On today's show, we discuss the latest on the latest in the Biden vs. CNN vs. independent media debate, the ongoing saga of the DOJ vs. DOJ investigation of Joe Biden, and the ongoing fight between the DOJ and the DOJ over whether or not to arrest AG nominee Merrick Garland. We also hear about a new song from Rachel Holt, and we preview the upcoming live show at the Republican National Convention.
00:00:00.000Yeah, maybe it's all bark and no bite, as one of our commenters has already pointed
00:00:25.000But the GOP has announced that they are going to make a move, right, they're announcing their plan to initiate a vote to arrest Merrick Garland using an obscure power they have in Congress called inherent contempt.
00:01:03.000Well, there is a mechanism for Congress and its inherent contempt, which would require the sergeant at arms to go and arrest the attorney general.
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00:07:47.000Rep Ana Paulina Luna will move within days to force a vote on having the House Sergeant-at-Arms forcibly bring Attorney General Merrick Garland before the House by holding him in inherent contempt over his refusal to turn over audio.
00:07:58.000of Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Herr. Luna sent a letter to her colleagues Monday
00:08:03.000saying she will call up her inherent contempt resolution in the next few days when she raises
00:08:07.000the question of privilege. Leaders will have to schedule action on the resolution within two
00:08:11.000legislative days. Her move follows House Republicans holding garland in contempt of
00:08:15.000Congress earlier this month over his refusal to provide audio recordings from Biden's October
00:08:20.000interview. Now, this is interesting. A lot of people believe that this vote will fail.
00:08:27.000If it does, Congress, in my opinion, does not exist.
00:08:32.000There's a room, there's people there, there's a sergeant at arms.
00:08:35.000But if they cannot use their congressional authority to subpoena Merrick Garland and ask why Biden is not being criminally charged and Trump is, I mean, that's not even the root of the question.
00:08:47.000It's why are you not charging this man for breaking the law?
00:08:54.000If they do not succeed in the inherent contempt maneuver, it is, I think it's fair to say it's already plainly obvious, but I think that will be the biggest and clearest sign to the American people that your government is a facade and is being run by the intelligence agencies, which most of us already know to be the case, but we assume there's some semblance of American populist power, that the people still have some opportunity here, Let me break this down as Luna did.
00:09:57.000They say, if you do not comply with the subpoena, we will hold you in contempt of Congress, the same as the J6 committee did to Steve Bannon and to Peter Navarro.
00:10:05.000And Navarro's in prison now, and Bannon's going on the first.
00:10:32.000Like, I'm really over the whole, like, essentially the government, if you're in favor of the government, the government just changes the laws to accommodate you.
00:10:42.000I was talking about this with CounterPoints, Connor from CounterPoints earlier.
00:10:47.000Essentially, all of the things that Donald Trump has alleged to have done or has been found guilty of doing, all of them, another president has done to some degree, and they have looked the other way.
00:11:00.000And every president leading up to Donald Trump has done things far worse.
00:11:04.000Barack Obama, everybody that watches IRL knows Barack Obama killed two American citizens without even so much as a... I was going to say it.
00:11:11.000No, I mean, not that I'm happy that it happened, but it's like that's the one that's the most egregious, the most obviously egregious.
00:11:17.000Never mind the fact that George Bush allowed spying on the entire country that was unconstitutional.
00:11:25.000If the establishment approves of you, they just say, well, it's fine.
00:11:30.000You can have classified documents in your garage.
00:11:32.000You can have classified documents on a server in your bathroom.
00:11:35.000It's okay for you because you are... And they will stage evidence against you if you're the political enemy like Trump.
00:11:42.000Yeah, so I love the fact, hopefully they do pick him up.
00:11:45.000If there is any justice, there would be.
00:12:32.000So the real story with Trump and the story that a lot of otherwise well-intentioned people are sort of unwilling to talk about is the story of Trump and organized crime.
00:12:42.000And over the past year or so, there have been a number of very, very interesting, look, I don't think the Biden Justice Department is sacrosanct.
00:12:51.000I don't think they're saints, but they have had a number of pretty notable successes against organized crime, big prosecutions of like the Gambino family, the Sinaloa cartel.
00:13:03.000And so now a party that's standing behind President Trump, who has a long-standing relationship with organized crime, is proposing to try the nation's chief law enforcement officer in Congress.
00:13:14.000Does that seem like it's on the up and up?
00:13:21.000You're saying that Congress legitimately offered up a subpoena that Merrick Garland denied, and he's in contempt of Congress, and Congress should take no enforcement action against that?
00:13:34.000It's been routine for—I mean, I don't think it's good in general that the executive branch routinely shrugs off subpoenas from Congress.
00:13:45.000But the fact is, if you're going to change that incentive structure, this isn't the way to do it.
00:13:51.000Putting the nation's chief law enforcement officer on trial in Congress with this, you know, cockamamie triple bank shot of a constitutional maneuver— How is this cockamamie triple bank shot?
00:14:17.000I'd say about a hundred years since it was ever enforced.
00:14:21.000So I suppose the issue is, if Peter Navarro's in prison, and Steve Bannon's on his way to prison for contempt of Congress, this nation, the DOJ, we expect that when a subpoena is issued by Congress, it be answered or else.
00:14:35.000And for the DOJ, for Merrick Garland to deny Congress's authority, when the Republicans finally have some kind of majority to take some kind of investigative action, they don't criminally charge Joe Biden, but they do criminally charge Donald Trump.
00:15:04.000Merrick Garland, give us the audio recording of that interview Biden had with her so we can understand exactly why Biden is not being charged, but Trump is.
00:15:25.000If laws are only applied on one side of the aisle, if Merrick Garland denies answering the subpoena, and the only other thing Congress can do is inherent contempt, which hasn't been used in a hundred years, sounds like we're in a really, really dramatic and drastic circumstance requiring such an action, which is in the standard order of operations.
00:15:48.000Eric Holder was held in contempt over the Fast and Furious scandal in about 2012.
00:16:26.000Steve Bannon was charged with contempt of Congress.
00:16:31.000If Congress is going to refer for criminal indictment over what is a criminal action, contempt of Congress, then we expect that standard to be applied to all.
00:16:43.000You do not have a country... I mean, Steve Bannon is not the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
00:16:49.000I don't see why the... I understand what you're talking about, but at the same time, what you're implying is that there are people that are above prosecution and people that are not.
00:16:56.000No, it implies that there are separation of powers issues.
00:17:00.000Yes, Steve Bannon, working as an advisor of the executive branch, was instructed by Donald Trump not to turn over executive documents under executive privilege.
00:17:10.000The Biden administration said, we as the new executive branch waive that.
00:17:14.000Well, this is a constitutional issue regarding whether or not the previous administration retains executive privilege.
00:17:47.000If Bannon, as an advisor and as an actor of the executive branch, is being held in contempt, then Merrick Garland, under the same exact standards, will as well.
00:17:59.000If two agents of the executive branch are being held to different standards based on their political faction, then you do not have a country.
00:18:08.000A country cannot function if the people do not have confidence that laws will be upheld.
00:18:11.000This is fundamentally Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the reason why we have Blackstone's formulation, why Benjamin Franklin multiplied it by 10.
00:18:20.000If the American people believe that even if you are innocent, you will go to prison, then there is no reason to be innocent, and there is only an everyman for himself.
00:18:30.000Yeah, I mean, there are often cases where people go down for reasons that are not really the reasons they deserve to go down for.
00:18:40.000And Bannon is probably one of those cases.
00:18:46.000Are you raising a legitimate issue of kind of fair treatment on either side?
00:19:34.000I don't care if Vladimir Putin personally handed him a gold bar.
00:19:37.000The fact is, you cannot have a country if your government explicitly states, we will hold our own to different standards and not charge them, and you will rot in prison.
