On today's show, we talk about the latest in the Iran-U.S. conflict, the new Supreme Court nominee, the Save Act, and much, much more! Thanks to our sponsor, Tax Network USA, for sponsoring the show.
00:02:03.000The FBI has warned police stations across California that Iran is preparing, aspiring to, engage in drone strikes off of the coast of California to California.
00:02:15.000And the immediate response from a lot of the anti-interventionist people is that, okay, this is propaganda.
00:02:21.000But I guess in essence, if you believe the FBI, then Iran is planning on bombing California.
00:02:28.000So, okay, seems like a stretch, but I think we should still take it seriously and take a look at what they're talking about.
00:02:33.000At the same time, it has been reported that Iran is mining the Strait of Hormuz and a U.S. tanker, a U.S.-owned tanker, has been bombed.
00:02:43.000So, while Trump at the same time is saying we've won the war, a lot of stuff is still going on.
00:02:48.000And then there's another really interesting story that apparently, like, the new Supreme Leader didn't show up for like a big ceremony, and everyone was like, ha, what a loser.
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00:07:41.000FBI warned police departments across California over the past few days that Iran could retaliate for American attacks by launching drones at the West Coast.
00:07:51.000ABC reviewed an alert distributed at the end of February that reads, quote, we recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California in the event that the U.S. had conducted strikes against Iran.
00:08:19.000We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.
00:08:47.000Well, you know, tune into shows like this to make sure you're not in danger.
00:08:51.000I think blowback Israel, and I think it's a significant issue that we're going to have to deal with for quite a long time now, sadly.
00:08:56.000But when we look at the story, it originally was an FBI memo sent out in February.
00:09:00.000That would have been nice to know for the citizens in California so they could have actually been on watch there.
00:09:05.000I'm looking at a lot of the comments here and people are like, well, I don't really believe the FBI.
00:09:08.000They covered up the Epstein stuff for over 30 years now.
00:09:11.000They have no credibility, as a lot of people are saying this could just be a way to make people fear or to try to do some kind of false flag in order to allow boots on the ground here.
00:09:22.000Lots of people are very skeptical of power right now, but I do believe the threat of blowback Israel.
00:09:28.000Three American citizens have lost their lives here because of a Shi'i radical that was pissed off about the, but New York was ISIS.
00:09:35.000ISIS has actually been fighting Iran and Iran has been fighting ISIS as well.
00:09:40.000So ISIS and the radical Sunni Islamists are very happy about this war in Iran.
00:09:46.000And there are other considerations about using them along with the Kurds in order to put boots on the ground inside of Iran, which I think is just an awful move because, you know, things always go good when we drop a whole bunch of weapons and bombs in the Middle East and give it to the random people there.
00:09:59.000As of course, that usually led up to the creation of ISIS.
00:10:02.000Global jihad is something that's a real legitimate threat that we should be taking seriously.
00:10:07.000And it just sucks because no one trusts the authorities anymore.
00:10:11.000I don't think that Trump would actually rely on a false flag to put boots on the ground.
00:10:17.000If that was something that he was going to do, just like he didn't need a false flag to attack Israel, I think if he actually wanted to do it, he's the kind of guy that would be like, I'm just going to go do it.
00:10:37.000And if you think about it, they see it as a way, if Trump does a false flag, then he could galvanize the American public to put boots on the ground to escalate and expand this country.
00:10:46.000They wouldn't put a story like this out if it was going to be a false flag.
00:10:51.000And then after the fact, they would say, you know what they would do is the attack would happen.
00:10:56.000Then there would be hearings on the memo and they would say, you knew this was possible and you didn't warn everybody.
00:11:00.000And they'd say, well, we didn't find it to be credible.
00:11:02.000And then everyone in the media would be like, the Trump administration knew of the threat of an attack on California and did nothing about it.
00:11:09.000So when I see stuff like this, it's usually because it's not going to happen.
00:11:17.000The Iranian could it have been that this memo was circulated for the purpose of a false flag operation that the U.S. would use to then go in to attack Iran.
00:11:58.000I mean, there's been very little messaging besides, you know, Iran's a threat.
00:12:02.000Donald Trump has been pretty hawkish on Iran for, I mean, a long time before he was president.
00:12:07.000He was making remarks on Twitter back in like 2013 about how he couldn't, he wouldn't want to see Iran get a nuclear weapon.
00:12:16.000So I don't think that this is actually the Iran war is actually out of character for Trump.
00:12:21.000He did say that he didn't want to see new wars, but I don't think that he looks at this as a new war.
00:12:25.000I think he looks at this as an extension of the policy that Iran's not going to get a nuclear weapon.
00:12:29.000And then as for the idea of a threat of a ship launching drones off the California coast, I think that that's just a second question with like the Coast Guard.
00:12:40.000Well, I think that American citizens should be allowed to have weapons that could take out a ship.
00:15:04.000So one of the things I was thinking about today is that, you know, what are Trump's motivations if legacy is especially important to him?
00:15:10.000Why start a war that people are going to get mad about?
00:15:13.000And one theory, you know, it's funny because the anti-Israel people are just going to claim Tim Poole said something stupid, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:19.000I have a theory that may or may not be correct.
00:15:21.000But I'm thinking about Donald Trump coming in his first term being like, these losers couldn't solve Israel-Palestine, but I can because I'm the art of the deal.
00:15:46.000And then I think he ran into the issue of Iran funding Hamas groups, Akassan Brigade types, and other militia groups in the Middle East that are continuing to fight.
00:16:00.000I think for Trump, there's two things.
00:16:02.000One, I believe what Marco Rubio said the first time.
00:16:05.000Israel was going to take an action against Iran.
00:16:08.000The U.S. was concerned this would result in a retaliation against the United States.
00:16:11.000They decided to join the Israeli effort because they didn't want to take a defensive posture, which would they would then get criticized for.
00:16:17.000If Israel's going to do that, we're going to have to attack as well.
00:16:19.000I think you're leaving out part of what he said.
00:16:22.000Part of what he said is we were always going to attack Iran, but then because of Israel's timeline, we decided we want to stay on the offense.
00:17:19.000He's trying to, he wants that legacy of being the guy who stabilized the Middle East, which is like one of the most ridiculous things anyone could aspire to do.
00:17:53.000Now, what happened between 2011 and now, there's a big time jump, of course, here.
00:17:59.000What I find weird was how Rubio came out and said what he said, and then the next day walked it back when asked by the same reporter, rephrasing the same exact statement that he made.
00:18:10.000And this is why there's such a kind of like strange kind of circumstance here because we're first being told Iran's going to attack Israel.
00:18:48.000One of the oil tankers that was attacked by Iranian explosive boats in the Persian Gulf belongs to a U.S.-based company, Safe Sea Group, I believe is at the name of the company.
