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00:00:37.000 Vladimir Putin is touring Asia.

00:00:41.000 He's just finishing up his time in Vietnam.

00:00:43.000 And let me tell you, the U.S.

00:00:45.000 is not happy about it.

00:00:46.000 We've also got all kinds of problems at the border.

00:00:48.000 Who would have guessed that no border security means that we potentially open ourselves up to national security threats?

00:00:54.000 But before we get into that, I have to address something very serious.

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00:04:08.000 Okay, so our first story for tonight, Putin Vows Deeper Ties with Vietnam in Visit Criticized by the U.S.

00:04:14.000 This is from the BBC.

00:04:15.000 The leaders of Vietnam and Russia have said they want to boost ties since the pairs met in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.

00:04:21.000 Vietnamese President Tho Lem was full of praise for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, congratulating him on his recent re-election.

00:04:30.000 Mr. 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.

00:04:41.000 His 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.

00:04:52.000 So Russia has long had a very tight connection to Vietnam.

00:04:58.000 They supported Vietnam when it was warring with America and France.

00:05:01.000 It also tends to support the educational ambitions of a lot of Vietnamese students.

00:05:06.000 They'll go to Russia and study.

00:05:09.000 Vietnam is also a major military industrial client for Russia.

00:05:15.000 So the relationship between the two is long established and close knit, even though the U.S.

00:05:21.000 tends to treat Russia like it's an isolated country.

00:05:23.000 Nobody talks to Russia.

00:05:25.000 And, you know, this comes at an interesting time.

00:05:28.000 Vietnam is one of the only countries that did not condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

00:05:33.000 And as we know, Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a major moment for the West.

00:05:39.000 They really used it as a moment to economically and diplomatically sanction Russia.

00:05:43.000 Again, further pushing this narrative that Russia is an isolated incident.

00:05:47.000 George, you have a foreign policy background.

00:05:50.000 I'm curious what you think of this move in terms of Russia and Vietnam's partnership.

00:05:54.000 Yeah, 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.

00:06:07.000 This was going to 2016.

00:06:08.000 So 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.

00:06:27.000 They're going to look East and not West.

00:06:30.000 So this.

00:06:31.000 Playbook, we've seen it over and over and over.

00:06:35.000 Russia has basically created this fortress economy now where they're basically now immune to Western sanctions.

00:06:42.000 You 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. 0.76

00:06:56.000 He'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.

00:07:09.000 And all of these countries now are growing as a collective GDP.

00:07:13.000 The US dollar is slowly but maturely collapsing, and sanctions have been an utter failure.

00:07:18.000 So we're probably going to see a lot more of this moving forward.

00:07:21.000 I don't understand why they're doing the sanctions.

00:07:24.000 If this is the outcome, is that Russia moves away from the market entirely, it feels like a self-destructive move to sanction them.

00:07:32.000 Knowing that, why would they do that?

00:07:34.000 I don't know if you can answer for them, but what do you think?

00:07:36.000 Well, here's what's interesting.

00:07:38.000 So, the U.S.

00:07:39.000 actually comes out as a winner in this whole strategy, right?

00:07:44.000 The U.S., under Trump at least, not with Biden, it was a net exporter of energy, oil and natural gas.

00:07:49.000 It actually became a net exporter of energy for the first time since World War II.

00:07:54.000 So at a time when these sanctions were imposed on Russia and they couldn't sell oil and gas to Europe, the U.S.

00:08:01.000 started exporting to Europe.

00:08:03.000 Then you had the sanctions and then more weapons from the U.S.

00:08:05.000 were being shipped to Europe.

00:08:07.000 So 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

00:08:17.000 kind of gets better off and China gets better off and Russia kind of remains the same. So Russia's really like I 0.80

00:08:24.000 mean Europe at the end of the day is really idiotic for following the U.S. sanctions policy while the U.S. kind of 0.99

00:08:31.000 wins out, Russia wins out and China wins out. 0.98

00:08:33.000 And both the leaders of America and like President Biden and the president of China were both recently visiting

00:08:40.000 Vietnam.

00:08:40.000 I 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.

00:08:51.000 They 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.

00:08:59.000 Yeah, well, it's really interesting because Vietnam and China have the South China Sea dispute, right?

00:09:04.000 There's a lot of oil and natural gas in the South China Sea.

00:09:07.000 There'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.

00:09:17.000 against a growing China, a growing North Korea.

00:09:22.000 So the U.S. in an ideal world would like to ally with countries like India, Japan, South

00:09:27.000 Korea, Vietnam to kind of contain China, but that's not happening because these countries,

00:09:34.000 they see what's going on with the sanctions with Russia, and they also see the lawfare

00:09:40.000 And you know what they say?

00:09:41.000 You know what?

00:09:42.000 If 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. 0.56

00:09:51.000 So maybe we shouldn't follow the US as much.

00:09:54.000 And also, basically, they want alternatives, in case the United States ends up doing what they did to Russia.

00:10:02.000 So that's why China is stepping in and saying, look, we still want to do business.

00:10:07.000 Russia says we still want to do business, but we're not going to try and change how you run your country.

00:10:12.000 And 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.

00:10:23.000 So the U.S.

00:10:24.000 Embassy in Hanoi has responded to this.

00:10:25.000 I have this story from Time magazine.

00:10:28.000 It says the U.S.

00:10:28.000 Embassy 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.

00:10:37.000 Do you think that the U.S.

00:10:39.000 condemnation of this trip is enough to deter other Asian nations from potentially pursuing a more diplomatic relationship with Russia?

00:10:47.000 Or is the state of affairs in the Indo-Pacific so fraught that anyone could come in and become the major influencer there?

00:10:55.000 You 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.

00:11:04.000 leadership or, you know, just like failed foreign policy.

00:11:08.000 So 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.

00:11:22.000 Because they simply don't want to be burdened with what democracy promotion means in Southeast Asia.

00:11:29.000 Do you get the sense that there's an attempt by the administration to be in any way aggressive?

00:11:36.000 Because it's my sense that like...

00:11:39.000 Granted, 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.

00:11:50.000 He was a loose cannon, they thought, but he was unpredictable enough where it seemed legitimate when he would make a threat.

00:11:58.000 I call to mind Blinken's trip to Alaska where he met with the Chinese envoy.

00:12:04.000 I forget what his name was.

00:12:07.000 They 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.

00:12:16.000 This is directly related to, obviously, to the current administration, because that was not the way that China behaved during the Trump administration.

00:12:26.000 So I don't imagine that the administration really believes any kind of comments that they make like that, do you?

00:12:33.000 No, because the results speak for themselves.

00:12:36.000 And the US has absolutely no strategy when it comes to dealing with countries like China.

00:12:42.000 Biden, 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.

00:12:53.000 because of stuff like that, that his son was dealing with, with these Chinese energy companies, CFFC,

00:12:59.000 you know, they have the Ukrainian issues.

00:13:01.000 So basically, when these countries that have been giving millions of dollars and shady money to his son

00:13:07.000 and potentially his family, say this guy's not going to do anything because we potentially have something on him.

00:13:11.000 I 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

00:13:19.000 like that, but I don't think that the behavior of other countries is

00:13:23.000 because of any kind of leverage that they might have.

00:13:26.000 I really think it's just that they don't respect them and don't think they'll do anything, which is what they communicate.

00:13:32.000 That tends to be my perspective, too, that Biden has positioned himself so weakly, both in terms of the deals that he makes.

00:13:38.000 He has a mess.

00:13:38.000 I mean, he's created, in my opinion, created several wars.

00:13:42.000 And then he also just physically looks weak, right?

00:13:44.000 You never see him enter a meeting where he seems to be the one really commanding the room.

00:13:49.000 And this is what I think... It communicates to everyone that ultimately the U.S.

00:13:52.000 is in a vulnerable position.

00:13:52.000 Exactly.

00:13:53.000 And that's what I think really is at issue here.

00:13:57.000 Again, I don't have a whole lot of doubt about whether or not the Bidens are corrupt.

00:14:04.000 They have been in government for 47 years or whatever, and they've made millions of dollars, etc.

00:14:09.000 I'm sure that there's plenty of stuff that people can come up and say, oh, this was somehow underhanded, etc.

00:14:15.000 But I really don't think that that is the thing that actually could touch Americans on a real basis.

00:14:22.000 The vulnerability and the weakness that the administration communicates to other countries, that's what can actually touch Americans.

00:14:34.000 That's what can really affect people.

00:14:37.000 If the Bidens are corrupt, whatever, I'd love to see him in jail, but it's not going to change Joe down the street's life.

00:14:44.000 If there's some kind of international conflict or Joe's kid has to go fight in a war, that's going to change Joe's life.

00:14:50.000 And that's what matters, right?

00:14:52.000 And that's what the stark and diametrically opposed foreign policy of Biden and Trump is, right?

00:14:57.000 It'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?

00:15:08.000 And that's what Trump was all about.

00:15:09.000 Well, with Biden, we've been we've never been more divided.

00:15:13.000 There's an open border, which is wreaking chaos at home.

00:15:16.000 Inflation is rampant.

00:15:17.000 He cut off American energy exports that we just talked about a little earlier, which created this economic crisis that we're living in.

00:15:24.000 So when you're weak domestically, it's kind of hard to project power abroad.

00:15:28.000 And I completely agree with you that our adversaries and our allies are watching this very closely.

00:15:34.000 And our allies are terrified, and our foes are emboldened because of it.

00:15:38.000 I think that's a really good point.

00:15:39.000 I'm going to jump to this next story just touching on the fact that our foes are feeling emboldened.

00:15:44.000 You mentioned the border.

00:15:46.000 We have the story from the New York Post.

00:15:47.000 Hundreds of migrants from ISIS hotbed country have crossed the U.S.

00:15:50.000 border under Biden.

00:15:52.000 So 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.

00:16:00.000 More 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.

00:16:10.000 At least 500 Tajiks have been caught so far this year. 0.99

00:16:15.000 Over the previous 14 years, there were just 26 Tajik nationals crossing the border.

00:16:21.000 It'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.

00:16:30.000 The 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.

00:16:44.000 I think the border is one of Biden's biggest failings.

00:16:46.000 I think the border was one of the things that really led to Trump's election in 2016.

00:16:51.000 This country has been in free fall in terms of this issue for a long time.

00:16:54.000 There are humanitarian issues.

00:16:55.000 There are national security issues.

00:16:57.000 And it just is not something that the Biden administration has successfully messaged on ever, in my opinion.

00:17:03.000 The first day in office, he went through and reversed a ton of Trump positions and What for?

00:17:10.000 To say, look, he was the bad guy and I'm the good guy?

00:17:12.000 Then we saw an increase in illegal immigration.

00:17:16.000 Then later they say, actually, that was the Republicans' fault.

00:17:18.000 Actually, that was Trump's fault.

00:17:20.000 And slowly sort of roll back a lot of Trump policies.

00:17:23.000 The thing is, there are, what?

00:17:26.000 What do we think, 10 million illegal immigrants in this country at this point?

00:17:29.000 Something like that is what I've heard, yeah.

00:17:30.000 A number that we actually can't even track at all.

00:17:32.000 And it makes me wonder, is this reversible?

00:17:36.000 Because we know that it's military age men from other countries, from China, from Tajikistan coming in to the U.S.

00:17:43.000 illegally.

00:17:44.000 We have no idea where they are.

00:17:45.000 We have no reason to believe that they will show up for these court dates that are often set years out.

00:17:49.000 Is this a problem that you guys think that we can reverse with a change in leadership?

00:17:53.000 Or is there any hope that Biden's policies would ever fix this?

00:17:57.000 No, you can't.

00:17:58.000 I don't think it can be reversed.

00:17:59.000 I think it can be transmuted.

00:18:00.000 The momentum is going in one direction, which is people are flowing into this country.

