On this week's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, host Stephen Colbert is joined by his good friend and co-host, Arin McIntyre. Stephen and Tim talk about the latest news involving Donald Trump and his deal with the Danish government over Greenland, Bovino gets attacked at a speedway, and there's a call for a major boycott of snacks in Virginia.
00:04:23.000And he got attacked at a speedway, and they wouldn't serve him.
00:04:27.000They wouldn't let him and his guys come in and get snacks.
00:04:29.000Now there's a call for a major boycott.
00:04:30.000And then, of course, we've got news coming out of Virginia where they're basically gearing up to go to war with the federal government, I guess.
00:07:30.000NATO said in a statement, negotiations between Denmark, Greenland, and the United States will go forward aimed at ensuring that Russia and China never gain a foothold economically or militarily in Greenland.
00:07:40.000Rutz old Fox News, special report with Brett Baer Wednesday, that Danish sovereignty of the territory wasn't talked about in the meetings with Trump.
00:07:46.000We basically discussed how we can implement the president's vision on protecting, yes, Greenland, but of course, this, not only Greenland, this whole Arctic.
00:07:55.000Now, here's the framework of the deal.
00:07:58.000The breaking details, we believe these to be the details.
00:08:02.000The U.S. will gain control over small pockets of land in Greenland.
00:08:06.000The U.S. will be involved in Greenland's mineral rights.
00:08:09.000Greenland is estimated to hold reserves worth as much as $5 trillion.
00:08:13.000The U.S. Golden Dome system will be involved in Greenland when it's built.
00:08:17.000The deal is designed to block Russian and Chinese influence in Greenland.
00:08:20.000This will open the door to U.S.-backed infrastructure investment.
00:08:24.000The duration of the deal will have an indefinite timeframe.
00:08:27.000This means Trump will have secured land, minerals, and defense in one deal, effectively getting everything they wanted.
00:08:33.000And that Greenland and Denmark can say we won as well, maintaining their sovereignty.
00:08:38.000But the U.S. is going to basically do what they did before.
00:08:41.000So this looks like a classic Donald Trump big-ask where he threatens to punch you in the face, but then you agree to just hook.
00:08:49.000I have to say, Donald, this is directly to you.
00:09:09.000And if Europe turns on us, which they were talking about doing, sending troops to Greenland plus, then the Russians and the Chinese would also, the vultures would start to circle.
00:09:18.000So thank you, Donald, for being such a harsh, strong businessman in these desperate times and turning the steel.
00:09:24.000You're not a plan truster and you are clearly a panican.
00:09:28.000It's amazing that no matter how many times Trump uses this exact strategy, the same strategy he literally wrote a book about, that people just continuously do this.
00:09:47.000And that's why we always say you got to watch not just what Trump says, but what he's doing, what he's actually planning, where he's actually setting himself.
00:09:53.000If you run out there and take every single thing he says seriously, then you're just falling for the exact strategy he's already laid out.
00:10:00.000You're being played just like the media.
00:10:01.000Doesn't mean you have to believe everything Trump says.
00:10:03.000Doesn't mean he gets free pass on everything.
00:10:05.000But people really do have to calm down with the whole rhetorical stuff.
00:10:08.000We've seen this so many times over and over again.
00:10:10.000And people just end up embarrassing themselves when they take every bit of it seriously.
00:10:13.000That's my favorite part when they embarrass themselves.
00:10:17.000And to be fair, with this go-around, again, with the tariffs being threatened, with Trump not refusing to admit that he could potentially go to war over this, a lot of plant trusters, a lot of our top guys were getting a little antsy.
00:10:28.000They were saying, you know, I like the deal.
00:10:30.000I like the strategy, but do we really need to apply this much pressure to Europe?
00:10:33.000These sorts of things that's antagonizing even like right-wing parties in Europe.
00:10:38.000So shout out to the poster Homan's top guy.
00:10:40.000He was never, he was a plan trust the entire time.
00:10:43.000Anytime some of our guys were starting to be like, I don't know, Donald, like, can we take the heat off a little bit?
00:10:47.000He'd be in the replies and just let him have it.
00:10:49.000So this, I think, to be honest, this was like the ultimate plan trusting test.
00:10:53.000Because like I said, a lot of the top plan trusters were even getting a little bit cold feet over this.
00:11:06.000Because this guy is holding it together with like willpower.
00:11:09.000Donald Trump is like, people are terrified of him and they love him and they're like scared of him and they're like geopolitically is a mastermind.
00:11:18.000I mean, I know people are studying him.
00:11:20.000Vance is studying him, but it's like, he can't just become Donald Trump.
00:11:25.000Look, if the if Democrats do, you know, win and take control of like the House, the Senate, and the executive office, like that's going to be the undoing of basically everything good that Donald Trump's done.
00:11:41.000Just the same way that Joe Biden opened the borders totally because of Donald Trump doing what he did about the illegal immigration and stuff.
00:11:53.000They're going to undo even good things just to spike Donald Trump.
00:11:57.000So that's another reason why it's incredibly important that people go and vote in the midterms and go and vote for whoever isn't the Democrat.
00:12:06.000As much as people are out there that are like, oh, I'm sick and tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.
00:12:13.000After this redistricting thing, I don't think voting matters at all.
00:12:16.000I mean, it barely did to begin with, but we did believe.
00:12:19.000Now, Democrats and Republicans have basically been like, let's utilize the power we have to wipe out our opposition in our states, except Indiana that went, oh, slow down there, Trump.
00:12:41.000Now, if the empire is being run by patriots, if it's being run for the advantages of the American people, that's fantastic.
00:12:48.000But the problem is if the Democrats get back to power and they have all the power that Trump has secured for the United States, but he hasn't secured it domestically, then you'd have a scenario where the left now has a stronger global American empire, but they're running it for their own interests.
00:13:01.000They're running it for the globalists.
00:13:04.000They're making sure to purge Americans, replace Americans.
00:13:06.000And so that's why I would prefer that while I love what the Trump administration is doing in certain areas when it comes to securing our interests, if you don't secure the homeland, if you don't secure the voting, if you don't do that, then it doesn't matter because you're just turning all that stuff over to the Democrats.
