On today's episode of The Culture War, Ben and Lauren discuss the latest in the Trump trial, including the revelation that Michael Cohen lied to Congress about a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. Plus, the latest on Harrison Butker and the petition to get him fired from the NFL.
00:00:00.000It's a remarkable moment in the Trump trial.
00:00:18.000Not only did we get this amazing moment yesterday where Michael Cohen's own lawyer testifies to the House that he's lying under oath, which is kind of an insane thing.
00:00:49.000Then today, in trial on cross-examination, Michael Cohen was caught in an outright lie so dramatic that news is reporting it as a TV drama moment.
00:00:59.000Where he claims he's on the phone talking about this payment and then the lawyer was like, in fact you lied!
00:01:04.000And then he like shows the proof and then there's like, they called it a pin drop TV aha moment.
00:01:10.000It is absolutely silly that we've not even got to the defense yet.
00:01:14.000It's just the prosecution and everyone knows it's fake.
00:01:17.000CNN, Fareed Zakaria saying this is illegitimate.
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00:05:01.000From the Daily Mail, Michael Cohen is torn to shreds—to shreds, you say—by Trump's attorneys in blistering cross-examination over Stormy Daniels' hush money payments.
00:05:12.000Man, there's so much to get through in this Trump trial.
00:05:15.000We already have two instances where Cohen is caught lying.
00:05:19.000The big story that was yesterday, bleeding into today, is that Michael Cohen's own lawyer came out saying, uh, this guy's lying under oath because I already went through these issues with him years ago and I know none of this is true, testified to the GOP or to the House Committee on Weaponization of Government.
00:05:37.000And then, before we even get into all of that, we have this moment from the court, which they're calling a TV drama, rare in real life, aha moment, where Michael Cohen claimed that he was on the phone talking about this payment to Stormy Daniels, but as it turns out, they actually have proof he was talking about a prank caller.
00:06:55.000But Todd Blanche has now made the point, not only has Michael Cohen lied before Congress, not only has he lied before various judges, not only has he lied in any number of places, he has lied before you today.
00:07:13.000Michael Cohen says part of it Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:16.00014 year olds this is about the the which of the call what was the call about part
00:07:21.000of it was the 14 year old but I know Keith was with mr.
00:07:23.000Trump at the time and there was more potentially than this but yeah yeah yeah
00:07:27.000busted it's what's the can't wait for that guy to moderate a debate
00:07:35.000You know what the big challenge is with a story like this?
00:07:38.000Is that we are so deep and entrenched in the, they're lying about Trump now, eight years, nine years on, that I just assume everyone already knows it's all fake.
00:07:49.000Yeah, I realized a few weeks ago I was doing a panel with pro and anti-Trump Republicans.
00:07:55.000I had just kind of taken for granted that we basically all, unless you're literally on CNN yourself, know this is all a ruse.
00:08:34.000They're really critical of how he, you know, handled the first day of cross.
00:08:38.000And then today we have this evidence and it's like, hey, maybe this team has a plan.
00:08:42.000Maybe you're not going to be able to defend what you said yesterday to everyone who you said, the defense has nothing, because it really does come down to tying Michael Cohen.
00:08:51.000All of these key witnesses they've had for weeks, they need Michael Cohen to tie all of this together, and he's not credible.
00:08:57.000The craziest thing was when I heard on the news, they said Cohen is wrapping up the prosecution's case, and I was like, wait, wait.
00:10:33.000He's gone to prison for lying, he's been caught in demonstrable empirical lies to Congress, to pretty much every single government agency, he's already written a letter and signed it saying that none of this happened, and his own lawyer is coming out against him.
00:10:45.000So the guy who was paid to defend him is coming out saying, In Congress yesterday, this guy is a liar.
00:10:50.000And so, the nature of liars is, of course, you have no idea when they're lying, or what they're lying about, and so, you shouldn't involve yourself with liars.
00:11:01.000If you have a girlfriend, and she tells you that she's going to the grocery store, and you found out that she didn't go to the grocery store, and she lies to you, and she can't tell you where she went, you gotta dump that girlfriend.
00:11:23.000According to all the people who've come on our program, members of Congress, Trump's lawyers, Alina Haba, they're sitting there in the courthouse looking at the jury, and they're saying, these people aren't convinced.
00:11:32.000I don't care if they came from the Upper East Side.
00:11:33.000I don't care if they already had predetermined Trump biases, anti-Trump biases.
00:11:53.000But I would not discount, when it comes to closing arguments, When the prosecution is looking at the jury and making their case, I wouldn't be surprised if they say things like, think about Donald Trump and everything you've heard about him and what he's done, here in this courtroom, and take that into consideration when you are going to decide whether he should be free to continue all of the things you've heard he's done
00:12:32.000The prosecution is, I believe, they're going to try and frame it as much as possible as, I know it's BS but this is your chance to put him away, just do it.
00:14:36.000He was asked, are you going to vote for Trump?
00:14:38.000And he's like, well, I could never vote for anyone who has been convicted in a case that implies a sexual battery against a woman, and be like, sir, please see yourself out.
00:14:57.000I used ChatGPT and it generated a series of projections of which most of them said Trump wins either slightly or in substantial ways, but one of them was a tie.
00:15:08.000So basically what I was doing was I was looking at 2020 polling data, taking the results of 2020, taking their polling data, plugging in 2024 polling data currently, and then adjusting the vote totals based on how the polling data is different.
00:15:24.000So like if Biden was up by one point in this state, And Trump is up in one point.
00:15:29.000This state basically inverts how their vote record would turn out based on party affiliation.
00:15:33.000And the first projection it gave me was 269 to 269, which actually some pundits have projected as a strong possibility.
00:15:40.000But the end result of that is a Trump-Harris administration.
00:15:45.000Because the House chooses the president when it's a tie, and the Senate chooses the vice president.
00:16:19.000It was a tweet from, like, CNN announces the debate June 27th, and they said, we are about to see the Manhattan Project of Psychoactive Stimulus.
00:17:34.000If you go to the – if I go to the White House – I've been to the White House a couple times – you have to actually go through this humiliating, degrading situation where you stand on a giant rubber mat.
00:17:42.000And a German Shepherd, an angry looking German Shepherd, that's massive!
00:17:45.000Okay, I don't know where they breed these things.
00:18:28.000Family members are under guard and brought in through everything because those are the people they're trying to protect from you.
00:18:35.000Yeah, but there's another twist here that's very interesting.
00:18:38.000So these were in lock boxes that were on the bottom level next to the situation room that normal people don't go into, okay?
00:18:45.000So if you're a visitor of the White House, if you're there on a tour and it's just some crankhead kid who just wants to get a Hit blow in the White House.
00:19:05.000What I'm saying is, this was at a, you have to know the White House, this was at a entrance that you only go through if you are a member of family or a member of staff.
00:19:13.000It wasn't at an entrance that was accessible to a tourist group or to a bunch of kids.
00:19:18.000Benny, I feel like you're onto something.