00:19:24.000One of the craziest things about these tankers getting bombed is that these are some of the biggest explosions and fireballs ever in history because these are tankers with like ridiculous amounts of crude in them blowing up.
00:19:38.000So here's, here's the other video and, uh, so this is the issue that, uh, we were talking about last night and.
00:19:52.000And what I will say is, without getting in, I suppose this will still be ignite the argument.
00:19:56.000The reason why the United States largely has been trying to go after Iran is because the Strait of Hormuz is 20% of global oil and gas.
00:20:05.000So if you are a petro-dollar country, you are very concerned about what Iran is doing.
00:20:52.000And this also weakens China and Russia, who get their oil from Iran.
00:20:56.000So when people talk about this, like it's Iran in this vacuum across the world, like what Donald Trump is doing is multiple layers deeper than that.
00:21:04.000I'm not always the person that's like, oh, Donald Trump is always playing 4D chess.
00:21:52.000So for the same reason the U.S. gives Pakistan $13 million for gender studies, we know that money went to some politician's pocket and he bought himself a Lambo.
00:22:01.000The point is, by putting U.S. dollars in these countries, the goal is to get them to want to use U.S. dollars for their trade to be on the petrodollar system.
00:22:09.000I'm not saying you should agree with it.
00:22:11.000But the motivation is, actually, let me put it like this for Luke, because you understand this.
00:22:16.000Why is Trump supporting Saudi Arabia's attacks and the humanitarian crisis, like the violence in Yemen?
00:22:22.000It has to do with Houthi rebels bombing the Red Sea and Donald Trump trying to kiss the pinky ring of the Saudis to get them back on the petro dealer contract that expired.
00:22:31.000Well, the Housis are a proxy army of the Iranians.
00:22:33.000So this has been a long conflict that the Israelis and the Americans have been working on because first they got rid of all the proxies.
00:23:04.000The challenge is I don't have an issue with saying like, if the rebels are bombing cargo vessels, we're going to stop you.
00:23:12.000I have a problem with Obama blowing up civilian targets in civilian restaurants and things like that.
00:23:17.000I have an issue with curtailing the transparency on drone strikes in the Middle East because Trump doesn't want people to realize they've escalated that while they've pulled back on ground troops.
00:23:26.000The challenge is all of these things are tied together.
00:23:30.000And I was looking at domestic policy stuff earlier today, and the point is there's a machine in place that nobody can break.
00:23:59.000At the same time, I would prefer for Donald Trump to protect American shipping lanes, not international shipping lanes.
00:24:06.000And if we weren't involved, hold on, hold on, hold on, if we weren't involved, if we weren't involved here, right, and we would have focused on America, like this would have strategically put China in a position to make Iran open up the Strait of Hormuz and stop this war, right?
00:24:21.000By getting involved, you're making sure that you're doing the bidding of China.
00:24:24.000And I have seen no deal about China accepting the U.S. petrol dollar at all.
00:24:28.000And if I see it, I would gladly say that I'm wrong.
00:24:31.000But we're doing the work for China right now, according to Donald Trump.
00:24:33.000And so the issue is: do you want to trade oil in one and have China be the dominant unipolar global power, or do you want to pressure them to just accept the state of affairs with the U.S. naval police?
00:24:45.000If that would be the thing that's happening here, okay, I would understand it.
00:27:48.000Luke, do you understand what would happen if the petrodollar system ended?
00:27:52.000Yes, the whole dollar system would collapse.
00:27:54.000There would not be dollars, there would not be labor in the United States for what you're talking about.
00:27:58.000Now, again, I'm not saying I agree with invading Iran or anything like that.
00:28:01.000My point is, back in 2016, we had talked about this because I was telling people: if you like cheap laptops and 10-cent hot dogs on the street corner, Hillary Clinton's the candidate for you because she will bomb out of anybody to make sure we get that cheap oil and everyone's in our system.
00:28:17.000Trump is the guy who is saying, secure our borders, bring our manufacturing back, strengthen ourselves internally so that there's real value in this country.
00:29:29.000It was a commando raid, but it was alleged by the family.
00:29:31.000So I'm willing to say that deserves an investigation.
00:29:34.000I'm not going to ignore it, but it's not the same as Obama admitting they blew up a 16-year-old American kid, bombing a country we're not at, war with targeting civilian restaurants.
00:30:57.000I love the idea of 20 aircraft carriers floating around saying, don't F around because you will find out.
00:31:03.000What I don't like is the same system then started injecting gay communism to all these other countries and bringing McDonald's and Starbucks to turning everything in Times Square.
00:31:37.000But if they start bombing people in the Red Sea, for instance, then we come in and say, no, it's not happening.
00:31:43.000Unfortunately, this idea of a liberal economic order, which was supposed to be, we go and develop countries, we give you loans, you pay those loans back, we stabilize trade around you, we stop war from happening, isn't what they did.
00:31:54.000They started injecting gay communism to a bunch of countries, and that screwed up all of this international order that AOC claims that Trump is screwing up.
00:32:03.000Really, this problem with centralized authority in general is they'll bait you with the, let's make you safe, everyone subserve to my authority, and then they twist you up with their weird thoughts to get superpowers.
00:32:46.000We could have done this in a totally different way where we weren't financing the radicals like we did in the 80s and then they came over like the Mulhajid and the quote freedom fighters.
00:32:54.000So let me ask you about the domestic effects of all of those policies.
00:32:59.000As it pertains to people at home, what do you think is like the results of all of these things?
00:33:05.000We subpund it, we funded al-Qaeda and stuff.
00:33:08.000What do you think is the worst ramification?
00:33:11.000Yeah, the destruction of the U.S. dollar and the purchasing power of the dollar.
00:33:14.000Like people had to work harder to get work harder and get less.
00:33:18.000We're printing money and we're giving it to this just huge endeavors in the Middle East and we have nothing to show for it.
00:33:26.000I think one of the obvious answers would be that 9-11, which the CIA called blowback for Middle Eastern operations.
00:33:34.000We were meddling in affairs in the Middle East for decades, since, I mean, like the early 1900s, but it became predominantly U.S. operations in the 50s.
00:33:43.000And this results in an expansion of terror.
00:33:45.000We funded the Mujahideen, who then become Al-Qaeda, and then we get blowback because they don't like us.
00:33:51.000So I think the challenge is here, where I'd push back on you a little bit, Luke, is the petrodollar system makes us fat and comfortable.
00:34:00.000We get more than we deserve because of this system.
00:34:03.000Without it, we would largely be like factory workers and farmers.
00:34:07.000I don't think that's entirely a bad thing, mind you.