00:13:20.000And if they don't get rid of it, like Phil said, they'll just use it to hurt us.
00:13:24.000Yeah, well, I made the point on the show last night.
00:13:25.000I think I was using your talking point, which is objectively true, is that it's no longer, these elections are no longer about, you know, swinging over independent voters and these sorts of things to a degree that's still important, but it really is just a census at the end of the day.
00:13:37.000And when you look at, again, like these redistricting plays, when you look at, again, the immigration that took place under Biden, like fundamentally what these elections are just coming down to is what is the actual makeup of that district, and then it just takes a snapshot of it.
00:13:50.000It seems like that should be illegal at the federal level for a state to do that, because that gives that state untoward influence over national elections.
00:13:59.000So then the Supreme Court has to say, like, hey, you can't just all of a sudden say our state is all Democratic voters because we redistricted everything.
00:14:08.000But the Constitution is very clear that that is the power that the states retain.
00:14:11.000And so that's the problem is it was designed that way.
00:14:13.000You were supposed to be able to throw a spanner in the works.
00:14:16.000But when you, like you say, when that no longer becomes an issue of good faith, when people are actively and maliciously using the legal system to skew those politics, all of a sudden that federalism is a problem.
00:14:26.000Same thing when it comes down to states' rights when you're removing immigration, right?
00:14:30.000Like ultimately, yes, you should have federalism.
00:14:32.000They should have control over their law enforcement.
00:14:34.000But when they're actively choosing to allow violence in their state, when they're targeting Republicans, targeting conservatives, targeting churches, and they're just allowing violence to happen, can you really allow them to continue to operate?
00:14:49.000Laws are only for people who are living and working together in a society together.
00:14:54.000The minute you have people maliciously working to undermine that trust, you can write all the laws you want, and they're never going to matter.
00:15:12.000So to the extent that I think we have to continue to fight that because it is the way that we legitimize our rulers today, we have to fight for every inch and every advantage inside that system.
00:15:23.000But I think democracy is largely dead.
00:15:25.000I don't think we're going to get an actual mandate from the people anymore.
00:15:29.000I think it's all about pushing and pulling numbers, manipulating zones, controlling machine voting.
00:15:35.000But the idea that we're going to have some Mr. Smith goes to Washington nationwide debate on issues anymore is a joke.
00:16:00.000We were in West Virginia two months ago.
00:16:04.000I mean, technically we're still operating in West Virginia.
00:16:06.000We're here in Florida trying to work out our future plans because of the threats.
00:16:10.000The interesting thing is, despite the fact that we were in West Virginia, which is very based, you border Maryland and Virginia, and Virginia has gone psych, totally psycho.
00:16:19.000I mean, what Spanberger's done, the socialists, the left, the commies are throwing their hats in the air screaming and cheering.
00:16:26.000She's erased four years, as Tate said, of Yunkin in 48 hours.
00:16:32.000We're up there in West Virginia, but bordering this, it's contentious.
00:16:36.000I have weird beefs over like a skate park thing that was not real.
00:16:39.000And then I go to like a DC and then there's some people who are like posting things saying temples are racist at a skate park or whatever.
00:16:44.000Come to Florida and everybody's cheering for us because of the geographic hyperpolarization.
00:16:49.000This was, what did I say was going to happen with New York and these other jurisdictions?
00:16:53.000When people leave New York, it's going to weaken the conservative voter base, meaning the politicians, the Democrats, no longer have to try to earn at least some of the conservative vote and be a little moderate.
00:17:06.000That means when the primary comes around, the psycho commie is going to run against the moderate and the psychokamie is like, I don't got to pander to anybody.
00:17:23.000And then where we're at now with the redistricting war was obvious.
00:17:27.000With people in California, conservative leaning moving to Texas and Washington to Arizona and New York to Florida, the ability to push back is gone.
00:17:35.000And the Democrats in the state say, we cannot shut their voices out completely.
00:17:40.000The fascinating thing going on, a couple stories we got to go through.
00:17:44.000New York is eliminating their 11th district seat.
00:19:02.000Yeah, the sorting of the different beliefs.
00:19:05.000We used to believe you could just live anywhere in the United States and we shared enough values, enough social fabric, you'd be fine.
00:19:11.000And so people moved to all these places for education and business and these kind of things.
00:19:14.000But what they found is they were living next to a bunch of people who didn't share their religion, didn't share their beliefs, didn't share their values, and we were constantly in a state of war.
00:19:23.000Now everybody's going back to the places where they can be around people that they actually agree with, actually believe in, can have real communities.
00:19:29.000And I think that's actually a positive.
00:19:31.000One of the upsides of remote work is you can actually live around people and not have to worry about your job being right down the street.
00:19:38.000You can just live around people you actually care about.
00:19:40.000So we're seeing more intentional communities.
00:19:42.000We're seeing people moving together, moving to places where they actually agree.
00:19:45.000Florida, remember, was a purple state trending blue for most minds because when people came from New York and New Jersey, they came down here to retire and they used their pension.
00:19:54.000Now the people come in here, they're fleeing COVID.
00:19:56.000They want to be with Ron DeSantis, their Republicans.
00:21:21.000They say, even before taking office last Saturday, the new Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, demanded and received the resignations of several of her Republican predecessor Glenn Young's appointees to the board that oversees University of Virginia.
00:21:33.000In a similar vein, the state's new attorney general, Democrat Jay Jones, forced out legal counsels at George Mason University and the Virginia Military Institute who were appointed by his Republican predecessor.
00:21:43.000Job change at state colleges aren't usually national news, but what Spanberger and Virginia Democrats are doing matters well beyond Old Dominion.
00:21:49.000Republicans like Trump and Yunkin keep appointing right-wing partisans to traditionally apolitical roles like university board member and FBI director.
00:21:56.000These appointments are designed to turn key nonpartisan institutions into apparatuses for the Republican Party.
00:22:17.000Quote, all orders from the federal government or any of its officers, agencies, or departments to the state militia of Virginia, including the National Guard and the unorganized militia, that relate to the call, induction, or drafting of Virginia state troops of any type or description into the federal service for active duty or otherwise and withdrawing them from the control of the governor of Virginia shall be first transmitted to and through the governor of Virginia.
