Jimmy Kimmel breaks down the results of the election, Ben Shapiro takes a shot at the manosphere, Stephen Smith distances himself from the conservative media, and more! Recorded in Los Angeles, CA! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What's going on in the world of late night TV 4:30 - Is democracy dead? 9:00 11:30 12:00 | Election night 16:15 17:15 | Is Trump now the next president?
00:00:53.000And then we got a bunch of news, but I know Donald Trump has chosen his chief of staff, which is big news.
00:00:59.000PA has been called for McCormick, so this is another flip for the Republicans.
00:01:02.000And then we have this article from Wired, The Manosphere One, where they blame Stephen Crowder, Ben Shapiro, and me for partly contributing to Donald Trump's major victory.
00:01:15.000I don't think any of us are considered manosphere, but no one's ever accused these people of being smart.
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00:04:48.000This is a special size that was made just for me, that I never got to try until a year into my company.
00:04:53.000This is the Corona Gorda Mayflower cigar, and it was the perfect thing to smoke.
00:04:59.000On election night, I heard from the CEO of the company that produces these two blends for me, and he said he basically has had a cigar in his teeth for every minute other than four hours, say, since election night.
00:06:41.000Yeah, I'd be pretty embarrassed, too, if...
00:06:45.000A bunch of my friends were crying on TV, but we have the clip for you guys, and I hope this brightens up your day.
00:06:52.000Let's be honest, it was a terrible night last night.
00:06:55.000It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who make this country go, for healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism.
00:07:13.000It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, and democracy, and decency, and it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess what?
00:07:33.000It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him, too.
00:07:59.000And notice, by the way, he refers specifically to identity groups, right?
00:08:05.000Because that's the most important thing to them.
00:08:06.000We can't have national sovereignty and patriotism and solidarity and stand with one another as Americans.
00:08:11.000It has to go, well, our favorite minority groups or oppressed classes are having a bad time.
00:08:16.000The most likely situation in Ukraine is that Donald Trump becomes president.
00:08:21.000They come to some kind of negotiated peace.
00:08:24.000Ukraine does lose some territory because they're not going to give back Crimea and probably I think it's the Donbass or the area that they were after.
00:09:41.000The same thing happened with the hostages being released as soon as he was elected.
00:09:43.000And one of the hilarious things is the left is still trying to spin that to this day.
00:09:47.000I remember when I was in high school, what we were taught by our history book and by our history teacher was that the Republicans were actually meddling behind the scenes to ensure that the hostages weren't released until Reagan was president.
00:09:58.000But of course, they were going to do it anyway.
00:11:46.000Look, every day that goes by that we don't have results in a race, to me, creates at least the appearance of an opportunity for shenanigans.
00:11:54.000So I was really elated that Trump sweeps the Rust Belt, wins the Sun Belt, you know, he just absolutely crushes.
00:12:00.000And then I wake up today and I see Sam Brown, marvelous candidate for Senate in Nevada, and he's leading by a little bit, and then all of a sudden, big batch of votes comes in, oopsie-daisy, Jackie Rosen got it.
00:12:27.000And I heard it was a last-minute batch of mail-in votes that just came in.
00:12:31.000Everybody's saying this, and I'm saying, if that's true, file a lawsuit, cite the Fifth Circuit Court, and throw them out.
00:12:36.000You know, look, I don't know when, even if it were just mail-ins in general, mail-ins that were mailed at the legal moment, it just creates the appearance of impropriety when three days later you say, okay, top of the ticket swept the sunbelt, swept the rust belt, and then all of a sudden, what, we're losing in Wisconsin, we're losing in Michigan, we're losing in Nevada down ballot.
00:12:55.000I don't know, we probably were going to lose in Arizona down ballot anyway, but I don't know, it just creates the appearance of impropriety.
00:13:01.000So regardless, all right, we're not going to have 55.
00:13:58.000I think, Michael, it's time for unity, and it's time to reach across the aisle.
00:14:02.000The Democrats have some policies that we've never liked, but I think we should embrace, like expanding the Supreme Court starting on January 21st.
00:15:57.000I should have been facing the camera if only.
00:16:00.000I loved, speaking of groups that clip you dishonestly, you saw that not only did Kamala concede, but Kamala HQ has called it quits, you know, the campaign Twitter.
00:16:12.000And I'll tell you, man, I'm going to miss it.
00:17:52.000Part of what was particularly hilarious, I don't know if you saw this today, but your colleague Matt Walsh tweeted, I believe two days ago, that now that Trump's in office, we should just start admitting that we really wanted Project 2025, which was an obvious joke and was hilarious.
00:18:05.000But part of what's really funny about that...
00:18:08.000There were left wing accounts screenshotting that retweeting it saying, see, the credulous media trusted Republicans, which firstly the media smeared Trump with Project 2025 constantly.
00:18:18.000But what I find so funny about that is the fact that Matt Walsh is a man who built his career trolling liberals with just released a documentary that crushed at the box office, which is exclusively based on him trolling liberals.
00:18:34.000His profile picture is him dressed as the character he trolled liberals as and liberals saw his tweet trying to troll them And they still took the bait!
00:19:16.000More than anything else, it feels as though Project 2025 and the fear-mongering around it was desperation from the Democrats as they were trying to claw at something to attack Trump.
00:20:12.000I want to jump to the story from Daily Mail.
00:20:14.000CNN host silenced as a Democrat strategist turns on colleagues, quote, we are not the party of common sense.
00:20:20.000CNN contributor Julie Roginski criticized onlookers and her own colleagues during the segment.
00:20:26.000The argument was triggered after another on-air contributor asked Roginski if Biden should have dropped out of the race sooner.
00:20:32.000Roginski explained through a series of what she called hard truths why she believes the Democratic Party had become increasingly out of touch.
00:20:38.000Similar criticisms were waged in the wake of the election in 2016, where many counted out Trump as a credible threat.
00:20:45.000In fact, they were calling him the Pied Piper candidate.
00:21:11.000For a number of reasons, we don't know how to speak to voters.
00:21:15.000When we address Latina, and language, listen, language has meaning.
00:21:17.000When we address Latino voters as Latinx, for instance, because that's the politically correct thing to do.
00:21:22.000It makes them think that we don't even live on the same planet as they do.
00:21:27.000When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing a campus at Columbia University, Because you're unhappy about some sort of policy and you're taking over a university and you're trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that that is unacceptable.
00:21:42.000But we're so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we don't know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second, I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so that they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right?
00:22:30.000And in the prison notebooks, which is his great work that was translated actually by Buttigieg's dad, Joseph Buttigieg, And Kamala is the daughter of a Marxist, so you're seeing them seep into the government.
00:22:42.000But Gramsci made a great point, which is that no revolution can succeed if the revolutionaries lose the common sense.
00:22:50.000If you don't have the common sense, the common people...
00:22:56.000I think this STEM strategist is on point, but she's not addressing the elephant in the room, and that the older, more moderate Democrats are beholden to the youth of the party that is far left.
00:23:08.000The youth of the party does believe in gender changes.
00:23:12.000They do believe in Latinx and all these extreme things that she's talking about.
