00:04:15.000I mean, I got into politics because I hated seeing kind of what was happening in America.
00:04:20.000I got a pastoral background, music background, but I was working with students, saw government policies and public schools, just taking kids down a path that I just didn't, I knew wasn't true.
00:05:44.000So if you wouldn't be spending all your money on people that shouldn't be here, And clamp down on immigration like Indiana has done, you'd be fine.
00:05:51.000You'd have money to get the Bears a stadium and continue to invest in your city.
00:05:55.000But because you're stupid and you do all this leftist progressive policies, then, you know, okay, Indiana will be your huckleberry.
00:06:30.000They'd have dumped all the money in the world for the Bears.
00:06:35.000But when demographics change, a question is asked for all the newcomers, they call them, coming to Illinois, and the politicians running for office ask a question How many of you care about the Bears?
00:06:48.000So then when it comes to allocation for budget, what do they do?
00:06:50.000Migrant services, like you pointed out, instead of the traditional Chicago, the Illinois team that is iconic and has the Bears that everybody knows.
00:07:03.000Real quick on that, can I just say last thing?
00:07:05.000This is multiculturalism and what it does.
00:07:07.000It destroys nations, it destroys cultures.
00:07:09.000Because when you bring in all the other cultures of the world, you lose the culture and the heritage of what made you great to begin with.
00:07:15.000That's why nobody cares about the Bears, because multiculturalism has pushed the culture of what made Chicago a great city and Illinois a great state.
00:07:23.000We've used this analogy on the show quite a bit where it's like you got 100 people live in a town, they all come together to build a baseball field and they take care of it.
00:07:30.000That you then bring in 101 Haitian migrants and I say this with all due respect for legal migrants.
00:07:37.000They're not going to vote for what you built and what you love or what your grandfather built for you because they're just like, well, our interests are not aligned with that.
00:07:45.000So 101 vote against you and say, we don't want to allocate money.
00:07:49.000We want health care services for immigrants.
00:07:52.000And then your baseball field is gone or it goes to Indiana.
00:09:42.000Well, most people have accepted technology companies are just collecting enormous amounts of our information what we click, where we go, what we buy.
00:09:50.000That information is valuable because they can resell to other advertisers.
00:09:54.000Your time and your attention is valuable.
00:09:57.000Keat takes a radically different approach.
00:09:59.000It's a free messaging, file sharing, and video calling app built peer to peer.
00:10:02.000No centralized company databases holding your conversations.
00:11:14.000It's believed to have been an attempted terror attack.
00:11:18.000Some are hyping it up like it could have been a 9 11 where they were going to crash this plane and hurt a bunch of civilians.
00:11:23.000We don't know exactly, but we do have new information.
00:11:26.000We have names here on the stabbed pilot.
00:11:29.000There are, of course, conspiracy theories running rampant.
00:11:32.000But that's the quick just let's give you guys the quick updates here.
00:11:36.000They say the stabbed pilot, identified as Indian National Captain Smith Machachahar, was taken to the hospital after the flight landed and later called a hero by the Israeli Prime Minister.
00:11:49.000Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has called the incident an attempted jihadist terror attack.
00:11:54.000The BBC is yet to receive official statements from police, emergency services, or investigators regarding any motive.
00:12:00.000This is Flight Dubai's FZ 1073, took off from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates.
00:12:08.000En route to Ben Gurion Airport in Israel.
00:12:31.000So there are a lot of conspiracy theories.
00:12:33.000Some were saying they believe it may have been, they think it was an attempted false flag because, you know, hey, the internet's going to do what the internet does.
00:12:41.000But either way, Considering where we are with the state of the Iran war, I think it's fair to point out, while I'm not saying it's a definitive correlation, reporting over the past few days has been that Iran is crumbling.
00:12:54.000They are losing control of the Strait of Hormuz and they're being worn down.
00:12:59.000Surprise, surprise, at their weakest, after a long drawn out war and wiping out of much of their leadership, you get this attempted terror attack.
00:13:48.000They were mediating all the discussions in the lead up to the war.
00:13:52.000So, again, it's impossible, like without any explicit, you know, like, oh, I wrote down why I'm going to do this or whatever.
00:13:58.000It seems unlikely that it was like top down from the IRGC that just doesn't, this doesn't seem like something that they would do, especially that they would have a connection with an Omani national.
00:14:09.000It could be, I think my gut tells me it's overlapping.
00:14:13.000So, okay, Oman, Israel, not popular there.
00:14:17.000So, it would make sense that that would be a motive for him, right?
00:14:19.000There's a literal war going on between.
00:14:22.000What many people view as even between the Muslim world and Israel, obviously.
00:14:26.000And then additionally, he could probably just be mentally disturbed.
00:14:32.000We've seen in the past pilots go haywire before and try to take the plane down or attack their co pilot.
00:14:37.000It's not the first time it's happened.
00:14:38.000I think it happened like there was a German that did this fairly recently.
00:14:42.000So I think it's kind of two things probably happening here suicidal pilot or mentally disturbed, whatever you want to say here.
00:14:49.000And then the context that he's Omani probably gives you a bit of motivation to want to take down a plane over Israeli airspace because he knows, like, okay, if anything happens to the plane, it's going to fall down and someone's going to get hurt.
00:15:00.000Yeah, I mean, I'm not so sure about any of the stuff that I, the kind of conspiracy theories.
00:15:07.000You know, the plane was full of Israelis.
00:15:09.000So there is kind of the idea that the Omani guy was like, well, you know, this is my chance to hit back at Israel because there were so many Israelis on board.
00:15:20.000Again, the pilot that actually landed the plane, I think he was an Israeli as well, right?
00:15:27.000No, so the two backups, one was British and the other one hasn't been identified yet.
00:16:06.000Well, I mean, I don't know that the Israelis would automatically say, well, you know, this was definitely something that Iran did.
00:16:14.000If they could somehow pin it on, if there was some evidence that Iran was involved, sure.
00:16:18.000But I'm just saying the conspiracy theorists are making the argument because they have theories for literally everything.
00:16:24.000In terms of the war, I think the simple answer is, like you were pointing out, this guy's probably sympathetic.
00:16:30.000Yeah, well, I mean, we've seen in the past, obviously not maybe necessarily pilots directly taking on the plane, but commercial jets getting shot down.
00:16:37.000There's countless examples of there's a conflict going on, a faction that's sympathetic with one of the belligerents then shoots down a passenger jet.
00:16:46.000We saw it with Ukraine and Russia, where some sympathetic there's a creature flying around here.
00:17:11.000We saw this a lot during the Rhodesian Bush War.
00:17:14.000I think on two separate instances, rebels that were trying to abolish Rhodesia or whatever shot down commercial jets that were flying over the airspace.
00:17:25.000But in those instances, it didn't lead to a full blown escalation.
00:21:43.000And to piggyback on both of those points, I would say it's unlikely that this attack was a false flag because I think Israel, if they wanted to ramp the war back up, they wouldn't need to justify it to anyone.
00:21:54.000We saw this in southern Lebanon where they sort of re engaged there.
00:21:57.000The Americans are upset about it, but it doesn't matter.
00:22:00.000That directly ties into the conversation we were just.
00:22:02.000No, but I completely agree with this because with October 7th, people hear all these conspiracy theories, and I'm like, guys, I've followed foreign policy my whole life, okay?
00:22:30.000Every few years, they go and they start taking out Hamas targets, which, of course, they're going to be under schools or media centers or whatever it might be.
00:22:38.000You can complain all you want about it.
00:24:20.000So I think, yeah, to your point, I think it would be really stupid for Israel to do something like this.
00:24:26.000So I don't put a whole lot of thought.
00:24:28.000The Iranians have been kind of playing off of the Gulf states where they kind of understand that the Gulf states are in many ways caught in the middle, even though a lot of the Saudis and the Emiratis were like wanting this to happen, the initial strikes to happen, because they understand like if we bomb the Saudis, well, they haven't bombed, but if we bomb the Emiratis and the Qataris, they're going to go to the Israelis and the Americans and be like, hey, what the heck?
00:24:49.000This was supposed to be like limited strikes.
00:24:52.000So the Iranians kind of like have a strategy insofar as if we bomb the Gulf states, they hate us anyway, but then we can use that as leverage.
00:25:01.000So then they'll go and complain to the United States, and then it turns into this whole kind of tug of war.
00:25:06.000I want to talk about the midterms, but before we get into the hard politics of it, I want to pull up this tweet from Mark Mitchell, Honest Polster.
00:25:15.000Oof, Fox News views in the demo are down around 50% year over year in September, and it's an election season.
00:25:24.000We have this follow up from Give Me Three Steps.
00:25:27.000They posted the actual data boomers are consuming less slop, not good for November.
00:25:33.000So we take a look at primetime, 8 to 11 p.m., 2025 to 2026, down 39% in the key demo.
00:26:54.000I suppose if you've got decline in viewership and stuff across the board, multiple genres, not just news, but you're talking about sports, you're talking about everything, maybe all these industries were padding the numbers and now you have something that reflects reality.
00:27:12.000I think the only, I've heard this from a lot of people because I've talked, we have ad sales teams and stuff like that.
00:27:17.000And I'm hearing people say, like, well, do you think habits just changed?
00:27:20.000And I'm like, habits don't change in a month.
00:27:23.000Like September of last year, it just drops off and doesn't come back.
00:27:28.000And that is not a habit we've tracked in media.
00:27:31.000Even watching the change in habit with the younger generation, the older generation, I don't think a bunch of boomers just died.
00:27:39.000We are expecting there to be a rapid decline, but that would be month over month.
00:27:42.000You'd see a rep, you wouldn't just see it go.
00:27:44.000It looks like the numbers were fake the whole time.
00:27:47.000Yeah, yeah, I think that's probably likely as they were juicing their numbers.
00:28:25.000On YouTube, we got about 12,000 on Rumble.
00:28:29.000Our views to watch time ratio has not changed.
00:28:33.000So I'm sitting here being like, how is it possible that we're doing, we do about 250K on YouTube, we do about 250K on Rumble, and then we've got between like X, Facebook, and the podcast, another 200,000 or whatever.
00:28:45.000How could it be that our concurrent views go way down from 60 to 15,000 in the course of a year, but we get the same viewership?
