00:01:38.000We've got a bunch of big stories for you.
00:01:40.000Yesterday, DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, has released a boatload of papers and information that spotlights Fauci knew about the origin of COVID.
00:01:50.000There's also some information that the CIA tried to quash complaints against Fauci for lying to Congress.
00:01:56.000Now, Rand Paul was really big on this.
00:01:58.000So I'm interested to see if there's anything that'll come out over the weekend or beginning next week from Rand Paul, some kind of statement.
00:02:05.000We've got information on obviously the Iran deal.
00:02:09.000It seems that the Iran deal is kind of in limbo now because JD Vance was heading to speak with, I believe, heading to Switzerland, I think, to speak with the Iranian representatives and they got called off.
00:02:23.000There were strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah.
00:02:27.000Obviously, it was Israel that was carrying out the strike.
00:02:29.000So it looks like it's kind of in limbo.
00:02:32.000We don't know if it's actually going to happen.
00:04:28.000So from Fox News, Gabbard spotlights Fauci COVID origin questions in final act as intelligence chief amid succession fight.
00:04:37.000So most people know that yesterday was DNI Gabbard's last day as the chief.
00:04:42.000She is leaving to go spend time with her husband who's fighting cancer.
00:04:45.000So, Fox News reports just before leaving office amid a contentious battle over who will secede her, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard used one of her final acts atop the U.S. intelligence community to spotlight Dr. Anthony Fauci's role in discussions surrounding the government's COVID 19 origins review.
00:05:02.000While much of the material is familiar, Gabbard's release underscores her effort to make questions surrounding Fauci, COVID origin, and federal support for virus research part of her closing legacy atop the intelligence community.
00:05:15.000As Gabbard fired her Fired her final broadside.
00:05:18.000Bill Pulte, who has received bipartisan criticism over his lack of intelligence expertise, is set to take the reins at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence while Trump's permanent nominee remains stalled.
00:05:29.000Jay Clayton, an attorney and former SEC chairman who Trump nominated to permanently lead ODNI, has seen his confirmation process delayed after the president said he was holding up the nomination pressure Congress to pass a voter identification measure.
00:06:17.000So, what she released were a lot of the emails between Fauci and the intelligence community.
00:06:24.000So, we have new information we did not have about the level of coordination in that op.
00:06:30.000And very clearly, I mean, she demonstrated that that was an op.
00:06:33.000And what I would add to this, too, you know, yes, he was pardoned.
00:06:38.000This, I think, gives, you know, there's a lot, you know, the folks over at the Oversight Project, Mike Howell and many others have been talking about, you know, were these pardons legitimate?
00:06:48.000You know, was this an auto pen pardon?
00:06:51.000You know, there's a lot of questions, I think, about the legitimacy of the pardon.
00:06:55.000And this may give us the, Ammunition that we need to be able to further that along.
00:07:00.000Isn't there a statute of limitation on this stuff?
00:07:05.000But, you know, I mean, so like the statute of limitations, I think, particularly applies to like the, you know, the depositions to Congress where, you know, he was, were actually those emails show that he lied to Congress knowingly and talked to the intelligence community about that.
00:07:24.000But what I would say is, you know, I. He's alleged to admitted to the intelligence community that he lied to Congress.
00:07:31.000One of you know, in Tulsi's overview of the document, she talks about how that was one of the items that she released were documents that, you know, back and forth about that congressional testimony.
00:07:44.000So, what I would say is, you know, depending on this evidence, if it's admissible, I think that this could give us kind of the ammunition to maybe try some of those, you know, because we're not only alleging that his crimes were, you know, lying to Congress.
00:08:00.000I think that there's a lot of other potential crimes there.
00:08:02.000May not have the same statute of limitations.
00:08:05.000This might give us what we need to be able to challenge the legitimacy of his pardon.
00:08:11.000And what's like more concerning, or maybe not more concerning, like, you know, given the part of the Fauci and everything, what was leaked in those documents, or not leaked, what was revealed in those documents was that all these intelligence assets that were trying to go through the normal, legitimate, codified whistleblower process were prevented from doing so or pressured against doing so.
00:08:31.000In the video, she references how, like, People that wanted to come forth anonymously, which is like by federal statute what they have to do, they were, for whatever reason, like they weren't allowed to do so.
00:08:41.000Like they had to whistleblow under their name.
00:08:43.000And the other aspect was if they did come forward with like concerns over what Fauci was saying, they were told that this would directly impact their career.
00:08:52.000So there's all sorts of, I think, also opportunity to go after the intelligence community that actively pressured people from not doing this and also seemingly violated certain federal statutes on like what.
00:09:04.000The whistleblower process even is.0.79
00:09:06.000I'm going to steal Man Fauci for a minute, who I'm not a big Fauci fan, but if I was the president and we were working on a secret bioweapons program, which, dear God, I hope everybody is, if the enemies are working on one, we should probably have one too.
00:09:19.000And I tell my scientists, wouldn't it be better if we were working on cures?0.52
00:09:23.000What's cures and diseases and all the above?
00:09:26.000Yeah, the weapons and cures and all this.
00:09:28.000And I have my scientists lying to the public about it on purpose because, you know, that's at my command as the president.
00:10:07.000May be aware broadly that something's going on for this particular issue, but the president might not know about the ins and outs.
00:10:17.000Not that the president can't, because, like our guest was saying last night or maybe two nights ago, when it comes to secret compartmentalized information, you might know about it or know that something's going on, but not really have all the details because it's not pertinent to your day to day job.
00:10:34.000So, whether it should go all the way to the president, whether it be president, President Trump or President Obama or President Biden.
00:10:42.000It really depends on how likely it is that it was a directive from the president or whether it was just like, hey, Mr. President, we're working on biological stuff.
00:10:54.000And the president's like, okay, yeah, we need to do that and kind of just goes on to the next topic.
00:11:00.000I mean, from my perspective, the deep state used COVID to make sure Trump could not win his second term.
00:11:11.000Like he, he, he still, he pushed this entire agenda in a way to trap Trump into, like, so I, what I'm trying to say is it your opinion that it was released intentionally?
00:11:27.000You know, I think that he, you know, they created a situation.
00:11:32.000One of the, you know, some of the emails that Tulsi, you know, talks about that they released were such that, you know, how, You know, what are we going to say the cause of this is?
00:11:44.000They talk about, you know, the fact that they lied about, you know, the actual origins of it.
00:11:50.000You know, they made it so you couldn't discuss China as being, you know, where all of this stuff originated from.
00:11:58.000So, I mean, like they created a situation to box Trump into a corner and they forced his response to be in a way that hurt him most politically.
00:12:06.000I think Trump has every cause in the world to go after Fauci.
00:12:12.000And I think that, you know, I think they should be really looking at opportunities.
00:12:16.000To undermine the pardon, I really think that that's an aspect that we need to go after.
00:12:23.000So, say to push the legitimacy issue as far as they can.
00:12:27.000That wasn't a legitimate pardon because Biden used the auto pen.
00:12:31.000You don't know that Biden actually directed it.
00:12:33.000It could have been one of his subordinates or something.
00:12:36.000Yeah, I think that it is not established that Biden, I think from the perspective of the people who've looked into this on our side, they are not convinced that Biden knew that everyone was getting pardoned.
00:13:00.000There has been reporting that a lot of the actual day to day operations were staff led, that Biden wasn't really there.
00:13:09.000Biden wasn't cognizant of all the decisions being made.
00:13:13.000And so then that does bring into question what did Joe Biden actually know about whether it be pardons or whether it be national security or foreign policy or what have you?
00:13:56.000But if it's not him doing it, it's a different issue.
00:13:59.000This kind of makes me wonder if that's actually a good precedent to set.
00:14:02.000To set because you know for a fact, and this is something we talk about Democrats are going to be going after the entire administration once they get back into power, right?
00:14:14.000Should the Democrats in 28 win the House, the Senate, and the White House, it's not going to be just, you know, okay, we're going to start, we're going to take over from here and we're going to fix things.
00:14:26.000There's going to be investigations, there's going to be attempts to put Donald Trump and a lot of the people that are in his administration in jail.
00:14:33.000They're going to go after conservative.
00:14:38.000It's going to be like COVID days, but on 10 because they're going to try to consolidate power.
00:14:44.000They're going to do all the things they talk about when it comes to expanding the court.
00:14:48.000They're going to do all they can about to make D.C. and Puerto Rico a state.
00:14:52.000I mean, look, there are people that if they could do it, they would either expand the court or they'd dissolve the Senate entirely, say that it's unnecessary.
00:15:03.000And look, there might be an argument for it because with the popular election of senators, Their actual constitutional role has been completely dissolved.
00:15:16.000If you've got popular elections of senators, senators are supposed to represent the state legislatures, they're not supposed to represent the people.
00:15:36.000There's a lot more smarter attorneys that are dealing with this than me.
00:15:40.000What I would say is a narrow opinion that someone else can't sign pardons on the president's behalf doesn't ultimately affect the president's ability to sign pardons.
00:15:52.000Trump's just going to need to film himself signing every pardon that he signs going forward.
00:16:05.000So, technically, you're not the one signing it, even though it's because you're using a computer to put the marks on the paper instead of your pencil.
00:16:13.000Which I don't know how big of a difference.
00:16:14.000Then there's you could have an AI sign things for you at your command.
00:16:18.000And it's like, well, if you're having your pen do the signing for you at your command, like there's a line about is it a tool that you're using to have it signed?
