Kamala Harris and Bill Whitaker's interview on 60 Minutes has the markets flipping on a dime. Hurricane Milton has strengthened back to a Category 5 storm heading toward Florida and is now a Category 4 storm. President Trump's approval rating is at an all-time low.
00:00:58.000Now, I'm not going to tell anybody how to live their lives.
00:01:00.000Just I'm going to say, please heed the advice of the emergency professionals and the first responders, law enforcement, everybody's trying to manage this and make sure you guys live properly.
00:01:09.000Because for our friends who are down there, I mean, a three-day vacation down over at TimCast Studios sounds like a good deal.
00:01:16.000And then, you know, hopefully we'll get through this.
00:01:20.000They're saying there's a 20% chance that another hurricane is forming and could actually slam into Florida.
00:01:25.000So this is the big story, of course, that I hope we're all paying attention to.
00:01:28.000I hope you guys are prepared. But of course, my friends, the fun political news is the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, where she gave wishy-washy answers.
00:01:37.000Bill Whitaker actually did a really great job.
00:01:40.000He pressed her. There was one point where he says, do you regret undoing Trump's policies?
00:01:45.000The border crossings have gotten worse.
00:01:47.000And she's like, no, we're proposing solutions.
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00:05:34.000What do you do? I am a federal criminal defense lawyer based out of Brooklyn, New York, and I mainly do defend people accused of computer crimes.
00:05:42.000And I do some white-collar stuff, and I've basically been dealing with DOJ for the last decade.
00:05:49.000I imagine you don't have a favorable opinion.
00:05:52.000My opinion has changed over the last decade or so.
00:05:56.000Yeah. Yeah. You were – I mean you're like the hacker lawyer.
00:05:59.000That was like your beat back in the day.
00:06:01.000I mean – Yep. No, that's fair to say.
00:06:04.000That's fair to say. I mean that was my first exposure to DOJ and the FBI and – I'll just be honest.
00:06:11.000I think they've just gotten out of hand in this country, and I think there's this sort of cult of the prosecutor that seems to be particularly strong on the left right now.
00:06:21.000I mean, they're running a prosecutor for president.
00:06:24.000I just think it's just gotten out of hand.
00:06:28.000But where do you find yourself politically?
00:06:30.000You're not like a right-wing guy or anything.
00:06:31.000I'm all over the place. I guess if I identified as anything, I'd identify as maybe libertarian, but I've got views on the right, I've got views on the left.
00:06:39.000That's one of the things I'm struggling with right now in this country, is this polarization and everybody seems to be like, we have to be this side, we have to be that side.
00:07:20.000So we'll just start with the story we got from Fox News, because these reports on the 60 Minutes interview from Harris are all over the place.
00:07:27.000I'm not seeing very many positive ones.
00:07:30.000We'll just say Fox News has criticism.
00:07:33.00060 Minutes asks Harris whether it was a mistake for Biden admin to go soft on the border.
00:07:41.000And instead of giving any compliments to Kamala Harris, Daily Beast just says Trump gets unhinged, even for him, over Kamala Harris' 60 Minutes interview.
00:07:50.000You may be asking yourselves, Tim, how do we know what the truth is?
00:07:54.000If the liberal side is saying that Kamala did just fine and Trump is unhinged, and the conservative side is saying, no, no, Kamala, it was miserably bad, it was awful, well, how do we know it's true?
00:08:05.000You gotta ask Vegas, because if you take a look at the betting odds, you can see it playing in the day.
00:08:10.000Donald Trump is enjoying a three-point lead over Harris, and it is specifically after the CBS interview drops that the betting odds for Trump shot straight up.
00:08:21.000Trump didn't say anything! This is the important factor.
00:08:24.000If we pull up Polly Market specifically, you can see that just following this, literally,
00:08:29.000it's basically right around the time the CBS interview clips are beginning to drop,
00:08:35.000they're going viral, we just see Donald Trump's odds jump straight up.
00:08:40.000Now, we can see that Trump's odds were improving. We were getting word that Kamala was going to be
00:08:44.000doing this interview. Clips had been emerging. But it really looks like, in aggregate, Kamala
00:08:49.000sank. You know, she just did The View. She did Howard Stern.
00:09:21.000She's apparently about to do late night shows and all kinds of things.
00:09:25.000And her poll numbers are going down, which probably means that every one of her advisors
00:09:29.000that was like, we cannot let this woman speak to the public, knew what they were talking
00:09:34.000I think my favorite part was when Bill Whitaker, the reporter for the journalist for CBS, asks her about the people don't know who you are.
00:09:43.000You know, you're running, but they still don't know who you are.
00:09:46.000And then she has the gall to say that, you know, I'm honored to have earned the support of the delegates.
00:09:51.000You can't just expect to be made the candidate or the nominee or whatever.
00:09:56.000And it's just that's literally what happened.
00:09:59.000But hey, look, we can complain all day and night.
00:10:02.000Trump's improving. There's a lot of news.
00:10:04.000We got a story, Wall Street Journal talking about the internal polling in Michigan has Democrats panicking.
00:10:08.000This is the second time we've heard this because she is losing white collar workers.
00:10:13.000Kamala Harris, I think, now is struggling from a honeymoon, a post-honeymoon phase.
00:10:18.000So everything was really jolly after the convention.
00:10:20.000And going to the convention, she got the whole Democrat Party behind her.
00:10:24.000But as more questions are being brought up, she's going to struggle to maintain that coalition.
00:10:29.000One of the really good questions in a clip I saw from Bill Whitaker was asking about how she's changed her position specifically on immigration.
00:10:36.000She's changed her position on Medicare for All.
00:10:38.000She supported that in the past and now doesn't.
00:10:41.000And the more that her actual positions are exposed, the more difficult for her to be able to maintain this coalition that she's building.
00:10:50.000And it's only going to slowly go downhill from here.
00:10:53.000I think the Kamala Harris campaign is just hoping that before the election she maintains above 50%.
00:12:07.000Like, I still don't know who she is, right?
00:12:09.000Like, I don't like she had all these interviews.
00:12:11.000Like, well, what are her substantive positions on anything?
00:12:14.000I don't know. And she seems to blow with the wind.
00:12:16.000Right. And how does she respond to voters who are saying, we don't know who you are?
00:12:20.000And her response is, yes, I have to earn votes.
00:12:22.000OK, but we're not that far out and you're not really explaining who you are.
00:12:26.000Like you have an opportunity to say, oh, well, obviously, you know, I have to do more to sort of explain to people why I think I'm the champion for this, that and the other.
00:12:34.000Instead, she's sort of like, here are a lot of platitudes and empty answers and I won't address their concerns that they don't know me well enough, you know, less than 30 days before the election.
00:12:43.000Yeah. Why she's refusing to answer the question, who am I, what are my positions on things, is because people will attack her for it.
00:12:49.000If she's running on, I'm a second term of Joe Biden, then she'll be attacked as too pro-Israel and not progressive enough.
00:12:56.000If she comes out with a very anti-Israel position or extremely pro-Medicaid for all, it's going to ruin the coalition that the Democrats have built.