00:18:04.000 I don't think that it's going to be as easy as now you go home and you go home.

00:18:07.000 You could get people to like self-deport.

00:18:09.000 There are tactics that we could implement to kind of change the momentum from this massive influx to kind of an outflux, potentially.

00:18:18.000 I 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.

00:18:29.000 It's more difficult.

00:18:30.000 But you then I mean, then people that are relying on benefits from the government.

00:18:35.000 I 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.

00:18:43.000 Just generally, it's not a popular position.

00:18:45.000 I agree with you.

00:18:45.000 Benefits do attract a lot of illegal immigrants, but if you're motivated by terrorism, right, if you are coming into the U.S.

00:18:50.000 with a malintent already, actually it's not even the benefits that you're here for.

00:18:54.000 And that is almost more terrifying because there is no way to deter them but a strong border policy.

00:18:59.000 Well, what's interesting about these people from Tajikistan, so there was a major terrorist attack in Russia in March of this year.

00:19:07.000 And the guys who committed that atrocity actually came from Tajikistan.

00:19:11.000 See, Russia's actually been dealing with a lot of Islamist-related terror going back to the 90s from Chechnya, Dagestan.

00:19:20.000 Before then.

00:19:20.000 Yeah, even before then.

00:19:21.000 Obviously, you have the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the Taliban, I mean the Mujahideen. 0.58

00:19:25.000 So they know what these people are up to.

00:19:29.000 They're not here to do manual labor or some minimum wage job.

00:19:34.000 These people are potentially coming here to do something nefarious, and that's something that I think should terrify Americans.

00:19:40.000 I 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.

00:19:58.000 And so my idea of something not being possible, that stopped, right?

00:20:03.000 As 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.

00:20:11.000 After you saw that kind of thing, then it was like, oh wow, that is actually possible.

00:20:16.000 And you see the smaller, surprising things happen in other countries, like the October 7th attack, right?

00:20:26.000 There's arguments about whether or not the government let it happen or not.

00:20:28.000 If 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

00:20:38.000 just as legitimate to say it was the American government's fault because they allowed it.

00:20:42.000 And to think that with the numbers of people, right, if there's 10 million people that have

00:20:47.000 come over in the past four years, to think that most people don't really think, can't

00:20:53.000 really comprehend how many people 10 million is, and you could easily slip 50,000 people

00:20:59.000 with a similar goal through the border in that time, without a doubt.

00:21:05.000 And still be like, you're still not getting like one out of ten dudes that are bad guys.

00:21:11.000 It'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?

00:21:19.000 So $85 billion of military equipment was left to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

00:21:23.000 or the October 7th attack in Israel, you know?

00:21:26.000 That's real.

00:21:27.000 Going off what you just said, right?

00:21:29.000 So $85 billion of military equipment was left to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

00:21:34.000 You have potentially millions of black market arms in Ukraine right now, and you have Islamist 1.00

00:21:40.000 terrorist groups operating in Venezuela and other, you know, Southern American, Central

00:21:46.000 American countries right now.

00:21:48.000 Put that all in tandem with an open border, with these type of guys coming through, Chinese 1.00

00:21:53.000 national military-aged Chinese nationals coming through.

00:21:57.000 Obviously, you know, we are border is our soft underbelly.

00:22:02.000 And if you are an enemy of the United States, you're not gonna that is where you're aiming.

00:22:06.000 And that's, that's something why the border is such a critical policy issue.

00:22:12.000 It's a national security issue.

00:22:14.000 And in my opinion, it's the most important election issue of this year.

00:22:18.000 Just the fact that there are foreign people acting as a police force to police the other nationals.

00:22:28.000 There are Chinese people here acting as police that are policing.

00:22:33.000 The FBI is involved in this.

00:22:35.000 This isn't just make-believe.

00:22:36.000 This 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.

00:22:46.000 And it's because the policy that they have is actually to get as many people in and then naturalize or give amnesty.

00:22:54.000 I mean, they're talking about it now.

00:22:55.000 I don't know what the specific policy that Biden is discussing, but I heard something about it the other day.

00:23:02.000 giving amnesty or opening pathways for permanent residency.

00:23:05.000 I don't know the details, but that's coming.

00:23:07.000 That's unquestionably coming.

00:23:09.000 It's the spouses of American citizens based on, you know, they have to have been in the country for the last ten 0.76

00:23:13.000 years, they have to be married to an American citizen, 0.84

00:23:15.000 potentially also opens the door for if they have any children.

00:23:17.000 You know, I think that the American people are starting to agree with you.

00:23:22.000 We see this consistently in polls that immigration is the if not one of the top issues going into this election.

00:23:29.000 And it's also consistently somewhere where the Biden administration fails to message correctly.

00:23:33.000 Do 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?

00:23:43.000 You know, I think Trump said it best.

00:23:46.000 I 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.

00:23:57.000 And polls will reflect this.

00:23:59.000 Obviously, Trump is way ahead.

00:24:01.000 When 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.

00:24:19.000 Biden 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.

00:24:31.000 So 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.

00:24:40.000 All we needed was around $6 to $8 billion to get it done the first term.

00:24:43.000 Obviously, with all the Mueller nonsense and all that, and, you know, the RINO subverting him from within, he wasn't able to do it.

00:24:49.000 But 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.

00:24:56.000 I think the border is key to this administration.

00:25:00.000 I also think having stronger messaging on immigration is important in terms of the global stage.

00:25:05.000 One 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.

00:25:18.000 And people will think, oh, well, but if it's more people under Biden, isn't that good?

00:25:23.000 And the thing is, under Trump, they didn't come at all.

00:25:25.000 They knew that the punishments would be severe.

00:25:27.000 They knew there were consequences.

00:25:28.000 They stayed away.

00:25:29.000 I 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.

00:25:47.000 And I think people are really begging to be able to lock the front door and be able to protect the people inside their home.

00:25:54.000 Yeah, and all states are border states now.

00:25:56.000 I 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.

00:26:11.000 And 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.

00:26:22.000 It's like, oh, they're going to come and take your jobs.

00:26:24.000 Now it's kind of like this is a security risk.

00:26:26.000 Yeah.

00:26:26.000 Did your time on the – because you started with the Carson campaign and then you moved to the Trump campaign.

00:26:32.000 Did your switch influence your view on immigration or did you always feel as though this was a serious issue?

00:26:38.000 Look, my grandfather came to the United States from Greece in the 50s legally, worked his butt off, did all the things right.

00:26:47.000 My wife, Simona, she's a legal immigrant from Italy. 0.61

00:26:49.000 We've gone through a very long process, a very expensive process to get that going for her.

00:26:55.000 So 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.

00:27:10.000 Like, 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.

00:27:18.000 So, 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.

00:27:27.000 In fact, it was only more emboldened.

00:27:29.000 I had no idea how important the border security issue was.

00:27:33.000 In 2015, when Trump was talking about the wall, I was like, okay, I kind of get it.

00:27:36.000 It wasn't on my reader either.

00:27:38.000 I was like, what?

00:27:39.000 Nothing.

00:27:39.000 I had no idea the fentanyl crisis.

00:27:42.000 I had no idea that drugs were getting run.

00:27:44.000 Like I knew drugs were getting run.

00:27:45.000 I just thought it was cocaine.

00:27:47.000 Was it because people didn't talk about it, or was it because you were discouraged talking about the border?

00:27:51.000 No one talked about it.

00:27:53.000 I don't think I'd even heard of fentanyl until after Trump was elected.

00:27:56.000 Or the fentanyl problem started to be equated as a problem after Trump, and it wasn't him that was doing it.

00:28:02.000 He just prophesied some problem.

00:28:05.000 It had been in effect for a long time.

00:28:06.000 The fentanyl crisis has been, I mean, it's really the opioid epidemic that led into the fentanyl crisis.

00:28:11.000 And the Chinese making the medicine and sending it to Mexican drug cartels. 1.00

00:28:14.000 Maybe Trump knew about that.

00:28:15.000 He just wasn't really talking about the Chinese opioids at all.

00:28:19.000 But man, kudos to that guy for having eyes on that, on the prize.

00:28:24.000 Like in 20, a decade before it became a problem, he was talking about how it's going to become a problem.

00:28:30.000 We need to fix it.

00:28:31.000 We're going to jump to the next segment.

00:28:35.000 Sorry to cut you off, Phil.

00:28:37.000 Because we're talking about President Trump, I think it behooves us to talk a little bit about the upcoming debate.

00:28:42.000 I saw this really interesting article from Axios today.

00:28:46.000 The meme debate Trump and Biden enter viral battlefield.

00:28:50.000 I 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.

00:28:57.000 President 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.

00:29:10.000 One 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.

00:29:20.000 For 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.

00:29:29.000 For 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

00:29:38.000 think the president isn't up to the job.

00:29:40.000 So I think debates are somewhat useless. You know, we get these long-form debates,

00:29:46.000 so two hours and you know, you have to take time talking.

00:29:50.000 It's a typical debate.

00:29:51.000 Somebody gets a rebuttal.

00:29:52.000 We know that for the most part, moderators are biased.

00:29:55.000 A lot of them tend to lean towards Democratic opponent.

00:29:58.000 I'll reference one of my favorite studies done by a professor I had at SMU, Ben Voth.

00:30:02.000 Ben Voth, rather.

00:30:04.000 He would study every debate and count how many words per minute were said, how many interruptions there were, how many fact checks.

00:30:10.000 And 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.

00:30:25.000 But I think this article from Axios about the viral battlefield is really important, and I think it speaks to the difference between the generations.

00:30:33.000 For 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.

00:30:45.000 We all have to think back to 2016.

00:30:49.000 One of the things that rings out in my mind is Trump's, you'd be in jail, right?

00:30:54.000 That 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.

00:31:03.000 Let's remember Vivek Ramaswamy when he was debating in the public.

00:31:06.000 He held up that clipboard and we watched on the show going, That's going to be a meme.

00:31:11.000 You have this clipboard that anyone can make blank with a message.

00:31:14.000 They know what they're doing.

00:31:15.000 They know that if they are able to use the internet, it can really help them.

00:31:18.000 But I'm going to follow up this story really quickly with some news about donations to the campaign.

00:31:26.000 So we have this story.

00:31:29.000 The Winklevoss twins over here, they are formerly from Facebook, I guess.

00:31:34.000 The Winklevi?

00:31:36.000 Yes.

00:31:37.000 So 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.

00:31:50.000 They say that the Biden administration has openly declared war against crypto.

00:31:54.000 It has weaponized multiple government agencies to bully, harass and sue good actors in our industry in an effort to destroy it.

00:32:01.000 The crypto industry is obviously a huge part, I think, of the same internet culture that this Axios article is warning us against.

00:32:09.000 People who are aware of the advantageous nature of innovation that thrives online.

00:32:15.000 I'm just scanning down a little bit because there's a line in here that I find really interesting.

00:32:24.000 I think this is Tyler Winklevoss, but I believe they put out the same statement said, and yet the crypto industry is not alone.

00:32:29.000 The Biden administration has consistently attacked American business across the board and villainizes its greatest heroes.

00:32:35.000 The crime is always a success and the reward is always ridicule, finesse or ridicule, fine, sorry, and even more red tape.

00:32:43.000 But to be clear, the Biden administration does not hate success outright, only the kind that lives outside of its control.

00:32:50.000 That's interesting, right?

00:32:51.000 Because so much of the internet seems to be outside the Biden's control.

00:32:55.000 And I'm sorry to our listeners, but I'm going to jump to one more story.

00:33:00.000 Billionaire Biden supporters, this is from Forbes, billionaire Biden supporters launched $10 million effort to combat unflattering videos.

00:33:07.000 So 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.