00:22:44.000The governor, as commander-in-chief of the state militia, shall not approve, consent to, or concur in any such order that has not been transmitted as herein required.
00:22:55.000Additionally, no armed militia from any other state, from another state, territory, or district shall enter the Commonwealth for the purpose of active military duty without the permission of the governor of Virginia, unless such militia has been called into the federal services for active duty and is acting under the authority of the president of the United States pursuant to Title 10 of U.S. Code.
00:23:12.000Governor, to be notified of receipt of order, no action taken until his instructions complied with certain communications prohibited.
00:23:19.000In other words, this may be a lot of bluster, Senate Bill number 337, but I think it's pretty clear what this does.
00:23:28.000This is basically setting the framework for Trump, the federal government, and the president cannot federalize National Guard.
00:23:44.000They're attempting to preempt this by passing a state law saying only the governor can approve of it after the president makes the request.
00:23:52.000So what happens when Donald Trump says we're going to enforce the law in Virginia, and then Virginia refuses or pulls one of these weird anti-ICE bills, which violate the Constitution.
00:24:04.000Then Donald Trump says, Insurrection Act, and we're going to federalize National Guard to enforce domestic law.
00:24:10.000And then she says that's illegal in the state of Virginia, pursuant to Senate bill or to, I think this is, what is this?
00:24:17.000I don't know what the bill title is, 44114.1, Code of Virginia, or amending this.
00:24:50.000And this is why I'm so tired of hearing establishment conservatives talk about their principles and their abstract understandings and then complaining when stuff like this happens.
00:25:06.000And if you don't take power, if you don't use it, this kind of stuff's going to happen.
00:25:10.000The Democrats are not going to hesitate to shore a power and pushback against you at every turn.
00:25:14.000Yeah, we literally had last, it was like a few weeks ago, the whole blue slip debate was going on because, again, Trump's trying to get a judge approved in New Jersey.
00:25:22.000And Chuck Grassley comes out and he's like, no, we're not touching the blue slip system, which basically just allows a senator from a state to object to a judge appointment, which back in the day made sense because, again, that senator would have like information on like this judge because they're local.
00:25:34.000Now it's literally just a partisan thing where it's just, again, senators hijacking judge appointments.
00:25:40.000All this to be said, Chuck Grassley comes out and he's like, no, because during the Biden administration, we utilized the blue slip system and it's part of our American principles.
00:25:49.000And it would be a total violation of our principles to object to this system.
00:25:57.000And all this happens is, I mean, kind of back to the great sort, is this is just Virginia ultimately, among other things, attempting to shake out Republicans and ensure victory.
00:26:04.000This is like to the point we were talking about with Florida, where Florida, you know, DeSantis wins decisively.
00:26:08.000At the same time, in 2021, in the state of New York, Lee Zeldon loses by about 300,000 votes to Kathy Hochul.
00:26:19.000So it's just utterly ridiculous that Republican cowardice is really leading, again, to this great sort in many ways.
00:26:25.000It's leading to a shakedown of the entire country at large.
00:26:29.000The idea of the great sort, it sounds great until the Democrats get control of the federal government and they just install all the laws that they did in Virginia, but do them federally.
00:26:38.000Oh, it's going to be bonkers, what Democrats do when they get in.
00:26:43.000They are going to get in, and this modicum of resistance Republicans have feigned, they are going to use as justification for just bulldozing the whole country.
00:26:54.000They're going to say, well, Donald Trump once, you know, shuffled my garbage can outside my house.
00:28:00.000So again, even if it's not like maybe necessarily you going to jail, you're going to face social repercussions if, heaven forbid you ever get docked or something like that.
00:28:07.000From the top, from these politicians, from these governors, from these senators, all the way down to the activist space, they are watching us and they are salivating at the opportunity to come after us.
00:28:16.000I'd love to do a bit like this where it's like, you know, three years in the future and we're on IRL and we're like the Democrats have taken every branch of government.
00:28:24.000The court has been packed and they're now announcing arrest warrants for prominent conservative personalities, independents and moderates.
00:28:50.000I'm just reading what Ian wrote right now.
00:28:51.000He's actually running mostly peaceful memes and a bunch of others.
00:28:56.000Dude, if you could see the things that I writes Trump speeches about radical change on the globe, like the way I think is so far in the future.
00:29:04.000So that's why I search for an idiot a lot because it makes me like not a target.
00:29:08.000It's so far in the future, it sounds like schizophrenia.
00:30:43.000Roosevelt ran on reducing the size of government, getting government out of things, and then immediately turned around and basically said, I'm taking total power and completely running a revolution through this country.
00:32:15.000The question is, what is the intent behind it?
00:32:18.000Is he fighting oppression and tyranny, or is he supporting oppression and tyranny?
00:32:22.000And the issue is this is a lawful government duly elected, enforcing its laws, which have been in the books for decades.
00:32:29.000In which case, this is not, as our moral worldview, who believe in the Second Amendment, a justifiable instance of bearing arms to support lawful governance and the right of the people.
00:32:41.000In fact, it is rogue operators trying to supplant the will of the people as we have duly operated in our previous election.
00:32:49.000The Republicans didn't go out and shoot anybody.
00:32:51.000They didn't write and burn everything down.
00:32:56.000The point is, this guy is not here to represent lawful governance.
00:33:00.000He is here to say, I don't care for your lawful governance.
00:33:04.000Which sends me to this before we get into everything.
00:33:06.000The point here and the question of whether or not this is actually about the Second Amendment, I bring you a passage from Ulysses S. Grant following the Civil War, for which I'm interested in Oren's opinion.
00:33:16.000He said in his memoirs, if the war had been a war of rebellion against tyranny, I should have been on the side of the rebellion.
00:33:23.000I should have been on the side of rebellion, but it was not.
00:33:25.000There was a right of revolution, but there was no right of rebellion against a lawful government.
00:33:29.000The right of revolution is a natural one and is not to be questioned, but rebellion against constitute authority is treason and must be treated as such.
