Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - MAYORKAS IMPEACHED, GOP WINS, GA Deploying National Guard To Texas w-Michael Tracey | Timcast IRL

00:00:00.000 In a historic moment, ladies and gentlemen, the Republicans by one vote have successfully

00:00:12.000 impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas for his failure to uphold the law on the border, as well as

00:00:18.000 many other issues.

00:00:19.000 And this is tremendous and great news.

00:00:21.000 Why?

00:00:22.000 Because now...

00:00:24.000 Nothing happens.

00:00:24.000 That's it.

00:00:25.000 Nothing happens.

00:00:26.000 It will be passed off to the Senate, and McConnell will throw it in the garbage, and we can all pretend like something got done.

00:00:32.000 But, I will say, at least there is something symbolic, I suppose.

00:00:37.000 I'll take it, I guess.

00:00:39.000 The reality is nothing will happen after this.

00:00:41.000 However, look, with a slim majority in the House, there's not a whole lot more you could ask for other than public statements, symbolic victories, and I do think the fact that Republicans are pushing back against the fails on the border is tremendously good for Republicans in an election year, considering even Democrats have begun to say invasion.

00:00:58.000 Now, in terms of real news today, the governor of Georgia announced that they will be deploying National Guard troops to Texas to assist with the border crisis.

00:01:09.000 Now, that sounds a bit more substantial, so we'll talk about that, plus a bunch of other stories.

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00:03:02.000 Joining us tonight to talk about all of this and more is Michael Tracy.

00:03:07.000 How's it going?

00:03:07.000 Hello.

00:03:08.000 Who are you?

00:03:08.000 What do you do?

00:03:10.000 Good question.

00:03:11.000 I never really thought about it.

00:03:12.000 You're a journalist?

00:03:13.000 Yeah, I'm a journalist.

00:03:13.000 I was here in November 2020.

00:03:16.000 I looked it up just to confirm the date.

00:03:17.000 That's crazy.

00:03:18.000 Yeah, it's been a while.

00:03:18.000 This is my second time.

00:03:20.000 It was just after the 2020 election.

00:03:22.000 But I guess you kind of fit in this space that's similar to like, I guess, Matt Taibbi and, you know, to try and maybe Barry Weiss.

00:03:29.000 Not that you guys agree on everything, but you're considered maybe like, I don't know, anti-establishment?

00:03:34.000 Or how would you describe your reporting?

00:03:36.000 Like maybe actual journalism?

00:03:39.000 Well, I don't want to be too pompous or self-aggrandizing.

00:03:41.000 Anti-establishment, I mean, depends how you define establishment, I guess.

00:03:44.000 I don't associate actively with any establishment.

00:03:47.000 But yeah, I mean, there was a time where there was like a formation of people in the media landscape who were seen as maybe a bit more heterodox or were being ostracized more and more from liberal milieus, liberal media milieus were that I had once comfortably inhabited.

00:04:03.000 That I was maybe considered amongst that group.

00:04:07.000 I think one of the best pieces, some of the best work you've done, one way to put it, was when you traveled around the country and went to all the smaller towns that have been affected by the Summer of Love riots.

00:04:18.000 The George Floyd riots.

00:04:18.000 Yeah.

00:04:19.000 And there was this narrative that it wasn't bad.

00:04:21.000 It was peaceful protests.

00:04:23.000 And then you actually wrote this really long piece showing photos from even small towns that were massively impacted by vandalism and destruction.

00:04:29.000 And so I thought that was good.

00:04:30.000 And of course, it really angered more establishment actors and, you know, maybe like Democrat personalities who don't want that narrative coming out.

00:04:37.000 But I suppose the easiest way to describe it is you actually just did journalism, you know, irrespective of any kind of power structure.

00:04:44.000 Yeah, that was a big one.

00:04:44.000 So.

00:04:45.000 All I did was just take a nationwide car trip to small, medium, and large-sized cities where there was some rioting or protest activity underway that had been Very conspicuously undercover, like just to give you one example of plenty that I could give.

00:04:45.000 That was so simple, too.

00:05:02.000 I just happened to be passing by Fort Wayne, Indiana, probably not a place that most people would make a point to stop at just because it's not that noteworthy or remarkable, nothing against it, but it's not like a major landmark, right?

00:05:13.000 And I went and it turned out that there had been the biggest riots in the living memory of people who lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

00:05:22.000 That I just came across.

00:05:24.000 Same with Green Bay and places where you wouldn't even hear that there had been riots.

00:05:28.000 But sometimes there had been the most wide-scale riots in the city's history in a lot of different places.

00:05:33.000 So yeah, I went to that and a lot of people thought that I was trying to actively undermine Black Lives Matter.

00:05:38.000 You're a Trump supporter as soon as you do it.

00:05:39.000 I'm a Trump supporter or something.

00:05:40.000 Yeah, no, which was never my intent.

00:05:42.000 Ironically, one of the women I found in Minneapolis who had her Beauty shop burnt down. 1.00

00:05:50.000 This was in North Minneapolis.

00:05:51.000 It was heavily black.

00:05:53.000 It was an older black woman encountered her.

00:05:57.000 She was talking about how she had been getting all ready to start up her beauty parlor after COVID had shut it down for a couple months.

00:06:04.000 Remember, this was like May, June of 2020.

00:06:06.000 So it was just when some states were beginning to allow businesses to resume activity.

00:06:12.000 And like the weekend that she was going to reopen, it got burned down.

00:06:15.000 Wow.

00:06:16.000 And the conservative media was also so derelict on that story because it fell to me to write a column about this woman.

00:06:24.000 It actually was in the Wall Street Journal.

00:06:26.000 And then Mike Pence referenced her in the vice presidential debate with Kamala Harris.

00:06:31.000 And they flew her out.

00:06:32.000 They flew this woman out to be like attendees at the debate. 1.00

00:06:35.000 Wow.

00:06:36.000 So even though I wasn't trying to, like, proffer material for the Republicans necessarily, there were so few people doing that basic journalistic work that I ended up as a source in that way.

00:06:45.000 And that's another big story today, too.

00:06:47.000 I think it's Paramount just announced mass layoffs, which includes a few prominent journalists like Katherine Harridge.

00:06:52.000 So she's been a big thorn in the side of the current administration and establishment. 0.94

00:06:56.000 But we'll get into all that.

00:06:57.000 Thanks for hanging out.

00:06:58.000 We got Libby hanging out.

00:06:59.000 I'm hanging out.

00:06:59.000 How's it going, guys?

00:07:00.000 Nice to see everybody.

00:07:02.000 You too.

00:07:02.000 And you are.

00:07:03.000 I'm Libby Emmons.

00:07:04.000 I'm with the Postmillennial.

00:07:04.000 I'm glad to be here.

00:07:06.000 And I'm back.

00:07:06.000 I'm back from Cincinnati.

00:07:07.000 I did a wild debate with Destiny over the weekend.

00:07:10.000 It was awesome.

00:07:11.000 It's on his channel.

00:07:12.000 Yeah, it was super cool.

00:07:13.000 I worked with Progressive Victory.

00:07:15.000 They were canvassing Cincinnati, got like knocked on 40,000 doors getting people registered to vote.

00:07:20.000 And then Stephen, Destiny, he and I sat in a church with a big crowd of people and talked about voter integrity.

00:07:26.000 It was like an hour and a half, kind of like surface level, because we didn't have time to get too deep into anything.

00:07:31.000 And at points I was like, I feel like I'm the guy, I'm like, but Dude, I got an idea.

00:07:37.000 Blockchain. 0.97

00:07:38.000 Like, I started to become that guy, and I was like, I gotta lay off this blockchain rhetoric, because they kept asking me questions like, well, go deeper on the, damn, I gotta, I can't go deeper.

00:07:45.000 Most people don't know what it is.

00:07:46.000 But I want to back up our voting.

00:07:47.000 This is Cincinnati?

00:07:48.000 This is in Cincy, yeah.

00:07:49.000 And the concept was, if we, how can we improve voter integrity?

00:07:52.000 I was like, well, if you have a backup, all these blockchains as backup.

00:07:55.000 Anyway, we can go watch the debate.

00:07:57.000 We'll get into it later.

00:07:57.000 Yeah.

00:07:58.000 We got Search pressing the buttons.

00:07:59.000 Yeah, it was good.

00:08:00.000 Big fan.

00:08:01.000 Yeah, good work.

00:08:03.000 Yeah, I'm Surge.com.

00:08:04.000 Thanks for coming, man.

00:08:05.000 Let's get into it.

00:08:06.000 Let's roll.

00:08:07.000 I did like a three-hour online, three-hour stream with Destiny once, and then it was about mostly Ukraine.

00:08:13.000 And I didn't realize until the three hours were up that he had been playing video games the entire time.

00:08:17.000 I didn't know that was a thing.

00:08:18.000 He had an organ on stage that he never turned around and played on.

00:08:20.000 I didn't know how to develop like an incredible multitasking muscle to just be constantly playing video games no matter what else you're doing.

00:08:27.000 Yeah.

00:08:27.000 Let's jump into this first story.

00:08:28.000 We have this from CNN.

00:08:29.000 House impeaches Alejandro Mayorkas, first cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years.

00:08:38.000 Wow.

00:08:39.000 They say the results came one week after the stunning loss House Republicans suffered when they tried to impeach Mayorkas and GOP defections and an absence sank the initial House floor vote.

00:08:49.000 Last week, the absence of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and the surprise attendance

00:08:53.000 by Texas Democrat Al Green, who had just had surgery and was wheeled into the chamber to

00:08:57.000 vote, denied Republicans a majority.

00:09:00.000 However, we now have the victory here.

00:09:03.000 Only one cabinet official has previously been impeached in American history, Secretary of

00:09:07.000 War William Belknap in 1876.

00:09:13.000 The embarrassing initial defeat of the Mayorkas impeachment effort was quickly followed up by another floor failure over a standalone Israel aid package.

00:09:20.000 Only crystallized the GOP's year-long struggle.

00:09:22.000 Blah blah blah.

00:09:23.000 We get it, we get it.

00:09:25.000 The good news is...

00:09:27.000 After this, following the banging of the gavel, celebrations from Republican House members, they will handily hand over their resolution to Mitch McConnell, for which he will promptly put it into the shredder, walk away, and go back to selling out the United States to foreign adversaries and dictators and war machines, etc.

00:09:48.000 etc.

00:09:48.000 You guys said nothing's going to happen from it, and Michael, you specified because they needed two-thirds in the Senate for this to go through, and you just think that's DOA?

00:09:55.000 To convict.

00:09:56.000 But hold on, hold on.

00:09:57.000 Not only do they need two-thirds, they actually need the speaker or they need anyone to actually bring it to a vote.

00:10:05.000 So it's likely going to be thrown in the garbage.

00:10:07.000 That's it.

00:10:07.000 So first the Senate.

00:10:08.000 Chuck Schumer would have to affirmatively schedule a vote or schedule hearings.

00:10:12.000 And it's not even clear that there's a constitutional obligation for him to do so.

00:10:16.000 It's uncharted territory.

00:10:17.000 So there'll be a lot of debate over what's actually required of Schumer at this juncture, because it's a little bit different, as far as I understand it, from a presidential impeachment.

00:10:26.000 Like there are less mandatory steps that kick in once the impeachment takes place.

00:10:31.000 Although there was even debate that when Trump was impeached the first time and Republicans controlled the Senate.

00:10:36.000 Grab your mic.

00:10:37.000 Oh, and the Republicans controlled the Senate, that McConnell might not even be obliged to hold impeachment hearings in that Eventually, so it's like it's open ended as to what is required of anyone here.

00:10:49.000 Nothing's gonna happen.

00:10:50.000 No, I mean, it's really it's it's what's been going on in the house this whole time.

00:10:53.000 They can pass anything they want, but it's never gonna get taken up.

00:10:55.000 It's never gonna go anywhere.

00:10:56.000 I will I will be fair.

00:10:58.000 Okay, we can't expect that much.

00:11:00.000 They have a very slim majority in the house.

00:11:03.000 They don't have the Senate nor the White House.

00:11:05.000 So I don't know what more anyone could expect.

00:11:08.000 That being said, in an election year, Republicans getting this declaration that we are actively trying to do something, whether it's effective or not, or whether it's just politicking, is still going to be good for Republicans, because you've got Democrats in every major city freaking out about the illegal immigration crisis, and to the point where I think it was, was it Al Sharpton called it an invasion?

00:11:28.000 Yeah.

00:11:29.000 So when you've got, man it's getting bad in Chicago, The black community coming out, specifically criticizing the mayor over what's going on with illegal immigration.

00:11:39.000 They don't care about the Democrat or Republican.

00:11:42.000 They're just like, why is this happening?

00:11:44.000 Why are our community centers and schools being handed over?

00:11:46.000 Why aren't you doing anything about it?

00:11:47.000 That's happening in Boston.

00:11:48.000 It's pretty bad.

00:11:49.000 And in Chicago, too, did you see the mayor came out and he said $17 million is going

00:11:54.000 specifically to black and brown businesses to feed the illegal immigrants in shelters?

00:12:00.000 He's like, but I'm giving you money.

00:12:01.000 Yeah.

00:12:02.000 Yeah, it's still not amazing.

00:12:04.000 But what is impeaching the Homeland Security secretary due to substantively address any

00:12:09.000 of that?

00:12:10.000 It doesn't have to actually do anything.

00:12:12.000 Right.

00:12:12.000 It's as simple as this.

00:12:14.000 The average person who is experiencing hardship does not follow the news, does not know who Mayorkas is, does not know what his job is, but they will hear breaking news that Republicans have impeached him over the border crisis.

00:12:28.000 And they're gonna go, wow!

00:12:29.000 Well, at least someone's doing something.

00:12:31.000 They're trying, yeah.

00:12:32.000 And if you go to the average person and ask them, what was Mayorkas' job?

00:12:36.000 I mean, many conservatives are gonna be like, I don't know.

00:12:38.000 And if you go to the average person who's complaining about illegal immigrants, they're gonna be like, don't know, don't care.

00:12:42.000 I mean, look, I can tell you, I can put it this way.

00:12:45.000 With all due respect to the average person who may hear this passively, and it may change their mind, I don't expect the majority of the United States, of the average working person, to know the full details of what the DHS secretary is supposed to be doing, what he should have done.

00:13:00.000 This is why they vote for people they trust.

00:13:02.000 It's representative constitutional republicanism.

00:13:05.000 And so, when they say, I don't know the intricacies of Maricus's job.

00:13:11.000 What I do know is that he's supposed to be the person working the border.

00:13:13.000 He's not.

00:13:14.000 It's really simple.

00:13:15.000 You fire the guy.

00:13:16.000 Okay, well, guess what?

00:13:18.000 Republicans can come out and say, we tried to fire him, and the Democrats would not follow through because it takes the House and the Senate to move forward with the impeachment.

00:13:25.000 And Democrats in the Senate said, we're not interested in firing this guy.

00:13:29.000 So if you're concerned about immigration, vote for us. 0.99

00:13:32.000 We're trying.

00:13:32.000 But Republicans also say that Mayorkas is simply implementing Biden's immigration policy, so you could swap out anybody to preside over the Department of Homeland Security, and it wouldn't change the ultimate policy if it's coming from the top down.

00:13:45.000 Fair point.

00:13:46.000 They should impeach Joe Biden, too.

00:13:47.000 They should do.

00:13:47.000 They definitely should.

00:13:49.000 But there's a political reason why they're not going to.

00:13:51.000 Joe Biden, with his brain turned to jelly, How does he win?

00:13:57.000 I mean, Jon Stewart came out with his new Daily Show, his return to the Daily Show yesterday.

00:14:02.000 It's being praised by everybody.

00:14:03.000 Well, actually, no, I'm sorry.

00:14:04.000 Democrats are furious over it.

00:14:06.000 They don't like it.

00:14:06.000 Republicans are cheering.

00:14:07.000 They're like, he spends the first half of it. 1.00

00:14:09.000 He does rag on Trump, but boy, does he really roast Biden for having a broken brain. 0.56

00:14:15.000 So they don't want to impeach Joe Biden. 0.93

00:14:17.000 Because they think they're going to beat him at the ballot box.

00:14:21.000 But they have an open impeachment, quote, inquiry against Biden on unrelated stuff.

00:14:25.000 I know.

00:14:26.000 It really is simply simply politics.

00:14:28.000 If they do impeach him, Democrats might go, no way, don't.

00:14:32.000 And then Schumer is going to come out and be like, I think it's only fair that we actually hear what our senators have to say about this.

00:14:38.000 And then he gets impeached.

00:14:39.000 That is an anti-semitic accent you just did.

00:14:41.000 That was a New York accent. 0.73

00:14:44.000 And then they're gonna bring in Newsom or somebody else like I don't know Kamala Harris will be like I'm not here you know I stand by Joe or whatever and something happens Republicans don't want to give them the opportunity to swap out their brain-dead president. 0.80

00:14:57.000 I think there are potentially some reasons to be worried or to raise concerns about the House of Representatives, in particular, increasingly resorting to extreme methods of registering disapproval.

00:15:11.000 So this is the first impeachment of a cabinet officer since, what was it, 1876?

00:15:15.000 1876.

00:15:16.000 Democrats under Trump, as we remember, did two impeachments.

00:15:20.000 They tried many more.

00:15:22.000 I think they were pretty satisfied with getting two more presidential terms.

00:15:26.000 Of Trump, I mean, a presidential impeachment.

00:15:28.000 Yes, of Trump.

00:15:29.000 There were several attempts at presidential impeachment that failed.

00:15:33.000 Of Trump?

00:15:34.000 Yes.

00:15:35.000 I think once Democrats took the House after the 2018 midterms, they basically immediately launched into a precursor impeachment investigation and a full-fledged investigation.

00:15:43.000 There were several attempts under the Democrats, but Pelosi was like, no, no, no, and they kept getting defeated.

00:15:49.000 Yeah, there was a push after the Mueller report.

00:15:50.000 But they actually introduced articles of impeachment several times.

00:15:53.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:15:53.000 Individual, well, I mean, individual members of Congress did it all the time.

00:15:56.000 And there were votes on it, and it kept failing until finally...

00:15:59.000 Ukraine!

00:16:00.000 But the point is you have that, you have Congress using more and more often censure resolutions, which used to be pretty rare.

00:16:06.000 Remember the Democrats in, what was it, 2021 censured Paul Gosar for tweeting a meme clip of AOC and Biden, like in an anime thing, which is ridiculous.

00:16:18.000 They claimed that it was like literal violence.

00:16:20.000 And then what happened?

00:16:21.000 Republicans reciprocated by passing censure resolutions against, you know, Rashida Tlaib

00:16:27.000 got it in November for basically being against, you know, critical of Israel.

