On this week's show: The latest on the latest in the Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump feud, the latest on World War III, and much, much more! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - DOJ and FBI officials begin lawyering up in anticipation of a Trump DOJ investigation 3:30 - Donald Trump shows up to UFC 309 to thunderous applause 6:00 - Joe Scarborough and Micah from Morning Joe meet with Donald Trump 9:30 - World War 3 may be on the horizon 11:15 - Russia has been authorized to use long-range missiles into Russian territory 13:00- Sweden is warning their citizenry of what to do in nuclear war 16:15
00:00:20.000So the latest reporting is that DOJ and FBI officials have begun lawyering up in anticipation of Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump targeting them for criminal prosecution.
00:00:32.000Of course, the left is taking this as it's Donald Trump's revenge and the right is saying it's Donald Trump's revenge.
00:00:39.000The thing is, the right believes many of these individuals actually committed crimes.
00:00:42.000And with these investigations, we'll likely prove it.
00:00:59.000And it shows you that we're back, baby.
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00:04:46.000I'd rather say retribution and accountability.
00:04:48.000Legal experts say Trump's choice for Attorney General Matt Gaetz signals the president-elect's determination to tightly control the Justice Department and prosecute adversaries.
00:04:57.000or criminals, multiple current and former senior DOJ and FBI officials have begun reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration, according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations.
00:05:06.000according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations.
00:05:09.000Now, I just want to pause because, you know, I said this a couple of months ago.
00:05:09.000Now, I just want to pause because, you know, I said this a couple of months ago.
00:05:14.000I said when Donald Trump gets in, he should launch the investigations.
00:05:14.000I said when Donald Trump gets in, he should launch the investigations.
00:05:17.000And it is it feels good to see that my sentiment was not unique to me, that there are many people who agree.
00:05:17.000And it is it feels good to see that my sentiment was not unique to me, that there are many people who agree.
00:05:23.000They say following Trump's decisive election victory, many Justice Department officials and career staffers were already nervous about the possibility they would be targeted by Trump loyalists, particularly members of Congress.
00:05:33.000But the selection of former rep Matt Gaetz, a firebrand Trump ally, who is subject of a recent FBI investigation to lead the department, has sharply increased the sense of alarm the sources say.
00:05:47.000A sense of alarm is building among officials at the Justice Department and the FBI who are bracing for possible revenge prosecutions from the incoming Trump administration.
00:05:57.000NBC News reports that some civil servants who work on a government salary have proactively reached out to lawyers.
00:06:03.000That's according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations.
00:06:07.000They're worried about the effect of long and costly legal battles.
00:06:11.000Joining me here in studio, NBC News Senior Executive Editor for National Security, David Rode, who reported this story.
00:06:18.000Also with us, Glenn Kirshner, a former federal prosecutor and MSNBC legal analyst.
00:06:24.000A lot of DOJ staffers we had been hearing and you had been reporting were saying there was some nervousness about what might happen, about, frankly, what has been said about the plans for going after people who they felt unfairly went after them.
00:06:40.000But how has the choice of Matt Gaetz changed the equation, or has it?
00:07:40.000If these people are, they did nothing wrong, if they follow all the rules like they're supposed to, then they should have nothing to worry about when it comes to legal counsel.
00:07:48.000Well, that's exactly what the left says.
00:07:49.000Of course, we know that's not really how the law works.
00:07:51.000The procedure is the punishment, but that's too bad.
00:07:54.000They want to wage lawfare against Donald Trump.
00:07:57.000They want to do these false criminal charges.
00:07:58.000I guess now we're going to have to just say each and every one of them was investigated for whatever it is they get investigated for.
00:08:04.000I made the half joke on X that I was going to start hiring investigators to go up to journalists for silly, for wacky reasons so that I could then say this person has been investigated for insert whatever.
00:08:25.000I'm saying, if you say someone was alleged to have done something, nobody cares.
00:08:29.000It's like, sure, if I say they were actually investigated for cheating on their wife or something like that, then it's like, whoa, investigated for it?
00:08:53.000Well, I mean, it doesn't really matter what they actually find or, well, I mean, I guess it does, but the point isn't about, like, actually finding any kind of illegality.
00:09:05.000Like, the whole reason they're bringing this up and talking about it is they want to smear him, uh, If this were someone on the Democrat side, they would be downplaying the allegations.
00:09:14.000They'd be like, oh, well, the DOJ looked into it.
00:09:16.000They'd be saying all truthful things, like DOJ looked into it.
00:09:19.000They didn't prosecute, you know, it's not something, the witness wasn't credible, etc., etc.
00:09:26.000This isn't about whether or not they care.
00:10:01.000I'm actually kind of tired of the fact that when the Democrats get in, they're like, okay, well, these guys are all lawbreakers.
00:10:09.000We're going to endlessly investigate them.
00:10:10.000We're going to throw every phony baloney accusation we possibly can at them.
00:10:14.000And then when Republicans get power, like last time, Trump said, no, let's do the peaceful thing, let's do the loving thing, let's do that.
00:10:26.000There's a lot of the American electorate who believe that there are traitors inside of the FBI, that there are traitors, and that Democrats have acted in a treasonous manner.
00:10:36.000Yeah, I mean, look, nothing that you're talking about is...
