On this week's episode of Scandalous: Joe Biden is pulled away from the G7 summit, the Sandy Hook families are trying to seize Alex Jones' ex-account, and the Foundation for Freedom Online is trying to make sure Alex Jones is never allowed to work in media again.
00:00:28.000At a skydiving demonstration, he seems to completely disassociate from what's going on, turn around, and then start wandering off in a random direction.
00:00:39.000And then, I think it was Italy's prime minister runs over and grabs him to, like, turn him around, and he's just, like, completely confused and lost.
00:00:48.000Man, coming off of that other video where everyone's dancing and he's just frozen and just like completely out of his mind, now some people are saying, is this really the big news?
00:01:00.000Donald Trump is slamming the Biden administration and Biden himself over Russian naval vessels off the coast of Florida.
00:01:08.000Joe Biden at the G7 is supposed to be representing the United States, and one of the big issues is talking to China to get them to back off of Russia to stop the escalation of conflict so this doesn't turn into World War III, and the dude is just not there.
00:01:22.000So I don't know, I mean, maybe we got someone else there who has no authority and they're not going to respect, but this is it.
00:01:28.000The other big, big news, this is a really big story.
00:01:31.000Apparently, the Sandy Hook families have filed to seize Alex Jones' ex-account, calling it a customer list.
00:02:19.000was expected to be the flagship, a light-roast breakfast blend, but everybody loves Appalachian Nights, both in the literal sense and our coffee.
00:02:26.000So head over to casprew.com to support the show.
00:02:39.000But as a member, you get access to our members-only call-in show, and if you didn't see last night's with Matt Gaetz, it was absolutely fantastic.
00:02:48.000Talking about active legislation, talking about the goings-on of Congress and his views, and it was absolutely fantastic to have Rep Gates here.
00:02:56.000But become a member, get access to our Discord server where you can submit questions, and then Monday through Thursday, 10 p.m., we have the Member Call-In Show right after the live show on YouTube, and y'all can actually call in to join the show, be on the show, and talk to us and our guests.
00:03:11.000So I do recommend it because it makes the show run.
00:03:13.000Smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with all your friends.
00:03:17.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and everything else is Mike Benz.
00:06:09.000I have no rhythm, so there's a level where I can understand maybe standing still when everyone else is able to keep up with some kind of tempo, but it doesn't look like he is present.
00:06:20.000It doesn't look like he even knows the emotional reaction he's supposed to be having to this event.
00:06:24.000He walks around with a death mask, like the same horrifying death mask you imagine on a dying person.
00:06:29.000And did you all see the video where he saluted Maloney?
00:06:37.000It's crazy because we've talked about his cognitive failures before, but we are well beyond whatever.
00:06:43.000I mean, we played that video—I should probably pull it up again—we were talking about U.S.
00:06:47.000weapons in Ukraine, and he can't say more than a few words without going out of breath.
00:06:52.000I think whatever drugs they got pumped into his veins are not working anymore, and they know it.
00:06:57.000It's kind of like a low power mode on a computer or something, because I actually think if you were to put him in a debate, he would be able to summon the power to be able to actually be somewhat formidable, but that he sort of gets that by being in effectively sleep mode for the other 98% of the day, and he's sort of like a device that is is old and worn out and just has to conserve that.
00:07:23.000But he, you know, this is one of these things where people have said that about Biden for a long time.
00:07:29.000I remember the Paul Ryan debate where Mitt Romney was looking like he was on track to potentially beat Barack Obama.
00:08:16.000So what I did was I searched for the clip just now and I grabbed a random segment from the interview, which I've not, I don't know where it's specifically at, but I'm going to play it.
00:10:16.000The thing that I find interesting about the debate is – so what I was reading today was that basically Biden doesn't – hasn't started debate prep.
00:10:24.000He's got, what, two weeks until he's supposed to debate Trump and he's kind of back-to-back booked.
00:11:09.000They said that they're going to sink Biden, but they're going to focus everything in terms of the shadow campaign, mail-in ballots, on senators and members of Congress so that they can impeach Trump and target Trump, go after him that way, because they're not going to win the presidency.
00:11:25.000Yeah, it's interesting seeing his failing memory because there's, you know, there's a quote that, if you're an honest man, you don't need a good memory.
00:11:34.000And I'm almost sort of, I sometimes flirt in my head with thinking about, you know, the Biden family intrigues are so vast.
00:11:44.000Biden, you know, before he was president, before he was the vice president for Obama, he spent 40 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
00:11:52.000Which is really the, you know, the Senate arm of the American empire on every continent.
00:11:59.000And it's essentially, it's got oversight over the State Department.
00:12:02.000And the State Department essentially has oversight over the intelligence community.
00:12:06.000His own family is involved in it a thousand different ways.
00:12:10.000He's a guy who's basically an international dealmaker who Half of his life is diplomacy, the other half is sort of duplicity about that diplomacy.
00:12:19.000There's a lot of lies you need to keep straight, a lot of stories you need to be able to sort of tell to different audiences about the same fact pattern.
00:12:27.000And I kind of feel like when you live that life for so long, you don't really age gracefully with a good memory because you can't keep your own lies straight.
00:12:38.000He doesn't know when he lied and what he lied about?
00:12:40.000And it doesn't matter, ultimately, because the corporate press is going to run cover for him.
00:12:45.000But the thing is, I think that at this point in his life, he's sort of running on the fumes of his 50 years in government, and he's still kind of like mastered, substantless speech, even though he can barely speak or get it out.
00:12:57.000There's no substance to what he says, and it's just second nature for him.
00:13:02.000Yeah, he can kind of convert into or like shift into a gear where it's like, I'm addressing a crowd.
00:13:08.000And when you heard him at the gun rally, he's like, knows how to build to a point and then see something kind of colloquial.
00:13:19.000If you're a young voter, right, you didn't see him, you know, when he was involved in different hearings in the Senate, you didn't see him before, you maybe remember him as the VP.
00:13:26.000Do you look at him and think, strong, capable leader, definitely able to convince me to vote for him?
00:13:32.000I mean, it's concerning to me that he's at the G7 summit.
00:13:35.000He's supposed to be negotiating all kinds of stuff and making all kinds of deals and, you know.
00:13:40.000Shout out to the Prime Minister of Italy for just sort of escorting him back to the fold.
00:13:44.000I mean, he needs a handler always, and that's not exactly what you want in your world's leader.
00:13:50.000I mean, when you look at the leaders of Europe, when you look at what's going on with NATO, the United States has become an appendage, a vassal state of this international organization that will do whatever it wants.
00:14:23.000This country is running effectively as, I don't know, we are being forced along by a corrupt Congress that won't do anything, an executive branch that doesn't exist, and a Supreme Court that can barely get its head straight half the time.
00:14:35.000I mean, Roberts doesn't even know what he's doing.
00:14:38.000And then you've got the liberal justices like Ketanji Brown-Jackson who doesn't even know what a woman is.
00:14:43.000We desperately need to make this country great again.
00:14:46.000And there's a lot of people who are like, that's that, you know, the country was never great, blah, blah, blah.
00:14:51.000And I'm like, dude, I don't know, man.
00:14:53.000Look, I guess great could be a semantic definition where everything that threshold is.
00:15:14.000He is incapable of actually doing the job as the president.
00:15:18.000And I'll shout out, you know, you get these Democrats like Harry Sisson, he made this video, and he's like, if you want a better economy, you gotta vote for Biden, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:26.000And I'm like, dude, you know, look, man, anybody who's voting for Trump or Biden on legislative issues, I gotta let you know something.
00:16:01.000Yeah, it's interesting because Joe Biden's moniker in Washington from the 1980s until he was vice president was Mr. Foreign Policy, you know, because he sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and he was the chairman of it and the ranking member.
00:16:16.000So Biden's whole strong, in fact, you can look up some of these articles from when Biden was running for president.
00:16:24.000The main force behind him was the U.S.
00:16:27.000foreign policy establishment, the stakeholders that we have who coast off of the activities
00:16:32.000of our State Department, our Pentagon and intelligence services.
00:16:54.000According to I think the New York Times who published this, a January 2019 meeting at
00:16:58.000BlackRock HQ with Larry Fink, BlackRock pledged their support behind him.
00:17:03.000And basically, one of Biden's top advisors in the White House is one of the Donilon brothers, Tom Donilon, the brother of the main advisor in the White House.
00:17:15.000Tom Donilon is a former military guy, former intelligence guy, former State Department guy.
00:17:20.000He did the hat trick and now he runs the investment arm of BlackRock.
00:17:23.000So you have Joe Biden's top advisor being the brother of BlackRock with $10 trillion of assets under management, many of which are in Ukraine.
00:17:35.000Well, I think the Donilon Brothers' brains function, and I think that they don't want a president.
00:17:41.000I think actually Biden is ideal, because if you were to have a popular president, they tend to be charismatic, they tend to have thoughts of their own.
00:17:52.000It is, as long as you win the vote, then they'll be compliant.