00:16:30.000 Yeah, but look.

00:16:31.000 So more and more, and then you had the expulsion of George Santos in December,

00:16:33.000 which was without any due process.

00:16:35.000 Republicans voted for that.

00:16:35.000 Right. So the House is resorting to more and more extreme and frequent

00:16:39.000 indications of these previously rarely used powers that's just going to become this endless

00:16:45.000 tit-for-tat.

00:16:46.000 And I think it's almost a sure thing now that Democrats will retaliate against this and impeach a Republican cabinet official.

00:16:52.000 And the problem is it is a pendulum swing with no way to stop it. 0.91

00:16:58.000 Because if the Republicans say, we're going to take the high road and just keep acting normally, the Democrats will just keep beating the crap out of them.

00:17:05.000 So the Republicans respond with, okay, well then we'll swing back. 0.92

00:17:09.000 We'll give them a tit for tat.

00:17:10.000 Because if you don't, I mean, this starts with Democrats.

00:17:14.000 The investigations, the lies, the smears of Trump and Russiagate.

00:17:18.000 The Trump era was the beginning of the psychotic behavior.

00:17:22.000 I mean, granted, Russiagate started even before Trump got elected. 0.97

00:17:24.000 They went nuts.

00:17:26.000 The pushback of the pendulum is the people themselves, because if Congress starts to go crazy, if they really start to do that, it's our job to make sure that that doesn't happen as a people.

00:17:36.000 We are in control of our government.

00:17:37.000 We are the government.

00:17:37.000 They're representing us.

00:17:39.000 And if they get haywire, then that's bad for them.

00:17:41.000 We gotta vote them out.

00:17:42.000 We do have to vote him out.

00:17:43.000 Every single one.

00:17:45.000 I think they forget that they're ours.

00:17:47.000 We don't serve them, they serve us.

00:17:48.000 Anyone who voted to expel Santos has disqualified themselves.

00:17:53.000 100%.

00:17:53.000 And it's not because I like Santos.

00:17:55.000 It's because he was not convicted of any wrongdoing.

00:17:58.000 And by all means, maybe he will be, but if that's the case, I would accept if they said, look, He has been indicted.

00:18:04.000 Therefore, we will suspend him pending an outcome.

00:18:07.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:18:08.000 If someone gets charged the crime and it's a serious offense, we will put them in jail pending the outcome.

00:18:14.000 I'm not a big fan of locking people up who can't like, you know, I actually am a fan of Uh, bail reform.

00:18:20.000 I just don't know that the way New York handles it is the appropriate way to do it.

00:18:23.000 But I think it's a simple argument that if someone is indicted on a crime, depending on the severity of the crime, we can put them in a box and close the door and lock it until we actually resolve this through a trial.

00:18:34.000 It's supposed to be a speedy trial.

00:18:35.000 That being said, in this instance I'm not saying Santa should be locked up.

00:18:38.000 I think it would have been reasonable if they voted for temporary suspension of committee.

00:18:43.000 They do that in the Senate.

00:18:44.000 Like Robert Menendez, who was indicted a few months ago, he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is one of the most powerful positions in the Senate.

00:18:51.000 And he then had to step down once he was indicted, because that's a matter of Senate rules.

00:18:56.000 I don't know that the House has a comparable rule.

00:18:58.000 But I'm sort of wary of even imposing any punishment on Santos when he's merely indicted.

00:19:02.000 That's just a set of accusations by the government.

00:19:04.000 That's still imposing a punishment on him absent due process.

00:19:07.000 I agree, I agree.

00:19:08.000 I think they should have done nothing and said prove it or else.

00:19:10.000 And by the way, the same goes for Menendez because he was indicted by the DOJ a couple of years ago and went to a hung jury.

00:19:17.000 My point is, it is absolutely unreasonable to expel him.

00:19:21.000 The compromise could perhaps be in suspending pending an outcome of the indictments.

00:19:26.000 And I equate that to, a guy is accused of murder, we lock him up until the resolution of the trial, in which many people get found not guilty and are released.

00:19:34.000 I mean, Kyle Rittenhouse spent two months in jail.

00:19:36.000 I don't like the fact that it turns out innocent people end up doing time while we're trying to figure things out.

00:19:41.000 My point is, in my personal opinion, Santos should be still in Congress, and he should say, prove it or else.

00:19:47.000 But my point is, it is completely unreasonable to remove him.

00:19:49.000 Yeah, you get my point.

00:19:50.000 Yeah, and his alleged offenses are comparatively trivial In relation to what other members of Congress could be theoretically punished for, because Santos was the first member of Congress who was expelled without first being convicted of a crime.

00:20:08.000 And most of those in the past, when there was a conviction, had to do with literal treason against the country, meaning they were Confederates.

00:20:17.000 We're in a state of literal legal rebellion.

00:20:20.000 I mean, in 2002, I think it was, James Traficant was the congressman who was previously expelled before Santos, and he was actually convicted of a crime.

00:20:28.000 So if you're going to for some reason make this... That was Ohio, okay.

00:20:33.000 If you're going to... I mean, that guy was a character too.

00:20:35.000 He died in a truck, a tractor accident.

00:20:38.000 But if you're going to sweep aside all precedent and expel Santos without him first being convicted of a crime, and for the conduct to be that he lied about being on a college volleyball team, you're cheapening the tactic.

00:20:52.000 So now it's just going to be used even more commonly for lesser and lesser grave offenses.

00:20:57.000 To simplify everything, check which district you're in, look at who voted to expel Santos, And campaign against them.

00:21:06.000 That's just it.

00:21:07.000 I think... Well, it's the New York Republicans who basically generated that whole process.

00:21:11.000 Sure, but you've got people in Ohio.

00:21:13.000 Because they felt that he would be a political albatross for them when they're running again in 2024, because they're in marginal districts.

00:21:20.000 Each and every one that voted to ask him, I think, is ineligible, but you're not going to convince Democrats, so the Republicans need to organize.

00:21:27.000 But let's jump to the story.

00:21:28.000 We have this tweet from Justin Barragona.

00:21:30.000 A statement from Biden on the Mayorkas impeachment.

00:21:33.000 History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games.

00:21:44.000 That one's amazing.

00:21:45.000 He says, he continues, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, a Cuban immigrant who came to the U.S.

00:21:50.000 with his family as political refugees, has spent more than two decades serving America with integrity in a decorated career in law enforcement and public service.

00:21:58.000 From his time in the DOJ as a U.S.

00:22:00.000 attorney to his service as Deputy Secretary and now Secretary of Homeland Security, he has upheld the rule of law faithfully and has demonstrated a deep commitment to the values that make our nation great.

00:22:10.000 This impeachment already failed once on a bipartisan vote.

00:22:12.000 Instead of staging political stunts like this, Republicans with genuine concerns about the border should want Congress to deliver more border resources and stronger border security.

00:22:22.000 Sadly, the same Republicans pushing this baseless impeachment are rejecting bipartisan plans Mayorkas and others in my administration have worked hard on to strengthen border security at this very moment, reversing from years of their own demands to pass stronger border bills.

00:22:35.000 Giving up on real solutions right when they are needed most in order to play politics is not what the American people expect from their leaders.

00:22:41.000 Congress needs to act to give me, Mayorkas, and my administration the tools and resources needed to address the situation at the border.

00:22:47.000 The House also needs to pass Senate's National Security Supplemental right away.

00:22:51.000 We will continue pursuing real solutions to the challenges Americans face, and House Republicans have to decide whether to join us to solve the problem or keep playing politics with the border.

00:23:00.000 Let me just simplify all of this politically for you guys to understand what's happening.

00:23:05.000 They want to open the border to thousands of illegal immigrants every day at a time when even Democrat strongholds have communities in uproar over the illegal immigration crisis.

00:23:15.000 They want to send $60 billion to Ukraine.

00:23:18.000 They want to send, I think it's what, $14.7 billion to Israel, as well as a portion of that to Taiwan.

00:23:25.000 $20 billion of the dollars in the original bill would not go to securing the border.

00:23:30.000 It would go to facilitating the invasion.

00:23:32.000 Well, that's what it is.

00:23:33.000 It's more judges, it's more border agents, and it's all designed to get people in faster.

00:23:37.000 The bill gives Customs and Border Protection, in certain circumstances, the ability to issue work permits and adjudicate asylum claims without a court.

00:23:47.000 That's insane.

00:23:48.000 And, of course, that's the thing about the asylum seekers, right? 1.00

00:23:50.000 Asylum seekers get work permits faster.

00:23:53.000 They get access to, basically, federal and state aid faster.

00:23:57.000 And as Joe Rogan pointed out just about a week ago, there are certain jurisdictions that are trying to give illegal immigrants with work permits the right to vote in municipal elections.

00:24:06.000 Joe Biden... That was struck down in New York last year, but they can do it again.

00:24:10.000 But it's currently in the courts.

00:24:10.000 It's under appeal.

00:24:12.000 Joe Biden is doing exactly what everyone predicted.

00:24:15.000 The moment this security bill would be introduced, Republicans would notice that it was the opposite of a security bill.

00:24:23.000 And when they refused to play along, the Democrats would come out and say, Aha!

00:24:27.000 They oppose their own security bill!

00:24:29.000 When in reality, that bill was playing politics with the border.

00:24:33.000 Trying to call it a border bill, but giving 70% of the money goes to Ukraine and Israel.

00:24:39.000 It's an Israel-Ukraine war bill that they called a border bill.

00:24:39.000 It's not a border bill.

00:24:42.000 That's playing politics with the thing.

00:24:44.000 He said, don't play politics with the border.

00:24:45.000 They just did it.

00:24:46.000 It's a Ukraine-Israel bill.

00:24:48.000 Good.

00:24:48.000 Thank you.

00:24:48.000 Thank you for topping that off.

00:24:50.000 That's like the, what was it called?

00:24:51.000 The Inflation Reduction Act.

00:24:53.000 And I was just reading today, in Variety, it turns out that the Inflation Reduction Act made it possible for Travis Kelsey to produce his first Hollywood film with federal credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:25:04.000 Well, good for him.

00:25:05.000 Yay! 0.99

00:25:05.000 It raised taxes on pretty much everybody, but you know, Travis Kelsey gets to produce a film. 0.99

00:25:09.000 The reason this bill was even structured in the way it was in the first place, meaning the bill that was abandoned last week, The bill that was abandoned last week that included the immigration component was because in September or October of last year, Republicans in the House kept saying, and some in the Senate, kept saying that although we might support in principle sending additional funds to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan,

00:25:33.000 We're prioritizing the border and immigration policy above all else.

00:25:37.000 So that is a required element of any bill that we would vote for.

00:25:41.000 So it was Biden was proposing that as an accommodation to Republican complaints.

00:25:49.000 And then the Senate Republicans designated James Lankford Who is one of the more conservative members of the caucus, or was seen as one before last week, who came up with a bill that, if you compare it to previous attempts to pass comprehensive immigration reform, and I'm kind of neutral on that anyway, like I don't care one way or the other that much, but like in 2013 and the 2007, when there were these bipartisan attempts to do immigration reform, they included a lot more liberal or democratic priorities, including quote-unquote pathways to citizenship.

00:26:18.000 This included none of that.

00:26:19.000 It was strictly border enforcement, so Biden, ironically, was willing to totally spit in the face of the more hardline, progressive immigration activists within the coalition and just go along with almost entirely Republican priorities.

00:26:37.000 Did you read the bill?

00:26:39.000 Yeah, I did.

00:26:40.000 How could you possibly call it anything other than progressive?

00:26:45.000 8,500 non-citizens allowed in per day, CBP getting, in certain circumstances, the right to adjudicate asylum claims outside of the courts, the granting of work permits.

00:26:54.000 The problem right now that Democrat voters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other major Democrat cities are complaining about is a massive influx of non-citizens sleeping in our airports, in our schools. 0.99

00:27:05.000 So when they say it's a security bill that facilitates Thousands, million, a million plus per year.

00:27:13.000 That's not what Republicans are complaining about.

00:27:15.000 That is Democrat gift giving.

00:27:17.000 That is, that is the only outcome of that proposal was that it would be set that the bill is dead on arrival and then Democrats get to come out and say the security bill was rejected by Republicans.

00:27:28.000 Well, what the lead Senate negotiator, James Langford, who I've actually spoken to in the past about Ukraine policy and other stuff, seems like a relatively normal conservative.

00:27:36.000 I doubt he would be doing the bidding of the Democrats just in some mischievous or nefarious way.

00:27:44.000 Seemed like he was pretty sincere in what he was trying to negotiate, although I stand open to be corrected on that.

00:27:50.000 And he was saying that what it would have changed, and again I don't really frankly care that much way or another about immigration policy, it's something I'm kind of agnostic on for better or worse, but he was saying that the the status quo now is that as many as like six or seven or eight thousand per day migrants approach the border and this would be creating a new authority where if it reaches that number on any given day or over the span of a week then Asylum claims aren't even being processed anymore at the border.

00:28:18.000 So he said that within the past six months, there would have been only three or four days where the inflow would have been low enough that they would even be processing asylum claims in the first place.

00:28:29.000 They were saying that this was going to create authority that Trump had sought.

00:28:32.000 That the Congress hadn't even enacted that would have given him the ability to actually shut down the processing of asylum claims, which is otherwise mandated by law.

00:28:41.000 And redirect them to ports of entry for an additional $3,500, which is not what any, any person who's been complaining about the border had asked for, and all it was doing was creating a legal path to facilitate the illegal activities they were doing.

00:28:54.000 So when we take a look at What Texas is doing with the National Guard, and why Texas is doing it, it's because there is an invasion.

00:29:02.000 And those are the words of, I believe it was Al Sharpton, an invasion on our border.

00:29:05.000 And you've got New York, as I mentioned, all these major Democrat cities saying we are being invaded.

00:29:10.000 If this bill were to pass, it would turn the illegal actions for which Mayorkas has now been impeached into legal actions.

00:29:17.000 In fact, A large portion of the people coming through give false ages. 0.99

00:29:17.000 Overwhelmingly. 0.99

00:29:22.000 We know this is a problem.

00:29:23.000 Large portion, I don't know the exact number.

00:29:25.000 It could be 3% or 4%.

00:29:25.000 I'm not saying it's 90%.

00:29:27.000 A large portion meaning there are thousands of individuals who are between the ages of 20 and 30 who claim they're 17.

00:29:34.000 The bill explicitly stated that if an unaccompanied minor came, it would not even count towards that allotment they would allow in.

00:29:41.000 How about this?

00:29:42.000 If Texas thinks the problem is so egregious, they have lined their border with shipping containers covered in concertina wire and have sent in the National Guard to bar CBP access.

00:29:55.000 Whatever bill they tried proposing, which would actually strip authority from Texas, should be DOA.

00:30:00.000 And that means Lankford and anybody else absolutely sabotaged any effort at border security, and it was predicted by basically every pundit that said, when they actually propose the border bill, and we talked about it on the show, here's what's going to happen. 0.87

00:30:16.000 It's going to be garbage as it always is.

00:30:18.000 I'll put it this way, there's a great meme. 0.99

00:30:20.000 And it's from a progressive.

00:30:22.000 And they're like, introducing the Free Ice Cream for Everyone Act.

00:30:25.000 And it's like, oh wow, I'll vote for that.

00:30:27.000 Approved.

00:30:28.000 Now where's my free ice cream?

00:30:29.000 And they respond, what do you mean?

00:30:30.000 This band's owning dogs.

00:30:32.000 This is what they do every single time with every single bill.

00:30:34.000 They call it the Border Security Bill.

00:30:36.000 When in fact it would allow 8,500 per day.

00:30:39.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:30:40.000 After 5,000 non-citizens breach the border and Texas and other border states are unable to stop it, they redirect 3,500 to a port of entry for the same thing.

00:30:50.000 And to alleviate the courts, because there's too many, they would give CBP certain jurisdiction to issue work permits.

00:30:55.000 Then you've got certain jurisdictions across the country, including Maryland, New York tried doing it, they got jammed up in the courts, Grant and California, Sacramento's doing it, San Francisco, granting non-citizens the right to vote in municipal elections and making various excuses why they're allowing them to do this. 0.50

00:31:10.000 We have to say outright, Maybe we should just stop allowing thousands of non-citizens to pour in through our border every day. 1.00

00:31:17.000 But I'll give you this.

00:31:19.000 I'm glad all of it's happening.

00:31:20.000 Because now I can say very plainly to Gen Z, if you're wondering why it is you can't afford an apartment, why it is that eggs are costing you $10, why you have to live in a shoebox with no bathroom with two other people, just take a look at the non-citizens who have been given luxury hotel rooms in New York City and debit cards with $3,000 on it. 0.94

00:31:40.000 And maybe if we stop spending that money, you might have a better future.

00:31:43.000 And now they have a curfew in place, too.

00:31:45.000 Adam said to put a curfew on the migrants in those hotels.

00:31:48.000 So from 11 p.m.

00:31:50.000 to 6 a.m., they're not allowed to leave or come in.

00:31:52.000 So that's a thing.

00:31:53.000 And also one of the architects of the bill, Chris Murphy from Connecticut, he said that under this bill, the border never closes.

00:32:00.000 And he said that with pride.

00:32:01.000 We meant that in terms of commerce, like economic transactions.

00:32:03.000 Yeah, but he also meant that in terms of migrants getting shipped from one port of entry to another, like they would close one and open something else.

00:32:10.000 I think he more meant that in terms of goods being transported over the border, but I don't know for sure.

00:32:14.000 Maybe he meant it differently.

00:32:16.000 I don't know.

00:32:17.000 John Thune, who's the second ranking Republican in the Senate, said that this is a list, this bill contained a long list of long sought Republican priorities in terms of border enforcement and that they would never be able to get Democrats to budge on half of these In a Republican administration.

00:32:37.000 He was saying that there was much more progress made under a Democratic administration.

00:32:40.000 It's like a Nixon going to China thing, right?

00:32:42.000 Only Biden or only a Democrat can actually give some concessions to immigration restrictionists in a way that will lead to sort of muted opposition among Democrats.

00:32:53.000 Because if Trump was in power, then Democrats would be screaming fascism and this is going to lead straight to concentration camps and whatnot.

00:32:59.000 But with Biden, their opposition is a bit more Muted and tempered.

00:33:02.000 And so the political logic seemed to me to make sense that Thun was laying out, in that this is the best Republican restrictionists could hope for in terms of a compromise in the Congress.

00:33:11.000 Now, if people still don't like it, I get it.

00:33:13.000 I don't particularly support it.

00:33:14.000 What's the number?