00:10:40.000It says that you should go after people that haven't broken the law or that aren't treasonous.
00:11:00.000At least I personally don't have any problem with finding people that are seditious and accusing them of, you know, punishing them for seditious behavior or whatever.
00:11:11.000I don't think we should be trying to create conditions.
00:11:15.000We shouldn't be doing what the FBI was doing, trying to get, you know, trying to entrap people and trying to create a situation.
00:11:23.000Because I agree with you, there's plenty of evidence that there is seditious behavior in multiple levels of government, so yeah.
00:11:31.000Well, the thing is, you're right, right?
00:11:34.000For the purpose of the semantic distinction, I think when the average person thinks of treason, right, they're not thinking of it in terms of, you know, it has to be during wartime or this type of thing.
00:11:49.000That there has been a lot of seditious activity.
00:11:52.000I do think, I would even consider treasonous activity towards President Trump, for sure.
00:11:59.000And I think, I would love to actually see him, once Gates is in, as the AG, why not go back and revisit what happened during the former election?
00:12:10.000Why not go back and take a look at why this guy, you know, ended up with millions and millions more votes than Kamala ended up with?
00:12:18.000I would like to see an actual investigation launched on that.
00:12:21.000I think, you know, yeah, I'm of two minds.
00:12:25.000I think absolutely, because the American people will want some kind of resolution.
00:12:29.000But I think that in terms of the efforts, they should just be, and I don't know that Republicans are going to do this, but...
00:12:36.000Proof of citizenship passed immediately for voting in federal elections.
00:13:15.000Matt Gaetz needs to launch civil rights, conspiracy against rights investigations into Georgia, Fannie Willis, into Letitia James, into Alvin Bragg.
00:13:24.000He should be looking into what these states were doing with COVID, with the elderly patients who were put in the nursing homes and died.
00:14:33.000And if it turns out that they were throwing American citizens who went to this protest in prison and locking them away without actual due process, which is what we're now being told has happened multiple times, yeah, they need to go to prison.
00:14:49.000You know, but the game for the longest time was that the machine didn't go after itself.
00:14:53.000So Donald Trump gets in, and now all of a sudden they're looking at real accountability, and they're going to lie.
00:14:58.000And so you're going to get these liberals...
00:15:00.000This is the challenge, because no matter what happens, either the Democrats will abuse power, and if the Republicans try in any way to get accountability, they will claim this is proof Trump's a fascist and is doing everything they claimed.
00:16:59.000That is, by the way, I think that that's a conspiracy.
00:17:02.000I think that that should be investigated for a conspiracy.
00:17:05.000I mean, to be honest with you, it might be a conspiracy that goes through the whole Democrat party like the DNC itself.
00:17:10.000But anyways, my point being, the average person's faith in the justice system Has been significantly shaken.
00:17:18.000If you want people to trust that their justice system actually does behave in an unbiased way, you have to go and root out the people that are corrupt.
00:17:31.000Getting rid of corruption is not partisan.
00:17:34.000I don't care if it'll look partisan and there'll be people crying partisanship, but getting rid of corrupt people in the government, it's non-partisan.
00:18:58.000My point, when I say it doesn't matter anymore, is they're going to say it no matter what you do, but we have to do it, otherwise this country can't survive.
00:19:05.000I mean, is the optics war still there, though?
00:19:41.000But to the point, specifically on optics, when you're talking about optics, there used to be this kind of political kabuki where optics did matter A significant amount.
00:19:53.000With Trump, it doesn't seem like the optics matter that much.
00:19:56.000They paint him in the worst light possible no matter what.
00:19:59.000And when this guy was calling women dogs and fat and everything else, nobody cared, right?
00:21:33.000I think most people are divided, but I think a default liberal, the average default liberal, is only going along with the left because they think that is the mainstream.
00:21:42.000So I was saying before the election, the reason that we have to win the popular vote is so that we can tell every single leftist you're on the wrong side of history.
00:22:01.000You were saying Trump couldn't win three weeks ago.
00:22:04.000Now he's all of a sudden like, oh, I can't believe it.
00:22:07.000Now you got Seth Moulton coming out after the election saying, look, you know, I'm concerned about a male athlete or former male athlete running over my daughters and I'm supposed to be afraid to say that.
00:22:16.000He couldn't say it before the election.
00:22:19.000After the election comes out and says, all these people are saying that, you know, when you hear crime is up or the costs are up, that's Fox News.
00:22:35.000Where were you before the election to say these things?
00:22:38.000They didn't say it because they genuinely believed that the establishment was in control, and so they were going to say whatever they had to say.
00:22:48.000These are the moral cowards who are like, I'm angry, of course, but I'm just going to say whatever they want me to say so I can dodge their ire.
00:23:32.000That seems like it's not optically friendly, yet people move towards that.
00:23:36.000They move towards that in this election.
00:23:39.000All of the things that you're kind of framing here with the view and their clucking and this and that, that was all positive optics, right?
00:24:41.000Because once people realized, I don't want to live this way, and other people, like I read that super chat where the guy says, you know, when he saw the Rogan's skin turned gray, he started to realize this was all fake.
00:24:51.000So my point is, When we come for retribution and accountability, retribution, divine justice, whatever you want to call it, not revenge, not an emotional thing, it's a pragmatic thing.
