Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - February 16, 2024


DA Prosecuting Trump Fani Willis May Have Admitted To FELONY On Stand w-Rep Massie | Timcast IRL


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2 hours and 3 minutes

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Summary

On today s episode of the uncensored show, we have a story about a woman who claims she used campaign cash to reimburse her then-boyfriend for luxuries he bought her and her husband. Is it a scam or is it an honest mistake? Plus, the Biden DOJ has just criminally charged a witness against the Biden family. And Rep. Thomas M. Massey joins us to discuss all that and much more.


Transcript

00:00:04.000 Today, Fannie Willis, the DA who brought the charges against Trump at all over trying to overturn the election 2020, testified and it is, it was pretty crazy testimony.
00:00:17.000 Now, there's a viral claim going around.
00:00:19.000 At one point, she says that she took cash out of her campaign And kept it, implying she used that cash to reimburse her then boyfriend for luxurious gifts.
00:00:31.000 Okay, I'm sorry, not really gifts, because she paid him back in cash with no receipts.
00:00:35.000 This whole thing's wild.
00:00:37.000 And, uh, you know, we're gonna have to break this one down because there are some people saying It was actually her money she loaned to the campaign in the first place and when the campaign ended she only paid back a small portion of it but it was a large sum of cash she kept in cash so it's not necessarily like campaign donations or anything like that but we have to break this one down and then go through the ridiculous claims.
00:00:56.000 The gist of the story goes like this.
00:01:00.000 She's dating this guy that she appoints to be the lead prosecutor going against Donald Trump and everybody else.
00:01:05.000 He paid for lavish vacations.
00:01:08.000 She claimed in filings she never received a gift from a prohibited person, for which her boyfriend would have been.
00:01:15.000 And then to sort of clear it all up, they both said, oh, it's not a gift because she paid him back in cash and there are no receipts or statements or withdrawal forms or anything like that because it was just that she happens to keep $9,000 typically in cash lying around and she likes to travel around the world with large sums of money.
00:01:33.000 It was so shocking that apparently someone burst out laughing in the courtroom and the judge told him to stop.
00:01:37.000 So we're going to talk about that.
00:01:39.000 Plus, you know, we were trying to figure out maybe this is the bigger story, but The Biden DOJ has just criminally charged a witness against the Joe Biden family.
00:01:50.000 So, take that for what you will.
00:01:53.000 Okay, yeah, we're gonna talk about that.
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00:03:09.000 Joining us tonight to discuss this and a whole lot more is Rep.
00:03:12.000 Thomas Massey.
00:03:14.000 How are you doing, Tim?
00:03:15.000 I'm doing great.
00:03:15.000 How are you?
00:03:16.000 A little bit depressed.
00:03:18.000 Rough week in Congress.
00:03:20.000 I was going to be here tomorrow night, but they called off the Congress this week.
00:03:26.000 Because we were supposed to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act so that the government would have to get a warrant to spy on you.
00:03:35.000 But some folks blew all that up this week.
00:03:37.000 They didn't want to have the vote because they sensed that Congress was going to be constitutional this week.
00:03:43.000 So they just terminated.
00:03:44.000 Well, you said it was a, you know, a rough week.
00:03:48.000 And I was thinking, I'd imagine every time you go there, it's rough.
00:03:52.000 I couldn't imagine it.
00:03:53.000 It's like, you know, walking in the door knowing somebody's going to swing a 2x4 and hit you in the forehead.
00:03:59.000 And you could get excited about that for a couple weeks, but after 10 years of getting hit with the 2x4, it gets a little tiresome.
00:04:07.000 I think we definitely got to talk about what's going on in Congress.
00:04:10.000 There's too much to say right now in the intro, so thank you for hanging out, and we'll get to all that.
00:04:10.000 Yeah.
00:04:14.000 We got Hannah-Claire Brimlow hanging out.
00:04:15.000 Hey, I'm Hannah-Claire Brimlow.
00:04:16.000 I'm a writer for scnr.com.
00:04:18.000 That's Scanner News.
00:04:19.000 I'm really happy to be here with everyone tonight.
00:04:20.000 Phil's here too.
00:04:21.000 Hello, everybody.
00:04:22.000 My name is Phil Labonte.
00:04:23.000 I am the lead singer of the heavy metal band All That Remains, anti-communist and counter-resolutionary.
00:04:28.000 Counter-resolutionary?
00:04:30.000 I stumbled a little bit.
00:04:31.000 I'm a little nervous because my hero Thomas Massie is here.
00:04:31.000 I like how you said that.
00:04:34.000 Thomas Massie is the most based member of Congress.
00:04:36.000 I don't care what Grok says.
00:04:37.000 Absolutely.
00:04:38.000 I'm going to take this opportunity to crack my drink.
00:04:40.000 We asked Grok, and it was a toss-up between, we asked who was the most based member of Congress, and it said Thomas Massie, Ana Paulina Luna, or Matt Gaetz.
00:04:49.000 And then, you know, we were like, no, no, no, don't don't give us the list.
00:04:52.000 Tell us who is the person.
00:04:54.000 And unfortunately, it's at Ana Paulina Luna.
00:04:57.000 You know what I like is when I ask it, it says it's me.
00:05:00.000 So it's clearly trying to flatter me or influence Congress.
00:05:05.000 You know what it's doing?
00:05:07.000 It's telling you that you're doing a good job to keep it up.
00:05:09.000 That's exactly what it is.
00:05:10.000 You know what's going to happen is there's going to be a bill introduced to ban grok and Tom's going to be like, no, no!
00:05:15.000 We must keep it!
00:05:17.000 We also have Bucko in the house.
00:05:18.000 I don't know if he's in the shot at the moment.
00:05:20.000 He's chilling over here.
00:05:21.000 He's sulking at me because I wouldn't let him climb into the Congressman's lap.
00:05:23.000 He wants to sit with our guests.
00:05:25.000 Now he's zenning out.
00:05:26.000 All right, dude, go for it.
00:05:28.000 Yeah, he's there.
00:05:29.000 I'm here too, guys, as usual.
00:05:31.000 I'm ready for the show when you are.
00:05:32.000 Here we go.
00:05:33.000 This is the crazy story.
00:05:35.000 I don't know about you guys, but I was glued to this testimony all day watching.
00:05:39.000 It was very entertaining.
00:05:41.000 So this is Fannie Willis.
00:05:43.000 She's the DA in Georgia.
00:05:45.000 She's the one who brought these charges against Donald Trump and basically everybody else.
00:05:50.000 Now it's found out that basically it is believed she lied on government forums about a relationship she was having, funds she was receiving, she's basically funneling money to her boyfriend.
00:06:02.000 It is a major scandal and even MSNBC has this viral clip where they're saying she's probably going to get disqualified.
00:06:09.000 I think it's worse than that.
00:06:10.000 Many people are saying that she appears to have admitted to many different felonies trying to stumble over and cover up the potential crimes she's being accused of now.
00:06:20.000 The wild thing about this case... I don't know, did you guys watch it?
00:06:23.000 I watched about 10 minutes of it, or 15 minutes of it.
00:06:26.000 I was watching the testimony, and then I also watched some Fox News, and I forgot the host's name, but she's a former... I think she's a judge.
00:06:36.000 Fannie Willis is yelling at the lawyers.
00:06:39.000 She's refusing to answer questions.
00:06:42.000 Man, you needed a bowl of popcorn, alright?
00:06:44.000 Because this is how the trial would go.
00:06:46.000 They would ask something like, did Mr. Wade ever spend the night with you?
00:06:52.000 Spend?
00:06:54.000 Like, what does it mean to spend?
00:06:56.000 Did he ever stay with you?
00:06:59.000 Stay?
00:07:00.000 Well, I don't know if I would call it staying.
00:07:02.000 Okay.
00:07:03.000 And then it finally got to the point where the lawyer's like, did he ever visit the place where you lay your head?
00:07:08.000 And I'm like, where's the judge to be like, stop, what are you doing?
00:07:12.000 Did you ever have a conversation with him?
00:07:14.000 And she's like, I didn't have a substantive conversation with him.
00:07:17.000 It depends on what the meaning of the word is, is.
00:07:21.000 And Thomas Massey knows exactly what I'm talking about.
00:07:24.000 This is 100% the playbook that Bill Clinton was using when he was being, when the investigation for Monica Lewinsky was going on.
00:07:33.000 No, my favorite part of all of this was when they're asking her they asked both of them to like define the timeline of the relationship and both of them are like vaguely we started dating at this time we can say but he says the relationship ends like in June and she says it ends in August and she's like well he's a man he would say that.
00:07:48.000 We had the toughest conversation.
00:07:50.000 Right after this, she's going to start a relationship podcast and lead us all into a stray.
00:07:54.000 She's like, he's a man.
00:07:55.000 So when it stopped getting physical, he said it was over.
00:07:56.000 But for me, it's a bit different.
00:07:58.000 Yeah.
00:07:58.000 So basically, what this means is, let me pull this up to give everybody the context as we get into this.
00:08:04.000 This is the Georgia election racketeering prosecution, the state of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump et al, pending criminal case.
00:08:11.000 I have to imagine that following this testimony and this scandal, you are going to have every defendant, well, at least the ones who didn't plead guilty and then go crying on TV after funneling away hundreds of thousands of dollars, they're going to be filing challenges saying, like, this is malicious prosecution, it's got to be thrown out.
00:08:29.000 This is an absolutely wild case to hear.
00:08:33.000 If she does not get removed and criminally charged, I would not be surprised.
00:08:39.000 But even if she gets removed, it's like, we'll be lucky to see any actual accountability in terms of any of this.
00:08:46.000 If she gets removed, what happens with the case that she had been prosecuting?
00:08:50.000 I think they'd have to remove both her and the lead prosecutor.
00:08:53.000 Do they need to just call the case like a mistrial and start over?
00:08:56.000 Or do they just swap someone in?
00:08:58.000 I don't know.
00:09:01.000 They'd have to ask a lawyer.
00:09:03.000 I don't think they can swap anyone in, right?
00:09:04.000 I mean, she's the one who brought the charges.
00:09:05.000 I am not a lawyer.
00:09:06.000 I am not from Georgia.
00:09:07.000 I don't know how any of this works.
00:09:08.000 But to a certain extent, you know, the trial is ongoing.
00:09:12.000 I think the closest thing to do is get a mistrial.
00:09:14.000 I don't know if that exempts him.
00:09:15.000 But it's not going to exonerate him from this charge.
00:09:20.000 Unfortunately.
00:09:21.000 And they'll sell it as, well, crazy MAGA whoever went after poor Fannie Willis, who's just trying to live life and have an undefined relationship with this man while she collects money from her campaign.
00:09:31.000 Ultimately, it's not going to be the same thing as clearing Trump's name.
00:09:36.000 Let me play this clip for you.
00:09:38.000 This video is going insanely viral.
00:09:40.000 Everybody's reposting it.
00:09:41.000 it. This is MSNBC that you're hearing. It's it's so legalistic centric and yet so
00:09:48.000 important and fascinating. Right. Don't let the legalese fool you. This is epic. This is
00:09:53.000 monumental. If things are going in the direction we think Fannie Willis lied to the court, it's
00:10:00.000 game over for her. She will be disqualified if they had a relationship prior to when they
00:10:05.000 represented to the court. It's a huge deal. I can't overstate it.
00:10:10.000 And do you feel the same way, Charles, based on the testimony of what we just heard?
00:10:17.000 Alright, so that was right before he was about to testify.
00:10:22.000 So, let me slow down.
00:10:24.000 There's so much to go through here, and let me just state it this way.
00:10:27.000 I don't know, we have this article, we can see what the New York Times says will happen next.
00:10:31.000 So basically, she may have chosen her boyfriend to run this case, giving him a bunch of money.
00:10:39.000 At question is, did she receive, there's like several questions, one of them is, she filled out a form saying she did not receive any gifts from prohibited persons.
00:10:48.000 And that would be anything valued $100 or more from a variety of individuals, but personal relationships, you know, sexual or romantic relationships are included in that.
00:10:57.000 And she said no.
00:10:59.000 When asked, she said, well, it's because those lavish vacations that are on record on credit cards with credit card statements and all the information proving it, we paid that all back.
00:11:10.000 I paid that all back in cash that I just happened to have lying around.
00:11:14.000 And then Hilarity ensues as there's numerous questions about, how do you have this cash lying around?
00:11:20.000 You're going to Belize with thousands of dollars, and nobody believes it.
00:11:25.000 It is the perfect, it is their only excuse.
00:11:28.000 Otherwise, she's basically caught having committed serious crimes.
00:11:32.000 So now, we have this trial, and I guess the question will be, is the judge going to be honest and hold her to account?
00:11:41.000 I think it's worrisome that she was acting up to an insane degree on the stand, insulting the lawyers, refusing to answer questions.
00:11:53.000 When she was asked whether or not Nathan Wade had ever stayed at her residence, she goes, my residence?
00:11:59.000 No.
00:12:00.000 And like, any place you live.
00:12:02.000 Any place I live?
00:12:03.000 I only lived one place.
00:12:04.000 You owned multiple properties, but I only lived in one of them.
00:12:07.000 Did he ever stay at any property you owned?
00:12:10.000 That I own?
00:12:12.000 Stay?
00:12:13.000 What do you mean?
00:12:14.000 I don't understand the question.
00:12:15.000 And that was for like a half an hour straight.
00:12:18.000 It reminds me of when you read about people who are, like, true, they're a narcissistic personality disorder.
00:12:23.000 Like, she's thinking she can outsmart any lawyer there by just kind of weaseling her way out of the world.
00:12:28.000 Words.
00:12:29.000 It just also reminds me of when Bob Mendez got charged with his most recent scandal and they asked him why you have all this cash on hand.
00:12:36.000 He's like, well, as the child of immigrants, you know, this is just something we do because things don't always feel secure.
00:12:41.000 Like, there was always a spin that you're sort of not supposed to question.
00:12:44.000 And that's kind of what I'm waiting for now, like, for her to be like, Well, the reason this relationship and the way acted was okay is because insert insane reason here.
00:12:53.000 The New York Times says that if she is disqualified, the case would be reassigned to another Georgia prosecutor, who would then have the ability to continue the case exactly as is or make major changes, such as adding or dropping charges or defendants, or even drop the case altogether.
00:13:09.000 The decision to drop the case would end the prosecution of Mr. Trump and his allies for their actions in Georgia after the 2020 election, when the former president sought to overturn his loss in the state.
00:13:17.000 It would be up to a state entity called the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia to find someone else to take up the case.
00:13:22.000 More specifically, the decision would fall to the council's executive director, Pete Scandalakis.
00:13:28.000 What a name.
00:13:28.000 His last name is Scandal?
00:13:30.000 Scandalakis.
00:13:30.000 Scandalakis.
00:13:32.000 Or we can call it Scandalicus.
00:13:33.000 Don't judge a man by his name.
00:13:35.000 No.
00:13:35.000 Scandalicus is way better.
00:13:36.000 Scandalicus.
00:13:37.000 In an interview on Wednesday, he said that he could ask a prosecutor to take on Trump's case voluntarily, but he could also appoint a prosecutor to do the job, whether that prosecutor wanted to or not.
00:13:46.000 This is crazy.
00:13:47.000 That's the current state of politics in this country.
00:13:50.000 These people are corrupt.
00:13:52.000 I think, you know, I'll put it simply.
00:13:53.000 They're as corrupt as you imagine they could be.
00:13:58.000 And they... I feel like they're going to get away with it.
00:14:02.000 I don't think Fonny.
00:14:03.000 It's Fonny, I think.
00:14:04.000 Yeah, even if she gets disqualified, so what?
00:14:07.000 Yeah, but if she used, um, if she took gifts, that's a big deal.
00:14:13.000 And if she, uh, if she paid him back with money, cash that she'd received from previous campaigns, I think she actually said that on the stand, that she had cash left over from, like, old campaign donations, which is also illegal, and that no one really pressed her on it when she said it, but she said it.
00:14:29.000 Well, she didn't say that.
00:14:30.000 What did she say?
00:14:31.000 She took cash out from her bank.
00:14:33.000 We'll get to that in a bit.
00:14:35.000 I mean, because that's a whole thing that has to be broken down.
00:14:37.000 Because everyone's accusing her of having committed a felony.
00:14:41.000 Do you think there's going to be another prosecutor that wants to be assigned to this case?
00:14:44.000 I mean, if it comes to that, is there someone or are they going to be like, no, I've got skeletons in my closet.
00:14:48.000 Like, I don't want any media.
00:14:50.000 This case is such a lightning rod for media attention.
00:14:53.000 People, people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.
00:14:55.000 Right.
00:14:56.000 And looks like she was in a glass house.
00:14:58.000 We don't know which residence that was and whether Wade stayed there or not.
00:15:02.000 Define stayed and Wade.
00:15:04.000 It's definitely glass and it's breaking.
00:15:08.000 I mean most of the... Trump's also going to... His effort to stop the hush money payment trial in New York is advancing.
00:15:16.000 I just... I have no idea what we can expect to happen in November.
00:15:21.000 It's fine, it keeps the plotline alive.
00:15:24.000 I suppose maybe we're crafting it as we go.
00:15:26.000 Sure thing, I suppose.
00:15:28.000 But let's jump to this.
00:15:29.000 So this is the story that's a more inner component of this.
00:15:33.000 Did Fanny Willis admit to committing a felony on the stand, or a series of them?
00:15:39.000 In this clip that's going viral, several people are reposting it.
00:15:43.000 When asked how she had the cash to pay back her boyfriend for these lavish trips, she said that, you know, when you go to the grocery store, you have 50 bucks lying around, you just keep the cash.
00:15:54.000 My dad always told me to keep money, and I didn't.
00:15:56.000 You know, if he found out how little money I'd have, he'd be mad at me, actually.
00:16:00.000 She says she has around $9,000 lying around at any given moment.
00:16:03.000 And she said that what happened was, When she took out large amounts of money from her first campaign, she kept that.
00:16:11.000 She then quickly moves on.
00:16:13.000 Now, many people are pointing out that is a very serious crime, because not only is she saying she took out money from her campaign to keep for cash, she then used that to pay her boyfriend, who was buying her lavish vacations, and she was paying it back.
