On this week's show, we cover: - ActBlue, the Democratic Party's fundraising machine, is under investigation by the Department of Justice (D.C. has frozen all of their funds) - AOC hires an illegal immigrant to work on her campaign, and they've since fled the country - The Daily Wire wants to get Derek Chauncey pardoned - And more!
00:00:19.000He sends in these doge fellers into USAID and other government agencies and starts gutting the funding for what seems to go to a lot of these weird NGOs.
00:00:29.000We speculate much of this funding was probably circulating in Loudoun County and just outside of D.C. and Maryland.
00:00:36.000Then we get this other really big story.
00:00:38.000Lee Zeldin, now in the EPA, says they've uncovered a $375 billion slush fund run by John Podesta.
00:01:15.000ActBlue, the subject of, let's just say, scrutiny among Republicans and investigators, people like James O'Keefe.
00:01:25.000ActBlue is the fundraising machine for Democrats.
00:01:29.000James O'Keefe uncovered over the past several years instances where elderly individuals had reportedly made hundreds of thousands of donations they couldn't possibly have made.
00:01:38.000Questions arose around how is it that ActBlue was...
00:01:43.000Claiming these things are legitimate, actually facilitating these payments.
00:01:46.000I mean, some retiree couldn't have spent $700,000 in one year doing 17 donations per day.
00:01:52.000Now, we don't know exactly what's going on.
00:01:54.000We are waiting for the results of that investigation.
00:01:57.000In the meantime, while all of this Doge stuff is happening, it may just be totally unrelated, but the New York Times runs a story about how ActBlue is facing internal chaos and is struggling to continue losing several, seven, Specifically, top officials.
00:02:14.000Instantly, the internet erupts with theories that this money, these slush funds that were making these weird donations, were effectively running a circuitous money laundering scheme, which, let's just say, somehow found its way into the pockets of the ActBlue system to Democrat politicians.
00:02:33.000I'm saying basically that's the degree of speculation we're seeing because all of this is going on at the same time.
00:02:38.000I think that's an important disclaimer.
00:02:40.000We're going to take a look at this story and a bunch of other news stories.
00:02:44.000And we got one that's really interesting.
00:02:45.000Apparently, AOC had employed an illegal immigrant, and they've since fled the country.
00:02:52.000So this is actually pretty interesting.
00:02:54.000And then you've got a few other stories, but you have the big push from Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire to get Derek Chauvin pardoned at the federal level.
00:03:02.000Trump has responded, saying, I haven't heard this.
00:03:05.000Yet, strangely, the media is running a narrative.
00:03:09.000About Derek Chauvin, despite the fact that Trump hasn't engaged with it, and they're claiming Trump has issued a verdict on whether he will or he won't, saying he wouldn't, but Trump never said anything.
00:03:19.000So we'll talk about that and a bunch of other stuff, my friends.
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00:04:11.000Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about something.
00:04:13.000I had a conversation with Dr. Malone and Del Bigtree after we wrapped the Culture War show this morning about the next big play that's going to hit the media in the next couple of years.
00:04:24.000And the gist of it was, I outlined the tactics being employed right now and the errors being made on our side of the media battle.
00:04:35.000That will ultimately end up with mass bannings and will get us shut down.
00:04:40.000So the people who think the free speech battle is over because Trump won, because Mark Zuckerberg made these statements, I'm telling you, you're wrong.
00:04:57.000We've got the uncensored after-hours show.
00:04:59.000If you watch Tim Castile on Rumble, you get the full show, including a bonus half hour to 45 minutes where members call into the show.
00:05:06.000And we're actually working on feature-length documentaries and more.
00:05:08.000You'll also get access to Stephen Crowder's Mug Club and a whole lot more.
00:05:11.000So we're definitely going to talk about this because, guys, I made one simple statement to Dr. Malone, and you know he's the expert.
00:05:19.000And he immediately said, you are completely right, and I don't understand why we're not seeing action.
00:05:25.000And I'm going to save it because I want to make sure I get the full context.
00:05:28.000I can't just – it's basically having to do with how these YouTubers are selling ads as it pertains to the FDA. I think we're going to see a wave of bans come the next couple of years, and we're going to talk about that on the show later on.
00:07:16.000At least seven senior officials have left the group, setting off deep concerns about its future as it confronts scrutiny from congressional Republicans.
00:07:25.000The first, there's a theory that with the gutting of USAID and other federal funds, a lot of these grants, especially the EPA slush fund that Lee Zeldin uncovered, a lot of this money is believed by many.
00:07:38.000Whether or not there's any veracity to this, that it was funneling around NGOs and finding its way into the pockets of Democrat politicians.
00:07:46.000At any rate, the other thing to consider is, definitively, ActBlue, which is the Democrats' fundraising arm, is in chaos, indicating a very, very...
00:07:59.000The likelihood that they're able to muster up any forces in the midterms is decreasing, especially when we're learning that the mechanism they use to raise money...
00:08:11.000On Fox News today, it was, I believe, Cassie Hunt who asked Tim, I believe it was Tim Waltz, one of the best questions I've seen anybody ask the Democrats in recent memory.
00:08:22.000She said, who's the current leader of the Democratic Party?
00:09:54.000So unless Obama's plan is, I'm going to make the Republicans more powerful, then he's not a leader of the Democrats.
