On today's show, we discuss the latest events in the world, including the recent deaths of two Israeli citizens and the possibility that plane crashes are becoming more common. We're also joined by Scott Horton, Director of the Libertarian Institute and Editor-In-Chief of Antiwar.org, to discuss all of this and more.
00:01:01.000We have, let's see, we have some information about...
00:01:07.000Donald Trump's administration ending Harvard's ability to enroll international students, which I'm not sure exactly the legalities of that.
00:01:15.000I imagine that that's actually going to go to the Supreme Court, like most of the Donald Trump executive orders.
00:01:23.000Also, the FTC launched a probe of far-left group Media Matters over allegations of advisor collusion against Musk's X, which I think would be...
00:04:53.000The idea behind it, basically, is that the burden of proof is on me, really, to say.
00:04:58.000If I'm going to say everybody else is wrong for the past 40 years about everything that they did to cause a terrible problem, then I better prove it.
00:05:29.000So, like I said in the beginning, the Postmillennial reports, D.C. free Palestine shooting suspect charged with first-degree murder praised Luigi Mangione and posted death to America, says a report.
00:05:55.000He has been charged with first-degree murder in the case.
00:06:07.000According to the New York Post, federal authorities are working to connect a social media account reportedly linked to Rodriguez.
00:06:23.000Law enforcement sources told the outlet.
00:06:25.000Rodriguez, a socialist activist, yelled, free Palestine, as police were taking him into custody, was arriving for the killing of Yaron Leshinsky and his girlfriend, Sarah Lynn Milgram.
00:06:38.000The couple was set to get engaged next week.
00:06:41.000Scott, I don't think that there is a more well-versed authority on the situation in Gaza than you, but I think that...
00:06:51.000It sounds like, at least the way that the Post Millennial is reporting, it sounds like this goes beyond just the situation in Gaza, but I'd like to know your thoughts with the beginning.
00:07:02.000And before we get into it, actually, I wanted to mention that you directed me to Ken Klippenstein's Substack post, and I think that it's worth all of our viewers reading.
00:07:11.000He posted the manifesto that Rodriguez had made, and it was...
00:07:19.000I think a week or so before this happened.
00:07:37.000I truly could not recommend more highly Dave DeCamp, especially our news director at Antiwar.com, who covers this stuff in and out every day, and is the best.
00:07:48.000Kyle Anzalone as well, and the whole crew over there at Antiwar.com.
00:07:52.000And there are a lot of other people who are really great on it.
00:09:03.000But I'm pretty sure it's page 74 of Rules for Radicals, because I needed the footnote.
00:09:10.000And what he says in there is in all asymmetrical political action, the action is in the reaction of the opposition, right?
00:09:18.000So it's all about creating a conflict, heightening tensions, this kind of thing.
00:09:22.000So what he's trying to do, I mean, assuming the guy thought it through at all, what he's trying to do is get Trump to clamp down harder on pro-Palestine protesters and then get them to react harder against him and just like trolling back and forth, right?
00:09:36.000Each other, heightening the tension and making things worse in order to try to...
00:09:41.000So that's the strategy behind, I mean, presumably if you had a strategy at all other than just angrily lashing out to murder these people.
00:09:51.000Only in the most ironic sense you understand what I mean.
00:09:54.000That just everybody else got lucky, other than this poor couple, that this guy could have set off a truck bomb and killed a bunch of innocent people.
00:10:01.000And I've been predicting this for a long time.
00:10:05.000On New Year's, it was an army veteran, convert to Islam, who attacked Bourbon Street.
00:10:12.000And now, this all got obscured because there was that other veteran set off the truck bomb in Las Vegas with that weird letter to Sean Ryan and all this stuff that obscured it.
00:10:20.000We heard the whole thing what happened on Bourbon Street.
00:10:23.000And now they never released the guy's video rants.
00:10:27.000They say that he recorded himself on his drive to New Orleans from Houston, right?
00:10:33.000They haven't released that or transcripts of that as far as I know yet.
00:10:37.000But I'm willing to go out on a limb and bet you ten bucks that what he was ranting about was the war in Gaza.
00:10:43.000And then what happened was, it's not even a war, the canned hunt, the slaughter of these poor people over there.
00:10:48.000And then what he did was slaughter a bunch of innocent people partying on Bourbon Street on New Year's Eve.
00:10:54.000So in other words, like, other than children, you couldn't get more innocent of civilians than just people out drinking, having a good time, doing nothing.
00:11:02.000And they gotta pay the price for Israel's sins here.
00:11:05.000And the point being that not obviously, as everyone should understand, not to justify what they're doing, but to explain That's their justification.
00:11:16.000And so supporting Israel the way that we do, it is not in America's national interest.
00:11:21.000And I wish Tim was here, because I'd like to remind him, as I told him before.
00:11:24.000And this is, I think, obscured by a lot of smoke and a lot of other things.
00:11:30.000Israel and America's support for Israel is the primary reason that America's own al-Qaeda terrorist mercenaries turned on the United States of America and hit us, not just on September 11th, but all through the 1990s.
00:11:43.000Their first attack here, it was, you know, proto-al-Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
00:11:47.000Their first attack here was Rabbi Kahane in New York City, and he was a radical right-wing rabbi from the Koch party, which the Israeli Supreme Court had banned for being fascist, and they assassinated him.
00:12:04.000And he had a really good Jewish lawyer that got everything narrowed down to just this very narrow question, and the whole investigation into the rest of his co-conspirators got all trashed.
00:12:16.000And the same group went on to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993.
00:12:27.000It's a side point, but it's worth making.
00:12:29.000The FBI had an informant inside the group, and the two agents working the case were doing a good job, but their boss prevented them from following through.
00:12:38.000And he cut the guy's pay, and he demanded that he wear a wire, which was impossible.
00:13:04.000Yeah, it was six people were killed, so people just blew it off.
00:13:06.000And then, of course, the ATF raided the Branch Davidians Church two days later.
00:13:10.000And so that is what took all the attention away from the first retreat.
00:13:13.000I didn't realize they were that close in time.
00:13:15.000Yeah, it was February the 26th and the 28th there.
00:13:18.000A Sunday morning, they raided them because they thought, well, they'll all be at church, so we'll catch them by surprise.
00:13:22.000That's what you do, you know, when you're the ATF.
00:13:24.000Anyway, and then all through the 1990s, these are the same group.
00:13:29.000They tried to kill Americans at the Rasen Hotel in Yemen in 1992.
00:13:35.000Americans training the Saudi National Guard in 1995.
00:13:38.000The barracks, the Khobar Towers barracks killed 19 American airmen in 1996.
00:13:45.000Then the Africa embassies in 1998, the coal in 2000, eventually September 11th.
00:13:50.000And this whole time, this group of guys working for bin Laden and Zawahiri, they were motivated primarily, their whole propaganda...
00:13:58.000Never mind exactly what bin Laden believed, because he's a murderer, so who cares what he says, right?
00:14:03.000As far as you don't take his word for anything.
00:14:04.000But the point is, this is how he recruited people, is he would point at America's occupation of Saudi Arabia in order to dual contain Iraq and Iran at Israel's behest.
00:15:00.000And I'm sorry, you were going to say about the dual containment there.
00:15:03.000No, I just, it was, like, I'm aware of the situation where bin Laden was saying, you know, the major reason why he was, one of the major reasons why he was looking to attack the U.S. was because of the fact the U.S. built a base in Saudi Arabia, and he considered that, like, sullying the Holy Land.
00:15:22.000And it's bombing Iraq from those bases for the whole 1990s long, enforcing the no-fly zone and enforcing...
