00:03:18.000So we're going to talk about that and what it all means.
00:03:21.000Now, just about an hour ago, we learned that Iran launched a surprise attack on U.S. forces.
00:03:27.000The U.S., I believe, has basically repelled all of these attacks.
00:03:31.000And now there's discussion of a massive escalation.
00:03:33.000This, of course, Coming after Iran struck Iranian ships in the Caspian Sea, now the big talking point all throughout the day from these major cable news outlets is that it's one big war at this point.
00:03:46.000That Iran's supplying weapons to Russia, Russia fuel to U.S. adversaries.
00:03:50.000Ukraine strikes the Iranian supply lines, now bringing Iran into the fight with Ukraine, which brings them in with Russia.0.54
00:03:57.000And now the U.S., of course, already involved in Ukraine.
00:04:06.000It's hard to say for sure, but we'll talk about that and a whole lot more.
00:04:09.000We also have the governor of Kentucky demanding that Mitch McConnell prove he is alive or resign and has begun the process to have him expelled from the Senate.
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00:08:00.000His whole family, like a lot of people in West Virginia, he has his whole family living around him, you know, several houses and one plot of land.
00:08:07.000And one of the homes is being swept away.
00:08:09.000His 18 month old granddaughter and sister in law, or pardon me, daughter in law were in the home.
00:08:15.000And he goes through the water, grabs both of them, swims out, saves their lives.
00:08:38.000And I saw your posts on X, just massive respect.
00:08:41.000I appreciate you representing us here because, you know, I feel like most.
00:08:45.000Look, I'm going to avoid just making this partisan and going after people, but there are members of Congress that don't even live in their districts.
00:09:16.000And uh, I went down there, truck full of water, and my daughter went with me too.
00:09:20.000And you know, look, these are our people, these West Virginians, let's go down, let's go help.
00:09:25.000It's also pretty crazy to me that this is a you said, we said 3,500 homes, so 35 homes destroyed, 35 homes, and then we overestimate that are just washed away, and then we have over 300 that are.
00:10:36.000He was barely in office to begin with, he barely campaigned to begin with.
00:10:40.000So, you know, for regular people, they're just thinking, So what, right?
00:10:44.000But here's what I want to point out I see these people posting.
00:10:49.000That they regret voting for Donald Trump.
00:10:51.000I saw Sean Strickland and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:10:54.000And I'm sorry, I think y'all have forgotten what was going on during the Biden years with lockdowns, vaccine mandates, with the opening of the southern border,
00:11:05.000with the Texas State Guard coming into a physical confrontation with federal authorities because the Biden administration was facilitating a criminal conspiracy against the United States.
00:11:15.000And then, of course, you had them trying to imprison Donald Trump.
00:11:19.000Because he had daily briefings in boxes that he obviously didn't know about that were dropped off at Mar a Lago after he left office.
00:11:26.000And they said, well, it's classified, so you're going to go to prison.
00:11:29.000Despite the fact that Joe Biden had comparable documents, did not have the authority to have those documents, and even told his ghostwriter, I found all the classified stuff.
00:11:46.000And there was never any action taken against him.
00:11:49.000So when you come to me and say, Oh, it's so bad now because the war is escalating.
00:11:53.000I say, listen, listen, I hear you on the war stuff.
00:11:55.000I'm not going to, you're allowed to be upset about all of that stuff.
00:11:59.000But to act like we would have been better off with Kamala Harris, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
00:12:04.000I mean, I think it's evident that, like, look, large swaths of the population, I don't think you need to even look into politics to see that this is true.
00:12:12.000I have like a very high time preference, right?
00:12:14.000Like they just want immediate satisfaction, immediate results.
00:12:17.000And President Trump, while, yes, there's been a lot of immediate victories, I think that's safe to say, a lot of what he's done has set us up.
00:12:25.000Infrastructure wise for success, decades, decades, decades, which is rare because, like, in a democracy, you know, presidents are thinking four years at a time.
00:12:32.000You know, they're thinking, okay, well, I just got to survive this term and move on to the next.
00:12:35.000But, like, you look at the big, beautiful bill, for example, and the funding and the, and the, where money was moved, where it was allocated, et cetera.
00:12:41.000I mean, that kind of stuff sets us up long term for victory.
00:12:45.000So, all that aside, to Tim's point, I mean, to repeat it, did we all forget like what we just went through?
00:12:50.000Not to just mention Biden, but even Obama.
00:12:52.000I mean, like, these are in recent memory.
00:12:55.000Incredibly destructive, corrosive forces that were in the White House.
00:12:58.000And now, not do we just have a Republican that's like stopping the bleed?
00:13:23.000I take a look, look, Donald Trump did a very good job, in my opinion, in his first term, avoiding escalation of war, Abraham Accords, and all these things.
00:13:31.000I voted for him because he was the less war president.
00:13:36.000However, he inherits a lot more from Obama.
00:14:51.000He's the first guy that has tried to start rolling back some of these policies that honestly got started in the progressive era, right?
00:15:01.000Way back with Woodrow Wilson, trying to roll back some of the stuff that, if it wasn't started back then, it was the obvious next step after things that were started back then.
00:15:30.000We had net negative migration last year.
00:15:33.000We've deported 250,000 more people at this point this year than we did last year.
00:15:43.000Something around three to three and a half million people have been deported so far between actual deportations and voluntary deportations, where they decided they would.
00:15:54.000Use the app and take the check that we're giving them.
00:15:57.000And that alone is great for the United States, in my opinion.
00:16:02.000Never mind the stuff that the other tertiary things that don't get a lot of press that he's done.
00:16:07.000The stuff that he tried to do with Doge.
00:16:08.000Granted, Doge was largely unsuccessful, but they did shrink the size and scope of the government some.
00:16:14.000No president has done that in my entire lifetime, and I'm an old guy, right?
00:16:19.000Like, there is significant change with the fact that USAID has been dissolved.
00:16:27.000Massive global thing, and all you'll hear the left complain about oh, these people are going to die because we're not giving them money, and these people are going to suffer because we're not giving them money.
00:16:35.000And whereas that might be true for as an argument, there might be people that don't get the U.S. giving them, you know, giving them foreign aid and stuff, but the amount of change that you're seeing in South America because of the disillusioned USAID,
00:16:53.000and now granted, I know this is this, I don't have evidence that this is the case, but USAID goes away.
00:17:00.000And right wingers start winning all over South America.
00:17:03.000People are sick and tired of the socialist government.
00:17:05.000And without USAID propping these governments up and propping up the left leaning politicians, you see a massive change in South America.
00:17:15.000And I think that in a longer term, to Tate's point, in a longer term, that's going to be a tremendous benefit for the United States because then you're going to see more reliable governments down there that are aligned with the United States.
00:17:27.000And that plays into the whole Monroe Doctrine, looking at the Western Hemisphere as our immediate problem.
00:17:34.000I wonder if Kamala were to be elected, would the U.S. just falter and slowly dissolve on the global stage as China becomes ascendant or China is ascendant?
00:17:43.000And with Trump, yeah, we're going to get a big war, but the United States is dominating the globe economically, oil production, et cetera.
00:17:51.000And what we're seeing with all these conflicts, they're choking out China, Russia, and Iran.
00:18:07.000The other thing to remember is that we have lowered, we have diminished the budget of the State Department by over 20% over the last two years under Trump.
00:18:19.000The State Department is quite a bit smaller.
00:18:21.000Now, why are we getting these conservative victories in Latin America?
00:18:26.000Don't forget the intelligence agencies run a lot of programs through USAID and otherwise.
00:18:32.000And so it's not just foreign aid, there's a lot of other stuff that goes on there through those, you know.
00:18:37.000We had Mike Benz on on Friday, and he would make the argument that USAID and CIA are basically the same things.
00:18:46.000It's no secret out there that they have worked together or one has been used through the other in the past.
00:18:53.000So we're not subverting those elections anymore and everything that goes on with USAID and what they were doing, informing the public and all these other things, which is like PSYOPs and things like that that they had been involved with for a very long time.
00:20:05.000We talked about this quite a bit that if the U.S. had put a no fly zone over Ukraine, there never would have been an invasion from Russia because it would have been a declaration of war on the United States.
00:20:13.000Yeah, and if Trump were in office, it wouldn't have happened.