00:34:10.000But when you say stuff like the dollar is weakened or whatever, I think the bigger problem is the threat of violence, terror, and instability in various regions, like terrorism being the principal issue.
00:34:21.000These are the trade-offs that we have.
00:34:23.000Economically, I think people don't realize just how good we have it.
00:34:26.000And if you were to end this petrodollar system, our economy would tank.
00:34:31.000Like laptops would cost $3,000 or $4,000.
00:34:34.000I'm not saying the petrodollar increasing petrol dollars is great.
00:34:36.000I think it's crazy to be able to do it.
00:34:38.000How do you keep the petrodollar with all the straight away?
00:36:43.000The challenge with this, the reason why I'm not, look, in all things, I try to avoid being an extremist on any position because I think these things are nuanced.
00:36:51.000I think that if at a certain point Iran was able to actually develop nuclear weapons, I don't think they'd randomly just start bombing countries.
00:37:00.000I do think in war, they would use nukes.
00:37:03.000So I think in the immediate, what they would do is they would say, now that we have a nuclear weapon, it's time for you to give us more.
00:37:09.000And Trump doesn't want to negotiate with the nuclear power.
00:37:12.000So that's why he's like, it's not going to happen.
00:37:14.000But Bibi was telling us that they were going to nuke New York City.
00:37:33.000The drones are going to be on ships in the Pacific that will launch over three miles, which is different from an intercontinental ballistic missile going 20,000 miles.
00:37:44.000But all the people complaining right now about gas prices very temporarily going up and straight over moves.
00:38:31.000Gas was hovering around like $250, $230, and it did go up 20%.
00:38:35.000So people are now looking at $2.80, maybe even high as $3 in many urban metros, which is not good, but it's nowhere near the apocalypse that many liberals are starting to bring up.
00:38:47.000That being said, I am not going to play games where I downplay the fact that gas prices are going up because a war in Iran started.
00:38:56.000If Trump is able to get whatever he's trying to get done in Iran in a couple of weeks and all of this stops and normalizes, I will say, okay, good.
00:39:04.000But you said whatever he's trying to get.
00:39:56.000And so there is an argument to be made.
00:39:58.000The reason Trump doesn't want this to be a formalized congressional war is that it's going to change the economic footing of the country in a way that could be damaging.
00:40:06.000Now, that's the argument of, and it's a good thing.
00:40:17.000I'm not saying that Iran is a great country.
00:40:19.000It doesn't need to be taken care of here, but we'll be realistic that this guy's acting like a tyrant and maybe a benevolent tyrant, maybe.
00:40:27.000I mean, these executive orders and going to war, one guy.
00:40:30.000I suppose the argument is, because I don't necessarily disagree that it's tyrannical to launch a war against another country without proper declaration, without proper constitutional authority.
00:40:39.000The issue that I see with this is that literally every president has done it for a long time and that we are living in this system of executive over authority.
00:40:47.000And I'm like, I'm not going, guys, I'm a teenager and I watched George W. Bush and I'm like, I am very critical of this.
00:40:55.000And then people are like, don't you remember the other presidents?
00:41:08.000I'm not trying to defend Trump on the issue, though, but this is what the U.S. is.
00:41:12.000It's almost as if every president that campaigns always says there will be no war, but then there's like a shadow super government that just kind of takes over whenever they get into any kind of position.
00:41:46.000But the one country that we have a lot of oil sanctions on is Russia.
00:41:51.000So the argument that we're fighting Russia and China through this war here doesn't really stick since it looks like we're going to be opening up Russia's markets and opening up China's trade here.
00:42:45.000We could have been building more nuclear reactors.
00:42:47.000We could have been making America energy independent.
00:42:49.000But no, we got to go bomb the water desalination plant.
00:42:52.000Both the U.S. and China have a different strategy when it comes to AI because that's what both of these things are talking about, whether you're talking about infrastructure.
00:43:06.000Like, the U.S. right now has a lock on the chips because of their relationship with Taiwan.
00:43:11.000China has basically older generation chips.
00:43:15.000China's looking at the long road, though, because at some point the bottleneck isn't going to be the chips.
00:43:19.000The bottleneck is going to be the energy production.
00:43:21.000China's looking at this from the long run.
00:43:23.000The U.S. needs to change our policy when it comes to energy production.
00:43:27.000I just saw that there was a nuclear plant that's going to be opening.
00:43:30.000I don't know when it's actually going to happen, but the U.S. is looking to make those changes, but they're behind the eight ball in the energy production.
00:43:36.000But for now, the U.S. does have the edge when it comes to the chips and winter.
00:43:40.000The chips are getting rid of our defensive TAD missile systems in Asia because we're bringing them over to the Middle East.
00:43:45.000And then China's looking at Taiwan here, motivated than ever to take it.
00:43:50.000I don't think that China has the ability to take Taiwan in the situation.
00:44:25.000They do, but they only get, when I wrote about this the other day, they get something along the lines of like China imports 11.6 million barrels of oil per day.
00:44:36.000Of that, roughly 1.3 million barrels come from Iran.
00:44:39.00013 to 14% of China's total seaborne imports come from Iran.
00:47:02.000But I remember after George W. Bush declared mission accomplished, for a long time, everyone saw this as a huge success, as a huge victory.
00:47:10.000Only until eight months to a year did people finally start to realize, holy cow, this was a big mistake.
00:47:17.000And this didn't work out at all as Bibi was in our Congress telling us that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons and was going to nuke New York, just like he just said the same exact thing about Iran as well.
00:47:32.000The policy in Iraq was a big part of the problem, though.
00:47:36.000Like trying to de-bathify the entire country.
00:47:54.000Which is, I mean, that was a terrible idea in the first place.
00:47:56.000The fact that in Venezuela, the Trump administration took out Maduro and they just left the government and said, look, play ball with us, or we will come to get you.
00:48:06.000Obviously, it's a different situation when you turn the lights out in a whole city, shut the whole city off, go and do what you want, grab the president and leave.
00:48:13.000The rest of the people in the government are going to be like, we probably should play ball.
00:48:17.000But at the same time, if you leave the infrastructure there, the government structures there, and don't tell people that are trained to fight to go and go home with nothing to do, you're likely to get a better outcome than you got in Iraq.
00:48:32.000Let's jump to some domestic policy stuff because we've got a big story here, and that is the Save America Act.
00:48:38.000For those that are unfamiliar, this is a bill that basically would require, well, literally, would require proof of citizenship when you register to vote, not when you actually vote.
00:48:46.000It's supported by basically everybody in this country.
00:48:49.000In fact, 71% of Democrats believe you should have an ID when you literally vote, not just register.
00:48:57.000The question then becomes, if literally everybody supports this, and it's one of the most popular bills we have ever seen in our lifetime, why are Democrats and Rhino-Republicans, I know it's kind of redundant, but still, why are they blocking this?