00:16:25.000But I think the argument, like you said earlier, is more about what's he aware that the signatures were going forward?
00:16:31.000And so I think that, you know, you would need to be the precedent that you want to avoid is a limit on pardon power as a result of this, you know, pushing this issue.
00:16:41.000But if you are able to make it clear that the president has to be aware of the pardons that he's signing, I think that that is, you know, I think as long as they're careful on that front, I think you're okay if you use, you know, the Fauci issue as a way to go after on the pardon front.
00:16:55.000To the credit of like, should we do something or should we encourage something like to be the first to do it and then Democrats are going to come back and do it again?
00:17:02.000It's like we're already seeing the radicalism.
00:17:05.000So, in the federal government, there's all like there's a lot of talk and not a lot of show yet because they don't have that power yet.
00:17:10.000But in blue states, you're seeing the absolute most insane thing.
00:17:13.000Like California, we'll get into Virginia is probably the best example of this.
00:17:16.000When they, when the Supreme Court ruled against them, what was their first reaction?
00:17:20.000We're going to mandate that every person over 50 has to retire from the court and appoint new judges.0.75
00:17:25.000This is like the first thing they want to do.0.59
00:17:26.000The, the, What they actually like to do over 50, too.
00:17:30.000Like, that was ridiculous, that's a really specific age.0.98
00:17:33.000It was like 54, it was something dumb like this.0.98
00:17:36.000They just wanted to get rid of the entire court, and there was like some that were giving pushback.
00:17:40.000But for the most part, when you look at blue states, they're just so radical that they are now like California is the model, gets exported to other states, and then this becomes like the federal mandate for Democrats and the Fed.
00:17:50.000So, I wouldn't be surprised if they do use you know, God forbid, 2828 goes bad, they use every single lever they have.
00:17:57.000Oh, yeah, and it doesn't matter anyway.
00:17:59.000You know, I'm probably a bit more bullish on just do it anyway.
00:18:27.000Like, Curtis Yarvin has a great quote.
00:18:32.000Republicans look at power like a wine snob looks at power, and Democrats look at power like an alcoholic looks at power.
00:18:39.000And it's a great quote because it really is demonstrative of the way that Democrats and Republicans act.
00:18:45.000The Republicans, you know, the base wants all these things, and there's so many people that watch the show and that call in and stuff.
00:18:50.000They're like, oh, you know, Donald Trump hasn't done this, and Donald Trump hasn't done that.
00:18:55.000I'm turning my back on him, blah, blah, blah.
00:18:56.000And it's like, honestly, if you look at the things that Donald Trump actually has done, when you think of the power that the president actually has, he's been incredibly successful.
00:19:06.000Right, whether or not he's done all the things that you wanted him to do is not the question here.
00:19:11.000It's how much power does the president actually have, and he's done a lot of things through executive order.
00:19:16.000He closed the border, which is the biggest thing, in my opinion.
00:19:19.000And it looks like they're making moves to really push to get you know to deport more people and stuff.
00:19:27.000I think he's doing it in a fairly smart way because if he had if you constantly had ice raids like we had in Minnesota over the winter, you'd constantly have protests and you'd have all this pushback.
00:19:37.000And you would really change the opinion of the voter.
00:19:40.000Like, people don't have a strong stomach.
00:19:41.000They don't want to see that kind of stuff.0.94
00:19:43.000But if you can manage to do things that change the law, make it harder for people to stay here, stuff like that, go after business owners that actually employ illegals, which there's some that's happened.0.94
00:20:43.000Over memes because, oh, look, he said he made a joke.
00:20:46.000I mean, he put this meme up and he was trying to disenfranchise people and et cetera, et cetera.
00:20:51.000And they'll sit there and they'll say that with a straight face and they'll act like they take it seriously when really all they're trying to do is punish a guy for mocking Hillary Clinton and, you know, making jokes about Hillary Clinton.
00:21:02.000The thing he did that stepped over the line legally was he put a phone number on the meme.
00:21:07.000He was like, if you want to vote for Hillary Clinton, call this number, which is technically illegal.
00:21:11.000You're misleading people because they thought they were actually getting their vote through.
00:21:14.000Yeah, but the point that I'm making is nobody that saw that actually thought it was real.
00:21:20.000Everybody realized that it was just a meme.
00:21:22.000And, but that's why I said Democrats act like it's serious.
00:21:26.000They will look you straight in the face and say, no, this is real.
00:21:34.000Even though it was blatantly obvious to anyone that saw those memes that they weren't real.
00:21:40.000Yeah, it's kind of ironic that, because I'm sitting here looking up, like, has there ever been an instance of a presidential pardon being overturned?
00:21:46.000And I'm looking at these, like, you know, no, there's never been a clear, but like, we've seen instances of stuff that has never happened ever before done by the Democrats.
00:22:16.000It's the same thing if you're purchasing stock, especially seeing as if the United States purchases stock of Intel and the stock goes up, the government actually makes money.
00:22:24.000They didn't take a controlling interest.
00:22:26.000I know that's the argument for it, but it doesn't.
00:22:28.000It's the government buying private companies.
00:22:30.000It's not, but they didn't buy the whole company.
00:23:00.000I wanted to just reiterate your point about how you argue the Democrat, I think you said, who was it, Curtis Yarvin, that the Democrats will treat it like power, like an alcoholic treats alcohol, whereas the Republicans will treat it like a wine stop.
00:23:13.000Because I can see the Republicans consolidating all these potential explosive power things, and then they're like, let's do it.
00:23:19.000And they're like, no, that's a 75 year old vintage.
00:23:27.000So the Republicans are buying stock in things.
00:23:29.000They're creating a technocracy behind the scenes.
00:23:31.000They're getting all their bottles aligned and like, If an evil guy comes in, dear God, they have the Patriot Act and the NDAA.
00:23:37.000But the Democrats have the Patriot Act and the NDAA too, if they're in the government.
00:23:42.000And the concern is who would misuse it?
00:23:44.000I mean, probably the alcoholic would tend towards misusing your array of alcohol.
00:23:50.000You know, all you have to do to see kind of the extent that the Democrats will go last time or will go next time based on what they've done before is if you look through the Arctic Frost documents, it's one of the most incredible things.
00:24:04.000So, all of these documents, you know, the prosecutions against all of like the conservative organizations in DC, hundreds of subpoenas.
00:24:40.000They never found anything, but the confidential informant documents are so crazy, accusing him of treason, trying to say that he's like recruiting a militia to overthrow the government.
00:25:38.000So it's tough to feel the temperature.
00:25:40.000But, like, the whole system has become.
00:25:42.000Hyper radical, not maybe not hyper radicalized, but intensely radicalized the way things the way I mean, the Fourth Amendment's gone like search spying, these things are all spying on us right now fervently, like constantly.
00:25:56.000And it's a technocratic, I mean, a coup essentially of our rights.
00:26:00.000I don't, I mean, this is part of the reason why like the domestic focus matters so much because people are only going to go more crazy the worse things are here.
00:26:09.000Like, I think a Federal Reserve just put out a report that under Biden, like 30% of all increases of mortgage prices were because of illegal immigration.
00:26:17.000So, we have essentially priced out all of the young Americans out of homes.
00:26:21.000Young Americans are the ones that are radicalized, too.
00:27:22.000You know, the reason that our society is so terrible now is because the billionaires.
00:27:28.000I saw, I think it was Asmongold posted this, and other people have actually made it in a, made the argument in a much more, much less succinct manner.
00:27:39.000But Asmongold was saying, you know, you're not oppressed by the top 2%, you're oppressed by the bottom 2%, right?
00:27:45.000Like the people that are going to steal your car, the people that are going to smash your windows, the people that are going to act out, They're the people that have nothing to lose, right?
00:27:55.000The people that are billionaires, the people that are millionaires, the wealthy people in society, they're the people that possibly could give you a job, right?
00:28:03.000Like you go and you fill out 100 applications or 200 applications.0.99
00:28:06.000It's a pain in the ass, I understand.0.98
00:28:07.000But that 201st application where you get a job, the guy that owns the business, he's not a vagrant, right?0.99
00:28:13.000He's not a guy that's out rioting and throwing Molotov cocktails at Teslas because he's mad at Elon Musk.
00:28:20.000He's not a guy that's going to commit a strong arm robbery.
00:28:27.000The way I made the point was like, Elon Musk isn't going to be in line in front of me at Walmart losing his mind because he can't put Zins on an EBT card, right?
00:28:37.000Like, that's the kind of stuff that affects your day to day life, right?
00:29:13.000And when I was a kid, the idea of getting same day delivery, everything that I ordered when I was a kid, six to eight weeks, you know, six to eight weeks.
00:29:37.000The lowest common denominator that are most likely to make your life worse, they're the people that if you get into a car accident, they don't have insurance.
00:29:45.000You know, they're the people that are going and filling up the emergency rooms because they don't have health insurance.
00:29:52.000Now, maybe it's not their fault, right?
00:29:54.000Maybe it's not the people, maybe they fell in harmed times and stuff, but that doesn't change the fact that you interact with people that are, when you're interacting on a day to day basis, you're more likely to have someone in the bottom two, three, 4% of the country that materially impacts your life than you are to bump into some rich guy that makes your life worse.
00:30:16.000I disagree in that I think it's both extremes are oppressing what's happening to most people.
00:30:23.000Well, it's more about the people that run the banks that are commanding compound interest because our debt, we borrow money from the Federal Reserve, our government does, and then we have to pay it back with interest that doesn't exist.