00:28:56.000That math makes literally no sense, unless the argument is nobody watches live and they're now watching the show.
00:29:03.000No, that doesn't make sense either, because when the show wraps, we check in the two hours a show is live, we'll get about 150,000 unique viewers, and we'll get the same average watch time that we got a year ago.
00:29:30.000All I know is it makes no sense in an election year that we're seeing all news go down and we're also seeing sports go down and YouTube and everything.
00:31:48.000One theory was that Twitter was intentionally padding the numbers for liberals and suppressing the numbers for conservatives to make it look like liberalism was popular when it was not.
00:33:14.000And listen, we have been, I praise God for President Trump because I think he's the only person that could break the machine the way he's done.
00:34:14.000I think if you look at like South America and the elections that have been happening down there, there's a ton of countries that have been left wing for decades.
00:34:22.000And I think that the reason that they're electing, you know, either centrist or right leaning or sometimes far right candidates is because.
00:34:44.000But yeah, I think that you see South America, there's a ton of countries that have elected right wing politicians.
00:34:50.000And then it is possible, obviously, we don't have any kind of metrics on this, but it is possible that the lack of USAID money is affecting things like entertainment, things like what people are, what the numbers are saying.
00:35:01.000You know, it could very well be that NGOs and stuff were.
00:35:05.000Paying a lot of the social media companies or paying for to pump up ads so they could get better ad rates, you know.
00:35:11.000And to the point about, you know, hip hop not being on the billboard, you know, top songs.
00:35:15.000I mean, I think culture was being shaped by radicals who controlled the USAID funds.
00:35:21.000And culture means everything it means the entertainment, the music, the politics, the family life, what you believe about liberalism or conservatism.
00:35:29.000I mean, so I think we've seen the breaking of the system.
00:35:33.000So now we can actually, you know, the light's starting to shine in.
00:35:36.000And I think it's going to be a different season going forward.
00:36:34.000I think there's a vocal minority of people that are really, really, really upset about the Iran war, but I think they are a very small, narrow minority.
00:37:15.000You know, can't tell you who to vote for.
00:37:17.000I would like to see people vote for Republicans because I'd like to see Donald Trump doing more of what he's been doing because a lot of the things that he has been successful in passing or whatever, they're all from executive action.
00:37:29.000There has been no significant legislation since the big, beautiful bill.
00:37:32.000And I would like to see those kind of policies continue.
00:37:36.000I'd love to see Congress actually pass some bills and codify them because there's a lot of things that we talked about that we will start to see some kind of benefit to the United States.
00:37:48.000But these things are probably a couple years down the road because he's setting the, he's basically setting up the conditions for the US to be in a stronger position two, three, four, five years down the road.
00:38:06.000I mean, you can go all the way back, but think about just the border, right?
00:38:09.000The last four years, now we've had a border problem before Biden, but I'm going to tell you, the last four years was awful.
00:38:15.000And so to clean that mess up, I mean, it's going to take time.
00:38:18.000And so we've got to stay the course, we've got to be persistent.
00:38:21.000And if we get into this instant gratification sort of mindset, we're going to give it right back over to the left, and they're going to continue to destroy us.
00:38:30.000And the people that seem to be most upset, they are looking for immediate things.
00:38:34.000Now, there are some things that they're upset about that they're 100% justified.
00:38:39.000There's a lot of people that are upset about the fact that nobody is being held to account for all the COVID stuff, right?
00:38:46.000And there was a lot of absolutely atrocious behavior by the federal government surrounding COVID.
00:38:53.000There are a lot of people that are upset about a lot of the things when people were attacking Trump.
00:38:57.000There hasn't been investigations about some of the stuff.
00:39:08.000So that way, things like the border, which in my opinion is the most important thing the U.S. is facing, so that there can't, so progress on the border and reducing the number of illegal immigrants here can be, you know, pulled back.
00:39:22.000Americans are real bad at thinking long term.
00:39:25.000We think like here and now, short term.
00:39:27.000And that can be, that can be our, one of our greatest weaknesses that we, yeah.
00:39:30.000Look, I try to, I try to be sympathetic because look, I go and I fill up my car.
00:40:23.000It could have, it's literally point for point all of the arguments that libertarians.
00:40:27.000Well, and, and this is what makes the situation difficult.
00:40:29.000I mean, this is why Iran was such a misstep because I completely agree.
00:40:34.000I mean, I, I was making this argument for a long time, which is, yeah, like, it's unrealistic that we're going to get like 20 million deportations in the first year or something.
00:40:42.000Okay, we do need to see it ramping up, et cetera.
00:40:44.000But I do, I am like an agreement that, okay, yes, this does take time to sort of sort this out.
00:40:50.000I mean, just to get us back to 2020 levels of illegal immigration, it's going to take time.
00:40:56.000So, what I'm getting is this is why Iran is such a misstep because when you blow up the economy or you blow up inflation and cost of living right before an election, even if people are going to the polls and they're saying, they're not saying, I'm so mad about the Iran war, like most people aren't necessarily saying that, but it's this sort of constellation of fallout.
00:41:15.000From all of the different aspects of American life that have been affected by Iran, people get really upset with the ruling party.
00:41:21.000So we can say, oh, well, stay the course.
00:41:25.000And I mean, I agree, this is going to take a long time.
00:41:28.000But the reality is that's not how voters operate.
00:41:31.000You're in a democracy, so you kind of have to play ball with the situation you're in.
00:41:34.000And that's why it was such a misstep to take on such a large, long foreign policy strategy when we don't even know if we're going to hold the executive in two years.
00:42:53.000The question is why aren't Republicans campaigning on any of these things?
00:42:58.000Well, I mean, because it's, I mean, it goes back to the cost of living.
00:43:02.000I mean, this is, this was the Republicans' bread and butter in Trump 1.0 because we had a rockstar economy.
00:43:08.000I mean, even Democrats were saying, you know, you can go look at some of the polling from the first term, and even Democrats were saying they trusted the Republicans more with the economy than the Democrats.
00:43:18.000And when you don't have that, again, that is like our fastball as Republicans.
00:43:21.000You can say this, that, or the other, but at least we're going to have, you know, a rockstar economy.
00:43:26.000If you lose that, you know, it puts you in a really difficult situation.
00:43:29.000So a lot of these candidates are going to the stump.
00:43:31.000And senators to a degree, but representatives can't go up there and make these promises like, hey, we're going to cap credit card interest at 10%.
00:43:38.000That's got to come from the executive.
00:43:40.000Maybe governors have some bandwidth there.
00:43:42.000Senators have to go and defend their party's record.
00:43:46.000That's how people view politics now, they don't even, like, for example, in Michigan, I'm sure there's people that really like El Said, but generally speaking, most people are just thinking, okay, that's the Democrat and that's the Republican.
00:43:56.000And I'm mad at the Republicans right now, so I'm going to vote for the Democrats for that sort of block of swing voters that still exist.
00:44:01.000So, they have to go up and they have to defend the record of the last two years.
00:44:05.000And when you don't supply them with the economic ammunition that they need on the stump, it's going to cause problems.
00:44:09.000So, like, I agree, you know, it would be nice for Republicans to kind of come up with these out of the box, more populist policies on the stump.
00:44:17.000But they understand that that's going to bite them in the butt because they're not going to be able to pass any of that.
00:44:20.000They can't even pass stuff like the Save Act, which is, you know, universally popular, actually, if you look at the polling just there.
00:44:37.000And this was, this was voter ID, which is 75, 80% popular with the American electorate in total, Democrats and Republicans.
00:44:44.000And then there was the stop insider trading, basically, which is again, extremely popular with the American people.
00:44:51.000But, you know, they're, they're consistently Democrats and Republicans saying we should stop this.
00:44:56.000And every single Democrat voted down, voted no on this.
00:45:00.000And it was because of the voter ID, which again is popular with the American people.
00:45:05.000There, it was basically politically insulated.
00:45:08.000But they still voted it down because it was going to be popular.
00:45:11.000It would help Donald Trump at the polls and it would cause issues for Democrats that don't want to show ID when they vote.
00:45:19.000It's just with those specific policy proposals, it's really rare that a politician can propose.
00:45:25.000Governors is a different ballgame because governors can actually make those promises and implement them.
00:45:30.000Probably even state reps and state senators.
00:45:33.000But for senators and U.S. representatives, it's really difficult for them to run on one policy because typically all these policies that are on here, although people say they like them, Like low salience.
00:45:43.000People are going to ultimately vote on vibes, and vibes oftentimes are derivative on how well am I doing right now.
00:45:50.000If people feel like they've gotten poor since last year, they feel like their money's not stretching as far, they're going to get upset about that.
00:45:56.000I mean, again, we can sit here and bemoan that, but that's just how politics works.
00:46:01.000Someone like Mike Rogers is in an especially difficult situation because Michigan has uniquely high gas prices for the region.
00:46:06.000I mean, this great state of Indiana, gas is like a dollar cheaper than it is in Michigan right now.
00:46:11.000And while, yes, a lot of those high gas prices in Michigan are attributable to the Democrat governance there, that's absolutely true.
00:46:18.000The problem is El Said can go and easily blame it on the Iran war.
00:46:21.000You kind of lose that plausible deniability when there's two factors that are causing the Michigan gas prices to drive up.
00:48:23.000Because if we don't do that, if we don't counter the natural state of government growth, then we will just allow this thing to grow out of control.
00:49:49.000I'm not concerned with government paying for stuff as much as I am the homeowner or the family member or the parent paying for stuff.
00:49:57.000And so we just have to, we've got to check ourselves and never let it run out of, run away from us to say, hey, oh, government deserves to spend more, to build more.
00:50:39.000It's what made it interesting about Trump because this works really well at the state level, but at the federal level, you just have so much gridlock.
00:50:46.000A great example is Amtrak, where Amtrak, they have one profitable line.
00:50:51.000It's the Acela line that actually makes money, and it makes a lot of sense to have a train line there from D.C. to You know, Boston, you got Philly, New York, et cetera.
00:50:58.000But then you have these, you know, lines that go from, you know, New, I'm just spitballing here, but like New Orleans to Seattle.
00:51:04.000It's like just, I mean, hemorrhaging money.