00:13:05.000It's untenable. And they're hoping that they could just...
00:13:09.000Hold it together with tape for another month or so until it all really falls apart.
00:13:13.000And then they're going to let all the cracks show because once Kamala Harris, not once, if, God forbid, Kamala Harris was elected, then we will see the coalition, I think, splinter fairly quickly.
00:13:23.000Well, we've got another clip because we're just going to, I'm sorry for all the viewers at home who are going, please, Tim, no more clips of Kamala.
00:13:29.000No, you got to listen because you have to learn.
00:13:30.000Let me tell you what your critics and the columnists say.
00:13:34.000Okay. They say that the reason so many voters don't know you is that you have changed your position on so many things.
00:14:16.000We are a diverse people, geographically, regionally, in terms of where we are and our backgrounds.
00:14:23.000And what the American people do want is that we have leaders who can build consensus, where we can figure out compromise and understand it's not a bad thing, as long as you don't compromise your values.
00:16:11.000I think the real reason why she's changed her positions on this is because in the past she was running in a primary from the left against Joe Biden, so she had more of the further leftist positions.
00:16:23.000And otherwise in California, she was running as a senator, again in California, one of
00:19:28.000Trump needed to say this at the debate.
00:19:29.000He shouldn't have said she wants to give sex change surgery to illegal immigrants.
00:19:34.000He should have said CNN reported this, and I thought it was insane.
00:19:38.000It can't be true. Kamala, is this true?
00:19:40.000And then let her respond. Let her say yes or no.
00:19:42.000And then if she says it's not true at all, he could have just said, CNN, wow, CNN said this.
00:19:48.000And now you can deal with defamation or whatever you want to deal with.
00:19:50.000But here's what you have to—okay, you want to vote for Kamala Harris?
00:19:54.000CNN says she will use federal funding for gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants.
00:19:59.000One of the interesting realities of the fact that her campaign basically had no interviews—I mean, it was like she and Tim Walz did something like 25 during the same period Trump and Vance had done over 60—is that she will now—no one will be able to say after this that she hasn't sat for any interviews, right? I mean— It's almost brilliant except for the fact that if the objective is to win over undecided voters who repeatedly consistently for weeks have said we do not know enough about her,
00:21:33.000But for her, she has gotten out of that by, like, smile and nodding.
00:21:37.000Like, as the leader of the country, you have to build coalitions.
00:21:41.000Like, she is looking for that affirmation from whoever she's talking to, but she's also not doing the verbal tick of ending in a question.
00:21:48.000Also, on these interviews, on the 60 Minutes interview in particular, I do think we need to give credit where it is due to Brian Whitaker, was it, who was conducting this interview for 60 Minutes?
00:21:59.000Because most other journalists on the left, whether it be from Politico, MSNBC, or CNN, who either had this opportunity or in the press pool around Kamala Harris, do not take their opportunities to ask Kamala Harris half-decent questions at all.
00:22:16.000Brian Whitaker for actually taking the opportunity when presented it.
00:22:20.000And in case it wasn't obvious, the reason why a lot of these people don't do it is because although they might have some beef with Kamala Harris, not being as openly progressive as they may want her to be, they believe the ends justify the means.
00:22:33.000And that means that they will not critically cover Kamala Harris because that will mean beating Donald Trump.
00:22:38.000And that is the only thing that matters to them.
00:22:40.000So Regardless of how bad Kamala Harris may be, whether or not she's talking about Medicaid for all right now, whether or not she's talking about fracking right now, all of that is forgiven because the ends justify the means in her needing to win this election.
00:22:53.000Otherwise, what? They believe we get who knows what because the first round wasn't too bad.
00:22:58.000So what do we actually get with a Kamala Harris victory?
00:23:02.000I don't think any of us reasonably know other than what we already have over the past three
00:23:23.000Yes or no? Fourth term of Barack Obama is what I consider.
00:23:28.000And I think the Democrats have been consistent with their top of the ticket.
00:23:32.000I think you're going to get consistent product.
00:23:34.000It's going to be Obama. It's going to be Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is just next in line.
00:23:38.000I think she'll be the same as Biden with a slight drift to the left because of who she is likely to hire and be staffed by.
00:23:47.000And I think that is something that the voter doesn't always take into account.
00:23:51.000You know, again, going back to the undecideds, if the impression is all we know about her is that she's Biden's VP, the conclusion that this would just be more of the same is totally reasonable unless she is willing to come out hard and attack Joe Biden and be like, Look, I was in his administration, but he did not do these things well, and she's not willing to do that.
00:24:12.000She's like, well, I'm clearly not Joe Biden.
00:24:14.000But anyways, here are the things that we did, and I was the last one in the room for these big decisions.
00:24:19.000I mean, she wants the glory of having the experience of having been in the White House without having to take accountability for the challenges that Americans are currently facing.
00:24:29.000And I just don't think that she has effectively messaged her way out of being another Joe Biden.
00:24:35.000And the voters clearly did not want another Joe Biden.
00:24:38.000It's funny because she doesn't tout that I was the last person in the room on all the major decisions point anymore at any of her rallies.
00:24:43.000I know. Weirdly, she dropped that one.
00:24:44.000Yeah, that just fell out of the picture very quickly.
00:24:47.000As soon as they dropped Joe Biden like a hot potato.
00:24:52.000I can't name a single one of her core principles.
00:24:55.000And that, like, concerns me if she's going to be president of the United States.
00:24:59.000What concerns me with all this sort of, like, you're not getting any information on anything really substantive, she seems to be blowing with the wind, is that she's maybe going to get in there, and she's going to get just sort of pushed around, or you're going to just get more of, you know, the same establishment kind of stuff from the national security state and the administrative state.
00:25:18.000So, yeah, I just, I have a concern, like, yeah, I have no idea who she is.
00:25:23.000What are her principles? I think that's one of the challenges, having not been a very established federal-level politician before this, right?
00:25:31.000She was only in the Senate for, what, one term?
00:25:33.000It wasn't that long before she decided to run for president and then eventually became VP. And she doesn't really talk about her time as a prosecutor.
00:25:43.000She talks about that she was a prosecutor and that Trump's a felon.
00:25:46.000But I mean, I know a lot of people who, you know, I mean, Tulsi Gabbard was famously the one who during the Democratic primary pushed back and said, hey, these are the things you did as a prosecutor that were abhorrent and they are not in alignment with their values.
00:26:00.000That disturbs me, the fact that she's a prosecutor and her mindset seems to be that the solution to society's problems can be solved through criminal law.
00:26:11.000And when she was, I think, a DA in California, one of the things that she did as a parent, like, I found abhorrent, and she doesn't have kids, but one of the things she did is she criminalized truancy such that the parents...
00:26:27.000We're criminally liable for their kids being truant.
00:26:31.000And I know, whatever, we're not supposed to, like, say, oh, people who haven't had kids, you know, shouldn't wait on kids.
00:26:37.000But as a parent, I don't know any parent that would criminalize their kids showing up late to school.
00:26:45.000Like that's coming from somebody who just doesn't understand kids.