00:33:15.000 Like 1.7 million non-citizens per year?

00:33:17.000 It's record-breaking.

00:33:18.000 How is that a compromise?

00:33:19.000 It's more than that.

00:33:20.000 It's like 2.3 this year.

00:33:22.000 How about you reduce the inflow by just putting razor wire on the border and using CBP saying, get the F out!

00:33:28.000 Well, I mean, they have, I mean, as Langford explained, I actually didn't quite realize this until maybe it was last week.

00:33:33.000 Even the places on the border, I think most of Texas where there is wall or where there is fortified border barrier, the barrier itself is like a quarter to a half mile inside United States territory.

00:33:46.000 So once a, quote, migrant, even approaches the wall, they're on United States 0.99

00:33:50.000 territory, and then according to existing law, their asylum claim has to be processed. So what Lankford

00:33:54.000 and others who were promoting this bill were saying was that they're going to increase the

00:33:58.000 threshold for a valid asylum claim, so they'll be able to turn away more people at that exact point than they're

00:34:04.000 able to now. So they're saying the status quo is six or eight thousand encounters a day and

00:34:09.000 somebody coming in, X amount coming in to be processed, this will give us the authority to turn away

00:34:14.000 more. But that's true, I don't know, but that was the argument. And so the issue is, this is

00:34:19.000 exactly what we predicted would happen because it gives the excuse to Democrats to claim we tried

00:34:24.000 to secure the border, but there is not a single reasonable person from, I mean, conservatives know

00:34:29.000 what's happening, they're paying attention, they're furious, but now you're getting Democrats in major

00:34:33.000 cities lighting up and not a single one of them is saying, I wish there was slightly less people

00:34:37.000 storming our borders.

00:34:38.000 No, they're saying, stop all of it.

00:34:40.000 All of it should stop.

00:34:41.000 But it's never been stopped.

00:34:42.000 Trump never stopped all of it.

00:34:43.000 That's an aside.

00:34:43.000 That's moving the goalpost.

00:34:44.000 That's an aside.

00:34:50.000 That's moving the goalposts. 0.92

00:34:51.000 I'm saying people are asking the government to propose a bill that provides security to

00:34:54.000 stop the influx, not whether Trump did or didn't or whether he could have done a better

00:34:58.000 The issue right now is a record-breaking influx causing damage to our cities that Joe Biden himself, what, 20 years ago called, what did he say? 0.54

00:35:06.000 It was turning the cities into ish holes or whatever?

00:35:08.000 Yeah.

00:35:09.000 The point is they were seeking, the Senate was attempting to give the president additional authorities to stem that influx, including authorities that Trump sought and was not able to receive because it wouldn't give him the ability to stem the flow.

00:35:23.000 So right now it is illegal what they're doing.

00:35:25.000 The bill would have created a legal path for the invasion.

00:35:30.000 Right now, when a single person crosses the border, it's a crime.

00:35:33.000 And CBP opening the barriers and bringing them in is a criminal act because they know coyotes and cartel members are the ones facilitating this.

00:35:40.000 They should outright say no.

00:35:42.000 U.S.

00:35:43.000 policy as it pertains to kidnappings overseas is not to negotiate with terrorist organizations.

00:35:49.000 If someone gets kidnapped in the Middle East, and I don't know if this is true under Biden, but this is true under Trump, Obama, and is, you know, basically my professional career.

00:35:57.000 You get kidnapped, the United States will not negotiate with terrorists.

00:36:00.000 This meant that typically Americans would be ignored.

00:36:04.000 German citizens and Spanish citizens were prized possessions for kidnappers in the Middle East because their governments pay up instantly and negotiate with any terror group who kidnaps their citizens.

00:36:14.000 The United States would have a helicopter flying over your compound where a bunch of guys in all black with rifles would come out, kill everybody in the compound, and rescue the Americans.

00:36:23.000 The American policy understood that if you negotiate with criminal factions and terrorists, you incentivize their behavior. 0.98

00:36:29.000 So the best course of action is to tell them all, you touch an American citizen, you die.

00:36:34.000 Now, you have CBP and the Biden administration telling the cartels, you bring in trafficked humans, we take care of it for you. 0.72

00:36:42.000 That is, I think that's a criminal action.

00:36:46.000 I think we can say, okay, fine, impeach Joe Biden, whatever, whatever you want to say.

00:36:50.000 But the idea, I see a video of CBP lifting up razor wire to bring these people in as coyotes and cartel members with rifles are shuttling them into the country.

00:36:59.000 I'm like, we have a humanitarian crisis.

00:37:02.000 We have atrocities being committed. 0.95

00:37:04.000 The amount of young girls being raped by these gangs and cartels.

00:37:08.000 And CBP makes it all possible with smiles on their faces to help make it happen.

00:37:12.000 And the NGOs that get funded by the federal government as well.

00:37:14.000 And the Biden administration says, let's codify this and make it all legal.

00:37:19.000 And I say, no, let's put a bunch of shipping containers on the border. 0.86

00:37:22.000 Let's float things in the river and tell the cartels, when you bring a person, if a human being is standing alongside a coyote and a human trafficker, we consider them to be a part of your gang.

00:37:32.000 You want to pay them $3,000 to traffic you through South America and Central America, through Mexico and to our border?

00:37:39.000 You are working with enemies of the United States. 0.55

00:37:41.000 Instead, it's compromise, compromise, compromise, rollover, rollover, rollover.

00:37:47.000 And Biden has the ability to close the border.

00:37:49.000 I mean, he could just do it.

00:37:50.000 He had the ability to open it.

00:37:52.000 What's the authority?

00:37:53.000 Well, the same authority he used to issue all the executive orders to blast it right open.

00:37:57.000 In his first days in office.

00:37:59.000 Even Trump did not have the authority to close the border.

00:38:03.000 Then why was it less than half a million people in 2020?

00:38:06.000 Well, because COVID reduced migration flows across the world.

00:38:10.000 I mean, it was a record year.

00:38:13.000 2019 was a record year when Trump was in office, and I think he probably would have closed the border if he had the authority available to him.

00:38:19.000 I don't know if it was an all-time record, but it was way over the maybe preceding 10 years or so when, in 2019, So I mean, yeah, I mean, it was a million point one, right, which is a lot of people.

00:38:31.000 Well, it's not two point three.

00:38:32.000 I'm not saying it's less than the current inflow, but it was still a lot.

00:38:35.000 The point being, there was no authority to just, quote, close the border.

00:38:38.000 That's what they were trying to give to the president with this bill.

00:38:41.000 That's not in favor of the bill.

00:38:43.000 I actually think this gets to why.

00:38:45.000 House Republicans really ought not to be commended for doing this theatrical impeachment of Mayorkas because we've agreed, I think, that it's purely symbolic.

00:38:52.000 It will have no substantive impact on the policy grievances that you're laying out.

00:38:56.000 It might have an impact on voting. 0.90

00:38:58.000 Right.

00:38:58.000 It's a political stunt.

00:38:59.000 Which would be good.

00:38:59.000 I mean, it's a political ploy.

00:39:01.000 It's a political ploy.

00:39:02.000 It does not address the underlying substance.

00:39:03.000 And also, by the way, it's accelerating the passage of this national security supplemental bill with the immigration part severed off.

00:39:11.000 That is Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, which will already passed 70 to 29 in the Senate and has majority support in the House.

00:39:18.000 So now the House Republicans can say, oh yeah, maybe we use like a legislative maneuver to get this Mammoth, you know, $89 billion, or however many billions it is, national security bill passed.

00:39:30.000 But we also, you know, mollified some of your concerns, base, by doing this meaningless impeachment of a cabinet official.

00:39:37.000 Let me pull the story.

00:39:37.000 This is the Wall Street Journal.

00:39:38.000 Ladies and gentlemen, in the wee hours of the morning, pre-dawn, the Senate passed the $95 billion Ukraine-Israel aid package, sending it to the House in, you know, the way I described it early in the morning is that While we were sleeping, the Senate took a blade and pressed it firmly against the back of the American people and then just applied pressure.

00:40:00.000 But I think that's unfair because that would imply the Senate was on your side at any point.

00:40:04.000 So I guess the easier way to explain it is you were walking down a peaceful street with flowers abound when a member of the Senate showed up and said, I'm going to take all your money and give it to Ukraine and then pulled the knife out.

00:40:16.000 So it wasn't that you were being betrayed.

00:40:17.000 It's that they were stealing from you in plain view.

00:40:20.000 So here we go.

00:40:20.000 70 to 29.

00:40:22.000 Marked a victory for proponents of the muscular role for the U.S.

00:40:26.000 in foreign affairs.

00:40:27.000 For the moment, elbowing aside isolationist forces in Congress.

00:40:31.000 I love isolationist, they say.

00:40:33.000 Me?

00:40:33.000 Let me tell you guys, I'm not an isolationist.

00:40:35.000 I think we should spend as much money as we can.

00:40:39.000 Every single penny that we can on every country in the planet.

00:40:43.000 Every single one!

00:40:44.000 You name a country, bang!

00:40:45.000 Money!

00:40:45.000 Just make it rain!

00:40:47.000 And what I said was, all the money we can.

00:40:49.000 And all the money we can is all the money we have left over after our roads are fixed, our schools are fixed, or abolished, our borders are secure, healthcare is solved, the working class have places to live. 0.91

00:40:59.000 Maybe once we solve all those problems, we can then say, we're so wealthy, let's donate somewhere else.

00:41:03.000 Maybe, but with fiat we can print infinite.

00:41:05.000 That's the problem. 1.00

00:41:06.000 There will never be All we can can always be more in this stupid system we've got set up. 1.00

00:41:10.000 Hold on. 0.99

00:41:10.000 And I hear what you're saying, and that's, that's 70, I would say 75% correct, but I would add... 0.99

00:41:16.000 When they mass print money, or when they issue loans, creating money upon the issuance of debt, they are stripping the buying power of Americans.

00:41:24.000 When you have an insecure border where people are flooding across and they're providing debit cards, and they're using taxpayer dollars to facilitate these people into big cities, suppressing the labor market, you are creating economic conditions where there is extremely limited supply with tremendous demand, making housing Unaffordable for the average person, especially the younger voters, which is no surprise why they're leaning towards Donald Trump.

00:41:48.000 When they say, however they end up doing this, people need to understand that they don't take your tax dollars to fund war.

00:41:57.000 They create money upon the issuance of debt.

00:42:00.000 So they create a debt.

00:42:03.000 Spend the money, and that means these corporations, and say Ukraine, where the money is spent on the creation of weapons, paying personnel and PMCs, that gets spent back in the United States, and this suppresses the buying power of the average American citizen, drives prices up.

00:42:16.000 You combine that with a porous southern border, and it is almost like they are intentionally destroying this country.

00:42:24.000 I hope Gen Z wakes up fast enough to realize it, to do something about it come November. 1.00

00:42:31.000 One of those amazing parts of this bill is that in the Israel section, it actually goes out of its way to specifically exempt the appropriations to Israel from congressional oversight.

00:42:42.000 It specifically allows the Secretary of State, when he approves some of these Transmissions of armaments and stuff to simply bypass ordinary congressional notification requirements.

00:42:54.000 Say what you will about Ukraine funding.

00:42:56.000 I've been a huge skeptic and critic of it from the beginning, but they actually have been coerced into at least nominally implementing some oversight mechanisms like an inspector general and other IGs that have been part of this like consortium to at least do some oversight.

00:43:12.000 The funny bit with Israel, Congress just falls over itself to say, do what you want with this money. 0.50

00:43:17.000 We're not even going to check anything.

00:43:19.000 It's actually pretty amazing.

00:43:21.000 The total vote count on this bill, 70 to 29, actually under counts.

00:43:26.000 The extent to which there is a consensus on this issue, meaning a consensus behind just a never-ending disbursement of these war expenditures into conflict zones, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, because you had at least a couple of Republican senators who are some of the most ardent interventionists in the entire Senate, like Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, they voted actually no Not because they oppose the underlying substance of the bill.

00:43:58.000 They're all staunch supporters of funding Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

00:44:01.000 They probably even wanted more of it, frankly, if they had their way.

00:44:05.000 It's because they're still making a political point or a procedural point about the lack of prioritization of I think they do do that.

00:44:12.000 border aspect, but in voting no, you'll notice it didn't actually hinder passages of the bill.

00:44:17.000 So it's a perfect situation for them politically. They can technically register their supposed

00:44:21.000 discontent with the passage of the bill, absent some border provision, but their preferred policy

00:44:27.000 still gets put into place anyway. Do you think they take turns doing that? Like they're like,

00:44:31.000 this time I'm going to vote no, let's just make sure it gets passed. I'm going to say no on this

00:44:33.000 one. The next time you get to say no, I'll make sure it gets passed. That way we both look like

00:44:36.000 a good guy. I think they do that. Yeah, they definitely do that. Yeah, they have, that's what

00:44:39.000 That's what their conference is about.

00:44:41.000 It's to coordinate and structure their voting pattern.

00:44:43.000 Yeah, this is the vote total if you want to see it.

00:44:45.000 Yeah, how can I pull that up?

00:44:46.000 I want to pull up the source.

00:44:47.000 the underlying policy, they can ensure that there's like a trade-off where

00:44:50.000 somebody's voting yes for it so it's like canceled out it's gonna pass anyway

00:44:53.000 because those people I all mentioned they all firmly were in favor of this

00:44:58.000 bill passing on a substantive level that they just felt they had to make an

00:45:01.000 ancillary voting point. Is that the bill and the votes for it? Yeah this is the vote total if you want to see it.

00:45:05.000 Yeah how can I pull that up I want to pull up the source. I tweeted earlier so

00:45:08.000 you can look at my account or I'll send it to you. I will.

00:45:11.000 Pull up your Twitter.

00:45:12.000 How long ago did you tweet it?

00:45:13.000 It's from 1.15 p.m.

00:45:14.000 today.

00:45:15.000 1.15 p.m.

00:45:16.000 today.

00:45:17.000 Let's pull up this... Okay, here we go.

00:45:19.000 This is it right here?

00:45:20.000 Yeah.

00:45:21.000 So these are the yeas... Oh, no, sorry, sorry, sorry.

00:45:24.000 No, this is a different one.

00:45:25.000 That's an older one.

00:45:26.000 Go to 1.15.

00:45:26.000 That was me replying to somebody and proving them embarrassingly wrong because I pulled up one from 2022.

00:45:32.000 Keep going down.

00:45:32.000 Keep going.

00:45:34.000 Keep going down?

00:45:35.000 Keep going down.

00:45:35.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:45:36.000 Keep going there.

00:45:36.000 This one?

00:45:37.000 Okay, here we go.

00:45:38.000 The, uh, this is Michael Tracy tweeting, the huge Ukraine-Israel bill got 70 votes, which they can hardly ever get for anything, and several voting nay are huge interventionists who only voted nay for political reasons.

00:45:48.000 Yeah, so this is a really good point.

00:45:49.000 Knowing it wouldn't impede passage, that's the key point.

00:45:51.000 So, uh, some people are pointing out too, because I think it was, um... Like Lindsey Graham didn't have an epiphany and now opposes funding Ukraine.

00:45:51.000 Right.

00:45:58.000 It was, uh, uh, Mullen.

00:46:01.000 I think who had been reported, and I could be wrong, but I saw a report that he had been discussing a discharge resolution.

00:46:06.000 I looked into that.

00:46:07.000 I'm not sure how well sourced that was.

00:46:08.000 That seemed like a rumor.

00:46:09.000 I mean, it's possible, but he actually voted no on the final vote.

00:46:11.000 He voted no, and a lot of people are saying that voting no was the right move, but he's being accused, and again, this may be unwarranted, of only voting no because he knew it passed, and so he'd score political points by claiming he opposed it when he really was in favor of it.

00:46:23.000 That might be true, because he did vote aye or yay On a procedural vote like a day or two ago that led to this final vote early this morning.

00:46:32.000 So just insidious.

00:46:34.000 I mean, it's why we vote as citizens in one day.

00:46:36.000 So we don't know what the vote tally is when we go in there.

00:46:38.000 We're not supposed to know ahead of time.

00:46:40.000 If I can get 700 more votes, my guy will get it over the edge.

00:46:43.000 You just go and you vote for what you believe.

00:46:44.000 That's the idea, yeah.

00:46:46.000 I don't think that's ever been the case though, I think, you know, practice versus theory.

00:46:50.000 So Steve Daines, Daines from Montana.

00:46:52.000 Was that a no or a yeah?

00:46:53.000 It was a nay vote.

00:46:55.000 So he's the chair of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, which is basically the campaign apparatus for the Senate Republicans.

00:47:03.000 So he's very involved in the political maneuverings around individual states, Senate races, and he was objecting, he was Justifying his no vote on the basis of wanting to ensure that Republicans who are running in contested Senate seats this year can still say that, you know, they're against the bill in principle because it didn't do the border components.

00:47:27.000 So he was outlining the political rationale.

00:47:29.000 And it's the same for like a Tim Scott.

00:47:31.000 I mean, Tim Scott ran for president, right, from South Carolina.

00:47:34.000 And go back and look at some of the debates.

00:47:36.000 He would give these fulsome Declarations in favor of oh, there's a roach in front of me.

00:47:41.000 No, that's a stink bug.

00:47:42.000 Okay stink bug either way.

00:47:45.000 Yeah Whenever I go anywhere, I'm just surrounded by stink bugs.

00:47:50.000 Maybe I have to look inward to see the reason for that.

00:47:52.000 No, that's not true I want to clarify something Tim Scott would give these like soaring oratories in favor of Ukraine funding and Israel funding, etc.

00:48:01.000 But now he's voting no.

00:48:02.000 Why?

00:48:02.000 Because he and several others of these people who voted no are like a bridge to Trump within the Senate Republican caucus.

00:48:08.000 Trump is at least nominally opposed to the bill and so they're kind of trying to You know, play this game where they're weighing different political considerations and trying to come to a happy medium that is most to the advantage of Senate Republican candidates in November.

00:48:25.000 I want to clarify something, too, because we have a super chat from Brett Tesdale.

00:48:28.000 He says, keep in mind the Senate bill contains a provision that should Trump be elected president, he attempts to stop spending the money on Ukraine, it'll trigger immediate impeachment of Trump.

00:48:35.000 That is not correct.

00:48:37.000 That's not true.

00:48:38.000 Vance was saying is that The bill funds Ukraine into the Trump administration, into the first fiscal year of a Trump administration, and should Trump try to stop the funding in negotiations to end the war, it would warrant or give Democrats a reason to impeach.

00:48:38.000 What J.D.

00:48:59.000 That is, the funding goes until September, I think, 25th.

00:49:02.000 Imagine Donald Trump gets elected, and in February he says, we're ending this war now.