00:51:07.000And any logical, you know, if it was a business, you just cut that line and bolster the Acela line.
00:51:12.000And then when you make enough money, maybe you can try and expand to Florida or something.
00:51:15.000So whenever these fights come up in the Senate, I'm just going to pick on him.
00:52:33.000And so, I kind of like that approach where it's like, I think states like in India that's smart.
00:52:36.000It's not even austerity measures because you're just cutting like fat, like just stuff that shouldn't even be on the state budget in the first place.
00:52:42.000But on the contrary, kind of on the flip side, at the federal level, from my perspective, it feels like the Republicans constantly promise we're going to cut the budget and then it never actually happens.
00:52:50.000Trump just is like, I don't know, maybe, but we're going to actually just reallocate this money and then put it into government programs that actually benefit American people, like ICE.
00:52:57.000And so it's kind of this balance, but certainly Indiana makes sense.
00:53:00.000No, Indianapolis is an interesting thing going on.
00:53:03.000So we have this terrible bus line called the Red Line, and it's not any good.
00:53:16.000They're pushing everyone into this public bus line.
00:53:18.000It doesn't do well, it doesn't make any money.
00:53:21.000Well, they thought it would be better because it's a Democrat controlled city to put in another line, the red line, going the other direction, or the one's northwest or northeast, north south, the other one's east west.
00:53:34.000And so, but what you could find is with this bus line that they're putting in, you'd be able to buy every resident.
00:53:41.000A new car for the same amount of money that they are spending on this bus line that's going to congest the traffic even more.
00:54:13.000Well, it's funny because, you know, And this is again what kind of sucks just about the situation we're in, as you know, in civics broadly is like you can't even try necessarily.
00:54:24.000I mean, I don't know what's going on in Indiana, but like broadly, you can't even try like solutions.
00:54:28.000For example, in China, they're having all this gridlock.
00:54:30.000They're like, all right, we'll just build high speed rail, and the people that don't want to drive, they can get on the rail and they get from point A to point B.
00:54:44.000So everyone just kind of throws their hands in the air and they're like, I guess we can't have.
00:54:48.000You know, high speed rail or anything like that.
00:54:50.000And then additionally, you know, when you do build the high speed rail, we can't even get the bums off of it because we have all these, like, we can't even enforce vagrancy laws.
00:54:59.000So you go, you know, you go to like, you know, you go like on the subway in New York, a marvel of infrastructure.
00:55:04.000I think it's a fantastic, I mean, it's unbelievable the New York subway.
00:55:07.000It's like the most robust metro system in the world.
00:55:10.000But, and there's like homeless people everywhere.
00:55:12.000So it's like we have the problem where we can't, we can't build new infrastructure anymore.
00:55:15.000But then when we do build it, we can't even enforce like laws on the books to make it safe.
00:55:19.000So people won't even want to take the train in the first place.
00:55:23.000The story of a woman named Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
00:55:28.000So, Amazon wanted to open a warehouse in New York City, and it was going to generate billions of dollars.
00:55:35.000They negotiated with the city and said, here's what we'll do.
00:55:37.000You give us a discount on our tax bill, we'll build there, we'll end up paying you billions of dollars in tax revenue, but make it cheaper for us than anywhere else, and you win our business.
00:55:48.000So, the city was like, praise be, because our infrastructure is crumbling, our trains are running down, and we need the money to fix them.
00:55:57.000So, protesters who don't understand math gather in the financial district in New York.
00:56:49.000Judge orders New York to scrap rollout of second home tax and start over.
00:56:53.000Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zoran Mamadani.
00:57:01.000So he says, What we're going to do is we're going to tax anybody who's got a second home in the city.
00:57:45.000All of those people are going to pay income tax to the city, and we're going to pay property tax and corporate tax to the city as well.
00:57:53.000And AOC, because she's not very smart, and I'm not saying that to be mean, she genuinely believed when the city offered a discount on taxes to Amazon, meaning if Amazon would have owed $10 billion, they said, We will charge you only $7 billion.
00:58:11.000Amazon said that $3 billion in savings means we still have to pay $7 billion, but that's lower taxes than the other locations we're looking at, so we'll take the deal.
00:58:22.000AOC claims after the fact, I did nothing to do with this.
00:58:27.000No, she went down to the protest in the financial district where they were rallying to stop Amazon from coming in, and it helped convince Amazon it's not worth the hassle if people are protesting.
00:58:37.000So New York didn't get the tax revenue they needed, which would be going to fix the infrastructure right now.
00:58:44.000For which Zorhan Mamdani says they have a budget shortfall, so we're going to tax property owners or take it from the state.
00:58:53.000Guys, go back and pull that story up about AOC and that protest.
00:58:58.000And it is fascinating to see now, something like six years on, the ramifications of her insane misunderstanding resulting in real budget crises in New York.
00:59:11.000This is what you get with commie policy.
00:59:14.000Well, I mean, it comes down ultimately to does the company that they're seeking to punish, do they like it or not?
00:59:19.000I mean, that's kind of what it comes down to because a similar project just took place in New York City over by City Field.
00:59:26.000It's like all chop shops around there.
00:59:27.000I'm actually kind of sad because I used to go park over there when I go to City Field, and it's like always reliable parking because chop shops, no one wants to get stabbed.
00:59:36.000And New York City FC, an MLS team that's owned by Manchester City FC, it's been in the news recently because it turns out the Abu Dhabi Sports Group, which owns the team, was.
00:59:46.000Cooking the books to the tune of like a billion dollars.
00:59:49.000Decides we're going to build our stadium, you know, across the street from City Field.
00:59:53.000You know, the tax breaks, you name it.
00:59:55.000They're leasing the property to a city football group instead of allowing them to buy it, which means they're losing all the property tax revenue on it, et cetera, et cetera.
01:00:04.000Not a peep, not a peep from any of these people who derailed the Amazon thing because they like, they like, you know, the idea of having a soccer stadium there.
01:00:11.000But what's funny is the people funding it, it's a foreign investment group.
01:00:15.000It's the Abu Dhabi investment group when you go up the chain.
01:00:19.000You know, compared to Amazon, where look, I mean, I'm not going to bat for Amazon here necessarily, but at the very least, they're an American company.
01:00:27.000You know, I mean, you got to at least can't, you know, credit where credit's due.
01:01:01.000AOC celebrated Amazon pulling out of New York, but the governor says it cost the city 25,000 jobs.
01:01:07.000And now we're seven years on, and Zorhan Mamdani is saying we have a budget shortfall, and if we don't fill it, we're going to have to tax the working class.
01:01:17.000So we've got to go after people's properties.
01:01:30.000No, but she is a national level politician with millions of followers who rallied people against Amazon and helped shut this thing down.
01:01:40.000And now they're suffering because of it.
01:01:42.000But the problem is this is seven years ago.
01:01:45.000There's a 24 year old in New York right now who's got their first job.
01:01:51.000They don't understand why their city is falling apart, why the L train isn't working, and they can't get from hipster Williamsburg into the city for their job.
01:01:59.000And they hear the politician say it's the rich people's fault.
01:02:02.000When they were 17 years old and living in the suburbs or outside of New York, they did not know this was happening.
01:02:09.000And now these people are in the workforce and they're going to vote and they don't understand the woman they are supporting burned their future to the ground.
01:02:20.000How do you convey this to the Gen Z people who, for the first time entering politics, don't know this happened?
01:02:25.000Well, it's kind of a chicken and egg problem here because the 24 year old in New York, He's accustomed to the L train not functioning properly.
01:02:34.000He doesn't remember, seriously, he doesn't actually remember a time when New York City had functioning infrastructure.
01:02:40.000And this is what makes like decline so pernicious, is because, you know, we have this idea that eventually people will snap and they'll be like, okay, we got to fix the city.
01:02:57.000So it actually just kind of creates this downward spiral.
01:03:01.000And then New York City, because they have so much third world migration, You know, they're used to horrible infrastructure.
01:03:06.000So even a broken L train is like, you know, a miracle to them.
01:03:09.000So it just creates this like situation where there's really zero accountability for public officials because, once again, younger people accustomed to the rot, newcomers, immigrants, or whatever from the third world, it's already like this is fantastic compared to where they come from.
01:03:23.000And then the people that get so pissed off because everything's falling apart, they just leave.
01:03:26.000They move to Florida or North Carolina.
01:03:27.000The people that you need to bounce AOC from office, all the New Yorkers that, you know, were there on 9 11, et cetera, they're all in North Carolina and Florida now.
01:03:35.000By and large, I mean, or New Jersey, even.
01:03:37.000But to Tim's point about, you know, the blaming rich people, that's exactly what AOC was doing.
01:03:43.000Like, the whole point of that was to stick it to Bezos, right?
01:03:57.000It was a way for her to stand up and say, look, I'm standing up to the billionaires.
01:04:01.000We're going to do this because, you know, the billionaires, the mega corporation, Amazon, is getting all this money from New York, which obviously it wasn't.
01:04:09.000New York wasn't writing a check for them.
01:04:12.000But that was the narrative, and enough people believed it and made a bunch of noise so Amazon doesn't build it there.
01:04:20.000This is something that happens when the left attacks business, and it happens every time you attack business.
01:04:27.000Businesses create jobs, they create opportunities, they create tax revenue.
01:04:33.000And when the left goes after businesses and goes after business owners just because they're successful or because they're good at what they do, It hurts the people that are literally there protesting.
01:04:44.000Those people will feel the ramifications downstream.
01:04:46.000But again, to our point earlier, we as a society don't think long enough term.
01:04:52.000And we end up voting and protesting for things that will harm the economy in the long term.
01:04:59.000Well, it's all like this entire saga was a battle between left wing populace and right wing populace that were dancing around the real issue here because Amazon wasn't a perfect shadow boxing partner for AOC.
01:05:11.000She could say, well, this is clearly the reason why your city is falling apart.
01:05:14.000But also, conservatives were also lulled into this idea that Amazon moving to town is actually going to maybe improve the city.
01:05:22.000When you look at Queens, I lived there for four years.
01:05:25.000When you look at Queens and you look at what's actually really holding back people that are from Queens and would like to have a high standard of living that live there, it is the biggest issue immigration.