00:15:30.000Again, this is something that my understanding was that Bin Laden was PO'd, that he didn't get to bring his Mujahideen in to defend the Saudis.
00:16:04.000What the F were, you know, you know my, again, you know my dad.
00:16:08.000And they built a base, which is a bad thing to the Saudis.
00:16:10.000Yeah, and you can look, there's a, it's a hilarious, there's a hilarious interview of Dick Cheney by Bill Kristol on Bill Kristol's podcast, if you can believe it.
00:16:19.000And they talk about Cheney's entire career, except they don't talk about Iraq War II at all.
00:16:23.000For some reason, they just leave that out.
00:16:25.000But anyway, when they talk about Iraq War I, Cheney explains that never even mind the Secretary of State.
00:16:30.000He promised the king, as soon as the war is over, we'll leave.
00:16:33.000And it was on that condition that they were allowed to come in in the first place.
00:17:00.000But see, so the excuse was that the...
00:17:05.000That George Bush Sr. had encouraged the Shiites to rise up and overthrow Saddam and then had stabbed them in the back and let Saddam Hussein massacre them all because they were being led by people that had been living, Iraqis who'd been living in Iran for 20 years, or no, by that time, sorry, 10 years, and were on their way to inherit the revolution.
00:17:23.000So he stabbed them in the back and left them high and dry and let Saddam massacre them all.
00:17:27.000Then they said, well, now we have to stay to enforce this no-fly zone and this blockade.
00:17:54.000And Seymour Hersh debunked it in an article called Case Closed.
00:17:59.000Case not closed is actually what it's called.
00:18:01.000And all it was was a whiskey smuggling ring that they embellished into this plot against Bush because he happened to be in town kind of thing.
00:18:07.000And then once that happened, that was like the final straw for Bill Clinton to give in to the Israeli policy.
00:18:14.000It was Yitzhak Rabin's policy that he was insisting on.
00:18:16.000And it was his agent, Martin Indyk, who actually had previously worked for Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud prime minister, who...
00:18:25.000Who dreamt up and inaugurated the policy of what they call dual containment.
00:18:30.000And the idea was because America had just beat up Saddam Hussein so bad in Iraq War I, he's now not powerful enough to balance against Iran.
00:18:38.000So America has to stay to balance against them both.
00:18:42.000And then that becomes then again the leading cause of...
00:18:47.000These terrorists that worked for the United States then turning against us, knocking down our towers, hitting our Pentagon, and kicking off another 20 years of war.
00:19:28.000And it's a complicated subject, but I'm with it.
00:19:32.000The bottom line to start is Iran has a latent nuclear deterrent, which is essentially equal to Germany, Brazil, Japan, where they've mastered the fuel cycle.
00:19:43.000They've proven that they know how to enrich uranium.
00:19:45.000They could make a nuclear bomb, but they don't.
00:19:48.000And they're essentially announcing to the world, don't.
00:20:03.000They could have built atom bombs by now, but they haven't tried.
00:20:06.000So right now they could achieve one atomic bomb of enriched uranium, you know, in a shorter time than when the deal was still being followed because they have built up a stockpile of lower enriched uranium.
00:20:23.000So they could take that stockpile and enrich it higher.
00:20:26.000Before Trump tore up the deal under the Obama deal, they exported all of their stockpile out of the country to France and then France would turn it into fuel rods and ship it back in.
00:20:37.000You're doing, you're explaining, but I want to.
00:20:38.000Well, I'm just saying I was answering her specific question there.
00:20:42.000My position is I support, and the vast majority of Americans, I think it was 68% in the poll, said they support Trump's diplomacy with Iran to make a new deal with Iran.
00:20:52.000So if Iran tries to get nuclear weapons, how should the United States respond?
00:20:56.000Well, to skip ahead to if it came to that, I mean, well, no, not skip ahead, because you're kind of assuming the conclusion in a way.
00:21:09.000It's a Mexican-type standoff, sort of.
00:21:12.000Not like more than two people pointing guns at each other, but sort of.
00:21:16.000Where they're saying, look, man, in body language, diplomatic language, they're basically saying, if you bomb us, well, then we'll have no choice but to make nukes then.
00:21:27.000So don't bomb us and we won't make nukes.
00:21:29.000And America's saying, don't make nukes and we won't bomb you.
00:21:36.000So we have a perfect basis for a negotiation as things stand right now.
00:21:41.000They're not trying to make a nuclear bomb.
00:21:43.000They're not trying to make a nuclear bomb.
00:21:45.000No, they're not trying to make a nuclear bomb.
00:21:48.000And in fact, you can read from February the 5th, where Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI, put out her threat assessment, and they just said the same thing that the government's been saying.
00:22:00.000Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, just reaffirmed what the CIA has been saying since 2007, which is they have not made the political decision to try to make nuclear weapons.
00:22:12.000They do not have a nuclear weapons program.
00:22:15.000So if Iran decides to try to make a nuclear weapon, how should the United States respond?
00:23:57.000I don't think you've thought this fully through, so that's why I'm asking you, what do you think the consequences would be in the Middle East?
00:24:03.000Do you think Saudi Arabia would want to try to acquire a nuclear weapon if Iran did?
00:24:07.000I'm begging the question because they've said so already.
00:24:10.000Do you have any concerns about nuclear programs?
00:24:15.000Actually, one of the proposals right now is that they would have a joint nuclear program together.
00:24:20.000Under a consortium, just like we have multinational nuclear consortiums in different places around the world.
00:24:24.000Muhammad bin Salman said that if Iran got a nuclear weapon, they would want to acquire a nuclear weapon.
00:24:28.000So I guess the bigger issue here would be nuclear proliferation across the Middle East.
00:24:46.000I think you might be in a little bit of a bubble if you think otherwise.
00:24:49.000Look up the threat assessment from February of this year by Tulsi Gabbard, and it says they have not made the political decision to attempt to get nuclear weapons.
00:24:56.000Maybe I'm a little bit crazy, but I think it's bad for a regime that says death to America to get a nuclear weapon.
00:25:01.000And to think there aren't going to be consequences of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, I think, is naive and nearsighted, frankly.
00:25:08.000And again, it doesn't even sound like you have this stuff thought out, frankly.
00:25:12.000Yeah, no, I don't know anything about it.
00:25:13.000They signed the non-proliferation treaty back in 1968.
00:27:36.000He's not weaseling around your questions at all.
00:27:39.000I said they mastered the fuel cycle in 2005.
00:27:42.000They've been able to enrich uranium since then.
00:27:45.000And they've never enriched to weapons grade.
00:27:47.000They've stayed within the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
00:27:50.000Even when Trump tore up the Obama deal, they still stayed within it.
00:27:54.000And even the deal itself, the JCPOA itself, stipulates that if America breaks the deal...
00:28:00.000Iran is allowed to stop abiding by some of its restrictions and still stay in the deal.
00:28:05.000And they are still in the deal with our allies, the British and the French, on the UN Security Council, as well as our adversaries, Russia and China.
00:28:12.000And under that old deal, by the way, it was only majority rule.
00:28:17.000It was not any country can veto like normal UNSC rules.
00:28:21.000So it was if America, Britain and France agree about an accusation against Iran, they have to open up.
00:28:28.000to inspections whatever we want or else the full global sanctions regime goes automatically back into place.
00:29:11.000The situation that happened last night with the murder of the two Israelis, what you said earlier about it being terrible for Gaza and stuff, I think that you're spot on with that.
00:29:21.000But I do feel like, as much as he says that this is about Israel and about Gaza, I do think that in the United States, there is a very strong current of socialist leftists that have nothing but...
00:29:37.000disdain for the United States and his previous comments about, you know, Luigi and I think that the situation in Gaza for a lot of American leftists is just an excuse, just like you were saying that what bin Laden does is using the situation in Gaza to recruit people.