00:16:28.000 Which sounds like very serious criminal territory, but there is some nuance.
00:16:32.000 Let me play the clip for you, and you can hear from her what she said.
00:16:36.000 But I always have cash at the house.
00:16:39.000 That has been, I don't know, all my life.
00:16:43.000 If you're a woman and you go on a date with a man, you better have $200 in your pocket.
00:16:47.000 So if that man acts up, you can go where you want to go.
00:16:49.000 So I keep cash in my house.
00:16:51.000 And I don't keep cash as good in my purse like I used to, because I don't go on many dates.
00:16:57.000 But when you go on a date, you should have cash in your pocket.
00:17:00.000 So my question was, where did that cash originally come from?
00:17:03.000 I'd just like to point out, she was asked where did the cash come from, and then she went on this diatribe about going out with guys and having to have cash because they could act a fool or whatever.
00:17:12.000 She was accused several times of filibustering, that she's trying to pat her her way through not answering these questions, and so here's... She also says... I mean, my dad also gave me the advice, like, when you go out with a guy, bring cash, make sure you have a way to, like, pay or leave or do whatever, but That doesn't account for I left it at my house and it's $9,000.
00:17:31.000 Like, this dating podcast is whack.
00:17:34.000 There's no record of any of the money.
00:17:36.000 There's no receipts or withdrawal statements.
00:17:38.000 It's just there.
00:17:38.000 But here's what she goes on to say.
00:17:40.000 It came out of the bank.
00:17:41.000 Cash is fungible.
00:17:43.000 I had cash for years in my house.
00:17:46.000 So for me to tell you the source of when it comes from, When you go to Publix and you buy something, you get $50, you throw it in there.
00:17:52.000 It's been my whole life.
00:17:54.000 When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that.
00:17:58.000 Like, to tell you, I just have cash in my house.
00:18:02.000 I don't have as much today as I would normally have, but I'm building back up now.
00:18:08.000 So you just put money in.
00:18:09.000 It's a very good practice.
00:18:10.000 I would advise it to all women.
00:18:12.000 So you can't identify when you came into this cash or where the cash came from?
00:18:16.000 I didn't say I couldn't identify it.
00:18:18.000 Nobody gives me anything.
00:18:20.000 I am sure that the source of the money is always the work, sweat, and tears of me.
00:18:25.000 What you asked me before is, when did the money go in there?
00:18:29.000 What I am trying to tell you is, so I got divorced in 2005 from my husband.
00:18:34.000 No, no, no.
00:18:35.000 It's important to say where the money comes from and I need to tell you where the money comes from.
00:18:38.000 This is very much out of the Vladimir Putin playbook.
00:18:40.000 The history of Russia.
00:18:42.000 I'm enjoying this, honestly.
00:18:43.000 This is really good TV.
00:18:45.000 It's like Putin slash man-hating feminism.
00:18:47.000 She's like, well, I got divorced and men have wronged me, so stop asking me where the cash is coming from.
00:18:52.000 If your lawyer and the witness stops you and goes, no, no, no, don't you just turn to the judge and request to treat them as hostile?
00:19:00.000 Yes.
00:19:01.000 And they did not do that.
00:19:02.000 Well, this is the part, too, where she said, I took a lot of money out for the campaign and kept it.
00:19:09.000 Now the question is, what did she mean?
00:19:11.000 The most charitable interpretation of that is, she went to the bank, she took a lot of money out, and she put some of it in her campaign, and some of it in her pocket.
00:19:21.000 But why would you take it all out in cash if you're going to give it to your campaign?
00:19:25.000 That's not how... you don't give your campaign cash.
00:19:28.000 Let me play that again, we can hear exactly what she said.
00:19:32.000 I just have cash in my house.
00:19:33.000 I don't have as much today as I would normally have.
00:19:37.000 Where did you say it was, back here?
00:19:39.000 How much cash does she normally have in her house?
00:19:42.000 When you go to Publix and you buy something, you get $50, you throw it in there.
00:19:46.000 It's been my whole life.
00:19:47.000 When I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, I kept some of the cash of that.
00:19:54.000 I took out a large amount of money on my first campaign, she said.
00:19:58.000 So what does that mean, on her first campaign?
00:20:01.000 So this is an important distinction.
00:20:03.000 Stephen Fowler of NPR says, Willis says elsewhere in the hearing, when I ran for judge, I took $50,000 of my personal money out of my retirement, and that money ended up being lost.
00:20:13.000 According to her records, he says in her failed judicial run, she loaned herself $49,000 and only paid back $8,500.
00:20:21.000 Before terminating that campaign, running out of money, she then ran for DA a few years later.
00:20:26.000 However, I will add, it's not surprising that we're immediately going to get some kind of justification for what she did, how she did it, and how it makes sense.
00:20:34.000 I don't think that actually changes the fact that we don't know the full context of what she did when she said she did it.
00:20:41.000 Stephen Fowler is presenting a plausible reason that could make sense, and in his charitable interpretation, she took out $50,000 in cash from her bank, kept a large portion of it, and then put the rest into her campaign.
00:20:54.000 But you're saying it's not normal for people to put cash into a campaign?
00:20:57.000 You do it with a check or something?
00:20:59.000 No, you would do it with a wire transfer.
00:21:01.000 But maybe, I'm trying to be super charitable here, maybe she means I put $49,000 or $50,000 in there, and then when I paid myself back, I just cashed those checks.
00:21:14.000 Maybe that's what she means when she got the $7,000 or $8,000.
00:21:17.000 And perhaps, I think either way, considering everything else she said, she should be investigated.
00:21:23.000 I also don't believe her.
00:21:25.000 At all.
00:21:26.000 Like, the idea that she says, when my campaign's over, what's the smartest thing I can do?
00:21:31.000 I would like $10,000 in cash, please.
00:21:34.000 Look, she's gotten divorced recently.
00:21:36.000 She's got to keep cash on hand.
00:21:38.000 This is a completely ridiculous argument to me.
00:21:40.000 I don't know how much stock you want to put in it, but the fact that she's leaning away and touching her face is typically considered, like, deceptive body language.
00:21:45.000 So there's obviously something weird in the fact that she won't just say, like, ah, yes, I cashed that one check and that's why I have this here.
00:21:51.000 Like, Trying to make it so she can later say, oh, well, I went to Publix a lot, so that's how I built up $9,000.
00:21:58.000 It doesn't make sense.
00:21:59.000 Because she can't remember where it came from, because it's a lie, she's got to keep it open-ended.
00:22:03.000 200 trips?
00:22:05.000 Of her whole life!
00:22:06.000 And she doesn't go on dates anymore.
00:22:07.000 She goes every day.
00:22:08.000 She goes every work day to Publix and she comes back with $50 in cash.
00:22:11.000 She goes to the salad bar and comes back with $50.
00:22:12.000 Very reasonable.
00:22:13.000 I think if she pays $100 bills and takes the change and puts it in her piggy bank.
00:22:16.000 If she paid her boyfriend back with cash and there's no receipt, then legally, she didn't pay him back.
00:22:22.000 Just them saying that that happened isn't a legal justification.
00:22:26.000 If there's no receipt, then it didn't happen in the court.
00:22:29.000 Maybe there's testimony?
00:22:30.000 I wonder, look, in the criminal element of this, She received a gift and then lied on an election form.
00:22:36.000 So there's a series of crimes that were likely... laws that were likely violated in that case.
00:22:42.000 We can prove, for a fact, based on credit card statements, they went on these vacations, the tickets were purchased for her.
00:22:50.000 There is no evidence she actually paid any of it back.
00:22:52.000 How would that work in a criminal case?
00:22:56.000 It is interesting because you do have, there is potential reasonable doubt.
00:23:01.000 You do have the ability to have cash and pay someone back with it.
00:23:04.000 That being said, if I was on a jury stand, Or, you know, at a trial.
00:23:09.000 And someone said, I did not receive a gift from the gentleman.
00:23:12.000 I paid him back in cash.
00:23:14.000 I would say, nice try, dude.
00:23:15.000 That's like $3,000 in cash you'd have to pay back.
00:23:18.000 I don't buy it.
00:23:19.000 This is reminiscent of some of the Biden claims that these were just loans, you know, when they see a transfer and they say, oh, I was paying back a loan.
00:23:27.000 And but there's no evidence of the loan because the loan presumably How much was it in that case?
00:23:27.000 Yep.
00:23:33.000 There was that car couple.
00:23:34.000 What was it?
00:23:35.000 The car loan or something?
00:23:36.000 I want to say $200,000, but I don't know exactly.
00:23:39.000 I think that's what it was roughly.
00:23:40.000 I don't know the situation.
00:23:41.000 What's the Biden loan situation?
00:23:43.000 Well, they said, why did you give him $200,000 or whatever the number was?
00:23:46.000 Like $164,000 or something?
00:23:50.000 Hunter had loaned the money to Joe, was the story, and Joe was paying the money back to Hunter?
00:23:56.000 Am I recalling correctly?
00:23:57.000 I think this one was less than that.
00:23:58.000 I think that was the story.
00:23:59.000 Why would Joe Biden need a loan?
00:24:03.000 Isn't he super rich?
00:24:04.000 I'm not saying whether that really happened or not, I'm just saying this is where they go.
00:24:10.000 They say, oh, it was a loan, and we were paying back a loan, and part of this deal was in cash, and so you can't track the ledger.
00:24:17.000 Right.
00:24:18.000 Half of it's not in cash, half of it we have a receipt for, and half of it- Look, can you criminally convict someone for not having a receipt?
00:24:24.000 You know what I mean?
00:24:25.000 That's- that's the challenge.
00:24:26.000 So it seems extremely likely that Fannie Will has lied over and over and over again, but this is why perjury charges almost never- never, uh, happen.
00:24:34.000 It's- it- it- I gotta tell you, like, she knows what she's doing, okay?
00:24:39.000 Someone says to me, like, did you ever order, uh, Papa John's to your house?
00:24:45.000 No.
00:24:46.000 I was gonna say, but I have a receipt here for 10 Papa John's pizzas.
00:24:49.000 Actually, we ordered a ton on Fat Tuesday, because it's Fat Tuesday, we had to order pizza.
00:24:52.000 And, uh, I wanted to order pancakes, but we were too late, so we got pizzas instead.
00:24:56.000 But they're gonna be like, I see here that several pizzas were delivered to an address.
00:25:00.000 Is this not your address?
00:25:01.000 I'm like, oh, that is my address.
00:25:02.000 It's not my house, though.
00:25:03.000 Is it a house?
00:25:04.000 It is.
00:25:05.000 Do you live there?
00:25:06.000 I do not.
00:25:07.000 So it is not your house?
00:25:08.000 Well, it's an office.
00:25:09.000 Okay, have you ever had pizzas delivered to your office?
00:25:12.000 No.
00:25:13.000 Didn't you just say, well that's not my office, it's a office!
00:25:16.000 So no matter what you do, no matter how the question's asked, you can give whatever answer you want, and they can't charge you with lying because for the most, they rarely can, because for the most part it's just, this is where I got to the point where she was asked, did he ever come to a place where you laid your head?
00:25:32.000 It's like, I'm sitting here thinking, these lawyers don't know how to ask these questions.
00:25:36.000 Eventually, one good lawyer got up and seemed to know how to ask her questions, and then the judge stopped him.
00:25:42.000 Yeah, because if you ask her, did he ever stay at your house, and she says no, then you say, okay, he never stayed at your residence.
00:25:50.000 And then you just clarify, he never did it, and then you move on.
00:25:53.000 And if it's found out later that he did, she's the liar, she perjured herself.
00:25:56.000 Rather than be like, are you sure you're telling me the truth?
00:25:56.000 No, she didn't.
00:25:59.000 Are you sure you want to rephrase it?
00:26:01.000 Don't give her a chance to rephrase it.
00:26:02.000 It's not about rephrasing.
00:26:03.000 It's that you can't bring perjury charges because they'll say, when asked if he stayed at her residence, she said no.
00:26:08.000 And she'll be like, well, yeah.
00:26:10.000 I mean, he came over for a few hours one time, but I wouldn't call it staying there.
00:26:13.000 But it is staying there.
00:26:13.000 When someone stays there, it's like for a week or two.
00:26:15.000 No, it's an interpretation.
00:26:16.000 It's an opinion on a statement.
00:26:18.000 When you say, my friend's coming to stay with me, you might mean for a month or two or three.
00:26:22.000 This is actually something a thing that happens in law frequently and it's it's something that they have historically covered with a reasonable person would say and that's really nowadays that is becoming harder and harder to kind of narrow down what a reasonable person to say but would say but that is something that if you look at laws there are laws all over the place where reasonable people is the standard and nowadays no one's fucking reasonable!
00:26:51.000 You know what I would do if I was a lawyer in this case, guys?
00:26:53.000 Right?
00:26:54.000 You're right.
00:26:54.000 Am I right?
00:26:55.000 You wanna know what my first question would be?
00:26:56.000 Hyperbolically, yeah.
00:26:57.000 I would say, uh, Dia Willis, uh, thank you for your time, uh, my first question is, is Nathan Waite a man?
00:27:04.000 She can't say.
00:27:05.000 Why would you assume someone's gender?
00:27:07.000 That's it.
00:27:08.000 They'd be like, what's the purpose?
00:27:09.000 Roland Lang Foundation for questions about a relationship.
00:27:11.000 Is he a man?
00:27:12.000 How would you define man?
00:27:13.000 You need to get an expert.
00:27:15.000 Which is ridiculous.
00:27:16.000 Ridiculous. I don't care what it is. Anytime I get an opportunity to have some leftist on a trial under oath
00:27:21.000 I'm going to ask them that question. Are you a man or a woman?
00:27:24.000 Okay, how would you define how do you are you sure? How do you know?
00:27:28.000 I mean exactly and this is something that we were, you know talking about earlier
00:27:32.000 It's a frustrating thing because the the means we have to manage the government as the population
00:27:39.000 The government is currently shrinking to the best of their ability and we're forced to accept
00:27:46.000 things like a Standard that we have managed to use
00:27:50.000 Reliably for 250 years now we can no longer use which is again the reasonability standard
00:27:56.000 And it's because of things that are actually unreasonable.
00:28:00.000 We have a Supreme Court justice That doesn't know, will not answer what a man or a woman is.
00:28:06.000 Refuses to, and we allowed that to stand.
00:28:09.000 That's the problem.
00:28:10.000 We should have, someone should have stood up in Congress or in the Senate and said, no, we're not going to let this happen.
00:28:17.000 You cannot be on the court if you will not be, if you refuse to judge what a woman or a man is.
00:28:24.000 And no one stood up and did it and they did it because they were afraid they'd be called names.
00:28:27.000 I want to jump to this story.
00:28:29.000 Which is about the deep-seated corruption in our government.
00:28:33.000 Biden DOJ arrests former FBI informant who said Biden took bribes from Ukrainian energy company from the post-millennial.
00:28:40.000 I can simplify this for you.
00:28:42.000 The Biden Department of Justice has arrested a witness against Joe Biden.
00:28:47.000 I mean, what do you do?
00:28:50.000 Who's the name of this guy?
00:28:51.000 So this is funny.
00:28:52.000 It's funny.
00:28:53.000 This is, um, former FBI informant Alexander Smirnoff, 43, arrested Thursday.
00:28:59.000 You know what's funny about this?
00:29:00.000 And you know why I don't believe it for two seconds?
00:29:03.000 So this guy's a whistleblower accusing the Bidens of taking bribes.
00:29:06.000 CNN has already called it, what do they call it, the now debunked?
00:29:10.000 Or, uh, what did they say?
00:29:12.000 Here we go.
00:29:13.000 They say special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant with lying about President
00:29:16.000 Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden's involvement in business dealings with the Ukraine Energy
00:29:19.000 Company.
00:29:20.000 Smirnov offends charges of connection with lying, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:23.000 Here we go.
00:29:24.000 Congressional Republicans have championed Smirnov's now discredited allegations.
00:29:30.000 CNN is reporting it because of an indictment that proves the whistleblower is a liar and
00:29:36.000 his claims have been discredited.
00:29:37.000 There's been no trial.
00:29:39.000 There's been no adjudication.
00:29:40.000 Quite literally, all that has happened is Biden's DOJ has arrested the man accusing Biden of committing a crime.
00:29:46.000 And CNN goes, oh, well, that proves it.
00:29:49.000 Who did who did they arrest for the Russian hoax?
00:29:52.000 No one.
00:29:52.000 Kevin Clinesmith.
00:29:55.000 Kevin Kleinsmith?
00:29:56.000 Kevin Kleinsmith.
00:29:57.000 The FBI lawyer who fabricated the email to get a false visa warrant.
00:29:57.000 Yeah.
00:30:00.000 No, no, no.
00:30:01.000 He didn't get arrested.
00:30:02.000 He got a slap on the wrist.
00:30:03.000 Well, he got arrested.
00:30:04.000 Yeah.
00:30:05.000 And he got criminally charged and he got probation.
00:30:06.000 He didn't go to prison!
00:30:08.000 Yeah.
00:30:09.000 That's a difference!
00:30:10.000 But he did something different than in this case.
00:30:13.000 He lied to a judge, he lied to a court, he falsified a document, correct?
00:30:18.000 Oh yeah, he should be in prison.
00:30:20.000 So, but my question is like, you know, you had these characters like Joseph Misfud, who just disappears into the ether, who was feeding this information to the FBI and to the U.S.
00:30:31.000 government that turned out to be a hoax.
00:30:34.000 Or the guy that compiled the dossier, did he ever go to jail?
00:30:38.000 The Steele?
00:30:39.000 He's British.
00:30:41.000 Christopher Steele?
00:30:42.000 Is Smirnoff?
00:30:43.000 That's true, fair point.
00:30:44.000 I assume he's not American.
00:30:45.000 Yeah, he's not American either.
00:30:47.000 Julian Assange is in jail, he's not American.
00:30:50.000 Well, it seems to me that there is a criminal conspiracy currently underway within the United States government.
00:30:57.000 The reporting from Michael Schellenberger and Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi has been rather revealing.