00:25:04.000People need to know we maintain that we are morally correct in what we are doing and it is dispassionate and logical.
00:25:21.000In fact, the right is a mix between people who are more conservative saying, I don't think anybody should be getting transgender surgeries, and the moderate, disaffected liberals saying, well, if you're over 18, do what you want.
00:25:32.000And this is a coalition, a unity party.
00:25:38.000People were scared and believe that the popular vote was a massive flare in the air saying not anymore.
00:25:45.000The silent it is no longer a silent majority.
00:25:48.000The majority doesn't believe these things.
00:25:50.000What happens is those moral grandstanders like Micah and Joe who are calling Trump Hitler are now all of a sudden turning tail because they're scared of being on the wrong side of history.
00:27:09.000I think, you know, the thing I'm concerned about is the left scared everybody away by being brutal and authoritarian.
00:27:16.000And so we have to make sure everybody knows...
00:27:19.000Freedom's on the other side of the fire, right?
00:27:21.000Stop pandering to these people, stop pretending, and you can do your thing.
00:27:26.000Wasn't that the opposite of the messaging?
00:27:28.000Like, their messaging was, ah, these authoritarian right-wing fascists are gonna come in, and this and that, and they're gonna take away your right to have an abortion, the ultimate freedom, you know?
00:27:54.000Yeah, it turned out, and this actually did surprise me, I'm sure it surprised you to an extent as well, it turns out that there's far less women interested in murdering their children as previously advertised.
00:28:05.000Well, the joke that I love was, women buy milk and eggs more than they get abortions.
00:28:44.000When the exit polling was asked, do you think democracy is under threat in the United States?
00:28:51.000The largest block was, yes, we do think there was a 7% edge among people who said, yes, there's a threat to democracy in support for Trump.
00:29:03.000So, basically, when they kept screaming, democracy under threat, most people said, that's right, and it's the lawfare you are engaged in against Trump and his lawyers.
00:29:13.000I mean, is there data to show that that's the truth, or is that just inference?
00:29:22.000Democracy was number one on the exit polls.
00:29:25.000And then I think number two was, what, the economy?
00:29:27.000What I'm saying is, is there a poll that delves further into the democracy thing where they're saying, no, it is actually the lawfare against Trump, not people saying that.
00:30:21.000Kamala, the big thing with Kamala, when you say, this guy's a threat to democracy, and by the way, here's this candidate that was never democratically put in, right?
00:30:30.000Never democratically put in, just happened to be a part of the ticket, and so we're going to run her anyway.
00:30:36.000That was not a good look for them, that's one.
00:30:57.000I mean, he may have done better, but I still don't think that he would have beat Trump because everyone saw the debate and it was clear that Joe Biden was not capable.
00:31:09.000He was not going to be able to do the job.
00:31:12.000And I don't, you know, especially considering it's another four years.
00:31:15.000You know, it wasn't just like, hey, who do you like better for the next couple of weeks or whatever?
00:31:20.000It's literally who do you think can run the country for the next four years?
00:31:23.000There was also a really weird thing that happened after that debate that was bizarre.
00:31:26.000We went, OK, clearly this guy's out to lunch.
00:31:30.000And they would go, well, Trump looks like he has cognitive decline, too.
00:31:33.000That was the strangest counter narrative that I'd ever seen.
00:31:37.000I was like, what are you talking about?
00:31:39.000They really leaned into the, I know you are, but what am I? Or, you know, like, they were just like, it was, well, Trump looks like he's got cognitive line.
00:31:47.000And then Kamala Harris was like, build that wall, build that wall.
00:35:55.000The thing about MSNBC is people stop advertising even to those who are alive at a certain age.
00:36:01.000There's very little to advertise because if you're in a nursing home where you're being taken care of by your family, you're not making these financial decisions anymore.
00:37:17.0002013, I went to the heads of Vice and I said, we should make a YouTube channel for each personality that you guys have signed as talent.
00:37:27.000And you should have a producer come in and ask them to shoot a video where they explain the stories they're working on, what the stories are.
00:37:40.000And the reason why, largely because Vice was run by older Gen Xers, and I think mostly older Gen Xers, and the only thing they cared about was getting a cable contract.
00:39:20.000When you spend as much time doing exactly what we're talking about, calling him Hitler, calling all the most terrible names that you can come up with and say that he's literally the reincarnation of the worst dictator of the 20th century, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:39:37.000And then he wins, not just the Electoral College, but wins the popular vote.
00:39:52.000Right now, I do think that they deserve to be scrutinized.
00:39:55.000I'm not saying that you should respect them.
00:39:56.000I only see them doubling down, though.
00:39:59.000I mean, well, these dinosaurs may not, but if you look at these general YouTubers or people like this who are now dispensing the news, right?
00:40:08.000These are the guys who are now dispensing it.
00:40:11.000They may use these as sources, but people are getting...
00:40:15.000They're getting their news from all these little, tiny, little, you know, little channels everywhere.
00:40:19.000They might use these as sources, but that's where people are getting it.
00:40:43.000I don't know if it was you debating destiny, but someone brought up democracy.
00:40:47.000He was saying that Trump was a threat to democracy or something like this, and then someone mentioned if Trump wins the popular vote, isn't that democracy?
00:41:00.000Well, of course, I know that the answer is no.