00:23:15.000But that's where the power and excitement from the Democrat Party is coming from, and that's why they cannot abandon the Well, the other problem is the logic of the so-called moderate Democrats inevitably leads to the radical Democrats.
00:23:29.000So if the moderate Democrats say, feminism's great, LGBT revolution is great, well, what you're really saying is men and women are basically the same.
00:23:40.000And so if you're saying men and women are basically the same, and then you're saying two men is the same as two women, is the same as a man and a woman, we can redefine marriage, we can redefine the social building block of marriage.
00:23:51.000Then don't you inevitably get to transgenderism?
00:23:54.000If men and women are the same, then why can't a man be a woman?
00:23:56.000Wait, from gay marriage to transgender...
00:24:46.000They believe that if you take any human being and put them into a situation and give them all the same things that they had leading up to it, they would be the same thing.
00:25:06.000To have children it does, but as far as them just being crazy men or doing whatever they have to do, gender change operations defy science.
00:25:13.000Telling somebody they could change genders...
00:25:15.000Saying you're attracted to an ad, you could think there's things about that that are wrong or incorrect, but there's a scientific base for a gender.
00:25:23.000But I think you just made the point very well, because I guess maybe we need to do a new Matt Walsh documentary instead of what is a woman, it's what is marriage.
00:25:30.000What distinguishes marriage from any other combination of two people?
00:26:05.000I'm just saying at a very natural, basic level, it would seem to me, and I'm just off the top of my head here, that marriage is a union between a man and a woman for the purpose...
00:26:18.000A union between a man and a woman for the purpose of begetting and educating children and as a secondary matter for the mutual support of the spouses.
00:26:26.000Just like the Leftist Tears Tumblr exists to give me delicious Leftist Tears and sometimes Spindrift, just like the cigar exists to give me tasty, delicious Mayflower smoke, so too marriage exists for a purpose.
00:26:38.000And so if you get two fellas together, or two ladies, or three dudes and a billy goat, they're in some kind of union.
00:26:44.000I'm not denying that, but it's just...
00:26:48.000But I do get what a lot is saying, because remove the word marriage from it and say a legal apparatus has been created for tax purposes and legal rights and hospitals and things for people who are together as partners, whatever you want to call it.
00:27:02.000Going to someone and saying, telling a child especially, you can be the opposite gender, is not possible in any way.
00:27:10.000What they could say is, we can give you a surgery so that you can be a facsimile or representation similar to a female, but you will never be female.
00:27:20.000But isn't that the same thing as gay marriage?
00:27:22.000It's a facsimile or a kind of parody that seems similar to marriage, but it's not.
00:27:26.000So the issue is, telling people that they...
00:27:33.000I get what you're saying, but I understand the point he's trying to make is that there's no irreversible surgery involved to a child.
00:27:39.000It's like, if two guys are living in a room, we can argue the definition and say this is not...
00:27:42.000And this is a great point, really, which is like...
00:27:46.000If we're all agreeing that broadly as a matter of logic, that's true and there's a fair analogy here, but it doesn't strike people the same way.
00:27:54.000And I think this is what's happened in 2024.
00:27:57.000Two guys want to do a Will and Grace thing, whatever.
00:27:59.000It doesn't affect them, they don't think about it.
00:28:01.000But you see a little kid being castrated, being put on...
00:28:05.000Cross-sex hormones, being brainwashed by his public school teacher, who's a far leftist.
00:28:11.000You just think, at a gut level, that is so repulsive that you are going to vote against anybody who promotes that.
00:28:19.000Electorally speaking, too, gay marriage, I don't think, is what she was alluding to.
00:28:22.000I think she was talking about the trans stuff and going a little bit farther.
00:28:25.000In the Republican Party, we have a large amount of LGBTQ people.
00:28:29.000I don't know about the TQ, but at least the LGBT. And in Trump's cabinet there, Rick Grinnell is probably going to have a cabinet position.
00:28:38.000So I think that stuff, the super unpopular stuff that I think most adult Democrats are, again, repulsed by thinking that you could change genders.
00:30:50.000The reason is because we're trying to figure out how the moderate Democrats can deal with the really woke Democrats and the liberals and the leftists, but the thing is, they can't.
00:31:01.000The Anti-Communist Act of 1954, I think, is what it is.
00:31:36.000No, all I wanted to say here was, even though you're right that she wasn't pointing to homosexual unions specifically, the reality is all of the victories for the LGBTQ movement had to be forced onto the public through the courts.
00:32:17.000Donald Trump owes at least part of his victory to the manosphere, the amorphous assortment of influencers who are mostly young, exclusively male, and increasingly the drivers of the remaining online monoculture.
00:32:28.000They want to mention Nelk Boys, Aiden Ross, Schultz, Sean Ryan, Joe Rogan.
00:32:33.000They say, but he's the one you've definitely heard of.
00:32:37.000You're going to hear a lot of a tribute, Trump's win to all kinds of reasons, inflation, etc., etc.
00:32:41.000They say it was these podcasts and streams that Trump spent a disproportionate amount of time in the final weeks of his campaign for a good reason.
00:32:47.000That list above, plus Tucker Carlson, includes the four biggest podcasters on Spotify, Trump's.
00:32:53.000Trep sat with all of them, often for hours, reaching millions of conservative or apolitical people, cementing his status as one of them.
00:33:00.000A sigma guy, a guy with clout, and the apex model of masculinity that prioritizes fame as a virtue unto itself.
00:33:06.000Certainly not the message that was delivered, because nobody looks at it that way.
00:33:11.000What I love about this is they mention his podcast appearance and then they have this.
00:33:15.000They say what Trump and his team understood is that the disclosure to whatever extent that means anything anymore no longer happens in op-ed columns or the Daily Show.
00:33:25.000She did appear on Call Her Daddy, a stratospherically popular podcast with an audience primarily comprising young women.
00:33:31.000And her campaign enlisted a number of influencers as surrogates.
00:33:34.000But she skipped Rogan, Lex Fridman, and other mainstream adjacent marathon podcasts.
00:33:39.000And even if she hadn't, the world of conservative influencers dwarfs their liberal counterparts in both follower size and impact.
00:33:46.000In the same way Democrats never found their own Rush Limbaugh, they don't have a Steven Crowder or a Ben Shapiro or even, so help us, a Tim...
00:33:56.000There are Democrats with followings online, but the cumulative gap in people paying attention to what they say is several orders of magnitude wide.
00:35:03.000Well, I also just want to point this out.
00:35:06.000This term manosphere is hilarious because it just turns being a man into a political opinion.
00:35:11.000What do these podcasts actually have in common with one another?
00:35:15.000What they're saying is, we have failed to secure the mail vote, so what we're going to do is tie together a coalition of things in podcasts that men happen to enjoy, and then say, this is a dangerous political movement that was working against us.
00:35:27.000Also, I need to stress this real quick, because they're saying we don't have a Tim Pool.
00:35:35.000My neighborhood in Chicago, which has been Democrat my whole life, which had the mayor come down, a Democrat mayor that everyone cheered for, is now voting for Trump.
00:35:56.000What they're saying is, we need a podcaster who, no matter what happens, no matter what the policies, they will always just say they're a Democrat.
