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00:06:10.000Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed focus to the frequent target of the Trump administration's derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.
00:06:32.000The search of the Minnesota Congresswoman's home, so close to next month's midterm contests that will determine control of the House and Senate, was swiftly.
00:06:41.000Condemned by top Democrats in Congress who raised questions about the timing, giving a long standing Justice Department protocol to avoid overt investigative steps involving political candidates in the direct run up to an election.
00:06:54.000Obviously, Omar, and thank you, AP, for sort of adding that in.
00:06:57.000We wouldn't have known, as an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.
00:07:01.000Once again, this is a fascinating story.
00:07:03.000Homeland Security Mark Wayne Mullen last month cited a quote, ongoing investigation that he suggested was examining potential fraud in her family's immigration paperwork.
00:07:47.000If she lied about allegedly, the story is that she lied about her birth date so that way she could get naturalized with her father when he was naturalized in 2000.
00:07:58.000She said she was 17, she was actually 18.
00:08:01.000Therefore, she's not actually a citizen of the United States.
00:08:05.000And in my opinion, look, I'm very open about or very clear about my policy or my personal preferences when it comes to immigration, and all immigration for a few decades.0.86
00:08:23.000We don't need to have a massive amount of immigrants.0.98
00:08:26.000And the people that are here, that are immigrants, that are children of immigrants, they need to assimilate, become Americans, which I think I'm of the opinion that basically anyone can become an American, but it's not something that happens just by putting your foot on the magic soil.0.99
00:08:42.000You have to come to the United States.1.00
00:08:45.000And so if you're here illegally, if you've somehow got around the law or lied on your paperwork, Gotta go.0.91
00:08:53.000Now, as for what this means, politically, say hypothetically, she's found in the next couple of weeks, or you can't, you're not able to be the representative.
00:09:06.000That doesn't substantively change who would be elected from that district, right?
00:09:11.000The district elected Ilan Omar because she is a Somali.
00:09:17.000She says that she represents the Somali community of Dearborn or of that area.
00:09:22.000It's not like you're going to get some MAGA guy in there and they're going to elect that person.
00:09:27.000There's not going to be a substantive change.
00:09:30.000It's going to be someone that has similar views, similar politics, will likely win.
00:09:36.000But I don't think it's about getting somebody in that you think.
00:09:38.000I don't think it's about getting a MAGA guy in there.
00:09:41.000I think it's about signaling to the Trump base that we're doing things at a time when they're saying that nothing's getting done, where that's the straw man argument is that nothing in the administration is getting done.
00:10:03.000But I think that beyond that, I don't think anything you said is wrong.0.96
00:10:07.000But I do think beyond that, it also kind of reminds people that it is a situation where they are trying to get illegals out.0.87
00:10:19.000But keep in mind as well, a judge had to sign off on it, right?
00:10:22.000So this is, sure, maybe there's a political aspect to it.
00:10:25.000But ultimately, if there was no substance, if there was no basis, a judge would have rejected it.
00:10:30.000And it's interesting that you brought up the magical soil because we were talking about that.
00:10:34.000Today, because over the weekend, like Danny Trejo released a statement because he's doing a movie with the Daily Wire.
00:10:40.000That's like a pro ICE movie, and he basically released a tweet or something being like, No, I'm anti ICE and I'm a Mexican American, blah, blah, blah.
00:10:51.000And the point we were making today is that the days of because he's born in America, so it doesn't even matter at that point.
00:10:58.000Like, it's not even about assimilation in a lot of ways because even people born here don't necessarily assimilate.
00:11:04.000And there is still, and my point that I was making during the show was like, There's, for a lot of like the generic liberals or old school liberals, there is a romantic story around the idea of somebody shedding the skin of their former homeland and coming here and becoming an American and embracing American tradition and American values.
00:11:22.000And that's something that's very powerful, but it's not the reality that we live in anymore.
00:11:26.000If anything, it's kind of like a specter, it's a ghost of a past life in America.
00:11:32.000That's a really good point because if you look at what's happening in France right now, there's massive riots, right?
00:11:48.000A point that Tate makes all the time is when you have enclaves, you know, people that are all of the same ethnicity living in an area, then you really don't get that kind of assimilation.
00:12:00.000Or that's one of the reasons why you don't get that assimilation.
00:12:02.000I think there's multiple aspects as to why.
00:12:05.000But I think that to Tate's point, which he's made on IRL multiple times, if you have these enclaves where everybody.
00:12:12.000Basically, it is just bringing the old country with them.
00:12:16.000You know, there isn't the impulse or the need to assimilate.
00:12:20.000That's one of the reasons why, back when the Trump administration first started, when the second administration started, I was very, very pro, like, make sure that the government produces no materials in any language other than English.
00:12:34.000And I do think the United States should have a national language that's English, and we shouldn't accommodate different groups of people because now you can go and you can see their.
00:12:44.000There are government documents that are written in Chinese or in Arabic or in Spanish or what have you.0.99
00:12:52.000Everyone that comes here should speak the same language because there are concepts in one language that don't make sense in a different language.
00:12:59.000There are jokes that don't land the same because of the language.
00:13:03.000So, to initially, the first, very most important thing is to have everybody able to understand each other.
00:13:10.000And to do that, you need to learn English.0.98
00:13:13.000Yeah, I mean, well, it's funny because we're saying this and we're saying, okay, well, look, the problem here is you have these ethnic enclaves.1.00
00:13:21.000You know, the immigrants come in and they pack into one place.0.97
00:13:24.000And of course, the solutions to that, you know, going in and maybe breaking them up using government power, that sounds like something that only a far right government would do.0.82
00:13:31.000We've seen in Switzerland here, I mean, this is from the conversation.com.
00:13:35.000This is just a random piece I pulled up at the last second.
00:13:39.000Denmark, who I don't think any of us would really think of as a far right society or certainly a far right government.
00:13:45.000I mean, the government they have in power is a very center left kind of pragmatic government.0.98
00:13:50.000They've been sort of ghetto busting, for lack of a better word.0.96
00:13:52.000They've been going into these ethnic enclaves.
00:13:56.000Of immigrants, obviously, because they're not Danish, and sort of breaking them up.0.85
00:14:00.000I think they actually have a threshold of 50% of a neighborhood reaches a non Danish, you know, so that becomes a non Danish majority.1.00
00:14:07.000They have to, by law, go in there and sort of break it up.0.99
00:14:10.000They go and bulldoze the buildings.0.89
00:14:11.000I mean, it is very sort of aggressive, as you can see here from the title Denmark's uprooting of settled residents from ghettos forms part of an aggressive plan to assimilate non white inhabitants.0.99
00:14:35.000A secret sauce, if you're a liberal, is just keep immigration under control and you'll keep most of the nationalists happy.
00:14:40.000The nationalists just want to see that their country is going to be the same country that they can give their kids.
00:14:45.000If you want to pass your socialist reforms and your lefty social programs, you could probably get away with that as long as you keep immigration under control.
00:14:53.000I mean, that's kind of the reality of the situation.0.85
00:14:55.000America is a slightly different beast, but certainly the case in Europe that this would.0.56
00:15:00.000I also laughed at the article when they were talking about the unspoken rule of not trying to use lawfare against political opponents as if that hasn't been something that they've been doing to Republicans for years and years and years.
00:15:14.000Well, this is what I got to ask, Elliot.
00:15:16.000Do you believe, so President Trump, he came out and he said, I have no idea this is going to happen.
00:15:20.000And obviously they juxtaposed this with JD Vance saying back in May that they were actively looking through immigration records.
00:15:26.000Do you believe, Trump, that he had no active role in this?
00:15:31.000I mean, he's a president and he should be aware of these things, but there are separations between the judiciary and, I guess, the White House proper.
00:15:38.000And politically, he can't say he ordered it or that he had anything to do with it.
00:15:43.000But again, like, I'm all for it because I've never understood in the U.S. the whole unspoken, like, 60 days before an election, you don't investigate, you know, anything political.
00:15:50.000I mean, if you've committed a crime, you need to be prosecuted, period.
00:16:27.000If you took everyone from Congo and you put them in Norway, which is a very rich country, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and you took all the Norwegians and you put them in Congo, Within 10 years, Congo is a first world nation and Norway is back to a third world nation.
00:16:45.000I mean, it's fascinating stuff because, you know, this is a point that I imagine we're going to make a few times on the show Canada, because it also is sort of a settler colony like the United States was, faces a lot of these same sort of existential questions that we have.
00:17:01.000You know, it's like a debate, you know, raging really on the right.
00:17:04.000I think the left has a consensus, which is anyone that says they're an American, but on the right, you know, we're having these conversations.
00:17:09.000As I understand it, Canada has the exact same questions and is maybe a little further down the road.
00:17:14.000And, Sort of coming up with the answer to that question.
00:17:17.000Yeah, you guys are about 10 years behind us when it comes to that stuff.
00:17:21.000But it's a good question because I ask Canadians, what is being a Canadian?
00:17:30.000Because your entire identity is not being another country.
00:17:33.000But you have to understand again, in our history, Canada was the loyalists.
00:17:36.000There were the guys who wanted to stay with the crown.
00:17:39.000And interestingly enough, in your first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, there was a clause in there for the province of Quebec at the time to join the union automatically.
00:18:07.000You know, if you're always so inclusive to everyone all the time, you end up being inclusive to the kind of people that won't be inclusive back to you.