00:49:07.000 Now, I made the prediction That, and it's not necessarily a prediction, but more of like a point, that the day the news comes in, Donald Trump will be your next president, he is president-elect, the war stops.

00:49:20.000 There's immediate ceasefire because Ukraine knows their funding's done and Russia knows Trump is going to negotiate and it's going to clean everything up and Putin's not going to want to go up against Trump on the issue.

00:49:30.000 Trump would get on the phone as soon as he's president and say, we're ending this.

00:49:34.000 What needs to be done?

00:49:35.000 Ukraine would lose territory.

00:49:36.000 Russia would end up effectively winning what they wanted, but it would end the war.

00:49:40.000 I think.

00:49:41.000 With this bill that nullifies that pseudo-prediction, because now funding is secured through September, and if Donald Trump stops the spending that was congressionally approved, they will argue, as they did in the first impeachment, the president has no authority to halt spending that was congressionally approved.

00:50:00.000 But that means that Donald Trump will not be able to say to Vladimir Putin, the U.S.

00:50:06.000 will no longer fund Ukraine in this conflict, we want an end to the war.

00:50:08.000 Putin will say, you have no authority.

00:50:11.000 Congress has already approved the funding and you can't stop it.

00:50:13.000 They'll impeach you.

00:50:13.000 I saw what happened.

00:50:14.000 It is completely undermining our ability to negotiate in regards to this.

00:50:19.000 Could they still fund Ukraine in sort of a reconstructive effort with that money and still end the war?

00:50:25.000 and still send the bills. Well that funding mechanism is one of several that's used to

00:50:30.000 arm Ukraine. So that one that you're talking about pre-existed the 2022 invasion and as

00:50:36.000 you mentioned was in effect when Trump was in office. So Trump or any president would be in

00:50:42.000 a sense bound by whatever Congress decides to appropriate to that particular authority.

00:50:47.000 But that's only a minority of the overall Ukraine funding, which uses a variety of different authorities.

00:50:52.000 There's definitely no automatic impeachment trigger.

00:50:55.000 And I'm not sure how much it would really hamstring Trump, because I doubt that even if there was some ideal

00:50:59.000 negotiation that he came up with, that it would involve 100% cutting off

00:51:03.000 all funding to Ukraine.

00:51:06.000 I mean, you would probably want to still keep Ukraine within the American orbit. 0.84

00:51:09.000 You're still basically subsidizing their entire military.

00:51:12.000 Trump has never on principle come out against all Ukraine funding.

00:51:15.000 He actually increased funding.

00:51:16.000 He gave them weapons.

00:51:17.000 Yeah, he acceded to the lobbying of Lindsey Graham and John McCain in 2017,

00:51:23.000 and of Poroshenko, the previous president of Ukraine, and started for the first time sending Javelin missiles.

00:51:28.000 And then when the war started in 2022, Trump would go on like Sean Hannity's show and brag how many of his Javelin missiles were being used to kill Russian soldiers.

00:51:36.000 So this idea that Trump is just gonna, you know, magically end the war, I think that's a lot of wishful thinking.

00:51:40.000 He won't give any specifics about what he's actually gonna do on a policy level.

00:51:43.000 All he says is, the war never would have started if I was in power, which is unprovable, counterfactual.

00:51:47.000 And number two, the war will end in 24 hours because I'll just get everybody to agree and start loving each other.

00:51:52.000 I don't know that that's necessarily a realistic proposition.

00:51:52.000 I don't know.

00:51:55.000 I don't agree with counterfactual.

00:51:59.000 I suppose you can argue we don't necessarily know what... It was definitionally counterfactual.

00:52:03.000 It's an alternate timeline.

00:52:04.000 Right.

00:52:05.000 My point is the crisis in Ukraine had been bubbling up under Obama.

00:52:11.000 The ousting of Yanukovych, but it ended.

00:52:15.000 So in 2013, Euromaidan protests erupt, the conflict between the trade agreement with Ukraine, either EU or the loss of the trade agreement with Russia, the ultimate ousting in 2014 of Yanukovych, and the riots and separatist movement.

00:52:30.000 By the time Trump had become president and I returned to Ukraine, going back to Kiev, it had simmered down to the point where the locals said, we don't call this civil war, no, it's mostly done, there's just some fighting in the east now.

00:52:42.000 Yeah.

00:52:42.000 So under Obama, dramatic escalation, civil war, to the point where journalists were kidnapped by Russian separatist forces.

00:52:49.000 Two years later, Trump is president.

00:52:51.000 I go back to Kiev.

00:52:53.000 Everything seems to be fine now.

00:52:54.000 We don't really talk about it because it's over.

00:52:56.000 This is what I'm told by locals.

00:52:57.000 Because there was low-grade fighting in the Donbass still.

00:52:59.000 But it mostly weakened.

00:53:01.000 In 2014, it was terrifying.

00:53:03.000 But Trump fueled the combat by sending lethal weaponry for the first time.

00:53:07.000 And for whatever reason... I mean, that was denounced by the Kremlin when it happened, and they said it was going to make it more likely to precipitate war, which was correct. 1.00

00:53:14.000 And they waited until Trump was out of office, and then under Biden, we get this massive explosion of war and conflict, a resurgence of troops in the Middle East.

00:53:22.000 I do not think I think it is fair to say that if you look at the actions of the Trump administration in terms of no new wars, timelines for removal of troops from the Middle East, trying to get our troops out of Syria despite being lied to, and Abraham Accords as well as other attempts at peace negotiations, the likelihood, be it 51% or otherwise, is that there would likely not be war in Ukraine if Donald Trump was president.

00:53:43.000 He also did give an indication of what he would do when he spoke to Maria Bartiromo in July.

00:53:50.000 And he said, you know, you could say that this is vague, which it is, but he said, I would tell Zelensky, no more.

00:53:55.000 You've got to make a deal.

00:53:56.000 I would tell Putin, if you don't make a deal, we're going to give them a lot.

00:53:59.000 We're going to give them more than ever we got.

00:54:02.000 So he threatened to give Ukraine more weapons than ever before.

00:54:05.000 Right, so what he said was that he would stop all funding to Ukraine if Ukraine didn't make a deal and increase it if Russia wouldn't cover the table.

00:54:14.000 Right, which is just basically saying he's going to negotiate with them.

00:54:17.000 But that was his plan.

00:54:18.000 That's the most that he has said about his plan.

00:54:20.000 There really is huge continuity, and I've done pretty in-depth research reporting on this.

00:54:25.000 There is a huge amount of continuity between the Trump administration and the Biden administration in terms of Ukraine policy in particular, not on every foreign policy issue.

00:54:33.000 We can get into that, if you want, separately.

00:54:36.000 But in terms of Ukraine policy, there's a huge amount of continuity.

00:54:39.000 Let's give you one very important example.

00:54:42.000 In early 2020, Mike Pompeo, who was then Secretary of State in the Trump administration, went to Ukraine, met with Zelensky and Ukrainian leadership, and they agreed upon what was the initial iteration of this new strategic partnership that was going to become operational bilaterally between the US and Ukraine.

00:55:05.000 So they were going to start a new There were going to be new parameters to the relationship where it was going to be enhanced bilateral military ties and support and provision of technology and arms and so forth.

00:55:16.000 So basically increasing the extent to which Ukraine was becoming a bastion of U.S. 0.84

00:55:21.000 military power.

00:55:23.000 That was Pompeo.

00:55:24.000 And then in November 2021, three or so months before the war started in February, the following February, Blinken Pompeo's successor as Secretary of State also goes to Ukraine and codifies that strategic partnership agreement, which, among other things...

00:55:42.000 Locks in a U.S. 0.94

00:55:43.000 commitment that Ukraine will ultimately formally join NATO.

00:55:47.000 So that was reiterated by Pompeo in 2020, reiterated by Blinken in 2021, and that's a core grievance of Putin in launching the invasion.

00:55:56.000 A lot of that occurred under the Trump administration.

00:55:58.000 Perhaps Tucker should have asked Vladimir Putin specifically on the issue of Trump and Biden, but we'll move on to this story here because I want to cover this one.

00:56:04.000 From Savannah Morning News, Georgia National Guard to send members to U.S.-Mexico border, Brian Kemp announces.

00:56:13.000 Between 15 and 20 members of the Georgia National Guard will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border this spring to assist Border Patrol agents in Texas, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced on Tuesday.

00:56:23.000 They will join the 29 members of the Georgia National Guard who are currently stationed in Texas to help set up a command post at the border.

00:56:29.000 Kemp's announcement comes in response to what Republican lawmakers in both chambers of the Georgia Legislature are calling a national immigration crisis.

00:56:36.000 Kemp's announcement was delivered shortly after resolutions decrying federal immigration policies and pledging support for Texas Governor Greg Abbott passed in the House and Senate.

00:56:45.000 Georgia's more than 800 miles.

00:56:46.000 Blah blah blah.

00:56:47.000 No one can claim there isn't a crisis.

00:56:49.000 Federal crime data indicates.

00:56:50.000 Yada yada yada.

00:56:51.000 Here's the question right now.

00:56:53.000 They say, though the Georgia National Guard members will be traveling to Texas, Kemp said they will mainly be assisting with engineering and mechanical issues at the command center.

00:57:00.000 Our National Guard is not going to be arresting people.

00:57:02.000 We don't have those powers.

00:57:04.000 We'll leave that up to the Texas authorities.

00:57:06.000 So, this is the interesting thing.

00:57:08.000 They're going to be assisting Border Patrol agents.

00:57:11.000 Okay.

00:57:12.000 Federal Border Patrol agents, because they're facilitating the human trafficking and smuggling.

00:57:16.000 It sounds like what this actually is, is not too dissimilar to what we saw with Alaska.

00:57:21.000 Georgia, Kemp is not a Trump guy, is going to be sending National Guard to help the federal government facilitate illegal immigration.

00:57:28.000 Trump endorsed a primary opponent to Kemp in 2022.

00:57:32.000 Who didn't win?

00:57:33.000 Is this unclear whether they're going to assist the feds or the state, local state?

00:57:37.000 The story says they'll be assisting Border Patrol.

00:57:39.000 Border Patrol are the ones facilitating the human smuggling.

00:57:43.000 Texas National Guard are stopping it.

00:57:45.000 So, for instance, Taylor Hanson, who has been on this show and reports for Tenet Media, said down there during CBP control, thousands of illegal immigrants, criminal aliens, every day, as soon as Texas takes over, four or five, four to six.

00:58:00.000 And I said, thousand?

00:58:01.000 He goes, no, no, no, like four, like four people.

00:58:04.000 I was like, wait, wait, single digit four?

00:58:05.000 He's like, yeah.

00:58:06.000 If they're going down to assist the federal government, that's not what he said.

00:58:11.000 Kemp said the crisis on the border is a national problem and it demands a national solution.

00:58:14.000 But if the Biden administration continues to fail the American people, then we have no choice but to step in.

00:58:19.000 Therefore, in addition to the Georgia guardsmen already stationed at the border, we will send reinforcements to Texas this spring who will assist with the construction of a forward command post on the border with Mexico.

00:58:27.000 The question is, This is from Savannah Morning News, and I think what you just said still does not make it clear.

00:58:36.000 We need to know exactly who he will be working with.

00:58:38.000 Texas or the Feds?

00:58:40.000 This says Border Patrol.

00:58:42.000 This does not say Texas National Guard.

00:58:44.000 He says arresting will be up to Texas.

00:58:47.000 So my issue here is, we don't exactly know based on this individual report.

00:58:51.000 Unless we can find more details specifically on what Kemp is saying.

00:58:54.000 To me, it's vague.

00:58:56.000 He acknowledges Texas' right to make arrests.

00:58:59.000 So there's that.

00:59:00.000 Yes, but this could just be like, oh yeah, we support Texas and Abbott.

00:59:05.000 And then he goes and he works with the feds to try and keep things simmered down.

00:59:11.000 Tough to tell.

00:59:12.000 We got to get Kemp on the show.

00:59:13.000 The report says supporting Border Patrol agents.

00:59:15.000 Wouldn't any bi-state pact or agreement between, in this case, Georgia and Texas, also probably necessarily include some federal component in that it would become an interstate enterprise and therefore some kind of federal jurisdictional authority kicks in?

00:59:30.000 I don't know the specifics, but that would be my intuition as to what this would entail.

00:59:34.000 Fox at Lance is reporting that he is assisting Abbott's effort to control illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border, as Abbott pursues a showdown with the Biden administration.

00:59:43.000 So, again, allocate resources and assistance to the protection of the southern border does not actually explain who they will be working with.

00:59:54.000 Now, to be fair, Kemp was one of 13 governors who joined Abbott at Eagle Pass.

00:59:59.000 I honestly have no idea.

01:00:00.000 I have no idea.

01:00:01.000 This is what happened when the Alaska announcement came out that at some point in 2025, Alaskan National Guard would be deployed to assist the federal authorities here.

01:00:10.000 A lot of people immediately saw that and assumed this meant Alaska would be deploying National Guard to help Texas at a state level.

01:00:18.000 However, when you read further, it's no, to assist the federal government, and people are like, that is not very based.

01:00:23.000 So the question now is, who, you know, who, where, which, which command will these individuals fall under?

01:00:29.000 Will it be to act?

01:00:30.000 What we know right now, the Biden administration border patrol wants to open the border and allow thousands of non, of criminal aliens in every day.

01:00:39.000 The Texas state government has made this illegal and wants razor wire blocking these individuals and will not allow, will not allow CBP in.

01:00:47.000 Who is Brian Kemp going to be assisting in this?

01:00:49.000 We don't know.

01:00:50.000 It's conflicting reporting.

01:00:54.000 There's an argument.

01:00:55.000 I mean, I've heard the argument made that any law enforcement activity that takes place in conjunction with the border is necessarily within the purview of the federal government because it's a national border and it transcends state jurisdiction.

01:01:08.000 So that could be what people are referring to.

01:01:10.000 And so the issue now is when Texas National Guard came in and secured the area, the argument from the feds was you do not have the authority to do this.

01:01:17.000 They did it anyway.

01:01:19.000 Is Kemp going to, which side is he on?

01:01:22.000 There's a showdown.

01:01:23.000 I mean, it's a legal showdown.

01:01:24.000 Yeah, I think you're right.

01:01:25.000 It's conflicting reports, because most of what we've been seeing is helping Texas Guard at the border.

01:01:32.000 And maybe they just inadvertently called them Border Patrol.

01:01:34.000 But this is assumptive language.

01:01:36.000 Yeah, it's interesting.

01:01:37.000 It is intentionally vague language.

01:01:39.000 And they're not heading out for like a month or so.

01:01:42.000 Yeah.

01:01:43.000 I mean, which is possible.

01:01:44.000 Every ambitious Republican governor Maybe even some non-ambitious ones.

01:01:48.000 End up sending a contingent of whether it's state police or National Guard to Texas or something to engage in certain border enforcement activities.

01:01:56.000 Does it make that much of a difference?

01:01:58.000 Ultimately, I mean, it gets nice headlines out of it.

01:02:01.000 If they have an inconvenient Republican primary challenge or something, maybe it kind of fortifies their position.

01:02:05.000 But I don't see what impact We have a quote from Kemp saying their contributions will be outlined by the official request made by the Texas Guard to our own Guard and Director James Stallings at GEMMA.

01:02:16.000 That clears it up.

01:02:17.000 That clears it up a lot.

01:02:18.000 So this does sound like Kemp is reinforcing Abbott's position against Joe Biden.

01:02:24.000 Yeah, that would make sense.

01:02:26.000 Yeah, I mean, I think clearly it's an attempt to have a bi-state arrangement with Texas because they see themselves as in opposition to the national government, at least on this policy.

01:02:37.000 So what does that mean then?

01:02:39.000 We now have several states, I believe 10 states have sent law enforcement, National Guard and law enforcement to Texas to secure the border in defiance of the federal government.

01:02:49.000 And we had Trump saying, everyone who can go ahead and do it.

01:02:52.000 That was crazy.

01:02:53.000 That was wild.

01:02:54.000 Donald Trump said anyone who could should do it.

01:02:56.000 Now Kemp is on board.

01:02:59.000 Well, how much, how much in defiance is it really just by dispatching these, you know, National Guard?

01:03:08.000 They're not like, they're not, you know, actively opposing.

01:03:11.000 I mean, they're trying to engage in enforcement activity.

01:03:13.000 They're not proactively like blunting the influence of the federal government.

01:03:19.000 I mean, you could say it's like a political statement against the current federal government policy, but it's not like actively opposing the authority of the federal government.

01:03:27.000 What do you mean?

01:03:31.000 The Texas National Guard is, according to the Biden administration, in violation of federal law.

01:03:36.000 So if Greg Abbott were to rob a bank and Kemp said, I'm going to send some guys to help you, you'd be like, well, he's not actually working against the government.

01:03:45.000 I mean, what's he really doing?

01:03:47.000 We don't know that the Georgia National Guard are going to be engaging in activities Related to border enforcement that the Biden administration says are illegal.

01:03:54.000 I mean, there could be other activities they could engage in that the Biden administration hasn't said that about.

01:03:58.000 I think the way that I would put it simply is if a person is robbing a bank and you do anything to help them, like even bring them a cheeseburger, you're an accomplice.

01:04:06.000 So if you do anything to help the Texas National Guard at all?

01:04:09.000 Well, that's assuming that what they're doing is illegal.

01:04:11.000 Like hand out water bottles or something?

01:04:12.000 Well, yeah.

01:04:13.000 That's got material support.

01:04:14.000 I don't think the federal government has the authority to allow 8,000 illegal economic migrants in every day.

01:04:20.000 Criminal aliens. 1.00

01:04:21.000 Yeah, why would they have that authority to allow that?

01:04:23.000 That doesn't make any sense.

01:04:24.000 Why would they have the authority to allow our country's military to surrender to an incompetent force?

01:04:29.000 They don't have that kind of authority.

01:04:31.000 You strip them of command if they're trying to ruin us.

01:04:34.000 If the argument is that Texas does not have the authority to remove CBP from an international border and they're violating federal jurisdiction, the only real issue is, like, we have a national-level conflict of law enforcement in a way we've not seen in a very, very long time.

01:04:51.000 You know, a lot of people like to bring up the Bundy Ranch stuff, and I'm like, yeah, but that was private citizens versus a federal agency.

01:04:56.000 Yeah, that's totally different.

01:04:57.000 We're looking at state National Guard armed troops who have been deployed with weapons to repel border patrol agents from the border and to place border barriers in front of what the feds are declaring as their jurisdiction.

01:05:09.000 And now you have Kemp announcing the deployment of 15 to 20 troops to assist Texas in this effort.