00:41:01.000I'm saying he wants to make the argument that it's about democracy only because they won the popular vote and assumed Kamala was going to win the popular vote.
00:42:03.000I'm telling you, none of these newscasters, leftist newscasters, leftist creators...
00:42:08.000Are saying anything other than double down, double down, double down.
00:42:11.000The TikTok trends that I see when I engage with these TikTok lunatics all over the internet, and I do it all the time, is the same exact thing.
00:43:00.000Maybe not 90, maybe 80, 70, but it is the majority of all examples in the entire platform.
00:43:06.000The adpocalypse refers to a reduction in ad revenue across Twitch, reportedly affecting some creators by as much as 90%.
00:43:12.000Industry experts, including Devin Nash, have previously linked the issue to polarizing political content on the platform.
00:43:18.000Hassan Abe has faced criticism for his coverage of Middle Eastern conflicts with allegations of promoting anti-Semitic rhetoric.
00:43:24.000U.S. Congressman Richie Torres even cited Hassan Piker in a congressional letter accusing Twitch of amplifying extremist voices.
00:43:31.000Asmongold defended his stance stating, you can say it's unfair, that's fine, but you can't say that it's not happening, or that it's not the reason.
00:43:37.000He also criticized Twitch for its inconsistent moderation policies.
00:43:41.000They go ahead and mention that Twitch has not officially commented on the controversy, but recently updated its hateful conduct policy regarding the term Zionist.
00:46:06.000Yeah, I'm not- I'm not gonna sit there- I would never go and go out of my way to try and, like, get someone banned, but I'm not gonna do- I'm not gonna lift one finger- Right.
00:46:14.000I'm not gonna waste one- A bit of breath trying to defend him.
00:46:19.000Or anyone that says, oh, these people should be banned.
00:46:22.000If you're advocating for banning people, beat it.
00:46:26.000What these people are saying is even so much worse than that.
00:46:28.000It's not even just the idea of democracy.
00:46:30.000What Destiny was saying in that video clip, and I've heard this echoed from guys like Pac-Man and many others, is that all of humanity is benefited from...
00:47:58.000Regular people were watching these leftists, these liberals, believed them, saw that the majority of the country did not agree.
00:48:04.000Some of them either asked themselves, am I wrong?
00:48:07.000Some of them said, oh crap, I'm on the wrong side of history.
00:48:09.000But I'm wondering if we can actually track that sentiment among people who ditched the liberal shows and are rushing over here.
00:48:16.000And I think then the reason why people like Destiny are saying we'd be better off without them is because then the viewers would have nowhere else to go and they'd be trapped in his sycophantic lie machine.
00:48:27.000Well, it's always been the case that the leftists on Twitch and on YouTube have always pulled their resources, especially on Twitch, to remove any right-wing personality who existed there.
00:48:40.000A good example of this, Fuentes was on Twitch.
00:49:15.000I've seen them make up various things.
00:49:17.000I've seen them say, this guy's advocating for transgender genocide and all sorts of crazy things that nobody ever said anything about in order to push reports to various platforms to get you deplatformed.
00:49:28.000The craziest thing I've been talking about for the past month, I went onto the front page of YouTube.
00:50:04.000What I noticed, though, when I started looking...
00:50:06.000There are channels that will take a clip of me from this show talking about, I don't know, roosters, and then put that in a screen with Cenk Uygur who is talking about tax rates from five years ago and make it seem like we're debating.
00:50:19.000And they'll get 30,000 views on it and make money.
00:50:25.000So you'll get a video where, I can't remember, one of them I saw made the claim that me and Cenk Uygur were fighting with each other and we were enemies and I was like, that's really weird.
00:50:37.000We were talking to him about coming on the show and everything was cordial.
00:51:33.000One of them was me, and I can't remember exactly what it was, but let's say I'm talking about, you know, Joe Biden comes out and says, Trin and I shot out of pressure.
00:52:00.000It was a guy hosting it going, hey guys, so I was watching the debate with Tim and Cenk, and it was really crazy because Tim was saying this, and I was like, what?
00:52:23.000It's like when people make the clips from this show where they edit it in funny ways, where it's like me and Ian staring into each other's eyes, and then the next clip is like, we're not there anymore, and then, you know, those are funny.
00:52:57.000So I was expecting when he came on that this was going to be a really kind of a good exchange because Cedar is known as being a fairly decent debater inside of these spheres.
00:53:07.000I never thought so, but he's known for being one.
00:53:20.000I think, due to the impossibility of regulating certain issues pertaining to health, and so I said, the Supreme...
00:53:28.000So I don't want to reiterate the whole argument.
00:53:30.000The point was, Supreme Court has to give us an answer on personhood as to whether the 14th Amendment applies to the unborn as persons, not citizens.
00:54:53.000This is what the left does, and this is why they lose.
00:54:57.000If I said something to you like, if you were a leftist, Andrew, if you were like a hardcore leftist, what do you think, tax-wise, What tax rate would you advocate for?
00:56:05.000Ah, it's because in their hoax world, they think he hates vaccines.
00:56:08.000And then you actually listen to the guy like any sane person, and he's like, I think vaccines should undergo rigorous testing like every other medication, and I recommend them.
00:57:19.000But now it's just it's so it's so beyond obvious.
00:57:23.000And that's why the gamers there like, look, isn't isn't Twitch Amazon?