00:18:15.000And eventually these people will get into power and don't be surprised when they come for you.
00:18:20.000It's weird seeing this like battered wife syndrome among Canadians where President Trump seemingly, you know, I mean, in my opinion, it was never going to happen.
00:18:29.000I mean, to be fair, he was saying it explicitly, but, you know, I think everyone felt like in America it wasn't going to happen.
00:18:36.000And it invokes a strong enough reaction among Canadians where they sort of blame Pierre Polyev for like, I don't know, fanning the flames in some way, shape, or form and just reelected the same government.
00:18:47.000Pierre's problem is he didn't say Trump bad enough.
00:18:51.000That's really what it seems like it boils down to.
00:18:53.000He wasn't hostile enough to President Trump.
00:18:57.000He was between a rock and a hard place because within the Conservative Party in Canada, you have a faction that is very pro America and you have a faction that's very much, we call it elbows up, but it's pro Canada.
00:20:41.000Well, we need to keep moving along here.
00:20:43.000I feel like every story we're going to read is just going to deviate back into Canada because it's very rare we get to, like, I don't know, really drilled in on Canada.
00:20:52.000From Reuters, oil prices rise on Saudi Arabia attacks, overshadowing Trump's diesel deal, which was a very controversial deal, was discussed over the weekend.
00:21:04.000Oil prices rose by nearly $2 a barrel on Monday as attacks on Saudi Arabia outweighed the prospect of increased supplies, even as U.S. President Donald Trump hailed fresh supplies.
00:21:16.000Russian diesel exports and a Russia Ukraine ceasefire on energy targets.
00:21:21.000Brent crude futures settled up $1.93 or $1.8 at $106 a barrel, $107 rounding up, the highest September 15th.
00:21:31.000Texas intermediate settled at $93.74 a barrel.0.75
00:21:37.000This is in response to the Hootsies sort of kicking back up.0.94
00:21:41.000I think a lot of people thought that that was over, that was a one time thing.
00:21:45.000It also turns out the Hootsies are a lot more capable.0.99
00:21:48.000We found this out over the last few months a lot more capable than I think people realize.0.98
00:21:52.000My guess would just be because the Western media sort of taking them a little bit more seriously because it was part of a larger theater that's involving the United States.
00:21:59.000Fascinating what's happening down there where the Saudis are kind of hung out to dry in a lot of ways.
00:22:05.000The Iran aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for a Saturday strike on Riyadh's international airport that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.
00:22:14.000Further attacks happened on Sunday, intensifying conflict that could further hamper crude oil supplies from one of the world's biggest providers.
00:22:22.000Things are getting wacky and wild again.
00:22:24.000I continue to maintain this position that I've had for the last few months that I think this war drags on probably until 2028, certainly well into 2027.
00:22:33.000It's just the pieces for brinkmanship are just not there at all.
00:22:43.000Um, I, from what I hear about what's going on inside Iran economically, I'm not sure that they can drag it out that long.0.87
00:22:53.000I think the, the, Riyadh is like 2 million to a dollar now, or something, something incredibly crazy.
00:23:00.000It's like they're experiencing significant hyperinflation.
00:23:05.000I'm not sure that, I don't think that that means, you know, a popular uprising inside of Iran, but I do wonder, like, how long the government can maintain its legitimacy with the people.
00:23:15.000You know, it's like obviously they do have the, you know, the stick, and that's what they've been using for the past at least 40 years or what have you, 50 years, 45 years or something like that, 47.
00:23:29.000So, I don't know, but I don't think that there's going to be any significant escalation by the U.S. either, because I think aside from the Strait or from the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. has kind of achieved the goals that they wanted, right?0.88
00:23:49.000They've taken out a significant amount of their ability to project any kind of power.0.57
00:23:54.000They can still shoot missiles, but if they actually had a significant military capability, would they really be relying on the Houthis to do things?0.67
00:24:02.000You know, they have the Houthis attacking the Saudis.
00:24:05.000They're not shooting missiles at Israel the way that they were before.
00:24:08.000They're not shooting missiles at U.S. bases like they were before.
00:24:12.000Now, again, this is not, I'm not saying that I'm some kind of, you know, I have some kind of deep knowledge on what Iran has not used or has in reserve.
00:24:22.000But, you know, most of the bombings from the United States have kind of ended because the U.S. has kind of taken out most of the low hanging fruit.
00:24:32.000And the U.S. doesn't really want to start going after significant instructors.
00:24:35.000Infrastructure and really put an even greater or put greater pressure on the average Iranian citizen.
00:24:42.000Look, the midterms are kind of awash for this topic now.
00:24:46.000How much of a conversation do you think this ends up being for the 2028 election?
00:24:50.000I mean, I think it's pretty realistic that, you know, let's say it's a crowded Republican field and there's, let's say it's JD Vance, right?
00:25:01.000It creates this dynamic if it's a crowded field and there's viable competitors to Vance that he's going to probably have to distance himself from this war.
00:25:09.000Again, polling right now, certainly very unpopular among the American people, a lot more popularity within the Republican Party.
00:25:16.000How much of that is just people trust Trump versus are thrilled with the war?
00:25:21.000But, you know, JD Vance, for example, and we're going into a primary, he's going to need to probably distance himself from the war if it's continuing on into the cycle, because then when he goes into the general, he's going to have the answer for that with the Democrat.
00:25:36.000Again, the hypothetical if this work stretches out until that.
00:25:39.000You know, primary season, I see him taking a line of like, you know, I wasn't crazy on it, but you know, I'm just doing my job, like that sort of thing, which it's gonna be compelling or not.
00:25:48.000It's gonna be the first question asked of any Republican that announces, and you're looking at six months, eight months until they start really announcing and before they actually start making the move.
00:25:57.000So, unless they can wrap this up before spring, they're gonna, the people that are, you know, prospectively running for president on the Republican side, they're gonna have to have a good answer for it.
00:26:40.000If destabilization leads to the problems we're having with gas prices right now, you know, the instability in the region makes it.
00:26:46.000Harder for this to, you know, oil to make its way here, whatever it is, that's a problem.
00:26:51.000Like, because then they're going to be even more unpopular.
00:26:54.000And that just means he doesn't care about who's going to be taking over in 2028, because likely they're going to have to come down on the opposite side of this issue, anyways.
00:27:02.000And they've kind of accepted that beforehand.
00:27:04.000Yeah, I think all of it, though, is about China.
00:27:08.000So this is all about cornering China and making sure they don't get to oil anymore, because China's probably the biggest threat to the U.S., more so than Russia, by the way.0.57
00:27:16.000I don't understand why people freak out about Russia all the time.0.63
00:27:25.000They do, but Russia has more nuclear missiles than any other country.
00:27:29.000Again, if they launch, I mean, I don't know for sure how, you know, I don't know what kind of maintenance they've kept up since the end of the Cold War, but go ahead, sorry.0.55
00:27:37.000But ultimately, now with the deal with Venezuela, I think he's making the entire world dependent on U.S. oil.
00:27:45.000You're ramping up production here in the U.S., you obviously got in Canada, Alberta is producing a lot, and who knows, that 51st state might be real.
00:27:53.000But most importantly, you have Venezuela, the first proven oil reserve in the world.
00:27:57.000If he enables the entire world to reroute and to take it from the US, now I think there's more cargo ships going through the Gulf of America slash Mexico, wherever you are in the world.
00:28:07.000Well, the world now is becoming dependent on the US.
00:28:24.000Can't remember which press pool he was in, but he was saying something along the lines of China or Iran will run out of oil to sell to China here in the next few weeks, which is quite interesting.
00:28:33.000I mean, yeah, I think that was an impetus for the United States.
00:28:35.000You know, there's kind of this discussion, you know, surrounding Iran.
00:28:41.000And I think there's like two obvious sort of indicators of why now was the time to go in from the perspective of the Trump administration.
00:28:49.000Is one is sort of there's a lot of China hawks in the administration, especially in the Pentagon.
00:28:55.000I mean, you look at like Elbridge Colby.
00:28:57.000I mean, this guy probably does push ups in front of a picture of Xi Jinping every night.
00:29:00.000I mean, this guy is a total China hawk, which is fine by me.
00:29:03.000I think China's a very, very big threat.0.64
00:29:06.000But then, The obvious, the elephant in the room, the Israelis, who have been eyeing up Iran now for their entire existence as a state.0.58
00:29:14.000They've been wanting to take the Iranians off the table because that allows them regional hegemony because it takes out Hezbollah, takes out Hamas, keeps the Red Sea open, takes out the Houthis.
00:29:24.000So it's kind of this storm where you probably did have an Israel lobby weighing on Trump saying, now's the time, let's go in.
00:29:30.000The infamous Marco Rubio quote where he's basically indicating that the timing wasn't on their schedule.
00:29:36.000The Israelis sort of made the decision of when to go in.
00:29:40.000It must be said, it's not just as straightforward to say it was just Israel.
00:29:44.000I think the United States had an overlapping interest, which was, to your point, they felt like maybe now is the time to contain Iran for Israel's sakes, sure, but also on behalf of sort of the China hawks and then sort of containing China.0.65
00:29:57.000And this is why I think it's interesting if you look at sort of the way that the United States is going to have to maneuver, they're going to have to have this question of is our alliance relationship, et cetera, with Israel beneficial for a Anti China posture, right?
