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00:02:16.000Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska for two and a half hours today to discuss an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
00:02:23.000Hillary Clinton says that if he's successful, that she herself will nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:02:28.000So I hope that he is, and I hope that she actually has to go through with it because I imagine that would be really tough for her.
00:02:33.000D.C. Attorney General is suing the Trump administration for what is looking like a very successful operation to help bring down crime in the DC area.
00:02:49.000New York Times opinion page still hates Donald, or still hates America.
00:02:52.000They were talking about changing the, or getting rid of the Senate, expanding the court, and all of the things that they would like to do to make sure that they get into power and stay in power basically forever.
00:03:04.000New Jersey is looking to charge parents for kids breaking the law.
00:03:08.000And the Marines are going to go on vacation in Latin America.
00:04:14.000There have been people that have gotten married because they met in the Discord.
00:04:17.000There's a bunch of podcasts that have started because they met in the Discord and talked about things that they agreed on and got started there.
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00:06:12.000Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet for two and a half hours at Alaska Summit to discuss possible end to Russia-Ukraine war.
00:06:19.000Joint base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska.
00:06:22.000President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin met for about two and a half hours on Friday at a summit in Alaska that started with a handshake, a smile, and a ride in the presidential limousine.
00:06:31.000It also had an overflight by a B-2 bomber, two F-35s, and two F-22s.
00:06:37.000So that's something that they left out, and that's worth mentioning.
00:06:41.000An unusually warm reception for a U.S. adversary responsible for launching the greatest land war in Europe since 1945.
00:06:47.000They plan to hold a joint news conference after talking together with top advisors behind closed doors on efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
00:06:54.000When they greeted each other, they gripped hands for an extended period of time on a red carpet rolled out at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage.
00:07:02.000As they chatted, Putin grinned and pointed Skyward, where B-2s and F-22 military aircraft designed to oppose Russia during the Cold War flew overhead.
00:07:11.000Reporters nearby yelled, President Putin, will you stop killing civilians?
00:07:17.000And Russia's leader put his hands up to his ears as though to indicate he couldn't hear them.
00:07:22.000Trump and Putin then shared the U.S. presidential limb known as the Beast for a short ride to their meeting site, with Putin offering a broad smile as the vehicle rolled past the cameras.
00:07:31.000So we've got a possible scoop, or not, well, not scoop, but we've got a possible, there's a possibility that Brett Baer or Sean Hannity will be talking to Donald Trump on Air Force One, and we'll get updates to you guys as soon as we get them.
00:07:49.000If they do, if they actually do do an interview on Air Force One, we'll cut to that for a few minutes when it happens, probably around 9 o'clock, because that's when Hannity shows run.
00:07:59.000But this isn't a historic meeting because it's the first time that Putin's ever been to Alaska, and I think it's the first time that the U.S. has met with Putin in since 10 years at least.
00:08:33.000There are people out there that think there's not going to be, or there is no reason to have any kind of peace unless Putin promises to pull back, not just from the Donbass and the areas that he's taken since 2022, but also if he has to leave the Crimea, the Crimea area and stuff, which I don't think that that's, I don't think that's even remotely possible.
00:08:56.000But I'm curious to know your thoughts.
00:08:58.000I'm very happy that this is happening.
00:09:00.000In general, I was kind of crying out for this a couple of weeks ago that we got to end this war somehow.
00:09:04.000And I think Putin's been pretty clear, although the American media seems to have obfuscated his demands that he wants all the land east of the Donbass River.
00:09:11.000He's looking for a geographical border.
00:09:13.000It was probably the most stabilizing thing he can do.
00:09:15.000Because if you, you guys talked about this through the week.
00:09:17.000If you draw arbitrary borders with just a straight line across a flat area, there's inevitably going to be conflict because it's an easy place to attack.
00:09:25.000When it's a river or a mountain, it's much easier just to that's my border.
00:09:29.000I think that's dependent on the people involved.
00:09:32.000It is too, because the northern U.S. borders with Canada.
00:10:03.000So if Putin takes everything east of the Donbass, which they already have control of, and then they create a land bridge down into Crimea so that they have warm water sea access and they can improve their GDP by 30% because now they can trade into the Mediterranean.
00:10:17.000I think that's the whole purpose and the point.
00:10:32.000Well, when he was talking to Tucker Carlson, he was bringing up the history of Ukraine and how to the Russians, Ukraine is part of Russia because Kiev and Rus, I guess, were the original Russians, and they were from Kiev and they went to Moscow.
00:10:47.000And there's a long history between these two countries.
00:10:49.000Now, I'm not incredibly well-read on the Russian Ukrainian history, but I know Ukraine and Russia have got very, very deep history.
00:11:03.000So it's my sense that whereas I'm not disputing the argument you're making about the economic benefit to him, but I do think that this is more than just an economic play.
00:11:14.000I think this is a more surface level opinion, but it's just nice to see a president who's not a house plant, basically, get together with a world leader and assert dominance.
00:11:28.000I feel like if this was Biden meeting with Putin, he probably would have agreed with everything that Putin wanted in exchange for like an ice cream cone.
00:11:36.000So it's just nice to see Trump be able to come together.
00:11:56.000I brought up she did say it's just part of the story.
00:11:58.000They've basically taken all of, well, they've taken all of the area they said they were going to take as far as like they want that they wanted.
00:12:04.000People have argued because they have the lithium, the coal, the offshore gas, all that stuff.
00:12:08.000They've currently occupied the areas that are like rich in this rare mineral earth.
00:12:14.000Are these the areas that the United States was looking to make the deals with Ukraine about like the rare earth minerals and stuff like that?
00:12:20.000This map right here, from what I understand, this is what I saw as well earlier.
00:12:24.000This is from an article from Fox News from two days ago, I think.
00:12:27.000But this map right here also shows all the areas they've taken, including north here.
00:12:32.000But this being the menu, the highly wealthy, like oil rich areas.
00:13:10.000As far as I can tell, I think they intentionally took that area away from the Russian part of the split up because they didn't want to give the hegemony, hegemony to Russia.
00:13:18.000They didn't want it to just become another Soviet Union right away.
00:13:21.000It's like too much economic power if we give them Mediterranean access.
00:13:25.000There is a distinction between Ukrainians and Russians, right?
00:13:37.000Russians think that the Ukrainians are Russian, whereas Ukrainians are more like we're Ukrainians.
00:13:43.000And so the Ukrainians feel like they would be subjugated.
00:13:47.000The Russians feel like they would be bringing the Ukrainians back into the Russian fold.
00:13:51.000I mean, this is again, this is something that goes back hundreds of years.
00:13:55.000I don't know, like, I'm not at all claiming to be some kind of expert on this, but I know that it's a very, that it's a very deep history these two countries have.
00:14:04.000And all of the times that there's been invasions of Russia, the two major times, which would be Napoleon and Hitler, they went right through Ukraine.
00:14:13.000Yeah, we were talking before the show.
00:14:14.000I was talking with about this, and it was the Germans had three armies when they went east into Russia, the Northern Army, the Center Army, and the South.
00:14:22.000The Army South group had very little problem going through Ukraine.
00:14:25.000That was the easiest the Germans had was in the South because it's so flat.
00:14:29.000You know, in the North, they're up there.
00:14:30.000At least it was very cold, very, very messed up in mud.
00:15:24.000Well, I think, yeah, I think they were Soviet Russians.
00:15:27.000Now, that's not intended to be a defense of the Nazis, but the reason that there are so many, that they have a positive view of the Nazis as opposed to the communists is because the communists did the Holodomor.
00:15:41.000You know, they killed millions of Ukrainians and the Nazis kicked them out.
