The world s richest man is battling out over hurricane relief, challenging Pete Buttigieg on why they re so bad at getting people internet and basic supplies. To me, this is the funniest thing and also one of the most tragic things that we need Elon Musk to step in and tell the government hey you should probably help the people who pay your salaries.
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00:03:57.000You become a member and you shop at MyPillow with discount code TIM. Okay, now let's get started with our first story addressing Elon Musk.
00:04:06.000Or introductions. Oh yeah, oh my gosh, I'm so bad at this today.
00:04:10.000Sorry, I got very little notice that I was supposed to be here.
00:04:12.000Okay, so joining us tonight is Josh Slater.
00:05:42.000And I am back, back to do all kinds of opining about the idiocy on the left.
00:05:49.000I'm glad you're back. It's so cool to see you in studio again.
00:05:51.000Thank you. I appreciate it. It's been like, what, two months?
00:05:53.000Well, probably like ten weeks, because we had two weeks of rehearsal before the tour started, and then the tour was like eight weeks or something.
00:06:01.000I had your tour dates written down on my calendar.
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00:06:09.000I'm back. Okay. Finally, let's get into our first story of the night.
00:06:15.000We'll pull this one from NBC. Buttigieg claps back at Elon Musk for false claims about a lean federal response.
00:06:21.000So I'm going to jump over to this tweet.
00:06:24.000Elon Musk posted this text exchange that he had.
00:06:27.000He said, received this, this is about six hours ago, received this 20 minutes ago.
00:06:31.000The level of belligerent government incompetence is staggering.
00:06:37.000And he is communicating with someone about what's going on with FEMA. The person he's texting says, So we've heard a couple reports like this that federal officials on the ground are resisting efforts from skilled private citizens who have the experience, maybe volunteer firefighters and different groups, who want to help the thousands of people who have been impacted by the hurricane in North Carolina and Tennessee and Georgia.
00:07:33.000And it seems like this is not something that the federal governments or at least the people on the ground were being very cooperative with.
00:07:42.000But in response, Pete Buttigieg said, no one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn't block legitimate rescue and recovery flights.
00:07:52.000If you are encountering a problem, give me a call.
00:08:02.000So, Elon Musk ultimately responded to that.
00:08:05.000Thanks for the call. So, I guess Pete Buttigieg called Elon Musk and said, hopefully we can resolve this soon.
00:08:11.000To me, in addition to all of the hurricane issues, in addition to how important it is to stay conscious of what your neighbors need and the best way to serve other people, I think we should point out the fact that Elon Musk...
00:08:22.000Bought X and is now forcing the federal government to take accountability for what's going on.
00:08:27.000I mean, his post has over 11 million impressions.
00:08:29.000That's more than most TV shows will ever get.
00:08:32.000This is an incredible tool. And it's nice to see someone as influential as Elon Musk using it to really draw attention to where it's interesting.
00:08:39.000I mean, didn't he help Ukraine with they let him they were like pumped about him letting Ukraine have Starlink?
00:08:46.000Yeah, but but not for a hurricane relief.
00:08:49.000No, it doesn't seem like they're being treated the same way.
00:08:52.000Hmm. It's good Jack Dorsey doesn't own Twitter anymore, because he might have put a community footnote under Elon Musk's tweet and tried to censor it since it didn't bode well for the government.
00:09:02.000So I'm glad Elon's not only opining on Twitter, but he's also the CEO. You know, not only is Musk, you know, I think most people are aware, like, Musk is not only doing this, but he's also the guy that's, you know, sending a rocket up to the...
00:09:16.000International Space Station to bring the two astronauts back that Boeing couldn't manage to do.
00:09:23.000He's obviously he's assisted the US government in Ukraine.
00:09:27.000It's clear that the federal government is hostile to him because they've got all kinds of investigations.
00:09:34.000They're doing all they can to hinder launching Starship.
00:09:42.000It's all because Elon Musk owns Twitter and uses the platform to say things that are not
00:09:50.000complementary to the federal government.
00:09:52.000And really, of the social media sites that are at least, you know, of reasonable size,
00:09:59.000Twitter's really the only one that's not in lockstep with, at least with the mainstream
00:10:03.000Maybe they're not all MSNBC. There's a little hope with Zuckerberg saying things like, oh, I consider myself a libertarian, which we'll see.
00:10:11.000You're still making Instagram into Facebook.
00:10:13.000I'm not a fan of Meta's properties generally, and the only one that I use with any frequency is Instagram.
00:10:22.000But it's nice to at least see some kind of recognition that, hey, maybe it wasn't such a great idea to be so...
00:10:31.000So complacent, yeah, well complacent with the federal government.
00:10:34.000I mean, either it is, it should have been obvious to these companies that the federal
00:10:40.000government has an agenda that is not aligned with the intended purpose of the federal government,
00:11:39.000Yeah, I think that's that's important to point out.
00:11:41.000I mean, if people are not able to contact their loved ones, they're definitely not in a position to contact their local news reporters or to post on their own X accounts and give on-the-ground feedback.
00:11:52.000I want to call attention to one thing that Pete Buttigieg said, which is the FAA doesn't block legitimate rescue and recovery flights.
00:11:59.000It reminds me of what Biden was saying a little bit earlier this week.
00:12:01.000President Biden said, you know, I'm going to go down, but I'm going to wait until it's not disruptive to emergency services.
00:12:07.000And there is one version of this that is honorable, right?
00:12:12.000It's about making sure people get the things they need.
00:12:14.000On the other hand, I don't think anyone believed that was genuine.
00:12:18.000Is this sort of a legitimate concern for the government that its search and rescue should take priority over things like Starlink?
00:12:24.000Or is it actually just kind of a dodge because both things could be happening at the same time?
00:12:28.000Well, that method didn't work for the border, and there was an emergency down there, right?
00:12:31.000Their presence or their absence of their presence didn't really fix that.
00:12:34.000And on top of this, these people need help.
00:12:38.000And I can't help but think there is that saying, if we don't pay taxes, who's going to fix the roads?
00:12:44.000I'm looking at Americans coming and saving Americans and the government getting in the way of that.
00:12:49.000I think it's also a tale as old as time because private entities usually work much more efficaciously to get things done because there's not the bureaucracy that you have with government entities.
00:13:01.000And I think the government takes umbrage at that and gets angry when they see a private entity doing something better than they can.
00:13:08.000So not only is the government slow moving and not doing anything, they then lambast
00:13:13.000the private entity that's doing it better than them because it makes them look bad.
00:13:17.000And so I think we're seeing that play out with the border, as he mentioned, and now
00:13:55.000Do you think that Americans are going to pay attention to this for the next six weeks?
00:14:01.000Are we afraid this story is going to fade to the background?
00:14:04.000I don't think that there's—I'm not sure about six weeks, but I don't think that there's the option of not paying attention for the next couple weeks because, you know, these rescue efforts are going to be going on for a while.
00:14:14.000I've heard that the death toll is 200, but there's probably over 1,000 missing.
00:14:19.000And those people that are missing are—I mean, it's terrible to say, but they're not likely just, like, wandering in the woods.
00:14:27.000And if you know anything about the topography of the area— You're not building your towns on the tops of the mountains.
00:14:35.000They're built alongside these rivers and streams that run through the valleys and the hollers of North Carolina.
00:14:41.000So the water that came and swept these towns away, like, it's nowadays, unfortunately, or at this point in time, this far after the initial deluge of water, it's not a rescue effort.
00:14:56.000It's a recovery effort. And what does rebuilding look like in this area?
00:15:00.000I was listening to this report yesterday that was saying basically in – this is the Blue Ridge Mountains, I believe.
00:15:07.000Like there is – there are houses that were destroyed that are vacation homes.
00:15:11.000But that means that the blue-collar working class people who live there are often displaced and don't really have the resources or industry to sort of move on and recover.
00:15:20.000I mean if Asheville, North Carolina is struggling and that's the nearest big city, these more rural towns that don't have the housing inventory – Because it's partially vacation and because it has now been destroyed, what are they going to do?
00:16:09.000But I think we see it much more often on the left.
00:16:12.000Yeah. I wonder if this concern, I think you guys have all heard this too, that so many of these counties that were impacted are red.
00:16:21.000There are likely counties that Trump will carry in the election.
00:16:24.000If they will feel more disenfranchised now that the recovery efforts are slow, but then also feel like they don't have outlets.
00:16:32.000I mean, I don't totally know what the plan is for voting in these areas.
00:16:35.000If you don't really have electricity for homes, I'm not sure your polling place is standing.