00:33:37.000The Constitution gave the right to change the form of government in a lawful way, and no government is safe unless the right is reserved to the people.
00:33:45.000But rebellion against an existing government is an offense and must be punished.
00:33:49.000The southern states had no more right to secede from the union than a county has to secede from a state.
00:33:55.000Now, while I don't completely agree, I do believe it's fair to say the South decided to engage in our functioning constitutional process.
00:34:02.000When they lost that electoral process, they then said, we're out.
00:34:26.000And what these people who are saying against MAGA doesn't like Second Amendment anymore don't understand is that there are distinct moral worldviews and nuances to when and how we determine you have a right to fight back against a tyrannical government.
00:34:37.000But Auren, I'm curious, based on everything I just said, what your thoughts are.
00:34:41.000I mean, with the situation in the South, what you're looking about, like you said, our founding fathers pointed out that the reason they needed to leave is that they wanted the rights of the Englishman.
00:34:51.000They wanted the rights that they felt they were entitled to as Englishmen and that was not being upheld by the parliament.
00:34:56.000A lot of people say it was a war against the king, but actually they appealed to the king regularly, hoping that he would save them from parliament.
00:35:01.000And when he wouldn't, only then did they say, okay, now we have to appeal to heaven because we have no other place to appeal.
00:35:08.000I think this is a bad understanding from Grant.
00:35:12.000I mean, obviously, they participated in the government.
00:35:14.000The South decided that they were not receiving the rights that they believe that they were due.
00:35:18.000And if the 10th Amendment means anything, if their states actually have rights reserved to them, then the right to leave has to be part of it.
00:35:25.000If you don't have a right to leave, you don't have a right to anything.
00:35:28.000Now, ultimately, I don't think any government can actually enshrine the right of revolution.
00:35:32.000I think that's not how constitutions actually work.
00:35:34.000But spiritually, morally, I think you do have a fair argument for being able to leave at that time.
00:35:40.000Of course, people tie the war to slavery, and that's why now they just make it that instead.
00:35:45.000But on the issue of a leftist bearing arms in Minnesota for the purpose of it's intimidation against ICE.
00:36:00.000But my point is simply, first and foremost, I'm totally fine with what that guy is doing.
00:36:04.000That being said, there's a question about if his purpose is to intimidate and threaten duly appointed law enforcement that we voted on, is this a question of rebellion or is it a question of treason and sedition and or sedition?
00:36:18.000I'm fine with states' rights as long as we all get them.
00:36:20.000The funny thing is, I know the Democrats, this is all going to disappear tomorrow, right?
00:36:23.000They don't actually believe in any of this.
00:36:24.000If they want to be consistent on this, I'm fine, but I know they're not going to be.
00:36:28.000You know, as far as this particular dude is, you can very easily make an argument that he's aiding and abetting criminal activity, right?
00:36:34.000The point is he's out there intending to intimidate law enforcement when they're trying to wrap up illegal aliens and people that are breaking the law because not all these people that are quote-unquote protesting are peacefully protesting.
00:36:55.000So, I mean, you can make a completely reasonable argument saying, look, he's out there specifically to aid and abet criminal activity, not to exercise the Second Amendment.
00:37:04.000I don't think it's a reasonable, that wouldn't be, I don't think I would stand a reason that he was aiding and abetting because unless he threatened the cop.
00:37:39.000Are we going to play the game of drat?
00:37:42.000They've used our principles against us once again.
00:37:44.000I guess they win and they get to take over.
00:37:46.000Or do we say the laws are intended for a duly faithful people, faithful to God or the government, however you want to view it, who agree with each other and say we work together, we understand what the rules are.
00:37:58.000If you're going to people who want to destroy you and saying, I will bestow upon you all the rights that I hold as well, knowing you won't return in kind and are actively trying to kill me, shut my government down and change everything that I believe in, we lose.
00:38:16.000So my point is, again, this video on the surface, no problems.
00:38:21.000It's a guy standing around with a rifle.
00:38:23.000I really don't care, and I'm not going to complain about it.
00:38:25.000The greater, the bigger picture, individuals showing up with weapons intending to intimidate ICE because they have a moral worldview distinct from ours and the founding fathers and our constitution, what this country is supposed to be, and they seek to destroy our way of life.
00:38:40.000If we say to them, do as you must, do as you please, we know for a fact tomorrow they're going to say, on your knees to the gulag, do we let them do it?
00:38:51.000There's an old saying, for my friends, everything, and for my enemies, the law.
00:38:55.000And so, you know, there's one of the scenarios where, yes, there's a certain set of laws in place, but the way that they get enforced and actually carried out really determines everything.
00:39:05.000And so, yeah, we need to do things under the color of law.
00:39:08.000I think we should maintain the rule of law.
00:39:10.000But to the extent we can use law to our advantage, we should do that in every single sense.
00:39:15.000We should maximize that, every opportunity.
00:39:17.000So does this one guy get to carry his gun out there?
00:39:20.000But I want to see Don Lemon rotting in jail for 10 years.
00:39:28.000I want the law prosecuting every single person who breaks it.
00:39:32.000So, yeah, we can allow this guy to hold his gun, but the minute he does anything, I want him in jail for the rest of his life, and I want to make sure he and his friends all go to jail if they're involved in criminal conspiracy to do things like inhibit rights.
00:39:44.000So, I think we should use the law effectively in every situation.
00:39:47.000Well, that's why they're calling him Kyle Reddit House, because he knows exactly what he's saying.
00:39:51.000Yeah, he's literally like trying to, again, weaponize.
00:39:54.000This is what's so frustrating about the fact that conservatives, there's so many MUP principles, conservatives, because he's very aware of what he's doing here.
00:40:01.000This is a strategy, again, to like bait conservatives into coming out and defending him.
00:40:06.000It really is just the most pernicious Reddit strategy.
00:40:08.000But can we call him something like the Sautering or something like that?
00:41:46.000I'm not going to sit here and say you can do whatever you want because you have rights and then you're going to point your gun at me and put me in a gulag.
00:41:53.000Not only had there been no law passed, the ATF had multiple times said that a brace does not make a pistol into a short barrel rifle.