00:36:03.000The liberals have ostracized everything masculine and coded it as right wing.
00:36:08.000And now when it's come to bite them in the ass in the election with younger men, they're saying, oh, what's going on?
00:36:13.000Why are they going to Theo Vaughn, Joe Rogan, people who talk about stereotypical masculine things, and why is this all right-wing coded?
00:37:19.000On YouTube, you can search for 1776xJosie and subscribe just at 10,000 subscribers with their new channel, so shout-out.
00:37:28.000Well, I just want to mention, I'm actually shocked that they didn't mention white guys for Harris as a force that helped deliver the fraction of the male vote that they did get.
00:37:36.000The reality is, I was watching some of their ads and making fun of them, and you'll notice, absolutely, you'll notice that in none of the messaging they put out there, do they ever say a single good thing about white men?
00:37:49.000So it's all, you can be different from the other white men.
00:38:05.000I was watching an ad they made a while ago, and it was actually one I saw because Matt Walsh retweeted it and said, like, this looks like a woman's idea of what a man ad should be or something.
00:38:12.000It was just obviously not written by a man, and if it was, certainly not written by a straight man.
00:38:16.000But it's going on about, like, hey, white guys, kind of stinks being told we suck all the time.
00:38:22.000I get it, but it's like, okay, let's just sidestep the fact that it's your party telling us we suck all the time, and then never say any reason why that shouldn't happen or why white men are good.
00:38:33.000And so this is my challenge to any political leader on the left or any pundit on the left who's concerned about the fact that you don't have the white male vote.
00:38:40.000Say one good thing about white men without throwing caveats at it, without giving a but!
00:38:45.000Without mentioning historic injustices, say one thing you appreciate or are grateful to white men for.
00:39:52.000If the Democrats weren't in a bad enough position now with some of the minority groups that they're losing as voters, I think they've put themselves in an even worse position after this election.
00:39:59.000Because a lot of what I have seen has been statements about how this was only because of racism or some other kind of ism, but primarily racism.
00:40:07.000And part of why I think that's so insulting is because, firstly, it's not as if a black person can't win a presidential election.
00:40:14.000Barack Obama literally won the presidential election.
00:40:16.000We know, we know, we know, hold on, we know that black people can win elections in this country, and so I just find it astounding and incredibly tone-deaf that when they nominated a woman who didn't win a primary...
00:41:02.000How is it that this horrible candidate who's very unpopular and didn't win a single primary lost the presidential election to the single most popular candidate in the Republican Party?
00:41:58.000I was going to say, the two things that I feel as though the Kamala Harris campaign was focusing on was, one, so-called democracy.
00:42:04.000And that was kind of debunked when she didn't win any primary votes.
00:42:08.000And she was focusing on January 6th and how Donald Trump was allegedly a threat to democracy.
00:42:13.000He was going to lock up all his political opponents.
00:42:15.000But how does that make any sense when Trump is facing multiple convictions across the country?
00:42:19.000Then abortion was their second top issue.
00:42:21.000And Trump dispelled that very aggressively when he said constantly that he would come out against the national abortion ban and wouldn't push that.
00:42:27.000So we quickly dispelled both of their big narratives, their big spin.
00:42:31.000And then we're dealing with the immigration crisis.
00:42:33.000And I'm glad the election turned out the way it did.
00:43:12.000When the right loses, they fund operations like Turning Point, Invested Media, etc., If we abandon now, we see total control to absolute lunatics not a good idea.
00:43:26.000And this was right after they picked Tim Walz.
00:43:29.000And I said, I think Tim Walz is a bad pick because he's an extreme leftist who tried to turn Minnesota into the windowless white van of the Midwest.
00:43:48.000So he agreed with my characterization that Walls was a leftist.
00:43:52.000And I would go further and say Kamala, in as much as she has any beliefs, is a radical leftist who wanted to end fracking and open borders and all the rest.
00:43:58.000So now you're getting this retconning from guys like Pacman saying, if only we'd picked a progressive.
00:44:03.000If only the progressives had turned out.
00:44:29.000Kyle Kalinske, I used to think he was a nice guy.
00:44:32.000He's kind of gone off the deep end on X. When he posted a picture from an airplane looking at farms and then said, I wonder why it looks this way, he got dragged mercilessly for not knowing what a farm was.
00:44:46.000And I said, hey, look, he's an urban liberal guy, but he's been very nice, and he'll have a conversation with you.
00:44:52.000Well, my friends, before the election, the day before, he said his bearish prediction for Kamala was that she would win all swing states, Iowa and Florida.
00:45:18.000And we're seeing a lot of predictions from people who completely missed the election, right?
00:45:23.000People whose predictions about this election were disastrously wrong are now giving us their predictions on what the next four years are going to look like.
00:45:30.000People are saying, you know what, I'm actually not that interested.
00:45:32.000I don't think you've developed a good predictive model.
00:45:34.000I don't think you know what the American people want.
00:45:35.000I don't think you understand right-wing strategy or what conservatives are going to do when elected.
00:45:39.000I don't think you know what you're talking about.
00:45:40.000To be fair to Kalinske, he's a leftist, and leftists are terrible with farming anyways, historically.
00:45:57.000There are a lot of the more far left people that are saying that.
00:46:00.000And you look at the graph that shows the areas with the little small, tiny little arrows that have gone to the right and how many, how far, and everything has been a right wing sweep.
00:46:12.000There was a sweep of the people, or there was a sweep of the people Looks like the House is going to be definitely the Senate.
00:46:20.000There were a bunch of leftists recalled out of California.
00:46:40.000What they're saying is if you look at 2020, which was a totally novel and unique election, whether you think it was fair or not, it was unquestionably novel and unique.
00:46:52.000There was a totally new method of collecting of getting people to vote and getting ballots.
00:46:56.000And they're looking at that and they're saying, well, all those 14 million or 15 million or whatever people stayed home.
00:47:04.000Those people never voted on a regular.
00:47:07.000regularly they were never going to go to the polls they were never going to actually get off their couch if it was fair in 2020 and i'm only going for argument's sake sake if it was fair it was because the ballots were mailed to people's homes they were filled out and then someone went and picked them up because the low propensity voters voters and the people that have no idea what they're voting for filled out those ballots the way that they thought was the nice way to do it and those ballots got turned in That's the only way that it could have been.
00:47:35.000When you look at, like, Pacman's Twitter account, he says, Trump's final message that Pelosi's a bitch, and it's like, whatever, I get those things.
00:47:42.000I think this tweet right here is a granular example of what's wrong with the left and why they lose subscribers.
00:47:48.000RFK being in charge of all things medical is quickly becoming a major reason not to vote for Trump.
00:47:54.000When you talk to a lot of liberals and hippy-dippy people, they're going, yeah, RFK Jr.'s right.
00:48:01.000RFK Jr. had a video a month or two ago about this coal tar additive that uses yellow dye that people are eating that we know causes health problems.
00:48:09.000He talked about fluoride being in the water being a problem.
00:48:13.000David Pakman giving a knee-jerk, nonsense reaction to RFK Jr., is why Democrats lose and why he loses subscribers.