00:33:28.000 Action is raising at least $10 million for the project, which will include a study of how social

00:33:33.000 media algorithms have facilitated Republican in sharing videos of Biden appearing to look awkward

00:33:39.000 or confused in public. I think 2024 is the internet selection. I think what we're seeing is that no

00:33:47.000 one really understands the power of the internet. And even though we believe there's a lot of left

00:33:52.000 wing bias in social media algorithms, we know, you know, Gmail would filter Republican campaign

00:34:00.000 emails and they would allow more left leaning or Democratic emails to go through, even though we

00:34:04.000 can see that certain topics are censored online in one way, you know, people really credit Elon

00:34:08.000 Musk was changing X in that case. Old Ultimately, someone feels like the Internet is still up for grabs, and this is something that

00:34:16.000 Apparently the Biden campaign thinks favors right-wingers.

00:34:20.000 What's your take on this?

00:34:21.000 Well, I don't think that it does favor right-wingers.

00:34:24.000 I 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.

00:34:47.000 I don't think that that has really changed enough where that narrative, the narrative

00:34:53.000 that is the quote-unquote official narrative, I don't think it's changed enough where that's

00:34:57.000 not the official narrative.

00:34:58.000 I think that they want to do whatever they can to limit the reach of alternative news

00:35:03.000 sources and alternative views because that's what governments do.

00:35:08.000 They want to have a narrative.

00:35:09.000 And especially seeing as, you know, I like to harp about the NDAA of 2012 because of

00:35:16.000 the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, which made it legal for the federal government to propagandize

00:35:21.000 the American people.

00:35:22.000 Essentially, the federal government wasn't allowed to have an opinion that they essentially

00:35:26.000 put forward.

00:35:28.000 And that was in the original Smith-Mundt Act, and that was in response to the Nazis propagandizing

00:35:35.000 their own people in World War II.

00:35:37.000 So it was put in after World War II, sometime after World War II or near the end of World

00:35:41.000 War II or something like that was the original Smith-Mundt Act.

00:35:43.000 and the Modernization Act essentially just repealed it. And it was repealed because at

00:35:50.000 that time the government had seen the stuff that had gone on with Occupy and it had seen

00:35:55.000 what had gone on with the Arab Spring and the powers that be could not allow the power vacuum

00:36:04.000 essentially because the government knows that if it doesn't have a narrative that is pushing,

00:36:08.000 then another narrative will fill that in, just like any other power vacuum.

00:36:13.000 So it changed the law so the government could go ahead and propagandize the American people.

00:36:17.000 And ever since then, there has been an official government message.

00:36:21.000 And 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

00:36:43.000 That alone is worth money.

00:36:45.000 You don't need money because money allows you to affect the world.

00:36:51.000 So money is an effect on a certain amount of power.

00:36:54.000 If you can have access to people that are in positions of power, then you don't need the money.

00:36:58.000 It's the access, it's the power.

00:37:00.000 So this idea that the government is, or that the internet is a problem, is because it's a problem for the government, you know?

00:37:09.000 And I don't think that this is something, I think this is something that we should look for.

00:37:14.000 We 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.

00:37:26.000 It's the biggest government in the world.

00:37:27.000 I 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.

00:37:36.000 It's like a thorn in the side.

00:37:38.000 You 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.

00:37:49.000 You'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

00:38:17.000 Even if 99% of the people are awake, the machine just tells us that only 49% of us were awake.

00:38:22.000 And then no one stood up to be like, well, show me the code.

00:38:25.000 Show me the proof that that's what the machine said.

00:38:28.000 But that's kind of apparently what this pro-Biden PAC is doing, right?

00:38:31.000 They're saying the algorithm, and I presume that's all operated under code, is supporting Trump people.

00:38:38.000 It's making Trump people better at the internet.

00:38:40.000 Do you think that's true?

00:38:41.000 Or 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.

00:38:48.000 I 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.

00:38:55.000 The U.S. 0.89

00:38:55.000 is getting screwed right now. 0.89

00:38:56.000 He didn't know that the liberal economic order was getting transitioned to this new world order that they've been talking about. 0.70

00:39:01.000 I 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.

00:39:08.000 And that was what was resonating with people in the memes.

00:39:12.000 Just this dude's willingness to say exactly what he thought.

00:39:14.000 They got Sanders?

00:39:16.000 Well, Donald Trump.

00:39:17.000 That's why he was so popular with the internet and just humans in general.

00:39:21.000 At least he's being honest.

00:39:24.000 Not every time he spoke he's being honest, but for the most part when he talks he's saying what he believes.

00:39:28.000 Yeah, he feels more authentic to voters.

00:39:30.000 No, I was gonna say, like, in 2016, Trump had, you know, carte blanche, right, on the media.

00:39:35.000 They would give him unlimited time on MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and that kind of really helped propel him.

00:39:41.000 And then when you add that with Twitter, now X, and his force that he was in 2016 on that, it really helped propel him.

00:39:49.000 to the White House, right? Because he was able to shift the narrative and create and control the

00:39:53.000 narrative away from the mainstream media because of that unlimited airtime. Go to 2020, he was

00:39:59.000 completely suppressed because they couldn't control him or the narrative anymore. Then you had the 51

00:40:05.000 intelligence officers suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, which obviously tilted the election

00:40:10.000 in many ways. And now moving forward in this election, X is probably more important than ever.

00:40:16.000 What 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.

00:40:25.000 And 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.

00:40:33.000 Do you think so?

00:40:34.000 Because 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.

00:40:44.000 It 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.

00:40:52.000 When I was on the campaign, I was one of many on the campaign, he was the candidate, then he became president.

00:40:57.000 So 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.

00:41:14.000 I think, just like the voting system, play by the books, play by the rules that the Democrats are playing by.

00:41:20.000 Go 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.

00:41:28.000 So this notion that he should not debate, that he should kind of keep quiet, I think is just very detrimental to his candidacy.

00:41:34.000 I'd love to see him on X posting again.

00:41:36.000 I don't know why he's not.

00:41:37.000 I haven't talked to him about maybe that he's on contract with Truth Social.

00:41:41.000 He's trying to pump the value of Truth Social by being exclusive there for now.

00:41:44.000 I don't know.

00:41:45.000 But it's like the time, I get it.

00:41:47.000 He's running a lot of businesses and a campaign's expensive.

00:41:50.000 I want to say at the time of money.

00:41:51.000 He strategically goes back to X.

00:41:53.000 Like when the mugshots came out, that was his, their post, right?

00:41:57.000 They posted on X this link to buy the merch that they had made with his mugshot from Georgia when he was arrested there.

00:42:03.000 I find this deeply fascinating because...

00:42:09.000 Trump 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.

00:42:19.000 I 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.

00:42:30.000 Not something Biden seems to be able to do, right?

00:42:33.000 The internet doesn't respond.

00:42:34.000 I mean, you said this, the internet is more interested in Trump than it is in Biden.

00:42:38.000 I'm thinking about when he went to that UFC fight, right?

00:42:41.000 And he got on TikTok.

00:42:42.000 Biden campaign has been on TikTok for months, and they were, you know, what, half a million followers?

00:42:48.000 Huge number.

00:42:48.000 Trump, by the end of the weekend, had over 4 million people following him.

00:42:52.000 I 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.

00:43:06.000 Is it all personality or is there something else keeping Biden from thriving online?

00:43:11.000 I 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. 0.75

00:43:25.000 And this could be just my impression. 0.94

00:43:29.000 But 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. 0.77

00:44:00.000 It doesn't work out so well for them. 0.70

00:44:02.000 So I think that they have a problem.

00:44:05.000 Figuring out which memes actually are going to, you know, get the positive traction that they're looking for.

00:44:13.000 There 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.

00:44:20.000 The 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

00:44:47.000 You know what, this most recent committee, this January 6th committee, apparently is running without having a House minority member in the right position.

00:44:55.000 They're still trying to function like normal, but they're functioning out of turn.

00:44:58.000 They did function for a long time, and there was no one kind of puncturing that.

00:45:01.000 If 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. 0.99

00:45:06.000 But if he's actually secretly a villain, you're kind of just exposing it for later.

00:45:09.000 I think they know that.

00:45:11.000 When they see that, they're like, man, this is going to look really bad in 20 years.

00:45:15.000 I 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.

00:45:22.000 So 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.

00:45:32.000 And 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.

00:45:40.000 I think they sense a weak man, a weak president.

00:45:43.000 They think that their party is in a state of introspection right now.

00:45:46.000 It'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.

00:45:56.000 He'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.

00:46:03.000 And he's not popular, not only within his own party, but with the American people.

00:46:07.000 So there's nothing you can really do, actually.

00:46:09.000 So I think it actually backfires the more they try and promote him.

00:46:13.000 Yeah, I do too.

00:46:14.000 And 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.

00:46:22.000 I'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.

00:46:30.000 I have used the absolute heck out of that picture.

00:46:33.000 That is a gift.

00:46:34.000 I took that and then he's got this where he said something like the MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of our nation.

00:46:43.000 Superimpose that.

00:46:44.000 It's a great meme.

00:46:45.000 Thank you very much Biden team.

00:46:48.000 And that really drives home the point.

00:46:49.000 It's like this is not the kind of behavior That you actually want from a United States, you know, from the American government.

00:46:58.000 And 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.

00:47:15.000 They're going to say America turned into the countries that it was that it that it it went and destabilized to get

00:47:22.000 the governments out because they called them you know a dictator ships it is

00:47:27.000 doing the exact same stuff it's trying to put people in jail that have the

00:47:30.000 wrong political opinions it's using the IRS to attack people for the wrong

00:47:34.000 political opinions you've got you've got the they're going after people that

00:47:38.000 were the lawyers of Donald Trump for for Trump

00:47:41.000 All of this stuff is trumped up charges.

00:47:43.000 This is unprecedented.

00:47:45.000 And 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. 0.96

00:47:53.000 Like Pol Pot had. 0.90

00:47:55.000 Taken 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.

00:48:26.000 Ideally.

00:48:27.000 That's the best case scenario.

00:48:29.000 And it's possible because it did happen in Cambodia.

00:48:32.000 But we have to make people aware that there is a problem.

00:48:35.000 And right now, the average American doesn't even acknowledge that there is a massive problem in the United States federal government.

00:48:43.000 Well, what the Democrats have really done is they've normalized the selective and politically motivated targeting of dissents writ large in America.

00:48:53.000 You'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.

00:49:05.000 And normally, you know, if a, let's say a dictatorship or a tin pot country, whatever you want, a banana republic,

00:49:11.000 whatever term you want to use, weaponizes the legal system in

00:49:15.000 pursuit of stifling dissents, and trying to maintain power, those kind of countries are universally condemned or

00:49:22.000 sanctioned. But we're in this bizarre world right now where when the Biden DOJ does it, they go on MSNBC, and they're

00:49:28.000 championed, like they're the Avengers, like supporting justice in America.

00:49:33.000 So I think we have to look at just numbers, right?

00:49:36.000 When Trump was convicted, when he was indicted, and when he was raided, he raised money and his poll numbers went up.

00:49:42.000 In 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.

00:49:52.000 This is the kind of era we're living in where so many Americans are sick and tired of what is happening.

00:49:57.000 So I do think people are waking up and when Trump says, if they can do it to me, they'll do it to you.

00:50:03.000 I think that really resonates.

00:50:05.000 Yeah, I actually think that speaks to the impact of the internet, right?

00:50:08.000 The 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.

00:50:23.000 And 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.

00:50:30.000 You know, their work doesn't follow them around and meet them outside the courthouse the way that Trump does.

00:50:35.000 And ultimately, I think they're.

00:50:39.000 You were kind of talking about before how the bunker campaign works for Biden, right?

00:50:42.000 Because 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.

00:50:53.000 But with Trump...

00:50:55.000 They wanted to silo him.

00:50:57.000 They wanted him to be court.

00:50:58.000 They wanted no one to be able to talk about him so that they could direct the narrative.

