On today's show, we discuss the latest in the Kamala Harris campaign and her potential VP pick. Also, the UK is in the midst of civil war and the President has called for a standing army to help crack down on the problem. Finally, we have a special guest, Nick Freitas, who is a Delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates.
00:00:00.000In a viral clip from five months ago, Congressman Jamie Raskin says that if Donald Trump wins,
00:00:16.000they will move to disqualify him through Congress, invoke civil war conditions and tell the Trump
00:00:22.000hordes that Donald Trump is disqualified and not allowed to be president.
00:00:27.000It's currently the number one trending topic on X, that this guy's basically conspiring to commit an insurrection against the will of the people should Donald Trump win.
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00:04:30.000Here's the story from Legal Insurrection.
00:04:33.000Rep Raskin in February, quote, it's up to Congress to disqualify Trump if he wins.
00:04:38.000So it's going to be up to us on January 6th to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified.
00:04:45.000It's kind of wild to hear, and this story is going pretty viral, but Legal Insurrection did the groundwork sourcing this clip that's going viral with tens of millions of views on X. And it's sourced back to five months ago, back in February, on February 17th.
00:05:01.000Only 7,558 views, but somebody did find it.
00:05:05.000And so we have, in the full context, he's talking about actions they need to take, and, uh, well, let's just play the clips so you can hear it for yourselves.
00:05:16.000And then it's not until the Warren court for a couple of decades with the white primary cases and Brown v. Board where you get a different kind of Supreme Court on the side of the freedoms and equality of the American people.
00:05:29.000But the court is not going to save us.
00:05:32.000And so that means the only thing that really works is people in motion Amending the Constitution.
00:05:38.000But again, it's necessary, but it's not sufficient because what can be put into the Constitution can slip away from you very quickly.
00:05:45.000And the greatest example going on right now before our very eyes is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which they're just disappearing with a magic wand as if it doesn't exist, even though it could not be clearer what it's stating.
00:05:58.000And so You know, they want to kick it to Congress, so it's going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified.
00:06:09.000And then we need bodyguards for everybody in civil war conditions, all because the nine justices, not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not that much work to do, a huge staff, great protection, simply do not want What a wild thing to say to a group of people so casually that we will need bodyguards for everyone's civil war conditions.
00:06:31.000And I'm glad that Sherrilyn's creating her new center so we can bring that back to life,
00:06:35.000even as we're continuing to amend the Constitution, as Professor Hassan has invited us to do.
00:06:40.000What a wild thing to say to a group of people so casually that we will need bodyguards for
00:07:33.000To me, a lot of the messaging coming from Raskin and other high-ranking Democrats has always been not warning about potential political violence, but like manifesting it, you know, really just trying to say like, this is how bad it is.
00:07:47.000And it's really, you know, we don't know what could happen, but one of you maybe should do something about it.
00:07:51.000I mean, it's very strange and I think also divisive, right?
00:07:55.000This is the same party that I'll turn around and say, We're the party of unity and we're togetherness and all this stuff and then they're saying we have to do everything we can from our branch of government to not let the other team's person, you know, take office if fairly elected.
00:08:21.000They look at an enormous amount of cases and decide what they think actually could be in violation of the Constitution and, you know, that they should hear it.
00:08:30.000The other thing that always blows my mind about this, when you hear some of the people on the left talk about the Supreme Court, they have this idea that what the Supreme Court is supposed to do is essentially validate whatever leftist politicians want.
00:08:43.000And oftentimes they will criticize Supreme Court decisions where the Supreme Court comes back and says, this needs to be solved by the legislature.
00:08:50.000What do you mean it needs to be solved by the legislature?
00:08:53.000No, we just want you to issue down an edict.
00:08:58.000That was a big deal with the EPA rules a couple of years ago.
00:09:01.000The Supreme Court said, you know, hey, EPA, you can't force West Virginia to do all of these things because that's up to Congress to decide.
00:09:08.000And I think one of the key things that the court has been doing in this past term And, you know, in the past couple of terms is to tell these federal agencies that they are not actually authorized by Congress or the executive branch to put out all of these laws.
00:09:24.000I saw this interview with Mike Lee on Tucker Carlson that just dropped the other day, where Lee was talking about how on his desk he has two stacks of papers.
00:09:32.000I mean, he probably has more, but two stacks, one of laws that Congress has passed and one that's like the federal register that all the agencies have put out.
00:09:40.000And it's, you know, a couple thousand pages versus like masses and masses of thousands of pages that the Federal Register has put out.
00:09:48.000And it's like these edicts that all of these agencies just released to force Americans into doing things that the agent, how the agency interprets the law.
00:09:59.000And to a certain extent, how the president interprets the law.
00:10:02.000He's the one that puts out all these executive orders saying include more gender stuff.
00:10:07.000Well, the overturning Chevron was one of the best decisions the Supreme Court has made in my lifetime, simply because I don't think people fully understood what this was.
00:10:15.000The original Chevron decision essentially said that when an executive branch agency interprets the law in such a way, promulgates pages upon pages of regulations, can ruin your life, shut down your business, confiscate your property, The Supreme Court had said, well, we're just going to assume that the federal branch agency got it right.
00:10:32.000So when you bring a case before the Supreme Court or when you bring a case before a federal court, the burden is on you to prove that the federal agency got it right.
00:10:40.000We're not going to look at the case before us and say, well, we're not going to assume the Fed's got it correct.
00:12:38.000This is just the misinterpretation from one side that has a bias.
00:12:41.000And I think that there is so much just anti-whatever-they're-doing sentiment, and you do get it on both sides of the political aisle, but definitely from the left and progressive movement, that they have made it this fear-mongering game that's ultimately extremely dangerous for or harmful for people who are trying to just live daily life.
00:12:58.000I will say this, though, I think the thing that is different about this particular race is not just the fact that the left absolutely despises Donald Trump.
00:13:05.000I think it's also about this is the first time this is the first time we will have an administration in my lifetime, both Trump and JD Vance, who are adamant that the biggest the biggest threat Um, is an unelected executive bureaucracy that has just grown completely out of control.
00:13:21.000And they are looking for ways to go after that in a way that no president in my lifetime has.
00:13:25.000And the federal bureaucracy is going to defend itself.
00:13:29.000And so that's the part where I see this being different than, than previous races.
00:13:34.000Like I don't, I don't hold out a lot of hope that any politician is going to save us or an administration is going to be able to do it.
00:13:40.000But if there's one that will go after the federal bureaucracy hard, it's this one.
00:13:44.000And what's more exemplary of the federal bureaucracy than a person who has just been installed as the Democratic candidate, right?
00:13:50.000Like, you don't literally use their just, like, administrative power to be like, this is who it is now.
00:13:56.000This is what I actually fear, though, right?
00:13:57.000A Donald Trump presidency and administration will be marginally good.
00:14:15.000And they're showing polls where she's within the margin of error of beating Trump.
00:14:18.000And if that happens, that's what really scares me.
00:14:21.000This is the powers that be saying, can we enact Chinese communist style governance in the United States?
00:14:26.000Because if Kamala Harris wins, that's what it is.
00:14:29.000And it's unfortunate that it really comes down to Trump and oblivion.
00:14:33.000And I don't mean to say that Kamala Harris is going to be like Hitler or anything like that, although some guy from Splinter News, which used to be Fusion where I worked, actually believed my over-the-top tweet where I said she'd start 800 wars and he thought it was real because they're not smart people.