00:48:54.000People on the right have been like, when did all the hippies start getting on the right?
00:48:59.000And what happened actually during COVID is when you noticed, when it was the vaccine stuff.
00:49:03.000But people were like, when did all the hippies start saying that Trump was good?
00:49:07.000There was some people that I saw a picture of that were at a Trump rally in tie-dye shirts that had Grateful Dead type imagery, and it said Trump on it.
00:49:18.000The reason is because they have always been anti-government, anti-pharma, anti-big corporation, and now the Republicans are the ones that are like, look, all the big corporations are giving to the Democrats.
00:49:31.000All the big corporations are trying to tell us what to do.
00:49:33.000All the big corporations want to get involved in what we have to take.
00:49:47.000So now, if you're skeptical of big power, wherever it may be, let's not forget Barry Goldwater.
00:49:53.000He wrote that a conservative is one who is skeptical of all monopolies, of all hyper-concentrated power.
00:50:00.000But now all that power, that's why Democrats view the Trump election as an insurrection.
00:50:07.000in itself forget about the capital forget about january 6th they view it as an insurrection and in a way it kind of is because the democrats dominate the government well and here's the real scandal that none of them are willing to point to they say people no longer trust the experts in the media or in medicine or in food processing in production but why is that we are one of the most obese we are literally the fattest country on the planet we are the most obese nation on the planet
00:50:36.000we are one of the sickest developed nations on the planet everyone on the left acknowledges that we have one of the worst health care systems in the world i would temper that a little bit they take it a bit too far but they're correct that there are many flaws with it but then whenever somebody who isn't a quote-unquote expert who's been trained by the same institutions that the left claims are broken and destroying our country they go this person isn't an expert you can't listen to them well where has listening to the experts gotten us It's made us the most obese nation on the planet.
00:51:03.000We have food that makes us less healthy.
00:51:05.000We have a medical system that seems to want us sick.
00:51:07.000We have a media that tells us lies and misinforms people and clearly didn't have the predictive power to tell us where this election was going to go or what the American people wanted.
00:51:15.000So maybe you should try challenging the experts if you want to win, because they have been leading you in this entire country in the wrong direction for decades.
00:52:08.000They have all that nice chicken and those little beef patties.
00:52:11.000But my point is, if you go to other developed nations and see the food that they're eating, they eat much more than us and they don't get as fat as us.
00:52:44.000I think we're heading in the right direction.
00:52:45.000But Trump and many of his officials faced what it seems like motivated attacks from the Department of Justice and others.
00:52:51.000For example, Trump obviously had a bunch of cases.
00:52:54.000Steve Bannon only recently got out of jail.
00:52:56.000Do you believe the Trump administration should go after Democrats who he believed Broke the law or strike a more conciliatory tone?
00:53:05.000Well, certainly President Trump needs to enforce the law.
00:53:08.000I mean, the problem with Peter Navarro's case or Steve Bannon's case is that they were ruptures with the American jurisprudential tradition.
00:53:16.000We, generally speaking, do not imprison senior White House officials for contempt of Congress.
00:54:00.000I agree with you largely that we don't want to create this precedent.
00:54:03.000I think for right now, you've got a large portion of the American people who are upset that Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon went to prison and Mayor Garland did not.
00:54:43.000It's going to be comfortable and cushy, just like Steve Bannon got.
00:54:45.000But if we don't do this, the American people will believe that even when you vote because you demand equality in the law, you don't get it.
00:54:52.000So if we're going to say, fine, Steve Bannon went to prison, we have two options.
00:54:55.000Merrick Garland goes or Trump issues a formal pardon to Navarro and Steve Bannon and would have to compensate them.
00:55:04.000Because just saying it shouldn't have happened isn't enough, it's not equality.
00:55:07.000He should say this is either malicious prosecution of two individuals, in which case they should receive a settlement compensation from the government and an apology, or it's not malicious prosecution and Merrick Garland should be in prison.
00:55:19.000Well, at the very least, on the pardon point, there are a lot of people who need pardons.
00:55:24.000The majority of January 6th who really were not violent, they were just redressing their grievances on a tough day, those guys who got two years, they gotta go.
00:55:37.000Many of them were not even redressing grievances.
00:55:39.000I met a couple that didn't know what was going on and were walking around D.C. This woman told me it was several hours after everything had stopped and people were leaving.
00:55:49.000And she walks up to the Capitol with no barricades, open sidewalks, and her and her husband walked up, walked to the building, which the doors were wide open.
00:55:57.000She walked inside and looked around for about a minute or two, took some pictures on her phone and then left, and they were smiling and giggling.
00:56:03.000They had no idea there was any violence.
00:56:12.000The other pardons that need to come through, there are people, there is a grandmother, a lovely pro-life grandmother, who is sitting in a federal prison right now.
00:56:21.000And there are actually multiple people who are sitting in federal prisons because they peacefully demonstrated at a baby killing site.
00:56:28.000And they were sentenced under the FACE Act.
00:56:31.000And the FACE Act was passed in the 90s, Bill Clinton.
00:56:33.000And the idea of the FACE Act was you can't block the entrances to abortion centers, Or pregnancy centers, or even churches.
00:56:41.000And the thing is, it was totally bogus.
00:56:43.000They never prosecute anyone for going after the churches under the face act.
00:56:47.000They never prosecute anyone for vandalizing or burning down pregnancy centers.
00:56:50.000It's only ever used to defend baby killing sites.
00:56:52.000All those people need to receive full pardons, and they need to repeal the face act.
00:56:58.000I just want to mention this really quickly.
00:57:00.000Mark Houck was a man who was protesting outside of an abortion clinic, praying.
00:57:04.000The police were called because an old man was harassing and yelling at his son, and the old man claimed that Mark Houck pushed him.
00:57:10.000The Soros-funded prosecutor decided not to move forward with charges because there was nothing there.
00:57:16.000And then a year later, under the FACE Act, his house is raided in the middle of the night, and he's arrested as if he's a dangerous criminal.
00:57:25.000Even though a source funded DAA said there was nothing there to prosecute him with.
00:57:28.000My point is, when civilians who are guilty of wrong think are punished this way, the idea that we're not going to go after either elected officials or unelected bureaucrats who are clearly and flagrantly disregarding the law for their political motives is insane.
00:57:41.000And if anyone says we need unity, okay, the time for unity can come if Trump decides to pardon some of them.
00:57:47.000But they absolutely need to have charges brought.
00:57:49.000We got this story from the New York Sun.
00:57:51.000Trump lawyer Mike Davis threatens Letitia James with prison in fiery podcast titles.
00:58:12.000I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term, because listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights.
00:58:47.000I think I would like to see a special investigation, a special prosecutor counsel to review the falsifying business records case out of New York because there is no underlying crime.
00:59:01.000So for those that aren't familiar with the story...
00:59:04.000Trump was charged with 34 counts of felony falsifying business records, but that requires an underlying crime.
00:59:10.000They said it was falsifying records in furtherance of another crime, and never named what the other crime was.
00:59:15.000That's the only way that it could be, because it would have been a misdemeanor, and the statute of limitations would have expired by the time they brought it.
