Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - Biden's BRAIN BREAKS, Tries To WANDER OFF At G7 Summit, HES GONE w-Mike Benz | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 It happened again.

00:00:17.000 This time at the G7 summit, where Joe Biden is supposed to be asking China to calm down, stop supporting Russia.

00:00:24.000 We need to stop the expansion of war.

00:00:28.000 At a skydiving demonstration, he seems to completely disassociate from what's going on, turn around, and then start wandering off in a random direction.

00:00:37.000 Yo, it's the weirdest thing.

00:00:39.000 And 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.

00:00:48.000 Man, 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?

00:00:58.000 And I got to say, we have concerns.

00:01:00.000 Donald Trump is slamming the Biden administration and Biden himself over Russian naval vessels off the coast of Florida.

00:01:08.000 Joe 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.

00:01:22.000 So 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.

00:01:28.000 The other big, big news, this is a really big story.

00:01:31.000 Apparently, the Sandy Hook families have filed to seize Alex Jones' ex-account, calling it a customer list.

00:01:38.000 And this is...

00:01:40.000 I mean, this is huge.

00:01:41.000 They outright say in the news article, the goal is to prevent Alex Jones from being able to ever promote another venture.

00:01:48.000 This is not about defamation.

00:01:52.000 This is about destroying InfoWars and Alex Jones and making it so he can never work in media again.

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00:04:00.000 Hi, Serge.

00:04:00.000 Hey, what's up?

00:04:01.000 Let's get started.

00:04:02.000 Here we go.

00:04:02.000 It's the big story from the New York Post.

00:04:05.000 Biden wanders away at G7 summit before being pulled back by Italian prime minister.

00:04:11.000 This video is wild.

00:04:13.000 It's already got 10 million views because We're all deeply concerned about the mental capacity of the President of the United States.

00:04:23.000 Here you go.

00:04:24.000 Here's the video.

00:04:25.000 Oh, is there no audio on this?

00:04:28.000 Or is our audio just not turned on?

00:04:31.000 Is our audio on?

00:04:32.000 Okay, I guess it's just no audio.

00:04:33.000 Here you go.

00:04:34.000 Here's Joe Biden, and he just, for no reason, starts wandering off.

00:04:40.000 And you can see her get more and more concerned, try to act like it's casual.

00:04:43.000 And then she has to grab him and pull him back in, like... Yeah, face in the water. 0.79

00:04:46.000 Look at his face.

00:04:47.000 He doesn't even know what's going on.

00:04:48.000 They make excuses for him every step of the way.

00:04:51.000 He has no idea what is happening around him.

00:04:55.000 He's just gone, man.

00:04:56.000 And, uh, what does everybody say?

00:04:58.000 It's elder abuse.

00:05:00.000 This went up today at 1pm.

00:05:02.000 It's got 10.4 million views already.

00:05:04.000 But then, of course, there's this video.

00:05:07.000 You probably saw this one.

00:05:08.000 This is when Joe Biden was... I don't know how you describe this.

00:05:11.000 this I'll just play it for you my favorite part

00:05:24.000 OK, so for those that are just listening, you got all these people, they're dancing, they're smiling, they're clapping.

00:05:29.000 And Joe Biden is frozen.

00:05:31.000 And look at his arms.

00:05:32.000 That's the weird thing.

00:05:33.000 His arms are like slightly sticking out and bent and not moving.

00:05:37.000 But here's the best part.

00:05:38.000 Watch this.

00:05:45.000 This is the weirdest part of this video.

00:05:48.000 Biden grimaces and then looks over to the guy next to him like he's really pissed off.

00:05:53.000 Well, and what do we call him?

00:05:56.000 Second gentleman?

00:05:57.000 Doug is looking, you can see that he's looking past Kamala at Joe Biden like, you okay?

00:06:01.000 What are you doing here?

00:06:02.000 I saw the funniest caption on this.

00:06:04.000 It was the hey, these edibles aren't working.

00:06:06.000 20 minutes later.

00:06:09.000 I 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.

00:06:20.000 It doesn't look like he even knows the emotional reaction he's supposed to be having to this event.

00:06:24.000 He walks around with a death mask, like the same horrifying death mask you imagine on a dying person.

00:06:29.000 And did you all see the video where he saluted Maloney?

00:06:32.000 He saluted?

00:06:32.000 He saluted her, yeah, at the G7 today.

00:06:35.000 He's just gone!

00:06:37.000 It's crazy because we've talked about his cognitive failures before, but we are well beyond whatever.

00:06:43.000 I mean, we played that video—I should probably pull it up again—we were talking about U.S.

00:06:47.000 weapons in Ukraine, and he can't say more than a few words without going out of breath.

00:06:52.000 I think whatever drugs they got pumped into his veins are not working anymore, and they know it.

00:06:57.000 It'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.

00:07:23.000 But he, you know, this is one of these things where people have said that about Biden for a long time.

00:07:29.000 I remember the Paul Ryan debate where Mitt Romney was looking like he was on track to potentially beat Barack Obama.

00:07:38.000 He won the first debate.

00:07:39.000 And then Biden, who everyone associated with being sort of I'm going to play this clip.

00:07:45.000 This is the interview he had with David Muir.

00:07:48.000 I don't know exactly what this clip is, right?

00:07:49.000 the Obama campaign and you know I wouldn't I wouldn't underestimate that

00:07:53.000 aspect of Biden still having a heartbeat but but these are definitely funny.

00:07:57.000 I'm gonna play this clip this is the interview he had with David Muir I don't

00:08:01.000 know exactly what this clip is right so we know that at some point in the

00:08:05.000 interview on ABC News he mentions he gets asked by Muir about US

00:08:11.000 weapons being authorized to be used in Russia.

00:08:14.000 And he sounds absurdly out of breath.

00:08:16.000 So 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.

00:08:25.000 Let's, let's hear how Biden sounds.

00:08:26.000 Lost on us where we are today with these brave young American sons did 80 years ago.

00:08:33.000 And we know what we're witnessing in the world right now.

00:08:35.000 The wars, the deep divisions at home.

00:08:39.000 What do you think these American heroes can teach us right now about meeting this moment?

00:08:44.000 Stand up.

00:08:45.000 Tell the truth.

00:08:47.000 Serve your country. 0.91

00:08:49.000 You know, imagine what they had to come through.

00:08:51.000 I was here 30 years ago, came in on a landing craft.

00:08:55.000 You could see from out there what they saw here.

00:08:58.000 The idea that they got off those boats.

00:09:02.000 Man, that one was not the worst, but that was pretty bad.

00:09:04.000 sinking and then I come across that beach as long as it's just astounding

00:09:09.000 it's astounding what it says to me is how critical alliances are how critical

00:09:16.000 alliances are for our security.

00:09:20.000 Man that one was not the worst but that was pretty bad you can hear his heavy breathing.

00:09:24.000 He sounded like that when he was throughout that stop in Normandy.

00:09:28.000 He was addressing like kind of a gaggle of reporters at one point.

00:09:31.000 It had this like breathy, almost to the point where I had to like check to see if he has a history of asthma, which I think maybe he does.

00:09:37.000 Like if you're having some kind of weird allergic reaction.

00:09:40.000 I don't know.

00:09:41.000 It was odd, but it's also not From a 40-year-old.

00:09:45.000 the change that I always see in Biden. I feel like his voice has gotten lower. He doesn't have the

00:09:49.000 same cadence that you see from even when he was running with Obama. But that one in particular,

00:09:54.000 it was just so odd and sort of all of a sudden it seems to have gone away.

00:09:58.000 He's concerned me for 40 years.

00:10:01.000 He's not a decent man. 0.97

00:10:03.000 He's a dictator.

00:10:04.000 And he's struggling to make sure he holds this country together while still keeping this assault going.

00:10:10.000 We're not talking about giving them... Yo, it's crazy.

00:10:12.000 You can hear him.

00:10:14.000 Every step of the way.

00:10:15.000 It's weird.

00:10:16.000 The 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.

00:10:24.000 He's got, what, two weeks until he's supposed to debate Trump and he's kind of back-to-back booked.

00:10:29.000 He's in Italy right now.

00:10:30.000 He's supposed to go to California for a big fundraiser and then return and have like 10 days to do debate prep.

00:10:36.000 Now he's a career politician.

00:10:37.000 He's been in debates before.

00:10:38.000 Maybe he doesn't need it.

00:10:39.000 But on the other hand, like It doesn't seem like he is the same Biden that was in the Senate, that was in Obama.

00:10:48.000 And so I just wonder how do you prepare someone like this for the debate?

00:10:51.000 Is it like you're saying you just have to hope that he has enough energy, you let him rest?

00:10:55.000 Or is it like you have to make sure he has key talking points he has to go back to every single time to be able to stay kind of punchy?

00:11:01.000 No, I think they know that there's nothing left.

00:11:06.000 And I can't remember who tweeted this.

00:11:08.000 Man, I feel bad.

00:11:09.000 They 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.

00:11:25.000 Yeah, 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.

00:11:34.000 And I'm almost sort of, I sometimes flirt in my head with thinking about, you know, the Biden family intrigues are so vast.

00:11:41.000 They go back such a long time.

00:11:44.000 Biden, you know, before he was president, before he was the vice president for Obama, he spent 40 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:11:52.000 Which is really the, you know, the Senate arm of the American empire on every continent.

00:11:59.000 And it's essentially, it's got oversight over the State Department.

00:12:02.000 And the State Department essentially has oversight over the intelligence community.

00:12:06.000 His own family is involved in it a thousand different ways.

00:12:10.000 He'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.

00:12:19.000 There'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.

00:12:27.000 And 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.

00:12:38.000 He doesn't know when he lied and what he lied about?

00:12:40.000 And it doesn't matter, ultimately, because the corporate press is going to run cover for him.

00:12:45.000 But 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.

00:12:57.000 There's no substance to what he says, and it's just second nature for him.

00:13:02.000 Yeah, he can kind of convert into or like shift into a gear where it's like, I'm addressing a crowd.

00:13:08.000 And 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.

00:13:14.000 But again, I just don't think that...

00:13:19.000 If 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.

00:13:26.000 Do you look at him and think, strong, capable leader, definitely able to convince me to vote for him?

00:13:32.000 I mean, it's concerning to me that he's at the G7 summit.

00:13:32.000 No.

00:13:35.000 He's supposed to be negotiating all kinds of stuff and making all kinds of deals and, you know.

00:13:40.000 Shout out to the Prime Minister of Italy for just sort of escorting him back to the fold.

00:13:44.000 I mean, he needs a handler always, and that's not exactly what you want in your world's leader.

00:13:50.000 I 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.

00:14:03.000 You've got international volunteers.

00:14:06.000 I mean, jeez.

00:14:07.000 In Ukraine, fighting the war, flying the Ukrainian flag.

00:14:10.000 They're not Ukrainian, but they're fighting there.

00:14:12.000 Who's paying them?

00:14:13.000 What are they doing this for?

00:14:14.000 They're not doing it for free.

00:14:16.000 If they are, okay, well then I stand corrected.

00:14:18.000 Volunteers.

00:14:19.000 There's something else there.

00:14:21.000 Joe Biden's brain don't work.

00:14:23.000 This 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.

00:14:35.000 I mean, Roberts doesn't even know what he's doing.

00:14:38.000 And then you've got the liberal justices like Ketanji Brown-Jackson who doesn't even know what a woman is. 0.99

00:14:43.000 We desperately need to make this country great again.

00:14:46.000 And there's a lot of people who are like, that's that, you know, the country was never great, blah, blah, blah.

00:14:51.000 And I'm like, dude, I don't know, man.

00:14:53.000 Look, I guess great could be a semantic definition where everything that threshold is.

00:14:59.000 How about functional?

00:15:01.000 Make America functional, MAFA.

00:15:03.000 Make America functional again.

00:15:05.000 Because wow, this is like, Joe Biden shows up to the G7 summit and it's like he's not even there at all.

00:15:11.000 He's just bumbling about, confused.

00:15:14.000 He is incapable of actually doing the job as the president.

00:15:18.000 And 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.

00:15:26.000 And 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.

00:15:36.000 It's called Congress.