00:14:47.000What I mean is Kamala Harris winning signals the end of the Republic.
00:14:53.000I really do think if Kamala wins, you're going to wake up and you're going to buy bread.
00:14:56.000You're going to wake up, you're going to go to the store and get milk, bread, and eggs.
00:14:58.000You're going to turn on the TV and you're going to watch your Fox News or your Newsmax or your ABC, whatever it is you're watching.
00:15:39.000Can we, can we also acknowledge too that when you, when you talk about the reason why they were so upset about Chevron, this whole idea of like the experts now alone, that's always been the progressive objective.
00:15:49.000If you go all the way back to Woodrow Wilson, right?
00:15:51.000You know, you're the president of Yale university that believed that, or was it Princeton?
00:15:54.000He goes, what we need is wise experts within the bureaucracy that are going to run the country and the constitution stands in the way because it has all these checks on federal power.
00:16:04.000So this idea of experts running your life, managing the economy, that's, that's the objective.
00:16:09.000Well, and the presidential, the executive branch has been, what's the word, conglomerating power?
00:16:18.000Accumulating power for decades and decades and decades.
00:16:21.000I remember when they put through the Patriot Act and I was just like, this is a horrifying accumulation of power.
00:16:27.000And this was actually something great that Democrats gifted us in the first Trump administration.
00:16:32.000You know, they say, when God closes a door, he opens a window.
00:16:35.000Donald Trump being curtailed meant they were setting precedent against the power of the executive branch, often in bad ways, but in some ways still acceptable.
00:16:42.000So this means that hopefully, after another Trump administration, we can set some standards and say, hey, here are the precedents set.
00:16:51.000But again, that being said, we've still seen Steve Bannon, and this is through Congress, go to jail, the DOJ deciding that Bannon and Peter Navarro should go to jail, and Merrick Garland should not.
00:16:59.000So the challenge is, as much as I'm hoping to see a real curtailing of executive expanding, expanding executive authority, Democrats just abuse the system when they're in the executive branch anyway, and Republicans don't stop them.
00:17:10.000No, I think that is absolutely the case and that's why I feel, I don't know, I feel like something's different this time and in part it's because, like look, I'm part of that classical liberal group where I want to save the republic and I want to curtail federal power, but I also think we're in a situation right now where so many people on the right feel as if It's no longer good enough to say, well, imagine if we were in power and we did this.
00:17:34.000It's like, yeah, we've been saying that for decades.
00:17:36.000The left will be happy to use the constitution to curtail federal power when it doesn't suit them.
00:17:45.000And they will come right in and completely ignore it and rely on a federal bureaucracy, a compliant media, a higher education.
00:17:53.000They will rely on all of that to back their play.
00:18:09.000So before I even read this, I'll say, yeah, I'm going to read you this, but we're going to try and break it down for you to the best of our abilities.
00:18:17.000UK riots live, fireworks thrown and police van damaged in Plymouth after nearly 400 arrested across country.
00:18:25.000Anti-racist and far-right protesters have clashed in Plymouth, Devon amid a wave of violence sweeping the UK.
00:18:32.000I don't know if far-right means anything here, because you basically have just a bunch of local native British people upset over the violence and the two-tiered policing that they've been seeing pertaining to migrants and many Muslim individuals in the country.
00:18:46.000So the media, of course, will call them far-right by the simple act of them rioting.
00:18:52.000I don't know if I believe that either.
00:18:54.000We just call it far left or whatever you want to call it.
00:18:56.000But the riots have been getting absolutely crazy.
00:18:59.000They say almost 400 people have been arrested over the mob violence spree across the UK with the Prime Minister setting up a standing army of specialist police officers to deal with further attacks.
00:19:08.000In this story from Sky, Elon Musk hits back at Sir Keir Starmer after Civil War comments dismissed.
00:19:16.000So we have this post from the Prime Minister saying, This is not protest, it's pure violence.
00:19:22.000We will have a standing army of public duty officers.
00:19:59.000The things they have done to this guy will send shivers down your spine.
00:20:03.000I don't know if you guys remember when they locked him up, they put him in jail and they weren't feeding him properly.
00:20:07.000And when he finally gets released, because it's been a long time since I covered this story, he's gaunt and frail because he's not getting the food he needs.
00:20:14.000And now they're threatening to arrest him.
00:20:15.000They're claiming that while he's on vacation, he's the one organizing and directing violence that's happening.
00:20:45.000I mean, that's what the UK has wanted to do for a really long time.
00:20:48.000They want to be able to prosecute people for things they say online, you know, if it doesn't fit with the narrative and mainstream culture that they are promoting.
00:20:56.000I mean, what it makes me think of is when there was that attack on school children who were going from a school to a park in Ireland and Conor McGregor, the UFC fighter, was really vocal about like, hey, things are not OK and we need to do something.
00:21:09.000Can you imagine if the Irish government had then been like, we don't like your tweets.
00:21:26.000It was just like, why are you prosecuting this guy for something that everyone knows is wrong?
00:21:32.000This is all kicked off by that story that you guys probably heard about, the guy who stabbed three little girls at a Taylor Swift dance class or something like this.
00:21:43.000This guy was the child of, I believe they were Rwandan migrants.
00:21:48.000And so this really fascinating thing happens.
00:21:51.000If anybody with half a brain, you ask the people, why are you protesting?
00:21:56.000What I've been able to put together is, after this, you get a bunch of people protesting, saying that native-born Brits are not being treated fairly under the law, that this crime is getting out of hand, and they're not doing anything about it.
00:22:08.000And then in response, you get gangs coming out and fighting.
00:22:11.000So we start seeing dudes in balaclavas, they're holding up one finger, they're saying al-Akbar, they're saying things like free Palestine, and they begin beating random people.
00:22:30.000That this leads to a greater escalation where then you get a bunch of white British people coming out being like, you want to beat up our people.
00:22:36.000And now they set fire to like a Holiday Inn that was holding a lot of these migrants.
00:22:48.000Yeah, they go with migrants, but also that's the lefty papers that say that, so it's hard to know.
00:22:52.000But I don't know if they're illegal if the government—because it's different in the UK, I'm not sure.
00:22:56.000So we'll just make sure that context is clear.
00:22:59.000But the important thing to understand is the media is saying, oh, the riots on the far right were all spread by disinformation because they thought a migrant stabbed these girls.
00:24:59.000Apparently it's no longer mostly peaceful protests, right?
00:25:02.000You're the bad guys protesting, and so we're going to use the full weight of the law, the full power of government, to come after you in a way that we never would have done this when it was people that we ideologically agreed with doing the protesting.
00:25:14.000And people see enough of this and they say, fine, if the rules don't apply, then screw you.
00:25:21.000And that's the part where, again, I don't want that.
00:25:23.000I certainly don't want to see that in my country.
00:25:24.000I don't want to see it in the UK or anywhere else.
00:25:26.000But I'm a little bit shocked that the left wants to sit here and pretend as if, oh, I can't believe this is happening.
00:25:32.000My gosh, using rioting and burning things down in order to achieve political objectives?
00:25:36.000But they don't acknowledge that they riot, right?
00:25:46.000So they're doing whatever ideological gods work that they think that they're supposed to be doing, and instead they're, you know, just as culpable for the damages that are being done to these cities, because really that's what I think progressive governments fail to acknowledge, which is that they do damage by not acknowledging when things become extreme.
00:26:04.000And part of that is because I think they ultimately want them to be extreme.