00:17:59.000The issue is there's this trade-off where they need to sort of get them up to a certain
00:18:02.000point and it's hard to think of another Democrat who will be as not there, as have no ideas
00:18:09.000of their own, no vision of the world, no principles of their own.
00:18:12.000You know, Biden, when in the 1990s, he had a quote where he described himself as a prostitute.
00:18:18.000Now, he was saying this in the context of how unfair it is as a senator if you don't come from means, because he said he bragged that he was the poorest person.
00:18:26.000He was the poorest person in Congress when he won in his, whatever, 29 years of age,
00:18:32.000or he was very young when he came to Congress.
00:18:35.000And he was complaining that you need to sell out to donors, you need to prostitute yourself,
00:18:40.000and that he himself was effectively did that.
00:18:45.000And then he becomes chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
00:18:48.000Well, who is he prostituting himself out to?
00:18:51.000To that same foreign policy establishment.
00:18:53.000And to Tim's point about Trump running on foreign policy, it's precisely for that that
00:19:01.000The Ukraine impeachment, the Russiagate FBI investigation, the Soros prosecutors, and the Soros global interests behind the present lawsuits.
00:19:09.000I want to give a quick shout out to Power Wheels CD in the chat who said Trojan Corpse.
00:20:48.000I think they did at one point, but I don't know if it- Was that- I don't know if that was- I think they wanted to chair something.
00:20:54.000Might as well do hospital beds at this point.
00:20:57.000They were like, we just would like it to be virtual and pre-recorded.
00:21:00.000Well, what's interesting about this, too, is they have a stipulated agreement that Trump's mic will be cut off if he interrupts.
00:21:06.000That was one of the stipulated terms because they were so afraid of Trump's sort of pithy Arnold Schwarzenegger-type comments like, because you'd be in jail.
00:21:16.000And Trump does have that sort of one-liner quality.
00:21:22.000I think it's good as a meme, but I don't think Trump really is prone to rambling.
00:21:29.000And again, they fear Trump interrupting with those because it interrupts a Biden ramble and sort of reveals it for the ramble that it is.
00:21:38.000Yeah, if the goal of the debate is to be the one who speaks for the most time, who kind of controls the pace, then, you know, being able to sort of outtalk your opponent isn't bad.
00:21:47.000You know, again, rambling feels like it might be a sort of biased question.
00:21:52.000But, you know, in terms of all of this, do you think that these low expectations for Biden, like the fact that there's even a conversation that he'll exit on the wrong side, it sort of works to his favor because people don't believe he can do it?
00:22:04.000So sort of any sort of basic performance is a win for him?
00:22:09.000You know how when they do those Oxford debates, and they determine the winner not by who in the audience agrees with the issue most, but they sort of take a baseline.
00:22:19.000Who is on this side of the issue before the debate, and then they measure the winner by who came over to the other side.
00:22:26.000You know, whose expectations essentially changed in favor of one versus the other.
00:22:30.000And this is another one of these reasons why I just caution not to underestimate Biden in a debate context.
00:22:35.000And I go back to the low power mode because even the videos that we watched, that was Biden when he was at one of these, one of a million of these perfunctory presidential things.
00:22:45.000You're in the garden, you're watching a paraglider.
00:22:48.000Okay, I need to just, you know, smile for the camera.
00:22:50.000But in your head, you're thinking about everything else you have to think about as president.
00:22:54.000And there's so many of those functions that are perfunctory.
00:22:57.000I would not be surprised if behind closed doors, Low power mode comes off and we need to be sharp for an hour or two.
00:23:11.000I mean, but is that sort of a low expectation for voters that we can get Biden to be high performing for an hour or two of the day?
00:23:18.000I mean, there's no doubt that being the president of the United States is a demanding job.
00:23:21.000I remember seeing those before and after pictures of Obama who had gotten very gray.
00:23:25.000You know, it's I can't imagine that the demands time travel Well, there's another aspect of this that I find interesting that's sort of related, which is the lack of celebrity endorsements in the summer of an election season.
00:23:47.000You know, part of this is because while it doesn't necessarily cripple Biden to be so absent and to be so sort of easily Dunkable on for these kind of moments.
00:23:58.000The total absence of charisma makes it hard for people to tell their own audiences to go out for this person without looking either profoundly uncool or looking like a naked shill because what do you really see in this person because there's nothing really to go on.
00:24:14.000And Biden doesn't do press conferences.
00:24:16.000Trump did press conferences every single day during coronavirus and he was probably the most accessible press person.
00:24:22.000Biden does not do public press conferences.
00:24:26.000In the limited context that he does every couple months, it's a couple of questions, none of them adversarial, and tightly controlled.
00:24:36.000And what I find really interesting is typically, you know, they say that politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
00:24:43.000that politicians aren't necessarily highly charismatic by nature,
00:24:48.000but if they are up to a certain point, celebrities can kind of do the rest.
00:24:52.000And right now, there is almost no, I mean, you have a couple of these, the De Niro's,
00:24:57.000but we're used to seeing, I mean, remember in 2016, the tapes of 100 celebrities,
00:25:06.000you could do a two-hour supercut of all the musicians, the actors,
00:25:12.000every field of entertainment and academia and cultural celebrity coming out for Hillary Clinton.
00:25:51.000George Clooney, Obama, and Julia Roberts are hosting this fundraiser.
00:25:54.000Yeah, and you've got Steven Spielberg, Martin Sheen, I don't know, Matthew Iglesias.
00:26:00.000Congratulations, you're listed as well.
00:26:01.000But when you go over to Trump's, He actually has so many, it breaks them down into political operatives, actors, musicians, sports figures, religious figures, and activists and public figures.
00:26:09.000So certainly Trump has substantially more than Joe Biden does.
00:26:13.000Biden does have his celebrity endorsements, but...
00:26:16.000They actually, like, when you look at the list of endorsements for Joe Biden, I mean, how many of these are actually, okay, how many actors do we have?
00:26:23.000Let's see, one, two, three, uh, do-do-do-do, let's go, let's go, let's go, four, um, five, oh, Eva Longoria, uh, six, seven, eight, he's got a, he's got a, nine, ten, 11, 12... Kim, how many of these are A-list actors that were in a movie this year?
00:26:44.000I mean, like, all of those... Yeah, but to be fair, I mean, like, Dean Cain and, like, Kevin Sorbo, they're doing, like, parallel economy stuff.
00:26:51.000That's exactly what I was going to say, was what you're talking about, is that I don't think these celebrities have the same cultural clout that they used to.
00:26:56.000Like, we're in a totally different landscape than we were in 2016.
00:26:58.000Their endorsements really don't matter that much.
00:27:34.000Most of the rappers are supporting Trump.
00:27:36.000But when you look at Trump, you've got Azealia Banks, Benny the Butcher, Kodak Black, Orgeato Blow, Waka Flocka Flame.
00:27:44.000I do like that they included Naked Cowboy.
00:27:48.000DaBaby, Aaron Lewis, Ted Nugent's also a bit older, Lil Pump, Sexy Red.
00:27:53.000And Snoop Dogg even reversed his position on Trump, did you see that?
00:27:59.000Who, if you remember, held up a, you know, did a music video essentially shooting Trump in the head or holding a gun to Trump's head when he ran the first time.
00:28:08.000He actually came out a couple weeks ago and said, I got nothing but love for Trump.
00:28:12.000And, you know, basically effectively all but did a formal endorsement.
00:29:50.000Well, this is really where I see the low-power mode, though, coming into it more so than in the debate, in the sense that look at what Trump is doing today with Logan Paul, a 90-minute interview.
00:30:02.000You know, Nelk Boys, like 60, 90 minutes.
00:30:05.000I think what's hurting Biden about this kind of low-power mode and then save it for an hour or two of the day is that you can't do these kind of media tours and these kind of, you know, the media blitz of connecting with all these celebrities.
00:30:18.000They can't get together to produce a video, to produce an interview, to do a little song together.
00:30:25.000He can't hit the road and do four cities to go to L.A.
00:30:30.000for this, to New York for that, and Chicago for this, whereas Trump is flying four or five cities a day.
00:30:36.000That was one of the things that Democrats were arguing was so great about the trial is that it hemmed Trump down physically in the trial room.
00:30:44.000So that he couldn't go out and do the blitz that brings you the hearts and minds.
00:30:48.000And so I actually think part of the celebrity endorsement drought in the Biden election cycle here is the fact that he has to be on low power mode so much.
00:30:59.000He can't expend the energy to do these high profile, have to be present, have to deliver.
00:31:04.000Because now you are in front of the cameras, in front of all their audiences.
00:31:10.000And so he's cut off from that, and I think part of that also has to do with a kind of left-wing civil war on the Israel-Palestine thing, where because of that issue dividing the left, a lot of celebrities don't necessarily want to endorse Biden, because not only do they need to fear a Bud Light-style right-wing boycott, but their left-wing flank might, half of their base maybe, Yeah, you're making me think of, I'm going to go back to talking about pop culture.