00:51:03.000 And instead, all eyes turned to him.

00:51:04.000 The internet followed him there.

00:51:06.000 And 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.

00:51:14.000 I completely agree, and that's actually why I think that Judge Mershon is going to sentence him to some sort of home confinement.

00:51:21.000 Because look, this has been a nine-year systematic lawfare operation against a private citizen.

00:51:30.000 Candidate, 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.

00:51:42.000 And that's why in Europe right now, you're also seeing the global wave of conservatism reverberating.

00:51:49.000 Because even over there, it's like with Thatcher and Reagan, right?

00:51:52.000 You had them kind of working as a team to export that around the world.

00:51:55.000 Now you're seeing Trump doing it as well.

00:51:58.000 And in Europe, people are following him.

00:52:00.000 So I think that's the real scare.

00:52:01.000 So what Trump I think has to do because he's probably going to get some sort of confinement, he won't be able to campaign.

00:52:06.000 That's actually been probably the objective.

00:52:08.000 of all this lawfare. He has to go out and choose who he's going to pick for his vice president,

00:52:12.000 his attorney general, FBI director, director of national intelligence, and CIA director,

00:52:17.000 because that's what he keeps talking about. He's going to clean house, he's going to drain the

00:52:19.000 swamp. Those are the folks that are going to end up doing it, and they're going to go on the

00:52:23.000 campaign trail for him while he probably is going to be in home confinement. So he really needs to

00:52:26.000 pick those people probably before he does go to sentencing.

00:52:29.000 Yeah, I think you're totally right.

00:52:31.000 And I think Trump should be upfront and clear about his staffing picks as soon as possible,

00:52:36.000 because I think the American people would respect him more and feel more trust in his

00:52:40.000 future administration if he did so.

00:52:42.000 I want to jump to one more story.

00:52:44.000 So the Biden administration finally agreed to debate Trump and CNN in particular is going to host next week.

00:52:52.000 But RFK Jr.

00:52:53.000 has failed to qualify for the CNN debate setting up a showdown between Biden and Trump.

00:52:58.000 This is from NBC News.

00:53:00.000 The independent candidate did not meet the network's ballot and polling thresholds for the June 27th event.

00:53:07.000 Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:53:09.000 failed 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.

00:53:18.000 CNN 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.

00:53:33.000 A CNN spokesperson confirmed that Kennedy did not qualify.

00:53:38.000 Kennedy 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.

00:53:48.000 He 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.

00:54:02.000 So 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.

00:54:14.000 But the polling issue has been consistent with debates.

00:54:17.000 I remember the Republican National Convention had similar polling thresholds, and it was one of the things that eliminated a lot of people there.

00:54:24.000 I want to pull RFK Jr.' 's statement because I find it really interesting.

00:54:29.000 You know, we know that third party candidates can have an impact on the election.

00:54:33.000 He said, President Biden and Trump do not want me on the debate stage and CNN illegally agreed to their demand. 0.71

00:54:40.000 My exclusion by President Biden and Trump is undemocratic, un-American, and cowardly.

00:54:46.000 Americans want an independent leader who will break apart the two-party duopoly.

00:54:51.000 They want a president who will heal the divide, restore the middle class, unwind the war machine, and end the chronic disease epidemic.

00:54:59.000 So what are your thoughts on this?

00:55:03.000 Is the debate going to turn the tides of this election?

00:55:05.000 Do we think that the third party candidacy is going to have a major impact?

00:55:09.000 Because it is interesting that he seems to be performing, have a significant performance, but this network was ultimately able to shut him out.

00:55:18.000 You guys have any takes on this? 0.92

00:55:20.000 I think Kennedy's a clown, but I think that they should let him debate. 0.83

00:55:25.000 Because, you know, having the other person up there, it shouldn't be a problem. 0.92

00:55:31.000 And honestly, I think that the reason they don't let him debate is because it only makes President Biden look worse, you know?

00:55:39.000 It'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.

00:55:46.000 Typically during presidential election cycle, the presidential candidates have three debates.

00:55:52.000 It seems like maybe that's, you know, maybe they just think it's boring.

00:55:55.000 We already did this once, but maybe also Biden knows that three is too many.

00:55:59.000 He can't sustain it.

00:56:00.000 I don't have any thoughts on that.

00:56:01.000 Yeah, 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. 0.99

00:56:10.000 He is a clown. 0.98

00:56:11.000 I mean, his positions are extreme. 0.99

00:56:13.000 It goes back to what I was saying earlier about the Democratic Party and like this state of introspection.

00:56:18.000 What's their identity?

00:56:19.000 I mean, they don't even have a real vision of what they're going to be as a party.

00:56:25.000 And I also think Kennedy, who used to have a massive social media presence, he still does.

00:56:29.000 He does a lot of shows on social media.

00:56:30.000 He 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.

00:56:39.000 And they're blocking it.

00:56:40.000 And I think no matter what, that was still going to help Trump.

00:56:43.000 Do you think any independent candidate will ever be able to make one of these major networks debates in the modern era?

00:56:49.000 Probably not at this point, as long as it's a duopoly.

00:56:51.000 And I completely agree.

00:56:52.000 There is a duopoly.

00:56:53.000 And 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.

00:57:04.000 You're not going to do it.

00:57:05.000 It's just not part of the power structure.

00:57:06.000 It's not going to happen.

00:57:08.000 And I don't see it happening.

00:57:09.000 I don't know what you guys think.

00:57:10.000 Ross Perot pulled it off in 88, was it 88?

00:57:13.000 It was Clinton and Bush senior.

00:57:15.000 And then Ross Perot came in as this third party Texan.

00:57:19.000 Yeah, let me tell you something.

00:57:20.000 And he had a bunch of signs.

00:57:21.000 And I don't know if he just bought his way on.

00:57:23.000 He had a lot of money.

00:57:24.000 I think he was a big oil oil guy.

00:57:25.000 Yeah.

00:57:25.000 So he might have just bought his way onto every ballot and paid for what was the other thing you need to do?

00:57:31.000 You have to have you have to have enough.

00:57:35.000 Oh, yeah.

00:57:36.000 15% and 4%.

00:57:37.000 And then you also have to be on the ballot in enough states like basically you can buy your way onto the ballots.

00:57:42.000 As far as I know, that's just money.

00:57:44.000 I mean, it's just money, but you need a lot of money to get on the ballots.

00:57:47.000 I'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.

00:57:58.000 So.

00:57:58.000 And there's no internet.

00:58:00.000 So he puts some commercials on at the right times in the right places, puts, I don't know what he spent on it.

00:58:05.000 1.6 billion, you know, the dude.

00:58:08.000 He bought his way on.

00:58:09.000 So if you're not a super wealthy third party candidate, that's a bigger challenge.

00:58:13.000 I will say, though, that I think Biden's entire presidency rests on this debate.

00:58:17.000 I think if he does relatively well, whatever that even means, he'll likely remain the candidate.

00:58:24.000 If he doesn't, you're probably going to see a lot of action around the DNC convention in Chicago.

00:58:28.000 You mentioned other Democrats that are like looking for that role.

00:58:32.000 Do you know particularly anything behind the scenes?

00:58:34.000 Did you hear?

00:58:35.000 I mean, look, the DNC convention's in Chicago.

00:58:38.000 It's Michelle Obama's hometown.

00:58:41.000 Obviously, she's still very popular within the Democrat Party. 0.94

00:58:44.000 She could probably move the needle in many ways. 0.85

00:58:47.000 And obviously, she's probably a much more attractive candidate to the left than Joe Biden is today.

00:58:52.000 You have people like Gavin Newsom.

00:58:54.000 I mean, I live in California.

00:58:55.000 He's a horrific governor there, in my opinion.

00:58:57.000 But, you know, He's more presentable on TV, younger, more articulate, if you want, than Biden.

00:59:02.000 So 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.

00:59:12.000 I think there are historic lows right now.

00:59:14.000 That call to replace him is going to get louder and louder.

00:59:16.000 Do you think that he would comply, though?

00:59:18.000 I 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.

00:59:28.000 It's almost as though initially, back in the day when they were campaigning, they were like, Joe, it'll be great.

00:59:33.000 Be a four year president.

00:59:35.000 Then we'll elect the new leadership.

00:59:36.000 He sort of messaged like this, that he would be the end of this old guard of Democrats.

00:59:41.000 And then just step down.

00:59:42.000 Step down, Gloria. 1.00

00:59:42.000 You've served your time. 1.00

00:59:43.000 And it seems like the Bidens maybe said yes to that, but ultimately were like, we're here for eight years.

00:59:48.000 All of our grandchildren get married in the White House.

00:59:50.000 We're never leaving for as long as we possibly can.

00:59:52.000 Well, 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.

01:00:01.000 If he doesn't do well, you know, you're probably going to have whispers saying, hey, look, we have cabinet members who are talking.

01:00:08.000 You have the special counsel, her, who's talking about your mental decline.

01:00:11.000 He's saying that you're not competent to be prosecuted, but you could still be president.

01:00:16.000 That really resonated.

01:00:17.000 I mean, that was strategically leaked, I think.

01:00:19.000 I mean, a lot of that stuff was like declassified for the American people to actually understand.

01:00:23.000 So 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.

01:00:40.000 So we'll see what happens on the debate.

01:00:42.000 That's just really what I think.

01:00:43.000 And I also will land on this.

01:00:44.000 I 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.

01:00:57.000 I 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.

01:01:04.000 So 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?

01:01:15.000 Yeah, I could predict that, yeah.

01:01:17.000 Absolutely.

01:01:18.000 Absolutely.

01:01:18.000 No doubt, actually.

01:01:19.000 It is interesting because it would be like the start of a lame duck period.

01:01:24.000 People really don't think that he can recover from his abysmal approval ratings if people don't feel motivated to vote because he is...

01:01:31.000 His legacy is difficult to defend.

01:01:33.000 And 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.

01:01:46.000 I felt like when he ran in 2020, a lot of it was like, do you remember Obama?

01:01:50.000 He was a cool guy.

01:01:51.000 And I was there too.

01:01:53.000 And also that guy's pretty bad.

01:01:54.000 But now you have to defend your own legacy saying, you know how much you pay at the grocery store?

01:01:59.000 Yeah, that's me.

01:02:00.000 And also gas prices and also insurance.

01:02:02.000 But look at Trump, you know, he's in court and that's very, very bad.

01:02:06.000 So vote for me.

01:02:07.000 I don't think that this messaging of, I am not as bad as the other guy, doesn't sell the same way right now.

01:02:15.000 It doesn't.

01:02:15.000 And it's really, you know, in politics, optics is reality.

01:02:19.000 And it's like the messenger is more important than the message sometimes.

01:02:24.000 And Biden just doesn't have it.

01:02:25.000 And 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.

01:02:37.000 And that's where Biden's finding himself right now.

01:02:41.000 I mean, especially considering the fact that the youth vote is so strongly pro-Palestine.

01:02:47.000 Yeah.

01:02:48.000 And 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. 0.70

01:03:06.000 And 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.

01:03:24.000 Manchin, I guess he's left and he's gone independent.

01:03:27.000 That should tell you something though, right?

01:03:29.000 Yeah, it should.

01:03:29.000 I mean, going independent is not as important.

01:03:32.000 If you go independent and you still caucus with the Democrats, it doesn't really matter.

01:03:36.000 But the first major piece of legislation I saw him supporting was co-sponsored by like 40 Republicans.

01:03:41.000 Yeah, which is good.

01:03:42.000 And you're going to see more of that.

01:03:44.000 You'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.

01:03:51.000 You 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.

01:04:03.000 Both sides have a reason to leave the Democrats.

01:04:06.000 And I think that that's the biggest problem that they have is the progressives have gotten so progressive.

01:04:14.000 To the point where the DSA is, you know, actual communists.