00:10:00.000And if he actually is running the show, he's the poorest leader we've ever seen, which flies in the face of when he was actually president.
00:10:18.000But my theory is that they're actually burning down the Democratic Party to make the right-wing party stronger to bring about a different type of fascism.
00:10:29.000And these sweeping changes that you're starting to see, the technocracy, etc., etc.
00:10:33.000Let's read this tweet from Charlie Kirk.
00:10:35.000He says, The New York Times reports that ActBlue is in turmoil.
00:10:39.000Mysteriously, seven top executives have all left in the past three weeks.
00:10:43.000Several of whom had all been there more than a decade.
00:10:45.000None of them will explain on the record why they left.
00:10:47.000The last remaining lawyer at ActBlue's general counsel's office has been locked out of his email and put on leave after sending internal messages that, quote, we have whistleblower policies for a reason.
00:10:59.000Two unions representing ActBlue employees are openly questioning the group's stability and call the situation alarming.
00:11:04.000They're demanding the hiring of an independent investigator.
00:11:07.000More than $16 billion has passed through ActBlue in the past 20 years.
00:11:31.000Elderly Democrats say donations made in their name aren't genuine.
00:11:34.000From January 8th, 2025. Now, this story actually goes back quite a bit.
00:11:37.000When James O'Keefe exposed numerous instances.
00:11:41.000Where individuals were making some, what, 5 to 10 donations per day of $20 to $25 to the tune of hundreds of thousands for the year that made no sense.
00:11:50.000The Daily Signal says, 18 registered Democrats in Connecticut all over the age of 70 appear to have donated $1.9 million to Democratic causes, including ActBlue, through hundreds of thousands of small donations from 2016 to 24, according to a review of FEC filings.
00:12:07.000by Dominic Rapini, a cybersecurity company CEO and former Connecticut Republican candidate for office.
00:12:13.000Curious about the donation patterns, Rapini tracked down some of the Connecticut residents and asked that they really did make thousands of small donations, sometimes multiple in a day through ActBlue.
00:12:22.000Several of the supposed donors told Rapini they did not make any of the reported donations, nor did they know anything about how their names were being used.
00:12:29.000An 88-year-old retired Yale University professor, for example, supposedly made 7,539 donations for a total of $213,163, according to FEC records.
00:12:41.000After Rapini informed him about the significant donations in his name, he signed an affidavit saying, quote, I believe this does not reflect my donation frequency or dollars I have donated.
00:12:53.000James O'Keefe uncovered something very similar, if not the exact same, but just in different places.
00:12:59.000Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, this should be their target right now.
00:13:03.000If you've got a man signing a sworn affidavit, I did not make these donations, then you've got money laundering going on, and that's a fact.
00:13:12.000Is there not a way for them federally to look into the bank accounts tied to who made the donation?
00:13:18.000Because obviously the name is attached, but if the name attached doesn't correspond with the bank account, is there a way to check into that?
00:13:24.000I think maybe this is why, well, the theory is, and this is all just opinion, I have no idea, ActBlue is crumbling because with a new DOJ in town, namely a Cash Patel, the people at ActBlue are running as fast as they can.
00:14:45.000Now, I saw this happening because you saw the media started to come in a little bit more centered.
00:14:49.000I don't know if you guys know that, but...
00:14:50.000Well, even Jeff Bezos, he's getting the Washington Post to open up opinion columns about free markets, things like that, even though the fact that Bezos and Zuckerberg have historically were going very much the other direction when the winds were blowing the other direction.
00:17:05.000What I'm saying is that's why they went with Biden in 2020, because they didn't have someone that was a standout leader that was clearly going to beat Donald Trump.
00:17:15.000Well, I think they got Biden because they couldn't get—he was familiar.
00:18:12.000When they asked Kamala on The View, they're like, what would you have done differently if she legit said, I think I would have kept the fries in the fryer for about 20 seconds longer?
00:20:33.000I still feel like the reason that the Democrats are in disarray, the reason that things are going on at ActBlue, not just because the Republicans won and you got people like Kash Patel, but it's because they have no leadership and they have no leadership because they don't know what their platform is anymore.
00:20:51.000They have totally abandoned the working class.
00:20:55.000They're not supporting middle America.
00:20:58.000They're the party of the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor.
00:21:03.000And they use those two groups against the average American, and they browbeat them with identity politics through multiple different ways, whether it be sexuality.
00:21:37.000You mentioned, Phil, that the Democrats don't have a platform anymore.
00:21:41.000Gavin Newsom is, and I bet they discussed this a year ago, after Trump wins, assuming he does, we need to start rebuilding a Democrat identity and who's going to be in charge.
00:21:53.000And as we were mentioning in the previous segment...
00:21:55.000You mentioned MSNBC is bringing a new, more moderated Democrat.
00:22:05.000Now, the big play here, obviously, Gavin Newsom is getting backlash from Democrats.
00:22:12.000They're probably going to come after me.
00:22:14.000I say they, the Democrat machine, the political machine, the bureaucratic state is going to come after me hard for this segment we're about to do right now.
00:22:20.000One of the biggest things that big mistakes are being made right now by the independent space.
00:22:26.000They don't have standards and practices.
00:23:17.000Many people on the right have made tremendous errors in not actively paying attention to their standards and practices, namely around two big things.
00:23:26.000One, the simple one that's not as big a deal is how they approach fair use issues and citation and copyright.
