George Papadopoulos joins us on the show to talk about his time working on the Trump campaign and how he got caught up in the Russia-gate scandal. Plus, a look at the chaos that is both the U.S. and the global sphere.
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00:02:50.000and around the world know me as the guy who was on both Ben Carson's presidential campaign, then went to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and then really got kind of sucked into a global surveillance conspiracy that was really designed to do two things—to subvert our democratic process and to spy on a presidential candidate and Probably trying to undermine his entire administration.
00:03:19.000So I really got caught in the crosshairs of that.
00:03:25.000And I think we're still reeling from it as a nation right now.
00:03:29.000Well, I mean, you sound like you have lived basically some type of spy novel, so I'm really happy that you're here to tell us about your experience.
00:03:39.000Yeah, I'm with you on this one, George.
00:03:41.000Like, I have followed what they call the Russia hoax from the outside, so I'm glad you're here because I want to hear about, from your perspective, what that looked like and what you guys were going through, what you particularly were going through.
00:04:15.000The leaders of Vietnam and Russia have said they want to boost ties since the pairs met in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
00:04:21.000Vietnamese President Tho Lem was full of praise for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, congratulating him on his recent re-election.
00:04:30.000Mr. Putin, in return, said strengthening a strategic partnership with both the Southeast Asian countries Both with the Southeast Asia country was one of Russia's priorities.
00:04:41.000His trip to Vietnam, which comes on the heels of his lavish visit to North Korea, is being interpreted as a demonstration of the diplomatic support Russia still enjoys in the region.
00:04:52.000So Russia has long had a very tight connection to Vietnam.
00:04:58.000They supported Vietnam when it was warring with America and France.
00:05:01.000It also tends to support the educational ambitions of a lot of Vietnamese students.
00:05:25.000And, you know, this comes at an interesting time.
00:05:28.000Vietnam is one of the only countries that did not condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:05:33.000And as we know, Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a major moment for the West.
00:05:39.000They really used it as a moment to economically and diplomatically sanction Russia.
00:05:43.000Again, further pushing this narrative that Russia is an isolated incident.
00:05:47.000George, you have a foreign policy background.
00:05:50.000I'm curious what you think of this move in terms of Russia and Vietnam's partnership.
00:05:54.000Yeah, you know, so going back to the 2016 Trump campaign, I was the only guy on the campaign who actually gave the interview to a Russian newspaper about sanctions.
00:06:08.000So the U.S., the Obama administration, obviously after Russia moved in on Crimea, Decided to impose sanctions and basically the argument always has been like since Kissinger if the US tries to isolate Russia, they're going to do one thing and that is they're going to go into China's hands.
00:06:27.000They're going to look East and not West.
00:06:31.000Playbook, we've seen it over and over and over.
00:06:35.000Russia has basically created this fortress economy now where they're basically now immune to Western sanctions.
00:06:42.000You have the rise of the BRICS, which are basically trying to collapse the US dollar and redesign the world global economic order, the trade order, and This is exactly what Putin's doing.
00:06:56.000He's like, if Europe doesn't want to buy my gas, if Europe doesn't want to buy my oil, they don't want to buy my weapons, then North Korea wants to, Vietnam wants to, and I'm going to sell it to discount to China, and China's going to help me out.
00:07:09.000And all of these countries now are growing as a collective GDP.
00:07:13.000The US dollar is slowly but maturely collapsing, and sanctions have been an utter failure.
00:07:18.000So we're probably going to see a lot more of this moving forward.
00:07:21.000I don't understand why they're doing the sanctions.
00:07:24.000If this is the outcome, is that Russia moves away from the market entirely, it feels like a self-destructive move to sanction them.
00:08:07.000So that really is the situation that Europe is actually the one that's going to really feel the brunt of this failed policy while the U.S. really
00:08:17.000kind of gets better off and China gets better off and Russia kind of remains the same. So Russia's really like I
00:08:24.000mean Europe at the end of the day is really idiotic for following the U.S. sanctions policy while the U.S. kind of
00:08:31.000wins out, Russia wins out and China wins out.
00:08:33.000And both the leaders of America and like President Biden and the president of China were both recently visiting
00:08:40.000I mean, I feel like Vietnam is really caught in this eccentric landscape where it is both courted by these major powers, but it also is something the major powers are courting.
00:08:51.000They need Vietnam to sort of work with them, even though it seems to be trying to stay, what do they call it, bamboo diplomacy, be friends with everybody.
00:08:59.000Yeah, well, it's really interesting because Vietnam and China have the South China Sea dispute, right?
00:09:04.000There's a lot of oil and natural gas in the South China Sea.
00:09:07.000There's a lot of merchant trade going through the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, and Vietnam, ideally for the US, would have kind of been used as like a hedge.
00:09:17.000against a growing China, a growing North Korea.
00:09:22.000So the U.S. in an ideal world would like to ally with countries like India, Japan, South
00:09:27.000Korea, Vietnam to kind of contain China, but that's not happening because these countries,
00:09:34.000they see what's going on with the sanctions with Russia, and they also see the lawfare
00:09:42.000If they could impose sanctions on Russia and freeze their assets in Western countries and try and destroy their economy, Because they stood out of line, they could do it to us.
00:09:51.000So maybe we shouldn't follow the US as much.
00:09:54.000And also, basically, they want alternatives, in case the United States ends up doing what they did to Russia.
00:10:02.000So that's why China is stepping in and saying, look, we still want to do business.
00:10:07.000Russia says we still want to do business, but we're not going to try and change how you run your country.
00:10:12.000And that's what this entire new model that BRICS It's trying to impose and it's really devastating to the United States right now because Biden has not instilled leadership around the world.
00:10:28.000Embassy in Hanoi in a statement Monday said no country should give Putin a platform to promote his war of aggression and otherwise allow him to normalize his atrocities.
00:10:39.000condemnation of this trip is enough to deter other Asian nations from potentially pursuing a more diplomatic relationship with Russia?
00:10:47.000Or is the state of affairs in the Indo-Pacific so fraught that anyone could come in and become the major influencer there?
00:10:55.000You know, geopolitics really abhors a vacuum, and there's a massive vacuum that's been created now around the world because of this lack of U.S.
00:11:04.000leadership or, you know, just like failed foreign policy.
00:11:08.000So when Biden or Blinken or some of these administration folks try to intimidate China or Vietnam or North Korea or, you know, Singapore or some of these other countries, they're not going to put their lot in with the U.S.
00:11:22.000Because they simply don't want to be burdened with what democracy promotion means in Southeast Asia.
00:11:29.000Do you get the sense that there's an attempt by the administration to be in any way aggressive?
00:11:39.000Granted, Donald Trump, as people would say, he was bombastic and stuff, but there wasn't a lot of question from people as to whether or not he would strike.
00:11:50.000He was a loose cannon, they thought, but he was unpredictable enough where it seemed legitimate when he would make a threat.
00:11:58.000I call to mind Blinken's trip to Alaska where he met with the Chinese envoy.
00:12:07.000They made it clear the United States is not in a position that makes China feel like they have to worry about what the United States is going to do.
00:12:16.000This is directly related to, obviously, to the current administration, because that was not the way that China behaved during the Trump administration.
00:12:26.000So I don't imagine that the administration really believes any kind of comments that they make like that, do you?
00:12:33.000No, because the results speak for themselves.
00:12:36.000And the US has absolutely no strategy when it comes to dealing with countries like China.
00:12:42.000Biden, with all of the allegations that have been made about shady money coming into the coffers of the Biden family from various countries, many would argue that he's been compromised.
00:12:53.000because of stuff like that, that his son was dealing with, with these Chinese energy companies, CFFC,
00:12:59.000you know, they have the Ukrainian issues.
00:13:01.000So basically, when these countries that have been giving millions of dollars and shady money to his son
00:13:07.000and potentially his family, say this guy's not going to do anything because we potentially have something on him.
00:13:11.000I mean, just to put a button on, I'm not in any way, I don't doubt whether or not the Bidens are corrupt or anything
00:13:19.000like that, but I don't think that the behavior of other countries is
00:13:23.000because of any kind of leverage that they might have.
00:13:26.000I really think it's just that they don't respect them and don't think they'll do anything, which is what they communicate.
00:13:32.000That tends to be my perspective, too, that Biden has positioned himself so weakly, both in terms of the deals that he makes.
00:14:52.000And that's what the stark and diametrically opposed foreign policy of Biden and Trump is, right?
00:14:57.000It's about peace through strength and American exceptionalism and revitalizing American industries and uniting America under the banner of red, white and blue and God, right?
00:15:52.000So the number of migrants flocking to the U.S.-Mexico border from a country known as a hotbed of ISIS recruitment has skyrocketed under President Biden.
00:16:00.000More than 1,500 migrants from Tajikistan are known to have crossed the border between October 2020 and May of 2024, according to leaked border data obtained by The Post.
00:16:10.000At least 500 Tajiks have been caught so far this year.
00:16:15.000Over the previous 14 years, there were just 26 Tajik nationals crossing the border.
00:16:21.000It's unknown how many Tajik migrants were released into the U.S., but the vast majority of migrants caught at the border claim asylum and are allowed to stay while they await a court hearing.
00:16:30.000The small Central Asian country, which borders both China and Afghanistan, has become a major source of terrorists for ISIS and ISIS-K, an extreme offshoot of the Islamic State militant group.
00:16:44.000I think the border is one of Biden's biggest failings.
00:16:46.000I think the border was one of the things that really led to Trump's election in 2016.
00:16:51.000This country has been in free fall in terms of this issue for a long time.
00:18:00.000The momentum is going in one direction, which is people are flowing into this country.
00:18:04.000I don't think that it's going to be as easy as now you go home and you go home.