01:04:18.000 DSA are basically running the government of New York, New York City, and they're largely influential in the White House.

01:04:28.000 I 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. 0.77

01:04:41.000 And that's making rifts in the, in the Democrat party.

01:04:44.000 Because your average person still does not want to see things like, oh, you can't own

01:04:49.000 a home or you can't rent out a room in your home or part of your home or those kind of

01:04:54.000 policies that the communists just refuse to refuse to give any, you know, give any on

01:05:01.000 that they are ideologically against things like property, things like, you know, they

01:05:08.000 call people small business owners, the petite bourgeois, you know, it's like they're against

01:05:12.000 that in their philosophy.

01:05:16.000 And that is, you know, abhorrent to essentially anyone that thinks they're pro-America, anyone

01:05:20.000 that likes the idea of the American dream that you can, you know, start a business and

01:05:26.000 own a home and you can do these things and better your life, go from one economic class

01:05:33.000 and actually raise yourself to another.

01:05:34.000 I mean, it's possible.

01:05:36.000 It's not easy.

01:05:36.000 And 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.

01:05:44.000 And 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.

01:05:55.000 The Democrats have to acknowledge that and Joe Biden is totally unprepared to do it, I think.

01:06:00.000 I think so too.

01:06:02.000 I 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.

01:06:14.000 So we've seen a lot of action in America of pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, whatever you want to call it, protests on student campuses.

01:06:21.000 But in Europe, there's a wave of environmental protests that are sort of sweeping the nation.

01:06:25.000 And you're seeing a lot of direct conflict, a direct vandalism from people who want their governments to swear off oil.

01:06:32.000 So this is from the organization Just Stop Oil.

01:06:35.000 They posted today, I've got a fuel non-proliferation treaty baby and I'll write your name.

01:06:42.000 Just Stop Oil paints private jet hours after Taylor Swift lands.

01:06:46.000 Two Just Stop Oil supporters have painted multiple private jets on an airfield where Taylor Swift's jet landed mere hours before.

01:06:55.000 They 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.

01:07:06.000 So you'll see some images here.

01:07:08.000 You have these young activists who spray-painted these jets.

01:07:12.000 One 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.

01:07:24.000 Meanwhile, this system that is allowing extreme wealth to be accrued by a few to So that's obviously an allusion to Taylor Swift.

01:07:32.000 the conditions necessary to support human life and a rapidly accelerating, never-ending,

01:07:37.000 cruel summer. Billionaires are not untouchable. Climate breakdown will affect every single one

01:07:43.000 of us." So that's obviously an allusion to Taylor Swift.

01:07:46.000 This comes the day after other activists from Just Stop Oil sprayed orange dust all

01:07:53.000 over Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old monument, right on the eve of the summer solstice

01:07:58.000 celebration there. The Prime Minister, Rishi you soon condemn the incident as from BBC as a quote

01:08:05.000 disgraceful act of vandalism.

01:08:06.000 The 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.

01:08:19.000 Members 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.

01:08:30.000 Environmental activism has a history of being very public.

01:08:34.000 I know in the U.S.

01:08:35.000 we can talk about Weather Underground and their actions, especially in the 70s and 80s.

01:08:40.000 It 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.

01:08:50.000 You'll see this often in the U.S.

01:08:52.000 with people will go, you know, throw stuff at paintings in the National Portrait Gallery.

01:08:59.000 Is this part of this younger generation?

01:09:01.000 Why are we seeing this happen?

01:09:04.000 Or is this something that every generation does and we just feel like it's different? 1.00

01:09:07.000 Well, these people are stupid. 1.00

01:09:09.000 If they got what they wanted, what they're afraid of would happen immediately, right? 1.00

01:09:15.000 If 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.

01:09:27.000 You stop the production of all of the ability to transport food around the world. 0.99

01:09:36.000 These people are so incredibly stupid, they can't even understand that if they got what 1.00

01:09:41.000 they wanted, millions and millions and millions, billions of people would die. 1.00

01:09:46.000 Literally billions if you did the whole just stop oil. 0.56

01:09:50.000 This is absolutely ridiculous and these people are, I mean, I know that you can't explain 0.83

01:09:57.000 anything to him that they have been totally co-opted by ideologues. 0.96

01:10:01.000 I know that there's a whole ton of the environmental, not lobby, but the environmental movement and stuff.

01:10:10.000 is really about getting rid of capitalism. They say that capitalism is what causes all

01:10:15.000 the environmental problems, which is absolutely ridiculous.

01:10:17.000 It's totally the opposite of history. Like you can look at what happens

01:10:21.000 when you open markets. You can look at what happened in China, even though China wasn't, you know,

01:10:26.000 isn't a capitalist society. They were having a problem, massive problem feeding their population

01:10:30.000 until they opened the markets, you know, and once they open markets and allowed people to have

01:10:35.000 some amount of of control over their property and control over their time, not a lot, but

01:10:40.000 some, you had this massive explosion of economic activity and you had a whole bunch of people

01:10:45.000 that could feed themselves. 0.93

01:10:46.000 And when you allow markets to thrive, you have fewer poor people.

01:10:51.000 You have fewer people die of starvation.

01:10:54.000 There is no such thing as a poor country that uses a lot of energy.

01:11:02.000 And energy is what keeps human beings alive.

01:11:05.000 If 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.

01:11:14.000 There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country.

01:11:18.000 It doesn't exist.

01:11:20.000 And rich countries are how you feed your populations.

01:11:23.000 There are going to be people that are going to excel beyond What other people would consider reasonable.

01:11:30.000 They'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.

01:11:48.000 And oil is what makes the entire economy go. 0.99

01:11:52.000 This is idiocy. 1.00

01:11:54.000 Yeah, you said myopic, short-sighted. 1.00

01:11:57.000 It's like first-order thinking.

01:11:59.000 It's like they look at, OK, oil is posing this sort of problem.

01:12:02.000 Therefore, if we remove it, good thing will happen.

01:12:06.000 It's just first-order thinking.

01:12:07.000 They're not thinking about the consequences of their behaviors of removing oil, which you're pointing out. 0.99

01:12:12.000 On top of that, it's ignorant.

01:12:13.000 They don't have the information, understanding that the carbon in the air can be recaptured and reused.

01:12:18.000 So you really want to get more oil and burn more and then recuperate more.

01:12:24.000 And turn it into graphene so you have more building materials. 0.99

01:12:27.000 So 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. 0.99

01:12:38.000 And that's what we're looking at right here. 0.99

01:12:40.000 Well, also, did you know, statistically, it's developing countries that are the biggest producers of greenhouse emissions today.

01:12:47.000 So 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.

01:12:59.000 So that's the first thing.

01:13:00.000 You know what also oil and natural gas does?

01:13:02.000 It prevents war.

01:13:04.000 You know what happened when George W. Bush was president?

01:13:06.000 Russia invaded Georgia and they continue to occupy about 20% of Georgia.

01:13:10.000 You know what happened when Obama was president?

01:13:12.000 Putin moved in and took over Crimea.

01:13:14.000 You know what happened when Trump was president?

01:13:16.000 There was no war.

01:13:17.000 You know what happened when Biden became president?

01:13:18.000 There's a full-on war right now between Russia and Ukraine.

01:13:22.000 Do you know what the missing factor was here?

01:13:23.000 When 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.

01:13:35.000 This depressed prices.

01:13:37.000 It 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.

01:13:57.000 So 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.

01:14:08.000 So it's actually ironic.

01:14:10.000 Maybe they don't know what they're doing.

01:14:12.000 Some 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. 0.96

01:14:24.000 So it's really stupid what they're doing, and I don't think they really know what they're even up to. 0.68

01:14:28.000 I 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? 0.99

01:14:39.000 I 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.

01:14:48.000 They'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.

01:14:58.000 And I think some of it might be the rise of Greta Thunberg.

01:15:01.000 I 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.

01:15:12.000 There was sort of a celebration of young people who put the environment above everything else.

01:15:18.000 I think it is misleading.

01:15:20.000 I'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.

01:15:34.000 It 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.

01:15:44.000 Yeah, you know, Churchill, I think it was, who said that if you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart.

01:15:50.000 If you're not a conservative when you're 30, you have no brain.

01:15:52.000 And look, we were all in university at one point. 0.81

01:15:56.000 We all kind of wanted to be part of the group.

01:15:58.000 We all wanted to be part of that herd.

01:16:01.000 mentality, like we've seen so many people attach themselves to a lot of these pet projects

01:16:05.000 like you just mentioned.

01:16:06.000 And I think, you know, a lot of these people, I'm assuming most of them are young.

01:16:09.000 I see some older guys and women in that picture, but, you know, I think they just want to be

01:16:13.000 part of something greater than their boring lives.

01:16:17.000 And I think a lot of them are just like really misguided and misinformed, especially when

01:16:20.000 it comes to this particular issue.

01:16:23.000 Actually what they're doing is they're causing more devastation, more havoc, more war, and

01:16:28.000 less economic growth in the developing third world that they, in theory, want to provide

01:16:33.000 So 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.

01:16:45.000 I wonder if ultimately the end goal of all this is chaos, right?

01:16:50.000 Ultimately 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.

01:16:59.000 I mean, at what point does chaos become the name of the game, whether it's for environmentalism or Palestine or anything? 0.91

01:17:07.000 At what point is that the end goal?

01:17:09.000 Well, I mean, I personally think that, you know, a stable civilization doesn't revolt, right?

01:17:17.000 So 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.

01:17:36.000 There 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.

01:17:47.000 But most people, if they feel... Can't they just go listen to metal music and destroy some rooms or something?

01:17:52.000 think you could just go get in the pit and get it out but uh

01:17:55.000 Sometimes you know, they can't so that being said, you know, like people do

01:18:00.000 have to have meaning in their lives and the more you can have a

01:18:04.000 Connection to your community and your family and stuff like that. The more you have that

01:18:09.000 The less likely it is that you're gonna have rebel have some kind of revolution or some kind of significant social

01:18:16.000 change And I think if you look around at the messages that are being sent by the government, again, things like the alternative lifestyles, right?

01:18:25.000 And if you want to have an alternative lifestyle, I don't care.

01:18:30.000 But if the government is going to have a message, it should be Pro-social messages, which means pro-family messages.

01:18:39.000 You can live an alternative lifestyle in the United States and that's not a problem.

01:18:43.000 We 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.

01:18:53.000 These traditional lifestyles are actually what makes a solid foundation for your whole society.

01:19:01.000 So 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.

01:19:10.000 And it's messaging to the people that we want to center alternative lifestyles and stuff.

01:19:14.000 That is a terrible, terrible recipe for your society.

01:19:17.000 And 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

01:19:43.000 Start families.

01:19:44.000 You have a push to have women go into the workforce and stay there forever. 1.00

01:19:50.000 Exactly.

01:19:51.000 And whereas it's fine if women go. 1.00

01:19:53.000 Again, in a liberal society, you can have that and have that be something that women can do. 1.00

01:19:58.000 But the idea that the government pushes that narrative is terrible and it's anti-social because the foundation of your society Is the family.

01:20:08.000 So I think that there are people that want to see the fundamental structures that make up the United States broken down.

01:20:17.000 I think things like property rights.

01:20:18.000 I think things like family family units and and traditional families.

01:20:23.000 I think all these things inhibit the revolution that the far left wants to see.

01:20:28.000 And 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.

01:20:51.000 These are all symptoms.

01:20:53.000 of policies that the government has been pushing for at the very least, like I said earlier,

01:20:58.000 since 2012, possibly since before, arguably since before because of the media and etc.

01:21:05.000 So that's my sense of this situation. Yeah, it's tough to tell.

01:21:10.000 To 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.

01:21:17.000 At 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.

01:21:30.000 I mean, you mentioned earlier, George, you thought maybe people were funding these things.

01:21:33.000 I think you'd said something earlier about that.