00:23:36.000But the big issue is, in this new podcasting space, ads are being sold which are illegal.
00:23:43.000And many individuals on the right are reading pharmaceutical ads, and they're reading ads for finance without looking into federal law.
00:23:52.000After we wrapped up the Culture War podcast this morning, I was talking to Del and Dr. Malone, and I mentioned this.
00:23:59.000I said, we've had companies pitch to us.
00:24:02.000I don't want to name the companies, so if you guys know what I'm talking about here, I don't want to drag anybody or get into any litigation.
00:24:07.000But there are people right now in the independent media space, pro-Trump.
00:24:12.000Anti-establishment who have been doing ad reads for prescription medications.
00:24:16.000That is heavily regulated by the FDA. And the first thing Dr. Malone said to me was, I saw this too.
00:24:32.000There are a lot of people that are doing ad reads for financial services not realizing there are federal requirements as to what you're supposed to do if you are selling an ad or doing a read.
00:24:41.000And so the question then was, why aren't these agencies or anybody doing anything about it?
00:25:39.000Every time I say, look, we have standards and practices here to a limited degree, like we have lawyers, we have legal teams, we check the laws on these things, and we have a team that goes through what is and is not allowed to be advertised on whichever platform.
00:25:50.000YouTube has two sets of rules for this, AdWords and YouTube.
00:25:54.000And every time the company says, here's a list of prominent YouTubers who have already done the ad read, and I responded to them, that's great that other people are breaking the law and going to get themselves banned, but that doesn't mean we'll do it.
00:26:06.000And they say, you're leaving a lot of money on the table.
00:26:17.000You ban a big creator right now, what do you accomplish?
00:26:20.000However, within a couple months of an election, you ban a prominent Trump supporter like they were with Alex Jones and those people back then.
00:26:28.000You're going to start having a visible dent.
00:26:35.000I think we're going to see sporadic bans.
00:26:47.000And then they're going to be on X. This is unfair.
00:26:50.000And then YouTube's going to come out and say, here's a list of 17 times they did an ad for a prescription drug in violation of federal law.
00:26:57.000And we only were just made aware of it.
00:27:57.000So all the Democrats have to do is sit back and wait, see what people care about, see what Republican talking points they got, and then compete on those same talks.
00:28:08.000So, on top of that, as you already mentioned, Hotep, they've got the moderation happening.
00:28:15.000Gavin Newsom agreeing with Charlie Kirk on core anti-wokeness, you know, anti-gender ideologies.
00:29:00.000And here's twenty million dollars in Google and Billboard and TV ads.
00:29:03.000You will now be the biggest podcast in the world so long as you stay within these confines.
00:29:07.000You know these people are going to say yes.
00:29:09.000At the same time, tons of prominent independent podcasters are going to start going.
00:29:15.000Popping across the board, channels getting shut down, and it's never going to be political.
00:29:19.000They're going to come out and they're going to say, we have no choice but to shut this channel down because they were doing financial ads without proper financial disclosures required by law.
00:29:29.000And they did it 53 times over the course of four or five years.
00:29:32.000So I think we'll see a series of things.
00:29:36.000For one, how we've seen censorship occur on Twitter before it was X and on YouTube is.
00:29:40.000If you're a small to mid-channel, you get nuked instantly without warning.
00:29:44.000If you're a bigger channel, they'll give you a warning, take down 17 of your videos, and then say, well, you broke the rules, and try and push you to the brink where they can make the ban not be a big splash.
00:29:57.000I think we're going to see big channels get banned.
00:29:59.000I think it's going to be, first, it's going to be as simple as we issued a strike on this channel and a two-week suspension of live streaming and uploading because they sold drugs.
00:30:09.000We are not banning them, but this is illegal.
00:30:12.000And it's going to be right in the midterm period.
00:30:13.000You do that 100 times to some of the top podcasts, and you have put a dent in the narrative machine for the right.
00:30:22.000You need to create enough negative pressure so that more people get the liberal podcast in a moderated view and less people get the right anti-establishment podcasts.
00:30:38.000People have such short attention spans, and he's likable enough to the politically uninitiated that all of the things that have gone wrong in California just won't register with a lot of people.
00:30:48.000Charlie Kirk is one of the sharpest cats out here.
00:32:26.000If they had leadership, somebody would have stopped them from making that video.
00:32:29.000Like somebody would have been, they would have given that video upload to somebody in power and he'd be like, no, this can't go out.
00:32:35.000You have no idea what you're doing right now.
00:32:37.000Honestly, they would have Mr. Burns pressed the button and the floor trap would have opened and launched in the chute to eject out of the building.
00:32:43.000Yeah, I think they set themselves up like J. Reed.
00:32:46.000You know, the next time it comes around, they're going to get midterm.
00:32:48.000You're going to see a whole new crew, a whole new cast, people you never heard of, going to pop out the woodwork and take a lot of it.
00:33:59.000Because the progressives were so influential before...
00:34:03.000Before they lost this last election, they really thought that all of the progressive policies and all the progressive talking points, they thought that they were in control.
00:34:13.000And when Kamala lost, regular Democrats and their donors, the guys that write the checks, are like, hey, this stuff didn't work.
00:34:21.000It's clearly unpopular with the American people, so we don't want to touch it.
00:34:25.000Look at the things the progressives are pushing.