00:16:39.000Yeah. I've heard some people, like left-leaning people, saying some pretty atrocious things that it's a positive for the Democrats and stuff.
00:16:54.000I mean, whereas they may be correct, it may be hard to get votes, people from that area of voting, the fact that it comes to mind is kind of just gross.
00:17:08.000I mean, it's hard to look at tragedies, and this wouldn't be the first one of the year, where they have looked at it and went, great, we're glad that's happening to you.
00:17:14.000I'm obviously making an allusion to...
00:17:16.000The attempt on Donald Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania in July.
00:17:20.000And, you know, as we all know, Trump is returning to the same spot this weekend.
00:17:25.000The balls. This is Donald Trump kind of embodying resiliency.
00:17:48.000He's saying, I'm going to go back and I'm going to keep pushing and I'm going to keep fighting.
00:17:52.000And I think that's interesting when there are so many Americans who are probably right now thinking like, You know, they're in very desperate times.
00:18:20.000And Tim's like, I don't think that'll even work anymore.
00:19:00.000I saw this post on X today that was, like, comparing and contrasting the New York Times.
00:19:03.000And the New York Times... You know, during Katrina basically had wall-to-wall coverage of what was going on.
00:19:08.000There were cover efforts and the responses and all of this stuff.
00:19:11.000And as far as I know, the New York Times covered the hurricane and moved on to talking about January 6th again.
00:19:16.000I don't know if you're paying them to do that.
00:19:18.000I know you want to keep it alive, but, you know, it's just it's sort of ridiculous.
00:19:23.000Press is good for us. We have this moment to be like, look, this is the thing that needs attention.
00:19:28.000You know, J.D. Vance made this comment during the debate.
00:19:31.000They're talking about the gun violence epidemic.
00:19:32.000And he was like, yes, we should talk about this, especially in inner cities, which does not get the coverage.
00:19:37.000I mean, news media coverage for some of these serious issues can make or break.
00:19:41.000It can really change the lives of people impacted by it.
00:19:44.000Why the New York Times would be turning its eyes away for something that happened several years ago seems like a disservice to the country.
00:19:51.000Yeah, they always say there's lying, and then there's lying just by omission.
00:19:55.000And the media, like you said, really shapes the narrative.
00:19:57.000And by just omitting things or refusing to talk about things, they're lying.
00:20:02.000And so I live in Chicago where there's obviously a lot of gun violence, but the people perpetrating this, shocker,
00:20:09.000are not a bunch of mega-Republicans that are going around shooting little kids and shooting each other.
00:20:14.000They happen to be people that the media does not want to portray in any negative light, and so it just doesn't get
00:20:29.000And on the notes of the media being willing to show certain people in negative lights, I'm going to jump to this story from the New York Post.
00:20:36.000Trump rips terrible White House response to Helene as FEMA accused of mismanaging crisis blocking aid.
00:20:43.000So, very similarly to Elon Musk, Donald Trump is speaking out about what the federal government is up to and sort of the dissatisfaction with this.
00:20:54.000I think you can look at mainstream headlines where they are saying Donald Trump is saying false things about FEMA and he's not being fair, but people are unhappy with FEMA. So, Former President Donald Trump tore into what he calls the terrible federal response to Hurricane Helene Friday as outrage critics aired allegations that relief workers are sitting idle without orders and that those who are working are, quote, seizing aid and aid deliveries and slow walking distributions of Starlink satellite internet equipment.
00:21:22.000It has been a terrible response from the White House that the Republican presidential nominee said in Georgia, where he was briefed on the damage around the city of Augusta alongside GOP Governor Brian Kemp, who thanked Trump for helping to keep the nation's attention on those affected by the storm.
00:21:38.000I mean, is this a question of we're not allowed to critique FEMA because they do hypothetically the Lord's work?
00:21:46.000I mean, they're the relief agency, so we can't be mean to them?
00:21:49.000Or can we criticize the government when they're failing?
00:21:56.000They're booking out hotels in these cities where they're rescuing these people.
00:21:59.000They have no homes. They've lost everything.
00:22:01.000FEMA's coming in and booking out all these hotels.
00:22:03.000Where are the people who actually need a place to stay getting to stay?
00:22:08.000And is this, and I mean, maybe we need to turn to our small government person in the room, but is this a case where we look at FEMA and say, you are bad at your job and you should maybe be reconsidered as a government organization?
00:22:22.000I'm not sure about... I don't know that FEMA needs to be reconsidered overall, but it's definitely something that you should be like, hey, there needs to be a change in leadership right off the bat.
00:22:35.000We've reached a time in America where there is no accountability from the federal government.
00:22:41.000You look at I mean, from the top down, like, Joe Biden is clearly not capable.
00:22:49.000And the constitutional solution for that is Kamala Harris is supposed to, not just, like, has the option, but when it's something that's obvious, Kamala Harris is supposed to invoke the 25th Amendment.
00:23:08.000You have an administration that's run by someone clearly incompetent, and you have all kinds of things that are going on in the world that the president might be able to influence in a positive manner for the United States if we had a president that could do it.
00:23:22.000And we have Kamala Harris, the vice president, who has done nothing for four years but shirk whatever job that she was given.
00:23:34.000She was like a cyber security czar or something like that, right?
00:23:38.000There was one of that. She ignores it.
00:23:40.000She should be making sure that the office of the president is occupied by someone that is capable of actually understanding the questions that are posed to it, and she's shirking that job too.
00:23:54.000So your entire, if your government, if the leader of your government, or allegedly the president, the office of the executive...
00:24:01.000If that job doesn't ever have accountability, there's no longer a president that says the buck stops here.
00:24:11.000They're saying it's that person's fault and that person's fault.
00:24:14.000Mayorkas was impeached, still in his job.
00:24:17.000No government official is held accountable for failure.
00:24:21.000And if that's your situation, where the government can just do whatever they want, and there's no way for the people or for the other branches of government to hold them accountable...
00:24:33.000I mean, what do you got? The Biden administration has been such a failure, they cannot tie Kamala Harris to it.
00:24:40.000Like, Biden has not done a good job, historically, like, low numbers in polling, right?
00:24:44.000You tie Kamala to him in any type of way, she's going to fail to run for residency.
00:24:48.000Right, I was just thinking, it's like funny that she's done nothing for four years, because it's almost better that she's done nothing and failed at nothing, because now she can campaign on zero.
00:24:59.000No, because you've got, well, you've got, like, how many...
00:25:03.000Illegal immigrants have come over the border.
00:25:08.000That's a failure for sure. And I don't care how many times people say, oh, you're a bad person for saying it.
00:25:13.000These people are being moved throughout the country by the federal government.
00:25:18.000They're being moved to states like Ohio and states like Florida, where if they go there and they vote Democrat, they could shift the balance.
00:25:53.000The federal government has been completely and totally—it's worse than not doing your job.
00:25:59.000It's actively trying to use government policy to help one party over another in the face or against the wishes of the population of the United States.
00:26:12.000You look at, I think it was like 70% of the people they said in the debate, they said like 70% of people want to actually start deportations.
00:26:21.000Like I was astounded when I heard that number.
00:26:25.000Like most of the time Americans are like, I don't know if I want to go ahead and start knocking on doors and being like, are you an American?
00:26:33.00070% of the population are like, get them and get them out of here.
00:26:37.000That's because of the not just failure, but the active, active, the things that the government has done.
00:26:46.000The things that the administration has done.
00:26:48.000It's a collective crisis that they are involved in.
00:26:50.000Intentional. And there's no denying it anymore.
00:26:52.000There's no denying it. And I think this is a cultural question that there are a lot of people who work on this issue, but definitely Donald Trump bringing it up in the 2016 election made it so that it was in a political stratosphere that conservatives, Republicans had been uncomfortable touching.
00:27:08.000But more than anything, Crime, the weight at hospitals, the impact it has on school systems, people themselves are feeling the impact of illegal immigration.
00:27:18.000And I think that is a difficult pill for corporate outlets to swallow because they want the narrative to be like, we can't talk about it because it's bad and it makes you mean.
00:27:28.000Yeah, exactly. I want to interject here because it's not that they've been afraid of touching it.
00:27:32.000It's that the accusation is always bigotry.
00:27:37.000I mean, this was something that Bill Clinton had said during one of his state reunions, right?
00:27:41.000That we needed to get control of the border.
00:27:43.000And still, we didn't do anything until basically Donald Trump.
00:27:46.000And it's not because there aren't some politicians and some sort of think tank people who talk about it.