00:31:38.000Chapel Rowan, this pop star who's really popular right now, she's really coming up, I think she was at the Governor's Ball in New York, this music festival, and she said the Biden administration asked her to come to the White House and perform during Pride, and she was like, no, and seemed to say basically because of the Israel-Palestine thing.
00:31:54.000I mean, one of the things the media talked about constantly when Trump was in office was how many of the, you know, sports teams that would win whatever tournament, you know, whether it's Super Bowl or whatever it was, refused to come meet Trump because he was bad, I guess, or whatever.
00:32:08.000And now it seems like This is starting to happen in the Democrats' backyard, in Hollywood, in the music industry.
00:32:15.000They're saying, well, I don't want to be associated with Biden because either I personally don't believe him or he's too controversial because of the stances he's taken on this international conflict.
00:32:23.000I'm wondering if it might be like a really smart strategic move on their behalf to just keep him out of the media tour, like Trump is on.
00:32:30.000Well, if he only has an hour a day, yeah.
00:32:32.000Well, not just that, because like, think about it.
00:32:34.000I mean, he doesn't, well, as you pointed out, he's not a free thinker.
00:32:38.000You know, he doesn't have any sort of personality to offer anybody.
00:32:40.000The people are going to vote for him anyway, or have been ideologically compromised for what, at least eight years now, probably longer.
00:32:46.000So who is he really advocating to support him?
00:32:50.000He's already got the support that he is going to get.
00:32:52.000Nothing he's going to say on a media tour is going to necessarily bolster that.
00:32:56.000I think part of it is if you send him on a media tour, people are going to be like, I have questions about this policy you put out and I don't think they want to answer to the record they currently have.
00:33:13.000Families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims want to seize Alex Jones's social media accounts in his bankruptcy, saying that the conspiracy theorists' frequent posts to fans are a key part of the Infowars business being liquidated to pay Jones's debts.
00:33:25.000Jones filed bankruptcy protection 17 months ago, has given up on trying to reach a settlement that would reduce the $1.5 billion that he owes to the relatives of 20 students and six staff members that killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
00:34:06.000They say it's, quote, no different than a customer list of any other liquidating business.
00:34:13.000First, I will stress that you don't own your social media accounts.
00:34:18.000X owns it, and they grant access to Alex to use that... That's the terms of service and agreements.
00:34:25.000They would have to seize access, not from Alex, but from Elon Musk.
00:34:30.000I don't see this ever happening, but this is an insane move.
00:34:33.000They argue that Jones has used a social media account to push down the value of InfoWars by diverting sales from that site to his father's drjonessnaturals.com, which sells health supplements and other products.
00:34:45.000Quick question, is Alex Jones' dad a doctor?
00:34:55.000I think I read that in Shane's profile of Alex Jones, as a matter of fact.
00:34:59.000So they say a bankruptcy judge is scheduled to hear the family's demand at a Friday court hearing in Houston.
00:35:03.000The judge is expected to convert Alex Jones' bankruptcy case from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7 liquidation.
00:35:09.000Jones claimed for years the Sand Hill killings were staged.
00:35:12.000He did later then say he didn't think that was correct.
00:35:15.000Jones has estimated that he has less than $12 million in assets, meaning that he will carry an enormous legal debt even after Infowars and his other assets are sold.
00:35:24.000Alex Jones' dad is apparently a dentist.
00:35:38.000Shutting down InfoWars doesn't actually get them any money.
00:35:41.000If they're going to be filing, they should be filing to say, we get X amount garnished off of InfoWars revenue per month or something like that.
00:35:47.000Taking his Twitter account from his ex-account from him?
00:35:50.000They're literally just saying, like, no longer can this man speak in public.
00:35:54.000It's an impossible thing they're doing.
00:35:56.000There's literally nothing they can do.
00:35:58.000Alex can make a new ex-account tomorrow, and tweet one time with a video of him talking, and it's gonna skyrocket.
00:36:05.000I don't even know how they seize a social media account.
00:36:24.000It's brutal to watch what they're doing to Alex.
00:36:27.000On top of that, you know, I see this potentially being a Supreme Court issue three years from now because this gets to the fundamental question of what is a social media account.
00:36:36.000This is almost an extension of the Section 230 debate about platforms versus publishers.
00:36:43.000If a social media account is a business asset And can essentially be rolled up in bankruptcy.
00:36:51.000This gives the censorship industry a brand new tool everywhere, anywhere to take out an opposing voice simply by driving them into bankruptcy and seizing the account.
00:37:03.000So which is to say that Anybody who, because in this case it's gross because it's a billion dollar debt, but what happens if you're bankrupt?
00:37:11.000Because if you have to declare, you know, Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 because you're $100,000 over the hole when they do the seizure.
00:37:16.000because you're a hundred thousand dollars over the hole when they do the seizure.
00:37:20.000If they can, any lawsuit that you're unable to compensate on, if the precedent is now that
00:37:28.000they can take your ex account, this will be gamified to take down basically everyone, anyone.
00:37:36.000Anytime you've got a bad investigative journalist writing about your company, or your financial institution, or your political candidate, now, boom, operation mode.
00:39:07.000The issue is it does damage, it keeps what would be a burning fire of speech to a low ember constantly.
00:39:19.000It's almost like the insurgency strategy, the counterinsurgency strategy that our military uses to contain insurgency movements.
00:39:25.000Well, the goal is not to eradicate it completely, but simply to render it functionally ineffective by keeping it at a sort of low-burning ember, where it never has a chance to actually have real influence.
00:39:36.000So, it takes time to build up a large platform.
00:39:41.000And any time you start to get close to influence, for it to be able to be ripped from you and start back at zero all over again, is very effective.
00:39:49.000I mean, it was a game-changer when Elon let... People were trying to do ban evasions all the time.
00:39:54.000But it rendered you, and you could still sort of get a Twitter platform for a couple days before someone flagged you, or for a couple thousand followers, or ten thousand, until somebody said, oh, they're evading a ban, this is their alt.
00:40:07.000We did not have freedom again until Elon came back in, and I do fear that this strategy could seriously, seriously work.
00:40:14.000And this is why this is such a threat in tandem with the fact that the censorship industry right now is plotting seven ways from Sunday how to use legal strategies to get their power back.
00:40:24.000They're plotting this with the EU Digital Services Act in order to have this disinformation compliance to spiral back on US companies.
00:40:32.000I have clipped countless, hundreds of videos of high-level censorship industry insiders.
00:40:38.000In fact, in April this year they had a whole conference on legal solutions to stopping disinformation.
00:40:45.000And this new toolkit on the legal side to coerce this, I mean this is just like when Alex got kicked off the social media in 2018 and a lot of people thought, well that's so extraordinary because he's such a big account.
00:40:59.000And people were hoping and praying that would just stop there.
00:41:02.000And then, you know, that turned out to be a canary in the coal mine.
00:41:06.000And I think legally this would be the case if they succeed.
00:41:08.000And my fear is because it's Sandy Hook, they will win at the trial court level with some favorable judge.
00:41:15.000And now it's going to be in the hands of a, you know, of an appellate court and then a Supreme Court.
00:41:19.000And if Biden is able to change the majority of the Supreme Court, we would be looking at a whole new world.
00:41:26.000Apparently, Alex is saying they're also going after his crew's social media as well.
00:42:03.000Alex Jones uses X, the court says, you are hereby banned from using X, and he says, I'll do it anyway.
00:42:08.000Well, then we're going to hold you in contempt or something for violating the order?
00:42:11.000I don't know how they legally pull this off.
00:42:15.000And thank God, by the way, that Elon understands the importance of the legal here.
00:42:19.000I mean, he has fought Australia on their legal prohibitions and won.
00:42:25.000He has entered the legal battle against the Center for Countering Digital Hate and against Media Matters and others.
00:42:30.000He has a legal defense fund for people who get fired from X. And so, thank God, I mean, in addition to the free speech policies, The actual economic resources behind legal defense, we are in as good a position as you could possibly pray for to be able to take on something like this.
00:42:49.000The issue is, at the end of the day, the justice system is kind of the Strait of Gibraltar.
00:42:55.000It's a very narrow strait, and if you are ordered by the court At that point I could see hands getting tied and it comes down to judges in a world where we just saw what our judges are doing to people like Donald Trump in New York and what they just did to so many other folks.
00:43:17.000So the issue is when justice is politicized this way and you have a political figure like Alex Jones, law almost doesn't exist in this country anymore.
00:43:27.000I don't think law exists in this country.
00:43:31.000I wonder, too, you're pointing out that if Alex Jones is what he's saying is true, they're going after his crew.
00:43:35.000I mean, part of the issue is, you know, Alex Jones might be able to make something else work, but it's part of it is the Sandy Hook lawsuit is sort of now being used to shut down anyone else who's in his sphere, even though they may or may not have been involved with InfoWars at the time of, you know, the incident that kind of set off the conversations or whatever.