00:34:28.000They're still pushing LGBT issues as if that's something that people, you know, the average American cares about.
00:34:34.000Most Americans, again, whether you like it or not, most Americans are pro-Israel.
00:34:38.000And you've got all these people that are in the progressive group that are saying, you know, that are talking about Palestine and that are essentially to Americans, to regular normal people that are not plugged into politics.
00:34:49.000This looks like, oh, they're siding with Hamas is what they, is the short version of it.
00:37:28.000Well, I mean, I do want to say one thing.
00:37:30.000Let's celebrate the defeat of wokeness because Democrats are abandoning it.
00:37:34.000And that's we can take we can breathe a sigh of relief.
00:37:36.000That's a W. I'm apprehensive about that.
00:37:41.000There are attempts to just rebrand it that will happen.
00:37:44.000They will just try to change the name that you're seeing that in the government.
00:37:49.000In the bureaucracies now, people that used to be head of DEI, etc., they're changing the names, but they will still implement the policies if they're allowed, and that will still be something, because these people that believe this, they truly believe it.
00:38:03.000They're ideologues, and as long as they're working in HR, they're going to hire people that agree with them.
00:38:09.000HR departments are the communist official party offices, you know what I mean?
00:38:13.000There's not much legs in the wokeness, because you have to think generationally.
00:38:18.000If you look at the young generation coming up, like I got twin boys that are 15. They're watching the different streamers.
00:38:24.000A lot of the streamers say, we're not touching this politics stuff.
00:38:34.000Let me tell you, I had a segment today.
00:38:36.000If YouGov polling from, I think it might have been a year ago or within the past few months, if you ask Democrats, have we done enough for LGBTQ people?
00:38:48.000For people who are elderly, something like 75% say we haven't.
00:39:38.000But with Dave Smith, who is a more rational, critical of Israel and Israel funding, anti-interventionist, I've had a conversation with many libertarians and even some I would call like moderate conservatives who are pro-Israel.
00:39:53.000and the consensus seems to be leaning towards Israel must become self-sufficient of its own accord, like over a period of time.
00:40:00.000So it seems like the space we're in is either totally anti-Israel or Israel's cool but not our problem.
00:40:07.000And the pro-Israel sentiment, which does exist, I don't think is strong enough to maintain an ongoing U.S. funding of Israel the way we've experienced it.
00:40:17.000Are we talking like the politically initiated or are you saying like the general sentiment within the country?
00:40:22.000General public like Israel but really aren't gonna be doing much for it.
00:40:47.000But you're seeing more prominent personalities be hypercritical of Israel.
00:40:50.000And it's become more of a mainstream conversation where...
00:40:53.000You don't have the fervent, zealous pro-Israel anymore.
00:40:57.000So looking at Gen Z, I'm not talking about these university protesters who are saying free from the river to sea or whatever.
00:41:06.000I'm talking about the people you're mentioning who are playing video games who are going to be like, I don't want to be involved in any of that stuff.
00:41:10.000And you combine that with the other anti-Israel sentiment.
00:41:14.000I'm wondering if the next generation is going to be voting.
00:41:17.000We're going to see politicians who are basically like, nah, Israel, we out.
00:41:20.000Well, it's the idea here that you're going to get a next generation of people that are actually America first that are saying, look, anti-war, like Ron Paul in 2008, and taken to its logical conclusion, it's saying, why are we anti-war about everything but this?
00:41:33.000And perhaps the next generation just takes that sentiment to say, you need to be self-sufficient.
00:41:55.000I'm interested to know exactly what he means by that.
00:41:59.000But look, there are going to be a significant portion of people that are going to be like, look, America should take care of America and we shouldn't be funding other countries.
00:42:09.000But there are a lot of people that have the impression that we just send them pallets of cash like we did to Iran.
00:42:14.000And when we send them money, what we're sending them is weapons that were made in America.
00:42:20.000So the United States prints money, sends it to weapons manufacturers in the United States.
00:42:24.000That money goes to people that work in the United States.
00:42:50.000I want well-paid men and women in uniform.
00:42:54.000But when they're like, don't worry, the $350 billion that were being spent on Ukraine actually was given to the military-industrial complex.
00:44:56.000There's a fracture in America First of people who understand global politics, geopolitics, and war overseas, and the ones who just are saying blanket statement, I don't think we should be any of these regions.
00:45:08.000I think we should focus on things here first.
00:45:10.000Now, I understand that's a very, very utopian way of thinking of things.
00:45:14.000I'm just saying that's a sentiment that you're seeing right now.
00:45:48.000I don't think we should be doing any of that stuff.
00:45:50.000Remember when Trump was like, nobody knows where that is.
00:45:53.000It doesn't change the fact that most people that are like, oh, we shouldn't do anything, we shouldn't spend money, we shouldn't give foreign aid, they don't understand what foreign aid is.
00:46:02.000They think that it's just dumping money and pallets attached.
00:46:21.000Aid is AIDS. I guess the way I think it is, the average person who doesn't follow global politics super closely sees natural disasters happen here, and FEMA gives them $600, and they're like, why?
00:46:37.000Is it that we can give American citizens $600, but we have to give, again...
00:47:04.000Then you can worry about the people...
00:47:06.000Take care of the people here first, then you can worry about the people in the rest of the world.
00:47:11.000So in direct funding, I believe the U.S. is at like $140 billion.
