00:01:23.000He said that he's taking time to reflect right now.
00:01:26.000And we all know that that means that in the next.
00:01:28.000Couple days, he's going to officially suspend his campaign.
00:01:31.000So, we're going to talk about that tonight.
00:01:33.000Donald Trump used his presidential authority and imposing figure and manliness to get FIFA to pull the, I guess, the second day of punishment for a red card that happened last week in the World Cup.
00:01:53.000Spencer Pratt released a video this weekend and it's gone pretty viral.
00:01:57.000Last I checked, it was seven and a half million views on it.
00:02:00.000Now, it It is about something that is near and dear to my heart, and that is hate for communists.
00:02:05.000That is an all American kind of thing that we all should share in.
00:02:10.000And what's the last one that we're going to talk about?
00:02:14.000Oh, yeah, there's an island wide blackout in Cuba.
00:02:16.000Now, after the invasion, I guess you might call it, of Venezuela, or the military action in Venezuela, I guess is probably more accurate, they've lost a lot of oil that they had been depending on.
00:02:35.000With keeping the lights on clearly, and also the Cuban government has talked about kind of opening up some markets, so we're going to get into discussing that.
00:02:43.000And then, if we have time, we're going to talk about an AI actor.
00:02:47.000So, for the first time, there is a full AI actor.
00:02:50.000Her name is Tilly Norwood, she's going to be leading a new movie, and we'll get into all that.
00:02:55.000Um, but before we do, why don't you head on over to bunkerbranding.com and you can pick up some Tim Cast merch?
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00:03:35.000Rollo Tommasi, the author of the Rational Mail series of books.
00:03:39.000I'm the co host of Access Vegas with my co host, Michael Sartane, and then my ongoing podcast, The Rational Male, which is now, gosh, since 2018.
00:04:11.000I have a book that I wrote a few years back called 2000% Raise about.
00:04:15.000Leaving corporate America behind and becoming your own boss and taking a stab at entrepreneurship.
00:04:20.000I was very fortunate to have an epiphany when I was 27 years old, and I like to share my experiences of success there and pass it along to other people.
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00:04:48.000So we're going to get right into it from Politico.
00:04:51.000Plattner says he's taking time to reflect on his candidacy.
00:04:55.000The Maine Democratic Senate nominee posted the statement after Politico published allegations that he forced a woman to have sex with him, which he denies.
00:05:03.000Maine U.S. Senate Democrat nominee Graham Platner said Monday that he is taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for his candidacy, minutes after Politico reported that a woman who dated him said he forced her to have sex with him.
00:05:15.000Platner denied the allegation, but he said in a roughly two minute video that was posted to social media on Monday that he is mindful of the political reality and the reporting will inflict.
00:05:25.000Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, But mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward, Platner said.
00:05:33.000It's the first time that Platner, despite a series of scandals ranging from controversial online posts to earlier accusations about his behavior with women to a tattoo with Nazi ties, it's not a tattoo with Nazi ties, it is an actual Nazi tattoo, has indicated that he was considering exiting the race.
00:05:51.000Look, Graham Platner has gone, has got like the full gambit, right?
00:05:55.000He's got a Nazi tattoo, he's got multiple allegations.
00:07:08.000A strong Republican, but her position is there, kind of doing what Manchin did, you know, just holding the seat so that way a progressive or a Democrat don't take it.
00:07:20.000She's not a reliable Republican vote, but she's better than any Democrat.
00:07:25.000So if Graham Platner is out and the Democrats can actually bring in a new person that's better than Platner and take the spot, obviously that's a bad thing, but I don't know why.
00:07:40.000He doesn't have anything in particular that makes him seem really all that insightful or anything.
00:07:46.000If you look at the details of this Politico story, all right, they're in an off and on relationship.
00:07:53.000He showed up at her house intoxicated, and it sounds like he wanted to have sex that night and she didn't, right?
00:07:59.000And if this is coming out like this against him, he's got to be looking at, oh crap, if this is what's getting me in trouble, what else is going to come out?
00:08:08.000Not to dismiss what he did or anything like that, but if you look at the details of it, If that was all there was that he was worried about, you could have tried to explain your way out of that a little bit.
00:10:01.000It looks like the Democrats kind of still have the edge over Collins.
00:10:06.000So essentially, the bet is anybody but this guy will beat that.
00:10:09.000Yeah, I mean, like I said, Collins tends to overperform what the polls say, but that doesn't change the fact that, like, I mean, you know, like, how do you say that someone that isn't.
00:10:24.000I'm just kind of saying that he's got a ticket.
00:10:53.000She said, I didn't want to have to violate this huge level of privacy to my own life to be able to infer that this person is not honest and trustworthy.
00:11:01.000I felt really protective of my own privacy and thought the.
00:11:04.000Thought this whole process and it got to a point where my privacy was no longer going to happen, and that was when I kind of just made the decision that, like, I'm going to say my piece and get it out there.
00:11:40.000I didn't want to have to violate this huge level of privacy to my own life to be able to infer that this person is not honest and trustworthy.
00:11:50.000I felt really protective of my own privacy throughout this whole process.
00:11:54.000And it got to a point where my privacy was no longer going to happen.
00:11:59.000And that was when I kind of just made the decision that, like, I'm going to say my piece and get it out there.
00:12:06.000I had tried to give the impression that something.
00:12:15.000So is that common where people say, oh, you know, I don't want to talk about it because it's a privacy issue when it comes to something that is clearly going to come out?
00:12:28.000You know, I mean, the guy's running for Senate.
00:12:30.000He's not running for, you know, just a congressperson spot, but he's running for a Senate spot.
00:12:37.000I feel like the idea that she would be like, oh, I don't want to because of my privacy, that just Well, it's got to come out in August or sometime around August.
00:12:48.000If you notice, like most of the major scandals in an election season usually come out like late July or August because they need some time to sort of like ferment.
00:12:56.000They need the story needs to sort of percolate a little bit so that you remember it when you go to the polls in November.
00:13:02.000So a lot of the times, whenever you see, and this could be, you know, a general election or it could be just midterms and stuff like that, too, you'll see that a lot of the scandals were like, I think it was, was it in 2022?
00:13:15.000That was sort of like the women's year back then because then you had, was it Ruth Bader Ginsburg and all that stuff.
00:13:21.000You had Roe v. Wade getting kicked back to the states during that time.
00:13:25.000And so they had to, the leak, the quote unquote leak from SCOTUS happened like in March or April of 2022.
00:13:33.000And then they actually did the ruling right around July or August.
00:13:37.000So now you've got that sort of percolating right there.
00:13:40.000You've got to go to the polls and vote.
00:13:43.000So when you're looking at scandals or you're looking at any kind of controversy, or if they want to change the horse mid race, they're going to do it right around July or August.
00:13:54.000So, what I'm thinking here, and the more I look into the story, the more I'm reading as we're going along here.
00:14:02.000If it's a guy that they want to get rid of, especially if he's already got something in the backfield, that's when the ex girlfriend is going to come forward and say, you know, he did this to me.
00:14:11.000Or I remember back in, you know, 2018 when this particular thing happened.
00:14:17.000And now, oh my gosh, his character comes into play and everything else.
00:14:22.000And particularly like male candidates are very easy to sort of, you know, all you got to do is mention a sex scandal, and that's pretty much it for you.
00:15:03.000It's still early July, but I suppose they do have enough time to give a replacement candidate some kind of momentum, especially if they're thinking, oh, look, if we get rid of this guy, the odds are that this new person will do better against Susan Collins.
00:16:40.000So, if you believe what the Platiners campfired back with, saying that this was being done politically motivated by out of state establishment, right?
00:16:50.000So, they mean the Republican Party, obviously.
00:16:52.000So, that would mean that if that was true, let's just pretend hypothetically that's true, then you would have to assume that the Republicans don't, you know, the highest amongst the Republicans don't think that there is anyone that will do better than him.
00:18:06.000I was going to ask how important is this seat for the Republicans in the midterms?