00:31:03.000 Have you seen that stuff?
00:31:05.000 I haven't seen what came out today.
00:31:06.000 So it's a story from yesterday.
00:31:08.000 So I think today one did come out.
00:31:10.000 This is the final chapter in the story.
00:31:11.000 But there's allegedly this binder.
00:31:13.000 Oh yeah, I've seen this.
00:31:14.000 It has information pertaining to the start of the Russiagate hoax and the Crossfire Hurricane, basically the conspiracy to overthrow the United States government, as I would describe it.
00:31:22.000 And the question is, who has it?
00:31:25.000 Some argue that Donald Trump took it, or someone in his administration took it, and that's why they raided his home.
00:31:30.000 They're desperately trying to find it, because it's evidence.
00:31:32.000 However, one source told Michael Schellenberger, in fact, they have it hidden themselves, because they don't want it to get out.
00:31:40.000 So if anyone requests it, there's a FOIA or anything, they're like, we don't have it.
00:31:42.000 Why wouldn't they just burn it?
00:31:48.000 I mean, why did they write an article called the shadow campaign to save the 2020 election?
00:31:53.000 And I'll mention this too because we're kind of all over the place right now, but if you think 2020 was a shadow campaign.
00:32:02.000 You better damn well believe there's a shadow campaign going on right now instead of the 2024 election.
00:32:05.000 What I think is happening, this is my bird's eye view hypothesis, is that we're transitioning from our liberal economic order, our 80 year old order, to this new world order and that there's people trying to facilitate that and they're willing to commit crimes in order to make that happen and at the same time cover up the crimes that they've been committing to make this happen.
00:32:23.000 Like, creating new crimes.
00:32:24.000 No, I kind of agree with you, but I think you're wrong.
00:32:27.000 I think we're transitioning from a liberal economic order into a communist utopia.
00:32:32.000 That, unfortunately, may be the new world order if we don't do it right.
00:32:36.000 This would be the first time it's ever been tried, in fact.
00:32:39.000 That's where we're currently at.
00:32:40.000 You know, utopia is supposed to be spelled E-U.
00:32:42.000 That means good place.
00:32:44.000 Utopia, with an E. The letter U, that's just Thomas, whoever wrote the book.
00:32:48.000 Sir Thomas More?
00:32:49.000 Yeah, Thomas More wrote that, and it's actually a very dystopian place in his book.
00:32:52.000 Yes, the EU is also a dystopian place.
00:32:54.000 EU-topia.
00:32:56.000 EU-topia.
00:32:57.000 It does feel like the US government's been hijacked by global banking industries and they're just selling us out and moving us towards this new corporate governance.
00:33:04.000 Well, I don't know.
00:33:05.000 You work with these people.
00:33:06.000 What do you think?
00:33:08.000 We're transitioning.
00:33:10.000 I mean, the whole term disinformation, for instance, you have to control the information to set up this new alternate reality, this utopia.
00:33:19.000 And we know they're doing it.
00:33:21.000 Like, you know, on the Weaponization Committee, I've sat there, I've looked at the documents, the communications from the White House to the social media companies where they're trying to control all of this and all of the elements of a dystopian future.
00:33:36.000 Are there?
00:33:37.000 How come the Republicans are so bad at everything?
00:33:40.000 Which part do you want to get into?
00:33:42.000 There may be different reasons.
00:33:45.000 What's making you most depressed right now?
00:33:46.000 Yeah, there you go.
00:33:47.000 That's a good place to start.
00:33:48.000 Let's talk about you being depressed.
00:33:49.000 Welcome to Grimcast.
00:33:50.000 You're wearing a national debt tracker.
00:33:54.000 Yes, I built this.
00:33:55.000 By the way, it's an anxiety generator.
00:33:59.000 Do you feel like you have a bomb strapped to your trash chest?
00:34:01.000 Yes, yeah.
00:34:02.000 Now hold on, hold on.
00:34:03.000 That's actually tracking the national debt, right?
00:34:05.000 Correct.
00:34:05.000 So does that mean the rate of growth will increase or decrease based on spending in Congress?
00:34:10.000 Yes.
00:34:11.000 Wow.
00:34:12.000 In fact, some people vote.
00:34:13.000 By the way, I'm wearing this on my lapel.
00:34:15.000 And I wear it every day, every moment I'm in Congress.
00:34:19.000 And now I've got members of Congress.
00:34:20.000 That's a great resolution.
00:34:21.000 They're voting and then turning and looking at my debt clock to see if their vote changed.
00:34:26.000 That's the best!
00:34:28.000 Then I had one congresswoman who couldn't stop staring at it and I had to tell her my eyes were up here.
00:34:34.000 Women are out of control.
00:34:36.000 I'm always trying to stare at a man's national debt.
00:34:38.000 No, she told me to make a belt buckle out of it.
00:34:41.000 Oh, that's a great idea.
00:34:42.000 You could have a whole line of, like, Ray-Bans, where it's just, like, along the top of the sunglasses.
00:34:42.000 Yeah, that's a good one.
00:34:47.000 Yeah.
00:34:49.000 Well, let me just finish this.
00:34:50.000 So I built this debt clock.
00:34:51.000 Like, I built it a year ago.
00:34:52.000 I wrote the code.
00:34:53.000 There's about 1,500 lines of code.
00:34:55.000 It goes to Treasury once a day, gets the actual debt to the penny, because that's as frequently as they publish it.
00:35:00.000 And then it tells you at any given moment what the closest estimation of the debt is right now.
00:35:06.000 And Tim, I brought you one.
00:35:08.000 Oh, awesome!
00:35:10.000 Right on.
00:35:11.000 It's called a debt badge.
00:35:12.000 Can people buy those?
00:35:13.000 Do they buy those from like your website or anything?
00:35:16.000 Now, I refuse to monetize the debt, so I'm not selling it.
00:35:21.000 But somebody I know is.
00:35:23.000 That's the best.
00:35:24.000 They took my design and improved it a little bit.
00:35:27.000 This is the new and improved 3D printed case.
00:35:30.000 It's nylon impact resistant.
00:35:31.000 Oh, nice.
00:35:32.000 But it's a debt badge.
00:35:33.000 You go to debtbadge.com and you can get one of these and depress yourself and never get invited back to a party.
00:35:40.000 I do enjoy going to usdebtclock.org from time to time and just watching it spin up.
00:35:44.000 And you know what?
00:35:45.000 It's inaccurate.
00:35:47.000 The DebtClock.org.
00:35:48.000 Oh, by how much and in what way?
00:35:50.000 Like, 50 billion dollars at any given time.
00:35:53.000 Some guy got one of my debt clocks and he called up and he says, this thing isn't working.
00:35:57.000 You're like, no, it's more accurate.
00:35:59.000 I'm like, this is the most accurate debt clock on the planet.
00:36:02.000 We should get a big one like that clock up there and put it next to the clock, too.
00:36:06.000 Oh, USB-C.
00:36:07.000 Yes.
00:36:07.000 He's charging it right now.
00:36:10.000 That's great resolution.
00:36:12.000 What is that?
00:36:13.000 It's 320 by 170 is the screen on this, but I also brought you a stand.
00:36:19.000 So I made out a copper roof flashing from my house.
00:36:22.000 I had some roof flashing left over.
00:36:25.000 All right.
00:36:25.000 And you just, like, I'll show you here on my deck clock.
00:36:28.000 You just clip it to that and you can set it there.
00:36:31.000 That's great.
00:36:32.000 I guarantee you I haven't put any spyware in it.
00:36:36.000 Well, I'm not going to plug it into my computer.
00:36:38.000 Defaulting on the interest would be unethical.
00:36:41.000 Is that correct?
00:36:43.000 Yeah, do the short.
00:36:44.000 Yeah, you got it.
00:36:47.000 And then it'll just sit there on your desk.
00:36:49.000 Look at that!
00:36:50.000 And you can be depressed all day.
00:36:52.000 How long does the battery last?
00:36:55.000 I've got three brightness levels.
00:36:57.000 On the dimmest level it'll last eight hours, but when you put it on Adam Schiff in the elevator with me level, because I turn it up super bright, it'll only last about three hours at the Adam Schiff blinding level.
00:37:10.000 But it's got to make a point when it's doing that.
00:37:12.000 Yes, and I love getting stuck in an elevator.
00:37:17.000 I asked you why are the Republicans so bad at everything.
00:37:20.000 Why is it that, you know, Bob Menendez can be indicted more than once, be found with, what did he have, he had gold bars, is that what it was?
00:37:28.000 Actually, gold bars with Egyptian markings on them, from the Egyptian government, likely.
00:37:33.000 And immediately it's like, well, hold on, you know, we can't expel the guy, we gotta wait.
00:37:37.000 And then George Santos has a bunch of accusations.
00:37:40.000 For being hilarious.
00:37:41.000 And charges and fair, but not convicted of anything.
00:37:44.000 And he's like, throw him out.
00:37:45.000 We have no time for this guy.
00:37:47.000 It's a crying shame.
00:37:48.000 He's the only, you know, we've had all these resolutions of censure and impeachment.
00:37:53.000 And the only person we've managed to run out of office is one of our own.
00:37:58.000 It's ridiculous.
00:37:59.000 And now we've got a small majority because of it.
00:38:02.000 For what reason did these Republicans vote to expel George Santos?
00:38:06.000 So the New York delegation did it to their own.
00:38:09.000 They brought this Resolution to throw him out of Congress on their own member because they thought he was weighing them down and he might cost them their re-election.
00:38:19.000 So they took out one New Yorker to save four.
00:38:22.000 But why did all the other Republicans join in?
00:38:25.000 Not all the other, but what, 100?
00:38:26.000 Was it 104 or 105?
00:38:29.000 Enough of them.
00:38:31.000 I can't rationalize this for them.
00:38:32.000 I didn't vote for that to get rid of him.
00:38:34.000 I mean, it's just one of the stupidest things we've ever done.
00:38:37.000 What was the conversation like?
00:38:38.000 When this was happening in the hallways, were people like, no, I think it'd be good if he left?
00:38:42.000 Or were people trying to avoid eye contact and not say what they were going to do?
00:38:47.000 They got mixed messages from our leadership.
00:38:51.000 And then when it was too late, our leadership decided they wanted to keep him.
00:38:55.000 That was McCarthy, right?
00:38:57.000 No.
00:38:57.000 Johnson?
00:38:58.000 And so people had already went out and said things about getting rid of George Santos before our leadership said what they, you know, don't do that.
00:38:58.000 Yeah.
00:39:10.000 And so people got locked into that vote.
00:39:12.000 And then by the time they realized, no, this is stupid, they were already locked in its statements in the media.
00:39:17.000 And You know, I sat down next to Santos right before the vote happened, and I said, because, I mean, he's still a human being, right?
00:39:29.000 And I said, look... A weird one, but you know, that's okay.
00:39:31.000 He's funny.
00:39:32.000 He's very personable, and frankly, he had a very conservative voting record.
00:39:32.000 Yeah.
00:39:36.000 If we understand correctly, he had one of the better voting records for conservatives in Congress.
00:39:42.000 And especially for New York.
00:39:45.000 And I sat down next to him.
00:39:46.000 I said, listen, I don't know what you did before you got here.
00:39:48.000 That's none of my business.
00:39:49.000 That's between you and your voters and a court of law.
00:39:53.000 I said, but all of my interactions with you show me that you're a decent, competent, capable man and you're going to go on to do good things, I think.
00:40:03.000 So don't get depressed today.
00:40:05.000 Because, you know, I was worried about, can you imagine, you're that guy, and you rose to that level, and then you just get kicked out one day, what do you do the next day?
00:40:13.000 I was worried he might hurt himself.
00:40:15.000 Can you turn down the brightness on your deck clock to make sure there's no other reasons to be depressed?
00:40:21.000 He actually loved my deck clock.
00:40:23.000 Are you friends with any of the guys who voted to out him?
00:40:26.000 Friends, can we define, you know, this is is, what is is?
00:40:30.000 Mike Johnson voted no.
00:40:33.000 He voted not to evict him, but he didn't sort of get out in front of this and stop it before it happened.
00:40:40.000 So Andy Barr, you know him?
00:40:44.000 I do.
00:40:45.000 I hope he loses.
00:40:46.000 How about Ken Buck?
00:40:48.000 Oh, I really hope he loses.
00:40:52.000 Dan Crenshaw.
00:40:54.000 I hope he loses.
00:40:55.000 You're naming people who voted to throw him out.
00:40:58.000 And I will stress this too.
00:41:00.000 I love making this point because people will message me all the time being like, Tim, if you're mean to these people they won't come on your show.
00:41:05.000 And I'm like, oh boy.
00:41:07.000 I will make a video where I name every single member of Congress, the Republicans, because Democrats I get.
00:41:14.000 I'm going to give a special shout-out to the Democrats.
00:41:18.000 Robert C. Scott and Nakama Williams, Virginia and Georgia, voted no!
00:41:24.000 What do they have in their closet?
00:41:27.000 Maybe they're saying something like, look, I don't like Sanders at all, we don't care for him, but this is a bad precedent.
00:41:32.000 I've got no idea.
00:41:33.000 They voted no.
00:41:34.000 That's a good point.
00:41:35.000 It is a horrible precedent.
00:41:36.000 As you pointed out, he was indicted for some stuff, but he wasn't convicted.
00:41:40.000 So now you're gonna get... I mean, we've lowered the bar so low that... My best case argument for compromise is, if someone is charged with a crime, at most what we do is, they'll be given a bail opportunity, and if no bail, they go to jail until their trial is resolved.
00:42:02.000 And that means innocent people spend time behind bars.
00:42:05.000 I am not a fan of that.
00:42:06.000 It's a difficult position to navigate, but I would err towards we should give people bond.
00:42:11.000 I would prefer house arrest.
00:42:12.000 It'd alleviate the prison systems, and then innocent people don't suffer.
00:42:16.000 Still, there's a challenge, right?
00:42:17.000 So if they came and said, okay, we're not gonna expel him, but we're gonna suspend his committees or something until the resolution of these criminal indictments, I'd say...
00:42:25.000 I don't like it, but I get it.
00:42:27.000 You know, he's been charged with a crime, same for Menendez or whatever.
00:42:29.000 Instead, they were like, nah, we're gonna remove the guy.
00:42:31.000 So, you know, the rage within me, um, you know what it is?
00:42:36.000 It's just, I'm so sick of the incompetence, disorganization, and failure to do anything,
00:42:42.000 that I really just want to see every single incumbent save, like, 15 people.
00:42:50.000 There's only a couple Democrats that I'd say, okay, you know, they can get reelected.
00:42:52.000 I don't like them, but they're allowed to disagree.
00:42:54.000 Like, um, I can't even remember the guy's name.
00:42:57.000 Uh, who's the guy that we like who's a Democrat?
00:42:59.000 He's in California.
00:43:00.000 Do you know what I'm talking about?
00:43:02.000 California?
00:43:03.000 Yep, yep, yep, California.
00:43:04.000 I can't remember his name.
00:43:05.000 I'll find it in a second.
00:43:07.000 But there's only like a small handful of Republicans I'd say should stay and each and every one of them gotta get voted out.
00:43:12.000 We gotta do something because, I mean, if the issue with Santos is that they're waiting for leadership to figure out what is the principled thing to do or the long-term benefit and they don't know, that's bad leadership.
00:43:25.000 Listen, let me tell you what the bar is on the Democrat side.
00:43:28.000 There was a federal judge who took a bribe And on the day that the person was supposed to testify against him, the guy decided not to testify.
00:43:37.000 But it was so obvious that this federal judge took the bribe that Congress impeached him.
00:43:42.000 And the vote wasn't even close.
00:43:44.000 It was like all but two or three senators.
00:43:45.000 It was almost the entire House.
00:43:47.000 His name's Alcee Hastings.
00:43:49.000 What does he do?
00:43:49.000 He turns around and runs for Congress.
00:43:52.000 He gets elected and served for over a decade.
00:43:55.000 I think he served, you know, for nearly 20 years.
00:43:58.000 I've overlapped with him.
00:43:59.000 And every, you know, you try to be nice.
00:44:01.000 Every time you're talking to him, you're like, you're the guy who got impeached by this very body for taking a bribe as a federal judge.
00:44:08.000 And now you're here and you keep getting reelected.
00:44:11.000 He's like, hey guys, what's up?
00:44:12.000 Happy to be here with you.
00:44:15.000 Was he convicted after the impeachment?
00:44:18.000 In the Senate, the Senate convicted.
00:44:20.000 So the House impeached, the Senate convicted.
00:44:22.000 He didn't do any jail time or anything.
00:44:25.000 And there's no disqualification to run for Congress being convicted of taking a bribe as a federal judge?
00:44:29.000 You could be impeached and then turn around and run for Congress.
00:44:33.000 So it was Ro Khanna.
00:44:35.000 We often find there are news stories where we're like, okay, I like that, okay.
00:44:38.000 Yes, Ro is a decent guy and he's good on privacy, First Amendment, war, anti-war.
00:44:45.000 However, he did vote to oust Santos, so I don't know if I can forgive that.
00:44:50.000 You know, he's gotta go.
00:44:52.000 You gotta vote them all out.
00:44:53.000 In fact, I mean, I gotta be honest.
00:44:55.000 Like, if they're a Democrat, you should vote them out.
00:44:58.000 That's the obvious thing.
00:44:58.000 So I don't know if that needs to be said.
00:45:00.000 I can respect and like that he's done some certain things.
00:45:02.000 And even with that being said, Ilhan Omar's had, you know, Broken Clock is right twice a day, Rashida Tlaib as well, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she's the one who started the whole January 6th was an inside job thing.
00:45:14.000 And so I have tremendous respect for her coming out, Standing up on camera and saying, police officers were helping the J6ers.
00:45:20.000 And I'm like, I'm glad you said that.
00:45:22.000 Yes, welcome to our team.
00:45:23.000 Yeah.
00:45:24.000 The thing about voting them out and expecting it to get better, I think is that, and sometimes that can happen, but a lot of people are driven by emotion.
00:45:31.000 Maybe more now than normally.
00:45:32.000 Maybe they're heightened because of the mass media manipulation.