00:30:13.000Because a lot of the Gulf states, for example, the Saudis, 99% disapproval for the Abraham Accords now.0.91
00:30:18.000And that was kind of what we, you know, if we were to develop an anti China posture in the Middle East, that would be the only way to keep Israel in the equation and build up that posture was the Abraham Accords, get all the Sunni states on the same page.
00:30:32.000October 7th completely sort of ruined the prospects of the Abraham Accords coming about.0.99
00:30:38.000So the United States is probably going to be in this position where it's like, hey, if you want the Saudis, the Qataris, the Emiratis, et cetera, you want them all on board.0.65
00:30:45.000You're probably going to have to make some tough decisions regarding our relationship with Israel.
00:30:49.000So it's going to be a fascinating, fascinating next few years as specifically the Intel community decides on what to do about China.
00:30:58.000And I guess a lot of it depends on how Iran sort of wraps up.
00:31:42.000You know, people speculate what exactly went down there.
00:31:45.000But from the thousand foot picture, it happens, national unity occurs, and then they go to war.
00:31:51.000Again, a very bizarre situation that they were really close to the brink, and who knows what would have happened there.0.52
00:31:56.000Instead, now we have a situation where Netanyahu has carried on, and now we're heading into this current situation where, from my perspective, I don't think Netanyahu wants this war with Iran to end until it resolves in regime change.0.59
00:32:08.000I think for the Israelis, regime change is the only acceptable outcome of the war, where for the United States, they'd be perfectly happy just sort of cutting the grass, right?0.58
00:32:23.000As we saw with the MOU a few months ago, have the ability to derail negotiations, right?0.73
00:32:28.000Like JD Vance had this deal on the table, and then the Israelis sort of bombing southern Lebanon.
00:32:32.000So, this is, I think, why a lot of people are really, really upset when Trump went into Iran because they're like, we're going to be in this situation.
00:32:40.000It's tempting, sure, from the certainly from the Intel community's perspective, but nine times out of 10, it's going to end up in sort of a quasi quagmire, which is where we are.
00:32:50.000I mean, I think the American people actually look, the American people tolerated kind of the mowing the grass airstrikes thing over Iraq for over a decade.
00:33:01.000After the first Iraq war, the American people have shown that they're pretty comfortable with the U.S. military flying over other countries and dropping bombs.0.97
00:33:14.000They don't want to see caskets coming home full of American kids.0.99
00:33:19.000So, as long as the United States doesn't have a significant ground operation trying to go into Iran, I honestly think that obviously the people that are.
00:33:31.000Involved in politics, the people that watch this show, the people that are politically aware, they're going to have strong opinions one way or the other about it.
00:33:41.000People in the Beltway are going to have strong opinions.
00:33:43.000But your average person in Omaha or people that live in Minnesota or what have you, right?
00:33:53.000If it doesn't affect them and their gas prices don't go crazy, for the most part, Americans will be like, I'm going to work.0.84
00:34:01.000I got bills to pay because you don't see them if that's only if you don't see Americans coming home in body bags.0.65
00:34:07.000If you start seeing a lot of Americans coming home in body bags, all bets are off.
00:34:10.000But the historically, the American population is pretty comfortable with the U.S. just flying over countries and dropping bombs.
00:34:17.000I mean, drone strikes, all that stuff is kind of par for the course now in the American psyche, and it has been for the better part of two decades, three decades, and more.
00:34:25.000It's the status quo at this point, right?
00:34:26.000Yeah, well, and it's how empire works.
00:34:28.000I mean, we're the empire, obviously.0.97
00:35:45.000You see the fact that this ceasefire that was allegedly signed between the Ukrainians and Russians are just purely over energy infrastructure.
00:35:52.000The obvious question is are the Americans anticipating sustained high fuel prices?
00:35:57.000Are they maybe, if you're cutting a deal with the Russians, I think that indicates that there could be a potential ramp up in the conflict after the midterms.
00:36:05.000But what's crazy right now is that the fuel prices are artificial, right?
00:36:08.000Because you've been dumping oil from your strategic oil reserves.
00:36:12.000Which is almost depleted now, which I think is the lowest ever.
00:36:14.000Yeah, which is a crisis for the U.S., especially considering you're the biggest military force in the world.
00:36:19.000You need oil to dodge the bullet with the last hurricane, but if that was a direct hit, eating squirrels would be now.
00:36:26.000So, the question is, how long can it keep going?
00:36:27.000Because again, Americans are saying, okay, price is expensive.
00:36:40.000I mean, the entire globe right now is dumping their reserves.
00:36:44.000The entire energy market right now is propped up by governments doing everything they can, again, at the global level, doing everything they can to keep fuel prices low.
00:36:55.000The question is, how long can we sustain it?
00:36:58.000With the amount of fuel the United States has in the reserve right now, that gives you about two weeks of commercial use, which is nothing.
00:37:05.000Again, if something serious happens, I haven't forbid a hurricane or just, again, sustained low imports, we're in, again, disaster territory.
00:37:18.000It also sends a message to any adversaries.0.64
00:37:21.000Because if there was a country out there, and I don't know which one right now, let's say China, whatever, that wants to make a move on the US, even if it's like a.
00:37:30.000A small kind of like geographical move far away from the U.S., not saying you're going to have your homeland invaded here, but they realize the U.S. can't really do much because you're running out of oil.
00:37:41.000You can't really support it, unless, of course, the American people are willing to support prices that are 20, 30, 40, maybe 50% higher.
00:37:47.000And now you're really going to hit at home.
00:37:51.000I mean, we've seen that certainly the Iranians have auspices in the United States abroad.
00:37:56.000I mean, you know, there was reporting, I think it was this morning, it might have been yesterday.
00:38:01.000Burnham, Andy Burnham out of Britain, he was saying that it looks like R.A. Fairfield, there was Iranian fingerprints all over it.
00:38:07.000Again, the involvement of the IRGC remains to be seen.0.68
00:38:11.000But if Burnham's getting out ahead of it and saying it looks like the Iranians might have been involved in some way, shape, or form, I think that's sort of labor speak for, yeah, they're involved.
00:38:19.000And so if the Iranians are in this position where I would imagine those are sleeper cells of some sort, with the border as open as it was for four years, it begs the question, okay, how many of those guys are in the United States?
00:38:32.000You know, how many of those guys are ready to, you know, walk over to a power plant and do something, you know, do something drastic?0.84
00:38:40.000Again, you have to start thinking like that.
00:38:42.000Well, that's the point I think Americans didn't really understand under Biden at the time, you know, saying, okay, the border needs to be shut down.
00:38:49.000That's the reason why, because if you don't vet people coming in, you don't know what can be set up.
00:38:54.000And like you said, those sleeper cells, if and when, and hopefully never, but if they get activated, the damage is on domestic soil.
00:39:01.000Look, you could have, You could easily have, with how many illegals crossed the border during the Biden administration, you could easily have 10, 20,000 people spread out throughout the United States that have nefarious intent, we'll just say.
00:39:19.000And in considering the numbers, that's a small fraction of the people that came in.
00:39:24.000So it's not like, oh man, there's no way that many people came in.
00:39:28.000There was at least 10 million people that were let in during the Biden administration illegally.
00:40:07.000Yeah, I mean, 9 11, I think, gives people this idea that, like, you know, terrorism can happen at any given moment.
00:40:12.000But as far as, like, we're at war, and then all of a sudden the country we're at war at laid a lick on us, that's a completely different game.
00:40:17.000But not even can, not even the idea of being at war with another country, but just, uh, a terrorist cell from another, you know, from any nation, whether you're at war or not, you know, having any type of attack on America.
00:40:28.000Americans seemingly have dismissed that, at least the, the ones who aren't harsh on immigration have dismissed the possibility of something like that happening.
00:40:36.000And kind of have, and it's because the discussion on immigration always comes back to empathy and always comes back to America bending over backwards to help out those less fortunate while ignoring the possibility of something really, really dangerous happening.
00:40:51.000And it's funny too, because we were talking about it earlier today.
00:40:53.000It's like, why do you think it's possible that the Democrats' take on immigration has changed so drastically in the last 15 to 20 years?
00:41:02.000Well, it was economic at that time because the Democrats had a different voting block than they do now.
00:41:07.000But in a lot of ways, it's like this discussion has become maybe it's because we never found WMDs.
00:41:12.000So people thought that like they kind of got taken for a ride in that way, where it's like they don't imagine it can happen.
00:41:18.000Therefore, they don't, you know, think of it as a threat.
00:41:21.000So leave the borders open and who cares?
00:41:24.000Yeah, I mean, this is kind of the problem in Europe when Russia moved in on Ukraine.
00:41:32.000Is a lot of the leaders in Germany and Western Europe broadly were trying to whip up this idea, which may or may not have been reasonable, that look, we can be invaded at any moment and we should react accordingly.
00:41:47.000Now, obviously, since they're quite left wing, the response wasn't, well, let's beef up our military.
00:41:51.000It was just, well, let's try to get the Americans to pay for everything.
00:41:54.000But It kind of got to the point where a lot of people in the first world and the developed world haven't quite wrapped their mind around the idea that, like, we could just have conflict within our borders in any given moment.
00:42:06.000And, you know, we're at war with Iran, and then they deploy against some sort of sleeper cell attack in the United States.
00:42:12.000Suddenly, that's the first time we've received an attack from a, you know, belligerent in a war in, you know, 100 years.
00:42:18.000So, but people can't wrap their heads around that.
00:42:22.000Same people in Europe can barely wrap their heads around that.