00:30:00.000I feel like the situation in Gaza is done.
00:31:00.000Eugene McCarthy ran for president, and he really wanted to end the war in Vietnam.
00:31:06.000And all the hippies cut their hair and shaved their beards and said, let's get clean for Gene and go out there and show these people that we're not anti-Americans, we're pro-Americans, but we're pro-peace here.
00:31:18.000And yes, no, communists burn everything they touch, you know, and it makes the perfect foil for the war party that look who's on the side of peace, an assassin.
00:32:28.000It would be like if some black gangsters in South Chicago went to North Chicago and committed some crimes, and we built a wall around South Chicago and just started bombing the ghetto and killed 50,000 people, bombing them with airstrikes over what was essentially a massive crime, a terrible crime.
00:32:50.000Or even, on the margin, I mean, obviously a terrorist attack, too.
00:32:54.000That wasn't the marginal part, I was going to say.
00:33:31.000It was already like over, what, 800 civilians?
00:33:35.000And I don't know the exact number, but it was hundreds of civilians along with, well, but there were soldiers too.
00:33:41.000But I'm just saying some combatants, but which combatants...
00:33:44.000Under the rules are fair game, but noncombatants are not.
00:33:48.000I'm just saying, as horrible as it already was, why did they tell their own people, your mom wasn't just killed, she was raped to death all day.
00:33:59.000They did it so they could justify actually cutting kids' heads off.
00:34:03.000They have been the ones killing babies.
00:34:05.000They have just short of 900 named babies, short of their first birthday, who have died in Gaza over the last year and a half, being killed.
00:34:33.000He cites Israeli media for most of it.
00:34:37.000Okay, well, one of the things that really set me off about it was he was...
00:34:41.000When he was talking about the people at the raves, at the rave that was attacked, he was like, oh, you know, and he brought up, he's like, you know, these kids were on drugs and blah blah.
00:34:49.000And I'm like, I mean, look, you know, I'm in a band and I remember what it was like hearing stories about the Bataclan and, you know, the terror attack in France.
00:34:59.000And, you know, I knew people that knew, I didn't know anyone that was actually at the Bataclan, but I knew people that knew people.
00:35:20.000And look, I mean, I interviewed him back and he moved to Israel and lived there for 10 months to write his book, Goliath, back years ago.
00:35:28.000And, you know, he's heavily invested in this.
00:35:30.000He went during the 2014, like just at the very tail end of the 2014 campaign, he and Dan Cohen went in there, went to Gaza, and they did this incredible documentary.
00:35:41.000It's called Killing Gaza, and everybody can watch it for free online.
00:35:50.000And, you know, you can call it selective editing or whatever, but, like, here's two nice Jewish boys parading around the Gaza Strip, putting their microphone in all these people's faces.
00:36:31.000There's so much propaganda trying to make us hate the Palestinian people, but Hamas is not the Palestinian people.
00:36:36.000And as I guess you know, the Likud foisted Hamas on the Palestinian people in the first place just so they could cynically say, we have no partner for peace.
00:36:45.000You don't expect us to negotiate with terrorists, do you?
00:36:48.000When, of course, They were the ones who put them in power.
00:36:51.000And you can read it in the Wall Street Journal by Andrew Higgins.
00:36:54.000And you can read it in UPI by Richard Sale.
00:36:56.000And you can read it in Robert Dreyfuss' great book, Devil's Game.
00:36:59.000And in Trita Parsi's great book, The Treacherous Alliance.
00:37:02.000I'm familiar with the situation where the Likud party was looking to have—they were sending money to Hamas or whatever, so that way Hamas would stay in power, so they had basically an enemy to fight.
00:37:16.000And they would say, this is how we prevent a Palestinian state.
00:37:20.000We keep the Palestinians divided between Fatah in the West Bank and the religious coup Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and then this is what— This is what Dov Weisklass, who was an advisor to Ariel Sharon, said.
00:37:37.000He says, now that we've withdrawn and Hamas is prominent in Gaza, now we have a no-one-to-talk-to certificate from the U.S. Congress.
00:37:47.000And it says that we have no one to talk to.
00:38:35.000And into the 1990s was when they did that in the first place was to divide and for the purpose of dividing and conquering the Palestinians.
00:38:43.000As far as Netanyahu's policy, I'm not exactly sure when the Qatari money began.
00:39:00.000It's called Netanyahu Support for Hamas Backfired.
00:39:03.000And in there, I have all the sources and hyperlinks for you there for tons of sources and for mostly Israeli press and quoting Likud after Likud after Likud, parliamentarian and propagandist.
00:39:19.000I'm explaining why this is a brilliant Machiavellian strategy to make the Europeans, the Americans, and the Tel Aviv liberals shut up about a Palestinian state.
00:39:31.000Because as long as Hamas rules the Palestinian state, we have a no-one-to-talk-to certificate, and we can say, we have no partner for peace.
00:39:39.000It's always these little cliches, right, that you're supposed to be easy to memorize.
00:39:47.000And that means we get to kill them all instead.
00:39:50.000I think it's a little bit of a stretch to say because they allowed...
00:39:58.000I think it's a stretch because you're really stripping the agency from the Palestinians.
00:40:10.000To think the Palestinians don't support Hamas, I think you're kind of deluding yourself to think that the reason that Hamas is in power is because of the Israelis.
00:40:42.000Did not win a majority in a single district anywhere in Palestine, in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip.
00:40:49.000They won a meager plurality in the parliament in Gaza.
00:40:54.000And then George W. Bush, Elliott Abrams, Ehud Olmert, and still Hosni Mubarak in Egypt all worked together to try to do a coup to overthrow Hamas.
00:41:50.000And it's about how Elliott Abrams, the neoconservative, had this great idea that what we'll do is a coup against Hamas and we'll put Fatah in there.
00:42:54.000The Trump administration has moved to end Harvard's ability to enroll international students, escalating a standoff with America's oldest university.
00:43:01.000Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X that the administration revoked Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law.
00:43:11.000Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country, she wrote on Thursday.
00:43:16.000Harvard called the move unlawful in a statement.
00:43:20.000We are fully committed to maintaining Harvard's ability to host our international students and scholars who hail from more than 140 countries and enrich the university and this nation immeasurably, the university responded.
00:43:31.000We are working quickly to provide guidance and support to members of our community.
00:43:35.000This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country and undermines Harvard's academic and research mission.
00:43:41.000The Trump administration's decision could affect thousands of international students who study at the university.
00:43:47.000Over 6,700 international students Now...
00:44:07.000I'm not 100% sure of the context of this, but I believe it's because of the failure to protect Jewish students.
00:44:20.000I mean, this goes to, in fact, back to our original point about this assassination.
00:44:24.000Trump tweeted out, this assassination was obviously caused by anti-Semitism.
00:44:30.000I mean, would you buy it if anybody said that the reason you hate Trump is you just hate Dutch people?
00:44:36.000This is not what's going on here, that we have a rise in anti-Jewishness around the country.
00:44:43.000People are upset over what's happening.
00:44:46.000To the Palestinians at the hands of Israeli fighter bombers.
00:44:50.000Like I said, I legitimately think that that is, like we were discussing earlier, that's an excuse.
00:44:56.000I think that it's, there's a lot of people that, because, yeah, because they use Gaza as an excuse, but Gaza is only in the past couple years, and this sentiment about...
00:45:06.000You know, this anti-American sentiment, this has been going on since the George Floyd, definitely since the George Floyd riots.
00:45:12.000If what you're saying is leftists need to protest something at all times, and this is something, and so they're protesting it, that's true.