00:45:35.000 You're right.
00:45:36.000 But if there is any member of Congress who has the engineering and scientific know-how to create a cloning machine and then clone himself and then take over Congress, it would be- We were talking before the show.
00:45:46.000 435 Thomas Massie.
00:45:47.000 We were talking about a direct representative democracy in that you would, the people would be voting.
00:45:52.000 So for the George Santos expulsion, it would be like this 750,000 people would vote yes or no.
00:45:58.000 And then whatever the majority is would go to their smart contract, yes or no.
00:46:02.000 And so there'd be the people voting through proxy for these decisions instead of like this little cabal of like 200 people that are all, they all know each other and have emotions.
00:46:12.000 Come on.
00:46:12.000 Hold on.
00:46:13.000 If you, if you put it up to a public vote, Santos is out.
00:46:15.000 I don't think so.
00:46:16.000 I don't think so, because I didn't even know who he was before that.
00:46:19.000 I mean, what would likely happen is 3% of the population would show up to vote on it, and they would all be activists.
00:46:27.000 That you're not going to mobilize conservatives for a special election.
00:46:32.000 You could.
00:46:32.000 It doesn't happen.
00:46:33.000 We could start doing that.
00:46:34.000 Because there are activists in Congress.
00:46:37.000 We talked about this.
00:46:38.000 This came up before the show started.
00:46:41.000 And Ian has mentioned this before about the people voting on bills and stuff.
00:46:44.000 And I pointed out This would create a bias towards people without jobs because they have more access, they have more time to actually go out and participate in these kinds of votes where people with jobs would be like, I'm working today, I can't do it.
00:46:55.000 You can let them do it online.
00:46:56.000 That was my vision, is that it happens online.
00:46:59.000 Can I just ask, when you're in Congress and the party is split over an issue, like, you voted against, I think, H.R.
00:47:07.000 2.
00:47:07.000 It was one of the immigration bills that came through this year and there were, like, things to end birthright or stuff like that.
00:47:11.000 Like, what is the culture that you guys have?
00:47:14.000 Because that was pretty unpopular, but you obviously have your own system of values that you were voting for.
00:47:18.000 So the problem...
00:47:21.000 With HR 2, it had E-Verify in it.
00:47:24.000 So what is HR 2?
00:47:25.000 It's a landmark immigration bill, Republicans, you know, anything HR less than 10 is a big deal.
00:47:33.000 I used to have a rule, I never vote for HR less than 10.
00:47:36.000 Because it's like some messaging bill or the lobbyists had paid to get an HR that was a single digit.
00:47:44.000 When I found out, if I was the very first person on the very first minute, the very first day of Congress, and I introduced a bill and it was HR 11, I was like, how did they do that?
00:47:56.000 Well, I'm not voting for anything less than 10.
00:47:58.000 But it's changed.
00:48:00.000 We've got some good bills.
00:48:01.000 Every part of HR 2 was great except for E-Verify.
00:48:04.000 And your objection to E-Verify is?
00:48:06.000 Oh my gosh.
00:48:08.000 It's just another layer of government to track you.
00:48:11.000 It will not be used to end illegal immigration.
00:48:18.000 Some states have it.
00:48:19.000 It's basically just raised the price of a fake ID.
00:48:23.000 And in the meantime, people think, oh, this gets applied to illegal aliens.
00:48:30.000 No, it's applied to every American who tries to get a job.
00:48:33.000 You are going to get e-verified.
00:48:35.000 Now, remember what they did with OSHA.
00:48:37.000 They use every government program they have to implement this communist future dystopia.
00:48:43.000 They were going to use OSHA.
00:48:46.000 First, OSHA was saying an employer can't force an employee to get a vaccine, but then OSHA flipped and said every company of a certain size, we're going to use this bureaucracy to enforce the vaccine mandate.
00:49:00.000 E-Verify would become V-Verify.
00:49:02.000 So you would have to get a vaccine to get employed, and they would have the most efficient way to keep you from getting a job, which is called E-Verify.
00:49:12.000 So when you voted against it, I mean, how did your Republican colleagues respond to this?
00:49:17.000 Because this idea that, like, there are always going to be people who vote against bills that we feel strongly about and we have to understand their justification.
00:49:22.000 I mean, I don't know that I would always want every representative to vote exactly the same on every bill.
00:49:27.000 That seems like sort of the nature of the party.
00:49:29.000 There was something very swampy that happened because I wasn't the only person opposed to E-Verify.
00:49:35.000 So what they did is they gave a carve-out so that E-Verify wouldn't apply to ag workers.
00:49:42.000 Which is kind of the problem.
00:49:44.000 Wow.
00:49:44.000 Yeah, that's funny.
00:49:46.000 Everything is so stupid.
00:49:48.000 Isn't it?
00:49:48.000 And so then all the people who were with me trying to get E-Verify out of an otherwise great bill, they gave up and they got the thing they wanted, which is free, you know, the ag part of it.
00:50:02.000 And the unions were okay with it because it still applied to anybody that was in a union that, you know, that would threaten a union job.
00:50:10.000 You know, ag workers aren't unionized.
00:50:12.000 So anyways, it was really swampy the way they did this carve out after the bill had come out of committee.
00:50:20.000 But nobody was mad at me, because honestly, they knew I was doing it on principle.
00:50:25.000 And also, I think a lot of them knew I was right, but they weren't going to take that stand.
00:50:31.000 You know, and I'm thinking about, you know, as I asked earlier, like, why can't the Republicans get anything done?
00:50:36.000 And I envision these fiery speeches that, you know, you have given or I've seen like Rand Paul give, and it's like they fall on deaf ears very often because, you know, people just don't care.
00:50:46.000 And then part of me thinks that there is no solution.
00:50:49.000 And so I immediately just imagined, like, what would I do if I was in Congress?
00:50:53.000 And I'll tell you what I'd do.
00:50:55.000 I would show up on the first day with two gallons of whole milk and I would dump it on the floor and then I would tell them to expel me and I'd leave.
00:51:01.000 Because I don't know that there is anything else you can do or anything you can do at all.
00:51:06.000 Well, so support my move for the direct Republic.
00:51:09.000 If you don't think this is getting done, we need something new.
00:51:12.000 I disagree with your idea as well.
00:51:13.000 I don't think that's a solution either.
00:51:14.000 Let me tell you why Republicans are horrible on the budget and spending.
00:51:18.000 So right now you would think, you know, with the debt and accelerating and Everything in such a bad condition right now that Republicans would get serious about spending, but here's the problem.
00:51:32.000 We could limit the growth of government, we could even influence policy by putting riders on the budget, but there are about 40 Republicans who they will slit their own wrists before they allow us not to spend more money on the military.
00:51:49.000 Like their whole goal is to increase military spending.
00:51:51.000 Well, I imagine a lot of these guys come from military districts, where a lot of the funding is from, say, a military base or some kind of contracting job.
00:52:00.000 I would say so, but I don't know.
00:52:02.000 I'm not justifying it, I'm saying they're going to be like, look, if we don't get the funding, this company shuts down, my district loses jobs.
00:52:11.000 Yeah, I don't know how they get to where they get to, but they get there, and they will not accept any budget that doesn't spend another additional $50 billion this year on the military than it spent last year.
00:52:22.000 Which means, if there's some deal to cut everything 1%, there's no way in hell they'll go for it.
00:52:29.000 Have you considered being evil to get what you want?
00:52:32.000 Abandoning your principles and just taking out a Machiavellian life.
00:52:37.000 What level of evil?
00:52:38.000 I mean, I'm a reasonable guy.
00:52:43.000 How come when the Republicans win the House, and we know the omnibus is coming, you don't just take a single sheet of paper that says, on this date, as you've done, the Department of Education will cease, and just slide it right in the middle of that 5,000 tall stack of paper on that I did something like that.
00:53:03.000 Let me tell you what I did this summer, and a lot of people didn't pay attention.
00:53:09.000 They're panicking in Washington D.C.
00:53:11.000 because of this.
00:53:13.000 I love the way this sounds already.
00:53:15.000 Let's go!
00:53:15.000 Okay, this summer they were so desperate to get the debt limit raised and I was on the rules committee.
00:53:23.000 I said, if you put in a provision that says, if we're still doing CRs by April 30th, Everything gets cut 1%.
00:53:32.000 Put that in the law.
00:53:34.000 Get Joe Biden to sign it.
00:53:35.000 Get Chuck Schumer to sign off on it.
00:53:36.000 And they did?
00:53:37.000 They did.
00:53:38.000 It's in the law and on April 30th, if they do a CR, by the way, this is the biggest leverage the Speaker has right now.
00:53:45.000 He could just, I know everybody hates CRs.
00:53:47.000 I've never voted for a CR.
00:53:49.000 And that is a continuing resolution.
00:53:50.000 Yeah, it's just keep the government funded at last year's levels.
00:53:54.000 Yeah.
00:53:54.000 It's just a cut, copy, paste.
00:53:56.000 Take that whole spreadsheet from last year and put it in this year.
00:53:59.000 Okay.
00:54:00.000 And they've been doing that.
00:54:00.000 They've done, what, three or four CRs to get to where we are right now because the spending was due on October 1st of last year.
00:54:07.000 But if they go past April 30th, the Massey provision cuts everything 1%.
00:54:13.000 And Joe Biden signed it into law.
00:54:15.000 Did they not notice or what was it?
00:54:17.000 He's a big fan of Thomas Massey.
00:54:18.000 He always has been.
00:54:20.000 Back in July.
00:54:22.000 You know, next year was so far away, they just figured we'll figure out some other way to screw the American public when we get to that bridge.
00:54:32.000 So how about you say then in 10 years, you know, on December 31st, 2034, the Department of Education will cease operations.
00:54:40.000 You know, it's 10 years later.
00:54:41.000 You can always change it, right?
00:54:42.000 Oh, by the way, I forced a vote.
00:54:45.000 I think a lot of people miss this.
00:54:47.000 You know, Jimmy Carter set up the Department of Education in 1979.
00:54:49.000 It was re-election ploy.
00:54:53.000 It was a re-election ploy?
00:54:55.000 Yes.
00:54:56.000 Can you imagine that?
00:54:58.000 And it didn't work, but we got stuck with the Department of Education.
00:55:02.000 Reagan campaigned on getting rid of it.
00:55:05.000 Other people campaigned on getting rid of it.
00:55:07.000 Nobody's ever had a vote on it, but I was able to force a vote on whether we should get rid of the Department of Education this summer.
00:55:13.000 You should go look up this one too.
00:55:14.000 This is a good litmus test.
00:55:16.000 And here's what it was.
00:55:19.000 It was like H.R.
00:55:20.000 I mean, one of these H.R.s.
00:55:20.000 5?
00:55:23.000 I don't remember what the bill was, but it was one of the 10 signature bills that Kevin McCarthy wanted to pass.
00:55:29.000 He had campaigned on it.
00:55:30.000 He said, we're going to force every school to publish their curriculum and every library, local library at a school, to put out the list of library books.
00:55:41.000 And I said, you know what?
00:55:42.000 That's a great idea.
00:55:43.000 Every state should pass that law, but we have no business doing that at the federal level.
00:55:47.000 Like, what authority?
00:55:49.000 By the way, I do have the bill to get rid of the Department of Education, and there's only one tool that the federal government has to enforce what they wanted to do, and that was the Department of Education.
00:55:59.000 It was H.R.
00:56:00.000 5, yes!
00:56:01.000 Thank you for looking this up.
00:56:02.000 H.R.
00:56:03.000 5, Parents' Bill of Rights Act.
00:56:04.000 Okay, sounds great!
00:56:06.000 And I told the speaker, There's no way I could vote for that bill because you are giving more power to, now the kind of power I would like and you might like, but ultimately you're giving more power for the federal government via the Department of Education to tell states and local school boards what to do.
00:56:23.000 I have a problem with this.
00:56:24.000 And so McCarthy said, is there any way?
00:56:27.000 Is there any way you could vote for this?
00:56:29.000 And I thought for about a second, I said, there's one way I could vote for it.
00:56:32.000 He said, what's that?
00:56:33.000 I said, you let me insert an amendment vote on whether this department should even exist at all.
00:56:39.000 For the first time since Jimmy Carter, you let me have a vote on the floor of the House on whether to eliminate the Department of Education or not.
00:56:47.000 And he said, I'll do it.
00:56:51.000 Well, I can see why you liked McCarthy then.
00:56:53.000 Well, you could deal with him, right?
00:56:56.000 In that moment, he was reasonable.
00:56:58.000 He said, what do you need?
00:57:00.000 I said, I need a vote on eliminating the Department of Education.
00:57:03.000 We got 160, roughly, votes from Republicans to end the Federal Department of Education.
00:57:09.000 Wow.
00:57:10.000 And Kevin McCarthy himself voted to end the Federal Department of Education.
00:57:13.000 Wow, that's not bad.
00:57:15.000 So I imagine you're a chess player, right?
00:57:17.000 Not really.
00:57:18.000 You play Connect Four?
00:57:18.000 Not really?
00:57:19.000 I have played that, yes.
00:57:20.000 Alright, so you know how like in Connect Four, what you're really trying to do is create
00:57:24.000 a circumstance in which no matter what move your opponent makes, it allows you to connect
00:57:29.000 four?
00:57:30.000 Yeah.
00:57:31.000 You know what I mean?
00:57:32.000 So it's like if they try and block you here, then you go here.
00:57:33.000 Can you do that with legislation, right?
00:57:35.000 So what I mean is instead of just coming out right with a bill and saying the Department
00:57:39.000 of Education will cease or like the Federal Reserve will be audited.
00:57:42.000 What you do is, you put pieces of it in various places that all start triggering one at a time, and then eventually, some, like, member of Congress will be wearing, like, an Indiana Jones hat, running through, piecing together all the bills, like, My God!
00:57:57.000 Stick them together and it's like, this abolishes the Federal Reserve!
00:58:01.000 I think you can do that.
00:58:03.000 And that would be like an emergent phenomenon of intelligence taking over a government.
00:58:07.000 This is what you must do.
00:58:08.000 So none of the bills can outright say something like, the Department of Education will cease.
00:58:13.000 It has to be something like, in a circumstance of X, Y, and Z, funding from the Department of Education will be reallocated to other areas, including military, whatever.
00:58:22.000 Anywhere.
00:58:23.000 And then what happens is, piece by piece, things keep happening until eventually the DOE is just crippled and evaporates.
00:58:31.000 Well, I mean, that's one of the reasons I got on the Rules Committee.
00:58:36.000 If you want to peel back the layers of Congress and how the American people gets the football pulled out in front of them, like Lucy taking the football from Charlie Brown, you need to look at how the sausage is made.
00:58:50.000 Every bill, after it comes out of its committee, before it goes to the floor of the House, goes through the Rules Committee.
00:58:56.000 And we make new rules every week.
00:58:59.000 Every week we make a new set of rules that we think will make stuff work that week better than last week.
00:59:06.000 And mostly it's suspending our own rules.
00:59:08.000 We say, well, you can't make a motion to make us read the bill.
00:59:11.000 No, we're going to suspend that motion.
00:59:13.000 And so we suspend like 100 different motions, but we also decide which amendments can be allowed on a bill.
00:59:20.000 It reminds me of when you play made-up games with small children and they just change the rules every five seconds.
00:59:26.000 Yes, that's the rules committee.
00:59:27.000 Yes, that's the rules committee.
00:59:29.000 Every week, we make a different rule for every bill.
00:59:33.000 But when you don't get the result you want, they're like, no, we changed the rules.
00:59:36.000 This isn't how it's supposed to go.
00:59:38.000 And the first thing they tell freshmen when you get there, if you're in the majority, is they say, never vote against the rule vote.
00:59:43.000 There's two votes on every bill.
00:59:45.000 There's the vote on the rules for the bill, and then there's the vote on the bill.
00:59:49.000 And they tell freshmen, never vote against the rule.
00:59:51.000 This is the speaker doing his will, setting up the conditions of debate and all the good process stuff.
00:59:57.000 And it has nothing to do with policy.
00:59:59.000 But then what they do is they snooker these members of Congress because they put policy in the rules.
01:00:07.000 And there's something, the most evil form of this that I've found that exists in the Rules Committee is a self-executing amendment.
01:00:07.000 Yeah.
01:00:16.000 Okay, you want to know what a self-executing amendment is?
01:00:18.000 Of course, with that title!
01:00:19.000 It's an amendment that passes itself.
01:00:21.000 Oh, how nice!
01:00:23.000 Like self-checkout.
01:00:24.000 Yes.
01:00:25.000 Doesn't matter.
01:00:27.000 So let's say a bill comes out of committee.
01:00:30.000 And the chairman didn't want to deal with something, and the bill's going to come to the floor, but the bill needs changed in some way.
01:00:40.000 People don't want to vote on changing the bill, so they sneak a self-executing amendment in the Rules Committee on the bill, so that when you vote for this rules resolution that you've been trained since your freshman orientation, it's just a procedural vote.
01:00:54.000 You are actually voting for a rule that automatically passes an amendment and could change the whole nature of the bill.
01:01:02.000 That sounds unethical.
01:01:04.000 I would think so, because there's no way in hell the American public can follow that vote.
01:01:10.000 Everybody can go home and say, I didn't vote for that.
01:01:12.000 I voted for some procedural thing.
01:01:14.000 Some plausible deniability.
01:01:17.000 But the American people would not even think to blame them for that happening.
01:01:21.000 Most members of Congress don't know about self-executing amendments.
01:01:26.000 Is there one example?
01:01:27.000 Good!
01:01:28.000 So glad we all know the rules to this game!
01:01:29.000 Is there a specific one you can think of off the top of your head that's been recent?
01:01:33.000 A self-executing amendment?
01:01:35.000 Okay, so they did two in this Congress, and then I finally said, you're not doing any more, because I'm on the Rules Committee.
01:01:44.000 And I said, I will never again allow you to do this.
01:01:50.000 And they could override me, but when I blow the whistle and then go try and explain myself.
01:01:55.000 So there are two examples they did.
01:01:58.000 One was on E-Verify.
01:02:00.000 I got screwed on E-Verify with the self-executing amendment.