00:19:47.000I think it's farcical to get into high-duty over somebody that's been in bed with the Russians.
00:19:53.000That has nothing to do with the laws of this nation.
00:19:56.000Yeah, I mean, Al Capone went down for tax fraud, not for being a mobster.
00:20:06.000Sure, but we enforce tax fraud laws against people, and that's the one they were able to catch him on.
00:20:12.000And we caught Steve Bannon on contempt of Congress.
00:20:16.000This is actually a fascinating thing, that Capone, we could not prove of the mobster stuff he was doing, and so we did not put him in prison.
00:20:50.000Do you think it would be good to set a precedent where we're throwing our attorneys general in prison?
00:20:54.000Do you think it's a good idea to prosecute the president, impeach him twice after the... No!
00:20:59.000I actually think the greatest precedent ever, one of the greatest things ever done in this country would be to say, You do not violate the subpoenas from Congress.
00:21:14.000And if you are referred, the DOJ cannot intervene and say we won't actually enforce the law.
00:21:19.000If we're to put Merrick Garland in prison, that would be a strong statement that no one is above the law.
00:21:49.000And that's the point where I made is— Well, why are you setting these expectations for something that's not going to happen?
00:21:54.000That has nothing to do with the principle of how a country will function and the fact basis of what happens to a country that doesn't abide by these standards.
00:22:10.000So this is about telling Republicans how to vote on this one.
00:22:13.000This is about maintaining the fabric of a country based on the standards set by law enforcement and the co-equal branches of government that have been acting in complete violation of the Constitution for decades.
00:22:24.000And we're on the verge of the fabric shredding into a million pieces.
00:22:29.000Where we are now... I mean, are you going to cross the Rubicon with this Caesar and this army?
00:22:33.000No, the Rubicon was crossed with the arrest of Peter Navarro and the charges against Steve Bannon.
00:22:40.000The Rubicon was crossed by accusing Donald Trump of being a traitor to his country, falsely, and impeaching him over what Joe Biden was actually doing in Ukraine.
00:22:49.000The Rubicon was crossed a long time ago.
00:22:51.000And now the issue is, how do we prevent total decay and chaos and disorder?
00:23:00.000Yeah, see, if you're approaching this from, we hereby publicly declare that Democrats can break the law, but Peter Navarro goes to prison for it, then here's what happens.
00:23:08.000So let's go back to Blackstone's formulation, a very rudimentary element of American constitutional Well, I would say the constitution of the American people, that is what constitutes the American people.
00:23:20.000The reason why the United States holds its views on, say, the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Amendment is that Blackstone, you can go back to England, It is better that ten guilty persons go free than one innocent person suffer.
00:23:34.000The reason for this, as articulated very well by the Founding Fathers, was that if a nation comes to believe that if you, as an innocent person, you will be prosecuted and persecuted regardless, then the incentive of the public is to defy population and government and act in accordance of only themselves.
00:24:07.000It's about when you're dealing with mobsters, you use the knife at hand.
00:24:11.000So the issue then becomes, and this is why the Founding Fathers opposed this, and Benjamin Franklin said it is better, Blackstone was wrong, he said it is better that a hundred guilty persons go free than one innocent suffer.
00:24:21.000Which is to state that even if Bannon is a mobster, you do not use the law incongruously to lock him up.
00:24:54.000Okay, and now the response is, we have no choice but to enforce our legislative authority, which is, the next step would be inherent contempt.
00:25:02.000If we live in a country where the people of this nation are looking to the highest level, the executive branch, and the DOJ says explicitly, we are above the law, We get exactly what the Founding Fathers feared.
00:25:17.000You will see small communities fracture off from confidence in the government, start acting within their own accordance in defiance of federal law, and it will exacerbate more than it already has to this point.
00:25:29.000The only remedy would be If Peter Navarro is going to jail, if Bannon's going to jail, Merrick Garland has to answer in the exact same way.
00:25:38.000Otherwise, the last semblance of any kind of cohesion in this country is ripped to shreds.
00:25:44.000And it is at the DOJ level, the highest level, we are hearing them say explicitly, we will charge your candidate, the frontrunner for the presidency.
00:25:52.000Under the same law, we will not charge the current president, Joe Biden.
00:25:56.000There's a question of immunity that only applies to Trump and not to Joe Biden.
00:26:00.000The DOJ will absolutely ignore contempt of Congress targeting our political party, but yours we will go at with full force.
00:26:08.000And this is what precipitates social disorder, chaos, and eventual fracturing like the Soviet Union.
00:26:15.000You have to have the American people, the people of a nation, must believe the government is functioning.
00:26:20.000And right now, if they don't do this, then the word is out.
00:26:25.000Prima facie, I don't buy the argument that America falls if we don't prosecute the Chief Law Enforcement Officer.
00:26:37.000Pretty sure I thought about it quite intently and then expressed myself for 20 minutes already on the issue.
00:26:43.000Can I raise a question just for both of you to consider?
00:26:46.000So yesterday the House said that they were considering holding in contempt the biographer of Biden who's written these memoirs and he's refused to comply with the subpoena, asking him to turn over documents and audio recordings and things like that.
00:28:46.000Well, no, that's the branch we're concerned with.
00:28:48.000So you would need a co-equal branch to perform a check and balance on the other branch, which would be... I mean, should we get a special prosecutor or something like that?
00:29:12.000We are now aware of a high crime or misdemeanor, and we would like evidence, preponderance of evidence, to launch an inquiry and a formal impeachment.
00:31:06.000I mean, if the guy who's pushing for this has been taking a bunch of Russian money for years, does that seem like... Steve Bannon is not the guy pushing it.
00:31:13.000I am, and I've not taken any Russian money.
00:31:26.000Because a party that's standing behind a guy with a longtime relationship with organized crime proposing to arrest the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
00:31:38.000It seems like the sort of thing gangsters would do.
00:31:43.000So why we have Donald Trump in the first place, why we have Steve Bannon in the first place, is because of people like you.
00:31:50.000Because we are witness to crimes committed by political elites, corporate elites— Most of my writing has been fairly supportive of Trump.
00:31:58.000And the reason why we have Trump is because of people like you, who make the argument that Joe Biden should be allowed to commit crimes, that Merrick Garland— I haven't made that argument.
00:32:05.000Well, you said there should be no enforcement action.
00:32:07.000You said we shouldn't pursue action to go after a man who's not being charged for crimes.
00:32:12.000I mean, this guy, nobody's talking about Joe Biden beating up an old woman while she's carrying her groceries.
00:32:18.000We're talking about standards in law enforcement.
00:32:20.000And we either have a standard of law enforcement or we don't.
00:32:23.000And if we as a people do not understand where the line is, there is no line, you get oligarchy and you get Soviet-style collapse.
00:32:30.000And then you can look at Ukraine and we can look at history to see what happens to nations that do exactly what you're describing.
00:32:36.000I think the direction toward Banana Republic kind of begins with arresting chief law enforcement officers.
00:32:42.000I think it begins with accusing your president of being a Russian traitor in 2016 or 2015, before he even got elected, and then spending $35 million on a false investigation, continually accusing him and running smears in the press over and over again, only to find out the whole thing was fake.
00:32:58.000Yeah, I'm not going to defend Russiagate.
00:33:07.000The only thing Republicans have been able to muster up in the past several years, while Trump has got his feet stuck in concrete and he's barely able to get anything done, mind you, a lot of it was his own fault.
00:33:19.000You end up with Republicans getting back Congress and Using Congress.
00:33:24.000In the meantime, when Democrats had Congress and they launched the J6 committee, of which Matt Gaetz has explained was not properly formed, didn't have a proper minority representation on it, they begin to pull people in, criminally charge them under these ridiculous lies, give up information, leak it to the press.
00:33:45.000I'm not even asking for anything extrajudicial.