00:18:12.000Is it the difference between holding that?
00:18:15.000No, no, I think they've got like, I think it's like 53 Republicans versus, you know, 48 or 47 senators.
00:18:23.000And then you've got the vice president to break any ties or anything.
00:18:26.000But the Republicans in the Senate, like, they're not particularly reliable.
00:18:30.000You know, you can't even get the SAVE Act.
00:18:32.000The SAVE Act is the thing that everybody kind of points to now the fact that even though this is extremely popular with the American people, they can't get this passed.
00:18:40.000And it's because Republicans in the Senate won't actually bring it up for a vote or they vote it down, which is mind blowing.
00:18:47.000They're trying to attach it to the NDAA.
00:18:49.000Which is which the part of the NDAA wants to basically synchronize American and Israeli defense strategy, like trade secrets and things like that.
00:18:58.000So it's a big change to military strategy, and they're trying to attach the SAVE Act to that.
00:19:03.000They try to that's just they're doing it because the NDAA has to get passed.
00:19:07.000It's the National Defense Authorization Act, so it's how you allot money to defend the country.
00:19:12.000And it's one of those things where it's a big omnibus bill, they put a bunch of stuff in it.
00:19:16.000That's the way that they've done multiple things, the Smith Munt Modernization Act.
00:19:25.000And that's what ostensibly gave the government the authority to propagandize Americans because beforehand, any information that the State Department produced could not be disseminated in the United States.
00:19:40.000It had to be for external use and they couldn't do that kind of stuff.
00:19:43.000Then the Smith Modernization Act made it legal for the government to disseminate it in the U.S.
00:19:49.000And that kind of stuff is, they do that with omnibus bills all the time.
00:20:39.000You know, people talk all the time, you know, we got to get these boomers out of government and stuff.
00:20:44.000And yet, if it does end up being Janet Mills.
00:20:46.000Well, maybe it's to the point where, like, people, like, they're, I don't know, they're running the numbers and the numbers don't look good.
00:20:53.000And so they're thinking, okay, well, this guy's going to lose.
00:20:56.000Who do we have that we could have got in there?
00:20:57.000Well, obviously, Janet Mills couldn't win in the primaries, but this guy did.
00:21:04.000They get him out with a sex scandal and put Janet Mills in, even though she lost a primary.
00:21:07.000Well, I mean, I understand the, the, Thought process, but like, I it seems like all this stuff, like, when you get enough smoke, there's probably fire.
00:21:15.000So, this guy probably has done a good portion.
00:21:18.000So, the seeing the establishment kind of you know, people like Rohanna, like I said, and Gallego, and even like I said, Emma Viglund, which that kind of surprised me.
00:21:29.000You know, she's she's pretty far left, and seeing her kind of withdraw any kind of support, you know, it's not just the establishment that's doing it.
00:21:39.000You know, it's it's across the board, the progressives, the establishment.
00:21:43.000I think even Hassan Piker said he's cooked.
00:22:09.000But let's listen to a little bit of what Graham Platt had to say.
00:22:13.000I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me.
00:22:19.000Any accusation of non consensual behavior is categorically false.
00:22:24.000Over the last 10 months, I have been deeply humbled by the faith Mainers have put in me.
00:22:30.000You have welcomed me into your homes, into your places of work, into your restaurants, into your houses of worship.
00:22:37.000You have shown that a different kind of politics, one that puts the interests of people over corporations, is not just possible, but is inevitable.
00:22:47.000This movement we have built, the largest volunteer base in the history of Maine politics, The hundreds of thousands of grassroots donors and the supporters across the ideological spectrum, we were united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, and a focus on defeating Susan Collins.
00:23:07.000So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful of the political reality it will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward.
00:24:44.000You can look at the biggest, basically, Boy Scout, Mitt Romney, who was about as pure as the driven snow, about as pure as you can be and be in politics.
00:24:54.000And they still were like, oh, he's a Nazi.
00:25:50.000I believed his campaign when they said that there was nothing new coming out.
00:25:55.000And it looks like an awful, awful accusation, an incredible one, has come out.
00:26:00.000Now, this movement has never been about one individual.
00:26:05.000Any candidate that takes up the mantle here should share Graham's belief or the campaign's belief in ending complicity in the genocide in Gaza, Medicare for all, taxing billionaires, and more.
00:26:17.000But obviously, this is a devastating development, and we'll be talking about it more on the majority report tomorrow.
00:26:23.000It's so interesting to me that the genocide in Gaza or the pretendicide in Gaza is the top issue for so many people from the left.
00:26:34.000Like the idea that this war 6,000 miles away is what the DSA really cares about the most, and it doesn't really have a significant effect on Americans' day to day lives.
00:26:49.000If you're out there like, hey, look, she brings up Medicare for all.
00:26:53.000Whether you're for that or against that, that's something that would materially affect people, right?
00:26:57.000The cost of living, if you can pay for your groceries, if your dollar feels like it goes as far as it should, that's something that is going to affect Americans.
00:27:05.000That's something that your average normal Americans are going to go and vote about.
00:27:10.000The idea that the war in the Middle East that the U.S. isn't even technically fighting, you can make arguments about how much the U.S. supports Israel and stuff.
00:27:23.000That's the leading issue for so many people in the DSA.
00:27:27.000Whether you're talking about, you know, Mom Dhani or you're talking about the Seattle mayor, they all are talking about how important this thing is.
00:27:33.000And I don't think that the average American actually has that on their mind.
00:27:38.000Maybe not the average, but I understand that they're concerned, like, if we do have a global empire that's basically colonizing and taking over the world, are we okay genociding the people that live there as we take the territory?
00:28:43.000Maybe I'm wrong on this, but do you get the impression that they're sort of coattailing what's going on, sort of like in the conservatives or the big sort of schism between, you know, you support Israel, you don't support Israel?
00:28:55.000Do you think that they feel like they have to say that sort of worked our way into that narrative just so they can remain somewhat relevant?
00:29:01.000Well, I think when it comes to the issue with the Palestinians in Gaza and with Israel, they look at Israel.
00:29:08.000As the oppressor, Palestinians are the oppressed.
00:29:26.000They're white people that have gone down there to oppress brown people.
00:29:31.000Now, I personally don't think that that's quite accurate, although there are plenty of people that were in Europe that moved down to Israel.
00:29:40.000As an election cycle narrative, is that just something that they're trying to like sort of insert themselves into just so that, hey, we're part of this conversation too?
00:29:49.000Well, I think that it genuinely is a big deal to them because they look at it as, you know, a.
00:29:55.000They look at Israel as a proxy for the U.S. They'll say, oh, Israel controls the U.S. and blah, blah, blah.
00:30:02.000They'll make that argument, even though I don't find that argument compelling, but they'll say that Israel is a proxy for the U.S. and the U.S. is.
00:30:11.000You know, telling Israel it's okay to wipe out these poor brown people.
00:30:16.000It's about being anti, at the end of the day, it's about being anti American.
00:30:21.000It's anti Western because they look at Israel as a Western style nation.
00:30:26.000It's the Western influence that Israel represents out there, that represents America, and, you know, Al Shabaab was a terrorist group, everything going on with that.
00:32:06.000I'm not defending the guy, but I'm just saying, you look at the details of the article, and that's why I'm saying this might have been the tip of the iceberg with other people coming out of the freaking woodwork.
00:32:17.000Because if I were him and this was it, and it's he say, she say, and they were.
00:32:21.000Especially if they were still sleeping together after the incident.
00:32:43.000Yeah, I think that this is kind of just the straw that broke the horse's back because he had allegations of sending illicit messages to other women.
00:32:54.000I think they were like, he was sexting back and forth with women while he was married.
00:33:00.000He had a kick account, so people are questioning.
00:33:54.000So it just reinforces what Susan said.
00:33:56.000Susan Collins is, I mean, like, she's, I don't know how long she's been there, but she's been in, you know, the senator from Maine for a long time.
00:35:00.000I mean, look, it could be as far as the idea that it was an op to get him out.