01:02:03.000 The bill, H.R.
01:02:06.000 2, had E-Verify in it, and these ag congressmen were upset, and so they didn't want E-Verify, but they got bought off by this idea of self-executing amendment, and nobody got their hands dirty.
01:02:20.000 Oh, we don't know how E-Verify doesn't apply to ag anymore.
01:02:24.000 The bill magically somehow did that on its own.
01:02:28.000 And then the other was an ethanol thing.
01:02:33.000 We were rolling back a bunch of Biden tax credits or energy things, a bunch of Green New Deal stuff, OK?
01:02:41.000 But what it turns out that it was going to affect ethanol in some of these states like Iowa.
01:02:47.000 And so they couldn't get the bill passed, but they also did not want Republicans voting for ethanol handouts on the floor of the House.
01:02:55.000 But they didn't have enough votes to pass this bill with the thing that punished ethanol or took out the ethanol subsidies.
01:03:03.000 So they made a self-executing amendment to fix it magically and nobody... I'm telling you, I'm like one of 12 people who understands that that's how that got done.
01:03:15.000 So you said they train you about this when you're a freshman.
01:03:18.000 Who is that?
01:03:19.000 Who is they though?
01:03:19.000 Who's training you on this?
01:03:22.000 Like, why don't most congressmen know about this?
01:03:24.000 That seems like a very flawed logic, but it's used that commonly.
01:03:27.000 Or it's good design, let's say.
01:03:28.000 The whole point is... Well, I mean, no, it's designed that way.
01:03:31.000 Why would they... You just have to... After getting screwed... Hit the top button again one more time.
01:03:39.000 I did.
01:03:40.000 Okay.
01:03:40.000 It said that it was the year 2106.
01:03:42.000 Welcome to the future, Tim.
01:03:44.000 You got a special edition.
01:03:46.000 Yeah.
01:03:46.000 You made it.
01:03:48.000 You've got to, um, put your own Wi-Fi in there?
01:03:52.000 Oh.
01:03:52.000 I did.
01:03:53.000 Oh, oh, okay.
01:03:53.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:03:55.000 Let's see if it gets it right this time.
01:03:57.000 He's, he's playing- So the internet time, is that normal?
01:03:59.000 Yeah.
01:04:00.000 63, 63 trillion.
01:04:01.000 The internet has its own time?
01:04:01.000 We'll figure it out, we'll figure it out.
01:04:02.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:04:03.000 Oh, it's doing- It's cause I noticed that mine was a trillion behind yours, so I updated the Wi-Fi.
01:04:06.000 Right.
01:04:07.000 But now it's, now it's wrong.
01:04:08.000 Cause that's been in the box for like six months, and the rate has gone up more.
01:04:13.000 So it needs to also get the right... So, the Democrats are really good at being evil, right?
01:04:18.000 Like, they lie about stuff all the time, while accusing the Republicans of lying about stuff.
01:04:23.000 The Democrats are organized, they march in lockstep with each other.
01:04:26.000 I think the January 6th committee is a really good example of, like, the malice.
01:04:30.000 Jamie Raskin, for instance, included a video of me reporting, reading a news article, rather dryly as I do, and acting as though I was encouraging people to go to January 6th.
01:04:41.000 There were people on video, and this guy's 20 minutes from here, Raskin.
01:04:46.000 We have people who work here who are, like, he's their rep.
01:04:48.000 And so he plays the video, he's like, here's people encouraging January 6th, and there's some guy saying, like, it's gonna be a red wedding, storm the gates, or whatever.
01:04:54.000 And then it's me going, Fox News reports Donald Trump says there's going to be a rally.
01:04:58.000 Then it cuts to someone else, cuts to me, and I'm like...
01:05:01.000 Now I've had people say, like, oh, you know, I saw the thing where you were included.
01:05:06.000 I mean, it's been good, I would actually say.
01:05:08.000 I had a friend hit me up, I hadn't talked to in 10 years, say, I saw you on the news.
01:05:12.000 It was kind of weird because it was all these people calling for January 6th, but then it was like you reading news or something.
01:05:16.000 And I'm like, yeah, it was kind of weird.
01:05:18.000 Why would they do that?
01:05:19.000 But outside of that, you've got, you know, Adam Schiff publishing the private phone records of an American journalist.
01:05:24.000 You've got him lying about proof of Russiagate.
01:05:27.000 I mean, they just lie all the time.
01:05:31.000 For political power.
01:05:33.000 And the Republicans do nothing.
01:05:35.000 And maybe it's because there's no such thing as a Republican Party.
01:05:38.000 There's the Democratic Party, which is a cult of evil people marching in lockstep.
01:05:43.000 And then the Republicans, which is various factions and disparate groups of people with varying degrees of corruption amongst them.
01:05:50.000 I would like to see us have a January 6th committee.
01:05:52.000 How about a May 29th committee?
01:05:55.000 This is what I don't get.
01:05:58.000 Maybe it's because I grew up in, you know, like a Democrat, in Chicago, among Democrats and activists and organizers, and I worked for non-profits.
01:06:06.000 The first thing I'd have done, when they announced January 6th, I'd say, yes, we would also have the May 29th insurrection committee, when thousands of far-left extremists firebombed the White House, St.
01:06:15.000 John's Church, injuring 100-plus federal officers, forcing the president into a bunker, disrupting official proceedings.
01:06:22.000 So you do January 6th, we'll do May 29th.
01:06:24.000 Instead, nobody even knows what May 29th is.
01:06:27.000 I've had Republicans come in here, in Congress, and I ask them, why nothing on May 29th?
01:06:31.000 And they go, what's that?
01:06:32.000 And I'm like, now why do you know about January 6th, but not when the President was forced into an emergency bunker as the White House grounds were firebombed?
01:06:40.000 They literally threw firebombs at the White House grounds.
01:06:44.000 St.
01:06:44.000 John's Church across the street was set on fire.
01:06:47.000 A guard post at the White House was set on fire.
01:06:49.000 Here's what both of those events, those dates have in common.
01:06:52.000 Without question, the government was involved, was inciting in both of those instances.
01:07:00.000 This is incredibly frustrating to hear, right?
01:07:03.000 Like, we're sitting here, we've got a congressman who's been there for over a decade in Congress, right?
01:07:08.000 So it's not like he doesn't understand how Congress works or what's going on.
01:07:12.000 He's generally considered one of the most constitutionally sound congresspeople, and he's literally telling us that we have lost control of our government.
01:07:21.000 Wait, is that true?
01:07:23.000 Which part?
01:07:24.000 That we've literally lost control, the people have lost control of the government?
01:07:28.000 The feedback is not working, right?
01:07:31.000 For control to work, there has to be a feedback loop.
01:07:33.000 And in that sense, yes, the feedback loop is broken.
01:07:36.000 Because there's either not enough transparency in what's happening in Washington, D.C.
01:07:42.000 for people to understand how to fix it through the ballot box, I think that's intentional with the Department of Education, which is something we harp on here all the time.
01:07:52.000 There's obfuscation.
01:07:53.000 It's like I was saying, the self-executing rules stuff.
01:07:56.000 Like, the best thing that I can do as one person in there is to help provide transparency.
01:08:03.000 So, you know, this summer we forced over 700 votes.
01:08:08.000 Like, being on the Rules Committee, Chip Roy and Ralph Norman and I forced over 700 recorded votes this summer.
01:08:15.000 That means they would not have been recorded votes if it wasn't for the fact that they made a stink.
01:08:21.000 Congress's whole point is to vote on legislation, and they're doing their best to not vote on legislation because then they have to be responsible, or they could be held responsible by their constituents.
01:08:33.000 Nobody wants to work anymore, Phil, come on!
01:08:36.000 Why can't you just get the vote on the DOE again?
01:08:40.000 Why not?
01:08:41.000 Department of Education?
01:08:42.000 Well, I could, but I got 160 votes.
01:08:45.000 Now the voters need to go figure out who are the 60 or 70 Republicans who voted to perpetuate federal control of your child's education.
01:08:53.000 Would you be able to get basically any reasonable bill to a floor vote?
01:08:58.000 No.
01:08:59.000 I was able to do that as an amendment to a spending bill.
01:09:01.000 But the DOE is something you could be able to get to a vote.
01:09:03.000 I was able to do that as an amendment to a spending bill.
01:09:07.000 So couldn't Mike Johnson just bring it up or has to go to the committee?
01:09:10.000 He could, but he won't.
01:09:12.000 Well, it would fail.
01:09:16.000 Like we need public pressure.
01:09:17.000 That's the way.
01:09:18.000 I get nervous about mob mentality, but the internet video is so powerful.
01:09:22.000 Like, you can raise hundreds of thousands of millions of people to go call their congressman at a certain time on a certain day tomorrow.
01:09:30.000 We could tell everyone at two o'clock tomorrow to call Congress, and then we could remind them tomorrow, do it tomorrow again, and get what we want.
01:09:39.000 But it's like, then that's like the mob, and I don't... I'm very concerned about creating a mob Okay, we're missing something here, right?
01:09:46.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene came here and she said that basically what happens for a lot of bills is there's like 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats and they just go, meh, meh, no one actually votes and then she's like forcing a vote on it, right?
01:09:57.000 So there are bills that get passed without a vote.
01:10:00.000 Not as much anymore because when, you know, I started forcing votes and then three or four years ago a group of people like Marjorie started showing up and started forcing the votes.
01:10:11.000 Oh, I didn't have to.
01:10:12.000 Wouldn't it be better off if there was no vote then?
01:10:15.000 No vote, what do you mean?
01:10:16.000 You could get a bill passed with no one voting on it?
01:10:19.000 They tried to do that on March 27th, the CARES Act, when I drove to Washington, D.C.
01:10:23.000 and forced all of Congress to vote on a $2 trillion bill.
01:10:26.000 Thanks for that, that was a good one.
01:10:27.000 This is what I want to understand.
01:10:29.000 Why is it that with the Omnibus, they can squeeze in all this psychotic garbage, they can pass bills without a vote, but when it comes to the things that are reasonable that would be good for this country, it's like, we just can't do it.
01:10:38.000 Well, now you're talking about FISA this week, which we got to the brink of having a vote.
01:10:46.000 How much do you want to know?
01:10:47.000 I want to know all.
01:10:48.000 Let's start at the beginning.
01:10:49.000 What is FISA?
01:10:50.000 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act passed in 2008, ostensibly to spy on foreigners.
01:10:59.000 And to give the authority CIA, NSA, FBI, you go go spy on foreigners.
01:11:04.000 They started using this program to spy on Americans.
01:11:08.000 Now, the way they do it, they say it's legal.
01:11:10.000 And it may be legal, but it's not constitutional.
01:11:13.000 I know that's some cognitive dissonance.
01:11:15.000 But the laws, the legal framework they're using, they say, okay, we're collecting, we're targeting foreigners.
01:11:23.000 And that could be Angela Merkel.
01:11:26.000 It doesn't have to be Osama bin Laden.
01:11:28.000 Of course our CIA is spying on every head of state and every one of their chief deputies.
01:11:34.000 So if you are targeting those foreigners, then you collect a lot of information.
01:11:40.000 And there's Americans in that information, like your emails may be in there because it went through the same server, okay, that Angela Merkel's chief deputy stuff went through.
01:11:50.000 So now your stuff's in there.
01:11:52.000 So now they say they don't, the FBI and all these organizations, they claim they don't need a warrant to go into that database, which is enormous, and search for Temple's emails.
01:12:03.000 And they don't even need probable cause.
01:12:06.000 And so this has become known over the years that this is going on.
01:12:09.000 First of all, Congress had to find out it is happening.
01:12:12.000 And then the next people had to start caring.
01:12:14.000 And we got to that point this week.
01:12:16.000 And then we had to get a chairman of a committee who wasn't compromised.
01:12:21.000 Which is hard to do, to care about this.
01:12:24.000 And that's Jim Jordan, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and then advance a bill in his committee.
01:12:33.000 So we put a FISA reform bill through his committee.
01:12:36.000 I'm on Judiciary Committee too, which says you've got to get a warrant.
01:12:39.000 Okay?
01:12:40.000 And it has some other good reforms in there.
01:12:42.000 Right now the government buys information about you that they would otherwise need a warrant for But because they can buy it, they say they don't need a warrant to get it.
01:12:54.000 So for instance, everybody's phone knows that you're speeding.
01:12:57.000 Yep.
01:12:57.000 Okay.
01:12:58.000 And the phone company could sell that to the government.
01:13:02.000 Imagine how much money they'd make if they bought that data and sent everybody a ticket.
01:13:06.000 Correct.
01:13:07.000 But they sell stuff, not that kind of material, but very similar kind of stuff.
01:13:13.000 And the government should need to get a warrant to buy that.
01:13:15.000 Anyways, so we put all that in this bill.
01:13:18.000 This week, we got it to the Rules Committee.
01:13:21.000 There was an argument over jurisdiction, the Intel Committee, which meets in secret, and they're responsible for overseeing CIA, NSA, all those departments.
01:13:32.000 They claim jurisdiction on this bill.
01:13:34.000 Judiciary claim jurisdiction on the bill.
01:13:36.000 The reality is there's joint jurisdiction.
01:13:39.000 But if it's domestic spying, that is definitely the jurisdiction of the Judiciary Committee.
01:13:45.000 Well, the Intel Committee said, we're going to blow this whole thing up if you don't agree to our terms of engagement on the floor of the House.
01:13:51.000 And we said, OK, what are those?
01:13:53.000 And they said, we were going to take out the warrant provision.
01:13:56.000 We're going to take out the loopholes around the warrant of buying the day.
01:13:59.000 We're going to sanitize your bill and make it more like a clean reauthorization of what exists.
01:14:04.000 But you can have votes on the floor to put your stuff back in.
01:14:09.000 Those are the terms of engagement we agreed to.
01:14:12.000 So they dumbed down the judiciary bill.
01:14:14.000 We brought it to the Rules Committee.
01:14:16.000 We were having a debate there.
01:14:19.000 On which amendments to allow, like putting the warrant back in, we were going to have that vote on the floor and we started winning.
01:14:26.000 We were winning.
01:14:27.000 We were going to win on the floor of the House and they cancelled the committee while I was there.
01:14:31.000 Who was they though?
01:14:34.000 The speaker, but he was pressured by the Intel Committee.
01:14:39.000 They've basically gone rogue.
01:14:41.000 So he's a coward.
01:14:41.000 They've gone rogue.
01:14:42.000 Yeah, so literally the Intelligence Committee, which is prevented specifically by this specific amendment, is literally derailing Congress so that way they are not limited by the thing that exists currently to limit them.
01:15:02.000 Correct.
01:15:02.000 These people are evil.
01:15:03.000 This happened yesterday?
01:15:06.000 Yeah, yesterday.
01:15:07.000 Like, in real time.
01:15:09.000 I'm in the committee listening to Jim Jordan testify on the bill, and we're in the rules committee.
01:15:15.000 We're getting ready to hear from the intel committee, and they refuse to show up.
01:15:19.000 They refused to show up and engage on a battlefield that they set.
01:15:23.000 They set the rules of engagement.
01:15:25.000 We didn't like them, but we said, OK, as long as we can have a fight and force everybody to take this vote on the floor of the House on whether you need a warrant or not.
01:15:32.000 And they agreed to that.
01:15:33.000 And then they... So it's Mike Johnson's fault?
01:15:37.000 I don't want to say his fault completely.
01:15:42.000 Like, if he had forged forward and tried to get it to the floor, they were going to take down the rule.
01:15:49.000 Now that means they were going to try to keep the bill from coming to the floor because they were going to vote against the rules for the bill.
01:15:56.000 Which is, again, one of those procedural things that nobody gets blamed for, right?
01:16:00.000 Maybe they should.
01:16:02.000 Maybe they should, but if you go home and say, oh, I didn't vote against the warrant provision, I voted against some procedural thing.
01:16:10.000 And they get away with it.
01:16:11.000 So they threaten to do that.
01:16:13.000 Normally, you can't do that.
01:16:14.000 The Intel Committee is called a select committee.
01:16:17.000 What that means is, There's no meritocracy, there's no steering committee that decides who goes on Intel Committee.
01:16:24.000 The Speaker of the House puts them on that committee.
01:16:26.000 So, if the Intel Committee refuses to play ball, they refuse to be involved, then the Speaker should remove them from the committee and put people on that are willing to go?
01:16:33.000 Correct.
01:16:37.000 But, okay, so let's say the Speaker does that to 20 Republican members of the Intel Committee, including the Chairman of the Intel Committee.
01:16:44.000 What if two of them just get ticked and quit Congress?
01:16:47.000 Then there's fear that you're gonna... Then we're not in the majority anymore.
01:16:51.000 This is the weird situation that we're in.
01:16:53.000 Anybody can form a gang, and so this week the gang was the Intel Committee.
01:16:58.000 Last week it was the four New Yorkers who took out Santos, who started that.
01:17:04.000 They formed a gang and demanded to have a vote on what's called the state and local tax deduction, where you can take your state and local taxes off of your federal taxes, which at first sounds like a good idea.
01:17:16.000 Nobody wants to pay more taxes, but it actually benefits blue states like California and New York who are taxing the crap out of their citizens.
01:17:24.000 And what it means is somebody in New York who makes, let's say, $200,000 a year won't have to pay as much for our military as somebody in Kentucky who makes $200,000 a year because the person in New York pays less federal tax because their state has taxed the crap out of them.
01:17:39.000 So the New Yorkers were trying to make a political win, so they took the whole Republican conference hostage.
01:17:46.000 A couple weeks ago and got a vote on that, which they lost.
01:17:50.000 I think the reality is there's no Republican majority.
01:17:52.000 There is a handful of Republicans that are actually Democrats.
01:17:55.000 We are minnows.
01:17:56.000 Majority in name only.
01:17:58.000 Yes.
01:17:59.000 That's so it's like if they were to resign, I feel like having that's like, it's just like... Maybe it's more worse than having them be rogue.
01:18:07.000 Like, Ken Buck may as well be a Democrat.
01:18:10.000 He voted to keep Mayorkas.
01:18:11.000 Why?
