00:02:41We're not, we'll have to check the latest update on the condition of this individual.
00:02:44Now, when this story first broke, it seemed like just another tragic shooting incident.
00:02:49New information came out during the day, throughout the day, that this man was aggrieved by building management and a legal dispute, which again still seemed kind of just like a strange local story.
00:03:00And then more individuals who had gone through his social media.
00:03:04A witness testimony from the shooting, as well as someone who interviewed him, they put out information where it gets a bit more interesting.
00:03:10This man had invoked Luigi Mangione, referred to the people that he was aggrieved by as Luigi, as referred to them as using Luigi 3 or Luigi tactics.
00:03:21And then after the shooting, a witness said that he said to all of them, in order to make people pay attention, you have to do something.
00:03:31It appears that this guy's seemingly personal grievance.
00:03:38Drove him to killing and shooting innocent people as well as the person he was in.
00:03:44They're all innocent, but he targeted the building manager, who he was in dispute with, and innocent construction workers because he did not like the construction.
00:03:53And it appears, I think it's fair to say, based on his invocation of Luigi Mangione, that this is part of the Mangione effect.
00:04:00This is what we warned about and what we feared.
00:04:04And I'm going to stress this is not like he targeted the CEO.
00:04:07But this is what was so particularly scary about people granting sainthood, literally making sainthood candles to Mangione.
00:04:15Luigi was aggrieved, allegedly, by the healthcare companies.
00:04:20So he decided to shoot and kill a healthcare CEO, a man who he felt represented what oppressed him, who he was aggrieved by.0.69
00:04:29This guy in D.C. similarly seems to have been inspired by Luigi Mangione to shoot and kill people because he felt aggrieved.
00:04:38What is scary about what happened with the left, with their support of Luigi Mangione, is that that is a guy going after a CEO.
00:04:49What's terrifying is when people decide to be like Luigi and start killing people who they feel have aggrieved them because it's not going to be fought in some faraway land.
00:04:59It's going to be in your gym, it's going to be your next door neighbor.
00:05:03It's going to be a guy who says, my building manager.
00:05:07And what's crazy about it is, For most people in this country, the actions of an individual building manager in DC are inconsequential.
00:05:15But to this man who felt like his life was being ruined, it was Luigi Mangione.
00:05:22And so he went to a gym, shot several people, including construction workers who were completely uninvolved in the dispute because he was upset that the construction was part of what was making it hard for him to live in DC.
00:05:34A man who owned a million dollar condo, who was an emergency room doctor.
00:05:58We do have other really big news, including Jensen Wang of Nvidia resigning the announcement earlier this morning and the news breaking of a third affair and how this is going to affect the AI industry.
00:06:09Of course, it's not the affair that people care about, it's that he's potentially having an affair with a Chinese spy.
00:07:03In Wyoming, a member of the House, and really excited to be on and to talk about what I hope to do and accomplish in Congress to represent the people of Wyoming.
00:08:50Five people shot in D.C., including one killed at a gym, and then suspect kills himself.
00:08:58They say a man in a long running dispute over the conditions of his penthouse condo gunned down the building manager in a busy gym Thursday before fleeing and shooting four more people from his patio in just minutes, shocking a popular capital neighborhood.
00:09:10Now, this happened less than a mile away from us.
00:09:17And sure enough, we get these reports that, like 0.8 of a mile away, there's this standoff.
00:09:23They say Matt Lambert, a 55 year old doctor, fatally shot himself while holed up in his apartment where he had been speaking by phone with police negotiators, said Jeffrey Carroll, interim chief with the Metro PD.
00:09:33Lambert was locked in a rancorous litigation with management over mold and moisture problems in his seventh floor unit.
00:09:40Mayor Muriel Bowser said she was devastated at the loss of life in a senseless act of violence.
00:10:38They say the gunshots were heard by Cheryl Ferguson, a building manager for the Metropole condos, who told the Washington Post she then saw people screaming and running away as one bystander yelled somebody was shot in the head.
00:10:50At that point, Ferguson said she ushered panicked residents into her office and began calling everyone she knew who lived there, including Lambert, who picked up at around 9 a.m.
00:10:59When she then asked whether he was okay, She said the doctor replied that he was tired of the mold and water damage in the unit, which she said rendered it unlivable.
00:11:08Quote, the only way people will pay attention, you have to do something.
00:12:14I don't think it's a guarantee that this guy, like, were it not, I don't think that Luigi Mangione is the 100% absolute reason why he did this.
00:12:25The concern we've had since the left has lionized and candidized Mangione is that things like this will happen.
00:12:32It's not that you're going to get a leftist going out and hunting down CEOs.
00:12:36Yes, that's concerning too, or disconcerting.
00:14:34People feel like they are entitled or they have been aggrieved, so they have the right to do something about that grievance.
00:14:43And it's a bad sign for the United States.
00:14:46Here's what's really scary to me about this I'm less concerned about the far left going around and walking into a gym and shooting somebody in the head.
00:14:55Because the left, for the most part, the organizers have concerns about public perception and how they can gain power through various institutions, which means.
00:15:04If a guy in an Antifa suit waving an Antifa flag went and did this, it'd be the biggest story in the world.
00:15:09And you would immediately have Trump announcing anti terror efforts against all Antifa, which he's done to a certain degree.
00:15:15This is why the left is they plan and they avoid doing things this overt.
00:15:21The problem is when the left canonizes or lionizes a psychopathic murderer, it's not the fringe far left that will organize a rally and then go shoot people.0.97
00:17:46The reason why they watch the left is because they're there to provide false witness on behalf of the extremists if the police arrest them.
00:17:54So they can give their interpretation and then accuse the police of wrongdoing as a third party.
00:17:59And the people who brought that lawsuit to stop ICE from using any non lethal munitions were journalists that were embedded with the attackers.
00:18:07And so they were right next to them, essentially.
00:18:10So then they went out and they said, well, if you are shooting pepper balls at us or deploying tear gas, you're infringing on our First Amendment rights.