00:43:55.000And that seems to me to be sort of creeping judicial reach because ultimately it's not about Sandy Hook anymore.
00:44:04.000It's not about what was said or not said or anything like that.
00:44:08.000It's really about how can we strangle and muzzle what's going on here whether or not we think that the people who are tangentially affected have any actual influence over the situation.
00:44:21.000Donald Trump had corporate bankruptcies.
00:44:24.000They could argue that Donald Trump – I mean, he had multiple corporate bankruptcies.
00:44:28.000They could argue that if Donald Trump used his personal account to promote a Trump business, then they can seize Donald Trump's accounts.
00:44:38.000Bankruptcies, whether personal or corporate – and again, this is an Infowars bankruptcy.
00:44:42.000This is a corporate bankruptcy proceeding.
00:44:45.000Corporate bankruptcies happen all the time, every day.
00:44:49.000If every single time that happens, the social media account of the individual officers or directors or senior leadership or even staffers are now in play, what this opens up is a strategic field of play for censorship operatives and for political folks.
00:45:30.000I don't know legally how that would work.
00:45:32.000I would presume that the lawyers would make the argument that this is a sort of deliberate evasion attempt.
00:45:40.000They would probably probe all communications in Discovery or get some sort of court-ordered subpoena to get the text messages and emails to see if they were trying to do a... It's basically like ban evasion, right?
00:45:52.000Yeah, I get it, but think about what that means.
00:45:54.000And I'm not saying it's not going to happen, but that means that a private business that has done nothing wrong that seeks to enter into a private contract with an individual completely outside of the scope of this lawsuit will be targeted with federal harassment.
00:46:10.000I do not believe right now that there is functioning law in the United States.
00:46:14.000We have roving bans smashing up department stores and stealing everything.
00:46:17.000You have people defecating all over the streets in California.
00:46:20.000The Westfield Mall has abandoned—the company abandoned their lease, and some of the two of the biggest hotels abandoned their—I'm sorry, not their lease, their debts.
00:46:54.000They go after Trump and his lawyers, and now the whole case is at risk of being thrown out because the prosecutor's banging another prosecutor she hired, and it's thrown the whole thing into a conflict of interest because they are literally corrupt.
00:47:08.000Now you've got to think, it's Wisconsin, right?
00:47:10.000Their AG filed charges against Trump's lawyers again.
00:47:13.000The level of corruption and extrajudicial attacks that are happening.
00:47:18.000And I don't understand why people tolerate it.
00:47:22.000Like, I don't understand why Alex Jones or Donald Trump are just going like, well, I guess.
00:47:29.000I'm like, I don't know what you do, and I don't have answers, but if like a clown showed up to my doorstep demanding I hand over all of my bananas, I'm going to say, get off my property.
00:47:41.000It's psychotic to assume that we know what George is doing is not within the confines of the law.
00:47:47.000We know what New York did was not within the confines of the law.
00:47:52.000We just have rogue police officers pointing guns at people and threatening them.
00:47:59.000Those cops in New York that are facilitating that trial against Trump, they should all be in prison.
00:48:04.000And heaven forbid I ever get any kind of political power.
00:48:10.000Because the first thing I'm doing as president or governor or whatever it might be is All those cops are the first to go to prison for the rest of their lives.
00:48:33.000Real quick, my argument for Trump was that he should have told Georgia, he should have told New York, you get a legitimate claim to Florida, hand it to Ron DeSantis, put it on his desk, and I will talk to him about whether this is an actual legal proceeding or not.
00:48:49.000I'm really glad you brought that up, because I've been banging on, and folks who follow me have seen me tweet this every week, every month for the past year, year and a half now, which is that we effectively need a kind of sanctuary state for politically heterodox folks, and in particular, something that I published about last week, which I think, if there are any state assembly members Listening right now, I'm speaking directly to you.
00:49:16.000What you can do right now in your state assembly, if you are a state legislator in Florida, in Texas, in Tennessee, in Arkansas, pick your state.
00:49:27.000Every state has a malicious prosecution law that allows a civil action against a prosecutor who brought the suit Not in the interest of justice, but for a political reason or a malicious reason, and simply broaden that law to apply it to out-of-state prosecutors who target an in-state citizen.
00:49:47.000So, for example, if you are a citizen of the state of Florida, you simply say that there is an in-state nexus to the state of Florida when a Georgia prosecutor or a New York prosecutor, now you probably be barred legally from doing this with federal because it's a state, But allow you to bring an in-state action against Alvin Bragg, against Fannie Willis for the malicious prosecution of an in-state person.
00:50:10.000This is effectively what Florida and Texas have done with their social media laws that allow now a civil course of action for certain censorship activities.
00:50:40.000You talk to law enforcement in Florida.
00:50:42.000The moment they say this is legit, we say okay.
00:50:46.000Then, with the malicious prosecution laws, under the law in Florida, Trump files and says this is an illegitimate case.
00:50:54.000Ron DeSantis and the state police then say we cannot go anywhere near Trump, and this is a dispute between states that has to go to the federal courts.
00:51:00.000What this would allow is a parallel trial every time this happens.
00:51:04.000As New York is doing this trial to New York, well guess what?
00:51:06.000Now New York's on trial in Florida under a concurrent malicious prosecution case.
00:51:11.000And that, first of all, makes these things very expensive for the state to litigate.
00:51:15.000It adds liability for these New York offices.
00:51:21.000So if you want to reach out a state for it, well there goes the money for the New York prosecutors, who don't make very much by the way.
00:51:27.000You know, this now makes the city of New York Or the state of New York have to think about its own budget before it goes after an out-of-state person in a prosecutorial way.
00:51:38.000And then it allows this concurrent ongoing trial for all this evidence to come out in the Florida trial about how rigged the ongoing New York one is.
00:51:44.000So, Level Design Operator in chat said, plea asked, that's not the chat I'm looking for, but it was Level Design Operator asking what laws specifically were broken?
00:51:54.000So the first thing we have is, and I don't know the degree to which it's criminal, so this is, Level Design Operator says, what laws have they specifically broken in that so-called lawfare endeavor?
00:52:05.000So this is clearly malicious prosecution in a variety of ways.
00:52:07.000We have multiple cases that are malicious prosecution, and I think any reasonable human being, were it not for the culture war in this country, in a hyper-polarized state, could conclude this.
00:52:17.000In New York, they changed the law to allow people to sue another person for sexual assault claims after the statute of limitations, but only for one year.
00:53:48.000But under the defense's premise that Donald Trump had no idea that Cohen took out a loan
00:53:53.000on his own home to pay off Stormy Daniels of his own volition, he didn't know that was
00:53:57.000That means Cohen stole $250,000, yet they still criminally charge Trump for doing this.
00:54:05.000Now, anyone who's run a business knows it makes no sense criminally to go after the CEO for what underlings have done that he's not even signing off on.
00:54:58.000They said, okay, but if he falsified business records in furtherance of a secondary crime, manipulating the election, then we can upgrade it to a felony.
00:55:06.00034, in fact, for each time he signed a check.
00:55:11.000Because the judge said the jury doesn't have to unanimously agree on any underlying crimes, just that they think something did occur, and then Trump is guilty.
00:55:21.000I could be wrong about this, but I would assume, at the very least, to be a reasonable person, there are very rare circumstances in the United States where a prosecutor goes to a felony suspect and says, if you flip on this misdemeanor, we're gonna let you off.
00:55:39.000You got a guy who admitted on the stand to committing grand larceny.
00:55:43.000Stealing tens of thousands of dollars.
00:55:49.000But if you help us get this guy who falsified a business record, none of it makes sense and it is all patently obvious malicious prosecution.
00:55:57.000Now ask the police officers who facilitate all of this.
00:56:00.000I make no distinction and no excuses for anyone just doing their job.
00:56:06.000If you are the officer who is kidnapping someone at gunpoint under a perceived authority that does not exist, heaven help you if I'm ever in charge of law enforcement in this country.
00:56:17.000If I was the president, the FBI would be at each and every one of their doors, and they'd be like, you're all going to prison.
00:56:24.000People say, oh, that's so dictatorial.
00:56:48.000And again, to get back to this state legislators watching, anybody who knows a state legislator watching, the beauty of this strategy is simply expanding your malicious prosecutor law, malicious prosecution law in your state is Tim's rant right there is presented to a jury, and the jury simply decides on the basis of a preponderance of evidence standard, because this is a civil tort.
00:57:11.000So all you need is a 51% likelihood in the minds of the jury that everything Tim just laid out there renders it malicious.
00:57:34.000Yeah, I'm a resident of West Virginia.
00:57:36.000Am I supposed to assume that if Nebraska accuses me of a crime that my own police will come and arrest me without evidence because another state claims to have an indictment?
00:57:48.000I think we need to move forward with state protection for its residents or perhaps it does exist and I just don't know.