00:27:51.000It's because it was so intensely tied to this accusation of racism.
00:27:55.000And I think that the realities of saying our border is open and it's fine and it's the same.
00:28:01.000All the chickens have come home to roosts.
00:28:03.000I saw Elon Musk had tweeted something about this situation, about the shipping of immigrants to different states to try to affect the outcomes and stuff like that.
00:28:15.000I don't think it's just – I don't think it's census.
00:28:19.000They brought in 30 million people who can vote in these states and flip them blue.
00:28:22.000Yeah, that's right. This is going to be in play in four years.
00:28:24.000I know Obama used to talk about the border, you know, and nobody, there's no accusations laid there about it being racist.
00:28:30.000It was only racist when Trump parroted the exact same thing Obama said.
00:28:33.000It's only racist when it's a tool that the Democrats can use to chill conversations about it.
00:28:40.000The goal is to get people to not talk about it.
00:28:43.000Because if they call you names, then you're afraid of them, and then you don't want to bring it up.
00:28:47.000And I think that the American—and this is bad for multiple reasons.
00:28:51.000It's bad because these are actual, legitimate conversations that need to be had.
00:28:56.000But it's also bad because you've got a generation of kids that are teens and early 20s that don't care if you call them racist.
00:29:04.000And they're just going to be like, I don't care.
00:29:06.000And it's like you're actually giving cover to legitimate racists.
00:29:09.000Right. Well, you brought up a really good point earlier about accountability and how there's no accountability for government officials when they mess up really bad.
00:29:38.000And so it's the failure of the media to do its job as a watchdog in the fourth
00:29:44.000estate, and that's why there's no accountability.
00:29:46.000And we saw it in gross terms when the Defense Department lost something like
00:29:51.000one trillion plus dollars years ago, and to my knowledge, nobody got in trouble for that.
00:29:57.000That's a trillion dollars that went missing, and there was no repercussion.
00:30:01.000So all of this, I think, is an indictment on the media and their failure to do their job as journalists, because that's what they are at the end of the day.
00:30:08.000Here's something interesting I've noticed, because I watch a lot of true crime stuff, and they're picking it up not realizing that there's a shift in crime Yeah.
00:30:20.000Yeah. You know, know which way or the other and it's kind of as fact so they are because it is fact and it's like I didn't see that like eight years ago four years ago, But like every other headline now is like this, you know,
00:30:41.000atrocious crimes committed by one or two people of a certain, you know, personage that
00:30:49.000are not here and they're trying to navigate the legalese of how do you prosecute somebody
00:33:04.000The United Nations Human Rights Office said in a statement on Friday, members of the Gangrif
00:33:08.000gang used automatic rifles to kill at least 70 people on Thursday, including 10 women
00:33:13.000and three infants, according to the UN.
00:33:16.000Haiti is one of the countries where there are certain authorizations that allow them to come into this country under a protected status, with temporary protected status.
00:33:28.000And it is important to point out that there are a lot of countries that have instability, and it's a pathway towards asylum, right?
00:33:36.000Like if someone from Haiti were to say, well, there's very serious gang violence.
00:33:40.000Currently, you know, most forms of asylum in the U.S. would be open to them.
00:33:45.000But I don't know that this is something that the American people feel like is a solution
00:34:34.000Yeah, the idea that because you're from a country that has political instability or economic instability, because of that we should just take everybody that can get to our border, that's absolutely absurd.
00:34:48.000It's totally ridiculous, and it should be completely impossible.
00:34:52.000Well, yeah, it's impossible. It should be totally and completely outside of the question.
00:34:56.000Like, there's no reason for the American people to say, if you can get here and you come from a place that's less fortunate than the United States, you're automatically allowed in.
00:35:05.000We have some of the most lax immigration laws, at least when it comes to people that get to the border.
00:35:15.000On the whole planet, like out of all of the countries, we're among the most lax.
00:35:19.000And that is a massive problem for the United States.
00:35:24.000As someone who is very much against war, I'm going to start there, would it not be more fiscally responsible and for the safety of Americans to just invade Haiti and make it better?
00:35:57.000It's also a zero-sum game with all this stuff.
00:35:59.000I'm from Chicago. As I said earlier, there's a lot of underserved African American communities in Chicago.
00:36:05.000And because this is a zero-sum game, whatever our government does there in Chicago for the tens of thousands of migrants that have come there and I see...
00:36:13.000I see them every day when I go to the grocery store and Whole Foods.
00:36:16.000That's taking away from underserved communities in Chicago, which are predominantly African Americans.
00:36:22.000So it's inherently racist for governments to be giving handouts to the illegal immigrants because it's taking away from other people who are citizens and residents who need it.
00:36:34.000And so I just think that's egregious and I just think it's shameful.
00:36:38.000Do you think that Kamala Harris is ever going to be able to reprogram her narrative on immigration in time for the election?
00:36:48.000I'm going to contrast it with the economy, right?
00:36:51.000So immigration and the economy are two of the biggest issues this election.
00:36:54.000Even when Harris polls better on likeability, on who would you rather hang out with at the mall or whatever the question is, Trump always comes out on top with who do you think is better suited to handle the economy and handle immigration.
00:37:11.000She has tried to gain ground on the economy by saying instead of inflation, saying the cost of living crisis, right?
00:37:19.000She and her team have been able to repackage certain things.
00:37:23.000Is there a way for them to successfully message on immigration or is it too far gone?
00:37:29.000I think it depends if the media does their job.
00:37:32.000So I think she can get away with doing what she's doing, which is using this kind of Orwellian doublespeak where she's using euphemisms for inflation and calling it, you know, as you just said, this Cost of living crisis.
00:37:47.000So it really depends if the media does their job.
00:37:49.000And oftentimes we see them lobbying assists to the Democrats.
00:37:53.000And if they keep doing it, yes, she can continue doing what she's doing with impunity and her feet won't be held to the fire.
00:38:00.000But if the media actually did her job, I think that she would find it very tough to turn it around before the election.
00:38:07.000But she's just not put under much scrutiny.
00:38:10.000And so yes, I think she can get away with it because we don't have legitimate journalists out there.
00:38:15.000People get their information from one or two places, right, depending on what side of the fence you lean on.
00:38:19.000Unless you're a rational person, like some of us in the room, you listen to lots of different sources.
00:38:24.000I don't see the left covering gang violence, Venezuelan gangs in Colorado.
00:38:32.000They may kind of see, like, there's kind of an uptick in our town in this direction, but they don't really see it.
00:38:36.000So I don't think you're going to sway any of those voters from not voting for Kamala because they don't even know it's an issue.
00:38:42.000That's interesting because she is about to do a 60 Minutes interview, hypothetically.
00:38:46.000I'll see it. I'll believe it when I see it.
00:38:48.000But, you know, there would be opportunities for a serious journalist, to your point, to ask her more directly, hey, this is an actual problem and address it if they're allowed to ask her such questions.
00:39:00.000Do you guys think Kamala is going to be able to grapple with the immigration question in the next couple of weeks?
00:39:26.000I don't know. But I think that the amount of people that you could actually sway nowadays is such a small amount.
00:39:35.000I'm not sure what is the most important thing to them.
00:39:42.000But if the polls are right and it's the economy and immigration...
00:39:49.000I don't think that Kamala Harris is in all that good of a position, but that doesn't—when you hear the actual polls of people and stuff, it's like 48 to 48 or whatever, which is—I mean, I can't believe that that's true, but that's what you keep hearing when you talk to people that are polling, you know? I'm glad you're talking about polling because it's making me think of this report that I heard earlier today, which is pointing out the fact that in addition to not being able to use Starlink or any cell phone service or whatever for getting help that they need, people impacted by hurricanes are definitely not responding to pollsters.
00:40:23.000And so the numbers that we're getting out of several major swing states right now...
00:40:27.000If there are any, are probably inaccurate because there's no way to actually sample a broad enough array of voters.
00:40:34.000And so it is a good question of what do we know about these people.
00:40:39.000And I think to your point, the undecided voter right now, if we could figure out what they want to hear, I'm sure they would have told us.
00:40:45.000We even are. I mean, to answer your original question, I don't think there's any way that Kamala Harris can...
00:41:13.000Which is really interesting because she really is in an untenable position because what she's forced to do is say, I am going forward, if you elect me, I'm going to fix all of these myriad problems that we have that were created under me and Joe Biden.
00:41:29.000And again, the only reason she can get away with this is because the media doesn't hold her feet to the fire and say, wait, a lot of these issues are created under you and Biden, and you want us to think you're the one that's going to fix the issues that only exist because of you?