00:59:19.000So they had to raise it to a felony, Plus, you saw...
00:59:39.000Already, Jack Smith dropped the 2020 overturning the election case, which was wise of him to do.
00:59:46.000However, this to your point, to the point that everyone is making on this panel, what the Democrats have done, what was the greatest threat to our democracy, our sacred constitution, our republic that we have seen in recent memory, certainly in any of our lifetimes.
01:00:01.000And there does need to be some consequence for that, not out of cruelty, not because we want to just pound our enemies into the dust, but because if there is not retribution for injustices, you can fall into one of two errors when there's an injustice.
01:00:59.000This unequal application of the law is why I think so many Republicans struggle to condemn harshly January 6th when they see what happened during the George Floyd riots and all the support they got from Democrats.
01:01:09.000I believe Kamala Harris even had a bail fund set up.
01:01:34.000When Nancy Pelosi takes a knee in support of George Floyd and the BLM movement, at the same time, it's like, these aren't honest actors, right?
01:01:53.000But if you would ask me to give a definition of what authoritarianism actually is, it's not when there's a lot of rules, and it's not even when rules are strictly enforced.
01:02:01.000It's when there's a lot of rules for the people And those in power have no rules.
01:02:07.000I believe that authoritarianism is not when there are too many rules, it's when there are too few rules for your government.
01:02:15.000And to fail to punish elected officials who abuse their power is not merciful, it's cruelty to the governed.
01:02:50.000If he wins the Supreme Court and makes the argument, I should not have to self-incriminate when purchasing a firearm, they throw that out, we get rid of this...
01:03:08.000I am not going to get emotional and demand that he suffer because I can't stand his family or anything like that.
01:03:15.000I say, this idea that we have a right against self-incrimination and the feds require you to tell them if you're in possession of or a user of illegal drugs is literally the government saying, tell us you've committed a crime so we can restrict your rights.
01:03:29.000Your right to keep and bear arms shall only be restricted through due process.
01:03:33.000That is penalty for some kind of violation.
01:03:36.000If you violate our laws, we can say, okay, you can't have a gun now.
01:03:42.000We can also lock you in a box for a long time.
01:03:45.000Hunter Biden was going to buy a weapon and the government said, tell us if you committed a crime or not.
01:04:23.000So going after a guy who's got the money and you're like, but you didn't pay on time, I'm like, I don't know.
01:04:26.000But how else were we going to get Al Capone, you know?
01:04:29.000Well, I do think it's fair to say that in some circumstances, particularly with Hunter, is he intended to conceal the money so that he didn't have to pay.
01:04:37.000That's different from just not paying.
01:04:59.000Inflation is legitimately theft, and it's a very regressive form of theft.
01:05:02.000It hits the poorest people the hardest.
01:05:04.000But the government has no right to just recklessly inflate the currency because they think they're going to buy themselves a few political favors.
01:05:15.000It's because the government is printing money and making their money worthless.
01:05:19.000Well, actually, so part of the reason that coins have ridges on them is because back when money was gold or silver or some precious metal, people would shave little bits off of the edge of the currency so that they could make extra money for themselves.
01:05:34.000If that is theft, then inflation is theft because it's just an abstract way of the Fed attempting to do the exact same thing.
01:05:40.000I'm a little bit of a nerd about this, but I understand the argument that 2% inflation or really low inflation consistently, it spurs growth.
01:05:50.000It makes people want to go ahead and spend it.
01:05:53.000It might be inevitable in certain economic systems.
01:06:52.000I just want to say, they also make it as difficult as possible to escape inflation.
01:06:57.000So, for example, the fact that capital gains are not indexed for inflation, I believe, is criminal.
01:07:01.000Let's say you decide that the dollar is going to start to crash, you're not going to be able to retain the value of your savings, so you go and buy stock.
01:07:09.000Okay, so let's say the value of the dollar gets cut in half, therefore your stock doubles in value, even though no actual wealth was gained.
01:07:16.000When you sell that to get your value back, that half that you increased, that 100% increase, which was really just keeping up with inflation, is taxed as if it's profit.
01:08:19.000It's like reforms in this department, and I'm like, we want to get rid of those too.
01:08:23.000Well, I think their income tax restructuring or readjustment for the brackets is a very reasonable policy.
01:08:30.000If you've actually looked at it, it would cut taxes for people making between $47,000 and $168,000 per year.
01:08:37.000Which is a huge subsection of the middle class and even some wealthier people.
01:08:41.000Then above $168K, some people's taxes actually go up a little bit.
01:08:45.000But the point is what it does is it creates a 15% and a 30% tax bracket.
01:08:50.000And anyone making less than $168K per year pays 15%.
01:08:54.000Any income you have above that gets taxed at 30%.
01:08:57.000That would cut taxes for a lot of the middle class.
01:08:59.000It's more reasonable than a flat tax is because right now we can't afford that just because if we want to keep revenue because flat tax would...
01:09:42.000And I walked to the shore and watched...
01:09:46.000Like, refugees, if you can call it, I think they're economic migrants, but some refugees literally swim on a shore and walk up and walk past me.
01:09:52.000And you just saw the ships importing flannel and Subarus and jean jackets from China.
01:10:00.000It's rich, because conservatives are laying out their Project 2025.
01:10:03.000This is exactly what they were trying to do.
01:10:05.000But as opposed to the Kamala Harris campaign, where it's like, we really don't have any idea of what you're trying to do.
01:10:11.000They didn't have a platform on their website for a month.
01:11:57.000But we're going to play a little bit because I'd like to get an unfiltered view of what leftist liberals think is currently happening after Trump's victory.
01:12:05.000I'm going to tell you something that is terrifying me.
01:13:25.000I just want to mention, and keep that chart up, because it'll help me make my point.
01:13:29.000This is the scumbag who, after Christian children were murdered by a trans shooter, was joking about it on Twitter, saying, oh, I guess their prayers didn't work.
01:13:37.000That was the attitude he had about little Christian kids getting killed, and then he loses 5,000 subscribers, and look how somber he is.
01:13:55.000When Elon Musk announced that he was going to purchase Twitter, what did we see?
01:14:01.000Overnight, somehow, channels that were associated with the right saw massive gains in follower count and on the left started bleeding subscribers like crazy.
01:14:08.000There was no legitimate explanation for the massive shift other than they had their thumb on the scales and once they found out they were facing an internal review or an external review, they took the thumb off.
01:15:03.000Now that the election is over, the fake accounts that were being used to prop up his channels to make it look like there was support for the left are no longer being funded properly, and they're shutting down.
01:15:16.000During the election, the left wants to make liberalism and leftism and these politicians look prominent and they use bots to prop accounts up.
01:15:25.000Once the money is gone because they're massively in debt and they've lost, the followers are gone.
01:15:31.000I noticed that in the height of the Republican primary even, and then I especially saw it up through the general, just on X even.
01:15:39.000I'd see all, you know, you get flooded with all these really nasty comments.
01:15:43.000And there's always some nasty comments, but it really spikes.
01:15:46.000And then I'll tell you, after election night, my nasty comments on X, and by the way, I have been kind of mean on X. I've actually increased the vitriol.