01:06:49.000I think it's stupid to run them out of town, but I'm also not convinced that Amazon coming to Queens is going to be this golden bullet and solve their problems.
01:06:56.000You know, once again, half the city's foreign born.
01:07:00.000You know, in the 50s and 60s, in the 70s even, well, I mean, not the 70s, but the 50s and 60s, people born and raised in Queens would graduate high school and they'd be able to buy a home in Queens on a single salary.
01:07:35.000You know, a lot of these lefty activists like to say that the millennials are the first generation who have it worse than the parents before them.
01:07:43.000And I'm like, yeah, except for the fact that my parents didn't have cell phones or TV.
01:07:49.000You know, it's like you rented an apartment, there was nothing in it.
01:07:52.000We have these added expenses, unfortunately, because they become necessities like a cell phone.
01:07:57.000They're not super expensive, but now you have all these added things you have to pay for.
01:08:01.000So I think there's also, with Gen Z, They played video games when they were kids where you were gambling.
01:08:08.000Like you were talking about this the other night.
01:08:28.000Like with young people, and this is a major problem that GOP has.
01:08:33.000I was talking about it today on Twitter.
01:08:36.000If young people are underperforming, and let's just say you're making the case it's entirely inherent of their generation, it is a complete cultural thing, something is derailed, there's something wrong with them.
01:08:45.000That's not an indictment of that generation, that's an indictment of the society that raised them ultimately.
01:08:50.000Because if you know, I think we could probably all around the table say parenting has declined in quality over the last hundred years.
01:08:56.000So, again, when Zoomers are you know, there's a high proportion of Zoomers that are LGBT, you know, to use a PC term here, or that are socialist or something like that, you have to ask yourself.
01:09:06.000Is there something just inherently wrong with this generation, or perhaps there's external factors that created this environment where they're like turning into adults and they're like basically arrested developments?
01:09:40.000Well, millennials are a weird case because millennials are the ones who grew up when the social compact still existed.
01:09:47.000They became adults, it broke down, and now they're mad.
01:09:49.000They feel like their inheritance was stolen.
01:09:51.000Where Zoomers grow up, like I was born in 01, we grew up understanding that the social compact was already broken because we were watching how millennials were operating as young adults.
01:10:00.000So we entered this dynamic thinking it's all broken anyway.
01:10:03.000And so you see a high proportion of nihilism among Zoomers.
01:10:06.000So millennials and Zoomers are slightly different dynamics.
01:10:09.000Here's the sad reality the American dream, I would define the American dream as you can work hard.
01:10:21.000Or, like, you know, I hear from a lot of young people, they think the American dream is that you're going to go to college, get a good job, and you're going to be well off.
01:10:29.000It's like, yo, Americans are all wealthy, even poor Americans.
01:10:33.000The American dream, what it meant was back in the day when people came from Europe or whatever, it's like we don't have upward mobility in our country.
01:10:41.000In the United States, there's an opportunity to work hard.
01:11:51.000Well, yeah, I mean, the American dream, like we have to cut through all the platitudes that have been offered up over the years to sort of explain what the American dream is.
01:12:00.000The American dream fundamentally is your quality of living is directly tied to the quality of your labor.
01:12:05.000That is fundamentally what the American dream is, as in the more intelligent you are, the better you are at your job, or the more you're able to offer society broadly.
01:12:15.000The output of that will be a standard of living that rewards you for your cunningness or your ability to work hard, et cetera.
01:12:22.000That started to break down in the last 50 years, and that is why people.
01:12:26.000Have felt like the American dream has basically been robbed or broken down.
01:12:30.000Just people can't quite articulate that.
01:12:31.000But that's fundamentally what the American dream is that your standard of living is directly tied to the quality of life.
01:12:35.000I don't think that I disagree with that.
01:12:37.000I think that the American dream is about the ability to actually own property and have your property be yours where you can control it.
01:12:46.000Because the people that came to the United States, they come here because they're trying to, or at least up until maybe the 60s, they came here because they were trying to escape governments and societies that didn't allow them to control their own destiny.
01:13:00.000I don't think that the American dream is about how wealthy you are.
01:13:04.000I think it's about being able to own something and control your own destiny.
01:13:07.000That's why the fact that people don't have the ability to have one job that pays for a house and a family, that's why it has such an impact on society.
01:13:16.000When you could work one job, pay for your family, your wife could stay home to raise your kids, and you had a house that was yours, that mattered to the American people.
01:13:25.000And that, I think, honestly, is what the American dream was.
01:13:28.000Well, that was my point is that a property should be a byproduct of standard living.
01:13:32.000That would be part of standard living.
01:13:34.000So, property, people came here, or people grew up in America, and they didn't expect just to get property handed to them.
01:13:39.000I mean, some people inherited it, obviously, but people understood.
01:13:42.000If I put an honest day's work in and the better my output is, the nicer my property's gonna be, whatever.
01:13:50.000But people understood that ownership of property wasn't just handed to you, it was a result of working hard andor being exceptionally cunning, inventing something.
01:13:58.000So I mean, I agree that property is like part of the philosophical ethos of the United States, but people tie that to like, okay, well, I worked hard, so I should have a property.
01:14:06.000That's why Zoomers are so frustrated because the ones that do work hard, I mean, I'll agree there's like obviously a lot of problems culturally with Zoomers, but Zoomers can work hard.
01:14:14.000They're not necessarily guaranteed they're ever going to own a property, especially if they're a cow.
01:14:17.000They just got to own it in the middle of nowhere.
01:15:30.000The virtuous thing to say is no, what can I do on my own merit?
01:15:33.000What can I do on my own work ethic to go out and pursue something?
01:15:36.000And has government gotten out of my way and protected my liberty to do that?
01:15:39.000Once you get back to the fundamental value in American history, which is we are a virtuous people, therefore we can be a free people, that's when you'll start seeing.
01:15:48.000This crap like AOC saying, you know, oh, we should run Amazon out and it's going to have negative effects if we don't have virtue.
01:16:23.000A generation of Americans will know this quote When your economy is based upon women showing their buttholes on the internet, your country has fallen.
01:16:38.000Well, yeah, I mean, because I think this is like, wrecked out of a t shirt somewhere.
01:16:51.000Well, this ties in directly because I mean, like, when I'm getting at standard of living, I'm not saying quantified by your net worth.
01:16:56.000What I'm saying is, the standard of living is, if Phil was hitting on it, which is part of it, is like, I need to know that when I become an adult, I'm going to enter a community that I can participate in, that I'm going to be able to get married, I'm going to be able to have kids, my kids are going to grow up around people that are like them.
01:17:10.000That is all like wrapped up into a general standard of living.
01:17:12.000Obviously, some of that's quantifiable through net worth, but some of that is not quantifiable.
01:18:07.000That was already read in the congressional record that Russia, the communists were going to do this in America in 1943.
01:18:11.000The congressional record, 45 tenets of communism.
01:18:14.000And that was, that was big, that was to normalize rampant sexuality and to make traditional norms go away and accept the extremes.
01:18:23.000And that's exactly, and, you know, we were told by the Soviets, they told Eisenhower, they said, you won't be a communist, but your children's children will be communists.
01:18:31.000And we're going to do it by, by, Going after your traditional values.
01:18:38.000They should be investigated to see if the subscriptions that are coming through are how much of it is based in foreign countries and particularly adversaries of the United States.
01:18:49.000I think we're underestimating the degeneracy of the American people.
01:19:05.000I think the call came from inside the house in this situation.
01:19:08.000I truly believe that's a cultural problem, and we need to shame these artists.
01:19:12.000But I think you can say it got started by outside forces because those who knew America knew that we were too strong to be taken down from outside.
01:19:20.000I think the communists infiltrated, they got the wheels turning, and now we've taken it to the umpth degree on our own.
01:19:27.000Yeah, but I mean, I think that's true, but this has always been the case through history where outside forces seek to destabilize an adversary.
01:19:34.000Like, for example, you know, the British imported opium into.
01:19:39.000To be able to start a war and they got a treaty port out of it.
01:19:41.000So, I mean, I agree that I do think maybe the inklings were so bad by our adversaries.
01:21:17.000But the thing is, pornography is nested inside of a much larger issue.
01:21:20.000The larger issue that needs to be addressed, which probably you can only socially engineer your way out of it, is that sexuality has become commodified.
01:21:27.000Where, you know, you ban porn, it doesn't actually solve.
01:21:30.000The main problem here, which is that sexuality in and of itself has become completely commodified.
01:21:35.000This is where I put on my sort of Christian hat here.
01:21:37.000I mean, I always have my Christian hat on, but I think Christianity addresses this directly is, you know, sexuality, the Christian's kind of the secret sauce.
01:21:44.000If you kind of reserve it within the bounds of marriage, it does solve a lot of problems.
01:21:48.000Because, like, you know, I think that you're kind of seeing it now with the whole Cornell 7 thing is that ultimately people do feel guilty when they sort of, you know, conduct their sexuality outside the bounds of marriage and then they'll look for reasons why.
01:22:04.000Why I might be feeling guilty, and they'll try to blame it on something.
01:22:06.000And I'm like, I think the reality is you haven't lived a virtuous lifestyle according to our creator, and now you're living in the consequences of that.
01:22:13.000So you want to blame society for that.
01:22:25.000I mean, those who are walking in a monogamous marriage, right?
01:22:28.000They have better sex, they have a better, healthier family life, they're genuinely more happy.
01:22:35.000And fulfilled than anyone else in the.
01:22:38.000I mean, there's a reason Kurt Cobain killed himself when he was at the pinnacle of his fame, the pinnacle of money, the pinnacle of success, and he still took his own life is because at the end of all of those things, there still is emptiness until you fill it with what our creator told us to fill it with.
01:22:53.000Well, and what's so disturbing about this is generally this is a good practical application, but now because of feminism, a wrench has been thrown in, which is a lot of men get married and then they end up like totally like chained, like they're totally.
01:23:07.000Just getting like dominated in their marriage.
01:23:09.000And so, what used to just be like a fix all is like, just dude, just get married and like it's going to be fine.
01:23:14.000Now, a lot of men are getting married and they're like getting totally whipped by their wives as well.
01:23:18.000And like, that's what's so alarming is like our society has eroded so much that you don't even have these like safe bets anymore.