00:19:19.000We need to make a film in the style of like Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
00:19:23.000It's about some college kids whose dream is to do blow in the White House.
00:19:27.000Think about what it would be like in the White House, the one place you can't get in.
00:19:33.000And then just the shenanigans of them doing a heist, but it's just to do drugs.
00:19:36.000And then that explains how it got there.
00:19:39.000It's just, you know, to rip a rail off the bust of Teddy Roosevelt.
00:19:43.000You're saying that's the American Dream?
00:20:30.000Doesn't absolve them of their sin, but, you know.
00:20:33.000So just really quickly here, there's a book out about Joe Biden's Secret Service detail when he was Vice President, and women would ask to be taken off the Secret Service detail because Joe Biden was naked so much.
00:22:17.000Look, when you look at the videos of him touching the kids, I'm like, I gotta be honest.
00:22:20.000He says the kids are rubbing his legs, he's on video sniffing kids, and then you hear a story about a guy trying to fight him because he called him Esther?
00:23:53.000I feel bad for Cornpop because I'm imagining what he must have been thinking when he saw Biden get, you know, the vice presidency and then the presidency.
00:24:01.000He's just sitting there like, my God, what have we done?
00:24:10.000But that's why I mean I think I'm looking at Newsom and I think it's really weird that the governor of California is doing national events like he's going to like bookstores in Iowa.
00:24:18.000He's doing interviews again nationwide television talking about Biden's accomplishments.
00:24:23.000It's like he's campaigning on behalf of Biden because Biden's incapable of doing it.
00:24:27.000I just think it's really it's a weird move for him to be doing if he just wants to be governor of California.
00:24:33.000I mean, if he doesn't get a chance earlier, he'll run in 2028 for sure.
00:25:40.000He says, look, I was doing what any American would have done.
00:25:42.000And, you know, and then Joe Biden can come out and say, Ladies and gentlemen, you know, people of America, I think it is just past my time in suffering this injury.
00:25:52.000I don't think I can be the leader you need me to be, but there is someone who has proven he has the leadership skills.
00:26:00.000I think even if he had, I mean, that would be an interesting transition.
00:26:04.000I think even if Biden had some sort of public undeniable health emergency, the White House would be like, no, he was just pausing for dramatic effect.
00:26:11.000They would just try to walk that off as hard as possible.
00:26:16.000I don't think they want to leave either, but I feel like the Democratic Party, they've got to be kind of talking amongst themselves, at the very least thinking like, all right, we are staying, even if it means he's got to go.
00:26:26.000Because for them, it's bigger than just Joe Biden.
00:26:54.000I mean, anything Biden does, they just try to be like... Like, do you remember there was a while where she was like, no, he has been to the border.
00:26:59.000Like, he's been a public official for years and years and years.
00:27:02.000Like, everyone can verify that he hadn't been.
00:27:44.000So either the plan from the deep state is to, like, I don't know, shuffle out Joe Biden for Gavin Newsom, or Biden is just overplayed and they're just like, we got nothing.
00:27:58.000At a certain point, even the stupidest American stops believing it.
00:28:15.000All of the evidence that I see, everything from his support of Mike Johnson to sort of this more consensus look for the Republican Party to the floating of Marco Rubio as the Vice President.
00:29:40.000So that's my Machiavellian hope for Trump.
00:29:42.000Because that was one of his, like, in 2017, that was one of his biggest mistakes is that he had sort of this kind of amnesty towards people that have wronged him in the past.
00:29:51.000Like we talk about all the time, he didn't, like, I hope we see dark Trump.
00:29:55.000Clinton is like, all right, I, you know, it was fun saying you should be in jail, but
00:30:22.000I'm going to ask you to elaborate on it once more.
00:30:23.000But before I do, while you were telling us, I went over to chat GPT and I typed in current favorability among independents for Trump is 39% and Biden is 28%.
00:30:32.000Assuming this correlates directly to voting and based on the total voter turnout in 2020, calculate the total national electoral vote count for 2024.
00:30:55.000I don't know that this actually matters.
00:30:57.000But looking just right now at how independents voted, in 2020 they were favoring Biden, according to the polls.
00:31:04.000According to the polls, they're favoring Trump.
00:31:08.000ChatGPT just pulls all the total vote counts for each state, makes an estimate based on what the total percentage of people who are independent voters.
00:31:17.000It's a range from between 33 and 43 percent.
00:31:20.000And then assuming Trump has a 10 percent edge, it calculates what that voter turnout is going to be in each state, and that's the number it gives us.
00:31:28.000But I genuinely believe as well that Everything you said, I agree with.
00:31:33.000I looked at Mike Johnson supporting Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, Donald Trump meeting with Mike Johnson, Mike Johnson defending him, and my theory is that with the Israel crisis among Democrats, the youth vote just basically being no to Israel, the Democrats and Republicans unifying on banning TikTok, Then Trump coming out saying I'm the most pro-Israel president and then defending, standing up for Mike Johnson, working with Mike Johnson on this bill.
00:31:59.000I'm like, I wouldn't be surprised if the deep state basically went to Trump and said, all right, it's time to compromise.
00:32:08.000And so how, you know, with Joe Biden canceling the military or blocking the military, and I'm like, I think it is being set up right now for a Trump victory.
00:32:17.000Matt Walsh was saying last night he thinks Trump wins, but then as soon as he's out, the deep state erases everything he did.
00:32:22.000And so it's basically a, you know, give baby his bottle, but then we're going to come in full force after the fact.
00:32:37.000But this guy wrote The Art of the Deal.
00:32:40.000And if you read The Art of the Deal, which of course is sort of Trump in a book, in a single book, it is about doing this style of dealmaking.
00:32:49.000And you have to rewind the clock back just a little bit because you have to remember the really good times.
00:32:54.000There are photos of Dick Durbin and Elizabeth Warren and a bunch of these people in the Oval Office laughing it up with Trump and clapping Trump on the side.
00:34:07.000I really love... ChatGPT is stupid for a lot of reasons, but now that it has access to the internet, it is speeding up my math in an amazing way.
00:34:18.000There was a poll that came out several years ago on sentiment pertaining to Civil War.
00:34:29.000So they have this poll where it's by region, there's five regions, and they polled a group of people in each region, and then they separated them by political affiliation, and it was actually quite amazing.
00:34:40.000They found in the Midwest, independents overwhelmingly wanted to secede from the Union and create their own Midwestern bloc.
00:34:46.000In California, in Oregon, it was Democrats.
00:34:51.000In order to get a national-level sample of this, I had to go through each state, create a spreadsheet, type in the total populations, sample size, and extrapolate all this data.
00:35:00.000ChatGPT, you go in and does it for you.
00:35:03.000So what I did was, based on those calculations, I said, I asked it, uh, use these figures.
00:35:09.000First thing I asked it was, um, what is the percent of voters that are independent?
00:35:12.000It says, according to Gallup right now, 40% is the figure of independent voters for the 2024 electorate.