00:57:54.000The issue is, is I would be concerned, and I don't know the specific answer on this, on this either, I would be concerned with that, that because it's a, it's a dispute between states, it would then make it a federal issue and then federal marshals could come in and supersede the state, which is why the sort of malicious prosecution law strategy sort of gets around that through all the costs imposed on the prosecutors and on, and on the DA's office and on, and on the state budget, because even if, if They sort of seize the guy, so to speak.
00:58:27.000They're paying, they could be paying, and again, uncapped damages, punitive damages, if you want to throw it in, treble damages, so that you're effectively bankrupting, you know, the DA's office for going after it.
00:58:40.000And again, especially, you know, a civil trial tends to take less time.
00:58:45.000I could see it having a huge deterrent effect, even if you could not get around the fact that the police or the federal marshals would technically be able to take the person into custody, you know, to Rikers.
00:58:56.000You're at least doing that economic devastation in kind, which is currently their strategy to try to take out Trump, because in everything you just laid out, $500 million for Trump on, as you mentioned, on the Mar-a-Lago valuation case.
00:59:30.000And again, Trump should put it on Ron DeSantis' desk.
00:59:35.000The great thing, though, about that, too, is that selective prosecution, because everything you just said, you know, during your, you know, Academy Awards speech on all the ways they, you know, dicked over Trump there, is they had the exact same fact pattern with the Hillary Clinton FEC violation, but they didn't do it.
00:59:53.000This selective prosecution is malicious.
00:59:58.000But having a legal hook to that in state allows you to highlight that selective prosecution.
01:00:03.000Instead of just whining in the press, oh, these people are hypocrites, now you get to hit them back in the piggy bank, which is where it really hurts.
01:00:11.000In this issue, I will say Donald Trump volunteered himself to New York.
01:01:19.000Ron DeSantis then gets the choice to be the man who ordered the arrest of Donald Trump, or he can be the man who said, this must be settled in the courts and you will not enter my state.
01:01:29.000It's sort of a sequel to the standoff that Texas had around the border situation.
01:01:37.000That would test the limits of federalism.
01:01:40.000Look, what we're seeing is Democrat corrupt forces screaming at the top of their lungs and chasing Republicans and the Republicans are running full speed away.
01:01:53.000And I have to wonder if at any point the Republicans were to turn around and scream back, the Democrats might stop where they're standing.
01:01:59.000If they try to send in, if they accuse Trump of a crime which is beyond the statute of limitations, has no underlying crime to warrant its upgrade, and then say Trump's wanted in New York, and then Trump says it's clearly illegitimate, even CNN called it an illegitimate case.
01:02:30.000New York can send their paperwork to the governor's office of Florida, who can discuss it, and if they make the determination this is a legitimate case, I'll abide by it.
01:02:39.000And if they say it's illegitimate, then I expect it to be recognized the same as everyone else recognizes CNN.
01:02:44.000Well, actually, well, that's sort of the sanctuary state idea that I was I was outlining before the malicious prosecution one, because I think both of these can work in tandem and legislatures should adopt both.
01:02:54.000But that essentially creates an in-state political test.
01:02:58.000essentially, you can bring in action in state for a determination about, you know, whether
01:03:04.000you qualify to essentially be a sanctuary in the same way that, you know, California
01:03:09.000and all these different blue states have sort of become these sanctuary states that have
01:03:13.000a unique set of laws that protect illegal immigrants.
01:03:17.000Then that would be interesting because that might provide a countervailing force to the
01:03:22.000threat of bringing in the federal marshals because now you have a state law that protects
01:03:31.000But that would start to get into interesting issues there.
01:03:34.000But I see that essentially being a sanctuary state for political dissidents.
01:03:37.000So I suppose the question is this, right?
01:03:39.000So the other night I said to Matt Gaetz, at what point do red state AGs, Secretary of State, governors or whatever, start demanding criminal accountability from the Democrats that are engaging in these things?
01:03:52.000And he said, is that really what we want?
01:03:53.000Extrajudicial, you know, retribution or whatever?
01:04:22.000The Arkansas State Assembly could turn around tomorrow, change the statute of limitations the same way that New York changed the statute, and bring up all their Hillary Clinton crimes from the 1990s.
01:04:32.000Or any one of those circumstances with Joe Biden.
01:04:36.000Any one of these states could do exactly what New York is doing and say, national records are state-level jurisdiction now.
01:04:52.000Corrupt federal forces and Democrat forces are going to keep mercilessly, politically, beating people like Donald Trump, and it won't stop.
01:05:02.000I'm not even convinced, you know, one of the One of the theories I suppose people are bringing up is that Joe Biden's going to lose.
01:05:10.000The focus right now is winning in Congress and in the Senate.
01:05:14.000And when you look at the polling, this is interesting, I pulled up the polling and I asked our good friend ChatGPT, based on current polling trends, what its projection was for the presidency.
01:05:56.000We might know next week as early about how far Republicans are going to go, because I feel on most things, the same way you just identified, there have been some heartening things, especially recently.
01:06:10.000So finally, and this should have been done two years ago, frankly, but there was a contempt motion that passed the House against Merrick Garland.
01:06:18.000They found him guilty of contempt and for the same crime that For the same actions that no less than Merrick Garland himself locked up Steve Bannon and Navarro for, Peter Navarro for, which was defying a congressional subpoena, a congressional committee subpoena, for the same reason.
01:06:39.000Merrick Garland is citing the defense that he invalidated for Bannon and Navarro.
01:06:43.000And my understanding is that Representative Ana Paulina Luna has actually committed that I think there's going to be a sort of final floor vote on the resolution, I believe on June 25th, and that there are two forms of recourse.
01:07:03.000One is the Justice Department Honours the Contempt Act and effectively, you know, takes action against him through the Justice Department path.
01:07:15.000The other one, if the Justice Department defies Congress, and of course it's Merrick Garland's Justice Department, so you know that's going to be rigged.
01:07:22.000But the other option is there's technically a rule that he can be immediately arrested by the House Acting Sergeant-at-Arms.
01:07:29.000And so Republicans technically have the chance To do that exact thing, effectively have Merrick Garland be placed in prison the same way Merrick Garland, for the same crime as Merrick Garland placed Steve Bannon last week, you know, in prison or sentenced.
01:07:49.000And so that is, we will know on June 25th or 23rd whether or not there's still fight left in Republicans in Congress.
01:07:59.000But the overall problem is that Republicans fail to wield power when they have the opportunity, and I can't really quite understand why that is.
01:08:07.000Well, there is a kind of Achilles' heel to the inherent philosophy of the limited government types, which is that, you know, the idea that government should be small, that the private sector, you know, should be the lion's share of what American activity involves, effectively makes State action in inherent evil unto itself almost doctrinally.
01:08:33.000And so the act of wielding government power is sort of... And this is something that I think is beginning to change.
01:08:41.000There was this kind of strain, I think, around Free enterprise, limited government, Republicanism.
01:08:50.000That was more true when the Chamber of Commerce was completely Republican.
01:08:55.000The Chamber of Commerce, our major blue chip companies, basically from Truman until Trump were all Republican.
01:09:02.000It was basically the main support system that Republicans had against the Democrats
01:09:07.000who controlled the unions, the universities, the entertainment industry, the media.
01:09:11.000The countervail, the counter pressure from that was that Republicans controlled big corporations, or at least they
01:09:16.000were back by, they had the, they had that donor support and that political support, but that changed in the Trump
01:09:21.000era. A lot of that has to do with Trump's nationalist policies and his perceived war on globalism.
01:09:26.000These are all globalist companies where the lion's share of their business is done in foreign countries, foreign markets for exports, foreign labor for their manufacturing.
01:09:38.000And so they preferred a sort of Bush-Biden globalist president type.
01:10:17.000What are the odds Republicans can get control?
01:10:19.000When I ask ChatGPT based on current polling and trends, it said Democrats will take both.
01:10:26.000It's interesting because it's like, why?
01:10:27.000I mean, I don't know if you want to pull up this story, but... 270 to win has Republicans favored to... Right now, it's Republicans to lose.
01:10:36.000There's two seats that are toss-ups, and Republicans are expected to take 50 seats, and there are two toss-ups, so it may go 52 to 48.
01:10:46.000So this is why I think Trump's endorsement of Larry Hogan is so interesting, because there's the argument that theoretically Larry Hogan was, I don't know if I'm jumping ahead, but Larry Hogan was such a popular governor that he could potentially deliver Maryland.
01:11:31.000I know other people made some strong statements, but I can just say from my standpoint, I'm all about the party and I'm about the country and I'd like to see him win.
01:11:37.000Trump told Fox News, Ayesha Hasni in an interview that has yet to air, Hogan drew the wrath of former president's team after he refused to defend Trump following his conviction on May 30th.
01:11:51.000I mean, I can't, I don't even understand how he wins in Maryland.
01:11:54.000I mean, he just has longstanding support in Maryland.
01:11:57.000He just, you know, he was previously the governor.
01:11:59.000People, for whatever reason, really like him.