00:45:18.000But that doesn't mean that it's all very disingenuous.
00:45:21.000In fact, look at how many Jewish students are leading these protests and participating in these protests.
00:45:26.000Yeah, but it's the point, like you said, I do think the leftists, it's the leftists that are dissatisfied with their own lives.
00:45:33.000And to be honest with you, I think a lot of it...
00:45:47.000There are plenty of people who are sick and tired of this, including half of Republicans are sick and tired of this and want to ceasefire a year ago.
00:45:53.000They don't go out and protest with signs and chant only with American flags instead.
00:46:02.000Protesting is a thing that young leftists do.
00:46:05.000You know, there was this piece in the New York Times, I guess two days ago now, about how the Heritage Foundation had this huge plan, I guess.
00:46:14.000Well, the New York Times made it coincide with the 2025 thing.
00:46:18.000I don't know if that was part of it or not, but it was, I think, a separate thing at Heritage.
00:46:22.000But the whole thing was a multi-pronged attack on all opposition to Israeli foreign policy in America.
00:46:30.000And the whole idea is just to smear everyone as anti-Semites and Hamas supporters.
00:46:35.000Well, I mean, that's clearly not working.
00:46:37.000I think part of what this is about is whatever degree the national government has, or at least the executive branch has over the universities, they're doing everything they can to get the universities to stop all these protests and intervene.
00:47:49.000And I think that this particular issue, whereas this one, you know, maybe there are people that are going to make an excuse and say that it was about Gaza.
00:48:01.000This is more about Harvard beefing with the administration and beefing with the people that are trying to undo what is basically ingrained in Harvard nowadays, which is the whole DEI leftist perspective.
00:48:15.000And when the administration tries to force them to unravel this stuff, this is the pushback that Harvard is going to go.
00:48:21.000They're going to say, oh, well, you know, look, they're messing with our liberty to do this and blah, blah, blah.
00:48:27.000But I do think that this is more about trying to undo decades.
00:48:35.000I find that hard to believe because there was no impetus in the first Trump administration to defund Harvard or slap them with these new rules because anti-white indoctrination was obviously already prominent in every Ivy League, every school.
00:48:56.000There was zero impetus to implement anything like this before.
00:48:59.000I disagree with the idea that it was obvious, and the reason is because I think that most of your normies didn't know about it until the Black Lives Matter riots.
00:49:07.000Most of your average people, they weren't cognizant of it until it was put right in front of their face with the slogans and the things that were being said during the...
00:49:18.000During 2020 and the Summer of Love, and when people saw that on display like that, then people were like, wait a minute, this is actually going on.
00:49:25.000The explanation that they're giving for this has nothing to do with that.
00:49:30.000The explanation that they're giving for why the kids are not taking the administration?
00:49:36.000From the explanation that you read, there's no mention of DEI or critical theory or...
00:49:44.000Leftist indoctrination in higher education.
00:49:47.000Like Scott was saying, the argument that's being made is, oh, it's anti-Semitism, etc.
00:49:55.000But the ingrained opinions of the schools, this is all about the fight between the administration and Trump.
00:50:04.000The Trump administration, the attempts of the administration to undo what's been done.
00:50:09.000And again, where they're raping and torturing the term anti-Semitism to mean opposition to Israel killing little kids all day with our money, with our planes, our bombs, our diplomatic support, and with future dead Americans from terrorist attacks as the result.
00:50:25.000That's the last refuge of a scoundrel is what it is.
00:50:29.000Listen, I'm on record saying that calling these things, you know, blaming anti-Semitism, We're using anti-Semitism as an excuse to do things like cracking down on what is ostensibly freedom of speech.
00:51:06.000I mean, even this guy that shot those two Israelis last night, he has all kinds of stuff where he's like, death to America, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:51:15.000There was the lady who had just, like, co-authored a letter.
00:51:18.000And they're kicking her out of the country.
00:51:20.000That was all she was saying, is America shouldn't be supporting what Israel is doing.
00:51:23.000I mean, maybe that's all that she was saying.
00:51:25.000And maybe in that specific case, then fine.
00:51:27.000Then I would say, okay, maybe she shouldn't be sent away.
00:51:29.000But if you're on record having anti-American views, if you're a communist and you come to the U.S. Anti-American is a pretty broad term, too, man.
00:51:40.000Because we won't let people into the country that are communists.
00:51:43.000If you're an avowed communist, the United States can say, no, we're not.
00:51:47.000In fact, it's policy to say, no, we're not giving you a green card.
00:51:51.000So if you come to the United States, you don't mention that you're a commie, and then you go ahead and start doing things with DSA or whatever leftist organizations, I think it's perfectly legitimate for the government to say, we're taking away your green card and sending you home.
00:52:05.000Now, I don't think that they should be saying it's because of anti-Semitism, because that brings into question things that...
00:52:12.000Normal Americans don't have any stake in, right?
00:52:17.000You shouldn't be searching for a pretext either, you know, if that's what it's really about is protecting Israel, because that is what is going on here.
00:52:23.000I disagree with that, but I understand what you're saying.
00:52:26.000You're saying the leftists are going to protest no matter what, but what I'm saying is the crackdown is because they're protesting Israel.
00:52:34.000If they're just protesting, you know...
00:52:54.000It should be just because they're anti-American.
00:52:56.000During the Iraq War, foreigners and Jews were the ones most likely to oppose the war.
00:53:06.000You know, the neoconservatives were doing it for Israel.
00:53:08.000Most American Jews were liberals and opposed W. Bush on the thing.
00:53:11.000But most American, like foreign-born American citizens, you know, either naturalized or legal permanent residents or whatever, they opposed the war.
00:53:20.000All the native-born guys were like, yeah, we gotta stop Saddam from giving nukes to Osama, because that's what George Bush said.
00:54:15.000But what are they really dangerous for?
00:54:16.000Are they going to seize control of our agriculture policy and make it worse than it already is?
00:54:20.000Well, I mean, so I think that a lot of the left-leaning stuff, like the LGBT stuff, that's all communist, that's pushed by communists.
00:54:31.000Well, we need total separation of school and state there.
00:54:34.000I'm for abolishing all government subsidization control of any school on any level.
00:54:41.000So, as just the Jewish affairs correspondent, in addition to being the White House correspondent here at TimCast, I wanted to get a tidbit in on anti-Semitism.
00:54:51.000I know not everybody in the chat loves hearing about it, but I think it's an opportune time to talk about it.
00:54:55.000Over the course of my lifetime, attitudes towards Jewish people in this country have become more skewed and more dangerous, frankly.
00:55:04.000When I grew up going to Temple, there weren't security guards there, but now when I go to Temple, there's always multiple security guards.
00:55:11.000That's almost every synagogue across the country because there have been shootings at synagogues and whatnot, and then Jewish kids go to different college campuses and their aggressive chants about euphemisms towards violence towards Jews at these college campuses where they're getting mogged, where they're saying things like, globalize the Antifada, which I believe is a call for violence against Jews, and I believe what we saw last night in Washington, D.C. Was it an anti-Semitic attack?
00:55:33.000And it's what globalizing the so-called Antifada looks like.
00:55:35.000I cover a lot of anti-Israel and what I think are anti-American protests.
00:56:02.000It's because in our country right now, among the far left, Israel is right-wing and white-coated.
00:56:08.000When the far left talks about this issue, they unperson Zionists as being Nazi white supremacists, and therefore doing anything to a so-called Zionist is justified.
00:56:17.000And many people on the far left, they're happy about civilians dying.
00:56:21.000They're proud of it, and they're proud of all of their terrorists.
00:56:23.000They say we won't condemn any of our martyrs, so I don't think we should be confused about...