00:15:37.000 They handle legislative issues.

00:15:38.000 The president, of course, signs laws and can work with Congress.

00:15:41.000 But the real reason to vote for a president is they negotiate for the country.

00:15:46.000 For Donald Trump, it's because of foreign policy.

00:15:48.000 That's the big factor in who you're voting for for president.

00:15:51.000 Now, Trump's got better economic policy, trade policy, border policy.

00:15:56.000 That is what the executive branch does.

00:15:58.000 Biden has none, and he's not there. 0.96

00:15:59.000 His brain's gone.

00:16:01.000 Yeah, 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.

00:16:16.000 So Biden's whole strong, in fact, you can look up some of these articles from when Biden was running for president.

00:16:24.000 The main force behind him was the U.S.

00:16:27.000 foreign policy establishment, the stakeholders that we have who coast off of the activities

00:16:32.000 of our State Department, our Pentagon and intelligence services.

00:16:35.000 Great example of that is BlackRock.

00:16:37.000 BlackRock everyone sort of knows for their $10 trillion of assets under management, but

00:16:41.000 that's their global firm, which has portfolio companies operating in every country on earth.

00:16:47.000 And Biden actually hemmed and hawed a lot before he actually ran for president.

00:16:51.000 He didn't really go forward with it.

00:16:54.000 According to I think the New York Times who published this, a January 2019 meeting at

00:16:58.000 BlackRock HQ with Larry Fink, BlackRock pledged their support behind him.

00:17:03.000 And 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.

00:17:15.000 Tom Donilon is a former military guy, former intelligence guy, former State Department guy.

00:17:20.000 He did the hat trick and now he runs the investment arm of BlackRock.

00:17:23.000 So 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.

00:17:33.000 And a brain that doesn't function?

00:17:35.000 Well, I think the Donilon Brothers' brains function, and I think that they don't want a president.

00:17:41.000 I 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.

00:17:50.000 No personality is better that way.

00:17:52.000 It is, as long as you win the vote, then they'll be compliant.

00:17:59.000 The issue is there's this trade-off where they need to sort of get them up to a certain

00:18:02.000 point and it's hard to think of another Democrat who will be as not there, as have no ideas

00:18:09.000 of their own, no vision of the world, no principles of their own. 0.96

00:18:12.000 You know, Biden, when in the 1990s, he had a quote where he described himself as a prostitute.

00:18:18.000 Now, 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.

00:18:26.000 He was the poorest person in Congress when he won in his, whatever, 29 years of age,

00:18:32.000 or he was very young when he came to Congress. 0.93

00:18:35.000 And he was complaining that you need to sell out to donors, you need to prostitute yourself, 0.96

00:18:40.000 and that he himself was effectively did that.

00:18:45.000 And then he becomes chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

00:18:48.000 Well, who is he prostituting himself out to?

00:18:51.000 To that same foreign policy establishment.

00:18:53.000 And to Tim's point about Trump running on foreign policy, it's precisely for that that

00:18:59.000 they're coming after him.

00:19:01.000 The Ukraine impeachment, the Russiagate FBI investigation, the Soros prosecutors, and the Soros global interests behind the present lawsuits.

00:19:09.000 I want to give a quick shout out to Power Wheels CD in the chat who said Trojan Corpse.

00:19:15.000 I thought that was a pretty good one.

00:19:16.000 Let's let's jump to the story of the Daily Mail.

00:19:18.000 This is the greatest poll I have ever seen done.

00:19:21.000 I am so excited for this and I can't believe they actually did this poll.

00:19:25.000 JL Partners polled 500 likely voters about the upcoming debate.

00:19:31.000 Half of voters expect Biden to forget where he is during first debate in Atlanta and walk off the stage on the wrong side.

00:19:40.000 That's an amazing poll.

00:19:42.000 Could you imagine a pollster calls you and is like, hi, we're here about the presidential election.

00:19:46.000 Do you think Joe Biden will forget where he is and wander off the stage in the wrong direction?

00:19:50.000 Half of them said yes!

00:19:52.000 This is awesome.

00:19:54.000 So, 79% expect Trump to interrupt Biden.

00:19:59.000 Agreed.

00:19:59.000 70% expect Biden to mess up his words.

00:20:03.000 Mm-hmm, yes.

00:20:04.000 Trump to tell a rambling story.

00:20:06.000 61%.

00:20:06.000 Now that, I don't know if I get.

00:20:10.000 He loves a good aside.

00:20:11.000 I feel like he has a couple moments where he's like... But at a rally, maybe.

00:20:16.000 I think rambling story is charged language.

00:20:21.000 He does like to tell some stories.

00:20:23.000 At a rally, though, not a debate.

00:20:25.000 You know, but you can control the time if you want to fill up time.

00:20:28.000 Trump's mic to be cut off, 54%.

00:20:30.000 See, that's the issue.

00:20:31.000 They're saying there's going to be like a hard time limit and they're going to cut mics when it limits up. 0.92

00:20:35.000 It's ridiculous.

00:20:37.000 49% expect Biden to forget where he is. 0.78

00:20:39.000 41% think he'll walk off the wrong side of the stage.

00:20:43.000 And 40% think he will have problems standing up.

00:20:46.000 Didn't they want chairs?

00:20:48.000 I 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.

00:20:54.000 Might as well do hospital beds at this point.

00:20:57.000 They were like, we just would like it to be virtual and pre-recorded.

00:21:00.000 Well, what's interesting about this, too, is they have a stipulated agreement that Trump's mic will be cut off if he interrupts.

00:21:06.000 That 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.

00:21:16.000 And Trump does have that sort of one-liner quality.

00:21:22.000 I think it's good as a meme, but I don't think Trump really is prone to rambling.

00:21:29.000 And again, they fear Trump interrupting with those because it interrupts a Biden ramble and sort of reveals it for the ramble that it is.

00:21:38.000 Yeah, 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.

00:21:47.000 You know, again, rambling feels like it might be a sort of biased question.

00:21:52.000 But, 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?

00:22:04.000 So sort of any sort of basic performance is a win for him?

00:22:08.000 I think it totally does.

00:22:09.000 You 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.

00:22:19.000 Who is on this side of the issue before the debate, and then they measure the winner by who came over to the other side.

00:22:26.000 You know, whose expectations essentially changed in favor of one versus the other.

00:22:30.000 And this is another one of these reasons why I just caution not to underestimate Biden in a debate context.

00:22:35.000 And 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.

00:22:45.000 You're in the garden, you're watching a paraglider.

00:22:48.000 Okay, I need to just, you know, smile for the camera.

00:22:50.000 But in your head, you're thinking about everything else you have to think about as president.

00:22:54.000 And there's so many of those functions that are perfunctory.

00:22:57.000 I would not be surprised if behind closed doors, Low power mode comes off and we need to be sharp for an hour or two.

00:23:05.000 And I do expect that in the debate.

00:23:09.000 You expect him to sort of tighten up in time?

00:23:10.000 Yeah.

00:23:11.000 I 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?

00:23:18.000 I mean, there's no doubt that being the president of the United States is a demanding job.

00:23:21.000 I remember seeing those before and after pictures of Obama who had gotten very gray.

00:23:25.000 You 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.

00:23:47.000 You 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.

00:23:58.000 The 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.

00:24:14.000 And Biden doesn't do press conferences.

00:24:16.000 Trump did press conferences every single day during coronavirus and he was probably the most accessible press person.

00:24:22.000 Biden does not do public press conferences.

00:24:26.000 In the limited context that he does every couple months, it's a couple of questions, none of them adversarial, and tightly controlled.

00:24:36.000 And what I find really interesting is typically, you know, they say that politics is Hollywood for ugly people.

00:24:43.000 that politicians aren't necessarily highly charismatic by nature,

00:24:48.000 but if they are up to a certain point, celebrities can kind of do the rest.

00:24:52.000 And right now, there is almost no, I mean, you have a couple of these, the De Niro's,

00:24:57.000 but we're used to seeing, I mean, remember in 2016, the tapes of 100 celebrities,

00:25:06.000 you could do a two-hour supercut of all the musicians, the actors,

00:25:12.000 every field of entertainment and academia and cultural celebrity coming out for Hillary Clinton.

00:25:20.000 They did the same thing with Obama.

00:25:21.000 They did the same thing with Bill Clinton.

00:25:24.000 But this election season, it's almost on mute.

00:25:28.000 So there's actually a list of endorsements on Wikipedia.

00:25:33.000 Joe Biden, I noticed something interesting.

00:25:36.000 Joe Biden doesn't have a doesn't have categories for like celebrities.

00:25:40.000 It just has notable individuals.

00:25:42.000 And so it mentions Mark Hamill, Whoopi Goldberg, George Conway, Stephen Colbert, George Clooney, J.J.

00:25:49.000 Abrams.

00:25:49.000 There's a good amount here, right?

00:25:51.000 George Clooney, Obama, and Julia Roberts are hosting this fundraiser.

00:25:54.000 Yeah, and you've got Steven Spielberg, Martin Sheen, I don't know, Matthew Iglesias.

00:26:00.000 Congratulations, you're listed as well.

00:26:01.000 But 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.

00:26:09.000 So certainly Trump has substantially more than Joe Biden does.

00:26:13.000 Biden does have his celebrity endorsements, but...

00:26:16.000 They 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?

00:26:23.000 Let'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?

00:26:44.000 I 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.

00:26:51.000 That'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.

00:26:56.000 Like, we're in a totally different landscape than we were in 2016.

00:26:58.000 Their endorsements really don't matter that much.

00:27:00.000 Maybe it does at an L.A.

00:27:01.000 fundraiser with Julia Roberts and George Clooney, but culturally speaking, I don't think they're relevant.

00:27:05.000 But take a look at this, right?

00:27:06.000 So if we look at Joe Biden for... Let's look at, like, music.

00:27:09.000 Okay, who does... Let's see if he has any names in here that we can actually be like, oh, wow.

00:27:14.000 Lenny Kravitz.

00:27:15.000 Where's Lenny Kravitz?

00:27:16.000 Well, the AP wrote about this yesterday.

00:27:18.000 Yeah, but Lenny Kravitz is a Gen X. He's not... He's not a big deal right now.

00:27:24.000 I mean, shout out, whatever.

00:27:25.000 He's all right.

00:27:27.000 Lizzo's popular with... Lizzo's on the list.

00:27:30.000 Yeah, she is.

00:27:31.000 Okay, well, there you go.

00:27:33.000 Alright, what's her name?

00:27:34.000 Most of the rappers are supporting Trump.

00:27:36.000 But when you look at Trump, you've got Azealia Banks, Benny the Butcher, Kodak Black, Orgeato Blow, Waka Flocka Flame.

00:27:44.000 I do like that they included Naked Cowboy.

00:27:48.000 DaBaby, Aaron Lewis, Ted Nugent's also a bit older, Lil Pump, Sexy Red.

00:27:53.000 And Snoop Dogg even reversed his position on Trump, did you see that?

00:27:59.000 Who, 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.

00:28:08.000 He actually came out a couple weeks ago and said, I got nothing but love for Trump.

00:28:12.000 And, you know, basically effectively all but did a formal endorsement.

00:28:19.000 So who does he got for sports?

00:28:20.000 He got Andrew Tate as sports figures.

00:28:22.000 I do love that.

00:28:24.000 I feel like Trump's, it's not like the lists are, Trump's list is obviously bigger, but Trump's got more relevant figures than Biden does.

00:28:32.000 But I think that's kind of just obvious.

00:28:34.000 When you look at the polling, when you look at public sentiment, it leans slightly towards Trump in a lot of different ways.

00:28:40.000 Not that it matters because all that really matters is whether or not Republicans can figure out how to win an election.

00:28:45.000 I mean, it is interesting because typically Democrats lean on Hollywood and celebrities to say we are the cool, youthful party.

00:28:51.000 I remember in 2020 at their convention, they had Billie Eilish perform.

00:28:58.000 And at the time, she was really on her come up.

00:28:59.000 You know, she'd been huge during during COVID and everything.

00:29:02.000 And, you know, maybe young celebrity starlets are just not interested in endorsing Biden, although we know that they are.