00:35:07.000Look, he is a DSA guy, and the DSA has been racking up wins.
00:35:13.000So, I mean, I don't know that I have an opinion on it, but it could well be that the established Democrats are like, all right, if we can get rid of this guy and get someone that is a more establishment Democrat, that would be better for the party.
00:35:27.000Because the DSA has been just, you know, gangbusters winning.
00:35:31.000They've won, you know, they won like three primaries in New York or what have you, maybe even more.
00:35:37.000They've got the, like I said, the Seattle mayor.
00:35:41.000You know, they had AOC, even though she's kind of looking at the big picture and her career.
00:35:51.000Yeah, she's pop culture, is what she is.
00:35:53.000Yeah, so, but she got in because of the Justice Democrats and the DSA support.
00:35:58.000So it could be that the Democrats are at the DNC is like, look, we have to do something about these candidates because they're going to take over the party.
00:36:07.000You've got people like Hakeem Jeffries saying, you know, oh, maybe we do need some fresh blood.
00:36:11.000About the only person that has a reasonable take.
00:36:14.000On the DSA and the far left in the Democrat Party right now is Fetterman.
00:36:45.000Just as a baseline, it's like, we think America is overall bad.
00:36:50.000And Democrats know that when you go to the general and you've got people that, In their past, they're just like, I hate this country.
00:36:59.000I use the flag to wipe my hands and that kind of stuff.
00:37:03.000They know that your normal Americans that, you know, get about 30 minutes to an hour worth of political content a week that are worried about their kids and about their jobs and about the normal things that normal people are worried about that are not particularly plugged in.
00:37:20.000They know if they hear, oh, this person hates America, they're going to be like, really?
00:37:24.000Because generally, people don't want to hate the country they're from.
00:38:03.000You know, and they're focused on all they all have a focus on a war in the Middle East.
00:38:09.000These people probably this kind of attitude is probably the future of the Democrats, right?
00:38:16.000But right now, the boomers are still the majority, the largest voting block.
00:38:20.000Gen Z doesn't make it out to the polls, they don't make it out to vote, particularly in off year elections in the midterms.
00:38:30.000They might be online and be active, but actually getting to the polls.
00:38:35.000Historically, not saying that they can't, that the DSA isn't great at organizing and getting people animated, but historically, Gen Z doesn't go out to vote nearly as much as people that are Gen X and boomers.
00:38:47.000And so, even now, with the amount of boomers versus the amount of Gen X and in the future, Gen Alpha, there's just not a lot of them compared to.
00:38:59.000I feel like this midterm is really kind of low effort.
00:39:02.000Like when we were in 2022, And Biden was saying, hey, we're going to forgive student debt because that was supposed to be part of his campaign promise back then.
00:41:21.000The reason I'm laughing is because I don't know, we probably moved past it by now, but there was a time where you couldn't say that on YouTube without getting banned.
00:41:29.000But to your point about the money, though, you almost Back to 2016 with Trump's primary.
00:41:48.000And for an incumbent to lose against someone that was, I guess, I think it was a relatively, I don't even know the guy's name, so it's a fairly unknown guy.
00:41:57.000To lose a primary, like, that's a big deal.
00:42:00.000But I just, I don't know that the money is always the thing.
00:42:05.000I know the left loves to say that it's the money, right?
00:42:08.000They say, oh, you've got all these super PACs and Citizens United and et cetera, et cetera.
00:42:13.000The left loves to make a stink about it, even though they're taking money from their own super PACs and the people like George Soros that spend billions and billions on it.
00:42:20.000Well, they create slush funds out of that and wait until the next election comes around and then they use it for the next election.
00:43:21.000And then what's the first thing they do when they're trying to lick their wounds after Trump wins is like, well, we don't have a Joe Rogan.
00:43:28.000I'm like, well, you had an invite to go on Joe Rogan.
00:44:20.000Of the ages of all the people who are of all of our representatives, like all the senators and all the, you know, represent in the House, right?
00:44:51.000Mitch McConnell, because he's a boomer and because he doesn't like Trump, and that's fair enough.
00:44:56.000But I want to point out that having someone that knows the rules and is that crafty and clever in the Senate or in the Congress is important.
00:45:11.000And Mitch McConnell, again, Mitch McConnell is the reason why we've got the Supreme Court that we do.
00:45:18.000Well, on one side, you need the foundation of the experience of these people, but you also need this new blood coming in that are forward thinkers, I think.
00:45:26.000When you said the 20th versus 21st century thing, were you referring just to the Democrats or both?
00:45:30.000No, what I mean is like the process, like right now, like put it this way when Kamala Harris is mentioned by name Myron Gaines and Andrew Tate in her book as being like factors in her losing, that's what I mean.
00:45:54.000So it's like, so learning how to use that.
00:45:58.000To your advantage right now is still something that eludes a lot of these old school brands who are still using, you know, like Reagan era Lee Atwater kind of, you know, here's how we're going to go and win this campaign.
00:46:20.000You need somebody to go out there and have, you know, the same kind of market share that CNN or some of the bigger, you know, it's no longer TV and commercial TV that gets your message out there.
00:46:30.000I don't know if who stayed up till three in the morning when.
00:46:32.000When Trump won the election, when they called it and he's doing his acceptance at the rally and everything, he brings Dana White out there.
00:46:39.000I don't know if you guys were still watching.
00:46:41.000Dana White gets on the mic and starts thanking people like Will Compton from Busting with the Boys, Aiden Ross, who's a big streamer, that whole generation, and giving them credit for actually moving the freaking needle.
00:46:55.000Now, Trump's having the freaking UFC fight on his freaking front lawn.
00:46:59.000He's calling freaking soccer referees and changing outcomes, right?
00:47:03.000So, you know, when Trump's done, You know, is someone going to step into that role?
00:47:12.000I think the 21st century, the youth's going to come in.
00:47:16.000Like JD Vance is an example of someone that's more technical, maybe more technocratic, but it's going to come in and it's going to be a lot faster.
00:47:22.000It's going to be moving a lot quicker.
00:47:27.000I'm not saying I'm for or against any of these guys.
00:47:29.000I'm just saying at least they understand the mechanisms of the 21st century and how you could change the election cycle and everything that we used to think of.
00:47:37.000As being sort of set in stone from, like, I don't know, the late 70s through the 90s is no longer the game that we're playing in 2026.
00:47:46.000I'm going to tell you what, when Rubio was on the road, he was on the road in Venezuela when he got on there and defended that action.
00:48:56.000But Fox News says Spencer Pratt sparked widespread online reaction over Independence Day weekend after posting a sharp rebuke of New York City Mayor Zoharan Mamdani for using the July 4th holiday to criticize America's history.
00:49:10.000Pratt, a former TV reality star who drew attention with his surprise LA mayoral run, continued his political commentary by targeting Mamdani, who marked the nation's 250th Independence Day by delivering an immigration themed Address from George Washington's desk.
00:49:24.000Flanked by eight recently naturalized U.S. citizens, Mamdani criticized U.S. immigration and customs enforcement, Elon Musk, and what he described as the arena of supremacy in the United States.
00:49:35.000Look, Mamdani is not a fan of the United States, and Spencer Pratt really took him to task.
00:49:40.000We're going to play a little bit of this right now.
00:49:43.000We all had to sit and watch that vile commie mayor sit on the wrong side of our founding fathers' desks to try and lecture us about our own history.
00:49:52.000Notice how the communist always attacks your history.
00:49:55.000The communist must attack your history.
00:50:04.000History breeds an almost irrational attachment to things, an attachment that is more powerful than anyone can imagine.
00:50:10.000Erasing history is how you demoralize people, how you unmoor them and detach them from their society so you can take it from them and rewrite it in your image.
00:50:53.000It could be a million times nicer than the crappy apartment you came from, but it doesn't feel like home for a long time because you don't have history there.
00:51:01.000It's easy to so, the point that he makes in this is really, really, really.
00:51:35.000Or not everybody, but most people that watch this show, watch IRL, they're familiar with Yuri Bezmanov and his instruction on what the communists were trying to do, right?