00:56:27.000You know, what these people's goals are.
00:56:29.000They think all settlers deserve to be killed, frankly.
00:56:32.000And, you know, once they're done calling all the Zionists Nazis, don't worry, they also call the MAGA people Zionists.
00:56:38.000And they will also justify violence against you guys, like...
00:56:41.000Many of the people online in the far left are justifying violence against so-called settlers or so-called Zionists or so-called whatever have you.
00:56:49.000They're unpersoning these people, and eventually it will also go to the MAGA people.
00:56:54.000MAGA people have been called Nazis for some time.
00:56:55.000I'm just very thankful that the Trump administration is more clear-eyed on this than maybe communists or libertarians who tend to work together at many of these marches, because I know we hate...
00:57:05.000I agree with some of what you say there.
00:57:15.000The only legitimate target for violence is somebody who's armed.
00:57:20.000When you're talking about political violence like this, organized groups of armed men, they're all wearing black hats or at least some dark shade of gray.
00:57:29.000The only innocent people are the civilians.
00:57:36.000Almost always stupid, even if you don't have any morality.
00:57:39.000It's almost always completely idiotic for whatever cause that you're supporting.
00:57:43.000Like Israel, killing so many innocent civilians in Gaza right now is what has turned so many people against Israel, and in some cases on the margin, quite unfortunately, against Jews, broadly speaking, which is completely wrong and stupid.
00:58:25.000And look, I've been in an argument recently with people who just say, no, if anyone even is living in Israel, never mind a settler on the West Bank on obviously what is currently trespassing on Palestinian land, but even people living in Israel.
00:58:38.000so-called Israel proper, that it's all illegal trespassing and settlement, and those people are fair game.
00:58:45.000And I got in a big argument about that with some people actually recently because there.
00:58:50.000it's a pretty obvious sliding scale from white to black about who's a legitimate target and who is not a legitimate target.
00:58:58.000In fact, if you look, and this was part of my argument.
00:59:01.000Look at how absolutely idiotic and horrible what Hamas did on October 7th was for their own cause.
00:59:09.000You got a huge cottage industry of people who think that Israel deliberately let it happen just because it served the Palestinians' cause so horribly that they thought that Netanyahu must have let it happen on purpose just so he could get away with doing what he's doing.
00:59:25.000That is how horrible the reaction is from Hamas going outside and killing civilians.
01:00:23.000The FTC has launched a probe of far-left group Media Matters over allegations of advertiser collusion against...
01:00:32.000The FTC has reportedly launched an investigation into the far left advocacy group Media Matters for America over its activism targeted tech billionaire Elon Musk's ex.
01:00:45.000The New York Times reported Wednesday that the FTC had sent a letter to media matters inquiring about whether it had illegally colluded with advertisers in order to harm Musk's social media platform.
01:00:56.000Media matters for America did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
01:01:01.000A spokesperson for the FTC declined to comment.
01:01:05.000In 2023, major advertisers including IBM, Apple, Disney, Lionsgate, and Paramount fled X after Media Matters published a report alleging their ads were appearing alongside anti-Semitic content.
01:01:16.000However, Musk filed a lawsuit against the liberal group alleging it completely misrepresented the real user experience in order to mislead advertisers and manipulated the algorithms that curate users' feeds to get racist, incendiary content to appear next to large advertisers' paid posts.
01:01:37.000If you were a user of X at the time, so this is in 2023, so this is just, say, two and a half years ago or so, I didn't see any kind of advertisements alongside anti-Semitic material.
01:02:29.000And, you know, I don't know exactly how this works, but, you know, I think they probably already had, like, even before he bought it, the algorithms were already set where things that have, like...
01:02:43.000You know, the kind of offensive speech that a bot can recognize, it's going to keep that away from their major advertiser anyway, right?
01:02:51.000Because I can't recall ever seeing, you know, I can recall seeing a lot of mean-spirited things on X, but I can't ever recall seeing them just adjacent to an IBM ad.
01:03:25.000Like getting in my way when I'm trying to really get at the guy.
01:03:29.000And then he turned into this ridiculous Hillary-ite hack of the worst order.
01:03:34.000We've got a piece of media here from Laura Ingram, so let's see what she says.
01:03:38.000All right, joining me now is former Trump acting attorney general Matt Whitaker.
01:03:41.000Matt, you can— You called this lawsuit revolutionary.
01:03:44.000Now, aside from its relative novelty, does it have a chance?
01:03:50.000Yeah, and it does, and it's good to be with you, Laura.
01:03:52.000And here's my analysis as I looked at this complaint.
01:03:54.000First of all, Media Matters just manufactured this evidence.
01:04:00.000They created a way that only their unique account would be served these couple ads, and then they suggested that this is par for the course.
01:04:10.000And we know, based on everyone on the X platform knows, that this is not par for the course.
01:04:16.000But what is so important is that Elon Musk...
01:04:23.000I think that, to me, is the most important thing, because for so long, conservatives have been deplatformed, demonetized, and otherwise assaulted by these left-wing groups and the mainstream media that gives them oxygen.
01:04:42.000And no one has been willing to go to court and actually...
01:04:46.000And so I think this is a big deal for somebody to invest money in the court and in lawyers to actually go after groups like Media Matters.
01:04:55.000Well, you never see Media Matters upset that there are people posting on these social media platforms that call themselves minor-attracted persons, right?
01:05:17.000Without going on that tangent about liberals and their euphemisms, wasn't there a story...
01:05:24.000Wasn't there a story that was kind of adjacent to the Twitter files that was about this consortium of advertisers?
01:05:32.000They kind of had the ads that would be embedded on all different kinds of websites, and then they had this blacklist that was going around of, I think it was people who were good on Russiagay and or good on COVID, were getting blacklisted in this way.
01:05:45.000And I guess, I just wonder whether anybody's suing over that.
01:05:49.000But what about, like, because what it was, was it was like, The blacklist was making it where it was really precluding new people, too.
01:05:58.000Like, if you're not grandfathered in, kind of, they could just exclude everybody from all this web ad revenue.
01:06:06.000They gave a leg up to all the people they wanted to support.
01:06:10.000Yeah, I mean, it was a really weird time.
01:06:11.000There's always been some kind of, you know, collusion between, or at least in the past 10 years, for the majority of it, for the better part of the past 10 years, there was some kind of collusion between the, you know, the estate.
01:06:28.000Or the government and what was being put onto these websites.
01:06:32.000But this particular issue where it's media matters colluding with, well, essentially trying to do what they can to basically produce a scandal to try and harm.
01:07:50.000It wasn't the bridge incident in and of itself because it says this was in February 2017.
01:07:56.000PewDiePie was under fire for posting videos that YouTube deemed anti-Semitic and hate speech, including jokes about Adolf Hitler and other things that I can't say out loud.
01:08:08.000Another example that I cannot say out loud on YouTube.
01:08:11.000And that led to the UK government, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Johnson& Johnson, and many other major brands pulling or pausing their advertisements on YouTube.
01:08:24.000YouTube freaked out, and that's when they started cracking down on all content that was even geared toward an adult audience, let alone violating any community guidelines.
01:08:36.000So you couldn't even make controversial content at that point, which I was watching right-wing or right-leaning or even libertarian YouTubers at the time who were getting their channels completely demonetized.
01:08:49.000And then it affected everyone else as well, like apolitical entertainers.
01:08:53.000Had their ad revenue docked in a major way and it was no longer able to be a source for their livelihood.
01:09:01.000They got a hell of a monopoly with that YouTube.
01:09:44.000The bad mustache man took over the Yahtzee party, and then he went and he did the bad thing to certain individuals of Jewish descent.
01:09:56.000And he just has to jump through these insane...