00:29:10.000 They tend to be politically active.

00:29:11.000 I'm thinking of Olivia Rodrigo, the pop singer.

00:29:13.000 handing out the equivalent of Plan B at her concerts.

00:29:17.000 Like, they have political positions, but for whatever reason, it's not translating this

00:29:21.000 cycle into Biden endorsements, even from what I can see people who have endorsed him in

00:29:25.000 the past.

00:29:26.000 I'm going to speak specifically about Taylor Swift here.

00:29:27.000 Read my mind.

00:29:28.000 Yeah, they can't get Taylor yet.

00:29:29.000 Also, I'll just shout out the rest of the list includes like Kimberly Guilfoyle, Jackson

00:29:35.000 Hinkle, Charlie Kirk, Carrie Lake.

00:29:38.000 You got Malik Obama. 0.59

00:29:41.000 You got me, Jack Posobiec, Amber Rose, Scott Pressler's on the list.

00:29:46.000 So, I don't know, man.

00:29:49.000 Whatever, I guess.

00:29:50.000 Well, 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.

00:30:02.000 You know, Nelk Boys, like 60, 90 minutes. 0.99

00:30:05.000 I 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.

00:30:18.000 They can't get together to produce a video, to produce an interview, to do a little song together.

00:30:25.000 He can't hit the road and do four cities to go to L.A.

00:30:30.000 for this, to New York for that, and Chicago for this, whereas Trump is flying four or five cities a day.

00:30:36.000 That 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.

00:30:44.000 So that he couldn't go out and do the blitz that brings you the hearts and minds.

00:30:48.000 And 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.

00:30:59.000 He can't expend the energy to do these high profile, have to be present, have to deliver.

00:31:04.000 Because now you are in front of the cameras, in front of all their audiences.

00:31:08.000 You actually have to be on point.

00:31:10.000 And 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.

00:31:38.000 Chapel 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.

00:31:53.000 Which is fascinating, right?

00:31:54.000 I 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.

00:32:08.000 And now it seems like This is starting to happen in the Democrats' backyard, in Hollywood, in the music industry.

00:32:15.000 They'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.

00:32:23.000 I'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.

00:32:30.000 Well, if he only has an hour a day, yeah.

00:32:32.000 Well, not just that, because like, think about it.

00:32:34.000 I mean, he doesn't, well, as you pointed out, he's not a free thinker.

00:32:38.000 You know, he doesn't have any sort of personality to offer anybody.

00:32:40.000 The people are going to vote for him anyway, or have been ideologically compromised for what, at least eight years now, probably longer.

00:32:46.000 So who is he really advocating to support him?

00:32:50.000 He's already got the support that he is going to get.

00:32:52.000 Nothing he's going to say on a media tour is going to necessarily bolster that.

00:32:55.000 Right.

00:32:56.000 I 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.

00:33:03.000 Yeah.

00:33:04.000 Let's jump to this story from Reuters.

00:33:06.000 This is huge news.

00:33:07.000 Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones's social media accounts.

00:33:12.000 This is wild.

00:33:13.000 Families 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.

00:33:25.000 Jones 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.

00:33:40.000 I don't know if that's true.

00:33:45.000 I think Alex Jones may have contested that, saying they're reporting this, but that's

00:33:49.000 not the case, but I don't know.

00:33:50.000 They're going to say, the families on Wednesday asked a US bankruptcy judge in Houston, Texas

00:33:56.000 to additionally take control of Jones' X.com account and prevent Jones from using it to

00:34:02.000 promote new business ventures.

00:34:06.000 They say it's, quote, no different than a customer list of any other liquidating business.

00:34:13.000 First, I will stress that you don't own your social media accounts.

00:34:18.000 X owns it, and they grant access to Alex to use that... That's the terms of service and agreements.

00:34:25.000 They would have to seize access, not from Alex, but from Elon Musk.

00:34:30.000 I don't see this ever happening, but this is an insane move.

00:34:33.000 They 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.

00:34:45.000 Quick question, is Alex Jones' dad a doctor?

00:34:47.000 I'm gonna google that right now.

00:34:49.000 Dr. Jones is natural.

00:34:50.000 It's just like a doctor philosophy.

00:34:51.000 That does seem right.

00:34:52.000 I think I read that somewhere.

00:34:53.000 His dad's a doctor?

00:34:54.000 Yeah.

00:34:55.000 I think I read that in Shane's profile of Alex Jones, as a matter of fact.

00:34:59.000 So they say a bankruptcy judge is scheduled to hear the family's demand at a Friday court hearing in Houston.

00:35:03.000 The judge is expected to convert Alex Jones' bankruptcy case from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7 liquidation.

00:35:09.000 Jones claimed for years the Sand Hill killings were staged.

00:35:12.000 He did later then say he didn't think that was correct.

00:35:15.000 Jones 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.

00:35:24.000 Alex Jones' dad is apparently a dentist.

00:35:26.000 Oh, wow, look at that.

00:35:27.000 So he is a doctor, specializing in dentistry.

00:35:31.000 So he's a doctor.

00:35:32.000 Dr. Jones' Naturals.

00:35:34.000 This is not about restitution.

00:35:38.000 Shutting down InfoWars doesn't actually get them any money.

00:35:41.000 If 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.

00:35:47.000 Taking his Twitter account from his ex-account from him?

00:35:50.000 They're literally just saying, like, no longer can this man speak in public.

00:35:54.000 It's an impossible thing they're doing.

00:35:56.000 There's literally nothing they can do.

00:35:58.000 Alex can make a new ex-account tomorrow, and tweet one time with a video of him talking, and it's gonna skyrocket.

00:36:05.000 I don't even know how they seize a social media account.

00:36:08.000 But this is wild.

00:36:09.000 I suppose, considering we're moving closer to the election, we're gonna see more I don't know, man.

00:36:14.000 I guess the question is, do we see more censorship attempts like this?

00:36:18.000 Well, this is absolutely...

00:36:21.000 Terrifying, mortifying, stupefying.

00:36:24.000 It's brutal to watch what they're doing to Alex.

00:36:27.000 On 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.

00:36:36.000 This is almost an extension of the Section 230 debate about platforms versus publishers.

00:36:43.000 If a social media account is a business asset And can essentially be rolled up in bankruptcy.

00:36:51.000 This 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.

00:37:03.000 So 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?

00:37:11.000 Because 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.

00:37:16.000 because you're a hundred thousand dollars over the hole when they do the seizure.

00:37:20.000 If they can, any lawsuit that you're unable to compensate on, if the precedent is now that

00:37:28.000 they can take your ex account, this will be gamified to take down basically everyone, anyone.

00:37:36.000 Anytime you've got a bad investigative journalist writing about your company, or your financial institution, or your political candidate, now, boom, operation mode.

00:37:48.000 How can we get rid of this?

00:37:50.000 Well, we tried going to the platforms.

00:37:51.000 We got them banned on Instagram.

00:37:53.000 We got them de-boosted on YouTube.

00:37:55.000 They still have their ex-account?

00:37:57.000 Okay, well, what if we do lawfare, force them to file a Chapter 7?

00:38:03.000 Then we know, because we've got legal precedent, that we can just seize it from them.

00:38:06.000 So, I think the issue is, what is a social media account?

00:38:10.000 If it is a platform, You're never going to be able to stop Alex Jones.

00:38:16.000 There's nothing they can do about it.

00:38:18.000 They'll file all of these things every day and night, and let's say they get his ex-account.

00:38:22.000 And this is something that I think we should all support the side of freedom on.

00:38:28.000 You're never going to be able to stop Alex Jones.

00:38:30.000 There's nothing they can do about it.

00:38:32.000 They'll file all of these things every day and night.

00:38:34.000 And let's say they get his ex account.

00:38:36.000 Let's say they get all of his accounts.

00:38:38.000 Then he makes a new account.

00:38:40.000 But then they seize the new account.

00:38:41.000 And they sure do.

00:38:42.000 And then he makes a new account.

00:38:44.000 And then it gets better.

00:38:45.000 Then some random guy on the street named Joe Schmo makes an account and says, wow, Alex Jones is standing right here.

00:38:53.000 I'm going to film him.

00:38:54.000 And now Joe Schmo's account is getting tons and tons of viewership.

00:38:57.000 And then they go, what?

00:38:58.000 They go to Joe Schmo and say, we're seizing your account because you keep playing videos of Alex Jones?

00:39:04.000 You can't do anything about it.

00:39:07.000 The issue is it does damage, it keeps what would be a burning fire of speech to a low ember constantly.

00:39:19.000 It's almost like the insurgency strategy, the counterinsurgency strategy that our military uses to contain insurgency movements.

00:39:25.000 Well, 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.

00:39:36.000 So, it takes time to build up a large platform.

00:39:41.000 And 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.

00:39:49.000 I mean, it was a game-changer when Elon let... People were trying to do ban evasions all the time.

00:39:54.000 But 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.

00:40:07.000 We did not have freedom again until Elon came back in, and I do fear that this strategy could seriously, seriously work.

00:40:14.000 And 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.

00:40:24.000 They're plotting this with the EU Digital Services Act in order to have this disinformation compliance to spiral back on US companies.

00:40:32.000 I have clipped countless, hundreds of videos of high-level censorship industry insiders.

00:40:38.000 In fact, in April this year they had a whole conference on legal solutions to stopping disinformation.

00:40:45.000 And 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.

00:40:59.000 And people were hoping and praying that would just stop there.

00:41:02.000 And then, you know, that turned out to be a canary in the coal mine.

00:41:06.000 And I think legally this would be the case if they succeed.

00:41:08.000 And my fear is because it's Sandy Hook, they will win at the trial court level with some favorable judge.

00:41:15.000 And now it's going to be in the hands of a, you know, of an appellate court and then a Supreme Court.

00:41:19.000 And if Biden is able to change the majority of the Supreme Court, we would be looking at a whole new world.

00:41:26.000 Apparently, Alex is saying they're also going after his crew's social media as well.

00:41:30.000 Now, don't get me wrong, I get it.

00:41:32.000 This is a bad and psychotic thing.

00:41:34.000 My point is, there is no point at which you can remove Alex Jones from the sphere.

00:41:41.000 And, what happens if they seize his ex- Well, first of all, they can't seize his ex- Elon Musk is going to say no.

00:41:47.000 Just outright no, you can't.

00:41:49.000 And then, what are they going to do?

00:41:50.000 Try to get some kind of injunction?

00:41:52.000 Alex, you're not allowed to log in to ex then.

00:41:54.000 That makes no sense.

00:41:56.000 I don't even—sure, a favorable judge and crackpot courts?

00:42:01.000 That, I believe?

00:42:03.000 Alex Jones uses X, the court says, you are hereby banned from using X, and he says, I'll do it anyway.

00:42:08.000 Well, then we're going to hold you in contempt or something for violating the order?

00:42:11.000 I don't know how they legally pull this off.

00:42:15.000 And thank God, by the way, that Elon understands the importance of the legal here.

00:42:19.000 I mean, he has fought Australia on their legal prohibitions and won.

00:42:25.000 He has entered the legal battle against the Center for Countering Digital Hate and against Media Matters and others.

00:42:30.000 He 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.

00:42:49.000 The issue is, at the end of the day, the justice system is kind of the Strait of Gibraltar.

00:42:55.000 It'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.

00:43:17.000 So 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.

00:43:27.000 I don't think law exists in this country.

00:43:31.000 I wonder, too, you're pointing out that if Alex Jones is what he's saying is true, they're going after his crew.

00:43:35.000 I 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.

00:43:55.000 And that seems to me to be sort of creeping judicial reach because ultimately it's not about Sandy Hook anymore.

00:44:04.000 It's not about what was said or not said or anything like that.

00:44:08.000 It'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.

00:44:20.000 Think about this.

00:44:21.000 Donald Trump had corporate bankruptcies.

00:44:24.000 They could argue that Donald Trump – I mean, he had multiple corporate bankruptcies.

00:44:28.000 They could argue that if Donald Trump used his personal account to promote a Trump business, then they can seize Donald Trump's accounts.