01:12:01.000I don't think he's, you know, the Republican that Trump's Republicans like.
01:12:05.000But again, to me, it's interesting that Trump is signaling that he would back Hogan for the Senate bid because If you can get, you know, if you can oust the Democrat in
01:12:13.000Ohio, you can oust the Democrat in Montana, and you can pick up
01:12:17.000Maryland, then you can theoretically tip the Senate in your favor.
01:12:21.000And I think that signals a level of strategic thinking from the Trump campaign in terms of
01:12:26.000they want to have a really effective win and they want to go in as strong as they can be.
01:12:32.000There are institutions that Republicans controlled historically that they have lost and it's sort of the argument of what can we regain the fastest to be able to shift the boat in a favorable direction without having to hit these constant blockades.
01:12:46.000The fact that we have to look to the, you know, when we held Mayorkas in contempt or we wanted to impeach Mayorkas, it just died.
01:12:53.000Because we know the Senate is never going to do anything about it.
01:12:56.000It's all of these institutions that I think we're trying to find a real, I think conservatives are trying to find a real alignment for and able to become productive should Trump win in November.
01:13:05.000I'm curious, are we able to look up who Larry Hogan's biggest financial campaign contributors are?
01:13:13.000Like is, you know, who, which industries and individuals contribute the most to Larry Hogan's campaign?
01:13:56.000Okay, outside of Individual Contributions... Other Committees... It doesn't actually say.
01:14:03.000OK, well, one of the things I find interesting about this is that the tango dance that Trump has to do to keep his, you know, his friends close and his enemy, his enemies closer.
01:14:14.000You know, I think I think back a lot to something that I think Tucker Carlson revealed.
01:14:21.000That when Trump was considering, that Trump had called him, I don't know if I'm recalling the story 100% accurately, but I remember it being reported somewhere that Tucker said that before Trump bombed Syria in, I think it was early 2018, that Trump had called Tucker and asked for his opinion on it.
01:16:57.000So what I had done before is I actually asked ChatGPT not just to look at polls, but to look at individual districts and changes in population, changes in youth vote, youth vote expected turnout.
01:17:12.000When you added all of these things together, it said Democrats will end up winning.
01:17:16.000When you ask it, based on the latest polling, who's going to win?
01:17:47.000I mean, right now, having the House, I mean, as much As much criticism, I think, that is completely owed and due to Republicans in Congress, there actually has been a fair amount of really incredible things that folks in the House have done that I did not think were politically possible a couple of years ago.
01:18:12.000I mean, even think about the fact that we have a Senate subcommittee to investigate the origins of COVID-19.
01:18:18.000To even ask that question was to not be allowed to have a social media account a couple years ago.
01:18:26.000We have this weaponization subcommittee, which has subpoenaed everybody under the sun, done a lot of damage to a lot of malign actors, as they like to say.
01:18:37.000Yeah, and you know, the January 6th committee was because Democrats, you know, because again, the role of that majority is not just in getting bills done.
01:18:47.000It's that all the committees flip and and so the entire subject of investigation.
01:18:54.000Either turns on essentially, you know, a one vote majority.
01:18:58.000And this is what we're actually seeing is one of the sort of scandals of the George Santos situation and others.
01:19:04.000But, you know, a lot of the momentum that we have right now on a lot of fronts, because even when Brazil came after Elon and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, you know, sort of left to his defense.
01:19:15.000And even right now, even as we speak today, there was a whole hearing on Merrick Garland's abuse of the Justice Department, where all of the facts about Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were publicly aired, and that provides media cycles, that provides an important signal to folks in the private sector, folks like Elon Musk, folks like David Sachs and Chamath and other Silicon Valley types, that Congress will have your back If you are honest and act with integrity, there will be investigations, it will be legitimized by the People's Assembly.
01:19:51.000And the idea that, like, literally just a couple of seats in a random state could end all of the ongoing committees and immediately flip them to the same Justice Department that is imprisoning everyone.
01:20:08.000Yeah, I would agree with Tim's assessment.
01:20:15.000Just because Trump is ahead doesn't mean that everything's going to swing Republican.
01:20:20.000Or that the Republicans who win will even do anything.
01:20:23.000I mean, the main issue is the Republican Civil War, though, because Trump inherited a Republican House and a Republican Senate, you know, when he came into office after the 2016 election.
01:20:39.000He was screwed over by his own party because of the GOP Civil War between the globalist half of Congress, which is funded by the The large multinational corporations and financial firms, which, you know, is basically invested in the military industrial complex, the oil and gas industry and the chamber of commerce types.
01:21:00.000And then you have this sort of nationalist populist faction.
01:21:04.000And until that civil war is resolved one way or the other, the Republican Party is going to sort of constantly, it's going to constantly lose to the Democrat Party on political issues because Whatever your issue, one wedge of the GOP can be turned against the other to create a Democrat majority with the holdouts from the warring factions.
01:22:28.000Well, ladies and gentlemen, what does this mean for you?
01:22:32.000The United States produces very little.
01:22:35.000economy is as good as it is relative to other nations is that we have global empire.
01:22:41.000We point guns at other people, we take them over and remove their leaders.
01:22:44.000Saudi Arabia getting off the petrodollar deal likely means they're going to start trading in other currencies as well, which means no one has any reason to buy U.S.
01:23:12.000There's faster ways of transacting and doing the flip, but basically this means the free domestani currency must be strong.
01:23:18.000The nation typically has to maintain higher exports than imports, selling more than they're buying, so that they're Buying power stays strong and they can buy oil for their country.
01:24:17.000I find this to be one of the most fascinating things to happen.
01:24:21.000I mean, the decision tree spiral from this is, first of all, let it be said that this would never have happened under Donald Trump.
01:24:31.000Saudi Arabia loved, loved, loved Donald Trump.
01:24:35.000And they hated, hated, hated the second half of the Obama administration and Joe Biden.
01:24:42.000A lot of this comes down to the fact that Saudi Arabia has been Essentially our vassal in the Middle East for oil and the economics of that for a century, effectively.
01:24:58.000And I heard something really interesting by Snowden on a Joe Rogan interview a few years ago.
01:25:03.000And I've been meaning to go back and track down the clip because I can't get it out of my head when I see this, which is that Snowden let slip, and I don't know where he got this information or how strongly he sort of was suggesting that this was true, but in one of his, I think, two Joe Rogan appearances, he appeared to insinuate that Saudi intelligence Had awareness that Khashoggi was involved in organizing a kind of U.S.-backed coup of the Saudi government, and that that was part of the calculus of their assassination in the embassy of Khashoggi.
01:25:51.000And I find that to be really interesting because Obama really alienated Saudi Arabia with the Iran deal.
01:25:57.000By opening up Iran's oil and gas exports, it effectively makes Iran a regional rival to Saudi Arabia, whose entire economy revolves on their regional energy dominance.
01:26:10.000And Iran actually has, I believe, more gross exploitable oil and gas exports.
01:26:17.000Then Saudi Arabia, if they were allowed to export to full capacity, and the Obama administration opening them up and partnering with them through the Iran deal, brought Saudi Arabia and Israel into a joint, this is actually sort of the roots of the Abraham Accords, which is that the Biden administration, the Obama administration with the Iran deal in 2015, By building up Iran and Qatar by proxy, they were effectively creating a security threat to Israel, because that money would go to pay for Hamas and Hezbollah, and an economic threat to Saudi Arabia, because now they'd lose a huge amount of their market share, because now there'd be all this Iranian oil, and then it would drive down the price of the oil that they do sell, because you have all this new supply on the market.
01:27:04.000And so this basically put Israel and Saudi Arabia into a partnership for the first time in decades, which was brokered by the Trump administration.
01:27:12.000The first act, if you remember, that Trump did when he took office was to kill that Iran energy deal.
01:27:19.000And so MBS and Saudi Arabia loved Trump and then immediately went hostile on Biden.
01:27:24.000And I can't help, you know, if part of that has to do with The current policies that the Biden administration have on Iran, the backdoor Iran deal they effectively have, allowing China to have this $400 billion oil and gas deal with Iran evading the sanctions, while Hunter was actually partnered with the Chinese energy company doing that.
01:27:47.000And then you have, well, I mean years, same company, but this is Hunter five, five, six years ago.
01:27:54.000And then you have, you know, I can't help but think that Saudi Arabia sees the trajectory of the United States under a sort of permanent Biden government as being something that's going to coup Saudi Arabia from the inside and bankrupt them from the outside.
01:28:10.000And so they are now breaking this, this 50 year, you know, this 50 year petrodollar pledge.
01:28:16.000Joe Biden is not inspiring confidence in everybody.
01:29:07.000Just sort of putting on the State Department hat here, we've always made the argument that you should invest in the United States instead of China because, hey, China is an autocratic government.
01:29:15.000You never know if your investment is going to be safe because any day the CCP could just nationalize your company, take all your assets.