00:41:44.000Intentionally created. Some of them, but for argument's sake, you don't even need to go that far.
00:41:49.000It's just that they were created under you, and you think we're going to entrust you to fix them?
00:41:54.000So I just think she's in a very hard position.
00:41:56.000I think she is, too. I think her dynamic with Biden is also one of the things playing into this.
00:42:02.000You know, apparently he did not take well to when during her debate with Trump, she said, well, I am clearly not Joe Biden.
00:42:08.000Apparently this really, from some sources, have said it's really gotten under his skin.
00:42:13.000And, you know, we've seen kind of odd behavior from Joe Biden over the last couple of weeks.
00:42:57.000We're not sure if he wandered in there on purpose or by mistake, but there's this report from Politico that he was there for about 15 minutes and journalists audibly gasped when he entered, which is not a great sign.
00:43:09.000But I'm going to pull this from NPR. He talked about a couple different things.
00:43:13.000I think it's pretty notable that he said he's worried about, so it's Biden says he's worried about violence around the presidential election.
00:43:21.000President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday he is confident the election will be free and fair, but he said he was concerned about potential for violence if former President Donald Trump refuses to accept the will of the voters.
00:43:35.000Quote, I am confident it will be free and fair.
00:43:38.000I don't know whether it will be peaceful, Biden said during a surprise appearance at the White House daily briefing.
00:43:43.000The things that Trump has said and the things that he has said last time out when he didn't like the outcomes of the election were dangerous.
00:43:52.000This is one of the narratives that I think Democrats go back to a lot.
00:43:58.000And this story has two components, right?
00:44:01.000Obviously, there were very serious threats to President Trump.
00:44:04.000And I'll go back to something former First Lady Melania Trump said, which is that everyone who contributes to political violence by saying things like, we need to, you know, whatever, do horrible things to keep this man out of office, he's a threat to democracy, contribute to this.
00:44:21.000And so in some ways, Joe Biden is now back in the DNC camp by saying these things.
00:44:27.000On the other hand, This guy just showed up for the first time.
00:44:32.000I thought we were supposed to stop listening to him because he wasn't fit and now Kamala Harris is kind of By all outward appearances, doing his job and campaigning, and he's just kind of on a press tour of sorts or walking into the Oval, whatever office.
00:44:50.000I don't think he goes to the Oval Office. Why are we listening to him now?
00:44:53.000It's interesting that the left's always talking about political violence and violence in general.
00:44:58.000I mean, if you pull the uniform crime statistics from the FBI, it very clearly shows who tends
00:45:04.000to commit the majority of violent crime in this country.
00:45:07.000And let's just say it's not mega Republicans.
00:45:10.000It's very clear there in the data who commits the violent crimes.
00:46:08.000It's like, yeah, Trump supporters are trying to kill Trump, which is the most ridiculous thing.
00:46:12.000But they know that to have that association so clearly on top of all the riots, on top of all the violence that comes from the low-grade violence that comes from the Democrats, They have to continue to point the finger because the American people kind of know generally that it actually is Democrats that are consistently stoking the violence.
00:46:39.000They were calling Donald Trump all sorts of names.
00:46:41.000And whether or not—I mean, there are people that are going to argue and say, you know, stochastic terrorism isn't a thing.
00:46:46.000and if you if you what people say doesn't actually impact what people
00:46:51.000actions that people take and I'm sympathetic to that because at the end
00:46:55.000of the day you have to put the onus on the person that actually acts but the
00:47:00.000idea that sitting like spending four years or more or eight years actually
00:47:06.000considering Trump's hasn't been in office for the past four years calling
00:47:09.000Donald Trump Hitler and and stuff like that to think that that isn't going to
00:47:13.000make the absolutely crazy people do crazy things or at least influence crazy
00:47:17.000people to do crazy things I mean it's it is the people that do its fault
00:47:21.000It's they're the ones that are responsible.
00:47:24.000But the whole reason that people say Donald Trump is Hitler, Donald Trump is Hitler, is
00:47:29.000because they want you to think that Donald Trump would do something as atrocious as Hitler
00:48:09.000I've also listened to a podcast where a pollster is like, well, you have to take out these people and try to walk it back down.
00:48:16.000Because I think it is even shocking to mainstream researchers and journalists.
00:48:22.000Like, even though they themselves do not like Trump, I think the idea that people are open to such a tragic thing being positive is not the direction anyone wants the country to.
00:48:31.000It's like words have meanings and they have effect.
00:48:35.000And if you keep repeating them over and over again, you're going to convince people that something truly evil is good.
00:48:39.000It is also interesting to me that Biden is specifically bringing up this narrative of Trump denying the results of the last election or whatever, and this being an imminent threat to this year's election.
00:48:54.000This was something that came up a lot after JD Vance just really annihilated the debate earlier this week,
00:49:02.000in part because it was one of the only moments where he was in a tough position.
00:49:06.000They asked him about Trump's comments and things like that, and he, I thought, did a totally okay job,
00:49:12.000but had to sort of say, like, we're going to move on peacefully, kind of move past this point.
00:49:18.000And it was something that corporate media definitely latched onto and was like, he couldn't answer.
00:49:30.000Because they loved Mike Pence when he was in office, I'm sure.
00:49:33.000Is this one of these final issues that Democrats are bringing up during our final weeks before the election because they think it invokes fear and that's enough to motivate voters to stay away from it?
00:49:55.000It would be nice if the moderators asked Kamala Harris or Waltz, especially Waltz, being in Minnesota and Minneapolis about violence since it was Democrats that were torching cities and torching small businesses and being extremely violent across the country, but not a word about violence despite all of that and despite Waltz being there as the governor of Minnesota.
00:50:23.000So again, it's just really weird how the media and the moderators in this case can shape the narrative by painting Trump and Vance as these kind of nefarious villains that are in charge of all of this political violence.
00:50:36.000When again, if you were to just look at the data and just, you know, turn on your TV, you would see who is torching inner cities and shooting people every day.
00:50:45.000Did we ever get to the bottom of whether Tim Walz is friends with school shooters or not?
00:51:04.000You know, J.D., Walls is a weird character.
00:51:09.000They say vice presidents don't win the election.
00:51:12.000But in this case, I really think that Walls is creating more obstacles for Kamala Harris and J.D. Vance, especially given this week's performance, is really strengthening the ticket.
00:51:24.000Well, he's touring with Fetterman now instead of Harris, right?
00:52:00.000He did do one official—they did like a joint—they did a joint appearance as president and vice president right after she got moved onto the top of the ticket.
00:52:10.000And then a couple weeks later, after the DNC, he did one campaign event where he spoke before her.
00:57:04.000Speaking with some campaign news and talking about our sweet, sweet friend Kamala Harris, I'm going to bring up this report from the Post Millennial.
00:57:11.000Key Kamala staffers weren't aware of Tim Walz's false claims until they were made public.
00:57:16.000It was reported that, quote, key members of Harris's circle weren't aware of some of the inaccurate statements from Walz, quote, until they became public.
00:57:26.000Kamala Harris' vice presidential running mate Tim Walls has claimed that he carried weapons in combat that he and his wife conceived using IVF, claimed that he was a command sergeant major in the National Guard when he was actually reduced to a master sergeant when he retired.
00:57:41.000And it turns out that some of Harris' campaign's key staffers weren't aware of any of these things until they were made clear.
00:57:49.000Walls' false statements have ranged from his background in the National Guard to other facets of career, such as when he claimed to be teaching students in Hong Kong while the Tiananmen Square massacre took place.
00:58:01.000According to news from Politico, quote, key members of the Harris circle weren't aware of some of the inaccurate statements from Walls until they became public.
00:58:09.000Many of the issues were not raised, quote, despite vetting process for Harris' VP pick.
00:58:34.000There's actually really no defending this.
00:58:35.000And it comes a couple weeks after this report from the New York Post.
00:58:39.000It says Kamala Harris says insomnia hit after Biden dropped out.
00:58:43.000She was sleep deprived the day they picked Tim Walz.
00:58:46.000I don't know if you guys saw this, but it's basically Kamala Harris was saying, you know, from the time the president or...
00:58:53.000From the time the president called me and told me he wasn't running, I mean, it was just like everything was in speedy, speedy motion, and I was not sleeping well, she told the basketball star she was appearing on the All Smoke podcast.
00:59:05.000And that one morning, I just, I mean, I had, I don't know, a few hours sleep, and I, you know, I like to sleep.