00:26:49.000And I do think it makes a difference if you have had kids or haven't had kids because anybody who's a parent gets
00:26:55.000really annoyed with people who've never had kids stepping in and telling you how to raise their kids because you just
00:27:09.000And if she's so proud of her time as a prosecutor, why isn't she saying?
00:27:11.000And if I'm president nationally, parents whose kids are truant, like she stands by her policies and her records that she
00:27:17.000implemented when she had the most influence over a single government, a.k.a. when she was a prosecutor in California.
00:27:23.000Why not? Why not talk about this all the time?
00:27:26.000Tim Walsh did one debate with J.D. Vance reference his time in Minnesota constantly.
00:27:30.000I mean, she doesn't really even point to anything.
00:27:33.000She could skip the Biden administration and point to California, except she's not proud of what she did in California or in the Senate, in my opinion.
00:27:40.000I do think it's funny that we know exactly what Trump wants to do because he just yells it all the time.
00:27:45.000Kamala Harris doesn't tell us at all what she wants to do.
00:28:29.000I'm concerned about the border and the economy and hurricanes and war.
00:28:33.000I'd like to solve these problems and maybe then once we've solved all the problems we can relax and order some wings or something.
00:28:39.000Right. And if we weren't being bombarded by extreme weather, a Vibes campaign might have hung on a little bit longer through October.
00:28:47.000I mean, I really think they wouldn't have put her on this media blitz if they could have avoided it because inevitably they know she does not interview that well.
00:28:56.000If she was so charismatic, they would have had her front and center on everything all the time from day one.
00:29:02.000So we have this. We'll jump to the story from the LA Times.
00:29:05.000CBS News says Trump is dropping out of 60 Minutes Interview after accepting invitation.
00:29:11.000Former President Trump is pulling out a planned interview with 60 Minutes.
00:29:14.000They plan to devote a full-hour special on Monday to interviews with both Trump and his opponent, Kamala Harris, but the network's news division announced Tuesday that Trump is no longer willing to participate.
00:29:23.000After accepting 60 Minutes' request to be interviewed by Scott Pelley, a campaign spokesperson notified 60 Minutes today the former president would not sit for an interview with the broadcast.
00:29:31.000CBS News said the invitation to Trump still stands.
00:29:35.000Harris is scheduled to sit for an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker, of course.
00:29:38.000We already saw this. This is from last week or so.
00:29:41.000I wonder why. So Stephen Chung says, I bet the Trump camp is rather happy to have not done an interview and are more than willing to sit back and just let Kamala Harris stew.
00:30:11.000Kamala Harris is desperately trying to do these interviews because she did not define herself in any meaningful way.
00:30:17.000And Democrats are just, they're way down on immigration and the economy.
00:30:21.000These are the factors that Gallup says, according to their projections from all the past elections, will lead to a victory in November.
00:30:29.000So that being said, I do think it's kind of strange that I don't understand.
00:33:07.000Yeah. This is good news because November 5th is the most important day in the history of our country, and we cannot bear four more years of incompetence.
00:34:10.000We're going to see it reflected in the polls.
00:34:11.000And the corporate press that wants to favor the Democratic Party has nothing to say about Kamala.
00:34:15.000So they just say, I don't know, Trump is bad still for whatever reason.
00:34:19.000Trump criticizing Kamala is a really, really bad thing.
00:34:21.000Thank you and have a nice day. It's amazing that they haven't reached any level of fear-mongering fatigue after doing this for almost a decade now around Trump.
00:34:31.000Where it's just like, I don't know, if they didn't believe us before, I don't know.
00:34:34.000Now this is really going to convince somebody.
00:34:36.000Even for him, even for Trump, this is unhinged.
00:34:39.000Maybe this is just like, you know, the third pressing of the olive.
00:34:44.000There's just literally no oil to be extracted.
00:34:47.000They're making olive flour at this point.
00:34:49.000I mean, I don't think the media component of this could get fatigued, right?
00:34:54.000I mean, it's very easy to be like, every day the theme is Trump is bad and you get extra points if you can make him seem really, really bad.
00:35:02.000I think the voters are fatigued of being constantly told to fear everything.
00:35:06.000And especially right now, you know, Trump post tweet after not deciding not to do an interview with an outlet is I think that's why so many people are looking to Twitter for news or sorry, X for news. There's a report out on Axios about the fact that young voters or young TikTok users depend on it as a source of news, which is fascinating, right?
00:35:54.000Like part of it is they're already hooked up.
00:35:56.000They're really into the app, but also they don't look to cable news.
00:36:00.000They're not making it taking an hour out of their day to like read the Daily Beast front page.
00:36:04.000They are going towards these other platforms.
00:36:06.000Yeah. I don't know where you get your news from.
00:36:18.000This narrative like you're saying over the last...
00:36:21.000I mean, they just keep on playing it over and over again.
00:36:24.000This guy's unhinged. Whatever the merits of it, I'm like...
00:36:30.000I would rather have the media address the fundamental question is, why is this race so close if this guy's so horrible and he's completely unhinged?
00:36:39.000Like, there's this sort of implicit narrative in there, I think, that they think like half the country is a bunch of deplorable idiots or something like that.
00:37:14.000I think we're hearing dwindling amounts of those specific attacks on him.
00:37:17.000We're seeing a zeroing in on the Project 2025 fear-mongering.
00:37:22.000All the liberal podcasts I listen to have ads pre-rolled in front of them fear-mongering around Project 2025 and what they're trying to accomplish.
00:37:30.000But yeah, the January 6th stuff in particular, with how much they were focusing on it in
00:37:35.000the past and how they aren't anymore, that's also why the Liz Cheney endorsement is so
00:37:40.000important because the reason she flipped was because of January 6th.
00:38:25.000And then they're also trying to overturn the filibuster.
00:38:27.000Oh no, but the Republicans are a threat to democracy.
00:38:30.000So I don't know, not a hint of feeling like a hypocrite at all coming from these Democrats.
00:38:35.000And to zero in on what Kamala Harris's response to the hurricane so far has been, it's been
00:38:41.000to complain about Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida not answering his call.
00:38:45.000That's the response that we've seen from Kamala Harris so far.
00:38:48.000Politicizing this tragedy that we're seeing in Florida and complaining that busy Ron DeSantis, I hope she's doing something more important than what?
00:38:55.000Talking to Kamala Harris to accomplish what?
00:38:57.000Nothing? For her to just tell people that she's supporting him?
00:39:00.000Nothing. Whatever she was going to do...
00:39:04.000Talking to Ron DeSantis isn't going to change anything with that.
00:39:07.000Indeed. I think the Ron DeSantis thing, I think Ron was right.
00:39:11.000And Kamala Harris is the vice president.
00:39:13.000She's not the president. The president should be calling Ron DeSantis and asking about what's going on.
00:39:18.000And clearly she's suffering bad internal polling.
00:39:20.000The response to Helene was very, very bad.
00:39:23.000So she's trying to call Ron DeSantis to make some kind of political gain.
00:39:28.000And he says, I'm not interested in this.
00:39:29.000Oh, well, Tim, you see, she's the acting president anyway, because Joe Biden's barely there.
00:39:35.000Agreed. Ronda Santis doesn't know who to talk to.
