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.
01:59:58.000This 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.
02:00:06.000You 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
02:00:30.000imprisonment if you might commit hate speech or something like that so it's new to me it is it is
02:00:35.000really really really crazy the the law that they're trying to pass in in canada and that's
02:00:40.000something that is you know you can go to jail for stuff in in if you that you post on the internet
02:00:45.000in england and you can go to you know i believe you could probably do the same in like new zealand and
02:00:49.000and 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.
02:01:01.000I don't think there's been any significant change.
02:01:03.000As 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.
02:02:31.000I 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.
02:02:39.000So 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.