01:29:22.000haven't really done it before, but the looming threat of it because of the way their system
01:29:25.000works is always the sword of Damocles hanging above you. So Brazil, you should be using our
01:29:31.000phones instead of Huawei. You should be using Amazon instead of Alibaba. You should be investing
01:29:37.000your assets on U.S. territory instead of in Chinese territory. And now the State Department
01:29:43.000and the Treasury have just done the big bad apocalypse claim.
01:29:50.000We've always been saying for like 30 years now that China might do someday and that's the reason they're bad.
01:29:57.000It's the same thing with the prosecutions where they're saying, you know, oh Trump is threatening to prosecute people while they're actually doing it.
01:30:04.000But they made a deal under our legal system as it existed at the time.
01:30:09.000Like the Russians, hate the Russians, think they're the worst thing, you know, think Putin is Hitler.
01:30:15.000They invested the assets in this country.
01:30:17.000They did not attack the United States.
01:30:20.000Whatever you want to say they did, it happened 8,000 miles away to another foreign country.
01:30:25.000If the new terms of dealing with the United States is anytime we squint and say, hey, you know what?
01:30:31.000We think you attack democracy, some ethereal concept, then Billions!
01:30:37.000Basically, I think it's like 200 or 300 billion dollars of total frozen Russian assets.
01:30:41.000I know that there was three billion dollars that they pledged that they're immediately taking to fund Ukraine with.
01:30:48.000Why would you do a deal with this country in this way?
01:30:52.000I mean, if this is not reversed immediately, this is going to be catastrophic diplomatically.
01:30:57.000But it won't be reversed immediately, right?
01:30:59.000Like we're kind of in gridlock in free fall in terms of reform policy, in my eyes, until we figure out who's going to handle the next four years.
01:31:06.000You could see a world where Trump wins the presidency.
01:31:09.000And some of what happened, what has happened, some of the worst excesses, not all of it, but some of the worst excesses just sort of feel like a bad dream.
01:31:18.000They did a little bit of damage, but it was stopped before it's too late.
01:31:20.000America gets to preserve, you know, preserve You know, the century of diplomatic statecraft that we'd had for that time.
01:31:27.000You say, OK, there was a period where we went off the rails, but we reined it in quickly.
01:31:31.000And this actually shows how robust our system is, that even when we do overstretch, even when we look like we're going to renege on this deal, even when it actually is safe, because we will always be able to catch ourselves.
01:31:43.000And that is just one more reason why the fate of the universe kind of hangs in the balance this November.
01:31:50.000What really cracked me up about the people that were at the G7 that were making this catastrophic deal is that six out of the seven leaders are all unpopular.
01:31:58.000Like, they have insane internal struggles in their own country.
01:32:01.000Like, Politico had a great report about this where they said this is the meeting of the lame ducks.
01:32:05.000So, I mean, you have unpopular leaders that are making deals that are catastrophic.
01:33:25.000And so it is funny that they're unpopular and they're in power and what they're
01:33:30.000at war with is the concept of populism, which is basically popular opinion against elite
01:33:36.000Just to make my comprehension easier, when I'm reading the headlines, when these freak shows are talking about democracy, I just instantly translate in my head it's hegemony.
01:33:44.000Then I'm just like, okay, now it makes sense.
01:33:47.000Do you think this continues to drive people to populism, though?
01:33:51.000I think as it becomes more clear that, you know, we're speaking different languages, people feel more – not everybody, but there are a lot of people who feel more insistent that they have to act now, they have to become part of populist movements to, again, have some sort of impact on where we're going as a nation.
01:34:06.000I think presently we're on a razor's edge about that.
01:34:08.000The fact is is like North Korea does exist.
01:34:11.000You can beat people down to a point and you can use the levers of police power, the level, the levers of censorship, you know, the levers of the government and its asset institutions to be able to truly subjugate a people For a millennium.
01:34:27.000But the issue is right now is they were on track for that, I think, before a handful of fortuitous turns of events in about 2022, which included the House turning over, which allowed basically taking some of the foot off of the gas of some of the worst excesses of what the government was doing.
01:34:46.000The House has blocked a lot of things.
01:34:48.000They have forced negotiations on everything from the budget to investigations, hearings, subpoenas, hauling everyone in for transcribed interviews.
01:34:58.000You've got Elon Musk who, I mean, think about, for example, even the commerce of media in this country and how brutal it was to be a content creator or an alternative media institution and have nobody, not a single platform, And not just to have that platform, but to have the ecosystem of sort of musk-ism around you.
01:35:21.000That he also owns Tesla and SpaceX and has the institutional sort of connections.
01:35:27.000And the fact that that sort of opened up Silicon Valley, the fact that they've just had a sold-out Silicon Valley, you know, fundraise.
01:35:33.000Right now, there is this, I think, tenuous moment to, you know, to fight back.
01:35:39.000I don't know that that will always exist.
01:35:42.000There could be a century of darkness if the next five years play out the wrong way.
01:35:54.000Also head over to TimCast.com, click join us to become a member and support our work directly.
01:35:59.000As a member you'll get access to the uncensored call-in show coming up in about a half an hour over at TimCast.com where you as members get to call in and join the show.
01:36:07.000But for now we'll read your Super Chats.
01:37:04.000So then I guess we could, the clarification should be, if you are actively wielding a weapon while under the influence, you have committed the crime.
01:37:11.000Perhaps influence can be a, I don't know, extenuating factor of some sort?
01:37:17.000Tim Jakes says, I'd love to see Ian take a class on how the British government actually operates so he'll stop making so many ignorant and asinine comments about the Empire and Emperor.
01:37:27.000Ian lives in this, like, fictional world where the King of England—I suppose of England—can just take control of Australia or Canada or New Zealand, which is not correct.
01:38:04.000I mean, initially, yeah, the king was the king of the Commonwealth, but I think modern politics is just, it is not reality to see something like that happen.
01:40:15.000You know, BuzzFeed played such an interesting role in the in the Steele dossier.
01:40:20.000And they really pioneered, I think I read, I think it's a book called Attention Merchants, which sort of goes through the history of mainstream media and into the social media age.
01:40:32.000There was a whole thing on BuzzFeed pioneering that sort of viral kitten listicle kind of concept, and then sort of turning the whole news industry into sort of appreciating the power of newsifying things, you know, in these in like, in listicles and sort of on making it sort of in internet speak, making it less like the Sunday edition of the New York Times, and more something that speaks, you know, to modern culture.
01:41:00.000And I actually think was it Ben Smith?
01:41:10.000I feel like when he went over to the New York Times, when Ben Smith, I feel like something, they lost a lot of their, I don't know, I just didn't see him around as much, I guess, breaking big stories.
01:41:21.000Ben is a morally good guy who doesn't know what's going on around him.
01:41:25.000Because I've known him for a while, and I've talked to him a couple times.
01:41:30.000He has very little deep understanding of what's actually happening in the country, but he's not a bad guy.
01:41:36.000There are a lot of people in the corporate press who are evil, know what's going on.
01:41:53.000When BuzzFeed News fabricated a story about a black man killing another black man over a fried chicken sandwich, I got pissed off that they published the fake story, because it's disgusting.
01:42:03.000What happened was, when Popeyes released their new chicken sandwich, remember that big trend that happened?
01:42:08.000There was a guy who was at Popeyes, someone cut in line, He's, and it was nothing to do with the sandwich.
01:42:17.000He went outside, and I can't remember exactly what happened, but the guy was like, hey, you know, don't cut, like, who do you think you are?
01:42:22.000And then the guy, I think, stabbed him and killed him.
01:42:24.000And it was not over a chicken sandwich.
01:42:26.000It was people got into a fight at the Popeyes.
01:43:01.000There have been many instances where he has done the right thing on stories of, you know, more importance.
01:43:06.000Like, a viral clickbait story he doesn't care about, I think is scummy.
01:43:10.000But there have been bigger, more important stories where he's done the right thing.
01:43:13.000That being said, based on the conversations I've had with him, he has, like, some of the thinnest, like, the most shallow understanding of what's going on in the world.
01:44:36.000Yeah, but you're never going to get through to these people.
01:44:38.000The Crafters had one that Newsweek cited, and they were saying, oh, well, what's happening is, like, you can see that eight out of the ten people look one direction, when one of the guys starts talking, then they look the other direction, and Biden just is still listening to someone else.
01:45:24.000So it's this game where you play this wonky little dude and you run around and you've got to open doors.
01:45:30.000The goal is to get to the exit, that's it, but the controls are really weird.
01:45:34.000You can press the right trigger and he'll grab something, and you press the left trigger and he'll grab something, and then you have to, like, lift yourself up, and it's a very funny game.
01:45:41.000But it doesn't matter how you get to the exit.
01:45:44.000You can get to the exit any way you want.
01:45:47.000I love these games because I don't play them the way you'd expect them to be played.
01:45:52.000My character, you fall from the sky, you land in this little level, And then I'm just thinking, how do I get from here to there?