00:57:28.000Well, I think Bezos must have had a conversation with somebody.
00:57:32.000He comes out and says, Washington Post, we're not going to endorse.
00:57:35.000He's like, oh, we have to be impartial.
00:57:38.000I think when the left started saying that they were going to pass these taxes on unrealized gains… And he actually got us to defend Jeff Bezos.
00:57:48.000I should say that the left got us to defend Jeff Bezos.
00:57:50.000I'm like, Bezos doesn't make a billion dollars a year.
00:57:53.000His salary, I think, is one million plus.
00:58:24.000I'm not legally allowed to sell the stock.
00:58:27.000If the government then intervened in the Amazon contract to force him to sell the stock, it would...
00:58:32.000Yeah, but what is the idea here, though, that you set the company up so that it operates that way, so you can take out loans.
00:58:39.000You're taking out loans against what your potential net worth is, because on a loan, when you're paying the loan back, you don't have to pay any taxes on that.
00:58:45.000You don't have to set up the company that way to do that.
00:58:49.000So if you are the owner of a company and you have liquid stock and you unrealize a million dollars in gains, you have an unrealized gains of a million bucks, you could liquidate the stock or you can get a loan against it.
00:59:00.000Bezos' structure, for whatever reason, by all means, accuse him of that structure or otherwise, he can't just sell.
00:59:06.000But there is no unrealized gains tax, so there's no reason to do that.
00:59:10.000The structure, I think, has to do with the investors who came in, and if he were to sell too much stock at once, it would tank the value of the company.
00:59:17.000If they pass unrealized taxes like Kamala wanted to do, he's screwed.
01:00:24.000PA Supreme Court demands Bucks County follow ruling to not count ineligible ballots during Senate race recount.
01:00:30.000Well, we've got a couple candidates for the investigation Matt Gaetz could launch.
01:00:38.000This is, Chuck Ross says, Diane Ellis Marseglia, the Bucks County Commissioner who was openly breaking the law to count invalid ballots, contributed to Bob Casey's campaign in September.
01:00:47.000For those who don't know, this is the third time the PA Supreme Court has told Democrats to stop counting illegal ballots.
01:00:56.000The funny thing is, everyone in the country is watching this happen.
01:00:59.000The New York Times and NBC have even been critical, or at the very least pointed out, that Democrats are openly breaking the law and stating they're doing it.
01:01:18.000Once Trump gets into office, whoever ends up being the AG needs to go and send the FBI and arrest them because they're trying to tamper with elections.
01:03:33.000Now, again, I'm not saying that he's going to be perfectly successful, but there is going to be an actual, I believe that there's going to be an actual, real attempt that's not just like, oh, I'm going to go in there and fire everybody.
01:03:46.000I think that the last four years that he's had without being the president, I think it's all very good that that happened, honestly.
01:03:53.000As much as people want to say, you know, 2020 was...
01:03:57.000It's good that he had that happen because you had not just to see what they did when he was in office, but the way that they treated him and the things that they've tried to do since he was out of office.
01:04:07.000Well, he doesn't have anything to lose.
01:04:43.000Once you get to the midterm cycle, a lot of these squishy Republicans are going to be too scared to take these actions because they'll lose.
01:04:49.000However, I'm going to make the argument now that I don't know is guaranteed, but I think right now the shape of this country is if Republicans try and play that game, they'll lose no matter what.
01:04:58.000If Republicans play the, I'm not going to do anything, they lose.
01:05:20.000They'll be like, you are done, and we're gonna get someone else to run against you.
01:05:22.000We are sick and tired of them sitting on their hands writing strongly worded letters.
01:05:27.000Well, yeah, but the threat is primary.
01:05:30.000He's gotta get as much done as possible as long as there is the capacity to primary the people that decide they're not gonna go along with him.
01:05:41.000No, but the point is that there's a lot of people that are ready to do it, and there's money to do it, too, because Elon Musk said that his America PAC will fund primary challenges.
01:05:52.000Again, Donald Trump has 18 months, and if you're going to inhibit what the American people have voted for, which is to do as much damage to the corrupt people People in the bureaucracy, in the entrenched bureaucracy, get as many of the corrupt people out of there and put them in jail.
01:06:11.000If you're going to stand in the way, you're going to get primaried.
01:06:16.000Musk's got a boatload of money in the American pack, and they're going to be watching for people that don't fall in line to support the agenda.
01:06:24.000Musk has a massive information machine.
01:06:29.000I mean, the idea here is that working in tandem with Trump, that they can identify who these people are, so that the Justice Department can go after them and the American people are informed of what's happening.
01:06:42.000And because of X, and because of people like Tim, this show here and stuff, these elected officials, they're going to be put on blast.
01:06:50.000If we get wind of it, someone that's been hindering the efforts to actually get the corrupt people.
01:06:57.000Again, we're not trying to go after people that are innocent or just trying to mess with people just to mess with people.
01:07:33.000If you're not falling in line with the Trump agenda, and you're just looking to pad your re-election, you're gonna get primary.
01:07:44.000Well, if he makes it a priority, Immediate priority to go after the same people who are responsible for what happened to these people on January 6th, throwing them in jail, not giving them fair trials, none of this.
01:07:59.000If he really moves towards an agenda like that, then I think he'll be extremely popular immediately.