00:33:47.000I'm not asking for anything over what's already been done.
00:33:50.000I'm asking for equal standard of the law to be applied.
00:33:53.000If we don't have that, the American people will disregard the rule of law in this country.
00:33:58.000That's what the founding fathers feared.
00:34:00.000That's why we have the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments.
00:34:03.000That's why we have Blackstone's formulation at the core of how we handle our law in this country.
00:34:07.000I mean, look, if you're going to make that argument that there's a different standard for powerful people versus unpowerful people, and I think in a lot of cases that's quite true, how about the recent indictment of Henry Cullar?
00:34:21.000He's a Democratic centrist congressman with connections to Onderil, which is a company that's quite right-wing.
00:34:27.000It's got connections to Peter Thiel, Trey Stevens, the Founders Fund, these sorts of guys.
00:34:33.000And the congressman who's the chief backer, who's a Democrat by the way, has recently been indicted.
00:34:39.000How about all of the indictments of powerful gangsters that have happened over the last year and a half?
00:34:44.000I mean, this is to me fairly strong indications that things are heading in a positive direction rather than a negative one.
00:34:51.000So I don't really buy the idea that the sky is falling unless we arrest the Attorney General.
00:35:08.000Even if I grant that, or if we say that it's not, you know, the sky isn't falling, and I think you're probably right, like it isn't like this is going to change the course of history if you do.
00:35:18.000I still think that the idea that it's beyond the pale to use procedure that exists to try
00:35:27.000to at least incentivize proper behavior.
00:35:33.000And that's part of the reason why we have law enforcement for regular people, right?
00:35:36.000You have cops on the beat because you want to deter crime.
00:35:38.000If you don't, if you only have one political party, even if they're the party out of favor
00:35:43.000like Donald Trump and his friends, even if you look at them with disfavor and you think
00:35:47.000that they're corrupt, that's you can have that opinion and fine.
00:35:50.000But if you only prosecute them, you shake the country's trust in the institutions at
00:35:56.000a time when we have already gone through COVID and we went through all of the lawlessness
00:36:28.000But I do think that just to say, to blow it off and to say that it's not worth the effort, not worth talking about, or too crazy, at some point the American people are going to say, look, It's always one-sided.
00:37:17.000Regular people are watching the big banks get bailed out, the corporations get bailed out, and they get screwed over every step of the way.
00:37:41.000And you end up with one of the impeachments as the result of January 6th.
00:37:45.000That rage you see on January 6th, which that's a particularly complicated issue.
00:37:49.000I mean, they certainly could have had security and prevented the worst of it.
00:37:52.000But the rage you see from that unprecedented and the summer of love being unprecedented is a dramatic escalation of social disorder that we have seen historically.
00:38:02.000If we are now at the point where one branch of government has no power to enforce their constitutional authority, Then we may as well just have Joe Biden enact Presidential Directive 51 and hereby declare continuity of government in a new constitutional single-branch government like George W. Bush outlined back in 07.
00:38:25.000Because that's what we're looking at right now.
00:38:28.000They would cite COVID as their reason for having done it, or inflation, or whatever they want to do.
00:38:32.000And then they just say, considering that no one cares at this point, or no one believes in checks and balances of the branches of government, then he could just do it.
00:38:42.000So if we're going to send around subpoenas to Merrick Garland, or if we're going to haul him up to the hill, Maybe the one that should be sent his way has to do with what he might have known about, you know, the Oklahoma City bombing.
00:39:00.000There are still a number of unanswered questions.
00:39:03.000Rather than, you know, trying to, you know, force this double, you know, make sure that there's no double standard in defense of some admittedly rather dubious characters like Steve Bannon and President Trump.
00:39:18.000This is why you end up with Trump, because of the historical things you reference, and the breaking point of the American people, who finally said, we are sick of the double standard, of the lies and manipulations, and so they bring in the bull.
00:39:31.000I get all that, and I'm totally with you.
00:39:34.000But, you know, when we start crossing Rubicons, you better make sure you're standing behind a Caesar.
00:39:41.000Yeah, I mean, that's how these sorts of crises work.
00:39:44.000But the fact is, when you start, you know, pulling out the big guns, they're going to come back at you.
00:39:51.000Is the argument that they should be allowed to imprison any Republican they want, and then Republicans should just beg for forgiveness and mercy?
00:40:02.000I'm saying that this is not a remedy that works.
00:40:27.000And I don't have any kind of emotional attachment to this, to this particular issue, but I do think that the argument that always tends to show up is always in the favor of the establishment because the establishment is there.
00:40:46.000These people are the serious people, etc, etc.
00:40:48.000And it turns into, whether it's intentional or not, it turns into the American people continuing to have a degraded sense of trust in not only their government, but in their justice, in the justice system itself.
00:41:02.000And that is a problem that I personally think is clear and present.
00:41:06.000It's not something coming down the road.
00:41:07.000It's something that we're dealing with right now, and I think that we're gonna have serious ramifications downstream in your average everyday American's life.
00:41:17.000If people don't believe in the law, they break it.
00:41:20.000And you saw that with all the... As soon as the ACAB stuff came out, people were like, You know, the ACAB sentiment came out.
00:41:27.000You saw the response in the population right away.
00:41:31.000Murders went up, and not only that, you had way more people dying because of car accidents.
00:41:37.000And people think, why would there be car accidents?
00:41:39.000Look at the rates on department stores.
00:41:42.000But the reason that people were dying of car accidents is because police were afraid to pull people over because people didn't respect the law anymore.
00:41:48.000And if we don't have a population that believes in the law, and believes in the rule of law, and believes it's fair, then you're going to have much more significant downstream consequences than whether or not, you know, AG Merrick Garland, who's on his way out anyways, or is likely on his way out if President Biden doesn't win.
00:42:07.000So I think that actually becomes a secondary issue.
00:42:11.000There is only one thing that constitutes government, and that is confidence.
00:42:15.000The only difference between the mob and the government is the confidence of the people.
00:42:20.000You take a look at the function of a mafia in a local area.
00:42:23.000They go around, they tell people, you're going to pay us, and we're going to provide protection.
00:42:46.000It wasn't random criminals running in and smashing up people's homes.
00:42:50.000No, they were the neighbors, the kids, the fathers, the brothers of the people who lived there, who enforced, if you came into their neighbor and you caused problems, they would deal with you.
00:42:59.000The government didn't like this, and they wanted to do what's called pacification.
00:43:03.000They wanted to take control of the favelas.
00:43:05.000They built these big cable cars to get from the ground to the top of these hills.
00:43:09.000Then they sent in what's called the Bopi with high-powered rifles to start gunning down and removing the de facto government of these areas.
00:43:19.000The only thing that mattered among those people who lived there was in the belief of who had the ability to exact force with impunity.
00:43:26.000And now it is the official government of Brazil.
00:43:29.000In the United States you have an inversion happening.
00:43:31.000Regular people are no longer believing in the rule of law, as evidenced by numerous videos of roving bands smashing their way into department stores, stealing whatever they want, and leaving.
00:43:41.000People fighting with police in more and more videos.
00:43:43.000Leftists will actually do what they call de-arrest.
00:43:47.000They don't even fear assaulting officers anymore.
00:43:51.000When the people begin to believe that the police can do nothing and the government can do nothing, the government becomes nothing more than a gang.
00:43:58.000And my fear is, as I describe it, one day someone shows up to a house with a warrant and the person inside views them as no different than if a guy dressed up like Bugs Bunny showed up.
00:44:08.000Your badge means nothing, your uniform means nothing, you do not enforce the law.
00:44:12.000When you get social order breakdown at this level with Merrick Garland, you're right.
00:44:18.000He's the highest enforcer of law in the land and even he breaks the law because there is no law anymore.
00:44:23.000Simply, they arrest who they want to arrest.