00:42:01.000They had multiple decisions or I don't know what they call it.
00:42:04.000It's not decisions, but they released multiple guidelines and letters to people saying, look, no, I personally waited about seven or eight years before I bought a brace because I was like, they're going to, and when they first came out, when the SIG brace came out, I was like, they're going to throw people in jail for that.
00:46:54.000My point is when like, we've had conversations like this so often where when the issue comes to you personally, you have no problem being like, well, of course, that's why you would do it.
00:47:02.000And when the issue comes to the betterment of the country and the laws and our Constitution, you're just like, nah, let the bad guys do whatever they do.
00:47:08.000As I'm sitting here listening to you guys, I just hear Democrats having this exact same conversation about people like you is what I and so don't become the enemy you're trying to destroy.
00:50:12.000They say the innocent people who should have, after the riot, walking onto public land they had no idea was closed to public, the doors were open, should go to prison because they're evil insurrectionists.
00:50:22.000They say that Owen Schroyer, who never went in the building, should go to prison.
00:50:25.000They said that Brennan Strzok, who never went in the building, should go to prison because they don't care.
00:50:31.000They don't fact check and they want to destroy us.
00:50:33.000You just said people that went into that church should all go to prison for 10 years.
00:50:39.000Like, yeah, when one side decides, so are you familiar with game theory?
00:50:47.000You have to have a you have to have two people cooperating, or as soon as someone defects, you have to defect in order to keep the equilibrium.
00:50:55.000The only way you ever keep equilibrium inside a system is to have one, is to have it to make sure that you have a reciprocal strategy.
00:51:03.000If you have one side say, okay, we're sending people for 10 to people to prison for 30 years who weren't even in J6, who weren't even in the area.
00:51:11.000And then when they do something similar and you don't push back, you don't give them a reciprocal pushback, they will just continue that strategy of defecting infinitely because there's no incentive for them to stop.
00:51:23.000What you're suggesting is they get to defect infinitely and we always have to cooperate.
00:51:41.000If they are putting J Sixers in prison for 20 years, even people who didn't go in the building, and we don't put them in prison when they violate the Klan Act or the FACE Act, what is the next logic ⁇ what's the logical conclusion to that kind of system?
00:51:55.000There would be multiple possible conclusions to that.
00:51:58.000One is the other side says, okay, then we're done.
00:54:14.000Yeah, well, that's what they're charging.
00:54:15.000They're saying they're charging under the KKK Act because they said the FACE Act is a little bit difficult because of the ingress and egress.
00:55:11.000I personally think that that's reasonable.
00:55:13.000I was putting myself in the heads of some of those churchgoers probably that really thought they were about to do that.
00:55:17.000The thing that matters ultimately in the end is that I think it is obvious to everybody watching the show that Democrats think they're right and they're justified.
00:55:25.000The difference is the moral framework they use, which was the point of bringing this up.
00:55:28.000Do we believe in the Second Amendment?
00:56:10.000Of course, we don't give our enemy foreign invasion.
00:56:14.000So Rand Mamdani's campaign said that he was intentionally going to protect non-citizens from federal law enforcement that were duly appointed by the duly elected American government.
00:56:28.000He went on the view and said he wants to abolish ICE.
00:56:31.000This is an individual not from this country, later did gain citizenship, threatening the people who democratically elected a Congress, a president who then appointed and the Senate confirmed a Supreme Court.
00:56:45.000And these people are saying, your laws be damned.
00:57:02.000Look, now I'm not going to rag on the leftists who do believe in owning guns, but for the liberals who have tried to ban them like they're doing right now in Virginia, making it harder to buy guns, why would I give these people an inch?
00:57:13.000I'm going to be like, nah, you live the way you want, and you support the people that want to take guns away.
00:57:20.000When Eisenhower was sending the 101st down to the South to march people into schools by bayonet to break segregation, there weren't a bunch of Southerners sitting there with their guns pointing them, laying them on their arm, staring at the 101st airborne.
00:57:46.000Speedway faces boycott calls after ICE agents kicked out of gas station.
00:57:51.000Social media users are alleging that Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other federal agents were denied service at a Speedway in Minnesota.
00:58:49.000They don't want Bovino to get his hands on any Zen because you know he would lock in and be like 20 million deported by like by the end of the year.
00:58:58.000So like the left, this is a very tactical play.
00:58:59.000I would say this is probably their most genius play yet is preventing Bovino from getting his, you know, getting his paws on like a white monster.
00:59:38.000They feel like in Space Jam, he bites into that roller dog, and then like when they get their Michael's secret sauce and they just load up.
00:59:44.000That's what would happen in Borderlands.
01:04:04.000I mean, I do appreciate that we occupied Japan for so long that they took on both our sports and like our Western, like, it's the only Japan, like, they have people who are obsessed, like, like weebs in the United States, but with like American Western culture.
01:04:16.000Like, they have revolvers and they put on like, yeah, the shooting competitions.
01:04:20.000You know, they have, I think it's like, what is it, ketchup-fried rice?
01:05:50.000The internet obliterated liberalism, basically, with ideal ideologies and then mass migrations with Facebook groups and all this crap.
01:05:59.000I don't know what the future government's going to look like.
01:06:01.000I don't want totalitarian communistic technocracy, which like World Economic Forum and China, where they own the corporation.
01:06:08.000But I don't want corporatocracy where the corporations are making their own governments.
01:06:12.000What is your best idea of how it could be better?
01:06:15.000Well, you're getting what has been called the China convergence because that's actually, it turns out that corporate fascism is the only way to operate government at large scale.
01:06:25.000So all of your countries, no matter what they're kind of called themselves, are basically slowly merging on this one institution, which is going to be corporate fascism.
01:06:33.000So I wrote a book on it, Total State, if anybody wants more.
01:06:37.000So the goal is to be in charge of one of these corporations to be king.
01:06:41.000Well, I mean, when I say corporate fascism, I mean like the state operating corporations.
01:07:20.000I wish we would scale down governments, but as long as we're moving towards larger scale governments, this is the only way we're going to get it.
01:07:25.000And the inverse is true about communism.