00:20:15.000Anyway, that's why nothing happened when he was in his first.
00:21:03.000We are weak and they can just walk right over us.0.87
00:21:06.000So then they just walk right into Crimea.0.51
00:21:08.000And so, this projection of strength and the idea that there is going to be consequences out there does actually prevent conflict, it is a deterrent.
00:21:45.000Well, I think it was Kamala Harris, like literally a few days before the invasion in Munich at the security conference, was like, Hey, by the way, Russia, if you make a move on Ukraine, we're going to like bolster NATO, move it right up as close as we can possibly get to your eastern border.
00:22:00.000So, if you're Russia hearing that, you're like, oh, we need to make a move now.
00:22:05.000That aside, what I'm trying to illustrate there is that that kind of gives you a look into what Kamala Harris's policy would have been on the Russia Ukraine war if she got into office.
00:22:13.000I mean, we'd be looking at potentially a full blown war with Russia.0.59
00:22:19.000Let's jump to the story from the Wall Street Journal.
00:22:21.000Iran launches a surprise missile attack on U.S. forces.
00:22:25.000American interceptors shot down all of the projectiles, but the strikes will increase pressure on President Trump to launch an aggressive response.
00:22:33.000So, this just broke right as we were getting production ready for the show.
00:22:36.000The U.S. was able to stop all of the attacks.
00:22:39.000But, of course, there is now a question of what Donald Trump is going to do in response to this.
00:23:42.000We can't just, we're not going to advocate for US defeat in this.
00:23:47.000I think it is fair that those that are critical of the US war machine be critical of the administration, but we still have to be in support of the US winning this one.
00:24:00.000I will stand by the United States and its allies and friends in this conflict, and we have to win it while still being upset that we are in it.
00:24:20.000Palmer Lucky kind of talking about this recently, which is pretty interesting.
00:24:24.000And in his assessment of the Iranians' ability to meet this ramp up period for one way attack drones, it was going to get to a point where if we were to try to stop their nuclear program,
00:24:42.000we would not be in a position to be able to do it.
00:24:48.000Decision point that President Trump had to say, okay, what are we going to do?
00:24:54.000You know, they're saying we're a couple weeks out, 10 days from breakout where they could have nuclear weapons.
00:24:59.000They lied about their intermediate and long range missile program.
00:25:05.000We, I clearly believe, and it seems to be the case, that we had a blind spot on how many one way attack drones and some of these other armaments that they've had and how effective they've been in terms of like their asymmetric.
00:25:19.000Capabilities where it takes us a Patriot missile system to shoot them out of the air.
00:25:23.000It only costs them a fraction of that to build these things.
00:25:27.000So if you did nothing, I think you might potentially get the same result that looks somewhat different, which is, to your point, potentially regional instability and regional conflict.0.87
00:25:41.000Well, I think the writing's been on the wall for a long time with the expansion of the BRICS nations.
00:25:47.000Regardless of the nuances and How many missiles they might have, what their economy might look like.0.94
00:25:54.000The end result of sitting back was that the United States would become a secondary power in the planet.0.64
00:26:00.000China would become the dominant global hegemon, and we would live under the rules of the Chinese Communist Party as it pertains to international trade and foreign affairs.
00:26:09.000And the American people, their standard of living would decline rapidly, and they would be pissed off to a great degree.0.76
00:26:15.000Oh, if people are upset about interest rates now, if we get supplanted as the reserve currency in the world,
00:26:25.000Do a Google search of what your mortgage interest rate is.
00:26:28.000I mean, you're talking double digit, I mean, just through the freaking roof to be able to borrow money.
00:26:33.000That, that, us as the reserve currency of the world, we all benefit from that here in the United States.
00:26:41.000You heard what Xi Jinping said about Thucydides' trap.
00:26:44.000He's quoted as saying that I hope that China and the United States can avoid Thucydides' trap, which are you familiar with the phrase, what it means?
00:26:52.000Whenever a dominant economic Power is about to be supplanted by a rising power, there's a tendency for war to break out.
00:26:59.000I believe in 16 of the 16 past historical contexts of this empire flipping, 12 resulted in grand warfare.
00:27:09.000For Xi Jinping to say this, there's an underlying threat.0.60
00:27:15.000China is going to supplant the United States, and I hope we don't fight about it.0.61
00:27:20.000I mean, look, in 2021 was when China met in Alaska.0.79
00:27:25.000They met Blinken and they met Sullivan, and They specifically said the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.
00:28:14.000Are we better off as a nation just explaining literally what it is the United States does internationally to maintain global shipping security and the US standard of living?0.79
00:28:25.000Because I think if the US government just came out and flat out said, if you want that $1,000 MacBook and you don't want to cost $10,000, yeah, it means we're going to war with Iran.0.60
00:28:33.000And then people are going to be like, okay.0.58
00:28:37.000I mean, it's like, how do you package this geopolitical game out in a way that's sexy?
00:28:42.000Because the problem here is anytime you're fighting, anytime you're acting and operating defensively, we're trying to defend our interests overseas.
00:28:51.000There's so much political attrition that occurs in that instance versus a Venezuela style operation where we go in, we get out, oh, look, this is awesome.
00:29:02.000But when you're fighting a war for very sophisticated, Complex reasons that would like require quite a bit of time to like truly flesh out like all the different avenues this could go, game out the alternative if we didn't do anything, the alternative if you know the war went slightly differently, that kind of stuff.
00:29:16.000Like a lot of the American people just get lost right away and they're just like, I don't know, why are we in this war in the first place?
00:29:20.000That's kind of the question always goes back to, um, versus like you know, China and Russia and Iran, I guess all three, they don't really have to like explain anything, they can just operate and then you know, do whatever they need to do or whatever they feel like they need to do,
00:29:34.000and whether or not the people support it is like immaterial.
00:29:37.000I want to address at least one comment.
00:29:39.000Someone chatted saying none of this is true, Tim.
00:29:42.000The U.S. does not manufacture at a level where the American people should be having this standard of living.
00:29:49.000If you were to just look at U.S. exports and manufacturing, our standard of living would be a lot lower.
00:29:55.000But we control the global reserve currency.
00:29:58.000And the deal is supposed to be that we have this massive military and navy that keeps shipping lanes open for everybody so they can freely go about and trade.
00:30:07.000And for that, they will use the U.S. dollar, which we don't have to do anything but print and other countries have to purchase.
00:30:14.000Now, you may not like that, and that's okay.
00:30:16.000And you can complain about that system.
00:30:18.000But it is a fact the American standard of living is substantially higher because of this global arrangement.
00:30:23.000Whatever your issue with it may be, it is true.
00:30:26.000And so, my point again is you don't have to be in favor of war.
00:30:30.000You can actively oppose the war, you can be mad about all of that stuff.
00:30:33.000But when we do the macro level statistics, I assure you the majority of this country would lose their ish if the standard of living declined because the rest of the world got off the petrodollar system and the U.S. had to trade for a yuan currency with China to buy oil.
00:31:00.000People are losing their mind, or people lose their mind when gas goes up by 50 cents or a dollar.
00:31:07.000People are losing their mind now because their dollar doesn't go as far at the grocery store.
00:31:11.000And people are, you know, there are people out there that are suffering because of it.
00:31:15.000But people are willing to say, oh, they're willing to say, you know, Donald Trump didn't do anything because things aren't easier for me.
00:31:23.000If the, to Tim's point, If the dollar were not still the U.S. reserve currency, if the dollar were not being traded all over the world, if oil were not traded in dollars, people would have,
00:31:34.000like the idea of riots that you saw or the riots that we saw during the George Floyd riots, those would be comically small.0.83
00:31:41.000Let me just stress if the Democratic Party was not pushing gay communism so hard, they would get all of the funding they could want for any war at any point.0.96
00:31:52.000Click of a button, they get votes.1.00
00:31:54.000But they've become so detestable because they have a wackaloon.
00:31:59.000Progressive left elements and they cater to it, then everybody backs off.0.98
00:32:03.000Nobody wants to be involved in whatever it is they're doing.
00:32:06.000Their net favorability is minus 26, some insane number in the latest poll that CNN put out.
00:32:12.000Yeah, one of the things though, and we've talked about this the long term strategy of what Trump is doing through tariffs, through reshoring industry, those things that we're doing.