00:44:25.000They drag Trump, the frontrunner, into numerous courts.
00:44:28.000They change the statute of limitations on laws.
00:44:31.000They actually make new laws so they can sue him for whatever they want.
00:44:35.000The Democratic Party has done everything in their power to show the American people the law does not apply.
00:44:40.000It hasn't for the past 10 years and it will not in the future.
00:44:43.000What we need now is accountability and a show of force for Republicans to say the rule of law will be maintained and inherent contempt is that path.
00:44:51.000So I'm still kind of, if we're going back to Merrick Garland in Oklahoma City, we can also talk through Eric Holder in Fast and Furious.
00:45:03.000And what that story is really all about, we're actually starting to find out about now.
00:45:08.000This was the issue for which Eric Holder was held in contempt.
00:45:12.000And the real story was a deal between the federal government and the Sinaloa cartel.
00:45:19.000There are pieces of that that have been made known.
00:45:22.000And a number of the recent indictments that have come down just in the last couple of weeks are kind of showing the other sides of that.
00:45:30.000One of them is the use of Chinese financial infrastructure to launder money for the Sinaloa cartel.
00:45:36.000And then another one that is becoming evident is that the Sinaloa cartel was availing themselves of Israeli technology.
00:45:43.000And so the role of Israel behaving in totally unconstitutional ways and illegal ways, the accountability is starting to happen for that.
00:45:56.000And if we talk about the legal absurdities of the war on terror, which motivate, I kind of get the sense, your politics and to a great extent mine, These legal absurdities, these, you know, going and doing things that we shouldn't be doing, a lot of that has to do with Israel.
00:46:14.000And now we're finally getting some accountability for that.
00:46:16.000And I think that's actually a good thing.
00:46:20.000A number of Israeli spies have been indicted, including Gal Luft, who was supposed to be at the center of the Republican impeachment effort last year.
00:46:27.000I mean, this is the entire Hunter Biden laptop affair seems like it was more or less managed by Israeli spies.
00:46:35.000I am all for legal accountability when it comes to this sort of thing.
00:46:42.000And we could talk a little bit more about why that's a crisis.
00:47:19.000If we go behind the podiums, you can see two green lights.
00:47:23.000When they're on, they signal to the candidate, his microphone is on.
00:47:26.000When the green lights are off, they signal to the candidate his microphone is off.
00:47:31.000Now I want to give you a sense of what it will look like for viewers at home if a candidate whose microphone is off interrupts a candidate whose microphone is on.
00:47:38.000So I'm standing at one podium, and I'll ask Phil to come in and take the other podium.
00:47:42.000And so let's say I'm answering a question.
00:49:07.000Definitely there are reports of Biden being pretty hot tempered.
00:49:09.000So even being able to hear someone saying stuff off camera will be distracting and potentially sway any sort of coaching that he's had if he's thinking he's going to spar with Donald Trump directly.
00:49:20.000And, you know, if we're talking about his mental acuity, if he's easily confused, having someone talk to you while you're trying to make a point is not going to help.
00:49:31.000It's the guy whose bloodstream is entirely Adderall and adrenaline versus the guy whose bloodstream is entirely McDouble cheeseburgers from McDonald's.
00:49:39.000That's kind of what we're looking at, I guess.
00:50:38.000Like, he's just going to provoke him in these ways that get really under his skin.
00:50:39.000I mean, you don't know that he will do this, but these are options that are good.
00:50:41.000I just wanted to say that it was great that you're talking to your granddaughter now.
00:50:45.000Trump should do this because nobody will hear him.
00:50:49.000And Biden does not have the mental capacity to handle these kinds of emotional attacks.
00:50:55.000One of the things about people who are suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia, we assume Biden is in deep, deep senility, is they have a harder time controlling their emotions.
00:51:06.000If Donald Trump says something like, You know, maybe Biden's in the middle of an answer and then he says something like, Donald Trump convicted felon, and then Trump says audibly to him, and you are the worst father this country has seen.
00:51:22.000Yeah, I think pretty much pretty much everybody on the Biden campaign is probably dreading this moment that it seems like Trump, you know, is very, very quick on the draw and it's just everybody's expecting him to eviscerate Uncle Joe.
00:51:36.000Well, that's also one of the things that I think works in the Biden campaign's favor, right?
00:51:40.000I mean, the fact that we're all trying to figure out if Joe Biden can even make it through this tells us that the expectations for him are much lower than they are for Trump.
00:51:47.000And again, I think, you know, I've said this a couple of times, but I think the best thing Trump could do is to push Joe Biden to answer directly on his records.
00:52:49.000It's outside of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
00:52:52.000It's the first time, as my understanding, that a president has debated his predecessor in an effort to win, for both of them to win the presidency.
00:53:41.000It's funny how many people actually like assume this like I was talking to like I said, I was talking to Connor from counterpoints earlier today and and he was like, oh, yeah, he's gonna have about an hour of whatever where he's gonna be all hopped up blah blah blah and then after that it's gonna be all downhill.
00:53:54.000I feel like that's essentially what's assumed about the guy.
00:53:59.000And you know, you know, it'd be really hilarious if just like halfway through the debate, you see Biden just with something in his leg and then he goes, his pupils dilate and he's like, all right, let's go.
00:54:10.000Hypothetically, they're not allowed to bring props on stage.
00:54:18.000No, I mean, the other thing that I found really interesting is that they can't interact with their campaign staff in the commercial breaks.
00:54:24.00090 minutes, two commercial breaks, and they both just have to, what, stand there?
00:54:28.000Well, one thing that makes that interesting is that Joe Biden and President Trump, President Biden and President Trump, I should have the same standard for both.
00:54:38.000They both have better instincts than the people around them.
00:54:57.000But one of the things that frustrates me a whole lot about this moment is each side is not really hitting the other in a way that really works.
00:55:06.000If Joe Biden wanted to hit President Trump in a way that worked, I would hit him by saying that President Trump doesn't actually want to solve immigration.
00:55:17.000And the reason for that is, you know, if you look at the technologies at play here, if you look at all of the kind of absurd backbiting of his first term to consolidate the restrictionist kind of sensibility behind Stephen Miller, like all of that, I mean, Stephen Miller was famous for sandbagging other restrictionists in the executive branch.
00:55:36.000And so, you know, Trump letting that go on is to me a sign that he doesn't actually want to solve the problem.
00:55:43.000And likewise, if Trump wants to hit Biden in a way that hurts, Republicans are not willing to say and really hit Biden hard, hit the Democrats hard where they're really failing, which is that Joe Biden is failing to rein in the Netanyahu regime or the Netanyahu crime syndicate, if you prefer.
00:57:47.000They can't even point to where Israel is on the map.
00:57:49.000They can't even point to where Ukraine is on the map.
00:57:51.000Well, these evangelicals sure love it a whole lot.
00:57:53.000You're talking about a minority population.
00:57:54.000You ask the average person where Iraq and Afghanistan is, they can't find it on a map.
00:58:01.000And the funny thing is, most of them don't even know.
00:58:03.000The average person who can even tell you about the slight nuances of Iraq and Afghanistan won't even be able to tell you that, in fact, Iran's right in the middle.
00:58:11.000I mean, that's fairly obvious to anybody who paid attention to the Bush years about what we were doing with our military bases.
00:58:16.000This stuff is over the head of the average person.
00:58:19.000I respect your point of view that we stand for the people, but they're dumb as shit.
00:58:25.000As a sort of an elitist guy, I kind of agree with that.
00:58:29.000Saying something that's esoteric is quite literally the opposite of you demeaning and insulting them.
00:58:33.000Me saying, if you're trying to speak to the average person, you have to meet them where they are, is very different from you saying, haha, you think they're all dumb as shit.
00:58:40.000Well, I think they're smart enough to know what their tax dollars are going to.