00:30:34.000So we're constantly in this Ponzi scheme of stress, of falling behind the economic order, and we're constantly being baited and kind of being controlled by the banking establishment.
00:30:46.000I mean, you probably have to go into debt to get a house.
00:30:49.000But if you don't get a house, you don't have to use credit cards.
00:30:52.000You don't have to go into debt to these bankers that you're worried about.
00:30:56.000The government, to create money, literally goes into debt from the Federal Reserve.
00:31:01.000They take a promissory note from the Federal Reserve in order to create a dollar, promising that they're going to pay the reserve back with interest.
00:31:07.000Is it your argument that a gold standard or an actual physical precious metal monetary system would be better?
00:31:17.000It would be less corrupted in this way.
00:31:19.000It would probably have problems of its own because then there'd be a limited supply.
00:31:22.000Applying some people would literally have zero.
00:31:24.000Like at this, at least they can print it out and give you your 200 bucks a week, you know, universal basic income and try and slow down the explosive.
00:31:32.000Then this is just the least bad system.
00:31:35.000Well, what I would say to your point, because, you know, you can look at what's happened since we went off the gold standard.
00:31:41.000What has happened is everything in our economy has become financialized to an extent that has never existed before in history.
00:31:50.000So, you know, There's a lot of speculation that the reason that all of this financialization of the economy, again, the top industry in America is finance.
00:32:05.000We used to be a manufacturing economy.
00:32:07.000We used to have, now it's finance and real estate.
00:32:11.000And part of the reason, one of the big drivers of that was the financialization of the economy after we went off the gold.
00:32:18.000Our smartest people in America all go into finance.
00:32:21.000That's not necessarily a natural thing, that is a cause and consequence.
00:32:26.000Of us just making a decision to move to fiat currency.
00:32:30.000So there's a lot of, there's probably, you know, I'm not saying that we need to go back to a gold standard.
00:32:35.000I think there's probably other financial solutions at this point.
00:32:38.000But the fact that our economy is so financialized is a decision that policymakers made, is not necessarily a natural state, natural order of things.
00:32:47.000This is where I start to align or at least understand the communist mentality of like seizing property from the wealthy.
00:32:55.000Because if we, there's like in to the right, the extreme right is corporatocracy, where the corporations own all the property.
00:33:02.000And you're basically, if you say the wrong words, they'll take away your house, they'll take away, then to the, The far left is nobody owns any property.
00:33:09.000We all own it together collectively, which you know how that fails into vanguardism, small groups of people.
00:33:14.000So, like, if BlackRock buys up 80% of the houses, of course the people have a right to overthrow that system and take their housing, take their land back.
00:33:22.000Like, good God, it's a human right.0.96
00:33:24.000But I mean, we were just talking about how the housing market is actually the driver of the prices is illegal immigrants.0.99
00:33:35.000You know, the reason that the prices have gone up.0.98
00:33:39.000Up so much is because of how many illegal immigrants are in the US.1.00
00:33:43.000It's also, I think it might have been the Realtors Association or it was a National Home Builders Association.
00:33:48.000They've been doing these studies on the impact of regulation on building homes.
00:33:52.000And now, I think the last one they did that I saw was like 2021, $100,000 in 2021 of the price of a new build home was only for regulatory compliance.
00:34:04.000So we've made it super, super difficult to build a house, we've made it super expensive.
00:34:10.000And then we imported like 20 million people and then we gave them free FHA loans and 0% down payments at like super low COVID rates.0.96
00:34:18.000So we've totally destroyed the housing market by essentially just giving it to like a bunch of people that just walked up the southern border.0.71
00:34:24.000I mean, government is the problem in most cases.
00:34:27.000In what we're talking about, you know, you mentioned BlackRock.
00:34:48.000And there's been federal courts now that have called BlackRock a monopolistic actor.
00:34:54.000And so I think that what you're saying, I'm very sympathetic to the view that we have all of these problems with these monopolistic actors.
00:35:06.000Every single monopoly in history has been a creation of government intervention.
00:35:12.000You know, so you can go to BlackRock and look where, you know, they've got 10 trillion in assets.
00:35:17.000Where do they get those 10 trillion assets?
00:35:20.000So both red, you know, Republican and Democrat states have something like, you know, it's two or three trillion dollars invested in BlackRock, you know.
00:35:29.000So foreign governments too, because it's a global, you know, monopoly.
00:35:32.000But the point being, there are solutions to this.
00:35:37.000And the solution in this particular case, I'm not like a libertarian, but in the solution in this case is, you know, whether it's regulation or artificial, You know, migration that is facilitated and encouraged by government.
00:35:50.000Like, we've got to solve these problems.
00:35:53.000And in most of the cases, the root causes of all of this have been government interventions into the marketplace that have absolutely wrecked life for the average American.
00:36:06.000Well, what then, like, a solution would that be just people just decide we're going to build houses here and then the government will try and stop them and be like, what are you doing to me?
00:36:36.000So, I think the biggest one was under Biden, might have been like Build Back Better.
00:36:40.000It was like a huge infrastructure project.
00:36:43.000Ezra Klein, or yeah, I think it was Ezra Klein, talked about this.
00:36:46.000And he sort of went viral where he went over all of these projects that were supposed to be funded by the federal government through this trillion dollar spending act.
00:36:53.000Turns out almost none of these have been built.
00:36:55.000And the reason why is because this one was for the 5G across all of America.
00:37:00.000So, they wanted every single square inch of America to have internet connection.
00:37:03.000And for you to put down like a cell tower for internet connection anywhere in America, you had to go through a 14 step process of like applications and reviews with the government.
00:37:13.000And it turns out none of this got built.
00:37:15.000And this is sort of the process for just about everything.
00:37:18.000Like the best one of my favorite examples is the wildfires.
00:37:22.000So when we see these massive wildfires happen across the country, you think, well, why didn't we like do a prescribed burn and do the normal thing that we do for forest mitigation, for fire management?
00:37:32.000And the reason why is because to pass NEPA clearance, it takes seven years.
00:37:48.000So, he goes and he writes a thing, sends it to the federal government, and it takes seven years for them to get back and eventually say, okay, fine, you can burn.
00:37:55.000And by that point, the fire's already happened.
00:38:10.000No, he was a patriot, but Congress at the time, super Democrat, they went through and passed.
00:38:16.000And yeah, I mean, so you can go through pretty much every federal project has NEPA review problems.
00:38:21.000It makes these things, I mean, you know, there's other reasons, corruption wise, why the bridge in Baltimore hasn't been rebuilt in five years, haven't even like really broken ground on it yet.
00:38:33.000I mean, it's NEPA reviews are a huge portion of it.
00:38:36.000So any federal project that takes federal money at all is part of NEPA.
00:38:50.000The government, like every regulation that the government has, it's also one small chunk of whatever the funding money is that gets taken away.
00:39:01.000So if you get a trillion dollars to do a big thing, right, part of the reason why it doesn't ever, and it actually, a lot of projects don't get done is because every organization that gets some kind of say in it gets their cut of the money.
00:39:16.000So that way, they can do the paperwork that's necessary.
00:39:19.000So they can say, Well, we're doing this, we're doing that.
00:39:21.000It's not like these organizations, they don't have people that are there volunteering.
00:39:26.000They all go ahead and they get their cut of the money that's being spent.
00:39:30.000That's part of the reason why California has never gotten their high speed rail built.
00:39:36.000I think they've made 150 feet of it or something like that.
00:39:39.000And they've spent like 58 or whatever billion dollars, or maybe it's 85.
00:39:43.000But they spent billions and billions and billions of dollars.
00:39:46.000Trying to make high speed rail, and they've built something like 150 or 200 feet of it because all of the funding that it goes to actually build the thing gets eaten up by the EPA or by all of the regulation stuff.
00:40:02.000So, I imagine regulations are in place to prevent corruption so that you don't.
00:41:05.000And the other secondary consequence of all of these laws is that it opened up for a proliferation of like NGO groups to come in and endlessly sue every single project to prevent anything from getting done.
00:41:18.000This has been, this is the case for literally everything.
00:41:20.000This was the Trans Pacific Partnership.
00:41:21.000I don't know if you guys were following it in 2012.
00:42:09.000And we're going to jump to this story from the BBC.
00:42:13.000US Iran talks postponed as Israel launches a deadly strike in Lebanon.
00:42:17.000A new round of direct talks between the US and Iran have been postponed after Vice President JD Vance delayed a planned trip to Switzerland.
00:42:24.000The White House announced late on Thursday that Vance would not be traveling to the talks and the logistics had not been simple or predictable.
00:42:30.000It comes a day after the US dropped its naval blockade of Iran and after the two countries signed a deal aimed at ending the conflict.
00:42:36.000While the deal also said fighting should end in Lebanon, The country's health ministry reported Israeli strikes had killed at least 47 people overnight and into Friday.
00:42:46.000Israel's military said it had targeted the Iran backed group Hezbollah and that four of its own soldiers had been killed.
00:42:52.000Hours before the White House issued its statement, Hezbollah linked Lebanese media reported that the talks had been suspended due to ongoing Israeli strikes.
00:43:01.000Is Israel trying to derail the peace process?
00:43:06.000I think Israel has a strong national interest.
00:43:10.000And I think that their interest in this case is not the same as our interest.
00:43:15.000I think that President Trump had, you know, I think he went into this war.
00:43:20.000I think that he thought that there was going to be the possibility of a quick, you know, of a quick resolution to it.