00:44:38.000 Bankruptcies, whether personal or corporate – and again, this is an Infowars bankruptcy.

00:44:42.000 This is a corporate bankruptcy proceeding.

00:44:45.000 Corporate bankruptcies happen all the time, every day.

00:44:49.000 If 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.

00:45:08.000 It's a brand new world.

00:45:09.000 What's to stop John Doe from starting a company called The War for Information and hiring Alex Jones as his host?

00:45:15.000 What could they do about that?

00:45:18.000 Someone else starting the company and him doing it?

00:45:22.000 A contractor, not even an employee.

00:45:24.000 He's a contractor who produces content when he feels like producing.

00:45:27.000 He gets paid $40,000 a year.

00:45:29.000 It's a good question.

00:45:30.000 I don't know legally how that would work.

00:45:32.000 I would presume that the lawyers would make the argument that this is a sort of deliberate evasion attempt.

00:45:40.000 They 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?

00:45:52.000 Yeah, I get it, but think about what that means.

00:45:54.000 And 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.

00:46:10.000 I do not believe right now that there is functioning law in the United States.

00:46:14.000 We have roving bans smashing up department stores and stealing everything.

00:46:17.000 You have people defecating all over the streets in California.

00:46:20.000 The 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.

00:46:30.000 They—what is it?

00:46:31.000 I forgot what it's specifically called, but they— Surrendered.

00:46:35.000 They basically told the lender, you know what?

00:46:36.000 It's yours.

00:46:37.000 We're out.

00:46:38.000 Collateral is all yours.

00:46:39.000 We'll lose the money we have on this.

00:46:41.000 We are seeing...

00:46:43.000 Just insane levels of crime, corruption.

00:46:47.000 You've got the trials in New York.

00:46:49.000 You've got the Georgia trial.

00:46:50.000 Fannie Willis.

00:46:50.000 I mean, this is insane what's happening in Georgia.

00:46:52.000 Can we just break this down?

00:46:54.000 They 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.

00:47:08.000 Now you've got to think, it's Wisconsin, right?

00:47:10.000 Their AG filed charges against Trump's lawyers again.

00:47:13.000 Yes.

00:47:13.000 The level of corruption and extrajudicial attacks that are happening.

00:47:18.000 And I don't understand why people tolerate it.

00:47:22.000 Like, I don't understand why Alex Jones or Donald Trump are just going like, well, I guess.

00:47:29.000 I'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.

00:47:41.000 It's psychotic to assume that we know what George is doing is not within the confines of the law.

00:47:47.000 We know what New York did was not within the confines of the law.

00:47:51.000 Fact!

00:47:52.000 We just have rogue police officers pointing guns at people and threatening them.

00:47:59.000 Those cops in New York that are facilitating that trial against Trump, they should all be in prison.

00:48:04.000 And heaven forbid I ever get any kind of political power.

00:48:10.000 Because 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.

00:48:19.000 You are not acting within the law.

00:48:21.000 You have no authority under the law.

00:48:23.000 Just because a guy claims he's ordered you to do it does not give you the authority to do it and you have broken the law.

00:48:29.000 But unfortunately...

00:48:31.000 Donald Trump goes along with it.

00:48:33.000 Real 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.

00:48:49.000 I'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.

00:49:16.000 What 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.

00:49:24.000 Amend your malicious prosecution law.

00:49:27.000 Every 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.

00:49:47.000 So, 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.

00:50:10.000 This 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.

00:50:19.000 I agree.

00:50:20.000 Now those laws are sort of being chewed up in the appeals process currently.

00:50:24.000 But you can do the same thing for malicious prosecution and allow Donald Trump to then

00:50:28.000 sue Alvin Bragg and Fannie Willis in front of a Florida jury. 0.96

00:50:32.000 And then we'll see if the same outcome happens.

00:50:34.000 I agree.

00:50:35.000 I guess the way you'd see it is they file the paperwork, they say to Donald Trump, he

00:50:39.000 says, don't I don't care.

00:50:40.000 You talk to law enforcement in Florida.

00:50:42.000 The moment they say this is legit, we say okay.

00:50:46.000 Then, with the malicious prosecution laws, under the law in Florida, Trump files and says this is an illegitimate case.

00:50:54.000 Ron 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.

00:51:00.000 What this would allow is a parallel trial every time this happens.

00:51:04.000 As New York is doing this trial to New York, well guess what?

00:51:06.000 Now New York's on trial in Florida under a concurrent malicious prosecution case.

00:51:11.000 And that, first of all, makes these things very expensive for the state to litigate.

00:51:15.000 It adds liability for these New York offices.

00:51:18.000 It basically makes you a porcupine.

00:51:21.000 So 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.

00:51:27.000 You 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.

00:51:38.000 And 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.

00:51:44.000 So, 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?

00:51:54.000 So 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?

00:52:05.000 So this is clearly malicious prosecution in a variety of ways.

00:52:07.000 We 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.

00:52:17.000 In 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.

00:52:27.000 Only this one small window.

00:52:29.000 Trump instantly sued on a 30 year old claim that can't be corroborated in any way.

00:52:33.000 Yet somehow a jury still says yes to anybody who followed that case and went through it

00:52:38.000 knows the story makes no sense.

00:52:40.000 It's even been challenged by people on CNN and MSNBC as being weird and making little

00:52:45.000 sense.

00:52:46.000 Then you have the criminal fraud trial against Trump's organization, which never committed

00:52:50.000 fraud.

00:52:51.000 They claimed that because Trump's filings for loans were incorrect, that's fraud.

00:52:57.000 Despite the fact that each and every one of those filings to the banks had a disclaimer

00:53:01.000 that the information may be incorrect and it requires the due diligence of the lender.

00:53:06.000 The lenders, like Deutsche Bank said, We recognize that we did our due diligence.

00:53:11.000 We then told Trump his numbers were wrong.

00:53:14.000 We agreed to give him a lesser amount towards the loan.

00:53:17.000 Trump agreed.

00:53:18.000 We all made money from doing this.

00:53:20.000 If we could, we do business with him again.

00:53:22.000 Still, Trump found guilty of fraud.

00:53:24.000 Kevin O'Leary, a realist, a major real estate mogul, said, this is absolutely insane.

00:53:29.000 No one in New York is safe if this is what they're doing.

00:53:32.000 Then you get the latest hush money trial.

00:53:34.000 There's literally no direct evidence that Donald Trump did anything with Stormy Daniels

00:53:37.000 other than he paid Cohen, who has lied about everything.

00:53:41.000 Cohen admitted to committing grand larceny in stealing.

00:53:45.000 They say at bare minimum, 60,000.

00:53:48.000 But under the defense's premise that Donald Trump had no idea that Cohen took out a loan

00:53:53.000 on his own home to pay off Stormy Daniels of his own volition, he didn't know that was

00:53:57.000 That means Cohen stole $250,000, yet they still criminally charge Trump for doing this.

00:54:05.000 Now, 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.

00:54:15.000 You're the CEO of a company.

00:54:16.000 A mid-level manager says, we're going to pay this lawyer off.

00:54:19.000 Then another manager says, or your CFO says, pay them off.

00:54:23.000 And Trump's just like, sure, I'll sign the check.

00:54:24.000 I don't know, whatever.

00:54:25.000 Then they come back and say, you're criminally responsible for what those guys did.

00:54:25.000 It's a legal fee.

00:54:29.000 None of it makes any sense.

00:54:31.000 But more importantly, let's go to the malicious prosecution.

00:54:34.000 Alvin Bragg campaigns, I'm going to get Trump.

00:54:37.000 I believe Letitia James as well.

00:54:40.000 You have, in the Hush Money case, it is a misdemeanor charge whose statute of limitations expired years ago.

00:54:48.000 Falsifying business records, you're not bringing back up eight years later, seven years later.

00:54:53.000 They claim he was trying to influence an election, but the crime happened after he already won it.

00:54:57.000 So what did they do?

00:54:58.000 They 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.

00:55:06.000 34, in fact, for each time he signed a check.

00:55:08.000 What was that underlying crime?

00:55:10.000 None of us know!

00:55:11.000 Because 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.

00:55:18.000 Now, here's where it gets great.

00:55:19.000 Here's the best part.

00:55:21.000 I 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.

00:55:39.000 You got a guy who admitted on the stand to committing grand larceny.

00:55:43.000 Stealing tens of thousands of dollars.

00:55:46.000 Openly admitted it.

00:55:47.000 And they're like, no charges.

00:55:49.000 But 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.

00:55:57.000 Now ask the police officers who facilitate all of this.

00:56:00.000 I make no distinction and no excuses for anyone just doing their job.

00:56:06.000 If 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.

00:56:17.000 If 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.

00:56:24.000 People say, oh, that's so dictatorial.

00:56:25.000 What?

00:56:26.000 That you don't allow cops to, I don't know, how about CBP trafficking children on the border?

00:56:30.000 Which they're doing, and we know they're doing.

00:56:32.000 It is dictatorial to stop human trafficking, to stop corrupt cops just doing their jobs.

00:56:39.000 That's the bare minimum of what legal accountability is supposed to be in this country.

00:56:44.000 Well, that's where we're currently at.

00:56:45.000 So how are you guys doing?

00:56:46.000 That's an amazing rant.

00:56:48.000 And 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.

00:57:11.000 So all you need is a 51% likelihood in the minds of the jury that everything Tim just laid out there renders it malicious.

00:57:19.000 I wonder what it is.

00:57:21.000 You know, we're at this point where If New York accuses someone of a crime, Florida just says, well, okay.

00:57:29.000 Complies.

00:57:30.000 No question.

00:57:32.000 It seems kind of strange to me.

00:57:32.000 Nothing.

00:57:34.000 Yeah, I'm a resident of West Virginia.

00:57:36.000 Am 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?

00:57:47.000 I think that's bunk.

00:57:48.000 I think we need to move forward with state protection for its residents or perhaps it does exist and I just don't know.

00:57:54.000 The 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.

00:57:54.000 I'm not a lawyer.

00:58:27.000 They'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.

00:58:40.000 And again, especially, you know, a civil trial tends to take less time.

00:58:45.000 I 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.

00:58:56.000 You'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.

00:59:12.000 $100 million on the defamation case.

00:59:16.000 They claimed Mar-a-Lago was worth $18 million.

00:59:18.000 The toilet seat's worth $18 million.

00:59:20.000 Anybody who has driven past Mar-a-Lago knows it's worth more than $18 million.

00:59:25.000 Not a question.

00:59:27.000 They are clearly lying.

00:59:30.000 And again, Trump should put it on Ron DeSantis' desk.

00:59:35.000 The 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.

00:59:53.000 This selective prosecution is malicious.

00:59:57.000 I blame the cops.

00:59:58.000 But having a legal hook to that in state allows you to highlight that selective prosecution. 0.98

01:00:03.000 Instead 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. 0.93

01:00:11.000 In this issue, I will say Donald Trump volunteered himself to New York. 0.97

01:00:15.000 Went along with this.

01:00:16.000 I don't believe he was ever grabbed by police and forced to do anything.

01:00:20.000 He's not even been held in jail or anything yet.

01:00:24.000 Should that be the case, that he is given house arrests or anything, then we're talking some very serious crimes in my opinion.

01:00:33.000 Illegitimate authority.

01:00:34.000 I do not respect the idea that cops just get to dictate something for no reason.

01:00:39.000 Not reality.

01:00:40.000 And I reject it outright.

01:00:43.000 There's too many conservatives who are like, back the blue, no matter who.

01:00:46.000 And I'm like, not if they're communists.

01:00:49.000 Communists join the police forces.

01:00:50.000 You got them in the West Coast.

01:00:52.000 You got them in Washington and Oregon.

01:00:53.000 I'm not going to back the blue.

01:00:54.000 People are people.

01:00:55.000 You need legitimate legal authority if you're going to take actions.

01:00:59.000 Now, when it comes to Georgia, I said Trump should stay in Florida and say, this is not legitimate.

01:01:05.000 I believe this should be challenged to the federal courts.

01:01:08.000 There's an election going on.

01:01:09.000 They're interfering.

01:01:10.000 And let the federal courts decide.

01:01:11.000 I just don't know if the state of New York could then call in the federal marshals.