00:18:07.000You could get people to like self-deport.
00:18:09.000There are tactics that we could implement to kind of change the momentum from this massive influx to kind of an outflux, potentially.
00:18:18.000I mean, I'm not quite so hopeful about that, although the more you limit benefits that the government gives out, the more people will say, OK, it's not worth me being here.
00:18:30.000But you then I mean, then people that are relying on benefits from the government.
00:18:35.000I don't think that there should be these benefits, but the people that are Americans that are relying on them, they're going to get hurt, too, which is not something that is popular.
00:18:43.000Just generally, it's not a popular position.
00:19:21.000Obviously, you have the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the Taliban, I mean the Mujahideen.
00:19:25.000So they know what these people are up to.
00:19:29.000They're not here to do manual labor or some minimum wage job.
00:19:34.000These people are potentially coming here to do something nefarious, and that's something that I think should terrify Americans.
00:19:40.000I think young people today, when they, and I'm talking about people probably Gen Z and stuff, they probably don't have the same kind of sense that people my age, I assume you're probably in your 40s, you're about my age or so, But like, I remember what it was like, you know, on September 11th.
00:19:58.000And so my idea of something not being possible, that stopped, right?
00:20:03.000As soon as that day happened, I remember all before then, it was like, you know, comic book stuff that, you know, it was just, you know, it didn't happen.
00:20:11.000After you saw that kind of thing, then it was like, oh wow, that is actually possible.
00:20:16.000And you see the smaller, surprising things happen in other countries, like the October 7th attack, right?
00:20:26.000There's arguments about whether or not the government let it happen or not.
00:20:28.000If there was an attack like that from some terrorist attack like that in the United States, by people that got through the southern border, it would be
00:20:38.000just as legitimate to say it was the American government's fault because they allowed it.
00:20:42.000And to think that with the numbers of people, right, if there's 10 million people that have
00:20:47.000come over in the past four years, to think that most people don't really think, can't
00:20:53.000really comprehend how many people 10 million is, and you could easily slip 50,000 people
00:20:59.000with a similar goal through the border in that time, without a doubt.
00:21:05.000And still be like, you're still not getting like one out of ten dudes that are bad guys.
00:21:11.000It's a significantly small number, but it's still enough where if they get together, they could cause some kind of Going off what you just said, right?
00:21:19.000So $85 billion of military equipment was left to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
00:21:23.000or the October 7th attack in Israel, you know?
00:22:36.000This is actual things that are happening and the administration is doing its best to not To not alarm the American people and not let the American people find out.
00:22:46.000And it's because the policy that they have is actually to get as many people in and then naturalize or give amnesty.
00:23:09.000It's the spouses of American citizens based on, you know, they have to have been in the country for the last ten
00:23:13.000years, they have to be married to an American citizen,
00:23:15.000potentially also opens the door for if they have any children.
00:23:17.000You know, I think that the American people are starting to agree with you.
00:23:22.000We see this consistently in polls that immigration is the if not one of the top issues going into this election.
00:23:29.000And it's also consistently somewhere where the Biden administration fails to message correctly.
00:23:33.000Do you think that Trump has an advantage or do you think that this is something that he needs to get stronger on as he goes into as he goes into November?
00:23:46.000I think right when Biden ascended to the Oval Office, he said all Joe had to do was go to the beach, lay back, leave my policies intact, and everything would have been fine, especially when it comes to the border.
00:24:01.000When it comes to what Americans think is the best policy moving forward of how you should actually deal with the border, and that is have a enforce the border, remain in Mexico policy, support our border officials down there, and just give them the ability to deport these people once they're actually in the United States.
00:24:19.000Biden has handcuffed our folks from not being able to do anything, just like he's handcuffed police officers around the United States, from not prosecuting various criminals in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York.
00:24:31.000So I think once Trump's back, and he has a Congress that actually plays with him, unlike his first term, I think he'd get the wall done.
00:24:40.000All we needed was around $6 to $8 billion to get it done the first term.
00:24:43.000Obviously, with all the Mueller nonsense and all that, and, you know, the RINO subverting him from within, he wasn't able to do it.
00:24:49.000But I think once he has his right team in place, we get that border up and running, we support our people down in the borders, we'll be okay.
00:24:56.000I think the border is key to this administration.
00:25:00.000I also think having stronger messaging on immigration is important in terms of the global stage.
00:25:05.000One of these stats that occasionally Republicans will reference from Border Patrol is that an increase in the number of people on the FBI while sponsored on terrorist watch lists are obtained at the border.
00:25:18.000And people will think, oh, well, but if it's more people under Biden, isn't that good?
00:25:23.000And the thing is, under Trump, they didn't come at all.
00:25:25.000They knew that the punishments would be severe.
00:25:29.000I think the American people are starting to realize that the southern border is like your front door, and if you leave it wide open and you know your neighborhood is dangerous, then It's not that crazy when bad things start to happen inside your home if someone comes in.
00:25:47.000And I think people are really begging to be able to lock the front door and be able to protect the people inside their home.
00:25:54.000Yeah, and all states are border states now.
00:25:56.000I mean, we've seen the scourge of seeing a lot of people go through, you know, very unfortunate incidents, if you understand what I'm saying, because of Some of these people coming through the border, some very high profile that the president has actually spoken about.
00:26:11.000And I think the more and more this becomes prevalent and just like in your face, and it's not going to simply be like an economic issue, which I think conservatives initially made it about.
00:26:22.000It's like, oh, they're going to come and take your jobs.
00:26:24.000Now it's kind of like this is a security risk.
00:26:26.000Did your time on the – because you started with the Carson campaign and then you moved to the Trump campaign.
00:26:32.000Did your switch influence your view on immigration or did you always feel as though this was a serious issue?
00:26:38.000Look, my grandfather came to the United States from Greece in the 50s legally, worked his butt off, did all the things right.
00:26:47.000My wife, Simona, she's a legal immigrant from Italy.
00:26:49.000We've gone through a very long process, a very expensive process to get that going for her.
00:26:55.000So when I have lived this process, coming from immigrant grandparents, seeing what they went through, And then, knowing that they did the right thing, for me, just as a boy, like, growing up in Chicago, I'm like, you have to do it this way.
00:27:10.000Like, you have to abide by the law, because, first of all, if you don't have a border, you don't have sovereignty, and if you don't have sovereignty, you don't have rules, and then the entire country collapses.
00:27:18.000So, my opinion has always been that, since a young boy, it didn't change when I joined Carson's campaign, it certainly didn't change when I joined Trump's campaign.
00:28:37.000Because we're talking about President Trump, I think it behooves us to talk a little bit about the upcoming debate.
00:28:42.000I saw this really interesting article from Axios today.
00:28:46.000The meme debate Trump and Biden enter viral battlefield.
00:28:50.000I know cheap fakes is everyone's favorite term right now, but I like viral battlefield because I think that speaks to what we're going through as a country and as a culture.
00:28:57.000President Biden's team is waging a furious campaign not just against the former President Trump, but against a viral internet culture that threatens his image with key undecided voters.
00:29:10.000One week from today, Biden and Trump will square off in a debate likely to spawn millions of online memes, TikToks, and rapid response videos churned out by both campaigns.
00:29:20.000For Biden, the CNN showdown is a prime opportunity to expose voters to some of Trump's radical rhetoric and unpopular positions on issues like abortion.
00:29:29.000For Trump, and a right-wing ecosystem that thrives off highlighting Biden's, quote, senior moments, The debate is a chance to drive home why so many voters
00:29:38.000think the president isn't up to the job.
00:29:40.000So I think debates are somewhat useless. You know, we get these long-form debates,
00:29:46.000so two hours and you know, you have to take time talking.
00:30:04.000He would study every debate and count how many words per minute were said, how many interruptions there were, how many fact checks.
00:30:10.000And he found consistently over years that While Democrats speak for longer, Republicans say more words per minute, meaning they're speaking more quickly to accommodate for any kind of obstacle they have in the field.
00:30:25.000But I think this article from Axios about the viral battlefield is really important, and I think it speaks to the difference between the generations.
00:30:33.000For older voters who remember the impact of debates with Nixon, debates with JFK, The way debate culture has shifted in America is to be in favor of the Internet.
00:30:49.000One of the things that rings out in my mind is Trump's, you'd be in jail, right?
00:30:54.000That moment lives on in infamy because of the Internet and candidates that are able to leverage the Internet are able to really change the way the momentum of their campaign.
00:31:03.000Let's remember Vivek Ramaswamy when he was debating in the public.
00:31:06.000He held up that clipboard and we watched on the show going, That's going to be a meme.
00:31:11.000You have this clipboard that anyone can make blank with a message.
00:31:37.000So each one has given a million dollar in crypto to President Donald Trump, in large part because they say that the Biden administration is weaponizing the banking system against crypto companies and their principles.
00:31:50.000They say that the Biden administration has openly declared war against crypto.
00:31:54.000It has weaponized multiple government agencies to bully, harass and sue good actors in our industry in an effort to destroy it.
00:32:01.000The crypto industry is obviously a huge part, I think, of the same internet culture that this Axios article is warning us against.
00:32:09.000People who are aware of the advantageous nature of innovation that thrives online.
00:32:15.000I'm just scanning down a little bit because there's a line in here that I find really interesting.
00:32:24.000I think this is Tyler Winklevoss, but I believe they put out the same statement said, and yet the crypto industry is not alone.
00:32:29.000The Biden administration has consistently attacked American business across the board and villainizes its greatest heroes.
00:32:35.000The crime is always a success and the reward is always ridicule, finesse or ridicule, fine, sorry, and even more red tape.