00:15:47.000And I don't know, again, I don't, I'm not the most in, I don't have the most deep knowledge of this, but the Nazis were actually less brutal to the Russians as well.
00:15:58.000But like, I only know as much as I've read.
00:16:07.000I don't think anybody in Russia wants, well, I would imagine most sane critical thinkers don't want another instance of centralized planning because that's where the whole domir comes from.
00:16:15.000When you have a central government that can decide that 80,000 people aren't going to get fed tonight, you got a real problem.
00:16:20.000Those 80,000 people should be governing themselves.
00:16:22.000I know you want to work together with your federal government and stuff, but local government.
00:16:26.000So, you know, I don't think those Russians are, I don't think they want it.
00:16:41.000Hillary Clinton, from the post-millennial, Hillary Clinton would nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he ends Ukraine-Russia war without Ukraine having to cede territory.
00:16:51.000If Donald Trump negotiates an end to Putin's war on Ukraine without Ukraine having to cede territory, I'll nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize myself.
00:17:16.000Yeah, they were friendly because Donald Trump, before Donald Trump got into politics, Donald Trump would donate money to everybody because he wanted to be friends with everybody and he also wanted to be able to get in touch with people.
00:17:38.000Everybody that meets Donald Trump and talks to him, unless they go in intending to hate him and they're rude and they are looking to start a fight with him.
00:17:50.000Everybody comes away and they're just like, all right, the guy's nice.
00:18:00.000Look, and for the most part, to be honest with you, when you meet people that are that well-known in politics and that well-known just overall, they do have a really amazing amount of charisma.
00:18:12.000I remember when I met, what's his name?
00:18:35.000When you meet these guys, they have the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room and to remember small things about you if you've met them, if they've met you twice.
00:18:47.000That's something that politicians in Western countries particularly have.
00:18:52.000That's part of why they end up in positions of high positions in government.
00:18:58.000And it'll be the same thing with people that are senators a lot of time.
00:19:02.000You probably don't see it as much with all Congress people because there's so many Congress people.
00:19:06.000But we were talking last night about the people in Texas and whether or not the Democrats that are looking to make hay about what's going on in Texas, if they can get arrested, like are they going to be able to actually capitalize on that?
00:19:21.000And do they have the political talent to really make something of it?
00:19:25.000Because of course they want to get arrested.
00:19:26.000Of course they want to get picked up and get on, you know, make social media posts about it, get on TV and stuff.
00:19:32.000But only certain people, the really politically talented, could take that opportunity and turn it into something that gets them not only or gets them from not only being a state representative, but gets them onto the national stage and gives them influence nationally.
00:19:54.000Well, I mean, now you have a record and you're not going anywhere.
00:19:57.000Yeah, I mean, even if it's not the end of the career, it's like you won't be able to capitalize on it.
00:20:02.000It's really being able to take the attention that you're getting from that and turn it into something tangible.
00:20:07.000And that's what the really politically talented people can do.
00:20:11.000And, you know, that's why someone like Donald Trump, I mean, he was a massive star beforehand, but the reason he was a massive star is because he's got that very deep political talent that's really, you know, it's part of his personality.
00:20:25.000He's got the ability to just charm people's pants off.
00:20:29.000So that's why Hillary Clinton wanted to go to his wedding.
00:20:34.000But anyways, from the post-millennial, in a podcast appearance on Friday, Hillary Clinton said that she would nominate President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he brings an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine without Ukraine having to cede any territory to its eastern neighbor.
00:20:48.000Clinton told the raging moderate podcast, I understand from everything I've read, he very much would like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:20:55.000Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war where Putin is the aggressor invading a neighbor country, trying to change the borders, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin's version of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, something we haven't seen.
00:21:13.000But maybe this is the opportunity to make it clear that there must be a ceasefire.
00:21:18.000There will be no exchange of territory and that over a period of time, Putin should actually withdraw from the territory he seized in order to demonstrate his good faith efforts.
00:21:25.000Let us say, not to threaten European security.
00:21:28.000If we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:21:33.000Now, I think that she's alluding to also Crimea.
00:21:36.000I don't imagine that she would, I can't imagine her actually nominating him.
00:23:11.000Now, some people, the argument that the people in NATO and in Europe say is they're like, well, you know, Putin actually started moving Russian speakers in there and put the people in there and skewed the votes so that way he could justify taking it.
00:23:47.000They were basically paramilitaries carrying out paramilitary operations, but they weren't aligned with anyone.
00:23:54.000So there were rumors of Russia planning this.
00:23:56.000And so it could be that was the case, but it doesn't change the fact that it's been part of Russia now for over a decade.
00:24:04.000And I think that when the U.S. went to Crimea for the, or actually when the whole world went to Crimea for the Olympics, I think that kind of sealed the deal.
00:24:13.000If the international community really didn't want to acknowledge that Crimea was part of Russia, they would have stayed away from the Olympics.
00:24:22.000They'd have all boycotted and said, we're not going.
00:25:48.000Because the counter argument to that is if Putin takes the, or if Putin is allowed to stay in the Donbass and the Russians take that land, then it becomes a staging area for Putin to actually build up troops, have build military bases, and then later on take more of Ukraine.
00:26:08.000Because the argument that people that are very anti-Russia have is they're saying, look, he's going to eventually take all of Ukraine.
00:26:58.000So I don't think that he's willing to Take on NATO, especially seeing how badly, honestly, I mean, all things considered, how badly he's performed in Ukraine.
00:27:09.000Ukraine is not a heavily armed country.
00:27:12.000It took a lot of NATO sending weapons and military assets and money to Ukraine for them to stop him.
00:27:22.000And I think that people expected more out of, or people anticipated more out of Russia's military capability.
00:27:53.000But when it comes to conventional war, they don't want to fight the U.S. because the U.S. would stop a mud hole in them.
00:27:59.000Well, not after that introduction into the meeting in that meeting that they had.
00:28:05.000Well, I mean, you know, like, look, the United States, if they wanted to, it's likely they could fly B-2 bombers right over Moscow and they would never know, right?
00:28:18.000It's likely that Moscow would have no way to stop them.
00:28:22.000You know, it's not something I want to test.
00:29:22.000And that's we have civil society where you empower your neighbor.
00:29:25.000And then we have military society where you make sure that you're the strongest of all, whether that means you got to knock them down a peg or lift yourself up.
00:29:32.000It's irrelevant in the military almost.
00:29:34.000Not totally, but you still got to be careful about doing excess damage.
00:30:13.000And you don't get the artillery doesn't, have you ever hear a building get demolished next to you, like the vibration in your gut that will change you forever just from that?
00:30:20.000For these dudes that are in there for months at a time.
00:30:23.000Fortunately, we've kind of evolved away from trench warfare.
00:30:48.000Yes, of course there are drones now, and it does change the battlefield, but trench warfare is still the combat method of the day.
00:31:00.000It's impressive that, I mean, I'm still thinking in World War I in two terms, that the Russians actually were able to take that much territory, thinking, but I guess we have modern airplanes and things that can take out the backlines and not only that, Russia has far more military capability than Ukraine.
00:31:18.000And, you know, Ukraine doesn't have a significant air force.
00:31:20.000And Russia was probably preparing to do this for a while.
00:32:16.000Well, there was a, there was an actual attack that was, or there was a convoy of military vehicles that were, you know, made a run for Kiev.
00:32:24.000They were looking to take the whole country because he does want to take the country overall.
00:32:30.000And that's part of why the argument against allowing them to stay in the areas that they've taken is a strong argument.
00:32:37.000It's part of why it's such a compelling argument because it is likely that he will just try to take another bite once things cool off a little bit.