01:01:17.000 Put it on DeSantis' desk.

01:01:19.000 Ron 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.

01:01:29.000 Yeah, it's interesting.

01:01:29.000 It's sort of a sequel to the standoff that Texas had around the border situation.

01:01:37.000 That would test the limits of federalism. 0.76

01:01:40.000 Look, 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.

01:01:53.000 And 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.

01:01:59.000 If 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.

01:02:15.000 I don't recognize it.

01:02:16.000 Trump could come out and say, I'll tell you this.

01:02:18.000 Fareed Zakaria went on CNN and said this would not be brought against anybody else, this case.

01:02:24.000 So I think that's the barometer for the American public to recognize as an illegitimate use of authority.

01:02:29.000 So here's what I'll do.

01:02:30.000 New 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.

01:02:39.000 And if they say it's illegitimate, then I expect it to be recognized the same as everyone else recognizes CNN.

01:02:44.000 Well, 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.

01:02:54.000 But that essentially creates an in-state political test.

01:02:58.000 essentially, you can bring in action in state for a determination about, you know, whether

01:03:04.000 you qualify to essentially be a sanctuary in the same way that, you know, California

01:03:09.000 and all these different blue states have sort of become these sanctuary states that have

01:03:13.000 a unique set of laws that protect illegal immigrants.

01:03:17.000 Then that would be interesting because that might provide a countervailing force to the

01:03:22.000 threat of bringing in the federal marshals because now you have a state law that protects

01:03:28.000 that person because of, you know...

01:03:31.000 But that would start to get into interesting issues there.

01:03:34.000 But I see that essentially being a sanctuary state for political dissidents.

01:03:37.000 So I suppose the question is this, right?

01:03:39.000 So 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?

01:03:52.000 And he said, is that really what we want?

01:03:53.000 Extrajudicial, you know, retribution or whatever?

01:03:56.000 And I never said that.

01:03:58.000 I'm saying, people are committing crimes.

01:04:00.000 We need people to be held accountable for it.

01:04:02.000 Hillary Clinton's campaign was accused of a lot of impropriety.

01:04:06.000 She was accused of destruction of records.

01:04:08.000 I have to wonder, her campaign operated in a bunch of different states, right?

01:04:12.000 Couldn't any one of those states go after Hillary Clinton and the people who worked with her? 1.00

01:04:15.000 They could.

01:04:16.000 I joked about this the other day.

01:04:18.000 There was the whole Whitewater scandal with the Clintons in Arkansas.

01:04:21.000 That's a red state.

01:04:22.000 The 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. 0.93

01:04:32.000 Or any one of those circumstances with Joe Biden.

01:04:36.000 Any one of these states could do exactly what New York is doing and say, national records are state-level jurisdiction now.

01:04:45.000 We hereby declare it.

01:04:46.000 Entre-deux business in Texas.

01:04:49.000 Taxes could do it.

01:04:50.000 They won't.

01:04:51.000 They won't.

01:04:51.000 So what's going to happen?

01:04:52.000 Corrupt federal forces and Democrat forces are going to keep mercilessly, politically, beating people like Donald Trump, and it won't stop.

01:05:02.000 I'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.

01:05:09.000 They know he's going to lose.

01:05:10.000 The focus right now is winning in Congress and in the Senate.

01:05:14.000 And 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.

01:05:25.000 Trump wins.

01:05:26.000 Interesting.

01:05:27.000 What about the Senate and the House?

01:05:28.000 ChatGPT, in numerous different simulations, predicted the Democrats will take the Senate and the House.

01:05:34.000 Should that be the case, expect everyone to be in prison.

01:05:38.000 Donald Trump will be president, powerless, concrete strapped to his ankles, thrown in the water, and he'll be impeached in two seconds.

01:05:45.000 Then they're going to start locking up everybody else.

01:05:47.000 Bannon will go to prison again.

01:05:49.000 They're just going to start locking everybody up because Republicans do nothing and don't care.

01:05:49.000 You name it.

01:05:54.000 Well, it'll be interesting, actually.

01:05:56.000 We 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.

01:06:10.000 So finally, and this should have been done two years ago, frankly, but there was a contempt motion that passed the House against Merrick Garland.

01:06:18.000 They 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.

01:06:39.000 Merrick Garland is citing the defense that he invalidated for Bannon and Navarro.

01:06:43.000 And 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.

01:07:03.000 One is the Justice Department Honours the Contempt Act and effectively, you know, takes action against him through the Justice Department path.

01:07:15.000 The 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.

01:07:22.000 But the other option is there's technically a rule that he can be immediately arrested by the House Acting Sergeant-at-Arms.

01:07:29.000 And 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.

01:07:47.000 Ordered him to.

01:07:48.000 Yep.

01:07:49.000 And so that is, we will know on June 25th or 23rd whether or not there's still fight left in Republicans in Congress.

01:07:59.000 But 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.

01:08:06.000 Why does that happen?

01:08:07.000 Well, 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.

01:08:33.000 And so the act of wielding government power is sort of... And this is something that I think is beginning to change.

01:08:41.000 There was this kind of strain, I think, around Free enterprise, limited government, Republicanism.

01:08:50.000 That was more true when the Chamber of Commerce was completely Republican.

01:08:55.000 The Chamber of Commerce, our major blue chip companies, basically from Truman until Trump were all Republican.

01:09:02.000 It was basically the main support system that Republicans had against the Democrats

01:09:07.000 who controlled the unions, the universities, the entertainment industry, the media.

01:09:11.000 The countervail, the counter pressure from that was that Republicans controlled big corporations, or at least they

01:09:16.000 were back by, they had the, they had that donor support and that political support, but that changed in the Trump

01:09:21.000 era. A lot of that has to do with Trump's nationalist policies and his perceived war on globalism.

01:09:26.000 These 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.

01:09:38.000 And so they preferred a sort of Bush-Biden globalist president type.

01:09:42.000 They shifted.

01:09:44.000 That actually, I think, ushered in this kind of coinciding reformation of a lot of current Republican.

01:09:50.000 We're sort of reforming right now around this idea that actually We shouldn't fear state action as much as we used to.

01:09:59.000 This free enterprise thing has basically created this tyranny that we're talking about.

01:10:05.000 The balance has to be restored.

01:10:07.000 What do you think the odds are that the Republicans can retake the Senate during the election?

01:10:13.000 Tim, what does ChatGPT say on that?

01:10:15.000 Who can retake the Senate? 0.97

01:10:17.000 What are the odds Republicans can get control?

01:10:19.000 When I ask ChatGPT based on current polling and trends, it said Democrats will take both.

01:10:26.000 It's interesting because it's like, why?

01:10:27.000 I 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.

01:10:36.000 There'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.

01:10:46.000 So 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.

01:11:00.000 Yeah, we'll pull the story up.

01:11:01.000 So we had this from Politico.

01:11:03.000 Trump supports Hogan's Senate bid after conviction comment.

01:11:06.000 Trump's support for Hogan could end up hurting the former two-term governor.

01:11:10.000 Hurting him, huh?

01:11:11.000 Maybe that was the real play.

01:11:13.000 So, Hogan's awful.

01:11:15.000 Anybody lived in Maryland?

01:11:17.000 Well, not anybody.

01:11:18.000 He clearly won elections, but we don't like him. 1.00

01:11:20.000 He's trash. 0.99

01:11:21.000 He says he would urge all Americans to respect Trump's guilty verdict in New York. 0.99

01:11:27.000 Hush money case.

01:11:28.000 I'd like to see him win.

01:11:30.000 I think it's a good chance to win.

01:11:31.000 I 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.

01:11:37.000 Trump 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.

01:11:47.000 You just ended your campaign.

01:11:49.000 I hope so.

01:11:49.000 Hogan's terrible.

01:11:51.000 I mean, I can't, I don't even understand how he wins in Maryland.

01:11:54.000 I mean, he just has longstanding support in Maryland.

01:11:57.000 He just, you know, he was previously the governor.

01:11:59.000 People, for whatever reason, really like him.

01:12:01.000 I don't think he's, you know, the Republican that Trump's Republicans like.

01:12:05.000 But 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

01:12:13.000 Ohio, you can oust the Democrat in Montana, and you can pick up

01:12:17.000 Maryland, then you can theoretically tip the Senate in your favor.

01:12:21.000 And I think that signals a level of strategic thinking from the Trump campaign in terms of

01:12:26.000 they want to have a really effective win and they want to go in as strong as they can be.

01:12:31.000 Because I think you're right there.

01:12:32.000 There 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.

01:12:46.000 The 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.

01:12:53.000 Because we know the Senate is never going to do anything about it.

01:12:56.000 It'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.

01:13:05.000 I'm curious, are we able to look up who Larry Hogan's biggest financial campaign contributors are?

01:13:13.000 Like is, you know, who, which industries and individuals contribute the most to Larry Hogan's campaign?

01:13:21.000 Let's try this.

01:13:22.000 Let's see if ChatGP can find it.

01:13:24.000 Who is the largest campaign contributor to Larry Hogan?

01:13:30.000 Yeah, like top 5 or something like that.

01:13:32.000 Top 5, top 10.

01:13:34.000 Normally you'd have to search, like, Open Secrets or something.

01:13:39.000 The largest campaign contributor to Larry Hogan comes from Individual Contributions.

01:13:43.000 Okay, Hogan's campaign overall raised 3.1.

01:13:45.000 Let's do this.

01:13:47.000 Outside of Individuals... $3 million.

01:13:51.000 Who gave the most?

01:13:53.000 From FEC.gov.

01:13:56.000 Okay, outside of Individual Contributions... Other Committees... It doesn't actually say.

01:14:03.000 OK, 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.

01:14:14.000 You know, I think I think back a lot to something that I think Tucker Carlson revealed.

01:14:21.000 That 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.

01:14:42.000 And Tucker said, don't do it.

01:14:43.000 It's insane.

01:14:44.000 It's warmongering.

01:14:48.000 Tucker asked Trump, well, what do you think you're going to do?

01:14:50.000 And Trump said, I think I'm going to do it.

01:14:53.000 And I remember that there was some suggestion that Trump didn't necessarily want to do it,

01:14:58.000 but he was under a lot of pressure from the Russiagate, from the Russiagate-Muller investigation,

01:15:04.000 which at that point people thought Trump might be arrested by Bob Mueller in the Russiagate

01:15:08.000 thing, and that Trump felt a need to make sure that Republicans in his own party in

01:15:15.000 Congress were, who were prone to war, who were prone to maximum pressure on Russia,

01:15:22.000 would be on his side on Russiagate because he was doing what they wanted on Syria.

01:15:29.000 And I look at this Larry Hogan situation, and I can't help but suspect a kind of similar

01:15:36.000 political calculus.

01:15:37.000 So, I was finally able to figure it out after asking several questions.

01:15:41.000 So, Better Path Forward PAC is one of the leading PACs, and then it mentions other committees.

01:15:48.000 I said, who is the biggest PAC donors?

01:15:50.000 Robert Smith, a private equity firm executive, and Jeffrey Lurie, an NFL team owner.

01:15:56.000 I'd be curious what industries that private equity firm specializes in, for example.

01:16:07.000 What that would reveal to me is, is it military?

01:16:10.000 Is it the Carlyle Group?

01:16:12.000 Is it energy?

01:16:13.000 Is it oil and gas?

01:16:16.000 Software, data, and technology-enabled businesses.

01:16:21.000 According to the FEC.gov.

01:16:23.000 Yeah.

01:16:25.000 Yeah.

01:16:26.000 He's also the lead singer of The Cure.

01:16:29.000 What?

01:16:29.000 Oh.

01:16:32.000 That's a different one.

01:16:34.000 All right, let's see.

01:16:36.000 I asked Chet GPT.

01:16:37.000 Okay, so right now, I asked it based on the current trends.

01:16:41.000 So this is not a simulation or a prediction.

01:16:44.000 This is Chet GPT's analysis of pundits.

01:16:48.000 Republicans are expected to secure 222 seats.

01:16:51.000 Democrats are expected to win 213 right now.

01:16:55.000 They'll have a narrow majority.