00:47:16.000In total spending, including ancillary spends, which are not direct to Ukraine, but for...
00:47:22.000We'll say things like funding of U.S. personnel in Europe that do aid and assist Ukraine.
00:47:27.000So we've got the direct congressional apportion funds.
00:47:30.000Then we have existing U.S. military infrastructure in Europe.
00:47:33.000I believe the estimate is total expense was $350 billion.
00:47:38.000If that is the case, and I know it is a rough estimate, that means the United States has given each citizen of Ukraine, including babies, $9,722.
00:50:02.000An aid to AOC. Self-deported after being in the U.S. illegally, Diego de la Vega said he has freedom of movement in Colombia now after he overstayed his visa in the U.S. Okay, so overstayed a visa.
00:50:13.000Did she hire him when he was allowed to work here?
00:50:15.000They say, according to the Washington Free Beacon, he left the U.S. in December after he overstayed his visa that he received when he was seven years old.
00:50:22.000On Wednesday, AOC praised de la Vega saying that we love him.
00:50:25.000The aid self-deportation came shortly after Trump was elected in November, and since becoming president, he has pushed for a mass deportation effort, starting with those here illegally that are also committing other crimes.
00:50:36.000De La Vega relocated to Bogota to be with his wife, who was another illegal immigrant to the U.S. In an interview with Migrant Insider, the aide said that he was illegalized in the U.S. and that he would have the freedom of movement in Colombia.
00:51:53.000So right now, with Trump getting elected, with immigration being a principal issue, you've got people who have been here as DACA recipients since then.
00:52:02.000They've had 12 years to get their affairs in order, and they chose not to.
00:52:07.000And now it's, oh no, but these people have been here their whole lives.
00:53:16.000Ten years on, mass migration has negatively impacted us, and the LGBTQ issues have pushed so far beyond the pale that people are shocked and scared.
00:53:25.000Now, moderates, moderate liberal types who supported these causes have disappeared.
00:53:39.000And you're likely going to see many of these people who are once liberal and the post-liberals who have joined Trump will not speak out as activists in support of gay marriage when the challenges arise.
00:54:29.000Because normally what you would get from her after something like that is, you know, she's going to be at the border crying near the fence.
00:55:04.000They probably went through a list of people that they think would follow orders with the new shift for politics.
00:55:11.000And I think you're right about Charlemagne.
00:55:12.000He didn't get the call, but he is smart.
00:55:14.000So he went, oh, geez, they lied about Trump, huh?
00:55:17.000So, like, the idea was that when they talked about Lake and Riley, or they talked about the young man with brain cancer at the address, and nobody stood up, and no Democrats clapped, did none of those people get the call?
00:55:31.000Because a really easy way to start shifting would have been to just stand up and act like a human being.
00:55:37.000And again, coming back to Charlemagne, when you look at Charlemagne and a breakfast club's coverage, even, I gotta give props to DJ. When they talked about DJ, they were like, yo, leave little bro alone.
00:55:50.000But you cannot not support DJ. And what they were saying was that Trump was grifting off a DJ. And I'm like, listen, let's say Trump was grifting off a DJ. Who wins more from that, DJ or Trump?
00:56:05.000I'm like, yo, I feel like DJ wins more.
00:56:27.000When they're censuring Al Green and then all the Democrats, not all of them, but a lot of them, are singing We Shall Overcome and the Well of the Congress, they didn't get the call.
00:57:05.000He said when he first got in, they said if you want a committee assignment, you've got to pay for it.
00:57:09.000And based on the size of your district, and it's like...
00:57:12.000Per capita GDP or whatever, your contribution to the NRCC, National Republican Congressional Committee or whatever, has to be a certain number.
00:57:21.000And so Gates said, I wrote him a check and said, how much will half a million get me?
00:57:24.000And they were like, you can have any committee assignment you want.
00:57:27.000When Marjorie Taylor Greene got censured for Post Humanity Facebook and they stripped her of her committee assignments, she was basically unable then to advance certain bills or be involved in that process.
00:57:36.000So if these Democrats are getting stripped from their committee assignments, and it could be 30 or 40, That's massive.
00:58:03.000And again, there's a million things you can criticize Gavin Newsome on, but the sad fact is most people have short memories and aren't going to remember it by the time the next election comes around.
00:58:56.000I think the Democrats and the DJ thing, I think it's that Democrats are substantially less likely, I mean the voters as a base, less likely to have kids.
00:59:06.000They don't get an emotional reaction seeing...
00:59:08.000That father, they don't empathize with that father.
00:59:13.000We mentioned this, I think I mentioned this this morning, that in this battle we have, there are people who serve God and people who want to be God.
00:59:22.000So the transhumanists, big tech, or people who are just gluttonous and hedonistic.
00:59:27.000And then you have people on the other side.
00:59:29.000If you want to secularize it for those that are moderate and support Trump but don't believe in God, these are people who believe in something greater than themselves.
00:59:38.000They might be agnostic, but they serve in the military because they believe, you know, I think that exists.
00:59:43.000When you look at the DJ scenario, people who believe in the greater are more likely to feel empathy, not just for the kid who was bullied, and that's where a lot of this started.
00:59:53.000He was being bullied because he wanted to be a cop.
00:59:55.000But for the father who's standing there, imagining what that dad must have felt when his son was going through brain cancer, imagining what that kid must have been feeling going through brain cancer.