00:59:44.000Because nothing with the left is about meritocracy or who's qualified, you end up in this situation where you have Kamala Harris, who isn't qualified, picking Waltz, who isn't qualified.
00:59:55.000That's how we end up where we're at right now.
00:59:57.000And that's just something that I find odious with the left is because it's all about, you know,
01:00:03.000your appearance and things like that. It's always going to end badly. And I feel like
01:00:09.000the Republicans for the most part tend to put the most competent people up there. And we're also
01:00:14.000seeing it with FEMA and Pete Buttigieg, who was chosen because of his sexual orientation instead
01:00:20.000of his competency. And so things start playing out like this, where it's just disaster after
01:00:25.000disaster. And I think it's totally predictable. Did you always feel this way that identity
01:00:30.000politics was leading Democratic staffing choices? Or is this something you feel more recently?
01:00:35.000I mean, I remember it with staffing choices.
01:00:39.000I would say I've only been cognizant of it, you know, in the last four or five years.
01:00:44.000But I think we're definitely going down a road where it keeps getting more and more absurd.
01:00:49.000I mean, you look at the NASA... Gentleman, maybe it was non-binary, who was stealing people's luggage.
01:00:56.000And that turned into a huge fiasco for the Biden administration.
01:01:00.000Very embarrassing. I can't help but feel like he has my luggage because I lost a bag that year and was at that airport.
01:01:07.000You have to stalk his Instagram. He was charged in nuclear or something.
01:01:11.000But even if you look at the TikTok influencers that the Biden administration hires, what they have going on, it's just pretty embarrassing.
01:01:20.000So yes, I would say it's definitely gotten worse.
01:01:23.000And I think it's only going to continue to get worse.
01:01:25.000And it's one of the things that I loathe the most about the left is that You know, it's not based on character.
01:01:31.000It's not based on things that as a country we've always valued.
01:01:35.000It's now just based on what's your orientation, what's your skin color, and it's just so insulting, and it leads to results like this, where you have Tim Waltz claiming he was at Tiananmen Square.
01:02:07.000I think it's pretty clear that the current administration is more a committee-run situation, and I think that's not going to change should Kamala Harris actually win and get into office.
01:02:23.000Again, and this speaks to the fact that there is no one held accountable.
01:02:29.000If you have a situation where there are multiple people that are doing the job as opposed to one person, it's much easier to go ahead and just pass the buck and it's much easier for other people around them to say, well, we don't really know who we can hold accountable.
01:02:45.000You know, when it's just one person, and it's clearly the decision is made by the executive, then it's very easy to be like, well, you're the one who made the call.
01:02:55.000And yet, you've got Kamala Harris saying that she was the last, I forget what the, oh, for the Afghanistan, she was the last one in the room.
01:03:02.000And what happened? Nothing has changed.
01:03:05.000There has been no one held accountable for a totally botched, Withdrawal.
01:03:13.000And the reason it was botched is because they just didn't want to do what Donald Trump did.
01:03:17.000Like, they came into office and they just wanted to change everything that the Trump administration had, whether it was good policy or bad policy.
01:03:24.000It was just like, if it's Donald Trump's policy, change it because we're not Donald Trump.
01:03:28.000And we have seen significant negative repercussions because of that.
01:03:35.000I mean, really, we are the not Donald Trump and we're going to do all these things, especially when quietly there were either some things they left in place or they reverse like Trump called out the you're saying my tariffs are bad, but the tariffs are still in place.
01:03:49.000I think. The policy on the cost of insulin.
01:03:54.000Trump changed it. Trump had a policy in place that was working.
01:03:58.000They changed it and then changed it back.
01:04:00.000The whole talking about the border, they let the border go for three years before they even mentioned it.
01:04:06.000There's no problem at the border, no problem at the border, no problem at the border.
01:04:09.000Ten million people came into the United States, unaccounted for.
01:04:13.000There wasn't a problem until Texas tried to fix it.
01:04:15.000Yeah, 300,000 people that are actually criminals, that have some kind of criminal record, and I think it was like 10 or 15,000 people that were murderers.
01:04:30.000And when Texas tried to fix it, they fought them.
01:04:34.000I mean, it was amazing watching this fight over the buoys in the Rio Grande Valley, which they tried initially to say, oh, it's an environmental issue.
01:04:45.000Actually, just kidding. You don't have the authority to put them there.
01:04:47.000Actually, we just we don't want you to do that.
01:04:50.000I mean, I thought it was one of Greg Abbott's best moments when he was like, Texas has an obligation to secure its border for its It's like the government was just going around hypothetically lighting fires and then like saying, no, you can't put that out.
01:05:04.000But Kamala Harris is saying, I'm the change candidate.
01:05:06.000Even though I'm currently part of this administration, things will change under me.
01:05:10.000I mean, this doesn't seem to be a winning mantra.
01:05:13.000She just disavowed her pick for vice president.
01:05:14.000Is she going to pick somebody else now?
01:05:16.000Like... And when you saw in the lead up to the debate, there were a couple of stories came out, you know, even though he said he was a really great debater, that's what Minnesotans have said they had known him as, that Walls was having panic attacks, that he was really nervous.
01:05:28.000I mean, there's obviously a relationship between the DNC and the media, but there were clearly attempts with Harris and Walls before both debates to lower the bar.
01:06:30.000about why did you let all of the people in here so that Trump is forced to deport them?
01:06:35.000And again, it's just egregious and shameful, and it's just so blatantly obvious.
01:06:39.000The media doesn't even try to hide that they're asking these loaded bias questions, and it makes it so much easier for Waltz than Harris, and yet Waltz still managed to completely fumble the ball, look incompetent, despite getting all of these assists from the two female moderators.
01:06:55.000Mm-hmm. Do you think Walls is someone voters respond to?
01:07:02.000Because there are polls that indicate that he's likable, right?
01:07:04.000They feel like he is personable, that there's something about him in interviews.
01:07:08.000And I feel like that's not the case with Kamala Harris.
01:07:30.000He makes me feel uncomfortable just looking at him and his eyes bulging out of his head and his gesticulations and his movements and his shoulder movements.
01:07:42.000So I don't know the type of people he's putting at ease or making comfortable, but I almost want to question them.
01:07:48.000And I don't know if they should be voting, but he makes me really uncomfortable and everyone else here, I don't know, do you guys feel the same?
01:07:55.000The way he enters a stage, the sashaying he does, it's, I mean, no one walks like that.
01:08:00.000I watched a 17 minute speech he gave once and it was like hard to watch it.
01:08:17.000And again, because he often gets caught misspeaking, and that's complete quotes for everybody who's just listening and not watching, He gets caught and sort of everyone lets it go.
01:08:30.000Some people will start to acknowledge it.
01:08:32.000Not really. But it makes it so whenever he gives a personal anecdote, I feel like we all have to be like, somebody double check that.
01:09:15.000And I think that regardless of how poorly or well Walz does at a debate, I think that people are going to look at Kamala Harris' record as the vice president.
01:09:29.000Even though the vice president is largely a powerless position, they can look at her voting history in the Senate.
01:09:42.000They can look at how she behaved as the AG in California, the policies that she's endorsed.
01:09:54.000Everything that she has ever believed has changed because those policies are significantly unpopular in the United States with the people as it is.
01:10:04.000So I don't think that Walls matters much.
01:10:07.000Walls is the opening ban for the ticket concert that the person you actually want to see perform.
01:10:13.000They don't really care about. They don't.
01:10:14.000People who are deeply entrenched in politics can want to watch the VP debates, but I guarantee it will have 10% of the viewership of Trump and Kamala.
01:10:25.000Well, historically, the VP position has been just a figurehead, as you pointed out earlier.
01:11:36.000I remember watching it. But when they walked on stage, he looked...
01:11:40.000I mean, and maybe it's just because he's a man and he's bigger, but he looks more in command than she did.
01:11:45.000I think this pretty frequently, it's my personal opinion, that she seems to struggle with her self-esteem and she does not seem to handle things independently.
01:11:53.000She had a custom lectern made for the debates.
01:11:55.000I heard that. I mean, she brought Tim Walz to the first interview she finally gave.
01:12:01.000She had to have a male bodyguard and or, you know...
01:12:04.000Support animals. Support puppy, I guess.
01:12:06.000It's very weird. If you watched her interview with Oprah not long ago, I mean, she rivals Biden when it comes to utter incompetence and their lack of oratory skills.
01:12:17.000And she was absolutely terrible in that interview and said a whole lot of nothing, which she seems to specialize in.