00:42:24.000Well, the thing is, we're indeed the Pax Americana right now.
00:42:26.000Right, the great American peace since World War II, there hasn't been a worldwide conflict or any threat to America, to North America in general.
00:42:35.000So, you have generations, entire generations that grew up in a prosperous, safe environment, and they fail to realize that their forefathers fought and died to be able to grant them that privilege.
00:42:46.000But that needs to be protected, that needs to be taken and cherished because it can happen.
00:42:50.000If it's happened before, history will repeat itself.
00:42:52.000I mean, so I agree that there could be some kind of infiltration, right, by like sleeper cells or what have you.
00:42:59.000But the idea of a substantive military attack on the United States is a question of logistics that only a couple countries in the world could actually do.
00:43:18.000And nobody could do it without the United States knowing.
00:43:21.000We still have a massive advantage just because of the way that the world is, right?
00:43:27.000The Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, both of our.
00:43:32.000Both of the coasts have massive mountain ranges that basically protect the interior.
00:43:38.000The Appalachians aren't as big as the Rockies, but it's still a significant barrier.
00:43:45.000You're not going to see a massive army rolling down from Canada into the United States, into Montana in tank country, or through North and South Dakota and have just Americans just watch these vehicles go by like it happened in Ukraine.
00:44:07.000Reasons why the United States is basically untouchable.
00:44:11.000And you do also have to throw in the fact that the American public is very well armed.
00:44:17.000I mean, we have more guns than we have people.
00:44:20.000We have more guns per capita than any other country.0.93
00:44:23.000And were a foreign army actually be able to get the logistical means necessary and get people on the border to actually drive into the US, they're going to be met very quickly by, yes, regular military forces.
00:44:39.000But one of the things that you tend to do if you're an invading army, Excuse me, is you try to subdue the population, and that's just not going to happen.
00:44:50.000You can't, you're not going to disarm the American people.0.99
00:44:54.000I mean, look at the effort that the US had to put in disarming the Afghans.0.74
00:44:58.000And the Afghans, you know, they had weapons, but they were not nearly equipped like the average United States gun guy, you know.0.99
00:45:11.000So it's the idea of some kind of invasion into the US or something like that.
00:46:14.000But also information warfare, like the way America's portrayed to the rest of the world is already, we're our own worst enemy in a lot of ways in that respect, because, you know, a lot of countries.
00:46:23.000Dislike America just on principle in a lot of ways.
00:46:26.000And then we tend to do, you know, we put ourselves in a position to be disliked.
00:46:31.000And that's very dangerous as well, beyond just being attacked on your own soil.
00:46:36.000It's how you're perceived by the rest of the world because the world runs on trade, the world runs on relationships between countries, between people.
00:46:43.000So, well, Phil brought up the point that, you know, part of the X factor for the United States is the fact that everyone's armed.
00:46:49.000And the ATF has made it slightly easier for gun owners here.
00:46:55.000Story that was put on my desk five minutes before we went to the show, short to go live for the show.
00:47:00.000ATF changes suppressor rules for gun owners.
00:47:04.000Under this guidance, the ATF will no longer enforce prior approval, registration, and tax stamp requirements for suppressors.
00:47:12.000So, for the people that are unaware, last year in the big beautiful bill, there was a provision that would remove short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns, Any other weapons and suppressors, they would take the tax away, right?
00:47:30.000So there's no, there used to be a $200 tax you had to pay.
00:47:34.000You had to send the stuff into the ATF.
00:47:35.000The ATF would give you the stamp that said you paid the tax.
00:47:39.000This was the premise of the registration for NFA, for most NFA items.
00:47:45.000The only thing that's left in the NFA now are machine guns and destructive devices, anything basically like things that are like bombs or hand grenades or whatever.
00:47:54.000Because those you can actually own as well.
00:47:56.000You do have to have a tax stamp for each one.
00:47:58.000They're a hassle, but any rifle that has a barrel length under 16 inches, any shotgun, I believe it's under 18 inches, and they have a random category for any other weapons and suppressors, you'd have a $200 tax stamp.
00:48:13.000The $200 fee for the stamp was removed.
00:48:17.000So then you still had the registration, but the Supreme Court has heard cases against the NFA saying, hey, this is an infringement on the Second Amendment, and the argument that was presented to the court and that they found.
00:48:31.000Compelling was always that this isn't about regulating the weapons.
00:48:38.000So when you make the stamp, make the stamp, you know, $0 fee, the, I believe it was in Texas where they argued, look, without the fee, the constitutionality of this is, has evaporated, right?
00:48:52.000The argument was the $200 is why they could do it.
00:48:56.000And the judge found that that was the case.
00:48:58.000He said, yeah, without the $200 fee, there is no tax.
00:49:03.000It's not under Congress's taxing power.
00:49:05.000You can't have a registration for guns, a federal registration for guns.
00:49:10.000The tax stamp is gone, so you don't have to have it.
00:49:13.000Now, this was a couple of weeks ago when the judge actually made this decision, and there was a question as to whether the Trump administration was going to appeal.
00:50:22.000But the ATF has said, nope, we're not doing it for anybody.
00:50:25.000For continuity, essentially, they're not going to be giving out.
00:50:29.000They still allow you to register your NFA stuff if you want with the zero tax, zero dollar tax stamp or whatever.
00:50:37.000And that's for people that are worried about.
00:50:39.000Possible future administration changing this because anything that's done budgetary or any kind of fees or anything like that, all Congress has to do is pass a $1 tax and say, okay, you have to pay the tax and then the NFA will be back into effect for those particular items.
00:50:55.000But right now, in I think it's 38 states, maybe 36, you don't have to file any paperwork to own a suppressor.
00:51:05.000You don't have to, no, I'm sorry, you have to do your normal $4,473, which is the background check, but you don't have to file any.
00:51:11.000Any other federal paperwork aside from your background check to buy a suppressor from any FFL, you can sell them to friends.
00:51:19.000You can sell, buy them, you know, if your state allows it.
00:51:22.000There are some states that have NFA requirements or some legislation about whether or not the NFA paperwork has to be filled out for the state.
00:51:32.000I think Washington, you have to have NFA paperwork to have these things.
00:51:36.000There are some other states where there are, you know, issues with it.
00:51:41.000Some states, Ban NFA items outright, but in most of the country, you don't have to fill out NFA paperwork to buy short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns, and uh, and destructive vices and silencers.
00:51:53.000Now, this is a really big deal because it's the first serious change to the NFA in over 100 years, right?
00:51:59.000So, the NFA, I believe it was almost 100 years.
00:52:56.000Director of the ATF that came out with this guidance.
00:53:01.000And it was Donald Trump himself who told his attorney general, don't appeal.
00:53:07.000So it was specifically from Donald Trump.
00:53:10.000I've heard from multiple people at GOA and people at Silencer Shop that said Donald Trump himself told the attorney general, don't appeal the decision.
00:53:21.000One of the criticisms for him was about red flag laws, right?
00:54:34.000Talking off the cuff, he hadn't probably had not discussed any of that with anyone in a gun group or with anyone that has a sign, you know, any deeper knowledge than you know, a teaspoon, you know.
00:54:48.000Um, so he said some bad things, absolutely.
00:54:52.000But the proof is in him saying, Look, don't appeal this, yeah.
00:54:57.000And the director that he has this is a crazy sentence, but director Cicada is a great.
00:55:07.000Now, I never thought that I would have anything nice to say about anybody that worked at the ATF ever, but he's gone on, he was on Brendan Herrera's channel talking to Brendan Herrera.
00:55:18.000Now, I think that because Brendan Herrera is looking like he might take the congressional seat there in Texas, I think that might have helped get the director on his podcast.
00:55:30.000But at the same time, you know, he's on a gun tuber's podcast answering questions and telling people, you know, look, this is what we're trying to do.
00:56:37.000We have non restricted, which are like shotguns and like your hunting rifle, restricted, which is going to be your like AR 15s and your pistols, and then prohibited.
00:56:48.000But non restricted and restricted, you can get a license, two different licenses, like an escalating level of like tests and courses you need to do.
00:58:32.000Well, Quebec turned around and said, Screw it.
00:58:35.000We're going to enforce registration in the province only.
00:58:38.000So, a lot of Quebec gun owners started buying guns in Ontario, bringing them to Quebec and not registering them.
00:58:44.000Now, that's technically still illegal.
00:58:46.000It's not criminal because the criminal code is federal.
00:58:48.000So, unlike here, where some states have their own criminal code and you have your federal code too, us is just Canada wide, but it's still a civil penalty.
00:58:56.000So, they'll fine you several thousands of dollars and confiscate your guns, your property, if you don't register them.
00:59:05.000I mean, I was talking to an Australian about the same thing recently, and it's like, As late as the 90s, they had basically gun laws basically on par with us.
00:59:12.000And this is what it sounds like with Canada.
00:59:14.000If you go back to the 1970s, probably just as easy of a time buying a firearm in Canada versus here, just to see the total.
00:59:20.000It makes you thankful for the United States that the 2A is so rigid.
00:59:23.000Because I don't think that we're like, you know, uniquely special compared to Australia or Canada.
00:59:28.000It's just our forefathers had the foresight to like make it untouchable in the Constitution, which gives us a lot of leeway.
00:59:34.000And I think that's absolutely fantastic.
00:59:36.000I mean, Phil, does this sound like where you'd like to go?