01:05:17.000 What do you think would happen if you, Michael, went up to a federal law enforcement agent, say FBI, and told them, get away from this border right now or else.

01:05:27.000 With guns.

01:05:28.000 Like, you and your buddies got guns, walked up and said, all of you FBI guys have to leave now or else.

01:05:33.000 I think you would be violently arrested and you'd go to jail for a long time.

01:05:37.000 Oh, I think I'd have a very friendly encounter with the nice agents and everything would work out fine.

01:05:42.000 The only reason that's not the case right now is the dramatic escalation that would ensue should federal, I mean, let's just, let's just, we'll slow down.

01:05:49.000 To anybody listening, if a group of militiamen, like, just like a bunch of locals who called themselves the border guys or whatever, showed up to the border and started putting up razor wire, told CBP to get the F out, their jurisdiction no longer applies, You know, some wild-ish would go down.

01:06:08.000 It really depends on the situation, because if you had a burning city and people were burning to death, and the militia guys went in and they're like, we're going to help all these people survive, but the feds were there being like, no!

01:06:18.000 You can't go in there!

01:06:19.000 And they're like, get out of my way, we're saving these people, and they did it.

01:06:22.000 That would be like, the feds bite back off in that case and be like, alright, alright, there's more of you, you do need to save them morally.

01:06:28.000 Let's clarify.

01:06:29.000 Your city is burning down, and the feds are setting the fires.

01:06:33.000 And a bunch of militia guys come in and say, we're shutting this down.

01:06:37.000 Yeah, I would think maybe the command is giving the feds weird orders, but the men themselves would be like, what we're doing here is unreasonable, there's more of them than there are of us, and they're righteous right now, so let's back off.

01:06:50.000 I'm pretty sure if non-law enforcement citizens of Texas showed up with guns and tried repelling federal agents, you would have bloodshed and violent arrests, and it would be like a J6 national news story. 0.74

01:07:05.000 I guess my instinct is that Brian Kemp is a pretty milquetoast Republican, middle of the road, not rocking the boat that much, as you mentioned, opponent of Trump or Trump opposes him and tried to get him primaried actually in 2022 based on 2020 election administration stuff.

01:07:21.000 So, I'm a little bit doubtful that Kemp would take such, you know, adventurous action to really engage in any kind of open defiance of the federal government.

01:07:33.000 You expect that more of a different kind of cavalier Republican, potentially, other than Kemp.

01:07:37.000 Kemp's just like a business-oriented chamber of commerce Republican.

01:07:40.000 Unless you're taking a look at the polls, you're taking a look at national sentiment, and you realize Biden's on the wrong side of history.

01:07:45.000 Has there been illegal immigrants being shipped into Georgia?

01:07:48.000 Into Atlanta?

01:07:50.000 I would imagine, yes.

01:07:51.000 They're going everywhere. That'll change a governor's mind.

01:07:54.000 But, you know... Well, the Biden administration is flying people everywhere.

01:07:57.000 Right. Now, so, I look at it this way. If...

01:08:01.000 someone in government does a bad thing, and everyone says it was a bad thing,

01:08:06.000 you will immediately start seeing politicians come out and being like,

01:08:08.000 I was always opposed to bad thing.

01:08:11.000 It's just the tides, it's the whims of public discourse.

01:08:15.000 If Kemp is seeing that national polling favors securing the border, the Biden administration is grossly unpopular, Trump is the frontrunner to win, with the polls even among the youth vote, he might be thinking to himself, I don't want to be on the wrong side of history, I better just go along with this.

01:08:31.000 That's what I think he's doing.

01:08:32.000 He's going along to get along.

01:08:33.000 He's sending a nominal contingent of Georgia personnel to assist in border activity. And I doubt

01:08:39.000 it'll be anything that really crosses the line to open conflict or warfare between the states and

01:08:43.000 feds. Because at that point, you might potentially alienate some of those more, you know,

01:08:48.000 median voters who do agree about the border issue at this point, but don't necessarily want to

01:08:53.000 be too crazy about it. With this, now that we've cleared this up and it does appear clearly

01:08:58.000 that he is going to be working directly with the Texas Guard in defiance of the federal government,

01:09:03.000 I think when you look at the polls, when you look at the national sentiment, if the Biden

01:09:07.000 administration made any move to defy Texas in terms of force, they would get, they would get crushed

01:09:14.000 instantly.

01:09:16.000 You know, like we mentioned, Jon Stewart ragging on Joe Biden's brain.

01:09:19.000 It's not a popular administration.

01:09:22.000 I mean, one poll just came out showing a national election, I think Biden was at like 38%.

01:09:28.000 This is not including RFK Jr.

01:09:30.000 Trump was at like high 40s to like Biden's 38.

01:09:34.000 I don't know how true that is.

01:09:34.000 I would like to add real quick.

01:09:35.000 I'd also like to take this time to point out the worst websites in the world are local news websites.

01:09:38.000 Biden's approval is the lowest of any president since the second term of George W. Bush when it was at a historic low

01:09:44.000 and Iraq was the most unpopular.

01:09:45.000 I'd also like to take this time to point out the worst websites in the world are local news websites

01:09:49.000 because they automatically reload to generate ad revenue.

01:09:53.000 Yeah, but anyway. 0.99

01:09:56.000 Local news reporters are also among the dumbest people I've ever encountered. 0.99

01:09:59.000 Like I'm sure they're well-meaning, but they just like take PR and marketing in college. 0.99

01:10:02.000 Yeah.

01:10:03.000 And then they can read off a teleprompter.

01:10:05.000 It's no original thought about anything.

01:10:07.000 Well, it was fascinating too, because I knew someone a long time ago who wanted to be a broadcast journalist.

01:10:11.000 And I was like, so you want to stand there and read copy? 0.74

01:10:14.000 Like, you're not, it's the most brain-dead job imaginable.

01:10:18.000 With weird vocal intonations like, tonight on such and such and such I have to talk like I'm a crazy abnormal person and not communicate with you regularly. 0.78

01:10:25.000 I once asked, it was a kid in college that I knew, and they were like, I want to be a broadcast journalist and I said, Why is it that you talk like this?

01:10:35.000 Tonight, we saw a dog run across the street, Jim!

01:10:38.000 And I'm like, why do you talk like that?

01:10:39.000 And they're like, we're trained to.

01:10:41.000 And I'm like, why?

01:10:41.000 Yeah, they teach it.

01:10:42.000 Why?

01:10:43.000 Well, nobody talks like that.

01:10:44.000 They teach standard American speech.

01:10:45.000 Yeah, but it's not standard American speech.

01:10:47.000 It's like...

01:10:49.000 News broadcast dialect.

01:10:50.000 It's a specific thing where- It's like cartoonish speech.

01:10:53.000 A dog was seen running across the street.

01:10:55.000 If you met somebody at like a cafe who was talking like that, you would think that they're out of their minds.

01:10:59.000 Actually, Howard Stern became popular because on the radio, he mocked the radio version of that theatrical style of intonation and just sounded like a normal person, more or less.

01:11:09.000 So he was kind of, you know, going against the grain.

01:11:11.000 And I think, you know, People who are our age now, I mean, the only people who watch these local news stations are, like, petrified 65-year-olds who don't know how to fully work the TV remote, so this is all they can come up with at, like, 6.30 in the evening?

01:11:23.000 You said it there, it's theatrical.

01:11:25.000 That's the problem with this vocal intonation, is they're talking with great enunciation, and the tone also is a form of enunciation.

01:11:33.000 So you can hear, like, from a distance, in a theater, you can discern what they're saying and when their emotions are changing, even if you're, like, 7,000 feet away.

01:11:41.000 But on TV, it doesn't translate.

01:11:43.000 The fact that I'm talking like this sounds like it gives me non-existent journalistic authority.

01:11:47.000 Back to you, Ken.

01:11:48.000 Maybe it's from radio.

01:11:50.000 Well, the show's weird now.

01:11:52.000 This show?

01:11:54.000 Everyone's talking like this.

01:11:56.000 It's like an attempt at making yourself seem authoritative by speaking in a way that people associate with, you know, if you talk that way, you're official.

01:12:06.000 Also, it's heightened.

01:12:07.000 Like, you know, whenever people do performances, performances are heightened.

01:12:11.000 That's what you do.

01:12:11.000 Like you go on stage and you speak, you know, carefully and with specific intonation.

01:12:16.000 That's always what you do when you give a presentation.

01:12:18.000 I gotta be honest, like, could you imagine turning on, like, your local news station, and the guy's like, uh, I'm standing here at the corner of 47th and Cicero, uh, a man earlier had crossed the street and a car hit him.

01:12:28.000 And said, a man earlier crossed the street.

01:12:30.000 Dude, I would watch that! 0.97

01:12:31.000 In college, I did, um, the local, I did journalism for TV2 at Kent State, and I was, like, the special reporter I got hired on.

01:12:37.000 And they were like, alright, we want to move you to sports.

01:12:38.000 And I was like, alright.

01:12:39.000 So I was that guy.

01:12:40.000 I'd be like, he hit it, it went out to the left field, that guy got it, and dang, he threw a far.

01:12:47.000 I went over to third base, too.

01:12:49.000 I don't know who they were.

01:12:49.000 How many people were tuning in to Kent State's sportscast?

01:12:52.000 I didn't get the analytics.

01:12:54.000 I'd love to know, though.

01:12:55.000 Dude, that's great.

01:12:57.000 Super Bowl was the most watched thing on television since the moon landing.

01:13:02.000 Since the moon landing, they said.

01:13:07.000 That's crazy.

01:13:08.000 123 million.

01:13:09.000 I actually did watch the Super Bowl with my child who was sick, and he was like, oh, I want to watch the ads, mom.

01:13:16.000 And the narrative, the narrative.

01:13:17.000 Wow, did you guys see the ending?

01:13:18.000 The ending was kind of cool.

01:13:20.000 It was exactly as we all predicted.

01:13:22.000 Did you see Joe Biden's meme that came out right away?

01:13:24.000 All part of the plan.

01:13:25.000 But what I love the most about it is that We predicted, with like 80% accuracy, exactly what was going to happen.

01:13:33.000 The 49ers would be up in the first half, the Chiefs would slowly get ahead, but then it would—the 49ers would push ahead, it would end up a really close game, and then finally in the last second, with the 49ers ahead, the Chiefs would turn it around, and that's literally what happened.

01:13:49.000 They let the guys score the touchdown.

01:13:50.000 Chelsea didn't get the game. 1.00

01:13:52.000 the game winning touchdown, which they engineered just so it's not too on the nose.

01:13:56.000 No, no, no, no, no.

01:13:57.000 The second to last play, they did get it to Kelsey.

01:14:00.000 Kelsey got a big play toward the end, but he didn't get the game winning touchdown.

01:14:02.000 And they stopped him just before the touchdown, and then it went to Hardman who ended up scoring.

01:14:06.000 But let's talk about this story.

01:14:07.000 I took that Biden meme photo with the laser eyes, and I tweeted out saying, this is what

01:14:13.000 every Palestinian child sees as their last thing they can see before they're blown up 1.00

01:14:17.000 with a US munition. 0.89

01:14:18.000 Geez.

01:14:19.000 Yeah, someone's like, they're in Haffa, blowing up Haffa. 1.00

01:14:21.000 Didn't they blow up Haffa? 0.99

01:14:23.000 Raffa, Raffa.

01:14:24.000 They were bombing Raffa.

01:14:26.000 Which is the one place in the far south of Gaza where they had- They bombed Raffa, the crossing?

01:14:30.000 Well, no, the city, the city, Raffa.

01:14:31.000 That's the one place in the far south of Gaza where they had told Palestinians all this time to go to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

01:14:39.000 Now they're bombing that place.

01:14:40.000 There's really no place left now.

01:14:41.000 Well, they had hostages there.

01:14:43.000 Right.

01:14:43.000 Let's jump to the story.

01:14:44.000 This is a tweet.

01:14:46.000 A story from NBC Boston, Jack Posobek highlighting the rich white woman in New England who took in a family of Haitian migrants who says, it's great, it's like having your own personal chef.

01:14:56.000 So, uh, let me, uh, play some of this story for you.

01:15:02.000 She says her daughter is very happy.

01:15:04.000 When she wakes up in the morning she says hi Lisa and everyone starts the day smiling.

01:15:09.000 It's a delight and it's really fun having them.

01:15:12.000 What I realized is there's so much prejudice against refugees mostly because people don't know them.

01:15:18.000 Lisa says she feels like she has her own personal chef, as Woldande loves cooking.

01:15:25.000 In fact, her goal is to open up her own restaurant. 0.62

01:15:28.000 Alright, so the basic narrative here is, a wealthy white woman with extra space took in a family of Haitian migrants, where they cook for her, and it makes them happy.

01:15:41.000 And she does not pay them.

01:15:42.000 I was writing about this today because it really seems like we used to have a word for things like this.

01:15:46.000 When rich white people would open their homes and give you their extra space and not pay you anything and then have you do the household chores.

01:15:53.000 Well, but let's be realistic.

01:15:57.000 That's what I was thinking.

01:15:58.000 But a bit worse than that.

01:16:00.000 I read about it today and I did use the S word.

01:16:04.000 You're making an allusion to slavery.

01:16:06.000 Yes, that's correct.

01:16:06.000 But these Haitian migrants came here by choice.

01:16:09.000 And they can leave anytime they want.

01:16:10.000 They can go anywhere.

01:16:11.000 They can leave and there is a perfectly fine dumpster they can sleep in if they want.

01:16:16.000 Or they can choose to live in the rich white lady's home and have shelter for their family so long as they keep giving exchange of their services.

01:16:25.000 Don't repairs come from like Sweden and stuff in exchange for room and board and taking care of the children?

01:16:31.000 They get paid and they have special immigration status.

01:16:34.000 So a few friends of mine 20 years ago were au pairs, and it's a program.

01:16:40.000 You get paid.

01:16:42.000 You are a live-in housekeeper who receives a salary, or wait, usually a salary. 1.00

01:16:47.000 Stipend or something.

01:16:47.000 I know you have a special visa.

01:16:49.000 My friends who did it got a weekly flat rate.

01:16:52.000 So you can call it a stipend, but they're getting 500 bucks a week, plus a room in the house, and they just watch the kid and prepare meals for the kid.

01:16:59.000 Taxable, five out of taxable.

01:17:01.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:17:02.000 But they were like 19.

01:17:03.000 Probably double taxable.

01:17:04.000 Because if you're from your home country, Sweden's got like, you know, 55% income.

01:17:08.000 But then I also met the inverse, too.

01:17:10.000 People who had came to the United States to be au pairs.

01:17:12.000 That's what I meant.

01:17:13.000 People who had come from like Scandinavia to the US.

01:17:15.000 Yeah, but that's a job.

01:17:16.000 Yeah.

01:17:17.000 You could also do like teaching English and Korean and stuff like that.

01:17:19.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:17:20.000 This isn't a job.

01:17:21.000 No, these are people who came here illegally.

01:17:23.000 There's a place to live.

01:17:25.000 I think this woman, she should be in prison. 1.00

01:17:28.000 Yeah, well, it's not just her.

01:17:29.000 I was writing about this for Human Events today.

01:17:31.000 I did an op-ed and I started digging into what's going on in Massachusetts.

01:17:35.000 In Massachusetts, in August, you had the lieutenant governor telling Massachusetts, you know, Bay Staters is what they're called pretty much.

01:17:41.000 You had her telling everybody to open up their homes and let everybody in.

01:17:44.000 They have a vast network of not-for-profits and NGOs that facilitate housing people in the homes of, you know, residents and working out whatever sort of arrangements.

01:17:56.000 But you have to imagine that if you're like, you know, essentially homeless in a foreign country

01:18:00.000 and you're in somebody's house, you're gonna do whatever you can to try and make it less,

01:18:06.000 I think, you know, less of a burden for that person.

01:18:08.000 You're gonna like do whatever the chores are.

01:18:10.000 The only future I see for this country will have a very dark period

01:18:13.000 because there's one of two things that can happen.

01:18:16.000 Donald Trump engages in a mass deportation program, which sparks insanity among the left

01:18:22.000 or the continued erosion of the American community, which results in this country eventually just breaking

01:18:28.000 apart into a million pieces.

01:18:29.000 And I'll explain what that means.

01:18:31.000 The analogy I would give is, you know, you live in a house with a roommate.

01:18:37.000 And one day there's a guy sleeping on your couch.

01:18:38.000 And you go to your roommate and say, who is this guy sleeping on the couch?

01:18:40.000 And he says, this is Jim.

01:18:42.000 Jim needs a place to stay.

01:18:43.000 Come on, just let him stay.

01:18:44.000 And you say, no, no, no, I never agreed to pay rent to let him stay.

01:18:46.000 No, no, no, it's fine, it's fine.

01:18:47.000 Like, he'll help pitch and he'll clean things up.

01:18:50.000 And you go, okay, fine, whatever.

01:18:53.000 The next day, there's another guy sitting on the couch, and his name is Bill.

01:18:56.000 And you go, wait, wait, who's Bill?

01:18:58.000 I never said Bill could come in.

01:18:59.000 And they go, me and Jim vote that he can stay.

01:19:01.000 And you go, no, no, no, he can't vote.

01:19:03.000 Well, we both voted, so now you can't do anything about it.

01:19:05.000 Two to one, he gets to stay.

01:19:06.000 Now it's three to one.

01:19:07.000 One by one, they keep voting to add more and more people.

01:19:11.000 And eventually, you're just some dude who's living in the basement in your own filth because they keep voting against you to take all your stuff.

01:19:17.000 So what's happening now is- I keep wondering like- In the New York election with, to replace Santos.

01:19:22.000 I saw this.

01:19:23.000 It's very fascinating.

01:19:23.000 The polls closed, by the way.

01:19:25.000 Right.

01:19:25.000 The Republican who's running in New York is basically a liberal.

01:19:29.000 She's the most hilarious person the Republicans have ever nominated for any office. 1.00

01:19:34.000 She's a black Ethiopian woman. 1.00

01:19:37.000 It's reserved in the IDF. 0.82

01:19:38.000 That's why the Nassau County Republicans in New York are all over you.

01:19:41.000 So here's what's happening.

01:19:42.000 The Republicans, instead of choosing somebody who says we should Secure our borders.

01:19:47.000 We should deport, deport, deport. 0.99

01:19:48.000 MAGA, Trump, America First.

01:19:50.000 They get someone in New York who's a liberal.

01:19:52.000 Why?

01:19:52.000 Well, she supports Trump.

01:19:54.000 She expressed support for Trump.

01:19:55.000 Sure, sure, sure.