00:18:17And so they're embedded, and the lower level judge.
00:18:24And then ICE gets blocked, and that goes on for months and months, and you have to go up to the Court of Appeals, and it's like this insurgency that's building.
00:18:30And the last time I was on your show, Tim, September 10th, 2025, when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
00:18:36And here we are, over a year later, that trial, it's just on a standstill.
00:18:44We have to have law and order in our society, and it's not happening.
00:18:47And you're doing great work in covering this increasing trend, this evil, and we've got to have a law and order to combat it.
00:18:57What happens now that the Democrats have just taken one of the biggest majorities in generations?
00:19:04We've been talking about it in the freshman Republican class, and we need to have an answer with policies that are going to improve the livelihoods of the American people.
00:19:15This was a real message that was sent last week, and we're prepared to do that in the Republican conference.
00:20:00Oh, if we take back the majority and Jim Jordan's.
00:20:02The leader of that, he will be elected speaker.
00:20:04I mean, you still have John Thune, though.
00:20:06It's like, you know, people have said this a million times that the Republican Party, the Washington generals to the Democrats, Harlem Globetrotters.
00:21:35And put graphene in the roads, make them last two times longer, two and a half times longer.
00:21:40The amount of money that we'll save as a country, the amount of time that we'll save as a people.
00:21:43Like, if Republicans get invigorated about technological advancement and how it's dollar by dollar going to change people's lives, that's going to get people hyped, bro.
00:21:54Well, technology, but also all of the industries that we have lost over time as this country has been deindustrialized and it needs to be reindustrialized.
00:22:03I mean, I give two examples in my state coal.
00:22:07We can't even get access to markets for our coal because all of the West Coast states block our ability to export our coal.
00:22:14We haven't had a coal fired power plant in this nation in decades.
00:22:19So the domestic demand has been drying up.
00:22:23We make a product called soda ash, which is in glass.
00:22:27China has been dumping this synthetic soda ash product that they make onto the market and basically distorting the market so that our soda ash mines are possibly going to be closing.
00:22:40We need to go industry by industry and tell the stories because there are different industries in every single state, every single congressional district, and tell these stories about how left wing policies are preventing our country from reaching.
00:24:46There's a lot of different ways to produce it, to synthesize it.
00:24:48But really, like getting the carbon dioxide, you got to be careful about not taking too much carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere because we're competing with trees and we don't want to destroy it.
00:24:55So we're going to have to build like a 40 year plan of how much carbon.
00:24:59We should take out of the air as we go forward.
00:27:13I know there's concerns about fracking because they would inject strange chemicals into the ground to shake it up, to break it up, to get the coal.
00:27:59And of course, China has taken a total sort of supremacy approach towards mining rare earths.
00:28:07First rare earth mine that we've opened in the United States in a decade was in northern Wyoming, and that's something we've got to work on as well.
00:28:15Do you know off the top of your head what the minerals are, the rare earth?
00:29:02Thorium and nuclear is nuclear was number one for a while, but hydroelectric has become so efficient you just literally put it in the water, just goes and you don't got to do much, it just spins a turbine.
00:29:14And the secret to energy generation that most people don't know is all of it is steam.
00:29:49The media hated it, but there's a whole lobby, Tim, around this wind and solar stuff now.
00:29:55I mean, there's so many subsidies around it, there's so many tax credits, and that they basically banded together and started putting money into defeating conservative candidates in Republican.
00:30:09And they wouldn't even talk about supporting wind and solar because they knew that that wouldn't play in Peoria.
00:30:15They've basically been trying to put money into these primaries, defeat conservative candidates around other message points.
00:30:24There's a whole lobby around the alternative fuel industry.
00:30:28Okay, I'm going to try not to talk about graphene too much, but it's the ultimate solution to a lot of the problems because you can upscale, as far as I know, coal into graphene and then use that graphene to build better solar panels, more effective solar paneling.
00:30:40So the solar industry might be very interested in your coal.
00:31:45He said he's going to get rid of this AOL account.0.51
00:31:46He put this tweet out where he was like, So they impeached Trump and now they want to impeach Exeth.
00:31:52Why don't we impeach and arrest Clinton and Bush?
00:31:55And then basically, like, all the Politico started laughing because it's like, you know, Dave Smith's like, your terms are acceptable.
00:32:03I tweeted, lol, I put like accidentally, I said, wow, accidentally based.
00:32:07Like, basically, if your argument is that none of the executive administrations over the past several decades have lawfully engaged in warfare, so they should be criminally charged, it's like, yes, right?
00:33:27And also, terrestrial radio didn't double down on the things that people kept coming back for, right?
00:33:35So, I'm in a band, and one of the things that we saw going on is the terrestrial radio stations that had DJs that were interacting with the listeners and that the listeners actually knew or they would go to do personal appearances and stuff.
00:33:51The terrestrial radio stations should have doubled down on the talent, and they didn't.
00:33:57And so, people were just like, oh, well, Why am I going to listen to this radio station which plays all these commercials?
00:34:02Well, and I don't have any reason, I don't care about the DJs or whatever.
00:34:05There's nothing, I don't feel like I'm part of anything.
00:35:20Once YouTube started getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and a bunch of advertisers started pulling off because they did not want to be on that kind of content, YouTube came in and said, We're creating a tier system.
00:36:17Except I have YouTube and all the advertisers breathing down my neck.
00:36:21Okay, private companies can do what they want to do, but you don't have the government involved with censoring the internet like they do the radio.
00:36:53So when they create a system where people have to say the word graped because otherwise they apply detriments and weights to your channel that eventually remove it from the algorithm, people are constantly stressed out because there's no recourse, no customer service, and you don't even know what the rules are.
00:39:29If you're to get into a car that doesn't have like Apple Play or whatever, people are like, oh, no, I can't use my Apple phone and connect to the.
00:39:37So the big game now, the big play is can you get on the front page when someone pops up in their on screen tablet in their vehicle?