01:21:34.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:21:35.000 That might be part of it is like, yo, let's tear some shit. 0.98

01:21:38.000 Let's like, go confuse some people. 0.98

01:21:40.000 I think some of it might even be a devotion to ideology, right?

01:21:45.000 That the thing that you are trying to do is so important that any other sort of cultural societal rules get thrown out.

01:21:52.000 Like, never mind the fact that Stonehenge is 5,000 year old is meaningful to a lot of different people.

01:21:59.000 Covering 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.

01:22:09.000 And I think we see that replicated in a couple different places in society.

01:22:12.000 I'm going to pull this story.

01:22:15.000 So there is a clothing brand that was removed from X.

01:22:21.000 We're moved from TikTok because of a controversial ad.

01:22:24.000 And I bet you guys can already tell me why as soon as you hear the name of it.

01:22:28.000 So XXY Athletics suspended from TikTok after releasing pro women's sports ad.

01:22:36.000 This is from scnr.com.

01:22:38.000 Shout out to Chris Burtman.

01:22:40.000 Jennifer Say, speak up, stand up, vote with your dollars. 0.93

01:22:43.000 Don't buy brands that don't know what a woman is. 1.00

01:22:45.000 Truth is counting on you.

01:22:48.000 XXY 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.

01:23:01.000 Founder 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.

01:23:14.000 Say 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.

01:23:23.000 I'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.

01:23:30.000 So let me see if I can get this going.

01:23:32.000 So I open this up over here.

01:23:33.000 Do we have sound on this?

01:23:41.000 So, I guess not.

01:23:44.000 I don't know.

01:23:46.000 There's no audio for us?

01:23:50.000 Okay.

01:23:51.000 Well, I'll read it from scanner.

01:23:55.000 If you think girls and women's equality matter, stand up, says a voiceover as the video depicts a series of female athletes. 1.00

01:24:01.000 If 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.

01:24:08.000 If 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.

01:24:17.000 Then Jennifer Saye also shared the communication she got from TikTok for Business.

01:24:22.000 Dear XXY Athletics, your account has been permanently suspended because it doesn't comply with our advertising policies.

01:24:30.000 They recommended that they review the ad and they can also work with their sales representative.

01:24:35.000 But they said, ultimately, a review indicates that your advertising content may violate TikTok's advertising by featuring an offensive content.

01:24:44.000 Now that's hilarious.

01:24:45.000 The idea that XXXY as a concept is offensive.

01:24:52.000 This 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.

01:25:04.000 I don't know what to do with this because it is so insane.

01:25:09.000 Yeah.

01:25:09.000 You know, I'm just, I'm really at a loss.

01:25:11.000 It's like, Again, I talk often about the things that I believe our society can handle.

01:25:18.000 I 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.

01:25:27.000 And 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.

01:25:35.000 But 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.

01:25:44.000 Like 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.

01:25:56.000 I 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. 0.63

01:26:11.000 Science 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.

01:26:19.000 That's why, you know, the hoop for women's basketball is different. 1.00

01:26:23.000 That's why female track athletes, you know, report different times than their male counterparts, even if they're running the same race. 1.00

01:26:30.000 And 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.

01:26:57.000 And 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.

01:27:07.000 Just stick to the science, right?

01:27:09.000 Stick to biology, to normalcy.

01:27:12.000 No one is against people living their lives the way that they want to, as long as you're not hurting anybody.

01:27:16.000 And I think everybody in this room and around America probably agrees with that.

01:27:19.000 But when a small segment of the population, like we're talking like 0.5% to 2%, is trying to force something onto the vast majority.

01:27:30.000 That's when there's the pushback.

01:27:32.000 It'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.

01:27:42.000 And 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.

01:27:53.000 And it's actually dividing America more than uniting it.

01:27:57.000 I do.

01:27:57.000 I think that's right.

01:27:58.000 I mean, I think this is one of the fears.

01:28:01.000 I touched on this a little bit before, but somebody wins when there's chaos and people can't unite.

01:28:06.000 And 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. 0.64

01:28:17.000 On 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. 0.97

01:28:30.000 I think the fact that this is seems to be an ideology that that cannot compromise.

01:28:37.000 They 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.

01:28:43.000 It should be in books like it should be everywhere.

01:28:47.000 is inherently disconcerting.

01:28:48.000 It makes me want to step back and say, what is this actually about?

01:28:51.000 Your right to live a certain way?

01:28:53.000 Or your ability to control and dictate the way other people's children should be treated?

01:28:58.000 So, 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.

01:29:18.000 The 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. 0.92

01:29:29.000 You can listen to trans people talk about saying things like trans people are divine.

01:29:35.000 Trans people are to be held up as the epitome of what a human being could be.

01:29:43.000 They have transcended, not just male and female, but they have transcended being a normal human.

01:29:49.000 It is completely and totally the more extreme you get is entirely wrapped in mysticism and

01:29:57.000 occultism.

01:29:58.000 If you remember when Target was getting a lot of heat for the LGBT stuff that they had,

01:30:05.000 one of the artists, now I don't know if these shirts were actually the shirts in Target,

01:30:09.000 but the artist that had drawn the shirts had done a whole line of pro LGBT stuff that was

01:30:15.000 all mixed in with occult stuff that was saying that transitioning is alchemy and all kinds

01:30:22.000 of...

01:30:23.000 Again, all kinds of occult imagery, satanic imagery and stuff.

01:30:27.000 And again, I'm a dude, like listen man, I grew up listening to Cannibal Corpse, right?

01:30:33.000 Tomb of the Mutilated is one of my favorite records, okay?

01:30:36.000 I am totally fine with this kind of imagery.

01:30:40.000 But 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.

01:30:47.000 I 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.

01:30:57.000 This is not about that.

01:30:59.000 This is actually a cultism where people are mutilating their bodies.

01:31:04.000 The ultimate part, the ultimate expression of this ideology is to transition.

01:31:10.000 They're going to cut their bodies up and this needs to be pushed back on. 0.86

01:31:16.000 And again, we certainly cannot have a government That is flying the flag of the trans flag. 1.00

01:31:24.000 We cannot have a government that is pushing an ideology that at its extremes is telling people to mutilate their bodies.

01:31:33.000 You cannot become a female. 1.00

01:31:36.000 You cannot become a male. 0.57

01:31:38.000 You can change your body.

01:31:40.000 And if you want to as an adult, I'm like, okay, fine.

01:31:44.000 But you can't have this stuff fed to children because it is literally warping their minds and making vulnerable children destroy their bodies.

01:31:54.000 The Tavistock stuff that was going on in the UK, I think it was called

01:31:57.000 the Tavistock Clinic, they shut it down because of this. If you look at the

01:32:00.000 cutting-edge reports coming out of Europe right now, all of these European countries

01:32:05.000 are pulling back on this and stopping it because they're starting to

01:32:09.000 realize that these people need help and help is not affirming their mental

01:32:15.000 illness, right?

01:32:16.000 So why is it that America is not doing the same thing?

01:32:19.000 Why 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.

01:32:27.000 Because normies don't really believe it yet.

01:32:30.000 Normies don't believe what? 0.66

01:32:31.000 Don't believe that there are a lot of children trying to get some kind of puberty blockers, or they're trying to get actual surgery.

01:32:40.000 Normies still think, what? 0.69

01:32:43.000 No.

01:32:44.000 Like literally what they think.

01:32:45.000 They're like, what?

01:32:46.000 No, 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. 0.93

01:32:59.000 If a conservative says something, people that are normie Democrats think, well, it came from those crazy Republicans and you know how they are.

01:33:07.000 So it's not, it can't be true.

01:33:08.000 And you hear about Anna Kasparian being like, oh, this isn't true about the migrant that cut up a human being. 0.98

01:33:17.000 And she was like, this isn't true.

01:33:18.000 No, it's not true.

01:33:19.000 Not true.

01:33:19.000 And you can go all over Twitter and see the video of her going, it's true guys!

01:33:23.000 It's true!

01:33:24.000 Because it is true.

01:33:25.000 But the average Normie Democrat has been conditioned to disbelieve anything that doesn't come from the official sources.

01:33:32.000 So when they hear things that genuinely sound batshit crazy, they say, that's batshit crazy, it can't be true.

01:33:40.000 But guess what?

01:33:41.000 It is, guys!

01:33:42.000 It's really true.

01:33:44.000 So, you have to be able to convince the average normie that these things are really happening.

01:33:49.000 And once you do, they turn away.

01:33:52.000 They're like, no, we have to stop this.

01:33:53.000 And they change their mind.

01:33:54.000 Once they realize that it's happening, they do.

01:33:56.000 So this is, in my opinion, the tip of the spear of trying to destabilize the country.

01:34:01.000 And 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.

01:34:11.000 Well, 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.

01:34:24.000 is something that I think is very insidious.

01:34:27.000 And 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.

01:34:39.000 And 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.

01:34:54.000 I don't think it's at that point yet, but it's getting there.

01:34:56.000 Yeah, 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.

01:35:09.000 Every 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?

01:35:22.000 Even 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.

01:35:40.000 And I think that's so wrong.

01:35:42.000 I think we should treat the family like the most important unit in our society.

01:35:46.000 It's the building block that everything else comes from.

01:35:48.000 If 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.

01:36:03.000 That alone should be the most obvious red flag.

01:36:06.000 Don't tell your parents.

01:36:08.000 This is straight up cold behavior.

01:36:10.000 That's what predators do.

01:36:11.000 Yes, that is exactly what predators do.

01:36:13.000 Except for schools.

01:36:14.000 Schools are like, no, no, but we're fine.

01:36:16.000 You know, it's a really serious issue.

01:36:18.000 I'm sure we'll continue to see this for a long time, but right now we've got to go to Super Chats.

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01:37:05.000 I'm blind and they're so, so tiny.

01:37:07.000 I don't know how Tim does this every day.

01:37:08.000 He must have better eyes than I do.

01:37:10.000 Hold on.

01:37:11.000 Wait, stop.

01:37:12.000 Okay, uh, from- is this Kel?

01:37:15.000 First episode of PhilCast!

01:37:17.000 Let's effing go! 1.00

01:37:19.000 Are you kidding me? 0.97

01:37:20.000 Do I have to extra- do I have to kick you out of my kingdom here?

01:37:23.000 Look, legitimately, she did all the work today. 0.78

01:37:24.000 She'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.

01:37:31.000 I'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.

01:37:37.000 And I really want to give a shout out to Chris Carr, executive editor.

01:37:40.000 I think he's ChrisCarr17 on Twitter.

01:37:42.000 He just let me bounce stories off him all day long.

01:37:45.000 And, you know, he's not here.

01:37:47.000 He's sometimes on the show, but he is really the backbone of a lot of the work that I do here.

01:37:51.000 So shout out to Chris Carr.

01:37:54.000 Let's see...

01:37:56.000 I feel so scared to read them because what if the end of the sentence is something wrong?

01:38:03.000 Oh yeah, you gotta be aware of the entire time.

01:38:07.000 Okay, Big7588 says, remember when an empty studio had better ratings than CNN?

01:38:11.000 When is the next ChairCast?

01:38:14.000 ChairCast was such an interesting time at TimCast.

01:38:17.000 We weren't here yet, right Phil?

01:38:18.000 I don't think so, no.

01:38:18.000 I was.

01:38:19.000 You're a chair cast veteran.

01:38:21.000 Yeah, I was actually not in the chair that was on the cast.

01:38:25.000 Really?

01:38:25.000 During that episode, yeah.

01:38:27.000 That's wild.

01:38:29.000 Let's see.

01:38:32.000 What does this say?

01:38:35.000 Chafe something?

01:38:36.000 The 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.

01:38:48.000 It's hard to beat a guy that showered with his underage daughter.

01:38:53.000 Who do you think they would want?

01:38:54.000 You were mentioning Michelle Obama before.