01:16:57.000 So 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.

01:17:12.000 When you added all of these things together, it said Democrats will end up winning.

01:17:16.000 When you ask it, based on the latest polling, who's going to win?

01:17:19.000 It says Republicans win.

01:17:20.000 But I don't know that that's a sufficient analysis.

01:17:23.000 I think you need to look at immigration, which has been massive, and we need to factor in.

01:17:28.000 And I said, based on immigration numbers, based on youth vote turnout, and interstate migration, it's a Democrats win. 0.61

01:17:43.000 Interesting.

01:17:44.000 And then it's going to be a wild ride.

01:17:44.000 Yep.

01:17:47.000 I 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.

01:18:12.000 I mean, even think about the fact that we have a Senate subcommittee to investigate the origins of COVID-19.

01:18:18.000 To even ask that question was to not be allowed to have a social media account a couple years ago.

01:18:26.000 We 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.

01:18:37.000 Yeah, 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.

01:18:47.000 It's that all the committees flip and and so the entire subject of investigation.

01:18:54.000 Either turns on essentially, you know, a one vote majority.

01:18:58.000 And this is what we're actually seeing is one of the sort of scandals of the George Santos situation and others.

01:19:04.000 But, 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.

01:19:15.000 And 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.

01:19:51.000 And 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.

01:20:08.000 Yeah, I would agree with Tim's assessment.

01:20:12.000 That's a pretty terrifying thought.

01:20:15.000 Just because Trump is ahead doesn't mean that everything's going to swing Republican.

01:20:20.000 Or that the Republicans who win will even do anything.

01:20:23.000 I 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.

01:20:23.000 Yeah.

01:20:37.000 But he was screwed over by Paul Ryan.

01:20:39.000 He 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.

01:21:00.000 And then you have this sort of nationalist populist faction.

01:21:04.000 And 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.

01:21:27.000 Let's jump to the story.

01:21:28.000 Ladies and gentlemen, it may be the apocalypse.

01:21:31.000 Saudi Arabia's petrodollar deal with the U.S.

01:21:33.000 expires with no new agreement in place.

01:21:37.000 A petrodollar agreement with the United States and Saudi Arabia has expired.

01:21:41.000 As per reports, the Gulf nation has decided not to renew the deal that expired on June 9th.

01:21:45.000 The move can be seen as a global finance paradigm shift from the USD as a reserve currency.

01:21:51.000 The termination of the deal may also have implications and consequences for America.

01:21:54.000 The 50-year-old agreement has had significant geopolitical and economic implications.

01:21:59.000 It acted as a catalyst in shaping the global energy market and influencing international relations.

01:22:04.000 The petrodollar system was signed in 1974 as a result of a bilateral agreement between the U.S.

01:22:09.000 and Saudi Arabia.

01:22:10.000 Both nations decided to price and trade oil in U.S.

01:22:13.000 dollars.

01:22:14.000 With oil standardization in terms of dollars, every country purchasing oil from Saudi Arabia would be required to pay in dollars.

01:22:20.000 Well, ladies and gentlemen, what does this mean for you?

01:22:22.000 also began to standardize their oil pricing in US dollars, which gave push to the petrodollar

01:22:27.000 system.

01:22:28.000 Well, ladies and gentlemen, what does this mean for you?

01:22:32.000 The United States produces very little.

01:22:35.000 economy is as good as it is relative to other nations is that we have global empire.

01:22:41.000 We point guns at other people, we take them over and remove their leaders.

01:22:44.000 Saudi 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.

01:22:52.000 dollars.

01:22:52.000 The way it worked is rather simple.

01:22:54.000 If a country, we'll just call it country A. How about free domestan?

01:23:01.000 We'll call it free domestan.

01:23:02.000 They want oil.

01:23:03.000 What do they have to do?

01:23:05.000 They have to trade free domestani currency for U.S.

01:23:08.000 dollars first, then buy oil in U.S.

01:23:11.000 dollars.

01:23:12.000 There's faster ways of transacting and doing the flip, but basically this means the free domestani currency must be strong.

01:23:18.000 The 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.

01:23:28.000 The United States doesn't do that.

01:23:30.000 The United States just creates currency upon the issuance of debt and then buys oil with it.

01:23:35.000 Now, if the Biden administration or anyone else just buys a ton of oil by printing money and producing debt, then you'll get inflation.

01:23:42.000 This means something magical is about to happen.

01:23:45.000 It means if the petrodollar system breaks, the economy will likely implode and you will all find your standard of living miserable.

01:23:55.000 The U.S.

01:23:55.000 does not produce enough to maintain a strong currency.

01:23:58.000 It's the petrodollar that allows the currency to be strong.

01:24:02.000 That is, what does the U.S.

01:24:03.000 produce?

01:24:04.000 Dollars.

01:24:04.000 What are dollars good for?

01:24:05.000 Buying oil.

01:24:06.000 Not anymore.

01:24:07.000 So now, why is anyone going to buy dollars?

01:24:09.000 They're not.

01:24:09.000 So the value of the dollar is going to start sinking.

01:24:11.000 Your buying power is going to collapse.

01:24:13.000 Good luck.

01:24:14.000 I have no answers.

01:24:15.000 I'm not an economist.

01:24:17.000 I find this to be one of the most fascinating things to happen.

01:24:21.000 I mean, the decision tree spiral from this is, first of all, let it be said that this would never have happened under Donald Trump.

01:24:31.000 Saudi Arabia loved, loved, loved Donald Trump.

01:24:35.000 And they hated, hated, hated the second half of the Obama administration and Joe Biden.

01:24:42.000 A 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.

01:24:58.000 And I heard something really interesting by Snowden on a Joe Rogan interview a few years ago.

01:25:03.000 And 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.

01:25:51.000 And I find that to be really interesting because Obama really alienated Saudi Arabia with the Iran deal.

01:25:57.000 By 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.

01:26:10.000 And Iran actually has, I believe, more gross exploitable oil and gas exports.

01:26:17.000 Then 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.

01:27:04.000 And so this basically put Israel and Saudi Arabia into a partnership for the first time in decades, which was brokered by the Trump administration.

01:27:12.000 The first act, if you remember, that Trump did when he took office was to kill that Iran energy deal.

01:27:19.000 And so MBS and Saudi Arabia loved Trump and then immediately went hostile on Biden.

01:27:24.000 And 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.

01:27:47.000 And then you have, well, I mean years, same company, but this is Hunter five, five, six years ago.

01:27:54.000 And 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.

01:28:10.000 And so they are now breaking this, this 50 year, you know, this 50 year petrodollar pledge.

01:28:16.000 Joe Biden is not inspiring confidence in everybody.

01:28:26.000 In anybody.

01:28:27.000 And so I can't imagine anybody's going to think... Imagine you want to go start a business with someone.

01:28:35.000 You want to enter into a contract with someone.

01:28:36.000 Let's say you want to make a comic book.

01:28:38.000 And you need a guy who can, I don't know, come up with ideas.

01:28:40.000 You're a great artist.

01:28:42.000 And then you meet Joe Biden.

01:28:44.000 You gonna do a deal with him?

01:28:47.000 It's actually great you bring that up, because just today it was announced at the G7 summit that the U.S.

01:28:56.000 Treasury is going forward with this plan to fund Ukraine with frozen Russian assets.

01:29:02.000 That's right.

01:29:07.000 Just 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.

01:29:15.000 You never know if your investment is going to be safe because any day the CCP could just nationalize your company, take all your assets.

01:29:22.000 haven't really done it before, but the looming threat of it because of the way their system

01:29:25.000 works is always the sword of Damocles hanging above you. So Brazil, you should be using our 1.00

01:29:31.000 phones instead of Huawei. You should be using Amazon instead of Alibaba. You should be investing

01:29:37.000 your assets on U.S. territory instead of in Chinese territory. And now the State Department

01:29:43.000 and the Treasury have just done the big bad apocalypse claim.

01:29:50.000 We've always been saying for like 30 years now that China might do someday and that's the reason they're bad. 1.00

01:29:57.000 It'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.

01:30:04.000 But they made a deal under our legal system as it existed at the time.

01:30:09.000 Like the Russians, hate the Russians, think they're the worst thing, you know, think Putin is Hitler.

01:30:15.000 They invested the assets in this country. 0.95

01:30:17.000 They did not attack the United States.

01:30:20.000 Whatever you want to say they did, it happened 8,000 miles away to another foreign country.

01:30:25.000 If the new terms of dealing with the United States is anytime we squint and say, hey, you know what?

01:30:31.000 We think you attack democracy, some ethereal concept, then Billions!

01:30:37.000 Basically, I think it's like 200 or 300 billion dollars of total frozen Russian assets.

01:30:41.000 I know that there was three billion dollars that they pledged that they're immediately taking to fund Ukraine with.

01:30:48.000 Why would you do a deal with this country in this way?

01:30:52.000 I mean, if this is not reversed immediately, this is going to be catastrophic diplomatically.

01:30:57.000 But it won't be reversed immediately, right?

01:30:59.000 Like 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.

01:31:06.000 You could see a world where Trump wins the presidency.

01:31:09.000 And 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.

01:31:17.000 They threatened to do this.

01:31:18.000 They did a little bit of damage, but it was stopped before it's too late.

01:31:20.000 America gets to preserve, you know, preserve You know, the century of diplomatic statecraft that we'd had for that time.

01:31:27.000 You say, OK, there was a period where we went off the rails, but we reined it in quickly.

01:31:31.000 And 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.

01:31:43.000 And that is just one more reason why the fate of the universe kind of hangs in the balance this November.

01:31:50.000 What 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.

01:31:58.000 Like, they have insane internal struggles in their own country.

01:32:01.000 Like, Politico had a great report about this where they said this is the meeting of the lame ducks.

01:32:05.000 So, I mean, you have unpopular leaders that are making deals that are catastrophic.

01:32:05.000 You know?

01:32:09.000 Like, that's pretty much where we're at.

01:32:11.000 Well that's why I find it so funny that populism is the big dirty word in all of this.

01:32:16.000 That populism is inherently a threat to democracy, the will of the people.

01:32:21.000 Because they basically redefined democracy from meaning a consensus of individuals, i.e.

01:32:27.000 voters, to a consensus of institutions, i.e.

01:32:30.000 that same blob, cloistered You know, an elite institutional set.

01:32:38.000 And so – and you even see this.

01:32:40.000 I mean if you run a Google search for phrases like elections are a threat to democracy,

01:32:46.000 there's a lot of literature from the foreign policy establishment about how we need to

01:32:49.000 transition away from looking at elections and votes as being our definition of democracy

01:32:53.000 because populism is on the rise.

01:32:56.000 The will of the people is – and they're really – they're redefining what democracy

01:33:01.000 is to mean democratic institutions, basically pillars of society like our Justice Department

01:33:07.000 or the mainstream media or these – or NGOs.

01:33:11.000 And that's really having a healthy and robust ecosystem of essentially CIA assets or State

01:33:18.000 Department-funded institutions or military contractors.

01:33:24.000 Their will is what democracy is now.

01:33:25.000 And so it is funny that they're unpopular and they're in power and what they're

01:33:30.000 at war with is the concept of populism, which is basically popular opinion against elite

01:33:36.000 Just 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.

01:33:44.000 Then I'm just like, okay, now it makes sense.

01:33:45.000 Tyranny, fascism.

01:33:46.000 Yes.

01:33:47.000 Do you think this continues to drive people to populism, though?

01:33:51.000 I 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.

01:34:06.000 I think presently we're on a razor's edge about that.

01:34:08.000 The fact is is like North Korea does exist.

01:34:11.000 You 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.

01:34:27.000 But 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.

01:34:46.000 The House has blocked a lot of things.

01:34:48.000 They have forced negotiations on everything from the budget to investigations, hearings, subpoenas, hauling everyone in for transcribed interviews.

01:34:58.000 You'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. 0.97

01:35:21.000 That he also owns Tesla and SpaceX and has the institutional sort of connections.

01:35:27.000 And 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.

01:35:33.000 Right now, there is this, I think, tenuous moment to, you know, to fight back.

01:35:39.000 I don't know that that will always exist.