00:26:46.000If I side with the minority, the majority will cause more problems in our major urban centers.
00:26:52.000Well there you go, it's pretty obvious who to side with then.
00:26:55.000Even though the UK is still, majority as a whole, native-born British, the major urban centers, which basically control the seats of governance for the most part, and I don't know if it's true in the UK as it is in the United States, but has massive influence, they're not British.
00:27:09.000So the politicians that are beholden to them, the lefty politicians, they're going to pander to them.
00:27:14.000One thing I did hear is these riots basically mean that labor, the left, is done in the next election.
00:27:32.000But these guys would have to call an election like, you know, I was talking to people in Canada about Trudeau and how everybody hates Trudeau.
00:27:40.000But he's basically got a coalition with the NDP, which is the far left group.
00:27:45.000And so they don't have to call an election until sometime next year.
00:27:48.000And Like, Polyev has to keep his—the conservative leader has to keep his attention strong and keep his support strong until such time as Justin Trudeau decides to call an election.
00:28:04.000When I look—one of the craziest things, that was one of—Labor had the largest victory I think they've had in their history post-World War II.
00:28:12.000However, if you look at the total votes that they got, it was actually less than what Corbyn got in the previous election, and Corbyn got crushed.
00:28:19.000And that's because, again, people weren't voting for labor as much as they were kicking out conservatives, which I completely understand because the conservative party for 14 years conserved nothing except what the left had already put into place prior to them getting back into power.
00:28:33.000And I think we're going to start to see this in a number of places where, again, you look at this with the United States.
00:28:40.000Having an R by your name doesn't mean that you're actually a conservative or you actually want to conserve principles.
00:28:45.000It just means that maybe you're not quite as crazy as what's going on in some of the other places on the left.
00:28:50.000But I think more and more voters are waking up to the idea that, no, I want contrast.
00:28:55.000Are you going to fix what is going on right now?
00:28:57.000If the answer is no, you don't get my vote simply because you might be slightly less crazy.
00:29:02.000I'll hold on for somebody that's actually going to fight.
00:29:04.000Well, let's jump back to the United States.
00:30:47.000The rumor is, back in the day, I think Trudeau went there too, Democrats were fawning over the efficiency of authoritarianism, and they were like, if only we could run our government like you do.
00:32:14.000When they eat salads, but also when they are concerned that what they're saying doesn't make sense or that they're not going to be taken seriously or when they're uncomfortable themselves with their own measure of authority.
00:32:28.000Because I think part of it is that she doesn't have a personality or any idea why she's there.
00:32:32.000I don't think she really knows what stay woke means.
00:32:35.000Someone has just given her this phrase.
00:32:36.000I think she knows what it means for sure.
00:32:38.000I think that's one of the only things she knows.
00:32:40.000I think she knows what being progressive is, but I think all slang is lost in Kamala Harris and that's why she's up there being like, ha ha, am I using this term correctly?
00:33:25.000I think Kamala Harris is actually doing the best thing she can do, which is waiting for the voters and probably her, you know, puppeteer strings to tell her what her policies are.
00:33:36.000I mean, she really couldn't just adopt policies on her own, have actual thoughts in her brain.
00:33:41.000It's going to be funny when she rolls out Project 47, and it's basically just like a complete rewording of Agenda 47, just like the same thing.
00:33:49.000You know, it's like, well, because they have adopted Trump's policies hilariously when Joe Biden wanted to bring in the tariffs.
00:33:56.000And everyone started showing him his old tweet.
00:33:59.000They were tweeting at him and other Democrats like, here's Joe Biden saying tariffs are a tax on the poor and mocking Donald Trump for it now.
00:34:07.000Saying he wants to do the same thing and it's the right policy.
00:34:09.000I think the problem with Democrats is that they chased themselves on the internet into a corner where they were trying to pander to the corporate press and the far left, which is basically the same thing.
00:34:21.000And so in order to stay in the limelight in the corporate narrative, they need to appeal themselves to these woke journalists.
00:34:28.000So they started just saying whatever they thought they wanted to say, which was mostly insane, like defund the police.
00:34:34.000And then when it actually came time to do the math, they were like, Trump's kind of a moderate.
00:35:22.000In fact, the DNC just expects you to fall in line.
00:35:25.000Well Kamala Harris is running on her identity and that's why there's no policy positions on her campaign website because it's all about her innate characteristics.
00:35:35.000And that's why you're a sexist racist if you even question it.
00:35:38.000I mean as soon as she became the nominee I can't remember who I was talking to.
00:35:41.000I said, let me give you the campaign strategy for the Democratic Party from now until November.
00:36:47.000I'm just perusing the Kamala Harris store and I could not but notice these models.
00:36:52.000And I'm just wondering myself, do you think this model actually was like, I love Kamala, please let me wear the shirt?
00:36:58.000Or... I thought that shirt was photoshopped.
00:36:59.000What they do is, a lot of these models will get paid like 50 bucks to wear a white t-shirt, and then these websites will automatically put this stuff on the shirt.
00:37:09.000So I'm wondering if this guy, like, there was a company in there like, hey, you want to be a model?
00:38:36.000It did not turn out that people were like, wow, great, I will vote for her.
00:38:40.000I think the people who didn't want to vote for Biden are not excited about, you know, his vice president sliding into his spot and essentially trying to market herself both as a surrogate and as like a more progressive alternative.
00:38:50.000You also have to ask the question of, OK, so if they can't get you excited about their candidate, what do they have to do?
00:38:55.000They have to stoke the hatred for the opposition candidate.
00:38:58.000And so that's why, you know, you had one week of we all need to lower the temperature in the room.
00:39:04.000And then five minutes later, it's going to go right back to threat to democracy.
00:39:09.000They're all proto-fascist, everything else, because they have to.
00:39:14.000Nobody's voting for Kamala Harris because they are just oh so excited about Kamala Harris.
00:39:17.000So they got to hate the other guy and they're going to continue to do that all the way to
00:39:32.000There is nothing other than maybe the women rights issue, which I would argue is still kind of an identity politics issue, that they are channeling.
00:43:18.000I think it's fair to say that when people believe Kamala's going to win, they sell.
00:43:22.000They are concerned that if they're in the market, plus with this downturn it causes panic, if polls start showing Trump is winning, the market's going to improve because people are going to want to be in these companies, a Trump administration will make your 401k better.
00:43:50.000There was a report from Goldman Sachs that came out on the 4th that said it raised the likelihood that we'll see a recession in the next 12 months from I think it was 15 to 25 percent.
00:44:01.000And I think this is really going to weigh heavily on voters' minds, especially young voters as it goes to go to the polls.
00:44:07.000Of course, retirees, people who are getting ready for that.
00:44:12.000But they've lived through more elections.
00:44:13.000Young voters who are, you know, Maybe one or two election cycles in of being able to cast their own ballot and are trying to plan their financial future.
00:44:21.000I mean, it really seems telling that one candidate seems to make the stock market happy and one doesn't.
00:44:38.000And you have Joe Biden just recently when he was asked what he wanted his legacy to be, and he said that he cured the economy and the environment.
00:44:47.000And so I think we're just waiting to see what his cure for the environment must be.
00:44:50.000And look, I can understand there's a lot of factors going on right now.
00:44:53.000A lot of stuff is going on with interest rates in Japan that is causing a lot of people to invest in the U.S.
00:44:57.000markets for Japan to pull their investments in order to pay back debt because they've raised interest rates.
