00:02:04And there's a suspect that's been arrested in the World War II memorial vandalism in Washington.
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00:05:17Candace Owens acknowledges she has no direct evidence that Israel was behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk during a nationally streamed debate with an online debater, Andrew Wilson.
00:05:26Even as she has laid out a theory, she says points to an Israeli agent in the case.
00:05:30Pressed repeatedly by Mr. Wilson, who hosts the debate show The Crucible, on whether she could back up months of Insinuation about Israel's involvement.
00:05:39Ms. Owens said, Well, I couldn't say Israel was on the ground and shot and killed Charlie Kirk.
00:05:44She said she was instead trying to establish a motive, pointing to Mr. Kirk's private complaints about pro Israel donors in the weeks before his death and what she described as an unusual behavior from Israeli officials afterwards.
00:05:57Mr. Wilson, who has offered Ms. Owens as much as $300,000 to defend her claims publicly, asked her directly, Do you have any positive evidence whatsoever that Israel killed Charlie Kirk?
00:06:08Instead, she repeated an unsubstantiated Claim she first made in November 2025 that 12 Israeli registered cell phones were detected near the shooting scene at Utah Valley University and called the broader chain of events a conspiracy building.
00:06:22No law enforcement agency has confirmed this claim.
00:06:24It did not originate with any named investigators.
00:06:27Ms. Owens has attributed her broader suspicion to the case in the case to unnamed sources and Turning Point USA insiders.1.00
00:06:38I don't believe any of the stuff that she says.1.00
00:06:40I know that there's going to be people that are going to get up on me and my mentions are going to be full of people saying, Oh, but what about this?
00:07:33Well, I mean, and sorry to cut you off, but that's the most frustrating thing is, and I've been saying this a lot around this table here just because the government lies doesn't mean that everything the government says is a lie, right?
00:07:47Like, the idea that, well, the feds are saying it, so it must be untrue, that is wrong.
00:08:38There is no Tom Cruise yelling, you can't handle the truth.
00:08:41It is all exhibits and scientific words that most average people do not understand, procedural things.
00:08:47And I feel like a lot of people are mad or upset that the trial itself has not moved at the speed in which the internet moves.
00:08:57Candace seemed to assume that because no one checked in with her, like, well, I'm Candace Owens and I have a question about Charlie's shirt moving, and nobody really answered my question.
00:09:11And not just answered the question, but answered in a timely manner at which Candace would be happy with.
00:09:17Because, like, the biggest thing I got, and I only watched 45 minutes of it, but.
00:09:21She was treating the preliminary hearing like the trial and also like testimony from people that were up there talking, giving their opinions as fact, whereas Andrew Wilson was sticking to actual fact.
00:09:36And she kept bringing up the hearsay argument.
00:09:49If this does go to trial, which I don't think it's going to.
00:09:53This is going to go on for a very long time.
00:09:55Do me a favor and explain why you don't think it's going to trial.
00:09:58Well, I don't think it's going to go to trial because I think that Tyler Robinson's team will accept a plea deal to avoid the ultimate sentence.
00:10:11They'll take that off the table and they'll take life without parole.
00:10:14And the problem with that is that then the people who are the detractors will say, ah, you see, they didn't want the truth to come out in a trial.
00:10:23And that's what, and we'll get to, I'm sure we'll talk about it in the next story.
00:10:29They don't want to turn into Marsha Clark from the OJ Simpson trial and turn into the butt of every joke for losing the unlosable case because something comes up that they didn't foresee.
00:10:41So they're going to take the plea deal when it comes.
00:10:43I hope if they do, there's going to be some sort of an allocution where he has to go up and say what he did, how he did it, and answer for it.
00:10:51I don't think that'll be enough to silence the critics.
00:11:31There were so many things that, and there is nothing.
00:11:35I'll debate anybody who's willing to have a conversation and actually have a conversation and whose mind will be changed.
00:11:42But Candace has staked so much on this theory that there's no way if Tyler Robinson went up to Candace Owens and said, I did it, she would go, No, you didn't.
00:13:33And I don't know what good can come of what Candace is doing because if this does go to trial, you have to remember it only takes one out of those 12 jurors to go, nope, this didn't happen.
00:13:46And what's the probability that one of those 12 jurors is a big Candace fan?
00:13:51Just look at the way the internet operates now.
00:13:53You know, when they, you know, voidir the jury, they're going to go through their Twitter history.
00:13:58And if that defense team finds somebody retweeting Candace Owens or Ian Carroll or whoever it may be, they're going to try to get them on there.
00:14:10Ask all your questions, don't trust everything.
00:14:13But at some point, when a guy says he did a thing six times, I'm going to go with that, probably is the person who did it.
00:14:20There are false confessions for sure, but false confessions in an interrogation room is different than one to your lover.
00:14:27And they also had DNA evidence, which people are obviously, anytime you bring up any evidence that the state has, people are going to say, oh, it's just, you know, fed slop.
00:14:37So, again, just disregard evidence that doesn't actually reinforce your perspective.
00:14:50All kinds of evidence pointing to Tyler Robinson is the guy that shot him, right?
00:14:55There's confessions, there's discussing it, there's all kinds of evidence.
00:14:59In any other circumstance, if it wasn't, you know, if there wasn't this actual political kind of aspect to it, people wouldn't be saying, oh no, you know, or at least the number of people that were saying, no, that wasn't the shooter, it would be significantly fewer.
00:15:14But because of the political kind of angle on it, people are very quick to be like, oh, well, you know, It couldn't have been these guys.