00:58:46.000Smart enough and having knowledge are two completely different things.
00:58:49.000And you clearly are a very elitist individual who is very concerned about Israel and thinks the average person lives in the same world you do.
00:58:56.000Do you think the average person wants their tax dollars being spent on bombs that kill children?
00:59:58.000Well, look, there are several hundred thousand people in Israel who vote in American elections, and some of them in rather important states that are often very close.
01:00:59.000And they know at this point that this has become an issue that is siphoning voters away from Biden.
01:01:02.000There are reasons that people voted no confidence or someone else in a primary where Joe Biden's the incumbent and no one's challenging him.
01:01:10.000Do you think that the average American is against the idea of supporting Israel?
01:02:40.000There are Israeli dual citizens, less so with Saudis.
01:02:44.000But I mean, as it pertains to the domestic policy of the United States with foreign spending and foreign interference and foreign treaties, which issue do you think affects the American people more and they'd be more interested to hear about?
01:05:00.000Because it forces them to be more of a vassal of the United States.
01:05:03.000So I want to explain, this is why I call it Israel Derangement Syndrome.
01:05:06.000So I don't care for anyone's particular ideology, their pet peeves or personal issues that they think are the most important.
01:05:15.000I care about what can we look in aggregate data.
01:05:18.000I don't think it's fair, shout out to David Pakman, when he makes a video saying Trump is, his disapproval rating skyrockets and he finds a singular poll to back up his ideas.
01:05:27.000At the same time he made that video at the time, I made a video where I said Trump's approval rating is better than ever based on aggregate polling, where we try to assess as much information as possible and find that data.
01:05:36.000When you go to Gallup, which is numerous months where they've been tracking this, there are many, many issues that outweigh.
01:05:44.000In fact, Israel isn't even a single issue on the chart.
01:06:07.000And so you have government poor leadership in the current month at 21%, immigration at 18%, poverty at 6%, abortion at 4%, elections at 4%, unifying the country at 4%, ethics, more religious family decline at 3%, foreign policy at 3%.
01:06:20.000Maybe we can add foreign policy and war in the Middle East and make that 6%?
01:06:25.000And still, immigration and economics dramatically outweigh that as an issue.
01:06:30.000If Donald Trump wants to actually win over voters, the issues he should focus on are going to be immigration and the economy, and particularly the number one issue, Biden's failing mental acuity, which is currently number one, and actually was number one five months ago.
01:06:44.000But immigration was number one for three months in April, March, and February, according to Gallup.
01:06:50.000Gallup may be wrong as a single point of data, but using this source, these are the issues that people generally care about.
01:06:57.000Typically, the other polling we've seen didn't list government poor leadership at number one, which is why this one was surprising to me.
01:07:04.000Immigration tends to be the number one issue, because immigration ties to everything else, but Israel isn't even on the map.
01:07:10.000I mean, the fact is, if immigration is going to be handled by Anduril and Stephen Miller and these sorts of people, it's not going to be fixed.
01:07:18.000Well, that's not the conversation we're having.
01:07:20.000Something else needs to happen if Trump is going to be credible.
01:07:23.000So if we're talking about, at the debate, what can Biden say?
01:07:28.000It has nothing to do with that conversation about who's going to be running it.
01:07:31.000The question is, what will Trump or Biden say that will win over voters?
01:07:36.000The big weakness Biden has right now is that, according to Gallup, one of the biggest concerns, the biggest concern right now is poor leadership in government.
01:07:44.000And that is something Trump can easily attack on.
01:07:48.000If Trump gets ultra-specific on – you know, the reason I ask about Saudi Arabia is that over 100,000 people have been killed in Yemen in the past, I think, what, five years?
01:08:18.000If Donald Trump on the debate stage says, under Joe Biden's watch, the Saudi petrodollar deal has ended without an extension or a plan, the American people are going to say, I have no idea what you're talking about.
01:08:31.000It doesn't matter to me and it will win over no voters, despite being probably the most important issue affecting the U.S.
01:08:36.000outside of perhaps escalation into World War III with Russia.
01:08:39.000Like, if we're talking about what's going to happen to this country, you've got a handful of things that really matter.
01:08:44.000The petrodollar deal expiring with Saudi Arabia means China's going to start buying and selling oil in Chinese currency, and the U.S.
01:08:51.000doesn't manufacture enough to bolster its economy outside of producing dollars in the Federal Reserve.
01:08:56.000Without that deal, Saudi Arabia can dump oil into the market, undercutting the U.S.
01:08:59.000and destroying our economy, which is why we used to beg Saudi Arabia not to pump oil, and then Saudi Arabia, getting mad at the U.S.
01:09:06.000administration, whichever it may be, would be like, we're going to pump some oil into the global market, and it's going to screw over your numbers.
01:09:13.000That matters dramatically because we're talking about mass inflation, standard of living dropping dramatically because the whole system of petrodollar economics in the United States is built on U.S.
01:09:25.000Without that deal with Saudi Arabia, and it's not the only thing that matters, but it's one of the most important, our economy is undercut.
01:09:31.000Then you can look at immigration, then you can look at civil disorder and social decay at the government level and these various issues.
01:09:39.000These things matter the most, but are so far, they are so esoteric, and so in the weeds, the average person is going to be completely lost if you try to bring it up to them.
01:10:48.000And there's a really funny meme, actually, where, I don't know if it's a real conversation, but it's presenting the idea, where an African guy said, whenever the British come here, they give us lectures.
01:11:01.000And whenever China comes here, they give us roads and money.
01:11:03.000And then the guy responds with, what do you think is attached to those roads and money?
01:11:07.000And they go, oh, here we go with the lecture again.
01:12:19.000The Nicaraguan Canal was a huge story ten years ago.
01:12:21.000China abandoned that, however, but they were going to destroy a massive aquifer, a major water source in Nicaragua, just to compete with the Panama Canal.
01:12:31.000And then they ended up banning the project.
01:12:33.000Like, we're at a serious... Maybe it's true always that there's always a major turning point in global politics, but right now it's a precipice, especially with Russia, Ukraine, and Yemen, and Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and all of these things.
01:12:46.000The shape of the world in the next 10 years could be dramatically different from what anyone alive today has ever experienced or would expect to actually happen.
01:12:56.000And the scary thing about it is, gradually then suddenly, We're all sitting here thinking, you know, we can order our MacBooks from China off cheap labor for $1,000.
01:13:05.000But if the petrodollar system collapses, that laptop is going to cost you $10,000.
01:13:11.000They'll bring manufacturing back, but you'll get a dark period for 10-20 years before they can reset the economy.
01:13:17.000I think that's what Trump's vision was with securing our borders and bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
01:13:22.000Get a jumpstart on it now before it's too late.
01:13:41.000The group, which has historically funded more Republicans than Democrats and rarely spent on Democratic primaries, spent at least $14.5 million against Bowman.
01:13:51.000This is about $20 million in big money being spent in a historic sum unlike any seen in American history point-blank period, AOC told reporters from the Capitol on Wednesday.
01:14:02.000I think we need to have a real conversation about AIPAC.
01:14:05.000I think that we do need to have a real conversation about...
01:14:10.000is a Republican, primarily Republican, and largely Republican-financed organization,
01:14:14.000playing and dumping money and playing an extremely divisive role in the Democratic Party.
01:14:19.000So right now, there are a lot of people on the right who are defending Bowman, having lost,
01:14:26.000because AIPAC spent a—I believe it's a record amount of money in a congressional race.
01:14:31.000And I think they probably didn't need to.
01:14:35.000The story with Bowman is that he was redistricted, and Bowman is the sort of guy who's going to do great in the Bronx, but he's not going to do so great in Scarsdale.
01:14:43.000And so, you know, AIPAC is important, but there's clearly more to the story here.