01:23:26.000I mean, I would say following Christ is going to be a safe bet, but if you're going to like quantify that and like step by step advice, there's multiple instances where an external factor can come in and just like totally take that sort of plank out.
01:23:38.000And that's what's so frustrating is like, you know, you really got to make sure it's not enough just to get married.
01:23:42.000You got to be sure you're marrying like a sane, normal woman because I think the Lindsey Clancy thing kind of exposed all this.
01:23:48.000It's like, you could do everything right.
01:23:50.000You could do everything your pastor says, and then she like looks slimes at your whole family.
01:23:54.000And you're like, okay, well, what happened here?
01:25:21.000I was going to tell you, I mean, and that's why the Me Too movement and the Toxic masculinity movement is so dangerous because you're eradicating the one thing that God designed to protect society, which is masculine, strong men who are men that love fiercely.
01:25:37.000They love their families, they love their wives, their children, they love their communities and their neighbors, and they will be violent and go to war to protect that which they love.
01:26:01.000I think it was kind of like residue from the French and Indian War and then led to like a sort of unification.
01:26:06.000To your point, there was just today Hillary Clinton was on Morning Joe talking to Joe and Mika, and she was saying that she was warning against the rise of Christianity.
01:26:17.000She said that white Christian men are causing such damage to the United States.
01:26:20.000The idea you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, let's say it, white men of a certain persuasion, certain religion, certain ideology.
01:26:30.000It's just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.
01:26:34.000I think the way she articulated it is actually good because it is doing damage to what they're aiming for.
01:26:43.000The it is the response to what the left want to create and the what the left are creating, what they want to create, what they are creating is utter chaos.
01:26:53.000Well, it's feminism, which is at its root, it is the spirit of Jezebel.
01:26:58.000If you go back and study the biblical times, the spirit of Jezebel hated strong men, and so I would say.
01:27:04.000Hillary Clinton is the modern manifestation of that spirit of Jezebel in the flesh in America's in American society.
01:27:13.000Strong Christian men are a threat to what she believes and everything she stands for.
01:27:18.000So, yeah, she should be scared because strong Christian men standing up and saying, We are not going to put up with this absolute destructive feminist worldview that you have that you're pushing on America.
01:27:28.000We're going to fight you at every turn.
01:27:31.000And I'm I'm I tweeted, I retweeted it, and it absolutely.
01:27:37.000Makes me happy that she goes on shows like Morning Joe and says this stuff because she is literally, she is actually saying the truth, right?
01:28:12.000And our history is rooted in Judeo Christian ethics, which is, which has worked really well for all Western society.
01:28:18.000Now you have things like communism that want to push God out.
01:28:21.000You have radical Islam that wants to come in and replace Christianity with a Sharia law, you know, death cult.
01:28:28.000And they are not shy about their religion, they are not shy about enforcing their norms on other people.
01:28:35.000And when Hillary Clinton sees the Islamists coming in and the radical Muslims who want to push this down our throats, they celebrate that.
01:28:42.000They're saying, oh, we'll come on in, which is the wildest thing because Sharia law, Islam, Totally subjugates women.
01:28:48.000I mean, it completely takes away any progressive feminist movement freedom that they've fought for over the last 60 years.
01:28:56.000So it's kind of wild, but it's two demonic forces aligning so that they can tear down the one thing that they know would protect American freedom and our children's children, and that is strong men standing on Christian values.
01:29:13.000It's the reason why we are dealing with the situation in Iran today is because of that.
01:29:18.000And As much as the left refuses to acknowledge it, they will be absolutely crushed should they get their way.
01:29:27.000The progressives, they don't have any way to defend against the Islamists, the Muslim ideology.
01:29:37.000They don't have any way to defend against it because their entire worldview is wrapped up in the idea that Islam and Muslims are an oppressed minority, even though they're not.
01:29:48.000Their entire ideology is wrapped up in Islam is an oppressed minority.
01:29:55.000And because they don't possess the ability to tell them no, should they get into power, they will be wiped out just like they were in Iran.
01:31:00.000He lets the communists do the hard work of tearing down the Shah and the traditions, the walls that protected the Persian people for many generations.
01:31:08.000Now, the Shah wasn't necessarily a good guy.
01:31:10.000He was corrupt and greedy, but he wasn't a tyrant like what you saw the Ayatollah become.
01:31:34.000You can look at pictures of Afghanistan in the 70s before the revolution there.
01:31:40.000It was on track to be a Western-style country, and it wouldn't be basically a basket case nation like it is today had they not been overtaken by an Islamist government.
01:31:53.000I don't know what other parts of the country, but I can tell you in Indiana, when I'm talking to legislators or people in government and I'm saying, hey, listen, Islam is the greatest internal threat.
01:32:03.000That we have right now that we're dealing with, they say, oh, well, it's not really that bad.
01:32:08.000Oh, they're not very, there's not many of them.
01:32:11.000Oh, like they could never, Sharia law could never replace constitutional law.
01:32:15.000And I'm like, man, people are so short sighted.
01:32:38.000But we've got to sound the alarm and say, guys, by the time you realize the danger with Islam is by the time you realize it's a problem, it's too late.
01:32:47.000They've got their foot on your throat and you're dead.
01:32:49.000I mean, look, there is example after example after example throughout all of the Middle East of countries, and not only the Middle East, but Asia as well.
01:32:58.000Countries that used to be, you know, what you would consider on track to be a Western country that have turned into countries that are no longer that way.
01:33:07.000And even if you look at like Saudi Arabia, right?
01:33:11.000They kicked all of the hardliners and all the extremists out.
01:33:13.000And there are people in Saudi Arabia, there are people in the UAE, in the government that warn Europe and they warn the West.
01:33:21.000They're like, Get rid of the Muslim Brotherhood.
01:33:37.000And for the people in the back that are listening, please understand when people say, well, freedom of religion in America, Islam is not a religion.
01:33:45.000It's a political and military ideology masquerading as a religion to take advantage of our liberties here and our suicidal empathy that Americans oftentimes, you know, Put out to the world so quickly.
01:34:14.000Yeah, I think we have a lot of like various ethnic sort of enclaves that have sort of formed in the United States that are all vying for power.
01:34:22.000I think Muslims are certainly a component of that.
01:34:24.000I think what's not talked about by Republicans enough is Hindus.
01:34:35.000I mean, it's so obvious what's going on here.
01:34:37.000And I mean, that's why I think Beau French was fantastic to call it out because it really struck a nerve because all of a sudden you saw a lot of Republicans who correctly chest beat about Muslim migration.
01:34:48.000I support a Muslim ban, remigration, et cetera.
01:34:51.000But also, we got to address all these problems because we're seeing the same things with, again, Indian immigrants and their descendants also engaging in a lot of the same behaviors.
01:34:59.000Granted, they're not going to go blow up a city bus or anything like that.
01:35:01.000But The long term damage to the country is still there.
01:35:04.000I think the priority ultimately really needs to be putting Americans first and like actually determining what an American is first.
01:35:10.000And then I think that you hit the Tate, you hit it on the head.
01:35:13.000Determining what an American is that's the problem.
01:35:16.000You go to any ridiculously expensive, you know, valueless Ivy League school and you ask any professor to say, Can you please identify what being an American is?
01:35:32.000And I think you're going to get a thousand different answers.
01:35:34.000I think they will all be radically away from the truth of what we really are.
01:35:39.000And so we've got to redefine who we are as Americans.
01:35:42.000Not redefine it in the sense that we're making up new definitions, but go back, take back what the culture has stolen, say, no, we're going back to the beginning.
01:35:49.000What did our founders believe being American actually meant?
01:35:53.000And then if you come here and if you immigrate here, do it legally and assimilate into our culture.
01:35:59.000Because immigration without assimilation is invasion.
01:36:02.000And we have let a lot of people invade our country because they're not assimilating.
01:37:21.000I have a lot, you know, I've made the point, I think Japan's the only Western nation left when you really truly think, when you truly think about what it means to be Western, the Japanese are.
01:37:29.000And, and I mean, they're hardcore about it.
01:37:40.000Oh, so funny where like Trump, like I guess he maybe, I don't know, but he like didn't understand like Pearl Harbor is like a really touchy subject.
01:37:47.000So he was like, you know, like these surprise attacks, like the prime minister of Japan with Pearl Harbor, you know, and he's like saying, you know, great work.
01:37:55.000He's almost like complimenting him, and she's like, disturbed.
01:38:02.000You know, and there were a lot of Japanese people on X that were like, that were actually appreciative of his making a joke about it like that because it, to them, at least the way that they were articulating on X, they were like, look, it makes it okay for us to address this now.
01:38:49.000Huge thing with the Japanese where they refuse to apologize for anything, which is like fine, that's their prerogative.
01:38:54.000But the Koreans, where the South Koreans and the Japanese should like literally be on the same page about everything because they have an adversary right there.
01:39:01.000But they still like every three years, like a row happens diplomatically and they get really mad that Japan won't apologize for the comfort women and all that.
01:39:09.000The Japanese, like, dude, they just that's why they, if you read the media around the time, I was talking about pre show when Obama went over there and like apologized for the nuclear bombs, which was like the gayest thing ever.
01:39:18.000The Japanese were like, what is he doing?
01:39:23.000What actually happened after World War II, the blessing of liberty actually came to their shores because we're the only nation that says we will go to war with you, but after you surrender and after we make peace, we will help you rebuild in a way that actually benefits your society.
01:39:57.000The American dream is going to be McDonald's, Hard Rock cafes, Gucci's, and casinos.
01:40:02.000Well, because the cultures that emerge out of the countries that we are victorious against are always vastly different than the pre war culture.
01:40:11.000You think about the Germans, you think about the Japanese.
01:40:13.000I mean, you can look across the board of all of our people that we've defeated.
01:40:47.000And this song came out called Hooray, Yata in Japanese.
01:40:51.000And it was like lifting people's spirits up because they were like killing themselves like crazy, just with hopelessness.
01:40:56.000Well, the Ministry of Culture in Japan, they have a Ministry of Culture, which I guess would be their equivalent of like some sort of like soft power exercising or whatever.
01:41:04.000They, after the war, were like, everyone thinks we're like, You know, samurais and stuff.