00:39:37.000She can call for invoking, she can call to invoke the 25th Amendment and have Joe Biden forced to step down, and then I will respect her trying to call Ronda Santis.
00:39:45.000Well how about she just maybe, what about like stop campaigning for a moment and actually
00:40:50.000And then Jean-Pierre calls it misinformation.
00:40:53.000Then within like a minute, actually inverts her argument and agrees that there's not that
00:40:59.000They have enough just for Milton, and then after that, they're probably exhausted.
00:41:03.000And then she gets angry and says, you know, we should get more funding, but maybe, you know, if it's not there, maybe that's what you want.
00:41:10.000And then she storms off. And then people made fun of her weird pinstripe suit, I guess, or whatever.
00:41:14.000It was not a good look. She looks like she's dressing like Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, who was, again, she wore a lot of pantsuits and it was not flattering.
00:41:23.000It's not fair that if you ever try to wear a pinstripe, they're going to call you Beetlejuice because they called her Beetlejuice and they called Lori Lightfoot Beetlejuice.
00:41:33.000Don't make fun of the suit. Look, pinstripes are a bold-fashioned choice, and we love a risk-taker in that sense, but sometimes you can't pull everything off.
00:41:39.000And that includes continuously trying to spin the narrative here.
00:41:43.000I mean, Corinne Jampierre is also not an effective communicator.
00:41:49.000I mean, it was really a step down after Jen Psaki left.
00:41:52.000Jen Psaki, you know, circled back to everything.
00:41:55.000On the other hand, she was pretty good.
00:41:57.000Did she really circle back to everything?
00:41:59.000No. No, of course not. We'll circle back.
00:42:01.000We'll circle back. But like, you know, she, even though I don't agree with probably everything she said, she was effective, right?
00:42:08.000There's a reason that she could then exit gracefully to go get her own show.
00:42:12.000That's not true of Karine Jean-Pierre and they haven't swapped her out.
00:42:15.000And again, if this is the Biden-Harris' understanding of who is the best suited to communicate to the public, no wonder Kamala Harris is struggling in these interviews because whoever is prepping her is doing a bad job.
00:42:27.000When I worked in sales, I was taught whenever I had no idea about something somebody was asking me, I was supposed to tell them, I think I know the answer, but I want to go confirm and I'll circle back with you after.
00:43:07.000So she didn't even skip over something.
00:43:09.000She didn't take a year off to try to put up some facade.
00:43:12.000Like, no, we're not totally connected.
00:43:14.000I'm not going straight from Joe Biden's White House to the newsroom to speak on his behalf.
00:43:20.000She didn't even write a, like, courtesy biography to give her some time.
00:43:23.000Yeah, write a book or something. Maybe go to some other news source, like a right-wing news source to be their token liberal.
00:43:30.000But no, she went straight to MSNBC, so...
00:43:33.000Something to keep in mind with the incestuous relationship between media and the White House.
00:43:38.000I do want to pull this out. This is from the Post Millennial.
00:43:40.000So Kamala Harris goes on The View, and in this interview she mentions hurricane response and how she called Governor DeSantis.
00:43:48.000Well, in a surprising moment, I guess, which is inflaming the conspiracy that Joe Biden is secretly MAGA and is trying to sabotage Kamala, he says in a statement, I've spoken with the governor, he's doing a great job.
00:44:02.000So according to Post Malena, they say Biden says DeSantis is doing a great job with hurricane response after Kamala accuses Florida governor of playing political games.
00:44:10.000We all saw Joe Biden put on that MAGA hat.
00:45:19.000And Kamala Harris is doing God knows what.
00:45:23.000I want to I want to double check the timeline on this, but to see which if she came out with those comments before
00:45:30.000this, just so I got this all lined up.
00:45:33.000But I don't know if this is on purpose or not, but it would be really funny if it were, because I know the Joe Biden White House staffers hate the Kamala Harris staffers.
00:45:42.000There's a lot of beef between the two coalitions within the Democrat Party.
00:45:45.000Obviously, the whole Joe Biden camp knows they got knifed.
00:45:48.000So you have to wonder if Joe Biden's pulling some of these moves despite some of the Kamala Harris people.
00:45:54.000The Trump hat thing saying, oh no, Ron DeSantis, we had a good chat before.
00:45:58.000He did that. He appeared in the briefing room spontaneously and was like, she was involved in all kinds of things.
00:46:04.000She was deeply involved in my administration despite the fact that she's definitely trying to distance herself.
00:46:09.000Like the opposite of what they're trying to do.
00:46:11.000And this old man Biden, I'm growing a soft spot for him after he decided to drop out.
00:46:15.000I mean, he's very different now that he is in like legacy building.
00:46:19.000I do not have a future in politics vote.
00:46:24.000On the other hand, it is much funnier watching him basically like throw small jabs at Kamal Harris every time she tries to pretend that he doesn't exist.
00:46:32.000I like Joe Biden now. I think he's just being his old, ruthless self.
00:46:36.000I think he's been a ruthless politician his entire life, and now he's got this geriatric routine that he can run.
00:47:12.000And you knew when you saw him that this guy could hear her.
00:47:17.000He was not some bumbling old man confused.
00:47:19.000He just didn't want to go through security and then to chase him down.
00:47:22.000And I feel kind of like that's what Joe Biden's doing right now.
00:47:26.000Do you guys remember when Johnny Knoxville did that jackass thing where he fakes being an old person and then tries getting away with crazy shenanigans?
00:47:33.000Because he's an old guy. I think at this point, Biden's just like, he's checked out.
00:47:38.000But now he's got the fumbling, bumbling Joe.
00:47:41.000You know what? I'm gonna roll with it.
00:47:42.000I'll play into it. I mean, Kamala tried to stab him in the back, and he's going down and trying to distance herself from him, and he's bear-hugging her, taking him down with her.
00:47:51.000I loved it when he put on the Trump ad.
00:47:53.000He said, you are my VP, and you do not thrive without me.
00:47:57.000me. I mean, again, I don't have any sympathy for Joe Biden, but the DNC threw him a funeral
00:48:04.000and shipped him off to California only to end up with Kamala Harris there. And like,
00:48:09.000there is so clearly tension between the two of them. It is becoming the new best reality
00:48:13.000show in America if you're looking at it.
00:48:16.000I don't know why. I just remembered the horrible trade deal Biden got us in with Russia for
00:48:22.000the WNBA player for that Russian arms dealer, Victor Booth, who's now working again.
00:48:45.000They're like, what wars have Joe Biden got us into?
00:48:48.000And it's like, well, I mean, we're funding the Ukraine war and there's U.S. special forces in Europe.
00:48:53.000There's U.S. troops being deployed to Europe over the war in Ukraine.
00:48:56.000We're funding that. Then we've got the Israel conflict where we built, we tried to build a pier in Gaza, and we've sent $358 million to Lebanon over their humanitarian crisis, which I don't know where that money's coming from.
00:49:08.000So we are deeply involved in a lot of these wars, but largely the official operation in the United States that you could call a limited war is the operation in the Red Sea over the Houthi rebels.