01:18:13.000 Because he's retiring?
01:18:14.000 I don't know why he decided to do that.
01:18:16.000 He decided- he's retiring, right?
01:18:18.000 He's retiring.
01:18:18.000 Yeah, so he decided he would stick a knife in the back of the younger generation of this country on his way out.
01:18:22.000 But- but wait, let's be fair.
01:18:26.000 We eventually got Mayorkas impeached this week, and what's it gonna accomplish?
01:18:30.000 Nothing.
01:18:31.000 Nothing.
01:18:31.000 So Kinbex stopped nothing from happening for- nothing that would accomplish anything.
01:18:37.000 He stopped nothing that would accomplish anything from happening Honestly, I honestly don't care.
01:18:42.000 When you guys say nothing, is that because when it goes to the Senate it's just... They won't even bring it up.
01:18:48.000 Yeah, right.
01:18:49.000 There will be no trial, there will be no... There needs to be a significant majority that the Republicans can actually do something with, that's not paper thin, because right now they're like, with the MAGA kind of, you know, America First conservatives, and then the, what would probably be called the Establishment conservatives, they'll harpoon each other's ideas.
01:19:10.000 You know, and I mean, I obviously have my own personal opinions on what should be done.
01:19:15.000 I'm a small government kind of guy and, you know, I want it to be as small as we can make it and still function the way that we need to.
01:19:21.000 But like, there's going to be significant pushback from not just the Democrats, but anything that actually shrinks the government is probably going to get pushback from the more establishment Republicans.
01:19:33.000 The fiscal conservatives, and again, I've been following Thomas Massie's career since he got into Congress, and these guys have been pushing back against the same Leviathan forever.
01:19:43.000 They've always, you know, Thomas Massie catches a lot of hell because he votes no on foreign aid stuff, and he's trying to be fiscally conservative.
01:19:52.000 And it's just an uphill battle and then the government itself doesn't want to be regulated.
01:19:56.000 So it's a freaking nightmare.
01:20:00.000 Think of it this way.
01:20:00.000 If Congress is a video game you get to restart every two years.
01:20:04.000 I keep making it to a higher level every time I play.
01:20:07.000 Thank God.
01:20:08.000 There you go.
01:20:08.000 Now I'm in the inner chamber.
01:20:10.000 I'm in the, you know...
01:20:13.000 The belly?
01:20:13.000 The sanctum?
01:20:15.000 You're in the belly?
01:20:16.000 No, he's at the, uh... You're retrieving the wishbone from the throat of the, uh... Yeah, the boss.
01:20:20.000 I meant the sub-boss.
01:20:21.000 Sub-boss, yeah.
01:20:21.000 Of the whale?
01:20:22.000 What's the boss before the mini-boss?
01:20:24.000 The mini-boss?
01:20:25.000 Yeah.
01:20:25.000 You're fighting, like, the third mini-boss now?
01:20:27.000 Fighting the mini-boss in the rules committee.
01:20:30.000 So, you know, so I'll put another quarter in, okay, that shows you how old I am.
01:20:35.000 Yeah, it's 50 cents nowadays.
01:20:37.000 I'm right there with you.
01:20:39.000 I feel like we need more people that are willing to dispense with political parties and do what's right for the Constitution and the country.
01:20:45.000 Like, it was George Washington's main thing, stay away from political parties, they're bad news.
01:20:50.000 Opposite of what they want, though.
01:20:51.000 The Constitution exists as a limiting machine.
01:20:55.000 Like, the point is it's a no machine.
01:20:57.000 It tells the federal government, no, you can't do this, no, you can't do that, no, you can't do this, no, you can't do that.
01:21:02.000 The federal government fucking hates that shit.
01:21:05.000 Like, they want to be able to do stuff.
01:21:07.000 Now we've got the federal government, you know, busy trying to get into, you know, bathrooms and whether or not you use the right pronouns and should that be something the government talks about.
01:21:16.000 These are things the government has no business being involved in.
01:21:19.000 I understand in modern technology with internet and the ability for countries to spy on us, we do need an adaptation to our constitution.
01:21:26.000 We can't just sit here with our thumbs up our butts and be like, yo, just mail me your vote later.
01:21:30.000 There's an amendment process that's fair enough, totally fine if you want that, if you believe that 100%, and maybe you're right, but there's a process and nobody wants to do the process because it's hard, and nobody wants to do anything hard.
01:21:42.000 I want to.
01:21:44.000 Thank you, I appreciate that.
01:21:45.000 Our constitution was last amended in 1992.
01:21:48.000 Like, it can be done.
01:21:49.000 Yeah.
01:21:50.000 What was that last amendment?
01:21:51.000 It was to keep congressmen from voting to change their own pay without an intervening election.
01:21:59.000 The interesting thing is that 27th Amendment was proposed by the Founding Fathers and it just never got ratified until 1992.
01:22:06.000 How come?
01:22:08.000 It's actually the basis of my lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi, which I'll find out Friday or Monday whether the Supreme Court's going to take up.
01:22:15.000 What's the suit?
01:22:16.000 So during COVID, I refused to wear a mask.
01:22:20.000 I played along for a while because I thought, okay, I got to represent my constituents and if I can't speak and I don't But eventually Pelosi said, they said, when will you get rid of the mask mandate?
01:22:31.000 And she said, when everybody gets vaccinated.
01:22:33.000 And I said, whoa, I ain't letting this morph from a mask mandate to a vaccine mandate.
01:22:38.000 So I led 10 members of Congress to the floor of the House during a C-SPAN footage and showed none of us were wearing masks.
01:22:45.000 And so then I got fined by Nancy Pelosi, and the only way she could get that money from me was to reduce my salary.
01:22:54.000 And she did?
01:22:54.000 And she did.
01:22:55.000 Wow.
01:22:56.000 But the 27th Amendment, which doesn't have a lot of case law because it wasn't ratified until 1992, says you can't change a member's salary without an intervening election.
01:23:05.000 Wow!
01:23:07.000 Interesting.
01:23:08.000 Not just raise salaries, you can't change salaries.
01:23:10.000 Correct.
01:23:10.000 And the founders debated this on why you couldn't, they were, the reason our, for instance, our salaries paid out of the Treasury and not by the states in the House of Representatives is the founders were worried that the states might withhold our salary and that we should be accountable to the people as House of Representatives, not to the states.
01:23:28.000 Interesting.
01:23:29.000 The 27th Amendment, no law varying the compensation for the services of senators and representatives, shall take effect until an election for representatives shall have intervened.
01:23:38.000 And that means that they would have to have, like, you'd have to run against someone that wanted to run against you in order for your salary to be changed after that election?
01:23:45.000 Correct.
01:23:46.000 And most people think it was just to increase it, but Founding Fathers said, if you can control a person's sustenance, you can bend their will.
01:23:52.000 Nancy Pelosi is an evil human being.
01:23:54.000 Would it have been that they'd have an election with just you?
01:23:57.000 If she just wanted to change your salary, would it just be you would have to have an election, or all of Congress would be up for election?
01:24:02.000 They did vote for a rule, which counts as a law in the House of Representatives.
01:24:06.000 They voted for a rule on how to fine us, how to reduce our salary.
01:24:11.000 So if she had put that in before the election, She could implement that rule and probably reduce my salary individually using that rule, but that rule was not in place for fining people for not wearing a mask.
01:24:25.000 So she's in violation of the 27th, and when do you say you're going to hear from her?
01:24:30.000 So this will not surprise you.
01:24:32.000 The only venue we can take it up in is DC.
01:24:35.000 Okay, so we lost at the district level and the appeals level, and now we're asking for the Supreme Court to take it up.
01:24:42.000 We'll probably find out Friday or Monday.
01:24:45.000 What was the opinion of the lower courts that justified changing your pay without an election?
01:24:49.000 Oh, they said that there's another part of the Constitution that says each house shall make its own rules.
01:24:57.000 And that we can make whatever rules we want.
01:24:59.000 So the 27th Amendment doesn't exist.
01:25:01.000 And then that's right.
01:25:02.000 Yeah.
01:25:02.000 And there's another thing in the Constitution.
01:25:04.000 People don't like this.
01:25:06.000 I didn't find out about it until I got elected.
01:25:08.000 We have like super First Amendment rights as members of Congress.
01:25:12.000 Wait, what is it?
01:25:13.000 Speech or debate clause.
01:25:14.000 Speech or debate clause.
01:25:15.000 What's that?
01:25:15.000 It says we can't be held accountable for anything we say in the House or do in the House of Representatives.
01:25:22.000 That means he can go to the floor of Congress and claim that Ian Crosland kicks puppies for a living, makes money off it, and you can't do anything about it.
01:25:29.000 Really?
01:25:30.000 And it sounds like a bad thing at first, but if you go look at what the King was doing to the Parliament, he would just bring up these little things and just tie you down.
01:25:39.000 There'd be a Fonny Willis, there'd be ten of them for every member of Congress trying to litigate every word we say or everything we put on X. But now you get people like, you know, Jamie Raskin or Adam Schiff who will Correct, and that's the price you pay.
01:25:53.000 They can lie.
01:25:54.000 They're allowed to lie.
01:25:56.000 They're allowed to slander or... Yes.
01:25:56.000 I'm sorry.
01:25:58.000 And defame and lie more.
01:26:00.000 Okay, but here's, just getting back to the court case... But only on the floor.
01:26:02.000 Sorry to interrupt.
01:26:03.000 Only on the floor?
01:26:04.000 No, it's been ruled to also cover our staff and committees, and it may... Oh, for God's sake!
01:26:11.000 Have you considered being evil?
01:26:14.000 Thomas Massie goes Machiavellian.
01:26:16.000 I love it.
01:26:17.000 Let me finish out this.
01:26:18.000 So the judges in the circuit court, the district court, they said two things.
01:26:22.000 You get to make your own rules and Nancy Pelosi is covered by the speech or debate clause because this was an official activity that she undertook as a member of Congress.
01:26:31.000 And to your point, Tim, the 27th Amendment, if they don't take up our case and reverse this, the 27th Amendment's not enforceable.
01:26:39.000 We should just go give ourselves a pay raise because it's an official action covered by the Speech or Debate Clause.
01:26:46.000 Saying what she wants to say is different than changing your salary.
01:26:49.000 What's Speech or Debate about salary here?
01:26:52.000 Well, she had to basically like utter the words to make the bill come into existence, so it's covered.
01:27:00.000 There's a lot of case law that says that's covered.
01:27:03.000 I, you know, maybe we just need some Republicans to start accusing Democrats of egregious activities.
01:27:11.000 Well, I don't want to repeal the speech and debate clause because that would be bad for senators to get down.
01:27:19.000 Lie about them as much as you can, and if you can lie and throw them in jail, lie and throw them in jail.
01:27:24.000 We have a republic that works with an ethical society.
01:27:32.000 So I have a theory that liberalism has a blind spot and liberalism is vulnerable to authoritarian ideologies because authoritarian ideologies don't value things like honesty, integrity, truth.
01:27:45.000 They are just about power.
01:27:47.000 So because of that, you can't be liberal in opposition to illiberal forces.
01:27:52.000 So let's just bring the boot down on them.
01:27:54.000 Well, this is the Karl Popper thing.
01:27:56.000 It kind of is, yeah.
01:27:57.000 If those who are tolerant will tolerate intolerance, intolerance will shut down tolerance.
01:28:02.000 Partially, I think so.
01:28:05.000 And you're right because the way that it plays out, that is the function.
01:28:09.000 But from my perspective, the point that I'm trying to make is it does boil down to a difference of like entire philosophy of the way that the world works and how government should be approached and stuff.
01:28:21.000 And we talk about the rules and we talk about all of these protections that are in the Constitution, etc.
01:28:26.000 But if the people, as in the population, don't want representatives that care about those things, and apparently, if you look at the people that make up Congress, they don't want those things, these things don't matter to the population, what do you do?
01:28:41.000 Thank you, Phil.
01:28:42.000 I've quit blaming my colleagues for anything.
01:28:46.000 I blame the people that voted for them.
01:28:48.000 Like, you know, I don't get mad at AOC.
01:28:51.000 I don't get mad at AOC.
01:28:52.000 She's a duly elected person representing her district.
01:28:56.000 And, you know, actually, I get more upset at some of my Republican colleagues who are pretending to be something they aren't.
01:29:02.000 Yes.
01:29:03.000 And this is the problem with term limits.
01:29:05.000 Now, we had a term limit vote in judiciary, and I voted for it.
01:29:09.000 But here's the problem.
01:29:10.000 If you throw out all the clowns, who elects the new clowns?
01:29:14.000 Same people.
01:29:14.000 Same people pick the new clowns, they pick the old clowns.
01:29:18.000 Here's what we need.
01:29:19.000 We need someone to run as a Democrat, and then once they get elected, just say things like, you know, Adam Schiff soiled himself.
01:29:27.000 Tweet it out like, this is shocking.
01:29:29.000 And what you do is, there's clever things you do.
01:29:31.000 So, there was this guy who made this video, where he bought the Apple Vision Pro, right?
01:29:36.000 He's driving in his car, wearing it, and doing the weird little things with his fingers, And he literally was driving his car while wearing a headset.
01:29:43.000 He then, in the video, it shows cops behind him with their lights on, and he's looking, and he's making it seem like he got arrested, when in fact what he did was, they drove until they saw police, pulled over, and made it seem.
01:29:55.000 So what you do is, when Adam Schiff, at any point, gets up and like runs out of the room, you film it, and then you can tweet, Adam Schiff soiled himself.
01:30:04.000 I still smell it.
01:30:05.000 It smells bad.
01:30:06.000 People are shocked.
01:30:06.000 I can't believe this happened.
01:30:07.000 And then you have a video of him running out, which corroborates it, even though it's a lie.
01:30:11.000 And he can't do anything about it because of the speech and debate clause.
01:30:13.000 But they can censure you and then George Santos you, remove you.
01:30:16.000 Probably that's what would happen.
01:30:17.000 He's a goofball.
01:30:19.000 He doesn't belong.
01:30:19.000 But then you just say, look, I think I understand why I was expelled.
01:30:23.000 It was a deep embarrassment to the entirety of the House that a man of this tenure had soiled himself in public.
01:30:31.000 And it was actually requested of us that we not make a big deal of it.
01:30:34.000 But I think the American people have a right to know.
01:30:36.000 And for that, I've paid the price.
01:30:38.000 Is there like a sense of desperation in Congress, which is raising tensions?
01:30:41.000 Like if the economy was extremely good right now, would things be much more fluid?
01:30:49.000 I don't know if there's desperation, but I do think it's gotten more animated in Congress since I've been there.
01:30:58.000 Not always for the better.
01:31:00.000 I mean, I know people want us to fight, but some of the fights just don't make a lot of sense.
01:31:09.000 You said last time, I think you were on the show, you're talking to this like emotional people have become like emotionally overridden in that reason or logic or something.
01:31:16.000 Well, look, I mean, that's the default setting.
01:31:18.000 I made the point about taking two full gallons of whole milk and dumping them on the floor.
01:31:22.000 Yeah.
01:31:22.000 And it's because my attitude right now is There is a tidal wave washing everything away, and all we're talking about doing is swimming against it.
01:31:33.000 So, when you're saying there's certain fights that don't, it doesn't make sense to fight those fights, and then there are some where it's like, we gotta get this one done, for every 100 negative things, there's like, what, two or three good things, and it's just, we're rolling downhill.
01:31:46.000 At a certain point, I'm like, just chuck the gallon of milk on the floor and just make it smell bad or whatever, and then I'm out.
01:31:52.000 It does nothing, but what else could be done?
01:31:55.000 Here's the one fight we should be having, and if everybody cared about winning, they'd be focused on it, and it's the funding fight.
01:32:02.000 Because the only bill that has to pass every year is the spending bill.
01:32:07.000 Everything else can be paused, suspended.
01:32:11.000 It's superfluous.
01:32:13.000 Yeah, it's superfluous.
01:32:16.000 We control the House, we don't control the Senate, we don't control the White House, but we do know the Senate is going to pass the spending bill, and we do know Joe Biden's going to sign it.
01:32:24.000 So literally 99% of our effort, if we're just trying to win a victory instead of be symbolic and preen and virtue signal to our constituents, 99% of our efforts should be on that spending bill.
01:32:39.000 But it does sound like the intelligence agencies will walk into Speaker Johnson's office and they'll have a manila folder they'll place on the desk and slowly open it.
01:32:48.000 There's a picture of JFK that will slide across the table and he'll say, I will do anything you say.
01:32:52.000 And that's the end of it.
01:32:54.000 So, at the end of it, if you can't get a speaker who's actually gonna do the job, because they're terrified of... I mean, let's be real!
01:33:02.000 You could be driving your car in DC and get carjacked!
01:33:05.000 Whoopsie!
01:33:05.000 You could be walking from a supermarket in a botched robbery!
01:33:09.000 You could be like an IT guy who's like, working on an email server, but you're on your way home from work, and then all of a sudden someone tries to rob you and you die, but they never actually take your stuff!
01:33:17.000 Yeah, is the crime in DC actually a cover for the government using, like, authoritarian thug tactics?
01:33:25.000 Like, you send people up to beat up people walking around?
01:33:27.000 Is that why they want the crime to go up?
01:33:29.000 So that way you can just be like, it's plausible deniability?
01:33:31.000 You can't let it get too low.
01:33:33.000 That'll become suspicious.
01:33:35.000 I remember when Kevin Spacey pushed that journalist in front of a train.
01:33:39.000 I remember that.
01:33:39.000 Oh yeah, that's predictive programming.
01:33:41.000 That's crap.
01:33:42.000 That show's terrible.
01:33:43.000 The show's actually really good.
01:33:44.000 I thought it was horrible.
01:33:45.000 Kevin Spacey had a fake accent from the South.
01:33:48.000 It was real bad.
01:33:50.000 You know, I started watching that show and then there was the House of Cards.
01:33:54.000 Yeah, House of Cards.
01:33:55.000 One of the early episodes, a congressman does cocaine in a trailer with this college friend to get some dirt on another college guy.
01:34:03.000 And I thought, that's just ridiculous.
01:34:04.000 And I had just gotten elected to Congress.