01:10:00.000And it's like, who's, what algorithm is inventing this new speak that we all have to, oh, the mean mustache man, he unalived many people of the, and it's like, dude, why can't, you can't talk about, you can't be a historian from a professor at a university and talk about Hitler censoring a An anti-war book?
01:10:48.000You know, get a lot of things that aren't necessary to be censored anyways.
01:10:55.000But, you know, 10 years ago, when the apocalypse happened, they were just babies.
01:11:01.000This technology was new, and so, like, they were getting all kinds of erroneous hits and stuff.
01:11:08.000But even still, like, last night, there was a piece of news that came out that I'm not going to get into it, but it was regarding the A Senate hearing about COVID and some of the vaccinations, and we couldn't talk about it because what the actual news was still might be something that would flag us here on YouTube because YouTube still is very finicky about what you're allowed to and not to say.
01:11:38.000And how do you even test it and know what the lines are?
01:11:40.000They never even say what the lines are.
01:11:42.000Right after the Russia-Ukraine war started in 22, It was an email that went out from Google that said, you better watch out.
01:11:52.000We're going to demonetize anyone who says anything that implies that, you know, whatever, the way that they phrased it, that Ukraine in any way had anything to do with why Russia would have invaded them.
01:12:13.000You know, but in this context, I do think that it's worth You know, worth the, at least worth the lawsuit because of, you know, the collusion, well not collusion, but the efforts of Media Matter, because it was totally politically motivated, right?
01:12:27.000Like, Elon Musk bought X Media Matters because they're far leftists.
01:12:33.000They're, you know, they're about as far left as you can get and still be considered mainstream, I think is probably a fair way to say it.
01:12:43.000Without becoming tankies, I'm sure that they have people that work there that are far enough left that are like, well, you know, it's okay.
01:12:51.000The stuff that Luigi Mangione does, considering people like Taylor Lorenz say that, and she's made those kind of remarks.
01:12:57.000And so if Taylor Lorenz makes that remark, I'm sure there are people there that would agree with her.
01:13:02.000But overall, the organization as a whole is probably as far left as you can get without falling into the bin of crazy.
01:13:13.000Their one and only mission being defend the Democratic Party and its power.
01:13:18.000I mean, that's what they're really about.
01:13:57.000Not just because they're losing the ability to control what people are saying, but the ability to build narratives.
01:14:05.000They could use X and people on X to repost and retweet and make one piece of media seem like it had all kinds of reach that organically it didn't.
01:14:41.000So he has brilliant stuff, and it's all about the network swarms online and how they're formed and how they work and how old liberal Twitter swarm used to work and how it's changed under Elon Musk and all kinds of stuff.
01:14:57.000He's got all kinds of insightful stuff.
01:14:58.000His one today is about how the Israelis just can't seem to get their act together when it comes to their messaging.
01:15:05.000They're being absolutely demolished in the battle of public opinion.
01:15:11.000It's mostly because they're in the wrong, but it's also because their arguments suck.
01:15:15.000So and they can't adapt to the new form.
01:15:31.000But I think we're going to move on to, let's see, what do we got?
01:15:36.000This particular, I think this is actually really important.
01:15:40.000We were posting, there's a Reuters report, Trump to sign orders to boost nuclear power as soon as Friday, sources say.
01:15:50.000Reuters reports, U.S. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders as soon as Friday that aim to jumpstart the nuclear energy industry by easing the regulatory process on approvals for new reactors and strengthening fuel supply chains, four sources familiar said.
01:16:05.000Facing the first rise in power demand in two decades from the boom of artificial intelligence, Trump declared an energy emergency on his first day in office.
01:16:14.000Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said that the race to develop power sources and data centers needed for AI's Manhattan Project 2, referring to the massive U.S. program during World War II to develop atomic bombs.
01:16:25.000A draft summary of the order said Trump will invoke the Cold War-era Defense Production Act to declare a national emergency over U.S. dependence on Russia and China for enriched uranium, nuclear fuel processing, and advanced reactor inputs.
01:16:39.000The summary also directs agencies to permit and site new nuclear facilities and directs the Departments of Energy and Defense to identify federal lands and facilities for nuclear deployment and to streamline processes to get them built.
01:17:25.000So they're really taking the power consumption demands of AI very seriously.
01:17:30.000And if you listen to tech bros in Silicon Valley, one of the things that they say is, if we don't get, or that they talk about regularly, if we don't get our ability to produce power up to snuff fast, then there's no way.
01:17:47.000We're going to be able to compete with, not even win, but compete with China because all AI is so power-intensive.
01:17:55.000It takes a lot of juice to run these GPUs.
01:18:23.000But yeah, the amount of energy that AI takes is insane.
01:18:27.000And, like, right now, like, X has got...
01:18:31.000Tesla has all of the information that all your Tesla cars report back to X and give them their telemetry and give them their experiences, so they use that to model AI.
01:18:41.000And you know that the Optimus robot is going to need significant AI in order to train it.
01:18:48.000And if Musk is right, he's talking about 10 million Optimus robots, I think, by 2030 out in the world.
01:19:00.000Now, it takes a lot of compute to train them, but once you train one robot, that's training all of them, because then it's just a download after that.
01:19:12.000He's like, look, all you do is you train a robot like you train kids, basically.
01:19:16.000You put an optimist in a room and you give it toys to play with.
01:19:20.000Like literally like the squares to put through the square hole and the star to put through the star hole.
01:19:25.000And that's how you train it to be able to function in the real world.
01:19:29.000And nowadays, because nowadays the way they train it is they have people put on a suit and a mask that can see and they'll...
01:19:37.000Do, you know, activities, whatever it is.
01:19:40.000That's why you see the Optimus robots that can dance.
01:19:42.000They're pre-programmed to dance like that.
01:19:44.000So there's someone that actually did that dance.
01:19:46.000They motion capture and then they've just transferred that to the Optimus and it can do it.
01:19:51.000But to have an autonomous robot that they can actually sell as basically, you know, a servant inside your house, it has to be able to...
01:20:02.000You know, it has to be able to manage your house, not just the house that they saw, but it has to be able to manage a house that it's never been in.
01:20:09.000Get into the house, learn the house, and go up and down the stairs, or whatever.
01:20:38.000Because I'd be the first to bet that...
01:20:40.000Probably 80% of them are stupid and redundant and irrelevant and hamstring proper efforts.
01:20:48.000On the other hand, if they're going to get rid of them, I guess I'd be willing to bet 80% that they would get rid of the wrong ones, the ones that actually keep Mr. Burns from irradiating us all.
01:20:59.000That means you just have to get rid of all of them.
01:21:06.000You know, assuming the checks and balances are there to, you know, keep everything inspected and safe, then I say go for it.
01:21:13.000We were talking about a little bit before we went on about how, I don't know a lot about this, but I've heard tell over the years from different sources and read a little bit here and there about how at least claims that for all the nuclear waste in the country right now.
01:21:26.000It could all be refined further and further and further in various steps to the point where it's completely inert and harmless.
01:21:33.000We get all that energy out of it and we're left with no dangerous waste at all.
01:21:37.000And the first time I heard about this and the second time I heard about this, they both said the same thing.
01:21:42.000Jimmy Carter ruined it because he signed all these executive orders saying you're not allowed to transport the stuff around.
01:21:47.000But there's only one or two facilities that can handle this process.
01:21:51.000But you're not allowed to move anything from here to there.
01:21:55.000But, of course, you could just build more of those reactors.
01:21:57.000I'm sure there's more regulations preventing those kinds of reactors from being built, too.
01:22:01.000There haven't been a new reactor building.