00:32:43.000But to be clear, the Biden administration does not hate success outright, only the kind that lives outside of its control.
00:32:51.000Because so much of the internet seems to be outside the Biden's control.
00:32:55.000And I'm sorry to our listeners, but I'm going to jump to one more story.
00:33:00.000Billionaire Biden supporters, this is from Forbes, billionaire Biden supporters launched $10 million effort to combat unflattering videos.
00:33:07.000So there's a pro-Biden super PAC backed by tech billionaires, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is reportedly launching a social media campaign to catch up with former President Trump's social media success, including a string of unflattering videos about President Biden, I think 2024 is the internet selection.
00:33:28.000Action is raising at least $10 million for the project, which will include a study of how social
00:33:33.000media algorithms have facilitated Republican in sharing videos of Biden appearing to look awkward
00:33:39.000or confused in public. I think 2024 is the internet selection. I think what we're seeing is that no
00:33:47.000one really understands the power of the internet. And even though we believe there's a lot of left
00:33:52.000wing bias in social media algorithms, we know, you know, Gmail would filter Republican campaign
00:34:00.000emails and they would allow more left leaning or Democratic emails to go through, even though we
00:34:04.000can see that certain topics are censored online in one way, you know, people really credit Elon
00:34:08.000Musk was changing X in that case. Old Ultimately, someone feels like the Internet is still up for grabs, and this is something that
00:34:16.000Apparently the Biden campaign thinks favors right-wingers.
00:34:21.000Well, I don't think that it does favor right-wingers.
00:34:24.000I think that there is far too much information that is Put out by the legacy media and there's still a sense in most Western countries with what you'd consider the normies that the place to go for news is CNN or NBC or what have you.
00:34:47.000I don't think that that has really changed enough where that narrative, the narrative
00:34:53.000that is the quote-unquote official narrative, I don't think it's changed enough where that's
00:35:37.000So it was put in after World War II, sometime after World War II or near the end of World
00:35:41.000War II or something like that was the original Smith-Mundt Act.
00:35:43.000and the Modernization Act essentially just repealed it. And it was repealed because at
00:35:50.000that time the government had seen the stuff that had gone on with Occupy and it had seen
00:35:55.000what had gone on with the Arab Spring and the powers that be could not allow the power vacuum
00:36:04.000essentially because the government knows that if it doesn't have a narrative that is pushing,
00:36:08.000then another narrative will fill that in, just like any other power vacuum.
00:36:13.000So it changed the law so the government could go ahead and propagandize the American people.
00:36:17.000And ever since then, there has been an official government message.
00:36:21.000And the legacy media has had no problem Giving that message out and the reason is because if they play ball with the government they get access to the government and they get to hang out with Barack Obama and they get to go to the to the to nerd prom the Correspondence dinner and they get access they can talk to the cool people in the powerful people
00:37:00.000So this idea that the government is, or that the internet is a problem, is because it's a problem for the government, you know?
00:37:09.000And I don't think that this is something, I think this is something that we should look for.
00:37:14.000We should look for the government to have as little ability to push a narrative as possible, because the government, the more the government has an opinion, the bigger the government's gonna be, and you want to limit the government as much as possible.
00:37:26.000It's the biggest government in the world.
00:37:27.000I agree that the internet has become a problem for the power structure, the centralized authority of the United States government, whatever, the liberal economic order.
00:37:38.000You were saying that though the legacy media and this perverted message that's being sent out by the CIA, I don't know, but the Smith Modernization Act got rid of the ability, stopping the government from propagandizing people.
00:37:49.000You're saying that that's enough of a force using the legacy media to keep to keep people in the dark but I feel like it's not and that the people are awake and that they're using machines to flip votes 51 49 and it's just a such a demoralizing feeling but like yeah maybe it's the age of the meme but I think it's the age of the machine we're in the age of the machine now and the machines are running the show and if we don't have the code to these machines and we're just trusting them to tally our votes
00:38:17.000Even if 99% of the people are awake, the machine just tells us that only 49% of us were awake.
00:38:22.000And then no one stood up to be like, well, show me the code.
00:38:25.000Show me the proof that that's what the machine said.
00:38:28.000But that's kind of apparently what this pro-Biden PAC is doing, right?
00:38:31.000They're saying the algorithm, and I presume that's all operated under code, is supporting Trump people.
00:38:38.000It's making Trump people better at the internet.
00:38:41.000Or do you think there's just a cultural difference between the way someone who's maybe conservative online operates Versus someone who identifies as progressive.
00:38:48.000I think Trump was tapped into the truth in a way that other political candidates—Bernie Sanders was a little bit—he was more like, look at the world.
00:38:56.000He didn't know that the liberal economic order was getting transitioned to this new world order that they've been talking about.
00:39:01.000I don't think he was really that aware of this plan that they've had for 30 years, but he was at least pointing out what he would see when he would see it.
00:39:08.000And that was what was resonating with people in the memes.
00:39:12.000Just this dude's willingness to say exactly what he thought.
00:39:24.000Not every time he spoke he's being honest, but for the most part when he talks he's saying what he believes.
00:39:28.000Yeah, he feels more authentic to voters.
00:39:30.000No, I was gonna say, like, in 2016, Trump had, you know, carte blanche, right, on the media.
00:39:35.000They would give him unlimited time on MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and that kind of really helped propel him.
00:39:41.000And then when you add that with Twitter, now X, and his force that he was in 2016 on that, it really helped propel him.
00:39:49.000to the White House, right? Because he was able to shift the narrative and create and control the
00:39:53.000narrative away from the mainstream media because of that unlimited airtime. Go to 2020, he was
00:39:59.000completely suppressed because they couldn't control him or the narrative anymore. Then you had the 51
00:40:05.000intelligence officers suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, which obviously tilted the election
00:40:10.000in many ways. And now moving forward in this election, X is probably more important than ever.
00:40:16.000What you do on social media allows you to get your message to millions of people, especially after Elon Musk purchased it, where it's not suppressed anymore, it's not controlled.
00:40:25.000And I think he has to be on X. I know he's primarily on Truth Social and all this, but he really needs to start posting on X as well.
00:40:34.000Because there are so many accounts that just exist to clip what he put on Truth and get it on X. His message is still there, even if he is staying loyal to his own brand and company, I guess.
00:40:44.000It is, you know, but he's the man, you know, and I think he, when he speaks, it's his message, it's his presidency, it's his campaign at the end of the day.
00:40:52.000When I was on the campaign, I was one of many on the campaign, he was the candidate, then he became president.
00:40:57.000So he, his voice amplifies the message much more so than even the most ardent loyalist supporters out there, which I'm definitely one of them, you know, I know others are on there, but You know, I think he really needs to, and going to the debate, some people argue that he shouldn't even debate Biden.
00:41:14.000I think, just like the voting system, play by the books, play by the rules that the Democrats are playing by.
00:41:20.000Go do the debate and actually let your voice be heard to millions of people that probably would never hear what you're talking about, what your platform really is about America.
00:41:28.000So this notion that he should not debate, that he should kind of keep quiet, I think is just very detrimental to his candidacy.
00:41:34.000I'd love to see him on X posting again.
00:41:53.000Like when the mugshots came out, that was his, their post, right?
00:41:57.000They posted on X this link to buy the merch that they had made with his mugshot from Georgia when he was arrested there.
00:42:03.000I find this deeply fascinating because...
00:42:09.000Trump could basically, it feels like, talk to himself in a room and eventually someone would find a way to get his message out there because people are so curious to hear what he has to say.
00:42:19.000I mean, the fact that you were able to launch a social media platform in large part to just hear from Donald Trump, I know there are other people on there.
00:42:30.000Not something Biden seems to be able to do, right?
00:42:48.000Trump, by the end of the weekend, had over 4 million people following him.
00:42:52.000I mean, it just seems like Biden is completely unable to capture the internet's interest despite how many influencers they invite to the White House, despite how many, you know, Joe Biden or dark Brandon memes they try to come up with.
00:43:06.000Is it all personality or is there something else keeping Biden from thriving online?
00:43:11.000I think that it's probably the fact that the content that he produces or would produce, like all the stuff that I've seen that's gone on TikTok and stuff like that, it gets really torn apart by the right.
00:43:29.000But it's it's very rarely do they get a meme or whatever that actually does a positive thing for them Most of the time it ends up being some kind of bad thing like that I mean a lot of times they'll go and promote LGBT stuff and then the person they're promoting does some real whacked-out crazy ass, you know, like Pulling their top down so their fake boobs are hanging out on the White House lawn, or stealing people's luggage and wearing women's clothes to events.
00:44:05.000Figuring out which memes actually are going to, you know, get the positive traction that they're looking for.
00:44:13.000There are some dark Brandon ones that as much as I personally don't find them compelling, there are some that have worked, but overall they're not doing so well.
00:44:20.000The thing about the dark Brandon and the devilish demonic Biden memes that don't really work is that he's actually doing kind of demonic stuff with his political power and his ambivalence, like his, you know, his, it inability to command in Afghanistan overseeing a forfeit and a fleeing route but like the way he's prosecuting political dissidents that he doesn't like or that he's allowing things to happen that he's allowing
00:44:47.000You know what, this most recent committee, this January 6th committee, apparently is running without having a House minority member in the right position.
00:44:55.000They're still trying to function like normal, but they're functioning out of turn.
00:44:58.000They did function for a long time, and there was no one kind of puncturing that.
00:45:01.000If you want to make a meme out of a good guy and make him like, look how dark he can be, that's one thing.
00:45:06.000But if he's actually secretly a villain, you're kind of just exposing it for later.
00:45:11.000When they see that, they're like, man, this is going to look really bad in 20 years.