00:45:29.000Stop listening to the people that keep telling you everything's okay when Democrats are in charge, because Democrats are in charge, and start listening to the economists that have said over and over and over again, you can't spend money the way the federal government is doing, you can't print money to create prosperity, you can't engage in the sort of practices that we're engaging in, because it will lead to a recession.
00:45:50.000If you are just printing dollars, if the federal government is throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at the Taliban right now, You were going to end up in a bad situation.
00:46:13.000Thank God Elizabeth Warren pushed so hard for those 87,000 additional IRS agents in order to make sure that Americans paid their taxes because otherwise the Taliban would have never gotten their money.
00:46:22.000My favorite thing is they brought the meme back where it's rockets from Gaza into Israel, and then the Iron Dome, and it's like, my tax dollars somehow also my tax dollars.
00:46:32.000And it's like, someone tweeted, in light of the news about the Taliban receiving 230 plus million dollars from the US government, I'd like to bring back this meme.
00:47:44.000has free run of Libya in any way they need to.
00:47:47.000Not that we're going in there like we are with other countries, but you get rid of Bashar al-Assad, and then all of a sudden, the U.S.' 's free reign of Syria, which the U.S.
00:47:56.000So, I have to wonder if they weren't accidentally sending hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban.
00:48:02.000Yeah, like maybe they just wanted to send.
00:48:04.000But the thing, too, is after we left Afghanistan in a very bad way, the Biden administration said that they were going to help rebuild the region.
00:48:13.000So they said they were going to give a lot of money to the Taliban.
00:48:29.000I think one of the things that I appreciated—I remember when Trump first got into office, one of the biggest concerns was, oh, we're going to have World War III, we're going to have this, we're going to have that.
00:48:36.000And then all of a sudden, lo and behold, we get involved in the fewest actual large-scale conflicts of any president in recent history.
00:48:44.000And the difference was that it wasn't that Donald Trump was afraid to use the U.S.
00:48:48.000military when it was perhaps appropriate or necessary.
00:48:51.000The difference was that he understood the difference between a punitive expedition And spending 20 years trying to rebuild a country in our own image, right?
00:49:22.000And lo and behold, Iran was like, oh, oh, this is, this is different.
00:49:26.000This is not beneficial to the people in power because he's not killing a bunch of civilians in Tehran in order to send a message to the Ayatollah.
00:49:34.000He's killing people within the inner circle of the Ayatollah.
00:49:37.000That sends a very, very different message because quite frankly, in the Middle East, strength is respected, but it has to be strength and it has to be power directed at the people who actually hold power, not their civilian.
00:49:49.000But to be fair, I think strength is generally respected.
00:49:51.000You look at domestic policy, and you look at the UK, you look at the United States, why is it that the far left will get away with the acts of violence they commit while we desperately beg for accountability?
00:50:01.000Why is it that Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro had to go to prison and Merrick Garland does not?
00:50:05.000Well, it's because Democrats are willing to use power, Republicans are not.
00:50:09.000So if you're not willing to use the power vested in you by the American public when you actually get it, don't be surprised if Democrats, even when they're in the minority, they're going to still do whatever they want.
00:50:42.000And now here we are in a massive, you know, downturn.
00:50:46.000What I've been saying for a long time is that these are the grandchildren of the liberal economic order and they inherited a system they do not know how to run.
00:51:01.000Like I remember I had this, we had this argument on the floor of the House of Delegates with
00:51:06.000somebody who was a trained economist, right?
00:51:08.000Like she had studied under- Allegedly trained economists.
00:51:12.000I mean, at MIT, the whole deal, she had studied under a Nobel laureate, the whole deal, we're having this whole argument about minimum wage increases.
00:51:18.000And I'm arguing like, look, you can't just arbitrarily increase the price of something and not expect there to be negative consequences as a result.
00:51:26.000And it was like, well, you know, that may sound good in Economics 101, but when you really study, I'm like, really?
00:51:32.000So demand curves change when you feel like it because you're a leftist?
00:51:57.000What's your experience like working with Democrats on a state level?
00:52:01.000Because again, we get like the Jamie Raskins who I think are really trying to hang on to federal positioning.
00:52:05.000And sometimes I wonder if it's easier for Republicans and Democrats who are kind of looking to do what's best for their state to strike compromises.
00:52:16.000That's been my impression of the parties, at least on the federal level, that they, at one point in their history, had a similar common set of values and goals.
00:52:23.000They just differed on how they wanted to get there.
00:52:25.000But that doesn't seem like the parties on the federal level.
00:52:27.000At one point, the Democrats, you could make an argument that they took more of a populist approach with respect to trying to take care of the working man and the whole deal, and I get all of that.
00:52:35.000The problem was, is that the Democratic Party got eventually completely co-opted by this leftist ideology.
00:52:41.000They fundamentally believe, they don't come out and say it, right?
00:52:44.000But they fundamentally believe the way that Marx explained the world.
00:52:46.000There's oppressors, there's oppressed, and their job, their duty is to stick up for the oppressed.
00:52:52.000And the only way they can do that is by seizing more power, and that the main enemy is, whether it's free market economics, whether it's traditional family, It's anything that stands in the way of them perfecting society and taking care of people who desperately need them.
00:53:06.000And so the end result is that I'm not talking with somebody... We're no longer dealing with the Democratic Party that wants to argue over the top marginal income tax rate.
00:53:13.000We're talking about people that fundamentally believe that the United States needs to be recreated in a totally different image of what it actually was.
00:53:21.000And so does that now, are there people within the Democratic Party and at the state level that think all this, you know, cultural stuff like with Drag Queen Story Hour is nonsense and they don't want to seize the means of production?
00:53:34.000They sit there quietly, they shut up, and they vote the way that they're told to vote because otherwise they'll get a primary challenge and they'll lose.
00:53:39.000Before I jump to our next story, I want to give a shout-out to Matt Gaetz, who posted a very flattering video clip, and I really do appreciate it.
00:53:50.000And he writes, the TimCast audience is so fire, they will literally stop on a highway meeting to say, hey, thanks for your support and your vote today, Joe.
00:54:27.000Telling McCarthy, telling the IOU machine, this backroom dealing that we're not going to play this game anymore was one of the most epic things I've ever seen.
00:54:36.000And Matt also does a tremendously great job, in general, with understanding what regular people actually want.
00:54:42.000So it was an honor and a privilege to see that video clip, and I really do appreciate it.
00:54:46.000He's effectively making it a meme now, because he's mentioned it twice, I think, where he's like, the Timcast people always come up to me!
00:54:59.000Judge rules against tech giant in antitrust suit.
00:55:02.000Ladies and gentlemen, this is a massive benchmark case.
00:55:05.000I think they're calling it SCNR reporting.
00:55:07.000This is, in a Monday ruling, a federal judge deemed tech giant Google a monopolist that hugely benefited from default distribution agreements.
00:55:16.000In 2020, the Department of Justice in 38 states filed an antitrust suit against Google.
00:55:20.000The suit alleged the company had violated the Sherman Act, which was established in 1890 to promote fair competition and prevent monopolies.
00:55:30.000District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Google has illegally monopolized internet search and ad markets during the past 10 years.
00:55:37.000After carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion.
00:55:45.000Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.
00:55:49.000It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
00:55:52.000Google has not achieved market dominance by happenstance.
00:55:55.000It has hired thousands of highly skilled engineers, innovated consistently, and made shrewd business decisions.