00:35:57.000You cannot say that 2020's numbers directly correlate to 2024, but I do think it's interesting that it's making these projections based on current polling.
00:37:07.000Right now in the polls, the only thing people are tracking are the swing states.
00:37:10.000No one considers Texas in play, but when you look at the Social Security Administration website, for some reason, which has not been explained to anyone, no matter how many times people bring it up or ask, how is it that Texas is registering 250,000 voter registrations every two weeks with no IDs?
00:37:30.000Now, some have said it's because they're cleaning their voter rolls.
00:37:33.000But didn't one of the states come out and say, no, we're not?
00:37:39.000They said, we've only added 50,000, not millions.
00:37:43.000Then you've got Biden's executive order, which was from 2021, about how any federal agency will issue registrations to people and get them registered to vote for the states at the federal level.
00:37:54.000And help produce IDs that would qualify as IDs in those states.
00:37:59.000My theory, I should say hypothesis, I don't know the probability, is the federal government is registering tons of people to vote, massive amounts of people.
00:38:11.000Who in the federal government and where would this be happening?
00:38:15.000And submitting these registrations to the SSA for verification, Texas is unaware, Texas has not registered these voters yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if you get a major bump in registered voters in Texas abruptly in the next couple of months.
00:38:31.000And the reason why Texas is saying, we're not seeing this number is because the feds are doing it.
00:38:36.000And the feds will then say, we verified, certified, all of these are legit registrations.
00:38:45.000Well, that's interesting because, I mean, there are reports that I've seen that kind of show America as a whole, it's actually becoming more polarized in that there's always people saying like, oh, well, Texas is becoming blue because of the California transplants.
00:38:57.000I've seen studies and polling done that show that actually transplants who are going to the states, who are going to Florida, who are going to Texas and Tennessee, they actually are conservative.
00:39:07.000So it's actually we're becoming more polarized that the liberals are staying in California, New York.
00:39:10.000And, you know, the few Republicans that are there, they're basically packing up shop and going to where there are like-minded people.
00:39:17.000It's actually native-born Texans who are in the cities like Austin and Dallas who are the blue ones.
00:39:39.000I mean, I think that polarization is something people are experiencing on all levels of governments.
00:39:44.000And as, you know, blue states get bluer and red states get redder, you know, inevitably there is a chance we could see the swing state shift over time.
00:39:53.000But I think the reality is that most people Look at their state and say, like, well, it doesn't matter if I vote here.
00:40:02.000So the biggest factor for me is always looking at, like, who is motivated to turn out for voting.
00:40:06.000If you're in Austin and you're like, we're in this terrible red state and we have to go to the polls because it's the only way to do whatever, and you're a Republican in Texas and you're like, but we always go red, so it's fine.
00:40:16.000Like, you might actually outnumber them, but you won't if you don't get to the ballot box.
00:40:20.000I want to clarify real quick, too, because I see someone in the chat saying Missouri is not blue.
00:40:25.000Help America Vote Verification tracks the amount of people who have attempted to register to vote but do not have IDs.
00:40:32.000In Missouri, they are tracking every week around 20 or so thousand attempts at registering from people who don't have IDs.
00:40:40.000This could be voter roll cleanup, which would be a misuse of the HAVV system, because the Social Security Administration says the system is only for new voters, and only should be used when new voters attempt to register.
00:40:52.000The other big issue is that I believe it was February 17th, Missouri tracked something like 30,000 deceased registration attempts.
00:41:00.000Again, this could just be misuse of the system, and they're cleaning their voter rolls.
00:41:09.000I would not be surprised if it did turn out in 2024 in November that the results come in and they say Missouri was an upset and Texas an upset and the pollsters never saw it coming.
00:41:39.000He's the only figure in the Democratic Party that I can think of that has any type of nationwide popularity, name recognition.
00:41:46.000I mean, I'm really struggling who else.
00:41:49.000I asked because I feel like Biden had basically implied, like, I will be the last old white man for this party.
00:41:54.000He had been sort of like, I'm the end of this era and then you'll have, you know,
00:41:58.000you know, a more diverse, maybe a bit of color, but there's no one I can think of sort of emerging
00:42:03.000as the front man for, I mean, maybe other than Newsom, for the DNC that had fit that description.
00:42:08.000It's hard because you have the squad who's very diverse and very progressive,
00:42:11.000but they're also pretty polarizing even within their own parties.
00:42:15.000There are a lot of Democrats who don't like AOC, who don't like Ayanna Pressley, who don't like Rashida Tlaib, especially with all the Israel stuff going on.
00:42:21.000There are a lot of Democrats who are still pro-Israel, so I don't really see them being able to lift any of Those women up so I'm struggling to see aside from Newsom who it is definitely not Kamala Harris.
00:43:34.000Benny just sent me, there's a lawsuit filed in 2022 in Arizona, but on March 1st, the DOJ said court finds that Arizona voter registration provisions violate federal law.
00:43:54.000Red pillar or white pillar, but I gotta tell you, I read this straight from our DOJ, so this is the DOJ's.
00:44:00.000own website and you can see right here that they are suing they sued and won quickly and won here in the second paragraph the house bill 2492 onerous documentary proof of citizenship requirement for federal elections constitutes a textbook violation of the national voter registration act So this is a quote from our own DOJ suing Arizona, saying that providing a proof of citizenship is a violation.
00:45:05.000District Court for the District of Arizona struck down an Arizona requirement that individuals seeking to register to vote must list their birthplace as a prerequisite to registering to vote.
00:45:15.000The court ruled that the birthplace requirement of House Bill 2492 violated a federal law that prevents election officials from rejecting voting materials for errors or omissions that are not material to determining a registrant's qualifications to vote.
00:45:27.000The court previously ruled that Arizona may not require documentary proof citizenship to vote in a federal election.
00:45:50.000Other countries, even third world countries, you show ID, you show that you're eligible to vote, they count the votes that night, maybe the day after, and you're done, right?
00:46:12.000This is March 1st that this ruling came down that not only you cannot require a claim of citizenship, but you can't even ask them where they're from.
00:46:24.000It would seem that what happened was Arizona says, you've got to be a citizen to register.
00:46:29.000And the feds were like, no, you don't.
00:46:31.000And they said, okay, well, then where are you from?
00:46:47.000I mean, in places like New York, and I think in Boston, there are already areas where not with a federal election or anything like that, but there are already local elections where they are allowing non-citizens to vote.
00:46:57.000So they're already starting to introduce that into the Overton window.
00:47:00.000So next few years, absolutely, it's going to be an issue on the national level.
00:47:26.000They fought them tooth and nail on this.
00:47:28.000And they spent, who knows, untold millions, hundreds of millions of taxpayer resources to go fight them to allow the pathway for non-citizens to vote.
00:47:54.000States don't have—we've established they don't have the right to have a poll tax or a literacy test.
00:47:59.000So this isn't the first time the federal government has stepped in and said, no, the, I guess, restrictions you're placing are too onerous and you're denying someone's right to vote.