00:51:47.000And the idea that you can demoralize a population by convincing them that their country is not worth loving, that their country is all bad, and they only focus on the negative things.
00:54:06.000From Fox News, he said, As we mark 250 years, what do we see, Mamdani asked?
00:54:10.000We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions.
00:54:13.000We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more.
00:54:20.000We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections.
00:54:23.000We see massed agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors.
00:54:28.000Before spiriting them away in unmarked vans.
00:54:31.000We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with callous, dirt streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisels into stone, and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.
00:54:44.000That is, there's a total indictment of the United States.
00:54:48.000So it's the pearls versus the bourgeois.
00:55:49.000They want everyone to own every piece of everything together collectively, whereas a socialist uses federal funds to do state jobs and stuff.
00:55:57.000So there's still a state in socialism rather than communism?
00:55:59.000You said that the end goal of socialism is communism.
00:56:03.000You could use it as a pass through to get to communism, but I don't think Mom Dami wants communism.
00:56:22.000We're getting bankrupted from the inside out.
00:56:24.000You know, the Federal Reserve Act, the fiat currency system, bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008, the trillions that got printed during COVID, that is a real problem.
00:56:54.000But the way that Momdani is framing it as the people that have money are actually oppressing the people that don't, that's just not how it works.
00:57:03.000The people that have money are the ones that are generally providing the jobs that the people that don't have enough money are working.
00:57:12.000There's levels of oppression, like when the bank hits you with a late fee or a $25 fee because you overdrafted $1.70.
00:57:19.000Okay, there's some oppression from rich people to poor people.
00:59:04.000You got North Korea, China, there's been all kinds of socialist experiments across all of Africa, all of South America.
00:59:12.000There's all kinds of different cultures that have tried socialism, and every single time it fails.
00:59:19.000It doesn't produce enough for people to eat, and you have famine, you have people that are actually going hungry.
00:59:27.000And our society, the one that Mamdani is sitting here criticizing, we have fat people that are homeless, we have fat people that are poor because.
00:59:36.000We have such a successful society that even the poor people, there are.
00:59:41.000I was watching Caleb Hammer and he was talking to a guest that was a socialist and she was saying all the stupid platitudes.
00:59:47.000And he was like, How many Americans have, or what percentage of Americans have a smartphone?
00:59:53.000And she's like, Oh, I don't know, blah, blah, blah.
01:00:11.000They can't comprehend how to use them.
01:00:12.000But if you have the cognitive ability to use a cell phone, and probably a lot of people that don't have quite the cognitive ability to use a cell phone, they all have cell phones.
01:00:27.000But I think one of the things, this is my take on socialism, communism, communitarianism, collectivism, is that when you look at Marxism, you look at what was supposed to be a form of government that was based on our understanding of what.
01:01:07.000So you've got him writing this manifesto that is going to at least set the architecture.
01:01:15.000For, well, later on, communism, socialism, whatever, based on an understanding that human beings are collectivists, that they are egalitarian, that they are all cooperative.
01:01:30.000Where, as in today, in the 21st century, we've plotted the human genome.
01:01:35.000We understand, well, we already have the history to back up the fact that there's never been a successful version of socialism or communism that didn't end up in the Khmer Rouge or pot, you know, or anything like that.
01:01:48.000But the thing is, is because we're still, we don't know what else to do.
01:01:51.000We don't have any other way to go from here.
01:01:53.000That's why, one of the reasons why, when we look at hierarchical systems, which capitalism is hierarchical, you know, you got the president, you got all the way down the chain of command kind of thing.
01:02:02.000So you're looking at a hierarchy as a form of organizing society as opposed to doing everything in the round and everybody's going to cooperate and everybody's on the same page.
01:02:11.000And the only way you can make them on the same page is through propaganda, is through maintaining this narrative so that.
01:02:18.000Everybody believes the same thing in this sort of social engineering experiment that has never been successful because that's simply not the way the human mind works.
01:02:28.000It's not the way we evolved to work as human beings.
01:02:33.000Women tend to be the gatherers, men are the hunters, right?
01:02:35.000We've organized society in hierarchies.
01:02:38.000Women tend to do it in the round, right?
01:02:40.000They tend to do it in egalitarian, you know, communitarian ways of organizing society, right?
01:02:46.000Well, that's not the way that we have been able to, you know, like you were saying, successfully organize a society.
01:02:53.000Certainly not in the West for as long as we've been doing it.
01:02:57.000So, what I'm saying is this is when we look at what those old ways of organizing society were based on, they're based on an incomplete understanding of human nature.
01:03:08.000Now, I mean, how many, what are we, almost 200 years since then, more than that, right?
01:03:13.000And we have all of this knowledge and everything else, but yet we're still clinging to this guy who wrote the manifesto in 1848 with an understanding of human nature from 1848.
01:03:33.000Well, I think the modern form of propaganda, especially from the left, but really from all politicians, when you're talking about welfare, is they never say, let's just give more money to the people that need it.
01:04:17.000There is the other end, you end up nowhere exactly where we're at right now.
01:04:20.000The only breakthrough in that regard was, well, I'm not even going to go there, it would change the whole subject.
01:04:24.000So, I'm just reading into like the government because this whole like communism, government owning corporations, you know, it's kind of antithetical to the United States.
01:04:33.000We've basically been laissez faire, hands off, and we have the postal service, we have some, but over the last This is blowing my mind.
01:04:41.000The U.S. has bought 26 corporations between 2025 and 2026.
01:05:05.000They're basically like, it looks like they're stealing for World War III.
01:05:08.000They're getting prepared in case there's a World War that breaks out and they want to be able to compete with China's.
01:05:13.000Mobility, you know, corporate mobility, their ability to mobilize and go into a wartime economy if they need to.
01:05:19.000But it's still like, it looks like communism on paper when the government starts buying corporations.
01:05:24.000Yeah, I mean, they're buying stocks, right?
01:05:27.000So they're buying a portion, they're buying a certain percentage of stocks or a certain amount of stock.
01:05:32.000I don't think, and it's not a controlling interest.
01:05:37.000Yeah, it's not a controlling interest of the company.
01:05:39.000So I don't, I mean, look, you can, if you're of the opinion the government shouldn't be, Picking winners and losers and shouldn't be buying stocks from private companies, then that's a legitimate argument.
01:05:51.000I would want to see what those companies were and how much they purchased of each one of those and what would be the possible reason that they would want to actually put money into them.
01:05:59.000And then you've got to weigh that against how many big corporations, multinational corporations, are in the U.S. as it is.
01:06:06.000If I understand, at least for the example that Ian brought up with Intel, part of the reason I think is because they want to actually have chips made in the U.S.
01:07:11.000They'll be like, I actually say it too.
01:07:13.000To compete with the Chinese who own 51% of all their corporations, at least, you kind of, I mean, it's not, it's an argument towards like, It looks like to defend against the corporation, you need to get a little state owned.
01:07:26.000You need to be like, you need some national power.
01:07:28.000Right now, all that stuff that you listed rare earths and all the metallurgy and stuff like that that's all stuff that we actually get from China now.
01:07:35.000So, in my opinion, it's good that the government is actually investing in these companies to try to make sure that the U.S. has the ability to produce this stuff here.
01:07:45.000I want lithium to be produced here because lithium ion batteries go into everything that we use basically nowadays.
01:07:53.000You know, rare earth metals that the U.S. is mining here in the U.S. because we're getting it all from China.
01:07:58.000I want the government to be doing this stuff.
01:08:00.000I want the government to make sure that it has the ability to provide the things necessary to the, not just to the Defense Department, but primarily to the Defense Department or the Department of War, so that if there is a conflict with China, we're not screwed.
01:08:19.000Nine of the companies are quantum computing companies.
01:08:22.000Two billion they've put so far into Nigeria.
01:08:23.000A bunch of money in quantum computing right now, boys.
01:08:26.000Yeah, we're in crypto's down, but quantum computing is going on.