00:15:26It's because, you know, Charlie wasn't as friendly to Israel.
00:15:30Charlie was the, like, he was a big Israel cheerleader for like almost all of his life.
00:15:36And if he had, you know, a change, a slight change of heart, which I don't really actually believe that he did, I don't think that he, like, he hadn't made anything vocal.
00:16:27In the current political landscape, there's nobody you can really compare him to in terms of his influence.
00:16:31And especially, and this is something, I think this is what ultimately led to what happened to him happening is that he had influence with young people, vast influence with young people.
00:16:39He was changing minds that were set to be indoctrinated on college campuses.
00:16:43And when you put all that together, it's like, well, who did want to get him?
00:16:47And here's my whole hang up I have a huge bias against anything related to the state, anything related to the courtroom.
00:16:54I think the devil's playground is the legal system.
00:16:58So if anybody wants to question official narratives from the state or the feds or procedures in court, all I say is tell me more.
00:17:06And that's because I'm kind of a Pinchonian.
00:17:09And Pinchon's like the original counterculture conspiracy theorist, novelist guy.
00:17:13And she's kind of like a pinching character at the center of a story that's unfolding a narrative that sounds totally batshit, but it's still enticing, even to me.
00:17:29The difference between your Ted Bundy docuseries and the guy from High School Musical is that we're talking about a guy that a lot of us knew.0.84
00:17:39We're talking about someone that a lot of our friends were very close with.
00:17:45It is a huge difference between making a docuseries about Ed Gein who committed a crime in the 50s and like a real, something that has real world consequences today for people that we know.
00:18:30It was him confirming his, according to Andrew, it was the text with him confirming the security arrangements and Charlie saying that he thought that that was going to happen.
00:18:40I mean, it's obviously a tragedy and it's frustrating to me to see this kind of the way that this has played out since he was murdered.
00:19:34How come I can't go watch my kids play baseball outside while, you know, the kids can't do Little League, but, you know, these people are allowed to get together.
00:19:44And you build this kind of resentment against institutions at a time when trust in institutions was at a record low, right?
00:20:33And they didn't have, they don't really have an outlet or didn't have an outlet.
00:20:37And so they're just like, well, everything they say is a lie.
00:20:40And again, I'm not the person that's like, oh, the government never lies.
00:20:48It is clear that there were all kinds of lies that were surrounding the COVID narrative, even up to and including where it came from, what the genesis of the COVID virus in the first place was.0.64
00:21:03And then you top that, throw that on top of all of the other lies that the government has basically been feeding to the American people, whether it be yellowcakes.0.71
00:21:15Uranium in Iraq, or if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.0.65
00:21:20And that one I think is kind of doesn't get enough scrutiny because there were a lot of people.
00:21:27Well, but at least the bailout, it was not good, but the bailout, they weren't lying about it, right?
00:21:34They were like, yeah, we're going to dump money into the economy because if not, everything's going to go under.
00:21:42The credit markets are frozen, and if the credit markets freeze, then the whole You know, the entire economy is going to freeze up, and this would have worse ramifications for the people than, you know, printing a bunch of money.
00:23:27They're just so when you look back at the whole picture prior to 9 11, you can look and say, Oh, yeah, it did make sense.
00:23:34They knew because each individual department or whatever you want to call it had a piece of the puzzle.
00:23:41But it takes Homeland Security, it took Homeland Security or the apparatus of Homeland Security to be able to look at all that and say, Okay, we could see it now.
00:23:50But prior to 9 11, they didn't have the ability to look at all the pieces at the same time.
00:24:16Just like, you know, the Warner Act, the whole like, oh, you know, there's weapons of mass destruction.
00:24:21And the best argument you could possibly make about that is well, there was because the U.S. gave them, you know, weapons of mass destruction in the 80s and they still had some left over.
00:24:31But it certainly wasn't yellow cake, like they said.
00:24:33It certainly wasn't an active nuclear program.
00:24:37You know, I mean, there were, you know, periodic bombings of Iraq all through the 90s during the no fly zone and stuff like that.
00:24:45So, like, the government has absolutely been lying to the American people about a ton of stuff forever.
00:24:52And COVID kind of was like the, I feel like it was the kind of the breaking point where people are just like, you know, yeah, it was.
00:25:12I was thrown out of bars in New York City for not showing my paperwork.
00:25:17And the people, the sharper people out there, understand that the reason that the economy feels the way it does now is because of all the money printing that happened.
00:25:26You know, you shut the economy down and then you just print up money and give it to people, dump money into the economy.
00:26:41And it's, it's, I mean, I'm looking for a house right now and I'm mortified.
00:26:45They're gonna, they're gonna, Florida's looking better and better every day.
00:26:49They're gonna come down because there's way more sellers than there are buyers right now.0.94
00:26:54And so, like, not, I don't think it's gonna happen in the next year or two or whatever, but, and also the boomers are dying.0.55
00:27:00Every time I go away, no matter where I go, being from Long Island, one of the most expensive housing areas in America, anytime I go away, the first thing I do when I get to a hotel is I go on Zillow.0.92
00:28:00Luigi Mangione admits to shooting United Healthcare CEO as he pleads guilty in federal case.
00:28:06Luigi Mangione admitted to shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he pleaded guilty Friday to two federal stalking counts, marking a dramatic turn of events in the high profile killing.
00:28:16Thompson's family spoke out in a rare statement Friday, calling the plea an important step toward justice.
00:28:21As Mangione's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the charges he's facing in state court under New York's double jeopardy law.