00:41:45So right now, I wonder the reason you had certain constraints is that if you're broadcasting to the entirety of a city, You're like, I don't want to go too far left or too far right because I'll piss off way too many people.
00:43:06I don't think it's going to last 10 years.
00:43:09Fox News writes, like, with all due respect to Jesse Waters, because I love when he has me on the show, you know, and we're on live at the same time as him.
00:43:18But I mean this with tremendous, very, very big shout out to Fox News and Jesse Waters, because whenever they have me on, they put me on the A block specifically, which is like the best spot for me.
00:44:46And then they've got reverse mortgages where the kids will not inherit the home because the bank will have control over it through the reverse mortgage.
00:44:54But that's all the advertisements they're targeting people in their 70s.
00:44:58So we are facing now the boomer mortality shelf.
00:45:02That is, boomers are now, I think, what, 80, 82 is the oldest boomer now?
00:46:12Not to be fair, could be related to the Iran war and diesel prices, economics matter.
00:46:19But across the board, if you watch these YouTube gurus, I recommend this, they're losing their minds right now because YouTube is demonetizing wave after wave of these channels, like hundreds of thousands of channels.
00:46:33Outside of them panicking over that, one thing all of these media gurus are saying is that audience is collapsing for whatever reason.
00:46:40Honestly, I think the reason YouTube is banning and demonetizing a lot of these multi channel creators is because they're the reason viewership is collapsing.
00:46:47If you have 10 people who make shows on YouTube, each of them are going to get a billion views per video because there's two hours per viewer and something like a billion active users per month consuming two hours per day.0.90
00:47:39And I don't know, like, I'll say this YouTube's supposed to be, they're doing a massive overhaul in February, and they're saying core creators are gonna make way more money.
00:47:48I think YouTube is explicitly stating, like, we're gonna blow up half the producers on the platform.
00:47:53They're gonna make it substantially more difficult to produce.
00:48:33And then the issue is, people need to understand it's not a question of when there's no more boomers, it's a question of when there's not enough boomers to run a machine.0.76
00:48:42So, I'll give you an example that I like to use in terms of macro scale economics, which is Detroit.
00:48:49Detroit used to have a very large, expansive population.
00:48:52And so they built a water system for an expanding population.
00:49:52So now everyone's actually incurring an additional cost.
00:49:54So now it's $25 to pay for the rampant repairs.
00:49:58So then they say, we're going to go out and we're going to cut off all of this water infrastructure to reduce that cost long term, which creates a short term burst.
00:50:19So in Flint, what happened was as the population collapsed and the water prices started going up, Flint argued they shouldn't be paying such high prices for Detroit water.
00:50:28Because Detroit needed this because that was the cost.
00:50:31They said, We got a Flint River right here.
00:50:33Let's tap our own water source, which was filthy and full of disease, and the pipes were corroded and lead, and everyone got sick.
00:50:40Take a look at cable news, and the issue right now is if you need, let's just use a hypothetical number, you need $1 million per day to run The Five, their biggest show.
00:50:51$1 million per day, just for that one hour slot.
00:50:56How many commercials do you have to sell, and at what rate to generate that?
00:51:00Well, If you've got 3 million viewers like they do, that's a cakewalk.
00:51:33Fox News told me a few years ago when Tucker was on the air, the biggest show at 3 million views per show, a 30 second spot was $12,000 on Tucker.
00:51:44So if they do four of those in one ad break, two minutes, and they probably do more than that, they're going to be bringing in, you know, $60,000, $70,000 per ad break.
00:52:18It's surviving on the backs of the boomer generation, which means it's not that when boomers are dead, cable collapses.
00:52:25It's when the sufficient amount of boomers are no longer subscribed, either because they've passed or because they're catatonic or capable of subscribing, or some do switch, then.
00:52:36They're not going to be able to generate enough money in ads to sustain a show the size of The Five or Jesse Waters.
00:52:42My understanding is that Jesse Waters has a salary of like $5 million a year.
00:52:45It may be more because he's their star right now.
00:57:12I mean, Tim, the Occupy Wall Street deal, that was not something that you would call conservative.0.62
00:57:18It was when it started, but then conservatives and their ignorance attacked it.0.91
00:57:21And I blame Hannity largely because it was the knee jerk reaction.
00:57:24It's funny because the Tea Party and Occupy, had they had come together, and I think this is the intention, they didn't want them to, it would have been a nuclear bomb in a populist movement early on.
00:57:41The first week of Occupy Wall Street had libertarians, conservatives, and liberals.
00:57:45And Hannity went on his show and lied or falsely aligned what it was, and the conservatives all went home.
00:57:50One of the more famous things that happened at Occupy Wall Street was Adam Schiff went down to, I'm sorry, Peter Schiff went down to Occupy Wall Street with a sign that said, I am the 1%, and he was articulating libertarian positions, but that's definitely not progressive.
00:58:07The second weekend of Occupy Wall Street, I interviewed an elderly conservative couple.
00:58:11Who unfurled an American flag and hung it from a tree and put a couch up to it and said, The American people are sick of corrupt government, revolving door policies.
01:00:52What we're trying to build in the Congress, and we've been having great conversations over the last few days, is a revitalization of the Republican Party around America First conservative principles after this difficult election night we had eight days ago.
01:01:07It's built around controlling expenditure, making life affordable again.
01:01:12And we need to talk about the fact that the number one cause of inflation is the out of control spending.
01:01:17That is what is the number one cause of inflation.
01:01:23And we have to be talking about it every single day.
01:01:27I mean, you go back, you're talking about the Fed earlier, the monetary expansion that they carried out in 2008 during the financial crisis.
01:01:33That's what put us in this box that allows for the printing of money, allows for this out of control spending that you highlight as one of your issues with the Republican Party.
01:01:46And ultimately, why we can't pass any controls in expenditure is the fact that we can never get the 60 votes in the Senate because the Democrats withhold their votes.