00:32:23.000And I've talked a lot about this, written an article about it, and I got another one coming out industrial deterrence.
00:32:32.000If you have the capacity, To build faster and stronger than your competitors, it does have a deterrent effect.
00:32:50.000We were able to build things faster than they could destroy them.
00:32:54.000We kept building and building and building and turned industry into the war machine.
00:32:59.000Right now, obviously, we don't have the capacity to do that.
00:33:01.000But that's part of the reason President Trump is bringing this back because it does have a deterrent effect.
00:33:07.000On conflicts and adversaries around the world.
00:33:09.000And last thing I'd say, don't forget what's going on here.
00:33:12.000And I said this on Fox News last week China, it is, there are reasons to believe, which would be the correct way to say that without getting into something classified.
00:33:25.000Reasons to believe, there are reasons to believe that China is providing targeting information to the Iranians.
00:33:33.000If you look at that strike where we lost three service members here just recently in Jordan, It was too precise.
00:34:12.000To your point, Riley, about the production capacity, that's one of the reasons why companies like Palmer Lucky's Andro, like, that company, Actually, it gives me hope for at the very least the US's ability to re industrialize in at least the Defense Department,
00:34:55.000And one of Palmer Lucky's core principles that he has is he wants to be able to make these drones by using existing materials.
00:35:08.000So many of our military assets that are amazingly capable, but they require very specialized parts from specialized locations.
00:35:18.000And essentially, Palmer Lucky said in an interview, he's like, I know that Radio Shack doesn't exist anymore, but I want to be able to make weapons that are cutting edge.
00:35:27.000Using parts that you could go down to the hardware store and get, that you could get at Radio Shack if you're an old guy.
00:35:32.000Yeah, and look, I've been fortunate enough to go out there and look at his facility, and I'll tell you, it is minor.
00:37:45.000Your production, your wealth skyrockets.
00:37:48.000There's a bonus to production when you allow the people to privately trade amongst themselves and it rapidly develops economically.
00:37:54.000And then you can be literally, as the player, as the executive of this nation you've built up, watch your adversaries build nuclear weapons and they're lining them up around your border.
00:38:07.000And you're like, okay, they're going to nuke us.
00:38:10.000And when you send a military unit to strike their nuclear weapons, Warhead or whatever, it'll give you a prompt saying, You have been voted down by Congress.
00:38:50.000But my concern is I don't think people in this country understand enough of what is going on.
00:38:57.000I believe this largely is the fault of the United States in how we've handled media.
00:39:02.000And we don't explain to the people of the United States legitimately and honestly what it is the United States does for the world and what we want for our allies.
00:39:10.000So we only ever get these, they hate us for our freedom nonsense.
00:39:14.000And then any learned person, and I don't mean like, They're going to say, okay, that's BS.
00:39:21.000And now you've insulted me, and now I don't support you in this effort.0.63
00:39:26.000I feel like if the United States were to be completely honest and said, look, we don't want reckless death, we don't want collateral damage, but we will not allow the Iranians to supply the Russians with weapons against our friends.0.65
00:39:38.000We will not allow the Chinese economic bloc to destroy American trade and everything we have built.0.83
00:40:44.000Now that the war has escalated, and obviously Iran is supplying the Russians with weapons, Ukraine has launched a strike against the Iranians.
00:40:54.000And the Trump administration is likely now coming to the conclusion that's it.
00:40:58.000We are in with Ukraine and this is expanding.
00:41:01.000And they've conveyed it to Laura Loomer, who now comes out and says, We need to get on board with Ukraine.
00:41:06.000Not because we think that their government are good people, not because we are going to forget whatever it is they may have done in the past that we disagreed with, but because we have a conflict budding between the BRICS nations and Western powers.
00:41:20.000And we are not going to align, we are not going to be opposed to those that are fighting with us.
00:41:25.000We are going to get behind Ukraine because they are on our side in this war.
00:41:33.000And the thing that keeps me up at night when I think about this, the United States, we have never defeated an enemy with a population larger than ours and an economy of peer size.
00:42:34.000But you take a look at what's going on right now, and we've laid this out a million and one times on this show.
00:42:38.000Trump's securing of the Panama Canal, his pacification of the Caribbean with getting rid of the narco drug traffickers and the violence, opening up trade routes, working to secure the Northwest Passage in Greenland, the Gulf of America become the largest oil export location on the planet,
00:42:54.000and the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz cutting China off from 44% of its energy for the past six, what is it, five months now.0.78
00:43:01.000Now, when you look at all of that, my position has always been that the goal of the war with Iran is to close the Strait of Hormuz to cut off our adversaries from their energy.0.84
00:43:17.000You cripple China and shut their economy down to the best of your ability.0.85
00:43:22.000And then, slowly through attrition over time, they are no longer a threat and you can avoid war this way.0.79
00:43:29.000That being said, with Iran using the Caspian to transport weapons to the Russians to fight the Ukrainians, it's now lumped into one big conflict.0.90
00:43:39.000I know Phil and I discussed this conversation and Phil's not so confident, but I believe that China.0.84
00:43:43.000Has no choice but to get involved in a, like to escalate to kinetic conflict.
00:43:49.000As you mentioned just a moment ago, Riley, they had to have been giving this information, or there's reason to believe they are providing the intelligence.
00:43:57.000But we've also seen flights from China going into Iran at the start of this conflict.
00:44:01.000And the presumption was it was targeting materials, it was chips for missiles so they could build more weapons.
00:44:08.000There is no reality, in my view, where China is not supplying Russia and Iran.0.52
00:44:13.000With targeting materials, weapons, resources, or otherwise, sooner or later, especially with them getting cut off, they're going to have to make a decision just economically die or fight for their energy, which means direct conflict in the Strait or with the United States.0.72
00:44:27.000And they are facing this population bubble that's going to burst through their one child policy.
00:44:34.000So they have to put themselves in a strategically strengthened position for when they get there.
00:44:40.000All of these manufacturing jobs and everything else that they have, there's not going to be people to replace them.
00:44:45.000This one child policy, which was abhorrent.
00:44:48.000Terrible, awful forced abortion policy, it's going to come back to haunt them here now.
00:44:54.000And so that's going to be a massive problem for them that they're going to have to deal with.0.68
00:44:59.000And to your point, if we can weaken them and wait them out to that point, I think, and the Chinese are trying to stick the landing as they transition to like a more service based economy as well, because they were trying to offshore to Africa and Pakistan and Bangladesh,0.91
00:48:52.000I have to say, I think, you know, of all of the things that I've seen in terms of foreign policy and statements of the president, be it the, you know, China meeting with Blinken, the scariest thing is Laura Loomer coming out and saying, I am fully behind Ukraine at this point.
00:49:07.000Because she does not just change her opinion lightly.
00:49:10.000And I know that she's come out, and again, I mentioned this, but she's saying, like, oh, I fell for Russian propaganda.
00:49:19.000Well, I mean, look, if she's genuine, she's genuine.
00:49:20.000I'm not trying to impugn her honor or anything like that.
00:49:22.000The media tried claiming I was insulting her, which I absolutely was not.
00:49:25.000I think that Laura has access to information through the administration, and I think she's seen the seriousness of this escalation in the conflict.0.88
00:49:32.000They're saying the wars are merging, and I think her attitude is like, holy crap, I may not like Ukraine, but we have to get behind them at this point.
00:49:38.000Yeah, you know, the thing is with her, and I know her detractors are, you know, she's nutty, and but she's actually done some pretty good reporting, to be fair.0.85
00:50:14.000I'm going to say it very, very simply.
00:50:16.000I have said everything that I can say in opposition to U.S. involvement in Eastern Europe and in opposition to U.S. intervention in the Middle East.
00:51:18.000We can deal with accountability, which I think is rare to begin with.
00:51:22.000But we can, like, if you are mad about this conflict and how it started and whoever's involved, that's something to figure out after we land the plane in the tailspin.
00:51:44.000U.S. Central Command and the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq on July 28th against Iran aligned terrorists and the IRGC directed to attack U.S. forces and Saudi energy infrastructure.
00:51:56.000The unwarranted attack against the U.S. forces was not successful.
00:51:59.000From February through April, there were more than 600 attempted attacks on U.S. citizens and facilities by Iran aligned terrorist militias in Iraq.