00:32:44.000And like if they neutralize Ukraine and it truly becomes a neutral territory, what would that be?
00:33:04.000But like, how do you guarantee that's actually happening?
00:33:06.000Because there's still going to be massive influence underneath the surface if they say, okay.
00:33:10.000Yeah, I mean, as long as, well, because of the location, Ukraine is going to have either influence by the East, by the Western countries or influenced by Russia.
00:33:23.000Like, that's just kind of the way that it's going to be.
00:33:25.000And the reason Russia doesn't want NATO in Ukraine is because, you know, Russia, Putin wants to take more of the country.
00:33:33.000Doesn't he like any deal that's going to make him happy, or is he just going to.
00:33:37.000Personally, I think that what he'll do or what he might do, and I'm not, I'm not, I can't predict what the guy's going to do.
00:33:44.000I'm not nearly educated enough to do that.
00:33:46.000But what he might do is just say, okay, I'll make a deal for this area here and let us stay here and then we'll stop fighting.
00:33:56.000There will be a ceasefire and then it'll be a couple years.
00:34:03.000Then a couple years, then, you know, whatever, eight, nine years later, when the situation was favorable, when we had a president that wouldn't fight back, that he looked at as weak.
00:34:24.000And what the president says does matter.
00:34:26.000There's a lot of people that blame the United States for Russia taking Crimea.
00:34:33.000And you can actually go back to when Barack Obama met with Medvedev and said, tell Vladimir that I've got, this is, I think, in 2012, tell Vladimir that I've got, I will have much more flexibility after my election.
00:34:46.000And what Vladimir and what Vladimir Putin and what Medvedev heard was you can invade and take Crimea after my election.
00:34:59.000So that way I don't have to worry about the political repercussions.
00:35:39.000So that was, you know, that was, some people would say that that was the president of the United States giving Vladimir Putin the green light to do it.
00:35:49.000So it does matter who the president is, and it does matter how you deal with people like Putin, because it is true that, you know, Putin is a, you know, is a warmonger.
00:35:59.000He does kill people that criticize him.
00:36:01.000Like he shot a missile at the leader of the Wagner group and blew his helicopter out of the sky because he thought there was a coup against or going to be a coup against him.
00:36:13.000So the idea that things in Russia are done the same way that they're done in the United States is a gross misunderstanding of how things are done or of the reality of the situation.
00:36:25.000I was thinking about Putin, you know, Naeb Bukele.
00:36:28.000They just in El Salvador, they just repealed presidential term limits so now he can be president for life.
00:36:56.000Why do you think that he's, I mean, he's got an approval rate of something like 80% because he's cleaned up the country and made it safer people.
00:37:04.000I mean, if he gets re-elected, it will likely be a legitimate re-election.
00:37:47.000And until he sees someone competent that he believes can do it better than him or as good, he's going to like, he's just gripping and gripping.
00:37:53.000And it's my sense that it's more he's looking to retain power than actually worried about who the successor would be.
00:38:02.000Because like he'll get slaughtered as soon as he's out of power.
00:38:19.000And like just, you know, like we said, Obama kind of gave, some would argue that Obama gave him the green light.
00:38:24.000So we're going to jump to this story here, bring it back to the United States.
00:38:28.000From for Washington, from NBC Washington, D.C. police chief remains in charge after federal hostile takeover attempt, AG says.
00:38:37.000D.C.'s chief of police remains the chief of police.
00:38:40.000The district attorneys general said after a court hearing on what he called a hostile takeover attempt by the federal government.
00:38:46.000He called the judge's decision a very important win for home rule.
00:38:50.000Less than 12 hours after the Trump administration seemingly replaced Washington, D.C.'s police chief with a federal officer, the district was in federal court on Friday to try to block the move.
00:38:59.000Attorney General Brian Schwab filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming President Donald Trump far exceeded the authority granted him in D.C.'s Home Rule Act and the Administrative Procedure Act and the U.S. Constitution.
00:39:12.000I don't know that that's correct about the Constitution, at least, because the Constitution does lay out that the district area is not an actual state.
00:39:25.000It's an area that is actually controlled by the feds, if I understand correctly.
00:39:28.000So don't quote me and I could be wrong.
00:39:30.000I think you're right, but I don't know.
00:39:32.000The federal judge overseeing the lawsuit said the law doesn't allow the federal government to name a new police chief, but the city can't completely keep them out either.
00:39:40.000U.S. District Judge Ann Reyes asked the two sides to hammer out a compromise, but promised to issue a court order temporary blocking the administration from naming a new chief if they couldn't agree.
00:39:50.000I'm encouraged by the judge's remarks and the federal government making the changes that were suggested and the judge's willingness to rule if that's not satisfactory, Mayor Muriel Bowser said after the hearing.
00:40:01.000How D.C. enforces federal immigration laws in response to homeless people are key issues.
00:40:06.000D.C. and federal officials are expected to keep talking over the weekend about the general orders that Drug Enforcement Administration boss Terry Cole rescinded.
00:40:15.000Now, how they deal with homeless people is something that legitimately is for D.C. to decide on its own, but they do have to deal with homeless people.
00:40:27.000But when it comes to things like immigration, that's ICE.
00:41:05.000So I don't know that there's that there's an argument to be had about that.
00:41:09.000Well, the gray area I would argue about, I think that, because it's like, this is a thing about being a human.
00:41:14.000You're told law and order are the most, are very important, law and order, uphold the law.
00:41:19.000But then it's like you watch what happened with the Nazis persecuting the Jews and like people hiding Jewish people in their homes and lying and protecting them overtly.
00:41:28.000And they were the good guys in the story from where the way I heard the story were the people that violated the law and that were like, no, we're doing what we believe is right for our people for our neighbors.
00:41:50.000Technically, yeah, comparable, not the same at all, not the same at all.
00:41:54.000And different levels, of course, the immigration thing is way, way less abhorrent than persecuting a religion, religious people, or a culture in your society.
00:42:05.000But the motions behind it of like, I'm protecting my neighbors from the federal people that are in here from DC, like that, that's a real, and it's, and we've been encouraged as Americans to do that.
00:42:17.000When the king comes and tries to take your land, you're like, get out of my land.
00:42:25.000This is what we told the British to kick rocks when they tried to come in and find our terrorists and arrest our terrorists, George Washington and John Adams, these guys.
00:42:36.000You see both sides of the mind working against the people.
00:42:38.000I think that it's a significant, when you're talking about illegal immigrants versus an actual rebellion of Englishmen against Englishmen, I think it's a different thing.
00:42:51.000And I also think that it's a very different thing when you're talking about Jews being hidden by Germans from the Nazis.
00:42:59.000The thing is, law and order isn't always good.
00:43:27.000That's the, that's the, because, yeah, when, when the Nazis took over, the law became determined by the objectively bad guys.
00:43:35.000And so to break the law was good in that situation.
00:43:39.000So I guess if you think Trump is like that, is Germany, you know, after the beer hall putsch and all that stuff with Hitler in power, then you think breaking this law is good.
00:43:53.000Which is, I think, is devoid of, you know, reason to do that because the media has been pushing that on people too, like saying Trump is Hitler and things like that.
00:44:32.000I mean, the moral dilemma is just, it's concurrent.
00:44:34.000It's going to have to come up again in the future in a different way.
00:44:36.000I don't see it as a moral dilemma because I think that it's immoral to allow people to stay here if they're illegal.
00:44:42.000Right, the other thing is that it is a problem for the existing people.
00:44:47.000If only because of the stuff that we talk about with the census, right?
00:44:52.000If you're going to count all of the people, not the citizens, but all of the people, the people, and then that's how the apportionment of representation In the federal government is calculated.