01:35:42.000 There could be a century of darkness if the next five years play out the wrong way.

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01:36:35.000 Is that what it is? 0.99

01:36:36.000 Oh my god, I didn't see this.

01:36:38.000 They birthed immaculate babies through witchcraft or something? 0.98

01:36:42.000 They don't eat men. 1.00

01:36:43.000 You know how it is.

01:36:43.000 You know what?

01:36:44.000 That's just a Green Amplify.

01:36:45.000 That's just game right there.

01:36:47.000 It's like, alright, a Green Amplify.

01:36:48.000 Yeah, we are gonna put a chick in. 1.00

01:36:49.000 We are gonna make her gay. 1.00

01:36:51.000 Alright, BlueTMC says, being under the influence of a substance, no matter the substance, doesn't make your right to self-defense vanish. 0.97

01:36:57.000 We already have laws for brandishing, negligent discharge, assault, murder.

01:37:02.000 That's a good point!

01:37:03.000 That is a good point.

01:37:04.000 So 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.

01:37:11.000 Perhaps influence can be a, I don't know, extenuating factor of some sort? 0.96

01:37:17.000 Tim 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. 0.96

01:37:25.000 He doesn't seem to understand this. 0.93

01:37:27.000 Ian 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.

01:37:41.000 It's not reality.

01:37:42.000 What does he say when he says that?

01:37:44.000 It's like on paper a long time ago, but it doesn't recognize the formal relationships of government and how these governments function.

01:37:53.000 Yet there's no reality where the king is going to be like, alright Canada, you have to do this now, and they're going to be like, kay.

01:37:58.000 It's just not going to work that way.

01:38:00.000 It's written in invisible ink on the back of the Magna Carta.

01:38:02.000 Yeah, that's where it is.

01:38:04.000 I 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.

01:38:12.000 Doesn't work that way.

01:38:16.000 All right, let's grab some more Super Chats.

01:38:19.000 Blue TMC says, it's the acts you conduct with that firearm that determines whether or not you're breaking the law.

01:38:26.000 Well, all right, that'd be an interesting, interesting debate.

01:38:29.000 The Highlander says, Ian has Hulkamania energy.

01:38:33.000 Okay.

01:38:34.000 Anthony Shaw says, let's go.

01:38:36.000 What are the adjectives for Hulkamania?

01:38:38.000 Like, is there a synonym to this?

01:38:39.000 I'm not sure I understand what that energy is.

01:38:41.000 He's a fan of Hulk Hogan.

01:38:44.000 Impassible says, use this to buy more BuzzFeed.

01:38:47.000 Yeah, I bought a bunch of BuzzFeed stock.

01:38:49.000 You and Vivek taking over?

01:38:50.000 Not me.

01:38:51.000 I can't buy nearly as much as he's bought.

01:38:53.000 But I was just like, you know, I'm gonna buy some stock.

01:38:55.000 And then I saw BuzzFeed and I saw what Vivek was saying.

01:38:57.000 And I was kind of just thinking like, He's the best reason to believe it's going to become more valuable, I guess.

01:39:04.000 So I don't usually like talking about the stocks that I buy because I don't want to have any influence on them.

01:39:09.000 But we talk about BuzzFeed and the Vivek story enough to where I figured I'd mention that I bought some.

01:39:13.000 I didn't buy nearly that much.

01:39:16.000 You have been secretly buying it up quietly for months and then you make a big announcement.

01:39:20.000 You're not going to send an open letter to their CEOs?

01:39:23.000 I would love to own BuzzFeed.

01:39:25.000 And their market cap is down to like $95 million.

01:39:27.000 Let me check their current market cap.

01:39:29.000 What company would you secretly take over if you could, Chris Carr?

01:39:33.000 Uh, wow.

01:39:35.000 AMC.

01:39:36.000 AMC?

01:39:36.000 Yeah, I would take over AMC.

01:39:38.000 Yeah, probably.

01:39:39.000 Didn't AMC just invest in Alamo Drafthouse or something?

01:39:43.000 If they did, that's a really smart investment because Alamo Drafthouse is the movie theater of the future.

01:39:47.000 Sony bought it, I think.

01:39:48.000 94 million is BuzzFeed's market cap.

01:39:51.000 So you need 94 million, probably more actually, to buy the company.

01:39:56.000 But if you buy too much, the price goes up.

01:39:58.000 So it gets harder and harder.

01:39:59.000 It's probably why Vivek is doing it slowly.

01:40:01.000 Otherwise, you just, you know, if you say right now you wanted to buy 10 million, you'd crank the price way up and price yourself out.

01:40:08.000 So I don't know exactly what he's doing.

01:40:11.000 All I know is I am part owner of BuzzFeed now.

01:40:14.000 That's interesting.

01:40:15.000 You know, BuzzFeed played such an interesting role in the in the Steele dossier.

01:40:20.000 And 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.

01:40:32.000 There 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.

01:41:00.000 And I actually think was it Ben Smith?

01:41:02.000 Was he the, the original CEO?

01:41:04.000 No, no, no, no, the editor in chief.

01:41:06.000 Chief.

01:41:07.000 Yeah.

01:41:07.000 Jonah Praddy is the CEO.

01:41:09.000 Okay.

01:41:10.000 I 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.

01:41:21.000 Ben is a morally good guy who doesn't know what's going on around him.

01:41:25.000 Because I've known him for a while, and I've talked to him a couple times.

01:41:30.000 He has very little deep understanding of what's actually happening in the country, but he's not a bad guy.

01:41:36.000 There are a lot of people in the corporate press who are evil, know what's going on.

01:41:39.000 He's the opposite.

01:41:40.000 He has no idea what's happening, but he's a good guy.

01:41:43.000 Yeah, it's unfortunate.

01:41:44.000 Because he's the kind of guy where like...

01:41:46.000 If you can prove something is true and he will recognize it, then he'll say it.

01:41:51.000 But I will give him this shout-out. 0.97

01:41:53.000 When 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.

01:42:03.000 What happened was, when Popeyes released their new chicken sandwich, remember that big trend that happened? 0.83

01:42:08.000 There was a guy who was at Popeyes, someone cut in line, He's, and it was nothing to do with the sandwich.

01:42:15.000 It was just a guy cut in line.

01:42:17.000 He 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?

01:42:22.000 And then the guy, I think, stabbed him and killed him.

01:42:24.000 And it was not over a chicken sandwich.

01:42:26.000 It was people got into a fight at the Popeyes.

01:42:29.000 But they couldn't resist the story.

01:42:31.000 The family members were shocked, outraged, and upset that the media was lying and claiming that they were fighting.

01:42:36.000 The implication was that there was one chicken sandwich left and it was so much for the guy to stab him.

01:42:41.000 When BuzzFeed ran that story, I reached out to Ben Smith and I said, hey, this is not correct.

01:42:47.000 Here's the proof.

01:42:48.000 The family is saying this is not what happened.

01:42:50.000 And he said, so what?

01:42:51.000 He did not care that he published fake news. 0.98

01:42:54.000 That's scumbaggery. 0.96

01:42:56.000 Yeah. 0.78

01:42:56.000 Well, that kind of makes me revisit that he's a good guy. 0.78

01:43:00.000 Well, I'm not going to condemn him.

01:43:01.000 There have been many instances where he has done the right thing on stories of, you know, more importance.

01:43:06.000 Like, a viral clickbait story he doesn't care about, I think is scummy.

01:43:10.000 But there have been bigger, more important stories where he's done the right thing.

01:43:13.000 That 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.

01:43:22.000 Right.

01:43:22.000 It is interesting that BuzzFeed really made its bones on going viral.

01:43:26.000 That was true of their news team, but that was also true of their list to close to certain extent.

01:43:30.000 The video components that they launched at one point, like, it was about getting as many eyes on whatever you're doing as possible.

01:43:36.000 So it's not surprising to me that, like, that would take precedence in their newsroom, especially when you come up with headlines.

01:43:41.000 But it's definitely not something that other news outlets that were online were doing the way they were.

01:43:48.000 Right.

01:43:49.000 This is Obama's third term, not Biden's term. 0.80

01:43:50.000 He is corrupt and has done so many illegal things, but wow, I pity him. 0.81

01:43:54.000 This is definitely elder abuse. 0.98

01:43:55.000 He is gone.

01:43:56.000 This is Obama's third term, not Biden's term.

01:43:59.000 Dude, that video today, I mean, there's a reason it got 10 million views in only a couple

01:44:04.000 hours, in like six, seven hours.

01:44:07.000 He's standing around at a skydiving, like, presentation, and then he just like, corn

01:44:13.000 holio arms spins around and then starts walking in a random direction like he's just gone,

01:44:20.000 There's people defending him, though.

01:44:21.000 They're saying it's not a big deal.

01:44:22.000 Like, he does have a staunch defender, like this one guy I pulled up.

01:44:26.000 What's happening here is that you're an old guy who moves kind of stiltedly. 0.89

01:44:29.000 It's very easy to find brief clips that look strange to people already committed to the idea he's lost it.

01:44:34.000 He has lost it.

01:44:35.000 I've heard him talk.

01:44:36.000 Yeah, but you're never going to get through to these people.

01:44:38.000 The 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.

01:44:50.000 Incredible.

01:44:52.000 It would be impossible for you to know that unless you were there, but also video evidence sort of speaks for itself.

01:44:59.000 Even if what you're saying is true, he's actually listening to someone else, he doesn't convey confidence.

01:45:03.000 He doesn't convey strength.

01:45:05.000 He looks like he is a slightly lost old man, and that's sad.

01:45:10.000 I don't like that either.

01:45:11.000 You know what I like?

01:45:12.000 I like these video games where they present you with a problem and then you can solve it however you want.

01:45:20.000 An example of one game is a game called Human Fall Flat.

01:45:22.000 Have you guys ever heard of it?

01:45:24.000 So it's this game where you play this wonky little dude and you run around and you've got to open doors.

01:45:30.000 The goal is to get to the exit, that's it, but the controls are really weird.

01:45:34.000 You 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.

01:45:41.000 But it doesn't matter how you get to the exit.

01:45:44.000 You can get to the exit any way you want.

01:45:46.000 There's no cheating.

01:45:47.000 I love these games because I don't play them the way you'd expect them to be played.

01:45:52.000 My 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?

01:45:58.000 And they have a path, but you don't gotta take it.

01:46:00.000 So 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.

01:46:08.000 I 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.

01:46:21.000 And then if they can, and anyone else, I will gladly solve a basic logic puzzle before I walk into a debate.

01:46:27.000 And if you can't, we kindly ask you to leave.

01:46:30.000 It's like an IQ capture.

01:46:32.000 Yeah.

01:46:32.000 Right.

01:46:33.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:46:33.000 No, they would just declare it immediately systemically racist and be like, we can't impose this.

01:46:37.000 Many would.

01:46:38.000 Many would.

01:46:39.000 And I don't know what their solution would be.

01:46:41.000 Perhaps they take the very boring and bland, they walk right to the level.

01:46:45.000 So, 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.

01:46:52.000 Then you have to like push a boulder and it falls and then it makes an elevator come up.

01:46:55.000 Very fun game.

01:46:56.000 Very simple.

01:46:57.000 I don't like doing any of that.

01:46:59.000 I 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.

01:47:08.000 There'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.

01:47:15.000 I love doing all that stuff.

01:47:16.000 If they solve the puzzle, 1, 2, 3, 4, that's fine.

01:47:19.000 If someone else solves it, 5, 6, 7, 8, whatever, totally acceptable.

01:47:23.000 If they get the answer 120 and someone else gets five exclamation point, we accept it.

01:47:27.000 Right.

01:47:27.000 Yeah, it's like agreeing on a process.

01:47:30.000 A basic level of comprehension required to have these conversations.

01:47:36.000 The reason I bring this up is, you know, I'm thinking about how the people are defending Joe Biden. 1.00

01:47:41.000 I just want to know that their brains work and that they're lying intentionally, or if they're just stupid. 0.99

01:47:51.000 Joe Biden is standing up on D-Day. 1.00

01:47:54.000 He squats down, grimaces, he stands up, he squats down a little bit again, and we're all like, well, that was kind of weird.