01:08:30.000The crypto industry is like at half of where it was six.
01:08:32.000Months ago, and all the stocks are just exploding, going up, I think that's because the world economic order has seen that the United States is going to win.
01:08:40.000If there is a war, the U.S. has it unlocked since they took Venezuela, the way they bastarded and brutalized Iran, and like about to take Cuba.
01:09:06.000Just reflecting back to the 21st century politics thing, when you talk about Spencer Pratt running for governor in California, commenting on what the current mayor of New York is saying, right?
01:10:08.000I know it's a big ask to ask somebody to run for president, but I'd love to see Spencer Pratt run for president with Marco Rubio and JD Vance because I think Marco and JD are kind of buttoned up right now, at least behind the Trump wall that they're in.
01:10:20.000They're in the buffer, they're in the firewall.
01:10:22.000So I think Spencer's like this fireball from outside that will light it up and force those guys to normalize and match his alpha energy on stage.
01:10:33.000You'll see if Rubio and Vance decide that they're going to run for president, you'll see come in a year from now, they'll be clearly running.
01:10:42.000They'll have announced because it's, you know, the primary or the midterms are this fall.
01:10:48.000And then January, February, and March, you'll hear people start making announcements that they're running.
01:10:53.000So you'll know by next summer, you know.
01:10:56.000But speaking of Cuba, we're going to jump to this story from the AP.
01:11:01.000Island blackout hits Cuba as its fuel reserve dwindles and aging grid crumbles.
01:11:09.000An island wide blackout hit Cuba on Monday as the country's fuel reserve dwindles and its electric grid continues to crumble.
01:11:14.000The blackout in the country of nearly 10 million people was reported by the state run electric union, which said on X that the cause is under investigation.
01:11:22.000The Ministry of Energy and Mines wrote on X that it has activated protocols to restore electricity.
01:11:28.000Fuel has been running out across Cuba since January when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to the island, deepening the island's ongoing economic and financial crisis.
01:11:39.000Public transportation has been largely halted and officials have canceled tens of thousands of surgeries.
01:11:47.000De La Oleve said microsystems were already operating through Cuba a couple of hours after the outage.
01:11:53.000Vital services continue to be protected amidst this complex situation exacerbated by the energy blockade we face.
01:12:00.000They've already said that they're going to open up some markets, which is progress because Cuba has been one of the only, I'm pretty sure the only truly communist country.
01:12:12.000Well, no, Venezuela was pretty much a socialist country.
01:12:15.000So it's one of the only truly socialist countries in the Western Hemisphere, at least.
01:12:20.000And they have been basically backwards for the entire time.
01:12:25.000You know, they've been falling further and further behind the rest of the world.
01:12:30.000So, this is, will be interesting how big of a deal this starts to become.
01:12:35.000You know, right now it's not really even the top story in the news, right?
01:12:58.000Because of Cuba's, from my limited understanding of Cuba, they don't have a lot of problems when it comes to feeding people because Cuba actually said, look, everybody grow a garden.
01:13:15.000There's no reason for anybody in Cuba to starve because they've got plenty of arable land.
01:13:23.000So, if they do end up having issues with feeding their people, it's because of government.
01:13:28.000So, the power that they could produce on their own in Cuba only represents 40% of what they need, though.
01:13:36.000So, the food inflows are fine, but they still need 60% more, I guess, of oil to operate as they do.
01:13:44.000And I'm just saying, worst case scenario, this thing spirals in a certain way and Trump gets blamed for it.
01:13:48.000Well, I mean, I think that no matter what, Trump's going to get blamed for it because of the situation in Venezuela.
01:13:52.000But I think this is actually going to be a good thing.
01:13:54.000Like, overall, I was going to say, yeah, it's going to be good for Cuba.
01:13:56.000Okay, because now, correct me if I'm wrong, but like, I think it was last week.
01:14:01.000That Trump was actually mentioning Cuba and saying he was going to provide aid to the people of Cuba, not going through the government of Cuba so that it would then get to the people, but he was directly going to send money, send aid, send some kind of resources to the people of Cuba just a few weeks, or at least a week ago.
01:14:23.000Well, he's trying to prevent what's happening.
01:14:27.000Obviously, appealing to the populace of Cuba.
01:14:33.000Is probably a better idea than trying to work with the government there because essentially, one of the reasons there's the embargo is because they don't want China to come in there and essentially own that prime real estate, right?
01:14:45.000I mean, that's one of the reasons why we didn't want the Russians there in the Bay of Pigs.
01:14:50.000Especially when you think of the fact that the Gulf of America now has so much oil industry in it, right?
01:14:58.000So you've got Houston as a bunch of refineries, I guess, in the area, and with the U.S. being an exporter now.
01:15:06.000You want to make sure that Cuba is not hostile to the U.S. Not that they're going to attack, but like, look, where Cuba sits, right?
01:15:14.000You have to travel pretty close to Cuba to get to anywhere in the Gulf.
01:15:50.000So, even if you don't, and I don't think Trump cares if it's Raul Castro that's in charge or someone else.
01:15:58.000I think he just wants someone that's going to play ball with the U.S. and have open markets.
01:16:01.000So, I think if Cuba opens up their markets and says, okay, we're going to stop being hostile to the U.S., we're definitely not going to do business with the U.S., we're not going to be in bed with China or in bed with Russia or what have you, then I think that that could normalize relations.
01:16:16.000And then the U.S. would be like, okay, cool.
01:16:17.000Are we even having those kinds of conversations with them right now?
01:16:41.000Which, of course, would be why he's, like, reaching out to the people of Cuba right now and say, hey, shit's going to happen, but, like, we're going to, you know, we're here for you guys, right?
01:17:38.000So, if we were to, we're sieging, essentially, we're not sieging them.
01:17:41.000We're just starve, start, we're sanctioning them.
01:17:45.000It's a nice modern form of siege warfare.
01:17:47.000But if then we strangled out their government to capitulation, it would be like a brutal behind the scenes, like reformation of who's who, you know?
01:20:12.000The U.S. is probably going to, they're probably not going to take Greenland.
01:20:15.000They're probably just going to open up some more bases because, look, at the end of the day, You've got less ice on the polar ice caps.
01:20:24.000If that happens, and Russia can actually build ports in the north, because right now they don't have any ports that they can use.
01:20:32.000I think they've got one in the Black Sea that they can get out, but you have to go through the Black Sea and then through the Mediterranean.
01:20:37.000Otherwise, they don't have any real significant way to reach most of the world, Europe and North America and stuff.
01:20:44.000If they can, if they get those ports open, the U.S. wants to be able to monitor what they're doing.
01:21:39.000So, yeah, I mean, look, this is all the stuff that Trump is getting hell for.
01:21:44.000This is all about being able to protect the United States and make sure that the United States is economically positioning us to keep us where we're at, like security in 2030.
01:21:54.000Yeah, and we've talked about, I mean, probably looking at 2050, but we've talked about on this channel, we've talked about a lot how, look, the Democrats are looking to avoid Thucydides' trap, right?
01:22:08.000Where there's a rising power and an aging power, and if the rising power gets powerful enough, they're eventually going to go to war.
01:22:17.000The Democrats were like, we don't want to go to war, so we're going to go ahead and have a managed decline in the United States.
01:22:21.000We're going to pull back, and we'll go ahead and have a multipolar world where China and Russia and the U.S. kind of have their own.
01:22:28.000And Trump's just like, hell with that.
01:23:00.000And personally, I think that if we have the ability, which I don't think that we don't have the ability to do those kind of things, why not?
01:23:07.000Why should we just say, okay, we're going to go ahead and allow our country to decline?
01:23:11.000We should be doing things to ensure that our children and our grandchildren and our grandchildren's children enjoy the same kind of lifestyle that we do.
01:23:18.000Look at the moves that China made really during Biden when China's moving into like West Africa, Kenya.
01:23:26.000Because they're picking up the resources in there.
01:23:29.000They're helping the population at the same time, but they're essentially doing what What Trump is doing right now, going in there because they have some sort of either resource significance or they have strategic significance.