01:19:55.000 But, I mean, she's a relatively liberal person.

01:19:57.000 It's a New York Republican.

01:19:58.000 You're not getting a diehard MAGA.

01:20:01.000 What happens is, when Reagan—many people attribute California's turning from red to blue to Reagan.

01:20:07.000 Well, Santos actually was pretty right.

01:20:08.000 I mean, Santos boasted that he had the most conservative record of any Republican in the House.

01:20:11.000 Well, you know, and he was also weird and strange in other ways, but my point is, in California in 94, there was an attempt to pass a resolution that said, they did pass it, federal public funds cannot be given to non-citizens.

01:20:25.000 And it caused massive revolt and protests among the left, who were amplified by illegal immigrants, creating such crisis in the state that a bunch of Republicans backed down, Democrats gained a majority and ended up winning. 0.97

01:20:38.000 Simply put, when you bring someone into your country to live there and they bring their family and they expand and you end up with 10 plus million, they will exert influence on your country.

01:20:48.000 Over a long enough period of time, they're not going to vote for your country.

01:20:52.000 They're going to vote for theirs. 0.99

01:20:54.000 One of the big problems in this country is remittances.

01:20:57.000 People come to the United States, do work, and then send the money immediately out of the country, which is bad.

01:21:02.000 There were a few jurisdictions famous for their local currencies.

01:21:07.000 Ithaca, famous for its hours, they called it.

01:21:09.000 They've mostly fallen out of popular use, but they were very big, I think it was like in the 2000s.

01:21:13.000 This was a local currency created by some dude.

01:21:16.000 Ithaca, New York?

01:21:16.000 Ithaca, New York.

01:21:17.000 They still have the Ithaca Hour, but most people don't use it anymore.

01:21:20.000 What happens is... Is it a legal tender?

01:21:23.000 In the jurisdiction, yes.

01:21:24.000 Huh, I didn't know that.

01:21:25.000 So here's what happens.

01:21:26.000 U.S.

01:21:26.000 dollars.

01:21:26.000 I often ask this when I go into any new city or I'm staying somewhere.

01:21:30.000 I say, what brings U.S.

01:21:32.000 dollars into this city?

01:21:33.000 I wonder.

01:21:34.000 Often you'll find it's government or universities.

01:21:37.000 Like money has to come from somewhere.

01:21:39.000 In the instance of Michigan, when the auto manufacturing dried up and left, all of a sudden nothing is generating U.S.

01:21:46.000 dollars into this region and so there's no way to economically expand.

01:21:50.000 People can't afford the increasing cost of inflation because the state only has, let's say, a million dollars, a hypothetical number, in circulation with no new dollars coming in.

01:22:00.000 But dollars are going out through import purchases.

01:22:03.000 When you buy a computer from a foreign country, that money goes to that country.

01:22:07.000 Figuratively, it's spent in the United States, but it's utilized by them in their country that value leaves.

01:22:12.000 Without money coming into an area, it will start to dissolve and fall apart.

01:22:16.000 So local jurisdictions have, you know, they tried to create their own currencies to supplement local trade to prevent the issue of dollars leaving the area.

01:22:26.000 I think it's no longer in circulation in Ithaca, but it was mimicked in a couple other cities like Wisconsin.

01:22:31.000 Not just mimicked, even before the Ithaca Hour.

01:22:33.000 But I went there like eight years ago, and people were like, yeah, we have them, we don't really use them anymore.

01:22:37.000 The guy who made it work, like, I guess, I don't know if he died or what happened.

01:22:40.000 But my point is this.

01:22:42.000 People come to the United States, they earn money at a store, and then they send that money to a foreign country.

01:22:47.000 Someone will then use those dollars to buy something not in the United States, not facilitate American trade, Not facilitate American services and it won't go into the hands of young working-class individuals and thus the economy gets depressed by the exporting of cash.

01:22:58.000 You combine that with a mass influx of millions of immigrants who begin exerting pressure against your interests and your country collapses. 1.00

01:23:07.000 It is akin to inviting a stranger into your home and then letting him exert authority over how things are spent and who gets money.

01:23:15.000 Over a long enough period of time, simply put, The moment you and your roommate invite a third party in, that third party will subvert your interests.

01:23:25.000 Whether it's by just telling your roommate what to do, or by actually getting a say for some reason in how things are done.

01:23:31.000 As Democrats have begun the push to allow non-citizens to vote, and they are, Joe Rogan was talking about this like a week ago, New York's trying it, got help in the courts, many jurisdictions are doing this, eventually, Republicans will have to pander to non-citizens in order to get votes.

01:23:45.000 So in a city like New York, You'll have a Republican say, no, no, I will not give tax funding from American workers to non-citizens. 0.97

01:23:53.000 There will be revolt.

01:23:54.000 There will be people with money and influence in the city who will then oppose that Republican.

01:23:58.000 They will never win.

01:23:59.000 And the end result will be a Republican saying, I'm totally in favor of non-citizens voting, but I'm a Republican who believes in families. 0.84

01:24:07.000 Yeah, non-citizens should never be able to vote in any election in the United States for any reason. 1.00

01:24:11.000 And after this cycle of millions, 10 plus million flooding in, There are going to be jurisdictions where no politician would dare say that because there's going to be a large base of the children of these immigrants and those who do have voting power who will say, if you enact policy that in any way makes it harder for me and my family, we'll vote against you.

01:24:34.000 And you'll say, but your family aren't citizens.

01:24:36.000 And they'll be like, you have to consider them now or else you lose.

01:24:39.000 Well, and also they're going to be pushing, the Democrats, you can be sure, are going to be trying to push in some sort of amnesty for people.

01:24:46.000 That's going to be coming if they win in the fall.

01:24:49.000 I agree, but I think the important thing to understand is amnesty is not needed at all.

01:24:52.000 For one, they'll be counted in the census. 0.52

01:24:54.000 But they could come at it from multiple directions, right?

01:24:56.000 Like if they can't get amnesty, they'll get this voting thing.

01:24:59.000 If they can't get the voting thing, they'll get the amnesty.

01:25:01.000 They're going to push it through one way or another.

01:25:03.000 Agreed, but it's important for people to understand whether or not an illegal immigrant votes does not matter and whether or not they get amnesty doesn't matter.

01:25:08.000 What matters is they will be counted towards the census, they will create artificial congressional seats and electoral college votes, and they will exert local pressure forcing conservatives to say publicly, like, I'm in favor of illegal immigration because you will not win in a district that has a large percentage of non-citizens.

01:25:26.000 Why?

01:25:27.000 Some 20-year-old kid is like, I'm gonna vote this.

01:25:30.000 His friend's gonna come to him and say, hey man, I'm undocumented.

01:25:33.000 My parents brought me here and we're not citizens.

01:25:36.000 If you vote for the Republican, they're gonna deport me and he's gonna go, okay, I won't.

01:25:41.000 Don't you think it's a bit of an overstatement, though, to say that any ethnic bloc that ends up getting a foothold within the American populace will inevitably work against the national interest?

01:25:49.000 I mean, Cuban emigres have been a huge problem. 1.00

01:25:53.000 You said that they're going to be a diversion with popular interest, right? 0.81

01:25:57.000 Non-citizens. 0.68

01:25:58.000 Non-citizens coming in.

01:25:59.000 But they're naturalized Cubans who ended up being admitted to the country.

01:26:03.000 Everybody all together.

01:26:04.000 Where they were not citizens when they arrived.

01:26:06.000 So the issue is integration, assimilation.

01:26:08.000 And that's some of the most, you know, reliable Republican voters in Florida.

01:26:11.000 So what your misunderstanding is, I'm talking about mass influx unchecked migration, where you have people who are not citizens and have no interest in what this country is, represents, or its history, versus legal migrants who came here appropriately, assimilated, took a citizenship test, and have family and connections to the country.

01:26:28.000 But Cubans who came over in a boat didn't go through a standard regulated naturalization process.

01:26:37.000 Right.

01:26:38.000 So you can, that's fair to oppose it.

01:26:39.000 It's been a controversial issue, but the point is they became very well integrated into the wider American ethic, including voting overwhelmingly for Republicans.

01:26:48.000 And so what you're saying has no bearing on anything I just said, because if people are integrated into the country, they vote for the interests of that country.

01:26:55.000 People who are not integrated vote against the interests of the country.

01:26:57.000 But they integrated even despite coming illegally.

01:26:59.000 What does that have to do with what I'm talking about?

01:27:01.000 You're talking about the lack of integration for people who come illegally.

01:27:04.000 Because there's so many of them.

01:27:05.000 It's about how many can integrate over a period of time.

01:27:07.000 Okay, so it could be quantity.

01:27:08.000 Yeah, that makes sense.

01:27:09.000 Right, we're talking about millions of people over the past few years coming in with no ties to the community, who are looking for Buffalo Wild Wings.

01:27:17.000 That's an absolute quote from one of the migrants in the migrant caravan.

01:27:20.000 They want Buffalo Wild Wings. 0.99

01:27:21.000 They're not coming here because they're like, this country will give me free speech.

01:27:25.000 They're coming here because they're like, I want PlayStation.

01:27:27.000 Quote.

01:27:27.000 That's a quote from the LA Times.

01:27:29.000 They interviewed someone in the migrant caravan.

01:27:30.000 I want Buffalo Wild Wings.

01:27:32.000 That's a quote.

01:27:33.000 The people fleeing... Aren't they basically saying, I want more economic opportunity?

01:27:37.000 So let's just say there's a big difference between someone fleeing Cuba because they're being murdered or gulag'd and someone who's like, we're going to get free stuff.

01:27:45.000 Economic migrancy is not refuge.

01:27:48.000 You don't seek refuge for bad economics.

01:27:49.000 It's only for political persecution, things like that.

01:27:52.000 That's what they wanted to raise the asylum standards.

01:27:54.000 So the people who are coming for economic refuge would not be eligible.

01:27:56.000 And she called them refugees.

01:27:58.000 They're not.

01:27:58.000 They're migrants.

01:27:59.000 They're economic migrants.

01:28:00.000 I think she should be in prison. 1.00

01:28:02.000 Well, these are asylum seekers from Haiti.

01:28:05.000 So under current law, they're refugees.

01:28:07.000 What are they seeking asylum from? 0.98

01:28:09.000 From Haiti, which sucks apparently. 1.00

01:28:11.000 But what sucks in a wrong way? 1.00

01:28:12.000 Haiti's basically a failed state. 0.96

01:28:14.000 I mean, wasn't the president assassinated?

01:28:18.000 And to be fair, Haiti, I mean, in terms of the bordering nations or closest nations, It's an island, I mean.

01:28:27.000 It's a portion of an island.

01:28:29.000 It's one thing if someone comes from Africa, through South America, through Central America, to Mexico, and to the United States.

01:28:34.000 It's another thing if it's Haiti.

01:28:35.000 Oh yeah, if they're coming right from Haiti, then I misspeak. 0.99

01:28:38.000 If they're coming right from Haiti and there's gangs running it and murdering people in the street, then yeah, they are refugees. 1.00

01:28:42.000 That's a different situation.

01:28:43.000 No, no, no.

01:28:44.000 That's not necessarily true.

01:28:45.000 Somebody from Haiti isn't necessarily at risk of dying to a gang.

01:28:48.000 Just because your country's bad doesn't mean we just give you stuff.

01:28:50.000 How do you quantify that?

01:28:51.000 How do you figure it out whether they're actually, if they're just taking advantage of political upheaval to go to a better place or if they're actually fleeing from the upheaval?

01:28:59.000 Well, like with Venezuela, like there's special immigrant visas for Venezuelans and the Biden administration directly flies Venezuelans to the U.S.

01:29:06.000 And now there's this whole issue in New York with like Venezuelan gang being connected to like 63 robberies or something like that.

01:29:14.000 And now there's some concern that they might be teaming up with MS-13.

01:29:18.000 That's another potentially Republican-leaning ethnic demographic, because remember what they're fleeing, they're fleeing a left-wing authoritarian government.

01:29:24.000 But I don't care about Republican-leaning or Democrat-leaning.

01:29:26.000 No, I'm just saying there's diversity in terms of the political inclinations of people who come to the country.

01:29:31.000 And it's not America.

01:29:33.000 I don't know.

01:29:34.000 No, it's fact.

01:29:35.000 Maybe I'll put it this way.

01:29:36.000 But hasn't America always been like a melting pot?

01:29:39.000 Well, yeah, I'm descended from people who came from Ireland, Italy, who weren't necessarily thinking, oh, I love the concept of America.

01:29:47.000 They were coming for economic opportunity because they were peasants in Europe.

01:29:50.000 And there was a restriction on how many could come and when they could come and what they had to do.

01:29:54.000 And historically, these people came and were like, we're going to learn the language, we're going to go to school.

01:29:58.000 And many of the migrants Uh, stories that, you know, actually was recently told by a very elderly person.

01:30:03.000 Their parents refused to teach them their native language.

01:30:05.000 They said, you're only going to speak English, which is the opposite of what we're seeing now.

01:30:09.000 So I think a better analogy... I think a lot of second, third, fourth generation Spanish-speaking immigrants end up speaking English.

01:30:14.000 A better... yeah, because of proximity, not because the parents are like, we're going to integrate.

01:30:19.000 I think a better analogy would be like, if you have five members of your family, and you invite, and this lady invites someone in the house, that person will begin to exert influence.

01:30:27.000 That person's interests are not going to be the kid going to college, it's going to be, what am I getting?

01:30:32.000 Whether they feel they're entitled to a lot or a little, it will be, what do I get?

01:30:36.000 This woman is cooking and cleaning... well, let's just say cooking, I don't know, personal chef. 1.00

01:30:41.000 And so she's gonna eventually be like, look, I appreciate you letting me stay here, but I'm cooking food for you and I get nothing for it.

01:30:46.000 There will be influence exerted.

01:30:48.000 Let's now entertain the possibility, this woman, what do you think happens if her family of five invites four more people in? 1.00

01:30:55.000 Now it's 50-50.

01:30:57.000 Now there's going to be fighting over who gets to use the bathroom and when. 0.95

01:31:00.000 Doesn't matter who's entitled to the bathroom, who owns it.

01:31:02.000 It's going to be a problem.

01:31:04.000 Hey, look, I gotta wake up in the morning.

01:31:05.000 You can't be in the shower for 30 minutes.

01:31:07.000 I need to take a shower.

01:31:08.000 Plus there's five people waiting.

01:31:10.000 It becomes cluttered.

01:31:11.000 Eventually, there will be competing interests as to who gets what resources.

01:31:15.000 Imagine they had five more Haitian refugees, as they call them. 1.00

01:31:19.000 Now they're gonna be like, yeah, you get out.

01:31:22.000 We got too many people here.

01:31:24.000 There's 15 of us and we vote you leave.

01:31:26.000 That's just it.

01:31:26.000 I guess the question is, when do they get squatters rights, you know, for her house?

01:31:31.000 I guess the question is... Oh, she's a resident now.

01:31:32.000 Yeah.

01:31:33.000 She can't be evicted.

01:31:34.000 The question might be, when are there finite resources?

01:31:37.000 Meaning, when does the share get smaller and smaller and smaller, that when more people come in, there's too small a piece of the pie, that it creates upheaval, or... Well, so like, let's... It could happen slowly, or it could happen all at once, if the power goes out, if there's a power down... Well, no, it's right now.

01:31:49.000 A grid down thing, it's every man for themselves.

01:31:51.000 It's right now, and a carton of eggs is 10 bucks.

01:31:54.000 Or a pack of salami.

01:31:56.000 I've been complaining about this non-stop.

01:31:57.000 $15!

01:31:58.000 $15 for salami?

01:31:59.000 It's like $13.26, okay?

01:32:01.000 I'm rounding up.

01:32:02.000 But it was like $6 a year and a half, two years ago.

01:32:05.000 Yeah, for real.

01:32:06.000 It's getting nuts.

01:32:06.000 And it's supply and demand.

01:32:08.000 It's spending massive amounts of money and resources through our fractional reserve banking system on a tremendous influx of non-citizens who are being handed debit cards, our tax dollars.

01:32:18.000 Figuratively.

01:32:19.000 Being spent to facilitate the trafficking of non-citizens coming through the border.

01:32:22.000 It is not a boon on our economy.

01:32:25.000 I'll put it this way.

01:32:26.000 A viral video from Gen Z of a 5 by 11 apartment in New York City with no bathroom.

01:32:32.000 It has a sink in it.

01:32:33.000 And it's $2,000 a month.

01:32:35.000 And they're like, this is what Gen Z can afford these days, if you're lucky. 0.96

01:32:39.000 They're putting non-citizens in luxury hotels paid for by the state, and you get a TV, a bedroom, and a bathroom. 0.92

01:32:45.000 And an Xbox, too.

01:32:46.000 And an Xbox, how about that?

01:32:47.000 You're lucky if you get a bathroom.

01:32:48.000 No, no, no, no.

01:32:49.000 I had a toilet in my kitchen once, although I looked at that apartment and I didn't take it.

01:32:52.000 The luxury hotels have bathrooms. 0.94

01:32:53.000 Oh, that place, yeah.

01:32:54.000 The Gen Z apartments don't. 1.00

01:32:55.000 No, you gotta walk down the hall.

01:32:56.000 I've never even been to a hotel that has an Xbox. 0.75

01:32:58.000 What the hell?

01:32:59.000 No, the shelters have Xbox.

01:33:01.000 But the question then becomes, why is it that American citizens, who are trying to start families, get jobs, and get places to live on their own, have to live in 5x10 boxes, and non-citizens are getting luxury apartments? 0.60

01:33:13.000 Because they had it easy growing up, Tim.

01:33:15.000 They got a leg up.

01:33:16.000 They can figure it out on their own.

01:33:17.000 That's the mentality, I think.

01:33:18.000 This is the point of finite resources today.

01:33:21.000 We do not have enough to give homes to our own children right now.

01:33:26.000 Why are we giving it to non-citizens? 1.00

01:33:29.000 Well, yeah, the other thing, too, is you hear the government officials in Toronto and New York and Massachusetts all saying to people, hey, if you have extra rooms, just open your homes, open your homes to these, you know, immigrants and have them come live with you.

01:33:41.000 It's like, who in Toronto, New York and eastern Massachusetts has extra space?

01:33:46.000 Rich people have extra space!

01:33:48.000 Right, I hope!

01:33:49.000 That the next thing we hear from this woman is that she gets into a dispute over residency with the migrants who claim that they're legal residents who can't be evicted.

01:33:58.000 And then, because look, after I think 28 days, you're a legal resident who can't be evicted, no matter what.