00:49:16.000So we had to get back this basketball player who had a, what, a pot vape?
00:49:21.000Is that what it was? Yeah, it was a great thing.
00:50:08.000There were several. But we gave up so many people.
00:50:11.000And most of the people who were wrongfully detained in Russia that we got back were taken into Russian custody during Biden's administration, which means that Russia was like, ah, we sense weakness in the water.
00:50:24.000As far as I remember, of the four Americans who we got released, only Paul Whelan had
00:50:44.000I just don't think this is what we want here.
00:50:46.000And I do not think that Kamala Harris communicates anything more effective on the global stage.
00:50:52.000I don't know how you feel about it. Do you think Kamala Harris is our future power negotiator on behalf of all people in the world?
00:50:58.000I'm just worried that she is going to be influenced by the establishment, like, you know, the military industrial complex, whatever you want to call it, because she doesn't seem to me to have any core principles.
00:51:14.000That's what really, really, really concerns me.
00:51:17.000You don't believe her when she says, but my values haven't changed.
00:51:20.000No, I don't. Because I think your values change all the time with whatever's politically expedient.
00:52:55.000It matters. Look, they say in AOC's district, you have something like 150,000 Republicans, and that is around the amount of people who vote.
00:53:05.000Like, AOC ends up winning her congressional seat with—let's actually pull up the numbers.
00:53:11.000Let me pull up Ballotpedia. What is she, New York 14?
00:53:29.000And they say that there's around 150 or so thousand more conservative, moderate to conservative leading individuals.
00:53:34.000If people just told them, bro, your vote matters substantially more because only 82,000.
00:53:40.000Tina Forte, the Republican, got 31,000 votes.
00:53:43.000$31,000. You only needed another $50,000 out of the $775,000.
00:53:48.000Let's just say out of the $675,000 available after the fact.
00:53:54.000You just need $50,000 of those and boom, a Republican wins New York 14.
00:53:59.000It can be done. Not that I think the Republican Party is doing great things, but I'm saying if you're in these jurisdictions, don't think that just because it's D plus 25 or D plus 30, you're going to lose.
00:55:39.000You may think Trump is the worst guy ever, okay?
00:55:42.000If you vote for Kamala Harris, guess who you're getting in her coalition?
00:55:46.000You know who you're getting in that coalition, right?
00:55:49.000Who am I getting in there? Dick Cheney.
00:55:51.000That's right. The Kamala Harris-Liz and Dick Cheney coalition with the Lincoln Project and other neocons, George W. Bush, who've joined alongside Kamala Harris to protect what?
00:56:24.000Because I got to tell you, I would want nothing more.
00:56:27.000And if I can't have them directly, having them as advisors in the administration and overseeing large components of it sounds like grand slam.
00:58:19.000And I didn't vote for him in 16, and it wasn't until 2020 when I was like, I got people screaming in my ears, if you're so big on foreign policy and you like Tulsi Gabbard, but Tulsi Gabbard is out.
00:58:29.000Trump's the no-war candidate. What do we have under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
00:58:41.000No one in their right mind who analyzes geopolitics and conflict is looking at the Ukraine-Russia conflict and saying, that's just Ukraine.
00:58:47.000It has nothing to do with the United States. No, it is NATO versus Russia, period.
00:58:51.000Then we have the escalation of conflict with Israel.
00:58:53.000I don't believe that—and you look—it's fascinating that Kamala Harris is— Two days before October 7th, putting out a tweet about how she's going to give $400 million to the poor people of Lebanon.
00:59:07.000It's like, there's a war going on, okay?
00:59:10.000It is a conflict involving a U.S. ally.
00:59:13.000Why are you blasting this message out to the people?
00:59:16.000It's almost like you're sabotaging your own campaign.
00:59:18.000But I digress. The conflict in the Red Sea, limited warfare, the expansion of conflict in the Middle East leading us to potentially World War III. Kamala Harris says in the CBS interview, Iran is our greatest adversary and we could be inching towards World War III or something to that effect.
01:01:16.000It means that his motives are you the people because he is desperate for that affection, whereas the politicians are like, we don't know.
01:01:23.000We don't care about you. We want to extract value and prop our lives up.
01:01:26.000One of the really effective things that Trump does is that he says so many things that he could be so many things, different things, to so many different people.
01:01:36.000And people could project whatever they want onto him.
01:04:52.000You could project onto him what you want from him.
01:04:55.000No, no, no. But listen, I think you're taking a harsher stance on what Tulsi Gabbard is saying and what she means and how the resolution with Ukraine and Taiwan would come about.
01:05:04.000The resolution with Ukraine is not fund more war.
01:05:08.000Trump said it best, I want the killing to stop.
01:05:11.000I see Trump's resolution with his conflict of going to Russia and saying, you're stopping or we're starting.
01:05:17.000And I'm going to tell Ukraine to shut up and we're going to figure out how we get this resolved.
01:05:20.000What does Russia want? They need land access to their industrial and naval port in Sevastopol.
01:05:25.000Yeah, but while Trump is you're stopping or we're starting, I think Tulsi Gabbard is you're stopping or we're also definitely stopping.
01:05:52.000What are our interests in defending Taiwan?
01:05:54.000It's a very important and good conversation to go have.
01:05:57.000It'll take a long time to talk about it.
01:05:59.000But if you wanted to delve in, I'm down to we have allies in the area, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, also like something like 40% of world trade transit, the South China Sea.
01:06:11.000Taiwan is a leader in microchips that are essential for any first world.
01:06:16.000No, they should be made here in America.
01:06:17.000They should be, but they won't be able to be made for at least the next decade.
01:06:23.000This so-called Silicon Shield that Taiwan's developed over the past 20-some odd years.
01:06:27.000I'm sorry. It is absurd to me that the United States has invested so much in the defense of Taiwan.
01:06:34.000I do not like the Chinese Communist Party.
01:06:36.000I do not like the Chinese Communist Revolution.
01:06:40.000I don't like... What most of what largely they've done, I wish the government of Taiwan, the true Republic of China, was still in control of the mainland and weren't forced onto that island.
01:06:50.000But it is a tiny island with limited industry.
01:06:53.000We should be building those resources here.
01:06:55.000We should be securing our borders, getting better trade agreements and working for the American people.
01:07:00.000I do think I would not go as far as Tulsi in saying we outright abandon Taiwan, but the answers need to be—it's a mix.
01:07:09.000I think we need peace through strength.
01:07:11.000That's why I liked, to a certain degree, when Trump said that Xi and Putin thought he was going to nuke Beijing and Moscow if they invaded, and he was like, I don't know if they really believed me, maybe 5%, but it was enough.
01:07:23.000And I'm like, I don't want to see anybody get nuked, but I like that they feared Donald Trump.
01:07:28.000Hopefully we don't have to go to war, and there'll never be an issue, because Trump is quote-unquote the madman, and she is going to be like, well, as long as Donald Trump is president, we're not making any moves, because this guy, who knows what he's going to do?
01:10:10.000So for Taiwan, it hasn't happened yet because we still stand firmly with Taiwan.
01:10:15.000Threshold was reached in Ukraine, obviously.