00:52:06.000The IRGC and its terrorist proxies must cease these attacks to avoid further US military response.
00:52:11.000You know, I am genuinely irritated by the constant foreign propaganda and at the same time, failures of US intelligence in actually being convincing to the American people.
00:52:25.000It's all just garbled nonsense half the time.
00:52:28.000Is the United States really this impotent when it comes to dealing with Russia and Chinese propaganda?
00:52:35.000Well, I mean, we have to put out statements.
00:52:36.000We don't have like an authoritarian central propaganda wing.
00:52:40.000At least now that USAID's gone, we don't.
00:52:43.000What I'm talking about is they have old spooks going on MS Now and CNN giving you the most banal talking points that are just unconvincing.
00:53:30.000She wanted war with Russia right off the bat.
00:53:33.000I recall, I mean, I was a youngster, but in 08, she was like complaining that Barack Obama's foreign policy would be too weak and that he would be so strong.
00:53:43.000I mean, we've talked about this ad nauseum the Cutter Turkey pipeline, U.S. interests in the 2000s with offsetting Russian gas, prime gas monopolies.
00:53:51.000The Obama administration miserably failed in every capacity as it comes to.
00:54:10.000The US used manipulation, but I gotta tell you, having been on the ground in Kiev, the people there don't like the Russians.
00:54:16.000It's not that they hate Russia, they're in a trade agreement.
00:54:19.000The issue was for a lot of the urban Kievians, whatever you wanna call them, the history of Russia and Ukraine is not a good history.
00:54:26.000So, when they get an offer of a trade agreement with the EU and a potential to join the Schengen zone, these people were ecstatic.
00:54:33.000It was like being told you're going to win the lottery.
00:54:35.000The Russian Trade Federation wasn't offering them anything.
00:54:37.000So, they wanted to go with the EU, and Russia could not handle it because they would lose Crimea and their only warm water port.
00:54:44.000The argument we get from many people is well, Russia could have just built in Sochi or one of these other cities.
00:54:48.000You're not going to convince the Russians, especially considering it's mountainous, to abandon a $300 billion military base and their flag, where they house their flagship in the Black Sea.
00:55:57.000I wanted to ask you, not as Rep Riley, but just as Riley, after the Iranians instigated this latest round of fighting, obviously.
00:56:05.000From my perspective, and like from a lot of people's perspectives, it seems like the IRGC and the Iranian civilian government are just like not on the same page whatsoever because it seemed like the Iranian civil government was the civilian government were the ones that you know agreed to the MOU that JD I mean,
00:56:19.000it's listening to JD Vance talk about it on Rogan.
00:56:21.000It seems like the IRGC I'm not quite gone rogue, but they really do seem to just not be on the same page with Tehran whatsoever.
00:56:28.000And so far, yeah, I mean, I think one of the things to think about here is the entire top echelon of the Iranian leadership was eliminated.
00:56:38.000Now, that was the old guard, right?0.52
00:56:40.000Who were very much Islamic radical fundamentalists that were in alignment with the IRGC.0.56
00:56:46.000This new generation, who has now stepped up into those leadership roles, are more nationalist driven, I think I'd say, than Islamic.0.66
00:56:57.000They weren't around for the revolution, is what I'd say.0.99
00:57:03.000Of course, they're Islamic radicals, but they're not driven by that same revolutionary ideology that Khomeini and everybody else, like, Brought to fruition, right?0.50
00:57:12.000I mean, they fought the revolution, they won it, which makes them do more irrational type things, right?0.64
00:57:20.000This new group of leadership are more like state actors, I guess is what I'd say.
00:57:26.000Certainly more interested in statecraft, which is what they're doing.
00:57:30.000The IRGC, they're on the other side, right?
00:57:53.000But how they get there, I think, is a little bit different.
00:57:56.000I mean, this new leadership, they want to be legitimized.
00:58:00.000And if they're not, you know, they're probably going to end up getting killed by their own population if they don't get this thing under control.
00:58:07.000Do you think that was the calculation from the admin breaking up that link between the IRGC and this feeling?
00:58:12.000I mean, like that super strong ideological link, so to speak.
00:58:15.000I think that that was certainly a consideration in it.
00:58:18.000And obviously, there's a lot of other intelligence assets that were fed into it.0.51
00:58:22.000No one had better penetration into the IRGC on planet Earth than the Israelis.
00:58:28.000I mean, they were, they had a guy, this is, and I'm sure you all know this story, but the dentist to the IRGC generals and top leadership was an Israeli asset.0.59
00:58:44.000And he was putting in crowns and fillings into their teeth with bugs in them.
00:58:50.000I mean, they knew, that's how they knew exactly where they were at every moment.
00:58:56.000What is, in your view, like what is going on with this weird bifurcation on the right?
00:59:01.000Where you've got people like Tucker now deeply critical of Donald Trump.
00:59:05.000You've got this sort of, I don't know what you'd want to call it, but this ascendant, and I don't want to say they're explicitly anti Israel, but there is an expansion among the youth on the right and the left.
00:59:18.000But my question is on the right completely anti Israel in every capacity to an extreme degree.
00:59:23.000Because I consider myself to be fairly ambivalent on the issue of Israel.
00:59:28.000Like, should we be providing military funding to foreign countries like this?0.98
00:59:32.000So I'd be in favor of cutting that military funding.0.95
00:59:36.000But you look on the internet and you look at these people, and it's like Israel killed Charlie Kirk, or they're responsible for every major conspiracy, or the earth is actually flat and the Jews are keeping us believing it's round.0.88
00:59:47.000I understand there's going to be a lot of people who'd be like, that's a straw man, Tim.
00:59:50.000I have differentiated between the wackaloon conspiracies, which is Israel derangement syndrome, and the genuine identity of there are people whose core identity on the right is just anti Israel.
01:01:21.000I'll give you my complete and honest take on everything.
01:01:25.000I think that the Biden administration launched a psychological operation on the United States, targeting me, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, and others with the Tenet Media fiasco.
01:01:33.000It's a Tennessee based company licensed one of our shows.
01:01:36.000And then Merrick Garland goes on TV announcing that these influencers are secretly getting paid by Russia to create the insinuation that my views on U.S. support for Ukraine were actually being pushed by the Russians, which is totally fabricated.0.98
01:01:50.000That's why I say the U.S. propaganda apparatus is abysmally retarded.0.99
01:01:55.000But I guess it works for half the country.1.00
01:01:56.000All it does is create division and animosity.
01:01:58.000So I'm trying to wrap my head around what it is they're trying to do.1.00
01:02:01.000With that being said, I fully am cognizant and I've discussed on this show, even going well before the Tenet fiasco, foreign countries do manipulate U.S. politics.0.85
01:02:11.000We've had Al Jazeera Plus in this country getting billions of views promoting intersectional feminism and the far left.0.89
01:02:20.000So, regardless of who's going to blame each other, point the finger to whoever you want.
01:02:23.000My question is, why haven't we stopped it?
01:02:26.000Yeah, look, it's our biggest strength and our biggest weakness the openness of the First Amendment and our freedom of speech and the media that's out there.
01:02:36.000It's our greatest weakness at the same time because they're able to go influence through media outlets and social media and otherwise the view that people have of the United States and otherwise on different foreign policy issues,
01:02:51.000whether We're talking about Iran or this or that.
01:02:56.000And you know, it's a sad reality, but can we just be mathematically sound?0.94
01:03:00.000If it is the case that the United States is incapable of defending itself from psychological operations from foreigners due to our own constitutional constraints, which I'm not saying we should do away with or anything like that, this is just the arithmetic.0.66
01:03:11.000If China, Iran, and Russia are able to manipulate influencers, both foreign and domestic, and we are incapable of stopping it, then we just lose.0.59
01:03:21.000Then the narrative in the United States among most young people who will become that the United States is bad should be destroyed.0.84
01:03:25.000The Constitution is wrong and should be abolished.
01:03:27.000And that's what we are starting to see among young people.
01:03:30.000And you get a Biden administration that lets in 10 to 20 million people who do not share our values.
01:03:58.000And look, I think Trump does, to many Americans, speak with this truth and clarity, which is why he's popular.
01:04:07.000It's why he's the president, he was willing to say things that everybody was thinking and they thought were true.