00:56:00.000The result is the industry's highest quality search engine, which has earned Google the trust of hundreds of millions of daily users.
00:56:07.000But Google also has a major, largely unseen advantage over its rivals, default distribution.
00:56:13.000Matt has said that many users search for information through a browser that's preloaded onto a device like Apple's Safari, and that default is extremely valuable real estate.
00:56:22.000Because many users simply stick to searching with the default, Google receives billions of queries every day through those access points.
00:56:29.000Google derives extraordinary volumes of user data from such searches.
00:56:33.000In 2020, Google's internal modeling projected that it would lose between 60-80% of its iOS query volume.
00:56:40.000Should it be replaced by the default GSE, General Search Engine, and Apple devices, which would translate into a net revenue loss between $28 and $32.7 billion, and over double that in gross revenue losses, the judge said.
00:56:56.000However, from the share of Bing users on Edge, Bing's search share on Edge is approximately 80%, Google's share is only 20%.
00:57:04.000Even if one assumes that portion of those Bing searches are performed by Microsoft brand loyalists, Bing's uniquely high search share on Edge cannot be explained by that alone.
00:57:13.000The default on Edge drives queries to Bing, et cetera, et cetera.
00:57:15.000There's a lot more here, but this is massive.
00:57:18.000Because I'll explain what I understand about the YouTube end for you guys.
00:57:31.000By combining all of these things and subsidizing video hosting through their advertising agency, they own the market.
00:57:40.000It is extremely difficult for Rumble to be able to get the level of ads on their platform because YouTube basically functions as a default.
00:58:39.000Even my own mom was like, one day I went to find the show, it wasn't on the front page, went to youtube.com slash timcast IRL, the video wasn't there, and she's texting me like, is the show not live?
01:00:24.000But this is also an example of me becoming so frustrated with the left, with the way that they operate, with the way the government actually manipulates markets, that I've gotten to a point where it's like, you know what?
01:00:34.000I've had my problems with the Sherman Antitrust Act and how it's affected and how politicians will actually manipulate it to try to get campaign donations out of companies so they don't get investigated by Congress.
01:00:44.000But I'm also at a point where it's like, screw you guys.
01:00:49.000I am so tired of you pretending like you're operating within the free market, when in reality what you do, especially a place like YouTube or Google, is you say we're just a platform.
01:00:57.000And then you operate like a publisher in order to, you know, manipulate the markets the way you want, or to manipulate information the way you want.
01:01:03.000And then the moment you get called on it, you come back, no, no, we're just a platform.
01:01:17.000They've combined advertising, distribution, hosting, all into one.
01:01:24.000So search is... YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world.
01:01:30.000If you want to argue that it's not a monopoly to have the biggest search engine, I don't care.
01:01:34.000But then when Google defaults their own ad delivery, ad sales, and combines all of it into one, now you can't compete at all with anything.
01:01:43.000So, it used to be that if you were on TV, there were multiple advertising agencies.
01:01:47.000You'd go to one that you thought would do the best job and get the best prices.
01:01:50.000You went to one because they negotiated better deals.
01:02:20.000If Google AdSense or AdWords, like two different things, if they were separate companies, they would not be saying, we only deliver to YouTube.
01:02:49.000You could then be like, I trust you to algorithmically or through a human, here's my budget of X amount of dollars per month, distribute them where most effective.
01:03:00.000And if then they came back and said YouTube's most effective, I'd be fine with that.
01:03:03.000Instead, you go to Google Ads and it's like, it's YouTube.
01:03:10.000The same thing's true for X. Their distribution, hosting, all these platforms are combining all of these things.
01:03:15.000The issue, I suppose, is that Google owns all of it, and has effectively shut out the rest of the market, causing problems for anyone who tries to get into the space.
01:03:22.000If you're a rumble, you're struggling to deal with the costs versus how much you can make, because everyone just goes, eh, YouTube.
01:04:23.000And so the app store controls everything and they've got a massive control.
01:04:28.000This is also another thing that ends up happening though, right?
01:04:30.000And this is where, again, this is where I become more sympathetic to the idea of something like antitrust law coming in and preventing something.
01:04:38.000It's not when somebody provides a service incredibly efficiently and effectively so much that customers want it.
01:04:43.000Like, I don't believe we should deny customers access to something when they want it a certain way.
01:04:48.000The problem that I have, though, is that what a lot of these companies end up doing is not just, you know, what do you call it when you pretty much inline all the services?
01:05:51.000I wonder if there is a reasonable position where the antitrust is only in play when the free market is negatively impacted by the actions of the company.
01:06:01.000I think that's meant to be the intention.
01:06:50.000Yeah, well, you know, that's another reason.
01:06:51.000If anything bad happens to Timcast IRL, even more reason why it should be broken up.
01:06:56.000There are a lot of Silicon Valley companies that do this, but I know definitely for Google, you know, they'll have an employee matching benefit.
01:07:02.000So if they want to make a charitable donation, they'll match it.
01:07:05.000But I know that, you know, conservative members or people who work at Google, because there are some, I'm sure they're in the minority, they'll ask for this and they'll be denied.
01:07:14.000They'll be like, oh, well, they're not a part of our program.
01:07:17.000They'll say, oh, it's not part of our matching program or we, you know, there's some issue or whatever.
01:07:22.000The biggest problem for me for all of this, and again, like I said, Google paid like $20 billion to Apple, you know, annually to basically control, to be the default search engine.
01:07:33.000They are monopolizing the market, making money off it, which then they use to maintain control of this and they are completely biased in what they're doing.
01:07:40.000I went to a YouTube event in the UK several years ago and someone I knew was invited and I was hanging out with them, and I got asked to come.
01:07:53.000I wasn't an official invitee, but they were like, oh wait, you're here, you should totally come!
01:07:56.000And a bunch of people that I had known were there.
01:07:58.000One of the guys from the Young Turks was there.
01:08:01.000And so it was an issue of community guidelines.
01:08:05.000I had been invited by Google to an event in California on anti-extremism, and their concern was that fundamentalist Islam was using Uh, YouTube to recruit and bring people to ISIS.
01:08:59.000And everyone in the room was like, yes, do it.
01:09:00.000And they were like, uh, they didn't have an answer.
01:09:04.000After like the fifth or sixth time where they were just insulting conservatives and white people, I got up and I was like, dude, I am not doing this.
01:09:09.000And I walked out and people were like, oh, he's all mad.
01:09:12.000And then I had one of the guys from the Young Turks was like, what's the problem?
01:09:14.000And I was like, how are you going to host a conference saying we want to get rid of the toxicity in NAID speech and then have a guy on stage just insult people based on their race?
01:09:20.000And they're like, yeah, but they're white.
01:09:28.000But that's what YouTube was hosting intentionally.
01:09:31.000When I see that stuff, when I see the Google crying over Trump, I'm like, this company has got deep-seated problems and should not have the authority that it does when it comes to what people see.
01:09:44.000Because you hear them saying stuff like, we can't let this happen again, and then isn't it a surprise that people were Googling Donald Trump but Kamala Harris was coming up?
01:09:52.000I'll tell you this right now, everybody listening.
01:10:50.000A couple months ago, the way that I would find old stories is I would just write, you know, keyword, the post-millennial, and the story that I was looking for that I wrote five months ago would show up.
01:11:29.000Here's the part where I go to the idea, what is the best legal mechanism to address something like this?
01:11:34.000Again, are you a platform or are you a publisher?