00:48:07.000So there's actually pretty good precedent for the federal government to do this.
00:48:18.000I got kind of heat on Twitter because there was this, I think it was Slate or something, it was a while ago, they posted one of the literacy tests that used to be given before you vote.
00:48:27.000And my take was basically, you should be able to do this.
00:48:30.000Like, I'm sorry, there's no reason I can think of where you should have a sane government would not be able to do this.
00:48:35.000And I had all these people actually know this could be vague, this is impossible.
00:48:39.000I'll just say it, I'm not against a literacy test to be able to vote.
00:48:43.000I feel like if you're deciding, if you have any say in government, you should be able to read.
00:49:26.000But yeah, the issue was sometimes, at least according to what people were saying online, I don't know if this was true or not, there was no official answer key.
00:49:35.000It was based on whatever the The person grading it felt like.
00:49:39.000Circle I can already see Kamala Harris not I know Circle the first first letter of the alphabet in this line
00:49:46.000So that's the a in alphabet right or that I'm nice Yeah, it's the a enough the first first letter of the
00:49:52.000alphabet in this line In the space below draw three circles one inside engulfed
00:50:32.000And then 20 minutes later they go, what were the four words I said at the beginning of this test?
00:50:36.000And you're like, oh wow, giraffe, airplane, pencil, what did I say?
00:50:41.000And you have to get four out of four, or can you do, like, cause I know... Well, you don't fail if you miss one, but it's like, that's actually, like, wow.
00:50:48.000If you are told, remember these words, don't forget, you will.
00:51:01.000Anytime there's a movie and like there's someone on a phone call and they're rattling off important information, I'm always thinking if that were me, I would be so dead because I would not remember.
00:51:08.000I would not have been paying attention.
00:51:12.000Yeah, basically like write this down, send a text.
00:51:15.000You know, it's wild to me that there's a consistent effort from Democrats to make it easier and easier and easier to vote.
00:51:22.000Because, like, it shouldn't be easy to vote.
00:51:27.000Well, there's a TikTok that's going around where there's this leftist saying he believes that even felons who are currently in prison, so like no one reformed, but currently serving in prison, you should be able to vote.
00:51:40.000And the reason why he said that is because having it be the case where you cannot vote if you're in prison disproportionately affects people of color, and therefore that's unjust.
00:51:50.000And it's like, but that's the mentality that they have.
00:51:53.000It's the outcome that matters, and anything that leads to an unequal outcome is not good.
00:51:57.000So therefore, equality of outcomes at all costs, even if it means you have people who are currently in prison being able to decide things that might affect, like, penalties for criminals.
00:52:06.000There was a similar lawsuit in North Carolina because they were basically challenging the rules regarding felons getting their voting rights restored.
00:52:14.000You know, different states have slightly different policies, but for the most part, you know, you have to be out of jail and then for some states you have to complete your probation.
00:52:20.000Sometimes you have to like pay off the fines or whatever.
00:52:22.000And two of the organizations that sort of work on this with formerly incarcerated people were like, you're making us spend too much money doing this.
00:52:29.000Like people don't get it and don't know about it.
00:52:30.000And so therefore you should just get rid of it.
00:52:32.000And I was like, I don't think that's the point here.
00:52:35.000I love question number 20 on the Literature Test.
00:53:15.000But nowadays we'd probably put quotations around what you're supposed to for clarity, so I agree it's not the clearest, but it is still correct.
00:53:23.000They have quotations around the word they want you to spell.
00:53:25.000In the space below, write the word noise backwards, and place a dot over what would be its second letter, should it have been written forward.
00:54:53.000And he had it at low ready and in a semi-raised position as he approached the vehicle of this man.
00:55:00.000In the street with a large group known to have been riding at the time with news reports all across the country of people who had been shot and some who had been killed.
00:55:13.000I hear he was more of like a libertarian guy, and he was, you know, there were a lot of people who were marching with Black Lives Matter who weren't necessarily leftists or whatever, so it's sad, but the idea that you would put Daniel Perry in prison for fearing for his life because a guy with a rifle at low red, he was approaching his car with a mob of people who had been rioting across the country, it's insane.
00:55:34.000So shout out to Greg Abbott for this pardon, it was the right move.
00:55:37.000I can't believe he got convicted in the first place.
00:56:27.000I mean, it's where I lived for a little while and I think it's great.
00:56:30.000The thing is, Texas does have this sort of island in the middle that is very different but also calls the shots in a lot of ways.
00:56:36.000I mean, especially when it comes... I remember with a lot of the people who would come to claim asylum or file for immigration stuff, they would file specifically in the Austin district so they would get a more sympathetic judge no matter where they actually were.
00:56:47.000I mean, It's sort of Texas's big vulnerability if they want to stay conservative.
00:58:33.000Your choice is who do your parks belong to?
00:58:38.000Do your parks belong to mothers and children who can play in them safely and without needles and without piss-smelling bums to creep on you and steal from you?
00:58:49.000The parks either belong to the bums and the criminals, and the degenerates, or they belong to the children.
00:58:53.000And you should live in places, this should be, if you're looking for a new city, this is what my wife and I just did actually, if you're looking for a new city, a couple years ago when we moved from DC to Tampa, because all the parks in DC, we just had our first child, all the parks in DC Uh, had been turned over to criminals and drug users.
00:59:08.000And they were really nice, beautiful parks, and suddenly everywhere was a homeless person sleeping and or living on the park.
00:59:15.000And we're like, this is, the city has made a choice to prioritize the criminals instead of the families and instead of the people, the producers in society.
00:59:25.000And then they act like they don't understand where the crime rate goes up.
00:59:28.000It's crazy, because around 10 years ago, it's almost like in these big cities, D.C., Austin, San Francisco, it's like a decision was made that actually the worst thing anyone could do is be mean to a homeless person and tell them to take a hike.
01:01:18.000The police won't do anything about it.
01:01:20.000I don't think a splash of water is the apocalypse for somebody, but it is a serious challenge, and you're gonna get arrested.
01:01:28.000You got a homeless guy sleeping and blocking your door, and he won't move, and the cops won't come, so you're like, I will splash him with water.
01:01:34.000Don't be surprised when the cops show up and are like, sir, you assaulted somebody.
01:02:49.000It's just a thing that happened to them.
01:02:50.000Homelessness applies ownership of the house.
01:02:54.000Well, the argument the left made was that a home—you were saying a home was one of the hardest—they initially argued that people's homes come in all different shapes and sizes, and homeless people who live in tents under bridges have homes with family and friends, so it's not right.
01:03:08.000What they don't have is a house, which is a specific thing, so they're unhoused people.
01:04:06.000And this may be of interest to many of you, surprising information.
01:04:09.000There is a language, an alphabet of symbols used by vagrants and vagabonds.