01:15:54.000But the nasty comments from the left, supposedly, More or less disappeared.
01:16:00.000I have said some of the most horrible things imaginable on X. I've mostly just retweeted predictions that I bookmarked from left-wing people.
01:16:11.000Let's hear from David a little bit more.
01:16:13.000As you can see, subscribers just go up, up, up, up, and they are down.
01:16:30.000These are the people that keep the show running.
01:16:32.000Now, for a moment, I thought, If it's just YouTube, maybe YouTube is purging people who are inactive subscribers and once a year usually YouTube does this and you see a little decline and then numbers go back up.
01:17:25.000So I do think there's probably a lot of people checking out.
01:17:28.000I believe that component is that David has been misinforming people and they realized it last night when they said, how am I in the minority?
01:17:34.000I thought we were going to have the popular vote at least, even if Trump won.
01:17:39.000They realized I'm on the wrong side of history and these people are genuinely terrified of being on the wrong side of history.
01:17:47.000On the streets to police officers and small businesses, you're on the wrong side of history.
01:17:51.000So what do you think a liberal who's scared of that is thinking when they wake up and say, David Pakman is the wrong side of history and he led me astray?
01:18:01.000I think that it's just a matter of people are kind of realizing that men can't become women.
01:18:07.000And the left has been leading people astray.
01:18:10.000The left doesn't have policies that people like.
01:18:13.000But you know what really hit him, too?
01:18:15.000I mean, I agree with that, and I think that was so glaring to a lot of people.
01:18:18.000But even beyond that, Trump won the popular vote, which doesn't matter legally, but it matters because it took away the one big talking point that they had.
01:18:28.000Well, this is a, you know, the real democracy was, no, actually most people voted for Trump.
01:18:33.000And then the fact that black men disproportionately voted for Trump and Hispanics disproportionately voted for Trump and even women started moving.
01:18:40.000Because of that, what are they supposed to conclude?
01:18:43.000There's no good oppressor narrative anymore on any front.
01:18:47.000So I think in as much as they are capable of introspection, I think they had to come to the conclusion, yikes, maybe I've been looking at this a little bit wrong.
01:18:56.000I am interested to hear what he has to say further.
01:18:59.000I heard anecdotally from a couple dozen people who said, you know, David, I just can't do it anymore.
01:19:10.000And the reason that this is terrifying, not only because it puts everybody in left-wing media's livelihoods at stake and at risk, it terrifies me because our instinct is the opposite of what the right does.
01:19:27.000And we will get crushed if this is the way we respond to a defeat.
01:19:42.000Can I just point out, this guy's got 2.64 million followers and he lost 5,000 and he's having a breakdown over it.
01:19:49.000I have told you guys this, you watch the show, what did I say?
01:19:53.000Whenever you see a YouTuber make a video where they're like, oh, woe is me, I'm so miserable, you can usually look at their numbers and see, like, they lost subscribers or viewers or something like that.
01:20:02.000David, I got a cup you can cry into here.
01:20:08.000It's embarrassing when right-wingers do it, too.
01:20:08.000And everybody's losing thousands of subscribers.
01:20:11.000Understand that when the right loses, they get organized, they fund, and they create insanely effective organizations like Turning Point USA. Here we go.
01:20:24.000Investing in the Daily Wire and building out this huge network of right wing ideas and influencers.
01:20:49.000...algorithmic desubscription spiral right now.
01:20:52.000Because when people start unsubscribing on YouTube, YouTube thinks, oh, we probably shouldn't recommend this content because it's generating a lot of unsubscribes.
01:21:02.000So then the content doesn't get recommended.
01:21:39.000How it's disgusting to me, it's disgusting to me, that when you engage in politics, you've got to convince people climate change is even happening.
01:21:50.000You can't just find solutions because half the country doesn't even accept the science of vaccines.
01:21:55.000David, I just want to mention, when the people who are claiming climate change is happening by beachfront properties that are supposed to be underwater in 20 to 30 years, it's really hard to trust them.
01:22:06.000It's rich of him to fearmonger about Daily Wire and Turning Point USA as though they have more influence than the media dominated by the leftists.
01:22:18.000Also make the point in the book that if you actually care about the world for ourselves, children, grandchildren, other people, families, friends, people we care about, when you disengage because they've gotten so extreme, You cede ground to them and you say, do whatever you want.
01:22:37.000I'm disengaging, do whatever you want.
01:24:49.000He could have made a video being like, now's the time for us to redouble our efforts.
01:24:53.000But you know why he's saying it's the apocalypse?
01:24:54.000This gets to something you just said, which is, the lie was, if you don't subscribe to the David Pakman channel, the message of the left won't get out.
01:25:02.000It's ridiculous because the left controls all of the institutions and the whole media.
01:25:07.000Beyond David Pakman, we were talking the other night about how the New York Times and the Washington Post obviously are coordinating to point out that all of us are eating their lunch.
01:25:17.000For the first time probably ever, we have more influence than the establishment media on an election.
01:25:22.000That's why the Washington Post called it the podcast election.
01:25:24.000I do think part of the freakout here is one, I don't know, maybe he's got car payments he can't afford, but the other part of the freakout is, oh wow, maybe we can't count on a monopoly in the media.
01:25:35.000Maybe the right actually broke through, and maybe the right's message is a lot more popular and manifestly more truthful.
01:25:42.000Oh, this actually could be the collapse of the whole House of Cards.
01:25:45.000What strikes me is the complete lack of reflection on anything about why so many people may have decided to vote for Trump.
01:25:53.000There's no sense of curiosity from him to talk about the issues that resonated with so many Americans, and they're so out of touch.
01:25:59.000He's part of the left that is just completely out of touch with the average normal American.
01:26:04.000I think that the fact that they're freaking out about this is probably...
01:26:12.000It's probably indicative of the fact that the, or it's probably related to the fact that there was such a sweep, right?
01:26:20.000So he sees Tuesday happen, Trump's back, which they thought couldn't happen.
01:26:28.000So much so that they actually ran Kamala Harris and tried to shove that down the American people's throat.
01:26:34.000Then there was also the Senate and looks like the House and all of the right-leaning, You know, all the people that moved so far right, and now he sees that there's also a massive exodus, or what seems to him like a massive exodus, from all of these left-wing accounts.
01:26:55.000Maybe he actually does have a point, and he has something to be afraid of, because maybe the American people have said, you know what, we tried this for the past years.
01:27:05.000For the past 12 of the past 16 years have been Democrats in control and running the show and Democrat policies.
01:28:08.000So there is left-wing media because the left took over the established institutions, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the news networks that have federal licenses.
01:28:18.000When you actually have a free market and you don't have the left monopolizing control, even on the platforms, which give priority and advantage to the left and punish us for saying normal things, when you start to crack that a little bit and you actually create a market, maybe there just isn't much of a market for the David Pakman show.
01:30:12.000People, if you are listening, consider getting a membership at TimCast.com right now because now more than ever, we're going to keep going.
01:30:19.000I outline it in the book, The Echo Machine.
01:31:12.000Wouldn't it be great if you sold more cigars tonight than he gets memberships for the show?