01:01:54But as I was talking about earlier, their ceiling is always higher than ours.
01:02:06I mean, you're probably as aware of this as anyone else, but the American people don't trust Congress because everybody in America has heard some kind, some form of articulation of that.
01:02:23The last time there was a popular movement about spending was the Tea Party, and that's like 15 years ago.
01:02:30And a lot of people, to be honest with you, myself included, I used to consider myself a libertarian, used to be very, very outspoken against monetary policy and the Fed and stuff.
01:02:40But it got to the point where I was just like, all I'm doing is beating my head against the wall.
01:02:43So if we're going to spend this money, then they should spend the money on things that, on policies that are relevant to me and to Americans.
01:02:54And I think that that's where a lot of young Americans are.
01:02:55A lot of young Americans, like Tim mentions Nick Fuentes, a lot of them are not like, well, I'm super anti social programs, right?
01:03:03They look at, they're like, we're nationalists and we want to see the money spent on America and Americans, we're America first.
01:03:11I'm not really going to worry about, you know, complaining about federal spending because the federal government is going to spend money.
01:03:17It has never tried to, it's never significantly shrank.
01:03:21When Doge was established, you know, basically Elon was run out of town in six months and the policies that, or the cuts that they tried to make, they're not going to stay.
01:03:33Everyone is kind of of of the opinion that should a Republican get into the office of the president, all of the stuff that was cut plus more is going to come back.
01:03:40So the idea of trying to convince people we're going to be responsible with spending and we've got to cut spending.
01:04:20They see the videos, they see the photos, they see the effects on their community, they lose their minds and they vote for Donald Trump.
01:04:25Then they watch videos of Donald Trump, ICE agents going out with body armor and rifles and grabbing people.
01:04:32And I'll tell you one of the big problems.
01:04:34There's one of the most famous incidents a pedophile was captured by ICE, slammed to the ground, and he started crying, screaming, Are you in a maze?
01:06:37So we have $42 trillion in debt, let's say.
01:06:40If we can make it cheaper to cheap fuel, if we go from $4 a gallon to one cent a gallon, even though it says $40 trillion on paper, all those dollars are worth 30 times more.0.97
01:08:05But that's why I say fake campaign because I'm like, I think if I actually publicly said on the show I was going to run a campaign, even if it was a joke, they might be like, no, you said it.
01:09:19According to Jim Tour, the scientist, the chemist at Rice University, world's leading graphene scientist, says there's three types of fuel: it's plutonium, carbon, and hydrogen.
01:11:23No, no, but listen, that's exactly what we're talking about.
01:11:26If you have to pay $50,000 a year to a guy to do a job, Or, and so you calculate that over 10 years, you're going to spend $500,000.
01:11:33That's $500,000 that goes into circulation where the guy who gets that money will then go and spend it at Taco Bell, spend it on rent, and pay taxes.
01:11:40If you replace that guy with one robot one time for $20,000, all of that money is out of the economy and that market lubrication is gone.
01:12:20We can protect Medicare and Social Security.
01:12:23We can also create a plan to control federal expenditure.
01:12:28And it's all centered around controlling discretionary expenditure.
01:12:32And as you do that, the costs of borrowing are going to go down because you have shown the discipline in having a plan and decreasing year to year federal expenditure.
01:12:44And so the focus should really be around discretionary expenditure.
01:12:50And that's how you protect and make sure that Social Security and Medicaid is protected.
01:12:55Every new Congress or every four years, there's going to be a new group of people coming in.
01:13:00The American people are fickle, and you're talking about discretionary spending.
01:14:01You started controls and discretionary expenditure.
01:14:04So, like, you pass pro growth policies like what I've been talking about.
01:14:09Of the yearly expenses the United States has, where do we cut?
01:14:14Like, what specifically are you referring to when you say the discretionary expenditure is basically all the federal agencies, all the day to day sort of expenditures of the federal government, which doesn't even count in the top 10?
01:16:30Okay, so in the past, if a country was growing and they needed more resources and they're running out and they're raising debt, they would conquer another country to take their resources.
01:19:59Maybe, again, at this pace, even after 10 years, the interest on the debt is still going up.
01:20:05It will become number one, it will increase.
01:20:07More importantly, I would love for either of you to go to the American people and tell them you want to cut 6% of Social Security and Medicaid every year until it's down by $500 billion.
01:20:19Well, and that's just they're going to lower interest rates, they're going to knock interest rates down to it's going to be just like the point I'm making is because I understand that I'm saying who will be able to tell the American people we intend to cut Social Security by 40%.
01:20:40It's the idea that you're going to have people who just have a very short time preference, you have politicians who come in for a couple of years, they need to serve their interest over their eight year term.
01:20:50And get on out of there without destroying the remainder of the party.
01:20:54And this is why I think the left really wants to shift this into a democracy rather than a republic because they know that those people will vote themselves a raise or prevent anything that's going to harm their current environment.
01:21:06And in a republic, you have some distance between the government and the people so that some of these tough decisions can be made.
01:21:15And eventually, if nobody does it, I think we're going to all have to suffer from it.
01:21:18And in some ways, the U.S. government still is going to become due.
01:21:21Yeah, this timeline that Tim's talking about is if the structure of the government remains the same.
01:22:06If the budget is balanced after five years and then you continue those cuts, I think maybe you get into a surplus and you can use that surplus to pay down the debt.0.95
01:22:13The problem is, in order to pay down the interest on the debt, not even the debt, if you want to pay down the principal, you have to cut a stupid amount of money.
01:22:25Like we're talking about cutting the budget by 45%.0.99
01:26:48When we add to the deficit, it's increasing the interest on the debt because instead of paying down the debt, which we accrue, we're only paying the interest.
01:26:55We're effectively not paying the principal.
01:26:56So again, the deficit increases when a company says, we'll do a $20 million job.
01:27:02The government looks at each other and they go, Based on this timeline, we're not going to have enough money to pay these guys off.