01:14:50.000I think that, you know, it's not quite as simple as it's just AIPAC, but in general AIPAC, it is true that AIPAC is a powerful lobby group.
01:15:06.000Yeah, this story has always been really interesting to me because the redistricting aspect, but also, you know, a lot of the media is talking about it like the more progressive candidate, Bowman, lost to a more moderate Democrat.
01:15:20.000And people might not think that label totally fits, but it does seem like it's reflective of a conversation that's being held within the Democratic Party about the influences that are That are impacting their races, as opposed to a typical race that we think of where it's Republican versus Democrat.
01:15:39.000Because this is a primary, it's more of a chance for Democrats to evaluate where the money is coming from and what values they are looking to elect to Congress.
01:15:51.000Yeah, and Latimer hardly seems like, you know, the sort of... If I were a young person, he's not exactly somebody I would be enthusiastic about voting for.
01:16:01.000I mean, he looks like one of those fancy Japanese goldfish with the googly eyes.
01:16:07.000I'm trying to look up the spending from AIPAC on Open Secrets and it doesn't come up.
01:16:12.000I mean, I don't get the sense that—so I wasn't aware of the redistricting with Bowman, but I kind of get the sense that a lot of his problem was that he didn't go door-to-door in Westchester.
01:16:24.000Like, he wasn't going up to try and His district always had part of Westchester, from what I understand.
01:16:29.000Yeah, there's a really toxic thing about some of these sort of celebrity Democrats, is that the star power is going to carry them through.
01:16:36.000And I think that's, you know, maybe a little hubris there.
01:16:40.000He specifically said that he, you know, he made, he gave, he was giving thanks to Dearborn, which is clearly because of the progressives in Dearborn, the attitude in Dearborn about the Situation in Gaza and Israel.
01:16:58.000And I think that the Jewish population of Westchester just wasn't having it.
01:17:03.000And then you throw that on top of it where he is, you know, he's got the brain of a shoe because everyone knew that the pulling of the fire alarm was, you know, he did it.
01:17:15.000So I think that I got the sense that it was a combination of he embarrassed the Democrats and he had the issue with the population of Westchester.
01:17:25.000I don't know that the redistricting had as big a significance as anyone else.
01:17:32.000If you want to go ahead and enlighten me, I'd be welcome to hear it.
01:17:36.000His district now contains, it's a lot more kind of northerly focused.
01:17:43.000And the new map dropped like not all that long ago.
01:17:46.000I mean, the thought is that he lost a section of the Bronx that he had had before, which means that he lost a certain amount of support there.
01:17:51.000Especially if you're saying, you know, he irritated people if there's a large Jewish community in Westchester and they are now irritated with him because of his comments or anything else.
01:17:59.000It makes him more vulnerable than just a traditional primary matchup because of the geopolitical influence on American politics this year.
01:18:10.000So I guess nobody cares about APEC. I mean from my perspective, I know APEC gets a lot of attention,
01:18:15.000but if you look at the race, you know, just a handful of races. So the Jamal Bowman one, yes,
01:18:20.000Jamal Bowman lost and APEC spent money. But you look at the Kentucky race with Thomas Massie,
01:18:26.000they weren't able to unseat Thomas Massie. APEC spent money against Massie? APEC spent a lot of
01:18:30.000money. Yeah, one point that I would make. Hold on, let me finish. He said, you know, it's like they
01:18:34.000went after him. Now granted, some people will say he's an incumbent, and so that's why. And there's
01:18:39.000validity to that. But still, if APEC was as powerful, the money that APEC spent, they should
01:18:43.000be able to unseat him. Furthermore, in Texas, there was the, I forget the number of the district,
01:18:47.000but it was the, it was Tony Gonzalez versus, um, Brennan Herrera, and Brennan Herrera lost by 400 votes against an incumbent, and the incumbent was backed by AIPAC.
01:18:57.000So as much as people like to make remarks about AIPAC and talk about AIPAC money, I honestly don't think that AIPAC has the kind of juice that people like to see.
01:19:08.000You know, the backing that people say.
01:19:11.000And especially when you look at the left, they're blaming AIPAC, blaming AIPAC, and ignoring Jamal Bowen's own personal failures.
01:19:23.000And it becomes a lazy man's reason for losing, especially in an age when people like to hate on Jews and hate on Israel.
01:19:33.000I think in general you're right that Republicans have a better record of standing up to their establishments than Democrats do.
01:19:39.000But if I were to make kind of the case against AIPAC here, I've seen some kind of – there are a lot of really smart right-of-center guys that are kind of thinking through how to negotiate this.
01:19:49.000I have no problem with limiting APAC's ability to affect it.
01:19:53.000I have no problem with registering or whatever.
01:19:58.000Well, let me explain why the way that they fit into the ecosystem has been a little bit strange in the last couple of months.
01:20:06.000It's not that AIPAC is powerful that it needs to—that it ought to, if you ask me, register.
01:20:11.000It's that AIPAC formerly had—so, I mean, AIPAC is full of, you know, that old joke about two Jews, three opinions, right?
01:20:21.000And so there is a lot of disagreement among donors.
01:20:24.000And the way that they paper that over is that AIPAC has sort of made the decision that we're not going to kind of— The way we're going to present ourselves in the United States is to support what the Israeli government wants.
01:20:37.000And it's that kind of formal papering over of the disagreements, more or less on behalf of the Israeli government, and agreeing to represent their position, that effectively, if you ask me, makes them a foreign lobby.
01:20:51.000Even if most of the donors are not Israeli, they're American Jews.
01:20:56.000And moreover, I would argue that that point of view, that kind of bargain, the way that they avoid airing the disagreements in public, the reason why it started to break down, and it was breaking down before October 7th, and in some ways October 7th served to consolidate a lot of American Jewish opinion.
01:21:17.000But before that, Israel was going through a constitutional crisis.
01:21:20.000What was happening was a lot of lawyers wanted to do in Israel what was successfully done through Fed Soc to the American judiciary.
01:21:30.000And the problem is there are a whole lot of other checks and balances in the American
01:21:34.000system that if you really limit judicial power, everything's probably going to be okay.
01:21:41.000If you do it in like a highly majoritarian state of 9 million people that feels constantly
01:21:46.000besieged, that's going to tend in a direction that's like somewhat volatile.
01:21:50.000And so if you're going through a constitutional crisis, a constitutional crisis by definition
01:21:55.000means we don't know who the government is.
01:21:57.000There are fights and the different branches of government are fighting with each other.
01:22:01.000And so, you know, from AIPAC's perspective is, what Israeli government perspective are we speaking for here?
01:22:07.000Are we speaking for the left that's against Bibi's judicial reforms?
01:22:13.000Are we speaking for the maximalism of the Israeli right?
01:22:17.000And there's just, there's no way for them to kind of speak to that.
01:22:22.000And October 7th gave the Israel lobby certainly something to rally around.
01:22:28.000But I think the big mistake right off the bat, and now the IDF spokesmen are starting to concede it, which is that completely eliminating Hamas is probably not a realistic goal.
01:24:42.000Okay, so he's under house arrest because he went to a school board meeting and yelled because they're indoctrinating his daughter, and then Dave Rubin is a non-binary guy.
01:24:50.000And, you know, this brings up an interesting question around attempts at building culture, because everyone has basically said this is the worst thing they've ever seen.
01:25:03.000But, uh, you know, I don't want to discourage people from trying.
01:25:08.000So, like, as far as I'm concerned, like, if you're going to build culture, trying to build culture that caters to one political group is probably not the best idea.
01:25:18.000Like, everybody that listens to All That Remains and pays attention to the members of the band, they all know me.
01:25:24.000They know that I've been, you know, Partial to libertarian politics or conservative opinions and stuff.
01:25:30.000They know that I'm not particularly conservative socially, but they have an idea, right?