00:43:30.000And I think he spent the last two months trying to find an exit ramp.
00:43:33.000I think he found what he thought was acceptable, took the best deal that he could get to be able to avoid, you know, a global cataclysmic economic collapse.0.67
00:43:44.000And I think Israel has just, in this particular case, a different set of priorities.0.82
00:44:23.000I mean, there's already the concern of like the global oil reserves going out.
00:44:26.000And there's obviously a case to be made that the war for us is like, you know, the positioning with Venezuela and Cuba and that we're going to become the global oil exporter.
00:44:35.000So it's good for the American economy and like us geopolitically.
00:44:38.000It's less bad for the US than anyone else.
00:44:40.000Like, and I think marketedly, it's like obviously less bad because our biggest concern is like, oh no, our gas is going to buy a few dollars for a few months.
00:44:47.000Like, that's like sort of like the biggest consequence for us for the most part.
00:44:51.000But the notion to like, Trying to make sure you don't find peace is really unfortunate.0.98
00:45:00.000It seems like this is what the Lakud party has wanted since they wanted a two party solution in the early 2000s.0.97
00:45:07.000And then they were basically like, no, we don't want a two party solution.
00:45:10.000We want to make sure that we can conquer all the territory.
00:45:13.000So put a bunch of, you know, just seed the area with problems so that we have something to destroy and then we can use that as an excuse to take it over.0.95
00:45:23.000And like, if I was talking about the Greater Israel Project, I'm not sure.0.53
00:45:27.000Because I don't, because I mean, I understand what you're laying out, but I don't think that, I think the reason I don't agree with it is because, you know, Israel hasn't significantly expanded its borders, right?
00:45:43.000They haven't, they moved, I think they moved into Lebanon a little bit, but that's partially in the Golan Heights, but that's partially strategic, right?
00:45:50.000The Golan Heights basically is a raised area over Tel Aviv, is it?
00:45:55.000No, it's over, it's Haifa in the north.
00:45:57.000And so it's really like they want the Golan Heights so that way they're not, You know, they don't have raised positions to shoot down at an Israeli city.
00:46:06.000But they haven't really done, like, there's a lot of people that talk about the Greater Israel Project, and I don't see Israel, you know, doing, making moves to expand their territory.0.54
00:46:16.000You know, the Gazan, I mean, the slaughter of those people and the corralling, and that's, it's pretty, it seems like that's the plan.
00:46:28.000I don't think the Gaza's already, like, Gaza's already kind of part of Israel, and like, They left Gaza in like 2005 and they kept them corralled.0.75
00:46:38.000But like, Gaza is a complicated situation because Egypt does not want the Palestinians, neither does Jordan, and neither does Jordan, and neither does Israel.
00:46:49.000And the reason why is because the Palestinians have had all these sort of like various revolutionary movements in like the past, I don't know, like 40 years that like toppled certain princes.
00:46:58.000I think there was an assassination attempt.0.95
00:46:59.000There's a lot of really bad blood, so none of them really want any of them.
00:47:02.000So they've kind of all just said, No, you stay here.
00:47:05.000And then obviously October 7th happened, so then the reaction to that.0.92
00:47:08.000I think the biggest probably expansion that's always been very controversial is the West Bank situation with like all of the suburb developments where they just like move Israelis in.0.55
00:47:17.000But I mean, the greater Israel thing is more of like the American sort of early 2000s projects in the Middle East where like we took out Gaddafi and Saddam, and then now like Syria and like Assad's out like in hiding or whatever.
00:47:32.000And there was this idea that after we sort of topple these nations, like Israel will expand.0.71
00:48:12.000Even then, like, if there's a peaceful solution for the sake of everybody, it's preferable that a peaceful solution is met rather than like total annihilation, like between the two countries.
00:48:28.000I mean, so like Israel has this massive problem with their judicial system that a lot of countries around the world have where the judiciary is incredibly far left.
00:49:19.000And this goes to the question of how Bibi is kind of, you know, looks at the war and wants to see it going on.0.66
00:49:28.000A newspaper owned by a billionaire Republican mega donor has published a blistering opinion piece accusing President Donald Trump of betraying Israel over his deal with Iran to end the war.0.54
00:49:37.000The critical op ed was published by Israel Haom, the Israeli newspaper owned by Miriam Adelson, one of Trump's biggest financial backers and one of the most influential pro Israel donors in Republican politics.
00:49:49.000Adelson, a dual U.S. Israeli citizen with an estimated fortune of tens of billions of dollars, has been a major force in shaping conservative support for Israel and has had close ties to Trump for years.
00:50:01.000In the column, Israel Hailmans journalist Danny Zakin praised Trump's past support for Israel, but said the president has made a colossal mistake by signing what he calls a surrender agreement with Tehran.
00:50:12.000In a piece headline, you could have been the greatest president of all, but you failed.
00:50:16.000Zakin wrote that Trump had missed an opportunity to be remembered among America's greatest presidents and warned the deal could damage U.S. interests and Israel's security.0.98
00:50:33.000That doing something that benefits Israel primarily, I have my own thoughts about what the situation in Iran is.
00:50:42.000I personally wrote a piece on my Patreon on the day the strike's initiated.
00:50:47.000I think that it's mostly about China, or at least a good portion about China.0.54
00:50:50.000But this guy's take that an American president that does something that the Israeli hawks like makes him the most memorable or the greatest American president.0.99
00:51:17.000They've got AIPAC and you've got all this.
00:51:21.000You've got a lot of people that are Jewish in the administration.0.82
00:51:23.000They have a lot of influence, but the U.S. still calls the shot.0.61
00:51:26.000So this to me just smells of a tantrum that the United States isn't carrying out strikes when Israel wants them to.
00:51:35.000Yeah, I think the biggest problem here is, you know, So, first of all, Trump is clearly his own man.
00:51:42.000He has made decisions that have upset every possible interest.
00:51:47.000So, the idea that he's doing something on behalf of just one group, I think, is nonsense.
00:51:54.000So, my biggest problem with all of, you know, is nothing like, I don't know all that much about Mary Adelson herself, other than she gives a lot of money.
00:52:05.000But the idea to me, and the biggest problem that I have is, you know, the foreign policy establishment, you know, essentially neocons and people sort of associated, they have a permanent vested interest in us toppling Iran.
00:52:22.000It is part of a project that they have, like, deemed important for decades.0.65
00:52:27.000They've been wanting every president to do this.
00:52:30.000These are domestic actors, you know, it, I mean, these are people who, I mean, You know, these are the folks who got us into the Iraq war, Afghanistan, and kept us there for decades.
00:52:42.000And the point that I think that, you know, which is where I give so much credit to Trump, he is not interested in that.0.94
00:52:52.000You know, he may agree, you know, tactical, you know, we need to, you know, stop Iran, whatever.0.90
00:52:58.000The folks who are pushing Trump that are, you know, having temper tantrums on Twitter about Trump signing this deal, they, when you push them, They will not be happy with anything that doesn't keep us in Iran for the next 20 years.0.98
00:53:17.000There's no off ramp that they will be acceptable with, that they will find in any way tolerable other than us being there in a ground invasion and staying there for the next 20 years.
00:53:29.000Do you think that the people in question, the neocons in question, do you think that they had a sense that that was going to be the situation?
00:53:36.000And the reason I ask this argument is because if you look at the buildup, It was clear that there were going to be strikes.
00:53:43.000But leading up to the war, and another reason why I was thinking about this is because there were so many people on the right, libertarians, anti war people, that are just like, we're going to have boots on the ground forever, et cetera, et cetera.
00:54:09.000It looked like there was going to be big strikes.
00:54:11.000But if you looked at what was actually happening, look, I've said this before like, no ground infantry goes in unless there is a trailer with a Burger King attached to it right behind them.
00:54:49.000And the reason that I think that, so I know a lot of these folks in DC, you know, friends with a lot of them, they're actually, you know, great patriots.
00:54:58.000I just don't happen to want us to be in forever wars.
00:55:00.000They may have a different opinion.0.67
00:55:02.000The, you know, so the reason that I'm very confident that they thought that they would eventually get Trump into a ground war is because prior to Trump striking, they, you know, they were the folks claiming the Iranians will rise up.
00:55:23.000Their goal was simply, and you saw this after like the 13 day war or whatever last year.
00:55:30.000The minute the strikes started, their goalposts immediately shifted.
00:55:36.000Their goal, like on a dime, the goal wasn't, okay, we're going to take out their nuclear capacity or we're going to take out their Air Force or their Navy.0.68
00:55:44.000Immediately, their standard shifted to we need a different regime in Iran.0.82
00:55:53.000They changed, you know, the goalposts immediately because their strategy was let's just get started and then we'll deal with it from there.
00:56:02.000Again, I don't even think this is like, this is not me blaming the Israelis.
00:56:05.000This is the foreign policy establishment in Washington, D.C. that has, you know, it's the same folks in the Ukraine and wanting us to, you know, keep getting involved there.
00:56:15.000They like these, you know, conflicts and they like them to continue.
00:56:20.000There's a lot of different reasons for it.
00:56:22.000But the bottom line was the reason I'm so confident in the fact that they thought they could trap, snare Trump into something long term, into something that included ground forces, was because they immediately shifted the goalposts.
00:56:35.000And that's when you started to see, like, okay, well, let's go into Karg Island.
00:56:38.000Let's just take like one island, just real small.
00:56:55.000And, you know, Trump's going to defend the American, you know, the American military.
00:56:58.000If we have losses, he's going to make sure that we are there to defend them, to back them up.