01:04:15.000And so I do think that there is a lane for being honest, being open, and just cutting through all the BS as President Trump has done for the last 10 years.
01:04:29.000I guess when I look back at like, Like 10 years ago, Facebook and Twitter at the time had back doors for intel agencies, for the FBI, for the CIA, to come in and flag things they wanted to remove.
01:04:49.000I think if they never tried doing gay communism, then the establishment machine state would have just maintained total control unabated.1.00
01:04:59.000But they come out with this weird gay communism stuff overnight.0.95
01:05:03.000And Like half of my generation, more than half, most young people are like, we reject this, and you make them vote for Trump.0.98
01:05:11.000So then when I think of that, I'm like, maybe they're actually really smart, and Trump is what they actually wanted the whole time.
01:05:19.000I mean, to your point, Huckum's razor, they're just retarded.1.00
01:05:21.000To your point about the gay communism stuff, right?1.00
01:05:24.000Like, that's really what kind of activated the normal people the idea of a man going into the bathroom with your daughter or with kids.0.69
01:05:36.000Like, the stuff that they had at Target, right?
01:05:40.000The Dylan Mulvaney being the spokesperson for Bud Light.
01:05:44.000The people that weren't interested in politics and thought, You know, didn't think about this kind of stuff, then it was shoved into their face.
01:05:52.000I think it partially because of the COVID stuff, the videos that were being disseminated of what's going on inside classrooms, and then seeing these kind of like crazy things.
01:06:02.000Because, you know, Tim points it out a lot, and it's true.0.97
01:06:05.000Like, you know, Dennis Prager was on Bill Maher, and he was like, they're putting tampons in the boys' bathroom because they're saying that boys can menstruate.0.79
01:06:48.000This was not only a big deal, it was the deciding factor for people to become politically active for a lot of people.
01:06:55.000Because These ideas that the left has that they truly believe are possible, but fly in the face of just actual reality, right?
01:07:08.000Like socialism has, as an economic system, it has never worked anywhere.
01:07:12.000It always destroys an economy, it always ruins countries.
01:07:16.000And yet they still continue to do things like in New York doing rent control.
01:07:21.000Every time you try rent control, it ends up hurting the people that can't find places to live.
01:07:27.000It drives the cost of rent up in places that aren't rent controlled.
01:07:31.000And the places that are rent controlled, they fall to crap because the people that own the buildings aren't going to have the money to be able to make the money back that they invest in a place.
01:07:40.000These things are not conflicts of policy.
01:08:15.000They're mad at the fact that just existing doesn't automatically provide you with all the things, not just the things you need, but with a lifestyle that they see people have on Instagram.
01:08:29.000Because in the United States, Even homeless people have smartphones.
01:08:34.000It's like literally 98% of Americans have smartphones.
01:08:41.000And that means that most homeless people have a smartphone.
01:08:45.000You know, you have this amazing technology in your pocket and you live on the streets.
01:08:52.000Most of the time, it's because you choose to do things that mean that you have to live on the streets or you choose to live on the streets because you don't want the responsibility.
01:08:59.000It's not a question of whether people can actually feed themselves or.
01:09:04.000Provide the basic necessities, it's that they want a better lifestyle than they have, you know?
01:09:10.000And, like I said, it is just, it's things that don't align with reality.
01:09:16.000And they refuse to admit that there are certain things about existing at all that are required to continue your existence.
01:10:23.000Listen, listen, the pharmaceutical companies, the medical establishment, they need to fix cancer, they need to fix lung cancer, fix emphysema, fix cancer, and then you'll see the United States take off,
01:10:37.000bring back smoking a pack and a half a day.
01:10:40.000It was John Daly that said nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.
01:10:44.000John Daly already crunched the numbers on this.
01:15:08.000I'm going to say this out there to every dad who's got a fat kid you are not preparing your child if you are out of shape and they are out of shape.
01:16:26.000But if you're a Husky Patriot, you're 12 years old up there, and a glass of Mountain Dew is the difference between you and just taking over the world, down that glass of Mountain Dew and get back out there tomorrow and conquer.
01:16:35.000Like, I don't think people understand what a Code Red Mountain Dew and not a lot, but like a 30 minute to an hour Call of Duty session can do for a Husky Patriot.
01:19:00.000I kind of saw some of these on the shelves.
01:19:03.000I'm super for it because I'm telling you, there's a bunch of suburban moms in like Virginia, Maryland, and around DC who will choose to drive the hour into West Virginia to buy their groceries knowing it's all going to be free from the trash.
01:21:46.000We have like this crazy shelf of booze, and like a couple years ago, people would come in and be like, oh, yeah, I'll pour a scotch, and nobody drinks anymore.
01:24:53.000You know, you had this big, jolly innkeeper, like maybe a Bavarian or maybe someone Irish extraction, and you have the rosy red cheeks, and he was round, but he wasn't fat.
01:25:52.000And you would have these massive human beings on the job site, big, like, but not like kind of like we were talking about, just huge visceral fat, you know, just hang, but just big guys that were strong as hell.
01:26:06.000That, yeah, I mean, they had, they're big around.
01:26:09.000But they could also lift like steel beams above their head.
01:26:57.000I'm precise with my words when it comes to physiognomy the traditional literary and historical stereotype that associates an innkeeper's character, morality, and role with specific facial and bodily features, yeah, in classical literature.
01:29:23.000If you wanna win that every single time and you can play this infinitely and never lose, there is one secret technique so that you can literally play until your hands are bleeding and you can have no,
01:30:07.000Cross your eyes and then just go boop, Next level, boop, So in the UK, they had this machine where if you got to like level 16, it would give you a pound.
01:30:15.000And then if you got to level 17, it would give you two pounds.
01:30:17.000Like once you got that far and the timer's going really quick, I'm just going like, like, printing money.
01:30:39.000But like every time I go to a bar with my friends and they have one of those kiosks, I'd walk right up and be like, eh, I'll get like 12 million points and then I'll leave.
01:31:34.000Weed men sit in the corner of the room, glazed, just staring at the men as they walk by and go, man, that's it.
01:31:41.000Oh, and these people, and they, the potheads mobilize.
01:31:44.000No one mobilizes like the potheads too.
01:31:46.000Like, I think the most brutal, like, Reply to like ratio I've ever seen in my life was Sagar and Jetty because he tweeted out, you know, something about the weed declassification.0.62
01:31:53.000He just said, you know, marijuana is the smell of civilizational decay, like objectively a truc, by the way.
01:32:00.000And the replies were just all these guys who were on one hand attesting that it's not addictive, but then also like having this impersonal, this like personal infraction because he's just saying he doesn't like the smell of marijuana.
01:32:52.000Every bill we send to the Senate has a SAVE Act.
01:32:55.000And to his credit, great man, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Tom Cole, said, I will put it on all 12 of my appropriations bills coming out of the House.
01:33:04.000And so we're sending everything over there that has the Save Act on it.
01:33:09.000The best chance that we have to pass it is this Reconciliation 3.0 that we just passed the budget resolution on.
01:33:17.000We're going to come back in September and pass Reconciliation 3.0, which will have the Save Act on it.
01:33:25.000This is for munitions, for the military.
01:34:13.000If they want, if that's, you know, if they're so against it, which they're going to have the weight of the entire country that believes in the Save Act, which by the way, this is like an 80 20 issue.
01:34:26.000Independents, Democrats, Democrats are like 70%, Independents are like 80%, Republicans are like 90%.
01:34:30.000And, you know, my Senate friends aren't going to like this statement, but I will tell you if they don't pass the Save Act and we lose the House, they have culpability in it because it is hurting us.
01:35:28.000And by the way, if it was left to the legislatures, we'd have 65.
01:35:32.000Freaking Republican seats right now in the United States Senate.
01:35:35.000And the point is, it makes the people of a state know who their state senators and reps are.
01:35:42.000You don't vote for your senator, you vote for your state legislative body, who then appoints a senator from your state to the federal government because the senator represents the state, not the people.
01:35:55.000And the states have no check on their federal elected reps right now.
01:36:05.000And to your point, which is so important, it puts focus back on the state legislature.
01:36:10.000Most people don't know who their state representative is.
01:36:11.000You know what I find just the funniest thing ever is when you see these campaign ads where a rep will be like, I'm going to clean up this town or kind of thing.