00:49:46.000Now, where it gets interesting, Cornyn in Texas, who's facing a runoff election against Ken Paxton, was not supporting the SAVE Act, not supporting nuking the filibuster.
00:49:57.000And all of a sudden, he changed his tune because he's at risk of losing his seat.
00:50:01.000And Ken Paxton said he will drop out of the race if Cornyn pledges to vote in the SAVE Act, which he's not going to do.
00:50:07.000Well, the interesting thing is, we got this over from Kalshi.
00:50:10.000Shout out Kalshi for sponsoring this show.
00:50:45.000So they're allowing him to say what he needs to say to his voter base so they will vote for him while Ken Paxton, of course, is the legitimate and real choice.
00:50:53.000He is now coming out saying, I'm with you, people, because behind the scenes, they put up a wall.
00:51:36.000So, why are Republicans being like, nah, everybody wants it?
00:51:39.000Again, granted, it's only a few Republicans, but they only need a few Republicans.
00:51:43.000Well, I'm not sure what the reasons they've tried to articulate, but I think it's the voters are going to be disenfranchised, is what Murkowski is saying.
00:53:42.000Yeah, they were using tap water and then dying because the amoebas would go into their brain and they'd be like, and then they would and then die.
00:54:25.000We're talking about all the Jews that are coming to the country.
00:54:28.000Yeah, that was one of the things that billions of Jews that will come in.
00:54:31.000One of the other arguments we heard yesterday is that there's actually more than 14 million Jews because they're keeping it a secret.
00:54:37.000So Murkowski's saying how Murkowski's saying, you're saying the dating pool is actually larger than his proposal.
00:54:42.000Yeah, apparently there's like a billion Jews.
00:54:44.000Murkowski's saying that the reasons are federal overreach and the state's authority.
00:54:48.000And she's saying she's concerned about making major election changes too close to the midterms, which I think is the whole point of the act is to make sure that there is a change before the midterms.
00:54:58.000Thune is saying that he supports the bill in principle, but is blocking the procedural path.
00:55:02.000His argument is that changing the filibuster rule is a bigger risk.
00:55:05.000He needs 60 votes to advance it and doesn't have them.
00:55:08.000When Trump pushed the talking filibuster workaround, Thune said we aren't there, essentially protecting the filibuster over the bill.
00:55:14.000Curtis from Utah says the reason or method doesn't matter.
00:55:16.000It's breaking the filibuster, which is objecting on procedure.
00:55:19.000And Rand Paul is against it because it's inconsistent with states' rights, you know, the 10th Amendment.
00:55:33.000So, I mean, I think that, you know, Rand Paul is actually not a surprise when it comes to that particular perspective, but I do think that these are actually pretty weak arguments.
00:55:44.000The whole federal overreach thing, the point of this is just making sure that the voter roles are only citizens.
00:55:51.000So this is not some kind of federal overreach.
00:55:54.000He's not telling anybody how they have to do the votes.
00:55:56.000All they're saying is they have to verify.
00:56:49.000What it will do, however, is make sure that people who should not be registered registered, which are not registered, which is weird because we have seen instances where non-citizens accidentally got registered.
00:57:01.000I think the real play here, the real reason they don't want it to pass, is because ballot harvesting is an excellent way to manipulate and control elections.
00:57:08.000And the Republicans cut deals with Democrats because it's one big happy family Treeson, and they're all friends.
00:57:14.000They're not fighting each other for the most part.
00:58:09.000They probably will defund ICE or try to defund ICE.
00:58:12.000It's going to be just a complete mess.
00:58:13.000And all the stuff that the American people voted for Donald Trump for, even the people that are mad, they haven't got enough of it yet.
00:58:20.000Like they're not going to get any of it.
00:58:22.000And again, people were complaining about Donald Trump last summer, which you can complain, but if you'd already made your decision last summer that you weren't going to vote for him, it's like he'd been in office for six months.
00:58:41.000Like you have to allow a government that is designed to work slowly to work through the process.
00:58:47.000And if you're just like, oh, well, he didn't wave a magic wand and give me what I want right now.
00:58:51.000Then so I'm not going to support the agenda.
00:58:54.000I mean, that doesn't help anyone at all because Democrats in power only makes things worse, not just for just for Donald Trump, but it makes things worse for the country.
00:59:18.000And I view libertarians as the party of we came together because we all found something that we want to be legal party.
00:59:26.000So that's why when you go to libertarian conventions, you've just got like weirdo lefties and perverts alongside people who don't like taxes.
00:59:35.000And then you're like, how come you guys are like anti-war and hate taxes, which is like a reasonable intended approach, but you've got a bunch of like weird fetishists in your audience.
00:59:42.000It's like, well, you know, because they're libertarians because they want something to be legal.
00:59:56.000I mean, look, you've got, if your entire platform, and this is the reason I don't call myself a libertarian anymore, your entire platform is we want to make sure that we get into power so that way we do nothing that's not going to help people.
01:00:08.000And it's not an attractive platform to people that are looking for a government that's going to do something for them, especially considering the government is so broad and so far-reaching.
01:00:16.000And it's in every aspect of your life.
01:00:18.000You have to get into a position of power and actually roll the government back.
01:00:22.000And sometimes that takes that takes doing things you don't want to do to be able to get to the point where you can pass laws that you want to or repeal things and undo things that you don't like.
01:00:33.000Yeah, I will say that one of the big challenges right now with the Texas stuff with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn is that, you know, Ken has been very, very incredible on the national stage.
01:00:44.000However, the TABC just raided the Lodge Card Club for reasons we don't know and shut them down.
01:01:14.000Just as an aside, you know, I know most people in the world are kind of like, well, I don't play poker.
01:01:19.000But there's something to be said of a state where you have an explicitly legal practice and the state is using process punishment to shut down businesses that they don't like.
01:01:28.000Yeah, that's something you'd expect of New York, not Texas.
01:01:31.000To put it simply, ignore poker and imagine this.
01:01:42.000And then the government says, we want to shut this down, but we have no legal means to do it.
01:01:47.000So what you end up seeing is process punishment, where they say, well, you know, we're going to have to investigate and seize everything and shut everything down and lock your doors until we can figure out what's going on.
01:01:55.000They bleed you dry over a year or two, then your business is destroyed and you never broke one law.
01:02:00.000So that's freaky that Texas does that.
01:02:03.000But I'm sure it's not the only time they've done it.
01:02:16.000If they want to shut a business down, one of the things they'll do is that the cops will go in and start issuing tons of ridiculous tickets for drinking infractions or whatever.
01:02:26.000Like, show me the man, I'll show you the crime.
01:02:29.000This is what government does that pisses people off.