01:00:52.000And, you know, of all the states, like New Hampshire consistently clocks in at the freest or the second freest, depending on your metric or whatever.
01:01:03.000But, you know, the free staters in New Hampshire, the libertarians up there, they're the real good libertarians.
01:01:09.000They're fiercely protective of their rights and they're smart.
01:01:15.000They've done what you should do, which is find the most viable political vehicle.
01:01:21.000Get yourself and your friends elected and pass laws that suit your political preferences.
01:01:30.000So, like the Free Staters, the Free Staters have put a lot of pressure.
01:01:33.000And believe me, there's a lot of progressives that had moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts because they didn't like paying Massachusetts tax, but they kept voting like they were from Massachusetts.
01:01:44.000The Free Staters came in and they started running and they've done absolutely wonderful things.
01:01:49.000There's only a handful of, not even a handful, there's a very few.
01:01:54.000Actual gun laws in New Hampshire, and usually those are fish and game laws.
01:01:59.000They're not about actually prohibitions on what you can carry.
01:02:02.000You can own anything you want in New Hampshire.
01:04:41.000Most of us have already accepted technology companies collect enormous amounts of information what we click, where we go, what we buy, who we interact with.
01:04:48.000What information is valuable because your attention?
01:04:50.000I'm sorry, that information is valuable because your attention is valuable.
01:04:53.000Keat takes a radically different approach.
01:04:55.000Keat is a free messaging, file sharing, and video calling app built peer to peer.
01:04:59.000There's no centralized company database holding your conversations, no metadata tracking, no phone number or email required.
01:05:06.000Your messages are end to end encrypted and move between the people in the conversation.
01:05:11.000Your private life shouldn't be another crop in somebody else's data farm.
01:05:37.000This is just a random outlet I picked up here.
01:05:39.000More euthanasia deaths in Canada than gun homicides in the United States.
01:05:44.000That is stunning because, you know, we hear what's going on at the maid, you know, you broke your leg and they try to kill you or whatever.0.87
01:05:51.000When you put it into that context, something that Americans.
01:05:55.000You know, have this perception as very widespread, which it is, as gun homicides.
01:05:59.000And then the Canadians are at the hands of the government.
01:06:57.000So there's rumors, and I can't vouch and confirm this, but there's rumors that it's just a tool used to be able to offload or to lessen the burden on the medical system in Canada.
01:07:09.000It certainly seems, I mean, this is what I've seen on Twitter at least.0.77
01:07:11.000You know, it's neither here nor there, but people saying sort of the more costly your medical bills are going to be, some sort of computer in the medical office spits out, kill this guy.
01:08:11.000If you spend, just for easy numbers, if you spend $100,000 on health care in your entire life, you're going to spend like 80 of it, most likely in the last two to five years, trying to extend your life by a couple years.
01:08:27.000Nowadays, with our system, although it's expensive, people, not everybody, and people have to deal with insurance companies and stuff, but you have the option and it's not something that the government's involved in.
01:08:40.000If you have a single payer system, the government gets a say.
01:08:46.000You know, and there are, there's also the arguments about, hey, look, you know, if you're going to live on a healthy lifestyle, why should I pay for your health care?
01:08:56.000I know Canadians aren't, don't have the same kind, so don't have as extreme weight problems.
01:09:04.000But yeah, you know, it is a reality of like, look, if we're paying for your health care, then the government, the people are going to have a say in what you're allowed to eat, you know, how much you exercise, because exercise and diet are major.
01:09:18.000You know, factors in how healthy you are overall.
01:09:22.000And these are realities that Canada is seeing.
01:09:24.000Now, obviously, medical assistance in dying is a different animal than just healthcare overall.
01:09:31.000But the question does become well, is it worth saving this person's life?
01:09:34.000Is it, you know, how long can we really expect to extend their life because they've got 60 years of treating their body like it's a party and now they're 75 and they're falling apart?
01:09:51.000Calculation becomes real when the government is actually making that.
01:09:55.000And you're seeing it in Canada, obviously extending down to basically anyone they can get, anyone that feels like they want to end their life.
01:15:32.000Especially in Canada's case, you broke your arm, it'll heal.
01:15:35.000I mean, I get like, you know, the worst case scenario, you know, you have some sort of like chronic, you know, disease that you're just being tortured and you know you're going to die in three weeks anyway.
01:15:43.000I feel like we've always had sort of solutions for that.
01:15:46.000And it's kind of one of the, you know, it's when you're engaging in all sorts of debates, people will take the worst case scenario and you're like, well, okay, if I'm to accept, you know, we can debate with the worst case scenario, then you should be willing to concede that all of these other reasons why you would, for example, use MAID are purely, you know, that's over the top, right?
01:16:04.000It's kind of the same thing with abortion, where you'd be debating abortion.
01:16:07.000They're like, yeah, what about rape or something like that?
01:16:10.000And you're like, well, that's an exceptionally small proportion of abortions.
01:16:52.000And the problem is a lot of these elderlies are vulnerable, right?
01:16:55.000They don't necessarily have all the understandings.
01:16:57.000And there was this article just a couple of weeks ago where this, and the grandkids or maybe even the kids that came out publicly and said, My mother did not want to use MAID and they forced it on her.
01:17:09.000And I mean, even me closer to home, my grandmother, now she's gone.
01:17:12.000But at the time when she was in her last few weeks of life, she was offered maid.
01:17:18.000And she said it time and time again I refuse.
01:17:23.000But just the thing that is being offered again, you go to a hospital, you go to the healthcare system, nurses, doctors for care, not to end your life.
01:17:33.000Like you're like filling out the form, you accidentally check the maid box, and you're like, oh, slime me out box.
01:17:43.000There is something to me that, you know, there's been stories for as long as stories have been told in movies and television about the ethical quandaries of what happens when pain gets to be too much.
01:17:57.000And it doesn't just have to be a story about somebody who's at the end of their life.
01:18:01.000I mean, it can be stories about people with severe depression, people with severe mental illness.
01:18:06.000And there's always an interesting discussion to be had in that form about, you know, At what point do you stop living for you and you start living for somebody else?
01:18:17.000And that's all interesting and very analytical, but that's like to me the idea that it would get as far as being cosigned by the government and being something that ends up on a balance sheet is just, even I can't look at that and be like, that's a bridge too far.
01:19:36.000But you know, it's despicable, I find, that we're at a point now where this, not only is it being offered, but we're topping the charts where, again, people now are using or dying more through maid than guns in America.
01:19:48.000Which is number one at something, though.
01:20:45.000And again, when I was living in Florida, I was in Sarasota County, which is one of the counties with the most concealed carrier weapons licenses.
01:21:21.000For me, and if anyone were to ask my recommendation, don't open carry because then you make yourself a target.
01:21:28.000If the day comes where you have to use it, there's someone that's like, oh, decides they're going to shoot up the mall or whatever that you're at.
01:23:31.000But when you go bigger picture, Canada, once again, we've said it a million times, really is this cautionary tale.
01:23:37.000One place I see some hope, correct me if I'm wrong, is these separatist movements that one allows places like Quebec and Alberta to determine their own destiny, but secondarily kind of puts a black eye on the Canadian government on Ottawa and sort of maybe gives them a reality check.
01:25:14.000Because I know there's a talk about Alberta, and I don't know about the other provinces, but do you think that would be something where basically Canada is just Ottawa?
01:25:55.000We use a different set of laws in Quebec.
01:25:57.000We use the civil law, French derived, versus the common law in the rest of Canada.
01:26:00.000So if you're a lawyer in Quebec, you can't practice in Canada and vice versa.
01:26:05.000And due to our history of being technically colonized, because we lost the war against the Brits and that's why it's not French anymore, we've always been very reclusive, living in a silo.
01:26:14.000Now, the thing in Quebec, it's still not super popular.
01:26:17.000It's maybe 30% ish support for separation.
01:26:21.000What it does though, and it's always good for Quebec and the politicians and the government of Quebec, it buys them kind of a card to use with Ottawa, with the federal government.
01:26:31.000And that's how we get all these little freebies, like being in charge of our immigration system, which is.
01:26:36.000Only Quebec does that compared to other provinces, like receiving entitlements and programs and money.
01:26:41.000So, Quebec likes to use that card to get bigger favors from Ottawa.
01:26:46.000Now, keep in mind though, Quebec is still the province with the highest support for the current Prime Minister of Canada, Kearney.
01:26:52.000He's nowhere in Canada is he more popular than in Quebec for some reason.
01:27:02.000Wall to wall coverage in Canada is just how Trump is horrible and wants to take over Canada.
01:27:06.000And yes, he joked about it, the whole like, we're going to take over Canada.
01:27:10.000That was, again, he helped the liberals like he has no idea.
01:27:13.000Now, mind you, he said before, and I've heard him speak about it he said, I'd much rather deal with a liberal government than a conservative government because, you know, conservatives are a little bit wiser.0.68
01:28:09.000I'm like, Well, the Anglo Canadians have kind of rolled over, where at least the French Canadians still have a bit of fight left in them.0.99
01:28:26.000They will fine you if your business is not conducted in French.
01:28:29.000If your signs are not in French, I mean, KFC, the American, like, we should do that here in with English, which blows my mind because America does not have an official language.
01:29:11.000But nonetheless, the thing is now the rest of Canada is looking at Quebec and saying, okay, maybe these crazy French people had a, you know, they're doing it right.0.98
01:29:19.000Because again, we've had crazy immigration in Canada to a point where some cities are 82% plus Indian or, you know, Sikh.0.97
01:29:28.000And they're looking at Quebec being like, okay, you guys were onto something at one point.