00:57:03.000So their strategy, I think, was to get us in over time rather than, you know, But right now, their temper tantrum about Trump signing this deal is they want to make sure that this keeps going.
00:57:17.000Yeah, I mean, even the framing of this article, it's like he would have been the greatest president of all.
00:57:23.000It's like he's going to be remembered for his domestic policy.
00:57:25.000He's going to be remembered because of what he does for the people here, for people who can't afford houses right now, who can't afford cars or whatever.
00:57:33.000There hasn't been a president remembered positively for a military action since World War II.
00:57:39.000Yeah, like he's gonna be like, even we just saw there's this like new truck company.
00:57:43.000It was like Rio, they announced like an under $25,000 gas truck, 600 mile tank, all wheel drive, manual automatic available.
00:57:51.000Like, it's like that is a direct response to the repealing of CAFE regulations and CAFE regulations, which totally destroyed the truck and even like the greater automobile market in the country.
00:58:01.000Like, if he could get a new car available to young people, which is like what most boomers got to experience, if he could get that available to young people, That's what he's going to be remembered for.
00:58:12.000He's not going to be remembered for some war.
00:58:14.000He's going to be remembered for making housing affordable, for mass deportations, for making things cheaper, making the way of life in this country better.
00:58:21.000That's what he's going to be remembered for, not for a three month long campaign in Iran, and especially not for if it goes even worse.0.52
00:58:30.000I'd love to see an industrial revolution on the domestic soil.
01:00:41.000Everybody thinks of nuclear waste as this sludge that's hard to contain, blah, blah, blah.
01:00:47.000For people that don't know, nuclear waste is metal rods, and they put them, they encase them in concrete and then encase them in a steel tube, right?
01:00:56.000It is the, it is like they've transported nuclear waste all across the country on the highways.
01:01:02.000They've had Accidents, car accidents, where the tubes have gotten knocked off and stuff.
01:01:08.000There's never been a significant nuclear spill of nuclear waste.
01:01:51.000I mean, and this is why, you know, I want to keep going.
01:01:54.000Like, Trump is going to be remembered for this amazing, you know, all of the amazing things he's doing, you know, re industrialize everything on this front.
01:02:47.000We can make sure that these, you know, we can have a future where power is just, it's not, you know, we're not going to be free, but it's going to be almost free.
01:03:13.000If you have a data center, they're using so much power at these data centers that the town down the street becomes a rounding error.
01:03:20.000The entire power need of the town down the street becomes a rounding error.
01:03:24.000So it's good for it, it would be good business and good community outreach for the data center to say, you know what, we'll power your town for free.
01:03:32.000Nobody has an electric bill anymore because really we're spending, you know, whatever, $100 million a month or whatever it is.
01:03:39.000$100 million a month paying for power for this place.
01:03:42.000What's another $10 million to cover the power for the town down the street?
01:03:46.000That is something that is actually a possibility in the future.
01:03:51.000But okay, so my concern is it seems like domestically we're on track technically to rebuild phenomenally.
01:03:57.000Obviously, you know, chaos and fighting and all that is always a threat.
01:04:00.000But geopolitically, how do we, what this, this like is, I don't know if you guys want to go back to it, but the Israeli Iranian thing, I don't even think it's an American problem.
01:04:32.000I think it's why they set up Israel where they set it up 100 years ago is to protect that area of the world so that we can control global trade routes.
01:04:40.000So, that's kind of why we're tied in.0.75
01:04:41.000It's like we need to maintain the Suez and all those little gulfs and things.1.00
01:05:26.000So, my thing with Israel, I think that they, you know, I have absolutely no problem with a strong alliance with them.
01:05:36.000I have absolutely no problem with them defending themselves.
01:05:39.000I think it's their duty to do that as a country.
01:05:43.000We need to make very clear that we're not the world's policemen.
01:05:46.000We cannot be going to do these wars anymore.
01:05:50.000When you say world's policemen, there's one, I do want to get your opinion on this.
01:05:54.000I think the United States, as the guarantor of the sea lanes, is a good thing.
01:06:02.000And I don't think that that counts as world police.
01:06:04.000Some people would say, oh, you know, the U.S. With all the big Navy that we have and spending all this money on the Navy and et cetera, we don't need that kind of stuff.
01:06:12.000I don't like, I think the US has been a net positive for global trade because the US guarantees international trade via the seas.
01:06:23.000Is that when you say, when you say World Police, are you talking about?
01:06:25.000I think that Trump is rebuilding the Navy, like, you know, something that's really, you know, so we've got something like 10, 12 aircraft carriers groups.
01:06:34.000During World War II, we built 150 aircraft carriers in four years.
01:06:49.000I consider going in, ground invasion, you know, taking out.
01:06:53.000Like, I think that a future, you know, I think the stuff that the Andrewal guys, like, you know, I don't want drones flying over my house, like police drones.
01:07:04.000I want, I want, like, drone ships policing the seas, preventing piracy, preventing, like, you know, we need dominance in, uh, You know, we need naval dominance that of with future technology that we have companies currently building.
01:07:20.000Like the future where we do that isn't going to be secured by, you know, current generation ships.
01:07:28.000Like we're seeing the limits of that right now, where, you know, we are trying to keep the Strait of Hormuz open or were, you know, before we signed the deal, like they were just flying $500 drones into the Strait.
01:07:43.000Like, we need a future technology to be able to help us do that.
01:07:48.000But to me, like, that's more of like, we need to be focusing on yes, making sure that the various sea lanes are open, making sure that, you know, the Panama Canal is controlled by Americans and not China.
01:08:01.000Like, all of this is totally possible without invading a single country.
01:08:06.000You say you didn't want drones flying over your house, and I also identify, but what if they're so high up you don't see them?
01:08:16.000Well, because satellites are already, you know, going around the planet all the time.
01:08:20.000And I mean, you may not, I'm not sure exactly the resolution quality you can get with satellites, but I'm fairly confident they can, you know.
01:08:28.000I know that just the stuff that I see on Google Earth is fairly impressive, you know.
01:08:34.000So whether it be a drone or a satellite, the concept is essentially the same, right?
01:08:38.000Well, what I'll say about drones and what I'll say about that, you know, I actually think.0.62
01:08:46.000I think that a future of the Second Amendment, for instance, involves Americans owning their own drone swarms.0.62
01:08:54.000We actually work at this at our organization.
01:08:56.000We want to make sure that states, in trying to write a law of Americans to be able to use drones for self defense.
01:09:20.000Americans need to be able to have, like, be able to have and implement high level encryption.
01:09:26.000That's the type of thing that there are government actors right now trying to make illegal for Americans to have high level encryption technology.
01:09:34.000You know, so there's a lot of things we need to do to get back to on the civil liberties front.
01:09:46.000It's just your right to think and behave and be private is something we do need to get back to.
01:09:52.000And that's, I mean, that's really a cultural fight.
01:09:54.000Like, we need people to care about that.
01:09:56.000I think a lot of people just assume they're being spied on, so they don't care.
01:10:00.000We were just talking about this yesterday.
01:10:01.000This is actually more a generational fight than anything because Gen X, I'm sorry, Gen Z, they don't conceptualize privacy the same way that I do.
01:10:14.000Like, when I think of privacy, I think of nobody's watching, nobody's listening, and I can do whatever I want with no one knowing.
01:10:24.000They don't have the same concept of it.
01:10:27.000In a day when you tap approve on a new app and you're giving them access to your camera and to your microphone, and they can literally listen to whatever's going on, and it's likely that the phone could possibly send out an ultrasonic tone that you can't hear that will map your room and map the way the interior of your house is.
01:10:50.000That's become just, well, something that people that are younger just expect.
01:10:57.000You know, I think that the argument about, I like, I agree with you.
01:11:01.000If you want privacy, you should be able to have it.
01:11:04.000But I think people have given up privacy, you know, and given it up for the convenience and the benefits that modern technology.
01:11:16.000I mean, everyone knows that, not everyone knows, but for people that don't know, your Wi Fi router itself can map the interior of your home now.
01:11:24.000They have algorithms that can take, can measure the, the, Reflection of Wi Fi signals inside of a room and can literally map out the inside of your room.
01:11:36.000It's like the technology that Batman, that Lawrence Fox had to destroy at the end of Batman because it was too much power for one man to have.
01:12:19.000And, you know, I was looking into like, well, what's the cost of having your own little data center, like your own data server in your own home?
01:12:25.000And the amount of work you have to do to go through all these programs that can sync then to your phone so you can have your own little personal client that runs 24 7 in your home.
01:12:34.000Like, it's a little bit easier than you might think, but it's still a lot of work.
01:14:41.000And people have said, like, well, then that's going to mean all the All the security protocols in the software are now open and it can be hacked.
01:14:49.000But if you have a drone swarm, you need access to the code to know that it's not coded to destroy you.
01:14:55.000If you have, because I think another aspect of the Second Amendment digitally is everyone has a right to a personal AGI off grid that can help control the drone swarms, but you need the access to the source code to know that it's not connected to some central server or been coded to destroy you secretly in three years.
01:15:12.000And that's about as far as I've gotten.
01:15:16.000The concern, of course, is they're like, government's going to be like, hey, If Joey B over there, shout out Joe, has a drone swarm and can control it with his thoughts, he can conquer his neighbor who doesn't have a drone swarm.
01:15:26.000Although they have a right to their drone swarm, they don't have one yet.
01:15:29.000And then they're going to be like, well, that's a lot of power to give one man.