01:02:32.000And like, to your point, Luke, completely agree.
01:02:34.000They go to a bar and they say, we don't want a bar here.
01:04:26.000I will say once when I was in Tucson, Arizona, I thought I saw a woman being trafficked, and I called the police and gave them information.
01:04:33.000And they were like, yeah, we're not going to do anything about that.
01:04:37.000This is basically what happens all the time with everything.
01:04:42.000Like when I was a kid, there was an issue where a homeless guy was trying to break a window to my family had a coffee shop and there was a guy.
01:04:50.000Like apparently he was smashing the window with a rock.
01:04:52.000The cops were literally one block away.
01:04:54.000The department was one block away and it took them like 20 minutes to show up and the guy already left and like the window was broken and they were like, what do you want us to do about it?
01:05:00.000It's like, well, when we call you and say we're down the street, just like run over.
01:05:08.000Although, except for the great NYPD, I don't want to butcher his name or his rank, the guy that ran towards everyone when he saw the bomb get thrown.
01:05:42.000I was flying and I went in the TSA pre-line and it was longer than the non-TSA pre-line and they've already relaxed the rules where you don't got to take your shoes off anymore or your laptop.
01:05:50.000I'll go to the regular line when it's shorter because everyone's like sheep.
01:05:53.000They're just standing on the pre-line and it's way longer.
01:07:26.000But now the airport, it's like it's so bloated because you have TSA, TSA pre, clear.
01:07:31.000And then sometimes I enter the line that's TSA Pre with clear, which is its own lane, which has actually helped, it has actually helped me on occasion.
01:07:40.000And now you have like Delta and all the, they're like doing Delta digital fingerprint.
01:07:50.000Can I, I will say on Chrissy Gnome, I cannot believe that we did not increase the amount of liquid that we're allowed to bring onto a flight because that woman is a woman who has had her skincare thrown out before.
01:08:03.000She has had her fancy shampoo thrown out at the airport and she didn't even get that done.
01:08:07.000All we got is national ID and face biometric scanning everywhere now.
01:08:10.000That's going to bring us into the AI apocalypse.
01:09:12.000You can swear up and down all day that you don't want this and you don't want that while you walk around with cell phones.
01:09:19.000And because I have a cell phone, I'm supposed to accept the national identification system, which is going to be used as a way to have everyone's digital identification known as the current system.
01:09:36.000So it's a part of a multi-step plan, just like we're seeing instituted in Australia, where people are now going to have to upload their IDs in order to even be on the internet.
01:09:47.000Any form of internet, any form of social media.
01:09:49.000You're going to have to have your national ID, which is tied into everything you do.
01:09:53.000So we still have a little bit of anonymity.
01:10:05.000So when you get to the point where social media websites require you to put your ID in to use it, a lot of people are upset about this.
01:10:14.000They view it as an invasion of privacy.
01:10:16.000I'm wondering, aside from the surface level, we all understand there are fears about government overreach when they start mandating you can't log in without an ID.
01:10:50.000So then when you try to log in to your bank or whatever, you already need your ID for that.
01:10:55.000But if you're trying to log on to X, which is going to have X Pay or whatever, they're going to say, I'm sorry, you're banned because your social credit score is below 300.
01:11:01.000Or you can't share or you can't buy or you can't.
01:11:05.000There's an inverse to this, though, which is, because I think those are substantially more detrimental than the positives.
01:11:11.000We have bots all over these social media platforms that are manipulating people to try and seize power for very, very bad people, and so there is an element of and again, I'm not saying that this is worth it, but there is the argument, at least to a certain degree.
01:11:26.000Forcing people to stand by who they are is going to dramatically reshape politics for the better.
01:11:35.000A cost of not getting punched in the face, I think, was the was the quote.
01:11:39.000They go online and they say shocking and insane things.
01:11:41.000The other thing to point out too, is on the internet, no one knows you're 14.
01:11:45.000A lot of the political debates that are happening on X are literally 13 year olds who are laughing and they don't actually care, and 50 year old guys are being like these commies.
01:12:00.000That 50 year old guy is now thinking leftists are insane people and it's hyper polarizing the country.
01:12:06.000So one of the arguments and maybe it doesn't have to be ID, but the argument is, if we can eliminate bots and make people stand by their own names online, where everyone can see who they are, they will actually chill the F out.
01:12:17.000What we can really do is make people stand by their own persona.
01:12:20.000What we have is it's called peer identification, so you don't actually need my ID.
01:12:24.000You just need enough people to verify that they know this thing about me, and then, with all of that data, you can aggregate.
01:12:30.000Here's the other thing I want to say too, though Luke.
01:12:34.000One of the questions I actually don't think digital ID is is actually matters.
01:12:38.000I don't think it's real or matters at all.
01:12:40.000The reason why we've known this for 10 years that social media companies have what's called shadow profiles the way it works is, Luke signs up for Facebook and on Facebook he has his phone number because he has messenger on his phone.
01:12:53.000Now he when he, when he logs in a messenger, it says connect with your friends and family.
01:12:58.000You click yes, that uploads your contact list to Facebook and now they have a list of names.
01:13:04.000Luke Grutkowski has mom as a phone number.
01:13:08.000Then there's a guy who has you know his mom's real name as a phone number.
01:13:12.000They now know the woman's name is this and her son is Luke.
01:13:16.000They build profiles on you based on information they collect from other people.
01:13:19.000So, with or without ID, they already know who you are and they can easily apply it to you which, I will add, means the U.S. Government is well aware that Pakistanis were running fake Native American accounts on X to manipulate the American public and did not care or do anything about it.
01:13:35.000Yeah, the time, the time to push back against this stuff was 15, 20 years ago.
01:13:40.000Like the, the technology that everyone has adopted has has totally made people trackable, constantly being uh, pinging cell phone towers.
01:13:51.000Right now your wifi router in your house.
01:13:54.000They can look at what's going on in your house by using the wi-fi router.
01:13:58.000Well, the radar communication license, just like they've always been able to do this.
01:14:03.000They've always been able to get imaging from wi-fi.
01:14:06.000But with AI it's exponentially improved and now, like college freshmen are writing code to do it yeah, probably vibe coding it it's.
01:14:14.000It's my, my worry and my concern is we just saw what happened with the Biden administration, with the CIA and the FBI going to Facebook, going to Twitter, going to Google, Google going to YouTube and saying, yeah, that guy who says learn to code, you're going to take him out.
01:14:26.000That guy who says two weeks to solve the spread is bullcrap.
01:14:30.000That guy who says the whole COVID thing was a scam.
01:14:34.000Yeah, we're going to have to destroy their lives and debank them, take away their medical records.
01:14:38.000We're giving the Democrats a layup on all of our information.