00:45:15.000I think that's why the basement strategy worked so well during the campaign, because the less the American people saw Biden, the better it was for him.
00:45:22.000So the more they try to meme him or to put him out there on TikTok or on X or Facebook or whatever, or even give national interviews, the worse it is for them.
00:45:32.000And I don't think they can do that right now, because actually, I think there are other Democrats that are breathing down Biden's neck right now.
00:45:40.000I think they sense a weak man, a weak president.
00:45:43.000They think that their party is in a state of introspection right now.
00:45:46.000It's going through like this schizophrenic, you know, self-destructive mode where you have this 80-year-old white guy, but then you have the extreme left pushing various agendas.
00:45:56.000He's kind of like been always, you know, who he's been 50 years in DC, and they don't know really what to do with him.
00:46:03.000And he's not popular, not only within his own party, but with the American people.
00:46:07.000So there's nothing you can really do, actually.
00:46:09.000So I think it actually backfires the more they try and promote him.
00:46:14.000And I think it's strange, especially in the beginning of his time in office, I felt like his team accidentally presented him as the villain way too often.
00:46:22.000I'm thinking about this speech, and I believe it was in Philadelphia, where, you know, they had this historic building lit up behind them, but it was in like this crazy dark blue and red.
00:46:30.000I have used the absolute heck out of that picture.
00:46:48.000And that really drives home the point.
00:46:49.000It's like this is not the kind of behavior That you actually want from a United States, you know, from the American government.
00:46:58.000And if you look at all of the, if you go down all of the things that they've done, the lawfare, the attacking their political opponents, that, I mean, it is absolutely, without a doubt, in 30, 40 years, I don't know what America is going to look like, but there's going to be people somewhere that are going to look at the actual history of what's going on.
00:47:15.000They're going to say America turned into the countries that it was that it that it it went and destabilized to get
00:47:22.000the governments out because they called them you know a dictator ships it is
00:47:27.000doing the exact same stuff it's trying to put people in jail that have the
00:47:30.000wrong political opinions it's using the IRS to attack people for the wrong
00:47:34.000political opinions you've got you've got the they're going after people that
00:47:38.000were the lawyers of Donald Trump for for Trump
00:47:41.000All of this stuff is trumped up charges.
00:47:45.000And hopefully the American people wake up and see what's going on and decide they don't want to do it anymore, because that's what happened in Cambodia.
00:47:55.000Taken over and like that the communists were totally in control and they were killing millions of people and then the people of Cambodia just said we're not doing this anymore and they didn't have to have a war to get Pol Pot out of power or anything they didn't have to kill him the killings just stopped because they said we're not doing this and hopefully America the American people can say okay well you have to stop we're not doing this in America anymore and we can have a resolution the way that they did in you know in in Cambodia without the dying hopefully praying you know that's what I'm hoping for Ideally.
00:48:29.000And it's possible because it did happen in Cambodia.
00:48:32.000But we have to make people aware that there is a problem.
00:48:35.000And right now, the average American doesn't even acknowledge that there is a massive problem in the United States federal government.
00:48:43.000Well, what the Democrats have really done is they've normalized the selective and politically motivated targeting of dissents writ large in America.
00:48:53.000You've seen Catholics targeted, you've seen school parents targeted, school teachers, and now a former president of the United States has been raided, indicted, and convicted.
00:49:05.000And normally, you know, if a, let's say a dictatorship or a tin pot country, whatever you want, a banana republic,
00:49:11.000whatever term you want to use, weaponizes the legal system in
00:49:15.000pursuit of stifling dissents, and trying to maintain power, those kind of countries are universally condemned or
00:49:22.000sanctioned. But we're in this bizarre world right now where when the Biden DOJ does it, they go on MSNBC, and they're
00:49:28.000championed, like they're the Avengers, like supporting justice in America.
00:49:33.000So I think we have to look at just numbers, right?
00:49:36.000When Trump was convicted, when he was indicted, and when he was raided, he raised money and his poll numbers went up.
00:49:42.000In normal times, if a political candidate or a political person has even like a small little scandal, they're out of political office, they're out of the public sphere.
00:49:52.000This is the kind of era we're living in where so many Americans are sick and tired of what is happening.
00:49:57.000So I do think people are waking up and when Trump says, if they can do it to me, they'll do it to you.
00:50:05.000Yeah, I actually think that speaks to the impact of the internet, right?
00:50:08.000The images of Trump going in and out of court, the fact that he held a press conference and it was basically clipped and shared repeatedly everywhere, reminded people of sort of the ongoing nature of the judicial persecution of Trump.
00:50:23.000And I think that Is very terrifying for Americans who could not afford the lawyers that Trump can who could not afford to be away from work.
00:50:30.000You know, their work doesn't follow them around and meet them outside the courthouse the way that Trump does.
00:50:39.000You were kind of talking about before how the bunker campaign works for Biden, right?
00:50:42.000Because if he's out of sight, he's out of mind and you don't think about all of the problems that he causes or his legacy as a senator in America.
00:51:06.000And the more Trump is in front of an audience, the more he performs, and the more the American people feel as though they are like him, I think.
00:51:14.000I completely agree, and that's actually why I think that Judge Mershon is going to sentence him to some sort of home confinement.
00:51:21.000Because look, this has been a nine-year systematic lawfare operation against a private citizen.
00:51:30.000Candidate, president, candidate, in order to prevent him from ascending to power as a populist, nationalist, president or candidate that really can be exported around the world.
00:51:42.000And that's why in Europe right now, you're also seeing the global wave of conservatism reverberating.
00:51:49.000Because even over there, it's like with Thatcher and Reagan, right?
00:51:52.000You had them kind of working as a team to export that around the world.
00:51:55.000Now you're seeing Trump doing it as well.
00:51:58.000And in Europe, people are following him.
00:53:09.000failed to qualify for the first presidential debate hosted by CNN next week, officially setting up a one-on-one clash between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
00:53:18.000CNN published an article Thursday morning that the network's window for candidates to meet the criteria for the June 27th debate in Atlanta closed just after midnight Eastern Standard Time with Biden and Trump meeting the constitutional ballot qualification and polling thresholds.
00:53:33.000A CNN spokesperson confirmed that Kennedy did not qualify.
00:53:38.000Kennedy hadn't hit CNN's polling threshold of 15% in at least four approved national polls, having only reached that mark in three surveys ahead of the deadline.
00:53:48.000He also fell short of the network's ballot criteria, which required the candidates to secure access in enough states to win 270 electoral votes, a significant task for a third party at this point in the election cycle.
00:54:02.000So the Kennedy campaign, I've heard messaging saying that they believe that they will be on enough ballots by November to gain the correct amount of electoral votes.
00:54:14.000But the polling issue has been consistent with debates.
00:54:17.000I remember the Republican National Convention had similar polling thresholds, and it was one of the things that eliminated a lot of people there.
00:54:24.000I want to pull RFK Jr.' 's statement because I find it really interesting.
00:54:29.000You know, we know that third party candidates can have an impact on the election.
00:54:33.000He said, President Biden and Trump do not want me on the debate stage and CNN illegally agreed to their demand.
00:54:40.000My exclusion by President Biden and Trump is undemocratic, un-American, and cowardly.
00:54:46.000Americans want an independent leader who will break apart the two-party duopoly.
00:54:51.000They want a president who will heal the divide, restore the middle class, unwind the war machine, and end the chronic disease epidemic.
00:55:03.000Is the debate going to turn the tides of this election?
00:55:05.000Do we think that the third party candidacy is going to have a major impact?
00:55:09.000Because it is interesting that he seems to be performing, have a significant performance, but this network was ultimately able to shut him out.
00:55:20.000I think Kennedy's a clown, but I think that they should let him debate.
00:55:25.000Because, you know, having the other person up there, it shouldn't be a problem.
00:55:31.000And honestly, I think that the reason they don't let him debate is because it only makes President Biden look worse, you know?
00:55:39.000It's interesting because Biden was ultimately the one who said, you know, we can debate and Trump had always been open to it, but they're only going to debate twice.
00:55:46.000Typically during presidential election cycle, the presidential candidates have three debates.
00:55:52.000It seems like maybe that's, you know, maybe they just think it's boring.
00:55:55.000We already did this once, but maybe also Biden knows that three is too many.
00:56:01.000Yeah, look, I think that Kennedy definitely helps Trump, and that's probably why he's been under the type of attack in the media that he has been under.
00:56:19.000I mean, they don't even have a real vision of what they're going to be as a party.
00:56:25.000And I also think Kennedy, who used to have a massive social media presence, he still does.
00:56:29.000He does a lot of shows on social media.
00:56:30.000He understands the importance of a debate to get out there and get in front of millions of so-called normies who aren't on social media and get his message out there.
00:56:53.000And that's why the moment, you know, that there was talk about a potential third party or like a revamp of the Republican Party, there was such like a screech, like, no, that's impossible.
00:57:44.000I mean, it's just money, but you need a lot of money to get on the ballots.
00:57:47.000I'm also pretty sure that the, the rules, I'm not sure, but I imagine the rules, you know, 40 years ago were fairly different, you know, 35 years ago, whatever it was.
00:58:55.000He's a horrific governor there, in my opinion.
00:58:57.000But, you know, He's more presentable on TV, younger, more articulate, if you want, than Biden.
00:59:02.000So you have these type of candidates that should Biden completely malfunction or collapse in many ways on the debate with Trump, and his ratings continue to decline.
00:59:12.000I think there are historic lows right now.
00:59:14.000That call to replace him is going to get louder and louder.
00:59:16.000Do you think that he would comply, though?
00:59:18.000I mean, to me, it's always seemed like there's a power struggle between the Biden machine that's in the White House versus the DNC itself.