01:36:20.000It's like you're running for federal Congress.
01:36:22.000You're going to represent the town to the federal government.
01:36:25.000It's the local representatives and your state government that are going to clean up the town.
01:36:29.000But people don't understand this anymore.
01:36:32.000So they believe that when they vote for a member of federal Congress, it's a person who's going to be voting on bills for their city.
01:36:39.000Which to a certain degree does happen.
01:36:42.000You need to know who your state rep and state senator is because they're the ones who are going to come knock on your door and you're going to say, hey, we got a sewage leak, and they're the ones who are going to be focused on that.
01:36:50.000Yeah, if you want to find the person who's going to affect your day to day more than anybody, it's likely your county commissioner.
01:37:28.000People just, we've lost this, and this country would be substantially better because people would be like, they would go to the town halls or council meetings and be like, hey, you appointed a bad senator.
01:37:41.000They have to hold their state accountable, which affects the grassroots and will fundamentally bring back control to the people.
01:37:48.000What's happening right now is we're sort of skipping over the people because popular vote for a senator is lowest common denominator statewide.
01:37:57.000If you go, if you make sure that there's that level of state senator and state rep, you are now creating stronger roots to the community as you move up the chain to federal government and beyond.
01:38:07.000Right now, we're skipping over all of our state governance.
01:38:10.000And so you're ending up with senators who don't represent any community in their state, just the lowest common denominator of people spanned across the state.
01:38:41.000Man, could you imagine Florida would always have just like the best senators?1.00
01:38:44.000The silver lining on this would be the fact that it would really piss off the DSA types because they want to get rid of the Senate and we'd actually restore the Senate to its proper place.
01:38:53.000Yeah, well, it also goes back to the state Senate too.
01:38:55.000And to point about an hour ago, we're a republic.
01:40:22.000The best business you could start right now is open a news organization called the Texas Independent, and you just cater to independent voters because you're going to get both Democrats and Republicans dumping all of the ad dollars they can.
01:41:51.000Democrat political action committees tracked this.
01:41:54.000And they found that the right, the concern, it wasn't necessarily Trump, but it was the Republican Kamala is for they, them ad campaign resulted in a 2.7% swing from Democrat to Republican.
01:43:57.000But yeah, like the left and the Communists, they don't have the ability.0.98
01:44:05.000They don't have a way to articulate a defense against the Islamists.0.86
01:44:10.000The Islamists are, according to the left, they are an oppressed group.0.82
01:44:17.000And so, because they're an oppressed group, they are in a position to push the communists essentially around because the whole oppressor oppressed narrative rules everything they do.
01:45:20.000But they're just looking at how deranged they are over on that side and these useful idiots, where it's like, we're trans people for free Palestine.1.00
01:45:28.000It's like, let me know how that goes.1.00
01:45:31.000Well, the problem is they have to beat the right first.
01:45:48.000But, but yeah, the idea that, that, They're able to align together.0.52
01:45:53.000Even now, you see it in Europe where there are, you know, pro Palestine demonstrations and they're kicking out the people that are waving the LGBT.0.63
01:46:19.000It's almost like I'm not going to blame the entire religion.
01:46:22.000But white men and what that it's like, oh God.0.93
01:46:25.000Yeah, it's because they don't actually have contact with reality.0.92
01:46:30.000Again, they are in conflict with reality.0.93
01:46:37.000Like the Islamists are not going to welcome them in.0.85
01:46:40.000And the wildest part is that they've all bought into this narrative that the Islamists are complaining about the colonizers and the colonizers.0.67
01:48:02.000So, this was like a big viral thing on the internet several years ago where some guy made a video where he said, Let's compare the jihad to the crusade.
01:48:09.000And it's like, Yeah, there's no question.
01:48:42.000People think that this was, you know, the country of France, or that these were families and houses that decided we're going to go protect these Christian pilgrims on their way down.
01:48:55.000And then ultimately ended up securing the city of Jerusalem and then other outposts in there.
01:49:00.000Now, obviously, it's war, terrible things happen, got all that.
01:49:04.000But you can look at this map, it speaks for itself.
01:50:28.000But should the right not be there as a bulwark against both the left and the Islamists, the Islamists will have no problem killing them.0.89
01:50:35.000Yeah, the left is being hoodwinked by the Islamists who are using them to fulfill their prophecy.0.85
01:50:41.000You say hoodwinked, but that implies that they're being fooled.0.99
01:50:53.000I think they do have a line through in terms of just one similarity, and it's control.
01:51:01.000And they both have different ways of doing that and controlling civilization.0.99
01:51:08.000Ultimately, though, and we conservatives are a bigger threat to Islam than obviously the useful idiots of the left because many of us are people of faith.0.99
01:51:58.000Like, without any one of those those foundational
01:52:05.000philosophies or whatever you don't have the United States you don't have the West as a as a as a culture and even though all of Europe there's very different cultures throughout Europe they are really based on you know they are based on on you know Greek philosophy on Roman
01:52:25.000law law there thank you very much yeah and look we are to me the United States we are the apex Of Western civilization.
01:53:32.000I think I was talking about this like last week.
01:53:36.000I think maybe I was talking about this with Lily Tang, is that, you know, when I first got chickens, this was probably 13 years ago, maybe 12 years ago.
01:53:45.000I had friends come over and I walk out back, grab the eggs right from under the chicken and come inside.
01:54:58.000But people would come to this when they come on the show, and I'd be like, oh, look, and I'd grab a handful of berries and they'd be like, you're just going to eat them?
01:57:25.000Jason says Tim, I've been watching you since you stream.
01:57:28.000And as per tradition, I'd love to congratulate my lovely wife, Sabrina, giving birth to our fourth beautiful child, Jasmine, another proud Acadian baby.
01:57:57.000This guy is like a known leftist activist who had been saying that if Trump died, he'd give everybody free beer or insinuating it'd be Trump or whatever.
01:58:43.000I assume it's not going to be like in a tasteful Jeffersonian manner.
01:58:47.000It's just really funny when I talk to like these moderate lib types because like we debated them on the show about my kid, and you know, and they're like, Your daughter is going to get into things you can't stop it.
01:58:56.000I'm like, My daughter's going to be homeschooled, she is not going to one of these wackaloon public schools where an agent of the state will indoctrinate my child.0.80
01:59:04.000I know some people they have no choice because you're you require dual income, your mom, the wife is working, mom's working, dad's working, and so they have to have someone watch their kids.
01:59:30.000Homeschool kids and private school kids are eligible for their portion of state taxpayer dollars that can go to homeschool or private school, roughly around $5,000 right now.
01:59:41.000You know what my wife really wants to do?0.91
01:59:43.000And I think it's a really good idea because we talked about it.
01:59:46.000So, Cass Brew Coffee Shop is open in Martinsburg.
01:59:55.000Can probably accommodate three or four kids at a time, but it's closed.
01:59:59.000So, you know where your kid's going to be.
02:00:00.000If you're sitting down, you can sit down next to him.
02:00:02.000But my wife wants to do these play places where it's not like a jungle gym or anything, it's a bunch of educational toys and things to climb on.
02:00:13.000And parents bring their kids there and the kids run around and play.
02:00:16.000And I was like, we should do a hybrid of that with some educational stuff for homeschool kids.
02:00:22.000So, parents, when their kids are homeschooled, this is where they bring them, you know, for an hour or two every day for socializing.
02:01:36.000You know, nice Jason Ellis did comedy, it was very good, it was very funny.
02:01:40.000He made fun of me the whole time, yeah.
02:01:42.000You sang as well, and I got some on video, it was pretty good.
02:01:44.000Oh, yeah, I mean, I was not prepared to sing, so I was like, You get what you get.
02:01:48.000Alex, me and Alex Stein started a band and then disbanded, uh, immediately, yeah, speedrunning the Beatles, basically.
02:01:54.000Well, it was funny because Alex was like, I was like, Hey, Alex, I'll play guitar and freestyle.
02:01:58.000He basically had one tone and one chain of thought, yeah, Casper Coffee is good, and Starbucks is gay, Tim Pool is here, and like, I was right, that was about it, USA, USA.