01:04:17.000providing them with information about where they are and what to expect so for people who travel the country vagabonds basically rail hoppers you'll you'll be like walking in an area that's like in the middle of nowhere and you'll see a sign where someone draws a symbol and these people know what the symbols represent but nobody else and it'll it'll mean things like there are hunters here and it's private property and you're in trouble they'll put signs near train tracks where it'll be like We've never in that it'll be like a circle with like devil horns and you know like a smile and that means train conductors here typically don't care if you hop their trains things like that there's there's some symbols where it's like the house the next house you see on your path typically gives people food crazy
01:05:04.000So this proves something that I think is really important, because if you see the corollary between shutting down all of the mental asylums, and the prison population, and the homeless population, there is a perfect inversion, where in the 1970s, our boomer parents went and saw One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and started crying tears for Jack Nicholson in that fake movie, and sided with Jack Nicholson instead of Nurse Ratched, who's the hero of the movie, much like Much like Corn Pops, the hero of the story was Joe Biden.
01:05:33.000Corn Pops was just trying to save the kids from, you know, feeling the hairy legs.
01:05:38.000And they sided with that and then there was this big movement, this is how stupid people are, there's a big movement to shut down the asylums.
01:05:44.000And without asking a question, why were the asylums there in the first place?
01:05:47.000Because you have to deal with an unhealthy and uncomfortable reality that some people don't want to be housed, some people don't want to live in society, some people have deep abiding psychological issues that belong in straitjackets, some people have demonic possession.
01:06:03.000And these people, who are either possessed by demons or possessed by something that messed up their brain, they will not subscribe to society.
01:06:12.000And so eventually, if pushed enough and allowed to go far enough, they will take a syringe and they will stab your kid as you're walking down the street.
01:06:19.000And then it'll be your fault for living amongst an area that allows that to fester, instead of dealing with the realities like the state of Florida does, dealing with the realities that these people have decided to not be part of society.
01:06:33.000We were talking about this on Tales from the Inverted World Sunday, the new show with Shane Cashman.
01:06:37.000If you like ghost stories, subscribe on YouTube.
01:06:41.000There was a story I read on Reddit where a woman said that her sister had always been severely mentally impaired.
01:06:48.000Her whole life in a wheelchair, drooling, unable to move.
01:06:52.000And then she said a couple times in her life when she was alone with her sister, her sister abruptly became fully lucid and went, help me please, I'm trapped in here, I'm trapped!
01:07:04.000And I'm like, dude, I think people can be possessed.
01:07:06.000I think like a demon has held that woman down.
01:07:10.000But I worked in the homeless nonprofit sector.
01:07:24.000Homeless people don't want to be in them.
01:07:26.000So one of the issues I had with one of these shelters was they were fundraising off the notion that they were struggling in at capacity and needed your donations.
01:07:36.000And I believe everything they told us was true.
01:07:39.000And then one day, I was checking out one of the shelters and it was dead empty.
01:08:02.000And they were like, look, what we do with the money is we pull up with vans, we give them blankets and water, and we tell them where to find us.
01:08:33.000That's how California can spend like 24 billion or whatever on homelessness and then, you know, no one knows where it went.
01:08:40.000And isn't the song Under the Bridge literally about doing drugs and that's where they do them?
01:08:45.000Well, in the needle programs in California, San Francisco specifically, you know, they'll say it as like, well, this way we're not spreading disease.
01:08:51.000And also we know where this population is and we can offer them services.
01:08:55.000We can, you know, I was listening to this interview where they're like in a camp recording this like poor worker who has to be like, here's your needle.
01:09:17.000At night, that's when no one wants to be there.
01:09:20.000During the day, they might show up and say, can I have some free stuff?
01:09:23.000At night, it's when they're like, I'm getting out of here.
01:09:25.000Dude, it was infuriating learning that people...
01:09:31.000What bothers me the most is the assumption that homeless people are people who have fallen on hard times, and with a little bit of help, we'll get right back to it.
01:09:40.000What, maybe half a percent, 1% of homeless people are, I met a guy once, Chicago.
01:09:48.000Older black guy, I asked him why he was homeless.
01:11:16.000I mean, Anna Kasparian, she was catching flack for suggesting that actually if someone is mentally incompetent or they are refusing treatment, you make them go.
01:11:37.000So we went to Kensington in Philadelphia, and if there's anybody watching from the Philadelphia area or aware, this is an entire zombie city, and it's right in the shadow of downtown Philadelphia.
01:11:47.000And you can just find people that are literal zombies walking around, just like World War Z.
01:12:43.000So you perpetuate the cycle instead of breaking it, and this is a breakdown in morality.
01:12:47.000Listen, man, if you read the Gospels, I'm a Christian, if you read the Gospels, and you just read the four Gospels of Christ, every chapter There's a demon that's being exercised.
01:12:58.000Every chapter there's somebody who's twisted and bent up and like living like a homeless person, sometimes in the hills, sometimes in the graveyards, and it's demonic activity.
01:13:07.000I'm not saying that accounts for all of it, but I'm saying that's one thing that we never taught, it's never spoken about in our secular age.
01:13:14.000Every other generation, every other group, every other civilization, From back through recorded history, has thought that there is a spiritual element to all of this, and that there's spiritual health as well as physical health.
01:13:28.000But for some reason, we drop the atom bomb, and then in our secular world, the world goes completely secular, and then we never speak about spirituality again.
01:13:37.000And there's also a spiritual component to all of this.
01:13:41.000And I believe that demonic possession and spiritual health has a lot to do with this.
01:13:46.000So I've got this story that I literally just pulled up because we're going to go with this.
01:14:03.000I don't know about being dead or the other side of the veil or whatever.
01:14:10.000I see people and I can't explain their actions through logic.
01:14:16.000There are evil people out there that you're just wondering, what is this?
01:14:22.000And I'm sure that your, you know, atheists could say something like, oh, it's some people have chemical imbalances that make them not function properly.
01:14:31.000And I'm like, but there are people who are seemingly normal that, like, One day we'll turn evil.
01:14:49.000And I think, you know, for a lot of people who are atheists, Because I'm not even saying people who are not Christian, but there are a lot of people who are atheists who would just try to explain it as like, oh, they had a chemical imbalance or something.
01:14:58.000And I'm like, saying someone is possessed does not literally mean you believe in the Bible and you're a Christian.
01:15:03.000It's just saying that we don't understand that perhaps there are forces beyond our comprehension that are influencing and manipulating people.
01:15:34.000She has a bathrobe on that, and an iconography of the demon world up and down her arm.
01:15:41.000and pentagrams and yeah you know you have to ask yourself in this trial like are you wait wait for real like in the trial she testified recently that her husband is possessed or was possessed we can easily bring it up i'm trying to google it what do i search for i'm gonna easily bring it up alexa gotcha we covered this on the show Oh yeah, yeah.
01:16:03.000So she said that the possum part was, she said it was her house was haunted or whatever, and it ended up being a possum living under it, but there is something separate where she said that her ex-boyfriend was possessed.