00:59:28.000It's almost as though initially, back in the day when they were campaigning, they were like, Joe, it'll be great.
00:59:43.000And it seems like the Bidens maybe said yes to that, but ultimately were like, we're here for eight years.
00:59:48.000All of our grandchildren get married in the White House.
00:59:50.000We're never leaving for as long as we possibly can.
00:59:52.000Well, there's a thing called the 25th Amendment, and I think, you know, should he, like I said, I think this debate is make or break for him.
01:00:01.000If he doesn't do well, you know, you're probably going to have whispers saying, hey, look, we have cabinet members who are talking.
01:00:08.000You have the special counsel, her, who's talking about your mental decline.
01:00:11.000He's saying that you're not competent to be prosecuted, but you could still be president.
01:00:17.000I mean, that was strategically leaked, I think.
01:00:19.000I mean, a lot of that stuff was like declassified for the American people to actually understand.
01:00:23.000So when you put all that in tandem, I think that they will force him out, and they will use the 25th Amendment, the special counsel's investigation into him, the various congressional investigations into him as the way to basically tell him either you resign or we force you out.
01:00:40.000So we'll see what happens on the debate.
01:00:44.000I think that the reason the Republicans haven't increased the heat Like Jamie Comer, Jim Jordan, some of these others, Matt Gaetz, in Congress with these various investigations is because they don't want to burn him before the debate, before the convention.
01:00:57.000I think it's in our interest, meaning the Republican Party, to keep Biden where he is, but it's obviously not in the Democrats' interest.
01:01:04.000So if the debate doesn't go in Biden's favor, if he fails to perform in some way, if Trump outmaneuvers him, you think that we'll see more aggressive action towards Biden from other branches of government?
01:01:33.000And also, young voters don't seem to be captivated by Biden, whether it's because of a political interest that they have, or just generally, they are not super motivated by whatever Biden is trying to offer them.
01:01:46.000I felt like when he ran in 2020, a lot of it was like, do you remember Obama?
01:02:25.000And when you're trying to attract youth, Hollywood, whatever you want to call it, entertainment, have a media presence, social media presence, if you don't have those two, you're kind of out of luck.
01:02:37.000And that's where Biden's finding himself right now.
01:02:41.000I mean, especially considering the fact that the youth vote is so strongly pro-Palestine.
01:02:48.000And that makes the old guard of the Democrat Party really, really nervous because there are a lot of Jewish people that are in the Democrat Party that are big donors that have historically been reliable Democrats and reliable donors.
01:03:06.000And with the behavior of a lot of the leftists and the way that they're I think they're intimidating a lot of the old guard Democrats, and I think that you're seeing that split between the progressives and your Joe Manchin.
01:03:24.000Manchin, I guess he's left and he's gone independent.
01:03:27.000That should tell you something though, right?
01:03:44.000You're going to see more people that either used to be Democrats or used to be independents saying, look, you know, we have to vote for.
01:03:51.000You know, a Republican because of this issue or whether it be the border or whether it be, you know, people that don't want to fund Israel or people that don't want to see anyone supporting the Palestinians.
01:04:03.000Both sides have a reason to leave the Democrats.
01:04:06.000And I think that that's the biggest problem that they have is the progressives have gotten so progressive.
01:04:14.000To the point where the DSA is, you know, actual communists.
01:04:18.000DSA are basically running the government of New York, New York City, and they're largely influential in the White House.
01:04:28.000I mean, there's the dear white staffers, Instagram page, um, and all they do, they're, they're extremely pro Palestine and they're definitely a whole lot of communists there.
01:04:41.000And that's making rifts in the, in the Democrat party.
01:04:44.000Because your average person still does not want to see things like, oh, you can't own
01:04:49.000a home or you can't rent out a room in your home or part of your home or those kind of
01:04:54.000policies that the communists just refuse to refuse to give any, you know, give any on
01:05:01.000that they are ideologically against things like property, things like, you know, they
01:05:08.000call people small business owners, the petite bourgeois, you know, it's like they're against
01:05:36.000And I know right now because of the economic conditions, it's significantly harder than it's been in the past and stuff, but it's still an attainable goal.
01:05:44.000And there are people in the government that don't believe that it is and don't want it to be an unattainable goal because they believe that that kind of stuff only creates inequality.
01:05:55.000The Democrats have to acknowledge that and Joe Biden is totally unprepared to do it, I think.
01:06:02.000I want to jump to this next story and talk a little bit about the consequences of a differing ideological space, especially in light of a lot of recent protests.
01:06:14.000So we've seen a lot of action in America of pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, whatever you want to call it, protests on student campuses.
01:06:21.000But in Europe, there's a wave of environmental protests that are sort of sweeping the nation.
01:06:25.000And you're seeing a lot of direct conflict, a direct vandalism from people who want their governments to swear off oil.
01:06:32.000So this is from the organization Just Stop Oil.
01:06:35.000They posted today, I've got a fuel non-proliferation treaty baby and I'll write your name.
01:06:42.000Just Stop Oil paints private jet hours after Taylor Swift lands.
01:06:46.000Two Just Stop Oil supporters have painted multiple private jets on an airfield where Taylor Swift's jet landed mere hours before.
01:06:55.000They are demanding that the incoming UK government commit to working with other governments to agree on an equitable plan to end the extraction and burning of oil and gas and coal by 2030.
01:07:08.000You have these young activists who spray-painted these jets.
01:07:12.000One of them, Cole MacDonald, who's 22, said, We're living in two worlds, one where billionaires live in luxury, able to fly in private jets away from the other, where unlivable conditions are being imposed on countless millions.
01:07:24.000Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few to So that's obviously an allusion to Taylor Swift.
01:07:32.000the conditions necessary to support human life and a rapidly accelerating, never-ending,
01:07:37.000cruel summer. Billionaires are not untouchable. Climate breakdown will affect every single one
01:07:43.000of us." So that's obviously an allusion to Taylor Swift.
01:07:46.000This comes the day after other activists from Just Stop Oil sprayed orange dust all
01:07:53.000over Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old monument, right on the eve of the summer solstice
01:07:58.000celebration there. The Prime Minister, Rishi you soon condemn the incident as from BBC as a quote
01:08:06.000The leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Hamster, I'm not even pronouncing that correctly at all, I'm just going to keep going, said the damage was outrageous and described Just Stop Oil as pathetic.
01:08:19.000Members of the public were heard shouting no and seen running to intervene as campaigners ran up the stone circle at the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
01:08:30.000Environmental activism has a history of being very public.
01:08:35.000we can talk about Weather Underground and their actions, especially in the 70s and 80s.
01:08:40.000It seems like European environmental activists in particular are similar to American progressive activists in that they want their demonstrations to be bold and in front of your face.
01:09:09.000If they got what they wanted, what they're afraid of would happen immediately, right?
01:09:15.000If you stop using fossil fuels, then you stop being able to fertilize the crops that are providing food aid to places that don't have the ability to grow crops.
01:09:27.000You stop the production of all of the ability to transport food around the world.
01:09:36.000These people are so incredibly stupid, they can't even understand that if they got what
01:09:41.000they wanted, millions and millions and millions, billions of people would die.
01:09:46.000Literally billions if you did the whole just stop oil.
01:09:50.000This is absolutely ridiculous and these people are, I mean, I know that you can't explain
01:09:57.000anything to him that they have been totally co-opted by ideologues.
01:10:01.000I know that there's a whole ton of the environmental, not lobby, but the environmental movement and stuff.
01:10:10.000is really about getting rid of capitalism. They say that capitalism is what causes all
01:10:15.000the environmental problems, which is absolutely ridiculous.
01:10:17.000It's totally the opposite of history. Like you can look at what happens
01:10:21.000when you open markets. You can look at what happened in China, even though China wasn't, you know,
01:10:26.000isn't a capitalist society. They were having a problem, massive problem feeding their population
01:10:30.000until they opened the markets, you know, and once they open markets and allowed people to have
01:10:35.000some amount of of control over their property and control over their time, not a lot, but
01:10:40.000some, you had this massive explosion of economic activity and you had a whole bunch of people
01:10:46.000And when you allow markets to thrive, you have fewer poor people.
01:10:51.000You have fewer people die of starvation.
01:10:54.000There is no such thing as a poor country that uses a lot of energy.
01:11:02.000And energy is what keeps human beings alive.
01:11:05.000If you have a low output of energy from your country, That means you are going to have only so many human beings that can survive in that country.
01:11:14.000There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country.
01:11:20.000And rich countries are how you feed your populations.
01:11:23.000There are going to be people that are going to excel beyond What other people would consider reasonable.
01:11:30.000They're going to make more, and they're going to be more productive, and they're going to have success in ways that upset people that see the world in such a myopic way, but that doesn't change the fact that if you have markets and you have some amount of property rights, this will prevent your citizens from starving.
01:11:48.000And oil is what makes the entire economy go.
01:12:13.000They don't have the information, understanding that the carbon in the air can be recaptured and reused.
01:12:18.000So you really want to get more oil and burn more and then recuperate more.
01:12:24.000And turn it into graphene so you have more building materials.
01:12:27.000So this, it's stupidity mixed with ignorance that, but it's just loud and people, it's very easy for, for humans to go monkey and to get together in big groups and start banging on stuff and throwing paint on crap.
01:12:38.000And that's what we're looking at right here.
01:12:40.000Well, also, did you know, statistically, it's developing countries that are the biggest producers of greenhouse emissions today.
01:12:47.000So basically, what these people are arguing is, let the West have its oil, have its development, but you developing countries that we, in theory, support, you're not allowed to develop at the same pace that the West did.
01:13:17.000You know what happened when Biden became president?