01:41:22.000Hello Kitty was quite literally like pushed by the Ministry of Culture to soften, you know, and it's funny because Dave Chappelle had a bit and it was like a funny bit that he came up completely independently, but he hit the nail on the head of this, what I'm talking about, where he had a joke where he said, you know, we bombed the masculinity out of him.
01:44:40.000And again, going back to just kind of, if we knew history, this communist uprising in America would, I mean, people could just look at North Korea.
01:47:35.000When you see faith increase, you'll see crime go down, right?
01:47:38.000And just the Christian ethic will naturally push those things in society that are ills.
01:47:44.000They'll kind of make them obsolete to some extent.
01:47:46.000But I will say this we're always going to have crap because of the sin nature, the fallen state of man until Christ returns someday.
01:47:55.000I mean, so God's ordained way was to have government that did not bear the sword in vain.
01:48:00.000I mean, that's even when all the people, I mean, this was given, this was even back in the wilderness with Moses, all the people were technically God's people, right?
01:48:17.000And so, and this is where the Hebrew Republic was birthed out of when Moses was told by his father in law, hey, establish the thousands, the hundreds, the fifties, the tens, because you can't do it all, because people were coming to him saying, hey, civilly, we need you to adjudicate something, Moses.
01:48:29.000But then there was also criminal stuff that was going on that needed to happen.
01:48:32.000So I interviewed Dave, the Flat Earth guy.
01:48:36.000He also, on the Culture War back in the day when we were doing these debates, we had a geocentrist, a standard modern astrophysics guy, as well as a Flat Earther on.
01:48:47.000I said to Dave, I am not so egotistically attached to belief that I get offended if you believe something that I think is wrong.
01:49:00.000But it is unfortunate that so many lefty, secular, and atheist types haven't even considered what their life would be like under Christian moral ethics, or because it largely is still in the United States, or how their lives could be improved by it.
01:50:29.000However, he recognized that these principles of Christian values, if the American Republic rests on these principles, it would make his life better.
01:50:38.000His family's life is better, his neighbor's life is better.
01:50:40.000You don't have to be a Christian going to church, taking communion every single week to benefit when good ethics are the foundation of your society.
01:52:05.000When you figure out that that God of that nation says this is good and this is bad, every nation has one, then you build your laws based on whatever that God says.
01:52:30.000And I said, That's the problem, ma'am.
01:52:31.000When you remove God, you remove any moral lawgiver, and everyone's objective truth becomes their reality, and anyone can do whatever they want to do.
01:56:41.000We said, hey, we will take these 33 counties in the southern part of Illinois to become part of Indiana.
01:56:46.000So now it goes back to the Illinois state legislature, which probably won't happen.
01:56:51.000If they were to do it, though, then it would go to Congress and Congress would redraw the lines.
01:56:55.000I think you guys should file a lawsuit.
01:56:58.000And argue that, and look, I understand the Supreme Court, this may fall under original jurisdiction because it's gonna be a state versus state issue.
01:57:06.000So it goes directly to the Supreme Court.
01:57:08.000I imagine they'll probably say no because I view them to be largely politically motivated.
01:57:14.000Doesn't matter what's right or what's true, but this nation was founded on the principle of self governance.
01:57:20.000That if a group of people determine they have a right to decide how they are ruled, that means if these counties say, we are Indiana, Illinois should have no right to block them from doing so.
01:58:00.000And this would be tremendous, in my opinion, because it would force the states to listen to the minority, to guarantee minority representation for these communities.
01:58:10.000So let me tell you about Maryland, because you probably get it with Illinois and Indiana stuff.
01:58:13.000In Western Maryland, largely rural, you can't own certain guns because Baltimore has gun violence.
02:00:19.000That and Palmer Lucky and Elon Musk are slotted to be the advisors, or I forget what their actual title is, but for advancing U.S. technology for the Department of War.
02:02:15.000Marutia says Tim, please look into the China show's video exposing embassy backed CCP sleeper cells and Chinese secret police assaulting people with impunity on U.S. soil during Xi's recent visit to D.C. Whoa.
02:02:29.000I like the China show's premise, but the guys on it kind of just.
02:02:32.000Yuck it up a little more than I think that is my taste.
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02:06:31.000So if they want to keep doing this stuff, you know, actually, I got to give a shout out to Destiny, who had a really great point.
02:06:37.000He said, I was confused as to why this tiny population has become such a big talking point because I'm like, there is no pandemic of trans people.
02:06:46.000And then I realized there's a pandemic of Democrats who are defending it.
02:06:55.000Most people do not, they don't accept the concept.
02:07:00.000When it was a situation where it was like, all right, we're going to, as a society, say, look, if you're a man and you want to live as a woman, we'll accept that.
02:07:10.000That was something that the average person could say, okay, live and let live, doesn't bother me.
02:07:16.000But when it was trans women, men that want to dress as women, demanding access to women's spaces, That was where the line was.
02:07:27.000Like, I'm not, I don't want to have to worry about going into, you know, having to go to HR because there is a trans woman that used to be Jim, you know, two years ago that I've worked with for 10 years.
02:07:41.000And now it's Janet, and I said Jim, and now, oh, now we got to go into HR and I might lose my job.
02:07:47.000That kind of stuff is not going to fly with normal people.
02:07:51.000The whole bathroom stuff, it's not going to fly with normal people.
02:07:57.000At least the people that were moderately online heard about things like trans women saying that if you're a cis male and you won't date trans women, you're a bigot.
02:08:09.000And your average dude, your average straight guy, is not like they're going to be like, no, no, I'm not going to do it.
02:08:15.000Like, you would see this stuff on the internet, you know, suck her dick, bigot.
02:08:21.000And dudes are like, no, this is not happening.
02:08:51.000But if I would have gone back 25 years from now or like 25 years ago and I said to all y'all, hey, in 25 years, there will literally be presidential candidates saying they, them, And we should let boys compete in girls' sports.
02:09:04.000And if boys want to identify, you would have said 25 years ago, there's no way in God's green earth.
02:09:10.000This is the famous meme during the 2008 with the gay marriage campaign.
02:10:00.000But I do want to just ask Phil this important question Ever in your life, did you think that you would ask a lieutenant governor, or would you say to him, Suck her dick, bigot?
02:10:11.000You know, I didn't actually have that in my bingo cards.
02:10:25.000Like, we are sitting here and you've got an elected official and you've got cultural influencers like yourself, and we're having this legitimate conversation around women X, Wim X, Wim X, Wim Xin.
02:11:58.000But I really do think that the, you know, the, because the end goal is for it to be normalized so much that gender, which I reject the concept of gender outright, you're a man or woman.
02:12:32.000But this whole, like, oh, I'm gender fluid.
02:12:36.000Today I woke up and I was feeling like a woman, but tonight I'm feeling like I am bullshit.
02:12:41.000You know how many times on social media, online, I legitimately will respond when people see a picture and it's all white people, they'll be like, or like white men, they'll be like, oh, look at all these white men.
02:12:50.000You guys, you know, there's no diversity.
02:12:52.000I literally respond and say, I identify as an African American woman.
02:12:55.000So thank you very much for, you know, Not affirming me, you need to do better, you know?
02:13:47.000But like, no, but the, I mean, the point, the point is, lesbian women are like, I don't want a dick.
02:13:55.000And, but, but there are trans, there are trans, trans women, dudes, that say that they're women and then they call lesbians bigots because they're oppressing them.
02:15:56.000He's not just played this game where he tries to go solve it and says illegal immigration is bad and leaves it there.
02:16:00.000Or, you know, Jim Justice in West Virginia, though, he said we shouldn't be deporting people who have been here for 15 years.
02:16:07.000The problem is that statement is meant to defend illegal immigrants because nobody's pissed about the legal migrants here who need to re up or whatever.
02:16:52.000And then people, then you get bad Republicans that just get lazy, and then they start governing like Democrats, and then people give up on Republicans.
02:16:58.000And it's not the Republican principles that are the problem, it's the people who have the R next to their name that are the problem.
02:17:04.000And that's what I'm trying to help people see.
02:17:05.000It's like, hey, don't give up on the principles of republicanism because it works.
02:17:39.000You know, and I always tell people, don't gamble.
02:17:42.000And what I mean by that is when you go to the casino and you've got some disposable cash, like 100 bucks, 200 bucks, whatever's in your budget, that doesn't affect your life and you get free drinks while you hang out with your buddies or you go to a show, that's what casinos are for.
02:17:56.000The problem is when people go there with their paycheck.
02:17:58.000So I'm a fan of being responsible and I don't, you know, people are always like, gambling is wrong.
02:18:05.000If you got a hundred bucks for a Friday night with your boys and you're going to go put like 50 bucks on your favorite sports team while you have a drink, you want to make it a little more exciting.
02:20:02.000It was life, liberty, and property, is what John Locke said.
02:20:05.000Jefferson changed that to pursuit of happiness so we didn't lump slavery into that because the South would have said, hey, the slaves are our property.
02:20:43.000And then, like, what it's like not to use like the libtard trope, but it's like we live in a society, right?
02:20:47.000Like, part of what gives your value, part of what gives your property value is the infrastructure around it, the amenities, police, fire, et cetera.
02:20:57.000And so, yeah, I mean, when you're buying a property, you're not just buying a house, you're buying like a place in a community.
02:21:05.000So, pay sales tax on your house when you buy your house.
02:21:08.000You could, but the problem is, and so, like, I'm sympathetic, but the problem is it screws over young people because when everyone that owns a home now is going to be grandfathered in, they don't have to pay that sales tax.
02:21:19.000But then, young people that are trying to buy a house for the first time, now the property tax, there's a shortfall in revenue.
02:21:28.000So, in Indiana, one of the things that we're looking at again, not abolishing all property taxes, but abolishing your homestead property tax.
02:21:33.000So, second and third homes still have property taxes, businesses still have property taxes.
02:21:38.000And then, if, but if we get rid of homestead, if we have 100% homestead deduction, so, and then, and then we abolish income tax.
02:21:45.000I think that would be, maybe be a good, yeah.
02:21:49.000It's like a good example is like Hillsborough County.
02:21:51.000I was looking at through Florida because DeSantis is proposing something similar.
02:21:54.000And I was looking through Florida, like Hillsborough County, for example, Tampa, et cetera.