01:23:39.000They go in there and they can help out the local, very depressed third world economy of that population and then annex that resource or annex that territory.
01:23:53.000We don't hear about it because we're not privy to Chinese publication, what's going on in China.
01:24:00.000But when Trump does it, suddenly it's colonization.
01:24:02.000Suddenly it's a war of aggression or something.
01:24:05.000No, he's just basically playing the long game.
01:24:08.000Finally, somebody's playing the long game because China's been playing the long game for a while now.
01:24:14.000You know, areas like Africa and the Middle East, you wonder if Trump's criticized more heavily just because of the whole, you know, Muslim versus Christian Western values thing that doesn't come into play when China does things like that, to a degree at least.
01:25:17.000The people that came here and, and, you know, created this country.
01:25:22.000I understand why they thought that it was divine providence.
01:25:24.000You look at the Mississippi basin, like the Mississippi is a unique river in the whole, in the whole world, basically, right?
01:25:31.000It's very, very, there's not a lot of rapids, and you can get to the entire interior.
01:25:36.000If you look at the watershed for the Mississippi, you know, it's like it covers like 35 or 40% of the whole country.
01:25:44.000You can get all the way up to like North Dakota on the Mississippi, and it's all generally pretty flat, and it's easy to, There's no rapids you can traverse the whole thing, and that's part of why we're such an economic powerhouse.
01:25:55.000We can do anything in the United States that we really need to.
01:26:00.000We have all the natural resources, we're an oil exporter, we have all of the rare earth metals that China does.
01:26:19.000Like all of the chips, it's 99.99999% pure.
01:26:24.000You have to make the crucible out of the silicone because when you're trying to grow the silicone, the wafers are basically they make a tube of silicone and they chop it into like a millimeter thick.
01:26:38.000You have to make the crucible out of the same silicone because it'll contaminate it.
01:26:42.000It has to be pure, and it's the purest silicone in the world.
01:26:47.000And all the silicone chips that go everywhere, it all comes from North Carolina.
01:26:53.000We have everything we need, so why should we just say, okay, We're going to go ahead and give up.
01:26:58.000That's one of the things that I actually really, really like about Trump he's like, no, we're pro America and we're going to keep America as the preeminent power in the world.
01:27:06.000And there's no reason we shouldn't do that.
01:27:42.000There used to be a saying, I think it was in the UK or the British, the sun never goes down on the British Empire, because it's a global empire, all the way to Hawaii and all that.
01:27:55.000So it's interesting to me that when we're doing expansion, because technically that's what it is Cuba would be expansion.
01:28:06.000If we get into Greenland, that will be expansion, right?
01:28:09.000Now, I'm not saying that that's like some war of conquest, but it's still expansionism.
01:28:14.000It's still us claiming territory, and maybe just if only in name only.
01:28:21.000We're not saying this is going to be the next state of the United States.
01:28:23.000Venezuela is going to be the next state of the United States.
01:28:25.000It's never a state, but the thing is, it's this mentality of, I mean, I understand, especially in the latter half of the 20th century, certainly into where we're at right now with more of this liberal.
01:28:38.000We're embarrassed that, you know, that we did all this stuff and stolen lands and everything else.
01:28:42.000I'm like, why don't we think in the opposite terms anymore?
01:28:46.000Why don't we think in terms of like conquest?
01:28:48.000Why don't we think in terms of like, you know, the British Empire, the French going out to wherever they did, us going into, I mean, we took Hawaii, right?
01:30:18.000There are still some places that do have it.
01:30:20.000But when the British said, we're not doing slavery anymore in the colonies, and you're not doing slavery anymore either, that was an unmitigated good.
01:30:46.000So, like with the conquest of Mars that we're about to see on the horizon, the conquest of the moon, probably orbital conquest, I don't know how that's going to work.
01:31:34.000I mean, look, if you believe Musk, the point of going there is to make sure.
01:31:39.000We are getting into the expanse, right?
01:31:41.000If you believe Musk, the point of going there is to make sure that if something catastrophic happens on Earth, there's another place for human beings to go.
01:32:07.000If we don't make it a pure communist utopia for real with technology somehow where people collectively own the space, it's going to be corporately controlled or.
01:32:16.000It'll be, well, it's likely that it'll be SpaceX.
01:33:48.000We're talking about expansionism and stuff, but like, we also don't live in the times of the British Empire now.
01:33:54.000I mean, we still have corporations, but the corporations that we have in the 21st century are nothing like the Dutch East India Company, right?
01:34:01.000So you also have to consider that if we're moving into countries like Venezuela or we're moving into, hey, Trump says, Hey, we're going to give the people of Cuba a lot of money.
01:34:15.000Is it coming from the U.S. taxpayers or is it coming from corporate interests?
01:34:19.000Is he selling rights to something that we don't know about in Cuba?
01:34:22.000Or, for instance, there might be military contracts in Greenland that we need to build, like bases or airstrips or something like that.
01:34:29.000You're still promising those contracts and those business deals to the military industrial complex, too.
01:34:35.000So there has to be, you've got to be able to balance the The corporate interests with the government, the populist interests as well.
01:34:42.000When you can get those two to sort of like dovetail into each other, that's when you're cooking.
01:34:48.000But you also have to look at, like, say, like, communist China is ostensibly communist because it's really oligarchs and it's really major corporate interests that are ostensibly communists.
01:35:01.000The government is communist because it's what they need to keep that population, the billions population.
01:35:09.000In check, but who's really pulling the strings in China?
01:35:17.000Communism means that all the people in the country collectively own the stuff together.
01:35:22.000China is just another instance of vanguardism.
01:35:24.000It's the same thing Lenin, when he got his communist movement and tricked everyone into thinking, they established what's called a vanguard, which is a small group of people that take control of the military.
01:35:33.000And they're just going to be there temporarily, is what they say.
01:36:14.000And when you try to force that hierarchy into this egalitarian, you know, doing everything in a circle, it doesn't work because sooner or later, human nature is going to take over and some guy is going to want more than the next guy because he gets more pussy for that or he gets a good car for that or he gets a better house for that or something else.
01:36:32.000So, there's always that want to outdo.
01:36:34.000I mean, and that's, by the way, that's a good thing.
01:37:18.000For owning stock because SpaceX was paying their people in money and stock options.
01:37:23.000And the people that took it, one of the dudes was a janitor.
01:37:27.000One of the people was a cook for SpaceX.
01:37:29.000And they're millionaires now because generational wealth overnight.
01:37:34.000And there's a bunch of people, it was like 400 people that made over $100 million.
01:37:38.000Now, probably those are people that were in the upper.
01:37:41.000Echelon of the management and stuff, but still, like when you go, your company goes public and you make people, you know, 4,400 people millionaires.
01:37:52.000The people that work at SpaceX and the people that work for these companies, like they have good things that are happening for them.
01:37:59.000And companies like Amazon or companies like Walmart, like if it wasn't for Amazon, tons of Americans couldn't get the things that they need on a daily basis sent to their house.
01:38:10.000They'd have to go ahead and go to the store or whatever.
01:38:14.000Things like Walmart, like they make, they make product or they provide products that are inexpensive generally, and people that don't have a lot of money can go and get the stuff they need.
01:38:23.000This isn't, you know, and they provide a bunch of jobs.
01:38:25.000Now, granted, they're not the greatest jobs, but look, people need, you know, people need to be able to pay their bills somehow.
01:38:32.000And if they, if you don't have these big companies, then you lose all the jobs that go along with them.
01:38:37.000And the other thing about that is you want to be able to at least entertain the idea, as hopeless or as hopeful as it might be, that you can better your state at some point along the way.
01:38:48.000You know, I might be living not the way I want to now, but because I'm doing this, I'm working towards a goal, I'm competing, I'm doing something else.
01:38:56.000But maybe somewhere down the line, I'm going to be doing better.
01:39:39.000You might be content for a little while, but the fundamental nature of human beings is discontent.