00:28:29In the federal courtroom Friday, Mangione outlined his crime, saying, After years of enduring severe pain from a broken back, I learned that United Healthcare would be holding its annual investor conference in New York City.
00:28:40Mangione said he learned the exact location of United Healthcare's conference by emailing the company, posing as an investor with more than $50 billion in capital.
00:28:48Before traveling to New York, I used a 3D printer to make a part of a gun and I equipped the gun with a silencer and a magazine.
00:28:54He said, My travel to New York and email to United Healthcare was with the intent to shoot Brian Thompson.
00:29:00I shot Mr. Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died.
00:29:05I mean, this is, I mean, it's, it's, I hate to say it sounds bad to say it, but this is, at least it's a good thing that he's admitting this, you know?
00:29:20I don't want to call him crazy because he was completely clear headed, you know, in doing this, but it's just, it's, it's just such a monstrous act to walk up behind a guy.1.00
00:29:33You know, because you have back pain and you shoot him in the head and kill him.0.99
00:30:22That's what annoys me about a lot of these cases it gets right up to the point where they get to trial and they've wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars and days of courtrooms and this, that, and the third.
00:30:33And then just, all right, now I'll plead guilty.
00:30:35Even though we saw you do it, you admitted it, you tried to fight all the evidence in the backpack and.
00:30:40Him in the Burger King or whatever it was.
00:32:23Maybe he pled to the Fed stuff to get a lighter sentence.
00:32:26I'm sure he'd much rather go to federal jail than go to Attica.
00:32:29I think the biggest issue that I heard about was they searched his bag before actually identifying him or something like that.
00:32:38And so everything they found before they got to the station with him in custody is not admissible in court, which had the gun, the book, all the stuff they wrote down.
00:32:50So they can't use that, if I understand it correctly, which would be difficult for their case in a perfect world where you have 12 jurors that.
00:33:00Have never heard about it, but I don't know.
00:33:17Yeah, I mean, the idea of trying, especially nowadays with social media, like I think that in the 90s, obviously it took someone as famous as OJ to be like, you're not going to find someone that doesn't have some kind of contact with the case.
00:33:35But in the age of social media, you know, you really have to be a person that's focused in on your own life and not reading the news to not know about this.
00:34:03And another thing is, like, if you do find someone that.
00:34:08You know, doesn't have any kind of contact with it.
00:34:12Are they a person that you could rely on to actually make a decision?
00:34:17Because 12 people have been in solitary confinement, yeah, right?
00:34:20In a padded room, you know, when you guys go out the jury, you don't know anything.
00:34:23Dude's just smoking weed in their basement, playing Xbox all day or playing you know, computer games, maybe, but like otherwise, if they're if you're a normal, well adjusted person, I imagine you've probably heard some kind of context surrounding this, yeah.
00:34:39It's it's it's wild, but like you said, maybe he just got a He got a better offer for fed time than state time, and that's why he pleaded guilty to it.
00:34:48Maybe the punishment for the state trial would have been the life without parole, and maybe now he got the possibility of it.
00:34:54I can't, I mean, maybe, but I can't imagine, you know, this type of murder and not going to jail forever.
00:35:03Well, the problem is that human beings are not suited for carrying out justice at all, whether they call themselves a judge and put on a robe, or they sit on a jury, or they're a lawyer.
00:35:13We're not capable of administering justice properly.
00:35:16I mean, the whole system is really broken and it's corrupt.
00:35:20And it wouldn't surprise me if he is let go.
00:35:51Like the stories that you hear of people doing very little time for fairly egregious crimes, they happen so much that, or a pardon by someone that was sympathetic to his case somehow, you know.
00:39:02But, anyways, so yeah, Luigi Mangione, he's apparently not going to be killed or not going to receive capital punishment.
00:39:12The thing that really, you know, we touched upon a little bit before that really is kind of striking about this is how many people have come to his defense.
00:39:24And not just like people that are, not just women that are like in love with bad guys, right?
00:39:30Because you hear stories about that kind of stuff all the time.0.97
00:40:17And that's kind of something that you expect.
00:40:19But the people on the political left that were just like, you know, Luigi Mangione, Taylor Lorenz, had made some comments like, you know, people understand why, you know, someone like Luigi Mangione.
00:40:35But the reason people understand is because they're so outraged with a broken system, a broken healthcare system that doesn't work for them, a country that doesn't work for them.
00:40:44Obviously, I don't advocate for violence in any circumstances or any form.
00:40:47But I do understand why people have that reaction to it.
00:40:50I just don't understand why people think that that would fix something.
00:40:56You know, because it's like if you're angry about a system, right, killing one person, obviously, like we talked about it in the beginning, he's just going to be replaced.
00:41:07Well, this is the problem with leftism and liberalism in general and also communism.
00:41:10It's just like I'm generally aligned with a lot of the socialist and even communist critiques of problematic systems, even capitalism.
00:41:31So the leftists and maybe even conservatives, too, they don't have a good pathway for solutions, even if they understand the severity of the problem.
00:41:40And this goes all the way back to Karl Marx.
00:41:42A lot of Marx's critique of capital is pretty sound, it's the solutions that are insane.
00:42:28I think he owned the only pair of pants in his home, so no one could leave except for one person, so it could only be him to go get the rest of his pants.0.93
00:42:50But yeah, I mean, I guess I do understand what you're saying about how, you know.
00:42:57Just systems in general are imperfect, right?
00:42:59Where human beings and any system that we can conceive of isn't going to be a perfect system.