01:10:17.000China has obviously made different moves throughout that region where people feel like they are sort of amping up their military prowess and aggression.
01:10:24.000So is that them saying the Biden administration is weak?
01:11:18.000I mean, I hope for peace and the way to achieve it is through strength.
01:11:21.000And that's why I thought there was peace during the Trump administration.
01:11:25.000And by the way, it's not that America wasn't involved in any new wars.
01:11:29.000It's that conflicts that were occurring were cooling down.
01:11:33.000Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, where America is very tangentially related, isn't flaming up during the Trump administration.
01:11:40.000The Philippines isn't getting harassed by China as much during a Trump administration than they are now under a Joe Biden administration.
01:11:47.000So it's not only an actual war that, you know, weren't occurring under Trump.
01:11:53.000It was generally countries were more calm because they were scared of the threats that Trump was making to them because he's the master dealmaker.
01:12:14.000When he crossed the DMZ with Kim Jong-un with no security detail, walking over to North Korea and walking back, that was one of the most incredible moments I have ever seen.
01:12:25.000I'm talking to the libertarians at the convention, and they're ragging on Trump all the time, and I said, but he, with Kim Jong-un, crossed the DMZ, and they're, okay, that was really good.
01:12:36.000I mean, they could have—he had no security—they could have just taken him and said, we got a hostage in the president.
01:12:40.000What are you going to do about it? They're not going to.
01:12:42.000And so Trump, with great personal risk, tries to bring peace.
01:12:47.000And I think the reason is Trump's got an ego.
01:13:01.000He's got his mean tweets and nobody's perfect.
01:13:03.000But I think a combination of Trump wants to be loved and Trump wants to accomplish, drive him towards these peace efforts.
01:13:11.000What is he thinking? Most people want peace.
01:13:13.000Nobody wants war. Now, the military-industrial complex, the liberal economic order, they want war because it is a mechanism by which they can control regions and, you know, basically expand their influence with the petrodollar, IMF, World Bank, etc., etc.
01:15:48.000We wrote the Japanese constitution after World War Two, and I think we had some pacifist
01:15:52.000We wrote it purposefully pacifistic, but now we want them to be a little bit more hawkish towards our common enemy and the communist Chinese.
01:16:01.000What could go wrong? You know, look, I think the harsh reality is, especially as you get older, there is no There's no end.
01:16:13.000You know, the activists, they say the ends justify the means, but that's not true because you never meet the end.
01:16:18.000And so right now we say, here's what we want to have happened.
01:16:39.000And I'm not trying to be blackpilled or negative.
01:16:41.000I just think the state of life is a flux of various ideologies, and this is the nature of human social development, evolution, and literal evolution.
01:16:51.000You have warring factions and ideologies deciding what should or should not be competing for resources.
01:16:57.000Water wars at first, but now you have China saying, we want to grow.
01:17:08.000We're going to go find them. There's not going to be a point where we accomplish a goal and then everything stops.
01:17:15.000And then it's like the year 2173 and they were like, wow, in the year 2082, it's when all war was done and peace was just permanent forever and everyone got along.
01:17:25.000Because you will always get, no matter what you do, Some kind of fight that spirals out between people who cannot agree on their worldviews.
01:18:46.000If Russia wants land access to Crimea, where they have their military base and industrial center in Sevastopol, nukes are just fine.
01:18:54.000They could flatten every major Ukrainian city overnight with intercontinental ballistic missiles, and then there's no opposition whatsoever, and they walk on in.
01:19:03.000They can't, however, because there's opposition.
01:19:05.000The West, NATO, won't allow that, so they can't escalate to that point.
01:19:09.000War is basically, in many instances, resource conflict.
01:19:13.000So Russia, of course, needs access to Crimea, Sevastopol.
01:19:19.000They took it because NATO and the EU were pressing into Ukraine and winning favor with Ukraine, their government, their structures.
01:19:24.000And this is largely due to energy, gas problem, etc.
01:19:27.000And Europe wanting cheaper gas prices where Russia controlled the majority of it.
01:19:32.000The West wants Russia to fall in line and provide them cheaper energy so their economy can expand and we can overwhelm China effectively economically.
01:20:38.000People rise up, dissent, then you get conflict in regions, be it terror, insurgency, whatever.
01:20:44.000That's the FBI that kicks in your door and says your memes illegal
01:20:48.000That's true. But, I mean, I'm saying in the future when the global tyranny expands and you get these massive international blocs, it's going to be UN troops or something.
01:20:57.000Tim, to follow up on what is war, there's a Prussian military theorist, Karl von Kloth, who said war is politics by any means.
01:21:05.000And I think that's a really apt description in understanding how war plays out between nations.
01:21:12.000But what is politics? Politics is getting other groups of people to do what you want them to do.
01:21:16.000Exactly. And so right now, there are various ways to go about that.
01:21:20.000The easiest, of course, is media manipulation.
01:21:23.000If you went back to the 1500s, great wars in Europe, granted the armies weren't nearly as big as we see them now, and you went to the king and said, I tell you this, I will get the people of, let's say, England versus France, every single French subject, Every single one of them will bow before the king.
01:21:44.000I don't know my years, so I don't know when they were actually fighting or whatever.
01:22:48.000And what we're seeing with kinetic conflict is politics by any means.
01:22:52.000When Russia lost the influence battle trying to basically buy out Ukraine as the West was trying to buy out Ukraine, they said, OK, we can't win anymore.
01:22:59.000Send in the tanks. We weren't able to overthrow the pro-Western Ukrainian government, so I guess it's war.
01:23:07.000We couldn't achieve our political aims.
01:23:09.000Well, because the West overthrew the more moderate Yanukovych government.
01:23:12.000We couldn't achieve our aims politically, so we're forced into violence.
01:23:16.000I actually think it's fair to say Western influence resulted in the ousting of Yanukovych in Ukraine, and in conflict, I say that's preferable to sending in tanks.
01:23:27.000Well, it's like then Putin tried poisoning.
01:23:30.000I forget which prime minister of Ukraine.
01:24:43.000Like, how did he go from saying, F you, I will say whatever I want, and no one can stop me, to please, please, I'll say whatever you tell me?
01:24:51.000Like, he wants to stay relevant, and I think we can see this over and over again with the Me Too movement and other things, like the tolerance for sort of the brash...
01:25:01.000Maybe borderline vulgar radio host is not the same that it once was.
01:25:06.000So once his schtick lost a little bit of the shock and awe that maybe it had the beginning that rallied the fans, it became subject to the same kind of scrutiny that all people become subject to in a more progressive society.
01:25:18.000I don't know. I didn't watch this interview.
01:25:20.000Did Howard Stern do his usual schtick where he invites Kamala's dad on and asks them to kiss or something?
01:25:26.000Probably not, right? I think it's the one time he didn't fire hot dogs at a woman's breasts.
01:25:31.000I mean, isn't this the guy that would do things like that?
01:25:34.000Now, look, fine. Look, far be it from me to criticize a guy's past and all that stuff.
01:26:14.000Yeah, he's just filibustering the radio over there.