01:39:45.000It defines a human condition is discontent.
01:39:49.000The problem with communism or, okay, let's say Marxism, because I don't want to split hair, but it's going to tell me that's not the communism.
01:39:58.000The reason why I was mentioning that Marxism had an incomplete understanding of human nature is because it never takes into account the defining human state of discontent.
01:40:31.000There's going to be a new mountain to climb.
01:40:33.000There's always going to be a new challenge to go after.
01:40:36.000And one of the reasons I think that a lot of this generation's young men today are so despondent right now, for lack of a better term, is because they're told that they should be content and they don't know why they're discontent, right?
01:40:52.000Because they don't have any new frontiers to go conquer.
01:40:55.000You want to know why video games are such an immersive.
01:41:00.000You know, sedation for young men today is because it gives them the it gives them an artificial experience of a frontier or competition.
01:41:08.000You want to know how comp how competitive like Gen Z young men are?
01:41:12.000Yeah, watch them play Fortnite, watch them play any any first person shooter game, and you'll see just how competitive they can be, right?
01:41:20.000And it's again, it's like so the the fundamental defining state of humanity is really discontent and it's not contentment.
01:41:27.000And like I said, that's a feature and not a bug, and so any.
01:41:30.000Form of government or organizing society that doesn't take that into account is doomed to fail.
01:42:03.000Yeah, they have the idea that there's a finite amount of money or a finite amount of whatever, and that the goal isn't to try to produce more.
01:42:13.000The goal is to make sure that everyone has a certain amount of what exists with people that have a producing mindset.
01:42:32.000We were talking before the show today, we were talking about people that have a.
01:42:37.000Like, I call it the team good times and team bum out, right?
01:42:43.000If you're on team good times, then something bad happens or whatever, right?
01:42:50.000Like, if you're on team good times and something bad happens, we were actually relating this.
01:42:53.000I was talking about being on tour with the band and stuff.
01:42:56.000We were just on tour, and bad stuff happens, right?
01:42:59.000Like, we had our tour manager the very first day of the tour, he got a call and he found out that his grandfather was in hospice.
01:43:08.000And so he's gonna have to leave the tour.
01:43:10.000And it was like, all right, well, this is our tour manager and he's doing sound too.
01:43:13.000So we're like, all right, well, how do we fix this, right?
01:43:15.000And because we have everybody in the band on Team Good Times, we're like, all right, well, this sucks.
01:43:21.000And, you know, we know you got to go, and like we're, we know you got to take care of your family first and stuff.
01:43:26.000So, how are we going to get through this?
01:43:27.000How we, you know, what are we going to do?
01:43:28.000If you're on Team Bum Out, you're like, oh man, this sucks.
01:43:32.000Our tour is screwed, and we're not going to be able to play the shows, and we're going to blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:43:37.000And, you know, like your attitude towards whatever, you know, presents itself is really, really, really important.
01:43:45.000And if you have the attitude, if you have like a negative mindset, or you have the mindset of, oh, you know, look, this isn't, I can't do this, like you were saying, like, You have the attitude of, I'm going to lose out if this other person does well.
01:43:58.000That is a terrible, terrible way to go through life.
01:45:03.000If you're just like, well, I'm going to lie about it, you can't realistically have a business and then just lie about the results all the time because you'll end up crashing, destroying your business.
01:45:12.000Well, I don't disagree with what you said.
01:45:15.000I don't completely agree, but I think if you look at it in the framework of a corporation, compare what Trump's doing with a business.
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01:46:36.000So, right now we got, let's see, we're going to go to your Rumble rants first.
01:47:56.000Like I said, I don't have a problem with the government owning a, you know, purchasing stocks, especially when they're in, you know, corporations or when they're in industries that are necessary for national security.
01:48:07.000I'm with it, but the downside of kind of what Rollo was saying earlier is like you want competition and you want to know that I can come from nothing and win.
01:48:14.000But if I want to start a tech company, but the government's favorite is IBM and I can't get off the ground because everyone's with IBM now because it's the sure thing that completely destroys the ethos of the United States capitalistic market.
01:49:58.000Let's go back in time and see if we can get him.
01:50:01.000Before social media, before the age of TV and radio, like, horrible men did great.
01:50:06.000Things for the world many, many times.
01:50:08.000And now it's where this age of like where people are gauging your ethics, your behavior, and your personal life.
01:50:17.000And like, we got to be real careful that we don't devolve into like stopping evil men from doing great things because we still need great things to be done, whether it comes from a demonic, womanizing, lying, gambling addict or, you know, daddy's little girl.
01:51:10.000Punches his pregnant wife in the gut to, you know, to abort the baby, gets a movie made about him, and is one of the top paid inspirational speakers still to sales coaches.
01:52:13.000You know what part of pissed me off, though?
01:52:16.000Like cops, like people are not being cops now because of the public scrutiny.
01:52:21.000And there's definitely, to your point, I think this was part of your point at least, people that just don't go into politics because they don't want to deal with this bullshit.
01:53:10.000They loved him, blah, And as soon as he's like, oh, you know, I'm going to start talking about politics, you know, they started blowing up Tesla dealerships, blowing up the Green Yard.
01:54:11.000If you're thinking about going into politics, though, and you have a domestic battery, you have a DUI, you've done anything ever with somebody underage, you're going to have a very uphill battle.
01:54:33.000Marusha Dark, Marusia Dark 316 says, Practically speaking, what can be done about ethnic enclaves that are made up of legal immigrants and citizens to further incentivize integration?
01:54:48.000I haven't really put a whole lot of thought into this.
01:54:56.000Yeah, well, he's talking about breaking them up so that way, breaking up the enclaves so that way you can make sure that people get integrated.
01:55:34.000That's kind of not really what he's talking about.
01:55:37.000He's talking about how do we make sure that, not how do we understand different cultures, but he's like, how do we get people that have immigrated here legally.
01:55:45.000How do we get them to not live in enclaves so that they can actually become American?
01:55:51.000I'm not saying the black dudes in Crown Heights were immigrants in an enclave.
01:55:55.000I'm just saying they were dudes like little dudes.
01:55:57.000But I'm saying that if you spend enough time in a cultural enclave, they'll see you as this benevolent outside force that they'll want to become more like.
01:56:06.000From my experience, it helped Americanize these people.
01:56:10.000They really wanted to become Americanized.
01:56:12.000They didn't know any Americans because they all spoke Spanish.
01:56:14.000So having me there was helpful for them, I think.
01:57:11.000Like, I know a lot of Cubans because I spend a lot of time in Miami and stuff like that.
01:57:16.000And by and large, they want to come to this country because they want the American dream for whatever that means to them.
01:57:22.000When I was growing up, when I was in, like, Junior high school and high school, I lived in Pasadena, California.
01:57:28.000And it was right at the time where there was an influx of Armenian immigrants at that time because of the genocide and everything that had been going on in their country.
01:57:36.000So people were coming over into the United States.
01:57:38.000And for whatever reason, Pasadena was one of their destinations.
01:57:41.000And they were some of the coolest people ever.
01:57:44.000I mean, I actually today I like certain foods that are Armenian foods because I grew up with those because I had Armenian friends at that time.
01:57:51.000But they wanted to come here and they wanted to be American.
01:57:54.000And I'm wondering if there's just simply been a change of.
01:57:59.000I don't know, a change of identity or a change of understanding.
01:58:02.000I think it might depend on the group that comes over here.
01:58:07.000Certain ethnicities want to be a part of the American experience and others simply want to retain their own ethnic identity.
01:58:13.000I think that a lot of it has to do with which groups the government is actually helping to come over and how they're doing it.
01:58:22.000If you've got people that are like, oh, we're refugees or we're looking for asylum, that's different than someone that's like, hey, look, man, I.
01:58:30.000I saved up a bunch of money back in the old country and now I want to come to the U.S. and make my way in the U.S.
01:58:36.000I think that it's a land of opportunity, right?