01:09:53.000So I don't know the whole deal, but I retweeted a thread about some of the backroom deals.
01:10:00.000And the point of getting Thune was it was to actually get things like to make it so that way you could get amendments back in bills because Congress has been voting on bills without amendments for ages and ages and ages.
01:10:11.000And they're trying to re to undo the damage that's been done by by making everything vote on the whole bill.
01:10:20.000And if you can get actual amendments back into the bill, then you can get the Senate to have the power and the position back that it was supposed to have.
01:10:29.000So that's another thing that will help get the Trump agenda going.
01:10:33.000Well, I don't trust the Senate, but it don't matter.
01:10:36.000I think, you know, bill-wise and legislatively, these things can be undone.
01:13:35.000And so to get a never-Trumper, it's like right now, while it's popular, while it's a popular thing to do, this type of thing, yeah, sure, he might seem great, you know, but I worry the chips are down.
01:13:57.000Let's jump to this story from Fox News.
01:14:01.000New York Times fact check of RFK Jr.'s claim about popular breakfast cereal stuns social media.
01:14:06.000Spitting out my coffee after reading this New York Times fact check of RFK Jr., one ex-user wrote, Well, if you're drinking Cast Brew coffee, you would never spit it out.
01:14:39.000Mr. Kennedy has singled out Fruit Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version.
01:14:49.000The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada's has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots, while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5, blue 1, as well as butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used for freshness, according to the ingredient label.
01:15:05.000So everybody saw that and they were like, so he was right?
01:17:44.000I got pissed off when I was reading on this story this morning, because we went to go, Allison and I, and we went with Richie, we went to the river to cook breakfast in the morning, and they got a rope swing over the water, and it's just so amazing out here.
01:17:58.000This was actually Maryland, not West Virginia.
01:18:00.000And so I was like, let's get some eggs, goat cheese, cheddar, bacon, we'll fry it up over a fire.
01:18:06.000I grabbed, I was looking for, I don't want to bring avocados out, so I was like, I'll get a tube of, you know, the mashed avocado they have.
01:18:13.000I grabbed one, I looked in the back, and it was mixed with gallon gum, locust bean gum, sodium benzoate, and I'm like, nope, not eating that garbage.
01:18:21.000Right next to it was the same one, turn it around.
01:19:06.000The reason chronic disease in the United States is increasing is not because of chemicals in the food.
01:19:11.000Okay, as Donald Trump takes power and we're all reeling from the fact that this psychopath is going to be in office, some of the most misinformation that we're going to have to fight against together is health-related.
01:21:09.000There was a couple studies that came out recently suggesting that high fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers have been causing colon cancer in healthy, fit, athletic young people.
01:21:18.000High fructose corn syrup, like I just said earlier, that industrial product, that and seed oils, things like this, really, really bad.
01:25:51.000And my buddy, who lived in Thailand for seven years, and he was Filipino, we were working on a project for Vice, I said, I want real Thai food.
01:25:57.000And he's like, oh, you want real Thai food, huh?
01:29:13.000It's not that a guy like Destiny or a guy like Vosh or people like this, in and of themselves, while they're a machine, they spawn orbiters.
01:29:56.000That's the asexual reproductive process where they form off of one thing and flop onto the ground.
01:30:02.000Well, that's why he's always seething about Hassan.
01:30:04.000He's always so upset with Hassan because Hassan essentially got the boost from his community that went on to become the next big thing, way bigger than destiny.
01:30:13.000Yeah, but it's kind of wild that Hassan's views are like way down.
01:30:20.000Well, I think right now, because his content is so polarized, because it's focused on this war, and he's picked the side on that, I think that after this maybe dies down, I think that you're going to see a re-emergence of BreadTube.
01:31:55.000And then I went on to say things like maybe if we weren't wasting money in the military industrial complex, dumping it in Ukraine, we could actually just I don't know, pay for people, pay for their cataract blindness treatments.
01:32:05.000I would much rather see instead of 250 billion dollars going to Ukraine, 250 billion dollars to pay off people's medical debt or give them minor treatments like cataract blindness.
01:32:13.000He responded to my response, making fun of me, for as much as he was like, the military industrial complex is bad.
01:32:20.000And then when he heard me say we shouldn't give money to Ukraine, he starts laughing, going, yo, can you believe this guy?
01:32:25.000Like, Ukraine should just be left on their own.
01:32:27.000And I was like, I'm sitting here being like...
01:32:29.000I don't understand how we agree on everything and you still found a way to act like we don't agree and you're upset.
01:32:36.000Because the thing is, all Hassan is doing and these liberals is they're looking at their chat and then waiting to see if there's a consensus and then agreeing with it.
01:33:17.000That's not why people tune in, is for his smart takes.
01:33:23.000Yes, he's a very dumb guy, but I wanted to make one comment about the whole self-harm thing.
01:33:30.000People like Hassan, and probably, I would imagine, someone like Destiny and Vosh, This is something I've noticed with a lot of these bread tubers and a lot of the people on the left.
01:34:09.000So these guys, like Progressive Victory and some of these other PACs, They have made political operatives out of the Twitch leftist streamers.
01:35:03.000Simon Goddick says, I was just labeled intolerant by Blue Sky and accused of discriminating against protected groups, WTF. Ironically, that's not very tolerant of them.