00:43:05And that's, I think that's part of the allure of, you know, socialist and communist ideas is they promise a perfected system.
00:43:17And they don't tell you how you're going to get there, they don't tell you how to organize it.
00:43:22But what they do is they point at the imperfections of the current system and say, we'll do it better, we'll do it right, we know how, we can.
00:43:31Fix this and which clearly they don't because whether you know, even people that have you know, problems with capitalism or or you know, the system that we live in, whether you want to call it you know, capitalism or not, um, the imperfections are going to be there, are going to be imperfections in any man made system, right?
00:43:53And even though our system is imperfect, it is obviously like, obviously, the best system.
00:44:03And again, that doesn't mean that it's perfect.
00:44:05That doesn't mean that there aren't people that will find it difficult to function in the system that we have.
00:44:12There are plenty of people that just don't really have the capability to pay the bills on time and have a life structured and organized enough to be able to have a place to live and keep a home and stuff like that.
00:44:32There are people that need help with that, there are people that can't do that.
00:44:35Um, and that doesn't mean they're bad people or they're evil people, but it does mean that, that not every, that does mean that our system is, you know, doesn't suit everybody, but it's still the system that suits the most people.
00:44:50Well, that's and has, and has obviously taken every single society that has, has engaged in markets out of basically agrarian subsistence farming up to a point where the number of, of, um, What's the word I'm looking for?
00:45:09People in absolute poverty almost disappears.
00:45:11Like, there's no one in the United States that lives in absolute poverty.
00:45:15That's it, is that a lot of these American leftists and these communists don't seem to understand that they are not the average.
00:45:54Actually, they compare their lives to what they imagine Elon Musk's life is because they, like, Elon Musk has, like, I think he sold like all of his houses and like he might have a house now or whatever, but he, when he was starting SpaceX, he was like sleeping at SpaceX or when he started Tesla, he was sleeping at Tesla and like he works like.
00:46:15So, the idea they have this concept of him because he's a billionaire that he's just drinking Mai Tais on the yacht all day long, but he's not.
00:46:23He's working constantly because, and that, like, the working constantly is why he's in the position that he's in.
00:46:28People also look at billionaires as like a monolith.
00:46:31They look at young billionaires, they look at Zuckerberg and they look at Elon.
00:46:35Elon's relatively young, but the majority of billionaires are over the age of 70.
00:46:45Some of them probably did it in nefarious ways.
00:46:47But most billionaires, you don't wake up at 23, a year out of your master's degree, and just fall backwards like Scrooge McDuck into a billion dollars.
00:47:53There's a lot more pizza parlor owners in New York City who have fled to Florida than billionaire trust.
00:48:00I'm sorry, billionaire hedge fund managers.
00:48:02There's a lot more guys that owned dry cleaners who moved to Tennessee than there are Ken Griffins.
00:48:09People get so worked up about millionaires, right?
00:48:11And, like, you know, if you're a guy that owns, you know, like you said, like a, actually, for a good example that I like to use, car dealerships.
00:48:39The buildings and the property are actually, each one's probably a million dollars because you got lifts in there, because you got a shop, you know, you got a couple lifts.
00:49:56Those, the 150,000, 250,000 of those of my uncles who have fled New York are the ones that keep the economy going because Ken Griffin can only go to the dry cleaners as much as my uncle.
00:50:09But there's a lot more of him than there are of the hedge fund guys who are getting ready to leave.
00:50:12And, and, People that you know look at the CEO of United Healthcare, I think he was worth something like 30 million or something like that.
00:50:22It's really not, which is, I mean, yeah, that's the thing.
00:50:25It's like because human beings have such a difficult time like conceptualizing large numbers, like once you get over, like, say, once you get over 10,000, right?
00:50:37Looking at 10,000, you can't really tell the difference between 10 and 20,000 or 30 and 50,000.
00:50:45You can't, like, I mean, I've stood on stage and looked out, and it's like, oh, what?
00:51:06That's why those infographics where it's like, there's a pile of money that's a million dollars, and then like multiple pallets that's a billion, and then like a trillion is like the size of a building or whatever.
00:51:17The idea for people that don't have much, they think that, you know, 30 million is basically the same thing as 500 million.
00:51:27Because, you know, it's so much money that I can't really comprehend it.
00:51:32And these people can do whatever they want whenever they want.
00:51:34And it's like the guy that, like you're talking about, the working rich, right?
00:51:39Like a guy that's 50 years old that's been doing his job for 30 years and he was smart with his money and he's got, you know, he's invested his money and he's got actual property and stuff like that.
00:51:51That guy that's an electrician or whatever, or that's a plumber, or what have you, like he's worth a couple million dollars, right?
00:52:43And, you know, it also comes from a group of people who are overly educated and downwardly mobile.
00:52:49If you look at the people that are coming out for these people, like Luigi Mangione, a trust fund kid, it seems like he had a hard time making it, doing what he wanted to do in life, and was mad about it.
00:53:01Probably went to school, probably had a crazy student loan, something like that.0.96
00:53:04You know, all these Momdani supporters are all the Momdani people and the leftists.0.86
00:53:09The communists that are out there, they're all the people that went out and got advanced degrees, 300, 350 in debt, a mortgage, pretty much for jobs that don't exist anymore.
00:53:19And now they're going, I have no vested interest in the system.
00:53:57Yeah, it's an absolute tragedy all around.
00:54:02Like I said at the beginning, it is good that he's admitted to it and that he's talking about what he did.