01:08:49.000My view of what is currently happening with AI is that human beings are turning from sovereign entities into cells in a multicellular organism, as one who describes it.
01:08:59.000That is, we are building from a multicellular organism into a multicellular organism system.
01:09:05.000This system, the AI, will program people to do singular jobs.
01:10:12.000Some theorize that humans actually evolved because viruses went in the system, changed things, and stayed there and didn't cause enough damage to actually destroy the system and then put some of that RNA into our DNA or whatever it might be.
01:10:22.000If you, in this system, and this is how it is now, say things that are naughty or not really that disruptive, the system's not going to waste resources on you.
01:10:32.000But when you cross a certain line, it'll come to destroy you like a cancer cell.
01:10:36.000And I think that's what this machine is ultimately going to be.
01:10:38.000Yeah, you definitely have these situations where the entire system is designed to socially engineer people to fill those spots.
01:10:46.000It's not organic community for the sake of human flourishing.
01:10:49.000It's community and connection only to the extent which it serves the system, which is why I think Nick Land is one of the most important philosophers working right now.
01:10:57.000I've had him on my channel several times.
01:10:59.000But his point is ultimately that AI is going to outlive the need for human beings, that basically we are the sex organs of capital and we are creating autonomous situation or the autonomous systems that are just going to simply use and discard us at the end of the day.
01:11:15.000And what you feel your goals as a human being doesn't really matter.
01:11:18.000You're being entirely conditioned for no other reason to serve this accelerating technological progress.
01:11:24.000You called it the system, and that does sound like how they say the party or the country.
01:11:47.000I think the greatest threat to mankind is AI.
01:11:52.000I don't mean that to say that humans are going to go extinct.
01:11:56.000Some actually believe one of the most popular theories is that this will ultimately lead to the end of humanity, but it will fundamentally change us into weird, I don't know, functional retards.
01:12:14.000Yeah, it might look like if we evolve a break off homo technus instead of, and then there's Homo sapiens, they'll look at the technus and they'll be like, are they retarded?
01:12:21.000Because people are plugged into the machine.
01:13:08.000C.S. Lewis wrote a phenomenal essay called The Abolition of Man back in the 1940s.
01:13:12.000And basically he said, he predicted that we were going to see the social engineers learn to radically change the underlying parts of human nature.
01:13:21.000And after they learn to eventually work all of those different elements out of human nature, we will have effectively abolished man because the last generation to have any connection to organic human understanding will be completely gone.
01:13:32.000That's why it's so critical for us to understand things in states of being and not just systems anymore.
01:13:38.000We have to struggle back for humanity.
01:13:40.000We have to fight back against the idea that we can just become these automatons.
01:13:43.000And the only way to do that is reconnect to actual ways of being rather than abstract understandings of ideologies or systems.
01:13:50.000And that's really something that requires us to scale down, which is what nobody wants to do.
01:13:54.000Well, like, what would that look like exactly?
01:13:55.000It would mean reducing the size of our civilizations to ones in which we can actually interact, where Dunbar's number matters again, where people aren't just digits on a screen or social media interactions, and we can actually build organic understandings of each other.
01:14:09.000But again, right now, more and more, all of our interactions are entirely abstract.
01:14:14.000Of course, we saw this, especially after COVID.
01:14:15.000You just didn't even see human beings, right?
01:14:17.000Everything was Netflix or screens or whatever.
01:14:20.000And people are continuing to retreat more and more in this way.
01:14:22.000Dude, I'm getting, when I look at X, I'm like, fake, probably fake, probably fake.
01:14:30.000Or maybe it's Callan was like, the antidote is like just hanging out with people.
01:14:33.000Yeah, we have to, we have a shattered epistemology.
01:14:36.000We have no shared understanding of like how to form truth, how to understand the world around us.
01:14:41.000And the only way to reforge that is seeing each other in real life again, having real experiences, not trying to abstract things, not try to remove things, actually be with people.
01:14:50.000And this is why the great sort is also so important.
01:14:53.000It returns us back to the possibility of having shared communities again.
01:14:56.000I wonder if, you know how you're in a dream state, people say they can't read in dreams, that when you look at the letters, it'll be like, it won't be real.
01:15:04.000And that's how you know you're in a dream is if the clock looks real.
01:15:06.000And like that DMT laser experiment shows those weird shapes, like dream letters.
01:15:13.000When people think they're going to be communicating with real people, they're going to be stuck in the machine thinking it's real.
01:15:19.000Look for the little indiscrepancies in the letters and the vowels and shit to realize that you're in the machine and then squeeze your eyes really tight until it hurts.
01:18:02.000Bob Kane peered into the other universe.
01:18:04.000Yeah, have you seen where the singularity?
01:18:06.000Well, what happened was he was working with a scientist who invented a machine that allowed him to rip open the time-space continuum, and his daughter's pinky got stuck.
01:18:16.000And when it closed, it cut her pinky off.
01:18:25.000And then for those that don't know, basically, because she exists in multiple realities, she can pull open Tears in the Space-Time Continuum.
01:18:46.000Bioshock is one of the greatest pieces of human art ever created.
01:18:51.000For those that haven't played it, it's an old game, but you must.
01:18:54.000It basically, it's a game built on the theme of like Atlas shrugged.
01:18:59.000And a bunch of rich people build a city underground because, or I'm sorry, underwater, because they're like, you know, we're going to go do whatever we want.
01:19:07.000And then, because there's lax rules and anybody can just do what the market wants, they start genetically splicing themselves, which collapses society because everyone's all messed up.
01:19:14.000And then you get there and you're like, I can inject myself, and then you can like throw fireballs or whatever weird stuff happens.
01:20:55.000No, it's The Abolition or That Hideous Strength.
01:21:00.000It literally outlines how the elite are going to engage in gene editing and embryo modification.
01:21:05.000He literally discusses transgenderism as we see it.
01:21:08.000The best thing, so he wrote the essay and then he novelized it into a sci-fi book called That Hideous Strength.
01:21:14.000And that hideous strength is one of the most prophetic things you've ever seen because it's all about how these small deaths, like if everyone betrays people because they lie, the media is lying, the academics are lying.