01:29:31.000And now with that new premier, PSPP, I mean, he was on stage saying that, and this is.
01:29:37.000Controversial in Canada to say, but that mass migration suppresses wages, mass migration suppresses fertility rates in the domestic population.
01:29:45.000And in Quebec, we're like, yeah, we like that.
01:29:47.000Now the rest of Canada is looking to us.
01:29:49.000And people that were critical of Quebec on the right, because again, everyone loved to dunk on Quebec, they're now looking at that premier being like, yeah, he's the most based politician in the entire country.1.00
01:30:00.000Maybe we should be a little bit more like these crazy French people.
01:30:03.000I mean, I've been to Quebec and I mean, I'm a wasp, so I would, in theory, have a lot of problems.
01:30:08.000I found it surprising, A, that the French Canadians are pretty apprehensive when they first meet someone like me because they think I'm an Anglo Canadian.
01:30:16.000And then when they find out I'm American, they're like delighted.
01:30:20.000Like, we love, you know, et cetera, which is, I found funny.
01:30:23.000But also, I just, I really liked the, because it's, it's this, it's weird because it's European feeling, probably because of the French language and the various infrastructure and that sort of thing.
01:30:34.000But it's a, the, the layouts of the cities were like American cities.
01:30:38.000So people were driving pickup trucks, but then they would have like window stickers in French and.
01:30:43.000It's like kind of a French country music almost sounding.
01:30:46.000It's like it was so, it's one of the strange, and I mean this as a compliment.0.58
01:30:50.000It's one of the most strange places, I think, in planet Earth because it's just got this weird combination of Europe and America and it all comes together there.
01:30:58.000And we also have something called Joie de Vivre, which translates to like the pleasure, the joy of life.
01:31:21.000Well, you're talking about how they control their immigration laws, and this manifests with basically requiring French immigrants, which has done an excellent job at keeping immigrants from flooding the province.0.89
01:31:50.000But the thing is, yeah, so instead of taking, so Canada's taken massive amounts of people from India.0.61
01:31:55.000I mean, at this point, Canada is probably the second country or third, and I'm not even making this up, country with the most Indians after India.0.80
01:32:04.000But Quebec, we're still very much, it's a lot of former French colonies, a lot of former African French colonies, a lot of Haitians, some Middle Eastern because they used to be under French rule as well.
01:32:23.000Again, I was in Toronto this week twice, back and forth and back and forth to be on a show and to cover the Quebec election on a news station.
01:32:30.000And you land in Toronto, and it's a culture shock in your own country.
01:32:44.000I was reading about how Toronto, every mayor of Toronto was a member of the Orange Order, which for people that know is like this very, very British Protestant fraternal order, like Knights of Columbus, basically for Protestants.
01:32:57.000Every member, highly unionist, this is like if you are a proud British subject, you're in the Orange Order.
01:33:03.000And every mayor of Toronto until the 1970s was a member of the Orange Order.
01:33:07.000There were British authors in the 50s and 60s and even the 70s saying Toronto is the most British feeling city in the world.0.90
01:33:14.000Like the rate of demographic overhaul was rapid.
01:33:20.000I mean, that's literally what it felt like in Toronto.
01:33:21.000I'll never forget I was there two years ago and I'm on the ferry to City Island so I can get the view of the skyline.0.65
01:33:31.000And when I was a kid and I'm 25, When I was a kid, the stereotype about Canada was that it was this obnoxiously white place.
01:33:37.000Like it was comically white, and everyone had these kind of very white people values of like being super polite and kind of meek and whatever.
01:33:44.000So, you know, I knew things had changed in Canada a bit, but I was stunned going to Toronto.
01:33:49.000And I'm on this ferry to City Island, and I'm not making this up.
01:33:52.000I'm not, there's no hyperbole or, you know, putting any spin on it for dramatic sake.
01:33:58.000About 500 people on this ferry, the only non South Asian person on this ferry.
01:34:41.000Like Montreal still feels, maybe not Montreal, but a lot of the surrounding areas still feel distinctly Canadian, still feel distinctly French Canadian.
01:35:45.000But we're at a point right now, even in our politics, where you have writings, you know, it's like districts for you guys, writings where it doesn't matter which candidate of which party, conservative, liberal, NDP.0.95
01:37:14.000So you guys are like, we're 40%, 43% higher than American unemployment rate.
01:37:19.000Well, because I remember if you go and you look at what John Kerry ran on, what Al Gore ran on, what especially Obama ran on, they're always making appeals to Canada.
01:37:30.000They're saying, Canada does this, Canada does that exceptionally well.
01:37:33.000And that would have had a lot of salience with Americans at the time.
01:37:35.000They'd be like, yeah, Canada does do that well.
01:37:37.000And then after Obama, 2008, Democrats stopped doing that.
01:37:40.000Like Biden, I bet you could go through and they didn't once appeal to Canada as some sort of model for some sort of social program.
01:41:18.000But who's the, not only are they suffering, these immigrants, but on top of that, the real losers in this are the Canadians.1.00
01:41:27.000The students, the low skilled workers, they can't find jobs.1.00
01:41:32.000Our youth unemployment rate, that's anything under 24, stands at upwards of 14%, which is again, one of the highest numbers we've ever seen.
01:42:59.000So again, it's the Canadian, it's the old stock Canadian that's losing.
01:43:02.000Well, and you know, the red pill here, and this is what people don't want to accept if we brought in, if Canada brought in, I don't know, a million Englishmen, or maybe even a million Frenchmen, probably wouldn't be having these problems.
01:43:14.000I mean, there'd be some economic problems getting these people homes or whatever, but you wouldn't have these cultural clashes, and Toronto wouldn't feel foreign.
01:43:21.000If anything, Toronto would start to feel a bit more Canadian again.
01:43:25.000You know, when you look at, and I mean, I know you're French Canadians, but you have a slightly different perspective on this.
01:43:29.000But from my perspective, especially places like Ontario, really is meant to be this kind of outpost of the British Empire in many ways.
01:43:35.000So the further away you get from that sort of Anglo Protestant, French Canadian core, the less Canadian it feels.
01:43:42.000And people have a really tough time accepting this because, you know, 70, 80 years of post-Canadianism.
01:43:47.000Or liberal consensus, we're supposed to believe everyone's a blank slate.
01:43:51.000I'm sorry, someone from Yorkshire is going to have a slightly easier time assimilating into Toronto.0.96
01:43:56.000Actually, they probably just pick up right where they left off versus someone from India.0.99
01:44:00.000And it's like the sooner people can accept that, especially if you're on the right, you have no excuse.1.00
01:44:04.000You should have already accepted that by now.
01:44:06.000But the sooner people on the left even can accept that people are different based off of where they come from, the sooner we can fix these problems.
01:47:38.000From St. Miles, if you look at the inside recording of the terminal that was hit by the Houthis, most of the people there were dressed to go on Hajj.1.00
01:48:20.000Doesn't sound too Anglo or French, huh?
01:48:24.000Igor Gargyle of Kazan says FPV drones would destroy the U.S. population, whether that be the Pentagon's drones or drones from China, Russia, et cetera.0.97
01:48:32.000Your guns are irrelevant, silly Philly.0.97
01:48:55.000I guess he's saying that for 2A purposes alone, it's definitely worth reinforcing Trump's conditional government.
01:49:00.000Yeah, look, if you want to see the border secure, then you have to vote for Republicans, right?
01:49:08.000If you want to retain your Second Amendment rights, you have to vote for Republicans.
01:49:15.000If you want to see any more of the policies that Donald Trump has put forward, you have to vote for Republicans.
01:49:23.000If you want to see any kind of Any kind of legislation or anything out of the administration, you have to vote for Republicans because if Democrats take control of the House, it's going to be investigation, impeachment.
01:49:39.000They're going to be calling it, you know, they're going to do everything they can to stymie the Trump, you know, the Trump agenda.
01:49:43.000So, I mean, for me personally, it was never a question.
01:50:05.000And so, whether it be Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, the Democratic Party would have to shift massively for me to be like, well, maybe I'll vote for a Democrat.
01:50:17.000Their values are not the same as mine.
01:53:17.000Maybe JJ McCullough on because JJ McCullough made this interesting point.
01:53:19.000He's the one that put this on my radar, and he said it at the top of the show is that Canadians in the 21st century identify themselves solely in opposition to the United States.
01:53:30.000And we've talked about this before frustration with the Republican Party.
01:53:34.000The inability to articulate what you're in favor of will always destroy you.
01:53:37.000If you're only defined in what you're against, you can only last so long.
01:53:41.000And I think that's part of the reason why you're seeing, not that America doesn't have these problems, it's just Canada has these problems on steroids.
01:53:47.000It's not me boasting like, oh, we figured it all out.
01:54:18.000Out of all places in Canada, we have a distinct culture, language, linguistically, historically.
01:54:24.000Food, we're people that's bound together.
01:54:29.000Historic, look, if I look at Canada, it's first of all, there's the, you got to look at the descent, you got to look at the ethnicity, like you're not.
01:54:37.000It comes from Ireland, England, France, and Scotland.
01:54:44.000So I was going through the aisles.1.00
01:54:46.000Those are the old stock Canadians.0.99
01:54:47.000And then after that, you can tie in with immigration a lot of Europeans, lots of Italians, Polish, but it's Christian based, European based.0.65
01:55:55.000I think you guys should go back to this.