02:06:05.000You've got a large influx of non citizens with psychotic, violent beliefs that are chopping people's heads off in the street.1.00
02:06:11.000You're not allowed to talk about it without going to jail.0.99
02:06:13.000You've got gangs that have been operating for decades.
02:06:15.000I look at the UK, and it's like you've got a political body threatening to extradite American citizens for us expressing our opinions on our own country.
02:06:21.000You can't have screwdrivers in public.
02:06:23.000The things that your country has done to its citizenry is shockingly insane to an American.
02:06:27.000It's absurd that you have such a massive influx.
02:06:29.000Of a disparate ideology coming into your country and imposing its will on you, and you do nothing about it.
02:06:34.000And in fact, your government largely protects, supports, and votes for it.
02:08:19.000But pointing out, we know that there's a large white population in the UK.0.70
02:08:24.000They are just largely getting arrested when they post things on social media that they oppose the Islamification of London or the fact that London is now largely non, not English, not British even.0.59
02:08:35.000And specifically, when I referenced the grooming gang scandal over three decades, Where the fathers were getting arrested for trying to rescue their daughters.
02:08:45.000What you're going to get with clips like this, it's going to be easily straw manned.
02:08:49.000The left is going to easily come out, and their immediate argument is going to be like, he's talking about like a million people in a country of 60 million, right?
02:08:57.000Obviously, it's a lot of people, but if you get the full argument that I made for trigonometry, it steelmans the position.
02:09:04.000But simply put, the nature of reality.
02:09:08.000Joe Rogan was surprised as, no, he wasn't.
02:09:11.000Joe Rogan doesn't even know this video happened.
02:09:13.000It's good that you did go so hard at the guys on the trigonometry pile.
02:09:33.000So I always want to stress this, too, because in 2021, the Biden administration used heavy machinery to break down the U.S. borders and allow criminals to flood into this country.
02:09:46.000The Texas State Guard was in a physical armed standoff with federal authorities.
02:09:51.000But the thing is, a lot of these younger people today, this was five years ago.
02:09:55.000So if they're 20, And they're getting into politics at 15 years old, they were not paying attention to what was going on.0.70
02:10:00.000So they hear the idea of civil war and they're like, this is ridiculous.
02:10:02.000And I'm like, well, we may be out of the woods largely in terms of like the temperatures come down.
02:10:07.000I don't know where it goes after the midterms, but people need to understand where we were in 2021 with vaccine mandates, with red states and blue states.
02:10:15.000The red states were defying a Biden administration mandate on COVID.
02:10:52.000The funny thing is, like, so we just launched the first episode of The Tim Pool Show, which is the Tim Pool Show channel had a bunch of random stuff I was just putting on it.
02:11:02.000I played poker on it once, made a couple hundred bucks.
02:12:12.000I am constantly watching the analytics for the show, and I can tell when the numbers are going down based on the conversation and when the retention and audience is going up.
02:12:22.000And so, if you see that I'm talking quite a bit, it's usually because whatever else is happening is resulting in people saying, I'm out.
02:12:30.000So then I'll step in, I'll talk, and people start sticking around.
02:13:00.000I mean, usually you go on a podcast, it's okay, here's the questions we're thinking about talking, here's the topics we want to talk about.
02:13:09.000And I've done a bunch of different podcasts.
02:13:11.000And so it's all kind of, you know, you know what you're getting in.
02:13:14.000This show's awesome because it's just free flow.
02:13:27.000But you notice we get people come on the show who don't talk at all because they think it's an interview show where I'm going to be like, so tell me about your book.
02:13:44.000And we were talking about, like, I don't know if we can have them on the show.
02:13:47.000I was like, I said, tell them we'll talk for the first hour about news, but then at nine o'clock we can get into what their business and life is.
02:13:55.000And they come back with me, like, oh, we don't want to do politics.
02:13:58.000And it's just like, guys, I recommend that you Google the show before asking to come on it.
02:14:03.000But we said, hey, why don't you come on the Tim Poole show instead?
02:14:06.000And then Tim Poole will just interview you.
02:14:24.000They don't like it because you don't have the safety belts not on and there's not the guardrails that you get in a lot of these other things.
02:14:46.000I'm not saying to be mean, but that's why they're liberals because they.
02:14:49.000So I asked her a line of questioning and it was related to George Floyd and I said, Do you think if a person can't get a fair trial that they should be tried?
02:15:47.000And the worst is like if they're running for office and they'll be like, you'll bring up, you know, Islam and you can't, they'd be like, well, you know where the real civilizational battle is going on?
02:15:55.000It's going on in Delaware's second district.
02:19:26.000If he was just like, I just want to be empowered, I'd be like, Fair enough.
02:19:30.000How hard is it to say, look, I think that I can bring the American people, I can take care of the issues the American people really care about?
02:19:39.000I think that the office of the presidency, in particular, is Trump.
02:20:03.000Joe Rogan stunned, Joe Rogan stunned, Joe Rogan stunned because of the SEO.
02:20:06.000And so I'm just like, if the government really wanted to have successful propaganda, they would just make a YouTube short, Joe Rogan shocked as Russia admits to killing babies.0.99
02:20:18.000You know, they're like, make a fake video where Putin's like, you have to kill them.0.62
02:20:21.000And then Joe Rogan's like, I can't believe it.0.98
02:20:24.000This reminds me of MySpace days when bands used to add, like, one band added, like, Hello Goodbye to blank in their band name so they could get the SEO of Hello Goodbye to their.
02:20:34.000It's like, all right, let's go to Collins.
02:20:52.000I'm sorry for being a China question again.
02:20:55.000So, let me just get to the question directly.
02:20:58.000But I was thinking about the war that you were discussing earlier, and I'm thinking about the decoupling and how that affects the entire war situation and everything.
02:21:09.000My personal belief is that the war will not happen unless both countries become sufficiently self sufficient around the same time.0.67
02:21:19.000If you understand where I'm going with this, if one becomes self sufficient earlier, obviously it's going to dominate.
02:21:26.000If both fail, I mean, that's just a failure.
02:21:29.000So, my question basically is unless this some black swan event happens, which country has become more self sufficient since the start of the two wars?
02:21:43.000And which one was behind, let's say, or which one was in the second position before the start of the wars?
02:21:50.000Are you talking about the U.S. and China?
02:21:53.000So the decoupling has been going on for a long time, but it's only been happening on one side.
02:22:00.000It's been happening with China, China decoupling themselves from the United States.0.87
02:22:05.000We are more reliant on them, unfortunately, than they are us in terms of the production of a lot of our cheap products that are made over there.0.83
02:22:12.000That is why they've been transitioning to become the world superpower as it relates to production.0.99
02:22:17.00030% of everything made right now in the world is made in China.
02:22:21.000That's why they've had this massive industrialization that's gone on.
02:22:25.000And technological, they used to have bad technology, they actually got good technology now.
02:22:30.000And it's a problem, it's a real problem.0.70
02:22:33.000So China certainly has the advantage in terms of the decoupling right now.
02:22:38.000The United States, through Donald Trump, that's why we are reshoring our manufacturing, going back to that industrial deterrence.
02:22:45.000Point that I was making that's so important for the United States.
02:22:48.000And I do, though, I don't think that that leads us to conflict being more self reliant.
02:22:54.000If you go back to the Cold War, it actually keeps things a little more frozen, I believe, because there's less harm that we can do to each other economically in that case, in my view.0.65
02:23:06.000So I think it's an existential threat to the United States to be so tied to China because they can leverage all of our supply chains.0.79
02:23:40.000They used to be a massive holder of U.S. treasuries, and they just continue to sell those off as they want to ensure that, you know, when those treasuries mature, that they're not being paid out in U.S. dollar.
02:23:49.000They want to ensure that they're keeping, you know, Yuan.
02:24:05.000I mean, the point that I mentioned earlier when Blinken met with the Chinese in Alaska, that was like really a wake up call for the United States.
02:24:16.000It's a shame that the Biden administration didn't take that seriously and didn't make moves to.0.51
02:24:22.000To try to begin to become independent of China.0.65
02:24:26.000But thankfully, Donald Trump has basically always been kind of a hawk on China, not militarily, but looked at China as the threat that it is.0.75
02:24:36.000I get on X all the time and I'm like, look, China is an adversary.0.76
02:24:49.000And the only reason that China deals with the United States the way that China does is because China sells so much to the To the United States.