01:31:15.000You know, I actually feel confident that I will do that.
01:31:18.000But the other difference, first of all, let's not forget, Timcast is what made my book, which did accurately explain things, unlike David Pakman's.
01:31:26.000It really helped it get to number one nationally.
01:31:28.000But the difference here is, David Pakman is trying to sell you some book that's going to whine and complain and probably give you false wisdom.
01:32:37.000You know, it's funny he's saying this, too, because the last time Trump was elected president, left-wing media actually, it was the most lucrative time to be involved in left-wing media, and they made more money than they ever did, based off a fear-mongering off of Donald Trump.
01:32:49.000So while he's crying crocodiles here now, I'm sure the Trump administration, or the next four years of Trump, will actually be very lucrative for him and many people on the left, unfortunately.
01:33:00.000So if you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share the show with everyone you know, become a member at TimCast.com.
01:33:16.000I think he's very wrong on a lot of things, but I can respect that we're all in this game where, you know, I don't really trust the guy, but competition in politics is important.
01:33:25.000Well, on our side, we have a Discord server with tens of thousands of people, and you can be a member and meet new people and get involved in the movement.
01:33:33.000A lot of people are working on new projects.
01:33:37.000And, you know, every day the members of the Discord say, please shout it out so we can get more people to come hang out because they want to be your friend.
01:34:35.000At the time, though, you know, they got rid of him because there were all these psych drugs that made people think they didn't need to be in the asylum.
01:35:23.000Also, I just want to point out, one of the beautiful things about this election was that New York came closer to going to Trump than Florida did to going for Harris.
01:35:33.000There were Democrats saying that Florida was in play.
01:36:05.000Understand we know about liberal and leftist projection.
01:36:07.000Oh no, Trump's going to start rounding up his political opponents.
01:36:09.000They're saying that because they're doing it.
01:36:11.000And now they're worried it'll happen to them.
01:36:13.000When they chant you're on the wrong side of history, they're telling you their greatest fear.
01:36:16.000The reason why so many liberals, I shouldn't say liberals, but regular people don't speak up.
01:36:22.000They stand back and they keep their mouths shut and let all the bad stuff happen is because they're worried that they're going to be in the minority.
01:37:25.000Because every single time a Republican wins the presidential election and they don't get the popular vote, the left goes, yeah, he won at chess, but what about checkers?
01:37:33.000That's not the game we're playing right now.
01:37:35.000Also, if they played the popular vote game, then Trump would just campaign in California and New York and he'd win the popular vote by a lot, which he didn't.
01:37:40.000Well, this is a BS thing people use to reject him as president to when he won last time, and I'm just glad they don't have that BS to hold their hat on this time as well.
01:37:48.000Wyatt Caldenberg says, Governor Shapiro has been cracking down on the Amish.
01:37:53.000A gay man named Scott met with them and got many to vote to stop their persecution.
01:37:58.000This could make a great American movie.
01:38:00.000You know, there's a lot here that's kind of improbable if you ask someone 20 years ago, like, hey, will the host of The Apprentice go on the show of the host of Fear Factor and have that be a major political event?
01:38:18.000My pitch for Sheamus is a cartoon where it's a guy on the side of the road, all haggard and homeless, shaking, and it's the year 2003, or it's like 2009.
01:38:27.000The guy from the reality TV show, the most popular on NBC, is going to go on the other reality TV shows.
01:39:05.000Alright, Seacowboy says, with the greater Idaho movement gaining more traction, I would like to propose a greater West Virginia movement involving Western Virginia.
01:39:13.000You wouldn't even have to change the state names.
01:39:15.000Western Maryland has already written letters asking West Virginia to annex them.
01:39:27.000You go to these bars, these restaurants.
01:39:29.000We drove a couple hours in the western panhandle, went to a bar, and they had the picture of Donald Trump riding the Velociraptor with machine guns.
01:39:38.000This is why the Republicans need Dick Cheney back, is because we need Cheney to send the F-16s into Maryland to liberate the West Maryland people from oppression.
01:40:29.000I wish you would have left these lefties speechless just like the number one bestseller by Michael Knowles.
01:40:34.000You know, the TimCast listeners, and specifically the Super Chatters, are the most wonderfully Obsessively one-minded people in the world, and I am so grateful for it.
01:40:46.000When we had Klavan on the other day, he was talking about his book, and I was like, you need to turn your book into a meme that everyone wants to be a part of, because we still get super chats periodically that sell your book.
01:41:37.000Seamus made the joke on his video the other day where I think it's his best video.
01:41:43.000And I'm in some of them and should praise the ones I'm in.
01:41:46.000But in this one, it's the guy working out with Peanut the Squirrel and then SWAT cops come in and a guy with a machine gun fires and then Trump uses telekinesis to stop the bullet and save Peanut's life.
01:41:55.000And then it turns out the cop is Kamala Harris.
01:41:57.000And so she's like, I was just following orders.
01:42:00.000And he goes, then I order you into the crystals.
01:42:01.000And then she transports into a crystal screaming.
01:42:04.000So apparently someone posted this image where they were like, you know, liberals spending 10,000 years in the crystals might do them good or something like this.
01:42:13.000And it was a picture of like a Wojak character in a crystal screaming.
01:42:16.000So then everyone started making jokes about Trump.
01:42:19.000When he wins, he's going to transport liberals into crystals to imprison them for 10,000 years?
01:42:23.000And that is in Project 2025, too, actually, yeah.
01:42:27.000Did you guys see at the Kamala concession speech that you want to tell me somebody doesn't believe in God?
01:42:54.000When you defeat someone in Elder Scrolls, you can trap their soul in a soul gem and then use it for crafting things like this or use it for whatever.
01:43:02.000That's not the same as imprisoning someone in crystals for 10,000 years.
01:43:07.000But people started to associate Elder Scrolls with the meme.
01:43:09.000Either way, it's hilarious to see these AI-generated photos where Trump is, like, hovering over crystals, and there's people trapped inside of them.
01:43:38.000So powerful business leaders can be assassinated.
01:43:40.000Peanut the squirrel had 2 million followers.
01:43:42.000And I believe, this is my opinion, it's a conspiracy theory.
01:43:45.000The reason the state came and took Fred and Peanut was because they were concerned that a high profile account with millions of followers would spawn copycats.
01:43:54.000People would be like, I can get followers too if I get a squirrel.
01:43:58.000And then you have the potential for actual rabies because people will go for wild squirrels.
01:44:02.000And even though Peanut was raised in a home indoor and totally fine, their attitude was probably, look, if you seize the squirrel, he's going to sue you and get it back.
01:45:04.000I think when you look at social media and all of these histrionic women are posting videos of themselves crying, they're doing it because it's a social media trend.
01:45:11.000And the state said, look, just like people all do the same dance.
01:45:14.000Remember the coconut dance that the women were doing for Kamala?
01:46:11.000They didn't want to create extra liability.
01:46:13.000So their focus was just, maybe they were thinking, we're not going to move Biden or Harris, so let's focus on as much as we can in the Senate and the House.
01:46:22.000I feel like there's a lot of split-ticketers in Arizona.