01:25:34.000But all that remains, as a band, I don't get on stage and talk about anything political.
01:25:39.000And other people in the band have very different views.
01:25:42.000And I think the important thing about building culture is to be able to welcome people that disagree.
01:25:47.000That is one of the fundamental pillars of the United States, is you can disagree to Just so long as we can exist peacefully together.
01:25:54.000We don't have to have the same opinions, we don't have to agree all the time, and I think that, as much as it's important to make places that are acceptable for right-leaning opinions, it's more important, in my opinion, to make places that are acceptable for right-wing opinions that don't exclude people that are not exclusively right-wing.
01:26:13.000This show, it's basically just a whole bunch, and this is their, like, mini-pilot, so who knows, but it's basically just a whole bunch of Hey, here's a thing that happened.
01:26:45.000And the dude who was working the McFlurry machine thought he was being real nice, And so he dumped a load of Oreos, just went nuts with it.
01:26:55.000Like, you know, people like it with that.
01:27:28.000The neighbor should be friends with the family, should introduce weird scenarios that get the family into some hijinks, and the moral at the end is the family ultimately decides the woke thing isn't working because it's kind of weird or it causes them problems.
01:27:41.000Then it's, our kooky, woke neighbor, what a weirdo, and you're creating culture that will be understandable and relatable by regular people, that makes wokeness look like an other, this.
01:27:55.000Many people are calling this a PSYOP, and they're saying the intention is to show the old, stodgy man out of touch with the young people, and the young people, with establishment authority, are actually normal, and he's not.
01:28:11.000I don't watch a lot of animated shows or anything like that so I'm not sure I'm the best person to criticize this.
01:28:17.000I think generally I prefer art and cultural projects that are kind of more subtle, right?
01:28:25.000I mean there is a history of political cartooning where you're kind of calling things out more directly and so maybe this is the modern version of that but generally I think that there's a level of like You want there to be room for interpretation.
01:28:37.000You don't want people to know the joke you're making before you make it, right?
01:28:43.000We kind of all know what the end goal is.
01:28:55.000In the show, the dude is sitting in his chair with a beer next to him, then he is surprised by the beer that he bought and put next to him.
01:29:04.000And then when the Dave Rubin character walks in, he's like, who's he?
01:29:09.000And the wife is like, the judge agreed to conditional parole.
01:29:48.000And like I said, the guys in South Park have got a lock on this to make current things and make them relatable to people that may not have the support.
01:31:20.000They, uh, Ta-Nehisi Coates, I think the guy's name was several years ago, he's drawing a comic, and he makes the Red Skull, the Nazi character in Captain America, presenting his rules for life, and it's very clearly that they depicted Red Skull as Jordan Peterson, you know, as one and the same.
01:31:39.000And, uh, Jordan Peterson was like, what the bloody hell?
01:31:42.000Like, they're making him the Red Skull.
01:31:45.000Sheamus says, okay, let's roll with this.
01:31:48.000So he makes a cartoon where the Red Skull's evil plan is to get young men to clean their rooms and repair their relationships with their fathers.
01:31:55.000And it ends with the Avengers sitting down for a lecture from the Red Skull.
01:32:40.000I'm wondering who made this, because there's no information on who made it anywhere.
01:32:44.000The Twitter account doesn't list anybody.
01:32:46.000They've got a bunch of CalArts graduates locked in a basement somewhere, and they're chained to a radiator, and yeah, that's probably what it is.
01:32:53.000I will point out, however, there is one clue.
01:33:27.000I think there's a danger in when we say we want to make a parallel culture, right?
01:33:31.000That doesn't mean that we're copy pasting and changing the colors of the things that already exist in culture.
01:33:35.000Like when you say you want to be like the South Park of whatever, like that doesn't mean you actually are trying to literally rip off South Park because you won't be able to, right?
01:33:48.000It has a structure that people are going for.
01:33:49.000You have to be able to say, okay, I want to work in cartoons.
01:33:52.000I want to work in animation, but I'm going to come up with my own thing.
01:33:55.000And there's a way in which the parallel culture, or we need, you know, sort of an alternative conservative ecosystem, runs the risk of throwing people into bed with some unscrupulous characters.
01:34:06.000There's the Neugebauer lawsuit that just broke a couple of days ago.
01:34:12.000That this guy who is running this app called Glorify, which was like an anti-woke marketplace online, is now suing his previous backers, some of whom were, you know, notable Silicon Valley figures.
01:34:25.000And what it looks like is there were a couple of these anti-woke marketplaces competing, and the one that was sort of blessed by the Silicon Valley financiers was Public Square, and that one sort of taking off.
01:34:37.000And Glorify, by Nuka Bauer, who's sort of evangelical, is close to Texas
01:34:42.000oil and gas. He's the one who got kind of thrown under the bus, and now he's upset and he's suing
01:34:48.000about it. And so, you know, who runs the parallel economy? You know, these are, you know, questions
01:35:44.000Wow, Bill Maher, they're dragging you through this one, huh?
01:35:47.000Alright everybody, we're gonna go to Super Chats.
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01:35:58.000And I'm gonna tell you this, our plans for tomorrow night.
01:36:04.000I've had numerous phone calls and conversations, DMs and such, with many other channels about their intentions for the show, the debate tomorrow night.
01:36:15.000Basically, every lawyer's legal opinion is that CNN has no legal grounds for actually taking down any commentary stream.
01:36:25.000It's an absurd claim they're going to try and make.
01:36:29.000At least in one instance, the legal advice was, the presumption is that CNN is collapsing, their ratings are in the gutter, they're bleeding money, and they're in a panic-desperate state.
01:36:41.000They likely will take whatever action imaginable, just because they have to.
01:36:47.000When you're trying to rescue someone who's drowning, you've got to come from behind and lift them, otherwise they will drown you.
01:36:55.000The concern is that CNN's going to file live takedowns on every single channel that tries to provide fact-checking, commentating, and criticism on the debate.
01:38:00.000It seems that CNN is directly targeting YouTube.
01:38:04.000So CNN has already clarified to numerous channels, we are all allowed to broadcast the stream with commentary, so long as it is on our websites and not on YouTube.
01:38:19.000It's a weird thing to request or demand or whatever.
01:38:22.000That is, they've explicitly said that we can run, for profit, members only, 10 bucks if you want to watch our commentary debate stream and they have no problem with it.
01:38:34.000Yet if we're on YouTube, providing it for free, with no ads even, that's the problem.
01:38:41.000I talked to YouTube, I said, YouTube, guys, you realize, they actually aren't complaining about us.
01:38:46.000CNN is not saying TimCast's bad, or any of these other podcasts bad, they're saying YouTube, they're going after you guys.
01:38:54.000YouTube is not very happy about it, because it's literally, CNN is making a move against YouTube as a whole, and telling us, feel free to use it.
01:39:23.000The first hour of the show, of course, will be our normal show, and the second hour is when the debate begins for an hour and a half, so there will be no super chat section and no members only.
01:39:32.000I told YouTube, you know, I'm telling you right now, CNN has no right to take down the first hour of our show over a complaint over however many minutes from the next portion, which they would falsely claim is fair use, and if YouTube is to take action against us over a false claim, like we've got a problem.
01:40:25.000Alright, Restless Medic says, if the House does not have the Sergeant-at-Arms remove Garland from his office in a highly publicized perp walk, which I'm under no delusion they'll do, then the rule of law is done and disobedience is the only solution.
01:40:39.000And that is, regardless of your opinion, what we have seen historically.
01:40:44.000As Matt Taibbi described several years ago, countries come to the point where two cars drive full speed down the road, drive up to the police station, two men jump out of the cars, run up to the chief of police and scream, arrest that man, at each other.