01:00:07.000Man, to see that dad with a big old smile on his face holding up his son for the President of the United States to be honored, to know that not only did his son survive, and it was probably the most terrifying and painful thing you can experience, it's probably slow torture.
01:00:20.000The Democrats, I'm sure many of the Democrat politicians, they have kids, we know they do, and they understand that.
01:00:26.000But they don't stand up because their voters don't understand that.
01:00:29.000And their voters won't react with empathy because they don't care.
01:00:33.000In fact, they've been publishing op-eds all the time saying, stop having kids.
01:01:01.000When DJ got helped up by his dad, I wasn't just...
01:01:06.000I wasn't just cheering for DJ, I was cheering for that dad.
01:01:10.000I mean, I've told this before, there was a video that went viral on the internet a long time ago of a dad holding his dead son, and he wailed in such a way that would haunt your nightmares.
01:01:19.000And I'm like, worst thing a parent could ever experience.
01:01:24.000And he didn't just deal with that pain.
01:01:26.000It was prolonged torture over a long period of time.
01:01:29.000Parents who go through kids with terminal illness, you're not just experiencing that pain one time.
01:02:13.000They have happiness treatment for diseases.
01:02:16.000But the level of your mood can actually help you with whatever it is that you're facing.
01:02:21.000And this kid now enjoying this extended period of elation, he's giving this kid life.
01:02:27.000And this is one of the most beautiful things.
01:02:28.000I will never forgive the people that really politicized that and didn't show love to DJ. The fact that the Democrats can't identify the obvious...
01:04:01.000The media is now running the headline that Trump says he won't pardon Derek Chauvin, which is a weird headline to run, considering Trump just said, effectively, I don't know what you're talking about.
01:04:10.000They go to mention Ben Shapiro, founder of the Daily Wire, this week launched an online petition calling for Trump to pardon Chauvin, who in 2021 was sentenced for 22 and a half years in prison on state charges for second, third, second and third degree murder and 21 years on federal charges for depriving Floyd of his civil rights.
01:04:25.000When he knelt on top of Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes as he lay on a Minneapolis sidewalk in May of 2020.
01:04:30.000Certainly, we all know that the issue there is not so cut and dry and they're not framing it that well.
01:04:36.000But the Daily Wire has pushed this big campaign, and many people have gotten on board with it.
01:04:40.000I think, obviously, I think Derek Chauvin shouldn't be in prison at all.
01:04:45.000And I have tweeted hashtag Free Chauvin numerous times.
01:04:48.000I don't know if it makes sense right now for Trump to put this on his agenda.
01:04:53.000I mean, certainly Chauvin shouldn't be in prison, but he's going to be in state prison anyway, even if Trump pardoned him, he's still locked up.
01:05:00.000So I don't know why now is the right moment for this, but I'm curious what you guys think.
01:06:06.000But there are stories that I've heard from people in Minnesota about the dealings between him and George Floyd and those two were not exactly the nicest people, right?
01:06:16.000It's the same thing with George Floyd, right?
01:06:18.000When I tell black people, I'm like, yo, look, like, George Floyd ain't exactly Martin Luther King Jr., right?
01:06:24.000It's the same thing with Derek Chauvin.
01:06:25.000I'm like, yo, this dude ain't exactly Captain America.
01:06:29.000So don't throw away the country for one cop.
01:06:33.000That's the deontological versus utilitarian moral worldview challenge we all face.
01:06:54.000There's an information gap between the people that actually followed this case closely and looked at the medical examiner's report and looks at all of the information connected to it.
01:07:02.000It was a very, very emotional response from a lot of the country in relation to this.
01:07:07.000And they would lose a lot of support if they did this right now.
01:07:10.000For something that wouldn't get them out of jail.
01:07:13.000I'd take one term as president because I would just do the – I'd pardon so many people.
01:07:24.000I say most because some – we talked about this before with like what if Trump pardoned all like marijuana-related federal charges.
01:07:29.000The issue is that some of them pleaded down from violent or very dangerous, very bad things.
01:07:35.000Some are cartel members who don't want free.
01:07:36.000Just because we got them on the pot thing doesn't mean we don't know about other stuff we did.
01:07:40.000But there's a lot of people I'd say, just get them out.
01:07:42.000We don't like nonviolent offenses that we know is just some dude who had a bunch of weed or whatever.
01:07:48.000We don't want to deal with this stuff.
01:07:49.000But if I had just one term, I'd be pardoned left and right, and I'd be locking up left and right.
01:07:57.000I've already mentioned this over and over again.
01:07:59.000These CBP agents who are trafficking kids and knew it, The people who are transporting illegal immigrants and knew it, and they worked for these bus companies or whatever, I'd be locking people up like crazy.
01:08:08.000I guess I'm just saying, like, right now, Trump's in this position where he's not running for re-election.
01:08:20.000Yeah, but the thing is, he's gonna start be planning for 2028 for whoever comes next, right?
01:08:24.000Just because he, especially if we're talking about Vance being the one that runs in 2028, then whatever Trump does on his way out will be, will color how people feel about Vance, even if Vance had nothing to do with those decisions.
01:08:36.000Right, but the thing is, if you've got a corpse of a Democrat party, don't...
01:09:48.000I do love that all of these Zaju's people were screaming at the top of their lungs, claiming they claimed Daily Wire already owned TimCast.