01:55:57.000Again, as a French Canadian, as I understand it, a big reason you guys went away from this is a lot of the French Canadians weren't too happy.
01:57:34.000Because, you know, you go around the world, you go to Australia, certainly Britain, New Zealand, you know, being a monarchist is very right-wing, it's very conservative.0.98
01:58:17.000Well, and to your point, look, you got the three lines of England, the dragon of Scotland, the flowers, or the what do you call it in French?
02:06:21.000Lipdards, I think that the big takeaway is the idea that woke went anywhere, it didn't go anywhere.1.00
02:06:30.000All these people that are complaining about what Shane Gillis said I mean, the guy sells out Madison Square Garden or whatever, like, he was a record, I think.
02:06:38.000So, obviously, the guy's got a fan base, he's funny.0.99
02:06:41.000And there was some cuck on fucking let's just watch the cuck ex that was just like, oh, he can't say that, and he's so mean.0.99
02:06:49.000The Dan Levy clip, oh, this guy from shorts to the gym does not make them whores.1.00
02:08:22.000A lot of people would say, yes, she's objectifying herself.0.98
02:08:26.000Well, someone in the live chat for the noon show made an excellent point today.
02:08:30.000They said, Really, the debate should be over what is admiration versus leering.
02:08:36.000And I think that's fundamentally what's going on.
02:08:38.000It's kind of the same problem we had where it was the IOC or someone issued broadcasting requirements where they can't show the women from lower than the waist.
02:08:46.000And it's like most people watching that aren't going to be like, oh, admiring.0.98
02:09:08.000It was all like attractive women, and I don't want them.1.00
02:09:11.000It's not like an attraction thing, it's just like an easy on the eyes.0.99
02:09:15.000That's where the phrase easy on the eyes came from because it's like this is pleasant.
02:09:19.000This is making my life better that these people look good.
02:09:23.000It's not leering, it's not like sexual.
02:09:25.000It's just like an admiration of beauty.0.97
02:09:27.000Like, same thing, I like a good painting, I'm not gonna jerk off to it.
02:09:31.000This is something, this is like a discussion we were having with like the female track runners where like they get mad because the girls wear like the high.0.98
02:09:40.000And they're like, this is objectification.
02:09:42.000They're literally given three options of what to wear.
02:09:45.000They choose these because the least friction means that they're going to have the, you know, they'll theoretically run faster.
02:09:52.000So they're making that choice for themselves.
02:09:54.000But the point is, somebody has to find someplace where they can insert themselves and make it about whatever their form of self is.
02:10:00.000So Shane Gillis, that blew the whole charade open, funny that they're attacking because I think he already exposed what's going on here, is he was talking about how with volleyball and they wear the super tight short shorts and they get defensive when he was pressing them on it.
02:10:13.000And he was saying, like, you know, why is that necessary?
02:10:21.000They're wearing shorts to their knees.
02:10:22.000So suddenly the mobility doesn't matter anymore.
02:10:25.000You know, he exposed their whole little charade going on here.
02:10:28.000This is more to my point, which is like, I'm just worn on this type of comedy.
02:10:33.000Like, I'm sick of comedians having to double as philosophers for modern day problems, whether it's him, whether it's Bill Burr trying to do it from a lefty perspective or Dave Chappelle.
02:12:55.000It was based around groups like the Young Americans for Liberty, which is like a Thomas Massey backed group.
02:13:00.000They're not, but they kind of function like a third party.
02:13:03.000Should we be putting our effort into pushing groups like that, or should we stick with the status quo of priming out the Republicans we don't like?
02:13:14.000You should primary out the Republicans you don't like because that is the actual way to get access to political power for policies that you like.
02:13:27.000There's nothing wrong with Young Americans for Liberty, there's nothing wrong with TPUSA.
02:13:31.000There are all kinds of political action organizations out there.
02:13:35.000But at the end of the day, power is what you're after.
02:13:58.000I mean, I think it'd be, I've said this, like, I think it would be kind of cool to have options in the United States, obviously.
02:14:04.000You're kind of seeing them in Britain right now experiment with the idea of having a third party, or I guess in this case, restores like an eighth party, but having a party to the right.
02:14:15.000Of the mainstream populist party, which would be reform, and then sort of try to create this pulley where like it kind of ratchets them to the right.
02:14:22.000Restore understands they're not going to win the next election, but they do understand that they can kind of work as a pressure group to push reform to the right.
02:14:30.000Like Restore kind of wants reform to absorb their voters because they'd be so right wing that they would.
02:14:36.000The United States, just the way our system's set up, it doesn't work.
02:14:38.000We don't have a, you know, you win a certain amount of the presidential election, you get however many seats.
02:14:54.000So, you know, whatever your pejorative is, whatever your prerogative is, whatever your prerogative is, you know, it'd be a waste of energy and time.
02:15:06.000You're better off just trying to primary.
02:15:09.000Unfortunately, again, I think it'd be cool if we had pressure groups and third parties or whatever, especially now with how rigid our system is.
02:16:00.000If you have, I mean, look at what's going on in Germany, right?
02:16:02.000The AFD wins like 40% or whatever, and then all the other parties align against them.
02:16:08.000Well, it's actually a slightly better case scenario, though, because the only reason the AFD exists is because of the coalition government.
02:16:14.000Otherwise, they would get absorbed into the big tent right wing party.
02:16:17.000And the fact that the AFD can form a government without a majority, because, okay, they could do a firewall in Germany where every party that's not the AFD joins forces, but there's a few parties like Darlinka that just do not want to join up with the CDU, for example.
02:16:31.000And so the AFD can govern a state with 40%.
02:16:35.000And also, just the AFD wouldn't exist if there wasn't, if they had two parties, they would just get absorbed into the right wing party.
02:16:41.000Obviously, the United States is kind of a weird exception because the Republican Party, people don't want to hear it, is pretty right wing by global standards.
02:16:51.000I'm just saying we wouldn't even have an AFD if they had a two party system.
02:16:54.000And also, the AFD can govern in Saxony Anhalt with 42%.
02:16:58.000The advantage, too, with the firewall, because they're doing that, is that it's pushing people who are like, okay, I want some reform to happen.
02:17:05.000They might not normally vote for the AFD, but now they're like, well, we got to give them a chance.
02:17:11.000If there was a third party, we the third, if there was a third party system in or a third party in the U.S., I mean, that's essentially what like Trump took over.
02:17:39.000And so, like, I, even as a generally politically aware person, didn't realize, it never occurred to me that illegal immigration was such a massive problem.
02:17:50.000Now, granted, the Biden administration really opened the floodgates and made a significant impact on that.
02:17:56.000But when Donald Trump came down the escalator and was like, you know, the illegals, blah, I'm like, is that really an issue?
02:18:02.000Because I didn't realize I'm from New England.
02:18:06.000And, you know, but I'd been all over the country at that point.
02:18:41.000I mean, just the idea of, you know, Nationalists in the United States, I was kind of under the impression that everybody loved America.
02:18:49.000And obviously, things have changed in the past 10 years and it's actually gotten worse.
02:18:53.000But Donald Trump really made, pointed out, you know, pointed a, shown a light on a lot of issues in the United States.
02:19:00.000And like I said, really changed the Republican Party and what conservatives thought.
02:19:03.000Well, I mean, that's the advantage of the winner takes all in America, though, is if you're our Trump, you know, and you are able to successfully hijack the Republican Party, congrats, you're now in charge of the second most powerful political institution in the world.
02:19:13.000When you say that you thought that everybody loved America, do you mean like other Americans?
02:19:19.000I mean, because especially, particularly after, you know, after 9 11, which is very much my formative years in my political knowledge, you know, I was 25 when it happened, 26.
02:19:31.000Like, I was really kind of under the impression that everybody was, you know, very pro American.
02:19:35.000I didn't really realize that there was an undercurrent of, you know, basically subversives that had been, you know, gaining steam or started to really gain steam, especially in 2025, 26, 27.
02:19:51.000I guess for me, it was like I grew up in, like I said, I grew up in Minnesota in the suburbs, and I had friends from nicer suburbs than where I was from.
02:20:01.000I was from Woodbury, Minnesota, and we had the poor area of Woodbury, and then the rich area where all the people worked at 3M, and then my area of Woodbury by the local prison or whatever it is.
02:20:13.000And even like friends from other towns and stuff like that, I noticed disdain for.0.55
02:20:21.000Middle America, meaning like NASCAR or anything quintessentially thought of as Americana.0.72
02:20:29.000And it wouldn't, I wouldn't have phrased it at the time as hatred for America, but definitely hatred for something that was different than them.0.65
02:20:37.000I've told this story a few times, but like, so the record that put us on the map is called The Fall of Ideals.
02:20:43.000And I called it that because I kind of, in 2006, I kind of smelled it, right?
02:20:48.000I was like, something about the things that make America.
02:20:52.000You know, make America what it is, had kind of like there were people that kind of thought it was kind of passe, like the freedom of speech and, and, you know, the Second Amendment and stuff is like, it was like, you know, they're, they're, they're okay.
02:21:04.000But it was almost like people looked at it like, well, it's cute, as opposed to something they really believe is like, yeah, okay.
02:21:12.000And I was, I called it the fall of ideals because I thought people stopped, were beginning to no longer care about the things that really made the United States the United States.
02:21:23.000Because again, I don't believe in magic soil, right?