00:54:09But I think to Chris's point, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets out after a short amount of time, but everyone's going to have moved on by the time that.
00:54:17Refocus on the Federal Reserve as the center of the billionaire problem is that it's this centralized bank because that's what Occupy Wall Street was about, and that was the whole point.
00:54:26And then, while we were there, they redirected people at each other in class warfare and, like, oh, all these people that we're loaning money to, well, the richest one's the problem.
00:54:35But, like, bro, you're the one loaning the money at interest.
00:54:37But that problem with this, and this goes to also one of your earlier points, Chris, is that I'm diagnosing a problem.
00:54:43The Federal Reserve system's got a lot of flaws.
00:54:46I just don't know exactly what the solution is, and I don't think the communists do either or the corporatocrats.
00:54:52And it's like, I mean, you could give the control of the monetary supply back to Congress, like what the Constitution says is supposed to be.
00:54:59I don't know that that would necessarily solve the fiat currency problem.
00:55:03Because if we go back to the gold standard, it's going to deflate the value of the currency by 99%, and burgers are going to be $1,000.
00:55:11And so you can't go back to the gold standard.
00:55:15Rand Paul was actually, I mean, maybe there's not enough gold, but it is, and maybe this is a bit of an aside, but Rand Paul actually says that the gold is in Fort Knox.
00:55:24There had been rumors and people had been talking, like, oh, you know, they don't have the gold in Fort Knox.
00:55:50And so, you know, you're going to have to, if you are the kind of person that doesn't trust anything any politician says, take this with a grain of salt.
00:55:57But Rand Paul is one of the more honest brokers in D.C.
00:56:01So, you know, if he is to be believed, there is actually still gold in Fort Knox.
00:58:24It's the idea that, I mean, and California in sports is such a good example of it because there was a story a while back about the quarterback that won the Super Bowl.
00:58:36To play in the Super Bowl because of California's jock tax.
00:58:40It cost him $71,000 to win a Super Bowl, which just in a mathematical sense, that's a banana.
00:58:47I mean, look, you know, with all that remains with the band that I'm in, like every dollar that I make, my manager takes 15%, or anytime we're on tour, at least this is how it goes.
00:58:57My manager takes 15%, my booking agent takes, my business manager takes 5%, my booking agent takes 10%, and then the government takes about 30%.
00:59:07So I'm making, you know, 30 40 cents on the dollar, yeah.
00:59:11You know, for every dollar that we make, that's that's you know for me to take after I pay for the bus, pay for the crew, pay you know, the guys in the band, pay for you know, whatever expenses, pay whatever expenses we have.
00:59:25So it's like every dollar that we net, I get 40% of.
00:59:29Well, people and that, and then that goes, you know, usually there's like I got lawyers that I got paid for and other stuff.
00:59:35You know, there's two sides to it because people don't see your back end expenses.
00:59:39You know, what it cost those tractor trailers to drive them all around.
01:00:25Like, there's, if I bought a house at, you know, if I bought a house in the 80s, it was $60,000 and now it's worth a million and the government wants to tax me on that unrealized gain, you know, I'll drop my couches off.
01:00:42It's there's no way to physically do that, but like we were talking about before, it's just complaining about a problem without having a solution.
01:00:53I feel like all three of these stories like kind of blend because that's that's kind of what Candace was doing.
01:00:58She was just complaining about stuff without having it answered any of the questions, and now we're on to the same thing with Luigi saying the healthcare system is broken.
01:01:06So here's my ridiculous solution to the situation.
01:01:10Yeah, well, we're gonna jump to a story that I think we do have a solution for.
01:01:15The Daily Caller reports a senior Chinese Communist Party intelligence official is the new owner of a historic building overlooking the White House complex.
01:01:25A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
01:01:27Located approximately 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds, the 100 year old securities building on 15th Street was purchased on July 21st, 2026, for $8.4 million by Philip Ku and Family Foundation.
01:01:41Finally, show the building's new owner, Philip Ku, has held numerous positions with Chinese intelligence and state security arms.
01:01:48According to university records and DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements.
01:02:48Ku, whose Chinese name is Ku Philly. Has held at least four Chinese government positions, beginning with a career as a detective in the criminal investigation team in Shanghai, a 2024 University of New Haven Instagram post states.
01:03:00Shanghai's criminal investigation team is a unit within Shanghai's public security bureau, which functions as a local subordinate of China's FBI, the Ministry of Public Security, according to the DCNF translation of Chinese government reports.
01:03:13While it is unclear how long Ku worked in the Shanghai PSB, he had already received combat training by October 2011 when he enrolled in a Shanghai. Jaitong University Master's Program, according to DCNF translation of SJTU announcements.
01:03:29SJTU photos show students carrying rifles and wearing camouflage fatigues during a team building war game at the program's outset.
01:03:36Classmate Kwu Fili, who has undergone special forces training and served as a commander in the red blue battle, and not only directed his troops to successfully capture enemy positions, but also killed one third of the opposing forces with 42 shots, achieving the best individual sniper record, according to a DCNF translation of SJTU's announcement concerning the training exercise.
01:08:22I think that this particular case with Queer, whatever his name is, I'm probably pronouncing it wrong.0.99
01:08:28I don't think that this guy's an American citizen.0.99
01:08:31It's his family foundation or whatever that bought it.
01:08:34And I'm far more sympathetic to the argument that there should be vetting of foreign organizations that purchase property in the United States.