01:12:22.000Mm-hmm. And so, again, I think if the media actually did their job, more people would be aware of how incompetent she is because it's a lot of word salad and she says a whole lot of nothing.
01:12:35.000And you know what? It's actually helping her because no one knows where she stands on any issues because she never says anything about anything.
01:12:42.000And I think that kind of amorphous, nebulous platform that she's now running on may actually help her again with the assist of the media.
01:13:10.000She doesn't have any solutions for the economy.
01:13:12.000She hasn't articulated any solutions for the border.
01:13:15.000In her debate with Donald Trump, she didn't posit any good policy positions, yet somehow she's neck and neck with Trump in a lot of states and even beating him.
01:13:24.000So I Based on the data, yeah, it's working for.
01:13:27.000I think that it's clearly been a situation where a vibes candidate is acceptable.
01:13:35.000I think that that's what got President Obama elected.
01:13:40.000Obama's entire hope and change platform allowed the listener to insert what hope and change meant to them.
01:13:51.000So his entire campaign was platitudes and hope and change, and it was crafted so well, and he's such a great orator, that the listener could just say, well, this is what he's saying, even though he never said that.
01:14:07.000You were just imparting what you wanted, what you thought hope and change meant.
01:14:13.000So it's been this way for, I mean, and he arguably, even George Bush, like when he won in 2000, you talk to people and people were like, well, you know, he's the guy I want to have a beer with.
01:14:27.000And I think that I think that people, even people that think that they are mostly reasonable and rational, I think that most people actually vote with their gut and vote based on vibes more than they do based on policy.
01:14:43.000There are some people that are into politics, sure, but that's like 2 or 3% of the population.
01:14:50.000And you've got everybody in the United States that's over 18 can vote.
01:15:25.000I think that it's more important to be able to have an ability to communicate with people in a way that they feel like you're going to provide them with what they're looking for.
01:16:27.000So anyways, yeah, it just seems like he's a little hypocritical.
01:16:30.000And Obama, I feel like, is the king of preaching how it's rules for thee, but not for me.
01:16:37.000And it's just so interesting how after his presidency, he's now living in California.
01:16:41.000foreign anybody want to have a beer with Tim Walz or Kamala Harris I wouldn't
01:16:46.000That would be weird. I mean, there is bias at this table, though.
01:16:50.000Yeah, I know, but it's just so weird for me because, like, watching that speech was like I was getting the – my gut feeling was like, this is not a good thing.
01:16:56.000I don't want to hang out with you. Yeah, exactly.
01:17:20.000Well, I think this, like, I have to have a beer with this person, is for good time American politics.
01:17:25.000I think right now we're in a lot of, we're on the brink of a lot of really serious questions, and we face turmoil internationally, as well as on our own southern border.
01:17:34.000And so in some ways, I wonder if, while the vibe and the gut instinct is sort of undeniable, that reality of, like, In a time of crisis, are you going to say, look, I don't actually want to hang out with you, but I think you're the best for the job, and I want the job fixed.
01:17:49.000I don't think that things are bad enough to make people decide that they want to think.
01:17:53.000You don't think the economy is? Not bad enough, no.
01:17:55.000I think that relatability is more difficult this election cycle than it's ever been.
01:17:59.000We used to be able to, I kind of agree with that guy, right?
01:18:01.000Most people can't afford their groceries.
01:18:09.000Go to Zillow. Another thing, if you look at the stock market, the stock market's reached all-time highs or whatever, and it continuously does that.
01:18:16.000But if you take out seven of the biggest stocks and you look at the stock market without those stocks, it's underwater.
01:18:25.000It's like Google and Apple and Amazon and just a handful of companies are actually keeping the entire stock market afloat.
01:18:34.000They're keeping the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 afloat.
01:18:38.000And like you said, it's just a handful of them.
01:18:40.000But it's very interesting, circling back to Kamala, that she wants us to think that starting January 10th, she's going to fix all of the problems going on in the country, but she can't fix them now.
01:18:51.000And so again, it just calls into question, why should we entrust you to fix these problems when you're in office now and they're just getting worse?
01:19:02.000I don't think that's enough. I also think she can't divorce herself from the Biden legacy no matter what.
01:19:07.000I mean, unless she comes out and says, you know, Joe Biden wouldn't let me anywhere at all, and I wasn't allowed to influence the campaign, and that's why it wasn't effective, which she won't do because she's already said, well, I was in the room.
01:19:18.000And he'll come out and do a press and be like, well, actually, yes, she was, and I did let her do these things, and Bruh.
01:19:46.000Quote, Brooke Slusser plays on the same team as a trans-identified male Blair Fleming, and three teams have pulled out of competing against the team.
01:20:17.000Slusser has joined with over a dozen other female athletes in a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA for Title IX violations over inclusions of biological males on women's sports teams, according to Outlook.
01:20:31.000The lawsuit was originally filed in March with athletes such as the former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, Olympian Rekha Gorgi, and two-time NCAA champion Kylie Allens joining in.
01:20:47.000You know, I'm so glad maybe someone who's interested in gender issues is here tonight because I do think that this is something that we as a culture have had to take more and more seriously.
01:20:58.000And similarly to maybe the immigration crisis, which at one time people were like, well, people are in need.
01:21:03.000They need help. We just have to be compassionate.
01:21:04.000We have to be kind. We're now seeing people.
01:21:07.000Seeing people say, actually, this is not compassionate or kind, and it's harming people.
01:21:12.000It's not effective. I think there is a similar tenor to this realization that saying, oh, well, maybe we'll just let them live their lives how they want to, is not the solution, especially when you have these large funded programs that young women work really hard for the opportunities to take part in.
01:21:28.000Yeah, well, as a trans woman, I feel really strongly about this.
01:21:31.000As you said, it's kind of hit an inflection point where it started out as kind of like, oh, we'll just be kind and compassionate.
01:21:36.000And now it's kind of reached this boiling over point.
01:21:39.000And I think with this, I've said it before, I've been asked a number of times, Josh, as a trans woman, what do you think?
01:21:45.000Should you be playing in a men's league or a women's league?
01:21:48.000And I've always said we need our own independent league.
01:21:51.000Because, you know, our biology was unfortunately assigned male at birth.
01:21:58.000And our muscular structure and our anatomy obviously is male.
01:22:05.000And there's just so many nuances with this.
01:22:07.000And I think because of it, it's not appropriate for us to play in a men's league or a women's league.
01:22:14.000I think trans men should play with other trans men.
01:22:17.000And I think trans women like me should play with other trans women.
01:22:20.000And I feel like that's the only fair compromise.
01:22:23.000Because when you have trans women like me playing against biological women...
01:22:29.000There is kind of an unfair advantage in certain aspects, and so I think it's okay to talk about that and discuss it and even disagree with other people about it.
01:22:39.000The left wants everyone to kind of think the same, and they don't like open dialogue and discussion and civic discourse, but it's okay to talk about these things and to disagree with people about them.
01:22:50.000So my solution would be give us our own league, but I'm interested what you guys think.
01:22:55.000Well, first of all, I'm sorry that you were born a white male.
01:22:58.000They're the worst. I feel sorry for you.
01:23:01.000My bigger issue is it's not just the sports.
01:23:32.000Do you think maybe they'll choose their gender down the road and it might be different?
01:23:36.000Not in my household. Do you feel like this is something your—I don't know if you homeschool or if your kids go to public school or anything, but do you think this is something that teenagers are having a conversation around?
01:23:51.000Because there is, you know, a generational difference in how they view gender ideology, partially because younger students have been more exposed to it, and maybe there's a level of acceptance that they feel— On the other hand, we do have a lot of young high school age girls who are saying, I am uncomfortable. I do not feel like this is a safe and appropriate environment for me and feeling as though the administrations at their high schools don't support them.
01:24:16.000Well, I mean, I'll start with saying, like, if you're an adult, you're an adult, make your decisions.
01:24:19.000I really don't care because you're an adult and you have self-autonomy.
01:24:33.000My kids are ambassadors. They are missionaries who go to these places and tell the woes of communism and just common sense to these kids because who's teaching them?
01:24:40.000They're not getting out of their households.
01:25:18.000Do you have a plan on how you would address this?
01:25:20.000I don't, but I was homeschooled my whole life.
01:25:22.000So in the 90s, my father took my two brothers out of elementary school because him and my mom weren't happy with the books they were being sent home with.
01:25:29.000They're very ideological. In the 90s, huh?