01:35:12.000Blue Sky, this is funny because it's Jack Dorsey's thing.
01:35:16.000I'm pretty sure this is what he was talking to me about when I was on Rogan in the green room waiting to go on the show.
01:35:19.000He was mentioning he wanted to do this decentralized thing, total free speech.
01:35:24.000So Dr. Simon got it, goes on to Blue Sky and says, great to be here.
01:35:28.000I hear there's a free speech platform, so let's put it to the test.
01:35:48.000The point is, as all these leftists flee to Blue Sky, Blue Sky's reporting that they're getting something like hundreds of thousands of reports per hour.
01:35:57.000These people can't live with themselves.
01:38:05.000Totally disappeared from the internet for a while.
01:38:07.000Nate Parrott says, Hey guys, Tim, what do I tell lefties who say that the reason why things were good under Trump because of Obama's policies and the reason things were bad under Biden were because of Trump's policies?
01:38:27.000Run-of-the-mill people who come by to do contract work and we hang out with might be liberal, but we don't get into it.
01:38:33.000And so one of our skaters here and one of our contractors was here, they were talking about something.
01:38:39.000I don't know what they're talking about, but a contractor asked Skater, I don't even know how Trump will make butter cheaper anyway.
01:38:46.000And so Johnny Skater was like, hey, Tim, how is Trump going to make butter cheaper?
01:38:51.000And I was like, OK, we'll start from the beginning.
01:38:52.000Joe Biden, one of the first things he did when he got in was he banned the Keystone Pipeline and he banned fracking on public lands.
01:38:57.000The shutting down of the Keystone Pipeline caused a speculative price hike in oil because the speculators in the oil industry said, speculators and the oil industry said that in the next five years, supply will not meet demand because the Keystone Pipeline has been shut down.
01:39:10.000This is going to cause a price spike, so we better buy things up now, causing a preemptive price spike.
01:39:15.000By all means, rag on speculators, this happened.
01:39:17.000Donald Trump wants to deregulate the energy industry, which would likely cause a decrease in every element of the processing, packaging, and production of butter, which means when it comes to the grocery store, if the cost of fuel goes down, every element of its production.
01:39:29.000Petroleum is going to result in cheaper plastics, cheaper packaging, cheaper printing, everything.
01:40:26.000So if you decrease the corporate tax rate, that is no longer a hidden tax on the consumer.
01:40:32.000The issue likely with raising taxes will hit publicly owned companies.
01:40:39.000With a fiduciary obligation to deliver profits...
01:40:42.000If there's a higher tax burden on the corporation, on their profits, they're going to deliver lower profits to their shareholders.
01:40:50.000So they're trying to find a way to maximize profits as is their- Raise the prices!
01:40:54.000So if they're saying we delivered X amount last year and we want to hit that target this year, but we got to pay more in taxes, then you will likely see them try to make up that money in some way.
01:41:04.000And it's because they are legally obligated to make profit for the shareholders.
01:41:08.000They have to pursue their fiduciary responsibility.
01:41:13.000So you're saying if we lower corporate tax rates again, like he's talking about, maybe 5%, 10% is even saying, that will lower the cost of these goods.
01:41:23.000It depends on the company, yes, and it goes a couple different directions.
01:41:28.000When you increase taxes, so outside of the public realm, when they increase taxes on us, we actually spend more.
01:41:35.000So all that does is stimulate economic activity to a certain degree.
01:41:40.000Economics is tough, and I'm not an economist.
01:41:41.000What I can tell you is, for a company like ours, which is singly owned by me with no responsibility to the public, when they say, Tim, your tax rate is going up by 8% or whatever, I say, okay, so if at the end of the year I have $100,000 and I got to pay $40K to the government, I'd rather just spend that $40K on my tax-deductible equipment allotment and then hold a $40,000, I don't know, van as equipment that I don't pay taxes on because it's tax-deductible up to a million dollars.
01:42:08.000And so then I buy a van from a salesman.
01:42:15.000If you have shareholders, you have a fiduciary responsibility to generate profits.
01:42:17.000So you're going to be cutting the costs everywhere and trying to figure out where to make more money because you can't just push your profits.
01:42:22.000If you're a publicly traded company and you say, let's just spend our profits into the market so that we don't have to pay the taxes.
01:43:08.000This is why you get butylated hydroxytoluene in your food.
01:43:14.000Because they're like, look, if we make cereal and it lasts on a shelf for two weeks...
01:43:21.000And it gets thrown in the garbage, we lose money.
01:43:23.000If we put BHT, it costs a little bit more, but it lasts four weeks, we're going to sell it.
01:43:28.000So, for instance, what happened to us recently is that Casper Coffee Decaf, we had a batch expire, which means it's been sitting for a year.
01:43:38.000So we order around 5,000 units of each coffee at a time.
01:43:45.000And then Ian's Graphene Dream sold out like crazy quick.
01:44:15.000And so, on our end, we just lose that.
01:44:19.000If we were to try and figure out a way to do higher-end preservative or whatever, we wouldn't have that problem.
01:44:24.000We wouldn't have to worry about a product that doesn't sell.
01:44:28.000So, anyway, that's why we ended up doing a sale on Unwoke for the remaining that didn't expire, because I think we had like 500 that was made.