01:34:05.000 They can then claim she doesn't pay rent. 0.99

01:34:07.000 And her argument is going to be, I am a legal resident and our initial agreement included no rent free.

01:34:12.000 Well, and the NGOs also that facilitate this kind of thing, they're saying, oh, you can decide how long you want these migrants to be there, but not really, not by actual law and not by tenant law in Toronto, New York or Boston.

01:34:26.000 She's going to be like, it was really great having you here.

01:34:28.000 I think you guys should find a new place now that you've been here for a long time.

01:34:31.000 And they're going to say, we have nowhere to go and we're not leaving.

01:34:32.000 Right.

01:34:33.000 Why would they?

01:34:34.000 Resources have always been finite, but my hunch is that there have been times in American history in the past where economic conditions were worse than they are today, and yet an inflow of immigration was still tolerated.

01:34:49.000 Look, I've never actually been ideologically in favor of immigration or really even opposed to it.

01:34:53.000 Again, neutral for better or worse.

01:34:55.000 But in the encounters that I have had with people who do immigrate, most of the time If they're coming here, it's for relatively innocuous reasons, not because they have some kind of a nefarious intent to undermine the American project or even a lot of them do want to actively assimilate it.

01:35:13.000 That doesn't mean you can't justifiably regulate Those inflows of non-citizens to the country. 1.00

01:35:19.000 I mean, I think that's perfectly reasonable.

01:35:20.000 Which would be much less than two million.

01:35:22.000 But I wouldn't necessarily cast such kind of generalized aspersion on the people who do make that trek.

01:35:28.000 A lot of times they tend to be more industrious and more entrepreneurial than the average member of their society because they're making this epic journey to come to a brand new I think you find that in particular with the people from Central and South America.

01:35:41.000 Keep saying it, and I hope you do, and we can clip this and send it to every Gen Z kid who can't afford an apartment. 1.00

01:35:47.000 No, I get it.

01:35:48.000 The advocacy of someone to say, these industrious people are enriching the community and are going to get for free what you should have gotten.

01:35:54.000 No, I'm not saying they should get for free what you've gotten.

01:35:56.000 I'm just saying that in terms of their character traits.

01:35:58.000 They're good people!

01:35:59.000 And you know, it's great that they're coming here and taking from you.

01:36:02.000 The problem is it's tough to tell if they're industrious or not.

01:36:04.000 It's not them who's taking it.

01:36:05.000 I mean, they're utilizing the opportunity.

01:36:07.000 If there are 10 houses on a street, and there are 10 young people, and you bring in 10 non-citizen criminal immigrants, There is going to be a competition for those Gen Z Americans over which house goes to whom. 0.99

01:36:21.000 Maybe the answer is just billboard houses.

01:36:22.000 That is one part of it.

01:36:24.000 Who's going to do it?

01:36:25.000 Where's the prices of wood and steel have been skyrocketing?

01:36:28.000 Graphene.

01:36:28.000 Government can subsidize it.

01:36:30.000 So the government takes from everyone else to pay for the criminal aliens they allot in?

01:36:33.000 How about this?

01:36:34.000 We say, hey, the government used to create a huge amount of public housing.

01:36:36.000 That was like the housing boom after World War II.

01:36:38.000 Let's stop bringing in millions of non-citizens and actually support the younger generation and allow them to live comfortably and inherit the American dream. 1.00

01:36:44.000 That's reasonable.

01:36:45.000 I'm not a zealot one way or another on this.

01:36:46.000 Yeah, I think you can't tell if they're industrious or not.

01:36:49.000 That's the problem.

01:36:50.000 A lot of people are.

01:36:51.000 A lot of people could be covert, military, just acting like they're migrants.

01:36:55.000 There's no way to tell.

01:36:55.000 That's why we gotta shut, in my opinion, shut down this illegal border crossing fiasco.

01:36:59.000 What are we looking at?

01:37:00.000 Tens of thousands of Chinese nationals?

01:37:01.000 Possibly.

01:37:02.000 I don't know that... 600.

01:37:04.000 What is the number?

01:37:04.000 600 terror suspects or something?

01:37:06.000 Was it 600?

01:37:07.000 Really?

01:37:08.000 But why does being a Chinese national automatically make you under suspicion?

01:37:12.000 They are not refugees from Central or South America coming through our southern border.

01:37:16.000 No, I got that.

01:37:17.000 But why does being from China make you uniquely suspicious?

01:37:19.000 Who's that? 0.99

01:37:20.000 Illegal Chinese migrants are dangerous. 1.00

01:37:22.000 Someone coming from the other side of the planet through our border is not a refugee. 0.99

01:37:26.000 No, that may be true.

01:37:27.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:37:28.000 They're a criminal alien. 0.99

01:37:30.000 Okay, I just don't think the fact that they're Chinese... It doesn't mean that they're here to destroy us, but it does indicate that they're not. 0.98

01:37:36.000 Which is an argument that's being made.

01:37:38.000 They're saying that the Chinese Communist Party is infiltrating the United States through the southern border by sending all these... Okay, all right, but we have to stop there because you keep doing this where you're making arguments no one made.

01:37:47.000 I think that it's a potential.

01:37:48.000 That argument has been widely made.

01:37:50.000 We on this show are pointing out that someone who flew 8,000 miles to Mexico or to Brazil and came through our border is not a refugee or asylum seeker.

01:37:59.000 They're seeking to exploit a damaged border and steal from the American people. 0.97

01:38:04.000 No, that could be true.

01:38:05.000 It's a fact.

01:38:05.000 Yeah.

01:38:05.000 Yeah, if you're coming to the southern border illegally- I don't think it makes them an especially insidious threat like national security.

01:38:10.000 No, it's the fact that if you came from China, you are clearly not a refugee.

01:38:14.000 Okay.

01:38:14.000 But- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:38:15.000 No, I got that.

01:38:15.000 I'm talking about the- It's not fair to make the claim that the Chinese are more dangerous, but I think that could be possible.

01:38:22.000 And that claim is widely made.

01:38:23.000 Look at Republicans talking about The permeability of the border in terms of Chinese nationals.

01:38:28.000 They do argue that it's a national security threat to the United States because they're in league with the Chinese Communist Party.

01:38:34.000 And that the Chinese are sending fentanyl. 0.99

01:38:36.000 I've heard that they're sending fentanyl to the cartels.

01:38:38.000 That's a fact.

01:38:39.000 Or they're sending the ingredients to make the fentanyl.

01:38:41.000 And so then they're sending fentanyl across the border.

01:38:43.000 They manufacture the core ingredient.

01:38:44.000 That's like a poisoning of the American people. 0.88

01:38:46.000 It's more than that.

01:38:47.000 When people order drugs online through nefarious means, it mostly comes from China.

01:38:53.000 So, designer drugs, notoriously coming from China.

01:38:57.000 I've only ordered from India.

01:38:59.000 So, there are websites that were around for a little while, and designer drugs were this big thing where... Dark web.

01:39:07.000 Silk Road was out there?

01:39:10.000 I don't know exactly where Silk Road, it could be from anywhere, but designer drugs is this big thing where, I think they've closed the loophole, because drugs were specifically regulated, people could alter the molecular structure of certain drugs, making them a different, non-regulated substance.

01:39:27.000 Oh, that's designer drug, that's what you mean by designer drug.

01:39:29.000 They haven't changed the loophole though, they just keep making you new genes.

01:39:31.000 No, some states have passed laws that say, a substance that does these things, instead of a certain substance.

01:39:36.000 We gotta go to Super Chats.

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01:39:55.000 Manipple says, happy 37th and 1112ths.

01:39:59.000 Hey, congratulations.

01:40:00.000 Cause I said on my morning show, I was like, I'm 38.

01:40:01.000 Okay.

01:40:02.000 Well, I'm not 30, but I'll be 30 in less than a month.

01:40:04.000 So I'm like basically 38, but like, you know, like a 10 year old, I am 37 and three quarters.

01:40:09.000 I get to say that.

01:40:09.000 Do these people have a, these super chat people have like a calendar hanging up in their bedroom with your birthday marked out on it.

01:40:15.000 They check every box.

01:40:18.000 Yes.

01:40:18.000 Well, no, I quite literally said it this morning that I'm 37th and three quarters.

01:40:21.000 If you made a calendar with your face on all 12 months, I bet you'd sell a lot of them.

01:40:26.000 And then I'm December and it freaks everyone out.

01:40:28.000 I think if we made a calendar of anything, we'd sell a decent amount.

01:40:31.000 But I think if we made a calendar of you, we'd sell more.

01:40:33.000 It'd be happy you sweaty after you're working out, skating, 12 different poses from 12 different days.

01:40:38.000 I want to see bikini pictures of you. 0.99

01:40:40.000 I have to be honest, I think an Ian calendar would sell better than a Tim calendar.

01:40:43.000 Let's get ripped and find out. 0.89

01:40:45.000 People would be like, Tim's kind of boring.

01:40:46.000 I like hearing him.

01:40:48.000 Oh, they love you so much.

01:40:49.000 Yeah, but you're like the Cajun spice.

01:40:53.000 You know what I mean?

01:40:55.000 Too much spice.

01:40:56.000 Spice is like for a little bit, but you're the meal.

01:40:58.000 You're the buffet.

01:40:59.000 Meat and potatoes?

01:41:00.000 All right, let's read more.

01:41:01.000 Jacob Parody says, after listening to the Joe Rogan interview with Aaron Rodgers recently, I realized that RFK Jr.

01:41:06.000 would be the perfect VP pick for Trump.

01:41:08.000 Joe Rogan would most likely endorse him.

01:41:12.000 We've entertained that in the past, that RFK Jr.

01:41:15.000 is an independent.

01:41:16.000 Considering what he's polling at, I'm inclined to agree, not that I want him to be the VP pick, but I think if Trump were to do that, I think it would crush Biden.

01:41:27.000 I tweeted out a clip recently from a Trump speech that RFK actually reposted and used it as a basis to directly go after Trump At least more directly than I had seen in a while or maybe ever in terms of RFK attacking Trump.

01:41:42.000 So I really doubt that's in the cards.

01:41:46.000 I think both parties don't take fondly to independent parties, or both two main parties don't take kindly to third party challengers, because especially in the case of RFK Jr., it's not exactly clear from which candidate he draws more support.

01:42:01.000 Oh, it is clear.

01:42:02.000 No, I think it's mixed if you look at the polling.

01:42:05.000 Sometimes it's slightly more Biden, sometimes slightly more Trump, and it could vary based on the state.

01:42:09.000 If you go through RCP's average and FiveThirtyEight's polling average, Kennedy is polling 2-1 from Democrats.

01:42:15.000 Or more.

01:42:16.000 Trump's base is solid, at like 40-44%.

01:42:22.000 So any voter that's going to come out of that is not ditching Trump, unless it's like a swing voter as it was.

01:42:27.000 But it's typically 3-1 or 2-1 Democrat.

01:42:28.000 I think it's mixed.

01:42:32.000 Just track the polling.

01:42:34.000 I have.

01:42:35.000 We can pull it up right now.

01:42:37.000 I think it's slightly more of a democratic lean in terms of who it draws from, but different polls show different things.

01:42:42.000 And once polarization kicks in when the election approaches, meaning people who are more um, reticent about supporting one of the two major party

01:42:50.000 candidates end up quote unquote coming home because they don't want to so-called

01:42:54.000 throw away their vote, then you're going to see probably the third party support

01:42:58.000 diminish across the board, not just RFK, but the other candidates. At least that's

01:43:02.000 been a historical trend.

01:43:03.000 That, man, that makes a lot of sense, but I just don't, I don't see a reality in which

01:43:06.000 Trump supporters are like, well, I might vote for RFK instead.

01:43:09.000 No, I agree.

01:43:09.000 Biden voters are like, I don't want to vote for Joe Biden.

01:43:12.000 They don't really know what to do with RFK because the reason why he got so much attention within the past year or so was because he was at least ostensibly supposed to be running against Biden in the Democratic primary.

01:43:21.000 We saw a lot of conservative media really giving him a lot of hype, attention, because they wanted to just stick it to Biden, right?

01:43:26.000 Because there would be an inconvenience for Biden who wanted to run uncontested.

01:43:30.000 Now that he went independent, it's less clear like whose partisan interest he necessarily serves.

01:43:35.000 I would love to see RFK Jr.

01:43:38.000 in Trump reconciled their positions on Israel, though, because I think actually RFK is probably more stridently pro-Israel than even Trump, who boasts about being the most pro-Israel president of all time.

01:43:48.000 Let's read more.

01:43:49.000 We got, yes man, it says, Skibidi toilet for president. 0.91

01:43:52.000 Skibidi dom dom dom yes yes.

01:43:55.000 Those videos are just completely insane, by the way, but I love the increasing unhingedness of what they are.

01:44:01.000 It reminds me of Remember HowToBasic?

01:44:05.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:44:06.000 And it's funny because, like, all the Gen Z people who are like, huh, Skibidi Toilet's like, bro, you guys gotta check out HowToBasic.

01:44:10.000 Do you know what that is?

01:44:11.000 No.

01:44:12.000 So it started on YouTube, and it was like, how to put toilet paper on.

01:44:17.000 And then it's like a hand, just a single hand filming, and it, like, takes the roll off and puts toilet paper on.

01:44:20.000 That's it.

01:44:21.000 Then it's like, the next video is like, how to, you know, clear a toilet.

01:44:26.000 And it's just, you know, putting the plunger in, plunge, plunge.

01:44:28.000 How to open an umbrella.

01:44:29.000 It's like, very simple.

01:44:31.000 Over time, they became increasingly more and more unhinged, until it was like, how to, yes I know, don't, don't.

01:44:39.000 And it's a guy going, And he's smashing eggs and breaking windows and knocking.

01:44:44.000 It's just like over a long period of time it got crazier and crazier.

01:44:48.000 It was brilliant.

01:44:49.000 It still exists.

01:44:49.000 I think this is still online.

01:44:50.000 Yeah, I think it's I think this is so mine. Yeah, I know how to what's it called how to how to basic

01:44:56.000 It's like max mofo and those guys still make videos I know that for sure.

01:44:59.000 It was hilarious because you're like, wait, what?

01:45:01.000 He's like smashing eggs.

01:45:02.000 Yeah.

01:45:04.000 It's like the turn down for what music video that just keeps getting increasingly insane as it goes on.

01:45:09.000 I don't know why that song.

01:45:10.000 I remember that song because it was in the Super Bowl.

01:45:12.000 All right, let's go.

01:45:13.000 Kale says, Tim Kast's crew with Crypto doing so well in the past few days.

01:45:16.000 What are y'all's thoughts on if Elon would start using Doge as a form of payment on X?

01:45:22.000 Let me let me let me check real quick what my thoughts are.

01:45:26.000 My thoughts are, um... Elon, please do it.

01:45:30.000 I have 9,000 doge. 0.95

01:45:32.000 How much is that?

01:45:34.000 It was a lot more before.

01:45:35.000 It is $728 worth of doge, and I don't know why I have it.

01:45:39.000 It's just, I do, and I bought it a long time ago, and I just didn't care.

01:45:42.000 I bought it when it was worth absolutely nothing.

01:45:44.000 It became worth a whole lot.

01:45:46.000 One hundred thousandth of a cent at some point. 0.96

01:45:49.000 I was like, what a trash coin.

01:45:50.000 I bought it when it was worth nothing.

01:45:52.000 And then it jumped up to, what did it get to?

01:45:53.000 It's eight cents right now.

01:45:55.000 Wasn't it because, didn't Elon tweet to buy it at one point or something?

01:45:58.000 It was kind of like a culture jam.

01:46:00.000 Like a meme thing, right?

01:46:02.000 There's nothing behind it.

01:46:03.000 It's not a good token.

01:46:05.000 I don't think it really has any value.

01:46:07.000 What was it at?

01:46:09.000 50 cents?

01:46:10.000 I mean, I could be wrong.

01:46:11.000 If there's Doge experts out there that want to clarify.

01:46:13.000 Oh, it was up to 68 cents on May 7th of 21.

01:46:15.000 I bought it a long time ago.

01:46:20.000 And I don't think I bought it at Speak, I think I bought it slightly after and it jumped up and I just ignored it completely.

01:46:24.000 It went from two thousandths of a cent to sixty-eight cents.

01:46:29.000 I mean, what is that, a ten?

01:46:31.000 I can't, uh... Didn't Elon Musk make the Twitter logo briefly the Doge icon? 0.81

01:46:37.000 Do you remember that?

01:46:38.000 I don't know.

01:46:38.000 I can't say this.

01:46:39.000 Am I misremembering that?

01:46:40.000 I think it happened.

01:46:42.000 I will not give anybody financial advice, but, uh...

01:46:46.000 I was in Bitcoin when Bitcoin was $0.70.

01:46:51.000 And I like to tell the story about how I almost bought 6,733 Bitcoin, but my friend convinced me not to do it.

01:47:01.000 At the time, it was $0.70.

01:47:02.000 It was like five-some-a-thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin I was going to buy.

01:47:06.000 Back then, in order to buy it, it was extremely difficult.

01:47:09.000 You had to basically meet someone in person and have them watch them do the transfer.

01:47:13.000 Mining was substantially easier and when Bitcoin reached around five bucks I got excited and sold and I had like a couple hundred bucks and I was like, yeah, this is awesome There's no reality in which I would have bought thousands of Bitcoin and then not sold at 20 bucks It would have been insane.

01:47:28.000 I would have been like I got 50 grand.

01:47:30.000 This is crazy What do I do?

01:47:32.000 And if I had it now I'd be like a billionaire or whatever, but I will say this with no advice anybody I am happy Despite the fact it hit $100 and everyone said, you missed the train.

01:47:43.000 I was like, wow, a hundred bucks.

01:47:45.000 If only I'd actually bought it.

01:47:46.000 Now tell my friends, I almost bought thousands, 6,000.

01:47:49.000 Imagine where I'd be at $600,000 if I had, if I had bought it and waited.

01:47:53.000 Then when it got to 10K, I was like, oh my God.

01:47:57.000 How much money would I have had?

01:47:58.000 It's almost at $50,000.

01:47:58.000 So when Bitcoin hit $13,000, I was like, you know, every time Bitcoin jumps, I say the same thing.

01:48:06.000 Oh my God, if only.

01:48:07.000 So I just bought a bunch.

01:48:09.000 Now it's at $50,000 and I'm like, wow.

01:48:11.000 I think Zuby tweeted out that he expects it to be at $1,000,000, but that that $1,000,000 will be worth what's worth $300,000 today because of inflation.

01:48:19.000 So I thought that was kind of funny.

01:48:20.000 One Bitcoin has eight decimal points behind it.

01:48:22.000 It is effectively going to be a million dollars.