01:13:18.000There's a full-on war right now between Russia and Ukraine.
01:13:22.000Do you know what the missing factor was here?
01:13:23.000When Trump was president, as I mentioned earlier, he unleashed American shale and oil And it created a net exporter out of America for the first time since World War Two.
01:13:37.000It allowed America to control the global trade, the global energy routes, production, and our foes or adversaries, wherever you want to call them, countries like Russia did not have the money to go on a full scale war like they're doing right now, where oil is at almost record levels, while with Trump, it was almost a record down pricing.
01:13:57.000So that's also something that these kids They're protesting, they're doing whatever they're doing, and they might actually be protesting Russia, but actually by what they're doing, they're actually filling Putin's coffers.
01:14:10.000Maybe they don't know what they're doing.
01:14:12.000Some of this has actually been probably financed by some of these groups who want to see oil prices high, and they want to see the destabilized oil market, and they want to see countries like the UK not produce its own oil and natural gas.
01:14:24.000So it's really stupid what they're doing, and I don't think they really know what they're even up to.
01:14:28.000I think a lot of young people were sort of groomed into thinking dramatic acts of protest for progressive causes were cool and were ultimately sort of heroic in this way, right?
01:14:39.000I know a lot of millennials report that one of the reasons they either defer or don't have children is because of their climate anxiety, so to speak.
01:14:48.000They're so concerned about the impact their children could have on the environment that they think ultimately would be better not to have them and that's the sacrifice, this right decision they're making for other people.
01:14:58.000And I think some of it might be the rise of Greta Thunberg.
01:15:01.000I know, you know, for a while I ran into a high school teacher when I was – after I graduated college who was like, wow, she's just an amazing, you know, teenager and walking out for the environment and this, that and the other.
01:15:12.000There was sort of a celebration of young people who put the environment above everything else.
01:15:20.000I'm happy for people to have pet causes that they feel passionately about, but some of these acts of, you know, ultimately protest but vandalism and some of the demands that go with them don't seem logical to me and they don't seem thought out.
01:15:34.000It seems like it is about being able to get your picture on the news as opposed to making really impactful trainings for potentially, you know, whatever you think you're doing.
01:15:44.000Yeah, you know, Churchill, I think it was, who said that if you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart.
01:15:50.000If you're not a conservative when you're 30, you have no brain.
01:15:52.000And look, we were all in university at one point.
01:15:56.000We all kind of wanted to be part of the group.
01:15:58.000We all wanted to be part of that herd.
01:16:01.000mentality, like we've seen so many people attach themselves to a lot of these pet projects
01:16:23.000Actually what they're doing is they're causing more devastation, more havoc, more war, and
01:16:28.000less economic growth in the developing third world that they, in theory, want to provide
01:16:33.000So it's actually fascinating to see why they would be protesting this, when actually there's so much evidence that what they're protesting actually doesn't cause harm to people in the globe.
01:16:45.000I wonder if ultimately the end goal of all this is chaos, right?
01:16:50.000Ultimately all of this is to have generations that blame older generations for their issues and avoid making a younger generation because they think it's all doomsday.
01:16:59.000I mean, at what point does chaos become the name of the game, whether it's for environmentalism or Palestine or anything?
01:17:09.000Well, I mean, I personally think that, you know, a stable civilization doesn't revolt, right?
01:17:17.000So if you have a happy civilization that is mostly comprised of people that feel like they have meaning in their lives and they're satisfied with their lives, Those people aren't going to be prone to be agitators for some kind of significant social change.
01:17:36.000There are people that have that kind of mentality anyways, that there's always going to be a certain segment of the population that is just that kind of protest kind of person and that's what they enjoy doing and stuff.
01:17:47.000But most people, if they feel... Can't they just go listen to metal music and destroy some rooms or something?
01:17:52.000think you could just go get in the pit and get it out but uh
01:17:55.000Sometimes you know, they can't so that being said, you know, like people do
01:18:00.000have to have meaning in their lives and the more you can have a
01:18:04.000Connection to your community and your family and stuff like that. The more you have that
01:18:09.000The less likely it is that you're gonna have rebel have some kind of revolution or some kind of significant social
01:18:16.000change And I think if you look around at the messages that are being sent by the government, again, things like the alternative lifestyles, right?
01:18:25.000And if you want to have an alternative lifestyle, I don't care.
01:18:30.000But if the government is going to have a message, it should be Pro-social messages, which means pro-family messages.
01:18:39.000You can live an alternative lifestyle in the United States and that's not a problem.
01:18:43.000We don't have to have all of the focus be on alternative lifestyles and make it out as if traditional lifestyles are to be hated or to be scorned or it's bad.
01:18:53.000These traditional lifestyles are actually what makes a solid foundation for your whole society.
01:19:01.000So the idea of the federal government is messaging to the people that it is bad to marry and have kids and do these kind of things.
01:19:10.000And it's messaging to the people that we want to center alternative lifestyles and stuff.
01:19:14.000That is a terrible, terrible recipe for your society.
01:19:17.000And we see it in the fact that you've got men that are not achieving In in massive amounts the way that they used to men are failing men are falling behind and going to college men are dropping out of society men are not Taking up the roles that men typically have taken up as leaders in society society Basically treats men very badly You've got a push to have women not
01:19:53.000Again, in a liberal society, you can have that and have that be something that women can do.
01:19:58.000But the idea that the government pushes that narrative is terrible and it's anti-social because the foundation of your society Is the family.
01:20:08.000So I think that there are people that want to see the fundamental structures that make up the United States broken down.
01:20:18.000I think things like family family units and and traditional families.
01:20:23.000I think all these things inhibit the revolution that the far left wants to see.
01:20:28.000And so the more you have these kind of ideas put into the center and put as the idealized lifestyle, the more you're going to see destabilization in your country and the more you're going to see depression and the more you're going to see suicides and the more you're going to see young women deciding that they hate their lives and young men checking out and people saying that they don't trust each other and stuff.
01:20:53.000of policies that the government has been pushing for at the very least, like I said earlier,
01:20:58.000since 2012, possibly since before, arguably since before because of the media and etc.
01:21:05.000So that's my sense of this situation. Yeah, it's tough to tell.
01:21:10.000To answer your question about if it's people are foisting chaos on the world or if they actually believe, it's just tough to tell.
01:21:17.000At this level of the orchestrators, of these people that are spray painting Stonehenge, I tend to guess that they're mostly just like useful pawns, but the people that really want to sow chaos and confusion are maybe funding it.
01:21:30.000I mean, you mentioned earlier, George, you thought maybe people were funding these things.
01:21:33.000I think you'd said something earlier about that.
01:21:40.000I think some of it might even be a devotion to ideology, right?
01:21:45.000That the thing that you are trying to do is so important that any other sort of cultural societal rules get thrown out.
01:21:52.000Like, never mind the fact that Stonehenge is 5,000 year old is meaningful to a lot of different people.
01:21:59.000Covering it in dust is so important because it represents this greater issue that everyone must pay attention to, you know, whether they want to or not.
01:22:09.000And I think we see that replicated in a couple different places in society.
01:22:48.000XXY Athletics, an athletic wear company founded by a former Levi Strauss company executive and backed by a former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, was permanently suspended from TikTok after its latest ad on the platform.
01:23:01.000Founder Jennifer Saye announced her company was banned from TikTok in an ex post saying, quote, When you run an ad standing up for women's and girls sports, you get banned for life from TikTok.
01:23:14.000Say shared the advertisement in question along with her post, quote, if you think girls and women's equality matter, stand up, says the voiceover of a video.
01:23:23.000I'm going to play the video rather than read it to you because I think it's important to show kind of what exactly is offensive to TikTok.
01:23:30.000So let me see if I can get this going.
01:23:55.000If you think girls and women's equality matter, stand up, says a voiceover as the video depicts a series of female athletes.
01:24:01.000If you think, quote, if you think girls and women's sports matter and you want your daughters to have an opportunity that you had, stand up, quote.
01:24:08.000If you know that it is isn't fair or safe to allow males to compete in girls sports because it's, well, obvious, stand up, the narrator adds.
01:24:17.000Then Jennifer Saye also shared the communication she got from TikTok for Business.
01:24:22.000Dear XXY Athletics, your account has been permanently suspended because it doesn't comply with our advertising policies.
01:24:30.000They recommended that they review the ad and they can also work with their sales representative.
01:24:35.000But they said, ultimately, a review indicates that your advertising content may violate TikTok's advertising by featuring an offensive content.
01:24:45.000The idea that XXXY as a concept is offensive.
01:24:52.000This is, I don't know who makes the decisions and stuff, but like the idea that you can't talk about the fact that there are men and women and that's too offensive.
01:25:04.000I don't know what to do with this because it is so insane.
01:25:09.000You know, I'm just, I'm really at a loss.
01:25:11.000It's like, Again, I talk often about the things that I believe our society can handle.
01:25:18.000I think that our society can handle having trans people walk around dressed in as if they are, you know, as men are women and women are men.
01:25:27.000And I think that most polite people would be able to deal with using whatever pronouns they prefer, just so long as they're not obnoxious about it.
01:25:35.000But the idea that you can't Say, hey, it's like trans people can live their lives how they want, but trans women are men and trans men are women.
01:25:44.000Like the idea that you can't say that without being, you know, attacked, you know, be told that you're saying something offensive is ridiculous because that is just factually biologically true.
01:25:56.000I think it's wild that so many social media platforms, including TikTok, have accepted the trans ideology, transgenderism, lock, stock, and barrel, even though they are the same people who would often yell, like, you're supposed to believe science, trust science, this, that, and the other.
01:26:11.000Science tells us that there are biological differences between men and women, that male athletes and female athletes, even if they're competing in the same sport, perform very differently.