02:21:59.000They were basically crunching the numbers.
02:22:01.000They're like, okay, we don't have a state income tax and they're doing a homestead exemption, but they're going to abolish properties like a second, third homes and whatever.
02:22:07.000And they were like, 88% of our property tax comes from, or sorry, 88% of our revenue comes from property taxes.
02:22:13.000So, because unfortunately, I don't know, Indiana is probably quite good at this, but typically municipal governments aren't great at cutting their budgets down.
02:22:21.000They were like, yeah, they were like, we're going to have to get this revenue from elsewhere.
02:22:26.000And so, one of the proposals they came up with is taxing people to go to the park.
02:22:29.000Like, they just came up with a cocktail of taxes, which are all super regressive on young people.
02:22:34.000So, it'd be one thing if these municipal governments, like Hillsborough County, were like, hey, we can cut.
02:22:39.000The problem is, it's like I want to see that first before we abolish property taxes because then it's just going to basically end up like taxing young people.
02:23:18.000Say, hey, listen, what you bought your house at.
02:23:20.000So, if you bought your house for $200,000, as long as you live there, every year you'll pay 1% on $200,000 as your general property tax payment every year.
02:23:33.000Assessed value is totally bunk that the government says, hey, this is what it's worth.
02:23:40.000It's just somebody's subjective opinion.
02:23:42.000It's either an assessor's opinion or it's a Program a software's opinion that your house is now worth more, it's not actually worth what someone paid for it.
02:24:21.000And if I sell this, I'm going to basically get blown out in the market because then I got to buy a house with a new property tax evaluation.
02:24:27.000But I would argue that strong societies are made by families who put down roots in communities.
02:25:08.000But yeah, you might miss a huge benefit in this.
02:25:12.000I think that's a good thing to say to, you know, we're incentivizing people to stay.
02:25:15.000I mean, I agree that that is certainly a problem that these, like, the cohesiveness of neighborhoods breaks down if you have, like, high churn in the market.
02:25:22.000But I would, like, respond to two things is one, Americans are very transient people.
02:25:27.000I mean, if you go up your ancestry, Probably been the state for a few generations.
02:25:31.000Some people obviously have been in the same state for six, seven generations, but most Americans move around a lot.
02:25:36.000I mean, that's kind of our legacy is going to the frontier.
02:25:38.000So that would be maybe the more philosophical element.
02:25:42.000The second thing is you do need some level of churn because the major problem in the housing market right now is older people not downsizing.
02:25:49.000For example, if you look in Northern Virginia, you have these massive homes that empty nesters are living in.
02:25:56.000And I'm not saying, I'm not making their homes go take their homes.
02:25:59.000I'm just saying, look, We can't insulate people from market realities either.
02:26:03.000That would be kind of a populist talking point.
02:26:06.000Basically, what you're getting at is we need to find ways to insulate people from the market reality of the value of your home going up.
02:26:13.000And property tax has always been a factor in the United States.
02:27:13.000I want to be here to the great schools.
02:27:14.000So, when you kind of compare it to stocks or other assets that may appreciate, like, I don't know, you get a nice trading card and now it's worth more, and then you pay more on that sales tax once you sell it, et cetera.
02:27:24.000The problem is like reducing houses down to just an economic asset, I think, sells short what a home actually means.
02:27:38.000Okay, so then when you buy into the community early on, And you take a risk on a small community that then later grows to be a very popular community, and you're paying, hey, I bought my house for $200,000.
02:27:49.000Yeah, I could sell my house now for $600,000 because now everyone wants to live here.
02:27:54.000I've been paying 30 years of roads and schools and fire and police.
02:28:00.000And then to say to them now, hey, you've got to up your property tax, and then people come in based on the community you've spent time building, and then someone from Chicago moves in and says, well, I want to live here too, and my property taxes shouldn't be more than yours.
02:28:45.000I was paying a few thousand dollars a year in property taxes, but because we worked hard to make this place great, I got to pay 10 times that now.
02:29:38.000And the value of my home goes up on a private market.
02:29:40.000So the government says we're going to tax you on the unrealized gain is much closer to socialism and communism than free markets.
02:29:46.000Because a home isn't just a point of sale.
02:29:48.000A home is an asset that needs to be maintained.
02:29:51.000And part of what maintains that home is the infrastructure around it.
02:29:54.000Do you know that there are people in Chicago, and I'm sure you have this in Indiana, who fire guns for the purpose of keeping their taxes down?
02:30:40.000So I would disagree with that property is a consequence of the markets based on Lockean philosophy that God is the one who allows us to have this right of property, right?
02:31:08.000Whereas I think what Tim is trying to say is like, hey, this is a God given right where people, they've put down roots, they've lived here.
02:32:04.000However, I also think we have to then say, hey, you don't have just because you're young, you don't have a right to just, you know, Be given property, fight for it, earn it, and then once you get it, hold on to it.
02:32:17.000And government's not going to do anything to destroy it.
02:32:20.000So the year is 1800, and there's a plot of land in Ohio that nobody's laid claim to.
02:32:25.000And a guy shows up and says, I need 50 acres.
02:32:27.000I'm going to put a farm here for my family.
02:32:30.000And he builds a house, and then generations go by, and it's been 100 years.
02:32:35.000And outside the community, there's now little towns and stuff, but they still own that 50 acres.
02:32:38.000Well, the property value has gone up substantially.
02:32:40.000They introduced the property tax and the assessment system.
02:32:44.000And now, It's fourth or fifth generation, and they come and they say, You got to pay us a couple hundred bucks a year in property taxes to maintain the community.
02:32:52.000You know, my great, great granddaddy built this farm and we've had, it's been in our family for generations.
02:32:57.000Now it's the year 2026 and there's a small town surrounding it and they have this big plot of land.
02:33:02.000What happens is the city comes in and says 50 acres in this town, whoo, that's worth 10 times per capita what it was when your granddaddy came.
02:33:10.000When your granddaddy came, it was worthless.
02:33:12.000So now you got to give us $10,000 per year.
02:33:20.000And they go, Then sell us a piece of your land.
02:33:23.000So they hack off a chunk of it and give it, and they sell it off to try and pay their taxes.
02:33:27.000Every year to pay their taxes, they hack off a chunk, a half acre, an acre, and eventually the family plot is gone to the benefit of young people who did not build it and aren't in that family.
02:33:38.000Now, I believe Americans have a right to transfer their wealth to their children because if you don't have that, people won't work hard.
02:34:04.000It's literally what we saw with the Soviet Union.
02:34:06.000So when you tell people there's no point to build a future for your children, we're taking half of it when you die, and then we're going to keep raising the price on your taxes and then come and seize your land by gunpoint, people stop trying to build things for their children.
02:34:20.000All because you think as a young person, you deserve.
02:34:23.000You have a right to the property owned by those who came before you who aren't in your family.
02:34:26.000No, you're making an argument for a command economy because, again, property taxes have been a reality in this country for 300 years.
02:34:33.000And then now we have a generation that comes along that, by the way, has been selfish at basically every turn.
02:34:37.000Now they're saying we're tired of paying taxes.
02:34:39.000That's nothing to do with a command economy.
02:35:47.000The idea that the government can come to you on your land and point a gun at you and say you will be arrested unless you pay us and we will seize your land is literally command economy.
02:35:56.000So what happens if I don't pay my income tax?
02:36:10.000It is not a free market laissez faire capitalist system.
02:36:12.000So, if we're abolishing property taxes but keeping income taxes because I'm not sovereign over my property, then that means I'm sovereign over my property but not sovereign over my labor.
02:36:37.000I don't think anyone's saying that government doesn't have a right to tax because government has to produce revenue to be able to provide certain services that we as individuals could not provide for ourselves, right?
02:36:47.000Like roads, infrastructure, things like that.
02:36:49.000I do think government gets a little bit too big when it tries to provide things for us that the founders would have never said government should not be providing for us.
02:36:58.000But I will say this I think sales tax, I think that's a perfectly fine tax.
02:38:27.000Now, I wonder why you keep straw manning the argument instead of actually addressing it.
02:38:30.000You're trying to absolve the argument you're making.
02:38:32.000Arguing that property tax is a tax on unrealized gains and seizes the property from families is not an argument we should not have ties to our community.
02:38:40.000You can go to church and tithe, or we can have, like he mentioned, sales tax or income tax.
02:38:45.000And that can go to your town, city, state, or otherwise.
02:38:48.000The problem is if you have the ratchet up income tax and sales tax to make up the property tax shortfall, you're just passing the tax burden's got to go somewhere.
02:39:21.000I'm just saying that property tax is forced upon you and it's a do it or we take it from you, where income tax is when you engage in a behavior, we take a piece of it.
02:40:00.000Of how these tax systems work, but income tax is substantially better than property tax.
02:40:05.000I think I'm viewing this the complete opposite, where I'm like, at least property tax is defensible because as the value of my property accrues, which by the way, you can sell your home and then just make all that money and then move elsewhere.
02:40:15.000So it's not like we're just robbing people.
02:40:19.000But the difference here is with income tax, I view that as far less defensible, quite frankly, because to your point, the government's not adding any value in the In the agreement between me exchanging my labor and exchange for currency.
02:40:34.000And I say the same thing with the property tax.
02:41:32.000But what I'm arguing is what's going to happen is the tax burden gets shifted on the young people because boomers want to absolve themselves of all responsibility.
02:41:40.000That is a different problem requiring a non command economy solution.
02:41:43.000You're saying we've got to abolish income tax.
02:44:36.000The government says your property is worth $450, and you can sell it for less and go underwater on your mortgage and still owe your taxes for the year because you got to pay that before selling.
02:44:48.000And no one wants to buy because we're underwater.
02:44:50.000You're making an argument that the assessors are not evaluating these homes properly, which I agree with.
02:44:55.000If the value of your home drops, the assessors are not.
02:44:57.000I am making the argument that the idea that you can just sell your property.
02:45:02.000I've got three properties on the market, and the market is dead, and I owe property taxes on an increased assessment.
02:45:08.000Despite the fact nobody wants to buy the property, you're wrong.
02:45:11.000Inflated assessments are terrible, but again, if you are in a scenario where you can't keep another problem of property taxes, okay, the assessment has more to do with the government's ability to carry out.