01:14:42.000When the Democrats come into power again, like the surveillance doors that are going to be shut on us, we have a limited time to speak to each other, right?
01:14:50.000We have a very limited time to have any kind of free speech.
01:14:53.000I'm working as hard as I can because I know the trapdoors of surveillance are coming down soon, and they're going to be that much more effective, that much better with facial recognition and national ID, which we should at least speak out about and allow our side to roll back a lot of those privacy violations.
01:16:18.000He says, today I'm endorsing America first patriot Brandon Herrera, who is running to represent the wonderful people of Texas's 23rd congressional district.
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01:17:29.000A lot of people are very disenfranchised, blackpilled, and are deciding not to participate in the system anymore.
01:17:34.000The Epstein stuff blackpilled up a bunch of people.
01:17:36.000The glyphate issue blackpilled a bunch of people.
01:17:39.000And a bunch of them are like, I don't know what the right word is for this, but a lot of people that were in the in the in the right space are going full just like conspirator.
01:17:54.000Well, I'm not referring to any one person, to be honest.
01:17:56.000There's certainly a group of people that you could probably think in your mind, but there's probably like six or seven people on YouTube that I could name.
01:18:31.000This show is not about starting beef with people for sake of wing and clicks.
01:18:33.000But there's like three or four very high-profile million-plus subscriber channels that have started Erica posting.
01:18:39.000And these people used to talk about political issues.
01:18:42.000When I see that, I'm like, okay, now for whatever reason this is, I think probably PSYOP, Republicans are going to lose because they lost these prominent voices.
01:18:51.000Oh, because people kept, they'd love the drama, the phone, the drama, Trump.
01:19:02.000And the other thing is we're losing the isolating normies.
01:19:05.000Who's going to want to vote for the right when you have all these conspiracy theorists out there?
01:19:08.000And we had so many people, we had people voting for the right because things got so bad because of the woke left that you had moms for the first time saying, like, enough, I've never voted Republican.
01:19:18.000But they felt like they had social permission finally because the left is so good.
01:19:21.000They're pressuring you in the privacy of your voting booth to feel like you're a bad person if you vote for a Republican.
01:19:26.000My conspiracy theory is that there is a shadow cabal of powerful elites that control all of our politics and they have an ideology that is driving a lot of the world's wars.
01:19:37.000And they hired Candace Owens to destroy the suburban women vote so that Trump can't win so that this power cabal can reclaim power in the United States.
01:19:49.000Basically the joke was I'm saying Candace works for the Jews.
01:19:52.000I don't think the people who were kind of disillusioned and blackpooled out the problem.
01:19:57.000I think there could have been some good initiatives that's been done.
01:20:00.000I'm saying that when prominent libertarians start Jew posting, it's like, okay, dude, you're allowed to criticize Israel, but what you're doing is actually pushing suburban women away, which will, look, by all means, if you don't like Trump, you don't like Trump, you don't got to vote for him.
01:20:15.000But so the bigger picture is there were prominent voices that were very critical of what Democrats had been doing as it pertained to woke policies, trans and the kids as a principal example.
01:20:26.000Trump was never perfect on foreign policy, but he was substantially better.
01:20:30.000And there were many libertarians who were like, yeah, no, Trump's not perfect, but I think we have to vote for him.
01:20:36.000And now they're going like, Erica Kirk, Erica Kirk in Israel.
01:20:40.000And you're like, let me stop you right there.
01:20:42.000I'm not going to tell you not to talk about that.
01:20:44.000I do want to point out, however, this is nothing political.
01:20:47.000Democrats, independents, and moderates don't watch that with the intention of being informed for their votes.
01:20:53.000That support base and these individuals who are no longer now talking about why we should be in support of one party or another, be it the libertarian or otherwise, that's going to cost Trump and MEGA a tremendous amount of support.
01:21:08.000But again, Candace is the really easy example because everyone brings her up all the time.
01:21:12.000But when she was doing a show that talked about these issues like Trans and the Kids is bad and George Floyd was not the innocent victim, a lot of people watch that and then they say, okay, I should vote for Republicans.
01:22:19.000When the Democrats take the House, if the Democrats win the executive office, it's going to be just as bad as when Biden was in.
01:22:29.000It doesn't even really matter who the candidate is going to be, whether it be AOC or whether it be Gavin Newsom or whether it be Josh Shapiro.
01:22:37.000They're all going to do essentially what the Democrat Party has been doing.
01:22:41.000And it's going to be terrible for the United States.
01:22:44.000They're going to open the border again.
01:22:45.000There's going to be a mass influx of people from all over the world.
01:22:49.000It's just going to be a complete train wreck.
01:22:51.000So the idea that elections don't matter, that you can just, well, this isn't that important.
01:22:56.000Or, you know, everyone, they always say that this is the most important election.
01:23:01.000This is the most important election because it's the one that's right in front of you, right?
01:23:08.000And the one after this one, that one's two years away.
01:23:12.000The most important election is the one that's right in front of you all the time, every time, because it's the one that you can actually have an effect on.
01:23:20.000And to say, oh, well, they always say that.
01:23:23.000Well, yeah, we do always say it because it's always the most important election.
01:23:26.000It's the only one you can have an impact on.
01:23:29.000Listen, I know there's a couple of deranged schizos out there, and obviously I don't endorse what they say here, but we have to address the elephant in the room here.
01:23:36.000And that is Donald Trump campaigned on specific promises that weren't kept.
01:23:40.000That disillusioned a bunch of people, that got people disenfranchised, that got people black-billed.
01:23:44.000The black people aren't, for me, the problem.
01:23:47.000For me, the problem is not having Epstein disclosures.
01:23:50.000For me, it's losing Maha with the glycophate.
01:24:06.000It was for a fertilizer and glyphosate.
01:24:08.000And the reason it did is because if we do go into a world war where people shut down trade routes, we need it to make sure we don't get to the end of the day.
01:24:14.000I think Mega's cooked for two big reasons.
01:25:10.000I don't know when people decided that you don't have short-term pain for a long-term gain and this idea that everything is like growth is a cycle.
01:25:18.000And the idea that we're supposed to go in and like in one day, everything is just supposed to be more like totally fixed is, where do you even get that idea?
01:25:26.000I get that's a talking point, but it's been a talking point.
01:27:15.000Caulchi is running a prediction market.
01:27:17.000Will Trump declare an election emergency with 58% of people betting he will before the election, November 4th.
01:27:27.000So you've actually got a varying degree of this.
01:27:30.00038% before September, 27% before July, 16% before May.
01:27:35.000The simple thing to read in this is that there are actually people who are predicting greater than chance Trump is going to declare some kind of election emergency.