01:24:53.000I'm seeing a bunch of fake Theo Vaughn I did an AI version of my voice because I thought I would try to cheat and do the audiobook of this without trying.
01:25:53.000I think this is what it all comes down to, right?
01:25:58.000It's only like, to me, almost a magical belief that at some point these algorithms will be sophisticated enough that it's essentially mimics or is even smarter than humans.
01:26:08.000I mean, man, the acceleration is crazy.
01:27:49.000Yeah, like, if I didn't know, if I went on the hunt for AI, and you were just showing me a video of some people talking, I don't know.
01:27:57.000But yeah, I mean, that's enough to get me right there, I think.
01:27:59.000Bro, I think that's, like, I feel like that's generational, because it doesn't get me at all.
01:28:02.000I agree, and that's why you gotta watch out for these Facebook scams, where they're, like, really obvious AI-generated images being used to scam a bunch of grandparents out of their money, showing, like...
01:28:15.000Injured children or people with disabilities or like veterans, random heart, like just things that tug at old people's heartstrings and then, you know, they end up in some kind of, they get funneled into a conversation with like an Indian scammer or whatever.
01:28:31.000It ends up, you know, wire transferring all their money.
01:31:12.000I've learned recently, actually, that it's literally metal bars.
01:31:16.000That are, you know, encased in concrete and there's never been, encased in concrete and then encased in a steel, you know, cylinder.
01:31:24.000There's never been one of those steel cylinders that broke ever.
01:31:28.000There was a truck transporting them one time and they got into an accident and they got knocked off the truck and they were perfectly fine and intact because it's literally just a steel cylinder.
01:31:40.000And even if it broke open, it's not like it spills out everywhere.
01:31:44.000It's like, yes, there's radiation and you don't want to go near them, but you could literally have a truck pick it up and put it into a container and it's not the way that most people kind of intuit that it is.
01:32:00.000This kind of, the kind of fear of nuclear power and nuclear stuff.
01:32:13.000Alright, we're going to hit one more story, which is an absolute horrible way to end the show.
01:32:21.000Especially because someone I knew happened to pass away.
01:32:28.000Yeah, the AP is reporting a music talent agency says three employees died on a plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood.
01:32:36.000The music agency Sound Talent Group said Thursday that three of its employees, including co-founder Dave Shapiro, died on the private plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood.
01:32:46.000Shapiro is listed as the owner of the plane and has a pilot's license, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
01:32:52.000Shapiro also owned a flight school called Velocity Aviation and a record label, Velocity Records, according to his LinkedIn page.
01:32:58.000The agency didn't share the names of the other two employees who died.
01:33:01.000We're devastated by the loss of our co-founder, colleagues, and friends.
01:33:05.000Our hearts go out to their families and everyone impacted by today's tragedy, the agency said in a statement.
01:33:10.000A sound talent group has represented artists including Hanson, Sum 41, and Vanessa Carlton.
01:33:14.000San Diego authorities said two people had died.
01:33:18.000The total number of fatalities is unknown, but six people were on board the plane, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
01:33:23.000The private jet crashed early Thursday into a neighborhood of U.S. Navy-owned housing in San Diego during foggy weather, igniting at least one home and numerous vehicles parked on the street.
01:33:32.000The plane clipped power lines before slamming into the house, said Elliott Simpson with the National Transportation Safety Board.
01:33:39.000And the person that passed away that I knew was the drummer of The Devil Wears Prada.
01:33:46.000All That Remains toured with these guys and have done a bunch of shows with them.
01:33:50.000He wasn't currently in the band, but he was in the band when we toured with him.
01:34:01.000We weren't going to each other's houses on holidays and stuff, but I knew him.
01:34:08.000It's always, you know, a weird kind of thing when it's like, oh, someone that I knew has not only passed away, but they're in the news, you know?
01:34:20.000So the Daily Mail says, a famous drummer has died in a private jet crash that killed at least two people hours after he shared a photo of himself at the controls.
01:34:29.000Dan Williams, formerly of hugely popular Christian metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada, filmed himself boarding the Cessna 550 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey late Wednesday night.
01:34:39.000The drummer, 39, also shared pictures of him at the controls of the small aircraft and said he was the co-pilot now.
01:34:45.000An eerie final post showed him at the plane's control with the caption, here we go.
01:34:50.000The plane tail number of N666DS took off from the Teterboro Airport on Wednesday at 11.15, tracking data reveals.
01:34:57.000It stopped for fuel in Wichita, Kansas, before continuing on to California, where the Cessna ultimately crashed in a quiet military neighborhood in San Diego, close to its intended final destination of Montgomery Gibbs Executive Airport.
01:35:13.000You know, there's been a lot of people that are talking about...
01:35:18.000The frequency of air accidents, and I still don't think that there's actually a significant uptick in air accidents, especially when you're dealing with small Cessnas and stuff like that, or small planes like private jets like this one.
01:35:36.000They have a fairly bad safety record, at least when you compare them to...
01:35:45.000You know, the large carriers, because the large carriers have, you know, they have all the incentive in the world to not crash, whereas if you're a private jet, especially one that it sounds like Shapiro, I think, is his name Shapiro?
01:35:59.000Yeah, Shapiro owned the jet, and it sounded like he was the pilot, too, especially if Dan was in the co-pilot seat, you know, he was probably hanging with his friend.
01:36:09.000But yeah, you know, if it's a recreational pilot or someone that can pilot but they don't pilot the way that the large carriers do, you know, you're definitely more prone to accidents.
01:36:21.000I got to watching this guy Pilot Debrief on YouTube.
01:36:26.000He's a former F-15 pilot and also private pilot.
01:36:30.000And whenever there's an accident, he goes through and he always talks about like...
01:36:34.000The way he always puts it is the holes in the Swiss cheese line up, and once you have three errors in a row, dead.
01:36:44.000And then you just have, and he goes through and he shows, it's almost always this careless mistake.
01:36:48.000Sometimes, you know, it's a mechanical problem, but it could have been handled if you had followed the checklist or whatever, you know what I mean?
01:37:25.000Well, I mean, we played a bunch of shows with them throughout the years, but we did a tour with them in like 2010, and so that was when we met and stuff.
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01:39:15.000And get this, for anyone out there who leans left anymore, I don't know how anyone could, but if anyone does out there, not one Democrat supported it.
01:39:41.000And the move is to get the state legislatures to pass laws and the governors to sign laws, making it illegal for the governor to give his soldiers over to the president to use for combat in a foreign operation without an official declaration of war by the Congress, like it says in the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11, and which of course has been a real problem that we haven't declared war since against Romania in 1942.
01:40:10.000So, and it's conservatives and libertarians and American combat veterans from the terror wars who are behind this effort and are pushing it through.
01:40:19.000And they did have the House in Arizona all lined up, but the leadership of the House in Arizona is now botching it and falling apart.
01:40:40.000And then what happens is, once you go there, you sign up, and then Diego Rivera, who's a ranger from Iraq War II, great guy.
01:40:49.000He will contact you, train you up, teach you how to do it, and it really works.
01:40:53.000I mean, forget the U.S. Congress in Washington, but your state legislature, if they get a bunch of calls from veterans talking about, you better support veterans by supporting this bill, they will support it.
01:41:07.000We haven't gotten it signed yet, but we've got it through many state house and state senate committees, and we've got it through full state houses and full state senates numerous times over the last few years.
01:41:33.000Can I get one word on the one big beautiful bill?
01:41:36.000Trump supporters should be very excited about this bill because it's one big beautiful bill and we won't need to wait for a ton of different bills to pass the House.
01:41:44.000And the MAGA agenda is finally getting through and we should be excited about it.