01:16:36.000And then there's a Fox News article from 2023 that says, uh, Stormy Daniels tried to summon spirits, uh, with magic cards during interview.
01:17:09.000I love viewers all the time, Chris and Andrea.
01:17:11.000I sat through two E. Jean Carroll trials and two cross-examinations of E. Jean Carroll, and I have to tell you, I agree with Sue wholeheartedly.
01:17:18.000This was very much what I'd call a nuts and sluts defense.
01:17:21.000There was a portion of the cross-examination where Susan Necklace was focused on the fact that Stormy Daniels now claims that she is a medium and that she communicates with dead people and has participated in a tv tv series about the paranormal where she explores things including the fact that at one point an ex-boyfriend of hers was inhabited by spirits she was mocking stormy daniels she wants the jury to think stormy daniels is a liar and she is crazy and she also wants the jury to judge her
01:17:51.000For her occupation, and Stormy Daniels gave no ground on that.
01:17:54.000As Sue just said, she might be an exotic dancer, an adult film actor, but she was very clear when Susan Necklace used the phrase, selling yourself, to describe what Stormy Daniels was doing on a tour where she was making appearances at clubs.
01:18:14.000The implication always was, I am not a sex worker, and I don't have a sign around my neck that says, consent given freely to everyone at any time.
01:18:43.000And this was one of the things they talked about afterwards was that she was always a really risky person to pull for the witness stand because, you know, they're saying, oh, well, they're trying to make her look crazy, the jury.
01:18:52.000But what if the jury is like, you summoned a demon?
01:18:55.000Like the jury looks at this and is like, this is a dark person and I don't trust her.
01:18:59.000There's only one huge winner in all of this, which is Donald Trump, who's been calling this a witch hunt for a very long time.
01:19:10.000You know, what's really funny is that in the podcasting world, especially in the past several years with Joe Rogan, the subject of DMT is massively popular.
01:19:18.000It pops up here and then, but it was like there was this period where everybody wanted to know because the idea was that people who have taken DMT have broken through the veil, as they call it, and seen something.
01:19:30.000And one of the things people talk about is, you see demons.
01:19:36.000And that the people who don't understand what they're seeing think they're just talking to the machine elves, the entities.
01:19:41.000But many people say that these are demons offering deals and they're trying to manipulate you into doing things that they want you to do.
01:19:50.000So when you see things like this and you're like, what happened to Stormy Daniels that she decided to be evil?
01:20:42.000What happened to so many people where they literally said, scruples be damned, I will loot, pillage, and burn, and take whatever I want, and do any amoral thing.
01:20:53.000Well, they believe the ends justify the means, and they have actually convinced themselves that Trump is so evil, so terrible, that some little white lies in order to make sure he doesn't come into power again, of course they're justified.
01:21:05.000But that's basically the entire story of leftists throughout history, is that the ends justify the means.
01:21:10.000No matter how many people have to starve, have to kill, you have to kill, you have to rob them of their property, as long as it leads to the utopia or the outcome they want, it's all justified.
01:21:19.000I mean, how many times do we hear, like, Trump must be stopped?
01:21:22.000That phrase, must be stopped, is a commitment to stopping him at any cost, and there's no moral cost.
01:21:29.000I do think that with conservatives, especially religious conservatives, the concept of the truth as it relates to Christianity is something that they kind of hold to a higher standard than, you know, Maybe a secular progressive who's like, but I have to get the thing that I want.
01:21:40.000And in this case, I'm part of the hive mind and I want this person to not be elected.
01:21:48.000And even though you pay for it with your soul later, you know, it's worth it now because there's only the here and now to someone who doesn't have anything else in their life.
01:23:03.000So I was, when we were on, I was on with Shane on the Inverted World show, Inverted World Live on YouTube, subscribe.
01:23:09.000And it was half in jest, but sort of, I said, I can prove mathematically and scientifically that the woke left is evil.
01:23:18.000And I went into this long rant about, you know, life in the universe and stuff, but the simple version is when you're looking at the planets, the stars, when you look at the basic forms of life, the most rudimentary self-replicating proteins, single-celled organisms, multicellular organisms, what life does is organizes free energy into complex systems.
01:23:46.000It is the one thing we can see life doing.
01:23:48.000So when you look at the left and massive campaigns of destroying life, that is the anti-life, that is the antithesis of what life does.
01:23:58.000It is a function against our very being.
01:24:01.000So you can argue whether it's figuratively or literally not evil.
01:24:05.000My point is simply, If the function of life, and we here as humans, is creating order from chaos, the people who attempt to sow chaos and destroy order would be the antithesis of our mission, that would be our evil.
01:24:20.000Evil cannot create, it can only destroy.
01:24:53.000They could, they could fire a shot and doing that and bringing that peace and like, I don't know, giving them a Dennis Rodman basketball and Yeah, whatever he did with Kim Jong-un.
01:25:03.000Donald Trump crossed the DMZ into enemy territory with no security detail in a sign of good faith and peace for North Korea and they attacked him for it.
01:25:20.000do. That's exactly right. Enemy, enemy territory with no security detail. And which side are you
01:25:27.000on, man? And you know, which side are you on? Are you on the side that according to multiple
01:25:31.000reports decided to continue the Ukraine war, even when there was a peace treaty sitting on the table
01:25:39.000that Zelensky was about to sign, that he and Putin had decided the framework of a peace treaty.
01:25:46.000And they sent in Boris Johnson to come in and to tear it up, to rip it up and say, no, you are going to shove all of the young people in your country into a meat grinder to die for what exactly?
01:25:59.000Nobody can still, like, alliterate that.
01:26:42.000I watched it in my freshman class in high school, you know, on one of those wheel-in TVs that they have in public schools, you know, they wheel in the TV, plug it in.
01:26:50.000And I, like, to my great shame, was supportive of Iraq and Afghanistan at that time.
01:27:00.000Okay, good, let's go fight the terrorists.
01:27:02.000And that's the one thing with age, and you step back and you have kids, especially having children, and especially becoming a father, and you think, not on my life would I allow you to draft my child and send them off to some desert to die alone.
01:27:17.000I mean, I would leave before I'd let you do that.
01:27:20.000Like, I would fight you at my doorstep before I'd allow you to use my children as cannon fodder.
01:27:26.000And I would dig my heels into this dirt, and I would not—I wouldn't allow it.
01:27:32.000And then you get—the wiser you get, the more you realize that actually— There's no really such thing as angels and demons on the side of war.
01:27:40.000It's really just two sides of evil fighting each other for different degrees of evil, and the more you just become viscerally anti-war.
01:27:49.000And that's what's happened to me as I've gotten older and wiser, is I've just said, there's actually very little justification ever for the wholesale slaughter of people or in war.
01:28:00.000But the problem again is they really come out to defend wars.
01:28:03.000Like you have the military-industrial complex, yeah, in line with the corporate press.
01:28:07.000Lindsey Graham literally, the other day he went on and he was like, he's making the case for like giving nukes and like starting to use like nukes like casually on cable news.