01:16:28.000We're going to jump to this story here from ABC 7 in Los Angeles.
01:16:34.000There is a measure to give non citizens the right to vote in.
01:16:37.000LA city elections, and it's going to go before voters.
01:16:41.000The Los Angeles City Council took one step closer towards possibly giving non citizens the right to vote in city elections, agreeing to put the measure on the November 3rd ballot.
01:16:52.000The measure is part of a package of proposed charter changes that will go before voters this year.
01:16:57.000In a decisive 10 to 5 vote, the council on Wednesday approved a propositional introduction, excuse me, approved a proposal introduced by Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez to implement non citizens or residential voting for city and LA.
01:17:14.000Soto Martinez emphasized individuals with some form of legal status, such as deferred action for childhood arrivals, temporary protected status holders, and legal permanent residents would be allowed to vote under such a program.
01:17:26.000This issue to me is really about fairness and representation, Soto Martinez said.
01:17:30.000It just does not make sense to me that someone who moves to Los Angeles for a temporary job has more of a voice than a parent who has been here for decades, raising their children through our public schools.
01:18:36.000I'm going to throw something out and trigger Jacob.
01:18:40.000What's the difference between LA's current voting laws and this?
01:18:44.000I was going to say, there literally isn't.
01:18:47.000So I used to live in LA and I was just.
01:18:51.000Amazed when I went to go vote in 24 and I went there and I tried to show them ID because I heard these rumors that like they won't look at an ID.
01:19:00.000So I tried to show them my ID and they literally averted their eyes and looked away.
01:19:05.000It was the most insane, unbelievable experience I've ever had.
01:19:08.000And all they do, whatever requirements you think exist in Los Angeles, they don't exist.
01:19:14.000You walk up into the polling station, anywhere they are, there's like they're everywhere, and you go and you say, My name is this, and then you just give them an address and they print you a ballot.
01:20:38.000The movie industry is no longer what it used to be in California.
01:20:45.000You know, how does California, how does Los Angeles actually recover from the negative things that have already happened and continue to happen as businesses are leaving?
01:20:59.000So, what needs to happen to California, we've actually gone through this as a country, there is plenty of precedent.
01:21:06.000You know, we fought the Civil War at the end of the Civil War.
01:21:10.000We said that the system of government that was set up in the southern states was unacceptable, it was not up to the standards that our country was going to have.
01:21:22.000And we went through a process of reconstruction of southern states to reform their constitutions and to bring them into alignment with a standard that was acceptable to be part of the Union.
01:21:33.000In my opinion, the state of California is way past the point where their standards are.
01:21:41.000For how their state is governed is so bad that it is not acceptable to just say, well, it's California, they're their own state, they can do their own thing.
01:21:51.000I think California needs, and I'm a native Oregonian.
01:21:55.000Californians destroyed my state first.0.97
01:21:59.000They all came up to Oregon, they took all the good jobs because they had fancy degrees from Berkeley, and they ruined my state.0.88
01:22:07.000And now they're doing the same thing to Washington and Idaho and Utah.
01:22:11.000But the point being, California's lack of care or whatever you want to describe in terms of motive, California is conducting itself on the governance sphere in a way that is unacceptable to be part of the federal union.
01:22:30.000And I think they need to be abolished and reconstructed.
01:22:33.000Like the government needs to be reconstructed from the ground up to fit in conformity with federal laws.
01:22:38.000Because Gavin Newsom likes to say, You know, Californians are the next exporter.
01:22:44.000You know, they give more federal tax dollars than they receive in federal benefits.
01:22:50.000That, like, at the end of the day, doesn't matter.
01:22:54.000California has made access to government programs, to illegal immigrants, and to really just, they have not enforced any laws on fraud in forever.
01:23:06.000Like, you can go down the list of governance issues that affect the entire country.
01:23:11.000California cannot be allowed to continue to govern itself in its current regime.
01:23:16.000That its laws are completely antithetical to our American way of life and our way of government.
01:23:36.000All these states surrendered, and then they're like.
01:23:38.000Yeah, all these states had laws saying that black people were not considered citizens.
01:23:45.000African Americans were not considered citizens.
01:23:48.000So, they went through and completely rewrote state constitutions after that.
01:23:54.000And also, and then made them come into conformity with federal law.
01:23:58.000So, yeah, I mean, there was a whole series, sequence of things.
01:24:02.000And yeah, no, Reconstruction was a political Reconstruction.
01:24:04.000So, short of like a war that California loses, how would you see them actually abiding by or giving?
01:24:13.000I think that you can do it simply through legislation.0.59
01:24:16.000I think you can say that no state in America can allow non citizens to vote in this instance, no state in America can allow non citizens to be eligible for social programs.
01:24:29.000That have received any dollar of federal money, and all of California's do.
01:24:33.000So I think you can go through and just simply state, you know, if California wants to receive a single dollar in federal benefits, they need to, you know, enact XYZ reforms.
01:24:45.000They're not enforcing laws across the board in California that we can just, like, you know, if you're not going to, if you're not going to police your streets, if you're not going to clean up, you know, if you're not going to, you know, clean up the homeless problem, like, you can spend as much money on, Homelessness as you want.
01:25:04.000If you're just not going to solve these problems, the federal government's going to create a national standard that every state has to conform to.
01:25:11.000I mean, this is like, this is how, you know, like every state in America adopted a 21-age drinking age because it was a federal standard to do so.
01:25:22.000The federal government's been enacting standards that states have to comply to forever.
01:25:27.000I think we need to do it with California and how they run their government.
01:25:35.000Bankrupt last year, or announced like it's near bankruptcy, all sorts of issues with that.
01:25:40.000Every one of the other big ones was when the Palisades Fire hit.
01:25:43.000They have a state run house insurance program where, if and if there was this whole situation where when the Palisades Fire happened, a bunch of the houses in the Palisades were no longer being insured by like State Farm, these large insurance companies, because California is already hostile to these firms.
01:25:59.000So, a bunch of these non renewals kicked in right in January.
01:26:02.000Palisades Fire happened like the 7th and 9th of January, and then when that happened, all these houses were supposed to go on.
01:26:07.000I think it's called the Fair Program, and this was a state run.
01:26:10.000The value of the Palisades alone being burnt to nothing was enough to bankrupt the entire state.
01:26:17.000So the entire state is run so poorly that any sort of catastrophic event can send the entire state into financial turmoil.
01:26:25.000And this is part of the reason why I think like 2030 is significantly like 2028 is super important because we're sort of at this precipice where all these blue states are committing economic suicide.
01:26:35.000You have companies pulling out of Seattle, you have California like Hollywood's pulling out.
01:26:38.000Colorado is probably the first big blue state that's actually hit a legitimate recession within the state.
01:26:43.000While other states are like red states are like uprising right now, they're all doing great economically.
01:26:50.000People can't even move out of their houses because the housing situation there.
01:26:53.000All of these states are kind of going under.
01:26:55.000And as they continue to go under, if we don't have control of 28 and like into 2030 and whatnot, then when these cities go under, which will then bankrupt the states and the federal government's going to bail them out.
01:27:06.000And this is a massive, massive concern that people aren't really thinking of yet.
01:27:09.000These states are huge liabilities to the solvency of America as a whole and they're killing themselves.
01:27:25.000Federal Reserve prints it for them and then they borrow it.
01:27:28.000Interest and then more inflation for the American people.
01:27:32.000That you do make a good point because this really is going to be something that you know it's going to be in conjunction with the social security going bankrupt, you're going to have states going bankrupt, and the government is just going to start printing.
01:27:49.000They're choosing to do this, like, this is a choice of policy.
01:27:52.000This is the big thing, what's terrifying about California, and even though fine in California, this law doesn't really matter, and Los Angeles specifically doesn't matter because they already don't care about.
01:28:06.000Every blue state from California up to Seattle and then Colorado follows and then Illinois follows and then New York follows and then they sort of create this secondary country where their policies then bleed out into all these other states and the effects of this then bleed out to the rest of the country, which is like the case for this needs to be handled.
01:28:23.000They cannot choose to kill themselves like this because if they do, then they're going to take the rest of us with them.
01:28:28.000Yeah, this is an argument that we make or a topic we discuss regularly.
01:28:32.000The The things that are going on in California when it comes to voting, that's what the Democrat Party wants to see nationally.
01:28:41.000So, if California is allowed to continue to basically rig the system, and we talk about what rig the system means, right?
01:28:50.000Like anytime you say to a Democrat, you say, Look, they're rigging the system in California, it's bad.
01:28:56.000And the response is always, Well, that's the law, as if the law implies legitimacy, right?0.92
01:29:02.000If you think, Okay, only Americans should vote, and you think, Well, you know, They don't let illegals vote, right?0.95
01:29:08.000That's the thing if you're here illegally, you can't vote.0.90
01:29:12.000And again, you talk to any Democrat and they'll say, illegals can't vote.
01:29:15.000But then you go through the system that California actually has.
01:29:39.000Above board, but it's set up so that way it is not representing the people.
01:29:45.000It is representing people that are here illegally, and it is representing the Democrat Party.0.97
01:29:50.000That's what they would love to do in the United States.
01:29:52.000I mean, that's kind of what happened in the 2020 election, right?
01:29:56.000They mailed out ballots, collected the ballots.
01:29:59.000No one knows for sure if all the ballots that were counted were legal.
01:30:03.000But we get Democrats that come in here or left leaning people, and they're like, and their common refrain is, was the 2020 election stolen?