01:26:17.000I mean, I really do think that this is a level of like, you know, the other one could be, he got famous and then therefore started interviewing, when he was interviewing famous people, like, these are people that are actually now in his social circle.
01:26:26.000So he doesn't necessarily want to be asking them all these questions that will make them upset or treating them in sort of these scandalous ways.
01:26:32.000Have you guys seen the—because they mention in this, she enjoyed Maya Rudolph's impression of her.
01:26:37.000Did you see the SNL clip where they made fun of the debate?
01:26:39.000Yo, they mocked Kamala Harris as being a drunk.
01:27:30.000So it's pretty surprising that SNL was like, and the angle we're going with Harris is that she's a drunk.
01:27:36.000That's pretty impressive for SNL. And they mocked Tim Walz for saying he was friends with school shooters.
01:27:42.000The thing is, Maya Rudolph's performance or her parody of Kamala Harris when they did it in 2020 was really successful.
01:27:50.000People loved the caricature of Kamala.
01:27:52.000I think maybe it's testament to Maya Rudolph.
01:27:54.000You know, she's got good comedic timing or whatever.
01:27:56.000But she made Kamala Harris likable to the American public in a way that Kamala Harris is actually not.
01:28:03.000So even if on the inside Kamala Harris is really mad about the jab about wine drinking or whatever else, there's one line that I saw where she's like...
01:28:11.000My campaign is like Sabrina Carpenter's song Espresso.
01:28:15.000Like, you like the vibes, but it doesn't mean anything.
01:28:18.000You know, like, even if these were making her mad, Mai Rudolph as a sort of celebrity and as someone who is actually entertaining the public is not someone she can attack.
01:28:28.000Because, again, she is the actual likable version of Kamala.
01:28:32.000Also, I think it's kind of an endorsement in a certain sense because everybody can relate to being drunk, right?
01:29:29.000Donald Trump's team's picking people like Aiden Ross.
01:29:32.000Obviously, Tim Pool had the Trump interview.
01:29:34.000It's just an interesting contrast in who these campaigns have interviewed them from the social media realm, things that obviously didn't exist 20 years ago and wasn't as potent a decade ago.
01:30:40.000Mm-hmm. Watching this hurricane stuff, and they're like, it looks like Milton's approaching the mathematical limit of what a hurricane can be in these waters.
01:30:48.000It's like, wow. But there's a mathematical limit to how much you can extract in media.
01:31:11.000MSNBC's audience's heads have remained exploded since, and I don't know, you can't blow it up more than once, so after all that Rachel Maddow garbage that she's fed you over the years, I don't know if you could get any more brainwashed.
01:31:23.000If you listen to Howard Stern and Rachel Maddow, you have no idea what's happening in the world.
01:31:28.000And if you listen to Fox News, you're going to get a biased take on it, but you'll know what's happening in the world.
01:31:33.000Like, Fox News' approach is going to say, well, Donald Trump came out and he said X, Y, and Z, and we like it.
01:31:38.000MSNBC is going to come out and say, Donald Trump actually said that he was Hitler, and it's a bad thing, and you're like, well, he didn't say that.
01:31:45.000That's ridiculous. The corporate press lies about who Trump is and what he wants, and then you see in right-wing media—I don't even like saying right-wing, because what does that even mean, but opposition media, whatever— They'll be honest about Trump and then explain why they either like or don't like it.
01:32:00.000But you don't get that with the corporate press.
01:32:02.000So these people live in some fictional, delusional state where they have no idea what's actually happening.
01:32:06.000You'll see many oppositional interviews in the right-wing media ecosystem to Trump, and something that's a lot less common is the reverse of that, with these left-wing outlets being consistently difficult in their interviewing styles with Kamala Harris.
01:32:21.000I'm glad Whitaker, that's why I commended him earlier, deciding to take a new path, because a lot of journalists had a lot of opportunities at Kamala Harris, The debate interviewers had a lot of opportunity to get their name out there.
01:32:34.000I don't actually know that there have been that many opportunities to push Kamala Harris because her campaign has been so guarded with her.
01:32:41.000Even her first big interview, she had to have Tim Walz with her as some sort of chaperone or emotional support dog.
01:32:55.000There are two paths that my brain goes down.
01:32:58.000One is they are selectively picking who gets to have the hardball questions, right?
01:33:03.000They're not going to go on Fox News and do—I mean, I think Tim Walz just did a Fox and Friends or whatever the Fox morning show is, but Kamala Harris is not going to go on Fox News and face hard questions.
01:33:15.000It's still a sort of sympathetic outlet that's been allowed to push her on things, and in part that's because they aren't really going to pull too many clips that make her look bad.
01:33:25.000The other part is I think that the American public are frustrated and more and more every year corporate media realizes that their biggest threat is independent media, which is gaining confidence from voters.
01:33:38.000And so maybe to your point, they can't continue on and on with the shtick of like everything is fine and everything Kamala or whoever has the Democratic endorsement says is great and everything Trump says is awful without looking foolish and just continuing to hemorrhage viewers.
01:33:55.000To be fair, if I were the Tim Walz campaign or I guess Kamala Harris campaign, I'd also say Tim Walz should no longer go on Fox News because that Shannon Bream interview was atrocious.
01:34:06.000Shannon Bream railed him on his abortion stance about Roe v.
01:34:11.000Wade in particular and how in Minnesota he passed laws where there would be no limits to abortion.
01:35:13.000That's sort of what they say. Like he's a football coach, former football coach.
01:35:16.000Kind of. Or like he's like a man of the people.
01:35:19.000I never really felt this way, but I know that I listened to an interview with voters from Minnesota that were like, he's like a great debater and all this stuff.
01:35:53.000Or is he making Kamala Harris better for you?
01:35:56.000Well, he seems to me like they chose him because they didn't want somebody who would overshadow Kamala.
01:36:02.000And it seems like this kind of weird kind of almost like gender politics, like with choosing him.
01:36:09.000He seems when I look at him visually, he looks a little goofy to me and like a little sort of like a milk toast.
01:36:15.000Candidate, if that's the right phrase, but I really don't know that much about him.
01:36:19.000He seems to me, okay, we need a guy in there, we need something for the white men, but we gotta have somebody who's not going to compete with her in terms of star power.
01:36:59.000That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying I genuinely can't imagine a scenario where someone so lacking actually wins the presidency with Donald Trump with all of the historical iconography surrounding him, shaking hands with RFK Jr.
01:37:13.000And then you've got on the ground with his hands over his face with the blood coming down and then raising his fists in the air.
01:37:19.000So many moments of this past year just scream historical record that if this man were to lose, Life would just—it doesn't seem so strange that all of these major historical moments would lead to nothing.
01:39:09.000YouTube may have reverted back to a genuine interest-based—I wonder if Donald Trump is—all these big companies expect Trump to win, and they know that if Trump gets in and then they start going through what these companies have been doing in terms of bias, they are going to be obliterated.
01:39:28.000When Elon Musk bought X, they panicked.
01:39:30.000We saw this weird thing happen where a bunch of conservative personalities and right-leaning personalities started gaining massive follower counts while the left started losing massive follower counts.
01:39:38.000We didn't understand what was going on.