01:28:08The contract was a liability on the books for Adidas or whatever company it was to pay him out over time, which was the value of the contract was hundreds of billions of dollars.
01:28:17In which case, they said his net worth was hundreds of billions of dollars.
01:28:20Then, when the contract disappeared, it's like, where'd that money go?
01:29:30When we're talking about the deficit, the debt, and spending, we're basically saying that we owe money to ourselves for the most part.
01:29:36We have various companies and interests and contracts the U.S. government has signed on to where they're paying for these things, be it employment or otherwise, and they're putting out more than they're taking in and they're floating checks.
01:29:46That's why when the interest surpasses the expense of everything, that's when it goes tits up because we won't be able to generate enough to actually accumulate debt.
01:29:54To put it simply, when someone says, hey, government, you owe me $10 million, they're like, listen, listen, we're good.
01:30:00For it, but we'll just pay you the interest.
01:30:57So instead of paying me the $83 per month, you pay the interest.
01:31:00And I go, well, your debt's going up because you're not paying it down.
01:31:04This is like, When student loans become like when your debt is higher than what you took on because you're not paying it down, the interest keeps accumulating.
01:31:27If you take on a ton of debt, decimate the value of your currency, you can then generate substantially more three, four years later, and the debt becomes worth less.
01:31:38If a dollar is worth less, what it can buy is worth less, and what you need to do to get the dollar takes less.0.67
01:31:44So the U.S. does this with foreign governments all the time.
01:32:51Like arguing about a note has written on it, Federal Reserve is immaterial to the fact that Lockheed Martin got a $50 million contract for missiles and the U.S. is paying the minimum on the credit card every month, so the debt's getting worse and worse.
01:33:03What you're saying is we don't owe the Federal Reserve any debt.
01:33:43I think nobody wants to tell the most powerful voting bloc in the country, retirees, that they have to cut Social Security because they do, or Medicare, which makes up a third or more of the debt.
01:34:31A society grows strong when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit beneath.0.68
01:34:36And we are a country of people who say, screw you, I'm going to chop the tree down so I can have a chair.
01:34:42And there are good people, don't get me wrong.0.82
01:34:44There are people who fight this every day, but no, if you want to find if someone is telling you the truth about how we solve this problem, they say, we got to cut Social Security and Medicaid.
01:34:55And all the incentives are wrong because the people, like Tim said, the largest voting bloc, Is people that are older, right?0.75
01:36:52The US can pay down its debt by inflating the economy through quantitative easing, which basically is just stripping the buying power from every savings account and every retirement account.
01:37:01And people feel it less because the money doesn't disappear and they can't see the immediate repercussions going to the grocery store when their Apple costs $10.
01:37:08So, indeed, economically, there is a really easy manipulative path forward and it's quantitative easing.
01:37:16And then we can just print $40 trillion and pay the debt overnight.
01:37:22People are like, whoa, my milk is $10, but it happens over a period of three months instead of taxing them instantly.
01:37:32The simple reality is there are a couple things we can do.
01:37:36We can be honest and say if we're going to pay down the interest, like that's forever.
01:37:40The interest never goes away, the interest is there every year at the same number.
01:37:44So you not only have to pay the trillion dollars in interest, you've got to pay a trillion dollars towards the debt, which is going to cover 140th.
01:37:58Seriously, I mean, we could drop a bunch of nuclear bombs and wipe out the government of a foreign nation to the victor go the spoils and then use that to bolster our economy, take over the world, and then use slave labor.0.64
01:38:08We could do quantitative easing, which would, at this point, with a $40 trillion debt and a trillion dollar interest on the debt, we'd probably see milk go to $10 a gallon.0.71
01:38:18And it would happen over three to six months.
01:38:22But after that period of tumult and depression, things would start to normalize and people would just be like, it's normal that I work at a gas station for $100 an hour.
01:38:45So when you default, like I said, there's going to be a bunch of American contractors, there's going to be post offices and employees who don't get paid, and you're going to see total economic collapse.
01:38:55Because every dollar you borrow from the Federal Reserve is we owe them back that dollar plus interest.
01:39:01If you borrow the money to pay off the debt, you immediately owe interest on all that money you borrowed.
01:39:12I mean, we're stuck a little tangled up in it, but it's not a liberious way forward.
01:39:17It seems like we have been strangled to death by some authoritarian management system to try and defeat the Nazis.
01:39:24No, it was largely about preventing the Federal Reserve was intended to control the economy, that they could alter interest rates and print money and buy money.
01:39:36For the purpose of manipulating the economy when human behaviors altered it in a negative way.
01:39:52If the market is too hot, then you increase interest rates and people say, I'm going to save because the interest rates are going to generate money for you.
01:39:58I don't want to take a loan out right now, which is part of the problem that we're seeing with the housing market, right?
01:40:40Well, depending on your credit score and other things, but it's called the prime rate, the rate that the banks borrow money from the Federal Reserve.
01:41:03That increases the amount of money in the system, which can cause inflation if you don't have corresponding productivity.
01:41:09When the interest rates go below zero, which they do from time to time, does that mean that if I borrow $100, say interest rates are at negative 10%, if I borrow $100, I only pay $90 back?
01:41:18Negative interest rates, you lose money by keeping money in.
01:42:02What is your plan to get Democrats on board?
01:42:05Because the biggest hurdle you have is the fact that obviously the politicians in the U.S., the Republicans and Democrats are extremely polarized.
01:42:14How do you get Democrats to work with you when, honestly, the best thing for the Democrat Party for the next two years is to have a sluggish economy that they can pin on Donald Trump and pin on Republicans?
01:42:26They can say, look, We tried to do all this stuff, but Donald Trump wouldn't let us.
01:42:30He vetoed blah, And then that puts their chances of getting a Democrat elected in 2028 that gives them better chances.
01:42:38That's an entirely different issue, though.
01:42:39No, but how do you get Democrats to sign on to any kind of fiscal responsibility?