01:38:57.000 Yeah, I think they want Michelle.

01:38:58.000 I think they want Gavin.

01:39:00.000 I think they're ready for a new era.

01:39:03.000 I think the AOCs and the so-called squad is a little too toxic.

01:39:08.000 So I think they're never going to ascend to any real leadership roles.

01:39:12.000 And actually you've seen them diminished in terms of like any media presence.

01:39:15.000 So 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.

01:39:22.000 But you're naming two people, I'm noticing, that aren't actually in the federal government right now.

01:39:26.000 It 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.

01:39:37.000 Why do you think that is?

01:39:38.000 Because they're just too extreme, especially at the federal and obviously at the local and state levels.

01:39:43.000 Most of these people have just like really gone off the deep end, right?

01:39:47.000 They don't even know what they stand for anymore.

01:39:49.000 Biden obviously doesn't represent what a lot of these folks in Congress want to promulgate in America.

01:39:54.000 So I think America is a center-right country, I think, in general.

01:39:59.000 And the Democrat Party today has gone just so far left that they just don't really have anybody to appease the broader American electorate.

01:40:06.000 Do you think that we'll see a wave of Democrats that are more middle-of-the-road running for these seats?

01:40:13.000 Or do you think the Democratic voters in America are kind of conditioned to continue to pick the most progressive candidate on the ticket?

01:40:20.000 No, 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.

01:40:30.000 They saw it didn't work out.

01:40:32.000 They saw that crime is up.

01:40:34.000 Their parental rights are diminishing.

01:40:36.000 There 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.

01:40:50.000 So I view them moving forward as finding somebody who's more center than where they are right now.

01:40:57.000 I thought that was the interesting lesson from Manchin, saying, I'm actually going to leave after decades in office.

01:41:06.000 Rather than continue this party, I'm going to change to be an independent for the last couple months of my term.

01:41:11.000 That's kind of telling of the legacy of the party.

01:41:14.000 Yeah, I mean, you did see the influx of people to the Democrats that left the Republicans when Donald Trump won.

01:41:22.000 But the reason for that was they were they were the establishment people.

01:41:26.000 They were not Republican.

01:41:29.000 They're not Republicans or Democrats.

01:41:30.000 They're just the establishment.

01:41:31.000 Whoever is in charge is who they're going to be placating.

01:41:35.000 And then should an actual, you know, establishment Republican ever get elected

01:41:40.000 again, they'll go back to being established Republicans and give mild

01:41:43.000 criticism at the Democrats about how the, you know, tax rate should be 3%

01:41:48.000 lower than what the horrible Democrats are saying, you know, but there, there,

01:41:52.000 there hasn't been any kind of influx towards the Democrat party since so that,

01:41:57.000 and that was almost 10 years ago now, you know?

01:41:59.000 And it's just been bleeding membership and showing rifts in its own, you know,

01:42:06.000 its own membership for the past 10 years, you know, so.

01:42:12.000 Let's see, is it Chaser90EK says, Hannah Clare is a DEI hire in the host chair. 0.84

01:42:19.000 Yes, that's me!

01:42:20.000 I am our DEI hire.

01:42:22.000 I'm representing the estrogen vote.

01:42:23.000 I hope you guys all, I don't know, build kitchens in your houses so women are comfortable or something. 1.00

01:42:28.000 All right.

01:42:31.000 Let's see here.

01:42:34.000 Stone Mason says, tell us, is Ian secretly Nikola Tesla?

01:42:41.000 Time travel?

01:42:42.000 Can you comment on that?

01:42:46.000 Yes, the answer is yes.

01:42:48.000 The answer is yes, it turned out.

01:42:50.000 Do you think Nikola Tesla would have liked to talk about graphene?

01:42:52.000 I think his spirit... Oh, he'd be super jazzed about graphene.

01:42:55.000 And his spirit is sentient and available.

01:42:58.000 So if you want to commune with Tesla, he's happy to jive.

01:43:01.000 Just think Tesla.

01:43:04.000 Help me.

01:43:04.000 Energy is all.

01:43:07.000 That's true.

01:43:08.000 That might have been his spiritual motto.

01:43:10.000 Mic drop.

01:43:12.000 Okay, 2A Willie says Vietnam and China's Navy slash Coast Guard class just yesterday.

01:43:18.000 Do you know anything about this?

01:43:19.000 Vietnam's and whose?

01:43:20.000 China's.

01:43:21.000 Yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about earlier.

01:43:24.000 There's a lot of oil and natural gas in the South China Sea.

01:43:27.000 They have a very hostile maritime boundary that they have not even really, you know, ossified in any treaty. And the longer this persists, I

01:43:37.000 think, with the United States wanting to create havoc the way that they want to by

01:43:41.000 isolating China, you're probably going to continue to see that happening.

01:43:43.000 I wonder, too, what kind of response the Biden administration will have to this.

01:43:51.000 Because sometimes I feel like they're kind of closing their eyes, right?

01:43:54.000 It 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.

01:43:59.000 It was the embassy in Hanoi.

01:44:01.000 It seems like we're trying to silo our response to that.

01:44:03.000 Is that because we don't want to acknowledge what's happening in that region?

01:44:06.000 Or is it because there's a lack of leadership?

01:44:08.000 Like, what is America's role in all of this right now?

01:44:12.000 There is no role, and that's exactly why we went from the Abraham Accords under Trump to all-out chaos in the Middle East.

01:44:18.000 That'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.

01:44:44.000 It's as simple as that.

01:44:46.000 Yeah, it's a big detriment to the country now and I think something voters should take seriously going forward.

01:44:50.000 Absolutely.

01:44:51.000 Demeanor says, hey Tim, happy West Virginia Day.

01:44:54.000 Best state in the union.

01:44:56.000 Shout out from a former Huntington, West Virginia police officer.

01:44:59.000 Happy West Virginia Day, everybody.

01:45:02.000 It marks the anniversary of West Virginia being admitted to the union.

01:45:05.000 Great.

01:45:06.000 Does New Hampshire have a day?

01:45:06.000 Congrats.

01:45:08.000 I don't know.

01:45:09.000 I assume there probably is some kind of New Hampshire day.

01:45:11.000 I feel like every state should have one, but I believe strongly in the importance of regional culture.

01:45:16.000 Look, 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.

01:45:25.000 So I'm sure that there are state days for every single state.

01:45:28.000 I feel like that's something Texas would do, but it's like not something Connecticut would do.

01:45:32.000 Connecticut would be like no.

01:45:33.000 Connecticut's the Constitution state.

01:45:35.000 Yeah.

01:45:36.000 Look, I wish I wished, but I just don't think they would.

01:45:40.000 What about Illinois, would they?

01:45:41.000 Or California?

01:45:41.000 Maybe California does have a day?

01:45:43.000 We just don't know about it?

01:45:44.000 I have no idea the way things are going.

01:45:46.000 They're probably rewriting history and replacing it with God knows what.

01:45:51.000 New Hampshire does have a day.

01:45:51.000 It's September 7th, by the way.

01:45:54.000 Nice.

01:45:54.000 I think it's just state holidays.

01:45:56.000 They just worship locally?

01:45:58.000 Probably.

01:45:59.000 They worship locally.

01:46:00.000 I think it should be, though.

01:46:01.000 I think that states should give workers the day off.

01:46:04.000 If you work for the federal government, don't do that.

01:46:05.000 Just work for your state government.

01:46:08.000 It 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.

01:46:20.000 Well, the Democrats hate states' rights, you know, so anything they could do to take those away, I guess.

01:46:25.000 Yeah, that's true.

01:46:26.000 Okay, let me see.

01:46:27.000 I'm so sorry.

01:46:28.000 I can't read anything.

01:46:29.000 Otak Magnet says the Biden admin has purposely imported a foreign army.

01:46:35.000 We won't have a civil war.

01:46:37.000 We'll be fighting several foreign armies within our own country.

01:46:40.000 I think that's somewhat true.

01:46:41.000 I 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.

01:46:56.000 It's fair to say that we don't know, but it's not fair to say that it's not possible.

01:47:02.000 Right?

01:47:02.000 Like, you can't say that it's not possible.

01:47:04.000 You 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.

01:47:13.000 You can say it's unlikely, but you can't say it's impossible.

01:47:16.000 And to be honest with you, the federal government should be able to say, no, that's not possible.

01:47:21.000 They should be able to say, no, it is not possible.

01:47:24.000 We have too much understanding of who is coming and leaving our country.

01:47:28.000 It is not possible that an entire division worth of people have infiltrated the United States.

01:47:36.000 But they can't say that.

01:47:38.000 Yeah.

01:47:39.000 Which is not a good look for our leaders, right?

01:47:41.000 If you're in charge of securing the border and you can't say definitively, yes, you are safe in our country.

01:47:46.000 I would personally vote for new leadership, but I'm merely a conservative.

01:47:52.000 And I think that's exactly why the border is the preeminent issue this election.

01:47:56.000 And it's really a stark and diametrically opposed policy between both Biden and Trump and the clear winner in this particular issue is Trump.

01:48:04.000 Yeah.

01:48:05.000 Okay, Jason Lindholm says, please, TimCast crew, wish my wife, Shauna, a happy birthday.

01:48:10.000 She is doing a September walk for Alzheimer's.

01:48:13.000 Hope Tim is okay and gets well soon.

01:48:15.000 P.S.

01:48:15.000 My wife loves Phil.

01:48:17.000 Cheers.

01:48:18.000 Happy birthday, Shawna.

01:48:19.000 Happy birthday, Shawna.

01:48:20.000 I say this all the time, but we have husbands who will super chat in and be like, I'm at the hospital with my wife and she's giving birth.

01:48:26.000 Or like, my wife just had her first baby.

01:48:29.000 She's doing this thing.

01:48:30.000 I really like the proactive husband energy.

01:48:32.000 I would always wonder, is your wife listening?

01:48:35.000 Does she also listen with you?

01:48:36.000 Or is this happy birthday going out into the void here?

01:48:39.000 Does she know you're doing this nice gesture?

01:48:41.000 I mean, they'll clip it because it stays on YouTube.

01:48:45.000 Maybe so.

01:48:46.000 Okay, let me look for some more stuff here.

01:48:48.000 Yeah, that's going to be a good one.

01:48:56.000 Yeah, I hope so.

01:48:56.000 It's just that I'm, I guess, blind.

01:48:58.000 I can't read anything.

01:48:58.000 You can read them all.

01:48:59.000 I can read them all, every single one.

01:49:01.000 There's some person, what, Marky Mark is just asking, am I real?

01:49:06.000 You guys have a point.

01:49:06.000 You personally?

01:49:07.000 I don't know.

01:49:08.000 I think he's asking about himself, but maybe if you want to comment on your reel.

01:49:11.000 I can't.

01:49:11.000 I can't comment.

01:49:12.000 Pull the table.

01:49:12.000 I don't know.

01:49:13.000 It would be interesting to know.

01:49:15.000 To know ya.

01:49:18.000 Oh, okay, okay.

01:49:20.000 This one's good.

01:49:21.000 So, Gahent said, it's XX minus XY.

01:49:27.000 It's a play on words, female minus the males. 0.62

01:49:30.000 Oh my gosh, that makes so much more sense.

01:49:32.000 Oh, is it minus Y?

01:49:33.000 I thought it was just specifying XXXY as in there are men and there are women.

01:49:37.000 Yeah, like this is one and this is the other.

01:49:39.000 Yeah, maybe the minus thing.

01:49:41.000 Is that how you would pronounce it?

01:49:43.000 XX minus XY? 0.94

01:49:44.000 That's a very long name for a company.

01:49:46.000 Yep.

01:49:47.000 I thought it was XXXY.

01:49:48.000 What do you guys think it is?

01:49:49.000 Somebody give me some branding. 0.93

01:49:50.000 I thought it was XXXY.