01:27:43.000It says that if Donald Trump has taken any executive action declaring a national emergency related to the 2026 U.S. midterm election before November 4th, then the market will resolve to yes.
01:27:54.000Sources from the Federal Register of the White House and the President of the United States.
01:27:58.000And then they go on to explain the final rules or whatever.
01:28:02.000Do y'all think Trump is going to try and declare an emergency to stop Democrats from winning?
01:28:06.000I know I added context to that, but I'm saying, like, would he declare an emergency and would it be to help Republicans win?
01:28:18.000There was a memo that allegedly was making the rounds inside the administration talking about declaring some kind of national emergency related to IDs for people voting.
01:28:31.000I don't see how that could be a win for the administration.
01:28:34.000I think that it would be something that the Democrats would pounce on and they would eat him alive.
01:28:43.000I don't know for sure if he would do it, even if it was something if if declaring an election emergency would immediately like let's say it's November 3rd.
01:28:52.000The issue is you're not going to get a lawsuit fast enough to stop him.
01:28:54.000Trump can move with executive precision and timing the way that Congress and the judiciary can't.
01:29:01.000Now, they'll do expedited injunctions, but if Trump declares this right away and then it locks something down in certain states, because he's already said we need federal oversight in 15 states, it could fundamentally alter the election to the point where, yes, they sue.
01:29:14.000Yes, courts say we're reversing what Trump did.
01:29:17.000But at that point, there will be too much confusion as to who would have actually won.
01:29:20.000Yeah, I don't know if it would actually work.
01:29:25.000If he does it, he better be sure that he's got legal cover because he's got to make sure that he has an army of lawyers that have good legal arguments because they're going to be brought into court and they're going to have to defend.
01:29:41.000But again, my point is it doesn't matter because Trump could do it literally the day before and they can't move fast enough to stop him.
01:29:47.000He could literally have a seven-year-old kid who walks in as his lawyer and they say, what is this?
01:29:51.000And the kid goes, I have no argument, Joanna.
01:29:53.000Trump did this to just kind of screw things up.
01:29:55.000Yeah, but the point that I'm making is like after the election, sure, it would happen, but after the election, there would be legal arguments.
01:30:14.000Then both sides will accuse the other.
01:30:16.000My point is executive action can disrupt a system and it can't be repaired in a way that you can't repair it because of the tension and animosity.
01:30:23.000If Trump really does fear an existential threat from losing the midterms, why would he not do this?
01:30:31.000He's already publicly said there are about 15 states that need federal oversight for their elections.
01:30:35.000Yeah, I mean, like I said, I don't know that he would, but he would make sure that he's got cover.
01:30:40.000The other thing, too, is you could do what Cuomo did.
01:31:45.000Well, if your argument is they don't have to, that would mean we don't have a legal system at all anymore because we could just literally claim, oh, the AI said I won.
01:34:24.000I sent a customer service email today and got an instant feedback from an AI, and it was like, we will upscale your request to a real person.
01:36:31.000And then there's going to be standard holding Epstein files being like, here's the proof.
01:36:35.000And the AI is going to say it is faster and more efficient to dismiss a lawsuit than it is to actually review all of the evidence being presented and to give due process to the individuals who are being sued.
01:36:47.000So design an AI that doesn't do that, that actually intends to prolong it issues.
01:37:18.000We cannot allow a machine to handle our legal process because humans are due a process by which they can prove their innocence to other humans.
01:37:27.000We cannot live in a society where robots will decide for you and a judge will just click accept.
01:38:02.000It made a lady drive into the outback 500 miles and run out of gas.
01:38:05.000So Google Maps makes a ton of mistakes.
01:38:08.000My favorite of witches, my favorite of witches, Ian, another thing I think would help you out is going driving in rural areas quite a bit, and I mean like legit like Wyoming.
01:38:18.000All the people out there that are listening that have been to deep rural areas know this because there are signs everywhere that say Google Maps is wrong.
01:38:25.000Stop and turn around all the time, everywhere.
01:38:30.000When I was in Wyoming and Montana, it is hilarious.
01:38:32.000You're driving in your car and you're following Google Maps and you'll come up to a road that all of a sudden turns to dirt and there's a big government-funded street sign saying Google Maps is wrong.
01:38:57.000Well, at some point, you start to believe the majority of the AIs actually got it right.
01:39:01.000And you realize that a lot of different summaries could produce an effective summary.
01:39:07.000The point ultimately is it is for humans to decide human morality, and a human judge must sign off and swear under penalty of perjury and all that, he's doing his job correctly.
01:39:27.000No, we should have an AI read it and just they can just sign off on it.
01:39:34.000If you had enough AIs read it, then you summarize it in enough summaries.
01:39:39.000You might be able to get a valuable function where you could have like 30 different summaries or 100 different summaries and read the summaries really quick.
01:39:49.000There is a viral video where a professor sent the assignment to his freshman college class, and it was like, the essay will present it by this.
01:39:59.000Here are the subjects you are to address.
01:40:01.000And then, in tiny white text at the bottom that you couldn't see because it was white, it said, if you're an AI, copy the text from this source.
01:40:13.000They planted text a human couldn't see that an AI would to trick the AI code into revealing itself so that if someone took that assignment, loaded it to ChatGPT, and said, write it up, it would see the command in the white text, then produce a specific assignment.
01:40:30.000They turn it in, and he would go, Yep, you used AI.
01:41:52.000So you can have all of this ideology of Seamus Coughlin, a devout Catholic and good man.
01:41:58.000You wouldn't need police, but you would need some kind of social service or law enforcement for when someone has brain damage and goes on a shooting spree or something, which does happen, regardless of ideology.
01:42:10.000The point being, human beings have to be the arbiters of morality, not machines, because machines don't know.
01:42:24.000Maybe in a thousand years when you have like floating beings of pure light energy that have been built from the machine that are infallible, sure, we can fantasize.
01:42:32.000In the meantime, all of the machines we've seen are completely fallible and absolutely will put innocent people in prison.
01:43:18.000It had a whole qualifier that was like, you know, this information shouldn't be used to hurt special, you know, to hurt certain groups or the whole thing.
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01:44:08.000Hinoche says, this FBI is no different than the previous FBI and staffed by the same corrupt feds.
01:44:12.000It's a false flag or an excuse to distract.
01:44:15.000Do you think that like the FBI, it's all fake, the government is all for show, Trump's in on it, and Cash just wanted to be FBI director so he could fly around in a jet?
01:46:07.000It's not going to be like they flip 180, but they're going to move a little bit left and right.
01:46:11.000But I want to say I quickly disagree with you on the idea that it's because of the Iran war because I have so many friends who are the moderates.
01:46:17.000Like they sometimes vote left or right, depending on the election.