01:45:46Like in 10 years of the fundamental, you know, with the boomers dying off, I don't know how Gen X will act.0.91
01:45:51I'm saying literally right now, in the next two to four years, There is no circumstance by which Democrats and Republicans are going to actually solve this problem.0.74
01:45:59One, for the reason that Phil brought up, Democrats want a destabilized economy to blame the Republicans so they can take power and implement policies that they want.
01:46:08The other is that neither party would dare tell the voter what needs to be said.
01:46:12They've got to cut Medicare and Social Security at least 20, 30% to begin the process.0.94
01:46:18And the worst part is everyone, like, basically, particularly the boomers, right?0.85
01:46:23They know that the only way to fix the debt.
01:46:28Crash that's likely to come is by cutting Social Security.
01:47:04I'm going to mention a separate issue that relates very similarly, though, and that's illegal immigration.
01:47:09The United States is addicted to illegal immigration.
01:47:11The reason why is we see a lot of these videos.0.91
01:47:13There's one viral video where a guy says that he was a Trump voter, but he voted blue, he voted Democrat because Trump was deporting his illegal laborers.
01:47:20Here's the issue you have a bunch of companies, and let's say construction, roofing, a good example.
01:47:27And let's say they charge $100 for the job, just a flat number, easy to say.
01:47:31I know it's more than $100, it's $100,000, but just say $100 bucks.
01:47:34And so one guy says, I want to buy, I want my roof fixed.
01:47:39So I'm going to put out the, I'm going to call a bunch of companies.
01:47:42Company A says, I'll be $100 to fix your roof.
01:47:44And they go, okay, Company B, how much to fix the, how much do you charge to fix the roof?
01:50:35And that's why Trump implemented the tariffs, which is my point.0.68
01:50:38So when companies say, let's have Chinese slaves make our products for pennies on the dollar, Trump says, if I put a 30% tariff on that product, the American product is cheaper.0.91
01:51:02Tim, President Trump has the highest approvals around what he's done to secure the border.
01:51:07I mean, that's the highest approval rating, issue by issue, is what he has done to stop illegal immigration.
01:51:13The American people understand that we need to enforce our laws.
01:51:18I think that maybe pertaining to the southern border, because people were mad about seeing a million people, but when they voted, They voted to stop what he was doing.
01:51:25He softened up on it, didn't he, the last week or so?
01:51:29And then he walked it back when people complained, but this is the second time he's called for amnesty.
01:51:33I don't think for a second Trump actually wants mass deportations.
01:51:37He's done some key deportations, a couple hundred thousand targeting the worst of the worst, but Trump does not want to deport hospitality and farm workers.
01:52:32Since the Democrats announced they're going to put a moratorium on Bernie Sanders at this, a bunch of these companies have already started opening in the Bahamas and in China and other countries.
01:52:40Well, but as a, I mean, for you, kind of represent the Republican Party in the room anyway, but I know the Republicans are notorious or known a lot for like releasing regulation on corporations and letting the corporatocracy kind of thrive.
01:53:00I mean, the Supreme Court decision a couple years ago, the end of Chevron deference, is an enormous opportunity for us to grow the economy around ending these out of control regulations.
01:53:11I mean, you just look at my stadium, I mean, Oil and gas.
01:53:14We can't extract oil and gas in the whole Powder River Basin because one judge is waving around a single regulation to stop us from being able to have oil and gas wells.
01:54:53I really think that we need to enforce our laws around monopolies across the board.
01:54:59It's tough with tech because if you split a tech company into six tech companies, the same thing with Rockefeller when they broke up Standard Oil, they made six new companies, oil companies that he owned part of.
01:56:22A lot of it was because people feel like the Republicans were not paying attention to the voter.
01:56:27And I think that even though the SAVE Act wasn't the major cause, I think the gas prices in the Iran war are the major causes.
01:56:34The fact that John Thune wouldn't bring the Save America Act up for a vote, that was a big thing for the American people because most people that were paying attention to the Save Act were like, it's 75% of America that likes this.
01:57:04Where it was basically a super majority of Americans think that we should have voter ID.
01:57:08And the fact that Thune wouldn't bring it up, the fact that Republicans didn't even vote on it, made people say, they definitely don't care what we think.
01:57:32It's just that they didn't have enough for cloture.
01:57:35And that's why President Trump was saying, look, Let's end the filibuster.
01:57:39I know what, and he didn't do that, and they should have, and it's fake because, you know, Taylor Rico is saying he would vote to end it right now.
01:57:46But I'll tell you, I know a lot of people who said that they don't want to vote Democrat, they don't like Democrats, but they're not going to vote Republican.
01:57:52And so, one of the reasons we saw Blue Wave.
01:58:41And that's why the Democrats won so tremendously because the Republican Party could not articulate what they were going to do for anybody and what they had been doing for anybody.
01:58:48So it's like for me right now, I was just, who was I just talking to?
01:58:53I did a couple of interviews and I'm like, yeah, if the Democrats drop woke, right?
01:58:58If like John Assoff is running and he's like, I don't want any of that weird woke stuff.1.00
01:59:55But look, if you're a Democrat strategist, you can be like, look, just chill for two years when we get the White House, the House, and the Senate in 28.
02:03:09If I'm a conservative to conservatives, then the conservative party is liberal, and the Republican party is liberal.
02:03:17Well, it's the base of the word it's to conserve our traditions, our country, our economic capitalist system, and to build prosperity for this generation and the next generations.
02:03:28Well, we're not a capitalist system, we're a mixed economy.
02:04:26Jensen's Wang, phonetically spelled.com in the books.
02:04:30I hope that Elon does hire Jensen as the CEO because his contacts right now, he'll be able to get such chip imports into the U.S., into Texas, where we need them.
02:10:04Well, the question was going to be about why the Wyoming State Legislature was unable to do anything to reel in the university after the incident from, I don't know, three, four years back, where there was a fellow from Laramie who went to the University of Wyoming Union and he had a sign in there about the guy that was masquerading around as a woman in the sorority saying that that guy is actually a guy.