01:11:38.000And I think that is a significant distinction because if you are a publisher, well then there's certain legal obligations that you have and there's certain legal recourse people have if you say you're doing one thing and you do something else.
01:11:47.000If you engage in libel, if you do things like that.
01:11:49.000If you're a platform, you're just a platform, man.
01:11:52.000But unfortunately, that's what we have with a lot of these social media platforms is that they are engaging in publishing-style behavior, but they get the legal protections of being a platform.
01:12:02.000Well, and to be fair with Google, particularly because it's such a huge operation, the algorithm for their search is biased.
01:12:09.000But I mean, there was that famous study done with Gmail where Republican emails were not making it through.
01:12:15.000I mean, this issue extends to every aspect of their business.
01:12:19.000And, you know, I tend to agree with you, like if you're really good at a service and consumers want to use it, you know, you don't want to block that.
01:12:24.000On the other hand, do consumers know what they're signing up for when this becomes the default thing that Oh, I agree.
01:12:31.000There gets to a certain point where it's either quasi-violation of contract because you're advertising that you're doing one thing when really you're doing something else.
01:14:12.000And people for a long time as classical liberals were like, well, if you think these people who think hate speech should be banned, that's free speech.
01:14:31.000I view almost all of our rights similarly.
01:14:33.000If someone is using the power of speech to try and strip our rights from us, our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, I'm under no obligation to defend their right to do that.
01:14:44.000If they are advocating for policies which I disagree with, which are getting close to the line, but it's really just a policy decision, and it's difficult, well, then that's free speech, and I give a wide berth to that.
01:14:55.000But specifically, and only specifically, if someone is saying, you should not be allowed to express your opinions, then I say, then I will oblige you, and when they censor you, I will clap for you.
01:15:11.000I didn't think you should be advocating for that, but you did, and now you want me to come and defend you for it?
01:15:15.000When you would have used that same power to come after me?
01:15:18.000The thing with Google that everybody forgets is Bell Telephone was broken up in, like, what, 1982, and they were facing dissolution by the federal government, and so they split up into, like, you know, a dozen, half-dozen different things all around the country.
01:15:35.000Google could do something like that if they were taken to court, and they could say, okay, we will divide our business up in this way, this way, this way, and this way, which would be smart of them.
01:16:05.000telling Roseanne how he dumped a dead bear in Central Park and staged a hoax, making it look like it was a bike accident that killed the bear cub.
01:16:15.000To be honest, I don't think he thought it was a big deal.
01:19:08.000I just want to mention, the weirdest thing about it to me is, I get if he's like, I want this bear, I'm gonna skin it, it's cool, but he had his change of clothes and suitcase with him to go flying, or did he just not bring anything with him to go flying?
01:21:51.000Can you imagine being Roseanne, who, like, this story, as it goes on, you just never know where it's gonna go, right?
01:21:58.000Like, it starts with, like, well, I was hawking, or falconing people, and then there was a dead bear, and I thought I would get meat, and now I'm at a steakhouse.
01:22:08.000I actually have, like, amazing storytelling by RFK, I have to say.
01:22:11.000Oh, so I guess the actual story from The New Yorker dropped, and that's where the – let's see if we just scroll down and – what is this political cartoon?
01:22:19.000Let's scroll down and see if they actually published the photo.
01:22:38.000One day in the fall of 2014, Kennedy was driving to a falconry outing in upstate New York when he passed a furry brown mound on the side of the road.
01:22:44.000He pulled over and discovered that it was a carcass of a black bear cub.
01:22:48.000He loaded the dead bear into the rear hatch of his car and later showed it off to his friends.
01:22:51.000In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers in the bear's bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face.
01:22:56.000After the outing, Kennedy, who was then 60 and recently married to Hines, got an idea.
01:23:00.000He drove to Manhattan, and as darkness fell, entered Central Park with a bear on his bicycle.
01:23:03.000A person with knowledge of the event said that Kennedy thought it would be funny to make it look as if the animal had been killed by an errant cyclist.
01:23:08.000The next day, the bear was discovered by two women walking their dog, setting off an investigation by the NYPD.
01:23:13.000This is a highly unusual situation, a spokeswoman for the Central Park Conservancy told the Times.
01:24:50.000I'm glad that knowledge, that chart that I read eight years ago, has stuck in my brain.
01:24:54.000But I actually think that, you know, this weird story about, like, we had this roadkill and we were going to do something with it might resonate with some people in America, you know?
01:25:02.000There's someone out there who is like, oh yeah, there was a deer, so we thought we could cut it up.
01:25:06.000What's amazing is RFK can actually go through this entire story and it comes off far more endearing than anything Kamala Harris has ever said ever in her life.
01:25:15.000I gotta admit, as crazy as the story is, I would not recommend dumping a dead animal.
01:25:27.000So I'm falconing and I'm fighting a dead bear, right?
01:25:29.000Like, what would be great is to be hanging out with With RFK that day, because you'd get to go falconing, hawking, you'd get a nice drive down to... Go to a steakhouse?
01:26:02.000And if someone said, if someone said, hey, there's this cool bear story with Roseanne Barr and RFK Jr., you would probably assume that Roseanne is the one that had something to do with the bear, right?
01:26:12.000Well, I told you this, which is I was in the grocery store and got this news alert, which is like presidential candidate admits to jumping dead bear in Central Park.
01:26:21.000And I, of course, because it's Central Park, so it's New York.
01:26:24.000I was like, there's no way Trump did this.
01:28:41.000It was stranger danger, so it was like, your kid's footprint taken, because now it's just like, give your kid a CIA tracking device, you know, cell phone, I mean.
01:28:49.000And you'll never lose them, and then they'll also have access to the most ungodly, horrifying images man has ever created.
01:30:52.000It's just him saying, I'm willing to reach out, you know, across the political division for these policies.
01:31:00.000So right now, The opportunity here for RFK Jr., if he's willing to take it and if Trump is willing to offer it, I think, you know, Trump did ask him to endorse him.
01:31:36.000You go to Donald Trump and it's tough because Trump's a busy guy and I've seen people try to talk to him and he's like, he's got no time, right?
01:32:26.000And Luke Rutkowski, he could be the deputy.
01:32:29.000I think RFK is really interesting and I think one of the things that has gone well for him is that it's really Democrats who don't like him.
01:32:36.000I think there are a lot of conservatives who are – it's not going to vote for him, but they are open to stuff that he says and he doesn't I don't know if he... I wouldn't know when the timing of this would be, but if he were to end his campaign and take some sort of nice position within the Trump campaign, I actually think if he is a mission-driven person, he could be effective in that.
01:33:01.000He could impact change in a way that is meaningful to him.
01:33:04.000There is something to be said for reaching out to people that you disagree with on policy, but who still adhere to...
01:33:15.000I miss Democrats who didn't believe the laws and logic was like a, I don't know, a patriarchal conspiracy to, you know, enhance white supremacy.
01:33:25.000They actually believe that, oh yeah, law of identity, law of excluded middle, law of non-contradiction.
01:33:28.000Yeah, these things are kind of important for civil discourse.
01:33:32.000So insofar as those still exist, then yes, I believe that there's something to be said for reaching out to them.
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01:34:40.000But then why did you run in the first place for the position that you have?
01:34:44.000So I got out of the military in 2009, and at first I thought I wasn't going to get involved in policy and foreign policy because I was furious with respect to what our government was doing.
01:34:55.000I got involved in politics, got asked to run, I said no.