01:09:58.000There was an article that said Daily Wire had a minority stake in the company.
01:10:01.000I was like, none of this was ever true.
01:10:37.000But when he says one time that Tim sold his company to Jews, he's got...
01:10:43.000Followers who to this day believe that, and it was never true, and I bet him a bottle of Pappy whiskey wasn't true, and he just disappeared on the issue like a little baby.
01:10:53.000He just ran away and said, I'm not going to say anything about nothing.
01:10:56.000So what I will say about those people is, think about how wrong he was about that, and how he adamantly kept screaming it.
01:11:05.000Think about everything else he's saying.
01:11:06.000The dude is just, it's crazy how wrong he is, but he gets propped up.
01:11:09.000I think he's probably getting a lot of bot traffic.
01:11:16.000All these dudes that's pushing this anti-Semite stuff, the only reason why they're doing it is because they think they're getting traction.
01:11:24.000But the traction is coming from bot traffic.
01:11:38.000But somebody's pushing bot buttons, and these people are being controlled by bot farms because they think they're getting real engagement, and they are not getting real engagement.
01:11:47.000I think it's important to clarify that certainly there are a lot of people who are following them and do believe this stuff.
01:11:53.000And what happens is when you point out there are bot campaigns that are easily visible, people think you're accusing them of being a bot, so we'll clarify.
01:12:01.000I do believe the whole Zijus thing that we're seeing, where it's like...
01:12:05.000People acclaimed that we were owned by—I mean, it's crazy because it's like you got Catholics working at Daily Wire.
01:12:12.000But I think the reason why there is a bot campaign in this regard is it gives the big platforms an excuse to shadow ban, and it kills your advertising revenue.
01:12:25.000I'm not going to speak about any of the big names personally, but how is it— That you can have, and I'll be as vague as possible because there's probably like 15 to 30 people who fit this category.
01:12:38.000They are podcasters in the space of A. And it's, you know, just like variable X. We'll call it variable X. And maybe it's billiards.
01:15:16.000And so if someone came out and said, women is a fast-growing demographic, quick, turn your news and culture podcast for pro-women, you're going to lose everything.
01:16:52.000It is believed the main reason may be, I think it is personally, that they introduced feminist politics, woke politics into the game, gender ideology.
01:17:02.000And a video went viral that was a two, it was like a three minute cutscene where you had to listen to someone explain why you can't misgender people.
01:17:10.000And then next thing we know, Dragon Age, which was a massive franchise, bombs.
01:18:12.000It's the same type of feminist messaging that's failed in Hollywood where they want to put more women in movies, but the movies that have to make it at the big budget box office stuff have to be spy thrillers.
01:18:29.000See, the problem is that what they don't understand is they think that by putting the female characters in the male role that they're going to bring in the female audience, not understanding that the women will come for it anyways because they want to see the male in that role too.
01:18:43.000Okay, so they just released the information that Jeff Bezos, after finding out that Barbara Broccoli, after they bought MGM, was like, they came to Barbara Broccoli, who's the one who shepherded James Bond through Eon Productions.
01:19:18.000And for the last 15 years, they have fought that tooth and nail trying to put women in the roles that men want when they don't understand that women want to see the men there, too.
01:19:27.000What was the last James Bond where he had a black female No Time to Die?
01:19:33.000Because they're trying to set her up to be either as a spinoff movie or a principal character.
01:19:39.000They keep trying to do this thing where they're like...
01:19:54.000It was right before Endgame, and they said this was going to tie directly into it, and people thought, Marvel movies are good, I'll see this one.
01:20:00.000And guess what happened in the Marvels, the sequel?
01:20:56.000So they tried to jam Brie Larson, an unlikable human, like, I'm sorry, like, I mean this with no disrespect, but she's very unlikable, into this action star role that was despised, and they tried.
01:21:40.000As long as the girl in GTA got a big booty, because a lot of black men played GTA, if she got a big booty and she's got some cassavas, it's gonna be a go.
01:21:54.000Now, if she comes out and she's a stud, we might have a problem.
01:22:00.000If she's not hot, That's its own issue in video games, is the way they draw the female characters now.
01:22:08.000I go back to the old World of Warcraft days, and there was a viral meme, because everybody knew that you're playing World of Warcraft, there are female characters running around.
01:23:36.000But basically, when we look at why these games...
01:23:41.000It was largely feminist politics, largely pushed by women targeting female demographics, and it never worked.
01:23:48.000Now, when you look at Marvel Rivals, once again, like, I'll say this, they introduced Sue Storm, and the way they draw superheroes has always been their naked bodies that are colored.
01:23:57.000And it looks like they're wearing unitards, but they're literally drawing, and this is a well-known fact.
01:27:17.000Pretty sure a three-minute explanation and ten push-ups with an explanation with pulling a barve as a name of it is a long drawn-out apology, but this is two minutes long.
01:30:35.000If you listen to the radio during GTA 5, they were making fun of the woke stuff in GTA 5. You remember, you listen to the radio, they make fun of liberals through the entire game.
01:30:56.000And in that time, ten years, you have a 16-year-old woman, ten years later, she's 26, and she's working at these companies, and these companies are going to be different.
01:35:36.000Well, the world comes to an end and they have to build a world underground and they select 25,000 people to go live underground.
01:35:44.000Remember how Truman Show had that fake world?
01:35:47.000It's kind of like Wayward Pines meets The Truman Show.