01:34:06.000 I was going to say, were you in Congress yet?
01:34:09.000 I had just gotten elected, that's why I was watching the show.
01:34:11.000 And then I was like, that's stupid, I'm going to quit watching.
01:34:14.000 Two weeks later, my colleague gets arrested for buying cocaine at Union Station.
01:34:20.000 Trey Radle, from Florida, a congressman.
01:34:25.000 I like Trey Radle, but if there was anything he was guilty of, it was lack of imagination.
01:34:30.000 You can't imagine that they're waiting at Union Station to arrest congressmen who are buying cocaine.
01:34:36.000 Can you get somebody to go buy it for you?
01:34:41.000 If you're a member of Congress and you're caught buying drugs, I'd imagine the first thing they'd do is say, you're going to vote the way we want you to vote from now on.
01:34:47.000 And probably Trey said not.
01:34:50.000 And that's why I got in trouble.
01:34:53.000 So then I had to go back and watch House of Cards.
01:34:55.000 And every detail, it's like they took the lamps out of my office.
01:35:00.000 And the chair rail was the same height.
01:35:01.000 I went over and measured it.
01:35:02.000 I'm like, this looked just like my office.
01:35:05.000 It looked just like the Majority Whip's office.
01:35:07.000 Everything was so real.
01:35:08.000 You were expecting certain people to pass you in the hallway?
01:35:11.000 I was getting PTSD on the weekends watching this, but then I realized there's one element of the whole House of Cards that got wrong that is nothing like Congress.
01:35:20.000 I couldn't watch it again once I saw this.
01:35:22.000 In House of Cards, there's a guy with a plan.
01:35:27.000 There is nobody in Congress who's had a plan that's lasted more than two weeks.
01:35:35.000 At least, you know, what was his name?
01:35:38.000 Kevin Spacey played Frank Underwood.
01:35:43.000 If there was really a Frank Underwood as an engineer, I would be under his tutelage probably.
01:35:49.000 Yeah, here's the guy with structure.
01:35:52.000 I think the piecemeal bills, putting ten pieces of one bill scattered about in a bunch of other bills that get passed, that activate upon, you know, certain conditions.
01:36:03.000 Like epoxy.
01:36:05.000 That's right.
01:36:05.000 Exactly.
01:36:06.000 And then when they put them together in an omnibus, they just bond.
01:36:09.000 Exactly.
01:36:11.000 I was thinking more like Exodia from Yu-Gi-Oh.
01:36:15.000 If anybody understands that right, Dane is probably cheering right now.
01:36:18.000 If it, like a plan, like retrofitting our economy to a hydrogen fuel-based hybrid gasoline-hydrogen fuel economy, would you, if someone had that plan and they talked about it a lot in Congress, inspired other congressmen, stood up and talked about it in speeches, gave numbers, patterns, like that kind of thing, are you going to run?
01:36:35.000 I don't know if I would win.
01:36:37.000 I don't even know if my value would be served there if I should just come in and talk.
01:36:43.000 Talk?
01:36:44.000 Like just go in and hang out and explain things?
01:36:47.000 You guys are the envy of every congressman, okay?
01:36:51.000 Seriously.
01:36:52.000 Because 90% of what we do is messaging and trying to convince people that they should call our colleagues and get them to do stuff, right?
01:37:01.000 And you control all of that.
01:37:03.000 You are way more powerful here with a microphone on this show than you could ever imagine being in the House of Representatives.
01:37:10.000 But look at AOC.
01:37:12.000 She has both.
01:37:14.000 Yes, she plays, this is what, she plays the outside game.
01:37:17.000 You can, it's hard to do both, but she is in all 435 districts, to some degree, influencing.
01:37:25.000 I mean, what freshman ever got the name of their bill mentioned every day in the House of Representatives?
01:37:31.000 Well, have you considered doing your skincare routine on Instagram Live while you take the train to Congress?
01:37:36.000 We're gonna go to Super Chats.
01:37:37.000 I have considered mixing margaritas, because I drink medical margaritas.
01:37:42.000 We're gonna go to Super Chats.
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01:37:54.000 We're gonna talk a bit more about Congress, and there's certainly more questions to be had, but for now we will read your Super Chats.
01:38:00.000 Alright, Zachary McCoy says, first baby!
01:38:02.000 That's right.
01:38:03.000 You were the first Super Jet.
01:38:03.000 Congratulations.
01:38:04.000 You get a margarita from Thomas Massey.
01:38:06.000 Medical margarita.
01:38:07.000 I'm not a recreational drinker.
01:38:08.000 Says people cheering for Biden's nonsense is not new.
01:38:11.000 Ask them what President Obama would say in his speeches, and they have no clue because it's all platitude.
01:38:16.000 Basically, when Biden says something like, Batacaf care, people cheer for it.
01:38:20.000 And you're asking, like, why are they cheering?
01:38:22.000 What did he say?
01:38:23.000 I don't know, but... But the elite said to applaud, and they were like, we got it.
01:38:29.000 Joshua Flower says, Tim, I asked you a clip of Biden's gaffe from last night.
01:38:32.000 The cheering started before the gaffe and quieted down shortly after.
01:38:35.000 Uh, I think it was the Batacaf care one that I was at.
01:38:38.000 I think I mixed up.
01:38:39.000 I think it was Batacaf care where they cheered and it's like, what?
01:38:43.000 And then, so that was my bad.
01:38:44.000 So, uh, I confused the clips and, uh, but there is cheering before he says, Trina, not a shabbit of pressure.
01:38:51.000 Alright, let's grab some more.
01:38:53.000 Vincent.thunderwizard.com says, Hey Tim and crew, my dog Coco passed away on Tuesday after a long life of 16 years.
01:39:01.000 I'm grieving and miss her very much.
01:39:03.000 Love the show and keep doing what you're doing.
01:39:05.000 Much love, Vince.
01:39:06.000 Sorry to hear it, Vince.
01:39:07.000 Yeah, to Coco, the kingdom of heaven, you know.
01:39:09.000 We got Mr. Bocas.
01:39:10.000 He's sleeping curled up right here, right next to me.
01:39:13.000 And, uh, you know, his hair is not growing back.
01:39:15.000 So he gets, uh, when he goes to the vet, they shave his arms for the IVs.
01:39:19.000 And, uh, the, he's, I think he's, he's, he's, we've kept him alive a very long time.
01:39:24.000 So his story is he was a street cat.
01:39:26.000 He's got bad kidneys and a bad heart.
01:39:28.000 And because of his heart, we can't give him the kidney medicine because the kidneys can't give him the heart medicine.
01:39:32.000 We could have got him a kidney transplant, but his heart is bad.
01:39:35.000 And for whatever reason.
01:39:37.000 But Ian got him stem cells.
01:39:39.000 And so that seems to have done something.
01:39:42.000 And he's been alive a lot longer than he was supposed to have.
01:39:45.000 So we got him hopped up on all kinds of medication.
01:39:47.000 He was supposed to be dead over a year ago.
01:39:49.000 Try medical margaritas.
01:39:50.000 Medical margaritas?
01:39:51.000 So what is a medical margarita?
01:39:52.000 I just have to know right now.
01:39:54.000 It's very strong and it's an exact dose.
01:39:57.000 Okay, but why?
01:39:58.000 Alright, let's read some more Super Chats.
01:40:00.000 Dosage is everything.
01:40:01.000 All right, let's go!
01:40:02.000 Coley Locke's Production says, hey Tim, you said yesterday you wanted a World War II historian for the Culture War.
01:40:08.000 If I may make a suggestion, you should invite Tick History, T-I-K History.
01:40:13.000 I like Tick, he's good.
01:40:14.000 And talk about it, he's a great World War II historian and very knowledgeable about the politics.
01:40:17.000 That would be great!
01:40:18.000 We've got a, tomorrow we have a California secessionist and a Civil War historian coming on the Culture War.
01:40:24.000 So that's over at Tenet Media on YouTube.
01:40:26.000 That'll be 10 a.m.
01:40:26.000 live, you don't want to miss it.
01:40:27.000 I'm really excited for this one, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
01:40:30.000 Um, it's very easy to get a Civil War historian in this area, because we're like 10 miles from Antietam.
01:40:36.000 We're 40 minutes from Gettysburg.
01:40:37.000 I was gonna say, you like throw a rock and hit 12 of them.
01:40:39.000 Yeah, right.
01:40:40.000 You know, so when we were like, we would need a Civil War historian, they're all running here in Civil War outfits, like me!
01:40:46.000 They have their thesis out, I am the best one!
01:40:48.000 I mean, you go to Gettysburg.
01:40:50.000 Have you guys ever, have you been there?
01:40:51.000 You check out?
01:40:52.000 Like, there's, there's, we just drove down a road and we saw Confederate costumes and reenactors, and I'm like, I bet any one of them.
01:40:57.000 You can talk your ear off about all of it.
01:41:00.000 Probably any of the people on the tours, too.
01:41:02.000 Like, if you're touring all these battlefields, you know a fair amount yourself.
01:41:05.000 It's really funny.
01:41:06.000 I mean, I'm sure there's some dude who just lives there and works at a Starbucks and he's like, I know everything about the Civil War.
01:41:10.000 Alright, let's grab some more Super Chats.
01:41:13.000 Where we at?
01:41:14.000 What's interesting about that is West Virginia did secede and made it stick.
01:41:19.000 Like people say it could never work.
01:41:22.000 You know?
01:41:22.000 A state seceded from another state and it stuck.
01:41:25.000 I'm torn on it because it was dirty, but I'm glad it happened.
01:41:29.000 So the general idea is when all of the Virginia men who lived in the area were off fighting, the people who were not fighting voted to secede.
01:41:37.000 So that's kind of messed up.
01:41:40.000 Then after the war ended, Virginia was like, yo, this is not legit, and the Supreme Court was like, it's totally fine, and they get to stay.
01:41:45.000 And now West Virginia is like, second most, second most based.
01:41:48.000 Wyoming, I guess, is considered the most based.
01:41:51.000 But that's because they're actual people who know how to survive.
01:41:53.000 West Virginia's got a lot of mountain people, so they know what's up.
01:41:56.000 But West Virginia is best Virginia, so.
01:41:58.000 All right, Barely a Millennial says, Rep Massey, how do you prepare yourself to go into the lion's den every day?
01:42:03.000 Is it really so difficult to not be corrupted?
01:42:05.000 Also, shout out to my rep, Victoria Spartz.
01:42:08.000 Nice to see my state getting vocal.
01:42:09.000 Okay, first of all, I drink raw milk every morning.
01:42:13.000 I'll bring it from Kentucky.
01:42:14.000 It's yours too, right?
01:42:15.000 No, but I can't say where it comes from.
01:42:17.000 I have beef cattle.
01:42:18.000 I don't have milk cows.
01:42:20.000 And Victoria Sparks is awesome.
01:42:23.000 Cool.
01:42:24.000 You have chickens.
01:42:25.000 You have the Cluck Capacitor.
01:42:27.000 I have the Cluck's Capacitor, which is an invention of mine, which is basically a giant Roomba with several, a bunch of chickens in it that moves in the yard and takes the chickens with it.
01:42:38.000 They're all on fresh grass.
01:42:40.000 It's got a 4,000 volt perimeter that it carries with it.
01:42:43.000 It collects the rainwater as it goes.
01:42:44.000 Wow.
01:42:45.000 Fertilizes.
01:42:45.000 And they drink the rainwater, is that it?
01:42:47.000 Yep.
01:42:47.000 Wow.
01:42:48.000 You know, that... That's amazing.
01:42:50.000 You know, that may be impressive to some, but we have a chicken city, and we're gonna be building Neo Chicken City.
01:42:57.000 So first, we had the small chicken coop, double layer fencing in this box, and there was a little thing I would lift up to open the door in the morning so the chickens could come out.
01:43:08.000 They would go to bed at night.
01:43:10.000 And, uh, there was actually one point a bear came and tried ripping its way into the chicken coop to kill.
01:43:15.000 This was our original seven chickens.
01:43:17.000 Well, when we laid concrete and got rid of that patch of grassy area and tore down Chicken City, we had to build a new Chicken City.
01:43:24.000 And so now we have this massive structure with- it actually has a house with an air conditioning and a TV and everything.
01:43:31.000 I haven't been in there in a year.
01:43:33.000 And, uh, large quantities of chickens.
01:43:37.000 However, we're moving in less than a month.
01:43:40.000 And so that means, what are you gonna do?
01:43:42.000 New, new Chicken City?
01:43:43.000 We can't do that.
01:43:44.000 You need a Clux Capacitor.
01:43:46.000 Neo Chicken City.
01:43:47.000 Yeah.
01:43:47.000 Neo Chicken City.
01:43:48.000 So it's gonna be Tokyo Cyberpunk.
01:43:50.000 And we're gonna put neon everywhere and make it look futuristic.
01:43:53.000 And I'm gonna get little sunglasses for the chickens.
01:43:54.000 Little razor blades, like neon colors.
01:43:56.000 That'd be sick.
01:43:56.000 Yeah.
01:43:57.000 Is it underground?
01:43:58.000 No, no.
01:43:58.000 Oh, that's a good idea.
01:43:59.000 How's it gonna survive the EMP?
01:44:02.000 I don't know if this here's an idea we had the other day.
01:44:06.000 We've had for a long time, actually.
01:44:07.000 So in Fremont in Seattle, there is a statue of Lenin, which is still for sale.
01:44:12.000 I believe 250,000 was the last quote.
01:44:15.000 But when was that, like 20 years ago?
01:44:16.000 No, no, someone said on Twitter that they saw it within the past like six months.
01:44:20.000 Let's get it!
01:44:20.000 So I want to buy the Statue of Lenin.
01:44:23.000 I want to lay it down, partially buried, and put the chicken's roosting bar across over it so that every day we have a live camera and you see Lenin's face getting spattered with chicken shit.
01:44:36.000 And I think it would be one of the greatest accomplishments of my life, and I think the audience of this show would greatly appreciate it.
01:44:43.000 I think that Chicken City could become one of the most popular shows among conservatives and libertarians, and just anyone who hates communism in general, and they can just know that no matter how bad your day gets, you can always go to chickencitylive.com and watch a chicken take a dump on Lenin's face.
01:44:58.000 That's good, right?
01:45:00.000 We gotta buy it!
01:45:02.000 It's a business that writes its own business plan!
01:45:04.000 And then we could sell t-shirts that have, like, Lenin with bird crap on his face, and it's like, he just- I mean, you're rich!
01:45:10.000 For the rest of your life!
01:45:12.000 There you go.
01:45:12.000 Maybe- I'm not kidding, either.
01:45:14.000 We're trying- we're gonna figure out how to buy this thing.
01:45:16.000 If you just made a replica of the statue, would that be enough?
01:45:19.000 Do you need to put out that capital to start crapping on Lenin's face or can you just get started with the replica?
01:45:25.000 So someone built this statue and it's been in Seattle and it's a point of contention.
01:45:28.000 It has provenance.
01:45:30.000 Yeah, and so to take that from the Seattle Communists and then desecrate it live on camera, it just feels so good.
01:45:40.000 I'd ask your Civil War expert about that before you start.
01:45:44.000 Well, so here's the thing, right?
01:45:46.000 Should we spend $250,000 on a statue of Lenin plus shipping, transport, construction?
01:45:53.000 I think the people who are members at TimCast.com would demand it.
01:45:58.000 They would say, Tim, I will cease my membership unless you buy this communist statue and desecrate it.
01:46:05.000 Uh, in all seriousness, I don't think anyone would actually cancel if we didn't, but I think a lot of people would sign up if we did.
01:46:11.000 And I think, um... I don't- I don't- It's not about the money.
01:46:14.000 It's about sending a message, you know?
01:46:17.000 So, you know, I could post a Joker meme and then post the video and say we have done it.
01:46:21.000 I think we could do it.
01:46:23.000 I don't think it'd be that difficult.
01:46:24.000 It would be probably, like, five figures to transport and set up.
01:46:29.000 We would need to trench a little bit so it's partially, like, I want it partially buried so it looks kind of like post-apocalyptic.
01:46:36.000 Like Planet of the Apes.
01:46:37.000 Statue of Liberty.
01:46:37.000 Yeah.
01:46:38.000 Yup.
01:46:38.000 Yeah.
01:46:39.000 Yeah, and then just put the roosting bar right above it, and so just every day it's just... And you can watch, and it will bring joy to those who have suffered under the hands of communism.
01:46:49.000 I hope one falls right here, so it looks like he's crying chicken shit.
01:46:52.000 That's what I hope.
01:46:54.000 Alright, let's go!
01:46:57.000 Andrew 843 says, Rep Massey, why can't we get a vote on Major Richard Starr Act H.R.
01:47:02.000 1282?
01:47:03.000 Congress said it doesn't have the $9.7 billion for 10 years to pass it, but yet we have $60 billion for Ukraine.
01:47:08.000 Good question.
01:47:09.000 It doesn't matter if they have money.
01:47:10.000 There's so many things that are less than $60 billion that we could do that we say we don't have the money for, but when it comes time to send it to Ukraine, nobody asks how you're going to pay for that.
01:47:21.000 Well, we have the money for that.
01:47:22.000 Yeah, of course.
01:47:23.000 Voodoo.
01:47:24.000 Because it all comes back.
01:47:26.000 Like it's a boomerang.
01:47:28.000 You know, Biden sent a letter to the House of Representatives recently extolling the virtues of all the military spending.
01:47:35.000 They don't call it the military industrial complex anymore, they call it the Defense Industrial Base.
01:47:41.000 So the MIC is now the DIB, if you're keeping up with the terminology, but he listed all the states that would benefit from spending all this money in Ukraine.
01:47:51.000 I just, I want to go back to the Lenin thing.
01:47:53.000 I just, I'm thinking about if we made our own statue of Lenin and had, it just doesn't punch.
01:47:58.000 I agree.
01:47:58.000 You know what I mean?
01:47:59.000 You, so there are communists in Seattle probably love that thing.
01:48:02.000 I would love to take it from them.
01:48:04.000 Like it would bring me great joy to know that they have lost something.
01:48:04.000 You know what I mean?