00:45:04.000That means that all of the illegals that are here are diluting the political power of the citizens, right?
00:45:12.000This is a little, this is, this is an, it's a few degrees removed, and it takes being able to think of downstream consequences to actually really to understand how this matters.
00:45:26.000But it's not moral to take the power of the voting power away from the existing population, the citizens, the people that have lived, that have lived here their whole lives, and dilute that power by counting people that are not citizens.
00:46:30.000It's moral to get the people that are here trying to break, that have broken the law to get here and that are violating the law by being here.
00:46:38.000It's actually the moral action to round those people up and send them back home or make it difficult for them to live here so that way they leave of their own volition.
00:46:48.000I think it's a group of both positive and negative morals.
00:47:20.000Now, grabbing them in the middle of the night, dragging them out by their hair and sending them to a Salvadorian prison, also immoral, Mike.
00:48:40.000That's a nice way to kind of create a moralistic solution because there are lots of ways to solve this immoral problem in an even more immoral way.
00:48:47.000So we got to be careful about introducing rounding people up at gunpoint, having them stripped down and like, you know, marching them naked through the street, whatever.
00:48:59.000Are they actually happening through malicious?
00:49:10.000Well, it's just, I keep thinking about Sin Frontera, the documentary that 6-7 Kevin just made about how these people get here in the first place and how horrifying it is on their way here and some don't make it and most of them get assaulted in all terrible kinds of ways.
00:49:28.000And it kind of sends a message like, hey, we're not incentivizing you to continue to do it that way because if you did it that way, you're going back.
00:49:38.000It is a tough moral thing to think about because like hurting, you know.
00:49:44.000If you make it difficult to live here and you make there be significant repercussions for coming here illegally, that is to deter people from coming.
00:49:56.000The point is, you have to have negative consequences for coming here illegally.
00:50:01.000It can't just be, oh, they were picked up, they got processed, sent back, and then they decided they just want to come back and they snuck through again.
00:50:10.000You have to make negative consequences for coming here.
00:50:15.000You'll never be an American citizen if you get picked up.
00:50:18.000You should, and I've talked about this multiple times in the show.
00:50:21.000You shouldn't be able to rent a place to live.
00:50:24.000And if the people that are, if the people, if there's someone that owns property that's renting to an illegal, they should face significant fines, jail time, and possibly loss of their property.
00:50:33.000Same thing with people giving jobs to illegals.
00:50:36.000If you employ an illegal, you should face jail time, significant legal repercussions, possibly loss of property.
00:50:44.000Because right now they're not afraid of the law.
00:52:05.000So, and it should be difficult to come to the United States and take advantage of basically loose liberal immigration laws.
00:52:14.000And if you do that, then you don't have a situation where people are getting ripped out of their homes by their hair and traips through the streets naked at night.
00:52:24.000You know, it just doesn't happen because they're like, F this, I'm going home.
00:53:06.000And then it's also a slap in the face to the actual American citizens.
00:53:11.000And it disrupts our safety, our resources.
00:53:15.000It's just like, yes, it's, I can see the point in like morally, immorally, but I don't think it's immoral to take lawbreakers out and put them back where they came.
00:53:26.000And it's also, it's the same thing too with like how people like to blame ICE for, you know, taking parents and their children and like putting them back.
00:53:36.000And it's like, why don't you blame the parents for putting their children in that situation in the first place?
00:54:48.000There was never a point where he was here illegally.
00:54:51.000Like he was always making sure that his card and whatnot, you know, never expired and everything.
00:54:58.000And it's tough and it's hard and you're going to spend a lot of money.
00:55:02.000And I don't think the system is perfect.
00:55:04.000I do think that there needs to be some sort of reform.
00:55:07.000I'm not saying it needs to be like easier in the sense, but just, you know, I was talking, I can't remember his name, but I was talking about it out there.
00:55:15.000And it's like the system isn't perfect, but still, it doesn't mean that it gives you a right to come here illegally when hundreds of thousands of people are coming here and doing it the legal way and they're waiting.
00:55:26.000I've heard that some of the people that are the most upset with the illegal immigration are the legal immigrants.
00:55:59.000He doesn't want to see it turn into the country he fled from.
00:56:02.000In a way, people that come here legally obviously love this country to put yourself through 10 years of his own business, his own construction business.
00:56:11.000He made a great life for himself and his family.
00:56:35.000I mean, it does suck to wait 10 years to get citizenship, especially when it's, it's most likely, of course, the ones that are doing it the legal way are the ones that really love this country and believe in the American dream and want to make a life for themselves.
00:56:52.000And America's, you know, the great, they think America is the greatest country in the world.
00:56:56.000And it sucks that they have to be the ones to go through this long process of spending a bunch of money and waiting a bunch of years to do it.
00:58:36.000Like you should have to work hard to become an American.
00:58:40.000And one of the reasons is because the people that will put the effort in actually care about the ideals this country was founded on.
00:58:50.000People that will go, will come to the United States and go through all of the stuff, pay all the money, show up for their hearings that they have to do, do all the things that you're supposed to do to come here legally.
00:59:02.000Those people care about being Americans.
00:59:06.000They care about being Americans more than most Americans that are born here because they see the value in it.
00:59:13.000They know what it's like to not be an American.
00:59:16.000One of the things that we talk about, you know, I think that you shouldn't be allowed to come to the United States if you don't believe in the values the United States has.
00:59:25.000So if you're a communist, you shouldn't be like, it should be perfect.
00:59:28.000It should be to visit or to move here, you mean?
00:59:33.000I mean, it should be a privilege to come to the United States.
00:59:36.000So yeah, if you're a communist and you're only coming because you want to visit, like, I don't, I don't see any reason to grant you a visa.
00:59:43.000I mean, if you're looking to escape your communist country and you want to become a citizen, you're looking to defect or whatever.
00:59:50.000I don't even know if there are countries where you can defect from anymore.
00:59:54.000But if you're looking to escape a common country and you want to come to the United States and you hold our values in high esteem, like then, okay, you got an argument.
01:00:01.000You know, then maybe we can figure something out.
01:00:04.000But there's no reason to be like, oh, yeah, you're from a communist country.
01:00:07.000So it's fine that you come here to visit.
01:00:09.000They're like, I just want, I want to learn about democracy.
01:00:24.000The point is, it should be a privilege to come to the United States because the United States is the greatest country in the world, in my opinion.
01:00:31.000It should be a privilege to come here.
01:00:32.000It should be hard to become a citizen and it should take significant effort.
01:00:38.000So that way we don't just have people that are like, well, I'm going to get there and I'm going to get a job and then I'm going to act like all the people in California that were protesting ICE, that were like waving Mexican flags and saying, you know, we hate America.
01:00:59.000We have, like, if you're an American and you're born here and you're an American citizen and you want to, if you hate America, we can't do nothing about it.
01:01:23.000You can just be like, get out of here then.
01:01:24.000You know, something I also is sort of a through line is I feel, I believe, and I hope that in the future, when people move to a state, they don't get voting rights until they live there for three years.
01:01:42.000It's three years at least, five years.
01:01:43.000So I think extending that to immigrants also would be fine, especially those that are here illegally shouldn't be counted on a census, first of all.
01:02:07.000So if you live here, unless you're Indians not taxed.
01:02:12.000So it's possible that the Supreme Court would read it and would say that there's a way to read it that says they're not talking about people that are here illegally.
01:02:25.000But the letter of the law now, it says they count the people not including Indians not taxed.
01:02:34.000And then three-fifths are a totally different thing.