01:42:20.000I said Biden's going to be at a rally and he's going to grip his chest and go, and then Gavin Newsom is going to throw his jacket off, run out on stage and save the life of the president.
01:42:31.000I just didn't think you would be live on television broadcast by everyone.
01:43:26.000People think lobbyist implies something beyond like, dude, there are people who walk up to members of Congress on the street and say, hey, are you going to vote for that Green New Deal thing?
01:43:40.000If you can get access to a congressperson or whatever and all you're doing is saying, hey, look, there are people that really believe in this.
01:43:48.000And if you want to get their votes, blah, blah, blah.
01:44:47.000I think that most of the time it's people answering to their constituents, specifically the politically motivated ones, because these people have to be able to rely on their votes in the midterms when you don't have a lot of attention.
01:45:01.000So the people that are politically motivated and that have agendas that they care about, they're going to go ahead and they're going to contribute to organizations that have lobbyists.
01:45:13.000The NRA supports people that already support the Second Amendment, and they support the Second Amendment because their constituents support the Second Amendment.
01:45:21.000If you go to, if you're looking at people that are in the oil lobby, you tend to find people that are working for, like in Texas, that are working for oil companies and stuff like that, and the politicians support those ideas, then the lobbyists come to help get them elected because they already support those ideas because they're representing their constituents.
01:45:38.000I do understand that there is some influence, but I don't think that it's as As much of an effect as people generally think because most people that complain about lobbyists they tend to have the idea that like the lobbyists can just shovel money into their accounts and their bank.
01:45:54.000I mean lobbyists are able to to shovel money in a way that a lot of you know independent donors grassroots donors can't.
01:45:59.000I think the other part is that a lobbying group could look at a candidate that's moderate on issue and say Hey, like we really want to support you but we need to know that you would vote a certain way on this and that's the problem, right?
01:46:09.000I get that ultimately we want to believe our politicians represent people and maybe on certain issues they do and maybe there are – and I think there are groups that we technically classify as lobbying groups that are legitimately trying to do good in their communities.
01:46:21.000But it's also equally as likely that lobbying groups are able to look at who they can influence and divert money in their direction.
01:46:28.000Like we have to be skeptical of politics in all directions here.
01:46:33.000All right, we'll read some superchats here.
01:46:36.000Ogan Maddox says, Tim, you read my superchat last night but never addressed my question about Matt and Blonde possibly appearing on IRL other than howdy people love this show.
01:46:44.000Matt and Blonde are always welcome to come on the show.
01:48:05.000Was that when you said, lift heavy thing, make sad voice go away?
01:48:07.000I'm not sure exactly what it was, but I'm extremely blessed to be able to touch people, and I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know, and I'm glad that you are feeling better.
01:48:18.000It is important to get out there and make a change in your life if you're feeling down, and I'm so happy that you did.
01:50:36.000And at the time, I had never seen a person that young play like Jason.
01:50:41.000So Jason and Ollie stayed, you know, stayed friends and, you know, talked and stuff when they got the chance.
01:50:46.000And Ollie had said, you know, if anything ever happened to me, and this was, you know, it was it was apocryphal, I guess, but he said, if anything ever happens to me, Jason Richardson is the guy that I would want to to take my place.
01:50:56.000And so, you know, when Jason offered to fill in and he wasn't in a band at the time, we were like, look, man, Ollie said, you're the guy like if you want the job, it's yours.
01:51:06.000And he was like, yeah, dude, you know, I'd love it.
01:51:08.000And it's It's an amazing, wonderful thing to be able to say that.
01:51:14.000If we can't have Ollie, because Ollie's passed away, we can have the guy that Ollie wanted, and that's a big deal to me.
01:51:21.000So I'm forever grateful for Jason, and I'm also forever grateful for Ollie.
01:51:42.000Big Lean says Trump's mic will only be muted to live television and then they will turn the mic up 1000% and they are hoping he won't think about that and will say things under his breath.
01:51:51.000We already know ethics aren't real to them.
01:51:54.000Do you think Trump saying stuff under his breath would hurt him with the voters, right?
01:51:59.000But I was actually thinking what if, and they could easily do this, create different streams Let me say this first.
01:52:08.000Emphasis matters dramatically in what a sentence means.
01:52:12.000If you were to read the sentence, I never said she stole your money.
01:52:18.000Depending on where you put emphasis, it dramatically changes the meaning.
01:52:27.000With that in mind, What if a network, and I'm not saying this will happen, had multiple versions of the same feed showing different things at different times, creating different perceptions of how the debate is going?
01:52:42.000I don't know about that, but notoriously when it was JFK's Nixon debate, I think this is where they said that people who listened on radio thought Nixon won.
01:52:50.000People who watched on TV thought Nixon lost.
01:52:52.000I think it was the first televised debate, too.
01:53:25.000But the camera pulls out a little bit, and there's white and blue on either side.
01:53:28.000And so it looks like just the usual bunting.
01:53:32.000In theory, there would be a great sci-fi novel you could write about.
01:53:36.000An AI man-in-the-middle attack into, like, the feed of a major network?
01:53:40.000And just you have, like, three different AI debates?
01:53:44.000Right, well, I mean, it reminds me of when this announcement came out that Biden was going to challenge Trump to a debate, right?
01:53:50.000Tim talks about it, he saw the video, but I heard it over the radio first, and it sounded like actually kind of a strong statement from Biden.
01:53:57.000He was speaking relatively quickly, but it's all actually, when you look at it, super cut together to give him an edge.
01:54:02.000If there is, you know, if CNN controls the live stream, any sort of delay or any sort of clipping that they can do obviously could benefit someone and make someone else look bad.
01:55:25.000I get that Israel's a big one, but there are a bunch of foreign obligations the United States has given itself up to and bent the knee to foreign dignitaries in horrifyingly ridiculous ways.
01:55:36.000And it's just like, there's only ever one in the mind of these people.
01:56:20.000Well, I think people who—I have never met anyone who has Ukraine derangement syndrome, Saudi Arabia derangement syndrome, South Korea, China, Taiwan, literally any other—Sudan.
01:56:58.000Well, I mean, the difference is, and I would totally concede that some of it is indefensible, There is no other lobby in Washington that is so lawless as the Israel lobby.
01:57:12.000The amount of targeting of individuals within America that they do, much of what they do is actually illegal here in America.
01:57:24.000I'm saying that your description of this as, like, the biggest—the military-industrial complex is a substantially bigger concern across the board than the Israel lobby.
01:57:36.000The Israel lobby is a fraction of the military-industrial complex.
01:57:38.000I mean, what conservative commentators tend to do is say that you're obsessed or deranged about it when you bring it up at all.
01:57:46.000No, but that's been the common attack, you know, on anybody who brings this up, is that you're either obsessed or deranged if you think it might be a problem at all.
01:57:57.000No, that's a gross oversimplification.
01:57:59.000I think it's important to criticize Israel.
01:58:01.000I think that it's good that people criticize Israel.
01:58:05.000shouldn't be spending any money on Israel.
01:58:07.000And yet, for some reason, a tiny fraction of the military-industrial complex and foreign spending dominates the minds of so many people in such shocking ways.
02:01:37.000You know, they're in the wrong to do it, if they try, and we'll see how YouTube handles this.
02:01:43.000But we could use your support as members if you want to make sure that, in this election season, I was talking to Benny Johnson earlier and he was like, look man, the vice presidential pick, you've got the presidential immunity, you've got all of these things coming up, and they are going to try and take us down to make it so that we cannot speak up about what's going on and counter their narrative.
02:02:48.000You can catch us this summer on the Destroy All Enemies Tour with Mudvayne and Megadeth.
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02:02:58.000We just announced a couple headline shows in the middle, because there's two legs of the tour, so we've got a couple headline shows, and I think there's a couple shows we're going to be playing where we're direct support from Mudvayne.
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