01:08:45Someone, I think it was, I'm not sure who it was, but someone made the argument that foreigners.0.99
01:08:53Shouldn't be allowed, like if you're actually not living in the United States, you're not trying to become a citizen, they shouldn't be allowed to buy property.
01:09:51People that are foreign born that aren't American citizens that own property in the United States, that property will be seized by the communists when they take over.0.89
01:09:58If they take over, they will seize your foreign.
01:10:04So we need to figure out how to remedy this before it bubbles into we're bought out by foreigners and there's no other recourse.1.00
01:10:12I'm trying to figure out what you're talking about.0.99
01:10:13You're saying that the property that's here in the United States that's owned by foreign people, they will seize that property if there were some kind of civil unrest here in the U.S.
01:10:23Yeah, if there's a socialist or communist revolution, that would be like the first thing that would be seized the foreign owned property by the people that own it, by the communists.
01:10:32By the people that are trying to take control.
01:10:33Well, these people come from countries that have a very different structured government than we have, and they're going to default to the way that their country governs, and then they're going to use that country to come in and take property, right?
01:10:44I'm not sure I follow what you're saying.0.80
01:10:45Well, look, if this guy's connected to the Chinese Communist Party and he's got a place within line side of the White House, and there's some kind of overthrowing revolution, that'll be the last place they take.0.68
01:10:55That's going to be where they're going to be finding refuge on their march across the world.
01:12:07I could be a little wrong, but the feeling I sense that the property rights would vanish immediately and the foreign properties would be taken first because it's the easiest to take.
01:12:18See, I think that the most likely scenario is, in my opinion, that the people that are socialist, communist, they achieve enough political power where they can basically alter the government.
01:12:33That's part of the reason why I think the DSA is actually such a big threat.
01:12:36If they can actually, and Democrats by extension, because they will do things like change the structure of the government if they're capable of doing it.
01:12:44If they get into positions of power, they would do things like change the entire structure of our government.
01:12:50And basically ensure that they can't be voted out.
01:12:54You see that exact model has happened in California.
01:13:53And when, you know, people talk about, you know, oh, Well, Reagan was the governor in California, but he was a Democrat when he was, if I understand correctly.
01:15:06I think this is an important story talking about this Chinese guy buying property here next to the White House because I brought this up on Friday.
01:15:12This came up last Friday, and I read the comments of that show, and so many people said foreign citizens should not be legally allowed to buy property or land in the United States.0.95
01:15:49I understand that we're a global corporatocracy in a sense, and that's sort of why this is being ushered around under the sheets, but dear God, do something about it.
01:16:15They'll say, well, you know, there's nothing in America that says I can't do it.
01:16:19Now, force a local municipality, force a farm town in Iowa that has 2,000 people in it to file a lawsuit at which the Chinese Communist Party will fund the other side.0.66
01:16:39I mean, you think the money that big tobacco spent against the government is wild.
01:16:43Imagine what the Chinese Communist Party or the Crown Prince of Qatar, or any of these other, I'm talking about like the families that own countries, like Putin and Mohammed bin Salman.
01:16:56They'll throw all the money in the world just to beat some, what, so you can buy 2,000 acres in Idaho and control the potato distribution of that region?
01:17:16It's so different between like, Some guy comes here with his family and wants to buy a house, and maybe he's illegal, and like a shady LLC that's backed by weird money from Oman.
01:17:29And even if we say, oh, well, you know, we're not going to allow foreigners to purchase property, they'll just start an LLC in Delaware or whatever.0.87
01:17:39They'll just get it with this and the foundation.0.94
01:18:13But even still, you look at the decision by the Supreme Court about anchor babies, basically, the recent Supreme Court decision.
01:18:21If you're born here, You know, there are plenty of people that are anchor babies or that are here that have, you know, far more allegiance to their home country than they do to the United States.
01:18:32And they'll, and if the home country comes knocking and says, well, we want you to buy this, we'll pay for it, but you have to do this.
01:18:38And if you don't, we've got your family here and we're going to, you know, it'd be a shame if their business was shut down or your cousin ended up in jail or what have you.
01:20:25No, I don't want a government that powerful.0.84
01:20:28However, should we, like, should there be a mechanism for the American government to stop the Chinese Communist Party from buying property a seven iron away from the White House?
01:21:33Also, the whole, like, if we're not at war with the country, they can buy land thing is weird because if we declare war on the country, then do we just seize all the property of all the German citizens?0.52
01:21:54I don't think they actually took it because they got it back.
01:21:57That is one of the silver linings of some of the bad behavior the United States engaged in during World War II it wasn't the same kind of thing that the Nazis did or the gulags where you were worked to death.
01:22:14They rounded people up and put them in camps, but they weren't trying.
01:22:17They weren't attempting to work them to death.
01:22:49I don't see any evidence that would have, would lead me to believe that the Japanese were going to rise up because most of the Japanese, most of the Japanese that were interned, they were like, look, we're Americans.
01:22:59You know, they weren't like, they weren't like, oh, you know.
01:23:04That most people that came to America back then wanted to be Americans.
01:23:09It's not like today where a lot of people that come here are looking for a handout.
01:23:13You know, the 40s didn't have the same kind of social services, the Civil Rights Act hadn't passed.
01:23:18And there was a certain understanding that they were expected to assimilate to become Americans.
01:23:28And that's why you had things like parents telling their kids, look, you don't speak Japanese here or you don't speak the old language anymore.
01:23:36We speak English because we're Americans now.
01:23:38And they really did, like, you hear that story all the time from young people.