01:26:19.000That's why, you know, the hoop for women's basketball is different.
01:26:23.000That's why female track athletes, you know, report different times than their male counterparts, even if they're running the same race.
01:26:30.000And I feel sad for the generations of female athletes who will be told, Hey, if you feel like this obvious disadvantage that you have against someone who is testosterone, who is biologically built differently than you are, but is allowed to compete in your race because they opted to use different pronouns, I feel sad for them because they're going to be told you are transphobic and you should change your minds rather than believe science, which I thought was the thing they wanted us to do.
01:26:57.000And I think that's why when Trump actually talks about this at his rallies, he gets some of the biggest applause, because people are just like, we want a sense of traditional values and normalcy.
01:27:32.000It's all about forcing something onto people that would normally not accept it, even though those people do believe in their right to live the way that they do want to live.
01:27:42.000And I think that's the major issue that we have seen that the liberals as a whole are pushing on America, these various agendas, you know, wokeism, DEI, whatever you want to call it.
01:27:53.000And it's actually dividing America more than uniting it.
01:27:58.000I mean, I think this is one of the fears.
01:28:01.000I touched on this a little bit before, but somebody wins when there's chaos and people can't unite.
01:28:06.000And I think with this issue, confusing, especially young female athletes, because I agree with you, there is a level of, I want to say, if you're an adult and you want to live a certain way, I don't want the government or I don't want anyone to tell you you can't.
01:28:17.000On the other hand, specifically with the transgender ideology, it seems more and more about Getting intervention into family lives earlier and earlier and that is what the problem is for me.
01:28:30.000I think the fact that this is seems to be an ideology that that cannot compromise.
01:28:37.000They say we must have access to children children need to know this thing to comply with this high school athletes young children should be taught about this.
01:28:43.000It should be in books like it should be everywhere.
01:28:53.000Or your ability to control and dictate the way other people's children should be treated?
01:28:58.000So, I mean, if I'm going to put on a little bit of a tinfoil hat here, like, if you think, as I do, that there is actual concerted efforts by a subversive ideology to Basically tear down the fundamental structures of our government.
01:29:18.000The LGBT stuff is the tip of the spear and it really is motivated by an ideologically by ideology that is on par with any other religion.
01:29:29.000You can listen to trans people talk about saying things like trans people are divine.
01:29:35.000Trans people are to be held up as the epitome of what a human being could be.
01:29:43.000They have transcended, not just male and female, but they have transcended being a normal human.
01:29:49.000It is completely and totally the more extreme you get is entirely wrapped in mysticism and
01:30:23.000Again, all kinds of occult imagery, satanic imagery and stuff.
01:30:27.000And again, I'm a dude, like listen man, I grew up listening to Cannibal Corpse, right?
01:30:33.000Tomb of the Mutilated is one of my favorite records, okay?
01:30:36.000I am totally fine with this kind of imagery.
01:30:40.000But the fact is these people don't think of it as imagery like a horror movie, which is what I looked at that stuff like.
01:30:47.000I grew up watching slasher films when I was a kid and I wanted to see Nightmare on Elm Street and now all that stuff was cool to me and that was part of me being into gory death metal and stuff.
01:31:40.000And if you want to as an adult, I'm like, okay, fine.
01:31:44.000But you can't have this stuff fed to children because it is literally warping their minds and making vulnerable children destroy their bodies.
01:31:54.000The Tavistock stuff that was going on in the UK, I think it was called
01:31:57.000the Tavistock Clinic, they shut it down because of this. If you look at the
01:32:00.000cutting-edge reports coming out of Europe right now, all of these European countries
01:32:05.000are pulling back on this and stopping it because they're starting to
01:32:09.000realize that these people need help and help is not affirming their mental
01:32:16.000So why is it that America is not doing the same thing?
01:32:19.000Why are we saying, you know, West Virginia is one of the states battling this kind of issue, where we are saying actually everyone should accommodate this, especially young students.
01:32:27.000Because normies don't really believe it yet.
01:32:46.000No, people aren't doing that because, and part of the reason is because the left has so successfully made any ideas that come from conservative as radioactive.
01:32:59.000If a conservative says something, people that are normie Democrats think, well, it came from those crazy Republicans and you know how they are.
01:33:54.000Once they realize that it's happening, they do.
01:33:56.000So this is, in my opinion, the tip of the spear of trying to destabilize the country.
01:34:01.000And I think that the more people know The extremes that the activists want to go, the more people will reject the left over the situation.
01:34:11.000Well, I think where it gets even more insidious is like when you have these parents on these school boards that are kind of pushing back against this, and then they're deemed by like the director of the FBI and the Attorney General as like potential threats to America.
01:34:24.000is something that I think is very insidious.
01:34:27.000And you see, like, the FBI going and knocking on people's doors who protest this type of stuff, and including doctors losing their licenses and their livelihoods, some even being imprisoned or, you know, charged with felonies for blocking this kind of stuff.
01:34:39.000And I think the more and more that type of stuff happens, and I think it will, Because the more children are the ultimate targets, especially in schools, and parents feel that they're losing the ability to actually govern their children's lives, then the pushback will become real.
01:34:54.000I don't think it's at that point yet, but it's getting there.
01:34:56.000Yeah, I think it is interesting how much all of this has exposed the fact that schools, the government, but definitely schools, Treat the parents as though they are hostile and potentially bad for their own children.
01:35:09.000Every time I see one of these school boards or whatever that vote on bills that say, or rules that say, if a student, you know, wants to go by different pronouns or different name, you can't inform the parent, right?
01:35:22.000Even though the child is a minor, even though they live at home with their parents, even though the parents are providing everything else in their life, hypothetically, You know, you can't tell the parents that their child is opting to go through this sort of gender ambiguous phase or transition or anything like that because the apparent messaging is that the parent is the danger.
01:35:42.000I think we should treat the family like the most important unit in our society.
01:35:46.000It's the building block that everything else comes from.
01:35:48.000If parents are struggling, we should support them and help encourage them to grow as parents, but we should never make it so children are inherently learning you have to hide part of yourself from your parent, only tell us at school, keep secrets from them, because we have your best interest at heart and they do not.
01:36:03.000That alone should be the most obvious red flag.
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01:37:20.000Do I have to extra- do I have to kick you out of my kingdom here?
01:37:23.000Look, legitimately, she did all the work today.
01:37:24.000She's the one that actually did the opening and stuff, so... No, I- I've gotta be serious, um, I- you know, I am really grateful to be on this show.
01:37:31.000I'm really grateful that Tim feels like he can, you know, take the day off to attend to his medical issues and leave it to us.
01:37:37.000And I really want to give a shout out to Chris Carr, executive editor.
01:38:36.000The biggest conundrum for Democrats, if they get rid of Joe Biden, who can they replace him with to placate the... I can't read all of this.
01:38:48.000It's hard to beat a guy that showered with his underage daughter.
01:39:03.000I think the AOCs and the so-called squad is a little too toxic.
01:39:08.000So I think they're never going to ascend to any real leadership roles.
01:39:12.000And actually you've seen them diminished in terms of like any media presence.
01:39:15.000So I think they're going to prop up people like Michelle, Gavin, who are more establishments, more inclined to being part of the donor base.
01:39:22.000But you're naming two people, I'm noticing, that aren't actually in the federal government right now.
01:39:26.000It doesn't seem like anyone seems to say, like, occasionally we hear ALC, but it's not like there's an obvious Democratic senator or congressman or woman to step up to the plate.
01:39:38.000Because they're just too extreme, especially at the federal and obviously at the local and state levels.
01:39:43.000Most of these people have just like really gone off the deep end, right?
01:39:47.000They don't even know what they stand for anymore.
01:39:49.000Biden obviously doesn't represent what a lot of these folks in Congress want to promulgate in America.
01:39:54.000So I think America is a center-right country, I think, in general.
01:39:59.000And the Democrat Party today has gone just so far left that they just don't really have anybody to appease the broader American electorate.
01:40:06.000Do you think that we'll see a wave of Democrats that are more middle-of-the-road running for these seats?
01:40:13.000Or do you think the Democratic voters in America are kind of conditioned to continue to pick the most progressive candidate on the ticket?
01:40:20.000No, actually, I think they are going to go more center because they tried this guinea pig experiment that they were the experiment, meaning the American people are the people that voted for these people to get into power.
01:40:34.000Their parental rights are diminishing.
01:40:36.000There are wars everywhere and the identity of not only the family but America as a whole has completely been usurped and replaced with something very foreign and something unrecognizable that even Democrats, normal Democrats, don't recognize.
01:40:50.000So I view them moving forward as finding somebody who's more center than where they are right now.
01:40:57.000I thought that was the interesting lesson from Manchin, saying, I'm actually going to leave after decades in office.
01:41:06.000Rather than continue this party, I'm going to change to be an independent for the last couple months of my term.
01:41:11.000That's kind of telling of the legacy of the party.
01:41:14.000Yeah, I mean, you did see the influx of people to the Democrats that left the Republicans when Donald Trump won.
01:41:22.000But the reason for that was they were they were the establishment people.
01:43:21.000Yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about earlier.
01:43:24.000There's a lot of oil and natural gas in the South China Sea.
01:43:27.000They have a very hostile maritime boundary that they have not even really, you know, ossified in any treaty. And the longer this persists, I
01:43:37.000think, with the United States wanting to create havoc the way that they want to by
01:43:41.000isolating China, you're probably going to continue to see that happening.
01:43:43.000I wonder, too, what kind of response the Biden administration will have to this.
01:43:51.000Because sometimes I feel like they're kind of closing their eyes, right?