01:30:13.000And the answer is no, because it was legal.
01:30:20.000Well, it was all legal, and you haven't shown me, you can't prove.
01:30:24.000And it's like, no, I don't have evidence of massive voter fraud.
01:30:29.000You're right, I don't have that evidence.
01:30:31.000But when you mail out ballots and you have no way to verify that the people that were filling out the ballots were actually legitimate voters, then you can't say that it was legitimate.
01:31:04.000Not mail out ballots, not make sure that anybody that's in the country of America gets to have a ballot.
01:31:12.000You just say, oh, well, this particular election, we have a really low turnout.
01:31:17.000Because no one complains about the variance in turnouts from election to election to election under normal circumstances.
01:31:25.000But when Donald Trump's going against Joe Biden and they want to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't get in again, well, then you figure out a way for it to be legal to do unprecedented things.
01:31:40.000What Democrats do is they create their masters at process.
01:31:44.000I envy their ability to just engineer process to get the outcome to be exactly what they want it to be, which is what they did during COVID completely changed election laws in a ton of states around.
01:31:55.000They made it election season in a bunch of different states that had never had that before.
01:32:00.000And, you know, so yeah, just because it's legal doesn't mean it's okay, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
01:32:07.000And it doesn't mean we shouldn't change it.
01:32:09.000And we have got to get to a situation in this country where we look at states like California, not just California, kind of across the board.
01:32:18.000They're doing this to my state right now.
01:32:20.000Just because they passed a law doesn't mean that we need to like accept this as, you know, How we're going to govern ourselves as a country.
01:32:29.000We have got to get to the point where we have the confidence to say, no, you're not allowed to have any level of government in America that has a single non citizen voting for it.0.93
01:32:42.000You're not allowed to have them vote legally, like they're trying to propose, and you're not allowed to let them vote by simply looking the other way.
01:32:50.000We need to have a system of elections that have standards and that have rules and that the rules are followed.
01:32:56.000You know, no one's perfect, doesn't need to be perfect.
01:32:58.000It needs to have a high degree of confidence, though.
01:33:01.000And we just have to get to a point where we're just confident enough as a country to say, we're just not going to tolerate that.
01:33:07.000My concern here is if we were to initiate a reconstruction through the federal government into California and be like, you're going to be changing laws.
01:33:16.000And if you don't, you're going to lose government funding, that they would go, well, we're not.
01:33:20.000And the Americans have betrayed, the American government has betrayed us.
01:33:31.000If they say, China, help us, which I think that that's a little extreme.
01:33:36.000I think that's a little extreme, but if there were any state that were to appeal to an adversary and say, hey, come help us, that's when you send in the military.
01:34:24.000You have this tiny little geographic area where there are all of the people, and they all happen to be leftists, but then there's the rest of the state, which are massive land mass.
01:34:37.000And the people who do live there are completely different.
01:34:40.000You know, I mean, like, completely different culture.
01:34:43.000Like, 180, you know, these are like, you know, small government conservatives in the rest of Oregon.
01:35:22.000Like you wouldn't cut it laterally, that wouldn't make any sense.
01:35:25.000Uh, I mean, that's more interesting to me because, like, you want I mean, California, what's that?
01:35:30.000What are the political differences between San Francisco and Los Angeles?
01:35:33.000It's not really, yeah, this the political difference and the reason that you would want is everyone kind of east, you know, of the state, like they come, like, you know, these are these are completely different culture.
01:35:47.000Like, to me, it's more of like cultural compatibility, but the the um, tech, like the military value of California is the Pacific.
01:36:20.000Texas actually has, like, it's funny you talk about breaking up states.
01:36:22.000The ultimate Republican nuclear weapon is.
01:36:25.000Is I think enshrined somewhere deep in the Texas Constitution.
01:36:28.000There's this hidden clause that it can break itself up to like seven or nine states.
01:36:32.000And this is the ultimate, like, we're going to take the Senate forever.
01:36:35.000We are going to break Texas up and then we will own the federal government, which I don't think will ever happen because Texas is like, Texans love the shape of our state.
01:36:44.000But that is like, there are these sort of options like breaking up some of the bigger Western states into things.
01:36:50.000But how realistic any of this is, is like harder to say.
01:37:09.000The Senate doesn't do anything to, and Trump, you know, that's why even today he's tweeting out like they must abolish the filibuster.
01:37:19.000You know, regardless if you agree with that or not, the point being this will require legislation, but we have to have standards that these states adhere to.
01:38:12.000I don't want a civil war, to be very clear.1.00
01:38:14.000I think we just need to assert that we're not going to accept behavior like what we're talking about with allowing non citizens to vote.0.90
01:38:26.000I think if you were to clean up California's voter rolls, if that were just to be required, if you want to receive another dollar more of federal funding, You're to clean up California's voter rolls.0.99
01:38:35.000If you were to, kind of going back to your point about too many people voting, I'm sympathetic to that argument.
01:38:41.000I think that vote by mail, like, I think you need to require, I think you need to have standards in place that make election counting happen overnight.
01:38:52.000Like, people need to have results of the election the same night.
01:38:56.000I think you need to have a system where it's not election.
01:38:59.000India has 1.5 billion people and they know the results of their elections the same day or the next morning.
01:39:06.000I mean, Every third world country can administer elections.
01:39:10.000And you know what their voter security is?
01:39:12.000They make you dip your finger in pink ink so that you can, that doesn't come off for a week, so that you do know that that person has voted or not.
01:39:20.000Like, there's low tech solutions to this stuff.
01:39:23.000Like, that's literally, it is not hard to do.
01:39:27.000And my point being, though, going back to California, if you were to clean up the voter rolls, if you were to have election day instead of election season, if you were to make sure, like, all of a sudden Republicans would start winning elections that they haven't won in 20 years.
01:39:40.000How do you feel about blockchain voting?
01:40:23.000I kind of see a hybrid system where you, You put the paper ballot in the machine and then it goes to a series of like 19 different blockchains where then you can go online and there's a barcode that you can scan, punch in your ID, your social, and verify that your vote is being read as what you put it in as.
01:40:40.000Because not against all paper ballots, you could write one thing and then they can count it as another.
01:40:45.000No, and that's actually been a thing in Detroit for like Detroit, Chicago, the blue cities.
01:40:52.000Like, voter fraud has been a thing in America for a very long time.
01:40:58.000It's existed for as long as the Democrat Party has.
01:41:01.000But yeah, I mean, so like, I actually think that's interesting and certainly not opposed to it, but low tech is certainly possible and would eliminate a lot of the biggest problems that we have.
01:41:14.000Like, even if I were interested in some solution like blockchain or high tech, we can't even get voter ID passed.
01:41:21.000So to have something like a complete revamping of the way we do votes when you can't even get, You know, get verification via ID.
01:41:34.000I think that that's, I think that, I mean, to get what you're talking about, you need ID first because you just were mentioning, you know, you punch in, everybody would have to have a number.
01:41:43.000And I think that you'd get resistance from both sides.
01:41:46.000You'd get resistance about having ID from the Democrats and you'd get resistance from Republicans saying, I don't want to have a serialized number that the government is, you know, it would be one of those, you know, digital ID kind of arguments.
01:41:59.000So, whereas I understand what you're saying for security reasons, I think the easiest thing.
01:42:05.000Is look, you go, you get one paper ballot.
01:42:08.000I wouldn't mind if the United States were like, all right, you have to actually put your fingerprint on it.
01:42:15.000Not that they should keep those records, but dip your finger in ink that doesn't come off for a week.
01:42:21.000So that way you can prove you voted, but you can't go back and vote again.
01:42:26.000I think it's like to get to too many people vote, I think you should have to care enough to show up on the day.
01:42:38.000And it wasn't that long that that was basically the standard.
01:42:42.000And as few exceptions as possible, but that's at least a minimum threshold to where you have surety that the people are voting and that you have to have a level of buy in that you're willing to show up on a particular day.
01:42:56.000Would you make or be open to making it a national holiday?
01:43:46.000This is like the past couple of years, the first couple of years where it's like, oh, everything's closed.
01:43:51.000I'm okay with it being a little bit harder.
01:43:52.000I, I had a hard time in LA getting out to vote, getting out to rock the vote personally, because I had to work till 6 30, and then the voting places would be closed up or closing.
01:44:10.000Like, maybe it should be open for the full 24 hours, maybe a national holiday, or like some sort of manual, like, hey, you can go out and vote during a work day.
01:44:18.000Like, you can take a few hours off or whatever.
01:44:20.000But like you were saying, you know, Dune's already saying that, that, There are Republicans now in the Senate that are so opposed to Trump that they would never vote for SAVE.
01:44:29.000So we're already running into all these roadblocks of like the rhinos in the Senate.
01:45:48.000I think there was a draft of it that included some other things, but the very most.
01:45:52.000Oh, because Trump wanted a few other things included in it.
01:45:56.000But that, you know, to me, that's neither here nor there.
01:45:59.000Like, it's not, you know, The SAVE Act itself could just get passed by itself.
01:46:06.000I mean, at this point, Trump's like, I'm not going to sign FISA reauthorization unless there's SAVE as part of it.
01:46:12.000Like, Trump, to his credit, is really pushing this.
01:46:16.000And even then, like, I think that one of the more recent criticisms that I saw when a lot of the SAVE debate was happening a few weeks ago, where a bunch of Republicans were even saying, well, voter fraud really isn't that much of a big deal.
01:46:27.000Like, we don't really need to worry about it.