01:45:58.000And they have a path, but you don't gotta take it.
01:46:00.000So I like doing things where I like climb under the level, figure out how to control the guy in ways that it's not supposed to be done, and I figure out how it gets done.
01:46:08.000I feel like when it comes to people like the Krasensteins, before we actually entertain political debate from the likes of them or other Democrat pundits, we have to give them some kind of basic logic puzzle to see if they can solve it first.
01:46:21.000And then if they can, and anyone else, I will gladly solve a basic logic puzzle before I walk into a debate.
01:46:27.000And if you can't, we kindly ask you to leave.
01:46:39.000And I don't know what their solution would be.
01:46:41.000Perhaps they take the very boring and bland, they walk right to the level.
01:46:45.000So, you know, there's one level where you're like, you hit a button and the door opens and then you have to walk and you got to pick up a rock and put the rock on the button, another door opens.
01:46:52.000Then you have to like push a boulder and it falls and then it makes an elevator come up.
01:46:59.000I just like figuring out- I've- I've- and anybody who's played the game for any amount of time, people who know what I'm talking about, you can- you can sort of cheat.
01:47:08.000There's ways to swing your guy up and- up and around to make him climb over anything and bypass anything and get into places you're not supposed to get to.
01:48:02.000There is a probability that he was pooping himself.
01:48:05.000We don't know for sure that he did, but I do believe, based on his age, the propensity for people over the age of 80 to suffer from fecal incontinence, the existence of depends is proof of this, but you can actually look up the number, I believe it is then reasonable to assume There is a strong probability Biden had an episode.
01:48:25.000Not only that, but he's been accused of having episodes before.
01:48:28.000We entertain the reality that these could be political attacks against him, that they're trying to insult him.
01:48:33.000But you cannot ignore the fact that it's an 80-year-old man who made a weird squat position.
01:49:17.000They said that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation and they're maintaining that lie.
01:49:21.000There is more evidence that Joe Biden crapped his pants on stage during D-Day, I did not say definitive proof, there's just more evidence that that's true, than Hunter Biden's laptop was part of a Russian disinformation scheme.
01:49:41.000And right now, journalists are still tweeting, but it still is part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
01:49:48.000The argument they're making now is, the Russians stole the laptop and then secretly handed it off to a pawn shop so that some Trump supporter could pick it up.
01:49:57.000That is ridiculously assumptive and circuitous.
01:50:02.000And so there are people who are like, that there's no way he pooped his pants, you're making that up.
01:50:07.000But the laptop, that's a Russian spy operation.
01:50:11.000I'm like, okay, your logic doesn't exist.
01:50:15.000I want you to, I want to get, you know, with those little puzzles we bought from, you know, Gamers Parrot, what are those, I don't know what those game stores are called.
01:51:04.000The Xbox Gamer says, it was Enterprise B in yesterday's Enterprise.
01:51:10.000So I was talking about Star Wars being complete garbage, and there's this woman who made a video talking about the birth control pill, saying that it makes women like their brothers.
01:51:20.000Like, it makes them attracted to their brothers.
01:51:22.000Because what happens is, when they're on the pill, it simulates pregnancy, so their hormones tell them to be with family.
01:51:29.000So the men they want to be with are more effeminate, weak, and more like brothers or sisters or moms, and not like strong masculine men who can fight.
01:51:38.000When women are not on the pill, they're looking for the strongest guy when they're on the pill.
01:51:42.000So she says, and I'm not talking about your cool brother who was handsome and played on football, I'm talking about your effeminate bi brother who watched Star Trek.
01:51:51.000And so I made a video and basically pointed out, Star Wars.
01:51:54.000You want to rag on Star Wars today and Star Trek today?
01:51:58.000But Star Trek, the OG stuff and the next generation, is some of the manliest, most masculine thing ever.
01:52:05.000And I recommend people who have not seen the next generation watch it, and I recommend their kids watch it.
01:52:12.000One of my favorite stories in The Next Generation, I'll make this one quick, I did a longer thing about it earlier today.
01:52:18.000In the original series, it's the Federation, that's the main character, Kirk and everybody, and then there's Klingons, they're bad guys.
01:52:25.000And then in The Next Generation, when they rebooted the series and created a new crew and everything, and it was one of the most popular shows ever, they decided, so this is what happened, the writers were like, how do we show the passage of time and that the story's advanced?
01:52:40.000An enemy from the first series is now an ally in the new series.
01:52:43.000The writing they came up with was that the Klingons and the Federation are at war.
01:52:49.000Romulans, another enemy faction, attack a civilian outpost, a civilian colony of Klingons, killing women and children, a massacre, just wiping everybody out.
01:52:59.000And then the Federation intercepts a distress signal from the Klingons, their enemy.
01:53:04.000They warp full speed, they rush in as fast as they can and encounter four warships they are completely incapable of handling.
01:53:11.000Instead of fleeing the battle, the Enterprise sacrifices itself, getting destroyed in the process in an effort to try and save as many Klingon civilians as possible.
01:53:19.000The Klingon Empire then, seeing this as an act of bravery and honor, decides to enter into an alliance with the Federation.
01:53:40.000What we get now with Star Wars, and don't get me wrong, mine and Star Trek is bad too, we get lesbian space witches chanting to impregnate women with the Force.
01:53:51.000Kids learning about naval tradition, which is the basis of Star Trek.
01:53:56.000It's effectively naval tradition, but they put it in space.
01:54:02.000And you have perpetual stories throughout this whole thing of sacrifice, honor, what it means to be a good person, what it means to be strong, what it means to be a man.
01:54:19.000I thought you were going somewhere different with that at first because, you know, of like a Klingon being, you know, someone from the enemy side being on your ship.
01:54:28.000I was rewatching Austin Powers on a plane.
01:54:32.000It was just like a movie while I was traveling.
01:54:34.000And there's a really funny scene because I think Austin Powers was made in like 1997, the original one.
01:54:40.000And there's this scene which, you know, when I watched it as a kid, like I just thought I didn't even process its sort of geopolitical So implications, especially today when we're at war with Russia, but essentially Austin Powers is like cryogenically unfrozen and instead of being in the year like 1960 is like, you know, guy with mojo and everything, he's now in the 1990s and in what was then the present day and, you know, British intelligence cryogenically unfreezes him and there's, standing in front of him are like two Russian scientists in this, in the British intelligence, you know, lab here and he immediately gets in his fighting posture and is prepared to like, you know,
01:55:19.000Karate chop them, and then he's told by the MI6 guy, no, no, no, no, no, it's Austin.
01:55:35.000But like we had this period during the Yeltsin years from 1991 to 1999 where Austin Bowers was made where it was like we have a Klingon on our ship and it's a good thing because they're not the enemies.
01:56:25.000Huge story several years ago that the Biden administration was flying trafficking children into Tennessee and Tennessee legislators were upset about it.
01:58:48.000But I think part of this is there has been a very strong reaction, I think, When Pride ventured into the transgender issue and the transgender issue transitioned into sort of the transgender of children issue, it began to, I think, add an element to the LGBT alliance that encountered a level of political opposition that was not
01:59:13.000I think you have so many parents now who are afraid of their public schools.
01:59:18.000They're afraid that their son is going to come home a daughter, that the state child protective services will seize, and we've seen so many stories like that.
01:59:26.000You now have JK Rowling and other, you know, very—it's dividing the left, frankly, you know, with TERFs versus feminists.
01:59:38.000I'm not kidding, they call her far right.
01:59:40.000There's a viral story of this woman, she's gone viral every so often, and she says she realized that she wasn't pro-choice because she found out a friend of someone she knew got pregnant and she was like, the state's pro-choice is getting an abortion.
01:59:53.000And then the woman was like, planning on keeping it.
01:59:56.000And then her friend said, because she can choose to.
01:59:59.000And she's like, oh wow, I was just, I didn't realize pro-choice meant you could keep it too, wow.
02:00:04.000This whole woman, this woman's shtick on her TikTok, 100,000 followers, I don't know, a decent amount of her videos is, I was raised Christian, and now I'm, you know, a bi, progressive, or whatever.
02:00:18.000And I'm like, well, that's because the parents handed her to the state.
02:00:23.000And that's what parents do, and they think it's, they don't care.
02:00:28.000They hand their kids to the state and they say, good luck.
02:00:30.000And then the kid transforms into exactly who they're surrounded by.
02:00:34.000From a Christian conservative, she said she protested gay marriage even.
02:00:37.000And now she's marching in pride events and covered in makeup and...
02:00:42.000Well, once you go down it, I mean, you get committed, you know, it becomes your friend network, it changes you physically, I mean, especially with the transgender stuff, it changes your hormones, it changes your brain, it changes your impulses, your desires, you know, it's kind of like one of these In some ways, a lot of it, once you go down the road, it becomes physically and spiritually irreversible to some extent.
02:01:06.000You are the summation of the five people who surround you.
02:01:09.000And if your parents handed you off to the state, you will become a facsimile of state agenda.