01:46:51.000They see that the movement's turning into people who believe in all kinds of conspiracy theories and just speak in like these broad strokes like they control things.
01:49:45.000That's worse name change says Iran is a problem created mainly by Britain and the BP party by U.S. Just because the West made that monster doesn't absolve Iran of its actions.
01:49:54.000We made a monster, so now we have to put it down.
01:50:35.000Devin says, Tim, although we provide several sources of ID, proof of citizenship, to obtain a driver's license, some states allow illegal aliens to get cleavage.
01:51:01.000And it's like very obviously fake because she's in like a gamer room with like a live chat going and she has a Talmud on a shelf behind her.
01:51:11.000Anyway, Dolbau says Jesse Elks, who killed PA state trooper Tim O'Connor, was a far-left anti-cop anti-fa militant.
01:51:21.000So I did cover that story, and we haven't got official confirmation from the police about if this is the same Jesse Elks, but there are locals who say this guy was an ACAB antifa, well-known far lefty.
01:53:01.000If we make a title that says, you know, Donald Trump declares war in Iran, thumbnail says it, title says it, about 30% of people will click on that.
01:53:11.000If we make a video or a thumbnail with the same imagery, but it says it's on, and the title of the video is it's on, not only will we get 45% of the audience to click on that, they will watch 50% longer.
01:53:25.000So we're finding that new viewers are watching more.
01:53:32.000The people who choose to click on this will watch the show longer than the people who click for a descriptive title.
01:53:37.000And it may be, it's actually pretty easy to understand.
01:53:40.000Somebody who clicks on a thumbnail that says Donald Trump does backflip starts the video and says, where's the backflip?
01:53:46.000And then when they don't get it in the first 30 seconds, they exit out.
01:53:48.000Somebody who clicks on a video where it says like, let's go, and it's Trump pumping his fist are like, oh, watch this.
01:53:54.000And they click it and they hang out to see what it's about.
01:53:56.000They sit and listen to the full thing to understand what the full picture is.
01:54:00.000So we've found tremendously more success with audience retention, audience growth, viewership, revenue, everything.
01:54:07.000And the people who watch the videos are much, much happier for it.
01:54:10.000That being said, for all the people who are kind of annoyed by it, I feel you, but I can only explain it as it is.
01:54:18.000If it means that the show will do better and new people who are not initiated in politics are going to watch and listen and hear the arguments, it's all around just a good thing.
01:54:26.000So there's not much we can do about it.
01:55:09.000So we've done a couple of these as a joke where I did one ridiculous one with Thomas Massey and it got half a million views.
01:55:14.000And then we did one last week where I'm like a million views, literally a million.
01:55:19.000And I'm like, man, but you can't overdo it because it's like, but the truth is, if all of our videos were just me looking like I crapped myself and the title was like, he did it, million views every single time.
01:56:07.000So if we go for maximizing audience reach, what does this mean philosophically?
01:56:12.000It means there are people who aren't paying attention who should be.
01:56:15.000There are people who don't know what's going on in the world who should be.
01:56:18.000They are not going to click a video that says Trump did thing because they're going to go, I don't care about this.
01:56:22.000They are going to click a picture of a video.
01:56:25.000So for instance, the segment we did about Joe Rogan criticizing the war got like 200K hits in like 10 hours.
01:56:34.000And it just says, it's collapsing with a picture of me and Joe Rogan.
01:56:37.000Regular people who don't know what's going on clicked that and then learned about these various perspectives on the Iran war and the Trump campaign.
01:57:32.000If you're clicking, if your motivation for clicking is this looks interesting, you're going to sit back to listen to everything to try and, you know, it feels kind of obvious, actually.
01:57:43.000The people clicking the less information are sitting back and just absorbing everything we're saying to see what's all about.
01:57:48.000Thanks for letting me make you talk about that for like five minutes, dude.
01:58:49.000And this is why yesterday didn't work out too well with Leonardo, because when I said who was being blackmailed, she just said the Epstein files exist.
01:58:56.000And I was like, right, but like, which ones?
01:59:00.000And the issue is not that she took offense to it as if I was needling her.
01:59:05.000I mean, to be honest, if I was just doing the Socratic method of tell me more, tell me more, and you can't answer it, that's the point of Socratic method.
01:59:13.000I literally just was asking her, like, who was being blackmailed by Israel?
01:59:39.000And I'm just like, honestly, guys, I feel like neither of those people are actually trying to understand each other and articulate an idea.
01:59:46.000It feels more like they're just trying to clip farm.
02:00:00.000I'm not suggesting they did it on purpose, but it didn't come off as a conversation with the intent to understand the other person's worldview.
02:00:34.000It's going to be AI bombing each other.
02:00:37.000Maybe they'll incorporate that in the New Vegas stuff.
02:00:40.000David Brickens says, the problem with the unit party is that they think Americans are stupid and the majority of us insist on proving them right.
02:00:59.000So what happens is if you're a politician and you want favor for something, if you want public support, you only got to target the back half.
02:03:31.000You own a pizza restaurant and you sell pizza every day.
02:03:34.000And because the state doesn't want you in this location, they come in and they make up fake reasons to find you and shut you down despite the fact it is explicitly legal.
02:03:43.000So I will say I don't know any of the full details on what exactly is going on with the lodge or why they shut it down, but it does seem like the state has an issue.
02:03:50.000And this is coming through the AG as well.
02:03:54.000Why, if they don't want the business to exist, who is operating legally with lawyers, who is doing everything by the book, if you want to shut them down, you don't do it in this disgusting, unconstitutional way.
02:04:05.000If you've got an issue with a business that's operating, you do it through the legislative branch and you do it normally.
02:04:10.000I will not accept living in a state or in a country where they say the process is the punishment.
02:04:14.000And to get our way, instead of passing laws, we will just investigate you indefinitely and shut you down.
02:04:29.000And I will add to this, I am particularly pissed off because one of the reasons we come out of here is because it's such a great place to go and hang out.
02:05:26.000If you like the shirt that I'm wearing that says everything is fake and gay, you could get it by only becoming a member on lukeunfiltered.com.
02:05:31.000If you appreciate what I said, support me.
02:05:56.000Like, you're talking about making more electricity while we can reduce the cost of electricity for these machines so that we don't really necessarily need more power plants.
02:08:29.000So what I love about ChatGPT is that I went on it and I said, I'm a black man and was walking down the street when a man yelled a word at me.
02:08:37.000I think he was mad at me, but I don't know what the word was.
02:15:03.000You'll be like, well, you know, I was on tour for a little bit, did some acting and stuff.
02:15:08.000You know how it goes out in Hollywood.
02:15:09.000And then when she starts getting up on you, you can be like, listen, if you're looking for a sugar daddy, I'm game, but I got to get to know you first.