02:10:27And then the university tried to ban him from the university for a year for.
02:10:30On spurious charges, if I think it was discrimination and harassment or something.
02:10:35And then, you know, the Wyoming state legislature, which has, I think, a nominal Democrat or two, probably from Jackson, just let the university do whatever they wanted and didn't even threaten to do anything like reel their funding in.
02:10:48Well, the issue there was that, you know, with these activists, it resulted in a protest where one of the female activists had gotten to a scuffle with this cop, of course, got arrested.
02:10:58A local rancher intervened, and this is where the problem rises.
02:11:02And advocated to the judge that she be let off because he was going to put her in jail for a long time.
02:12:06You know, like, I disagree with Dave on things.0.92
02:12:08I'll argue with him, but I'm not stupid enough to be like, I'm going to get Dave.
02:12:14I see people tweet at him like making fun of him.
02:12:16I'm like, guys, listen, if you're going to go against Dave Smith, be academic and respectful because you will not beat him in a battle of wits.
02:13:19If the dude is good at one thing, it's quick wit.
02:13:23It's like, don't get into a sword fight with a professional fencer, okay?
02:13:28If you want to have a battle of wits or whatever, pour the wine, but watch out, he might switch it on.
02:13:33I like how his face stays really relaxed.0.98
02:13:36If you try and insult him, like I see people trying to emotionally insult him, and he's like, his face doesn't change, but then he says the most vitriolic shit back at the guy.0.82
02:16:28But what I did say is, when his base says no to the amnesty, Trump says, okay.
02:16:33So Trump is saying amnesty, and then his base says no, and Trump says no.
02:16:37And so if your argument is you don't think Trump really thinks he wants to deport people, my rebuttal is, no, Trump doesn't want to deport them, but he's lying.
02:17:05He said he would never eat a person who was killed for the sake of being eaten.
02:17:08But, like, if he had to travel somewhere and it was a local cuisine and it was part of their culture and, like, grandpa died, he's like, maybe, uh, Piece of protein or something.
02:17:17I was like, no, I was like, never, I would never do that.
02:22:53Van Jones recently did a show with Caitlin Collins on CNN describing the Democrats' messaging platform called the American Accountability Network, where he boasts of reaching hundreds of millions of voters daily with pro-Democrat and anti-Republican messaging as it pertains to affordability.
02:23:09It was an organized attempt to speak directly to voters as a means of avoiding culture war issues.
02:23:15Would this network such as this operating on social media like this not be viewed as a pack, and how does it not fall under FEC rules?
02:24:46I mean, I think that all of these groups are worth investigating.
02:24:49And, you know, maybe it should have been formed as a PAC if it's, you know, specifically on behalf of a certain candidate.
02:24:55But if it's just general, you know, public education, I think that's probably within the purview of a C3.
02:25:01And, you know, they could just be making videos about gas prices or affordability or anything else that's in the public interest and talk about.
02:25:11Differences between the old days and the new days.
02:25:13And I think they could probably color in the lines there.
02:25:16They could say, here's how war makes your gas more expensive.
02:25:35It is a good question, though, because there's, I think, a lot of overlap and a lot of lines are being blurred between all of the organizations.
02:25:42And You know, Obama, we remember what he did with the IRS going after all of the conservative groups.
02:25:54I think largely the way I view it is it's kind of like a way to circumvent broadcast rules where they have to give equal time to certain things.
02:26:02And when you're amping up the pro Democrat message and taking away and going with the anti Trump, anti Republican message, it just seems like you're violating that in that regard.
02:26:59And they don't build these systems that the left has.
02:27:01They have a patronage system where they, you know, they'll work you up through it and they'll have these billionaires who will spend money not on campaign ads on Fox News, but on building infrastructure.
02:27:12And they've been doing it for multiple generations now.
02:27:16All the Republicans had to do to win the election was to just like hire a handful of dudes to dress up like Antifa and punch old ladies in the face once a month.
02:28:12Yeah, we could cool him down, so to speak.
02:28:14No, I think the issue is that he's a political guy, he's a suit wearing dude, and he's one of the best, but he's not a pop star, is what I'm trying to say.
02:28:23Like, he's not your go to celebrity kind of.
02:30:32And I'm like, you need to tell a man, instead of him saying, You're a disgusting, despicable loser, you need to say, Sir, I find you uncouth and of ill repute.1.00
02:32:07Maybe his wisdom, I'd like to talk to him because I think he could build his wisdom to kind of see maybe he's wrong about stuff to kind of understand like that.
02:32:36They're just in opposition to you to want it.
02:32:39With that being said, I think Hassan is wrong about a lot of things, but it reminds me of when Snape was talking with Bellatrix and he says, Dumbledore's a great wizard and only a fool would think otherwise.
02:32:51And I'm like, that's an important lesson for people.0.99
02:32:53I mean, first of all, Snape was cool with Dumbledore, but the point is for the millennials who only understand reality through the narrative of Harry Potter, Snape is a bad guy and the bad guys don't like Dumbledore, so they insult him and he's like, shut up, that dude will fuck you up.0.99
02:33:06Like, stop pretending like that dude won't fuck you up.0.97
02:33:09If you come out and you're like, Assan's not cool, you're gonna lose because young people like watching Assan.0.98
02:33:14Destiny is cool, but less cool because he is a little nerdy.
02:33:20With all due respect and all humble bragging, I would rate myself in a cool factor of around a six, like slightly more than not because most people associated with the right are wearing suits and are boring.
02:33:29And we are here goofing off and skateboarding.
02:33:31So we're a bit more cool, but we're not like of extreme youthful exuberance and we're a bit highbrow with words like miasmic.
02:33:54You know, like, it's like maybe it'd be more fair to say that, like, Hassan is an eight or a nine in terms of cool factor, and we're like a six or maybe a seven.