01:44:36.000So people hit us up saying they wanted decaf, so we made a couple hundred, I think five or six hundred, and then sold barely any, and the rest just sat around.
01:44:45.000And we were like, ah, we have 5,000 bags of this sitting around, so we're probably going to order it in much smaller batches, much smaller.
01:44:51.000I think each batch is usually like a couple hundred bags, and they sell pretty quick.
01:44:56.000But that's why they're going to put chemicals and garbage in your food.
01:46:27.000We need to hire a CEO. We hire a CEO or we take investment.
01:46:31.000Right now, the strategy is we got a couple of companies that want to do ad sales.
01:46:35.000So every segment we put out will have like a 45 second to a minute ad read in it, which is what we never want to do.
01:46:40.000But I suppose it's better than not doing any shows ever again.
01:46:43.000And then IRL is likely going to have one ad read at the top and one at 930 before we do super chats.
01:46:48.000Oh, so a pre and a mid role that is going to generate enough revenue where I can hire two CEOs or an executive team to just run things.
01:46:57.000The alternative is we're also negotiating with more extensive deals like strategic investment and things like that.
01:47:04.000And so for the time being, I'm just trying to work as much as I can, especially, too, because we're taking next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off for the holiday.
01:47:13.000And then for Christmas, the whole week of Christmas is just there's impossible.
01:47:19.000You know, guys, I don't want to take any time off.
01:47:21.000I'd love to work through the holidays, but we tried this, and you can't book guests.
01:48:02.000Yeah, and then we ended up booking last-minute local guests who were friends, and then we were like, this was a mistake, right?
01:48:08.000Viewership is down, and that's fine because we believe in doing the work, but you can't get people to come out, and I don't blame them for it.
01:48:15.000So I'm like, I think we should just be like every other normal person and just take the holidays to go see family, and then that's our vacation time.
01:48:20.000And I think we're planning on coming back on like the 2nd of January.
01:49:45.000We've talked to people about proper management, and there's things you just, you really do have to have the expertise.
01:49:49.000That's why strategic investment is the much better option.
01:49:52.000Somebody who's already networked with all the podcast networks, television networks, ad sales companies, hiring someone to do that and being like, okay, for the next six months, try and build the Rolodex.
01:51:42.000I say, okay, that means I'm working 16-hour days.
01:51:44.000It alleviates—I can hire someone to alleviate all of the heavy lifting and split my day in two, but, like, this deal is— It's a lot more difficult than your average podcaster who's like, I record till three and then I'm done.
01:52:21.000Greta Thanos says, It's not revenge, it's righteous fury.
01:52:24.000Look upon my works, ye mighty in despair.
01:52:27.000Terrible quote, I must say, in reference to what you're talking about.
01:52:31.000The Ozymandias quote was a reference to a great and powerful pharaoh who was claiming territory of a mighty kingdom that had been left to ruin.
01:52:39.000The point was that time makes fools of us all.
01:52:42.000So, to say it's not revenge, look upon my works, ye mighty in despair, is as if to imply that after a long enough period of time, Trump's power will wane and his effectiveness will be nil.
01:52:51.000So, but I do love Ozymandias, who is, um, wait, Percy, um...
01:53:24.000Alright, we got Distracting Game says, Destiny and Hassan should both be banned from all platforms and imprisoned for the threats and calls for violence.
01:53:31.000They've both called for violence, haven't they?
01:53:33.000He said for the MAGA people to start shooting the writers in the street a couple times.
01:53:39.000So, he got real mad at me and went off after I said, and I feel like I said it quite dispassionately, that he's not welcome on this show, not because I have beef with him, I'm like, we'll just get banned.
01:56:26.000I mean, one of my favorite things on X that I enjoy is dunking on Destiny and some of these other far leftist, crazy, lunatic people.
01:56:35.000I don't have an X that's fun, but when you get a chance to be like, this guy's crazy and psycho and out of his freaking mind, it's fun to share with the world, right?
01:56:46.000Well, we've been pretty much laughing nonstop at Destiny for about a half a year, right?
01:57:50.000Well, yeah, but I mean, the reason that you just articulated about why he's not welcome on the show, until he started saying things, you know, speaking about violence and stuff like that, Tim would welcome him on the show, you know?
01:58:01.000So he's just salty because Tim was like, oh, I'm not going to have you on here because you're saying things about endorsing violence, you know?
01:58:42.000You know, we were talking about, I can't remember, I think we're talking about COVID. And I said, Democrats are manipulating the crisis to make these changes.
02:02:57.000They put in a bid for all of Infowars' assets at $3.5 million.
02:03:02.000They claim The Onion put in 1.75 million bid for Infowars.
02:03:06.000And they said that they said, let's see, Connecticut families promising some one point seven five million cash.
02:03:13.000In addition to a waiver from the Connecticut families promising some proceeds from the sale of Infowars assets, which Connecticut families valued at two point six to five million.
02:03:21.000According to the filing, FUAC said accepting the onions bid was collusion and argued that including the contingent waiver and its valuation was improper.
02:03:29.000So if this supplement company offered double what the onion was bidding for.
02:03:51.000I mean, if 3.5 is a bid that's going in for assets of 2.6, but you get InfoWars, I mean, that's kind of crazy because I feel like any Bitcoin millionaire could just fart and buy it.