01:21:26.000It just shows you that the totalitarianism doesn't come necessarily just because of Jack Boots and Hitler and Stalin and all this stuff.
01:21:33.000It comes from the small tyranny of weak men.
01:21:36.000And that's the beauty of that hideous strength.
01:21:38.000It's not this macro story of a deep fascistic government.
01:21:41.000It's the way in which these small violations of God and nature's law ultimately bring you to this weakened state and create the situation we're in right now.
01:21:51.000I have no choice but to jump to this next story.
01:21:57.000Colin Hay strenuously disapproves use of Down Under at March for Australia rallies.
01:22:03.000Former men at work frontman who was born in Scotland, Scotland, and emigrated to Australia tells anti-immigration protesters, go write your own song, Leave Mine Alone.
01:22:12.000So March for Australia was, what is it, August and October.
01:22:17.000They aimed to protest discontent towards perceived mass immigration in Australia.
01:22:23.000And they say in a post on Facebook and Instagram accounts, the singer-songwriter singled out anti-immigration groups, March for Australia.
01:22:28.000Our national identity, under the slogan, our national identity will not be erased.
01:22:33.000I most strenuously disapprove of any unauthorized, unlicensed use of Down Under for any March for Australia events.
01:22:39.000Down Under, a song I co-wrote, does not belong to those who attempt to sow xenophobia within the fabric of our great land, our great people.
01:22:46.000Down under is ultimately a song of celebration.
01:22:48.000It's for pluralism and inclusion, unity, not division.
01:23:59.000If you want to play stupid games, you'll play stupid games.
01:24:00.000It's literally like when Libtards, like when the Venezuela invasion was going on and it was super based, and we were using Fortune at Sign and all the edits, and they're like, oh, that's actually like a bass anti-war song.
01:24:08.000I'm like, no, it means black baggy Maduro now.
01:24:10.000And for the same reason, sorry, Land Down Under means like getting him out now.
01:24:32.000And the lore apparently is that on the boats, they would yell, watch under, because if somebody was on the lower decks looking out a window or whatever and someone barfed, they'd say, watch under, you're going to get barfed on.
01:25:51.000Yeah, and Down Under, of course, is a legendary song.
01:25:54.000But, you know, in all seriousness, I don't really think it's a racist song, but it is from the perspective of white Australians and Scottish going to other places and treating these people like others and referring to your land as the land of plenty.
01:26:05.000So listen, the people in Australia love the message you made, and it resonates with them about the land where women glow and men plunder and how it's a land of plenty and they don't want to give it away.
01:26:17.000You know what I, what I don't like is that people who, the generations before us, created a world and inspired a generation who then turn around and espouse these ideals and get yelled at for it.
01:26:28.000And a good example, with respect, Graham Linehan, who was a good dude, and we had him on the show, and he's based, but he wasn't always.
01:26:36.000And when Count Dankula got arrested for teaching his pug to do that stupid Roman salute, it's actually really funny, but to do, the intention was to make the cutest little thing a pug do something repugnant.
01:26:50.000Graham Linehan said that he thought that Count Dankula was just a white supremacist who did something offensive and should go to jail for it.
01:27:01.000What's really sad is that Father Ted, the show that Graham had written, had a bit where some Asians were coming to the church and Father Ted, there was a scuff on the window that was like a little black square.
01:28:29.000Like these, these, it was like funny to, I don't know, funny to be like racist in a, in like a colloquial, genial way with your friends in the 80s and the night, before the internet.
01:28:40.000After the internet, not only are people getting bombarded with influxes of migration, it's the shaming coming from whatever, the machine itself or people denying you revenue because you said the bad words.
01:28:53.000So now all of a sudden it's not, you can't just get away with like, it was kind of normal, like you'd invite your friend over, you'd make fun of each other, and then you move on.
01:29:01.000And now it's like you get humiliated for doing it.
01:29:04.000I feel like it's an op, like it's a foreign op to disrupt the American way.
01:29:08.000Ian, those cultural differences, it used to be an ocean away and now it's like next door to you.
01:29:12.000So that's why it became like suddenly like, oh, this is actually like an existential threat.
01:29:16.000I mean, I think we all remember Colin Hayes' song, you know, glorifying Rhodesia.
01:29:20.000And so, you know, when you have one like that, I think people are going to take cues.
01:29:34.000Like, that, you know, I'm half joking.
01:29:37.000I say it's racist, but that perception of these people, that's what they're complaining about in Australia right now that you're mad about for them using your song.
01:29:45.000And he, you know, Calvin referred to it as xenophobic.
01:29:48.000It's not xenophobic to want closed borders.
01:29:50.000It has nothing to do with fear of others.
01:32:17.000If you want to play as the hot trans woman, type in Justin Bailey as the password when you play Metroid 1 and you'll get to play as her, him, her, whatever you want.
01:33:03.000just it's a good yeah it's her in just the it's the suit she puts on before that right yeah Oh, that's Justin Bailey gets you the Zero suit.
01:34:22.000Dude, we already went over this in the past year where I was programming video games in real time during the show.
01:34:28.000I made a video game called Alien Invaders, where it's basically like a bunch of, like, the graphics are rudimentary, so they're little rectangles come down and they try to invade your space.
01:34:41.000And you play this little triangle, this little white triangle, as the little brown rectangles try to get into your planet.
01:34:49.000It's called Alien Invaders, and you have to stop them.
01:34:52.000Weren't you guys building like a big game?
01:34:54.000Remember, you play testing at some point when I was here.
01:35:06.000It's called Normie Quest, and it was like...
01:35:08.000There was one version that was done that my brother had programmed that was basically a King of the Hill-style game based on the Freedom Tunes animations.
01:36:07.000And then he punches in case of Antifa break glass, grabs a random weapon, proceed, you know, randomly generated.
01:36:13.000And the point of the game is to make your way down the skyscraper and exit the building, fighting through Antifa and other, you know, whack-aloons to make it to your son's Little League game.
01:36:22.000Yeah, it was most, the structure was largely done.
01:36:25.000We had a bunch of items and upgrades and then and the people working on it just stopped working on it and then it just never went anywhere.