01:58:40.000Because if you come to the U.S. and you're coming because the United States is like, oh, we're going to help you escape this, you kind of, and I'm not saying definitely everyone, but I imagine you've kind of got the attitude or the mindset of, okay, they're going to take care of me.
01:58:56.000And so when you get to the United States, you're looking for help from the United States.
01:59:01.000If you come to the United States because you've saved up money and you've got some kind of, you're looking to get for economic opportunity, you've got the mindset of, I want to go to the U.S. to do something, as opposed to, I want to go to the U.S. for someone to help me.
01:59:16.000Well, one of the guys who is one of my business partners, Miguel Munoz, he runs a podcast called Dollar Cost Crypto and he does Moon Gang, and he's one of the names in the crypto community.
01:59:28.000He and his, actually his brother, his younger brother, Kyle, is my producer for my show, The Rational Mail, on Sundays.
01:59:34.000But they are second generation immigrants from Mexico.
01:59:42.000But they started out doing landscaping and everything, picked it up and built upon that and built and built and built to the point where he's now a crypto millionaire and believes in the American dream.
01:59:56.000America is the greatest country in the world.
01:59:57.000So to me, it's like I think it kind of depends on sort of the ethnic identity of who's coming into this country.
02:00:12.000And then there's other people who say, You know, like, well, you know, they might be Somali immigrants that go to France or wherever else.
02:00:18.000And they're just like, they just want to make their own enclaves within that country because they're just, they're bringing those third world problems into a first world country and not really integrating into it.
02:00:29.000They don't want to be part of the French experience.
02:00:31.000They don't want to be part of the German experience or the Ireland has a lot of immigrants as well.
02:00:59.000We're going to go to the bar together, listen to some freaking Motley crew, or I'm going to hang out with other Somalis because I'm comfortable with them.
02:01:52.000John Sarasani, you can find me on Instagram, J O H N C E R A S A N I. All my books and other things I do is at 2000%Raise.com or just look at the link in my bio.
02:02:06.000And Ian, I don't know why I just assumed Motley Crue would be the right analogy there.
02:02:11.000You've got to look at the dark and dark.
02:02:14.000I was singing Richie Blackmore, but okay, that's right.
02:08:09.000It's not pure, is it not just pure randomness?
02:08:11.000Well, I mean, I mean, a dice roll is always going to be pure randomness, but like you're still dealing with only a certain number of like permutations of numbers.
02:08:19.000So that's why essentially when you're doing a coming out roll, it's always going to be 50 50.
02:08:24.000Like everything is meant to be that coin flip.
02:08:27.000And then once you get that, then you're trying to shoot for a particular number.
02:08:31.000And then you where you lose your ass is when you're putting money on like you know, one roll bets and things like that because you get excited about it.
02:09:09.000She met with the vice president, something, a vice something over there.
02:09:14.000And it was just really interesting that his wife would leave his side after he had some kind of a heart attack or fainting or something and go over to China to represent some kind of something.
02:09:47.000It's like he's so old that they just expect him to be dead, you know?
02:09:53.000I mean, look, I wasn't, I've just heard about the, uh, The situation with his wife going to China just heard about that today, and it is weird.
02:10:02.000Like, I don't know, obviously, I don't have any kind of insider information, but it is weird, and I would like to know more.
02:10:09.000I don't know that we're going to find out anything, but you know, maybe there's some investigative journalism going on somewhere that might actually uncover some stuff.
02:11:54.000Oh, she was the United States Secretary of Transportation, the 18th and the 24th United States Secretary of Labor, but she's saying she's not serving in those positions at the moment.
02:12:04.000No, but the weird thing is that she hauls ass to China as soon as she.
02:12:09.000You know, old Mitch hits the floor, right?
02:12:15.000You got any other questions or anything you want to add?
02:12:19.000No, but just, you know, I guess from my perspective as an American, I would really appreciate our politicians being politicians and not dead or alive politicians because really it's really sad that we got to the state that we don't really care if our politician is alive or dead because we know that the same result will happen.
02:13:03.000But when people say nothing, I can't help but remind them like, even if you don't like Mitch McConnell, you know, we've got a very good Supreme Court and coming up, you know, this year.
02:13:13.000I mean, granted, the birthright citizenship didn't go the way we wanted, but we've got a lot of wins, particularly for Second Amendment stuff.
02:13:21.000A lot of it's because of Mitch McConnell keeping what's his name off the, you know, Merrick Garland off the court.
02:13:29.000And we got an AR 15 case coming in the fall that, you know, it's likely it's going to go our way because the, or at least if you're pro gun, you consider it going our way.
02:13:51.000It's sort of like the system is in motion and these cogs are just part of this machine, but there are, and then people stand out occasionally.
02:13:58.000And if they become too popular, they might threaten the machine itself.
02:14:18.000Yeah, and the only reason they caught him is because he damaged his car so much that he rolled down the street from the hit and run and his car wouldn't go anymore.
02:15:52.000Or, uh, I mean, the only thing I'd say with that is, uh, They need to have age limits because we need to have politicians that have people that come up so the next generation can take over.
02:16:01.000We don't need one generation being in charge of politics for far longer than they ever should be.
02:16:07.000And that's part of the problem that we have currently.
02:16:51.000I'm just offended that Patrick didn't call me out for the morning show, too, since he and I started it together and I'm on there on Mondays.
02:17:10.000So, there was a lot of talk about socialism on the show tonight, and that prompted me to ask this question because it's something that's been bothering me.
02:17:18.000As we know, it's very scary and it's been brought into the minds of the youth.
02:17:21.000Even though Gen Z is very based, I've found lately that it's accepting, Gen Z is accepting some of socialism's values.
02:17:30.000For example, Florida gubernatorial candidate for Florida governor, James Fishback, said at a debate last week that he wanted to mandate maternity leave for women in Florida as governor.
02:17:41.000A lot of young men flocked to defending it, calling it pro family.
02:17:45.000I argued that tax incentives were pro family, handouts were social welfare, and empowered single motherhood, but they still pushed back.
02:17:54.000It's the same talking point that Bernie Sanders used in 2021, and I fear they're trying to take over the right.
02:18:01.000So, how can we better educate these young folks coming out of the indoctrination of public high schools and colleges of how to spot and stop socialism so we can end it?
02:18:12.000So, you've got a lot of young people that are really actually fairly sympathetic to right wing socialism.
02:18:25.000And that kind of is part of the reason why there's so many national socialists or people that are sympathetic to national socialism.
02:18:36.000And I'm not making an allusion to actual Nazis, but there's a lot of people on the right that are like, hey,.
02:19:15.000I mean, I think that the economic conditions in the U.S. are a big part of why there's such a new fondness for government doing things.
02:19:28.000And you're going to get, like I've said it before, you're going to get communists on the left and Zoomerwaffen on the right.
02:19:36.000A lot of young people are fairly sympathetic to fascist ideas.
02:19:42.000And when I say fascist, I'm not talking about.
02:19:46.000All Nazis were fascists, but not all fascists were Nazis.
02:19:49.000And if you're talking about, you know, Mussolini or maybe Pinochet or whatever, like those guys were, they're, you know, I don't think fascism is good.
02:20:00.000I don't believe, I think that people should be free and I think the government should be small.
02:20:04.000But those guys were definitely preferable to like Nazi Germany, right?
02:20:09.000Like, there's a significant distinction.
02:20:11.000And there's a lot of people nowadays that are actually fairly sympathetic to, you know, national socialism and, and, and fascist type ideas.
02:20:22.000I think that you need to fix the economic conditions.
02:20:25.000I think you need to make sure that young people feel like they have a shot and they can actually do things like have families, get a house, etc.
02:20:35.000They can't feel like the American dream is out of reach to them.
02:20:37.000If you look at the Lenin era propaganda of Russia, well, I guess it was the CCP back then.
02:20:47.000If you look at the The appeal to traditionalism from back then.
02:20:53.000It's like it was always this, you know, it was the motherland or the fatherland, whatever, you know, the motherland and a return to traditionalism.
02:21:03.000And it was families grow stronger under Lenin style communism.