02:21:26.000The things that we hold dear as a country matter.
02:21:29.000And if you have people that don't hold those things dear, the country changes, you know?
02:21:33.000And it's not just demographic shift, though I do think that that plays a huge part in it here.
02:21:38.000I think that a big component of the American dream, which is where all of this is kind of based around, right?
02:21:47.000It was this quintessential idea of the American dream that if you work hard and you play by the rules, you will theoretically get the house with the white picket fence and the wife or the husband and the 2.5 kids and you'll be happy.
02:22:03.000And whether it was through subversive liberal media, combine that with the economic crash in 2008, which played a huge part of it there.
02:22:13.000And then the growing disdain that people, especially older millennials, seem to have for the world that they were raised in, sort of being pulled out from under them, whether it's student loans, whether it's the fact that the economy that they kind of inherited once they finished college was no longer the one that propelled their parents to a higher level.
02:22:35.000That ties directly to their idea of the nation because they're looking at that as more and more of the companies are being bought up by larger and larger conglomerates.
02:22:46.000They don't have access, seemingly, at least in their eyes, to the same things that their parents did.
02:22:51.000And they hold the country responsible for that.
02:22:53.000And that might be the more like pseudo intellectual version of this.
02:23:19.000Taking radical responsibility for your actions, your choices, and living and dying based on the choices you make, that's a good thing.
02:23:26.000But there's still a victim mentality amongst a lot of people that has sort of separated them from any ability to love America.
02:23:33.000I think that when it comes to people that are, I guess, Generally, right leaning, they have a lot of the same problems that anyone else does, particularly young people.
02:23:48.000But I do think that this is a phenomenon that's acute for younger people.
02:24:34.000I mean, look, the hope and change was a total bait and switch because, and it was, it was, it was, I don't want to say that it was nefarious, but it had such a negative effect on people because.
02:24:48.000Everybody decided that hope and change meant something personal to them.
02:25:58.000I think most people think of like, you know, The 80s and 90s, because that was kind of the time where we had, you know, pretty good economic activity.
02:26:07.000It seemed like things were attainable.
02:26:11.000The dollar, you know, did a deep, could buy you some stuff, you know.
02:26:16.000So, like, make the joke is like you listen to any documentary about like Ruby Ridge, Waco.
02:26:22.000It's like, how did these crazy people afford cabins in the woods?
02:26:26.000Back in the day, they just, you know, they don't have a job, they're out on their own, yet somehow they bought a plot of land and built a cabin.
02:26:32.000And, uh, Of course, you look into it more, and it's like their family paid for it or something like that.
02:26:36.000I think that was what happened with the.
02:26:38.000But it's just like that's what I think people think of.
02:26:40.000They're like, you know, and that's what's sold when people are rage baiting on X, right?
02:26:44.000It's like your parents own two homes and they only worked 40 hours a week and they had it easy.
02:26:49.000And that generational divide has gotten worse and worse and worse with people.
02:27:02.000I think Crowder said it best when he talked about the multi party system and.0.98
02:27:07.000Canada with Trudeau, you know, for something like that to be functional, you have to believe that at least 30% of the population isn't stupid.0.97
02:29:36.000I mean, the Rwandans are serious players.0.97
02:29:40.000I think they thought that it was going to be like, you know, the old, you know, where you just come in with a single helicopter and that's all the air cover you need.
02:29:59.000You know, they don't need air superior air superiority now because of the drones.
02:30:04.000And apparently, they used a drone to go and kind of figure out where they all were and what they were planning, and they could tell when they were moving and that sort of thing.
02:30:14.000So, shocking, shocking to see because that was kind of always our with the mercenaries.
02:30:21.000That was kind of always their advantage was just having a huge tech advantage over specifically in Africa.
02:30:27.000The Rwandans aren't playing around, man.0.91
02:30:28.000The Rwandans are playing for keeps right now.0.81
02:30:31.000There's a lot of money on the line, a lot of resources.
02:30:35.000What are your guys' thoughts on private military contractors performing in the area, especially Congo, which is a pretty crazy place, just to protect mining operations and stuff like that?
02:30:49.000Well, I'm pro Western mercenaries because typically these countries contract them, the governments contract them for security.
02:30:59.000They want to either protect the president, maybe corrupt, it's neither here nor there, or.
02:31:04.000You know, it's rare, like, you can go through like executive outcomes and how they operated.
02:31:12.000They kept everything in check and they were a stabilizing force.
02:31:17.000Like, I think executive outcomes in Sierra Leone prevented a full blown genocide from occurring.
02:31:23.000You know, Neil Ellis was operating, he managed to keep off an entire, like, 5,000 strong army and keep Freetown safe, kept them from barreling into Freetown with just a single helicopter.
02:31:41.000I think it gives the United States flexibility.
02:31:45.000Like, for example, with Haiti, Eric Prince operating in Haiti.
02:31:48.000And I think that allows the United States to sort of, you know, indirectly have influence on Haiti without us having to pledge any of our resources.
02:31:57.000We used mercenaries quite a lot during the global war on terror.
02:32:00.000And it, again, gives us a lot of flexibility.
02:32:15.000From what I've heard, and it's not even propaganda, it's just true, and I can vouch for this because I was there.
02:32:21.000The Wagner and some of the Russian mercenaries aren't as keen on sort of behaving in a decent fashion.
02:32:31.000They're not very gentlemanly how they operate.
02:32:35.000When I was in Tanzania, again, it's Just hearsay anecdote, but I had two locals tell me that Wagner basically just went in and decimated a village because they were alleged to be possessing some sort of criminal they were after.0.91
02:32:51.000So I think this is an example where Western superiority does come through.0.97
02:32:58.000And I think there are countless examples, like Sierra Leone's a great example of where mercenaries have actually probably kept the place safer.
02:33:04.000Look, these people want Western style security.0.82
02:33:07.000So instead of bringing Cameroonians to Montreal, why not bring Canadian security to?
02:33:14.000Why not bring Western, you know, maybe not democracy, but Western security, you know, that level of safety to Cameroon?
02:33:21.000And they have the right to procure that.0.95
02:33:33.000Simon Mann is a fascinating guy to read about.
02:33:36.000He ended up in jail in Equatorial Guinea because he and Maggie Thatcher's kid, Mark Thatcher, were trying to go and basically do a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
02:33:51.000And they got busted in the airport in Zimbabwe because the South Africans ratted them out.
02:33:56.000And Simon Mann got extradited to Equatorial Guinea, I think.
02:34:00.000And he wrote a book about all this time he spent in the Slammer there and just insane.
02:34:05.000They had to have like a British MP come in and get him out.
02:34:08.000So those guys lived lifetimes of, you know, multiple lifetimes worth of stories packed into, you know, 40 year career.
02:34:18.000Simon Mann died, I think, a few months ago.
02:34:19.000And I was listening to a few interviews he had done and just like so much fun.
02:34:24.000You sacrifice a lot, obviously, but just so much fun they had.0.78
02:34:29.000With how much we benefit from Africa and what we extract from there, why don't we just put a big old fat military base there?
02:34:37.000Oh, we, I mean, we have Central African Republic, we have some intel operations and I think a small base, but yeah, why not build like a full blown base in the middle of Africa?0.88
02:35:04.000And this is how we've operated thus far a combination of American capital investing, foreign investment, American capital investing in the region, and then combine that with private security, mercenaries, et cetera, to protect American companies and their assets when they're mining and whatnot.
02:35:23.000Look up in the Southeast Congo, Katanga, the Katanga province.
02:35:29.000This is like the largest supply of copper in the world, it comes from Katanga.
02:35:32.000And there's a lot of American drilling.
02:35:34.000Going on there, and Katanga is relatively safe compared to well, you know, Northeast Congo, there's a war going on.
02:35:40.000Uh, and the primary reason is because you have a lot of mercenaries operating in the area and they're able to provide security solutions, and it allows American capital to extract the resources.
02:35:50.000Um, and everyone else is there the Dutch, the English, the Chinese, right?
02:37:36.000I mean, I don't know how, like what the actual damage is, but I mean, he was, you know, he's wearing a tourniquet and he probably had a smashed femur.
02:39:55.000With Tala Rico's weekend flu story turning into an Ohio mental hospital adventure and this late campaign meltdown.
02:40:05.000With most voters already being locked in as blue, no matter who, or voting against the Dems, myself included, does that middle slice in Texas actually get swayed by this, or is the state just cooked for Republicans either way?
02:40:19.000So, this is looking like it might actually blow up in the Republicans' face and cause a lot of problems.
02:41:21.000And the guy who was shopping the story, I don't want to name him, start beef, but the one that was shopping the story, even the Daily Wire and the Blaze and the Daily Caller were like, no, this is, we can't report this.
02:41:34.000And then he passed it along to some Twitter peeps.
02:41:39.000And the standards are a bit lower on Twitter.
02:42:36.000Just because Paxton's going to drag the ticket down and the downstate Republicans won't do well because of that, the down ballot Republicans.0.98
02:42:52.000And if, you know, if he's able to kind of mature, I guess, I don't know what other word to use.
02:42:59.000He's going to be talked about as a potential presidential candidate in six to eight years, you know, depending on how the next election goes.
02:43:09.000They love these guys that are like red state progressives, they love those types.
02:43:14.000So even if you're like rolling your eyes, me saying that, trust me, you're going to be here in Tallarico for VP or president in the next five to 10 years.