01:23:44No, not young people now, but like, you know, people that are maybe boomers' age or maybe a little bit older that were like, look, when we came here, my parents, you know, made sure that we spoke English because we were Americans now.
01:23:58Nowadays, the attitude is come here and you don't have to become American.
01:24:03And so I think that your concerns are more from a modern context.
01:24:10Because America, people that come to America now, they don't assimilate the way they used to.
01:24:14Back in the 30s, 40s, 50s, the people that came here, if they were able to get here, they were trying to become American.
01:24:25I think throughout history, I wish I had some examples off the top of my head of like when you're invading a country, that if there were your citizens in that country, if people that spoke your language lived in that other land, as soon as you get there, they're going to join you.0.51
01:24:40All the Chinese Americans, for instance, here with even maybe some family in China, maybe they don't.0.76
01:24:44If there was a war between the Chinese and the Americans and the Chinese landed in like Alaska and started coming through Canada, what do you think we should intern all the Chinese Americans we can find?1.00
01:24:54Because it kind of seems like we should.0.96
01:24:55Well, again, nowadays, I think it's a different context.
01:25:01There have been so many people that have come here illegally.
01:25:04China has absolutely been using birth tourism.
01:25:07I mean, tourism, they go to Guam, they go to.
01:25:14You know, basically, China has been there.
01:25:17There are people that can, or there are companies that will, you know, fly pregnant women to U.S. territories so that way the child can be born there.
01:25:27Once the child's born there, they get a birth certificate and then back to China with them.
01:25:31And that kind of thing has been going on for, you know, 30 years or whatever.
01:25:35I don't know the degree to which it's been going on for the past, for 30 years, but I know in the past, you know, 10, 5, 10, it's been, been, uh, There's been a significant increase.
01:25:45I mean, it is so crazy the concept of birth.
01:25:48There is such a difference between like people who are going through the process and want to be here for, and then like ones who, even if you use, even if you give people the best of intentions, you're pregnant and then you go on vacation to New York for the St. Patrick's Day parade and go into early labor accidentally, not intentionally, you have every intention of going back.
01:26:15And you have a kid who's an American citizen, that is bananas.
01:26:51How can you tell where their allegiances are?
01:26:52And how do you know if their allegiances will or won't flip if the tide of war starts to change?
01:26:57Well, I don't think you could do that now because I think while they were interning the Japanese, a lot of people probably didn't know what was happening.
01:27:06You know, like, you can't do stuff like that now.
01:27:10With social media and stuff, there'd be protests outside of each one of them.
01:27:14And I'm not saying you should, but I don't think that's a possibility now.
01:27:20And I'm sure people are going to compare it to ICE detention facilities.
01:27:40And I think that even entertaining those arguments is a bad strategy because if you entertain an argument, you're implicitly saying, well, that's a reasonable perspective.
01:29:06Like the administration says that they've had zero illegal crossings at the border since Trump became president, since they've kind of said, okay, we're actually going to close down the border.
01:29:18I assume that it's probably not zero because there are still like tunnels that you hear about and stuff like that, but it's almost none and it's significantly fewer.
01:29:27There's still visa overstays and stuff like that.0.63
01:29:30But we should do everything we can to shut down immigration for a decade, maybe two.0.98
01:30:15We certainly don't need a completely open border like the Biden administration had for four years where anyone that could get here could get in.
01:30:33If you went down, there were people that went down to the Darien Gap and there were just camps of Chinese people that were heading up to the border.0.97
01:30:41You know, and look, whether people like this kind of.0.98
01:30:47Way of describing it or not, China is an adversary.
01:30:54They're an adversary and they are and will do everything they can to hurt the United States in any kind of way that they can that falls short of military conflict.
01:31:08They have brought in blights, or they've tried to smuggle in blights to hurt crops.
01:31:14They have done all sorts of nefarious stuff.0.98
01:31:18You hear about industrial espionage constantly from Chinese nationals.1.00
01:31:25I think they invented a respiratory thing a while back.1.00
01:32:31Political promises of free buses in New York City are contributing to a spike in fare evasion.
01:32:35That is costing the city's mass transit system millions of dollars, transit officials warn.
01:32:40In July, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, MTA, Chair Jano Liber blamed political rhetoric for fueling fare evasion, though he never mentioned Mayor Zorhan Mamdani by name.
01:32:52There's a trend that broke out, Liber told reporters following a meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board.
01:32:59According to the New York Post, with malice towards none, I say all of the talk of free buses, it has an impact.
01:33:06The MTA reported that paid bus ridership fell nearly 8%.
01:33:09Percent in June compared to the same month last year.
01:33:13During Mamdani's first six months in office, bus fare revenue fell by 31 million compared to the first half of 2025.
01:33:19Agency estimates show nearly half of bus riders now skip the $3 fare.
01:33:25Mamdani made a slogan, Fast and Free Bus, a major part of his 2025 mayoral campaign.
01:33:30However, the MTA is controlled by Democratic Governor Kathy Hochel and the state rather than City Hall.
01:33:35While the mayor and Hochel unveiled plans on July 8th to focus instead on speeding up bus routes, experts and union leaders say the Free bus rhetoric has already contributed to fare evasion.
01:35:35But I think his plan was to just yell things and then go, meh.
01:35:40Kind of like when he said he was going to build more affordable housing in New York City, and not one person looked at him and went, great, we need more of that.
01:36:42I hope he's learning it in real time right now that if you offer someone something and you don't give it to them in a timely manner, they will seek to take it.
01:36:57Well, it's the same thing because now he's got to go back to the state for more money.