01:02:50.000And then that led to someone being like, well, what if we treat the people that are here illegally as three-fifths count towards the census until the bodies are sent back home?
01:02:59.000I don't imagine that the SCOTUS will find that.
01:03:19.000And I think that that's part of why you should make it super hard for illegals to live here.
01:03:26.000There's nothing in the Constitution that says you have to force, you know, you can't punish businesses or punish renters for renting to illegals or for, you know, and you have to provide ID to rent in most places.
01:04:28.000But she's not even here to like experience the new president.
01:04:33.000So I just find that so crazy that there are people that who don't even live in America anymore and can still vote in the election and then not even like reap or sow the benefits of it.
01:04:44.000Maybe if they're in the military, she's not in the military.
01:04:48.000She's literally a social media influencer.
01:05:43.000It's tough because my sister was working full-time in Japan and she still was able to vote because she was going to come back.
01:05:52.000I mean, they were not going to be like, oh, you can stay here forever because they don't let you do that.
01:05:55.000I mean, I still vote in New Hampshire.
01:05:57.000You know, I've got a place down here, but I spend enough time in New Hampshire and I have my primary residence in New Hampshire.
01:06:04.000So, you know, I think that you are, as long as you don't give up your citizenship, you're going to say, look, I live, I'm an American citizen.
01:06:16.000I have a place in whatever state or whatever.
01:06:21.000I'm not sure the details of it and what the legalities are for that location.
01:06:26.000Like I pay taxes here in West Virginia because I'm here so much.
01:06:31.000But when it comes to where I vote, I go back to New Hampshire to vote.
01:06:34.000It's about where your residence is, which is kind of nice that they, because I think what the, you know, the overmind wants is to know where your body is and where your paperwork says your body is and make sure it's all the same so that you're not violating the system's tendrils.
01:06:49.000Well, the thing is, like, states want their tax money.
01:06:51.000You know, like, so West Virginia, because I'm here so much, they want to, they want to cut on my pay, right?
01:06:57.000Because I'm here doing the show and stuff like that.
01:07:33.000The Democrats hate America, and they continuously want to remind you that they hate our representative democracy.
01:07:41.000So, from the New York Times, abolish the Senate, end the Electoral College, pack the court.
01:07:46.000Why the left can't win without a new constitution.
01:07:49.000After the great rebuke of 2024, many Democrats seem to think their party needs to become more moderate.
01:07:55.000But there's another theory potent on the American left that believes Donald Trump's election shows not just that American democracy is in danger, but that it doesn't really work at all.
01:08:04.000What the country needs isn't just a new policy agenda.
01:08:07.000It might need the kind of constitutional revolution from adding new states to packing the Supreme Court that some Democrats already flirted with under Joe Biden.
01:08:16.000That's the kind of argument that my guest today, Osida Nuwana, makes in this new book, The Right of the People, Democracy in the Case for a New American Founding.
01:08:24.000Nuvana is a contributing editor at the New Republic and the Democratic Institutions Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
01:08:33.000So, this is an hour-long podcast where Ross Dutt and this fella who wrote this book get into why the Democrats actually don't want to protect democracy.
01:08:47.000They want to change our Democratic Republic so that they can retain power.
01:08:54.000All of the things that are proposed here would actually make it impossible or incredibly difficult for the Republicans to win at a national level, which there was a time, and this is probably back in 2013, well, 2014, 2015, leading up to Donald Trump.
01:09:15.000The Democrats really did think that the Republicans were going to be a regional party for as long as they could see.
01:09:24.000The Republicans were not going to have a national influence anymore.
01:09:28.000And the Democrats had kind of just taken over everything.
01:09:31.000And then, when Donald Trump won, that's part of why the Democrats kind of freaked out about everything.
01:09:38.000They really thought that they had control of everything.
01:09:41.000They had control of, and they were going to forever have control of the White House and the Senate.
01:09:48.000Maybe they would lose the House of Representatives for a bit, but they would lose by maybe five or 10 members and they would gain them back.
01:09:56.000And they really thought they had essentially a permanent one-party rule.
01:10:19.000Now, this is not something that is actually surprising to anyone on the right, really.
01:10:25.000You kind of knew, if you pay attention to politics, you kind of understood that that was the situation, that Democrats don't really care about democracy when they would say things like, you know, we're going to lose our democracy.
01:10:38.000Donald Trump is going to destroy our democracy.
01:10:41.000What they were talking about was their power base, their bureaucratic power base.
01:10:46.000And there are people that'll make arguments.
01:10:50.000They don't really think that the Republicans are evil, et cetera, et cetera.
01:10:55.000But there are more and more people that are coming out and saying the quiet part out loud and making arguments: hey, we need to make sure that Republicans can't.
01:11:04.000We need to do these things that will make sure that Republicans can't win.
01:11:09.000I mean, D.C. constitutionally is not supposed to be a state, right?
01:11:14.000They want to make Puerto Rico a state and they want to make D.C. a state.
01:11:17.000At the best, if they want to continue to have a constitutionally, you know, a constitutionally correct situation, they would have to give most of D.C. back to Maryland.
01:11:31.000And there would be, you know, just a very, very small portion of D.C., Capitol Hill, you know, just the Capitol Hill where the White House is and probably where the Supreme Court is.
01:11:43.000Like they would have to make that right there just the small area, D.C., and the rest just give it back to Maryland.
01:11:52.000But they do truly believe that it is perfectly legitimate to expand the court so that way they have more Judicial power because they want to use an activist court and they're floundering that they don't have the ability to influence the court.
01:12:09.000But it is worth noting, like the Democrat, the three progressives on the court, they always vote the same way.
01:12:16.000There's three of the conservative justices that you're just like, I have no idea how they're going to vote.
01:12:22.000They're not reliably conservative because they actually look at being a judge the way that a judge is supposed to be, right?
01:12:30.000They're supposed to judge the issue on the merits.
01:12:34.000You will never, ever get Kajenti Brown Jackson to come down with a ruling that is anything other than exactly what is progressive orthodoxy.
01:12:49.000You probably won't get Sodomyar to come down on anything other than progressive activism.
01:12:55.000And that's just the way that the left behaves.
01:12:57.000So the Democrats aren't happy that they might get things their way because maybe Amy Coney Barrett or maybe John Roberts or whoever will come down on the side of the progressives.
01:13:09.000They want to make sure that they have enough people on the court to guarantee that they always have a progressive victory.
01:13:17.000And that's what the adding people or adding states is for.
01:13:20.000So that way they have two more or four more senators.
01:13:23.000They want to have two ostensibly Democrat senators from DC and then two Democrat senators from Puerto Rico.
01:13:33.000And that way they'll have what they believe will be a permanent, you know, permanent majority in the Senate.
01:13:41.000They want to add the, they want to change the way the Electoral College works so that way it's a direct election by popular vote because they believe that the states or the cities that are the concentration of population, they should be dictating to the rest of the country who the president would be.
01:14:04.000And those situations, those would all produce a Democrat out essentially the argument is that those things will always produce an outcome that is favorable to Democrats.
01:14:18.000No, it's rules, rules for the, not for me.
01:14:21.000Aren't they the same people that have been fear-mongering others that Trump wants to change the Constitution, right?
01:14:28.000It's like, I'm pretty sure I've heard that claim like countless times already that Trump's going to change the Constitution or he's going to get rid of the Constitution or he's going to rewrite the Constitution.
01:14:36.000And it's like they're accusing us of exactly what they're planning on doing.
01:14:40.000It's right out of the Rules for Radicals playbook.
01:14:45.000Also, it sounds a lot like socialism because like all the people that I had talked to on the left that want it, it's because they think they'll be at the top, like controlling it.