01:48:07.000 Is it for sale?
01:48:09.000 It's, it's historically been for sale.
01:48:11.000 Phil was looking, you know, I guess someone said that it was for sale.
01:48:12.000 I think I might have a phone number too.
01:48:14.000 Really?
01:48:15.000 I might, I'm not sure.
01:48:17.000 It must be done.
01:48:18.000 And no, no, no, hold on.
01:48:19.000 Someone chatted saying Tim wants you to give him $250,000.
01:48:21.000 No, no, no, no, no.
01:48:22.000 I already have $250,000.
01:48:24.000 I am not going to ask anyone.
01:48:26.000 I will not do a fundraising drive for this.
01:48:28.000 I will not do a GoFundMe.
01:48:29.000 I will not say, if you become a member today, I may do it.
01:48:32.000 No, no, no, no.
01:48:32.000 Don't worry.
01:48:33.000 If you're a member or not, we are working on it.
01:48:36.000 This is important.
01:48:38.000 It is!
01:48:39.000 It's important because, ask yourself what matters in this world, right?
01:48:44.000 If someone came to you and said, I will give you a great castle for which you can live in, I ask myself, well, who will take care of the castle?
01:48:51.000 Who will clean the latrines?
01:48:54.000 Who will repair the damage in a storm.
01:48:56.000 I can't be bothered with this.
01:48:58.000 Someone comes to me and says perhaps I could give you a million dollar sports car.
01:49:03.000 And when do I have time to drive that?
01:49:04.000 I don't drive.
01:49:05.000 I'm sitting in this box complaining on the internet all day.
01:49:07.000 It's meaningless.
01:49:08.000 But what matters to future generations?
01:49:10.000 What matters is that we take from the communists and we desecrate their sacred images.
01:49:15.000 I back this.
01:49:16.000 It's immortal.
01:49:17.000 The car will break.
01:49:18.000 The castle will fall.
01:49:21.000 I can go to a casino and gamble it, what does that accomplish?
01:49:24.000 But desecrating Lenin, it'll be in the history books, the statute.
01:49:29.000 And I can show it on the floor of the house and be covered by the Speech or Debate Clause.
01:49:34.000 Yes!
01:49:34.000 Here's a live stream of chickens crapping out.
01:49:36.000 I'm gonna cry, this is so beautiful.
01:49:39.000 But I would say, can you believe what he's doing?
01:49:42.000 I just can't believe he's doing this.
01:49:44.000 It's so great.
01:49:46.000 I mean, make the Democrats praise communism.
01:49:50.000 Make them do it.
01:49:52.000 Have a vote on a resolution to denounce communism and see how many are like, I won't do that.
01:49:58.000 We've actually taken that vote.
01:50:00.000 Oh, okay.
01:50:01.000 And the Democrats were like, nah, we're cool with it.
01:50:04.000 Some of them, it splits them down the middle, frankly.
01:50:07.000 Not kidding.
01:50:09.000 We had a vote to condemn socialism.
01:50:12.000 And half the Democrats voted for it and half voted against it.
01:50:16.000 The ones that voted against it, they are aware that it means, like, you have to give up your property.
01:50:22.000 You don't have property rights.
01:50:24.000 And without property rights, like, the economy doesn't go.
01:50:28.000 Guys, the Statue of Lenin in, uh, you know, there's nothing to pull up.
01:50:33.000 You're just pulling up.
01:50:34.000 The Statue of Lenin has its own Wikipedia entry.
01:50:39.000 When we buy this and desecrate it, they will update its Wikipedia entry and the image of it will no longer be this beautiful picture from Seattle.
01:50:49.000 Remember who's going to do the update?
01:50:50.000 But a toppled Lenin.
01:50:51.000 Remember who's going to do the update too?
01:50:53.000 Who?
01:50:53.000 You?
01:50:53.000 They're going to be commies!
01:50:54.000 They're going to be Antifa!
01:50:56.000 They're the ones that update Wikipedia!
01:50:58.000 Oh, I know.
01:50:58.000 But so right now, if you go to the Wikipedia for Statue of Lenin, it shows just the statue and there's a tree and there's like a walkway and it's in the city.
01:51:06.000 But, if we take it, and we cover it with chicken shit, that will be the photo they must use.
01:51:12.000 We gotta do this.
01:51:13.000 We gotta call a lawyer and be like, facilitate this, make it happen.
01:51:17.000 BaseJew says, donate this to the Lennon Statue Reclamation Project Act.
01:51:22.000 And it's a $50 super chat.
01:51:24.000 It shall be done!
01:51:25.000 We appreciate you.
01:51:26.000 Um, look, there's no guarantee they sell it to us.
01:51:28.000 They may say, it's a piece of art, you shouldn't destroy it, put it in a museum.
01:51:32.000 I actually don't disagree with that entirely.
01:51:34.000 You know, I'm being kind of a dick when I say let's destroy this thing.
01:51:37.000 Maybe you're saying you're doing a new performance art piece.
01:51:40.000 That's true.
01:51:40.000 Involving the statue.
01:51:41.000 Updating the art.
01:51:42.000 You're just gonna paint it.
01:51:43.000 Deconstruction, it's deconstruction!
01:51:48.000 Yeah, yeah.
01:51:49.000 But they might say, no we won't do it.
01:51:51.000 Or they might say a million dollars.
01:51:54.000 You know, they might jack the price up, who knows.
01:51:56.000 Do you have like a ceiling limit?
01:51:58.000 How much would you spend on this Lennon statue?
01:52:00.000 I don't know, it's kind of like...
01:52:02.000 When I'm on my deathbed, people are gonna ask me, like, what did you do with your life that mattered the most?
01:52:08.000 And the first thing I'm gonna say is the people I care about my life, my family, everything we do is for them, obviously.
01:52:14.000 But if you're asking me about career and accolades and accomplishment, I don't know what could top taking the Statue of Lenin and having chickens shit all over it.
01:52:25.000 You know, like, if I was ever to run for office and was, like, in Congress, I'm sorry, Rep Massey, but I would not care at all relative to having chickens shit all over Lennon.
01:52:34.000 I mean, that's something that can't be bought.
01:52:36.000 You know what I mean?
01:52:36.000 Like, we're lucky that we're trying to figure out the opportunity in which to do such a thing.
01:52:40.000 I think you better use an intermediate buyer.
01:52:44.000 Are you willing to help us with this?
01:52:46.000 Would they sell it to Rep Thomas Massey, do you think?
01:52:50.000 So the other issue now is... She might be able to get a grant for it.
01:52:53.000 Now, oh, I'm, you know, I gotta be honest, like, there's... Good, yes, let's use government money for this project.
01:52:57.000 No, no, NGOs.
01:52:57.000 Oh, sorry, NGO.
01:52:59.000 There's probably a bunch of non, there's a bunch of non-profits that oppose communism, and they're very, very wealthy.
01:53:04.000 I wouldn't be surprised if I went to them and said, here's the idea, they'd be like, we'll pay half.
01:53:08.000 Let's make this happen.
01:53:10.000 That being said, they may be a bit more academic and say, that's kind of crude and we're trying to be very serious and highlighting the terrors of communism.
01:53:20.000 And I would just be like, I just don't like communists, you know, so we want to do this, but you know, we'll figure it out.
01:53:25.000 We'll figure it out.
01:53:26.000 I think we can get it.
01:53:27.000 All right, Ricky M says, since Donald Trump is gaining popularity among Gen Z, how long until the Dems start shouting, we need to repeal the 26th?
01:53:37.000 Any guesses?
01:53:38.000 I don't know.
01:53:38.000 26th is, I'm sorry.
01:53:40.000 Which one's 26th?
01:53:40.000 26th Amendment?
01:53:41.000 Yeah.
01:53:43.000 I'm not even sure what it is.
01:53:43.000 Is that the, uh, 18-year-old's right to vote?
01:53:47.000 We should probably all know what all the amendments are.
01:53:50.000 Like, that's an American... Yeah, that's an 18-year-old's right to vote.
01:53:54.000 I mean, I thought I knew, but I was kind of like, I'm going to say the wrong one, aren't I?
01:53:58.000 So I didn't want to say it.
01:53:58.000 Look, you can't, you can't, you can't have kids going to war without being able to vote.
01:54:05.000 Yes, you can.
01:54:06.000 Well, I mean, I don't feel comfortable saying personally.
01:54:09.000 I disagree.
01:54:10.000 But they can't buy cigarettes.
01:54:11.000 They can't buy alcohol.
01:54:12.000 Fair enough.
01:54:13.000 They can't rent a car.
01:54:15.000 I do not think voting should be predicated upon just an age.
01:54:20.000 However, in terms of what you're saying about going to war, I certainly think if you do join, you have the right to vote.
01:54:27.000 I do not believe simply because you've reached the age of majority, you have a right to vote.
01:54:30.000 Fair enough.
01:54:31.000 And also, I mean, I'm not, I'm not, everyone knows that I'm not the biggest democracy lover and the fewer people vote, the better, the happier I am.
01:54:37.000 I have a bill that's in this zip code.
01:54:40.000 It's called the Safer Voter Act.
01:54:42.000 And I tie the voting age to the age you can buy a handgun.
01:54:47.000 So right now you can't buy a handgun from an FFL because of federal law until you're 21.
01:54:53.000 In Virginia?
01:54:54.000 Wait, federally?
01:54:55.000 Federally.
01:54:55.000 What?
01:54:56.000 Federal law.
01:54:57.000 Since when?
01:54:59.000 It's been a long time.
01:55:01.000 Wow, I didn't know that.
01:55:02.000 So I call it the Second Amendment for Every Registrable Voter, the Safer Voter Act.
01:55:07.000 Oh, that's a good one.
01:55:09.000 Well, let's get that one through.
01:55:10.000 Have you considered putting something in to repeal the NFA?
01:55:14.000 I think one of my colleagues has already done that.
01:55:16.000 Can you do it again?
01:55:17.000 You don't want to steal his thunder?
01:55:19.000 We could try to get a vote on that.
01:55:21.000 I mean, can you sneak- Some value in that.
01:55:22.000 I mean, and how many people in Congress- Oh, I got a bill passed today.
01:55:25.000 Wait.
01:55:25.000 Which one?
01:55:26.000 What?
01:55:26.000 This is kind of important.
01:55:28.000 I've forgotten this.
01:55:29.000 Like, there is a little bright spot.
01:55:30.000 You mean you got some work done?
01:55:31.000 He just came out to hang out today.
01:55:33.000 In judiciary, I passed a bill out of committee, and I got every Democrat and every Republican to vote for it, and it's a pro-Second Amendment bill.
01:55:42.000 Yes.
01:55:43.000 What does it do?
01:55:44.000 So the NICS background check system.
01:55:47.000 Yeah.
01:55:47.000 Okay.
01:55:48.000 It's very sloppy.
01:55:49.000 Oh, yeah.
01:55:49.000 There are millions of false denials.
01:55:52.000 Okay.
01:55:52.000 Since it's been put in.
01:55:53.000 Oh, yes.
01:55:54.000 I saw this and it has to talk.
01:55:55.000 Go ahead.
01:55:56.000 Yeah.
01:55:56.000 So millions of false denials and a lot of people give up.
01:56:01.000 You can appeal it, but if your appeal is denied, now you got to hire a lawyer and spend money.
01:56:06.000 So it's a bad thing.
01:56:08.000 They use phonetically similar names and similar birthdays.
01:56:12.000 They don't even go on exactness, because they kind of want it to be sloppy, because the more people that get denied, the fewer guns there are.
01:56:19.000 But what I discovered in talking to some people who've studied this, is that's inherently racist.
01:56:26.000 The system is, if you're a black male, you're three times more likely to get falsely denied purchase of a firearm than a white male.
01:56:34.000 Here is why.
01:56:35.000 Within ethnic groups and races, you share similar first names and surnames.
01:56:43.000 And if you are, because there's so many black males incarcerated, Or have been, and we can talk about over-incarceration, some of that is wrong.
01:56:55.000 You are more likely, when you go to buy a gun, to share a similar name with somebody who's, if you're a black male, with a black male who has a disqualifying condition, i.e.
01:57:06.000 a felony.
01:57:07.000 So the bill that I got passed today in the Judiciary Committee, the House of Representatives says the FBI has to give us all of that data they already collect on the form 4473 and tell us statistically, we don't want individual knowledge of these people by race, ethnicity, country of origin, and sex.
01:57:29.000 What the denial rates are and what we are going to prove and the FBI is going to give us the data is that this sloppy Knicks background check system has a racial bias in it.
01:57:40.000 Wow.
01:57:40.000 And I got Democrats to care about that.
01:57:44.000 Because, you know, they talk about racial bias in AI, image recognition, drug prosecutions, traffic stops.
01:57:52.000 Healthcare.
01:57:52.000 It's everywhere.
01:57:53.000 So here's one place where it legitimately exists and we're going to get the data.
01:57:56.000 We're going to show that.
01:57:57.000 And so the whole result of that, hopefully, is we narrow this down and don't be sloppy.
01:58:02.000 So we don't deprive not just blacks and Hispanics, but whites from buying guns.
01:58:06.000 Right on.
01:58:07.000 Let's read this.
01:58:07.000 Tucson Alorum says, trust me, just buy a bust.
01:58:09.000 A full-blown statue is pricey.
01:58:11.000 I looked into this to recreate Chris Farley's in a van down by the river pose at my creek.
01:58:16.000 Turned out to be cheaper to buy a fat homeless guy with a van to live in still.
01:58:20.000 Yes, um, I'm not spending $250,000 to buy a statue.
01:58:23.000 I'm spending $250,000 to take away from communists.
01:58:25.000 That's it.
01:58:31.000 All the commies in Seattle and all the leftists will collectively lose their minds.
01:58:34.000 And you know, I gotta be honest, if they find out that I'm doing this, if we actually make big moves on this, they may get into a bidding war to try and protect their communist statue.
01:58:44.000 So we'll see.
01:58:46.000 Sean says, Tim, make a shirt with a toppled Stalin statue and chicks furiously pooping on him and his quote, you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet.
01:58:55.000 That was a Stalin quote?
01:58:58.000 It's sort of funny to me how people are like, I've already looked into this.
01:59:01.000 I've already considered this idea.
01:59:03.000 Some of the statues are hard to get a hold of, like all of the Civil War monuments that have been removed.
01:59:08.000 of Lenin. Who cares? It's sort of funny to me how people are like, I've already looked into this. I've already
01:59:13.000 considered this idea. We were going to build a statue but it's too much money. Some of the statues are hard to get a
01:59:17.000 hold of, like all of the Civil War monuments that have been removed. They make it very, very difficult
01:59:21.000 for people to get their hands on them. This apparently was a Lenin quote.
01:59:24.000 If you want to make an omelette, you have to be willing to break a few eggs.
01:59:27.000 Cord Wilkinson says, I will pick up the statue and deliver it, no charge.
01:59:32.000 I really, really want to make this happen.
01:59:34.000 We have to do trenching, which can cost a little bit, because we need to dig out enough to where we can position it at an angle.
01:59:39.000 And then, I just think it would be so fantastic to see chickens just jumping up on it and pooping and doing chicken stuff.
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02:00:32.000 Rep Massey, do you want to shout anything out?
02:00:34.000 Debt badge.
02:00:35.000 I see your debt badge is working over there.
02:00:38.000 Got it working.
02:00:38.000 What's the debt at right now?
02:00:39.000 $34 trillion.
02:00:41.000 $34 trillion, $245 billion, $587 million, $300,000.
02:00:44.000 And that's the freshest debt possible because you put in your Wi-Fi credentials and it's gone to Treasury and it displays the born on date of the debt right there in the upper window so you can see the Treasury published it.
02:00:57.000 There's like a website for it?
02:00:58.000 Yeah.
02:00:59.000 Yeah, what is it?
02:01:00.000 What's the website?
02:01:01.000 People can buy those things?
02:01:02.000 Oh, debtbadge.com.
02:01:03.000 You can buy them.
02:01:03.000 Yep.
02:01:04.000 Oh, cool.
02:01:05.000 Right on.
02:01:06.000 I actually shared the link, too, on my Twitter account.
02:01:09.000 So, Mr. Bocas can't possibly fit in the box.
02:01:11.000 He wants to, though.
02:01:11.000 That's hilarious that he's trying to fit in the box.
02:01:13.000 He's desperately trying to fit in this tiny box.
02:01:15.000 He is a cat.
02:01:15.000 He wants in the debt badge.
02:01:16.000 Who's next?
02:01:17.000 Phil Hennecler?
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02:01:34.000 I just realized we match today.
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02:01:56.000 I'm Ian Crossland.
02:01:57.000 Maybe I'll run for Congress, man.
02:01:59.000 Maybe I'm gonna run for Congress.
02:02:01.000 This is nuts.
02:02:01.000 I love it.
02:02:02.000 This is a soft launch of your campaign right now.
02:02:03.000 You gotta do something great.
02:02:05.000 And I feel like, what am I doing with life?
02:02:06.000 Let's do something great.
02:02:08.000 Either way, good to see you again, man.
02:02:09.000 And thanks for enlightening me and all of us that the military-industrial complex is now called the Defense Industrial Base.
02:02:16.000 They get dibs on all your money.
02:02:18.000 Oh, dib.
02:02:18.000 Wow.
02:02:19.000 Yeah, that's... Horrifying.
02:02:20.000 What a coincidence.
02:02:21.000 By the way, I have... There's like this Shadow X account that a lot of people don't know about called Massey Ratio.
02:02:27.000 Hall of shame.
02:02:29.000 But you have nothing to do with it?
02:02:32.000 It's a grey op.
02:02:35.000 I might know somebody who knows somebody.
02:02:38.000 A grey op, huh?
02:02:39.000 Currently following.
02:02:42.000 You know, like Adam Kinzinger is just a total ass on X, and then we comment, and then they get ratio.
02:02:48.000 You're pinned tweet, ratios build character.
02:02:51.000 That's actually from Twitter.
02:02:53.000 Well, we'll get into that in the member show.
02:02:55.000 We got Serge, president of Bunz.
02:02:57.000 Yo, yeah.
02:02:59.000 I am Serge.com.
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