01:39:41.000The theory was that X, at the time Twitter, was basically shutting down these weighted
01:39:45.000systems that were benefiting the left or liberals or corporate press, wherever it may be, because
01:40:05.000And so now it's basically if you have the highest live viewership right now, you're going to be featured, which is just the default of if the show is good and people like it, you appear in the trending and recommended sections of the website.
01:40:18.000Don't know for sure. All I can say is we were featured at the top of live podcasts and all on YouTube, and I checked two different browsers.
01:40:26.000Not everyone's getting the same results.
01:40:33.000I don't want to sound conspiratorial, but I'm fairly sure YouTube employees check all of their homepage, like top of the live viewership videos that they post.
01:40:43.000And I suspect they had to have had a conversation been had around like, okay, are we going to put Tim Pool up there or not?
01:41:16.000He's kind of moderate and milquetoast.
01:41:18.000And they were like, oh. And it just finally took someone speaking up.
01:41:21.000But maybe you're right, the new CEO. He may be saying, guys, we need a merit-based recommendation system or we're going to lose out to Netflix, Disney.
01:41:28.000All of these different streaming platforms are stealing our viewership.
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01:42:01.000Give us five stars. Whatever you got to do, we're going to read your super chats.
01:42:05.000T-Bomb says, we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.
01:42:08.000Oh, thank God. I've been worried about that.
01:42:12.000Suncoast Samurai says, hi, Tim and crew.
01:42:14.000I'm currently in Sarasota staring down a vicious hurricane, and I'm so happy to know that Ukraine gets another billion.
01:42:19.000God help us. Well, when the storm surge comes and smashes you into a building and drowns you, You'll be all right because you'll know in your heart as you struggle to breathe that in Ukraine they have electricity.
01:48:00.000But I want to give a shout out to Breezewood PA again, because they have a standalone Pizza Hut restaurant.
01:48:05.000Like an OG classic one where you can sit down and they have a buffet and all that stuff.
01:48:09.000That's what it's all about. You bring your kids there and you get to book it.
01:48:12.000I don't know if they do book it or whatever, but it's cool.
01:48:15.000Tack Genesis says, a Glock is a commit-a-crime-and-throw-away gun.
01:48:19.000A real gun owner isn't going to say that in any serious manner.
01:48:22.000I'm not a big gun guy, but I kind of agree.
01:48:25.000If someone asked me what kind of gun I had, the first thing I'd say is Barrett M82. And then when they laugh and say, okay, like, seriously, well, I do have one.
01:48:36.000But in terms of, like, my personal weapon, 1911 or something, Glock.
01:48:43.000Sure. It's a weird way to, I'm not a gun guy, but that's a weird way to answer the question, what kind of gun do you have, right?
01:48:48.000Because it's a brand, as I understand, the Glock.
01:48:56.000But like, if someone was asking me, and I'm not a gun guy, you know, so all the big gun enthusiasts are like, Tim doesn't know what he's talking about half the time.
01:49:03.000You are correct. However, the weapons that I have, the guns that I have that I'm proud of is not my Glock.
01:49:10.000I don't know. It's my Barrett M82. She's saying that's the only one she owns.
01:49:14.000So she can't be like, I have a cooler gun or whatever.
01:49:19.000I feel like people usually add the measurement in the gun.
01:50:21.000I mean, I think one of the choices here you've got is between big government and the administrative state and sort of an anti-administrative state position in Trump.
01:50:31.000You know, if you're for big government, you're going to vote for Kamala.
01:50:35.000And if you're not for big government, you're going to vote for Trump or just give up.
01:50:40.000And for the people who like small government, Trump's not even...
01:50:44.000It's, you know, Dave Smith, if he was the Libertarian candidate.
01:50:48.000But Dave Smith not running sure helped Trump because the Libertarian Party nominates Chase, right?
01:50:55.000And now the Libertarians don't even want to vote Libertarian.
01:51:56.000Law enforcement. You know, that's another thing that bothers me about her.
01:52:02.000She's sort of that mass incarceration crowd.
01:52:05.000And Biden very much in the 90s was, you know, a mass incarceration guy.
01:52:10.000And, you know, she's part of the machine that has made the United States a country that jails more people per capita than any other country in the world.
01:52:20.000So how are progressives voting for her?
01:52:23.000Because there's, what's this, scratch a liberal and watch a fascist bleed?
01:52:27.000Because there's like this cult of a prosecutor on the left right now.
01:52:31.000Because Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.
01:53:22.000But it's true. The PPD podcast I checked did tweet that their episode got removed, and there's an image saying copyright takedown.
01:53:28.000So I don't know much more about why or what happened, but that'll be resolved immediately.
01:53:33.000Because that is, if it's actually the case, you can't do that.
01:53:36.000That's fair use. Andy Bubandy says a lot of talk about Michigan and Wisconsin as Midwest swing states, but keep an eye on Minnesota as a red surprise.
01:53:46.000Lots of people here were fed up with the waltz as governor.
01:53:49.000First time voters are voting Trump because we can't afford food and gas.
01:53:53.000Indeed. I just don't think there's a way to navigate around this economic argument.
01:53:58.000There's no way to package the economy where young voters or voters who are paycheck to paycheck right now are like, more of this, more of this.
01:54:06.000I mean, she hasn't differentiated herself.
01:54:09.000Harris has not differentiated herself enough from Biden.
01:54:12.000And young voters are, I mean, all kinds of, definitely young voters are looking at their paychecks and saying, why is this not enough to start my life on?
01:56:04.000And then I think they said there's an error in that the full cartridge fires itself and not just the bullet.
01:56:10.000So you actually see the cartridge launch through the air because they don't know what they were doing?
01:56:16.000It's like on The Simpsons when—I can't remember who it was, but there's a famous Simpsons bit where there's a guy with a revolver and he's loading a magazine into the—yeah, you don't do that with revolvers.
01:56:27.000But liberals don't know what guns are, so— It reminds me of the staged photo of...
01:56:33.000It was like a bullet in a fence, but with the cartridge still attached to it.
01:56:39.000I've seen that. You know what I'm talking about?
01:56:59.000He's the strength, right? So why aren't you going to go be the strength?
01:57:00.000He's a journalist. He doesn't get involved on either side.
01:57:02.000Oh, I forgot. AtOneGamer says, when can we expect a lot to enlist in the military?
01:57:06.000He has the itchiest trigger finger but will never fight for his beliefs.
01:57:10.000I think the United States would be so much better off with a mandatory draft like you couldn't imagine.
01:57:16.000You could mandate your own personal draft and sign up.
01:57:18.000Sure. And I think there's a civic duty that it should be incumbent on all Americans to participate in what makes our country the greatest country ever.
01:57:27.000It would help with our assimilation rate.
01:57:29.000It would help breed patriotism amongst our youngest.
01:57:32.000Would you ever consider signing up for the military?
01:59:41.000I think that high school should have basic training.
01:59:44.000And to some degree, there should be a...
01:59:48.000I think high schools should have health requirements, meaning you will not get your diploma unless you can pass a physical test, which is swinging from the monkey bars or whatever.
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