01:43:55.000And, you know, the fiscal conservatives are like, hey, this doesn't cut the government.
01:44:01.000And whether or not you believe, whether or not you agree with the agenda that Donald Trump has or not, the fact of the matter is, just yesterday, the bond market responded to the passing of the bill because...
01:44:13.000Essentially what the bond market is saying is, like, we don't believe that the government is going to get this spending under control.
01:44:20.000Because when you have Republicans in control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, and they don't make cuts...
01:44:28.000Whether or not you like this, this is true.
01:44:33.000Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good when you get to the house and actually have to govern.
01:44:38.000I'm telling the facts of what happened.
01:45:14.000I think there might be a tax cut that is in this, but they haven't made any significant cuts, and there haven't been any of the doge cuts are not in the bill to make them permanent, which is necessary.
01:45:29.000Well, it wasn't pointless, but they are not taking this opportunity.
01:45:34.000Wasn't there an idea floated to make cuts in order for them to only need a simple majority?
01:45:40.000Well, this is a spending bill, and that's why they only need a simple majority.
01:45:46.000So in the Senate, they only need a simple majority because it's a spending bill.
01:45:50.000Most of the time they need 60 votes, which is part of the reason why very rarely do bills get passed, because this is what they call reconciliation.
01:45:57.000So you have to have a simple majority and all the only things that can be in this bill are things that are related to funding.
01:46:03.000So there's when I talk about the the Hearing Protection Act that only gets in there because of the fact that there's a tax attached to.
01:46:15.000If there wasn't a tax, if it was just, oh, you're not allowed to have these, you have to register them, they wouldn't be able to put it in because it has nothing to do with the budget.
01:48:23.000It's something that the libertarians have been talking about for decades now.
01:48:26.000Ron Paul was talking about it in 2008, screaming at the top of his lungs when the first housing crisis, he was like, we can't just print this money.
01:48:36.000And then we went on to not only do the tarp, but then we spent a decade, almost a full decade.
01:48:45.000At 0% interest rates, it was $0 to borrow money for banks.
01:48:51.000And so rich people were taking out loans, taking those loans, and throwing...
01:51:54.000Jonathan Foreman says, I wonder if Jimmy John's is going to get their PR department to ask them never allow their guests to drink from their cups again.
01:52:54.000I mean, I think the question is whether the ISI made them do it, right?
01:52:57.000Or whether it was like some freelance bin Ladenites?
01:53:01.000But yes, I mean, look, there's a great book called Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss, where he explains how it was really the British policy to support Islamists against the nationalists and the socialists in the post-World War II era.
01:53:15.000And then America picked it up from them.
01:53:17.000And so America has built these Islamist networks all across the Middle East.
01:53:22.000Now, whether, you know, if it was Lashkar Utaiba that did that, whether they were...
01:53:27.000Originally created in cooperation with the CIA, I guess is doubtful.
01:53:31.000I think they probably were just created by Pakistani intelligence.
01:53:33.000And the fight over Kashmir, no, is not driven by America.
01:53:37.000In fact, my understanding is that Donald Trump intervened and helped to negotiate a peace there, which is what I would like to see America do, is leave the world hell alone and yet be willing to pick up the phone, be willing to host peace conferences, be willing to help resolve some of these frozen conflicts, as they call them around the world, and see what kind of compromises can be made.
01:53:57.000It's a really intractable kind of conflict where you have essentially a Muslim population ruled by a Hindu princeling, supported by New Delhi, and the local people there just want independence for themselves, don't really want to be a Muslim population.
01:54:32.000The K is for Kashmir, which they don't have, which is the funniest part.
01:54:35.000And ends with Baluchistan, you know, which is there closer to Iran.
01:54:39.000So, like, yeah, there's nothing natural about the creation of that state.
01:54:43.000It was the British Empire that drew the lines.
01:54:45.000Yeah, the whole, all of Pakistan, like, the whole Pakistan, and I'm not, I don't think this is the same for India, but the whole of Pakistan and Afghanistan and, like...
01:54:54.000Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, they're all conglomerates of tribal people, far more than they are actual countries.
01:55:01.000Well, and when it's the British that come through, they like to either divide and conquer, like they do with the Pashtuns, the Duran line on the Afghan-Pakistani border.
01:55:10.000That was drawn there by the British in order to divide the Pashtun tribes, which seems to have worked fantastically.
01:55:16.000Or in other places, the group opposing ethnicities together in a new nation to keep them divided and conquered.
01:55:23.000So, yes, and this is the curse of the old world, right?
01:55:27.000Is that everybody wants their nation-state to reflect their ethnic borders, but they don't.
01:55:31.000And so then, do we have to fight about it, or can we find compromises, you know?
01:56:24.000They literally do, because leftists don't like the idea of people having dissenting views.
01:56:29.000And you see that the way that they do the whole cancel culture was for all the teams and stuff.
01:56:36.000let's see Bueno Malio says mechanical engineer here used to work for a for co-generation power plant power plants are giant inverse motors nuclear energy is magic rock heats So I guess he's saying that he doesn't know of any kind of technology where you can just transfer nuclear material into electricity.
01:57:01.000Matthew Perry says, I don't care anymore.
01:57:05.000I think there's a lot of Americans that kind of have that opinion.
01:57:09.000Can I just say real quick, I don't care about the rest of the world at all.
01:57:16.000The fact of the matter is, our government's relationship with the rest of the world is the primary factor determining...
01:57:24.000Our government's relationship with us.
01:57:26.000If we didn't have a world empire, we wouldn't really need Washington, D.C., hardly at all.
01:57:30.000We could get rid of all of this and have much more localized governments and much more freedom.
01:57:36.000And look, in fact, our grandparents all moved here in order to be free and leave the old world and its problems behind.
01:57:42.000The problem is our government is the world empire.
01:57:46.000The middle part of North America is the dominant force in the Middle East, in Eastern Europe, in Eastern Asia.
01:57:51.000And so they make all this stuff our business.
01:57:53.000And we can't have our limited republic we want here until we abandon our world empire there.
01:57:58.000Like, on principle, I agree with you, but I think the biggest problem with that is the fact that there aren't enough people that are libertarians.
01:58:05.000Like, the argument, like, you know, the bumper sticker, the libertarians viciously plotting to take over the country and leave you alone, right?
01:58:42.000They realize that it's actually like...
01:58:44.000Hyper-individualism, it's not how our society actually functions, and we're a product of our environment and societies and neighborhoods that we grow up in.
01:58:54.000That's not contradictory to libertarianism at all.
01:58:57.000I think it goes a bit deeper than that.
01:58:59.000I mean, the fact is that more and more, for example, right-wingers all agree that Ron Paul was right.
01:59:13.000Forget the Cold War and the post-World War II era.
01:59:15.000But at least since the end of the Cold War...
01:59:18.000Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul and Ted Carpenter and everybody who said, we should come home from Europe, we should come home from Asia, leave the world the hell alone.
02:00:43.000How Washington started the new Cold War with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine.
02:00:48.000And it's really, it's about Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, Trump, although it wasn't really his fault in his first term, and of course Joe Biden and how they ruined everything.
02:04:21.000A hidden city built 5,000 years ago by a lost advanced civilization has been discovered underneath a vast desert, or so thedailymail.com says.
02:04:31.000For centuries, the Rib al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai, known as the Empty Quarter, was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand.
02:04:39.000But now it's revealing an astonishing secret.
02:04:42.000in 2002 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum ruler of Dubai spotted unusual doom formations and a large black deposit while flying over the desert that led to the discovery of Sirach al-Hadid an archaeological site rich in remains of copper and iron smelting which is now believed to be part of a 5,000 year old civilization Is that Ozymandias' kingdom there?