01:36:31.000What was that the Japanese game where you have to fight like just tons of people just horde like comically large hordes of people?
01:36:37.000I'm trying to remember there's a specific genre.
01:36:40.000It's like the kingdom games or something.
01:36:42.000Oh, right, No, like, no, you're like, you're these Japanese people.
01:36:46.000Yeah, yeah, you're everyone since you call up as a knock around just thousands of people at once.
01:36:57.000Just thousands and thousands of like fat purple-haired, you know, minions running at you and you're just knocking them around with your Patriot shield or something.
01:37:52.000No, I think the big thing is we're looking at post-human politics.
01:37:57.000Like we're looking at politics that are run almost entirely in systems and entirely disconnected from human needs and human understandings.
01:38:05.000And when you have that, you start to see these agendas and these kind of like collective consciousness moving through your political system, but you don't understand why.
01:38:15.000Like you don't grasp at these machines, these abstract entities.
01:38:19.000They're driving you more than you're driving them.
01:38:22.000And so I think the key thing that people need to start, like we talked about, people need to find ways to ground themselves back into human interaction reality.
01:38:31.000Because I think politics is only going to get more crazy.
01:38:36.000And you need to find ways to remind yourself that actually you're doing this to interact with human beings, that that's what the world's about, that that's what your life is about.
01:38:43.000That's what your relationship with God is about.
01:38:45.000I think that's what people have to prioritize.
01:39:42.000Here's the thing: everyone jumps in the new year buying new supplements, trying a new diet or workouts, but they completely ignore the most important basic thing: water.
01:39:49.000Even mild dehydration impacts energy, focus, and metabolism.
01:39:53.000And one thing I found is that when I'm feeling sluggish, I'm wondering, like, did I not get vitamins?
01:41:42.000Force Name Change says, hey, Cast Crew, I just want to offer a shout out for my buddy and his wife welcoming their third daughter to this world at 8.05 your time.
01:41:51.000Hello, baby Judith, five pound six ounce girl.
01:42:35.000I just want to be in the cold all the time.
01:42:37.000We have an AC unit they installed for us personally.
01:42:39.000Rumble installed an ACE unit just for me because I'm like, I want it to be 10 degrees in here, but I'll compromise and let you guys have 50.
01:42:45.000Tim, we have acquired some new territory that I think fits that.
01:45:30.000Trads are really going crazy with the warping.
01:45:33.000Mason says, Ian is a real-life example of the Herschel family from The Walking Dead locking up zombies, desperately hoping their family is still in there.
01:46:59.000I always had a really good idea for a prank I wanted to do where we need a house with like a second floor, maybe like an attic window, and then you get a bunch of your friends and get Hollywood zombie makeup and squibs.
01:48:11.000Force name change says, since y'all are speaking about music and artists of yesteryear, have you heard of Van Morrison's most recent music?
01:48:53.000Actually, earlier today, I don't think that music's over, but it's totally different than when you would make a band and then get famous and get signed and go on tour and then you get rich.
01:49:02.000Now it's like, good luck getting anyone to see your music.
01:49:25.000I'll talk about AI and stuff like that and what's going to happen in the future.
01:49:29.000And invariably, someone says, you know, gets on and replies with some kind of angry tweet because AI is coming for their job.
01:49:36.000And they're like, oh, you know, you're rich and blah, It's like, bro, like, I was the, I was in the first industry to get like the real screwing because of the internet and because of digital stuff.
01:50:22.000It finally downloads after like four hours and you play it and it's some like whiny teenager warped tour kind of band and you're like, what is this?
01:50:28.000I think the only like thing I can get that's anything close to this experience you're describing is like before you board a plane, you forgot to download stuff on Spotify, the podcast or music or whatever.
01:50:36.000So then you just have the most random.
01:50:39.000Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying you get on the plane and you have the most random like collection of songs you've ever heard in your entire life.
01:52:46.000You know, other than a few minor tweaks like this danger sign, for instance, it's got everything looks like some version of Mario Brothers.
01:56:50.000Yeah, there was an article from Newsweek, an op-ed from one of their directors who was like, Trump is going to militaristically take Greenland and he's killing people and like all of the sources don't check out.
01:57:01.000And it's just like, first of all, the invasion of Venezuela.
01:57:05.000I'm not a big fan of, but, you know, we'll see.
01:57:09.000I am a fan of some kind of action because they stole our oil assets and we shouldn't have let them get away with it in the first place.
01:57:14.000But every single president in my life has taken military action without Congress.
01:58:40.000Where Trump is shout out A. There'll have to be a Trump Glacier.
01:58:46.000I saw a funny post where libs were freaking out because they realized that all the characters in Lord of the Rings are aristocrats, nobles, and royalty, and that they were cheering for them.
01:59:48.000I might have been wrong about some things.
01:59:52.000It's not that I'm truly tepid, but I will anchor the slow down there energy just for the sake of when I look back on my life, I can at least say that I stood up for my principles.
02:00:42.000In the world, the big fish eats the little fish.
02:00:44.000That's not going to change because you hope it does.
02:00:46.000However, morality, what we have, especially in the United States, is to seek to balance this to create a more perfect union, a better world for everybody, where it's not just about the strongest, but a variety of things you can contribute to to your country.
02:00:58.000Unfortunately for us, the statement used to be ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
02:01:04.000And now liberals are just like gimme, gimme, gimme.
02:01:06.000So, you know, what forms my worldview is my upbringing.
02:01:13.000Regarding strength, because I have thought like power will earn you a government.
02:01:27.000Historically, brute force has worked pretty well.
02:01:29.000But they always, these, these dictatorships tend to fall out.
02:01:33.000They get blown up by psychic force and physical force.
02:01:38.000You need to pressure release dispossessed groups, and you need to crush violent groups.
02:01:46.000Gaitana Mosca called this a ruling formula, meaning that you need both the physical force, but you also need the psychological and basically metaphysical justification.
02:01:57.000You need to both have the overwhelming force, but you also need to have the underlying logic by which people understand and legitimate your rule.
02:02:05.000Indeed, my friends, we're going to go to the uncensored portion of the show over at rumble.com slash Timcast IRL.