01:43:54.000It wasn't like the State Department, I mean, maybe the State Department did put out a message and I just didn't see it in time.
01:44:01.000It seems like we're trying to silo our response to that.
01:44:03.000Is that because we don't want to acknowledge what's happening in that region?
01:44:06.000Or is it because there's a lack of leadership?
01:44:08.000Like, what is America's role in all of this right now?
01:44:12.000There is no role, and that's exactly why we went from the Abraham Accords under Trump to all-out chaos in the Middle East.
01:44:18.000That's why we went through peace through strength to chaos all around the world, why we have wars today not only in the Middle East, but in Ukraine, we have Azerbaijan attacking Armenia, we have hostilities between NATO members Greece and Turkey, we have this crisis now brewing between Vietnam and China, because all of these countries now feel that Biden is weak, and when you have a weak president, you project that, and our adversaries become more emboldened.
01:45:09.000I assume there probably is some kind of New Hampshire day.
01:45:11.000I feel like every state should have one, but I believe strongly in the importance of regional culture.
01:45:16.000Look, there is no part of me that thinks that one state is going to hear another state has decided that they've got a state day and then not say, well, we need one, too.
01:45:25.000So I'm sure that there are state days for every single state.
01:45:28.000I feel like that's something Texas would do, but it's like not something Connecticut would do.
01:46:08.000It seems like it would be a good idea to have, you know, these celebrations, especially if it coincided with, like, the state fair and you could go see, like, what was going on, especially in your agricultural community, if that's relevant to your state.
01:46:20.000Well, the Democrats hate states' rights, you know, so anything they could do to take those away, I guess.
01:46:41.000I think, I mean, I don't want to speak definitively, but I do think that our national security is compromised by the fact that we have this open door at our southern border and anyone of fighting age with any ideology could come through and we wouldn't know where they are and we don't know what they would be doing.
01:46:56.000It's fair to say that we don't know, but it's not fair to say that it's not possible.
01:47:02.000Like, you can't say that it's not possible.
01:47:04.000You can't say that there aren't sufficient people that have come across the border illegally where that would be some kind of, you know, something that could manifest in reality.
01:47:13.000You can say it's unlikely, but you can't say it's impossible.
01:47:16.000And to be honest with you, the federal government should be able to say, no, that's not possible.
01:47:21.000They should be able to say, no, it is not possible.
01:47:24.000We have too much understanding of who is coming and leaving our country.
01:47:28.000It is not possible that an entire division worth of people have infiltrated the United States.
01:47:39.000Which is not a good look for our leaders, right?
01:47:41.000If you're in charge of securing the border and you can't say definitively, yes, you are safe in our country.
01:47:46.000I would personally vote for new leadership, but I'm merely a conservative.
01:47:52.000And I think that's exactly why the border is the preeminent issue this election.
01:47:56.000And it's really a stark and diametrically opposed policy between both Biden and Trump and the clear winner in this particular issue is Trump.
01:50:29.000Okay, Missy Kin says, Hannah Clare, if they can script women into the military draft, do you think that they will have to admit what a woman is?
01:50:40.000At least Leah Thomas is a man to the Olympics committee.
01:51:55.000Then you don't have to talk about gender because everyone has to do it.
01:51:58.000It's stripping away these differences because I think they don't want the conversation to be, well, someone who is, you know, female doesn't meet the same physical standards as men.
01:52:08.000And that impacts the way they go through basic training.
01:52:13.000Do you think women are going to be in the draft?
01:52:14.000Look, I think with all these endless conflicts that we've seen reinstated once again after, you know, the Bush era, they're going to need men, women, he, she, they, their, whatever, to fill those ranks because the conflicts are going to continue to grow.
01:52:30.000You're going to see, you know, conflict in Europe, Asia, Latin America.
01:52:34.000There's a lot of conflict on the African continent right now.
01:52:37.000So I think that just really portends the draft being reinstated and all of these people who are hating on Trump Are probably thinking now, wait, I don't really don't want to go fight in, you know, in Tajikistan or I don't want to go fight over Taiwan.
01:52:51.000Well, they're going to come here so we can fight them here.
01:53:25.000Obviously challenging for someone who's in the middle of a campaign, and this is becoming something that his opponents want to use as a major issue, that he has these legal complaints against him.
01:53:34.000Yeah, no, that's my understanding too.
01:53:35.000And this entire scam has been designed for one reason and one reason only, and that is to interfere in this election.
01:53:42.000And secondly, as the priority right now, it's to keep him off the campaign trail.
01:53:47.000And obviously by suppressing his voice and his messaging, it does that.
01:53:51.000So whether it's him physically on the campaign trail or him tweeting or, you know, posting or on truth social, it's the same effect.
01:53:58.000So that's, that's, uh, Where we are, and as he says, if they could do it to me, they'll do it to you.
01:54:14.000Do you think Americans who were maybe against him or found him sort of uncomfortable or unpalatable are more sympathetic because it doesn't seem like the lawfare that's against him is justified?
01:54:25.000Yeah, I mean, look, everybody respects and adores a martyr, right?
01:54:28.000And to millions of people right now, whether you're on the left, the center, or the right, including a lot of pundits on the mainstream media, they even think that these judges went too far.
01:54:38.000Most of them even think that these cases should never have been brought.
01:54:41.000So, of course, if that's being pontificated on television, then millions of people are also like, you know what?
01:54:46.000It was okay to mock him on late night, but he was president.
01:54:50.000And when you're doing this, you're disrespecting the presidency.
01:54:53.000And if you can do that, you're humiliating a nation.
01:54:55.000And I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
01:54:59.000Do you think Trump's legal issues will impact who he selects as a vice president?
01:55:05.000Yeah, I think, you know, there's been arguments on both sides.
01:55:08.000One argument is he has to pick somebody so, I guess, toxic that he becomes, like, impenetrable, let's say, where he's just going to remain in office no matter what, because they don't want that person.
01:55:24.000Or the other thought is that he gets a more moderate kind of guy like Ben Carson, you know, an articulate guy, brings in the suburban vote, the minority vote, some voters that probably wouldn't have voted for him.
01:55:35.000So right now he's going to have to decide.
01:55:37.000No matter who he decides, he has to make a choice to make it soon because that woman or man is going to have to campaign for him when he's likely in home confinement.
01:55:55.000We're living in incredibly unstable and unprecedented times.
01:55:59.000I mean, I would have never expected what happened in 2016, where you had an entire, you know, basically CIA operation weaponized against the Trump campaign.
01:56:08.000Impeachment 1.0, 2.0, the various issues that have been going on, the January 6th stuff.
01:56:13.000So, I can't say I'm 100% sure they wouldn't actually send them to prison.
01:56:19.000Maybe I'm just optimistic that I'm expecting home confinement, but that's where we are as a nation right now.
01:56:51.000Even Biden's promises to forgive student loan debt have backfired on a lot of fronts.
01:56:56.000And so ultimately they need their voter base to believe that a potential Trump presidency would be so devastating that they need to do anything to prevent it.
01:57:04.000They need to fearmonger and have Compliance and that's a very disheartening way to look at your country, right?
01:59:20.000Well, I mean, the fact that Donald Trump won and he was so anti-establishment was good.
01:59:27.000not that I don't think I'm not particularly some kind of big Donald Trump fan, but he
01:59:31.000was very anti-establishment and he managed to pull back a lot of the veil that the media
01:59:39.000had had essentially, you know, had been feeding the American people, you know, and he really
01:59:45.000made it fair. He made it fairly clear. And then, of course, the the as much as COVID
01:59:51.000was a bad thing for the world, the fact that it happened again opened a lot of people's
01:59:57.000eyes. The lies that the government was telling about about all the things surrounding it
02:00:03.000and stuff and the control that they wanted to control.
02:00:06.000They wanted the the government lockdowns and stuff people people were not they didn't believe that the government would go to those lengths.
02:00:14.000You know, there was always this know the government would never do that.
02:00:17.000And I think that that Has really made a lot of people think, well, maybe the government would do that.
02:00:21.000Maybe the government really does actually will actually completely lie to the American people.
02:00:26.000And so as much as COVID overall was a negative, that is one of the silver linings.
02:00:31.000But there hasn't been a lot of very many things that that, in my opinion, have been like, yeah, this is this is something that I feel good.
02:00:38.000I do feel like there are people now waking up and kind of joining the fight that are actually valuable in their their know their people that used to be involved in you the establishment like some like mansion is a good thing or you know people that were were that used to be Democrats that have left and stuff the more that happens the better it is I think that the the boycotts of Bud Light and Target were incredibly successful just because of the fact that it made people aware of what
02:01:11.000Yeah, I think awareness is the ultimate goal here.
02:01:13.000I think the fact that we have people who are awake to things that maybe they didn't consider or people who through really difficult things like COVID came to realize that they need to stand up for the things they believe in.
02:01:23.000That is very important, not just going into this election, but in generally in steering our culture in a direction that is more positive and more about the values that we hold as a nation.
02:01:34.000So with that, guys, thank you so much for joining us.
02:01:36.000We're going to wrap up here so we can head over to our members-only show.
02:02:16.000And just hoping for the best for this country.
02:02:18.000I think we got to, you know, get some normalcy back.
02:02:21.000We need some traditional values back and we need to focus on the American people once again.
02:02:25.000And I think that's really what this whole topic's been all about.
02:02:27.000Yeah, we tore off the bandage of like a hundred years of funk, and it's like over the last 20 years we've seen this decay, and it's like, well, this is what it's been like, now we just see it.
02:02:39.000And there's gonna be a time when maybe you want to go into shock, or maybe you want to panic, but don't, because we can heal this thing.
02:02:45.000We just gotta first make sure people know what's going on, and then collectively everybody does their part.