01:14:56.000So if the Democrats want that, it's because they want to control everything, like Phil was saying with power.
01:15:04.000Dude, communism is so insidious, though.
01:15:44.000Essentially, what they're proposing is what the situation in California is, right?
01:15:50.000There's a one-party rule in California.
01:15:52.000There's no represent or very little representation at a state level for any Republicans in California.
01:15:59.000And you see it in the exodus of people from California.
01:16:05.000You know, after COVID, California lost, I mean, I don't know exactly how many, but I want to say it's like half a million people, something like that.
01:16:12.000So and California's never lost people because California's like the geography and the weather are just so attractive.
01:16:26.000Like the only place that I think in the whole United States that's actually more beautiful is probably Hawaii, or at least that I think is nicer.
01:17:18.000It's such a from things that I've seen, it's such a beautiful state, but it's just the policies are absolutely horrendous, and it just completely ruins it.
01:17:26.000And it's controlled by the metropolitans.
01:17:28.000I wonder if California should be split in half and it'd be like a northern state and a southern state governed by Los Angeles and San Francisco because it's so big and so different.
01:17:37.000Is there like a conservative area in California?
01:17:53.000Like once you get, once you get an hour and a half from the coast or so, two hours from the coast, like it's, it's pretty, it's pretty much like Texas.
01:18:47.000I was just in the city in LA and the breeze was enough.
01:18:51.000The second floor, second-story breeze, if you're fortunate to live above the dark, the heavy metals of the ground floor where all the brake dust is hovering, you know, get about 18 feet up, and then you start to be, it's pretty beautiful and fresh.
01:20:28.000And it was like this feeling of pathetic pathos.
01:20:32.000I got that feeling a little bit in the entertainment industry when I lived there because the people were so obsessed with getting picked, being, let me be part of your cult.
01:20:39.000Let me be picked by you and be part of your group.
01:20:41.000And yes, I'll say what you tell me to say.
01:20:42.000And it was just kind of sickening to watch.
01:20:44.000But this, watching them on masks during COVID was the most grotesque, like bow down to authority from put sand in skate parks so that way kids couldn't go outside and skate.
01:21:58.000Some parents will face fines or jail time if their children break any laws ranging from drunkenness to felonies.
01:22:05.000The Gloucester Township Council in New Jersey has announced that any parent who fails to prevent their child from committing a crime will face up to 90 days in jail or fines totaling $2,000.
01:22:15.000The council has identified 28 crimes that could result in parents being fined or jailed.
01:22:19.000Some of these crimes include felonies, disorderly conduct, associating with thieves, gambling, and idly roaming the streets, among others.
01:23:04.000All of the teens arrested were charged with disorderly conduct and then released to their homes.
01:23:08.000During the fights, three police officers were injured and sustained minor injuries.
01:23:13.000The lawless groups of unsupervised juveniles and young people acting with total disregard for others ruined a great family-oriented event, which has taken place to raise funds for the Gloucester Township Scholarship Committee for over 40 years.
01:23:27.000Gloucester Township Police Chief David Harkins told the outlet at the time: this type of lawlessness and the violent riotous behavior will not be tolerated and will not define the great community of Gloucester Township.
01:23:40.000I think that this will likely not produce the results that they want because I don't, I think that a lot of these kids that, and this is just an assumption, but I think a lot of the kids that end up behaving this way, being kind of out of sorts and getting in trouble and stuff, a lot of them don't have two parents.
01:24:01.000You're going to throw a single mom in jail for 90 days?
01:24:06.000Do the kids get any sort of repercussions or is it just to the parents?
01:24:12.000Because also, I can't imagine, like, what about the kids that hate their parents and then they'll purposely commit crimes to get their parents in jail?
01:24:20.000So, like, what are you going to do there?
01:24:58.000Plenty of them to be associated with thieves, but check this out.
01:25:02.000The crimes parents are held responsible for.
01:25:04.000A felony, high misdemeanor, misdemeanor, or other offense, violation of any penal law or municipal ordinance, any act or offense which he or she could be prosecuted in the method partaking of the nature of a criminal action or proceeding, being a disorderly person,
01:25:21.000habitual vagrancy, incorrigibility, immorality, knowingly associating with thieves or vicious or immoral People growing up in idleness or delinquency, knowingly visiting gambling places or patronizing other places or establishments, his or her admission to which constitutes a violation of law, a felony, high misdemeanor, or other offenses, violation of any penal law or municipal ordinance.
01:25:48.000Yeah, it looks like they're, it looks like they're just repeating them.
01:25:52.000Indecent exposure, begging, drunkenness, consumption of alcohol, alcoholic beverages on a public street, destruction of pagan equipment in public parks.
01:27:21.000I'd like to take a chance to go ahead and give New Jersey the grief, but I don't think that it is.
01:27:26.000No, no, no, no, it's not because there's also when we were in, we lived in Virginia right after having River.
01:27:33.000And like there was one family that would come over, like we would, friends would get together and like they would barely associate with this toddler, just stick an iPad in front of this toddler and just like not play with him at all.
01:27:47.000And it's like, so the kids grow up in front of screens and then they grow up with the gentle parenting.
01:27:59.000So I definitely think that parents have become easier on their kids.
01:28:04.000Now, I mean, I was, I was like spanked as a child.
01:28:08.000I don't think it was necessarily fun, but I am a maybe there needs to be like a balance, but today the gentle parenting has definitely taken over and kids aren't being disciplined thoroughly.
01:28:24.000I think they're not like afraid of their parents.
01:28:27.000Yeah, I think the balance is that you want, you don't want to scare your children.
01:28:31.000Yeah, you don't want to scare them, but you still want to make sure that like they stay in line.
01:28:36.000In a way, you kind of want to present an essence of fear.
01:28:39.000Like you are the authority that will bring down the hammer and destroy everything you love if you wrong me.
01:28:45.000In the future, that will be the government.
01:28:47.000So keep and then, but also, but not to hurt them.
01:28:52.000To make sure it's okay for them to be afraid of what might happen if they wrong you, but you don't want to harm them with beatings, you know?
01:28:58.000Like spanking so that they're afraid of never getting that sharp smack on their ass again and they never do it again.
01:29:22.000Until they do it once, they don't know why they're not supposed to do it.
01:29:25.000So and kids give into the internet and they figure out all their emotions and pains with a video game.
01:29:30.000They go there and they say it to somebody in real life and they get their teeth knocked in and they go and they so you got to kind of socialize off the screen, I guess.
01:29:40.000So so you're you guys are generally the opinion around the around the table is that punishing parents will not help, but parents need to be more stern with their kids.
01:29:50.000Do you think that this would motivate parents to be more stern with their kids?
01:29:57.000I think maybe that's the general like Idea is for families to get like, oh, they see these consequences of like, if their children go out and do these things, these are the consequences for you.
01:30:08.000And maybe it gets like their family, like the families act together.
01:30:13.000But at the end of the day, I don't think it's the best.
01:30:15.000I thought the same thing you thought that if a kid is pissed off with their parents, they're just going to go commit some stupid crime and get the parents fined.
01:30:34.000But it's like, no, that's a much bigger problem.
01:30:36.000So there's another thing that you might want to think about when it comes to this kind of stuff.
01:30:40.000Most of the time, if parents, especially in places like New Jersey, if parents are too strict, then they run the risk of CPS coming and picking up their kids.
01:30:51.000If you allow your kid to go walk, you know, if the kid is too young, and that's an arbitrary phrase, but if the kid is too young and he's allowed to walk to the corner store, there's a chance that the police will pick the kid up, bring him back to the house, and you'll get, you'll get, you know, get a visit from CPS.