01:47:29.000In regards to companies collecting data, the person clicking accept cannot give approval for everyone else around them or in their contacts.
01:47:39.000If someone blindly clicks that they accept, the children living in your home, your guests, and your family member who isn't on social media do not give approval.
01:47:45.000Do you think that this is something that will ever face the courts or be written into law?
01:47:52.000Because I don't think that anything is gone.
01:47:55.000I think he's kind of referring to the shadow profiles that Facebook makes.
01:47:59.000So, if you're not aware, if you have a phone number in your contact list and it's mom, and then one of your friends has the same phone number in their contact list and it's Sherry, then Facebook will say, oh, look, this number matches.
01:48:23.000And then if you go somewhere else, And say, I'm here with Sherry, and they see that it's the person, somehow they see that it matches some information on that Sherry person, and there's a picture, and you check in, they'll put the picture on it.
01:48:37.000So they'll literally build a profile, and it's not particularly hard when people are sharing all their information.
01:48:44.000They'll build a profile for a person that doesn't even have a Facebook page, that's never signed up for Facebook ever.
01:48:48.000And the more information they get, the more comprehensive the profile will be.
01:48:54.000And I don't imagine that there's going to be any kind of legislation about it.
01:48:58.000You know, this is Facebook's business model.
01:49:03.000Courts have been so deferential to these companies that I just don't see that being an approach.
01:49:11.000I actually like the way you're thinking, though, because that ultimately is probably a type of legalistic approach that we're going to have to take against these guys.
01:49:21.000But right now, I just, I mean, the courts just let these guys run wild.
01:49:27.000And that's unfortunately the world we're living in right now.
01:49:51.000I mean, look, if you have a person in your country that is not supposed to be there, they should be sent home regardless as to whether or not they have thrown a three year old into a crocodile enclosure.
01:50:06.000If you find a person that throws a three year old into a crocodile enclosure, they should be punished to the fullest extent of the law that the law allows, regardless of whether they are in your country legally or illegally.
01:50:23.000It's not necessary to carry out the most extreme form of punishment that the government allows to someone that.
01:50:36.000Is there illegally that is throwing the crocodile?
01:50:38.000Like, they get the worst just for throwing the kid into the crocodile enclosure.
01:50:43.000It doesn't matter if they're there legally or not.
01:50:44.000And anyone that's there legally should be sent illegally, should be sent home.
01:50:48.000I mean, yeah, the UK is just obviously we have our problems here, but man, the Rotherham inquiry or the rape report, yeah, Rupert Lowe's rape report, 212 pages, 250,000 girls.0.92
01:51:00.000It's like, I mean, the accounts and all the you know, people have been trying to like nitpick the numbers and whatnot, but.
01:51:07.000The actual accounts of what's happened to these girls and how it was allowed, encouraged, covered up by police, by the UK officials.
01:51:14.000I mean, by care workers, by people that were in the hospitals.
01:51:27.000And then the traffickers that raped her would then get paid foster care money by the state to take care of the child as a result of the trafficking.
01:51:38.000And to your point, like, you know, people are going to, they're trying to discredit it by saying that it wasn't done by the government.
01:51:49.000I made this point on the morning show the other day.
01:51:53.000It doesn't matter if they increase the numbers by 100%.
01:51:57.000If it was 125,000 girls, it is still make it 80 or 800,000.
01:52:04.000It is that is completely irrelevant to the fact that they had a systemic nationwide problem, like that every single Aspect of government was in on it.
01:52:22.000They encouraged it in many cases to happen.0.98
01:52:24.000I mean, some of these, you know, some of these, you know, some of these care facilities, they were using them to pimp out the, like, the Muslim men would wait out front for the girls to leave and they'd pick them up.1.00
01:52:39.000Like, every single, like, I am more mad at the government officials in the UK than I'm even like, you know, obviously, you know, UK needs to, Do remigration, but they need to.0.99
01:52:53.000They need to lock up every single person who is involved in any aspect of this.
01:53:01.000There's so many people that are trying to cover it up or that have have tried to cover it up.
01:53:06.000The thing that really does kind of get me the most is the the care workers right, the people at hospitals and the police officers, the I someone asked me you know that it said.
01:53:17.000They said something along the lines of that's going to happen in America and I brought up, That's not going to happen in America.
01:53:23.000This is a country where a father went and his daughter was raped, and he went and he took the law into his own hands.
01:53:40.000Then he ran for sheriff and won to be the sheriff.
01:53:43.000This is a country that celebrates Gary Plushet Day.
01:53:46.000Now, this might be a little too online for some people, but Gary Plushet, his son was molested by his karate teacher.
01:53:55.000As the man was being brought through the airport, Gary Plashay took the law into his own hands, and everyone knows the story.
01:54:02.000And so, this kind of stuff, like as much as terrible things can happen in the United States, I don't even think that law enforcement would allow that.
01:54:37.000And I mean, there, I know that most of America, I 100% agree with you.
01:54:42.000I think that places like Minneapolis, I think certain places in Michigan, I mean, we have, I mean, you know, there's cities in Michigan where they do Islamic call to prayer.
01:55:06.000The Supreme Court had to formally ask, I think it was the Attorney General of the state, or maybe it was like the District Attorney for the city.
01:55:13.000I'm spacing on which one to not lie to them because it turns out that that individual, that official, plus like their secretary were just straight up lying, trying to get people off of death row for like murder and like all sorts of other heinous crimes.
01:55:28.000This just happened like yesterday, I think.
01:55:30.000It was so it's like you're already seeing various amounts of law enforcement try and sweep this under the rug.
01:55:36.000So I agree that there are problematic district attorneys.
01:55:44.000But I don't think that for the most part, law enforcement is going to like the actual guys that are doing, you know, your detectives, your cops that are beat cops and stuff.
01:55:55.000I completely agree that there are plenty of DAs, there are plenty of leftists that have been, you know, that have had their campaigns that were funded by, you know, leftist organizations or what have you that have been elected.
01:56:08.000And you see those, you've seen some of those people get recalled.
01:56:11.000And that's another thing that, another thing that I, another reason why I think that it wouldn't happen on such a broad scale.
01:56:17.000In the U.S., and I think that's my point.
01:56:19.000I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, but it would be a whole systemic failure because I think that individual cops will not allow it.
01:56:27.000I think that, yeah, detectives won't just turn blind.
01:56:31.000I think that there would be a lot of people that would quit, they would be whistleblowers here in the U.S.
01:56:35.000I do think in America, like in the United States, I do agree with you.
01:56:41.000If this was happening in a broad enough scale, there would be a cop, he would go on a podcast, like he would blow the whistle, and you would have.
01:56:51.000Higher levels of authority that would absolutely take that seriously.
01:57:29.000Leonard says, are we watching the greatest marketing scheme ever with Anthropic and their Mythos Fable 5 models?
01:57:35.000Or do you think they really built something that's truly dangerous?
01:57:38.000So, like I was talking to Tim last night, the unique thing about Fable is when you give it like the ability to hack is emergent because you give an AI a really, really comprehensive ability to reason and you give it a really comprehensive ability.
01:57:56.000Ability to code those two things together create an ability to hack.
01:58:01.000It's not like they created it saying we're going to make this thing able to hack, right?
01:58:06.000That ability, the ability to hack into computer systems, it takes reasoning and it takes a really deep understanding of code.
01:58:14.000Uh, I don't think that it's a marketing ploy, I think that Fable probably is incredibly good at hacking.
01:58:22.000I use Sonnet all the time with my AI, right?
01:58:25.000Like, I got an AI bot, most of you guys know, I call him Tank.
01:58:30.000And he, I use Fable, or no, I'm sorry, I use Sonnet because it's not as expensive as the, what was the newest one?
01:58:46.000So I do think that it's probably as capable as they say it is.
01:58:52.000They didn't start Project Glasswing for no reason.
01:58:55.000I don't think that they would have given it to companies to test out if it was just about marketing.
01:59:01.000And if it was just about marketing, these companies would pro someone in the companies would have been like, 'This is not a big deal.' There would be people talking about it, and you're not hearing that.
01:59:09.000Um, so no, I don't think that it's a marketing club.
01:59:13.000I've got an interesting riff off what you just said, and something I thought was very interesting in the Trump administration's response.
01:59:20.000So, if you look at the, you know, I think it was Lutnik, I think it was the Commerce Department that put the restrictions on the product.
01:59:30.000What was really interesting about it is, and part of the reason they had to recall it, was that they placed an export saying no foreigner could get access to this, including foreign nationals within Anthropic.
01:59:44.000What was really interesting to me about that is that a model to force these companies to hire American?
01:59:52.000Because, like, if you're going to, if these AI models are going to be the point where we're not going to allow, is that an opportunity for the Trump administration to force these AI companies that are in many cases have CCP, like known, I mean, like, you know, huge percentages of these companies are foreign citizens?
02:00:10.000Is this a way for the Trump administration to force these companies to hire American?
02:00:13.000I thought that was just an interesting little aspect of it that I thought got overlooked by a lot of people.
02:00:19.000You know, when I'm looking at this, common sense wise, it's like, okay, the dam is breaking.
02:00:25.000The water looks like it's all going to spill out.
02:00:27.000And they're like, hold on, hold on, hold on.
02:00:58.000My buddy works deep, deep military tech intelligence, and he's like, Yo, bro, the people are freaking out about how to counter quantum cryptographic breakage.
02:01:08.000Things are figuring out at the quantum scale how to break cryptography.