01:35:51.000Sterling K. Brown is probably one of the best actors working today.
01:35:53.000But even in that, there's a little bit of like...
01:35:56.000The white characters are all kind of like vile and they have layers.
01:36:01.000But Sterling K. Brown isn't really allowed to do that.
01:36:04.000He has to kind of be perfect all the time because they don't want to risk any of the black characters seeming like they could be bad guys.
01:36:10.000So they're all what the term in culture is soulful saints, meaning they can't have any flaws whatsoever.
01:36:17.000And it does him a disservice because he doesn't get to stretch his legs as an actor while all the other characters get to be like his best friend.
01:36:28.000Yeah, like the end of the episode, they're like, you can't trust Billy.
01:36:32.000Billy, and he's just got the meanest face you've ever seen in an entire life.
01:36:35.000Ends up he's flawed, but he's still friends with him.
01:36:39.000He gets layers, but the other characters don't because the writers are terrified to write characters that are not white in anything other than perfect.
01:38:04.000It's like Squid Games, but there's this platform, and then basically you have, let's say, Floor 1 and then Floor 100. And everybody gets to have their favorite food added to this platform.
01:38:14.000So as it gets to the bottom, naturally, by the time it gets to the bottom, it ain't nothing but bones.
01:38:17.000But then there's like this lottery, and it shuffles, so you get put on a different platform, and then it gets really gory.
01:38:24.000Are people living on the platform or something?
01:39:39.000And they have a trans character in the show who is invincible and can do no wrong and saves everybody.
01:39:45.000And they spend probably like, I don't know, a decent amount of the show explaining why it's...
01:39:51.000So it starts with an old woman in the Squid Games seeing the trans person and getting mad.
01:39:56.000And then they start explaining to you why it's okay to be trans.
01:39:58.000Then they have the trans person save a bunch of people and be the hero.
01:40:01.000And I'm like, dude, I don't care if you have a trans person in the show, but you're beating me in the face with the bag of sweet Valencia oranges over here, man.
01:40:12.000I wouldn't have made it through the first episode, man.
01:42:24.000And then they say, wait, wait, but don't end episode three because episode three ends with a cliffhanger.
01:42:28.000It's supposed to go in episode four, right?
01:42:29.000So it just basically you get five episodes where, I'm going to tell you, probably a half an hour of each episode is people sitting in the waiting room talking.
01:44:54.000So basically, fake shows, the way they work is, writers will write probably one page and say, have them fight with each other, and then only at the last minute...
01:45:27.000And what I was told was it's kind of how Severance is as well, but I stopped watching Severance because it started doing this, so I turned it off.
01:45:33.000It shows where they clearly haven't written it.
01:45:36.000They say, give us a premise of people trapped, and then at the end of every episode, insert a random thing.
01:45:43.000So, famously, from, the guy finds a lighthouse, and then he hears a music box, and then he turns around, and there's a music box on the ground, and he's shaking, and the episode ends.
01:46:06.000You know, explain to me why you think Severance is a good show because I turned it on and then, I don't know the actor's name, but he walked through a hall for a minute and a half.
01:46:14.000I looked at Allison and she looked at me.
01:47:41.000King of the Road was a skateboard thing where they had, like...
01:47:45.000A handful of teams were each given tasks they had to perform and then told to go on this road trip and they'd film themselves trying to do things where it would be like...
01:50:30.000I think one of the easiest things we can do is actually Saturdays to start with Chuck and Kellen and, I don't know, maybe some other people, and do a sports show.
01:50:41.000Ideally, we would do something every single day.
01:50:44.000We've got to figure out the space for it.
01:52:45.000YouTube's rules around knives are something to the effect of, like, it's fine to advocate to do ad reads for kitchen utensils so long as they're not weapons.
01:54:33.000To which I responded, you mean to tell me that even though I looked at all the rules and double-checked to make sure everything I'm saying is totally fine, I can still get a strike because I didn't know there were extra rules based on ad reads?
01:56:01.000Just something people should understand.
01:56:02.000So when the feds say you cannot sell pharmaceutical drugs and you got a bunch of these independent anti-establishment guys doing ads for pharmaceutical drugs and they are, they're going to get banned.
01:56:32.000So, I'm saying this right now, more generally speaking, because the people who are out there are like, I've talked to people, I've told them.
01:56:40.000March 7th, Timcast called it, Mark your calendars, listeners.
01:57:25.000You'll get a second strike and be gone for two weeks.
01:57:27.000Then they'll wait for one strike to go away within three months and then keep hitting you, reducing your content output by, let's just say it's 8%, but that's the math game they're playing.
01:57:39.000People who are pro-Trump and anti-establishment, We need to suppress them by 7% and boost liberals by 7% so that everybody flows in one direction.
01:57:51.000You ban someone, you create a massive PR campaign, lawsuits, conflict, legal challenges, suppress them, and you effectively do the same thing.
01:58:01.000So instead of banning one big person like Alex Jones, they would have been better off lightly suppressing 10 channels.
01:58:09.000By 10% instead of one channel by 100%.
01:59:35.000I'm saying most people don't get the memo because they watch the show for the content, not for the advertisements or the plugs.
01:59:42.000So they'll skip ahead when the show starts, ignore the plugs, listen to us talk, say I love this show, and then end when we get super chats and say, you know, that's fine.
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