01:37:01Because nobody's paying for the buses, nobody's paying for the subways.
01:37:04And then you'll see people on TikTok saying that he balanced the budget.
01:37:08And it's like, no, he just robbed the people from Buffalo.
01:37:10So now if you live in Buffalo or you live in Rochester or you live in Binghamton, that's six hours away from New York City, you're now paying for the seven train that takes me to City Field.
01:41:09But within the states, it's actually like it's very, very, very questionable if that's constitutional because of the Equal Protection Clause and stuff like that.
01:41:20Well, it's one of those things that they would pass knowing that the court would strike it down and then they could complain about the court.
01:41:26Another thing is, you can pass it, and then until the court hears it, it's treated as law.
01:41:33So, all the people that were thinking about leaving are like, Well, I got to wait until we find out what the court says, you know, and that could take.
01:43:22So, in order for him to leave his house, he had to pay the congestion pricing.
01:43:27It was like he, and he couldn't go the other way because it's a one way street.
01:43:31So, this guy was literally like, I could just, I never could park on my block ever, ever again.
01:43:37Because, of course, nobody thinks anything through.1.00
01:43:39But with the Mamdani thing, like, there's no penalty.1.00
01:43:43And then you think to yourself, then regular people, when you, if you're waiting in a five person line to get on a bus and you got your $3 Metro card and the four people in front of you don't pay, How stupid do you feel paying?1.00
01:44:01You're standing in line at a CVS and somebody goes walking out with a basket full of shampoo and this, that, and then you're standing in line going, Who is the idiot here?1.00
01:44:49I think that if you got caught stealing a gallon of milk and you're like some 24 year old mother that doesn't have any money, I'm fairly certain whoever is, just go.0.63
01:46:02It's twice the price of Chelsea when I was in New York, like in 2014.0.96
01:46:06Well, because here's what we did we imported 6% of the population with illegal immigrants, and they got to live somewhere, and they're government subsidized.0.98
01:46:17So landlords are going to rent out to the government subsidy, so it raises the price of the market value.0.98
01:47:16In your local elections, than most people think, it's actually not that difficult to win a local election if you know what you're doing, like school board level and stuff like that, because you really have more control.
01:47:28I mean, a presidential race, you can do a lot for the state you live in, but you don't really have an impact on strategy.
01:47:36But your school board race, I mean, we won one school board race out in the Hamptons in a town, it was Amagansett.
01:49:11This is the first hurricane documented since the 20th century when we started recording weather patterns ever to hit the big island of Hawaii, if it's going to hit, which it sounds like it's going to hit.
01:50:17There was a hurricane going to Miami and I had all these friends there.
01:50:20And I did a live stream for like two hours where I was focusing positive energy into the clouds to try and disperse this hurricane.
01:50:26And then all of a sudden the hurricane moved around Florida and smashed North Carolina and destroyed a city.
01:50:32What you know, that city I'm talking about, yeah.
01:50:34I remember, um, the Black Hills like a bunch of people were streaming in Miami, like, yeah, the hurricane's getting pretty bad, and then it just didn't hit Miami.
01:51:55I think the actual archipelago is like, there's too many islands for me to list off, but the ones that people know is like Lanakai, Oahu, Maui, I think Molokai, Hawaii.
01:52:27All right, so we're gonna go to your uh, we're gonna bring in the Discord college because there is no after show today because it's Friday, but we're gonna head on over to uh, our friendly neighborhood Discord, get some questions from you guys.
01:54:06And like, even the driving instructor will be like, It's better to stay with the speed of traffic and to drive the speed limit if they're going a different speed.
01:54:57If you can change the weather and you can save lives by doing it, and then you don't, you know, Spider Man said this when you can do something and you don't, and then the bad things happen, It's your fault.
01:55:10I just, I think that, I'll reiterate, I think that's the argument that they use against Elon to give his wealth away.
01:58:09Although, if you want to get, I will say, if you want to get women on board with deporting, just make sure that everybody that's allowed to immigrate is a very attractive woman.0.99
01:58:20Women will be, they'll just be like, hey, all got to go.1.00
01:59:42I think they're probably less common, but, you know, I mean, like, I'm pretty sure Corvettes are still using the V8s.
01:59:50I'm pretty sure, you know, your muscle cars are, you know, even modern muscle cars, if people aren't going to berate me for using that phrase nowadays for modern cars.
01:59:59But, yeah, I definitely wouldn't give up my Tesla.
02:01:41I think that most people think that you have to have or you want to be on the cutting edge, the frontier models.
02:01:47The frontier models are important when you're dealing with like really cutting edge stuff.
02:01:55But if you're just using it for like, you know, search or hey, can you tell me the story about this or I need to know more about this particular issue or whatever, you get a really, really good result with something like Sonnet.
02:02:08And then what was the other part of your question?
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02:03:05Uh, yeah, I didn't write clerics, but I did write goodwill hunting.
02:03:09I'm willing to admit that, even though he won't.
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02:03:40But I do want to say if you guys want to keep the night going after IRL, make sure to check out the Josie Show live on Discord on Friday nights at 10 p.m.
02:03:48Josie's had some incredible guests on the show people like Scott Adams, Tulsi Gabbard, Rob Schneider, Rand Paul, Brett Weinstein, and a ton more having the kinds of conversations you're actually going to want to stick around for.
02:04:00And because it's live on Discord, you're not just watching.
02:04:02You can jump in and ask Josie and the guest questions as well and actually be part of the conversation.
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