01:25:57.000But my parents recognized, even early on in the 90s, how bad the schools were getting and how they're moving away from kind of the intelligentsia and the academic-oriented nature that they had always been and which they should be as educational institutions and were becoming much more politicized and much more ideological.
01:26:16.000And I think it has only gotten worse to answer your question.
01:26:30.000But if I, as a woman, got another woman pregnant and had children with her, I would probably homeschool them because I don't trust educational institutions to be educational anymore.
01:26:43.000And I think that's a sad indictment on where we're at as a country.
01:26:47.000And I know Trump's made comments about how he would defund the Department of Education.
01:26:53.000And so there's this whole debate around it and vouchers, you know, to go to private schools, charter schools, because public schools are so bad.
01:27:01.000So I think you have both crime and violence in public schools now is getting worse and the politicization of public schools.
01:27:11.000I don't think I would want to send my kids to public school, maybe a private school, but they're so expensive it's almost prohibitive to send your kids to private school if you're middle income.
01:27:21.000So I think it's definitely an issue, and it's sad.
01:27:25.000Do you think... In this case, there is a difference between the policies in place for dealing with transgender identifying students in high school versus college.
01:27:37.000And the distinction I'm obviously drawing is that in one environment, the majority of people involved are minors, right?
01:27:42.000All of the students involved are minors.
01:27:44.000At the oldest 18, the majority of them are younger.
01:27:47.000But in college, you know, you were saying before, if you're an adult, you want to live the way you live.
01:27:51.000Maybe that's fine. In college, presumably everyone is an adult.
01:27:54.000Does it make a difference in our policies when it's only involving adults, even though it's an educational institution?
01:28:03.000I'm hitting you with a tough question.
01:28:05.000That is a tough question. I definitely think – I think minors should be protected above and beyond.
01:28:09.000I think as adults, I think – I don't really know because the libertarian side of me says I don't think that we should stop people from playing sports.
01:28:18.000If they want to put on a dress and feel pretty, okay, whatever.
01:28:21.000But there's also the physical differences, right?
01:28:25.000You don't want to have men stepping in the ring and beating up women.
01:28:29.000I honestly don't know where I land on it.
01:28:31.000And it's interesting because the majority of universities in the country, I'm assuming, I can bet pretty easily that San Jose State University is one of them, receive some form of government funding, right?
01:28:44.000So if you are relying on revenue that is generated by the tax base...
01:28:48.000And this is not an issue that the tax base has a shared opinion on, right?
01:28:53.000A lot of people don't agree on transgender ideology and how to accommodate different athletes.
01:28:59.000I mean, you offered a solution that not everyone does.
01:29:02.000A lot of the narrative is like you either let biological males who identify as women on the team or you're bigoted, but...
01:29:11.000I feel like it's not as common to say, well, maybe they should just have their own league.
01:29:16.000And so in some ways, to me, colleges, even though everyone's an adult—I know I asked you this question, but I'm thinking about it myself—even though everyone's an adult at the university level, I don't know that as a taxpayer I want to have funding going to universities that are making these decisions without my consent.
01:29:32.000Yeah. I can see that. It's also, I just think it's selfish of them.
01:29:35.000At the end of the day, right? I mean, if you want to express yourself that way, whatever, that's fine.
01:29:39.000But why do I have to play along with it?
01:29:41.000I guess that's kind of my issue with it, if I had one.
01:29:46.000I was just going to say, I mean, trans women are called trans women for a reason.
01:29:51.000They're transitioning. They don't all have to transition.
01:29:54.000The medical guidelines make it clear that you can be trans without transitioning.
01:29:58.000You just have to have a gender identity that differs from your sex assigned at birth.
01:30:03.000But trans women are typically transitioning from one sex or one gender to another.
01:30:10.000And so it's very hard to argue that trans women are the exact same as biological women, because by necessity, a prerequisite of us being trans women is we were once men.
01:30:22.000And you can't erase that and you can't negate it.
01:30:24.000And I think it's insulting when the left tries to negate it and say trans women are women.
01:30:32.000Hence the name. Hence why we differentiate between trans women and cis or biological women.
01:30:38.000And so I don't like that the left is not consistent on this, and I think it's not fair that they try to erase our transness by saying trans women are women.
01:30:48.000We're trans women. And because of that, I think it's only fair that we have our own league, and I think that's the most fair solution.
01:30:55.000But it's just a very nuanced issue, and it's tough.
01:31:10.000I went to a really small public high school in sort of a rural area, and you will...
01:31:17.000Not all programs exist if not enough people are participating, right?
01:31:20.000So like if you don't have enough kids sign up for certain classes, you don't have them.
01:31:23.000If you don't have enough people signing up for a team, the team goes away.
01:31:26.000And so in some ways, I think the counter argument to the, well, they should have their own league or team is to say, well, then they wouldn't have enough players to field, you know, a competitive level.
01:31:34.000But at the same time, there wasn't enough lacrosse players at my high school.
01:31:37.000So we had like a club lacrosse team that had all four of our high schools combined into one team.
01:31:43.000That's what they did with football at my high school.
01:32:12.000For this, by nature, I think it's only fair if it is separate and we have our own leagues.
01:32:17.000So I think that's unfair to analogize it to the separate but equal thing.
01:32:22.000In the 50s, again, I think that's just a way to silence people and to chill the conversation by insinuating that they're bigoted or that they're somehow racist if we think trans people should have our own league.
01:32:32.000I actually think us having our own league is very empowering.
01:32:35.000I don't think there's anything negative about it.
01:32:38.000Yeah, I saw that movie, League of Their Own.
01:33:01.000But a lot are ideologues on the left and they subscribe to woke ideology.
01:33:08.000I don't. So I think everybody's opinion is different.
01:33:12.000Sorry, what was the original question?
01:33:14.000I was asking what's the relationship between transgender women and feminism?
01:33:19.000Right. So a lot would argue that trans women are women, and so they're just part of the feminist movement and the feminist ethic.
01:33:29.000It's called liberal feminism, or I think new wave feminism, and it differs from the feminism of the 1960s, where it was women just trying to get equal rights with men and to be considered equal.
01:33:41.000And so, again, it's a very nuanced, difficult situation where we have Women who are claiming that they're being erased by biological men and being mansplained to by biological men identifying as women and they feel like our rights are in direct opposition to their rights and that trans women are actually erasing cis or biological women.
01:34:22.000I just feel like trans women are trans women and biological women are biological women.
01:34:28.000And I do understand that they feel like they're being pushed out of spaces that were traditionally reserved for women only.
01:34:37.000Do you think that it's fair for people to believe that the push for transgender ideology, this belief in the flexibility of genders, is ultimately to erase gender from society overall?
01:34:56.000I think that you could make that argument and show that that's happening.
01:35:01.000I'm just a trans woman trying to live my life, so I try not to get too involved in the political side of it.
01:35:09.000But again, I understand why biological women take umbrage at their spaces being encroached upon by people who sadly were assigned male at birth, but we identify as women.
01:35:22.000And so I understand their complaints and I hear them, but we're in a tough position because we feel this way.
01:35:28.000And I understand that some of us might have gender dysphoria, which is categorized as a mental illness under the DSM-5 system.
01:36:08.000So the medical literature, whether you look at WHO, NIH, NHS, WPATH, transequality.org, or any of the medical guidelines all say that you don't have to have gender dysphoria to be trans.
01:36:20.000You don't have to transition to be trans.
01:36:22.000I'm saying that's the argument for the surgeries.
01:36:26.000Yeah, the argument for the surgeries is typically gender dysphoria.
01:36:29.000You have gender dysphoria and you get the surgery to alleviate the symptoms of gender dysphoria.
01:36:34.000Yes, correct. The data tends to suggest that surgeries don't always solve the problem, and there's still very high rates of self-harm for people that have undergone the surgeries.
01:36:46.000So yeah, it's just a very tough issue.
01:36:48.000And Hannah-Claire, to answer your question, they're called gender abolitionists, and yes, there are a significant portion of people on the left that...
01:36:58.000It's something that Phyllis Schlafly warned against when she was campaigning against the ERA, right?
01:37:07.000We don't actually want to live in a genderless society that doesn't recognize the advantages and disadvantages that both genders face.
01:37:14.000Are we assuming that gender and sex are the same thing in this circumstance?
01:37:22.000Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But the more radical wings of people in my community in gender ideology actually would say now it used to be birth sex.
01:38:20.000I think that's – I mean personally, like I think that would kind of ruin what people have worked for though, right?
01:38:27.000Like all of the female athletes who have worked for something who want to compete against other women to be at the top of their game or whatever are losing that ability if you suddenly add on handicaps.