01:46:26.000This was a state that elected John McCain, wasn't he a senator there for a very long time.
01:46:31.000Yeah, it is a legitimately purple state.
01:46:34.000And also, Trump leading the realignment of the GOP does mean there are going to be people who vote for Trump top of the ticket who are really not Republicans down ballot.
01:46:44.000I mean, I'm not saying there aren't shenanigans.
01:47:22.000I mean that totally without any cuteness whatsoever.
01:47:26.000If you believe that God exists, which I think is demonstrable and inescapable and can be known with certainty from nature through reason...
01:47:43.000I forgot about that convincing theory.
01:47:45.000But, you know, if you really believe that, as I do, that God is real and omnipotent and omnibenevolent and all that, then it is simply rational that your first course ought to be prayer.
01:47:54.000And then don't forget, prayer ought to impel you to good works.
01:48:05.000And I say this with, call me stupid, call me whatever you want.
01:48:10.000Most of the conversations I have with people who are atheists, they can't get over the idea that That in their mind, they think when you say God, there's a guy in a white robe flying around like Superman.
01:48:21.000And when I try to explain things like, okay, before we even get to the concept of God, let's talk about the fourth dimension and tesseracts.
01:48:27.000The human mind cannot comprehend what a tesseract looks like, yet we know mathematically it exists.
01:48:32.000They're like, nope, flying guy in the sky.
01:48:34.000And I was like, you need to get beyond the idea that God himself is as limited as a human is.
01:48:40.000But I understand why they're atheists if that's where their mind is stuck.
01:48:45.000And in fairness to them, they are actually caught up in what is called a scandal to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.
01:48:53.000They're caught up in the scandal of the incarnation, the fact that God also is a man.
01:49:00.000They're caught up in the central mystery of the faith, which is the Trinity, and they're trying to make sense of it, which there was a popular— Real quick, put a second.
01:49:08.000I'm saying even outside of Christianity.
01:49:11.000God is it's actually fascinating it's a great point most of the people I meet who are atheists do have a Christian view of God yes of course It's a Christian civilization.
01:50:36.000I mean, that happens, especially to young men, especially in this day and age.
01:50:39.000But I think the other thing that we don't talk about a lot, because it's not as intellectual and philosophical, I think a lot of the reason these guys insist on saying they're atheists is just because they sin a lot and really enjoy sinning and don't want to feel bad about it.
01:50:55.000I mean, at that age, there are so many, like, complex philosophical arguments that sound robust and intellectual that people have tried to make against God, but the most convincing one to me was always, like, not sinning is hard.
01:51:07.000It's hard, and it feels good to sin if you're caught up in vice.
01:51:14.000And I feel that I've done a lot of videos about it.
01:51:18.000I could have a three-hour sit-down explanation where I would love to sit with a physicist and talk about how, at minimum, mathematical probability suggests the existence of a god.
01:51:30.000And that I actually believe observable science and...
01:51:36.000In every discipline leads us to a conclusion that I would say is beyond probability.
01:51:45.000And I know right now it's going to be very difficult for a lot of people who are atheists to be like, well, he's not explaining anything, so I don't believe him.
01:51:51.000I'm not going to go into a three-hour explanation.
01:51:54.000But if you're trying to start to look into what I'm talking about, research entropy and negative entropy...
01:52:00.000Read about complex dynamic systems and the tendencies of matter and life towards the creation of complex systems.
01:52:06.000And that ultimately leads you to one conclusion, that complex dynamic systems increase exponentially beyond our comprehension, which, at minimum, from a human perspective, suggests the existence of a god.
01:52:18.000If you follow that math to its conclusion, it's a god.
01:52:22.000No, I think you're right that the logical conclusion of all of these different fields of study is...
01:52:29.000I can't remember who said this, but he said the first sip of the glass from the natural sciences gets you to atheism, but at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting.
01:52:38.000But on top of that, I mean, the very foundation of these fields is also something that's based in a belief in God.
01:52:44.000You have to believe, you have to have some kind of supernatural worldview, whether you acknowledge it or not, to believe that the universe is comprehensible to human beings in any way, shape, or form.
01:52:54.000You know, my buddy Spencer just wrote this great—I'll plug a book that's not my own.
01:52:58.000He just came out with this great book, Light of the Mind, Light of the World, which makes all of these points, and it does so beautifully.
01:53:04.000But Ross Douthat, the conservative who writes for the New York Times, the one guy, he, in a column that was promoting that book, he pointed out something that had escaped me, which is that fashionable atheism that got a lot of us, I think, when we were younger— That fashionable atheism did not come about as a result of arguments or the development of thinking.
01:53:24.000Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, it came about because of specific historical events.
01:53:31.000The radicalism of Islam was exploited, or of some Muslims, was exploited to kill all religion in the public mind.
01:53:38.000And also the Catholic Church scandal, which was Selectively publicized and overstated, but nevertheless, it was a real thing.
01:53:44.000And so because all these things happened in the early 2000s, people just had this emotional, not rational, but emotional recoiling away from religion.
01:53:53.000But now that appears to be going away.
01:53:56.000Yeah, well, and also, after 9-11, blaming religion as a whole, rather than just explaining very clearly that this was an issue with Islam, was a politically correct way of analyzing the situation.
01:54:08.000Whenever radical Muslim terrorists do anything bad, it's all religion that's a problem.
01:54:12.000Of course, when Christians do something bad, that's a specific doctrinal issue with Christian belief.
01:58:39.000I think part of the reason it resonated with the right so much is it is the perfect encapsulation of how petty bureaucracy just seems out to suck all of the joy out of everything good in life.
01:59:13.000I get this, I say, finally, I've got this nice cushion that I had to sell a kidney to buy, and then, days later, Some nasty little squirrel.
01:59:23.000It wasn't Peanut, but it was one who looked like him.
01:59:25.000I don't want to cast aspersions on a whole group of animals.
01:59:29.000He ripped through my expensive cushion.
01:59:38.000I think that what really happened was after their eating dogs, their eating cats comment, Trump won the dog vote, and Kamala Harris was very concerned about this, so to try to get dogs on her side, she assassinated a squirrel.
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02:01:51.000I am Michael J. Knowles on X. My rule was, if you are filmed crying on camera after an election, you don't get to vote anymore.
02:01:59.000But however, people were like, Tim, and they pointed out a handful of people that we know and are friends with who cried with joy, and I said, no!
02:02:06.000I don't care if you're happy or sad, you film yourself crying on camera.
02:02:17.000This was one of my favorite episodes in a while.
02:02:19.000It might have been because I'm still on a high from election night.
02:02:22.000It could have been some of these wonderful, delicious Mayflower cigars that Michael Knowles was nice enough to give me, and obviously it was great to have the thoughtful and wise Knowles on tonight.
02:04:36.000And I just want to give a shout to Phil, because we had people chatting, they were like, Phil, don't you know the name of your own song?
02:04:41.000Because you're always like, what was the other song?
02:04:43.000And it's because Phil is trying not to shout out the songs he hasn't released yet.
02:04:46.000Yeah, we still have, we have six new songs that have not come out yet, so I want to make sure I don't slip and do any kind of pre-stuff, so...