01:31:11.000So how do you think that they would square that kind of system where if you're too stern, the government might come and take your kid from you.
01:31:20.000But if you're not stern enough and your kid gets too buck wild, they're going to go ahead and come and pick you up and throw you in jail.
01:32:41.000Like just, it's just like engaging with them and like, you know, figuring out what they love to do, what hobbies they love to do and like maybe go and taking them to those to do those things.
01:33:04.000If your parents can start talking to you in the language of the game and they know what the items are and everything, just show that like you're paying attention to the things that they're interested in.
01:33:25.000I know that there's, it doesn't matter so much what you're doing because kids don't, you know, everything's kind of an adventure to a kid, right?
01:33:34.000When you're two, three, four, five, like they just want to do stuff with you because you're the most important person in their life, you know?
01:34:25.000They have those like stools that kids can stand up on.
01:34:29.000And it's just like, even if you're doing washing dishes or you're cooking or you're folding the laundry it's like especially for like you said like a young toddler they don't know any better like they just want to be with you like every time like my child will sit and play on the floor with toys he's always involving me and i'm always playing with him because he doesn't want to do it alone it's it sounds simple i was thinking uh the last week or two that a lot of rhetoric about have more kids it's been going on for years like we need to populate
01:34:59.000But I'm like, rather than ask how many kids do I have, ask how many children am I parenting?
01:35:19.000You don't want to get too caught up in the like have eight children and then not be able to like fully dedicate time to all of those eight children individually.
01:35:29.000It's just like it's I my opinion is it'd be better to have one child and be able to not saying you need to only have one child, but like just one child and be able to put all of your energy and attention into that child than to have, you know, five, six, seven kids and struggle to give them that attention that they're going to want because they fight for the attention of their parents.
01:35:56.000I get the utilitarian argument of like if we were like in a tribe and there had been a nuclear holocaust and we had like 17 people, we had to repopulate, go have 800 kids.
01:36:17.000It's crazy because, yeah, as a new father, I feel like my four month old is already teaching me that I must be giving all my attention all the time.
01:36:26.000And I couldn't imagine having eight kids.
01:36:30.000kids because i don't know how to split that attention the self-arent yeah it's a very selfless thing yeah we're uh we're gonna jump to this last story here from the postmillennial uh trump to deploy 4 000 marines around latin american waters to combat cartels reports the trump administration will be deploying an additional 4 000 marines from the u.s military in the waters around latin america in order to combat the drug cartels according to a new report from cnn citing two u.s defense officials
01:37:00.000the outlet reported that the move is part of a broader mission to ready military assets to target the drug cartels a third person familiar with the plans told the outlet that the additional military assets are aimed at addressing threats to u.s national security from spec specially designated narco-terrorist organizations in the region including in the deployment is the jima amphibious ready group and the 22nd marine expeditionary unit reporting to u.s southern command the effort is repeatedly has reportedly been underway
01:37:30.000for the past three weeks a p8 poseidon reconnaissance aircraft nuclear-powered submarine multiple destroyers and a guided missile cruiser are also being allocated to u.s southern command as part of the effort one of the officials told the outlet that the buildup of the military assets is meant to show the force of the u.s military rather than the targeting of the cartels however having the military assets that they're ready allows for more options if trump orders military action to take place an official from the marines told the outlet that a marine expeditionary unit
01:38:00.000stands ready to execute lawful orders and support the combatant commanders in the needs that are requested of them.
01:38:06.000A memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this year instructed the Pentagon to seal our borders, repel forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities, and deport illegal aliens in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.
01:38:24.000Last week, it was reported by the New York Times that Trump signed a directive for the Pentagon to start using military force against some drug cartels in Latin America.
01:38:49.000Yeah, it's more of a defensive tactic with the amount of fentanyl that's been coming over the southern border, reportedly, from China, wherever it's coming from, Canada, China to Canada, back to China, to Mexico, through the border.
01:39:54.000It's to remind cartels what exactly they're going to be up against.
01:39:57.000Because look, if you watch, I mean, you can get on Telegram channels and you can see what the cartels are doing, how they're outfitted, what they, you know, how brutal they are.
01:40:08.000You can see in graphic detail the way they behave.
01:40:39.000They're trucks that they've put armor onto.
01:40:41.000They're closer to, I guess, like an armored car that you would have transporting money in and stuff.
01:40:48.000But these vehicles are full of dudes with serious hardware.
01:40:53.000They've all got belt-fed fully automatic machine guns.
01:40:56.000They've got 50 Cal rifles, semi-automatic rifles.
01:40:59.000They've got, you know, they're walking around with AKs and ARs or M16s and stuff.
01:41:04.000The idea that the cartels are what they were, you know, 30, 40 years ago, that stuff is gone.
01:41:12.000These guys are as well equipped as any other terrorist organization that you would find in the Middle East or anything.
01:41:18.000But the United States has really gotten extremely proficient at disassembling terrorist organizations.
01:41:27.000They spent 20 years doing it in the Middle East.
01:41:29.000And whereas the cartels are brutal and they're violent and they do things trying to intimidate, I don't, it's my sense that the United States military is not going to be intimidated, right?
01:41:42.000And so the argument that I hear is, oh, well, the cartels will come into the U.S. And I do think that there could be some attacks in the U.S., but I don't see the cartels having significant impact on the United States.
01:41:57.000And I don't think the United States would say, oh, we should stop going after the cartels because they've killed some Americans.
01:42:04.000No, if you look at it, I mean, the best allegory would be like what they just did to the Iranian government with that bunker buster.
01:42:12.000And then, like, I think you said, Phil, a few weeks ago, we were talking about it, that it's like they go in there, the CIA, and they kill the leadership of this terrorist seller with his government.
01:42:20.000And then the next people come in and they're like, we're going to get those Americans for what they did to us.
01:42:23.000And then they go in and they kill all those guys.
01:42:24.000The CIA goes in, they kill all the new guys.
01:42:55.000I think that more than likely it would be more like the way that the U.S. took on ISIS because the U.S. had a lot of covert assets in Iraq that would go into Syria and take on ISIS and get into a lot of gunfights and kill a lot of ISIS.
01:43:16.000A lot of ISIS guys got killed by Delta.
01:43:19.000It was either the Israeli and the American intelligence together before that attack on the Iranians.
01:43:33.000The only thing the U.S. did was use B-2s with bunker busters or B-1s and B-2s with bunker busters because the assets that the Iranians had where they were doing the nuclear enrichment were too far underground.
01:43:45.000The Israelis didn't have anything that could get into those.
01:44:49.000But either way, that's where the U.S. forces were.
01:44:50.000And they had some places stationed in the desert so that they could get into Syria.
01:44:56.000But they had a lot of special forces that were doing the actual fighting of ISIS.
01:45:02.000And when Donald Trump came into office, that was one of the things that he wanted to do.
01:45:06.000He was like, we're going to go and smash ISIS.
01:45:08.000And he really let loose the special forces and he let loose Delta and they went and they killed a lot of ISIS and got them to the point where they were no longer technically a country.
01:45:35.000You know, because everyone knows that if the U.S. goes, just like the same exact thing that they did when they went and they got bin Laden, right?
01:45:56.000They didn't tell the Pakistanis because if they'd have told the Pakistanis, someone in the government or the military would have gone and informed Bin Laden.
01:46:37.000They're going to go and they're going to start attacking the cartels and they're going to start taking those people out without the approval of the Mexican government.
01:46:46.000And the Mexican government's going to make a bunch of noise to the president or to the U.S. government, but they're going to say, we can't trust you.
01:46:52.000Yeah, Shinbaum literally can't say, like, Sheinbaum is the president of Mexico.