01:28:19.000Oh, he's been on cable news declaring a holy war against Iran for sure.
01:28:24.000And it frustrates me because the people like Lindsey Graham, the Liz Cheney's of the world, the warmongers, the neocons, I mean, they're very happy to call you unpatriotic for opposing their war for whatever reasons, even though they're the ones who are offering up Americans to die.
01:28:57.000Like, they will send middle America's children, they'll send people who are in poverty, who enlist in the military to, you know, make their lives better.
01:29:05.000You can be sacrificed, but not her children.
01:29:08.000Her children will never be in that position.
01:29:47.000We recently had on social media that whole debate over the atomic bombs in Japan, and I think there's...
01:29:53.000You know, there's reasons why it made sense.
01:29:56.000It was the way to minimize casualties.
01:29:58.000Other people say no, they were ready to give up.
01:30:00.000But what I really what I found curious to see is like the almost jingoistic support some people have, like, no, it was good, like they got what they like, when you keep in mind that the targets were mainly civilians.
01:30:12.000It's, you know, we look back on World War Two, what the Nazis did, and we wonder how could they dehumanize people so terribly?
01:30:22.000We've coded people into, it's okay if we root for them to cheer and die, or cheer for them to die, versus it's not okay, but it's still immoral either way if they're not combatants themselves.
01:31:14.000The guy who just massacred all the people in the city smoking a cigarette on the cover, like, no big deal, like, I'm here, baby, we did this.
01:31:22.000It starts getting much more political into race, ethnicity, Holocaust stuff later on.
01:31:28.000And I think it's fair, I was like, we didn't know what was going on at the time.
01:31:30.000So when you're, I think one of the most fascinating things I read was, I looked at the magazine right before D-Day.
01:31:38.000And it's like pictures of tanks, tons of tanks in the UK, armaments, troops.
01:31:45.000And it's like the US has been sending armaments and troops to the UK to short their defenses amid Germany's conquest or whatever.
01:32:33.000Apparently that does better in getting likes to the show.
01:32:36.000And also head over to TimCast.com because we're going to have that members-only call-in show coming up at 10pm and it's going to be a lot of fun, especially with the cacophony of unintelligible political commentary we have going on so far.
01:32:46.000We're looking forward to hearing from you.
01:32:48.000Clint Torres takes first place as he normally does.
01:35:23.000And bringing this support and money in is effectively uniting the party behind Donald Trump because of Rubio.
01:35:31.000I believe that if it is true, and I don't know that's true, it's just a rumor going around.
01:35:35.000Apparently you've heard similar things.
01:35:37.000Trump will win in November, and not because Rubio is a good candidate who speaks Spanish and can go on Univision, but because Trump cut a deal with the establishment to unify, and they're going to get something from it, so they back off.
01:36:48.000That is a career ender in a fair world.
01:36:51.000Kamala Harris goes away and you never hear from her again.
01:36:53.000Because that was such a career ender about locking up black men, using them for slave labor, putting them on murderer's row, putting them on death row, exculpatory evidence, locking up hundreds, tens of thousands of people for marijuana charges.
01:38:40.000So this is a viral video of this, um, this woman who's like a black belt taekwondo world champ and she's got a bo staff spinning it around.
01:38:49.000Because the premise was that a bunch of, the first tweet was, it was from Katherine Brodsky, I don't envy the man or, you know, or bear who encounters this woman or whatever.
01:39:01.000And then a bunch of guys saying, your average untrained man could easily take her.
01:39:06.000And then a bunch of more lefty individuals being like, no way, man, this woman with proper training would take any man.
01:39:15.000I'm just like, you know, so this was the big viral debate on X, I suppose.
01:39:21.000Can a trained martial artist, black belt, world champion, weighing 100 pounds and coming in at 5'1", win the fight against your average untrained man?
01:39:32.000There's a reason why even in the UFC, men fighting men, they have weight classes, right?
01:39:36.000Because they know if they put someone who's 6'4 against someone who's 5'4, that's going to be a very short, very uninteresting fight.
01:39:43.000So to say that a woman who's 5'1, 100-some pounds, could take on your average man, even, you know, someone who's shorter than the average man and weaker, like, still no.
01:39:52.000I don't know why women feel like they need to be better than men at physical things.
01:39:56.000It's a fight we're going to lose, ladies.
01:39:59.000So I looked it up, the average male height in the United States is five, or I don't know if it's the United States, but I looked up average male height and weight, and it said 5'8", 199 pounds.
01:40:09.000That's a real bad prognosis for this country.
01:40:27.000Alright, Mike Z says, a few days ago I asked him to buy me some sushi in jest, but after seeing so many in dire straits, I wanted to give something back.
01:40:36.000Please use this to bless someone's day.
01:41:57.000Listen, there is like a half mile away, this farm, with cows.
01:42:05.000And it's amazing because in the middle of it is a creek.
01:42:08.000When you're driving, you drive over the creek and it's fenced off and it is the most heartwarming thing to see the mama cow and the baby cow standing in the creek together and the baby's drinking the water and you drive past and you're like, I want this.
01:43:12.000I think we've been getting like one or two of these a week for the past like a month of people like at the hospital be like, I am about to become a parent.
01:43:19.000Well, it's because people, someone super chatted earlier like, is this show only ever complained with no solutions?
01:43:24.000And it's like, well, we always tell people like one of the solutions is have kids.
01:43:42.000But if those who believe in freedom, free speech, the Constitution, our traditional moral values and things like this are having more kids, and of their demographic are above replacement, 20 years of the country is conservative Christian.
01:43:55.000Only if you don't send them to public schools, though, because otherwise they just brainwash your kids.
01:44:11.000I think I know one, but again, like, when you grow up in, like, I grew up in New England, so there's, like, you'll have a big Catholic family, but they all vote Democrat because that's, like, the socially acceptable thing to do.
01:44:22.000You just have to be active in your children's life if you want to steer them in the directions you want to see them grow up.
01:45:16.000I had a friend appear on House Hunters, and apparently that's also fake.
01:45:19.000They won't even let you on the show unless you've already bought your house enclosed, but on the show you're like, which one am I gonna buy?
01:45:27.000Reality TV, it's like when you're in Hollywood and you're talking to actors, and they're like, I do a lot of reality TV, and it's like everyone knows it's all scripted, fake.
01:45:37.000It's not so much that it's scripted in that you have an expectation of what they want you to do, and there's like directors, and then they edit it in a way to make it look like whatever they want.
01:45:46.000I watched election night on 2020 at 2020 the year 2020 it was totally fake.
01:45:55.000Mega Mikey says bold of you to assume Joe Biden would even recover from a heart attack or stroke as he stands currently probably would die right on the spot during a rally as you described.
01:46:52.000And then he has his blood tested every morning to figure out what he needs to eat, what he's missing, what he's too high of, and things like that.
01:46:59.000But he looks exactly his age, is why that's weird.