02:24:56.000We should be doing everything we can to make sure that we can produce, to my point earlier, all of the technology that we need for defense here in the U.S.
02:25:10.000Outsourcing our national defense to other countries is quite possibly the worst foreign policy and domestic policy decision that's been made literally ever, or at least in the modern era, right?
02:25:29.000As the global hegemon, as the most powerful country in the world, we need to produce the tools and technologies that defend this country and by extension, defend basically all of the sea lanes all over the world.
02:25:44.000We need to produce those things here in the United States.
02:25:48.000That includes steel, that includes all of the microchips that we use in advanced technology.
02:25:54.000I mean, right now, we have a lock on the silicone that makes the silicone chips all over the world.
02:25:59.000We have the best silicone in the whole world in this little town in North Carolina.
02:26:07.000But everywhere else in the world, nowhere has silicone this pure, right?
02:26:13.000And the crucibles that they use to melt the silicone, those have to be made of the same silicone because you can't have any kind of impurities in it.
02:26:21.000We have the basic raw material, the best quality anywhere in the world, and we have it here.
02:26:30.000We have everything we need, everything we need to be able to produce.
02:26:35.000All of the military industrial complex tools, technologies, all of it, we have it here.
02:26:41.000All of the technology is designed in California.
02:26:45.000We don't need to ship stuff over to China.
02:26:48.000And if we have to subsidize things, companies to produce this stuff here in the US, then we have to do that.
02:26:55.000And I, like, I mean, look, I'm not particularly a big fan of spending money, you know, the US blowing a bunch of money, but the major drivers of our debt are still, and they're always going to be Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
02:27:07.000The amount of money that we spend on the military is not actually driving our debt.
02:27:14.000Like, we spend more on interest on our debt than we spend on the military.
02:27:18.000So, like, we can absolutely spend more money on the military to make sure that the tools and technologies that we need are made and produced here in the United States.
02:28:02.000And that's why we are able to leverage them.
02:28:05.000And that's why President Trump took a golden share, to Phil's point, in U.S. steel when we had the U.S. Nippon US steel merger, the United States government does have a golden share in there.
02:28:18.000So there is the ability of the United States government to step in and say, nope, we're going in this direction.
02:29:24.000I think that we should be doing a lot more when it comes to re industrializing, but at the very minimum, At the very minimum, when it comes to making sure that the military has the things that it needs to defend the United States,
02:29:35.000we shouldn't be all that concerned about if China decides to take Taiwan.
02:30:18.000Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all those mandatory spending programs are 74% of all the money that we spend in this country.
02:30:28.000Yeah, most people don't even know the difference between discretionary and mandatory spending.
02:30:31.000Did you want to add anything to that, brother, or shout anything out?
02:30:35.000Just to add a follow up question, I guess, kind of a follow up question.
02:30:38.000I mean, you mentioned it already with rare earths.
02:30:41.000China is producing, refining, I guess, 90% of it or something like that.
02:30:46.000I was reading that G7 at the last summit, they discussed that they would like to reduce any country from exporting more than 60% of any rare earth material.
02:31:26.000I mean, it's not hard to get them out of there.
02:31:28.000And, you know, Department of War and Department of Energy have put grants out now under the Trump administration to start to produce rare earth minerals here in the United States.
02:31:40.000Obviously, it takes a while to turn the battleship around of the U.S. government, which moves incredibly slow, but nobody's moving it faster than him.
02:32:22.000But like the United States is a very accessible place, you can get to anywhere in the country, even places that are quote unquote remote, at least in the lower 48.
02:32:32.000You can get there in a plane ride and a couple hour drive.
02:32:35.000You know, like it is not hard to capitalize on the resources that we have here.
02:35:21.000So, um, my question is mostly for Rep Moore, but uh, anybody who has information can jump in, and it's basically something that was lightly touched during the show today, and it is.
02:36:59.000They just stand around and look down their nose at the House.
02:37:02.000Yeah, I mean, if you want, you know, I keep going back to my committee, but if you want to see how we actually passed appropriations bills in FY26, we just continued dumping them onto the Senate over and over and over again until we pressured them into actually taking them up.
02:37:21.000And this is why the House, it's a very interesting time to be honest with you.
02:37:26.000Generally, in prior years, the Senate always led the way on the funding bills, any major initiatives, this and that.
02:37:34.000The House did one big, beautiful bill.
02:37:39.000The House is leading the way on all of these things, which points to how dysfunctional the Senate actually is right now.
02:37:46.000And the House, before, and I was a huge advocate for this and asking for it, along with some of my other colleagues.
02:37:54.000Freedom Caucus chair being one of them, Andy Harris.
02:37:58.000I wanted, and we got, we passed a continuing resolution in July before we left Congress.
02:38:05.000We've not run out of money right now, but we didn't want a gun to our head in the House when we come back in September, when we run out of money on September 30th, a way that the House has led the way again.
02:38:18.000So the Senate, all they have to do over there, pass the CR.
02:39:42.000Yeah, the same protection in the First Amendment of freedom to assembly and freedom of speech is the same protection that prevents us from getting rid of political parties.
02:39:54.000As long as people are free to assemble and say what they want, they're going to decide, okay, We're going to work together and we have these aligned goals.
02:40:01.000The best you could hope for was to get rid of the name only.
02:40:04.000There would still be parties, even if they're not official.
02:42:02.000I've seen a lot of K pop recently.0.98
02:42:03.000So, how much of K pop success in America do you think is organic?
02:42:07.000And how much do you think is the result of Korea intentionally investing its entertainment industries as a geopolitical and cultural strategy?0.69
02:45:25.000And it's a sound that is, I would argue, uplifting.
02:45:30.000You walk away not feeling heightened emotions, really, but a lot of the other music is more aggressive and whatnot.
02:45:37.000It can't be good for you to be taking that in at all times.
02:45:39.000So the fact that that sort of music is coming back gives me a lot of hope that Americans' tastes are improving once again, that we're starting to feel a sense of.
02:45:48.000Maybe we should be a little bit better than this.
02:45:49.000Maybe we shouldn't just be engaging in slop 24 7.
02:45:58.000And this is why I say, real quick, why it's a conspiracy.
02:46:01.000Because if you have a rock loving boomer generation whose children grow up listening to the rock music their parents are playing in the house, it makes no sense to try and sell those kids rap music.
02:46:14.000It is less efficient in the marketplace.
02:47:29.000I think what's happening, yeah, is like a lot of these engines that were used to promote music and media and whatnot that was like just bad for people, that money's dried up.
02:47:37.000And also, short form, like completely democratized like what music trends.
02:47:40.000Like my cousin, I don't want to like dox or anything, but he's a very successful independent.
02:47:45.000So he's not even with the record label.
02:47:47.000And most of his music has found its legs through short form.
02:47:49.000Again, just people picking it up and then they're into that.
02:47:53.000So, short form, while yes, it's true that some record labels try to like brute force, ultimately, like the people.
02:47:58.000Decide what they like and what they don't like, and what tends to like you know pick up steam on short form like TikTok, Instagram, Rails, etc.
02:48:05.000Um, there's not much record labels can do about that.
02:48:07.000The reality is, like, most of these record label marketing companies are like older folks that don't really understand how to market towards younger people, and it feels a lot more democratized right now, for better or for worse.
02:48:17.000Which the downside is, we can't create stars anymore, and that actually is important for well, this real unity.
02:48:22.000But uh, this is you know, I'll add this just as a somewhat off subject but in subject.
02:48:28.000Uh, ESPN just carried the world series of poker for the first time in a long time.
02:48:42.000It was, uh, was like the Manning brothers did like production, I think.
02:48:46.000And it was one of the biggest productions I'd ever seen, uh, for the World Series because I'd been there a couple times, not nearly as big.
02:49:53.000Well, you know, I don't want to say too much, but I can just tell you this based on the internal conversations I've had because we're trying to get unbanned.
02:50:28.000And there's a fuck ton of them because people who lose their kids turn it into content where they'll make a video every day about how their kid died.0.68
02:51:04.000Oh, that's why we never search X on the show live.
02:51:07.000I always do it in the other browser because I'll search for something like Lindsey Graham funeral and it'll be like just some dude ramming somebody.
02:51:14.000Here's a guy in Colombia getting his head sawed off, by the way.