01:49:51.000 That's what I thought.

01:49:52.000 As in they're two separate groups.

01:49:54.000 Either way.

01:49:54.000 X minus XY.

01:49:56.000 Maybe like when you see the logo on like a shirt or something, that symbolic meaning comes through, but you pronounce it XXXY.

01:50:04.000 Okay.

01:50:05.000 Somebody call Riley Gaines. 0.92

01:50:06.000 She backed this.

01:50:07.000 Have her clarify for me.

01:50:10.000 Um, okay.

01:50:12.000 Yeah, because you wouldn't subtract XY from XX to get anything meaningful.

01:50:15.000 You'd have to subtract XY from XX plus XY if you really want just an XX system.

01:50:21.000 So I'm going to take issue with what you said.

01:50:23.000 I don't think that says XX minus XY.

01:50:26.000 I feel like that's just too long, but I could be wrong.

01:50:28.000 I don't know.

01:50:29.000 Okay, 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? 0.78

01:50:40.000 At least Leah Thomas is a man to the Olympics committee.

01:50:44.000 Great show.

01:50:45.000 Thank you for the support.

01:50:46.000 I'm glad you like the show.

01:50:47.000 I know we've been Mrs. Tim, but it's too late.

01:50:49.000 We're in my dictatorship.

01:50:50.000 It's my era.

01:50:52.000 I think this is the biggest conundrum that the conversation around admitting women to the draft has.

01:50:58.000 Right now, from what I understand, the rule is they're going off of biology.

01:51:03.000 So if you identify as a trans woman but you're biologically male, you're still expected to sign up for the draft. 0.97

01:51:10.000 And if you are biologically female but you believe that you are a trans man, Absolutely ridiculous. 0.95

01:51:15.000 not necessarily treated the same way during military recruitment. 0.76

01:51:19.000 The military does offer a certain amount of medical support for gender transitions and

01:51:24.000 gender interventions, and I always think that's kind of questionable.

01:51:28.000 Kind of questionable? 0.99

01:51:29.000 It's absolutely ridiculous, absolutely absurd. 0.90

01:51:31.000 Yeah. 0.89

01:51:32.000 Well, especially since the beginning, it was like something that the dependents of military

01:51:37.000 members could have access to, meaning that the government was funding potentially minors

01:51:41.000 who were wanting to transition.

01:51:44.000 But yes, to a certain extent, I think they would have to acknowledge what a woman is.

01:51:48.000 And I think that is why they're sort of trying to be like, women have to be here too.

01:51:54.000 Everyone has to be in the draft.

01:51:55.000 Then you don't have to talk about gender because everyone has to do it. 1.00

01:51:58.000 It'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.

01:52:08.000 And that impacts the way they go through basic training.

01:52:11.000 Mm-hmm.

01:52:12.000 What do you think?

01:52:13.000 Do you think women are going to be in the draft? 1.00

01:52:14.000 Look, 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.

01:52:30.000 You're going to see, you know, conflict in Europe, Asia, Latin America.

01:52:34.000 There's a lot of conflict on the African continent right now.

01:52:37.000 So 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.

01:52:51.000 Well, they're going to come here so we can fight them here.

01:52:53.000 Yeah.

01:52:54.000 So I think Trump's looking a lot more appealing at the moment right now.

01:52:57.000 So.

01:52:57.000 Yeah, it's interesting, right?

01:53:00.000 Everyone's everyone's women are really into the draft until they themselves possibly could be drafted. 1.00

01:53:04.000 I'm not into the draft, just to just to clarify that, at least for women.

01:53:09.000 So Angela H. says, hey, gang, does anyone know what's going on with Trump's gag order?

01:53:14.000 If you know, correct me, but from my understanding, Trump's gag order in New York extends during the period until he is sentenced.

01:53:22.000 So he's still under the gag order.

01:53:25.000 Obviously 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.

01:53:34.000 Yeah, no, that's my understanding too.

01:53:35.000 And this entire scam has been designed for one reason and one reason only, and that is to interfere in this election.

01:53:42.000 And secondly, as the priority right now, it's to keep him off the campaign trail.

01:53:47.000 And obviously by suppressing his voice and his messaging, it does that.

01:53:51.000 So 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.

01:53:58.000 So 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.

01:54:04.000 And he's just standing in the way.

01:54:06.000 Do you think that changes Americans' perception of him?

01:54:09.000 Because there was an argument for a while that he was just like kind of a loud, brash guy.

01:54:13.000 He says he's inappropriate things.

01:54:14.000 Do 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?

01:54:25.000 Yeah, I mean, look, everybody respects and adores a martyr, right?

01:54:28.000 And 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.

01:54:38.000 Most of them even think that these cases should never have been brought.

01:54:41.000 So, of course, if that's being pontificated on television, then millions of people are also like, you know what?

01:54:46.000 It was okay to mock him on late night, but he was president.

01:54:50.000 And when you're doing this, you're disrespecting the presidency.

01:54:53.000 And if you can do that, you're humiliating a nation.

01:54:55.000 And I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

01:54:58.000 Yeah.

01:54:59.000 Do you think Trump's legal issues will impact who he selects as a vice president?

01:55:05.000 Yeah, I think, you know, there's been arguments on both sides.

01:55:08.000 One 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.

01:55:20.000 That guy is so bad.

01:55:22.000 He makes Trump look better.

01:55:23.000 Exactly.

01:55:24.000 Or 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.

01:55:35.000 So right now he's going to have to decide.

01:55:37.000 No 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.

01:55:46.000 And do you think?

01:55:47.000 That there are any alternatives to home confinement that they would pursue?

01:55:50.000 I've heard a couple people say, like, they want the optics of him being in jail.

01:55:55.000 You know what?

01:55:55.000 We're living in incredibly unstable and unprecedented times.

01:55:59.000 I 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.

01:56:08.000 Impeachment 1.0, 2.0, the various issues that have been going on, the January 6th stuff.

01:56:13.000 So, I can't say I'm 100% sure they wouldn't actually send them to prison.

01:56:19.000 Maybe I'm just optimistic that I'm expecting home confinement, but that's where we are as a nation right now.

01:56:25.000 It's incredibly crazy.

01:56:27.000 Yeah, I think it is pretty wild.

01:56:30.000 And I think that only feeds voters' anxieties, which I always think Democrats do on purpose, right?

01:56:36.000 They can't win based on, look, we've done such a good job.

01:56:39.000 They can't point to Biden's economy and say, You've got more money than ever and you're all able to buy houses.

01:56:44.000 They can't point to their foreign policy and say the world is very stable and peaceful right now.

01:56:49.000 They can't point to anything, right?

01:56:51.000 Even Biden's promises to forgive student loan debt have backfired on a lot of fronts.

01:56:56.000 And 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.

01:57:04.000 They need to fearmonger and have Compliance and that's a very disheartening way to look at your country, right?

01:57:11.000 It's not about unity.

01:57:12.000 It's not about investing the future.

01:57:13.000 It's not about, you know, making this world better.

01:57:15.000 It's about, you know, trying to stay, you know, compliant to the system that wants you scared.

01:57:21.000 I don't like it.

01:57:23.000 Okay, I'm going to look for a couple more Super Chats.

01:57:27.000 Let's see, Matuez Manster?

01:57:30.000 I'm so sorry, I cannot read anything or pronounce any names.

01:57:33.000 Howdy, cast and friends.

01:57:35.000 My co-workers and I watch the show every night.

01:57:38.000 Where do you work where you're watching an internet show every night?

01:57:41.000 I'm very interested.

01:57:42.000 Good job.

01:57:43.000 I hope your boss is watching with you.

01:57:46.000 It would make my night if Ian said hello to Greg.

01:57:49.000 Hi, Greg.

01:57:51.000 Hello, Greg.

01:57:53.000 Do people stop you on the street a lot and ask you to greet them?

01:57:56.000 They'll start talking to me.

01:57:57.000 And I'll just, like, give them full eye contact.

01:58:00.000 I want to know all about you.

01:58:01.000 That's so funny.

01:58:01.000 I like doing that.

01:58:03.000 Let's see.

01:58:04.000 I've got one more.

01:58:08.000 Sorry, I'm going to scroll back up to the top.

01:58:12.000 Oh, yeah, you're about to get such a badass super chat, dude.

01:58:15.000 I'm so into this.

01:58:16.000 Are you?

01:58:17.000 Yeah, let me have it.

01:58:18.000 What?

01:58:18.000 I want to know what the audience thinks.

01:58:20.000 Are you predicting the future?

01:58:22.000 Yep. 1.00

01:58:25.000 There's- Robert Mora says, sorry Phil, there are way too many stupid people who vote for anything to get better. 1.00

01:58:32.000 We are all failing endlessly. 1.00

01:58:35.000 Blind tribalism wins in this case. 0.80

01:58:38.000 You got a response to that?

01:58:39.000 A very negative take.

01:58:42.000 I mean, it's black pill time, I guess.

01:58:47.000 I don't, I don't know that, uh, that you're right.

01:58:51.000 Um, I do understand having that kind of negative outlook because, uh, I mean, I've been looking at this stuff for a long time.

01:58:59.000 I've, I've been sniffing around about it for a long time, trying to figure out what was going on.

01:59:04.000 And, and, uh, there has, there's only been a few, a few highlights since like 2006.

01:59:09.000 So, uh, we'll, we'll see how things go.

01:59:13.000 You mean two things have happened or a few things that have given you optimism?

01:59:16.000 Yeah, only a handful of things have been optimistic.

01:59:18.000 Tell us, let's start on a good note.

01:59:20.000 Well, I mean, the fact that Donald Trump won and he was so anti-establishment was good.

01:59:27.000 not that I don't think I'm not particularly some kind of big Donald Trump fan, but he

01:59:31.000 was very anti-establishment and he managed to pull back a lot of the veil that the media

01:59:39.000 had had essentially, you know, had been feeding the American people, you know, and he really

01:59:45.000 made it fair. He made it fairly clear. And then, of course, the the as much as COVID

01:59:51.000 was a bad thing for the world, the fact that it happened again opened a lot of people's

01:59:57.000 eyes. The lies that the government was telling about about all the things surrounding it

02:00:03.000 and stuff and the control that they wanted to control.

02:00:06.000 They wanted the the government lockdowns and stuff people people were not they didn't believe that the government would go to those lengths.

02:00:14.000 You know, there was always this know the government would never do that.

02:00:17.000 And I think that that Has really made a lot of people think, well, maybe the government would do that.

02:00:21.000 Maybe the government really does actually will actually completely lie to the American people.

02:00:26.000 And so as much as COVID overall was a negative, that is one of the silver linings.

02:00:31.000 But 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.

02:00:38.000 I 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

02:01:11.000 Yeah, I think awareness is the ultimate goal here.

02:01:13.000 I 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.

02:01:23.000 That 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.

02:01:34.000 So with that, guys, thank you so much for joining us.

02:01:36.000 We're going to wrap up here so we can head over to our members-only show.

02:01:39.000 I hope you're all there.

02:01:40.000 I hope you all have calls on the Discord.

02:01:42.000 I'm just kidding.

02:01:43.000 If all of you called, then we'd be here for the rest of the year.

02:01:45.000 But thank you guys for everything you do.

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02:01:59.000 George, anything you want to shout out?

02:02:01.000 Thanks so much again for having me, guys.

02:02:02.000 Incredible time, great things.

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02:02:16.000 And just hoping for the best for this country.

02:02:18.000 I think we got to, you know, get some normalcy back.

02:02:21.000 We need some traditional values back and we need to focus on the American people once again.

02:02:25.000 And I think that's really what this whole topic's been all about.

02:02:27.000 Yeah, 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.

02:02:39.000 And 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.

02:02:45.000 We just gotta first make sure people know what's going on, and then collectively everybody does their part.

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