01:46:55.000She can't say that she wants it to happen because we all know what will happen to her if she starts saying stuff like that.
01:47:00.000If she starts saying things like that, very bad things will happen to President Sheinbaum.
01:47:04.000Okay, so Sheinbaum's controlled opposition.
01:47:06.000Yeah, you started his controlled opposition.
01:48:02.000But Taiwan's actually Taiwan's actually controlled by Taiwan.
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01:48:54.000I mean, I don't know particularly how frequently Putin speaks English.
01:48:59.000I don't know how well he knows English.
01:49:01.000But listen, I would love to see Trump be able to broker some kind of peace deal so that way we can stop sending weapons to Ukraine or stop sending money to Ukraine and Ukraine can stand on its own feet.
01:49:15.000But I do think that this is probably just Putin making a peace deal for a short amount of time.
01:49:22.000So that way he can say, all right, we can rebuild the military some, build up our ranks and prepare to go back in.
01:49:32.000I assume that he's thinking when there is a less volatile president, someone a little more easy to predict what they would do.
01:49:42.000But like I said, I hope that it actually does produce peace, even if it's not a long-term peace.
01:49:50.000Shane H. Wilder says the Texas House special session ended today.
01:50:03.000Well, I mean, look, this is all about figuring out how Democrats can retain power.
01:50:10.000This isn't about representing the people.
01:50:12.000It has nothing to do with democracy or making sure that people's voices are heard.
01:50:17.000This is all about consolidating Democrat power as much as they can because they have been totally trounced and they're remarkably unpopular.
01:50:26.000You'd think that considering how unpopular the Democrats are, something like 30% approve of them, 30% approve of Raiden, their brand has totally been dragged through the mud.
01:50:37.000You'd think that they would say, we need to come up with better policies, as opposed to saying things like, we need to figure out ways to grab power in a way that is not representing the people of the states.
01:50:54.000Like if they're unpopular, they shouldn't be thinking, hey, how can we grab onto power and hold on to it?
01:51:00.000They should be thinking, what are we going to do to offer the American people a platform that they will vote for?
01:51:07.000But they're not interested in representing the American people.
01:51:10.000They're interested in holding on to power.
01:51:12.000So hopefully, you know, they're not successful in their efforts.
01:51:19.000But this is what you can expect from the Democrats.
01:51:40.000Who cares that the people don't like us?
01:51:42.000Who cares that the people don't want anything to do with our platform?
01:51:46.000It doesn't matter what our platform is.
01:51:48.000The only thing that matters is we hold on to power.
01:51:49.000I think it's because the COVID response was such a floundering misfumble of human society.
01:51:57.000And now all those people that were complicit, like Gavin Newsom, they know that and the utter humiliation, which is why they can't create a resounding message and they're falling back on tricking people to vote for them.
01:52:08.000No, that's not even tricking people to vote.
01:52:09.000They're trying to get around people voting.
01:52:12.000They're trying to make sure that they can retain power in like no matter what the people want.
01:52:18.000Is it that they're not giving a message and no coherent message out of that party that I've heard?
01:52:22.000Is it, I mean, my best take is that what can you say other than I'm sorry that I screwed you over for four years during COVID?
01:52:31.000Yeah, because as soon as you apologize, like blood in the water, all the sharks attack, and then they never get re-elected because they were weak.
01:52:36.000Well, not only that, but the policies that the progressives want, the far left wing of the party, are the unpopular policies.
01:52:46.000Like the closing the border has been super popular with the American people, but Democrats will swear up and down that it's horrible that the borders are closed.
01:53:15.000They have doubled down on so many 80-20 issues on the 20 side as opposed to the 80 side, as opposed to rethinking what their platform should be.
01:53:24.000Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans have really done a job on what the Democrats used to be.
01:53:31.000They used to be the party of kind of the center and they used to be the party of the working people and stuff.
01:54:49.000Check them out if you want to get a fix.
01:54:51.000Talking about God and spirits, actually, talking about spirits.
01:54:54.000Why your thoughts affect reality because you're changing the shape of your neurons, which is altering your resonating field, which is then resonating, causing other people's neurons to change.
01:55:05.000Anyway, your thoughts are directly influencing other people's thoughts.
01:55:07.000And that thought about the spirits and how your thoughts are affecting, if they're within your resonation field, them, these high-frequency density things, and then they're changing, and then they're influencing it.
01:55:16.000So you can like think healthy thoughts, change the spirits with these healthy thoughts, and then the spirits will then think, make you other people think healthy thoughts.
01:57:18.000No one likes to see the way the sausage is made, right?
01:57:21.000That phrase means no one likes to see how things are actually done in DC.
01:57:25.000And it's hard to pass legislation for a reason because the federal government isn't supposed to be passing legislation.
01:57:31.000So you've got 100 years of garbage legislation that's been passed and 100 years of bureaucracies that's been created, maybe more.
01:57:41.000One guy isn't going to get in there and in six months be like, bam, it's all set now, unless that guy gets in there and literally takes over the whole government with the military pointing guns at people.
01:57:54.000Like, I understand where you're coming from, that you want these results.
01:57:57.000And a lot of those results I want too.
01:57:59.000But to think that that was ever going to happen was an error on your part because it was never going to be like that.
01:58:39.000You can have a population that wants policies that ascribe to the population's moral outlook, but the countries themselves, they don't have morals.
01:58:55.000Smokey Mirror said, should EMP guns be legal as home defense weapons or as drones and cyber warfare type things become commonplace?
01:59:04.000I mean, I don't know if they have EMP guns yet, right?
01:59:08.000Like that won't fry everything, you know?
01:59:12.000Would it shut the lights off if you pulled the trigger?
01:59:14.000Or would it be like direct practice with that?
01:59:16.000Yeah, I mean, I think I personally, I think that if they did have them, I think that they're probably non-lethal to humans as EMP weapons, like people, that doesn't really affect people.
01:59:29.000So I can't imagine that being a problem for people owning them.
01:59:33.000I mean, the government likes to get involved and say, you know, you can't own this with a lot of things.
01:59:38.000So maybe they would stick their nose in.
01:59:41.000But yeah, I don't think that that would be a problem.
01:59:44.000Wyatt Claytonberg says, I watched Culture War today and I am an old fart and not with it.
01:59:48.000Are young people's sexual relationships really that weird?
02:01:54.000I do think that it is, it is probably like you wouldn't have had the Cold War if it wasn't for the Federal Reserve.
02:02:04.000You wouldn't have had a lot of the bureaucracy, you wouldn't have had all the bureaucracy that we have without the Federal Reserve.
02:02:09.000I think that a significant portion of our, actually probably all of our big bloated government is because of the Federal Reserve.
02:02:18.000If it wasn't for the ability to print money, I don't think that the government would have been able to have all of the bureaucracy.
02:02:26.000They wouldn't have been able to engage in all the adventurism and wars abroad and stuff.
02:02:33.000So it is possible that the U.S. wouldn't be able to do things like have the liberal economic order that has made the world a much better place after World War II.
02:02:46.000But without the Federal Reserve, I mean.
02:02:51.000Pinochet's helicopter tour says, Phil, look into what the job is of the 7th Special Forces Group is also stop glazing the CIA.
02:02:59.000No, I'm not going to stop glazing the CIA, even though I don't know how I am glazing the CIA.
02:03:07.000A lot of times people are like, if you don't criticize the things that I want you to criticize, then that means that you're glazing them or you're a shill.
02:03:14.000It's like, I want to hear my opinions coming out of your mouth.
02:03:18.000And if I don't hear my opinions coming out of your mouth, that means you're a shill.