01:34:57.000Um, the second time I got asked, I did it, ran for the House of Delegates.
01:35:00.000And look, I've ran for Congress before it was in 2020 of all times.
01:35:04.000And oh my God, I get Spanberger who's probably, he was running for governor in Virginia.
01:35:09.000Um, look, I, I don't, it's not that I don't think that it's important to have people in, in, you know, elected office and whatnot that are going to do the right thing.
01:35:18.000I'm just increasingly disillusioned and that's not the guy you want running for higher office.
01:35:26.000You don't think we need a cynic in office?
01:35:28.000No, I do to some degree, but I also—here's the other thing that I've kind of realized about myself.
01:35:33.000It's not that I don't think—it's not that I haven't enjoyed my time as a legislator.
01:35:37.000It's not that I don't feel it's an incredible honor to be able to represent people in the legislature and to represent what I believe is, you know, true.
01:35:46.000But I also don't think—I'm increasingly more convinced that the cultural battle is the one that is the most significant right now, and I feel like I've had far more effect in the cultural battle than I have in the legislative one.
01:36:09.000Leaders who are not necessarily driven to lead but are driven to serve.
01:36:14.000So, Bailey, Missouri AG, I didn't realize he was appointed.
01:36:18.000And so, it's interesting, here's a guy who ended up as the Attorney General, not through the typical political process where you've got backroom deals and promises made, but through appointment, and he's just going at it.
01:36:30.000He's filing these claims, he's filing lawsuits.
01:36:32.000And he said that thing when he was on the show last week, you know, when you get dropped into the major league, you start swinging for the fences.
01:36:38.000Like, I think that's such an interesting position to take.
01:36:41.000Someone else might have been like, I'm appointed and I want to try to get reelected.
01:37:05.000So everybody knows Satoshi Nakamoto is the inventor of Bitcoin.
01:37:08.000In Japanese, you would say Nakamoto Satoshi, last name first.
01:37:12.000Well, Nakamoto, according to Chet GPT, is a Japanese surname that can be broken down as Naka, meaning middle or center, and Moto, meaning origin.
01:37:21.000And Satoshi means intelligent, so the name translates to Central Origin Intelligent.
01:37:28.000And then I jokingly, I was like, CIA invented Bitcoin.
01:38:01.000Cameron Keir says, the last time the Chicago White Sox won a game, Biden was still running for president and Trump's ear wasn't covered in blood.
01:38:57.000They said that people were in the street just jumping up and down and screaming and drinking and a car swerved and smashed into a wall and just got totally totaled, like it got totaled, and the guy jumped out screaming and cheering and just nobody cared that his car was destroyed.
01:40:02.000I guarantee you this though, Google's budget for campaign donations just went up significantly to whatever committee is going to be talking about this.
01:40:11.000Danker Supreme says, When the spirit of the right believes any action against oppression will be met with their life being ruined, they will choose any flavor of action likely the least peaceful.
01:41:10.000They have a zoo out here, and some kids came, and one of the kids, they have a bunch of sulcata tortoises, and a little boy dumped ice water on the head of a female sulcata, which will kill it.
01:41:23.000And it basically put her in, like, a severe shock.
01:41:27.000And then she had a turtle boyfriend who was, like, hanging out with her the whole time while she was sick, and it was kind of cute, but also kind of sad.
01:41:33.000But apparently she got better, so we're hoping for the best.
01:41:36.000Yeah, I mean, I don't really blame the little kid who was stupid and didn't realize pouring... Why would you pour water on... Maybe it was hot and they thought they were pouring it down.
01:41:44.000He was like, oh, a turtle is really hot out.
01:41:45.000And then they were like, no, turtles are supposed to be like that.
01:42:12.000I think Hallmark, if this lady tortoise turtle recovers, they should, Hallmark should incorporate this story into some one of its upcoming movies.
01:42:25.000I forgot what it's called, but I want to give them a shout out because they rock.
01:42:27.000And let me make sure I can... If it's Hallmark, like, the turtle is going to have to, like, leave her big city job and come back to the country and fall in love with the turtle.
01:42:36.000It's the big city girl who comes to whoever is raising the zoo and then she helps the turtle stand vigil, the man turtle, while its lady is recovering.
01:42:46.000If you are in the area, it's the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve, and I've gone there like three or four times, because it's just so fun.
01:42:53.000And it's like you just walk around, there's a bunch of animals, and there's like, they have like lynxes, they've got javelinas running around, it's a lot of fun.
01:43:07.000And then they have the big sulcata tortoises and you can buy lettuce and then wiggle the tongues and they all, I say run, but they're tortoises.
01:43:29.000And uh they were they were hurt really bad by COVID which is sad because they got a lot of animals to take care of and and we love animals.
01:43:35.000And they got uh I think they had monkeys too for a while.
01:43:37.000I don't know if they have monkeys still.
01:43:38.000Did you ever see that movie We Bought a Zoo?
01:43:40.000I've heard of it but I've never seen it.
01:43:42.000So it was it was um yeah not Brad Pitt who was uh Matt Damon Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson were in it but it was actually I should have never showed that movie to my children because it was like we could have it yeah and now we have like peacocks and goats and chickens and Because of that movie?
01:43:59.000Your kids conjured into getting animals?
01:44:01.000So my youngest daughter and I love to go to the poultry auction in Culpeper.
01:44:04.000If you've never been to a poultry auction, you don't know what you're missing.
01:44:08.000And my daughter and I, when we go, it's like our daddy-daughter time.
01:44:10.000We'll go there and she can talk me into everything.
01:44:13.000So we're sitting there like, yeah, we bought a purple peacock and a chinchilla and I almost bought another goat.
01:44:32.000I think the weird thing, I can't remember who brought this up on the show, that it was likely a woman who came up with the idea.
01:44:37.000But I think the idea was to cater to women.
01:44:40.000They want suburban women to think that it is bad and out of line with social norms to support Trump or JD Vance in a way that's not two over the top, calling Trump Hitler or a Nazi might not
01:45:42.000And it's it's think for the voters that People that view their politics as actually part of their social class, because he's weird, maybe, it could be affected.
01:45:52.000I actually think it is less effective than the childless cat lady thing, which I also think was not that effective, but mostly was to scare conservatives away from JD Vance, because it's like, he's saying something that could upset liberals or potentially independent voters, you know what I mean?
01:46:10.000I would say they're not quite landing a punch with any of these, but in some ways, if you looked at it in the right angle, it would look like it was effective.
01:46:18.000So I get what you're saying, especially with the whole idea of, like, if your politics are part of, like, your, you know, the cocktail parties you go to.
01:46:24.000You want to tell the other moms at the elite preschool that you voted the right way.
01:46:40.000I maybe have cats, secretly, in my apartment.
01:46:43.000I can tell you guys, I'm not going to vote for Kamala.
01:46:46.000I love cats, and I don't have any because I'm very allergic.
01:46:49.000I swear to God I never have cats, in part because I'm allergic, and now I have two cats because I also have a youngest daughter that can talk me into anything.
01:46:55.000I hypothetically wasn't going to have a cat and then I moved and took the stray I was feeding with me, hypothetically.
01:47:38.000The best thing I've ever heard is like, you know, a dog looks at you and goes, wow, you feed me, you pet me, you house me, you take care of me.
01:48:33.000I've had those days where, like, I can't remember what it was, I skated a lot, like eight hours, and then we went and got Korean barbecue and ate like five pounds of beef or something.
01:48:43.000And then I woke up drenched, like, ugh.