01:38:35.000I mean it gets very – I think it could work for golf.
01:40:19.000Let's see. Tricky Hickey says, happy birthday to me.
01:40:24.000My tinfoil hat is telling me that the Dems are losing on purpose because the economy will crash and they want to blame Trump.
01:40:32.000This goes back to the Teamsters holding off on their strike, right?
01:40:38.000They said, oh, we'll start up in January.
01:40:40.000Maybe Trump gets in and they stop the supply chain.
01:40:42.000And there's a report, I think, from the Washington Post that says that Biden was on some of the late night phone calls kind of trying to make that happen.
01:40:49.000Do you think that the longshoremen are promised something for delaying their strike or do you think there's...
01:41:58.000Again, if you guys remember Shimcast, and you don't know this episode, we did have a night where we all dressed like Tim, including Serge, our sweet producer, who is hiding off camera nowadays.
01:42:07.000But yeah, I mean, I think I should develop a signature look.
01:42:11.000Do you guys have like a signature podcast I'm going on the air look?
01:42:41.000That emoji. Do you want to tell us some stories from Tor?
01:42:44.000I mean... It is kind of funny that you were just like, in your absence, like some people like, take a sick day, but you took a, I'm gonna go be a rock star break.
01:42:53.000I mean, you know, it's a fun job, so...
01:44:24.000It was a lot of fun. It's hard to pick who had the best, the most energy, and I'm certainly not going to point out the ones that had the least, but there were a few out there that were just like, alright, this is not, you know, it's a Monday or whatever.
01:44:40.000It's making me laugh because I'm going to read because of the Super Chats and there's a bunch that are like this one.
01:45:51.000I have read two hundred, but I've heard that the missing toll, which is the problem.
01:45:55.000Yeah, the thing, like I said, the people that are missing, it's not likely that it's going to be, you know...
01:46:03.000lives it's more recovery now. It's horrible to say but there's a lot
01:46:08.000of people in the mud you know there's a lot of people that are that are probably
01:46:12.000going to remain missing indefinitely because they're you know buried
01:46:17.000underneath a lot of a lot of mud and it's it's it's just horrible. It is
01:46:25.000And I, you know, I'm actually really glad that there are so many people, independent media, especially who are talking about this so much, because it is sort of my fear that in our microscopic attention span news cycle, that this will be something that becomes a problem for someone else.
01:46:39.000I mean, we've had other extreme weather.
01:46:40.000This is obviously the worst in recent years.
01:46:43.000But, you know, like there was flooding in Tennessee a couple of years or I think a year and a half ago, two years ago.
01:46:48.000And It wasn't maybe as bad, but also like it didn't get the attention that maybe it needed.
01:46:54.000So it's good that people are keeping it front of mind and seeing if they can find ways to help.
01:47:04.000Crew, baby number two will be here on 1018, assuming she decides to come early.
01:47:09.000Congratulations. It's like a laugh-crying emoji.
01:47:12.000I think babies come whenever they decide to, but I've never known the details of that.
01:47:17.000Ian Slater says, Biden-Harris is doing the same as CCP during their floods this year, stopping private citizens so the government gets the glory sick.
01:47:29.000Yeah, I think there are a lot of people who feel that way, that this is like, let the government do it, otherwise you're just mean to the government.
01:47:47.000It's disgusting. It's actually very disgusting.
01:47:50.000It makes me angry. And we're not on the aftershows, so I'm going to stop talking about it.
01:47:54.000And you would think, I get if there are certain things the government feels like, you know, they have experts, they have special equipment, like maybe there are a couple things that they feel like they have to have one point of contact handling.
01:48:05.000But not along Starlinking, Starlinking is so bizarre to me.
01:48:09.000Like you don't want people to be able to potentially say I need help.
01:48:22.000They don't want Musk to help, and so they make petty garbage like this that is only prolonging the suffering of people.
01:48:37.000Yeah. Yeah, I think if we ask the people who lost everything and who are missing loved ones, hey, do you want to wait for the government to get involved and take their time setting up and all the hotels and all the resources, or do you want to have private citizens who are your neighbors come help and find you?
01:48:49.000There's arguments about funding and stuff like that, and there's one thing that I want to point out.
01:48:54.000The limitations that are going on right now, it's because we're under a CR continuing resolution.
01:49:01.000And on day one, the president, the speaker of the house, and the senate majority leader should have been calling, because we're in a recess, they should have been calling for everyone in congress to get their ass back to DC and vote to fund this.
01:49:19.000That the people of North Carolina and all affected areas in Georgia and Florida, all of the affected areas, make sure that those people had what they needed.
01:49:27.000So it's a failure of the entire government.
01:50:10.000They can just come back and vote and say, hey, we're going to go ahead and vote for this bill, make sure that this bill passes, so that way the people of North Carolina, of Georgia, of Florida, the people in South Carolina that need it have the resources they need.
01:53:57.000Let's see. This is James Stuntell Flat said, the ideal situation is a united community and divided power structures, but what we have is the inverse.
01:54:07.000I think that's true. We do have more of a united government and very deeply divided communities.
01:54:14.000This is something I think about a lot because I think American culture is precious and we sort of didn't maintain it.
01:54:20.000You know, obviously immigration has impacted the way our country has developed, but there was always this idea that you were joining something and that while you might bring some of your own backgrounds or whatever with you, that ultimately the purpose was to become part of this bigger system and contribute to our values and ideals.
01:54:39.000And I think in some ways by not maintaining them, We make it harder for people who are legally immigrating to this country to become American, but we also make it very challenging for our young people to know what it means to be a country and therefore they feel like there's nothing to maintain here.
01:54:55.000I think we also have a very divided community because of the 24-hour news cycle.
01:55:01.000And, you know, they're all for-profit corporations.
01:55:03.000They don't care about getting the truth out or reporting on things that matter.
01:55:08.000They care about their bottom line, providing entertainment.
01:55:11.000That's all they are, are entertainment corporations.
01:55:14.000And as a result, there's been a lot more acrimony and a lot more division within the community because the media is always posting headlines that they think are going to get clicks because all they care about is profit and not the truth and not about us coming together.
01:55:29.000And so again, I think it's just a complete abdication of their job that the media is sowing seeds of acrimony among all of us in the community.
01:55:38.000And instead of coming together, we're hating each other.
01:55:41.000And I think that is a direct outgrowth of what the media does and what they choose to report on and how they choose to report on issues.
01:55:48.000They've really just divided us as a culture and as a community.
01:55:56.000Ravens Gray says, has anyone done a facial recognition survey of the various Harris appearances, specifically the people attending these events?
01:56:04.000It would be interesting to see how many repeat faces are in the crowd when she speaks in quote public.
01:56:10.000Do you think that there's just an entourage that the Harris campaign is keeping with them at all times to fill up stadiums?
01:56:16.000I mean, the logistics behind busing in, I mean, how many people to the event?
01:57:42.000Their social media is absolutely amazing.
01:57:44.000They're pretty spot on. They're also really good people.
01:57:46.000Like I was out in their studio and every single one of them, they're such genuine people.
01:57:50.000They just want to laugh. They want to get back to a time where we could look at politics, laugh at it and move on.
01:57:56.000What a time! I feel like now it's just everyone's identity and thoughts at all times.
01:58:00.000I think there is political exhaustion.
01:58:02.000People are sort of like, let's get this over with because I would like to have other interests outside politics.
01:58:09.000Yeah. It can be kind of draining, especially after almost a decade of Trump is the worst person ever, and you must do anything to not elect him.
01:58:17.000Steve Petigilio, I think is how you say this name?
01:58:20.000If Kamala invokes the 25th, can she still serve two terms?
01:58:27.000I'm pretty sure that because there's only a couple months left, like now is a month left or whatever, I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't count.
01:58:49.000I do think that if she only has a few months, I think that it's something like two years.
01:58:57.000There's a cutoff point. I think I could be wrong, but I don't think that having a few months would count against her being able to run for two terms.
01:59:11.000I have missed you. You did a wonderful job on coming home with the celebration emojis.
01:59:16.000Thank you. Yeah, how was coming home, guys?
01:59:20.000I feel like we just hit the end of the charting week.
01:59:22.000I mean, look, it's kind of hard to explain, but yesterday when we finished the week stronger than we started it, that doesn't happen every day.
01:59:31.000So thanks again to everyone who bought it.
01:59:33.000Especially if you bought it on iTunes, there's a method to this madness.
01:59:36.000I know it's really difficult, but I appreciate it and it will pay off.