01:48:00.000 I wonder what that was.

01:48:02.000 There is a probability that he was pooping himself.

01:48:05.000 We 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.

01:48:25.000 Not only that, but he's been accused of having episodes before.

01:48:28.000 We entertain the reality that these could be political attacks against him, that they're trying to insult him.

01:48:33.000 But you cannot ignore the fact that it's an 80-year-old man who made a weird squat position.

01:48:37.000 He wasn't trying to sit down.

01:48:38.000 There's a chair right behind him.

01:48:40.000 No one's saying anything.

01:48:41.000 Everyone's supposed to be standing.

01:48:44.000 I don't know what the percentage is.

01:48:46.000 1?

01:48:46.000 50?

01:48:47.000 But it's a possibility.

01:48:49.000 And there are people like, it's completely impossible.

01:48:51.000 He must have been adjusting his posture.

01:48:53.000 And I'm like, how often do you see people do anything like that?

01:48:56.000 That's adjusting their posture.

01:48:58.000 Okay.

01:48:59.000 Maybe let's throw that in there long, but the idea that outright you would say, no, I put it this way.

01:49:05.000 There is more evidence that Joe Biden pooped his pants than there is that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

01:49:10.000 Yet they ran through the news a million and one ways that Trump was a Russian asset.

01:49:14.000 And it was all completely made up.

01:49:17.000 They said that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation and they're maintaining that lie.

01:49:21.000 There 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.

01:49:33.000 It was actually his laptop.

01:49:35.000 It was admitted into evidence.

01:49:37.000 It was his.

01:49:38.000 Serial number confirms it.

01:49:39.000 All of his stuff is on it.

01:49:41.000 And right now, journalists are still tweeting, but it still is part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

01:49:48.000 The 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.

01:49:57.000 That is ridiculously assumptive and circuitous.

01:50:00.000 That being said, there's more of it.

01:50:02.000 And so there are people who are like, that there's no way he pooped his pants, you're making that up.

01:50:07.000 But the laptop, that's a Russian spy operation.

01:50:11.000 I'm like, okay, your logic doesn't exist.

01:50:15.000 I 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.

01:50:21.000 A bunch of different game stores.

01:50:22.000 You get like...

01:50:24.000 Not GameStop, but you go to the mall and they have, like, they'll sell puzzles and things like that.

01:50:27.000 Actually, GameStop might sell these.

01:50:29.000 And it'll be, like, three triangles and you're like, how did these get together?

01:50:32.000 And then you have to, like, spin them to make them come apart.

01:50:34.000 They're so fun.

01:50:35.000 Yeah, I'm gonna put that on the door outside and be like, before anybody comes in for a debate, figure this one out.

01:50:39.000 I don't care how long it takes you.

01:50:40.000 If you can figure it out, you can come upstairs.

01:50:42.000 I think it's probably more fun to be illogical though, right?

01:50:44.000 Because you're not tied to any sort of map or path to making straightforward conclusions or things that make sense.

01:50:52.000 It doesn't have to add up and that's sort of more fun.

01:50:54.000 You can just continue to twist and add and take away and subtract and go back on things.

01:51:00.000 It doesn't matter if you're illogical.

01:51:01.000 It's like an LSD trip for logic.

01:51:04.000 The Xbox Gamer says, it was Enterprise B in yesterday's Enterprise. 0.95

01:51:10.000 So 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. 0.60

01:51:20.000 Like, it makes them attracted to their brothers. 0.98

01:51:22.000 Because what happens is, when they're on the pill, it simulates pregnancy, so their hormones tell them to be with family.

01:51:29.000 So 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.

01:51:38.000 When women are not on the pill, they're looking for the strongest guy when they're on the pill. 1.00

01:51:42.000 So 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.

01:51:51.000 And so I made a video and basically pointed out, Star Wars.

01:51:54.000 You want to rag on Star Wars today and Star Trek today?

01:51:57.000 Like, okay, fine.

01:51:58.000 But Star Trek, the OG stuff and the next generation, is some of the manliest, most masculine thing ever.

01:52:05.000 And I recommend people who have not seen the next generation watch it, and I recommend their kids watch it.

01:52:12.000 One of my favorite stories in The Next Generation, I'll make this one quick, I did a longer thing about it earlier today.

01:52:18.000 In the original series, it's the Federation, that's the main character, Kirk and everybody, and then there's Klingons, they're bad guys. 0.82

01:52:25.000 And 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?

01:52:37.000 Put a Klingon on the Enterprise. 0.97

01:52:40.000 An enemy from the first series is now an ally in the new series.

01:52:43.000 The writing they came up with was that the Klingons and the Federation are at war.

01:52:49.000 Romulans, another enemy faction, attack a civilian outpost, a civilian colony of Klingons, killing women and children, a massacre, just wiping everybody out. 0.73

01:52:59.000 And then the Federation intercepts a distress signal from the Klingons, their enemy. 1.00

01:53:04.000 They warp full speed, they rush in as fast as they can and encounter four warships they are completely incapable of handling.

01:53:11.000 Instead 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.

01:53:19.000 The Klingon Empire then, seeing this as an act of bravery and honor, decides to enter into an alliance with the Federation.

01:53:24.000 That's the story they wrote.

01:53:25.000 That is based AF.

01:53:27.000 The idea that you in your ship would sacrifice yourself for honor And the Integrity is an amazing story for kids.

01:53:38.000 It's amazing writing.

01:53:40.000 What 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. 1.00

01:53:48.000 Yeah, okay, look. 0.96

01:53:49.000 You wanna talk about Manly?

01:53:51.000 Kids learning about naval tradition, which is the basis of Star Trek.

01:53:56.000 It's effectively naval tradition, but they put it in space.

01:54:02.000 And 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.

01:54:10.000 Those are great lessons.

01:54:13.000 Yeah, we don't have a lot of those stories these days, so I'll call Star Trek at least what it used to be.

01:54:17.000 Very masculine.

01:54:19.000 I 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.

01:54:28.000 I was rewatching Austin Powers on a plane.

01:54:32.000 It was just like a movie while I was traveling.

01:54:34.000 And there's a really funny scene because I think Austin Powers was made in like 1997, the original one.

01:54:40.000 And 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,

01:55:19.000 Karate chop them, and then he's told by the MI6 guy, no, no, no, no, no, it's Austin.

01:55:25.000 It's 1997 now.

01:55:26.000 The Russians are our friends.

01:55:28.000 And it's so funny because 1980s was all like hardcore Cold War propaganda.

01:55:33.000 They're the enemy.

01:55:34.000 We're back to that now.

01:55:35.000 But 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.

01:55:46.000 We have this alliance now.

01:55:47.000 Of course now that could never be made today as a comedy.

01:55:51.000 What's-her-name says, lost my mom a few weeks ago unexpectedly.

01:55:54.000 She was a huge Timcast fan and got me watching.

01:55:57.000 We would always discuss the show.

01:55:59.000 You and Luke, her favorite, woke her up and she walked away from the left.

01:56:02.000 Thank you.

01:56:03.000 Wow.

01:56:03.000 Sad to hear it.

01:56:04.000 Sorry about your loss, but I'm glad you found the show and you shared something and I hope for the best.

01:56:10.000 Wish you the best.

01:56:13.000 Let's grab a couple more Super Chats here.

01:56:17.000 Danny O'Shea says Mayorkas has been trafficking people, especially children, through red states. 0.83

01:56:22.000 Where's the arrest warrants?

01:56:23.000 Absolutely, Tennessee.

01:56:25.000 Huge story several years ago that the Biden administration was flying trafficking children into Tennessee and Tennessee legislators were upset about it.

01:56:35.000 No action?

01:56:36.000 None whatsoever.

01:56:38.000 Wow.

01:56:39.000 That's amazing.

01:56:41.000 Slow Brain says, did West Virginia spend $1 million on a Pride mural on the street, or did I read that wrong?

01:56:46.000 I do not believe they spent $1 million.

01:56:49.000 Is that... There is, I don't know how much it cost, but there is a huge Pride mural in... In Huntington, right?

01:56:53.000 In Huntington.

01:56:53.000 It's basically Kentucky, I think.

01:56:55.000 It's on the border.

01:56:56.000 Far West, West Virginia.

01:56:58.000 So it's the L.A.

01:56:59.000 of West Virginia, I guess.

01:57:02.000 But it's already getting completely obliterated.

01:57:04.000 People are just destroying it.

01:57:06.000 They're just driving their cars over it.

01:57:07.000 They're squealing their tires.

01:57:09.000 It's nuts.

01:57:10.000 Where's that case now where they've made it a crime to do a donut on it, right?

01:57:14.000 Yeah, I think in Washington, desecrating a pride flag is a felony or something like that.

01:57:21.000 Yeah, I know there's some crazy ongoing case where they, you know, they threw the book at this guy.

01:57:25.000 Oh, there's like 50 right now.

01:57:26.000 Probably.

01:57:27.000 There are some kids who are riding scooters and they're getting charged with felonies.

01:57:30.000 Scooters?

01:57:31.000 It's all the way down to scooters?

01:57:32.000 They were riding scooters around and it left scuffs, so they said it was vandalism.

01:57:36.000 And there's not even evidence presented yet that they were intentionally trying to scuff the road.

01:57:40.000 There's a video of them just riding around.

01:57:42.000 Yeah, and they called it damaging the mural.

01:57:44.000 I don't really understand why we need to do this, and also why Pride is taking over more and more and more.

01:57:49.000 Like, now it's the street art, I guess, with the Huntington mural.

01:57:53.000 They're saying, oh, it's supposed to serve as the centerpiece for the upcoming Pride Festival in the fall.

01:57:58.000 Like, you guys got June.

01:57:59.000 They're tearing down our statues.

01:58:01.000 They're tearing down historical statues.

01:58:03.000 When I say our, I'm talking like Hans Christian Haag and Frederick Douglass.

01:58:07.000 I also don't like the Confederate statues being torn down.

01:58:09.000 They should be in museums at the very least, but it should be done through a democratic process. 0.93

01:58:13.000 And then after they destroy symbols of our history, they put up their garbage.

01:58:17.000 So, now, all of these should be fought to the highest degree possible, but I think it's got to be done legally.

01:58:25.000 That's the point.

01:58:27.000 The problem is, and I blame the police, how come very few people ever got arrested for destroying all of our statues?

01:58:35.000 Now they're arresting anybody who even accidentally drives over these things.

01:58:38.000 Yes.

01:58:40.000 If you scuff a pair of white Nikes with a pride flag on it, it's like a crime.

01:58:46.000 It's just incredible.

01:58:48.000 But 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

01:59:12.000 Not as formidable as it currently is.

01:59:13.000 I think you have so many parents now who are afraid of their public schools.

01:59:18.000 They'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.

01:59:26.000 You now have JK Rowling and other, you know, very—it's dividing the left, frankly, you know, with TERFs versus feminists. 1.00

01:59:34.000 But they're not the left anymore.

01:59:36.000 Yeah, here Rowling's far right.

01:59:38.000 I'm not kidding, they call her far right.

01:59:40.000 There'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.

01:59:53.000 And then the woman was like, planning on keeping it. 0.99

01:59:55.000 She's like, why are you keeping it?

01:59:56.000 And then her friend said, because she can choose to.

01:59:59.000 And she's like, oh wow, I was just, I didn't realize pro-choice meant you could keep it too, wow.

02:00:04.000 This 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.

02:00:18.000 And I'm like, well, that's because the parents handed her to the state.

02:00:23.000 And that's what parents do, and they think it's, they don't care.

02:00:27.000 This I never understood.

02:00:28.000 They hand their kids to the state and they say, good luck.

02:00:30.000 And then the kid transforms into exactly who they're surrounded by.

02:00:34.000 From a Christian conservative, she said she protested gay marriage even.

02:00:37.000 And now she's marching in pride events and covered in makeup and...

02:00:42.000 Well, 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. 1.00

02:01:06.000 You are the summation of the five people who surround you.

02:01:09.000 And if your parents handed you off to the state, you will become a facsimile of state agenda.

02:01:17.000 But we'll wrap it up there.

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