01:47:03.000So there's this moment in the interview that he did with Tucker Carlson where he goes, am I not a demon to Tucker?
01:48:46.000So I did a big segment I think it was today on the Harrison Butker situation where you know everything he said.
01:48:54.000He's speaking to a Catholic college and they're like how dare you say How dare you say Catholic things to a Catholic audience?
01:48:59.000When he said to the women, I assume many of you are looking forward to your families and your marriages and things like this, and I'm like, yes, they're a bunch of Catholics, of course they agree with him, like what?
01:49:08.000And the point I made in that segment was, when you look at the logical function of what church and faith did for this country and what's happening without it, it's clear that outside of any religious perspective, the things that Christianity gives to society are massively beneficial and strengthening.
01:49:27.000So when we lose people going to church, which is when the whole community comes together and shares in a shared moral tradition, you lose that, you get crime, you get drug abuse, you get horrible scenarios, you get abuse.
01:49:40.000So yeah, simply put, from a logical, governmental, secular perspective, religion does great things for society.
01:49:47.000Yeah, that's the argument that Jordan Peterson makes in his, uh, cause he's, you know, he's one of those people where you ask him if you believe in God, he'll say, well, I act like I do, which is the same.
01:49:55.000I disagree that it's the same, but he's, he's very keen on the, I guess, utilitarian aspect of religion, especially as a Christian.
01:50:35.000Do you see any Amish people who are degenerates committing crimes and marching, rallying, and trying to burn down businesses?
01:50:44.000Do you see any of that in this religious community that is homogenous and that everybody is part of the same religion and they live together in community and they help each other and they build together?
01:51:01.000It might as well be two different earths, the difference between a hundred miles.
01:51:06.000And I can tell you that the difference is a belief in God, the difference is the structure and the meaning and the purpose that religion provides, or just a belief in a greater power provides.
01:51:17.000And you can see the differences just a hundred miles apart in the state of Pennsylvania.
01:51:21.000So a couple of people from the chat, one said, Goddamn, the religious zealotry is cringe.
01:51:28.000Others saying religion killing right now in Israel, Gaza.
01:51:32.000You need to understand the difference between zealotry, fundamentalism, and like moral tradition.
01:51:38.000And so, and this is this is for you guys who said that.
01:51:42.000I think you would benefit from, I don't know, moral philosophy and reading these things.
01:51:50.000Because the bad exists does not mean the good is bad.
01:51:53.000So when I say things like church is good because it brings community together, it is not to say church is bad because wars happen overseas.
01:52:04.000And the simplest way I can explain it in terms of a direct analogy is if everyone in the world shared the same moral tradition was as devout as Seamus Coghlan of Freedom Tunes, there'd be no war, there would be no need for police.
01:52:20.000And that is a statement of fact, not an opinion.
01:52:24.000The challenges arise from when people, when there are people who lack morals, don't share moral tradition, are at odds and dispute with each other, or outright don't care about community.
01:52:35.000And so, when you have, let's remove religion from the equation, and simplify it too.
01:52:40.000Every Sunday, everyone in the community comes together and hangs out at the community center, and they play tic-tac-toe and connect four and they share food.
01:52:48.000That function strengthens community, reduces crime, increases wealth, and what was doing that before?
01:52:58.000And the people who were following this religion in their small communities weren't going and waging war in Israel and Gaza.
01:53:03.000What you're talking about is government corruption, institutional power, massive corporations, but the small church where people are saying, be kind to your neighbors, That's a good thing.
01:53:14.000Because there are bad people who use the Lord's name in vain, which is to declare war on a foreign country in the name of God, that's wrong.
01:53:23.000And I credit Seamus for this, because we were talking about the commandments and how the Ten Commandments logically benefit people in general, whether you're religious or not.
01:53:34.000I do believe in God, but I'm not a Christian.
01:53:36.000It's as simple as There are people who are in violation of the Ten Commandments when they say, God is on my side, and then go kill people in war.
01:53:45.000They are using the Lord's name to justify their desires.
01:53:47.000So there's a big difference between coming together with your neighbors and community saying, here's where we agree you should and should not do, and they live together peacefully, and then people being like, hey, that thing you believe, because of it you have to go fight and die overseas so I can have oil.
01:54:02.000Also, I mean, regarding Israel-Gaza, like, I'm sorry, but if you think that religion is the only reason that conflict is happening, without religion, it would just be a bunch of, like, ethnic Arabs and Jews hanging out, chilling, having a great time.
01:55:21.000They think they're all so much smarter, but the issue is they confer college degrees with intelligence.
01:55:27.000They correlate college degree and intelligence, and it's like, that may have been the case a long time ago, but it's not really the case these days.
01:55:32.000In fact, maybe an inverse correlation now.
01:55:35.000I would argue also a long time ago, I mean, higher education, getting a college degree has always been a luxury.
01:55:41.000It's always been something that people strive to get and it's not always accessible.
01:55:44.000There are tons of people who are incredibly intelligent who didn't go to college.
01:55:47.000Like, that's just the way our culture has always worked.
01:55:50.000But now it's that level of credentialism.
01:56:25.000For those that, uh, grew up playing the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games, you know that May 16th, of course, is Lagwagon Day.
01:56:30.000And for those that did not know, I could be getting this wrong, but my general understanding of the song, it's a song called May 16th.
01:56:36.000It was on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack.
01:56:38.000The song was written, uh, by a dude who was, I guess the story was he was in his apartment, and he looked out his window, and he saw one of his best friends, who he had a falling out with, getting married.
01:56:49.000And so, he felt pain seeing that, if not for this stupid argument, he could be there for one of the most important days of his friend's life.
01:56:58.000And that's why the line in the chorus is, it's just another Saturday, is because he's lying to himself, saying, none of this matters, it's just another Saturday.
01:57:05.000And the song, it's, wow, like, when you learn what the song is about, it really becomes that much more powerful.
01:59:00.000This was a couple years ago where they announced that the frequently homeless homeless would fall under state conservatorship and they would seize their bank accounts and their income and then take control of their lives.
01:59:10.000And it's an interesting thought because it's basically an asylum.
01:59:13.000It's like, okay, you become a ward of the state because you're incapable of taking care of yourself.
01:59:17.000The problem is if you are just if it's like if you're a homeless person causing problems and Destroying things and all that, fine.
01:59:26.000But the scary thing is if you're just a guy who doesn't have a house, and you're sleeping on a park bench, and you're not crazy, or whatever, and they're like, you are now a ward of the state for sleeping outside, is where, like, it starts to get weird.
01:59:36.000Yeah, I feel like if you're gonna do something like that, there should always be an out.
01:59:40.000Like, a level that you reach of self-sufficiency, where you can get out of that, so you're not just basically an indentured servant for the rest of your life because you missed a couple rent payments or something like that.
01:59:51.000Rural Man Life says everyone needs to read Thomas Jefferson's writings in 1800 when he was running for president about his disdaining for cities and how destructive it is to the human condition.
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