01:48:26.000 I predicted this, and I'm not the smartest guy on Bitcoin.

01:48:28.000 Max Keiser has predicted, I think, more than that.

01:48:31.000 Max has been predicting somewhere around 200k relatively soon.

01:48:34.000 Something called the, what is it, the halvening?

01:48:36.000 Happens every couple of years.

01:48:37.000 It'll happen.

01:48:38.000 It's happening in April, which means the cost to produce a Bitcoin is going to, I believe, double.

01:48:41.000 Is that correct?

01:48:42.000 Yeah.

01:48:43.000 That means that the people who are utilizing this will have to spend twice as much money, which means when a product costs more, has to be sold for more, the miners will then hold on to it.

01:48:52.000 Then this will cause a strain on the market.

01:48:54.000 People who are trying to buy or trade with it, El Salvador as a nation needs to do this, which means there is a weight to the value of Bitcoin.

01:49:01.000 It will...

01:49:02.000 It will have to go up.

01:49:04.000 Now, I'm not recommending anybody do anything because I have no idea what I'm talking about.

01:49:08.000 All I can say is I bought a bunch of Bitcoin when it was at $1,300 because I was sick and tired of being like, I missed the train.

01:49:14.000 I missed the train.

01:49:15.000 How could I have been at Bitcoin when it was $0.70 and I didn't buy it?

01:49:19.000 And now here I am looking at Bitcoin at $1,000 thinking the exact same thing.

01:49:22.000 It's too expensive.

01:49:24.000 When it was $0.70, I said, who cares?

01:49:25.000 It's worthless.

01:49:25.000 When it's $1,000, I'm like, it's too expensive.

01:49:27.000 I said, no, I'm buying it.

01:49:28.000 And I bought it.

01:49:29.000 I'm very happy.

01:49:30.000 I think that one thing people got to know about crypto is you don't have to buy one Bitcoin.

01:49:34.000 You buy a percentage of a product that may or may not go up.

01:49:36.000 So if you buy $2 worth of it and it goes up by a hundred percent, then you make $2.

01:49:43.000 So it's just really about the percentage of growth that you're investing in.

01:49:47.000 I'm looking at El Salvador as a nation using Bitcoin as a national currency.

01:49:52.000 Rumors, Argentina may do this under Millet.

01:49:54.000 There will be an expansion of this.

01:49:57.000 It's almost like if the whole world decided Bitcoin was worthless, El Salvador as a nation would still be using it, and it would still have value in El Salvador.

01:50:05.000 So there's a weight tied to the value of Bitcoin now, forever basically.

01:50:10.000 Does El Salvador, does it still tie its currency or peg its currency to the U.S.

01:50:15.000 dollar?

01:50:15.000 Because Malay I know, okay, well Malay I know made one of his campaign pledges to remain within the orbit or the ambit of the U.S.

01:50:25.000 dollar, as like an ideological principle.

01:50:29.000 You know, what happens is, every time Bitcoin does a big spike, it has a drop-off.

01:50:34.000 A point when miners and other interested parties are like, okay, the price is up, we're gonna sell and pull our profits, and then it drops down again.

01:50:40.000 I remember when it hit $19,000, and people were mortgaging their homes to buy a bunch, and then it dropped down to $10,000, and they were like, my life is ruined!

01:50:49.000 And if they just didn't sell, they'd be super rich.

01:50:51.000 Unless they took out a loan on margin to buy it.

01:50:54.000 That's the problem.

01:50:54.000 People are taking out these loans on margins, so they'll borrow money, and then they'll use that money to buy the Bitcoin, and then if the value of the Bitcoin drops to a certain level, they're going to call a recall on the loan, and they're like, now we're going to use your own crypto that's worth half as much to pay off the loan, so you lose double your money.

01:51:10.000 That's what happened during the Great Depression.

01:51:11.000 A lot of people have been buying stock on margin.

01:51:13.000 They've been taking out loans to buy stock, and when the stock market crashed, they had to pay all those back, and they lost everything.

01:51:19.000 Go to, what is it, like, what's the subreddit for stock market gambling, stock market bets, or whatever it's called?

01:51:25.000 I don't know.

01:51:25.000 Oh, wallstreetbets?

01:51:25.000 Wallstreetbets, and you see people who are like, well, I lost $200,000 of money I don't have.

01:51:30.000 Yo, those fools are crazy. 0.98

01:51:31.000 But my favorite is when they're like, I will not pay this back, and there's nothing they can do about it. 1.00

01:51:35.000 Maybe Malay went to the wailing wall in Jerusalem a few days ago. 1.00

01:51:40.000 Did you see that, where he's like, carefully up against the wall, it's like, pray for crypto.

01:51:44.000 Sure, let's read some superchats.

01:51:45.000 Vincent Baker says, big L's for Vosh and Hassan this week.

01:51:49.000 Why?

01:51:50.000 Oh, do you want to get into it?

01:51:51.000 You tell him, Serge.

01:51:53.000 Tell him the after show.

01:51:55.000 The Vosch thing's got to be saved for the after show.

01:51:57.000 Isn't Vosch's entire life an L?

01:51:59.000 I mean, he's a millionaire, isn't he?

01:52:02.000 Maybe not. 0.99

01:52:02.000 Maybe I should be the L. Everywhere I look, I see losers. 0.99

01:52:06.000 Maybe I'm the loser.

01:52:07.000 I just know my two big streams with him were not very pleasant.

01:52:09.000 If Vosch is not a millionaire, I would be surprised.

01:52:12.000 Considering his following, he should be.

01:52:15.000 He does have a passionate following.

01:52:17.000 I enjoyed talking to him.

01:52:17.000 That's what I should say.

01:52:18.000 I don't know him very well.

01:52:19.000 I've met him a couple times.

01:52:20.000 All right, Martin Edgar says, I may have to disagree on when the tit-for-tat started.

01:52:25.000 I believe it started with the impeachment of Clinton.

01:52:27.000 I also see this as the beginning of the advancement of the, what is that, DFI?

01:52:32.000 I don't know what that is.

01:52:34.000 Yep.

01:52:34.000 That's a good point.

01:52:35.000 I was actually thinking of bringing it up that you could argue that the tit-for-tat in terms of employing increasingly extreme or dramatic legislative tactics Arguably did originate with the Bill Clinton impeachment, which was ultimately over a relatively trivial offense.

01:52:49.000 I mean, you could argue that he actually did commit a high crime or misdemeanor per the standard that was in use at the time.

01:52:54.000 But, you know, underlying the offense was basically having an extramarital affair with a White House intern.

01:53:01.000 Whereas now you have people always threatening each other with impeachment over treason or You know, selling out the country to Russia or all these other kind of crazy, much more grandiose accusations.

01:53:11.000 It was much more ticky tack stuff under Clinton, but it did accelerate the process whereby Congress became more comfortable using these more extreme measures.

01:53:21.000 All right, Void Raptor says, When the new studio is up, will we finally get TimCast in the kitchen cooking show?

01:53:28.000 So the studio is done.

01:53:30.000 Completely.

01:53:30.000 It needs decoration.

01:53:32.000 And we're gonna be putting up that Civil War flag that was donated to us.

01:53:36.000 Really excited for that.

01:53:37.000 Gonna get it framed.

01:53:37.000 That looks so cool.

01:53:39.000 Yeah, we'll get a glass frame for it.

01:53:41.000 We've got to move a lot of the art.

01:53:42.000 We got to put up the guitars.

01:53:43.000 The room is much bigger.

01:53:45.000 I think it's three times as wide.

01:53:48.000 Significantly.

01:53:48.000 Yeah, so it's a lot, a lot bigger.

01:53:50.000 And We got to test things out what what you know it is what it is, but I have to do like testing cameras and Depth of field and how things are gonna look in a but it's it's pretty cool kitchens there Everything's done, but the skatepark construction is starting on Thursday which means I

01:54:08.000 It's going to be very noisy for the next two to three weeks, so we could literally go there right now and do the show.

01:54:14.000 And dusty, probably.

01:54:15.000 Oh yeah, a lot of wood sawdust.

01:54:17.000 It's going to be a big cleaning.

01:54:18.000 So we're looking at three weeks.

01:54:20.000 We didn't know when the skate park construction was going to begin, so we were actually planning on going.

01:54:25.000 And then we would be like, as soon as the construction starts, we'll have to figure out what to do about the noise.

01:54:30.000 But then we got the call that they're like, we're going to start the construction this week.

01:54:33.000 And we're like, okay, I guess we're going to wait.

01:54:34.000 Yeah.

01:54:35.000 Just let them work overnight.

01:54:36.000 Are they going to work overnight?

01:54:37.000 But we need, we need decorations in the kitchen.

01:54:40.000 So we actually, in the meantime, while they're doing skate park construction, we should have, uh, There's an additional studio underneath the new IRL studio, which is going to be like a lounge-style, sofa-style podcast room.

01:54:53.000 So we need that to be designed and set up, posters, art, things like that.

01:54:57.000 And that has to get done ASAP, so we need someone to do it.

01:55:01.000 But in the meantime, we are ready to go.

01:55:03.000 I'm excited about it.

01:55:04.000 And we may do a cooking show.

01:55:07.000 I don't know.

01:55:08.000 Maybe we'll just film Ian making lentils.

01:55:10.000 Oh, that sounds good.

01:55:11.000 Yeah.

01:55:11.000 Sounds delicious.

01:55:12.000 It's like every week a different lentil recipe, but it's basically the same thing.

01:55:15.000 Red lentils.

01:55:16.000 Red lentils, man.

01:55:18.000 Let's grab some more super chats.

01:55:20.000 James Lamb says, my cousin's house just burnt down.

01:55:23.000 Her husband is sick and not currently working.

01:55:24.000 Any help will be greatly appreciated.

01:55:26.000 Give, send, go.

01:55:27.000 Crystal Day.

01:55:28.000 Good luck, sir.

01:55:29.000 Sorry to hear.

01:55:30.000 I hope everything works out well.

01:55:31.000 Man, best of luck.

01:55:33.000 The SIGP says, no need to halt the funding, make Ukraine pay back all the money, or we let Russia take all of Ukraine.

01:55:39.000 You guys heard what Trump said, right?

01:55:41.000 That some, you know, NATO president said, if we don't pay, will you defend us?

01:55:45.000 And he says, no.

01:55:45.000 In fact, I'll encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want.

01:55:48.000 Everyone freaked out.

01:55:49.000 That was the most absurd freakout.

01:55:51.000 It's so tedious at this point.

01:55:53.000 People forget in 2016, in the 2016 campaign, there was an identical freakout.

01:55:59.000 That lasted months.

01:56:00.000 I mean, it really flared up in the summer of 2016 and just continued in perpetuity beyond that, where it was just assumed that Trump was going to sell out the NATO alliance to Russia, that he was going to abandon Ukraine, that he didn't actually believe in the integrity of the NATO collective defense pact.

01:56:18.000 Trump didn't do a single thing over four years to undermine NATO at all.

01:56:21.000 In fact, he brags that he used negotiating tactics to extract additional funding commitments from NATO member states.

01:56:28.000 So Trump is brilliant for NATO.

01:56:31.000 I mean, they should love him, but people get wrapped up in this completely fact-free hysteria that's divorced from what Trump actually did in office.

01:56:37.000 That's what drives me crazy about this current Trump campaign.

01:56:40.000 People who both hate Trump and love Trump are dealing with like a fantasy version of Trump.

01:56:44.000 It's not 2016 where we'll have to speculate about what he would do if he was in power.

01:56:48.000 He was in power for four years.

01:56:50.000 Right.

01:56:50.000 He actually armed Ukraine. He strengthened NATO. He brags about it. So the idea that you have like

01:56:55.000 David Frum and these think tank people flipping out because Trump made some offhand remark

01:56:59.000 recounting an anecdote, it just doesn't line up with what he actually did when he wielded the

01:57:03.000 power. Trump is an American hegemonist and NATO is a vehicle of preserving and expanding American

01:57:09.000 Trump doesn't have the liberal pretensions of some of these European, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, technocrats and stuff,

01:57:14.000 but Trump is for maintaining American supremacy, and NATO is a means by which to do that. So the idea that he's going

01:57:19.000 to abandon NATO is ridiculous. Sorry about my rant.

01:57:22.000 Let's read more. Rock Bras says, here in Brazil, to house someone in exchange for work is slavery by law. Wow. That's

01:57:28.000 crazy. Tricky. Yeah.

01:57:30.000 Dreamcast Nights says Massachusetts will probably make housing migrants mandatory. 1.00

01:57:35.000 After all, no Second Amendment.

01:57:36.000 Then three followed really fast, I guess.

01:57:39.000 Is really getting out of hand, didn't it?

01:57:41.000 It's funny, yeah.

01:57:41.000 No Third Amendment, right?

01:57:43.000 The government's gonna be like, we're gonna use your homes to quarter non-citizens, but they're not soldiers.

01:57:49.000 I was thinking about that.

01:57:50.000 That does violate the Third Amendment.

01:57:51.000 It does.

01:57:52.000 It's still quartering.

01:57:54.000 I believe the Supreme Court ruling on the Third Amendment, because we talked about this a long time ago, was that the general concept of the Third Amendment is not quartering soldiers.

01:58:02.000 It's the government using the private homes of citizens for its whims.

01:58:07.000 Yeah, I think there's only been one ruling on the Third Amendment, and it might have been the one you're talking about.

01:58:11.000 It was, like, a long time ago.

01:58:12.000 Yeah, they were, like, the founders intended to prevent the government from using someone's private home for government purposes.

01:58:18.000 What about their private business?

01:58:19.000 Same thing?

01:58:20.000 Like, their hotel?

01:58:21.000 I'd assume, yeah.

01:58:23.000 They do that in California.

01:58:24.000 I mean, they basically, like, tell you you have to fork over your hotel.

01:58:29.000 It's a pretty obscure area of American jurisprudence.

01:58:31.000 It'd actually be interesting to see a more full-fledged decision on it.

01:58:36.000 Alright, Noah R. says, I'm a 25-year-old male in the Northeast.

01:58:38.000 I can barely afford an apartment and my bills.

01:58:41.000 But sure, Michael, let's keep bringing these people into the country. 1.00

01:58:43.000 I didn't say let's keep bringing them in.

01:58:44.000 I mean, that's what people misunderstand, I guess.

01:58:47.000 Like, I specifically said that I'm not ideologically in favor of immigration.

01:58:50.000 But my point is, the praising of people as industrious or good people... Well, they could be industrious.

01:58:54.000 Doesn't mean you have to... You're obliged to, therefore, bring them in.

01:58:57.000 But they still could be an industrious person.

01:58:59.000 Right, the argument that, you know, my argument was basically like, let's stop providing resources to people, they're creating a net detriment that will weaken and dissolve this country, and you argued against that.

01:59:09.000 I argued against that in the sense that I don't know that that necessarily could be fairly ascribed to most individual migrants.

01:59:17.000 Like that they're seeking to dissolve the country?

01:59:19.000 I mean, I don't really see much evidence for that.

01:59:20.000 I didn't say seeking to dissolve the country.

01:59:22.000 What'd you say?

01:59:23.000 That they will dissolve the country.

01:59:25.000 I don't think their presence, I don't think there's much evidence to believe would result in the dissolution of the country.

01:59:33.000 But there is copious amounts of this.

01:59:35.000 It's a matter of how many come in over a period of time.

01:59:37.000 Let's just start with step one.

01:59:38.000 Remittance.

01:59:39.000 Taking U.S. 0.82

01:59:39.000 dollars out of the country damages an economy. 0.82

01:59:42.000 This is why I talk about... That's been happening for ages.

01:59:44.000 That's why they were limiting... So when you bring more people in and you increase the amount that the U.S.

01:59:49.000 dollar is being extracted from the country, the further you will damage the economy.

01:59:54.000 That's just basic math.

01:59:55.000 That's why I brought up Ithaca hours and other jurisdictions that created local currencies to prevent the dissolution of their local economies when the U.S.

02:00:02.000 dollar was no longer coming into the region.

02:00:05.000 I don't know.

02:00:05.000 There were times in the past where the percentage of the U.S.

02:00:07.000 population that was foreign-born was higher substantially than now.

02:00:11.000 And so I don't think that resulted in the country being dissolved.

02:00:14.000 So I think it's a bit of an overstatement.

02:00:16.000 They're illegal, they don't pay taxes, we pay taxes for them, it drains all of our money.

02:00:19.000 It's very simple.

02:00:20.000 I think you're talking about drastically different circumstances.

02:00:25.000 We're talking about our government spending hundreds of billions at a time of like coming off mass inflation, mass government spending, the transformation of savings accounts into checking accounts causing a huge spike in the money supply which freaks everybody out.

02:00:40.000 The cost of goods are going up.

02:00:41.000 I mean, they're like triple where they were a few years ago.

02:00:44.000 Young people can't survive. 1.00

02:00:45.000 And we're like, let's bring in millions of non-citizens and give them taxpayer resources. 0.95

02:00:51.000 But what do you mean by dissolution of the country?

02:00:54.000 Just like a lack of social or cultural cohesion?

02:00:56.000 Or are you talking about the actual American government apparatus being dissolved and becoming a failed state?

02:01:02.000 I think when you have Marjorie Taylor Greene call for a, you have members of Congress say it's time for a national divorce. 0.93

02:01:10.000 We're getting dangerously close to these lines.

02:01:13.000 When you have California getting, some estimates, as high as five to seven extra electoral college votes and seats in Congress, you're getting to the point where there is shattered confidence in what the United States is and does.

02:01:31.000 When was the last time, honest question, when was the last time a National Guard defied federal agents and barred them in defiance of federal jurisdiction?

02:01:40.000 I don't know.

02:01:41.000 Interesting to look up.

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02:02:06.000 Michael, do you want to shout anything out?

02:02:08.000 Yeah, mtracy.net.

02:02:10.000 I relaunched my personal publication sub stack thingy last week, so there's a couple new posts up if people are interested.

02:02:15.000 mtracy.net and then mtracy on Twitter slash X. Right on!

02:02:21.000 I'm Libby Emmons.

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02:02:28.000 Yeah, check me out at Ian Crossland.

02:02:30.000 And really, that's all over the internet, dude.

02:02:32.000 And if you want to see Tim sweaty and in a beanie, 12 days, 12 months, a year and a calendar, put one in the chat.

02:02:39.000 I'll see you guys later.

02:02:41.000 Oh, man, I love your ideas, Ian.

02:02:43.000 That's good stuff.

02:02:44.000 Yeah, imsurge.com.

02:02:46.000 I'm looking forward to the after show.

02:02:47.000 It should be spicy.

02:02:49.000 Let's get to it, Tim.

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