02:34:03And I'm stressing this again you don't have to like his opinions.0.89
02:34:06You can think he's stupid, you can think he's wrong, but that's not what cool is.0.95
02:34:10Obama was wrong about a lot of things and a lot of bad things, but it is undeniable the dude was cool.0.99
02:34:15He walked in with a smirk on his face and he would wink at you, and people were like, oh, like the women swooned for him.
02:34:43To put themselves in a position of authority over the average viewer.
02:34:46So when they talk like this and say, Tonight, Donald Trump, a fascist, the regular guy at home wearing his t shirt and jeans to the guys in the suit and says, He's better than me.
02:34:56Conservatives do this because it's a hierarchy thing.
02:34:59You are not going to walk up to a gaggle of 20 something year olds wearing suits on average and be like, Let me explain to you, young bucks.0.57
02:35:18He's wearing a $100 suit, but he'll wear like nice clothes and he gets his hair done well and he like shaves properly and he takes care of himself and he lives in, he lives in, he watches Hollywood or whatever.
02:35:55So, to be like a plumber, for instance, you have to have four years of experience under a journeyman to become a journeyman.
02:36:02And then you have to have another two years to become a master, which would then be, you would then be able to start your own business.
02:36:08Do y'all support some type of competency based program?
02:36:12We need to start kind of moving in that direction because I can understand why someone wouldn't want to spend six years to be able to start their own business when they could start, you know, a hookah lounge today.
02:36:37If you, I think the market actually decides, right?
02:36:42Or the market is what will inform people as to whether or not you can do a job.
02:36:48It's not a bad idea to be a journeyman and be an apprentice and journeyman to learn, but I don't like the idea of being like, you're not allowed to start your own business.
02:37:03I'm in agreement with Ian, but I think Ian misunderstood what you were saying because I think that if you're capable, then you should be able to start your own business if you want.
02:37:12Now, obviously, there's going to be stipulations that if you want to be insured and bonded and stuff, then the insurance companies are going to have a say.
02:37:23They're going to be like, well, how much experience do you have, et cetera?
02:37:25The insurance companies are going to have a say in that.
02:37:29But you also will have, you know, different insurance companies would likely have different.
02:37:38Demands depending on the risk assessments.
02:37:43So, maybe a new insurance company that is willing to insure people that can display the practice without necessarily the credentials, and they're still going to insure this guy because we believe in him because he's done our level of practice proof.0.95
02:38:19You know, this guy that was, you know, that has been a journeyman for, or, you know, apprentice for whatever, and then a journeyman, this guy will give him a lower rate.
02:38:28Or maybe the rates will be different, right?
02:38:30If you've only been an apprentice for a couple of years or a few years, they're going to jack your rate up because you're a higher risk.
02:38:59So I did a lot of plumbing, I did a lot of electrical work, dug a lot of ditches, but I don't think that I was operating under anything other than just a general contractor's license.
02:39:10And I think that our work kind of spoke for itself.
02:39:12You know, we got clients because we built good pools and they would refer us.
02:39:47There was a scandal, I think, in Arkansas.0.98
02:39:49We just covered this on the channel, but there was a bar examiner woman who was fraudulently moving the bar exam scores around.0.98
02:40:00So, like, people who had passed, she would take points and give them to people who had failed, and people who had failed, she'd give them points.
02:40:10She just got indicted for like 65 different felonies.
02:40:13And it's a huge scandal because many of these lawyers have been practicing for probably five years with a license, even though they didn't pass the bar.
02:40:50I think it's, I don't know exactly where it is.
02:40:53But he was explaining that part of their program was learning a trade, essentially.
02:40:57So you go to college rather than a liberal arts degree where you come out with something that is going to be less and less useful, especially in the light of AI systems and things.
02:41:05They come out with a trade and they're ready to go.
02:41:08They've got like a college degree in a trade.
02:41:09And I thought the more ubiquitous AI becomes, I think the more relevant trades will actually be.
02:41:16And there's some really, really important things to be done there.
02:41:21The other thing, too, is I'm seeing more posts that the Microsoft thing people People are like, this is an attack.
02:41:39Like, a lot of times, if you play XCOM, you realize pretty quick with hyper advanced technology, the soldier's worth way less than the tech that he's carrying.
02:41:46The armor, the night vision, it's worth millions.
02:42:26You can slap all the gear you want on a dude.
02:42:30But if the dude doesn't know how to enter a room properly, he's going to die.
02:42:34Yeah, but if you see that viral video of the airsoft where the dude walks very slowly through the back door and just tags everybody's life, wipes the whole team out as they stood there confused.
02:42:44I'm not saying that the soldier is not important because the soldier is the base of the military, but if the soldier were to die in combat, you better believe they're going in there to get the tech and not the guy's body.
02:43:43They're going to do everything they can to not only recover human beings, but they're going to also make deals to try and get the corpses back so you can return the bodies.
02:43:52The US will even release criminals for the purpose of getting dead bodies back.0.95
02:43:57In the age of having the knowledge, it's more important that you have the fucking tools to plumb your house than it is to know how to do it.0.95
02:44:03Because you can learn how to do it, you can't fabricate the tools on the fly.0.97
02:46:08It's a lot different from playing a rogue where you're doing active PvP.
02:46:11Like the thing about rogues is that they're.
02:46:16I think OG rogues back in the day, I don't know how they're playing it now, it is similar, was one of the best because the skill cap was really high.
02:46:24And it was fascinating to me because they kept nerfing shit and they kept buffing rogues.
02:48:42Rogues sneak up into the tower, capture the tower, and then, you know, so I play Alliance.
02:48:48And there's an imbalance in the structure of the towers because capturing a horde tower is more difficult than capturing an alliance tower, but defending a horde tower is a lot easier than trying to capture an alliance tower in defense.
02:49:01So, anyway, my point is as a rogue, I can easily sneak into the alliance tower and recap it because you can stand in the back and then just start, you know, and the players aren't looking and they don't notice.