02:45:21.000Well, if the government is corrupt on property taxes, then maybe we got to solve that problem, right?
02:46:08.000I can afford to live here at my salary, but the taxes are going up.
02:46:12.000I can't afford And I can't afford to buy a house in my neighborhood, so I'm gonna have to move an hour outside of the city.
02:46:18.000How am I supposed to get to the factory every day for work?
02:46:21.000How about you let the man live in the house he bought, you don't tax him on it and threaten to take it from him, and you can tax what he has, not what he's living in?
02:46:30.000Okay, but again, this is talking about insulating from market reality.
02:48:07.000Given all the incentives, we're talking bonds, real estate tax abatements, maybe even some eminent domain that's going to have to go in to make this deal happen.
02:48:18.000Is the juice worth the squeeze to Indiana taxpayers?
02:48:30.000What we've done is we've essentially created this bond securement that basically the bond's gonna fund it over 40 years.
02:48:39.000And all of the tax revenue that is created by the stadium itself, so ticket sales, food, beverage tax from around the stadium, that will be used to pay down the bond.
02:48:49.000The state is securing the bond, right?
02:48:52.000But we're not actually taxing taxpayers to secure that bond.
02:48:57.000We already have that in our stadium authority.
02:49:00.000So essentially, we're saying, hey, we secure this.
02:49:02.000Now, if the stadium were to go bankrupt, Then, yes, the taxpayers would be on the hook.
02:49:07.000We don't think that's going to happen.
02:49:11.000I mean, we've seen very successful stadium authority districts work in the state.
02:49:15.000So, really, you're not actually, taxpayers aren't going to feel it.
02:49:18.000The taxpayers that will, or the taxes that will go into it, is when you use the stadium for something, for tickets, food, sales in that area.
02:49:27.000There will be food and beverage tax in that area.
02:49:30.000But the majority of Hoosiers won't feel a squeeze at all.
02:49:35.000What Indiana offered up to the Chicago Bears to come down.
02:49:39.000I think the amount of money you guys are going to generate off of people from Chicago coming in to watch games is a massive transfer of wealth from the state of Illinois to Indiana just on a daily basis.
02:49:51.000People buying gas, people buying bubble gum, people buying a can of iced tea.
02:50:13.000They even essentially went back to their legislature, and the legislature tried to give the local municipalities the ability to raise more taxes.
02:50:20.000And even the local municipalities couldn't do it because they were already taxed to death.
02:51:48.000I want Illinois to be prosperous and successful.
02:51:51.000My heart breaks for the 33 counties in Illinois that are hurting so bad, they want to come to Indiana.
02:51:58.000You know, I don't want that to be the case for our neighbors next door, but you keep electing bad people.
02:52:03.000Depending on where you are in Chicago, it could be 15 minutes to 45 to come down to Hammond for a concert, for whatever, and it's going to be the new hotspot.
02:52:47.000Indiana is doing right by our team and giving them a better space, and it's going to be a lot more comfortable, like you said, better parking, better hotels, less congestion.
02:52:55.000I'm just pissed that Illinois, you know, I'm pissed at the circumstances because what's happening is.
02:53:02.000You have a city, everybody loves the Bears.
02:53:04.000The city says the Bears need a new stadium, here's what you need.
02:53:06.000If 20 years ago, everybody in the city says, We love the Bears, we all agree.
02:53:11.000The politicians say, Vote for me, and we're going to fund the Bears.
02:54:24.000Regarding last night's suggestion that the Iran war was part of a deal for Saudi Arabia to resign the petrodollar, if this is the case, how would we ever change the regime in Iran?
02:54:36.000We've already seen as soon as we take out the brass, they install another one.
02:55:08.000I wish we knew beyond classified information for a reason.
02:55:12.000And no one's ever going to tell you the real reason for anything, let alone war.
02:55:18.000Look, I think that no matter what the scenario, because the U.S. has plans for basically any scenario that you could imagine, like when Trump goes to the people at the Pentagon and he says, I need to know how to do this, like they don't say, We don't know.
02:55:44.000He, you know, whether or not it was actually possible, they laid out a plan.
02:55:51.000Now, anytime you have a plan, like, you know, the enemy gets a vote.
02:55:57.000But I imagine when the president comes to you, if you're, you know, you're in at the DOD, if you're the Secretary of War, if you're on the Joint Chiefs, they are obligated to be able to say, this is how we would do it.
02:56:13.000And then it's up to the president's discretion to make the decision as to whether he believes.
02:56:17.000The political goals can be accomplished.
02:56:21.000So, whether there is or is not some kind of other agenda, I don't know.
02:56:27.000But you know that the DOD, when the president comes and says, hey, how do we do this?
02:57:09.000I mean, the RGC, you know, as soon as you take one out, they're going to install another one and you'd have to take them all out.
02:57:16.000The only way of doing that is with a nuke.
02:57:19.000So it takes something more than just a conventional war.
02:57:24.000I don't know that I agree with that about the necessity of nuclear weapons, especially considering nowadays they can use the Hellfire missile that has blades on it to take out individuals.
02:57:39.000The idea, the days of needing to nuke an entire city, I don't know that that's accomplishing any goal other than ensuring that the whole world condemns you.
02:57:54.000You know, when you have the ability to take out individuals, I think that the possibility of being able to take a specific group of people out becomes far more realistic.
02:58:08.000Now, obviously, it's not simple, and they probably underestimated how deep the bench was in Iran.
02:58:17.000But I think that a nuke is just a way to, or will end up just.
02:58:24.000Putting the rest, you know, having the rest of the world condemn the United States, making Iran definitely the underdog.
02:58:31.000It'll give them the ability to say, look at how big and bad the United States is, the most powerful country in the world, and they used a nuclear weapon.
02:58:38.000This was a taboo since the end of World War II.
02:58:41.000There are way more negatives with using a nuclear weapon first than there are positives.
02:58:46.000And I don't even think that a nuclear weapon would achieve the goals of taking out all of the IRGC because, again, I think they have a real deep bench and they're not all sitting around the same table.
02:59:02.000I just said that anything short of that would, without putting boots on the ground and sending in conventional troops, I don't know of any way they're going to get rid of all of them because they're so entrenched.
02:59:17.000And like you said, they're spread out.
02:59:20.000They're not just sitting around a table.
02:59:22.000I mean, I don't think that boots on the ground would be a good idea either.
02:59:26.000And I know you're not advocating that.
02:59:28.000But I don't think that, I'm not even sure that boots on the ground would work.
02:59:32.000I think probably the biggest thing that I would say is that you need the Persian people to rise up and basically take back their own country.
02:59:41.000And America can't be the savior for every nation that is in tyranny.
02:59:45.000We can protect our own interests, and I think we did by blowing the crap out of them so they don't get a nuclear bomb.
02:59:49.000And I think that was good that we did it.
02:59:51.000But at the same time, as much as it's heartbreaking to say this, if the Persian people won't stand up and go to war against the IRGC and throw off their chains of bondage, then there's nothing really we can do for them.
03:00:52.000Hi, thank you so much for taking my call.
03:00:54.000I know we're kind of short on time, so I'll just try to get right to it.
03:00:58.000Mr. Lieutenant Governor, I am an Indiana resident and I actually helped pass out some of your flyers, I am a retired Hamden firefighter.
03:01:09.000But as I am going back to school to Indiana University, here's my question.
03:01:18.000As a student at Indiana University, what is Indiana doing to prevent public universities from simply Renaming and rebranding DEI requirements rather than actually eliminating them.
03:01:44.000They will just rebrand it, hide it until they can get rid of our administration and hopefully get a woke administration to come in afterwards.
03:01:51.000And they'll just bring it right back to the surface again.
03:01:54.000So we need to know when these things are happening.
03:01:57.000So, If you see stuff like that where you're noticing, hey, this is just a rebrand, reach out to my office, let me know.
03:02:03.000We'll take it right to where it needs to go, which is the trustees.
03:02:06.000Now, I'll tell you this the legislature saw this happening in Indiana, and they basically gave the governor the authority to replace the entire board of trustees.
03:02:15.000And the governor has done that, and we have gotten rid of all the woke trustees.
03:02:20.000And so now IU is starting to turn the corner back towards common sense education policy.
03:02:27.000And I think you got a good board of trustees.
03:02:29.000They want to know when this stuff is happening because they'll root it out.
03:02:32.000Now, they have to be sensitive and careful because they can't just go nuclear because you have all these tenured woke commie professors that are still there.
03:02:41.000And if they create a storm, it'll blow back and they've got to kind of be pretty surgical with it, but they're doing it.
03:02:47.000And I want you to know they're finding that stuff, they're rooting it out, they're getting rid of some of these professors one at a time that shouldn't be there, but they're trying to do it in a way that doesn't spark a firestorm because if they do that, it just creates this anarchist, chaotic movement down at IU, which then.
03:03:03.000You know, it makes it harder to do so.
03:03:05.000So, I'm seeing a lot of good things, but there's also more things under the surface that we've got to know about.
03:03:10.000So, if you find it, if you see anything like that while you're there, I mean, be the whistleblower, man.
03:03:14.000I mean, we'll obviously you can leave your name out of it, we'll keep you anonymous, but you know, tell my office so we can get it to the attention of the trustees.
03:03:24.000I appreciate all the effort that's going into this.
03:03:27.000I literally had a counselor when I asked her, it's like with everything coming down with all these DEI requirements and diversity, and she.
03:03:39.000I'm sorry, was somebody going to say something?
03:04:08.000And honestly, even that counselor, if she's saying stuff like that, I mean, email me, tell me her name, and then I'll get it over to the trustees and we'll just say, hey, you need to check out even this counselor.
03:04:19.000If she's saying we're just going to rename it, she's thwarting the will of the people because the elected officials have put it in the policies to say we're not doing this stuff anymore.
03:04:43.000I'd like to shout out my brother, Stephen Eichner.
03:04:45.000He's actually running for the county's third district, and it's a heavily blue area.
03:04:50.000So, if anybody wants to give him a chance, you know, to maybe give a Republican, a good, strong Republican, a chance in a heavily blue area, it'd be Stephen Eichner, S T E P H E N, AI C H N E R.