01:48:46.000I've never, well, I've not had a night where I ate five pounds of beef at Korean barbecue in a long time, but...
01:48:51.000I've never, I've never woken up uncomfortable.
01:49:40.000That's a super common mistake, but I think this is the big stranglehold of a lot of effective politics, which is that conservatives are very fearful and they respect rules, which is good, but also the other side does not respect the rules, especially when they make them and they make them for you.
01:50:02.000And I think that's one of the hardest things, especially because you mentioned the Jan 6th.
01:50:05.000There's like a lot of those people said, you know, I'm going to try and cooperate as best I can with the government.
01:50:10.000I don't really think I did anything wrong and surely the system that I believe in will be fair to me.
01:50:15.000And it's just not and we're seeing the results of that over and over again.
01:50:52.000I think for so I think you have two different things that I've seen in politics among elected officials.
01:50:56.000You have some people that think that this is still the way it was 20 years ago where these are these are my friends.
01:51:01.000These my buddies and of course they say some crazy things on the floor on the news, but they don't really mean it because we go to dinner together and they don't recognize that there's been a major ideological shift within the Democratic Party.
01:51:11.000You have other people though that they actually benefit from.
01:51:16.000kind of kowtowing to the left when they're in power. And they're the good Republican.
01:51:20.000They're the one that the left can depend on. And so they get their budget amendments,
01:51:24.000right? They get their budget. As long as they go along, they get their budget amendments.
01:51:27.000I do think you're increasingly seeing more and more people that have identified that there's a
01:51:32.000much deeper ideological battle that's going on right now, and it's just not the way it used to
01:51:37.000be. And it's probably not going to be because that, again, that oppressor-oppressed dynamic,
01:51:42.000the critical theory, all of it, that has become so prominent in so many culturally
01:51:46.000shaping institutions that one side is going to win.
01:51:49.000I don't see how you ultimately peacefully coexist with people that absolutely want to dominate and control you.
01:52:04.000But these two worldviews are diametrically opposed.
01:52:10.000Alright, David Robinson says, if you live in Michigan, give Trump a senator who wants to dismantle the Deep State.
01:52:16.000Vote tomorrow for Justin Amash to stop Deep State Mike.
01:52:20.000Deep State Mike wants to expand the illegal programs his cronies use to spy on Trump.
01:52:24.000You know, I wasn't the biggest fan of Amash back during the first Trump administration, but I certainly think he's better than any crony, rhino type.
01:52:32.000But I don't know much about what's going on in Michigan, so.
01:52:35.000As long as Thomas Massie says he's alright, then I'd vote for him over anybody else.
01:53:11.000If we were treated like these leftist podcasts, it's remarkable to me that YouTube... I'll tell you.
01:53:20.000A lot of these lefty shows, their bread and butter is political drama, low-tier stuff.
01:53:26.000They like it when they're a podcast, they get way more promotion, way more access, and all they do is insult and rag on other YouTubers, and I'm just like, that's just bad for your brand.
01:53:36.000Do you want to be premium content, high-level shows, live, or otherwise?
01:53:42.000Then stop giving airtime to these channels where it's just yelling at other YouTubers.
01:54:07.000Are the majority shareholders for these companies really okay with them losing money for political reasons?
01:54:11.000Well, but the majority of the shareholders for these companies are not individuals.
01:54:15.000They are, you know, mutual funds and things like that.
01:54:19.000So, I mean, to get anyone to really revolt against these companies, you would have to have shareholders who actually pay attention to what's in their mutual funds and go to the meeting.
01:54:30.000It's people just having a financial advisor be like, don't know, don't care.
01:54:33.000And they don't even look at what their funds are.
01:54:34.000I mean, I remember talking to my financial guy years ago about something to do with like, you know, different kinds of funds or whatever.
01:54:41.000And he was like, yeah, well, you know, we have these funds and those funds.
01:54:45.000And this one has mostly this kind of company.
01:54:48.000So you don't even know what's in the funds that you're holding shares in.
01:54:52.000I do think there's something to be said that a lot of – like BlackRock is a perfect example of this, right?
01:54:57.000They thrive off of inflationary monetary policy and they thrive off of having a privileged position with the politicians and central banks.
01:55:05.000When you don't have inflationary monetary policy, they start to suffer.
01:55:09.000That's when they start to – like they drop two million or two trillion dollars off of their overall assets.
01:55:13.000That's the part where I think you get people looking and going, what the hell are you doing?
01:55:17.000But if you don't curtail that, they get to exist in almost perpetuity until there's a crash.
01:55:24.000SuddenBooted says, Tim, if the CIA invented Bitcoin, why would they release a decentralized currency amongst the public, an agency that's obsessed with centralization?
01:55:32.000Because every transaction is publicly traceable and trackable.
01:55:36.000And if you're an intelligence operation and you want to know who's buying what, Why not convince people that this is outside the system, and it defeats the dollar, and every transaction you will ever make will be tracked and publicly available, and with their computers, they know your address, they know your name, they know who you're trading with, and they can track everything you do.
01:55:56.000Journalists, with no governmental power or technology, have been able to map Bitcoin transactions and figure out who's getting money and from who.
01:56:09.000Now, don't get me wrong, there's other cryptocurrencies like Monero, and I don't know, what's the other one, like Zcash, something that are easier to actually scramble.
01:56:17.000I think the supercomputers, the machines they got, the algorithms can still track who's doing what, and it's hard to get through that.
01:56:26.000I've long said that I thought there's a strong possibility Bitcoin was actually created by powerful governments or elite interests to create a one world currency.
01:56:36.000Alex Jones has been talking about a global currency for a long time.
01:56:38.000He talked about the emero 15 years ago.
01:56:41.000And then none of this stuff ever happens.
01:56:59.000Use it, then crank the price up so everybody wants to get rich and the people who helped in the first place, Alex Jones types, libertarians and anarchists, are cheering it on the whole time.
01:57:10.000There's literally no Bitcoin opposition.
01:57:13.000You start with those who oppose your plans, convince them to buy it, then offer to make everybody rich, everybody opts in, and then every single transaction you will ever make with Bitcoin will be tracked.
01:57:24.000So if you live in El Salvador, and I'm going to preface this with, I like Bitcoin, I own Bitcoin, I think it's fantastic, I think El Salvador is doing the right thing, but let me just stress, everybody in El Salvador, with their wallet and their address, the government knows exactly what they're buying, when they're buying it, who they're trading with, and what they're selling.
01:57:41.000So they're going to know everything you do.
01:57:48.000Because I think the privacy... You still have the choice of whether or not you are going to do the transactions in that way.
01:57:55.000You could buy a bunch of Bitcoin, put it in cold storage, and you're gonna store value, it's gonna retain money, it's deflationary, it's better in a lot of ways, and you don't need to actively trade the way many other people do.
01:59:10.000So we got that same cut and my wife will do that in the Big Greenade where it's like rotisserie is that I'm like, oh my gosh, rare to medium rare anything past that and leave my home but.
01:59:20.000Actually, I normally just do filet, and I got a bone-in filet the other night, and substantially better.
02:01:02.000Because we went to Final Cut Steakhouse at Charlestown Races, and I asked them if they had burrata, and they were like, no, we got rid of that for the gazpacho.
02:01:10.000And I was like, well, I don't want gazpacho.
02:01:12.000They still have the burrata, but it's swimming in cucumber sauce.
02:01:16.000Why would you do that to your burrata?